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Fellow Travelers Episode 1
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00:00:07If it's magic, then why can't it be everlasting?
00:00:18Like the sun that always shines, like the promise in this rhyme.
00:00:31Like the galaxies in time.
00:00:38If it's pleasing, then why can't it be never leaving?
00:00:48Like the day that never fails, like on seashores there are shells.
00:01:00Hey, hey, be careful.
00:01:01Hey, there's ice cream in the kitchen.
00:01:04Tell your mother I said it's okay.
00:01:06Thanks, Dad. The last thing they need is more sugar.
00:01:09It's a party.
00:01:10Your grandkids are going to miss Hawks so much when we go to Milan.
00:01:12I don't know what Kimberly's going to do.
00:01:14Well, she'll ship them over in the diplomatic pouch.
00:01:16I almost gave up my dream of moving to Italy with a man I love.
00:01:20In the end, she settled for going with me.
00:01:22I hate you.
00:01:26Is that Marcus?
00:01:31I didn't know he was in town.
00:01:34Bring him over to say hi.
00:01:35Yeah, I will.
00:01:37Excuse me.
00:01:41Marcus?
00:01:43Talk.
00:01:46When did you get in?
00:01:48Yesterday.
00:01:49I didn't know you were having a party.
00:01:51Oh, no, no. It's just a little celebration.
00:01:54I've finally been posted to Milan.
00:01:57Oh, congratulations on your new book, by the way.
00:01:59I've been meaning to write you...
00:01:59Can we talk?
00:02:01In private.
00:02:03It's about Tim.
00:02:07Let's...
00:02:08Let's go on to Malibus.
00:02:13How are ya?
00:02:15How's San Francisco?
00:02:16Fine.
00:02:17Hawk,
00:02:18when Tim heard I was coming to DC, he asked me to drop by.
00:02:22How is he?
00:02:23How are any of us?
00:02:25You don't know from one day to the next who's...
00:02:30Sorry.
00:02:31I'm just tired of going to funerals.
00:02:35Tim's organizing his life.
00:02:38Settling things.
00:02:40He wants you to have this.
00:02:43How bad is it?
00:02:46How long does he have?
00:02:47I'm not a fortune teller.
00:02:49And you?
00:02:50No.
00:02:51So far.
00:02:53How about you?
00:02:55Me?
00:02:56It's not impossible.
00:02:58I'm careful.
00:02:59Careful.
00:03:06Is he with someone?
00:03:07He's had a couple romances.
00:03:09Nothing that lasted.
00:03:11Something kept getting in the way.
00:03:16I better go.
00:03:17Give my best to Lucy.
00:03:19Do you have a number for him?
00:03:20Yeah.
00:03:21I should at least call.
00:03:22Hawk.
00:03:22Tim doesn't want to hear from you.
00:03:25He asked me to make that clear.
00:03:28You have a beautiful family.
00:03:30A beautiful life.
00:03:32I hope it was worth it.
00:03:42I hope so.
00:03:48You can't stop.
00:03:50I hope so.
00:03:54I hope so.
00:03:55I hope so.
00:03:57I hope so.
00:03:57I hope so.
00:03:58I hope so.
00:04:01I'll be here.
00:04:02I hope so.
00:04:03A little bit.
00:04:30Hawkins Fuller, you're at the wrong party.
00:04:32Your man's a Democrat.
00:04:34I'm neutral.
00:04:36Like Switzerland.
00:04:38Excuse me.
00:04:40Excuse me.
00:04:42What do you want?
00:04:44What?
00:04:46To drink.
00:04:48A glass of milk.
00:04:49What?
00:04:51Milk.
00:04:52Milk?
00:05:02To Harkin Lucy, the deputy consul of Milan, and the woman who makes it all possible.
00:05:08It is!
00:05:40Well, we did it.
00:05:44We have a new president, one who doesn't want party-line thinkers or fellow travelers.
00:05:52Ike will conduct the fight.
00:05:59And together, we will make America safe and strong again.
00:08:19I'm Eddie.
00:08:20How about you?
00:08:22Milton.
00:08:24But my friends call me Uncle Miltie.
00:08:27Really?
00:08:29Okay.
00:08:30Listen, I know the score.
00:08:32Listen, I know the score, okay?
00:08:33I know a lot of my friends will trick with a guy and then press him for money, but that's
00:08:37not me.
00:08:38Okay?
00:08:38I got a job at the State Department.
00:08:45Didn't have you.
00:08:47I didn't have you.
00:08:47I didn't have a job at the State Department.
00:08:48I didn't have you.
00:08:49Just logistics, you know, packing up offices, moving furniture.
00:08:54I didn't have you pegged for the diplomatic corps.
00:09:13Good night, Eddie.
00:09:15So why don't you pretend?
00:09:25Four months after the landing at Anzio,
00:09:27I was leading the squad of the 141st Regiment, 36th Infantry Division.
00:09:32General Clark ordered the offensive against the Nazi Caesar line.
00:09:35It had just been fortified.
00:09:38We finally broke through with this little town, Velletri.
00:09:42It was in shambles.
00:09:43But slowly, the Italians came out of hiding.
00:09:46Mothers, wives, crying.
00:09:49Shouting, gli Americani sono qui.
00:09:52The Americans are here.
00:09:54Look, fellas, and this is what I want you to take back to your bosses.
00:09:59The Voice of America is doing for our allies what the 141st did in Velletri,
00:10:03and they need to remember that when they're going out the pork in H.R. 3053.
00:10:09I will ask you specifically, are you at this time a member of the Communist Party?
00:10:15Senator McCarthy, I've already said that I must avail myself of my rights under the Fifth Amendment
00:10:20and refuse to answer.
00:10:22You refuse to answer that question.
00:10:28Ms. Addison, I'll send over those tickets to the City Series, won't you, darling?
00:10:31Of course, Mr. Fuller.
00:10:32You're going to love the seats, the third baseline.
00:10:35The Voice of America lives to see another day.
00:10:37Good work.
00:10:38It's a worthy program.
00:10:40It'll be even better when they clean out all the reds.
00:10:43I'm running down to the commissary.
00:10:45May I bring you anything?
00:10:46You're a doll, but I'm on my way out.
00:10:48Thanks.
00:10:48Okay.
00:10:55Now, don't be jealous, Ms. Johnson.
00:10:57Don't flatter yourself.
00:10:59Listen, if Morton asks, I'm having lunch with Senator Smith.
00:11:01I have to cool him down.
00:11:02He's chomping at the bit to take on McCarthy and Combe.
00:11:05Someone should.
00:11:22Hey, I...
00:11:24Election night.
00:11:26That's right.
00:11:30What were you doing at that party?
00:11:32You had to know someone.
00:11:33I worked on the New York campaign.
00:11:36I thought it would lend me a good job in Washington.
00:11:38Any luck?
00:11:40I interned for three months at the Star.
00:11:42Hmm.
00:11:43In the mailroom.
00:11:46I have a degree in political science and history.
00:11:48I think I should aim it a little higher, don't you?
00:11:50Ah.
00:11:50You've come to Washington to make a difference.
00:11:54Are you making fun of me, Mr. Fuller?
00:11:56You know my name.
00:11:59I looked you up in the biographical register.
00:12:04May I ask you a personal question?
00:12:08All right.
00:12:10Is this, uh...
00:12:12Is this milk drinking a habit of yours?
00:12:16I think my parents were hoping it would make me taller.
00:12:22I'm Tim Laughlin, by the way.
00:12:24Pleased to meet you, Tim Laughlin.
00:12:28So what kind of work you're looking for?
00:12:29What keeps you up at night?
00:12:31Well, that's easy.
00:12:33Stalin's plan for world domination.
00:12:35For or against?
00:12:37Well, now you are making fun of me.
00:12:39The threat of communism is real.
00:12:41Down, boy.
00:12:42I'm no red.
00:12:43I'm a war hero.
00:12:45Did they include that in the register?
00:12:46They did.
00:12:48Along with your degree from Penn.
00:12:50And your work at the State Department the last two years in the Bureau of Congressional Relations.
00:12:55Did you memorize my entry?
00:13:00Give me your number.
00:13:02You know.
00:13:03In case I hear of anything in the making the world safe for democracy department.
00:13:08Make it sound like a bad thing.
00:13:10Wanting to do some good in the world.
00:13:12No.
00:13:13Not bad.
00:13:17Just...
00:13:17Just...
00:13:19Rare.
00:13:22I have to go and you should be careful.
00:13:25Look here.
00:13:26Behind you.
00:13:30Don't stare.
00:13:33Yeah.
00:13:34It's Park Police.
00:13:36It's the end of the month.
00:13:37They have to hit their quota.
00:13:39Quota of...
00:13:45Oh.
00:13:46Oh.
00:13:47I should leave soon anyway.
00:13:48Job interview.
00:13:50It's noon mass at St. Joseph's.
00:13:52Perfect.
00:13:56I'll spend the afternoon picturing you kneeling in prayer.
00:14:23Youthful interest and some ideas that are, to many of us, foolish or distrustful.
00:14:30But I believe we all agree that as Americans, we are guaranteed the right to hold ideas that may be
00:14:38offensive to others.
00:14:40Is the senator from Pennsylvania defending the idea that the American form of government is evil and ought to be
00:14:46replaced by the Soviet system?
00:14:48Mr. Cohn, this witness has not said that he signed any petitions or joined any party or group.
00:14:54He has clearly stated that he was merely invited to a few meetings.
00:15:00Meetings at which a member of the National Committee of the Communist Party was present advocating for the overthrow of
00:15:08the United States government by force and...
00:15:12Who's the Randolph Scott type sitting next to Cohn?
00:15:15Gerard David Schein.
00:15:18I always brought him on as an anti-communist consultant.
00:15:22Can't wait to hear his qualifications.
00:15:24Heir to the Schein family hotel fortune.
00:15:27If you're lucky enough to stay in one of their luxury hotels, you'll find this pamphlet authored by Mr. Schein
00:15:33and the nightstand by the Bible.
00:15:35Apparently the pamphlet caught Roy's eye.
00:15:39Something caught his eye, but I don't think it was the pamphlet.
00:15:43Are you at this time a member of the Communist Party?
00:15:47I refuse to answer that on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment.
00:15:52We are adjourned until the afternoon session.
00:15:56McCarthy is sending Cohn and his sidekick to Europe to expose commie influence in our overseas libraries.
00:16:04In anticipation of their visit, librarians have started burning books.
00:16:10Did that remind you of anything?
00:16:12I'm just suggesting, sir, this isn't the moment to take a noble stand against McCarthy.
00:16:17He and Roy could blow up your career.
00:16:19And that's not part of our plan.
00:16:20Your plan?
00:16:22Me and the White House in eight years.
00:16:25I can't think of a man who'd be better for our country.
00:16:30How'd she be on my way?
00:16:32A hawk?
00:16:35Lucy's back from Europe.
00:16:36Wonderful.
00:16:37Sure she'd like to see you.
00:16:40Tell her I'll call.
00:16:43Look forward to hearing about her travels.
00:16:49The unholy trinity.
00:16:51Look at Cohn.
00:16:53Fussing over that boy like a newlywed.
00:16:56Mr. Shine.
00:16:56How do you miss...
00:16:57Turns a man's stomach.
00:17:00Thank you both.
00:17:01Senator McCarthy.
00:17:02It certainly does.
00:17:12It certainly does.
00:17:33It's a man for you.
00:17:37Hello?
00:17:38Mr. Laughlin.
00:17:39This is I?
00:17:40I'm going to give you an address.
00:17:42Mr. Fuller.
00:17:43Took me a few days to find the right job for you.
00:17:45Unless you've already found one.
00:17:47No.
00:17:48I mean, I'm considering a couple of positions.
00:17:50Start writing.
00:17:53105 Russell.
00:17:55Constitution Ave.
00:17:57Job's a junior assistant with writing duties.
00:18:00Send your resume to the attention of Miss Jean Kerr.
00:18:03Jean Kerr.
00:18:05She works for...
00:18:06Your hero.
00:18:07Tail Gunner Joe.
00:18:09I don't know how to thank you.
00:18:11I'll work on that.
00:18:13Just remember, you've been recommended by one of Senator Smith's donors, although you think
00:18:17Smith is soft on reds.
00:18:19He is.
00:18:21Watch out for Joe's hands.
00:18:24Joe.
00:18:30I know I'd go from rags to riches
00:18:37If you would only say you care
00:18:43And though my pocket may be empty
00:18:50I'd be a million left.
00:18:53How are we doing?
00:18:58Well, the new fella.
00:19:00How's he working out, Jean?
00:19:02He's an eager beaver, Senator.
00:19:04Could stand to improve his spelling.
00:19:07You have to do this one again.
00:19:08Oh.
00:19:09Sorry.
00:19:12Isn't she beautiful?
00:19:15She is.
00:19:16And very nice.
00:19:18She tells me you're a good Catholic boy.
00:19:20I tried, sir.
00:19:22Don't try too hard.
00:19:23A great thing about our religion, son.
00:19:25We know our sins will be forgiven.
00:19:28See, might as well commit a few.
00:19:37From Mr. McLeod and security.
00:19:40They're starting investigations in our division next month.
00:19:42And not a moment too soon, if you ask me.
00:19:45Investigations?
00:19:46Subversives and deviants.
00:19:49Hello, is Mr. Fuller in?
00:19:51I'm afraid he's not.
00:19:53Do you know when he'll be back?
00:19:54I have something for him.
00:19:56Oh, I'll take it.
00:19:56You can give it to me.
00:20:01Look homeward, Angel.
00:20:03Wolf's a great writer.
00:20:05Will Mr. Fuller know who it's from?
00:20:06I wrote a note inside.
00:20:08You'll be sure he gets it.
00:20:09I promise.
00:20:16He seems very artistic.
00:20:42Your front door was open.
00:20:44Mr. Fuller, I'm not allowed visitors.
00:20:50You're going to burn that.
00:20:54I came by to see if you'd let me buy a supper.
00:20:58He brought me a book.
00:21:00That was to thank you.
00:21:01Looks like you're out of cooking something.
00:21:02What is it?
00:21:04Chicken noodle soup.
00:21:06And I really shouldn't go out.
00:21:09It's a sin to waste food.
00:21:11Mortal or venial?
00:21:13I spent half a year in Jesuit high school.
00:21:16It didn't go well.
00:21:19I'd say wasting a can of soup would be a venial sin.
00:21:23What if you were to let me kiss you?
00:21:26Would that be mortal or venial?
00:21:29Mortal.
00:21:31Pretty sure.
00:21:37Would you like me to kiss you?
00:21:38No, Mr. Fuller.
00:21:40No, Mr. Fuller.
00:21:42Well, that one's got to be mortal.
00:21:44If the size of the lie figures in.
00:21:47You like working for your hero?
00:21:50The Washington elite look down their noses at McCarthy.
00:21:53And I know his tactics are rough.
00:21:56But the Soviet threat is real.
00:21:58And so is the atomic bomb.
00:21:59And yes, I am happy working for him.
00:22:04And grateful.
00:22:06Maybe you could do me a favor.
00:22:09Let me know what you're asked to research.
00:22:11Keep your ears open.
00:22:13What's the matter?
00:22:15The job.
00:22:17I didn't realize you had ulterior motives.
00:22:20Welcome to the capital of ulterior motives.
00:22:28It was my second year at Fordham.
00:22:31I belonged to the YRC.
00:22:34Of course you did.
00:22:35Our faculty advisor was Father Gallagher from the religion department.
00:22:40Not much older than I was.
00:22:42We both loved the church.
00:22:46The liturgy, the rituals.
00:22:48One thing led to another.
00:22:50And when it was over, I asked Bob, that was his name, if he thought God would forgive us for
00:23:02what we'd done.
00:23:04He said God would forgive us.
00:23:09But he could never forgive God for making him what he was.
00:23:16What about you?
00:23:17Who was your first?
00:23:36Is this all right?
00:23:40Yeah.
00:23:55What about you?
00:24:10Mia?
00:24:28Pull them off.
00:24:50Trousers.
00:25:01Fold them.
00:25:04Fold them.
00:25:34Who's my boy?
00:25:37Who's my boy?
00:25:38I am! I am!
00:26:09That was nice, Skippy. But you need a radio.
00:26:14Who's Skippy?
00:26:17That's what I'm gonna call you.
00:26:29Any particular reason?
00:26:31It suits you. Like the glasses.
00:26:45Next time, we'll turn her toward the wall.
00:26:55You turn the tables on me.
00:26:59And now I'm falling for you.
00:27:03You turn the tables on me.
00:27:08I can't believe what it's true.
00:27:14You turn the tables on me.
00:27:21You turn the tables on me.
00:27:34You turn the tables on me.
00:27:41You turn the tables on me.
00:27:46You turn the tables on me.
00:27:51I can't believe what it's true.
00:27:54You turn the tables on me.
00:28:01You turn the tables on me.
00:28:04You turn the tables on me.
00:28:12Thanks to you.
00:28:17You love your family.
00:28:19And they love me.
00:28:23And the part of me that they know.
00:28:31I don't know anything about you.
00:28:35You never talk about your family.
00:28:37Or your politics.
00:28:40What political party you belong to.
00:28:42If you believe in God.
00:28:43Anything else?
00:28:45You never told me about your first lover.
00:28:47Or any of your lovers.
00:28:49Though I have heard rumors.
00:28:51Do tell.
00:28:54Jean Kerr says you are unofficially engaged to Senator Smith's daughter Lucy.
00:28:59And it's a scandal because you practically grew up in the same house.
00:29:04It's late.
00:29:05But now you're angry.
00:29:07I'm not angry.
00:29:08But I don't like being questioned like a witness at one of McCarthy and Cohn's show trials.
00:29:13It's normal to want to know something about the person you...
00:29:16Fuck.
00:29:17The person you fuck.
00:29:19It's normal to want to know something about the person I'm fucking.
00:29:23You sound so ugly.
00:29:25Okay.
00:29:26Here you go.
00:29:28I'm not engaged to anyone at the moment.
00:29:31First person I slept with didn't catch his name.
00:29:34I said first lover.
00:29:35I'm a registered Republican but I don't vote because I really don't see the point.
00:29:38And I feel pretty much the same way about God.
00:29:41Feel free to pray for me the next time you're at mass.
00:29:45I've stopped going.
00:29:47Well, that's progress.
00:29:49It's not funny.
00:29:52I feel like a hypocrite going to church.
00:29:54Especially when I'm supposed to be spying on my boss who's regarded as a saint by millions of Catholics.
00:29:59Skippy, I don't want you to do anything you don't want to do.
00:30:06Not for God.
00:30:09Not for me.
00:30:12I mean it.
00:30:17I just want to know you.
00:30:26You know me.
00:30:41So nice talking to you.
00:30:42Thank you for coming.
00:30:42Excuse me.
00:30:47Today.
00:30:48It's pleased to meet you in Estonia.
00:30:50Which I learned from Congressman Lipp who's pledged to protect the VOA.
00:30:53You see that promotion on the horizon?
00:30:56The Sun Foreign Post, no doubt.
00:30:58I'm thinking Athens.
00:30:59Although, the Aegean's a little rough for sale.
00:31:05How are you enjoying Look Homeward Angel?
00:31:08Immensely.
00:31:09Although I have trouble finishing a book before I want to start another.
00:31:14He seems sincere, Fuller.
00:31:15Don't...
00:31:16Hawke.
00:31:17George.
00:31:18It's been a while.
00:31:20Mary Johnson, George Bowers.
00:31:22Which bureau is it, George?
00:31:24Educational Exchange.
00:31:25Hawke, um, do you have a minute?
00:31:28Something I need to, uh...
00:31:30I'm sorry.
00:31:31Of course.
00:31:31Sure.
00:31:33Why don't we step away?
00:31:41I got you.
00:31:45Sorry I've been out of touch.
00:31:47How's Sylvie?
00:31:49I'm being investigated.
00:31:52They had me followed and caught me coming out of the chicken hut.
00:31:55The chicken hut?
00:31:58Christ, George, even my mother knows that place is queer.
00:32:00I love Sylvie, and I adore my kids, but I have needs.
00:32:03If anyone should understand, it's you.
00:32:05Keep your voice down.
00:32:09McLeod wants names.
00:32:11Reds are queers in the department.
00:32:13If I don't produce names, they'll go to Sylvie and tell her everything.
00:32:19What am I going to do?
00:32:20Give them a name.
00:32:22I can't.
00:32:22I wouldn't do that to you.
00:32:24Would you do that to me?
00:32:25Give them a name of someone with a low security clearance who can survive being banned from government work.
00:32:30I don't know anyone like that.
00:32:31Shh.
00:32:32Think.
00:32:33Any of your tricks?
00:32:35I don't ask their names.
00:32:37I can barely stand to look at them.
00:32:42This is going to kill Sylvie.
00:32:43Just kill her.
00:32:45Hey, Christ, stop, stop, stop it.
00:32:48Here, here, here.
00:32:51Look, just hold out as long as you can.
00:32:55I'll see if I can put in a word for you.
00:32:58You're lucky you have all those war medals.
00:33:02You're bulletproof.
00:33:09My fellow Americans, at 7 o'clock this evening, Eastern Time,
00:33:13Air and Naval Forces of the United States launched a series of strikes against the headquarters,
00:33:18terrorist facilities, and military assets that support Muammar Qaddafi's subversive activities.
00:33:25The attachment concentrated and carefully targeted...
00:33:27Congresswoman Johnson.
00:33:29Soon-to-be ex-Congresswoman.
00:33:31Six years of Reagan has obliterated any last vestiges of liberal idealism I once had.
00:33:37I have a feeling you're calling about Tim.
00:33:40I am.
00:33:41You still in touch?
00:33:42I talk to him when he's well enough.
00:33:44Or his sister when things get bad.
00:33:47If you're thinking of seeing him, you should do it soon.
00:33:51He said he doesn't want to see me.
00:33:53Of course he said that.
00:33:54He expects that you won't show up.
00:33:56And he doesn't want to be disappointed.
00:33:57He's on the phone.
00:34:03It's complicated.
00:34:05Hawkins, he's not getting better.
00:34:08There's no getting better.
00:34:10Our government is letting people die.
00:34:13I'm going to give you his address.
00:34:171209 20th Street, Apartment 3.
00:34:20Thanks.
00:34:22Give Phyllis my best.
00:34:25Hawk, the kids want to know if you're ready for waffles.
00:34:29Oh, am I ready for waffles?
00:34:31Huh.
00:34:33Pop, do you want maple syrup or whipped cream?
00:34:36Do I want maple syrup or whipped cream?
00:34:39Both, of course.
00:34:40And I'm going to eat them all before you get to them if you don't go first, because I am
00:34:44the waffle monster.
00:34:45No, I'm going to eat ten.
00:34:46I'm going to eat ten of them.
00:35:06Excuse me.
00:35:08Hello?
00:35:09Hello?
00:35:11Hello?
00:35:13Small world, huh?
00:35:14You work here, too?
00:35:16I don't.
00:35:16I'm over at Commerce.
00:35:17I have a meeting upstairs.
00:35:18Do we know each other?
00:35:21Eddie.
00:35:21Eddie in the, uh, park?
00:35:24Eddie.
00:35:25Eddie Kaufman.
00:35:26Remember?
00:35:27Gold lighter?
00:35:30I'm sorry.
00:35:31I don't think we've met.
00:35:34Who do you think you are, huh?
00:35:36You stuck-up son of a bitch.
00:35:39You know exactly who I am.
00:35:44I'm afraid you have me confused with somebody else.
00:36:02I'm afraid I just see Scott later.
00:36:06I say let's try.
00:36:08You know exactly what I mean?
00:36:10I say I.
00:36:10Iают the hotel on the sidewalk.
00:36:11I, uh, uh, myGM fácil in front of me.
00:36:21And they're, you know exactly what I mean?
00:36:24Good morning, Mr. Fuller.
00:36:35George Powers, please. An educational exchange.
00:36:46Hello, George Powers.
00:36:48George, it's Hawk.
00:36:49I have a name for you.
00:36:51The President's engaging in a little saber-rattling. Nothing more.
00:36:55He's cashing in on your cause, Senator.
00:36:57Our cause.
00:36:58We can't let Eisenhower hijack the subversive issue, Senator.
00:37:02We have to get out in front of it.
00:37:06We need to issue a statement before the President signs that damn order.
00:37:10It'll look like you forced his hand.
00:37:13I own the subversive cause that Eisenhower knows.
00:37:16He needs my blessing.
00:37:17Hell, he owes his presidency to me.
00:37:32Skippy, get in here.
00:37:36I heard something.
00:37:38How'd you find my place?
00:37:39You're in the directory.
00:37:41Hawkins Z. Fuller.
00:37:43I'd love to know what the Z stands for.
00:37:45Next time you call from the phone booth on the corner.
00:37:48I'm gonna go.
00:37:50Relax, relax.
00:37:54Can't get you a drink.
00:37:56I'm all out of milk.
00:37:58I'll have a beer.
00:38:00Zebediah.
00:38:02Zebediah?
00:38:02Don't start.
00:38:19You going out?
00:38:21One of Joe Alsop's Sunday night drunks, as he calls them.
00:38:34Will there be important people at this party?
00:38:37Joe only knows important people.
00:38:41Hey, give me that.
00:38:49Now, what'd you want to tell me, Skippy?
00:38:51There was an argument at the office about Eisenhower.
00:38:55Take off your jacket.
00:38:58The president is going to issue an EO, whatever that is.
00:39:02Executive order.
00:39:03Come here.
00:39:05And they're worried Eisenhower's trying to undermine them with it.
00:39:10By taking the lead on the anti-communist crusade?
00:39:13I think so.
00:39:16Senator McCarthy wants to ignore it, but Roy thinks that they should...
00:39:19Roy?
00:39:20On a first-time basis?
00:39:24Mr. Cohn thinks the smarter move is to make people think that they, McCarthy and Cohn, are behind the order.
00:39:32That they forced Eisenhower to do the right thing.
00:39:35Any idea what the executive order's about?
00:39:37No.
00:39:39I'm sorry.
00:39:42What are you going to do with this information?
00:39:46You're going to share it with Senator Smith?
00:39:48Only if I have to.
00:39:50I try to protect the Senator from his own best impulses.
00:39:58I have to get dressed.
00:40:02I want to go to the party.
00:40:04To Joe's?
00:40:06I mean, don't get me wrong.
00:40:08He would climb onto you like a jellyfish.
00:40:10So take me.
00:40:12You're not dressed for it.
00:40:14You don't have a date.
00:40:15I'd be with you.
00:40:19This is the real world, Skippy.
00:40:25I'm your boy, right?
00:40:30Hmm?
00:40:33Wow, wow.
00:40:35And your boy wants to go to the party.
00:40:38How much does he want to go?
00:40:45Not yet.
00:40:48Not yet.
00:41:23Open up.
00:41:37Now show me what my boy really wants.
00:41:45So you walk into that fancy Georgetown party with my smell on it?
00:41:51Yeah?
00:41:53So you want to chat with the Kennedys and the Grams with the taste of me in his mouth?
00:41:59I suppose I could loan you a tie on a top coat.
00:42:03Find you a beard.
00:42:08Oh, yeah.
00:42:10Oh, Jesus.
00:42:24I made the terrapin soup myself.
00:42:28You have to boil the turtle for hours.
00:42:31Then he keeps a butter to the broth, a little sherry and cayenne pepper.
00:42:35My wife says the aroma is somewhat reminiscent of feet.
00:42:38I can promise you, it tastes perfectly marvelous.
00:42:45You know, you'd be interested to hear what their limo driver has to say about the two of them.
00:42:49Okay.
00:42:49It's true, Mr. Kennedy. Don't deny it.
00:42:52Have you met Mrs. Smith? She's just returned from Europe.
00:42:55May I get you another drink?
00:42:57Thank you, sir.
00:42:59You are an attentive escort.
00:43:03A champagne, please.
00:43:11Enjoying yourself, Skippy?
00:43:12Yes.
00:43:13Keep your eyes on the bartender.
00:43:15Champagne cocktail?
00:43:17I'll take you out later for some real fun.
00:43:19Hawk, Lucy wants to know if you've gone to China for a drink.
00:43:23Well, duty calls.
00:43:26This is Marcus.
00:43:28Don't tell him my secrets.
00:43:29He's a stinking, rotten, commie journalist.
00:43:32And a damn good one, I bet.
00:43:35Who do you write for?
00:43:36I'm a stringer for The Courier.
00:43:38The black paper?
00:43:39I think it's printed on white newsprint like all the rest.
00:43:43Oh, God. I'm sorry.
00:43:45Relax.
00:43:45So?
00:43:46That's the worst thing anyone says to me tonight.
00:43:47I've been doing just fine.
00:43:50How do you know Mr. Fuller?
00:43:55We belong to the same club.
00:43:59Have the two of you?
00:44:02In one respect, we're perfectly suited to each other.
00:44:06How?
00:44:08We prefer sex without emotional entanglements.
00:44:16You've been warned.
00:44:22Dad said you took good care of him the entire time I was in Europe.
00:44:26I did my best.
00:44:27You know he has plans for us.
00:44:29He only drops a hint about it several times a week.
00:44:33Poor Dad. He doesn't realize I'm planning to marry the richest man I can find.
00:44:36Good for you.
00:44:37Even if he's ugly. No, especially if he's ugly.
00:44:40So I won't have to work hard to hold on to him.
00:44:42When you were a kid, you said you'd only marry for love.
00:44:44When you were a kid, you said you were going to be a race car driver.
00:44:49There's still time.
00:44:53Ladies and gentlemen, David Schein and Roy Cohn have arrived.
00:44:56And Mr. Schein has brought Cubans.
00:44:59Here they are.
00:45:00Cigars.
00:45:00That is.
00:45:02Gentlemen to the library, ladies, cake and sherry in the dining room.
00:45:06Let's see if we can get out here.
00:45:08Where are we going?
00:45:10Some place.
00:45:11Way more exciting.
00:45:14There is a land they say.
00:45:21They say it's far away.
00:45:28I used to think that it was heaven above.
00:45:37But now it's my land of love.
00:45:41But now it's my land of love.
00:45:46Cheers.
00:45:47Cheers.
00:45:48Cheers.
00:45:49Cheers.
00:45:50Cheers.
00:45:58I hope you're going to dance with me tonight.
00:46:00I'll think about it.
00:46:03Hey.
00:46:04Buster.
00:46:05See that red light in the cash register there?
00:46:08That comes on, you better make 12 inches of daylight between you and your friend right here.
00:46:12And do it fast.
00:46:13Only takes three seconds for the cops to come downstairs.
00:46:16And you?
00:46:18You're responsible for them.
00:46:19Oh, come, my love, and live with me.
00:46:45You all right?
00:46:49You're a little drunk.
00:46:51You don't gulp scotch.
00:46:53You sip it.
00:46:57Okay, Hawk, I have to ask you a question.
00:47:00Are you sure you have to ask?
00:47:03What we're doing, I stopped thinking if it's right or wrong, or even a sin, I don't care.
00:47:10But there is one thing I don't think I could live with.
00:47:17Are you going to marry Lucy Smith?
00:47:23Christ.
00:47:25Hawk!
00:47:30What did I do?
00:47:32You're drunk, so I'll let it go.
00:47:34Should I get a black coffee, Al?
00:47:36Yeah, you got it.
00:47:37Hawk.
00:47:38Oh, we had fun, didn't we?
00:47:40Yes.
00:47:41Fun night.
00:47:42We played a room full of Washington know-it-alls for fools, and we got away with it.
00:47:47It was sweet.
00:47:49Really sweet.
00:47:51But Skippy, that's all it was.
00:47:55That's all it can be.
00:47:58I'm sorry.
00:48:00Is there a problem?
00:48:01No, no, there's no problem.
00:48:04Drink your coffee, I'll take you home.
00:48:11I committed mortal sins for you.
00:48:13Oh, here we go.
00:48:14I could go to hell.
00:48:15Hell's a fantasy, Skippy.
00:48:18So is heaven.
00:48:19The trinity, democracy, and the holy war against communism.
00:48:23Grand ideas that just get people killed.
00:48:26Now, why don't you sit down?
00:48:28Yeah, let's sit down.
00:48:33Suit yourself.
00:48:34I don't know how you do it.
00:48:39Caring only about what you want.
00:48:43What gives you pleasure at any given moment.
00:48:45Here comes the sermon.
00:48:46You let me know when I should genuflect.
00:48:48I'm not ashamed to feel things.
00:48:50Then I need to feel things, believe in things.
00:48:53You're the coward, not me.
00:49:08Pop.
00:49:09This just came for you by messenger.
00:49:13Did you look inside?
00:49:14Have I ever in all these years opened your mail?
00:49:18No.
00:49:20It's from your travel agent, so I assume it's a plane ticket.
00:49:23Yeah, I have to make a quick trip.
00:49:25Just two or three days at the most.
00:49:27I know where you're going.
00:49:28I heard you talking to Mary.
00:49:30I wasn't trying to listen.
00:49:31It just happened.
00:49:36The rental agent's coming on Friday.
00:49:37I'd like you to be home for that.
00:49:39I will.
00:49:41Is it...
00:49:42Does he have...
00:49:45Yeah.
00:49:45Is he dying?
00:49:51I don't know.
00:49:57Lucy.
00:50:02You're everything to me.
00:50:05If I was everything, you wouldn't be going where you're going.
00:50:10You'll need your raincoat.
00:50:11I think it's in the front hall closet.
00:50:16Hail Mary, full of grace.
00:50:19Blessed art thou among women.
00:50:21Blessed art thou among women.
00:50:21Blessed art thou among Jesus.
00:50:23Holy Mary, mother of God.
00:50:24Pray for sinners now and at the hour of our death.
00:50:26Amen.
00:50:29Amen.
00:50:36If you don't mind me saying so, you look a little troubled.
00:50:41Suppose I am, father.
00:50:44I could hear your confession, if it would help.
00:50:47It would.
00:50:50But I can't make confession today.
00:50:53Why not?
00:50:55Aren't we going to come to confession with perfect contrition?
00:50:58If we've sinned, all God asks is that we be sorry for it.
00:51:04Is there a particular sin weighing on your mind?
00:51:11I've had...
00:51:14carnal relations.
00:51:16That's a serious sin.
00:51:19Are you in love with a young woman?
00:51:24It's not a woman.
00:51:28Even for the gravest of sins, if you are sincerely sorry, God will forgive you and make you pure.
00:51:36But that's the problem.
00:51:38What is?
00:51:41When I committed this sin, I felt pure.
00:51:45More pure than I felt in my entire life.
00:51:49So how can I be sorry for it?
00:51:58So how can I be sorry for it?
00:52:06I'm glad it worked out.
00:52:07It didn't exactly work out.
00:52:10That kid, the name you gave me, they picked him up.
00:52:13Told him they were going to open an investigation.
00:52:17Hockey tried to kill himself.
00:52:20They had to pump his stomach.
00:52:23I owe the kid something.
00:52:24Stay away from him.
00:52:25They could still be watching you.
00:52:29Go home.
00:52:30Kiss your wife.
00:52:31Hug your kids.
00:52:32Be grateful for what you have.
00:52:36How am I supposed to live with myself?
00:52:38Christ, George, how the hell do I know?
00:52:44The executive order that President Eisenhower will sign tomorrow will expand security investigations to all branches of government, facilitating the
00:52:54coordination of the efforts among various agencies, including the State Department's M-Unit, the FBI's Sex Deviance Investigations Unit, and
00:53:06the Washington, D.C. Police Sex Perversion Elimination.
00:53:15Those accused and investigated will be judged by their trustworthiness and whether they have committed criminal or immoral acts that
00:53:24would leave them susceptible to coercion.
00:53:27These are people the rest of us consider sad, sick, even pathetic.
00:53:37The investigations conducted shall relate, but not be limited to the following.
00:53:43Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, sexual perversion.
00:53:59An investigation may be commenced based on an accusation by a fellow employee, even if the employee making the accusation
00:54:07prefers to remain anonymous.
00:54:16One of my friends said the other day, McCarthy, why worry about those individuals? You don't claim they're all communists,
00:54:24do you?
00:54:25The answer is obviously no. Some of them are very energetic, very loyal Americans. Some of them have that unusual
00:54:33affliction through no fault of their own. We're not disturbed about them because of their morals.
00:54:39We're disturbed about them because they are dangerous to this country. Thank you. God bless you, and God bless the
00:54:51United States of America.
00:54:53God bless you, and God bless you, and God bless you, and God bless you.
00:55:02Skippy.
00:55:06Do you have a minute?
00:55:13Kenny.
00:55:15How was his name? My first.
00:55:18Remember who you asked?
00:55:2111th grade, played on the tennis team together.
00:55:38That paperweight that you saw in my apartment,
00:55:41that I was with Kenny when he picked it up on our senior trip,
00:55:44you know, sweet Kenny, he loved beautiful things.
00:55:50The other boys razzed him about it pretty bad.
00:55:54And that's...
00:55:56that's when I started putting distance between us.
00:56:00I guess you could say, uh...
00:56:04I deserted him.
00:56:08I went into the Army, and Kenny signed up too.
00:56:12I think he was trying to stay connected to me, somehow.
00:56:16Only I ended up in Europe, and Kenny was sent to the Pacific.
00:56:21He died on a beach trying to take Luzon.
00:56:31Tim...
00:56:32Tim...
00:56:34I'd like to come up to your room.
00:56:37I wanna hold you tonight.
00:56:40If you'll let me.
00:56:46Halt.
00:56:49I'm afraid.
00:56:52I imagine a lot of people are afraid tonight.
00:56:54I don't mean the executive order. I'm afraid of you.
00:56:59I don't know what to do.
00:57:04What should I do?
00:57:08My advice?
00:57:11Go inside.
00:57:13Shut that door.
00:57:15And lock it behind you.
00:57:40Unfortunately, the lock is broken.
00:57:57I know.
00:58:12It's Hawk. I'm in San Francisco. I'd like to see you.
00:58:21I'm calling from a diner just down the street from your building.
00:58:26You were able to see me. Would this be a good time?
00:58:33And I hope this is out of nowhere. I didn't want to call first and have you tell me not
00:58:39to come.
00:58:41I thought if I just showed up, maybe... Tim?
00:58:50You there? I'm here.
00:58:54All right. Tell you what, I'm going to give you a number.
00:58:59I'd really like to see you.
00:59:02Think about it.
00:59:04I'll stay here and wait for your call.
00:59:07They're open all night, but I hope you won't make me wait that long.
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