0:00:02 > 0:00:10This film contains very strong language.
0:00:16 > 0:00:19MUSIC: "Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan
0:00:24 > 0:00:27# A worried man with a worried mind
0:00:27 > 0:00:30# No-one in front of me and nothing behind
0:00:30 > 0:00:32# There's a woman on my lap
0:00:32 > 0:00:35# And she's drinking champagne
0:00:38 > 0:00:42# Got white skin Got assassin's eyes
0:00:42 > 0:00:45# I'm looking up into the sapphire tinted skies
0:00:45 > 0:00:47# I'm well dressed
0:00:47 > 0:00:50# Waiting on the last train
0:00:53 > 0:00:57# Standing on the gallows with my head in the noose
0:01:00 > 0:01:05# Any minute now I'm expecting all hell to break loose
0:01:07 > 0:01:10# People are crazy Times are strange
0:01:10 > 0:01:14# I'm locked in tight I'm out of range
0:01:14 > 0:01:16# I used to care but
0:01:16 > 0:01:19# Things have changed. #
0:01:48 > 0:01:51"The young girl sat perfectly still in the confessional,
0:01:51 > 0:01:57"listening to her father's boots scrape like chalk on the ancient steps of the church,
0:01:57 > 0:02:00"then grow faint, then disappear altogether.
0:02:00 > 0:02:02"She could sense the priest..."
0:02:02 > 0:02:06'On that particular Friday afternoon last February,
0:02:06 > 0:02:11'I was reading a story to my advanced writers' workshop by one James Leer,
0:02:11 > 0:02:15'junior lit major and sole inhabitant of his own gloomy Gulag.'
0:02:15 > 0:02:19"She bit the flesh of her lip, closed her eyes.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21"Mute."
0:02:25 > 0:02:28'James's stories were as sunny as his disposition.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30'I was distracted.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34'Maybe it was to do with the fact that my wife had left me that morning.'
0:02:34 > 0:02:36So, anyone...
0:02:36 > 0:02:39'Maybe not. Wives had left me before.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44'As usual, James's classmates, aware of the writer's inherent vulnerability,
0:02:44 > 0:02:48'offered their sensitive, gentle opinions.'
0:02:48 > 0:02:51I mean, Jesus! What is it with you Catholics?
0:02:51 > 0:02:54LAUGHTER All right. All right.
0:02:54 > 0:02:57Let's try to be constructive here, shall we?
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Howard, what about you?
0:02:59 > 0:03:04I hated it. His stories make me want to kill myself.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08That's not exactly what I meant by being constructive.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13Yes, Hannah?
0:03:13 > 0:03:16I think maybe we're missing the point.
0:03:16 > 0:03:21'Hannah Green, a talented writer who rented a room in my house, and I knew her to be
0:03:21 > 0:03:26'insightful, kind and compulsively clad in red cowboy boots.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29'I had never once seen her without them.'
0:03:29 > 0:03:33He respects us enough to forget us, and that takes courage.
0:03:33 > 0:03:35Well put, Hannah.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38And a good note to end on, I think.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43Don't forget Wordfest this weekend. And those of you who are driving VIPs to the cocktail party this evening
0:03:43 > 0:03:48should have them at the Chancellor's house no later than 5.30.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53Thank you for that. Is he all right?
0:03:56 > 0:03:59I think so. How about you?
0:03:59 > 0:04:01Me? Yeah. Why?
0:04:02 > 0:04:04Just checking.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Turn off the light, please.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24'It felt good to be in the car, alone, where I could clear my head.
0:04:29 > 0:04:35'Tonight was the opening of Wordfest, the university's annual three-day gabathon for writers and wannabes.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39'My editor, Terry Crabtree, was flying in for the event.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43'He alone had championed my last novel, Arsonist's Daughter.
0:04:43 > 0:04:46'Its critical success had put us both on the map.
0:04:46 > 0:04:51'But that was seven years ago, and I still hadn't finished my follow-up.
0:04:51 > 0:04:55'I knew Terry didn't care about Wordfest. He was coming to town
0:04:55 > 0:04:58'to get a look at my long overdue book.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01'I had to keep him at bay.'
0:05:03 > 0:05:07- Ah, Tripp. - Crabtree, how are you, my friend?
0:05:07 > 0:05:10- Good to see you, Tripp. - Let me help you with this.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Say hello to my new friend
0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Miss Antonia... - Sloviak.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Nice to meet you. This way.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21- I invited Antonia to the festival. - The more the merrier.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25Terry was telling me about you on the plane. It was so interesting.
0:05:25 > 0:05:30I was explaining what you do as a writer, what I do as an editor.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33I sweat blood for five years and he corrects my spelling.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- Exactly what he said. - We know each other pretty well.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40And actually it's seven years.
0:05:40 > 0:05:45You know how many times I've boarded an airplane praying some gal like her is sitting beside me?
0:05:45 > 0:05:49- She's a transvestite.- You're stoned! - She's still a transvestite.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52- So, how's the book? - Er...
0:05:52 > 0:05:57it's fine. It's done, basically. I got a little tinkering still to do.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Great. Great. I was hoping I could get a look at it over the weekend.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05- I'm at a critical juncture. - I thought you were tinkering.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Well, I am, but I got details to work on and...
0:06:10 > 0:06:14I'm not gonna pressure you. I mean, I get pressure, you know? I get...
0:06:15 > 0:06:17Know what I mean?
0:06:17 > 0:06:21What the hell in the hootenanny d'you suppose that would be?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23That would be a tuba.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Did you actually purchase this car?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33No. I got it from Jerry Nathan. He owed me some money.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36He owes God money. Including my commission on his faux novel.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41Your perfume, Antonia, that wouldn't happen to be Cristalle, would it?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Um, yes, it is. How did you know?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Lucky guess.
0:06:47 > 0:06:52'The Wordfest kickoff party was always held at Sara and Walter Gaskell's house.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56'She was the chancellor, which meant she oversaw the university.
0:06:56 > 0:07:02'Her husband, Dr Gaskell, was the chairman of the English department, which meant he oversaw me.'
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Isn't that a nice greenhouse?
0:07:08 > 0:07:13- It's Mrs Gaskell's. It's her hobby. - I thought you were her hobby.
0:07:13 > 0:07:15Piss off, will you? I lost a wife today.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18Ah, you'll find another. She'll be young, beautiful.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20They always are.
0:07:24 > 0:07:27Oh, hello, everyone. Terry, good to see you again.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30Chancellor, don't you look ravishing?
0:07:32 > 0:07:33Easy!
0:07:33 > 0:07:38Oh, I'm sorry. It's these goddamn shoes. I don't know how anyone can walk in them.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Practice.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43I don't believe we've met.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45- Antonia Sloviak. - GROWLING
0:07:45 > 0:07:47Poe.
0:07:47 > 0:07:48Poe.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Poe!
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Stop it! Poe!
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- That wouldn't be Walter's dog? - POE! - DOG BARKS
0:07:55 > 0:07:59- Who's he barking at now? - Still barking at me. He's blind.
0:07:59 > 0:08:01Stop this.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Honestly!
0:08:03 > 0:08:07- I need to talk to you. - I need to talk to you, too.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Help me take these coats to the upstairs guest room.
0:08:10 > 0:08:13I'd be happy to, if I knew where the upstairs guest room was.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16I could show you.
0:08:16 > 0:08:17Terry?
0:08:17 > 0:08:22Yeah. We'll make ourselves at home. Poe can show us around. Thanks.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35- That's new, isn't it? - Walter just got it from the framer.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39You first.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42HE SIGHS This morning...
0:08:42 > 0:08:44I'm pregnant.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50I'm sure.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Well, that's...
0:08:58 > 0:09:01that's very surprising.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Does Walter know that, er...?
0:09:05 > 0:09:09I think Walter would find this a little more than surprising.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20Emily left me this morning.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22She's left before.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27She's left the room before but she's always come back.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32So...
0:09:33 > 0:09:38I guess we just divorce our spouses, marry each other and have this baby, right?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40Simple.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43Yeah. Right. It's simple, ain't it?
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Is that Cristalle?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Uh-huh.
0:09:52 > 0:09:56Oh, God! I wear the same scent as a transvestite.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59She is a transvestite, isn't she?
0:09:59 > 0:10:03If she's not now, Terry will make sure she is by the end of the night.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06Has he asked you about the book yet?
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Yes.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10And?
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Are you gonna tell him?
0:10:14 > 0:10:17No. Maybe. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Me, either.
0:10:22 > 0:10:27DiMaggio's record of hits in consecutive games is probably the most impressive feat in sports,
0:10:27 > 0:10:30and will never be broken.
0:10:30 > 0:10:35- Come here, big guy. - His condition's so sad. - But even blind he still gets around.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37'I don't drink.
0:10:37 > 0:10:42'Normally. But this was turning out to be one fucked up day.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46'And now I found myself in close proximity to Sara's husband
0:10:46 > 0:10:48'and his dog, Poe.'
0:10:48 > 0:10:51- I see you've met my friend. - She's charming.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53'Despite his Harvard education,
0:10:53 > 0:10:57'Dr Walter Gaskell didn't have a clue about his wife and me.'
0:10:57 > 0:11:02DiMaggio represented, metaphorically, husband as slugger.
0:11:02 > 0:11:07Poe had been on to me since day one. DOG GROWLS
0:11:07 > 0:11:11..Every woman in some way desires to be Marilyn Monroe.
0:11:11 > 0:11:13Oh, I couldn't agree more.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16I've had a lot of success...
0:11:16 > 0:11:18'Q.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21'Q was rich. Q was famous.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24'Q completed a novel every 18 months.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26'I hated him!'
0:11:26 > 0:11:31My finest work vanished in less than five. So I find myself conflicted.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35Ask him if he's conflicted about his house in the Hamptons.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37- Grady. - Well.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39Q, for your information,
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Hannah has two stories published in the Paris Review,
0:11:42 > 0:11:45so you better dust off your A material.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48You didn't tell me you were a writer.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50You didn't ask.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53- And the adaptation? - More literary than cinematic.
0:11:53 > 0:11:56Grady? Douglas Triddley. Amherst.
0:11:56 > 0:12:01I've had Arsonist's Daughter on my graduate studies syllabus three years running.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04No wonder it's still in print.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Long time since Arsonist's Daughter.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26There you are.
0:12:26 > 0:12:32I could have sworn I had a bottle of 1975 Lafite Rothschild for Q.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36Given that he's addressing 500 people in less than an hour...
0:12:36 > 0:12:39- You wanna keep Q happy. - If he's happy, I'm happy.
0:12:43 > 0:12:44CLICK
0:12:58 > 0:13:00James?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05It's fake.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09It was my mother's. She won it in a penny arcade
0:13:09 > 0:13:12in Baltimore when she went to Catholic school.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Well, that's very convincing.
0:13:16 > 0:13:22I used to shoot these little paper caps. But they don't make them any more. It's just for good luck.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Some people carry rabbit's feet.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27You carry firearms.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33No, thank you. I don't like to lose control of my emotions.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37I'm not supposed to be here, in case you're wondering.
0:13:37 > 0:13:43But the other night I was out with Hannah at the movies, and she asked me, so I ended up coming, too.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46You and Hannah, you're seeing each other?
0:13:46 > 0:13:49- No! What gave you that idea? - James, relax.
0:13:49 > 0:13:54- I'm not her father. I just rent her a room.- She likes old movies like I do, that's all.
0:13:54 > 0:13:59- What's the movie you guys saw? - Son Of Fury, with Tyrone Power and Frances Farmer.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03She went crazy, Frances Farmer.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06So did Jean Tierney. She's in it.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09- Sounds like a good one. - Wasn't bad.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15You're not like my other teachers, Professor Tripp.
0:14:15 > 0:14:17You're not like my other students, James.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20Look, James,
0:14:20 > 0:14:23about this afternoon at workshop, I'm sorry.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27- I let things get out of hand. - They really hated it.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31- I think they hated it more than any of the other ones.- Well...
0:14:31 > 0:14:33It only took me an hour.
0:14:33 > 0:14:36Really? That's remarkable.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39I have trouble sleeping,
0:14:39 > 0:14:43and while I'm lying in bed, I figure them out, the stories.
0:14:43 > 0:14:44HE SHIVERS
0:14:44 > 0:14:47- You cold, James? - A little.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50Why don't we go inside?
0:14:50 > 0:14:53It's colder in there.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55I guess you're right.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57Actually, I saw the greenhouse.
0:14:57 > 0:15:02I thought I'd come outside and take a look at it. Looks like heaven.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05Looks like heaven?
0:15:05 > 0:15:07I saw a movie once.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Part of it took place in heaven. Everyone wore white,
0:15:11 > 0:15:13lived in crystal houses like that.
0:15:13 > 0:15:15I really should be going.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22- Goodbye, Professor Tripp. - Hey, James?
0:15:22 > 0:15:26James, don't go. No. There's something I want you to see.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29I'll miss my bus.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31It's worth it.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33Trust me.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Let me help you.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42Thank you, dear. Thank you.
0:15:42 > 0:15:44C'mon.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Hey, you two.
0:15:50 > 0:15:54- James, are you riding with me? - I'm going home.- He's going with me.
0:15:54 > 0:15:57Why don't you take Crabtree and his friend? All right?
0:15:57 > 0:16:01- All right.- Where are they? - Here we are.
0:16:02 > 0:16:04Hmm. Well,
0:16:04 > 0:16:06hello there.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08James,
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- this is my editor, Terry Crabtree. - James.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15- James'll know about George Sanders. - George Sanders?
0:16:15 > 0:16:18Mr Crabtree said he killed himself only couldn't remember how.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22Pills. April 25, 1972, in a Costa Brava hotel room.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24How comprehensive of you.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28James knows all the movie suicides. Tell 'em.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30- There are so many. - The big ones.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Pier Angeli,
0:16:33 > 0:16:361971 or '72, also pills. Donald "Red" Barry
0:16:36 > 0:16:39shot himself in 1980. Charles Boyer, 1978,
0:16:39 > 0:16:43pills again. Charles Butterworth, 1946, I think. In a car.
0:16:43 > 0:16:48Supposedly it was an accident but, you know, he was distraught.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Dorothy Dandridge, pills, 1965. Albert Dekker, 1968.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55He hung himself. Wrote a suicide note on his stomach.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59William Inge, carbon monoxide, 1973. Carole Landis, pills.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03I forget when. George Reeves, Superman on TV, shot himself.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07Jean Seberg, pills, of course, 1979. Everett Sloane...he was good.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Pills. Margaret Sullavan, pills.
0:17:10 > 0:17:16Lupe Velez, a lot of pills. Gig Young. He shot himself and his wife in 1978. There are tons more.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- I don't know half. - You did 'em alphabetically.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22- Just how my brain works, I guess. - Fascinating.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25Come out with us. There's this place I get Tripp to take me.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28- I wanna go home. - Don't be silly.
0:17:28 > 0:17:34No-one your age just wants to go home. Besides, faculty will be present. Consider it a field trip.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59- Is that really it? - That's really it.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02The one she wore on her wedding day.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05So I'm told.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Go ahead.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Really?
0:18:10 > 0:18:12Really.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26She was small.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29Most people don't know that.
0:18:30 > 0:18:33The shoulders are so small.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Looks so perfect.
0:18:39 > 0:18:43I'll bet it's the only time she wore it,
0:18:43 > 0:18:45that day.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47She must have felt...
0:18:47 > 0:18:49so happy.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55Must have cost Dr Gaskell a lot.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57I guess.
0:18:57 > 0:19:02Walter never tells the truth about how much he pays for these things.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06You're really good friends with the Chancellor, aren't you?
0:19:08 > 0:19:10Pretty good.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13I'm friends with her husband, too.
0:19:13 > 0:19:17I guess you must be if you know the combination to his closet
0:19:17 > 0:19:21and he doesn't mind you being in here, in their bedroom.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Right.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24DOOR CLOSES
0:19:24 > 0:19:27DISTANT VOICES
0:19:34 > 0:19:37Stay close to me in case it gets slippy, OK?
0:19:37 > 0:19:39We better skedaddle.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41James...
0:19:49 > 0:19:51You all right, James?
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Oh,
0:19:54 > 0:19:57I'm sorry, Professor Tripp.
0:19:58 > 0:20:00Maybe it's...
0:20:01 > 0:20:05..seeing that jacket that belonged to her.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09It just looks really lonely...
0:20:10 > 0:20:13..hanging there in a closet.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Maybe I'm just a little sad tonight.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24I'm a little sad tonight, too, James.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27You mean with your wife leaving you, and all?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Hannah mentioned something about it.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40Yeah, well, it's complicated, James.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44I think we should go now.
0:20:52 > 0:20:55SNIFFING
0:20:58 > 0:21:00DOG SNIFFS
0:21:01 > 0:21:05DOG GROWLS
0:21:11 > 0:21:14DOG SNIFFS AND GROWLS
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Easy. Easy. Good boy,
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Poe. Good boy. Easy, Poe.
0:21:21 > 0:21:22Easy.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Good dog.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Christ! Get off!
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Sonofabitch! Get off!
0:21:34 > 0:21:35BANG
0:21:35 > 0:21:37BANG
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Shit, James!
0:21:51 > 0:21:54You shot Dr Gaskell's dog!
0:21:55 > 0:22:00- But I had to, didn't I? - You could have pulled him off me.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03No. The dog was crazy. He was attacking you!
0:22:03 > 0:22:07Calm down, James. Don't freak out, all right?
0:22:10 > 0:22:12OK. All right.
0:22:12 > 0:22:17Do you have a mirror? It's the best way to see if someone's breathing.
0:22:17 > 0:22:19The dog is dead. Believe me.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22I know a dead dog when I see one.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Shit! Oh.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29What are we supposed to do now?
0:22:30 > 0:22:34First, you're gonna give me that little cap gun of yours.
0:22:34 > 0:22:36C'mon.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43Professor Tripp, what are we gonna do with...
0:22:43 > 0:22:45it?
0:22:47 > 0:22:52I don't know. I'm still trying to figure out how to tell the Chancellor I murdered her husband's dog.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54You?
0:22:54 > 0:23:00When a pet's been killed, the owner does not want to hear that one of her students was the trigger man.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03Does she want to hear it was one of her professors?
0:23:06 > 0:23:08I've got tenure.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12Er, hang on.
0:23:20 > 0:23:22It's still warm!
0:23:22 > 0:23:25Let's try feet first.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35Yuk!
0:23:35 > 0:23:39That is a big trunk. It holds a tuba,
0:23:39 > 0:23:43a suitcase, a dead dog and a garment bag almost perfectly.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45That's just what they used to say in the ads.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48- Crabtree, I know you're holding. - Whose tuba is that?
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Miss Sloviak's.
0:23:50 > 0:23:54- Can I ask you something about her? - Yes, she is.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57Is your friend, Crabtree, is he gay?
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Mostly. Some of the time he isn't.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02What do we have here?
0:24:03 > 0:24:05This looks like...
0:24:05 > 0:24:08It's our old friend Mr Codeine.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11That should take the old pinch out of the ankle. Want one?
0:24:11 > 0:24:15- No, thanks. I'm fine without them. - Right.
0:24:15 > 0:24:22That's why you were in the back yard spinning that cap gun - you're fine. Yeah, you're fit as a fucking fiddle.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31HE GASPS
0:24:34 > 0:24:37I'm sorry, James. I'm sorry I said that.
0:24:55 > 0:24:57How about we try that again?
0:25:01 > 0:25:05'It is a great pleasure to introduce best-selling author
0:25:05 > 0:25:09'Quentin Morewood, known to his friends simply as Q.'
0:25:09 > 0:25:11APPLAUSE
0:25:28 > 0:25:31I am a writer.
0:25:31 > 0:25:33APPLAUSE
0:25:33 > 0:25:35As a writer,
0:25:35 > 0:25:40you learn that everyone has a story. Every bartender, every taxi driver
0:25:40 > 0:25:43has an idea that would make
0:25:43 > 0:25:47a great book. Presumably each of you has an idea. But how do you get from there
0:25:47 > 0:25:50to here? What is the bridge
0:25:50 > 0:25:54from the water's edge of inspiration to the far shore of accomplishment?
0:25:54 > 0:25:57HE LAUGHS WILDLY
0:26:06 > 0:26:07Faith.
0:26:07 > 0:26:11Faith that your story
0:26:11 > 0:26:18is worth the telling. Faith that you have the wherewithal to tell it, and faith
0:26:18 > 0:26:23that the carefully woven structure that you create won't collapse beneath you.
0:26:23 > 0:26:29And faith that when you get to the other side there will be someone waiting
0:26:29 > 0:26:31who gives a damn about your tale.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35I'll be back in a minute.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37I worship at the shrine of formal construction.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40LECTURE CONTINUES DISTANTLY
0:27:08 > 0:27:10Grady?
0:27:13 > 0:27:15Grady?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20You had another one again, didn't you?
0:27:21 > 0:27:23Is the thing...
0:27:25 > 0:27:27..is it over?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29Almost.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Wanna sit up?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35HE GASPS
0:27:35 > 0:27:37What's wrong?
0:27:37 > 0:27:40Nothing. I just twisted...
0:27:43 > 0:27:46Sara, there's something I gotta tell you.
0:27:46 > 0:27:48Something hard.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Stand up, then. I'm too old for rolling around.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Give me a hand.
0:28:06 > 0:28:08- Well, you see.. - Don't.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12- I know what you're gonna say. - I don't think you do.
0:28:12 > 0:28:17You love Emily. She's young, beautiful, your wife. You have to stay with her.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21But I don't have a choice. Emily left me.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23She'll come back.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26That's why I'm going to...
0:28:26 > 0:28:28to not have this baby.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33You're not gonna have it?
0:28:35 > 0:28:38No. There's no way. I mean...
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Don't you think there's no way?
0:28:46 > 0:28:50Well, I don't see any... If I didn't know what it means to you...
0:28:50 > 0:28:56No, you don't. Fuck you for saying you do. Fuck you for saying there's no way, cos there could be a way.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00DISTANT APPLAUSE
0:29:00 > 0:29:03They must be finished. We should go.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10Whose gun is that?
0:29:12 > 0:29:14A souvenir from Baltimore.
0:29:14 > 0:29:18- It's heavy. Smells like gunpowder. - Caps.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32Pow.
0:29:35 > 0:29:37You got me.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41I love you, Grady.
0:29:49 > 0:29:52Oh, the doors made so much noise.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55He was so embarrassing. They had to carry him out.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57- Is he all right? - Fine.
0:29:57 > 0:30:02They were going to the men's room, but would they make it in time?
0:30:02 > 0:30:04Terry Crabtree and James Leer.
0:30:04 > 0:30:07Leave it to you to make that mistake.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09Wait here.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18- I need a ride. - I'm your man.
0:30:28 > 0:30:30There's an explanation.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34Couldn't you have just thrown a shoe at the poor thing?
0:30:34 > 0:30:38- Antonia, listen... - Tony. Now that I'm home.
0:30:38 > 0:30:42Tony... sorry tonight didn't work out
0:30:42 > 0:30:45- the way you'd hoped to with Terry. - Forget it.
0:30:45 > 0:30:50Your friend is just - I don't know - into collecting weird tricks.
0:30:50 > 0:30:52I think he'd call it habit.
0:30:52 > 0:30:56But I do get the feeling he's going through the motions.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00- Because his career's ruined? - Jesus! Is that what he told you?
0:31:00 > 0:31:03He said he hasn't had a success in over five years
0:31:03 > 0:31:07and everyone in New York thinks he's kind of a loser.
0:31:07 > 0:31:12But he said he's sure your book's so good that he'll be able
0:31:12 > 0:31:18to keep his job, and you're not one of those writers who has a success, freezes up, and never has another.
0:31:21 > 0:31:23You can turn here.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33Gotta go. I think I may have to rescue James Leer.
0:31:33 > 0:31:38Maybe you should think about going home. You look like you need a little rescuing yourself.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45SOUL MUSIC PLAYS
0:31:45 > 0:31:48- OK, Grady? - How are you?
0:32:03 > 0:32:07Double Dickel on the rocks, please. I'm over here.
0:32:07 > 0:32:08Double Dickel.
0:32:11 > 0:32:13Is that just beer?
0:32:13 > 0:32:18Primarily. Although I gather the two of you staged a raid on the Crabtree pharmacopeia.
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Where is everybody?
0:32:20 > 0:32:25Sara and Walter declined. They just wanna curl up on the couch with Poe.
0:32:30 > 0:32:32Jesus! He's out!
0:32:32 > 0:32:37- He has a book. - Yeah. Started it in fall semester. - Finished it winter break.
0:32:40 > 0:32:44- So, is he any good? - No. Not yet, he isn't.
0:32:44 > 0:32:49- Well, I'm gonna read it anyway. - C'mon! He's one of my students!
0:32:49 > 0:32:52Besides, I'm not sure if he's...
0:32:52 > 0:32:54He is. I'm sure. I see myself in him.
0:32:54 > 0:32:58I'm sure you do! But it's more complicated than that.
0:32:58 > 0:33:02He's a little scattered. He almost did something stupid.
0:33:02 > 0:33:07- He doesn't need sexual confusion to mix up the stew. - I think it might be just the ticket.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09Double Dickel on the rocks.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11Oola.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14Thanks, Oola.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19- Cheers. - Cheers.
0:33:21 > 0:33:24Oh, my goodness! Do you see what I see?
0:33:24 > 0:33:27Right there. Let's go. You first.
0:33:28 > 0:33:32President of the James Brown Hair Club For Men.
0:33:32 > 0:33:34He's a boxer. A flyweight.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38- No. He's a jockey. His name is Curtis Hardapple.- Not Curtis.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41OK. Vernon. Vernon Hardapple. The scars are from
0:33:41 > 0:33:46- a horse. He fell during a race. - He's addicted to painkillers.- Yeah.
0:33:46 > 0:33:51- Lives with his mother.- That's right! He's got a younger brother who's...
0:33:51 > 0:33:56Who's a groom named Claudelle, and his mother blames Vernon for Claudelle's death.
0:33:56 > 0:33:58Right! Because...
0:33:58 > 0:34:01- Because... - Because why?
0:34:02 > 0:34:08He was killed when a gangster named Freddy Nostrils tried to shoot his favourite horse.
0:34:08 > 0:34:11Claudelle took the bullet himself.
0:34:11 > 0:34:14Vernon,
0:34:14 > 0:34:18over there, was in on the hit.
0:34:20 > 0:34:22That was good.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25Yeah. He heard everything we said.
0:34:25 > 0:34:28C'mon, Teach. I want you to dance with me.
0:34:28 > 0:34:29No.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31C'mon.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37So I've been rereading Arsonist's Daughter.
0:34:38 > 0:34:41It's so beautiful, Grady.
0:34:41 > 0:34:43So natural.
0:34:43 > 0:34:50It's like all your sentences always existed, waiting up there in style heaven for you to fetch them down.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54- I thank you. - I love the inscription you wrote me.
0:34:54 > 0:34:58Only, I'm not quite the downy innocent you think I am.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01I hope that's not true.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04We need all the downy innocents we can get.
0:35:12 > 0:35:17What this boy could use is a nice, tall Coca Cola.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20- Let me help. - We got him. Meet you at the car.
0:35:20 > 0:35:26Oh, I see. All right. Give me the keys to the trunk, will you? I gotta my property outta there.
0:35:26 > 0:35:29The trunk's sticky. I gotta do it.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31Whatever.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34Professor Tripp!
0:35:34 > 0:35:39When you get James to the apartment, make sure he's OK before you leave.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42I would if I knew where I was taking him.
0:35:42 > 0:35:45You telling me you don't know where James lives?
0:35:45 > 0:35:48Some apartment somewhere. I've never seen it.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51- Strikes me as very odd. - Well, James is odd.
0:35:51 > 0:35:57His aunt lives in Sewickly Heights, I dropped him there once. It wasn't even his aunt's house. I don't know.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00I need my knapsack.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02What's he saying?
0:36:02 > 0:36:05His bag. That ugly green thing he always carries.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08- He must have left it inside. - Oh, shit!
0:36:08 > 0:36:11He left it at Thaw, the auditorium.
0:36:11 > 0:36:15- Knapsack! - All right. Let him crash at my house.
0:36:15 > 0:36:21- Where should I put him? - The shape he's in, you can stand him up in the garage and he'd be OK.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29Grady, if you wanna talk later, I'll be up.
0:36:36 > 0:36:40- Hey, the trunk. You're killing me. - I'm gonna get it.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43You're killing me!
0:36:48 > 0:36:50You driving this car?
0:36:50 > 0:36:55This 1966 maroon Ford Galaxy 500, you driving this car?
0:36:55 > 0:36:57- This is my car. - Bullshit! It's mine, motherfucker!
0:36:57 > 0:36:59- You're mistaken. - Bullshit!
0:36:59 > 0:37:03- Who is that? - Vernon, go home to your mother.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07- What are you looking at? - Looking at you, fella!
0:37:07 > 0:37:12Hit it, will you? C'mon, killjoy! Go. Can we go now, grandmother?
0:37:12 > 0:37:15- What's with you? - I wonder.
0:37:15 > 0:37:17- The kid was comatose. - Who started that?
0:37:17 > 0:37:21- I was trying to calm him down! - You calmed him down!
0:37:21 > 0:37:24- Grady!- What?- Hit the brakes! - Stop the car!
0:37:24 > 0:37:27- Whooh! - Stop! Hey!
0:37:27 > 0:37:30- What's his problem? - Back up!
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Hey!
0:37:32 > 0:37:34Go round him.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36- I'm stopping you! - I don't think so!
0:37:36 > 0:37:38Whooh!
0:37:38 > 0:37:41Come back here!
0:37:41 > 0:37:44- What's this? - One-way, guy.
0:37:47 > 0:37:48Whooh!
0:37:48 > 0:37:50Go, go, go!
0:37:52 > 0:37:54Look out. He's back.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00- Now what? - You owe him a book, too?
0:38:00 > 0:38:02Could always drive over him.
0:38:11 > 0:38:14What the hell was that?
0:38:14 > 0:38:16I just got my hood jumped on.
0:38:27 > 0:38:31- Wait here. I'll be right back. - Where would we go?
0:38:31 > 0:38:34FLOOR POLISHER WHIRRS
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Hold on a second.
0:38:52 > 0:38:55Professor Tripp.
0:38:57 > 0:39:02I guess you're here for the backpack. It's Traxler. Sam.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09I saw the manuscript inside, so when you showed up I figured...
0:39:13 > 0:39:16'The Love Parade.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19'So it was true. The little prick had finished his book.'
0:39:19 > 0:39:23- Is it good? - I don't know. Might be.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36'So there it was.
0:39:36 > 0:39:41'Somewhere in the night, a Manhattan book editor was prowling the streets of Pittsburgh,
0:39:41 > 0:39:46'best-selling author at his side, dead dog in his trunk.'
0:39:46 > 0:39:48Say, Professor Tripp,
0:39:48 > 0:39:52is all that stuff true about Errol Flynn?
0:39:52 > 0:39:54How he used to put paprika on his dick,
0:39:54 > 0:39:58to make it...you know, like...
0:39:58 > 0:40:02more stimulating for the chick?
0:40:04 > 0:40:07Christ, Traxler, how the hell should I know?
0:40:07 > 0:40:09You're reading his biography, aren't you?
0:40:11 > 0:40:13Oh!
0:40:15 > 0:40:19No, it's true. He used to rub all sorts of things on it.
0:40:19 > 0:40:23Um, salad dressing, ground lamb.
0:40:25 > 0:40:27Sick!
0:40:28 > 0:40:32'Whenever I wondered what Sara saw in me,
0:40:32 > 0:40:35'and I wondered more than once,
0:40:35 > 0:40:39'I always came back to the fact that she loved to read.
0:40:39 > 0:40:44'She read everything, every spare moment. She was a junkie for the printed word.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48'And lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.'
0:40:48 > 0:40:50Is that your wife?
0:40:50 > 0:40:54No. My wife's out of town.
0:40:58 > 0:41:00What exactly are we doing here,
0:41:00 > 0:41:04- Professor Tripp? - Taking the long way home.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18- Take it easy, Professor Tripp. - Thanks for the ride.
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Hell!
0:42:38 > 0:42:40HE YAWNS
0:43:07 > 0:43:11'I told myself I needed to put everything aside for now,
0:43:11 > 0:43:16'Emily, Sara, the purloined jacket and the dead dog, and work on my book.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19'It had started out as a small book...
0:43:22 > 0:43:24'..probably about 250,
0:43:24 > 0:43:27'300 pages.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34'It had gotten a little larger in scope.
0:43:42 > 0:43:45'And the ending, it kept getting further away.
0:43:49 > 0:43:53'But the ending was there. I knew it.
0:43:53 > 0:43:56'I could almost see it.'
0:44:03 > 0:44:04James.
0:44:05 > 0:44:09I'm OK. I just lost my balance.
0:44:09 > 0:44:12I put you on the floor.
0:44:13 > 0:44:16Oh. Thank you.
0:44:16 > 0:44:21I thought you might swallow your tongue or something.
0:44:21 > 0:44:25- I guess you must really miss her. - Huh?
0:44:25 > 0:44:27Oh, this. No.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30No, I just write in this. This wasn't Emily's.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33I guess there's a story behind that.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36There is, but it's not very interesting.
0:44:40 > 0:44:44Is all of that single space?
0:44:44 > 0:44:47I'm afraid so. Yeah.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50That's a really big book you're writing.
0:44:50 > 0:44:53Wow. Hannah always swore you were working but...
0:44:53 > 0:44:55But?
0:44:55 > 0:45:00Nothing. It's just, it's been a while since Arsonist's Daughter,
0:45:00 > 0:45:03and some people, some of the kids in workshop thought
0:45:03 > 0:45:07- maybe you were... - Washed up?
0:45:07 > 0:45:08Blocked.
0:45:08 > 0:45:12Hm. Well, I don't believe in writer's block.
0:45:13 > 0:45:15No kidding.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18- PHONE RINGS - You want me to get that?
0:45:18 > 0:45:20Please, could you?
0:45:20 > 0:45:22- Glasses. - Thank you.
0:45:34 > 0:45:37- He didn't give his name. - Who?
0:45:37 > 0:45:40- The guy on the phone. - What did he want?
0:45:40 > 0:45:47He wanted to know if a Grady Tripp lived here and drove a maroon 1966 Ford Galaxy 500 with black interior.
0:45:47 > 0:45:49- What'd you tell him? - Yes.
0:45:49 > 0:45:52Oh, good, James.
0:45:52 > 0:45:56- I just thought maybe... - WHISTLING - Morning, boys.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01Morning, James.
0:46:01 > 0:46:02Good morning.
0:46:02 > 0:46:07Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, Jamie. I'm gonna take a shower.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09HE WHISTLES
0:46:10 > 0:46:12Professor Tripp?
0:46:12 > 0:46:15- Hm? - How did I get here last night?
0:46:15 > 0:46:20No-one knows where you live, James. Hannah thought you'd like my couch.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23And before that, did I do anything?
0:46:23 > 0:46:26I mean, did I do anything bad?
0:46:26 > 0:46:31Well, James, you did shoot the head of the English department's dog
0:46:31 > 0:46:34and steal his most prized piece of memorabilia.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03Ah, shit!
0:47:03 > 0:47:06Do yourself a favour. Hide.
0:47:07 > 0:47:08Hide.
0:47:10 > 0:47:13- Morning. - Morning.
0:47:17 > 0:47:19- Professor Tripp? - That's right.
0:47:19 > 0:47:24I understand you attended an event at Sara and Walter Gaskell's house last night.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26What's this about?
0:47:26 > 0:47:29Somebody pulled a B&E on Dr Gaskell's closet,
0:47:29 > 0:47:34and the dog's missing. I was just wondering if you saw someone who seemed suspicious maybe?
0:47:34 > 0:47:39I wouldn't say there was anybody particularly suspicious.
0:47:39 > 0:47:45About this kid, a student of yours, James Leer. Would you happen to know how I could get in touch with him?
0:47:46 > 0:47:49I think I have his number on campus.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52That's all right. We'll find him.
0:47:52 > 0:47:55- Morning. - You have a good one.
0:47:59 > 0:48:01There you are.
0:48:01 > 0:48:05- I thought we were going to talk. - PHONE RINGS - Professor Tripp?
0:48:06 > 0:48:08I heard what he said.
0:48:08 > 0:48:12- What time's breakfast?! - What do we do now? Just...
0:48:12 > 0:48:15- Just one minute. Hello? - Grady.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19- Sara.- Thank God you're there. You won't believe what's happened.
0:48:19 > 0:48:23Could you hold on just a minute, honey?
0:48:28 > 0:48:31- Can I ask you something, Professor? - Sure, James.
0:48:31 > 0:48:33Where are we going?
0:48:33 > 0:48:36Well, there's a few things I gotta do today.
0:48:36 > 0:48:39- See my wife. - The one that left you?
0:48:39 > 0:48:41Yes, that's the one.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43- Oh, shit! - Oh!
0:48:43 > 0:48:45Sonofabitch!
0:48:45 > 0:48:49- You're bleeding, Professor Tripp. - No shit, James.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58So, where exactly do you live, James?
0:48:58 > 0:49:04Not even Hannah Green has a clue as to the location of your apartment.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06I got kicked out.
0:49:06 > 0:49:10Well, not exactly kicked out. I was asked to leave.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12Guess there's probably a story there.
0:49:12 > 0:49:15There is, but it's not very interesting.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18So, where are you staying?
0:49:18 > 0:49:20At the...
0:49:20 > 0:49:24the, er, bus station.
0:49:25 > 0:49:30It's not so bad. I know the night janitor. There's a broken locker I can put my stuff.
0:49:32 > 0:49:34Jesus, James.
0:49:34 > 0:49:36I mean, er, how long?
0:49:36 > 0:49:41Couple of weeks. That's why I have the gun, for protection.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44You should have told someone.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47- Who? - I don't know.
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Me?
0:49:52 > 0:49:57'James's story was the stuff of bad fiction. Under other circumstances
0:49:57 > 0:50:02'I might have wondered where the page ended with him and real life began,
0:50:02 > 0:50:05'but I had other things on my mind.
0:50:10 > 0:50:16'The Gaskell house looked deserted, which figured, since Wordfest was in full swing on campus.'
0:50:16 > 0:50:19- What are we... - Ease off on that stuff. It's acidic.
0:50:19 > 0:50:22I can't help myself. I don't know what's up.
0:50:22 > 0:50:26James, you're hung over. What do you think's up?
0:50:30 > 0:50:32I'll be right back.
0:50:37 > 0:50:41I knew I needed to have a heart-to-heart with Sara.
0:50:41 > 0:50:45But until then, I'd just make a little gesture.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51- Feeling guilty? - Agh!
0:50:53 > 0:50:56I can't believe you hung up on me.
0:50:56 > 0:51:00Sara, I am so sorry about this morning. There was a lot going on.
0:51:00 > 0:51:06Walter's a basket case. Someone stole Marilyn's jacket last night. And Poe's missing.
0:51:06 > 0:51:09- I heard. - You heard? How?
0:51:09 > 0:51:13A 12-year-old policeman came by my house this morning.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16Did you confess? Your prints were in the bedroom.
0:51:16 > 0:51:18Really? That was fast.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20I'm joking. Hello!
0:51:20 > 0:51:23Oh, right, right. Right.
0:51:23 > 0:51:27About last night. There's something I have to talk to you about.
0:51:27 > 0:51:29OK.
0:51:32 > 0:51:34I...
0:51:34 > 0:51:36I, um...
0:51:41 > 0:51:43I wanna be with you.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46Gee, Grady, that sounded so heartfelt(!)
0:51:46 > 0:51:50- Really, Sara, I do. - No, I believe you wanna be with me,
0:51:50 > 0:51:53but that's just not good enough.
0:51:53 > 0:51:59- I know that. I know what's at stake. - I don't think you do. It doesn't matter. I haven't decided yet.
0:51:59 > 0:52:02- About the baby? - That.
0:52:02 > 0:52:04And you.
0:52:04 > 0:52:06I'm not gonna draw you a map.
0:52:06 > 0:52:09Times like these, you have to do your own navigating.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19Why is your car over there? And who's that sitting in it?
0:52:19 > 0:52:21James Leer.
0:52:21 > 0:52:26- What's he doing here? - I'm helping him through some issues.
0:52:26 > 0:52:29Isn't he lucky(?)
0:52:38 > 0:52:40She seemed to take it pretty well.
0:52:41 > 0:52:45Yeah. Well, the moment didn't actually present itself.
0:52:48 > 0:52:52- You feel like taking a ride, James? - Yes.
0:52:54 > 0:52:56Humboldt County?
0:52:56 > 0:52:58Maybe.
0:52:58 > 0:53:01My father, he gets it from his doctor.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04- Glaucoma? - Colon cancer.
0:53:05 > 0:53:08Jesus! James, wow.
0:53:08 > 0:53:11Bit of a scandal. My parents live in a small town.
0:53:11 > 0:53:13- Where's that? - Carvel.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16- Carvel? Where's Carvel? - Outside Scranton.
0:53:16 > 0:53:19I've never heard of it.
0:53:19 > 0:53:26It's a hellhole. Three motels and a mannequin factory. My dad worked there for 35 years.
0:53:26 > 0:53:29Your father worked in a mannequin factory?
0:53:29 > 0:53:31Seitz Plastics.
0:53:31 > 0:53:37It's where he met my mom. She was a fry cook in the cafeteria. Before that she'd been a dancer.
0:53:37 > 0:53:42- What kind of dancer? - Whatever kind they wanted her to be.
0:53:42 > 0:53:46Didn't you say that your mom went to Catholic school?
0:53:47 > 0:53:50When we fall, we fall hard.
0:53:57 > 0:54:01I thought you didn't like to lose control of your emotions.
0:54:01 > 0:54:04Maybe I just needed the moment to present itself.
0:54:09 > 0:54:12- BANGING - Hmmm.
0:54:12 > 0:54:17I had come to the childhood home of my soon to be ex-wife to set things straight,
0:54:17 > 0:54:23to say something that would end things on the right note, to make Emily feel better about it all,
0:54:23 > 0:54:26or maybe to make me feel better.
0:54:26 > 0:54:30Truthfully, I wasn't really sure why I was there.
0:54:30 > 0:54:34- Someone jumped on your car with their butt.- How can you tell?
0:54:34 > 0:54:37You can see the outline of a butt. You want one?
0:54:37 > 0:54:40They're incredible. Incredible!
0:54:40 > 0:54:44Smoke the rest of that joint, you can start chewing on the box.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48- Maybe she didn't come here. - She came here.
0:54:48 > 0:54:51We'll just wait.
0:54:51 > 0:54:55In the meantime, I'm gonna need you to shimmy right through there.
0:54:57 > 0:55:03Relax, James. Emily hasn't used her keys since she was 15 years old. Your hips aren't much bigger than hers.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05It's not that.
0:55:05 > 0:55:08Just reminded me of what's in the car.
0:55:11 > 0:55:13In the trunk?
0:55:16 > 0:55:18Oh, right. Right.
0:55:18 > 0:55:20Let's try not to think about that, OK?
0:55:41 > 0:55:43Thank you.
0:55:45 > 0:55:47It feels really good in here.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49Yeah, I know.
0:55:49 > 0:55:55It's the kinda house you like to wake in on Christmas morning.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01I'll be right back. Make yourself at home.
0:56:01 > 0:56:04I'm gonna make a phone call.
0:56:10 > 0:56:11Ah.
0:56:16 > 0:56:18Hmm.
0:56:26 > 0:56:31There's no such thing as a good influence, Mr Gray. All influence is immoral.
0:56:31 > 0:56:37- Why?- Because the aim of life is self-development, to realise one's nature perfectly.
0:56:37 > 0:56:41That's what we're here for. A man should live out his life fully.
0:56:41 > 0:56:44Give form to every feeling, reality to every dream.
0:56:44 > 0:56:47'Sitting there among her things,
0:56:47 > 0:56:51'I was reminded I didn't really know Emily at all.
0:56:51 > 0:56:54'Even though we had lived together as man and wife,
0:56:54 > 0:56:59'it was when I left the house, when I was with Sara, that I felt like I was home.'
0:56:59 > 0:57:01- University? - Chancellor, please.
0:57:01 > 0:57:06There's only one way to get rid of a temptation and that's yield to it.
0:57:06 > 0:57:11Resist it, the soul sickens, longing for things it has forbidden itself.
0:57:11 > 0:57:12Thank you.
0:57:28 > 0:57:31- Hello? - Sara? Hi, it's Grady.
0:57:31 > 0:57:33Where are you?
0:57:33 > 0:57:36Kinship. There's something I've got to talk to you about.
0:57:36 > 0:57:39- You're in Kinship. - Yes, but that's not why I'm calling.
0:57:39 > 0:57:41- You're with Emily. - What?
0:57:41 > 0:57:46- No. There's no-one here. I'm just... - Doing a little dusting?
0:57:46 > 0:57:48# Good morning
0:57:48 > 0:57:50# We've danced the whole night through
0:57:50 > 0:57:54# Good morning, good morning, to you
0:57:54 > 0:57:58# Good morning, good morning It's great to stay up late
0:57:58 > 0:57:59# Good morning... #
0:57:59 > 0:58:03Sara, I am not here... I am not here to, er,
0:58:03 > 0:58:05to reconcile with Emily.
0:58:05 > 0:58:09It doesn't matter. How you choose to live your life is your business.
0:58:09 > 0:58:14# So good morning, good morning
0:58:14 > 0:58:16# Sun beams will soon smile through... #
0:58:16 > 0:58:18Sara, you don't understand.
0:58:18 > 0:58:21Probably not. But I have something to say.
0:58:21 > 0:58:24I want you to listen carefully, Grady.
0:58:24 > 0:58:26Yes.
0:58:26 > 0:58:31I can't wait for you because if I do, I could end up waiting forever.
0:58:31 > 0:58:35So I'm going to make this decision on my own.
0:58:35 > 0:58:37Goodbye, Grady.
0:58:38 > 0:58:43Making a comeback. Gee, it must be terrible to be a has-been.
0:58:43 > 0:58:46Don't talk like that. It scares me.
0:58:46 > 0:58:48We gotta work hard.
0:58:48 > 0:58:52Make a lotta dough for our folks.
0:58:52 > 0:58:53Hello.
0:58:53 > 0:58:56Hi.
0:58:56 > 0:59:01- Oh!- It's infected. You need to see someone who knows what he's doing.
0:59:01 > 0:59:06How would you like some hot chocolate? And fresh cookies to go with it.
0:59:11 > 0:59:14DOG WHINES
0:59:14 > 0:59:19- He's one of your students, this boy? - Yeah, he's a good kid.
0:59:19 > 0:59:23- He's just a little messed up. - I'm sure he'll be fine,
0:59:23 > 0:59:26with the proper guidance.
0:59:29 > 0:59:32So, where's Emily, Hank?
0:59:32 > 0:59:35I don't know if I should tell you that, Grady.
0:59:35 > 0:59:40I don't wanna stalk her. I just wanna, wanna tell her that I'm sorry.
0:59:40 > 0:59:45I'm not trying to get her back. Things haven't been right for a while.
0:59:45 > 0:59:50All I know is, Emily felt you weren't there for her,
0:59:50 > 0:59:54that she's felt that for a long time. Right now,
0:59:54 > 0:59:57she's in Philadelphia visiting Linda Ashby.
0:59:59 > 1:00:04For Christ's sakes! They went to Wellesley together. Linda spent
1:00:04 > 1:00:07- a week at your house. - Oh, Linda. Oh.
1:00:10 > 1:00:15I haven't been sleeping lately. I got my editor in town. I'm trying to finish my book.
1:00:15 > 1:00:18Ah, right. The book.
1:00:20 > 1:00:23I hope it's really good, Grady.
1:00:30 > 1:00:32I'm having a really good time, Professor Tripp.
1:00:32 > 1:00:36I'm really happy for you, James.
1:00:39 > 1:00:42Do me a favour. Lay off my dope.
1:00:42 > 1:00:45That stuff's not for amateurs.
1:00:46 > 1:00:49You're mad at me, aren't you?
1:00:49 > 1:00:52You're mad because I shot your girlfriend's dog.
1:00:52 > 1:00:54It wasn't hers. It was her husband's.
1:00:54 > 1:00:57Who said anything about a girlfriend?
1:00:58 > 1:01:02OK, James. I wish you hadn't shot my girlfriend's dog.
1:01:02 > 1:01:07Even though Poe and I were not simpatico, that's no reason he should have taken two in the chest.
1:01:09 > 1:01:12I don't know. You just keep acting
1:01:12 > 1:01:15like a goddamn spook all the time, James.
1:01:15 > 1:01:18I guess that explains why the kids in workshop hate me.
1:01:18 > 1:01:25The kids in workshop hate you because right now you are ten times the writer any one of them will ever be.
1:01:25 > 1:01:29My stuff stinks. You said so yourself last night
1:01:29 > 1:01:33- to your friend Crabtree. - I didn't mean it like that.
1:01:33 > 1:01:35What does it matter what I think?
1:01:35 > 1:01:42What does it matter what anybody thinks? Most people don't think. If they do, it's not about writing.
1:01:43 > 1:01:46Books, they don't mean anything.
1:01:47 > 1:01:49Not to anybody.
1:01:50 > 1:01:53Not any more.
1:01:53 > 1:01:55Arsonist's Daughter meant something.
1:01:55 > 1:01:58It meant something to me.
1:01:59 > 1:02:03It's the reason I came to school here, to be taught by you.
1:02:05 > 1:02:09It's one of the reasons I wanted to become a writer.
1:02:10 > 1:02:13Well, for that, James,
1:02:13 > 1:02:15if nothing else,
1:02:15 > 1:02:18I'm really sorry.
1:02:25 > 1:02:27What are we doing?
1:02:27 > 1:02:32I'll get you a nice meal, couple of cups of coffee, then I'm taking you home.
1:02:32 > 1:02:35- Take me now.- What? - I'm not hungry.
1:02:35 > 1:02:39- James, you gotta eat. - I'll use the vending machine.
1:02:39 > 1:02:41What?
1:02:41 > 1:02:45At the bus station, they have cheese sandwiches. They're pretty good.
1:02:45 > 1:02:48Take me now, that way Carl won't get my spot.
1:02:50 > 1:02:52Carl?
1:02:52 > 1:02:56- Never mind. - James, go get us a table, will you?
1:02:56 > 1:03:02I'm not letting the most talented writer in my class eat some week-old cheese sandwich, OK?
1:03:02 > 1:03:08I'm not letting him sleep on some bench in a bus station, so go on inside. I'll be there in a minute.
1:03:10 > 1:03:13C A R V E L.
1:03:13 > 1:03:16Yes, I'm sure, ma'am. It's outside of Scranton.
1:03:18 > 1:03:21You have no listing.
1:03:21 > 1:03:23OK. Well,
1:03:23 > 1:03:28lady, as we speak, I am looking at a resident of Carvel, Pennsylvania.
1:03:28 > 1:03:34I'm sure he'd be interested to learn that the good people at Bell Atlantic have misplaced his entire home town.
1:03:34 > 1:03:37It's not like I'm making this up as we go...
1:03:39 > 1:03:42Never mind. My mistake.
1:04:05 > 1:04:08- D'you wanna bite? - No, thanks.
1:04:08 > 1:04:11That's why you're having them, your spells.
1:04:11 > 1:04:13Spells?
1:04:13 > 1:04:17You make it sound like a Tennessee Williams' play. I don't get spells!
1:04:18 > 1:04:21- What would you call them, then? - I don't know.
1:04:21 > 1:04:23Um, episodes.
1:04:23 > 1:04:26Uh-huh. I just worry about you, that's all.
1:04:32 > 1:04:35You just worry about yourself, OK?
1:04:36 > 1:04:39- Where are you going? - Nowhere. Stay here and eat.
1:04:39 > 1:04:42I'll be right back.
1:04:48 > 1:04:50- Good evening. - Professor Tripp.
1:04:50 > 1:04:55- Grady. - Fred Leer. This is my wife Amanda.
1:04:55 > 1:04:59- I've dashed a wonderful evening. - We were on our way to a benefit.
1:04:59 > 1:05:02But the club was on the way, so we could come.
1:05:02 > 1:05:07I thought it would be good for James to be with his family this weekend.
1:05:07 > 1:05:11Oh, well. Of course we can understand that.
1:05:13 > 1:05:15Right.
1:05:15 > 1:05:18OK. I guess I'll go get James.
1:05:21 > 1:05:28Um, I hope you don't find this forward, Amanda, but might I ask, did you ever go to Catholic school?
1:05:31 > 1:05:33Excuse me?
1:05:33 > 1:05:37- I'm not going with them. - Things are a little weird for me.
1:05:37 > 1:05:39For me, too.
1:05:39 > 1:05:43I know, but I got to finish my book, and there's some...
1:05:43 > 1:05:47- I won't bother you. - Those people there are your parents.
1:05:47 > 1:05:49They're not my parents.
1:05:49 > 1:05:53- What?- They're my grandparents. My parents are dead.
1:05:55 > 1:05:59The man is obviously your father. You look just like him.
1:06:01 > 1:06:03There's a reason for that.
1:06:04 > 1:06:07Oh, get outta here!
1:06:07 > 1:06:10That's why she hates me and makes me sleep in the basement.
1:06:10 > 1:06:12The crawl space with the rats?
1:06:12 > 1:06:17- Yes! They treat me like a freak. - You are one. Welcome to the club.
1:06:17 > 1:06:19You don't know what it's like.
1:06:19 > 1:06:25You're right, I don't. Don't expect me to feel sorry for you, because I don't know who you are.
1:06:26 > 1:06:28Let me ask you.
1:06:28 > 1:06:33In the past 36 hours, have you told me one thing that's true? One thing that comes from you?
1:06:35 > 1:06:39I just wanted to stay with you for a little while, that's all.
1:06:45 > 1:06:49I'm a teacher, James. I'm not a Holiday Inn.
1:06:54 > 1:06:57Thank you, Professor Tripp.
1:06:58 > 1:07:01MUSIC: "Old Man" by Neil Young
1:07:15 > 1:07:18# Old man, look at my life
1:07:18 > 1:07:22# I'm a lot like you were
1:07:23 > 1:07:25# Old man, look at my life
1:07:25 > 1:07:29# I'm a lot like you were... #
1:07:29 > 1:07:30Hey!
1:07:32 > 1:07:33Hey.
1:07:41 > 1:07:44# Old man, look at my life
1:07:44 > 1:07:47# 24 and there's so much more
1:07:47 > 1:07:50# Live alone in a paradise
1:07:50 > 1:07:53# That makes me think of two
1:07:54 > 1:07:57# Love lost at such a cost
1:07:57 > 1:08:00# Give me things that don't get lost
1:08:00 > 1:08:04# Like a coin that won't get tossed... #
1:08:15 > 1:08:17PEOPLE CHATTER/MUSIC PLAYS
1:08:23 > 1:08:25Crabtree! Jesus!
1:08:25 > 1:08:28MUSIC: "Waiting For The Miracle" by Leonard Cohen
1:08:40 > 1:08:42Do you mind?
1:08:43 > 1:08:46- DOOR OPENS - Grady!
1:08:48 > 1:08:52I know I shouldn't have but it was in the open and I couldn't resist.
1:08:52 > 1:08:56No. I just can't believe that I left it out like this.
1:08:56 > 1:09:01- Has Crabtree been snooping around? - I don't know. Maybe. Don't think so.
1:09:01 > 1:09:04- Let's put this away. - Tripp!
1:09:04 > 1:09:06Oh, shit!
1:09:06 > 1:09:10No, um...don't go. I've been waiting...
1:09:10 > 1:09:14Hannah, I'm really flattered but this just isn't...
1:09:14 > 1:09:18Sorry. Interrupting a teacher-student conference?
1:09:18 > 1:09:22- You're not the most attentive host. - You been taking good care of that!
1:09:22 > 1:09:27Sometimes, we have to improvise. Where the hell have been anyway?
1:09:27 > 1:09:31- I took a drive with James Leer. - He popped the Chancellor's dog!
1:09:31 > 1:09:36- What?- The police thought he just ran away, but Dr Gaskell found blood spots on the carpet.
1:09:36 > 1:09:42- Oh, Jesus!- Most everyone figured it was an intruder, but Terry said it sounded like James.
1:09:42 > 1:09:47- Has anybody else deduced this? - No, not yet, but they will in time.
1:09:47 > 1:09:51- You don't even know James. - Who does?
1:09:51 > 1:09:52I do.
1:09:52 > 1:09:54I do now.
1:09:54 > 1:09:58I spent some time with him, and I read something of his.
1:09:58 > 1:10:01- His book?- Yeah.- You read his book? - Yes.- Is it good?
1:10:01 > 1:10:04It's good. It's very, very good. It's...
1:10:05 > 1:10:09- It's true. - Oh, I knew it! So, where is he now?
1:10:09 > 1:10:12- I sent him home with his parents. - What?!
1:10:12 > 1:10:14His parents?!
1:10:14 > 1:10:17- Uh-huh. - Why? What for?
1:10:17 > 1:10:21Under the circumstances, I thought it was the best thing for him.
1:10:22 > 1:10:26I'm beginning to think maybe it was the best thing for me.
1:10:28 > 1:10:32I just, er, I wasn't there for him.
1:10:32 > 1:10:34Imagine that!
1:10:35 > 1:10:40Hannah, don't you remember where you took James that day? Was it his aunt's?
1:10:40 > 1:10:44- Yes.- I told you, Sewickly Heights. - What was the address?
1:10:44 > 1:10:48- He had me drop him on a corner. - Call the university.
1:10:48 > 1:10:51- Little late to call Admissions. - And the Chancellor?
1:10:51 > 1:10:54I don't know. Maybe.
1:10:54 > 1:10:59God, you really have made an awful stinky mess of everything, haven't you?
1:11:00 > 1:11:03Is that it?
1:11:03 > 1:11:06Do not even think about it! Don't go near it.
1:11:06 > 1:11:10- That's a lot of book. - 262 Baxter Drive.
1:11:10 > 1:11:13They're in the book.
1:11:13 > 1:11:15BOTH: I'll drive.
1:11:15 > 1:11:18The Love Parade. I got a feeling about this.
1:11:18 > 1:11:22- I feel this kid in my bones. - Only in your bones?
1:11:23 > 1:11:25I've had this feeling before.
1:11:25 > 1:11:27Remember?
1:11:29 > 1:11:32It's been a long time but...
1:11:32 > 1:11:35How bad is it for you, Crabs?
1:11:35 > 1:11:40It's pretty bad. Bad enough that they look at me like I don't work there any more.
1:11:42 > 1:11:46I guess I just don't fit the new corporate profile.
1:11:46 > 1:11:49- Which is? - Er...
1:11:49 > 1:11:50competence.
1:11:50 > 1:11:52THEY LAUGH
1:11:52 > 1:11:54# Down on the highway
1:11:54 > 1:11:56# In the valley
1:11:56 > 1:11:59# All alone... #
1:11:59 > 1:12:01This is it.
1:12:02 > 1:12:07'I had no business going to James Leer's parents' house in the middle of the night,
1:12:07 > 1:12:12'not when what really mattered was making things right with Sara.
1:12:12 > 1:12:15'But we had decided to rescue James Leer.
1:12:15 > 1:12:17'I wasn't quite sure from what
1:12:17 > 1:12:22'because I was convinced that everything James said was basically horseshit.'
1:12:22 > 1:12:26There must be two dozen windows. How can we find his?
1:12:26 > 1:12:30I told you, they keep him chained in the basement.
1:12:30 > 1:12:33But maybe that didn't really matter.
1:12:33 > 1:12:36Sometimes, people just need to be rescued.
1:12:37 > 1:12:41DISTANT MUSIC: "Glad To Be Unhappy" by Rogers and Hart
1:12:47 > 1:12:49- Rogers and Hart? - Yeah.
1:12:49 > 1:12:51BOTH: James Leer.
1:13:14 > 1:13:19- Hey. What are you guys doing here? - Sshh! Springing you. Get dressed.
1:13:22 > 1:13:28Whoa! Well, I love what you've done with the place. When's Captain Nemo moving in?
1:13:28 > 1:13:31I cannot believe you made fun of my bathrobe!
1:13:31 > 1:13:34That candelabra's my great grandmother's.
1:13:34 > 1:13:37Forget the family history, I'll leave you right here.
1:13:37 > 1:13:42I heard everything. The parents, the grandparents, the Chinatown thing. I believe you.
1:13:42 > 1:13:45That's why we're here. Get dressed.
1:13:47 > 1:13:51- Do you mind if I wear this again? - Wear whatever you want to.
1:13:54 > 1:13:57- He's so modest. - (He's so sensitive.)
1:13:57 > 1:13:59Tripp, cut the kid some slack.
1:13:59 > 1:14:02These are all overdue library books, every one of 'em.
1:14:02 > 1:14:05Our Mr Leer is facing some monster late fees.
1:14:05 > 1:14:11I can't believe all his shit. Just once I'd like to know if the bastard's telling the truth.
1:14:11 > 1:14:14Hey. Check this out.
1:14:14 > 1:14:17"Finally the door opened. It was a shock to see him,
1:14:17 > 1:14:23"shuffling into the room like an ageing prize-fighter. Limping. Beaten."
1:14:23 > 1:14:26Does that sound like anyone we know?
1:14:28 > 1:14:32"Later, when the great man squinted into the bitter glow of twilight..."
1:14:32 > 1:14:35This kid definitely needs an editor!
1:14:35 > 1:14:41"..and muttered simply, 'It means nothing, all of it. Nothing,' that the true shock came.
1:14:41 > 1:14:47"It was then that the boy understood that his hero's true injuries lay in a darker place.
1:14:47 > 1:14:50"His heart..."
1:14:50 > 1:14:52His heart what?
1:14:54 > 1:15:00"His heart, once capable of inspiring others so completely, could no longer inspire itself.
1:15:00 > 1:15:03"It beat now only out of habit.
1:15:03 > 1:15:06"It beat now only...
1:15:06 > 1:15:08"because it could."
1:15:10 > 1:15:12I'm ready.
1:15:16 > 1:15:19- You all right, Professor Tripp? - He's fine. Can we go,
1:15:19 > 1:15:21before Granny comes down here.
1:15:21 > 1:15:26That could be a problem. She comes down every half-hour to check on me.
1:15:26 > 1:15:29If I'm not here, she might call the police.
1:15:29 > 1:15:33OK. Decoy. We'll put a couple of your pillows under the spread.
1:15:33 > 1:15:36Like in Against All Flags. They used gigantic hands.
1:15:36 > 1:15:39No, no. I got a better idea.
1:15:46 > 1:15:49Good night, sweet prince.
1:15:51 > 1:15:54MUSIC: "Not Dark Yet" by Bob Dylan
1:16:11 > 1:16:14# Shadows are falling
1:16:14 > 1:16:17# And I've been here all day... #
1:16:18 > 1:16:20HE CLEARS THROAT
1:16:20 > 1:16:22Let's go upstairs.
1:16:22 > 1:16:24Bad vibes down here.
1:16:24 > 1:16:27Things must have picked up after we left.
1:16:27 > 1:16:29Huh, Grady?
1:16:29 > 1:16:35# Feel like my soul has turned into steel
1:16:39 > 1:16:41# I've still got the scars
1:16:41 > 1:16:44# That the sun led me on
1:16:48 > 1:16:51# There's not even room enough
1:16:51 > 1:16:54# To be anywhere... #
1:16:58 > 1:17:00Good night.
1:17:36 > 1:17:38BOTTLES CRASH
1:17:58 > 1:18:04'You have reached the home of Sara and Walter Gaskell. Neither Walter or I can...'
1:18:04 > 1:18:05Hello?
1:18:05 > 1:18:07- Walter. - Grady?
1:18:07 > 1:18:10Christ, Grady, do you know what time it is?
1:18:10 > 1:18:13Yeah. I got, er, 8.15.
1:18:13 > 1:18:17- I don't think that's right, though. - It's 3.30, Grady!
1:18:17 > 1:18:19This is important.
1:18:19 > 1:18:21Oh?
1:18:22 > 1:18:25I, um, I...
1:18:25 > 1:18:28What is it, Grady?
1:18:28 > 1:18:31I'm in love with your wife.
1:18:32 > 1:18:34Excuse me?
1:18:34 > 1:18:37Sara, I'm in love with her.
1:18:38 > 1:18:41Are you drinking, Professor Tripp, right now?
1:18:41 > 1:18:43No.
1:18:43 > 1:18:47Nevertheless, I'd like to see you in my office, Monday morning.
1:18:47 > 1:18:49PHONE GOES DEAD
1:18:53 > 1:18:55Oh, boy!
1:19:23 > 1:19:26- Sara, what... - I tried to call,
1:19:26 > 1:19:29but it seems there's something wrong,
1:19:29 > 1:19:31with your phone.
1:19:33 > 1:19:38It appears one of our students is missing. And his parents found a dead dog
1:19:38 > 1:19:40in his bed.
1:19:40 > 1:19:43It's my fault. I'm sorry. I've been...
1:19:43 > 1:19:47I'm not feeling very happy with you right now.
1:19:47 > 1:19:51Walter isn't very happy. He's gotten the police involved.
1:19:51 > 1:19:55They seem to think that James Leer is somehow responsible for all this.
1:19:55 > 1:19:59You wouldn't happen to know where James Leer is,
1:19:59 > 1:20:01would you?
1:20:01 > 1:20:03He's inside.
1:20:03 > 1:20:06And Marilyn's jacket?
1:20:08 > 1:20:10It's in my car.
1:20:14 > 1:20:18- Somebody stole my car! - Oh, man!
1:20:18 > 1:20:21Honestly, somebody stole my car! I parked it there.
1:20:21 > 1:20:23- Are you sure? - Of course!
1:20:23 > 1:20:26Christ! Here comes the puberty police now.
1:20:26 > 1:20:30OK, OK. I'll deal with this. You go dig up James.
1:20:39 > 1:20:41Is he awake?
1:20:41 > 1:20:44There's a police officer outside, and he's not going away.
1:20:44 > 1:20:47- The same guy? - Same one.
1:20:47 > 1:20:51No offence, Professor Tripp, but you look sort of crappy.
1:20:51 > 1:20:54He's right. You do look horrible.
1:20:54 > 1:20:56It's the Chancellor.
1:20:58 > 1:21:00- We're fine. - Fine? Right.
1:21:00 > 1:21:05- Fit as a fucking fiddle. - James, come on.
1:21:06 > 1:21:08James?
1:21:08 > 1:21:10This book of yours,
1:21:10 > 1:21:14it's...not bad. Not bad at all.
1:21:14 > 1:21:18- Thank you. - You're welcome.
1:21:21 > 1:21:24I'm gonna publish this.
1:21:24 > 1:21:29I think with the proper editorial guidance, this could be brilliant.
1:21:29 > 1:21:35Ah, that's great. That's great. Between Officer Pupcik and you, he can be the next Jean Genet.
1:21:35 > 1:21:39Been a long time since somebody wrote a good book in jail.
1:21:40 > 1:21:43Don't you worry, James. We'll figure something out.
1:21:43 > 1:21:47I'm not worried. You're not worried, are you?
1:21:48 > 1:21:50I'm a little worried, James.
1:21:50 > 1:21:53Don't be. I don't care if they expel me.
1:21:53 > 1:21:56I probably should be expelled.
1:21:56 > 1:21:59Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
1:22:00 > 1:22:02Professor Tripp?
1:22:02 > 1:22:05Yes, James?
1:22:05 > 1:22:09Even if I end up in jail, you're still the best teacher I ever had.
1:22:15 > 1:22:21I wonder if this is what the university has in mind when it promises a liberal education.
1:22:22 > 1:22:26- Walter won't press charges, will he? - We'll know soon.
1:22:26 > 1:22:32He's going to sit down with the police and James's parents, and he was a wee bit prickly this morning.
1:22:33 > 1:22:38You didn't happen to call our house last night, did you?
1:22:38 > 1:22:41I think I might have, yes.
1:22:41 > 1:22:44What do you think you might have said?
1:22:44 > 1:22:47I think I might have said I was in love with you.
1:22:49 > 1:22:52He told you.
1:22:52 > 1:22:55- He told me. - And what did you say?
1:22:55 > 1:22:58I said it didn't sound like you.
1:23:12 > 1:23:14Hey, Tripp!
1:23:14 > 1:23:16WHISTLING
1:23:17 > 1:23:20So, what do we do now?
1:23:21 > 1:23:23Find the jacket.
1:23:23 > 1:23:27- Exactly how do we do that? - I have an idea where it is.
1:23:27 > 1:23:30Ask Hannah if we can borrow her car.
1:23:30 > 1:23:33Sure. Keys are on the desk.
1:23:34 > 1:23:36Your book.
1:23:39 > 1:23:41I didn't finish it. I feel asleep.
1:23:41 > 1:23:44Oh, that good, huh?
1:23:44 > 1:23:48- It's not that. It's just... - It's just...?
1:23:48 > 1:23:50Well?
1:23:59 > 1:24:04You know how in class you're always telling us writers make choices?
1:24:04 > 1:24:06Yeah.
1:24:06 > 1:24:12And even though your book is really beautiful, I mean, amazingly beautiful, it's...
1:24:12 > 1:24:14it's at times it's...
1:24:14 > 1:24:17very detailed.
1:24:17 > 1:24:22Er, you know, the genealogies of everyone's horses,
1:24:22 > 1:24:25and their dental records and so on.
1:24:25 > 1:24:29And I could be wrong, but it sort of reads in places like...
1:24:29 > 1:24:32you didn't really make any choices.
1:24:35 > 1:24:37At all.
1:24:39 > 1:24:45And I was just wondering if it might not be different if when you wrote you weren't always...
1:24:46 > 1:24:49..under the influence.
1:24:52 > 1:24:54Hmm.
1:24:56 > 1:24:57Well...
1:24:57 > 1:24:59Well,
1:24:59 > 1:25:02thank you for the thought.
1:25:02 > 1:25:05But shocking as it may sound,
1:25:05 > 1:25:09I am not the first writer to sip a little weed.
1:25:09 > 1:25:14Furthermore, one book I wrote, as you say, "under the influence"
1:25:14 > 1:25:18happened to win a little something called the PEN Award,
1:25:18 > 1:25:21which, by the way, I accepted under the influence.
1:25:31 > 1:25:33Hey! Let me help you with that.
1:25:33 > 1:25:36- Don't touch it. - OK. I'll drive.
1:25:40 > 1:25:44Let me get this straight. Jerry Nathan owes you money.
1:25:44 > 1:25:47As collateral he gives you his car.
1:25:47 > 1:25:50I'm thinking that the car wasn't Jerry's to give.
1:25:50 > 1:25:52Whose was it?
1:25:52 > 1:25:55- My guess, Vernon Hardapple. - The hood jumper?
1:25:55 > 1:25:59He said things that suggested the car was his.
1:25:59 > 1:26:01- Such as? - "That's my car, motherfucker."
1:26:03 > 1:26:07All right. So we find Vernon, find the car. Find the car...
1:26:07 > 1:26:09We find the jacket.
1:26:18 > 1:26:22Wow! Christ! How'd you know, Tripp?
1:26:23 > 1:26:25Ah, I don't know.
1:26:25 > 1:26:28- Let's call it a hunch. - I call it genius.
1:26:28 > 1:26:31Good to know I'm still talented at something.
1:26:31 > 1:26:34Careful.
1:26:35 > 1:26:38Keep that motor running.
1:27:32 > 1:27:35I know you.
1:27:35 > 1:27:37Double Dickel on the rocks.
1:27:40 > 1:27:42Oola.
1:27:42 > 1:27:45I never forget a drink.
1:27:47 > 1:27:50I never forget an Oola.
1:27:52 > 1:27:54Forget me?
1:27:54 > 1:27:57- Vernon? - He's got a gun!
1:27:57 > 1:28:00- Who's got a gun? - You've got a gun. Drop it!
1:28:00 > 1:28:02Uh-oh.
1:28:02 > 1:28:04- Vernon, relax. - Why is he calling you Vernon?
1:28:04 > 1:28:07Why is he sitting in my car? He's crazy, that's why!
1:28:07 > 1:28:10He probably calls everybody Vernon. Drop that gun!
1:28:10 > 1:28:14- Oh, dear. - It's a souvenir.
1:28:14 > 1:28:18- It's a souvenir.- Bullshit! I know a gun when I see one!
1:28:18 > 1:28:21- No, really. GUNSHOT/OOLA SCREAMS - Oh, God!
1:28:21 > 1:28:26Give me that gun! Are you crazy? Can't you see the condition my girl's in?
1:28:26 > 1:28:29- Get out. Get out! - Hey!
1:28:29 > 1:28:33- HORN BLARES - Cupcake, you OK?
1:28:33 > 1:28:36Tripp! Run!
1:28:36 > 1:28:38Who in the hell is that?
1:28:40 > 1:28:43- No, you don't. - No! Don't shoot!
1:28:43 > 1:28:45No! Don't shoot him!
1:28:45 > 1:28:47Tripp, jump in!
1:28:47 > 1:28:50He's a crazy man.
1:29:01 > 1:29:03Oh, my God!
1:29:17 > 1:29:19I take it back.
1:29:19 > 1:29:21Shoot him.
1:29:25 > 1:29:28Naturally, you have copies.
1:29:29 > 1:29:32I have an alternate version of the first chapter.
1:29:32 > 1:29:37You'll be all right, then. Look at Carlyle, when he lost his luggage.
1:29:37 > 1:29:39- That was Macaulay. - Oh.
1:29:39 > 1:29:45- Well, what about Hemingway when Hadley lost those stories? - He was never able to reproduce them.
1:29:45 > 1:29:49Look, Tripp, I don't want to depreciate the loss here,
1:29:49 > 1:29:52but maybe, in a sense, it's for the best.
1:29:52 > 1:29:55You're suggesting it's some kind of sign?
1:29:55 > 1:30:01- In a sense. - Signs are usually more subtle. - Let me get this straight.
1:30:01 > 1:30:05All that paper that blew away back there, that was the only copy?
1:30:05 > 1:30:07I'm afraid so.
1:30:07 > 1:30:11And you, you say that it's some kind of a sign?
1:30:11 > 1:30:14- What in fuck is the matter with you? - Don't.
1:30:15 > 1:30:19All I'm saying is that sometimes, subconsciously,
1:30:19 > 1:30:23a person will put themselves in a situation, maybe create a situation,
1:30:23 > 1:30:30in order to work out an unresolved issue. It's a covert way of, if you will, addressing a problem.
1:30:30 > 1:30:34I'll tell you the problem. You behind the wheel. There's your problem.
1:30:34 > 1:30:38Did you or did you not have a gun to his head?!
1:30:38 > 1:30:40He was stealing my car.
1:30:40 > 1:30:44- Did you have a gun to his head?! - ALL SHOUT
1:30:44 > 1:30:46That is enough!
1:30:46 > 1:30:50What is done is done! I don't want to hear about it any more!
1:31:04 > 1:31:08So, what was it about? Your book.
1:31:10 > 1:31:12What was the story?
1:31:14 > 1:31:16I don't know.
1:31:16 > 1:31:22What he means is it's difficult to distil the essence of a book because it lives in the mind.
1:31:22 > 1:31:27But you must know what it was about. If you didn't know, why were you writing it?
1:31:31 > 1:31:33I couldn't stop.
1:31:38 > 1:31:40TYRES SCREECH
1:31:43 > 1:31:45Vernon, can I ask you a question?
1:31:49 > 1:31:51Boy or a girl?
1:31:56 > 1:31:59As long as it looks like her,
1:32:00 > 1:32:02I really don't care.
1:32:02 > 1:32:05Know what I'm saying?
1:32:05 > 1:32:10- Yeah. Thanks for the ride, Vernon. - Any time.
1:32:10 > 1:32:12- And another thing. - Yeah?
1:32:12 > 1:32:15- Stop calling me Vernon. - OK.
1:32:15 > 1:32:18- Jacket, Tripp. - What?
1:32:18 > 1:32:21We need the jacket.
1:32:21 > 1:32:23Oh. Right.
1:32:27 > 1:32:29Oola, about that jacket.
1:32:29 > 1:32:33- Yeah. - It used to belong to Marilyn Monroe.
1:32:35 > 1:32:37- Really? - Uh-huh.
1:32:37 > 1:32:40She had small shoulders, just like you.
1:32:41 > 1:32:45A lot of people don't know that.
1:32:46 > 1:32:48Thank you.
1:32:48 > 1:32:52Man, that book of yours must have been one nutty ride! Let's go.
1:33:05 > 1:33:09- Would you explain what you just did? - Came to my senses.
1:33:09 > 1:33:15Oh. Congratulations. Meanwhile, what's James supposed to do? Pray that Walter Gaskell comes to his?
1:33:15 > 1:33:19Walter Gaskell doesn't want to send James Leer to jail.
1:33:19 > 1:33:21He's up in his office right now.
1:33:21 > 1:33:25He's talking to his parents, police, trying to find a solution.
1:33:25 > 1:33:28The least they'll do is expel him.
1:33:28 > 1:33:31It doesn't matter.
1:33:31 > 1:33:36That's very enlightened. It's comforting to know that America's children have you for a teacher.
1:33:36 > 1:33:41Nobody teaches a writer anything. You tell 'em what you know.
1:33:41 > 1:33:44You tell 'em to find their voice and stay with it.
1:33:44 > 1:33:49You tell 'em all to keep at it, cos that's the only way they'll get to where they're going.
1:33:50 > 1:33:55Of course, it does help if you know where you wanna go.
1:33:56 > 1:34:00Helping my students figure that out,
1:34:00 > 1:34:03that and Sara,
1:34:03 > 1:34:06that's what's made these last years worthwhile.
1:34:09 > 1:34:11As for James,
1:34:11 > 1:34:14he doesn't need me any more. He's got you.
1:34:16 > 1:34:18Me?
1:34:20 > 1:34:25- What can I do? - Oh, I don't know, Crabs. Improvise.
1:34:25 > 1:34:27You're good at that.
1:34:32 > 1:34:34Tripp.
1:34:38 > 1:34:40I'm sorry.
1:34:51 > 1:34:53Improvise.
1:34:53 > 1:34:57'As for me, I was through improvising.
1:34:57 > 1:35:01'I knew what I had to do. I had to find Sara.
1:35:01 > 1:35:07'I had to convince her that she was my choice. That, in fact, she had been from the very beginning.'
1:35:15 > 1:35:17APPLAUSE
1:35:17 > 1:35:23And now, as those of you who have been with us in previous years know,
1:35:23 > 1:35:26we have a tradition of sorts here at Wordfest.
1:35:26 > 1:35:29I'm speaking of course of the Plums,
1:35:29 > 1:35:31those fortunate local writers
1:35:31 > 1:35:37who have successfully placed their manuscripts with visiting publisher's representatives.
1:35:37 > 1:35:40This weekend, Susan Lowry, of North Braddock,
1:35:40 > 1:35:46found a publisher for her children's book The Loneliest Prawn. Stand up, Susan.
1:35:46 > 1:35:49APPLAUSE
1:35:57 > 1:36:00Now, this next one
1:36:00 > 1:36:06is, I think, very exciting to announce, because it concerns a student here at the university.
1:36:06 > 1:36:09Our own James Leer,
1:36:10 > 1:36:15sophomore in English literature, has found a publisher for his first novel,
1:36:15 > 1:36:18which I believe is called
1:36:18 > 1:36:20The Lovely Parade.
1:36:22 > 1:36:25- Love Parade. - Love Parade.
1:36:25 > 1:36:27- James? - APPLAUSE
1:36:27 > 1:36:29Stand up.
1:36:31 > 1:36:34He's a real alien probe, if you know what I mean.
1:36:34 > 1:36:37Take a bow, James!
1:37:04 > 1:37:06Wonder boy.
1:37:12 > 1:37:15And finally,
1:37:15 > 1:37:18and perhaps not least importantly,
1:37:18 > 1:37:22Terry Crabtree, of Bartisan, has also decided to publish my own book,
1:37:24 > 1:37:28a critical exploration of the union of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe,
1:37:28 > 1:37:34and its function in American mythopoetics, which tentatively I have entitled
1:37:34 > 1:37:37The Last American Marriage.
1:37:37 > 1:37:40So, until next year,
1:37:40 > 1:37:42thank you, everyone.
1:38:01 > 1:38:04Grady, took another look at Arsonist's Daughter.
1:38:04 > 1:38:08- That description of bald cypress left me breathless.- Thanks.
1:38:34 > 1:38:36Sara!
1:38:56 > 1:38:58FOOTSTEPS
1:39:11 > 1:39:13Yo, Traxler.
1:39:15 > 1:39:17TRIPP WHISTLES
1:39:17 > 1:39:18Hey, Professor Tripp.
1:39:20 > 1:39:25- Do you get high, Sam? - Only when I'm workin'.
1:39:37 > 1:39:39Holy shit!
1:39:41 > 1:39:44Are you serious?
1:39:45 > 1:39:49Careful there, Professor Tripp.
1:39:55 > 1:39:56Whoa.
1:40:02 > 1:40:06'I didn't fall. Not then, not ever again.
1:40:07 > 1:40:13'Once the Monongahela River swallowed my never-ending opus, there were no more "spells."
1:40:13 > 1:40:18'James Leer didn't get expelled or go to jail thanks to Crabtree's
1:40:18 > 1:40:24'wheeling and dealing. But he quit any way. Went to New York, to rework his novel for publication.
1:40:24 > 1:40:30'Hannah Green has decided to take a position as a junior editor when she graduates.
1:40:30 > 1:40:35'And Crabtree? Well, Crabtree's gone right on being Crabtree.
1:40:35 > 1:40:38'As for me, I lost everything.
1:40:38 > 1:40:43'My wife, my book, my job, everything that I thought was important.
1:40:43 > 1:40:46'But I finally knew where I wanted to go.'
1:40:46 > 1:40:49CAR ENGINE
1:41:19 > 1:41:22'And now I had someone to help me get there.'
1:41:30 > 1:41:33MUSIC: "Things Have Changed" by Bob Dylan
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