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00:01:00I don't like goodbyes.

00:01:01Kind of the point of a goodbye party, John.

00:01:04Went to a certain amount of trouble, you know.

00:01:07Could at least date a few minutes.

00:01:08Huh?

00:01:09Eating some of the food we so feverishly prepared.

00:01:13I apologize, Harry.

00:01:14Why are you moving so quickly?

00:01:16You only resigned a couple of days ago.

00:01:17You got the history chair at Stanford.

00:01:20I wish.

00:01:21Well, taquitos, chicken wings, roasty toasties, and beer.

00:01:26If we'd had more time, we'd have done something a little more grandiose.

00:01:29Candlelight dinner at McDonald's.

00:01:31Strippers.

00:01:33Taquitos are fine.

00:01:34Art's gonna be alone, too.

00:01:38He's talking to a student.

00:01:40Has George taken over for you?

00:01:42George or Trimble?

00:01:43Has the dean made up his mind?

00:01:44He hasn't called.

00:01:46My God.

00:01:47What is this?

00:01:48It looks like a Van Gogh, but I've never seen it before.

00:01:51Is that an original, John?

00:01:52No, it's just a gift someone gave me.

00:01:54Still, it's a superb copy.

00:01:57Contemporaneous, I think.

00:01:58May I take a closer look?

00:02:00Please, yeah.

00:02:04Yeah, it's the same stretcher as Van Gogh used.

00:02:06Yeah, there's writing on the back.

00:02:08It's in French.

00:02:09Oh, to my friend Jacques Bourne.

00:02:11I wonder who that was.

00:02:13Someone who knew, I guess.

00:02:14Brilliant deduction, Sherlock.

00:02:16Surely you'll have this looked at, appraised.

00:02:19Well, maybe sometime, but I, uh, wouldn't really want money for it.

00:02:25That does it.

00:02:28Put that stuff in the kitchen.

00:02:30No, I'm going to put it in the bathroom, John.

00:02:33Gas is off.

00:02:34Electricity's on.

00:02:37It comes for what you can.

00:02:38The furniture's going this afternoon.

00:02:41It's been years since I sat on the floor.

00:02:44I can't remember her name.

00:02:46That's good for the back.

00:02:47Can we do yoga exercises?

00:02:49Tantric yoga we can.

00:02:52So you're leaving good old, we teach you.

00:02:55Rather suddenly, you must have made.

00:02:58True time, John.

00:02:59Is there a problem?

00:03:01No.

00:03:03Oh, come on.

00:03:04You know we want to help.

00:03:05It's appreciated, but really, there's no problem.

00:03:09Well, now I am curious.

00:03:12Where are you going?

00:03:12You have enough tenure?

00:03:13A decade of professorship?

00:03:16In line to chair the department?

00:03:18And you don't know where you're going?

00:03:19Call it cabin fever.

00:03:22After a while, I get itchy feet.

00:03:25I've done this before.

00:03:26No, no, no, no.

00:03:27You're too young to have done this before.

00:03:29And he hasn't aged a day in ten years.

00:03:32Every woman on the faculty would give anything to have that secret.

00:03:35Is that what they're after, Edith?

00:03:37Oh, stop, Harry.

00:03:41Whoa, can you pull this?

00:03:44What the hell?

00:03:45No.

00:03:46What are you hunting?

00:03:47Deer, mostly.

00:03:49Brown big bear.

00:03:50Bone arrow?

00:03:51Most people can't bag a deer for raffling the telescopic side.

00:03:54Oh, good eating.

00:03:57The best.

00:03:57Wild game.

00:03:58Lives naturally, eats naturally.

00:04:00Oh, it's beautiful.

00:04:04All right.

00:04:10So, do I get an A for awesome?

00:04:13Oh, my gosh.

00:04:15That was fun.

00:04:17Hey, John.

00:04:19You know, Linda, you had her last semester.

00:04:21I am.

00:04:22She's one of my victims.

00:04:23Now I'm taking her home.

00:04:24She wanted to come by and say hello, goodbye.

00:04:26Is art as tough as I hear?

00:04:27Oh, archaeology's tough.

00:04:29Dr. Jenkins is a fine teacher.

00:04:31Oh, that's very politic.

00:04:33It's very true.

00:04:34Huh?

00:04:35Something for you to read on the road, Belle.

00:04:36Shadows of the Cave are parallels to early man Arthur M. Jenkins.

00:04:41Publish or perish?

00:04:43I'd rather read than write another one.

00:04:46Hi.

00:04:48Oh, everybody, this is Linda.

00:04:50Linda, this is everybody.

00:04:52Linda.

00:04:53Hi.

00:04:55So, where are you going, John, like we give a down?

00:04:59We've already covered that.

00:05:01John's got itchy feet.

00:05:02There are over-the-counter remedies for that, John.

00:05:08So, there is a problem.

00:05:10No.

00:05:11I'd just like to move on now and then.

00:05:13It's a personal thing.

00:05:14Well, not to pry.

00:05:26I'm sorry.

00:05:26I don't have more to offer you.

00:05:28Got conversations and seats for your behinds.

00:05:31And, uh...

00:05:32Is he ducking out on us again?

00:05:40I do have this.

00:05:42Oh, ho, ho!

00:05:43Johnny Walker Green.

00:05:48I didn't even know they made it in green.

00:05:49What do they pay you?

00:05:50Nothing is too good for my friends.

00:05:52But I'm sorry we are down to plastic cups now.

00:05:55That's a sacrilege I'll tolerate.

00:05:57I will do the honors.

00:05:59Oh, come to Papa.

00:06:02Woo!

00:06:03Here.

00:06:03Cups, cups.

00:06:04Here we go.

00:06:04Step on in here.

00:06:05All right.

00:06:06There you go.

00:06:07On your birthday, boy.

00:06:08Here we go.

00:06:08Excuse me.

00:06:09Art!

00:06:09Not enough for me.

00:06:11Oh, no.

00:06:11I don't drink.

00:06:12We're not going to card you, darling.

00:06:14All right.

00:06:14Here.

00:06:15Join the circle at least.

00:06:15Come on.

00:06:17Well, long life and good fortune to our esteemed friend and colleague, John Ullman.

00:06:24May find undeserved bliss wherever he goes.

00:06:28You're here.

00:06:28Let's go.

00:06:29Nesluvia.

00:06:30Have a job, John.

00:06:38Oh, that's good.

00:06:39Excuse me.

00:06:40Well, John, we're all sorry to see you go.

00:06:46Truly.

00:06:50Okay.

00:06:51Now we're done with that.

00:06:52What do we do for the rest of the afternoon?

00:06:54Anyone got a good topic?

00:06:55Like this, maybe?

00:06:57What is that?

00:06:58It's a burin.

00:06:59It's a parrot beak.

00:07:01Incline chisel point.

00:07:03Probably early Magdalene.

00:07:05May I see that?

00:07:06Sure.

00:07:10Yes, indeed.

00:07:14That's what it is.

00:07:16What's a burin?

00:07:18A burin is a flint tool for grooving wood and bone, antlers especially, to make spear and

00:07:23harpoon points.

00:07:24Magdalanians weren't noted for flint work.

00:07:26So, this is a very nice specimen.

00:07:28Okay.

00:07:29What's a Magdalanian?

00:07:30A later crow magnet, without getting technical.

00:07:33It's the final culture of the Upper Paleolithic.

00:07:36Stones can speak, eh?

00:07:38So, where'd you get that done?

00:07:40Believe it or not, from a thrift shop.

00:07:42A quarter.

00:07:42You lucky dog.

00:07:44Me, I gotta go digging for this kind of stuff.

00:07:46Can I, uh...

00:07:48Yeah.

00:07:58Maybe...

00:07:59I'm glad you did this.

00:08:02Did what?

00:08:03You mean, come over?

00:08:05Maybe?

00:08:06Definitely.

00:08:07Gee, thanks.

00:08:08Well, so are we.

00:08:10So are we.

00:08:11We couldn't let you just run off.

00:08:14Thanks.

00:08:17John, what is up?

00:08:18Huh?

00:08:19Are you on America's Most Wanted?

00:08:20We won't turn you in.

00:08:21Yeah, come on out with it.

00:08:23You're among friends.

00:08:24Snoopy, friends.

00:08:25Forget it.

00:08:26You are creating the mystery here.

00:08:28Obviously, you have something you'd like to say.

00:08:29Say it.

00:08:32Maybe I...

00:08:3410, 9, 8, 7...

00:08:36Harry, stop.

00:08:38There is something I'm tempted to tell you, I think.

00:08:41I've never done this before, and I wonder how it would pan out.

00:08:48I wonder if I could ask you a silly question.

00:08:50Well, John, we're teachers.

00:08:51We answer silly questions all the time.

00:08:53Hey!

00:08:55What if a man from the Upper Paleolithic

00:08:57survived until the present day?

00:09:00What do you mean, survived?

00:09:02Never died?

00:09:03Yes.

00:09:04What would he be like?

00:09:05Oh, I know some guys.

00:09:06You ever been to the Ozarks?

00:09:07No.

00:09:08It's an interesting idea.

00:09:10What are you, working on a science fiction story?

00:09:13Say I am.

00:09:14What would he be like?

00:09:15Pretty tired.

00:09:18Well, seriously, as Art's book title suggests,

00:09:22he might be like any of us.

00:09:24Dan, a caveman?

00:09:26Well, there's no anatomical difference between, say, a co-magnon and us.

00:09:29Except that as a rule, we've grown taller.

00:09:31What's the selective advantage of height?

00:09:33Better to see predators in tall grass, my dear.

00:09:37Naturally, tall and skinny radiates heat more effectively in warmer climates.

00:09:42And as for Neanderthals, I mean, we've all seen apish people.

00:09:45I mean, that's strange still with us.

00:09:46But he'd be a caveman.

00:09:48No, he wouldn't.

00:09:49John's hypothetical man would have lived through 140 centuries.

00:09:53Yeah, roughly.

00:09:54And changed, if every one of them.

00:09:56I mean, assuming normal intelligence.

00:09:59Well, we think men of the Upper Paleolithic were as intelligent as we are.

00:10:02They just didn't know as much.

00:10:05John's man would have learned as a race learned.

00:10:08In fact, if he had an inquiring mind, his knowledge might be astonishing.

00:10:14If you do write that, let me have a look at it.

00:10:16I'm sure you'll make some anthropological boners.

00:10:19It's a deal.

00:10:20What would keep him alive?

00:10:22What does the biologist say?

00:10:24Cigarettes and ice cream.

00:10:27All right, all right, I'll play.

00:10:28I'll play.

00:10:29All right.

00:10:29In science fiction terms, I would say perfect regeneration of the body's cells, especially

00:10:40in the vital organs.

00:10:42Actually, the human body appears designed to live about 190 years.

00:10:46Most of us just die of slow poisoning.

00:10:50Maybe he did something right, something everybody else in history done wrong.

00:10:55What, like eat the food, drink the water, and breathe the air?

00:10:57And prior to modern times, those were pristine.

00:11:02We've extended our lifespan in a world that's not fit to live in.

00:11:08You know what could happen?

00:11:10Yeah, the pancreas turns over cells every 24 hours, the stomach lining in three days,

00:11:13the entire body in seven years.

00:11:15But the process falters.

00:11:17Waste accumulates, eventually proves fatal to function.

00:11:20Now, if a quirk in his immune system led to perfect detox, perfect renewal, then, yeah,

00:11:26he could duck decay.

00:11:29That's a secret we'd all love to have.

00:11:31Would you really want to do that?

00:11:34Live 14,000 years?

00:11:36Well, if I could stay healthy and I didn't age, I mean, why not?

00:11:40Yeah.

00:11:40What a chance to learn.

00:11:43Is anyone hungry?

00:11:44Yeah.

00:11:45Hey, you know, the more I think about it, yeah, it's possible.

00:11:48Anything is possible, right?

00:11:50After all, one century's magic, another century's science.

00:11:53They thought Columbus was a nutjob, right?

00:11:55Pasteur, Copernicus?

00:11:56Aristarchus long before that.

00:11:57Right.

00:11:59I had a chance to sail with Columbus, only I'm not the adventurous type.

00:12:03What?

00:12:04I was pretty sure the Earth was round, but it...

00:12:07At that point, I still thought he might fall off an edge someplace.

00:12:11Look around, John.

00:12:24We just did.

00:12:26I suppose there's a joke in there somewhere, but I don't get it.

00:12:30It's nothing to get.

00:12:31What are we talking about?

00:12:33We were just talking about a caveman who survives until the present time.

00:12:37And as you said, what a chance to learn, once I learned to learn.

00:12:43Did you start the whiskey before we got here?

00:12:48Pretend it's science fiction.

00:12:50Figure it out.

00:12:52Okay.

00:12:53A very old Cro-Magnon living until the present.

00:12:58John just confided in that he's 14,000 years old.

00:13:11Oh, John, you don't look a day over 900.

00:13:15Okay.

00:13:16All right, Spock, I'll play your little game.

00:13:18What do you want?

00:13:19What's the punchline?

00:13:20Every ten years or so, when people start to notice I don't age, I move on.

00:13:24That's very good.

00:13:29That's very quick, John.

00:13:30I want to read that story when you're done.

00:13:32You want more?

00:13:33Oh, yeah, by all means.

00:13:34This is great.

00:13:36All right, now.

00:13:38So you think that you are a Cro-Magnon.

00:13:42Well, I didn't learn it in school.

00:13:43It's my best guess.

00:13:45Based on archaeological data, maps, anthropological research.

00:13:50Since Mesopotamia, I've got the last 4,000 years straight.

00:13:54Well, you're ahead of most people, so please go on.

00:13:57Well, you know the background stuff, so I'll make it brief.

00:14:00What I call my first lifetime, I age to about 35.

00:14:04What you see, I ended up leading my group.

00:14:08They saw me as magical.

00:14:10I didn't even have to fight for it.

00:14:12Then fear came, and they chased me away.

00:14:16They thought that I was stealing their lives away to stay young.

00:14:20The prehistoric origin of the vampire myth, that is good.

00:14:23First 1,000 years, I didn't know up from sideways.

00:14:26How do you know the first 1,000 years?

00:14:29I'm informed guess, based on what I've learned in my memories.

00:14:32Most people can scarcely remember their childhood, but you have memories of that time.

00:14:36Like yours, selected.

00:14:38You know, the high points, the low points, traumas, they stick in the mind forever.

00:14:43Put down at 3 or 35, you still feel the twinge.

00:14:47Go on.

00:14:50I kept getting chased, because I wouldn't die.

00:14:54So I got the hang of joining new groups, I found.

00:14:57I also got the idea of periodically moving on.

00:15:02We were semi-nomadic, of course, following the weather and the game we hunted.

00:15:04The first 2,000 years were cold.

00:15:08We learned it was warmer at lower elevations.

00:15:11Late glacial period, I saw.

00:15:14What was the terrain line?

00:15:17Mountainous.

00:15:19Vast plains to the west.

00:15:22West?

00:15:23But something you learned in school?

00:15:25Towards the setting sun.

00:15:26I suspect I saw the British Isles from what is now the French coast.

00:15:33Huge mountains.

00:15:35On the other side of an enormous deep valley that was shadowed by the setting sun.

00:15:39This is before they were separated from the continent by rising seas, as glaciers melted.

00:15:44That happened?

00:15:46Yes, the end of the place to sin.

00:15:49So far what he says fits.

00:15:51Oh, yeah, into any textbook.

00:15:53And that's where I found it.

00:15:53How can I have knowledgeable recall if I didn't have knowledge?

00:15:58It's all retrospective.

00:16:00All I can do is integrate my recollections with modern findings.

00:16:05Caveman.

00:16:06You gonna hit me over the head with a club and drag me into the bedroom?

00:16:09You'd be more fun conscious.

00:16:11Oh, John.

00:16:12Let me get this straight.

00:16:12Now, we're not talking about reincarnation.

00:16:15You're not saying that you remember whatever the hell it would be, 200 separate lifetimes,

00:16:19dying and being born again, yada, yada.

00:16:22One lifetime.

00:16:23Some lifetime.

00:16:26Wow.

00:16:27Well, maybe there is something to this reincarnation thing.

00:16:30You're supposed to come back again and again, learn and learn,

00:16:32and somehow, John, you just managed to bypass all the other bodies.

00:16:37Well, what's the point?

00:16:41What about oceans?

00:16:43Didn't see them until much later.

00:16:45So how would you know an ocean from a lake?

00:16:47Big waves.

00:16:49Something else I can only surmise in retrospect.

00:16:52Were you curious about where it all came from?

00:16:53We would look up at the sky and wonder.

00:16:58There's got to be some big guys up there.

00:17:00And what else made all this down here?

00:17:02At first, I thought there was something wrong with me.

00:17:05Maybe I was a bad guy for not dying.

00:17:08Then I began to wonder if I was cursed or perhaps blessed.

00:17:14And I thought maybe I had a mission.

00:17:19Do you still think you do?

00:17:20God works in mysterious ways.

00:17:22I think it just happened.

00:17:33Wow.

00:17:34Hello?

00:17:36Yes, Ellie.

00:17:38What's wrong?

00:17:41Sandy?

00:17:42Coming.

00:17:46Yeah?

00:17:47Do we have Ellie's midterm here?

00:17:48Oh.

00:17:49Yeah, sorry.

00:17:52I picked it up with the periodicals.

00:17:54Got it.

00:17:56No, you're worried about your parents.

00:17:58Don't worry.

00:17:59You passed.

00:18:00C plus.

00:18:01Take care of yourself.

00:18:03Good kid.

00:18:04What does pre-med need with history?

00:18:06Got it.

00:18:11Sorry, guys.

00:18:12John, please continue.

00:18:14Come on.

00:18:14I thought we were done with that.

00:18:15No.

00:18:17Let's go on with it.

00:18:18It's interesting.

00:18:19Besides, I think he's making a certain amount of sense.

00:18:22Right, like Hagel.

00:18:23Logic from absurd premises.

00:18:25That Van Gogh.

00:18:26Oh, he gave it to me.

00:18:28I was Jacques Bourne at the time.

00:18:31A pig farmer.

00:18:32A pig farmer?

00:18:34I like to work with my hands.

00:18:37He would come out to the place, paint.

00:18:39We talked about capturing nature and art.

00:18:42Turner, Suzanne, Pizarro.

00:18:44Oh, the Nolder landscapes.

00:18:46Not in Van Gogh's time.

00:18:47He would have loved them, though.

00:18:49Yes.

00:18:50Well, I don't understand why you can't remember where you're from.

00:18:54Geography hasn't changed.

00:18:56I learned that, and Professor...

00:18:57Professor Henson's deppid lectures.

00:18:59But you're right.

00:19:00Where did you live when you were five years old?

00:19:03Little Rock.

00:19:04Your mother, she took you to the market?

00:19:05Mm-hmm.

00:19:06What direction was it from your house?

00:19:09I don't know.

00:19:10How far?

00:19:11Um, three blocks.

00:19:13Were there any references that stuck in your mind?

00:19:15Well, there was a gas station and a big field.

00:19:19I was told I could never go there alone.

00:19:21And if you went back there today, would it be the same?

00:19:24No.

00:19:25I'm sure it's all different and built up.

00:19:27Plus, the saying, you can't go home again because it isn't there anymore.

00:19:31Pictured on my scale, I migrated through an endless flat space full of endless new things.

00:19:39Forests, mountains, tundra, canyons.

00:19:42Forests, my memory sees what I saw then.

00:19:47My eye sees freeways, urban sprawl, Big Macs under the Eiffel Tower.

00:19:53Early on, the world got bigger and bigger, and then...

00:19:58Think what I've had to unlearn.

00:20:01And now you're moving on.

00:20:02As Edith said, this talk of my not aging.

00:20:05When that happens, I move on.

00:20:08Well, it might make sense to set up your next identity.

00:20:11Your next ten years, and then just drop into it.

00:20:15I've done that a few times.

00:20:16Even passed as my own son.

00:20:18Oh, you're an engineer, too.

00:20:20You're Ben's son.

00:20:21He was a good man.

00:20:23Saves trouble with credentials and references.

00:20:25On the other hand, I've been busted a few times.

00:20:28It's been a year in jail.

00:20:30Belgium, 1862.

00:20:31I won't forget that.

00:20:33For faking a government application.

00:20:35When did you come to America?

00:20:371890, right after Van Gogh's death.

00:20:39With some French immigrants moving on.

00:20:46An answer for every question.

00:20:48Except one, John.

00:20:50Why are you doing this?

00:20:54A whim.

00:20:55Maybe not such a good idea.

00:20:56I wanted to say goodbye to you.

00:21:01That's me.

00:21:02Not what you thought I was.

00:21:03Well, since this isn't funny, we think you might have a problem.

00:21:07A very serious problem.

00:21:10I've got boxes to move.

00:21:12I'll give you a hand.

00:21:15Would you have some relic?

00:21:19An artifact?

00:21:20A reminder of your early life?

00:21:23Like this, maybe.

00:21:24Thrift shop?

00:21:26Really.

00:21:29If you lived a hundred, a thousand years, would you still have this?

00:21:35What would cause you to keep it?

00:21:37As a memento to your beginnings, even if you didn't have the concept of beginnings?

00:21:42It would be gone.

00:21:44Lost.

00:21:44No, I don't have artifacts.

00:21:51Keep that.

00:21:55Interesting.

00:21:57You could have lied about that.

00:21:59Don't talk about me while I'm gone.

00:22:06Is he serious?

00:22:12If he is, I'm sorry to say he's...

00:22:15Oh, how could he have concealed that for ten years?

00:22:18At least he doesn't appear to be dangerous.

00:22:22What are you doing?

00:22:24Checking for a hidden mic.

00:22:26Candid camera.

00:22:29He's fabricating these wild stories.

00:22:31I've never seen him acting like this.

00:22:33Oh, it's crazy.

00:22:33All right.

00:22:36All right.

00:22:36Well, as soon as you can, then.

00:22:41I love you, you know.

00:22:48I know.

00:22:51Since my first week at the office.

00:22:58And?

00:23:00I care very much about you.

00:23:01But now you know what you'd be getting into.

00:23:05Do you really think you're a caveman?

00:23:07Do you?

00:23:15Could you love me?

00:23:16Why don't you believe in that anymore?

00:23:19I've gotten over it too many times.

00:23:23Fond of you?

00:23:26Certainly attracted to you.

00:23:28That's it?

00:23:36I can work with that.

00:23:40If what I'm saying is true,

00:23:43you and any children will age,

00:23:46I won't.

00:23:47And one day I'll leave.

00:23:49Talk about your May-Dus-Ember romances.

00:23:51The simple fact is I can't give you forever.

00:23:57How long is forever?

00:24:01Whoever really has it.

00:24:02My parents split up before I was born.

00:24:10Then my mom's next marriage lasted, what, a whole three years?

00:24:15Then there's death, illness, acts of God.

00:24:20No one knows how long they have.

00:24:22Or how little.

00:24:29I love you.

00:24:33Take whatever you can give.

00:24:37Like ten years?

00:24:38Why did you do that?

00:24:52I wanted to see how fast you were.

00:24:54Check your reflexes.

00:24:55I don't have eyes in the back of my head.

00:24:57I can't hear a flea walking.

00:24:58I am not in any way Superman.

00:25:00Yeah.

00:25:01Well, I'm a second-degree black belt.

00:25:03Give it another thousand years.

00:25:04I got it, I got it, I got it.

00:25:10Jesus.

00:25:11Move demonstration, Harry.

00:25:13Sit on it, Dan.

00:25:16I still have questions.

00:25:17Yeah, I do too, John.

00:25:19I mean, are we done with prehistory yet?

00:25:22Remember any of your original language?

00:25:25A little.

00:25:26One thing hasn't changed much.

00:25:31Did you ever do any cave art?

00:25:33Do you know the rock art at Lezazie?

00:25:35Mm-hmm.

00:25:37It was the work of a man named...

00:25:40Gurol.

00:25:41He did a pretty good job.

00:25:43He would draw the animals that we hoped to find, to eat.

00:25:48One day after a fruitless hunt,

00:25:50our chief stomped his teeth out

00:25:52because his magic had failed him.

00:25:55After that, someone had to chew his food for him.

00:25:57Finally, he got, I suspect, an infected jaw.

00:26:01He was abandoned.

00:26:02That's awful.

00:26:05You have to know what to kill.

00:26:07Is this why all your students say your knowledge of history is so amazing?

00:26:12No, that's mostly based on study.

00:26:14Remember, it's one man, one place at a time.

00:26:18My solitary viewpoint of a world I knew almost nothing about.

00:26:23Well, let's talk about what you say you do know about.

00:26:27Historical times.

00:26:28Don't encourage him.

00:26:29You do.

00:26:31Next few thousand years, it got warmer.

00:26:33A few thousand years.

00:26:35See, now, I know you're guessing.

00:26:37You can't get there from here, Hark.

00:26:40Well, then, pray continue.

00:26:42We hunted reindeer, mammoths, bison, horses.

00:26:48The game retreated northward as the climate changed.

00:26:50You got the idea of growing food rather than gathering it.

00:26:54Raising animals rather than hunting them.

00:26:56Am I getting warm here?

00:26:58I bet I am.

00:26:59Lakeside living becomes commonplace.

00:27:02Fishing, family.

00:27:03Come on!

00:27:05John, this is out of any textbook.

00:27:07Even yours.

00:27:08You got most of it right.

00:27:10Eventually, I had it to the east.

00:27:12I'd grown curious about the world.

00:27:15I'd gotten the hang of going it alone.

00:27:17Learning how to fit in when I wanted to.

00:27:21East.

00:27:22Towards the rising sun.

00:27:24Yes.

00:27:25I thought it might be warmer there.

00:27:28That's when I saw an ocean.

00:27:32Mediterranean, probably.

00:27:35It was around the beginning of the Bronze Age.

00:27:37So I followed the trade routes from the east.

00:27:40Copper, tin.

00:27:41Learning languages as I went.

00:27:43Everywhere.

00:27:45Creation, myths.

00:27:47New gods.

00:27:49So many, so different.

00:27:50And I finally realized that it was probably all hogwash.

00:27:55So I was Sumerian for 2,000 years.

00:27:58Then finally Babylonian.

00:27:59Hunter Hammurabi.

00:28:00Great man.

00:28:02And I sailed as a Phoenician for a time.

00:28:04See, moving on had been easier as a hunter-gatherer.

00:28:09Difficult when villages emerged.

00:28:12Tougher still in city-states where authority was centralized.

00:28:15Strangers were suspect.

00:28:16It seemed as though I was always moving on.

00:28:20I learned some new tricks.

00:28:23Even faked my death a couple of times.

00:28:27I continued east.

00:28:29To India.

00:28:31Luckily at the time of the Buddha.

00:28:35Luckily.

00:28:38Most extraordinary man I've ever known.

00:28:41He taught me things I'd never thought about before.

00:28:44You studied with the Buddha?

00:28:47Until he died.

00:28:50He knew there was something different about me.

00:28:53I never told him.

00:28:55This is fascinating.

00:28:58I almost wish it were true.

00:29:01If it was true, why are you telling us?

00:29:04I mean, we might leave here today.

00:29:05We'll go out there and tell everybody.

00:29:07It would vanish in disbelief.

00:29:10Story that goes around the room.

00:29:11No credibility.

00:29:14Even if I could make you believe me.

00:29:17In a month, you wouldn't.

00:29:20Some of you would call me a psychopath.

00:29:22Others would be angry at a pointless joke.

00:29:24Well, John, some of us are angry now.

00:29:26This was a bad idea.

00:29:29I love you all, and I do not want to put you through anything.

00:29:32Then why are you doing it?

00:29:35Because I wanted to say goodbye.

00:29:36As yourself.

00:29:37Well, I think you've done that, whoever that self is.

00:29:39Easy, Edith.

00:29:41But just grading his homework.

00:29:43I see what's going on.

00:29:44You're playing the good cop, Dan.

00:29:45That's fine.

00:29:46Just enjoy it.

00:29:47I think this whole thing is just a crock.

00:29:50I should leave, but I'm going to stay.

00:29:51You know why?

00:29:52Because I want to see what the hell this is all about.

00:29:54Yeah, so do I.

00:29:54What is this all about?

00:29:55Well, let's ask Dr. Freud, who's just arrived.

00:29:58Hey, Will.

00:29:59Will.

00:30:01Art.

00:30:01John, I'm glad I caught you.

00:30:06Someone mentioned that you were leaving today?

00:30:08Called you, told you that I've lost it.

00:30:09I'm glad you're here.

00:30:10Things are going in unexpected directions.

00:30:12Yes, so I hear.

00:30:14Hi.

00:30:15Are you hungry?

00:30:17Ah, thank you.

00:30:18Now, whiskey.

00:30:19Johnny Walker Green.

00:30:20Oh, yes.

00:30:21Yes.

00:30:25You look very familiar, my dear.

00:30:27Linda Murphy.

00:30:28I'm in your Tuesday Psych One class, Dr. Gruber.

00:30:31Ah, well, this lesson may be something I could not have imagined.

00:30:37I regret being so obvious about this, John, but these people are all very concerned for you.

00:30:44Yes, I'm cutting out paper dinosaurs.

00:30:48I really wish I'd been here from the beginning.

00:30:50Me too.

00:30:51Let me just say something right now.

00:30:53I mean, there's absolutely no way in the whole world for John to prove his story to us.

00:30:58It's just like there's no way for us to disprove it.

00:31:01No matter how outrageous we think it is, no matter how highly trained some of us think

00:31:06we are, there's absolutely no way to disprove it.

00:31:09Our friend is either a caveman, a liar, or a nut.

00:31:13So while we're thinking about that, why don't we just go with it?

00:31:18I mean, hell, who knows?

00:31:19He might jolt us into believing him.

00:31:21Or we might jolt him back to reality.

00:31:23Believing?

00:31:24Who's reality?

00:31:26So, you're a caveman?

00:31:28Yes.

00:31:29I was a Cro-Magnon, I think.

00:31:33You don't know if you're a caveman or not?

00:31:35Well, no, I'm sure about that.

00:31:37A Cro-Magnon, then.

00:31:38When did you first realize this?

00:31:40When the Cro-Magnon was first identified.

00:31:42When anthropology gave them a name, I had mine.

00:31:46Well, please continue.

00:31:48I'm sure you must have more to say.

00:31:50Would you like for me to lie on the couch, Doctor?

00:31:51As you wish.

00:31:56As a physician, I'm curious.

00:31:59In this enormous lifetime you describe, have you ever been ill?

00:32:04Sure.

00:32:05As much as anyone.

00:32:06Seriously ill?

00:32:07Sometime.

00:32:09Of what?

00:32:10Do you know?

00:32:11In prehistory, I can't tell you.

00:32:12Maybe pneumonia once or twice.

00:32:14Last few hundred years, I've gotten over typhoid, yellow fever, smallpox.

00:32:22I survived with the Black Plague.

00:32:24Bubonic.

00:32:25Well, that's terrible.

00:32:27More so than history describes.

00:32:29And smallpox.

00:32:30But you're not scarred.

00:32:32I don't scar.

00:32:33No, John, that is not possible.

00:32:34Please, let's take John's story at face value and explore it from that perspective.

00:32:39If he doesn't scar, it's no stranger than the rest of it.

00:32:42John, would you please stop by my lab before you take off, suffer a few tests from your friendly neighborhood biologist.

00:32:48I'm leery of labs.

00:32:50Afraid I might go in and stay for a thousand years while cigarette-smoking men try to figure me out.

00:32:54You don't think that I would betray you in any way?

00:32:56No, walls have ears.

00:32:58Medical tests might be a way of proving what you say.

00:33:00I don't want to prove it.

00:33:02So you're telling us this is the yarn of the century, and you don't care if we believe it or not?

00:33:05I guess I shouldn't have expected you to.

00:33:07You're not as crazy as you think I am.

00:33:09Amen.

00:33:10I've always liked you.

00:33:12Well, thank you, dear.

00:33:13Well, that's changing.

00:33:14Oh, surely you don't believe this nonsense.

00:33:16I think we should remain courteous to someone who we've known and trusted, Edith.

00:33:19Here you sit.

00:33:20You can't break his story.

00:33:23All you can do is thumb your nose at it.

00:33:25Is that what you're doing, John?

00:33:27Are you laughing at us inside?

00:33:29I wish you didn't feel that way.

00:33:30Well, what you're saying, it offends common sense.

00:33:33So does relativity.

00:33:35Quantum mechanics.

00:33:36That's the way nature works.

00:33:38Yeah, but your story doesn't fit into nature as we know it.

00:33:42But we know so little, Dan.

00:33:44We know so little.

00:33:46I mean, how many of you know five geniuses in your field that you disagree with?

00:33:49One you would like to strangle.

00:33:52Strangle them all.

00:33:53Damn it, Dan.

00:33:53That's bad enough we have to listen to Harry's idiotic jokes.

00:33:56Thank you very much, Edith.

00:33:57Maybe when I'm 110, I'll be as smart as you are.

00:33:59If you lived as long as John did, you still wouldn't grow up.

00:34:02Oh, come on, guys.

00:34:03Take it easy.

00:34:05How often do we get to meet someone who says he's a Stone Age man?

00:34:10That wants us enough.

00:34:12Edith.

00:34:13All right.

00:34:14A guy with your mind, you would have studied a great deal.

00:34:17I have 10 degrees, including all of yours.

00:34:21Except yours, Will.

00:34:22That makes me feel a trifle Lilliputian.

00:34:25That's over the span of 170 years.

00:34:28I got my biology degree at Oxford in 1840.

00:34:31So I'm a little behind the times.

00:34:34The same in other areas.

00:34:34I can't keep up with the new stuff that comes along.

00:34:37No one can.

00:34:38Not even in their specialty.

00:34:39So much for the myth of the super-wise, all-knowing immortal.

00:34:42I see your point, Don.

00:34:44No matter how long a man lives, he can't be in advance of his times.

00:34:48He can't know more than the best of the race knows.

00:34:51If that.

00:34:52I mean, when the world learned it was round, you learned it.

00:34:56It took some time.

00:34:57News traveled slowly.

00:34:58Poor communications were fancy.

00:35:00There were social obstacles, preconceptions, screams from the church.

00:35:06Ten doctorates.

00:35:07That's impressive, John.

00:35:08Did you teach them?

00:35:09Some.

00:35:10But you might have all done the same.

00:35:12Living 14,000 years didn't make me a genius.

00:35:16I just had time.

00:35:18Time.

00:35:19We can't see it.

00:35:20We can't hear it.

00:35:21We can't weigh it.

00:35:22We can't measure it in a laboratory.

00:35:24It's a subjective sense of becoming what we are.

00:35:29Instead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond.

00:35:34The whole B.C. time is a landscape existing before and behind us.

00:35:38And we move, we move through it, slice by slice.

00:35:43Clocks measure time.

00:35:44No, they measure themselves.

00:35:46The objective referent of a clock is another clock.

00:35:48That's very interesting.

00:35:49What has it got to do with John?

00:35:50Oh, he, he might be a man who lives outside of time as we know it.

00:35:57Yes, uh, well, people do go around armed these days.

00:36:05If I shot you, John, you're immortal.

00:36:09Would you survive this?

00:36:11I never said I was immortal.

00:36:12Just old.

00:36:14I might die.

00:36:15And then you could wander the rest of your incarcerated life what you shot.

00:36:18Oh, uh, may I?

00:36:25Preferable to a gun.

00:36:27Well, that was a bit much.

00:36:30Ooh.

00:36:32Books?

00:36:33Doctorates?

00:36:35Yes, you have grown and changed.

00:36:38But there is always innate nature.

00:36:42Wouldn't you be more comfortable squatting in the backyard?

00:36:45Sometimes I do, Will.

00:36:46Look up at the stars.

00:36:48Wonder.

00:36:49And what did primitive man make of them?

00:36:51A great mystery.

00:36:53There were gods up there that shamans who knew about them told us.

00:36:58They still do.

00:37:01Have you ever wished it would end?

00:37:05No.

00:37:0614,000 years.

00:37:09Injuries, illness, disasters.

00:37:12You've survived them all.

00:37:14You're a very lucky man.

00:37:16Come in.

00:37:25John Oldman?

00:37:27Yes.

00:37:28Charity now.

00:37:29We're here to pick up the furniture.

00:37:30It's all yours.

00:37:31Here, take this chair.

00:37:33I'm going to go drink in the corner.

00:37:37You're, uh, you're donating it?

00:37:40Everything?

00:37:41I'll get more.

00:37:42He always traveled his life.

00:37:43It's the only way to move.

00:37:44It's the only way to move.

00:37:48You've talked a good deal about your extraordinary amount of living.

00:37:53What do you think of dying, John?

00:37:56Do you fear death?

00:37:58Who wouldn't?

00:37:59How did primitive man regard death?

00:38:02Well, we had the practical concept.

00:38:04Stopped.

00:38:05Fell down.

00:38:06Didn't get up.

00:38:07Started to smell bad.

00:38:09Come apart.

00:38:10Injuries we could understand if someone's insides were all over the ground.

00:38:15Infections.

00:38:17They were, uh, mysterious.

00:38:21Aging.

00:38:23Biggest mystery of all.

00:38:24You realize you were different.

00:38:27Longer to realize how I was different.

00:38:29To find a way to synthesize my experience into a view of myself.

00:38:34At first I thought everybody had something wrong with them.

00:38:38They got old.

00:38:39They died.

00:38:40Animals too.

00:38:42But not me.

00:38:46Oh, uh, forgive me, my dear.

00:38:49You live simply.

00:38:50I've owned castles, but you might leave a lot if you're always leaving.

00:38:54I have money.

00:38:55What, did you get into AT&T at 50 cents, John?

00:38:58As one grows older, the days, weeks, months go by more quickly.

00:39:08What does a day, or a year, or a century mean to you?

00:39:14The birth-death cycle.

00:39:16Turbulence.

00:39:18I meet someone.

00:39:19When the names say a word, they're gone.

00:39:22Others come like waves, rise, fall.

00:39:28Ripples in a wheat field, blown by the wind.

00:39:30You ever get tired of it all?

00:39:33I get bored now and then.

00:39:34They keep making the same stupid mistakes, over and over.

00:39:38They?

00:39:38Then you see yourself as separate from the rest of humanity.

00:39:44I didn't mean it that way.

00:39:47But of course, I am.

00:39:50Are you comfortable knowing that you have lived while everyone you knew, everyone you knew, John, has died?

00:40:00I've regretted losing people.

00:40:02Often.

00:40:03Have you ever felt guilt about that?

00:40:05Something akin to survivor's guilt?

00:40:08In a strict psychological sense?

00:40:10I suppose I have.

00:40:11Yeah.

00:40:11Well, what can I do about it?

00:40:18Indeed.

00:40:21I'm sorry, man.

00:40:22Gentlemen, I'm going to keep the couch.

00:40:25Thanks.

00:40:26Ladies?

00:40:27Will?

00:40:28Oh, no.

00:40:28You've got a heart condition?

00:40:29Don't grump about it.

00:40:31Hey, how about changing the subject?

00:40:32Will, enough with the dye?

00:40:34But this is the flip side of his coin, Harry.

00:40:38I'm very curious to know his feelings.

00:40:41Would you prefer I asked him about his father?

00:40:43I thought you always started with, tell me about your mother.

00:40:46Yes, but prehistory was strongly patriarchal.

00:40:50Surely you remember your father.

00:40:52I seem to remember a figure.

00:40:56Perhaps an older brother, a social father, maybe.

00:40:59Well, no matter.

00:41:01I could scarcely remember mine.

00:41:03Do you feel a vacancy in your life about that, John?

00:41:09Something you wish could be filled by a face, a voice, an image?

00:41:16Not at this late, eh?

00:41:18There must be someone, probably many, that you valued intensely.

00:41:22Loved.

00:41:24You saw them age and die.

00:41:27A friend, a colleague, a wife.

00:41:31Certainly you've had wives.

00:41:33And children.

00:41:34I'd move on.

00:41:35I had to move on.

00:41:37Making him history's biggest bigamist.

00:41:40Have you ever in your life thought it should have been me?

00:41:47Maybe.

00:41:48Your art has told me that some of your early fellows feared you were stealing their lives.

00:41:54Have you thought that perhaps you were?

00:41:57Perhaps you are.

00:41:59There have always been legends of such a thing.

00:42:02A creature, not quite human.

00:42:04Taking not the blood, but the life force itself.

00:42:08My God, Will.

00:42:10Unconsciously, perhaps?

00:42:12By some biological or psychic mechanism that we can only guess at?

00:42:17I'm not saying you would do such a thing deliberately.

00:42:20I'm not saying that you would even know how to.

00:42:24Would you?

00:42:26But would such a thing be fair?

00:42:30So you believe me then?

00:42:30I'm only exploring what you have said.

00:42:35Whether I believe it or not is of no importance.

00:42:38We will die.

00:42:40You will live.

00:42:42Will you come to my funeral, John?

00:42:44It will.

00:42:45You've gone too far.

00:42:47John didn't ask to be what he is.

00:42:49And we did not ask to hear about it.

00:42:52But if it were true, is there one among us who would not feel envy?

00:42:57Even perhaps a touch of hatred?

00:43:00You told us of yourself, John.

00:43:03Can you imagine how we feel?

00:43:05I never thought of that.

00:43:06Since you may not die, while me most assuredly will,

00:43:12there must be a reason for that, no?

00:43:14Well, perhaps you are an expert.

00:43:18That's it, Mr. Oldman.

00:43:19Have a good one.

00:43:21You too.

00:43:25Or are you a vampire, John?

00:43:28Even an unknowing one.

00:43:31Do you stand alive and tall in a graveyard that you helped to fill?

00:43:35That's going too far.

00:43:36You're bored.

00:43:38Perhaps lonely because your heart cannot keep its treasures.

00:43:42Is that what you're doing?

00:43:45Have you led a wrongful life?

00:43:48Well, then, perhaps, it is time to die.

00:43:54Oh, wait a minute.

00:43:55Now, look, I don't know what John is doing,

00:43:58but I sure as hell don't like what you're doing.

00:44:00Now, you give me that gun, I'm going to break your goddamn arm.

00:44:03Well, you sound like our football coach, Dan.

00:44:06What do you think, John?

00:44:08A shot to the arm?

00:44:11Perhaps we could watch it heal?

00:44:13A bullet in the head?

00:44:14What exactly will happen?

00:44:23I have papers to correct.

00:44:26As much as I dislike that job,

00:44:28it will be preferable to this.

00:44:30I leave you with it.

00:44:37Jesus Christ.

00:44:40What the hell was that all about?

00:44:41Where'd he get a gun?

00:44:43We had you on the ropes, John.

00:44:44You're really so damn smart.

00:44:46It's not like Will.

00:44:49Mary passed away yesterday.

00:44:50Who?

00:44:56His wife.

00:44:58She had pancreatic cancer.

00:45:02Will.

00:45:05I didn't know about Mary.

00:45:07I'm sorry.

00:45:08I can see how this might have hit you.

00:45:10Please.

00:45:11Permit me to be infantile by myself.

00:45:14Will.

00:45:15Please.

00:45:20What the hell were you thinking, Art?

00:45:34Oh, come on.

00:45:35Something had to be done?

00:45:36I have to say I agree.

00:45:38Man, he's our friend.

00:45:40Whatever else on earth is going on,

00:45:42he's our friend.

00:45:42You sure about that?

00:45:43Why the hell are you being so hard on him, Earth?

00:45:45One of my favorite people has disappeared.

00:45:49Can you get?

00:45:50Alzheimer's at 35?

00:45:52Maybe I'm trying to wake him up.

00:45:56Maybe I'm too sad to cry.

00:46:02What I said about myself hurt him.

00:46:06He struck back.

00:46:07Expertly.

00:46:08That stuff about stealing life forces.

00:46:11I've always wondered about the reasons.

00:46:20Well,

00:46:20still have an afternoon to kill, right?

00:46:26Charades?

00:46:30No.

00:46:31John,

00:46:31I have a charade,

00:46:33and it's just for you.

00:46:34All right?

00:46:34Sandy, come here.

00:46:35No, come on, come on, come on.

00:46:36Come on.

00:46:37Okay, this one's for you.

00:46:38All right?

00:46:39Ready?

00:46:40My first wedding?

00:46:57There you go.

00:46:58There you go.

00:46:59Very good.

00:47:00And I bet at least one of us

00:47:01is your direct descendant.

00:47:03And I'd even send a Christmas card.

00:47:05Christmas card?

00:47:05What about a birthday card?

00:47:07And don't even get me started on the candles

00:47:09with the blowing

00:47:10and the...

00:47:11For years with the blowing.

00:47:13All right, I tried.

00:47:18Well,

00:47:19call me underdeveloped,

00:47:21but

00:47:21I'd like to hear more.

00:47:25Me too.

00:47:27More.

00:47:29Do you double damn swear

00:47:29this isn't some cockamamie

00:47:31science fiction story

00:47:32you're pulling on us?

00:47:35Next question.

00:47:36You realize

00:47:38this is an invitation

00:47:39to men in white suits

00:47:40with happy pills.

00:47:42Think about it.

00:47:42A mechanism allowing survival

00:47:44for thousands of years?

00:47:46Run out of room

00:47:47even faster.

00:47:48Well, then we'd have to go to Mars

00:47:49as a colony

00:47:50as we expand it

00:47:51as we'd have to.

00:47:52Not like that.

00:47:54On a planet of another star.

00:47:56I envy you.

00:47:58Did he have a pet dinosaur?

00:48:01They were a little bit

00:48:02before my time.

00:48:03At least something is.

00:48:04I doubt you could give us

00:48:05a thousand details, John,

00:48:06corroborating your story.

00:48:08From the Madeline

00:48:09to the Buddha to now.

00:48:10Ten thousand.

00:48:12And you could say

00:48:12out of the books.

00:48:14It's getting chilly.

00:48:16Here.

00:48:17Over here, join me.

00:48:20Well, that raises

00:48:22an interesting question, John.

00:48:24Could there be others like you

00:48:25who escaped the aging process

00:48:27that you have?

00:48:28Representing something terrific

00:48:29we don't even know

00:48:30about biology.

00:48:30Learning all the time.

00:48:31Yeah, but how would he know?

00:48:32He doesn't wear an armband,

00:48:33an ID badge,

00:48:34saying yabba-dabba-doo.

00:48:36There was a man

00:48:37in the 1600s

00:48:38that I met.

00:48:39Where were you in 1292 A.D.?

00:48:42Where were you

00:48:42a year ago

00:48:43on this date?

00:48:47Anyway,

00:48:48it was the 1600s.

00:48:49I met a man

00:48:49and I had a hunch

00:48:50that he was

00:48:51like me,

00:48:53so I told him.

00:48:54Ah!

00:48:55See,

00:48:56you said

00:48:57this was a first.

00:48:58I forgot.

00:48:59A crack in your story, John.

00:49:01A touch of senility.

00:49:03Anyway,

00:49:04he said yes,

00:49:05but from another time,

00:49:06another place.

00:49:07We talked for two days.

00:49:09It was all pretty convincing,

00:49:10but we couldn't be sure.

00:49:12We each confirmed

00:49:13what the others said,

00:49:14but how did we know

00:49:15if the confirmation

00:49:16was genuine

00:49:16or an echo?

00:49:19I knew I was kosher,

00:49:22but I thought,

00:49:23maybe he's playing

00:49:23a game on me.

00:49:24You know,

00:49:25a scholar of all

00:49:26we spoke about.

00:49:28He said he was inclined

00:49:29to the same reservation.

00:49:31Oh, that's interesting.

00:49:33Just as we can never be sure,

00:49:34even if we wanted to.

00:49:36I mean,

00:49:36if we were sure,

00:49:37you couldn't be sure of that.

00:49:39We parted,

00:49:40agreeing to keep in touch.

00:49:41Of course,

00:49:42we didn't.

00:49:43And 200 years later,

00:49:44I thought I saw him

00:49:45at a train station

00:49:46in Brussels.

00:49:48Lost him in the crowd.

00:49:49Oh, what a shame.

00:49:51I mean,

00:49:52if it were true.

00:49:54Okay,

00:49:54here's one for you.

00:49:55What do you do

00:49:56in your spare time?

00:49:58Oh, every 50 years or so

00:50:00when I want to get away

00:50:00from the rush,

00:50:01I go down to a primitive tribe

00:50:03in New Guinea

00:50:03where I'm worshipped

00:50:04as an immortal god.

00:50:06They have a huge statue of me.

00:50:08It's a big party.

00:50:10I've got a lot of pictures of it,

00:50:12but I've already packed them up.

00:50:13I'm sorry.

00:50:13I won't make the obvious

00:50:14nasty crack

00:50:15about more unwashed cavemen.

00:50:18Actually,

00:50:18bathing was the style

00:50:19until the Middle Ages

00:50:20and the church told us

00:50:21it was sinful

00:50:22to wash away God's dirt.

00:50:24So people were sewn

00:50:25into their underwear

00:50:26in October

00:50:26and they popped out

00:50:27in April.

00:50:28You said you just happened.

00:50:30I don't believe that.

00:50:32If your story's true,

00:50:34why did God

00:50:35allow you to happen?

00:50:37That makes an interesting point.

00:50:40Are you religious, John?

00:50:41I don't follow

00:50:42a known religion.

00:50:43No.

00:50:44Ever.

00:50:45Long time ago, I did.

00:50:47Like most people.

00:50:50Some just never get over it.

00:50:51Do you leave in God?

00:50:54As Laplace said,

00:50:56I have no need

00:50:57of that hypothesis.

00:50:58He may be around, though.

00:51:00He's everywhere.

00:51:01We just can't see him.

00:51:03If this was the best

00:51:04I could do,

00:51:05I'd be hiding, too.

00:51:06And creation.

00:51:08It's here.

00:51:09I'm not so sure

00:51:09it was created.

00:51:10What, then?

00:51:12Maybe it's just

00:51:13accumulated fields,

00:51:14affecting fields.

00:51:15What about the source

00:51:17of the field energies?

00:51:18Wouldn't that imply

00:51:19a prime mover?

00:51:20I'd wonder about

00:51:21the source of the prime mover,

00:51:22infinite regress,

00:51:23but that doesn't imply

00:51:24anything to me.

00:51:26Back to the mystery.

00:51:27It's a very old question,

00:51:29but there's no answer

00:51:32except in religious terms.

00:51:33If you have faith,

00:51:35it's answered.

00:51:36Did you ever meet

00:51:37any person

00:51:38from our religious history?

00:51:39A biblical figure.

00:51:42In a way.

00:51:43Who?

00:51:45We should skip this one.

00:51:46No, no, no.

00:51:47Skip it.

00:51:47Come on.

00:51:48Next question.

00:51:49No, come on.

00:51:50Come on, John.

00:51:51You can't let this drop.

00:51:52Come on, spit it out.

00:51:53Good Lord.

00:51:54You were one of them.

00:51:55This is going

00:51:55in a direction

00:51:56that I didn't expect.

00:51:58I hoped it wouldn't.

00:51:59We call it a night.

00:52:01Come on.

00:52:02You were someone

00:52:03in religious history?

00:52:05Yes.

00:52:06In the Bible?

00:52:08Yes.

00:52:08Someone we know?

00:52:09How could we not

00:52:10know someone in the Bible?

00:52:11I mean, somebody important.

00:52:13Well, you may think

00:52:14you know him,

00:52:14but it's mostly myth.

00:52:16The entire Bible

00:52:17is mostly myth

00:52:18and allegory

00:52:19with maybe some

00:52:20basis in historical events.

00:52:22You were part

00:52:26of that history?

00:52:28Yes.

00:52:29Moses.

00:52:31Moses was based

00:52:32on Mises,

00:52:33a Syrian myth.

00:52:35In their earlier versions,

00:52:36all found floating

00:52:37on water,

00:52:38a staff that changed

00:52:39to a snake,

00:52:41waters that were parted

00:52:42so followers

00:52:43could be led

00:52:44to freedom

00:52:44and even receive laws

00:52:46on stone

00:52:46or wooden tablets.

00:52:49One of the apostles.

00:52:50They weren't really apostles.

00:52:53They didn't do

00:52:54any real teaching.

00:52:56Peter the fisherman

00:52:56learned a little more

00:52:58about fishing.

00:52:59How do you know that?

00:53:03The mythical overlay

00:53:04is so enormous

00:53:06and not good.

00:53:10The truth is so,

00:53:12so simple.

00:53:16A New Testament

00:53:17in a hundred words or less.

00:53:20You ready?

00:53:20I don't think

00:53:21I want to hear this,

00:53:22Harry.

00:53:22Will you take me home?

00:53:23No.

00:53:23Not right now.

00:53:24I do want to hear this.

00:53:25Sit down, eat it.

00:53:26You act like

00:53:26you believe him.

00:53:28It's sacrilege.

00:53:29How can it be sacrilege?

00:53:30He hasn't said anything yet.

00:53:31The New New Testament

00:53:32is sacrilege.

00:53:34There have been

00:53:34a dozen New New Testaments

00:53:36from Hebrew to Greek

00:53:38to Latin to Tyndale

00:53:39all the way to King James.

00:53:41All revisionist

00:53:42and all called

00:53:43revealed truth.

00:53:45I mean

00:53:45a New New Testament

00:53:47in a hundred words.

00:53:48I can give you

00:53:49the Ten Commandments

00:53:49in ten words.

00:53:50Don't.

00:53:51Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't.

00:53:54Don't.

00:53:55The Commandments

00:53:56are just modern updates

00:53:57of more ancient laws

00:53:58and Morabi's code.

00:54:00That's right.

00:54:01And they weren't the first, right?

00:54:04Edith,

00:54:04I was raised on the Torah,

00:54:06my wife in the Koran,

00:54:07my oldest son is an atheist,

00:54:09my youngest is a Scientologist,

00:54:10my daughter is studying Hinduism,

00:54:12I imagine,

00:54:13but there is room there

00:54:14for a holy war

00:54:15in my living room.

00:54:17But we practice

00:54:18live and let live.

00:54:20Why don't you sit down?

00:54:29What is your preferred

00:54:30version of the Bible?

00:54:32The King James, of course.

00:54:33It's the most modern,

00:54:34the work of great scholars.

00:54:36Modern is good.

00:54:37All right, John,

00:54:40hit us with the short form.

00:54:43The guy met the Buddha,

00:54:44liked what he heard,

00:54:46thought about it for a while,

00:54:47say 500 years

00:54:48while he returned

00:54:49to the Mediterranean.

00:54:51Became an Etruscan,

00:54:53seeped into the Roman Empire.

00:54:55He didn't like what they became,

00:54:56a giant killing machine.

00:54:59He went to the Near East

00:55:00thinking why not pass

00:55:01the Buddha's teachings on

00:55:02in a modern form.

00:55:04So he tried.

00:55:06One dissident

00:55:06against Rome.

00:55:08Rome won.

00:55:09The rest is history.

00:55:11Sort of.

00:55:12A lot of fairy tales

00:55:12mixed in.

00:55:16I knew it.

00:55:18He's saying

00:55:19he was Christ.

00:55:20Oh, no.

00:55:21That's the metal

00:55:22they pinned on Jesus

00:55:23to fulfill prophecy.

00:55:24The crucifixion.

00:55:25He blocked the pain,

00:55:27as he had learned to do

00:55:28in Tibet and India.

00:55:30He also learned

00:55:30to slow his body processes

00:55:32down to the point

00:55:33where they were

00:55:33undetectable.

00:55:35They thought he was dead.

00:55:36So his followers

00:55:37pulled him from the cross,

00:55:39placed him in a cave,

00:55:40his body normalized

00:55:41as he had trained it to.

00:55:44He attempted to go away

00:55:45undetected,

00:55:46but some devotees

00:55:47were standing watch.

00:55:48tried to explain.

00:55:51They were ecstatic.

00:55:56Thus,

00:55:56I was resurrected,

00:55:58and I ascended

00:55:58to Central Europe

00:55:59to get away

00:56:00as far as possible.

00:56:02You don't mean

00:56:03a word of this,

00:56:04John,

00:56:04my God.

00:56:05Why are you doing this?

00:56:06Let me see your wrists.

00:56:08I don't scar.

00:56:09Besides,

00:56:10they tied me,

00:56:11but nails and blood

00:56:12make better religious art.

00:56:13All the speculations

00:56:16about Jesus.

00:56:18He was black,

00:56:18he was Asian,

00:56:19he was a blue-eyed Aryan

00:56:21with a golden beard

00:56:22and hair straight out

00:56:23of an alassoons.

00:56:24He was a benevolent alien.

00:56:25He never existed at all.

00:56:27Now he's a caveman.

00:56:29The Christ figure

00:56:30goes all the way

00:56:31back to Krishna.

00:56:32Hercules, of course.

00:56:33Hercules?

00:56:34Born of a virgin,

00:56:35Alcmene,

00:56:37a god for a father,

00:56:38Zeus,

00:56:40the only begotten,

00:56:43the savior,

00:56:43the Greek Soter,

00:56:45the good shepherd,

00:56:46the prince of peace,

00:56:47bringing gentle persuasion

00:56:48and divine wisdom.

00:56:50He died,

00:56:51joined his father

00:56:52on Olympus

00:56:53a thousand years

00:56:54before Gethsemane.

00:56:56How can you compare

00:56:57pagan mythology

00:56:58to the true word?

00:57:00Pretty damn closely,

00:57:01I'd say.

00:57:02The early Christian leaders,

00:57:04they threw away

00:57:05Hebrew manuscripts

00:57:06and borrowed from

00:57:07pagan sources

00:57:08all over the place.

00:57:10Do you realize

00:57:10how inconsiderately

00:57:13you're treating my feelings?

00:57:14Yeah,

00:57:15about as inconsiderately

00:57:16as we're treating John's.

00:57:18Well, he does,

00:57:18he does believe

00:57:19what he's saying.

00:57:20Do you believe literally

00:57:21everything in the Bible, Edith?

00:57:22Yes.

00:57:24Before you say it,

00:57:25I know it's undergone

00:57:26a lot of changes,

00:57:27but God has spoken

00:57:29through man

00:57:30to make his word clearer.

00:57:33He couldn't get it right

00:57:33the first time?

00:57:34We're imperfect.

00:57:36He had to work

00:57:37to make us understand.

00:57:38He couldn't get us right

00:57:39the first time, Edith?

00:57:41Taken alone,

00:57:42the philosophical teachings

00:57:43of Jesus

00:57:44are Buddhism

00:57:45with a Hebrew accent,

00:57:46kindness,

00:57:47tolerance,

00:57:48brotherhood,

00:57:49love,

00:57:50a ruthless realism,

00:57:51acknowledging that life

00:57:52is as it is

00:57:53here on earth,

00:57:54here and now.

00:57:55The kingdom of God,

00:57:56meaning goodness,

00:57:58is right here

00:57:59where it should be.

00:58:01I am what I am becoming.

00:58:03That's where the Buddha

00:58:04brought it.

00:58:05And that's what I taught.

00:58:06But a talking snake

00:58:07made a lady eat an apple,

00:58:09so we're screwed.

00:58:11Heaven and hell

00:58:11were peddled

00:58:12so priests could rule

00:58:13through seduction

00:58:14and terror,

00:58:15save our souls

00:58:16that we never lost

00:58:17in the first place.

00:58:18I threw a clean pass,

00:58:20they ran it out

00:58:21of the ballpark.

00:58:23This is blasphemy.

00:58:25It's horrible.

00:58:26Who else were you?

00:58:28Solomon?

00:58:29Elvis?

00:58:30Jack the Ripper?

00:58:31It's been said

00:58:31that Buddha and Jesus

00:58:32would laugh or cry

00:58:34if they known

00:58:34what was done

00:58:35in their name.

00:58:36And if there is a creator,

00:58:38I'd probably feel

00:58:38the same way.

00:58:40I see ceremony,

00:58:42ritual,

00:58:42processions,

00:58:43genuflecting,

00:58:44moaning,

00:58:45intoning,

00:58:46venerating,

00:58:46cookies and wine.

00:58:48And I think

00:58:49it's not what

00:58:51I had in mind.

00:58:52That's Vatican flapdoodle.

00:58:53It doesn't have

00:58:54a thing to do with God.

00:58:55As you said, John,

00:58:57everywhere religions,

00:58:58from exalting life

00:58:59to purging joy

00:59:01is a sin.

00:59:02Rome does it

00:59:03as grand opera.

00:59:06A simple path

00:59:06to goodness

00:59:07needs a supernatural

00:59:08world path.

00:59:10Supernatural.

00:59:12A stupid word.

00:59:13I mean,

00:59:15anything that happens

00:59:16happens within

00:59:16nature,

00:59:16whether we believe

00:59:17it or not.

00:59:18Like a 14,000-year-old

00:59:20caveman.

00:59:29I drove for a while

00:59:31and then I sat

00:59:33for a while.

00:59:34I'm so ashamed.

00:59:35And I'm freezing.

00:59:37We'll come inside.

00:59:38I still don't believe

00:59:39you, of course.

00:59:40You need help.

00:59:41Everybody needs help.

00:59:42Yes, well,

00:59:43some more than others.

00:59:44from the Buddha

00:59:59to the cross.

01:00:00I have always

01:00:02imagined both

01:00:03as entirely mythic.

01:00:05Yeah, but I would

01:00:06like to hear more.

01:00:08May I lie on the couch

01:00:10for a moment?

01:00:10I'm not as young

01:00:11as I used to be.

01:00:16Oh!

01:00:19So,

01:00:20you were Jesus.

01:00:23Well, perhaps

01:00:24somebody had to be,

01:00:25for better or for worse.

01:00:26The jury is still out.

01:00:28When did you begin

01:00:29to believe you were Jesus?

01:00:31When did you begin

01:00:32to believe you were

01:00:33a psychiatrist?

01:00:33Since I graduated

01:00:36Harvard Medical School

01:00:37and finished my residency,

01:00:39I've had that feeling.

01:00:40I sometimes dream about it.

01:00:43Have you acted

01:00:43upon this belief?

01:00:44I had a private practice

01:00:46for a while

01:00:46and then I taught.

01:00:48Nothing unusual.

01:00:50Until one day

01:00:51I met a caveman

01:00:53who thought

01:00:53he was Jesus.

01:00:56Do you find

01:00:57that unusual?

01:00:58Very.

01:00:59I would stake

01:01:00my reputation.

01:01:01He is as sane

01:01:02as I am.

01:01:03So why does he persist

01:01:04in such a story?

01:01:06There must be

01:01:06a reason, though.

01:01:07Unless I imagined

01:01:09it all?

01:01:10Is that possible?

01:01:11I think you're

01:01:12as sane as he is.

01:01:13Oh, God.

01:01:14I...

01:01:14No.

01:01:18Did you ever

01:01:18find it prudent

01:01:20to worship yourself

01:01:21rather than be

01:01:21thought a heretic?

01:01:22That would be something.

01:01:24Other times,

01:01:25Christianity

01:01:25was considered heresy.

01:01:27I had to pretend

01:01:28other faiths.

01:01:28And what does

01:01:29Jesus have to say

01:01:31to those present

01:01:32who find it difficult

01:01:33to believe in him?

01:01:35Believe in what

01:01:36he tried to teach

01:01:37without rigmarole.

01:01:40Piety is not

01:01:40what the lessons

01:01:41bring to people.

01:01:42It's the mistake

01:01:43they bring to the lessons.

01:01:52Well, it's

01:01:53getting to be night.

01:01:56I still have stuff

01:01:57to carry

01:01:58to carry

01:01:58on a long

01:02:00drive.

01:02:01I'll help.

01:02:02John,

01:02:04do you have

01:02:04a destination

01:02:05in mind?

01:02:07Never mind.

01:02:09I own ass.

01:02:20Anyone

01:02:20mentally ill

01:02:22can imagine

01:02:22a fantastic background,

01:02:24even an entire life

01:02:26and sincerely

01:02:27believe it.

01:02:28The man who thinks

01:02:29he is Napoleon

01:02:30does believe it.

01:02:32His true identity

01:02:34has taken a backseat

01:02:35to his delusion

01:02:36and the need for it.

01:02:38If that's the case

01:02:39with John,

01:02:40there is a grave disorder.

01:02:42Organized brilliantly.

01:02:45He's got an answer

01:02:46for everything.

01:02:47It might involve

01:02:48rejection of his father,

01:02:49of his entire early past,

01:02:51replaced by this fantasy.

01:02:53He says he can't

01:02:54remember his father.

01:02:55Yeah, precisely.

01:02:55Why?

01:02:56You said he was sane.

01:02:58Did I?

01:03:00Do you think

01:03:01that perhaps

01:03:01our caveman

01:03:03has a monkey

01:03:04on his back?

01:03:05Drugs.

01:03:06No, no, no, no.

01:03:08I've done a lot

01:03:08of consulting work

01:03:09with the narcotics division.

01:03:10I've seen people

01:03:10tripping,

01:03:11strung out,

01:03:12whatever's up with John.

01:03:13It isn't that.

01:03:14I've looked for signs.

01:03:15None.

01:03:16Could cavemen

01:03:17really talk?

01:03:18Well, we think

01:03:18that language

01:03:19came into existence

01:03:2060,000 years ago.

01:03:21the structure

01:03:22of Stone Age culture

01:03:23is evidence

01:03:24of the ability

01:03:25to communicate verbally.

01:03:29Oh, shit.

01:03:40Maybe it'd be easier

01:03:41if I were.

01:03:42Crazy?

01:03:45No.

01:03:45It is fascinating,

01:04:01isn't it?

01:04:03A brave attempt

01:04:04to teach Buddhism

01:04:04in the West.

01:04:06No wonder he failed.

01:04:07We're not ready for it.

01:04:09You're talking

01:04:09as if you believed him.

01:04:11Well, it is possible,

01:04:13isn't it?

01:04:13I mean,

01:04:14anything is possible.

01:04:16Look,

01:04:16we have two simple choices.

01:04:17We can get all

01:04:19bent out of shape,

01:04:20intellectualizing,

01:04:21or bench-pressing logic,

01:04:22or we can simply

01:04:24relax and enjoy it.

01:04:25I can listen critically,

01:04:27but I don't have

01:04:28to make up my mind

01:04:29about anything.

01:04:30Do you think you do?

01:04:32Well, unfortunately,

01:04:33there's no authorities

01:04:34on prehistory,

01:04:35so we couldn't

01:04:35stop them there.

01:04:36There are experts

01:04:37on the Bible.

01:04:38Dream on.

01:04:39Yeah,

01:04:40that's the last years

01:04:41of Jesus.

01:04:42He didn't exist

01:04:43until John put on a hat.

01:04:45I don't believe

01:04:46in angels

01:04:47and the nativity

01:04:48and the star in the east,

01:04:49but there are stories

01:04:50about the childhood

01:04:51of Jesus.

01:04:52History hates a vacuum.

01:04:55Improvisation,

01:04:56some of it very sincere,

01:04:57fills the gaps.

01:04:59It would have been easy

01:05:00to falsify a past

01:05:01back then.

01:05:02A few words,

01:05:04credulity,

01:05:05time would do the rest.

01:05:06No, you're talking

01:05:07as if you believed him.

01:05:08Well, look at the popular

01:05:09myths surrounding

01:05:10the Kennedy assassination

01:05:11in a few short years.

01:05:13You had a conspiracy,

01:05:15mafia, CIA.

01:05:17That's a mystique

01:05:18that'll never go away.

01:05:19It's always been

01:05:19a small step

01:05:20from a fallen leader

01:05:21to a god.

01:05:23I don't think

01:05:23anybody will deify Kennedy.

01:05:26We're more sophisticated

01:05:26than that.

01:05:28We are.

01:05:29We are.

01:05:34Well, you're finally

01:05:35fulfilling one prophecy

01:05:37about the Millennium.

01:05:38John?

01:05:39What's that?

01:05:40Here he are again.

01:05:52You like the fire, John.

01:05:55Everywhere I've lived,

01:05:56I've had a fireplace.

01:05:58Childhood fixation, I guess.

01:06:00helps me to feel secure.

01:06:05There are predators

01:06:06out there.

01:06:09The one thing

01:06:10I didn't pack.

01:06:12I thought

01:06:12I might need it.

01:06:21Wouldn't Sacré-du-Pretant

01:06:22be more appropriate?

01:06:24What?

01:06:24You got

01:06:28four men of science

01:06:30completely baffled,

01:06:31my friend.

01:06:33We don't know

01:06:33what to make of you.

01:06:35Did you know

01:06:35Voltaire was the first

01:06:36to suggest

01:06:37that the universe

01:06:38was created

01:06:38by a gigantic explosion?

01:06:41Not that Paul would agree.

01:06:43And that Goethe

01:06:44was the first

01:06:44to suggest

01:06:45that spiral nebulae

01:06:47were swirling masses

01:06:48of stars?

01:06:50We now call them galaxies.

01:06:52It's kind of funny

01:06:52how often

01:06:53new concepts of science

01:06:54find their first

01:06:55tentative forms

01:06:56of expression

01:06:56in the arts.

01:06:57So, did Beethoven

01:06:59do physics

01:07:01on the side?

01:07:03He spent most

01:07:04of his time

01:07:04lying on the floor

01:07:05in front of his

01:07:06legless piano

01:07:07surrounded by

01:07:08orange peels

01:07:08and apple cores.

01:07:12Now we're on the floor

01:07:13listening to Beethoven.

01:07:16Full circle.

01:07:18Did you have, um,

01:07:19any religious beliefs

01:07:22or did you give

01:07:24it much thought?

01:07:26You can't get there

01:07:27with thought.

01:07:28You have faith

01:07:29in a lot of things.

01:07:31Do you have faith

01:07:32in the future

01:07:32of the race?

01:07:34I've seen species

01:07:34come and go.

01:07:36Depends on their balance

01:07:37with the environment.

01:07:39We've made a mess

01:07:40of it.

01:07:41There's still time.

01:07:43We use it well.

01:07:45Christianity

01:07:45has been a worldwide

01:07:46belief

01:07:47for 2,000 years.

01:07:49How long

01:07:49did the Egyptians

01:07:50worship Isis

01:07:51and the Sumerians

01:07:52Ishtar?

01:07:53In India,

01:07:54sacred cows

01:07:55wandered freely

01:07:56as reincarnated souls.

01:07:58In 1,000 years

01:07:58they'll be barbecued

01:07:59and their souls

01:08:00will be in squirrels.

01:08:01You weren't Jesus.

01:08:04Oh, yes.

01:08:09If it rains,

01:08:10it won't.

01:08:11How do you know that?

01:08:12I don't smell it.

01:08:14Were you,

01:08:18I guess,

01:08:20a medicine man?

01:08:22I was a shaman

01:08:23a few times.

01:08:24I revealed some truths

01:08:26to eat a little better.

01:08:27You think that's

01:08:28all religion is about?

01:08:30Selling hope

01:08:31and survival?

01:08:33The Old Testament

01:08:33sells fear and guilt.

01:08:35The New Testament

01:08:36is a good code of ethics.

01:08:38Put into my mouth

01:08:39by poets and philosophers

01:08:40that are much smarter

01:08:41than I am.

01:08:42The message

01:08:43is never practiced.

01:08:46The fairy tales

01:08:46build churches.

01:08:48What about the name Jesus?

01:08:51Did he pull that

01:08:52out of a hand?

01:08:53I called myself John.

01:08:55I almost always do.

01:08:58As tales of resurrection

01:08:59spread,

01:09:00the name was confused

01:09:01with the Hebrew

01:09:01Yohanan,

01:09:02meaning God is gracious.

01:09:04My stay on earth

01:09:05was seen as divine

01:09:06proof of immortality.

01:09:09That led to

01:09:10God is salvation

01:09:13or Hebrew Yeshua,

01:09:15which in translation

01:09:16became my proper name,

01:09:18changing to late Greek,

01:09:20Iesus,

01:09:21then to late Latin,

01:09:22Iesus,

01:09:23finally medieval Latin,

01:09:25Jesus.

01:09:26And it was a wonder

01:09:27to watch it all happen.

01:09:29Then you didn't claim

01:09:31to be the son of God.

01:09:32It began as a schoolhouse

01:09:33and ended as a temple.

01:09:35I said I had

01:09:36a master

01:09:37that was greater

01:09:38than myself.

01:09:38I never said

01:09:40he was my father.

01:09:41I wanted to teach

01:09:42what I learned.

01:09:43I never claimed

01:09:43to be king of the Jews.

01:09:45I never walked on water.

01:09:46I never raised the dead.

01:09:48I never spoke of divine

01:09:49except in

01:09:50the sense of human

01:09:52goodness

01:09:52on earth.

01:09:53no wise men

01:09:57came from the east

01:09:58to worship

01:09:59in a manger.

01:10:01I did do a little

01:10:02healing

01:10:03with some eastern medicine

01:10:04I'd learned.

01:10:07That's it.

01:10:12Three wise men

01:10:13began as a myth

01:10:14about the birth

01:10:15of the Buddha.

01:10:15John, I should be home

01:10:22kissing my wife.

01:10:27We're all here

01:10:27trapped by your story

01:10:29hoping for a

01:10:32revolution.

01:10:35I don't know.

01:10:39Are there any

01:10:40more revelations

01:10:43for us?

01:10:49It's just like

01:10:51old times.

01:10:58You weren't

01:11:00Jesus.

01:11:03Quote the Sermon on the Mount.

01:11:05Which one?

01:11:07Darby, King James,

01:11:09New American Standard?

01:11:11Do you know them all?

01:11:12No one knows

01:11:13the one.

01:11:14Not even me.

01:11:15I did some teaching

01:11:17on a hill one day.

01:11:19Not that many people

01:11:20stayed.

01:11:21But

01:11:21biblical Jesus said

01:11:24who do you think

01:11:26I am?

01:11:27He gave them

01:11:28a choice.

01:11:31I'm giving you one.

01:11:35Were you?

01:11:38If I said no,

01:11:39could you ever be sure?

01:11:58Turn that off.

01:12:00Please?

01:12:01This has gone

01:12:05far enough.

01:12:06It's gone much

01:12:07too far.

01:12:08These people

01:12:09are very upset.

01:12:11I don't believe

01:12:12you're mad.

01:12:13But what you're

01:12:14saying is not

01:12:15true.

01:12:16That leaves

01:12:17only one

01:12:18explanation.

01:12:20The time has come

01:12:22when you must admit

01:12:23this is a hoax.

01:12:25A lie.

01:12:28Isn't that

01:12:28true, John?

01:12:29If you don't

01:12:31drop this now,

01:12:32if you can,

01:12:33I'll be convinced

01:12:35that you need

01:12:36a great deal

01:12:37of attention.

01:12:38I can have you

01:12:39committed for observation.

01:12:41You know that.

01:12:42I ask you now.

01:12:44I demand it

01:12:46that you tell

01:12:47these people

01:12:48the truth.

01:12:50Give them closure.

01:12:53It's time,

01:12:54John.

01:12:56Please.

01:12:57Please.

01:12:59End of the line.

01:13:12Everybody off.

01:13:17What?

01:13:19It was a story.

01:13:21It was all

01:13:21a story.

01:13:23Good God.

01:13:27Another fairy tale.

01:13:28All of it,

01:13:29but why?

01:13:30What in the name

01:13:31of heaven?

01:13:32John, you had us

01:13:32wondering whether

01:13:33you were sane or

01:13:34not, and it's

01:13:34just a story.

01:13:36Where'd you come

01:13:36off with such

01:13:37a half-baked

01:13:38asinine idea?

01:13:39At least you're

01:13:40relieved I might

01:13:40have not.

01:13:41I'd prefer you

01:13:42were.

01:13:42You gave me

01:13:43the idea.

01:13:44All of you.

01:13:46Come again.

01:13:47You just saw

01:13:47my fake Van Gogh.

01:13:48You could have

01:13:49just told me.

01:13:49You commented

01:13:50that I never age.

01:13:51You gave me

01:13:52the book on

01:13:52early men.

01:13:53Dan, you

01:13:54spotted the

01:13:54burn, and you

01:13:55said if stones

01:13:55could speak, I

01:13:57knew it.

01:13:58I got the

01:13:59notion, I ran

01:13:59it past you to

01:14:00check your

01:14:00reactions, and I

01:14:01took it too

01:14:02far.

01:14:03Too far?

01:14:05Check my

01:14:05reaction.

01:14:06You asked if I

01:14:07was a figure from

01:14:07religious history,

01:14:08if there were

01:14:09others like me,

01:14:10if I'd created

01:14:10future identities.

01:14:12We were chasing

01:14:13our tails around

01:14:14the maypole,

01:14:15enjoying the

01:14:16mystery, the

01:14:16analytical stretch.

01:14:18You were playing

01:14:19my game.

01:14:20I was playing

01:14:21yours.

01:14:21Oh, man, you

01:14:22know you had us

01:14:23going, right?

01:14:24You were good, man.

01:14:25You know those

01:14:25Chinese boxes, one

01:14:27inside the other,

01:14:28inside the other,

01:14:29inside the other.

01:14:30I feel like I'm in

01:14:31the last box.

01:14:33You son of a

01:14:34bitch!

01:14:37How could you do

01:14:37this to us?

01:14:38I was worried

01:14:39about you.

01:14:39I know, I was

01:14:40tempted to cop out

01:14:41many times, but I

01:14:42couldn't resist seeing

01:14:44whether or not you

01:14:44could refute what I

01:14:45was saying.

01:14:46I had the perfect

01:14:47audience, anthropologist,

01:14:49archaeologist, Christian

01:14:51literalist, a

01:14:53psychologist.

01:14:55Okay, I've had

01:14:56enough of this.

01:14:57I'm out of here.

01:14:57You want to come?

01:14:58Let's go.

01:14:59So, John, are you

01:15:01going to write the

01:15:02story?

01:15:03If I do, I'll send

01:15:04you copies.

01:15:04Don't bother with

01:15:05mine, okay?

01:15:06You are absolutely

01:15:07certifiable.

01:15:09I don't know you.

01:15:13It was nice seeing

01:15:14you again, Dr. Oldman.

01:15:16Your name's a pun,

01:15:18isn't it, Oldman?

01:15:21Did that help you

01:15:22with your story?

01:15:24Linda!

01:15:27Bye.

01:15:32My lot was half,

01:15:33right?

01:15:35Which half?

01:15:39Well, at least I

01:15:40don't have to throw

01:15:42away half of what I

01:15:43know about biology.

01:15:44Which half?

01:15:46It's a beautiful

01:15:48idea.

01:15:50So rich.

01:15:52So full of

01:15:52possibilities.

01:15:55Perhaps you should

01:15:56write a paper on it,

01:15:56doctor.

01:15:57Maybe I will.

01:15:59I'll interview you in

01:16:00the rubber room for

01:16:01further details.

01:16:03You may still need

01:16:03help, my friend.

01:16:04my ass.

01:16:20I thought it sounded

01:16:20pretty good.

01:16:21They believe you

01:16:22because they have to.

01:16:24But the one thing

01:16:25that I know about you

01:16:25is that you would

01:16:26never use people

01:16:27or abuse their

01:16:28goodwill and

01:16:28intelligence like

01:16:29they think you've

01:16:29just done to them.

01:16:31Psych 101?

01:16:31No, it's woman.

01:16:33One-on-one.

01:16:35So you're a pretty

01:16:35fast liar, Mr. Ugg.

01:16:37But I want to know,

01:16:38what's your real name?

01:16:40Believe it or not,

01:16:43the sound was always

01:16:44John.

01:16:46Why'd you cave to

01:16:46Gruber?

01:16:47What happened was

01:16:48enough.

01:16:49Just needed to stop.

01:16:50I shouldn't have

01:16:51expected it to work.

01:16:5414,000 years old.

01:16:56I bet that's a lot

01:16:57of women.

01:16:58Are we counting?

01:17:00Maybe.

01:17:03Well, I'm taking

01:17:04Edith home.

01:17:05Sandy?

01:17:07I'm gonna stay.

01:17:13Are you sorry for

01:17:14some of those things

01:17:15you said?

01:17:15I'm sorry I said

01:17:18them.

01:17:18Well, like a good

01:17:21Christian, I...

01:17:23Oh, John.

01:17:25Woo!

01:17:26Oh!

01:17:27You did a terrible

01:17:29thing!

01:17:30But we're all so

01:17:31thankful you're

01:17:31all right.

01:17:32Even Art.

01:17:33He just hates

01:17:34things he can't

01:17:34understand.

01:17:35You're a sadist,

01:17:36John.

01:17:37But I admit I got

01:17:38a kick out of

01:17:39chasing my tail

01:17:40around your Maybowl.

01:17:41Even if that is

01:17:42all I caught.

01:17:43Good luck to you.

01:17:44Wish you the best.

01:17:46Ready?

01:17:56Later on.

01:17:57Okay.

01:17:57Good night.

01:17:58Good night.

01:17:58I don't know, man.

01:18:09Something about this.

01:18:12Something about you,

01:18:13John.

01:18:14The more I think

01:18:15about it, the more

01:18:17I'm no longer in that

01:18:17Chinese box.

01:18:18I sense space.

01:18:20I sense space.

01:18:23A kind of latitude

01:18:24in what we happily

01:18:25call reality.

01:18:27In which, as

01:18:28everybody keeps saying,

01:18:31anything's possible.

01:18:33Yes.

01:18:34No, no, no.

01:18:35No, no.

01:18:35No.

01:18:36No more words.

01:18:38I'm gonna go home

01:18:39and I'm gonna watch

01:18:40Star Trek for a dose

01:18:41of sanity.

01:18:43Good luck to you, man.

01:18:45Wherever this may lead to.

01:18:47You drop me a line

01:18:48sometime.

01:18:50Let me know

01:18:50how you make it out.

01:18:53I will.

01:18:54So, John Oldman,

01:19:08what other pun names

01:19:10have you used?

01:19:11Lots.

01:19:14John Paley

01:19:15for John Paleolithic.

01:19:17John Savage.

01:19:19Got really crazy

01:19:20about 60 years ago.

01:19:22When I was teaching

01:19:22at Harvard,

01:19:23I was...

01:19:24John Thomas Partee.

01:19:27John T. Partee.

01:19:28Boston T. Partee.

01:19:29I get it.

01:19:30Yeah, I know.

01:19:31Wait, wait, wait.

01:19:32B-b-boston?

01:19:3560 years ago?

01:19:37J-

01:19:37John Partee?

01:19:43You did not teach

01:19:44chemistry.

01:19:45I-I do not

01:19:46believe you!

01:19:49Your mother's name

01:19:50was Nova.

01:19:51No.

01:19:52Yeah.

01:19:53No.

01:19:53Yeah.

01:19:55Yes.

01:19:56Nola.

01:19:57My mother.

01:20:00I reject this.

01:20:03My...

01:20:04My...

01:20:04My dog's name.

01:20:06We had him

01:20:07before I was born.

01:20:09Wolfie.

01:20:09Wolf.

01:20:10Wolf.

01:20:10Wolfie.

01:20:11She remarried.

01:20:15Wolf.

01:20:15Is she remarried?

01:20:18She said you were

01:20:19band-a-dust.

01:20:21Sorry I had to move on.

01:20:23You know that.

01:20:24I left enough.

01:20:25I left enough.

01:20:26I called.

01:20:27Chilly-willy.

01:20:28Always cold.

01:20:29Never could stand the cold.

01:20:32Wait.

01:20:33You...

01:20:33You had a beer.

01:20:35Yeah, you used to tell me to see if it was real.

01:20:38Will?

01:20:39God.

01:20:429-1-1, now!

01:20:44Willie, come on, Will.

01:20:47Will, come on, buddy.

01:21:03You'll stay in touch, Dr. Ullman, in case there are any questions.

01:21:26I'll be back for the funeral.

01:21:28Miss.

01:21:33You never saw a grown child die.

01:21:42No.

01:21:43No.

01:22:03I'll be back for the funeral.

01:22:13I'll be back for the funeral.

01:22:23I'll be back for the funeral.

01:22:33I'll be back for the funeral.

01:22:44I'll be back for the funeral.

01:22:54I'll be back for the funeral.

01:23:04I'll be back for the funeral.

01:23:14I'll be back for the funeral.

01:23:24I'll be back for the funeral.

01:23:35I'll be back for the funeral.

01:23:45I'll be back for the funeral.

01:23:55I'll be back for the funeral.

01:24:09Nothing lasts forever

01:24:14But maybe some things do

01:24:17Forever is the way I feel for you

01:24:24Forever is the way I feel for you

01:24:39I've seen men take the world into their hands

01:24:51And change it and mold it to the point of view

01:24:56I've felt the air shake

01:25:02I've seen men take a stand

01:25:05And fight when it's the one thing left to do

01:25:12Nothing lasts forever

01:25:17Is what I've always heard

01:25:21All things good must end

01:25:25You know it's true

01:25:27Nothing lasts forever

01:25:32But maybe some things do

01:25:36Forever is the way I feel for you

01:25:43Forever is the way I feel for you

01:25:50Nothing lasts forever

01:25:57Nothing lasts forever

01:25:59Is what I've always heard

01:26:02All things good must end

01:26:06You know it's true

01:26:08Nothing lasts forever

01:26:13But maybe some things do

01:26:17Forever is the way I feel for you

01:26:23Forever is the way I feel for you

01:26:30Forever is the way I feel for you

01:26:35Never is the way I feel for you

01:26:45Forever is the way I feel for you

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