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<i>This is so cute!</i>

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<i>Bye.</i>

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<i>As the Mets, who trailed 2-0...</i>

4
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<i>have stormed in front 4-2 and
look to do some more damage...</i>

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<i>against the Cincinnati Reds
here at Shea Stadium.</i>

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<i>Now the 0-1 pitch,
and he smokes it deep to left field.!</i>

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<i>This one will make it to the wall,
and it's one hop off the fence.!</i>

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<i>I'm gonna tell you why
they're not goin' anywhere.</i>

9
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<i>Why aren't they
goin' anywhere, Tommy?</i>

10
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- Management.
- Oh, Jesus.!

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Those guys are walkin' around
with their heads up their asses.

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- Right. Yeah.
- Well, ya know, they made some good trades too.

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Carter and Hernandez. Without them two,
there never would've been a World Series.

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- Am I right, Jerry?
- That was four years ago! That's it.

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- I am talkin' about now. Look who they got rid of.
- Yeah.

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- McDowell, Mitchell, Backman, Aguilera, Dykstra.
- Aguilera!

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Mookie. Mookie! Mookie!
Mookie Wilson, for Christ's sake!

18
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Oh, please, please.
Don't forget Nolan Ryan.

19
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Yeah, don't forget Amos Otis.

20
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Amos Otis!

21
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The team was good.

22
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The best fuckin' team in baseball,
and they had to go screw it up.

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Hey, yeah, Auggie.
How's it goin'?

24
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Hey, man. Good to see ya.

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- What can I do for you today?
- Two tins of Schimmelpennincks...

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and, uh, throw in a lighter
while you're at it.

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The boys and me were just
having a philosophical discussion...

28
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about women and cigars.

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Yeah, well, I suppose that all
goes back to Queen Elizabeth.

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- The queen of England?
- Yeah, not Elizabeth the Second.

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Elizabeth the First.
Did you ever hear of Sir Walter Raleigh?

32
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Yeah, sure. That's the guy who
threw his cloak down over that puddle.

33
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Uh, uh, I used to smoke
Raleigh cigarettes.

34
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Yeah, they came with
a free gift coupon in every pack.

35
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That's the man. Well, Raleigh was the
person who introduced tobacco in England.

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And since he was a,
a favorite of the queen's...

37
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Queen Bessy he used to call her...

38
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smoking caught on
as a fashion in court.

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I'm sure old, old Bess must've shared
a stogie or two with Sir Walter.

40
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Once... he made a bet with her...

41
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that he could measure
the weight of smoke.

42
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You mean, weigh smoke?

43
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Exactly. Weigh smoke.

44
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Can't do that.
That's like weighin' air.

45
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I admit, it's strange. It's almost
like weighing someone's soul...

46
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but Sir Walter was a clever guy.

47
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First he took
an unsmoked cigar...

48
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and he put it on a balance
and weighed it.

49
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Then he lit up.

50
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He smoked the cigar, carefully
tapping the ashes into the balance pan.

51
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When he was finished, he put the butt
into the pan along with the ashes...

52
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and weighed what was there.

53
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Then he subtracted
that number...

54
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from the original weight
of the unsmoked cigar.

55
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The difference...

56
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was the weight of the smoke.

57
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He's a writer.
Lives in the neighborhood.

58
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Well, what kind of writer is he?
An underwriter?

59
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Very funny.

60
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The cracks you make, Tommy.

61
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Sometimes I think
you should see a doctor.

62
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You know, go in for some
wit therapy or something.

63
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- Oh-ho.
- To clean out the valves in your brain.

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It's just a joke, Auggie.

65
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He's a novelist.

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Paul Benjamin.
Ever hear of him?

67
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That's a stupid question.

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The only things you guys ever
read are the racing forms...

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and the sports page
of the Post.

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He's published
three or four books.

71
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But nothing now
for the past few years.

72
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Well, what's the matter?
He run outta ideas or somethin'?

73
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He ran outta luck.

74
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Remember the holdup out here
on Seventh Avenue a few years back?

75
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- Yeah. Oh, yeah.
- You mean the bank, right?

76
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- They were sprayin' bullets all over the street.
- Yeah, that's it.

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- Four people got killed, and one of them was Paul's wife.
- Oh, man.

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The poor lug.
He's never been the same since.

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The funny thing was, she stopped
in here just before it happened...

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to stock up
on cigars for him.

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She was a nice lady, Ellen. Four
or five months pregnant at the time.

82
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Which means that when she got
killed, the baby got killed too.

83
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- Wow.
- Hey. It was a bad day at Black Rock, eh, Auggie?

84
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It was bad, all right.

85
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You know, sometimes I think that if she
hadn't given me exact change that day...

86
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or if the store had been
a little more crowded...

87
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then maybe it would've taken a few
more seconds to get outta here...

88
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and she wouldn't have stepped
in front of that bullet.

89
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She'd still be alive,
the baby would've been born.

90
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Hey! What are you
doin' there, kid?

91
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Cut it out, you...

92
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Hey.!

93
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You better watch out, man!
You'll get yourself killed like that!

94
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It's a law of the universe.

95
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Please, you have to let me
do something for you...

96
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to put the scales...
in balance.

97
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It's okay.

98
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- I think of something, I'll send my butler over to tell you about it.
- Please!

99
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Let me at least
buy you a cup of coffee.

100
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I don't drink coffee.

101
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Lo... On the other hand...

102
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since you insist...

103
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if you offered me a cold lemonade,
I wouldn't say no.

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Good.

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My name is Paul.

106
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I'm Rashid. Rashid Cole.

107
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Listen, if someone was
to offer you a place to stay...

108
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you wouldn't necessarily refuse,
would you?

109
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People don't do that kind of thing,
not in New York.

110
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I'm not people, I'm just me, and I do
whatever I goddamn wanna do. Got it?

111
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Um, thanks. I'll manage.

112
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In case you're wondering,
I like women, not little boys.

113
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And I'm not offering you
a long-term lease.

114
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I'm just...

115
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offering you a place to crash
for a couple of nights.

116
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I can take care of myself.
Don't worry.

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Suit yourself.

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But in case you change
your mind, uh...

119
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Miss? Uh, uh, Sue?

120
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Do you happen to have a pen
I can borrow, if...

121
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I need it back.

122
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Yeah. In case
you change your mind...

123
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here's my address.

124
00:09:06,979 --> 00:09:09,072
You never take anything
serious, do you?

125
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I try not to, anyway.

126
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It's better for your health.
I mean, look at you, Vincent.

127
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You're the guy with the wife and the three
kids and the ranch house on Long Island.

128
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You're the guy with the...
with the white shoes...

129
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and the white Caddy
and the white shag carpet...

130
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but you've had two heart attacks,
and I'm still waitin' for my first.

131
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I should stop smoking these
is what I should do.

132
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Fuckers are gonna kill me
one of these days.

133
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- Enjoy yourself while you can, Vin.
- Yeah.

134
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They're gonna legislate us
outta business pretty soon anyway.

135
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Yeah. Pretty soon,
they catch you smoking tobacco...

136
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they'll line you up against a wall
and shoot you.

137
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Yeah. Tobacco today,
sex tomorrow.

138
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Three or four years, it'll probably be
against the law to smile at strangers.

139
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Speaking of which, uh...

140
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you still goin' ahead with that
deal on the Monte Cristos?

141
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It's all set. My guy in Miami said he'd
have 'em for me in the next few weeks.

142
00:10:01,601 --> 00:10:03,694
You sure you don't
wanna go in with me?

143
00:10:03,769 --> 00:10:07,762
Five thousand dollars' outlay,
a guaranteed ten thousand-dollar return.

144
00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,899
A consortium of Court Street
lawyers and judges.

145
00:10:09,976 --> 00:10:13,969
They're just droolin' to get their lips
around some Cuban cigars.

146
00:10:14,046 --> 00:10:17,072
Look, I don't care what you do,
just don't get caught, huh?

147
00:10:17,149 --> 00:10:21,245
Last thing I heard, it's still illegal
to sell Cuban cigars in this country.

148
00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:25,723
It's the law that's buying.
That's the beautiful thing about it.

149
00:10:25,791 --> 00:10:30,194
I mean, when's the last time you heard
of a judge sending himself to jail?

150
00:10:30,262 --> 00:10:33,231
Suit yourself. Just don't
keep the boxes here too long.

151
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They come, they go out.
I got it planned to the last detail.

152
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I gotta get goin'.
Terry'll bust my chops if I'm late.

153
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- I'll see you in September, Auggie.
- Okay, my man.

154
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- Are you closed?
- Run outta Schimmelpennincks?

155
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Yeah. Suppose I could buy
a couple off you before you leave?

156
00:11:02,895 --> 00:11:04,954
No problem.

157
00:11:05,031 --> 00:11:07,966
It's not as though I'm rushing off
to the opera or anything.

158
00:11:30,790 --> 00:11:32,815
Looks like someone
forgot a camera.

159
00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:36,853
Yeah. I did.

160
00:11:39,298 --> 00:11:41,630
- That's yours?
- It's mine, all right.

161
00:11:42,902 --> 00:11:45,462
I've owned that little sucker
for a long time.

162
00:11:51,811 --> 00:11:53,836
I didn't know
you took pictures.

163
00:11:55,247 --> 00:11:57,374
I guess you could
call it a hobby.

164
00:11:59,051 --> 00:12:03,454
Only takes me five minutes a day
to do it, but I do it every day.

165
00:12:03,522 --> 00:12:06,355
Rain or shine,
sleet or snow.

166
00:12:06,425 --> 00:12:09,758
Sorta like the postman.

167
00:12:09,829 --> 00:12:13,287
So you're not just some guy
who pushes coins across a counter.

168
00:12:14,900 --> 00:12:17,164
Well, that's what
people see, but...

169
00:12:18,504 --> 00:12:20,870
that ain't necessarily
what I am.

170
00:12:40,793 --> 00:12:42,727
They're all the same.

171
00:12:42,795 --> 00:12:46,731
That's right. More than
4,000 pictures of the same place.

172
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The corner of Third Street and
Seventh Avenue at 8:00 in the morning.

173
00:12:50,569 --> 00:12:53,504
Four thousand straight days
in all kinds of weather.

174
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- That's why I can never
take a vacation.

175
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I gotta be in my spot
every morning at the same time.

176
00:13:00,546 --> 00:13:03,674
Every morning in the same spot
at the same time.

177
00:13:03,749 --> 00:13:05,717
I've never seen
anything like this.

178
00:13:09,522 --> 00:13:11,456
It's my project.

179
00:13:11,524 --> 00:13:14,322
What you'd call...
my life's work.

180
00:13:17,429 --> 00:13:19,659
Amazing.

181
00:13:19,732 --> 00:13:22,758
- I'm not sure I get it, though. I mean, uh...
- What?

182
00:13:25,437 --> 00:13:30,374
What was it that gave you
the idea to do this... project?

183
00:13:30,442 --> 00:13:32,876
I don't know.

184
00:13:32,945 --> 00:13:36,813
Just came to me.
It's my corner, after all.

185
00:13:38,984 --> 00:13:41,316
I mean, it's just one
little part of the world...

186
00:13:41,387 --> 00:13:45,380
but things take place there, too,
just like everywhere else.

187
00:13:46,926 --> 00:13:48,917
It's a record of my little spot.

188
00:13:52,932 --> 00:13:54,957
It's kind of overwhelming.

189
00:14:10,583 --> 00:14:13,518
You'll never get it
if you don't slow down, my friend.

190
00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,554
What do you mean?

191
00:14:17,623 --> 00:14:21,582
I mean, you're goin' too fast. You're
hardly even lookin' at the pictures.

192
00:14:22,995 --> 00:14:24,929
But...

193
00:14:27,566 --> 00:14:30,296
they're all the same.

194
00:14:30,369 --> 00:14:34,169
They're all the same, but each one
is different from every other one.

195
00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:37,141
You got your bright mornings
and your dark mornings.

196
00:14:37,209 --> 00:14:39,769
You got your summer light
and your autumn light.

197
00:14:39,845 --> 00:14:42,905
You got your weekdays
and your weekends.

198
00:14:42,982 --> 00:14:45,348
You got your people
in overcoats and galoshes...

199
00:14:45,417 --> 00:14:48,352
and you got your people
in T-shirts and shorts.

200
00:14:49,722 --> 00:14:52,691
Sometimes the same people,
sometimes different ones.

201
00:14:54,193 --> 00:14:56,661
Sometimes the different ones
become the same...

202
00:14:56,729 --> 00:14:58,788
and the same ones disappear.

203
00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:02,961
The Earth revolves around
the sun, and every day...

204
00:15:03,035 --> 00:15:06,163
the light from the sun hits the Earth
at a different angle.

205
00:15:15,814 --> 00:15:17,782
Slow down, huh?

206
00:15:20,085 --> 00:15:22,019
That's what I'd recommend.

207
00:15:22,087 --> 00:15:26,046
You know how it is.
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow...

208
00:15:26,125 --> 00:15:28,116
time creeps on its petty pace."

209
00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:30,812
Oh, Jesus.

210
00:16:33,726 --> 00:16:35,660
Look.

211
00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:42,526
It's Ellen.

212
00:16:42,601 --> 00:16:45,331
Yeah. That's her, all right.

213
00:16:45,404 --> 00:16:48,100
She's in quite a few
from that year.

214
00:16:49,375 --> 00:16:51,843
Must've been
on her way to work.

215
00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:53,878
Huh, it's Ellen.

216
00:16:59,318 --> 00:17:01,252
Look at her.

217
00:17:05,624 --> 00:17:07,649
Look at my sweet darling.

218
00:18:29,475 --> 00:18:31,409
Shit!

219
00:18:38,784 --> 00:18:40,911
- Who is it?
- Rashid.

220
00:18:40,986 --> 00:18:43,784
- Who?
- Rashid Cole.

221
00:18:43,856 --> 00:18:45,824
The lemonade kid, remember?

222
00:18:45,891 --> 00:18:49,622
Oh. Yeah. Come on up.

223
00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,804
Come on in.

224
00:19:04,977 --> 00:19:07,810
I didn't expect
to see you again.

225
00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:09,814
Same here.

226
00:19:13,051 --> 00:19:17,385
But, uh, I had a long talk with my
accountant this afternoon, ya know...

227
00:19:17,456 --> 00:19:21,825
to see how a move like this would affect my
tax picture, and he said it would be okay.

228
00:19:39,745 --> 00:19:41,679
Time to wake up.

229
00:19:46,218 --> 00:19:48,152
Rashid.

230
00:19:51,056 --> 00:19:53,251
Up and at 'em, huh?
I gotta work.

231
00:19:53,325 --> 00:19:55,384
Slumber party's over.

232
00:19:55,460 --> 00:19:57,485
What time is it?

233
00:19:57,563 --> 00:19:59,690
It's 8:30.

234
00:19:59,765 --> 00:20:03,929
- It's 8:30?
- You'll find juice and eggs and milk in the refrigerator.

235
00:20:04,002 --> 00:20:06,095
Cereal's in the cupboard.
Coffee's hot.

236
00:20:06,171 --> 00:20:09,163
- Take what you want, but I gotta get to work.
- All right.

237
00:20:09,241 --> 00:20:11,175
- Okay?
- Yeah.

238
00:20:59,057 --> 00:21:01,582
Man, you make a lot of noise.
Can't you see I'm trying to work?

239
00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:03,958
Sorry. They just slipped
outta my hands.

240
00:21:04,029 --> 00:21:07,021
A little less clumsiness
would be nice, don't ya think?

241
00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:12,766
- How long have you been staying here?
- Two nights.

242
00:21:12,838 --> 00:21:16,604
And how long did I tell you
you could stay?

243
00:21:16,675 --> 00:21:18,609
A couple of nights.

244
00:21:18,677 --> 00:21:21,771
Well, it looks like our time
is up then, doesn't it?

245
00:21:30,956 --> 00:21:33,550
Sorry I messed up.

246
00:21:33,625 --> 00:21:35,650
You've been very kind to me...

247
00:21:35,727 --> 00:21:37,661
but all good things
must come to an end.

248
00:21:37,729 --> 00:21:39,822
No hard feelings, okay? L...

249
00:21:39,898 --> 00:21:44,335
This is a small apartment, and I
can't get my work done with you around.

250
00:21:44,403 --> 00:21:46,633
You don't have to apologize.

251
00:21:46,705 --> 00:21:49,230
Coast is probably
clear now anyway.

252
00:21:49,308 --> 00:21:51,970
Are you gonna be all right?

253
00:21:52,044 --> 00:21:55,707
Absolutely. The world is my oyster,
whatever that means.

254
00:21:57,015 --> 00:21:59,677
You need some money?
Extra clothes?

255
00:21:59,751 --> 00:22:02,982
Not a penny, not a stitch.
I'm cool, man.

256
00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:09,927
Take care of yourself, okay?

257
00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:14,295
Yeah. You too. Make sure the light
is green before you cross the street.

258
00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:19,133
Oh, by the way,
I liked your book.

259
00:22:19,204 --> 00:22:21,934
I think you're
a hell of a good writer.

260
00:23:35,113 --> 00:23:37,581
- Is your name Paul Benjamin?
- How can I help you?

261
00:23:37,649 --> 00:23:40,584
I just wanna know what
your game is, mister, that's all.

262
00:23:41,787 --> 00:23:44,085
How the hell did you
get into this building?

263
00:23:44,156 --> 00:23:47,717
How did I get it? I pushed the door
and walked in. What do you think?

264
00:23:47,793 --> 00:23:49,727
That damn lock
is broken again.

265
00:23:49,795 --> 00:23:53,731
So you just barge in on strangers? Is
that what you do? Is that your game?

266
00:23:53,799 --> 00:23:55,892
I'm looking for
my nephew, Thomas.

267
00:23:55,967 --> 00:23:59,630
- Thomas? Who's Thomas?
- Don't give me any of that. I know he's been here.

268
00:23:59,704 --> 00:24:01,934
- You can't fool me, mister.
- I'm telling you.

269
00:24:02,007 --> 00:24:04,066
I don't know anyone
named Thomas.

270
00:24:04,142 --> 00:24:06,804
Thomas Cole.
Thomas Jefferson Cole.

271
00:24:06,878 --> 00:24:08,812
My nephew!

272
00:24:09,881 --> 00:24:11,849
You mean Rashid?

273
00:24:11,917 --> 00:24:13,851
Rashid?

274
00:24:13,919 --> 00:24:16,114
Rashid. Is that what
he told you his name was?

275
00:24:16,188 --> 00:24:19,123
Well, whatever his name is,
he's not here anymore.

276
00:24:19,191 --> 00:24:22,683
He left a couple days ago, and
I haven't heard from him since.

277
00:24:22,761 --> 00:24:25,696
What was he doing here in the first
place? That's what I wanna know.

278
00:24:25,764 --> 00:24:28,699
What's a man like you messing around
with a black boy like Thomas for?

279
00:24:28,767 --> 00:24:31,292
- You some kind of pervert or what?
- Now look, lady.

280
00:24:31,369 --> 00:24:34,805
That is enough. You don't calm down,
I'm gonna throw you outta here.

281
00:24:34,873 --> 00:24:38,832
- You hear me? Right now.
- I just wanna know where he is.

282
00:24:38,910 --> 00:24:42,505
Well, as far as I know,
he went back to his parents.

283
00:24:43,915 --> 00:24:47,510
His parents?
Is that what he told you? His parents?

284
00:24:47,586 --> 00:24:52,046
That's what he said. He said he lived with
his mother and father on East 74th Street.

285
00:24:53,425 --> 00:24:55,359
I always knew that boy
had an imagination...

286
00:24:55,427 --> 00:24:59,056
but now he's gone and made up
a whole new life for himself.

287
00:24:59,130 --> 00:25:01,064
Oh, Jesus.

288
00:25:06,404 --> 00:25:08,338
Do you mind if I sit down?

289
00:25:15,614 --> 00:25:19,015
Look, he's been living with me
and his Uncle Henry since he was a baby.

290
00:25:19,084 --> 00:25:22,918
And we don't live in Manhattan.
We live in Boerum Hill.

291
00:25:22,988 --> 00:25:25,081
- In the Projects.
- You mean...

292
00:25:26,424 --> 00:25:28,858
he doesn't go
to the Trinity school?

293
00:25:28,927 --> 00:25:32,385
He goes to John Jay
High School in Brooklyn.

294
00:25:32,464 --> 00:25:35,126
And his parents?

295
00:25:37,435 --> 00:25:41,735
His mother's dead, and he hasn't
seen his father in 12 years.

296
00:25:45,310 --> 00:25:47,801
I shouldn't have let him go.

297
00:25:48,847 --> 00:25:50,872
Did anything happen recently?

298
00:25:50,949 --> 00:25:52,883
Unexpected?
Anything unusual?

299
00:25:54,819 --> 00:25:59,347
Well, there's one thing, I suppose, but I
don't think it has anything to do with this.

300
00:25:59,424 --> 00:26:01,483
A friend of mine called
about two weeks ago.

301
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,619
Said she spotted
Thomas's father...

302
00:26:03,695 --> 00:26:07,461
workin' at some gas station
outside of Peekskill.

303
00:26:07,532 --> 00:26:10,092
And you told your nephew
about that?

304
00:26:10,168 --> 00:26:12,102
I figured he had
a right to know.

305
00:26:13,305 --> 00:26:16,399
- And?
- And nothing.

306
00:26:16,474 --> 00:26:19,739
Thomas looked at me straight in the
eye and said, "I don't have a father.

307
00:26:19,811 --> 00:26:22,109
As far as I'm concerned,
the son-of-a-bitch is dead."

308
00:27:32,617 --> 00:27:34,551
You gonna sit here all day?

309
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,911
I don't know.
I haven't decided yet.

310
00:27:39,524 --> 00:27:41,958
Why don't you go find
yourself another spot?

311
00:27:42,027 --> 00:27:44,996
You know, it gives a man the creeps
to be stared at all morning.

312
00:27:46,698 --> 00:27:48,962
It's a free country, isn't it?

313
00:27:49,034 --> 00:27:53,471
As long as I'm not trespassing on your
property, I can sit here 'til kingdom come.

314
00:27:56,074 --> 00:27:58,668
Let me give you some very
useful information, kid.

315
00:28:00,078 --> 00:28:02,945
There's $2.57
in the cash register over there.

316
00:28:04,249 --> 00:28:07,480
Now, considering how long
you been casing the joint...

317
00:28:07,552 --> 00:28:11,613
I'd say that's about, uh,
50 cents an hour for your pains.

318
00:28:13,792 --> 00:28:17,091
Any way you slice it,
it's a losing proposition.

319
00:28:17,162 --> 00:28:19,096
Okay?

320
00:28:19,164 --> 00:28:21,462
I'm not trying
to rob you, mister.

321
00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:24,502
- I look like a thief to you?
- I don't know what you look like.

322
00:28:24,569 --> 00:28:28,630
As far as I can tell, you kinda
sprouted up like a mushroom last night.

323
00:28:30,575 --> 00:28:34,204
You from around this town, or you
just kinda goin' from here to there?

324
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:37,214
- I'm just passing through.
- You're just passing through?

325
00:28:37,282 --> 00:28:39,045
Yep.

326
00:28:39,117 --> 00:28:43,577
Lonesome traveler.
You just... plop your knapsack down.

327
00:28:43,655 --> 00:28:45,987
Sit across from my garage
just to admire the view.

328
00:28:49,260 --> 00:28:54,129
There are... a lot
better places to roam, kid.

329
00:28:54,199 --> 00:28:58,135
Ya know? I mean, you don't want to
make a nuisance of yourself, right?

330
00:28:59,204 --> 00:29:01,138
I was working on a sketch.

331
00:29:02,507 --> 00:29:04,702
That garage of yours
is so rundown...

332
00:29:04,776 --> 00:29:07,438
it's kinda interesting.

333
00:29:07,512 --> 00:29:09,707
Yeah. It's rundown.

334
00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:15,280
You drawin' a picture of it,
it ain't gonna improve it.

335
00:29:15,353 --> 00:29:18,948
- Let me see what you got.
- Cost you five bucks.

336
00:29:19,023 --> 00:29:21,685
Five bucks? Five bucks just
to look at your picture?

337
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,320
- Hey, once you look at it, you're gonna wanna buy it.
- Hmm.

338
00:29:24,395 --> 00:29:27,523
That's guaranteed,
and that's the price. Five bucks.

339
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:30,762
So if you're not willing to spring for
it, you might as well not look at it.

340
00:29:30,835 --> 00:29:33,804
Once you look at it, it's just gonna tear
you up inside, make you all miserable.

341
00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:38,900
Oh.
Son-of-a-bitch.

342
00:29:38,977 --> 00:29:43,607
- You're some piece of work, man.
- I just tell it like it is, mister.

343
00:29:43,681 --> 00:29:46,912
I'm gettin' on your nerves, though.
You might wanna think about hiring me.

344
00:29:48,419 --> 00:29:51,650
Are those... eyes in your head...

345
00:29:51,723 --> 00:29:56,490
or those two brown spots bulgin'
outta their sockets just marbles?

346
00:29:56,561 --> 00:29:58,495
I mean, you been
sitting here all day.

347
00:29:58,563 --> 00:30:00,997
How many people you seen
drive up and ask me for gas?

348
00:30:01,065 --> 00:30:02,999
- Not a one.
- Not a one.

349
00:30:04,102 --> 00:30:06,036
- Not a one.
- Nope.

350
00:30:06,104 --> 00:30:09,631
- Not one customer?
- Nope.

351
00:30:09,707 --> 00:30:14,644
I bought this piece of land here, this
piece-of-shit place, about three weeks ago.

352
00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:19,082
If it don't pick up business soon,
I'm goin' down the skids.

353
00:30:19,150 --> 00:30:22,608
So what the fuck do I wanna
be hirin' somebody for?

354
00:30:22,687 --> 00:30:24,985
I can't even pay my own wages.

355
00:30:25,056 --> 00:30:27,024
It was just a thought.

356
00:30:28,459 --> 00:30:30,757
Well, you should keep
your fuckin' thoughts to yourself.

357
00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:32,763
Keep your hands to yourself.

358
00:30:53,985 --> 00:30:56,044
Auggie.

359
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,645
Auggie, I think
there's a customer.

360
00:31:04,095 --> 00:31:06,029
Hello, Auggie.

361
00:31:09,801 --> 00:31:12,463
It's really you, isn't it, Auggie?

362
00:31:14,672 --> 00:31:16,640
Christ, Ruby.
It's been so long.

363
00:31:18,243 --> 00:31:20,211
I figured you were dead.

364
00:31:20,278 --> 00:31:22,872
Eighteen and a half years.

365
00:31:24,682 --> 00:31:28,846
Is that all?
I thought it was about 300.

366
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,888
You're lookin' good, Auggie.

367
00:31:32,323 --> 00:31:35,292
No, I'm not.
I look like shit.

368
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,295
And so do you, Ruby.
You look just awful.

369
00:31:40,798 --> 00:31:43,460
What's with that patch, anyway?

370
00:31:43,534 --> 00:31:46,059
What'd you do with
that old blue marble?

371
00:31:46,137 --> 00:31:48,537
Hock it for a bottle of gin?

372
00:31:48,606 --> 00:31:50,665
I don't really
wanna talk about it.

373
00:31:52,644 --> 00:31:55,135
If you really wanna know,
I lost it.

374
00:31:55,213 --> 00:31:57,181
I'm not sorry I did.

375
00:31:59,284 --> 00:32:02,378
The thing was cursed.
Never gave me nothin' but grief.

376
00:32:02,453 --> 00:32:06,389
And you think it looks better to go
around dressed up like Captain Hook?

377
00:32:06,457 --> 00:32:08,550
You always were
a son-of-a-bitch.

378
00:32:08,626 --> 00:32:11,117
A little weasel
with a fast, dirty mouth.

379
00:32:11,195 --> 00:32:13,129
At least I stay true to myself.

380
00:32:13,197 --> 00:32:16,758
Which is more than I can say
about some people.

381
00:32:16,834 --> 00:32:20,201
Look. I came here to talk
to you about something...

382
00:32:20,271 --> 00:32:24,207
and I think the least you can do
is listen to what I have to say.

383
00:32:24,275 --> 00:32:27,335
You owe me that much. I drove here
all the way from Pittsburgh...

384
00:32:27,412 --> 00:32:29,403
and I ain't goin' back
'til you heard me out.

385
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:34,179
Fine. Talk away,
lady of my dreams. I'm all ears.

386
00:32:35,253 --> 00:32:37,187
I think this is
between you and I.

387
00:32:37,255 --> 00:32:39,189
Maybe we can have some privacy.

388
00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:46,788
You heard her, pipsqueak. The lady
and I have private business to discuss.

389
00:32:46,864 --> 00:32:48,855
Go outside and wait
in front of the door.

390
00:32:48,933 --> 00:32:53,097
If anyone tries to come in,
you tell 'em we're closed. You got it?

391
00:32:54,505 --> 00:32:57,702
Yeah, I got it.
Store's closed.

392
00:33:00,411 --> 00:33:02,436
When do I tell 'em it's open?

393
00:33:02,513 --> 00:33:04,913
When I tell ya it's open.

394
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:07,349
It's open when I tell ya it's open!

395
00:33:08,419 --> 00:33:10,944
Okay.

396
00:33:11,022 --> 00:33:13,650
Got it.
You don't have to yell.

397
00:33:29,173 --> 00:33:31,232
All right, sugar.
What's on your mind?

398
00:33:35,513 --> 00:33:38,641
Will you stop starin' at me like that?
It gives me the creeps.

399
00:33:38,750 --> 00:33:41,275
Like what?

400
00:33:41,352 --> 00:33:44,344
Like that.
The way you're starin'at me.

401
00:33:44,422 --> 00:33:46,413
I mean, I'm not
gonna eat you up.

402
00:33:46,491 --> 00:33:50,689
I came to ask for your help, and if you keep
starin' at me like that, I might start screamin'.

403
00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:55,699
Help, huh? I don't suppose this help could
have anything to do with money, could it?

404
00:33:55,767 --> 00:33:59,100
Don't rush me. You jump to conclusions.
I haven't even opened my mouth yet.

405
00:33:59,170 --> 00:34:02,264
Besides... it isn't for me.

406
00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:11,380
It's for our daughter.

407
00:34:11,549 --> 00:34:15,041
Our dau... daughter?

408
00:34:17,155 --> 00:34:19,623
Is that what you said?
"Our daughter"?

409
00:34:21,826 --> 00:34:25,318
I mean, you might have a daughter,
but I sure as hell don't.

410
00:34:26,464 --> 00:34:28,864
And even if I did, which I don't...

411
00:34:28,933 --> 00:34:31,993
she wouldn't be our daughter.

412
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,937
Her name is Felicity.

413
00:34:35,006 --> 00:34:39,943
She just turned 18, and she ran away
from Pittsburgh about a year ago.

414
00:34:40,011 --> 00:34:42,946
And... now she's living
here in Brooklyn...

415
00:34:43,014 --> 00:34:46,575
with, uh, some guy
called Chico...

416
00:34:46,651 --> 00:34:48,642
in some shit-hole.

417
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:51,449
And she's... she's
strung out on crack...

418
00:34:54,358 --> 00:34:56,292
and she's four months pregnant.

419
00:34:58,196 --> 00:35:00,357
I can't bear to think
about that child, Auggie.

420
00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:03,559
It's our grandchild. Can you
believe that? Our grandchild.

421
00:35:03,634 --> 00:35:07,070
Stop it, already.
Just stop all this crap right now.

422
00:35:08,706 --> 00:35:10,765
Was that your idea
to call her Felicity?

423
00:35:10,842 --> 00:35:13,333
- It means "happiness."
- I know what it means.

424
00:35:13,411 --> 00:35:15,902
That still don't
make it a good name.

425
00:35:15,980 --> 00:35:18,847
I don't know who else
to turn to, Auggie.

426
00:35:18,916 --> 00:35:21,077
You've suckered me before,
sweetheart.

427
00:35:21,152 --> 00:35:23,086
Why should I believe you now?

428
00:35:25,223 --> 00:35:27,157
Why should I lie to you?

429
00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:32,853
You think it's easy, comin' in here,
talkin' to you... t-to this place?

430
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:40,134
Why would I do that...
if I didn't have to?

431
00:35:40,204 --> 00:35:43,173
That's what you told me when
I shoplifted that necklace for you.

432
00:35:43,241 --> 00:35:45,175
You remember, baby, don't ya?

433
00:35:45,243 --> 00:35:47,234
The judge gave me a choice:

434
00:35:47,311 --> 00:35:49,336
Either enlist or go to the can.

435
00:35:49,413 --> 00:35:53,406
So I wind up in the Navy for four years
instead of goin' to college.

436
00:35:53,484 --> 00:35:56,248
I watched men lose
their arms and legs.

437
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,551
I almost get my head blown off,
and you, sweet Ruby McNutt...

438
00:35:59,624 --> 00:36:03,059
you run off and marry
that... asshole, Bill.

439
00:36:03,094 --> 00:36:06,996
You didn't write to me for over a year.
What was I supposed to think?

440
00:36:07,064 --> 00:36:09,692
Yeah, well, I lost my pen!

441
00:36:09,767 --> 00:36:12,463
By the time I got a new one,
I was clean outta paper.

442
00:36:12,537 --> 00:36:15,665
It was all over with Bill
before you came home.

443
00:36:15,740 --> 00:36:18,732
You may not
remember it now, but...

444
00:36:18,809 --> 00:36:21,573
you were pretty hot
to see me back then.

445
00:36:23,781 --> 00:36:25,806
You weren't so lukewarm yourself.

446
00:36:27,785 --> 00:36:31,152
At least at first.

447
00:36:31,222 --> 00:36:33,747
It fizzled, baby.
That's the way it goes.

448
00:36:36,194 --> 00:36:38,662
But we had our good times.
It wasn't all bad.

449
00:36:41,065 --> 00:36:43,829
A couple of moments,
I'll grant ya that.

450
00:36:43,901 --> 00:36:48,565
And that's how Felicity came into
the picture. One of those two seconds.

451
00:36:48,639 --> 00:36:51,699
You're conning me, sweetheart.
I ain't responsible for no baby!

452
00:36:56,781 --> 00:36:58,715
I thought I could handle it.

453
00:37:02,186 --> 00:37:06,054
I didn't wanna bug you. I thought
I could handle it... on my own.

454
00:37:07,892 --> 00:37:09,826
And I couldn't.

455
00:37:12,330 --> 00:37:15,060
She's in it real bad, Auggie.

456
00:37:19,237 --> 00:37:22,172
Nice try, old girl.
I'd like to help you out.

457
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,174
You know, for old times' sake.

458
00:37:25,710 --> 00:37:28,679
But I really can't right now.

459
00:37:28,746 --> 00:37:31,977
All my spare cash is tied up
in a business venture...

460
00:37:32,049 --> 00:37:34,779
and, uh, I haven't collected
on my profits yet.

461
00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:36,820
Too bad. You caught me
at the wrong time.

462
00:37:36,887 --> 00:37:39,754
- Auggie always gives me cigars...
- You really are a coldhearted bastard.

463
00:37:39,824 --> 00:37:43,658
- Look, I want my cigars.
- How'd you get to be so mean, Auggie?

464
00:37:43,728 --> 00:37:46,162
I know. You think
I'm lyin' to you, but I'm not.

465
00:37:46,230 --> 00:37:49,028
- Get out of my way.!
- Every word I told you was the God's own truth.

466
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:51,660
Hey, store's closed.
Didn't you hear what the kid said?

467
00:37:51,736 --> 00:37:54,671
- Yeah, but your sign says you're open from 8:00 to 6:00.
- The store's closed.!

468
00:37:54,739 --> 00:37:57,071
The goddamn store's closed.!

469
00:37:59,243 --> 00:38:01,711
You're takin'all the oxygen,
you fat fuck.!

470
00:39:02,139 --> 00:39:04,369
Tell ya what.

471
00:39:04,442 --> 00:39:07,536
Wanna work?
I'll give ya a job.

472
00:39:07,611 --> 00:39:10,944
You see that upstairs room?
The one above the office?

473
00:39:13,484 --> 00:39:15,452
It's a hell of a mess.

474
00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:18,352
It looks like they been
throwin'junk in there for 20 years.

475
00:39:18,422 --> 00:39:20,356
Needs to be cleaned up.

476
00:39:21,425 --> 00:39:23,359
What you offering?

477
00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:27,129
Five bucks an hour.
That's the going rate, right?

478
00:39:30,234 --> 00:39:32,759
It's about
a quarter past 2:00 now.

479
00:39:32,837 --> 00:39:35,772
My wife's gonna pick me up
around about 5:30.

480
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,808
So that give you
about three hours.

481
00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:40,105
What you can't finish today,
you can finish up tomorrow.

482
00:39:40,177 --> 00:39:44,273
And is there a benefits package, or are
you hiring me on a freelance basis?

483
00:39:47,752 --> 00:39:49,982
- Benefits?
- Yeah.

484
00:39:50,054 --> 00:39:53,546
You know, health insurance,
dental plan, paid vacation?

485
00:39:53,624 --> 00:39:56,593
It's not fun being exploited. Workers
have to stand up for their rights.

486
00:40:00,464 --> 00:40:02,455
Yeah.

487
00:40:02,533 --> 00:40:07,766
No, I think we're gonna work
on a strictly freelance basis here.

488
00:40:07,838 --> 00:40:09,772
Hmm.

489
00:40:12,209 --> 00:40:14,404
- Five dollars an hour?
- Yeah.

490
00:40:20,317 --> 00:40:22,251
- All right, I'll take it.
- Oh.

491
00:40:30,995 --> 00:40:32,929
Cyrus Cole.

492
00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:36,896
I'm Paul.
Paul Benjamin.

493
00:41:58,315 --> 00:42:00,840
- Let's take a pause, kid. Relax.
- All right.

494
00:42:00,918 --> 00:42:02,818
Okay.

495
00:42:31,282 --> 00:42:35,218
I don't mean to be nosy, but I was
wondering what happened to your arm.

496
00:42:38,355 --> 00:42:42,553
See this, uh, ugly piece
of hardware, you know.

497
00:42:42,626 --> 00:42:44,560
Look at it.

498
00:42:48,332 --> 00:42:50,459
Tell you what happened
to my arm?

499
00:42:50,534 --> 00:42:52,502
I'll tell you
what happened to me.

500
00:42:52,570 --> 00:42:56,097
Uh, 12 years ago...

501
00:42:57,675 --> 00:43:00,940
God looked down on me
and said, "Cyrus...

502
00:43:03,547 --> 00:43:08,007
"you're a bad, stupid,
selfish man.

503
00:43:11,255 --> 00:43:14,486
"First, I'm gonna fill
your body with spirits.

504
00:43:17,428 --> 00:43:20,022
"And I'm gonna put you
behind the wheel of a car.

505
00:43:23,233 --> 00:43:26,361
"Then I'm gonna have you
crash that car...

506
00:43:28,072 --> 00:43:30,006
"kill the woman that loves you.

507
00:43:31,542 --> 00:43:35,103
"But you, Cyrus,
I'm gonna let you live.

508
00:43:36,747 --> 00:43:38,840
"Because living's a lot
worse than dying, kid.

509
00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:44,546
"But just to make sure
that you don't forget...

510
00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:48,724
"what you did to that poor girl...

511
00:43:51,629 --> 00:43:55,622
I'm gonna rip off your arm,
and I'm gonna replace it with a hook."

512
00:43:57,901 --> 00:44:01,928
Now He could've ripped off
both my arms, both my legs.

513
00:44:02,006 --> 00:44:04,998
But, uh, nope. Mm-mm.

514
00:44:05,075 --> 00:44:08,408
He was gonna be merciful
and just rip off...

515
00:44:10,247 --> 00:44:12,238
my left arm.

516
00:44:16,587 --> 00:44:18,578
So every time
I look at this hook...

517
00:44:21,625 --> 00:44:23,752
I can remember...

518
00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:32,068
what a bad, stupid,
selfish man I am.

519
00:44:36,206 --> 00:44:39,004
Let that be a lesson
to you, Cyrus.

520
00:44:39,076 --> 00:44:41,510
A lesson so you
can mend your ways.

521
00:44:41,578 --> 00:44:44,138
A warning.

522
00:44:44,214 --> 00:44:46,205
So, have you mended your ways?

523
00:44:50,087 --> 00:44:54,683
Well, I try.

524
00:44:54,758 --> 00:44:57,693
Every day...

525
00:45:15,779 --> 00:45:18,509
Oh. Who's that?

526
00:45:18,582 --> 00:45:20,516
Is that daddy?

527
00:45:21,585 --> 00:45:24,179
- Hey.
- How ya doin'?

528
00:45:24,254 --> 00:45:26,313
- Oof!
- How ya doin'? You all right?

529
00:45:26,390 --> 00:45:29,723
If I have to wash one more old lady's
hair, my fingers are gonna fall off...

530
00:45:29,793 --> 00:45:31,727
but I'm all right.

531
00:45:31,795 --> 00:45:33,820
- That's good. That means you're busy.
- Yeah.

532
00:45:33,897 --> 00:45:36,297
- Real busy.
- It's kinda sleepy around here.

533
00:45:36,366 --> 00:45:39,392
Well, it's early days yet, Cy.

534
00:45:40,637 --> 00:45:43,003
Yeah. Look who's here.

535
00:45:43,073 --> 00:45:45,132
Who's that?

536
00:45:45,209 --> 00:45:47,143
Uh-oh.

537
00:45:47,211 --> 00:45:49,679
- Uh-oh. Let's come out and see.
- How ya doin'?

538
00:45:52,483 --> 00:45:54,007
Ohhh.

539
00:45:58,789 --> 00:46:00,723
Okay, let's go.

540
00:47:07,024 --> 00:47:08,958
Oh, it's you.

541
00:47:09,026 --> 00:47:12,018
Look, I just wanted to give you this
as a token of my appreciation.

542
00:47:14,598 --> 00:47:16,691
Appreciation for what?

543
00:47:16,767 --> 00:47:19,531
I don't know.
For helping me out.

544
00:47:19,603 --> 00:47:22,128
You want it?

545
00:47:23,807 --> 00:47:26,537
- Where did you get that thing?
- Bought it.

546
00:47:29,379 --> 00:47:32,348
Twenty-nine...
twenty-nine, ninety-five on sale.

547
00:47:32,416 --> 00:47:34,350
Goldbaum's TV and Radio.

548
00:47:37,454 --> 00:47:40,514
Well, I guess that
just about does it.

549
00:47:40,591 --> 00:47:44,527
Now you'll be able to watch the games,
you know, as a break from your work.

550
00:47:45,662 --> 00:47:47,857
Where do you think you're going?

551
00:47:47,931 --> 00:47:50,559
Business meeting.
I'm meeting my accountant at 3:00.

552
00:47:50,634 --> 00:47:54,400
Cut it out, will you?
Just cut it out.

553
00:47:54,471 --> 00:47:57,406
- Come back here.
- I don't really have time.

554
00:47:58,642 --> 00:48:00,576
Close the door.

555
00:48:06,817 --> 00:48:08,978
And sit in this chair.

556
00:48:18,095 --> 00:48:20,256
Now listen carefully.

557
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:25,926
Your Aunt Em came by
a couple of days ago.

558
00:48:32,009 --> 00:48:36,070
She was... sick with worry.
She was out of her mind.

559
00:48:37,547 --> 00:48:40,072
We had an interesting talk
about you...

560
00:48:42,019 --> 00:48:44,044
Thomas.

561
00:48:45,622 --> 00:48:47,556
You understand
what I'm saying?

562
00:48:48,792 --> 00:48:51,192
Your Aunt Em
thinks you're in trouble...

563
00:48:52,562 --> 00:48:54,621
and so do I.

564
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:00,393
Tell me about it, kid.
I wanna hear all about it right now.

565
00:49:02,306 --> 00:49:04,331
You don't really wanna know.

566
00:49:04,408 --> 00:49:08,742
I don't, huh? What is it that makes you such
an authority on what I want and don't want?

567
00:49:08,812 --> 00:49:10,780
- Okay. Okay.
- Well...

568
00:49:16,286 --> 00:49:18,220
- Jesus.!
- Okay.

569
00:49:23,694 --> 00:49:25,628
It's all so stupid.

570
00:49:26,964 --> 00:49:30,400
There's this guy, see?
Charles Clem, the Creeper.

571
00:49:30,467 --> 00:49:32,458
That's what people call him.

572
00:49:32,536 --> 00:49:35,437
The kind of guy you don't
wanna cross paths with.

573
00:49:35,505 --> 00:49:38,338
- Yeah?
- And I crossed paths with him.

574
00:49:38,408 --> 00:49:42,242
That's why I'm tryin' to stay clear of my
neighborhood, make sure I don't run into him again.

575
00:49:42,312 --> 00:49:46,214
Does this have anything to do with
whatever it was you weren't supposed to see?

576
00:49:46,283 --> 00:49:48,217
Yes.

577
00:49:49,353 --> 00:49:51,685
Look, I just happened
to be walking by.

578
00:49:51,755 --> 00:49:55,156
All of a sudden, the Creeper and this other guy
come running outta the check cashing place...

579
00:49:55,225 --> 00:49:57,955
with masks on their faces
and guns in their hands.

580
00:49:58,028 --> 00:50:00,019
They just about run
smack into me.

581
00:50:01,064 --> 00:50:03,157
And the Creeper recognizes me.

582
00:50:03,233 --> 00:50:06,691
And I know he knows
that I recognize him.

583
00:50:06,770 --> 00:50:10,365
If the guy from the check cashing place
hadn't run out screaming bloody murder...

584
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,374
he would've shot me.

585
00:50:12,442 --> 00:50:16,378
I'm telling you, the Creeper would've
shot me right there on the sidewalk.

586
00:50:16,446 --> 00:50:18,710
But the noise distracted him...

587
00:50:18,782 --> 00:50:23,185
and when he turned around to see
what was going on, I took off.

588
00:50:23,253 --> 00:50:26,222
One more second
and I would've been dead.

589
00:50:30,293 --> 00:50:32,853
Why didn't you go to the police?

590
00:50:32,929 --> 00:50:34,863
The man has friends...

591
00:50:34,931 --> 00:50:38,332
and I don't think they're likely to
forgive me if I testify against him.

592
00:50:38,402 --> 00:50:40,734
What makes you think
you'll be any safer around here?

593
00:50:40,804 --> 00:50:42,863
You're only about a mile
from where you live.

594
00:50:42,939 --> 00:50:46,534
It's not that far away,
but... it's another galaxy.

595
00:50:46,610 --> 00:50:48,976
Black is black,
and white is white...

596
00:50:49,046 --> 00:50:51,207
and never the twain shall meet.

597
00:50:54,351 --> 00:50:57,718
Well, it looks like
they've met in this apartment.

598
00:50:58,855 --> 00:51:00,789
Let's not get too idealistic.

599
00:51:00,857 --> 00:51:03,018
Fair enough.

600
00:51:03,093 --> 00:51:06,529
I wouldn't wanna
get carried away now, would I?

601
00:51:14,337 --> 00:51:16,328
What?

602
00:51:18,775 --> 00:51:22,541
You call your Aunt Em
and tell her you're still alive.

603
00:51:22,612 --> 00:51:25,911
Cone will try and
help himself in this pitchers' duel.

604
00:51:25,982 --> 00:51:28,143
- Coming up for the second time
this afternoon...

605
00:51:28,218 --> 00:51:31,153
And he swings and fouls
the first pitch back for strike one.

606
00:51:31,221 --> 00:51:34,486
- Count's 0-1. It's still hard
to watch him swing a bat...

607
00:51:34,558 --> 00:51:36,992
without thinking of that pitch
from Atlee Hammaker...

608
00:51:37,060 --> 00:51:40,826
that broke one of his fingers
a few years ago, forced David...

609
00:51:51,374 --> 00:51:54,639
Around first, headed into
second is David Cone.

610
00:51:54,711 --> 00:51:57,077
And the Mets' pitcher,
Dave Cone, has himself...

611
00:51:57,147 --> 00:52:01,784
Brooklyn boogie

612
00:52:06,690 --> 00:52:08,658
Flatbush extension

613
00:52:12,028 --> 00:52:14,929
Coney Island

614
00:52:14,998 --> 00:52:18,798
Mm, and the Belt Parkway

615
00:52:26,243 --> 00:52:29,701
Auggie. Get in the car, Auggie.
I got something to show you.

616
00:52:29,779 --> 00:52:32,509
- You don't give up do you?
- Just get in the car and shut up.

617
00:52:32,582 --> 00:52:35,608
- I'm not asking you to do anything. Just come with me.
- Where to?

618
00:52:35,685 --> 00:52:39,143
Damn it, Auggie, don't ask so
many questions. Just get in the car!

619
00:52:40,957 --> 00:52:44,654
- I told her she was gonna meet her father.
- You what?

620
00:52:44,728 --> 00:52:47,788
It's the only way, Auggie.
Otherwise, she wasn't gonna see me.

621
00:52:47,864 --> 00:52:49,957
- You better stop the car and let me out.
- No, no, no.

622
00:52:50,033 --> 00:52:52,797
Come on, come on. Just relax,
will ya, please? Now just relax.

623
00:52:52,869 --> 00:52:56,532
It's not like you have to do anything. You
gotta go in there and pretend a little bit.

624
00:52:56,606 --> 00:52:59,074
It wouldn't kill you to do me
a little favor, ya know.

625
00:52:59,142 --> 00:53:01,337
Besides, you might learn something.

626
00:53:01,411 --> 00:53:04,175
- Yeah? Like what?
- Maybe you'll find out I wasn't bullshittin' you, sweetheart.

627
00:53:04,247 --> 00:53:06,681
Like maybe you'll find out
I was telling you the truth.

628
00:53:06,750 --> 00:53:08,684
Look, I'm not saying you
don't have a daughter.

629
00:53:08,752 --> 00:53:10,743
It's just that she's
not my daughter.

630
00:53:10,820 --> 00:53:13,380
Stop. Wait 'til
you see her, Auggie.

631
00:53:13,456 --> 00:53:17,256
- What's that supposed to mean?
- She looks just like you.

632
00:53:17,327 --> 00:53:20,262
- Cut it out.
- Oh, no. Look, I gotta tell you something.

633
00:53:20,330 --> 00:53:22,355
- When I told her she was gonna meet...
- Just cut it out.

634
00:53:22,432 --> 00:53:27,301
When I told her she was gonna meet
her father, she absolute... she melted.

635
00:53:27,370 --> 00:53:30,305
She hasn't spoken nice
to me since she left home.

636
00:53:30,373 --> 00:53:32,432
She's dying to see you, Auggie.

637
00:53:41,384 --> 00:53:43,443
Nice neighborhood
you brought me to.

638
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,454
Full of happy,
prosperous people.

639
00:53:45,522 --> 00:53:48,753
Honey? Felicity?

640
00:54:16,119 --> 00:54:18,110
- Well?
- Well, what?

641
00:54:20,757 --> 00:54:23,351
Well, aren't you
gonna say anything?

642
00:54:23,426 --> 00:54:26,623
- What do you want me to say?
- I don't know.

643
00:54:26,696 --> 00:54:29,460
Uh, hello, Mom.
Hello, Dad.

644
00:54:31,034 --> 00:54:33,093
- Something like that.
- I ain't got no daddy, you dig?

645
00:54:33,169 --> 00:54:36,570
I got born last week when some dog
fucked you up the ass.

646
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:40,474
Jesus Christ!
This is all I need.

647
00:54:40,543 --> 00:54:43,842
You said that you
wanted to see him.

648
00:54:43,913 --> 00:54:46,473
Well, here he is.

649
00:54:46,549 --> 00:54:48,540
Yeah, I might've said that.

650
00:54:48,618 --> 00:54:52,577
Chico told me to check him out, see if
there might be some dough in it for us.

651
00:54:54,457 --> 00:54:57,426
Well, I seen him now,
and I'm not too impressed.

652
00:54:57,494 --> 00:55:01,021
- Are you rich, mister?
- Yeah, I'm a millionaire.

653
00:55:01,097 --> 00:55:04,794
I walk around in disguise because
I'm ashamed of all my money.

654
00:55:04,868 --> 00:55:08,395
Sweetie, come on, please.
Would you just please be nice?

655
00:55:08,471 --> 00:55:11,031
- Get away from me!
- Goddammit! I'm tryin' to help you!

656
00:55:11,107 --> 00:55:13,735
I don't need your help.
I got a man to take care of me...

657
00:55:13,810 --> 00:55:16,176
which is more than you can
say for yourself, Hawkeye.

658
00:55:16,246 --> 00:55:18,544
Hey, hey. Don't talk
to your mother like that.

659
00:55:20,583 --> 00:55:25,111
Are you telling me you
actually slept with this guy?

660
00:55:25,188 --> 00:55:28,589
Are you telling me
you actually let him fuck you?

661
00:55:28,658 --> 00:55:31,684
You can do whatever
you want with your own life.

662
00:55:32,762 --> 00:55:35,287
We're here for that baby.

663
00:55:35,365 --> 00:55:40,462
Now why don't you get yourself cleaned
up for the baby before it's too late.

664
00:55:43,973 --> 00:55:45,941
- What baby?
- Your baby.

665
00:55:46,009 --> 00:55:48,876
The baby you're carrying around
inside that body of yours.

666
00:55:48,945 --> 00:55:51,914
There ain't no baby in there now,
you dig? There's nothing in there now.

667
00:55:56,019 --> 00:55:58,010
What are you talking about?

668
00:55:59,389 --> 00:56:01,357
An abortion, stupid.

669
00:56:01,424 --> 00:56:03,824
I had an abortion
day before yesterday.

670
00:56:05,729 --> 00:56:09,688
There's no baby in there now, and you don't
have to bug me about that shit anymore!

671
00:56:12,535 --> 00:56:14,867
Bye-bye, baby.

672
00:56:21,911 --> 00:56:24,971
Come on. Let's get outta here.
I've had enough.

673
00:56:25,048 --> 00:56:27,676
Yeah, that's right.
You better go.

674
00:56:27,751 --> 00:56:32,688
Chico will be back in a minute, and I don't
think your boyfriend wants to mess with Chico.

675
00:56:33,757 --> 00:56:35,748
Chico's a real man...

676
00:56:35,825 --> 00:56:40,762
not some scuzzy dickhead you pick outta last
month's garbage, you hear what I'm sayin'?

677
00:56:43,433 --> 00:56:45,833
He'll chop Mr. Dad here
into little pieces.

678
00:56:46,936 --> 00:56:48,961
That's a promise.

679
00:56:50,540 --> 00:56:52,565
He'll kick the livin' shit
out of him.

680
00:57:13,930 --> 00:57:15,921
Listen carefully.

681
00:57:19,102 --> 00:57:21,434
About 25 years ago...

682
00:57:21,504 --> 00:57:23,597
there was a young man...

683
00:57:23,673 --> 00:57:28,110
who went skiing alone
in the Alps.

684
00:57:29,412 --> 00:57:31,778
There was an avalanche.

685
00:57:33,550 --> 00:57:35,541
The snow swallowed him up...

686
00:57:36,953 --> 00:57:39,478
and his body
was never recovered.

687
00:57:39,556 --> 00:57:42,218
- The end.
- No, no, no.

688
00:57:42,292 --> 00:57:44,226
Not the end.
The beginning.

689
00:57:49,165 --> 00:57:54,398
His son... was just
a little boy at the time.

690
00:57:55,405 --> 00:57:57,430
But the years passed...

691
00:57:57,507 --> 00:58:00,635
and he grew up
to be a skier too.

692
00:58:01,845 --> 00:58:05,679
And one day last winter,
he went out, alone...

693
00:58:05,748 --> 00:58:07,716
for a run down the mountain.

694
00:58:09,886 --> 00:58:12,548
He gets about halfway
to the bottom...

695
00:58:12,622 --> 00:58:17,753
and he stops to eat his lunch
beside a big rock.

696
00:58:19,062 --> 00:58:22,156
Just as he's unwrapping
his cheese sandwich...

697
00:58:23,700 --> 00:58:26,669
he looks down...

698
00:58:26,736 --> 00:58:30,172
and sees a body
right there at his feet...

699
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,174
frozen in the ice.

700
00:58:33,943 --> 00:58:36,275
He bends down
to take a closer look.

701
00:58:38,214 --> 00:58:42,583
Suddenly he feels that he's
looking in the mirror...

702
00:58:44,354 --> 00:58:48,188
that he's looking at himself...
there he is, dead...

703
00:58:48,258 --> 00:58:50,351
and the body
is perfectly intact...

704
00:58:50,426 --> 00:58:52,360
frozen in a block of ice...

705
00:58:52,428 --> 00:58:55,420
like someone preserved
in suspended animation.

706
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:59,634
He gets down on all fours...

707
00:58:59,702 --> 00:59:03,763
looks right into
the dead man's face...

708
00:59:07,777 --> 00:59:10,712
and he realizes
he's looking at his father.

709
00:59:15,118 --> 00:59:18,451
And the strange thing is
that the father...

710
00:59:20,390 --> 00:59:23,553
is younger than the son is now.

711
00:59:25,995 --> 00:59:29,328
The boy has become a man...

712
00:59:29,399 --> 00:59:32,334
and it turns out...

713
00:59:32,402 --> 00:59:35,166
that he's older
than his own father.

714
00:59:48,952 --> 00:59:50,920
What are you gonna do today?

715
00:59:54,691 --> 00:59:56,716
I don't know. Read. Think.

716
00:59:57,961 --> 00:59:59,929
Do some drawings
if I get in the mood.

717
01:00:01,197 --> 01:00:04,496
But tonight I'm gonna celebrate.
That's definite.

718
01:00:04,567 --> 01:00:07,297
- Celebrate what?
- It's my birthday.

719
01:00:08,404 --> 01:00:12,363
I'm 17 years old as of...
47 minutes ago...

720
01:00:12,442 --> 01:00:15,172
and I think I should celebrate
having made it this far.

721
01:00:15,244 --> 01:00:18,236
Hey, hey.
Happy birthday.

722
01:00:28,358 --> 01:00:31,623
Oh... dear.

723
01:00:35,465 --> 01:00:39,367
I thought I recognized you. You're
Paul Benjamin, the writer, aren't you?

724
01:00:42,705 --> 01:00:45,299
I confess.

725
01:00:47,076 --> 01:00:51,308
I keep waiting for
the next novel to come out.

726
01:00:51,381 --> 01:00:54,214
Anything in the works?

727
01:00:54,283 --> 01:00:56,911
- Well, I, um...
- It's coming along.

728
01:00:56,986 --> 01:01:01,423
At the rate he's going, he'll have a
story finished by the end of the summer.

729
01:01:01,491 --> 01:01:03,925
- Wonderful.!
- Uh...

730
01:01:03,993 --> 01:01:06,757
I apologize for springing this
on you at the last minute...

731
01:01:06,829 --> 01:01:10,026
but Mr. Benjamin and I are
attending a celebration tonight...

732
01:01:10,099 --> 01:01:14,229
and we would be most pleased
if you chose to accompany us.

733
01:01:14,303 --> 01:01:16,737
Isn't that right, Mr. Benjamin?

734
01:01:21,077 --> 01:01:23,011
Yes.

735
01:01:23,079 --> 01:01:25,343
We would be honored.

736
01:01:25,415 --> 01:01:28,248
What's the occasion
of this celebration?

737
01:01:28,317 --> 01:01:30,478
- It's my birthday.
- Your birthday?

738
01:01:30,553 --> 01:01:33,784
- Yes.
- And how many people will be attending this birthday party?

739
01:01:33,856 --> 01:01:35,790
Well, I wouldn't actually
call it a "party."

740
01:01:35,858 --> 01:01:40,124
It's more along the lines of a
dinner in celebration of my birthday.

741
01:01:40,196 --> 01:01:45,190
The guest list is quite restricted.
So far, it's Mr. Benjamin and myself.

742
01:01:45,268 --> 01:01:48,396
- If you accept, that would make
three of us. - Mm-hmm. I see.

743
01:01:48,471 --> 01:01:52,271
A cozy dinner. But aren't threesomes
a little awkward? How's that phrase go?

744
01:01:52,341 --> 01:01:54,809
- Three's a crowd.
- Three's a crowd. Yes, I'm aware of that.

745
01:01:54,877 --> 01:01:58,677
But I have to keep an... an eye
on Mr. Benjamin wherever he goes.

746
01:01:58,748 --> 01:02:02,809
- Make sure he doesn't get himself into any trouble?
- What are you? His chaperon?

747
01:02:02,885 --> 01:02:05,877
Actually... I'm his father.

748
01:02:05,955 --> 01:02:09,982
- Most people assume
that I'm his father.

749
01:02:10,059 --> 01:02:13,927
It's a logical assumption, seeing as
how I'm older than he is and so on.

750
01:02:13,996 --> 01:02:18,456
But... But the fact is that,
you know, the reverse is true.

751
01:02:18,534 --> 01:02:21,401
He's... my father...

752
01:02:21,471 --> 01:02:23,962
and I'm his son.

753
01:02:30,646 --> 01:02:33,843
And nothing will ever
catch the joy

754
01:02:33,916 --> 01:02:35,941
Auggie?

755
01:02:36,018 --> 01:02:39,044
Hey! Ben!

756
01:02:39,122 --> 01:02:42,523
- What are you doing here?
- Auggie, this is April Lee.

757
01:02:42,592 --> 01:02:46,426
- April Lee, say hello to Auggie Wren.
- Howdy, Miss April.

758
01:02:46,496 --> 01:02:48,930
- Hello, Auggie Wren.
- I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance.

759
01:02:48,998 --> 01:02:51,466
- Yeah. Well...
- And this here pretty little lady is...

760
01:02:51,534 --> 01:02:56,904
Miss Violet Sanchez deJalapeno!

761
01:02:56,973 --> 01:03:00,841
The hottest chili pepper
this side of the Rio Grande.

762
01:03:00,910 --> 01:03:02,775
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
- Ain't that so, baby?

763
01:03:02,845 --> 01:03:07,509
- That's right, Augusto! You're
not so cold neither, baby.

764
01:03:07,583 --> 01:03:12,179
- I love this guy.
- What are you doing at a dive like this?

765
01:03:12,255 --> 01:03:16,157
Rashid's birthday today, and we
decided to whoop it up a little bit.

766
01:03:16,225 --> 01:03:18,625
- How old, kid?
- Seventeen.

767
01:03:18,694 --> 01:03:21,561
- Ay.!
- Seventeen?

768
01:03:26,035 --> 01:03:28,060
Well, I remember...

769
01:03:28,137 --> 01:03:31,402
When I was 17

770
01:03:34,744 --> 01:03:36,678
Christ!

771
01:03:36,746 --> 01:03:39,544
I remember, ya know,
when I was 17...

772
01:03:39,615 --> 01:03:42,880
I was a whacked-out...
little son-of-a-bitch.

773
01:03:42,952 --> 01:03:45,682
Is that the way it is with you, son?

774
01:03:45,755 --> 01:03:49,987
- You a whacked-out, crazy kid? - Definitely.
I'd say you hit the nail right on the head.

775
01:03:50,059 --> 01:03:54,519
That's good! Keep it up. Maybe one day
you'll grow up and be a great man like me.

776
01:03:54,597 --> 01:03:56,997
Yes! Yes! Yes!

777
01:03:58,401 --> 01:04:01,165
He's a great man. He is.

778
01:04:01,237 --> 01:04:04,365
Bye-bye.
Come on. Let's go.

779
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:06,374
Auggie, I've been thinking.

780
01:04:06,442 --> 01:04:10,708
You need any help in the store? Some
summer help now that Vinnie's gone?

781
01:04:10,780 --> 01:04:14,307
Help? What'd you have in mind?

782
01:04:14,383 --> 01:04:17,648
I've been thinkin' about the kid.

783
01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:21,588
- I'm sure he'd do a good job for you.
- Hey, kid!

784
01:04:21,657 --> 01:04:23,591
You interested in a job?

785
01:04:23,659 --> 01:04:28,221
Your employment agency here says you're
looking for a position in retail sales.

786
01:04:28,297 --> 01:04:31,994
A job? I definitely would not
turn down a job.

787
01:04:32,068 --> 01:04:36,630
Come down to the cigar store tomorrow morning
at 10:00 and we'll talk about it. Okay?

788
01:04:36,706 --> 01:04:39,800
- We'll see what we can work out.
- 10:00 tomorrow morning. I'll be there.

789
01:04:39,876 --> 01:04:42,902
Okay, let's go, let's go.

790
01:04:42,979 --> 01:04:47,040
- I owe you one. Don't forget.
- Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

791
01:05:06,836 --> 01:05:09,066
It's 1942, right.

792
01:05:10,473 --> 01:05:13,533
He's caught in Leningrad
during the siege.

793
01:05:13,609 --> 01:05:16,669
I'm talking about one of
the worst moments in human history.

794
01:05:16,746 --> 01:05:19,943
500,000 people died
in that one place.

795
01:05:20,016 --> 01:05:24,510
And there's Baktin, holed up in an
apartment, expecting to be killed any day.

796
01:05:24,587 --> 01:05:27,420
He has plenty of tobacco,
but no paper to roll it in.

797
01:05:27,490 --> 01:05:33,156
So he takes the pages of a manuscript
he's been working on for ten years...

798
01:05:33,229 --> 01:05:35,925
and tears them up,
so he can roll his cigarettes.

799
01:05:35,998 --> 01:05:39,764
- His only copy?
- His only copy.

800
01:05:44,540 --> 01:05:49,568
If you think you're gonna die, what's more
important? A good book or a good smoke?

801
01:05:49,645 --> 01:05:53,672
So, he huffed and he puffed,
and little by little he...

802
01:05:53,749 --> 01:05:56,843
smoked his book.

803
01:05:56,919 --> 01:06:00,286
Nice try. You had me goin'
for a second, but no.

804
01:06:00,356 --> 01:06:04,224
No writer would ever do
a thing like that. Would he?

805
01:06:06,162 --> 01:06:08,687
You don't believe me? Look.

806
01:06:08,764 --> 01:06:12,894
All right, I'll show you.
It's all in this book.

807
01:06:14,804 --> 01:06:17,432
What is this?

808
01:06:17,506 --> 01:06:19,440
I don't know.

809
01:06:20,776 --> 01:06:23,108
Is this yours?

810
01:06:23,179 --> 01:06:25,511
Yeah, it might be.

811
01:06:25,581 --> 01:06:28,277
- Here, catch.
- Hey.!

812
01:06:33,289 --> 01:06:37,419
So you're saying that, that,
that it wasn't like that at all?

813
01:06:37,493 --> 01:06:41,520
- Not exactly. I mean, there was
more to it than I told you.

814
01:06:41,597 --> 01:06:43,758
You didn't just see
what happened.

815
01:06:43,833 --> 01:06:48,236
They dropped the package on
the ground and you picked it up?

816
01:06:49,572 --> 01:06:53,235
- I picked it up.
- And started to run?

817
01:06:54,343 --> 01:06:56,641
And started to run.

818
01:06:59,882 --> 01:07:02,146
Good thinking.

819
01:07:02,218 --> 01:07:07,349
See, that's just it. I wasn't thinking.
I just... I just did it.

820
01:07:07,423 --> 01:07:11,553
Yeah, you have got one hell of a knack
for getting into trouble, don't you?

821
01:07:11,627 --> 01:07:14,391
- How much is in there anyway?
- $6,000.

822
01:07:14,463 --> 01:07:15,828
What?

823
01:07:15,898 --> 01:07:19,527
$5,814 to be exact.

824
01:07:19,568 --> 01:07:25,404
So, you robbed the robbers,
and now the robbers are after you.

825
01:07:25,474 --> 01:07:27,772
That's it in a nutshell.

826
01:07:27,843 --> 01:07:32,246
Yeah, well, ya know, you have got
to be crazy to do what you did!

827
01:07:34,183 --> 01:07:38,483
You want my opinion? Take that money back
to the Creeper and tell him you're sorry.

828
01:07:38,554 --> 01:07:41,614
There's no way I'm giving this
money back.! This is my money now.

829
01:07:41,690 --> 01:07:44,488
A lot of good it's gonna do you
if the Creeper finds you.

830
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:48,553
This money is my whole future!

831
01:07:48,631 --> 01:07:52,567
With an attitude like that,
you are not going to have a future.

832
01:07:53,869 --> 01:07:57,305
Seventeen is a hell
of an age to die.

833
01:07:59,575 --> 01:08:02,271
Is that what you want?

834
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:06,944
Iran has kept to the...

835
01:08:07,016 --> 01:08:10,679
Hey, Bob-a-re-bop
hey, Bob-a-re-bop

836
01:08:11,821 --> 01:08:14,483
I'm back in about an hour.

837
01:08:14,557 --> 01:08:18,152
- Keep your eye on the register while I'm gone, okay?
- Sure thing. See you later.

838
01:08:25,835 --> 01:08:29,828
The main thing the president said yesterday
is to stop the oil from coming out of there...

839
01:08:29,905 --> 01:08:32,169
and that is what
they're going to do.

840
01:08:32,241 --> 01:08:34,801
That clearly is what
the Saudi's have also decided to do.

841
01:08:34,877 --> 01:08:37,744
The Saudi decision to turn away
an Iraqi tanker...

842
01:08:37,813 --> 01:08:40,008
is the kingdom's line
drawn in the sand.

843
01:08:40,082 --> 01:08:44,314
It is a decision the Saudi's have...

844
01:09:13,349 --> 01:09:16,045
Jesus! Goddamn!

845
01:09:19,221 --> 01:09:21,746
They may be illegal...

846
01:09:21,824 --> 01:09:25,555
but it's hard to see where the crime is
if there's no victim, right?

847
01:09:25,628 --> 01:09:28,096
- No harm done.
- This must be what it was like...

848
01:09:28,164 --> 01:09:30,428
to go to a speakeasy
during prohibition.

849
01:09:30,499 --> 01:09:32,626
Forbidden pleasures, huh?

850
01:09:32,701 --> 01:09:35,602
- Much business while I was gone?
- A little. Not much.

851
01:09:35,671 --> 01:09:39,107
Step this way, gentlemen.
Let's retire to my office, shall we?

852
01:09:42,945 --> 01:09:45,846
What the fuck is going on here?

853
01:09:49,818 --> 01:09:53,276
Look at this!
The goddamn place is flooded!

854
01:09:53,355 --> 01:09:55,846
Holy fuckin'shit.!

855
01:10:44,673 --> 01:10:47,335
- The kid's sorry, Auggie.
- Yeah?

856
01:10:48,410 --> 01:10:50,344
Well, I'm sorry too.

857
01:10:52,214 --> 01:10:56,844
It took me three years to save up
those 5,000 bucks, and now I'm broke.

858
01:10:56,919 --> 01:10:59,854
I can't hardly pay for this beer.

859
01:11:04,660 --> 01:11:07,823
Not to speak of havin'
my credibility destroyed.

860
01:11:07,896 --> 01:11:10,729
Do you understand
what I'm sayin'?

861
01:11:10,799 --> 01:11:12,790
My credibility.

862
01:11:17,106 --> 01:11:22,203
So, yeah, I'm sorry too. I'm sorry as
I've ever been in my whole fuckin' life.

863
01:11:28,384 --> 01:11:31,842
The kid's got somethin'
to tell you, Auggie.

864
01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:35,822
If he's got somethin'to say to me,
why don't he tell me himself?

865
01:11:37,493 --> 01:11:40,257
- It's for you.
- For me?

866
01:11:41,630 --> 01:11:45,498
- What am I supposed to do with a paper bag?
- Open it.

867
01:12:08,857 --> 01:12:11,485
What is this, some kind of joke?

868
01:12:11,627 --> 01:12:14,494
No, it's $5,000.

869
01:12:33,082 --> 01:12:35,573
I don't want your money,
you little twerp.

870
01:12:36,985 --> 01:12:40,079
It's probably stolen anyway.

871
01:12:40,155 --> 01:12:42,885
What do you care where it
comes from? It's yours.

872
01:12:42,958 --> 01:12:45,893
And why do you
wanna give me money?

873
01:12:45,961 --> 01:12:47,952
To get my job back.

874
01:12:48,030 --> 01:12:52,399
- You're a dumb, whacked-out,
little fuck, do ya know that?

875
01:12:52,468 --> 01:12:56,962
Don't be an ass, Auggie. He's trying to
make it up to you. Can't you see that?

876
01:12:57,039 --> 01:12:59,030
He's crazy.

877
01:12:59,108 --> 01:13:01,872
No, he's not; you are.

878
01:13:01,944 --> 01:13:03,912
You're right.

879
01:13:03,979 --> 01:13:07,676
I just didn't think you knew.
- You didn't think I knew?

880
01:13:07,750 --> 01:13:11,777
It's written all over you like a...

881
01:13:11,854 --> 01:13:14,015
like a neon sign.

882
01:13:24,066 --> 01:13:28,093
Now, you say something nice
to Rashid to help him feel better.

883
01:13:40,983 --> 01:13:43,508
Fuck you, kid.

884
01:13:43,585 --> 01:13:46,986
Fuck you too,
you white son-of-a-bitch.

885
01:13:50,259 --> 01:13:55,689
Good.

886
01:13:55,764 --> 01:13:58,562
I'm glad that's settled.

887
01:14:26,495 --> 01:14:29,623
Mr. Benjamin. Yo!

888
01:14:29,698 --> 01:14:32,531
Mr. Benjamin, I presume.

889
01:14:32,601 --> 01:14:35,229
You got a security problem
in this building, you know that?

890
01:14:35,304 --> 01:14:38,137
That lock on that door
downstairs? It's busted.

891
01:14:38,207 --> 01:14:40,801
It's not a good idea
in these troubled times.

892
01:14:40,876 --> 01:14:44,835
You never know what kind of trash might
just wander in here off the streets.

893
01:14:44,913 --> 01:14:48,041
Well, I'll have the landlord
look into it tomorrow morning.

894
01:14:48,116 --> 01:14:52,951
Yeah, you do that, 'cause you don't want
any unpleasant surprises now, do you?

895
01:14:53,021 --> 01:14:56,582
Who do I have
the pleasure of talking to now?

896
01:14:56,658 --> 01:14:59,752
- Pleasure?
- That's you.

897
01:14:59,828 --> 01:15:04,561
Not a pleasure. No, I wouldn't exactly
call this "pleasure," funny man.

898
01:15:05,968 --> 01:15:08,960
This here's more
on the nature of business.

899
01:15:11,006 --> 01:15:14,498
It doesn't matter.
I, I know who you are anyway.

900
01:15:16,111 --> 01:15:19,945
- You're the Creeper, aren't you?
- The what?

901
01:15:20,015 --> 01:15:24,645
- Ahhh!
- Listen! Nobody... nobody calls Charles that name to his face!

902
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:27,086
- Do you understand me?
- Yes, I understand.

903
01:15:34,530 --> 01:15:37,727
'Cause you're gonna help us
locate a certain party.

904
01:15:37,799 --> 01:15:39,960
And I want it now
before I leave.

905
01:15:40,035 --> 01:15:43,937
- Who are you looking for?
Tommy, man! Tommy Cole!

906
01:15:44,006 --> 01:15:47,567
Tommy Cole.
I don't know anybody...

907
01:15:47,643 --> 01:15:51,443
If it happens, it happens.
If it doesn't, it doesn't.

908
01:15:51,513 --> 01:15:53,708
Do ya understand
what I'm sayin'?

909
01:15:53,782 --> 01:15:56,080
Ya never know what's
gonna happen next.

910
01:15:56,151 --> 01:16:00,850
And the moment ya think you do, that's
the moment you don't know a goddamn thing.

911
01:16:00,923 --> 01:16:03,391
This is what we call a paradox.

912
01:16:03,458 --> 01:16:05,483
Are you following me?

913
01:16:06,762 --> 01:16:09,322
Yeah. I, I follow you, Auggie.

914
01:16:13,735 --> 01:16:16,966
When you don't know nothin',
it's like paradise.

915
01:16:17,039 --> 01:16:19,098
I know what that is.

916
01:16:19,174 --> 01:16:22,200
Uh, that's...
that's after you're dead...

917
01:16:22,277 --> 01:16:26,008
and you go up to heaven
and you sit with the angels.

918
01:16:32,454 --> 01:16:36,220
- Jesus!
- Hi, Auggie. Hi, Jimmy.

919
01:16:36,291 --> 01:16:38,725
You're one fuckin' mess, man.

920
01:16:38,794 --> 01:16:42,025
If the cops hadn't come,
I might not be standing here now.

921
01:16:43,231 --> 01:16:45,995
Ho-ho. They did a number on you.

922
01:16:47,569 --> 01:16:50,970
- I managed to keep my mouth shut
for once in my life.

923
01:16:51,039 --> 01:16:53,803
There's something
to be said for that, right?

924
01:16:53,875 --> 01:16:56,435
No. Jimmy, don't.

925
01:16:56,511 --> 01:17:00,641
- Does it hurt?
- Of course it hurts! What does it look like?

926
01:17:00,716 --> 01:17:03,480
I thought maybe he was pretendin'.

927
01:17:03,552 --> 01:17:07,181
- You heard from Rashid?
- Not a peep.

928
01:17:07,255 --> 01:17:10,816
I spoke to his aunt two days ago.
She hasn't heard from him either.

929
01:17:10,892 --> 01:17:13,156
It's startin' to get a little scary.

930
01:17:13,228 --> 01:17:16,823
Could be a good sign, though.
Could mean that he got away.

931
01:17:16,898 --> 01:17:20,834
Yeah, or he didn't.
There's no way to know, is there?

932
01:17:49,197 --> 01:17:53,725
Hitting with two on and nobody out.
Two more runs in. It's 4-2, New York.

933
01:17:53,802 --> 01:17:59,104
Sasser ahead on the count, 2-0.
Gullickson deals. Outside, ball three.

934
01:17:59,174 --> 01:18:03,167
And so, Bill Gullickson...

935
01:18:22,064 --> 01:18:25,033
So you're just gonna
give up and go home?

936
01:18:25,100 --> 01:18:27,034
What choice do I have?

937
01:18:27,102 --> 01:18:30,367
I mean, she's made it pretty clear
she doesn't want me around.

938
01:18:30,439 --> 01:18:32,634
Well, you can't just write her off.

939
01:18:32,708 --> 01:18:35,506
What am I supposed to do?
You know what I mean?

940
01:18:35,577 --> 01:18:38,944
There's no baby anymore,
and... it's her life.

941
01:18:39,014 --> 01:18:41,847
- What she does with it is her own business.
- She's just a kid.

942
01:18:41,917 --> 01:18:46,217
- There's time for more babies later after she grows up.
- Oh, God, Auggie, dream on.

943
01:18:46,288 --> 01:18:50,190
At the rate she's goin', she's not
gonna make her 19th birthday.

944
01:18:50,258 --> 01:18:53,227
Not if you got her into one
of those rehab programs.

945
01:18:53,295 --> 01:18:57,095
She'd never let me talk her into one of
those things. Besides, they cost money.

946
01:18:57,165 --> 01:19:01,101
And that is one thing I do not have.
I mean, I am flat broke.

947
01:19:01,169 --> 01:19:03,467
- No, you're not.
- Look, are you callin' me a liar?

948
01:19:03,538 --> 01:19:08,771
I'm tellin' you, I'm flat broke. I don't even
have the goddamn money for that goddamn car!

949
01:19:08,844 --> 01:19:11,779
Remember that business venture
I was telling you about?

950
01:19:11,847 --> 01:19:15,408
Well, my tugboat came in.

951
01:19:15,484 --> 01:19:19,045
- I'm flush.
- Well, bully for you.

952
01:19:19,121 --> 01:19:21,851
- No, bully for you.
- What?

953
01:19:24,926 --> 01:19:27,827
- What's this?
- Why don't you open it up and find out?

954
01:19:29,898 --> 01:19:32,833
Oh, Jesus, God, Aug,
there's money in here!

955
01:19:32,901 --> 01:19:35,369
Five thousand bucks.

956
01:19:39,708 --> 01:19:41,903
This is for me?

957
01:19:41,977 --> 01:19:44,172
Just for you, baby.

958
01:19:47,716 --> 01:19:50,514
- For keeps?
- For keeps.

959
01:19:52,487 --> 01:19:54,751
Oh, God!

960
01:19:54,823 --> 01:19:56,814
Oh, Jesus.

961
01:19:56,892 --> 01:19:59,452
Oh, God.

962
01:19:59,528 --> 01:20:01,894
God, you're an angel!
You know that?

963
01:20:01,963 --> 01:20:04,659
- Oh, fuck this "angel" shit.
- You're an angel from heaven.

964
01:20:04,733 --> 01:20:07,463
Just take the dough, Ruby.

965
01:20:07,536 --> 01:20:09,629
- And no bawlin', okay?
- I'm sorry.

966
01:20:09,704 --> 01:20:12,969
- I can't stand people who blubber.
- I'm sorry.

967
01:20:13,041 --> 01:20:16,477
Oh! Oh.

968
01:20:16,545 --> 01:20:20,140
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

969
01:20:22,551 --> 01:20:25,452
Ah!

970
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:28,546
- There's just one thing I wanna know.
- What? Anything at all.

971
01:20:28,623 --> 01:20:32,024
- You name it.
- Felicity.

972
01:20:34,796 --> 01:20:37,390
She's not my daughter, is she?

973
01:20:43,371 --> 01:20:46,397
Well, I don't know. I mean...

974
01:20:48,276 --> 01:20:50,301
she might be.

975
01:20:50,378 --> 01:20:54,144
And then again... she might not.

976
01:20:55,617 --> 01:20:59,815
Mathematically speaking,
I guess it's about a 50-50 chance.

977
01:21:02,457 --> 01:21:04,925
It's your call, Auggie.

978
01:22:06,421 --> 01:22:09,857
Yo, Missing Persons.
Sergeant Fosdick.

979
01:22:12,594 --> 01:22:14,721
Well, blow me down.
Peter Rabbit's alive.

980
01:22:26,875 --> 01:22:31,539
Hey, what are... what are you guys
doing here on a Sunday?

981
01:22:31,613 --> 01:22:35,208
- We decided to have a picnic. Why don't you join us?
- Yeah, sure. Just a second.

982
01:22:35,283 --> 01:22:37,217
Okay. Do you got everything?

983
01:22:37,285 --> 01:22:39,685
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Let's go, men.

984
01:23:03,244 --> 01:23:06,008
Oh, Jesus Christ.

985
01:23:08,116 --> 01:23:11,244
- Yeah.
- It's all right. I got it.

986
01:23:11,319 --> 01:23:13,719
Hiya, kid.

987
01:23:13,788 --> 01:23:16,518
Oh, wow, they really did
a job on you.

988
01:23:16,591 --> 01:23:21,187
Research.
If I work the scene into the story...

989
01:23:21,262 --> 01:23:24,925
that makes the medical bills
100... 100% tax deductible.

990
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:27,434
Try tellin' that one to the I. R. S.

991
01:23:27,502 --> 01:23:30,335
You know these men, huh?
I thought we had some customers here.

992
01:23:30,405 --> 01:23:34,136
- Yeah, he knows us, but you also got some customers.
- Yeah?

993
01:23:34,209 --> 01:23:39,772
We came here to deliver
some clean laundry.

994
01:23:39,848 --> 01:23:43,579
Hey, it's... it's all right.
L- I really do know them.

995
01:23:43,651 --> 01:23:46,518
- Cyrus Cole.
- Augustus Wren. Pleasure.

996
01:23:46,588 --> 01:23:48,886
- I'm the owner here.
- Paul Benjamin.

997
01:23:48,957 --> 01:23:51,892
That's funny. He's got
the same name as you.

998
01:23:53,328 --> 01:23:55,888
Well, you and junior got
the same name too, don't you?

999
01:23:55,964 --> 01:23:59,161
Yeah, but he's my son.
I mean, my flesh and blood.

1000
01:23:59,234 --> 01:24:03,466
You got the same name as this man here,
and you ain't even the same color as him.

1001
01:24:03,538 --> 01:24:05,802
That's how we met.

1002
01:24:05,874 --> 01:24:08,035
See, we, um...

1003
01:24:08,109 --> 01:24:11,101
we're part of the
"International Same Name Club."

1004
01:24:11,179 --> 01:24:15,479
Believe it or not, there are
846 Paul Benjamins in America...

1005
01:24:15,550 --> 01:24:18,542
but, uh, only two in
the New York metropolitan area.

1006
01:24:18,620 --> 01:24:20,952
That's how we... got to be
such good friends.

1007
01:24:21,022 --> 01:24:23,718
We're the only two
who show up for the meetings.

1008
01:24:23,792 --> 01:24:26,124
You're full of crap, kid.

1009
01:24:26,194 --> 01:24:30,187
- Why don't you come clean and
tell the man who you really are.

1010
01:24:30,265 --> 01:24:32,392
What's goin' on, guys?

1011
01:24:34,002 --> 01:24:36,835
Maybe you better ask him.

1012
01:24:36,905 --> 01:24:39,840
Come on, Rashid baby, spill it.

1013
01:24:39,908 --> 01:24:43,605
- Rashid?
- Sometimes.

1014
01:24:43,678 --> 01:24:45,737
It's sort of a nom de guerre.

1015
01:24:47,515 --> 01:24:51,246
I don't even know what we're talking
about, so you wanna help me out here?

1016
01:24:51,319 --> 01:24:54,186
Come on, your real name.

1017
01:24:54,255 --> 01:24:57,452
The name that's on
your birth certificate.

1018
01:25:01,196 --> 01:25:03,164
Thomas.

1019
01:25:04,699 --> 01:25:08,135
Paul, Rashid, Thomas, whatever.
Which one is it?

1020
01:25:09,571 --> 01:25:11,436
- Thomas.
- Thomas?

1021
01:25:11,506 --> 01:25:14,566
Come on, come on, you yellow belly.
The whole thing.

1022
01:25:14,642 --> 01:25:18,203
- The whole name. First name and last name.
- What difference does it make?

1023
01:25:18,279 --> 01:25:20,941
If it doesn't make any difference,
why not just say it?

1024
01:25:21,015 --> 01:25:24,314
I was gonna tell him in my own time!
In my own time!

1025
01:25:24,385 --> 01:25:28,082
There's no time
like the present, man.

1026
01:25:28,156 --> 01:25:30,920
Well...

1027
01:25:30,992 --> 01:25:33,187
I'm listening to you.

1028
01:25:43,071 --> 01:25:45,005
Thomas Cole.

1029
01:25:47,308 --> 01:25:51,904
My name is
Thomas Jefferson Cole.

1030
01:25:57,051 --> 01:25:59,542
You makin' fun of me?

1031
01:26:02,757 --> 01:26:05,920
Are you...
you mockin' me?

1032
01:26:07,428 --> 01:26:09,623
You mockin' me!

1033
01:26:09,697 --> 01:26:13,861
I ain't gonna let no little... punk kid
come here and mock me! You mockin' me?

1034
01:26:13,935 --> 01:26:18,099
- Are you mockin' me?
- Like it or not, Cyrus, that's my name, Cole, just like yours!

1035
01:26:18,173 --> 01:26:21,336
Now ask him
who his mother was.

1036
01:26:21,409 --> 01:26:25,175
I don't like this. I don't like this one
bit. Go upstairs. I'll take care of this.

1037
01:26:25,246 --> 01:26:27,180
- Louisa Vail.
- Shut up!

1038
01:26:27,248 --> 01:26:29,580
- You remember her?
- You shut your fuckin' mouth!

1039
01:26:29,651 --> 01:26:32,518
Hey.! Hey, damn it.!

1040
01:26:32,587 --> 01:26:34,714
Ow! Ow! Ow!

1041
01:26:34,789 --> 01:26:37,519
There'll be none of that,
you sorry piece of shits.!

1042
01:26:45,867 --> 01:26:49,200
Cyrus, stop it!
Stop it! Stop it!

1043
01:26:49,270 --> 01:26:52,501
Stop it! You'll kill him! He's
your son, goddammit! He's your son!

1044
01:26:52,574 --> 01:26:56,442
- Shut up! You're lyin'! You're lyin'!
- He's your son.!

1045
01:26:56,511 --> 01:27:00,880
- You're lyin'! You're lyin'!
You shit, you're lyin'!

1046
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:07,854
You...

1047
01:27:46,861 --> 01:27:48,852
Cigar?

1048
01:27:50,031 --> 01:27:51,965
No, thanks.

1049
01:27:56,371 --> 01:27:59,204
Here, uh, have one of mine?

1050
01:30:00,228 --> 01:30:02,162
- Look, I'm tellin' you,
- What are you...

1051
01:30:02,230 --> 01:30:04,824
There's gonna be another war.

1052
01:30:04,899 --> 01:30:07,629
Those slobs in the Pentagon
are gonna be out of a job...

1053
01:30:07,702 --> 01:30:11,866
unless they find a new enemy,
and they got this Saddam character now.

1054
01:30:11,939 --> 01:30:15,306
I mean, they're gonna hit him
with all they got. You mark my words.

1055
01:30:15,376 --> 01:30:17,970
- How's it goin'?
- Eh.

1056
01:30:18,045 --> 01:30:20,013
Hi, Auggie.

1057
01:30:21,115 --> 01:30:23,743
- Two, right?
- No, uh...

1058
01:30:23,818 --> 01:30:27,345
Make it one.

1059
01:30:27,422 --> 01:30:30,220
- You usually get two.
- I know.

1060
01:30:30,291 --> 01:30:32,782
I'm tryin' to cut down.

1061
01:30:32,860 --> 01:30:35,727
Someone is worried
about my health.

1062
01:30:35,797 --> 01:30:37,992
Aha.

1063
01:30:38,065 --> 01:30:42,058
- So, how's the work goin'these days, Maestro?
- Fine.

1064
01:30:42,136 --> 01:30:46,766
Or was until a couple days ago. I got a
call from a guy from the New York Times.

1065
01:30:46,841 --> 01:30:49,810
They want me to write
a Christmas story.

1066
01:30:49,877 --> 01:30:53,438
They wanna publish it
on Christmas Day.

1067
01:30:53,514 --> 01:30:57,245
That's a feather in your cap, man.
The paper of record.

1068
01:30:57,318 --> 01:31:01,254
Yeah, it's great, except I have to
come up with something in four days...

1069
01:31:01,322 --> 01:31:03,347
and I haven't got a single idea.

1070
01:31:03,424 --> 01:31:06,359
You don't know any
Christmas stories, do ya?

1071
01:31:06,427 --> 01:31:09,021
Christmas stories? Sure.

1072
01:31:09,096 --> 01:31:11,326
I know a ton of'em.

1073
01:31:11,399 --> 01:31:13,833
You know...
You know any good ones?

1074
01:31:13,901 --> 01:31:16,062
Good ones? Of course.

1075
01:31:16,137 --> 01:31:18,367
Are you kiddin'?
I'll tell you what.

1076
01:31:18,439 --> 01:31:22,375
Buy me lunch, my friend, and I'll tell you
the best Christmas story you ever heard.

1077
01:31:22,443 --> 01:31:26,402
How's that? And I guarantee
every word of it is true.

1078
01:31:40,127 --> 01:31:42,687
So... you ready?

1079
01:31:44,098 --> 01:31:46,430
Ready.

1080
01:31:46,501 --> 01:31:48,696
Whenever you are.

1081
01:31:48,769 --> 01:31:50,896
I'm all ears.

1082
01:31:54,141 --> 01:31:58,168
You remember how you once asked me
how I started takin' pictures?

1083
01:31:58,246 --> 01:32:01,704
Well, this is the story
of how I got my first camera.

1084
01:32:01,782 --> 01:32:05,274
As a matter of fact,
it's the only camera I've ever had.

1085
01:32:05,353 --> 01:32:08,880
- Are you followin' me so far?
- Every word.

1086
01:32:09,023 --> 01:32:12,220
So, this is the story
of how it happened.

1087
01:32:13,294 --> 01:32:15,854
Okay.

1088
01:32:15,930 --> 01:32:20,094
It was the summer of'76, back when
I first started workin' for Vinnie.

1089
01:32:20,167 --> 01:32:22,692
The summer
of the bicentennial.

1090
01:32:22,770 --> 01:32:26,968
A kid came in one morning and started
stealing things from the store.

1091
01:32:27,041 --> 01:32:29,942
He's standin' by the rack of
paperbacks along the far wall...

1092
01:32:30,011 --> 01:32:32,878
and he's stuffin' skin magazines
under his shirt.

1093
01:32:32,947 --> 01:32:35,609
I didn't see him at first because
it was crowded around the counter.

1094
01:32:35,683 --> 01:32:38,447
But once I noticed what he was up to,
I started to shout.

1095
01:32:38,519 --> 01:32:41,181
He took off like a jackrabbit.
Zzzzzt!

1096
01:32:41,255 --> 01:32:45,555
By the time I got out from behind the counter,
he was tearing ass down Seventh Avenue.

1097
01:32:45,660 --> 01:32:49,494
I chased him about half a block.
Then I gave up.

1098
01:32:49,564 --> 01:32:52,692
He dropped something
along the way.

1099
01:32:52,767 --> 01:32:57,534
And since I didn't feel like running
anymore, I bent down to see what it was.

1100
01:32:57,605 --> 01:33:01,063
It turned out to be his wallet.

1101
01:33:01,142 --> 01:33:04,373
There wasn't any money inside,
but his driver's license was there...

1102
01:33:04,445 --> 01:33:08,176
along with three
or four snapshots.

1103
01:33:08,249 --> 01:33:10,410
I suppose I could've called
the cops and had him arrested.

1104
01:33:10,484 --> 01:33:12,645
I had his name and address
from the license.

1105
01:33:12,720 --> 01:33:17,214
But I felt kind of sorry for him.
He was just a measly little punk.

1106
01:33:17,291 --> 01:33:21,352
And once I looked
at those pictures in his wallet...

1107
01:33:21,429 --> 01:33:24,921
I couldn't bring myself
to feel very angry at him.

1108
01:33:26,100 --> 01:33:28,591
Roger Goodwin.

1109
01:33:28,669 --> 01:33:30,864
That was his name.

1110
01:33:30,938 --> 01:33:34,465
One of the pictures, I remember,
he was standing next to his mother.

1111
01:33:34,542 --> 01:33:38,308
Another one, he was holding
a trophy he got at school...

1112
01:33:38,379 --> 01:33:42,509
and smiling like he just won
the Irish Sweepstakes.

1113
01:33:42,583 --> 01:33:44,710
I just didn't have the heart.

1114
01:33:44,785 --> 01:33:49,188
A poor kid from Brooklyn,
not much goin' for him.

1115
01:33:49,256 --> 01:33:53,215
Who cared about a couple
of dirty magazines anyway?

1116
01:33:53,294 --> 01:33:57,025
So... I held onto the wallet.

1117
01:33:57,098 --> 01:33:59,293
Um... every once in awhile...

1118
01:33:59,367 --> 01:34:03,235
I'd get a little urge to send it
back to him, but I kept delaying.

1119
01:34:03,304 --> 01:34:05,772
I never did anything about it.

1120
01:34:05,840 --> 01:34:07,774
Then Christmas rolls around...

1121
01:34:07,842 --> 01:34:11,778
and... I'm stuck
with nothin' to do.

1122
01:34:11,846 --> 01:34:14,576
Vinnie was gonna invite me over,
but his mother got sick...

1123
01:34:14,649 --> 01:34:18,050
and he and his wife had to go
to Miami at the last minute.

1124
01:34:18,119 --> 01:34:23,989
So, I'm sitting in my apartment that
morning feeling a little sorry for myself.

1125
01:34:24,058 --> 01:34:27,893
And then I see Roger Goodwin's
wallet lying on a shelf.

1126
01:34:27,928 --> 01:34:31,921
I figure, what the hell,
why not do somethin' nice for once.

1127
01:34:31,999 --> 01:34:36,299
- I put on my coat and
I go out to return the wallet.

1128
01:34:36,370 --> 01:34:39,601
The address is somewhere in Boerum Hill,
somewheres in the Projects.

1129
01:34:39,674 --> 01:34:41,608
It was freezing out
that day, I remember...

1130
01:34:41,676 --> 01:34:44,702
and I kept getting lost trying
to find the right building.

1131
01:34:44,779 --> 01:34:46,974
Everything looks the same
in that place.

1132
01:34:47,048 --> 01:34:50,677
And you keep going over the same
ground thinkin' you're somewhere else.

1133
01:34:50,751 --> 01:34:56,155
Anyway, I finally got to the apartment
I was lookin' for, and I ring the bell.

1134
01:34:56,223 --> 01:34:59,681
Nothing happens.
I assume no one is there.

1135
01:34:59,760 --> 01:35:02,285
I ring again just to make sure.

1136
01:35:02,363 --> 01:35:05,764
And just as I'm about to give up,
I wait a little longer...

1137
01:35:05,833 --> 01:35:08,859
and I hear someone
shuffling to the door.

1138
01:35:08,936 --> 01:35:12,167
An old woman's voice asks,
"Who's there?"

1139
01:35:13,340 --> 01:35:16,468
And I say,
"I'm lookin' for Roger Goodwin."

1140
01:35:16,544 --> 01:35:18,774
"Is that you, Roger?" She says.

1141
01:35:20,581 --> 01:35:23,880
And then she undoes about
15 locks and opens the door.

1142
01:35:25,119 --> 01:35:28,213
She's got to be at least 80,
maybe 90 years old.

1143
01:35:28,289 --> 01:35:32,055
And the first thing
I noticed about her is...

1144
01:35:32,126 --> 01:35:35,493
she's blind.

1145
01:35:35,563 --> 01:35:38,464
"I knew you'd come, Roger,"
she says.

1146
01:35:38,532 --> 01:35:42,866
"I knew you wouldn't forget
your Granny Ethel on Christmas."

1147
01:35:42,937 --> 01:35:47,306
And then she opens her arms
as if she's about to hug me.

1148
01:35:47,374 --> 01:35:51,276
I don't have much time to think, you
understand. I had to say something real fast.

1149
01:35:51,345 --> 01:35:55,714
And before I knew what was happening, I
could hear the words coming out of my mouth:

1150
01:35:55,783 --> 01:35:58,411
"That's right, Granny Ethel," I said.

1151
01:35:58,486 --> 01:36:00,977
"I came back to see you
on Christmas."

1152
01:36:02,323 --> 01:36:05,315
Don't ask me why I said it.
I don't have any idea.

1153
01:36:05,392 --> 01:36:08,225
It just came out that way.

1154
01:36:08,295 --> 01:36:13,494
Suddenly, this old lady's huggin' me there in
front of the door, and I'm huggin' her back.

1155
01:36:13,567 --> 01:36:16,661
It was as if we both decided to...

1156
01:36:16,737 --> 01:36:19,035
play this game...

1157
01:36:19,106 --> 01:36:22,507
without having
to discuss the rules.

1158
01:36:22,576 --> 01:36:25,773
I mean, she knew
I wasn't her grandson.

1159
01:36:25,846 --> 01:36:29,304
She was old and dotty,
but she wasn't so far gone...

1160
01:36:29,383 --> 01:36:33,979
that she couldn't tell a complete
stranger from her own flesh and blood.

1161
01:36:34,054 --> 01:36:37,387
But it made her happy to pretend.

1162
01:36:37,458 --> 01:36:41,952
And since I had nothin' better to do,
I was happy to go along with it.

1163
01:36:42,029 --> 01:36:45,260
So, we both go into the apartment,
we spend the day together.

1164
01:36:45,332 --> 01:36:49,200
Every time she asked me how
I was doing, I would lie to her.

1165
01:36:49,270 --> 01:36:53,536
I told her I had found a good job in a cigar
store. I told her I was about to get married.

1166
01:36:53,607 --> 01:36:57,873
I told her a hundred pretty stories, and
she made like she believed every one of them.

1167
01:36:57,945 --> 01:37:01,745
"That's fine, Roger," she would say,
nodding her head and smiling.

1168
01:37:01,816 --> 01:37:05,115
"I always knew things
would turn out for you."

1169
01:37:07,388 --> 01:37:10,619
After a while,
I started getting hungry.

1170
01:37:10,691 --> 01:37:14,718
Since there was no food in the house, I
went out to a store in the neighborhood...

1171
01:37:14,795 --> 01:37:18,128
and I picked up
a whole bunch of stuff:

1172
01:37:18,199 --> 01:37:21,293
A precooked chicken,
vegetable soup...

1173
01:37:21,368 --> 01:37:23,529
a bucket of potato salad.

1174
01:37:23,604 --> 01:37:25,538
Whole bunch of stuff.

1175
01:37:27,875 --> 01:37:31,834
Granny Ethel had a couple of bottles
of wine stashed in her bedroom.

1176
01:37:31,912 --> 01:37:33,880
And so...

1177
01:37:33,948 --> 01:37:38,248
both of us together managed to put
together a fairly decent Christmas dinner.

1178
01:37:38,319 --> 01:37:41,686
We both got a little tipsy
from the wine, I remember.

1179
01:37:41,755 --> 01:37:45,691
And after the meal was over,
we went out to sit in the living room...

1180
01:37:45,759 --> 01:37:49,160
where the chairs
were more comfortable.

1181
01:37:49,230 --> 01:37:54,167
I had to take a pee, so I excused myself
and I went to the bathroom down the hallway.

1182
01:37:55,569 --> 01:37:58,504
And that's when things
took another turn.

1183
01:38:00,207 --> 01:38:03,768
It was ditzy enough doing my little jig
as Granny Ethel's grandson...

1184
01:38:03,844 --> 01:38:06,642
but what I did then...

1185
01:38:06,714 --> 01:38:09,842
was particularly crazy...

1186
01:38:09,917 --> 01:38:12,886
and I've never
forgiven myself since.

1187
01:38:14,021 --> 01:38:16,251
I go into the bathroom...

1188
01:38:16,323 --> 01:38:19,417
and stacked up against the wall
next to the shower...

1189
01:38:19,493 --> 01:38:22,656
I see a pile of six
or seven cameras.

1190
01:38:22,730 --> 01:38:25,756
Brand-new 35-millimeter cameras...

1191
01:38:25,833 --> 01:38:29,064
still in their boxes.

1192
01:38:29,136 --> 01:38:33,266
I've never taken a picture in my life...

1193
01:38:33,340 --> 01:38:36,901
much less ever stolen anything.

1194
01:38:36,977 --> 01:38:41,914
But once I see those cameras
sitting there in the bathroom...

1195
01:38:41,982 --> 01:38:46,510
I decide I want one
of them for myself.

1196
01:38:46,587 --> 01:38:48,748
Just like that.

1197
01:38:48,822 --> 01:38:52,053
And without even thinkin' about it,
I pick up one of the cameras...

1198
01:38:52,126 --> 01:38:55,892
tuck it under my arm and go out
back to the living room.

1199
01:38:57,364 --> 01:39:01,130
I wasn't gone more than
three minutes, but in that time...

1200
01:39:01,201 --> 01:39:03,795
Granny Ethel had fallen asleep.

1201
01:39:04,872 --> 01:39:07,864
Too much Chianti,
I suppose.

1202
01:39:07,942 --> 01:39:11,207
I went out to the kitchen
and wash the dishes.

1203
01:39:11,278 --> 01:39:14,736
She slept through the whole racket,
snoring away like a baby.

1204
01:39:14,815 --> 01:39:18,046
There was no point
in disturbing her...

1205
01:39:18,118 --> 01:39:21,645
so... I decided to leave.

1206
01:39:24,491 --> 01:39:28,928
I couldn't even write her a letter to say
good-bye, seein' that she was blind and all.

1207
01:39:30,230 --> 01:39:32,391
So I just left.

1208
01:39:33,667 --> 01:39:36,830
I put her grandson's wallet
on the table...

1209
01:39:38,105 --> 01:39:40,733
picked up the camera again...

1210
01:39:40,808 --> 01:39:43,276
and walked out
of the apartment.

1211
01:39:46,046 --> 01:39:48,981
And that's the end
of the story.

1212
01:39:54,355 --> 01:39:58,553
Did you ever see her again?
You ever go back to see her?

1213
01:40:03,731 --> 01:40:07,258
Once, maybe three
or four months later.

1214
01:40:07,334 --> 01:40:10,565
I, uh... felt so bad
about stealin' the camera.

1215
01:40:10,637 --> 01:40:12,901
I hadn't even used it yet.

1216
01:40:12,973 --> 01:40:17,842
I finally made up my mind to return it,
but... Granny Ethel wasn't there anymore.

1217
01:40:17,911 --> 01:40:22,848
Someone else had moved into the apartment,
and they couldn't tell me where she was.

1218
01:40:28,088 --> 01:40:30,682
She probably died.

1219
01:40:30,758 --> 01:40:33,852
Yeah. Probably.

1220
01:40:42,536 --> 01:40:45,903
Which means she spent
her last Christmas with you.

1221
01:40:50,411 --> 01:40:52,436
I guess so.

1222
01:40:52,513 --> 01:40:55,505
I hadn't thought about it that way.

1223
01:40:58,752 --> 01:41:02,711
It was a good deed, Auggie.
That was a nice thing you did for her.

1224
01:41:04,525 --> 01:41:07,153
I lied to her and I stole from her.

1225
01:41:07,227 --> 01:41:11,561
- I don't see how you could call that a good deed.
- You made her happy.

1226
01:41:11,598 --> 01:41:14,499
The camera was stolen anyway.

1227
01:41:14,568 --> 01:41:18,163
Not as if the person you took
it from really owned it.

1228
01:41:20,541 --> 01:41:22,941
Anything for art, eh, Paul?

1229
01:41:24,078 --> 01:41:26,979
I wouldn't say that, but, um...

1230
01:41:27,047 --> 01:41:29,880
at least you put
the camera to good use.

1231
01:41:29,950 --> 01:41:33,044
And now you got
your Christmas story, don't ya?

1232
01:41:38,592 --> 01:41:40,890
Yes, I suppose I do.

1233
01:41:57,811 --> 01:42:01,144
Bullshit is a real talent, Auggie.

1234
01:42:03,617 --> 01:42:08,554
To make up a good story, you have to
know how to push all the right buttons.

1235
01:42:10,357 --> 01:42:13,292
I'd say you were up there
among the masters.

1236
01:42:14,394 --> 01:42:16,362
What do you mean?

1237
01:42:18,632 --> 01:42:21,499
I mean, um...

1238
01:42:21,568 --> 01:42:24,435
It's a good story.

1239
01:42:26,807 --> 01:42:29,002
Shit.

1240
01:42:29,076 --> 01:42:33,979
If you can't share your secrets with your
friends, then what kind of friend are ya?

1241
01:42:46,894 --> 01:42:48,953
Exactly.

1242
01:42:50,397 --> 01:42:53,833
Life just wouldn't
be worth living, would it?

1243
01:43:08,882 --> 01:43:13,945
The bats are in the belfry

1244
01:43:14,021 --> 01:43:19,323
The dew is on the moon

1245
01:43:19,393 --> 01:43:24,490
Where are the arms
that held me

1246
01:43:24,565 --> 01:43:35,331
And pledged her love before

1247
01:43:37,411 --> 01:43:42,144
And it's such
a sad old feeling

1248
01:43:42,216 --> 01:43:47,654
All the fields
are soft and green

1249
01:43:47,721 --> 01:43:52,488
It's memories that I'm stealing

1250
01:43:52,559 --> 01:43:57,553
But you're innocent
when you dream

1251
01:43:57,631 --> 01:44:00,031
When you dream

1252
01:44:00,100 --> 01:44:04,093
You're innocent when you dream

1253
01:44:04,171 --> 01:44:06,366
When you dream

1254
01:44:06,440 --> 01:44:12,106
You're innocent when you dream

1255
01:44:14,147 --> 01:44:19,084
I made a golden promise

1256
01:44:19,152 --> 01:44:24,317
That we would never part

1257
01:44:24,391 --> 01:44:29,351
I gave my love a locket

1258
01:44:29,429 --> 01:44:39,628
And then I broke her heart

1259
01:44:42,009 --> 01:44:46,776
And it's such a sad old feeling

1260
01:44:46,847 --> 01:44:52,615
All of the fields
are soft and green

1261
01:44:52,686 --> 01:44:57,180
And it's memories that I'm stealing

1262
01:44:57,257 --> 01:45:02,388
But you're innocent
when you dream

1263
01:45:02,462 --> 01:45:04,692
When you dream

1264
01:45:04,765 --> 01:45:08,861
You're innocent when you dream

1265
01:45:08,935 --> 01:45:11,165
When you dream

1266
01:45:11,238 --> 01:45:17,177
You're innocent when you dream

1267
01:45:19,179 --> 01:45:23,912
We're running
through the graveyard

1268
01:45:23,984 --> 01:45:29,479
And we laughed
my friends and I

1269
01:45:29,556 --> 01:45:34,619
We swore we'd be together

1270
01:45:34,695 --> 01:45:45,565
Until the day we die

1271
01:45:45,639 --> 01:45:49,939
- And it's such
- Such a sad old feeling

1272
01:45:50,010 --> 01:45:55,710
All of the fields
are soft and green

1273
01:45:55,782 --> 01:46:00,242
And it's memories
that I'm stealing

1274
01:46:00,320 --> 01:46:05,519
But you're innocent
when you dream

1275
01:46:05,592 --> 01:46:07,753
When you dream

1276
01:46:07,828 --> 01:46:12,197
You're innocent when you dream

1277
01:46:12,265 --> 01:46:14,324
When you dream

1278
01:46:14,401 --> 01:46:19,202
You're innocent when you dream

1279
01:46:21,808 --> 01:46:26,711
And it's such a sad old feeling

1280
01:46:26,780 --> 01:46:32,741
All of the fields
are soft and green

1281
01:46:32,819 --> 01:46:36,949
And it's memories
that I'm stealing

1282
01:46:37,023 --> 01:46:42,325
But you're innocent
when you dream

1283
01:46:42,396 --> 01:46:44,591
When you dream

1284
01:46:44,664 --> 01:46:49,499
You're innocent when you dream

1285
01:46:49,569 --> 01:46:51,696
When you dream

1286
01:46:51,772 --> 01:46:56,641
You're innocent when you dream

1287
01:46:58,545 --> 01:47:03,573
And it's such a sad old feeling

1288
01:47:03,650 --> 01:47:09,020
All the fields
are soft and green

1289
01:47:09,089 --> 01:47:13,651
Its memories that I'm stealing

1290
01:47:13,727 --> 01:47:18,858
But you're innocent
when you dream

1291
01:47:18,932 --> 01:47:21,059
When you dream

1292
01:47:21,134 --> 01:47:25,400
You're innocent when you dream

1293
01:47:25,472 --> 01:47:27,599
When you dream

1294
01:47:27,674 --> 01:47:33,306
You're innocent when you dream

1295
01:47:35,615 --> 01:47:40,416
I made a golden promise

1296
01:47:40,487 --> 01:47:44,617
That we would never part

1297
01:47:45,659 --> 01:47:50,426
I gave my love a locket

1298
01:47:50,497 --> 01:47:55,901
And then
I broke her heart

1299
01:47:55,969 --> 01:48:00,736
And then I broke her heart

1300
01:48:03,343 --> 01:48:08,042
And it's such
a sad old feeling

1301
01:48:08,114 --> 01:48:13,848
All of the fields
are soft and green

1302
01:48:13,920 --> 01:48:18,584
And it's memories
that I'm stealing

1303
01:48:18,658 --> 01:48:23,595
But you're innocent
when you dream

1304
01:48:23,663 --> 01:48:25,893
When you dream

1305
01:48:25,966 --> 01:48:30,335
You're innocent when you dream

1306
01:48:30,403 --> 01:48:32,564
When you dream

1307
01:48:32,639 --> 01:48:39,374
You're innocent when you dream

1308
01:49:02,068 --> 01:49:06,835
They asked me how I knew

1309
01:49:08,475 --> 01:49:14,778
My true love was true

1310
01:49:17,017 --> 01:49:21,386
I, of course, replied

1311
01:49:21,454 --> 01:49:25,686
Something here inside

1312
01:49:25,759 --> 01:49:29,695
Cannot be denied

1313
01:49:37,270 --> 01:49:41,969
They said someday you'll find

1314
01:49:43,043 --> 01:49:47,810
All who love are blind

1315
01:49:51,718 --> 01:49:56,018
When your heart's on fire

1316
01:49:56,089 --> 01:50:00,389
You must realize

1317
01:50:00,460 --> 01:50:04,920
Smoke gets in your eyes

1318
01:50:11,671 --> 01:50:15,163
So I chaffed and

1319
01:50:15,241 --> 01:50:18,972
Then I gaily laughed

1320
01:50:19,045 --> 01:50:22,378
To think they could doubt

1321
01:50:22,449 --> 01:50:25,213
My... love

1322
01:50:28,989 --> 01:50:31,856
Yet today

1323
01:50:31,925 --> 01:50:35,053
My love has flown away

1324
01:50:36,229 --> 01:50:38,720
I am without

1325
01:50:39,866 --> 01:50:42,960
My... love

1326
01:50:43,036 --> 01:50:45,596
Without my love

1327
01:50:45,672 --> 01:50:47,606
Ooo-oh

1328
01:50:47,674 --> 01:50:51,474
Now laughing friends deride

1329
01:50:52,912 --> 01:50:59,511
Tears I cannot hide

1330
01:51:01,454 --> 01:51:04,753
So I just smile and say

1331
01:51:05,959 --> 01:51:09,019
When a loving flame dies

1332
01:51:10,030 --> 01:51:13,966
Smoke gets in your eyes

1333
01:51:14,034 --> 01:51:16,901
Eye-eye-eye

1334
01:51:16,970 --> 01:51:20,201
Smoke gets in your eyes

1335
01:51:20,273 --> 01:51:22,207
Oh

1336
01:52:13,273 --> 01:52:14,207
{{{the end}}}