Listen, this was not my idea. This was my father's idea.
Benjamin, I thought I made myself perfectly clear about this.
Look, we'll go out to dinner and have a drink, and I'll bring her right back,
because it was either that or a dinner party for the two families,
and I'm afraid I couldn't quite handle that, if you don't mind.
Look, I have no intention of ever taking
your precious daughter out again in her life,
so don't get upset about it.
I am. I'm extremely upset about it, Benjamin.
- Hello. - Hello.
Well, I want you to keep your wits about you tonight.
You never know what tricks Ben picked up back there in the East.
You're living at home now, is that right?
Yes.
- Do you know what you're going to do? - No.
- Are you going to graduate school? - No.
- Do you always drive like this? - Yes.
Sit down.
Why don't you watch the show?
Benjamin, do you dislike me for some reason?
No. Why should I?
I don't know.
You're missing a great effect here.
Go, go!
How do you like that?
Could you do it?
Go, baby, go!
Stop!
Hey!
Elaine, I'm sorry.
Elaine.
- Would you take me home now? - I'm sorry I took you in there.
I think I'd better go home, please.
Elaine.
- Where's the car? - I just want to tell you something.
- I want to go home. - But can I just tell you this one thing?
- What? - This whole idea, this date and everything,
it was my parents' idea. They forced me into it.
Oh, that's very nice of you to tell me.
No, what I mean is that's why I've been acting this way.
I'm not like this. I hate myself like this.
Listen, could you just stop crying, please?
No, I couldn't.
- But could you try? - No.
I've had this feeling ever since I've graduated,
this kind of compulsion that I have to be rude all the time,
you know what I mean?
Yes, I do.
It's like I've been playing some kind of game,
but the rules don't make any sense to me.
They're being made up by all the wrong people.
No. I mean, no one makes them up.
They seem to have made themselves up.
Say, I wonder if I could request you to turn that down a little?
Would you like to come in?
I could make you some coffee.
No. I mean, I wouldn't want to wake anyone up.
We won't. Let's go inside.
- Wait a minute. - Is anything wrong?
No. I was just thinking.
It's still early. Maybe we could do something, go somewhere else.
All right.
Where are we going?
I'm trying to think of where there's a place to have a drink around here.
Isn't there one at the Taft Hotel?
What is the matter?
Nothing. I'm just wondering if they have a bar or not.
I mean, let's go see. Let's go see if they do or not.
Listen, Elaine, it seems to me that there isn't a bar here.
I mean, as far as I know.
Of course there is. Look. There's the Palm Room right there.
Good evening.
Hello. How are you, sir?
- Good evening, Mr. Gladstone. - Hello again.
Hi, Mr. Gladstone. How are you this evening?
Benjamin?
Let's get out of here, Elaine. Let's go somewhere else.
- Do they know you? - Of course not.
- Good evening, sir. - Come on, Elaine. We're leaving.
Mr. Gladstone, how are you?
- Benjamin, what's happening? - I don't know.
They must think I look like this guy Gladstone.
Hello, Mr. Braniff.
Elaine, I like you. I like you so much.
Do you believe that?
- Do you? - Yes.
You're the first...
You're the first thing for so long that I've liked.
The first person I could stand to be with.
My whole life is such a waste.
It's just nothing.
I'm sorry. I'll take you home now.
Benjamin, are you having an affair with someone?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. That's not my business.
It just happened.
It was just this thing that happened along with everything else.
Can you understand that?
Was she married or something?
Yes.
With a family?
Yes. She had a husband and a son.
- Did they ever find out? - No.
And it's all over now?
Yes.
I'm glad.
Can we do something tomorrow?
All right.
During the day, we'll go for a drive or something.
Okay.
- You sure you really want to? - Yes.
'Cause I wouldn't want you to do it unless you really wanted to.
- I do. - You do?
Benjamin, I really do.
Drive down the block.
Mrs. Robinson, Elaine and I have a date. We're going for a drive.
Do exactly as I say.
- Now, it seems to me... - Listen to me very carefully, Benjamin.
You are not to see Elaine again ever. Those are my orders. Is that clear?
- Mrs. Robinson, do you think... - I can make things quite unpleasant.
How?
In order to keep Elaine away from you, I am prepared to tell her everything.
I don't believe you.
Then you better start believing me.
I just don't believe you would do that.
Try me.
God damn it.
Elaine!
- Elaine! I'm coming up! Benjamin?
I'm not dressed yet.
- Benjamin, I said I wasn't dressed. - You've got to go over the back fence
- and I'll meet you round the corner. - What's the matter?
Hurry. Put your shoes on.
Benjamin.
- Benjamin, what are you doing? - Elaine?
- Elaine, I have to tell you something. - What is it?
- That woman... - What?
That woman, that older woman that I told you about?
- You mean that one? - Yes, the married woman.
- That wasn't just some woman. - What are you telling me?
Benjamin, will you just tell me what this is all about?
- Oh, no. - Elaine.
- Oh, my God. - Please.
- Get out of here. - Don't cry.
Get out! Get out!
Out! Get out!
Goodbye, Benjamin.
Say that again.
I'm going to marry Elaine Robinson.
- Well, well, well. - What's happening?
Ben says that he and Elaine are getting married.
- I don't believe it. - That's what he says, right?
I'm going up to Berkeley today.
Oh, Ben, that's so exciting.
Here, come on. We've got to call the Robinsons.
We've got something to celebrate.
- No, I think you'll want to wait on that. - They don't know?
No, they don't.
- Well, when did you decide all this? - About an hour ago.
Wait a minute. You talked to Elaine this morning?
No. She doesn't know about it.
You mean she doesn't know that you're coming up to Berkeley?
No. Actually, she doesn't know about us getting married yet.
Well, when did you two talk this over?
- We haven't. - You haven't?
Ben, this whole idea sounds pretty half-baked.
No. It's not. It's completely baked. It's a decision I've made.
Well, what makes you think she wants to marry you?
She doesn't. To be perfectly honest, she doesn't like me.
- You a student? - Not exactly.
- What's that? - I said not exactly. No.
- What are you then? - Oh, I'm just sort of traveling through.
I like to know who's living in my house.
I like to know what my boys are up to.
I'm not up to much, actually. I'm just visiting.
I mean, I've always wanted to see Berkeley.
- You're not one of those agitators? - What?
- One of those outside agitators? - Oh, no.
I hate that. I won't stand for it.
I won't stand for that.
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
Well, how about this for a coincidence?
I was wondering where you were headed.
- I'm meeting someone. - Where?
Where are you meeting this person?
- At the zoo. - The zoo.
They have a pretty good one here, do they?
- I don't know. I've never seen it. - Oh. Well, I haven't, either.
I might just ride out there with you.
Is that him over there? No.
Where did he say he was going to meet you?
I thought he said by the monkey house.
Benjamin, I would like to know what you're doing here.
- Here? In Berkeley? - Yes.
Well, I have this very pleasant room on Carter Street,
and I've been getting to some classes.
- But you're not enrolled. - No, I just sit in.
They don't seem to mind. They've been very congenial about it.
Benjamin, you're... I don't know what to say.
Maybe we can get together sometime and talk about it.
Really incredible.
- Here he comes. - What?
I've got a real feeling that this is the fella.
Elaine.
He certainly is a good walker.
Am I late? I'm sorry.
We thought you said by the monkey house.
This is Benjamin Braddock. Carl Smith.
Benjamin rode here with me on the bus.
- Glad to meet you, Ben. - Great meeting you, Carl.
Swell seeing you.
Who is it?
I wanna ask you a question, and then I'm going.
- Come in. - No.
I wanna know why you're here in Berkeley.
Because I am.
- Is it because I'm here? - What do you think?
I think it is. I said I think it is.
- All right, then. Yes. - Well, I want you to leave.
Well, look, I love you.
How could you do that, Benjamin? Do you just hate everything?
How could you possibly rape my mother?
- What? - I don't understand.
- Did you say rape her? - I don't understand how anyone could...
What did she say? You've got to tell me what she said.
- Why? - Because it isn't true.
- I have to go. - Tell me.
She said that she was having a drink at the hotel with a friend
and that you waited for her in the parking lot
and told her that she was too drunk to drive home,
and that you would get her a room for the night.
Well, then what?
Then you took her upstairs and you raped her.
Oh, no, no. That's not what happened.
What happened was that there was this party at my parents'.
I drove your mother home.
- I don't want to hear this! - Then we went upstairs
- to see your portrait. When we got up... - No, I don't!
...she started taking her clothes off... - This is my mother, Benjamin.
...and suddenly, there she was without any clothes on. I mean, really naked.
MR. McCLEERY: What's going on in there?
- Oh, hello, Mr. McCleery. - Who screamed?
It's all right, Mr. McCleery.
Screaming is not all right. Not in my house, it isn't.
It was just a visitor, but it's all right now.
- What'd you do to her? - Look, she's all right.
She's upset, and she screamed, but it's okay now.
- Shall I get the cops? - What?
- I'll get the cops. - Hey, wait a minute.
Now, damn it, look. Here she is, having some water.
Now, there's no need for the cops or anything.
All right, boys. You can all go back to your rooms now.
Go ahead. We won't have any more of this agitation.
- Will we, Braddock? - No, sir.
I want you out of here.
- What do you mean? - Now, you heard me, out of here.
- What for? - Because I don't like you.
I'm sorry I screamed.
Benjamin, when you came up here,
what did you think was going to happen between us?
Elaine, right now, I don't feel like talking much.
I'm sorry about everything, but I think I'll just do this now.
Can I just sit here while you're packing?
If you want.
What are you going to do now?
I don't know.
- Are you going home? - No.
Well, where are you going?
Elaine, you're gonna have to stop asking me that.
I don't want you to leave tomorrow.
I don't understand.
I don't want you to go anywhere
until you have a definite plan.
Goodbye.
What's happening?
Benjamin? - What?
Will you kiss me?
Will you marry me?
- You won't? - I don't know.
- But you might? - I might.
Is that so? You might marry me?
Yes.
When?
I don't know.
How about tomorrow? I don't mean to be pushy, but I think...
I don't know. I don't know what's happening.
You mean you're confused?
Look, don't be confused.
We're getting married.
I don't see how we can.
We just can.
I have to go now.
Elaine? Are you serious about this?
I'll think about it.
- You really will? - Yes.
Good God.
We can go down and get our blood tests tomorrow.
Tomorrow? - Or this afternoon. It's a good day for it.
Benjamin, I haven't even said I'll marry you yet.
We'll need our birth certificates. I happen to have mine with me. Where's yours?
- I just don't think it would work. - Why wouldn't it?
- I just don't think it would.
Tomorrow then. Can we get our blood tests tomorrow morning?
Why don't you just drag me off if you want to marry me so much?
Why don't I just drag you off?
All right, I will. Right after we get the blood tests.
- I have to see Carl first. - Carl who?
Carl who?
Carl Smith. He's a medical student. We've known him for years.
- Who, that guy at the zoo? - Yes.
- Why do you have to see him? - Well, I said I might marry him.
You what?
How did he do it? Did he get down on his knees?
He didn't get down on his knees, I hope.
- No, Benjamin. - Well, what did he say? I'm curious.
He said he thought we'd make a pretty good team.
Oh, no. He said that?
Well, where did he do it?
I'd like to know where it happened.
It wasn't in his car, was it?
Good night.
- Are we getting married tomorrow? - No.
- The day after tomorrow? - I don't know.
Maybe we are and maybe we're not.
Do you want to... You want to try and tell me why you did it?
Mr. Robinson.
Do you have a special grudge against me?
Do you feel a particularly strong resentment?
No.
Is there something I've said that's caused this contempt,
or is it just the things I stand for that you despise?
It was nothing to do with you, sir.
Well, Ben, it was quite a bit to do with me.
Now, look, please...
Ben, I think we're two civilized human beings.
Do you think it's necessary to threaten each other?
I am not threatening you.
Do you want to unclench your fist, please? Thank you.
I can see in the dark, you know. I've been here quite a while.
I'm trying to tell you I have no personal feelings about you, Mr. Robinson.
I'm trying to tell you I do not resent you.
You don't respect me terribly much either, do you?
- No, sir. - What?
- No, sir... - Don't shout at me, Ben.
I may not be as young as you, but I still have pretty good hearing.
- Mr. Robinson... - Have the decency to wait until I finish.
I do think you should know the consequences of what you've done.
I do think you should know that my wife and I are getting a divorce soon.
- But why? - Why?
Listen to me. What happened between Mrs. Robinson and me was nothing.
It didn't mean anything. We might just as well have been shaking hands.
Shaking hands. Well, that's not saying much for my wife, is it?
- You miss the point. - I guess I do.
The point is I don't love your wife. I love your daughter, sir.
All right. Now, listen to this.
I don't know whether I can prosecute, but I think I can.
I think I can get you behind bars if you ever look at my daughter again.
Now, I've seen Elaine, and I've made damn sure you can't get to her.
Stay away from me, Ben.
I don't want to mince words with you.
As far as Elaine is concerned, you're to get her out of your filthy mind right now.
Is that perfectly clear to you?
And that's all, Ben. You'll pardon me if I don't shake hands with you.
I think you are filth.
I think you are scum.
You are a degenerate!
Hi.
Mr. McCleery, do you have some change? I need to use the phone.
I want you out of here.
Look, I'll give you $10 for a dime.
I'll give you $20. For God's sake, will you let me use that phone?
- I'm gonna call the police now. - Could I make one phone call first?
Get out of here!
Elaine Robinson has left school.
Her roommate's coming down with a note for you.
Dear Benjamin, please forgive me,
because I know what I'm doing is the best thing for you.
My father is so upset. You've got to understand.
I love you, but it would never work out.
Elaine?
Hello, Benjamin.
- Where is she? - Hello. Get me the police, please.
- Where's Elaine? - I'll be with you in a moment, Benjamin.
Do you have a patrol car in the vicinity of 1200 Glenview Road?
Good. We have a burglar here.
Just a second. I'll ask him. Are you armed?
No, I don't believe he is. Thank you.
What have you done to her?
I think we have everything quite under control now, Benjamin.
Would you like a quick drink before you go?
You can't stop me from seeing her, Mrs. Robinson. I'll find her.
Sorry we won't be able to invite you to the wedding, Benjamin,
but the arrangements have been so rushed.
What the hell have you...
I don't think you'll have time for that drink after all.
- I'll find her. - I don't think so.
Say, fellas. Do any of you fellas know where Carl Smith is?
He took off in the middle of the night to get married.
Yeah, probably one step ahead of the shotgun.
Would you happen to know where he's getting married?
- I'm supposed to be there. - Why don't you ask Carter?
Would you happen to know where I might find him?
Hey, Carter! Hey, where's the make-out king getting married?
Santa Barbara!
You don't happen to know exactly where
the old make-out king is getting married, do you?
I'm supposed to be there.
Where in Santa Barbara?
I don't know. Maybe his old man's house or in the maternity ward.
- Hey, you going to the wedding? Yeah.
Hey, tell him to save a piece for me.
Of the wedding cake.
- Can I use your phone? - Yeah.
657-2036.
- Hello, who is this? - This is Dr. Smith's answering service.
Is the doctor anywhere?
Well, I'm afraid the doctor can't be reached right now. If you'd like...
I have to know where he is.
Well, you see, the doctor is at his son's wedding, but I'm sure it's over by now.
- He should be checking in any moment. - Listen to me.
I'm Dr. Smith's brother, Reverend Smith,
and I'm supposed to perform the ceremony.
I just got in from Portland, and I've forgotten what church, you see.
Oh. Well, I'm not sure, but you might try the First Presbyterian.
- Now that's on Allan Street. - Thank you.
Allan Street, where is it?
Allan. It's, it's...
It's six blocks up and, uh, three over.
You need any gas, Father?
Oh, Jesus God.
No.
Elaine! Elaine!
Who is that guy? What's he doing? - Elaine!
- I'll take care of him. - He's too late.
Elaine! Elaine!
Get up, you have to stop him.
Elaine! Elaine! Elaine!
Elaine! Elaine!
Elaine! Elaine! Elaine!
- Elaine! - Ben!
You punk. You crazy punk!
I'll kill you.
Elaine! It's too late!
Not for me!
Move! Move!
- Damn you! - Move!