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00:00The
00:30I want Jake Ross's secretary, please.
00:35Williams, we're still waiting for your Mr. Ross.
00:38I'm trying to get him right now, sir.
00:42Joanie?
00:43Where is he?
00:44I know he's out to lunch, but we got a conference call here for 2 o'clock.
00:48It's now 2.30. Now, where is he?
00:52All right, check around.
00:54Call Sardi's Easter, the colony, and tell him to get himself over here in a hurry.
01:00Well, where is your protégé with the $3 million automobile account?
01:12He's due at any moment, Mr. Mizrell.
01:15Probably a big lunch crowd or something.
01:16Don't be an idiot.
01:18More likely a big martini, or three, or four of them.
01:22He was too young to put on this account.
01:24I told you that, Williams.
01:25I kept telling you that.
01:26He's much too young to put on this large and important account.
01:30We have now been here 34 minutes, Mr. Williams.
01:51This is a communication from Jake Ross.
01:54Would you be so kind as to share its contents with us?
01:57I can give you the sense of it very quickly, Mr. Mizrell.
02:01This is Jake Ross's resignation.
02:03He's moving over to another agency.
02:07And?
02:10And he's taking the automobile account with him.
02:12That account represented a gross billing of something in the neighborhood of $3 million a year.
02:18And how many times have you promised it to me?
02:26This is as much a shock to me as it is to you, Mr. Mizrell.
02:30Don't sit down.
02:31And don't con me, Williams.
02:33It was your pet project.
02:34Your pet project!
02:36Then it was your idea to give it to that little college greenie.
02:39Now get with it, Williams.
02:42Get with it, boy!
02:43Get with it, boy!
02:52So what's left, Williams?
02:54Not only has your pet project backfired, but it sprouted wings and left the premises.
03:00I'll tell you what's left to us, in my view.
03:03A deep and abiding concern about your judgment in men.
03:09This is a push business, Williams.
03:11A push, push, push business.
03:14Push and drive.
03:15But personally, you don't delegate responsibilities to little boys.
03:22You should know it better than anyone else.
03:25A push, push, push business, Williams.
03:27It's push, push, push all the way, all the time.
03:31It's push, push, push all the way, all the time, right on down the line.
03:35Fat boy, why don't you shut your mouth?
03:45Mr. Williams, messages are on the desk.
03:58And there's some hot coffee here.
03:59Can I bring you some?
04:00No, thanks.
04:00You want anything at all?
04:03Yeah.
04:05A sharp razor and a chart of the human anatomy showing where all the arteries are.
04:15This is Gart Williams, age 38.
04:28A man protected by a suit of armor all held together by one bolt.
04:33Just a moment ago, someone removed the bolt.
04:35And Mr. Williams' protection fell away from him and left him a naked target.
04:40He's been cannonaded this afternoon by all the enemies of his life.
04:44His insecurity has shelled him.
04:46His sensitivity has straddled him with humiliation.
04:49His deep-rooted disquiet about his own worth has zeroed in on him,
04:53landed on target and blown him apart.
04:56Mr. Gart Williams, ad agency exec, who in just a moment
04:59will move into the twilight zone
05:01in a desperate search for survival.
05:04How are you tonight, Mr. Williams?
05:18In the absolute pink.
05:20Cold winter this year.
05:22Seems to get darker earlier than it ever has.
05:24Well, that's the way of the world.
05:26The rich get richer,
05:28and the days get shorter.
05:30That's right.
05:31Now push, push, push, business.
05:41Push and drive.
05:43It's push, push, push all the way, all the time.
05:46Right on down the line.
05:48That's enough.
05:48That's enough.
06:01I don't know.
06:31I don't know.
07:01That's Willoughby right outside.
07:03Wait a minute.
07:04What's going on?
07:06There's no stop on this line called Willoughby.
07:08And look at it outside.
07:09The sun is out.
07:10It's summer.
07:11That's what she is.
07:12Mid-July.
07:13A real warm one, too.
07:15Wait a minute.
07:16It's November.
07:17What's going on here, anyway?
07:18It's November.
07:19Where is this place?
07:21Where is Willoughby?
07:22Willoughby, sir?
07:23That's Willoughby right outside.
07:26Willoughby.
07:27July.
07:28Summer.
07:29It's 1888.
07:31Really a lovely little village.
07:33You ought to try it sometime.
07:35Peaceful.
07:36Restful.
07:37Where a man can slow down to a walk
07:39and live his life full measure.
07:43Willoughby.
07:44The stop is Willoughby.
07:46Willoughby.
07:46The stop is Willoughby.
07:48Westport Soccer Talk next stop.
08:17Westport Soccer Talk.
08:19Have a good sleep, Mr. Williams?
08:21Yeah.
08:23Yeah, I had a good sleep.
08:25With an idiotic dream.
08:27Idiotic.
08:29You ever hear of a town called Willoughby?
08:31Willoughby?
08:32Willoughby where?
08:34Willoughby, Connecticut, I guess.
08:35Or Willoughby, New York.
08:37Not on this run.
08:39No Willoughby on the line.
08:41Westport Soccer Talk next stop.
08:43Westport Soccer Talk.
08:44Westport Soccer Talk.
09:14I know all about it.
09:16Bob Blair's wife called me.
09:19She told me he'd been in the meeting with you.
09:21You got hysterical or something?
09:24Well, she called to find out how you were.
09:25They were all very solicitous, all the boys at the meeting.
09:30That free-flowing compassion that is actually relief.
09:34I'm the victim, not them.
09:36They've mistaken an intake of breath for an outpouring of sympathy.
09:40Would you spare me your little homilies now?
09:42Please, and just give me a simple and direct and honest answer.
09:45Peter, did you wreck a career this afternoon?
09:48Did you throw away a job?
09:50It appears not.
09:52Mr. Elf phoned before I left the office.
09:55He has found it in that great, oversized heart of his to forgive.
10:00But the somewhat obese, gracious gentleman will allow me to continue in his employ
10:05because he's such a human-type fella
10:09with the small, insignificant, parenthetic additional reason
10:13that if I were to go to a competitive agency,
10:15I might possibly take a lot of business with me.
10:20Go on.
10:22That's it.
10:23That's all of it.
10:27Oh.
10:29I'm tired, Janie.
10:31I'm tired.
10:32I'm sick.
10:34Well, then you're in the right ward.
10:38We specialize in people that are sick.
10:40And tired, too, Garth.
10:42I'm sick.
10:44And I'm tired.
10:45Of a husband who lives in a kind of permanent self-pity.
10:49A husband with a heart,
10:49a bleeding sensitivity that he unfurls like a flag
10:52whenever he decides the competition is a little too rough for him.
10:58Some people aren't built for competition, Janie.
11:02Or big, pretentious houses they can't afford.
11:04Or rich communities they don't feel comfortable in.
11:08Or country clubs they wear around their neck like a badge of status.
11:12And you would prefer?
11:13I would prefer, though never asked before,
11:16a job, any job, any job at all where I could be myself.
11:19Or I wouldn't have to climb on a stage
11:21and go through a masquerade every morning at 9 o'clock.
11:24And mouth all the dialogue and play the executive
11:26and make believe I'm the bright young man who's on his way up
11:29because I'm not that person, Janie.
11:31You've tried to make me that person,
11:32but that isn't me.
11:33That isn't me at all.
11:34I'm a not very young, soon-to-be-old,
11:42very uncompetitive, rather dull,
11:45quite uninspired, average-type guy
11:48with a wife who has an appetite.
11:51And just where would you be if it weren't for my appetite?
12:00I know where I'd like to be.
12:03Where's that?
12:03A place called Willoughby,
12:16a little town I manufactured in a dream.
12:18Well, tell me about your dream, Garth.
12:25It was an odd dream.
12:27A very odd dream.
12:30Willoughby.
12:32It was summer.
12:33Very warm.
12:35The kids were barefooted.
12:37One of them had a fishing pole.
12:38It all looked like a
12:41Courier and Ives painting.
12:45Bandstand, bicycles, wagons.
12:50I've never seen such
12:51serenity.
12:55It was the way people must have lived 100 years ago.
13:00Crazy dream.
13:03Yeah.
13:05You let me know when you wake up, huh, Garth?
13:07No, wait a minute, Janie.
13:08Please, Janie.
13:10You know what the trouble with you is, Garth?
13:13You were just born too late.
13:15Because, you know, you're the kind of a guy
13:17that could be satisfied with a summer afternoon
13:19or an ice wagon being drawn by a horse.
13:22So it's my mistake, pal.
13:24My error.
13:25My miserable, tragic error
13:27to get married to a man
13:28whose big dream in life
13:30is to be Huckleberry Finn.
13:38Yeah.
13:40Maybe.
13:41Something like that.
13:44A place,
13:45a time
13:46where a man can live his life
13:47full measure.
13:50That's what he said.
13:51That's
13:51what that conductor said.
13:55A place
13:56where a man can live his life
13:58full measure.
13:59Willoughby?
14:11What?
14:12Last week,
14:13you asked me about a town
14:14called Willoughby,
14:14Mr. Williams.
14:16Well,
14:16I looked it up.
14:17Every old timetable
14:18I could find.
14:20No such place
14:21as far as I could see.
14:23Thanks.
14:24It was a dream,
14:26is all.
14:26Probably was.
14:28Stanford next stop.
14:29Next stop,
14:30Stanford.
14:34Stanford.
14:36Stanford next stop.
14:39Stanford.
14:44Next stop,
14:45Stanford.
14:46Stanford next stop.
14:49Willoughby.
14:50The stop is Willoughby.
14:55Willoughby.
14:56The stop is Willoughby.
14:59Willoughby, sir.
15:02Willoughby?
15:03Yes, sir.
15:04Willoughby.
15:06Willoughby.
15:07All on for Willoughby.
15:09Willoughby.
15:10Stop is Willoughby.
15:11All right.
15:41Conductor!
15:46Conductor!
15:50Conductor!
15:53Conductor!
15:55Conductor!
15:57You all right, Mr. Williams?
16:01Yeah, yeah.
16:03Sure, I'm all right.
16:04Willoughby, next time, next time I'm going to get off.
16:26I'm going to get off at Willoughby.
16:34What we need here, Williams, is a show with Zazz,
16:39an entertainer with Moxie.
16:41We've got to take the audience for the ears and give them a gag.
16:44Jar them, rock them.
16:46Give them the old push, push, push.
16:47I understand, Mr. Misrow.
16:49Now it's got to be bright, Williams.
16:50Bright with manner.
16:51I'm trying to get...
16:52Comedy.
16:53And everything push, push, push.
16:55Of course, sir.
16:56Now it's got to be bright, Williams.
16:57Push, push, push.
16:59That's the kind of a show the client will like.
17:01I understand, Mr. Misrow.
17:02I understand.
17:03Tomorrow morning, Williams,
17:04I want at least a preliminary idea for the show.
17:07You know what I want.
17:09Just a rough format with a few details
17:11as to how we integrate the commercials
17:13within the body of the show.
17:14I understand, Mr. Misrow.
17:15I understand.
17:16I'll do the best I can.
17:17Do more than you can.
17:20Aspire.
17:21Dream big and then get behind it.
17:23Push, push, push, push.
17:25Yes, sir.
17:30Yes?
17:33Well, I haven't seen the ratings on the show.
17:37No?
17:37No?
17:39Well, that's the time slot the sponsor wanted.
17:43Hang on a minute, will you?
17:46Yes?
17:49They what?
17:52Hold on just a second.
17:53Helen?
17:54Helen?
17:55What film outfit did the commercials
17:59on the Bradbury account?
18:00The negatives are all scratched.
18:01They're screaming bloody murder.
18:02I'll have to check it for you, sir.
18:03Mr. Misrow would like to see you.
18:05I'll have to check it out for you here.
18:07Mr. Misrow, sir.
18:08I'll let you know when I know something.
18:10Mr. Williams.
18:11Mr. Misrow seemed very insistent.
18:14Mr. Williams.
18:15Mr. Misrow.
18:33Push, push, push, push, push,
18:34push, push, push, push,
18:35push, push, push,
18:36push, push, push,
18:36push, push, push,
18:37push, push, push,
18:37push, push, push,
18:38push, push, push,
18:39push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push.
18:39push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push.
18:42Will you give me Westport, Connecticut, please?
19:00Capital 7-9-8-9-9.
19:03Yes, please.
19:07Chaney, there's a guard, honey.
19:10I'm coming home.
19:12Will you stay there?
19:14I just want you to stay there.
19:18No, honey, listen, please.
19:22I've had it.
19:23Understand? I've had it.
19:25I just can't take this another day, not another hour.
19:28This is it right now.
19:29I've got to get out of here.
19:33Chaney, will you help me, please?
19:37Will you please help me?
19:41Chaney.
19:42How are you tonight, Mr. Williams?
19:59Stanford, next stop.
20:07Stanford.
20:10Next stop, Stanford.
20:14Next stop, Stanford.
20:18Stanford, next stop.
20:20Stanford.
20:23Next stop, Stanford.
20:24Next stop is Willoughby. Willoughby. Stop is Willoughby. Willoughby? Yes, sir.
20:54Hi, Mr. Williams. Hi, boys. We'll catch some big ones today, huh? I think tomorrow I'll join you. Plenty of room and lots of fish.
21:24Hi, Mr. Williams. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. I'm glad to be here.
21:54Just jumped off the train, did he?
22:10Shouted something about Willoughby, then ran out to the platform, and that was the last I saw him.
22:16Doctor says he must have died instantly. They're going to take him into town for an autopsy.
22:20The funeral parlor there sent the ambulance.
22:35Poor fella.
22:50Willoughby? Maybe it's wishful thinking nestled in a hidden part of a man's mind.
23:05Or maybe it's the last stop in the vast design of things.
23:09Or perhaps for a man like Mr. Gart Williams, who climbed on a world that went by too fast,
23:14it's a place around the bend where he could jump off.
23:18Willoughby? Whatever it is, it comes with sunlight and serenity and is a part of the Twilight Zone.
23:26We're done.
23:42Bye.
23:43BELTHO TODAY
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