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There we go. Watch your step now.

Hello and welcome to the Nancy Cobb Archer

visitors' center historic landmark.

I'm Donna. Since it opened,

this visitor center has entertained

and enlightened more than 200,000 people such as yourselves.

Who have come here to achieve

a greater understanding

of the life of one special american woman.

Step this way, won't you?

Everybody comfy?

Good.

Please remain seated at all times during the presentation.

Keep your hands on the armrests

and your feet flat on the floor in front of you.

If you experienceed dizziness at any time during the presentation,

simply look away from the screen.

And, please, no flash photographye during the presentation.

It's annoying and a complete waste of film.

Okay? Everybody set?

How do you do?

My name is Dr. Victor Loeb.

In this modern, supersonic age,

it sometimes seems hat we have lost

our capacity to be amazed.

Science has rendered the miraculous commonplace,

and we have become smuge.

In our dominione over nature itself.

but I am well aware that there are also among you

the morbidly curious, who have been attracted.

By the more provocative and--

Let's not mince words--

Lurid aspects of this case.

Well, you will not be disappointed,

for this is, I must warn you,

a shocking story,

but it is a story that must be told.

So now prepare your minds

for a new scale of experience.

And remember everything you are about to see

is absolutely true.

My story begins on a day not so different from any other.

I suppose it could have happened anytime to any woman.

Looking back now,

i realize most of my days were smothered in routine--

Safe, predictable routine--

that felt so much like a life.

Well, all thath was about to change.

Cobb enterprises.

- Sylvia? - yes.

It's Mrs. Archer. Oh, hi.

I'm just calling to confirm dinner with my father.

Yes, he has it on his calendar, mrs. Archer,

and I reminded him when he left to meet with the mayor.

Good. Can I speak to my husband, please?

Uh, he's--

I'm afraid he's not in the office.

oh?

I believed he mentioned a meeting--

A meeting out of the office.

Do you know when he'll be back?

I don't know, Mrs. Archer.

He just said he had a meeting somewhere.

Thanks.

You're welcome, Mrs. Archer.

- Bye. - bye.

Oh, hello, nancy.

Good morning, Mr. Ingersol.

- How are you? - Fine. Yourself?

Fine, thanks.

Good. Well, what do you think?

It's not gonna feel the same coming into town, not seeing your shop.

Progress, nancy. Not much one man can do to stop it.

But I figure it's best for business.

At least that's the way your father explains it.

Yes. Well, my father's good at explaning things.

I don't know what shines brighter, you or that pendant.

I remember making it for your mother.

I'm glad, to see you wearing it. She'd be pleased.

Thank you.

Well, I better get back to the till.

- Bye, Mr. Ingersol. - Bye, nancy.

I think I've got a pretty good handle

on most of the things in my life.

I know there certain areas

where I'm having problems.

I admit that.

But I'm working on thems, and things can change.

People change.

When I confronted harry, he said he would stop,

that he'd end the affair.

Have there been other affairs?

This is different.

He loves me.

He really does.

It's not easy being married to the boss's daughter.

That's why I have to be patient,

why it's important that I make life easier.

Easier for whom?

Harry, my father.

What about you?

what about me?

How about making life easier for yourself?

- I have to go. - The hour isn't up.

I'm having dinner with my father.

He's on a tight schedule. He's expecting me.

- Nancy, do you ever get angry?

Everybody gets angry.

- What do you do when you get angry?

Nancy, what do you do when you get angry?

nancy, what do you do when you get angry?

harry!

Harry, you promised!

He ain't here, Mrs. Archer.

That's his car.

Maybe he ran out of gas, and he left it.

He doesn't care who knows.

Let's call it a night.

Go home. Have some coffee maybe.

I'm not drunk.

You don't have to be drunk to drink coffee. It's a free country.

Tell him.

There is nobody here to tell, honest.

Please just tell him.

You're not gonna let a little thing like this

ruin the whole night, are you?

There comes a point in a relationship

when you start to realize what your prospects are.

Well, we have plateaued at the motel level of things, harry,

and that is nowhere near good enough

for Mrs. Parker's little girl honey.

You take this sort of thing way too personal.

You bet I do. I have had a long time

to figure out women like that-- stupid, rich..

I have been painting their fingernails and washing their hair.

Since I was 12 years old.

- Shit! - Honey--

Why do you put up with it, harry?

Why do you make me put up with it?

Just leave, walk out.

She don't deserve you anyway.

I'm not leaving till I can take big slice

of old man cobb's pie with me.

So? Community property. Dump her.

The old man made me sign a prenuptial.

Jesus.

All we have to do is find the right angle, and we're set.

Every day I go in, to that office,

I find out where a couple, more skeletons are buried.

Just leave it up to harry.

Harry's got a handle everything.

You know what her real problem is?

Nancy? Yeah, like you said,

she's spoiled and rich.

Her real problem is she actually loves you.

Two nights a week with you...

Is what I'm...

Cheese on this dog?

You didn't ask for cheese.

I don't ask for cheese,

cause I always get cheese on my dog.

# is two too long #

# 2,000 miles...#

- it's Mrs. Archer. - Yeah.

Didn't see mr. Archer with her.

Not unless she hid him in the trunk.

Cheese, charlie.

Is there a p?

No p.

I'd like to buy a vowel.

#Two nights a week is...#

it's Mrs. Archer.

- Hold the malted, charlie. - Yes, sir.

Harry!

Harry!

Harry!

jesus! This is just so fucking romantic, I could puke!

Mrs. Archer, are you okay?

Harry!

What's the trouble, mrs. Archer?

It was out there.

It touched me. It forced me off the road,

and then it touched me with a light.

What touched you?

I want harry. I want my husband!

Did somebody try something out there?

It was big,

and it lit up the sky like a--

Like a--

You've got to believe me.

It was there. It--

over the highway.

Sure, we-- we believe you, mrs. Archer. Just that--

Why don't you come on and sit in the squad car?

And tell us-- All about it,

we'll get you a nice, big cup of coffee.

I don't want any coffee.

Why is everyone trying to pour coffee in me?

woman has to have a limit.

She don't got a limit, she is screwed from the get-go.

You shouldn't let things like this get to you. It causes wrinkles.

- It's her. - It's not her.

It is. It's her. It's her with a gun and an ax and a bottle of acid.

Straighten up the bed, will you?

Oh, just exactly how stupid do you think people are?

Mr. Archer, it's deputy spooner.

Can I have a word with you, sir?

Evening, Mr. Archer.

Deputy.

- Hi, honey. - Charlie.

Can I help you with something, deputy?

Oh, yeah. Well, um,

I don't know if you heard, we had some ocommotion out there.

Your wife had some trouble on the road.

What kind of trouble?

Spaceship.

Spaceship?

Ran her right off the road.

Least that's what she said.

Sheriff's taking her back out to look around.

You might want to think about getting home, Mr. Archer,

under the circumstances.

Thanks for the advice.

No charge. Night, honey.

- Night, charlie. - Goodbye, deputy.

Oh, yeah. Night.

Nancy saw a spaceship.

Ran her off the road.

She crazy or something?

people who see spaceships,

these are not the kind of people

who you want making important decisions.

Decisions about money.

They need help.

You're thinking something, aren't you?

I'm thinking that maybe I ought to get home

to my poor unstable wife in her time of need.

Now that's my girl.

Here.

See? This is where it forced me off the road.

I see the skid marks.

But you don't believe me.

Look at it from my point of view.

All I see are your tracks, nothing else.

Well, it never touched the ground.

Look, you've got to believe me.

- There!

- What, Mrs. Archer?

There. Can't you see?

- Yeah, I can see.

Why'd you call him?

Part of the job, mrs. Archer.

- sheriff. - mr. Cobb.

Get in the car, nancy. I'll drive you home.

I was just trying to explain to the sheriff--

Get into the car.

Thanks for the call, denby.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

There won't be any tiresome paperwork

about this little incident, will there?

I think the young lady's upset enough as it is.

Good night, sheriff.

Good night, sir.

A spaceship?

My god, nancy.

Why are you trying to destroy me?

I saw it.

I cut short a meeting with the mayor to have dinner with you.

The mayor, nancy.

I get a call from this female deputy.

"come gett your daughter."

"your hallucinating daughter."

Why can't you admit for one second,

there's a chance I might be telling the truth?

It's your mother, all over again.

I saw something.

You saw nothing!

I will not be made the laughingstock of this town.

What happened to all the papers I signed yesterday?

Today there are more.

Hmm-hmm.

Give the girl a break, hamilton.

Harry.

All right, nancy. You look tired.

Why don't you toddle off to bed?

Yes, father.

- Harry-- - Go on upstairs, baby.

- Your dad and I have some business to discuss. - But...

- I'll be right up.

So how'd your meeting go with the mayor?

I'll worry about the mayor.

You worry about keeping her in line.

And for god's sake, can't you come up with

anything more discreet than tony's shangri-la?

i don't see where what I do is any of your business.

I don't care if you cheat on your wife,

but I will not permit you to embarrass me, especially not now.

when I'm this close to getting the okay for the zoning switch.

Make a wish.

Harry.

You're cold.

Not that cold.

Why did you lie to me?

- Nancy-- - You said you weren't gonna see her anymore.

And that's what I was up there telling her.

I had to tell her, didn't i?

I had to tell her face to face, didn't i?

I don't know what i'd do if I didn't have you.

What happened?

Well, you got so involved, in daddy's business--

No no no no, baby, I mean tonight.

What happened out in the desert?

I don't want to talk about it. I...

i...

You'll think I'm crazy.

Now why would I thinkt a thing like that?

I saw something.

In the sky.

Oh, sheriff.

You seen anything?

No no, nothing to report.

Hard luck eddie.

It's hard luck eddie.

Evening, eddie.

What are you doing out this way, denby?

Just doing my job.

Well, you got no claim out here.

This here is my mountain.

You see anything out here tonight, eddie?

Like what?

Like something unusual.

This here's the desert, girlie girl.

What you call unusual don't mean much round here.

Did you see something or not?

I seen plenty.

I seen hailstones as big as your head.

I seen lightning shoot out the groundh up into the clouds.

And I heard stuff too.

When the wind gets tangled up in them power lines,

makes the wires singes,

like a crazy woman in love.

30 years out here--

Eh, ain't nothing unusual to me.

Thanks a lot, eddie.

Yeah, don't mention it, sheriff.

Don't mention what?

What do you figure she saw?

Well, could have beent some kid in a hot rod.

Jet or helicopter from the air base or...

I suppose it could have been something else.

Like what? Like a spaceship?

Suppose it was a real spaceship she saw,

a genuine flying saucer.

I saw pictures of oneo in "life" magazine.

All lit up like a ferris wheel.

Wouldn't that be something,

a real spaceship landing right here?

Do you know what that'd mean?

I sure do.

Overtime--

Whole lot of overtime.

And the 3-2 pitch. Rodriguez swings.

Who is it?

Well, those glasses are new.

I like them.

"principles of accounting and management"?

That's new too.

Girl's gotta plan for the future.

You don't have any future.

You can take night courses from now you stop being pretty,

you still won't have any future, not with harry archer.

Well, maybe that's not the way I see it.

You don't see anything past the end

of that beautiful little nose I paid f--

Harry only wants what I want.

He doesn't have the imagination to want anything else.

He doesn't love you. He hates me.

You talked to her like this, didn't you?

Chip chip, chipping away,

making her feel smaller and smaller.

Heh. This is how you talked to your wife.

This is how you talk to your daughter, isn't it?

It's one thing to be smart.

It's another thing to be smart all the way around the block.

You've still got a way to go.

Is there anything in particular you want?

Yes, I've, uh--

I'm anticipating some changes.

Once I take care of the mayor.

And the boys on the council.

Things are gonna move pretty quickly.

so?

So a word to the wise-- Don't get in the way.

What could I do?

you?

Nothing.

but harry might try something..

He can't stop me,

but he can interfere with me.

You tell him to keep his head down

and his uninspired thoughts to himself.

Why don't you tell him yourself?

I already have, but you get more of his attention than I do.

Anything else?

I have an emergency set of tips to do.

You take care of him, and there might be

a couple of bucks for you down the line.

Who knows? A word, in the owner's ear,

you could be promoted to the first chair.

Maybe I want more than first chair and a couple of lousy bucks.

Don't want more than you got coming to you.

You'll end up with nothing at all.

I suppose it's all over town.

What is?

Last night's fiasco.

What exactly happened last night?

You like the garden?

I try to keep it as nice as my mother did,

but it's hard. I don't know how she managed.

It's a gift, I suppose.

Harry told me you had an experience last night.

An experience is a nice generic term,

anaccurate without any messy details.

I like details.

Ask harry or my father, the sheriff.

I'm asking you.

If I tell you, you'll just get the face.

The face?

The "poor nancy" face.

I've had just about as much as I can take.

I'm a pretty good poker player.

Why don't you give it a try?

I saw something.

In the sky.

A spaceship.

yes?

Is this how it started with my mother?

Nancy, you're not your mother.

But is this how it started?

Seeing things, acting crazy

there's a big difference

between acting crazy and being crazy.

Do you believe I saw something?

Don't say that you believe I believe I saw something.

You always call me on it when I try to squirm out of one of your questions.

Now it's your turn.

Do you believe me?

yes.

Thought you'd get away without seeing me?

Nancy told you about her little close encounter?

Just what do you want me to say, Mr. Archer?

That she's insane because she saw a u.f.o. That she's incompetent?

Maybe it runs in the family--

Like mother, like daughter.

I'm late for a meeting.

I can't help think that under the circumstances,

it would be better if nancy were to spend a little time,

you know, inside some place.

I always thought men like you

vanished with the dinosaur and the wooly mammoth,

but here you are, big as life. Amazing.

Is thata a scientific opinion?

It's a very unscientific, very female opinion.

Excuse me.

Why'd you call dr. Cushing?

I thought you might wanna talk things out.

I was worried about you.

You think I'm crazy.

Well, you have to admit that's quite a storyyou've got there.

It's true.

Great.

You might wanna think about getting away.

Get some rest.

A sanitarium, like my mother.

Might be just what you need.

What I need is a little proof of what I saw.

I just wish I could make go out there so you could see for yourself.

And if I don't see anything?

What do you mean?

I'll go out there with you to try to find this thing,

and if we find it or any part of it,

you'll get a public apology from me, your father,

the sheriff, everyone, but...

But...

If we don't find anything,

you promise to sign yourself up

for a little supervised relaxation.

I saw something.

I'll drive.

Any particularl search pattern in mind,

or you just wanna poke around between here and the pacific ocean?

We're through town, we'll go into the hills.

Then we'll take the long way

back to the house on the old country road.

And if we don't see anything?

Then we'll do it all over again.

It's Mr. And Mrs. Archer.

Figured they patched things up?

Getting late.

Am I supposed just go quietly?

Come on, I'll take you to dinner.

You wanna stay out here with the scorpions all night?

look, nancy, I don't know what went wrong, but--

What the hell is wrong with that thing?

There. I told you.

Look at it.

I see it.

It's real.

You didn't believe me nobody believed me, but it's real!

Jesus christ! You want it to see us?

Who cares? As long as you see it.

Wait until my father hears about this.

Harry?

Shit!

Harry.

Harry.

Help me

harry, don't leave me.

Honey.

Did your mother call you that?

Or was it somebody else??

Mrs. Archer?

It's a sweet name.

It suits you.

You must be very sweet

to have such a sweet name.

You and I should talk.

We could have lunch. Do you eat?

How'd you get up here?

shh!

It's our secret.

Baggage.

Why do I always fall for guys

with so much baggage?

Come on.

Let's get you some coffee. Come on.

Come on. Let's go.

You're paranoid old man. I think the stress is getting to you.

Is that the sort of line ou've been feeding her?

- you're an amateur. - I don't know. I've had a pretty good teacher.

- Get out!

I'm sorry, doctor.

- She's resting. Oh?

yes, good. Resting.

She still doesn't remember what happened does she?

No, but it'll come back to her.

It will?

That's how hysterical amnesia works.

It burns off a little at a time like a fog..

And then she'll be able to tell us everything.

Physically she's all right,

but I do want to talk to the emergencyroom doctort,

about her blood tests. - There's something wrong?

I don't think so,

but the hormone levels indicate that the testswere run improperly.

But she's all right. I mean, you said that.

She's not talking about, uh, seeing things

or anything that would indicate she has any kind of, you know, problems?

Like a breakdown.

Can you conceive of keeping your mouth shut for five minutes?

You don't care about her condition,

as long as she can still sign your papers so you can keep the money moving around.

- Nancy? - Dr. Cushing,

could you please give me a ride back into town?

Go on back upstairs, nancy. You need your rest.

I need to get away from here.

Everybody here thinks I'm crazy.

Well, I'm not crazy.

Of course you're not, baby.

If you wanta get out of here, that's fine.

I'll take you wherever you want to go.

I'm not gonna let you spirit her away

before she can tell us what you tried to do to her

- in the desert. - please.

She's going to tell me everything that happened, aren't you, nancy?

- I don't remember anything. - You see?

Don't try to force her to lie, harry.

Please, don't fight.

Don't worry, nancy. I can handle him.

Like you handled her mother?

You really don't know when to shut up, do you?

You went through her money like it was yours.

And ended making her life so miserable

there wasn't anything left for her to do

except kill herself!

- No, stop it! - Stay out of this!

- Not now, nancy. - Shut up!

- Shut up! Shut up!

Don't you talk bout my mother that way!

And don't talk about me that way!

I am here! I am in this room!

I'm... I'm a person I am not a chair!

Or a...

- Harry. - What is it, baby?!

- Get away from her. - You get away from her.

Gentlemen.

Dr. Cushing, what's happening to me?

Harry.

Harry!

dr. Cushing, I'd like you to meet a colleague, Dr. Victor loeb.

Doctor.

I warned you about bringing in anyone from the outside.

- Nancy's condition-- - dr. Cushing...

...you may be able to see to her mental condition,

but you're not qualified...

...to look after her physical well-being.

Dr. Loeb is.

Come with me, doctor.

I'll just wait out here.

I'm afraid harry wasn't very specific when he phoned.

Just what is mrs. Archer's condition?

Unique

don't make any sudden moves.

Nancy, I'd like you to meet Dr. Loeb.

He's here to help you.

Dr. Loeb, I'd like you to meet nancy archer.

- My god. - Doctor.

This is impossible.

That certainly takes a load off my mind,

I thought I had a problem.

24 hours ago, she was a normal-sized woman.

Note the hormone levels.

The levels are anomalous,

but they couldn't account for that.

I'm not a that.

Of course you're not.

I don't care what caused it. I just want someone to fix it.

We must get her to a controlled therapeutic environment.

I have a private clinic. It's very secluded.

That's why harry--

Sanitarium? No, I'm staying here.

Mrs. Archer, nancy, don't you want the security?

I'm staying here.

Yes, I think home treatment

would be less stressful. For everyone.

And you don't have to worry about the money.

Anything you want, you can have just ask my father.

No, just move those to the back of the truck,

and I'll pull'em off.

All right.

You were supposed to get her into that sanitarium of yours,

that's why I called you.

She didn't wanna go.

You should have talked her into it.

Under the circumstances, harry,

any argument with nancy, would be very one-sided.

What made her grow like that?

You said she began to grow after becoming agitated.

Clearly it's stress-related.

The blood levels indicate some kind of hormonal imbalance.

Terrific. You've discovered a new kind of p.m.s.

The situation is serious, harry.

You telling me?

Human body wasn't designed to grow that large.

I'm concerned about the strain.

You mean like on her heart.

She could have a heart attack.

Harry, try to understand.

Right now your wife has the blood pressure of an adult giraffe.

It's all boilerplate, nancy!

You don't have to look at them.

How am I supposed to sign these?

You don't have to.

You use the paint to sign the cardboard.

Then I take your signature,

and I reduce it and put it on the documents.

Now I've spoken to the lawyers about it,

they tell me that under the circumstances,

it's essentially legal.

- Wha-- - Blow them up.

- What? - if they can reduce my signature,

they can enlarge those contracts.

Get a billboard painter or something.

I want that fine print six feet tall.

Well, I simply will not have

the details of my business...

...pasted on the side of a barn, for the world to see.

Then you'd better find a new business,

cause I'm not signing them until I can read them.

Well, you've had a long day.

Oh, I'm sure it's been very stressful.

Perhaps you vought to, uh--

Perhaps you ought to go back in the, uh--

Well, I mean, go back in and rest.

I like being out here looking at the stars.

Of course you do.

We all like the stars. They're very pretty.

But you have to take care of yourself.

- You have to-- - Father.

I'm not a little girl.

No. No, you're not.

But you need your rest.

You have to protect, your strength,

so that the doctors, can make you better.

You mean make me like I was before.

Yes, just as you were before.

Now, isn't that what we all want?

I'll go back in the stable...

Good.

In a little while.

Uh, that'll be fine.

Good night, father.

Good night, nancy.

Jesus, she's big--

i mean big.

How'd she get so big?

Something in that u.f.o., bollixed up her hormones.

Oh, but I cannot get over how big she is.

The doctors think being that size puts a strain on her heart.

She gets dizzy.

Probably the altitude.

They think she might have a heart attack.

I doubt they'd be surprised

if she keeled over like a mighty redwood.

Little stress,

some anger, some aggravation...

And timber...

I don't know.

She looks, pretty healthy to me.

Better than she did on that roof, poor thing.

Do you think we could sell the carcass to ringling brothers?

Maybe you shouldn't try to be so funny all the time.

Come and look at the stars with me.

Are you all right?

I mean, do you feel okay otherwise?

My heart starts beating faster than normal.

Would you like to feel it?

No no, that's okay. I'll take your word for it.

Doctor said it's all right,

as long as I don't get too worked up.

That's an important thing to remember not getting too worked up.

Otherwise, I feel just fine.

Great. Well, I guess I'll turn in.

Good night, nancy.

I was wondering about something.

Wondering about what?

About what would happen if I were to tell the sheriff

how you took me out to the desert and simply left me there.

What do you think people would make of that?

that's not what happened.

Suppose that's what I tell them happened.

Suppose, for once, people believe me

instead of somebody else.

You wouldn't do it.

I know you too well..

You don't have the nerve.

Maybe I have changed.

Go inside, harry.

Are you suree, you're all right?

Go inside.

And don't make any plans for dinner tomorrow night.

You and I have and a lot to discuss.

Will your father be joining you?

He has a meeting with the town council.

Tonight's just for harry and me.

Do you wanna check the position of the truck,

make sure it's where you want it?

If it isn't, i'll move it myself later.

I suppose you could.

The world is my dollhouse, dr. Cushing.

You seem to have made a certain

adjustment to your condition.

I'm not saying the old nancy still isn't in me.

I can hear her inside

rattling around in the dark, bumping into things,

always apologizing.

But less and less....

Less and less..

Uh, they've mall gone, nancy.

Would you mind coming outside for a moment?

I'm due for a stretch.

Due for a stretch.

Can I give you a lift?

Uh, no, thank you.

How can we grow as women if we can't trust each other?

Doctor, what are you doing??

Doing? I am merely taking a--

So what's in this amazing colossal spike?

Oh, just a vitamin soup?

With a mineral supplement chaser.

- And?

Doctor.

Vitamins and minerals as I said.

and?

And a very mild tranquilizer.

Valium or that stuff they use on racehorses?

There's no need for this.

Well, I disagree. The situation is difficult enough

without running the risk of anxiety on her part.

I have the husband's authority.

And the permission of her father.

What about my permission?

It's really for your own good, nancy.

You're the one who looks like he's having a little anxiety,

dr. Loeb.

Maybe you need this more than me.

Nancy.

I don't like needles.

Nice try...

You ready?

Ready.

go.

How'd I do?

That's good.

That's good.

Gun oil-- I like the smell of gun oil.

Yeah, it's a good smell.

My mama hates it.

She doesn't think it's a ladylike aroma.

Of course she's pretty much given up

trying to make a lady out of me.

She thinks law enforcement is unfeminine.

- Mm. - I tell her it's the only job

with any future in this stubby old town.

Deputy, this stubby old town pays your salary.

Oh, no disrespect.s

it's just a woman doesn't have too many options here,

if you know what I mean.

Yeah, suppose I do.

Sheriff, have you ever been in love?

I'm just curious.

About what?

About how it is with somebody like Mrs. Archer,

her and Mr. Archer, I mean.

Doesn't make sense to me.

That's 'cause it's of your business.

- He isn't very nice to her. - Charlie.

I just don't understand the way it is with women like that.

Don't they know what they're getting into?

I mean, can't they see?

You know, I figure it's like it is with old hard luck eddie.

That old prospectorke who's in here every month

after he drinks up his government check.

He's been going out to that desert.

For as long as I can remember.

Looking for gold, looking for silver,

looking for uranium,

punching holes in those mountains till they whistle in a windstorm...

And he always comes up empty.

Why does he do it?

Cause if he stops looking,

he's got to explain to himselft

what he's been doing the last 30 years.

If he quits, he makes hisself a fool for trying.

But so long as he keeps going,

at least he's got hope.

Maybe the next claim will pay off or the one after that.

Comes a point when hope's all there is.

So you hold on long past the point,

when common sense tells you you should let go.

Can get that way with people too.

You keep on giving and giving cause they need so much,

and then maybe if you give a little more,

they'll be satisfied-- Maybe.

Is that love?

No, charlie.

That's not love.

That's the thing people call love

when they don't want to feel like they've wasted their lives.

Welcome home.

Like the outfit?

It's something.

Well,

I have dinner waiting on the rooftop garden.

California chardonnay.

Not too pricy when you buy in bulk.

Cheers.

Isn't this romantic?

You bet.

It's a lovely night.

Yeah, a peach.

Stars seem so close, close enough to touch,

close enough to hear you whisper.

When was the last time

you and I sat down and had dinner?

We've never sat down like this and had dinner.

I mean in general, you and I as a couple.

Lots of times.

We don't talk enough, harry.

Talking now.

No, I mean really talk.

This thing that's happened to me,

I think that it could bring us closer together,

if we give it half a chance.

Sure. What do you want to talk about?

Harry, have you ever thought much about "gulliver's travels"?

About what?

"gulliver's travels".

The book, "gulliver's travels"?

That's right.

I can't say as I have.

I have quite a bit.

I've started to think of myself as gulliverve.

Suddenly surrounded by all these toys and playthings,

and I've begun thinking about the possibilities.

Exactly what possibilities are we talking about here?

Adventure, harry,

new dimensions, new horizons--

Leave the manicurists and the cocktail waitresses

down in the foothills, harry, and look up.

You don't wanna get rid of me.

Who said anything about getting rid of anybody?

You don't want meed in some sanitarium or a zoo.

Think about it, harry.

You'd be the envy of every man alive.

There are pleasures waiting for you

that no one even dreamed of.

Imagine love on the scale of gulliver.

You're thinking about it. I can tell.

Are you crazy?

You are crazy!

What you're suggesting,

jesus, nancy, this is sick!

Sick?

Unnatural and sick and freakish!

Who precisely are you calling a freak?

You. I'm calling you immense mistaker

and an enormous pathetic freak!

I'm trying to share something with you, harry.

I'm trying to save our marriage.

By suggesting, that you and I--

What did you expect me to do, get a wetsuit and a flashlight?

You son of a bitch!

You were sad before,

now you're just a big joke.

If you knew half of what honey parker

knows about being a real woman...

Insect, tick,

I offer you a landscape

and you cling to a glass doorknob.

Honey's better in bed han you ever were.

She's even better han your cousin vera.

Vera?

You slept with vera?

I'll kill her.

But first I'm gonna pop your head like a little concord grape.

Come on, baby. Come on.

men.

yes!

Little past your curfew, isn't it?

Just thought I'd stop by and see how you were doing.

I'm doing like i'm usually doing.

I got you a little surprise.

Such as?

Ta-da.

Wow, look at this now.

What happened?

Timber.

# I got, got you under my fingers, baby #

# you're gonna riseder to my touch. #

#i'm gonna make you want me...#

# we're gonna find out how much. #

# spoonful by spoonful #

# thimble by cup #

# yeah, this thing is bigger than both of us #

# it's gonna swallow us up. #

# yeah, don't you listen to no little people #

# who wanna make you feel small. #

# mmm, if anybody doubts my love #

# you don't need 'em at all #

# take a look up here #

# I'm gonna light up the sky #

# go on and wish upon a star #

# you ain't no fool to try. #

# we're gonna stand tall #

# we're gonna get what we deserve. #

# cause this is our night. #

# this is our night. #

# well, it could be a long haul #

# nothing gonna stand in our way. #

# don't wanna see you fall. #

# you got to stand tall. #

# got you under my observation, #

# got you under my skin. #

# ah, feel free to go overboard crazy #

# cause I'll be reeling you in. #

# I ain't gonna let yourself do something #

# to yourself in any way. #

# you got to stand tall #

# we're gonna get what we deserve. #

# got to stand tall. #

oh, the moon is shining bright

along the wabash...

Through the hills there comes a breath of new-mown hay

through the sycamores

the candle lights are gleaming

on the banks of the wabash far away.

Clarissa, listen to me.

Human beings are no better than they oughta be.

Hey, it was just an opinion.

Clarissa! Clarissa!

You come back here this very instant.

I'll-- clarissa, what's got into you?!

Damn animal. Animal.

Animal.

eh?

eh?

The banks...

Of the wa-wa...al.

Boog powell.

Not even close.

Boog powell.

hey!

Okay okay, is everybody all right?

Back in the desert! You gotta call somebody!

The army! The air force! Somebody!

Is he on something?

You have got to believe me!

It's her! she's coming! She's coming!

it's Mrs. Archer.

I can see that.

Where's my husband?

Uh-oh.

Evening, Mrs. Archer.

It's good to see you up and about.

Where's harry?

Don't you worry, Mrs. Archer. We'll find him for you.

I know where he is.

He's with that woman.

Nancy. Wnancy, stop.

I'll stop when I find harry.

I'm just looking for a little closure, that's all.

Nancy, don't do this.

I have tried, Dr. Cushing.

I have really tried to be all modern and adult and post-feminist

and aduit's gotten me.

Well, now I'm taking matters into my own hands.

What'll she do if she finds harry?

Ball him up like a used kleenex.

Good.

Harry?

All right, everybody get into the squad car.

I'm gonna call the national guard and the state police.

This is not a good situation.

Harry.

- Harry. - Yeah, baby?

- Tell me you love me. - You know I do.

I know you do, but I want to hear you say it.

Tell me you love me.

Harry.

Gentlemen.

- Congratulations. - Well done.

- Excuse me. - Certainly.

Hamilton cobb.

What? Yes.

Well, no, that isn't...

...possible.

Harry.

Hamilton, isn't that your little girl?

Harry.

For a dead woman, she sounds awful healthy.

Harry.

Harry.

Dead? She's not only alive, she's bigger.

What'd you try to do, kill her with a grow light?

Shut up!

Can't you do anything right?

What are you doing? Hey.

Somebody around here gotta act like they got balls.

Don't be stupid your whole damn life.

You're better than they are,

you're smarter than they are,

and you know more than you think.

We all do.

no!

no!

Miss me?

I don't suppose you want to hear my side of this.

What are they gonna do to them?

What do you think they're gonna do?

Quick, hamilton. Maybe you could talk to her.

What's gonna happen, sir?

Nothing, at least until we get pas the city limits.

Then what, sir?

I don't know, quimby. I just don't know.

All right, big woman.

Now you got nowhere to go.

That's far enough, ma'am.

Just put the hostage down

and keep your hands up so we can see them.

Make me.

It doesn't seem right firing an air-to-ground missile at a woman.

Don't think of her as a woman. Think of her as a target.

That's what I always do.

Hold your fire until I give the signal!

- Here. You talk to her. - Me?

You're her father. Talk to her.

All right, nancy, I think you've made your point.

I want you to stop embarrassing me in front of all these people.

How dare you talk to me that way?

It's humiliating.

You treat me like such a child.

If you behave like an adult,

you'd be treated like an adult.

Now let's keep family matters in the family.

We'll talk when we get home.

You don't care about me. You never cared about me.

You just need my name on some papers so you can hide more money.

- Nancy! - that's all you care about.

You don't love me. You didn't love my mother.

And this town, all you're interested in.

Is how much you steal from it.

You got a gun. Why don't you do something?

Like what, I suppose?

Sheriff.

Nobody fires until I say "fire."

Fire!

no!

Set up over here.

You think she'll show?

- cables run? - Yeah.

Check the battery pack.

What do you think you're doing?

You and I have to talk.

About what?

About how we're gonna be partners from now on,

equal partners.

Get out of the car.

You know, it's funny the things

men'll talk about in bed.

They'll talk about anything to keep from saying they love you.

They'll talk about work and about money,

about substandard construction

and bribes and kickbacks,

when all a girl really wants to hear those three little words.

Now what do you want?

Start the car.

Dr. Cushing, what do you think actually happened here tonight?

I don't know. I doubt we'll ever know.

But I think nancy finally got harry all to herself.

I believe if we were really going to be honest about this,

we'd all admit to being victims

of a very unrealistic and limiting idea of manhood.

Right. That's where all the anger,

all the hostility comes from.

We've been cut off from the old definitions

of masculine and feminine,

and that causes the basic insecurityne,

that we all feel as men in the modern world.

You can see what I'm saying, can't you?

Frankly, in my opinion,

I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

I'm not hostile, i'm not insecure,

and I don't have any problems with my manhood--

Never did.

So whatever the trouble is, the one thing

I do know for sure is it's not me.

But you can recognize the destructive patterns in your life,

and you're ready to change, right?

Oh, the destructive patterns.

Hey, those destructive patterns can be a real bitch, right?

hey, uh, whatever you do, definitely avoid those

destructive patterns.

I really wish you'd make an effort to participate.

These sessions are for your own good.

I'm participating.

Didn't you just hear me now participating?

You just don't get it, do you?

why can't you understand?

It's not just me that's changed.

It's a whole new universe, harry,

and it's up to you to catch up with us.

Maybe you'll figure it out.

Maybe. I hope so.

Otherwise...

Otherwise?

Try again.

- Again? - Again.

Harry, perhaps you'd like to share some

of the personal experiences that brought you here.

Why don't you mind your own business?

You're blocking, harry.

Keep your nose out of it too, pal, okay?

I think harry has a lot of shame issues that he needs to work on.

I think what harry needs is a cold beer. That's what harry needs.

Maybe we should do that trust exercise.

That'd be a good way to show harry how we all feel about him.

Don't touch me.

Don't ever touch me. Understand?

harry, I really believe

your putting down that chair would be

a good way to start the healing process.

- back off! - I got him.

Let go!

intervention is a sign of love, harry.

Yeah? Well, intervene this.