1 00:00:19,039 --> 00:00:20,248 Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head? 2 00:00:20,248 --> 00:00:22,709 Do I have an original thought in my head? My bald head? 3 00:00:22,876 --> 00:00:25,712 Maybe if I were happier, my hair wouldn't be falling out. 4 00:00:25,879 --> 00:00:29,299 Life is short. I need to make the most of it. 5 00:00:29,466 --> 00:00:32,969 Today is the first day of the rest of my life. 6 00:00:34,054 --> 00:00:35,555 I'm a walking clich�. 7 00:00:35,722 --> 00:00:38,308 I really need to go to the doctor and have my leg checked. 8 00:00:38,475 --> 00:00:40,101 There's something wrong. A bump. 9 00:00:40,268 --> 00:00:42,562 The dentist called again. I'm way overdue. 10 00:00:42,729 --> 00:00:44,981 If I stopped putting things off, I'd be happier. 11 00:00:46,733 --> 00:00:49,778 All I do is sit on my fat ass. If my ass wasn't fat, I'd be happier. 12 00:00:49,944 --> 00:00:53,198 I wouldn't have to wear these shirts with the tails out all the time. 13 00:00:53,365 --> 00:00:54,908 Like that's fooling anyone. 14 00:00:55,075 --> 00:00:58,828 Fat ass. I should start jogging again. Five miles a day. 15 00:00:58,995 --> 00:01:02,040 Really do it this time. Maybe rock climbing. 16 00:01:02,248 --> 00:01:03,917 I need to turn my life around. 17 00:01:04,084 --> 00:01:06,670 What do I need to do? I need to fall in love. 18 00:01:06,836 --> 00:01:08,296 I need to have a girlfriend. 19 00:01:08,463 --> 00:01:10,757 I need to read more, improve myself. 20 00:01:10,924 --> 00:01:12,676 What if I learned Russian or something? 21 00:01:12,842 --> 00:01:15,887 Or took up an instrument? I could speak Chinese. 22 00:01:16,054 --> 00:01:19,432 I would be the screenwriter who speaks Chinese. And plays the oboe. 23 00:01:19,599 --> 00:01:22,310 That would be cool. I should get my hair cut short. 24 00:01:22,477 --> 00:01:25,563 Stop trying to fool everyone into thinking I have a full head of hair. 25 00:01:25,772 --> 00:01:28,775 How pathetic is that? Just be real. Confident. 26 00:01:28,942 --> 00:01:31,152 Isn't that what women are attracted to? 27 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:32,904 Men don't have to be attractive. 28 00:01:33,071 --> 00:01:35,490 But that's not true, especially these days. 29 00:01:35,657 --> 00:01:38,743 Almost as much pressure on men as there is on women these days. 30 00:01:38,952 --> 00:01:41,955 Why should I be made to feel I have to apologize for my existence? 31 00:01:42,122 --> 00:01:43,790 Maybe it's my brain chemistry. 32 00:01:43,957 --> 00:01:46,209 Maybe that's what's wrong with me: Bad chemistry. 33 00:01:46,376 --> 00:01:49,421 All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance... 34 00:01:49,629 --> 00:01:51,589 ...or some kind of misfiring synapses. 35 00:01:51,756 --> 00:01:53,508 I need to get help for that. 36 00:01:53,675 --> 00:01:55,802 But I'll still be ugly, though. 37 00:01:55,969 --> 00:01:57,637 Nothing's gonna change that. 38 00:01:57,804 --> 00:01:57,971 Shut up! 39 00:01:57,971 --> 00:01:58,805 Shut up! 40 00:02:01,516 --> 00:02:05,020 Let's really try today to solve our camera problems. 41 00:02:06,438 --> 00:02:08,606 Keep between-take time at an absolute minimum. 42 00:02:08,815 --> 00:02:10,984 These masks are really hot. Okay? 43 00:02:11,151 --> 00:02:13,820 I wanna be very well-heard on that from everybody. 44 00:02:13,987 --> 00:02:18,825 Don't futz unless it's absolutely important to the shot, okay? 45 00:02:18,992 --> 00:02:22,203 I don't say that for me. I say that for the people sitting here... 46 00:02:22,370 --> 00:02:23,997 - Thank you, John. ...in the rubber. 47 00:02:24,164 --> 00:02:26,750 - I like my dress. Okay? - Very good. 48 00:02:27,625 --> 00:02:30,337 So now, folks, you better heed that advice. 49 00:02:32,505 --> 00:02:33,757 Stand by for picture. 50 00:02:35,258 --> 00:02:38,136 Have her rotate around the table a little bit further. 51 00:02:41,181 --> 00:02:42,432 Hold on until we're clear. 52 00:02:42,599 --> 00:02:45,560 You. You're in the eye line. Can you please get off the stage? 53 00:02:45,727 --> 00:02:48,021 Yeah, just bring in the six-footer. 54 00:02:53,026 --> 00:02:55,987 What am I doing here? Why did I bother to come here today? 55 00:02:56,321 --> 00:02:58,114 Nobody even seems to know my name. 56 00:02:58,281 --> 00:03:03,286 I've been on this planet for 40 years, and I don't understand a single thing. 57 00:03:03,453 --> 00:03:06,414 Why am I here? How did I get here? 58 00:04:03,096 --> 00:04:05,682 My leg hurts. I wonder if it's cancer. 59 00:04:05,849 --> 00:04:08,393 There's a bump. I'm starting to sweat. Stop sweating. 60 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,603 I've got to stop sweating. 61 00:04:10,770 --> 00:04:13,565 Can she see it dripping down my forehead? 62 00:04:13,732 --> 00:04:16,359 She looked at my hairline. She thinks I'm bald. She... 63 00:04:16,526 --> 00:04:19,070 We think you're great. 64 00:04:19,237 --> 00:04:20,947 Thanks. That's nice to hear. 65 00:04:21,114 --> 00:04:23,908 We all just loved the Malkovich script. 66 00:04:24,075 --> 00:04:26,411 - Thanks. Thanks... - Such a unique voice. 67 00:04:26,578 --> 00:04:29,205 Boy, I'd love to find a portal into your brain. 68 00:04:29,372 --> 00:04:31,166 Trust me, it's no fun. 69 00:04:33,418 --> 00:04:36,379 So tell me your thoughts on this crazy little project of ours. 70 00:04:38,506 --> 00:04:40,175 First, I think it's a great book. 71 00:04:41,634 --> 00:04:43,845 - Laroche is a fun character, isn't he? - Absolutely. 72 00:04:44,012 --> 00:04:47,265 And Orlean makes orchids so fascinating. 73 00:04:47,432 --> 00:04:50,977 Plus, her musings on Florida and orchid poaching... 74 00:04:51,144 --> 00:04:54,397 ...Indians. It's just... It's great, sprawling New Yorker stuff. 75 00:04:54,564 --> 00:04:56,191 I'd want to remain true to that. 76 00:04:56,358 --> 00:05:00,320 I'd wanna let the movie exist, rather than be... 77 00:05:00,487 --> 00:05:03,865 ...artificially plot-driven. - Great. 78 00:05:04,824 --> 00:05:06,951 I guess I'm not exactly sure what that means. 79 00:05:09,829 --> 00:05:12,582 I'm not sure I know what that means either. 80 00:05:12,749 --> 00:05:15,794 I just don't wanna ruin it by making it a Hollywood thing. You know? 81 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:20,632 Like... an orchid heist movie or something, you know? 82 00:05:20,799 --> 00:05:23,343 Or changing the orchids into poppies... 83 00:05:23,510 --> 00:05:25,512 ...and making it about drug running, you know? 84 00:05:25,679 --> 00:05:27,555 - Definitely. - Why can't there be a movie... 85 00:05:27,722 --> 00:05:29,683 ...simply about flowers? 86 00:05:30,183 --> 00:05:32,102 I guess we thought that maybe... 87 00:05:32,268 --> 00:05:35,647 ...Susan Orlean and Laroche could fall in love, and... 88 00:05:35,814 --> 00:05:39,567 Okay. But I'm saying, it's like, I don't wanna cram in sex... 89 00:05:39,734 --> 00:05:42,779 ...or guns or car chases... 90 00:05:42,946 --> 00:05:46,616 ...you know, or characters, you know... 91 00:05:46,783 --> 00:05:49,327 ...learning profound life lessons. 92 00:05:49,494 --> 00:05:51,496 Or growing, or coming to like each other... 93 00:05:51,663 --> 00:05:54,916 ...or overcoming obstacles to succeed in the end, you know? I mean... 94 00:05:55,083 --> 00:05:57,627 The book isn't like that... 95 00:05:57,794 --> 00:06:01,631 ...and life isn't like that. You know, it just isn't. And... 96 00:06:04,300 --> 00:06:07,012 I feel very strongly about this. 97 00:06:09,347 --> 00:06:12,225 John Laroche is a tall guy, skinny as a stick... 98 00:06:12,392 --> 00:06:15,228 ...pale-eyed, slouch-shouldered... 99 00:06:15,395 --> 00:06:20,025 ...sharply handsome, despite the fact he's missing all his front teeth. 100 00:06:20,191 --> 00:06:23,778 I went to Florida two years ago to write a piece for The New Yorker. 101 00:06:23,945 --> 00:06:28,033 It was after reading a small article about a white man and three Seminole men... 102 00:06:28,241 --> 00:06:30,910 ...arrested with rare orchids they'd stolen out of a place... 103 00:06:31,077 --> 00:06:34,414 ...called the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. 104 00:06:37,542 --> 00:06:42,130 As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being... 105 00:06:43,923 --> 00:06:48,595 ...all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. 106 00:06:48,762 --> 00:06:52,766 It's interesting to contemplate an entangled bank... 107 00:07:10,784 --> 00:07:12,952 Polyrrhiza lindenii. 108 00:07:14,371 --> 00:07:15,997 A ghost. 109 00:07:19,167 --> 00:07:21,419 Cut her down, Russell. 110 00:08:04,421 --> 00:08:06,506 - Morning. - Hey. 111 00:08:06,673 --> 00:08:09,509 May I ask you gentlemen what you have in those pillowcases? 112 00:08:09,843 --> 00:08:12,345 Yes, sir, you absolutely may. 113 00:08:12,679 --> 00:08:15,682 - Okay, then, I'm asking. - Well, okay, then. 114 00:08:15,849 --> 00:08:17,308 Let's see. 115 00:08:17,684 --> 00:08:21,479 We've got five kinds of bromeliad... 116 00:08:21,646 --> 00:08:25,066 ...one peperomia, nine orchid varieties. 117 00:08:26,776 --> 00:08:30,238 You know, about 130 plants all told. 118 00:08:30,405 --> 00:08:32,741 Which my colleagues here removed from the swamp. 119 00:08:32,907 --> 00:08:37,495 You're aware it's illegal to remove plants or animals from state-owned land? 120 00:08:37,662 --> 00:08:39,539 Yeah, and don't forget... 121 00:08:39,706 --> 00:08:43,126 ...these plants are all endangered, sir. Every one of them. 122 00:08:43,293 --> 00:08:47,339 Well, exactly. That's exactly the issue. This is a state preserve. 123 00:08:47,797 --> 00:08:49,632 Yes, sir. It is. 124 00:08:50,383 --> 00:08:53,136 - But... - My colleagues are all Seminole Indians. 125 00:08:53,303 --> 00:08:55,597 Did I mention that? You're familiar, I'm sure... 126 00:08:55,764 --> 00:08:58,224 ...with the State of Florida v. James E. Billie? 127 00:08:58,725 --> 00:09:03,521 So you know that even though Seminole Chief Billie killed a Florida panther... 128 00:09:03,688 --> 00:09:05,815 ...one of what, 40 in the entire world? 129 00:09:05,982 --> 00:09:07,317 - Forty. - Forty. 130 00:09:07,484 --> 00:09:09,903 The state couldn't successfully prosecute him... 131 00:09:10,070 --> 00:09:12,947 ...because, you know, he's an Indian, and it's his right. 132 00:09:13,114 --> 00:09:18,161 As repugnant as you and I, as white conservationists, might find his actions. 133 00:09:18,328 --> 00:09:21,122 - But... - Not to mention the failed attempts... 134 00:09:21,289 --> 00:09:25,710 ...on three occasions to prosecute Seminoles for poaching palm fronds. 135 00:09:25,877 --> 00:09:31,132 Which I believe they use to thatch the roofs of their traditional chickee huts. 136 00:09:31,675 --> 00:09:34,135 How about that? With the chickee huts, right? 137 00:09:34,302 --> 00:09:38,390 Yeah, he's right. That's exactly what we use them for. Chickee huts. 138 00:09:42,977 --> 00:09:44,938 Yeah, but I don't... 139 00:09:45,105 --> 00:09:48,441 I can't let you fellas leave yet. 140 00:09:49,317 --> 00:09:52,779 - Just hold on there a minute. - Okay. 141 00:09:54,614 --> 00:09:56,991 Charles, is that you? 142 00:09:58,952 --> 00:10:00,787 Did you eat lunch? 143 00:10:01,413 --> 00:10:05,291 I had that shrimp cocktail in the fridge. Was it yours? 144 00:10:05,458 --> 00:10:08,795 I hope not. I couldn't remember, so I ate it. 145 00:10:08,962 --> 00:10:12,090 Maybe we should write our names on our food items from now on. 146 00:10:12,257 --> 00:10:14,759 - What's with you? - My back. 147 00:10:14,968 --> 00:10:19,347 Charles, you'll be glad. I have a plan to get me out of your house, pronto. 148 00:10:19,514 --> 00:10:24,310 - A job is a plan. Is your plan a job? - Drum roll, please. 149 00:10:25,770 --> 00:10:28,815 I'm gonna be a screenwriter. Like you. 150 00:10:28,982 --> 00:10:31,901 I know you think this is just one of my "get rich quick" schemes... 151 00:10:32,068 --> 00:10:33,695 ...but I'm doing it right this time. 152 00:10:33,862 --> 00:10:37,657 I'm taking a three-day seminar, and it's only 500 bucks. 153 00:10:37,824 --> 00:10:40,368 Screenwriting seminars are bullshit. 154 00:10:40,535 --> 00:10:43,538 In theory, I agree with you. But this one's different. 155 00:10:43,705 --> 00:10:45,665 This one's highly regarded in the industry. 156 00:10:45,832 --> 00:10:48,084 Donald, don't say "industry." 157 00:10:48,251 --> 00:10:50,211 I'm sorry. I forgot. 158 00:10:50,378 --> 00:10:52,964 Charles, this guy knows screenwriting. 159 00:10:53,131 --> 00:10:55,508 People come from all over to study with him. 160 00:10:55,675 --> 00:10:58,345 - I'll pay you back as soon as l... - Let me explain something. 161 00:10:58,511 --> 00:11:02,182 Anybody who says he's got "the answer" is going to attract desperate people... 162 00:11:02,349 --> 00:11:03,975 ...be it in the world of religion... 163 00:11:04,142 --> 00:11:06,519 I just need to lie down while you explain this to me. 164 00:11:06,686 --> 00:11:08,813 Sorry. I apologize. 165 00:11:09,606 --> 00:11:11,399 Okay, go ahead. 166 00:11:11,566 --> 00:11:14,027 - So... - Sorry. Okay. Go. 167 00:11:14,194 --> 00:11:15,528 There are no rules, Donald. 168 00:11:15,695 --> 00:11:18,156 And anybody who says there are is just, you know... 169 00:11:18,365 --> 00:11:21,409 Not rules. Principles. 170 00:11:22,035 --> 00:11:25,872 McKee writes that a rule says, "You must do it this way." 171 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:30,669 A principle says, "This works and has through all remembered time." 172 00:11:30,835 --> 00:11:33,838 The script I'm starting, it's about flowers. 173 00:11:34,714 --> 00:11:37,050 Nobody's ever done a movie about flowers before. 174 00:11:37,217 --> 00:11:41,054 - So there are no guidelines. - What about Flowers for Algernon? 175 00:11:41,221 --> 00:11:43,890 Well, that's not about flowers. And it's not a movie. 176 00:11:44,057 --> 00:11:45,975 I'm sorry. I never saw it. 177 00:11:46,142 --> 00:11:47,560 How...? Okay, keep going. 178 00:11:47,727 --> 00:11:50,355 Look, my point is that those teachers are dangerous... 179 00:11:50,522 --> 00:11:52,524 ...if your goal is to try to do something new. 180 00:11:52,691 --> 00:11:56,444 A writer should always have that goal. Writing is a journey into the unknown. 181 00:11:56,611 --> 00:11:59,906 It's not building, you know, one of your model airplanes. 182 00:12:04,411 --> 00:12:06,913 McKee is a former Fulbright Scholar, Charles. 183 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,208 Are you a former Fulbright Scholar? 184 00:12:13,420 --> 00:12:16,589 Say something. I dragged her here, and now I'm not saying anything. 185 00:12:16,756 --> 00:12:18,591 Make her laugh. Say something funny. 186 00:12:19,759 --> 00:12:22,387 I hate parties, Amelia. Why did we come here? 187 00:12:22,595 --> 00:12:25,265 Because we're hip, young trendsetters on the make, aren't we? 188 00:12:25,432 --> 00:12:28,226 More like old losers sitting on the floor, maybe. 189 00:12:28,393 --> 00:12:33,189 Jesus, Charlie. Speak for yourself. Okay... 190 00:12:34,357 --> 00:12:36,443 Charlie, we're gonna fix you up. 191 00:12:36,609 --> 00:12:40,989 We're gonna solve the whole Charlie Kaufman mess for once and for all. 192 00:12:41,156 --> 00:12:42,866 - Okay. - Okay, let me see. 193 00:12:43,033 --> 00:12:46,453 What do you need? What, what, what? 194 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,497 Well, I'm glad you took the orchid script. 195 00:12:49,789 --> 00:12:53,084 I think it will be good for you to get out of your head. 196 00:12:53,251 --> 00:12:57,547 I think it'll ground you to think about the bigger picture, about nature and stuff. 197 00:12:57,797 --> 00:13:00,633 I still can't believe they gave me that job. 198 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:04,679 I mean, after that lunch. I was sweating insanely. 199 00:13:04,846 --> 00:13:07,724 I was ranting. I was a mess. 200 00:13:07,891 --> 00:13:09,893 You were just nervous because she was pretty. 201 00:13:10,060 --> 00:13:11,853 How do you know she was pretty? 202 00:13:12,020 --> 00:13:15,899 After eight months of knowing you, I think I get what makes you sweat. 203 00:13:16,858 --> 00:13:19,819 Well, whatever. Well, moving on, what next? 204 00:13:19,986 --> 00:13:23,490 You need a new getup. This whole flannel shirt thing... 205 00:13:23,656 --> 00:13:27,243 ...it's not really doing anything for you anymore. 206 00:13:30,288 --> 00:13:33,083 Thanks for coming out with me tonight, Amelia. 207 00:13:49,182 --> 00:13:51,017 To begin. 208 00:13:51,184 --> 00:13:52,519 To begin. 209 00:13:53,144 --> 00:13:54,938 How to start? 210 00:13:56,564 --> 00:13:58,024 I'm hungry. 211 00:13:58,191 --> 00:13:59,651 I should get coffee. 212 00:13:59,818 --> 00:14:01,653 Coffee would help me think. 213 00:14:01,820 --> 00:14:05,490 But I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. 214 00:14:05,657 --> 00:14:11,204 Coffee and a muffin. Okay, so I need to establish the themes. 215 00:14:12,747 --> 00:14:14,666 Maybe banana-nut. 216 00:14:14,833 --> 00:14:16,918 That's a good muffin. 217 00:14:20,630 --> 00:14:22,632 Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. 218 00:14:25,135 --> 00:14:27,137 Victorian-era orchid hunter William Arnold... 219 00:14:27,303 --> 00:14:29,973 ...drowned on a collecting expedition. 220 00:14:31,307 --> 00:14:34,060 Osmers vanished without a trace in Asia. 221 00:14:36,813 --> 00:14:42,777 Augustus Margary survived toothache, rheumatism, pleurisy and dysentery... 222 00:14:44,446 --> 00:14:47,449 ...only to be murdered when he completed his mission... 223 00:14:47,615 --> 00:14:50,493 ...and traveled beyond Bhamo. 224 00:14:53,663 --> 00:14:56,332 Laroche loved orchids, but I... 225 00:14:56,499 --> 00:15:00,295 I came to believe he loved the difficulty and fatality of getting them... 226 00:15:00,462 --> 00:15:04,090 ...almost as much as he loved the orchids themselves. 227 00:15:05,258 --> 00:15:08,094 I've been a professional horticulturist for, like, 12 years. 228 00:15:09,929 --> 00:15:13,099 I owned my own plant nursery, which was destroyed by the hurricane. 229 00:15:13,266 --> 00:15:15,393 I'm a professional plant lecturer. 230 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,855 I've given over, like, 60 lectures on the cultivation of plants. 231 00:15:19,022 --> 00:15:22,776 I'm a published author, both in magazine and book form. 232 00:15:22,942 --> 00:15:25,320 And I have extensive experience with orchids... 233 00:15:25,487 --> 00:15:30,867 ...and the asexual micropropagation of orchids under aseptic cultures. 234 00:15:31,034 --> 00:15:35,955 That's laboratory work. It's not at all like your nursery work. 235 00:15:36,831 --> 00:15:39,292 I'm probably the smartest person I know. 236 00:15:39,918 --> 00:15:42,128 - Thank you. - You're very welcome. 237 00:15:46,966 --> 00:15:49,344 Mr. Laroche? I'm Susan Orlean. 238 00:15:49,511 --> 00:15:52,013 I'm a writer for The New Yorker. It's a magazine that... 239 00:15:52,180 --> 00:15:54,265 I'm familiar with The New Yorker. 240 00:15:54,432 --> 00:15:57,644 "The New Yorker? Yes, The New Yorker." Right? 241 00:15:57,811 --> 00:15:59,437 That's right. 242 00:15:59,646 --> 00:16:03,274 I'm very interested in doing a piece on your situation here, and... 243 00:16:03,692 --> 00:16:05,151 Yeah? Yeah. 244 00:16:05,318 --> 00:16:07,195 You wanna put this in? 245 00:16:07,362 --> 00:16:09,447 I don't care what goes on here. 246 00:16:09,656 --> 00:16:12,617 I'm right, and I'll take it all the way to Supreme Court. 247 00:16:12,784 --> 00:16:15,870 Because that judge can screw herself. 248 00:16:22,460 --> 00:16:26,089 - That for real would go in? - Absolutely. 249 00:16:35,015 --> 00:16:37,308 We open on State Road 29. 250 00:16:37,475 --> 00:16:40,770 A battered white van speeds along, making a sharp, skidding right... 251 00:16:40,937 --> 00:16:43,690 ...into the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. 252 00:16:43,857 --> 00:16:47,527 The driver of the van is a skinny man with no front teeth. 253 00:16:47,944 --> 00:16:50,864 This is John Laroche. 254 00:16:52,741 --> 00:16:54,117 I need a break. 255 00:16:55,201 --> 00:16:59,748 - I loved the Sibelius violin concerto. - Yeah, me too. It was great. 256 00:16:59,914 --> 00:17:03,335 - The end was a little weird, but... - Oh, no! God, it was passionate. 257 00:17:03,501 --> 00:17:05,003 It was exultant. 258 00:17:05,170 --> 00:17:09,674 The soloist was amazing. Such beautiful tones. So precise. 259 00:17:09,883 --> 00:17:11,551 God, it blows my mind. 260 00:17:11,718 --> 00:17:14,637 - I wish I could play like that. - You do. 261 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,767 Charlie. I don't. I'm mediocre at best. 262 00:17:18,933 --> 00:17:21,227 Well, I love listening to you play. 263 00:17:21,394 --> 00:17:23,021 Thanks, Charlie. 264 00:17:25,774 --> 00:17:27,650 Here we are. 265 00:17:31,696 --> 00:17:34,366 What are you up to now, then? 266 00:17:34,574 --> 00:17:39,454 I should probably get to bed. I have a lot of work to do tomorrow. 267 00:17:39,621 --> 00:17:42,082 Well, good night, then. 268 00:17:50,507 --> 00:17:51,925 I would stay out. 269 00:17:52,092 --> 00:17:55,220 It's just that I've really been struggling on the script right now. 270 00:17:55,387 --> 00:17:58,807 I've been thinking about it too small, just writing it like a story about Laroche. 271 00:17:58,973 --> 00:18:02,102 That's not enough. I mean, I wanted to write about flowers. 272 00:18:02,268 --> 00:18:06,398 Anyway, I can't figure it out, and I haven't been sleeping very well lately... 273 00:18:06,606 --> 00:18:08,274 ...so I thought I should get home... 274 00:18:08,441 --> 00:18:12,570 ...and try to get a good night's sleep, you know. Start fresh in the morning. 275 00:18:12,737 --> 00:18:14,739 Otherwise, I'd stay out. 276 00:18:14,948 --> 00:18:19,035 I understand. I hope you figure it out, Charlie. I really do. 277 00:18:19,202 --> 00:18:22,247 Thanks. Thanks for coming out with me and everything. 278 00:18:22,414 --> 00:18:24,290 Sure, it was fun. 279 00:18:24,457 --> 00:18:29,087 So I have to go to Santa Barbara next weekend for this orchid show up there. 280 00:18:29,254 --> 00:18:32,090 I thought maybe you could come. 281 00:18:32,632 --> 00:18:34,092 No, I... 282 00:18:35,093 --> 00:18:37,804 I don't think I can make it next weekend. 283 00:18:37,971 --> 00:18:40,223 I don't think I can. 284 00:18:40,390 --> 00:18:42,934 I've got something. Sorry. 285 00:18:43,101 --> 00:18:44,686 Okay. 286 00:18:44,853 --> 00:18:47,856 So, well, okay, then. So good night, then. 287 00:18:48,023 --> 00:18:50,150 Good night, Charlie. 288 00:18:51,776 --> 00:18:53,903 Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken. 289 00:18:54,070 --> 00:18:56,906 I'm such an idiot. I should have kissed her. I've blown it. 290 00:18:57,073 --> 00:18:59,826 I should just go and knock on her door right now and kiss her. 291 00:18:59,993 --> 00:19:04,456 It would be romantic. Something we could someday tell our kids. 292 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,459 I'm gonna do that right now. 293 00:19:22,307 --> 00:19:25,602 - Thanks for picking me up. - This van's a piece of shit. 294 00:19:25,769 --> 00:19:28,980 But when I hit the jackpot, I'll buy myself an awesome car. 295 00:19:29,147 --> 00:19:31,566 Hey, what are you driving? 296 00:19:31,733 --> 00:19:33,526 It's... Well, it's a rental. 297 00:19:33,693 --> 00:19:36,738 - It's a Lumina. - Awesome. 298 00:19:36,905 --> 00:19:39,741 I think I'll get one of those too. 299 00:19:44,913 --> 00:19:46,331 Here we go. 300 00:19:48,792 --> 00:19:51,753 Where do these people learn to drive, huh? 301 00:19:52,170 --> 00:19:53,755 The world's insane. 302 00:19:53,922 --> 00:19:56,383 So I was impressed to hear... 303 00:19:56,549 --> 00:19:59,177 ...how accomplished you are in the world of horticulture. 304 00:19:59,344 --> 00:20:01,221 The thing you gotta know is... 305 00:20:01,388 --> 00:20:04,307 ...my whole life is looking for a goddamn profitable plant, see? 306 00:20:04,474 --> 00:20:05,767 And that's the ghost. 307 00:20:05,934 --> 00:20:06,976 Why the ghost orchid? 308 00:20:08,895 --> 00:20:11,648 Well, the sucker's rare. You know? 309 00:20:11,815 --> 00:20:15,902 And I'm the only one in the world who knows how to cultivate it. 310 00:20:16,069 --> 00:20:19,280 See, the idea was, get the Indians to pull it from the swamp. 311 00:20:19,447 --> 00:20:23,535 I researched it. Long as I don't touch the plant, Florida can't touch us. 312 00:20:24,077 --> 00:20:28,998 And I stop future poaching by making the flowers readily available in stores. 313 00:20:29,165 --> 00:20:32,085 I'm a hero, the flowers are saved... 314 00:20:32,252 --> 00:20:34,462 ...Laroche and nature win. 315 00:20:35,922 --> 00:20:37,424 Great. 316 00:20:37,590 --> 00:20:39,718 Did you get that last part? 317 00:20:39,926 --> 00:20:41,761 Yeah, I sure did. 318 00:20:41,928 --> 00:20:44,973 Orchids are the sexiest flowers on Earth. 319 00:20:45,140 --> 00:20:50,603 The name orchid derives from the Latin orchis, which means testicle. 320 00:20:50,770 --> 00:20:52,188 Hey, Charles. 321 00:20:52,355 --> 00:20:54,107 I pitched my screenplay to Mom. 322 00:20:54,274 --> 00:20:56,109 Don't say "pitch." 323 00:20:56,276 --> 00:20:58,611 Sorry. Anyway, she said it was... 324 00:20:58,778 --> 00:21:00,947 ...Silence of the Lambs meets Psycho. 325 00:21:01,114 --> 00:21:05,201 Maybe you guys could collaborate. I hear Mom's really good with structure. 326 00:21:07,495 --> 00:21:09,789 So how come Amelia doesn't come around anymore? 327 00:21:09,956 --> 00:21:13,001 Did you put the moves on her or something? 328 00:21:37,984 --> 00:21:40,487 I'm looking for John Laroche. 329 00:21:43,448 --> 00:21:45,992 I'm writing an article on John, and I stopped by. 330 00:21:46,159 --> 00:21:47,994 - I hoped I could see him. - John's not here. 331 00:21:50,163 --> 00:21:53,708 Well, you were at the swamp with him, weren't you? 332 00:21:53,875 --> 00:21:55,710 I saw you at the courthouse, that's how I know. 333 00:21:55,877 --> 00:21:57,879 I'm Matthew Osceola. 334 00:21:58,046 --> 00:21:59,964 Susan Orlean. Nice to meet you. 335 00:22:00,131 --> 00:22:02,801 Maybe I could talk to you for a second. 336 00:22:02,967 --> 00:22:05,637 I'm just trying to get a feel for the whole operation... 337 00:22:05,804 --> 00:22:08,640 You have very beautiful hair. 338 00:22:12,686 --> 00:22:15,105 Thank you very much. 339 00:22:15,271 --> 00:22:16,981 Thank you. I just... 340 00:22:17,190 --> 00:22:21,277 I just washed it this morning. 341 00:22:22,570 --> 00:22:25,031 I just used a new conditioner. 342 00:22:29,202 --> 00:22:31,830 I can see your sadness. 343 00:22:32,247 --> 00:22:33,790 It's lovely. 344 00:22:36,042 --> 00:22:40,130 Well, I'm just tired, that's all. That's my problem. 345 00:22:40,296 --> 00:22:42,632 So maybe we could chat a little bit... 346 00:22:43,049 --> 00:22:46,886 ...and I could get some background... - I'm not going to talk to you much. 347 00:22:47,053 --> 00:22:48,847 It's not personal. 348 00:22:50,390 --> 00:22:51,975 It's the Indian way. 349 00:23:04,154 --> 00:23:06,906 Angraecum sesquipedale. 350 00:23:07,699 --> 00:23:10,076 Beauty! God! 351 00:23:10,243 --> 00:23:12,454 Darwin wrote about this one. 352 00:23:13,038 --> 00:23:17,125 Charles Darwin? Evolution guy? Hello? 353 00:23:17,292 --> 00:23:19,294 You see that nectary all the way down there? 354 00:23:19,461 --> 00:23:21,755 Darwin hypothesized a moth... 355 00:23:22,255 --> 00:23:25,467 ...with a nose 12 inches long to pollinate it. 356 00:23:25,759 --> 00:23:27,844 Everyone thought he was a loon. 357 00:23:28,011 --> 00:23:32,432 Then, sure enough, they found this moth with a 12-inch proboscis. 358 00:23:32,599 --> 00:23:35,643 - "Proboscis" means nose, by the way. - I know what "proboscis" means. 359 00:23:35,810 --> 00:23:39,898 Hey, let's not get off the subject. This isn't a pissing contest. 360 00:23:40,106 --> 00:23:42,650 The point is, what's so wonderful... 361 00:23:42,817 --> 00:23:45,904 ...is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship... 362 00:23:46,071 --> 00:23:47,864 ...with the insect that pollinates it. 363 00:23:48,031 --> 00:23:50,784 There's a certain orchid looks exactly like a certain insect. 364 00:23:50,950 --> 00:23:53,661 So the insect is drawn to this flower... 365 00:23:53,828 --> 00:23:56,998 ...its double, its soul mate... 366 00:23:57,165 --> 00:24:00,627 ...and wants nothing more than to make love to it. 367 00:24:01,127 --> 00:24:03,338 After the insect flies off... 368 00:24:03,505 --> 00:24:08,176 ...it spots another soul-mate flower and makes love to it, thus pollinating it. 369 00:24:08,343 --> 00:24:11,805 And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand... 370 00:24:11,971 --> 00:24:14,933 ...the significance of their lovemaking. 371 00:24:15,225 --> 00:24:18,812 How could they know that because of their little dance, the world lives? 372 00:24:18,978 --> 00:24:20,814 But it does. 373 00:24:20,980 --> 00:24:23,149 By simply doing what they're designed to do... 374 00:24:23,316 --> 00:24:26,111 ...something large and magnificent happens. 375 00:24:26,277 --> 00:24:28,530 In this sense, they show us how to live. 376 00:24:28,697 --> 00:24:32,367 How the only barometer you have is your heart. 377 00:24:32,534 --> 00:24:38,039 How when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way. 378 00:24:45,505 --> 00:24:48,341 He's really quite a character. No front teeth. 379 00:24:48,508 --> 00:24:51,678 - Doesn't seem to bother him at all. - Why doesn't he get them fixed? 380 00:24:51,845 --> 00:24:55,306 It seems almost sociopathic to make everybody look at that. 381 00:24:55,515 --> 00:24:58,268 Yeah, but he gives a great blowjob, honey. 382 00:25:00,020 --> 00:25:02,605 He is a fascinating character, though. 383 00:25:02,772 --> 00:25:05,066 Sounds like a gold mine, Sue. 384 00:25:05,233 --> 00:25:08,695 It could be. I don't know, you know? He's... 385 00:25:08,862 --> 00:25:12,991 He lives with his dad, he's obsessed with his dead mother, and... 386 00:25:13,199 --> 00:25:17,495 He wears his sunglasses on a little dingle-dangle around his neck. 387 00:25:17,662 --> 00:25:19,330 Loving it. 388 00:25:20,206 --> 00:25:23,418 - Tell them about the van. - Okay, the van. The van. 389 00:25:23,585 --> 00:25:26,755 - I can't tell about the van. I gotta pee. - No, tell us about the van. 390 00:25:27,380 --> 00:25:30,050 - It's amazing. It's... - What's in it? 391 00:25:30,216 --> 00:25:33,470 - You did it in the van. - Shut up. 392 00:25:33,636 --> 00:25:36,222 David, you tell... Don't you tell them. Don't tell them. 393 00:25:36,389 --> 00:25:37,932 Okay, the van. 394 00:25:38,308 --> 00:25:40,143 David! 395 00:25:42,062 --> 00:25:44,189 This van was filled with junk... 396 00:25:44,397 --> 00:25:45,398 Shut up! 397 00:25:45,565 --> 00:25:49,861 Potting soil. Shovels. Food wrappers. Fertilizer. 398 00:25:50,028 --> 00:25:53,365 Susie said she hoped it was fertilizer, anyway. 399 00:25:53,531 --> 00:25:57,160 She said she couldn't be sure. Laroche had a certain aromatic look about him. 400 00:25:57,327 --> 00:25:58,328 And she said... 401 00:25:58,495 --> 00:26:01,915 She said perhaps his obsessiveness didn't leave room in his schedule... 402 00:26:02,082 --> 00:26:04,250 ...for personal hygiene. 403 00:26:04,417 --> 00:26:08,421 Maybe the orchids got all the available water. 404 00:26:09,255 --> 00:26:14,719 I wanted to want something as much as people wanted these plants. 405 00:26:15,595 --> 00:26:17,013 But... 406 00:26:17,681 --> 00:26:20,850 ...it isn't part of my constitution. 407 00:26:21,935 --> 00:26:26,356 I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. 408 00:26:28,316 --> 00:26:33,405 I wanna know what it feels like to care about something passionately. 409 00:26:45,583 --> 00:26:48,336 "Should one be lucky enough to see a ghost orchid... 410 00:26:48,503 --> 00:26:51,840 ...all else will seem eclipsed." 411 00:26:54,467 --> 00:26:57,512 If the ghost orchid was really a phantom... 412 00:26:57,679 --> 00:27:01,975 ...it was still such a bewitching one that it could seduce people to pursue it... 413 00:27:02,142 --> 00:27:05,478 ...year after year and mile after miserable mile. 414 00:27:05,645 --> 00:27:09,107 If it was a real flower, I wanted to see one. 415 00:27:09,315 --> 00:27:12,902 The reason was not that I love orchids. I don't even especially like orchids. 416 00:27:13,069 --> 00:27:16,656 What I wanted was to see this thing... 417 00:27:16,823 --> 00:27:23,163 ...that people were drawn to in such a singular and powerful way. 418 00:27:26,291 --> 00:27:29,419 So how many turtles did you end up collecting? 419 00:27:29,586 --> 00:27:32,297 I lost interest right after that. 420 00:27:35,091 --> 00:27:38,094 I dropped turtles when I fell in love with Ice Age fossils. 421 00:27:38,261 --> 00:27:40,805 Collected the shit out of them. 422 00:27:40,972 --> 00:27:44,934 Fossils were the only thing that made sense to me in this fucked-up world. 423 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,938 I ditched fossils for resilvering old mirrors. 424 00:27:49,105 --> 00:27:51,066 My mom and I had the largest collection... 425 00:27:51,232 --> 00:27:54,319 ...of 19th-century Dutch mirrors on the planet. 426 00:27:54,527 --> 00:27:57,364 Perhaps you read about us. Mirror World, October '88? 427 00:27:57,530 --> 00:28:00,158 I got a copy here somewhere. 428 00:28:01,576 --> 00:28:04,954 I guess I'd just like to know how you can detach from something... 429 00:28:05,121 --> 00:28:07,540 ...that you've invested so much of your soul in. 430 00:28:07,707 --> 00:28:12,212 I mean, didn't you ever miss turtles? 431 00:28:12,379 --> 00:28:16,633 The only thing that made your 10-year-old life worth living? 432 00:28:17,217 --> 00:28:20,553 Look, I'll tell you a story, all right? 433 00:28:20,762 --> 00:28:26,393 I once fell deeply, you know, profoundly in love with tropical fish. 434 00:28:26,559 --> 00:28:28,687 I had 60 goddamn fish-tanks in my house. 435 00:28:28,895 --> 00:28:31,564 I'd skin-dive to find just the right ones. 436 00:28:31,731 --> 00:28:37,195 Anisotremus virginicus, Holacanthus ciliaris, Chaetodon capistratus. 437 00:28:37,362 --> 00:28:39,072 You name it. 438 00:28:39,489 --> 00:28:42,492 Then one day I say, "Fuck fish." 439 00:28:42,659 --> 00:28:46,996 I renounce fish. I vow never to set foot in that ocean again. 440 00:28:47,163 --> 00:28:49,874 That's how much "fuck fish." 441 00:28:50,834 --> 00:28:55,463 That was 17 years ago, and I have never since stuck a toe in that ocean. 442 00:28:55,630 --> 00:28:57,841 And I love the ocean. 443 00:28:59,259 --> 00:29:00,927 But why? 444 00:29:02,804 --> 00:29:04,973 Done with fish. 445 00:29:05,932 --> 00:29:10,353 If you'd really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it linger? 446 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,565 Evidently Laroche's finishes were downright and absolute. 447 00:29:13,773 --> 00:29:15,233 He just moved on. 448 00:29:15,442 --> 00:29:19,320 I sometimes wished I could do the same. 449 00:29:24,659 --> 00:29:27,620 Good afternoon. So, what looks good today? 450 00:29:27,787 --> 00:29:29,622 The key lime pie, please. 451 00:29:29,789 --> 00:29:31,583 A small slice. 452 00:29:31,750 --> 00:29:34,377 And a coffee, please. Skim milk, please. 453 00:29:35,962 --> 00:29:38,840 Orchids. I love orchids. 454 00:29:39,007 --> 00:29:40,633 Cool. That's... 455 00:29:44,679 --> 00:29:47,766 Well, I'll be right back with your pie. 456 00:29:58,318 --> 00:30:01,529 I'm so excited. I've always wanted to come to an orchid show. 457 00:30:01,946 --> 00:30:04,240 I think these flowers are so sexy. 458 00:30:06,201 --> 00:30:07,994 Let's see what's around back. 459 00:30:31,142 --> 00:30:32,310 What? 460 00:30:32,477 --> 00:30:35,230 - You wanna hear my pitch? - Go away, goddamn it. 461 00:30:37,524 --> 00:30:39,859 You know, I'm just trying to do something. 462 00:30:44,864 --> 00:30:47,367 Hey, thanks a lot, buddy. Cool. 463 00:30:47,534 --> 00:30:49,661 Okay, there's this serial killer, right? 464 00:30:49,828 --> 00:30:52,497 Well, no, wait. And he's being hunted by a cop. 465 00:30:52,706 --> 00:30:56,668 And he's taunting the cop, right? Sending clues who his next victim is. 466 00:30:56,876 --> 00:30:59,379 He's already holding her hostage in his creepy basement. 467 00:30:59,546 --> 00:31:02,132 So the cop gets obsessed with figuring out her identity... 468 00:31:02,298 --> 00:31:04,718 ...and in the process falls in love with her. 469 00:31:04,884 --> 00:31:07,846 Even though he's never even met her. She becomes like... 470 00:31:08,054 --> 00:31:11,182 Like the unattainable. Like the Holy Grail. 471 00:31:11,391 --> 00:31:14,936 - It's a little obvious, don't you think? - Okay, but here's the twist. 472 00:31:15,103 --> 00:31:17,397 We find out that the killer... 473 00:31:17,564 --> 00:31:20,525 ...really suffers from multiple personality disorder. Right? 474 00:31:20,692 --> 00:31:24,237 See, he's actually really the cop and the girl. 475 00:31:24,404 --> 00:31:27,574 All of them are him. Isn't that fucked up? 476 00:31:29,075 --> 00:31:33,788 The only idea more overused than serial killers is multiple personality. 477 00:31:33,955 --> 00:31:36,374 On top of that, you explore the notion... 478 00:31:36,541 --> 00:31:39,586 ...that cop and criminal are really two aspects of the same person. 479 00:31:39,753 --> 00:31:42,756 See every cop movie ever made for other examples of this. 480 00:31:42,922 --> 00:31:45,550 Mom called it psychologically taut. 481 00:31:45,717 --> 00:31:49,596 The other thing is, there's no way to write this. Did you consider that? 482 00:31:49,763 --> 00:31:54,225 I mean, how could you have somebody held prisoner in a basement... 483 00:31:54,392 --> 00:31:58,438 ...and working in a police station at the same time? 484 00:31:59,773 --> 00:32:02,442 - Trick photography. - Okay, that's not what I'm asking. 485 00:32:02,609 --> 00:32:05,403 Listen closely. What I'm asking is: 486 00:32:05,570 --> 00:32:10,408 In the reality of this movie, where there's only one character, right? 487 00:32:10,575 --> 00:32:12,118 Okay? 488 00:32:12,285 --> 00:32:14,287 How could you...? 489 00:32:15,872 --> 00:32:18,041 What exactly would...? 490 00:32:20,126 --> 00:32:21,878 I agree with Mom. Very taut. 491 00:32:22,045 --> 00:32:24,964 Sybil meets, I don't know... Dressed to Kill. 492 00:32:25,131 --> 00:32:27,384 Cool. I really liked Dressed to Kill. 493 00:32:27,550 --> 00:32:31,846 - Until the third act denouement. - That's not how it's pronounced. 494 00:32:33,431 --> 00:32:35,558 Sorry. L... Okay, sorry. 495 00:32:41,815 --> 00:32:45,235 - Some key lime pie for you today? - Okay, yeah. That sounds great. 496 00:32:45,402 --> 00:32:48,113 I'll cut you an extra-large slice. Preferred customer. 497 00:32:48,279 --> 00:32:51,866 - Thank you. That's really sweet of you. - Well, I'm just a sweetie, ain't I? 498 00:32:52,492 --> 00:32:55,578 - Still reading about orchids, I hope? - Yes, I am. 499 00:32:55,745 --> 00:32:58,623 This friend of mine has this little, tiny pink one... 500 00:32:58,790 --> 00:33:01,918 ...that grows on a tree branch just like that. 501 00:33:02,085 --> 00:33:04,212 - I can't remember... - That's called an epiphyte. 502 00:33:04,379 --> 00:33:06,464 Right. Right! 503 00:33:06,673 --> 00:33:08,299 Boy, you know your stuff. 504 00:33:08,466 --> 00:33:11,636 No, not really. I'm just learning. 505 00:33:11,803 --> 00:33:14,681 Epiphytes grow on trees, but they're not parasites. 506 00:33:14,848 --> 00:33:17,392 They get all their nourishment from the air and the rain. 507 00:33:18,059 --> 00:33:21,646 Well, I'm impressed. That's great. 508 00:33:22,230 --> 00:33:24,983 There are more than 30,000 kinds of orchids in the world. 509 00:33:25,316 --> 00:33:28,695 - Wow, that's a lot, huh? - Yeah. Yeah. 510 00:33:28,862 --> 00:33:30,030 Yeah. 511 00:33:30,196 --> 00:33:35,326 So I'll be right back with an extra-large slice of key lime pie for my orchid expert. 512 00:33:35,744 --> 00:33:38,955 But... So anyway, I was also wondering... 513 00:33:40,582 --> 00:33:45,045 I'm going up to Santa Barbara this Saturday for an orchid show, and I... 514 00:33:47,714 --> 00:33:49,090 - I'm sorry. - Well... 515 00:33:49,257 --> 00:33:53,094 - I apologize. I'm sorry. - So I'll just be right back with your pie. 516 00:34:03,104 --> 00:34:07,692 There are more than 30,000 known orchid species. 517 00:34:07,859 --> 00:34:10,070 One looks like a turtle. 518 00:34:10,487 --> 00:34:13,156 One looks like a monkey. 519 00:34:13,740 --> 00:34:16,076 One looks like an onion. 520 00:34:16,242 --> 00:34:18,161 One looks like a schoolteacher. 521 00:34:18,495 --> 00:34:20,205 One looks like a gymnast. 522 00:34:20,538 --> 00:34:23,333 One looks like that girl in high school with creamy skin. 523 00:34:23,917 --> 00:34:25,794 One looks like a New York intellectual... 524 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,005 ...with whom you do the Sunday Times crossword puzzle in bed. 525 00:34:29,172 --> 00:34:31,883 One looks like a Midwestern beauty queen. 526 00:34:32,133 --> 00:34:34,344 One looks like Amelia. 527 00:34:34,511 --> 00:34:36,179 One has eyes that dance. 528 00:34:36,346 --> 00:34:40,058 One has eyes that contain the sadness of the world. 529 00:34:45,271 --> 00:34:48,358 So I got married, and me and my beautiful new wife... 530 00:34:48,525 --> 00:34:51,403 ...my now ex-wife, the bitch... 531 00:34:52,445 --> 00:34:54,489 ...opened up a nursery. 532 00:34:54,656 --> 00:34:57,701 People started coming out of the woodwork to ask me stuff... 533 00:34:57,867 --> 00:35:01,413 ...and admire my plants and admire me. 534 00:35:03,498 --> 00:35:08,044 I think some people were really spending time with me because they were lonely. 535 00:35:14,342 --> 00:35:16,928 And you know why I like plants? 536 00:35:19,639 --> 00:35:22,142 Because they're so mutable. 537 00:35:23,768 --> 00:35:27,188 Adaptation's a profound process. 538 00:35:27,647 --> 00:35:29,149 It means you... 539 00:35:29,315 --> 00:35:32,777 ...figure out how to thrive in the world. 540 00:35:37,157 --> 00:35:40,243 Yeah, but it's easier for plants. I mean... 541 00:35:40,410 --> 00:35:42,162 ...they have no memory. 542 00:35:43,038 --> 00:35:47,417 You know, they just move on to whatever's next. But a person, now... 543 00:35:49,169 --> 00:35:52,213 ...adapting's almost shameful. I mean, it's like... 544 00:35:52,380 --> 00:35:54,841 ...running away. 545 00:36:29,334 --> 00:36:31,670 Keener! 546 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,850 Hey, man. 547 00:36:46,309 --> 00:36:48,269 Please don't hit on crew members, Donald. 548 00:36:48,436 --> 00:36:52,357 What, the makeup girl? She was hitting on me, bro. 549 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,777 Don't embarrass me. I have to work with these people. 550 00:36:55,944 --> 00:36:59,239 I won't. Anyway, listen... 551 00:36:59,406 --> 00:37:03,243 ...I meant to ask you, I need a cool way to kill people. 552 00:37:05,245 --> 00:37:08,039 Don't worry. For my script. 553 00:37:08,206 --> 00:37:10,375 I don't write that kind of stuff. 554 00:37:10,542 --> 00:37:14,254 Come on, man, please? You're the genius. 555 00:37:15,255 --> 00:37:18,008 Here you go: The killer's a literature professor. 556 00:37:18,174 --> 00:37:22,053 He cuts off little chunks from his victim's bodies until they die. 557 00:37:22,220 --> 00:37:25,390 He calls himself "The Deconstructionist." 558 00:37:27,100 --> 00:37:31,021 - That's kind of good. I like that. - See, I was kidding, Donald. 559 00:37:32,188 --> 00:37:34,774 Okay. Sorry. 560 00:37:34,941 --> 00:37:37,152 You got me. 561 00:37:38,778 --> 00:37:41,406 Do you mind if I use it, though? 562 00:37:48,872 --> 00:37:52,667 - It's really good. - I tried to split the Cassie scene in half... 563 00:37:52,834 --> 00:37:56,129 ...from the beginning to the end. - I saw that. Why did you do that? 564 00:37:56,296 --> 00:38:00,133 Because I wanted there to be more tension. And then you pick it up later... 565 00:38:00,300 --> 00:38:02,802 - But are you changing...? - Keeps more tension. 566 00:38:02,969 --> 00:38:06,598 That way the audience gets stuck early on. 567 00:38:06,931 --> 00:38:08,808 - You like it? - I really like it. 568 00:38:18,818 --> 00:38:20,820 You look hot tonight, baby. 569 00:38:20,987 --> 00:38:25,033 Thanks, Donald. That's swell of you to say. 570 00:38:25,784 --> 00:38:29,079 - Don't you think she's hot, bro? - I'm heading home, Donald. 571 00:38:29,245 --> 00:38:31,331 Really? Come on. 572 00:38:31,498 --> 00:38:34,209 Hey, it's Amelia. 573 00:38:34,918 --> 00:38:36,169 Hey, Amelia! 574 00:38:36,586 --> 00:38:39,964 Hey, Donald. Hey, Charlie. 575 00:38:40,590 --> 00:38:45,136 - Hey. Hi there. - God, Amelia, we don't see you anymore. 576 00:38:45,345 --> 00:38:49,182 - It's good to see you. - This is my girlfriend, Caroline. 577 00:38:49,349 --> 00:38:51,851 - She's a makeup artist for the movies. - Hi. 578 00:38:53,019 --> 00:38:54,938 Hi. 579 00:38:55,105 --> 00:38:56,731 This is David, my friend. 580 00:38:57,941 --> 00:38:59,776 - Hi. - Hey. Nice to meet you. 581 00:38:59,943 --> 00:39:02,612 - Amelia's talked a lot about you. - Hi, I'm Donald. 582 00:39:02,779 --> 00:39:05,281 - Hey. - Caroline. 583 00:39:05,448 --> 00:39:07,033 - Cool camera. - So how are you? 584 00:39:07,867 --> 00:39:10,954 - You know me, a mess. - Charlie... 585 00:39:11,121 --> 00:39:13,540 ...it's really good to see you. Is the work good? 586 00:39:13,707 --> 00:39:15,834 It's a disaster. I don't know what I'm doing. 587 00:39:16,042 --> 00:39:18,670 But, anyway, it's my problem. I don't want to bore you. 588 00:39:18,837 --> 00:39:22,549 You have your own stuff, right? I mean, we both have our own separate stuff. 589 00:39:22,716 --> 00:39:25,552 Anyway, I should go. I was just heading home to do some work. 590 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,972 - You coming? - No, I'm gonna stay at Caroline's tonight. 591 00:39:29,139 --> 00:39:31,933 A little push, push in the bush. 592 00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:35,478 Donald, you're such a tard! 593 00:39:35,645 --> 00:39:37,439 See you, Charlie. 594 00:39:42,068 --> 00:39:44,821 To write about a flower, to dramatize a flower... 595 00:39:44,988 --> 00:39:46,906 ...I have to show the flower's arc. 596 00:39:47,073 --> 00:39:50,243 And the flower's arc stretches back to the beginning of life. 597 00:39:50,410 --> 00:39:53,538 How did this flower get here? What was its journey? 598 00:39:54,247 --> 00:39:57,250 Therefore, I should infer from analogy... 599 00:39:59,419 --> 00:40:03,381 ...that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this Earth... 600 00:40:03,590 --> 00:40:08,887 ...have descended from some one primordial form... 601 00:40:09,054 --> 00:40:11,931 ...into which life was first breathed. 602 00:40:12,098 --> 00:40:14,934 It is a journey of evolution. Adaptation. 603 00:40:15,101 --> 00:40:19,230 The journey we all take. A journey that unites each and every one of us. 604 00:40:19,397 --> 00:40:22,817 Darwin writes that we all come from the very first single-cell organism. 605 00:40:23,401 --> 00:40:24,736 Yet here I am. 606 00:40:24,986 --> 00:40:27,530 And there's Laroche. There's Orlean. 607 00:40:27,697 --> 00:40:31,326 And there's the ghost orchid. All trapped in our own bodies... 608 00:40:31,493 --> 00:40:34,579 ...in moments in history. That's it. 609 00:40:34,788 --> 00:40:38,792 That's what I need to do. Tie all of history together. 610 00:40:40,794 --> 00:40:43,421 Start right before life begins on the planet. 611 00:40:43,630 --> 00:40:44,881 All is... 612 00:40:45,048 --> 00:40:47,884 ...lifeless. And then, like, life begins... 613 00:40:48,051 --> 00:40:50,178 ...with organisms. Those little single-cell ones. 614 00:40:50,345 --> 00:40:53,348 And it's before sex, because, like, everything was asexual. 615 00:40:53,515 --> 00:40:55,892 From there we go to bigger things. Jellyfish. 616 00:40:56,059 --> 00:40:58,770 Then that fish that got legs and crawled out on the land. 617 00:40:58,937 --> 00:41:02,190 And then we see, you know, like, dinosaurs. 618 00:41:02,357 --> 00:41:07,112 And then they're around for a long time. Then an asteroid comes and: 619 00:41:07,278 --> 00:41:10,448 - The insects, the mammals, the primates, monkeys. 620 00:41:10,657 --> 00:41:14,119 The simple monkeys. Old-fashioned monkeys giving way to the new ones. 621 00:41:14,285 --> 00:41:16,746 Whatever. And then apes. Whatever. And man. 622 00:41:16,913 --> 00:41:21,418 Then we see the whole history of human civilization: Hunting, war, love... 623 00:41:21,584 --> 00:41:23,712 ...heartache, disease, loneliness, technology. 624 00:41:23,878 --> 00:41:27,841 And we end with Susan Orlean in her office at The New Yorker... 625 00:41:28,008 --> 00:41:30,427 ...writing about flowers, and bang! The movie begins. 626 00:41:30,593 --> 00:41:34,180 This is the breakthrough I've been hoping for. It's never been done. 627 00:41:34,347 --> 00:41:37,434 McKee is a genius! 628 00:41:37,892 --> 00:41:42,647 And hilarious. He just comes up with all these great jokes, and everybody laughs. 629 00:41:43,523 --> 00:41:45,984 But he's serious too, Charles. You'd love him. 630 00:41:46,151 --> 00:41:48,945 He's all for originality, just like you. 631 00:41:49,112 --> 00:41:53,033 But he says we have to realize that we all write in a genre... 632 00:41:53,199 --> 00:41:56,327 ...and we must find our originality within that genre. 633 00:41:58,288 --> 00:42:02,000 There hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary. 634 00:42:02,167 --> 00:42:04,794 My genre's thriller. What's yours? 635 00:42:04,961 --> 00:42:08,965 You and I share the same DNA. 636 00:42:09,716 --> 00:42:12,594 Is there anything more lonely than that? 637 00:42:12,761 --> 00:42:14,179 What'd you say, bro? 638 00:42:20,518 --> 00:42:22,520 - Yeah? - Hey. 639 00:42:22,729 --> 00:42:25,440 Hey, Susie-Q. 640 00:42:25,648 --> 00:42:26,649 What you up to? 641 00:42:27,150 --> 00:42:31,029 I don't wanna bother you. Just thought I'd call and get some more info. 642 00:42:32,113 --> 00:42:36,409 I think you say some pretty smart things, John. 643 00:42:36,576 --> 00:42:38,536 Yeah, smartest guy I know, huh? 644 00:42:41,539 --> 00:42:43,625 So... 645 00:42:43,833 --> 00:42:46,586 ...whatever happened to your nursery? 646 00:42:50,131 --> 00:42:52,467 It was going pretty well. 647 00:42:52,634 --> 00:42:57,472 But, you know, sometimes bad things happen, darkness descends. 648 00:43:06,773 --> 00:43:08,733 Nursery business good, Johnny? 649 00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:11,152 Everything's good, Uncle Jim. 650 00:43:11,319 --> 00:43:13,780 This last year's been a dream. 651 00:43:13,947 --> 00:43:16,700 I'm telling you. Finally pulling out of debt. 652 00:43:16,866 --> 00:43:19,869 Amen, honey. I'm so proud of you two, and... 653 00:43:36,886 --> 00:43:38,930 No, ma'am. I'm sorry, I can't answer that. 654 00:43:39,097 --> 00:43:40,682 - Stay right there. - Hey. 655 00:43:42,142 --> 00:43:45,020 - Hold it. Which ones are dead? - Sir, please, don't move. 656 00:43:45,186 --> 00:43:49,274 - Which ones are dead? - Let's move it! 657 00:43:52,944 --> 00:43:57,699 I killed my mom, you know, and my uncle. 658 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:01,786 That's how I lost my front teeth. 659 00:44:03,872 --> 00:44:08,710 And my wife was in a coma for, like, three weeks. 660 00:44:09,544 --> 00:44:13,298 And she divorced me soon after she regained consciousness. 661 00:44:26,895 --> 00:44:32,442 Well, I think if I almost died, I would leave my marriage too. 662 00:44:34,361 --> 00:44:36,321 Why? 663 00:44:36,821 --> 00:44:39,157 Because I could. 664 00:44:39,324 --> 00:44:43,244 Because it's like a free pass. Nobody can judge you... 665 00:44:43,411 --> 00:44:46,790 ...if you almost died. 666 00:44:46,956 --> 00:44:49,709 Well, I judged her. 667 00:44:51,044 --> 00:44:53,129 Maybe I was being judged too. 668 00:44:55,048 --> 00:44:59,678 It was like a month after that, Hurricane Andrew came along and just... 669 00:44:59,844 --> 00:45:02,222 ...swooped down like an angel of God... 670 00:45:04,265 --> 00:45:08,061 ...and just wiped out everything I had left. 671 00:45:09,562 --> 00:45:11,606 Everything. 672 00:45:11,773 --> 00:45:15,360 I knew it'd break my heart to start another nursery... 673 00:45:15,527 --> 00:45:18,405 ...so, you know, when the Seminoles called... 674 00:45:18,571 --> 00:45:24,035 ...they wanted a white guy or an expert to get their nursery going, I took the job. 675 00:45:24,244 --> 00:45:29,124 I wasn't gonna give them a conventional little potted-plant place. 676 00:45:29,874 --> 00:45:32,043 I was gonna give them something... 677 00:45:32,210 --> 00:45:34,921 ...amazing, you know? 678 00:45:35,088 --> 00:45:38,299 Yeah, I know, John. 679 00:45:39,342 --> 00:45:40,760 I know. 680 00:45:40,927 --> 00:45:43,680 "I was going to give them something amazing." 681 00:45:46,099 --> 00:45:49,185 It's beautifully written. You have such a unique voice. 682 00:45:49,352 --> 00:45:52,022 Thank you very much. 683 00:45:52,188 --> 00:45:55,400 - We're big fans. - Thank you. 684 00:45:55,567 --> 00:45:58,153 Laroche is such a fun character. 685 00:45:59,154 --> 00:46:01,573 - Yeah. - It's funny and fresh. 686 00:46:01,948 --> 00:46:04,284 And sad in a way. 687 00:46:04,576 --> 00:46:06,578 So we were wondering what's next. 688 00:46:06,745 --> 00:46:09,748 Well, Random House has asked me... 689 00:46:09,956 --> 00:46:12,542 ...to expand it into a book, so I'm gonna be doing that. 690 00:46:12,709 --> 00:46:15,712 - And... - Susan, we would like to option this. 691 00:46:18,006 --> 00:46:21,301 - You wanna make it into a movie? - Into a movie. 692 00:46:21,468 --> 00:46:23,178 Oh, God! 693 00:46:24,304 --> 00:46:27,182 - That's really... - How does that sound? 694 00:46:27,349 --> 00:46:29,225 - That's very exciting. - Good. 695 00:46:29,392 --> 00:46:33,438 It's just comical. I hadn't thought of it. I've never written a screenplay before. 696 00:46:33,605 --> 00:46:37,525 Don't worry about that. We have screenwriters to write the screenplay. 697 00:46:41,738 --> 00:46:44,324 Hey, superstar. It's Marty, super agent. 698 00:46:44,491 --> 00:46:47,494 I just wanna remind you it's been 13 weeks... 699 00:46:47,660 --> 00:46:49,454 ...and Valerie's anxious to see a draft. 700 00:46:49,621 --> 00:46:52,665 So if you could wrap things up and get it to her by Monday, that'd be great. 701 00:46:52,832 --> 00:46:56,336 Call me when you get this. Adios, amigo. 702 00:47:00,382 --> 00:47:04,386 What? What'd you laugh at? 703 00:47:05,679 --> 00:47:07,597 - You're a genius. - Which line? 704 00:47:07,764 --> 00:47:09,391 You're a genius. You're a genius. 705 00:47:35,750 --> 00:47:38,211 "We see orchid hunter Augustus Margary. 706 00:47:38,378 --> 00:47:42,841 He wears a filthy, spittle-soaked rag around his head to quell the pain. 707 00:47:43,049 --> 00:47:46,720 The back of his trousers are stained greasy black from an anal leakage... 708 00:47:46,886 --> 00:47:48,471 ...due to dysentery. 709 00:47:48,638 --> 00:47:54,269 He moans with each tentative step through the overgrown jungle." 710 00:47:54,561 --> 00:47:56,021 I'm fucked. 711 00:47:56,187 --> 00:48:00,233 We open with Laroche. He's funny. He says, "I love to mutate plants." 712 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,319 He says, "Mutation is fun." Okay, we show flowers and... Okay. 713 00:48:03,486 --> 00:48:05,363 We have to have the court case. We show Laroche. 714 00:48:05,530 --> 00:48:08,241 He says, "I was mutated as a baby. That's why I'm so smart." 715 00:48:08,408 --> 00:48:11,161 That's funny. Okay, we open at the beginning of time. No! 716 00:48:11,327 --> 00:48:13,872 - Laroche is driving into the swamp. - Crazy white man! 717 00:48:20,795 --> 00:48:24,007 I don't know how to adapt this. I should have stuck with my own stuff. 718 00:48:24,174 --> 00:48:26,259 I don't know why I thought I could write this. 719 00:48:26,426 --> 00:48:27,635 See her? 720 00:48:28,511 --> 00:48:30,972 I fucked her up the ass. 721 00:48:31,139 --> 00:48:33,224 No. I'm kidding. 722 00:48:35,518 --> 00:48:37,937 Maybe I can help. 723 00:48:43,818 --> 00:48:46,613 It's about flowers. 724 00:48:47,155 --> 00:48:49,282 Okay. 725 00:48:49,866 --> 00:48:53,995 But it's not only about flowers, right? You have the crazy plant-nut guy, right? 726 00:48:54,162 --> 00:48:56,539 He's funny. Right? 727 00:49:00,293 --> 00:49:03,755 "There's not nearly enough of him to fill a book." 728 00:49:03,922 --> 00:49:08,718 So Orlean "digresses in long passages." Blah, blah, blah. 729 00:49:08,885 --> 00:49:11,471 "No narrative unites these passages." New York Times Book Review. 730 00:49:11,638 --> 00:49:15,308 I can't structure this. It's that sprawling New Yorker shit. 731 00:49:15,475 --> 00:49:17,560 Man, I'd fuck her up the ass. 732 00:49:20,105 --> 00:49:23,024 - Sorry. - The book has no story. There's no story. 733 00:49:23,191 --> 00:49:25,151 All right. Make one up. 734 00:49:25,318 --> 00:49:29,114 I mean, nobody in this town can make up a crazy story like you. 735 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:33,326 - You're the king of that. - No, I didn't want to do that this time. 736 00:49:33,493 --> 00:49:37,914 It's someone else's material. I have a responsibility to Susan... 737 00:49:38,081 --> 00:49:42,293 Anyway, I wanted to grow as a writer. I wanted to do something simple. 738 00:49:42,460 --> 00:49:45,588 Show people how amazing flowers are. 739 00:49:46,339 --> 00:49:48,049 Are they amazing? 740 00:49:50,385 --> 00:49:53,888 I don't know. I think they are. 741 00:49:57,434 --> 00:50:00,395 - I need you to get me out of this. - All right. 742 00:50:01,938 --> 00:50:04,566 Charlie, you've been stringing them along for months now. 743 00:50:04,733 --> 00:50:09,362 Not to give them anything at this point would be a terrible career move. 744 00:50:17,787 --> 00:50:19,956 Hey, my script's going amazing. 745 00:50:20,123 --> 00:50:22,334 Right now, I'm working out an image system. 746 00:50:22,542 --> 00:50:25,587 Because of my multiple personality theme, I've chosen a motif... 747 00:50:25,754 --> 00:50:29,841 ...of broken mirrors to show my protagonist's fragmented self. 748 00:50:30,008 --> 00:50:34,262 Bob says an image system increases the complexity of an aesthetic emotion. 749 00:50:34,429 --> 00:50:36,598 - Bob says... - You sound like you're in a cult. 750 00:50:36,765 --> 00:50:39,893 No, it's just good writing technique. 751 00:50:40,060 --> 00:50:43,313 I made you a copy of McKee's 10 Commandments. 752 00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,982 I posted one over both our work areas. 753 00:50:55,784 --> 00:50:57,786 You shouldn't have done that. 754 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,125 Because it's extremely helpful. Hey, Charles, I'm putting a song on. 755 00:51:04,292 --> 00:51:05,585 "Happy Together." 756 00:51:05,752 --> 00:51:08,755 Like when characters sing songs in their pajamas and dance around. 757 00:51:08,922 --> 00:51:10,632 I thought it'd break the tension. 758 00:51:10,799 --> 00:51:14,135 At first I was nervous about putting a song in a thriller... 759 00:51:14,302 --> 00:51:18,890 ...but Bob says that Casablanca, one of the greatest screenplays ever written... 760 00:51:19,099 --> 00:51:22,227 ...did exactly that. Mixed genres. 761 00:51:22,394 --> 00:51:24,562 I haven't slept in a week, Donald. 762 00:51:24,729 --> 00:51:27,607 - I need to go to bed. - Okay. 763 00:51:28,233 --> 00:51:29,984 Good night. 764 00:51:36,157 --> 00:51:38,743 - Yeah? - Hi. 765 00:51:38,910 --> 00:51:40,912 John, it's Susan again. 766 00:51:41,121 --> 00:51:44,124 Hey, Susie-Q. 767 00:51:45,208 --> 00:51:46,918 How's it going? 768 00:51:47,293 --> 00:51:50,296 Great. I'm training myself on the Internet. 769 00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,216 It's fascinating. I'm doing pornography. 770 00:51:53,383 --> 00:51:57,429 It's amazing how much these suckers will pay for photographs of chicks. 771 00:51:57,595 --> 00:52:01,391 It doesn't matter if they're fat or ugly or what. 772 00:52:01,558 --> 00:52:03,226 Well, that sounds good. 773 00:52:03,393 --> 00:52:06,062 It's great, is what it is. 774 00:52:06,229 --> 00:52:10,692 Listen, John, I hate feeling like I'm being a pain to you, but I... 775 00:52:10,859 --> 00:52:12,694 I still haven't seen a ghost. 776 00:52:12,986 --> 00:52:17,615 - Yeah? - And I was hoping maybe you'd... 777 00:52:17,782 --> 00:52:19,034 Yeah. 778 00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:20,952 Yeah, I'll take you in. 779 00:52:21,161 --> 00:52:23,872 - Tomorrow. - Really? 780 00:52:24,873 --> 00:52:28,293 Thank you so much. 781 00:52:28,460 --> 00:52:29,919 Oh, John. 782 00:52:31,004 --> 00:52:32,630 Damn it. 783 00:52:44,309 --> 00:52:47,979 There are too many ideas and things and people. 784 00:52:48,146 --> 00:52:50,023 Too many directions to go. 785 00:52:50,190 --> 00:52:54,861 I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care about something... 786 00:52:55,195 --> 00:52:57,322 ...is that it whittles the world down... 787 00:52:57,530 --> 00:53:01,159 ...to a more manageable size. 788 00:53:01,326 --> 00:53:05,121 Such sweet, sad insights. 789 00:53:06,289 --> 00:53:08,708 So true. 790 00:53:21,721 --> 00:53:24,641 I like looking at you. 791 00:53:26,059 --> 00:53:28,895 I like looking at you too, Charlie. 792 00:54:06,891 --> 00:54:08,560 I don't know how to do this. 793 00:54:09,102 --> 00:54:12,063 I'm afraid I'll disappoint you. 794 00:54:12,230 --> 00:54:15,400 You've written a beautiful book. 795 00:54:15,608 --> 00:54:18,194 I can't sleep. 796 00:54:19,779 --> 00:54:22,824 I'm losing my hair. I'm fat and repulsive. 797 00:54:22,991 --> 00:54:26,578 Shh. You're not. You're not. 798 00:54:27,746 --> 00:54:32,167 Just whittle it down, you know? 799 00:54:32,334 --> 00:54:34,794 Focus on one thing in the story. 800 00:54:35,462 --> 00:54:38,006 Find that one thing... 801 00:54:38,173 --> 00:54:41,551 ...that you care passionately about... 802 00:54:41,718 --> 00:54:43,803 ...and then write about that. 803 00:54:43,970 --> 00:54:47,265 We see Susan Orlean: Delicate, haunted by loneliness... 804 00:54:47,432 --> 00:54:48,892 ...fragile, beautiful. 805 00:54:49,059 --> 00:54:52,979 She lies awake next to her sleeping, insensitive husband. 806 00:54:53,146 --> 00:54:54,314 Her voice-over begins: 807 00:54:54,856 --> 00:54:58,651 "I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. 808 00:54:59,235 --> 00:55:03,323 I want to know how it feels to care about something passionately." 809 00:55:06,951 --> 00:55:09,287 - Hey. - Morning. 810 00:55:09,454 --> 00:55:13,958 Hey, you two. Up early for a change? 811 00:55:14,167 --> 00:55:18,672 - You seem chipper. - I'm good. I have some new ideas. 812 00:55:18,838 --> 00:55:23,760 God, you guys are so smart. It's like a brain factory in here. 813 00:55:23,927 --> 00:55:28,598 - I got some ideas too this morning. - He got really, really good ones. 814 00:55:28,765 --> 00:55:31,184 You know, in a Donald sort of way. 815 00:55:31,351 --> 00:55:33,978 I'm putting... Hey! What? 816 00:55:36,147 --> 00:55:39,109 I'm putting in a chase sequence. So the killer... 817 00:55:39,275 --> 00:55:42,696 ...flees on horseback with the girl. The cop's after them on a motorcycle. 818 00:55:42,862 --> 00:55:45,490 And it's like a battle between motors and horses. 819 00:55:45,699 --> 00:55:48,451 Like technology versus horse. 820 00:55:48,618 --> 00:55:50,954 And they're still all one person, right? 821 00:55:51,538 --> 00:55:53,581 Well, that's the big payoff. 822 00:55:53,748 --> 00:55:56,543 - It sounds exciting. - Thanks, man. 823 00:55:56,710 --> 00:55:59,754 - Thanks. - See, I told you he was gonna like it. 824 00:56:00,380 --> 00:56:05,176 - You're my muse. You are. - I love being your muse. 825 00:56:05,593 --> 00:56:08,179 I'm so happy about that. 826 00:56:09,556 --> 00:56:12,058 I'm picking up an order for Kaufman. 827 00:56:30,285 --> 00:56:32,203 - Valerie. - Hi, Charlie. 828 00:56:32,370 --> 00:56:34,289 It's quite a coincidence bumping into you. 829 00:56:34,456 --> 00:56:37,083 I'm sorry I didn't call you back. I was away last week. 830 00:56:37,250 --> 00:56:39,252 - That's okay. - I meant to because... 831 00:56:39,419 --> 00:56:41,880 ...things are going really well now, and I wanted you to know. 832 00:56:42,047 --> 00:56:44,174 Well, that's great. I'm anxious to see something.