1 00:01:40,665 --> 00:01:45,710 - So, what do you do? - I'm studying to be an actress. You? 2 00:01:45,837 --> 00:01:49,631 - I'm a longshoreman. - No, I mean, really. 3 00:01:49,715 --> 00:01:51,633 I mean really, too. 4 00:01:51,717 --> 00:01:52,801 Although, starting next Monday, 5 00:01:52,885 --> 00:01:54,594 I'm doing something a little more glamorous. 6 00:01:54,679 --> 00:01:55,762 What's that? 7 00:01:55,847 --> 00:01:59,099 Night cashier at a cafeteria. 8 00:01:59,183 --> 00:02:04,020 I don't mean how you make money. I mean, what are you interested in? 9 00:02:05,231 --> 00:02:07,566 Honey, if I had the answer to that one, 10 00:02:07,692 --> 00:02:10,777 I bet I'd bore us both to death in half an hour. 11 00:02:50,818 --> 00:02:53,570 Thank God that's over. 12 00:02:54,489 --> 00:02:57,741 So much for the debut of the Laurel Players. 13 00:02:58,618 --> 00:03:01,077 And she was very disappointing. 14 00:03:08,461 --> 00:03:12,672 - Frank! Very nice, Frank! - Thanks so much, Mrs Givings. 15 00:03:12,757 --> 00:03:16,343 I can't tell you how much we enjoyed it. You have a very talented wife. 16 00:03:16,427 --> 00:03:18,637 I'll pass it along. 17 00:03:30,483 --> 00:03:33,360 - Frank! - Hi! 18 00:03:33,986 --> 00:03:37,030 She's in there. I'm about ready for that drink. 19 00:03:37,114 --> 00:03:38,990 Couple of minutes. 20 00:03:48,376 --> 00:03:50,835 April? Sweetheart? 21 00:03:53,839 --> 00:03:55,257 - Hi. - Hi. 22 00:03:56,342 --> 00:03:58,093 - You about ready to leave? - Yeah. Yeah. 23 00:03:58,177 --> 00:04:01,054 I've just got to get this makeup off. 24 00:04:07,937 --> 00:04:11,565 Well, I guess it wasn't a triumph or anything, was it? 25 00:04:14,193 --> 00:04:20,031 - I guess not. I'll be ready in a minute. - Take your time. 26 00:04:22,952 --> 00:04:24,911 Listen, will you do me a favour? 27 00:04:24,996 --> 00:04:27,956 Milly and Shep wanted us to go out with them after. 28 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:31,543 Will you say we can't? Say it's because of the babysitter or something. 29 00:04:31,627 --> 00:04:33,587 Well, the thing is, I already said that we could. 30 00:04:33,671 --> 00:04:35,672 I mean, I just saw them and I said that we would. 31 00:04:35,756 --> 00:04:37,882 Then would you mind going out again and saying you were mistaken? 32 00:04:37,967 --> 00:04:39,092 That should be simple enough. 33 00:04:39,176 --> 00:04:40,969 Don't you think that's a little bit rude, April? 34 00:04:41,053 --> 00:04:43,888 - Then I'll tell them myself. - Okay. Okay. Take it easy. 35 00:04:43,973 --> 00:04:46,057 All right? I'll tell them. 36 00:05:27,642 --> 00:05:30,977 I mean it, baby. You were the only person in that play. 37 00:05:31,062 --> 00:05:32,562 Thank you. 38 00:05:35,107 --> 00:05:38,109 We shouldn't have let you get mixed up in the damned thing, is all. 39 00:05:38,194 --> 00:05:39,611 All right. 40 00:05:40,321 --> 00:05:43,990 What a bunch of amateurs. I mean, you've studied, for Christ's sake. 41 00:05:44,075 --> 00:05:45,450 Could we stop talking about it now? 42 00:05:45,534 --> 00:05:46,576 Sure. 43 00:05:48,579 --> 00:05:51,039 I just don't want you feeling bad about it, that's all. 44 00:05:51,123 --> 00:05:53,208 Because it's not worth it, you know. 45 00:05:53,292 --> 00:05:56,920 It's bad enough having to live out here amongst these people... 46 00:05:57,004 --> 00:05:59,214 - What'd you say? - I said yes. All right, Frank. 47 00:05:59,298 --> 00:06:04,344 Could you just stop talking about it now before you drive me crazy, please? 48 00:06:08,599 --> 00:06:10,308 What are you doing? 49 00:06:19,276 --> 00:06:22,612 April, sweetheart, let's talk about this, okay? 50 00:06:22,697 --> 00:06:25,448 - No, Frank, please don't do that. - Come on, now. 51 00:06:25,533 --> 00:06:27,450 - Don't touch me. - April. April... 52 00:06:27,535 --> 00:06:30,078 Just leave me alone. 53 00:06:36,544 --> 00:06:38,545 Okay. Okay. 54 00:06:39,547 --> 00:06:43,717 It strikes me that there's a considerable amount of bullshit going on here. 55 00:06:43,801 --> 00:06:46,886 And there's just a few things that I'd like to clear up. All right? 56 00:06:46,971 --> 00:06:51,599 Number one, it's not my fault that the play was lousy. Okay? 57 00:06:51,684 --> 00:06:53,977 Number two, it sure as hell isn't my fault 58 00:06:54,061 --> 00:06:56,438 that you didn't turn out to be an actress, 59 00:06:56,522 --> 00:06:58,857 and the sooner you get over that little piece of soap opera, 60 00:06:58,941 --> 00:07:00,150 the better off we're both going to be. 61 00:07:00,234 --> 00:07:02,944 Number three, I don't happen to fit the role 62 00:07:03,028 --> 00:07:05,947 of dumb, insensitive suburban husband. 63 00:07:06,031 --> 00:07:09,075 You've been trying to lay that crap on me ever since we moved out here. 64 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:10,452 And I'm damned if I'll wear it. 65 00:07:10,536 --> 00:07:15,540 Number four... April? April! 66 00:07:17,668 --> 00:07:18,835 April. 67 00:07:19,336 --> 00:07:21,463 What the hell are you doing? Get back in the car. 68 00:07:21,547 --> 00:07:25,258 No. I will in a minute. Just let me stand here for a second. 69 00:07:25,342 --> 00:07:26,968 God damn it! 70 00:07:30,347 --> 00:07:34,142 April, can you please just get back in the car and talk about this 71 00:07:34,226 --> 00:07:35,685 instead of running all over Route 12? 72 00:07:35,770 --> 00:07:38,396 Haven't I made it clear I don't particularly want to talk about it? 73 00:07:38,481 --> 00:07:40,273 Okay. I mean, Jesus, I'm trying to be nice 74 00:07:40,357 --> 00:07:42,358 about this thing here, for God's sake. 75 00:07:42,443 --> 00:07:45,528 How kind of you. How terribly, terribly kind of you. 76 00:07:45,613 --> 00:07:47,113 Wait a minute. I don't deserve this. 77 00:07:47,198 --> 00:07:48,823 You're always so wonderfully definite 78 00:07:48,908 --> 00:07:50,617 on the subject of what you do and don't deserve. 79 00:07:50,701 --> 00:07:55,246 Wait a minute! Wait a goddamn... April! Now you listen to me. 80 00:07:55,331 --> 00:07:57,290 This is one time you're not going to get away 81 00:07:57,374 --> 00:07:59,459 with twisting everything that I say, April. 82 00:07:59,543 --> 00:08:01,711 This just happens to be one goddamn time 83 00:08:01,796 --> 00:08:03,505 I know I'm not in the wrong here. 84 00:08:03,589 --> 00:08:05,089 Christ, I wish you'd stayed home tonight. 85 00:08:05,174 --> 00:08:06,466 You know what you are when you're like this, April? 86 00:08:06,550 --> 00:08:07,967 You're sick. I really mean that. 87 00:08:08,052 --> 00:08:10,428 - You're sick! What? - And do you know what you are? 88 00:08:10,513 --> 00:08:11,846 - You're disgusting. - Oh, yeah? 89 00:08:11,931 --> 00:08:13,223 You don't fool me, Frank. 90 00:08:13,307 --> 00:08:15,391 Just because you've got me safely in this little trap, 91 00:08:15,476 --> 00:08:17,977 you think you can bully me into feeling whatever you want me to feel! 92 00:08:18,062 --> 00:08:20,605 - You in a trap? You in a trap? - Yes! Yes! Me, Frank! 93 00:08:20,689 --> 00:08:23,608 - Jesus Christ, don't make me laugh! - Me! 94 00:08:23,692 --> 00:08:27,195 You pathetic, self-deluded little boy. Look at you! 95 00:08:27,279 --> 00:08:30,865 Look at you and tell me, how by any stretch of the imagination 96 00:08:30,950 --> 00:08:33,117 you can call yourself a man? 97 00:08:35,830 --> 00:08:36,996 Damn it! 98 00:08:37,832 --> 00:08:39,374 Jesus Christ! 99 00:08:55,140 --> 00:09:00,144 - Don't look at me like that, April. - Could we please go home now? 100 00:11:05,646 --> 00:11:07,230 Fifteenth floor. 101 00:11:19,284 --> 00:11:23,663 I'm going to need your help this morning, Old Scout. 102 00:11:23,747 --> 00:11:28,251 For the next few hours, you're to warn me of Bandy's every approach 103 00:11:28,377 --> 00:11:30,503 and you may need to shield me from public view 104 00:11:30,587 --> 00:11:34,215 in the likely event I void my stomach. 105 00:11:34,299 --> 00:11:35,800 It's that bad. 106 00:11:35,884 --> 00:11:37,927 Good morning, Jack. 107 00:11:38,012 --> 00:11:40,304 Nothing good about it, I assure you. 108 00:12:02,327 --> 00:12:04,370 Of course, I knew the moment you stepped off the train 109 00:12:04,455 --> 00:12:05,455 what you were looking for. 110 00:12:06,206 --> 00:12:09,459 A small remodelled barn, or a carriage house. 111 00:12:09,543 --> 00:12:11,419 And I just hate to be the one to tell you that sort of thing 112 00:12:11,503 --> 00:12:14,047 just isn't available any more. 113 00:12:14,131 --> 00:12:16,674 But I don't want you to despair. 114 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:20,344 There is one place up here I want to show you. 115 00:12:22,056 --> 00:12:24,515 Now, of course, it isn't very desirable at this end. 116 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,186 As you can see, Crawford Road is mostly these little cinder-blocky, 117 00:12:28,270 --> 00:12:31,272 pick-up trucky places, plumbers, carpenters, 118 00:12:31,356 --> 00:12:33,483 little local people of that sort. 119 00:12:33,567 --> 00:12:35,068 But eventually... 120 00:12:35,152 --> 00:12:39,530 Eventually it leads up to Revolutionary Road, which is much nicer. 121 00:12:40,157 --> 00:12:41,866 Now, the place I want to show you 122 00:12:41,950 --> 00:12:45,495 is a sweet little house and a sweet little setting. 123 00:12:45,579 --> 00:12:50,374 Simple, clean lines, good lawns, marvellous for children. 124 00:12:50,459 --> 00:12:52,877 It's just around this next curve. 125 00:12:53,545 --> 00:13:00,009 Now, you'll see it. There. See the little white one? Sweet, isn't it? 126 00:13:00,594 --> 00:13:05,932 The perky way it sits there on its little slope? Charming, isn't it? 127 00:13:08,477 --> 00:13:09,685 Oh, yes. 128 00:13:20,739 --> 00:13:22,240 You wanted to see me? 129 00:13:22,324 --> 00:13:25,618 Came for you from Toledo this morning. This is the third one this month. 130 00:13:25,702 --> 00:13:27,453 Sorry. I thought I'd taken care of... 131 00:13:27,538 --> 00:13:29,539 I'm not prepared to have this conversation again, Frank. 132 00:13:29,623 --> 00:13:31,666 - You understand? - I was literally just getting into... 133 00:13:31,750 --> 00:13:35,128 These folks in the provinces look up to us. We need to be efficient. 134 00:13:35,212 --> 00:13:37,922 We can't have this kind of back and forth, and so forth. 135 00:13:38,006 --> 00:13:42,802 - It's just not efficient. Am I right? - Yes. 136 00:13:44,555 --> 00:13:47,140 - What was that about? - Toledo. 137 00:13:47,683 --> 00:13:49,725 Branch manager wants a revised brochure 138 00:13:49,810 --> 00:13:52,645 for the conference on the Knox 500. 139 00:13:52,729 --> 00:13:55,898 "It's just not efficient. Am I right? Am I right? Am I right?" 140 00:13:56,650 --> 00:13:58,234 Sounds like a goodie. 141 00:13:58,318 --> 00:14:01,737 For God's sake. I don't even know what the Knox 500 does. Do you? 142 00:14:01,822 --> 00:14:03,573 Don't insult me. 143 00:14:17,421 --> 00:14:23,009 If you'll look in the inactive file under SP 1109, 144 00:14:23,093 --> 00:14:26,387 you'll find copies of all the stuff we sent to the agency, 145 00:14:26,471 --> 00:14:31,893 that way we can trace the thing back to its original sources. 146 00:14:35,314 --> 00:14:38,441 Listen, I hope you weren't planning on having an early lunch. 147 00:14:38,525 --> 00:14:42,069 No. I'm not really hungry. 148 00:14:42,154 --> 00:14:44,488 Good. I'll check on you later then. All right? 149 00:14:44,573 --> 00:14:46,032 - Okay. - Okay. 150 00:14:51,788 --> 00:14:53,122 You know something, Maureen? 151 00:14:54,458 --> 00:14:56,459 You're lucky you met me. 152 00:14:57,753 --> 00:14:59,212 How's that? 153 00:15:01,423 --> 00:15:03,758 I think I can show you the ropes, you know. 154 00:15:03,842 --> 00:15:09,555 There's a certain art to survival at Knox. Really. Let me show you what I mean. 155 00:15:10,265 --> 00:15:15,269 Waiter. Bring me the telephone, would you? And two more martinis. 156 00:15:16,271 --> 00:15:17,313 Wow. 157 00:15:24,196 --> 00:15:27,657 Klondike 5-55-66, please. 158 00:15:29,868 --> 00:15:32,912 Hello, Mrs Jorgensen? Frank Wheeler here. Yes. 159 00:15:32,996 --> 00:15:36,123 I just wanted to let you know that I've had to send Maureen Grube 160 00:15:36,208 --> 00:15:38,417 down to Visual Aids for me. 161 00:15:38,502 --> 00:15:42,046 I'll probably need her the rest of the afternoon. Yes. 162 00:15:43,173 --> 00:15:45,466 You, too. Take care now. 163 00:15:49,846 --> 00:15:56,727 - I never even heard of Visual Aids. - That's because it doesn't exist. 164 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:20,626 Hi, Helen. Come on in. 165 00:16:20,836 --> 00:16:22,586 I can't stay a minute. 166 00:16:22,671 --> 00:16:25,548 I just wanted to bring these sedum plantings 167 00:16:25,632 --> 00:16:28,718 for that messy patch down by the foot of the drive. 168 00:16:28,802 --> 00:16:30,594 It's like the European houseleek, 169 00:16:30,679 --> 00:16:34,307 only these have the most marvellous little yellow blossoms. 170 00:16:35,017 --> 00:16:36,517 Now, all it wants for the first few days 171 00:16:36,601 --> 00:16:40,271 is just a tiny dollop of water, and then you'll find it absolutely thrives. 172 00:16:40,355 --> 00:16:43,357 Well, thank you, Helen. That's so kind of you. 173 00:16:44,192 --> 00:16:46,277 Would you like some coffee? 174 00:16:57,748 --> 00:17:00,291 Is there something I can do for you, Helen? 175 00:17:00,375 --> 00:17:02,752 I almost forgot. 176 00:17:02,836 --> 00:17:06,464 There is one small favour I would like to ask. 177 00:17:06,548 --> 00:17:13,512 It's about... It's about my son, John. He's been in the hospital. 178 00:17:14,014 --> 00:17:15,973 I'm sorry. Is everything all right? 179 00:17:16,058 --> 00:17:22,063 Well, actually, just for the time being, he's in Pleasant Brook. Psychiatric. 180 00:17:25,776 --> 00:17:29,445 - Oh, I see. - Well, it's nothing serious. 181 00:17:29,780 --> 00:17:35,117 He just got a little run down. Things can just get the better of us sometimes. 182 00:17:35,202 --> 00:17:39,163 - Don't you agree? - Yes. Of course. 183 00:17:39,790 --> 00:17:41,540 It's a marvellous facility 184 00:17:41,625 --> 00:17:44,502 and the treatments seem to be doing wonders for him. 185 00:17:44,586 --> 00:17:47,213 Anyway, they said getting him out for an afternoon 186 00:17:47,297 --> 00:17:49,799 might do him a little bit of good. 187 00:17:49,883 --> 00:17:53,844 I think he finds my friends a little conventional, quite frankly. 188 00:17:53,929 --> 00:17:59,183 I mean, he's travelled. He has a Ph.D. In mathematics. 189 00:17:59,684 --> 00:18:03,145 I suppose you could say he's an intellectual. 190 00:18:04,731 --> 00:18:08,067 It would do him a world of good to meet a young couple like you. 191 00:18:08,151 --> 00:18:10,319 Well, we'd love to meet him. 192 00:18:12,739 --> 00:18:15,282 - Really? - Yes. 193 00:18:15,867 --> 00:18:17,410 We'd love to. 194 00:18:19,246 --> 00:18:20,830 Thank you, dear. 195 00:18:23,333 --> 00:18:24,708 Thank you. 196 00:18:28,213 --> 00:18:30,256 Well, I must be off. 197 00:18:41,226 --> 00:18:44,311 I remember the first day you came off the train. 198 00:18:44,438 --> 00:18:47,857 You weren't like my other clients. You were different. 199 00:18:49,025 --> 00:18:52,278 You just seemed special. 200 00:18:57,617 --> 00:18:59,034 Of course, you still are. 201 00:19:00,954 --> 00:19:05,499 Remember, just a dollop. I must scoot. Toodle-oo. 202 00:19:10,630 --> 00:19:11,630 Bye. 203 00:19:28,899 --> 00:19:31,275 I think you got me a little drunk. 204 00:19:38,742 --> 00:19:41,118 You know what today is? 205 00:19:41,203 --> 00:19:42,453 Monday? 206 00:19:44,748 --> 00:19:49,710 It's my birthday. I'm 30 years old today. 207 00:19:50,712 --> 00:19:52,796 - Happy birthday! - Thank you. 208 00:20:00,013 --> 00:20:04,308 What was the name of that department you made up again? 209 00:20:10,357 --> 00:20:12,525 Visual Aids. 210 00:20:14,277 --> 00:20:15,694 What a joke. 211 00:20:19,282 --> 00:20:22,576 What a joke. Oh, my. 212 00:20:25,205 --> 00:20:28,290 - You want to hear a real joke? - Yes. 213 00:20:31,127 --> 00:20:33,963 - My old man worked at Knox. - Yeah? 214 00:20:35,549 --> 00:20:37,800 He was a salesman in Yonkers. 215 00:20:40,971 --> 00:20:45,349 Once a year he used to take me into the city for lunch. 216 00:20:45,475 --> 00:20:49,270 It was supposed to be a very special, life-advice sort of occasion. 217 00:20:49,354 --> 00:20:52,356 - Nice. - No. Not really. 218 00:20:54,568 --> 00:20:56,819 I used to sit there and think, 219 00:20:59,239 --> 00:21:02,157 "I hope to Christ I don't end up like you." 220 00:21:05,829 --> 00:21:10,499 Now, here I am, a 30-year-old Knox man. 221 00:21:13,003 --> 00:21:14,753 Can you beat that? 222 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:19,049 I think I kind of lost you... 223 00:21:22,345 --> 00:21:24,513 Your father worked for Knox? 224 00:21:24,598 --> 00:21:31,020 I'm sorry, everything's just kind of going out of focus. 225 00:21:37,402 --> 00:21:42,114 Why don't we get some air, you and me? 226 00:22:21,363 --> 00:22:22,821 Is this you? 227 00:22:24,991 --> 00:22:26,158 Yeah. 228 00:22:26,242 --> 00:22:30,120 - You been to Paris? - I've never really been anywhere. 229 00:22:30,538 --> 00:22:33,332 Maybe I'll take you with me then. 230 00:22:33,416 --> 00:22:36,251 I'm going back the first chance I get, I tell you. 231 00:22:36,336 --> 00:22:38,962 People are alive there. Not like here. 232 00:22:47,097 --> 00:22:51,433 All I know, April, is I want to feel things. 233 00:22:53,228 --> 00:22:56,605 Really feel them, you know. 234 00:22:58,775 --> 00:23:00,859 How's that for an ambition? 235 00:23:02,612 --> 00:23:09,451 Frank Wheeler? I think you're the most interesting person I've ever met. 236 00:23:16,793 --> 00:23:21,463 I guess this wasn't what you had in mind when you went to work this morning? 237 00:23:21,715 --> 00:23:23,757 No. It certainly wasn't. 238 00:23:42,986 --> 00:23:45,320 Do you have a cigarette, Frank? 239 00:23:46,990 --> 00:23:48,323 Yeah, sure. 240 00:23:56,291 --> 00:23:57,791 There you go. 241 00:24:00,170 --> 00:24:02,588 Can I get you a drink or anything? 242 00:24:03,006 --> 00:24:05,424 No thanks, Maureen. Actually, it's... 243 00:24:05,508 --> 00:24:09,511 It's getting kind of late. I guess I'd better be cutting out. 244 00:24:10,346 --> 00:24:15,726 Gee, that's right. Did you miss your train? 245 00:24:15,810 --> 00:24:18,562 That's all right, I'll catch the next one. 246 00:24:19,939 --> 00:24:22,691 Listen, you were swell. 247 00:24:30,158 --> 00:24:31,700 Take care now. 248 00:25:05,902 --> 00:25:09,112 - Frank. - Why are you all dressed up? 249 00:25:09,739 --> 00:25:13,617 First of all, I missed you all day and I want to say I'm sorry. 250 00:25:14,327 --> 00:25:17,412 I'm sorry for the way I've been since the play. 251 00:25:17,747 --> 00:25:21,166 I'm sorry for everything, and I love you. 252 00:25:23,753 --> 00:25:25,254 The rest can wait. 253 00:25:25,338 --> 00:25:31,176 Now, you just wait here till I call you. Okay? 254 00:25:31,636 --> 00:25:32,761 Okay. 255 00:25:42,397 --> 00:25:45,065 All right, Frank. You can come in now. 256 00:25:59,372 --> 00:26:05,961 Happy birthday to you 257 00:26:06,045 --> 00:26:10,424 Happy birthday, dear Daddy 258 00:26:10,508 --> 00:26:14,428 Happy birthday to you 259 00:26:16,806 --> 00:26:18,807 Happy birthday, darling. 260 00:26:19,017 --> 00:26:21,852 - I love you, Daddy. - I love you, too. 261 00:26:38,578 --> 00:26:39,745 Frank. 262 00:26:46,836 --> 00:26:50,631 Frank. I have had the most wonderful idea. 263 00:26:52,008 --> 00:26:55,594 - I've been thinking about it all day. - Baby, what's all this about? 264 00:26:55,678 --> 00:26:57,721 Do you know how much money we have saved? 265 00:26:57,847 --> 00:27:01,016 Enough to live on for six months without you earning another dime. 266 00:27:01,184 --> 00:27:04,269 And with the money we could get from the house and the car, longer than that. 267 00:27:04,354 --> 00:27:06,229 "What we could get for the house"? 268 00:27:06,356 --> 00:27:09,816 Sweetheart, what are you talking about? Where are we going to live? 269 00:27:11,152 --> 00:27:12,319 Paris. 270 00:27:13,446 --> 00:27:14,446 What? 271 00:27:14,530 --> 00:27:16,698 You always said it was the only place you'd ever been 272 00:27:16,783 --> 00:27:20,452 that you wanted to go back to, the only place that was worth living. 273 00:27:20,536 --> 00:27:22,120 So why don't we go there? 274 00:27:22,205 --> 00:27:26,500 - You're serious? - Yes. What's stopping us? 275 00:27:27,043 --> 00:27:30,504 What's stopping us? Well, I can think of a number of different things. 276 00:27:30,588 --> 00:27:34,341 For example, what kind of a job could I possibly get? 277 00:27:34,425 --> 00:27:38,887 You won't be getting any kind of a job, because I will. 278 00:27:39,222 --> 00:27:40,806 Oh, right, right. 279 00:27:40,890 --> 00:27:43,266 Don't laugh at me. Listen a minute. 280 00:27:43,434 --> 00:27:46,186 Do you know what they pay for secretarial positions 281 00:27:46,270 --> 00:27:48,355 - in government agencies in Europe? - No, I don't. 282 00:27:48,439 --> 00:27:51,525 Listen, Frank, I'm serious about this. Do you think I'm kidding or something? 283 00:27:51,609 --> 00:27:54,152 Okay, okay. I just have a couple of questions, is all. 284 00:27:54,237 --> 00:27:56,947 For one thing, what exactly am I supposed to be doing 285 00:27:57,031 --> 00:27:59,324 while you're out earning all this money? 286 00:27:59,409 --> 00:28:03,286 Don't you see? That's the whole idea. 287 00:28:03,579 --> 00:28:07,040 You'll be doing what you should've been allowed to do seven years ago. 288 00:28:07,125 --> 00:28:08,875 You'll have time. 289 00:28:09,085 --> 00:28:11,169 For the first time in your life you'll have time to find out 290 00:28:11,254 --> 00:28:13,505 what it is that you actually want to do. 291 00:28:13,589 --> 00:28:15,007 And when you figure it out, 292 00:28:15,091 --> 00:28:18,552 you'll have the time and the freedom to start doing it. 293 00:28:21,723 --> 00:28:25,017 Sweetheart, it's just not very realistic, is all. 294 00:28:29,313 --> 00:28:33,275 No, Frank. This is what's unrealistic. 295 00:28:34,277 --> 00:28:37,946 It's unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working 296 00:28:38,072 --> 00:28:40,699 year after year at a job he can't stand, 297 00:28:40,783 --> 00:28:42,576 coming home to a place he can't stand, 298 00:28:42,660 --> 00:28:46,747 to a wife who's equally unable to stand the same things. 299 00:28:47,623 --> 00:28:50,125 Do you want to know the worst part? 300 00:28:51,127 --> 00:28:54,588 Our whole existence here is based on this great premise 301 00:28:54,672 --> 00:28:58,925 that we're special and superior to the whole thing. 302 00:28:59,260 --> 00:29:00,802 But we're not. 303 00:29:01,429 --> 00:29:03,513 We're just like everyone else. 304 00:29:03,598 --> 00:29:07,476 Look at us. We've bought into the same ridiculous delusion. 305 00:29:07,685 --> 00:29:09,770 This idea that you have to resign from life 306 00:29:09,854 --> 00:29:12,814 and settle down the moment you have children. 307 00:29:14,192 --> 00:29:16,735 And we've been punishing each other for it. 308 00:29:16,819 --> 00:29:19,863 Listen, we decided to move out here. 309 00:29:19,989 --> 00:29:21,907 No one forced me to take the job at Knox. 310 00:29:21,991 --> 00:29:24,785 I mean, whoever said I was meant to be a big deal, anyway? 311 00:29:24,869 --> 00:29:29,039 When I first met you, there was nothing in the world you couldn't do or be. 312 00:29:29,123 --> 00:29:30,957 When you first met me I was a little wise guy 313 00:29:31,042 --> 00:29:32,084 with a big mouth, that's all. 314 00:29:32,168 --> 00:29:35,212 You were not. How can you even say that? 315 00:29:37,465 --> 00:29:41,343 Okay. Okay, so I'll have time. 316 00:29:41,511 --> 00:29:45,055 And God knows that's appealing. It's very appealing. 317 00:29:45,181 --> 00:29:47,432 And everything you're saying makes sense 318 00:29:47,517 --> 00:29:50,602 if I had a definite talent, if I were a writer or an artist. 319 00:29:50,686 --> 00:29:53,313 No. But, Frank, listen. Listen to me. 320 00:29:53,689 --> 00:29:56,233 It's what you are that's being stifled. 321 00:29:56,317 --> 00:30:00,737 It's what you are that's being denied and denied in this kind of life. 322 00:30:03,199 --> 00:30:04,866 And what's that? 323 00:30:07,703 --> 00:30:09,329 Don't you know? 324 00:30:11,749 --> 00:30:15,544 You're the most beautiful and wonderful thing in the world. 325 00:30:19,590 --> 00:30:21,174 You're a man. 326 00:30:40,027 --> 00:30:45,824 This is our chance, Frank. This is our one chance. 327 00:30:51,664 --> 00:30:52,789 Okay. 328 00:30:56,711 --> 00:30:57,919 Okay? 329 00:31:00,298 --> 00:31:03,717 Why not? Why the hell not? 330 00:31:27,325 --> 00:31:29,993 - Good morning, all. - Morning, Frank. 331 00:31:30,077 --> 00:31:32,287 Franklin. Good to see your shining face. 332 00:31:32,371 --> 00:31:37,292 - What's the news? - Fellas, I'm moving to Paris. 333 00:31:39,378 --> 00:31:41,922 Indeed. And I'm moving to Tangiers. 334 00:31:59,899 --> 00:32:02,234 Intra-company letter to Toledo. 335 00:32:02,318 --> 00:32:06,988 Attention B.F. Chalmers, Branch Manager. 336 00:32:08,616 --> 00:32:11,785 With regard to recent and repeated correspondence, 337 00:32:11,869 --> 00:32:14,579 this is to advise that the matter has been 338 00:32:14,664 --> 00:32:17,832 very satisfactorily taken in hand, period. 339 00:32:17,917 --> 00:32:23,213 Paragraph. We wholly agree that the existing brochure is unsuitable. 340 00:32:24,090 --> 00:32:26,841 To this end, we have developed, quote, 341 00:32:32,682 --> 00:32:35,517 "Speaking of Production Control." 342 00:32:44,860 --> 00:32:49,531 Here you go, Mrs Wheeler. These are the traveller's cheques you requested. 343 00:32:49,699 --> 00:32:52,158 - Yes. - Your steamer reservations. 344 00:32:53,536 --> 00:32:56,162 These I'll pass on to the embassy for you. 345 00:32:56,247 --> 00:32:58,123 - Good luck. - Thank you. 346 00:33:02,670 --> 00:33:05,338 September. October at the outside. 347 00:33:07,258 --> 00:33:08,967 I just happen to think people are better off 348 00:33:09,051 --> 00:33:11,594 doing some kind of work they actually like. 349 00:33:11,679 --> 00:33:14,681 - Right. Right, yes. - Absolutely, absolutely. 350 00:33:14,765 --> 00:33:20,270 But, I mean, assuming there is this true vocation waiting for you, 351 00:33:20,604 --> 00:33:24,482 wouldn't you be just as likely to discover it here as there? 352 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,820 I don't think it's possible to discover anything 353 00:33:28,904 --> 00:33:32,282 on the 15th floor of the Knox building, 354 00:33:32,366 --> 00:33:35,035 and I don't think any of you do either. 355 00:34:34,428 --> 00:34:36,221 Daddy, Daddy, Daddy! 356 00:34:38,307 --> 00:34:40,642 - Michael. - Daddy, will you read us... 357 00:34:41,185 --> 00:34:46,272 ...all the way to here. 358 00:34:46,899 --> 00:34:50,318 We have to take a big boat ride across the sea to get there. 359 00:34:50,403 --> 00:34:54,864 - But I won't know anybody there. - I know. I know. Neither will I. 360 00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:57,909 But remember how you felt when you started school? 361 00:34:57,993 --> 00:35:00,620 And now look how many friends you have. 362 00:35:00,704 --> 00:35:04,374 You'll never guess what they eat in Paris. 363 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,751 - You'll never guess. - What? 364 00:35:07,420 --> 00:35:09,921 - Slimy snails. - Snails? 365 00:35:10,005 --> 00:35:13,007 Slimy snails and icky frog's legs. 366 00:35:25,563 --> 00:35:28,356 Milly, where are you, doll? 367 00:35:29,275 --> 00:35:32,235 You better get changed, they'll be here soon. 368 00:35:33,237 --> 00:35:36,406 - Is that what you're wearing? - Don't you like it? 369 00:35:36,991 --> 00:35:40,285 Yeah, yeah. You look great, doll. 370 00:35:41,787 --> 00:35:43,746 Guess I better haul ass. 371 00:36:00,431 --> 00:36:01,806 Hiya, gang. 372 00:36:07,146 --> 00:36:08,813 What you watching? 373 00:36:48,354 --> 00:36:49,437 Shep? 374 00:36:51,815 --> 00:36:54,275 I was calling you and calling you. 375 00:36:57,279 --> 00:36:58,279 Hi. 376 00:37:04,745 --> 00:37:08,122 Here we go. Just a little something. 377 00:37:09,667 --> 00:37:15,505 - Those look great. I'm starving. - April, I can't get over it, 378 00:37:16,215 --> 00:37:19,175 you look like the cat that ate the canary. 379 00:37:19,301 --> 00:37:23,638 Do you have something to tell us? Just a little bit of news? 380 00:37:23,847 --> 00:37:27,976 Well, actually, Milly, we... Well, we do have some important news, yes. 381 00:37:28,102 --> 00:37:29,435 I knew it. 382 00:37:30,062 --> 00:37:32,897 Honey, why don't you tell them? Go ahead. 383 00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:38,152 We're going to Europe. To Paris. 384 00:37:43,075 --> 00:37:44,325 To live. 385 00:37:48,122 --> 00:37:50,290 - What? - When? 386 00:37:50,374 --> 00:37:53,835 - In September. - But what for? 387 00:37:55,379 --> 00:37:59,966 What for? Well, because we've always wanted to. 388 00:38:00,050 --> 00:38:02,927 Because the kids are young enough. Because it's beautiful. 389 00:38:03,012 --> 00:38:06,306 I mean, really. Shep, you've been there, you tell her. 390 00:38:06,390 --> 00:38:08,683 - Yeah, it's a great city. - Yeah. 391 00:38:16,025 --> 00:38:18,401 When did you make this decision? 392 00:38:20,154 --> 00:38:22,655 About a week ago? It's hard to remember. 393 00:38:22,740 --> 00:38:24,782 We just suddenly decided to go, that's all. 394 00:38:24,867 --> 00:38:29,037 - About a week ago, you tell us now. - We had to get used to the idea. 395 00:38:29,121 --> 00:38:32,123 So, what's the deal, Frank? You get a job over there, or what? 396 00:38:32,207 --> 00:38:36,336 - No, no. Not exactly. - What do you mean, "Not exactly"? 397 00:38:38,631 --> 00:38:42,383 Frank won't be getting any kind of a job, because I will. 398 00:38:46,180 --> 00:38:47,930 So what are you going to do, Frank? 399 00:38:48,015 --> 00:38:51,267 I'm going to study. And I'm going to read. 400 00:38:52,019 --> 00:38:56,314 I suppose I'm going to finally figure out what I want to do with my life, Shep. 401 00:38:56,398 --> 00:38:58,316 While she supports you? 402 00:38:59,526 --> 00:39:01,694 Yes. While she supports me. 403 00:39:02,905 --> 00:39:04,572 In the beginning. 404 00:39:04,865 --> 00:39:07,659 You wouldn't believe what they pay for secretarial work 405 00:39:07,743 --> 00:39:09,661 in those government agencies over there. 406 00:39:09,745 --> 00:39:12,413 NATO and ECA and those places. 407 00:39:13,540 --> 00:39:15,208 And the cost of living is dirt cheap, right? 408 00:39:15,292 --> 00:39:16,834 It's so cheap. 409 00:39:18,879 --> 00:39:21,714 The truth is we just need something different. 410 00:39:21,799 --> 00:39:25,510 We're not getting any younger and we don't want life to just pass us by. 411 00:39:25,594 --> 00:39:27,095 That's right. 412 00:39:27,346 --> 00:39:30,807 Gee, it sounds wonderful, kids. 413 00:39:31,517 --> 00:39:34,936 I mean it. It really sounds wonderful. 414 00:39:35,020 --> 00:39:37,188 - Thank you, Milly. - Oh, Milly. 415 00:39:37,815 --> 00:39:40,817 We'll certainly miss you both. Won't we, sweetie? Golly. 416 00:39:40,901 --> 00:39:42,610 - Sure. - We'll miss you, too. 417 00:39:42,695 --> 00:39:43,736 - Of course. - Truly. 418 00:39:43,821 --> 00:39:45,905 We should have a toast or something. To Paris. 419 00:39:45,989 --> 00:39:47,240 - To Paris. - To Paris. 420 00:39:47,324 --> 00:39:48,574 To Paris. 421 00:39:50,077 --> 00:39:51,744 - Cheers. - Cheers. 422 00:40:05,134 --> 00:40:07,093 You know what I think? 423 00:40:07,845 --> 00:40:08,970 What? 424 00:40:09,346 --> 00:40:12,598 I think this whole plan sounds a little immature. 425 00:40:12,766 --> 00:40:15,393 Oh, God, I am so relieved. 426 00:40:17,730 --> 00:40:20,398 Me, too. I was thinking that the whole time. 427 00:40:20,482 --> 00:40:22,024 I mean, what kind of man is going to sit around 428 00:40:22,109 --> 00:40:23,901 in his bathrobe all day picking his nose 429 00:40:23,986 --> 00:40:26,446 - while his wife goes out and works? - I don't know, Shep. 430 00:40:26,530 --> 00:40:28,239 I just don't know. 431 00:40:34,830 --> 00:40:36,539 Why are you crying? 432 00:40:38,917 --> 00:40:40,626 What's the matter? 433 00:40:44,965 --> 00:40:48,468 It's nothing. I'm just so relieved. 434 00:40:50,596 --> 00:40:51,596 Shep. 435 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:58,102 Don't cry. Please. It's all right. Everything's going to be all right. 436 00:41:00,522 --> 00:41:05,610 My God, their faces! Oh, God. 437 00:41:07,112 --> 00:41:08,279 Oh, God! 438 00:41:09,114 --> 00:41:11,991 You know what this is like, April, honestly? 439 00:41:12,951 --> 00:41:14,035 Just talking like this? 440 00:41:14,119 --> 00:41:17,872 The whole idea of going off to Europe this way? 441 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:22,001 This is the way I felt going up to the line the first time, in the war. 442 00:41:22,085 --> 00:41:24,962 I mean, I was probably just as scared as everyone else, 443 00:41:25,047 --> 00:41:28,466 but inside I never felt better. 444 00:41:28,550 --> 00:41:32,553 I felt alive. I felt full of blood. I felt... 445 00:41:33,764 --> 00:41:36,098 Everything just... Everything seemed more real. 446 00:41:36,183 --> 00:41:37,892 The guys in their uniforms. 447 00:41:37,976 --> 00:41:42,688 The snow on the fields, the trees. And all of us just walking. 448 00:41:43,732 --> 00:41:46,484 I mean, I was scared, of course. 449 00:41:46,568 --> 00:41:51,531 But I just kept thinking, "This is it, you know. This is the truth." 450 00:41:55,619 --> 00:41:57,662 I felt that way once, too. 451 00:41:59,081 --> 00:42:00,248 When? 452 00:42:08,507 --> 00:42:11,050 The first time you made love to me. 453 00:42:14,930 --> 00:42:16,097 April. 454 00:42:54,845 --> 00:42:56,012 Frank. 455 00:43:22,998 --> 00:43:25,499 - What's up? - Bart Pollock's here. 456 00:43:25,709 --> 00:43:27,668 He's in Bandy's office. 457 00:43:29,671 --> 00:43:31,172 Big deal, huh? 458 00:43:36,553 --> 00:43:39,055 Looks like he wants to talk to you. 459 00:43:41,683 --> 00:43:44,602 Hey, keep my name out of it. 460 00:43:51,109 --> 00:43:54,820 Frank. Good to see you. You know Bart Pollock? 461 00:43:54,905 --> 00:43:59,033 - Well, we've never met, but of course... - Good to know you, Frank. 462 00:43:59,117 --> 00:44:01,786 "Speaking of Production Control"? 463 00:44:04,873 --> 00:44:09,752 Frank, this is a crackerfack. 464 00:44:11,588 --> 00:44:14,715 They are tickled to death in Toledo. 465 00:44:22,391 --> 00:44:23,391 Really? 466 00:44:25,310 --> 00:44:29,647 So, this guy Pollock was perfect presidential material in the worst sense. 467 00:44:29,731 --> 00:44:34,110 A million dollar smile and about three pounds of muscle between the ears. 468 00:44:34,194 --> 00:44:36,320 April, you should have heard this guy. 469 00:44:36,405 --> 00:44:40,992 "Frank, this is a crackerfack." What a horse's ass. 470 00:44:41,243 --> 00:44:44,829 Wish I'd seen his face when you told him you were leaving. 471 00:44:45,831 --> 00:44:46,956 Yeah. 472 00:44:53,839 --> 00:44:55,339 Here they come. 473 00:44:58,468 --> 00:45:00,720 - Sorry to be late. - You're not late. 474 00:45:00,804 --> 00:45:03,431 - The traffic was terrible. - Thank you. You didn't have to do that. 475 00:45:03,515 --> 00:45:05,808 - Good to see you. - Wasn't it terrible, Howard? 476 00:45:05,892 --> 00:45:07,018 Well, Route 12. 477 00:45:07,102 --> 00:45:08,936 By the time they finish that stretch of road, 478 00:45:09,021 --> 00:45:11,981 they'll have to start all over again, right? 479 00:45:12,774 --> 00:45:16,485 - And you must be John? - Say hello, John. 480 00:45:17,446 --> 00:45:20,114 Nice to meet you. Heard a lot about you. 481 00:45:21,950 --> 00:45:24,869 - Where are your darling children? - They're at a birthday party? 482 00:45:24,953 --> 00:45:27,204 - Sorry they couldn't be here. - Don't worry. 483 00:45:27,289 --> 00:45:29,623 If I had a certified lunatic coming around my house, 484 00:45:29,708 --> 00:45:32,209 I'd probably get the kids out of the way, too. 485 00:45:32,294 --> 00:45:36,630 Look at all this food. You didn't have to go to any trouble for us. 486 00:45:36,715 --> 00:45:38,215 It's just some sandwiches. 487 00:45:38,300 --> 00:45:40,718 John, would you like a sandwich? 488 00:45:41,219 --> 00:45:44,597 Helen's been talking it up about you people for months. 489 00:45:44,681 --> 00:45:47,433 The nice young Wheelers on Revolutionary Road, 490 00:45:47,517 --> 00:45:51,145 the nice young Revolutionaries on Wheeler Road. 491 00:45:52,272 --> 00:45:55,858 - Would anyone like some sherry? - Please don't bother, Frank. 492 00:45:55,942 --> 00:45:57,234 I'd like some sherry. 493 00:45:57,319 --> 00:46:00,946 And I'll drink Helen's, too, if she doesn't beat me to it. 494 00:46:02,449 --> 00:46:05,367 But, hey, you got a highball glass? 495 00:46:05,494 --> 00:46:09,497 Put a couple-three ice cubes in it, pour it up to the brim. 496 00:46:09,998 --> 00:46:13,542 - That's the way I like it. - I think I can handle that. 497 00:46:19,132 --> 00:46:22,968 This egg salad is delicious, April. You must tell me how you fix it. 498 00:46:23,053 --> 00:46:26,097 - You a lawyer, Frank? - No. No, I'm not. 499 00:46:26,181 --> 00:46:27,515 I could use a lawyer. 500 00:46:27,641 --> 00:46:30,309 John, let's not get started again about the lawyer. 501 00:46:30,393 --> 00:46:31,435 Pop, couldn't you just sit there 502 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,897 and eat your wonderful egg salad and quit horning in? 503 00:46:35,816 --> 00:46:38,359 See, I've got a good many questions to ask 504 00:46:38,485 --> 00:46:40,569 and I'm willing to pay for the answers. 505 00:46:40,695 --> 00:46:43,906 Now, I don't need to be told that a man who goes after his mother 506 00:46:44,032 --> 00:46:48,869 with a coffee table is putting himself in a weak position legally, that's obvious. 507 00:46:48,995 --> 00:46:51,622 John, come and have a look out this fabulous picture window. 508 00:46:51,706 --> 00:46:54,125 If he hits her with it and kills her, that's a criminal case. 509 00:46:54,209 --> 00:46:57,419 - Oh, look, the sun's coming out! - Lf all he does is break the coffee table 510 00:46:57,546 --> 00:46:59,380 and give her a certain amount of aggravation 511 00:46:59,506 --> 00:47:02,466 and she decides to go to court over it, that's a civil case. 512 00:47:02,551 --> 00:47:05,136 Maybe we'll have a rainbow. John, come have a look. 513 00:47:05,220 --> 00:47:08,305 Ma, how about doing everybody a favour? How about shutting up! 514 00:47:08,723 --> 00:47:10,516 Settle down, now. 515 00:47:11,393 --> 00:47:15,354 Maybe I can look into it, recommend someone. What do you say? 516 00:47:22,946 --> 00:47:26,073 So, what do you do, Frank? 517 00:47:27,242 --> 00:47:30,369 I work at Knox Business Machines, actually. 518 00:47:30,453 --> 00:47:32,163 You design the machines? 519 00:47:32,247 --> 00:47:35,416 - Nope. - Make them, sell them, repair them? 520 00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:38,460 - All these questions. - I help sell them, I guess. 521 00:47:39,004 --> 00:47:43,465 I work in the office. Actually, it's... 522 00:47:43,550 --> 00:47:45,092 Well, it's sort of a stupid job, really. 523 00:47:45,177 --> 00:47:48,095 There's nothing interesting about it at all. 524 00:47:49,306 --> 00:47:51,724 What do you do it for then? 525 00:47:51,808 --> 00:47:53,642 Maybe Frank doesn't like being questioned like this. 526 00:47:53,727 --> 00:47:56,812 Okay, okay, okay. I know it's none of my business. 527 00:47:56,897 --> 00:47:59,273 And besides, I know the answer. 528 00:48:00,108 --> 00:48:02,526 You want to play house, you got to have a job. 529 00:48:02,611 --> 00:48:06,113 You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, 530 00:48:06,198 --> 00:48:08,574 then you've got to have a job you don't like. 531 00:48:08,658 --> 00:48:11,035 Anyone comes along and says, "What do you do it for?" 532 00:48:11,119 --> 00:48:16,123 He's probably on a four-hour pass from the state funny farm. 533 00:48:17,459 --> 00:48:21,003 - All agreed? Ma? - Sorry, Frank. 534 00:48:21,087 --> 00:48:26,467 Don't be. Don't be. Actually, John, I agree with everything you just said. 535 00:48:26,635 --> 00:48:31,222 We both do. That's why I'm quitting the job in the fall. We're taking off. 536 00:48:31,306 --> 00:48:33,140 We're moving to Paris. 537 00:48:36,478 --> 00:48:38,979 Did you know about this, Ma? 538 00:48:40,649 --> 00:48:45,319 How do you feel about that, Ma? The nice young Wheelers... 539 00:48:48,823 --> 00:48:53,994 The nice young Wheelers are taking off. 540 00:49:00,001 --> 00:49:03,462 - John, please. - Steady down, Son. 541 00:49:08,468 --> 00:49:12,846 John. John. How about some fresh air? What do you say? 542 00:49:12,931 --> 00:49:14,723 If that's all right with you? 543 00:49:14,808 --> 00:49:18,394 - I don't know if it's such a good idea... - lf John wants to, I don't see the harm. 544 00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,896 - Good. - After you. 545 00:49:25,193 --> 00:49:31,073 - I hear you're a mathematician. - You hear wrong. It's all gone now. 546 00:49:31,992 --> 00:49:33,117 All gone? 547 00:49:33,201 --> 00:49:36,120 You know what electrical shock treatments are? 548 00:49:36,204 --> 00:49:37,913 Yes. Yes, I do. 549 00:49:38,039 --> 00:49:39,665 I've had 37. 550 00:49:43,378 --> 00:49:46,255 Supposed to jolt out the emotional problems. 551 00:49:46,381 --> 00:49:50,843 - Just jolted out the mathematics. - How awful. 552 00:49:51,636 --> 00:49:56,598 "How awful"? Why, because mathematics is so interesting? 553 00:49:57,392 --> 00:50:00,394 No. Because the shocks must be awful and, 554 00:50:00,729 --> 00:50:04,815 well, because it's awful not to be able to do what it is that you want to do. 555 00:50:04,899 --> 00:50:07,443 I think mathematics must be dull. 556 00:50:09,029 --> 00:50:11,113 I like your girl, Frank. 557 00:50:11,281 --> 00:50:12,531 Me, too. 558 00:50:12,949 --> 00:50:16,201 So, what do a couple of people like you have to run away from? 559 00:50:16,286 --> 00:50:18,704 - We're not running. - So what's in Paris? 560 00:50:18,788 --> 00:50:21,915 - A different way of life. - Maybe we are running. 561 00:50:22,667 --> 00:50:26,837 We're running from the hopeless emptiness of the whole life here, right? 562 00:50:26,921 --> 00:50:28,839 The hopeless emptiness? 563 00:50:32,969 --> 00:50:37,389 Now you've said it. Plenty of people are on to the emptiness, 564 00:50:39,434 --> 00:50:42,478 but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. 565 00:50:47,901 --> 00:50:48,901 Wow. 566 00:51:03,541 --> 00:51:06,126 You know, he's the first person 567 00:51:06,252 --> 00:51:09,129 who seemed to know what we were talking about. 568 00:51:09,214 --> 00:51:15,135 Yeah. That's true, isn't it? Maybe we are just as crazy as he is. 569 00:51:17,138 --> 00:51:20,724 If being crazy means living life as if it matters, 570 00:51:20,809 --> 00:51:23,811 then I don't care if we are completely insane. 571 00:51:26,481 --> 00:51:27,731 Do you? 572 00:51:30,693 --> 00:51:31,693 No. 573 00:51:34,114 --> 00:51:35,864 I love you so much. 574 00:51:47,168 --> 00:51:50,504 Tell you something, Frank. That Ted Bandy, nice guy. 575 00:51:50,713 --> 00:51:52,089 Real sport. 576 00:51:52,173 --> 00:51:53,924 Good enough department head and all. 577 00:51:54,008 --> 00:51:56,093 But I'm a little sore at him for the way he's kept you 578 00:51:56,177 --> 00:51:58,262 under a bushel all these years. 579 00:51:58,346 --> 00:52:01,932 - This place okay for you? - It's just fine, sir. Just fine. 580 00:52:02,725 --> 00:52:05,352 One thing interests me, Frank, and one thing only. 581 00:52:05,437 --> 00:52:09,189 Selling the electronic computer to the American businessman. 582 00:52:09,691 --> 00:52:13,861 That's why I'm assembling a team. Men like you. 583 00:52:14,487 --> 00:52:16,238 Not your average salesmen. 584 00:52:16,322 --> 00:52:17,614 It'll mean more money, 585 00:52:17,699 --> 00:52:21,326 and, I got to be honest, maybe more of a time commitment. 586 00:52:21,453 --> 00:52:24,872 But you'll be a part of something exciting, Wheeler. 587 00:52:24,956 --> 00:52:26,290 Computers. 588 00:52:29,502 --> 00:52:32,713 Well, sir, it sounds exciting. 589 00:52:32,797 --> 00:52:34,548 - Bart. - Bart. 590 00:52:39,637 --> 00:52:42,055 Bart, let me ask you a question. 591 00:52:42,724 --> 00:52:46,393 Do you happen to remember an Earl Wheeler? Out of Yonkers? 592 00:52:47,729 --> 00:52:52,065 - Can't say that I do. Relation of yours? - My father. 593 00:52:52,150 --> 00:52:55,569 He worked as a salesman for Knox for almost 20 years. 594 00:52:57,197 --> 00:53:01,658 Earl Wheeler. 595 00:53:04,037 --> 00:53:06,622 There's no reason you'd remember him. 596 00:53:08,082 --> 00:53:10,542 Well, I'm sure he was a good man. 597 00:53:17,342 --> 00:53:22,721 Listen, Bart, there's something I should have mentioned earlier. 598 00:53:24,766 --> 00:53:27,726 I'm going to be leaving the firm in the fall. 599 00:53:29,521 --> 00:53:32,689 - Another outfit? - No, no, it's not another outfit. 600 00:53:32,774 --> 00:53:35,609 Now, look, Frank. Is it a question of money? 601 00:53:36,277 --> 00:53:37,694 Because if it is, there's no reason 602 00:53:37,779 --> 00:53:38,862 we can't get together on a satisfactory... 603 00:53:38,947 --> 00:53:42,199 Well, I sure appreciate that, but no, it's not the money. 604 00:53:42,283 --> 00:53:47,287 It's... Well, it's more of a personal thing. 605 00:53:47,789 --> 00:53:49,623 I hope you understand. 606 00:53:49,958 --> 00:53:51,625 A personal thing? 607 00:53:52,502 --> 00:53:53,710 I see. 608 00:53:54,963 --> 00:53:58,257 Frank, let me tell you something my father told me. 609 00:53:58,550 --> 00:54:01,552 A man only gets a couple of chances in life. 610 00:54:01,803 --> 00:54:03,887 If he doesn't grab them by the balls, 611 00:54:03,972 --> 00:54:05,764 it won't be long before he's sitting around wondering 612 00:54:05,848 --> 00:54:08,183 how he got to be second rate. 613 00:54:14,148 --> 00:54:15,649 I guess so. 614 00:54:16,734 --> 00:54:19,486 So, do me a favour. Sleep on it. 615 00:54:21,281 --> 00:54:23,323 Discuss it with your wife. 616 00:54:24,617 --> 00:54:26,243 Because let's be honest, where the hell would any of us be 617 00:54:26,327 --> 00:54:28,370 without our wives, anyway? 618 00:54:31,833 --> 00:54:35,586 And, Frank, in all sincerity, if you do decide to join us, 619 00:54:35,670 --> 00:54:38,839 I believe it'll be a thing you'll never regret. 620 00:54:39,841 --> 00:54:42,467 And I believe something else, too. 621 00:54:42,802 --> 00:54:45,929 I believe it'd be a fine memorial to your dad. 622 00:54:48,349 --> 00:54:51,435 Think about it, Frank. Really think about it. 623 00:54:58,318 --> 00:55:00,694 Knowing what you've got, comma, 624 00:55:02,780 --> 00:55:05,532 knowing what you need, comma, 625 00:55:07,201 --> 00:55:11,121 knowing what you can do without, dash. 626 00:55:12,999 --> 00:55:15,042 That's inventory control. 627 00:55:33,186 --> 00:55:35,729 Knowing what you've got, comma, 628 00:55:37,565 --> 00:55:40,192 knowing what you need, comma, 629 00:55:42,111 --> 00:55:45,906 knowing what you can do without, dash. 630 00:55:47,784 --> 00:55:49,743 That's inventory control. 631 00:55:51,704 --> 00:55:53,080 Hi, Frank. 632 00:55:54,957 --> 00:55:56,416 Working late? 633 00:55:57,251 --> 00:56:00,754 Yeah. I got to dig myself out here. 634 00:56:02,965 --> 00:56:05,509 I heard you were getting promoted. 635 00:56:06,844 --> 00:56:08,220 Big shot. 636 00:56:11,891 --> 00:56:15,060 I guess your dad would have been real proud, huh? 637 00:56:23,111 --> 00:56:24,986 Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. 638 00:56:34,497 --> 00:56:37,874 So maybe I should take you for a drink or something? 639 00:56:39,168 --> 00:56:41,962 You know, celebrate. 640 00:56:46,634 --> 00:56:48,093 Yeah, maybe. 641 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:54,641 I'll just get my things. 642 00:57:02,316 --> 00:57:04,234 I'm going to bring my doll carriage 643 00:57:04,318 --> 00:57:07,237 and my three Easter rabbits and my giraffe 644 00:57:07,321 --> 00:57:10,407 and all my dolls and my doll house and my crayons... 645 00:57:10,491 --> 00:57:12,242 I thought maybe we'd give the doll house to Madeline. 646 00:57:12,326 --> 00:57:14,369 I don't want to give the doll house to Madeline. 647 00:57:14,454 --> 00:57:15,662 But I already explained to you, 648 00:57:15,747 --> 00:57:17,372 the big things are going to be hard to pack. 649 00:57:17,457 --> 00:57:18,874 But she can have my bear, 650 00:57:18,958 --> 00:57:22,419 - and my three Easter rabbits. - No! Just the big things. 651 00:57:22,503 --> 00:57:24,588 Look. Wouldn't you rather go outside and play with Michael? 652 00:57:24,672 --> 00:57:27,174 - I don't feel like it. - You've been inside all day. 653 00:57:27,258 --> 00:57:28,467 I don't feel like it. 654 00:57:28,551 --> 00:57:31,720 Well, I don't feel like explaining everything 15 times 655 00:57:31,804 --> 00:57:34,931 to somebody who's too bored and silly to listen! 656 00:57:41,773 --> 00:57:44,524 - All right, April. What's the matter? - Nothing. 657 00:57:44,609 --> 00:57:47,360 I don't believe you. Did something happen this morning? 658 00:57:47,445 --> 00:57:50,864 Nothing happened today that I haven't known about for days and days. 659 00:57:50,948 --> 00:57:52,032 What? 660 00:57:52,700 --> 00:57:55,619 Oh, God, Frank, please don't look so dense. 661 00:57:55,703 --> 00:57:57,454 You mean you haven't guessed or anything? 662 00:57:57,538 --> 00:57:59,956 April, what are you talking about? 663 00:58:03,127 --> 00:58:05,212 I'm pregnant, that's all. 664 00:58:08,007 --> 00:58:09,049 What? 665 00:58:09,175 --> 00:58:11,468 Frank, I meant to wait till the kids were in bed to tell you, 666 00:58:11,552 --> 00:58:14,471 but I just... Well, I've been pretty sure all week 667 00:58:14,555 --> 00:58:15,889 and today I went to the doctor, 668 00:58:15,973 --> 00:58:18,809 and now I can't even pretend it's not true. 669 00:58:20,269 --> 00:58:22,312 - How long? - Ten weeks. 670 00:58:24,732 --> 00:58:29,152 Ten weeks. Ten weeks? And you wait until now to tell me? 671 00:58:29,237 --> 00:58:35,075 No, well, I thought... I don't know what I thought. I'm sorry, Frank. I'm so sorry. 672 00:58:35,326 --> 00:58:37,994 I know. I know you are. All right? 673 00:58:39,121 --> 00:58:41,248 But there are things we can do. 674 00:58:41,332 --> 00:58:44,334 We don't have to let this stop us from going, do we? 675 00:58:44,418 --> 00:58:46,670 Remember that girl at school I told you about? 676 00:58:46,754 --> 00:58:50,423 As long as we take care of it before 12 weeks, it's fine. 677 00:58:51,592 --> 00:58:54,344 We've got to be together in this, Frank. 678 00:58:56,639 --> 00:59:01,351 Well, we'll figure it out. All right? 679 00:59:03,771 --> 00:59:05,105 Come here. 680 00:59:07,942 --> 00:59:11,444 Twelve weeks. So we have time to decide, right? 681 00:59:11,904 --> 00:59:13,113 Right. 682 00:59:15,449 --> 00:59:16,867 I love you. 683 00:59:21,038 --> 00:59:22,706 I love you, too. 684 01:00:06,918 --> 01:00:10,962 So, Frank, how's work? They gonna survive without you? 685 01:00:13,132 --> 01:00:16,259 Actually, something kind of funny happened the other day. 686 01:00:17,428 --> 01:00:20,931 I did some dumb little piece of work to get myself off the hook with Bandy, 687 01:00:21,015 --> 01:00:23,850 and suddenly, I'm the bright young man. 688 01:00:25,019 --> 01:00:27,604 - That's always the way, ain't it? - It's incredible. 689 01:00:27,688 --> 01:00:29,689 I mean, I knocked this thing off in a couple of minutes 690 01:00:29,774 --> 01:00:33,693 and now they want me to join their team of "specialist" salesmen. 691 01:00:34,028 --> 01:00:35,362 Morons. 692 01:00:37,448 --> 01:00:39,324 Well, it would be funny if they weren't offering 693 01:00:39,408 --> 01:00:41,201 so much damn money. 694 01:00:45,831 --> 01:00:47,624 So, are you tempted? 695 01:00:48,209 --> 01:00:51,378 Well, it's just kind of ironic, don't you think? 696 01:01:15,069 --> 01:01:17,570 I thought you turned the job down. 697 01:01:18,906 --> 01:01:20,115 Not yet. 698 01:01:21,283 --> 01:01:23,618 It's just an option, that's all. 699 01:01:24,662 --> 01:01:27,706 With the kind of money they're talking, things could be different for us here. 700 01:01:27,790 --> 01:01:30,458 We could get a better place. Travel. 701 01:01:31,377 --> 01:01:34,671 The point is, we could be happy here, at least for a little while. 702 01:01:34,755 --> 01:01:37,007 It is possible that Parisians aren't the only ones 703 01:01:37,091 --> 01:01:40,010 capable of leading interesting lives, April. 704 01:01:40,094 --> 01:01:42,053 So you've made up your mind? 705 01:01:42,138 --> 01:01:46,182 No. No. Like I said, it's just an option. That's all. 706 01:01:50,021 --> 01:01:52,188 And supposing you're right. 707 01:01:52,398 --> 01:01:56,359 You make all this money and we have this interesting life here. 708 01:01:56,819 --> 01:02:01,614 Won't you still be wasting your life toiling away at a job you find ridiculous? 709 01:02:02,533 --> 01:02:04,743 Maybe we let that be my business, all right? 710 01:02:04,827 --> 01:02:06,244 Your business? 711 01:02:06,328 --> 01:02:10,248 You know what? It's too hot for this. I'm going to go get wet. 712 01:02:22,303 --> 01:02:25,722 - You don't want to go, do you? - Come on, April. Of course, I do. 713 01:02:25,806 --> 01:02:28,767 No, you don't. Because you've never tried at anything. 714 01:02:28,851 --> 01:02:31,644 And if you don't try at anything, you can't fail. 715 01:02:31,729 --> 01:02:34,064 What the hell do you mean I don't try? 716 01:02:34,148 --> 01:02:36,608 I support you, don't I? I pay for this house. 717 01:02:36,692 --> 01:02:39,235 I work 10 hours a day at a job I can't stand. 718 01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,571 - You don't have to. - Bullshit! 719 01:02:41,822 --> 01:02:43,031 Look, I'm not happy about it. 720 01:02:43,115 --> 01:02:46,076 But I have the backbone not to run away from my responsibilities. 721 01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:49,412 It takes backbone to lead the life you want, Frank. 722 01:02:54,043 --> 01:02:55,085 Where are you going? 723 01:02:55,169 --> 01:02:59,506 If it's all right with you, April, I'm gonna go use the bathroom. Okay? 724 01:03:27,701 --> 01:03:30,620 What the hell are you going to do with this? 725 01:03:30,704 --> 01:03:32,205 And what do you think you're going to do? 726 01:03:32,289 --> 01:03:33,957 - You're going to stop me? - You're damn right I am! 727 01:03:34,041 --> 01:03:35,208 Go ahead and try. 728 01:03:35,292 --> 01:03:39,003 Listen to me. You do this, April, you do this and I swear to God I'll... 729 01:03:39,088 --> 01:03:41,422 You'll what? You'll leave me? Is that a threat or a promise? 730 01:03:41,507 --> 01:03:42,632 When did you buy this, April? 731 01:03:42,716 --> 01:03:44,300 How long have you had this? I want to know! 732 01:03:44,385 --> 01:03:45,343 Jesus Christ. 733 01:03:45,427 --> 01:03:48,429 You really are being melodramatic about this whole thing. 734 01:03:48,514 --> 01:03:52,142 As long as it's done in the first 12 weeks, it's perfectly safe. 735 01:03:52,226 --> 01:03:55,353 - That's now, April! Don't I get a say? - Of course you do! 736 01:03:55,437 --> 01:03:57,689 It would be for you, Frank. Don't you see? 737 01:03:57,773 --> 01:03:59,732 So you can have time, just like we talked about. 738 01:03:59,817 --> 01:04:01,192 How can it be for me when the thought of it 739 01:04:01,277 --> 01:04:03,278 makes my stomach turn over, for God's sake? 740 01:04:03,362 --> 01:04:04,779 Then it's for me. 741 01:04:04,864 --> 01:04:06,739 Tell me we can have the baby in Paris, Frank. 742 01:04:06,824 --> 01:04:11,035 Tell me we can have a different life. But don't make me stay here. Please. 743 01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:14,414 - We can't have the baby in Paris. - Why not? 744 01:04:14,498 --> 01:04:17,542 I don't need everything we have here. I don't care where we live. 745 01:04:17,626 --> 01:04:20,253 I mean, who made these rules, anyway? 746 01:04:21,255 --> 01:04:26,301 Look, the only reason we moved out here was because I got pregnant. 747 01:04:26,385 --> 01:04:28,928 Then we had another child to prove the first one wasn't a mistake. 748 01:04:29,013 --> 01:04:31,347 I mean, how long does it go on? 749 01:04:32,641 --> 01:04:36,269 Frank. Do you actually want another child? 750 01:04:38,230 --> 01:04:41,733 Well, do you? Come on, tell me. 751 01:04:42,693 --> 01:04:45,653 Tell me the truth, Frank. Remember that? 752 01:04:46,322 --> 01:04:48,072 We used to live by it. 753 01:04:48,157 --> 01:04:50,575 And you know what's so good about the truth? 754 01:04:50,659 --> 01:04:54,579 Everyone knows what it is, however long they've lived without it. 755 01:04:54,663 --> 01:04:58,791 No one forgets the truth, Frank. They just get better at lying. 756 01:05:00,586 --> 01:05:05,506 So tell me, do you really want another child? 757 01:05:07,384 --> 01:05:09,510 All I know is what I feel. 758 01:05:12,056 --> 01:05:16,351 And anyone else in their right mind would feel the same way, April. 759 01:05:16,435 --> 01:05:20,730 But I've had two children. Doesn't that count in my favour? 760 01:05:20,856 --> 01:05:23,775 Christ, April! The fact that you even put it that way! 761 01:05:23,859 --> 01:05:27,862 You make it seem as if having children is some sort of a goddamn punishment. 762 01:05:27,988 --> 01:05:30,031 I love my children, Frank. 763 01:05:32,034 --> 01:05:34,369 And you're sure about that, huh? 764 01:05:34,870 --> 01:05:37,080 What the hell is that supposed to mean? 765 01:05:37,164 --> 01:05:40,833 April, you just said our daughter was a mistake. 766 01:05:41,335 --> 01:05:43,253 How do I know you didn't try to get rid of her, 767 01:05:43,337 --> 01:05:44,963 - or Michael for that matter? - No. 768 01:05:45,047 --> 01:05:47,924 How do I know you didn't try to flush our entire fucking family 769 01:05:48,008 --> 01:05:51,010 - down the toilet? - No, that's not true. Of course I didn't. 770 01:05:51,095 --> 01:05:53,096 But how do I know, April? 771 01:05:53,222 --> 01:05:56,307 Stop. Please just stop, Frank. 772 01:05:56,809 --> 01:06:01,187 April, a normal woman, a normal sane mother 773 01:06:01,272 --> 01:06:04,607 doesn't buy a piece of rubber tubing to give herself an abortion 774 01:06:04,692 --> 01:06:07,986 so she can live out some kind of a goddamn fantasy. 775 01:06:18,539 --> 01:06:23,668 Look, all I'm saying is you don't seem entirely rational about this thing. 776 01:06:25,337 --> 01:06:27,297 And I think it's about time we found somebody 777 01:06:27,381 --> 01:06:29,716 to help make some sense of your life. 778 01:06:30,968 --> 01:06:33,970 And the newjob's going to pay for that, too? 779 01:06:36,223 --> 01:06:40,977 April, if you need a shrink, it will be paid for. 780 01:06:42,062 --> 01:06:43,438 Obviously. 781 01:06:47,609 --> 01:06:51,946 Okay. I guess there isn't much more to say then, is there? 782 01:07:01,457 --> 01:07:04,625 So I guess Paris was a pretty childish idea, huh? 783 01:07:10,674 --> 01:07:12,508 I guess maybe it was. 784 01:07:25,773 --> 01:07:29,859 April, we can be happy here. 785 01:07:31,153 --> 01:07:33,196 I can make you happy here. 786 01:07:33,947 --> 01:07:37,700 We've had a great couple of months. It doesn't need to end. 787 01:07:40,287 --> 01:07:44,332 We're going to be okay. I promise. 788 01:07:48,587 --> 01:07:50,254 I hope so, Frank. 789 01:07:52,049 --> 01:07:53,716 I really hope so. 790 01:08:34,383 --> 01:08:37,635 Thank you for waiting. Mr Pollock will see you now. 791 01:08:39,596 --> 01:08:41,180 Thanks so much. 792 01:08:51,942 --> 01:08:54,318 Foiled by faulty contraception. 793 01:08:56,196 --> 01:08:57,697 I can't say that I'm sorry. 794 01:08:57,781 --> 01:09:01,492 You'd have been sorely missed in the old cubicle, I can tell you that. 795 01:09:01,577 --> 01:09:04,328 Wouldn't have been the same without you. 796 01:09:04,413 --> 01:09:07,540 Besides... Well... 797 01:09:10,210 --> 01:09:11,252 What? 798 01:09:12,629 --> 01:09:17,717 The plan always seemed a touch unrealistic, don't you think? 799 01:09:22,431 --> 01:09:23,806 I suppose it's none of my business, really. 800 01:09:23,891 --> 01:09:27,226 No. No. I suppose it isn't. 801 01:09:30,898 --> 01:09:32,064 Well... 802 01:09:35,027 --> 01:09:38,446 They'll be celebrating in the secretarial pool. 803 01:10:07,726 --> 01:10:10,686 Hey! Do you remember the first time you brought us here? 804 01:10:10,771 --> 01:10:11,938 Absolutely. 805 01:10:12,022 --> 01:10:16,192 You said it takes a special kind of taste to enjoy Vito's Log Cabin. 806 01:10:16,318 --> 01:10:19,070 It's so awful, it's kind of nice. 807 01:10:22,699 --> 01:10:28,788 Look at me. I'm just so happy. Our little gang's back together again. 808 01:10:33,001 --> 01:10:35,086 How do you like the boys in the band? Aren't they swinging tonight? 809 01:10:41,885 --> 01:10:45,263 - Hey, Europe's not going anywhere. - That's right. 810 01:11:08,078 --> 01:11:10,788 April, honey, how about a dance? 811 01:11:13,250 --> 01:11:15,835 Not right now. Maybe later. 812 01:11:15,919 --> 01:11:18,504 - I'll dance. - Okay. 813 01:11:33,353 --> 01:11:36,480 Guess she's still pretty blue about Paris, huh? 814 01:11:37,190 --> 01:11:38,441 Think she'll be okay? 815 01:11:38,525 --> 01:11:42,320 Sure. Give us girls a couple of days and we can get over anything. 816 01:11:42,404 --> 01:11:43,613 Right. 817 01:11:45,365 --> 01:11:56,292 Frank. 818 01:11:56,376 --> 01:11:59,211 Are you okay? Are you okay? Milly? 819 01:11:59,921 --> 01:12:01,380 I'm so sorry. 820 01:12:02,466 --> 01:12:03,841 Excuse me. 821 01:12:08,764 --> 01:12:10,431 That's just great. 822 01:12:11,183 --> 01:12:14,143 How the hell are we supposed to get out now? 823 01:12:14,519 --> 01:12:15,770 Oh, boy. 824 01:12:17,356 --> 01:12:20,191 Don't worry about it, Shep. We can wait. Really. 825 01:12:20,359 --> 01:12:21,859 What about the sitter? 826 01:12:21,943 --> 01:12:25,029 Listen, why don't you drive Milly home, then go home yourself. 827 01:12:25,113 --> 01:12:28,074 That takes care of both sitters. Then Shep can take me home later. 828 01:12:28,158 --> 01:12:30,826 - Yeah, it's fine by me. - Okay, then. 829 01:12:32,162 --> 01:12:35,748 - You... You'll be all right? - Sure. 830 01:12:36,541 --> 01:12:37,667 Okay. 831 01:12:39,211 --> 01:12:41,128 - Good night. - Good night. 832 01:12:41,755 --> 01:12:43,130 Feel better. 833 01:13:03,110 --> 01:13:05,861 I'm sorry you're not going away any more. 834 01:13:06,988 --> 01:13:09,365 I know it was important to you. 835 01:13:10,617 --> 01:13:15,079 Don't take this wrong, but I've been there. 836 01:13:15,914 --> 01:13:18,791 They don't have so much we don't have here. 837 01:13:19,418 --> 01:13:21,544 It didn't have to be Paris. 838 01:13:22,963 --> 01:13:26,632 You just wanted out, huh? 839 01:13:27,175 --> 01:13:28,634 I wanted in. 840 01:13:32,055 --> 01:13:35,725 I just wanted us to live again. 841 01:13:41,440 --> 01:13:44,400 For years, I thought we shared this secret. 842 01:13:47,487 --> 01:13:50,281 That we would be wonderful in the world. 843 01:13:53,910 --> 01:13:56,495 I didn't exactly know how, but just... 844 01:13:58,081 --> 01:14:00,624 Just the possibility kept me hoping. 845 01:14:07,799 --> 01:14:09,675 How pathetic is that? 846 01:14:11,595 --> 01:14:13,053 So stupid. 847 01:14:15,432 --> 01:14:20,561 To put all your hopes in a promise that was never made? 848 01:14:24,566 --> 01:14:27,526 See, Frank knows. He knows what he wants. 849 01:14:27,819 --> 01:14:30,446 He's found his place. He's just fine. 850 01:14:31,865 --> 01:14:33,574 Married, two kids. 851 01:14:38,705 --> 01:14:40,498 It should be enough. 852 01:14:45,837 --> 01:14:47,338 It is for him. 853 01:14:52,052 --> 01:14:53,552 And he's right. 854 01:14:56,181 --> 01:14:59,809 We were never special or destined or anything at all. 855 01:15:00,352 --> 01:15:02,061 Yes, you are. 856 01:15:03,563 --> 01:15:04,897 You're... 857 01:15:06,566 --> 01:15:08,359 You're the Wheelers. 858 01:15:08,485 --> 01:15:11,445 You're a terrific couple. Everybody says so. 859 01:15:12,781 --> 01:15:15,032 I saw a whole other future. 860 01:15:18,578 --> 01:15:20,496 I can't stop seeing it. 861 01:15:25,752 --> 01:15:27,127 Can't leave, 862 01:15:29,381 --> 01:15:30,798 can't stay. 863 01:15:33,134 --> 01:15:35,010 No damn use to anyone. 864 01:15:43,103 --> 01:15:44,353 Come on. 865 01:15:45,939 --> 01:15:47,314 Let's do it. 866 01:16:57,052 --> 01:16:58,260 Let me take you somewhere. 867 01:16:58,345 --> 01:17:01,722 No. Just do it here. Now. 868 01:17:48,687 --> 01:17:49,853 April. 869 01:17:52,565 --> 01:17:54,900 This is what I've always wanted. 870 01:17:56,319 --> 01:17:57,695 I love you. 871 01:17:58,697 --> 01:18:00,239 Don't say that. 872 01:18:01,866 --> 01:18:05,452 No. I mean it, I love you. 873 01:18:05,578 --> 01:18:09,415 Please, just be quiet for a minute. 874 01:18:13,878 --> 01:18:16,005 Then you can take me home. 875 01:19:06,973 --> 01:19:08,682 It's beautiful out. 876 01:19:09,934 --> 01:19:11,351 Yes, it is. 877 01:19:16,316 --> 01:19:18,233 You know what today is? 878 01:19:18,777 --> 01:19:21,278 - It's 12 weeks. - That's right. 879 01:19:25,241 --> 01:19:28,786 Look, this has been kind of a crazy summer. 880 01:19:28,870 --> 01:19:30,913 We've both been under a strain. 881 01:19:30,997 --> 01:19:33,749 I mean, I understand why you're upset. 882 01:19:34,459 --> 01:19:38,253 You know I'm not sleeping with you, and you want to know why. 883 01:19:39,672 --> 01:19:44,510 Well, I'm sorry, Frank, but I really don't feel like talking about it. 884 01:19:45,178 --> 01:19:48,180 All right. Then what should we talk about, April? 885 01:19:48,264 --> 01:19:51,683 Would it be all right if we didn't talk about anything? 886 01:19:51,768 --> 01:19:55,395 I mean, can't we just take each day as it comes, and do the best we can, 887 01:19:55,480 --> 01:19:59,108 and not feel like we have to talk about everything all the time? 888 01:19:59,192 --> 01:20:02,569 I don't think I'm suggesting that we talk about everything all the time. 889 01:20:02,654 --> 01:20:06,865 Look, my point is we've both been under a strain 890 01:20:06,950 --> 01:20:11,203 and we ought to be helping each other out as much as we can right now. 891 01:20:11,287 --> 01:20:15,249 I mean, God knows my own behaviour has been pretty weird lately. 892 01:20:17,877 --> 01:20:21,964 As a matter of fact, there is something I'd like to tell you about. 893 01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:27,261 I've been with a girl a few times, in the city. 894 01:20:29,055 --> 01:20:31,348 A girl I hardly even know. 895 01:20:31,850 --> 01:20:34,476 It was nothing to me, 896 01:20:34,561 --> 01:20:38,564 but it's over now, really over. 897 01:20:39,399 --> 01:20:43,193 And if I weren't sure of that, I guess I could never have told you about it. 898 01:20:48,533 --> 01:20:49,992 Why did you? 899 01:20:50,743 --> 01:20:52,578 Baby, I don't know. 900 01:20:53,121 --> 01:20:55,664 I think it's a simple case of wanting to be a man again 901 01:20:55,748 --> 01:20:57,457 after all that abortion business. 902 01:20:57,542 --> 01:21:01,253 Some kind of neurotic, irrational need to prove something. 903 01:21:01,337 --> 01:21:04,631 No. I don't mean why did you have the girl. 904 01:21:04,716 --> 01:21:07,509 I mean, why did you tell me about it? 905 01:21:09,971 --> 01:21:13,098 - What do you mean? - I mean, what's the point? 906 01:21:15,268 --> 01:21:18,520 Is it supposed to make me jealous or something? 907 01:21:18,605 --> 01:21:20,439 Is it supposed to make me fall in love with you, 908 01:21:20,523 --> 01:21:23,317 or back into bed with you, or what? 909 01:21:23,401 --> 01:21:27,070 I mean, what would you like me to say, Frank? 910 01:21:28,740 --> 01:21:31,450 Why don't you say what you feel, April? 911 01:21:32,535 --> 01:21:34,453 I don't feel anything. 912 01:21:35,121 --> 01:21:39,208 In other words, you don't care what I do or who I fuck or anything? 913 01:21:42,879 --> 01:21:46,173 No, I guess that's right. I don't. 914 01:21:48,593 --> 01:21:50,302 Fuck who you like. 915 01:21:50,637 --> 01:21:53,847 April, don't you understand that I want you to care? 916 01:21:53,932 --> 01:21:56,141 I know. I know you do. 917 01:21:57,310 --> 01:21:59,519 And I suppose I would if I loved you. 918 01:21:59,604 --> 01:22:02,731 But I don't think I do any more. And I only just figured that out. 919 01:22:02,815 --> 01:22:06,276 And that's why I'd just as soon not do any talking right now. 920 01:22:06,361 --> 01:22:08,820 Don't give me that shit, April. Don't give me that. 921 01:22:08,905 --> 01:22:11,531 - You know goddamn well you love me. - You think so? 922 01:22:11,616 --> 01:22:13,492 You know goddamn well! 923 01:22:15,495 --> 01:22:16,995 Anyone home? 924 01:22:21,501 --> 01:22:24,544 I'm sorry dinner's late. Would anyone like another drink? 925 01:22:24,629 --> 01:22:28,382 Don't worry. It's nice to just sit a bit and socialise. 926 01:22:28,675 --> 01:22:30,300 You shouldn't have gone to all this trouble. 927 01:22:30,385 --> 01:22:32,094 With all your packing and whatnot. 928 01:22:32,178 --> 01:22:35,973 I imagine you have a lot on your plate. No pun intended. 929 01:22:37,433 --> 01:22:39,685 Actually, there's been a change of plans. 930 01:22:40,603 --> 01:22:42,938 I thought maybe it was obvious. 931 01:22:43,022 --> 01:22:44,314 April here is pregnant. 932 01:22:44,399 --> 01:22:47,526 - Congratulations. - Oh, April! 933 01:22:47,610 --> 01:22:50,779 I can't tell you how pleased I am! 934 01:22:50,863 --> 01:22:53,490 But I expect you'll be needing a bigger house now, won't you? 935 01:22:53,574 --> 01:22:56,410 Hold it a second, Ma. Hold on a second, Ma. 936 01:22:56,494 --> 01:23:00,455 I don't get this. I mean, what's so obvious about it? 937 01:23:00,540 --> 01:23:05,377 I mean, okay, she's pregnant, so what? Don't people have babies in Europe? 938 01:23:05,461 --> 01:23:07,129 - John... - Suppose we just say 939 01:23:07,213 --> 01:23:10,132 that people anywhere aren't very well advised to have babies 940 01:23:10,216 --> 01:23:12,342 unless they can afford them. 941 01:23:13,011 --> 01:23:17,681 Okay. Okay, it's a question of money. Money's a good reason. 942 01:23:17,765 --> 01:23:22,144 But it's hardly ever the real reason. 943 01:23:22,228 --> 01:23:27,441 What's the real reason? Wife talk you out of it or what? 944 01:23:27,984 --> 01:23:31,945 Little woman decide she isn't quite ready to quit playing house? 945 01:23:33,031 --> 01:23:35,407 No, no, that's not it. I can tell. 946 01:23:35,491 --> 01:23:38,618 She looks too tough and adequate as hell. 947 01:23:40,538 --> 01:23:45,208 Okay, then. It must've been you. What happened? 948 01:23:45,293 --> 01:23:49,921 - John, please. You're being very rude. - No, no. What happened, Frank? 949 01:23:55,303 --> 01:23:56,636 You get cold feet? 950 01:23:56,721 --> 01:23:59,973 You decide you're better off here after all? 951 01:24:00,725 --> 01:24:04,895 You figure it's more comfy 952 01:24:04,979 --> 01:24:09,483 here in the old hopeless emptiness after all, huh? 953 01:24:10,568 --> 01:24:14,404 Oh, wow, that did it. Look at his face. 954 01:24:14,489 --> 01:24:16,782 What's the matter, Wheeler? Am I getting warm? 955 01:24:16,866 --> 01:24:20,285 - All right, Son. I think we'd better be... - You know something? 956 01:24:20,370 --> 01:24:23,288 I wouldn't be surprised if he knocked her up on purpose 957 01:24:23,373 --> 01:24:27,042 just so he could spend the rest of his life hiding behind a maternity dress. 958 01:24:27,126 --> 01:24:30,379 That way he'd never have to find out what he's really made of. 959 01:24:30,463 --> 01:24:34,132 Now look, I think that's just about enough out of you. 960 01:24:34,717 --> 01:24:37,010 I mean, who the hell do you think you are? 961 01:24:37,095 --> 01:24:38,512 You come in here and say 962 01:24:38,596 --> 01:24:41,640 whatever crazy goddamn thing comes into your head, 963 01:24:41,724 --> 01:24:45,018 and I think it's about time somebody told you to keep your goddamn mouth shut. 964 01:24:45,103 --> 01:24:48,146 - He's not well, Frank. - Not well, my ass! 965 01:24:48,356 --> 01:24:52,109 I don't give a damn if he's sick or well or dead or alive, 966 01:24:52,193 --> 01:24:53,860 he should keep his fucking opinions 967 01:24:53,945 --> 01:24:57,489 in the fucking insane asylum where they belong! 968 01:25:00,451 --> 01:25:02,869 - Let's go, Son. - Come on, John. 969 01:25:07,291 --> 01:25:10,043 Big man you got there, April. 970 01:25:10,670 --> 01:25:12,629 Big family man. 971 01:25:16,342 --> 01:25:18,343 I feel sorry for you. 972 01:25:21,013 --> 01:25:24,474 Still, maybe you deserve each other. 973 01:25:24,559 --> 01:25:29,229 I mean, the way you look right now, I'm beginning to feel sorry for him, too. 974 01:25:30,773 --> 01:25:33,150 You must give him a pretty bad time 975 01:25:33,234 --> 01:25:37,154 if making babies is the only way he can prove he's got a pair of balls. 976 01:25:37,405 --> 01:25:41,992 - You fucking... - No! He's not well, Frank! 977 01:25:53,796 --> 01:25:57,299 All right, John. Let's get on out to the car now. 978 01:26:03,097 --> 01:26:06,057 April, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. 979 01:26:06,142 --> 01:26:10,770 Oh, right. Sorry. Sorry! Sorry! 980 01:26:10,855 --> 01:26:13,815 Ma, have I said "I'm sorry" enough times? 981 01:26:13,900 --> 01:26:16,193 Damn! I am sorry, too. 982 01:26:16,277 --> 01:26:19,237 I bet I'm just about the sorriest bastard I know. 983 01:26:19,322 --> 01:26:23,450 But get right down to it, I don't have a whole hell of a lot to be glad about. 984 01:26:23,534 --> 01:26:24,659 Do I? 985 01:26:27,371 --> 01:26:29,331 But, hey, you know what? 986 01:26:30,666 --> 01:26:32,751 I am glad about one thing. 987 01:26:33,336 --> 01:26:35,629 You want to know what I'm glad about? 988 01:26:38,049 --> 01:26:40,675 I'm glad I'm not gonna be that kid. 989 01:26:58,277 --> 01:27:01,738 Okay, okay, don't tell me. 990 01:27:02,323 --> 01:27:04,449 Don't tell me, let me guess. 991 01:27:05,034 --> 01:27:08,578 I made a disgusting spectacle of myself, right? 992 01:27:10,331 --> 01:27:11,414 Right. 993 01:27:11,499 --> 01:27:13,124 And everything that man said is true, right? 994 01:27:13,209 --> 01:27:15,001 Is that what you're going to say? 995 01:27:15,086 --> 01:27:17,212 Apparently I don't have to. 996 01:27:17,296 --> 01:27:20,298 - You're saying it for me. - Well, you're wrong, April. 997 01:27:20,383 --> 01:27:24,094 - Really? Why am I wrong? - Because the man is insane. 998 01:27:24,178 --> 01:27:27,430 He's fucking insane! Do you know what the definition of insanity is? 999 01:27:27,515 --> 01:27:28,682 No. Do you? 1000 01:27:28,766 --> 01:27:32,269 Yes, it's the inability to relate to another human being. 1001 01:27:32,353 --> 01:27:34,437 It's the inability to love. 1002 01:27:39,443 --> 01:27:42,153 April. April. 1003 01:27:42,738 --> 01:27:45,490 April! April! 1004 01:27:45,575 --> 01:27:49,828 The inability... The inability to love. 1005 01:27:51,664 --> 01:27:54,624 Frank. You really are a wonderful talker. 1006 01:27:54,709 --> 01:27:58,044 If black could be made into white by talking, 1007 01:27:58,129 --> 01:28:00,171 you'd be the man for the job. 1008 01:28:00,256 --> 01:28:02,757 So now I'm crazy because I don't love you. Right? 1009 01:28:02,842 --> 01:28:04,926 - Is that the point? - No. Wrong. 1010 01:28:05,011 --> 01:28:08,972 You're not crazy and you do love me. That's the point, April. 1011 01:28:09,432 --> 01:28:12,684 But I don't. I hate you. 1012 01:28:13,227 --> 01:28:16,021 You were just some boy who made me laugh at a party? Once 1013 01:28:16,105 --> 01:28:18,607 and now I loathe the sight of you. 1014 01:28:19,150 --> 01:28:22,736 In fact, if you come any closer, if you touch me or anything, 1015 01:28:22,820 --> 01:28:24,696 I think I'll scream. 1016 01:28:25,948 --> 01:28:27,991 Come on. Stop this, April. 1017 01:28:33,539 --> 01:28:35,498 Fuck you, April! 1018 01:28:35,583 --> 01:28:39,002 Fuck you and all your hateful, stuck-up, little goddamn... 1019 01:28:39,086 --> 01:28:41,796 What're you going to do now? Are you going to hit me? 1020 01:28:41,881 --> 01:28:44,924 - To show me how much you love me? - Don't worry, I can't be bothered! 1021 01:28:45,092 --> 01:28:47,761 You're not worth the trouble it would take to hit you. 1022 01:28:47,845 --> 01:28:50,555 You're not worth the powder it would take to blow you up. 1023 01:28:50,640 --> 01:28:54,934 You're an empty, empty, hollow shell of a woman! 1024 01:28:56,062 --> 01:29:00,065 What the hell are you doing in my house if you hate me so much? 1025 01:29:00,608 --> 01:29:02,859 Why the hell are you married to me? 1026 01:29:02,943 --> 01:29:05,820 What the hell are you doing carrying my child? 1027 01:29:05,905 --> 01:29:08,615 I mean, why didn't you just get rid of it when you had the chance? 1028 01:29:08,699 --> 01:29:11,743 Because listen to me. Listen to me, I got news for you. 1029 01:29:11,827 --> 01:29:13,995 I wish to God that you had. 1030 01:29:48,072 --> 01:30:15,140 April! 1031 01:30:23,274 --> 01:30:25,191 - April! - Stay away from me. 1032 01:30:25,317 --> 01:30:27,360 - April, listen. - Stay away from me. 1033 01:30:27,445 --> 01:30:29,362 Can't I even get away from you in the fucking woods? 1034 01:30:29,447 --> 01:30:31,448 April, listen, I didn't mean that. 1035 01:30:31,532 --> 01:30:33,908 - Honestly, I didn't mean what I said. - Are you still talking? 1036 01:30:33,993 --> 01:30:36,828 Isn't there any way to stop your talking? 1037 01:30:37,455 --> 01:30:41,040 I need to think. Can't you see that? I need to think. 1038 01:30:43,461 --> 01:30:45,253 Please come back to the house. What're you doing out here, April? 1039 01:30:45,337 --> 01:30:46,921 Do you want me to scream again, Frank? 1040 01:30:47,006 --> 01:30:49,215 Because I will! I mean it! 1041 01:30:57,892 --> 01:31:00,351 Okay. Okay. 1042 01:34:33,607 --> 01:34:38,695 Good morning. 1043 01:34:40,447 --> 01:34:43,116 Would you like scrambled eggs or fried? 1044 01:34:48,038 --> 01:34:49,622 I don't know. 1045 01:34:50,374 --> 01:34:55,461 It doesn't really matter. Scrambled, I guess, if it's easy. 1046 01:34:56,213 --> 01:34:59,215 Fine. I'll have scrambled, too. 1047 01:35:57,149 --> 01:36:01,527 It's kind of nice having breakfast without the kids for a change, huh? 1048 01:36:01,612 --> 01:36:02,779 Yes. 1049 01:36:03,697 --> 01:36:06,616 I thought you'd probably want a good breakfast today. 1050 01:36:06,700 --> 01:36:09,952 I mean, it's kind of an important day for you, isn't it? 1051 01:36:10,788 --> 01:36:14,332 Isn't this the day you have your conference with Pollock? 1052 01:36:16,460 --> 01:36:18,753 Yes. Yes, that's right. 1053 01:36:20,798 --> 01:36:24,717 - Big deal. - I imagine it is a pretty big deal. 1054 01:36:25,385 --> 01:36:27,136 For them, anyway. 1055 01:36:28,388 --> 01:36:32,058 What exactly do you think you'll be doing in your newjob? 1056 01:36:32,434 --> 01:36:35,228 You haven't really told me much about it. 1057 01:36:36,063 --> 01:36:37,480 Haven't I? 1058 01:36:39,650 --> 01:36:41,859 Well, I think this whole thing is about Knox getting ready 1059 01:36:41,944 --> 01:36:45,238 to buy up one of those really big computers, 1060 01:36:45,322 --> 01:36:47,448 even bigger than the 500. 1061 01:36:48,450 --> 01:36:51,828 - Didn't I tell you about that? - No. 1062 01:36:52,496 --> 01:36:54,539 Why don't you tell me now? 1063 01:36:58,836 --> 01:36:59,919 Well, 1064 01:37:01,296 --> 01:37:05,758 you know, basically it's just a big, fast adding machine. 1065 01:37:07,427 --> 01:37:11,139 Only, instead of mechanical parts, you see, 1066 01:37:11,849 --> 01:37:17,186 you've got thousands of individual vacuum tubes. 1067 01:37:28,031 --> 01:37:29,282 I see. 1068 01:37:37,124 --> 01:37:39,167 At least I think I see. 1069 01:37:43,005 --> 01:37:46,090 Yes, it's really kind of interesting, isn't it? 1070 01:37:48,677 --> 01:37:50,511 Well, I don't know. 1071 01:37:52,556 --> 01:37:55,766 Yeah, I guess it is kind of interesting, in a way. 1072 01:38:00,522 --> 01:38:03,107 You should value what you do, Frank. 1073 01:38:04,359 --> 01:38:06,527 You're obviously good at it. 1074 01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:25,171 Well, I guess I'd better be getting started, huh? 1075 01:38:32,054 --> 01:38:34,388 Listen, though, April, the... 1076 01:38:36,475 --> 01:38:38,309 This was really nice. 1077 01:38:39,895 --> 01:38:42,980 I mean, it was a swell breakfast. Really, I... 1078 01:38:43,857 --> 01:38:47,193 I don't know when I've ever had a nicer breakfast. 1079 01:38:49,446 --> 01:38:53,366 Thank you. I enjoyed it, too. 1080 01:39:15,138 --> 01:39:19,267 Then you don't... You don't hate me or anything? 1081 01:39:21,895 --> 01:39:25,606 No. No, of course I don't. 1082 01:39:36,368 --> 01:39:37,994 Have a good day. 1083 01:39:44,751 --> 01:39:48,504 Okay, then. So long. 1084 01:41:30,732 --> 01:41:35,277 Hello. Milly? Everything all right? 1085 01:41:37,572 --> 01:41:42,201 Well, no, I'm afraid I'm not feeling any better. That's really why I called. 1086 01:41:43,745 --> 01:41:47,832 If it's not an inconvenience for you, this evening would be great. 1087 01:41:48,834 --> 01:41:49,875 What? 1088 01:41:52,587 --> 01:41:57,591 Oh, no. No. Not if they're outdoors playing. 1089 01:42:01,888 --> 01:42:03,931 Don't call them in. 1090 01:42:04,015 --> 01:42:08,436 Just give them each a kiss for me, 1091 01:42:10,021 --> 01:42:11,939 and tell them I... 1092 01:42:13,608 --> 01:42:15,109 Tell them... 1093 01:42:16,403 --> 01:42:22,283 You know. All right. All right. Thank you, Milly. Bye. 1094 01:45:54,120 --> 01:45:56,872 I think I need help. 1095 01:45:58,375 --> 01:46:02,336 115 Revolutionary Road. 1096 01:46:29,197 --> 01:46:31,990 - Frank. They tell you what happened? - Jesus Christ. 1097 01:46:32,075 --> 01:46:34,618 Shep, I didn't understand half the things he told me. 1098 01:46:34,703 --> 01:46:37,496 He said the foetus was out before they got her here. 1099 01:46:37,580 --> 01:46:42,292 And they had to operate to take out the, what do you call it, the placenta? 1100 01:46:42,377 --> 01:46:44,712 And now she's still bleeding. 1101 01:46:44,796 --> 01:46:47,506 He said that she'd lost a lot of blood before the ambulance came, 1102 01:46:47,590 --> 01:46:50,008 and now they're trying to stop it. 1103 01:46:50,218 --> 01:46:54,596 He said a whole lot of things I didn't understand about capillaries... 1104 01:46:55,306 --> 01:46:59,685 He said that she's unconscious. Jesus. 1105 01:46:59,769 --> 01:47:01,645 Okay, Frank, why don't you just take a seat? 1106 01:47:01,730 --> 01:47:04,106 What the hell do I want to sit down for, for God's sake? 1107 01:47:04,190 --> 01:47:08,360 Okay, Frank. Just take it easy. Take it easy. 1108 01:47:10,780 --> 01:47:14,241 - Frank, have a cigarette. - She did it to herself, Shep. 1109 01:47:16,202 --> 01:47:18,162 She did it to herself. 1110 01:47:25,754 --> 01:47:28,005 I'm gonna get you some coffee. 1111 01:48:38,326 --> 01:48:42,454 They were such wonderful people. Weren't they, Shep? 1112 01:48:43,289 --> 01:48:48,001 It's just devastating. Poor April. 1113 01:48:48,086 --> 01:48:49,419 Thank you. 1114 01:48:50,630 --> 01:48:54,091 Frank lives in the city now. Where is it that he works? 1115 01:48:55,134 --> 01:48:57,636 - Bart Pollock Associates. - Computers? 1116 01:48:58,930 --> 01:49:00,848 Interesting firm. 1117 01:49:00,932 --> 01:49:04,226 - Have you seen him since? - No. Not back here. 1118 01:49:04,310 --> 01:49:08,605 There are too many memories, I think. Shep has seen him in the city. 1119 01:49:08,690 --> 01:49:10,607 Haven't you, sweetie? 1120 01:49:11,150 --> 01:49:14,278 Frank is just devoted to those kids. 1121 01:49:15,154 --> 01:49:18,240 Every spare moment he has, he spends with them. 1122 01:49:33,423 --> 01:49:34,756 Excuse me. 1123 01:49:46,019 --> 01:49:47,561 You all right? 1124 01:49:52,942 --> 01:49:56,194 I don't want to talk about the Wheelers any more. 1125 01:49:57,739 --> 01:49:58,822 Okay. 1126 01:50:01,117 --> 01:50:06,496 We don't have to. 1127 01:50:48,623 --> 01:50:51,375 Daddy, Daddy, watch. Watch, Daddy. 1128 01:50:57,382 --> 01:50:59,091 I can't tell you how pleased I am 1129 01:50:59,175 --> 01:51:02,386 about the little Revolutionary Road place, Howard. 1130 01:51:02,804 --> 01:51:05,764 And now whenever I drive past, it gives me such a lift 1131 01:51:05,848 --> 01:51:09,476 to see it all perked up and spanking clean again. 1132 01:51:10,061 --> 01:51:12,479 All the lights in all the windows. 1133 01:51:13,564 --> 01:51:17,776 And do you know? I was just thinking, I've loved that little house for years. 1134 01:51:17,860 --> 01:51:22,364 And the Braces are the only really suitable people I've ever found for it. 1135 01:51:22,949 --> 01:51:25,784 Really nice, congenial people, I mean. 1136 01:51:25,868 --> 01:51:28,578 Well, except for the Wheelers, you mean. 1137 01:51:30,581 --> 01:51:33,000 I was very fond of the Wheelers. 1138 01:51:33,835 --> 01:51:37,295 They were a bit whimsical for my taste. A bit neurotic. 1139 01:51:38,423 --> 01:51:39,756 I never stressed it, but they were often 1140 01:51:39,841 --> 01:51:43,010 very trying people to deal with, in many ways. 1141 01:51:44,303 --> 01:51:49,099 And actually, the main reason that the little house was so hard to sell 1142 01:51:49,225 --> 01:51:52,352 was because they let it depreciate so dreadfully. 1143 01:51:52,437 --> 01:51:58,066 Warped window frames, wet cellar, crayon marks all over the walls, 1144 01:51:58,151 --> 01:52:00,651 filthy smudges around the door knobs and the fixtures...