"My Reminiscence."
I always thought that for such a lovely river,
the name was mystifying: "Cape Fear."
When the only thing to fear on those enchanted summer nights...
was that the magic would end,
and real life would come crashing in.
[Keys Jingling]
Okay, Cady, the moment you've been waiting for.
[Gates Clanking]
Any people comin' for you, Cady?
What about your books? Already read 'em.
[Distant Thunder]
Gracias.
! Hola!
Hi. How are you?
? Cómo está usted? Bien, bien.
? Es ropa limpia? No, no.
That means clean. These are dirty.
[Woman] The idea is to resolve the tension.
I need to find a motif that's about movement.
Not the most mind-blowing concept for a travel agency,
but what the hey?
Like an arrow, maybe? Yeah, like an arrow.
Maybe.
But then the other aspect is stability,
a company that you can trust.
If you can balance those ideas in a way that's pleasing to the eye,
then you got a logo.
Okay: Movement, stability...
and an arrow.
Okay,
I'll think of something for that one.
Benjamin.
They switched babies on me at the hospital, didn't they?
How'd you do in there?
I got the judge to postpone the alimony hearing for 21 days.
Oh, great.
I've got till Monday to find out which S&L, in which municipality...
my son-in-law stashed all that money. Right, right.
But I thank you and my daughter thanks you. You're welcome, Tom.
Here's... Daddy!
Good-bye, junior!
! Adiós! ! Hasta luego!
Sayonara!
[Laughing]
[From Film] That's very creative, junior!
He liked me.
All this time, he actually liked me.
[From Film] You can't go in!
Your father's making a TVappearance for his campaign!
Jack, let me talk to you.
[Coughing]
What is this? This smoke?
Excuse me... Excuse me.
[Laughing]
Let's move our seats.
[From Film] All right, just get the hell outta here.
I'm making a goddamn campaign.
Okay, then I quit as your son!
Do you believe that annoying, loser guy?
Dad, you should've punched him out.
Punched him out? What do you mean? You box.
You could've shoved him, shut him up. Yeah, yeah.
I could take you. That's who I could take.
You could've kicked him in the face. Kicked him?
Yeah, you know how to fight dirty.
You do that for a living. Real cute, Leigh.
How much do I owe you? It's taken care of.
Taken care of? Who? There.
Girls, girls.
Come on, let's sit inside.
Whoa! Mr. Perfect form!
No, no, I don't.
Look, you gotta snap your wrist on the backhand.
Usually I like a little music at this point.
Sam, I want to play in this lifetime. All right, all right.
You gotta snap your wrist. Tag.
You know, we should stop doing this for awhile.
Doing what? We're not doing anything.
I know that. Yet.
Okay, fine. Maybe you're right.
Does your wife mind?
My wife doesn't even know you exist,
which most certainly is for the best.
Why's that?
Lori, you know why you have to ask that question?
'Cause you've never been married.
Is marriage synonymous with deception? No, no, no.
It's just that when two people...
When two people get married...
and they live together for a long time, it's uh...
I like hanging out with you, so sue me.
You're funny and you're cute,
and we talk about the courts...
and which judge is senile...
and which one wears a gun under his robe.
You know, Lori, another time, another place.
Who knows, you know?
Tomorrow? Yeah, it's a light docket.
No, no. I've won two out of three.
Let's make it the best out of five.
That's good, actually, because today I let you win.
- Sure you did. - See ya.
Hey!
Free as a bird, apparently. You go everywhere you want with whomever.
That much freedom could get a fella into trouble.
I'd like my keys. Could it be you don't remember me?
Sure, I remember you. You were at the movie house.
Oh, I'm disappointed. I'm hurt.
I would like my keys.
Max Cady.
You look the same.
Maybe 15 pounds heavier.
But they say the average man gains a pound a year...
Oh, come on.
Gains a pound a year till he's about 60.
Me, I dropped a pound every year of my sentence.
Atlanta, '77. You got it. July.
Fourteen years since I held a set of keys.
You look good, healthy. Thank you,
'cause it's a struggle to stay healthy in the joint.
But you wouldn't know about that, would ya?
If you were me, they'd stick you with the white trash.
They don't strike a lick of work all day.
This little ol' cigar is my only vice.
I needed a vice in the joint to remind me I was human.
What brings you to New Essex?
Oh, the climate.
Boy, the south.
I'm thinkin' of settlin' here in New Essex, Counselor.
Have you been following me? It's a small town.
Everywhere you turn, we're gonna run into each other.
Take care, Mr. Cady. You too.
You're gonna learn about loss.
What?
##
Dad, could you... hmm?
Sorry, Danny.
What're you working on? It's English.
We're supposed to read Look Homeward, Angel,
which is a kind of reminiscence,
and we have to attempt something in the same style.
What's it about, your reminiscence?
The houseboat.
Oh, the houseboat.
[Leigh] It's not even July 3rd yet.
We ought to take two weeks off and go up to Wilmington...
like the old times, down to the houseboat.
I wanted to in early June.
You said you didn't have time. I probably don't.
Now I don't, either.
Danny's got summer school till labor day.
She can't miss two damn weeks?
You know, the alternative was to expel her.
Maybe this drama teacher from the college...
will get her excited about something.
About him, probably.
Why'd they have to make such a stink,
like she was on heroin or something?
I mean, what's marijuana?
You and I smoked dope in our time.
In some cultures, it's considered almost a sacrament.
I realize in ours it's forbidden.
Right up there with incest and necrophilia and bestiality...
Honey, honey, honey.
Worship of idols, cannibalism.
Do that again. What?
Do that again.
[Fireworks Exploding]
Sam, somebody's out there! What?
Leave the light off. Leave it off.
I saw him when the fireworks went off.
[Whispering] What?
I think I talked to him this afternoon. You know him?
I want you the hell off my property!
He's gone.
[Sam] He said, "I'm gonna make you think about loss, "
or "I'm gonna make you learn about loss."
Something like that.
That's very poetic.
Who is he, and where did he come from? He's from...
Leigh, get the dog off. Ben, get down.
He doesn't mind me at all.
It's your dog. Come on.
He shouldn't be up on the table.
You're gonna have dog hairs in your tea. Get down.
Where's he from? He's from the hills, Pentecostal crackers.
What was he in prison for?
I think it was battery. You think it was battery?
Did he batter a man? Did he batter a woman? I don't know.
It was 14 years ago. You know, it's kinda...
I really don't remember.
What does he want with you?
He's just tryin'to bug us. Just messin'around.
He's an ex-con, so he's just...
You know, he's probably upset at the lawyer.
Yeah, your clientele. Yeah.
Bye, Dad. Bye, Danny.
You look tired. Thanks. I needed that.
I don't want to alarm her,
but I'd rather Danny didn't wander alone...
on her soul-searching walks in the woods,
at least till I've started a few things.
What if she takes Benjamin with her? Ben, our guard dog?
What's he gonna do, lick him to death?
Just tell her. I hardly know anything about the man.
I don't mean his biography, just there's some creep around.
If you see him again, call the cops and then call me.
What about a weapon?
In case things get exciting around here.
Would you feel more secure with a loaded gun in the house?
We'd end up using it on each other. Or Danny would.
He's not gonna do anything. He just got out of prison.
He doesn't want to go right back.
Call Lee Heller. Lee's a colorful character,
but he's still the best criminal lawyer in the state.
Good. Get me Lee Heller.
You defended this guy, right? Right.
So what makes you think he wants to harm you?
Yesterday I was getting in my car.
The guy comes up. We have a conversation.
He says to me, "You're gonna learn about loss."
That'd hardly qualify under the terrorist threat statutes.
Come on, Tom! The guy's an ex-con!
You know as well as I do what that means.
Last night, there he was behind our house.
- Attempted b and E. - No, not exactly.
He was sitting on a wall that bounds our property.
That's not even trespassing, Sam.
What can I say? Get a restraining order.
I filed one this morning. The hearing's in ten days.
Good. Anything I can do.
Tom, 14 years ago...
in this case,
I had a report on a victim. It was a rape case.
That's right, rape and aggravated sexual battery.
I had a report on this victim,
and it came back that she was promiscuous.
And, uh... I buried it.
Whew.
Anybody else know? No, I buried it.
I didn't show it to the client, to the prosecution.
But if you had seen what this guy had done to this girl...
"In every criminal prosecution, the accused shall have...
the assistance of counsel for his defense." I know the 6th Amendment,
but I believe in the 6th Amendment.
That's why I left the public defender's office.
Some folks just don't have the right to the best defense?
Of course they deserve the best defense!
But if you had seen what he did to this girl... Buried the report.
If it was your own daughter, Tom...
Buried the report.
Jesus, Sam.
Oh, God.
But I don't see how he could know that.
He was illiterate.
I had to read everything to him: The probable cause affidavit,
the arrest reports, everything.
There's no way he could know that.
Danny, it's so quiet out here and the light's so perfect.
Why don't you get your book and come out here and read? Why?
I told you why.
Well, is it because he's like a flasher or just a peeper?
What do you know about that? A flasher?
You don't think I've been flashed before?
I didn't mean to insult you. I'm sure you've been flashed.
If you want to come out, come on out.
Do whatever you want.
Oh, but don't go outside.
Afternoon, Counselor.
What do you want, Mr. Cady?
[Cady] Mmm, mmm-mmm-mmm!
They're great at that age, ain't they?
All those discoveries ahead of them.
You're lucky, Counselor.
My own daughter, she don't even know me.
After I went inside, her mama told her I was dead.
Which, in a way, I was.
Look, Mr. Cady, I realize that you suffered.
I understand your problem, but I mean, why me?
I was your lawyer. I defended you.
Why not badger the D.A. Or the judge?
"Badger"? Why not them?
Badger. Why not?
Best I remember, they was just doin' right by their jobs.
I didn't do my job? Is that right?
I pleaded you out to a lesser included offense.
You could've gotten rape instead of battery.
I'd have been up for parole either way in seven years. Rape is a capital offense.
You could've gotten life. You could've done death.
You could be sittin' on death row right now.
I learned to read durin' my stretch.
First, Spot Goes to The Farm,
then Runaway Bunny, then law books, mostly.
Did you know that after I discharged you,
I acted as my own attorney?
Applied several times for an appeal.
No, I didn't know that.
Mm-hmm.
So, here we are... two lawyers,
for all practical purposes, talkin' shop.
How much do you want, Mr. Cady?
How much do I want what? How much money do you want?
Money? Counselor, do I look destitute to you?
I'm open to discussion, within reasonable limits.
You ever been a woman?
A what? A woman.
Some fat, hairy, ugly hillbilly's wet dream.
I realize that you suffered. There's no question about that.
You don't know what sufferin' is, Counselor.
Like it says in Galatians 3:
"Have ye suffered so many things in vain?"
I learned from the get-go in the joint...
to get in touch with the soft side of myself, the feminine side.
Well, I'm open to some sort of discussion...
on compensation.
What shall be my compensation, sir,
for being held down and sodomized by four white guys?
Or four black guys?
Shall my compensation be the same?
What is the formula for compensation, sir?
How about $ 10,000 in cash?
Do l...
Let's just break that down.
That figure just came to the top of my head. Let's break it down.
For argument's sake, let's say $20,000, $30,000.
I'll tell you what, let's say $50,000.
$50,000 into 14 years.
Fourteen years times 365 days...
I'd say is about 5,000 days.
You divide that by $50,000, and that's like $ 10 a day.
That's not even minimum wage!
To say nothing about the family that I lost, the respect.
I don't think you really, really understand...
what we're talkin' about here.
Fourteen years.
[Beeping]
Whoops! Uh-oh!
Gotta git. I'm late for another appointment.
Sam, my man, I got some good news.
I got the bank, the account number.
I'll call your son-in-law's lawyer.
Mr. Bowden? Your wife's on line one.
Ask her to hold. I gotta make a call.
I wouldn't make that call. The way I'd handle...
Mr. Bowden, she says it's urgent.
Yeah?
[Leigh] These kind of horrible, high-pitched howls.
They sounded like he was screaming.
And then Danny came running in, and...
I called the vet.
And then it was so weird, because...
it was like he was winding down,
just winding down like an old clock.
And then all of a sudden he just stopped.
He had this kind of...
his eyes just wide open, and this kind of...
surprised look.
And then...
And then he died.
He just died, before the vet even got here.
What'd the vet say?
That he was poisoned. Poisoned?
What kind of a poison?
I don't know what kind of poison. Jesus, Leigh!
I told you not to let him out!
- I didn't let him out! - Then how?
[Door Slams]
I've got an English Setter, so I don't cotton to dog killers.
Trouble is, poisoning a dog is just a fine.
But if he's unemployed,
he's gotta have money or we'll bust him for vagrancy.
We'll give him a full-body strip search.
Jerk a knot in his tail.
All right.
[Lieutenant] We got so many ways on the books to lean on an undesirable.
He'll feel about as welcome around here as a case of yellow fever.
- Hands against the wall. - Spread 'em!
That him? One-way mirror.
He doesn't know you're here. Yeah, that's him.
Get the shirt off.
Come on, hurry up.
Just pass it over to him.
Hand it to me.
Knock off the shoes.
Hand 'em to the other officer.
Pass 'em to him. Come on.
Let's put the arms out. Put the arms out straight.
- Roll your palms. - Do what he says.
Turn around, slow.
Sheesh.
I don't know whether to look at him or read him.
Stand still.
One more step for you. You know the routine.
Against the wall.
We searched his apartment. His car registration, everything's in order.
There's no guns or any weapons, but we found these.
Cady's savings account.
$30,000?
His mother died, the farm got sold. He got the proceeds.
Well, he's got money. Where does that leave us?
We nail him for the dog. What happened?
You let the dog out. Cady abducted him.
No, uh... we didn't let the dog out.
Cady came into your house?
That's illegal entry with intent! No, no, no.
But he didn't come into the house.
I don't know exactly how he did it,
I just know that he did it.
That's not good enough, Mr. Bowden.
You're a lawyer. You damn-well know that.
Get off the pants.
He's gonna screw up. The Sheriff assured me that they always do.
He's gonna get the message in no uncertain terms.
I'd still like to kill him.
## [Drum And Fife]
[Leigh] Danny, how come you didn't join up with them?
You can tap. You can do that.
You can tap. Dance.
I wanted to once, but I don't know.
Son-of-a-bitch! What?
He's staring at you. What are you talking about?
What the hell are you doin'?
Mmm, hot as a firecracker on the 4th of July.
You're damn lucky to have her, boy.
Son-of-a-bitch!
- Where the hell did he go? - Son-of-a-bitch!
Watch my arm. It might be broke.
What's with you, buddy? You have no right to be pushin' me around.
I was just watchin' the parade.
Son-of-a-bitch! What are you gettin' so upset about?
You're lucky I don't sue you.
All right, all right!
Settle down!
[Sam] I'm settled down.
Sam, what are you doing? It's nothing.
Who was that? Let's go.
The fellow with the tie. His wife took him away.
I think he really hurt his arm.
Mom.
That's a strong drink you've got there. You said it.
Just put a goldfish in it and you'll be fine.
You seem to be having a good time.
I've been practicing. Practicing for what?
How to fall on the floor? A life of debauchery.
Debauch...
Debauchery. It's a three-syllable word.
Making fun of me? That's okay, no problem.
I made you blush. Blush?
You're now the color of your shirt: Scarlet.
I had no business getting stuck on a guy who was married.
You certainly did not. I don't know what I was thinking.
God only knows.
Aren't I the bozo on this bus?
Lest you think that I slept with this particular...
That's your business. That's not mine.
I don't want it to sound like I've been through...
a bus load of'em. That's the way it sounded to me.
He was the first. Oh, yeah.
He was, I swear.
Tell it to the judge.
Actually, the rat stood me up today. Did he?
What a shame. I know.
Now it's my turn. Where are you from? Where am I from?
You're gonna love this.
I'm from, uh... Georgia State Correctional Facility.
You think I'm jokin'. I just got released from prison.
Oh, my God.
This is the way my day's been turning out.
Actually, it reminds me of a joke.
Do you want to hear it? Tell me.
Liven up the night.
An unmarried woman, uh... wait, that's not it.
Get the joke straight, darlin'. Shut up!
An unmarried woman, she meets a guy,
and he tells her he just got out of prison.
"What'd you do?" She asks.
"I hacked my wife into 52 pieces with a chain saw."
She says... She says, "So, you're single?"
That's even funnier! Thank you.
Could I ask you something? What did you do? I knew you were gonna ask.
I hacked my wife into 52 pieces.
I was afraid you were gonna say that.
I'm a very small person, so maybe...
Well, maybe I can hack you into 40 pieces.
What did you do, really?
No, really, but what did you do?
There was this protest march on this nuclear power plant.
And so when they came to arrest us,
this macho sheriff got rough with the lady behind me, so I popped the bastard.
So they gave me a little time for it.
I'm drinking a Sea Breeze.
I hope you can afford them. You gotta stay sober.
If you ain't sober, you're takin' your chances.
'Cause I'm just one hell of an animal.
Yeah? Do tell.
Get you on this side, doll. Let's do this.
Who is Loretta?
That's the love of my life. She's no longer with us.
I thought I was the love of your life. Chopped her into 52 pieces.
[Laughing]
He hurt you like this, that married guy? No.
He hurt you like this? We never did anything.
Like this? Oh, scandal! He's a rough one.
How's this feel?
[Laughing]
Oh, my God. Am I under arrest?
Not quite, darlin'.
Officer, I swear, it's all a mistake.
That married guy hurt you like this?
'Cause what he did to me hurt a lot worse than this!
No! Ahhh!
I've got you now, bitch!
[Screaming]
Danny, when did this key stop working?
What? Oh. I don't know.
No wonder. A wire's missing.
Piano wire is missing.
Was somebody fooling around with the piano? What?
[Phone Ringing]
Yeah? Mr. Bowden,
I think we might could have a little break here. Good, good.
I can be there in a half-hour. All right, fine.
Who was that? Cady raped another girl.
Rape? You said it was battery.
The case was a wobbler. I got it reduced.
I remember those days, "old slippery Sam."
I just didn't want to alarm you or Danny.
How old was that girl? Sixteen.
Sixteen? What?
Well, my birthday is coming up.
Neighbors heard screams and called us.
When the perp drove off, somebody made his plate.
Max Cady. Great.
We got one bitty problem. Girl's scared.
She's claiming she fell down some stairs.
Sam...
don't... don't look at me.
Oh, my God.
You two know each other?
Um...
[Sobbing]
Yeah, we work together.
I'll be outside.
I'm so stupid.
Oh, Lori, don't.
You stood me up at the club the other day,
and then you didn't call.
And by last night I was feeling...
pretty reckless.
I thought about what you said, you know,
that your wife...
That she didn't know I existed.
And I felt like...
I was gonna show you.
I guess I showed you, all right, didn't I?
I guess I really showed you!
Lori.
Lori, listen to me, okay?
Now look. This guy, Cady,
he's done this kind of thing before.
Now, he's gonna do this over and over again...
unless you testify...
and we take him to court... No.
And press charges and testify. No, no.
Sam, I know how it works.
I see it every day.
Only this time I'm on the other side.
I don't want to explain why I was in a bar,
and how much I had to drink, and what I was wearing;
not by the people I work with.
Not by the guys that I see cross-examine...
other people on the stand.
Just crucify 'em.
They just laugh about it later.
They'll even ask about you.
Lori, listen to me. I don't care about that.
Well, I care about that.
I'm sure you do, too.
I'm... I'm...
I'm terribly sorry, Lori. I'm just terribly sorry.
[Door Opens]
If this is something personal between you and the girl and Cady...
Personal?
Come on, lieutenant.
All right, what are you implying?
Only that there are some things that are better handled quietly,
not by the police.
Cady is planning to rape my wife, but it's not your problem.
I can't bust someone for planning to rape your wife. You know that damn-well!
Thanks all the same. The way I'd handle it...
File a restraining order? Just think of this Cady as a tiger.
Get him out of the brush. How do we do that?
Stake out a couple of your goats and hide in a tree. What are you suggesting?
That I use my family as bait? And then what?
Hope that this psychopath attacks my wife and child?
And then blow his head off? I'm a law officer.
It would be unethical of me to advise a citizen...
to take the law into his own hands.
So, I suppose you must've misunderstood me.
I guess I must've.
Well, pardon me all over the place.
[Sam] And he's been harassing my family.
He's clever, cleverly so that the law can't touch him.
I believe he's able to slip into the house undetected.
Although, is he out? I can't tell.
He's either out or in. I'm not sure.
I can't see through walls.
I'm not askin' you to see through walls.
Why can't anybody do anything for me?
What good are cops and laws...
Sam, Sam, calm down. Let me explain something.
The system is set up to handle generalized problems...
like burglary and robbery.
But if some lone creep targets you for some obscure reason,
the system's slow and skeptical.
It's pathetic, even.
What's your connection with this fellow?
I was his lawyer, his public defender.
But you shafted him somehow.
Well, at least that's the way he perceives it.
I don't care what you did. What did he do?
He raped a 16-year-old girl.
Do you have a daughter around 16?
She's 15.
I'll do a background check, follow him for a week,
and write you up a risk assessment.
Great, great. Now the cops... I can find him.
Just take it easy, stay calm. All right.
Danny, you can just relax because...
your daddy has a private investigator on the payroll.
Isn't that right?
What's your feeling about him? What, Sam Spade?
Mickey Spillane? Peter Gunn? Dirty Harry?
Perry Mason? No, Perry Mason was for lawyers.
The minute I walked in this guy's office, I felt relaxed.
This guy's totally in charge.
Kersek deals with these types for a living.
He looked like he was gonna enjoy...
[Phone Ringing]
- Yes? - It's me.
After you left, I had this conversation with a C.O. At Statesboro Prison.
Seems our man Cady had a job in the kitchen. Right.
There was this other inmate working there with him. Right.
Hated Cady's cigar smoke, and was always moanin' about it.
They found him with his neck broke and his tongue bit off.
- Oh, Jesus. - Yeah.
[Kersek] They never could place Cady near the scene of the "accident,"
if you want to call it that.
But the parole board, they kept him in for another seven years.
Uh-oh, subject's on the move. Get a good night's sleep.
Who was that? Our private eye.
I thought we were relaxed now.
New essex county Hospital. Room 5036, please.
One minute, please. All right.
Hello? Hi, Lori. It's me, Sam.
Lori, I just feel god-awful you got dragged into this. It's not your fault.
If I had any idea that Cady would hurt you to get at me,
I would've warned you. Yeah, I know.
I'm glad you called. Yep, yep.
I'm so sorry about this. I feel the same way.
[Sam] Well, are you really determined about...
movin'back to Connecticut?
[Lori] I've thought about it a lot.
I think it's probably the best thing.
I thought that maybe I could go back to school.
I'm really gonna miss you, though. Excuse me, Lori.
That sounds real good. Yeah?
That's gonna work out fine. I'll get back to ya.
All right, bye.
Well, I just don't know what I hate more,
that insipid tone or your stupid,
sophomoric infidelities.
Who was that, huh? The girl that got beat up?
Yes, Lori Davis. I already told you.
She works at the County Courthouse.
And what? You're fucking her?
Oh, no.
Interesting choice, Sam. Calling from our bedroom phone.
Why is it that whenever...
I have a private phone conversation,
you assume that I'm fucking someone?
That's why that psychopath chose her, right?
Yes, that's why he chose her.
But I'm not fucking her in any way. Uh-huh.
You sleazy son-of-a-bitch!
You son-of-a-bitch! Damn it!
You son-of-a-bitch! Stop it! Leigh!
Danny's right downstairs.
Oh, honey, there's nothing the matter.
Yeah, I can see, Dad.
You promised to leave that shit in Atlanta.
[Sam] What shit?
##
[Leigh] Christ, what a waste.
The humiliation we went through confessing our dirty secrets...
in those horrible sessions with Dr. Hackett.
We talked that one damn incident to death. Why did you bother?
Because you asked me... I mean, why did you bother? Why did you bother!
Why did you bother with you and me?
With the marriage?
Uprooting me and Danny, moving?
That's what we decided to do! You said you wanted to get out!
You don't get it. What is it I don't get?
- What don't I get? - Why put us through that!
Nadine? It's Danny.
Nothing.
I'm just losing my mind here.
You don't have the balls to walk out,
if that's what you wanted.
Like I was gonna split with you acting the way you act.
Acting? You did some acting.
I don't remember doing any acting.
You don't remember? Let me refresh your memory.
Do you remember not taking any work? Not fixing any meals?
I'm not on fucking trial here!
Do you remember crying every morning and evening?
Do you remember that?
I scared you, huh?
What did you think, Sam?
You thought maybe I was gonna kill myself?
Over you? Well, who else?
You pompous ass!
You wouldn't leave the bedroom!
I wish you could say the same.
Isn't this what Dr. Hackett talked about?
Diggin' up the past.
The relevant issue is whether I've been messin' around,
and I have not been.
As far as this girl goes, she's just a kid.
That shouldn't stop you.
She's a baby! You gravitate to people in the same profession.
You gravitate to women.
I'm a lawyer, she's a clerk. She looks up to me!
She's just infatuated. I can't help that!
Look, Leigh. I'm scared.
This whole thing has...
I keep feeling that there's some animal out there, stalking us.
I think he wants to hurt us in the worst way.
And that's got me frightened to death.
You really are scared, aren't you? Oh, yeah.
Somebody finally got to you.
Look, Leigh,
I think that this guy beat and raped her...
because he knew that she wouldn't testify,
that she wouldn't press charges.
Because she knows the system.
I mean, she works in it.
She knows that she'd be on trial.
And then, because she wouldn't testify,
you would assume that there was something going on between us...
and it would cause a rift.
And that we'd be much more vulnerable to him.
I'm glad we talked about this, because we can work together.
We can beat that son-of-a-bitch,
the two of us, together, working as a team.
Oh, boy! Jesus.
Oh, yeah, this is great.
This is somethin' else.
Oh... shit!
And here you go. I'm sorry. I haven't ordered yet.
That fellow over there sent this over, paid for.
Which one? That guy that's just leaving.
Excuse me.
Hey, Cady! Come here.
Wait a second.
I've been in a real bad mood lately.
You know what you can do to brighten my mood?
- No. - Get the hell outta here.
I don't mean this town. I mean the whole state.
I don't wanna see ya, hear ya, and i don't wanna smell ya.
Are you my friend?
No, I'm not your friend.
I thought maybe you were my friend,
because I like to plan my comin's and goin's with friends.
But if you're not my friend, I'd call that presumptuous.
I'd call it downright rude, 'cause I ain't your porch-baby.
Well, gee-golly-gosh.
I sure am sorry I offended you, you white-trash piece of shit.
Ooh, I got the all-over fidgets on that one!
You've really shaken me up. I'm shiverin' all over.
It's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me, my friend.
I could get upset. Things could get outta hand.
And then in self-defense,
I could do somethin' to you that you would not like.
You feel squirrelly. You just jump.
You threatenin' me?
- You threatenin' me? - You catch on fast.
'Cause I'm well within my rights to be here.
And if I stay here, what you gonna do?
I don't give a rat's ass about your rights.
You watch your step.
What you gonna do, arrest me?
You a cop, or were you not good enough to remain on the force?
That's the feelin' I'm gettin' here.
Hope you enjoyed your breakfast.
Ma'am, this belong to you?
Can I help you? I just found it. Thought you might need it back.
If a dogcatcher comes across a dog without a license,
he's liable to think it's a stray...
and do God-knows-what to it.
You know, um...
Our dog is... He passed away.
What a shame. Yeah.
A man's best friend. A woman's, too.
Even without closin'my eyes, I can picture him...
Big, friendly, shaggy, asleep at your feet.
Keepin' you company while you're tryin' to finish up...
those pesky, little sketches.
Oh, you're Max Cady, aren't you?
Get the hell outta here before I call the police!
I'm not doin'nothin'.
I'm just givin' you back your dog collar.
You want to look around?
Go ahead, Mr. Cady, take a good look.
Nice house.
Yeah, it is a nice house. You satisfied now?
Or is there more, huh?
Is that it?
There is gonna be more, isn't there?
You won't stop until you're happy.
How can I be happy, Leigh, when you're not happy?
You don't know anything about me.
I know what I see, ma'am. Yeah?
Mm-hmm.
I wanted to know what you looked like.
I've been waitin' to see your face,
but now that I see you, you are just repulsive.
I understand. I'm not your type.
No. All that prison time made me coarse.
Guess I'm covered in too many tattoos.
There's not a whole lot to do in prison...
but desecrate your flesh.
It didn't have to be that way for either of us...
if your husband hadn't betrayed us both.
Who knows? We might've been different people.
We might've been happy, Leigh.
- Mom, someone's on the phone! - Danny, don't come out here!
Hey, Sam! Yo, Sam!
I thought I'd catch you here.
Well, that little smart aleck made me. He what?
It wasn't my fault. He was lookin' to be covered.
There is a lot of cutsie-cutsie in that little prick. I told ya.
You know where he was?
At the public library reading Thus Spake Zarathustra,
by Friedrich Nietzsche.
He's this German philosopher. Said that God is dead.
We can keep goin' this way, but it's gonna get expensive.
I'm not so concerned about days. Stay on him a few more nights.
Do you really want to resolve this situation?
I'd love to resolve it. Then I've got a suggestion.
There's men that can be hired, by me,
to do a little hospital job on Cady.
What are we talkin' about here?
Two pieces of pipe, a bicycle chain.
Sam, he won't be so scary after that.
Are we agreed that I'm a lawyer?
Maybe 2,000 years ago we'd have taken this guy and stoned him to death.
I can't operate outside the law. The law's my business.
I'm home! Where is everybody? In here.
Evenin', ladies.
Oh, chicken.
How is everything? Is everything okay?
Yeah. Good, good.
He was here today.
[Phone Ringing]
Hello? [Cady] Hello, Danielle?
Is this Miss Danielle Bowden? Yeah.
This is your new teacher callin'.
From English or drama? Drama.
How ya doin'? Fine.
I'm just goin'down the list, greetin'my summer students.
You sound kinda down. No...
Um, there's just been stuff going on around here.
Anything I can do? I doubt it.
Shit happens, you know, like the T-shirt says.
Yeah.
You know, Danielle... all that negativity, you can use that.
What do you mean?
I'm the kind of teacher that takes a personal interest in his kids.
Everything you're going through, it's okay.
The awkwardness you feel when you're walkin' down the street...
and some leerin'fool's makin'fun of your sexuality.
The turmoil you feel...
when that time of month comes around.
The anger that you feel that your mom and dad...
won't let you just grow up and be a woman.
Don't suppress or deny it.
Use it in your life and your work.
Okay. I mean, uh...
That's... I'll have to think about all that.
So, class is tomorrow in room 110, right?
No, it's been changed to the theater.
What better place for drama, right? Yeah.
And remember, Danielle,
you can use all those fears to draw upon and learn.
You know this little tune?
[Aretha Franklin] # If you wanna do right #
# All day... #
# Woman #
# Woman, you gotta be A... #
# Do-right man #
# All-night man ##
[Danny Giggles]
You can trust in me, 'cause I'm the do-right man.
Okay?
'Night now.
Okay. Good night.
Honey, I think maybe I should walk you in.
No, it's okay, Mom. There's a lot of people here.
I'll be right here at 4:00 to pick you up. Okay.
Bye... Hi!
I didn't think summer session was gonna be so crowded.
They're just having a meeting about next fall's chorus program.
I have to go downstairs for drama.
Okay. Bye.
[School Bell]
Hello?
Nadine?
I'm here for the drama class.
Hi.
Oops. Am I busted?
No. I hope not.
You can't smoke grass in school.
Privilege of the professional.
Eases inhibitions. You down here for drama?
Yeah. Are you the drama teacher?
And you're... let me guess.
Cecile James?
No. I'm, uh... Danielle Bowden.
Danielle? Oh, we spoke last night.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm sorry. How rude.
It's okay.
Um...
# I think we're alone now #
Okay.
Hmm.
Thanks.
Here.
I'm gonna give this to you.
Ow. [Chuckles]
Little trick I learned. Take it.
You know, when we spoke on the phone last night? Mm-hmm.
Um... you really made sense to me and...
I thought a lot.
Those are human truths, darlin'. That's what it's all about.
That's what we deal with here.
See the book you have, Thomas Wolfe?
It's all about self-discovery, the inner voyage.
I like the end where, um...
Eugene's journey...
It was really, uh, mystical, you know.
And it was almost like a pilgrimage?
Almost like a cop-out, if you ask me.
Those were the facts of Wolfe's life.
The novel is what you would call a "roman a clef."
You know what that is?
I'm not sure. Nonetheless,
you can't escape your demons just by leaving home.
Although writers do find new freedom when they relocate abroad.
Take Henry Miller. Have you read his trilogy? "Plexus, Nexus, and Sexus."
No. You haven't read that?
You're missin' something.
Well, you know what? I did read Tropic of Cancer.
Just parts of it though, 'cause, uh...
I had to sneak it off my parents' shelf, you know?
But, his descriptions are pretty vivid, I would say. Yeah.
In one of the novels, I don't recall which,
he describes an erection as a piece of lead with wings on it.
I didn't read that part.
Of course not. You're not allowed.
Your parents don't want you to achieve adulthood. That's natural.
They know the pitfalls of adulthood, all that freedom.
They know it only too well.
Temptation to stray, deflecting their guilt and anger onto you...
for a crime that's not even a crime... for smokin' grass.
Wh...
Wait a second. Um... where are you from?
Where am I from? Yeah.
Where do you think I'm from?
I don't know, but...
If I told you, you gonna get mad at me?
No.
I'm from a black forest.
That's funny.
You're not the drama teacher, are you?
Maybe I'm the big, bad wolf.
Um...
So, you're that guy that's been hanging around the house?
You're the one that killed my mom's dog?
Your mom's dog was killed?
Yeah.
I didn't even know anything about that.
That's a shame. That's a damn shame.
Yes, it was.
What kind of dog was it? Um...
I don't know. He was just...
He was fluffy and...
Fluffy?
Mm-hmm.
So you didn't do that?
Of course I didn't do that.