All language subtitles for S01e07 - The Strike

This is really the cast list?

Hi.

Fellow Leroy Johnson, Iago, Danny,
Amatulo, Desdemona, Julie Miller.

This is a play about passion.

When a fellow loves, he does it with
incredible emotion from his heart.

When he hates, it's with intense rage.

Capable of murder.

Mr. Martelli, you're talking about a
Shakespeare festival, not an evening

Con Edison.

big dream.

You want fame.

Did they post the cast list yet? I hope
not.

Well, Danny, what's up? Hey, I'll let
you know when they put up the cast list.

heard that.

Then you have to go through the script
and find out what characters are in the

same scene and come up with a rehearsal
schedule.

Okay. Montgomery, you have to find out
what the kids' after -school commitments

are. That is not a piece of cake.

I know that one, I volunteer.

Knowing it up here is one thing, child,
but actually doing it is something else.

The stage manager's always gonna be on
the spot now.

The director's gonna be snapping at you.
The acts are gonna be complaining that

you're being too tough on them.

It's lonely at the top, but it's no
better roses in the middle, either. I

you're just trying to scare me.

You bet I am, and I hope it's working
for your sake.

Remember, when the director's not
around, it becomes the stage manager's

Yeah, but you're gonna be around.

Yeah, well, that's the plan, at any
rate.

What do you mean?

Here, this is the cash list. Go run off
some copies and post them.

You are gonna be around, aren't you?

Montgomery, didn't I just tell you the
director would be snapping at you? Well,

I didn't mean to get started before
rehearsals. Run off copies of the cast

and post them, please.

Now.

This is really the cast list?

Goodbye, Montgomery.

A lot of people are going to get bummed
out about the copies of the cast list

and post it. Right on. Go on now.

It's going to be rough.

Leroy, could you give us a break?

like one of those bobblehead dolls or
something.

If you want to talk to him, you're gonna
have to go down to the radio station.

Earth to Leroy, you there?

What? Man, could you cool out? We're not
in the mood.

That's your problem.

I wish he'd post the cast list already.

What's the big deal? It's just a play.
We do plays all the time.

Othello is not just a play.

And the musical version of Othello isn't
even just Othello. And the winners

aren't even winners because they get to
tour in what they win because they're

winners because they're winning.

I know what I meant to say. That's what
counts.

Oh, Mr.

Sharofsky, there you are.

Good morning, Miss Sherwood. Good
morning. Listen, I've been trying for

to talk to you. I'm going to have to
wait. Mrs. Spurge is expecting me

for a meeting.

And I'm late. Excuse me. But... Good
morning. Good morning, Mrs. Berg.

Mr. Shirovsky just left to meet with
you.

To meet me for what?

Didn't you have a meeting with Mr.
Shirovsky this morning? No.

Why? Because...

Leroy Johnson, Iago, Danny, Amatulo,
Desdemona, Julie Miller, Amelia Dorshaw.

Hey, Montgomery, I'm telling you right
now, I want my own dressing room. No

Okay, then I'll share with you.

No.

Congratulations, you guys.

Congratulations to you, too.

Congratulations for what?

You got the part of Desdemona.

You're kidding.

Don't I wish?

Coco, wait!

That's how she handles good news. I
don't want to be around when she gets

news. I don't think I can take it.

Strings just don't do it for me.

What do you mean they don't do it for
you?

This is a play about passion.

When a fellow loves, he does it with
incredible emotion from his heart.

When he hates, it's with intense rage,
capable of murder.

I don't hear violins.

What do you hear?

I hear synthesizers.

A bass with a heavy backbeat. Even
congas.

Mr. Martelli, talk about a Shakespeare
festival.

Not an evening with Con Edison.

What we're talking about is a show where
the lead is a black kid from 128th

Street.

Excuse me. You talk to him.

Got a minute?

Tell you the truth, I'm writing a little
something. Mr. Sharofsky, are you

coming to the strike meeting after
school or not?

Not.

You have to come.

Have to?

I left have to when I left Germany.

This isn't a dictator's order, Mr.
Sharofsky. It's your fellow teacher's.

I gave Mr. Weiler my proxy.

That's enough. No, it isn't.

It's lazy and uncaring.

And that's not like you.

Miss Sherwood, I'm a public employee,
and I do not believe public employees

should strike. Fine.

Come to the meeting. Convince us of your
point of view.

Impossible. Your minds are made up. And
yours is so open? It certainly is.

Hmm.

Two thoughts.

Someone who's seen what it's like when a
country loses its way should be the

last one to send in a proxy.

And what's the second?

You're too old to pout.

Heaven bless us, say you.

It is not lost, but what and if it were?

How? I say it is not lost.

Fetch it. Let me see it.

Why so I can sir, but I will not now why
so I can sir, but I She was

in the library after school. He's
checking out a copy of Othello like me

he's been ducking me all day and I can't
set up a rehearsal schedule with Adam.

I'll track him down Can I ask you a
question? Sure come on in

Why did Miss Grant choose me for this
part?

She didn't discuss it with me. Why do
you think? I don't know.

I didn't ask what you know. I asked what
you thought.

We both know Coco's a better actress
than I am. Not true.

We know Coco's a good actress, but we
don't know if she's better than you

because we don't know how good you are.

You haven't had a chance to show anyone
yet.

Maybe that's why Miss Grant chose you.

She wanted to give you a chance to show
everyone.

You know what I think?

No.

I think Coco would have gotten the part
if she was white.

You're probably right.

If you were black and male, you might
make a dynamite Othello.

You think I'm being silly?

I think you've been given a chance, and
when you get a chance, you go with it as

far as it takes you. You don't question
it.

You... Quiet.

Listen.

If we all talk at once, we aren't going
to accomplish anything, so please, boys

and girls, if you'll...

If you want to keep me out of school,
it's okay.

In the words of Danny Amatulo, walka,
walka, walka.

Look, I don't know what this meeting is
about anyway.

I mean, the strike is a foregone
conclusion, isn't it? The consensus is

strike will take place. The question is,
do we go out with everyone else? What

are they talking about?

I vote we don't.

Lydia, I don't believe you.

You're a member of two unions, this one
and Equity.

Three, and Agva.

American Guild of Variety Audit.

So how can you refuse to strike? Because
I can't afford to strike and neither

can half the teachers here.

I can't afford not to strike.

And for the same reason.

I've got a kid that's getting braces and
another one that's into figure skating.

I mean, do you know how expensive a
thermal tutu is?

Yeah, well, how about our kids?

Our kids aren't like most kids about
school. Our kids want to learn

They want to be here. How can we walk
out on that kind of attitude?

Look. We're not striking just for
ourselves. We're striking for the kids,

their extended class time, for more
books, for decent cafeteria food.

Nobody wants to strike, but we have to
do it.

And none of you minds that while you're
walking around the block, someone else,

someone who doesn't know what he or she
is doing, is sitting in your classroom,

destroying everything you have
accomplished with your students.

None of us wants that, Mr.

Sharofsky.

This school pays me more than money.

It pays me by being a place I want to go
to each day.

I go here to teach the students and to
learn from them.

I go here to be with you all, my
friends.

I do not like being asked to choose
sides.

Well, I think we've said all there is to
be said.

The strike vote will take place tonight
at the armory.

I need to know how many of you are going
to be there to support the strike.

Fine.

So, if the strike vote passes...

I'll expect to see you all tomorrow
morning on the picket line.

Did you hear anything?

It said on the news the schools will be
run by office personnel.

What do you think that means?

Probably no Shakespeare Festival.

No Shakespeare Festival?

And eight hours of study hall.

Oh, I hope this thing doesn't last long.

My mother's already talking about
finding another school.

Maybe in New Jersey.

Is there a school for the arts in New
Jersey?

The problem is it's located in the
equinox.

Hey, Miss Grant, you want me to carry
your sign for you? Give me a break,

Amatulo.

How long do we have to keep this up?

Till first bell, then again at
lunchtime.

And what do we do between then and now?

It's a little early for matinees, dear
girl. I don't know.

Shop? Oh, go on strike and go shopping.
Yeah, run up those bins.

Yeah, that makes about as much sense as
anything else. I think I have a

solution. What?

I have a key to the freight entrance,
which leads to the scene, Doc.

which adjoins the makeup room where
there is a coffee pot.

Oh, I don't know.

I mean, do you think it would be right
to go on school property? Elizabeth, how

can a picket line cross a picket line?

No, we don't have to give up on Othello,
and no, we aren't getting a guest

director. That was just a rumor.

I heard Al Pacino may come in. Yeah,
yeah.

All right, all right. Would you listen
up? We got a lot of work to do.

Hey, shouldn't we wait for Leroy? Yeah,
where is he? I could have taken the day

off, too. I don't know where he is. He's
late. He'll be here.

Now, look. If we're going to do this
thing on our own, we've got a lot of

to do. Who's in charge?

Well,

in the professional theater, when the
director's not around, it becomes a

manager show.

Well, unless somebody's been hiding my
paycheck, we're not in the professional

theater.

I think maybe we ought to call it off.

Look, Miss Grant can't be here, and
Sharofsky can't be here to help Bruno

the score.

And it's a great excuse for you to
chicken out.

I mean, you can do whatever you want to
do. I just don't think you ought to kid

yourself about why you're doing it.

The teachers took a vote about going out
on strike.

I say we take a vote about whether or
not to get this thing up on its feet

without him.

I say we give it a shot.

Orphans of the Storm. The only way to
pick it. Anybody got any cards?

We're supposed to pick it, not picnic.

Leave it to an English teacher.

Oh, hope that lets up before we do back
out front again.

Whether it does or not, we are going to
be there.

Yes, my captain.

Mr.

Sharofsky. Strike headquarters called
me. They said I had a picket or I'd be

fine. I came down to picket. No one was
there.

Mrs. Berg said you were all in here.

Could you explain that to me, please?

We're only picketing before the first
bell and at lunchtime when we can be

noticed. You're obviously only picketing
in good weather also.

Hey, we're not mailmen. We're pickets.
Wrong, Mr. Crandall. We're not pickets.

We're teachers.

But some of us seem to have forgotten
that fact.

May I please have the damn picket sign
so I can get this thing over with?

Don't you at least want to wait until
the rain stops?

What I want to do is get back out there
before I dry off and have to get wet all

over again a second time.

A sign, please.

Thank you.

Have a nice day.

you give me for that same handkerchief?

What handkerchief, sweetheart?

What handkerchief?

Why, that the Moor first gave to
Desdemona, which you did so often bid me

Did you steal it from a baby?

What are you two doing?

We're trying to put a couple of laughs
in this turkey.

Laughs? You're using your wife to get
your best friend to murder his wife?

What's so funny about that?

Take my wife, please.

I tell you, I don't get no respect.

So I think I'm going to leave.

Or leave your wife, big boy, and come up
and see me sometime.

Yeah. Maybe I'll do that.

Yeah.

All right, everybody take five.

Make it 25.

Hey, Montgomery, when do I get to
rehearse?

I can't rehearse you until Leroy shows
up. Yeah, but when do you think that'll

be? I don't know, Julie. I don't know.

music is not ready, I have to rework the
score.

When do I get the music? You can't do
the choreography without the music.

I know that.

What I don't know is when you'll get it.

I go to the meetings. I pay my dues.

I pick it during the day.

What's the harm in working with the kids
at night?

Lydia, the union would never go for it.

I left Montgomery holding the bag.

Let's face it, that boy is not an
emotional fortress.

I'd hate to see him fall on his face.

I think you're overreacting.

The strike could be over by the end of
the week.

What if it isn't?

Elizabeth, those kids need help.

Especially Julie and Leroy.

I wouldn't be teaching, I'd be
directing.

And this... This production is special
to me. It's the festival.

It could bring a lot of good attention
to the school or bad attention.

Why bad attention?

Because I put some of those kids in it
so they'd have a chance to stretch.

And if I'm not there to help them, I'm
afraid of how it could turn out.

It hurts to fail, Elizabeth.

Oh, I've got them in over their heads.

Lydia, if you're on strike, you don't
work.

Period.

Look, I know you're not an answering
service.

I know you're just the manager.

So could you just manage to knock on
Leroy's door and ask him to come to the

phone?

Hello?

Hello?

Hey, how's it going?

Othello is a tragedy in more ways than
one.

Got no music, no direction, no lead.

What happened to Leroy?

I'm about to take the subway up to 128th
Street to find out.

Montgomery, that's not your turf, man. I
don't really... You want to get off my

case, okay?

I'm heading up there. I'm not going to
let this thing fall apart on me.

I'm heading for Leroy's. Montgomery.

I've been in that rehearsal studio all
morning trying to put a routine together

for myself.

And you know what?

What?

It's lonely.

I miss you guys. Isn't that stupid?

Coco, I wish you were in the cast,
but... Yeah, so do I, but I'm not.

So I can stay all bummed out about it or
I can try and help.

If you let me.

You really want to help?

Yeah.

Could you get them to really buckle down
and rehearse? I mean, they're listening

to you about the dancing and singing and
stuff. When I try it, it's just me and

they won't take it seriously.

I'll do what I can.

Thanks.

Did Montgomery leave the building?

Oh, yes, Miss Berg. Oh, but he's not
supposed to leave during... Shouldn't

be some class somewhere?

Miss Berg, I'm going right now. Oh,
good.

Tighten your tutus, children. Your
director is on her way.

You get on the wrong bus to what?

We talk?

About what?

About you.

E -Roy, you in or out?

I'm out, man.

Hey, call me next time, all right? You
got it.

That's right. Who wants a car?

Want something to drink? I need Perrier.

I'm fresh out.

Ain't that always the way, though?

Actually, I was just kidding.

What you want to talk about, Montgomery?

About why you're not showing up at
rehearsal.

Hey, it's a teacher's strike, man.

School's still open, Leroy, and we're
trying to get Othello on its feet. Man,

ain't interested in no Shakespeare.

Then why'd you audition?

I didn't know what I was doing it for.
Ms. Grant said to walk around like a

and say things like a king. That's fun
to me. I can do that okay.

Then you can do the part okay.

Look, let's go outside and talk for a
minute.

Hey, fellas, give me a holler next time.

All right, you got it, man.

Look, I think you better count me out of
there.

Leroy, no.

Look, nobody said nothing about no
Shakespeare when we tried out.

Miss Grant decided to run the auditions
that way so no one would get any

preconceived notions.

So nobody would get uptight.

I ain't getting uptight.

I just ain't interested. That's all. Get
yourself somebody else.

Leroy, man, you can't do this to me.

I ain't doing nothing to you. I'm doing
it to me. I'm taking me out of the show.

Hey, Leroy, there you am? Yeah, man.
We're done talking. You're done, baby,

I'm not.

Julie Miller is scared to death about
that show, but she's there.

Amatulo's hiding behind every bit and
joke he can think of, but he's there,

Coco, man, she'd kill to be in that
show.

That didn't work out, but she's still
there helping to direct.

And you, man, you're up here playing A
.C. Doocy while your friends are going

down the drain.

You know that slaughterhouse on 12th
Avenue?

Maybe you should stop in there and buy
yourself some guts.

Mr. Martelli, that is music only a
mother could love.

Is it lunchtime?

For me, always. For you, another hour or
so.

Not going so well, I take it.

You take it right.

I just can't make this work the way
Swarovski would want it to.

Are we right?

Nah, I couldn't do that. Wouldn't be
fair.

If Swarovski were here, if I could argue
with him, show him that my way was

okay, fine.

But to rewrite him without him getting a
chance to fight back wouldn't be fair.

Why are you so worried about fair?

What's fair about any of this?

What's fair about a system that keeps a
barfeteria open and closes down the rest

of the school?

So what's fair about a system that has
cost of living increases that don't keep

up with the cost of living?

You sound like you've been talking to
your father.

Yeah? Well, yeah.

Yeah, and I've been talking to mine.

The unions are going to ruin this
country. We don't stop and they'll all

strike. Then the garbage piles up and
the Blaines can't land.

And try and take a subway to school.

Hey, don't blame it on unions.

It's those other guys that are at fault.

Which is why you're on their side.

I'm not on their side. And you crossed a
picket line and came to school?

Look, I crossed a picket line because if
I didn't come to school, I'd get

canned. And I don't feel very good about
it.

That's why you're having trouble with
the music.

Maybe.

Plus, doing it behind Swarovski's back.

Well, would you have any ideas for
rewriting it if he was here?

Yeah, some.

Show me.

A little luncheon music, if you please.

Here, as I watch the ships go by, I'm
rooted to my

shore. I keep asking myself why, and if
there's more on the

other side.

Here, as I see the friends I thought I
made, a little bit of crying.

the time go by how i'd like to stay away
leaving all

my past behind but i know i'd only last
for a couple of days

Thank you.

Montgomery.

It looks unbelievable, man. It's finally
coming together, you know? Gee, it's a

miracle worker, McNeil. I know, I know.
Are you serious? Yes, I'm a serious.

This musical number is a thing of
beauty. You see?

All right.

Sit down, sit down.

Yeah, but how'd you do this without
Leroy?

Well, I got Willie to stand in, and when
he shows up, we'll just show him the

set. What about the music? Leroy's
rearranging the score. The tempo's the

and you know that's all that matters.

Great, let's see it.

So listen,

they were all at school today
rehearsing.

Why weren't you?

or get fired?

Neither yet.

If I don't quit now, I'm gonna get fired
soon enough.

Why?

Well, I ain't no king.

Miss Grant said, and this is a direct
quote, you looked every inch for a

monarch. She said that?

Mm -hmm.

That's because she ain't heard me talk
yet.

What?

I mean, she heard me say my words about
being a king, but not Shakespeare's.

Montgomery doesn't like the way you say
Shakespeare's words.

He ain't hear me yet either.

But you've been rehearsing.

They have.

Why haven't you?

Well, you know how you got on my case
when I was doing that Casey at the Bat

poem? Mm -hmm.

Well, can you think what I would sound
like reading Shakespeare?

Did you try?

And let everybody see what a dumb jerk I
am? Uh -uh. Leroy, that's not true.

In no way is that true.

Now, you've had some rotten training in
the past and you've got some catching up

to do now, but that's all.

There isn't any dumb about it.

Could you help me be good enough to be
in this play?

Leroy, the problem is this stripe.

I'm not... You're not supposed to help.

Well, obviously a teacher is always
supposed to help a student, but... You

help. Leroy, I'm not supposed... Thanks
for the coffee.

Leroy. Look, you swear to me you ain't
saying no because you think I'm too dumb

to learn these words.

I swear.

You getting paid while you're on strike?

No.

How are you going to manage if this goes
on?

Well...

I've got some money saved.

I might be able to get a part -time job
of some kind. Why?

Well, you ought to toot people.

Toot her?

Um, yeah, sometimes I do.

I got $6 .35.

How much tooting will that get me?

I'd say that.

Get you just about all the tutoring you
can handle.

That's terrific, Bruno.

I agree.

Great, then let's use it.

No. Why don't you want to use it?

Because it's like doing it behind
Swarovski's back.

So? I'm not going to let you use my
rewrite until Swarovski says it's okay.

Yeah, but he's not here and he can't be
here.

Montgomery, I know that.

I told you that would be his attitude.

Look, Bruno, if you had a cure for the
common cold, would you withhold it from

the public?

I do not have a cure for the common
cold.

Or hiccups. Would you hold back with
that? Or hickeys? Or herpes?

Anything.

nothing, Sean.

But I do love thee, and when I love thee
not, chaos is come again.

It doesn't seem like the morning is
going to be as interesting as the night

must have had.

Oh, I just... I got caught up watching a
late movie on TV last night. Which one?

Red Rock Canyon.

Oh, wait.

Randolph Scott.

You are a big fan of Randolph Scott
Western.

Please. Never miss a one.

Elizabeth. We really should get out to
the picket line.

No, hear me out.

I really think I should go to one
rehearsal.

Just one.

For a couple of hours, just to see what
they're doing.

I'm sure they're doing fine. You know, I
think you really underestimate them.

Elizabeth, be realistic.

You can't expect high school students to
mount a production of Othello by

themselves. I don't care how talented
they are. They need supervision.

I'm sure Coco's doing a good job.

Coco? What do you mean, Coco?

She's their director.

Temporary director.

Where did you hear that?

One of the kids told me.

Well, how come you're talking to the
kids? We really shouldn't be late.

Come on.

Major issues have not yet been resolved,
but union and board of education

negotiators have reached agreement on
several minor points.

Many observers anticipate a breakthrough
before the end of the week.

Won't be.

Excuse me. There's a dress rehearsal
after school. If this is okay with you,

using it. Nice talking to you.

Shame on you, girl. Shame on you.

Good morning, Mr.

Sharofsky.

Let me thy handkerchief.

Here, my lord.

That which I gave you.

I have it not about me.

Not? Oh, come on, man. You gotta put
more meaning in it than that.

You don't know what this here play's
about?

It's about some dude who gives this girl
a handkerchief.

Them other brother come along, told my
man Othello he seen to give it to

somebody else.

Now, this made my man Othello mad. He's
burning up now.

He think his girl trying to cheat on
him, you know what I mean?

Show you how it's done.

Come now, your promise.

What promise, Chuck?

I have sent to bid Cassio come speak
with you.

I have a thought and sorry room offends
me.

Lend me that handkerchief.

Here, my lord.

That which I gave you.

I have it not about me. Not?

No, indeed, my lord.

That is a fault.

That handkerchief did an Egyptian to my
mother give.

She was a charmer and could almost read
the thoughts of people.

She told her while she kept it, it would
make her amiable.

and subdue my father entirely to her
love.

But if she lost it, or made a gift of
it, my father's eyes should hold her

loathe it, and its spirits would hunt
after new fancies.

She dying gave it me, and bid me, when
my fate would have me, wife, to give it

her.

I did so.

And take heed on it.

Make it a darling like your precious
eye.

But to lose it or give it away was such
perdition as nothing else could match.

This is for you.

But don't ask me where it came from.

Please?

We finally brought it together. Even
with the strike, we did it. That says a

about us, you know?

We're a powerful bunch of kids, you
know? We gotta believe in ourselves.

Because we can do a lot.

Seriously, we should all believe that.

You know?

All right, and on the count of three,
man, let's just rock this place with a

loud noise, all right?

One, two, three!

What

time

is it?

A few minutes after three.

The payment said both sides were really
close, huh?

Two peas in a pod.

Anybody hear that?

What?

Sounds like, I don't know, music.

Hard to tell way down here.

Excuse me, y 'all.

I'm going to the little girl's room.

Me too.

Little boy's room.

Manager.

I'm going to go check my box.

I have a catalog I'm expecting.

It's mailed to the school.

Plain brown wrapper.

Uh -huh.

Oh, to hell with it.

Okay, people, come on, from the top.

Thank you.

You're not her only man.