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* [Charles Gounod:
"Funeral March of a Marionette"]

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Good evening.

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I came down here
because I understand
that the current year

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is a very good year for wine.

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For drinking it, that is.

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I'm looking for
some champagne.

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"Not to be taken internally."
Oh.

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"For bathing only."

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Fortunately, my tastes
aren't so expensive.

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I bathe in ginger beer.

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That way one doesn't
have to add a softener.

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All this is by way of
introducing tonight's play.

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It is called, by
an extraordinary coincidence,

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"A Bottle of Wine."

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(CAR APPROACHING)

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(CAR DOOR CLOSING)

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(DOOR LATCH RATTLING)

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Grace.

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Hello, Judge.

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I came to get my clothes.
So you're going.

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You're really going,
after all.

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I won't be long upstairs.
Grace.

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Isn't there...
Nothing.

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I see.

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Ten years, and one word
seems to take care of it all.

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"Nothing."
Such a merciless word.

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Judge, we've been
through all this.

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Have we?
Have we really, Grace?

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Or is it just that I've been
doing all the talking?

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And all the listening, too?

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If you'll excuse me, please.

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Why is it that the less use
people have
for another human being,

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the politer they become
to him.

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Relentlessly politer.

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Really, Judge,
I don't have time right now
for any of your handy,

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pocket philosophy.

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I see.

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Where's Wallace?
Waiting for you?

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Counting the seconds
at some adjacent bar?

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Go ahead.
Tear him down.

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See if I care.

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Forgive me.
I didn't mean to be
ungracious.

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Well, he's not in a bar.
He's...
He's outside in the car.

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Of course.

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You'll need someone
to help you with your luggage.

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Oh, that's just about
what I'd expect you to say.

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Oh, you're gracious
all right, Judge.

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Believe me,
you are gracious.

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Mr. Donaldson,
come wait inside.
The sun's too hot out there.

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It's all right,
I can wait here.

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Don't be foolish.
This heat will kill you.

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(CLEARING THROAT)

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Afternoon, sir.
Afternoon.

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It's hot, isn't it?

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You are the judge?

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I mean Judge Condon.
Grace's...
Grace's husband.

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Does it always
get this hot in town?

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Not always. Just mostly,
mostly August,
around this time of year.

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I didn't want to come here.

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I can imagine.

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But Grace said that it would
be all right. That
she wouldn't be very long.

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You're young.

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Younger than I thought
you'd be.

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And money?
I daresay you have money?

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Oh, don't be ashamed of it.

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I think I'd better wait
in the car.
Nonsense.

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This isn't an everyday
occasion.

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A perfectly civilized
conversation,

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while one's wife gathers
the wardrobe of 10 years.

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Actually, this is a new
experience for me. One wonders
what to say, exactly.

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Certainly there should be
something in common
we could talk about.

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Well, for example, Grace.

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Let's go inside.
It's cooler there.

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You don't know Grace.

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At least, not quite as well
as I do. She'll be a good
5 or 10 minutes yet.

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Let's wait in the library.

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The only room in the house
with a fan.

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Sit down, young man.

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You stand there like a buck
I once shot in Wisconsin,

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feeling the wind
for danger.

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And after all,
you're virtually
one of the family now.

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I'm sorry we had to meet.

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Oh?

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Yes, I'm not up to
this sort of thing.
I can see you're not.

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Well, if it will make you feel
any easier, I don't feel much
up to it myself.

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Well, sit down.
It's an old habit of mine
to be on a slightly

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higher level than the court.

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Good.

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And while you wait,
we'll have a little sherry.

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I have some very good sherry
outside here in the cabinet.

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Very dry.

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(BOTTLE OPENING)

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By the way, Mr. Donaldson,
what do you do
for a living?

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I'm an architect.

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What? Here in Cartersville?

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No, my father's firm
in Chicago.

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I came here on a job.

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Oh.

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Now we can relax.

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This is a very old wine.

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Very old.

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Very good.

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Very special.

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Amontillado.

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Yes.

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We shall not taste
its like again.

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To Grace.

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Can you propose a more
fitting toast?

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To Grace.
To Grace.

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It is good.

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Rich and smooth.
Yes. We've been

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saving it for
quite a long time,
Grace and I.

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For our 10th anniversary.

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I bought it for her
in Spain.

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On our honeymoon.
Quite a story.

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Ten years from now,
we told each other,
we'll share this wine.

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The wine of a decade.

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Sir...
Oh, it's quite all right.

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Grace doesn't touch
alcohol anymore.

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We may as well drink it,
you and I.

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Sir, I think its better
that I wait...

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Not that she ever did
drink very much really.

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She takes pretty good care
of herself.
Given to diets and massage.

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Oh, mind you. She like an
occasionally glass of sherry.

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Something like this,
for example.

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She got to like it
on our honeymoon.

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I'm sorry, Judge.

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I'm just not comfortable.
I mean all this.

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I mean, it's one thing to...
To take another man's wife
and quite another

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to drink a toast to doing it.
Is that it?

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I just don't feel
I should stay.

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I should have waited
in the car.

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Thanks for the drink.
Goodbye.

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But I would like to
say again, I'm sorry.

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You know, you disappoint me.

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Disappoint you?
Yes,
I thought you loved Grace.

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I do.

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If I loved a woman,
I'd be curious about her.

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I should want to know
everything about her.

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I know all I need to know
about her.
You do?

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You'll stay
because there are things
about Grace you want to know.

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I love her. That's enough.
No. That's not enough.

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You have questions you'll
never dare ask her yourself.

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Questions to which you'll
never get the answers,
except from me.

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You must hate her.
Hate her?

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I'm an old man
with a young wife.

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And I love her with
all the foolishness
the young never know.

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Oh, they know ecstasy.
They know desire.

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But they never know
the wondrous foolishness
of an old man in love

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for the first time.

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No, the young never know.

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They never understand.

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Believe me, sir,
I'm sorry.

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I wish
it were otherwise.

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This is a small town.
I've lived here all my life.

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My father and grandfather
before me.

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I've been the lawyer here.
I've been the judge.

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Yes, I've been the judge
for a long time.

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Have you read Aristotle,
Mr. Donaldson?

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No.

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"When people dispute,"
Aristotle wrote,

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"They take refuge
in the judge."

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Incidentally, do pour yourself
some more wine.

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He also said, Aristotle,

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"To go to the judge
is to go to justice."

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The judge restores equality.

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It is as though
there were a line
divided into unequal parts.

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And he took away that by which
the greater segment

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exceeds the half.

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And added to it
the smaller segment.

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Therefore, the just consists
in having equal amounts

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before and after
the transaction.

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Do you follow me,
Mr. Donaldson?

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What, only half finished?

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Help yourself, Mr. Donaldson.

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No, sir,
I think I've had enough.

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Help yourself!

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Drink.

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This is one bottle of wine
that deserves
to be appreciated.

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And we're
going to finish it.

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Every last drop of it,
Mr. Donaldson.

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I could shoot you,
Mr. Donaldson,
and get off scot-free.

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You couldn't find 12 men
among our 33,000

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who would convict a man
for shooting his wife's...

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(SIGHING)

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Well, that's the way it is.
That's not the law...

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That's just the way it is.

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For a long time
I believed I'd kill you.

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"If I ever set eyes on him
for one instant," I told
myself, "I'll kill him."

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Strike him down
on the street without mercy.

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I spent nights
wrestling with it,

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nights when Grace
was out and

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this house was
empty of everything

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except my thoughts.

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But I'm a weak and foolish
old man, and I haven't
the will to pull the trigger.

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I can't make myself do it.

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You respect the law.
I respect the law,

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but I despise myself.

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Had you ever planned

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to come to me, face me,
tell me your intentions?

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I mentioned it to Grace.

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But she didn't think
it was necessary.
And neither did you, eh?

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I guess I was...

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afraid.

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Not so much physically,
but of a scene.

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In a situation like this,
any man would be.

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You know, you really had me
going there a minute back.

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It never occurred to me
that you might misunderstand
and be afraid.

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After all, the magistrate
is the guardian of justice.

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But now that I've seen
how reasonable you are
and your approach...

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Oh, I don't know
how to say what I mean.

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You're trying to say that

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all we most needed was
to drink a bottle of old wine
between ourselves, eh?

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Yes. Yes, that's it.

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And that's the way
I felt about it.

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There.
Just one more each.

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Grace should be down
by then.

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No label.

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Hmm? No, no label.

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What kind of sherry
did you say that was?

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Amontillado. From Spain.

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Yes, when Grace and I were
married, we went to Europe
for our honeymoon.

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Well, it was
one of her conditions.

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She had never traveled
and she wanted to.

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I was 54
when I met Grace.

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Incredibly enough,
I had never been
in love before.

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Grace was my secretary.

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She was young
and she was very beautiful.

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From the moment I saw her,
I loved her.

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And I wanted her.
Any way I could get her,
I wanted her.

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A year it went on like that,
and I, longing for her.

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A year, Mr. Donaldson,

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an interminably long,
long time.

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(THUMPING)

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One bag's ready
from the sound of it.
It won't be too long now.

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Grace was new in town.

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But she knew exactly
what she wanted.

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Marriage, and a name,
and money.

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I doubt if she ever looked
on me as a man, with
a man's feelings and desires.

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No, no, I was just
"the Judge."

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And I loved her,
even though she had
no pity for my love.

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I didn't know this then,
understand.

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I learned it slowly
over these past 10 years.

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She's not like that,
what you're saying.

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She's different now,
isn't she? I mean,
you think she is different.

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She's the most understanding
woman I've ever known.
Sympathetic, helpful...

247
00:17:11,690 --> 00:17:15,160
It was in my office
one morning
we agreed to marry,

248
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much as you'd settle
a case out of court.

249
00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,870
She closed her bargain.
I closed mine.

250
00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:24,870
You don't love her.

251
00:17:24,910 --> 00:17:27,540
Everything you say
proves you don't.

252
00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,650
I keep reminding myself
when I sit in judgment of her,

253
00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,950
she was an ambitious girl.

254
00:17:35,050 --> 00:17:39,090
You may not be able
to understand this,
or to believe it,

255
00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:41,820
but I love her.
Of course, of course.

256
00:17:43,090 --> 00:17:47,060
But you're not the first
young man.
Nor will you be the last.

257
00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:48,860
I don't intend
to listen to this.

258
00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:51,070
Grace began to drift
about two years ago.

259
00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:52,900
I saw it coming,
but I couldn't stop it.

260
00:17:55,570 --> 00:17:59,070
She was searching
for someone to love,

261
00:17:59,070 --> 00:18:03,010
someone to leave me for.

262
00:18:03,010 --> 00:18:06,510
The right man,
the right step up.
It's you.

263
00:18:06,550 --> 00:18:09,250
You're the one.

264
00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:14,720
I wonder what it is
you have that she wants.
I wonder.

265
00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:16,830
And I believe I know.

266
00:18:18,530 --> 00:18:22,760
It's youth. She wants
the youngness of you,

267
00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,100
just as I wanted her
youngness a long time ago.

268
00:18:25,130 --> 00:18:26,870
I don't know.

269
00:18:29,570 --> 00:18:31,140
I don't know.

270
00:18:32,810 --> 00:18:35,680
But whatever it is,
youth or money
or whatever it is,

271
00:18:35,710 --> 00:18:37,850
if I can give it
to her, I will.

272
00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:39,180
You will?

273
00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:42,680
If I say it,
I will.

274
00:18:46,420 --> 00:18:48,960
Look, I know
this is rough on you,

275
00:18:49,060 --> 00:18:53,560
but these things happen.
Nobody plans them,
they just happen.

276
00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:55,660
Sometimes
somebody gets hurt.

277
00:18:57,300 --> 00:18:59,800
I asked you
about Aristotle before,

278
00:18:59,830 --> 00:19:03,440
now I ask you about Socrates.
Are you familiar
with his story?

279
00:19:03,470 --> 00:19:04,810
No.

280
00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,840
Oh, then you're not
familiar with his last words
to his judges,

281
00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:12,280
a panel of Athenian
noblemen who had just
sentenced him to death.

282
00:19:12,310 --> 00:19:13,480
I really think
I ought to run up
and help her.

283
00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:15,650
I know Grace.

284
00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,450
She'd not be even
close to being ready.

285
00:19:18,490 --> 00:19:20,920
She'll call
when she wants you.

286
00:19:21,020 --> 00:19:24,330
Socrates took poison.

287
00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:27,030
Hemlock juice, very deadly.

288
00:19:28,130 --> 00:19:30,930
It's rather stuffy in here.
Don't you feel it?

289
00:19:31,030 --> 00:19:35,040
Um, no. Well, it's the wine.
It's just the wine,
not the heat.

290
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,310
I did gulp it.

291
00:19:37,340 --> 00:19:41,180
One should sip wine,
I drank it rather fast.

292
00:19:41,210 --> 00:19:47,520
Socrates, Mr. Donaldson,
listen to what a wise man
facing death had to say,

293
00:19:47,550 --> 00:19:50,950
"Wherefore, O judges,
be of good cheer about death,

294
00:19:51,050 --> 00:19:55,460
"and know of a certainty,
that no evil can happen
to a good man,

295
00:19:55,490 --> 00:19:57,930
"either in life
or after death.

296
00:20:00,130 --> 00:20:03,370
"He and his are not neglected
by the gods,

297
00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,440
"nor has my own approaching
end happened by mere chance.

298
00:20:07,470 --> 00:20:10,940
"But I see clearly that
the time had arrived when
it was better for me to die

299
00:20:10,970 --> 00:20:13,410
"and be released from trouble.

300
00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,080
"The hour of departure
has arrived,

301
00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:23,050
"and we go our ways,

302
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:28,160
"one of us to die
and one to live.

303
00:20:28,190 --> 00:20:33,700
"Which is better
God only knows."

304
00:20:33,730 --> 00:20:37,830
Yes, I feel it, too.

305
00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:44,310
I suggest you sit down.
The pain will be
less severe that way.

306
00:20:44,340 --> 00:20:46,210
Pain? What pain?

307
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:48,840
The wine, Mr. Donaldson.
The wine.

308
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,650
What about the wine?

309
00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,320
You'll recall, I went
out of the room to get it.

310
00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:57,790
But I heard you
open the bottle.

311
00:20:57,820 --> 00:21:00,920
You couldn't have possibly
put anything in it
while you were outside.

312
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,060
You heard me open
a bottle but not that one.

313
00:21:04,060 --> 00:21:06,330
I opened another one
just to deceive you.

314
00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:08,460
I prepared that bottle
days ago.

315
00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:12,670
I've been saving it.
For us.

316
00:21:12,700 --> 00:21:14,670
That's impossible.

317
00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:17,770
You have two,
maybe three minutes to live.

318
00:21:17,810 --> 00:21:20,280
But you drank the wine, too.
Glass for glass.

319
00:21:20,310 --> 00:21:23,110
You're sure?
No pain yet?

320
00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:27,580
I shall remember that
and be grateful I didn't
cause you any suffering.

321
00:21:31,590 --> 00:21:34,190
It's too late
to call a doctor.

322
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:36,760
Why don't you feel it?

323
00:21:36,790 --> 00:21:38,460
I do.

324
00:21:38,490 --> 00:21:40,160
And that's why
I leave you now.

325
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,900
So you may die alone
and in peace.

326
00:21:42,930 --> 00:21:45,900
Particularly because
I don't intend to join you.

327
00:21:45,930 --> 00:21:47,170
(DOOR CLOSING)

328
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,000
(DOOR LOCK CLICKING)

329
00:21:53,010 --> 00:21:55,680
Grace! Grace!

330
00:21:55,710 --> 00:21:58,280
You said you'd give her
anything, Donaldson.

331
00:21:58,310 --> 00:22:00,120
What more
can you give her
than your life?

332
00:22:00,150 --> 00:22:02,050
(BANGING ON DOOR)
WALLACE: Help me! Help me!

333
00:22:02,050 --> 00:22:04,850
I've laid out
the various items
which I now go to take,

334
00:22:04,890 --> 00:22:08,790
emetics, antidotes,
they're not pleasant.

335
00:22:08,820 --> 00:22:12,430
But they'll save me from
accompanying you, young man,
on your long, long voyage.

336
00:22:12,460 --> 00:22:14,200
Help me, Judge, please.

337
00:22:14,230 --> 00:22:16,670
Please, don't let me
die in here by myself.

338
00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:19,070
CONDON: I seem to remember
you and my wife were
ready to leave me

339
00:22:19,070 --> 00:22:21,400
to live and die by myself.

340
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,970
I'll go away. I'll go away,
but help me, please. Help me!

341
00:22:26,070 --> 00:22:29,380
I say to you, Donaldson,
what I have had to say

342
00:22:29,410 --> 00:22:31,350
(BANGING ON DOOR)
to other condemned men,

343
00:22:31,380 --> 00:22:33,550
May God have mercy
on your soul.

344
00:22:33,580 --> 00:22:35,620
I'll never bother
you and Grace again.

345
00:22:35,650 --> 00:22:39,220
Judge! What are you
doing to him?

346
00:22:39,250 --> 00:22:42,420
Just having a little fun,
my pound of flesh,
my moment of glory.

347
00:22:42,460 --> 00:22:44,990
WALLACE: Judge!
Judge Condon!

348
00:22:45,090 --> 00:22:47,800
You see, my dear,
your man turns out
to be not a man after all,

349
00:22:47,830 --> 00:22:51,230
but an hysterical child.
I had to prove it to you.

350
00:22:53,170 --> 00:22:57,310
Listen to him.
The man you preferred to me.
Listen.

351
00:22:57,340 --> 00:22:59,710
(GUN FIRING)

352
00:23:03,750 --> 00:23:04,910
(SCREAMING)

353
00:23:07,050 --> 00:23:10,320
WALLACE: Grace!
Grace, open the door!

354
00:23:18,790 --> 00:23:20,130
Grace!

355
00:23:23,260 --> 00:23:27,170
Grace, he's poisoned me.
Poison?

356
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,870
You think the Judge could...
Yes, I know it!

357
00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:33,270
No. No, he couldn't-- he--

358
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,710
Why, in 20 years he never
once sentenced a man to death.

359
00:23:37,750 --> 00:23:39,980
But he told me.

360
00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,080
The bottle of wine,
the one he bought for you in
Spain, on your honeymoon.

361
00:23:44,890 --> 00:23:48,690
We never had a honeymoon
in Spain, Wallace.

362
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:52,360
There was nothing wrong
with that bottle of sherry.

363
00:24:05,940 --> 00:24:07,410
Forsooth.

364
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,380
Such knavery.

365
00:24:10,410 --> 00:24:13,880
Naturally the police
apprehended Wallace

366
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:17,690
and he paid for his
ungentlemanly conduct.

367
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,860
After all, one should not
shoot one's host

368
00:24:21,890 --> 00:24:23,490
before dinner.

369
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:29,100
This concludes our little
preachment on the evils
of drink.

370
00:24:29,130 --> 00:24:31,430
Tune in next time,

371
00:24:31,470 --> 00:24:37,140
when we shall again present
a charming little horrific
fairy tale.

372
00:24:37,170 --> 00:24:38,640
Good night.