1
00:00:35,921 --> 00:00:39,288
Live, until they drop dead...
2
00:00:40,192 --> 00:00:41,887
... from the beautiful
Carlou Theater...
3
00:00:42,094 --> 00:00:44,324
... in the heart of sunny
Miami Beach, Florida...
4
00:00:44,530 --> 00:00:47,465
... it's the Veterans Day
Polio Telethon!
5
00:00:47,666 --> 00:00:50,191
And now, please
welcome your hosts...
6
00:00:50,402 --> 00:00:53,565
... the beautiful, the talented,
Lanny Morris...
7
00:00:53,773 --> 00:00:56,708
... and Vince Collins!
8
00:01:16,061 --> 00:01:18,029
Do you realize
we have to present ourselves...
9
00:01:18,230 --> 00:01:20,790
...in front of these lovely
people for the next three days?
10
00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,298
Hello, lovely people
for the next three days.
11
00:01:23,502 --> 00:01:25,367
- Look at you. You're a disgrace.
- What?
12
00:01:25,571 --> 00:01:29,200
Look, your hair's a mess, your shoes
aren't shined, your shirt's not pressed.
13
00:01:29,408 --> 00:01:33,435
- Look at your tie. It's not even straight.
- Look at yours. It doesn't even clip on.
14
00:01:35,781 --> 00:01:37,112
Now...
15
00:01:37,483 --> 00:01:39,041
...I�m upset.
16
00:01:39,885 --> 00:01:41,944
You know what
happens when I get upset.
17
00:01:42,154 --> 00:01:44,748
No, no, no. Please.
Please don't hurt me, Vince.
18
00:01:44,957 --> 00:01:48,154
I've had a terrible day already.
All sorts of bad things have happened.
19
00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:49,588
I don't wanna be hurt again.
20
00:01:49,795 --> 00:01:52,320
- You've been hurt already, have you?
- Been hurt real bad.
21
00:01:52,531 --> 00:01:53,725
And what happened,
pray tell?
22
00:01:53,933 --> 00:01:56,766
- Want me to pray or want me to tell?
- I think you better pray.
23
00:01:57,102 --> 00:01:59,662
- I saw this stranger
- I don't know whether you're...
24
00:01:59,872 --> 00:02:02,067
...singing or speaking.
- Leave my pad
25
00:02:02,274 --> 00:02:05,801
- One thing I do know...
- And I said, "Baby...
26
00:02:06,011 --> 00:02:09,037
- ... what explanation do you have?"
- There's always a woman involved.
27
00:02:09,248 --> 00:02:11,614
And she said:
28
00:02:11,817 --> 00:02:13,614
- Next time?
- Next time
29
00:02:13,819 --> 00:02:16,083
And I said, "There will be
No next time"
30
00:02:16,288 --> 00:02:19,382
That's what you said last time,
Lanny, and the time before that.
31
00:02:20,860 --> 00:02:24,853
You have to make sure there's no first
time, then there can't be a next time.
32
00:02:25,631 --> 00:02:27,462
Or a last time.
33
00:02:27,666 --> 00:02:31,397
- That was the last time for me
- Let's hope so, Lanny.
34
00:02:31,604 --> 00:02:33,469
Lanny Morris,
ladies and gentlemen.
35
00:03:41,473 --> 00:03:44,408
My manager sent me over
some of your work.
36
00:03:45,010 --> 00:03:47,911
It's funny how you're
really in them a lot.
37
00:03:48,380 --> 00:03:50,905
Whenever I read these
interviews where the writer says:
38
00:03:51,116 --> 00:03:54,108
"This is how I felt the morning
I woke up to meet the pope"...
39
00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,118
..."how I felt when the pope greeted
me, how he reminded me...
40
00:03:57,323 --> 00:03:58,722
...so much of my friend Mike"...
41
00:03:58,924 --> 00:04:01,586
...I always think,
"Who the fuck is Mike?"
42
00:04:03,429 --> 00:04:05,056
So who are you?
43
00:04:06,398 --> 00:04:08,127
I was a young journalist...
44
00:04:08,334 --> 00:04:09,767
... with a few awards...
45
00:04:10,536 --> 00:04:13,096
... a couple of cover stories...
46
00:04:13,305 --> 00:04:16,274
... and a desperate need
to prove myself.
47
00:04:18,510 --> 00:04:21,445
If you look through my work,
you'll see I try to present...
48
00:04:21,647 --> 00:04:24,411
...a balanced view of my subjects.
49
00:04:24,616 --> 00:04:26,550
I leave the conclusions
to the reader.
50
00:04:26,752 --> 00:04:28,049
I'm not sure we like balance.
51
00:04:28,253 --> 00:04:30,050
Or leaving
the conclusions to the reader.
52
00:04:30,255 --> 00:04:32,120
I'm used to being publicized,
not analyzed.
53
00:04:32,324 --> 00:04:33,757
It would be your words.
54
00:04:33,959 --> 00:04:36,291
We'd publish it as a transcript:
55
00:04:36,495 --> 00:04:39,089
My questions, your answers.
56
00:04:39,965 --> 00:04:42,957
If you say it, I can use it.
57
00:04:43,168 --> 00:04:44,499
If you don't, I can't.
58
00:04:44,703 --> 00:04:46,603
And they're gonna pay me
a million for this?
59
00:04:46,805 --> 00:04:49,171
An excerpt will be published
in a magazine as a way...
60
00:04:49,375 --> 00:04:52,742
...of amortizing the investment
they'll be making in the book.
61
00:04:53,479 --> 00:04:55,640
They're looking for some...
62
00:04:56,949 --> 00:04:59,782
...provocative stories
for the first issue.
63
00:04:59,985 --> 00:05:04,251
Any thoughts on what these
provocative stories might be about?
64
00:05:05,357 --> 00:05:08,952
The breakup.
Why Lanny and you split.
65
00:05:13,132 --> 00:05:15,157
And the girl.
66
00:05:15,567 --> 00:05:17,194
Maureen.
67
00:05:18,937 --> 00:05:21,701
What happened
to Maureen O'Flaherty.
68
00:05:23,575 --> 00:05:26,373
No one had ever been able
to pin Lanny Morris...
69
00:05:26,578 --> 00:05:29,979
... or Vince Collins
to the girl's death.
70
00:05:30,182 --> 00:05:31,877
All that was clear...
71
00:05:32,084 --> 00:05:35,713
... was that Maureen was
found dead in their hotel suite.
72
00:05:37,022 --> 00:05:39,855
It was unthinkable to me
that Lanny and Vince...
73
00:05:40,059 --> 00:05:42,926
... could have had
anything to do with it.
74
00:05:43,128 --> 00:05:45,062
They were my heroes.
75
00:05:45,364 --> 00:05:48,697
"The reason I consider
myself to be a miracle girl...
76
00:05:48,901 --> 00:05:50,732
...is because
I had the good fortune...
77
00:05:50,936 --> 00:05:53,530
...to meet Lanny and Vince
when I was sick.
78
00:05:54,206 --> 00:05:57,403
Their love of life
is what gave me hope...
79
00:05:57,609 --> 00:06:01,101
...and it's hope
that gives us the power to live."
80
00:06:02,014 --> 00:06:03,948
Thank you, Lanny.
81
00:06:04,149 --> 00:06:06,083
Thank you, Vince.
82
00:06:21,333 --> 00:06:23,665
Come on, let's hear it for her.
83
00:06:23,869 --> 00:06:27,202
Denise handled publicity
for the polio foundation.
84
00:06:27,406 --> 00:06:30,773
And it was her idea to plug
the girl's story on the telethon.
85
00:06:30,976 --> 00:06:36,004
The day before, it was my idea to plug
Denise at the Miami Versailles Hotel.
86
00:06:39,284 --> 00:06:41,514
Don't stop! Don't stop!
87
00:06:44,156 --> 00:06:45,885
Don't stop!
88
00:06:49,370 --> 00:06:51,895
You can tell a lot about a woman
by the way she acts...
89
00:06:52,106 --> 00:06:54,700
... when you're having sex
and room service comes in.
90
00:06:54,909 --> 00:06:56,968
Some girls will sit up
and light a cigarette...
91
00:06:57,177 --> 00:07:01,045
... like there's nothing funny
in the world about her being naked.
92
00:07:01,248 --> 00:07:03,580
"It's obvious we were
in the process of screwing...
93
00:07:03,784 --> 00:07:05,718
... so why not let
a stranger into the room?"
94
00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,182
Come on in.
95
00:07:07,388 --> 00:07:09,856
Then there's the kind that will
pull the sheets up...
96
00:07:10,057 --> 00:07:11,615
... and act like they're asleep.
97
00:07:11,825 --> 00:07:13,816
Where would you like it, sir?
98
00:07:14,028 --> 00:07:15,791
Sweetheart, wherever you'd like it.
99
00:07:15,996 --> 00:07:18,624
Then, of course, there's
the ones who scrunch real flat...
100
00:07:18,832 --> 00:07:21,733
... thinking that the bed
will look empty.
101
00:07:21,936 --> 00:07:25,497
With Denise, it was kind of hard
to tell which way she'd go.
102
00:07:33,847 --> 00:07:36,008
Can I have your autograph,
Mr. Morris?
103
00:07:36,550 --> 00:07:37,881
Sure.
104
00:07:38,085 --> 00:07:41,111
Should I make it out to Maureen?
105
00:07:44,425 --> 00:07:46,484
I mean, your autograph on the bill.
106
00:07:50,264 --> 00:07:51,629
Okay.
107
00:07:52,366 --> 00:07:54,596
I mean, I'd love
to have your autograph.
108
00:07:55,703 --> 00:07:58,433
And maybe a few minutes
of your time.
109
00:07:59,206 --> 00:08:01,470
I'm a huge fan and...
110
00:08:01,875 --> 00:08:04,901
...well, I was thinking about...
111
00:08:05,112 --> 00:08:08,172
...writing an article on you
for my campus paper.
112
00:08:08,382 --> 00:08:09,815
I'm the editor.
113
00:08:10,017 --> 00:08:13,214
Any interview requests
go through me, honey.
114
00:08:16,690 --> 00:08:19,352
You know, it's just a college paper.
115
00:08:31,038 --> 00:08:32,562
Thank you.
116
00:08:33,073 --> 00:08:35,064
No, thank you.
117
00:08:36,644 --> 00:08:37,838
Thank you, Maureen.
118
00:08:38,045 --> 00:08:40,775
I say goodbye to Maureen,
knowing I'd see her again...
119
00:08:40,981 --> 00:08:43,245
... close the door and
then turn to look at Denise...
120
00:08:43,450 --> 00:08:47,409
... thinking, "I know this girl from every
college town we have ever played. "
121
00:08:47,621 --> 00:08:49,020
They're called career girls.
122
00:08:49,223 --> 00:08:51,487
The absolute easiest lays...
123
00:08:51,692 --> 00:08:54,456
... in this great nation of ours.
124
00:08:57,998 --> 00:09:00,489
Since you're reading this,
you'd be interested to know...
125
00:09:00,701 --> 00:09:02,965
... that my favorite catches
were the intellectuals.
126
00:09:03,170 --> 00:09:07,300
They'd be the ones in the straight
black dresses, severe black hair.
127
00:09:07,508 --> 00:09:11,740
Your basic neurotic,
eyeglasses, cool jazz, liberal...
128
00:09:11,945 --> 00:09:14,607
..."I'll fuck any black guy as
part of my personal apology...
129
00:09:14,815 --> 00:09:17,079
... for racism in America" type.
130
00:09:18,552 --> 00:09:21,680
Anyhow, on this particular night,
we're in a club in New Jersey...
131
00:09:21,889 --> 00:09:25,416
... it's the '50s, and I'm mingling
with the crowd.
132
00:09:25,926 --> 00:09:27,951
Now, when I say "mingling,"
what I mean is...
133
00:09:28,162 --> 00:09:30,187
... I was scouting
for who I would sleep with.
134
00:09:30,397 --> 00:09:32,490
Didn't matter if the girls
came with dates.
135
00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:35,965
That was Reuben's job.
Reuben is my valet.
136
00:09:36,170 --> 00:09:38,968
I never figured out how he
helped them get rid of their dates...
137
00:09:39,173 --> 00:09:41,539
... but they were always gone
by the second show.
138
00:09:41,742 --> 00:09:43,835
Reuben could clean up
any situation.
139
00:09:44,044 --> 00:09:45,944
Excuse me, miss.
May I say that I think...
140
00:09:46,146 --> 00:09:49,309
...you have the most beautiful eyes
I have ever seen.
141
00:09:49,516 --> 00:09:52,974
Notice I say, "I think you've got the
most beautiful eyes I've ever seen."
142
00:09:53,187 --> 00:09:55,849
I haven't seen them yet.
I've been staring at your cans.
143
00:09:56,056 --> 00:09:57,318
Now, Lanny.
144
00:09:57,858 --> 00:10:01,294
- I can't believe he just said that.
- That is completely unacceptable.
145
00:10:01,495 --> 00:10:03,929
Madam, I apologize.
I apologize, ladies and gentlemen...
146
00:10:04,131 --> 00:10:06,861
...for my friend. You cannot
speak that way to a stranger.
147
00:10:07,334 --> 00:10:09,393
Look, her husband's not offended.
148
00:10:09,603 --> 00:10:11,537
- He's not?
- No, her husband's not offended.
149
00:10:11,739 --> 00:10:14,264
Her husband's not here.
This lucky guy is her boyfriend.
150
00:10:14,475 --> 00:10:16,875
And even he's not offended,
and do you know why?
151
00:10:17,077 --> 00:10:18,908
Well, I can certainly hazard a guess.
152
00:10:19,113 --> 00:10:21,980
What the hell is that? For chrissake,
Vince, this is America.
153
00:10:22,182 --> 00:10:25,743
We don't say, "hazard a guess."
We say "yes" or we say "no."
154
00:10:25,953 --> 00:10:27,614
Well, I say "no" to you, Morris.
155
00:10:27,821 --> 00:10:29,311
Excuse me?
Could you repeat that?
156
00:10:29,523 --> 00:10:31,753
I don't think
the entire audience heard you.
157
00:10:31,959 --> 00:10:34,427
Go back to where
you came from, bastard!
158
00:10:34,628 --> 00:10:37,461
I get hecklers all the time,
but this schmuck came off personal.
159
00:10:37,664 --> 00:10:38,995
Where did he think I came from?
160
00:10:39,199 --> 00:10:41,326
Bastard! Bastard!
He called me a bastard.
161
00:10:41,535 --> 00:10:43,435
Now, it doesn't show
from the front, Lanny.
162
00:10:43,637 --> 00:10:47,164
Now, please, would you kindly not
mount me? It's very disagreeable.
163
00:10:47,374 --> 00:10:49,638
Vince plunges straight into
quoting lines I wrote...
164
00:10:49,843 --> 00:10:51,834
... from a song
from our first motion picture.
165
00:10:52,045 --> 00:10:54,946
I happen to be honored
to work with this jerk
166
00:10:55,149 --> 00:10:56,116
Is that a compliment?
167
00:10:56,316 --> 00:10:57,874
I never frown with this clown
168
00:10:58,085 --> 00:10:59,052
Never, never, never.
169
00:10:59,253 --> 00:11:00,515
I get a kick from this...
170
00:11:03,157 --> 00:11:04,749
... friend of mine
171
00:11:04,958 --> 00:11:08,416
Fine, but don't give
the mike to this kike.
172
00:11:12,299 --> 00:11:14,961
- Well...
- Just relax.
173
00:11:15,536 --> 00:11:19,267
It's not often we get topped by
a member of our audience, but...
174
00:11:19,473 --> 00:11:21,304
...this gentleman has
done the impossible.
175
00:11:21,508 --> 00:11:23,237
What is your name?
176
00:11:23,877 --> 00:11:25,868
- It's Joe.
- Joe...
177
00:11:26,079 --> 00:11:29,310
...we were just wondering
if you'd be a great sport...
178
00:11:29,516 --> 00:11:31,780
...and help us out on stage.
What do you say, folks?
179
00:11:35,422 --> 00:11:36,616
Go on.
180
00:11:36,824 --> 00:11:39,884
Joe here is going to play
a crazy high school professor...
181
00:11:40,093 --> 00:11:44,496
...who's about to give Lanny
and I our final high school exam.
182
00:11:44,698 --> 00:11:48,566
So if you'll just excuse us while
we help Joe change into his...
183
00:11:48,769 --> 00:11:50,031
...crazy-professor outfit.
184
00:11:50,237 --> 00:11:52,330
Lanny, a little
costume-changing music...
185
00:11:52,539 --> 00:11:54,473
...if you please.
186
00:12:05,452 --> 00:12:07,147
Step this way.
187
00:12:07,988 --> 00:12:09,353
I'll have a word with him...
188
00:12:09,556 --> 00:12:11,353
...about the way
he spoke to your wife.
189
00:12:11,558 --> 00:12:13,116
Completely unnecessary.
190
00:12:13,327 --> 00:12:14,988
Just this way.
191
00:12:31,945 --> 00:12:35,244
You call any Jew on this planet
anything you like.
192
00:12:35,449 --> 00:12:40,113
But nobody calls my partner a kike.
Do you understand?
193
00:12:57,104 --> 00:12:59,470
Boffing ladies and
bashing gentlemen.
194
00:12:59,673 --> 00:13:02,267
I tell you, there was
nothing under the sun...
195
00:13:02,476 --> 00:13:05,206
... Vince and I wouldn't do
for each other.
196
00:13:05,646 --> 00:13:07,307
Are you finished?
197
00:13:18,358 --> 00:13:20,258
Thank you, Mamie.
198
00:13:22,062 --> 00:13:24,394
I'm sorry about that, Miss O'Connor.
199
00:13:24,598 --> 00:13:27,795
We just needed to be sure
you didn't take any notes.
200
00:13:28,001 --> 00:13:31,129
Lanny gave me very specific
instructions on that point.
201
00:13:31,338 --> 00:13:34,739
I don't understand why
he'd want me to read this.
202
00:13:35,475 --> 00:13:37,841
Why would he ever want
anyone to see this side of him?
203
00:13:38,045 --> 00:13:40,707
When you contacted us about
meeting Lanny for your book...
204
00:13:40,914 --> 00:13:44,714
...it wasn't simply about letting you
know he didn't want to speak with you.
205
00:13:45,252 --> 00:13:48,380
I believe my client wanted you
to understand that he, in fact...
206
00:13:48,589 --> 00:13:51,057
...was completing a book
of his own which would serve...
207
00:13:51,258 --> 00:13:53,123
...not only as his autobiography...
208
00:13:53,327 --> 00:13:57,263
...but also as the definitive account of
the joint careers of Morris and Collins.
209
00:13:57,464 --> 00:14:01,400
You've had, at first hand,
a sample of Lanny's writing voice.
210
00:14:02,369 --> 00:14:03,768
Yes, I have.
211
00:14:03,971 --> 00:14:05,734
Such a book, Miss O'Connor...
212
00:14:05,939 --> 00:14:08,430
...this raw, this honest...
213
00:14:08,642 --> 00:14:10,769
...would make your own efforts look...
214
00:14:10,978 --> 00:14:12,343
There's been some very nice...
215
00:14:12,546 --> 00:14:15,037
...translations of the Bible
over the centuries...
216
00:14:15,248 --> 00:14:18,149
...but they would run
a very poor second in popularity...
217
00:14:18,352 --> 00:14:22,118
...to the discovery
of the actual Ten Commandments.
218
00:14:23,056 --> 00:14:25,786
Single best part about teaching
grade two is the difference...
219
00:14:25,993 --> 00:14:28,757
...between the bright ones and
the dumb ones isn't so obvious.
220
00:14:28,962 --> 00:14:31,362
- What's so great about that?
- The results of my work...
221
00:14:31,565 --> 00:14:33,123
...as a teacher
aren't so depressing.
222
00:14:33,333 --> 00:14:36,996
Also, there's no homework
to correct in the evenings and...
223
00:14:37,204 --> 00:14:39,764
...well, none of the kids
know how to use drugs.
224
00:14:46,146 --> 00:14:48,979
Bonnie had come from New York
to visit me that summer.
225
00:14:49,182 --> 00:14:51,742
We'd been best friends
since kindergarten.
226
00:14:52,386 --> 00:14:54,854
At school we started the
Lanny and Vince Fan Club...
227
00:14:55,055 --> 00:14:59,287
... raising almost $200
for that year's telethon.
228
00:14:59,493 --> 00:15:01,358
All of you send in
a bit of your allowance.
229
00:15:01,561 --> 00:15:04,689
Just a little bit.
A dime, a nickel, a penny.
230
00:15:04,898 --> 00:15:07,423
Every bit helps.
231
00:15:08,335 --> 00:15:10,496
The goal of the telethon that year...
232
00:15:10,704 --> 00:15:15,004
... was $3.9 million, which was
a lot of dough at that time.
233
00:15:15,208 --> 00:15:18,974
Thank you, Tom.
You're a prince among men.
234
00:15:19,179 --> 00:15:21,670
Whoa, Lanny. There are
children watching!
235
00:15:21,882 --> 00:15:23,372
Where does he get his energy?
236
00:15:23,884 --> 00:15:25,351
To remind viewers of the goal...
237
00:15:25,552 --> 00:15:29,648
... we agreed the telethon
could run 39 hours nonstop.
238
00:15:30,724 --> 00:15:34,820
The show would begin at 9 p.m. On
Friday and finish at noon on Sunday.
239
00:15:35,028 --> 00:15:37,360
We paced it so that
Vince and I were together...
240
00:15:37,564 --> 00:15:39,657
... for the kickoff,
most of the day Saturday...
241
00:15:39,866 --> 00:15:43,358
... then the big finale
on Sunday with us bleary-eyed...
242
00:15:43,570 --> 00:15:46,505
... and weeping as America
got ready to go to church.
243
00:15:46,706 --> 00:15:50,073
Lanny, Lanny. What are you doing?
244
00:15:50,277 --> 00:15:52,643
I'm ordering a pizza. I'm starving.
245
00:15:52,846 --> 00:15:56,577
No anchovies on mine, Lanny.
Hey, so who are you talking to?
246
00:15:56,783 --> 00:15:59,946
I'm talking to little Suzie
from Whittier, California...
247
00:16:00,153 --> 00:16:03,645
...and she is going to donate
three weeks of allowance.
248
00:16:03,857 --> 00:16:07,020
- How about that, folks?
- Suzie from Whittier, thank you.
249
00:16:07,227 --> 00:16:08,717
Three weeks of allowance.
250
00:16:08,929 --> 00:16:10,328
That's a challenge for all you...
251
00:16:10,530 --> 00:16:12,760
What you have to understand
is that Vince and me...
252
00:16:12,966 --> 00:16:15,127
... were essentially a boy-girl act.
253
00:16:15,335 --> 00:16:17,895
I was the tramp,
ready for any sort of action...
254
00:16:18,138 --> 00:16:19,696
... and Vince was the gentleman...
255
00:16:19,906 --> 00:16:22,033
... always trying to make me
behave myself.
256
00:16:22,242 --> 00:16:24,733
I was pleasure, and he was control.
257
00:16:25,078 --> 00:16:28,138
I was rock 'n' roll,
and he was class.
258
00:16:28,348 --> 00:16:32,682
His presence gave America
permission to like me.
259
00:16:35,122 --> 00:16:38,148
My deal with the publisher
gave me first-class travel...
260
00:16:38,358 --> 00:16:39,882
... a luxury I'd never enjoyed.
261
00:16:40,093 --> 00:16:42,493
Is there any chance of switching
to a window seat?
262
00:16:42,696 --> 00:16:44,960
Sorry, we're completely booked
in first.
263
00:16:45,165 --> 00:16:48,134
But these center seats
are really wonderful. See...
264
00:16:48,335 --> 00:16:50,462
...if you push here...
Can I show you?
265
00:16:50,670 --> 00:16:52,399
Sure.
266
00:16:54,107 --> 00:16:56,735
The chair swivels
to the left and the right.
267
00:16:56,943 --> 00:16:59,241
And this converts
to a full-sized dining table...
268
00:16:59,446 --> 00:17:01,209
...during our
Pan Am platinum service...
269
00:17:01,414 --> 00:17:03,974
...with damask linen
and silverware by Fornari...
270
00:17:04,184 --> 00:17:06,414
...so you don't have to eat off a tray.
271
00:17:06,620 --> 00:17:09,282
Again, that's only
for these center seats.
272
00:17:10,257 --> 00:17:11,554
How does that sound?
273
00:17:11,925 --> 00:17:14,553
At that time, when you
traveled first class...
274
00:17:14,761 --> 00:17:18,857
... people would always ask you if you
met someone famous on the flight.
275
00:17:19,065 --> 00:17:20,999
- Mr. Morris.
- Thank you.
276
00:17:21,201 --> 00:17:22,361
You're welcome.
277
00:17:31,945 --> 00:17:36,279
Though he would later accuse me
of engineering this, I didn't.
278
00:17:36,483 --> 00:17:37,848
It just...
279
00:17:38,051 --> 00:17:39,746
... happened.
280
00:17:46,059 --> 00:17:49,119
Reuben. So they...
They record these songs...
281
00:17:49,329 --> 00:17:51,058
...in a studio that I am paying for.
282
00:17:51,264 --> 00:17:53,095
Songs that are recorded for me...
283
00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:54,995
...that they are
contracted to provide.
284
00:17:55,202 --> 00:17:57,170
- Are you with me here?
- Yes, it's just that...
285
00:17:57,370 --> 00:18:00,567
No, it's just that nothing, Irv.
Please, let me finish. They record...
286
00:18:00,774 --> 00:18:04,210
I read an interview where Lanny was
given credit for insisting his butler...
287
00:18:04,411 --> 00:18:08,279
... travel in the same class and stay
at the same hotels as his boss.
288
00:18:08,882 --> 00:18:12,283
The valet's attentiveness
was impressive.
289
00:18:13,253 --> 00:18:16,586
Looks like you'll be having
dinner with Lanny Morris.
290
00:18:19,659 --> 00:18:22,389
- Hello.
- Hi.
291
00:18:32,706 --> 00:18:35,504
We should get a waiter to slide
a matchbook under the airplane.
292
00:18:36,676 --> 00:18:38,234
There we go.
293
00:18:38,445 --> 00:18:40,140
That should hold.
294
00:18:41,681 --> 00:18:42,875
This is my friend Reuben.
295
00:18:43,083 --> 00:18:44,311
- Hi.
- Hi.
296
00:18:44,517 --> 00:18:47,077
And this is also my friend,
technically speaking...
297
00:18:47,287 --> 00:18:49,255
...and business manager, Irv.
- Hi.
298
00:18:51,458 --> 00:18:52,755
My name is Lanny.
299
00:18:57,497 --> 00:18:59,055
And what's your name?
300
00:19:00,533 --> 00:19:02,694
Bonnie. Bonnie Trout.
301
00:19:02,903 --> 00:19:04,234
What do you do, Bonnie?
302
00:19:04,537 --> 00:19:06,004
I teach.
303
00:19:06,206 --> 00:19:07,833
And what do you teach?
304
00:19:08,041 --> 00:19:10,271
- Second grade.
- Well, we have a lot in common.
305
00:19:10,477 --> 00:19:12,968
You teach second grade,
I went to second grade.
306
00:19:13,179 --> 00:19:16,342
- Irv, you went to second grade too?
- Many times.
307
00:19:16,549 --> 00:19:18,016
Tell me, Miss Trout...
308
00:19:18,218 --> 00:19:19,651
I don't mean to be impolite...
309
00:19:19,853 --> 00:19:21,411
...but I was wondering...
310
00:19:21,621 --> 00:19:25,182
...how a second-grade schoolteacher
affords to fly first class.
311
00:19:27,327 --> 00:19:29,522
Well, I have a pass...
312
00:19:29,729 --> 00:19:33,187
...that allows me free use
of the subway on weekends...
313
00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,563
...and the hot lunches
at school are only 50 cents.
314
00:19:37,971 --> 00:19:40,405
And I'm the mistress...
315
00:19:40,607 --> 00:19:42,074
...of a wealthy married man...
316
00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:44,903
...and when he and his wife
go on vacation, he treats me...
317
00:19:45,111 --> 00:19:48,274
...to a first-class trip
in the opposite direction.
318
00:19:49,115 --> 00:19:53,552
But look at me, talking only about
myself. What do you do for a living?
319
00:19:54,921 --> 00:19:57,412
I'm a French impressionist
painter out of Tahiti, mainly.
320
00:19:57,624 --> 00:20:00,058
I'm doing that to pay the bills.
My ambition is to be...
321
00:20:00,260 --> 00:20:02,319
...a stockbroker in Paris.
322
00:20:02,629 --> 00:20:04,256
- I don't get it.
- Paul Gauguin.
323
00:20:04,464 --> 00:20:06,432
He gave up being
a successful stockbroker...
324
00:20:06,633 --> 00:20:09,067
...to become a painter
in the South Seas.
325
00:20:10,070 --> 00:20:11,935
You think the average
person knows that?
326
00:20:12,138 --> 00:20:15,505
Well, we're not talking about
the average person, Irv.
327
00:20:18,645 --> 00:20:20,112
In some ways...
328
00:20:20,313 --> 00:20:23,510
... he had never stopped
being a hero to me.
329
00:20:24,351 --> 00:20:28,481
That's why it was impossible
to think he might also be a killer.
330
00:20:35,195 --> 00:20:36,753
Well, this has been great.
331
00:20:36,963 --> 00:20:39,090
I'm gonna see you
inside your apartment.
332
00:20:39,299 --> 00:20:41,767
- There's really no need.
- Don't be silly.
333
00:20:41,968 --> 00:20:43,799
I'm not gonna try to come in.
334
00:20:44,003 --> 00:20:45,527
Promise.
335
00:20:46,306 --> 00:20:48,900
You've been away from your
apartment for how long now?
336
00:20:49,109 --> 00:20:50,770
- Ages.
- You never know if somebody's...
337
00:20:50,977 --> 00:20:52,569
...broken in while you were gone.
338
00:20:52,779 --> 00:20:55,441
I'll just see you inside your door.
339
00:20:56,149 --> 00:20:59,016
Believe me, I'm...
I'm not trying to seduce you.
340
00:20:59,219 --> 00:21:01,187
I have to do the Today show
at 7 a.m.
341
00:21:01,388 --> 00:21:03,788
They want me in Makeup at 6:15.
342
00:21:03,990 --> 00:21:06,254
Bonnie had moved to New York
for the teaching job...
343
00:21:06,459 --> 00:21:08,427
... a little over a year ago.
344
00:21:08,628 --> 00:21:12,655
I had never visited her and had
no idea if this was the right place.
345
00:21:13,933 --> 00:21:15,366
Which floor?
346
00:21:15,969 --> 00:21:17,834
Why...
347
00:21:18,972 --> 00:21:20,200
- Four-D.
- Forty?
348
00:21:20,740 --> 00:21:22,605
It only goes up to six.
349
00:21:25,111 --> 00:21:26,669
Four-D...
350
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,110
Four-D, the fourth floor.
351
00:21:52,105 --> 00:21:53,436
Which way?
352
00:21:54,441 --> 00:21:56,238
- Guess.
- Why?
353
00:21:56,443 --> 00:21:57,705
It's a test.
354
00:21:57,911 --> 00:21:59,435
A test?
355
00:22:01,214 --> 00:22:02,806
Okay.
356
00:22:03,016 --> 00:22:04,415
This way.
357
00:22:08,054 --> 00:22:10,284
So why didn't we take this elevator?
358
00:22:10,490 --> 00:22:12,117
Doesn't work.
359
00:22:15,361 --> 00:22:16,794
Well...
360
00:22:17,664 --> 00:22:19,029
...good night.
361
00:22:19,232 --> 00:22:21,200
No, I'm going to see you
into your apartment.
362
00:22:21,401 --> 00:22:23,926
And then I'm gonna leave you
alone until tomorrow.
363
00:22:41,287 --> 00:22:44,051
I never get which key goes in
which lock the first time.
364
00:22:46,593 --> 00:22:48,891
Hey, looks like they fixed it.
365
00:23:00,273 --> 00:23:01,740
You okay?
366
00:23:01,941 --> 00:23:04,341
Maybe we should turn on a light.
367
00:23:18,091 --> 00:23:19,422
Well...
368
00:23:20,593 --> 00:23:22,151
I'm going to leave you now.
369
00:23:22,362 --> 00:23:25,695
I have Reuben and Irv waiting
in the limousine downstairs...
370
00:23:26,132 --> 00:23:29,101
...and I should get some sleep
for the Today show.
371
00:23:31,337 --> 00:23:32,770
So...
372
00:23:37,544 --> 00:23:39,774
It was lovely to meet you, Bonnie.
373
00:23:59,199 --> 00:24:01,497
By the end of the telethon,
we had no voices.
374
00:24:01,701 --> 00:24:05,296
Thirty-nine hours
of nonstop entertainment.
375
00:24:05,505 --> 00:24:08,338
A telethon was a superhuman feat.
376
00:24:08,541 --> 00:24:11,999
We weren't just heroes,
we were gods.
377
00:24:14,814 --> 00:24:17,612
A couple of the boys were there
to make sure we got out alive...
378
00:24:17,817 --> 00:24:20,149
... to make the flight to New York.
379
00:24:24,023 --> 00:24:26,958
Everyone. Listen. Listen.
380
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,253
Gentlemen. Gentlemen, please.
381
00:24:29,662 --> 00:24:32,688
Gentlemen, if I could just
have your attention.
382
00:24:33,066 --> 00:24:34,897
Everyone, Mr. Collins
and Mr. Morris...
383
00:24:35,101 --> 00:24:37,365
...will answer questions
at the press conference...
384
00:24:37,570 --> 00:24:39,265
...at the Palace Del Sol.
385
00:24:39,472 --> 00:24:41,440
Gentlemen, there will be
plenty of time...
386
00:24:41,641 --> 00:24:45,099
...to answer your questions
at the Palace Del Sol.
387
00:24:45,311 --> 00:24:48,371
Thank you, we will answer your
questions at the press conference.
388
00:24:48,581 --> 00:24:50,549
Thank you for coming.
389
00:24:56,556 --> 00:24:59,548
We had a full police escort, along
with bodyguards who were there...
390
00:24:59,759 --> 00:25:02,660
... to protect us from any thoughts
we might have of going AWOI...
391
00:25:02,862 --> 00:25:04,625
... prior to this press conference.
392
00:25:04,831 --> 00:25:07,959
A pair of New Jersey's finest
walked on either side of us...
393
00:25:08,167 --> 00:25:10,727
... as we entered
the lobby of the hotel.
394
00:25:10,937 --> 00:25:13,667
It was an indication of how
legitimate the Mob had gone...
395
00:25:13,873 --> 00:25:16,068
... that they could
bring in the local police...
396
00:25:16,276 --> 00:25:18,744
... to guard the fa�ade of their racket.
397
00:25:19,312 --> 00:25:23,442
The local chief was a man
named Jack Scaglia.
398
00:25:23,650 --> 00:25:26,551
And of course, the two
gentlemen on my right...
399
00:25:26,753 --> 00:25:30,052
...who need no introduction,
have come here directly...
400
00:25:30,256 --> 00:25:33,919
...from their record-breaking
polio telethon in Miami, Florida.
401
00:25:34,994 --> 00:25:38,452
So the first thing I'd like to announce
is that Mr. Sanmarco...
402
00:25:38,931 --> 00:25:40,193
I wish I could tell you...
403
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,960
... that Sally Sanmarco
was a slim, 6-foot-6 guy...
404
00:25:43,169 --> 00:25:46,161
... who looked like a prince
and spoke with an English accent.
405
00:25:46,372 --> 00:25:48,738
Then I wouldn't be
falling back on the stereotype.
406
00:25:49,042 --> 00:25:52,603
The trouble was, Sally was
straight out of central casting.
407
00:25:53,446 --> 00:25:55,471
A gangster
who looked and talked...
408
00:25:55,682 --> 00:25:58,310
... just like you would expect
from the movies.
409
00:25:58,518 --> 00:26:01,112
How did it feel to raise
all that money for polio?
410
00:26:01,654 --> 00:26:03,849
It felt great. It felt really great.
411
00:26:04,057 --> 00:26:06,924
From a publicity angle, and in
terms of giving him legitimacy...
412
00:26:07,126 --> 00:26:09,356
... this was a huge coup for Sally.
413
00:26:09,562 --> 00:26:12,030
Like I said, we were gods.
414
00:26:13,333 --> 00:26:16,928
We'd only been in the New York area
for an hour or so, during which time...
415
00:26:17,136 --> 00:26:19,900
... we were constantly watched
by police and reporters...
416
00:26:20,106 --> 00:26:22,836
... which ended up being
a good thing for us.
417
00:26:23,042 --> 00:26:25,476
We got you our best bridal suite.
418
00:26:25,978 --> 00:26:27,969
Fucking nice, huh?
419
00:26:29,115 --> 00:26:31,811
People talk about having fancy
apartments and hotel rooms...
420
00:26:32,018 --> 00:26:34,111
...on the West Side of Manhattan.
What do they see?
421
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,483
Fucking New Jersey.
Here, you see New York City.
422
00:26:44,731 --> 00:26:47,165
Unfortunately,
Vince and I were acquainted...
423
00:26:47,366 --> 00:26:51,666
... with the dead girl in the bathroom
of our hotel suite in New Jersey.
424
00:26:52,205 --> 00:26:55,436
Her last name was O'Flaherty.
425
00:26:55,875 --> 00:26:59,003
Her first name was Maureen.
426
00:26:59,245 --> 00:27:02,908
Karen, we decided to trade
apartments, not identities.
427
00:27:03,116 --> 00:27:04,640
Why didn't you make up a name?
428
00:27:04,851 --> 00:27:07,376
Bonnie, I was looking
at a five-hour flight.
429
00:27:07,587 --> 00:27:10,715
I didn't wanna make up a life story
that wasn't attached to anything.
430
00:27:10,923 --> 00:27:14,415
Well, I returned the offense.
I got to pretend I was you.
431
00:27:14,627 --> 00:27:16,185
- What?
- You received a package.
432
00:27:16,395 --> 00:27:18,693
Messenger service.
I signed your name.
433
00:27:18,898 --> 00:27:21,526
- Who's it from?
- No address. Want me to open it?
434
00:27:21,734 --> 00:27:23,258
- Sure.
- That's good. I already did.
435
00:27:23,469 --> 00:27:24,731
It's a manuscript.
436
00:27:24,937 --> 00:27:27,371
"Excerpt From the Memoirs of...
437
00:27:27,573 --> 00:27:29,336
...Lanny Morris."
438
00:27:29,542 --> 00:27:33,535
Hey, all your dreams are coming true.
He's writing you love letters already.
439
00:27:33,746 --> 00:27:35,714
Bonnie, I need
to know what he's written.
440
00:27:35,915 --> 00:27:39,874
- Well, I'll send it to you.
- Now. Before he calls me tomorrow.
441
00:27:42,121 --> 00:27:45,056
- Please?
- All right.
442
00:27:46,459 --> 00:27:48,290
All right.
443
00:27:48,494 --> 00:27:49,927
Here we go.
444
00:27:52,298 --> 00:27:56,234
"Let me explain to you why two
very famous guys just finishing...
445
00:27:56,435 --> 00:28:00,565
...a nationally broadcast telethon
ended up in New Jersey."
446
00:28:05,211 --> 00:28:10,410
For years, the Palace Del Sol was
one of the centers of Mob prosperity.
447
00:28:10,616 --> 00:28:13,608
Needless to say, a major
headliner in the showroom...
448
00:28:13,820 --> 00:28:16,983
... helped legitimize
the entire operation.
449
00:28:17,190 --> 00:28:18,919
Give her a kiss. Yeah, beautiful.
450
00:28:19,125 --> 00:28:22,151
One more, guys. That's it.
That's great. Thank you.
451
00:28:22,361 --> 00:28:24,795
Vince and I needed help
in keeping us up all the time...
452
00:28:24,997 --> 00:28:27,192
... and in the way of thinking
in the '50s...
453
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,630
... anything you didn't take
with a needle was okay.
454
00:28:29,836 --> 00:28:33,499
It wasn't "serious" serious.
It was like running a red light.
455
00:28:33,706 --> 00:28:38,575
Everyone used bennies. Vince added
them to his morning coffee like sugar.
456
00:28:43,549 --> 00:28:45,608
Not that you could tell.
457
00:28:47,420 --> 00:28:49,411
When we did finally
decide to flatten out...
458
00:28:49,622 --> 00:28:53,581
... we'd take two or three Tuinals,
or three or four "Threeinals."
459
00:28:53,793 --> 00:28:55,090
They were really good.
460
00:28:55,294 --> 00:28:57,592
Between the moment you took them
and passing out...
461
00:28:57,797 --> 00:29:00,960
... it felt really sexy.
462
00:29:36,536 --> 00:29:37,730
Sure.
463
00:29:37,937 --> 00:29:40,064
- Enjoyed the show.
- Thank you.
464
00:29:44,911 --> 00:29:46,435
The walls of the Blue Grotto...
465
00:29:46,646 --> 00:29:49,308
... were made of a mixture
of plaster and Styrofoam.
466
00:29:49,515 --> 00:29:52,382
Flammable as all hell. But the boys
had learned it was cheaper...
467
00:29:52,585 --> 00:29:56,043
... to give the inspector 200 bucks
and a ringside table to our show...
468
00:29:56,255 --> 00:29:59,486
... than to spend thousands
of dollars on fireproofing.
469
00:29:59,692 --> 00:30:02,923
Besides, it was always vital in
a business enterprise of this sort...
470
00:30:03,129 --> 00:30:06,826
... to have the option to torch the place
at a moment's notice...
471
00:30:07,033 --> 00:30:09,399
... should the need present itself.
472
00:30:11,537 --> 00:30:14,597
One night, after our show,
we were taken to Sally's office.
473
00:30:14,807 --> 00:30:16,365
We wondered
what we had done wrong...
474
00:30:16,576 --> 00:30:18,203
... but what we had done
was done good.
475
00:30:18,411 --> 00:30:20,675
Sally started going on about
how much he liked us...
476
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,644
... how he thought we were
a good fit with his crowd...
477
00:30:23,849 --> 00:30:26,579
... meaning that we brought in
an audience of heavy drinkers...
478
00:30:26,786 --> 00:30:28,651
... adulterers and gamblers.
479
00:30:28,854 --> 00:30:31,345
So, what we want is for you boys
to come back here...
480
00:30:31,557 --> 00:30:34,355
...three months from now
and open our new showroom for us.
481
00:30:34,994 --> 00:30:38,327
A two-week,
exclusive limited engagement...
482
00:30:38,531 --> 00:30:41,432
...that we want you to do for us
for six weeks.
483
00:30:41,901 --> 00:30:44,563
God help you when a killer
takes a shining to you.
484
00:30:44,770 --> 00:30:49,707
I looked at Vince and scratched my
nose, which meant our strongest "no."
485
00:30:49,909 --> 00:30:51,638
That's a very great honor, Sally.
486
00:30:51,844 --> 00:30:54,312
- You're damn fucking right it is.
- The thing is...
487
00:30:54,513 --> 00:30:57,573
...we're just trying to cut down on
the nightclub work at the moment.
488
00:30:57,783 --> 00:31:00,377
We turned down the Sands
so we could do a TV special...
489
00:31:00,586 --> 00:31:04,613
...and the only reason we still work the
Versailles is out of friendship for you.
490
00:31:08,728 --> 00:31:11,663
- What dates were you thinking of?
- We open November 15th.
491
00:31:11,864 --> 00:31:14,492
Sally, any other day
we would be here in a flash...
492
00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:17,726
...but, you know, that's the day
right after the next polio telethon.
493
00:31:17,937 --> 00:31:20,997
I mean, we always take two weeks off
right after that to recover.
494
00:31:21,207 --> 00:31:22,401
- Right, Vince?
- At least.
495
00:31:22,608 --> 00:31:24,701
- I mean, we're tired.
- That's the way I want you.
496
00:31:24,910 --> 00:31:28,539
After the fucking telethon,
we fly you up from Miami...
497
00:31:28,748 --> 00:31:31,444
...hold a press conference,
all fucking exhausted...
498
00:31:31,651 --> 00:31:33,642
...so people know
what heroes you are.
499
00:31:34,687 --> 00:31:37,155
I'll keep a suite for you
with the best hookers I got.
500
00:31:37,356 --> 00:31:39,449
Your own personal cathouse.
501
00:31:39,659 --> 00:31:41,126
And I'll have them send you up...
502
00:31:41,327 --> 00:31:43,261
...a shipment of lobsters
and stone crabs.
503
00:31:43,462 --> 00:31:45,896
- You like lobsters?
- Love them.
504
00:31:46,098 --> 00:31:47,793
And a case of these...
505
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,628
...special grapefruits...
506
00:31:50,836 --> 00:31:53,669
...that I get special down there.
507
00:31:54,106 --> 00:31:57,007
The most delicious thing
you ever tasted in your life.
508
00:31:57,209 --> 00:31:59,473
Juicy, thin skin.
509
00:32:00,379 --> 00:32:04,042
Months later, on the night
before the telethon in Miami...
510
00:32:04,250 --> 00:32:06,616
... we got back to our room
and found that Sally...
511
00:32:06,819 --> 00:32:10,016
... had been more than good
to his word.
512
00:32:11,824 --> 00:32:14,520
Laid out around the room
were various crates...
513
00:32:14,727 --> 00:32:17,218
... bearing the addresses
of their destination:
514
00:32:17,430 --> 00:32:20,797
Our suite at the Palace Del Sol
hotel in New Jersey.
515
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:25,994
"You like lobsters?
See you in New Jersey."
516
00:32:26,939 --> 00:32:30,238
"Thin skin, fucking most delicious
fucking thing...
517
00:32:30,443 --> 00:32:32,104
...you ever had in your fucking life."
518
00:32:32,311 --> 00:32:35,109
"What I thought was a box
of beach balls turned out to be...
519
00:32:35,314 --> 00:32:37,578
...the thinnest-skinned,
dripping-wet grapefruits...
520
00:32:37,783 --> 00:32:39,375
...I�d ever tasted in my life.
521
00:32:39,585 --> 00:32:42,179
The 6-foot crate was filled
with fruits of the sea...
522
00:32:42,388 --> 00:32:45,221
...slowly shifting over a bed of ice."
523
00:32:45,424 --> 00:32:49,019
Yeah, this is Lanny Morris.
Send up three steaks, all right?
524
00:32:49,228 --> 00:32:50,559
Yeah. Make them rare this time.
525
00:32:50,763 --> 00:32:52,094
- Yeah, rare.
- Like bloody.
526
00:32:52,298 --> 00:32:55,563
Bloody. And a couple of bottles
of that champagne.
527
00:32:55,768 --> 00:32:57,736
- Make that three.
- Three bottles of champagne.
528
00:32:57,937 --> 00:33:01,338
And can you make sure
that Maureen delivers them?
529
00:33:01,540 --> 00:33:03,167
Yeah, Maureen.
530
00:33:03,676 --> 00:33:05,166
We called down for Maureen...
531
00:33:05,377 --> 00:33:07,208
... the room-service girl
I'd met earlier...
532
00:33:07,413 --> 00:33:09,904
... who wanted the interview
for her school paper.
533
00:33:10,116 --> 00:33:12,710
She brought up three steaks,
one for her...
534
00:33:12,918 --> 00:33:15,751
... as her last official delivery
of the day.
535
00:33:15,955 --> 00:33:17,513
As much as I love lobster...
536
00:33:17,723 --> 00:33:20,783
... seeing all that shellfish
nestled on ice in the crate...
537
00:33:20,993 --> 00:33:24,952
... put me in the mood
for hooves, not claws.
538
00:33:34,381 --> 00:33:39,216
The interview for Maureen's campus
paper went better than expected.
539
00:33:39,420 --> 00:33:41,650
Vince and I popped some Tuinals...
540
00:33:41,855 --> 00:33:44,153
... to insure that
we would sleep like babes...
541
00:33:44,358 --> 00:33:49,227
... after we wore off the general
horniness that the pills first give you.
542
00:33:50,164 --> 00:33:55,295
Vince bought insurance on his bet
by having a few babes on hand.
543
00:33:55,502 --> 00:33:58,665
Well, not exactly on his hand.
544
00:33:58,872 --> 00:34:00,237
That wasn't his preference.
545
00:34:00,441 --> 00:34:03,842
"Not exactly on his hand.
That wasn't his preference."
546
00:34:04,044 --> 00:34:09,175
"Not exactly on his hand"?
"That wasn't his preference"?
547
00:34:10,217 --> 00:34:12,811
"The Tuinals, coupled with
a nice amount of booze...
548
00:34:13,020 --> 00:34:15,545
...guaranteed us
the sleep of the dead.
549
00:34:15,756 --> 00:34:18,224
Late the next morning,
Maureen was sent packing...
550
00:34:18,425 --> 00:34:24,364
...and Vince and I prepared ourselves
for that night's broadcast."
551
00:34:25,466 --> 00:34:28,924
Well, I guess this is one story my kids
won't have to give a book report on.
552
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:33,570
Thanks.
553
00:34:33,774 --> 00:34:34,968
Must be weird to find out...
554
00:34:35,175 --> 00:34:38,906
...that the object of all your
adolescent fantasies is a pig.
555
00:34:40,247 --> 00:34:42,943
He's not like that.
556
00:34:43,150 --> 00:34:46,813
Oh, so it's just the way
he describes himself.
557
00:34:47,655 --> 00:34:49,418
She was right.
558
00:34:49,623 --> 00:34:52,148
Which was the real Lanny?
559
00:34:52,693 --> 00:34:55,753
I'd find out later that the story
of the hookers in the hotel suite...
560
00:34:55,963 --> 00:34:58,431
... was a complete fabrication.
561
00:34:58,632 --> 00:35:01,362
That night, Maureen was alone.
562
00:35:29,329 --> 00:35:31,820
- Hello?
- So how did you like the show?
563
00:35:32,032 --> 00:35:33,556
Lanny?
564
00:35:35,602 --> 00:35:37,399
The Today show.
565
00:35:37,604 --> 00:35:38,969
You did watch, didn't you?
566
00:35:39,773 --> 00:35:42,207
- The show.
- You didn't watch.
567
00:35:42,409 --> 00:35:44,570
Wow, that's scary.
568
00:35:46,613 --> 00:35:49,343
You see, when you're a star...
569
00:35:49,550 --> 00:35:52,576
...you live in terror,
wondering if it's all over yet.
570
00:35:52,786 --> 00:35:54,617
You keep looking for the signs.
571
00:35:54,822 --> 00:35:57,882
You're shooting a scene from a movie
on a New York street...
572
00:35:58,092 --> 00:35:59,286
...and a crowd doesn't form.
573
00:35:59,493 --> 00:36:01,290
You meet a girl on a plane
and tell her...
574
00:36:01,495 --> 00:36:04,157
...that you're gonna be on the
Today show the next morning...
575
00:36:04,364 --> 00:36:07,128
...and she doesn't
wake up early to watch.
576
00:36:07,334 --> 00:36:09,097
It's very scary.
577
00:36:09,536 --> 00:36:12,937
Hey, you know,
I mentioned you on the air.
578
00:36:14,108 --> 00:36:17,009
- You did?
- Yes, I proposed to you on the air.
579
00:36:17,211 --> 00:36:20,078
Your building is probably
surrounded with photographers...
580
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,976
- ... at this very moment.
- You're kidding.
581
00:36:23,183 --> 00:36:26,084
Yes, I'm kidding.
582
00:36:28,522 --> 00:36:30,012
So...
583
00:36:30,591 --> 00:36:32,388
...what time would you like to meet?
584
00:36:56,583 --> 00:36:59,416
Stanley, this is Bonnie.
Bonnie, Stanley.
585
00:36:59,620 --> 00:37:01,110
Nice to meet you.
586
00:37:01,321 --> 00:37:02,686
Is the food almost ready, Stan?
587
00:37:02,890 --> 00:37:05,791
Yeah. I'll bring it right out,
Mr. Lanny.
588
00:37:06,260 --> 00:37:09,889
I was very hungry, so I asked Stanley
to prepare us something special.
589
00:37:10,097 --> 00:37:12,088
That sounds great.
590
00:37:14,001 --> 00:37:15,491
Tell me, what kind of a meeting...
591
00:37:15,702 --> 00:37:18,569
...does a schoolteacher have to go to
during the summer vacation?
592
00:37:18,772 --> 00:37:21,866
I'm exploring the possibility
of another job.
593
00:37:22,075 --> 00:37:25,704
- Something in publishing.
- How did it go?
594
00:37:25,913 --> 00:37:27,380
Okay.
595
00:37:27,881 --> 00:37:30,509
Have you ever thought
about writing a book?
596
00:37:31,185 --> 00:37:34,245
- About what?
- Your life.
597
00:37:34,454 --> 00:37:36,251
Sure. When I'm dead.
598
00:37:36,957 --> 00:37:38,288
No, seriously.
599
00:37:38,492 --> 00:37:40,619
It would have to be published
after I died...
600
00:37:40,827 --> 00:37:43,728
...when I wouldn't care what
anybody thought about me.
601
00:37:44,164 --> 00:37:48,601
So, what would you write about,
if you were going to tell the truth?
602
00:37:48,802 --> 00:37:50,497
In my book?
603
00:37:50,871 --> 00:37:54,329
Well, the truth is,
I've met four presidents.
604
00:37:54,541 --> 00:37:56,304
They all seemed like
they were out of it.
605
00:37:56,510 --> 00:37:58,444
Like they had no idea
what was going on.
606
00:37:58,645 --> 00:38:01,944
Even J.F.K. Left me unimpressed.
I felt like I was with the boss' son.
607
00:38:02,149 --> 00:38:03,707
You don't think you could say that?
608
00:38:03,917 --> 00:38:06,977
Not if I was planning
on living in this country. No, no.
609
00:38:07,187 --> 00:38:10,122
I don't think that Judy Garland
was such a great singer...
610
00:38:10,324 --> 00:38:11,723
...after she turned 16.
611
00:38:11,925 --> 00:38:15,292
That quiver, you know,
it was like she had no control over it.
612
00:38:15,495 --> 00:38:17,463
I would get killed for saying that.
613
00:38:17,664 --> 00:38:20,929
Or that Marilyn Monroe
was no better an actress...
614
00:38:21,134 --> 00:38:24,626
...after she studied with
Lee Strasberg than before.
615
00:38:27,407 --> 00:38:29,773
I'm saying what really happened.
616
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,739
Having to be a nice guy...
617
00:38:35,949 --> 00:38:38,247
...is the toughest job in the world
when you're not.
618
00:38:45,025 --> 00:38:47,516
This is a lamb in tea sauce.
619
00:38:47,728 --> 00:38:50,526
This is twice-cooked pork
with shredded, pickled cabbage.
620
00:38:51,465 --> 00:38:53,399
Kung Pao chicken.
621
00:38:53,967 --> 00:38:56,162
And this is Kung Ping Loh Haa...
622
00:38:56,370 --> 00:39:00,966
...lobster in tangerine peel
for you and your lovely lady friend.
623
00:39:01,375 --> 00:39:03,343
You shouldn't have
done that, Stanley.
624
00:39:03,543 --> 00:39:06,444
I don't eat lobster. I'm Jewish.
625
00:39:06,647 --> 00:39:07,875
But you eat pork.
626
00:39:08,215 --> 00:39:10,706
- Do you have a problem with that?
- No, I just thought...
627
00:39:10,917 --> 00:39:14,785
No shrimp, no lobster.
They're disgusting. Take it away.
628
00:39:14,988 --> 00:39:17,684
I will pay for the dish,
but take it away, please.
629
00:39:18,125 --> 00:39:19,786
I'll change it.
630
00:39:21,461 --> 00:39:23,258
I'm sorry, I...
631
00:39:23,463 --> 00:39:25,795
I should have asked.
Maybe you love lobster.
632
00:39:25,999 --> 00:39:27,728
I'm fine.
633
00:39:28,935 --> 00:39:31,130
Have you ever had
Szechwan cuisine before?
634
00:39:31,338 --> 00:39:33,863
It's from the northern part of China.
635
00:39:34,074 --> 00:39:36,440
It must be strange for you.
636
00:39:36,877 --> 00:39:42,213
If you complain to a waiter,
you're not just some jerk at table five...
637
00:39:42,416 --> 00:39:43,610
...you're Lanny Morris.
638
00:39:44,284 --> 00:39:47,276
I know that everyone
dreams about being famous...
639
00:39:47,487 --> 00:39:49,250
...but it would be interesting
to know...
640
00:39:49,456 --> 00:39:51,424
...what it's like
to relinquish all anonymity.
641
00:39:56,163 --> 00:39:59,758
- Gets me a date.
- Does that bother you?
642
00:39:59,966 --> 00:40:02,799
That people only wanna be with you
because of who you are?
643
00:40:03,003 --> 00:40:06,097
- As opposed to?
- Well...
644
00:40:06,306 --> 00:40:08,171
...the real you.
645
00:40:09,609 --> 00:40:11,270
The real me.
646
00:40:13,380 --> 00:40:18,511
The real me was brought up
as a nice middle-class kid...
647
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:20,346
...which is not the easiest thing...
648
00:40:20,554 --> 00:40:23,990
...when you are extremely poor
and living in a slum.
649
00:40:24,591 --> 00:40:29,426
The real me spent most of his time
getting the shit kicked out of him...
650
00:40:29,629 --> 00:40:32,154
...and dreaming about
something better.
651
00:40:34,401 --> 00:40:36,767
Like being here
with someone like you.
652
00:40:38,038 --> 00:40:42,065
Fifteen years ago, he had,
for one brief moment...
653
00:40:42,275 --> 00:40:45,142
... made me feel like
the most special person in the world.
654
00:40:45,345 --> 00:40:49,748
"The miracle in my life
is not that I survived polio...
655
00:40:49,950 --> 00:40:51,850
...and am standing here today.
656
00:40:52,052 --> 00:40:56,079
No. The reason I consider myself
to be a miracle girl...
657
00:40:56,289 --> 00:40:57,950
...is because I had
the good fortune...
658
00:40:58,158 --> 00:41:00,285
...to meet Lanny and Vince
when I was sick."
659
00:41:00,961 --> 00:41:04,556
It was a moment
seen by millions of people...
660
00:41:04,765 --> 00:41:08,428
... but felt only by me.
661
00:41:12,539 --> 00:41:16,373
That moment had changed my life.
662
00:41:19,646 --> 00:41:23,514
I was about to find my own way
into Lanny's book...
663
00:41:24,151 --> 00:41:28,417
... after he had found
such a powerful way into mine.
664
00:42:42,863 --> 00:42:44,262
Checking out today?
665
00:43:01,581 --> 00:43:03,310
Is there a message
for Bonnie Trout?
666
00:43:03,517 --> 00:43:05,917
- From one of our guests?
- Yes, Lanny Morris.
667
00:43:09,189 --> 00:43:10,417
I'm afraid not.
668
00:43:10,690 --> 00:43:14,786
- Are you sure?
- Oh, yes, I'm sure.
669
00:43:18,765 --> 00:43:20,130
Do you need a cab?
670
00:43:25,572 --> 00:43:29,235
I still don't understand
why Vince Collins is willing...
671
00:43:29,442 --> 00:43:32,900
...to be involved in such
an expos� of himself.
672
00:43:33,113 --> 00:43:34,910
Vince is a realist.
673
00:43:35,115 --> 00:43:37,811
The days of his box-office
power are drawing to a close.
674
00:43:38,218 --> 00:43:40,015
Given the amount of money
we're offering...
675
00:43:40,220 --> 00:43:43,849
And it's because the investment
in Mr. Collins is so large...
676
00:43:44,057 --> 00:43:49,996
...I�ve compiled a list of questions
we'd like the miracle girl to ask.
677
00:43:57,070 --> 00:44:00,562
I don't wanna look at your questions.
I have my own approach.
678
00:44:00,774 --> 00:44:03,834
Ms. O'Connor, we're not paying
a million dollars for your approach...
679
00:44:04,044 --> 00:44:06,205
...we're paying for what
Vince Collins has to say.
680
00:44:06,413 --> 00:44:09,576
To me. What he has to say to me.
681
00:44:10,417 --> 00:44:13,181
Greg, this is not as easy as it looks.
682
00:44:13,753 --> 00:44:16,517
If you go to Vince Collins
and ask him a series of questions...
683
00:44:16,723 --> 00:44:18,987
...you'll come back here
with a 300-page press book.
684
00:44:19,192 --> 00:44:22,286
Well, as I've always understood
this company's policy...
685
00:44:22,495 --> 00:44:24,520
...while the book is being written...
686
00:44:24,731 --> 00:44:29,168
...the relationship between the author
and editor is sacrosanct.
687
00:44:30,236 --> 00:44:32,329
This isn't your typical book deal.
688
00:44:32,739 --> 00:44:36,698
We've really just leased
an oil well called Vince Collins...
689
00:44:36,910 --> 00:44:40,243
...and granted Ms. O'Connor
the right to tap.
690
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,938
I think we have a responsibility to...
691
00:44:44,417 --> 00:44:46,715
...monitor the drilling.
692
00:45:09,943 --> 00:45:12,434
- Hello.
- Mrs. O'Flaherty?
693
00:45:13,046 --> 00:45:14,536
Yes.
694
00:45:14,781 --> 00:45:18,410
My name's O'Connor.
I'm the one writing the book.
695
00:45:31,531 --> 00:45:34,728
The book will be
centered around Vince Collins.
696
00:45:34,934 --> 00:45:37,767
I'll be asking him a lot of questions.
697
00:45:37,971 --> 00:45:42,999
I wanted to know if there were any
you'd like to have answered yourself.
698
00:45:46,913 --> 00:45:51,441
Maureen and I planted this tree
on her fifth birthday.
699
00:45:52,919 --> 00:45:56,355
Father did most of the digging,
of course.
700
00:45:57,424 --> 00:45:59,585
She'd be 38.
701
00:46:00,460 --> 00:46:03,486
I'm 59 myself.
702
00:46:05,799 --> 00:46:08,359
If she were alive now...
703
00:46:09,769 --> 00:46:13,330
...we'd be talking about things,
back and forth...
704
00:46:13,540 --> 00:46:15,337
...like two women.
705
00:46:16,009 --> 00:46:18,341
Like you and I are doing.
706
00:46:23,983 --> 00:46:26,178
And Maureen's father?
707
00:46:27,187 --> 00:46:29,712
Frank died six years ago.
708
00:46:30,356 --> 00:46:32,483
He took his own life.
709
00:46:33,093 --> 00:46:36,153
One night, just before he died...
710
00:46:36,363 --> 00:46:39,491
...he dug up the earth
around this tree...
711
00:46:39,999 --> 00:46:42,797
...he took the urn
with Maureen's ashes in it...
712
00:46:43,002 --> 00:46:45,732
...and spread them around its roots.
713
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:51,406
So this is my daughter.
714
00:46:53,046 --> 00:46:55,640
This is what I have of her.
715
00:47:02,622 --> 00:47:05,352
- Are you Catholic?
- My... My mother was.
716
00:47:06,126 --> 00:47:08,651
Then you will understand
my dilemma.
717
00:47:08,862 --> 00:47:12,559
Our faith offers an afterlife.
718
00:47:13,767 --> 00:47:16,099
A daughter needs her mother.
719
00:47:17,203 --> 00:47:23,199
So I have to live out this life
as far from sin as I can manage.
720
00:47:26,146 --> 00:47:28,774
I'll never see my husband again.
721
00:47:29,315 --> 00:47:31,715
He's consigned himself to hell.
722
00:47:34,154 --> 00:47:37,612
But what if Maureen
killed herself too?
723
00:47:41,327 --> 00:47:43,955
She's in hell, with my husband.
724
00:47:44,164 --> 00:47:48,294
The life I'm trying to lead
will bring me to heaven's grace...
725
00:47:49,369 --> 00:47:52,736
...only to hear
their screams of torment.
726
00:47:54,274 --> 00:47:56,504
Chief Scaglia,
you were in the hotel room...
727
00:47:56,709 --> 00:47:59,872
... when they found
Maureen's body in the tub.
728
00:48:00,313 --> 00:48:04,215
So was Sally, so was Lanny,
so was Vince.
729
00:48:05,685 --> 00:48:09,849
And there was also
a PR lady there from the hotel.
730
00:48:10,256 --> 00:48:11,814
How do you think she died?
731
00:48:12,492 --> 00:48:15,552
She died in an auto accident
two weeks later. It was terrible.
732
00:48:19,032 --> 00:48:20,226
No, Maureen.
733
00:48:20,433 --> 00:48:23,095
- How did Maureen die?
- She drowned.
734
00:48:23,303 --> 00:48:25,100
- Why?
- What do you mean, why?
735
00:48:25,305 --> 00:48:27,830
You and I take baths all the time.
We don't drown in them.
736
00:48:28,041 --> 00:48:31,067
You and I do not mix
sleeping pills with booze.
737
00:48:31,277 --> 00:48:34,212
- She committed suicide?
- Overdose is the official story.
738
00:48:34,414 --> 00:48:38,248
What's the official story on the fact
that the staff of the hotel in Miami...
739
00:48:38,451 --> 00:48:41,511
... all seemed to know she delivered
room service to the boys' suite...
740
00:48:41,721 --> 00:48:44,554
...three days before
and was never seen alive again?
741
00:48:44,757 --> 00:48:46,088
What happened to her?
742
00:48:46,292 --> 00:48:48,760
How did she end up
in a hotel room in New Jersey?
743
00:48:48,962 --> 00:48:52,830
Sally never had any problem
moving girls around. Okay?
744
00:48:53,032 --> 00:48:54,226
He had two hotels.
745
00:48:54,434 --> 00:48:56,425
- So Sally arranged it?
- No, I don't think so.
746
00:48:56,636 --> 00:48:59,503
You see, she was brought up there
as a reward for the boys...
747
00:48:59,706 --> 00:49:02,368
...and I think she started
to party just a little too early.
748
00:49:02,575 --> 00:49:05,066
She was a student.
This was a summer job.
749
00:49:05,278 --> 00:49:06,540
Listen to me...
750
00:49:06,980 --> 00:49:12,919
...the Palace Del Sol was very
important to Sally, okay?
751
00:49:13,119 --> 00:49:16,282
He launched his new wing...
752
00:49:16,489 --> 00:49:19,788
...with a push
from Lanny and Vince...
753
00:49:19,993 --> 00:49:25,625
...and this stupid girl
shows up dead.
754
00:49:25,932 --> 00:49:30,460
She's not gonna come back.
We do the best thing for all of us.
755
00:49:30,670 --> 00:49:35,130
We speed up the investigation
and we cremate her. Okay?
756
00:49:35,341 --> 00:49:37,536
End of story.
757
00:49:40,346 --> 00:49:43,941
- Here you are.
- Here's your lobster.
758
00:49:44,150 --> 00:49:47,085
- Enjoy.
- Looks great.
759
00:49:48,521 --> 00:49:52,287
"Sally said, 'I'll have them send you
up your own shipment of lobsters.
760
00:49:52,492 --> 00:49:54,517
You like lobster?"'
761
00:49:55,094 --> 00:49:58,393
We said we did
because we really did.
762
00:49:59,165 --> 00:50:02,066
You shouldn't have done that,
Stanley. I don't eat lobster.
763
00:50:05,004 --> 00:50:07,404
Were there any signs of violence
on her body?
764
00:50:07,607 --> 00:50:11,907
No, no. There were some
small scratches on the torso.
765
00:50:13,813 --> 00:50:19,183
Why did my daughter die?
Did she kill herself?
766
00:50:20,086 --> 00:50:23,647
What had they done to her
that would make her do that?
767
00:50:26,259 --> 00:50:28,489
What had they done?
768
00:50:33,433 --> 00:50:35,697
Once upon a time...
769
00:50:35,902 --> 00:50:39,565
... when terrible things
happened to people...
770
00:50:39,772 --> 00:50:42,332
... they were left as a mystery.
771
00:50:44,510 --> 00:50:47,741
Even the tabloids kept a distance.
772
00:50:53,152 --> 00:50:58,920
Some things were allowed
to be left just the way they were.
773
00:51:07,734 --> 00:51:09,565
Any trouble with the directions
I gave you?
774
00:51:09,769 --> 00:51:13,205
- Only the parts where I had to turn.
- Sorry.
775
00:51:14,107 --> 00:51:16,507
It's the price of seclusion.
776
00:51:21,581 --> 00:51:23,572
You haven't switched over
to cassette?
777
00:51:23,783 --> 00:51:27,651
- Actually, it's my dad's.
- And what does he do?
778
00:51:29,022 --> 00:51:31,149
He was a journalist too.
779
00:51:32,225 --> 00:51:34,557
He did a big story on you once.
780
00:51:34,761 --> 00:51:37,423
Followed a little girl who had polio.
781
00:51:37,764 --> 00:51:40,028
You took her under your wing...
782
00:51:41,167 --> 00:51:43,499
...and now she's interviewing you.
783
00:51:47,073 --> 00:51:50,304
He must be proud that his daughter's
making such a name for herself.
784
00:51:50,843 --> 00:51:52,936
I'd like to think so.
785
00:51:54,147 --> 00:51:57,742
- He died last year.
- Sorry to hear that.
786
00:51:59,385 --> 00:52:03,014
- Would you like some coffee?
- Sure.
787
00:52:10,096 --> 00:52:11,961
Are you alone here?
788
00:52:12,165 --> 00:52:16,192
Yes. The thought of having live-in help
is a little poisonous to me.
789
00:52:16,402 --> 00:52:17,801
Why's that?
790
00:52:18,004 --> 00:52:19,904
Well, I'd have to talk to them...
791
00:52:20,106 --> 00:52:22,540
...ask them how
their family was doing...
792
00:52:22,742 --> 00:52:25,370
...hear about this and that,
introduce them to the guests...
793
00:52:25,578 --> 00:52:28,240
...and tell them
how their family was doing.
794
00:52:28,448 --> 00:52:32,145
All so that I would
seem to be a nice guy...
795
00:52:32,351 --> 00:52:33,943
...which is an awful lot of work...
796
00:52:34,153 --> 00:52:36,587
...considering what I cherish
most in life these days...
797
00:52:36,789 --> 00:52:38,848
...is not to have to be Vince Collins.
798
00:52:39,058 --> 00:52:40,491
No Reuben in your life?
799
00:52:41,794 --> 00:52:43,785
How do you know about Reuben?
800
00:52:44,163 --> 00:52:47,690
He was in a lot of the material
I've been looking at.
801
00:52:47,900 --> 00:52:49,367
No, I never had a Reuben.
802
00:52:49,569 --> 00:52:51,935
Lanny always paid him directly.
He was Lanny's man.
803
00:52:52,138 --> 00:52:53,605
Right.
804
00:52:56,008 --> 00:52:58,067
You know, what I like is to...
805
00:52:58,277 --> 00:52:59,869
...read...
806
00:53:00,980 --> 00:53:02,379
...think.
807
00:53:02,582 --> 00:53:04,777
It's to have the freedom...
808
00:53:04,984 --> 00:53:07,475
...to get up and leave
without telling anyone about it...
809
00:53:07,687 --> 00:53:09,587
...any time of day.
810
00:53:11,591 --> 00:53:13,923
Or even having to say goodbye.
811
00:53:16,129 --> 00:53:20,088
To be backstage, surrounded
by acrobats, actors, magicians...
812
00:53:20,299 --> 00:53:22,164
...it was intoxicating.
813
00:53:22,368 --> 00:53:24,199
You know, I was only 12 years old.
814
00:53:24,403 --> 00:53:26,030
That's a...
815
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:27,763
That's a pretty impressionable age.
816
00:53:27,974 --> 00:53:31,034
- To hear all these stories of touring...
- My father always told me...
817
00:53:31,244 --> 00:53:34,736
... that nothing had meaning
unless it could be put on the record.
818
00:53:36,215 --> 00:53:38,240
Yet things had changed.
819
00:53:39,385 --> 00:53:41,478
As Vince had pointed out
at our first meeting...
820
00:53:41,687 --> 00:53:45,987
... it had become fashionable
to put yourself into the story.
821
00:53:46,659 --> 00:53:49,992
The question became
how far you were prepared to go.
822
00:54:13,286 --> 00:54:17,620
- Excuse me. That's not mine.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
823
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:22,755
Aren't you Miss Trout?
824
00:54:22,962 --> 00:54:25,590
We've met,
on the plane to New York.
825
00:54:25,798 --> 00:54:26,992
- Reuben.
- Excuse me, sir.
826
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,964
Can I leave you
for just a second, please?
827
00:54:33,739 --> 00:54:36,469
I'm so deeply sorry, Miss Trout,
the way you were treated.
828
00:54:36,676 --> 00:54:40,703
- He could have left a note.
- Of course.
829
00:54:41,981 --> 00:54:45,542
Miss Trout, I would like you
to understand something.
830
00:54:46,385 --> 00:54:51,118
I have a great loyalty to Mr. Morris.
He's treated me very well.
831
00:54:51,324 --> 00:54:53,019
I'm very grateful.
832
00:54:54,427 --> 00:54:57,453
He has done wonderful things
for many people...
833
00:54:57,663 --> 00:55:02,623
...and I have been privileged
to work for him.
834
00:55:04,203 --> 00:55:06,501
But I do have certain principles...
835
00:55:06,706 --> 00:55:10,938
...especially about how women
are to be treated and respected.
836
00:55:11,344 --> 00:55:16,748
Mr. Morris can be very attentive,
but once he has a woman...
837
00:55:17,917 --> 00:55:20,715
Oh, God, I think
it's almost a sickness.
838
00:55:22,722 --> 00:55:24,553
When he left you that morning...
839
00:55:24,757 --> 00:55:27,385
...you may have felt bad,
but believe me, Miss Trout...
840
00:55:27,593 --> 00:55:29,424
...to have him out of your life...
841
00:55:29,629 --> 00:55:32,325
...is the best thing that
could have happened to you.
842
00:55:33,399 --> 00:55:37,062
At that point, you may have felt
your life was wounded.
843
00:55:38,604 --> 00:55:40,435
It wasn't.
844
00:55:41,307 --> 00:55:42,569
It was saved.
845
00:55:51,684 --> 00:55:54,050
Vince, I was very clear about this
from the beginning.
846
00:55:54,253 --> 00:55:55,845
I'm not out to play games with you.
847
00:55:56,055 --> 00:55:58,421
This is why you're being paid
a huge amount of money.
848
00:55:59,425 --> 00:56:01,256
This isn't entirely about money,
you know.
849
00:56:01,460 --> 00:56:04,020
A million dollars is more than
the gross of your last film.
850
00:56:05,331 --> 00:56:07,595
I was somehow
under the impression that my life...
851
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,769
...might have been of more than
passing interest.
852
00:56:10,970 --> 00:56:13,962
But if my fleeting encounter with
a girl named Maureen O'Flaherty...
853
00:56:14,173 --> 00:56:17,108
...is all you really want to talk about,
then that's what we'll do.
854
00:56:18,611 --> 00:56:20,909
I have to make an appearance
at the clinic tomorrow.
855
00:56:21,113 --> 00:56:23,240
We can come back
and talk after that.
856
00:56:24,283 --> 00:56:26,012
It's Wonderland.
857
00:56:26,218 --> 00:56:27,810
I imagine you might remember that.
858
00:56:42,001 --> 00:56:46,131
He was right.
I did remember Wonderland.
859
00:56:47,006 --> 00:56:48,735
- You ready?
- Ready.
860
00:56:48,941 --> 00:56:54,208
When I was a girl, the entire hospital
was devoted to children with polio.
861
00:56:55,881 --> 00:56:59,078
Since that time,
it had become a clinic for kids...
862
00:56:59,285 --> 00:57:02,516
... with a variety of different
physical handicaps.
863
00:57:06,125 --> 00:57:09,492
Once a year, the children
would put on a pageant...
864
00:57:09,695 --> 00:57:13,028
... playing different characters
from Alice in Wonderland.
865
00:57:14,033 --> 00:57:16,467
Vince, in his continuing support
of the hospital...
866
00:57:16,669 --> 00:57:19,160
... had hired a band and a singer.
867
00:57:26,645 --> 00:57:28,340
Who is that?
868
00:57:28,547 --> 00:57:32,381
I don't know.
She's good, whoever she is.
869
00:57:43,829 --> 00:57:47,060
Karen, do you mind if we start
this conversation tomorrow?
870
00:57:47,266 --> 00:57:50,895
I'm just...
I'm not feeling all that well.
871
00:57:51,570 --> 00:57:53,060
- Vince...
- In fact, it won't make...
872
00:57:53,272 --> 00:57:55,536
...any difference over there.
The office is closed.
873
00:57:55,741 --> 00:57:56,935
They've been working late.
874
00:57:57,143 --> 00:57:59,134
Then they've been working
much too hard.
875
00:58:00,479 --> 00:58:03,107
First thing tomorrow. First thing.
876
00:58:10,089 --> 00:58:12,489
I hope your editors were reasonable.
877
00:58:12,691 --> 00:58:15,660
Reasonable? No, they weren't.
878
00:58:15,861 --> 00:58:17,920
We can go as late as you like.
879
00:58:18,130 --> 00:58:19,392
That's good.
880
00:58:19,598 --> 00:58:21,031
It might take us
into the evening.
881
00:58:21,233 --> 00:58:23,201
I had a feeling
that might be the case.
882
00:58:23,702 --> 00:58:26,364
So I've ordered a hot and cold
smorgasbord to be brought in.
883
00:58:26,572 --> 00:58:28,039
We can work through dinner.
884
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,435
- We'll be having company?
- Yes.
885
00:58:31,911 --> 00:58:33,435
I have...
886
00:58:33,646 --> 00:58:35,341
...a surprise for you.
887
00:58:36,282 --> 00:58:39,046
Actually, this is a fairly big deal
for me as well.
888
00:58:40,252 --> 00:58:42,652
I've asked Lanny to join us today.
889
00:58:43,956 --> 00:58:44,980
Lanny?
890
00:58:46,358 --> 00:58:48,485
Well, this is something.
891
00:58:49,361 --> 00:58:52,387
Neuman and Newberry will certainly
be getting their money's worth.
892
00:58:52,965 --> 00:58:55,263
I thought that if I was
going to discuss something...
893
00:58:55,468 --> 00:58:57,265
...that had such an impact
on our lives...
894
00:58:57,470 --> 00:59:00,064
...it would be fair for Lanny
to hear what I had to say.
895
00:59:00,773 --> 00:59:02,468
Given that we've
never talked about it.
896
00:59:02,675 --> 00:59:05,337
I'm sure I'll have lots to ask him.
When is he coming?
897
00:59:05,544 --> 00:59:07,478
He should be here any minute now.
898
00:59:08,047 --> 00:59:09,878
This is very exciting.
899
00:59:10,449 --> 00:59:12,246
Shit.
900
00:59:26,899 --> 00:59:29,129
- Yes?
- Bonnie, I have to talk fast.
901
00:59:29,335 --> 00:59:32,395
I need you to do exactly as I tell you
and I can't tell you why, okay?
902
00:59:32,605 --> 00:59:33,833
Sure.
903
00:59:34,573 --> 00:59:36,939
Excuse me, that might actually
be him now.
904
00:59:37,977 --> 00:59:39,672
Yes, hello?
905
00:59:52,057 --> 00:59:53,615
Yes, thank you.
906
00:59:55,361 --> 00:59:56,692
That was my office.
907
00:59:56,896 --> 00:59:59,364
There's a woman...
A friend, a relative of yours?
908
00:59:59,565 --> 01:00:01,965
She said she called
on a number you gave her.
909
01:00:02,635 --> 01:00:04,535
She's gonna call back.
910
01:00:11,010 --> 01:00:13,137
- Yes?
- Hi, kiddo.
911
01:00:13,345 --> 01:00:16,473
Listen, your brother Clifford
has just been rushed to the hospital.
912
01:00:16,682 --> 01:00:18,445
He was doing construction
when a thing...
913
01:00:18,651 --> 01:00:20,448
- A steel girder?
- That's it.
914
01:00:20,653 --> 01:00:23,144
You better come to the city
and make your peace with him.
915
01:00:23,355 --> 01:00:25,516
You're booked on the next
flight to San Francisco.
916
01:00:25,724 --> 01:00:27,885
I'm waiting here for you
in front of the terminal.
917
01:00:28,394 --> 01:00:30,794
They reserved me a seat
on the next flight to San Francisco.
918
01:00:30,996 --> 01:00:32,293
- I'll drive you there.
- No, no.
919
01:00:32,498 --> 01:00:35,558
Sharon is waiting at the airport for me.
You can't stand Lanny up.
920
01:00:35,768 --> 01:00:38,202
Please give him
my deepest apologies.
921
01:00:47,246 --> 01:00:50,443
- Hey.
- Please, I can explain.
922
01:00:51,283 --> 01:00:53,547
You've broken the law,
Bonnie-fucking-Trout.
923
01:00:53,752 --> 01:00:55,583
You've assumed
another person's identity...
924
01:00:55,788 --> 01:00:58,154
...to get information
from a business competitor.
925
01:00:58,357 --> 01:01:01,019
Obviously I lied about who I was.
I'm sorry.
926
01:01:01,227 --> 01:01:03,422
It was a huge untruth.
It wasn't planned.
927
01:01:03,629 --> 01:01:08,157
I was just freaked out about
suddenly being on the plane with...
928
01:01:09,201 --> 01:01:10,566
With you...
929
01:01:10,769 --> 01:01:13,067
How did you get the seat
behind me on the plane?
930
01:01:13,272 --> 01:01:14,899
- It was pure coincidence.
- Bullshit!
931
01:01:15,107 --> 01:01:16,540
It's true.
932
01:01:20,579 --> 01:01:24,310
How could you..? How could you have
just left me at the hotel like that?
933
01:01:24,717 --> 01:01:25,911
You were asleep.
934
01:01:26,118 --> 01:01:29,315
Reuben woke me to say
I had to be a substitute performer...
935
01:01:29,521 --> 01:01:33,753
...at a charity concert at the Hollywood
Bowl. I had to get the first flight out.
936
01:01:33,959 --> 01:01:35,517
You could have left a note
or called.
937
01:01:35,728 --> 01:01:37,787
- I did leave you a note.
- Where?
938
01:01:39,632 --> 01:01:43,227
I don't know why we're even talking
about this. I don't like you.
939
01:01:43,435 --> 01:01:46,370
All right? I wish we had never met.
940
01:01:52,244 --> 01:01:53,438
Hello, Vince.
941
01:01:54,213 --> 01:01:55,908
What the fuck's going on?
942
01:01:57,850 --> 01:02:00,512
Vince, a few days after we first met...
943
01:02:00,719 --> 01:02:03,552
...I found myself next to Lanny
on a flight to New York.
944
01:02:03,756 --> 01:02:05,383
It was a complete coincidence.
945
01:02:05,591 --> 01:02:07,252
- He asked my name...
- And she lied.
946
01:02:07,459 --> 01:02:10,724
I had just finished reading the first
chapter of Lanny's own biography.
947
01:02:10,929 --> 01:02:14,330
His lawyers had let me see it in the
hope of discouraging our own project.
948
01:02:14,533 --> 01:02:17,058
As a reflex, since I knew he
would view me as the enemy...
949
01:02:17,269 --> 01:02:18,896
...I gave him the name of a friend...
950
01:02:19,104 --> 01:02:21,197
...whose apartment I was
staying at in Manhattan.
951
01:02:21,407 --> 01:02:24,706
I thought I just had to get through
the awkwardness of the flight itself...
952
01:02:24,910 --> 01:02:26,901
...but the trouble is...
- You slept with him.
953
01:02:28,781 --> 01:02:32,148
- Vince...
- You slept with my ex-partner.
954
01:02:33,619 --> 01:02:34,847
Technically.
955
01:02:36,855 --> 01:02:39,449
Doesn't sound like things were
particularly technical.
956
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:03,271
Now, you listen to me, sweetheart.
957
01:03:04,083 --> 01:03:07,985
Vince doesn't always do
what's best for Vince.
958
01:03:08,187 --> 01:03:10,781
That's why he needed me
here today.
959
01:03:11,490 --> 01:03:15,449
The story of this girl is the
most painful thing in his life.
960
01:03:15,661 --> 01:03:17,822
What happened to her, Lanny?
961
01:03:18,997 --> 01:03:20,897
Well, you're not gonna find out.
962
01:03:21,834 --> 01:03:23,392
Not now.
963
01:03:24,136 --> 01:03:26,297
Not after what you've done to him.
964
01:03:35,681 --> 01:03:37,308
Vince.
965
01:03:37,516 --> 01:03:38,813
Oh, shit.
966
01:03:40,753 --> 01:03:42,812
Vince...
967
01:03:43,021 --> 01:03:44,989
...I made a terrible mistake
in New York.
968
01:03:45,190 --> 01:03:48,557
I apologize to you
more than I know how to say.
969
01:03:48,761 --> 01:03:50,991
I'm so sorry.
970
01:04:00,806 --> 01:04:04,105
Vince, the realization
of your life story...
971
01:04:04,309 --> 01:04:06,937
...shouldn't be threatened
because of my failings.
972
01:04:09,148 --> 01:04:11,878
Please let me continue
to work with you again.
973
01:04:13,085 --> 01:04:15,417
I'll help you tell your story right.
974
01:04:18,023 --> 01:04:19,957
Come back tonight.
975
01:04:22,027 --> 01:04:23,688
Let me think about it.
976
01:04:36,341 --> 01:04:40,209
- How do you like the wine?
- It's magnificent. What is it?
977
01:04:40,412 --> 01:04:42,903
1961 Haut-Brion.
978
01:04:43,115 --> 01:04:44,844
People make a big deal of 1959...
979
01:04:45,050 --> 01:04:48,383
...but I don't think there'll be
a year as special as 1961.
980
01:04:49,021 --> 01:04:51,785
It was a great year for French wines.
981
01:04:55,127 --> 01:04:57,061
Will you join me?
982
01:04:57,896 --> 01:04:59,488
What are they?
983
01:05:00,032 --> 01:05:04,196
They're like very mild-mannered
Quaaludes.
984
01:05:04,436 --> 01:05:06,529
Must've done a few of those
in your time, right?
985
01:05:08,006 --> 01:05:09,735
Are you sure they're okay
with alcohol?
986
01:05:09,942 --> 01:05:13,469
Oh, they're even better with alcohol.
Believe me, I'd know.
987
01:05:19,685 --> 01:05:21,778
Come on in, honey. The water's fine.
988
01:05:22,855 --> 01:05:27,690
All my life, I've had this idea
that I could always be in control.
989
01:05:28,293 --> 01:05:30,227
Ever since I was sick,
I had this sense...
990
01:05:30,429 --> 01:05:33,592
... that I could make my body
do anything I wanted.
991
01:05:33,799 --> 01:05:35,460
If I could will my polio away...
992
01:05:35,667 --> 01:05:39,125
... I'd certainly be able to will away
the effect of any drug.
993
01:05:52,885 --> 01:05:56,548
Do you mind if I close the drapes?
The sun's in my eyes.
994
01:05:58,323 --> 01:06:00,188
It's moonlight.
995
01:06:01,627 --> 01:06:03,151
Go ahead.
996
01:07:05,090 --> 01:07:07,149
I remember you.
997
01:07:07,759 --> 01:07:09,488
You're Alice.
998
01:07:10,128 --> 01:07:12,289
In Wonderland.
999
01:07:12,998 --> 01:07:15,193
Oh, I don't know.
1000
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,800
I'm really stoned
out of my head already.
1001
01:07:19,104 --> 01:07:20,662
Is it good?
1002
01:07:26,211 --> 01:07:30,307
Jesus, Vince. It's like monster grass.
1003
01:07:30,515 --> 01:07:32,779
Do you get this stuff all the time?
1004
01:07:32,985 --> 01:07:34,976
All the time.
1005
01:07:44,329 --> 01:07:46,763
You're Alice.
1006
01:07:49,601 --> 01:07:51,262
You're so beautiful.
1007
01:08:20,298 --> 01:08:22,198
She's ours.
1008
01:08:22,901 --> 01:08:24,892
Isn't that so, Alice?
1009
01:08:26,405 --> 01:08:28,270
I'm yours.
1010
01:08:52,573 --> 01:08:54,404
I like you.
1011
01:09:07,054 --> 01:09:10,319
I had always been fascinated by how
some women could cross the line...
1012
01:09:10,524 --> 01:09:15,154
... between who they were and who
they would let themselves become.
1013
01:09:15,863 --> 01:09:17,558
Maureen...
1014
01:09:18,299 --> 01:09:20,130
... Alice...
1015
01:09:20,801 --> 01:09:22,359
... and now...
1016
01:09:22,570 --> 01:09:24,128
... me.
1017
01:09:30,644 --> 01:09:31,975
Morning.
1018
01:09:32,179 --> 01:09:35,478
That was not a Quaalude you
gave me. I've had Quaaludes.
1019
01:09:36,784 --> 01:09:38,115
I said it was like a Quaalude.
1020
01:09:38,319 --> 01:09:40,685
And you didn't take one yourself.
You palmed the pill.
1021
01:09:40,888 --> 01:09:42,879
Somebody had to drive.
1022
01:09:43,858 --> 01:09:45,655
Don't worry, you won't get pregnant.
1023
01:09:45,860 --> 01:09:47,691
Not from Alice,
and certainly not from me.
1024
01:09:47,895 --> 01:09:50,455
I never took off my pants,
as you may or may not remember.
1025
01:09:50,664 --> 01:09:52,325
There are laws against
drugging people.
1026
01:09:52,533 --> 01:09:56,526
Oh, please. You took it voluntarily.
Nobody slipped it into your drink.
1027
01:09:58,105 --> 01:10:01,506
And you chased it with one of the most
expensive wines in the world.
1028
01:10:01,709 --> 01:10:05,110
You're just in a dither because you've
discovered you can swing both ways.
1029
01:10:07,414 --> 01:10:09,245
You see...
1030
01:10:10,317 --> 01:10:12,182
...I needed to get something on you.
1031
01:10:12,386 --> 01:10:15,651
Of course, your behavior with Lanny
might have been even better than this.
1032
01:10:15,856 --> 01:10:17,619
But I'd already set the wheels
in motion.
1033
01:10:17,825 --> 01:10:21,818
And as I was dying to see
you and Alice get it on...
1034
01:10:22,296 --> 01:10:24,423
Well, these are just a sample.
1035
01:10:32,039 --> 01:10:34,872
Why would she agree to do this?
Doesn't she want a career?
1036
01:10:35,075 --> 01:10:37,339
Well, it's your career
I'm worried about.
1037
01:10:37,912 --> 01:10:40,244
You're a journalist
playing loose with the rules.
1038
01:10:40,648 --> 01:10:43,173
She's just a vulnerable young singer
you seduced.
1039
01:10:43,384 --> 01:10:46,410
A promising... Oh, good heavens.
1040
01:10:46,787 --> 01:10:49,517
Promising artist
that I happen to manage.
1041
01:10:49,723 --> 01:10:51,520
You met her through me...
1042
01:10:51,725 --> 01:10:53,625
...and had your way with her.
1043
01:10:58,332 --> 01:10:59,959
What do you want from me?
1044
01:11:02,937 --> 01:11:05,269
You're going to continue
writing the book.
1045
01:11:05,472 --> 01:11:09,374
I'm going to continue telling you
juicy stories, funny stories...
1046
01:11:09,577 --> 01:11:11,670
...heart-tugging stories.
1047
01:11:11,912 --> 01:11:14,142
And you're not going to ask me
a single question...
1048
01:11:14,348 --> 01:11:16,578
...about what happened
to the girl in New Jersey.
1049
01:11:17,685 --> 01:11:20,711
You're going to go to your publisher,
say you tried every angle...
1050
01:11:20,921 --> 01:11:23,856
...but you could find nothing odd
or suspicious in what I told you.
1051
01:11:30,664 --> 01:11:33,565
I'll even try to spice it up a little,
talk about how...
1052
01:11:33,767 --> 01:11:36,736
...the night before the telethon,
I wanted to sleep like a babe...
1053
01:11:36,937 --> 01:11:39,201
...so to cover my bets,
I kept a few babes on hand.
1054
01:11:40,174 --> 01:11:41,732
Well, not exactly on my hand...
1055
01:11:41,942 --> 01:11:45,309
...and that's not my preference,
as you might have gathered by now.
1056
01:11:54,888 --> 01:11:58,790
So you get your bestseller,
I get my million.
1057
01:11:58,993 --> 01:12:00,255
Everyone goes home happy.
1058
01:12:00,461 --> 01:12:03,692
You've dreaded talking about
Maureen O'Flaherty since we met.
1059
01:12:03,897 --> 01:12:06,058
If it's something you're so
desperate to avoid...
1060
01:12:06,267 --> 01:12:08,258
...why would you ever agree
to do this book?
1061
01:12:08,969 --> 01:12:10,630
I need the money.
1062
01:12:10,838 --> 01:12:14,239
Vince, anything you say
in my presence is mine to use.
1063
01:12:15,242 --> 01:12:18,143
Everything you said last night
and everything you've just told me.
1064
01:12:18,345 --> 01:12:21,075
And since I'm also allowed to include
contextual background...
1065
01:12:21,282 --> 01:12:23,307
...I can write about
how you set me up...
1066
01:12:23,517 --> 01:12:26,884
...how you tried to blackmail me.
I'll even include those Polaroids.
1067
01:12:27,087 --> 01:12:30,420
It's your word against mine. We have
a contract. Everything's in my words.
1068
01:12:30,624 --> 01:12:33,923
We've agreed to your answers,
but there's nothing to stop me...
1069
01:12:34,128 --> 01:12:38,827
...from putting any information I want
into a question I ask.
1070
01:12:39,900 --> 01:12:42,869
Information that I'd like to be
public knowledge...
1071
01:12:43,804 --> 01:12:46,272
...or that the police
might wanna look into.
1072
01:12:50,911 --> 01:12:55,245
Would you like me to fire one of my
loaded questions, on the record?
1073
01:12:56,116 --> 01:12:57,879
Sure.
1074
01:13:04,958 --> 01:13:06,949
Vince...
1075
01:13:07,461 --> 01:13:10,897
...in your suite
at the Versailles Hotel in Miami...
1076
01:13:11,565 --> 01:13:13,931
...was it your or Lanny's idea...
1077
01:13:14,134 --> 01:13:17,467
...to put Maureen's body into the case
containing shellfish and ice...
1078
01:13:17,671 --> 01:13:19,332
...and have it shipped
to New Jersey?
1079
01:13:24,211 --> 01:13:27,078
No answer, Mr. Collins?
So noted.
1080
01:13:27,715 --> 01:13:30,582
Oh, and incidentally,
by not answering...
1081
01:13:30,784 --> 01:13:33,378
...you're in violation of your contract.
1082
01:13:33,988 --> 01:13:37,185
What a shame.
I understood you needed that money.
1083
01:13:51,905 --> 01:13:54,066
Oh, no. Oh, God.
1084
01:13:54,274 --> 01:13:57,971
Oh, God.
Oh, God. Oh, God!
1085
01:14:06,754 --> 01:14:08,517
Was that how
you murdered Maureen?
1086
01:14:21,969 --> 01:14:23,800
Ask Lanny.
1087
01:14:26,573 --> 01:14:28,598
He's the one who knows.
1088
01:14:47,094 --> 01:14:50,791
It wasn't that hard for him
to get the suite he wanted.
1089
01:14:50,998 --> 01:14:54,991
The Versailles was still one of the
fanciest of the hotels along the beach.
1090
01:14:55,202 --> 01:14:57,864
But by then, its era had passed.
1091
01:14:59,273 --> 01:15:00,865
Thank you, sir.
1092
01:15:10,317 --> 01:15:12,649
All the furniture was new.
1093
01:15:12,886 --> 01:15:15,218
It had been 15 years...
1094
01:15:15,923 --> 01:15:17,914
... but the floor plan...
1095
01:15:18,125 --> 01:15:20,286
... was still the same.
1096
01:15:21,095 --> 01:15:23,325
In that spot...
1097
01:15:23,664 --> 01:15:26,565
... that was where the truth
had come out.
1098
01:15:27,634 --> 01:15:30,398
That was why she had to die.
1099
01:15:41,248 --> 01:15:43,808
Are you Japanese or Chinese?
1100
01:15:45,052 --> 01:15:46,747
Vietnamese.
1101
01:15:47,221 --> 01:15:50,486
The kitchen tell me
you famous person.
1102
01:15:50,691 --> 01:15:52,625
Why you famous?
1103
01:15:52,993 --> 01:15:55,120
They didn't tell you my name?
1104
01:15:55,329 --> 01:15:56,523
No.
1105
01:15:56,730 --> 01:15:58,425
What is it?
1106
01:16:00,834 --> 01:16:02,563
Lanny Morris.
1107
01:16:03,303 --> 01:16:04,964
It's a Jewish name...
1108
01:16:05,172 --> 01:16:06,639
...but I'm a nebbish.
1109
01:16:07,908 --> 01:16:10,342
You ordered three bottle
of champagne.
1110
01:16:10,544 --> 01:16:11,806
You want me to open one now?
1111
01:16:12,513 --> 01:16:14,538
Or wait until friend come?
1112
01:16:15,649 --> 01:16:17,173
Open all three.
1113
01:16:18,819 --> 01:16:21,117
Are you really famous, Mr. Morris?
1114
01:16:22,356 --> 01:16:23,983
In my day.
1115
01:16:24,424 --> 01:16:26,483
Before your time, I suppose.
1116
01:16:27,494 --> 01:16:30,054
I come from the north of Vietnam.
1117
01:16:30,264 --> 01:16:32,596
In my town, there is no television.
1118
01:16:32,799 --> 01:16:37,099
She explained that American movies
had been banned where she grew up.
1119
01:16:42,342 --> 01:16:45,004
She got better tips pretending
she was Madame Butterfly...
1120
01:16:45,212 --> 01:16:48,272
... than by telling people
where she was really from.
1121
01:16:49,416 --> 01:16:51,509
What did you do, Mr. Morris?
1122
01:16:52,586 --> 01:16:55,111
I made Vince Collins' life...
1123
01:16:55,556 --> 01:16:57,649
...very difficult.
1124
01:16:57,858 --> 01:17:01,055
She didn't understand, but her policy
was not to linger in the rooms...
1125
01:17:01,261 --> 01:17:03,195
... of solitary gentlemen.
1126
01:17:04,598 --> 01:17:08,898
He signed the room-service check
under Lanny's name.
1127
01:17:11,138 --> 01:17:12,662
Thank you.
1128
01:17:35,729 --> 01:17:37,993
There was no ice or water
left in the buckets...
1129
01:17:38,198 --> 01:17:40,996
... when his body was discovered
the next morning.
1130
01:17:42,269 --> 01:17:46,000
He had dumped the ice into
the bathtub and died in it.
1131
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,334
He must have felt
there was some poetry in it.
1132
01:17:53,747 --> 01:17:56,113
His plan was to drink
enough champagne...
1133
01:17:56,316 --> 01:17:57,715
... with enough sleeping pills...
1134
01:17:57,918 --> 01:18:01,820
... so that ending things would
become an acceptable idea.
1135
01:18:02,556 --> 01:18:04,456
He could manage that.
1136
01:18:05,258 --> 01:18:08,591
He knew for certain
he couldn't manage anything else.
1137
01:18:12,165 --> 01:18:13,723
Hi.
1138
01:18:16,003 --> 01:18:18,699
I thought you were
gonna be out all afternoon.
1139
01:18:23,443 --> 01:18:25,206
I'm sorry.
1140
01:18:25,646 --> 01:18:27,511
It's okay.
1141
01:18:28,482 --> 01:18:30,507
This was under the door.
1142
01:18:38,091 --> 01:18:39,353
What is it?
1143
01:18:40,994 --> 01:18:43,121
Chapter three.
1144
01:18:44,898 --> 01:18:49,198
John, as my lawyer, I want you
to know that this next chapter...
1145
01:18:49,403 --> 01:18:52,372
... is to be read
after Vince and my death...
1146
01:18:52,572 --> 01:18:57,236
... and is only to be used under
the most extreme of circumstances.
1147
01:18:58,945 --> 01:19:01,038
We knew we wanted to make
an early night of it...
1148
01:19:01,248 --> 01:19:04,684
... with the telethon starting the next
day, so Vince suggested we dine in...
1149
01:19:04,885 --> 01:19:07,877
... so Maureen could do
the interview for her campus paper.
1150
01:19:08,088 --> 01:19:13,082
This is a gift for us
from the audience...
1151
01:19:13,727 --> 01:19:17,663
...from the people,
the people that are out there.
1152
01:19:18,532 --> 01:19:22,764
Sooner or later you gotta say,
"We wanna give something back."
1153
01:19:23,036 --> 01:19:24,628
I think that's really important.
1154
01:19:24,838 --> 01:19:29,138
Not many people would take
the time out to do that. Thank you.
1155
01:19:29,342 --> 01:19:32,072
She actually hid her tape recorder
in the room-service cart...
1156
01:19:32,279 --> 01:19:35,043
... because she didn't want
the hotel to find out.
1157
01:19:42,856 --> 01:19:46,087
We finished the interview
and then asked her to stay.
1158
01:19:49,162 --> 01:19:53,223
To help us get into the mood,
I did a Tuinal...
1159
01:19:53,433 --> 01:19:55,060
... then she did one...
1160
01:19:55,268 --> 01:19:59,398
... and Vince, he did two,
because he was always doing two.
1161
01:20:00,273 --> 01:20:04,232
We got into the second of the
three bottles of Mo�t we'd ordered.
1162
01:20:04,444 --> 01:20:09,609
We thought it would be better to keep
the action to neutral territory.
1163
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:14,485
God...
1164
01:20:14,788 --> 01:20:16,483
... she was beautiful.
1165
01:20:19,159 --> 01:20:21,389
I chain-locked the front door
to the living room...
1166
01:20:21,595 --> 01:20:25,122
... to make sure that housekeeping,
eager to turn down our beds...
1167
01:20:25,332 --> 01:20:27,892
... didn't walk in on an employee
having a m�nage � trois...
1168
01:20:28,101 --> 01:20:30,194
... with the hotel's headliners.
1169
01:20:30,404 --> 01:20:33,237
Then I went to chain-lock
the door to Vince's room.
1170
01:20:33,440 --> 01:20:36,773
I took a quick shower,
I put on my robe...
1171
01:20:36,977 --> 01:20:41,209
... and brought a robe for Maureen,
in case she felt a little bashful.
1172
01:20:44,818 --> 01:20:47,116
So much for bashful.
1173
01:20:47,821 --> 01:20:50,949
I threw the robe on the bed
and moved into the room...
1174
01:20:51,158 --> 01:20:54,150
... half-worried that they would
finish without me.
1175
01:21:15,015 --> 01:21:17,381
Watch it there, compadre.
1176
01:21:18,185 --> 01:21:20,949
It's a little hard to tell who's who,
under the circumstances.
1177
01:21:21,154 --> 01:21:24,555
I'm the one that's more than
a little hard, you dumb fucking limey.
1178
01:21:25,025 --> 01:21:28,791
Well, I'm... I'm the one with a foreskin.
Don't you forget that.
1179
01:21:32,366 --> 01:21:34,266
Watch it. You got the end zone
there, Vince.
1180
01:21:34,468 --> 01:21:37,460
- Come on, come on. Fuck.
- You're gonna like it.
1181
01:21:37,671 --> 01:21:39,764
It's like from another planet
when you come.
1182
01:21:39,973 --> 01:21:41,770
- Get the fuck off me.
- I'd never hurt you.
1183
01:21:41,975 --> 01:21:43,806
- I'd never hurt you.
- Get the fuck off me!
1184
01:21:44,011 --> 01:21:47,242
- No, trust me. It's like double the sex...
- Get the fuck off me!
1185
01:21:47,447 --> 01:21:49,938
We don't fuck, Vince!
1186
01:21:50,550 --> 01:21:53,678
We're buddies, we're pals,
we're partners, we're a duo.
1187
01:21:53,887 --> 01:21:57,118
We love each other,
but we don't fuck!
1188
01:21:57,958 --> 01:22:00,188
We're fucking stars!
1189
01:22:00,394 --> 01:22:01,793
- We can travel together.
- Okay.
1190
01:22:01,995 --> 01:22:06,796
We can hang out together, we can live
together, but we can't be queers!
1191
01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:09,992
It's not funny!
1192
01:22:32,859 --> 01:22:34,986
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
1193
01:22:35,195 --> 01:22:36,662
About?
1194
01:22:38,865 --> 01:22:40,890
About your nose.
1195
01:22:43,303 --> 01:22:45,271
It's not broken, is it?
1196
01:22:47,908 --> 01:22:49,398
It's how I am.
1197
01:22:49,609 --> 01:22:53,340
Guess the question is,
who's gonna pay me?
1198
01:22:53,547 --> 01:22:55,674
This surprised me.
1199
01:22:55,882 --> 01:22:58,282
The girl was not a hooker.
1200
01:23:08,728 --> 01:23:11,458
My wallet was on top of my robe.
1201
01:23:11,932 --> 01:23:13,923
I took out some money.
1202
01:23:14,334 --> 01:23:16,495
I don't remember how much.
1203
01:23:33,119 --> 01:23:34,552
I don't think so.
1204
01:23:35,856 --> 01:23:38,484
That's more than you would
make in a month of tips.
1205
01:23:38,692 --> 01:23:40,990
I'm not looking for a tip.
1206
01:23:42,062 --> 01:23:43,689
What the hell are you saying?
1207
01:23:43,897 --> 01:23:46,263
Honey, I'm in my last year
of college.
1208
01:23:46,466 --> 01:23:49,162
This is a summer job.
1209
01:23:52,305 --> 01:23:54,273
I wanna write.
1210
01:23:54,474 --> 01:23:57,034
I wanna be a journalist.
1211
01:24:01,481 --> 01:24:04,575
So I could either
use this information...
1212
01:24:05,752 --> 01:24:07,310
...or I could use a lot of money.
1213
01:24:09,689 --> 01:24:12,487
I promise you
this will only cost you once.
1214
01:24:15,695 --> 01:24:18,994
I'm so tired, I don't even think
I'm going home.
1215
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:21,661
I think it's the Tuinals.
1216
01:24:24,037 --> 01:24:27,234
Hey, Lanny, don't take it personally.
1217
01:24:27,440 --> 01:24:29,806
You were a great lover.
1218
01:24:30,010 --> 01:24:33,446
You have got the cutest little butt.
1219
01:24:38,018 --> 01:24:40,714
I guess Vince thinks so too.
1220
01:24:45,725 --> 01:24:47,590
Night, Lanny.
1221
01:24:49,629 --> 01:24:53,121
I would never see her alive again.
1222
01:24:55,602 --> 01:24:57,934
I put a "Do Not Disturb" sign
on my door...
1223
01:24:58,138 --> 01:25:01,335
... fastened the chain lock,
in case the maid didn't read.
1224
01:25:01,541 --> 01:25:03,475
I left a wake-up call for 8...
1225
01:25:03,677 --> 01:25:06,111
... and went to sleep
knowing that a telethon...
1226
01:25:06,313 --> 01:25:10,306
... was the least of the ordeals I was
going to have to face in the morning.
1227
01:25:15,355 --> 01:25:17,152
The Tuinals had really
conked me out...
1228
01:25:17,357 --> 01:25:20,485
... and I slept through
my wake-up call that morning.
1229
01:25:20,694 --> 01:25:22,821
The operator had called Reuben
down the hall...
1230
01:25:23,029 --> 01:25:24,724
... to see if he could wake me...
1231
01:25:24,931 --> 01:25:28,128
... but he couldn't get in because
we had chain-locked all the doors.
1232
01:25:29,269 --> 01:25:31,032
Reuben!
1233
01:25:31,238 --> 01:25:34,105
I yelled for Reuben to wake up Vince
while I worked on Maureen...
1234
01:25:34,307 --> 01:25:38,107
... trying to make myself believe
that she was still sleeping.
1235
01:25:40,780 --> 01:25:42,213
Fuck.
1236
01:25:42,649 --> 01:25:44,276
No, no. Fuck.
1237
01:25:44,484 --> 01:25:47,976
The autopsy revealed the drugs
and alcohol in her body...
1238
01:25:48,188 --> 01:25:50,884
... but I knew
it wasn't enough to kill her.
1239
01:25:55,095 --> 01:25:56,858
All three doors to the suite...
1240
01:25:57,063 --> 01:26:00,624
... were chain-locked from the inside
when I found her.
1241
01:26:01,201 --> 01:26:02,498
I hadn't touched her.
1242
01:26:02,702 --> 01:26:08,800
That's how I know that my former
partner and friend, Vince Collins...
1243
01:26:09,009 --> 01:26:12,240
... murdered Maureen O'Flaherty.
1244
01:26:16,249 --> 01:26:19,446
You must have guessed by now
that Vince and I had found a way...
1245
01:26:19,653 --> 01:26:22,645
... to relocate Maureen's body
to New Jersey.
1246
01:26:22,856 --> 01:26:26,383
This is the one criminal act
the both of us committed...
1247
01:26:26,593 --> 01:26:31,155
... but we were in a panic and
needed to create an ironclad alibi.
1248
01:26:31,364 --> 01:26:33,855
The crates were delivered
to our room.
1249
01:26:34,067 --> 01:26:36,763
The publicist had opened the crates
for a photo op.
1250
01:26:36,970 --> 01:26:38,494
But the official story became...
1251
01:26:38,705 --> 01:26:41,367
... that she found Maureen's
overdosed body in the tub.
1252
01:26:41,574 --> 01:26:45,567
A police officer called Scaglia
was there to witness the whole thing.
1253
01:26:45,779 --> 01:26:47,804
Live, until they drop dead...
1254
01:26:48,014 --> 01:26:49,379
During the telethon...
1255
01:26:49,582 --> 01:26:53,609
... I kept telling myself that I could
forgive Vince for two reasons.
1256
01:26:53,820 --> 01:26:56,721
First of all, I don't think he could
have known what he was doing.
1257
01:26:56,923 --> 01:27:00,256
He was completely out of it,
even more than usual.
1258
01:27:00,460 --> 01:27:02,325
The second is that he was terrified...
1259
01:27:02,529 --> 01:27:05,657
... that this incident would become
public knowledge.
1260
01:27:05,865 --> 01:27:09,528
In those days, the slightest hint
that he could swing both ways...
1261
01:27:09,736 --> 01:27:13,297
... would destroy his
show-business career in an instant.
1262
01:27:14,174 --> 01:27:17,075
As it was, it was only to destroy us.
1263
01:27:17,677 --> 01:27:19,736
We completed the telethon...
1264
01:27:19,946 --> 01:27:22,540
... but we both knew
we were finished.
1265
01:27:23,316 --> 01:27:24,749
The marriage...
1266
01:27:25,218 --> 01:27:26,947
... was over.
1267
01:27:28,421 --> 01:27:31,151
There was a moment
in the middle of the telethon...
1268
01:27:31,357 --> 01:27:33,951
... where I actually broke down.
1269
01:27:34,160 --> 01:27:37,323
I just couldn't control myself.
1270
01:27:37,530 --> 01:27:40,021
I remember I mumbled something...
1271
01:27:40,233 --> 01:27:44,727
... to a little girl who was recounting
her experiences with the disease.
1272
01:27:45,338 --> 01:27:47,772
I don't remember what I said...
1273
01:27:48,241 --> 01:27:51,074
... but I do remember
feeling worthless.
1274
01:27:52,746 --> 01:27:55,510
Everyone thought that my tears
were for her.
1275
01:27:55,882 --> 01:27:59,215
It made for a great picture
in the papers the next day.
1276
01:28:01,554 --> 01:28:03,419
Mr. Morris will see you now.
1277
01:28:27,847 --> 01:28:31,010
I expected to see you
at Vince's funeral.
1278
01:28:32,419 --> 01:28:36,685
Kind of heartless of you not to
show up, don't you think, Karen?
1279
01:28:37,624 --> 01:28:40,252
Considering you're probably
the one that...
1280
01:28:41,828 --> 01:28:43,693
...drove him to it.
1281
01:28:45,265 --> 01:28:46,857
I won't answer that.
1282
01:28:49,502 --> 01:28:51,231
So don't.
1283
01:28:51,571 --> 01:28:53,402
So get the fuck out of my office.
1284
01:28:54,107 --> 01:28:58,840
Lanny, I have interview material with
Vince up until the moment he met you.
1285
01:28:59,045 --> 01:29:01,206
It would be great if this...
1286
01:29:01,548 --> 01:29:04,108
...warm, funny side of Vince
could reach the public.
1287
01:29:04,317 --> 01:29:07,878
And what the fuck do you know
about Vince's warm and funny side?
1288
01:29:10,256 --> 01:29:12,781
What about the warm and funny fact
that he killed himself?
1289
01:29:13,226 --> 01:29:16,457
- Why would he do that?
- I don't know.
1290
01:29:18,097 --> 01:29:20,327
That's the answer I'm giving you...
1291
01:29:20,533 --> 01:29:22,626
...and anyone else that asks.
1292
01:29:23,336 --> 01:29:25,896
- "I don't know."
- But you do know, don't you, Lanny?
1293
01:29:26,105 --> 01:29:28,164
Whatever I know, sweetheart...
1294
01:29:28,374 --> 01:29:29,671
...I�m writing in my book.
1295
01:29:30,777 --> 01:29:34,110
Except you're never
going to finish your book.
1296
01:29:34,547 --> 01:29:36,139
You don't have to.
1297
01:29:37,217 --> 01:29:39,185
The person who needed
your book is dead.
1298
01:29:40,854 --> 01:29:42,822
You always wrote the material
for your shows.
1299
01:29:43,022 --> 01:29:44,853
Every single word was rehearsed.
1300
01:29:45,058 --> 01:29:47,526
The book was a manual,
a set of notes...
1301
01:29:47,727 --> 01:29:50,560
...so Vince would get
every detail of the official story.
1302
01:29:51,731 --> 01:29:54,359
"A couple of extra babes for him
to sleep with that night.
1303
01:29:54,567 --> 01:29:56,535
A few of them on hand.
1304
01:29:56,736 --> 01:29:59,500
Well, not exactly on his hand.
That wasn't his preference."
1305
01:30:01,174 --> 01:30:04,234
- So, what's your point?
- He quoted that very line to me.
1306
01:30:04,444 --> 01:30:08,642
Quoted it from your manuscript as if
he were saying it for the first time.
1307
01:30:10,850 --> 01:30:13,216
You wrote it because you loved him.
1308
01:30:17,123 --> 01:30:19,250
And feared for him.
1309
01:30:22,095 --> 01:30:23,687
And feared for yourself.
1310
01:30:28,601 --> 01:30:30,535
And then you wrote this:
1311
01:30:36,109 --> 01:30:37,576
Where the fuck did you get that?
1312
01:30:37,777 --> 01:30:40,302
- Delivered to my room.
- Bullshit. You stole it.
1313
01:30:40,513 --> 01:30:44,813
Maureen O'Flaherty was killed
in the Versailles Hotel, in your room...
1314
01:30:45,018 --> 01:30:47,578
...the night before the telethon.
1315
01:30:49,989 --> 01:30:52,355
The night before we met.
1316
01:30:58,831 --> 01:31:00,924
Get out of my office.
1317
01:31:49,415 --> 01:31:51,212
Miss Trout?
1318
01:31:52,352 --> 01:31:55,412
We walked through the deserted
backlot of the studio...
1319
01:31:55,622 --> 01:31:59,888
... and I confessed
that I wasn't Bonnie Trout.
1320
01:32:00,093 --> 01:32:02,186
That I was writing a book
about Vince Collins.
1321
01:32:02,395 --> 01:32:04,522
And that I was trying
to uncover the secret...
1322
01:32:04,731 --> 01:32:07,063
... behind what happened
to Maureen O'Flaherty.
1323
01:32:07,533 --> 01:32:10,024
I told him what I found out.
1324
01:32:10,236 --> 01:32:11,863
He prayed that he would
be forgiven...
1325
01:32:12,071 --> 01:32:14,369
... for having been there
as the murder was concealed.
1326
01:32:14,574 --> 01:32:16,269
Miss O'Connor...
1327
01:32:16,576 --> 01:32:20,535
...I have a tape recording of
the night Miss O'Flaherty was killed.
1328
01:32:21,180 --> 01:32:24,343
She had brought a machine.
1329
01:32:26,486 --> 01:32:28,477
- For the interview.
- Yes.
1330
01:32:28,688 --> 01:32:31,782
I found it as I was
getting rid of her things.
1331
01:32:33,526 --> 01:32:36,188
She kept it on?
1332
01:32:37,997 --> 01:32:40,989
Could you use this tape
for your book?
1333
01:32:45,171 --> 01:32:46,798
Of course.
1334
01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:49,101
Miss O'Connor...
1335
01:32:50,043 --> 01:32:51,874
...is it something?
1336
01:32:53,179 --> 01:32:54,578
Oh, my.
1337
01:32:54,781 --> 01:32:56,806
Is it something I could sell?
1338
01:32:57,850 --> 01:33:00,944
Reuben, I can't speak
on behalf of my publishers...
1339
01:33:01,154 --> 01:33:03,714
...but I'm sure that we can
settle on a price.
1340
01:33:03,923 --> 01:33:06,289
Oh, thank you, Miss O'Connor.
1341
01:33:10,063 --> 01:33:12,623
I'll even spice it up a little,
talk about how...
1342
01:33:12,832 --> 01:33:15,858
... the night before the telethon,
I wanted to sleep like a babe.
1343
01:33:16,069 --> 01:33:18,799
So to cover my bets,
I kept a few babes on hand.
1344
01:33:19,372 --> 01:33:21,203
Well, not exactly on my hand.
1345
01:33:21,407 --> 01:33:24,706
That's not my preference,
as you may have gathered by now.
1346
01:33:26,846 --> 01:33:28,575
I need the money.
1347
01:33:30,483 --> 01:33:33,179
Did you have a figure in mind?
1348
01:33:35,288 --> 01:33:38,416
Would you think a million dollars
would be too much?
1349
01:33:39,358 --> 01:33:43,226
Vince was being paid
a million dollars for his life.
1350
01:33:43,429 --> 01:33:44,726
This is one night.
1351
01:33:45,698 --> 01:33:47,723
The most important night.
1352
01:33:49,168 --> 01:33:51,159
You could have left me a note
or called me.
1353
01:33:51,370 --> 01:33:54,066
- I did leave you a note.
- Where?
1354
01:34:03,816 --> 01:34:06,080
Lanny left this for me
at my apartment.
1355
01:34:07,186 --> 01:34:09,848
It's his version
of what happened that night.
1356
01:34:11,190 --> 01:34:14,921
On its own,
it's absolutely useless to me.
1357
01:34:15,128 --> 01:34:17,494
I could have typed it myself.
1358
01:34:20,900 --> 01:34:25,428
But if it matched
what's recorded on your tape...
1359
01:34:28,241 --> 01:34:29,970
...it would make it priceless.
1360
01:34:34,914 --> 01:34:36,814
Which is why you sent it to me.
1361
01:34:39,752 --> 01:34:42,880
You just said
Mr. Morris left it at your apartment.
1362
01:34:43,089 --> 01:34:45,523
He was surprised I had it.
1363
01:34:47,693 --> 01:34:51,220
Like he was surprised I hadn't found
the note he left for me at the hotel.
1364
01:34:51,430 --> 01:34:54,160
The note you must've disposed of
as you were tidying the room.
1365
01:34:54,367 --> 01:34:56,494
I told you how he deals with women.
I was afraid.
1366
01:34:56,702 --> 01:34:58,465
Really afraid of what
he might do to you.
1367
01:34:58,671 --> 01:35:00,798
Maybe you were afraid of what I'd...
1368
01:35:01,007 --> 01:35:03,498
I'd do to him. And to you.
1369
01:35:03,709 --> 01:35:07,611
Why would I be afraid of
a schoolteacher called Bonnie Trout?
1370
01:35:07,814 --> 01:35:10,374
Because you knew I was
Karen O'Connor.
1371
01:35:10,583 --> 01:35:13,313
When I woke up,
you folded my clothes...
1372
01:35:13,519 --> 01:35:15,419
...and placed my pocketbook
on the bed.
1373
01:35:15,621 --> 01:35:19,614
The pocketbook that had my name
and the letter from my publisher.
1374
01:35:21,327 --> 01:35:24,626
I was writing about the one thing
you wanted to have total control over:
1375
01:35:24,830 --> 01:35:26,821
Collins and Morris.
1376
01:35:28,334 --> 01:35:32,430
You made me abandon any thought
of trying to contact Lanny.
1377
01:35:33,039 --> 01:35:35,439
You made me feel like I was
less than nothing to him...
1378
01:35:35,641 --> 01:35:37,802
...because you were playing
your own complex game.
1379
01:35:38,010 --> 01:35:43,710
And what exactly was this complex
game I was playing, Miss O'Connor?
1380
01:36:02,335 --> 01:36:03,996
You were in the room.
1381
01:36:05,338 --> 01:36:07,067
That night.
1382
01:36:07,807 --> 01:36:10,503
Lanny had a robe.
He dropped it on the bed.
1383
01:36:10,710 --> 01:36:13,304
After Maureen asked for money...
1384
01:36:13,512 --> 01:36:15,480
...the wallet was on top.
It had been folded.
1385
01:36:15,681 --> 01:36:19,173
Well, I always, always arranged
Mr. Morris' things.
1386
01:36:19,385 --> 01:36:22,650
After he went to bed.
You were there before.
1387
01:36:22,855 --> 01:36:26,052
How would I get out?
All three doors were chain-locked.
1388
01:36:44,377 --> 01:36:46,572
Through Vince's room.
1389
01:36:48,014 --> 01:36:49,572
Then, the next morning...
1390
01:36:49,782 --> 01:36:53,081
... you must have chain-locked the
door before you went to wake him up.
1391
01:36:57,189 --> 01:36:59,316
Fuck!
1392
01:37:02,395 --> 01:37:04,795
Lanny let me read the first chapter.
1393
01:37:04,997 --> 01:37:07,329
Vince sent me the second.
1394
01:37:09,936 --> 01:37:11,801
And you stole this.
1395
01:37:12,004 --> 01:37:13,403
To whet my appetite.
1396
01:37:37,930 --> 01:37:39,659
I wanna write.
1397
01:37:39,865 --> 01:37:41,765
I wanna be a journalist.
1398
01:37:42,401 --> 01:37:45,461
So I could either
use this information...
1399
01:37:46,305 --> 01:37:48,296
... or I could use a lot of money.
1400
01:37:48,507 --> 01:37:50,873
Is that why you killed her?
1401
01:37:52,144 --> 01:37:53,406
To protect them?
1402
01:38:00,753 --> 01:38:04,621
For 15 years...
1403
01:38:04,824 --> 01:38:07,884
... he tormented Vince and Lanny.
1404
01:38:11,464 --> 01:38:15,161
He could never blackmail Vince
while Sally Sanmarco was alive...
1405
01:38:16,068 --> 01:38:20,437
... so he waited until Sally died
to activate his retirement plan:
1406
01:38:23,042 --> 01:38:26,102
A million dollars from Vince.
1407
01:38:26,879 --> 01:38:31,213
A million dollars for the same tape
he offered to me.
1408
01:38:36,122 --> 01:38:39,990
He would never get his money,
and I would never see him again.
1409
01:38:46,031 --> 01:38:48,659
He had taken her life...
1410
01:38:48,868 --> 01:38:51,632
... and with it her mother's heart...
1411
01:38:52,304 --> 01:38:54,602
... and her father's mind.
1412
01:38:56,242 --> 01:38:57,732
And now...
1413
01:38:57,943 --> 01:39:01,174
... all that remained
of Maureen O'Flaherty...
1414
01:39:01,380 --> 01:39:05,407
... was a tree
in her mother's garden.
1415
01:39:20,166 --> 01:39:23,397
Your daughter learned something
about Vince Collins...
1416
01:39:23,602 --> 01:39:26,230
...that he didn't want anyone to know.
1417
01:39:26,505 --> 01:39:28,200
Because of that...
1418
01:39:28,407 --> 01:39:29,965
...she was killed.
1419
01:39:30,176 --> 01:39:33,339
If it's of any small comfort,
she probably didn't suffer.
1420
01:39:33,946 --> 01:39:37,541
I want people
to know about this man.
1421
01:39:38,150 --> 01:39:40,948
I want them to know
why he killed her.
1422
01:39:46,292 --> 01:39:48,453
There is someone in all this...
1423
01:39:48,661 --> 01:39:50,754
...who is totally innocent
of any involvement...
1424
01:39:50,963 --> 01:39:52,863
...in the events of that night...
1425
01:39:53,065 --> 01:39:57,900
...but whose life will be made infinitely
worse if I tell the truth at this time.
1426
01:39:58,938 --> 01:40:02,465
I wanna protect this person
from any further pain.
1427
01:40:05,511 --> 01:40:07,479
I promise you...
1428
01:40:08,047 --> 01:40:11,539
I promise you I will write down
the truth that I've learned...
1429
01:40:11,750 --> 01:40:14,742
...but I have to let matters lie
until this person has died...
1430
01:40:14,954 --> 01:40:17,149
...and the truth
can no longer touch them.
1431
01:40:22,361 --> 01:40:25,455
I saw no indication on her face...
1432
01:40:25,664 --> 01:40:28,224
... that she knew
I was talking about her.
1433
01:41:02,001 --> 01:41:04,595
You're a very special girl.
1434
01:41:12,745 --> 01:41:15,213
Forgive me.
1435
01:43:15,214 --> 01:43:18,014
Ripped by:
SkyFury