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00:00:00Oh, Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
00:00:22Hi, Claire.
00:00:34Excuse me, Reverend.
00:00:36The news is on.
00:00:43Good morning.
00:00:45Good morning.
00:00:47Well, the big news of the hour is once again, you guessed it, Faye Grimm.
00:00:52Look, Ned, it's the Lady Terrace, Faye Grimm.
00:00:56Hey.
00:00:57Got to make it look like you did some work around here today, Derek.
00:01:00The suburban single mom from Woodside, Queens, convicted of treason and sentenced to a lifetime
00:01:05in prison without hope of parole, is finally being transferred from a secret U.S. military
00:01:10detention center and placed in a federal penitentiary in upstate New York.
00:01:15Should have killed that slut when they found her.
00:01:17Gave taxpayers a whole lot of money.
00:01:21So, Lisa, what's the feeling there on the ground?
00:01:24Well, Bob, there's a sizable crowd of protesters out by the road chanting for Faye's execution.
00:01:30But by and large, the community here is simply curious.
00:01:34I say, being in prison her whole life long, best thing that ever happened to that girl.
00:01:39She goes out on the street, somebody's bound at her in the head with a baseball bat or something.
00:01:42Check.
00:01:43Can you see what the problem is with the girls' laboratory?
00:01:45Right away, Reverend.
00:01:46Right away.
00:01:46Just on my way.
00:01:47You ladies have a nice day now.
00:01:49The poor woman.
00:01:51Mary, pull yourself together.
00:01:54She's a traitor to the nation.
00:01:56An international terrorist.
00:01:57She's Ned's mother.
00:01:59Yes.
00:02:00Well, of course this wouldn't be the first time that a perfectly decent,
00:02:03God-fearing, sober-minded person like Ned has risen up and escaped from such moral ruin.
00:02:08I think she's innocent.
00:02:09She's been convicted, Mary.
00:02:10Mistakes have been made before.
00:02:12Anyway, Ned's been traumatized by all this.
00:02:15It's a miracle he's as well-adjusted as he is.
00:02:18Has he decided yet?
00:02:19I believe so.
00:02:21He's 18 today.
00:02:22He's free to leave witness protection if he chooses.
00:02:24What do you suppose he's thinking about?
00:02:26Me.
00:02:27Keep dreaming, Claire.
00:02:28He smiled and said hello.
00:02:30You're the minister's daughter for crying out loud.
00:02:32He lives in your house.
00:02:33I bet he's had sex and everything.
00:02:36No, he's chaste, I'm certain.
00:02:38Do you really think he'll leave now that he's 18?
00:02:40I hope not.
00:02:48But, Mama, why is Ned and witness protection anyway?
00:02:50Claire, you know we can't discuss those things.
00:02:52This plate is chip.
00:02:53See if there's another one.
00:02:54Not even now?
00:02:56Now when he's about to leave?
00:02:57Well, really, is he leaving?
00:02:59That's what everybody says.
00:03:00What everybody says, I see.
00:03:01Well, why don't you ask him yourself?
00:03:03Here he comes now.
00:03:05That was great, Mrs. Gardner.
00:03:07There's more.
00:03:08No, thanks.
00:03:09I'm stuck.
00:03:10Derek, what did I tell you?
00:03:11No mobile devices at the table?
00:03:13They let that lady terrorist go today.
00:03:15You mean Faye Grimm.
00:03:16They didn't let her go.
00:03:17They just moved her.
00:03:18Enough.
00:03:18Derek, help your sister bring out the coffee and dessert.
00:03:23I'm sorry.
00:03:25At least I know where she is now.
00:03:27So you've decided?
00:03:30Yes.
00:03:31Are you sure you want to return to that, well, that life?
00:03:40She's my mother.
00:03:44Happy birthday.
00:03:46Wow.
00:03:48Claire made it.
00:03:50Thank you, Claire.
00:03:51I don't know if it'll be any good or anything.
00:03:54I'm sure it is.
00:03:55It's chocolate.
00:03:56What should I wish for?
00:03:57No, it's got to be secret.
00:03:58Does it?
00:03:59Now, Claire, that's just superstitious.
00:04:01Alice, what do you say?
00:04:02The secret things belong to the Lord our God.
00:04:04Claire?
00:04:06Ecclesiastes?
00:04:07No, judges.
00:04:08Sit down.
00:04:09Go ahead, Ned.
00:04:10Wish away.
00:04:11I wish.
00:04:14I wish this family the peace, the happiness, and the security
00:04:19it has provided me these past four years.
00:04:23Forever and ever.
00:04:25Amen.
00:04:25Amen.
00:04:31Dad.
00:04:32Oh, yes.
00:04:33Ned, this is just a little something from all of us.
00:04:37Don't open it now.
00:04:38Happy birthday.
00:04:40Thank you all.
00:04:41It's a Bible.
00:04:42Derek.
00:04:43Derek.
00:04:45Derek.
00:04:46Derek.
00:04:48Derek.
00:04:50Derek.
00:04:52Derek.
00:04:53Derek.
00:05:05Our thoughts go with you, and our hopes also.
00:05:22Wow, Claire.
00:05:30I wish you wouldn't leave.
00:05:32I know that.
00:05:33You're an important and loved member of this community.
00:05:36Besides, there's work here for you, if you want it.
00:05:38A career.
00:05:39Maybe even the ministry.
00:05:40I believe you have a true calling.
00:05:42I've prayed on it, Reverend.
00:05:44I'm not sure it's for me.
00:05:48I know, as you do, that I've made mistakes and discretions.
00:05:54That young lady from Florida, in particular.
00:05:56We're all humans, sir.
00:05:59Temptation exists.
00:06:00Yes, but I owe you my life for your help in covering up that disgraceful and tragic episode.
00:06:05Make your peace with God, Reverend.
00:06:07You're too good a man to be brought low by a mistake of that kind.
00:06:11In any event, your secret is safe with me.
00:06:20Don't spend it all in one place.
00:06:22Thank you, Reverend.
00:06:24I'll pay this back in time.
00:06:25No rush.
00:06:27You'll retain your new identity, your new name?
00:06:30Yes.
00:06:34What are your intentions?
00:06:37I'm going to find my father.
00:06:42I see.
00:06:43Of course.
00:06:45And what then?
00:06:46What will you do when you find your father?
00:06:50I'm going to kill him.
00:06:56I'm going to kill him for destroying my mom's life.
00:06:59For leading her astray.
00:07:01Away from the light and the power and the glory that is God.
00:07:06I learned it here, sir, and I thank you for the knowledge.
00:07:16I was going to say, go in peace.
00:07:21I'm sorry, Reverend.
00:07:23But that's not likely.
00:07:38I was going to kill him for the night and the power and the power and the power and the
00:07:40power and the power and the power and the power and the power and the power and the power and
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00:07:47power and the power and the power and the power and the power and the power and the power and
00:07:54the
00:09:07Hold it, son.
00:09:08No sudden movement.
00:09:09Appropriate physical contact only.
00:09:15Right?
00:09:24You're so tall and you've got color.
00:09:27Your hair is darker.
00:09:30Do you have a girlfriend?
00:09:33Maybe. I don't know.
00:09:35Ha! Play in the field. Good.
00:09:37Be careful, though, okay?
00:09:38I'm chaste.
00:09:39I'm chaste, Mom.
00:09:40You're what?
00:09:41I'm a virgin.
00:09:44It's what God wants.
00:09:46We should remain chaste until marriage.
00:09:50Mom, it's okay.
00:09:53You religious?
00:09:57There's a better way to live.
00:09:59Yeah, well, tell me about it.
00:10:00But how are you?
00:10:03Oh, well, this place is a barrel of laughs compared to where I was.
00:10:09At least you're allowed to see people, talk to people.
00:10:12I do yoga.
00:10:14I'm starting a book club.
00:10:16Oh, and a big publishing company paid me a million dollars for my autobiography.
00:10:20You know, suburban seeing a mom terrorist sort of thing.
00:10:22They're sure to be a bestseller.
00:10:24Are they allowed to do that?
00:10:25Well, no, I'm not allowed to earn money myself.
00:10:28But they've set up an account for you.
00:10:29Simon has all the details.
00:10:31So you're writing the story of your life?
00:10:33Not me, exactly.
00:10:34No.
00:10:35They send this graduate student chick over once a week.
00:10:38It's supposed to be a genius or something.
00:10:40She asks me questions and records it all.
00:10:42She does all the work.
00:10:43Mom, forgive me, but you're not a terrorist, right?
00:10:49How can you ask me that?
00:10:51You're just, like, totally falsely accused, correct?
00:10:54Yeah, well, of course.
00:10:58But...
00:11:02I had some stupid things.
00:11:05I was confused.
00:11:07I lied about...
00:11:11About...
00:11:13Well, you see, Ned, there was, you know, a bomb.
00:11:17Mom, it's okay.
00:11:18I believe you.
00:11:20Oh, I'm such an idiot.
00:11:21No, you're not.
00:11:23Oh, what my life might have been if I never met your father.
00:11:27I know.
00:11:27I mean, apart from having you.
00:11:32Where is he now?
00:11:34Henry?
00:11:35Yes.
00:11:37Russia, I guess.
00:11:38Odessa, I think.
00:11:39After that, who knows?
00:11:41Who cares?
00:11:42Forget about him, Ned.
00:11:45He deserves to die for the trouble he's caused you.
00:11:48Oh, don't talk like that.
00:11:50Who deserves to die?
00:11:51There's a woman here, Florence.
00:11:53She shot and killed her husband and two little girls.
00:11:55Most days, she wants to die.
00:11:58But more and more, she's just this kind little woman who's happy to work all day in the laundry.
00:12:04And what gets into people?
00:12:06The devil, probably.
00:12:10Babe, time's up.
00:12:13Go see your Uncle Simon.
00:12:15He's got the information about the publisher and the money.
00:12:17Okay.
00:12:17You'll come back soon, right?
00:12:18As soon as I can.
00:12:19I have to take care of something first.
00:12:21Don't forget being here.
00:12:22I may have to be away for a while.
00:12:24Hey, calm down.
00:12:25It's already in there.
00:12:25Time's up.
00:12:26Okay.
00:12:27Between 7 and 9 on Wednesday.
00:12:29I'm always here.
00:12:30I'm always here first.
00:13:14Hi.
00:13:14I'm here to see a friend of mine, Mr. Simon Grimm.
00:13:17Is he expecting you?
00:13:18I believe so.
00:13:24Yes, sir.
00:13:24Someone's here.
00:13:25Hey, Mr. Edward Rifle.
00:13:28Mr. Rifle.
00:13:29Of course.
00:13:30It's an elevator to the fourth floor, room 423.
00:13:33It's the street side.
00:13:39Ned.
00:13:40Nice to see you.
00:13:41Thanks for visiting.
00:13:42I'm just revising my new material.
00:13:45A new poem?
00:13:46Now I'm through with all that.
00:13:48Working on my stand-up routine.
00:13:51You want to be a comedian?
00:13:53Yeah, why not?
00:13:53Am I not funny?
00:13:58Well, it's been a while, Uncle Simon.
00:14:01That's right.
00:14:02It's been a while.
00:14:03And real-life experience has taught me much
00:14:05that perhaps I'd overlooked as a poet laureate
00:14:07and cultural touchstone.
00:14:08People want a good laugh now and then, Ned.
00:14:11Trust me.
00:14:12Little-fashioned slapstick humor,
00:14:14naughty innuendo,
00:14:15a few well-placed fart jokes.
00:14:17Enough with the earnest reflection,
00:14:18the tragic but unifying elusiveness
00:14:20of the human spirit in modern times and so on.
00:14:23I'm through with it.
00:14:26Only now,
00:14:28after all this heartbreak and controversy,
00:14:30only now am I able to confront
00:14:33my inner clown.
00:14:37Look, Uncle Simon,
00:14:38my mom said you have some money for me.
00:14:40Oh, yeah, here it is.
00:14:41That's the bank card.
00:14:42The pin number's on the post-it note.
00:14:44Thanks.
00:14:46So where exactly do you do this?
00:14:48Do what?
00:14:49Your stand-up comedy routine.
00:14:51Right here in front of the computer.
00:14:52I have a weekly video blog.
00:14:53I'm about to post a new one,
00:14:55but I can't seem to get this joke right.
00:14:58Ah, that's Zach, my comedy coach.
00:15:01Excellent.
00:15:02Think funny.
00:15:03Hi, Zach.
00:15:04Come on in.
00:15:05Zach, this is my nephew, Ned.
00:15:07Ned?
00:15:08Zach.
00:15:08Think funny.
00:15:10Hey, you know,
00:15:10you guys have work to do,
00:15:11and I have to go get a room.
00:15:12I'll leave you to it for now.
00:15:13Talk to you later, Simon.
00:15:14See you later, kids.
00:15:17Have you got a room free?
00:15:19How many nights?
00:15:20Two.
00:15:21Three, maybe.
00:15:23Yeah, I can do that.
00:15:24You're single, right?
00:15:25Right.
00:15:26Can I leave my suitcase here?
00:15:28Sure.
00:15:56Wow, that's a lot of money.
00:16:16Hey.
00:16:18Hey.
00:16:21Are you staying at the hotel?
00:16:24Oh, I just sort of hang around there.
00:16:28Oh, well, I'm sorry, but I'm not interested.
00:16:34In what?
00:16:37In whatever it is you're selling.
00:16:41Do you think I'm a prostitute?
00:16:51What do you want?
00:16:53To meet Simon Grimm.
00:16:54Oh.
00:16:56That's why you hang around the hotel?
00:16:58He never leaves the building.
00:16:59I've been here for weeks.
00:17:01I did my graduate thesis on his poetry.
00:17:15Susan.
00:17:17Edward.
00:17:28He claims he's over poetry now and wants to do stand-up comedy.
00:17:32Of course, all the poets are doing that now.
00:17:34It's the new thing.
00:17:35Have you seen his blog?
00:17:36Not yet.
00:17:37Don't.
00:17:38It's bad, huh?
00:17:40Perfectly harmless.
00:17:41Mind-numbingly attuned to the lowest common denominator of consumer entertainment.
00:17:44What do you want to talk to him about, then?
00:17:46Are you familiar with his work?
00:17:47Grimm's?
00:17:48Yes.
00:17:49A little.
00:17:50I, uh, sometimes work for his comedy coach, Zach.
00:17:54He's a jerk.
00:17:55Zach?
00:17:57I asked him to introduce me to Grimm, and he insisted on sexual favors.
00:18:00No.
00:18:02And afterwards, he still refused to introduce me.
00:18:07You're not well.
00:18:09I got caught in the rain yesterday.
00:18:12Where do you stay?
00:18:15Oh, around.
00:18:18Do you have a room for my friend here?
00:18:19She's your friend?
00:18:21Yes.
00:18:21I'm paying.
00:18:22He thinks I'm a prostitute, too.
00:18:24Now you're the poet laureate stalker.
00:18:25Ex-poet laureate.
00:18:26She wrote a book about him.
00:18:29I have no singles left.
00:18:31This place doesn't seem so busy.
00:18:32Still, no singles.
00:18:33You got the last one.
00:18:34I do have a double, though.
00:18:37Does that mean two beds?
00:18:40Two single beds.
00:18:42Is that okay with you?
00:18:50I do have a double, though.
00:18:52I do have a double, though.
00:18:55I do have a double, though.
00:18:59I do have a double, though.
00:18:59I do have a double, though.
00:19:00I do have a double, though.
00:19:00I do have a double, though.
00:19:00I do have a double, though.
00:19:01I do have a double, though.
00:19:03I do have a double, though.
00:19:04I do have a double, though.
00:19:07I do have a double, though.
00:19:08I do have a double, though.
00:19:15where's that comedy coach of yours i fired him yeah i don't think zach knows the first thing
00:19:21about being funny and you do you appear to doubt my comic chops simon what are you doing
00:19:31i want to be popular and liked like everybody else but you're not popular and it takes most
00:19:36people a while to get to know you before they like you and once they like you they tend to
00:19:41love you
00:19:41yeah but i can change that why have you read my poetry yeah well no not really but i'm not
00:19:49that
00:19:49into poetry but that's just it shouldn't i be doing something that a hip young guy like yourself
00:19:55is interested in am i hip well i don't know aren't you you're young simon if you're all set on
00:20:01chucking
00:20:02poetry don't waste your time trying to be a stand-up comic set your eyes on the straight and
00:20:07narrow give yourself to jesus you're not just trying to be funny now are you no of course not
00:20:16well this is new you found god look i have a friend downstairs who wants to meet you
00:20:25is this an intervention a what am i going to be baptized or something no
00:20:31she knows all about your poetry she wants to give you a copy of her dissertation it's the least you
00:20:36can do i think really okay bring her up tomorrow she's sleeping now any ideas about where my father
00:20:49might be seattle hundreds of people follow my blog and many of them write in and post comments
00:20:57henry who seems to work at or used to work at a certain bookstore in seattle
00:21:02writes in weekly and assassinates my character in increasingly elaborate ways
00:21:07i think more people follow my blog to read him
00:21:16you're not going to try and save henry for jesus are you and what if i am
00:21:50oh lord give unto thy servant that peace that the world cannot give
00:21:55that my heart may be set to obey thy commandments
00:21:57that through thee i remain constant of purpose and fearless of the enemy
00:22:02lighten my darkness oh lord i beseech thee
00:22:04and by thy mercy defend me from the perils and dangers of this night
00:22:08for the love of thy only son our savior jesus christ
00:22:12amen
00:22:23you said ten o'clock
00:22:26any time after ten
00:22:28how do i look
00:22:30great what are you all dolled up for you're just going to be talking about poetry and literature
00:22:34i don't look like a slut do i no really yeah it's just i don't well i don't know anything
00:22:44about literature
00:22:46that's right you don't see you this afternoon
00:22:52good luck
00:22:59she went up to the court lawyer ten minutes ago
00:23:01we're okay with the room right two more nights
00:23:03okay thanks
00:23:05you want me to tell her anything
00:23:06no
00:23:08make sure she knows the room's hers
00:23:15i've always read the poems even and especially the later ones
00:23:19as an evocation of the joys and sorrows of influence
00:23:23the evolution of one's own manner of perceiving and inevitably expressing the world to oneself and to others
00:23:30the sadness of breaking with the cherished attitudes inherited from the friendly
00:23:37encouraging but ultimately limited sources that must be outgrown
00:23:42please go on
00:23:43i recognize that voice
00:23:45the
00:23:48tempter
00:23:48the challenger
00:23:51the seducer
00:23:52the friend
00:23:53yes
00:23:54i use the term antagonist to start with but it's more fluid than that
00:23:59i could never find the right word for how he feels to be with
00:24:03it's actually more like being inspired by the wind
00:24:07the rain
00:24:10a sickness
00:24:11some other uncontrollable element
00:24:13demonic
00:24:16you seem to know henry better than i do
00:24:18it's expressed better in the body of the text itself
00:24:20but that is i think
00:24:22it generally
00:24:31it was difficult to get out from the shadow he cast
00:24:35there was always something apt about his most unreasonable ranting and raving that kept me from dismissing his input entirely
00:24:41his own failures
00:24:42his own ineptitude
00:24:43his delusions
00:24:45his psyche must see where my lens onto the world
00:24:47it provided a material out of which to shape an image of that world as i endured it
00:24:52i endured it
00:24:53i merely endured the world until my friend henry showed me what one could do otherwise
00:24:57it was the same with me
00:24:59excuse me
00:25:00i mean of course through the reading of your poetry how you rendered him and his influence upon you
00:25:08i'm moved by how intimately you've engaged in my poetry
00:25:12it means the world to me
00:25:14and i was so afraid i might be totally mistaken
00:25:17what do you want a documentary a youtube feed a series of tweets whatever you want just ask
00:25:22stop doing your blog
00:25:24oh
00:25:25the stand-up thing is awful
00:25:27wow
00:25:28decisive
00:25:29committed
00:25:31admittedly obscure
00:25:32work indifferent to mainstream approval and unafraid of confrontation with moral and ascetic absolutes
00:25:38this more than you might imagine is what keeps people from jumping out windows and under trains
00:25:43adding to mass cultural self-congratulation is of course its own reward cheap immediate and disposable as it is
00:25:53sorry
00:25:56so you think it's okay for me to be unpopular
00:25:58oh i think it's necessary
00:26:00you're an unusual person
00:26:02i have few friends
00:26:06i hope i haven't hurt your feelings
00:26:08no
00:26:10thank you
00:26:11i hope we can talk again soon
00:26:14but i have to ask are you religious as well
00:26:17as well
00:26:18as ned my nephew who introduced us
00:26:20do you mean edward
00:26:22we call him ned
00:26:25young mr rifle
00:26:26that's my mother's maiden name
00:26:28he was advised to remain incognita
00:26:29the son of fay grim
00:26:31and henry fool
00:26:33you're leaving
00:26:33oh i just
00:26:36forgot i have to do something
00:26:38and no
00:26:39i'm not religious
00:26:40sorry
00:26:41thank you
00:26:41so much
00:26:43come back soon
00:26:44i will
00:26:46where's my friend mr rifle
00:26:48the room is paid for for the next two nights
00:26:50where's he gone
00:26:50i saw him hail a cab
00:26:52and
00:26:54he might have said something about la guardia airport
00:27:17what are you doing here
00:27:18my meeting with simon grim was amazing
00:27:20thank you so much for setting it up
00:27:23sure
00:27:23sure but you didn't have to come all the way out here to thank me
00:27:26i mean the room's paid up for a couple of nights
00:27:27i know
00:27:28but i like you
00:27:30oh man
00:27:31do you have a girlfriend
00:27:32stop
00:27:32i know i'm a little older than you
00:27:34but i'm fun
00:27:36and i know a bunch of different languages
00:27:38and i don't do drugs
00:27:40and
00:27:44why seattle
00:27:46i have some business to do there for simon grim
00:27:48you don't work for zach anymore
00:27:50no
00:28:02dad
00:28:13toothpaste
00:28:14soap
00:28:16shampoo
00:28:16look at these towels
00:28:18you look fine
00:28:21really
00:28:22you have no clothes but what you're wearing
00:28:25no
00:28:25but i can get these laundered here
00:28:27is that okay
00:28:30go buy yourself some things
00:28:32i have to go meet someone
00:28:33tomorrow you can take them to the bookstore
00:28:36how long will you be
00:28:37hard to tell
00:28:38don't wait up
00:28:40you have to go see if you're going to the bookstore
00:28:41you have to go meet people
00:28:41so
00:28:41i can't speak good
00:28:41yeah
00:28:57so
00:28:57i can't I can't
00:30:09Apparently he's lived with a devout family these past four years.
00:30:12You see, Simon, that's what I mean. He's so damn impressionable, that kid.
00:30:16But anyway, I think it's you he gets that from.
00:30:18Me? I haven't been inside a church since you married Henry.
00:30:21Yeah, but it's how, like, people discuss you and everything.
00:30:24You're this weird kind of moral compass in a society half convinced of his own worthlessness.
00:30:31You don't sound like yourself. Who have you been talking to?
00:30:34Oh, this graduate student the publisher hired to write my autobiography was here the other week.
00:30:38She's got a truckload of ways to say how you've influenced the zeitgeist and everything, Simon.
00:30:42Really, I was impressed.
00:30:44But then I told her how I always had to get you out of fights in high school and...
00:30:47Faye, listen, I need to talk to you about something important.
00:30:49Oh, and, like, my autobiography is not important?
00:30:52No, of course it is, but...
00:30:54Faye, did Henry ever tell you about the girl he went to prison for having sexual relations with?
00:30:58You mean the 13-year-old girl he sexually molested?
00:31:01Well, okay, yes.
00:31:02No.
00:31:03Her name was Susan.
00:31:04Do I really have to hear this?
00:31:05Yes, because I believe I met this girl, Susan, yesterday.
00:31:10What?
00:31:11I mean, she's a woman now, of course.
00:31:12She's written this remarkable study of my work.
00:31:14Or at least that aspect of my work which she feels, and I must admit she's onto something here,
00:31:18that aspect of my poetry that centers on my friendship with Henry.
00:31:21That's odd.
00:31:22Not really.
00:31:23Unusual, yes, but an original and provocative reading of these poems, and...
00:31:26No, I mean...
00:31:27I mean this graduate student who's writing the story of my life.
00:31:32Her name is Susan, too.
00:31:34What does she look like?
00:31:35Early 30s, skinny, addicted to lipstick.
00:31:39And the lipstick is not on, you know, correctly.
00:31:43Exactly.
00:31:43She's kind of helpless.
00:31:45Where did you meet her?
00:31:46Well, that's the thing.
00:31:47She was introduced to me by Ned.
00:31:49Uh-oh.
00:31:50My feelings exactly.
00:31:52Are you sure it's her?
00:31:53Faye, she sat here and talked about my poems in a way that only a person could if they knew
00:31:57Henry intimately.
00:31:58You said she was with Ned?
00:32:00He introduced her to me.
00:32:01And were they, like, together?
00:32:04I think so.
00:32:05You know he's chaste, right?
00:32:07Chaste?
00:32:07Yeah, it means, you know, that, like...
00:32:09I know what chaste means, Faye.
00:32:11Well, what do you think she's up to?
00:32:14It's hard to say.
00:32:15I hope she's not a psycho killer or anything.
00:32:18I was really enjoying her time together.
00:32:20I'll talk to your publisher and see what I can find out.
00:32:32I'll be over in Erotica if you need me.
00:32:35Whatever.
00:32:40Yeah?
00:32:41Looking for a friend of mine who I think used to work here.
00:32:43An older guy named Henry.
00:32:46Henry?
00:32:47Loudmouth.
00:32:48Troublemaker?
00:32:48Drunkard.
00:32:49Thief?
00:32:50Egomaniac.
00:32:50Sex fiend?
00:32:51That's him.
00:32:52We fired him.
00:32:53He's not allowed in the store anymore.
00:32:54But he's around?
00:32:55As far as I know, he's always at the topless bar down the block with his pal, Bud, who's also
00:33:01not allowed in here anymore.
00:33:04You gonna buy that?
00:33:09This is it, I guess.
00:33:11Wait here.
00:33:12There's no way you're 21, buddy.
00:33:13Oh, wait.
00:33:14I just need to go in and find somebody.
00:33:16No matter, man.
00:33:17I can't let you in.
00:33:17I'll go.
00:33:21What's his name?
00:33:22Well, but she can go in.
00:33:23Dude, it's a gentleman's club, okay?
00:33:25Smoking babes always welcome.
00:33:27I used to dance here.
00:33:28No, when?
00:33:29You were just a child.
00:33:31Talk dirty to me.
00:33:32What's his name?
00:33:34Bud.
00:33:35Bud?
00:33:36You looking for Bud?
00:33:37Right at the bar.
00:33:52Bud?
00:33:53I can't.
00:33:54Not now.
00:33:56I'm working.
00:34:00Dude, it's nothing personal.
00:34:02What?
00:34:03It's just the law.
00:34:06There's a law higher than the law.
00:34:09Really?
00:34:10You think I'd ever want to go into a place like this if I didn't have to?
00:34:13I see.
00:34:13I was mistaken.
00:34:15Sorry, man.
00:34:17Ned.
00:34:17This is Bud.
00:34:19Bud.
00:34:20This is Ned.
00:34:23You want to talk to me?
00:34:25Yeah.
00:34:27About what?
00:34:28Henry.
00:34:32Buy me lunch.
00:34:34No problem.
00:34:35And, like, I'm gonna need some booze.
00:34:45I send him his reading material.
00:34:47Books I steal from the library over here.
00:34:49Where?
00:34:50Where do you send the reading material?
00:34:52He took his job as a, I don't know, test case for some drug company or something down outside of
00:34:57Portland, Oregon.
00:34:58You have the address?
00:34:59The name of the place?
00:35:00Ashbrook Pharmaceuticals.
00:35:01Hey, he only, like, he don't owe you money or nothing, right?
00:35:05No.
00:35:06He didn't pregnant your sister or nothing?
00:35:07I'm a friend.
00:35:09He's my teacher and shit.
00:35:10I gotta watch his back.
00:35:12Yeah?
00:35:12What did he teach you?
00:35:13He taught me to write.
00:35:15Poetry, I guess.
00:35:16Damn straight.
00:35:16I was just the garbage man before Henry came to town.
00:35:20Listen, thanks for talking to me.
00:35:21I have to go.
00:35:23What about my booze?
00:35:25My friend will be here with it any minute now.
00:35:27Sure you go?
00:35:29No.
00:35:30Because I think she sort of digs me.
00:35:31Yeah, I think so, too.
00:35:32So just wait here.
00:35:33And listen, don't tell her what we talked about, okay?
00:35:35Done.
00:35:36Or where I'm headed.
00:35:37It's double done.
00:35:53Mr. Grimm.
00:35:54Yes, hello.
00:35:54I'm Simon.
00:35:55Such an unexpected pleasure, really.
00:35:57Thank you for seeing me on such short notice.
00:35:58None at all.
00:35:59Please.
00:36:00Come on in.
00:36:05Simon Grimm.
00:36:06I thought he was dead.
00:36:07I know.
00:36:14Wow, you're a cypher, Soros.
00:36:16Where's Ned?
00:36:17Ned, Ned who?
00:36:18Who's Ned?
00:36:19Come on, bud.
00:36:20We're friends, right?
00:36:21Oh, yes.
00:36:22I've been writing a poem about you, even.
00:36:23So you have to tell me where Ned's gone.
00:36:25But this poem, you see, requires a certain creatural detail.
00:36:28The currency of lived experience, so to speak.
00:36:32What's it about, this poem?
00:36:34Your thigh.
00:36:36Which one?
00:36:37Wow.
00:36:38Now there's an idea.
00:36:40Bud, concentrate.
00:36:45This one.
00:36:47You want to touch it?
00:36:48I have to.
00:36:49How long?
00:36:5060 seconds is the structural prerequisite of my poetic expression.
00:36:55A formalist.
00:36:57Interesting.
00:36:59But where has Ned gone?
00:37:01Ashbrook Pharmaceuticals, Portland, Oregon.
00:37:05Okay, let's do it.
00:37:14I'm interested in the young woman you've hired to ghostwrite my sister's autobiography.
00:37:19Susan.
00:37:19It's kind of my attention she's written a quite thorough analysis of my own work.
00:37:23Ah, yes.
00:37:24Well, so you know about this, then?
00:37:27I was impressed.
00:37:29Really?
00:37:30You've read it?
00:37:30Yes, I'd like to know more about her.
00:37:33She'd been writing movie reviews for a small citywide entertainment guide.
00:37:37She developed quite a following because, well, because no matter what she was reviewing,
00:37:42it always came around to a discussion of your poetry.
00:37:45I see.
00:37:45It's quite hilariously obsessive.
00:37:48But well-written.
00:37:49Well, one couldn't fault the grammar, but the irony was a bit too intense for me.
00:37:52Nevertheless, she became popularly associated with you and Faye, the infamous Grims.
00:37:57So when I had this idea for the Faye autobiography, I thought, of course, get this well-read fringe iconoclast
00:38:02to ghost it.
00:38:04Well, that turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated.
00:38:06Why?
00:38:09Because she was, as I should have expected, in a mental hospital.
00:38:14Ah.
00:38:15Olive, tell Simon here about Susan.
00:38:19She, um, presented her dissertation at Columbia University, and...
00:38:24Go ahead.
00:38:25Well, Mr. Grimm, it was, of course, a dissertation on your poetry.
00:38:29I understand.
00:38:33They refused outright to grant her a diploma, and apparently, she had a nervous breakdown and stabbed her academic advisor.
00:38:41So, she's violent.
00:38:43Turns out she's been in and out of psychiatric care since she was 13.
00:38:47The charges were eventually dropped.
00:38:49She's a loaded pistol, Simon, and I like that.
00:38:52Comes across in her prose.
00:38:54Biting, precise, and, well, yes, obsessive.
00:38:57When will you see her next?
00:38:58Us?
00:38:59Oh, we never see her.
00:39:00She transcribes her interviews with Faye each week, reworks them into chapters, and emails them to me.
00:39:04We're about a third of the way through the book.
00:39:06It's incendiary.
00:39:07It'll be huge.
00:39:08We're negotiating with the penitentiary to get a photo shoot done with Faye.
00:39:11Esquires on board, maybe GQ, Vanity Fair.
00:39:14And the controversy is more than likely to generate a renewed interest in even your work, Mr. Grimm.
00:39:18Good thinking, Olive.
00:39:20Simon, who are you with these days?
00:39:22Anyone?
00:39:30Faye, you have a visitor?
00:39:54Please have a seat.
00:40:03My name is Daniel, Reverend Gardner.
00:40:07Ned may have mentioned me to you.
00:40:10Yes.
00:40:12If I may say so, Faye, Ned is like a son to me.
00:40:16Me too.
00:40:18Faye, I believe Ned intends to do something terrible.
00:40:22Oh, man.
00:40:25He loves you very much.
00:40:26Of course he does.
00:40:30What do you mean by that?
00:40:32It means he'll kill the man he thinks is responsible for your incarceration.
00:40:41Henry?
00:40:43Full.
00:40:44With an E?
00:40:45Could be.
00:40:49The man you describe is here.
00:40:52Can I see him?
00:40:54You say he's your father?
00:40:56Yes.
00:40:57He's been here for a little over a year.
00:41:00He replied to an ad we placed asking for volunteers in the testing of certain drugs we were developing.
00:41:05However, we were advised to cease experimenting with these particular medications, but by then, unfortunately, Henry had begun to exhibit
00:41:12side effects.
00:41:13Like what?
00:41:14Well, there are certain physio-optical manifestations.
00:41:19He sees things?
00:41:20Yes.
00:41:21Which, of course, is not entirely unusual under the circumstances of the experiment, but...
00:41:26Well, anyway, he has no legal right to compensation in that regard.
00:41:30However, there is the issue of his delusions.
00:41:34Typically a symptom of mental disorder, which, honestly, we should have done due diligence in detecting before he agreed to
00:41:40have him participate.
00:41:42This, you see, could expose the laboratory to legal action.
00:41:46And what's his delusion?
00:41:49He believes, apparently with perfect sincerity, that he is...
00:41:55Well, the devil.
00:41:57Are you okay?
00:41:59It's all right.
00:42:06Yes, sir.
00:42:08Have you seen that young woman around, the young lady who hangs out down here?
00:42:11That would be your stalker, Mr. Grimm.
00:42:13Well, yeah, I guess so.
00:42:14Susan?
00:42:15She left yesterday, following the young man.
00:42:18Young man?
00:42:19Mr. Rifle.
00:42:20Where?
00:42:22To the airport.
00:42:23In fact, Mr. Grimm, you have another visitor.
00:42:28As delusions go, it's a remarkable narrative.
00:42:31For to be perfectly accurate, he claims he's the devil's number one assistant.
00:42:36Well, once, he was born into the human realm in 1591 to one riot dream.
00:42:41Can you throw him out?
00:42:42Our lawyers have indicated that would cast a bad light on our situation.
00:42:46Let me talk to him.
00:42:47I'll convince him to leave.
00:42:48On his own.
00:42:50You don't look so good all of a sudden.
00:42:55Oh, man.
00:42:58Is this a problem?
00:43:04I'll be with you in a minute.
00:43:11What are you doing here?
00:43:13I'm supposed to help you.
00:43:17I didn't ask you to.
00:43:30I'm sorry.
00:43:32You don't look good.
00:43:33What's wrong?
00:43:35I was up all night driving.
00:43:36I haven't slept.
00:43:38What happened to your hand?
00:43:40Look, my father's a patient in here.
00:43:44I haven't seen him since I was a little kid.
00:43:50Okay.
00:43:52I'll stay here.
00:43:53Do what you have to do.
00:43:55I'm okay right here.
00:43:57Mr. Rifle, they're ready for us.
00:44:25Don't be taken in.
00:44:27He's a great, tragic actor.
00:44:29The drama never stops.
00:44:30Just wait here.
00:44:33Auf Wiedersehen, mademoiselles.
00:44:35Dr. Ford, is it Thursday already?
00:44:37Well, Henry, who were those women?
00:44:38Local pilgrims seeking wisdom.
00:44:40Whoa.
00:44:41Hold on.
00:44:41You dismantled the alarm on the fire door again.
00:44:43Look, I have to smoke someplace.
00:44:46I know where you live, asshole.
00:44:47Who's the winsome part with the humorless youth over there?
00:44:50Henry, please.
00:44:51Doctor, I can't work under these conditions.
00:44:53At what point exactly, why do you insist on remaining here?
00:45:01Thank you for this information, Reverend.
00:45:03Of course.
00:45:04Hopefully we can reach him before he does anything irreparable.
00:45:11It's him.
00:45:13You sure?
00:45:15Yes.
00:45:16And you'll talk to him?
00:45:18I'll come back tomorrow.
00:45:20I'll only tell him to expect a visitor.
00:45:22I'll leave the rest to you.
00:45:41Come on.
00:45:41They gave me the name of the motel down the road.
00:45:52Come on.
00:45:58I'm sorry.
00:45:59We actually only have one single room available.
00:46:01Okay.
00:46:02A double is okay.
00:46:04Yeah, we don't have any doubles either.
00:46:06In fact, we just have the one room.
00:46:08A single.
00:46:10A single.
00:46:30Come on, get some sleep.
00:46:32No, I have to.
00:46:33I have to go.
00:46:39You have to go pray?
00:46:43Yeah.
00:46:46You have to tell me about that one day.
00:46:50What's to tell?
00:46:54How it feels to have someone listening.
00:47:00Defend me, O God, thy humble servant,
00:47:03in all assaults of the enemy,
00:47:05that I, surely trusting in thy defense,
00:47:10may not fear the power of the adversary.
00:47:15The words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
00:47:17be always acceptable in thy sight.
00:47:20O Lord,
00:47:23my strength,
00:47:24and my redeemer.
00:47:24the love,
00:47:51the love,
00:48:26You want to come in and take a shower and brush your teeth?
00:48:29What? Yeah, sure.
00:48:31You should have slept with me.
00:48:33I wouldn't have done anything scandalous.
00:48:35I promise.
00:48:37Got the key?
00:48:39I've got your purse.
00:49:14How may I ask?
00:49:16Have I offended thee?
00:49:17Why ask me that?
00:49:20It's just something written here.
00:49:22A lovely phrase, I think.
00:49:24It speaks to me.
00:49:25Where's the young lady?
00:49:28What is all this?
00:49:29History.
00:49:30European mostly, Renaissance.
00:49:32And some remarkably incriminating correspondence
00:49:34between the Vatican and the Spanish king
00:49:36from the early 16th century.
00:49:38No one's ever thought to put it all in order.
00:49:41Some local antiquarian died,
00:49:43and his moronic heirs donated it to this place.
00:49:45Imagine.
00:49:47You don't recognize me?
00:49:49No.
00:49:50Should I?
00:49:53I'm your son.
00:49:55Listen, kid, I have lots of offspring.
00:49:58They're, you know, legion.
00:50:00You gotta do better than that.
00:50:02I'm Ned.
00:50:13Face, kid.
00:50:16Yeah.
00:50:25I suppose you've come to kill me.
00:50:28I suppose you've come to kill me.
00:50:51I hear she's got a life sentence.
00:50:53No parole, all that.
00:50:55Why did she come looking for me?
00:51:00She thought your life was in danger.
00:51:03People were trying to kill you.
00:51:05You should have talked her out of it.
00:51:08She thought she was doing it for my sake.
00:51:10For your sake?
00:51:11Yeah.
00:51:12Like I needed a father figure or something.
00:51:15I'm a wanted criminal.
00:51:17A known felon.
00:51:18A murderer.
00:51:21I mean, I'm not apologizing,
00:51:22but really I know why.
00:51:23I mean, really?
00:51:25Why?
00:51:26I hope I don't offend you, son,
00:51:28but your mother has very complicated,
00:51:30perverse, and deeply repressed sexual needs,
00:51:33which I, in my generosity,
00:51:35was able to intuit and satisfy.
00:51:36She's never gotten over it.
00:51:38Sue me.
00:51:38You gonna drink that?
00:51:44You, as it turns out,
00:51:47are the fruit of that liberation.
00:51:48The son of the devil.
00:51:51You've been talking with Dr. Ford.
00:52:00Listen, Ned.
00:52:02Can I call you Ned?
00:52:04I've got these mercenary quacks by the cojones
00:52:06like nobody's business.
00:52:08I mean, really,
00:52:09these guys are stinking of sin.
00:52:10You?
00:52:12I am, in fact,
00:52:13suffering certain definite side effects
00:52:15from this amalgamation of chemicals
00:52:17they were feeding me,
00:52:18the constituent elements of which
00:52:19are not even...
00:52:22Did you see that?
00:52:25No.
00:52:29The point is,
00:52:30this is not really a bad place.
00:52:33What with the library here
00:52:34and the park and the regular meals,
00:52:36all I've got to do
00:52:37is pretend I'm insane once or twice a week
00:52:39and tell them this cock-and-bull story
00:52:41about being the devil or whatever.
00:52:42This cache of renaissance lit
00:52:44has provided me with a treasure trove
00:52:46of dates and places and names.
00:52:48These assholes are terrified.
00:52:52Look.
00:52:53Mom wants me to get you out of here
00:52:55and bring you home.
00:52:56Home?
00:52:57How can we have a home
00:52:58when she's in prison the rest of her life?
00:53:00She wants me, you, and Uncle Simon
00:53:01to live nearby
00:53:02and go visit her all the time.
00:53:04I'm sorry.
00:53:04I'll do anything for Faye,
00:53:06but I can't live with Simon.
00:53:07That man is a disgrace.
00:53:11A publisher has paid her
00:53:12to write her autobiography.
00:53:13She wants your help.
00:53:17Really?
00:53:18Yeah.
00:53:19She said so herself
00:53:20that Simon couldn't have written a thing
00:53:21if not for you.
00:53:23Well, that's right.
00:53:25Exactly.
00:53:27That ungrateful climber.
00:53:29And now with this blog
00:53:30and the sketch comedy,
00:53:31where will it end?
00:53:32It hurts to witness this.
00:53:33Who does he think he is?
00:53:34Jerry Lewis?
00:53:35I've got...
00:53:36Wait a minute.
00:53:36Hold on.
00:53:45I've got a passage in here somewhere
00:53:47about, you know,
00:53:49about Simon's passive-aggressive will to power,
00:53:51and here it is.
00:53:53No.
00:53:54Well, it's not about Simon,
00:53:56but it pertains...
00:53:57Anyway,
00:53:58I need someone to help me get all this in order.
00:54:00Can you type?
00:54:01No.
00:54:02So are you coming?
00:54:04How will we get there?
00:54:05I am, as it were,
00:54:07a wanted man.
00:54:09We'll drive.
00:54:11Cross-country?
00:54:12Yeah.
00:54:14Will the young lady be coming?
00:54:17Probably.
00:54:18Is she your girlfriend?
00:54:22We're just friends.
00:54:23I'm warning you, kid.
00:54:25Exterior is notwithstanding.
00:54:27Girls just sort of can't resist me.
00:54:29That must be a major hassle.
00:54:31I just don't want any unnecessary resentment,
00:54:33if you know what I mean.
00:54:35Is this all you got?
00:54:36I'll need my own room.
00:54:38Fine.
00:54:38Come on.
00:54:39Wait up.
00:54:40I gotta get dressed.
00:55:00Where are we?
00:55:01I thought you said the motel was just down the road.
00:55:03It's not far.
00:55:04To be fair,
00:55:04Simon's third and fourth books were pretty good,
00:55:06and I haven't seen them in years.
00:55:08I read them in translation, of course,
00:55:09being in exile and everything.
00:55:11It's clear he allowed himself to be influenced
00:55:12by the dynamics of his own notoriety, so to speak.
00:55:15Can you hold that farther away?
00:55:19Don't you agree?
00:55:20About what?
00:55:21Simon's third and fourth books.
00:55:22I don't read poetry.
00:55:23What do you read?
00:55:24I read what really matters.
00:55:26What, you mean like the New York Times?
00:55:27No.
00:55:29No shit.
00:55:30You're a God-fearing man.
00:55:31You got a problem with that?
00:55:32Find some place to pull over.
00:55:34What?
00:55:35Gotta pee.
00:55:49What are you thoughts,
00:55:51What about James'ź¼¬?
00:55:51and if he is a kid with acĆ¼ hung book,
00:55:53is that the Melanie Neville did not walk together
00:55:54in front of the queens?
00:55:55No, I don't know you.
00:55:55I don't know each other.
00:55:56I just don't know each other element.
00:55:57How in the arts?
00:55:57Yeah.
00:56:04What?
00:57:05The donuts are fresh this morning.
00:57:07Hi.
00:57:08Oh, this is quaint, in a desperate sort of way.
00:57:12Ah, we meet finally.
00:57:14That's a fetching ensemble.
00:57:17There's free coffee products.
00:57:19Is there?
00:57:19And semi-fresh donuts.
00:57:20Excellent.
00:57:21Ned, are you going to introduce us, or did your mother teach you no manners at all?
00:57:25This is Susan.
00:57:26Fascinating.
00:57:27Come on, we're leaving.
00:57:29Soldier of God or not, that kid's got a hair across his ass.
00:57:33Yes, he's very devout.
00:57:35Maybe we should get some donuts for the road, huh?
00:57:38Can I hold that for you?
00:57:39Guard it with your life, young lady.
00:57:43Is this the confessions?
00:57:45I see my reputation has preceded me.
00:57:48I did my graduate dissertation on the work of Simon Grimm.
00:57:51Is that so?
00:57:52Yes.
00:57:53And because of that, I guess I was hired to ghostwrite your wife's autobiography.
00:57:58Oh.
00:57:59You're practically family.
00:58:00That's not sugar.
00:58:01That's sweet and low.
00:58:02The sugar's right there.
00:58:03Well, that's good.
00:58:04Fake hats spell to save her life.
00:58:06Do you type?
00:58:07Very well.
00:58:08And I'm a great copy editor.
00:58:09I can use some help with this.
00:58:11I'd love to.
00:58:12I mean, if that's okay.
00:58:14Good.
00:58:15It needs some...
00:58:16Whoa.
00:58:18Did you see that?
00:58:20No.
00:58:26You remind me of someone.
00:58:35Okay, okay.
00:58:37He hates me, of course.
00:58:39So embarrassingly edible.
00:58:41Come on.
00:58:46So it's like this.
00:58:47In the infinite amplitude of his love, God wants to create the largest number of best elements
00:58:51that can exist together in one cosmos.
00:58:53Okay, that's a spin on Leibniz, but the important part is next.
00:58:56Do I write that?
00:58:57No, hold on.
00:58:58In an instantaneous calculation made in eternity, God computes the best possible world and creates
00:59:04it.
00:59:04Okay, fine.
00:59:05This decision, as it were, by God is uncontingent and eternal rather than temporally or ontologically
00:59:11sequential.
00:59:12Mmm.
00:59:13What?
00:59:14Do you think that's the right word?
00:59:17Temporally?
00:59:18No, ontologically.
00:59:20What do you suggest?
00:59:22It's just that the nature of being is already the subject of the passage itself.
00:59:26I think you should move on from the idea of temporality to something more materially concrete.
00:59:31Spatiality.
00:59:32Spatiality.
00:59:33Right.
00:59:34Or...
00:59:35Stop here for the night.
00:59:39Anyway, the point, Susan, it is impossible for every perfect good to be compatible with
00:59:44every other perfect good.
00:59:45The holiness of the mountain needs to be contrasted with the profanity of the used condom on the
00:59:50sidewalk, so to speak.
00:59:51Good image.
00:59:52Should I write that?
00:59:53The good of free will must entail real choices for sin.
01:00:01Something like that.
01:00:03We'll continue tomorrow.
01:00:19We need three single rooms, please.
01:00:21Uh-oh.
01:00:22I'm afraid we only have one single and a suite available.
01:00:24A suite?
01:00:25Two rooms, a full kitchen, and a jacuzzi.
01:00:28A class establishment, obviously.
01:00:30I once participated in the most fantastic group sex in a hot tub outside in the mountains
01:00:34while it was snowing.
01:00:35Where was that?
01:00:36Doesn't matter.
01:00:37How about you?
01:00:38We'll have the suite.
01:00:39We'll take the single.
01:00:40I'll be in the bar.
01:00:47What?
01:00:50You're flirting with my father.
01:00:54Am I?
01:00:57He's...
01:00:58He's fun.
01:01:00Are you kidding me?
01:01:02He appreciates my ideas.
01:01:04I like the way he thinks.
01:01:06He's a degenerate.
01:01:08Give him three minutes alone and he'd rape you.
01:01:12I don't think you know what you're talking about.
01:01:15Yeah, well, maybe you're right.
01:01:17Seeing as I don't know what you're capable of yourself.
01:01:21What's that supposed to mean?
01:01:25Give me the bullet.
01:01:29What bullet?
01:01:40You're not traveling with us.
01:01:45Is there a church around here?
01:01:47Lots.
01:01:48Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, a mosque?
01:01:52It doesn't matter.
01:01:53Catholic's right across the parking lot.
01:02:06I was wondering how long you'd be able to stand that guy.
01:02:09Get dressed.
01:02:10You have to get out of here.
01:02:11What are you talking about?
01:02:12The young Christian gentleman's paying for it all.
01:02:15There's a jacuzzi upstairs.
01:02:16The young Christian gentleman has every intention of killing him.
01:02:20Here's his gun.
01:02:21This is the bullet.
01:02:23I didn't think he had it in him.
01:02:25He does.
01:02:25I've heard him say his prayers.
01:02:27God's on his side, I suppose.
01:02:29Apparently.
01:02:30So you mean to say Faye doesn't need my help with her memoir?
01:02:34Is that what he told you?
01:02:43That's low.
01:02:44You got any money?
01:02:45Yeah.
01:02:46I stole his bank card.
01:02:47He's got his pin code written on a post-it note and everything.
01:02:50Very generous of him.
01:02:52I know, right?
01:02:53You'd think a religion would help teach people how the ungodly operates.
01:02:57Let me get dressed.
01:02:58Take all the good stuff from the minibar.
01:03:21What have I done?
01:03:24I'd have killed a man.
01:03:27But for this woman.
01:03:32Have you sent her?
01:03:34Placed her in my path to keep me from sin?
01:03:41I'll set everything right.
01:03:44We'll make amends.
01:03:47Jesus.
01:03:50I don't want to kill anyone.
01:04:01He's loaded.
01:04:03But we can only withdraw $400 a day.
01:04:23i really can't believe that sanctimonious little church mouse is my son forget about it where are
01:04:28we going anyway i mean new york right all points on the globe are equally dismal for me susan
01:04:33unwanted unappreciated despised even by my own son we can make it in maybe three or four days
01:04:39depending on when ned unplugs our credit line i called ahead and reserved a motel room just
01:04:44the side of spokane they have a restaurant you think no but the rooms have kitchens
01:04:50ned simon i almost did a real bad thing your mother thought you might mom how she received a
01:04:57visit from the reverend gardner oh man have you found henry yes is he with you now no i lost
01:05:06him
01:05:06he disappeared again he ran off with some woman i was traveling with susan yeah ned how much do you
01:05:16know about your dad's early years more than i want to well he spent some time in prison right
01:05:22that much i got do you know why he was in prison mom said he hadn't paid his taxes or
01:05:28something
01:05:29no henry was in jail for seven years because he was caught in flagrante delicto with as he once
01:05:34told me in confidence an ugly and mean-spirited 13 year old girl named susan
01:05:42you think this is that susan i'm certain but i've read a dissertation it's a long wild passionate
01:05:47encomium to henry a what and she's ghostwriting your mom's autobiography no way that's her she's
01:05:54obsessed with henry oh damn it then let them be they're both nuts anyway he's an idiot she's a
01:05:59floozy they both read too much they're made for each other i'm coming home but she might do him harm
01:06:05you think she's been in and out of psychiatric hospitals her whole life and she stabbed a man in
01:06:10college when they refused to let her graduate what was your impression
01:06:19she's armed
01:06:22is she
01:06:28ned you've got to find them
01:06:30i know susan's brilliant and she's a good person but she's totally fucked up
01:06:35i know i could probably say the same thing about your dad but i suspect you don't want to hear
01:06:39that
01:06:39right now you're right uncle simon i don't want to hear that right now listen i'll call you tomorrow
01:06:47stateside mutual customer service how can i help you yeah my bank card has been stolen would you
01:06:52like me to cancel the card yes and wait excuse me will you be able to tell me where the
01:06:59card was last
01:07:00used of course the exact time and location okay don't cancel the card just yet really are you
01:07:05sure i'll call back in a few hours a lot of damage can occur in a few hours sir i
01:07:10know we should get
01:07:11some booze can you get me some rum please there's a liquor store across the parking lot rum huh i'll
01:07:17get something to cook whatever you're drinking i'll get something to cook what do you smoke whatever
01:07:21fairport lights are okay
01:07:25an embarrassment of riches
01:07:45you'll need a knife
01:07:55all set
01:07:58anything else ice cubes i'll get napkins oh and lemonade
01:08:16all set
01:08:24susan
01:08:36rum lemonade and fairport lights these were your preferred poisons at 13
01:08:42why didn't you come back for me what i waited they put me in jail for seven years
01:08:49but i was 20 by the time you got out i wasn't allowed into the state of ohio without written
01:08:53permission from some office of the governor and only then if i could prove i had gainful
01:08:57employment look susan i paid dearly for our little afternoon of bliss i really did think
01:09:02my parents were away for the weekend i had no idea they would come back oh susan susan what
01:09:08my life might have been if i'd never met you i'm sorry please don't apologize what's done is done
01:09:15and i shouldn't have done it i wanted you to you were 13 you didn't know what you wanted
01:09:21i did i did know what i wanted susan it's like i've been trying to get at there is sin
01:09:27in this world i
01:09:27haven't worked it out perfectly yet but if there is such a thing as sin it comes down to this
01:09:31taking advantage of innocence i was not innocent how dare you say that you were the only one i
01:09:36wanted yes the only one stupid enough to succumb to the advances of an overweight and perspiring
01:09:41adolescent with bad teeth what happened
01:09:46i grew up you got a nice ass i had braces until i was 26 you could use a few
01:09:53pounds though
01:09:53i was anorexic for a while no i'm okay now and it wasn't so bad because i was in a
01:10:00hospital anyways
01:10:00what kind of hospital the kind for crazy people oh no no it wasn't like that they thought i was
01:10:07crazy because i was in love with you well they were right i was the janitor at your junior high
01:10:12school
01:10:12you turned me on to lotremont did i and verlaine rimbeau really all the french symbolists of course i
01:10:21outgrew them but they were formative yeah well but still there are limits i mean there are laws even
01:10:27hi it's me again edward rifle oh yes mr rifle the card was used near spokane 45 minutes ago
01:10:35at a supermarket on route 47 that was the best day of my life
01:10:42it was astonishing i mean at least until your father was standing there and the police arrived
01:10:47i remember every moment of it i put myself to sleep at night for years replaying it again and again
01:10:56every touch each thrust the taste of your dirty fingers in my mouth
01:11:04how i clutched the bedspread and drooled
01:11:12now we can be together you and me finally without any interference
01:11:19is that what you want
01:11:23more than anything in the world
01:11:47i'm not an easy man to live with susan
01:11:50to just follow you yours whenever you want me
01:11:53you're incorrigible thank you
01:11:57outrageous you people are disgusting
01:12:00why a man your age ought to know better than
01:12:02come on come on it's not our business
01:12:06pervert
01:12:11and so you stabbed the guy
01:12:12all semester long he's encouraging me to
01:12:15revise and to annotate and insisting we meet after class
01:12:19he wants to discuss and
01:12:20well of course fuck
01:12:22and then he totally goes along with the other department heads and dismisses the dissertation as not worthy of consideration
01:12:27what's his for?
01:12:28the tomatoes
01:12:29you're still hungry?
01:12:30not really
01:12:31give me your glass
01:12:34these self-satisfied pundits who themselves received master's degrees for writing college papers on post-marxist third generation feminist apocrypha
01:12:44or whatever
01:12:45now have these high-paid tenured positions lockstep with college policy pushing only commercially sustainable mass cultural phenomena
01:12:53proudly detailing the most profitably impermanent trends as critically relevant societal indicators for the next really cool facebook ad etc
01:13:01i mean am i repeating myself god i love it when you get all fired up and indignant like this
01:13:11fuck me
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01:14:10Hello ladies, welcome to the first meeting of the Penitentiary Book Club.
01:14:14Since we're all going to be here for, well, like the rest of our lives, I figured we should
01:14:18start out with some really big books, like these. Don Quixote by Cervantes, 941 pages. War
01:14:32and Peace, Tolstoy, 1,443 pages. By Miserable, they made a musical out of this one, by Victor
01:14:42Hugo, 1,232 pages. Older man, young woman. Yeah, high heels, that's right.
01:14:58Dad's home!
01:15:09Good morning. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Are you by any chance headed toward the city
01:15:17of Spokane? Well, yeah, sort of. I'd appreciate a lift if you'd be so kind.
01:15:22Absolutely not. Amelia, please. Just drop me anywhere along the road in that direction. Thanks.
01:15:29Thanks.
01:15:38Thanks.
01:15:45All right.
01:15:46Guys.
01:16:48I'm going to wait here in the car until my friends wake up.
01:16:52Okay?
01:17:28Dad!
01:17:56I'm going to wait here.
01:17:57I'm going to wait here.
01:17:59Save her.
01:18:07No.
01:18:09Please.
01:18:09Please.
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01:18:45Please.
01:20:20No.
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