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(CLOCK TICKING)
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(LIGHTS CLANK)
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(MICROPHONE FEEDBACK SQUEALS SOFTLY)
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(SWITCHES CLICKING)
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Tonight's program takes us backstage
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to witness firsthand the creation,
start to finish,
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of a new play mounted
on the American stage.
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Asteroid City does not exist.
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It is an imaginary drama
created expressly for this broadcast.
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The characters are fictional,
the text hypothetical,
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the events an apocryphal fabrication,
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but together they present
an authentic account
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of the inner workings
of a modern theatrical production.
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Our story begins, of course,
with an ink ribbon.
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Conrad Earp, playwright,
native of upper Wyoming,
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well-known for
his romantic poetic tapestries
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of life west of the Rocky Mountains.
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(KEYBOARD CLACKING)
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There is little amusement
to be had, however,
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in watching a man type.
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Skip ahead, then,
past the lonely, agonized months
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of composing, revising,
polishing, editing, rewriting,
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cutting, pasting,
pacing, doodling, and solitary drinking,
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and join our company
as they take the stage
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for their first read-through rehearsal.
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Location, the Tarkington Theater,
345 South Northwest Avenue.
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(BELL RINGS)
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Curtain rises on a desert bus stop
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halfway between
Parched Gulch and Arid Plains.
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Main scenography includes
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a 12-stool luncheonette,
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a one-pump filling station,
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and a ten-cabin motor court hotel.
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Upstage left,
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the Tomahawk Mountains.
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Highest peak, 11,000 feet.
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Upstage right,
an unfinished highway overpass
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which vaults up 20 feet,
then chops off midair
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behind a permanent roadblock.
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Center front, an impact crater
one hundred feet in depth and diameter
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encircled by a low Little League
variety chain-link fence.
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-(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS)
-(TRAIN CHUGGING)
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Offstage, distant, a 650-car freight train
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which click-clacks by
at five miles an hour.
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Note to chief electrician,
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the light of the desert sun
is neither warm nor cool
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but always clean
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and, above all, unforgiving.
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Cast, Augie Steenbeck,
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war photographer, early 40s.
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His son Woodrow, 14,
also known as Brainiac.
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Midge Campbell, late 30s, film actress.
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Her daughter Dinah, 15.
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June Douglas, schoolteacher.
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Ranch hand Montana, above.
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Grif Gibson, five-star general.
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Sandy Borden, Roger Cho, J.J. Kellogg.
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Clifford, Ricky, Shelly.
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Stanley Zak, 65, retired.
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The action of the play
takes place in September of 1955.
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Act one, Friday morning, 7:00 a.m.
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Act two, the next day.
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Act three, one week later.
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(BLUEGRASS MUSIC PLAYING)
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MAN: (SINGING) Last train to San Fernando
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Last train to San Fernando
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If you miss this one
You'll never get another one
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Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando
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Last night I met my sweet Dorothy
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She said
"Tomorrow I join in sweet matrimony"
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But if you act all right
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Oh, you can take me out tonight
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We can wine and dine and get back in time
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For the last train to San Fernando
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Last train to San Fernando
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Last train to San Fernando
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If you miss this one
You'll never get another one
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Bee-dee-dee-dee-bom-bom to San Fernando
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(GUITAR SOLO PLAYING)
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(SONG ENDS)
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(WIND WHISTLING)
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(BELL CLANGING)
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(ROADRUNNER CHITTERS)
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(WIND HOWLING)
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(METAL SQUEAKING)
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(BIRD SCREECHES)
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(RUMBLING IN DISTANCE)
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(ENGINE RUMBLING)
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(WHIRRING)
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(BIRD CALLING)
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GIRL: (FAINTLY) It's a dead snake.
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Flat snake.
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Poke him in the head with this stick.
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(CHATTER CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
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I wander the streets
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(ENTRY BELL JINGLES)
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And the gay crowded places...
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Five orders of flapjacks
and a black coffee.
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But somehow it seems
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That my thoughts ever stray
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To our last...
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Who needs to pee?
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-Nobody needs to pee.
-I don't.
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Our average speed is 83 feet per second.
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Poor fuel efficiency
due to excess wind resistance.
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Probably the luggage rack.
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Based on data before
the loss of power, obviously.
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High in the sky...
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What do you
little princesses want to drink?
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-Oh, we're not princesses.
-I'm a vampire.
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I'm a mummy in Egypt
who got buried alive...
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-I suck people's blood.
-...and came back to life
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-with its head chopped off.
-I'm a fairy.
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How about a glass of strawberry milk?
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-(BOMB EXPLODES IN DISTANCE)
-(RUMBLING)
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What was that?
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Another atom bomb test.
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(SONG CONTINUES FAINTLY INSIDE)
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(CAMERA CLICKS)
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(BIRDS CALLING)
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I've seen this combination
of symptoms twice before
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in the '52 Estate model.
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In one case,
it was a quick fix of a 75-cent part.
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In the other case,
it was a difficult, costly,
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time-consuming disassembly and re-mantling
of the entire drivetrain
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and lubrication mechanism,
which didn't work.
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The motor exploded itself,
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and the body was stripped
and sold for scrap.
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There it is.
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(CLUNKING LOUDLY)
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(GLASS SHATTERS)
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Well, which one have we got?
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We're about to find out.
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(CLOCK TICKING)
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(SQUEAKING)
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(ENGINE STARTS)
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You got the first one.
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-How much do I owe you?
-Nothing.
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-Ten dollars for the tow.
-(ENGINE BACKFIRES)
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-(AIR HISSING)
-(METAL CREAKING)
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What's that? Wh-What's that?
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I don't know.
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-(SPARKS POPPING)
-(RATTLING)
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I think you've got a third problem
we've never seen before.
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(LINE RINGING)
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(GIRLS CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
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MAN OVER PHONE: Zak residence.
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Romulus, this is Augie Steenbeck.
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Good morning, Mr. Augie. The gate is open.
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-No, we're not there.
-You're not here?
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-May I speak to Mr. Zak?
-Yes, Mr. Augie.
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-(GUN FIRES)
-(SIREN WAILING)
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(GUNFIRE AND SIREN CONTINUE IN DISTANCE)
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-You're not here?
-We're not there.
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The car exploded. Come get the girls.
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The car exploded?
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Parts of the car exploded itself, yes.
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-Come get the girls.
-I'm not their chauffeur.
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I'm their grandfather.
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-Where are you?
-Asteroid City.
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Farm Route Six, mile 75.
Come get the girls.
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I have to stay here with Woodrow.
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What are you talking about?
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The thing for Woodrow. We're there.
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Hmm.
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-Hello?
-How'd they take it?
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They didn't.
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-No?
-No.
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-No.
-Yes.
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-You didn't tell them still?
-I still didn't tell them.
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-You promised.
-I know.
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The time is never right.
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The time
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is always wrong.
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Are you okay?
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No.
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You never liked me, did you?
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I never loved you.
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You always thought
I wasn't good enough for her.
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Yes. We're saying the same thing.
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-Gas up the Cadillac.
-Okay.
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-Tell the kids.
-I will.
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I'll be there when I get there.
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(SIGHS)
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(CAMERA CLICKS)
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It's the end of that car.
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Andromeda, check under the floor mats.
Come on.
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Pandora, check the side pockets.
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Cassiopeia, check the cracks
between the seats.
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Take everything.
What do you think, Woodrow?
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I think it's kind of sad.
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(HORN HONKS)
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(AIR BRAKES HISS)
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(ENGINE STOPS)
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Rest stop, 13 minutes.
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-Head count.
-CHILD: One.
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CHILDREN: Two. Three. Four.
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Five. Six. Seven. Eight.
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-Nine. Ten.
-All present.
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Let's give thanks
for a safe journey. Billy?
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Dear Heavenly Father, we thank thee kindly
for a terrific bus ride.
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I ate three boxes of Cracker Jacks,
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got a dog whistle and a miniature map
of the original 13 colonies.
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Also, we saw a coyote
get run over by a 14-wheeler
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and left him flat as a pancake.
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Boy, oh, boy. What else?
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The bus driver had to stop twice
because Bernice couldn't hold it.
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-Could so.
-JUNE: Amen.
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CHILDREN: Amen.
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JUNE: Lunchtime. Line up single file.
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(MUSIC PLAYING OVER STEREO IN DISTANCE)
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My word. It's hot.
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It's the desert. What'd you expect?
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I don't know if I expected
one thing or another,
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but I'm wilting like a cut petunia.
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-Humans don't wilt.
-Don't they?
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DINAH: No, wilting is a phenomenon
by which a petal, leaf, or stem...
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Do you dare me?
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-Dare you what?
-To eat this hot pepper.
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-It's an experiment.
-No, don't do it.
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Hot pepper.
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Holy Toledo. That's Midge Campbell.
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-Where? Who?
-Right smack in back of you.
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Don't look.
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That must be her bodyguard.
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Mr. Cho, yes? Hello.
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You're in cabin seven. Well, tent seven.
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Here's the key, but there's no door.
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Just a flap. Tent flap. (SNICKERS)
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-Tent?
-I know.
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I upgraded the electrical system
Tuesday morning.
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Better lighting, power for the ice machine
and a wall-mounted bug zapper.
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Unfortunately, a mistake got made,
and cabin seven burned to the ground.
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-It's a tent now.
-We don't want to sleep in a tent.
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Of course. I understand.
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May I say, I think
you'll find it very comfortable.
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-Is the young gentleman in distress?
-He's thirsty.
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Of course. I understand.
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Uh, juice preference, please?
Apple, orange, or tomato?
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(BANGING)
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Excuse me, sir?
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This bucket of nuts just stole my quarter.
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I beg your pardon.
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-(SWITCH CLICKS)
-(COIN CLINKING)
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MAN OVER STEREO: (SINGING)
She lived so long till her head got bald
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Taken a notion not to die at all
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Ida Red, Ida Red
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I'm a plumb fool about Ida Red...
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AUGIE: You're probably wondering
why we didn't pack your mother's suitcase.
253
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It's because she's not
coming with us on this journey.
254
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She can't come.
255
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She got too sick.
256
00:15:52,954 --> 00:15:54,915
And, to put it bluntly,
after all the surgeries,
257
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-therapies and interventions...
-(DOGS BARKING)
258
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...after two years
of struggling and suffering,
259
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she succumbed to her illnesses.
260
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I'm sorry.
261
00:16:04,424 --> 00:16:06,176
I didn't know how to tell you then.
262
00:16:06,259 --> 00:16:08,178
I couldn't figure out
how to tell you later.
263
00:16:08,470 --> 00:16:09,763
I didn't know what to do.
264
00:16:10,222 --> 00:16:11,890
The time was never right.
265
00:16:14,059 --> 00:16:16,353
You're saying
our mother died three weeks ago?
266
00:16:19,022 --> 00:16:20,523
Yes.
267
00:16:20,649 --> 00:16:22,567
When is she coming back?
268
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She's not coming back.
269
00:16:26,571 --> 00:16:28,073
Let's say she's in heaven.
270
00:16:28,823 --> 00:16:31,534
Which doesn't exist for me, of course,
but you're Episcopalian.
271
00:16:33,245 --> 00:16:34,871
Come here. Let me hug you.
272
00:16:41,086 --> 00:16:43,129
Okay. Sit back down.
273
00:16:50,345 --> 00:16:52,973
Did you know already, Woodrow?
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I think so.
275
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She'd been away so long.
276
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WOODROW: Mmm-hmm.
277
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(INHALES DEEPLY)
278
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(EXHALES) Yeah.
279
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We're gonna be okay.
280
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Your grandfather's on his way.
281
00:17:08,237 --> 00:17:10,156
We're gonna stay with him
for a period of time
282
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which is yet to be determined
how long it's gonna be.
283
00:17:13,868 --> 00:17:15,829
Is she in there?
284
00:17:20,083 --> 00:17:21,333
Yeah.
285
00:17:21,877 --> 00:17:23,420
She's in the Tupperware.
286
00:17:24,129 --> 00:17:25,796
(WIND WHISTLING)
287
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Cremated.
288
00:17:32,053 --> 00:17:34,139
Are we orphans now?
289
00:17:36,683 --> 00:17:37,684
Huh?
290
00:17:37,809 --> 00:17:40,103
Are we orphans now?
291
00:17:41,271 --> 00:17:42,564
No.
292
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Because I'm still alive.
293
00:17:45,275 --> 00:17:47,193
(SHUDDERING)
294
00:17:48,111 --> 00:17:51,031
When my father died,
my mother told me, "He's in the stars."
295
00:17:51,573 --> 00:17:54,826
I told her,
"The closest star, other than that one,
296
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"is four and half light-years away
297
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"with a surface temperature
over 5,000 degrees centigrade."
298
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(SCOFFS)
299
00:18:00,248 --> 00:18:01,750
"He's not in the stars," I said.
300
00:18:01,875 --> 00:18:03,293
"He's in the ground."
301
00:18:03,793 --> 00:18:05,420
She thought it would comfort me.
302
00:18:05,545 --> 00:18:07,088
She was an atheist.
303
00:18:07,714 --> 00:18:09,966
The other thing she'd say
which is incorrect...
304
00:18:10,091 --> 00:18:11,927
"Time heals all wounds."
305
00:18:12,052 --> 00:18:13,094
No.
306
00:18:13,637 --> 00:18:15,222
Maybe it can be a Band-Aid.
307
00:18:16,056 --> 00:18:18,642
Your concept of time is
completely distorted, though.
308
00:18:18,725 --> 00:18:22,354
I don't think any of you except Woodrow
even understands what 15 minutes means.
309
00:18:23,146 --> 00:18:26,233
Fifteen minutes is 6,200 hours.
310
00:18:29,486 --> 00:18:30,612
Exactly.
311
00:18:31,738 --> 00:18:32,906
That's not your fault.
312
00:18:40,121 --> 00:18:42,332
If you could have anything
in the world to eat right now,
313
00:18:42,457 --> 00:18:43,833
what would it be?
314
00:18:47,462 --> 00:18:49,631
The character of Augie Steenbeck
315
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in the imaginary tale of our production
316
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was to become famously
and indelibly connected
317
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to the actor who created the role,
318
00:18:57,013 --> 00:18:59,391
a former carpenter
discovered in a bit part
319
00:18:59,516 --> 00:19:01,726
by the play's director, Schubert Green.
320
00:19:01,851 --> 00:19:03,895
I've finished my correspondence, Analisse.
321
00:19:04,020 --> 00:19:05,647
Please bring me my cocktail and my pill.
322
00:19:05,772 --> 00:19:07,399
-Remember, the gentleman...
-Oh, no.
323
00:19:07,482 --> 00:19:08,483
...referred by Mr. Green has arrived.
324
00:19:08,608 --> 00:19:10,151
No. Send him away.
325
00:19:10,235 --> 00:19:12,070
Put him up
at the Salty Skipper or the Lighthouse Inn
326
00:19:12,195 --> 00:19:14,948
and tell him to come back in the morning
but not before 11:00.
327
00:19:15,073 --> 00:19:18,660
The occasion of the first meeting
between playwright and player is now,
328
00:19:18,785 --> 00:19:20,328
in our fanciful telling,
329
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a matter of theatrical lore and legend.
330
00:19:23,039 --> 00:19:25,959
Setting, late autumn, late afternoon,
331
00:19:26,084 --> 00:19:29,004
a seaside village
outside the grand metropolis.
332
00:19:29,129 --> 00:19:31,631
Oh, no, again.
I-I beg your pardon. I'm sorry.
333
00:19:31,756 --> 00:19:34,301
Did Miss Watson not inform you?
I'm indisposed.
334
00:19:34,426 --> 00:19:36,386
I know, but the ice cream would've melted.
335
00:19:43,768 --> 00:19:45,604
-What's this?
-I think it's the one you like.
336
00:19:45,687 --> 00:19:48,356
Gooseberry Wriggle from the Frosty Spoon
on East Rotterdam.
337
00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:50,609
I wrapped it in sawdust,
newspaper, and peanut shells.
338
00:19:50,734 --> 00:19:53,445
You shouldn't waste your spending money
on an old fool like me.
339
00:19:53,570 --> 00:19:56,448
Well, they gave me ten dollars bus fare,
so I bought us a half bucket, hitchhiked,
340
00:19:56,573 --> 00:19:58,033
and pocketed the change.
341
00:20:03,705 --> 00:20:05,373
Cool and delicious.
342
00:20:07,167 --> 00:20:08,710
How long have you been in the service?
343
00:20:08,793 --> 00:20:11,087
The service? What service?
I don't know what you're talking about.
344
00:20:11,171 --> 00:20:13,089
Well, unless I've been
deliberately misinformed,
345
00:20:13,215 --> 00:20:14,966
I believe those stripes
indicate the status
346
00:20:15,091 --> 00:20:16,718
of a ranking corporal, second class.
347
00:20:16,885 --> 00:20:19,930
Oh, no. I-I'm G.I. Number Three
in Bugle Boy Blows the Blues.
348
00:20:20,013 --> 00:20:21,223
Was, anyway. We closed tonight.
349
00:20:21,348 --> 00:20:23,600
I see.
Property of the wardrobe department.
350
00:20:23,725 --> 00:20:25,018
Not anymore.
351
00:20:27,354 --> 00:20:28,939
How was it, by the way?
352
00:20:30,190 --> 00:20:31,608
-The play? It stunk.
-Mmm.
353
00:20:31,733 --> 00:20:33,693
-Mind if I crack open a window?
-Uh, not at all.
354
00:20:33,944 --> 00:20:35,153
It's sweltering, isn't it?
355
00:20:35,278 --> 00:20:37,405
Even the daisies
and buttercups are drooping...
356
00:20:37,530 --> 00:20:39,991
That window sticks a bit.
That window sticks a bit!
357
00:20:41,243 --> 00:20:42,369
(GLASS BREAKING)
358
00:20:42,452 --> 00:20:43,995
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
359
00:20:44,621 --> 00:20:46,873
-(LAUGHING)
-You broke my window.
360
00:20:52,170 --> 00:20:54,422
Why does Augie burn his hand
on the Quicky-Griddle?
361
00:20:56,716 --> 00:20:58,843
Well, I don't even know myself,
to tell you the truth.
362
00:20:58,969 --> 00:21:00,345
I hadn't planned it that way.
363
00:21:00,470 --> 00:21:02,305
He just sort of did it while I was typing.
364
00:21:02,430 --> 00:21:04,307
Is it too extraordinary for you?
365
00:21:04,724 --> 00:21:06,810
Uh, I guess, the way I read it,
he was looking for an excuse
366
00:21:06,935 --> 00:21:08,687
why his heart was beating so fast.
367
00:21:08,812 --> 00:21:10,230
Oh.
368
00:21:10,397 --> 00:21:12,732
Oh, what an interesting sentiment.
369
00:21:12,857 --> 00:21:14,609
I love that idea.
370
00:21:14,818 --> 00:21:17,571
Maybe he should say it.
It's a very good line.
371
00:21:20,740 --> 00:21:23,159
No, I suppose not. Not necessary.
372
00:21:25,912 --> 00:21:27,205
(BUTTON CLICKS)
373
00:21:28,456 --> 00:21:29,791
(RECORD PLAYER WHIRRING)
374
00:21:29,916 --> 00:21:31,835
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)
375
00:21:32,294 --> 00:21:34,671
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
376
00:21:47,642 --> 00:21:49,269
It's a fact, we're not alone.
377
00:21:49,394 --> 00:21:51,021
The alien stole the asteroid.
378
00:21:51,146 --> 00:21:52,564
Long thought to be a lunar splinter
379
00:21:52,689 --> 00:21:56,318
fragmented from the lesser moon
of the hypothetical planet Magnavox-27,
380
00:21:56,443 --> 00:21:58,528
now considered a rogue pygmy cometette,
381
00:21:58,653 --> 00:22:00,488
according to the encyclopedia.
382
00:22:01,114 --> 00:22:02,616
Obviously, she would've said
something to him.
383
00:22:02,741 --> 00:22:04,618
I'm certain of it. Your mother, I mean.
384
00:22:04,868 --> 00:22:07,037
She would've gotten him
to tell us the secrets of the universe
385
00:22:07,162 --> 00:22:09,247
or yelled at him or made him laugh.
386
00:22:09,372 --> 00:22:11,124
She would've had a hypothesis.
387
00:22:11,958 --> 00:22:13,919
You remind me of her more than ever.
388
00:22:14,044 --> 00:22:15,462
She wasn't shy.
389
00:22:15,962 --> 00:22:17,339
You'll grow out of that.
390
00:22:18,089 --> 00:22:21,051
I think your sisters might be aliens,
too, by the way.
391
00:22:25,055 --> 00:22:27,474
When I met your mother, she was only 19.
392
00:22:27,766 --> 00:22:29,726
She was smoking a cigarette,
reading a paperback,
393
00:22:29,851 --> 00:22:32,395
taking a bath in a swimsuit
on a rusty fire escape
394
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:34,898
a flight and a half
below my camera position.
395
00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,068
Sometimes, I sometimes still think
396
00:22:38,193 --> 00:22:40,445
I still hear her here
397
00:22:41,154 --> 00:22:42,656
breathing in the dark.
398
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,536
Who knows, Woodrow?
399
00:22:49,621 --> 00:22:51,289
Maybe she is in the stars.
400
00:22:51,998 --> 00:22:53,083
(MUSIC STOPS)
401
00:23:04,928 --> 00:23:06,054
You're perfect.
402
00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:12,352
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
403
00:23:33,748 --> 00:23:35,458
-Okay?
-Okay.
404
00:23:48,096 --> 00:23:50,015
(MUSIC FADES)
405
00:23:50,098 --> 00:23:52,142
-(WIND WHISTLING)
-(INSECTS CHIRPING)
406
00:23:59,733 --> 00:24:01,401
(ROADRUNNER CHITTERS)
407
00:24:04,738 --> 00:24:07,490
-(BUS DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)
-(MUSIC PLAYING QUIETLY)
408
00:24:07,574 --> 00:24:10,327
-(BUS ENGINE STARTS)
-MONTANA: Hold on, partner!
409
00:24:13,830 --> 00:24:15,498
MAN 1: Zut alors.
MAN 2: Oh, no.
410
00:24:19,586 --> 00:24:21,004
MAN 3: When's the next one?
411
00:24:21,129 --> 00:24:23,256
MONTANA: Sunday morning, I think.
412
00:24:23,882 --> 00:24:27,052
-(SIREN BLARING)
-(GUNS FIRING)
413
00:24:31,973 --> 00:24:33,767
(CLEARS THROAT)
414
00:24:35,185 --> 00:24:36,478
Drink your juice.
415
00:24:40,398 --> 00:24:41,775
(CLEARS THROAT)
416
00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:42,984
(CAMERA CLICKS)
417
00:24:45,445 --> 00:24:46,738
You took a picture of me.
418
00:24:47,447 --> 00:24:48,782
Uh-huh.
419
00:24:49,866 --> 00:24:50,909
Why?
420
00:24:51,993 --> 00:24:53,328
I'm a photographer.
421
00:24:54,454 --> 00:24:55,705
You didn't ask permission.
422
00:24:55,830 --> 00:24:58,500
-I never ask permission.
-Why not?
423
00:24:58,959 --> 00:25:01,962
Because I work in trenches,
battlefields, and combat zones.
424
00:25:02,712 --> 00:25:04,005
MIDGE: Really?
425
00:25:04,130 --> 00:25:05,298
Uh-huh.
426
00:25:06,466 --> 00:25:07,926
You mean you're a war photographer?
427
00:25:08,051 --> 00:25:09,052
AUGIE: Mostly.
428
00:25:09,469 --> 00:25:11,555
Sometimes I cover sporting events.
429
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,682
My name is Augie Steenbeck.
430
00:25:13,807 --> 00:25:15,141
MIDGE: Mmm-hmm.
431
00:25:16,893 --> 00:25:18,270
(SLURPING THROUGH STRAW)
432
00:25:18,562 --> 00:25:20,063
What are you gonna do with it?
433
00:25:20,438 --> 00:25:21,648
That picture.
434
00:25:21,731 --> 00:25:24,985
Hmm. Well, if it's any good,
I guess I'll try to sell it
435
00:25:25,110 --> 00:25:27,320
to a magazine, now that you mention it.
436
00:25:27,612 --> 00:25:29,990
"Midge Campbell eating a waffle."
437
00:25:33,076 --> 00:25:35,537
Make me a print first, to approve.
438
00:25:36,746 --> 00:25:37,789
Uh-huh.
439
00:25:39,916 --> 00:25:40,917
This is Dinah.
440
00:25:41,710 --> 00:25:43,670
-This is Woodrow.
-DINAH: I have a question.
441
00:25:44,004 --> 00:25:45,130
AUGIE: Uh-huh.
442
00:25:45,255 --> 00:25:48,216
-Have you ever been shot with bullets?
-Have I ever been...
443
00:25:49,175 --> 00:25:51,636
Uh, once or twice, just grazed.
444
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,514
He got shrapneled
in the back of the head, too. Show her.
445
00:25:57,934 --> 00:25:59,311
MIDGE: Hmm.
446
00:26:02,689 --> 00:26:04,608
I don't say I forgive you yet, by the way.
447
00:26:16,578 --> 00:26:17,954
(MICROPHONE FEEDBACK SQUEALS)
448
00:26:18,204 --> 00:26:20,165
Welcome from the
United States Military-Science
449
00:26:20,290 --> 00:26:22,167
Research and Experimentation Division,
450
00:26:22,292 --> 00:26:24,294
in conjunction with
the Larkings Foundation.
451
00:26:24,419 --> 00:26:25,879
We salute you.
452
00:26:26,004 --> 00:26:27,339
(APPLAUDING)
453
00:26:36,139 --> 00:26:38,308
Each year, we celebrate Asteroid Day,
454
00:26:38,391 --> 00:26:40,977
commemorating September 23, 3007 BC,
455
00:26:41,102 --> 00:26:44,189
when the Arid Plains Meteorite
made Earth impact.
456
00:26:45,398 --> 00:26:47,192
The itinerary for
this three-day celebration
457
00:26:47,317 --> 00:26:49,527
includes a tour
of the newly refurbished observatory
458
00:26:49,653 --> 00:26:51,655
with Dr. Hickenlooper and her staff,
459
00:26:52,322 --> 00:26:54,532
a picnic supper of chili and frankfurters
460
00:26:54,658 --> 00:26:56,493
with an evening fireworks display,
461
00:26:57,494 --> 00:26:59,454
the viewing of the astronomical ellipses
462
00:26:59,579 --> 00:27:01,873
at its peak just before midnight tonight,
463
00:27:01,998 --> 00:27:04,251
and finally, the awarding of the annual
464
00:27:04,376 --> 00:27:07,754
Hickenlooper Scholarship
after Monday's banquet lunch.
465
00:27:08,505 --> 00:27:10,924
Now, I'll start by presenting
the commemorative medals,
466
00:27:11,007 --> 00:27:12,842
but first, I'll do my speech first,
467
00:27:12,968 --> 00:27:15,720
which you'll also receive
in a folio edition as a souvenir.
468
00:27:15,804 --> 00:27:16,805
(CLEARS THROAT)
469
00:27:16,972 --> 00:27:19,349
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
470
00:27:21,434 --> 00:27:23,520
-(AMPLIFIED THUMPING)
-(CLEARS THROAT)
471
00:27:25,313 --> 00:27:26,690
Chapter One.
472
00:27:26,773 --> 00:27:28,900
I walked to school 18 miles
each morning, milked the goats,
473
00:27:29,025 --> 00:27:30,485
plucked the chickens,
played hooky, caught fireflies,
474
00:27:30,610 --> 00:27:33,446
went skinny-dipping in the watering hole,
said my prayers every night
475
00:27:33,572 --> 00:27:34,948
and got whipped with
a maple switch twice a week.
476
00:27:35,073 --> 00:27:36,241
That was life.
477
00:27:38,618 --> 00:27:39,953
Chapter Two.
478
00:27:40,036 --> 00:27:42,205
My father went off to fight
in the war to end all wars,
479
00:27:42,330 --> 00:27:43,748
it didn't, and what was left of him
480
00:27:43,873 --> 00:27:45,875
came back in a pine box
with a flag on top.
481
00:27:45,959 --> 00:27:47,294
End of Chapter Two.
482
00:27:48,253 --> 00:27:49,754
Next, I went to officer school,
483
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,173
and 20 years passed
at the speed of a dream.
484
00:27:52,299 --> 00:27:54,801
A wife, a son, a daughter, a poodle.
485
00:27:55,468 --> 00:27:57,596
Chapter Three. Another war.
486
00:27:57,721 --> 00:27:59,723
Arms and legs blown off like popcorn,
487
00:28:00,015 --> 00:28:02,517
eyeballs gouged out,
figuratively and literally.
488
00:28:02,851 --> 00:28:06,062
The men put on shows under the palm fronds
dressed as women in hula skirts.
489
00:28:06,187 --> 00:28:07,731
That was life.
490
00:28:07,814 --> 00:28:10,191
In the meantime, somebody else's story.
491
00:28:10,317 --> 00:28:11,860
A man thinks up a number,
492
00:28:11,985 --> 00:28:13,737
divides it by a trillion,
plugs it into the square root
493
00:28:13,862 --> 00:28:15,280
of the circumference of the Earth
494
00:28:15,405 --> 00:28:17,282
multiplied by the speed
of a splitting atom,
495
00:28:17,365 --> 00:28:18,658
and voilà, progress.
496
00:28:18,783 --> 00:28:20,619
I'm not a scientist. You are.
497
00:28:20,994 --> 00:28:22,329
End of Chapter Three.
498
00:28:22,704 --> 00:28:25,248
Junior Stargazers and Space Cadets,
499
00:28:25,373 --> 00:28:27,667
we watch transfixed as you enter
500
00:28:27,792 --> 00:28:30,962
into uncharted territories
of the brains and spirit.
501
00:28:31,087 --> 00:28:33,840
If you wanted to live
a nice, quiet, peaceful life,
502
00:28:34,257 --> 00:28:36,259
you picked the wrong time to get born.
503
00:28:37,886 --> 00:28:39,429
That's my speech.
504
00:28:42,724 --> 00:28:44,434
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING TEPIDLY)
505
00:28:48,146 --> 00:28:50,607
Be notified, you are each
the guardian of your own safety.
506
00:28:51,066 --> 00:28:53,526
Maintain alert caution
throughout the following demonstrations.
507
00:28:55,195 --> 00:28:58,740
To Ricky Cho, for his work in the field
of aeronautical induction,
508
00:28:59,032 --> 00:29:01,368
the Collapsing Star Ribbon of Success.
509
00:29:01,493 --> 00:29:03,662
To Clifford Kellogg,
for his work in the study
510
00:29:03,787 --> 00:29:05,288
of particle disintegration,
511
00:29:06,790 --> 00:29:08,583
the Black Hole Badge of Triumph.
512
00:29:08,708 --> 00:29:10,252
To Dinah Campbell...
513
00:29:10,377 --> 00:29:12,212
It's fueled by
cosmic radiation instead of sunlight.
514
00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:15,131
GIBSON: ...for her work in the area
of botanical acceleration...
515
00:29:16,258 --> 00:29:18,552
Unfortunately, it makes
all vegetables toxic.
516
00:29:18,677 --> 00:29:20,428
GIBSON: ...the Red Giant Sash of Honor.
517
00:29:21,179 --> 00:29:22,639
To Shelly Borden, for her work
518
00:29:22,764 --> 00:29:24,224
in the realm of mineral fabrication...
519
00:29:24,349 --> 00:29:26,268
I synthesized an extraterrestrial element.
520
00:29:26,393 --> 00:29:28,937
It's going to be added
to the periodic table next year.
521
00:29:29,104 --> 00:29:31,022
GIBSON: ...the Distant Nebula
Laurel Crown.
522
00:29:31,940 --> 00:29:33,608
To Woodrow Steenbeck
523
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,946
for his work in the sphere
of astronomical imaging...
524
00:29:43,159 --> 00:29:45,120
It may have applications
in the development
525
00:29:45,245 --> 00:29:47,080
of interstellar advertising.
526
00:29:47,247 --> 00:29:49,291
GIBSON: ...the White Dwarf
Medal of Achievement.
527
00:29:49,708 --> 00:29:51,626
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDING)
528
00:29:54,796 --> 00:29:56,214
Our tour ends here.
529
00:29:56,339 --> 00:29:57,966
Thank you
for your attention, and thank you
530
00:29:58,091 --> 00:30:00,594
to the Larkings Foundation
for their generous funding.
531
00:30:00,719 --> 00:30:02,304
(CROWD MURMURING)
532
00:30:05,932 --> 00:30:07,225
(DEVICE BEEPING SOFTLY)
533
00:30:07,350 --> 00:30:09,477
-What do those pulses indicate?
-DR. HICKENLOOPER: What?
534
00:30:09,603 --> 00:30:11,438
Oh, the beeps and blips? We don't know.
535
00:30:11,563 --> 00:30:14,065
Indecipherable radio emissions
from outer space.
536
00:30:14,190 --> 00:30:16,192
-Probably a red herring.
-Does it change ever?
537
00:30:16,318 --> 00:30:18,028
Not to my knowledge.
538
00:30:18,361 --> 00:30:20,655
-It's a date, maybe.
-It's a date?
539
00:30:20,739 --> 00:30:22,157
-On the galactic calendar.
-Maybe.
540
00:30:22,282 --> 00:30:24,409
Mary, we think it's a date
on the galactic calendar.
541
00:30:24,534 --> 00:30:26,494
-MARY: What? Wow.
-Is it always today?
542
00:30:26,620 --> 00:30:28,330
(BEEPING CONTINUES)
543
00:30:28,455 --> 00:30:30,457
MAN: (SINGING) Yippee-yay
544
00:30:30,707 --> 00:30:34,502
There'll be no wedding bells for today
545
00:30:34,836 --> 00:30:38,590
I got spurs that jingle jangle, jingle...
546
00:30:39,925 --> 00:30:41,134
BILLY: We thank thee for the mustard.
547
00:30:41,218 --> 00:30:43,678
We thank thee for the relish,
and we thank thee for the onions.
548
00:30:43,762 --> 00:30:45,847
-We thank thee for the pickles, and we...
-Head count.
549
00:30:45,972 --> 00:30:46,973
-One.
-Two.
550
00:30:47,098 --> 00:30:48,225
-Three.
-Four.
551
00:30:48,350 --> 00:30:49,809
-Five.
-Six.
552
00:30:49,935 --> 00:30:51,603
-Dwight? Where's Dwight?
-Eight.
553
00:30:51,728 --> 00:30:54,189
-Dwight? Dwight?
-J.J: Less than 0.0000% chance exists
554
00:30:54,314 --> 00:30:56,274
of extraterrestrial life
in the entire universe.
555
00:30:56,399 --> 00:30:57,817
-Dwight!
-It's a scientific fact.
556
00:30:57,943 --> 00:30:59,736
Other than space bugs
and microscopic worms.
557
00:30:59,819 --> 00:31:01,488
-I assertively disagree.
-So do I.
558
00:31:01,571 --> 00:31:03,698
-It's not a scientific fact.
-It's not even a number.
559
00:31:03,782 --> 00:31:05,158
-Pass the pickles, please.
-How's the chili?
560
00:31:05,283 --> 00:31:06,868
-Fine, once you add the hot sauce.
-Thank you.
561
00:31:06,993 --> 00:31:08,328
-MAN: Sparkler?
-Consider the constants...
562
00:31:08,453 --> 00:31:09,996
endless space and immeasurable time.
563
00:31:10,121 --> 00:31:12,290
The likelihood is increased
by a factor of infinity.
564
00:31:12,415 --> 00:31:14,459
-Where'd you get that?
-The cantina machine.
565
00:31:14,584 --> 00:31:16,670
-Where's the cantina machine?
-SANDY: The cantina machine?
566
00:31:17,671 --> 00:31:20,048
Can you see anything
with those on your face?
567
00:31:20,590 --> 00:31:21,967
Hmm.
568
00:31:22,092 --> 00:31:24,261
Oh, gadzooks. Wh-What'd you...
569
00:31:24,386 --> 00:31:25,762
What did you do to deserve that?
570
00:31:25,887 --> 00:31:27,097
-Nothing.
-Who hit you?
571
00:31:27,180 --> 00:31:28,473
Nobody.
572
00:31:28,682 --> 00:31:30,892
It's greasepaint,
to feel like my character.
573
00:31:31,017 --> 00:31:33,436
Oh. How does she get a black eye?
574
00:31:33,562 --> 00:31:34,646
In the story.
575
00:31:34,771 --> 00:31:36,106
Well, she doesn't in the story.
576
00:31:36,231 --> 00:31:38,066
-It's on the inside.
-Okay.
577
00:31:38,191 --> 00:31:40,318
-It's supposed to be, anyway.
-It's on the inside. All right.
578
00:31:40,402 --> 00:31:41,903
EXECUTIVE: The Larkings
Foundation claims permanent,
579
00:31:41,987 --> 00:31:43,363
-incontestable rights.
-That's right.
580
00:31:43,488 --> 00:31:44,739
-They're ours. We own them.
-Incontestable rights
581
00:31:44,823 --> 00:31:46,533
to all patents or inventions derived
582
00:31:46,658 --> 00:31:48,159
from any and every submission,
without exception.
583
00:31:48,285 --> 00:31:49,828
Not for teenagers. Read the fine print.
584
00:31:49,953 --> 00:31:51,538
The projects all belong to Uncle Sam.
585
00:31:51,663 --> 00:31:53,290
-(FOOD CRUNCHING)
-(DISHES CLINKING)
586
00:31:53,415 --> 00:31:57,294
I call it "Triple Orbit and Return
without Burning Up in the Atmosphere."
587
00:32:06,303 --> 00:32:08,388
Why are you sitting there all by yourself?
588
00:32:08,722 --> 00:32:10,557
-You.
-Hmm?
589
00:32:11,516 --> 00:32:13,268
Uh, are you shy?
590
00:32:13,810 --> 00:32:15,312
I'm a late bloomer.
591
00:32:15,437 --> 00:32:17,105
So I've been told by my parents.
592
00:32:17,355 --> 00:32:20,108
-Are you intimidated by us?
-No.
593
00:32:20,233 --> 00:32:22,277
Let's do a personality test.
What's your name again?
594
00:32:22,402 --> 00:32:23,987
Woodrow L. Steenbeck.
595
00:32:24,112 --> 00:32:25,614
-Hmm.
-What's the "L" for?
596
00:32:25,739 --> 00:32:27,741
-WOODROW: Lindbergh.
-Everybody look at Woodrow.
597
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,998
I agree. Shy but not intimidated.
598
00:32:35,123 --> 00:32:36,583
Move over here, Woodrow.
599
00:32:49,679 --> 00:32:51,681
-Brainiac, huh?
-Yeah, brainiac.
600
00:32:51,765 --> 00:32:53,308
It sort of goes
without saying, doesn't it?
601
00:32:53,433 --> 00:32:55,727
Everybody already knows
we're abnormally intelligent.
602
00:32:55,852 --> 00:32:58,146
That's true. My mother made it for me.
603
00:32:58,271 --> 00:33:00,607
It's supposed to be funny,
according to her sense of humor,
604
00:33:00,732 --> 00:33:02,734
but it's not as hilarious
as it was originally.
605
00:33:02,859 --> 00:33:04,361
Oh, really? How come?
606
00:33:04,486 --> 00:33:07,113
Because she was alive then.
Now she's dead.
607
00:33:07,906 --> 00:33:09,241
-Oh.
-Ha-ha.
608
00:33:12,244 --> 00:33:13,453
What was she like?
609
00:33:14,579 --> 00:33:15,956
My... Oh, my mother?
610
00:33:16,748 --> 00:33:18,500
She was, um...
611
00:33:23,672 --> 00:33:24,965
Like this.
612
00:33:33,515 --> 00:33:34,933
When did you lose her?
613
00:33:37,644 --> 00:33:40,772
Officially, this morning,
but I think I already knew.
614
00:33:41,773 --> 00:33:42,774
CLIFFORD: Howdy.
615
00:33:43,441 --> 00:33:44,818
DINAH: What are you doing up there?
616
00:33:44,943 --> 00:33:46,820
Just enjoying the desert air.
617
00:33:47,487 --> 00:33:49,489
-You dare me?
-DINAH: Dare you what?
618
00:33:49,698 --> 00:33:51,116
CLIFFORD: To jump off this bungalow.
619
00:33:51,241 --> 00:33:54,035
-It's an experiment.
-No.
620
00:34:00,375 --> 00:34:02,127
I love gravity.
621
00:34:02,210 --> 00:34:05,005
It might be my favorite
law of physics at the moment.
622
00:34:07,048 --> 00:34:08,967
HOST: Players of the stage,
623
00:34:09,342 --> 00:34:12,012
a tribe of troubadours and nonconformists.
624
00:34:12,596 --> 00:34:15,347
They lead unconventional,
sometimes dangerous lives,
625
00:34:15,472 --> 00:34:18,518
which nourish and elevate
their artistic aspirations
626
00:34:18,643 --> 00:34:20,769
and illuminate the human condition.
627
00:34:20,896 --> 00:34:22,856
Next, ten weeks later,
628
00:34:22,981 --> 00:34:25,775
the eve of Asteroid City's
first public preview.
629
00:34:25,901 --> 00:34:28,361
A drawing room on board
the Apache Plainsliner
630
00:34:28,486 --> 00:34:30,447
bound for the California coast.
631
00:34:30,572 --> 00:34:32,657
-(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
-It's open.
632
00:34:34,951 --> 00:34:36,745
Schubert says you got to come back.
633
00:34:37,829 --> 00:34:39,914
If I'm so important,
why isn't he here himself?
634
00:34:40,039 --> 00:34:41,916
Probably too busy.
Too busy to go chasing after you.
635
00:34:42,041 --> 00:34:43,501
They sent me. You know who I am?
636
00:34:43,626 --> 00:34:45,211
I think so. Understudy.
637
00:34:45,336 --> 00:34:47,672
The understudy.
That's right. Let me just, uh...
638
00:34:47,756 --> 00:34:49,758
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
639
00:34:49,965 --> 00:34:51,800
He said, if you're crying,
I read you this one.
640
00:34:52,010 --> 00:34:53,303
No, that's not it. Here it is.
641
00:34:53,428 --> 00:34:55,137
If you're hopping mad,
I read you this one.
642
00:34:55,262 --> 00:34:56,306
Give me both.
643
00:34:56,431 --> 00:34:57,849
Not what he said. He said, if...
644
00:34:58,016 --> 00:34:59,267
Give me both.
645
00:35:05,732 --> 00:35:07,525
"Tell her she's a stuck-up, low-class snob
646
00:35:07,609 --> 00:35:09,110
"but she's got no good reason to be.
647
00:35:09,194 --> 00:35:10,654
"If she sasses you, sass her back.
648
00:35:10,737 --> 00:35:11,905
"Tell her she's a borderline neurotic
649
00:35:11,988 --> 00:35:13,240
"with an Achilles heel complex."
650
00:35:13,323 --> 00:35:14,741
That's the second one.
651
00:35:17,702 --> 00:35:19,704
"Tell her she relies
on her beauty like a wobbly crutch.
652
00:35:19,829 --> 00:35:21,039
"It's her deepest weakness.
653
00:35:21,164 --> 00:35:22,332
"Tell her she's got the potential
654
00:35:22,457 --> 00:35:23,708
"for genuine greatness, but I say
655
00:35:23,792 --> 00:35:26,002
"with absolute certainty
she will never achieve it."
656
00:35:27,128 --> 00:35:28,296
Anything else?
657
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,343
Uh-huh. He said,
if you're cool and collected,
658
00:35:33,426 --> 00:35:34,844
which I think is
what I think you seem to be,
659
00:35:34,970 --> 00:35:36,846
then that means you probably
really don't want to come back
660
00:35:36,972 --> 00:35:38,181
and I got to give you this.
661
00:35:38,306 --> 00:35:40,016
-Read it.
-Not what he said.
662
00:35:40,141 --> 00:35:42,185
He said this one's private.
Just the two of you.
663
00:35:42,310 --> 00:35:44,271
He said that... He-he said...
664
00:35:50,735 --> 00:35:52,445
"Dear Kim, I'm sorry I shouted
665
00:35:52,571 --> 00:35:54,531
"and called you
a spoiled bitch and a minor talent
666
00:35:54,656 --> 00:35:56,575
"and broke your glasses
and threw them out the window.
667
00:35:56,700 --> 00:35:58,201
"Given that I have always considered you
668
00:35:58,326 --> 00:35:59,869
"to be the most
consummately gifted living actress
669
00:35:59,995 --> 00:36:01,955
"and a person of great
intelligence and character,
670
00:36:02,038 --> 00:36:03,415
"these statements and actions
671
00:36:03,540 --> 00:36:05,584
"do not accurately reflect
my true feelings.
672
00:36:05,792 --> 00:36:07,210
"Yes, I may be a manipulative snake,
673
00:36:07,335 --> 00:36:09,379
"as you once
characterized me behind my back...
674
00:36:09,462 --> 00:36:11,923
"you see, I do have my sources,
but I love you like a sister,
675
00:36:12,048 --> 00:36:14,175
"other than that one time
in the bathroom the day we met,
676
00:36:14,301 --> 00:36:16,428
"which has never
been repeated, as we both know.
677
00:36:22,392 --> 00:36:23,602
"I never meant to hurt you
678
00:36:23,727 --> 00:36:25,896
"or insult you or offend you in any way,
679
00:36:26,021 --> 00:36:28,607
"only to try
with the few tools I have at my disposal
680
00:36:28,732 --> 00:36:31,234
"to do my job, which is to make it work.
681
00:36:31,359 --> 00:36:32,736
"Forgive me.
682
00:36:32,861 --> 00:36:34,571
"We open tomorrow night,
with or without you.
683
00:36:35,030 --> 00:36:36,990
"Without, our entire devoted company
684
00:36:37,115 --> 00:36:39,534
"will suffer
complete disaster and tragic calamity,
685
00:36:39,659 --> 00:36:42,704
"as will a brilliant,
fragile genius named Conrad Earp.
686
00:36:43,204 --> 00:36:45,790
"With, you will enjoy
the triumph of your career,
687
00:36:45,916 --> 00:36:48,209
"which does not matter in the least.
688
00:36:48,543 --> 00:36:51,755
"All that matters is
every second of life onstage
689
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,381
"and our friendship.
690
00:36:53,673 --> 00:36:57,510
"Your servant, your director
and, if I may, your devoted mentor,
691
00:36:57,636 --> 00:36:59,012
"Schubert Green."
692
00:37:01,932 --> 00:37:03,975
(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
693
00:37:05,894 --> 00:37:07,646
What's your name, understudy?
694
00:37:08,271 --> 00:37:09,564
(THUNDER CRASHES)
695
00:37:09,648 --> 00:37:12,442
HOST: They continued through
the night as far as Ohio,
696
00:37:12,734 --> 00:37:14,945
then disembarked
and caught the return flight
697
00:37:15,070 --> 00:37:17,989
arriving two hours prior to curtain.
698
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:22,744
The talented understudy
immediately replaced the original Woodrow.
699
00:37:24,746 --> 00:37:27,123
J.J: I strongly question
whether your daughter's Silly Putty
700
00:37:27,249 --> 00:37:28,792
resembles anything from outer space.
701
00:37:28,917 --> 00:37:30,752
-It's not Silly Putty.
-I'm sorry, but I doubt it.
702
00:37:30,877 --> 00:37:32,128
It's called S'morestozium.
703
00:37:32,379 --> 00:37:33,713
-This is excellent.
-Thank you.
704
00:37:33,797 --> 00:37:35,006
It's really all the machine's doing.
705
00:37:35,090 --> 00:37:37,342
What the devil do you know
about astrogeology anyway,
706
00:37:37,467 --> 00:37:38,969
J.J, whatever that stands for?
707
00:37:39,094 --> 00:37:40,303
I just maintain the workings.
708
00:37:40,428 --> 00:37:41,930
Shelly's thesis is supported by...
709
00:37:42,055 --> 00:37:43,390
Flimsy, outdated evidence.
710
00:37:43,515 --> 00:37:45,058
-I beg your pardon?
-Not in my opinion.
711
00:37:45,183 --> 00:37:46,685
I liked the Silly Putty
or S'morestozium, in fact.
712
00:37:46,810 --> 00:37:48,019
I'm just quoting what he said.
713
00:37:48,144 --> 00:37:50,855
Your son's project might very well
have killed us all today, by the way.
714
00:37:50,981 --> 00:37:52,607
Coming from the family that brought us
715
00:37:52,691 --> 00:37:53,942
-the electromagnetic death ray.
-It's a weapon.
716
00:37:54,067 --> 00:37:56,027
-Of course it's lethal.
-So you admit it.
717
00:37:56,236 --> 00:37:57,946
Not to mention Brainiac's flag.
718
00:37:58,071 --> 00:37:59,698
I mean, is he trying
to provoke World War III or something?
719
00:37:59,823 --> 00:38:01,408
The jet propulsion belt is eminently safe.
720
00:38:01,533 --> 00:38:03,118
I'd allow an eight-year-old boy
to operate it.
721
00:38:03,243 --> 00:38:05,078
In fact, I did... Ricky's cousin Chip,
722
00:38:05,203 --> 00:38:07,372
and he broke
the solo flight altitude record.
723
00:38:08,623 --> 00:38:09,874
They're strange, aren't they?
724
00:38:09,958 --> 00:38:11,835
Your children, compared to normal people.
725
00:38:12,127 --> 00:38:13,295
-Yes.
-That's correct.
726
00:38:13,420 --> 00:38:15,005
-It's true.
-Hmm.
727
00:38:16,214 --> 00:38:17,382
DINAH: After that, the second person
728
00:38:17,465 --> 00:38:19,342
says the name the first one said,
then adds another.
729
00:38:19,426 --> 00:38:21,177
Then the third person
says both plus a new name.
730
00:38:21,261 --> 00:38:23,388
And then the next person keeps going,
and so on in a circle.
731
00:38:23,471 --> 00:38:24,514
It's a memory game. Get it?
732
00:38:24,598 --> 00:38:25,765
I'll start. Cleopatra.
733
00:38:25,891 --> 00:38:27,517
Cleopatra, Jagadish Chandra Bose.
734
00:38:27,642 --> 00:38:28,727
-Like that?
-Exactly.
735
00:38:28,852 --> 00:38:30,228
-Of course. Yes.
-SHELLY: Got it.
736
00:38:30,353 --> 00:38:32,647
Cleopatra, Jagadish Chandra Bose,
737
00:38:32,772 --> 00:38:34,900
-Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.
-(THUNDER CRASHES)
738
00:38:35,108 --> 00:38:36,651
Cleopatra, Jagadish Chandra Bose,
739
00:38:36,776 --> 00:38:39,905
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Paracelsus.
740
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:41,865
Cleopatra, Jagadish Chandra Bose,
741
00:38:41,948 --> 00:38:45,243
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,
Paracelsus, uh, Kurt Gödel.
742
00:38:45,327 --> 00:38:46,411
Oh, the Vienna Circle.
743
00:38:46,494 --> 00:38:47,913
-The Austrian logician.
-Correct.
744
00:38:49,456 --> 00:38:51,041
Cleopatra,
745
00:38:51,166 --> 00:38:53,043
Jagadish Chandra Bose,
746
00:38:53,168 --> 00:38:55,003
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,
747
00:38:55,128 --> 00:38:56,421
Paracelsus,
748
00:38:57,130 --> 00:38:58,632
Kurt Gödel,
749
00:38:59,132 --> 00:39:00,717
-William Bragg.
-CLIFFORD: Which one?
750
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,385
-RICKY: There's two.
-William Henry Bragg.
751
00:39:02,469 --> 00:39:03,887
CLIFFORD: I prefer the son.
SHELLY: The father's better.
752
00:39:03,970 --> 00:39:06,848
Cleopatra, Jagadish Chandra Bose,
753
00:39:06,973 --> 00:39:08,683
-Antonie van...
-OTHERS: Leeuwenhoek.
754
00:39:09,142 --> 00:39:11,353
Paracelsus, Kurt Gödel,
755
00:39:11,478 --> 00:39:12,729
William Henry Bragg.
756
00:39:13,521 --> 00:39:14,814
-And the new one.
-Lord Kelvin.
757
00:39:15,523 --> 00:39:17,067
Cleopatra, Jagadish Chandra Bose,
758
00:39:17,150 --> 00:39:19,277
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,
Paracelsus, Kurt Gödel,
759
00:39:19,361 --> 00:39:21,321
William Henry Bragg, Lord Kelvin...
760
00:39:22,197 --> 00:39:23,990
Midge Campbell. Can I say her?
761
00:39:24,115 --> 00:39:26,117
As long as she's a real person,
you can say anybody you like.
762
00:39:26,243 --> 00:39:27,869
CLIFFORD: Cleopatra,
Jagadish Chandra Bose...
763
00:39:27,953 --> 00:39:29,537
-Including my mother.
-SHELLY: She's my idol.
764
00:39:29,704 --> 00:39:31,831
My turn. Jagadish Chandra Bose,
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,
765
00:39:31,915 --> 00:39:34,251
Paracelsus, Kurt Gödel,
William Bragg, the father,
766
00:39:34,334 --> 00:39:36,253
Lord Kelvin, the mathematical physicist,
767
00:39:36,336 --> 00:39:37,879
Midge Campbell, your mother,
768
00:39:38,004 --> 00:39:40,298
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
the rocket scientist.
769
00:39:40,423 --> 00:39:42,092
I don't know if this game works with us.
770
00:39:42,592 --> 00:39:45,220
Uh, brainiacs, I mean.
I-I think it might go on forever.
771
00:39:45,303 --> 00:39:46,388
SHELLY: I don't mind.
772
00:39:46,471 --> 00:39:49,099
In my school, nobody'd play
this game with me in a million years.
773
00:39:49,432 --> 00:39:50,809
Plus, the names would be too obvious.
774
00:39:50,934 --> 00:39:52,686
I know my next one... Diophantus.
775
00:39:52,852 --> 00:39:54,312
BOTH: Wait until it's time to say it.
776
00:39:54,396 --> 00:39:55,855
Try it backwards, Brainiac.
777
00:39:56,356 --> 00:39:57,691
Say the new one first.
778
00:39:59,985 --> 00:40:01,444
Hojo Tokiyuki,
779
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,738
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky,
780
00:40:04,197 --> 00:40:06,074
Midge Campbell, Lord Kelvin,
781
00:40:06,324 --> 00:40:08,410
William Henry Bragg, Kurt Gödel,
782
00:40:08,994 --> 00:40:11,079
Paracelsus, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,
783
00:40:11,204 --> 00:40:12,831
Jagadish Chandra Bose...
784
00:40:15,083 --> 00:40:16,167
Cleopatra.
785
00:40:19,212 --> 00:40:21,214
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
786
00:40:25,635 --> 00:40:27,470
(THUNDER CRASHES)
787
00:40:30,599 --> 00:40:32,475
Put out that cigarette, Dwight.
788
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:34,978
Oh, hold on. Hold on.
789
00:40:35,103 --> 00:40:37,480
You men should be
ashamed of yourselves. Are you?
790
00:40:37,564 --> 00:40:39,065
Yes, ma'am, but we didn't give him that.
791
00:40:39,149 --> 00:40:40,150
-Didn't you?
-That cigarette.
792
00:40:40,233 --> 00:40:41,276
He just must have got it his own self...
793
00:40:41,359 --> 00:40:43,278
-Dwight!
-...from the cigarette machine.
794
00:40:43,403 --> 00:40:45,071
(ANIMAL HOWLING IN DISTANCE)
795
00:40:47,240 --> 00:40:48,700
I almost believe you.
796
00:40:48,825 --> 00:40:50,035
Let's go.
797
00:40:52,871 --> 00:40:54,623
-So long, Dwight.
-So long, Dwight.
798
00:40:54,748 --> 00:40:57,083
(PLAYING UPBEAT TUNE)
799
00:41:13,225 --> 00:41:14,893
MIDGE: Was I ever there?
800
00:41:16,102 --> 00:41:17,604
Was I ever there?
801
00:41:18,939 --> 00:41:21,191
Was I ever there?
802
00:41:26,279 --> 00:41:27,781
Memorizing my lines.
803
00:41:27,989 --> 00:41:29,241
Uh-huh.
804
00:41:33,703 --> 00:41:34,996
Approved.
805
00:41:39,876 --> 00:41:42,546
(MUSIC PLAYING QUIETLY)
806
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:48,552
MAN: (SINGING)
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
807
00:41:48,718 --> 00:41:53,056
As I walked out in Laredo one day
808
00:41:53,181 --> 00:41:55,267
I spied a young cowboy...
809
00:41:55,392 --> 00:41:56,768
I do a nude scene. You want to see it?
810
00:41:59,854 --> 00:42:02,232
-Huh? Did I say yes?
-You didn't say anything.
811
00:42:02,524 --> 00:42:04,526
Uh, I meant yes.
My mouth... My mouth didn't speak.
812
00:42:04,609 --> 00:42:05,694
MIDGE: It's a monologue.
813
00:42:05,819 --> 00:42:07,696
Pretend it starts
when I step out of the shower.
814
00:42:07,821 --> 00:42:09,906
That you are a cowboy
815
00:42:10,031 --> 00:42:11,783
These words he did say
816
00:42:11,908 --> 00:42:14,869
-(KNOB SQUEAKS AND WATER RUNS)
-As I boldly walked by
817
00:42:14,995 --> 00:42:19,541
Come sit down beside me
and hear my sad story
818
00:42:19,666 --> 00:42:24,254
I'm shot in the breast
and I know I must die...
819
00:42:26,923 --> 00:42:28,633
When you first picked me out
of the secretarial pool,
820
00:42:28,758 --> 00:42:31,136
I had $111 in my bank account.
821
00:42:31,303 --> 00:42:34,514
I lived alone with a cat and a parakeet
in a one-room dishwater flat.
822
00:42:34,639 --> 00:42:38,101
I sold the DeSoto to lend you
the down payment for my engagement ring.
823
00:42:38,226 --> 00:42:39,436
It was spring.
824
00:42:39,561 --> 00:42:40,896
I'm not sore.
825
00:42:41,229 --> 00:42:42,647
I know you're a good man.
826
00:42:43,315 --> 00:42:44,649
I'm not sorry.
827
00:42:44,774 --> 00:42:46,192
I never deceived you.
828
00:42:46,985 --> 00:42:49,195
Remember me as a blur
in the rearview mirror.
829
00:42:49,487 --> 00:42:51,072
Was I ever there?
830
00:42:51,197 --> 00:42:52,824
Did you actually see me?
831
00:42:54,951 --> 00:42:56,995
I can't even see myself anymore.
832
00:42:59,372 --> 00:43:00,540
But here I am.
833
00:43:05,212 --> 00:43:06,504
Let's get divorced.
834
00:43:11,218 --> 00:43:12,302
It'll be done tastefully, of course.
835
00:43:12,385 --> 00:43:14,596
We cut to the back of my legs
when the towel falls down.
836
00:43:15,430 --> 00:43:16,681
(AUGIE MUMBLING)
837
00:43:16,765 --> 00:43:18,975
Sometimes... They sometimes
do a stunt double.
838
00:43:19,142 --> 00:43:20,518
MIDGE: Sometimes.
839
00:43:21,102 --> 00:43:23,063
I don't know if I like beards, by the way.
840
00:43:23,188 --> 00:43:24,439
AUGIE: Oh.
841
00:43:24,564 --> 00:43:25,982
Can I take another picture?
842
00:43:26,233 --> 00:43:27,651
Not for publication.
843
00:43:28,860 --> 00:43:30,320
I thought you never ask permission.
844
00:43:34,658 --> 00:43:36,034
AUGIE: Don't move.
845
00:43:37,577 --> 00:43:39,162
(CAMERA CLICKS)
846
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:46,753
I prefer to play abused,
tragic alcoholics,
847
00:43:46,878 --> 00:43:48,838
and one day,
I'll probably be discovered lifeless
848
00:43:48,964 --> 00:43:50,757
in an overflowing bathtub
with an empty bottle
849
00:43:50,882 --> 00:43:53,093
of sleeping pills spilled
all over the floor,
850
00:43:53,969 --> 00:43:57,764
but the sad thing is
I'm actually a very gifted comedienne.
851
00:43:58,014 --> 00:43:59,933
-That's true.
-Are you married?
852
00:44:00,058 --> 00:44:02,644
I'm a widower, but don't tell my kids.
853
00:44:02,769 --> 00:44:04,354
-Why not?
-I-I...
854
00:44:04,479 --> 00:44:06,273
-I mean, I wasn't going to.
-All right. Okay.
855
00:44:06,398 --> 00:44:08,358
-Yeah. (MUMBLES)
-Oh. I'm sorry.
856
00:44:08,441 --> 00:44:10,527
Thank you. They do know, by the way,
857
00:44:10,777 --> 00:44:11,778
but just barely.
858
00:44:17,534 --> 00:44:19,578
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
859
00:44:20,996 --> 00:44:24,165
What do you swap for
out of this particular jukebox, mister?
860
00:44:24,249 --> 00:44:27,127
MOTEL MANAGER: Of course. I understand.
This machine sells land.
861
00:44:27,210 --> 00:44:28,962
-Land, you say?
-Yes, indeed.
862
00:44:29,087 --> 00:44:30,714
The properties just beyond
these cottages, in fact.
863
00:44:30,839 --> 00:44:32,173
Out of this here soda pop machine?
864
00:44:32,299 --> 00:44:33,425
Yes, indeed.
865
00:44:35,886 --> 00:44:37,637
Well, now,
I ain't calling you a liar to your face,
866
00:44:37,762 --> 00:44:39,890
but that sounds to me like
some kind of toadswindle.
867
00:44:40,015 --> 00:44:41,600
Of course. I understand.
It's not a toadswindle.
868
00:44:41,725 --> 00:44:44,811
You put in the money, you receive
a notarized deed to the land.
869
00:44:44,936 --> 00:44:46,438
How big a spread?
870
00:44:46,563 --> 00:44:47,898
For $10 in quarters,
871
00:44:48,315 --> 00:44:49,983
approximately half a tennis court.
872
00:44:57,407 --> 00:44:58,992
Put the potion in it.
873
00:45:00,327 --> 00:45:02,579
Friskity, triskity, briskity, boo.
874
00:45:02,871 --> 00:45:05,206
Knickerty, knockerty, tockerty, too.
875
00:45:07,250 --> 00:45:11,755
And with this spell,
Mama comes back alive!
876
00:45:12,547 --> 00:45:14,424
God save these bones.
877
00:45:14,549 --> 00:45:15,926
(CAR DOOR OPENS)
878
00:45:17,177 --> 00:45:19,137
(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING QUIETLY)
879
00:45:21,556 --> 00:45:23,183
What's in the Tupperware?
880
00:45:23,391 --> 00:45:25,310
Freight train, freight train
881
00:45:25,393 --> 00:45:27,145
Going so fast...
882
00:45:28,146 --> 00:45:29,564
He finally told you.
883
00:45:31,358 --> 00:45:33,985
I don't know what train he's on
884
00:45:34,110 --> 00:45:37,739
Won't you tell me where's he gone...
885
00:45:41,785 --> 00:45:43,286
Who's this old man?
886
00:45:43,495 --> 00:45:44,955
Poppy, I think.
887
00:45:45,247 --> 00:45:46,748
You don't remember me.
888
00:45:46,873 --> 00:45:48,541
I remember his smell.
889
00:45:49,251 --> 00:45:50,627
(SNIFFS)
890
00:45:56,758 --> 00:46:00,345
We're not going to abandon my daughter
at a motel in the middle of the desert,
891
00:46:00,428 --> 00:46:02,389
buried next to the communal showers.
892
00:46:04,266 --> 00:46:05,559
You're ruining the funeral!
893
00:46:05,642 --> 00:46:06,726
He's making her go to hell!
894
00:46:06,810 --> 00:46:09,479
If you torture us, we'll sacrifice you.
895
00:46:10,438 --> 00:46:11,773
I understand.
896
00:46:11,898 --> 00:46:14,526
Thank you for your clarity.
897
00:46:15,402 --> 00:46:17,946
I'll tell you what, let's leave her
898
00:46:18,029 --> 00:46:19,489
alone in the ground
until tomorrow morning.
899
00:46:19,614 --> 00:46:22,993
Then we'll exhume the Tupperware,
bring her with us in the Cadillac
900
00:46:23,577 --> 00:46:25,245
and bury her again
this weekend in the backyard
901
00:46:25,370 --> 00:46:27,038
next to the seventh hole at Rancho Palms,
902
00:46:27,163 --> 00:46:29,082
where I live
in a beautiful house with a swimming pool.
903
00:46:29,165 --> 00:46:30,250
Agreed?
904
00:46:30,417 --> 00:46:31,543
-Mmm-hmm.
-Okay.
905
00:46:33,795 --> 00:46:35,755
Let's hope a coyote doesn't
dig her up in the meantime.
906
00:46:35,881 --> 00:46:37,591
Nothing we can do about it anyway.
907
00:46:37,716 --> 00:46:39,092
(FIRECRACKERS CRACKLE AND POP)
908
00:46:39,217 --> 00:46:40,844
Ooh. Look at that.
909
00:46:50,437 --> 00:46:52,355
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
910
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:54,524
(OWL HOOTING)
911
00:46:56,985 --> 00:46:58,778
Tonight, you're in for a real treat.
912
00:46:58,945 --> 00:47:02,490
I don't know how many of you ever observed
an astronomical ellipses before.
913
00:47:02,574 --> 00:47:04,534
In fact, can we get a show of hands?
914
00:47:05,869 --> 00:47:07,162
Nobody?
915
00:47:07,495 --> 00:47:09,164
Wow. Okay.
916
00:47:09,623 --> 00:47:13,293
Well, what you're gonna see
is a very simple dot-dot-dot...
917
00:47:13,418 --> 00:47:15,921
three pinpoints of light
inside your refracting box,
918
00:47:16,046 --> 00:47:18,173
which may not sound
very exciting at first,
919
00:47:18,298 --> 00:47:21,134
until you consider how those dots
managed to transmit themselves
920
00:47:21,259 --> 00:47:25,513
across a thousand billion miles of space
onto that little scrap of black cardboard.
921
00:47:26,223 --> 00:47:27,891
Twice every 57 years,
922
00:47:28,016 --> 00:47:29,768
when the Earth, the sun, the moon,
923
00:47:29,893 --> 00:47:31,519
and the galactic plane of the Milky Way
924
00:47:31,645 --> 00:47:34,397
all combobulate along the same
angle of orbital interest,
925
00:47:34,522 --> 00:47:37,859
the radiant energy of three
neighboring stellar systems
926
00:47:37,984 --> 00:47:39,569
induces a parallel ecliptic transit,
927
00:47:39,694 --> 00:47:41,488
thus all but proving
928
00:47:41,613 --> 00:47:43,865
the hypothesis of celestial flirtation.
929
00:47:44,282 --> 00:47:46,701
The hitch, of course,
is that the math doesn't work.
930
00:47:46,826 --> 00:47:48,495
But maybe one of you one day
931
00:47:48,620 --> 00:47:50,705
will be the genius
who solves that problem.
932
00:47:51,039 --> 00:47:53,375
The event will begin in 30 seconds.
933
00:47:53,959 --> 00:47:56,253
Remember, if you look directly
at the ellipses
934
00:47:56,336 --> 00:47:57,587
rather than through your refracting box,
935
00:47:57,712 --> 00:47:59,381
not only will you
not actually see the effect
936
00:47:59,506 --> 00:48:01,007
but you will burn the dots
937
00:48:01,132 --> 00:48:02,926
straight into your retina,
probably permanently.
938
00:48:03,051 --> 00:48:05,262
I know that for a fact,
because they're still burned into mine
939
00:48:05,387 --> 00:48:07,305
from when I was 11 going on 12.
940
00:48:07,430 --> 00:48:09,808
That's when I realized
I wanted to be an astronomer,
941
00:48:09,933 --> 00:48:11,059
which is another story.
942
00:48:11,184 --> 00:48:12,185
Here we go.
943
00:48:12,310 --> 00:48:14,020
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
944
00:48:39,004 --> 00:48:40,088
There it is.
945
00:48:40,213 --> 00:48:42,173
AUDIENCE: Ooh!
946
00:48:42,465 --> 00:48:45,427
DR. HICKENLOOPER: Uh, these are just such
marvelously luminous colors, aren't they?
947
00:48:45,677 --> 00:48:47,846
Very exciting. Does everybody see it?
948
00:48:47,929 --> 00:48:50,181
BILLY: I don't. I just see a staple.
949
00:48:54,394 --> 00:48:56,062
Yipe! It works.
950
00:48:57,230 --> 00:48:58,732
MIDGE: Are you Shelly?
951
00:48:59,149 --> 00:49:00,191
SHELLY: Yeah.
952
00:49:00,275 --> 00:49:02,068
MIDGE: I'm your idol. What's your rank?
953
00:49:02,611 --> 00:49:03,904
Commanding secretary.
954
00:49:04,446 --> 00:49:05,947
I was a Cookie Trooper myself.
955
00:49:06,072 --> 00:49:07,490
Really? Wow.
956
00:49:07,616 --> 00:49:09,576
What'll they say in Squad 75?
957
00:49:13,788 --> 00:49:15,123
Hmm?
958
00:49:16,917 --> 00:49:19,002
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
959
00:50:53,471 --> 00:50:55,515
(LOW HUMMING)
960
00:50:57,100 --> 00:50:59,185
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
961
00:51:21,166 --> 00:51:22,834
(CAMERA CLICKS)
962
00:51:29,799 --> 00:51:31,384
(CLEARS THROAT)
963
00:51:55,951 --> 00:51:57,035
(MUSIC ENDS)
964
00:51:57,285 --> 00:52:00,497
The, uh, alien stole the asteroid.
965
00:52:13,510 --> 00:52:15,095
(BELL RINGS)
966
00:52:15,220 --> 00:52:18,932
HOST: Schubert Green,
born Shylock Grzworvszowski.
967
00:52:19,015 --> 00:52:20,642
Director, immigrant.
968
00:52:20,767 --> 00:52:24,688
Known for his limitless energy,
his voracious enthusiasms...
969
00:52:24,854 --> 00:52:27,107
a well-known actress
described him sexually
970
00:52:27,232 --> 00:52:29,901
as an animal, specifically a rabbit,
971
00:52:30,026 --> 00:52:32,862
and his long, deep,
and intimate relationship
972
00:52:33,822 --> 00:52:35,073
with success.
973
00:52:35,782 --> 00:52:37,576
What do you think, Lunky?
974
00:52:37,701 --> 00:52:38,743
Good.
975
00:52:40,036 --> 00:52:42,205
(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING)
976
00:52:44,749 --> 00:52:46,835
I'm not going to ask
what the hell's going on here.
977
00:52:47,085 --> 00:52:50,130
His wife Polly left him
for an all-star second baseman
978
00:52:50,255 --> 00:52:52,173
during the first week of rehearsals.
979
00:52:53,091 --> 00:52:54,676
My living quarters.
980
00:52:54,801 --> 00:52:56,678
Oh, Rose
981
00:52:56,803 --> 00:52:58,972
My Rose Marie...
982
00:52:59,097 --> 00:53:00,307
Sign this.
983
00:53:00,390 --> 00:53:01,600
Oh, no.
984
00:53:04,311 --> 00:53:06,563
(SIGHS) It's Clark's report card.
985
00:53:06,688 --> 00:53:08,440
Uh-huh. What'd you think it was?
986
00:53:08,982 --> 00:53:11,026
I thought maybe we were already divorced.
987
00:53:11,151 --> 00:53:12,360
Oh.
988
00:53:12,485 --> 00:53:14,654
Not yet, but eventually.
989
00:53:14,779 --> 00:53:16,740
He made the honor roll again.
990
00:53:17,866 --> 00:53:21,578
Oh, Rose Marie
991
00:53:21,703 --> 00:53:24,205
I love you
992
00:53:25,123 --> 00:53:28,251
I'm always dreaming...
993
00:53:28,501 --> 00:53:30,837
(MIMICS SPEED BAG SOUNDS)
994
00:53:30,962 --> 00:53:32,964
I'm staying at Diego's penthouse.
995
00:53:33,048 --> 00:53:35,383
Clark's at my mother's.
The apartment's empty.
996
00:53:35,508 --> 00:53:37,219
Why don't you just go home?
997
00:53:37,594 --> 00:53:40,013
I don't think I should be alone
in a building with real windows.
998
00:53:40,138 --> 00:53:41,598
-(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)
-(MUSIC STOPS)
999
00:53:41,723 --> 00:53:43,391
-(POWER WHIRRING)
-(MUSIC RESUMES)
1000
00:53:43,725 --> 00:53:45,435
Makeup cuts my hair and shaves me.
1001
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,270
Costumes washes my dungarees.
1002
00:53:48,063 --> 00:53:50,106
This is where I belong, for now.
1003
00:53:51,191 --> 00:53:52,692
Much better.
1004
00:53:52,817 --> 00:53:54,819
-Did you do the green?
-Hmm.
1005
00:53:58,323 --> 00:54:00,492
It's been a great ten years, Schubert.
1006
00:54:00,617 --> 00:54:02,744
I don't regret a second of it.
1007
00:54:02,869 --> 00:54:04,454
Clark still loves you.
1008
00:54:05,247 --> 00:54:06,539
I still love you.
1009
00:54:07,749 --> 00:54:09,125
But not like before?
1010
00:54:10,085 --> 00:54:11,753
But not like before.
1011
00:54:17,801 --> 00:54:20,345
(DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES)
1012
00:54:20,470 --> 00:54:22,347
HOST: Schubert Green lived
in the scenic bay
1013
00:54:22,472 --> 00:54:23,848
of the Tarkington Theater
1014
00:54:23,974 --> 00:54:27,686
for all 785 performances of Asteroid City.
1015
00:54:27,811 --> 00:54:29,396
Dark nights, he stayed
1016
00:54:29,521 --> 00:54:31,940
in the Governor's Suite
of the Nebraska Hotel.
1017
00:54:32,065 --> 00:54:33,942
-(DOOR OPENS)
-POLLY: One last note.
1018
00:54:34,359 --> 00:54:37,279
When Midge makes
her exit in Act Three, Scene Five,
1019
00:54:37,362 --> 00:54:40,448
try having her say
the line after she closes the door.
1020
00:54:40,574 --> 00:54:43,076
Hmm. Maybe we are doomed.
1021
00:54:43,994 --> 00:54:45,203
I will.
1022
00:54:45,579 --> 00:54:50,834
My Rose Marie
1023
00:54:51,167 --> 00:54:52,502
POLLY: Goodbye.
1024
00:54:52,586 --> 00:54:54,170
(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)
1025
00:54:58,091 --> 00:55:00,176
(SONG FADES)
1026
00:55:07,017 --> 00:55:08,810
(BIRDS CALLING)
1027
00:55:10,061 --> 00:55:11,771
(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA)
1028
00:55:11,897 --> 00:55:13,815
-(SIREN BLARING)
-(AIRCRAFT PASSING OVERHEAD)
1029
00:55:15,817 --> 00:55:17,819
(ALL CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
1030
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,711
-(BEEPING SOFTLY)
-(WHISTLING)
1031
00:55:38,757 --> 00:55:40,508
Here he comes.
1032
00:55:41,676 --> 00:55:43,261
I've just informed the president.
1033
00:55:43,845 --> 00:55:45,889
He authorized me to read
and implement the provisions
1034
00:55:46,014 --> 00:55:47,974
of National Security
Emergency Scrimmage Plan X.
1035
00:55:48,099 --> 00:55:49,309
Here I go.
1036
00:55:50,101 --> 00:55:54,189
"The following top secret directive
was mandated into law on July 1, 1950."
1037
00:55:54,940 --> 00:55:56,483
"In the event of unforeseen engagement
1038
00:55:56,608 --> 00:55:58,693
"with intelligent life-form
or forms from any planet
1039
00:55:58,818 --> 00:56:00,654
"not specifically defined as our Earth,
1040
00:56:00,779 --> 00:56:02,864
"be advised to initiate
the following protocols.
1041
00:56:03,281 --> 00:56:06,660
"One, confirm said life-form
is not operating under the guidance
1042
00:56:06,743 --> 00:56:08,495
"of any hostile foreign
terrestrial government."
1043
00:56:08,578 --> 00:56:09,871
No, I don't think
he's working for the Russians
1044
00:56:09,996 --> 00:56:11,456
or the Red Chinese, but you never know.
1045
00:56:11,581 --> 00:56:13,208
He certainly didn't give me
that impression.
1046
00:56:13,333 --> 00:56:16,127
"Two, confirm the life-form
does not intend to annex,
1047
00:56:16,211 --> 00:56:18,213
"colonize, vaporize,
or expropriate the resources
1048
00:56:18,338 --> 00:56:20,757
"of the sovereign territories
of the United States of America."
1049
00:56:20,882 --> 00:56:23,009
I doubt it. He took the asteroid and went.
1050
00:56:23,134 --> 00:56:25,595
"Three, identify and detain
all possible witnesses
1051
00:56:25,679 --> 00:56:26,888
"and place them under group arrest
1052
00:56:26,972 --> 00:56:28,306
"for a period of no less than one week
1053
00:56:28,431 --> 00:56:29,724
"defined as seven calendar days
1054
00:56:29,849 --> 00:56:31,351
"during which time they be subjected
1055
00:56:31,476 --> 00:56:33,395
"to a prescribed battery
of medical and psychological
1056
00:56:33,478 --> 00:56:35,063
"examinations and cross-examinations."
1057
00:56:35,188 --> 00:56:37,065
Standard procedure. Already in the works.
1058
00:56:37,399 --> 00:56:38,775
"Four, secure the site,
1059
00:56:38,858 --> 00:56:40,151
"cease the dissemination of information,
1060
00:56:40,277 --> 00:56:41,903
"collect and transport
the totality of evidence
1061
00:56:42,028 --> 00:56:43,321
"to a hermetically enclosed,
1062
00:56:43,446 --> 00:56:44,739
"deep-underground secret storage facility
1063
00:56:44,864 --> 00:56:46,700
"and publicly deny
all aspects of the event,
1064
00:56:46,825 --> 00:56:49,578
"including its existence,
for a period of no less than 100 years,
1065
00:56:49,661 --> 00:56:51,496
"defined as 36,500 days."
1066
00:56:51,621 --> 00:56:53,039
End of directive.
1067
00:56:53,331 --> 00:56:54,666
-That's pretty clear.
-Huh.
1068
00:56:54,791 --> 00:56:56,001
-What do we tell them?
-Who?
1069
00:56:56,126 --> 00:56:58,670
The Junior Stargazers,
the Space Cadets, the moms and dads.
1070
00:56:59,004 --> 00:57:01,006
-Midge Campbell.
-OTHERS: Midge Campbell.
1071
00:57:01,131 --> 00:57:02,716
Tell them it didn't happen?
1072
00:57:02,841 --> 00:57:04,384
(ALL LAUGHING SOFTLY)
1073
00:57:04,759 --> 00:57:08,638
No, obviously, we'll have to formulate
a suitable cover story.
1074
00:57:10,181 --> 00:57:11,600
(DEVICE CLICKING)
1075
00:57:11,892 --> 00:57:13,476
CLIFFORD: You dare me?
1076
00:57:13,602 --> 00:57:15,186
(MACHINES BEEPING AND WHOOSHING)
1077
00:57:15,312 --> 00:57:17,647
-Dare you what?
-To press that button.
1078
00:57:19,149 --> 00:57:21,568
I will break your neck.
1079
00:57:21,651 --> 00:57:24,195
SHELLY: That's an alien eating an apple.
That's an alien doing jumping jacks.
1080
00:57:24,279 --> 00:57:27,073
That's an alien in a top hat.
That's an alien climbing a ladder.
1081
00:57:27,198 --> 00:57:28,450
That's an alien on a racehorse.
That's an alien...
1082
00:57:28,575 --> 00:57:30,160
DETECTIVE: Let's take it from the top.
1083
00:57:30,243 --> 00:57:33,079
I told you 50 times,
the alien picked up the asteroid...
1084
00:57:33,163 --> 00:57:34,623
-"Alleged" alien.
-I know what I saw!
1085
00:57:34,748 --> 00:57:36,166
-It's called a meteorite.
-An extraterrestrial being.
1086
00:57:36,291 --> 00:57:37,834
This is a microfiche
of your school newspaper.
1087
00:57:37,959 --> 00:57:40,045
Your byline accompanies
an article criticizing
1088
00:57:40,128 --> 00:57:41,630
the principal's disciplinary methods.
1089
00:57:41,755 --> 00:57:43,965
-Who were your sources?
-I was in the sixth grade.
1090
00:57:44,090 --> 00:57:46,051
-Just answer the question.
-And I will not name names!
1091
00:57:46,176 --> 00:57:48,053
-(SWITCH CLACKS)
-(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
1092
00:57:48,178 --> 00:57:50,347
-(WHIRRING)
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1093
00:57:50,805 --> 00:57:52,015
-You dared me!
-What did I say?
1094
00:57:52,140 --> 00:57:53,934
-What did I say?
-You dared me!
1095
00:57:54,351 --> 00:57:56,228
(MAN VOCALIZING)
1096
00:58:00,482 --> 00:58:02,484
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
1097
00:58:02,609 --> 00:58:05,111
All right. Um...
1098
00:58:05,237 --> 00:58:07,489
MAN: (SINGING) When I'm calling you...
1099
00:58:08,698 --> 00:58:10,075
I'm going to attempt to proceed
1100
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,244
with the lesson plan
I originally prepared.
1101
00:58:12,369 --> 00:58:14,204
Just to keep orderliness
under the circumstances.
1102
00:58:14,329 --> 00:58:15,747
I expect that some...
1103
00:58:15,956 --> 00:58:19,292
Some of our information about outer space
may no longer be completely accurate,
1104
00:58:19,376 --> 00:58:21,670
but, anyway,
there are still only nine planets
1105
00:58:21,795 --> 00:58:23,713
in the solar system,
as far as we know. Billy?
1106
00:58:23,964 --> 00:58:25,549
Except now there's an alien.
1107
00:58:26,508 --> 00:58:28,552
True, by all appearances.
1108
00:58:28,843 --> 00:58:30,220
Nevertheless, Neptune...
1109
00:58:30,345 --> 00:58:31,972
Fourth largest planet by diameter,
1110
00:58:32,097 --> 00:58:35,934
Neptune orbits the sun
only once every 165 years. Bernice?
1111
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,478
Maybe the alien went there.
1112
00:58:39,229 --> 00:58:40,522
Well, maybe.
1113
00:58:40,939 --> 00:58:44,401
I don't think anybody knows
where the alien went or came from.
1114
00:58:44,568 --> 00:58:45,610
Yes, Dwight?
1115
00:58:45,735 --> 00:58:47,862
At first,
I thought the alien was kind of sneaky,
1116
00:58:47,988 --> 00:58:50,282
but now I think
he was probably nervous to go to Earth.
1117
00:58:50,407 --> 00:58:52,200
He's never been here before, I bet you.
1118
00:58:52,409 --> 00:58:53,618
Then why'd he steal our asteroid, then,
1119
00:58:53,743 --> 00:58:54,995
if he's such a gentleman?
1120
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:56,955
These are all reasonable questions,
1121
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,082
but, at this time, let's stick to Neptune
1122
00:58:59,207 --> 00:59:01,209
because I haven't had time
to prepare any lesson plan
1123
00:59:01,334 --> 00:59:02,711
on this subject we're talking about.
1124
00:59:02,919 --> 00:59:03,962
The alien.
1125
00:59:04,045 --> 00:59:05,547
JUNE: The alien, yes.
1126
00:59:07,048 --> 00:59:09,634
And, by the way,
I don't mean to evade your questions.
1127
00:59:09,759 --> 00:59:11,428
I want to emphasize that you're safe.
1128
00:59:11,636 --> 00:59:13,346
We all are, here on Earth.
1129
00:59:13,430 --> 00:59:15,891
Your parents
have been notified of at least something.
1130
00:59:16,016 --> 00:59:18,602
-America remains at peace.
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1131
00:59:19,227 --> 00:59:20,395
Yes, Montana?
1132
00:59:20,937 --> 00:59:23,815
I'd like to parley
a notion myself, if I could, June.
1133
00:59:23,940 --> 00:59:25,108
Um...
1134
00:59:26,067 --> 00:59:27,193
Okay.
1135
00:59:31,156 --> 00:59:32,991
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
1136
00:59:33,116 --> 00:59:34,826
I figure this here alien come from a tribe
1137
00:59:34,951 --> 00:59:36,745
we don't know nothing 'bout, do we?
1138
00:59:36,870 --> 00:59:39,456
Anything we say'd
just be pure speculation.
1139
00:59:39,581 --> 00:59:41,416
But I tell you what I reckon.
1140
00:59:42,042 --> 00:59:45,003
I reckon that alien
don't mean no harm at all.
1141
00:59:45,128 --> 00:59:46,838
I reckon he just took hisself down here
1142
00:59:46,963 --> 00:59:49,674
to have a look-see at the land
and the peoples on it.
1143
00:59:49,799 --> 00:59:51,718
In the spirit of exploration.
1144
00:59:52,260 --> 00:59:55,472
See, I don't look on
a feller alien all suspicious-like.
1145
00:59:55,972 --> 00:59:57,474
No, he ain't American.
1146
00:59:57,599 --> 00:59:59,893
No, he ain't a creature
of God's green Earth.
1147
01:00:00,018 --> 01:00:03,438
But he's a creature
of somewheres, and so are we.
1148
01:00:04,105 --> 01:00:07,567
Now, let's show the old feller
some hospitality,
1149
01:00:07,692 --> 01:00:09,778
and if he turns out to be a dirty dog,
1150
01:00:09,903 --> 01:00:11,363
which I reckon he ain't,
1151
01:00:11,446 --> 01:00:13,907
well, that'll be a job
for the United States armed forces,
1152
01:00:14,032 --> 01:00:15,867
and they ain't never lost a war yet.
1153
01:00:18,370 --> 01:00:19,746
Thanky-do.
1154
01:00:21,915 --> 01:00:23,541
I agree with Montana.
1155
01:00:23,959 --> 01:00:26,294
Now, Neptune.
1156
01:00:28,672 --> 01:00:30,507
(WHIRRING SOFTLY)
1157
01:00:30,632 --> 01:00:33,218
Tell me, where do they go?
1158
01:00:33,343 --> 01:00:35,220
(MUSIC PLAYING SOFTLY)
1159
01:00:35,345 --> 01:00:36,805
The smoke rings...
1160
01:00:36,930 --> 01:00:38,640
Which way did he go?
1161
01:00:38,765 --> 01:00:42,018
Hmm. Well, I think he went from here
1162
01:00:42,143 --> 01:00:45,480
to here to here to...
1163
01:00:46,439 --> 01:00:47,482
I don't know where.
1164
01:00:47,566 --> 01:00:48,775
My mother couldn't remember
which was which,
1165
01:00:48,900 --> 01:00:50,652
so she made up her own constellations.
1166
01:00:51,278 --> 01:00:53,405
That one's the Coat Hanger.
That one's the Leaky Faucet.
1167
01:00:53,530 --> 01:00:55,156
Over there's Fried Egg with Spatula.
1168
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,076
My mother is a constellation,
or-or at least part of one.
1169
01:00:58,201 --> 01:01:00,328
A Swiss scientist named
a hypothetical star after her.
1170
01:01:00,453 --> 01:01:01,580
Really? What's it called?
1171
01:01:01,705 --> 01:01:03,123
Midge Campbell X-9 Major.
1172
01:01:03,248 --> 01:01:04,916
Midge Campbell X-9...
I'm gonna look it up.
1173
01:01:05,041 --> 01:01:07,127
WOODROW: Is she interested
in astronomy, your mother?
1174
01:01:07,252 --> 01:01:09,296
Not exactly. She's interested in stardom.
1175
01:01:09,504 --> 01:01:11,006
I don't mean that
as a criticism, by the way.
1176
01:01:11,131 --> 01:01:12,507
It's her job to be famous.
1177
01:01:12,841 --> 01:01:15,260
Anyway, I'm sick of her face,
but I love her voice.
1178
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:16,970
She should do more radio.
1179
01:01:18,138 --> 01:01:19,347
DR. HICKENLOOPER: I never had children.
1180
01:01:19,472 --> 01:01:22,392
Sometimes I wonder if I wish I should've.
1181
01:01:22,517 --> 01:01:24,895
I discovered
a hypothetical star myself, by the way.
1182
01:01:25,020 --> 01:01:26,396
-Ooh. Where is it?
-Which one?
1183
01:01:26,479 --> 01:01:29,357
Right there. Partly blocked
by that burnt-out light bulb.
1184
01:01:39,034 --> 01:01:41,578
-(CLICKING AND WHIRRING)
-Uh...
1185
01:01:41,703 --> 01:01:43,622
-What happened?
-I don't know.
1186
01:01:44,414 --> 01:01:46,041
(BEEPING)
1187
01:01:46,166 --> 01:01:47,834
(ALARM BUZZING)
1188
01:01:47,959 --> 01:01:49,711
-(HEADS THUMP)
-(BEEPING AND BUZZING STOP)
1189
01:01:53,298 --> 01:01:55,091
-Oh.
-WOODROW: Uh...
1190
01:01:56,301 --> 01:01:57,469
After you.
1191
01:02:05,810 --> 01:02:08,146
Sometimes I think I'd feel more at home
1192
01:02:08,271 --> 01:02:10,148
outside the Earth's atmosphere.
1193
01:02:13,985 --> 01:02:15,195
Oh, wow.
1194
01:02:15,570 --> 01:02:16,863
Me, too.
1195
01:02:23,411 --> 01:02:24,788
Did it come out?
1196
01:02:24,913 --> 01:02:28,333
Some people say a man...
1197
01:02:28,416 --> 01:02:30,168
-I mean the other one.
-Oh.
1198
01:02:30,418 --> 01:02:33,505
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
1199
01:02:33,713 --> 01:02:36,383
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
1200
01:02:36,508 --> 01:02:40,053
A mind that's weak
And a back that's strong...
1201
01:02:41,137 --> 01:02:42,472
Okay.
1202
01:02:43,557 --> 01:02:45,892
Another day older and deeper in debt
1203
01:02:46,017 --> 01:02:49,437
Saint Peter, don't you call me
'Cause I can't go
1204
01:02:49,521 --> 01:02:50,522
You feel different?
1205
01:02:50,730 --> 01:02:53,483
I owe my soul to the company store...
1206
01:02:53,650 --> 01:02:55,652
Hey. You feel different?
1207
01:02:56,861 --> 01:02:58,613
I don't feel anything at all.
1208
01:02:59,322 --> 01:03:01,408
-Me, neither.
-Hmm.
1209
01:03:03,743 --> 01:03:05,245
I'm not a good mother.
1210
01:03:05,579 --> 01:03:06,746
Uh-huh.
1211
01:03:06,871 --> 01:03:08,623
I love my daughter,
but I'm not a good mother
1212
01:03:08,748 --> 01:03:10,750
because, unfortunately for her,
she's not my first priority.
1213
01:03:11,459 --> 01:03:13,587
On account of there's always already
the thing I plan to do next.
1214
01:03:13,753 --> 01:03:16,047
I love my daughter, by the way. I-I...
1215
01:03:16,214 --> 01:03:17,883
I love all my children.
1216
01:03:18,008 --> 01:03:20,427
We have a magical time
when we're together.
1217
01:03:20,552 --> 01:03:22,262
I have another girl and a boy.
1218
01:03:22,387 --> 01:03:24,264
They live with
my second ex-husband in Utah.
1219
01:03:24,389 --> 01:03:26,391
-Uh-huh.
-He rarely sees them, either.
1220
01:03:26,516 --> 01:03:28,602
-Mmm-hmm.
-I wish I felt guilty at least,
1221
01:03:28,727 --> 01:03:30,896
but I don't experience that emotion,
1222
01:03:30,979 --> 01:03:32,272
if I understand it correctly.
1223
01:03:32,355 --> 01:03:33,607
-Yes. (MUMBLES)
-I've played it, of course.
1224
01:03:33,732 --> 01:03:35,400
So you're saying you never
feel guilty in real life?
1225
01:03:35,483 --> 01:03:36,484
Not to my knowledge.
1226
01:03:36,818 --> 01:03:38,904
I think because of my history
with violent men.
1227
01:03:39,237 --> 01:03:43,533
Starting with my father,
brother and uncles.
1228
01:03:44,159 --> 01:03:46,870
There's always
already the thing I plan to do next, too.
1229
01:03:47,662 --> 01:03:48,955
Usually, it's a war.
1230
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:51,041
Nobody can compete with that, can they?
1231
01:03:51,416 --> 01:03:52,834
Probably not.
1232
01:03:53,335 --> 01:03:55,670
I did a USO tour once. It was thrilling.
1233
01:03:57,297 --> 01:04:00,425
I owe my soul to the company store...
1234
01:04:01,843 --> 01:04:04,804
-I think I see how I see us.
-Hmm?
1235
01:04:04,930 --> 01:04:07,682
I mean, I think I know now
what I realize we are.
1236
01:04:07,807 --> 01:04:08,975
Okay.
1237
01:04:09,100 --> 01:04:10,644
Two catastrophically wounded people
1238
01:04:10,727 --> 01:04:12,771
who don't express the depths
of their pain because
1239
01:04:13,605 --> 01:04:14,898
we don't want to.
1240
01:04:15,023 --> 01:04:16,316
That's our connection.
1241
01:04:16,524 --> 01:04:17,817
Do you agree?
1242
01:04:20,278 --> 01:04:21,696
Uh-huh.
1243
01:04:23,490 --> 01:04:24,908
Let's, um...
1244
01:04:25,784 --> 01:04:27,452
Let's change the subject, shall we?
1245
01:04:28,245 --> 01:04:29,287
(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
1246
01:04:29,371 --> 01:04:30,622
It's open.
1247
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,002
-Hello?
-MIDGE: In here.
1248
01:04:37,504 --> 01:04:39,589
-(DOOR CLOSES)
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1249
01:04:39,965 --> 01:04:41,591
Hello? Hello.
1250
01:04:41,675 --> 01:04:43,176
I'm just your neighbor, Stanley Zak.
1251
01:04:43,260 --> 01:04:44,803
I wanted to make sure
you and your daughter
1252
01:04:44,928 --> 01:04:46,763
have everything
you might need at the moment.
1253
01:04:46,888 --> 01:04:48,348
Thank you. I think so.
1254
01:04:48,473 --> 01:04:50,642
What a strange experience
this is, isn't it?
1255
01:04:50,767 --> 01:04:53,061
I went to law school
with your former agent, by the way.
1256
01:04:53,228 --> 01:04:54,854
-Mort?
-Mort. Yes, Mort.
1257
01:04:54,938 --> 01:04:56,064
Oh.
1258
01:04:57,566 --> 01:04:58,984
That came out.
1259
01:04:59,359 --> 01:05:01,444
Yeah, it came out.
All my pictures come out.
1260
01:05:03,655 --> 01:05:07,742
Anyway, as I say,
we're just across the driveway,
1261
01:05:07,867 --> 01:05:10,495
as my son-in-law seems
to have established.
1262
01:05:10,620 --> 01:05:12,831
Send my best wishes
to Mort and his family.
1263
01:05:12,956 --> 01:05:15,875
I will, if and when we're permitted
contact with the outside world,
1264
01:05:16,001 --> 01:05:18,128
though I don't speak to him,
to tell you the truth.
1265
01:05:19,754 --> 01:05:21,590
I love your hairdo like that.
1266
01:05:21,965 --> 01:05:23,425
Ugh, Christ.
1267
01:05:26,219 --> 01:05:27,888
MOTEL MANAGER: You see
that wonderful crackly-patch
1268
01:05:28,013 --> 01:05:30,807
right out there between the dead cactuses
and the dried-up riverbed?
1269
01:05:30,932 --> 01:05:32,309
-I think so.
-That's your parcel.
1270
01:05:32,434 --> 01:05:33,977
How much of it do I own?
1271
01:05:34,102 --> 01:05:37,022
Well, it's actually an interesting
financial mechanism.
1272
01:05:37,147 --> 01:05:39,399
You don't technically
own anything outright.
1273
01:05:39,524 --> 01:05:42,068
You own stock in the town
in the form of a loan
1274
01:05:42,193 --> 01:05:43,445
with a 50-year maturity rate.
1275
01:05:43,570 --> 01:05:44,654
Then, at the end, the loan is forgiven.
1276
01:05:44,779 --> 01:05:46,031
-You dare me?
-How about water?
1277
01:05:46,156 --> 01:05:47,490
MOTEL MANAGER: Of course. I understand.
1278
01:05:47,616 --> 01:05:49,326
There isn't any.
This is a desert opportunity.
1279
01:05:49,451 --> 01:05:50,785
-You dare me?
-I heard you.
1280
01:05:50,911 --> 01:05:52,454
-It's an experiment.
-I don't care anymore.
1281
01:05:52,579 --> 01:05:54,539
I dare you or I don't dare you.
It doesn't matter.
1282
01:05:54,664 --> 01:05:56,249
Do what you wish. I give up.
1283
01:05:59,085 --> 01:06:00,545
(SIGHS)
1284
01:06:05,884 --> 01:06:07,636
What's the cause?
1285
01:06:07,761 --> 01:06:09,221
What's the meaning?
1286
01:06:09,429 --> 01:06:11,348
Why do you always have to dare something?
1287
01:06:16,186 --> 01:06:17,312
I don't know.
1288
01:06:19,147 --> 01:06:22,234
Maybe it's because I'm afraid,
1289
01:06:22,776 --> 01:06:25,528
otherwise, nobody'll
1290
01:06:26,863 --> 01:06:31,201
notice my existence
1291
01:06:32,494 --> 01:06:34,204
in the universe.
1292
01:06:44,839 --> 01:06:45,924
Dare you what?
1293
01:06:46,299 --> 01:06:47,884
Yes, dare you what?
1294
01:06:49,052 --> 01:06:50,720
To climb that cactus out there.
1295
01:06:50,845 --> 01:06:52,305
-Lord, no. No.
-Please don't.
1296
01:06:55,308 --> 01:06:56,351
MIDGE: Hello.
1297
01:06:56,935 --> 01:06:58,687
Hello. Hello.
1298
01:06:58,812 --> 01:07:00,939
We met before.
I'm the mother of that Cookie Trooper
1299
01:07:01,064 --> 01:07:02,816
-who idolizes you.
-I know.
1300
01:07:02,941 --> 01:07:05,318
Thought you might not
recognize me out of uniform.
1301
01:07:05,860 --> 01:07:07,404
You were very good in the one
1302
01:07:07,529 --> 01:07:09,239
about the tramp
in the brothel who gets amnesia
1303
01:07:09,364 --> 01:07:10,865
-and becomes a pediatrician.
-Thank you. Thank you.
1304
01:07:10,991 --> 01:07:12,367
-You were very authentic.
-That's actually maybe
1305
01:07:12,492 --> 01:07:13,785
my favorite character I've ever played.
1306
01:07:13,910 --> 01:07:17,122
-I don't know why nobody else liked it.
-Oh. Yes. Me, neither.
1307
01:07:17,247 --> 01:07:18,873
Thank you. Some people liked it.
1308
01:07:18,999 --> 01:07:20,750
Oh, I'm sure. I did.
1309
01:07:20,875 --> 01:07:22,168
Who hit you?
1310
01:07:26,631 --> 01:07:28,842
Am I not in this?
1311
01:07:31,595 --> 01:07:33,430
Excuse me. I'm not in this.
1312
01:07:33,555 --> 01:07:35,140
Um, who hit you?
1313
01:07:35,265 --> 01:07:37,267
-It's on the other eye.
-It's greasepaint.
1314
01:07:37,392 --> 01:07:38,852
Some people did... Do like it.
1315
01:07:38,977 --> 01:07:40,478
Oh, I'm sure.
1316
01:07:40,562 --> 01:07:43,189
I thought it might have
been your second ex-husband in Utah.
1317
01:07:43,565 --> 01:07:45,400
(KNOB SQUEAKS AND WATER STOPS)
1318
01:07:45,567 --> 01:07:47,652
(BIRDS SCREECHING)
1319
01:07:56,202 --> 01:07:58,204
If I sleep on a cot
instead of the sofa bed,
1320
01:07:58,288 --> 01:07:59,372
that might leave room for me to set up
1321
01:07:59,456 --> 01:08:00,999
-a darkroom in the pool house.
-(GUN FIRING)
1322
01:08:01,124 --> 01:08:02,417
Is that possible as a compromise?
1323
01:08:02,542 --> 01:08:03,877
-It depends on the measurements.
-(ALARM BLARING)
1324
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:05,962
-It's not that big.
-I can actually carpool the girls
1325
01:08:06,046 --> 01:08:07,797
to school by golf cart, you know.
1326
01:08:07,923 --> 01:08:09,341
If I cut across the 14th tee.
1327
01:08:09,466 --> 01:08:10,884
AUGIE: Oh, it's that close
to the elementary?
1328
01:08:11,009 --> 01:08:12,761
WOODROW: How can you two
even think about this?
1329
01:08:12,886 --> 01:08:15,138
The world will never be the same.
1330
01:08:15,430 --> 01:08:17,389
What happens next? Nobody knows.
1331
01:08:17,514 --> 01:08:19,308
Will he visit us again?
Will he speak to us?
1332
01:08:19,433 --> 01:08:21,436
What will he say?
Why did he steal our asteroid?
1333
01:08:21,561 --> 01:08:23,730
Was it ours in the first place?
Does he like us?
1334
01:08:23,855 --> 01:08:25,440
-Nobody knows.
-That's true.
1335
01:08:25,565 --> 01:08:28,026
What's out there? Something.
1336
01:08:28,401 --> 01:08:30,527
The meaning of life. Maybe there is one.
1337
01:08:30,612 --> 01:08:32,530
I hope you're still Episcopalian.
1338
01:08:33,406 --> 01:08:35,283
You took his picture, Dad.
1339
01:08:39,704 --> 01:08:41,164
I'm a photographer.
1340
01:08:45,919 --> 01:08:47,504
WOODROW: Episcopalian?
1341
01:08:48,922 --> 01:08:51,174
(AIRPLANE ENGINE BUZZING)
1342
01:08:51,299 --> 01:08:53,509
(MUSIC PLAYING QUIETLY)
1343
01:08:54,134 --> 01:08:56,179
(GUN FIRING IN DISTANCE)
1344
01:08:56,388 --> 01:08:57,888
AUGIE: You really want us, Stanley?
1345
01:08:58,013 --> 01:08:59,975
STANLEY: No, but you need me.
1346
01:09:00,933 --> 01:09:02,477
She did love me, you know.
1347
01:09:02,602 --> 01:09:03,895
Who says she didn't?
1348
01:09:04,353 --> 01:09:06,313
I've been on my own
for 12 years, after all.
1349
01:09:06,438 --> 01:09:08,900
And remember,
my wife drank herself to death.
1350
01:09:09,025 --> 01:09:11,444
"Drank herself to..."
I don't know what that means.
1351
01:09:12,654 --> 01:09:15,824
In my loneliness,
or perhaps because of it,
1352
01:09:15,949 --> 01:09:18,118
I've learned not to judge people,
1353
01:09:18,243 --> 01:09:21,204
to take people as I find them,
not as others find them,
1354
01:09:21,705 --> 01:09:23,623
and most of all, to give complete
1355
01:09:23,748 --> 01:09:26,710
and unquestioning faith
to the people I love.
1356
01:09:26,835 --> 01:09:28,795
I don't know if that includes you,
1357
01:09:29,337 --> 01:09:32,299
but it included my daughter
and your four children,
1358
01:09:32,883 --> 01:09:34,384
so you're welcome to stay with me
1359
01:09:34,509 --> 01:09:36,844
for as long as you wish,
whether I like it or not.
1360
01:09:36,969 --> 01:09:38,554
Which I don't, by the way.
1361
01:09:42,475 --> 01:09:44,102
Stop helping us.
1362
01:09:44,393 --> 01:09:46,021
We're in grief.
1363
01:09:49,732 --> 01:09:51,109
Me, too.
1364
01:09:57,699 --> 01:09:59,200
(GRUNTING)
1365
01:10:04,623 --> 01:10:06,124
Are you planning to abandon us?
1366
01:10:07,375 --> 01:10:10,670
Uh...
1367
01:10:10,879 --> 01:10:13,465
I was, as a temporary measure.
1368
01:10:13,548 --> 01:10:14,841
-What?
-But I decided against it.
1369
01:10:14,966 --> 01:10:17,052
-I knew it. I sensed it.
-I didn't.
1370
01:10:17,135 --> 01:10:18,929
I'm not the wet nurse.
I'm their grandfather.
1371
01:10:19,012 --> 01:10:20,513
I would've hired
a babysitter in addition to you.
1372
01:10:20,847 --> 01:10:23,850
I'm not planning to abandon you anymore,
even as a temporary measure,
1373
01:10:23,975 --> 01:10:25,769
which is all it ever would've been.
1374
01:10:27,854 --> 01:10:29,731
I forgive you for considering it.
1375
01:10:31,024 --> 01:10:32,692
(DRIPPING)
1376
01:10:39,991 --> 01:10:42,077
(DEVICE BEEPING AND CLICKING)
1377
01:10:44,329 --> 01:10:46,623
(DEVICE PULSING RHYTHMICALLY)
1378
01:10:46,790 --> 01:10:48,792
-(WHIRRING)
-(CAMERA CLICKS)
1379
01:10:50,252 --> 01:10:52,295
(WIND WHISTLING)
1380
01:10:56,508 --> 01:10:58,760
-CLIFFORD: Evening, soldier.
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1381
01:10:59,302 --> 01:11:02,097
Can I ask you to stick this dime
in the pay phone for me, please?
1382
01:11:02,597 --> 01:11:05,225
All public telephone service
has been suspended until further notice.
1383
01:11:05,433 --> 01:11:08,270
I know it. The thing is,
right before the hubbub yesterday,
1384
01:11:08,395 --> 01:11:10,230
I made a trunk call
to my cousin long-distance,
1385
01:11:10,355 --> 01:11:11,982
and the operator let me owe the surcharge
1386
01:11:12,107 --> 01:11:13,858
because all I had was three pennies.
1387
01:11:13,984 --> 01:11:16,778
I don't feel right stealing
from the telephone company.
1388
01:11:34,796 --> 01:11:37,173
(PHONE BEEPS AND CLICKS)
1389
01:11:37,299 --> 01:11:39,509
(WHIRRING)
1390
01:11:39,634 --> 01:11:41,136
(DIAL TONE DRONING)
1391
01:11:41,261 --> 01:11:43,346
(CRACKLING)
1392
01:11:48,685 --> 01:11:50,061
Although it might convey
a different meaning
1393
01:11:50,186 --> 01:11:51,730
-on his planet.
-It's true.
1394
01:11:51,813 --> 01:11:53,273
If he even has a planet, by the way.
1395
01:11:53,398 --> 01:11:54,608
-He might be nomadic.
-Hmm.
1396
01:11:54,733 --> 01:11:56,985
Operator? Kismet-9770.
1397
01:11:57,068 --> 01:11:58,278
-Station to station.
-OPERATOR: Stay on the line.
1398
01:11:58,403 --> 01:11:59,613
-Thank you.
-(BEEPING)
1399
01:11:59,738 --> 01:12:01,823
(PHONE RINGING)
1400
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:05,327
-Hello? Who's calling?
-(CLEARS THROAT)
1401
01:12:05,452 --> 01:12:07,454
Good evening, Mrs. Weatherford.
It's Ricky Cho.
1402
01:12:07,579 --> 01:12:09,456
-May I have a word with...
-Ricky, it's after 9:00.
1403
01:12:09,581 --> 01:12:10,916
He's already drinking his Ovaltine.
1404
01:12:11,041 --> 01:12:12,292
Can't this wait until tomorrow?
1405
01:12:12,417 --> 01:12:13,919
I'm afraid not, Mrs. Weatherford.
1406
01:12:14,044 --> 01:12:15,545
I-I wouldn't disturb you if it weren't
1407
01:12:15,670 --> 01:12:17,714
of the utmost importance
to the Weekly Bobcat.
1408
01:12:17,839 --> 01:12:20,091
I just need a minute of his time.
1409
01:12:20,217 --> 01:12:21,801
All right, Ricky. Hold the line.
1410
01:12:22,219 --> 01:12:23,637
Some kind of romance
between the two of you?
1411
01:12:23,762 --> 01:12:25,180
-Skip, Ricky Cho!
-What? Who?
1412
01:12:25,305 --> 01:12:26,556
-Who? You.
-Who?
1413
01:12:26,681 --> 01:12:27,891
-You know who.
-Us?
1414
01:12:28,016 --> 01:12:29,267
We only met yesterday.
1415
01:12:29,392 --> 01:12:30,518
I feel she doesn't like me in that way.
1416
01:12:30,602 --> 01:12:33,313
Uh-huh. Well, I think you're pretty smart,
but I think you're pretty dumb.
1417
01:12:33,438 --> 01:12:34,564
-Hello?
-Shh, shh. Hold it.
1418
01:12:34,689 --> 01:12:36,608
Skip? Ricky. We got a scoop.
1419
01:12:37,442 --> 01:12:39,527
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
1420
01:12:45,742 --> 01:12:48,828
The first hints of the future
existence of Asteroid City
1421
01:12:48,954 --> 01:12:50,997
were revealed during a special seminar
1422
01:12:51,081 --> 01:12:53,208
scheduled at the playwright's request.
1423
01:12:53,333 --> 01:12:55,669
Conrad Earp, how can we help you?
1424
01:12:55,794 --> 01:12:57,879
Well, the thing is, Saltzie,
I'd like to make a scene
1425
01:12:58,004 --> 01:13:01,091
where all my characters are each gently,
privately seduced
1426
01:13:01,216 --> 01:13:03,843
into the deepest,
dreamiest slumber of their lives
1427
01:13:03,927 --> 01:13:05,554
as a result of their shared experience
1428
01:13:05,679 --> 01:13:08,390
of a bewildering
and bedazzling celestial mystery.
1429
01:13:08,515 --> 01:13:10,976
-A sleeping scene.
-A scene of sleep.
1430
01:13:11,101 --> 01:13:12,477
But I don't know how to write it.
1431
01:13:12,602 --> 01:13:14,646
-Yet.
-Yet.
1432
01:13:14,771 --> 01:13:16,398
I thought, perhaps, if you
1433
01:13:16,523 --> 01:13:19,484
and your wonderfully talented
pupils just improvise,
1434
01:13:19,609 --> 01:13:21,695
something might reveal itself.
1435
01:13:21,820 --> 01:13:23,905
Who wasn't going to be famous?
1436
01:13:24,030 --> 01:13:27,784
On any given day,
roll call in Saltzburg Keitel's classroom
1437
01:13:27,909 --> 01:13:31,788
was a now-dazzling list
of undiscovered luminaries...
1438
01:13:31,913 --> 01:13:33,540
Linus Mao.
1439
01:13:33,665 --> 01:13:35,292
Lucretia Shaver.
1440
01:13:35,417 --> 01:13:37,127
Walter Geronimo.
1441
01:13:37,252 --> 01:13:38,628
Asquith Eden.
1442
01:13:38,753 --> 01:13:40,338
Mercedes Ford.
1443
01:13:40,463 --> 01:13:43,216
Even, unofficially, Jones Hall.
1444
01:13:44,426 --> 01:13:46,344
What's it about, the play?
1445
01:13:46,553 --> 01:13:50,181
Mmm, infinity, and I don't know what else.
1446
01:13:50,557 --> 01:13:51,808
Is there a title?
1447
01:13:51,933 --> 01:13:55,520
I'm torn. Maybe The Cosmic Wilderness.
1448
01:13:55,645 --> 01:13:56,897
Do you like that one?
1449
01:13:57,022 --> 01:13:58,440
-Mmm, not really.
-OTHERS: Uh-uh.
1450
01:13:58,565 --> 01:14:01,359
What's the alternative? Title, I mean.
1451
01:14:01,484 --> 01:14:04,321
Well, it's the name of the small town
on the California/Nevada/Arizona desert
1452
01:14:04,446 --> 01:14:05,906
where the story takes place.
1453
01:14:06,072 --> 01:14:10,243
Okay. Who here
has ever actually fallen asleep onstage
1454
01:14:10,327 --> 01:14:13,079
during a live performance
in front of a paying audience?
1455
01:14:13,371 --> 01:14:15,123
SCHUBERT: Me.
1456
01:14:15,248 --> 01:14:17,626
I spent the first three-quarters
of Act Two of The Welterweight
1457
01:14:17,751 --> 01:14:19,502
on a massage table with no lines
1458
01:14:19,586 --> 01:14:21,504
till the last minute and a half.
1459
01:14:21,630 --> 01:14:23,965
One night, I nodded off.
1460
01:14:24,090 --> 01:14:26,259
-On purpose, you did this?
-(CHUCKLES) No.
1461
01:14:26,468 --> 01:14:28,970
-Did you miss your cue?
-Almost.
1462
01:14:29,095 --> 01:14:31,806
I heard it, and I woke up very scared,
1463
01:14:31,890 --> 01:14:33,099
but I knew my lines.
1464
01:14:33,225 --> 01:14:34,726
-Good morning, Schubert.
-Good morning, Saltzie.
1465
01:14:34,851 --> 01:14:37,812
What brings you here today?
We haven't seen you in six weeks.
1466
01:14:37,938 --> 01:14:39,940
Lavender and Lemons opened last night
1467
01:14:40,065 --> 01:14:42,776
to very good, uh...
I might say raves, by the way.
1468
01:14:42,901 --> 01:14:44,319
I'm available.
1469
01:14:46,112 --> 01:14:48,240
What did he teach? Example.
1470
01:14:48,365 --> 01:14:50,283
Sleep, it's not death.
1471
01:14:50,408 --> 01:14:52,369
The body keeps busy, breathing air,
1472
01:14:52,494 --> 01:14:53,995
pumping blood, thinking.
1473
01:14:54,246 --> 01:14:56,331
Maybe you pay a visit to your dead mother.
1474
01:14:56,456 --> 01:14:59,251
Maybe you go to bed
with your ex-wife or husband.
1475
01:14:59,376 --> 01:15:00,919
Maybe you climb the Matterhorn.
1476
01:15:01,044 --> 01:15:02,963
Connie, you wake up with a new scene
1477
01:15:03,088 --> 01:15:05,090
three-quarters written
in your head already.
1478
01:15:05,215 --> 01:15:07,717
Schubert, you wake up with a hangover.
1479
01:15:07,842 --> 01:15:09,427
Important things happen.
1480
01:15:09,553 --> 01:15:11,513
Is there something to play? I think so.
1481
01:15:11,638 --> 01:15:14,224
Let's work on the scene
from the outside in.
1482
01:15:14,349 --> 01:15:15,642
Be inert.
1483
01:15:15,767 --> 01:15:17,018
Then dream.
1484
01:15:21,064 --> 01:15:22,732
Where are we, Connie? And when?
1485
01:15:22,857 --> 01:15:23,942
Talk to us.
1486
01:15:24,067 --> 01:15:25,402
Yes. All right.
1487
01:15:25,527 --> 01:15:26,945
One week later.
1488
01:15:27,070 --> 01:15:28,905
Our cast of characters' already tenuous
1489
01:15:29,030 --> 01:15:31,783
grasp of reality has further
slipped in quarantine,
1490
01:15:31,908 --> 01:15:33,827
and the group begins to occupy a space
1491
01:15:33,952 --> 01:15:36,121
of the most peculiar emotional dimensions.
1492
01:15:36,246 --> 01:15:40,125
Meanwhile, the information blockade
spearheaded by General Grif Gibson
1493
01:15:40,250 --> 01:15:42,002
has been, it appears,
1494
01:15:42,669 --> 01:15:43,962
incomplete.
1495
01:15:55,599 --> 01:15:57,684
-(BELL RINGING)
-(PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
1496
01:16:07,319 --> 01:16:10,447
-(TRAIN RATTLING)
-(BELL CLANGING)
1497
01:16:11,156 --> 01:16:13,074
(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING)
1498
01:16:17,704 --> 01:16:20,040
WOMAN OVER SPEAKER:
Extra! Extra! Late edition!
1499
01:16:20,165 --> 01:16:21,708
Extra! Extra!
1500
01:16:21,833 --> 01:16:23,460
Late edition!
1501
01:16:23,585 --> 01:16:25,629
(DEVICE BEEPING)
1502
01:16:28,548 --> 01:16:31,176
I hope you're aware,
you and your accomplices may still face
1503
01:16:31,301 --> 01:16:33,595
felony prosecution,
possibly even a treason charge.
1504
01:16:33,845 --> 01:16:35,931
I'll fight it all the way
to the Supreme Court,
1505
01:16:36,056 --> 01:16:38,225
-if necessary, and win.
-(DOOR OPENS)
1506
01:16:38,350 --> 01:16:40,560
This just in, from the president.
1507
01:16:41,978 --> 01:16:43,855
He's furious. Thanks a lot, Ricky.
1508
01:16:43,939 --> 01:16:45,440
I don't know what to say, General Gibson.
1509
01:16:45,565 --> 01:16:47,275
-I'm sorry.
-Don't apologize, Dad.
1510
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:49,069
The public has a right to the truth.
1511
01:16:49,194 --> 01:16:51,404
-You made your point.
-This tribunal is a mockery!
1512
01:16:51,529 --> 01:16:53,114
What about Steenbeck,
who took the photograph?
1513
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,075
It's on the front page
of every newspaper on the planet.
1514
01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:57,661
-Can't we arrest him, as well?
-Unfortunately, no.
1515
01:16:57,744 --> 01:16:59,079
He dropped a print in the mail
1516
01:16:59,204 --> 01:17:00,747
to his photo agency
first thing Tuesday morning,
1517
01:17:00,872 --> 01:17:03,083
and the postman got it before we did.
He's innocent.
1518
01:17:03,208 --> 01:17:05,043
Supposedly, he did a nude
of Midge Campbell, too.
1519
01:17:05,168 --> 01:17:07,087
-Midge Campbell?
-Ooh, Midge Campbell.
1520
01:17:08,713 --> 01:17:10,382
As you know,
boys and girls, your parents arrived
1521
01:17:10,507 --> 01:17:12,300
late last night by military helicopter.
1522
01:17:12,384 --> 01:17:13,718
They've been sequestered
in that metal hut over there
1523
01:17:13,802 --> 01:17:15,345
for the past several hours
while the government scientists
1524
01:17:15,512 --> 01:17:16,846
explain the situation to them,
1525
01:17:16,930 --> 01:17:18,557
although everything's
already in the newspapers.
1526
01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:20,183
It's my understanding
they're about to go onto
1527
01:17:20,308 --> 01:17:21,935
this closed-circuit
television set at any moment.
1528
01:17:22,018 --> 01:17:23,937
Everything's connected,
but nothing's working.
1529
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:27,232
Let's carry on with
the lesson plan, then. Billy?
1530
01:17:27,357 --> 01:17:28,942
I did the alien's flying saucer
1531
01:17:29,067 --> 01:17:31,278
with a hubcap and a chicken pot pie tin.
1532
01:17:31,778 --> 01:17:33,822
JUNE: Good work. Very accurate.
1533
01:17:33,947 --> 01:17:36,783
Jupiter, fifth planet from the sun,
largest in our solar system...
1534
01:17:36,908 --> 01:17:38,159
Yes, Bernice?
1535
01:17:38,285 --> 01:17:40,328
I did the alien on his home planet.
1536
01:17:41,663 --> 01:17:43,832
JUNE: Well done. How wonderful.
1537
01:17:44,416 --> 01:17:46,376
Due to extreme atmospheric conditions,
1538
01:17:46,459 --> 01:17:49,212
an anticyclonic storm
has raged on Jupiter's surface for over--
1539
01:17:49,337 --> 01:17:50,422
Yes, Dwight?
1540
01:17:50,630 --> 01:17:52,173
I wrote a song about him.
1541
01:17:52,716 --> 01:17:56,469
Oh. Um, this may not
be the time for a musical performance.
1542
01:17:56,595 --> 01:17:57,929
-Let's...
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1543
01:17:58,054 --> 01:17:59,556
Uh, yes, Montana?
1544
01:17:59,681 --> 01:18:00,932
Pardon the interruption, June.
1545
01:18:01,057 --> 01:18:02,309
The boys and I heard old Dwight
1546
01:18:02,434 --> 01:18:05,312
was scribbling up a little warble,
so we learned ourselves to play it.
1547
01:18:11,943 --> 01:18:14,654
-(STRUMS BANJO)
-One, two, three.
1548
01:18:14,779 --> 01:18:16,656
Howdly-dee...
1549
01:18:17,407 --> 01:18:19,451
-(DWIGHT SINGING)
-Howdly-dee...
1550
01:18:36,259 --> 01:18:38,053
(FAST BLUEGRASS MUSIC PLAYING)
1551
01:18:44,643 --> 01:18:47,604
-Howdly-dee, howdly-dee
-(WHOOPING)
1552
01:18:47,729 --> 01:18:51,399
Howdly-dee
Howdly-dee
1553
01:18:51,524 --> 01:18:54,778
Howdly-dee, howdly-dee
1554
01:18:54,903 --> 01:18:58,490
-Howdly-dee, howdly-dee
-Come on, y'all!
1555
01:18:58,615 --> 01:19:00,450
Hop on one foot, skip on two
1556
01:19:00,575 --> 01:19:02,327
Dance the Spaceman
Howdly-do
1557
01:19:02,452 --> 01:19:04,162
Bounce on four foot
Spring on three
1558
01:19:04,287 --> 01:19:05,705
Let's be spacemen
Howdly-dee
1559
01:19:05,830 --> 01:19:09,584
Howdly-dee
Howdly-dee
1560
01:19:11,753 --> 01:19:14,756
This was on an old roll
I forgot to develop in the glove box.
1561
01:19:15,882 --> 01:19:17,759
"Self-Portrait with Shrapnel."
1562
01:19:25,058 --> 01:19:26,560
Do page 45.
1563
01:19:33,567 --> 01:19:34,901
(AUGIE CLEARS THROAT)
1564
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:39,030
"What have you done? How could you?"
1565
01:19:39,155 --> 01:19:40,448
-It says "shouting and crying."
-Uh-huh.
1566
01:19:40,574 --> 01:19:42,742
-So shout and cry.
-"How could you!"
1567
01:19:44,703 --> 01:19:46,121
"How couldn't I?"
1568
01:19:46,246 --> 01:19:47,539
"How couldn't you?"
1569
01:19:48,123 --> 01:19:49,207
"That's what I'm asking."
1570
01:19:49,291 --> 01:19:51,251
"It was over already. You were free.
1571
01:19:51,543 --> 01:19:55,338
"What's the point of committing suicide
when there's nothing left to escape?"
1572
01:19:56,756 --> 01:19:59,259
"Maybe that was the problem all along."
1573
01:19:59,467 --> 01:20:02,262
"Stares for a moment." (MUMBLING)
1574
01:20:02,387 --> 01:20:04,264
And then it says I smash
everything off the shelf.
1575
01:20:04,431 --> 01:20:05,807
So smash everything off the shelf.
1576
01:20:05,932 --> 01:20:07,893
(GRUNTING)
1577
01:20:10,186 --> 01:20:11,897
"Such a sickening waste.
1578
01:20:12,022 --> 01:20:14,733
"Think of the people. Think of the places.
1579
01:20:14,858 --> 01:20:16,860
-"Think of the world..."
-Use your grief.
1580
01:20:17,569 --> 01:20:19,821
For a rehearsal?
I'm not even in this picture.
1581
01:20:19,946 --> 01:20:21,656
I'm a war photographer.
1582
01:20:21,781 --> 01:20:23,116
Use your grief.
1583
01:20:24,659 --> 01:20:25,952
All right.
1584
01:20:29,664 --> 01:20:31,458
"Such a sickening waste.
1585
01:20:33,710 --> 01:20:37,297
"Think of the people. Think of the places.
1586
01:20:37,672 --> 01:20:40,383
"Think of the world
you could have seen, Dolores."
1587
01:20:42,636 --> 01:20:44,137
"I've already seen it."
1588
01:20:45,388 --> 01:20:48,183
She still is... uh, is-is she a ghost?
1589
01:20:51,478 --> 01:20:52,938
It's not clear.
1590
01:20:53,855 --> 01:20:55,065
Uh... (SNIFFS)
1591
01:20:55,190 --> 01:20:56,816
Then the, uh... The...
1592
01:20:57,984 --> 01:20:59,945
Then the coroner comes in,
orders me out of the room.
1593
01:21:00,070 --> 01:21:01,905
I slowly turn away and close the door.
1594
01:21:02,030 --> 01:21:03,073
Scene.
1595
01:21:03,156 --> 01:21:04,491
My sandwich is burning.
1596
01:21:04,991 --> 01:21:06,451
(DOOR OPENS)
1597
01:21:08,703 --> 01:21:10,080
(SIZZLING)
1598
01:21:10,205 --> 01:21:11,623
(DOOR OPENS)
1599
01:21:15,210 --> 01:21:16,753
(BLOWING)
1600
01:21:20,340 --> 01:21:21,841
My daughter saw us.
1601
01:21:21,967 --> 01:21:23,176
What?
1602
01:21:23,260 --> 01:21:25,011
Oh, uh, Dinah saw us.
1603
01:21:25,136 --> 01:21:27,389
Through this window,
in your bedroom yesterday.
1604
01:21:28,723 --> 01:21:30,809
(LIVELY JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)
1605
01:21:36,690 --> 01:21:39,025
Did you, uh, tell her
we were rehearsing again?
1606
01:21:40,610 --> 01:21:42,696
I didn't think of that. I should've.
1607
01:21:42,821 --> 01:21:45,156
But it's too late,
because I admitted everything.
1608
01:21:46,866 --> 01:21:48,243
Did she tell Woodrow?
1609
01:21:49,619 --> 01:21:50,745
Hard to say.
1610
01:21:50,870 --> 01:21:52,330
She can keep a secret.
1611
01:21:52,455 --> 01:21:53,832
I don't know if she will.
1612
01:21:57,210 --> 01:21:59,629
This isn't the beginning
of something, Augie.
1613
01:22:00,505 --> 01:22:01,798
Isn't it?
1614
01:22:02,966 --> 01:22:04,217
Is it?
1615
01:22:04,926 --> 01:22:05,969
Probably not.
1616
01:22:06,136 --> 01:22:07,429
Unless maybe it is.
1617
01:22:07,929 --> 01:22:09,639
I don't like the way
that guy looked at us.
1618
01:22:09,723 --> 01:22:11,224
-What guy?
-The alien.
1619
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:12,642
Oh. How did he...
1620
01:22:12,767 --> 01:22:14,394
-How did he look at us?
-Like we're doomed.
1621
01:22:17,355 --> 01:22:18,815
Maybe we are.
1622
01:22:19,608 --> 01:22:21,067
(BUZZING SOFTLY)
1623
01:22:23,069 --> 01:22:25,030
-(SIZZLES)
-(BOTH GASP)
1624
01:22:25,155 --> 01:22:26,740
What did you just do?
1625
01:22:26,865 --> 01:22:28,283
I burned my hand on the Quicky-Griddle.
1626
01:22:28,408 --> 01:22:30,201
-Why?
-It's not clear.
1627
01:22:30,327 --> 01:22:31,661
Show me.
1628
01:22:33,121 --> 01:22:34,539
You really did it.
1629
01:22:35,081 --> 01:22:36,458
That actually happened.
1630
01:22:39,878 --> 01:22:41,922
(GUNS FIRING RAPIDLY)
1631
01:22:46,635 --> 01:22:47,928
Pull.
1632
01:22:50,013 --> 01:22:51,598
(CRACKLING AND WHIRRING)
1633
01:22:54,601 --> 01:22:58,021
How long can they keep us
in Asteroid City? Legally, I mean.
1634
01:22:58,563 --> 01:23:01,107
Well, I'm not an attorney,
but I'd say as long as they like.
1635
01:23:01,233 --> 01:23:02,567
I think we'd have to file an injunction
1636
01:23:02,651 --> 01:23:04,778
and successfully argue the case.
Six months to a year?
1637
01:23:04,861 --> 01:23:07,405
Of course, we'd also need to initiate
a civil suit for loss of income.
1638
01:23:07,530 --> 01:23:09,199
Maybe we should just walk out right now.
1639
01:23:09,324 --> 01:23:12,077
I'm not sure they could stop us
without killing somebody.
1640
01:23:12,202 --> 01:23:13,828
Interesting idea.
1641
01:23:14,037 --> 01:23:16,331
What kind
of mileage you think that jet pack gets?
1642
01:23:16,456 --> 01:23:17,707
Ask Roger or his son.
1643
01:23:17,832 --> 01:23:20,794
Apparently, he's being prosecuted
for revealing state secrets.
1644
01:23:20,919 --> 01:23:22,671
-They'll never make it stick.
-I'm in no hurry.
1645
01:23:22,796 --> 01:23:24,714
I like the desert. I like aliens.
1646
01:23:24,839 --> 01:23:26,258
-Pull.
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1647
01:23:26,383 --> 01:23:27,759
GUARD: How'd you get that back?
1648
01:23:27,884 --> 01:23:29,177
The projects remain under secure lockdown.
1649
01:23:29,302 --> 01:23:32,097
No Stargazer is permitted personal access
without the express permission...
1650
01:23:32,180 --> 01:23:33,390
My son invented this death ray.
1651
01:23:33,473 --> 01:23:34,683
That may be true, but my orders are...
1652
01:23:34,766 --> 01:23:36,142
-Step back.
-Easy, fellas.
1653
01:23:36,268 --> 01:23:37,894
-We're not in Guadalcanal anymore.
-Okay, okay, okay.
1654
01:23:38,019 --> 01:23:39,688
Everyone, please.
It's been a difficult quarantine.
1655
01:23:39,813 --> 01:23:41,356
-I'll zap you right now!
-You stole your projects!
1656
01:23:41,481 --> 01:23:42,774
GIBSON OVER RADIO:
Goddamn it, tell them to stand down!
1657
01:23:43,275 --> 01:23:44,276
Stand down! You hear that?
1658
01:23:44,359 --> 01:23:45,569
General Gibson says, "Stand down."
1659
01:23:45,694 --> 01:23:47,070
-You married?
-Of course.
1660
01:23:47,195 --> 01:23:49,072
We'll reconfiscate
the projects at a later time.
1661
01:23:49,197 --> 01:23:50,407
Probably after dinner.
1662
01:23:51,491 --> 01:23:52,659
Try it.
1663
01:23:55,412 --> 01:23:56,997
DINAH: Tab Hunter, Doris Day, out,
1664
01:23:57,122 --> 01:23:59,040
Jack the Ripper, out,
Bing Crosby, Shirley Temple,
1665
01:23:59,165 --> 01:24:01,126
out, out, Orson Welles, Lucille Ball, out,
1666
01:24:01,251 --> 01:24:03,295
Marlon Brando, out,
Queen Elizabeth, Mickey Mantle,
1667
01:24:03,420 --> 01:24:05,005
out, out, Yul Brynner, Louis Armstrong,
1668
01:24:05,130 --> 01:24:07,507
out, Lana Turner, out,
Betty Grable, Ella Fitzgerald,
1669
01:24:07,632 --> 01:24:09,968
out, out, Rock Hudson, out,
Jerry Lewis, out, out,
1670
01:24:10,093 --> 01:24:12,137
Greta Garbo, Karl Marx, out,
Joan of Arc, out,
1671
01:24:12,262 --> 01:24:13,847
Charles Darwin, Walter Pidgeon, out,
1672
01:24:13,972 --> 01:24:15,849
Emily Dickinson, Galileo, out, out,
1673
01:24:15,974 --> 01:24:17,684
Pontius Pilate, out,
Ernest Hemingway, Jackie O...
1674
01:24:17,934 --> 01:24:19,686
Who's responsible
for stealing my radio telescope,
1675
01:24:19,811 --> 01:24:21,438
my signal processing receiver
1676
01:24:21,563 --> 01:24:23,648
and my entire spectrographical
monitoring network?
1677
01:24:25,609 --> 01:24:27,527
They're trying to contact the alien.
1678
01:24:27,652 --> 01:24:30,447
Well, I appreciate that,
but what about Dr. Hickenlooper?
1679
01:24:30,572 --> 01:24:33,366
If you're trying to contact
the alien, include me.
1680
01:24:33,658 --> 01:24:35,452
Did you hear anything from him so far?
1681
01:24:35,702 --> 01:24:37,078
-No.
-DR. HICKENLOOPER: Huh.
1682
01:24:37,621 --> 01:24:39,080
What's all this?
1683
01:24:39,372 --> 01:24:41,499
WOODROW: I put the American flag
just to be patriotic.
1684
01:24:41,583 --> 01:24:43,084
Now we need to really mean something.
1685
01:24:43,209 --> 01:24:45,128
A universal message,
not only to earthlings.
1686
01:24:45,253 --> 01:24:47,172
We already thought of
everything we could think of...
1687
01:24:47,297 --> 01:24:50,550
a cross, a star, a four-leaf clover,
letters, numbers, hieroglyphics.
1688
01:24:50,675 --> 01:24:52,344
What's the point
of projecting a star onto the moon?
1689
01:24:52,469 --> 01:24:53,678
-Exactly.
-I ask that sincerely.
1690
01:24:53,803 --> 01:24:55,013
How about "E equals MC-squared"?
1691
01:24:55,138 --> 01:24:56,139
-I still think it's...
-They know that.
1692
01:24:56,223 --> 01:24:57,224
-It's too easy.
-This is our chance
1693
01:24:57,307 --> 01:24:59,809
to be actually worthwhile
in our lifetimes.
1694
01:24:59,893 --> 01:25:01,519
I see what you mean.
1695
01:25:01,645 --> 01:25:03,438
-Whose turn was it?
-Oh, the middle of mine.
1696
01:25:03,563 --> 01:25:05,190
I'd better start over.
1697
01:25:05,607 --> 01:25:06,942
-Cleopatra, Jagadish...
-A word, Woodrow.
1698
01:25:07,067 --> 01:25:09,486
About the, uh, settings
on the spectrograph.
1699
01:25:09,611 --> 01:25:11,071
Over here, if you wouldn't mind.
1700
01:25:11,196 --> 01:25:12,656
DINAH: ...Kurt Gödel,
William Henry Bragg...
1701
01:25:12,781 --> 01:25:14,574
DR. HICKENLOOPER:
The, uh, warning label indicates
1702
01:25:14,699 --> 01:25:15,700
that the, uh...
1703
01:25:18,828 --> 01:25:21,331
It's all worthwhile in your lifetime.
1704
01:25:21,706 --> 01:25:23,333
-This, I mean.
-Okay.
1705
01:25:23,416 --> 01:25:25,168
Your curiosity is
your most important asset.
1706
01:25:25,252 --> 01:25:26,503
-Trust it.
-Okay.
1707
01:25:26,586 --> 01:25:27,837
-Trust your curiosity.
-Okay.
1708
01:25:27,921 --> 01:25:30,382
The resources of my lab
will always be available to you.
1709
01:25:30,465 --> 01:25:32,050
After this thing is over, I mean.
1710
01:25:32,175 --> 01:25:33,927
You could maybe
sort of be my protégé, if you like.
1711
01:25:34,052 --> 01:25:36,721
Oh, wow. Maybe we can prove
the hypothesis of celestial flirtation
1712
01:25:36,846 --> 01:25:37,973
and get the math right finally.
1713
01:25:38,098 --> 01:25:39,391
Wow. Let's try.
1714
01:25:39,808 --> 01:25:42,852
I think I see the dots from space
burned into your eyeballs.
1715
01:25:46,273 --> 01:25:47,607
I'm sorry about your mother.
1716
01:25:47,732 --> 01:25:50,110
I miss mine, too,
and she died 46 years ago.
1717
01:25:51,736 --> 01:25:53,029
Thank you.
1718
01:25:56,074 --> 01:25:57,659
I've already petitioned the State Assembly
1719
01:25:57,784 --> 01:25:59,828
to change
the name of the town from Asteroid City
1720
01:25:59,953 --> 01:26:01,538
to Alien Landing, U.S.A.
1721
01:26:01,663 --> 01:26:04,124
This municipality
might end up being the center
1722
01:26:04,249 --> 01:26:07,210
of a vast community
of Stargazers and Space Cadets.
1723
01:26:07,335 --> 01:26:10,130
It's a historic offering.
1724
01:26:10,255 --> 01:26:11,965
(JINGLING)
1725
01:26:16,052 --> 01:26:18,054
GIBSON: As you know,
the Asteroid Day itinerary
1726
01:26:18,138 --> 01:26:19,306
had to be suspended last week
1727
01:26:19,389 --> 01:26:21,933
due to the factual reality
of our circumstances.
1728
01:26:22,017 --> 01:26:23,852
However, I have an announcement to make.
1729
01:26:23,935 --> 01:26:27,272
Dr. Hickenlooper and the Military-Science
Research and Experimentation Division,
1730
01:26:27,355 --> 01:26:28,899
in conjunction with
the Larkings Foundation,
1731
01:26:29,024 --> 01:26:33,361
have officially selected a recipient
for this year's Hickenlooper Scholarship,
1732
01:26:34,195 --> 01:26:36,531
and you're all going home
first thing tomorrow morning.
1733
01:26:36,698 --> 01:26:40,201
The president has opted to lift
the quarantine by executive decree.
1734
01:26:40,577 --> 01:26:42,621
(ALL CHEERING)
1735
01:26:43,038 --> 01:26:44,623
I'd like to take this opportunity,
1736
01:26:44,748 --> 01:26:46,625
and, by the way,
all of this year's projects,
1737
01:26:46,750 --> 01:26:50,378
setting aside my own
differences of opinion with Ricky Cho,
1738
01:26:50,462 --> 01:26:52,839
were of the very highest caliber,
without exception,
1739
01:26:52,964 --> 01:26:55,675
-to officially declare, uh...
-(CROWD MURMURING)
1740
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:57,052
-What's happening now?
-Scholarship...
1741
01:26:57,177 --> 01:26:58,345
-What's happening now?
-I don't know.
1742
01:26:58,845 --> 01:26:59,930
It's today again.
1743
01:27:00,263 --> 01:27:02,057
-(BEEPING)
-(CROWD MURMURING)
1744
01:27:05,435 --> 01:27:07,354
(INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
1745
01:27:34,214 --> 01:27:35,507
It's been inventoried.
1746
01:27:35,632 --> 01:27:37,551
(CROWD GASPING AND MURMURING QUIETLY)
1747
01:27:40,595 --> 01:27:43,473
Under the provisions of National Security
Emergency Scrimmage Plan X,
1748
01:27:43,557 --> 01:27:45,100
the lifting of the quarantine,
which I just announced,
1749
01:27:45,225 --> 01:27:47,143
is now canceled or at least postponed
1750
01:27:47,269 --> 01:27:49,688
due to the unexpected
new event which just...
1751
01:27:50,605 --> 01:27:52,274
(CROWD CLAMORING)
1752
01:28:05,954 --> 01:28:07,706
(CLAMORING CONTINUES)
1753
01:28:17,382 --> 01:28:19,968
Why does Augie
burn his hand on the Quicky-Griddle?
1754
01:28:20,552 --> 01:28:22,304
I still don't understand the play.
1755
01:28:23,972 --> 01:28:25,140
What?
1756
01:28:25,265 --> 01:28:26,808
(WHOOPING)
1757
01:28:26,933 --> 01:28:28,602
(CLAMORING CONTINUES)
1758
01:28:33,815 --> 01:28:35,317
Where are you going?
1759
01:28:36,610 --> 01:28:38,028
I'll be right back.
1760
01:28:39,571 --> 01:28:42,073
MAN: I don't play him as an alien,
actually. I play him as a metaphor.
1761
01:28:42,157 --> 01:28:43,783
-That's my interpretation.
-Metaphor for what?
1762
01:28:43,909 --> 01:28:46,328
I-I don't know yet. We don't pin it down.
1763
01:28:46,453 --> 01:28:48,455
Schubert. Schubert.
1764
01:28:48,580 --> 01:28:50,582
-Schubert! Schubert!
-Huh? Yes.
1765
01:28:50,707 --> 01:28:53,043
What's wrong? Are you on?
1766
01:28:53,168 --> 01:28:54,836
Technically, but General Gibson
just started the scene
1767
01:28:54,961 --> 01:28:56,630
where the president
doesn't accept his resignation.
1768
01:28:56,755 --> 01:28:58,590
I've got six and a half minutes
before my next line.
1769
01:28:58,715 --> 01:29:00,425
I need an answer
to a question I want to ask.
1770
01:29:00,550 --> 01:29:01,593
Okay.
1771
01:29:01,718 --> 01:29:03,011
Am I doing him right?
1772
01:29:03,637 --> 01:29:04,930
Oh.
1773
01:29:05,055 --> 01:29:06,473
Well... (CLEARS THROAT)
1774
01:29:06,598 --> 01:29:07,891
I told you before,
there's too much business,
1775
01:29:08,016 --> 01:29:10,769
with the pipe, with the lighter,
with the camera, with the eyebrow,
1776
01:29:11,102 --> 01:29:12,938
but aside from that, on the whole,
1777
01:29:13,063 --> 01:29:15,190
in answer to your question... Sit down.
1778
01:29:18,026 --> 01:29:19,361
You're doing him just right.
1779
01:29:19,486 --> 01:29:21,821
In fact, in my opinion,
you didn't just become Augie.
1780
01:29:21,947 --> 01:29:23,156
He became you.
1781
01:29:23,281 --> 01:29:24,324
I feel lost.
1782
01:29:24,449 --> 01:29:25,951
-Good.
-He's such a wounded guy.
1783
01:29:26,076 --> 01:29:28,870
I feel like my heart is getting broken,
my own personal heart,
1784
01:29:28,995 --> 01:29:30,080
-every night.
-Good.
1785
01:29:30,205 --> 01:29:31,623
-Do I just keep doing it?
-Yes.
1786
01:29:31,748 --> 01:29:33,500
-Without knowing anything?
-Yes.
1787
01:29:33,625 --> 01:29:35,293
Isn't there supposed to be
some kind of an answer
1788
01:29:35,418 --> 01:29:36,795
out there in the cosmic wilderness?
1789
01:29:36,920 --> 01:29:38,004
Woodrow's line about the meaning of life.
1790
01:29:38,129 --> 01:29:39,256
-"Maybe there is one."
-Right.
1791
01:29:39,381 --> 01:29:40,507
Well, that's my question.
1792
01:29:42,551 --> 01:29:44,344
I still don't understand the play.
1793
01:29:44,803 --> 01:29:45,929
Doesn't matter.
1794
01:29:46,054 --> 01:29:47,806
Just keep telling the story.
1795
01:29:49,307 --> 01:29:50,517
You're doing him right.
1796
01:29:50,767 --> 01:29:52,060
I need a breath of fresh air.
1797
01:29:52,185 --> 01:29:53,270
Huh.
1798
01:29:53,395 --> 01:29:55,397
Okay, but you won't find one.
1799
01:29:58,567 --> 01:30:00,026
Right.
1800
01:30:00,151 --> 01:30:02,237
(DRONING SYNTH MUSIC PLAYING)
1801
01:30:04,155 --> 01:30:06,199
(CLOCK TICKING)
1802
01:30:12,872 --> 01:30:14,916
(WIND WHISTLING)
1803
01:30:19,671 --> 01:30:20,839
WOMAN: Hello.
1804
01:30:23,508 --> 01:30:26,219
Oh. It's you, the wife
who played my actress.
1805
01:30:26,303 --> 01:30:29,222
Hmm. My scene was cut after one rehearsal.
1806
01:30:30,849 --> 01:30:33,351
-We still use your photograph.
-Hmm.
1807
01:30:36,771 --> 01:30:38,398
You remember the dialogue?
1808
01:30:39,900 --> 01:30:41,192
No.
1809
01:30:42,819 --> 01:30:45,655
We meet in a dream on the alien's planet.
1810
01:30:46,156 --> 01:30:47,699
Magnavox-27.
1811
01:30:47,824 --> 01:30:49,910
Actually, it's one of the moons of it.
1812
01:30:51,244 --> 01:30:54,289
You say, "Did you talk to the alien?"
1813
01:30:55,081 --> 01:30:57,042
I say, "Not yet."
1814
01:30:57,834 --> 01:31:00,462
You say, "Why not? I thought for sure
1815
01:31:00,545 --> 01:31:03,298
"you would've yelled at him
or made him laugh."
1816
01:31:03,423 --> 01:31:07,344
I say, "Or asked him
the secrets of the universe?"
1817
01:31:07,469 --> 01:31:09,346
You say, "Exactly."
1818
01:31:11,139 --> 01:31:13,433
I say, "I think he's shy."
1819
01:31:14,976 --> 01:31:16,770
You say,
1820
01:31:16,937 --> 01:31:19,522
"So's Woodrow,
but I'm sure he'll grow out of it.
1821
01:31:19,648 --> 01:31:22,234
"I mean, at least
I hope he will, without a mother."
1822
01:31:24,319 --> 01:31:27,822
I say, "He's a late bloomer,
1823
01:31:27,948 --> 01:31:31,993
"but maybe I think
you'll need to replace me."
1824
01:31:32,994 --> 01:31:34,329
You say,
1825
01:31:34,454 --> 01:31:37,249
"What? Why? How? I can't."
1826
01:31:38,917 --> 01:31:43,004
I say, "Maybe I think you'll need to try.
1827
01:31:45,799 --> 01:31:47,551
"I'm not coming back, Augie."
1828
01:31:50,679 --> 01:31:53,390
Then you take a picture of me
and start crying,
1829
01:31:54,307 --> 01:31:55,809
and I say...
1830
01:31:58,853 --> 01:32:00,689
"I hope it comes out."
1831
01:32:04,317 --> 01:32:05,610
And I say,
1832
01:32:06,570 --> 01:32:08,196
"All my pictures come out."
1833
01:32:08,655 --> 01:32:09,656
(CAMERA CLICKS)
1834
01:32:20,166 --> 01:32:21,459
Hmm.
1835
01:32:22,085 --> 01:32:23,753
Good memory. Why'd they cut it?
1836
01:32:23,879 --> 01:32:25,297
Running time.
1837
01:32:25,380 --> 01:32:27,007
Now I'm
First Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen Consort
1838
01:32:27,132 --> 01:32:28,550
in Fruit of a Withering Vine.
1839
01:32:28,925 --> 01:32:30,176
You missed your cue.
1840
01:32:30,260 --> 01:32:32,429
June and the cowboy
are already necking in the station wagon.
1841
01:32:32,554 --> 01:32:34,890
They're bandaging
the understudy's hand right now.
1842
01:32:36,725 --> 01:32:38,476
Oh. It's you.
1843
01:32:38,602 --> 01:32:40,228
We almost would've had a scene together.
1844
01:32:40,353 --> 01:32:42,355
-Hello.
-Hello.
1845
01:32:42,480 --> 01:32:44,691
(CLOCK TICKING)
1846
01:32:45,317 --> 01:32:48,445
Six months into the run,
the company received the news,
1847
01:32:48,570 --> 01:32:51,114
a catastrophic automobile accident.
1848
01:32:51,239 --> 01:32:55,911
Conrad Earp, American playwright
unequaled in passion and imagination,
1849
01:32:56,286 --> 01:32:57,662
dead at 50.
1850
01:32:57,787 --> 01:32:59,831
CONRAD: I'd like to make
a scene where all my characters
1851
01:32:59,956 --> 01:33:01,541
are each gently, privately seduced
1852
01:33:01,666 --> 01:33:03,752
into the deepest,
dreamiest slumber of their lives
1853
01:33:03,877 --> 01:33:05,545
as a result of their shared experience
1854
01:33:05,670 --> 01:33:08,381
of a bewildering
and bedazzling celestial mystery,
1855
01:33:08,506 --> 01:33:10,717
-but I don't know how to write it.
-(SNORING)
1856
01:33:12,510 --> 01:33:14,638
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1857
01:33:14,721 --> 01:33:15,847
-MAN: What was that?
-(MURMURING)
1858
01:33:15,972 --> 01:33:17,390
What's happening?
1859
01:33:18,558 --> 01:33:20,185
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1860
01:33:20,310 --> 01:33:21,353
MAN: What?
WOMAN: That's not true.
1861
01:33:21,478 --> 01:33:22,771
MAN: Say it again.
WOMAN: Who cares?
1862
01:33:23,480 --> 01:33:25,482
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1863
01:33:25,607 --> 01:33:26,608
-Why should you?
-Maybe not.
1864
01:33:26,733 --> 01:33:27,984
-Of course.
-Uh, yes.
1865
01:33:28,151 --> 01:33:30,195
-You can't wake up...
-If you don't fall asleep.
1866
01:33:30,320 --> 01:33:32,530
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1867
01:33:32,656 --> 01:33:34,532
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1868
01:33:34,824 --> 01:33:36,826
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1869
01:33:36,910 --> 01:33:39,204
ALL: You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1870
01:33:39,329 --> 01:33:41,581
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1871
01:33:41,706 --> 01:33:43,875
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1872
01:33:44,084 --> 01:33:46,253
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1873
01:33:46,378 --> 01:33:48,630
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1874
01:33:48,755 --> 01:33:51,049
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1875
01:33:51,174 --> 01:33:53,552
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1876
01:33:53,677 --> 01:33:55,720
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1877
01:33:55,845 --> 01:33:58,139
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1878
01:33:58,265 --> 01:34:00,767
You can't wake up
if you don't fall asleep.
1879
01:34:13,446 --> 01:34:15,657
(INSECTS TRILLING)
1880
01:34:21,830 --> 01:34:24,207
(MUSIC PLAYING QUIETLY)
1881
01:34:29,337 --> 01:34:32,924
Somewhere there's music
How faint the tune
1882
01:34:33,049 --> 01:34:35,886
Somewhere there's heaven
How high the moon...
1883
01:34:36,261 --> 01:34:38,847
Uh, where'd they go?
1884
01:34:39,973 --> 01:34:41,433
Good morning, Mr. Steenbeck.
1885
01:34:41,516 --> 01:34:43,351
Juice preference, please.
Apple, orange, or tomato.
1886
01:34:43,476 --> 01:34:45,186
Where'd they go? Everybody.
1887
01:34:45,312 --> 01:34:46,771
Of course. I understand.
1888
01:34:47,188 --> 01:34:49,774
The president lifted
the quarantine after all, at midnight.
1889
01:34:49,858 --> 01:34:52,110
He sent the whole gang home,
the troops, the cowboys,
1890
01:34:52,235 --> 01:34:53,862
the Junior Stargazers, and Space Cadets.
1891
01:34:54,154 --> 01:34:56,448
You are free to return
back to wherever you came from.
1892
01:34:56,531 --> 01:34:58,074
We had 11 checkouts this morning.
1893
01:34:58,491 --> 01:34:59,743
I guess you overslept.
1894
01:34:59,826 --> 01:35:01,870
They returned your
science projects, by the way.
1895
01:35:01,995 --> 01:35:03,246
Hmm.
1896
01:35:04,831 --> 01:35:06,458
-Tomato.
-Right away.
1897
01:35:08,126 --> 01:35:09,711
(DOOR OPENS)
1898
01:35:13,673 --> 01:35:16,968
The plan was
to shovel it up and take her with us.
1899
01:35:17,093 --> 01:35:20,013
Like I said, we'll exhume the Tupperware.
1900
01:35:20,096 --> 01:35:23,266
We don't have
any burial rights to this plot here.
1901
01:35:23,350 --> 01:35:25,101
I would question
whether it even is a plot.
1902
01:35:25,185 --> 01:35:26,353
It isn't.
1903
01:35:26,436 --> 01:35:28,438
PANDORA: Don't murder my mother's ashes!
ANDROMEDA: He's killing her!
1904
01:35:28,563 --> 01:35:31,149
No, no, no, no. Let us pray.
1905
01:35:35,237 --> 01:35:36,696
Poppy!
1906
01:35:38,406 --> 01:35:40,992
Dear Heavenly Father,
we thank thee for the life
1907
01:35:41,117 --> 01:35:44,788
of this magnificent woman,
who was once just a little girl
1908
01:35:44,913 --> 01:35:47,457
like these three witches in training.
1909
01:35:47,582 --> 01:35:49,000
-Not in training.
-We are witches.
1910
01:35:49,125 --> 01:35:50,669
Part witch, part alien.
1911
01:35:50,794 --> 01:35:53,088
Like these three witches at one time.
1912
01:35:53,213 --> 01:35:55,966
We had no intention
of permanently burying her
1913
01:35:56,091 --> 01:35:57,968
next to this unmarked cactus,
1914
01:35:58,093 --> 01:35:59,553
but I no longer have the strength
1915
01:35:59,678 --> 01:36:02,597
to fight for her dignity,
nor neither does Augie.
1916
01:36:02,681 --> 01:36:04,391
-Do you?
-No.
1917
01:36:04,516 --> 01:36:07,352
So we'll defer to the wishes
of her stubborn daughters.
1918
01:36:07,644 --> 01:36:09,813
Woodrow, any final farewell?
1919
01:36:11,106 --> 01:36:12,649
I don't believe in God anymore.
1920
01:36:13,024 --> 01:36:14,150
Fair enough.
1921
01:36:14,734 --> 01:36:16,820
-Amen.
-GIRLS: Amen.
1922
01:36:17,362 --> 01:36:19,864
Friskity, triskity, briskity, boo,
1923
01:36:20,031 --> 01:36:23,034
knickerty, knockerty, tockerty, too.
1924
01:36:23,159 --> 01:36:25,287
Mama is in the ground.
1925
01:36:25,412 --> 01:36:27,664
Say the prayer for Mama.
1926
01:36:27,789 --> 01:36:30,208
Mama, we'll say the prayer, too.
1927
01:36:30,834 --> 01:36:31,877
You are beautiful...
1928
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:32,961
(DOOR OPENS AND BELL JINGLES)
1929
01:36:33,044 --> 01:36:35,213
AUGIE: Five orders
of flapjacks and two black coffees.
1930
01:36:35,338 --> 01:36:37,173
-(DOOR CLOSES)
-Thanks.
1931
01:36:37,299 --> 01:36:39,259
(MUSIC PLAYING QUIETLY)
1932
01:36:39,968 --> 01:36:41,386
Who needs to pee?
1933
01:36:43,513 --> 01:36:45,098
WAITRESS: How about a glass
of strawberry milk?
1934
01:36:45,181 --> 01:36:46,558
GIRLS: Mmm.
PANDORA: Yes, please.
1935
01:36:48,518 --> 01:36:50,979
Somebody win that scholarship?
1936
01:36:51,062 --> 01:36:52,314
I did.
1937
01:36:53,189 --> 01:36:54,900
-When?
-Last night.
1938
01:36:55,358 --> 01:36:57,652
General Gibson slipped it
to me in line at the communal showers.
1939
01:36:57,777 --> 01:36:59,738
I think he just wanted
to get it over with.
1940
01:36:59,863 --> 01:37:01,990
It's actually a standard-sized check
of typical dimensions.
1941
01:37:02,115 --> 01:37:03,867
The big one's only for show.
1942
01:37:04,451 --> 01:37:05,994
-Wow.
-Congratulations, Woodrow.
1943
01:37:06,119 --> 01:37:07,412
That's, uh, stupendous.
1944
01:37:07,537 --> 01:37:08,747
You must be some kind of a genius.
1945
01:37:08,830 --> 01:37:09,831
I agree.
1946
01:37:09,915 --> 01:37:12,542
You must be some kind of brainiac.
1947
01:37:14,127 --> 01:37:15,795
Has it got any strings attached to it?
1948
01:37:15,879 --> 01:37:17,088
It's made out to you personally.
1949
01:37:17,214 --> 01:37:18,632
How do you plan to use it?
1950
01:37:20,592 --> 01:37:22,510
I'll probably spend it on my girlfriend.
1951
01:37:26,723 --> 01:37:28,892
What do you write in that little book?
1952
01:37:30,894 --> 01:37:32,562
Next year's project, confidentially.
1953
01:37:32,687 --> 01:37:34,606
-Gee, whiz. Look at that. Whoa.
-Wow. Is that possible?
1954
01:37:34,731 --> 01:37:36,566
-Is that possible?
-(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
1955
01:37:36,691 --> 01:37:39,027
WAITRESS: Midge Campbell
left you her address.
1956
01:37:40,195 --> 01:37:42,072
It's just a post office box.
1957
01:37:44,950 --> 01:37:46,451
(WHISPERS) What happened
that night I saw the...
1958
01:37:46,576 --> 01:37:47,869
That's none of your business, Stanley.
1959
01:37:47,994 --> 01:37:49,663
I know. Of course it isn't.
1960
01:37:49,788 --> 01:37:51,289
I only ask because Woodrow told me
1961
01:37:51,414 --> 01:37:52,916
-Dinah told him.
-I understand. I understand.
1962
01:37:53,041 --> 01:37:54,542
I understand.
1963
01:37:54,668 --> 01:37:56,836
I went to law school
with her former agent.
1964
01:37:57,254 --> 01:37:58,588
Anyway, I don't object.
1965
01:37:59,506 --> 01:38:01,716
She's actually a very gifted comedienne.
1966
01:38:02,801 --> 01:38:03,802
That's true.
1967
01:38:03,885 --> 01:38:06,304
-(BOMB EXPLODING IN DISTANCE)
-(RUMBLING)
1968
01:38:07,764 --> 01:38:09,599
CASHIER: Another atom bomb test.
1969
01:38:12,978 --> 01:38:15,355
-(GUNS FIRING OUTSIDE)
-(SIREN WAILING)
1970
01:38:26,074 --> 01:38:27,909
(FOLK MUSIC PLAYING)
1971
01:38:32,789 --> 01:38:34,749
WOMAN: (SINGING)
Freight train, freight train
1972
01:38:34,874 --> 01:38:36,626
Going so fast
1973
01:38:36,751 --> 01:38:38,587
Freight train, freight train
1974
01:38:38,712 --> 01:38:40,505
Going so fast
1975
01:38:40,755 --> 01:38:43,341
I don't know what train he's on
1976
01:38:43,466 --> 01:38:46,136
-Won't you tell me where he's gone?
-(CAMERA CLICKS)
1977
01:38:46,219 --> 01:38:47,804
Woodrow, let's go.
1978
01:38:48,388 --> 01:38:50,473
(WOMAN VOCALIZING)
1979
01:38:55,604 --> 01:38:57,063
Don't know where
1980
01:38:57,188 --> 01:38:59,316
-He's heading for
-(ENGINE STARTS)
1981
01:38:59,441 --> 01:39:00,942
What he's done
1982
01:39:01,067 --> 01:39:03,194
-Against the law
-(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS)
1983
01:39:03,320 --> 01:39:06,364
Got no future, got no hope
1984
01:39:06,489 --> 01:39:10,118
Just nothing but the rope
1985
01:39:10,869 --> 01:39:12,787
(VOCALIZING)
1986
01:39:18,293 --> 01:39:20,003
Freight train, freight train
1987
01:39:20,128 --> 01:39:21,838
Going so fast
1988
01:39:21,963 --> 01:39:23,965
Freight train, freight train
1989
01:39:24,090 --> 01:39:25,800
Going so fast
1990
01:39:25,926 --> 01:39:28,803
I don't know what train he's on
1991
01:39:28,887 --> 01:39:30,513
-(ROADRUNNER CHITTERS)
-Won't you tell me
1992
01:39:30,639 --> 01:39:32,682
Where he's gone
1993
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:35,268
(VOCALIZING)
1994
01:39:41,107 --> 01:39:44,527
He lost his reason
Lost his life
1995
01:39:45,111 --> 01:39:48,281
He killed his friend in mortal strife
1996
01:39:48,823 --> 01:39:51,868
He must keep moving like the rolling skies
1997
01:39:51,993 --> 01:39:55,997
Just a-waitin' till he dies
1998
01:39:56,581 --> 01:39:58,667
(VOCALIZING)
1999
01:40:03,922 --> 01:40:05,715
Freight train, freight train
2000
01:40:05,840 --> 01:40:07,592
Going so fast
2001
01:40:07,717 --> 01:40:09,511
Freight train, freight train
2002
01:40:09,636 --> 01:40:11,471
Going so fast
2003
01:40:11,596 --> 01:40:14,599
I don't know what train he's on
2004
01:40:14,724 --> 01:40:18,645
Won't you tell me where he's gone
2005
01:40:19,229 --> 01:40:21,273
(VOCALIZING)
2006
01:40:26,903 --> 01:40:30,740
When he dies just bury him, please
2007
01:40:30,865 --> 01:40:34,578
Way down the end of old Chestnut Street
2008
01:40:34,703 --> 01:40:37,872
Poplars at his head and feet
2009
01:40:37,998 --> 01:40:42,085
And tell them he's gone to sleep
2010
01:40:42,502 --> 01:40:44,588
(VOCALIZING)
2011
01:40:49,801 --> 01:40:51,678
Freight train, freight train
2012
01:40:51,803 --> 01:40:53,471
Going so fast
2013
01:40:53,597 --> 01:40:55,473
Freight train, freight train
2014
01:40:55,599 --> 01:40:57,475
Going so fast
2015
01:40:57,601 --> 01:41:00,562
I don't know what train he's on
2016
01:41:00,687 --> 01:41:04,399
Won't you tell me where he's gone
2017
01:41:05,483 --> 01:41:07,569
(VOCALIZING)
2018
01:41:17,203 --> 01:41:19,039
(SONG FADES)
2019
01:41:19,164 --> 01:41:21,249
(WIND HOWLING)
2020
01:41:41,019 --> 01:41:43,605
MAN: (SINGING) You
2021
01:41:47,359 --> 01:41:49,945
Can't wake up
2022
01:41:50,862 --> 01:41:53,657
If you don't fall asleep
2023
01:41:54,616 --> 01:41:57,285
You can't fall in love
2024
01:41:58,161 --> 01:42:01,748
And land on your feet
2025
01:42:01,998 --> 01:42:05,168
You won't smell the roses
2026
01:42:05,669 --> 01:42:08,547
If you never plant a seed
2027
01:42:09,381 --> 01:42:12,259
And you can't wake up
2028
01:42:12,384 --> 01:42:16,513
If you don't fall asleep
2029
01:42:20,559 --> 01:42:23,228
You can't make an entrance
2030
01:42:24,396 --> 01:42:26,481
If you keep missing your cue
2031
01:42:28,733 --> 01:42:30,777
And you won't pick a winner
2032
01:42:31,069 --> 01:42:34,364
Till you learn how to choose
2033
01:42:35,865 --> 01:42:38,535
You'll never find the treasure
2034
01:42:39,119 --> 01:42:41,580
Unless you dig deep
2035
01:42:42,455 --> 01:42:45,166
And you can't wake up
2036
01:42:45,834 --> 01:42:49,212
If you don't fall asleep
2037
01:42:53,174 --> 01:42:56,469
Oh, you'll never
2038
01:42:56,845 --> 01:42:59,347
Have memories
2039
01:43:00,557 --> 01:43:03,184
Worth keeping
2040
01:43:06,688 --> 01:43:11,026
Oh, you'll never
2041
01:43:11,359 --> 01:43:13,528
Find the truth
2042
01:43:14,654 --> 01:43:18,033
You are seeking
2043
01:43:25,081 --> 01:43:28,460
While you are sleeping
2044
01:43:33,131 --> 01:43:37,093
But you can't wake up
2045
01:43:37,344 --> 01:43:40,430
If you don't fall asleep
2046
01:43:41,223 --> 01:43:44,768
So go live your dreams
2047
01:43:45,227 --> 01:43:47,646
And live them real deep
2048
01:43:47,771 --> 01:43:51,566
There is some counting money
2049
01:43:52,567 --> 01:43:56,446
And there's some counting sheep
2050
01:43:57,822 --> 01:44:01,618
Oh, you can't wake up
2051
01:44:01,993 --> 01:44:08,083
If you don't fall asleep
2052
01:44:13,129 --> 01:44:16,299
If you don't fall asleep
2053
01:44:16,424 --> 01:44:18,510
(SLOW INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING)
2054
01:44:54,754 --> 01:44:56,464
(SONG ENDS)