(HELICOPTER WHIRRING )
NICK; The love of money is the root of all evil.
That's what they say, anyway.
Money makes everything go wrong.
That's certainly what I always thought.
When I was a kid,
my dad worked for the richest family in New York City, the Darlings.
DUTCH: It's my job, CIare. If they're gonna buy an entire isIand,
I have to at Ieast see it first!
CLARE: Right, and I get to sit here and rot!
You want me to quit? Do you want me to quit? I quit. Fine.
CLARE: No, DevIin, take care of the DarIings,
because obviousIy they need you more than we do!
NICK; Working for the Darlings was hard on my dad,
but it was even harder on my mom.
And at some point, you'II come to your senses.
I've aIready come to my senses, Dutch. I'm not coming back.
Nicky, it's not your fauIt. Mommy just has to go.
(WHISPERING ) Goodbye, sweetheart.
NICK; And it was hard for me, too,
as I grew up in the shadow of my father
and the immensely wealthy family he worked for.
DUTCH: Nicky, you wait out here, aII right?
I have to take care of a few things,
and I'II be back in 1 0 minutes, then we'II go home. Okay?
Okay.
I hate you.
I Iove you.
NICK; And so, I promised myself that when I grew up,
I would never be anything like my dad.
And I would never work for the Darlings.
-Your dad caIIed. -NICK: Great. Who eIse?
Let Them Eat Food Bank, and Judge CampbeII caIIed.
-CompIeteIy off the record, as usuaI. -Yeah, what'd she have to say?
WeII, IegaIIy speaking,
the Sisters of EternaI Mercy can keep their IittIe pIayground...
Oh, that's good.
...if they can find $ 1 miIIion to buy it.
-A miIIion? -Yep.
Oh, God, why does the worId have to be so miserabIe?
-That coffee's from yesterday. -Oh, Daisy!
And your dad caIIed.
-Yeah, you toId me that aIready. -Again.
He reaIIy wants to have Iunch next week.
WeII, I'm not gonna be abIe to do that.
Nick, it's been over two months since you taIked to him.
Look, Daisy, just caII him and teII him I'm sorry,
but I'm too busy. I reaIIy am.
And then, two weeks ago, my father's plane crashed
and everything changed.
Is everyone here for Grandpa's funeraI?
-NICK: Yeah. They sure are. -It's weird.
NICK: Yeah, it is.
Excuse me.
(CAMERAS CLICKING )
Excuse me, Officer? Officer, can we get through here?
Sorry, who are you? Justin TimberIake or K-Fed?
-I've heard them aII today. -No, it's my father's funeraI.
Oh.
It's everybody's father's funeraI today.
NICK: You've gotta be kidding me.
(CROWD WHISTLING )
Oh, God, here they come.
Daddy, who? Who is it?
It's Grandpa's friends, honey.
It's the DarIings.
(WAKE UP PLAYING )
-Oh, my God. I want to die. -Tish, you can do this, sweetheart.
Hey, Freddy! Freddy!
How's it feeI to Ieave the PGA to be Mr. Karen DarIing?
Don't answer that, baby, they're idiots.
REPORTER 1 : When wiII you formaIIy announce
your candidacy for the Senate?
PIease, foIks, no poIitics. It's a sad day. Sad day for everybody.
REPORTER 2: JuIiet! REPORTER 3: JuIiet!
-JuIiet! -REPORTERS: JuIiet!
REPORTER 4: JuIiet, over here!
How are rehearsaIs going for Wait Until Dark?
Oh, they're going reaIIy good.
I'd never want to be bIind, but pIaying bIind was reaIIy fun!
How's it going? Good to see you, yeah!
-WeII, the rumor is you can't act at aII. -WeII, you're poor.
And, JuIiet, is it true you're designing a new Iine of Iingerie?
Oh, when'd you get back from Tahiti?
Thirty minutes and six doubIe espressos ago.
-KeIIy SIater says, ''Hi.'' -KeIIy. Hi.
REPORTER 6: What's your reaction to the stories about you in the tabIoids?
Listen, I spend enough of my time deaIing with reputabIe media, okay?
Patrick, were you cIose with DevIin George?
Are you kidding me? He taught me how to ride my bike and fIy-fish.
He heIped me pass the New York Bar.
He was so much more than just our Iawyer.
-He was Iike a father to us. -Patrick!
If you'II excuse me. Nick, what are you doing out here?
-Just, you know, watching the parade. -Officer, he's with us.
Right, something speciaI.
(WHISPERING ) I'm very sorry. I'm sorry.
Thank you.
(SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING ON ORGAN)
(WHISPERING ) I'm so sorry for your Ioss.
Thank you.
And even if your dad did insert himseIf a IittIe too much into our famiIy,
but he thought that's what his job was, right?
To insinuate himseIf into everything,
so that he couId suck as much money out of us as possibIe?
You know, Brian, Kiki's right here.
I'm sorry, Nick, you're right. Let's not fight. I hate you.
I'm sorry Grandpa's dead.
PIease, God, teII me we'II never have to see these peopIe again.
Done.
Why are you having a drink with Tripp DarIing?
You toId me we'd never have to see these peopIe again.
WeII, he wants to start this charitabIe fund in Dad's name.
I'm gonna do the paperwork for him, and then we're done.
Okay?
I promise.
Okay.
Don't turn into a pumpkin.
I'm not gonna turn into anything.
BRIAN: What is happening? Why the heII is Nick George coming over?
This is the worst idea in the history of the Western worId.
WeII, I think that's a IittIe meIodramatic, Brian.
Nick George shouId not be our famiIy Iawyer, pure and simpIe.
It's what Dad wants, Brian.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
And besides, Nick grew up with us.
No, Nick didn't ''grow up with us,'' Pat, he was the offspring of an empIoyee.
(JULIET SCOFFS )
Maybe we shouId Iet Maria's IittIe Panchito manage your campaign?
-Brian, your father feeIs that... -We aII know how Dad feeIs.
He Ioves Nick George, but he's wrong.
Since when is Ioving someone ever wrong?
Nick's wet. He's the brother I aIways wanted.
Hey, Dignats.
Other, other brother. Other brother.
Jeremy, how many times do I have to teII you?
Get Midas off the couch.
Maria, get Midas off the couch!
What I don't understand is why we just don't Iet the market work.
-The market? -Freddy,
you're not a part of this famiIy yet, so just stay out of it.
PATRICK: What he's saying is that we shouId shop around.
Which I think is a huge mistake, by the way.
Look, your father and I have had an extensive conversation...
But there are better Iawyers than Nick George,
who wouId do a Iot more for us for a Iot Iess money
and who wouIdn't bring this massive attitude of entitIement to the tabIe.
Nick has never feIt entitIed to anything.
Karen, you're drunk and in Iove with him, so shut the heII up.
-Hey! -I have had a Scotch, okay? One.
Nick George is just Iike his dad, he's a gIorified parasite!
I want a fresh start as much as anybody,
but Nick is your father's choice.
And that's that.
That the '90?
Give that a try.
It's a IittIe vineyard we just bought in Bordeaux.
It's amazing.
-You stiII take an interest? -I do.
I don't get to taste things Iike this too often.
-Not in my Iine of work, you know? -Yeah, weII.
Maybe your Iine of work is about to change, huh?
What do you mean by that?
I need your heIp, Nicky.
-With what? -With the famiIy, you know.
DaiIy affairs.
Since your dad's gone,
(EX CLAIMS )
paperwork aIone's eating me aIive.
Tripp, certainIy there are better equipped Iawyers than me
-to deaI with the famiIy affairs. -Yeah, I know.
And I contempIated bringing some hotshot in to take the reins.
No one seems right.
-I considered Johnnie Cochran. -He's dead, Tripp.
Yeah, I know. I found out.
He was a bit of a grandstander, anyway, Ioudmouth.
I spoke with BiII.
-BiII CIinton? -Uh-huh.
You asked BiII CIinton if he wanted to represent the famiIy?
I took my shot. I mean, you know me, Nicky.
Thing is, when I reaIIy stopped and thought about it...
-You're the guy. -(WHISPERS ) Oh, God.
You know us, Nicky. You're the guy.
I'm fIattered, Tripp, but...
What Patrick said at the funeraI the other day is true.
I reaIIy did have to share Dad with you guys when I was growing up,
and I didn't Iike it.
I won't do that to my wife and I certainIy won't do that to my daughter.
-You wanna be a good dad. -I do.
So did Dutch. And Iook at you, Nicky. You're a successfuI Iawyer,
you're a famiIy man, and best of aII, you've got a moraI center.
So, you teII me, who did wrong? If I had one kid Iike you, I'd be Iucky.
-But I don't. -Tripp, I just don't think it's a good fit.
-I'm gonna put my nuts on the tabIe. -Okay, if you have to.
I'II give you $5 miIIion a year on top of what I'd pay you
to do aII your good works around town,
aII your IittIe charitabIe projects. You keep your practice,
keep everybody on saIary, keep everything as is.
Why wouId you do that?
(SIGHING ) Because
I miss your dad.
I miss having that soIid citizen by my side
to teII me which way is up.
And I trust you.
-I'd have to do it my own way. -Hey, what man wouIdn't?
-I'd have to keep reguIar hours. -Keep whatever hours you want.
I'd have to be abIe to say no
if I feIt I was participating in anything questionabIe.
-No one forces your hand, Nicky. -And I'd never Iie for the famiIy.
We wouId never ask you to.
Ten miIIion.
Done.
Thank you for an amazing night. Did we just win the Iottery?
What do you mean?
You just took me to a $500 dinner and you bought these tickets to ABT.
Last time I checked, you're a Iawyer who basicaIIy works for free.
-I took the job working for the famiIy. -What?
Lisa, this is a good thing. It's a good thing.
-Are you sure? -Yes.
This is a reaIIy, reaIIy good thing.
Tripp is giving me $ 1 0 miIIion a year
to start a charitabIe foundation in Dad's name, on top of my saIary,
which is gonna be pretty impressive.
He's giving you $ 1 0 miIIion a year to just give away?
Yeah.
(BOTH LAUGHING )
I don't know. Are you sure you reaIIy want to do this?
-I mean, your dad was a mess... -Wait a minute.
-Lise, Lise, Lise, I am not my dad. -I know that.
But if you're taking the job to prove that you know it,
it's not the right reason to take the job.
That's not the reason I'm doing this. This is a great opportunity.
Okay? And I'm gonna do it my way.
I Iike the way you do things.
-Oh, yeah? Yeah? -Yeah.
So, I guess that couId work.
NICK: Mmm-hmm?
You think it's gonna work, huh?
(CELL PHONE RINGING )
(HIP-HOP MUSIC PLA YIN G ON PHONE)
-HeIIo? -JEREMY: Hey, Nick, it's me.
-Me who? -Germs. Jeremy DarIing.
-Who is it? -It's Jeremy DarIing.
-Oh, my God. -Listen, Jeremy, can you caII me Iater?
No, I'm pIaying poker over at Ethan Hawke's pIace.
I just won a yacht.
Yeah, weII, winning's a great feeIing, Jeremy, but Iisten, you gotta...
It's wet, are you kidding me? It's totaIIy wet.
Jeremy, what exactIy do you need, besides maybe some toiIet paper?
WeII, this guy, Fran?ois, I won it from, he says that the titIe is on the yacht
at CheIsea Piers in the gaIIey and I can just take it.
Is it reaIIy that simpIe?
No, no, no, it's not that simpIe. Where's it registered?
France, probabIy? Or Germany? I don't know.
This is why I need heIp, Nick.
(WHOOSHING )
(LAUGHS ) WouId you knock it off?
Hey, Iisten, here's what you're gonna have to do.
You have to get the titIe and bring it to my office Iater today
and we'II make sure everything's okay.
Thank you, Nick! You're the wettest!
NICK: Daisy?
Can you put the famiIy's phone numbers into this thing for me, pIease?
-Sure. -And don't Iet me forget,
I'm picking up Kiki after schooI. Hey, I am sorry I'm Iate.
I got trapped on a phone caII with your brother Brian.
Oh, I'm sorry, Nick. What was it about?
Oh, God, I don't know.
He wanted my heIp getting some parishioner's kid
into the MapIe Grove Academy. Not my job.
Nick defIowered me.
(KAREN GIGGLES )
-ReaIIy? That's great. -What, Nick? It's just the truth.
-Karen, do you have a check for me? -Yep, here it is.
$ 1 0 miIIion from the DarIing FamiIy Foundation
for you to do aII kinds of good with.
WeII, actuaIIy, before the day's over,
I'm gonna use one miIIion of it to save a pIayground for some orphans.
Oh, orphans!
Nick used to read me poetry out Ioud. It was so sweet.
-Do you remember, Nick? Remember? -NICK: Karen, I reaIIy...
I aIways thought we'd be married, didn't you?
NICK: Karen... KAREN: I did.
-Freddy... -KAREN: Instead I married three...
WeII, it's gonna be four other peopIe.
(LAUGHS ) It's weird. Weird, isn't it?
(SIGHS ) Life's so weird.
So, I have
-your prenups here for you to sign... -KAREN: Oh, yeah.
-...if you're ready. -KAREN: Yeah. Let's do that.
It's so exciting.
WeII, I hope you two enjoy...
Are you coming to Mommy and Daddy's anniversary party tonight?
Yeah. With Lisa, my wife. We'II both be there.
-Bye. -Bye.
She's stiII in Iove with you, huh?
She's in Iove with everybody.
Oh, here's your phone, armed and ready.
Thank you.
(HALLELUJAH CHORUS HYMN PLAYING AS RING TONE)
Nice.
Brian, I toId you, I am not going to the MapIe Grove Academy.
I'II give you $40,000. Just Iet him in.
This is an academic institution, Reverend, not an auction.
Don't Iecture me, bozo.
I'II have somebody come up here and beat you up.
NICK: Sorry I'm Iate. BRIAN: Where the heII have you been?
What's going on?
This is Nick George, our famiIy Iawyer,
and you better do what he says or eIse...
Or eIse you're gonna wake up tomorrow morning
and find your tires sIashed or something.
-It won't be good. I promise. -NICK: Where the heII are you going?
I have to go do a baptism.
(CLEARS THROAT) Mr. George, I'II be frank.
If the chiId was IegaIIy a DarIing, there wouId not be a probIem here.
He couId come to MapIe Grove for free.
Wait, what do you mean, ''LegaIIy a DarIing''?
I mean, as Iong as the Reverend DarIing
refuses to cIaim the boy as his son,
there is no pIace for him here at MapIe Grove.
-I'm reaIIy sorry. -Wait a minute.
-This kid is Brian's? -He didn't teII you that?
(RICH GIRL PLAYING AS RING TONE ON CELL PHONE)
Pardon me one second.
Hey, JuIiet, what's up?
If I am so terribIe, Duncan McDoorknob,
then why'd you cast me?
Because your dad's financing the whoIe production!
-Daddy paid for this? -DUNCAN: Of course!
You don't think you can act, do you?
I mean, haven't you seen the Iooks on everyone's mugs
when you squeak and squawk your way through your Iines,
you dodgy wee twig! Or are you bIind, as weII?
You're a nightmare!
Daddy said he wasn't gonna do that anymore.
I thought I earned this part.
-JuIiet, there are ways... -Oh, I wish I was dead!
...to earn the part.
What exactIy went wrong here?
She stepped on the stage, that's what went wrong!
She couIdn't act her way out of a paper bag, mate, Iet aIone a pIay!
She's... She's not good.
(BORN TO BE WILD PLAYING AS RING TONE ON CELL PHONE)
God heIp me.
HeIIo?
I won it in a frigging poker game, dude! They came with the boat!
They're iIIegaIs, Mr. DarIing. Your name's on the titIe.
Yeah, but Iook, Officer. He just wrote his name in, just now, in crayon.
I don't care if he drew it with his IittIe peepee in the snow, shyster,
-we're taking him in. -Look,
he doesn't even know these guys!
It's true, I've never met those guys before in my Iife. Right, guys?
-Okay, Captain Jerry! -Okay, Captain Jerry!
-Captain Jerry, okay! -Captain Jerry, okay!
-Did you teach them how to do that? -I was just having a IittIe fun.
OFFICER 1 : Get him out of here.
JEREMY: You gotta baiI me out, Nick.
If I miss Mom and Dad's anniversary party tonight, Dad is gonna kiII me.
-I'II be right there. -He'II kiII me!
Right there!
Look, I don't think this is gonna...
(CELL PHONE RINGING )
Damn it.
What's the matter?
NICK: I forgot to pick up my daughter!
You are the most important thing in the worId to your father.
I know.
And he has gone out of his way to give you this opportunity.
But I don't want it.
It makes me feeI so stupid and Iame
to have everything taken care of aII the time.
I want to be a human being.
And someday you'II be one.
Someday you'II waIk out of this house
and do everything just the way you want.
(SCOFFS )
On your own. Free.
But not today.
Oh, I hate that thing.
As a favor to your father and me on our anniversary,
no extravagant gestures of protest.
(SALUTING IN FRENCH)
(BELCHES )
REPORTER 1 : Jeremy, did your brother Patrick
use his infIuence as Attorney GeneraI to get you reIeased?
AII right, Iisten, this has been a massive misunderstanding,
and I can assure you that my cIient is gonna be found...
REPORTER 2: Are you getting back together with KyIie Minogue?
...innocent of aII charges brought against him,
so there's no story here, pIease excuse us.
Is it true you won the yacht in a poker game, Jeremy?
Jeremy, how Iong have you been smuggIing peopIe into the country?
-I don't know... -Don't answer that.
REPORTER 3: Is it true you were pIanning to harvest their organs?
You know, that is just dumb.
Why say things Iike that? No further questions!
( YO UN G FOLKS PLAYING )
-JEREMY: Dad's gonna kiII me. -He's not gonna kiII you.
Then he'II have me kiIIed.
Can you just give us a minute, pIease? I'II taIk to him. It's gonna be aII right.
It's not gonna do any good, aII right? He thinks I'm a Ioser and he's right.
I mean, Iook at me. I can't even win a yacht without getting arrested.
I have the worst Iife in the worId.
-Jeremy. Jeremy, shut up! -What? I do, Nick! What?
You have aII the money you're ever gonna need.
You're never gonna have to work a day in your Iife.
30,000 peopIe die of starvation every day.
-Did you know that? Every day. -Yeah, but out of seven biIIion peopIe...
Look, the point is that Iife for most peopIe is a Iiving heII!
Your Iife is not the worst Iife in the worId
by any stretch of the imagination! Any!
What?
You wouIdn't understand.
Give that to Kiki. TeII her I'm sorry I made you Iate.
-Where'd you Iearn how to do that? -My coke deaIer.
Thank you.
BALLET GIRLS: Happy anniversary. BALLET GIRLS: Happy anniversary.
(ALL APPLAUDING )
BALLET TEACHER: This way.
WAITER: Champagne?
NICK: Excuse me. Excuse me.
-Hi. -Hi.
-This is for you. -Thank you.
-Sorry about Kiki. -It's okay. I got her.
This party is amazing.
These guys are from the PhiIharmonic,
and someone said that Josh Groban might be singing Iater.
Yeah, weII, this is what these guys do best, you know. They spend money.
Yeah, the wedding has to be the 1 8th,
because Nick's pIaying in the U.S. Open
-and Tiger Woods said... -FREDD Y: (CLEARS THROAT) Freddy.
-What? -You said Nick. I'm Freddy.
I'm the one pIaying in the Open.
That's right.
He's the one... He's pIaying in the U.S. Open.
(MEI LING SPEAKING MANDARIN)
-WeII, take them home then. -Have you seen JuIiet?
Come on, put on something nice before Mom sees you.
Brian, this shirt cost 1 ,000 bucks, okay?
ChiII. Hey, No Fun.
And Tripp had Doug Henning fIown in from Vegas...
(TRIPP LAUGHING )
Oh, there were hot air baIIoon rides, ponies,
you know, a typicaI birthday party.
But when it came time to Ieave, we couIdn't find Nicky.
He'd vanished.
For two hours, we searched for him.
-Where was he? -In the wine ceIIar.
He was down there, sobbing. Didn't want to go home.
But Dutch was so good with you that night.
The way he carried you to the car...
(SOBBING ) He was so... So tender.
-It's okay, Tish. -(CRYING ) No. No, it's not.
I mean, how many men do we know today,
reaIIy, who couId raise a chiId Iike that, aII aIone, and do it so weII?
Sometimes it seems the whoIe cosmos is in a state of decay.
It's a IittIe tough around here.
You know how it is.
WeII, that's true, actuaIIy, what Mom just said about the cosmos.
I mean, space is frigging... It's coming apart.
(SIGHING )
True story.
What are you taIking about?
(MUMBLES )
Jeremy.
Have you seen JuIiet?
MAN: Mmm-hmm.
And how do you think that makes me feeI?
-It was a mistake. I'm sorry. -A mistake? ''Sorry''?
I mean, do you have a thing for this guy?
-Sure. No, I... -What?
He's taken.
-Nick is my past. -Mmm-hmm.
And you, Freddy, you're my future, okay?
That's right. That's right.
Oh, I wanted to teII you, I met one of the Kennedys earIier.
Jeez, I don't know which one,
but he owns a private course outside of GIasgow
and he reaIIy wants me to pIay it.
-Oh, yeah? -Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
So I toId him we couId take the famiIy jet next week.
-Is that cooI? -Of course.
So, word's out you're headed for the Senate, Pat.
ReaIIy?
-WeII, that's news to me, Dan. -DAN: So, you won't be running?
Ready to put that on the record?
Let's just say I'm happy being Attorney GeneraI
and, as you know, I wouId miss New York so much.
After aII, it is the great American city, right?
WAITER: Excuse me.
-If you'II excuse me for a moment? -DAN: Of course.
I'II be right back.
So he is running, isn't he?
(LAUGHS ) He doesn't have a choice.
PATRICK: I've got it, DiIbert.
-Thank you. -DILBERT: Yes, sir.
(PATRICK SIGHING )
(STUTTERS ) What are you doing here?
(MAN'S VOICE) I missed you. You haven't caIIed.
(WHISPERS ) It's not good for you to be here.
WeII, what the heII am I supposed to do?
You can't teII me you Iove me and then disappear for weeks at a time.
You can't do that!
PIease don't raise your voice, honey, okay?
Don't be mad.
Just do me a favor, go to the AshIey Square, get a room.
-I'II come when the party's over, okay? -Oh, yes, you wiII.
Go.
It makes me so sad
that it aII has to end someday, this...
This pageant,
this beautifuI, beautifuI adventure.
You truIy are, in fIesh and bIood,
the great, great Iove of my Iife.
And I thank you for that.
I Iove you.
(GLASS TINKLING )
(GIGGLES ) Hey.
This year was me and JuIiet's turn to pick out the gift from the chiIdren.
So, in honor of the day that you two first met
at the Saratoga Race Course... Go ahead, LeopoId.
This is Irish Ice. He won the Breeders' Cup Iast year.
I guess. Something Iike that.
And tonight, he's ridden by Saratoga's very own Tommy Crenshaw!
(ALL APPLAUDING )
(WHOOPING )
Happy anniversary!
TRIPP: Thank you, JuIiet.
LETITIA: Oh, I Iove you.
TRIPP: JuIiet? Where is she?
Thank you. Thank you, Jeremy.
Now, get that thing out of here, before it does something unseemIy, aII right?
Great. Head them up! Move them out!
Nick, what are you doing up here?
I was just Iooking for Patrick. He sent me this thing and I...
-You okay? -(CRYING ) Yeah, I'm fine.
I'm fine.
-What's going on? -It's Freddy and me.
I don't know, Nick, I don't know. I just... I pick these guys.
It's so hard.
-Seems better than the Iast one. -Oh, yeah.
AII they see is the money, Nick.
AII they see is my name and my money and nobody sees me.
I can't imagine that's true.
You can't imagine that's true because you wouId never be that way.
I think you're the onIy guy I ever dated who actuaIIy reaIIy saw me, you know?
Just... Just me.
Karen, Iisten, I don't know what happened between you and Freddy,
and I don't want to know.
But if you don't wanna marry this guy, don't. Life is short.
And you...
-And you deserve to be Ioved. -You're sweet.
(SNIFFING ) You're so sweet.
LISA: Nick?
Patrick's Iooking for you.
-I know, he... -Sorry to interrupt.
Oh, that's okay.
(NICK SIGHING )
(WHISPERS ) Damn it.
Excuse me? Did my wife just come by here?
Short hair, bIack gown, pissed?
What happened at MapIe Grove?
Brian, I cannot deaI with this right now.
Oh, but you can show up here Iike you beIong?
You're on the cIock, Nick. Answer my question!
Okay. Okay. If you'II admit the kid is yours, Brian,
if you're wiIIing to stick your famiIy's proud name on him,
then he can go to MapIe Grove.
If not, the IittIe bastard's out of Iuck!
Yeah, go ahead. Run away.
You know, you are just Iike your stupid dad.
You stand around aII day with your hand out, taking our money,
but when it comes time to actuaIIy getting things done,
you're worthIess! I hate you!
(BRIAN GRUNTING )
Don't you ever taIk about my father Iike that again, you son of a bitch!
TRIPP: What the heII's going on here?
-BRIAN: He started it! -Shut up!
KAREN: Get a doctor!
-What's the matter? -It's JuIiet! Get a doctor!
LETITIA: Here we go.
Looks Iike she took somewhere between 1 0 and 20,
but she expeIIed quite a few of them into her piIIow.
I think she'II be fine, Tripp. She just needs some rest.
Thanks, Doc.
You have any idea why she'd do this, Nick? Any cIue?
She knows you bought her the part.
WeII...
I guess we're gonna have to be a IittIe more tricky
about how we Iay the train tracks ahead of her, huh?
Out in the worId.
What?
Speak, Nick. I'm aII ears.
I quit.
Tough day, huh?
I'm serious. This isn't me, Tripp.
This job...
I'm sorry, I gotta go.
(CAR HORN HONKING )
(PATRICK WHISTLING )
Nick. Nicky!
Look, I can't taIk right now, Pat. I'm sorry.
-Did you get my note, at the party? -Yeah.
Yeah, I did. Code Pink? What the heII is that?
-Come on, get in, I'II teII you. -No.
-Pat, I just toId your dad I quit. Sorry. -Nick, pIease. It's Iife and death.
(SIGHING )
Just go up to the room and expIain to her that it's over.
-Her? -(STUTTERS ) Yeah.
No, you do it. He's your girIfriend. She.
I can't, Nick, I tried. She gets so emotionaI.
It kiIIs me.
PIease teII me you never asked my dad to do anything Iike this.
A few times.
-Seven. -WeII, I'm not doing it for you.
Nicky, pIease, pIease, you gotta do it, pIease?
And, hey, couId you give her this check for me?
No, I'm not gonna go into a hoteI and give a tranny hooker a check!
She's not a hooker.
You make it sound so dirty, Nick.
WeII, what the heII is it, Pat, if it's not dirty?
-Different. -Stop the car!
PATRICK: (STUTTERING ) Don't stop the car, okay?
Wait, where you going? Wait, Nick! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Come here. PIease. Come on, man.
-I reaIIy... I reaIIy can't do it. -Patrick, Iisten to me.
You are going to be a United States Senator.
You're gonna occupy one of the highest offices in the Iand.
Don't you, as a future U.S. Senator, at Ieast have to have enough courage,
enough integrity, to waIk into a hoteI room on your own
and give a tranny hooker a check?
-She's not a hooker! -I know she's not a hooker, okay?
But is she more of a man than you are?
You're right. Okay. Thanks, Nick.
The AshIey Square. Let's go, baby.
And just for the record, that was not Iife and death!
I know you two had a thing once. So what was it, Nick?
She was upset about Freddy and I...
I said some things to be nice and she was just... It was friendIy.
It Iooked Iike a Iot more than friendIy to me!
-WeII, Iook, she's about to get married! -That means a Iot!
And, anyway, I toId you, I quit!
(PRE TTY WO MAN PLAYING AS RING TONE ON CELL PHONE)
Who's that? Whose ring is that?
It's... It's Karen's.
(LAUGHING SARCASTICALLY)
Look, it's not what you think. It's Daisy's idea of a joke, okay?
And it's oddIy heIpfuI.
(CLEARS THROAT)
-Thank you. -You're weIcome.
(PHONE RINGING )
(NICK SIGHING )
Karen, do not caII me on the home phone number.
KAREN; We have to talk, Nick. It's about your dad.
Freddy asked me for $ 1 00,000
at the party tonight to join some goIf cIub.
Don't. PIease, I know.
So, I went up to the office to write a check,
and when I got there, I found a new requisition on my desk.
Yeah, from whom?
Brian.
The Iast gift Brian requisitioned from the Foundation
was for a man named Norman ExIey.
-WeII, who's that? -Brian said he was just some guy,
he was down on his Iuck and came into the church,
he wanted to settIe some debts,
so I sent him a check for $ 1 0,000 three months ago.
And now he's asking for more?
Yeah, onIy this time it's for $90,000.
And...
-What? -Nick, he's an airpIane mechanic.
-Karen, what the heII are you saying? -I don't know.
Brian, weII, he never was very happy about the affair.
What affair?
The one your dad and my mom had for the past 40 years.
Oh, God, Nick.
I thought you knew.
NICK; Two days later,
my father's plane was finally recovered
from the bottom of Long Island Sound,
without him in it.
ANGELINA: It couId have been expIosives.
CouId have been?
Look, that pIane's been bouncing around the ocean fIoor
for the past two weeks now.
That's why there's no body in it, that's why there's no reaI proof.
I'm sorry.
I'd be happy to get a warrant for ExIey, see where it Ieads.
But the DA's probabIy gonna want to know
where you're getting your information from.
-I'II be in touch. Thank you. -Hey, Mr. George.
There was a watertight Iock box on the pIane.
We found this in there.
-PersonaI effects. -Thank you.
-What are you doing here, Tripp? -Karen caIIed me. I got concerned.
WeII, there's...
A Iot to be concerned about, I guess.
Maybe. Might aII amount to nothing, though.
Sometimes, you know, you're just Iooking for answers
and there aren't any.
Either way...
Oh, God.
Come here. Come here.
HeII of a way to Iose him.
Yeah.
Whatever you want to do, Nicky, we're on your side.
Whether you're working for us or not.
Is that your way of asking if I stiII want to work for you or not, Tripp?
You know me. I can't heIp putting it out there.
-I thought he took that with him. -WeII, he did.
It was in a waterproof box.
Oh.
(LAUGHS )
Okay.
-Listen, I gotta go. My famiIy's waiting. -Oh, you take the heIicopter.
I mean, traffic's demonic. You'II never get there.
CaII your car service, teII them to go home.
I wanna stay here for a minute. PoIice wiII take me back.
Take the heIicopter.
I'II see you in the morning.
See you in the morning.
Good.
I Iove you, Nicky.
NICK; So, is the love of money really the root of all evil?
Or is it something else?
(JULIET SPEAKING SPANISH)
Is it the love of freedom?
Cupcake! Wait a second!
-Leave me aIone, Daddy! -TRIPP: Why are you doing this?
I onIy get one Iife, and I have to make it mine.
Someday is today.
Let her go.
She'II be aII right.
Okay, go for it, kiddo.
-I Iove you. -I Iove you.
NICK; The love of fame?
No, seriousIy, Ethan, you shouId come down and check it out.
WeII, because I vaIue your opinion.
I'm trying to figure out what to do with this thing
before my dad makes me seII it.
Hey. We shouId hit the Bahamas, maybe?
I gotta get back though before I go to space camp.
Ethan?
-Dude? -NICK; Is it the love of virtue?
ANDREA: It's not about the money, you idiot!
I want our son to go to the schooI that he wouId go to if we were together!
WeII, they won't take him at the schooI if he's not mine!
Fine, then he's yours!
CongratuIations, baby, you're royaIty.
Andrea.
Wait, I can't just bring him home to my wife and kids!
NICK; The love of vice?
CARMELITA: (CRYING ) PIease don't Ieave me, Paddy.
I'II do something terribIe, I know it.
(CARMELITA CRYING )
It's okay.
-I'm here. -NICK; Is it the love of romance?
They're gonna make a whoIe Iine of kids goIf videos to start.
And if that goes reaIIy weII,
they're gonna do the same thing, onIy in Japanese.
And I'II be the spokesperson, kind of, you know, the face of the whoIe thing.
It'II just cost $ 1 miIIion upfront to start.
It's a good idea, right?
Yes. Yeah, it's a good idea.
NICK; Or is it having too much of anything?
Is that the problem? I don't know.
I just know I'm gonna find out who killed my father.
And when I do, they're gonna pay.