Murder! Murder!
I've never earned a nickel from another man's sweat.
I never said that, Jack! I said fifty-fifty!
I don't need any partners!
You can't do it alone! Not out here!
I'll find the gold! Say it!
Say it, you spawn of a Danish whore!
Say it!
Jack McCann will find the gold!
Louder! So God in his heaven can hear you!
Jack McCann will find the gold!
Alone!
I never earned a nickel from another man's sweat.
I never earned a nickel from another man's sweat!
I've never earned a nickel from another man's sweat!
Come on, children. Come over here.
What are you smiling at?
The end.
It's not over until it's over.
Children, come on! Come over here!
Come right now!
Hurry! Come over here!
Go and help your father.
Look at you. You're a mess.
Fuck.
It's not over till it's over.
- No. - Would you ever?
Sure I do. Don't I, Frieda?
Hello, Johnny.
Hey. Frieda, shut the door.
This is Johnny.
He's come home.
If you got it, Frieda will have it.
Don't think you've got lucky.
Write if you get work, Johnny.
How about clearing snow?
- Maybe I'm dead. - Only most of you.
What have you got in your hand, Johnny?
It's a rock. I found it.
No, Johnny.
This stone found you.
It has your name on it.
Not outside, but inside.
It's your destiny.
But everybody pays.
Everybody pays.
Gold smells stronger than a woman.
Tonight, I took a bath, maybe because of you.
It's been a long time...
Jack.
My Jack.
We never did find the gold, but we had something...
something between us that was as good as gold.
My Jack had all the nuggets we needed...
right between his legs.
You interested in men and women?
With you, the gold is everything.
You never give up.
We had a crock of gold between us...
his cock and my crack.
A crock of gold.
More than love, it was. It was a power.
In love...
Jack was an alchemist.
God, were we on fire.
Then one morning, I woke up. The sun was shining.
It was spring, and Jack was dead.
Dead beside me.
Dead in bed.
That must have been when I started to smell bad.
You've had quite a life.
So will you.
Then there's some...
leftover life to kill.
My Jack...
and his perfume of Paris...
Paris and the golden coach.
You'll find what you're looking for...
but after?
It's right here.
I can see it.
The gold.
It runs like a river to the shore of the lake.
There it goes, diving underwater.
Understand what this means?
Yeah.
My luck has changed.
Luck's for ordinary men, not you.
When you took the stone, you made your choice.
You're alone now.
I never earned a nickel from another man's sweat!
Hey, Frieda!
Frieda, it's over!
I'm dying, Paris.
Wait.
What...
what happens now?
A mystery.
The end and the beginning.
No.
There'll be another after you...
after the war.
The great events.
They were great days.
Not just good, but great.
That car's a dud.
I could have lived for ten years up here...
on what that car cost.
In those days...
every goddamn thing was so hard.
What did you do for girls up here?
I guess we did without...
unlike some people I know.
Suppose I'd been here.
Would you have given me a second glance?
No.
My darling Tracy...
I never would have taken my eyes off you.
Tell me more about the gold.
I love the stories.
Where'd you get this?
He gave you this, didn't he?
Give me a pull.
That guy is no good for you.
You think I'm jealous.
I am not jealous.
I just know he'll never appreciate you.
Oh, appreciate be damned.
I'm not a work of art. I'm not a piece of china.
I want him.
Are you sure?
I wanted to thank you for Paris.
I didn't thank you.
I guess I take it all for granted.
I had a wonderful time.
Do you think...
you think you can pull the jib back, you know?
You're safe with me. Come on.
Now... hold the wheel.
- Hold it. - Yeah?
Oh, I'm so happy!
I should have stopped it.
Helen, lay off the sauce, will you?
I think I'm beginning to go blind.
How are they doing out there?
I'll win.
I'll always win.
I won you, didn't I?
You did, cheri. Fair and square.
Tracy. Tracy.
Got to hand it to your son-in-law.
Sure can handle a yacht.
- Jack, I need some new glasses. - My daughter!
You're in good humor again today.
You made a mistake there, Jack.
Tracy's our daughter. She's mine, too.
That frog didn't seduce Tracy McCann...
because she's your daughter.
Do you believe that?
Maybe I'm a jinx.
Yes. Maybe.
What does it mean, "jinx"?
Jack, have you given any more thought...
to our Luna Bay deal?
Our deal?
You mean us? You? Me?
Us?
Luna Bay is me, Charlie.
It's a part of me.
So am I. I'm your friend, not just your partner.
I think about you. I fend for you.
What's everybody gonna think if they think you're going...
Charlie, I don't care what anybody thinks.
Listen. I've figured an angle.
I think maybe... maybe we can put one over on Mayakofsky.
Tell him that Luna Bay...
I don't want to put one over on anybody, Charlie.
I never cheated a man in my life.
Only women.
Helen, lay off the sauce.
Take it easy now, Jack. Look.
I may have to go to Miami to talk to Mayakofsky.
What do you want me to say to him?
What was the name of that optician in Miami? You remember.
You'll think of something to say, Charlie.
You always do.
He's right...
again. Have a drink.
No. I haven't eaten all day. I'm hungry.
You are, aren't you, Charlie?
You're hungry. That's right.
Now, try to understand, will you?
This island is mine...
and the Luna Bay deal don't mean shit to a tree to me.
I'm out of all that. Wheels and deals and seals.
It's all bullshit.
Maybe that's what you tell that yid in Miami.
Jack McCann's out of it.
Out of it.
- Out of it. - Yeah.
Out of it.
I have to make a call.
Good luck.
Doesn't it ever snow out here?
Excuse me, madam. The fortune teller is here.
Fat nigger fraud.
You don't want your fortune told.
You've got a fortune.
If only your father could see you now.
The world's richest man.
Crazy... like a fox...
wearing a dress with parrot shit on his shoulders.
Maybe this lady can tell me what happened to you.
It was so wonderful...
once upon a time...
all those years ago.
Weren't we in love on that ship?
We were wonderful together, Jack.
We were shining.
Miami Herald. Miami Herald.
All the latest for you.
War news here. The Miami Herald.
Got a Miami Herald, lady?
60 enemy ships put out of the way...
and our planes are still packing...
Buon giorno, Aurelio. How's the war?
Which one, Mr. Mayakofsky? Europe or the Pacific?
Ours. Ours.
Charles Perkins called.
He sounds nervous.
He's nervous?
We're all nervous.
Very nervous time...
isn't it?
Well, he wants to come and see you.
McCann's stalling.
Delays. Delays. More delays.
God in heaven, what does the man want?
We're in business. Doesn't he understand?
I have friends. I have partners.
He lives on an island. We live on the mainland.
He's a strange character, and after the gold, he just...
Aurelio, please. Please.
There's no such thing as strange.
This is only a man.
A man is made up of desires.
Understand his desires, you understand the man.
It's very simple. They go hand in hand.
Your Italian's better than my Yiddish.
This is a happy man.
This is a happy man. Look.
Get me a recent picture.
Who is he now?
Find out what McCann desires...
and we'll close the Luna Bay deal, Aurelio, but soon.
But soon.
Ah, my daughter Esther.
Esther, this is Aurelio.
Hello, Esther.
Have some tea. Have some tea.
I've often wondered about this stone.
It's a relic of the past, like me.
You're full of secrets, Jack, aren't you?
Me? No. No.
I'm an open book.
Cut me, and I bleed just like anyone else.
Pearl, take these, will you, please?
Why did you ask me here?
I thought maybe you needed some help being set up.
No, thank you...
but I don't spend much money anyway.
I do have one extravagance.
Tracy.
No. My yacht.
You see, I...
don't ever want to owe you anything.
I hope you'll understand.
You seem to get along quite well with the natives, don't you?
Yes. That's true.
It's the whites who don't like me.
Hello, Claude.
I haven't offended you, have I?
Oh, no.
You understand it's often harder to receive than it is to give.
Hello.
Claude was just leaving.
Have either of you seen my long-distance glasses?
I've mislaid them again.
I found them in the dining room.
How clever of you. Thank you.
In the dining room.
While I was waiting.
Oh, he does keep people waiting, doesn't he?
Enchante.
I can't do that. I can't threaten him like that.
Well, in life, there are many unpleasant things...
that have to be done.
It's a matter of honor, Mr. Mayakofsky.
I'm an American.
So who's not an American?
Everyone is an American now.
The Germans? They're Americans.
In Chicago, there's many Germans.
Come on.
The Japanese?
Believe me, one day, they'll all be Americans, also.
Languages. That's all the difference.
This war, what is it?
It's a war between Americans...
who all speak different languages...
so how can we lose?
Mr. McCann's an American.
He knows we're all on the same side.
You talk to him.
Arrange for him to meet my associate Mr. D'Amato.
Be careful.
You think of this as a problem?
This is no problem.
Think of it as an opportunity.
Do you think Mr. Perkins has unwisely informed McCann...
that we wish to build a casino on Luna Bay?
I think that Mr. Perkins is certainly very worried...
about something.
He's very close to McCann.
Well, it's good for us.
It might also be very bad for everyone.
Jack is beginning to remind me of Lucky...
and that's not good.
One Lucky in my life is plenty of Luckies.
No.
Jack is going to get sick very soon.
Please don't.
You know I don't believe in those stupid signs.
Signs are numbers.
It's all numbers.
Seconds, hours, days, years.
You understand. You're good at math.
Oh, that is really...
quite something.
Don't frighten me.
You can do what you'd like to my body.
I don't care.
It's all wonderful.
For God's sakes...
leave my mind alone.
Stick to my skin, huh?
Ah, Tracy.
You're such a child.
Isn't that the way you want me?
What is it?
Those tests last year in Miami.
They were inconclusive.
Is that what we're gonna be?
Inconclusive?
I don't need a child to love you.
I just don't want us to be incomplete.
We're complete... now.
Perfect.
100,036.
Jack never needed one of those things.
He's absolutely right.
He's very clever, my husband, isn't he?
Not nearly as clever as my daughter.
- Try one of your numbers on her. - Oh, no.
The length doesn't matter. She can handle it.
Let's take the 100,036 and divide it by, say...
one hundred and seventy-eight.
Five hundred...
sixty-two?
Is that right?
That's incredible.
It's a gift.
I'm sure that's not your only talent, Miss McCann.
Well, what is your occupation?
On this planet, I mean.
Mr. D'Amato's a businessman.
Business.
- Lawyer. - Real estate?
Lawyer, you said.
Business. Thieves among thieves...
pirates stealing from each other.
Very fine piece you have.
Yes.
Kind of stupid to make a saltcellar out of gold.
Stupid, my ass.
The alchemists made gold out of salt.
Oh, no, Jack. It's bad luck.
Throw some over your shoulder quickly.
I don't believe in luck, good or bad...
but everybody believes in a little bit of gold...
even if it's just a wedding band.
No. Leave it. Let it burn.
Where's my necklace?
I forgot.
She thought it was ostentatious.
Ostentatious?
Look at that goddamn shirt.
This represents the teaching of the cabala.
Are you a yid?
The search for wisdom is universal, Jack.
There are five points.
The first is silence.
The second is listening.
The third is remembrance, and...
the fourth is practice.
And the fifth is teaching.
And the sixth... bullshit.
There's only one golden rule...
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
The rest is conversation.
You didn't earn the gold, Jack.
You took it from nature.
You raped the earth.
I found it.
You stole it.
What the hell do you do, pluck chickens for a living?
Stop it, please.
He only does it to annoy because he knows it teases.
Tracy In Wonderland.
The Mad Hatter's tea party.
This is it.
There's no chocolate inside.
Well, you can't undo it, Mr. D'Amato.
It's gold.
Well, Jack likes to give gold presents after dinner.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
You can't take it with you.
What are you doing?
Get out of my house!
It's only gold, Jack.
Like all things, it'll pass...
and when it does, I'll send it back to you.
Tracy, get him out of here.
- I never want to see him again. - Oh, stop it. Stop it!
Whose side are you on, Charlie?
Get out of here! Vanish!
- Tracy, you can't just leave. - We're going, Mother.
Don't do it to yourself, Jack.
I won't rest until I see that man dead.
Charlie, how are you?
OK. OK, Jack.
Jack.
It's good to see you, Charlie.
Jack. I'm in trouble, Jack.
Charlie. Charlie.
What in God's name have you been thinking about?
I've been carrying a gun lately...
up at my house the last two nights in a row.
I keep hearing strange sounds like...
I know somebody's trying to break in.
Oh, Charlie, Charlie.
You're frightened somebody's trying...
to break into your house.
I'm frightened somebody's trying to break into my life!
Jack, we're partners.
You owe it to us to give this thing a chance.
Oh, Charlie. Two things.
First, I don't believe in chance.
Second, I don't have partners...
not for some time.
You're not getting it, Jack. Mayakofsky's dangerous.
How can I get through to you? This man's dangerous!
Charlie, who's the most dangerous man I know?
You, Charlie?
No.
Me, Charlie.
I'm the most dangerous man I know.
Charlie, if you're frightened...
spend a while at Eureka.
Helen's going to Rhode Island...
to spend some time with the boys.
Thanks, Jack. I think I'll take you up on that.
- I just wish that you could... - Charlie.
Now, is there anything you're not telling me?
I know it's tough being pig in the middle.
Not broke, are you?
Good.
Never mention this matter to me again.
Charlie.
Fuck you. You're so fucking selfish.
I'm very angry with Perkins.
I don't think he believes me...
and that's bad, not to believe.
Do you go to Confession?
Every week.
There's only one God between all of us schmucks.
These men are without faith.
They believe in nothing.
I think that Jack McCann believes in himself.
That's what I said. He believes in nothing.
He makes me meshuga.
How can you do business with a man who believes in nothing?
He's not a businessman.
Then we shall have to find some other way.
I have to buy, so he must sell.
He must sign because we have to build.
He dug up his fortune.
We cannot allow him to stand in the way...
of new men who want to build their fortunes.
Jack McCann is a dinosaur, Aurelio...
and everyone knows what happened to dinosaurs.
He has outlived his time.
Regrettably, we must apply pressure.
When?
No time like the present.
Thank you for letting me sleep here with you tonight.
It reminds me of our first days together on the ship.
I suppose you think that's sentimental.
What's really wrong?
I'm under siege by everybody and everything.
Well, if only...
if only people here liked you more.
It's not me that they hate. It's what I represent.
I'm the fellow who knew what he wanted...
and went out and got it.
Tough act to follow.
Oh, but that was such a long time ago.
You are a different man now.
Yeah.
I want to help you.
Why won't you let me?
Nobody can help me.
You know what eternity looks like?
It's white, yet very dark.
It's like a desert of snow at night.
Now I've reached the edge of eternity...
and beyond eternity.
The abyss.
Nothing.
Once upon a time, I was Jack McCann.
I had a name.
I don't know how much longer I can hold on, Helen.
I'm in the middle of my Second World War...
and I still can't hear.
What you said to me the other day...
about my not being able to see...
You're so damn right. I can't see, and I can't hear.
I'm paralyzed.
Once I had it all.
Now I just have everything.
- Hello, Pierre. - Hello, darling.
- C'est bon? - I'm all right.
We better make this the last.
Ah, bon, Pierre.
Ça va?
Il faut que tu lis cette lettre, Claude.
Will everybody leave, please?
- I want every... - What is it?
No, Tracy.
Everybody out now.
Come on, Claude. Pull yourself together.
It can't be as bad as that.
Claude!
Claude! Sit down. Sit down.
Claude.
- Claude! - Just get them out of here!
My mother died.
I should have stayed in France. I should...
I shouldn't have left.
She must have needed me, and...
I could have protected her.
Now there is nothing.
Sit down, sit down.
As a child, I...
ran away from school all the time.
She'd bring me back but...
never scolded me.
She knew all I wanted was...
to be free.
Then I...
then I ran away from her.
I ran away from France and...
ran away from the war.
I'm such a coward.
Tracy...
I'll never run away from you.
The last letter she wrote to me, she said...
"The day 'Gone With The Wind' opens in Paris...
"the war will be over, and we shall have won."
Maman.
Sometimes I wonder whether I'm ready for you.
It's too much of you...
not enough of me.
Do you understand?
Very simple.
Oh, it makes me afraid for us.
"Dearest Father and Mother...
"This is the hardest letter I have ever had to write...
"harder even than the weekend ones from school.
"Something happened to Claude this evening...
"which is none of your business...
"but which has made me think again...
"about my life with you both.
"I know that you will never accept Claude...
"as part of our family.
"I can't blame you...
"because he's not of our blood...
"but he has become the center of my life.
"My blood is his blood, and his is mine."
"I cannot bear the bitterness, resentment, and pain...
"that surrounds the two of us."
"I can't bear the bitterness, resentment...
"and pain that surrounds the two of us...
"especially not as your lives seem so empty...
"now that I have found and felt...
"what it really means to be alive.