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When the day breaks on the city, and the sun begins to fly, I remember how it stood.

On witness to the crime.

You were bothered to be dark to live.

You were husband to the wise.

You have tried to write a story.

The story of the rest of my life.

All promises fall apart.

The breaking glass that I've broken apart.

No!

The roses went last out.

So tell me no more lies.

Tell me no more lies.

You can leave me with a sky that's red.

Or with a moon is blue.

You can leave me with a wall to leave.

It's no surprise, cause I was leaving too.

All promises fall apart.

The breaking glass that I've broken apart.

No!

The roses went last out.

So tell me no more lies.

No! The roses went last out.

So tell me no more lies.

The promises fall apart.

The breaking glass that I've broken apart.

Hey girl!

No! The roses went last out.

Excuse me.

Pagan!

Pagan!

What?

Do you have a sewing kit?

No!

What's the matter?

I need a sewing kit.

Oh, I don't know.

Why can I have that?

Needle and Fred.

Sorry, madam.

Excuse me.

How about a safety pin, Maxine?

Where are you?

We're going to be late.

Mother, what am I going to do about my hair?

The hair looks fine.

Oh, don't be ridiculous.

Would you give them ten dollars for me?

Well, thank you.

Christopher, would you have ten dollars?

Sure.

Thanks.

Oh, stop twitching.

I never twitched.

Yeah.

That doesn't show at all, practically.

Twenty thousand frangs for puppers that don't stay pop.

What's cheap is cheap.

I don't even know why I'm going.

Because you're a devoted friend to mother and daughter.

And what happens when daughter finds out the truth?

Why should she ever?

Well, she won't from me.

I thought so.

There's nothing to fret about.

Why, we're going to be late.

Just come.

Fantastic.

Super.

Man, you think?

Oh.

Ta-da.

Why don't we all go to a movie?

Uh.

Oh.

You're not.

Look here.

You're not going to be me.

Why is our daughter with that fluzy?

As I mentioned earlier, all the proceeds from tonight's premiere go to the International Cancer Foundation.

And, uh, the president of that foundation is Sir Christopher Swan.

Hello.

Welcome.

Big night for you, right?

Definitely.

And this is Lady Swan.

And the Countess D'Ischesal.

My pleasure, Countess.

I'd just like to say that it was Lily herself who insisted that the premiere benefits cancer research.

So, so we owe it all to her.

And would like everyone to know.

A good point.

And I'd like to take this opportunity to say...

Excuse me, Christopher.

I think she's here.

That is a sensational gown, Lily.

It looks better on her.

Oh, but I only wear it the daytime.

As most of you know, this lovely lady is Judy Hale, editor of Lace magazine,

which is currently doing a no punches pool series on a whole people, Lily.

And that's why you're here together, right?

Is that love?

No.

She's here because I think that this is the most important film that I've made,

and I wanted my mother to share tonight with me.

You're saying that you...

Are we saying that we're saying?

That's what we're saying.

You're this.

You're this.

Yes.

Will you be starting a new picture, right?

Well, no, actually, we're both leaving right.

We're both leaving a well-deserved occasion tomorrow.

Oh, my God.

We're going to visit my grandparents.

That's pretty good.

Well, good luck with the picture.

I hear it's great.

And expectations are high.

Carry me back to...

Oh, West Virginia.

They wear the cotton and the corn and daddies go.

They wear the birds for all the species in the springtime.

Lily, slow down.

I hate speed limits.

I hate speed limits.

The whole town's turning out, Daryl.

Banks, schools, everything's closed half day.

Banks, too.

Are you all right?

Never better.

We were supposed to be sneaking into town.

What the hell do you think you're doing?

You've been drinking.

Excuse me. Step aside here, please.

Under controlling.

Has anybody heard?

Well, if it isn't.

I'm going to go like that.

Still anything to spoil the part.

Wait a minute, you're Judy Hale, aren't you?

Never mind that.

We got all the Haddington waiting.

What?

It was all my fault.

I'll say it was.

What?

What?

Hey, baby, see you.

Hey, see you.

Hey.

Hurry up.

That's not Lily.

Is it?

Hey, here.

Hey, Lily.

You are.

I am.

Well now.

Let's have a little room here.

Where's that photographer?

Hey, Lily, over here.

Hey, Daryl.

How do I think?

You too, Ben?

No.

I'm Lily.

Daryl Webster.

Get there.

Just like that.

The movie star most men want to be on a desert island with

than the astronaut most women want to be an organ with.

We'll be on every front page in the country.

Oh, no.

Just this.

Okay.

One more now.

One more.

How's that?

Oh, there you go.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Just this flaps of water.

And the ground size of this altitude is minus 50.

Now ground speed right now is 540.

My ground.

And now the clean pass halfway.

I don't know what to do.

I'm fine.

I'll have to love it tonight.

Oh, excuse me.

Get him some water, please.

No, it won't help.

What is it?

In late-term.

A heart attack.

Don't talk.

Count this crank goony faster.

You're in late-term.

Your correct relationship can be looked.

I don't know how you're doing a good thing for this time.

This is ridiculous.

What?

We're all walking on eggshells.

Relax.

Well, what do you expect?

It isn't easy suddenly to have a grown-up granddaughter.

And a famous one?

And an illegitimate one?

No, no, no.

Nobody said that about that.

Haddington is more enlightened than you think.

Good for Haddington.

It's awful to admit, but...

Say it.

Well, I've never seen any of your movies.

I have.

When?

When I went to Baltimore with the lodge.

You never told me.

Didn't I?

There's...

Something I've got to ask.

Go ahead.

When you're playing those love scenes...

What on earth is going through your mind?

New dresses,

new shoes,

new wallpaper,

recipes.

But I'll tell you something that isn't.

What?

The lodge members in Baltimore.

If we were not expecting you, Cortez.

Don't I get any welcome?

Of course.

Do you have a good trip?

Yes.

I'll tell you all about it in the morning.

I'm awfully tired.

Mother?

Yes?

Father, they don't expect you back until tomorrow.

I think you should know...

your secretary is staying overnight.

I'm sorry.

Darling, it isn't exactly as it appears.

Really?

Then tell me what it is.

Exactly.

If you will give me a little chance to get dressed.

Of course.

Aren't you getting dressed, Charles?

Such modesty.

After 20 years of marriage.

20 years.

We will discuss this downstairs.

Discuss what, darling?

There's nothing to discuss.

You will barely say what you said all the other times.

That you've reached the age when you have to know you're so attractive to young women.

I understand, Charles.

But perhaps...

I'm beginning to have the same doubts about my attractiveness to men.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

Here.

Want a good laugh?

Judy, pagan, jude, vaccine.

You need some teachers, but no Judy with him.

He looks a little like that astronaut.

A bit.

But a very different person.

What am I supposed to say?

That he's handsome.

That he looks very nice.

Both will be true.

I want to meet him.

It's not possible.

We might like each other.

I could thank him for his contribution to my existence.

He was killed a year after that was taken.

You keep giving me bits and pieces.

When do I hear the whole story?

I think I wrote it better than I can tell it.

My first attempt at a novel.

The adventures of the cindolese.

Guess who's the cinder?

This is what you want.

I'm not.

Judy?

I'm here, mother.

Cadaverde from New York.

I'm coming.

Oh, I better warn you.

Some of it might be unpleasant.

I'm not sure.

Hello?

Judy?

Tom, you better be sitting down when you hear this.

Can you get back to New York right away?

Well, sure, I can leave immediately.

The three school girls in spite of themselves fell madly in love with the same man.

He was Neil Carr's stairs, an important executive at the bank.

They waited for him at lunchtime and watched and admired and giggled.

They followed him and finally mustered up the courage to speak to him.

He invited them to sit down.

Pamela was brazen.

Madeline used all her charm.

Sola Cinder, the surprise that he even noticed her.

The saint Valentine's dance.

Lucinda was in his arms, still surprised, but blissfully happy.

Even when he told Lucinda he was going to marry someone else, she didn't regret what happened.

But soon, very soon, the tranquility of her life at school was to be violently shattered.

She is out there!

Are you all right?

Yes.

Just a little bit pregnant.

What?

Maybe it's psychosomatic.

Don't be stupid.

It's possible.

My out-of-toss had three fantasy pregnancies.

If the biology of that happened, that was a fantasy.

We could find out for sure.

Or maybe we are pregnant too.

And we are fantasizing that we aren't.

Speak for yourself.

Someone please tell me what to do.

All right.

First of all, we don't get our niggas in a twist.

We wait one more week until we are absolutely certain.

And if we are...

Anybody got any candy?

No!

No!

Just ask him.

And if you are, Priggers, we go and discuss it somewhere in private.

I suppose this is private enough.

Don't be so flip-pagan.

I'm in trouble.

It could be worse.

Sure, I could have triplets.

If schools gave courses in sex education, it still would have happened.

It sounded like you wanted it to.

I thought we were going to discuss my problem, not me.

Let's try and remember we're best friends, shall we?

Sorry.

You have reason to be upset.

If it were me, I'll be out of my mind.

Well, that's a help.

Look, it's not for us to advise you to decide what you want to do.

And whatever it is, we'll help.

Through sickensin!

I don't want to have it.

Oh, you're sure?

You've given that serious thought?

I haven't thought about anything else for a month.

All right then, that's it.

Right.

You don't want to have faith in you.

So you won't have it to be hell.

There are ways.

There are ways to fit up on you and you'll get it perfectly appraisant.

How are you with this work?

Life cornerstone.

figurFE

have you heard in Mr.

companies?

And what do still best holds?

St. best holds.

How are you doing? Fine. Just one more.

Already?

Are you certain it takes this much?

Oh, I did!

Just give me a hug!

Oh, I'm getting drunk.

What are you doing?

Where are we going?

Who are you?

I'm Maxie!

Help!

Go!

Agh!

Agh!

Don't you want yours?

All I can taste is that awful stuff.

You and your own wives tales.

Maybe I got it wrong.

Maybe you got it backwards.

Maybe you're supposed to drink the hot water

and take a bath and that awful stuff.

It isn't fair.

He's sitting in his bank without a care in the world

and you got a hangover and nothing's changed.

It's my problem, not his.

Why should he get off, Scott Free?

He takes two to tango.

His family's plan is entire future, including who will marry.

And so, plans change.

Well, I think I deliberately try to trap him.

Wait, he'd hate me forever.

Never mind his feelings.

What about yours?

Look, I'm not going to tell him that's final.

It's fine, okay? Do you understand?

I mean, if you don't want to help me intelligently or logically,

well, then just butt out, both of you.

Did she say intelligently and logically?

It's affected her brain like some woman craved deal pickles.

If she can't think straight, we'll have to do her thinking for her.

You know what I think.

I think if he knew, he would marry her.

Of course!

He's decent and honorable.

And he loves her.

And this could give him enough courage to stand up to his family.

Exactly.

He's got to be told.

By you or by me?

In unity, there's strength.

I'm sorry.

What if he's not home?

Wait for him.

You begin and I chime in.

How do I begin?

Be...be delicate.

Delegate.

In turn.

And that was the last time either of them ever saw Neil Carr's tears.

Three years later, he would die a hero's death in Vietnam.

I told you that some of it might hurt.

Not much.

Not even my trying to get rid of you.

I had an abortion when I was that age.

There were many times when I wished you had.

Never again.

You called Pagan Pamela and Maxine Madeline.

Yes.

With the exception of Lucinda Lays, I used the initials of the peep I was writing about.

Then Neil Carr's tears his real name was...

Nicholas Cliff.

The parts of Bad is family and the bank are true.

The Philadelphia Guarantee Trust, his father's chairman of the board.

I'd like to read the rest of it.

No.

No.

It's all silly schoolgirl stuff.

I've written much better since.

Still, the past doesn't have to be buried in a trunk anymore.

Right?

Right.

I'll take this with us.

I'm not out of that respect to New York.

I want to do it.

He's got shifty eyes and a cruel mouth.

What do you expect?

He's a bad...

I don't like it.

Oh, come on, Tom.

Many of me magazine would jump at it.

Yeah, but why lace?

Well, I guess context said the general that admired my book in Vietnam.

The trust, my integrity.

Oh, yeah, sure. Plus we give him $50,000.

It's worth it.

Are you sure?

First of all, you got to get there.

Probably the last 10 miles on a horse.

Then you're holed up in some mountain hideout with a gorilla leader who blows up bridges like I like a cigarette.

You know what they say.

General Zane rhymes with dead.

Plus, he probably hasn't seen a woman and who knows how long.

So don't be so calm.

Be anything but calm.

He's not the one I'm worried about.

Then who is?

I guess.

It makes no difference to me.

Of course it does.

Look, your magazine comes first.

I never said that.

Well, then what's the problem?

The problem is that I promised to go to LA with you.

And now I've been offering an exclusive interview with the most inaccessible rebel leader.

Well, then all you have to decide is what's just more important to you.

I'll stop pretending to be so damn reasonable.

Be anything but that.

Is that better?

Yes.

And how about if I say that I am scared about making my first Hollywood film?

Are you?

Yes, I'm scared to death.

Then I'm going with you.

No, you've taken two whole weeks off to play mother.

Vacation's over.

I'm going with you.

Stop being a martyr.

I can't stand self-sacrifice.

You hate speed limits.

I can't stand self-sacrifice.

Will you please tell me what you do like?

You.

And I want you to go off an interview with General Wudson.

Zed.

Rhymes with dead.

And meet me in Los Angeles.

In a battle week.

To deal.

Thank you.

The captain of that time was large and slender.

And the palace's temples can also begin.

Made its charming as well as its office.

Is that hell?

And it's possible to continue a torrent.

Look at the roads.

Look intensely.

It's about waiting.

Sit down.

Any cargo?

No, sir. No, sir.

Okay.

Hold it over your

Stay there home.

Very marvelous.

I'm sorry.

My name's Riley.

Judy Hale.

This way.

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh!

Oh, it is not too much to ask,

trying to get us all killed.

Why better warn you?

What now?

I'm not very good on a horse.

No problem.

They make less noise than a horse.

Something you do well to emulate.

Oh, hi.

Oh, hi.

Oh, oh.

Oh, oh.

Oh, that one's yours.

Nice little elephant.

Nice little elephant.

Oh!

All right,AFhea!

There it is!

Whenever I'm at work,

and I drop, and fall off the hill for a few minutes

at the door!

That's what I've had!

It's pretty hard.

No sweetheart.

No sweetheart.

No sweetheart.

What's wrong with this?

Is there anything to do with your thunderstorms or the otherCapitalist?

Oh, no, please.

We have to budget you our own®, give us access.

orus of light to our local residents,

just now, please, please.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

I'm going to get you.

It's stiff, are we?

Not at all.

Good. The general's waiting.

I have to keep the general waiting.

3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

44,000.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5,

5, 6, 7, 8,

9, 45,000.

Enough!

Miss Hell.

Lolligan, for rest of it.

You will be too hoarse

to ask me searching questions.

There's exactly 50,000.

Undoubtedly a very profitable

investment for your public education.

There better be.

Riding wild animals through the night

is not my idea of fun.

You're the animal.

You don't find that a music, are you?

Probably it doesn't find anything a music.

Stiff up a little.

Where was it stiff now?

Eating Cambridge?

That's both general.

They did a very good job.

You don't mind my teasing you, do you, Lolligan?

Not when it isn't.

Fatuous, general.

Fatuous.

It likes to use long words that I do not know.

You think I do not know fatuous?

It means silly.

An hot man's silly.

I make it 49,900.

Then you better count it again.

Please, please, smile on him.

I believe Miss Hale.

He's only being difficult because you're not interviewing him.

Why would anyone interview him?

Exactly.

I only endure him because of his intense loyalty.

Are you?

We share a noble cause, general.

And that is what Miss Hale has spent

a long and difficult journey to hear about?

Not exactly.

Our magazine is most interested in personalities.

The man behind the cause.

In this case, you.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

I'm not yet ready to begin.

All right.

When, then?

Oh, you see.

Busy, executive.

Everything by the clock.

We do have a few other things on our plate, Miss Hale.

I love that expression and everything on our plate.

Super near from eating, huh?

I will tell you why we fight, Miss Hale.

And I will tell you what is wrong with my country

and with your country and the world.

I will diagnose the sickness of my god

and describe you to you that my convenience not yours.

Please, a good day.

Just a minute.

I have made a long, difficult journey.

And I'm hurting in places I didn't even know I had.

I just gave you $50,000.

I'll see you to your quarters.

Look.

Let's work out some kind of schedule.

I've got to be in Los Angeles in a few days.

I'm not sure.

Let's work out some kind of schedule.

I've got to be in Los Angeles in a few days.

I think you better teach her a few of the less fatuous facts of life.

Don't you think, Valley?

In due time.

This way, Miss Hale.

MUSIC

MUSIC

MUSIC

MUSIC

MUSIC

MUSIC

Come in, Lily. I'll give you a handout.

Do it again.

Have I ever been heated up?

Must be working any better.

Thanks, any calls? Not from Miss Hale.

All right, everybody. Let's get ready for the party, see?

Emma.

Emma?

MUSIC

I'll leave every word.

Do exactly what it says.

Tell anyone or try to trick us and it will be you, Mother.

Understand?

You'll contact you.

Have the money ready.

Promise not to scream.

Do we make sure you cannot?

Promise?

I think we are playing.

Is it not one of your stupid films?

I'll contact you.

I'll know where you are.

Every minute is gone.

No.

Keep the life where it is.

Don't be crazy.

Don't be crazy.

You think this is crazy?

MUSIC

Lily, do you see her?

What the sound?

I had a thought. You got a minute?

Something wrong?

MUSIC

What's the matter?

Nothing.

Nothing that I can't handle.

MUSIC

No.

No.

MUSIC

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

MUSIC

Do you keep me in or the others out?

I don't know if I can.

Call me, but I...

I want to see the gym.

Stop it there.

I'll see him right now.

Bye.

Bye.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

Why did you have him killed?

Sweetwell.

You're a murderer.

He told us everything he knew.

We can't afford to keep prisons.

So you had him killed.

Just like that.

You hungry?

No, I'm sick to my stomach thanks to you.

I'll help yourself.

How long am I going to be here?

I have a daughter.

Really?

And if I'm going to be here more than a few days, I have to let her know.

Sorry.

We don't have direct dialing.

No, you really ought to eat something.

Nothing like stale bread.

Don't say to tell me.

Relatively clean.

Come with it down.

When do I see the general?

When he says?

When's that?

You played drafts.

Think I'm all this way to play checkers.

With a stiff upper lip sadist.

It's called drafts.

We invented it.

Choose.

It's called chepers.

Rubbish.

You also say elevate of a lift and suspenders the braces.

Braces are put on the teeth by orthodontist.

Braces hold up trousers.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Good.

Good.

What's the great noble cause you share with General Zad?

Noble causes are pretty much the same.

Justice, equality, freedom, chance at a decent life.

Then why this one?

Because you're more noticeable here?

Well, you seem to wow the local girls.

Most girls find me irresistible.

Don't you?

Please, I can't take macho bit at breakfast.

Do you encounter it often at breakfast?

Are you always so fatuous at breakfast?

Seriously.

How long am I going to be here?

It's hard to say.

It's rather up to that famous daughter of yours.

Then the whole story about interviewing the general was...

Bait.

How much are you asking her for?

One million.

We're not greedy.

You may be overestimating my daughter's affection for me.

I doubt it.

When time bombs are involved, family ties go.

Very strong.

Don't throw me in.

Sorry.

Must run.

What if she doesn't come up with the money?

A terrible thing about time bombs.

Is that eventually they run out of time?

Right!

The game isn't over.

Oh my God.

Don't throw me in.

Don't throw me in.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Where is she?

Why are you in New York?

I was explaining her a cop balance to Mr. Dilly.

I don't falsify figures.

I'm losing valuable time.

Valuable to whom?

According to your bookkeeper, I'm in debt to you.

I wouldn't say that.

You've been spending more than you've earned.

But when this one's finished, it'll be the other way around.

I want an advance.

Did he say otherwise that it is?

What did he say? $10,000, $15,000 spend of money?

$1 million?

$1 million?

Get my car.

I won a million.

You heard me.

Lillie.

Lillie.

If I had a million dollars, I'd give it shit Lillie.

Sure, next joke.

You're not walking down on this picture?

Don't do it, Lillie.

I'll show you.

Go ahead.

Sue me for every synth that I haven't got.

I'll show you.

I'll show you.

I'll show you.

I'll show you.

I'll show you.

Don't mind up.

Excuse me.

It's from America, Mr. Douglas.

It's so pleasure.

Definitely pleasure.

Hello.

No, darling.

Lillie.

Do I hear sounds of a party?

Sure.

I'll show you.

Lillie.

Do I hear sounds of a party?

Sure.

That's you, friend.

A party without me?

It's been months, kid.

And how long do I have to wait?

Joe, I am in a little trouble.

Oh, what else is new?

Seriously, Joe.

You know how careless I am with money.

I certainly do.

But this is the last time, darling.

I promised to be good for now on.

Could you help me out just this once more?

How much, Lillie?

You're going to be angry with me, Joe.

How much, Lillie?

I need one million.

Lillie, we're all cracked.

Dollars.

I'll pay you back, Joe.

Soon, every bit of it.

But I have to have a million dollars by Sunday night.

I understand.

By Sunday night.

I understand perfectly.

But I have a lot of other expenses to me.

Or instances.

Or instances.

Lillie.

Do you understand, Lillie?

You know how much I pay for a little amusement?

It's all my fault.

Lillie.

And I have to pay for a cockamamey pitch like that.

The general admired her entanglement.

And I later walked right into it.

Can you raise one million dollars by Sunday?

No way.

The magazine's just holding its own.

Even coming up with that 50,000 bucks took some doing.

Well, any suggestions?

Sure.

To start with, we contact the CIA.

I meant what they said.

Okay. Scratch CIA.

Do Pagan or Maxine have that kind of money?

No way.

Well, my premier raised plenty for Pagan's Cancer Foundation.

What? 70 or 80,000?

Anyway, it's her husband's foundation.

And the poor guy's dying.

Well, then what do we do? Nothing?

No. I think the next thing we should do.

The next thing for me is a trip to Philadelphia.

It's something wrong.

No.

It's the clip for a baby with you and a walk.

Thank you.

Yes, sir?

If you'd like to go in.

I'll manage.

Oh, what do you do?

Oh.

There's one simply address you as Miss Lily or what?

Just Lily.

Ah. Please.

My son.

Very handsome.

Won't you sit down?

Well, now, I've been in a company of presidents

and statesmen, but never a movie star.

Are you intimidated?

Oh, dazzled.

You are as beautiful as you are persistent.

And you are as flattering as you are unavailable.

It took phone calls to several influential people I've met.

But here you are.

Why?

Financial matter? What else?

But why my bank and why did you insist on speaking only to me?

Because my mother knew your son.

Instadt.

Of course. He worked in our branch there to get experience.

And she was a student at a nearby finishing school.

Small world.

And they fell in love.

You did say this was a financial matter.

Yes.

One million dollars.

Good enough.

But I don't deal with individual deposits.

I'll turn you over to one of our vice presidents.

I don't wish to deposit. I wish to withdraw.

Or take out alone.

I'll pay the money back if you think I should.

My dear girl, what on earth are you talking about?

I happen to be a busy man. If there's some point to all this, I wish you'd come to it.

All right. I need one million dollars. I need it for my mother.

And your son was my father.

Nicholas died gallantly in the Vietnam War.

Less than two weeks before his tour of duty was to end.

Yes. My mother told me.

At least she didn't lie to you about that.

Good day.

I didn't expect this.

Surprised or disbelief. Certainly, but not this.

My mother had no reason to lie.

She never asked anything of him. She never even told him.

You are not his daughter.

Why not? Because I'm illegitimate?

I wouldn't a movie star fit into your so proper family.

No, I didn't mean that.

I've handled this all wrong.

I can't tell you any details.

I know there's no reason that you should take my word for it.

But please, my mother's life is at stake. I swear it is.

I tried to get the money from other people. I didn't want to have to come to you for it.

He would have wanted you to help her. I know he would have.

You have to.

Am I to assume that in return for a million dollars you will not repeat this absurd story about yourself and my son?

It's not absurd. It's true.

Is that what you were offering? Yes or no?

Yes.

Then your offer is flatly refused.

I propose to forget this conversation. And I suggest you do the same.

I assure you you are not Nicholas's daughter.

You assure me. And just how sure are you?

Or am I just supposed to take your word for it? Well, I don't intend.

I don't wish you had.

Good day, Lily.

I don't know.

I'm in my room. No. No. No.

Stop!

Alright, come on!

Please!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on! This side! Bring her in!

This side!

This side!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on! Come on!

Come on! Come on!

There is a lot of people here who understand the English.

Can I buy some of the other people? Yes, sir.

Hello, I'm Mike.

I've said a lot of thank yous in my life, but not for anything like this.

Please, don't mention it.

Did the general get away too?

No.

Oh, God.

Well, he'll win back on a pretty good run for his money.

That's what I like about you. Your intense loyalty.

You'll be betting down over there someplace.

Well, what about my daughter? What about her?

Well, how was she contacted about the ransom?

I mean, whoever the general's sent has to be informed that everything's changed.

Nothing's changed.

I don't understand.

The general reads Plato and Charles Dickens.

I read lace and the more leureate tabloids.

You're coming here, was my doing not his.

So was the ransom demand.

I even anticipated this eventuality.

So...

nothing's changed.

So much for heroes on white horses.

Two heroines still believe in such things.

I'm so grateful!

You're stuck.

No.

Don't let me see.

20-men and 40 women.

Maxim seems to feel that is the idea racial,

and the youngest woman in the room

is imperrefere gre herself.

Unfilled glasses?

Always a disturbing science.

We were just commenting on Maxim's sense of insecurity.

You think she has one?

I never noticed.

There always seem to be so many more men than women

at her parties.

Absolutely right.

Still, the fewer the women, the fewer the cattier remarks.

The best vintage de chaselle.

They must have known I was coming.

I might have a favor.

Perhaps you should ask the contest.

I'm sure she knows.

And what am I supposed to know?

Everything that's important, the secret in the poet's heart,

if music is the food of love.

Charles, the vicerose flirting shamelessly with your wife.

Good.

Other men are insanely possessive of their women

in my presence.

I can't imagine why.

Charlie's not competitive.

I think it has something to do with the fact he inherited

his good fortune instead of having to seek for it.

Let's say jealousy is a characteristic I have never

been able to understand.

It is one of the few things I cannot understand about my wife.

I adore the washing of dirty linen at fashionable affairs.

In fact, I love all affairs, and I look forward eagerly to ours.

No one takes me seriously.

I have a concert in London next week.

Do you like London?

I absolutely adore London.

Nothing clandestine, of course.

We shall travel together.

Flaunting our passion.

Tore it as well your plans.

But I'm afraid she will be going to a funeral instead.

MUSIC

Your Majesty.

You are to leave immediately for London

to attend the funeral of Sir Christopher Swan.

Yes, your Majesty.

You will convey my deepest sympathies to Lady Swan.

Tell her that we hope she will soon

grace side on again with her presence.

Tell her, tell her that the timeless desert sand

has been known to assuage deep personal grief.

PHONE RINGS

Want me to take it?

Yes.

As instructed.

Step by step.

Alone.

I'm not from.

I need more time.

That's true.

I'm not stalling.

You'll get the money, all of it.

But I need 10 more days.

I'll have it in 10 more days.

Seven days or else?

Yes, I understand perfectly.

Seven days or else?

It's your move.

The old man was lying through his teeth.

He was playing for high stakes and bluffing.

So do we keep him honest?

We have to.

Write a statement to the press for me,

an announcement of the identity of my father,

but don't release it.

Send a copy by courier to Mr. Nicholas Cliff Sr.

When he sees it, I meant what I said.

He'll have it first thing in the morning.

Tom, there's no chance that he wasn't bluffing, is there?

What does that mean?

Well, you've been close to Judy for a long time.

Did she ever say anything to you about Nicholas Cliff?

Well, we never played confession time.

Well, did she ever mention him even once?

Not that I remember.

Why would she lie to me?

She wouldn't.

Not Judy.

If I had a love letter that he wrote her,

or a picture of the two of them together.

Yeah, if, if, if.

I'll call you with the press announcement

as soon as I draft it.

Take care of yourself.

Don't forget to double lock the door.

OK.

Authors, confidential notes.

I have chosen the name Lucinda Lace to disguise the fact

that she is me.

Or is it she's I?

Well, anyway, for all the other characters,

I'm using the initials to the people that they really are.

I'm calling pagan Drilani, Pamela Trent, a Maxine Baskill,

is Madeline Perdo.

Anyone who knows them will recognize them in the book.

The same goes for all my other characters.

All the characters betrayed here are real.

Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Unfortunately, they will also protect the one who is guilty.

MUSIC

This person was sworn close to the boat this time on hand

to the benefit of others.

God will that time to be brief.

However, it is not the length but the substance of a life

that is the true measure of its size.

Because of the work that he did, his work

remained what greater testament.

For years to come, his efforts will help heal the sick

all over the world.

People who have never even heard of him.

I want another truth.

People who have never even heard his name

will shed their pain and suffering because of what he did.

But the anonymous benefactors of mankind

have a glory all their own.

And we who have known this man have had a glimpse of that glory

and shall treasure it in our memories.

I will lift up my eyes.

Ah!

I will not be able to do this.

Ah!

Ooh!

Thanks a lot.

Hey, have I three?

I've four.

You're only got three.

Judy, what's the score?

Eight-seven.

You know what Onorheda Barzak said?

Lots of things.

When two people are very much in love,

they have beautiful children.

I always knew my parents hated each other.

And there is more.

Personally, I prefer the adventures of Lucinda

and the family.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I'm not sure.

I prefer the adventures of Lucinda Lace.

Let's see.

We're last we left Lucinda.

Don't.

Only fun of it.

Oh!

Oh!

Hey,

it's time.

All right.

Don't panic.

Maxine!

Maxine!

Get the car!

Hurry!

Come over to the contractions.

I don't know.

But you're supposed to time them.

Time them.

I don't want to go through with this.

Of course you do.

I don't want this baby.

What?

I don't know what to do, pagan.

Oh, listen.

Oh, you're going to have a beautiful baby.

I'm not going to help it.

Raise it.

Maxine!

Relax.

Think about what Balzac said.

You're going to have a beautiful baby because you love Nick and Nick loves you.

But what if it isn't his?

What?

How could it be beautiful?

It isn't his.

What are you talking about?

Who else this could it be?

Judy.

Who else this could it be?

Pagan.

Already.

The chariot awaits.

It's gold.

Oh, isn't it exciting?

What is it you want to know?

Was Nicholas Cliff my father?

Answer me.

I was in New York on business.

When Judy returned from Vietnam,

she was awfully upset, not only from the death and carnage.

She had seen Nick there.

I think she told me what happened.

Because she had to tell someone.

She'd have been here at fourteen hundred hours.

Not all of one of these excuses.

I want them up here now.

Sir?

No addies, Lieutenant.

I'm sorry to drag you away from a unit clip,

but I've got this journalist on my neck

wants to speak to a lying officer who's articulate.

You articulate Cliff?

I've been called worse, sir.

Anyway, you have been requested.

By whom, sir?

I could introduce you, but I've got the feeling you've met before.

Hello, Judy.

Nick?

That's what I figured.

Anyway, any else on the table as hell returns your Aunt

bit as soon as you've told her what she wants to know.

And nothing top secret.

I thought I'd pop over and see you.

Because I'm so articulate?

That too.

So tell me, Lieutenant Cliff, what precisely is this war about?

I love you.

That's what President Johnson said.

There are those who think otherwise.

I love you.

But in your experience, are there any atheists and foxholes?

I'm not sure, but I do know there's an idiot who lets you get away.

I guess the people who planned your life didn't allow for trouble in Southeast Asia.

Or for what I felt, or what I wanted.

If you had been sure you wouldn't have listened to anyone else.

I'm sure right now.

Could be combat fatigue.

Judy, I love you.

I've never loved anyone else.

I never will.

Thanks.

But when Mrs. Oliver, you'll go home to your nice cozy family.

No.

My wife knows I've changed. She knows I won't settle for the life we had.

What were you set up for?

You.

Any hope?

Any hope at all?

I love you.

Is the Major, uh...

Sorry.

We've lost a few years, but we'll make them up.

Don't go back to your outfit.

Just six weeks and my war is over.

You'd be careful.

Extra careful. I've got a reason to be now.

Even more than you think.

What do you mean?

Don't move.

Why?

Stay right there.

Well, what do you think?

She's lovely.

I'm sorry I didn't know.

You may be articulate, Jennifer.

You're not very observant.

I haven't wore a recent one. Maybe it's not as obvious in those.

But if you look carefully at the nose and the determined chin,

you see that she takes after her father.

All right.

Maybe I should have told you.

I don't know.

Only if there were times I almost did.

But I haven't seen her myself since she was in my home.

She's in Switzerland with foster parents.

I've been good to her.

They're good people, eh?

Write me about her.

Take lots of pictures.

I was going to send her as soon as I got my career going.

I was going to send her to the house.

I was going to send her as soon as I got my career going.

It's just taken me longer than I counted on.

About a time you get home should be with me.

With us.

I mean, like you said, we've only lost a few years.

We'll make them up to her, too.

I believe you wanted some information, but what things are like out here?

Nick.

You know what my men complain about the most, apart from the food, the weather, and just being here?

They feel like they've been left behind by modern technology.

They wonder why at the age of computers and satellites they still have to dig entrenchments with shovels and fight with rifles.

And you know what I tell them?

I tell them that's true about a lot of things.

Like medicine, for instance.

We can transplant hearts and perform miracles with lasers.

There isn't one damn thing they could do about my not being able to father a child.

And I never have been.

She's a very pretty girl.

I hope she has a wonderful life.

I hope she has a wonderful life.

This desert sun has been on to a swag deep personal grief.

My gratitude to King Abdullah.

Oh, pagan, if there's any way I can help you, any way at all.

Before you go into mourning, I need your help to save my mother's life.

Dear little Lucinda, certainly got around.

So what does it prove?

She wrote the same chapter three different ways.

So she couldn't make up her mind?

Look, she used names with the same initials as the people that she wrote about.

Neil, for Nicholas, Madeleine, for Maxine.

Pound her name.

She wrote about the same name as the other one.

She wrote about Neil, for Nicholas, Madeleine, for Maxine, Pamela, for Pagan.

Signifying nothing.

How can you be so blind?

How can you be so far-fetched? I am trying to save Judy.

We all care about Judy.

Good, then the million dollars is no problem.

Your mortgage, your Chateau, and you'll give me the money that my premier raised for your foundation.

You know perfectly well, I can't touch that money.

The Chateau has been in Charles' family for centuries, and it's already mortgage.

But I just can't believe these men will kill Judy.

And what if you're wrong?

I have tried everywhere to get the money.

Everyone.

My only hope now is my father.

If he is one of those men...

If.

I know now that he's not Nicholas Cliff.

Is there anything else that you haven't told me?

Then the only clues that I have to who he is are here.

I suppose it's possible Judy could have been trying to pert herself of a horrible experience by writing about it.

But Lucinda Lace gets violated three times.

It didn't happen three times.

It happened once.

Judy wrote three different versions of it.

Why?

I don't know why.

Then...

Which version do we believe?

For all of them or none of them.

Well one of them is true.

Look, I'm your proof.

I was born, my mother did get pregnant.

And whoever it was who violated her just went on his merry-day.

Anyway, he never gave a damn what happened to Judy or to me.

Well, he probably never even knew about it.

He knows now.

With all the publicity he has to know.

Or at least suspect.

All right.

Neil, for Nicholas.

Madeline, for Maxine.

And Pamela, for Pagan.

At least she didn't call me Priscilla.

Well, according to your rather far-fetched theory,

the Maharaja of Amnipur would be...

A for Amnipur, A for Abdullah.

What about Dwayne Whittaker?

She knew Darryl Webster at that time.

The astronauts?

Oh, a victim of a budding astronaut.

You might have been a Martian.

Aren't you clever, Pagan?

Everything's a giggle, isn't it?

Anything could be drowned at good scotch.

Oh, sure.

Oh, you're just as bad.

My mother sure had great friends.

Yes, she has.

We helped her through her pregnancy.

We chipped in money for your foster parents.

We kept her secret for her because she wanted us to.

Sure.

You're always there when you're needed,

except when it's a matter of life and death.

Never mind.

I'll never give you their view to it alone.

I've always had to do everything alone.

She's my mother.

It's up to me.

I'm the only one who really cares about her anyway.

Through thick and thin like hell.

What about the third one?

The one she called Wilhelen Geisler.

W.G.

Who could that be?

According to that version, he was at the school dance.

Such a long time ago.

Oh, but there was some trouble at that dance.

Some sort of a fight, wasn't it?

Will you help me?

It is the only possibility that I have of raising the money.

I can't do it alone.

There isn't enough time.

Through thick and thin.

I'll never give you a chance to do it alone.

There isn't enough time.

Through thick and thin.

Through thick and thin.

What do you want us to do?

I want you to help me find out which one of those bastards is my father.

Help me find him, and he'll pay for what he did.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.