You think you can make all that money back?
I gotta.
You know, you're crazy.
Look, Cal, don't you know...
that you gotta have money in order to make money?
- I'll get some money. - How?
I'll get it.
Look, don't get so near to me. I don't wanna get all hot again.
- How much money could you get? - What do you think I need?
If you had $5,000...
$5,000?
It's a little different when you start putting it into figures, isn't it?
I know you wanna help your father...
but a kid your age can't be expected to put his hands on $5,000.
Maybe if you could raise $100 or so, we could let you have a little share.
I don't want a little share, I want the whole thing.
- I'll get $5,000. - Maybe if you and Aron went in together...
Aron ain't got nothing to do with this. This is my deal.
I'll get the $5,000.
What're you gonna do, borrow it?
Yeah.
All right. If you can borrow $5,000...
I know a farmer who's got over 800 acres.
- It's under cultivation. - All right. What do we do?
If we can guarantee him 5 cents a pound...
and make him a seed loan, he'll plant beans.
So will a lot of other farmers.
Why, we can contract all the bean acreage you want.
That's it. That's great. When do we start?
How do you know the price will go above 5, though?
Did you read the newspapers this morning?
We're apt to be in war any minute.
You know I got a contract with the British Purchasing Agency...
and I got a friend in the Quartermaster Corps.
Do you know that we could sell all the dry beans...
that we can find at 10 cents a pound or more?
That's what I want. That's it. See?
- How much will I make? - Enough for what you want.
- What does Cal stand for? - Caleb.
It's in the Bible.
- What's your brother's name? - Aron.
That's in the Bible, too.
What's he like?
He looks like you.
Is he like me?
No. He's good.
I'm more like you.
How's Adam?
How's your father?
I don't wanna talk about him.
- You don't? - No.
I didn't know who you were when you were here before.
I knew you didn't.
Aren't you afraid to come around here again?
Yeah, I am. No. Well, kind of.
What do you want?
Just to look at me?
I want $5,000.
All right, come on in. Sit down.
Come in.
Try that chair.
You got your father's eyes.
That's all I can see of him.
- You're a nice looking boy. - Yes, ma'am.
- I was very beautiful once. - Yes, ma'am.
Caleb and Aron.
Your father still thinks he's living in the Bible, huh?
Them's just names.
Joe says that you go to school in Salinas.
Are you good in your studies?
I get by with them.
Does Aron get by with them?
He's bright.
What are you gonna do when you finish? You're going to college?
Maybe.
Or back to some ranch?
No, I don't like the ranch.
You take after me.
Makes me mad just to think about a ranch.
Sit down.
Thanks.
What do you want with $5,000?
I want to go into business.
- You're a little young for that, aren't you? - I'm old enough.
Yeah, I guess you're right. I guess you are.
- What business do you wanna go into? - Beans.
Beans are up to 3.5 cents now.
And if we get into war, they're gonna go up to 10, 12.
- If we get into the war. - That's a gamble you have to take.
- Will Hamilton says that... - Will?
You going into business with Will Hamilton?
You see...
my father, he lost about all he had in...
Yeah, I know. I heard about that.
I wanna make enough to pay him back.
What's the matter with him? Can't he make any money?
Yeah.
Only...
Only he's too good to bother with money.
Okay.
What makes you think I'd give you $5,000?
I don't know who else to ask.
You got a lot of nerve coming to me.
Why? I didn't do anything to you.
It's a good business venture.
I'll pay you back. I'll give you interest.
You're a business woman, ain't you?
One of the best, Son.
You know, Sam told me that you think I ought to be run out of town.
You're afraid that your father and Aron might find out about me, is that it?
This $5,000, now.
That wouldn't be any kind of blackmail, would it?
I never thought about that.
But now that you do, it's a good idea, huh?
- I guess, maybe. - It's not.
Anyway, I'm not gonna hurt your precious father or your brother.
- Do they know anything about me? - No.
Father thinks you're in the East...
and Aron thinks you're dead.
Then, there's no reason to think that they ever will find out about me.
We don't exactly move in the same circles.
What are you staring at?
How come you did it?
Did what?
Shot my father?
Did he tell you that?
How come you ran away from all of us? How come you shot him?
- Ran away and did all that kind of stuff? - None of your business.
I shot him because he tried to stop me.
I could have killed him if I'd wanted to, but I didn't.
I just wanted him to let me go.
- Why? - Because he tried to hold me.
He wanted to tie me down.
He wanted to keep me on a stinking little ranch...
away from everybody. Keep me all to himself.
Nobody holds me.
- But he loved you. - Love.
He wanted to own me.
He wanted to bring me up like a snot-nosed kid...
and tell me what to do. Nobody tells me what to do.
Always so right himself. Knowing everything.
Reading the Bible at me.
- What are you grinning at? - Nothing.
Maybe you know what I'm talking about?
Always so right himself?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Maybe like you said out there, maybe you are more like me.
Yeah, you got sense.
Maybe you don't fall for that slop any more than I do.
Maybe you know what people are really like. What they want.
I got the toughest house on the coast...
and the finest clientele.
Half the stinking city hall go there.
They sneak in at night...
and I walk in this front door in the daytime, see.
And I built it up from nothing.
Now you want $5,000 of my money...
to go into business to pay your father back what he lost.
You know, that's funny.
I don't think he'll know where I got it.
No, but it's funny just the same.
Your father.
He's the purest man there is, isn't he?
He thought he had me all tied up with his purity.
And now I give you $5,000 of the money that I made...
to save him his purity.
If you don't think that's funny, you'd better not go to college.
Okay.
Tell Will Hamilton to come and see me.
He's a good businessman.
How'd he ever happen to let you go into this bean business, anyway?
I don't know.
I do. Maybe he likes you.
Maybe.
You're a likeable kid.
You give this to him.
If he wants to gamble that we get into the war...
it's okay with me.
You're a likeable kid.
Go on, get out of here.
Go on, get out. I'm running a business.
- Them Germans can't fight. - No.
Hi, partner.
Every day in every way, we're getting richer and richer.
Kaiser.
All we have to do is call his bluff. He'll come to heel like a dog.
We'll be there to clean up this mess for those foreigners in a couple of weeks.
Cal, stop it.
There's Cal.
- Hi, boy. Hey, want some? - Hello, Cal.
Thanks.
Your own Woodrow Wilson said you gotta make the country safe for democracy.
- Didn't he say that? - Yes, he said that.
Will you go?
I think the war will be over. I don't think...
If you believe in all this, why don't you? If you really think it's right.
I didn't say it was right, Aron.
No, I guess you didn't.
Why don't you go back and join the parade?
Nothing'll ever make me go. Nothing.
I just don't believe it's right.
- Did you water them good? - Sure, lots of water.
- Not too much, though. - No, just right.
Marty Hopps got a telegram today. His boy was killed.
I remember the day we sent him off.
A lot of troop ships have sunk they don't tell us about.
- It's gonna be a long war. - Those Germans got an army.
They're a military nation.
Go back where you came from, German!
Go on home, German!
This is just the start.
That rock through the window is just the beginning.
The German people don't want this war.
And the stories they tell of what the Germans are doing...
it simply is not true. Not the good ones.
I've been wondering lately if we shouldn't all go back to the ranch.
You can't get away from it there, Dad.
I don't know, somehow, on a ranch, I don't know...
War seems to be city people's business somehow.
Farmers. What's a farmer got to do with war?
You tired, Dad?
My eyes, I guess. I work too hard at the Draft Board.
Better have my glasses looked at, see if they're all right.
I had a look at the bank account the other day...
not much left after my great fiasco.
Let's not worry about money, Dad.
Let's don't worry about money.
Hey, Rantani!
Ain't this some sight?
Beans!
Yeah, boy, some beans.
You come here everyday, boy, what do you think...
you gonna make them grow quicker?
He's crazy.
Hey, where have you been?
Come on.
We're gonna have lots of fun tonight.
- You won another cigar. - Wait a minute.
You wanna try one? No?
Pick up my cigar.
- I'm waiting for somebody. - You're waiting for me.
No, I'm not.
Why don't you let me take you for a nice ride?
If you don't stop bothering me, I'll have to call someone.
- Hello, Cal. - What's the matter?
I was trying to tell this gentleman that I was waiting for somebody.
This is a lousy place to keep your girlfriend waiting for you.
- Sir, it won't happen again. - I hope not.
Lots of lousy characters around here. Sorry, miss.
Here I am, lady.
That's the first time that ever happened to me.
- What're you doing out here? - I'm meeting Aron.
I thought I'd come out early and look around.
- You never been out here before? - Not at night, no.
- What time you gonna meet him? - At 8:00.
Thought I'd try and cheer him up. He's been so depressed lately.
Yeah, I know.
I'm so glad you happened to be here.
8:00?
You got a half hour?
How are you, Cal? We never see you around anymore.
I'm around.
I've been over to the house several times, but you were never there.
- I never go home anymore. - Aron says he hardly ever sees you.
I feel awfully sorry for him.
You're terrible.
That's the first time that ever happened to me, too.
Wonder if we can see Aron from here.
I feel awfully sorry for him. He's right, you know.
I mean, it's awful, the war and people killing each other.
Why feel sorry for Aron? Feel sorry for the people.
But it just seems to affect him so personally.
I'll agree with that.
He's right.
He's always right.
And he has always been right.
Now let's talk about something else.
All right.
8:00.
We got a lot to see.
Will we be back in time for Aron?
All right. I'd love to.
Easy.
Here's your cigar, and where have you been hiding?
- Who was that? - Who?
- That girl. - I don't see nobody.
She was standing right... Girls follow you around, don't they?
What are girls like that like?
All right, never mind.
These Huns have been the aggressors in every war in Europe...
since the time of Julius Caesar.
I couldn't attempt to describe to you the horrors committed by the Germans.
Look.
Would we have time?
...after the Germans had been through...
- the women of the town... - That German's here again.
It is not true. It is lies, all lies.
Come on, Cal. Is it scary?
Here we go.
It is lies, all lies.
I'd like to give that guy a piece of my mind.
See over there. That's Castroville.
Everything looks so small down there.
Higher and higher and higher and higher
What?
Growing and growing and growing and growing
- What are you talking about? - I'll tell you sometime.
Does Aron really love me?
I seem to have sort of lost him.
I mean, we're going to be married someday, but...
Well, if he does love me, he doesn't...
I can't tell anymore.
Cal, can I ask you something?
Yeah, go ahead.
These girls that you always go around with.
You know, remember there was that little Mexican girl once.
What are girls like that like?
You don't really love them, do you?
Why do you go out with them? Is it because you're bad?
You're not angry, are you?
- Well, why do you, then? Are you bad? - Do you think I'm bad?
I don't know.
I guess I don't know what is good and what's bad.
I mean, Aron is so good...
and I'm not.
Not good enough for Aron, anyway.
Because sometimes when I'm with Aron...
Aron likes to talk about our being in love...
and think about it and that's all right, but...
These girls that you go out with, do you...
Maybe I don't know what love is, exactly.
I know love is good the way Aron says...
but it's more than that, it's got to be.
I shouldn't talk to you this way...
but I don't know who else to talk to.
Sometimes I think I'm really bad.
Sometimes I don't know what to think.
- Aron'll knock that out of you. - Will he?
He's got to.
The way I figure it out...
Aron never having had a mother...
he's made her everything good that he can think of...
and that's what he thinks I am.
That's who he's in love with. It's not me at all.
'Cause I'm not a bit like that made-up one. Not a bit.
I don't mean I think I'm really bad.
Look at that star.
It must be a planet, it's so bright.
Probably.
I bet that girl's waiting for you down there somewhere.
She can just wait.
She was pretty.
You've been awfully nice, Cal, taking care of me.
I love Aron. I do, really I do.
I do.
To give these fiends a lesson that...
Have you seen Abra, Mr. Albrecht?
Lies. All lies.
What's the matter with you tonight, Gus?
Gus, come on.
There's Aron.
You're a good shoemaker.
There's Aron, down there.
Major, why don't you stay out of politics?
Mr. Albrecht.
They're pushing him around. What are they doing?
That'd kill Dad if he knew that.
Hey, operator, when does this thing move again.
Hey!
Cal, don't!
Watch yourself, get back!
Please. Somebody pull him back.
Don't bother me!
Come on.
- Gus, come on, have a drink. - No, Charlie, no drink.
What are you waiting for?
Mr. Albrecht, calm down. They're not bad fellows.
Aron, you are a child.
All I tried to do was buy him a drink.
Gustav.
Silence.
You all loved him a few weeks ago, what's gotten into you?
I'm sick of him sticking up for the Germans.
- You a friend of the Germans? - I'm a friend of this German.
There are rose plants in that border there. Please be careful where you step.
We liked him. He made us laugh because of his funny German accent.
Let him read this in his funny German accent.
- What is it? - Let him come down and read it.
- He doesn't have to read anything. - I will read it.
Here, give it to me.
"The Government, with deep regret, informs...
"that your son was killed in action, 15th of April.
"He died a hero and an American."
I'm sorry, Mrs. Hopps. I did not...
You're not sorry enough.
- I don't think he's sorry. - He's not sorry at all.
- Listen, why don't we all go on home... - You're not sorry enough.
Why aren't you in the war?
This will make you sorry.
Hello, Charlie.
Danny, what are you fellows doing here, anyway?
Get up.
Loretta, I didn't expect to find you here.
Evening, Rose.
Looks like they messed up your rose garden a little here, Gus.
Somebody owes you an apology.
How about you folks all going home now?
I think this'll do for tonight.
Good evening, Mrs. Albrecht.
- May I? - Come in.
This place will be fixed up just like it was before.
- I'm gonna see to it. - Ja. He will see to it.
Where were you?
Where did you get his coat?
You all right?
You had to start slugging, didn't you? Were you showing off for her?
You had to start slugging.
- I was trying to help you. - I don't need your help.
If you want to slug people, do it for yourself and not for me.
- And don't lie to me about trying to... - Aron, I tried to help you!
- Great big Aron. - You finished?
- No! - Cal, stop it! Don't.
- Don't. - Don't do that.
- Don't. - Abra, don't do that!
Wait here.
I was trying to help him.
Who am I kidding?
I tried to kill him.
Mike, give me a drink.
- Don't drink any more. - Why?
- No, please. It's not good for you. - It's good for me.
- No, you're gonna get drunk. - Yeah, I'm gonna get drunk.
Please forget it, what happened up on the ferris wheel.
It didn't mean anything, really.
Please, forget it. It didn't mean anything.
Say it didn't. Please, say it didn't.
Someday he's gonna know who his real son is.
What?
Someday he's gonna know.
I don't understand you. You scare me.
- I know. I scare myself. - Abra.
Fix me another drink.
- I want that money. Now you give it to me. - You know I haven't any money here.
Okay.
- When will you get it? - In the morning, I suppose.
Okay. I'll sleep here.
Come on. You've gotta go home.
If you still feel the same way in the morning...
you come back, we'll go to the bank...
and I'll see that you get everything that's coming to you.
I'll buy out your share. I'll go on and make a fortune with it.
Okay. That seems fair to me, Will.
Abra.
What?
- Who is it? - Cal.
- Cal? - Yeah.
- What on earth are you doing here? - I want to see you.
Wait till I put something on.
I gotta tell you something. Can you keep a secret?
Yes. What is it?
What's the matter? You look terrible.
- I got it. - What?
Remember that money? Dad lost?
On that lettuce business?
- I got it. - You mean you earned it all back?
- I've earned every cent. - That's wonderful, Cal.
You got any time off tomorrow from the hospital?
I get an hour at lunchtime. Why?
Thursday's Dad's birthday.
And I'm gonna give a party for him.
And I want you and me, you and Aron and me...
to be there.
I'm gonna give him that money just like it was a birthday present.
You could come and help me get some junk...
- and we could decorate the house. - Sure.
And we'll get balloons...
- and all that kid stuff, birthday stuff. - We can go to the five and 10.
- Will you do it? - I'd like to.
I'm sort of...
Why did I hit Aron?
Why did I hit him so hard?
Will you help me?
Will you really help me?
I'll help you, Cal.
Be careful.
How'd I get up here?
- Is your father coming? - Yeah.
- Cal, don't get nervous. - I think it looks beautiful.
Don't you? I love the way it looks.
- It looks festive, doesn't it? - Yes, it does.
Yes, Cal, it looks very pretty.
- Do you think this is childish? - Not a bit.
The room looks lovely. Your father's going to love it.
- How's the turkey? - It's a good turkey.
- Smells ready. - It'll be ready.
- Aron didn't get him anything? - He told me he had something.
- What? - He didn't tell me what it was.
- It won't stack up against mine, will it? - No.
- Do you wanna see mine? - I'd like to.
- I got it wrapped up. - Show it to me.
- Wanna see it? - Yes.
Okay.
- You like it? - It's pretty.
You think it's pretty?
Don't drink any more wine.
- Did Aron tell you what the present was? - No.
- You sure? - Honestly, he didn't.
I'd tell you if he did. Honestly, I would.
Now everything's gonna go off fine. Here.
The brooms.
- Don't you do anything to give me away. - I wouldn't.
We'll let him come in and let the house speak for itself.
- We'll act like it was any other old day. - Yes. Wait, Cal.
Cal.
You look wonderful.
Thanks.
But I need my son.
It isn't that he doesn't want to fight for his country. He does.
I need him to work the farm.
Things can't be as bad as you say, Mr. Piscora.
You must be making plenty of money out of your crops.
No money. I sold this year's crop for 5 cents before I even planted it.
Everything cost so much now.
And now I got to sell next year crop. So I need my boy.
I can do nothing about it, Mr. Piscora.
In all conscience, I cannot excuse your son.
- Come on, Poppa. - I don't like it.
I'm telling you. I don't like it.
Hello, Abra. Nice to see you.
- Gonna stay to dinner? - Yes, I am. Is something the matter?
No, nothing. I guess I shouldn't have taken that job in the Draft Board.
- Did you notice the snow on Mount Toro? - Yes, I saw it.
Say, that means we got a good year coming in.
- We could use it. - Let's go in.
- Happy birthday, Dad. - Happy birthday, Mr. Trask.
Is it possible? I'm very touched.
- Are you surprised? - I had no idea. I'd forgotten completely.
- We knew you had, didn't we? - Completely. I don't know what to say.
We got turkey.
- And champagne. - Champagne, and we got all the things.
- We got the trimmings here. - Isn't that pretty?
Got something for you.
Presents, too. Isn't that nice. Look.
- Ain't you gonna open it up? - Yes.
Dad, Abra and I have one for you, too, only we can't exactly give it to you.
I didn't tell Abra I was going to do this, but we're engaged.
I couldn't have wished for anything nicer.
A lovely birthday present.
- You have my blessings. - Thank you, Dad.
- But you haven't opened Cal's present yet. - No.
But I can't imagine having anything better than this.
Excuse me.
'Course I suspected it right along. But, Cal, coming on my birthday.
What's this?
What is this?
I made it. And it's for you. It's all the money you lost on the lettuce.
You made it? But how?
Go on.
- Beans. - Beans?
Yes, we bought futures at 5 cents...
and the war came along and the price went sky-high.
So, that's for you.
It's all the money you lost in the lettuce business.
It's for you.
- I made it for you. - You will have to give it back.
No, I made it for you, Dad. I want you to have it.
- You will have to give it back. - Who? I can't give it...
- To the people you got it from. - No, the British Purchasing Agency?
- I can't give it back. - Give it to the farmers you robbed.
We didn't rob anybody, Dad.
We paid 2 cents a pound, 2 cents over market for that stuff.
I sign my name and boys go out and some die...
and some live helpless without arms and legs.
Not one will come back untorn.
Do you think I could take a profit from that?
I don't want the money, Cal! I couldn't take it!
- I thank you for the thought, but... - I'll keep it for you.
I'll wrap it up and we'll just keep it in here...
I'll never take it!
Son, I'd be happy if you'd give me...
something like your brother's given me.
Something honest and human and good. Don't be angry, Son.
If you want to give me a present, give me a good life.
That's something I could value.
I hate you!
What are you doing?
He doesn't want anything from me.
Cal, don't.
Please, don't.
Abra!
Don't you ever touch her again.
I don't trust you.
You're no good.
You're mean and vicious and wild. And you always have been.
You know it, too, don't you?
Father and I have put up with every vicious thing...
you could think of since you were a child. And we've always forgiven you.
But now I don't want you to go near Abra.
I don't want you to talk with her. Just stay away from her!
- You want to go some place with me? - Why should I?
I got something to show you.
- Think you'll find it very interesting. - What are you talking about?
Maybe our mother didn't die and go to heaven after all, Aron.
- What do you mean by that? - Maybe she didn't.
Maybe she's alive someplace.
What are you up to now?
Remember when we were kids, we used to make up stories about her?
You said she must have looked like heaven's youngest angel, remember?
Remember that time I shot that rabbit?
You cried and you said...
that she would have cried, too, 'cause she was so tenderhearted.
And you said I was bad, you remember that?
I just want to show you something. It's not gonna take very long.
What's the matter, you afraid?
I'm not afraid to look at anything you could show me.
Can you look at the truth, just once?
Come on, you can look at the truth just once. Can't you?
Come on.
I want to show you something. It won't take very long.
Oh, Cal.
Hello.
Mother, this is your other son, Aron.
Aron is everything that's good, Mother.
Say hello to your mother.
Say hello to your mother, Aron!
Joe!
- Play another song! - Quiet!
Five!
"I'm thinking of the lilac trees that shook their purple plumes
"I'm thinking of the rivulet with its cool and silvery flow
"Of the old gray rock that shadowed it and the peppermint below"
- Where is Aron? - I don't know. I'm not my brother's keeper.
- Where did you go? - For a ride.
- What did you quarrel about? - You.
- You're angry about the money. - No, I'm not angry.
I like it. I think it's great.
I'm gonna go away and take that money with me.
I think I'll start me a little business. Just like my mother did.
- What do you know about your mother? - I know where she is and what she is.
And I know why she left you. Couldn't stand it.
You didn't really love her any more than you do me.
Because of your goodness, your rightness.
You never gave either one of us an inch, ever...
from what you thought was right.
You kept on forgiving us, but you never really loved us.
I know why you didn't love me.
Because I'm like my mother...
and you never forgave yourself for having loved her.
I'm not gonna forgive him. I'm never gonna forgive him.
- Where is Aron? - He's with her, with his mother.
She's over there in Monterey, if you want to know.
She owns one of them houses.
I took Aron there tonight because I was jealous.
I've been jealous all my life. Jealous, I couldn't even stand it.
Tonight, I even tried to buy your love.
But now I don't want it anymore.
- I can't use it anymore. - Don't talk to your father like that.
I don't want any kind of love anymore.
It doesn't pay off.
No future in it.
Let him go if he wants to.
No, I won't.
You hate me, too, don't you?
I'm afraid of you.
What you did to Aron tonight, I don't know what it will do to him.
I feel like I'm to blame, too.
- Adam! - Here. What is it?
...drunk and had a couple of fights. He's gone kind of crazy.
He's at the station now. Wait, I'll drive you down in my car.
Cal!
- What happened between you and Aron? - Why?
He's gone kind of crazy. He's drunk and had a couple of fights...
and seemed determined to get himself hurt.
He's leaving on that troop train tonight...
and says he's gonna enlist tomorrow at King City.
Adam's on his way down there now to talk to him before the train leaves.
I think you better get down there.
- Yeah. - My car's downstairs.
Do you know what a stroke is, exactly?
This one is a leakage of blood in the brain caused by shock.
There have been earlier, smaller leakages.
The left side is paralyzed, and the right side partly.
In other words, your father is nearly helpless.
- Will he die? - He might live a week or a year.
He might die tonight.
- Will he know me? - You'll have to find that out for yourself.
Good day.
Good day, Doctor. Good day, Sam.
"Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and slew him.
"And Cain went away and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden."
Now why don't you go away some place?
- He's right. - No.
Yes, he is. He's right. That's what I'll do.
Who's gonna wash these things for me?
Thank you.
- There you are. - How is he?
He's fine. He's my darling.
Washed his face, combed his hair.
Can I go in there now?
Just for a minute. I want him to rest. Gotta get lots of sleep.
- How is he, really? - Haven't I seen you at the hospital?
- Not part of the family, are you? - No.
I didn't think so.
I can tell you, I won't have this job for long.
That's my luck. Always seem to get them when they're old and ready to die off.
Now doesn't he look nice? He's going to be a darling patient.
Even tried to smile at me, didn't you, my dear?
- I don't want you to tire my patient. - Please go.
Now listen, miss, don't you try to order me about.
I'll report you to the doctor.
Will you go out of the room and shut the door?
Father.
Can you hear me?
I did an awful thing.
I'm sorry.
Mr. Trask, can you hear me?
Is it just Cal you won't answer?
Can you answer?
I think you can understand me, though.
I think behind your eyes you're just as alert as ever.
You understand everything I say only you can't show it.
Excuse me, Mr. Trask, for daring to speak to you this way...
but it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world.
Don't ask me how I know that. I just know it.
It makes you mean and violent and cruel.
And that's the way Cal has always felt, all his life.
I know you didn't mean it to be that way, but it's true.
You never gave him your love. You never asked him for his.
You never asked him for one thing.
Cal is going away, Mr. Trask. But before he goes...
He did something very bad, and I'm not asking you to forgive him.
You have to give him some sign that you love him...
or else he'll never be a man.
He'll just keep on feeling guilty and alone, unless you release him.
Please, help him.
I love Cal, Mr. Trask, and I want him to be whole and strong...
and you're the only one who can do it.
So try, please try.
If you could ask him for something.
Let him help you so that he knows that you love him.
Let him do for you.
Excuse me, Mr. Trask, for daring to speak to you this way, but I just had to.
You've tired my patient...
and I most certainly shall report it to the doctor in the morning.
You don't know that he accuses you. You don't know what he's thinking about.
Stop it, Cal. You gonna cry for the rest of your life?
- No. - Then stop it.
Go in there and talk to him before it's too late.
- I can't. - Please try.
Get it straight.
Get through to him, somehow. Please try, Cal, before it's too late.
- Is there any coffee around here? - I'll get you some in a minute.
Try.
Is there anything to read around here?
What would you like?
- Something to get my mind off my feet. - There's something in there.
I tried to believe it was born in me...
and that I couldn't help it, but that's not so.
A man has a choice.
You used to say that was where he was different from an animal.
You see, I remember.
A man has a choice, and the choice is what makes him a man.
You see, I do remember.
- Look, I can't find any coffee. - Get out!
Look.
Do something...
for me.
Yes.
That woman...
the nurse, can't stand her.
Get me another.
I can't stand her, either.
What did he say?
He said, "Don't get anybody else."
He said, "You stay with me...
"and you take care of me."