-I'm Quiz Kid Donnie Smith. -Like you said.
Smart kid!
You got struck by lightning once.
So what?
-I heard about that. -Did it hurt?
But you're all right now. So what's the what?
-What? -That's right.
I used to be smart. Now I'm just stupid.
Brad, dear, who was it that said...
"A man of genius has seldom been ruined but by himself"?
It was the lovely Samuel Johnson.
Who also spoke of a fellow "who was not only dull...
"but a cause of dullness in others"?
"The cause of dullness in others."
Picky, picky!
Let me tell you this.
Samuel Johnson never had his life shit on...
and taken from him and his money stolen!
Who took his life and his money?
His parents? His mommy and daddy?
Make him live this life like this...
A man of genius who gets shit on as a child...
and that scars! That hurts!
Have you ever been hit by lightning?
It hurts. It doesn't happen to everyone.
It's an electrical charge.
It finds its way across the universe...
and it lands in your body and your head!
And as for ruined but by himself...
not if his parents took his freaking life...
and his money and tell you to do this...
and to do that, and if you don't...
Your parents took your money you won on that game show?
Yes! They did.
What does that mean, a spoke in the wheel?
Things go round and round, don't they?
Yes, they do. They do.
But I'll make my dreams come true.
Sounds sad as a weeping willow.
I used to be smart.
But now I'm just stupid.
Shall we drink to that?
I want to talk a little bit more about your background.
You made some references earlier...
to subjective human experiences and terrible things...
Actually, I'm confused about your past.
Is that still lingering?
It's so boring.
Just want to clear some things up.
Excuse me. Thank you, Muff.
It's a funny thing that...
This is an important element of "Seduce and Destroy..."
facing the past is an important way of not making progress.
This is something I tell my men over and over and over.
This isn't meant...
I try to teach my students to ask...
"What is it in aid of?. "
Are you asking me that?
Well, in trying to figure out who you are...
In aid of what?
Frank, I'm saying that in trying to figure out...
I have more important things to put myself into.
I think this is something important...
you might need to think about putting yourself into.
Not really.
It's not like I'm trying to attack you here.
This is how you want to spend your time, go, go, go.
But you'll be surprised at what a waste it is.
The most useless thing in the world...
is that which is behind me. Chapter Three.
We talked earlier about your mother...
and about your father and his death.
I don't want to be challenging, but I have to ask.
I just want to clarify something that I understand...
I'm not sure I hear a question in here.
I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can.
What's the question?
Do you remember Miss Simms?
I know a lot of women. I'm sure she remembers me.
From when you were a boy. She lived in Tarzana.
That's my old stomping ground.
Is this the attack portion of the interview?
Is the girl coming in for the kill?
No. This is about getting something right...
and clarifying your answers to an earlier question.
What question?
I was told that your mother died, Frank.
That's what you heard.
Do you remember Miss Simms?
I talked to Miss Simms, your neighbor and caretaker...
after your mother died in 1980.
And in my research...
I have you as the only son of Earl and Lily Partridge.
And what I learned from Barbara Simms...
is that your mother, Lily, died in 1980.
So, it's my understanding that information supplied...
by you and your company and the answers...
to the questions I've asked is incorrect, Frank.
And if I want to get to the bottom...
of who you are and why you are...
then I think that your family history...
your actual family history...
Well, this is important.
What is your fucking question?
Well, I guess my question's this...
Why would you lie, Frank?
Kids...adults...
I would like you to put yourself at a picnic.
Place yourself there with your family and friends...
if you'd like.
You'll hear three musical notes, and you are to tell me...
what it might represent that you would find at a picnic.
The first three notes. Guys.
Yes, Todd.
Well, Jimmy, I know this.
I have perfect pitch, and that would be A-D-E...
and that would represent lemonade.
For 250. Next notes, please.
Got it. That's E-G-G, which would be egg.
For 500. And the third set of notes. Guys?
You don't want any water?
No. I just...
I'm so fucked up right now, Alan.
There's just so much, so many things.
Are you on drugs right now?
If I tell you something, you're a lawyer, right?
You can't say anything, tell anybody.
It's like a privilege. Attorney/Client.
-You understand? -Not exactly.
Like a shrink.
If I go see a shrink, I'm protected.
I can say things--Fuck!
I don't know what I'm doing.
Linda, you're safe. It's all right.
You're my friend. You and Earl are clients.
Whatever you want to say won't leave this room.
You have something you want to say to me?
I have to tell you something. I have something to tell you.
I want to change his will.
Can I change his will? I need to.
No, you can't change his will. Only Earl can.
No, you see, I never loved him.
I never loved him. Earl.
When I met him, I fucked him, and I married him...
because I wanted his money. You understand?
I'm telling you this...
I've never told anyone, I didn't love him...
but now, I know I'm in that will.
We made that fucking thing, and all the money I'll get.
I don't want it, because I love him so much now.
I've fallen in love with him now for real as he's dying.
I look at him, and he's about to go, Alan.
He's moments...
I took care of him through this. What now, then?
Let's listen.
Hello, Mary. How are you and the seven kids?
As you probably heard by now...
we sure gave that Pope a run for his money.
That would be Robert E. Lee.
His wife was Mary Parke Custis. I know he had seven children.
And he would be talking about Pope...
who he defeated at the Battle of Manassas.
Absolutely right, Miss Mim. Next question.
Come on. Snap out of it, man.
Come on, Stanley.
Bonjour, Josephine.
Maintenant je suis en Egypte.
Yes, Mim.
That would be Napoleon speaking to Josephine.
Absolutely right, for 500. Next voice.
I don't want him to die.
I didn't love him when we met...
and I did so many bad things to him that he doesn't know.
Things that I want to confess to him...
But now I do. I love him.
Linda, what kind of medication are you on?
This isn't any fucking medication talking!
Can you give me nothing? You have power of attorney.
Can you go in the final moments and change the will?
I don't want any money.
I couldn't live with myself with this thing that I've done.
I fucked around. I fucking cheated on him.
There. You're his lawyer, our lawyer.
I am his wife. I broke the contract of marriage.
I fucked around on him many times.
I sucked other men's cocks.
Adultery is not against the law.
You can't use it in court to discredit the will.
-Linda, calm down. -I can't.
You don't have to change the will.
If you want nothing, renounce the will when the time comes.
What does that mean? Where does the money go?
It goes to the nearest relative.
What's that? That's Frank?
No. That can't happen.
Earl doesn't want him to have anything.
That's what will happen.
This is so fucked up I can hardly stand it.
Linda, stop!
Now, you take a moment, you breathe...
and one thing at a time.
-Shut the fuck up. -Want me to help you?
-Shut the fuck up! -You need to sober up.
Now, you must really shut the fuck up.
Please, shut the fuck up.
I have to go.
-Let me call you a car. -Shut the fuck up!
Now, imagine that you are attending a jam session...
of classical composers...
and they have each done an arrangement...
of the classic favorite "Whispering."
Now, we have here the New World Harmonica Trio...
who are going to play...
three variations on the theme...
as three classical composers might have written it.
So you are to name the first composer.
Guys.
Yes, Todd.
That sounded like Brahms.
A bit like his "Hungarian Dance Number Six."
That is excellent, Todd. Next composer, guys.
Stanley the man.
I don't know the answer.
That is not right.
That's not right, Stanley.
The correct answer is Ravel.
Ravel.
And now I'm gonna have our three whistlers...
please to present the next musical...
and this'll be the third section that the whistlers...
and they'll play a piece that's...
It's very recognizable. Chopin, actually.
And it's in the style of "Marche Militaire."
It's a very recognizable piece.
So if you please just listen to this...
and I'm sure you can identify the...
I'm sort of giving away the answer here.
It's Chopin. I don't mean to give away the answer.
It's just--please just...
Well, sing us a ditty, guys. A Chopin ditty.
Let's have a Chopin ditty here. I can't...
Go to the fucking card.
Go to the card. Go.
Go to the card.
I'm back.
For not a fresh cup, this is a good cup of coffee.
Thank you. What do you want to talk about?
I don't know.
Do you want to talk?
What's your name?
Jim Kurring.
-Call 911. -I think I had a stroke.
No, no, no. I'm fine. I'm all right.
I just want to finish the show.
No, we need to call an ambulance.
Get your fucking hands off me!
Let this guy help you.
I'll tell you what happened.
Call 911. Do it right now, Mary.
I fell down. I couldn't see for a minute, but I'm OK.
Get your hands off me!
-Did you piss your pants?! -Shut up!
-What's going on? -Nothing! Go away!
Don't tell me to go away, Stanley.
I'm the coordinator, and you will answer me.
Now, what is going on?
-What's the problem? -Nothing. I'm fine.
Why didn't you answer those questions?
-I didn't know the answer. -Bullshit!
You know the answer to every goddamn question.
I knew the answers, and I'm not half as smart as you...
so what the hell happened?
He pissed his pants.
You pissed your pants?
No, I didn't. I'm fine.
Stand up.
-I said I'm fine. -Stand up.
Jesus, Stanley, what the fuck did you do that for?
I just want to keep playing. I'm fine.
That's great.
You know that to a performer, that's food, right?
That shows that you love him, and I'm sure he appreciates it.
Everything's fine. Relax.
Relax, darling. Everything's fine.
I'm OK.
All right, see? I'm all right.
It's pretty fucking stupid, isn't it?
Jesus Christ.
What the fuck do they think out there?
They must be laughing their asses off.
Tell them I got a bad knee or some fucking thing.
This is fucking funny.
-What do you want to do? -Just what I said.
Are we going to continue with this game?
All right, you look at me!
You are two days away from this record.
Nobody's ever done that.
You get through this, I'll get you anything you want.
You just got to get through this.
Now, hang in there, buddy.
I'm sorry I squeezed your arm. I love you.
-Are we doing this? -Fucking stupidity.
Why don't I put the medic on?
I need to go with him. Don't let him do this.
He's been doing it for thirty years.
You don't know how sick he really is.
It's a fucking game show, Mary.
Hear that?
Does that hurt?
-What is it? -It's in my ear.
It's TMJ.
It's what it's called. Technically.
How about they just call it, "Clicking Jaw"?
-Pain in the jaw, yeah. -How about that?
Easier to remember.
Yeah. It gets...
I don't even know if I have it, actually.
15-L-27, I'm currently Code Seven.
I'm sorry. This is my job.
15-L-27, roger.
We were just getting warmed up.
Yeah. I gotta go.
Well, if this joker shows up again...
or you got your music up too loud...
maybe we can have another cup of coffee.
If you're not here for a 187.
No. Do not joke about that.
I seen too many of those.
I'm sorry.
It's all right. You were kidding.
It's OK.
All right.
You keep your chin up and your music down, OK?
Yes, I will. It was nice to meet you, Officer Jim.
-Just Jim. -Good.
Bye-bye, Claudia.
Yeah, what is it? Did you forget something?
No, I'm...
I was wondering...
Man, I feel like a bit of a scum bucket doing this...
since I came here as an officer of the law...
and the situation and everything...
but I feel like I'd be a fool...
if I didn't do something I really want to do...
which is to ask you for a date.
You want to go on a date with me?
Please, yes.
-Well, is that illegal? -Sort of.
Then I'd like to go. What do you want to do?
I don't know. I hadn't thought about it.
That's not true. I have thought about it.
I've been thinking about it since you opened the door.
Really?
I thought you were flirting with me a little.
You want to go tonight?
I'm off tonight, yeah.
-What time? -8:00.
-I don't get off until 10:00. -10:00.
Yeah. Fine.
Yeah. Bye.
Frank, I'm really not trying to attack you here.
I think if you have something that needs to be cleared up...
I was told that your father is Earl Partridge.
I was told that he left you and your mother...
and you took care of your mother during her illness...
that you took care of her while she struggled with cancer...
and that Miss Simms became your caretaker...
when your mother finally passed away.
Can you talk about your mother, Frank?
No, no, not true. And you know what?
Even if you don't get to pump her...
you still need to practice your skills on a feminist.
I will.
You need to do that. This is Doc.
Doc, it's Janet. I have to talk to Frank.
He's in the interview, Janet.
Interrupt him.
Get him on the phone with me right away.
What happened?
Doc, go get Frank and put him on the phone.
Come on, Frank.
What are you doing?
What am I doing?
I'm quietly judging you.
And five, four, three, two...
Oh, boy, what a day. What a round.
Back and in for me and...
and the final one-on-one round...
to determine who's who today.
Let's check the scores on the board, shall we?
Well, the kids have an even 2,000...
and the adults are way up with forty-seven.
Now, that doesn't mean that this game...
is out of reach for the kids.
Elders, who's the lucky so-and-so?
It's me, Jimmy.
Come on over, Mim.
I don't want to go. I can't do it this time.
What the fuck are you talking about?
You have to go, Stanley. You're the smartest.
I don't want to go. Why can't one of you do it?
If you don't fucking stand up and get over there...
I'll beat your ass.
I'm sick of being the one, always has to do everything.
I don't want to be the one always.
Kids, I don't even have to ask.
Stanley, get your butt over here.
I'm sick.
I'm sick here now.
I confuse melancholy with depression sometimes.
You see?
Why don't you run along now, friend?
Your dessert is getting cold.
-I'm sick. -Stay that way.
I'm sick, and I'm in love.
You seem the sort of person who confuses the two.
That's right!
That's the first time you've been right.
I confuse the two, and I don't care!
I love you.
I love you, and I'm sick.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
I'm getting corrective oral surgery tomorrow...
for my teeth.
I love you, Brad.
Brad the bartender.
If you want to love me back, I'll be good to you.
I'll be goddamn good for you.
I won't be mad if you don't know who said what.
I won't punish you if you get the answer wrong.
I can teach and tell you...
You have a special secret crush over there, I think.
Don't treat him too lovely. He might get hurt.
You shut up! Mind your own business.
Gently, son!
Brad, I know you don't love me now.
It's a dangerous thing to confuse children with angels.
Want to know the common element for the entire group?
I'll tell you the answer, because I had that one.
I had that question.
Carbon. Carbon.
In pencil lead, it's in the form of graphite.
In coal, it's mixed up with other impurities.
And in the diamond, it's in hard form.
All we really wanted to know was the common element...
but thank you for all that unnecessary knowledge.
Kids. Heads so full of useless knowledge.
Thank you. Thank you.
And the book says, "We may be through with the past...
"but the past is not through with us!"
And...
no, it is not dangerous...
to confuse children with angels.
Well, that is what I wait for.
I wait for those calls. And I wait and I pray.
And sometimes Jesus says...
"Jim, I got a surprise for you today.
"I want you to meet this young lady, OK?
"Now, where it goes from there is up to you.
"And I don't think you're going to screw it up."
And, God, I'm telling you right now...
I will not screw it up.
You gave me an opportunity.
I'm going to treat this young lady right.
I'm a happy cop.
It's called jaywalking. Slow down.
I'm going to pass, Jimmy.
Stanley, passing to one of the other kids.
We want Stanley to go, Jimmy.
I don't want to go.
I'm walking towards the elevator, Janet.
Fine. Phil, are you still there?
Yeah, I'm here.
I want to ask you one question.
Phil, have you talked to anyone else about this?
No, I haven't.
Good, let's keep it that way.
All the security and whatnot. You understand?
This is a delicate situation for Frank and the family.
What's going on, Janet?
Doc, fuck off.
Phil, hang in just one more minute.
-I'm putting you on hold. -Thank you.
How close are you, Doc?
Richard? Julia? Kids, what's going on?
I need a player here for one-on-one.
We want Stanley to go, Jimmy, and we're not sure why he won't.
I always answer the questions...
and I don't want to do it anymore.
What the fuck is he doing? What's wrong with him?
I have no idea.
I'm getting off of the elevator, Janet.
Good. Good boy.
I'm walking down the hall.
This kid ain't getting up, we don't have a show.
Live television, ladies and germs.
Little prick.
What's this, a point? A game?
What the hell's he doing?
Get the fuck up, kid, come on.
Time's up.
So that's what you did? You sat it out?
You wanted my time. I gave it to you.
You called me a liar. You made accusations.
You said, "Well, if I had known...
"then I wouldn't have asked."
So it's not an attack.
I don't want to be the sort who doesn't keep his word.
So I gave you my fucking time, bitch.
Now, fuck...
It's fucking Janet.
There's a situation on the phone.
The indecision of a child, ladies and germs.
This isn't funny.
This isn't cute.
See, the way we're looked at?
Because I'm not a toy.
I'm not a doll.
The way we're looked at because you think we're cute?
Because--What?
I'm made to feel like a freak...
if I answer questions...
or I'm smart...
or I have to go to the bathroom?
What is that, Jimmy?
What is that?
I'm asking you that.
I'm not sure, Stanley.
15-L-27, I need help.
We have shots fired.
It's Hamlet to Claudius.
"The sins of the father laid upon the children..."
is "Merchant of Venice."
But borrowed from "Exodus" 25.
I'm sorry, Frank.
I didn't know what else you wanted me to do.
I asked him all the right questions.
He's his nurse. He's sitting there with him.
I heard your father's voice in the background.
Wait. He's there at their house?
They're at the house.
I asked him the exact address, and he gave it.
I know this is really hard for you right now.
If you're gonna give me things, give me the information.
I want the information. That's what I want.
What did he say?
Because I am not taking care of him.
What does he want?
Frank, what the fuck do you want me to do?
What I want you to do, Janet...
is I want you to do your fucking job!
I am doing my fucking job!
You fucking get on the phone.
I'm not a doll! I'm not silly and cute!
I'm smart, so that should make me something...
something so people can watch how silly it is he's smart!
I know. I know things.
I know--I know...
I know I have to go to the bathroom and I asked...
Take us off the air. Go to the credits.
Roll the credits.
God fucking damn it! Son of a bitch!
What the fuck?! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Stanley, don't do this to me!
I got to find that gun.
Where is it, now?
Where is it?
All right, let's go.
Where is it? Find it.
Find it!
Find the gun, Jim!
What the fuck more do you want me to say?
You need to make a decision.
Look, just give me a second.
Give me a second.
What the fuck, Frank?
What do you want me to do?
-What are you doing? -I got Frank, Earl's son.
-Hang up the phone. -No, he asked me...
Put the fucking phone down!
-Hang it up! -I can't!
Frank, are you there?
I want you to talk to him.
I'm going put him on.
Hang it up! You don't do that!
You don't call him. You don't know.
To get involved in this business of his--my family.
This is the family. Me and him. Understand?
There's no one else. No one else!
That man--that beautiful man...
his son does not exist. He's dead.
Who asked you to do that?
-Earl did. -Bullshit!
Bullshit! He didn't ask you!
He doesn't want to talk to him!
So fuck you that he asked that!
There's no one but me and him! No one!
He asked me.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Mary, take me out of here. I got to go home to Rose.
Mary, take him home.
-In the back. -Did we win or lose?
I don't know, Richard.
You lost. They go to the score the time they called it.
That's not an official rule, Luis.
That's an official rule, baby.
That's bullshit, and you know it!
Who says that? In what rule book?
This is different! It's a game show!
They don't go by fucking sports rules!
Richard, shut it and cut it out.
If he hadn't pissed his pants...
we would have won this little motherfucker!
We had it!
What'd you do with my goddamn kid, Burt?
Get your fucking hands off me, you boy producer punk.
Oh, Lord, why is this happening to me?
God, please help me figure it out.
I'm lost out here.
I don't understand why it's happening, God.
Please, God.
Whatever it is I did, I'll fix it.
I'll do the right thing.
Please, God, help me find the gun.
Listen, Phil.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I slapped your face.
I don't know what I'm doing.
I don't know how to do this.
I do things, and I fuck up.
I fucked up.
Can you forgive me?
It's all right.
Can you tell him I'm sorry...
for the things I've done, that I fucked up?
I'm sorry.
I'm going to turn away and walk away...
and not look at him, and not see my man, my Earl.
And tell him...
"It's OK. I'm OK."
Tell him, "Thank you for taking care..."
The whole thing's OK with me.
And I know.
Welcome back from the break!
How'd you guys like those nachos?
You are not here for the fucking food.
You are here for me to enlighten you, edify you...
to send you off into the now not-so-unknown future.
So come along with me.
"How to fake like you are nice and caring."
No, I don't want a microphone.
Now, this...
this is quite an important chapter...
as you will see.
But let's get down to brass tacks.
Let's get right down to it, boys.
Men are shit.
What? Men are shit.
Isn't that what they say?
Because we do bad things, don't we?
We do horrible, heinous, terrible things.
Things that no woman would ever do.
No, women, they don't lie.
No, women don't cheat.
Women don't manipulate us.
But you see what I'm getting at.
You see what society does?
Little boys, it's, "Wow, woman!"
We are taught to apologize.
"I am sorry.
"I am so sorry, baby. I am so sorry."
What is it that...
What is it that we need?
Is it their pussies? Their love?
Mommy wouldn't let me play soccer...
and Daddy, he hit me, so that's who I am.
That's why I do what I do?
Fucking bullshit.
I will not apologize for who I am.
I will not apologize for what I need.
I will not apologize for what I want!
Go to your blue booklets now.
I want you to turn to page 18 in your blue booklets.
This is fucking bullshit!
I want you to go to your white books.
That's what I want you to go to.
Go to twenty-three in your white books.
"How to fake like you are a nice and caring person."
Hey, come here.
I'm...
I'm gonna try talk.
You know, I'm trying to...
to say something-something.
Do you know Lily, Phil? Do you know her?
No, I don't.
She's my love, my life, love of it.
In school...
I'm twelve years old in school, in sixth grade.
I saw her.
I didn't go to that school, but...
but we met.
My friend knew her.
I said...
"What's that girl? How's that Lily?"
"Oh, she's bad. She sleeps with guys."
Yeah, he said this, but then sometimes...
I went to another school, you see.
But then...
When high school at an end, what's that?
What is that when it gets to the end?
Graduation.
No, no, the grade. What grade are you in?
That's 12th.
So I went to her school for that grade.
Grade--that's grade twelve.
And we meet.
She was...
fucking like a doll.
A beautiful porcelain doll.
And the hips...
The child-bearing hips, you know that?
I know.
So beautiful.
And I cheated on her...
over and over and over again.
Because I wanted to be a man.
And I didn't want her to be a woman.
A smart, free person who was something.
My fucking mind then.
So stupid, that fucking mind.
Stupid.
Jesus Christ!
What would I think?
Did I think for what I'd done?
She was my wife for twenty-three years...
and I went behind her over and over.
Fucking asshole that I am.
I'd go out and I'd fuck...
and I'd come home and get in her bed...
and say, "I love you."
This is Jack's mother.
His mother, Lily.
These two...
that I had...
and I lost.
This is the regret that you make.
This is the...
regret that you make and the something you take...
and the blah, blah, blah...
something, something.
Gimme a cigarette.
Mistakes like this...
you don't make.
Sometimes...
you make some and OK.
Not OK, sometimes, you make other ones.
Know that you should do better.
I loved Lily.
I cheated on her.
She was my wife for twenty-three years.
And I have a son.
And she has cancer.
And I'm not there...
and he's forced to take care of her.
He's fourteen years old.
To...
To take care of his mother and...
and watch her die on him.
A little kid, and I'm not there.
And she does die.
I loved her so.
And she knew what I did.
She knew all the fucking stupid things I'd done.
But the love...
was stronger than anything you can think of.
The goddamn regret.
And I'll die.
Now I'll die, and I'll tell you what...
the biggest regret of my life...
I let my love go.
What did I do?
I'm sixty-five years old.
And I'm ashamed.
Million years ago...
The fucking regret and guilt, these things...
Don't ever let anyone ever say to you...
you shouldn't regret anything.
Don't do that.
You regret what you fucking want.
Use that. Use that.
Use that regret for anything, any way you want.
You can use it, OK?
Oh, God.
This is a long way to go with no punch.
A little moral...
Story, I say.
Love.
This fucking life...
it's so fucking hard.
So long.
Life ain't short. It's long.
It's long, God damn it.
God damn.
What did I do?
Phil. Phil, help me.
What did I do?
Juan, how you doing?
How you feeling?
I think I'm going to stay on, stick it out.
Are you sure?
All right, good night.
You're so stupid.
Is love
What you thought
When you first
Began, yeah
You got
What you want
You can hardly stand it, though
By now you know it's not
Going to stop
It's not going to stop
Till you wise up
You're sure
There's a cure
And you have finally found it
You think
One drink
Will shrink you till
You're underground and living down
But it's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
Till you wise up
Prepare a list for what you need
Before you sign away the deed
'Cause it's not going to stop
It's not going to stop
Till you wise up
No, it's not going to stop
Till you wise up
No, it's not going to stop
So just give up
You know, you know, you know.
Go, go, go.
Hello, dear. I need a favor.
All right. Back up, Max.
Back up, Miles.
Hello. You Frank? Jack, right?
Are you Phil?
Tried to get in touch with you. We got disconnected.
Stay in, Max! Hey, come on! Please!
-I got the message. -I couldn't find you.
Earl asked me, so I looked through the address books.
There's no number. There's nothing.
Is what's-her-name...
Linda? No, she went out. She's not here.
Hey, I'm sorry.
I don't know what to do here.
Your dad asked me to get in touch with you...
and I didn't have the number.
I called the number. Want to come in?
-Yeah. Hey, Phil? -Yeah?
I will drop-kick those fucking dogs if they come near me.
All right.
Come on in. This is Blake.
Clear them out.
Miles. Here we go.
All right, he's in here.
So we all go in here.
Want to go in?
No, I just stand here a second, Phil.
Lady!
Hey, wake up.
What's wrong with you?
Here.
How do we do this, then?
Well, we just do it.
We do it. We figure it out.
We do as we do, I guess.
Do you love me, Rose?
You are my handsome man.
I'm a bad person.
I mean...
I'm telling you this now...
because I want everything to be clear and clean...
and I want to apologize for me and the stupid things I've done.
I've cheated on you.
I've cheated on you, and...it kills me...
and the guilt of what I've done...
I don't want you to think that...
Maybe you knew.
I think maybe you've known.
So I hope this is not just for me...
for me to make myself feel better about what I've done...
but for you not to feel like you're sitting there...
Like a jerk.
You're the good one.
You understand?
Did you ever go out with someone and just lie...
question after question?
Maybe you're trying to make yourself look cool...
or better than you are or whatever...
smarter, cooler...
and you just...
Not really lie...
but maybe you just don't say everything.
That's a natural thing.
You know, two people go out on a date or something.
They want to impress people...
the other person.
Or they're scared they'll say something...
that will make the other person not like them.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
So you've done it?
I don't go out very often.
Why not?
I never found someone, really, that I'd like to go out with.
I bet you say that to all the girls.
Want to make a deal with me?
What I just said...
people afraid to say things...
no guts to say the things that are real or something...
to not do that.
To not do that that maybe we've done before.
Let's make a deal.
I'll tell you everything, and you tell me everything...
and maybe we can get through all the piss, shit, and lies...
that kill other people.
"Piss and shit."
What?
You really use strong language.
I'm sorry.
No, it's fine.
I didn't mean--It seems vulgar or something, I know.
-It's fine. -I'm sorry.
It's nothing. I'm sorry.
I'm gonna run to the bathroom for a minute maybe, just...
I'm going to go in. Are the dogs in there?
Yeah, but they stay by the window.
I want you to come in with me and stay away from me.
I want you there in case he needs anything...
because I am not going to help him.
And, Phil, I will drop-kick the fucking dogs...
if they come near me.
You don't look that bad.
You prick.
"Cocksucker." That's what you used to like to say, right?
"Cocksucker."
But you are a cocksucker, Earl.
It hurts, doesn't it?
You in a lot of pain?
She was in a lot of pain.
Right to the end, she was in a lot of pain.
I know because I was there.
You didn't like illness, though, do you?
I was there.
She waited for your call.
For you to come.
I am not going to cry.
I am not going to cry for you!
You cocksucker, I know you can hear me.
I want you to know that I hate your fucking guts.
You can just fucking die, you fuck.
And I hope it hurts. I fucking hope it hurts.
Her resps are down to six.
Let's get the gurney over here.
Check that ego
Come off it, I'm a prophet
The professor
I'm gonna teach you 'bout the worm
Who eventually turned to catch wreck
With the neck of a long-time oppressor
And he's runnin' from the devil
But the debt is always gainin'
And if he's worth bein' hurt
He's worth bringin' pain in
Do you feel better now that you've said this?
I don't know.
Well, I'm not...mad.
Well, I am, but I'm...not.
You know?
I love you so much, Rose.
I'm not through asking my questions.
Why doesn't Claudia...
talk to you, Jimmy?
Why?
Because we've...
We both don't know. What do you mean?
No, I think you know.
Maybe...
I don't.
Say it, Jimmy.
I wanted to do that.
Well...
That felt good to do-- to do what I wanted.
Can I tell you something?
Yeah, of course.
I'm really nervous that you're gonna hate me soon.
You're gonna find stuff out about me and hate me.
No. Like what? What do you mean?
You have so much, so many good things...
and you seem so together.
You're a police officer...
straight and put together without any problems.
-I lost my gun today. -What?
I lost my gun today...
and I'm the laughing stock of a lot of people.
I wanted to tell you. I wanted you to know.
It's on my mind.
It makes me look like a fool.
And I feel like a fool.
You asked that we should say things...
say what we're thinking and not lie about things.
I can tell you that I lost my gun today.
I'm not a good cop.
I'm looked down at, and I know that...
and I'm scared that once you find out, you won't like me.
Jim, that was so great.
I'm sorry.
What you just said.
I haven't been on a date since I was married, and...
that was three years ago.
Whatever you want to tell me...
whatever you think might scare me won't.
I will listen to you.
I'll be a good listener if that's what you want.
And I won't judge you.
I know I do that sometimes. I won't.
And I can listen.
And you shouldn't be scared of scaring me off...
or whatever you think that I think and on and on.
Just say it, whatever it is, and I'll listen.
You don't know how fucking stupid and crazy I am.
It's OK.
I got troubles, OK?
I'll take everything at face value.
I started this, didn't I? Fuck!
Whatever it is, just say it.
You'll see.
You want to kiss me?
Yes, I do.
Say it, Jimmy.
I think she thinks...
that I may have molested her.
She thinks terrible things that somehow got into her head...
that I may have done.
She said that to me last time when it was...
Ten years ago she walked out the door.
"You touched me wrong. I know that."
Some crazy thought in her head.
Did you ever touch her?
I don't know.
I really don't.
But you can't say.
I don't know what I've done.
Yes, you do. You do!
But you won't say.
I don't know.
What? Please. Please.
You deserve to die alone for what you've done!
I don't know what I've done.
Yes, you do!
If I said that I knew, would you stay?
But I don't know what I've done.
You should know better!
Now that I've met you would you object to never seeing me again?
What?
Just say no.
I won't say no. Wait, Claudia.
Just let me go, Jimmy.
What is it? Please, please.
Why didn't you call?
I fucking hate you.
God damn you, fucking asshole.
Oh, God, you fucking asshole.
Don't go away, you fucking asshole.
Oh, God, don't go away, you fucking asshole.
What am I doing?
What the fuck am I doing?
Oh, fuck.
What?
What are you doing, dummy?
Oh, brother.
There are frogs falling from the sky.
Come on! Come on!
Claudia, it's Mom! Open the door, honey!
Claudia, are you there?
Mom! Mom! Mom! Mommy!
All right. All right.
It's OK. It's all right now.
It's OK. It's gonna be all right.
This happens.
This is something that happens.
And there is the account of the hanging of three men...
and a scuba diver...
and a suicide.
There are stories of coincidence and chance...
and intersections and strange things told...
and which is which and who only knows?
And we generally say...
"Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it."
Someone's so-and-so met someone else's so-and-so...
and so on.
And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator...
that strange things happen all the time.
And so it goes, and so it goes.
And the book says...
"We may be through with the past...
but the past ain't through with us."
I'm sorry, Jack.
It's the hospital calling about Linda.
Who?
Linda. She's in the hospital.
I figured you should probably talk to them since you're here.
Is she gonna be all right?
Could you please tell me where you're located?
Are you with us, Linda? Good.
It is, Linda, isn't it?
Just relax. That's it.
You'll get through this.
Dad.
Dad, you need to be nicer to me.
Go to bed.
You have to be nicer to me, Dad.
Go to bed.
I know I did a stupid thing.
So stupid.
Getting braces.
I thought...
I thought he would love me.
Getting...braces.
For what?
For something I don't even...
I don't know where to put things, you know?
I really do have love to give.
I just don't know where to put it.
A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to.
Take a lunch hour... job's over.
Something like that.
But it's a 24-hour deal.
No two ways about it.
And what most people don't see...
is just how hard it is to do the right thing.
People think if I make a judgment call...
that's a judgment on them, but that is not what I do.
And that's not what should be done.
I have to take everything...
and play it as it lays.
Sometimes people need a little help.
I got a buddy who's supposed to be real good...
at corrective oral surgery.
Sometimes people need to be forgiven.
And sometimes they need to go to jail.
Call me about that guy with the teeth, OK?
And that is a very tricky thing on my part...
making that call.
I mean, the law is the law.
And heck if I'm gonna break it.
You can forgive someone.
Well, that's the tough part.
What can we forgive?
Tough part of the job.
Tough part of walking down the street.
I just wanted to come here...
to come here and say something...
say something important, something that you said.
You said we should say things and do things.
Not lie, not keep things back...
these sorts of things that tear people up.
Well, I'm gonna do that.
I'm gonna do what you said, Claudia.
I can't let this go.
I can't let you go.
Now, you...
You listen to me now.
You're a good person.
You're a good and beautiful person...
and I won't let you walk out on me.
And I won't let you say those things...
those things about how stupid you are and this and that.
I won't stand for that.
You want to be with me...
then you be with me.
You see?