Ned Rifle

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Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Rifle family.
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Transcript
00:00:00O God, Thy humble servant, in all assaults of the enemy,
00:00:04that I, surely trusting in Thy defense,
00:00:07may not fear the power of the adversary,
00:00:11that the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
00:00:14be always acceptable in Thy sight.
00:00:17O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
00:00:30O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.
00:00:40Hi, Claire.
00:00:52Excuse me, Reverend.
00:00:53The news is on.
00:01:01Good morning.
00:01:02Good morning.
00:01:04Well, the big news of the hour is once again,
00:01:07you guessed it, Faye Grimm.
00:01:09Look, Ned, it's the lady terrorist, Faye Grimm.
00:01:13Hey, gotta make it look like you did some work around here
00:01:16today, Derek.
00:01:17The suburban single mom from Woodside, Queens,
00:01:19convicted of treason and sentenced to a lifetime
00:01:22in prison without hope of parole,
00:01:24is finally being transferred from a secret U.S. military
00:01:27detention center and placed in a federal penitentiary
00:01:30in upstate New York.
00:01:31Should have killed that slut when they found her.
00:01:34Gave the taxpayers a whole lot of money.
00:01:38So, Lisa, what's the feeling there on the ground?
00:01:41Well, Bob, there's a sizable crowd of protesters
00:01:44out by the road chanting for Faye's execution.
00:01:47But by and large, the community here is simply curious.
00:01:51I say being in prison her whole life long,
00:01:54best thing that ever happened to that girl.
00:01:56She goes out on the street, somebody bound her in the head
00:01:58with a baseball bat or something.
00:01:59Chuck, can you see what the problem is
00:02:01with the girl's laboratory?
00:02:02Right away, Reverend, right away, just on my way.
00:02:04You ladies have a nice day now.
00:02:07The poor woman.
00:02:08Mary, pull yourself together.
00:02:11She's a traitor to the nation, an international terrorist.
00:02:15She's Ned's mother.
00:02:16Yes, well, of course this wouldn't be the first time
00:02:19that a perfectly decent, God-fearing,
00:02:21sober-minded person like Ned has risen up
00:02:23and escaped from such moral ruin.
00:02:25I think she's innocent.
00:02:26She's been convicted, Mary.
00:02:28Mistakes have been made before.
00:02:29Anyway, Ned's been traumatized by all this.
00:02:32It's a miracle he's as well-adjusted as he is.
00:02:35Has he decided yet?
00:02:37I believe so.
00:02:38He's 18 today.
00:02:39He's free to leave witness protection if he chooses.
00:02:42What do you suppose he's thinking about?
00:02:44Me.
00:02:45Keep dreaming, Claire.
00:02:46He smiled and said hello.
00:02:47You're the minister's daughter for crying out loud.
00:02:49He lives in your house.
00:02:51I bet he's had sex and everything.
00:02:53No, he's chaste, I'm certain.
00:02:55Do you really think he'll leave now that he's 18?
00:02:57I hope not.
00:03:05But, Mama, why is Ned in witness protection anyway?
00:03:07Claire, you know we can't discuss those things.
00:03:09This plate is chipped.
00:03:10See if there's another one.
00:03:12Not even now?
00:03:13Now when he's about to leave?
00:03:14Well, really, is he leaving?
00:03:16That's what everybody says.
00:03:17What everybody says, I see.
00:03:19Well, why don't you ask him yourself?
00:03:20Here, he comes now.
00:03:22That was great, Mrs. Gardner.
00:03:25There's more.
00:03:26No, thanks.
00:03:27I'm stuffed.
00:03:28Derek, what did I tell you?
00:03:29No mobile devices at the table.
00:03:30He'll let that lady terrorist go today.
00:03:32You mean Faye Grimm.
00:03:33They didn't let her go.
00:03:34They just moved her.
00:03:35Enough.
00:03:36Derek, help your sister bring out the coffee and dessert.
00:03:41I'm sorry.
00:03:42At least I know where she is now.
00:03:44So you've decided?
00:03:48Yes.
00:03:49Are you sure you want to return to that, well, that life?
00:03:57She's my mother.
00:04:01Happy birthday.
00:04:04Wow.
00:04:06Claire made it.
00:04:07Thank you, Claire.
00:04:09I don't know if it'll be any good or anything.
00:04:11I'm sure it is.
00:04:12It's chocolate.
00:04:13What should I wish for?
00:04:14No, it's gotta be secret.
00:04:15Does it?
00:04:16No, Claire, that's just superstitious.
00:04:18Alice, what do you say?
00:04:19The secret things belong to the Lord, our God.
00:04:21Claire?
00:04:22Ecclesiastes?
00:04:24No, judges.
00:04:25Sit down.
00:04:26Go ahead, Ned.
00:04:27Wish away.
00:04:28I wish.
00:04:30I wish this family the peace, the happiness, and the security
00:04:36it has provided me these past four years.
00:04:39Forever and ever.
00:04:41Amen.
00:04:42Amen.
00:04:43Amen.
00:04:45Dad.
00:04:46Oh, yes.
00:04:47Ned, this is just a little something from all of us.
00:04:51Don't open it now.
00:04:52Happy birthday.
00:04:54Thank you all.
00:04:55It's a Bible.
00:04:56Derek.
00:05:15Our thoughts go with you, and our hopes also.
00:05:40Wow, Claire.
00:05:45I wish you wouldn't leave.
00:05:47I know that.
00:05:48You're an important and loved member of this community.
00:05:51Besides, there's work here for you, if you want it.
00:05:53A career, maybe even the ministry.
00:05:55I believe you have a true calling.
00:05:57I've prayed on it, Reverend.
00:05:59I'm not sure it's for me.
00:06:03I know, as you do, that I've made mistakes and discretions.
00:06:09That young lady from Florida, in particular.
00:06:11We're all human, sir.
00:06:13Temptation exists.
00:06:15Yes, but I owe you my life for your help
00:06:17in covering up that disgraceful and tragic episode.
00:06:20Make your peace with God, Reverend.
00:06:22You're too good a man to be brought low
00:06:24by a mistake of that kind.
00:06:26In any event, your secret is safe with me.
00:06:35Don't spend it all in one place.
00:06:37Thank you, Reverend.
00:06:39I'll pay this back in time.
00:06:40No rush.
00:06:42You'll retain your new identity, your new name?
00:06:44Yes.
00:06:49What are your intentions?
00:06:53I'm going to find my father.
00:06:57I see. Of course.
00:06:59And what then?
00:07:01What will you do when you find your father?
00:07:05I'm going to kill him.
00:07:08I'm going to kill him for destroying my mom's life,
00:07:12for leading her astray,
00:07:14away from the light and the power and the glory that is God.
00:07:19I learned it here, sir, and I thank you for the knowledge.
00:07:30I was going to thank her with peace.
00:07:34I was going to thank her with peace.
00:07:39I'm sorry, Reverend, but that's not likely.
00:08:03I'm sorry.
00:08:26Hold it, son. No sudden movement.
00:08:28Appropriate physical contact only.
00:08:33Right?
00:08:41You're so tall, and you've got color.
00:08:45Your hair is darker.
00:08:48Do you have a girlfriend?
00:08:50Maybe. I don't know.
00:08:52Ha! Play in the field. Good.
00:08:54Be careful, though, okay?
00:08:56I'm chaste, Mom.
00:08:57You're what?
00:08:59I'm a virgin.
00:09:02It's what God wants.
00:09:04We should remain chaste until marriage.
00:09:08Mom, it's okay.
00:09:11You religious?
00:09:14There's a better way to live.
00:09:16Yeah, well, tell me about it.
00:09:18But how are you?
00:09:23This place is a barrel of laughs compared to where I was.
00:09:27At least you're allowed to see people, talk to people.
00:09:30I do yoga.
00:09:32I'm starting a book club.
00:09:34Oh, and a big publishing company paid me a million dollars for my autobiography.
00:09:37You know, suburban single mom terrorist sort of thing.
00:09:40They're sure to be a bestseller.
00:09:42Are they allowed to do that?
00:09:43Well, no, I'm not allowed to earn money myself.
00:09:45But they've set up an account for you.
00:09:47Simon has all the details.
00:09:49So you're writing the story of your life?
00:09:51Not me, exactly. No.
00:09:53They send this graduate student chick over once a week who's supposed to be a genius or something.
00:09:57She asks me questions and records it all.
00:09:59She does all the work.
00:10:01Mom, forgive me, but...
00:10:04You're not a terrorist, right?
00:10:06How can you ask me that?
00:10:08You're just like totally falsely accused, correct?
00:10:11Yeah, well, of course.
00:10:15But...
00:10:19I did some stupid things.
00:10:22I was confused.
00:10:24I lied about...
00:10:27About...
00:10:31Well, you see, Ned, there was, you know, a bomb.
00:10:34Mom, it's okay. I believe you.
00:10:37God, I'm such an idiot.
00:10:39No, you're not.
00:10:41Oh, what my life might have been if I never met your father.
00:10:44I know.
00:10:46I mean, apart from having you.
00:10:50Where is he now?
00:10:52Henry?
00:10:53Yes.
00:10:54Russia, I guess. Odessa, I think.
00:10:57After that, who knows? Who cares?
00:11:00Forget about him, Ned.
00:11:02He deserves to die for the trouble he's caused you.
00:11:05Oh, don't talk like that.
00:11:07Who deserves to die?
00:11:09There's a woman here, Florence.
00:11:11She shot and killed her husband and two little girls.
00:11:13Most days, she wants to die.
00:11:15But more and more, she's just this kind little woman who's happy to work all day in the laundry.
00:11:21What gets into people?
00:11:23The devil, probably.
00:11:27Okay, time's up.
00:11:30Go see your Uncle Simon.
00:11:32He's got the information about the publisher and the money.
00:11:34Okay.
00:11:35You'll come back soon, right?
00:11:36As soon as I can. I have to take care of something first.
00:11:38Don't forget me in here.
00:11:40I may have to be away for a while.
00:11:41Call me.
00:11:42Sorry, Ned. Time's up.
00:11:43Okay.
00:11:44Between 7 and 9 on Wednesday.
00:11:46I'm always here.
00:11:50I'm sorry.
00:12:21Okay.
00:12:32Hi.
00:12:33I'm here to see a friend of mine, Mr. Simon Grimm.
00:12:35Is he expecting you?
00:12:37I believe so.
00:12:42Yes, sir. Someone's here.
00:12:43A Mr.
00:12:44Edward Rifle.
00:12:46Mr. Rifle.
00:12:47Of course.
00:12:49Go to the fourth floor, room 423.
00:12:51It's the street side.
00:12:57Ned.
00:12:58Nice to see you. Thanks for visiting.
00:13:00I'm just revising my new material.
00:13:03A new poem?
00:13:04No, I'm through with all that.
00:13:06Working on my stand-up routine.
00:13:09You want to be a comedian?
00:13:10Yeah, why not?
00:13:11Am I not funny?
00:13:16Well, it's been a while, Uncle Simon.
00:13:18That's right.
00:13:19It's been a while,
00:13:20and real-life experience has taught me much
00:13:22that perhaps I'd overlooked
00:13:23as a poet laureate and cultural touchstone.
00:13:26People want a good laugh now and then, Ned.
00:13:28Trust me.
00:13:29Good old-fashioned slapstick humor,
00:13:31naughty innuendo,
00:13:32a few well-placed fart jokes,
00:13:34enough with the earnest reflection,
00:13:36the tragic but unifying elusiveness
00:13:38of the human spirit in modern times and so on.
00:13:40I'm through with it.
00:13:44Only now,
00:13:45after all this heartbreak and controversy,
00:13:48only now am I able to confront my inner clown.
00:13:54Look, Uncle Simon,
00:13:55my mom said you have some money for me.
00:13:57Oh, yeah, here it is.
00:13:59That's the bank card.
00:14:00The PIN number's on the post-it note.
00:14:02Thanks.
00:14:03So where exactly do you do this?
00:14:05Do what?
00:14:06Your stand-up comedy routine.
00:14:08Right here in front of the computer.
00:14:10I have a weekly video block.
00:14:11I'm about to post a new one,
00:14:12but I can't seem to get this joke right.
00:14:14Ah, that's Zach, my comedy coach.
00:14:17Excellent.
00:14:19Think funny.
00:14:20Hi, Zach. Come on in.
00:14:22Zach, this is my nephew, Ned.
00:14:24Ned?
00:14:25Zach.
00:14:26Think funny.
00:14:27Hey, you know, you guys have work to do,
00:14:29and I have to go get a room.
00:14:30I'll leave you to it for now.
00:14:31Talk to you later, Simon.
00:14:32See you later, kid.
00:14:34Have you got a room free?
00:14:36How many nights?
00:14:37Two.
00:14:38Three, maybe.
00:14:39Yeah, I can do that.
00:14:41Single, right?
00:14:42Right.
00:14:43Can I leave my suitcase here?
00:14:44Sure.
00:15:14Wow.
00:15:15That's a lot of money.
00:15:34Hey.
00:15:36Hey.
00:15:38Are you staying at the motel?
00:15:40Oh, I just sort of hang around there.
00:15:44Oh.
00:15:45Well, I'm sorry, but...
00:15:49I'm not interested.
00:15:50In what?
00:15:52In...
00:15:54whatever it is you're selling.
00:15:57Do you think I'm a prostitute?
00:16:07What do you want?
00:16:08What do you want?
00:16:10To meet Simon Grimm.
00:16:12Oh.
00:16:13That's why you hang around the hotel?
00:16:15He never leaves the building.
00:16:17I've been here for weeks.
00:16:18I did my graduate thesis on his poetry.
00:16:33Susan.
00:16:34Edward.
00:16:39Okay.
00:16:46He claims he's over poetry now and wants to do stand-up comedy.
00:16:49Of course.
00:16:50All the poets are doing that now.
00:16:51It's the new thing.
00:16:52Have you seen his blog?
00:16:54Not yet.
00:16:55Don't.
00:16:56It's bad, huh?
00:16:57It's perfectly harmless.
00:16:58Mind-numbingly attuned to the lowest common denominator of consumer entertainment.
00:17:02What do you want to talk to him about, then?
00:17:04Are you familiar with his work?
00:17:05Grimm's?
00:17:06Yes.
00:17:07A little.
00:17:08I sometimes work for his comedy coach, Zach.
00:17:11He's a jerk.
00:17:13Zach?
00:17:15I asked him to introduce me to Grimm and he insisted on sexual favors.
00:17:18No.
00:17:19And afterwards, he still refused to introduce me.
00:17:25You're not well.
00:17:27I got caught in the rain yesterday.
00:17:30Where do you stay?
00:17:32Oh.
00:17:33Around.
00:17:35Do you have a room for my friend here?
00:17:37She's your friend?
00:17:38Yes.
00:17:39I'm paying.
00:17:40He thinks I'm a prostitute, too.
00:17:41Now you're the Poet Laureate stalker.
00:17:43Ex-Poet Laureate.
00:17:44She wrote a book about him.
00:17:47I have no singles left.
00:17:48This place doesn't seem so busy.
00:17:50Still no singles.
00:17:51You got the last one.
00:17:52I do have a double, though.
00:17:55Does that mean two beds?
00:17:57Two single beds.
00:18:00That okay with you?
00:18:04Okay.
00:18:05Okay.
00:18:33Where's that comedy coach of yours?
00:18:35I fired him.
00:18:37Yeah?
00:18:38I don't think Zack knows the first thing about being funny.
00:18:40And you do?
00:18:43You appear to doubt my comic chops.
00:18:46Simon.
00:18:48What are you doing?
00:18:49I want to be popular and liked.
00:18:51Like everybody else.
00:18:52But you're not popular.
00:18:53And it takes most people a while to get to know you before they like you.
00:18:57And once they like you, they tend to love you.
00:18:59Yeah, but I can change that.
00:19:01Why?
00:19:02Have you read my poetry?
00:19:03Yeah.
00:19:04Well, no.
00:19:05Not really.
00:19:06But I'm not that into poetry.
00:19:08But that's just it.
00:19:10Shouldn't I be doing something that a hip young guy like yourself is interested in?
00:19:13Am I hip?
00:19:15Well, I don't know.
00:19:16Aren't you?
00:19:17You're young.
00:19:18Simon, if you're all set on chucking poetry,
00:19:20don't waste your time trying to be a stand-up comic.
00:19:23Set your eyes on the straight and narrow.
00:19:26And give yourself to Jesus.
00:19:29You're not just trying to be funny now, are you?
00:19:31No.
00:19:32Of course not.
00:19:34Well, this is new.
00:19:36You found God?
00:19:38Look, I have a friend downstairs who wants to meet you.
00:19:43Is this an intervention?
00:19:44A what?
00:19:45Am I going to be baptized or something?
00:19:47No.
00:19:49She knows all about your poetry.
00:19:51She wants to give you a copy of her dissertation.
00:19:53It's the least you can do, I think, really.
00:19:58Okay.
00:20:00Bring her up.
00:20:01Tomorrow.
00:20:02She's sleeping.
00:20:03Now,
00:20:05any ideas about where my father might be?
00:20:08Seattle.
00:20:10Hundreds of people follow my blog,
00:20:12and many of them write in and post comments.
00:20:15Henry, who seems to work at or used to work at a certain bookstore in Seattle,
00:20:20writes in weekly and assassinates my character in increasingly elaborate ways.
00:20:25I think more people follow my blog to read him.
00:20:28I'm going to see my stand-up routine, honestly.
00:20:32Okay.
00:20:38You're not going to try and save Henry for Jesus, are you?
00:20:42And what if I am?
00:21:01Amen.
00:21:08O Lord, give unto Thy servant that peace that the world cannot give,
00:21:13that my heart may be set to obey Thy commandments,
00:21:16that through Thee I remain constant of purpose and fearless of the enemy.
00:21:20Lighten my darkness, O Lord, I beseech Thee,
00:21:23and by Thy mercy defend me from the perils and dangers of this night.
00:21:27For the love of Thy only Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ.
00:21:30Amen.
00:21:41You said ten o'clock?
00:21:43Any time after ten.
00:21:45How do I look?
00:21:47Great.
00:21:49What are you all dolled up for?
00:21:50You're just going to be talking about poetry and literature.
00:21:53I don't look like a slut, do I?
00:21:54No.
00:21:55Really?
00:21:56Yeah. It's just...
00:21:57I don't...
00:21:58Well...
00:22:01I don't know anything about literature.
00:22:04That's right, you don't.
00:22:08See you this afternoon.
00:22:09Good luck.
00:22:17She went up to the court lawyer ten minutes ago.
00:22:19We're okay with the room, right?
00:22:20Two more nights.
00:22:21Okay, thanks.
00:22:22You want me to tell her anything?
00:22:24No.
00:22:25Make sure she knows the room's hers.
00:22:28We're at the airport.
00:22:29Okay.
00:22:32I've always read the poems, even and especially the later ones,
00:22:37as an evocation of the joys and sorrows of influence.
00:22:41The evolution of one's own manner of perceiving
00:22:44and inevitably expressing the world to oneself and to others.
00:22:48The sadness of breaking with the cherished attitudes
00:22:51inherited from the friendly, encouraging,
00:22:55but ultimately limited sources that must be outgrown.
00:22:59Please go on.
00:23:01I recognize that voice.
00:23:03The...
00:23:05tempter, the challenger,
00:23:08the seducer,
00:23:10the friend.
00:23:11Yes.
00:23:12I use the term antagonist to start with,
00:23:15but it's more fluid than that.
00:23:17I could never find the right word for how he feels to be with.
00:23:20It's actually more like being inspired by the wind,
00:23:26the rain,
00:23:28a sickness,
00:23:29some other uncontrollable element,
00:23:31demonic.
00:23:33You seem to know Henry better than I do.
00:23:36It's expressed better in the body of the text itself,
00:23:38but that is, I think, it generally.
00:23:41It was difficult to get out from the shadow he cast.
00:23:45There was always something apt
00:23:46about his most unreasonable ranting and raving
00:23:48that kept me from dismissing his input entirely.
00:23:51His own failures, his own ineptitude, his delusions.
00:23:55This I came to see were my lens onto the world.
00:23:58It provided a material out of which
00:23:59to shape an image of that world as I endured it.
00:24:02It was as if it were a mirror.
00:24:04It was as if it were a mirror to me.
00:24:06It provided a material out of which
00:24:07to shape an image of that world as I endured it.
00:24:10Endured it?
00:24:12I merely endured the world
00:24:13until my friend Henry showed me one could do otherwise.
00:24:16It was the same with me.
00:24:17Excuse me?
00:24:18I mean, of course, through the reading of your poetry,
00:24:22how you rendered him and his influence upon you.
00:24:26I'm moved by how intimately you've engaged in my poetry.
00:24:30It means the world to me.
00:24:33And I was so afraid I might be totally mistaken.
00:24:35What do you want? A documentary? A YouTube feed?
00:24:37A series of tweets? Whatever you want, just ask.
00:24:40Stop doing your blog.
00:24:42Oh.
00:24:43The stand-up thing is awful.
00:24:45Wow.
00:24:46Decisive, committed, admittedly obscure.
00:24:50Work indifferent to mainstream approval
00:24:52and unafraid of confrontation with moral and aesthetic absolutes.
00:24:56This, more than you might imagine,
00:24:57is what keeps people from jumping out windows and under trains.
00:25:01Adding to mass cultural self-congratulation
00:25:04is, of course, its own reward.
00:25:05Cheap, immediate, and disposable as it is.
00:25:11Sorry.
00:25:14So you think it's okay for me to be unpopular?
00:25:16Oh, I think it's necessary.
00:25:19You're an unusual person.
00:25:20I have few friends.
00:25:24I hope I haven't hurt your feelings.
00:25:26No.
00:25:30I hope we can talk again soon.
00:25:32But I have to ask, are you religious as well?
00:25:35As well?
00:25:36As Ned, my nephew who introduced us.
00:25:39You mean Edward?
00:25:40We call him Ned.
00:25:43Young Mr. Rifle?
00:25:45That's my mother's maiden name.
00:25:46He was advised to remain incognito.
00:25:48The son of Fay Grimm?
00:25:49And Henry Fool.
00:25:51You're leaving?
00:25:52Oh, I just...
00:25:54Forgot I have to do something.
00:25:56And no, I'm not religious.
00:25:58Sorry. Thank you so much.
00:26:01Come back soon.
00:26:02I will.
00:26:04Where's my friend, Mr. Rifle?
00:26:06The room is paid for for the next two nights.
00:26:08Where's he gone?
00:26:09I saw him hail a cab.
00:26:10And?
00:26:12He might have said something about LaGuardia Airport.
00:26:32What are you doing here?
00:26:34My meeting with Simon Grimm was amazing.
00:26:36Thank you so much for setting it up.
00:26:38Sure, sure.
00:26:40But you didn't have to come all the way out here to thank me.
00:26:42I mean, the room's paid up for a couple of nights.
00:26:44I know, but I like you.
00:26:46Oh, man.
00:26:47Do you have a girlfriend?
00:26:48Stop.
00:26:50I know I'm a little older than you, but I'm fun.
00:26:52And I know a bunch of different languages.
00:26:54And I don't do drugs.
00:26:56And...
00:26:57Why Seattle?
00:26:59I have some business to do there for Simon Grimm.
00:27:01You don't work for Zach anymore?
00:27:03No.
00:27:16Dad?
00:27:18Dad?
00:27:29Toothpaste?
00:27:30Soap?
00:27:31Shampoo?
00:27:33Look at these towels.
00:27:35You look fine.
00:27:37Really?
00:27:39You have no clothes but what you're wearing?
00:27:41No.
00:27:42But I can get these laundered here.
00:27:44Is that okay?
00:27:45Go buy yourself some things.
00:27:47I have to go meet someone.
00:27:49Tomorrow you can take me to the bookstore.
00:27:51How long will you be?
00:27:53Hard to tell.
00:27:55Don't wait up.
00:28:15I'll be right back.
00:28:45Okay.
00:29:12Hey.
00:29:13So listen wise guy.
00:29:14Like I was saying last week.
00:29:15Hey, hold on.
00:29:16What?
00:29:17Did Ned come to see you yet?
00:29:18Yeah, he did.
00:29:19Hasn't he gotten tall?
00:29:21He's like, you know, a man and everything.
00:29:23And he's Christian.
00:29:24Yeah, right?
00:29:26Where does he get that from, I wonder?
00:29:28Apparently he's lived with a devout family these past four years.
00:29:30You see, Simon, that's what I mean.
00:29:32He's so damn impressionable, that kid.
00:29:34But anyway, I think it's you he gets that from.
00:29:36Me?
00:29:37I haven't been inside a church since you married Henry.
00:29:39Yeah, but it's how, like, people discuss you and everything.
00:29:41You're this...
00:29:42This weird kind of moral compass in a society
00:29:44half convinced of its own worthlessness.
00:29:48You don't sound like yourself.
00:29:50Who have you been talking to?
00:29:52Oh, this graduate student the publisher hired
00:29:54to write my autobiography was here the other week.
00:29:56She's got a truckload of ways to say how you've influenced
00:29:58the zeitgeist and everything, Simon.
00:30:00Really, I was impressed.
00:30:02But then I told her how I always had to get you
00:30:04out of fights in high school and...
00:30:06Hey, listen, I need to talk to you about something important.
00:30:08Oh, and like my autobiography is not important?
00:30:10No, of course it is.
00:30:12Faye, did Henry ever tell you about the girl
00:30:14he went to prison for having sexual relations with?
00:30:16You mean the 13-year-old girl he sexually molested?
00:30:18Well, okay, yes.
00:30:20No.
00:30:22Her name was Susan.
00:30:24Do I really have to hear this?
00:30:26Yes, because I believe I met this girl, Susan, yesterday.
00:30:28What?
00:30:30I mean, she's a woman now, of course.
00:30:32She's written this remarkable study of my work,
00:30:34or at least that aspect of my work which she feels,
00:30:36and I must admit she's onto something here,
00:30:38that aspect of my poetry that centers on my friendship
00:30:40with Henry.
00:30:42I mean, there's no unprovocative reading of these poems,
00:30:44and...
00:30:46No, I mean, I mean this graduate student
00:30:48who's writing the story of my life.
00:30:50Her name is Susan, too.
00:30:52What does she look like?
00:30:54Early 30s, skinny, addicted to lipstick.
00:30:56And the lipstick is not on, you know, correctly.
00:31:00Exactly.
00:31:02She's kind of helpless.
00:31:04Where did you meet her?
00:31:06Well, that's the thing.
00:31:08She was introduced to me by Ned.
00:31:10Uh-oh.
00:31:12She talked about my poems in a way
00:31:14that only a person could if they knew Henry intimately.
00:31:16You said she was with Ned?
00:31:18He introduced her to me.
00:31:20And were they, like, together?
00:31:22I think so.
00:31:24You know he's chased, right?
00:31:26Chased?
00:31:28Yeah, I mean, you know, that, like...
00:31:30I know what chase means, Faye.
00:31:32Well, what do you think she's up to?
00:31:34It's hard to say.
00:31:36I hope she's not a psycho killer or anything.
00:31:38We was really enjoying our time together.
00:31:40I'll talk to your publisher and see what I can find out.
00:31:42Okay.
00:31:50I'll be over in Erotica if you need me.
00:31:53Whatever.
00:31:58Yeah?
00:32:00Looking for a friend of mine who I think used to work here.
00:32:02An older guy named Henry.
00:32:04Henry?
00:32:06Loudmouth.
00:32:08Troublemaker?
00:32:10Drunkard. Thief.
00:32:12I don't know him anymore.
00:32:14But he's around?
00:32:16As far as I know, he's always at the topless bar down the block
00:32:18with his pal Bud,
00:32:20who's also not allowed in here anymore.
00:32:22You gonna buy that?
00:32:27This is it, I guess.
00:32:29Wait here.
00:32:31There's no way you're 21, buddy.
00:32:33Oh, wait. I just need to go in and find somebody.
00:32:35No matter, man. I can't let you in.
00:32:37I'll go.
00:32:39What's his name?
00:32:40Well, but she can go in.
00:32:42Dude, it's a gentleman's club, okay?
00:32:44Smoking babe's always welcome.
00:32:46I used to dance here.
00:32:48No, when?
00:32:50You were just a child.
00:32:52Talk dirty to me.
00:32:54What's his name?
00:32:56Bud.
00:32:58Bud? You looking for Bud?
00:33:00Right at the bar.
00:33:10I can't.
00:33:12Not now.
00:33:14I'm working.
00:33:17Dude, it's nothing personal.
00:33:19What?
00:33:21It's just the law.
00:33:23There's a law higher than the law.
00:33:25Really?
00:33:27You think I'd ever want to go into a place like this
00:33:29if I didn't have to?
00:33:31I see. I was mistaken.
00:33:33Sorry, man.
00:33:35Ned, this is Bud.
00:33:37Bud, this is Ned.
00:33:40You want to talk to me?
00:33:42Yeah.
00:33:44About what?
00:33:46Henry.
00:33:49Buy me lunch.
00:33:51No problem.
00:33:53And like, I'm gonna need some booze.
00:34:03I send him his reading material.
00:34:05Books I steal from the library over here.
00:34:07Where? Where do you send the reading material?
00:34:08He took this job as a, I don't know,
00:34:10test case for some drug company
00:34:12or something down outside of Portland, Oregon.
00:34:14You have the address, the name of the place?
00:34:16Ashbrook Pharmaceuticals.
00:34:18Hey, you ain't like,
00:34:20you don't owe any money or nothing, right?
00:34:22No.
00:34:24You didn't impregnate your sister or nothing?
00:34:26I'm a friend.
00:34:28He's my teacher and shit. I gotta watch his back.
00:34:30Yeah? What did he teach you?
00:34:32Taught me to write.
00:34:34Poetry, I guess.
00:34:36Damn straight. I was just a garbage man
00:34:38I have to go.
00:34:40What about my booze?
00:34:42My friend will be here with it any minute now.
00:34:44She a girl?
00:34:46No.
00:34:48Because I think she sort of digs me.
00:34:50Yeah, I think so too, so just wait here.
00:34:52And listen, don't tell her what we talked about, okay?
00:34:54Done.
00:34:56Or where I'm headed.
00:34:58Double done.
00:35:09Mr. Grimm.
00:35:11Yes, hello, I'm Simon.
00:35:13Such an unexpected pleasure, really.
00:35:15Thank you for seeing me on such short notice.
00:35:17Not at all, please.
00:35:19Come on in.
00:35:21Simon Grimm.
00:35:23I thought he was dead.
00:35:25I know.
00:35:31Wow, you're a cypher, Sorax.
00:35:33Where's Ned?
00:35:35Ned, Ned who? Who's Ned?
00:35:36Come on, bud, we're friends, right?
00:35:38Oh yes, I've been writing a poem about you, even.
00:35:40So you have to tell me where Ned's gone.
00:35:42But this poem you see requires a certain creature of detail.
00:35:45The currency of lived experience, so to speak.
00:35:48What's it about, this poem?
00:35:50Your thigh.
00:35:52Which one?
00:35:54Wow.
00:35:56Now there's an idea.
00:35:58Bud, concentrate.
00:36:01This one.
00:36:03You want to touch it?
00:36:04I have to.
00:36:06How long?
00:36:08Sixty seconds is the structural prerequisite of my poetic expression.
00:36:12A formalist.
00:36:14Interesting.
00:36:16But where has Ned gone?
00:36:18Ashbrook Pharmaceuticals, Portland, Oregon.
00:36:21Okay, let's do it.
00:36:23I'm interested in the young woman you've hired to ghostwrite my sister's autobiography.
00:36:27Susan.
00:36:29It's caught my attention. She's written a quite thorough analysis of my own work.
00:36:32Ah, yes.
00:36:34Well, so you know about this then?
00:36:37I was impressed.
00:36:39Really? You've read it?
00:36:41Yes, I'd like to know more about her.
00:36:43She'd been writing movie reviews for a long time.
00:36:46She's a great writer.
00:36:48She's a great writer.
00:36:50She'd been writing movie reviews for a small citywide entertainment guide.
00:36:54She developed quite a following because, well, because no matter what she was reviewing,
00:36:59it always came around to a discussion of your poetry.
00:37:02I see.
00:37:04It's quite hilariously obsessive.
00:37:06But well written.
00:37:08One couldn't fault the grammar, but the irony was a bit too intense for me.
00:37:10Nevertheless, she became popularly associated with you and Fay, the infamous Grimms.
00:37:14So when I had this idea for the Fay autobiography, I thought, of course,
00:37:16get this well-read fringe iconoclast to ghost it.
00:37:20But that turned out to be more difficult than I anticipated.
00:37:23Why?
00:37:25Because she was, as I should have expected, in a mental hospital.
00:37:30Ah.
00:37:32Olive, tell Simon here about Susan.
00:37:35She, um, presented her dissertation at Columbia University and...
00:37:40Go ahead.
00:37:41Well, Mr. Grimm, it was, of course, a dissertation on your poetry.
00:37:45I understand.
00:37:48They refused outright to grant her a diploma, and apparently she had a nervous breakdown
00:37:54and stabbed her academic advisor.
00:37:56So, she's violent.
00:37:59Turns out she's been in and out of psychiatric care since she was 13.
00:38:02The charges were eventually dropped.
00:38:04She's a loaded pistol, Simon, and I like that.
00:38:08Comes across in her prose, biting.
00:38:09Precise and, well, yes, obsessive.
00:38:12When will you see her next?
00:38:14Us? Oh, we never see her.
00:38:16She transcribes her interviews with Fay each week,
00:38:18reworks them into chapters, and emails them to me.
00:38:20We're about a third of the way through the book.
00:38:22It's incendiary.
00:38:24It'll be huge.
00:38:26We're negotiating with the penitentiary to get a photo shoot done with Fay.
00:38:28Esquire's on board, maybe GQ, Vanity Fair.
00:38:30And the controversy is more than likely to generate a renewed interest in even your work, Mr. Grimm.
00:38:35Good thinking, Olive.
00:38:37Simon, who are you with these days?
00:38:39Anyone?
00:38:47Fay, you have a visitor?
00:39:10Please have a seat.
00:39:20My name is Daniel, Reverend Gardner.
00:39:23Ned may have mentioned me to you.
00:39:26Yes.
00:39:28If I may say so, Fay, Ned is like a son to me.
00:39:32Me too.
00:39:35Fay, I believe Ned intends to do something terrible.
00:39:38Oh, man.
00:39:41He loves you very much.
00:39:43Of course he does.
00:39:46What do you mean by that?
00:39:48It means he'll kill the man he thinks is responsible for your incarceration.
00:39:57Henry?
00:39:59Fool.
00:40:01With an E?
00:40:02Could be.
00:40:04The man you describe is here.
00:40:07Can I see him?
00:40:09You say he's your father?
00:40:11Yes.
00:40:13He's been here for a little over a year.
00:40:15He replied to an ad we placed asking for volunteers in the testing of certain drugs we were developing.
00:40:21However, we were advised to cease experimenting with these particular medications,
00:40:25but by then, unfortunately, Henry had begun to exhibit side effects.
00:40:29Like what?
00:40:30Well, there are certain physio-optical manifestations.
00:40:35He sees things?
00:40:37Yes.
00:40:39Which, of course, is not entirely unusual under the circumstances of the experiment, but...
00:40:42Well, anyway, he has no legal right to compensation in that regard.
00:40:46However, there is the issue of his delusions,
00:40:50typically a symptom of mental disorder,
00:40:53which, honestly, we should have done due diligence in detecting before we agreed to have him participate.
00:40:58This, you see, could expose the laboratory to legal action.
00:41:03And what's his delusion?
00:41:05He believes, apparently with perfect sincerity, that he is...
00:41:11well, the devil.
00:41:14Are you okay?
00:41:16It's all right.
00:41:23Yes, sir?
00:41:24Have you seen that young woman around? The young lady who hangs out down here?
00:41:28That would be her stalker, Mr. Grimm.
00:41:30Well, yeah, I guess so. Susan?
00:41:32She left yesterday, following the young man.
00:41:34Young man?
00:41:36Mr. Rifle.
00:41:38Where?
00:41:40To the airport. In fact, Mr. Grimm, you have another visitor.
00:41:45As delusions go, it's a remarkable narrative.
00:41:49For it to be perfectly accurate, he claims he's the devil's number one assistant.
00:41:52Or was.
00:41:54He was born into the human realm in 1591 to one riot...
00:41:58Can you draw him out?
00:42:00Our lawyers have indicated that would cast a bad light on our situation.
00:42:03Let me talk to him. I'll convince him to leave. On his own.
00:42:07We don't look so good all of a sudden.
00:42:12Oh, man.
00:42:15Is this a problem?
00:42:20I'll be with you in a minute.
00:42:22Okay.
00:42:28What are you doing here?
00:42:30I'm supposed to help you.
00:42:34I didn't ask you to.
00:42:48I'm sorry.
00:42:50You don't look good. What's wrong?
00:42:52I was up all night driving. I haven't slept.
00:42:55What happened to your hand?
00:42:57Look, my father's a patient in here.
00:43:01I haven't seen him since I was a little kid.
00:43:07Okay.
00:43:09I'll stay here. Do what you have to do.
00:43:12I'm okay right here.
00:43:14Mr. Rifle, they're ready for us.
00:43:23Okay.
00:43:42Don't be taken in.
00:43:44He's a great tragic actor.
00:43:46Drama never stops. Just wait here.
00:43:50Auf Wiedersehen, mademoiselles.
00:43:52I can't afford it. Is it Thursday already?
00:43:54Henry, who were those women?
00:43:56Local pilgrims seeking wisdom.
00:43:58Whoa! Hold on.
00:44:00You dismantled the alarm on the fire door again.
00:44:02Look, I have to smoke someplace.
00:44:04I know where you live, asshole.
00:44:06Who's the winsome tart with the humorless youth over there?
00:44:08Henry, please.
00:44:10Doctor, I can't work under these conditions.
00:44:12I don't know exactly why you insist on remaining here.
00:44:18Thank you for this information, Reverend.
00:44:20Of course.
00:44:22I'll reach him before he does anything irreparable.
00:44:28It's him.
00:44:30You sure?
00:44:32Yes.
00:44:34And you'll talk to him?
00:44:36I'll come back tomorrow.
00:44:38I'll only tell him to expect a visitor.
00:44:40I'll leave the rest to you.
00:44:53Come on.
00:44:55They gave me the name of a motel down the road.
00:45:13I'm sorry.
00:45:15We actually only have one single room available.
00:45:17Okay.
00:45:19A double is okay.
00:45:20Yeah, we don't have any doubles either.
00:45:22In fact, we just have the one room.
00:45:24A single.
00:45:46Come on, get some sleep.
00:45:48No, I have to.
00:45:50I have to go.
00:45:54I have to go.
00:45:56You have to go pray?
00:45:59Yeah.
00:46:02You have to tell me about that one day.
00:46:06What's to tell?
00:46:10How it feels to have someone listening.
00:46:13Defend me, O God, thy humble servant,
00:46:16in all assaults of the enemy,
00:46:19that I, surely trusting in thy defense,
00:46:24may not fear the power of the adversary.
00:46:28Let the words of my mouth
00:46:30and the meditation of my heart
00:46:32be always acceptable in thy sight,
00:46:35O Lord, my strength and my redeemer.
00:46:42Amen.
00:47:12I love you.
00:47:43You want to come in and take a shower
00:47:45and brush your teeth?
00:47:47What? Yeah, sure.
00:47:49You should have slept with me.
00:47:51I wouldn't have done anything scandalous, I promise.
00:47:54Got the key?
00:47:56I've got your purse.
00:48:12I'll see you later.
00:48:33How, may I ask, have I offended thee?
00:48:36Why ask me that?
00:48:38It's just something written here.
00:48:40A lovely phrase, I think.
00:48:42Where's the young lady?
00:48:44What is all this?
00:48:46History. European, mostly. Renaissance.
00:48:48And some remarkably incriminating correspondence
00:48:50between the Vatican and the Spanish king
00:48:52from the early 16th century.
00:48:54No one's ever thought to put it all in order.
00:48:56Some local antiquarian died
00:48:58and his moronic heirs donated it to this place.
00:49:01Imagine.
00:49:03You don't recognize me?
00:49:05No. Should I?
00:49:09I'm your son.
00:49:10Listen, kid, I have lots of offspring.
00:49:12They're, you know, legion.
00:49:14You gotta do better than that.
00:49:16I'm Ned.
00:49:28FaZe kid.
00:49:30Yeah.
00:49:41I suppose you've come to kill me.
00:50:07I hear she's got a life sentence.
00:50:08No parole, all that.
00:50:10Why did she come looking for me?
00:50:15She thought your life was in danger.
00:50:18People were trying to kill you.
00:50:20You should have talked her out of it.
00:50:22She thought she was doing it for my sake.
00:50:24For your sake?
00:50:26Yeah.
00:50:28Like I needed a father figure or something.
00:50:30I'm a wanted criminal.
00:50:32A known felon.
00:50:34A murderer.
00:50:36I mean, you're a murderer.
00:50:38I mean, I'm not apologizing,
00:50:40but really, I know why.
00:50:42I mean, really, why?
00:50:44I hope I don't offend you, son,
00:50:46but your mother has very complicated,
00:50:48perverse, and deeply repressed sexual needs,
00:50:50which I, in my generosity,
00:50:52was able to intuit and satisfy.
00:50:54She's never gotten over it.
00:50:56Sue me.
00:50:58You gonna drink that?
00:51:02You, as it turns out,
00:51:04are the fruit of that liberation.
00:51:06A son of the devil.
00:51:08You've been talking with Dr. Ford.
00:51:17Listen, Ned.
00:51:19Can I call you Ned?
00:51:21I've got these mercenary quacks by the cojones
00:51:23like nobody's business.
00:51:25I mean, really, these guys are stinking of sin.
00:51:27You?
00:51:29I am, in fact,
00:51:31suffering certain definite side effects
00:51:33from this amalgamation of chemicals
00:51:35they were feeding me,
00:51:36the effects of which are not even...
00:51:39Did you see that?
00:51:42No.
00:51:45The point is,
00:51:47this is not really a bad place.
00:51:49What with the library here
00:51:51and the park and the regular meals,
00:51:53all I've got to do is pretend I'm insane
00:51:55once or twice a week
00:51:57and tell them this cock-and-bull story
00:51:59about being the devil or whatever.
00:52:01This cache of Renaissance lit
00:52:03has provided me with a treasure trove
00:52:04of names.
00:52:06These assholes are terrified.
00:52:09Look.
00:52:11Mom wants me to get you out of here
00:52:13and bring you home.
00:52:15Home?
00:52:17How can we have a home
00:52:19when she's in prison the rest of her life?
00:52:21She wants me, you, and Uncle Simon
00:52:23to live nearby and go visit her all the time.
00:52:25I'm sorry.
00:52:27I'll do anything for Faye,
00:52:29but I can't live with Simon.
00:52:31That man is a disgrace.
00:52:33Really?
00:52:35Yeah.
00:52:37She said so herself
00:52:39that Simon couldn't have written a thing
00:52:41if not for you.
00:52:43Well, that's right.
00:52:45Exactly.
00:52:47That ungrateful climber.
00:52:49And now with this blog
00:52:51and the sketch comedy,
00:52:53where will it end?
00:52:55It hurts to witness this.
00:52:57Who does he think he is, Jerry Lewis?
00:52:59I've got...
00:53:01I've got a passage in here somewhere
00:53:03about, you know,
00:53:05about Simon's passive-aggressive will to power,
00:53:07and here it is.
00:53:09No.
00:53:11Well, it's not about Simon,
00:53:13but it pertains.
00:53:15Anyway, I need someone
00:53:17to help me get all this in order.
00:53:19Can you type?
00:53:21No. So are you coming?
00:53:23How will we get there?
00:53:25I am, as it were, a wanted man.
00:53:27We'll drive.
00:53:28Cross-country?
00:53:30Yeah.
00:53:32Will the young lady be coming?
00:53:34Probably.
00:53:36Is she your girlfriend?
00:53:39We're just friends.
00:53:41I'm warning you, kid.
00:53:43Exterior's notwithstanding,
00:53:45girls just sort of can't resist me.
00:53:47That must be a major hassle.
00:53:49I just don't want any unnecessary resentment,
00:53:51if you know what I mean.
00:53:53This all you got?
00:53:55I'll need my own room.
00:53:56Wait up. I gotta get dressed.
00:54:16Where are we?
00:54:18I thought you said the motel was just down the road.
00:54:20It's not far.
00:54:22To be fair, Simon's third and fourth books were pretty good,
00:54:24and I hadn't seen them in years.
00:54:26Of course, being in exile and everything,
00:54:28it's clear he allowed himself to be influenced
00:54:30by the dynamics of his own notoriety, so to speak.
00:54:32Can you hold that farther away?
00:54:35Don't you agree?
00:54:37About what?
00:54:39Simon's third and fourth books.
00:54:41I don't read poetry.
00:54:43What do you read?
00:54:45I read what really matters.
00:54:47What, you mean like the New York Times?
00:54:49No.
00:54:51No shit. You're a God-fearing man.
00:54:53You got a problem with that?
00:54:54No.
00:55:24Fuck.
00:55:54Coffee. Product.
00:55:56It's free.
00:55:58The donuts were fresh this morning.
00:56:00Fine.
00:56:02Come on, Simon.
00:56:04I'll be right there.
00:56:06Okay.
00:56:08I'll be right there.
00:56:10Take care.
00:56:12I'll talk to you later.
00:56:14I'll be right there.
00:56:16Bye.
00:56:18Bye.
00:56:20Bye.
00:56:21Bye.
00:56:22The doughnuts were fresh this morning.
00:56:24Hi.
00:56:25Oh, this is quaint, in a desperate sort of way.
00:56:28Ah, we meet finally.
00:56:30That's a fetching ensemble.
00:56:34There's free coffee products.
00:56:35Is there?
00:56:36And semi-fresh doughnuts.
00:56:37Excellent.
00:56:38Ned, are you going to introduce us,
00:56:39or did your mother teach you no manners at all?
00:56:41This is Susan.
00:56:43Fascinating.
00:56:43Come on, we're leaving.
00:56:46Soldier of God or not, that kid's
00:56:47got a hair across his ass.
00:56:50Yes, he's very devout.
00:56:52Maybe we should get some doughnuts for the road, huh?
00:56:55Can I hold that for you?
00:56:56Guard it with your life, young lady.
00:56:59Is this the confessions?
00:57:01I see my reputation has preceded me.
00:57:05I did my graduate dissertation on the work of Simon Grimm.
00:57:08Is that so?
00:57:09Yes, and because of that, I guess
00:57:12I was hired to ghostwrite your wife's autobiography.
00:57:15Oh, you're practically family.
00:57:17That's not sugar.
00:57:17That's sweet and low.
00:57:18The sugar's right there.
00:57:19Well, that's good.
00:57:21Fake hat spell to save her life.
00:57:23Do you type?
00:57:23Very well.
00:57:25And I'm a great copy editor.
00:57:26I can use some help with this.
00:57:27I'd love to.
00:57:29I mean, if that's OK.
00:57:30Good.
00:57:31It needs some.
00:57:33Oh, did you see that?
00:57:37No.
00:57:42You remind me of someone.
00:57:45Beep, beep.
00:57:46Beep, beep.
00:57:49Beep, beep.
00:57:52OK, OK.
00:57:53He hates me, of course.
00:57:55So embarrassingly Oedipal.
00:57:57Come on.
00:58:02So it's like this.
00:58:03In the infinite amplitude of his love,
00:58:05God wants to create the largest number of best elements
00:58:08that can exist together in one cosmos.
00:58:10OK, that's a spin on Leibniz.
00:58:11But the important part is next.
00:58:13Do I write that?
00:58:14No, hold on.
00:58:15In an instantaneous calculation made in eternity,
00:58:18God computes the best possible world and creates it.
00:58:20OK, fine.
00:58:21This decision, as it were, by God
00:58:24is uncontingent and eternal rather than temporally
00:58:27or ontologically sequential.
00:58:30What?
00:58:31Do you think that's the right word?
00:58:34Temporally?
00:58:35No, ontologically.
00:58:37What do you suggest?
00:58:39It's just that the nature of being
00:58:40is already the subject of the passage itself.
00:58:43I think you should move on from the idea of temporality
00:58:45to something more materially concrete.
00:58:48Spatiality, right.
00:58:50Or stop here for the night.
00:58:56Anyway, the point, Susan, it is impossible
00:58:58for every perfect good to be compatible
00:59:00with every other perfect good.
00:59:02The holiness of the mountain needs
00:59:04to be contrasted with the profanity of the used condom
00:59:06on the sidewalk, so to speak.
00:59:08Good image.
00:59:09Should I write that?
00:59:10The good of free will must entail real choices for sin.
00:59:18Something like that.
00:59:20We'll continue tomorrow.
00:59:35We need three single rooms, please.
00:59:37Uh-oh.
00:59:38I'm afraid we only have one single and a suite available.
00:59:41A suite?
00:59:42Two rooms, a full kitchen, and a jacuzzi.
00:59:45A class establishment, obviously.
00:59:47I once participated in the most fantastic group
00:59:49sex in a hot tub outside in the mountains
00:59:51while it was snowing.
00:59:52Where was that?
00:59:53Doesn't matter.
00:59:54How about you?
00:59:54He'll have the suite.
00:59:55We'll take the single.
00:59:56I'll be in the bar.
01:00:03What?
01:00:05You're flirting with my father.
01:00:11Am I?
01:00:13He's fun.
01:00:16Are you kidding me?
01:00:18He appreciates my ideas.
01:00:21I like the way he thinks.
01:00:23He's a degenerate.
01:00:25Give him three minutes alone, and he'd rape you.
01:00:29I don't think you know what you're talking about.
01:00:31Yeah, well, maybe you're right, seeing
01:00:34as I don't know what you're capable of yourself.
01:00:38What's that supposed to mean?
01:00:41Give me the bullet.
01:00:45What bullet?
01:00:54That's all the cash I have.
01:00:55Take it, get lost.
01:00:57You're not traveling with us.
01:01:02Is there a church around here?
01:01:04Lots.
01:01:04Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, a mosque.
01:01:09It doesn't matter.
01:01:10Catholic's right across the parking lot.
01:01:23I was wondering how long you'd be able to stand that guy.
01:01:26Get dressed.
01:01:27You have to get out of here.
01:01:27What are you talking about?
01:01:28The young Christian gentleman's paying for it all.
01:01:31There's a jacuzzi upstairs.
01:01:32The young Christian gentleman has
01:01:34every intention of killing you.
01:01:36Here's his gun.
01:01:38This is the bullet.
01:01:40I didn't think he had it in him.
01:01:41He does.
01:01:42I've heard him say his prayers.
01:01:44God's on his side, I suppose.
01:01:46Apparently.
01:01:47And so you mean to say Faye doesn't
01:01:49need my help with her memoir?
01:01:51Is that what he told you?
01:02:00That's low.
01:02:00You got any money?
01:02:02Yeah, I stole his bank card.
01:02:04He's got his pin code written on a post-it note and everything.
01:02:07Very generous of him.
01:02:08I know, right?
01:02:10You'd think a religion would help teach
01:02:11people how the ungodly operate.
01:02:13Let me get dressed.
01:02:15Take all the good stuff from the minibar.
01:02:33What have I done?
01:02:37I might have killed a man.
01:02:40But for this woman?
01:02:45Have you sent her?
01:02:47Placed her in my path to keep me from sin?
01:02:54I'll set everything right.
01:02:56I'll make amends.
01:03:03Jesus, I don't want to kill anyone.
01:03:14Wow.
01:03:16Lots?
01:03:17He's loaded.
01:03:19But we can only withdraw $400 a day.
01:03:33I really can't believe that sanctimonious little church
01:03:36mouse is my son.
01:03:37Forget about it.
01:03:38Where are we going anyway?
01:03:39I mean, New York, right?
01:03:41All points on the globe are equally dismal for me, Susan.
01:03:44Unwanted, unappreciated, despised even by my own son.
01:03:48We can make it in maybe three or four days,
01:03:50depending on when Ned unclogs our credit line.
01:03:52I called ahead and reserved a motel room
01:03:54just this side of Spokane.
01:03:56I don't know if I can make it.
01:03:57I don't know if I can make it.
01:03:58I don't know if I can make it.
01:03:59I don't know if I can make it.
01:04:00I reserved a motel room just this side of Spokane.
01:04:02They have a restaurant, you think?
01:04:04No, but the rooms have kitchens.
01:04:06Ned.
01:04:07Simon.
01:04:08I almost did a real bad thing.
01:04:10Your mother thought you might.
01:04:11Mom?
01:04:12How?
01:04:13She received a visit from the Reverend Gardner.
01:04:16Oh, man.
01:04:18Have you found Henry?
01:04:19Yes.
01:04:20Is he with you now?
01:04:22No.
01:04:23I lost him.
01:04:24He disappeared again.
01:04:25He ran off with some woman I was traveling with.
01:04:27Susan?
01:04:29Yeah.
01:04:30Ned?
01:04:32How much do you know about your dad's early years?
01:04:34More than I want to.
01:04:36Well, he spent some time in prison.
01:04:38Right.
01:04:39That much I got.
01:04:41Do you know why he was in prison?
01:04:43Mom said he hadn't paid his taxes or something.
01:04:45No.
01:04:46Henry was in jail for seven years
01:04:48because he was caught in flagrante delicto
01:04:50with, as he once told me in confidence,
01:04:52an ugly and mean-spirited 13-year-old girl named Susan.
01:04:57You think this is that Susan?
01:04:59I'm certain of it.
01:05:00I've read her dissertation.
01:05:01It's a long, wild, passionate encomium to Henry.
01:05:04A what?
01:05:05And she's ghostwriting your mom's autobiography.
01:05:07No way.
01:05:08That's her?
01:05:09She's obsessed with Henry.
01:05:10Oh, damn it.
01:05:11Then let them be.
01:05:12They're both nuts anyway.
01:05:13He's an idiot.
01:05:14She's a floozy.
01:05:15They both read too much.
01:05:16They're made for each other.
01:05:17I'm coming home.
01:05:18But she might do him harm.
01:05:20You think?
01:05:21She's been in and out of psychiatric hospitals
01:05:23her whole life,
01:05:24and she stabbed a man in college
01:05:25when they refused to let her graduate.
01:05:30What was your impression?
01:05:34She's armed.
01:05:37Is she?
01:05:43Ned, you've got to find them.
01:05:46I know.
01:05:47Susan's brilliant, and she's a good person,
01:05:49but she's totally fucked up.
01:05:50I know.
01:05:51I could probably say the same thing about your dad,
01:05:53but I suspect you don't want to hear that right now.
01:05:55You're right, Uncle Simon.
01:05:56I don't want to hear that right now.
01:05:57Listen, I'll call you tomorrow.
01:06:01Stateside Mutual Customer Service.
01:06:03How can I help you?
01:06:04Yeah, my bank card has been stolen.
01:06:06Would you like me to cancel the card?
01:06:08Yes.
01:06:09And...
01:06:10Wait.
01:06:11Excuse me?
01:06:12Will you be able to tell me where the card was last used?
01:06:15Of course.
01:06:16The exact time and location.
01:06:17Okay.
01:06:18Don't cancel the card just yet.
01:06:19Really? Are you sure?
01:06:20I'll call back in a few hours.
01:06:22A lot of damage can occur in a few hours, sir.
01:06:24I know.
01:06:25We should get some booze.
01:06:27Can you get me some rum, please?
01:06:29There's a liquor store across the parking lot.
01:06:31Rum, huh?
01:06:32And whatever you're drinking.
01:06:33I'll get something to cook.
01:06:34What do you smoke?
01:06:35Whatever.
01:06:36Fairport lights are okay.
01:06:40An embarrassment of riches.
01:06:43An embarrassment of riches.
01:07:03We'll need a knife.
01:07:12All set.
01:07:14Anything else?
01:07:15Ice cubes.
01:07:16I'll get napkins.
01:07:18Oh, and lemonade.
01:07:40Susan?
01:07:42Susan?
01:07:53Rum, lemonade, and Fairport lights.
01:07:56These were your preferred poisons at 13.
01:08:00Why didn't you come back for me?
01:08:01What?
01:08:02I waited.
01:08:03They put me in jail for seven years.
01:08:06But I was 20 by the time you got out.
01:08:08I wasn't allowed into the state of Ohio
01:08:10until I'd gotten permission from some office of the governor,
01:08:12and only then if I could prove I had gainful employment.
01:08:14Look, Susan, I paid dearly for our little afternoon of bliss.
01:08:18I really did think my parents were away for the weekend.
01:08:20I had no idea they would come back.
01:08:23Oh, Susan.
01:08:24Susan, what my life might have been if I'd never met you.
01:08:28I'm sorry.
01:08:29Please don't apologize.
01:08:31What's done is done, and I shouldn't have done it.
01:08:33I wanted you to.
01:08:34You were 13.
01:08:35You didn't know what you wanted.
01:08:38I did.
01:08:39I did know what I wanted.
01:08:40Susan, it's like I've been trying to get at.
01:08:42There is sin in this world.
01:08:44I haven't worked it out perfectly yet,
01:08:45but if there is such a thing as sin,
01:08:46it comes down to this,
01:08:47taking advantage of innocence.
01:08:49I was not innocent.
01:08:50How dare you say that?
01:08:51You were the only one I wanted.
01:08:53Yes, the only one stupid enough to succumb
01:08:55to the advances of an overweight and perspiring adolescent
01:08:58with bad teeth.
01:09:00What happened?
01:09:03I grew up.
01:09:04You got a nice ass.
01:09:06I had braces until I was 26.
01:09:08You could use a few pounds, though.
01:09:10I was anorexic for a while.
01:09:12No.
01:09:13I'm okay now.
01:09:14And it wasn't so bad because I was in a hospital anyways.
01:09:17What kind of hospital?
01:09:19The kind for crazy people.
01:09:21Oh, no.
01:09:22No, it wasn't like that.
01:09:23They thought I was crazy because I was in love with you.
01:09:26Well, they were right.
01:09:27I was the janitor at your junior high school.
01:09:29You turned me on to Lautremont.
01:09:31Did I?
01:09:32Enver Lane, Rimbaud.
01:09:34Really?
01:09:35All the French symbolists.
01:09:36Of course, I outgrew them, but they were formative.
01:09:39Yeah, well, but still, there are limits.
01:09:41I mean, there are laws, even.
01:09:44Hi, it's me again.
01:09:45Edward Reiffel.
01:09:46Oh, yes, Mr. Reiffel.
01:09:48The card was used near Spokane 45 minutes ago
01:09:52at a supermarket on Route 47.
01:09:55That was the best day of my life.
01:09:59It was astonishing.
01:10:00I mean, at least until your father was standing there
01:10:03and the police arrived.
01:10:04I remember every moment of it.
01:10:07I put myself to sleep at night for years,
01:10:10replaying it again and again.
01:10:13Every touch.
01:10:15Each thrust.
01:10:17The taste of your dirty fingers in my mouth.
01:10:21How I clutched the bedspread and drooled.
01:10:29Now we can be together.
01:10:31You and me, finally, without any interference.
01:10:36Is that what you want?
01:10:40More than anything in the world.
01:11:02Pervert!
01:11:06And so you stabbed the guy?
01:11:08All semester long, he's encouraging me to revise
01:11:11and to annotate and insisting we meet after class
01:11:14to discuss and, well, of course, fuck.
01:11:17And then he totally goes along with the other department heads
01:11:20and dismisses the dissertation as not worthy of consideration.
01:11:23What's his for?
01:11:24The tomatoes.
01:11:25You still hungry?
01:11:26Not really.
01:11:27Good.
01:11:28The tomatoes.
01:11:29You still hungry?
01:11:30Not really.
01:11:31Give me your glass.
01:11:34These self-satisfied pundits,
01:11:36who themselves received master's degrees
01:11:38for writing college papers
01:11:40on post-Marxist third-generation feminist apocrypha or whatever,
01:11:45now have these high-paid tenured positions
01:11:47lockstep with college policy,
01:11:49pushing only commercially sustainable mass cultural phenomena,
01:11:53proudly detailing the most profitably impermanent trends
01:11:56as critically relevant societal indicators
01:11:58for the next really cool Facebook ad, etc.
01:12:01I mean, am I repeating myself?
01:12:04God, I love it when you get all fired up and indignant like this.
01:12:11Fuck me.
01:12:26Fuck me.
01:12:36Hello, ladies.
01:12:37Welcome to the first meeting of the Penitentiary Book Club.
01:12:40Since we're all going to be here for, well, like, the rest of our lives,
01:12:44I figured we should start out with some really big books.
01:12:47Like these.
01:12:52Don Quixote by Cervantes.
01:12:54941 pages.
01:12:58War and Peace, Tolstoy.
01:13:001,443 pages.
01:13:05By Miserato.
01:13:06They made a musical out of this one.
01:13:08By Victor Hugo.
01:13:091,232 pages.
01:13:11Older man, young woman.
01:13:14Yeah, high heels. That's right.
01:13:24Dad's home!
01:13:35Good morning.
01:13:38You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
01:13:40Are you by any chance headed toward the city of Spokane?
01:13:43Well, yeah, sort of.
01:13:45I'd appreciate a lift, if you'd be so kind.
01:13:48Absolutely not.
01:13:50Amelia, please.
01:13:51Just drop me anywhere along the road in that direction.
01:13:54Thanks.
01:14:21Look, young man, we don't want any trouble around here.
01:14:47I'm just looking for my friends.
01:14:52Henry?
01:14:53I can't do this to her again.
01:14:55I'll get off here.
01:14:56There's nothing here for miles.
01:14:58Yeah, but I gotta take a shit.
01:14:59Dear God almighty.
01:15:00The filth that comes out of this man.
01:15:02Let him go.
01:15:03Let him go.
01:15:04Let him go.
01:15:11I don't want to cause any trouble.
01:15:13I'm just gonna wait here in the car till my friends wake up.
01:15:18Okay?
01:15:21Okay.
01:15:51Dad.
01:16:22Lemonade 25.
01:16:26Save her.
01:16:34No.
01:16:35Please.
01:16:51No.
01:17:21Lemonade 2526, 105 yards.
01:17:52Dad?
01:17:53Dad?
01:17:54Dad?
01:17:55Dad?
01:17:56Dad?
01:17:57Dad?
01:17:58Dad?
01:17:59Dad?
01:18:00Dad?
01:18:01Dad?
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01:18:05Dad?
01:18:06Dad?
01:18:07Dad?
01:18:08Dad?
01:18:09Dad?
01:18:10Dad?
01:18:11Dad?
01:18:12Dad?
01:18:13Dad?
01:18:14Dad?
01:18:15Dad?
01:18:16Dad?
01:18:17Dad?
01:18:18Dad?
01:18:19Dad?
01:18:21Dad?
01:18:22Dad?
01:18:23Dad?
01:18:35Run.
01:18:36I'm sorry.
01:18:48No.
01:19:06.
01:19:11.