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Anything I can do to help no not right

now thanks but in the future if you'd

check the instrument panel adjacent to

the steering column regularly might be

able to determine how much gasoline is

still available yeah wish she'd

- explained all that to me before you know - I thought I already had

Morning miss Kay morning sorry to

interrupt the concert is Mike back yet

no he and Nicki went out early this

morning and I haven't seen or heard from

either one of them since that figures

when I stop to think that a mere 19

years ago the army and its infinite

wisdom offered me 91 bucks a month free

uniforms room and board and a chance to

stay in green on the rest of my life but

what do you know when you're young could

that be my crack investigator checking

in today hello yes what hospital

all right yes thank you I appreciate the

call what happened it's been a

hit-and-run accident mr. Longstreet no

Vicki

go home way Duke Mike you can't blame

yourself for this

why can't I you just shouldn't I

couldn't warn her I couldn't stop her

couldn't see her Mike it was an accident

an accident there was fault yeah the

driver no not the driver Duke me me

you're running around doing my thing

dragging Niki with me all right Mike

let's let's not try to straighten it all

out tonight

go home will you do it please Mike I

can't walk out without knowing what's

happening to Nicky what's happening to

you now she has some cuts and bruises

and what looks like a concussion there

may be some internal injuries but we

can't be sure yet if you'd like to see

it

No unexpect any significant change in

her condition four hours maybe days

naturally did they'll call you if I'm

wrong one way or the other

good night general thank you doctor come

on Michael

Drive you home no thanks come-come

oh thanks left

good morning sorry I'm late

poached or scrambled this morning

anybody feed you come on mrs. Kingston I

want you to take the week off if I had

one of the week off I would have asked

now I mean that breakfast will be ready

just a minute max max committee home

morning Mike I thought I shut him lock

that gate I just stopped by the hospital

Nicki's holding her own I don't want you

here don't you understand that turn that

thing off and you take those plates off

that table

with our fingers nobody's staying let's

come over and isn't isn't that what

you're thinking are we gonna do about

him how do we get him back in line and

you don't Mike it's a bummer we we all

have them you wake up and there it is

roosting on your ceiling like a like a

bat now come on have a cup of coffee I'm

tired I mean I'm really tired trying to

impress you with my keen sense of

hearing smelling the bacon cooking

listening to mrs. Kingston sent out a

couple of plates on a table look at the

blind man doing his magic bid always all

his senses clicking what does he have to

see for he's more tuned in than the rest

of us poor sighted people stumbling

around looking at everything but seeing

- nothing well he he looks at nothing but - sees everything like hell

Wake up and see a bat on my ceiling I'd

love to

great big boy beautiful bad Mike my god

just to see

I've never seen him like this before

ever never had a reason like this Nikki

yeah I'm really worried about it too

I'm also worried about the danger Mike's

exposing himself to he lets himself sink

back into that easy chair you might

never get back up again we gotta keep

them moving somehow hello

morning Dan this is Duke Paige oh good

hear from ya

mmm that bad I see well about a half an

hour all right what if even dr. Stockton

can't keep him moving

if Dan can't help him Nicky doesn't Wow

Nicky doesn't thank you

I could lose everything he's worked so

hard for we could those might teach you

to go running off with a handsome young

investigator leave me all alone on an

ice floe like some Asian walrus hunter

when I get out of here I I promise to

lead a more sedentary existence well now

don't you go promising something you

can't deliver you might come with you no

how's he taking it I'm afraid

something's happened to him he but hit

and run driver got you both

listen Mike's fault have happened anyone

talk to him not yet

what can we do well the first thing I'm

going to do is tell him that you're just

about out of the woods and why no I'm

not yet

thanks for what truth what you're saying

is you need to start building another

world for him okay what's the matter

well I always used to say that giving

women the vote the right to drive an

automobile with two giant steps toward

undermining Western civilization won't

come to girl like you I'm not so sure

max what is it oh is that the boys out

of your past Dan I'm flattered you

remember

yes I remember you're a lucky man right

here that loves you

Duke sending up distress signals making

just about out of the woods not many

people have that kind of sport that most

people don't need that kind of support

why move huh your idea you'll need close

enough for two weeks I'd like you to go

upstairs the back I'm not going anywhere

mostly work clothes you won't be

dressing up this Oh Dan look forget it

will you it's not going to work I know

you mean well so didn't do but I'm just

beat do a good hard look at myself and I

don't like what I saw I know maybe maybe

it's wrong maybe it's self-defeating

maybe I should hate myself for ending up

like this buddy I just don't give a damn

anymore

fair enough right to be lazy just like

anybody else

don't you think it is laziness what do

you think I really have to go through

the beginning stable let me tell you I

wake up in this place this dark silent

empty place and I have to bring it back

to life I have to I have to imagine it I

have to think it back into existence

crank myself up at my engine racking put

on my big broad convincing smile and

feel my way into a brand new day which

is exactly like the day I stopped making

up the night before people come in we

talked the phone rings we do our day and

they leave phone stops ringing house

settles back down into the dark the only

thing that keeps it from sinking

altogether is me why don't let it sink

Mike what do you think the human eye is

anyway some vital organ that kills you

and it stops working it's a luxury

that's all it is not a necessity there's

a lantern that's hung in the front of

the brain waiting to be lit from the

outside your a case what's outside is

not sending your signals so you've got

to like that lantern by yourself from

within yourself okay you got tired doing

that this accident with Niki that give

you the excuse well that's fine for one

day maybe two and then like any muscle

it's not exercised your other senses

will atrophy and you'll end up as a

basket case unable to make a comeback I

told you Dan I just don't care you are

you going I want to get you back

damn you're coming with me because you

owe me I once gave you six months of my

life

I plugged you into my personal battery

and you took away a lot of energy from

me Mike the energy I could have given to

- somebody else I haven't got that much - left right now any more than I got so

I'm calling that note you're gonna pay

your debt I'm talking about Russell are

someone who are inpatients lost his

sight six months ago and refuses to

accept his blindness right now he's

sitting in the bottom of a well he won't

move he won't talk he won't even try he

- wants to die and you're gonna help me - save him I see doctor Dan Stockton sir

You think you're pretty clever Kent

don't you

I mean you figure you get me in there

with this kid Larson see how bad off he

isn't presto magic therapy time blind

leading the blind will you forget it

there's no way you're coming with me

Mike if I have to throw a net away and

drag in

- you will arson deserve each other and - you're gonna get each other

Oh with an oyster who lived in a shell

if you left him alone you felt perfectly

well has it occurred to you I can do

this patient of yours more harm than

good yeah vice versa he can really pull

you down this one you think you're in

trouble now just wait you're trying to

challenge me

oh my warn you alright

how long do I have to do this thing

until I'm paid off my dues

well I gave you six months of my life

what's fair one week no more packs come

on this goes to show you how to achieve

my time in now I have to go left here my

stay to the right

axe left one of the House Rules

otherwise I might bump into a lot of

busy people

no long way there Mike that's a

non-capital executive director Mike

Longstreet Oh Mike Oh anything you need

- just let me know all right thank you - most of our students here a children

Mike the reason that we started to live

in programs or people from 17 to 21

VIPs we call a vocational independence

program we try to teach him a set of

their own apartments with a shopping

alone or in a vocation job the silent

world that's the program Russell

artisans they know he won't allow

himself to get started Oh what's he

doing here at all

Oh parish priest talk to him coming here

a few weeks ago and where else to go an

orphan so I suppose he configurating

just as well wither on the vine here is

anywhere how they men's quarters are on

the Left women on the right we allow

visiting and so midnight man we expect

everybody to get sorted out properly now

here's your room and rest

Oh Dan wait a minute you don't expect me

to share a room in it why not all you're

gonna do is sit on the dark you sit on

one side he can sit on the other want

the room to spare pretty Spartan 12 or

15 beds closer three o'clock bathroom at

9:00

where's the window oh thanks for don't

feel any sunlight wide open the grapes

where's that we'll call it on the left

and on your left on the other bed is

Russ Larsen Russ this is Mike Longstreet

he's gonna live in here for one week

that's packs Mike's guide dog all right

your dresser and we serve dinner at 5:00

if you're interested if you get hungry

packs you you let me know

twelve O'Clock like ten feet Jared

Saturday

thank you

hi hi hmm

I'm glad you came yes I'm I'm sorry I I

couldn't come any sooner

how are you fine in essentials you see

my father was Humpty Dumpty congenital

fragility runs in our family

I had a great fall that looks like

they're gonna put me back together he

cut out the jokes we please

well I like you better this way

unpleasant surly

like like didn't she come sooner you

know they they found that man who ran

you over you know that yeah he turned

himself in dude told me and answer my

question

why should come sooner

Mickey I Ivan I've been thinking I'm

really not what you bargained for

not exactly I mean you were my teacher I

depended on you but I had no right to

ask you to come to work for me to to

give up your own free sane productive

life I oh my god I didn't give up

anything

I am I traded some things that's all

hey you shouldn't have should I have I'm

sorry I asked you to I'm not not now not

ever

Nicky are you trying to tell man fire

I'm just trying to give you some freedom

choice

what was that I turned on the light

where'd you do that for cuz it's dark

now

but strike

I didn't sound like a strike to me it

sounded more like a ball you're

questioning the umpire no you can't see

any better than I can

ok ok let's play ball now listen to it

Mike

swing at the sound Wow 3 into Mike ok

Dan moment of truth huh

right Mike all right here she comes

hey you Pete now you see it's

battery-operated right here Oh Janet see

yeah a little hole there nice we

recharge it

never seen anything like that before no

means a kid who's blind can play

baseball again Dan said used to be a

pretty fair second baseman before yeah

before before I was it why don't you

hang on to it anyway I don't know not

going keep no I don't want it okay go

ahead teach tell me on that that's what

you call negative identity and I'm

really a nice guy underneath and all but

uh I just do all these awful things

because I need love it's my way of

attracting love right now you know I saw

you remind me of a shipwreck I once saw

on a beach in Cape Hatteras if you used

to wade out and take souvenirs over

there there wasn't much left but a

skeleton of a hall and somebody got a

bright idea they put out a sign property

US national parks serve their heritage

please leave the wreck for others to

enjoy what am i the record the sign are

you neither

they're neither here are the psychology

behind the sign you figure gonna get a

lot more attention as a wreck than is

anything else you don't want to make it

on your own do you wear my glasses I I

can't get any more like those please

please help me find him I got plumbing

guys find him yourself

please I don't even you see me I'll be

wrong in here no Lygia all right come on

you know get up off the floor please

don't look at me I don't give me without

my glasses I can't see you yeah

everybody can see me all right come on

come on get up I can't well give me a

can't I'm too tired yeah come on it's

the last time you ate anyway Oh No what

does it matter huh

- I don't want to live anywhere I just - want to die well I tell you what Sonny

You'll learn how to live you know we're

in the right to die I'm at least gonna

show you that and then you're off my

- hands you can make your own choice are - you saying about that

Understand thing he's head over heels

with misgivings oh yeah so far mike has

just been going through the motions I

don't see how it you helped me more than

kill Dan can bring them together and no

longer alone right I don't know I guess

so the whole thing is a wheel out of my

line I'm I'm an inside person you and

Mike and Dan your outside people you've

got the knack for expressing your

feelings so thank you

Nikki nurse nurse G R a c e f u L

another L Y gracefully what do you think

that's fantastic I heard about it before

but I didn't believe it took Stanford

University six years to figure out other

convert their ordinary printed page into

a series of vibrations that opens up

every library in the world even if there

isn't a single volume Braille on the

shelf

why'd you take it along show it to us

and you know what he did with that

softball yeah but I like the way it's

going tension and conflict its

indifference beaches

with back foot

what's that oh it's just sort of

something down on me hey could I ask you

a favor

if I go ahead could I work with packs

for wire what I mean in here yeah well

he's my dog Russ I don't think he'd work

for you

sure we will guide dogs one-man dog not

just anybody can handle him you know

well we wouldn't even listen to you oh

let me try my I mean well I mean that's

how you get around so well and well I

think he likes me right back okay okay

pax pax forward whoa okay

pax right packs left packs left

hey wish you could see this good point

okay

pax it I know it's not bad for a

beginner

well if I had a dog like this I could I

could get around to I could go anywhere

dan can help you get one Russ hey can I

see that thing that Dan will you sure

sure come on over here shorty see it's

called an optic on it I'll let you read

a book any book doesn't have to be in

Braille yeah you see you put your finger

in there makes it and then you look at

your hand

and you run that across the page and it

did see it emits vibrations like any

letter right it tells you what is my

goal for instance they're gonna try and

H e G that's right or the word she

so our that's it we read a whole book

that way no no forget your feet stop

thinking of them as acres it's more like

a like a hull of a sailboat can I cut

yourself loose but the current the wind

take you now float no no no you're still

walking you're not floating I come on

come on try it again

try it again come on oh wait wait wait a

match you want to look like

Frankenstein's monster get those hands

down I'm into something I'm not go I

don't like I showed you and not if you

listen try it again

go how can I hear walls

I think SPECT to hear anything with you

thank you so much noise when you're

walking clomp clomp clomp I try it again

quietly smooth nice and smooth

that's better that's better I want you

to touch everything not just your feet

feel everything touch it all Oh coming

Mike oh yeah come on in Mike

Nikki's had a relapse Luke's at the

hospital now he just called me a relapse

but Dan you'd you told me she was okay

she told me herself she was fine I know

I know but her conditions deteriorated

she's unconscious all right get me there

you think that's such a good idea right

now look I'll take care of packs and

wouldn't come back we can yeah sure

maybe I'll make you a present you

pretend you're as good as anybody else

Mike I'll forget it

everything has to be struggled and

learned and studied and agonized over I

mean look at me now I have to beg for a

ride I have to listen to the protective

question is it really such a good idea

Mike he plead my way at the hospital

they still won't let me see her

I don't maybe I can't handle it that's

maybe I'm not quite like normal people

you allows you think you know better

than I am that's right Sonny he's the

blind leading the blind

dan you gonna take me all right thanks

for it

what she's okay she's gonna make it

you know what I've been thinking know

what there are typical male chauvinist

why well this business about giving me a

choice working with you is my choice I

am don't know that I want to live there

but right now this moment in my life

it's a nice place to visit

don't fire me yet

I'll tell you when okay yeah okay

I thought I'd better bring these back he

hasn't touched them well least Nicki's

out of danger going home a few days

you'll be going home I'm right stays

here with the door shut

you got him to open it once Mike

max go

Russ I'm sorry I I'm sorry we didn't

accomplish more sorry about those things

I said just just go away now that's what

I asked people to do I got lucky didn't

really believe I meant it

I mean it Russ I'm not gonna lie to you

I'm I'm not gonna tell you every day is

a picnic some days things happen and it

gets rough some of the nights even

rougher thanks a lot

sometimes you they get tired and I want

to give up you want to throw in the

towel that's when it really gets bad

that's almost what happened to me even

and I got lucky you bailed me out did

you know that I don't care look I just

want to see that's all Russ

even the people are gonna see even they

they're locked in everybody's locked in

you you take this whole universe we live

in

Take the vast spectrum of radiations

only a narrow belt maybe bond but one

sixtieth can even be perceived as liked

by the human eye nobody sees radio waves

nobody sees x-rays but they're there

- people can't see ultraviolet but the bee - can who cares about ultraviolet x-rays I

Just want to see what everybody else

sees or you can't never again Russ what

I'm trying to tell you is that there

there are degrees of seeing you and I

have the ability to to perceive reality

and a dimension sighted people aren't

even aware of touch sound taste smell

imagination illusion wait that's our

world our own special world somewhere

- outside the realm of facts don't you see - we have two worlds our world and the

World will decided we can go back and

forth between both of them they can't

it's not much to go on well it's enough

all right Russ I yeah I have to go out

in that corridor now out there where

there's those people where there's life

where there's there's pain where there's

where there's love

I could walk out together Thanks

you're ready

I think so go ahead

packs forward packs right