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(indistinct chatter)

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[Interviewer] You must be
getting quite bored of these.

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Never dull to discuss the work.

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Okay, well I thought we
could just jump straight in

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if that's okay with you?

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- By all means.
- Okay.

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Hello.

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Liam Somer's story of a fading patriarch

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presiding over a grief stricken
family has been described

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as one of the most striking
debuts of the year.

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Here with us to discuss his
first novel is the author.

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Thank you for joining us, Liam.

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Thanks for having me.

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[Interviewer] So I
thought we could start off by

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touching on the
inspiration behind the novel.

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What exactly is it that
drew you to tell this story?

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(birds chirping) (waves crashing)

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Hello?

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[Happy] Liam, it's
Happy from the agency.

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I'm on my way to a lesson. Can it wait?

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[Happy] We canceled that.

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Something's come in for you.

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Writers tend to say
they're a morning person

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or an evening kind of writer.

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I don't subscribe to that.

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If you're writing, you are writing.

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Simple as that.

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It's not something that can be deferred

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or denied if you have to do it,

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which by the way is the
prerequisite for writing.

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You don't have a choice in the matter.

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You must write.

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Listen, if I knew where
the ideas came from,

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I'd have written

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and indeed been paid a hell
of a lot more than I have.

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Bearing in mind that I'd been
prolific and not badly off.

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The short answer is, I don't know.

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I know writers who obsess.

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How do I say something original?

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Am I saying something unique?

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I'm sorry, there are no new ideas.

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Most writers are reconciled to the fact

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and if they're not, they pretty
soon will be.

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Now, average writers attempt originality.

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They fail universally.

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Good writers have the sense
to borrow from their betters.

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But the greats, great writers steal.

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(birds chirping)

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(door opening)

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Good morning.

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Good morning, Mr. Somers.

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It's Liam.

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If you'd like to follow me this way, please.

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(ducks quacking)

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You'll find him just there.

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I'll take that, shall we?

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Thank you.

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Hello, I'm Liam.

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You must be Bertie.

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[Bertie] You've done your homework.

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Are your parents around?

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They're up at the house.

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Why?

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I usually speak to parents
before the first lesson.

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It's fine.

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No, I can get my father if you want.

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I'm sure he won't mind.

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No, I don't wanna disturb.

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But you want to meet him, right?

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- It's fine.
- He's only writing.

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No, it's fine.

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Okay.

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So what are we working on?

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We are working on tragedy.

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Modern, ancient?

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I don't need you to turn the pages.

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Congratulations, by the way.

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English literature is one of
the most competitive courses.

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Oh lord don't shortlist many candidates,

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so your aptitude tests must
have been very impressive.

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But that test is one thing.

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The interviews, the college specific tests,

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they're different.

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You'll need to cultivate the
kind of critical thinking

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that might not be familiar to you yet.

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Kind of a house style.

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They staple at Oxford, don't they?

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You can do it in the house style.

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(engine running)

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(birds chirping)

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- Bonjour, maman.
- Bonjour, ma cherie. Ça va?

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Liam?

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Mrs. Sinclair.

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Helene.

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Thanks for coming on such short notice.

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Your CV was impressive.

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Your agency speaks very highly of you.

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That's kind of them.

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Well, I should hope not.

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I should hope it's true.

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You have a beautiful home, Mrs. Sinclair.

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Thank you.

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Summer suits it.

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This is the reading room.

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It's usually only me in here.

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We don't use the front entrance much.

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There is a back door to the garden.

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[Liam] This is beautiful.

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Thank you.

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You made it?

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It's kind of numinous.

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And you've met Ellis.

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You're laying the table for four tonight.

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Yes, ma'am.

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Any dietary requirements, Mr. Somers?

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Actually, I'm vegan.

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Wonderful.

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And this is my favorite acquisition.

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I bought it from the artist
when she didn't win the Turner.

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Kind of a consolation.

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She's a collector's darling
now, of course, but I found her.

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It's adapted from Bernini's
Apollo and Daphne.

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Do you know it?

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I know the story.

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Never had the heart to sell it.

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Why would you?

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That's my job. I'm a curator.

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Shouldn't really get sentimental.

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Something to drink?

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You'd like a beer, wouldn't you?

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(upbeat music) (birds chirping)

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(upbeat music continues)
(woodchuck growling)

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You know Liam graduated
with a first in English.

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So why is he a tutor?

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Well, it must be a vocation.

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He wants to share his
knowledge, his experience.

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We thought it best.

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Bertie spent the last
of the summer term here

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so he can focus on his entrance exams.

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You thought it best.

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Well, that school's let you down enough.

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I wasn't going to leave this up to chance.

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You must be good.

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Evening all.

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Bonsoir, my love.

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How goes it, Bert?

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Liam, isn't it?

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Yes, Mr. Sinclair.

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Oh, thank you.

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You've come on a good day.

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Ellis does a mean roast lamb.

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Thank you.

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Music.

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We heard Rachmaninoff yesterday.

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Oh, give me three good reasons

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not to listen to him today
and I'll change my mind.

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Why don't we ask our guest?

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Liam, what do you think of
Rachmaninoff?

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Um, he was the last great
Russian romantic composer

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um, known for his piano concertos

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more than his symphonies.

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His... he was the conductor
of the Bolshoi

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when the Russian, first
Russian revolution began.

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The music, she meant what
did you think of the music?

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I don't.

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I'm not familiar.

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Rachmaninoff it is then.

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Last Great Russian romantic.

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So what did you two study today?

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Hamlet for the most part.

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Oh, you looked into the
manuscript edition yet?

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I've got a few articles.

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I can make up a reading list.

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Thanks.

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You can thank him when you get in.

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If, if you get in.

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We should have a chat about
the lesson, see how it went.

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I'm sure Bertie has some...

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I'm sure he does,

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which is why we'll discuss it after dinner.

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You can wait in the drawing room
when you're finished eating.

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Liam.

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You're out.

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(operatic music continues)
(wine pouring)

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[Helene] We'd like you to stay.

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[Liam] Is this from the agency?

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I think we can part ways
with the agency here.

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We prefer a personal bond.

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There have been incidents in the past.

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[Liam] With guests?

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With staff.

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We told them we no longer need a tutor.

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Didn't wanna compromise your
relationship.

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It's so important Bertie
has someone on his side

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that knows the English system.

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I studied in Paris and New York

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and his father didn't go, of course.

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Non-disclosure.

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He's very protective.

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Getting close to the end so he tells me.

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Yes, five years since the last one.

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The subject of your thesis?

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It's on your CV.

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You'll report to me at
the end of every lesson

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about Bertie's progress.

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Come and find me.

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He has to get in, Liam.

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He doesn't know about the
thesis, does he, Mr. Sinclair?

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I'm sure he'd be flattered,
but you're not here for him.

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(door shuts)

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(operatic music) (birds chirping)

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(dramatic music)

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(clock ticking)

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(birds chirping)

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Good morning.

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From fairest creatures we desire
increase.

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That thereby beauty's
rose might never die,

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but as the riper should by time decease,

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his tender heir might bear his memory.

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So you're onto the sonnets.

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So you've learnt a poem.

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[Liam] I just remember.

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[Bertie] Have you got
a photographic memory?

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Not quite.

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Words are like triggers for me.

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They set off a sequence,

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so if I've read them, I'll remember.

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You don't know.

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You can try me.

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To be or not to be.

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You can do better than that.

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Nativity once in the main
of light, crawls to maturity

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wherewith being crowned crooked

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eclipses against his glory fight

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and time doth gave doth
now his gift confound.

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Time doth transfixed...

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All right, you've got a party trick.

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I, I get it.

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I'm sure it helped you get your first

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but I can't use it and I don't need it,

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so why don't you fetch
me that reading list.

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Should I write it down
so you don't forget?

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(gentle piano music)

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How did it go?

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Well.

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Independent research mainly.

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Is that your usual practice?

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It varies.

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For a student at Bertie's intelligence,

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I say independence is a good thing.

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You're the best resource he could have.

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He needs to be making use of you,

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otherwise, why are you here?

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I'll make sure he does.

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Good.

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(gentle piano music)

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That's Tchaikovsky, isn't it?

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"June from the Seasons."

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I thought you weren't
familiar with classical.

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I'm learning.

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00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:12,600
Me too. Trying.

271
00:23:13,768 --> 00:23:15,436
Are you the only one who plays?

272
00:23:16,646 --> 00:23:19,690
Bertie used to beautifully.

273
00:23:20,733 --> 00:23:25,863
His brother wrote mostly
short stories like you.

274
00:23:26,572 --> 00:23:28,074
He took after his father.

275
00:23:32,453 --> 00:23:33,996
He likes to have someone around.

276
00:23:35,456 --> 00:23:37,125
But now I'm a nuisance.

277
00:23:37,208 --> 00:23:38,709
Used to be me at the start.

278
00:23:40,711 --> 00:23:43,381
We don't talk about his work,
we don't talk about Felix.

279
00:23:44,424 --> 00:23:46,259
Follow those rules and you
should be fine.

280
00:23:49,137 --> 00:23:51,347
(gentle piano music)

281
00:23:51,431 --> 00:23:52,932
Of course.

282
00:23:53,015 --> 00:23:55,643
(gentle piano music continues)

283
00:24:12,869 --> 00:24:13,995
(Mrs. Sinclair sighs)

284
00:24:14,078 --> 00:24:16,706
(melodic piano music)

285
00:24:26,257 --> 00:24:28,843
Great writers steal.

286
00:24:29,010 --> 00:24:31,179
(students laughing)

287
00:24:31,262 --> 00:24:33,598
But do you think it's inevitable

288
00:24:33,681 --> 00:24:38,561
that elements of your personal
life seep into your work?

289
00:24:40,438 --> 00:24:42,190
You're somebody who has experienced

290
00:24:42,273 --> 00:24:43,441
great personal tragedy

291
00:24:43,524 --> 00:24:47,320
and I'm wondering if the loss of your son

292
00:24:47,403 --> 00:24:50,031
has had a direct impact on
the nature of your writing.

293
00:24:52,074 --> 00:24:53,576
If I were drawing on my life,

294
00:24:53,659 --> 00:24:56,704
I'd be writing memoir, not fiction.

295
00:24:57,163 --> 00:25:01,375
But if you're asking if it
has affected my writing,

296
00:25:01,459 --> 00:25:03,252
the answer is yes.

297
00:25:03,336 --> 00:25:07,548
In as much as any loss affects one's life.

298
00:25:09,717 --> 00:25:14,722
Losing a child is losing a part of oneself,

299
00:25:14,805 --> 00:25:17,350
and bound up with the
grief is a profound sense

300
00:25:17,433 --> 00:25:21,145
of injustice, of being robbed.

301
00:25:21,229 --> 00:25:22,980
And when they take their own life,

302
00:25:25,816 --> 00:25:29,820
one is compelled to the unthinkable.

303
00:25:33,908 --> 00:25:36,118
To grieve the child is to grieve the killer.

304
00:25:37,787 --> 00:25:39,121
But if you're asking me seriously

305
00:25:39,205 --> 00:25:41,207
and I sincerely hope that you are not,

306
00:25:41,290 --> 00:25:44,168
whether my son's death
has inspired my writing,

307
00:25:44,252 --> 00:25:45,336
the answer is no.

308
00:25:45,419 --> 00:25:46,939
I will not be writing about his death,

309
00:25:47,004 --> 00:25:49,632
I will be writing in spite of it.

310
00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:53,678
And you will have your
novel when it is ready.

311
00:25:54,929 --> 00:25:56,138
Mr. Sinclair!

312
00:25:56,305 --> 00:25:58,224
(audience murmuring)

313
00:25:58,307 --> 00:25:59,559
Mr. Sinclair.

314
00:26:00,643 --> 00:26:02,270
(doors slamming)

315
00:26:03,104 --> 00:26:05,940
(jazzy piano music)

316
00:26:22,206 --> 00:26:23,833
Liam, just family tonight.

317
00:26:23,916 --> 00:26:26,210
There will be fixings in the guest house.

318
00:26:26,294 --> 00:26:27,962
Sure. See you tomorrow.

319
00:26:28,045 --> 00:26:29,547
Three, four. Close the door.

320
00:26:29,630 --> 00:26:32,216
Five, six. Pick up sticks. (Doors rumbling)

321
00:26:35,011 --> 00:26:37,346
(critters chirping)

322
00:27:00,953 --> 00:27:02,163
(Liam panting)

323
00:27:18,137 --> 00:27:20,723
(frogs croaking)

324
00:27:29,815 --> 00:27:32,151
(flies buzzing)

325
00:27:37,239 --> 00:27:38,824
Oh, good morning, Mr. Somers.

326
00:27:38,908 --> 00:27:40,242
Something I can help you with?

327
00:27:40,326 --> 00:27:44,038
Yes, we've run out of coffee in my place.

328
00:27:44,121 --> 00:27:45,498
Can't have that.

329
00:27:45,581 --> 00:27:47,416
- I'll put a pot on now.
- Thanks.

330
00:27:49,335 --> 00:27:50,711
Just getting us some coffee.

331
00:27:50,795 --> 00:27:52,630
I'm glad you're making yourself useful.

332
00:27:54,298 --> 00:27:55,633
[Sinclair] Fucking hell!

333
00:28:10,439 --> 00:28:12,149
Everything okay, Mr. Sinclair?

334
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:17,613
Don't you have a lesson?

335
00:28:17,697 --> 00:28:19,407
Bertie's just setting up.

336
00:28:36,298 --> 00:28:37,466
The printer.

337
00:28:37,550 --> 00:28:38,759
What are you trying to do?

338
00:28:38,843 --> 00:28:40,386
Print something.

339
00:28:40,469 --> 00:28:41,469
Do you mind?

340
00:28:50,187 --> 00:28:51,605
The printer's the problem.

341
00:28:51,689 --> 00:28:52,982
Nothing to do with that thing.

342
00:28:55,067 --> 00:28:57,820
(printer whirring)

343
00:29:00,698 --> 00:29:01,782
My dad worked in IT.

344
00:29:01,866 --> 00:29:03,743
Oh, sins of the father.

345
00:29:03,826 --> 00:29:05,327
Yeah, I know a bit.

346
00:29:08,414 --> 00:29:09,414
Thanks.

347
00:29:10,499 --> 00:29:11,542
That's Winterson.

348
00:29:12,585 --> 00:29:13,461
I beg your pardon?

349
00:29:13,544 --> 00:29:16,088
Empty space and points of
light, Jeanette Winterson.

350
00:29:16,172 --> 00:29:18,174
Final words of "Sexing the Cherry."

351
00:29:19,967 --> 00:29:21,343
And even the most solid of things,

352
00:29:21,427 --> 00:29:22,344
and the most real,

353
00:29:22,428 --> 00:29:24,388
the best loved and the well known

354
00:29:24,472 --> 00:29:25,973
are only hand shadows on the wall,

355
00:29:26,056 --> 00:29:28,184
empty space, and points of light.

356
00:29:35,441 --> 00:29:36,567
Good spot.

357
00:29:39,195 --> 00:29:40,446
Is it research?

358
00:29:40,529 --> 00:29:42,132
Close the door on your way out, will you?

359
00:29:42,156 --> 00:29:43,657
Mustn't keep Bert waiting.

360
00:29:43,741 --> 00:29:45,993
(keyboard clacking)

361
00:29:48,954 --> 00:29:50,206
(door slams)

362
00:29:58,130 --> 00:30:00,382
Hope you like it strong, Mr. Somers.

363
00:30:01,217 --> 00:30:02,217
Thank you.

364
00:30:04,261 --> 00:30:05,261
It's Liam.

365
00:30:06,180 --> 00:30:07,180
I know.

366
00:30:13,103 --> 00:30:15,189
(foliage rustling)

367
00:30:17,066 --> 00:30:19,485
(pigeon cooing)

368
00:30:35,125 --> 00:30:36,794
It might be useful if I could read some

369
00:30:36,877 --> 00:30:38,128
of what you're writing.

370
00:30:38,212 --> 00:30:39,421
Useful for who?

371
00:30:53,310 --> 00:30:55,521
(water trickling)

372
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:05,656
No, Liam.

373
00:31:07,116 --> 00:31:08,116
Can't touch the buds.

374
00:31:09,410 --> 00:31:10,828
Why not?

375
00:31:10,911 --> 00:31:12,329
It's rhododendron.

376
00:31:12,413 --> 00:31:13,998
Have you never been in a garden
before?

377
00:31:15,666 --> 00:31:17,710
Not everyone has gardens like this.

378
00:31:18,961 --> 00:31:20,004
It's poisonous.

379
00:31:21,005 --> 00:31:22,882
There's toxins in the sap.

380
00:31:22,965 --> 00:31:25,009
(birds chirping)

381
00:31:30,431 --> 00:31:32,600
(lighter clicking)

382
00:31:37,313 --> 00:31:38,397
Do you want one?

383
00:31:43,319 --> 00:31:44,319
All right.

384
00:31:45,696 --> 00:31:46,696
Cheers.

385
00:31:55,372 --> 00:31:56,916
It's basically a weed.

386
00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,668
Nothing can grow around it.

387
00:32:01,503 --> 00:32:04,757
The roots, they are, they
strangle everything they touch.

388
00:32:05,799 --> 00:32:07,009
It's quite clever actually.

389
00:32:12,348 --> 00:32:13,807
Felix was obsessed with them.

390
00:32:15,601 --> 00:32:18,520
Rhododendron, the rose tree.

391
00:32:19,563 --> 00:32:20,731
It's ancient Greek.

392
00:32:29,490 --> 00:32:31,992
(thunder rumbling)

393
00:32:38,832 --> 00:32:40,125
They are beautiful.

394
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,131
(Bertie hisses)

395
00:32:46,215 --> 00:32:48,467
That's not why he
was obsessed with them.

396
00:32:51,387 --> 00:32:53,597
(birds chirping)

397
00:32:58,310 --> 00:33:01,814
(thunder rumbling)

398
00:33:01,897 --> 00:33:04,400
(rain pattering)

399
00:33:21,750 --> 00:33:23,293
No, no, no, no.

400
00:33:31,468 --> 00:33:32,678
Shit!

401
00:33:32,761 --> 00:33:35,347
(thunder rumbling) (rain pattering)

402
00:33:45,024 --> 00:33:46,358
(door clicks)

403
00:33:47,317 --> 00:33:48,944
Ah, Mr. Somers,

404
00:33:49,028 --> 00:33:51,905
there's been a slight
delay to your laundry.

405
00:33:51,989 --> 00:33:54,199
I have brought you a
fresh change of clothes.

406
00:33:54,283 --> 00:33:58,370
I'll just put them down
here, if that's all right.

407
00:33:58,454 --> 00:33:59,329
Sure.

408
00:33:59,413 --> 00:34:01,290
- Oh, I can do that.
- No, no, no.

409
00:34:01,373 --> 00:34:03,417
It's quite all right, Mr. Somers.

410
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:05,836
You are expected at dinner.

411
00:34:18,223 --> 00:34:19,349
(door slams)

412
00:34:37,993 --> 00:34:39,828
(doors rumbling)

413
00:34:39,912 --> 00:34:41,413
Liam. So sorry.

414
00:34:41,497 --> 00:34:43,499
We should have warned you.

415
00:34:43,582 --> 00:34:45,584
The power tends to go down in a storm.

416
00:34:47,628 --> 00:34:49,004
The price of isolation.

417
00:34:57,096 --> 00:34:58,222
And there was.

418
00:35:02,893 --> 00:35:05,062
Any objections to Beethoven?

419
00:35:06,230 --> 00:35:09,399
(soft orchestral music)

420
00:35:11,568 --> 00:35:14,071
You boys didn't lose
anything in the storm, did you?

421
00:35:14,154 --> 00:35:15,197
I didn't.

422
00:35:16,073 --> 00:35:18,242
We're making great progress, I think.

423
00:35:18,534 --> 00:35:22,037
Oh, in that case, I may need
to borrow you this evening.

424
00:35:24,706 --> 00:35:26,083
Computer's playing up again.

425
00:35:26,166 --> 00:35:27,543
You don't mind, do you, Liam?

426
00:35:30,671 --> 00:35:31,755
That's fine.

427
00:35:31,839 --> 00:35:33,215
I have tomorrow's lesson planned.

428
00:35:33,298 --> 00:35:34,298
[Sinclair] Good.

429
00:35:37,928 --> 00:35:39,304
You know Liam's a writer too?

430
00:35:39,388 --> 00:35:40,180
Hmm?

431
00:35:40,264 --> 00:35:41,741
Did you show Bertie your student
pieces?

432
00:35:41,765 --> 00:35:44,143
No, no. I've seen the novel.

433
00:35:45,435 --> 00:35:48,772
"Tower 24," the working title.

434
00:35:50,023 --> 00:35:51,066
It's actually quite good.

435
00:35:52,192 --> 00:35:53,443
Reads like a Sinclair.

436
00:35:54,820 --> 00:35:56,989
That's why the desk lamp
is burning into the night.

437
00:35:57,072 --> 00:35:58,740
I haven't worked on it in a long time.

438
00:35:58,824 --> 00:36:00,909
It's not finished.

439
00:36:00,993 --> 00:36:02,369
Then why does Bertie have it?

440
00:36:02,744 --> 00:36:05,706
(orchestral music continues)

441
00:36:15,424 --> 00:36:16,258
Thanks.

442
00:36:16,341 --> 00:36:18,635
- Come and see me after dinner.
- You know where I am.

443
00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:22,222
(orchestral music continues)

444
00:36:24,516 --> 00:36:27,519
They suit you. Felix's clothes.

445
00:36:29,146 --> 00:36:32,024
(orchestral music continues)

446
00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:47,122
This damn thing buckles in a storm,

447
00:36:47,206 --> 00:36:49,917
and I need to know that my work is safe.

448
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,585
You've got multiple backups, right?

449
00:36:51,668 --> 00:36:53,348
Oh, I used to have people do that for me.

450
00:36:53,420 --> 00:36:55,631
- PAs, you know?
- But not anymore.

451
00:36:55,714 --> 00:36:58,008
Oh, people like that can be very nosy.

452
00:37:00,385 --> 00:37:01,762
You need to enter your password.

453
00:37:01,845 --> 00:37:02,845
Okay.

454
00:37:04,306 --> 00:37:07,142
(keyboard clacking)

455
00:37:09,811 --> 00:37:11,813
I can run a backup to
the cloud if you want.

456
00:37:11,897 --> 00:37:13,106
Absolutely not.

457
00:37:13,190 --> 00:37:15,025
I don't give my work away for free.

458
00:37:16,735 --> 00:37:19,196
Looks like there's
another server running.

459
00:37:19,279 --> 00:37:20,656
Is it here?

460
00:37:20,739 --> 00:37:22,241
Oh that? Oh, it's next door.

461
00:37:23,575 --> 00:37:25,994
Used to be part of the
study, don't need the space.

462
00:37:26,078 --> 00:37:27,454
You want me to shut it down?

463
00:37:27,537 --> 00:37:29,748
No, keep it running. Just in case.

464
00:37:30,582 --> 00:37:31,582
Okay.

465
00:37:32,626 --> 00:37:34,795
Yeah, you should be
safe for the next storm.

466
00:37:36,213 --> 00:37:37,422
Goodnight, Mr. Sinclair.

467
00:37:37,506 --> 00:37:38,924
Well, that was quick.

468
00:37:42,261 --> 00:37:43,303
Scotch?

469
00:37:44,805 --> 00:37:45,805
Sit down.

470
00:37:48,058 --> 00:37:50,102
If you're serious about doing this,

471
00:37:50,185 --> 00:37:53,272
you must bear one thought
cheerfully in mind

472
00:37:53,355 --> 00:37:56,024
whenever you put pen to paper.

473
00:37:56,108 --> 00:38:01,113
Whenever you read, eat,
drink, fuck, whatever,

474
00:38:01,196 --> 00:38:03,407
one thought, one simple one.

475
00:38:03,490 --> 00:38:05,742
Good writers borrow.

476
00:38:05,826 --> 00:38:07,327
Great writers steal.

477
00:38:07,411 --> 00:38:09,663
Don't tell me you're a fan (chuckles).

478
00:38:12,708 --> 00:38:14,293
There is a new novel.

479
00:38:14,376 --> 00:38:18,630
Started a while back,
almost over the line.

480
00:38:21,049 --> 00:38:22,718
I was wondering if you might be

481
00:38:22,801 --> 00:38:24,636
on hand for the final stretch.

482
00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:26,638
Keep the story safe.

483
00:38:26,722 --> 00:38:27,931
Provide some amusement,

484
00:38:28,015 --> 00:38:30,225
I found in the past that
can be really useful.

485
00:38:30,309 --> 00:38:32,602
Someone separate from work.

486
00:38:33,562 --> 00:38:36,606
You know, not a writer,
preferably, well, not a real one.

487
00:38:38,817 --> 00:38:40,235
So easy to forget.

488
00:38:40,902 --> 00:38:42,571
It's only really a game.

489
00:38:42,654 --> 00:38:44,906
Oh, don't want to distract
from Bert's studies.

490
00:38:44,990 --> 00:38:46,408
No, no you wouldn't.

491
00:38:46,491 --> 00:38:48,368
And I'd pay, of course.

492
00:38:49,870 --> 00:38:51,079
Take it you're in?

493
00:38:51,788 --> 00:38:53,081
(Liam chuckles)

494
00:38:54,082 --> 00:38:55,125
(glasses clink)

495
00:38:55,208 --> 00:38:57,794
We'll make a thief of you yet. (Chuckles)

496
00:39:01,965 --> 00:39:03,091
What's it called?

497
00:39:04,885 --> 00:39:06,178
"Rose Tree."

498
00:39:07,554 --> 00:39:08,638
What do you think?

499
00:39:11,892 --> 00:39:12,892
I love it.

500
00:39:18,065 --> 00:39:19,775
(footsteps approaching)

501
00:39:21,276 --> 00:39:23,153
What did you two talk about?

502
00:39:24,946 --> 00:39:27,574
Liam, I won't tell.

503
00:39:28,033 --> 00:39:29,326
(door clicks)

504
00:39:32,954 --> 00:39:35,082
Oh. Hello. You lost?

505
00:39:35,165 --> 00:39:36,875
Ah, the missing mother.

506
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:40,087
What are we discussing?

507
00:39:41,338 --> 00:39:43,965
Bertie, how he's doing.

508
00:39:45,675 --> 00:39:47,386
Of course, the boy wonder.

509
00:39:48,762 --> 00:39:51,098
It's going to be another late
one, I'm afraid, my love.

510
00:39:52,099 --> 00:39:53,433
Pay me a visit, won't you?

511
00:39:53,517 --> 00:39:54,786
[Mrs. Sinclair] Of course, darling.

512
00:39:54,810 --> 00:39:56,937
(footsteps receding)

513
00:39:57,771 --> 00:39:59,731
(critters chirping)

514
00:40:15,872 --> 00:40:18,583
(soft orchestral music)

515
00:40:41,565 --> 00:40:44,151
(upbeat orchestral music)

516
00:40:47,654 --> 00:40:51,074
[Sinclair] Friends, family,
there must be sacrifice.

517
00:40:52,367 --> 00:40:53,994
When you embark upon a novel

518
00:40:54,077 --> 00:40:58,081
and begin that communion
with yourself, you are alone.

519
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,961
Armed only with your craft
and hopefully, your talent.

520
00:41:03,044 --> 00:41:05,922
(upbeat orchestral music)

521
00:41:06,798 --> 00:41:07,924
What's that?

522
00:41:08,008 --> 00:41:09,426
It's an essay of yours.

523
00:41:10,385 --> 00:41:11,511
(paper crumples)

524
00:41:11,595 --> 00:41:13,054
This is good, Bertie.

525
00:41:14,389 --> 00:41:15,807
I'd love to have thought of this.

526
00:41:19,895 --> 00:41:21,438
Your reading list helped.

527
00:41:26,109 --> 00:41:27,444
How can I make it better?

528
00:41:27,527 --> 00:41:31,156
(orchestral music continues)

529
00:41:34,576 --> 00:41:35,452
And in your conclusion,

530
00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:37,575
you might want to consider
Shakespeare's familiarity

531
00:41:37,621 --> 00:41:38,621
with Hippolytus.

532
00:41:39,289 --> 00:41:40,475
I didn't know that you were allowed

533
00:41:40,499 --> 00:41:42,375
to make connections like that.

534
00:41:42,459 --> 00:41:45,253
You know, between texts, across genres.

535
00:41:45,337 --> 00:41:46,697
It's like a whole different thing.

536
00:41:47,631 --> 00:41:50,342
Sorry, but there are no new ideas.

537
00:41:50,425 --> 00:41:53,094
To our Alexander and our Aristotle.

538
00:41:53,178 --> 00:41:55,805
Most writers are reconciled
to the fact, and if they're not,

539
00:41:55,889 --> 00:41:57,224
they very soon will be.

540
00:41:58,767 --> 00:42:02,020
(upbeat orchestral music)

541
00:42:04,439 --> 00:42:05,982
(pen scratching)

542
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,040
(Liam sighs)

543
00:42:25,460 --> 00:42:27,254
(Liam chuckles)

544
00:42:30,257 --> 00:42:31,508
(pen clicks)

545
00:42:34,886 --> 00:42:37,847
(wind rushing)

546
00:42:37,931 --> 00:42:40,934
(birds chirping) (gravel crunching)

547
00:42:47,857 --> 00:42:48,857
(door slams)

548
00:42:49,693 --> 00:42:51,403
(keys jingling)

549
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:00,704
Oh, Liam.

550
00:43:00,787 --> 00:43:02,098
Give that the once over, will you?

551
00:43:02,122 --> 00:43:03,122
Yeah.

552
00:43:03,164 --> 00:43:06,084
Flower-Gathering's my
favorite from A Boy's Will.

553
00:43:10,964 --> 00:43:12,799
Are you dumb because you know
me not,

554
00:43:12,882 --> 00:43:15,760
or dumb because you know?

555
00:43:15,844 --> 00:43:17,262
Well spotted, come in.

556
00:43:17,345 --> 00:43:19,889
(keyboard clacking)

557
00:43:19,973 --> 00:43:21,141
Everything's fine.

558
00:43:21,975 --> 00:43:24,185
You've still got that
server running next door.

559
00:43:24,269 --> 00:43:26,438
Oh, forget that, it's dormant.

560
00:43:26,521 --> 00:43:27,748
Well, I can just shut it down.

561
00:43:27,772 --> 00:43:28,772
Leave it.

562
00:43:30,108 --> 00:43:32,110
Your father teach you all that?

563
00:43:33,194 --> 00:43:35,739
I learned. He didn't teach me.

564
00:43:35,822 --> 00:43:38,325
I wager he's glad you didn't go into IT.

565
00:43:38,408 --> 00:43:40,619
(keyboard clacking)

566
00:43:44,205 --> 00:43:46,541
What are people saying about me?

567
00:43:53,048 --> 00:43:54,633
People think you've retired.

568
00:44:00,930 --> 00:44:03,224
(Sinclair chuckles)

569
00:44:03,308 --> 00:44:04,434
You are amusing.

570
00:44:15,028 --> 00:44:16,946
[Mrs. Sinclair] Have
you only just got out?

571
00:44:19,032 --> 00:44:21,242
We're getting our
money's worth, aren't we?

572
00:44:24,454 --> 00:44:27,165
You and Bertie seem to be getting along.

573
00:44:27,248 --> 00:44:28,458
This new arrangement

574
00:44:28,541 --> 00:44:30,543
isn't drawing your focus
away from him, is it?

575
00:44:30,627 --> 00:44:31,961
No, not at all.

576
00:44:34,964 --> 00:44:36,299
What makes an ending?

577
00:44:37,717 --> 00:44:39,386
That's what we've been talking about.

578
00:44:40,387 --> 00:44:41,888
He's thinking of his own.

579
00:44:42,722 --> 00:44:43,765
Have you seen it?

580
00:44:43,848 --> 00:44:44,849
No.

581
00:44:45,558 --> 00:44:46,768
But he's writing?

582
00:44:47,227 --> 00:44:48,687
I think so.

583
00:44:48,770 --> 00:44:50,397
I think he's close.

584
00:44:55,276 --> 00:44:56,945
Calls me the missing mother.

585
00:44:57,028 --> 00:44:58,822
'Cause I wasn't there when our son died.

586
00:45:01,282 --> 00:45:03,326
I was in Venice, the Biennale.

587
00:45:05,745 --> 00:45:06,788
I don't go anymore.

588
00:45:26,141 --> 00:45:27,016
You're up late.

589
00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:28,100
So are you.

590
00:45:29,060 --> 00:45:31,062
You know you're not the first, right?

591
00:45:32,772 --> 00:45:34,858
(critters chirping)

592
00:45:36,651 --> 00:45:37,902
Get some sleep, Bertie.

593
00:45:42,449 --> 00:45:43,575
Good night.

594
00:45:43,658 --> 00:45:44,909
Night.

595
00:45:44,993 --> 00:45:48,371
(eerie music)

596
00:45:55,003 --> 00:45:57,881
Say I die. Right here, right now.

597
00:45:58,506 --> 00:46:00,508
Who owns my words?

598
00:46:01,176 --> 00:46:02,236
I don't mean in a legal sense.

599
00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:04,721
I mean, testament to experience.

600
00:46:04,804 --> 00:46:07,766
Words I chose because I
believed they bore witness

601
00:46:07,849 --> 00:46:09,100
to a truth beyond fiction.

602
00:46:09,184 --> 00:46:10,894
Because, when strung together,

603
00:46:10,977 --> 00:46:13,396
they accorded to a
music only I could hear,

604
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:15,982
resolved some conflict raging within me.

605
00:46:17,484 --> 00:46:18,484
Who owns them?

606
00:46:19,736 --> 00:46:23,782
They belong to whoever
chooses to read them.

607
00:46:25,408 --> 00:46:29,370
And since we are the
words we write, so do we.

608
00:46:29,996 --> 00:46:31,664
Finders fucking keepers!

609
00:46:31,748 --> 00:46:32,957
(both laugh)

610
00:46:33,041 --> 00:46:34,209
(whimsical music)

611
00:46:34,292 --> 00:46:38,713
Ah, only gods come out
of the machine, Liam.

612
00:46:40,340 --> 00:46:41,925
Ghosts stay in them.

613
00:46:45,512 --> 00:46:48,932
You've said that before.
In "Pearlescence."

614
00:46:49,432 --> 00:46:52,727
[Sinclair] Did I? Jesus,
I'm repeating myself now.

615
00:46:52,811 --> 00:46:54,270
And from one of your lesser works.

616
00:47:00,026 --> 00:47:03,279
You know, I don't even
remember half of that one.

617
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,288
First draft. Tad shorter than usual.

618
00:47:13,373 --> 00:47:15,333
Thought you might like to proofread it.

619
00:47:15,416 --> 00:47:16,417
Would that be a problem?

620
00:47:19,754 --> 00:47:21,005
Not if you read mine.

621
00:47:23,675 --> 00:47:27,554
All right. Drop it in
first thing tomorrow morning.

622
00:47:28,054 --> 00:47:30,723
(dramatic music)

623
00:47:40,233 --> 00:47:41,776
(pistol firing)

624
00:47:42,735 --> 00:47:43,945
(pistol firing)

625
00:47:44,571 --> 00:47:45,905
(pistol firing)

626
00:47:46,573 --> 00:47:48,032
(pistol firing)

627
00:47:50,118 --> 00:47:52,787
(dramatic music)

628
00:48:20,481 --> 00:48:23,234
Dante, Tolstoy, Flaubert.

629
00:48:23,318 --> 00:48:25,695
Not a single one of them read.

630
00:48:25,778 --> 00:48:27,864
What the fuck did they even
teach you at that school?

631
00:48:27,947 --> 00:48:29,157
May as well burn them.

632
00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:31,159
You may as well be illiterate. Are you?

633
00:48:32,660 --> 00:48:34,120
What your brother would have given

634
00:48:34,203 --> 00:48:36,664
to read any of these works that
you shun.

635
00:48:37,707 --> 00:48:40,501
At least he had the intellect to read mine.

636
00:48:40,585 --> 00:48:41,878
(Bertie sobbing)

637
00:48:41,961 --> 00:48:43,546
Oh, Bert, come here.

638
00:48:49,302 --> 00:48:51,220
It's me. It's me.

639
00:48:54,223 --> 00:48:56,809
(Bertie crying)

640
00:49:02,815 --> 00:49:04,067
(door slams)

641
00:49:11,199 --> 00:49:11,991
Morning.

642
00:49:12,075 --> 00:49:13,076
Morning.

643
00:49:14,869 --> 00:49:15,869
My novel.

644
00:49:16,329 --> 00:49:18,790
"Tower 24." Longhand.

645
00:49:20,291 --> 00:49:22,377
Like the best. Look forward to it.

646
00:49:23,836 --> 00:49:25,254
Oh, take those, would you?

647
00:49:30,885 --> 00:49:33,513
(Bertie sobbing)

648
00:49:38,601 --> 00:49:40,436
- I can't do this. He's right.
- Bertie...

649
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:41,789
I haven't read... I don't fucking...

650
00:49:41,813 --> 00:49:43,082
I don't know enough. I've not
read enough.

651
00:49:43,106 --> 00:49:44,708
I'm wasting my time.
I'm wasting your time.

652
00:49:44,732 --> 00:49:45,483
It's just all a fucking waste!

653
00:49:45,566 --> 00:49:46,776
Stop it, stop it. Hey, hey.

654
00:49:46,859 --> 00:49:47,860
Stop it. Stop it.

655
00:49:47,944 --> 00:49:49,696
Hey, listen to me. Look at me.

656
00:49:49,779 --> 00:49:51,489
Take a breath. Take a breath.

657
00:49:51,572 --> 00:49:53,116
Bertie. Bertie, look at me.

658
00:49:53,199 --> 00:49:55,159
Just one breath. One breath.

659
00:49:57,328 --> 00:49:58,871
It's all right. It's okay.

660
00:50:01,416 --> 00:50:02,625
It's okay.

661
00:50:02,709 --> 00:50:05,211
(Bertie crying)

662
00:50:18,891 --> 00:50:21,436
(birds chirping)

663
00:50:24,647 --> 00:50:26,315
[Liam] I won't let him bother you.

664
00:50:26,399 --> 00:50:27,859
[Bertie] It's too late for that.

665
00:50:29,318 --> 00:50:31,571
You can go if you want. I understand.

666
00:50:35,116 --> 00:50:38,411
When you said I wasn't the
first, what did you mean?

667
00:50:40,163 --> 00:50:41,306
I know I'm not the first tutor,

668
00:50:41,330 --> 00:50:43,041
but that's not what you meant, is it?

669
00:50:46,753 --> 00:50:48,880
My father likes keeping
his favorites close.

670
00:50:51,507 --> 00:50:53,968
He moved Felix into the room
next to his, for fuck's sake.

671
00:50:54,052 --> 00:50:56,220
(pigeons cooing)

672
00:50:56,304 --> 00:50:57,638
I'm not Felix.

673
00:50:59,807 --> 00:51:00,807
I know.

674
00:51:11,736 --> 00:51:13,196
Take the day off, Bertie.

675
00:51:15,323 --> 00:51:16,866
So you're not leaving?

676
00:51:18,534 --> 00:51:21,621
No. I'm not going anywhere.

677
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,222
(pensive music)

678
00:51:57,365 --> 00:52:00,076
(birds chirping)

679
00:53:18,446 --> 00:53:19,446
Good swim?

680
00:53:20,489 --> 00:53:23,659
Yeah. Not as warm as it looks.

681
00:53:25,912 --> 00:53:26,913
Don't do it again.

682
00:53:28,664 --> 00:53:30,082
- I'm sorry?
- Lake's off limits,

683
00:53:30,166 --> 00:53:31,584
for their sake.

684
00:53:31,667 --> 00:53:34,754
It's only been two years since Felix.

685
00:53:35,338 --> 00:53:36,505
They're a little delicate.

686
00:53:38,591 --> 00:53:39,884
I'm sorry. I didn't know.

687
00:53:39,967 --> 00:53:40,967
You do now.

688
00:53:42,428 --> 00:53:44,555
I finished your novel, by the way.

689
00:53:45,431 --> 00:53:47,600
Bring mine over tonight, we'll debrief.

690
00:53:47,683 --> 00:53:49,243
[Liam] I might need a little more time

691
00:53:49,310 --> 00:53:50,436
to finish reading it.

692
00:53:50,519 --> 00:53:51,854
You found time to swim.

693
00:54:24,679 --> 00:54:26,180
(Liam knocks)

694
00:54:42,780 --> 00:54:43,780
Come in.

695
00:54:51,914 --> 00:54:54,292
I've annotated the text
where I've spotted anything.

696
00:54:54,375 --> 00:54:56,460
There's a cross-referenced
document on my laptop.

697
00:54:57,712 --> 00:54:58,712
Very thorough.

698
00:55:00,423 --> 00:55:02,508
Well, don't keep me in suspense.

699
00:55:03,801 --> 00:55:05,721
[Liam] It's like nothing
you've written before.

700
00:55:05,803 --> 00:55:06,887
It was hard to read.

701
00:55:07,513 --> 00:55:09,473
What... (chuckles) Why?

702
00:55:10,683 --> 00:55:12,643
Because even if I started writing it,

703
00:55:12,727 --> 00:55:18,149
even if I devoted my entire
life, I wouldn't come close.

704
00:55:18,316 --> 00:55:20,818
I mean, the voice, the
rhythm, the cadences.

705
00:55:20,901 --> 00:55:23,112
It just feels, it feels new.

706
00:55:23,195 --> 00:55:26,532
I don't know how you've
done it, but you sound new.

707
00:55:27,867 --> 00:55:29,660
It very well could be your masterpiece.

708
00:55:30,995 --> 00:55:33,789
But, um, the ending. Part three?

709
00:55:33,873 --> 00:55:34,873
Mmm-hmm.

710
00:55:35,666 --> 00:55:37,460
It feels like a different novel.

711
00:55:40,171 --> 00:55:42,214
Like it doesn't belong here.

712
00:55:44,425 --> 00:55:46,552
The work just deserves better.
I had to tell you that.

713
00:55:46,844 --> 00:55:47,844
Mmm.

714
00:55:57,521 --> 00:55:59,732
You seem to have misunderstood, Liam.

715
00:56:01,317 --> 00:56:04,070
We're not peers. You're a proofreader.

716
00:56:04,153 --> 00:56:09,200
But as you've begun, we'll
suspend disbelief a while.

717
00:56:11,619 --> 00:56:16,248
Your first novel. Something
of a misnomer, is it not?

718
00:56:16,916 --> 00:56:17,666
How do you mean?

719
00:56:17,750 --> 00:56:19,043
It's not a novel.

720
00:56:19,126 --> 00:56:20,419
It's passable airport fiction.

721
00:56:20,503 --> 00:56:22,880
I can see why you gave up on it.

722
00:56:22,963 --> 00:56:27,093
Could be tweaked into a short
story, a novella at best.

723
00:56:27,176 --> 00:56:30,513
I could easily pass it on to
my editor for a second opinion,

724
00:56:30,596 --> 00:56:32,473
but I have a reputation.

725
00:56:33,724 --> 00:56:37,436
Imagine, my publisher
wakes up one morning,

726
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,688
finds a message from me

727
00:56:39,772 --> 00:56:41,607
claiming to have found
the next best thing.

728
00:56:41,690 --> 00:56:44,026
"Tower 24." He'd think I'd cracked.

729
00:56:45,403 --> 00:56:47,738
I can't put my name to just anything.

730
00:56:51,450 --> 00:56:52,785
That's years of work.

731
00:56:52,868 --> 00:56:54,995
Really? How frustrating.

732
00:56:55,079 --> 00:56:56,497
Then again, I'll never get back

733
00:56:56,580 --> 00:56:58,582
the hours I spent reading it.

734
00:56:59,417 --> 00:57:01,001
We needn't waste any more time.

735
00:57:02,002 --> 00:57:04,922
(keyboard clicking)

736
00:57:05,005 --> 00:57:05,881
I'm sorry.

737
00:57:05,965 --> 00:57:07,800
Oh, don't be. You weren't to know.

738
00:57:08,551 --> 00:57:11,345
Oh, have you considered teaching?

739
00:57:11,429 --> 00:57:13,681
This isn't about the writing.

740
00:57:13,764 --> 00:57:15,724
Oh, it's only ever about the writing, Liam.

741
00:57:17,935 --> 00:57:19,603
And I regret to say,

742
00:57:21,063 --> 00:57:22,606
you cannot write.

743
00:57:23,482 --> 00:57:25,192
Send me that document, would you?

744
00:57:26,610 --> 00:57:27,945
I'll do it before I leave.

745
00:57:28,028 --> 00:57:29,188
Ah! You're not finished yet.

746
00:57:29,238 --> 00:57:30,406
You can find someone else.

747
00:57:30,489 --> 00:57:32,783
Liam, you signed the agreement.

748
00:57:34,452 --> 00:57:37,163
Great shame to break your bond now.

749
00:57:38,038 --> 00:57:40,541
I so loathe dealing with lawyers.

750
00:57:44,086 --> 00:57:45,379
I'm saving your life, Liam.

751
00:57:47,423 --> 00:57:50,342
(keyboard clicking)

752
00:58:01,395 --> 00:58:02,646
(sighs)

753
00:58:05,232 --> 00:58:06,358
Fuck!

754
00:58:10,362 --> 00:58:12,781
(dramatic music)

755
00:59:03,791 --> 00:59:06,293
(clock ticking)

756
00:59:12,383 --> 00:59:13,759
(birds chirping)

757
00:59:14,260 --> 00:59:16,887
[Helene] I thought you didn't
want to do public appearances.

758
00:59:18,556 --> 00:59:20,849
Just dropping into the
conference, surprise them all.

759
00:59:20,933 --> 00:59:21,976
Spontaneity, darling.

760
00:59:22,059 --> 00:59:23,269
You remember that, don't you?

761
00:59:25,980 --> 00:59:27,398
Ah! The tutor.

762
00:59:31,110 --> 00:59:32,319
Did you want something?

763
00:59:32,403 --> 00:59:34,113
I just wanted to say thank you.

764
00:59:35,197 --> 00:59:37,074
I'm honored that you read my work.

765
00:59:38,075 --> 00:59:39,275
Still waiting on that email.

766
00:59:39,326 --> 00:59:40,661
I'll send it today.

767
00:59:40,744 --> 00:59:43,414
Uh, no disclosure of my
work to any third party,

768
00:59:43,497 --> 00:59:44,748
as per the agreement.

769
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:47,459
That includes Helene.

770
00:59:48,335 --> 00:59:49,837
Liam, you're welcome.

771
00:59:52,464 --> 00:59:54,842
(engine cranks)

772
00:59:55,509 --> 00:59:56,385
You've been brought up

773
00:59:56,468 --> 00:59:58,178
by the most revered writer in the country.

774
00:59:58,262 --> 01:00:00,180
So, why should I give you a place?

775
01:00:05,102 --> 01:00:08,063
Well, uh, he's a writer.

776
01:00:08,147 --> 01:00:10,274
I want to be able to learn to read work.

777
01:00:10,357 --> 01:00:12,234
You know, to learn to criticize.

778
01:00:14,570 --> 01:00:16,488
How would you criticize your father?

779
01:00:16,572 --> 01:00:18,157
I haven't read his work.

780
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:19,491
That's not what I asked.

781
01:00:22,620 --> 01:00:24,705
I asked how you'd criticize your father.

782
01:00:32,588 --> 01:00:34,214
Nothing can grow around him.

783
01:00:36,133 --> 01:00:37,635
My father never raised us.

784
01:00:39,553 --> 01:00:40,846
He just made us sick.

785
01:00:41,889 --> 01:00:43,390
How?

786
01:00:43,474 --> 01:00:45,142
Not caring is worse than cruelty.

787
01:00:47,686 --> 01:00:49,080
What his son wanted was his approval,

788
01:00:49,104 --> 01:00:50,147
and he couldn't give it.

789
01:00:52,941 --> 01:00:54,610
- But don't you want it?
- No.

790
01:00:55,986 --> 01:00:57,363
Look where that got Felix.

791
01:01:02,201 --> 01:01:04,203
My brother didn't go
into the water to swim.

792
01:01:15,172 --> 01:01:16,340
But you could.

793
01:01:21,470 --> 01:01:22,470
I did.

794
01:01:35,609 --> 01:01:38,195
(pensive music)

795
01:02:42,468 --> 01:02:44,219
Whoo!

796
01:02:52,102 --> 01:02:53,687
Whoo-hoo!

797
01:03:07,326 --> 01:03:09,161
I've been invited to an 18th tonight

798
01:03:09,244 --> 01:03:11,205
and my mother is worried

799
01:03:11,288 --> 01:03:13,123
that it's gonna distract me from our prep.

800
01:03:14,333 --> 01:03:15,334
I'm not worried.

801
01:03:16,710 --> 01:03:18,545
We've been working very hard.

802
01:03:18,629 --> 01:03:20,422
You're sick to death of me,

803
01:03:20,506 --> 01:03:23,300
and I think he could do
with a night out of here.

804
01:03:23,383 --> 01:03:24,760
What would your father say?

805
01:03:24,843 --> 01:03:25,886
He's not here.

806
01:03:27,638 --> 01:03:28,806
Where are you gonna stay?

807
01:03:28,889 --> 01:03:29,932
At the flat.

808
01:03:30,974 --> 01:03:32,893
Well, get a cab if you need to, please.

809
01:03:32,976 --> 01:03:33,976
Thank you.

810
01:03:35,312 --> 01:03:37,105
(Helene chuckles)

811
01:03:43,570 --> 01:03:44,655
(door slams)

812
01:03:46,782 --> 01:03:49,201
(gentle piano music)

813
01:04:07,553 --> 01:04:08,887
[Liam] Can I help?

814
01:04:08,971 --> 01:04:10,848
[Helene] Yes. Ah.

815
01:04:15,727 --> 01:04:17,396
Thank you.

816
01:04:17,479 --> 01:04:19,165
[Liam] Have you thought
about letting Bertie

817
01:04:19,189 --> 01:04:20,774
be somewhere else this summer?

818
01:04:22,609 --> 01:04:24,194
Well, if Bertie's not here,

819
01:04:24,278 --> 01:04:25,821
there's no reason for you to be.

820
01:04:42,379 --> 01:04:43,463
I love it, too.

821
01:04:44,673 --> 01:04:45,883
[Liam] I didn't say that.

822
01:04:47,301 --> 01:04:48,343
You didn't have to.

823
01:04:56,226 --> 01:05:00,397
What did he do, Liam?
Did he destroy you, too?

824
01:05:09,990 --> 01:05:12,492
(gentle music)

825
01:05:38,852 --> 01:05:39,978
What do you want now?

826
01:05:42,439 --> 01:05:43,607
To do my job.

827
01:05:45,067 --> 01:05:48,070
Help Bertie get out. And leave.

828
01:05:49,112 --> 01:05:52,950
Don't lie. I think you
want the same thing I do.

829
01:05:56,536 --> 01:05:57,621
And what's that?

830
01:06:01,959 --> 01:06:03,418
Why does he lock my dead son's door

831
01:06:03,502 --> 01:06:05,087
if he's got nothing to hide?

832
01:06:06,672 --> 01:06:07,714
I wanna know.

833
01:06:10,092 --> 01:06:11,134
Don't you?

834
01:06:15,639 --> 01:06:18,141
(pensive music)

835
01:07:05,772 --> 01:07:08,275
(pensive music continues)

836
01:07:22,456 --> 01:07:25,083
(mouse clicking)

837
01:08:27,020 --> 01:08:29,356
(pensive music continues)

838
01:09:06,893 --> 01:09:07,893
Mr. Somers?

839
01:09:13,817 --> 01:09:14,817
The usual?

840
01:09:16,361 --> 01:09:17,361
Yes.

841
01:09:25,662 --> 01:09:28,081
(pensive music continues)

842
01:09:57,944 --> 01:09:59,154
How are you feeling?

843
01:09:59,654 --> 01:10:02,866
Like shit. And I can't find
that Bronte article anywhere.

844
01:10:02,949 --> 01:10:05,660
Liam. I need you in the study.

845
01:10:05,744 --> 01:10:07,245
- We're still working.
- Now.

846
01:10:16,796 --> 01:10:18,632
So, where is everything?

847
01:10:24,596 --> 01:10:25,847
- Fuck!
- What?

848
01:10:27,057 --> 01:10:29,017
This looks like a virus.

849
01:10:29,100 --> 01:10:32,395
It's, it's taken everything.

850
01:10:32,771 --> 01:10:34,248
[Sinclair] Restore it from the backup.

851
01:10:34,272 --> 01:10:35,875
[Liam] Well, you never
disconnected the drive.

852
01:10:35,899 --> 01:10:37,984
It must have been running,
so it's gone down too.

853
01:10:38,068 --> 01:10:39,319
The other server!

854
01:10:39,402 --> 01:10:41,905
It's all, (sighs)

855
01:10:42,197 --> 01:10:43,782
It's all gone, Mr. Sinclair.

856
01:10:43,865 --> 01:10:44,865
What?

857
01:10:46,409 --> 01:10:47,911
I wanted to shut it down.

858
01:10:53,333 --> 01:10:54,626
It's the malware.

859
01:10:54,709 --> 01:10:56,062
It must have come from my computer

860
01:10:56,086 --> 01:10:58,380
when I sent you the
documents, the annotations.

861
01:10:58,463 --> 01:10:59,756
What?

862
01:10:59,839 --> 01:11:01,216
I am so sorry.

863
01:11:01,299 --> 01:11:03,385
So unlike you to be so careless, darling.

864
01:11:06,221 --> 01:11:07,973
Especially when it's taken you so long.

865
01:11:13,270 --> 01:11:14,813
But you've still got the hard copy.

866
01:11:39,713 --> 01:11:40,797
Close that door.

867
01:12:01,151 --> 01:12:02,277
(car door slams)

868
01:12:06,823 --> 01:12:08,700
He must have left it at the conference.

869
01:12:14,539 --> 01:12:17,083
Yeah, it's J.M Sinclair.

870
01:12:17,167 --> 01:12:20,045
Could you put me through to
the conference center please?

871
01:12:20,128 --> 01:12:21,254
Yes, I'll hold.

872
01:12:22,505 --> 01:12:24,799
(birds chirping)

873
01:12:35,477 --> 01:12:37,729
You've already looked in there, darling.

874
01:12:37,812 --> 01:12:39,814
Well, it's not at the conference.

875
01:12:39,898 --> 01:12:44,194
It's not at the hotel, not
in the car, not in the house.

876
01:12:44,861 --> 01:12:46,321
Someone has taken my novel.

877
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:49,324
Someone here has it,
which of you is it, mm?

878
01:12:53,036 --> 01:12:55,455
Oh, you've taken it, haven't you?

879
01:12:55,538 --> 01:12:58,750
Oh, tucked it away somewhere,
have you?

880
01:12:59,334 --> 01:13:01,169
So neat and tidy.

881
01:13:02,003 --> 01:13:03,797
Where have you hidden it, Bert?

882
01:13:04,506 --> 01:13:06,174
We all know you're hiding something.

883
01:13:08,093 --> 01:13:09,093
Where is it?

884
01:13:10,845 --> 01:13:11,846
Where is it?

885
01:13:12,597 --> 01:13:13,515
Where is it?

886
01:13:13,598 --> 01:13:15,076
- That's enough.
- It had been overcast

887
01:13:15,100 --> 01:13:16,100
all morning,

888
01:13:16,935 --> 01:13:18,603
but when we were clear of the bay,

889
01:13:18,686 --> 01:13:21,022
the sun split the cloud bank in two

890
01:13:22,232 --> 01:13:23,983
and threw light onto the water.

891
01:13:26,903 --> 01:13:30,824
Thin films of petrol swirling rainbows.

892
01:13:30,907 --> 01:13:33,785
I was unsteady on my feet
as I approached the bow.

893
01:13:33,868 --> 01:13:36,413
Someone grabbed my arm, stood me
upright.

894
01:13:37,539 --> 01:13:40,875
I hadn't known how heavy
her ashes would be.

895
01:13:40,959 --> 01:13:42,377
How much do you remember?

896
01:13:44,504 --> 01:13:45,672
All of it.

897
01:13:45,755 --> 01:13:47,048
Bertie, go get your things.

898
01:13:47,132 --> 01:13:48,133
[Bertie] Now?

899
01:13:48,216 --> 01:13:49,092
Now, sweetheart.

900
01:13:49,175 --> 01:13:50,593
But you're leaving tomorrow.

901
01:13:51,094 --> 01:13:53,179
I'm giving you the space
you need. No distractions.

902
01:13:53,263 --> 01:13:55,932
Ellis, bring me my bags please.

903
01:13:56,015 --> 01:13:57,267
He knows I didn't mean it.

904
01:13:57,350 --> 01:13:59,519
- I need you here.
- You need to write the book.

905
01:13:59,602 --> 01:14:00,812
I've written it.

906
01:14:00,895 --> 01:14:02,856
Then it shouldn't be
too hard to remember.

907
01:14:02,939 --> 01:14:03,982
Is Liam coming?

908
01:14:04,065 --> 01:14:05,775
[Liam] Just carry on like we've done.

909
01:14:05,859 --> 01:14:07,193
You'll be ready.

910
01:14:07,277 --> 01:14:08,278
Good luck, Bertie.

911
01:14:11,448 --> 01:14:13,032
- (door slams)
- He'll never get in.

912
01:14:14,617 --> 01:14:16,369
That's what you said about Felix.

913
01:14:18,788 --> 01:14:20,415
(pot shatters)

914
01:14:23,042 --> 01:14:24,419
That's my work.

915
01:14:24,502 --> 01:14:25,545
That's the feeling.

916
01:14:29,048 --> 01:14:30,383
I married a writer,

917
01:14:32,469 --> 01:14:33,470
so write.

918
01:14:37,891 --> 01:14:39,100
(door slams)

919
01:14:39,642 --> 01:14:41,561
Boys and their mothers, Liam.

920
01:14:41,644 --> 01:14:43,313
Bet you weren't pampered like that.

921
01:14:43,396 --> 01:14:44,147
No.

922
01:14:44,230 --> 01:14:45,648
Shall we?

923
01:14:53,740 --> 01:14:54,949
We use this.

924
01:14:56,868 --> 01:14:58,703
Won't need to back this fucker up.

925
01:15:01,039 --> 01:15:02,040
This fucking place.

926
01:15:06,002 --> 01:15:07,378
Are you waiting for something?

927
01:15:12,634 --> 01:15:15,929
(upbeat orchestral music)

928
01:15:27,524 --> 01:15:28,608
Good start.

929
01:15:28,691 --> 01:15:29,901
Pick up tomorrow.

930
01:15:32,862 --> 01:15:33,905
Night, Liam.

931
01:15:33,988 --> 01:15:36,741
(upbeat orchestral music continues)

932
01:15:52,257 --> 01:15:53,967
(zipper zips)

933
01:15:58,054 --> 01:15:59,597
(water splashes)

934
01:16:01,307 --> 01:16:02,517
What was it?

935
01:16:03,601 --> 01:16:04,519
How did it go?

936
01:16:04,602 --> 01:16:06,062
- I remember.
- Oh.

937
01:16:06,145 --> 01:16:09,190
(orchestral music continues)
(mower whirring)

938
01:16:12,277 --> 01:16:13,570
But even from a distance,

939
01:16:13,653 --> 01:16:15,572
I could read something
absent in her bearing.

940
01:16:15,655 --> 01:16:16,906
Frailty perhaps.

941
01:16:16,990 --> 01:16:19,867
(orchestral music continues)

942
01:16:19,951 --> 01:16:22,453
(mower beeping)

943
01:16:32,755 --> 01:16:36,467
(mower whirring)
(orchestral music continues)

944
01:16:46,978 --> 01:16:49,314
(critters chirping)

945
01:16:50,982 --> 01:16:53,401
(water trickling)

946
01:17:08,499 --> 01:17:11,336
(pencil scribbling)

947
01:17:21,262 --> 01:17:22,472
I didn't write that.

948
01:17:24,182 --> 01:17:26,059
It's the end of part two.

949
01:17:26,142 --> 01:17:28,478
These moments rise up
before me like shards

950
01:17:28,561 --> 01:17:31,189
of light in a shallow pool
never joined for long enough

951
01:17:31,272 --> 01:17:33,066
to tell the storm.

952
01:17:33,816 --> 01:17:35,610
(scoffs) I didn't write that.

953
01:17:35,693 --> 01:17:36,694
You're changing my work.

954
01:17:36,778 --> 01:17:38,571
- I'm not.
- Who's the fucking writer?

955
01:17:42,450 --> 01:17:45,119
(paper crumpling)

956
01:17:49,582 --> 01:17:53,586
Right, end of part two.

957
01:17:57,965 --> 01:17:59,509
Let's call it a night.

958
01:18:05,640 --> 01:18:07,725
(door rattles and slams)

959
01:18:08,976 --> 01:18:11,479
(loud clattering) (wind howling)

960
01:18:23,783 --> 01:18:26,160
You know, the novel wasn't bad.

961
01:18:27,704 --> 01:18:28,705
It wasn't bad.

962
01:18:34,377 --> 01:18:36,212
She thinks I'm done.

963
01:18:37,463 --> 01:18:38,715
We'll show her.

964
01:18:40,299 --> 01:18:42,009
I'll show her, Felix.

965
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:52,937
(wind howling)

966
01:19:50,995 --> 01:19:54,123
(pencil scratching)

967
01:19:54,207 --> 01:19:55,666
(door clicks)

968
01:20:00,713 --> 01:20:02,131
Ellis, would you mind?

969
01:20:02,215 --> 01:20:03,216
(door slams)

970
01:20:08,471 --> 01:20:09,472
Welcome home.

971
01:20:11,808 --> 01:20:12,892
We've been working.

972
01:20:13,559 --> 01:20:14,602
So you're finished?

973
01:20:14,685 --> 01:20:15,685
Not yet.

974
01:20:16,604 --> 01:20:17,855
Better hurry up.

975
01:20:17,939 --> 01:20:20,191
You need to get started on the next one.

976
01:20:20,274 --> 01:20:21,567
Where's Bertie?

977
01:20:21,651 --> 01:20:22,777
In London.

978
01:20:22,860 --> 01:20:24,111
How is he?

979
01:20:24,195 --> 01:20:25,863
He's fine. Preparing.

980
01:20:27,490 --> 01:20:29,784
Darling, collect the bags
from the car, please.

981
01:20:29,867 --> 01:20:30,867
Oh, sure.

982
01:20:33,704 --> 01:20:37,083
Liam, can I see you in the studio please?

983
01:20:37,166 --> 01:20:38,166
Why?

984
01:20:39,085 --> 01:20:40,670
To extend our arrangement.

985
01:20:46,467 --> 01:20:49,887
Those words, the ones you spoke.

986
01:20:49,971 --> 01:20:52,098
They're not his, they're my son's.

987
01:20:56,227 --> 01:20:58,771
Then why has it taken him
all this time to write?

988
01:21:00,398 --> 01:21:01,691
It wasn't finished.

989
01:21:03,317 --> 01:21:04,944
He gave it an ending.

990
01:21:05,027 --> 01:21:06,027
And?

991
01:21:08,906 --> 01:21:09,906
Hmm.

992
01:21:11,075 --> 01:21:12,368
Then I'd like you to write one.

993
01:21:12,451 --> 01:21:13,452
The shorter, the better.

994
01:21:13,536 --> 01:21:15,246
Consider this your first commission.

995
01:21:17,707 --> 01:21:19,208
How soon can you get this done?

996
01:21:21,085 --> 01:21:22,085
I'll start it now.

997
01:21:23,170 --> 01:21:24,255
Good.

998
01:21:26,257 --> 01:21:27,425
Better get on with it.

999
01:21:41,147 --> 01:21:43,983
(critters chirping)

1000
01:21:51,866 --> 01:21:56,329
- Return to normality!
- We missed you, my love.

1001
01:21:57,455 --> 01:21:59,165
Shall we have some music?

1002
01:21:59,248 --> 01:22:00,082
Of course.

1003
01:22:00,166 --> 01:22:01,876
Some Schubert for the homecoming.

1004
01:22:01,959 --> 01:22:03,210
Liam, you choose.

1005
01:22:04,086 --> 01:22:05,086
Oh.

1006
01:22:08,466 --> 01:22:09,592
We're getting close.

1007
01:22:10,593 --> 01:22:12,011
I call the publishers tomorrow.

1008
01:22:12,094 --> 01:22:14,055
Let them know it's on its way.

1009
01:22:14,138 --> 01:22:15,824
Well, I've already
been in touch with them,

1010
01:22:15,848 --> 01:22:16,891
and your editor.

1011
01:22:16,974 --> 01:22:18,410
[Sinclair] Well, I'll speak to them.

1012
01:22:18,434 --> 01:22:20,561
No you won't. I'll deal with that.

1013
01:22:20,645 --> 01:22:22,229
No more distractions.

1014
01:22:23,356 --> 01:22:25,775
You just focus on finishing.

1015
01:22:26,359 --> 01:22:27,401
You deserve to.

1016
01:22:29,403 --> 01:22:30,988
You've been held back too long.

1017
01:22:35,201 --> 01:22:38,788
(keyboard clacking)
(upbeat orchestral music)

1018
01:22:59,392 --> 01:23:01,978
(printer whirring)

1019
01:23:22,456 --> 01:23:24,625
You don't mind if I deliver this, do you?

1020
01:23:29,171 --> 01:23:30,171
(door slams)

1021
01:23:35,219 --> 01:23:39,473
And then she walked along the
shoreline,

1022
01:23:43,185 --> 01:23:49,316
as far as I could see her
dress trailing in the...

1023
01:23:50,901 --> 01:23:52,069
- The...
- Wash.

1024
01:23:52,153 --> 01:23:52,987
Wash.

1025
01:23:53,070 --> 01:23:54,238
- The tide.
- The tide.

1026
01:23:54,697 --> 01:23:59,869
The waves took her footprints.

1027
01:23:59,952 --> 01:24:00,953
Footprints.

1028
01:24:02,788 --> 01:24:03,914
- I-
- I.

1029
01:24:04,707 --> 01:24:08,127
Followed after.

1030
01:24:11,839 --> 01:24:14,759
- The end.
- The end.

1031
01:24:15,134 --> 01:24:16,385
(pencil scratches)

1032
01:24:18,262 --> 01:24:20,139
(sighs) We did it.

1033
01:24:20,222 --> 01:24:21,222
It's done.

1034
01:24:22,183 --> 01:24:23,642
We fucking did it.

1035
01:24:24,477 --> 01:24:25,561
Oh!

1036
01:24:27,271 --> 01:24:31,317
Oh. Come on, come here.

1037
01:24:34,111 --> 01:24:36,655
(Sinclair groaning)

1038
01:24:37,114 --> 01:24:38,199
You and I!

1039
01:24:39,450 --> 01:24:41,077
We finished that bastard.

1040
01:24:41,869 --> 01:24:44,330
Okay, this calls for a celebration.

1041
01:24:48,042 --> 01:24:49,126
All gone.

1042
01:24:53,839 --> 01:24:56,300
Ah. (Laughing)

1043
01:24:56,383 --> 01:24:57,593
(bottles clink)

1044
01:24:57,676 --> 01:25:00,012
Congratulations, Mr. Sinclair.

1045
01:25:00,096 --> 01:25:01,096
Cheers.

1046
01:25:10,356 --> 01:25:13,984
I called it "Rose Tree"
'cause I wrote it for him.

1047
01:25:15,903 --> 01:25:20,491
He was the only one,
only one, who understood.

1048
01:25:23,119 --> 01:25:24,495
I found him, you know,

1049
01:25:26,831 --> 01:25:28,791
not his mother, not Bert,

1050
01:25:28,874 --> 01:25:30,960
both had better things to do.

1051
01:25:31,043 --> 01:25:33,629
I dragged him outta that water.

1052
01:25:35,339 --> 01:25:37,633
Had a real talent, tried to help him,

1053
01:25:38,759 --> 01:25:40,553
constructive criticism like I gave you.

1054
01:25:41,929 --> 01:25:45,182
But he was weaker than I thought.

1055
01:25:46,976 --> 01:25:47,976
Depressive.

1056
01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:54,066
If I'd known he would've done
something that stupid,

1057
01:25:55,359 --> 01:25:56,443
I wouldn't have said

1058
01:26:00,656 --> 01:26:02,366
anything. (Sobbing)

1059
01:26:06,954 --> 01:26:07,954
Right.

1060
01:26:08,956 --> 01:26:12,960
You, me, swim, right now.

1061
01:26:13,043 --> 01:26:14,044
No excuses.

1062
01:26:14,128 --> 01:26:16,297
Come on, Liam. Come on!

1063
01:26:17,923 --> 01:26:19,091
(bottle clinks)

1064
01:26:21,844 --> 01:26:24,847
Exercise makes the day, Liam.

1065
01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:28,600
You coming in?

1066
01:26:29,393 --> 01:26:30,311
Of course.

1067
01:26:30,394 --> 01:26:31,520
Good man.

1068
01:26:32,021 --> 01:26:37,776
Now how, how, how, how do
you want to be credited?

1069
01:26:38,861 --> 01:26:40,112
How about author?

1070
01:26:40,196 --> 01:26:41,655
- (Sinclair chuckles)
- How's that?

1071
01:26:42,364 --> 01:26:44,700
It must have hurt you
when you saw "Rose Tree"

1072
01:26:44,783 --> 01:26:45,783
for the first time.

1073
01:26:45,826 --> 01:26:47,995
Of course, you wished it was yours.

1074
01:26:48,078 --> 01:26:50,289
I did too. He was better than both of us.

1075
01:26:50,372 --> 01:26:53,626
"Rose Tree" is mine. I wrote the book.

1076
01:26:54,293 --> 01:26:56,754
No, Felix wrote it.

1077
01:26:56,837 --> 01:27:02,009
You stole it, but I bet you
he came to you for advice,

1078
01:27:02,551 --> 01:27:04,386
and I bet you you crushed him.

1079
01:27:04,470 --> 01:27:06,096
He's my son.

1080
01:27:06,180 --> 01:27:08,265
I gave him every word of that novel,

1081
01:27:08,349 --> 01:27:10,809
and when he couldn't see it
through to the end, I did.

1082
01:27:12,895 --> 01:27:15,105
You know, I found the
original on his server

1083
01:27:15,189 --> 01:27:16,649
and I wiped it.

1084
01:27:16,732 --> 01:27:17,816
Yours too.

1085
01:27:17,900 --> 01:27:20,110
I threw the printout into the lake.

1086
01:27:21,445 --> 01:27:22,529
Helene knows.

1087
01:27:23,989 --> 01:27:26,283
That's why she asked me
to write it and finish it.

1088
01:27:27,451 --> 01:27:29,328
Because she knew you'd ruin that novel.

1089
01:27:29,870 --> 01:27:31,455
She begged me to save it from you.

1090
01:27:31,538 --> 01:27:32,581
You're no writer.

1091
01:27:33,540 --> 01:27:35,167
That's not what your wife thinks.

1092
01:27:35,793 --> 01:27:37,336
You don't fucking know her.

1093
01:27:38,671 --> 01:27:40,256
I know what she tastes like.

1094
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:45,760
What?

1095
01:27:52,017 --> 01:27:54,937
(Sinclair groaning)

1096
01:27:57,690 --> 01:27:59,233
(water splashes)

1097
01:28:04,321 --> 01:28:05,990
(water burbling)

1098
01:28:24,758 --> 01:28:28,262
(Sinclair panting)

1099
01:28:28,345 --> 01:28:31,223
(water splashing)
(orchestral music continues)

1100
01:28:39,523 --> 01:28:40,816
You coward.

1101
01:28:40,899 --> 01:28:42,693
You fucking coward!

1102
01:29:00,210 --> 01:29:02,129
We'll get that seen to.

1103
01:29:02,212 --> 01:29:03,547
Get you some dry clothes.

1104
01:29:03,797 --> 01:29:06,425
(soft orchestral music) (water burbling)

1105
01:29:17,186 --> 01:29:19,855
(soft orchestral music continues)

1106
01:31:16,513 --> 01:31:19,391
(footsteps approaching)

1107
01:31:30,903 --> 01:31:32,029
Is he okay?

1108
01:31:35,157 --> 01:31:36,658
(Liam hisses)

1109
01:31:40,496 --> 01:31:42,372
I've read them both, and you were right.

1110
01:31:42,456 --> 01:31:44,249
Yours is the superior ending.

1111
01:31:46,752 --> 01:31:49,630
His is a great shame.

1112
01:31:51,423 --> 01:31:52,799
You can get started now.

1113
01:32:06,772 --> 01:32:09,149
I wanna thank you for
everything you've done.

1114
01:32:11,235 --> 01:32:13,612
You were perfect, remarkable even.

1115
01:32:15,948 --> 01:32:18,367
This is how the story goes.

1116
01:32:18,450 --> 01:32:22,287
My husband, after
completing his latest novel,

1117
01:32:23,497 --> 01:32:25,832
drowned himself in the
lake where his son died.

1118
01:32:27,668 --> 01:32:31,338
We'd been worried about him
and his drinking for a while.

1119
01:32:32,631 --> 01:32:36,426
We did all we could to save
him, but it was too late.

1120
01:32:40,973 --> 01:32:41,973
What?

1121
01:32:42,224 --> 01:32:44,643
And you, Liam, you were never here.

1122
01:32:48,897 --> 01:32:50,649
You signed an NDA.

1123
01:32:50,732 --> 01:32:52,252
If you choose to break your agreement,

1124
01:32:52,317 --> 01:32:53,527
there is another story.

1125
01:32:55,404 --> 01:32:58,699
Two witnesses can testify
to the murder of my husband

1126
01:32:59,449 --> 01:33:01,451
by an obsessive fan.

1127
01:33:01,535 --> 01:33:04,162
A would-be writer that took a teaching job

1128
01:33:04,246 --> 01:33:06,290
so he could be close to his idol.

1129
01:33:06,373 --> 01:33:09,418
And who snapped when his
hero told him something

1130
01:33:09,501 --> 01:33:10,501
he didn't like.

1131
01:33:12,963 --> 01:33:16,717
I don't want any kind of
scandal, but if I have to,

1132
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:19,761
I will make you the villain of this story.

1133
01:33:28,353 --> 01:33:29,938
This was never for Bertie.

1134
01:33:31,815 --> 01:33:33,900
I brought you here to get me the truth.

1135
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:38,363
And when I knew, my husband
was always gonna join my son

1136
01:33:38,447 --> 01:33:42,993
in the water, "Rose Tree"
will be their legacy.

1137
01:33:47,372 --> 01:33:48,540
The ending.

1138
01:33:52,294 --> 01:33:53,587
I wrote the ending.

1139
01:33:56,590 --> 01:33:57,883
You have to give me that.

1140
01:34:01,845 --> 01:34:03,555
I wrote the fucking ending.

1141
01:34:03,639 --> 01:34:07,351
And I'm grateful. That's
why I'm giving you a chance.

1142
01:34:08,769 --> 01:34:10,145
I'm going to call an ambulance,

1143
01:34:10,228 --> 01:34:12,230
and I don't wanna have
to explain your presence

1144
01:34:12,314 --> 01:34:13,315
when it arrives.

1145
01:34:14,066 --> 01:34:16,026
Much better that you never existed at all.

1146
01:34:19,613 --> 01:34:23,033
My version of events is the only version.

1147
01:34:24,493 --> 01:34:25,577
You can see that.

1148
01:34:33,627 --> 01:34:36,380
(somber orchestral music)

1149
01:34:40,967 --> 01:34:42,719
(fire crackling)

1150
01:36:11,975 --> 01:36:14,686
You have talent, you just needed a story.

1151
01:36:18,106 --> 01:36:19,232
Tell Bertie

1152
01:36:24,154 --> 01:36:25,405
don't tell Bertie.

1153
01:36:33,747 --> 01:36:35,624
The gates will close behind you.

1154
01:36:41,505 --> 01:36:45,592
(upbeat orchestral music continues)

1155
01:37:19,251 --> 01:37:21,545
(gravel crunching)

1156
01:37:33,431 --> 01:37:36,351
(gate squeaking and rumbling)

1157
01:37:46,069 --> 01:37:48,238
(sirens blaring)

1158
01:38:02,252 --> 01:38:05,839
(Liam laughing)
(upbeat orchestral music)

1159
01:38:25,317 --> 01:38:26,902
[Speaker] Hello.

1160
01:38:26,985 --> 01:38:29,988
Liam Somer's story of a
fading patriarch presiding

1161
01:38:30,071 --> 01:38:32,657
over a grief-stricken
family has been described

1162
01:38:32,741 --> 01:38:35,285
as one of the most striking
debuts of the year.

1163
01:38:36,828 --> 01:38:39,915
Here with us to discuss his
first novel is the author.

1164
01:38:42,542 --> 01:38:44,169
Thank you for joining us, Liam.

1165
01:38:46,630 --> 01:38:47,964
Thanks for having me.

1166
01:38:48,048 --> 01:38:51,176
(upbeat orchestral continues)