1 00:02:23,033 --> 00:02:25,275 Hey! 2 00:02:30,624 --> 00:02:33,032 Jeez. Buddy, you look dead. 3 00:02:34,628 --> 00:02:37,036 I wanna see Brockton. 4 00:02:39,008 --> 00:02:41,499 Or Ulmer. 5 00:02:41,594 --> 00:02:45,259 Yeah? What about? A murder. 6 00:02:45,347 --> 00:02:48,348 Yeah? Who was murdered? 7 00:02:49,768 --> 00:02:51,761 I was. 8 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:06,693 He looks bad, Dan. 9 00:03:27,431 --> 00:03:30,100 Nice of you to fit in an appearance, Cornell. 10 00:03:30,184 --> 00:03:33,849 We'd about given you up for... You'd be right. 11 00:03:39,151 --> 00:03:42,401 Dead on arrival. 12 00:03:42,488 --> 00:03:46,106 Just one more on the pile, eh, Cornell? 13 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:48,192 How many corpses now? 14 00:03:49,578 --> 00:03:51,618 Five? Six. 15 00:03:59,547 --> 00:04:04,588 You know, if, uh, Cecil B. over there is ready, I'll tell you all about it. 16 00:04:04,677 --> 00:04:09,469 I'll try to piece together as best I can what's happened over the last 36 hours. 17 00:04:22,403 --> 00:04:26,531 Metcalf, a color. How about green? 18 00:04:26,615 --> 00:04:29,533 Uh, young. Raw. 19 00:04:29,618 --> 00:04:31,860 Immature. Specific reference. 20 00:04:31,954 --> 00:04:33,911 Jolly Green Giant. Mr. Green Jeans. 21 00:04:33,998 --> 00:04:36,453 You people are junk-culture geniuses, aren't ya? 22 00:04:36,542 --> 00:04:41,702 Now, I mean a literary reference, and Bill Cosby's latest book doesn't count. 23 00:04:41,797 --> 00:04:44,418 Hmm? Anybody? 24 00:04:44,508 --> 00:04:48,458 Nick? The color green. Fire off any synapses for you? 25 00:04:48,554 --> 00:04:50,926 What about Shakespeare's line in Antony and Cleopatra? 26 00:04:51,015 --> 00:04:53,802 That's Taylor and Burton to the rest of us, right? 27 00:04:53,893 --> 00:04:58,056 All right. What's the line, Nick? - "My salad days when I was green in judgment." 28 00:04:58,147 --> 00:05:00,056 Good. Another one. 29 00:05:00,149 --> 00:05:03,482 "The text is old, the orator too green." Nick? 30 00:05:03,569 --> 00:05:05,894 What? Didn't mean another Shakespeare quote, Nick. 31 00:05:05,988 --> 00:05:09,274 I meant another student. Aren't we literal-minded lately, huh? 32 00:05:09,366 --> 00:05:13,862 A bit like a computer. Computer programmers have a saying, Professor. 33 00:05:13,954 --> 00:05:18,034 "Garbage in, garbage out." - Yeah? Well, English professors have a saying too, Nick. 34 00:05:18,125 --> 00:05:21,992 "Don't one-up me in public. I haven't graded your independent project yet." 35 00:05:22,087 --> 00:05:24,210 Okay, can we hear from somebody else? 36 00:05:30,596 --> 00:05:32,635 I'm glad somebody can sleep in this heat. 37 00:05:37,269 --> 00:05:41,101 Mr. Sloane, good morning. 38 00:05:41,190 --> 00:05:43,597 Dreaming of a white Christmas? Sorry, Professor. 39 00:05:43,692 --> 00:05:47,144 Pulled an all-nighter. Uh-huh. - What's the topic? 40 00:05:47,238 --> 00:05:53,323 The color green as a metaphor. Got any thoughts at all? 41 00:05:53,410 --> 00:05:56,530 Anybody got any thoughts? Jealousy. 42 00:05:56,622 --> 00:05:59,077 "Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy. 43 00:05:59,166 --> 00:06:04,505 It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on." 44 00:06:06,715 --> 00:06:09,800 Othello. Good acting too, Nick. 45 00:06:09,885 --> 00:06:12,720 Will somebody please unplug this man? 46 00:06:12,805 --> 00:06:15,510 All right, everybody. Get the hell out of here. 47 00:06:22,106 --> 00:06:25,356 Professor? Oh. Thank you, Miss... 48 00:06:27,820 --> 00:06:31,319 Fuller. Sydney Fuller. Back row. 49 00:06:31,407 --> 00:06:33,399 I was wondering, do you think you could... 50 00:06:36,704 --> 00:06:40,951 Talk about your salad days. What, you want me to sign this? 51 00:06:41,041 --> 00:06:43,164 I can't believe myself, but, yeah. 52 00:06:43,252 --> 00:06:46,585 To Sydney Fuller. 53 00:06:46,672 --> 00:06:50,171 Taken me all semester to work up my nerve to ask you. 54 00:06:50,259 --> 00:06:52,335 That's with a Y. 55 00:06:52,428 --> 00:06:54,255 S-Y... Yeah, yeah, yeah. 56 00:06:54,346 --> 00:06:57,217 S-Y-D-N-E-Y. Yeah. 57 00:06:57,308 --> 00:07:00,225 That's the reason, you know, I took your course... because my parents... 58 00:07:00,311 --> 00:07:02,830 they just think that liberal arts is a waste of tuition, and I... 59 00:07:02,855 --> 00:07:05,560 I mean, I've read all of your books, and I just... Shut up, Sydney. 60 00:07:08,110 --> 00:07:11,194 Have, though. I read 'em all. Glutton for punishment, huh? 61 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:13,853 No, they're great. I wish you hadn't have stopped. 62 00:07:15,868 --> 00:07:18,359 I didn't stop. I just stalled. 63 00:07:19,830 --> 00:07:23,994 Professor Cornell? Uh, my novel. You-You really haven't, uh... 64 00:07:24,084 --> 00:07:26,492 Graded it? Finished it? Either. 65 00:07:26,587 --> 00:07:29,256 Neither. But you said you'd have it graded this week. 66 00:07:29,340 --> 00:07:32,175 Yes, well, Nick, this heat's put me a little bit behind schedule. 67 00:07:32,259 --> 00:07:34,737 I haven't shown it to anyone else yet, Professor. Well, what should I do? 68 00:07:34,762 --> 00:07:37,087 Should I feel privileged or singled out for persecution? 69 00:07:37,181 --> 00:07:39,636 Can I be honest? I don't know, Nick. Can you? 70 00:07:39,725 --> 00:07:43,390 Your opinion means a great deal to me. And it's not because you're my professor. 71 00:07:43,479 --> 00:07:46,039 It's because of your body of work. Yeah. Synonyms for body... 72 00:07:46,106 --> 00:07:48,644 corpse, carcass, cadaver. 73 00:07:48,734 --> 00:07:52,898 If you don't like my novel, I'll die. No, I will. I'll stop writing. 74 00:07:52,988 --> 00:07:55,111 Oh. Even worse. 75 00:07:55,199 --> 00:07:57,441 I've spent the whole semester sweating out on that thing. 76 00:07:57,534 --> 00:08:00,322 Well, Nick, it took Hugo 16 years to write Les Misérables. 77 00:08:00,412 --> 00:08:02,868 Yeah, but it only takes a couple of days to read it. Yeah. 78 00:08:02,957 --> 00:08:05,874 Come on. Anything. Any comment. Anything to tide me through. 79 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:08,332 Nice typing. 80 00:08:14,677 --> 00:08:19,303 Something go down the drain? You know something I don't? 81 00:08:20,933 --> 00:08:23,341 Yeah. You look like shit, Hal. And I should know. 82 00:08:23,435 --> 00:08:26,389 I'm an expert on the subject. What's the matter? Heat getting to you? 83 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,018 Or just up all night toiling against the publisher's deadline? 84 00:08:29,108 --> 00:08:31,396 No, I was up all night consulting my physician. 85 00:08:31,485 --> 00:08:36,194 Ah. Playing doctor with Elaine. Speaking of too hot. 86 00:08:36,282 --> 00:08:39,615 Well, you know, the air conditioning at the med center was working. 87 00:08:39,702 --> 00:08:42,905 She was on call all night. Tell me. 88 00:08:42,997 --> 00:08:46,579 How do you do it in a hospital? Feet in the stirrups? 89 00:08:46,667 --> 00:08:48,992 Where else? Heigh-ho, Silver. 90 00:08:52,381 --> 00:08:54,859 Yeah, well, you're gonna have to forget about that wild life... 91 00:08:54,884 --> 00:08:57,339 once you become a full professor. 92 00:08:57,428 --> 00:09:01,472 You son of a bitch. I wondered how long you were gonna keep me in suspense. 93 00:09:01,557 --> 00:09:03,846 He said yes, right? So the promotion's mine? 94 00:09:03,934 --> 00:09:06,556 Yeah, another rung up the ladder, though it's not official yet. 95 00:09:06,645 --> 00:09:09,206 But it wouldn't hurt if you showed up at the art gallery dedication tonight. 96 00:09:09,231 --> 00:09:11,105 I'll be there with bells on. Yeah. 97 00:09:11,191 --> 00:09:15,023 It'll be your last chance to kiss ass before the Christmas break. 98 00:09:15,112 --> 00:09:17,298 You know, if you hadn't helped me with the outline and structure... 99 00:09:17,323 --> 00:09:19,232 I probably wouldn't even have the book contract. 100 00:09:19,325 --> 00:09:22,658 Yeah, I know. But I'm not gonna take the rap for that one, Hal. 101 00:09:22,745 --> 00:09:25,222 I'm serious. I wanna thank you for putting in the good word. Right. 102 00:09:25,247 --> 00:09:28,684 Hey, meet me in the office. I got a bottle in the desk. We'll have a drink, all right? 103 00:09:28,709 --> 00:09:32,069 All right. I won't tell if you won't tell. All right, I'll see you later. - Okay. 104 00:09:35,841 --> 00:09:38,593 Hey, Chuck, you spelled "carnival" with an E! 105 00:10:02,201 --> 00:10:05,700 Hey, Dex. Dex, you oughta slowdown in this heat. 106 00:10:05,788 --> 00:10:07,994 I thought you were a PhD, Dr. Corey, not an MD. 107 00:10:08,082 --> 00:10:10,288 You know what I am. I'm an assistant professor... 108 00:10:10,376 --> 00:10:13,827 mortgaged to the eyeballs with two kids and a third on the way. 109 00:10:13,921 --> 00:10:16,673 Oh, congratulations, Graham. Boy or girl? 110 00:10:18,968 --> 00:10:22,965 Word around the faculty lounge is that you recommended your friend Hal to the dean, Dex. 111 00:10:23,055 --> 00:10:24,964 I've been here longer. I was next in line. 112 00:10:25,057 --> 00:10:27,762 Well, I didn't put Hal's novel on Putnam's spring list, Graham. 113 00:10:27,851 --> 00:10:30,556 You know academic politics as well as I do... "publish or perish." 114 00:10:30,646 --> 00:10:33,932 Always has been, always will be. I have published. 115 00:10:34,024 --> 00:10:37,808 Rehashing old classroom lectures in obscure literary journals just doesn't count. 116 00:10:37,903 --> 00:10:40,359 Oh, yeah? When was the last time you published, Dex? 117 00:10:40,447 --> 00:10:43,448 Now, there's an interesting article for one of those "obscure journals." 118 00:10:43,534 --> 00:10:47,863 Young literary lion produces bril... brilliant novel... 119 00:10:47,955 --> 00:10:50,078 gets snapped up by snazzy college. 120 00:10:50,165 --> 00:10:52,685 Strong follow-up brings full professorship, and then the third novel... 121 00:10:52,710 --> 00:10:56,209 that is a little careless and a fourth that kind of stinks. 122 00:10:56,297 --> 00:10:59,417 But by then, the lion is tame and tenured, and number five never comes at all. 123 00:10:59,466 --> 00:11:03,927 Well, you know, that's still four more than you, pal. 124 00:11:04,013 --> 00:11:07,373 Look, some of us just wanna be teachers, Dex. We don't have any literary pretensions. 125 00:11:07,433 --> 00:11:09,556 We're just fucking good teachers! 126 00:11:11,645 --> 00:11:14,267 Fuckin' asshole! How'd you get this in here? 127 00:11:14,356 --> 00:11:16,598 I don't know. 128 00:11:58,192 --> 00:12:02,190 Uh, this is Gail. Um, the papers came today. 129 00:12:02,279 --> 00:12:06,775 Everything seems to be in order. I-I just need you to sign 'em. 130 00:12:06,867 --> 00:12:10,846 Listen, I'm sorry that you had to move out so quickly. I know you-you didn't get a chance to get everything. 131 00:12:10,871 --> 00:12:15,118 Um... Uh, there's some mail here for you, and... 132 00:12:17,628 --> 00:12:19,704 Christ, is it hot enough for you? 133 00:12:19,797 --> 00:12:23,047 They say rain's on the way, but I don't believe it. 134 00:12:23,133 --> 00:12:25,506 Um... 135 00:12:25,594 --> 00:12:29,674 I'll talk to you later, okay? Bye-bye. 136 00:12:31,850 --> 00:12:34,638 Uh, yeah, hi, Professor. It's, uh, Nick Lang calling. Uh... 137 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:05,333 Mm-hmm. 138 00:13:24,612 --> 00:13:26,604 Oh, shit. 139 00:13:27,740 --> 00:13:30,195 If you don't like my novel, I'll die. 140 00:13:30,284 --> 00:13:32,323 No, I will. I'll stop writing. 141 00:13:55,267 --> 00:13:57,307 Shut that, will you? 142 00:13:59,772 --> 00:14:02,773 Shit. Why? 143 00:14:02,858 --> 00:14:06,108 Time of year, isn't it? Holiday depression and all that. 144 00:14:09,949 --> 00:14:13,993 And this heat. Makes a guy do all sorts of insane things. 145 00:14:14,078 --> 00:14:16,070 Pretty grim. 146 00:14:17,373 --> 00:14:20,409 So's this. Yeah. Well, next semester... 147 00:14:20,501 --> 00:14:24,451 I'm on the best-seller list and we are up to our asses in Dewar's. 148 00:14:30,886 --> 00:14:35,678 What the hell kind of problem could a college kid have that he thinks only a swan dive could solve? 149 00:14:35,766 --> 00:14:38,850 That was no ordinary college kid. You wanna talk about problems? 150 00:14:40,688 --> 00:14:43,724 His father was a thief. 151 00:14:43,816 --> 00:14:48,608 One night about four years ago, he breaks into the Fitzwaring mansion... 152 00:14:48,696 --> 00:14:50,653 killed the husband. 153 00:14:50,739 --> 00:14:54,523 So what does the widow do? She puts the thief's son through college. 154 00:14:54,618 --> 00:14:57,192 The Fitzwaring murder? That's the kid? Was. 155 00:14:58,622 --> 00:15:01,540 Guess all the money in the world can't buy Nick a happy ending, huh? 156 00:15:05,713 --> 00:15:08,667 He was a poetic little fucker, though. 157 00:15:11,886 --> 00:15:14,092 That's Nick's independent project. Good read, huh? 158 00:15:14,179 --> 00:15:16,753 I don't know. I didn't read it. You didn't read it? 159 00:15:16,849 --> 00:15:18,841 Mm-mmm. 160 00:15:20,477 --> 00:15:23,431 Well, then what's the A for? 161 00:15:23,522 --> 00:15:26,938 Ambitious? I don't believe you didn't read it. 162 00:15:27,026 --> 00:15:30,588 What, were you uptight that one of your students might actually produce something of quality? 163 00:15:30,613 --> 00:15:33,697 No. I was uptight about having to wade through 400 pages... 164 00:15:33,782 --> 00:15:36,819 of flatulent student fiction. 165 00:15:36,911 --> 00:15:39,318 Now I don't have to. 166 00:15:44,501 --> 00:15:48,285 Oh, God. Now I do have to. 167 00:15:54,178 --> 00:15:58,555 Not necessarily sober, though. Merry Christmas. 168 00:15:58,641 --> 00:16:00,633 Merry Christmas. 169 00:16:07,191 --> 00:16:09,433 Less egg, Gail, more nog. 170 00:16:12,071 --> 00:16:15,237 Who's this card from? Uncle Charlie. 171 00:16:15,324 --> 00:16:18,029 Mine or yours? It's yours. 172 00:16:18,118 --> 00:16:21,203 I thought he was dead. No. The dead one's mine. 173 00:16:27,211 --> 00:16:31,043 Student suicide on campus today. I left that box of records of yours by the door. 174 00:16:33,092 --> 00:16:35,417 We, uh, mailing out joint Christmas cards this year? 175 00:16:36,554 --> 00:16:39,175 I already sent mine out. Guess not. 176 00:16:39,265 --> 00:16:41,590 Oh, I forgot. I've got a gift for you. 177 00:16:44,186 --> 00:16:47,520 Oh, God, Dex. Why? 178 00:16:49,275 --> 00:16:51,766 Well, don't worry. It's nothing much. 179 00:16:54,905 --> 00:16:58,737 Hot date? Didn't think you'd dress like that to trim a tree. 180 00:16:58,826 --> 00:17:01,281 Anybody I know? 181 00:17:01,370 --> 00:17:03,528 Stop sounding like a husband. Well, I'm sorry. 182 00:17:03,622 --> 00:17:06,196 I thought I still was one. 183 00:17:53,547 --> 00:17:55,540 Thank you. 184 00:18:00,930 --> 00:18:04,215 Well, it's a little nicer than what I got you, I'm afraid. 185 00:18:09,897 --> 00:18:12,304 Couldn't you have thought of something more pleasant? 186 00:18:12,399 --> 00:18:14,273 A lump of coal, perhaps? 187 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:18,357 Come on. 'Tis the season to be jolly. 188 00:18:18,447 --> 00:18:22,196 Uh, you know, this thing would be a lot easier to take if only you'd act a little hurt. 189 00:18:22,284 --> 00:18:24,858 I hurt, Dex. And I think you know how long I've hurt. 190 00:18:24,954 --> 00:18:27,195 Why? What have I done? 191 00:18:27,289 --> 00:18:29,578 Hmm? Have I cheated on you? 192 00:18:29,667 --> 00:18:32,867 I mean, I'm probably the only professor on campus who's not screwing a sophomore. 193 00:18:34,213 --> 00:18:38,791 Maybe you oughta be. At least it'd be a sign of life, a longing for something. 194 00:18:38,884 --> 00:18:41,506 Okay, Gail, I tell you what. You wait here. 195 00:18:41,595 --> 00:18:44,490 I'm gonna go out and find myself a coed for a quickie. I'll be right back. 196 00:18:44,515 --> 00:18:47,682 Can we resume our marriage? This hasn't been a marriage in four years, Dex. 197 00:18:50,437 --> 00:18:53,688 It's funny how that kind of coincides with the publication of my last novel. 198 00:18:56,735 --> 00:18:59,405 So that's my great sin, huh? I'm not prolific enough. 199 00:18:59,488 --> 00:19:01,860 Perhaps you should've married Harold Robbins. 200 00:19:01,949 --> 00:19:04,357 One for the road, Dex? Subtle hint to exit? 201 00:19:04,451 --> 00:19:07,571 No. I'm exiting. 202 00:19:07,663 --> 00:19:10,450 Make yourself at home. You are, after all. 203 00:19:10,541 --> 00:19:13,328 Because I stopped writing? Because you stopped caring. 204 00:19:13,419 --> 00:19:17,286 Goddam it, Gail, don't run out on me! What did I do to you? 205 00:19:17,381 --> 00:19:20,880 You did it to yourself. Oh, God, Dex. 206 00:19:20,968 --> 00:19:25,131 You were so good, and you just gave up on everything that mattered to you, including me. 207 00:19:25,222 --> 00:19:28,367 You know, marriage can't always be as hot as the honeymoon. There's ups and downs. 208 00:19:28,392 --> 00:19:31,559 Two people, when they live together, they... You know, you are so smart... 209 00:19:31,645 --> 00:19:35,180 and you don't have the faintest idea what I'm talking about, do you? 210 00:19:35,274 --> 00:19:39,852 The fact that making love became a matter of just going through the motions was hard enough. 211 00:19:39,945 --> 00:19:42,234 But I could take it, if you'd have only talked to me. 212 00:19:42,323 --> 00:19:46,272 Talk? I talk all day, every day. It's what I do. 213 00:19:46,368 --> 00:19:51,410 No, it's ironic banter. It's not intimacy. And after a while, it's abuse. 214 00:19:51,498 --> 00:19:53,871 I'm sorry. I lied when I said, "For better or worse." 215 00:19:53,959 --> 00:19:56,228 I'm not gonna stick around and watch someone I love just wither away. 216 00:19:56,253 --> 00:19:58,246 Gail. 217 00:20:01,050 --> 00:20:04,216 Don't. I've got to. Mistletoe. 218 00:20:10,267 --> 00:20:12,176 Sign those papers before you go. 219 00:21:12,538 --> 00:21:14,744 Ah, a mistake. 220 00:21:28,721 --> 00:21:34,011 It's unclear where the light is coming from. There is no scope! 221 00:21:34,101 --> 00:21:36,177 Oh, thank you, Graham. Excuse me. 222 00:21:49,116 --> 00:21:51,405 We've gotta stop meeting like this. 223 00:21:51,493 --> 00:21:53,486 Hey, Dex. 224 00:21:56,582 --> 00:22:00,165 Quit staring, will you? I got a bashful bladder. 225 00:22:00,252 --> 00:22:02,313 What's the matter, Hal? You look like you've seen a ghost. 226 00:22:02,338 --> 00:22:05,173 No, no, no. Just your wife. She know you're here? 227 00:22:06,550 --> 00:22:08,673 She's here? Yeah. 228 00:22:11,847 --> 00:22:14,801 Uh-oh. 229 00:22:14,892 --> 00:22:18,746 I know. It's been a long time, hasn't it? I didn't know you were still attending faculty functions. 230 00:22:18,771 --> 00:22:21,344 Yeah, it gives me a chance to see folks I don't see much anymore. 231 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,896 Anyone special? You found him. - Hey. 232 00:22:23,984 --> 00:22:29,275 Look what I picked up in the john. Yeah, isn't it awful what you can get from a toilet seat? 233 00:22:29,365 --> 00:22:31,737 Did you enjoy your egg nog, Dex? Not enough nog. 234 00:22:31,825 --> 00:22:34,720 Elaine, could you flag me down one of those? Oh, God. Don't encourage him. 235 00:22:34,745 --> 00:22:37,236 Graham, could you... Thought you had a hot date. 236 00:22:37,331 --> 00:22:41,459 Did you sign those papers? Gail, you know I gave up writing. 237 00:22:41,544 --> 00:22:45,078 Writer's block can get awfully expensive with my lawyers, Dex. 238 00:22:45,172 --> 00:22:48,790 If I could have everyone's attention, please. 239 00:22:50,803 --> 00:22:53,969 Despite the tragic event that happened on campus today... 240 00:22:54,056 --> 00:22:56,345 our benefactress, Mrs. Michael Fitzwaring... 241 00:22:56,433 --> 00:23:00,478 insisted that we proceed with the dedication as scheduled. 242 00:23:00,563 --> 00:23:03,480 This gallery was long the dream of my late husband. 243 00:23:03,566 --> 00:23:06,103 Four years ago, when I arranged for the son... 244 00:23:06,193 --> 00:23:09,028 of my husband's murderer to come to this college... 245 00:23:09,113 --> 00:23:11,651 it shocked many people. 246 00:23:11,740 --> 00:23:14,741 But Nicholas Lang was not responsible for the sins of his father. 247 00:23:14,827 --> 00:23:17,448 And I believed that he deserved a chance. 248 00:23:17,538 --> 00:23:21,951 Over these last four years, Nick proved worthy of my faith. 249 00:23:22,042 --> 00:23:25,162 He triumphed over the past, or so it seemed. 250 00:23:25,254 --> 00:23:29,038 But sometimes, the past is inexorable. 251 00:23:29,133 --> 00:23:31,540 I saw his body at the med center. Who? 252 00:23:31,635 --> 00:23:34,720 Nick Lang, the student who jumped. Erstwhile student. 253 00:23:34,805 --> 00:23:37,676 What? Plummeted right past my window. I had a front row seat. 254 00:23:37,766 --> 00:23:41,100 Jeez, Dex. There will be a memorial service for Nicholas. 255 00:23:44,732 --> 00:23:47,401 Gail. 256 00:23:53,532 --> 00:23:55,676 I'm coming. Hey, hey, we'll... We'll take care of her. 257 00:23:55,701 --> 00:23:58,095 We'll take care of her. Now, look, I'm coming... Just leave it to Elaine. No, Dex. 258 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,406 Please, don't complicate it. And don't hurt yourself. 259 00:24:01,498 --> 00:24:03,456 It's okay. We'll take you home. 260 00:24:03,542 --> 00:24:06,212 Gail, you and Nick Lang? 261 00:24:08,214 --> 00:24:10,539 Gail. 262 00:24:10,633 --> 00:24:13,468 Talk to me. Please, just leave me alone. 263 00:24:24,104 --> 00:24:28,185 Scene of a crime A body in the bag 264 00:24:29,568 --> 00:24:31,775 One gets to die 265 00:24:31,862 --> 00:24:35,112 One gets the flag 266 00:24:35,199 --> 00:24:37,275 A slave to desire Bartender. 267 00:24:37,368 --> 00:24:40,404 The pain of rejection 268 00:24:40,496 --> 00:24:44,956 Too much sex and not enough affection 269 00:24:45,918 --> 00:24:48,124 Read it in the paper 270 00:24:48,212 --> 00:24:51,462 Or watch it on TV 271 00:24:51,549 --> 00:24:55,593 Cry for a stranger but turn your back on me 272 00:24:56,887 --> 00:24:59,176 Try another line Bartender? 273 00:24:59,265 --> 00:25:01,388 And still no connection 274 00:25:02,643 --> 00:25:06,806 Too much sex and not enough affection 275 00:25:06,897 --> 00:25:08,890 Bartender! 276 00:25:16,740 --> 00:25:19,362 Thank you. My pleasure. 277 00:25:21,912 --> 00:25:24,486 More where that came from. 278 00:25:29,503 --> 00:25:32,539 You drinking to forget? 279 00:25:32,631 --> 00:25:35,122 To oblivion. 280 00:25:36,260 --> 00:25:39,843 What sorrow are you drowning? 281 00:25:39,930 --> 00:25:42,635 Maybe I just drink because I like it. 282 00:25:42,725 --> 00:25:46,674 Always a sorrow. Lost hope. 283 00:25:48,147 --> 00:25:50,305 Lost love. 284 00:25:58,574 --> 00:26:01,112 Hey, hey, are you all right? 285 00:26:05,664 --> 00:26:08,749 Yeah. I'm just a few drinks short of oblivion. 286 00:26:08,834 --> 00:26:12,250 Well, I... Well, I'll tell you what. I'll meet you there. 287 00:26:14,673 --> 00:26:17,460 Hey, pal, the lady and I are trying to set a new record. 288 00:26:17,551 --> 00:26:19,876 Set it yourself. The lady's going home. 289 00:26:22,473 --> 00:26:26,305 Mother missed you tonight. She's a tad freaked out. 290 00:26:26,393 --> 00:26:29,228 "Freaked out"? That makes two of us. 291 00:26:30,689 --> 00:26:34,354 Oh! Jesus, Mary and Joseph! 292 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,189 Come on, dear. We're going home. 293 00:26:47,498 --> 00:26:49,490 Professor Cornell? 294 00:26:51,835 --> 00:26:54,326 Uh, Miss... Fuller. 295 00:26:54,421 --> 00:26:57,921 Sydney Fuller. Yeah. 296 00:26:58,008 --> 00:27:00,546 God, isn't it awful about Nick Lang? What a shock. 297 00:27:02,221 --> 00:27:05,554 Yeah, just one of many. Yeah, I know. It's just terrible. 298 00:27:05,641 --> 00:27:07,883 Something I can do for you? 299 00:27:18,153 --> 00:27:20,644 Will you have a drink with me? 300 00:27:20,739 --> 00:27:22,732 Okay. 301 00:27:24,577 --> 00:27:26,653 Oh, a martini. Mm-hmm. 302 00:27:29,415 --> 00:27:32,332 First one? Too much 303 00:27:32,418 --> 00:27:35,621 And not enough 304 00:27:54,648 --> 00:27:58,776 What? Okay, I give up. Where did the female reindeer go? 305 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,438 Oh, God, Eddie. 306 00:28:03,532 --> 00:28:05,857 You have hit rock bottom on that one... 307 00:28:05,951 --> 00:28:08,621 but I still love you. 308 00:28:08,704 --> 00:28:11,871 Okay, I gotta go. I'll see you next week. Bye. 309 00:28:14,043 --> 00:28:17,209 Where did the female reindeer go? Oh, you don't want to know. 310 00:28:26,764 --> 00:28:30,215 Oh, my God. Am I where I think I am? Freshman girls' dorm? 311 00:28:33,479 --> 00:28:35,934 Does this get worse? What happened? Don't you remember? 312 00:28:36,023 --> 00:28:38,775 You were amazing! Oh, no! 313 00:28:38,859 --> 00:28:42,643 Can't handle praise? Oh! I can't handle prison. 314 00:28:42,738 --> 00:28:46,072 I'm over 18. Oh! The mere fact that you have to mention that... 315 00:28:46,158 --> 00:28:51,116 means that I'd better get dressed and haul my ass out of... 316 00:28:51,205 --> 00:28:54,408 I was amazing fully dressed? 317 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:56,706 Guess I had you going there, huh? 318 00:28:56,794 --> 00:28:59,914 Yeah. Uh, now, wait a minute. 319 00:29:00,005 --> 00:29:04,963 I seem to remember a lot of drinks, a lot of bars. Uh, a pass being made? 320 00:29:05,052 --> 00:29:07,460 Yeah, I made the pass. Yeah. Incomplete. 321 00:29:09,056 --> 00:29:11,049 You were very gracious about turning me down. 322 00:29:11,141 --> 00:29:14,226 You said I was pretty, you said I was smart, and then you said something... 323 00:29:14,311 --> 00:29:17,396 about rules and ethics, professors and coeds. 324 00:29:17,481 --> 00:29:20,233 And then something about alcohol impeding performance... 325 00:29:20,317 --> 00:29:22,808 all the while trying to make a graceful exit. 326 00:29:22,903 --> 00:29:25,655 Yeah, but I-I didn't exit. No. You passed out. 327 00:29:25,739 --> 00:29:28,824 Yeah. Diet Sprite? 328 00:29:28,909 --> 00:29:31,151 Thank you. 329 00:29:31,245 --> 00:29:35,456 This boyfriend of yours, um... jealous type? 330 00:29:35,541 --> 00:29:37,284 Huh? The phone. 331 00:29:37,376 --> 00:29:39,250 Oh, no, that's my brother, Eddie. 332 00:29:39,336 --> 00:29:43,548 He called with his annual Christmas joke. Hey, Syd. 333 00:29:43,632 --> 00:29:46,419 Syd, want to hit the gym? Barb, don't you knock? 334 00:29:49,179 --> 00:29:52,180 Guess you've already exercised. Sorry. 335 00:29:52,266 --> 00:29:55,160 Listen, this room is strategically located right next to the fire stairs. 336 00:29:55,185 --> 00:29:59,764 So you can let yourself out whenever. I have Intro to Trig across the quad in five. 337 00:30:00,983 --> 00:30:03,439 Anyway, so it was fun, Professor. Dex. 338 00:30:04,695 --> 00:30:07,186 Dex. 339 00:30:07,281 --> 00:30:11,409 Okay, I guess I'll see you in class then, Dex. 340 00:30:11,493 --> 00:30:15,823 Barb! I don't believe you! Well, how was I supposed to know? 341 00:30:17,166 --> 00:30:22,041 I'm trapped in a girls' dormitory with creatures called Barb. 342 00:30:39,772 --> 00:30:43,022 Gail? 343 00:30:43,108 --> 00:30:45,778 Hi, Dex. 344 00:30:45,861 --> 00:30:48,399 Hi. 345 00:30:48,489 --> 00:30:51,194 How are you? I'm okay. 346 00:30:52,618 --> 00:30:55,405 Elaine gave me some pills. Uh-huh. 347 00:30:58,958 --> 00:31:01,413 Look, Gail, I-I... I'm a little off-balance right now... 348 00:31:01,502 --> 00:31:03,957 but I am sorry. 349 00:31:04,046 --> 00:31:06,252 Dex, I'm so sorry for the way you found out. 350 00:31:07,716 --> 00:31:10,670 There was nothing vindictive in it. I never told anybody. 351 00:31:13,138 --> 00:31:15,511 I guess I was just a little embarrassed. 352 00:31:17,935 --> 00:31:21,019 He was so young. Yeah. 353 00:31:21,105 --> 00:31:24,853 I didn't find out till later that he was one of your students. 354 00:31:24,942 --> 00:31:27,302 Boy, some shrink would have a field day with this one, huh? 355 00:31:30,197 --> 00:31:32,819 He reminded me so much of you at that age. 356 00:31:32,908 --> 00:31:36,075 Remember? 357 00:31:36,161 --> 00:31:40,076 What, you-you mean the little place we used to have off campus? 358 00:31:40,165 --> 00:31:44,543 Yeah. I tried to write, and you tried to make Spam taste even more delicious. 359 00:31:45,754 --> 00:31:48,958 You did write. 360 00:31:49,049 --> 00:31:53,758 You were full of passion and purpose. What, you mean like Nick Lang? 361 00:31:53,846 --> 00:31:57,297 That wasn't love, Dex. Yeah. 362 00:31:59,518 --> 00:32:02,685 He just made me feel like I haven't felt in such a long time. 363 00:32:08,068 --> 00:32:11,603 Dex, there was no reason... Look, Gail. Gail. 364 00:32:11,697 --> 00:32:16,359 I'm coming over there, Gail. That's not a good idea, Dex. 365 00:32:16,452 --> 00:32:18,990 Listen. 366 00:32:19,079 --> 00:32:22,448 Uh, come by tonight. 367 00:32:22,541 --> 00:32:25,791 I'll go out for a bit. It'll be easier. 368 00:32:25,878 --> 00:32:28,250 You've got to sign those papers. 369 00:32:30,466 --> 00:32:33,039 And you left your briefcase here. 370 00:32:39,266 --> 00:32:41,638 I'll leave it by the tree, okay? 371 00:32:41,727 --> 00:32:43,933 I don't think you should be alone right now, Gail. 372 00:32:47,733 --> 00:32:50,189 Please. Please don't come over. 373 00:32:55,658 --> 00:32:57,816 I love you. 374 00:33:07,670 --> 00:33:09,911 I know, Dex. 375 00:33:11,340 --> 00:33:14,257 I know. 376 00:34:17,823 --> 00:34:19,899 This is no hangover. 377 00:34:29,460 --> 00:34:32,544 Dex! Sir, may I help you? Are you all right? 378 00:35:01,367 --> 00:35:04,118 What's taking so long? We just got this back. 379 00:35:04,203 --> 00:35:07,619 Oh, great. Let me see. Take a look at this. It's very strange. 380 00:35:07,706 --> 00:35:10,826 It's radium chloride. 381 00:35:10,918 --> 00:35:15,212 Are you absolutely sure about this? Yes. Positive. 382 00:35:15,297 --> 00:35:18,880 Toxicology ran through these twice and confirmed the results. 383 00:35:32,106 --> 00:35:34,015 Sorry you had to wait so long. 384 00:35:34,108 --> 00:35:37,856 I'm feeling a lot better. What's up, Doc? 385 00:35:37,945 --> 00:35:40,103 Sit down, Dex, please. 386 00:35:40,197 --> 00:35:42,522 What's that? It's a sample. 387 00:35:42,616 --> 00:35:44,739 You're not gonna make me drink that, are you? 388 00:35:44,827 --> 00:35:47,365 No, Dex. You already did. 389 00:35:47,454 --> 00:35:51,120 We, uh, ran the test twice. Well, what is that? 390 00:35:51,208 --> 00:35:55,158 It's a toxic luminous solution, and it's in your system. 391 00:35:55,254 --> 00:35:58,872 What, from eating too much tuna fish? It's poison, Dex. 392 00:35:58,966 --> 00:36:03,177 Oh, bullshit, Elaine. I had too much to drink, and I feel like shit. 393 00:36:03,262 --> 00:36:05,967 I come over here to see my doctor, and... Dex. 394 00:36:06,056 --> 00:36:08,345 It's been in your body for at least 12 hours. 395 00:36:08,434 --> 00:36:12,182 We found toxic traces. Our chief resident reviewed the results. 396 00:36:12,271 --> 00:36:14,999 Well, how did it get in there? The alcohol content in your body... 397 00:36:15,024 --> 00:36:18,724 suggests you got it in some liquor. 398 00:36:18,819 --> 00:36:22,172 Well, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna give me a stomach pump or something or what? 399 00:36:22,197 --> 00:36:24,356 What? Well, you got an antidote for it? 400 00:36:26,410 --> 00:36:29,494 This will help you. 401 00:36:29,580 --> 00:36:32,497 Thank God I came to see you, Elaine. I thought I had the flu. 402 00:36:36,962 --> 00:36:39,714 There's not gonna be any, uh, permanent damage from this, is there? 403 00:36:42,051 --> 00:36:44,542 I've given you some sodium Amytal... Yeah? 404 00:36:44,637 --> 00:36:47,591 To help relax you. 405 00:36:47,681 --> 00:36:50,137 Dex. 406 00:36:50,226 --> 00:36:53,808 This poison has been absorbed into your system. 407 00:36:55,689 --> 00:36:58,607 Even if there were an antidote, it's too late for it. 408 00:36:59,985 --> 00:37:02,607 "Too late" meaning what? 409 00:37:05,991 --> 00:37:08,198 There's nothing we can do. 410 00:37:16,168 --> 00:37:18,706 How long? It depends. 411 00:37:18,796 --> 00:37:21,996 How much was ingested, the systemic conditions of the individual... How long? 412 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,673 Twenty-four hours. No more than forty-eight. 413 00:37:28,764 --> 00:37:32,299 It's a mistake. It's a fucking stupid mistake. 414 00:37:32,393 --> 00:37:34,765 I wish it were. 415 00:37:34,853 --> 00:37:36,727 I need a drink. 416 00:37:36,814 --> 00:37:40,313 Of course. I've arranged a room for you here. 417 00:37:40,401 --> 00:37:44,529 You'll be comfortable. I guess the police should be notified. 418 00:39:39,353 --> 00:39:41,642 Shit. Come on. 419 00:39:41,730 --> 00:39:43,604 Come on! 420 00:39:46,777 --> 00:39:48,853 Gail! 421 00:39:48,946 --> 00:39:51,104 Gail! 422 00:39:52,616 --> 00:39:55,154 Gail! 423 00:39:58,455 --> 00:40:02,239 Gail! Gail! 424 00:40:02,334 --> 00:40:05,288 Gail! 425 00:40:05,379 --> 00:40:07,372 Gail! G... 426 00:40:11,510 --> 00:40:13,799 Gail! 427 00:40:37,244 --> 00:40:40,115 Look, I gave him a sedative. That's why he passed out. 428 00:40:40,205 --> 00:40:42,993 I see. We'll call you if we need you. Thanks a lot. 429 00:40:48,464 --> 00:40:51,215 Found this in your wife's hand. 430 00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:55,751 We're guessing the rest of it's this pile of ash here. 431 00:40:55,846 --> 00:40:59,013 A little too hot to be roasting chestnuts. 432 00:41:00,392 --> 00:41:03,097 Here. 433 00:41:09,610 --> 00:41:12,694 Come on, Cornell. You and the wife had a tiff about the boyfriend yesterday. 434 00:41:12,780 --> 00:41:15,022 Right? 435 00:41:15,115 --> 00:41:18,449 You found some love letters, tried to burn 'em. Wrong. 436 00:41:18,535 --> 00:41:20,824 She tried to stop you, only saved this much. Wrong. 437 00:41:20,913 --> 00:41:24,246 Things escalated, got a little out of hand. Nothing got out of hand. 438 00:41:24,333 --> 00:41:27,784 Oh, you're just deckin' the halls, huh? I told you why I came here... 439 00:41:27,878 --> 00:41:31,746 to talk to my wife. Yeah? Tell her what? 440 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,676 That I'd been a bastard. Tell her or show her? 441 00:41:35,928 --> 00:41:38,253 To apologize to her. 442 00:41:41,267 --> 00:41:45,015 And to say good-bye. You gave her a hell of a send-off. 443 00:41:46,939 --> 00:41:50,522 Is that the best your prosaic, petty little mind can come up with? 444 00:41:50,609 --> 00:41:53,100 It's a prosaic, petty little world, Cornell. 445 00:41:53,195 --> 00:41:56,066 Yeah, well, if I'd wanted to lop off one corner of a jealous triangle... 446 00:41:56,156 --> 00:41:58,529 it would have been Nick Lang, not Gail. Good. 447 00:41:58,617 --> 00:42:01,903 That was the next question. That's why we're here... 448 00:42:01,996 --> 00:42:03,953 to question your wife about Lang's death. 449 00:42:04,039 --> 00:42:08,084 Heard it came as a shock to her. What are you saying? 450 00:42:08,168 --> 00:42:11,253 Nick Lang didn't jump off any roof. He was pushed. 451 00:42:11,338 --> 00:42:15,917 Lot of scuff marks on the roof. Nicky was dragging his heels about going over. 452 00:42:16,010 --> 00:42:19,213 Plus his apartment got broken into sometime yesterday afternoon. 453 00:42:19,305 --> 00:42:21,760 What does that have to do with anything? Not sure. 454 00:42:21,849 --> 00:42:26,096 Nothing seemed stolen. Maybe someone was lookin' for him. 455 00:42:26,186 --> 00:42:29,638 Maybe someone found him. Dex was in the office when it happened. 456 00:42:29,732 --> 00:42:32,223 Did you, uh, see him there? 457 00:42:32,318 --> 00:42:34,856 Look, this is bullshit. 458 00:42:34,945 --> 00:42:37,068 Come on! At the time of Nick's death... 459 00:42:37,156 --> 00:42:39,398 Dex didn't even know they were having an affair. 460 00:42:40,659 --> 00:42:43,577 So he tells you. It's true. 461 00:42:44,747 --> 00:42:47,416 Stopped by for a little Christmas cheer yesterday, didn't you? 462 00:42:47,499 --> 00:42:50,453 What if I did? 463 00:42:50,544 --> 00:42:53,960 Jealous husband pushes Nicky off the roof... 464 00:42:54,048 --> 00:42:56,965 so angry wife serves him a Christmas Mickey. 465 00:42:57,051 --> 00:42:59,904 Next morning he wakes up with a tummy ache, so he gets a little checkup... 466 00:42:59,929 --> 00:43:02,598 and finds out he was murdered. 467 00:43:02,681 --> 00:43:06,382 So he drops by for one last bang-up marital spat. 468 00:43:07,728 --> 00:43:11,975 Murdered? Thematically, a little dated... 469 00:43:12,066 --> 00:43:14,189 but the prose style holds up. 470 00:43:14,276 --> 00:43:17,277 What do you mean, murdered? That stuff you swallowed. 471 00:43:17,363 --> 00:43:21,740 That's not too easy to come by. Somebody took a lot of trouble to get a hold of that. 472 00:43:21,825 --> 00:43:24,862 It's true, Dex. You ran out before we had a chance to discuss this. 473 00:43:24,954 --> 00:43:27,279 Of course, there's a variation on the theme. 474 00:43:27,373 --> 00:43:30,243 Maybe Lang poisoned you, you pushed him, then killed your wife. 475 00:43:30,334 --> 00:43:33,288 Or it could go the other way. They wanted to kill you. 476 00:43:33,379 --> 00:43:35,786 You wanted to kill them. Everybody wins. 477 00:43:35,881 --> 00:43:39,749 Or everybody loses. I already told you who killed my wife. 478 00:43:39,843 --> 00:43:41,966 Oh, right, the invisible man. 479 00:43:42,054 --> 00:43:44,972 Well, just because I didn't see him doesn't mean he wasn't here, idiot. 480 00:43:45,057 --> 00:43:48,011 Careful, Cornell. You're upset. You're damn right I'm upset. 481 00:43:48,102 --> 00:43:51,435 I find out I'm a murder victim and a suspect all in one goddamned day. 482 00:43:51,522 --> 00:43:55,021 Look, he's sick. He should be in a hospital. First, we read him his rights. 483 00:43:55,109 --> 00:43:57,778 Cornell's under arrest. This will ease the pain, Dex. 484 00:43:57,861 --> 00:44:00,779 Mr. Cornell, you have the right to remain silent... Careful! 485 00:44:00,864 --> 00:44:03,534 Get back! Get back! What are you doing? 486 00:44:03,617 --> 00:44:07,069 Easy, Dex! Jesus! Look. You're getting off to a fine start. Cover the back! 487 00:44:07,162 --> 00:44:09,867 First you're resisting arrest. Now you're taking a hostage. 488 00:44:09,957 --> 00:44:12,792 Sorry. Don't have time to stand trial. You're gettin' in deeper. 489 00:44:12,877 --> 00:44:15,284 Just hold it. Stay out! 490 00:44:15,379 --> 00:44:17,668 Think it over, Cornell. Don't come in here! Please! 491 00:44:17,756 --> 00:44:20,651 He'll do it! He will! Now, just come on out here. You're digging yourself a grave. 492 00:44:20,676 --> 00:44:23,593 Back off! - Thanks. For Christ's sake, back off! 493 00:44:24,138 --> 00:44:29,096 With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more 494 00:44:29,184 --> 00:44:32,435 Wow In the midnight hour, babe 495 00:44:32,521 --> 00:44:35,522 More, more, more 496 00:44:35,608 --> 00:44:37,980 With a rebel yell 497 00:44:38,068 --> 00:44:40,939 More, more, more 498 00:44:44,283 --> 00:44:47,319 He lives in his own heaven 499 00:44:49,413 --> 00:44:53,031 Collects it to go from the 7-11 500 00:44:54,835 --> 00:44:58,785 Well, he's out all night to collect a fare 501 00:45:00,716 --> 00:45:04,583 Just so long, just so long it don't mess up his hair 502 00:45:12,895 --> 00:45:15,053 Don't scream! 503 00:45:17,858 --> 00:45:20,895 God, you scared me! What are you doing here? 504 00:45:20,986 --> 00:45:24,521 I needed to see you. Yeah? 505 00:45:24,615 --> 00:45:26,904 Okay, okay. One minute. One sec here. 506 00:45:28,702 --> 00:45:31,324 Okay. 507 00:45:31,413 --> 00:45:34,782 Oh, yeah. It's kind of stupid, isn't it? Freudian slip. 508 00:45:34,875 --> 00:45:37,829 Get it? It's for the carnival tonight. 509 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,078 I thought it was either this or Pavlov's dog. 510 00:45:40,172 --> 00:45:43,173 But then I thought, "How can I go as a dog?" - Why did you murder me? Huh? 511 00:45:43,259 --> 00:45:46,213 What are you talking about? You tell me, Sydney with a Y, huh? 512 00:45:46,303 --> 00:45:49,968 You sit in my class anonymously for months. Not a peep. 513 00:45:50,057 --> 00:45:52,409 Then suddenly, you just announce yourself as my biggest fan. 514 00:45:52,434 --> 00:45:55,139 You ask me for an autograph. You follow me to a bar. 515 00:45:55,229 --> 00:45:57,802 I went with a friend. Oh, yeah? You had a plan! 516 00:45:57,898 --> 00:46:00,816 I wouldn't call it a plan. Then what would you call it? 517 00:46:00,901 --> 00:46:02,775 Um, a cr... What? - A crush. 518 00:46:02,861 --> 00:46:06,361 Uh-huh. Yesterday, you pop up all over my life. 519 00:46:06,448 --> 00:46:09,485 Today, I have no life! What are you talking about? 520 00:46:09,577 --> 00:46:12,412 Stop it. Just please stop it. Please... 521 00:46:43,527 --> 00:46:45,769 Okay, okay, I wasn't thinking too clearly. 522 00:46:47,406 --> 00:46:50,740 And a few hours ago, my wife... 523 00:46:50,826 --> 00:46:53,198 she was, uh, murdered right in front of my eyes. 524 00:46:53,287 --> 00:46:56,371 So, uh, you're just gonna have to forgive me... 525 00:46:56,457 --> 00:46:58,449 because I've never been poisoned before. 526 00:47:00,085 --> 00:47:02,208 Don't worry. I don't think you did it. 527 00:47:03,714 --> 00:47:06,715 But you are my link to last night. 528 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,967 So we're gonna retrace our steps... where we sat, who we talked... 529 00:47:10,054 --> 00:47:13,968 "We"? No. Wait a minute. No, no. I can't wait a minute. I need your help. 530 00:47:14,058 --> 00:47:17,178 No, I can't help you. I can't help my mother fold clothes. You need the police. 531 00:47:17,269 --> 00:47:19,807 No, I've already had the police. They think I killed my student. 532 00:47:19,897 --> 00:47:23,100 They think I murdered my wife. Well... 533 00:47:23,192 --> 00:47:26,691 Now, that's just silly, isn't it? That... 534 00:47:26,779 --> 00:47:29,863 I'm just gonna call the police, and I'm gonna vouch for you. 535 00:47:31,033 --> 00:47:33,026 Okay? 536 00:47:35,204 --> 00:47:39,248 Uh, hi. Uh, is this the police? Could I... I have information about... 537 00:47:39,333 --> 00:47:42,369 No cops. 538 00:47:42,461 --> 00:47:44,999 Let go of my arm. I can't. - Let go! 539 00:47:45,089 --> 00:47:47,876 Ow. I can't. 540 00:47:47,967 --> 00:47:51,418 Bonds in seconds. 541 00:47:51,512 --> 00:47:53,504 This is kidnapping, you know. 542 00:47:53,597 --> 00:47:56,682 Yeah, if I'm lucky, they'll give me life. Remember this place? 543 00:47:56,767 --> 00:47:59,934 No, I don't. Let go of my arm, or I'm gonna scream! 544 00:48:00,020 --> 00:48:03,555 Look, if I let go of your arm, you're really gonna scream. 545 00:48:06,527 --> 00:48:08,519 One, two! 546 00:48:27,214 --> 00:48:29,254 I'm supposed to be at the carnival tonight. 547 00:48:29,341 --> 00:48:32,960 Yeah, well, excuse me, but dying's kind of fucked up my social calendar too. 548 00:48:33,053 --> 00:48:35,212 Ain't it a bitch? 549 00:48:35,306 --> 00:48:39,255 I'm really sorry. I know it's terrible. 550 00:48:39,351 --> 00:48:41,973 But I just can't handle this. 551 00:48:42,062 --> 00:48:44,980 I'm scared. I'm confused. 552 00:48:45,065 --> 00:48:47,639 All right. Okay. All right. I'm sorry. 553 00:48:47,735 --> 00:48:49,692 That makes two of us. 554 00:48:49,778 --> 00:48:51,937 And I have to go to the bathroom. 555 00:49:00,122 --> 00:49:02,874 All right. Look. 556 00:49:02,958 --> 00:49:05,165 We'll go to a men's room. 557 00:49:05,252 --> 00:49:08,087 I'll put you in a stall, and I'll stand guard outside the door. 558 00:49:08,172 --> 00:49:11,375 No. There is no way I am walking past ten drunks with their flies open. 559 00:49:11,467 --> 00:49:13,709 I'm just not gonna do it. Hey, Freud, baby. 560 00:49:13,802 --> 00:49:17,421 You can get me on your couch any day. 561 00:49:17,514 --> 00:49:19,950 And there's no way I'm sitting on those seats, 'cause I see the men who use 'em. 562 00:49:19,975 --> 00:49:23,012 I'm not doing it. I'm gonna go to the ladies' room. 563 00:49:23,103 --> 00:49:26,270 It's not enough I'm wanted for murder. I'm gonna get hauled in as a pervert. 564 00:49:34,198 --> 00:49:37,199 I can't go. Could you talk or something? 565 00:49:37,284 --> 00:49:39,277 Make some noise. Just talk. Just keep talking. 566 00:49:39,370 --> 00:49:41,409 You wanna hear some snappy patter about death... 567 00:49:41,497 --> 00:49:44,498 nature's way of telling you to slow down? 568 00:49:44,583 --> 00:49:46,706 I mean, I don't know if there is life after death... 569 00:49:46,794 --> 00:49:49,960 but I'm definitely taking a change of underwear just in case. 570 00:49:51,715 --> 00:49:54,318 I mean, Syd, I'm no good at this. I mean, I've never really thought... 571 00:49:54,343 --> 00:49:57,260 about my own extinction. 572 00:49:58,681 --> 00:50:02,132 You know, it's funny. 573 00:50:02,226 --> 00:50:06,058 I mean, I always thought death was something that happened to other people... 574 00:50:06,146 --> 00:50:09,765 older people, unlucky people. 575 00:50:09,858 --> 00:50:13,393 Not me. Not Gail. 576 00:50:14,822 --> 00:50:18,820 I mean, I always knew my number was gonna come up, but, uh, not now. 577 00:50:20,035 --> 00:50:23,618 Damn it! Why? 578 00:50:26,834 --> 00:50:30,618 You have any enemies? No, I don't have any enemies. 579 00:50:38,220 --> 00:50:40,676 What are you doing here? I wanna see Graham! 580 00:50:40,764 --> 00:50:43,516 What... He doesn't wanna see you. I'll bet! 581 00:50:45,352 --> 00:50:48,270 Dex? 582 00:50:48,355 --> 00:50:51,559 Surprised to see me up and about? What in God's name do you want? 583 00:50:51,650 --> 00:50:55,268 Thought I'd be safely slid away in some morgue locker, tag on my toe. 584 00:50:55,362 --> 00:50:58,612 Just calm down, Dex... Daddy! 585 00:50:58,699 --> 00:51:01,155 I didn't do that! Ow! 586 00:51:01,243 --> 00:51:04,123 You were much more impressive this afternoon against a defenseless woman. 587 00:51:04,163 --> 00:51:06,239 This afternoon? I know where you were! 588 00:51:06,332 --> 00:51:09,535 Of course you do. The Milton tutorial. 589 00:51:09,627 --> 00:51:12,877 Just like every other Friday for the last ten years! Dex! 590 00:51:14,882 --> 00:51:17,207 Is today Friday? 591 00:51:24,767 --> 00:51:28,385 So, who we gonna punch a confession out of now, Dex? 592 00:51:28,479 --> 00:51:31,930 Got any better ideas? Yeah! Logic. 593 00:51:32,024 --> 00:51:35,108 There's gotta be a reason for all this. Yeah. 594 00:51:35,194 --> 00:51:38,029 My Mark Twain lecture drove some student into a homicidal rage. 595 00:51:38,113 --> 00:51:40,949 Syd, guys like me, we get killed by muggers... 596 00:51:41,033 --> 00:51:44,698 run over by cars maybe, but nobody plots to kill an English professor. 597 00:51:44,787 --> 00:51:48,405 We just don't inspire that kind of passion. 598 00:51:48,499 --> 00:51:50,906 The killing didn't start with you. 599 00:51:51,001 --> 00:51:54,168 Nick Lang. Right. So who would want him dead? 600 00:51:58,217 --> 00:52:01,337 Hey, you know, sometimes cops go to the funerals of murder victims. 601 00:52:01,428 --> 00:52:04,513 What? Wait, wait. You mean we're going to the funeral... 602 00:52:04,598 --> 00:52:06,721 and you think the killer's gonna be there? 603 00:52:06,809 --> 00:52:08,932 Yeah. Get in. 604 00:52:09,019 --> 00:52:11,854 There's a hell of a strange story behind that kid. 605 00:52:24,368 --> 00:52:27,120 So this thief breaks into the Fitzwaring house, you see. 606 00:52:27,204 --> 00:52:31,581 The old man wakes up. He's upstairs, comes down, he surprises the guy. 607 00:52:31,667 --> 00:52:35,961 Thief shoots the old man, right? The chauffeur, he hears all this, he comes running in. 608 00:52:36,046 --> 00:52:39,961 Uh, he grabs the gun, and there's a struggle. 609 00:52:40,050 --> 00:52:42,423 Wait a minute. I can't go in there like this. What? 610 00:52:45,598 --> 00:52:47,721 Oh. 611 00:52:49,435 --> 00:52:52,471 Here. 612 00:52:52,563 --> 00:52:54,555 Like this. Here. 613 00:52:56,692 --> 00:52:58,981 So-So, wait, there's a struggle? Yeah. 614 00:52:59,069 --> 00:53:02,438 For the gun. The gun goes off. It kills the burglar. 615 00:53:02,531 --> 00:53:04,856 And the burglar is Nick's father? Yeah. 616 00:53:04,950 --> 00:53:07,572 Now, the widow, Mrs. Fitzwaring... 617 00:53:07,661 --> 00:53:09,618 she makes a special pet charity case out of Nick. 618 00:53:09,705 --> 00:53:12,492 She put him through college. I never heard this. 619 00:53:12,583 --> 00:53:16,248 Well, it's not exactly something you want under your yearbook picture. 620 00:53:16,337 --> 00:53:18,417 So you think all this has to do with Nick, don't you? 621 00:53:20,174 --> 00:53:23,009 Hal. What are you doing here? Are you crazy? 622 00:53:23,093 --> 00:53:27,257 Meet Syd. Hi. We're inseparable. 623 00:53:27,348 --> 00:53:29,617 Hi. Those two cops are looking all over the place for you. Who? 624 00:53:29,642 --> 00:53:32,119 Tweedledum and Tweedle-dumber? Yeah. They even notified campus security. 625 00:53:32,144 --> 00:53:35,845 You gotta get outta here, man. I gotta pay my respects. 626 00:53:35,940 --> 00:53:39,024 You find something out? Yeah. I'm not gettin' any younger. 627 00:53:39,109 --> 00:53:42,229 Nothing I can do? Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. What's the deal here? 628 00:53:42,321 --> 00:53:44,859 You got a fiver on you? Will you pay him for me, please? 629 00:53:47,618 --> 00:53:53,407 A father whose only legacy was the stigma of his terrible crime. 630 00:53:53,499 --> 00:53:59,122 One would like to think that Nick not only found himself here at the school... 631 00:53:59,213 --> 00:54:02,380 but also that he'd found a home here. 632 00:54:02,466 --> 00:54:05,800 And judging by the turnout tonight... 633 00:54:05,886 --> 00:54:08,424 I'd say he had. 634 00:54:08,514 --> 00:54:12,761 It was a pleasure to have Nick in my Shakespeare class. 635 00:54:12,851 --> 00:54:17,229 Perhaps only the bard can explain Nick's unexplainable choice. 636 00:54:18,732 --> 00:54:23,145 "To sue to live, I find I seek to die. 637 00:54:23,237 --> 00:54:27,400 And seeking death, find life. 638 00:54:27,491 --> 00:54:29,816 Let it come on." 639 00:54:31,620 --> 00:54:36,531 Miss Fitzwaring, I know you'd like to say a few words. 640 00:54:39,128 --> 00:54:43,256 Nick would've loved... That's the girl in the bar. 641 00:54:43,340 --> 00:54:46,127 That's Cookie Fitzwaring. She's in my art class. 642 00:54:46,218 --> 00:54:50,216 My dear, may I... No... No, you picked the wrong play, Professor. 643 00:54:50,306 --> 00:54:53,390 You should've quoted from Romeo and Juliet. 644 00:54:53,475 --> 00:54:56,476 Nick and I, we were... 645 00:55:23,660 --> 00:55:25,736 Shit. 646 00:55:31,292 --> 00:55:33,534 I know that guy. 647 00:55:33,628 --> 00:55:36,201 He was in the bar last night. 648 00:55:48,435 --> 00:55:51,685 Your mother's waiting. So let her wait. 649 00:55:51,771 --> 00:55:54,060 You fucked things up royally tonight. 650 00:55:54,149 --> 00:55:56,604 Don't I always? 651 00:56:02,907 --> 00:56:04,983 You're still a few drinks short of oblivion. 652 00:56:06,619 --> 00:56:09,241 How's that little nasty burn you got on your hand, pal? 653 00:56:09,330 --> 00:56:13,542 Jesus, Bernard! Your mother wasn't too thrilled about you and Nick, was she? 654 00:56:15,128 --> 00:56:18,378 I don't think... I wouldn't brag about that. 655 00:56:18,465 --> 00:56:21,834 I loved Nick, and he loved me. Yeah, you and a few others. 656 00:56:21,926 --> 00:56:24,844 What do you know about him? I know he was murdered. 657 00:56:26,431 --> 00:56:29,930 We don't like what you're inferring. Bernard, I think you mean implying. 658 00:56:30,018 --> 00:56:32,687 You see, when I say something, that's implying. 659 00:56:32,771 --> 00:56:35,807 How you take it, that's inferring. Okay. 660 00:56:35,899 --> 00:56:37,808 Then infer this. 661 00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:45,447 Cookie! Hey, come here! Where you going? 662 00:57:00,340 --> 00:57:04,254 Oh, God. We're back at the stage. Everybody's gone. 663 00:58:16,916 --> 00:58:19,490 Wait! - Come on! Wait! Hold on! - Come on! 664 00:58:23,381 --> 00:58:25,290 Wait! It's caught! 665 00:58:34,059 --> 00:58:37,890 Help me! Please! Help! 666 00:59:29,447 --> 00:59:31,736 Syd! Sydney! Where you going? 667 00:59:31,825 --> 00:59:34,197 Where do you think? To the police! 668 00:59:34,285 --> 00:59:38,449 Shit. Wait, Sydney! Give me a chance! 669 00:59:41,209 --> 00:59:44,044 You know, I don't get off on this Rambo shit. 670 00:59:52,721 --> 00:59:56,303 I wanted to spend the night with you, not eternity. 671 00:59:59,185 --> 01:00:01,427 Hey! - Syd! Police! - No police! 672 01:00:01,521 --> 01:00:04,308 Hey! Wait! Syd! Syd! 673 01:00:04,399 --> 01:00:06,273 Wait. Wait. 674 01:00:06,359 --> 01:00:08,767 Oh, my God, look at your arm. I'm sorry. 675 01:00:08,862 --> 01:00:11,269 Drop dead. 676 01:00:26,046 --> 01:00:29,331 I didn't mean to say that. I'm sorry. 677 01:00:35,930 --> 01:00:38,766 So, what do you do now? 678 01:00:41,936 --> 01:00:45,021 Find Mrs. Fitzwaring and that lunatic daughter of hers. 679 01:00:45,106 --> 01:00:48,641 And what if the chauffeur with the nail gun is waiting for you? 680 01:00:48,735 --> 01:00:52,270 What have I got to lose, huh? 681 01:00:52,363 --> 01:00:55,364 I've already screwed up my life by giving up. 682 01:00:59,746 --> 01:01:02,201 What do you mean? 683 01:01:03,833 --> 01:01:06,918 I had just quit. 684 01:01:07,003 --> 01:01:10,454 I was a success, and I was afraid of failing and I... 685 01:01:12,300 --> 01:01:15,550 So I just quit. 686 01:01:17,305 --> 01:01:19,713 I wanna help you, Dex. 687 01:01:19,808 --> 01:01:22,595 You already have. 688 01:01:22,685 --> 01:01:26,849 I feel really bad. I-I-I dragged you too deep into this. No, no, it's no big deal, you know. 689 01:01:26,940 --> 01:01:32,017 I mean, you just... you just glued yourself to me, you dragged me out into the street half-naked... 690 01:01:32,112 --> 01:01:35,944 you almost got me shot... 691 01:01:36,032 --> 01:01:40,244 I mean, most girls wait a lifetime for a date like this. 692 01:01:50,755 --> 01:01:53,673 I gotta go. 693 01:01:53,758 --> 01:01:56,166 It's getting late. 694 01:01:58,763 --> 01:02:00,756 I'm not gonna see you again, am I? 695 01:02:14,070 --> 01:02:16,644 Cab! 696 01:02:20,660 --> 01:02:24,325 Take her to the med center. Wait a minute. Your jacket. You need your jacket. 697 01:02:56,821 --> 01:03:00,237 Now, don't worry. I'll take care of everything. 698 01:03:00,325 --> 01:03:03,824 "Don't worry"? That man told you that Nick was murdered. 699 01:03:03,912 --> 01:03:06,237 I didn't let the cat out of the bag, did I? 700 01:03:06,331 --> 01:03:08,738 What are you doing here? 701 01:03:12,087 --> 01:03:14,624 Professor Cornell, isn't it? Mm-hmm. 702 01:03:14,714 --> 01:03:18,214 It was your wife who fell apart at the art gallery yesterday evening. 703 01:03:18,301 --> 01:03:21,670 Yes, and it was your Cookie who crumbled at the memorial service. 704 01:03:21,763 --> 01:03:25,346 Seems they both had a bad case of young Mr. Lang. 705 01:03:25,433 --> 01:03:29,016 What do you know about Nick? What do you think I know? 706 01:03:33,817 --> 01:03:35,893 Cookie. 707 01:03:39,447 --> 01:03:42,282 I hope it's just you that's loaded. Cookie, what are you doing? 708 01:03:42,367 --> 01:03:45,736 What did you do, Mother? What exactly have you told her? 709 01:03:45,829 --> 01:03:49,529 Enough. And it all makes sense, too. 710 01:03:49,624 --> 01:03:51,747 She forced Nick to stop seeing me. 711 01:03:51,835 --> 01:03:55,619 What, so Nick was worthy of your charity, but he wasn't worthy of your daughter. Is that it? 712 01:03:55,714 --> 01:03:59,497 The fact is that she considered Nick too good for me. 713 01:03:59,592 --> 01:04:05,631 You're so wrong. No. I saw the way that you used to look at him. 714 01:04:05,724 --> 01:04:08,559 Your... Your little diamond in the rough. 715 01:04:08,643 --> 01:04:12,226 You couldn't stand anyone else taking an interest in him. 716 01:04:12,313 --> 01:04:15,517 And you were always jealous of us. Cookie, no. 717 01:04:15,608 --> 01:04:18,645 She nearly flew into a rage when she found out that we'd slept together. 718 01:04:18,737 --> 01:04:21,358 Cookie! Stop this. 719 01:04:22,365 --> 01:04:25,152 See what I mean? Please. 720 01:04:25,243 --> 01:04:27,401 I wouldn't do anything just to hurt you. 721 01:04:27,495 --> 01:04:31,623 But you did hurt me. Why couldn't he see me? 722 01:04:31,708 --> 01:04:35,871 Whatever I did, Cookie, I did for you and Nick. 723 01:04:35,962 --> 01:04:41,122 Believe me, he could never love you, not the way that you wanted him to. 724 01:04:41,217 --> 01:04:43,791 Not the way you wanted. 725 01:04:43,887 --> 01:04:47,053 S-So you... you had him killed. 726 01:04:47,140 --> 01:04:49,512 You... 727 01:04:50,935 --> 01:04:53,509 Cookie, come back! 728 01:05:04,074 --> 01:05:06,991 Don't fuck with me, Bernard. I've had a rough day. 729 01:05:07,077 --> 01:05:08,737 All right. 730 01:05:11,956 --> 01:05:15,076 Then have a little lie-down. 731 01:05:20,298 --> 01:05:23,999 God, it's all such a mess. Not at all. I won't leave a trace. 732 01:05:24,094 --> 01:05:29,254 We don't even know if he can prove anything, or even if he knows anything. 733 01:05:29,349 --> 01:05:33,509 Couldn't we just call in the police, say there was a burglary, that... We've already used that story. 734 01:05:34,354 --> 01:05:38,850 Whether he can prove anything or not, we don't want the police snooping into your past or Nick's. 735 01:05:38,942 --> 01:05:41,943 Look, it's simple. We'll just take him out... Don't tell me. Just do it. 736 01:05:42,028 --> 01:05:47,153 And bring Cookie back. In her state, she's liable to say anything to anybody. 737 01:05:47,242 --> 01:05:51,239 How do you know that Nick was murdered? I'm psychic. 738 01:05:51,329 --> 01:05:54,365 Then you know what's going to happen to you. 739 01:06:05,009 --> 01:06:08,509 It's so sick. Dragon lady wipes out her rivals. 740 01:06:10,473 --> 01:06:12,300 But why me? 741 01:06:14,269 --> 01:06:17,305 I mean, I can almost understand Gail. 742 01:06:19,232 --> 01:06:21,272 Gail. 743 01:06:22,610 --> 01:06:25,066 Why me? What are you talking about? 744 01:06:25,155 --> 01:06:29,532 Oh, come on, Bernard. Can't you grant a dying man his last wish? 745 01:06:29,617 --> 01:06:32,821 Where do I fit into Mrs. Fitzwaring's little psychodrama? 746 01:06:32,912 --> 01:06:36,116 Is the heat getting to you, old chum? You're babbling. 747 01:06:43,298 --> 01:06:46,963 We're on campus. "A" in geography, Prof. 748 01:06:47,052 --> 01:06:50,052 Now, how's your archeology? What? 749 01:06:50,138 --> 01:06:53,589 I thought the tar pit might interest an old fossil like yourself. 750 01:06:53,683 --> 01:06:56,091 Nothing personal. 751 01:06:59,439 --> 01:07:01,515 What the fuck? 752 01:07:11,076 --> 01:07:14,694 Happy hour. Care for a cocktail? 753 01:07:15,538 --> 01:07:17,531 Drinking and driving don't mix, Cookie. 754 01:07:17,624 --> 01:07:20,744 I was trying to kill you, pencil neck. 755 01:07:25,173 --> 01:07:28,542 Stay away from me. Stay away from me! 756 01:07:30,929 --> 01:07:34,345 You can't make me go back there. Don't piss about, love. Just get in the car. 757 01:07:34,432 --> 01:07:36,970 Let me go! 758 01:07:38,311 --> 01:07:41,265 All right. 759 01:07:46,027 --> 01:07:50,155 What are you doing here? I'm taking him to the police just as soon as I get you home. 760 01:07:52,158 --> 01:07:55,243 You're not taking me home. He's not taking me to the police either. 761 01:07:55,328 --> 01:07:59,408 Cork it, Cornell, or else I... Or else what? You're gonna kill me? 762 01:07:59,499 --> 01:08:01,741 Cornell, I'm tired of your crap. Do you hear me? 763 01:08:01,835 --> 01:08:06,082 Is something burning? Hey, what are you doing back there? 764 01:08:06,172 --> 01:08:08,580 Jesus! 765 01:08:25,400 --> 01:08:28,187 Oh, God! 766 01:08:40,999 --> 01:08:43,406 Fuck! 767 01:08:44,294 --> 01:08:47,663 Payback time, Bernard! Look out, damn it! 768 01:08:57,891 --> 01:08:59,764 Look out! 769 01:09:01,728 --> 01:09:05,560 Slow down, Cookie! What are you doing? 770 01:09:20,622 --> 01:09:22,413 Cookie! 771 01:09:23,833 --> 01:09:25,826 God! Cookie! 772 01:12:08,748 --> 01:12:12,449 Oh! Look at this jerk! Jeez! 773 01:12:12,544 --> 01:12:15,165 The guy's drunk. 774 01:12:22,554 --> 01:12:25,923 Fuckin' asshole. Want some popcorn? Well, have some! 775 01:12:26,015 --> 01:12:27,889 And a beer! 776 01:12:33,148 --> 01:12:35,389 Yeah, buddy! 777 01:12:35,483 --> 01:12:38,235 Leave him alone! 778 01:12:45,368 --> 01:12:48,322 What? The guy's a drunk. Yeah! 779 01:12:48,413 --> 01:12:51,533 Maybe he's hurt. I don't know. 780 01:12:51,624 --> 01:12:54,032 I'll call an ambulance. 781 01:13:10,060 --> 01:13:12,467 You didn't have to do that, Syd. 782 01:13:18,151 --> 01:13:21,650 So I was just supposed to let them make a popcorn ball out of you? 783 01:13:21,738 --> 01:13:24,525 Not bad. 784 01:13:24,616 --> 01:13:29,242 You know, my mother, she used to trim the tree with this stuff. 785 01:13:30,663 --> 01:13:33,285 I guess nobody does that anymore. 786 01:13:33,374 --> 01:13:35,782 Mine does. 787 01:13:37,128 --> 01:13:39,287 Are you going home for Christmas? 788 01:13:39,381 --> 01:13:41,753 Mm-hmm. 789 01:13:41,841 --> 01:13:44,130 Where's home? 790 01:13:44,219 --> 01:13:46,544 Kansas. 791 01:13:46,638 --> 01:13:48,844 Kansas? 792 01:13:51,518 --> 01:13:54,472 What do you do for Christmas in Kansas? 793 01:13:54,562 --> 01:13:56,935 Well, um, the whole clan gathers together. 794 01:13:57,023 --> 01:14:01,732 We haven't seen each other in about a year, so we plop down in front of the television set... 795 01:14:01,820 --> 01:14:06,149 and watch Miracle on 34th Street for the 34th time. 796 01:14:06,241 --> 01:14:08,648 Great. 797 01:14:09,994 --> 01:14:11,952 What else? 798 01:14:14,416 --> 01:14:16,207 And... 799 01:14:18,044 --> 01:14:22,338 we all give each other presents that we don't need. 800 01:14:22,424 --> 01:14:26,338 And if we need them, then they're all the wrong size. 801 01:14:27,679 --> 01:14:29,885 Pretty awful, huh? 802 01:14:35,228 --> 01:14:37,600 Pretty nice. 803 01:14:41,276 --> 01:14:43,945 It'll be good to see Eddie. This your brother Eddie? 804 01:14:44,028 --> 01:14:46,401 Mm-hmm. 805 01:14:46,489 --> 01:14:50,867 Oh, yeah. Where do the female reindeer go? 806 01:14:52,203 --> 01:14:55,204 Oh. No. Come on. 807 01:15:02,005 --> 01:15:07,426 Where do all the female reindeer go when Santa and the male reindeer are out on Christmas Eve? 808 01:15:11,514 --> 01:15:15,133 They go into town and they blow a few bucks. 809 01:15:20,482 --> 01:15:24,775 Oh, no, no, no, no. 810 01:15:28,323 --> 01:15:31,028 I'm so scared for you. 811 01:15:31,117 --> 01:15:33,822 Oh... 812 01:15:33,912 --> 01:15:37,363 it'll be a breeze. 813 01:15:37,457 --> 01:15:40,493 The first million years go like that. 814 01:15:40,585 --> 01:15:42,708 The second million... 815 01:15:45,590 --> 01:15:50,003 It's just so unfair. No, it's fair. 816 01:15:50,095 --> 01:15:53,049 I've been dead for four years now. 817 01:15:53,139 --> 01:15:55,595 Gail was right. 818 01:15:55,683 --> 01:15:58,353 It just took a little poisoning for me to notice. 819 01:16:00,605 --> 01:16:03,891 You're more alive than anybody I ever met. No, Syd. 820 01:16:05,693 --> 01:16:08,398 I forgot how to appreciate life. 821 01:16:10,448 --> 01:16:13,118 It's too late for me. 822 01:16:17,038 --> 01:16:19,873 This is life. 823 01:16:19,958 --> 01:16:22,745 Right here. 824 01:16:22,836 --> 01:16:25,872 Right now. 825 01:16:25,964 --> 01:16:27,624 Take it. 826 01:16:39,686 --> 01:16:41,678 Please. 827 01:17:55,804 --> 01:17:59,636 2-Bravo-6, 10-4. En route. 828 01:17:59,724 --> 01:18:02,394 Check the car out. 829 01:18:15,407 --> 01:18:20,033 I don't know what the cops told you, but I didn't kill Cookie. 830 01:18:21,579 --> 01:18:24,580 Bernard did. Didn't mean to. 831 01:18:24,666 --> 01:18:27,536 It's just that people have this habit of dying around Bernard. 832 01:18:27,627 --> 01:18:30,200 Didn't they? 833 01:18:32,298 --> 01:18:36,343 So it's all come full circle, right back to your front door, hasn't it, missus? 834 01:18:36,428 --> 01:18:39,927 No, you brought it to my door. 835 01:18:40,014 --> 01:18:42,470 And you never really knew anything, did you? 836 01:18:43,977 --> 01:18:47,891 I know you had quite a long hit list. 837 01:18:47,981 --> 01:18:51,729 We've been at cross purposes, suspecting each other unjustly. 838 01:18:51,818 --> 01:18:54,605 I don't believe you. Your daughter told me every... 839 01:18:54,696 --> 01:18:57,863 Cookie was wrong. 840 01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:03,328 I didn't kill Nick. I don't believe you. 841 01:19:03,413 --> 01:19:05,702 Now, I want to know! 842 01:19:06,916 --> 01:19:10,831 Why were you so obsessed about Cookie and Nick? 843 01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:16,841 Who was he to you? 844 01:19:19,929 --> 01:19:21,554 My son. 845 01:19:24,350 --> 01:19:27,969 Cookie never knew. But Nick's father... 846 01:19:31,107 --> 01:19:35,105 The man who killed your husband. Also my husband. 847 01:19:35,195 --> 01:19:38,860 Abandoned along with Nick 20 years ago. 848 01:19:41,076 --> 01:19:43,649 I don't know how he found me after all those years... 849 01:19:43,745 --> 01:19:48,454 but he was here that night four years ago together with Fitzwaring. 850 01:19:48,541 --> 01:19:55,505 I asked him what he wanted. He said not much, considering what my husband... my other husband... had to give. 851 01:19:57,342 --> 01:20:00,592 Lang had told Fitzwaring all about me. 852 01:20:00,678 --> 01:20:05,222 There was a scene. Ugly words like "bigamy" and "blackmail." 853 01:20:07,727 --> 01:20:10,397 Fitzwaring told Lang to leave. 854 01:20:10,480 --> 01:20:12,805 He said that Lang wouldn't get a nickel. 855 01:20:12,899 --> 01:20:15,900 He told me to leave too, without our daughter. 856 01:20:15,985 --> 01:20:18,773 He said I would never see Cookie again. 857 01:20:18,863 --> 01:20:22,363 You must understand that what I did, I did for my daughter... 858 01:20:23,910 --> 01:20:26,318 and my son. 859 01:20:30,333 --> 01:20:32,871 Bernard understood. 860 01:20:32,961 --> 01:20:35,534 He told the police that a prowler had broken in... 861 01:20:35,630 --> 01:20:39,213 had shot Fitzwaring, attacked me. 862 01:20:39,300 --> 01:20:43,429 Then Bernard and the prowler struggled for the gun. 863 01:20:43,513 --> 01:20:46,384 It went off. 864 01:20:46,474 --> 01:20:49,096 That was our story. 865 01:20:51,855 --> 01:20:55,140 Nick was my son. 866 01:20:55,233 --> 01:20:58,519 Although he could never know that I was his mother, I wanted him near me. 867 01:21:00,405 --> 01:21:03,240 Now he's gone. 868 01:21:03,324 --> 01:21:06,575 They're all gone. 869 01:21:06,661 --> 01:21:09,117 There's nothing. 870 01:21:12,125 --> 01:21:14,877 All this time on the wrong trail. 871 01:22:46,344 --> 01:22:48,384 God. 872 01:22:52,225 --> 01:22:54,016 God! 873 01:22:58,648 --> 01:23:00,641 Goddam it! Why? 874 01:23:06,364 --> 01:23:09,235 Shit! Shit! 875 01:24:59,394 --> 01:25:00,971 It's Dex. 876 01:25:02,313 --> 01:25:05,433 I'm in my office. 877 01:25:05,525 --> 01:25:07,316 I need you. 878 01:25:43,021 --> 01:25:44,515 Dex? 879 01:25:52,822 --> 01:25:54,614 Hey, Dex. 880 01:26:02,332 --> 01:26:05,498 Dex? Hey. 881 01:26:05,585 --> 01:26:07,578 Hey, buddy. 882 01:26:10,423 --> 01:26:15,631 Uh, you don't look so good. Well, I feel good. 883 01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:18,840 I'm alive. 884 01:26:19,808 --> 01:26:24,719 Hell, you know, you're, uh, never more alive than when you're on the edge of death. 885 01:26:27,107 --> 01:26:30,392 Can't you feel it, Hal? 886 01:26:30,485 --> 01:26:32,774 I don't feel anything. 887 01:26:34,322 --> 01:26:36,730 One for the road. 888 01:26:42,038 --> 01:26:43,947 Merry Christmas. 889 01:26:54,217 --> 01:26:56,340 No. 890 01:26:56,428 --> 01:26:59,678 Why? Why what? 891 01:26:59,764 --> 01:27:02,718 Why did you kill me? What are you talking about? 892 01:27:02,809 --> 01:27:05,382 Where did you get the poison? 893 01:27:13,278 --> 01:27:17,987 I stole it from the med center the night I was there with Elaine... 894 01:27:18,074 --> 01:27:21,490 playin' a little "heigh-ho, Silver." 895 01:27:21,578 --> 01:27:24,662 She had an emergency call. She left the keys. Why, goddam it? 896 01:27:28,793 --> 01:27:31,118 Out of Whack. What? 897 01:27:31,212 --> 01:27:34,190 One minute after I give you the damn scotch, you tell me you didn't read it. 898 01:27:34,215 --> 01:27:37,300 Read what? Out of Whack. 899 01:27:37,385 --> 01:27:40,256 Nick Lang's novel? 900 01:27:40,346 --> 01:27:44,261 Well, I'm gonna pass it off as my own. 901 01:27:44,350 --> 01:27:47,554 I have to, man. It's fucking brilliant. 902 01:27:47,645 --> 01:27:51,975 And my book... my book. 903 01:27:52,067 --> 01:27:57,488 Well, everything about it that was good you helped me with. 904 01:27:58,364 --> 01:28:01,698 I was in here last week trying to work on it. 905 01:28:01,785 --> 01:28:04,406 I see Nick Lang's book sitting on your desk. 906 01:28:04,496 --> 01:28:09,241 So I pick it up, figure I'd get a few laughs about how full of shit this kid is. 907 01:28:12,379 --> 01:28:15,415 Guess I knew what I was gonna do before I even got to the last page. 908 01:28:24,265 --> 01:28:26,673 What's so funny? 909 01:28:34,025 --> 01:28:38,568 What's so funny? That's what all this is about? 910 01:28:38,655 --> 01:28:40,944 Some kid's lousy homework? 911 01:28:41,032 --> 01:28:43,357 No. I just finished telling you, it's not lousy. 912 01:28:43,451 --> 01:28:47,366 It's one of the best damn books I ever read. 913 01:28:47,455 --> 01:28:52,366 That's why I had to do it. Not that I was sure I could. 914 01:28:52,460 --> 01:28:56,292 I mean, Lang was easy. Smug little shit. 915 01:28:56,381 --> 01:29:01,802 Light as a feather. Just up and over and bon voyage. 916 01:29:04,514 --> 01:29:10,137 But you, in the john the other day... I wasn't worried about any damned promotion. 917 01:29:10,228 --> 01:29:14,060 Why Gail? She had nothing to do with this. 918 01:29:14,149 --> 01:29:17,767 Why did you have to kill her? No. That... That was your fault. That was your fault. 919 01:29:17,861 --> 01:29:20,530 I got all the copies out of Lang's apartment. 920 01:29:20,613 --> 01:29:23,318 I put your copy in the damned garbage. 921 01:29:23,408 --> 01:29:25,863 You picked it up, you put it in your damned briefcase. 922 01:29:25,952 --> 01:29:27,992 And left it at Gail's. I guess so. 923 01:29:28,079 --> 01:29:30,914 I saw it there when Elaine and I took her home the other night. 924 01:29:30,999 --> 01:29:34,699 So you burn it. 925 01:29:34,794 --> 01:29:37,499 She tried to stop you. 926 01:29:37,589 --> 01:29:41,633 You bludgeoned her, freshened up... 927 01:29:41,718 --> 01:29:44,635 then went out for a night on the theater with a nail gun. 928 01:29:44,721 --> 01:29:47,556 I thought she found something out. Don't you see? 929 01:29:47,640 --> 01:29:50,641 I had to make sure that nobody knew so that it could be mine... 930 01:29:50,727 --> 01:29:53,432 so that everybody knows that that book is mine! 931 01:29:53,521 --> 01:29:56,973 That was worth somebody's life? Yeah. My life. 932 01:29:57,067 --> 01:29:59,736 Why should that kid have all the breaks and not me? 933 01:29:59,819 --> 01:30:04,565 Jesus, Dex, he was fucking your wife, for Christ's sake! You should be glad that I killed him. 934 01:30:05,742 --> 01:30:08,529 So, who you gonna kill for your second novel? 935 01:30:08,620 --> 01:30:11,158 All I need is just that one bullshit break. 936 01:30:11,247 --> 01:30:13,952 After this book comes out, I can publish any damn thing I want. 937 01:30:14,042 --> 01:30:17,874 And you can bet that I'm not gonna rest on my laurels like you did. 938 01:30:17,962 --> 01:30:21,545 Well, at least they were my laurels. 939 01:30:21,633 --> 01:30:23,839 Why does it come so easy to guys like you? 940 01:30:23,927 --> 01:30:30,973 Big Dex. You just cruise in here, help out poor little Hal on his outline and then you waltz out of here. 941 01:30:31,059 --> 01:30:35,009 You don't have a fucking clue how hard it is for me, how much I struggle. 942 01:30:35,105 --> 01:30:37,596 I'm gonna have my shot! I'm gonna know what it feels like! 943 01:30:37,690 --> 01:30:40,098 No, you'll never know. 944 01:30:41,027 --> 01:30:44,977 That feeling doesn't come from money. It doesn't come from fame. 945 01:30:45,073 --> 01:30:48,656 It comes from doing the work, Hal... 946 01:30:48,743 --> 01:30:50,902 from realizing a vision. 947 01:30:50,995 --> 01:30:54,495 You think you could steal somebody else's passion? All you got was paper and ink. 948 01:30:54,582 --> 01:30:56,456 Passion? 949 01:30:56,543 --> 01:31:00,492 Man, where do you get off lecturing me about passion? 950 01:31:00,588 --> 01:31:03,506 You lost it. No. I got it back. 951 01:31:03,591 --> 01:31:06,676 These last two days, I had it. 952 01:31:06,761 --> 01:31:12,004 You had it, all right. You had it and you pissed it away. 953 01:31:12,100 --> 01:31:16,263 Man, Dex, you had a talent. 954 01:31:16,354 --> 01:31:18,892 You had a talent others would... 955 01:31:20,984 --> 01:31:23,901 Kill for? 956 01:31:23,987 --> 01:31:28,981 Yeah, that's right. Kill for. 957 01:31:29,075 --> 01:31:32,076 Isn't that what it's all about? 958 01:31:32,162 --> 01:31:34,320 Publish or perish? 959 01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:40,597 Perish. 960 01:33:48,465 --> 01:33:51,750 Just somebody's homework. 961 01:33:51,843 --> 01:33:54,251 That was all.