1 00:00:01,020 --> 00:00:03,840 Everything on this paper is true. I simply want to know what happened to my 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:04,840 father. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,080 I've forgotten what a handsome man Dad was. 4 00:00:08,340 --> 00:00:10,100 I see him every time I look at you two. 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,080 Hasn't it occurred to you that he might still be alive? 6 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:16,820 The information you're seeking is U .S. government classified top secret. 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,100 Please tell us what happened. Tell us where he is. 8 00:00:20,420 --> 00:00:21,398 He's dead. 9 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:22,400 You're backing off. 10 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,900 Do you think that if you can find him, that you can get to some place in his 11 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:28,260 heart that you've never been before? 12 00:02:06,990 --> 00:02:11,510 Move it. Come on. Where's my bear claw? Come on. Move it. All right. Follow the 13 00:02:11,510 --> 00:02:14,130 Buick. I'm Buick. Come on. Let's go. 14 00:02:14,870 --> 00:02:16,450 Wow. Down the corner. 15 00:02:17,090 --> 00:02:19,090 Turn here. Turn right. Right. 16 00:02:19,430 --> 00:02:23,590 It's not even 7 o 'clock in the morning. I got cotton between my ears. My mouth 17 00:02:23,590 --> 00:02:25,010 tastes like the inside of whole boots. 18 00:02:25,340 --> 00:02:28,920 My much -abused nervous system is crying out for coffee. What the hell are we 19 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:32,820 doing? Get a little closer, you'll see. Closer to what? Rick, will you step on 20 00:02:32,820 --> 00:02:33,418 it, please? 21 00:02:33,420 --> 00:02:36,680 AJ, one more ticket on my record, and I might be qualified to drive in Boston. 22 00:02:36,740 --> 00:02:37,980 That's about it. What are we chasing? 23 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:39,320 There. Look. 24 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,080 That is what we're chasing. 25 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:42,500 Oh, my God. 26 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:09,800 Crazy. I'm calling the cops. 27 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:11,120 Where'd you get this car? 28 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:15,460 What the hell business is that of yours? Answer the question. Very, very 29 00:03:15,460 --> 00:03:16,560 important to us. 30 00:03:17,260 --> 00:03:19,500 I bought it a month ago at an auction. 31 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:20,800 Where? 32 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,640 Mason and Masters. The pink slips on the glove box. 33 00:03:25,220 --> 00:03:26,980 What's this all about? What's the big hassle? 34 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,920 Over 30 years ago, a man drove this car over a cliff. 35 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:31,160 He totaled it. 36 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:33,440 Fireball. Well, that's impossible. 37 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:35,540 Does it look burned up to you? 38 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:41,640 What exactly is the big problem with you guys? 39 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:44,780 The big problem is that the man behind the wheel is our father. 40 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,460 Is this your idea of a joke? 41 00:03:47,740 --> 00:03:48,960 Mom, give us a break. 42 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,820 No, you give me a break. I thought I raised you to have more taste than that. 43 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,460 It's not a joke, Mom. 44 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,100 It happened less than an hour ago. 45 00:03:57,420 --> 00:04:01,940 Well, if you didn't pull some thick prank someone else did, putting your 46 00:04:01,940 --> 00:04:05,740 father's license plate on a duplicate car... It isn't a duplicate car, Mom. 47 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:07,620 Don't be ridiculous, Rick. 48 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:11,060 Your father lost control of that car on a rainy night. 49 00:04:11,300 --> 00:04:14,540 It's San Onofre Canyon, February 16th, 1954. 50 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:16,360 That's right. 51 00:04:16,380 --> 00:04:18,899 So how could you have possibly seen it today? 52 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,320 Why are you angry with us? We didn't ask for this to happen. 53 00:04:27,700 --> 00:04:29,900 I have never shown you this before. 54 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:32,860 Have you ever seen it? 55 00:04:36,270 --> 00:04:38,430 I looked at it a couple of times when I was a kid. 56 00:04:38,670 --> 00:04:40,170 Always wondered why you kept it. 57 00:04:41,230 --> 00:04:42,189 What is it? 58 00:04:42,190 --> 00:04:43,190 A wedding ring. 59 00:04:43,290 --> 00:04:44,290 Your father's. 60 00:04:45,190 --> 00:04:50,270 He never took it off from the moment we said, with this ring I thee wed, until 61 00:04:50,270 --> 00:04:51,270 the night he died. 62 00:04:52,450 --> 00:04:56,930 The police arrived and told me he'd been burned beyond recognition. 63 00:04:57,390 --> 00:04:59,430 Please don't. No, listen to me. 64 00:05:01,590 --> 00:05:03,210 I remember... 65 00:05:04,030 --> 00:05:05,810 That ride, like it was last night. 66 00:05:06,770 --> 00:05:08,830 Three days of tropical storm. 67 00:05:09,290 --> 00:05:14,830 The police car rode through the intersections like some boat. The 68 00:05:14,830 --> 00:05:18,130 it would take days to identify him. 69 00:05:18,430 --> 00:05:22,750 You know, from dental remains or whatever. 70 00:05:24,370 --> 00:05:30,650 But they had a few scraps that blew clear in the explosion. 71 00:05:32,010 --> 00:05:34,150 That was the one that made me sure. 72 00:05:38,810 --> 00:05:39,810 Mom? 73 00:05:46,770 --> 00:05:50,050 We saw something today that made us sure. 74 00:05:50,550 --> 00:05:54,110 You remember the day that Dad brought that car home from the showroom, how 75 00:05:54,110 --> 00:05:55,110 he was? 76 00:05:56,150 --> 00:05:58,290 And I was in my mechanics phase. 77 00:05:58,790 --> 00:05:59,910 Do I ever. 78 00:06:01,420 --> 00:06:06,920 You took his hammer and decided you were going to go out there and fix his new 79 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:07,920 pride and joy. 80 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:15,680 When he heard the banging on that bumper, never before or since have I 81 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:16,880 seen a man fly. 82 00:06:18,140 --> 00:06:21,380 Mom, the dent in the bumper. 83 00:06:22,980 --> 00:06:24,180 They were there today. 84 00:06:25,580 --> 00:06:26,620 On this car. 85 00:06:34,030 --> 00:06:35,790 if Dad's car is still around. 86 00:07:07,299 --> 00:07:09,560 Beautiful, isn't she? Ah, yeah, yeah. 87 00:07:10,620 --> 00:07:12,000 All show and no go, though. 88 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:13,300 Au contraire. 89 00:07:13,580 --> 00:07:15,140 Balanced and blueprinted 312. 90 00:07:16,020 --> 00:07:17,160 Must be a pretty penny. 91 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:19,020 A lot of pretty pennies. 92 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:23,560 Reserve bid is 25 ,000, but I don't expect it to go for less than 35 or 40. 93 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,600 She's on the block Friday, 7 sharp. 94 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:31,980 Well, the car I was interested in you sold last month, Buick 54 Maroon. 95 00:07:33,070 --> 00:07:33,909 Oh, yeah, yeah. 96 00:07:33,910 --> 00:07:34,910 Incredible vehicle. 97 00:07:35,170 --> 00:07:36,890 Virgin paint. You could smell the leather. 98 00:07:37,350 --> 00:07:40,570 Yeah, I changed the belts and the tires, but it was just age, not wear. 99 00:07:41,090 --> 00:07:43,210 Yeah. I need to know who the seller was. 100 00:07:43,770 --> 00:07:46,870 Oh, I'm sorry. That's between me, the consignment, and Uncle Sam. 101 00:07:47,610 --> 00:07:49,870 Well, you can understand the need for confidentiality. 102 00:07:50,150 --> 00:07:53,610 Well, frankly, no, I can't, because I don't care how much the guy made. I just 103 00:07:53,610 --> 00:07:55,170 want to talk to him. I'm a private investigator. 104 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,420 If you're hinting that there was any impropriety... No, no, no, not at all. 105 00:07:59,460 --> 00:08:03,220 You've been in business here for years. Your reputation's just as impeccable as 106 00:08:03,220 --> 00:08:04,220 that suit you're wearing. 107 00:08:04,260 --> 00:08:05,260 This is personal. 108 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:06,559 I'm sorry. 109 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:11,260 Ah, look, I'm sure the rarefied air in here has made you forget what an angry 110 00:08:11,260 --> 00:08:12,700 man in the real world might do. 111 00:08:13,180 --> 00:08:14,380 Are you threatening me? 112 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,400 No. Not yet. 113 00:08:17,420 --> 00:08:20,420 But if you don't give me the name of the man who brought that Buick in here, I 114 00:08:20,420 --> 00:08:21,420 will be. 115 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,880 Look around, blockhead. 116 00:08:24,590 --> 00:08:27,490 You think we'd carry this kind of merchandise without some heavy -duty 117 00:08:27,490 --> 00:08:28,990 around? What would you like? 118 00:08:29,310 --> 00:08:34,850 Ex -chargers or Dobermans? I can give you both. Up close and very personal. 119 00:08:35,970 --> 00:08:37,549 Have a nice day. 120 00:08:53,740 --> 00:08:54,579 Hi, Mrs. Gabriel. 121 00:08:54,580 --> 00:08:58,800 Who is it? My name is A .J. Simon. I was hoping to talk to Dr. Gabriel. Is he 122 00:08:58,800 --> 00:08:59,499 home today? 123 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:00,640 Do we know you, son? 124 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:02,120 No, ma 'am. 125 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,900 This is about an autopsy that he did when he was with the coroner's office. 126 00:09:08,380 --> 00:09:09,480 He'll be glad. 127 00:09:09,740 --> 00:09:11,500 Oh, please come in. Thank you. 128 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:21,320 Cliff. Cliff, here's a young man to see you. He wants to talk about your work. 129 00:09:22,010 --> 00:09:23,910 Hi, Dr. Gabriel, A .J. Simon. 130 00:09:24,130 --> 00:09:25,089 Oh, how are you? 131 00:09:25,090 --> 00:09:27,910 I hope I'm not interrupting you. Oh, no, no. 132 00:09:28,310 --> 00:09:31,850 It's okay with me, as long as it's okay with General Grant. 133 00:09:33,990 --> 00:09:34,990 That's quite a display. 134 00:09:35,990 --> 00:09:40,450 Well, you'd think that anyone that has seen as much death as I have would 135 00:09:40,450 --> 00:09:42,190 something besides war for a hobby, huh? 136 00:09:44,990 --> 00:09:49,330 Um, Dr. Gabriel, I'm going to be very direct. 137 00:09:49,820 --> 00:09:52,020 I came here to talk to you about an autopsy. 138 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:53,900 Oh. 139 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,480 Been a long time since I've done one of those. 140 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:01,260 You don't look like the kind of fellow that's got a stomach for it. 141 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:08,640 No, sir. I came to talk to you about one particular autopsy, actually. 142 00:10:10,580 --> 00:10:14,220 Do you remember this case? 143 00:10:21,230 --> 00:10:25,670 25 years since I left that office. Jack Simon was my father. 144 00:10:26,690 --> 00:10:32,050 I was very young when he was killed, and I had a closed casket. I never got a 145 00:10:32,050 --> 00:10:33,090 chance to say goodbye to him. 146 00:10:33,690 --> 00:10:35,510 The way he looked, you wouldn't have wanted to. 147 00:10:36,450 --> 00:10:38,110 No child should have seen that. 148 00:10:38,430 --> 00:10:39,430 Then you do remember. 149 00:10:41,150 --> 00:10:45,190 Will you tell me about the accident, about the burns? 150 00:10:46,730 --> 00:10:48,250 Everything on this paper is true. 151 00:10:49,030 --> 00:10:50,030 Yes, sir. 152 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,320 I know that. It's a... These are just empty facts, you know. 153 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:57,200 A date, time. I want the story. 154 00:10:59,340 --> 00:11:04,280 Fourteen years I was in that morgue work and never had a hint of scandal, never 155 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:05,720 had a finding reversed. 156 00:11:06,140 --> 00:11:08,400 So I don't appreciate your tone, young man. 157 00:11:09,180 --> 00:11:12,880 Dr. Gabriel, I wouldn't dream of questioning your integrity. I simply 158 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:13,880 know what happened to my father. 159 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,120 Then look it up in the computer. 160 00:11:15,820 --> 00:11:17,340 Hell, they know everything today, don't they? 161 00:11:17,780 --> 00:11:19,360 Bound to be a little bit of tape or... 162 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,040 Plastic somewhere that'll give you all the damn details you want to read. Me? 163 00:11:23,660 --> 00:11:25,000 I don't remember a thing. 164 00:11:25,980 --> 00:11:28,020 Cliff, is anything wrong? 165 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:29,400 No, nothing. 166 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:30,880 This gentleman was just leaving. 167 00:11:32,020 --> 00:11:33,820 Oh, what a shame. 168 00:11:34,220 --> 00:11:37,020 I was just going to make us all a nice cup of tea. 169 00:11:37,580 --> 00:11:38,580 Goodbye, Mr. Simon. 170 00:11:51,980 --> 00:11:56,800 You want me to what? We could order it ourselves, but we're private citizens. 171 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:01,400 have to show cause. We would have to prove suspicion of foul play or some 172 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:05,840 red tape that would mean we'd have to live with this thing for days or weeks. 173 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:07,820 Well, what does Cecilia think? 174 00:12:10,500 --> 00:12:12,500 We don't think she needs to know about it yet. 175 00:12:12,780 --> 00:12:13,900 I disagree. 176 00:12:14,340 --> 00:12:18,040 In fact, I disagree with this whole thing. I think you two are buying into a 177 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,400 traumatic experience that will only make things worse. 178 00:12:20,860 --> 00:12:21,920 That's easy for you to say. 179 00:12:22,380 --> 00:12:23,840 How is your dad, by the way? 180 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,840 Does he still go fishing every Saturday morning with your brothers? 181 00:12:27,180 --> 00:12:30,960 A .J. Does he still buy a seasoned ski pass to Gunnison every year? 182 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:38,800 Tomorrow morning. 183 00:12:38,820 --> 00:12:40,540 Thank you. No, don't thank me. 184 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:41,920 I'm being selfish. 185 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:44,280 I don't want you two hanging around bugging me. 186 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:46,640 Yeah, Roy, this is Abby Marsh. 187 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,640 I have a special request. 188 00:13:08,140 --> 00:13:11,640 Mom, I thought we agreed. You wouldn't dare make an agreement to exclude me 189 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,280 this, so don't even discuss it. Mom, it's just... Just what? 190 00:13:15,020 --> 00:13:18,060 You're going to open my husband's grave without me present? 191 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:22,240 First you insist on dredging up this rotten business against my wishes. 192 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:25,760 Then you try to make Abigail my friend, keep it a secret from me. 193 00:13:26,340 --> 00:13:30,520 Well, by God, I'm going to stand here and watch your faces when they open up 194 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:31,760 that damn box. 195 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:38,480 Get on with it, young man. 196 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:48,520 How 197 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:58,100 could 198 00:13:58,100 --> 00:13:59,100 this happen? 199 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:01,280 How in God's name could this be? 200 00:14:02,580 --> 00:14:04,040 We don't know anything, Mom. 201 00:14:06,190 --> 00:14:12,270 We don't know if he arranged it himself or something happened or... We just, we 202 00:14:12,270 --> 00:14:13,209 don't know anything. 203 00:14:13,210 --> 00:14:15,710 Where is he? And what happened to his body? 204 00:14:16,510 --> 00:14:18,410 All sorts of possibilities, Mom. 205 00:14:19,350 --> 00:14:20,730 Dad worked for the government. 206 00:14:22,170 --> 00:14:24,350 All manner of reasons for a man to disappear. 207 00:14:26,130 --> 00:14:31,350 Protected witness or secret missions. Love affairs, irresponsibility, boredom. 208 00:14:31,350 --> 00:14:32,069 Stop it. 209 00:14:32,070 --> 00:14:33,830 This is Dad we're talking about. 210 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:36,680 Hasn't it occurred to you that he might still be alive? 211 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:39,180 Is that supposed to make me overjoyed? 212 00:14:39,540 --> 00:14:40,540 It does me. 213 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:42,940 I envy your clarity, A .J. 214 00:14:43,580 --> 00:14:45,220 God knows I loved the man. 215 00:14:46,020 --> 00:14:47,720 But he wasn't easy to live with. 216 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,180 And he had facets I never managed to penetrate. 217 00:14:51,660 --> 00:14:52,880 But he was your husband. 218 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:55,720 And he is my father. 219 00:14:58,060 --> 00:15:01,260 I'm sorry. I didn't expect you to understand. 220 00:15:05,540 --> 00:15:06,540 Hi. 221 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,480 Oh, I can come back. No, Abby, please come in. 222 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:19,000 I thought you might want some company tonight. 223 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,380 Oh, it would be wonderful to have you here. 224 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:22,920 Oh, it's the least I can do. 225 00:15:23,580 --> 00:15:27,920 Because if I know these two, they might be hard to reach in the next few days. 226 00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:29,460 So I brought this. 227 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,200 Nixon found it in the basement of the Hall of Records. 228 00:15:35,310 --> 00:15:36,850 Please file on your father's death. 229 00:16:18,610 --> 00:16:19,970 Hello? Anybody here? 230 00:16:23,170 --> 00:16:25,110 Get the hell away from my home! 231 00:16:27,050 --> 00:16:29,370 If we try, what says you won't kill us? 232 00:16:30,330 --> 00:16:31,710 Nothing but my word. 233 00:16:32,590 --> 00:16:34,510 In fact, I got a beat on you right now. 234 00:16:37,490 --> 00:16:38,490 Deputy Burns! 235 00:16:41,730 --> 00:16:42,770 Nobody's called me that. 236 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:45,080 It's been a long time. 237 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:48,500 Who are you? 238 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:49,900 Cops? 239 00:16:50,340 --> 00:16:54,020 No, we're P .I .s from town. We just want to talk to you for a minute. 240 00:16:54,420 --> 00:16:56,240 Your minute's ticking away. 241 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:03,980 30 -odd years ago, you were the first one on the scene of an automobile wreck. 242 00:17:04,380 --> 00:17:05,640 You sat on Oak Bay Canyon. 243 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,060 More of those than I care to count, son. 244 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,720 That road just ate drunks and teenagers. 245 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:15,880 Some kind of dark spirit living up there. 246 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:18,480 Indians knew it. They stayed away. 247 00:17:18,819 --> 00:17:20,780 Well, this one was a maroon convertible. 248 00:17:22,020 --> 00:17:25,819 According to the accident report, by the time you got there, it was engulfed in 249 00:17:25,819 --> 00:17:26,819 flames. 250 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:31,700 Driver's name was Jack's... Well, John. John Andrew Simon. 251 00:17:34,460 --> 00:17:36,300 That name doesn't mean anything to me. 252 00:17:37,380 --> 00:17:39,880 Like I said, there's a presence there. 253 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:41,700 Manitou, maybe. 254 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:42,760 Wind Walker. 255 00:17:43,530 --> 00:17:48,070 Well, according to the accident report, you got there just minutes after it 256 00:17:48,070 --> 00:17:49,070 crashed. 257 00:17:49,530 --> 00:17:55,430 That driver, he was our father. I told you, I don't remember what happened. 258 00:17:55,790 --> 00:18:00,810 With all due respect, sir, I don't care how many people you've seen dead, you 259 00:18:00,810 --> 00:18:01,549 remember them. 260 00:18:01,550 --> 00:18:02,550 Oh, I get it. 261 00:18:04,110 --> 00:18:05,730 You've been in my shoes, haven't you? 262 00:18:06,990 --> 00:18:11,790 Been so old, it takes all your strength just to get vertical in the morning. 263 00:18:12,220 --> 00:18:13,500 No, sir, that's not it. Sure. 264 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:17,540 You got a strain and stretch to remember the name of the last woman you made 265 00:18:17,540 --> 00:18:18,540 love to. 266 00:18:18,740 --> 00:18:20,680 But the guy you'll always be the cribbage. 267 00:18:21,580 --> 00:18:23,940 At the end of your shift, every day for 20 years running. 268 00:18:24,860 --> 00:18:29,560 So excuse me for forgetting the details about some faceless drunk who ran off a 269 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:30,880 canyon road in a brand new Buick. 270 00:18:32,140 --> 00:18:33,600 You never said it was a Buick. 271 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:35,120 Sure you did. 272 00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:37,140 You think I just made it up? 273 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:39,200 No, sir, I think you remembered it. 274 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,600 And I think you're a hell of a lot sharper than you want anybody to think. 275 00:18:43,460 --> 00:18:49,380 So tell me, how is helping us find out what happened to our own father 30 -odd 276 00:18:49,380 --> 00:18:51,360 years ago going to hurt an old hermit like you? 277 00:18:51,620 --> 00:18:53,000 Now, you watch your mouth. 278 00:18:53,780 --> 00:18:57,000 No man comes on my land and calls me a liar. Now, you get the hell out of here, 279 00:18:57,060 --> 00:18:58,900 both of you. What makes you so damn bitter? 280 00:19:02,980 --> 00:19:03,980 Do you have a family? 281 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:06,220 Do you know what it's like? 282 00:19:08,490 --> 00:19:09,490 I got a wife. 283 00:19:10,430 --> 00:19:12,330 She's pushing up daisies in Rose Hills. 284 00:19:14,770 --> 00:19:18,150 I thought being married to a deputy sheriff somehow would make our world 285 00:19:19,530 --> 00:19:22,710 But some hungry stone -broke derelict didn't feel that way. 286 00:19:24,190 --> 00:19:26,550 Shot her in the face when she wouldn't hand over a purse. 287 00:19:28,690 --> 00:19:30,170 Oh, and I got a kid, too. 288 00:19:32,010 --> 00:19:34,250 Joining the army to be all that he could be. 289 00:19:36,490 --> 00:19:38,970 Except all that he could be was a damned heroin addict. 290 00:19:40,750 --> 00:19:45,250 I got him back in a body bag that I wasn't even a war on. 291 00:19:45,850 --> 00:19:47,450 Now ask me why I live up here alone. 292 00:19:48,510 --> 00:19:53,630 And ask me why I don't give a rat's behind for you, for your brother, for 293 00:19:53,630 --> 00:19:54,630 daddy. 294 00:19:55,190 --> 00:19:57,890 Well, are you going to talk or are you just going to stare at my windshield 295 00:19:57,890 --> 00:19:59,330 until the glass melts? 296 00:19:59,810 --> 00:20:01,510 You're not feeling any better than I am. 297 00:20:01,770 --> 00:20:02,770 Maybe. 298 00:20:04,350 --> 00:20:07,350 But I do know... So if you don't start talking, something's going to give. 299 00:20:11,030 --> 00:20:12,550 Okay, let me take a stab at it. 300 00:20:14,270 --> 00:20:17,190 You've gotten your hopes up, and you're afraid that Dad's going to be dead 301 00:20:17,190 --> 00:20:18,190 anyway. 302 00:20:18,670 --> 00:20:19,910 That wouldn't be the worst. 303 00:20:20,270 --> 00:20:24,050 The worst would be to find him still alive, like that old man. 304 00:20:25,250 --> 00:20:27,990 Bitter and different. 305 00:20:29,910 --> 00:20:33,010 You know, Rick, I've met two old men in the last two days, and all I can think 306 00:20:33,010 --> 00:20:34,010 is... 307 00:20:34,410 --> 00:20:35,550 What does he look like? 308 00:20:36,830 --> 00:20:38,270 Does he still like baseball? 309 00:20:38,470 --> 00:20:39,470 Does he still have hair? 310 00:20:44,590 --> 00:20:47,710 Does he still start laughing before he's finished telling a joke? 311 00:20:56,270 --> 00:21:00,950 And whoever he is, he's not going to be the same man that I knew when I was a 312 00:21:00,950 --> 00:21:02,330 child, and that scares me. 313 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:04,920 Yeah, me too. 314 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:18,920 You sure you're up to this? 315 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:22,600 Honey, if this is what it takes, watch me. 316 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:30,900 Friday night, 7 o 'clock sharp. Bye -bye. 317 00:21:31,340 --> 00:21:32,340 Excuse me. 318 00:21:32,730 --> 00:21:35,430 Mrs. Gorman is interested in bidding on the barrister this evening. 319 00:21:35,730 --> 00:21:36,950 Do you have an auction number yet? 320 00:21:37,310 --> 00:21:40,790 No, but that's inconsequential. If the vehicle is satisfactory, she will enter 321 00:21:40,790 --> 00:21:43,170 an unconditional buy order. Prices of no object. 322 00:21:43,450 --> 00:21:44,450 I see. 323 00:21:45,290 --> 00:21:46,290 Jackson? 324 00:21:46,690 --> 00:21:47,690 Yes, madam. 325 00:21:49,730 --> 00:21:50,890 Would you join us, please? 326 00:21:55,430 --> 00:21:56,810 I want a test drive. 327 00:21:57,510 --> 00:22:00,530 I'm very sorry, but Mr. Masters just went to lunch. 328 00:22:01,550 --> 00:22:07,550 Young lady, I'm prepared to make a deposit in excess of your annual salary 329 00:22:07,550 --> 00:22:09,410 guarantee the purchase of this car. 330 00:22:09,710 --> 00:22:13,270 Are you going to tell me I can't take it around the block? 331 00:22:13,650 --> 00:22:17,210 Ma 'am, I know when Mr. Masters returns, he'd be more than happy to demonstrate 332 00:22:17,210 --> 00:22:18,210 the vehicle. 333 00:22:18,470 --> 00:22:22,310 And what good will it be to have him demonstrate the vehicle? We are the ones 334 00:22:22,310 --> 00:22:23,310 who must drive it. 335 00:22:23,950 --> 00:22:26,610 Ms. Gorman, time is very valuable. 336 00:22:26,810 --> 00:22:28,910 Her schedule is extremely tight. 337 00:22:29,330 --> 00:22:30,810 It's a tea in her honor. 338 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:32,180 at the Bay Club this afternoon. 339 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,080 Just a minute. 340 00:22:35,460 --> 00:22:38,680 This is Naugahyde. It's what? 341 00:22:39,060 --> 00:22:40,060 No. 342 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:41,840 I'm sure it's leather. 343 00:22:42,340 --> 00:22:47,280 Are you telling me I don't know the difference between Naugahyde and 344 00:22:47,820 --> 00:22:49,440 How impertinent. 345 00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:53,420 Ma 'am, I'm sure that when Mr. Masters returns, he'll have the material 346 00:23:03,620 --> 00:23:06,560 Matthew Haskell. I haven't even thought of him for years. 347 00:23:07,380 --> 00:23:08,520 Oh, Mr. Haskell. 348 00:23:09,980 --> 00:23:14,380 Practical mythic when I was a kid. You remember him, A .J.? Dimly. 349 00:23:15,140 --> 00:23:16,800 He was Dad's boss, wasn't he? 350 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:19,300 Voice like thunder. 351 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:20,960 Hello, Ricky. 352 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,820 He wasn't only his boss, he was his best friend. 353 00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:29,540 He and your father worked together in intelligence during the war. 354 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,900 He hired your father as security chief at Nemesis. 355 00:23:34,220 --> 00:23:35,220 That old think tank? 356 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:36,480 That's right. 357 00:23:36,540 --> 00:23:37,540 Here. 358 00:23:38,820 --> 00:23:41,000 I'd forgotten what a handsome man Dad was. 359 00:23:41,360 --> 00:23:42,380 I haven't. 360 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,160 I see him every time I look at you two. 361 00:23:48,360 --> 00:23:49,360 Yes, Jean. 362 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,720 Two gentlemen to see you, Mr. Haskell. 363 00:23:52,260 --> 00:23:56,080 I told them they needed an appointment, but they were rather insistent. Who are 364 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,420 they? Brothers. They say their name is Simon. 365 00:24:00,170 --> 00:24:01,170 I beg your pardon, sir? 366 00:24:01,770 --> 00:24:02,770 Nothing, Jean. 367 00:24:03,610 --> 00:24:04,730 Tell them to wait. 368 00:24:12,610 --> 00:24:14,370 Adams. Matt Haskell. 369 00:24:16,050 --> 00:24:17,450 That problem I told you about. 370 00:24:19,370 --> 00:24:20,810 It's standing outside my office. 371 00:24:26,410 --> 00:24:27,870 How long did he say he was going to be? 372 00:24:28,460 --> 00:24:31,460 He didn't, sir. I already told you. He just said you should wait. 373 00:24:31,820 --> 00:24:32,820 Yeah. 374 00:24:33,420 --> 00:24:34,420 Who's in there with him? 375 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:37,460 You're the Simon brothers? 376 00:24:37,780 --> 00:24:38,780 Who wants to know? 377 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,400 You're investigating the death of your father, John A. Simon. 378 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,200 And how do you know that? 379 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,280 My partner and I are security agents assigned to a high -level agency 380 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:04,280 this building. 381 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:08,200 The information you're seeking is U .S. government -classified top secret. 382 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,660 Now, look, we are not the creeping Kame Menace. We just want to find out... I 383 00:25:12,660 --> 00:25:15,800 understand. But if you don't assist in this investigation, you'll be under 384 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:16,820 threat of federal penalty. 385 00:25:19,420 --> 00:25:20,420 I have my orders. 386 00:25:20,820 --> 00:25:24,780 And do your orders include keeping sons from learning the truth about their 387 00:25:24,780 --> 00:25:25,780 father's death? 388 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:26,840 I have my job to do. 389 00:25:29,420 --> 00:25:33,600 I guess in that case, there's nothing for us to do. 390 00:25:42,380 --> 00:25:47,520 As you were saying, there's nothing to do but what these nice gentlemen asked 391 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:48,520 to. 392 00:25:49,380 --> 00:25:50,380 Excuse me. 393 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,980 Do you... You're not really going to let them stop us, are you? 394 00:25:55,580 --> 00:25:58,980 Hey, Jay, it's the United States government. We're talking about just 395 00:25:58,980 --> 00:26:00,060 what you want to do. 396 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,260 I want to keep digging, that's what. 397 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,340 I want to find Dad. He's dead. 398 00:26:04,660 --> 00:26:06,040 Because they say so? No. 399 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,280 Because it's true. 400 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:09,920 Right. 401 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:15,580 A former sheriff's deputy agrees with you, an ex -coroner agrees with you, and 402 00:26:15,580 --> 00:26:17,140 we know that they're lying. 403 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,040 And now all of a sudden you want to roll over simply because two guys in suits 404 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,180 tell us to go away? 405 00:26:23,660 --> 00:26:24,900 I'm tired of this shit now. 406 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:26,299 to fight. 407 00:26:26,300 --> 00:26:27,540 That's not my brother talking. 408 00:26:27,860 --> 00:26:28,860 Yes, it is. 409 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:33,660 A brother who's seen a little bit more of the dark side of the federal 410 00:26:33,660 --> 00:26:34,720 government than you have. 411 00:26:34,980 --> 00:26:37,060 Because you went to war. Yes, because I went to war. 412 00:26:37,420 --> 00:26:38,420 Garbage! 413 00:26:40,460 --> 00:26:43,900 You're backing off because you don't really want to know what happened. 414 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:47,800 You're full of it. 415 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,200 Am I? 416 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:52,800 Go look in the mirror, Rick. 417 00:26:55,850 --> 00:26:58,910 You've been running away from Dad's death for years. Oh, come on. Now, why 418 00:26:58,910 --> 00:27:01,110 you go back and volunteer for a second tour of duty in Nam? 419 00:27:02,530 --> 00:27:03,530 Huh? 420 00:27:04,130 --> 00:27:06,310 Now, don't tell me it was because you believed in the cause. 421 00:27:07,070 --> 00:27:09,650 Don't tell me it was because you loved the smell of napalm in the morning. 422 00:27:10,550 --> 00:27:14,030 You did it because Dad dropped off the face of the earth and scared the holy 423 00:27:14,030 --> 00:27:16,950 living daylights out of you. My brother, Sigmund Freud. You had to prove it 424 00:27:16,950 --> 00:27:17,950 couldn't happen to you. 425 00:27:18,450 --> 00:27:21,930 And when two tours wouldn't do it, then you had to go and get unconscious on the 426 00:27:21,930 --> 00:27:24,270 back of some Harley somewhere at 100 miles an hour. 427 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,440 Because something inside was saying, if this doesn't get me, nothing ever will. 428 00:27:28,900 --> 00:27:30,020 Well, what about you, huh? 429 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,620 I'm not the only one who chose a career that puts my neck on the line at least 430 00:27:33,620 --> 00:27:34,620 once a month. 431 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,740 Every planet's got its dark side. Yeah, maybe so. 432 00:27:37,940 --> 00:27:42,320 You are not immune. While I was out there on the edge, you turned into the 433 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,560 tightly wrapped package since King Tut's tomb. 434 00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,740 Some scared little voice in you crying out, wait a minute, wait a minute. Maybe 435 00:27:48,740 --> 00:27:52,280 if I do everything right, if I say all the right things, if I don't make 436 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,700 mad, maybe the angel of death will just fly right past and forget I'm even here. 437 00:27:57,700 --> 00:27:59,540 I've dealt with Dad's death. Have you? 438 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:03,160 Have you? 439 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,720 Then why is it you who keeps insisting he's alive? 440 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,520 Do you think that if you can find him... 441 00:28:10,890 --> 00:28:14,210 That you can get to some place in his heart that you've never been before. A 442 00:28:14,210 --> 00:28:15,210 place that was mine. 443 00:28:16,870 --> 00:28:19,750 Not because I was special, but just because I happened to come out of the 444 00:28:19,750 --> 00:28:20,750 canal a couple of years ago. 445 00:28:30,830 --> 00:28:36,310 Sorry. I'm sorry. 446 00:28:36,510 --> 00:28:37,089 I apologize. 447 00:28:37,090 --> 00:28:38,090 Forget it. 448 00:28:43,210 --> 00:28:45,070 Maybe I'm mad. Maybe I'm just tired. 449 00:28:45,290 --> 00:28:46,970 I just... Maybe you're right. 450 00:28:50,850 --> 00:28:53,150 I don't want to jeopardize national security. 451 00:28:59,770 --> 00:29:01,610 I just want to find out what happened to Dad. 452 00:29:36,550 --> 00:29:37,550 Hello, Mr. Haskell. 453 00:29:45,630 --> 00:29:46,630 We don't want to hurt you. 454 00:29:47,370 --> 00:29:48,450 Just want to talk to you. 455 00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:51,290 Do you remember us? 456 00:29:52,210 --> 00:29:53,250 You're damn right I do. 457 00:29:56,270 --> 00:30:00,170 If you cut from the same cloth as your dad, you're not going to hurt a man 20 458 00:30:00,170 --> 00:30:01,170 years your senior. 459 00:30:01,310 --> 00:30:02,310 Old man, huh? 460 00:30:05,130 --> 00:30:12,070 An old man with a black belt, a silver star, a Class 3 top -secret clearance. 461 00:30:19,570 --> 00:30:22,990 And an original issue of Ermart Luger. 462 00:30:28,290 --> 00:30:29,870 Well, these kids were all right. 463 00:30:31,710 --> 00:30:33,170 But I'm sorry, it's... 464 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:35,160 It's not going to work. 465 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:36,300 Oh, yes, it is. 466 00:30:38,660 --> 00:30:39,660 No, A .J. 467 00:30:42,260 --> 00:30:43,260 No, it's not. 468 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:49,480 You see, to threaten someone, you've got to take away something they care about. 469 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,940 And the things I care about were taken away a long time ago. 470 00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:54,140 My wife. 471 00:30:54,540 --> 00:30:58,560 And as for my life, well, God beat you to that one. 472 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,320 Liver cancer. 473 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:01,600 I've got six months. 474 00:31:01,860 --> 00:31:02,860 Maybe a year. 475 00:31:03,310 --> 00:31:08,210 Mr. Haskell, my father considered you a friend, so did my mother. 476 00:31:08,630 --> 00:31:10,850 She still has pictures of you all she showed us. 477 00:31:11,170 --> 00:31:14,310 In the name of all that's good and decent, please tell us what happened to 478 00:31:14,630 --> 00:31:16,030 If he's dead, tell us. 479 00:31:16,850 --> 00:31:21,710 If he's alive, tell us where he is. 480 00:31:24,210 --> 00:31:26,290 And for God's sake, tell us why he had to run away. 481 00:31:27,290 --> 00:31:28,290 Don't do it. 482 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:37,240 school, please. 483 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:41,580 For our father, Jack. 484 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:49,640 Baingate, this is Mr. Haskell. 485 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,400 Send the car back. 486 00:33:05,260 --> 00:33:07,980 Excuse the delay, gentlemen. 487 00:33:09,060 --> 00:33:11,700 The delay I can live with, the guns I can do without. 488 00:33:29,390 --> 00:33:30,390 The feet. 489 00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:33,010 Matt. 490 00:33:35,170 --> 00:33:36,170 Thanks. 491 00:33:45,730 --> 00:33:50,330 I'm afraid I treated your boys rather rudely. But then again, they weren't 492 00:33:50,330 --> 00:33:52,030 exactly Emily Post to me, either. 493 00:33:52,410 --> 00:33:54,990 Well, they get that way when blood is involved. 494 00:33:55,370 --> 00:33:56,370 I understand. 495 00:34:00,270 --> 00:34:05,930 Well, now that I have you together, I'll tell you what this is all about. 496 00:34:06,310 --> 00:34:07,750 Thank God for small favors. 497 00:34:08,429 --> 00:34:10,630 Matt, it better be good. 498 00:34:11,389 --> 00:34:13,310 It is, Cecilia. It is. 499 00:34:16,190 --> 00:34:17,929 I'm going to tell you everything. 500 00:34:18,170 --> 00:34:20,510 Everything you never knew about Jack Simon. 501 00:34:29,670 --> 00:34:32,750 He was made of stuff most men only dream of. 502 00:34:37,150 --> 00:34:41,310 I first met your dad in Paris shortly before V .E. Day. 503 00:34:42,090 --> 00:34:45,130 General George Marshall had already approached me about a project called 504 00:34:45,130 --> 00:34:46,210 Nemesis. 505 00:34:47,909 --> 00:34:50,350 Nemesis was the stepchild of the Manhattan Project. 506 00:34:50,770 --> 00:34:53,969 Now, Oppenheimer and Fermi knew that their research was crude. 507 00:34:54,750 --> 00:34:58,830 In fact, when they tested that first A -bomb in Los Alamos, They were taking 508 00:34:58,830 --> 00:35:01,690 bets as to whether the chain reaction would go right through the planet. 509 00:35:02,010 --> 00:35:05,290 At least they had the brains to put up the next step of development ahead of 510 00:35:05,290 --> 00:35:06,290 time. Exactly. 511 00:35:07,690 --> 00:35:12,330 By 1950, Nemesis had developed systems that would make the Hiroshima bomb look 512 00:35:12,330 --> 00:35:13,330 like a pop gun. 513 00:35:14,870 --> 00:35:17,910 Well, your father was our chief of security. 514 00:35:18,390 --> 00:35:19,550 It's a hell of a responsibility. 515 00:35:20,130 --> 00:35:22,870 Rick, you're about to learn just how true that statement is. 516 00:35:25,570 --> 00:35:26,790 On that night... 517 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:28,620 16 February 1954. 518 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:32,020 There was a break -in at one of our labs. 519 00:35:33,300 --> 00:35:37,300 They killed all five armed guards. There was only one man left to stop them. 520 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,400 Your father. 521 00:35:39,780 --> 00:35:40,840 Were they terrorists? 522 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,240 That's what you'd call them nowadays. They stole a lead -lined case. 523 00:35:45,820 --> 00:35:48,280 Lithium deuteride and plutonium -239. 524 00:35:48,620 --> 00:35:49,940 That's the fuel for an H -bomb. 525 00:35:50,180 --> 00:35:54,920 It was then, and it still is, the most deadly, unstable radioactive material 526 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:55,920 known to man. 527 00:35:56,220 --> 00:35:57,800 And Jack tried to stop them? 528 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:01,760 Jack not only tried, he succeeded. 529 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:05,740 Jack pursued them up San Onofre Canyon. 530 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:07,400 They had a plane waiting. 531 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,420 Jack had a Thompson submachine gun. 532 00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:17,300 He took on all four of them alone. 533 00:36:19,060 --> 00:36:23,580 I could never get him to tell me exactly what happened. He would just shake his 534 00:36:23,580 --> 00:36:24,580 head. 535 00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:27,320 But I do know. 536 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:33,560 When we drove up, I saw him running away from that burning plane with that case 537 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:34,560 in his hand. 538 00:36:34,820 --> 00:36:40,140 When the fuel tanks went, the explosion knocked Jack maybe ten yards away and 539 00:36:40,140 --> 00:36:41,420 the case broke open. 540 00:36:42,740 --> 00:36:44,620 And Jack took a massive dose of radiation. 541 00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:49,200 And all he could do was sit in that bun and shout at me, Stay back, Matt! Stay 542 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:50,260 back! Matt, please! 543 00:36:54,090 --> 00:36:57,110 I could still see him sitting in that mud with the rain pouring down his face. 544 00:36:57,170 --> 00:37:01,010 He just might have saved the whole damned United States. 545 00:37:02,710 --> 00:37:05,270 And I couldn't even thank him or congratulate him. 546 00:37:07,730 --> 00:37:09,010 Or even hug him. 547 00:37:10,810 --> 00:37:12,410 I think maybe we've heard enough. 548 00:37:12,770 --> 00:37:13,770 No. 549 00:37:13,930 --> 00:37:15,370 I want to hear the rest, Matt. 550 00:37:17,370 --> 00:37:18,370 I'm all right. 551 00:37:18,750 --> 00:37:19,750 Please, go on. 552 00:37:21,830 --> 00:37:23,390 Well, we knew he was going to die. 553 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,200 And from the cases we'd seen in Nevada, the troops at the test site, we knew 554 00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:32,820 that it was going to be gruesome and very, very painful. 555 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,640 That night we went back to Nemesis, thinking we had to make some pretty 556 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:40,640 decisions. 557 00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:44,240 Jack made them all for us. 558 00:37:49,820 --> 00:37:51,720 You boys were very young. 559 00:37:52,430 --> 00:37:55,450 You'd only seen your father vibrant and healthy and rugged. 560 00:37:57,790 --> 00:38:02,470 Well, Jack just couldn't bear the thought of his kids watching him waste 561 00:38:03,010 --> 00:38:07,970 He didn't want the woman he loved to see him become impotent and bedridden and 562 00:38:07,970 --> 00:38:09,670 finally incontinent. 563 00:38:10,090 --> 00:38:16,750 To the world and to all of you, Jack Simon died 564 00:38:16,750 --> 00:38:18,030 that night. 565 00:38:19,910 --> 00:38:21,790 Some drunk had driven off the canyon. 566 00:38:22,220 --> 00:38:24,620 In the storm and burned to death. 567 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:30,260 So, we had very little trouble making the deputy of the car and it changed the 568 00:38:30,260 --> 00:38:31,400 facts for national security. 569 00:38:31,940 --> 00:38:32,940 The wedding ring. 570 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,360 I melted that down myself. 571 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,580 Cecilia placed it back in the wreckage. 572 00:38:39,580 --> 00:38:40,580 What about the car? 573 00:38:42,380 --> 00:38:43,640 Where did that come from? 574 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:45,340 And why didn't you just get rid of it? 575 00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:51,280 I don't know. I guess I just wanted a piece of Jack with me and I didn't want 576 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,109 let go of it. 577 00:38:52,110 --> 00:38:56,010 But it was on blocks for 30 years in the old carriage house. And when the doctor 578 00:38:56,010 --> 00:39:02,850 told me about my cancer... Well, a man does... things when 579 00:39:02,850 --> 00:39:05,050 he... knows he's gonna die. 580 00:39:06,610 --> 00:39:10,010 You could have consigned it in L .A. Or anywhere, for that matter. 581 00:39:10,230 --> 00:39:11,230 But you didn't. 582 00:39:11,630 --> 00:39:13,390 You wanted us to know about it, didn't you? 583 00:39:27,980 --> 00:39:28,980 That's where he died. 584 00:39:30,340 --> 00:39:32,560 Took months. I nursed him. 585 00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:30,100 Look at this. 586 00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:33,960 It's my swimming medal from summer camp. 587 00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:36,400 Wondered where that was. 588 00:40:38,060 --> 00:40:39,060 Oh. 589 00:40:40,100 --> 00:40:41,520 It seems to be mine. 590 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:43,300 Oh. 591 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,480 You wouldn't go to sleep without that until you were almost five. 592 00:40:49,140 --> 00:40:55,040 Then you wanted to be a doctor and you performed surgery on his leg with a 593 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,540 knife. That's what I remember. 594 00:40:57,610 --> 00:40:58,750 I had a good nurse. 595 00:41:06,690 --> 00:41:11,630 Gatsby, Thomas Wolfe, John Dunn's sonnets. 596 00:41:12,890 --> 00:41:18,370 At one time, your dad wanted to be a writer, and he used to come under my 597 00:41:18,370 --> 00:41:21,070 window and try to woo me with these things. 598 00:41:22,990 --> 00:41:25,350 I think I threw a shoe at him once. 599 00:41:47,950 --> 00:41:49,550 My journal, 1954. 600 00:41:51,270 --> 00:41:52,650 John Andrew Simon. 601 00:42:00,110 --> 00:42:05,150 Awaken from sleep last night several times by the pain of the simple act of 602 00:42:05,150 --> 00:42:06,150 rolling over. 603 00:42:06,330 --> 00:42:07,930 To hell with the doctors. 604 00:42:08,270 --> 00:42:09,690 Wish they could help. 605 00:42:10,650 --> 00:42:14,870 When I can't sleep, I lie in bed thinking of... See. 606 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:34,860 The bed used to be such a joyous, God -blessed playground. 607 00:42:37,860 --> 00:42:43,940 How a couple of young cult lovers could get lost in each other 608 00:42:43,940 --> 00:42:50,600 and produce something as beautiful as a little boy 609 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,420 and then another. 610 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:57,180 I miss you, thief. 611 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,040 Miss you. 612 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:03,340 Damn you, Jack Simon. 613 00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,080 Damn you. 614 00:43:07,380 --> 00:43:08,680 How could he have done this? 615 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,500 I could have made him happier. I could have... 616 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:19,500 I faced the bullet for the Reich, 617 00:43:19,700 --> 00:43:23,800 and I watched the universe explode on a Nevada desert. 618 00:43:24,980 --> 00:43:28,080 And yet the thing that worries me most is my firstborn. 619 00:43:30,410 --> 00:43:33,590 And to look at is like looking into a perfect mirror. 620 00:43:34,810 --> 00:43:41,470 To see my very own lamppost -swinging, life -drunk, happy, 621 00:43:41,570 --> 00:43:45,150 oblivious mistakes waiting to be made. 622 00:43:47,010 --> 00:43:48,950 I wish I could be with him. 623 00:43:49,650 --> 00:43:52,690 To turn back the clock for him every time he falters. 624 00:43:54,230 --> 00:43:56,530 To let him retrace those false steps. 625 00:43:57,690 --> 00:43:58,690 But his... 626 00:44:00,140 --> 00:44:04,940 His cadence, his inner rhythm, is already his own. 627 00:44:06,260 --> 00:44:09,200 And it drowns out convention and common sense. 628 00:44:11,380 --> 00:44:12,760 God save you, Rick. 629 00:44:14,060 --> 00:44:16,160 God spare you from a life like mine. 630 00:44:18,460 --> 00:44:19,580 And the little one. 631 00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,040 For him, my love is cleanest and brightest. 632 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:28,480 Not yet filled with manhood's gulfs too wide. 633 00:44:30,890 --> 00:44:32,210 Too wide to be bridged. 634 00:44:37,810 --> 00:44:39,430 I remember his hair. 635 00:44:42,350 --> 00:44:44,070 Golden as his mom's. 636 00:44:44,490 --> 00:44:46,070 Corn silk in August. 637 00:44:47,330 --> 00:44:48,810 I remember the eyes. 638 00:44:50,230 --> 00:44:52,550 Bluer than the ocean outside my window. 639 00:44:55,390 --> 00:44:57,270 Everything about him is clear. 640 00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:06,360 Transparent bright you are, Andrew J. Simon. I call your face before me. 641 00:45:07,820 --> 00:45:11,840 And I look into man -child eyes a mile deep. 642 00:45:12,260 --> 00:45:13,580 And I see compassion. 643 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,540 And a willingness to hurt if it will... 644 00:45:19,540 --> 00:45:24,700 If it will spare another pain. 645 00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:29,840 I see all that is the best in me. 646 00:45:31,050 --> 00:45:32,150 Or in any man. 647 00:45:34,110 --> 00:45:35,290 I love you, son. 648 00:45:36,210 --> 00:45:37,250 I miss you. 649 00:45:46,290 --> 00:45:50,070 It, uh... It ends there. 650 00:46:10,570 --> 00:46:11,570 Remember that blessing? 651 00:46:12,390 --> 00:46:14,410 The one he always used to say at bedtime? 652 00:46:15,910 --> 00:46:17,870 May the road rise up, that one. 653 00:46:20,030 --> 00:46:21,970 May the road rise up to greet you. 654 00:46:23,690 --> 00:46:26,210 May the wind be ever at your back. 655 00:46:27,730 --> 00:46:30,290 May the sunshine warm upon your face. 656 00:46:32,970 --> 00:46:33,970 May the... 657 00:46:39,690 --> 00:46:41,750 May the rains fall soft upon your leaves. 658 00:46:44,230 --> 00:46:50,950 And until we meet again, may the good Lord hold you in the hollow of his 659 00:46:50,950 --> 00:46:51,950 hand. 660 00:46:54,730 --> 00:46:55,730 Amen. 661 00:46:56,090 --> 00:46:57,090 Amen.