1 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:21,560 See this guy? 2 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:24,850 I know this guy. He's a car thief. 3 00:02:24,980 --> 00:02:28,320 He know that most car alarms operate by a simple electric sensor. 4 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,610 You just jiggle the door, you complete a circuit 5 00:02:30,730 --> 00:02:32,190 and trigger the siren. 6 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:34,860 I've been stealing cars since I was 14. 7 00:02:34,990 --> 00:02:38,570 The truth is, alarms make my job easier, not harder. 8 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:42,080 Say somebody's walking by and sees me fiddling with the ignition. 9 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:43,330 So sorry, ma'am. 10 00:02:43,460 --> 00:02:46,170 These stupid alarms, you know? 11 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,630 He knows that they can be set off by someone 12 00:02:49,750 --> 00:02:51,880 breaking into the vehicle or bumping into it... 13 00:02:52,010 --> 00:02:55,800 or some invisible machination of the car's interior, 14 00:02:55,930 --> 00:02:58,970 or for that matter, by other alarms. 15 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:02,470 He also knows that they go off accidentally so often 16 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:06,900 that in New York at least no one pays any attention. 17 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:09,400 I'm Detective Dante Moretti, NYPD. 18 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,480 I've been on auto crimes for seven years 19 00:03:11,610 --> 00:03:14,280 and I'd say in that time, well, in Manhattan anyway, 20 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,360 a car alarm has not prevented the theft or burglary of a single vehicle, 21 00:03:17,490 --> 00:03:20,080 not one. Ever. 22 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,200 Frankly, that's a lot of BS. 23 00:03:22,330 --> 00:03:25,750 I'm Richie McIntyre of the Security Industry Trade Association. 24 00:03:25,870 --> 00:03:28,750 We estimate that in 2003 alone car alarms... 25 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,210 Today in New York City 26 00:03:30,340 --> 00:03:33,550 - Administrative Code Section 24-221... - Asshole. 27 00:03:33,670 --> 00:03:35,340 ...states that all car alarms 28 00:03:35,470 --> 00:03:37,550 must automatically shut off within three minutes. 29 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,800 I don't think that's quite fast enough. 30 00:03:39,930 --> 00:03:41,600 I'll tell you why. 31 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,430 Let's say it's 4:00 a.m. and you've been up since 1:00 32 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,640 with your colicky newborn. 33 00:03:48,810 --> 00:03:51,770 And just as you're getting her down... 34 00:03:56,780 --> 00:03:59,200 Let's say you're reading German philosophy. 35 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,410 Hegel, for instance. 36 00:04:11,630 --> 00:04:13,920 You're too stupid really to understand any of this 37 00:04:14,050 --> 00:04:16,130 but in your dogged way you've been reading and rereading 38 00:04:16,260 --> 00:04:18,180 the same passage for the past half-hour. 39 00:04:18,300 --> 00:04:20,140 And just as you're beginning to get it... 40 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:23,890 Unfolded becoming. Unfolded becoming. 41 00:04:33,110 --> 00:04:37,320 Or say you haven't gotten it up for the past month, 42 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:40,490 the usual reasons... 43 00:04:40,610 --> 00:04:44,950 boredom, rage, short positions in the market... 44 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,870 but tonight for some reason 45 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,080 you feel an unexpected ease in that department. 46 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,970 Come on, David. 47 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:09,270 Just let it go. 48 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,900 Shut up, you bastard! 49 00:05:16,020 --> 00:05:17,440 At times like those 50 00:05:17,570 --> 00:05:20,780 you don't really want to wait three minutes, do you? 51 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:22,820 Or one minute. 52 00:05:22,950 --> 00:05:25,160 Or even 30 seconds. 53 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:28,330 Personally, I don't think we should have to hear it at all. 54 00:05:28,450 --> 00:05:30,370 Maybe you don't either. 55 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:32,540 But unlike you, 56 00:05:32,670 --> 00:05:35,630 I do something about it. 57 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:38,920 I'm the Rectifier. 58 00:05:39,050 --> 00:05:41,260 Today at City Hall, Mayor Rheinnhardt Schneer 59 00:05:41,380 --> 00:05:43,260 met with 178 motorists 60 00:05:43,390 --> 00:05:45,430 whose vehicles have been damaged by a figure 61 00:05:45,550 --> 00:05:48,140 identifying himself only as the Rectifier. 62 00:05:48,270 --> 00:05:49,980 I'm here with one of the victims. 63 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:52,770 This is Allen J Corpitanni of Bayonne, New Jersey. 64 00:05:52,900 --> 00:05:55,940 Mr. Corpitanni, could you show us the letter you received? 65 00:05:57,900 --> 00:05:59,610 Could you read it for us? 66 00:05:59,740 --> 00:06:02,150 Yeah. "Dear Allen J Corpitanni, 67 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:04,410 on the evening of April 3rd 68 00:06:04,530 --> 00:06:07,030 your burglar alarm disturbed the citizens of New York. 69 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,450 Every time the Rectifier or anyone in his organization 70 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:12,830 encounters a motor vehicle with its alarm on 71 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,960 for any interval whatsoever"... he underlined that part... 72 00:06:17,090 --> 00:06:19,420 "it will be damaged. That is why 73 00:06:19,550 --> 00:06:22,170 you are obliged to repair your battery cable 74 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:25,090 - at a cost of approximately $200. - Shut up, you stupid douche. 75 00:06:25,220 --> 00:06:28,220 Subsequent offenses will receive more severe sentences. 76 00:06:28,350 --> 00:06:30,680 The Rectifier." Actually, I fixed it myself 77 00:06:30,810 --> 00:06:32,940 with a little wire. 78 00:06:33,060 --> 00:06:35,690 Didn't cost me nothing. 79 00:06:35,810 --> 00:06:38,900 Mayor Schneer, however, was typically unamused. 80 00:06:39,020 --> 00:06:43,360 I will not tolerate that kind of creep in my city. 81 00:06:43,490 --> 00:06:44,910 Come on, Your Honor, 82 00:06:45,030 --> 00:06:47,030 at worst this guy's guilty of a misdemeanor. 83 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,120 We got 316 complaints about him. 84 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,710 At 90 days each and served consecutively, that comes to almost... 85 00:06:54,830 --> 00:06:57,710 78 years. 86 00:06:57,830 --> 00:07:00,420 A WOR poll indicates 87 00:07:00,550 --> 00:07:02,710 that the Rectifier is a popular figure. 88 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:04,880 On Halloween some kids even dressed up as the Rectifier. 89 00:07:05,010 --> 00:07:07,220 Who cares what these morons think? 90 00:07:07,340 --> 00:07:09,810 I'm the mayor, not them. 91 00:07:09,930 --> 00:07:12,980 This self-styled Rectifier 92 00:07:13,100 --> 00:07:15,310 is nothing but a two-bit vigilante 93 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,400 rationalizing his immaturity and impotent rage 94 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,570 in the name of justice. 95 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,160 The Rectifier, I presume. 96 00:07:29,030 --> 00:07:31,200 I'm sorry, is there something you want? 97 00:07:31,330 --> 00:07:35,660 Well, first I want you to pay us for the window you broke... 98 00:07:35,790 --> 00:07:39,750 $616 plus tax and installation. 99 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,170 Somebody broke a window? 100 00:07:44,970 --> 00:07:48,090 Yes, somebody did. 101 00:07:50,010 --> 00:07:53,100 You took fingerprints. 102 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,560 Well, these aren't mine. 103 00:07:56,690 --> 00:07:59,560 And even if they were, you would need a court order 104 00:07:59,690 --> 00:08:01,690 to get my fingerprints for comparison. 105 00:08:01,820 --> 00:08:03,980 And for that you need probable cause 106 00:08:04,110 --> 00:08:05,740 which you don't have, so... 107 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:08,360 Unless you've already been arrested 108 00:08:08,490 --> 00:08:11,330 and the prints are in the system. 109 00:08:12,950 --> 00:08:16,160 On three occasions. 110 00:08:16,290 --> 00:08:18,420 Yes. 111 00:08:18,540 --> 00:08:20,630 Spent 30 days in the city jail 112 00:08:20,750 --> 00:08:23,250 for breaking a window of a Lexus, 113 00:08:23,380 --> 00:08:26,510 trying to turn off the car alarm. 114 00:08:29,090 --> 00:08:30,680 You a reporter? 115 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,640 I write things sometimes. 116 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:35,680 I can write something about you if you want. 117 00:08:35,810 --> 00:08:37,730 No, thanks. 118 00:08:37,850 --> 00:08:39,770 I'm not interested. 119 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:43,730 Fine. But if I tell the cops and the press that you're the Rectifier 120 00:08:43,860 --> 00:08:46,150 Mayor Schneer will find out. 121 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:47,650 Schneer hates you, you know that. 122 00:08:47,780 --> 00:08:50,410 - I hate him more. - How do you know? 123 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:53,370 Schneer hates millions. 124 00:08:53,490 --> 00:08:55,830 I hate one. 125 00:08:55,950 --> 00:08:58,540 My hate's stronger. 126 00:09:01,580 --> 00:09:04,090 Fine. I'll pay you your money. 127 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:06,460 I don't care about the money. 128 00:09:06,590 --> 00:09:09,800 Then what do you care about? 129 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,640 What you're doing, everybody in this city wants to do. 130 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:14,850 Only they don't have the guts. 131 00:09:14,970 --> 00:09:16,850 How come you're different? 132 00:09:16,970 --> 00:09:20,310 Maybe the question is, 133 00:09:20,430 --> 00:09:23,610 why do people put up with it? 134 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:27,480 Because human beings are sheep. 135 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,280 Even if they see the slaughterhouse, 136 00:09:31,410 --> 00:09:34,660 the door's open, waiting for them, 137 00:09:34,780 --> 00:09:37,080 they go in quietly as if they deserve it. 138 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,830 It's quite pathetic, actually. 139 00:09:40,750 --> 00:09:42,120 Who are you? 140 00:09:42,250 --> 00:09:44,710 Ekaterina Filippovna. 141 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,960 Nice to meet you too, Mr. Owen. 142 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:50,090 So how did you begin? 143 00:09:50,220 --> 00:09:53,090 How did you get to be the Rectifier? 144 00:09:58,310 --> 00:10:02,100 By not being the Rectifier. 145 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:14,530 We'd been living in New York for five years at that point 146 00:10:14,660 --> 00:10:16,580 and I liked everything about it, 147 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:18,740 even the noise at first. 148 00:10:19,910 --> 00:10:23,170 But after a while it began to bother me. 149 00:11:02,330 --> 00:11:05,330 Could you close that? 150 00:11:39,410 --> 00:11:42,370 Why had I come here? 151 00:12:08,650 --> 00:12:11,980 That wasn't the first time. 152 00:12:16,150 --> 00:12:18,530 I did that for a couple of years 153 00:12:18,660 --> 00:12:21,990 like a hobby. 154 00:12:28,790 --> 00:12:31,880 Lots of things are maddening. The tax system is maddening. 155 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,670 I know, I know. What I'm saying... 156 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:36,010 You're saying. You're always saying, David. 157 00:12:36,130 --> 00:12:38,090 I'm saying what can you do about it? 158 00:12:38,220 --> 00:12:40,470 Hey, guys... 159 00:12:40,590 --> 00:12:44,600 - Nothing. - We're trying to talk. 160 00:13:00,610 --> 00:13:02,410 Shut up, you bastard! 161 00:13:02,530 --> 00:13:05,370 David, stop. 162 00:13:07,870 --> 00:13:11,210 Come on. Come on. 163 00:13:23,390 --> 00:13:25,560 No. No. 164 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:27,600 Ignore it. 165 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:31,060 Ignore it. It's not there. 166 00:13:31,190 --> 00:13:33,860 - It's there. - It's not there. 167 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:36,820 - It's there. - David, David. 168 00:13:53,330 --> 00:13:56,920 Oh, thank you, god. 169 00:13:57,050 --> 00:14:00,880 Here we go. Watch this. 170 00:14:01,010 --> 00:14:04,640 - Is this your car, sir? - No, sir, it's not. 171 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:05,760 What are you doing here? 172 00:14:05,890 --> 00:14:07,600 Now what I should have said was... 173 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,810 These alarms have been going off for six hours. 174 00:14:09,930 --> 00:14:11,640 My kid's sick. It's keeping her awake. 175 00:14:11,770 --> 00:14:14,900 I was just disconnecting the battery so she could get some sleep. 176 00:14:15,020 --> 00:14:18,530 Look, I know how you feel, but cars are private property. 177 00:14:18,650 --> 00:14:21,610 You can't just break in. You have to call us. 178 00:14:21,740 --> 00:14:23,450 I know that. I knew that. 179 00:14:23,570 --> 00:14:25,410 But what I actually said was... 180 00:14:25,530 --> 00:14:27,370 I did call you! I called you three times. 181 00:14:27,490 --> 00:14:29,410 In fact, it was only twice. 182 00:14:29,540 --> 00:14:32,250 We came all three times and the alarm wasn't going. 183 00:14:32,370 --> 00:14:34,830 That's because it shuts off for a minute every so often, 184 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,630 then it starts back up again. If you'd gotten out of your car 185 00:14:37,750 --> 00:14:40,550 and stuck around for more than 30 seconds you might have fucking heard it. 186 00:14:40,670 --> 00:14:42,260 So instead of this... 187 00:14:42,380 --> 00:14:44,260 Why don't you go on home to your little angel, 188 00:14:44,380 --> 00:14:46,430 make sure she's all right? You don't need this mess. 189 00:14:46,550 --> 00:14:48,060 - Okay. - I'll take care of things. 190 00:14:48,180 --> 00:14:50,060 - Appreciate it. - Sure. 191 00:14:50,180 --> 00:14:52,850 That's all right. All right. 192 00:14:52,980 --> 00:14:54,900 - You guys are great. - Take care now. 193 00:14:55,020 --> 00:14:56,770 ...I got this. 194 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:59,650 You're gonna arrest me? You're gonna arrest me for this? 195 00:14:59,780 --> 00:15:03,110 Why don't you arrest the guy that has that alarm, 196 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,160 keeping everybody up? 197 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,070 As soon as they put me in jail, 198 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,160 in fact, the moment they snapped on the cuffs... 199 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:10,990 - Watch your head. - ...I felt calm, 200 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:13,960 calmer than I'd ever been in my life. 201 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:15,580 What'd he do? 202 00:15:15,710 --> 00:15:18,000 Busted into a car whose alarm was going off. 203 00:15:18,130 --> 00:15:20,090 Who's gonna take him down to Central Booking? 204 00:15:20,210 --> 00:15:22,670 The two cops drove me down to Central Booking 205 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,300 and the next morning they loaded a bunch of us into a police van 206 00:15:25,430 --> 00:15:28,510 and took us over to Manhattan Criminal Court... 207 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:38,110 ...and left us there in the van for an hour. 208 00:15:38,230 --> 00:15:40,860 - What do you want, man? - Get me a low-fat yogurt. 209 00:15:40,980 --> 00:15:42,690 No one spoke. 210 00:15:42,820 --> 00:15:46,530 Not one of us said a word for the entire hour. 211 00:16:09,970 --> 00:16:12,680 I'm watching this shit. 212 00:16:12,810 --> 00:16:15,020 Come on, let us watch it for chrissake. 213 00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:17,060 What are they doing, man? 214 00:16:17,190 --> 00:16:19,270 Why did they change channels? 215 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:21,860 They weren't even watching. 216 00:16:21,980 --> 00:16:24,650 Then I understood. 217 00:16:24,780 --> 00:16:26,820 It was simply to remind us that they were there, 218 00:16:26,950 --> 00:16:30,490 that we were in their power. 219 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,660 What were you doing in the red Volkswagen? 220 00:16:35,790 --> 00:16:39,250 I was trying to disconnect the car alarm. 221 00:16:39,370 --> 00:16:41,460 It had been going off for five hours. 222 00:16:41,590 --> 00:16:43,550 You mean, this is the guy 223 00:16:43,670 --> 00:16:47,590 who really did break into the car to turn off the alarm? 224 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,510 That's what all the car thieves say when they get caught. 225 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:54,260 Oh, that's funny. 226 00:16:54,390 --> 00:16:56,980 Getting arrested was the best thing that ever happened to me, 227 00:16:57,100 --> 00:16:59,020 in the Hegelian sense. 228 00:16:59,140 --> 00:17:01,230 It was the negative that transformed me 229 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:05,030 and led to my becoming what I in fact was. 230 00:17:05,150 --> 00:17:07,240 What were you? 231 00:17:08,450 --> 00:17:10,360 The Rectifier, 232 00:17:10,490 --> 00:17:12,410 potentially. 233 00:17:12,530 --> 00:17:14,830 Potentially? 234 00:17:14,950 --> 00:17:20,000 My becoming unfolded. 235 00:17:28,590 --> 00:17:31,050 Let's get out of here. 236 00:17:35,430 --> 00:17:38,180 If you're a writer, what are you doing in a furniture store? 237 00:17:38,310 --> 00:17:41,400 I work for my uncle sometimes. He lets me use his office. 238 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,440 Office? For what? 239 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:45,820 To track down all lunatics, bring them to justice. 240 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:48,280 Go on. What happened afterwards? 241 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:51,240 What did Helen say when you came home? 242 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,330 I think you should go to jail more often. 243 00:17:57,740 --> 00:18:00,370 Maybe I will. 244 00:18:14,470 --> 00:18:16,680 Everybody laughed 245 00:18:16,810 --> 00:18:20,810 but I felt like I could be back there tomorrow. 246 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,020 I used to think that there was nothing you could do about the noise, 247 00:18:25,150 --> 00:18:28,030 but once you get started it's easy. 248 00:18:28,150 --> 00:18:31,070 What's hard is stopping. 249 00:18:33,530 --> 00:18:36,700 So this isn't the first time? 250 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,540 How long have you been doing it? 251 00:18:41,660 --> 00:18:43,580 A couple of years. 252 00:18:43,710 --> 00:18:46,710 A couple of years? 253 00:18:47,750 --> 00:18:50,710 Well, never this big. 254 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,510 I mean, mostly just, 255 00:18:53,630 --> 00:18:55,550 you know, letting the air our of tires, 256 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,760 ripping windshield wipers off cars, 257 00:18:57,890 --> 00:19:00,060 stuff like that. 258 00:19:00,180 --> 00:19:03,270 And you never thought to mention it? 259 00:19:09,980 --> 00:19:13,280 What else don't I know? 260 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,200 Come on, you do things I don't know about. 261 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,160 I am not breaking into cars and going to jail. 262 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,540 It's like you're a delinquent or a thug. 263 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:23,080 Oh, right, I'm a criminal. I'm a terrorist. I'm Al-Zarqawi. 264 00:19:23,210 --> 00:19:26,000 Come on, David. We have a child. 265 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:28,210 We're supposed to be the adults. 266 00:19:28,340 --> 00:19:30,800 I am the adult. I have the adult job. 267 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,050 I had no idea that our life meant to so little 268 00:19:34,170 --> 00:19:37,050 that you would risk it this way. What is this all about? 269 00:19:37,180 --> 00:19:39,050 What are you doing? It doesn't make any sense. 270 00:19:39,180 --> 00:19:41,060 Oh, man. 271 00:19:41,180 --> 00:19:43,850 Forget it. 272 00:20:24,470 --> 00:20:29,350 I guess I don't understand why you take it all so personally. 273 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:32,270 I mean, do you... 274 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,690 do you think that the noise is 275 00:20:34,820 --> 00:20:36,780 deliberately directed at you? 276 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:39,740 I don't think 277 00:20:39,870 --> 00:20:42,740 they're out to get me. 278 00:20:44,370 --> 00:20:47,790 In fact, what infuriates me is how indifferent they all are 279 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:51,460 to me, to you, to everyone. 280 00:20:51,590 --> 00:20:53,960 Close the window, you know. 281 00:20:54,090 --> 00:20:57,050 Don't think about it. 282 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,720 I can't. 283 00:21:02,430 --> 00:21:05,390 You can't close the window? 284 00:21:06,470 --> 00:21:09,100 What if I want it open? 285 00:21:10,650 --> 00:21:13,270 I see. 286 00:21:14,020 --> 00:21:16,650 You don't want an answer. 287 00:21:18,030 --> 00:21:20,570 So what do I do, just turn on the air conditioner, 288 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:23,240 - put in earplugs? - Yeah. 289 00:21:23,370 --> 00:21:25,540 Or we can get one of those white noise machines. 290 00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:27,910 What about the other people? 291 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,330 - What other people? - People in outdoor cafes, 292 00:21:31,460 --> 00:21:33,920 people that work in garages, that can't close the window, 293 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,590 that don't have air conditioning? 294 00:21:36,710 --> 00:21:39,170 Do we have to worry about them? 295 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:42,840 This is a problem in the world, Helen. 296 00:21:42,970 --> 00:21:45,180 I know it's not as serious 297 00:21:45,310 --> 00:21:48,520 as global warming or funding for chamber music, 298 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:52,940 but it affects people every day, 299 00:21:53,060 --> 00:21:57,610 tens of thousands of people, I bet millions of people, every day. 300 00:21:59,860 --> 00:22:03,280 And you just want me to adjust to it. 301 00:22:04,830 --> 00:22:07,700 What else can we do? 302 00:22:07,830 --> 00:22:11,540 Helen, what if Jonas Salk had this attitude? 303 00:22:11,670 --> 00:22:15,000 What if he had this attitude towards polio? 304 00:22:15,130 --> 00:22:17,250 "Oh, it's polio, you know. Just adjust to it." 305 00:22:17,380 --> 00:22:21,380 Do you think you're a Jonas-Salklike figure? 306 00:22:29,350 --> 00:22:31,980 Okay, babe. 307 00:22:34,270 --> 00:22:35,940 I love you, Jonas. 308 00:22:36,060 --> 00:22:38,940 Oh, stop it. Stop it. 309 00:22:39,070 --> 00:22:41,400 I'm serious. I'm serious. 310 00:22:41,530 --> 00:22:43,450 You said you'd stop? 311 00:22:43,570 --> 00:22:46,120 Stopping... I've stopped. 312 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:47,580 Why? 313 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:50,540 Well, Helen doesn't like it. 314 00:22:50,660 --> 00:22:52,540 She thinks I'm crazy. 315 00:22:52,660 --> 00:22:55,330 Which doesn't mean you have to put up with the noise. 316 00:22:55,460 --> 00:22:57,290 I put up with it. 317 00:22:57,420 --> 00:23:00,800 Sometimes I snap, but mostly I put up with it. 318 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:03,630 - We all do. We put up with worse. - Like what? 319 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,510 Nuclear proliferation, 320 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:08,600 religious fanatics. The world's going to hell, David. Haven't you noticed? 321 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,140 Nothing's perfect. 322 00:23:11,770 --> 00:23:13,520 Nothing's perfect? 323 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,560 Barbara didn't get it. 324 00:23:15,690 --> 00:23:17,770 I thought you were stopping. 325 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,570 Nobody got it. So I tried other methods. 326 00:23:20,690 --> 00:23:24,030 When I came across a car alarm I'd write down the plate number. 327 00:23:24,150 --> 00:23:26,280 I paid $150 a year for a website 328 00:23:26,410 --> 00:23:28,910 that gave me access to DMV records 329 00:23:29,030 --> 00:23:31,290 and I filed suit against repeat offenders 330 00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:33,080 in small claims court. 331 00:23:33,210 --> 00:23:37,040 Are you with us, David? 332 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:40,840 It's a deduction for uncollectible accounts 333 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,800 for the Depco default. 334 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,090 Line 23. 335 00:23:49,970 --> 00:23:51,810 Your Honor, the car alarms in question 336 00:23:51,930 --> 00:23:54,270 have resulted in disturbance of the peace, damage to business, 337 00:23:54,390 --> 00:23:57,520 loss of income and sleep to hundreds if not thousands of New Yorkers. 338 00:23:57,650 --> 00:23:59,310 Dismissed. 339 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,360 Your Honor, we have neighbors, block associations, even firefighters... 340 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:03,940 Dismissed. 341 00:24:04,070 --> 00:24:06,070 ...citing evidence that above a certain level 342 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,410 noise can constitute a kind of physical assault that can... 343 00:24:10,530 --> 00:24:13,660 Dismissed! 344 00:24:58,250 --> 00:25:00,330 This was amusing the first time. 345 00:25:00,460 --> 00:25:03,090 It had certain quixotic charm. 346 00:25:03,210 --> 00:25:04,920 Now it's boring. 347 00:25:05,050 --> 00:25:08,180 I'm sorry. 348 00:25:09,130 --> 00:25:10,720 30 days suspended. 349 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,890 If I see you back here 350 00:25:13,010 --> 00:25:15,390 you'll do time. 351 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,190 This is absurd. 352 00:25:20,310 --> 00:25:22,560 It's quixotic. 353 00:25:22,690 --> 00:25:25,690 That's not funny. 354 00:25:28,150 --> 00:25:30,700 That house in Nyack is still for sale. 355 00:25:30,820 --> 00:25:33,580 I don't want to move to Nyack. 356 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,410 - We could move back to Winnetka. - You want to go to Winnetka? 357 00:25:37,540 --> 00:25:39,040 No, I... 358 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,500 You can't stand the noise but you don't want to move where it's quiet. 359 00:25:42,630 --> 00:25:45,090 Because it's wrong, Helen. The noise is wrong. 360 00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:47,090 I seem to be the only one that cares. 361 00:25:47,210 --> 00:25:50,340 So what, David? Lots of things are wrong. 362 00:25:51,260 --> 00:25:53,550 Just let them be wrong. 363 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,390 What can we do about it? 364 00:25:55,510 --> 00:25:57,810 Nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing. 365 00:25:57,930 --> 00:25:59,810 I want you to see a therapist. 366 00:25:59,940 --> 00:26:02,440 This is not a psychological problem. It's a social problem. 367 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,690 It's a political... go ahead and get that. 368 00:26:04,820 --> 00:26:06,980 It's not like we're having a conversation or anything. 369 00:26:07,110 --> 00:26:10,110 David, you are having a breakdown. 370 00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,780 Can't you see that? 371 00:26:11,910 --> 00:26:14,910 This is all you do. This is all you talk about. 372 00:26:15,410 --> 00:26:17,580 You are obsessed. 373 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:20,540 It's affecting Chris. 374 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,460 What do you mean? What do you mean, it's affecting Chris? 375 00:26:24,590 --> 00:26:27,250 She keeps asking, why does daddy get so upset? 376 00:26:27,380 --> 00:26:30,090 Her teacher said that she's getting short-tempered, 377 00:26:30,220 --> 00:26:32,680 wanted to know if there was anything wrong at home. 378 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,390 Maybe it's a problem with the teacher. 379 00:26:34,510 --> 00:26:37,180 It is not the teacher's problem. It is you. 380 00:26:37,310 --> 00:26:39,180 You need to let this go. 381 00:26:39,310 --> 00:26:42,900 Just... just let it go. 382 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,610 I can't, okay? I can't. 383 00:26:52,740 --> 00:26:55,370 I can't. 384 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,700 Then leave. 385 00:27:00,660 --> 00:27:03,290 Move out. 386 00:27:13,220 --> 00:27:15,680 All right, we'll go to the country. 387 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,350 We'll... 388 00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:20,520 borrow my brother's place for the weekend, 389 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,560 just for the weekend 390 00:27:23,690 --> 00:27:26,310 to see. 391 00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:32,280 Just to see. 392 00:27:39,490 --> 00:27:41,370 What is she doing? 393 00:27:41,500 --> 00:27:44,460 Playing with the neighbor's dog. 394 00:28:07,350 --> 00:28:09,440 What is it, a leaf blower? 395 00:28:09,570 --> 00:28:11,320 Yeah. 396 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,990 Some towns have regulations against them. 397 00:28:14,110 --> 00:28:16,740 Not this one. 398 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,660 Evan says the country's quieter but the noises seem to bother you more. 399 00:28:21,790 --> 00:28:23,700 Who's Evan? 400 00:28:23,830 --> 00:28:26,210 Caitlin's dad. 401 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,840 Look at her. She's blowing everything into the street. 402 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,340 The wind's just gonna blow it right back on. 403 00:28:33,460 --> 00:28:36,220 You think she thinks about the gasoline she's using, 404 00:28:36,340 --> 00:28:38,300 the pollution, the noise? 405 00:28:38,430 --> 00:28:40,720 No. 406 00:28:40,850 --> 00:28:43,930 Whatever happened to rakes? 407 00:28:45,060 --> 00:28:47,730 - Where are you going? - I'm going to talk to her. 408 00:28:47,850 --> 00:28:49,770 Excuse me! 409 00:28:49,900 --> 00:28:52,570 Hi. Can you turn that off, please? 410 00:28:52,690 --> 00:28:55,320 - What? - Can you turn it off? 411 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,150 We're just here for the weekend and... 412 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,410 You guys have a rake? A rake. 413 00:28:59,530 --> 00:29:01,240 - Yeah, I got a rake. - Yeah, got a rake? 414 00:29:01,370 --> 00:29:02,780 - Yeah. - You know how to use it? 415 00:29:02,910 --> 00:29:06,000 Is it the dad who hit you? 416 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,000 The mom. 417 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,210 It was mommy's fault. 418 00:29:10,330 --> 00:29:12,460 Did you hit her back? 419 00:29:12,590 --> 00:29:14,340 No. 420 00:29:17,550 --> 00:29:21,680 "Then the sirens sang again in their irresistible voices. 421 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,810 Odysseus shouted and struggled until he was exhausted. 422 00:29:24,930 --> 00:29:28,190 And when the sirens' island was left far behind 423 00:29:28,310 --> 00:29:30,270 his men released him 424 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,900 and drew the wax from their ears." 425 00:29:37,570 --> 00:29:39,360 Good night, honey. 426 00:29:43,830 --> 00:29:46,830 Helen made it clear... one more strike and I was out. 427 00:29:46,950 --> 00:29:50,170 She wondered if I was mature enough to have a family. 428 00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:53,250 Mature enough? Did she really say that? 429 00:29:53,380 --> 00:29:55,710 She didn't mean it. She was frightened. 430 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:58,420 Of what? 431 00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,390 You ever been married? 432 00:30:01,510 --> 00:30:04,180 No. 433 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,320 This is great... all your stuff. 434 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,690 Anyway, after that I realized 435 00:30:18,820 --> 00:30:21,320 I just had to put up with it 436 00:30:21,450 --> 00:30:23,370 like everyone else. 437 00:30:23,490 --> 00:30:26,080 So I did. 438 00:30:28,540 --> 00:30:31,960 I put up with the power saws that firemen started up twice a day 439 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:33,500 just to make sure they worked. 440 00:30:33,630 --> 00:30:36,710 I put up with backup beepers going off at 5:00 in the morning 441 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,340 on an empty street, their background-level sensors 442 00:30:39,460 --> 00:30:42,720 malfunctioning as usual. I put up with the ambulances, 443 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,640 the fire engines, the electric sidewalk washers, 444 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,810 trucks that clean out furnaces, the jackhammers, 445 00:30:48,930 --> 00:30:51,730 cement pourers, piledrivers, nail guns, boom boxes, 446 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:56,060 the shrieking subways, those pneumatic lifts on buses. 447 00:30:56,190 --> 00:30:58,440 They can scare the life out of you. 448 00:30:58,570 --> 00:31:00,740 Irv? Irv, what is it? 449 00:31:00,860 --> 00:31:02,740 Irv! 450 00:31:02,860 --> 00:31:06,620 - Oh my god. - Are you having chest pains? 451 00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:12,290 - L. - You have the second leg. 452 00:31:18,170 --> 00:31:19,920 This is nice. What is it? 453 00:31:20,050 --> 00:31:24,260 - Mozart. - No, I meant the wine. 454 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,600 Do you want to split something? 455 00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,770 - H. - That's the last letter. 456 00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:37,440 No, I'm hungry. 457 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,690 Do I have to get every letter or can I just guess? 458 00:31:40,820 --> 00:31:43,780 You can guess. It's good to guess. 459 00:32:13,770 --> 00:32:16,310 "Truth"! 460 00:32:29,740 --> 00:32:31,580 What are you doing? That's my car. 461 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:34,370 - Why don't you turn off the alarm? - It'll stop in a minute. 462 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:36,670 I can't wait that long. Where's your clicker? 463 00:32:36,790 --> 00:32:38,830 It doesn't work. What do you want me to do? 464 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,130 Disconnect the fucking thing so it never goes off. 465 00:32:41,250 --> 00:32:43,670 Don't be ridiculous. 466 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:53,850 Officer, Officer. 467 00:32:54,770 --> 00:32:58,150 You were told you cannot do this. 468 00:32:58,270 --> 00:32:59,730 You have to call us. 469 00:32:59,860 --> 00:33:02,070 - You never come. - We're here now. 470 00:33:02,190 --> 00:33:03,730 Because I broke the window. 471 00:33:03,860 --> 00:33:05,900 You don't come when the cars are attacking us, 472 00:33:06,030 --> 00:33:08,530 - only when we're attacking the cars. - The car didn't attack you. 473 00:33:08,660 --> 00:33:11,330 Oh, so what you're saying... what you're really saying is, 474 00:33:11,450 --> 00:33:14,700 the car matters, we don't. We're pieces of shit. 475 00:33:14,830 --> 00:33:16,500 He's nuts. 476 00:33:16,620 --> 00:33:19,540 He's not nuts. He just doesn't understand what he's doing, 477 00:33:19,670 --> 00:33:22,880 what it means in the context. 478 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,050 Why aren't you arresting the real criminals... 479 00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:26,970 the guys from Enron and WorldCom and... 480 00:33:27,090 --> 00:33:29,050 Is this your business, ma'am? Move. 481 00:33:29,180 --> 00:33:31,050 - Yes, this is my business. - Move. 482 00:33:31,180 --> 00:33:33,930 This is everybody's business. 483 00:33:38,730 --> 00:33:42,190 Daddy, you promised. 484 00:33:43,940 --> 00:33:46,900 30 days and a $10,000 fine. 485 00:33:47,030 --> 00:33:49,820 And I'm making a note on your jacket. 486 00:33:49,950 --> 00:33:52,570 You show up here again 487 00:33:52,700 --> 00:33:55,830 and you'll do a year. 488 00:34:25,570 --> 00:34:26,690 Papi! 489 00:34:26,820 --> 00:34:28,900 Hola, mi nina. Como estas? 490 00:34:29,030 --> 00:34:31,660 Me hacias falta. 491 00:35:00,350 --> 00:35:02,980 Hello? 492 00:35:58,030 --> 00:36:00,660 Welcome back. 493 00:36:06,670 --> 00:36:09,290 Judson fired me. 494 00:36:14,050 --> 00:36:15,970 You packed my stuff. 495 00:36:16,090 --> 00:36:20,300 Are we going on vacation or am I moving out? 496 00:36:20,430 --> 00:36:22,890 You're moving out. 497 00:36:25,730 --> 00:36:29,020 Yeah, Chris! 498 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:31,150 Daddy! 499 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,900 I missed you so much. 500 00:36:34,030 --> 00:36:37,070 - Did you get my letters? - All five of them. 501 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,070 I missed you too. 502 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,080 I need you 503 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,330 to score me a goal right now. 504 00:36:44,450 --> 00:36:47,250 I need you to go out there and score me a goal, okay? 505 00:36:47,370 --> 00:36:48,920 - Okay. - Come on. 506 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,670 I'll be right here. 507 00:37:02,140 --> 00:37:04,560 So who is it? 508 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,650 The guy you're seeing. 509 00:37:11,650 --> 00:37:13,980 Evan. 510 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,990 Evan. 511 00:37:19,660 --> 00:37:21,120 Who the fuck is Evan? 512 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:23,160 David... 513 00:37:23,290 --> 00:37:25,330 Is it a boy or a girl? 514 00:37:25,450 --> 00:37:26,710 He's Caitlin's father. 515 00:37:26,830 --> 00:37:28,750 Caitlin. 516 00:37:28,870 --> 00:37:30,790 Is that the fat one? 517 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,210 No, that's Minerva. Caitlin's the redhead. 518 00:37:33,340 --> 00:37:37,010 Oh, I like her. She's sexy. 519 00:37:37,130 --> 00:37:38,590 David, she's seven. 520 00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:40,890 She's sexy. It's not my fault. 521 00:37:41,010 --> 00:37:42,350 I didn't say I wanted... 522 00:37:42,470 --> 00:37:45,470 You know... 523 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,690 I swear to god, they are the same ones... 524 00:37:48,810 --> 00:37:52,560 So is the dad sexy too? 525 00:37:52,690 --> 00:37:54,610 Is... 526 00:37:54,730 --> 00:37:57,860 How is it with you? Do you... Is he great? 527 00:37:57,990 --> 00:37:59,320 Actually, you know what? I don't care. 528 00:37:59,450 --> 00:38:02,530 - You know what? It's fun. - I don't really want to hear it. 529 00:38:02,660 --> 00:38:04,990 You have your little thing, I have mine. 530 00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:08,080 So how long is this... 531 00:38:08,210 --> 00:38:10,460 how long have you been doing this little thing? 532 00:38:10,580 --> 00:38:12,500 A week. 533 00:38:12,630 --> 00:38:14,670 - A week? - No, I'm at the soccer game. 534 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,670 Excuse me, you know... 535 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,050 - Hold on a second. Hold on. - I don't know if you noticed, 536 00:38:19,170 --> 00:38:21,390 but when you have a cell phone you don't have to shout. 537 00:38:21,510 --> 00:38:23,510 We used to have these things called booths, 538 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:25,970 phone booths, you know... 539 00:38:26,100 --> 00:38:30,270 ...where you wouldn't have to disturb everyone. 540 00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,440 Why do you have to leave? 541 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,530 Well, because mom... 542 00:38:36,650 --> 00:38:39,240 Mom and I think it's best 543 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:40,860 just for now. 544 00:38:40,990 --> 00:38:42,700 'Cause you keep getting in trouble? 545 00:38:42,820 --> 00:38:44,490 Yeah, I guess, more or less. 546 00:38:44,620 --> 00:38:46,620 Look at that guy. 547 00:38:46,740 --> 00:38:48,160 What's he doing? 548 00:38:48,290 --> 00:38:50,370 Putting boats in the water. 549 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:52,210 What kind of boats? 550 00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:55,000 I think they're origami boats. 551 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,760 - He made them out of paper. - Cool. 552 00:39:09,850 --> 00:39:12,270 Is that why they call them sirens, 553 00:39:12,390 --> 00:39:14,310 because of those women? 554 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,060 What women, honey? 555 00:39:16,190 --> 00:39:18,480 Who sang on the rocks. 556 00:39:19,650 --> 00:39:22,280 Yeah, I think you're right. 557 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,450 Come on now. 558 00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,660 So why can't you be more like Odysseus? 559 00:39:30,790 --> 00:39:33,790 Like him how? 560 00:39:34,250 --> 00:39:36,790 He had his men tie him to the mast 561 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,260 so he didn't wreck the ship. 562 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,810 I'm sorry, honey. 563 00:39:52,810 --> 00:39:55,310 You seem so calm. 564 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,730 Were you really okay with it... 565 00:39:57,860 --> 00:40:00,480 her being with someone else? 566 00:40:00,610 --> 00:40:03,200 I don't know. Maybe I liked it. 567 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,200 - Why did you like it? - I don't know. 568 00:40:09,950 --> 00:40:12,620 'Cause I'm crazy. 569 00:40:12,750 --> 00:40:15,710 I'm out of my fucking mind, right? 570 00:40:39,230 --> 00:40:42,110 I'm kidding. I was joking. 571 00:40:42,230 --> 00:40:44,780 - It's a joke. - You're insane. 572 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:46,820 No, I'm not. The prison shrink said I wasn't. 573 00:40:46,950 --> 00:40:50,660 You know what I can't stand? It's how angry you are all the time. 574 00:40:50,780 --> 00:40:52,700 You like it. 575 00:40:52,830 --> 00:40:55,250 You like being angry. 576 00:40:55,370 --> 00:40:57,750 What are you so angry about? 577 00:40:57,870 --> 00:40:59,670 That I'm impotent. 578 00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:01,300 Not always. Not even very often. 579 00:41:01,420 --> 00:41:05,470 Not always sexually... 580 00:41:06,170 --> 00:41:08,890 but always. 581 00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,510 Always. 582 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,140 It's the buzzer. It's the doorbell. 583 00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:20,520 The van is here for your things. 584 00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:34,330 I got a place at 24th and 6th. 585 00:41:34,450 --> 00:41:36,370 Once I moved downtown 586 00:41:36,500 --> 00:41:39,420 I didn't have a job, or a family, 587 00:41:39,540 --> 00:41:41,960 or friends really. 588 00:41:42,090 --> 00:41:44,550 All I had was the noise. 589 00:41:44,670 --> 00:41:46,550 Where's my money? 590 00:41:46,670 --> 00:41:50,760 Where's my fucking money, man? I need... 591 00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,430 Every night the same alarm. 592 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:40,270 It wasn't a car. 593 00:42:40,390 --> 00:42:43,690 It had to be one of the buildings on the block, 594 00:42:43,810 --> 00:42:46,440 but which one? 595 00:43:04,670 --> 00:43:06,380 Read me back the last paragraph. 596 00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:09,590 No, the one before that. 597 00:43:14,010 --> 00:43:17,180 Excuse me, do you have an alarm in this building, 598 00:43:17,310 --> 00:43:19,220 a burglar alarm? 599 00:43:19,350 --> 00:43:21,390 - We already have one, thanks. - I know you have one. 600 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,270 No, not you. 601 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:24,810 It works fine. 602 00:43:24,940 --> 00:43:26,940 That's actually a matter of opinion. 603 00:43:27,070 --> 00:43:30,610 It went off last night for half an hour at 3:00 a.m. 604 00:43:30,740 --> 00:43:33,490 - Did you know that? - No, you can't cut that. 605 00:43:33,610 --> 00:43:36,370 - The transition won't make sense. - Hello? Hello? 606 00:43:36,490 --> 00:43:39,080 - Can you hold on? - Hi. 607 00:43:48,250 --> 00:43:51,760 Why do you think it was our alarm? 608 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:56,300 I live right across the street. I heard it go off. 609 00:43:56,430 --> 00:43:58,350 It was... 610 00:43:58,470 --> 00:44:01,310 Is that yours? 611 00:44:01,430 --> 00:44:04,020 Yes. Yeah, I know. 612 00:44:04,140 --> 00:44:08,650 If you were to set it off I would be able to tell. 613 00:44:08,770 --> 00:44:10,690 I can't do that. 614 00:44:10,820 --> 00:44:13,360 But I will have the company recalibrate it 615 00:44:13,490 --> 00:44:15,360 the next time they come. 616 00:44:15,490 --> 00:44:19,200 Is there a number I could call you in case it goes off again? 617 00:44:19,330 --> 00:44:22,080 - Okay, but 400, not 800. - Take one. 618 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:23,620 Just one. 619 00:44:23,750 --> 00:44:26,580 No, I cut them. Not you, not Jerry. Me. 620 00:44:26,710 --> 00:44:30,710 This is your business number. Do you have a cell phone? 621 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:32,420 I don't have a cell phone. 622 00:44:32,550 --> 00:44:34,510 I'll have it to you by 4:00. 623 00:44:34,630 --> 00:44:38,430 No, no, no, if I do it that fast, it won't be any good. 624 00:44:38,550 --> 00:44:40,810 Okay, 3:00. 625 00:44:40,930 --> 00:44:43,560 Okay, bye. 626 00:44:53,070 --> 00:44:55,860 Excuse me. Excuse me. 627 00:44:56,740 --> 00:44:58,320 - Do you hear that? - What? 628 00:44:58,450 --> 00:44:59,580 The whistle. 629 00:44:59,700 --> 00:45:02,740 Oh, yeah, that's the intercom. It does that a lot. 630 00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:08,580 - How do you get it to stop? - Talk to the super. 631 00:45:08,710 --> 00:45:10,790 How do you find the super? 632 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,420 I don't know. 633 00:45:12,550 --> 00:45:14,420 You live here and you don't know how to find a super? 634 00:45:14,550 --> 00:45:16,550 Sometimes he's around, sometimes he's not. 635 00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,090 I don't know where he goes. 636 00:45:21,260 --> 00:45:23,100 Doesn't bother you? 637 00:45:23,220 --> 00:45:24,850 You know what does bother me? 638 00:45:24,980 --> 00:45:27,230 - That manhole cover on 6th. - What manhole cover? 639 00:45:27,350 --> 00:45:29,980 You can hear it best from over here. 640 00:45:34,190 --> 00:45:35,860 That's not it. There. 641 00:45:35,990 --> 00:45:37,570 And there again. You heard it? 642 00:45:37,700 --> 00:45:38,860 Yeah, I hear it. 643 00:45:38,990 --> 00:45:40,950 It's every time a car comes down the street. 644 00:45:41,070 --> 00:45:42,830 How could that bother you and not the intercom? 645 00:45:42,950 --> 00:45:45,540 You notice this, I notice that. 646 00:45:45,660 --> 00:45:48,120 Yeah, what? 647 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,130 'Cause you promised it by Monday, Jack. 648 00:45:51,250 --> 00:45:54,170 Whose fault is that? 649 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,050 No, I didn't say Wednesday... 650 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,830 Yeah. 651 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,670 Thank you. 652 00:46:31,790 --> 00:46:34,880 It was funny how that affected me... the applause. 653 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,380 That's when I realized... 654 00:46:37,510 --> 00:46:40,720 this was my job now, my calling. 655 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,260 Yeah, you have it right... like Jonas Salk. 656 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:01,610 After that I never got caught. 657 00:47:01,740 --> 00:47:04,160 I stopped being angry. 658 00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,540 I developed a kind of intuition 659 00:47:06,660 --> 00:47:08,620 where the cops would be and where they wouldn't. 660 00:47:08,750 --> 00:47:10,500 It was easy, really. 661 00:47:10,620 --> 00:47:12,750 Once I gave up everything else, 662 00:47:12,870 --> 00:47:15,960 I knew how to be the Rectifier. 663 00:47:19,010 --> 00:47:21,470 What you've been doing is cutting battery cables... 664 00:47:21,590 --> 00:47:23,300 ...which kills your basic 665 00:47:23,430 --> 00:47:26,050 factory-installed device. Two problems: 666 00:47:26,180 --> 00:47:30,140 one... if the guy's got a Nightwatch or a Convoy, 667 00:47:30,270 --> 00:47:31,980 any decent aftermarket alarm, 668 00:47:32,100 --> 00:47:34,230 it's got an auxiliary power source, right, 669 00:47:34,350 --> 00:47:36,270 and cutting the battery cable won't even stop it; 670 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,400 and two... even if it does work, once the cable's fixed... 671 00:47:39,530 --> 00:47:42,910 ...the alarm's back in business. 672 00:47:43,030 --> 00:47:44,700 What about the alarm trumpet? 673 00:47:44,820 --> 00:47:46,830 Alarm trumpet? No, no, no. 674 00:47:46,950 --> 00:47:50,120 Those are only on older car alarms. Now it all goes to the horn. 675 00:47:50,250 --> 00:47:54,120 All right? So in this particular case you go straight for the electronics. 676 00:47:54,250 --> 00:47:56,460 It's usually right down here, 677 00:47:56,590 --> 00:47:59,170 under the dash. Voila. 678 00:48:05,340 --> 00:48:07,640 You know, it's funny, 679 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:10,100 the alarm right in your ear can drive you crazy, 680 00:48:10,220 --> 00:48:13,600 but the ones further away can sound kind of nice, 681 00:48:13,730 --> 00:48:15,730 sort of plaintive. 682 00:48:15,850 --> 00:48:18,730 You think so? 683 00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:22,900 Yeah. 684 00:48:39,340 --> 00:48:41,210 Fucking son of a... 685 00:48:41,340 --> 00:48:43,880 I know, I know. 686 00:48:44,010 --> 00:48:46,640 But I've got an idea. Follow my logic on this one, okay? 687 00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,300 We piggyback on this guy. We oppose him personally, of course, 688 00:48:49,430 --> 00:48:52,720 but we support the idea, the issue. It's very popular with the people. 689 00:48:52,850 --> 00:48:54,730 You might bounce a couple of points in the polls. 690 00:48:54,850 --> 00:48:57,980 - Fuck that shit. Fuck it. - Okay, fuck it. 691 00:48:58,110 --> 00:49:00,980 See if we can use the Patriot Act or any of the antiterrorist statutes... 692 00:49:01,110 --> 00:49:02,690 - Mr. Mayor. - ...on this piece of shit. 693 00:49:02,820 --> 00:49:04,490 Mr. Mayor, we're ready. 694 00:49:04,610 --> 00:49:05,780 Great. 695 00:49:05,900 --> 00:49:08,530 Now? 696 00:49:10,870 --> 00:49:15,160 This self-styled Rectifier 697 00:49:15,290 --> 00:49:17,250 is nothing but a two-bit vigilante 698 00:49:17,370 --> 00:49:20,250 rationalizing his immaturity and impotent rage 699 00:49:20,380 --> 00:49:22,840 in the name of justice. 700 00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:38,310 Looks like fun. 701 00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,560 But I'm doing it, not you. 702 00:49:40,690 --> 00:49:42,980 Oh, you think it's easy for me, 703 00:49:43,110 --> 00:49:46,110 I'm only a fiction? Perhaps. 704 00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:48,860 But then my suffering is also a fiction. 705 00:49:48,990 --> 00:49:50,910 Your is real. 706 00:49:51,030 --> 00:49:54,490 And you just sit there. 707 00:50:29,610 --> 00:50:32,740 Out of the way, Katia. 708 00:51:17,410 --> 00:51:20,160 The Rectifier, I presume. 709 00:51:20,830 --> 00:51:22,710 It was stupid, 710 00:51:22,830 --> 00:51:26,380 the whole business. 711 00:51:26,500 --> 00:51:29,300 I wrecked the ship. 712 00:51:29,420 --> 00:51:32,380 Let me ask you something. 713 00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,220 The noise was driving you crazy, 714 00:51:36,350 --> 00:51:38,720 so you moved from the Upper West Side 715 00:51:38,850 --> 00:51:41,230 where it's relatively quiet 716 00:51:41,350 --> 00:51:43,060 down here where it's twice as loud. 717 00:51:43,190 --> 00:51:45,360 Why? 718 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,030 It's the one place I could find 719 00:51:48,150 --> 00:51:50,440 that I could afford. It's near my daughter's... 720 00:51:50,570 --> 00:51:52,490 Because you love the noise. 721 00:51:52,610 --> 00:51:54,870 You hate it, but you love hating it. 722 00:51:54,990 --> 00:51:57,780 - It's your muse. - My muse? 723 00:51:57,910 --> 00:52:00,500 You've read Hegel but you haven't understood him. 724 00:52:00,620 --> 00:52:03,250 I'm sick of Hegel. I wish I'd never heard of him. 725 00:52:03,370 --> 00:52:09,210 The genius of a car alarm is that you can't talk back to it. 726 00:52:09,340 --> 00:52:13,340 It has a mouth, but no ears. 727 00:52:13,470 --> 00:52:15,890 It makes you pay attention to it, but it pays none to you. 728 00:52:16,010 --> 00:52:17,760 And how does that make me love it? 729 00:52:17,890 --> 00:52:19,930 Because it's safe. 730 00:52:20,060 --> 00:52:22,060 You summon all your rage, 731 00:52:22,180 --> 00:52:25,060 you hurl yourself at it 732 00:52:25,190 --> 00:52:28,150 and nothing happens. 733 00:52:28,650 --> 00:52:30,530 The whole secret of power 734 00:52:30,650 --> 00:52:33,280 is to make it unresponsive. 735 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,110 The more arbitrary it is, 736 00:52:36,240 --> 00:52:39,790 the more cruel and irrational, 737 00:52:39,910 --> 00:52:43,460 the more we respect it, 738 00:52:43,580 --> 00:52:46,830 the more we love it. 739 00:52:48,090 --> 00:52:50,750 So what are we gonna do about it? 740 00:52:58,350 --> 00:53:01,180 You liked me right away at my uncle's store, didn't you? 741 00:53:01,310 --> 00:53:04,140 Liked you? Is that the word? 742 00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,810 You wanted to fuck me? 743 00:53:06,940 --> 00:53:09,560 I wanted to smack you, you were so rude. 744 00:53:09,690 --> 00:53:12,070 And? 745 00:53:12,190 --> 00:53:14,860 And maybe I wanted to look at you. 746 00:53:14,990 --> 00:53:16,110 That's all? 747 00:53:16,240 --> 00:53:17,740 No. 748 00:53:17,860 --> 00:53:22,330 And once I'd done that I would want to do other things... 749 00:53:22,950 --> 00:53:25,870 touch you, 750 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,920 get you aroused, 751 00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:31,750 listen to you come. 752 00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:36,260 Is that the same as wanting to fuck you? 753 00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:39,470 When you imagine it, 754 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,310 do you think about me coming or you coming? 755 00:53:42,430 --> 00:53:44,600 You. 756 00:53:44,730 --> 00:53:47,600 And am I astounded 757 00:53:47,730 --> 00:53:51,610 by your sexual prowess, 758 00:53:51,730 --> 00:53:54,940 haunted and blasted, weeping of pleasure? 759 00:53:55,070 --> 00:53:57,780 Something like that. 760 00:53:57,900 --> 00:54:01,330 So I'm the object and you're the subject. 761 00:54:01,450 --> 00:54:05,660 No, no, no, you can't astound an object. 762 00:54:05,790 --> 00:54:07,370 We're both subjects. 763 00:54:07,500 --> 00:54:10,080 So I'm the object and you're the subject? 764 00:54:10,210 --> 00:54:13,050 You can't astound an object. 765 00:54:13,170 --> 00:54:15,630 How can you make me come but by rendering me an object? 766 00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,470 I can't make you come 767 00:54:18,590 --> 00:54:22,100 if you keep talking. Stop talking. 768 00:54:23,260 --> 00:54:27,730 I can't make you come unless you agree to it. 769 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:31,190 No. 770 00:54:31,690 --> 00:54:34,690 I want you to force me. 771 00:54:36,110 --> 00:54:39,360 I want you to make me do things I don't want to do. 772 00:54:52,540 --> 00:54:56,050 What was that, another notch on your belt? 773 00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:00,470 We both get a notch, no? 774 00:55:00,590 --> 00:55:02,550 - Hey! - What now? 775 00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:06,060 Where did you guys go? 776 00:55:06,180 --> 00:55:08,770 Well, you can keep breaking into cars 777 00:55:08,890 --> 00:55:12,230 until they put you away for a year, 778 00:55:12,350 --> 00:55:14,560 or we can do something real. 779 00:55:14,690 --> 00:55:17,900 What do you mean by real? 780 00:55:19,150 --> 00:55:21,570 Excuse me, is this the board of elections? 781 00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:29,200 I think this is the board of elections. 782 00:55:29,330 --> 00:55:31,960 Can I get the packet for initiative petitions? 783 00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:33,880 - You want to run for office? - No. 784 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,130 I think they mean the ballot initiative. 785 00:55:36,250 --> 00:55:37,420 Ballot initiative? 786 00:55:37,550 --> 00:55:39,720 - Yeah? - No. 787 00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,090 Did you mean the citizen-initiated referendum 788 00:55:42,220 --> 00:55:43,800 to amend the city charter? 789 00:55:43,930 --> 00:55:45,350 You got to go to the city clerk for that. 790 00:55:45,470 --> 00:55:46,640 No, you don't. 791 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,220 Yes, you do. It's right there in the book. 792 00:55:48,350 --> 00:55:50,020 You can do it right here. 793 00:55:50,140 --> 00:55:52,730 We've only got packets for running for office. 794 00:55:52,850 --> 00:55:54,770 Packets? What packets? There are no packets. 795 00:55:54,900 --> 00:55:56,900 Yes, there are. And you get them from the city clerk. 796 00:55:57,020 --> 00:55:59,650 You can draw up your own petition form for people to sign. 797 00:55:59,780 --> 00:56:02,860 I think we've got a sample somewhere. 798 00:56:02,990 --> 00:56:05,070 How many signatures do we need to get on the ballot? 799 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,910 5% of the number of city residents 800 00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,290 who voted in the last election for governor 801 00:56:10,410 --> 00:56:12,370 or 30,000, whichever is less. 802 00:56:12,500 --> 00:56:15,580 "Fewer." 803 00:56:16,630 --> 00:56:19,420 So we just make one of these up ourselves? 804 00:56:19,550 --> 00:56:22,380 Yes. Don't forget to write on top what you're petitioning for. 805 00:56:22,510 --> 00:56:24,640 But you still got to file them with city clerk. 806 00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:26,510 - That's true. - May I keep this? 807 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,100 Sure. 808 00:56:28,220 --> 00:56:30,890 Thank you. 809 00:56:34,980 --> 00:56:36,730 Get away from me. 810 00:56:36,860 --> 00:56:39,150 "So as to preserve, protect and promote 811 00:56:39,270 --> 00:56:41,440 the public health, safety and welfare 812 00:56:41,570 --> 00:56:43,990 and the peace and quiet of the inhabitants of the city, 813 00:56:44,110 --> 00:56:46,950 we forbid any and all use of car alarms 814 00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:49,200 within the five boroughs of New York City, 815 00:56:49,330 --> 00:56:51,750 violations to be punished by a fine 816 00:56:51,870 --> 00:56:54,580 of not less than $100 per incident." 817 00:56:54,710 --> 00:56:56,630 What about backup beepers? 818 00:56:56,750 --> 00:56:58,630 No, no backup beepers. 819 00:56:58,750 --> 00:57:00,920 They make sense to people and if we try to argue... 820 00:57:01,050 --> 00:57:04,840 Makes sense? They infantilize us. 821 00:57:04,970 --> 00:57:06,970 They're overprotective. 822 00:57:07,090 --> 00:57:08,680 Put in backup beepers. 823 00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:11,010 Thank you, I've heard it, but the alarm industry 824 00:57:11,140 --> 00:57:12,980 is gonna use it to portray us as extremists 825 00:57:13,100 --> 00:57:15,100 out of touch with the general public. We can't just... 826 00:57:15,230 --> 00:57:18,150 Why do you cave in to those people? What, are you a pussy? Come on. 827 00:57:18,270 --> 00:57:19,690 Put in backup beepers. 828 00:57:19,820 --> 00:57:22,900 David, do you want to win on alarms 829 00:57:23,030 --> 00:57:26,150 or do you want to lose on alarms and backup beepers? 830 00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:29,030 'Cause if you want to lose, do it by yourself. 831 00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,790 I'm only here to win. 832 00:57:32,370 --> 00:57:35,540 - Put in the backup beepers. - That's not funny. 833 00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,170 Hi, I'm collecting signatures. 834 00:57:38,290 --> 00:57:40,090 Signatures for the ballot. 835 00:57:40,210 --> 00:57:42,420 Excuse me, we're trying to get... 836 00:57:42,550 --> 00:57:45,300 - No, I'm sorry. - No, no, no. 837 00:57:45,420 --> 00:57:46,970 Would you be willing to sign? We're trying to get... 838 00:57:47,090 --> 00:57:48,760 Sure, I'll sign. 839 00:57:48,890 --> 00:57:50,550 - I got one. - You got one? 840 00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:52,600 - Yeah, I got one. - I've got nothing. 841 00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,470 Excuse me... 842 00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,520 We need help. We can't do this alone. 843 00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:57,600 No, I'm in a rush, man. 844 00:57:57,730 --> 00:57:59,860 It's a petition to ban car alarms. 845 00:57:59,980 --> 00:58:01,820 Who's the girl with the dark hair? 846 00:58:01,940 --> 00:58:03,610 Her name is Gruska. 847 00:58:03,730 --> 00:58:06,650 She's good. She's getting lots of signatures. 848 00:58:08,450 --> 00:58:10,740 - Would you sign it? - Ban car alarms. 849 00:58:10,870 --> 00:58:12,740 - Yes. - Thank you. 850 00:58:12,870 --> 00:58:15,330 - Please, where do I sign? - Of course I will. 851 00:58:15,450 --> 00:58:17,620 We're collecting signatures to ban car alarms. 852 00:58:17,750 --> 00:58:20,420 Ban car alarms. 853 00:58:32,100 --> 00:58:34,390 Finally, the big night arrives, opening night, right? 854 00:58:34,510 --> 00:58:36,890 He's waiting in the wings. He keeps saying the line over and over. 855 00:58:37,020 --> 00:58:39,310 "Is that a cannon I hear? Is that a cannon I hear?" 856 00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:41,650 He's got it. He knows it cold. 857 00:58:41,770 --> 00:58:43,190 He's gonna fuck it up. 858 00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:46,400 Well, he gets his cue. He comes through the curtain. 859 00:58:46,530 --> 00:58:48,610 He crosses the stage. He gets hit with a spotlight. 860 00:58:48,740 --> 00:58:50,740 And right as he's about to deliver his big line... 861 00:58:50,860 --> 00:58:53,160 kaboom! There's this huge explosion. 862 00:58:53,280 --> 00:58:56,040 He hits the deck. The crowd is stunned. And what does he say? 863 00:58:56,160 --> 00:59:00,460 "Jesus Christ, what the fuck was that?" 864 00:59:03,710 --> 00:59:06,380 Not bad, right? Pretty good? 865 00:59:06,510 --> 00:59:09,420 That's a good joke. That's funny. 866 00:59:09,550 --> 00:59:12,720 I can tell that to the Japanese guys. Think they'd even get it? 867 00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,260 Are you kidding me? They would love it. It would work like a charm. 868 00:59:15,390 --> 00:59:17,270 Good. 869 00:59:17,390 --> 00:59:20,060 Did you see this yet? 870 00:59:20,770 --> 00:59:23,190 They're getting a lot of signatures on that. 871 00:59:23,310 --> 00:59:26,570 Jackie says they're gonna get that initiative on the ballot. 872 00:59:28,900 --> 00:59:31,860 Son of a b... 873 00:59:32,860 --> 00:59:37,620 I want to talk to this EK Filippnova prick. 874 00:59:37,740 --> 00:59:39,370 "Filippovna." 875 00:59:39,500 --> 00:59:41,330 By the way, he's a she. 876 00:59:41,460 --> 00:59:44,080 Pretty cute too. 877 00:59:46,210 --> 00:59:47,500 You look great. 878 00:59:47,630 --> 00:59:49,210 Bitch then. 879 00:59:49,340 --> 00:59:53,340 I want to talk to this EK Filippovna... 880 00:59:53,470 --> 00:59:56,140 bitch. 881 00:59:56,810 --> 00:59:59,810 Your initiative won't make it. I can tell you that right now. 882 00:59:59,930 --> 01:00:01,810 If you supported it, it would. 883 01:00:01,940 --> 01:00:04,270 You could take the credit. 884 01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:07,360 People would love you. 885 01:00:09,780 --> 01:00:12,490 The Rectifier is behind this, right? 886 01:00:12,610 --> 01:00:14,450 No comment. 887 01:00:14,570 --> 01:00:17,950 I could call a grand jury. I could ask you that question in front of them. 888 01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,330 If you didn't answer I could find you in contempt 889 01:00:20,450 --> 01:00:23,080 and send you to jail. 890 01:00:23,210 --> 01:00:25,920 Go ahead. 891 01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,550 You're fucking him, aren't you? 892 01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,340 What do you like about him? 893 01:00:35,470 --> 01:00:37,510 I never met the guy, 894 01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:40,680 but if I did, what I would like is that he was alone, 895 01:00:40,810 --> 01:00:43,890 everyone against him, and he fought anyway. 896 01:00:44,020 --> 01:00:46,940 I'm alone. Everyone's against me. 897 01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,400 Oh, you think just because I got elected, millions of votes, 898 01:00:50,530 --> 01:00:54,200 that the people are with me? 899 01:00:55,410 --> 01:00:57,320 They hate me. 900 01:00:57,450 --> 01:00:59,370 You know why? 901 01:00:59,490 --> 01:01:01,370 Because when you're strong 902 01:01:01,500 --> 01:01:04,460 you don't cave in. 903 01:01:05,330 --> 01:01:08,000 When you're not a weakling like they are, 904 01:01:08,130 --> 01:01:11,130 they hate you for it. 905 01:01:13,010 --> 01:01:15,010 You want to run things... you got to be a monster. 906 01:01:15,130 --> 01:01:17,050 You got to be willing to kill people. 907 01:01:17,180 --> 01:01:19,850 Who'd you kill? 908 01:01:20,350 --> 01:01:22,270 No comment. 909 01:01:22,390 --> 01:01:24,560 Nice people can't do it. 910 01:01:24,690 --> 01:01:29,020 They get chewed up, spit out, nothing left but a fart. 911 01:01:29,650 --> 01:01:31,900 You know what I used to tell my kids when they were little, 912 01:01:32,030 --> 01:01:33,900 when they still spoke to me? 913 01:01:34,030 --> 01:01:38,700 Something would happen they didn't like 914 01:01:38,820 --> 01:01:42,240 and they would say, "Oh, that's unfair." 915 01:01:42,370 --> 01:01:45,580 And I would say, "No, don't say that's unfair. 916 01:01:45,710 --> 01:01:50,750 Say that's not beautiful." 917 01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,510 People like your boyfriend, the Recti-fairy, 918 01:01:54,630 --> 01:01:56,550 need everything beautiful. 919 01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:59,680 That's why they're so helpless. 920 01:02:01,260 --> 01:02:04,180 But you're not like that. 921 01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:07,940 So drop that putz. Come work with me. 922 01:02:08,060 --> 01:02:11,060 I'll show you how to run the world. 923 01:02:16,610 --> 01:02:18,530 What would I do? 924 01:02:18,660 --> 01:02:22,950 I don't know. Personal advisor... 925 01:02:24,950 --> 01:02:27,250 parks commissioner. 926 01:02:27,370 --> 01:02:29,920 What about economic development? 927 01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:31,540 What is that? 928 01:02:31,670 --> 01:02:34,000 Bringing business here. 929 01:02:34,130 --> 01:02:37,010 I got a Japanese contingent coming. 930 01:02:37,130 --> 01:02:39,890 They would love you. 931 01:02:43,100 --> 01:02:44,970 Okay. 932 01:02:46,100 --> 01:02:49,230 Only if you support the initiative. 933 01:02:49,350 --> 01:02:52,360 Don't waste your time on that. 934 01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,070 That's too tiny. 935 01:02:55,190 --> 01:02:57,740 Then promise you won't oppose us. 936 01:02:59,660 --> 01:03:02,820 No. 937 01:03:07,750 --> 01:03:10,420 - Where are you going? - I'm going to England 938 01:03:10,540 --> 01:03:13,170 to study philosophy. 939 01:03:14,420 --> 01:03:17,050 So fuck you. 940 01:03:39,950 --> 01:03:43,950 I wanted to thank you all for helping out today. 941 01:03:44,070 --> 01:03:47,160 We have unofficially collected 942 01:03:47,290 --> 01:03:50,370 over 40,000 signatures. 943 01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,960 That's more than 10,000 above the minimum. 944 01:03:55,090 --> 01:03:57,710 But remember, at least half will be disqualified, 945 01:03:57,840 --> 01:04:00,720 so we need to get at least 20,000 more. 946 01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,840 - Can we do it? - Yes, we can do it. 947 01:04:03,970 --> 01:04:07,850 Shut up. Stop it. Stop it. 948 01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:14,230 Come on, stop it. 949 01:04:31,710 --> 01:04:35,080 You and Gruska seem to be getting along. 950 01:04:36,210 --> 01:04:39,420 - Do you like her? - She's nice. 951 01:04:39,550 --> 01:04:41,630 What about you? 952 01:04:43,130 --> 01:04:44,550 What about me what? 953 01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,300 Are you attracted to her? 954 01:04:47,430 --> 01:04:50,970 She's attracted to you. 955 01:04:51,730 --> 01:04:54,390 Did you talk or are you making trouble? 956 01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:58,150 We talked. 957 01:04:58,770 --> 01:05:01,650 What did you talk about? 958 01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,320 She wants to come home with us. 959 01:05:04,450 --> 01:05:07,990 Is she weird or homeless? 960 01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:11,200 She's sexy. 961 01:05:14,370 --> 01:05:15,670 What did you say? 962 01:05:15,790 --> 01:05:17,750 Dad, 963 01:05:17,880 --> 01:05:20,300 mom's here. 964 01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:25,180 - Put your seat belts on. - Okay. 965 01:05:25,300 --> 01:05:28,220 Take mommy's bag. 966 01:05:30,430 --> 01:05:32,770 Your girlfriend's very pretty. 967 01:05:32,890 --> 01:05:37,150 She's not my girlfriend. 968 01:05:38,730 --> 01:05:41,360 Anyway, you've got no complaints, right? 969 01:05:49,490 --> 01:05:53,120 Bye. 970 01:05:53,250 --> 01:05:57,210 Hi. Yeah. We'll be there in 20 minutes. 971 01:06:03,130 --> 01:06:07,010 Hey, we should celebrate. 972 01:06:25,900 --> 01:06:28,240 Come here, David. 973 01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:29,530 Yeah. 974 01:06:29,660 --> 01:06:31,910 We're looking at my pussy. 975 01:06:32,030 --> 01:06:34,240 Oh, good. 976 01:06:34,370 --> 01:06:37,710 Hold still, please. 977 01:06:39,170 --> 01:06:41,880 See? I knew it. 978 01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,550 You have a beautiful pussy. 979 01:06:44,670 --> 01:06:46,970 You have a nice one too. 980 01:06:47,090 --> 01:06:49,890 No, I don't. It's ugly. 981 01:06:50,010 --> 01:06:53,720 It looks like it threw up on itself or something. 982 01:06:53,850 --> 01:06:55,720 Yeah, look at it. 983 01:06:55,850 --> 01:06:58,520 - What are you talking about? - It's ugly. 984 01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:01,230 What are you talking about? Nothing is wrong. 985 01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:03,940 Believe me, plenty is wrong. 986 01:07:04,650 --> 01:07:08,490 Has anyone... has a man ever said anything about it? 987 01:07:08,610 --> 01:07:12,120 No. Of course not. 988 01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:15,240 But it's not the point. 989 01:07:15,370 --> 01:07:17,910 You want to be beautiful. 990 01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:21,080 But you are beautiful, 991 01:07:21,210 --> 01:07:23,460 incredibly beautiful. 992 01:07:23,590 --> 01:07:26,340 Yes, thank you. 993 01:07:26,460 --> 01:07:28,760 But you want to be completely beautiful 994 01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:31,260 with no flaw. 995 01:07:31,390 --> 01:07:34,510 I'm happy with how I look generally, 996 01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:37,560 but my pussy spoils it. 997 01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:40,940 It drags down the whole thing. 998 01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:46,900 You know anyone that's perfect? 999 01:07:47,030 --> 01:07:48,940 I'm discussing ideals. 1000 01:07:49,070 --> 01:07:53,200 I mean a beauty you cannot separate from outward things. 1001 01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:55,580 I'm talking about 1002 01:07:55,700 --> 01:07:57,620 looking in the mirror and feeling 1003 01:07:57,740 --> 01:08:00,370 you're one of the angels. 1004 01:08:00,500 --> 01:08:03,830 Are you a beast or an angel? 1005 01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,300 Can I be a human being? 1006 01:08:07,420 --> 01:08:09,420 No, 1007 01:08:09,550 --> 01:08:11,470 because a human being 1008 01:08:11,590 --> 01:08:13,430 is nothing but a question, 1009 01:08:13,550 --> 01:08:16,560 and the question is beast or angel, 1010 01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:18,520 beast or god? 1011 01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:20,640 You... 1012 01:08:20,770 --> 01:08:24,650 you're obsessing with alarms and everything. 1013 01:08:24,770 --> 01:08:27,690 What do you think you're doing? 1014 01:08:27,820 --> 01:08:30,650 Aren't you trying to lift yourself 1015 01:08:30,780 --> 01:08:33,030 and everyone else 1016 01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:36,370 up from the bestiality of this awful noise 1017 01:08:36,490 --> 01:08:39,490 to the heavenly silence? 1018 01:08:42,410 --> 01:08:45,540 That's beautiful. 1019 01:08:46,130 --> 01:08:50,170 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 1020 01:08:50,300 --> 01:08:52,840 So you want to make heaven for the ear. 1021 01:08:52,970 --> 01:08:57,890 And I want to make it for the body. 1022 01:09:27,500 --> 01:09:30,500 Chris says you'll make it on the ballot. 1023 01:09:30,630 --> 01:09:33,840 She's very excited. 1024 01:09:33,970 --> 01:09:36,300 Well, it's an easy sell. 1025 01:09:36,430 --> 01:09:39,350 Everyone hates alarms. 1026 01:09:39,470 --> 01:09:42,980 I guess you're not completely impotent after all. 1027 01:09:47,350 --> 01:09:50,400 Winning make you nervous? 1028 01:09:51,570 --> 01:09:54,240 A little. 1029 01:10:04,870 --> 01:10:07,210 When are you gonna come home? 1030 01:10:07,330 --> 01:10:10,210 When I'm finished with this. 1031 01:10:18,180 --> 01:10:20,550 I have to leave Friday. 1032 01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:23,180 Leave? For where? 1033 01:10:23,310 --> 01:10:25,600 Moscow, see my dad, 1034 01:10:25,730 --> 01:10:28,480 school in London. You knew that. 1035 01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,230 Yeah. I didn't know it was so soon. 1036 01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:35,570 We're up to 56,000 signatures, but I want to get at least 70,000. 1037 01:10:35,690 --> 01:10:39,160 Yeah, I know. You told me. You have to be here for the election. 1038 01:10:39,280 --> 01:10:41,620 The guys you met today are great. 1039 01:10:41,740 --> 01:10:44,540 They'll introduce you to all the right people. 1040 01:10:44,660 --> 01:10:47,710 I'll consult by email. 1041 01:10:48,580 --> 01:10:51,540 You'll do fine. 1042 01:11:02,550 --> 01:11:04,470 I don't want to say goodbye to you. 1043 01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,640 No, it's perfect. 1044 01:11:09,190 --> 01:11:12,770 Your wife threw you out, 1045 01:11:12,900 --> 01:11:15,650 we had our little thing... 1046 01:11:17,990 --> 01:11:19,910 now you get to go home 1047 01:11:20,030 --> 01:11:22,240 a little bittersweet in the heart, 1048 01:11:22,370 --> 01:11:25,990 be a good father, 1049 01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:29,000 a good husband. 1050 01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:35,420 Anyway, you love Chris. 1051 01:11:36,590 --> 01:11:39,630 You love Helen. 1052 01:11:40,550 --> 01:11:43,220 You need love. 1053 01:11:53,150 --> 01:11:56,110 Could you pull over here, please? 1054 01:11:57,070 --> 01:11:59,780 I've got to pick something up. 1055 01:11:59,900 --> 01:12:03,070 - I'll talk to you later. - Okay. 1056 01:12:06,540 --> 01:12:09,200 Thank you. 1057 01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:38,230 - Hi. - What's this? 1058 01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:39,860 These are petition signatures. 1059 01:12:39,980 --> 01:12:42,240 Petitions for what? 1060 01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:44,910 To get an initiative on the November ballot. 1061 01:12:45,030 --> 01:12:47,870 There's a charter revision on the November ballot. 1062 01:12:47,990 --> 01:12:49,790 A what? 1063 01:12:49,910 --> 01:12:53,000 A proposal to revise the city charter. 1064 01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:55,290 Okay, so? 1065 01:12:55,420 --> 01:12:59,250 You can't have an initiative when there's a proposed charter revision 1066 01:12:59,380 --> 01:13:01,840 unless the mayor lets them both stand. 1067 01:13:01,970 --> 01:13:03,970 Who proposed the charter revision? 1068 01:13:04,090 --> 01:13:05,760 Mayor Schneer. 1069 01:13:05,890 --> 01:13:09,060 - Why did he do it? - Well, he didn't tell me, 1070 01:13:09,180 --> 01:13:11,060 but back in '98 1071 01:13:11,180 --> 01:13:14,650 when Giuliani wanted that new stadium on the West Side 1072 01:13:14,770 --> 01:13:18,610 and the people in Chelsea collected all those signatures 1073 01:13:18,730 --> 01:13:22,490 for an initiative against it, Giuliani put up a charter revision 1074 01:13:22,610 --> 01:13:24,780 just to bump their thing off the ballot. 1075 01:13:24,910 --> 01:13:27,030 Maybe Schneer's doing this 1076 01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:30,120 to stop that car alarm initiative. 1077 01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:32,290 We're the car alarm initiative. 1078 01:13:32,410 --> 01:13:34,330 You are? 1079 01:13:34,460 --> 01:13:35,960 Well, there you go. 1080 01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:39,460 We spent months working on this. What is... 1081 01:13:50,510 --> 01:13:53,640 I hear you, baby, but that ain't gonna help. 1082 01:14:02,440 --> 01:14:05,110 You got a problem? 1083 01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:08,370 This thing for sale? 1084 01:14:11,910 --> 01:14:13,830 How much? 1085 01:14:13,950 --> 01:14:16,580 $1500. 1086 01:14:18,170 --> 01:14:21,170 You got an alarm in here? 1087 01:14:21,630 --> 01:14:22,670 Yeah. 1088 01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:25,760 Could you please move the fucking truck? 1089 01:14:30,850 --> 01:14:34,060 So how is it? Is it decent? 1090 01:14:34,180 --> 01:14:36,100 Decent? It's a piece of shit. 1091 01:14:36,230 --> 01:14:38,150 Perfect. 1092 01:14:38,270 --> 01:14:40,190 I want to put an alarm in it. 1093 01:14:40,310 --> 01:14:42,940 - It's already got one. - I know. I want more. 1094 01:14:43,070 --> 01:14:45,190 More? How many more? 1095 01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:47,400 How many can it hold? 1096 01:14:47,530 --> 01:14:49,280 Shit, as many as will fit, 1097 01:14:49,410 --> 01:14:51,580 so long as the battery has the juice to run them. 1098 01:14:51,700 --> 01:14:53,370 Can you customize them? 1099 01:14:53,490 --> 01:14:56,290 Customize them how? 1100 01:14:56,410 --> 01:14:59,370 I want them to go off when I want, 1101 01:14:59,500 --> 01:15:02,290 and I want them extra loud. 1102 01:15:08,260 --> 01:15:12,220 So this actor... 1103 01:15:12,350 --> 01:15:14,220 something happens 1104 01:15:14,350 --> 01:15:18,730 to his, like, memory, you know, or he's nervous, 1105 01:15:18,850 --> 01:15:22,440 but he keeps flubbing his lines. 1106 01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:25,020 After a while 1107 01:15:25,150 --> 01:15:27,820 he can't get a job. 1108 01:15:27,950 --> 01:15:31,780 Finally, 1109 01:15:31,910 --> 01:15:35,200 his agent... you know, agent... 1110 01:15:35,330 --> 01:15:40,000 lands him a small part in a play. 1111 01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:43,920 It's one line... 1112 01:15:44,040 --> 01:15:47,670 "Hark, is that a cannon I hear?" 1113 01:15:53,180 --> 01:15:55,100 So every day 1114 01:15:55,220 --> 01:15:57,470 he's... he's practicing this line... 1115 01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:01,440 "Hark, is that a cannon I hear? Hark, is that a cannon I hear?" 1116 01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:03,020 The play takes place in... 1117 01:16:03,150 --> 01:16:05,480 - Chicago. - Chicago. 1118 01:16:16,330 --> 01:16:20,040 He goes to the theater. He's putting on his costume... "Hark..." 1119 01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:23,960 He gets into the wings. He's listening for his cue... 1120 01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:27,050 "Hark, is that a cannon I hear?" 1121 01:16:27,170 --> 01:16:30,920 "Hark, is that a cannon I hear? Hark, Hark..." 1122 01:16:34,220 --> 01:16:36,140 He walks out onto the stage. 1123 01:16:36,260 --> 01:16:39,810 There is this incredible crash. So he goes... 1124 01:16:39,930 --> 01:16:43,690 Jesus Christ, what the fuck is that? 1125 01:16:44,770 --> 01:16:47,820 What the fuck is that? 1126 01:16:48,980 --> 01:16:51,650 Sounds like a car alarm. 1127 01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,990 Turn it off now! 1128 01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:01,080 What are you doing? 1129 01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,540 You mind shutting this thing off, please? 1130 01:17:03,670 --> 01:17:06,000 Shut off the alarm. 1131 01:17:06,130 --> 01:17:10,260 - Oh, it'll go off in a minute or two. - A minute? 1132 01:17:10,380 --> 01:17:12,510 It's three minutes by law, actually. 1133 01:17:12,630 --> 01:17:14,800 It's been going for 30-35 seconds, so... 1134 01:17:14,930 --> 01:17:17,470 - Could you open the hood, sir? - I'm sorry? 1135 01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:19,510 Open the hood, we'll disconnect the cable, 1136 01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:21,430 - we'll get on with our lives. - I can't do that. 1137 01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:23,480 - Why? - It's private property. 1138 01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:26,270 - It's a public nuisance. - Exactly. 1139 01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:28,440 Open the hood! 1140 01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:33,950 - It'll go off in about a minute or so. - A minute? 1141 01:17:34,070 --> 01:17:37,120 A minute, if the cutoff works. 1142 01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:40,290 In another minute that thing is gonna fucking kill... 1143 01:17:43,410 --> 01:17:44,870 Tow this fucking guy. 1144 01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,540 Call the precinct. Call towing. 1145 01:17:47,670 --> 01:17:49,840 Okay, let's move this thing. 1146 01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,890 Open the hood! 1147 01:18:00,010 --> 01:18:01,100 Let's go. 1148 01:18:01,220 --> 01:18:02,390 I can't hear you. 1149 01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:03,930 Open the fucking hood! 1150 01:18:04,060 --> 01:18:06,520 Can't hear you. 1151 01:18:07,350 --> 01:18:10,560 Want to fuck with me? I'll fix your ass. 1152 01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:15,450 Can somebody please shut that thing off? 1153 01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:19,240 The guy is not right. 1154 01:18:19,370 --> 01:18:21,450 I called a tow truck. They'll be here in a couple of minutes. 1155 01:18:21,580 --> 01:18:24,080 Don't tell me two minutes. Turn that thing off 1156 01:18:24,200 --> 01:18:26,620 or I'll rip it out and throw it through the fucking windshield myself. 1157 01:18:26,750 --> 01:18:29,250 Is this your car? Can you turn that thing off? 1158 01:18:29,380 --> 01:18:31,630 It'll go off in a couple of minutes. 1159 01:18:31,750 --> 01:18:33,590 - Can you turn that off? - No, I can't, sir. 1160 01:18:33,710 --> 01:18:35,420 What about that controller, beeper? 1161 01:18:35,550 --> 01:18:37,430 I can't get it to work. 1162 01:18:37,550 --> 01:18:39,470 You're crazy. Open the hood. 1163 01:18:39,590 --> 01:18:42,890 Open the hood. If you could get the hood open... 1164 01:18:43,020 --> 01:18:45,770 - I'm trying, is locked... - What are you doing? 1165 01:18:45,890 --> 01:18:47,100 - It's under control. - Under cont... 1166 01:18:47,230 --> 01:18:50,150 You call this under control? Why don't you shut off the fucking alarm? 1167 01:18:50,270 --> 01:18:51,810 You watch your language! 1168 01:18:51,940 --> 01:18:54,940 - It is private property. - My ears are private property! 1169 01:18:55,070 --> 01:18:56,990 And my hearing. My wellbeing... 1170 01:18:57,110 --> 01:18:58,240 is being brutalised by... 1171 01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:02,580 Sir, you are disturbing, in fact, assaulting everybody in this neighbourhood. 1172 01:19:02,700 --> 01:19:03,830 Yes! 1173 01:19:03,950 --> 01:19:06,460 You should be arrested and charged with that! - Yes! 1174 01:19:06,580 --> 01:19:09,420 The alarm will go off in a couple of minutes. 1175 01:19:09,540 --> 01:19:11,380 A couple... 1176 01:19:15,510 --> 01:19:17,840 - Okay. - Alright, come on. 1177 01:19:17,970 --> 01:19:20,640 Jesus, I can't hear. 1178 01:19:22,300 --> 01:19:24,770 Hello? Hello? 1179 01:19:29,810 --> 01:19:31,650 Sorry. 1180 01:20:13,770 --> 01:20:15,520 Take him! Take him away! 1181 01:20:16,940 --> 01:20:20,780 Him... That's the Rectifier! 1182 01:20:20,900 --> 01:20:23,370 It is Raymond T. Gilson, a federal judge. 1183 01:20:23,490 --> 01:20:27,540 Judge? Bullshit! That's the Rectifier! Get him! 1184 01:20:27,660 --> 01:20:29,040 Get him! 1185 01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:32,750 Come on. 1186 01:20:34,710 --> 01:20:36,710 Hold him! 1187 01:20:37,300 --> 01:20:40,510 16 counts, 78 years! 1188 01:20:40,630 --> 01:20:45,640 Got you, got you! 1189 01:20:47,100 --> 01:20:49,020 Next on the docket Raymond T. Gilson, plaintiff, 1190 01:20:49,140 --> 01:20:52,520 seeking damages from David Owen, defendant. 1191 01:20:52,940 --> 01:20:54,520 The mayor was very upset. 1192 01:20:54,650 --> 01:20:57,360 In fact, he failed to close the deal he was negotiating with the Japanese. 1193 01:20:57,480 --> 01:21:01,360 So, I guess, you could say Mr. Owen cost the city 4,500 jobs. 1194 01:21:01,490 --> 01:21:05,030 Can you estimate the effect of that on the tax base? 1195 01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:08,200 They were high-tech, high-paying so, I would imagine 1196 01:21:08,330 --> 01:21:11,330 the loss would be in the tens of millions. 1197 01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:18,630 My wife get terrible migranes. 1198 01:21:18,750 --> 01:21:22,010 This man's alarm brought on an attack that lasted three days. 1199 01:21:22,130 --> 01:21:26,050 I thought he was a judge. What's he doing in the witness' stand? 1200 01:21:26,180 --> 01:21:30,680 He is a judge. He's a plaintiff in this trial. 1201 01:21:31,060 --> 01:21:32,810 Two judges? 1202 01:21:32,930 --> 01:21:34,690 Well, they shouldn't do that way, it is too confusing. 1203 01:21:34,810 --> 01:21:37,440 There will be no talking from the jury. - I was just... 1204 01:21:38,150 --> 01:21:40,270 making an observation. 1205 01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:41,570 Sorry, Your Honour. 1206 01:21:41,690 --> 01:21:44,280 Does the defense have any questions for this witness? - Your Honour... 1207 01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:47,370 David, let me handle this... No, I insist. 1208 01:21:47,490 --> 01:21:49,030 Judge Gilson, 1209 01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:53,460 going back to the afternoon of May 19, when the incident in question occured... 1210 01:21:53,580 --> 01:21:56,080 - Don't tell me that one is a judge too! - No, he's an idiot. 1211 01:21:56,210 --> 01:21:58,630 - At that time... - They are all idiots. 1212 01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:00,380 Don't shush me! 1213 01:22:00,500 --> 01:22:02,840 I believe your have said, and I quote: 1214 01:22:02,970 --> 01:22:08,430 That noise is disturbing, actually, assaulting everybody in the neighbourhood. 1215 01:22:08,550 --> 01:22:12,470 I am not claiming here that you assaulted anyone. 1216 01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:15,020 But you are a judge, you understand the law. 1217 01:22:15,140 --> 01:22:19,900 Assault does not require an actual physical blow, does it? 1218 01:22:20,730 --> 01:22:22,440 It's true. 1219 01:22:22,570 --> 01:22:27,360 If went up to someone, raised your arm suddenly as though you were going to strike them, 1220 01:22:27,490 --> 01:22:30,370 freightened them, it feels like an attack. That's assault... 1221 01:22:30,490 --> 01:22:32,540 So, legally speaking 1222 01:22:32,660 --> 01:22:36,080 the alarms that went off on 5th Avenue that afternoon... 1223 01:22:36,210 --> 01:22:38,710 were, in fact... 1224 01:22:39,580 --> 01:22:41,500 an assault. 1225 01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:44,010 That's true. 1226 01:22:44,130 --> 01:22:46,430 Mr. Owen, you realise that the evidence you are presenting 1227 01:22:46,550 --> 01:22:48,930 tends to support the plaintiff's case, not your own? 1228 01:22:49,050 --> 01:22:52,560 Your Honour, if may I continue, I think you will understand where I'm going. 1229 01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:56,890 Judge Gilson, would you agree that your experience that afternoon 1230 01:22:57,020 --> 01:23:02,190 was a bit like being hit? Being struck? 1231 01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:04,480 Yes, unquestionably. 1232 01:23:04,610 --> 01:23:07,320 So, it wasn't just assault. 1233 01:23:07,450 --> 01:23:09,870 It was battery as well. 1234 01:23:11,450 --> 01:23:12,370 Yes. 1235 01:23:12,490 --> 01:23:15,660 What about the grinding of garbage trucks? 1236 01:23:18,670 --> 01:23:22,210 What about when when a motorcycle owner removes the baffles... 1237 01:23:22,340 --> 01:23:27,090 and the sound is as loud as a jet engine coming down your street? 1238 01:23:27,300 --> 01:23:31,890 - Where is he going with this? - Some day, some day... 1239 01:23:32,350 --> 01:23:36,560 when we finally spend the money on quieter garbage trucks... 1240 01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:39,190 which they already have in many European countries 1241 01:23:39,310 --> 01:23:41,980 when we have banned the utterly useless car alarms 1242 01:23:42,100 --> 01:23:44,730 and the constant assault 1243 01:23:44,860 --> 01:23:48,320 people will look back on the way we live today 1244 01:23:48,450 --> 01:23:51,950 and they will not understand 1245 01:23:52,740 --> 01:23:56,540 how on Earth we we put up with this. 1246 01:23:56,660 --> 01:23:59,540 Yes, and what about these loud car stereos? 1247 01:23:59,670 --> 01:24:02,420 - Excuse me, what did you just say? - Is he talking to me? 1248 01:24:02,540 --> 01:24:04,710 Yes, I think it is. - Mr. Owen, we are going to have a mistrial here. 1249 01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:06,960 Please proceed with your examination, Mr Owen. 1250 01:24:07,090 --> 01:24:09,800 - I am saying what about these car stereos... - Boomboxes! 1251 01:24:09,930 --> 01:24:11,970 You can't hear yourself think! 1252 01:24:12,090 --> 01:24:13,680 - They should not be allowed. - Order, please! 1253 01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,180 What about these trucks idling in front of your window? 1254 01:24:16,310 --> 01:24:19,690 - The noise drives me crazy! - Order! 1255 01:24:19,810 --> 01:24:22,600 Order! - ...neighbour's dryer that shakes the whole apartment building. 1256 01:24:22,730 --> 01:24:25,110 - Silence in the room! - What about the Mister Softee trucks? 1257 01:24:25,230 --> 01:24:27,780 They play the same song over and over again! 1258 01:24:27,900 --> 01:24:30,200 - What about these manhole cover? - ...taxi driver with their... 1259 01:24:30,320 --> 01:24:33,320 ...neighbour learning to play the drums? 1260 01:24:33,450 --> 01:24:36,950 What about the doorman with the taxi call whistles? 1261 01:24:42,790 --> 01:24:46,500 What about the world? What about the whole fucking world? 1262 01:24:46,710 --> 01:24:50,220 Silence! 1263 01:24:52,550 --> 01:24:54,680 Mr. Owen, please proceed. 1264 01:24:57,220 --> 01:25:00,930 That's all I have to say, Your Honour. 1265 01:25:01,230 --> 01:25:03,520 Thank you for your patience. 1266 01:25:06,940 --> 01:25:08,230 We find for the for the plaintiff 1267 01:25:08,360 --> 01:25:13,160 and order Mr. Owen to pay Judge Gilson one hundred thousand dollars. 1268 01:25:16,870 --> 01:25:18,490 Your Honour, if it pleases the court... 1269 01:25:18,620 --> 01:25:22,080 I am sure Mr Owen and I can come to a satisfactory arragement. 1270 01:25:22,210 --> 01:25:25,960 Please file a stipulation of settlement within the next 10 days. Court is adjourned. 1271 01:25:26,080 --> 01:25:27,750 Congratulations, you've lost. 1272 01:25:27,880 --> 01:25:30,880 You lost but you won. Now we have a precedent. 1273 01:25:31,010 --> 01:25:33,180 The noise can be assault and battery. 1274 01:25:33,300 --> 01:25:35,140 Thank you. 1275 01:25:35,430 --> 01:25:38,560 - I should forget about my bill, right? - Probably. 1276 01:25:39,970 --> 01:25:41,680 Excuse me! 1277 01:25:42,850 --> 01:25:44,100 Congratulations! 1278 01:25:44,230 --> 01:25:47,020 - You are an example to us all. - Thanks. 1279 01:25:47,730 --> 01:25:50,150 You are a hero, daddy! 1280 01:25:50,860 --> 01:25:54,360 You know that freeway sign on 131 Street? 1281 01:25:54,780 --> 01:25:56,870 I don't drive. 1282 01:25:56,990 --> 01:25:58,950 Neither do I! 1283 01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:03,620 It caused, like, five or six accidents, distracting the motorists. 1284 01:26:03,750 --> 01:26:06,000 I'm gonna get a cab. 1285 01:26:06,630 --> 01:26:10,090 Plus you have that strange sign for bananas shove in your face. 1286 01:26:10,210 --> 01:26:13,090 - Don't you hate that shit? - I thought they took that down. 1287 01:26:13,220 --> 01:26:16,260 There is another one, it's even worse. 1288 01:26:16,390 --> 01:26:19,600 We used to be able to see all these beautiful beaux arts buildings up on riverside... 1289 01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:23,770 and now they are blocked with these giant TV screens. 1290 01:26:26,060 --> 01:26:28,060 Do you know what I'm going to do? 1291 01:26:28,190 --> 01:26:30,610 I am going to blow the fucking thing up. 1292 01:26:31,860 --> 01:26:33,860 You want in? 1293 01:26:38,950 --> 01:26:40,700 Let's go! 1294 01:26:46,250 --> 01:26:48,250 You want in? 1295 01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:55,760 No, thanks. 1296 01:26:55,880 --> 01:26:57,260 Oh, I get it. 1297 01:26:57,380 --> 01:27:01,720 So, suddenly you are this big shot, the rest of us don't matter. 1298 01:27:01,850 --> 01:27:06,640 You just go home, cultivate your fucking garden, right? 1299 01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:09,270 Exactly. 1300 01:27:13,820 --> 01:27:15,650 Good luck. 1301 01:27:16,490 --> 01:27:18,780 She was right about the sign, of course. 1302 01:27:18,910 --> 01:27:21,450 But I didn't want to think about that. 1303 01:27:21,580 --> 01:27:23,950 Still, she reminded me of something 1304 01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,870 that happened the first time I was arrested 1305 01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:29,000 back in the 24th precinct. 1306 01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:29,960 What'd he do? 1307 01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:32,590 Busted into a car whose alarm was going off. 1308 01:27:32,710 --> 01:27:35,050 Who's gonna take him down to Central Booking? 1309 01:27:35,170 --> 01:27:37,720 Broke into a car because the alarm was going off? 1310 01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:40,890 Jesus Christ! What if everybody did that? 1311 01:27:41,010 --> 01:27:45,970 If everybody did that, people would turn off their damn alarms now, wouldn't they?