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Previously on The West Wing..

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No, Dad, I'm on the plane.

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( jet engines humming )

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Alright, I'll try
and call you later

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if there's anything
interesting to report.

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Talk to you later.

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I'm talking about my father.
Why?

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'Cause he's not doing fine.

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He forgets things.
I know.

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He forgets
what's going on.

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He thought this was
the general election today

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and... he snaps back in,
but...

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( sighs )

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And after the meeting with the
Council on Foreign Relations,

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the President and First Lady
will go to to Camp David

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where the governor of Nebraska
will join them.

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Wasn't Josh Lyman scheduled
to do the press briefings

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today and over the weekend?
You have me, just me.

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So you're not going to your
high school reunion in Dayton?
Yep. If that's all...

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We understood you were
to deliver a speech

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at this reunion entitled,
"The Promise of a Generation."
How did you know that?

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It's in the Dayton papers.
Right.

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Could you tell us what the
promise of a generation is since
you're chickening out?

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I'm not really sure,
but like pornography
I know it when I see it.

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They came up with the title
and because it's high school,
I couldn't say no.

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Unfortunately, my job prevents
me from certain pleasures
and I'm not chickening out.

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We don't get Josh
is what you're saying.
No fresh meat for the lions.

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That's a full lid.
Thank you, C.J.

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Thank you.
I couldn't go out there.

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Like they had this sadistic,
anticipatory glee.

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I agree.
I have to stay.

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What are you still
doing here?
Josh can't do the briefings.

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I missed the last flight,
so it's moot.
No, there's one at 7:50.

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You're booked on it.
I don't make the schedules.

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Go. I'll do the briefings.
You can't.
It's not your shtick.

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You don't know who
to call on, where to look
when to smile and interrupt...

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Are you scared of
that promise thing?
Yes.

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No, that
can't be it.

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It's your dad.

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I'm sorry. I... uh...
How's he doing?

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You're not allowed
to use the words "Alzheimer's"
or "doctors."

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Nevertheless, those are
the relevant words.

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His wife scares me.

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The woman who takes
care of him scares me.

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Molly, she was my English
teacher. Believe me,
she was a very tough grader.

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You're scared of your
high school English teacher.

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Well, she's also
now my stepmother

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so it's just
a little bit fraught.

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Did you ever not get
an "A" in her class?

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Nevertheless, Dayton awaits.

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Psst.

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Finish your speech.

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C.J.:
Toby, a couple of things,
very important.

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There's a draft of some notes
for a speech on the National
Endowment for the Arts

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and the President is going
to ask for something
maybe over the weekend..

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And also, Toby,
the section on embassy security

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( alarm beeps )

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is still being ironed out
by Josh

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and I haven't

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( alarm beeps )

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I haven't had a-a chance
to work on... Hold on.

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Thank you.

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No, not you.

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No, I didn't mean that you
have no social skills, Toby.

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I'm sorry if you think I
was being insensitive to your...

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I-I think you're very...
you're a very pretty girl, Toby.

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Oh, um, by the way, I have...

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( grunting )

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I have notes about
the SEC appointment speech.

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I can't do this.
I'll call you later.

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I'm going to have
a heart attack.

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( airplane engine roaring )

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Toby, if you get this,
there's also an errant draft

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of a briefing paper on the
agricultural training exchange

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with the South African students
and it has to pass through the..

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Um, I think I may
have been maybe cut off.

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I'll e-mail you.

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Wow.
Hmm.

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You look basically
exactly the same.

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Pardon me?

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Yeah, you do.

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I didn't think you'd be coming.

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I feel slightly

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so much better now.

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I'm hearing Violent Femmes
and thinking

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Quaaludes and detention
and... tacos?

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Well, there was a little bit
more to it than that.

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Marco.

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Marco Arlens.

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Where's your band?

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Ah, alas.

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The Mollusks of Lust.
I'm afraid we didn't make it.

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Nor did your purple-
and-magenta Mohawk.

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Yeah, but unlike the Mollusks
Mohawks are making a comeback

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but as fauxhawks.

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Are you dreading this?
Yeah

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but I'm not the one who's
making a speech about...

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"Promise of a Generation."

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( laughs )

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So what are you up to now?

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Uh... sorta...
living in Paris.

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Paris?

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You were a baseball-
playing punk rocker.

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And you were
the smartest, funniest,

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saddest girl in Dayton.

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Thank you. I think that
might've been a compliment.

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How's your dad--
Mr. Cregg--

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he's not still
teaching math, is he?

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Oh, no. He has a new
job now. He gets married.

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After my mom died--

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twice, now to a lovely lady
in the English Department.

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Her job is baking
and hating me.

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Did you ever have
Mrs. Lapham?

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Yeah. She hated me, too.

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( laughing )

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So she's
your stepmom. Wow.

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So it's just
all fun, huh?

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Welcome home.

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Oh, that's...
that's my ride.

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Hey...listen...
at the risk of being...
anything...

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you wouldn't want to go to this
thing together, would you?

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We could get a vodka first,
which helps with the fear

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and a cracker,
which helps with the bad food.

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Safety in numbers.

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That'd be great.

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I'll see you.

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Claudia Jean.
When you go out on a date

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you're supposed to call
if you come in after midnight.

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Aren't you? Hmm?

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I'm sorry. I...

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( laughs )

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Come on in.

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Come on.

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Come and have a Manhattan.

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Molly made cupcakes
for us before retiring.

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( jazz playing )

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Great.
Tell me everything.

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I want to know
everything.

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Let's sit up all night
and catch up.

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I don't seem to do
much of that anymore.

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Ticking clocks, you know,
and so much to do.

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How are you, Daddy?
I've been a little blue lately

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because I haven't been able
to go fishing.

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It's February.
I'm aware of that,

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but I've got these new Italian
flies I want to try out.

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They're really
quite flirtatious.

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Would you go to the river with
me in the morning?

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You want to go
fishing tomorrow?

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I know, it's going
to be cold but I thought
it might be bracing.

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I don't want to be at the mercy
of the seasons, at my age?

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Why let meteorology dictate?

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We used to go fishing,
didn't we?

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Yes.

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There you go, then.

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Once or twice.

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Just like the
old days.

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I actually don't recall
loving... Yes, just like.

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When you get to a certain age
the little things you used to do

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matter more and more.

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Old Mr., um...Moyers,
from two doors down

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after his Beth died,
all he wanted to do

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was to be taken to the Astro
dinette for tuna melts,

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which is what
they'd done together
every Thursday.

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( music playing louder )
And now...
...it's me taking him.

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Are we going to
wake up Molly?

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You could blast Elgar in here
with 25 speakers.
You wouldn't wake up Molly.

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How is Molly?

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Marvelous. Fun. Funny.
Lots of rules.

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Ex vice-principals can't give up
their principles, can they?

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You hungry?

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I'll be right there.
I'm just going to put my bags
down and wash my face.

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About Mr. Moyers.

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You think he... Dad?

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Mr. Moyers lived
in Shaker Heights.

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The Astro's
in Cleveland.

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Well, I know that.

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I meant Marianthall,
not Moyers.

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Did I say Moyers?

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Yeah, I started
smoking again.

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I'm not supposed to,
but there it is.

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Um, why is this
kitchen such a mess?

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Well, we have a nice lady
that comes in, but...

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who knows when?

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In fact, I don't know
where anything is in here.

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Daddy, um, what do you...?

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Lately, I have been
perfecting a zabaglione.

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You know what that is?

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Um... an Italian...
custard sauce.

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Correct, Miss Cregg.

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A custard...

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fabled for its restorative
properties.

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Somewhere in this kitchen

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is a copper pot
with a curvy ass.

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I need it.

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Here?

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Yeah. Good. Good.

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Can't do it without that.

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It facilitates the whipping
at a far greater rate.

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How's your job?

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We're happy.
This is the time we...

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Somewhere in this
hellhole of a kitchen

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is a really good bottle
of Marsala wine.

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We get to...
we have a-a window.

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We get to...

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we get to do...
actual work for awhile.

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No more campaigning.
Got it.

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Oh, good.

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You know, I-I
like your man.

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His economic theories--

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so generous, so good.

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But he-he hides his
light under a bushel.

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Why is that?

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You already... Dad...

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He wanted to, uh... win.
He did so with honor.

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We played clean.
Well, that you did,
that you did.

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I'm proud of you.

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Thank you.

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You're writing.

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Yeah. A handbook for the
teaching of mathematics

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to a generation
of mathematically

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illiterate teachers.

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That's wonderful, Daddy.

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I was thinking
of asking you

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to write a foreword, but I
suppose that's unethical, no?

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I'd be happy to.

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Well, it seems to me that
everything is intrinsically

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unethical these days.

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Numerical Idiocy.
Catchy title.

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Yeah, well,
go to the supermarket.

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They can't make change.

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They can't tell you
that if you drive

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at 40 miles an hour for three
hours you've gone 260 miles.

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Daddy, 120.

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I have found
that this pot

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is the very most efficient way
of making a custard.

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And I can only surmise that
it's because it doesn't allow

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the eggs to stay in one place
long enough

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for them to get overcooked.

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I think you have
to keep whipping.

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What?

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Hundred and twenty!

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Oh, God.

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Wow. Senior moment.

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Yeah, you have to...

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Dad... maybe
you need more help.

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Everybody needs more help.

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Yes, but I don't think
you're doing as well as...

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I have to finish
my book.

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Kids aren't being taught
any of the important things

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Inductive reasoning,
estimation.

251
00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,070
It's gone.
It's all disappearing.

252
00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:51,230
Oh, stop staring
at me, darling.

253
00:12:53,129 --> 00:12:57,100
You know you were brought up
better than that.

254
00:13:11,220 --> 00:13:14,139
( jazz playing )

255
00:13:17,190 --> 00:13:19,149
Daddy?

256
00:13:43,230 --> 00:13:45,090
( knocking )

257
00:13:50,059 --> 00:13:52,139
Archimedes is getting old.

258
00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:57,220
Where's Molly?

259
00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,149
Well, I mean...

260
00:14:00,169 --> 00:14:04,019
of course... she left.

261
00:14:04,039 --> 00:14:06,120
She left?
What does that mean?

262
00:14:06,139 --> 00:14:10,009
This obviously isn't much fun.

263
00:14:10,029 --> 00:14:11,220
Not what she signed on for.

264
00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,120
But this is
what's happening.

265
00:14:14,139 --> 00:14:16,000
You don't just walk away.

266
00:14:16,019 --> 00:14:17,139
This is what's
happening to you.

267
00:14:17,159 --> 00:14:22,159
40 miles an hour for three hours
has always been...

268
00:14:22,179 --> 00:14:25,139
120.

269
00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:28,049
I don't know what
I was thinking.

270
00:14:41,110 --> 00:14:44,179
TOBY:
Yeah, so everything's
going well here.

271
00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:46,019
C.J.:
Is it? Good?

272
00:14:46,039 --> 00:14:48,149
I, uh, where's the, uh...?

273
00:14:48,169 --> 00:14:52,190
I lost the, uh, uh,
that NEA thing you wanted.

274
00:14:52,210 --> 00:14:55,100
Lost it? It's notes.
There's a file.

275
00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,070
Yeah, you needed me
to polish a draft?

276
00:14:58,090 --> 00:15:01,000
There's no draft to polish.
That's what I'm saying.

277
00:15:01,019 --> 00:15:02,210
There's notes.
I don't have them here.

278
00:15:02,230 --> 00:15:04,070
I'm sure I can find it.

279
00:15:04,090 --> 00:15:06,070
I want to be clear
about the briefing.

280
00:15:06,090 --> 00:15:09,029
What I meant when I said
that you need to know

281
00:15:09,049 --> 00:15:11,230
who to look at and when
to ask certain questions

282
00:15:12,009 --> 00:15:13,190
is avoid the calm ones.

283
00:15:13,210 --> 00:15:17,169
Get the anxious ones
out of the way first
to give the pros room

284
00:15:17,190 --> 00:15:19,110
to figure out what
they really want.

285
00:15:19,129 --> 00:15:22,019
And avoid the ones who don't
blink, they're power devils.

286
00:15:22,039 --> 00:15:24,230
I don't know what that is.
Yes, you do.

287
00:15:25,009 --> 00:15:26,129
Is anything happening?

288
00:15:26,149 --> 00:15:30,100
The usual chaos,
but minus ten percent.

289
00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:31,110
How are things?

290
00:15:31,129 --> 00:15:32,129
Usual. Uneventful.

291
00:15:32,149 --> 00:15:33,190
Daytonesque.

292
00:15:33,210 --> 00:15:35,080
How's your father?

293
00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:36,139
Fine.

294
00:15:36,159 --> 00:15:38,019
And the wicked stepmother?

295
00:15:38,039 --> 00:15:39,230
Even finer.

296
00:15:40,009 --> 00:15:41,009
The weather?

297
00:15:41,029 --> 00:15:42,080
Perfection.

298
00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:44,070
I'll call you later.

299
00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:52,100
Hi, Lib.

300
00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,120
You come for the reunion
but are staying

301
00:15:54,139 --> 00:15:56,090
for the comfort
and ease of home?

302
00:15:56,110 --> 00:15:59,049
Yep, 'fraid so.

303
00:15:59,070 --> 00:16:01,129
You have to stop being beautiful
sometime, sweetheart.

304
00:16:01,149 --> 00:16:02,210
That would be today.

305
00:16:02,230 --> 00:16:06,029
The speech, C.J.,
"The Promise of a Generation"?

306
00:16:06,049 --> 00:16:07,139
Really?
You going?

307
00:16:07,159 --> 00:16:12,090
No. I think I know exactly
why you're here at 7:05 a.m.

308
00:16:12,110 --> 00:16:15,090
Your stepmom.
She's moved right back in.

309
00:16:15,110 --> 00:16:18,210
I prefer to think of
your mother as my dad's
third wife, Libby.

310
00:16:18,230 --> 00:16:21,009
Yeah, well, let me tell
you, it's been fun.

311
00:16:21,029 --> 00:16:25,039
Come on in. See if you
can broker a deal.
God knows I've tried.

312
00:16:25,059 --> 00:16:27,090
I want "lemolaide"!

313
00:16:27,110 --> 00:16:29,190
You'll get "lemolaide"
after you wash your hands

314
00:16:29,210 --> 00:16:31,200
which have snail
on them, Harry.

315
00:16:31,220 --> 00:16:33,100
Molly...

316
00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,090
I failed. I know.

317
00:16:35,110 --> 00:16:37,029
Please, no lectures.

318
00:16:37,049 --> 00:16:38,049
What happened?

319
00:16:38,070 --> 00:16:40,059
Have you been there?
Have you seen...?

320
00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:41,169
Mom, nobody is...

321
00:16:41,190 --> 00:16:43,129
I made a mistake.

322
00:16:43,149 --> 00:16:45,169
It was years
of him being charming.

323
00:16:45,190 --> 00:16:47,149
You both know how...
how charming

324
00:16:47,169 --> 00:16:48,169
the man can be.

325
00:16:48,190 --> 00:16:49,149
Yes, but...

326
00:16:49,169 --> 00:16:50,230
I'm in the English
department,

327
00:16:51,009 --> 00:16:52,179
he's in the math.

328
00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:54,139
There were lunches.

329
00:16:54,159 --> 00:16:57,190
There were quiet lunches
for years.

330
00:16:57,210 --> 00:17:03,169
And we wait, both of us,
waiting for years.

331
00:17:03,190 --> 00:17:06,019
After your mom died

332
00:17:06,039 --> 00:17:08,099
and I had married
what's-his-name,

333
00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,210
we were still two
missed connections.

334
00:17:11,230 --> 00:17:15,220
Two withered, married,
ancient people waiting...

335
00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,160
Why didn't you
call me, Molly?

336
00:17:17,180 --> 00:17:22,140
I didn't get to spend time
with your father.

337
00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,150
We never had an affair.

338
00:17:25,170 --> 00:17:28,009
I'm sorry,
but I don't want to diaper...

339
00:17:28,029 --> 00:17:29,190
Shut up! Shut up.

340
00:17:32,059 --> 00:17:33,200
You were a wonderful teacher,
Molly.

341
00:17:33,220 --> 00:17:36,180
You should be ashamed
of yourself.

342
00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,210
Well, I am.

343
00:17:39,210 --> 00:17:41,049
And did you know

344
00:17:41,069 --> 00:17:45,000
what the nickname
for the disease is?

345
00:17:45,019 --> 00:17:46,150
"The long good-bye."

346
00:17:46,170 --> 00:17:48,119
Not in your case,
though, is it?

347
00:17:48,140 --> 00:17:51,190
In your case, it's the short
"see ya later good-bye,"
isn't it?

348
00:17:51,210 --> 00:17:54,009
C.J.--
What happened to reciprocity?

349
00:17:54,029 --> 00:17:56,049
Do you ever imagine
in a million years

350
00:17:56,069 --> 00:17:59,150
if the roles were reversed
he would ever do this to you?

351
00:17:59,170 --> 00:18:01,140
This is-- what you're
doing right now--

352
00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,029
invalidates everything
that came before

353
00:18:03,049 --> 00:18:04,220
all the good,
the years of teaching.

354
00:18:05,009 --> 00:18:07,200
This cancels a good
and valuable life.

355
00:18:07,220 --> 00:18:11,089
He needs you!
I need him!

356
00:18:18,180 --> 00:18:21,109
You came for the reunion?

357
00:18:21,130 --> 00:18:24,119
You're giving a speech,
aren't you?

358
00:18:24,140 --> 00:18:26,160
It was in the paper.

359
00:18:26,180 --> 00:18:30,009
"The Promise
of a Generation."

360
00:18:34,230 --> 00:18:37,190
We were going to go
and stand in the back.

361
00:18:44,180 --> 00:18:47,109
You remember how to do this?

362
00:18:47,130 --> 00:18:49,039
It's not the wrist.

363
00:18:49,059 --> 00:18:52,200
It's the fulcrum
and lever effect, sort of.

364
00:18:54,069 --> 00:18:57,039
And then let it drift

365
00:18:57,059 --> 00:19:01,049
and then...
let it sink.

366
00:19:01,069 --> 00:19:03,079
And, of course,
then nothing happens

367
00:19:03,099 --> 00:19:05,000
which is the fun part.

368
00:19:08,130 --> 00:19:11,200
How is she?
You went to see her.

369
00:19:11,220 --> 00:19:12,230
No, no.

370
00:19:13,009 --> 00:19:15,150
Oh, sweetie, I know
when young people lie.

371
00:19:15,170 --> 00:19:18,200
Did she say how long
she's been gone?
It seems like weeks.

372
00:19:18,220 --> 00:19:21,029
Has it been weeks
or just a few days?

373
00:19:21,049 --> 00:19:24,099
Dad, you know, we need
to get some help

374
00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,210
if Molly won't come back.
We do.

375
00:19:26,230 --> 00:19:29,160
Oh, someone to come in
and referee me.

376
00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:31,000
We would figure
something out.

377
00:19:31,019 --> 00:19:32,210
You mean, more than
a nice lady

378
00:19:32,230 --> 00:19:34,170
from Catholic Family Services?

379
00:19:34,190 --> 00:19:36,099
Well, we have
to find some way

380
00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,140
because you being alone
won't work out now.
Why not?

381
00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,119
I can work around the clock,
there's so much to do.

382
00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:44,230
There's a whole chapter
on "Women and Math Anxiety"

383
00:19:45,009 --> 00:19:46,210
because for years--
now, why is that

384
00:19:46,230 --> 00:19:49,039
that women underperformed
in math?

385
00:19:49,059 --> 00:19:51,180
The teachers were sexist men?
Exactly.

386
00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,109
So there's blocked women
to be helped.

387
00:19:54,130 --> 00:19:57,000
Here. Let me help you.

388
00:20:01,079 --> 00:20:02,099
That's good.

389
00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:05,119
Now just... nice and easy.

390
00:20:05,140 --> 00:20:07,180
Nice and easy, like that.

391
00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:08,220
And...

392
00:20:10,190 --> 00:20:12,150
Thank you.

393
00:20:12,170 --> 00:20:13,150
You could hurt yourself.

394
00:20:13,170 --> 00:20:14,180
You could hurt
yourself.

395
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,000
Look at that hook.

396
00:20:16,019 --> 00:20:17,150
Practically a nipple piercing.

397
00:20:17,170 --> 00:20:19,000
You will hurt yourself.

398
00:20:19,019 --> 00:20:21,029
We can afford it.
I can afford it.

399
00:20:21,049 --> 00:20:22,150
Molly never liked to go fishing.

400
00:20:22,170 --> 00:20:25,130
She considered it devilish.
I explained to her

401
00:20:25,150 --> 00:20:28,019
"Well, we throw them back
usually."

402
00:20:28,039 --> 00:20:31,230
Mostly I just like
to stand and work the odds.

403
00:20:32,009 --> 00:20:35,190
Have you... done...

404
00:20:35,210 --> 00:20:39,029
have you done anything,
seen doctors?

405
00:20:39,049 --> 00:20:41,130
Doctors? Ach.

406
00:20:41,150 --> 00:20:44,230
My age smells of liniment
and waiting rooms.

407
00:20:45,009 --> 00:20:46,190
No, I've researched.

408
00:20:46,210 --> 00:20:49,069
There's a new drug,
Reminyl.

409
00:20:49,089 --> 00:20:51,079
Buys you a few months, they say.

410
00:20:51,099 --> 00:20:54,079
We could arrange
to see someone.

411
00:20:54,099 --> 00:20:55,170
Lee Voight,
he's your friend.

412
00:20:55,190 --> 00:20:58,049
He's a terrific
neurologist.

413
00:20:58,069 --> 00:21:00,079
It's such
a beautiful day, Molly.

414
00:21:00,099 --> 00:21:03,160
I'd prefer not to screw it up
with all that.

415
00:21:03,180 --> 00:21:05,180
Dad, I'm not...
Molly, please, please!

416
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,220
This nagging--
can't we just enjoy it here?

417
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,059
Dad, I'm not Molly.

418
00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:14,140
You're not Molly.
You're not Molly. Who...

419
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,029
Who the hell are you?
Who the hell are you?

420
00:21:17,049 --> 00:21:19,049
Who the hell are you!
Who are you?!

421
00:21:19,069 --> 00:21:21,079
All these damn women
hounding me!

422
00:21:21,099 --> 00:21:24,069
My mother... my mother calls
this morning to remind me

423
00:21:24,089 --> 00:21:26,140
to fold the socks
when I get back in.

424
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,029
And my daughter
just abandoned me!

425
00:21:29,049 --> 00:21:33,019
Mothers, wives, daughters,
and none of them stay!

426
00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:36,049
All these damn women!

427
00:21:56,130 --> 00:21:58,000
Dad...

428
00:22:00,210 --> 00:22:02,180
you...

429
00:22:05,109 --> 00:22:09,140
cannot expect me
to silently do nothing.

430
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,059
You're going
to require care.

431
00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:14,190
I wasn't built for it.

432
00:22:14,210 --> 00:22:16,220
You came for the prom,
not for this.

433
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,049
Reunion. I'm not going.

434
00:22:19,069 --> 00:22:20,190
Coward.

435
00:22:20,210 --> 00:22:25,210
That world, the expertise,
the solicitude, no.

436
00:22:25,230 --> 00:22:27,079
No, thanks.

437
00:22:27,099 --> 00:22:29,099
I want to go down
with some silence

438
00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,180
with my music,
with some grace.

439
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:35,019
I'll quit and take
care of you.

440
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:42,140
"We sail," said Pascal,
"in a vast sphere," Claudia Jean

441
00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,230
"ever drifting
in uncertainty,

442
00:22:46,009 --> 00:22:48,089
driven from end to end."

443
00:22:53,039 --> 00:22:55,200
I'd much rather see you
on TV, darling

444
00:22:55,220 --> 00:22:57,150
than sitting opposite me,

445
00:22:57,170 --> 00:23:01,049
watching a demolition derby
going on in my brain.

446
00:23:33,190 --> 00:23:35,069
I'm here under duress, Lee.

447
00:23:35,089 --> 00:23:37,150
VOIGHT:
Yeah, Tal? Big deal, so am I.

448
00:23:37,170 --> 00:23:41,109
Stop it, both of you.
I'm very upset
and I don't want to laugh.

449
00:23:41,130 --> 00:23:45,079
Look, it's a subtle disease
and it creeps up on you, Tal.

450
00:23:45,099 --> 00:23:49,029
175,000 people
will be diagnosed this year.

451
00:23:49,049 --> 00:23:53,000
Why on earth would
a statistic like
that comfort me?

452
00:23:53,019 --> 00:23:54,079
I thought you liked numbers.

453
00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:56,000
( quiet chuckle )

454
00:23:56,019 --> 00:23:59,170
I'm not trying to comfort you.
I'm talking to you
like an old pal.

455
00:23:59,190 --> 00:24:03,180
You used to play golf with me
and you just stopped.

456
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,109
I what?

457
00:24:05,130 --> 00:24:08,069
I used to play golf...
and I stopped?

458
00:24:08,089 --> 00:24:11,039
I wondered why,
now I know.

459
00:24:11,059 --> 00:24:12,160
We like to say

460
00:24:12,180 --> 00:24:15,200
it's not a disease where you
forget where you put the key

461
00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:18,119
it's where you forget
what the key is for.

462
00:24:18,140 --> 00:24:22,130
I know what the key is for
and I know what the door is for

463
00:24:22,150 --> 00:24:24,019
and I think I'll use it.

464
00:24:24,039 --> 00:24:25,049
You're not alone.

465
00:24:25,069 --> 00:24:28,049
You're not the first
or the last, pal.

466
00:24:28,069 --> 00:24:31,009
Ten percent of the people
over 65 have it.

467
00:24:31,029 --> 00:24:35,029
That lumps me in with several
million other poor souls. Yay!

468
00:24:35,049 --> 00:24:36,069
There are new drugs.

469
00:24:36,089 --> 00:24:37,210
Yeah, they're not bad.

470
00:24:37,230 --> 00:24:40,099
They're not knock-them-out-
of-the-ballpark either.

471
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:41,230
We can slow it down.

472
00:24:42,009 --> 00:24:46,009
Oh... good.
He can slow it down.

473
00:24:46,029 --> 00:24:47,059
What a concept.

474
00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:50,000
You shouldn't
be alone, Tal.

475
00:24:50,019 --> 00:24:52,069
Having someone there
helps keep it at bay.

476
00:24:52,089 --> 00:24:53,119
Alone is not good.

477
00:24:53,140 --> 00:24:54,170
I'm not alone.

478
00:24:54,190 --> 00:24:57,059
I have my book and a cat, right?

479
00:24:57,079 --> 00:24:59,140
So, we have a little
while, unfortunately

480
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:03,190
before I begin
not to recognize you, Lee.

481
00:25:03,210 --> 00:25:06,180
But you didn't recognize me.

482
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,099
You covered and I saw it

483
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,180
and that's going
to last longer

484
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,099
and happen more and more

485
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:17,079
and, by the way, what the hell
happened with Molly?

486
00:25:17,099 --> 00:25:21,019
It's, "quote" hard
on the spouse, isn't it?

487
00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:22,019
I read that.

488
00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:24,180
We need to make plans, Lee.

489
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,130
Let's not sugarcoat this.

490
00:25:27,150 --> 00:25:30,210
Known you for a long time
and I just want to say this

491
00:25:30,230 --> 00:25:33,220
because I know you've
always been a straight shooter.

492
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,059
Because you hate
being a burden

493
00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:38,140
you're probably aware

494
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:40,220
that it's harder
on the people around you

495
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,140
than it will be on you.

496
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:47,079
For you, it will be
not unpleasant

497
00:25:47,099 --> 00:25:49,150
particularly if we put you
on the right drugs--

498
00:25:49,170 --> 00:25:54,089
including anti-depressants--
it won't hurt.

499
00:25:54,109 --> 00:25:55,230
( chuckling )

500
00:25:56,009 --> 00:25:58,220
If only that
were true, kids.

501
00:26:06,150 --> 00:26:09,000
He's too smart, it's no good.
He won't be handled.

502
00:26:09,019 --> 00:26:12,150
He's getting paranoid,
mad, and trying to fight.
Yes.

503
00:26:12,170 --> 00:26:14,049
Well, that's good.
Mad is good.

504
00:26:14,069 --> 00:26:18,029
He should be mad, it sucks.

505
00:26:18,049 --> 00:26:21,160
Look, C.J.

506
00:26:21,180 --> 00:26:23,039
there is a good home.

507
00:26:23,059 --> 00:26:26,119
It's actually
not depressing in any way.

508
00:26:26,140 --> 00:26:30,079
We can get him in
if we make a call now.

509
00:26:30,099 --> 00:26:33,099
He has a while, I think
but you're going to have

510
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:38,230
to start making plans
right now, today.

511
00:26:39,009 --> 00:26:41,130
TAL:
Shall we buy you
a corsage for the prom?

512
00:26:41,150 --> 00:26:43,220
Reunion. I'm not going.
You damn well are.

513
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,069
Your speech...
"The Promise of a Generation."

514
00:26:47,089 --> 00:26:49,130
Awfully grand title, no?
They came up with it.

515
00:26:49,150 --> 00:26:54,019
I agreed because I wanted
to be here to see you.
No, you didn't.

516
00:26:56,099 --> 00:26:58,180
You could come and live
in Washington with me.

517
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,079
I have room.
Do you?

518
00:27:00,099 --> 00:27:04,109
Can you imagine? Talk about
ruining a good thing.

519
00:27:07,029 --> 00:27:12,029
Okay, let's see.
Is this, uh...
Lakeside or Grandview?

520
00:27:12,049 --> 00:27:14,049
I know why
you started smoking again.

521
00:27:14,069 --> 00:27:16,069
It's because you use
the time it gives you
to work stuff out.

522
00:27:16,089 --> 00:27:17,210
You use the cigarette
to stall for time.

523
00:27:17,230 --> 00:27:20,049
No, sweetie, I
started smoking again

524
00:27:20,069 --> 00:27:23,069
because I forgot that
20 years ago I quit.

525
00:27:23,089 --> 00:27:25,160
Great, that's great.

526
00:27:25,180 --> 00:27:28,089
See, I know exactly
what I'm doing.

527
00:27:28,109 --> 00:27:30,079
( cell phone rings )

528
00:27:30,099 --> 00:27:31,170
( horns honking )

529
00:27:31,190 --> 00:27:33,140
Dad! Dad!

530
00:27:35,059 --> 00:27:36,000
Hello?

531
00:27:36,019 --> 00:27:37,049
So, how's it going?

532
00:27:37,069 --> 00:27:39,009
Please tell me
everything's okay.

533
00:27:39,029 --> 00:27:40,170
All quite in the West Wing.

534
00:27:40,190 --> 00:27:42,049
( horns honking )

535
00:27:42,069 --> 00:27:44,049
What's all that honking?

536
00:27:44,069 --> 00:27:45,069
You in a parade?

537
00:27:45,089 --> 00:27:46,200
They having a parade
for you?

538
00:27:46,220 --> 00:27:50,000
Let's talk later.
Pull over. I'm driving.

539
00:27:50,019 --> 00:27:51,019
( horns honking )

540
00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:52,180
Pull over.

541
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,099
Well, let's go,
if we're going.

542
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,059
I mean...

543
00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:04,049
tell me...

544
00:28:04,069 --> 00:28:05,130
things like your checkbook

545
00:28:05,150 --> 00:28:06,220
your money,
things like that--

546
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,190
what do you propose to do?

547
00:28:08,210 --> 00:28:10,130
Tell me.
You're smart, tell me.

548
00:28:10,150 --> 00:28:12,220
I'm pretty good
with numbers.
Oh?

549
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,049
If we drove for three hours
at 40 miles an hour?
I mean, tell me.

550
00:28:17,069 --> 00:28:20,079
You are holding on
to something that...
What am I holding to?

551
00:28:20,099 --> 00:28:22,099
My consciousness?
My identity?
...can't be willed away!

552
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,069
by sheer force of
personality, Daddy.

553
00:28:25,089 --> 00:28:29,000
would you hand over
those things without a fight?

554
00:28:32,019 --> 00:28:36,109
I need a little
more time, C.J.

555
00:28:36,130 --> 00:28:40,230
If I let it in at its own pace,
it'll just get dark faster.

556
00:29:04,009 --> 00:29:06,019
( playing jazz )

557
00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:09,190
TOBY ( on TV ):
The same is the same,
and the same is true

558
00:29:09,210 --> 00:29:11,170
for the bailout
of the iron industry.

559
00:29:11,190 --> 00:29:14,160
Nothing was said
that has not been...

560
00:29:14,180 --> 00:29:17,000
that has consistently
not been said

561
00:29:17,019 --> 00:29:19,220
and is still being
not said.

562
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,210
And what's, what's, what's
not being said is often

563
00:29:22,230 --> 00:29:25,109
uh, more important than-than

564
00:29:25,130 --> 00:29:27,069
ugh, what's stated particularly
by Congress.

565
00:29:27,089 --> 00:29:30,099
That man lacks grace and charm.

566
00:29:30,119 --> 00:29:32,130
Do you think?

567
00:29:32,150 --> 00:29:34,220
( playing resumes )

568
00:29:36,180 --> 00:29:38,069
( stops playing )

569
00:29:40,119 --> 00:29:43,200
They really need you.
Yeah, they kind of do.

570
00:29:43,220 --> 00:29:45,230
( doorbell rings )

571
00:29:46,009 --> 00:29:49,029
( piano playing resumes)
Dad! Dad, can you get the door?

572
00:29:49,049 --> 00:29:52,039
( stops playing )

573
00:29:58,119 --> 00:30:00,059
Mr. Arlen!

574
00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:02,009
We heard you were back in town.

575
00:30:02,029 --> 00:30:05,009
Mr. Cregg, how's
the algebra business?

576
00:30:05,029 --> 00:30:06,210
Abysmal mess, I hear.

577
00:30:06,230 --> 00:30:09,170
But, fortunately,
as the waitresses like to say

578
00:30:09,190 --> 00:30:10,160
"Not my table."

579
00:30:10,180 --> 00:30:14,069
Come on in.
Thank you.

580
00:30:14,089 --> 00:30:17,130
You're no longer a rabid
punk rocker, I see.

581
00:30:17,150 --> 00:30:19,049
How could you possibly
remember that?

582
00:30:19,069 --> 00:30:21,009
I was your student
for one semester.

583
00:30:21,029 --> 00:30:22,210
Oh, I remember
the detentions

584
00:30:22,230 --> 00:30:24,210
and the ditchings
and the low test scores

585
00:30:24,230 --> 00:30:28,069
and your imperviousness
to algorithms.
Uh-huh.

586
00:30:28,089 --> 00:30:31,009
Let's get you a drink.
Scotch.

587
00:30:31,029 --> 00:30:33,009
You were better-looking
with the Mohawk, son.

588
00:30:33,029 --> 00:30:36,019
Yeah, my mom thinks so, too.

589
00:30:36,039 --> 00:30:37,150
So, what're you up to now?

590
00:30:37,170 --> 00:30:39,170
I'm a horologist.

591
00:30:39,190 --> 00:30:44,099
You fix watches?

592
00:30:44,119 --> 00:30:45,190
You were in trouble.

593
00:30:45,210 --> 00:30:48,220
Yeah. Yeah, I, uh, I spent
a lot of time in detention.

594
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,190
No, no, after.
You were in prison.

595
00:30:51,210 --> 00:30:53,220
No, Dad, no.
He gets confused.

596
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,109
Dad, no, wasn't...

597
00:30:55,130 --> 00:30:57,059
( kissing )
Marco... wasn't
in prison.

598
00:30:57,079 --> 00:30:59,109
Yes, I was.

599
00:30:59,130 --> 00:31:00,099
I did a year.

600
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:02,109
It wasn't hard,
I was younger.

601
00:31:02,130 --> 00:31:04,029
Stock tips.

602
00:31:04,049 --> 00:31:07,049
Anyway...I lost most of
what I had and moved on.

603
00:31:07,069 --> 00:31:11,009
C'est la guerre, eh, son?
C'est la guerre.

604
00:31:11,029 --> 00:31:13,019
So, what's the skinny?

605
00:31:13,039 --> 00:31:15,099
You good with
the watches?

606
00:31:15,119 --> 00:31:18,019
Uh... yes, sir.

607
00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:23,000
Wow!

608
00:31:23,019 --> 00:31:24,170
1931 Hamilton.

609
00:31:24,190 --> 00:31:27,190
One of the few thoroughly
American watches.

610
00:31:27,210 --> 00:31:30,200
Each piece, each part,
handmade in the US of A.

611
00:31:30,220 --> 00:31:32,109
Not many American watchmakers.

612
00:31:32,130 --> 00:31:34,150
My dad's.

613
00:31:34,170 --> 00:31:36,119
You're losing time,
Mr. Cregg.

614
00:31:36,140 --> 00:31:39,069
That, son, I am.

615
00:31:39,089 --> 00:31:41,029
Lets have a look inside.

616
00:31:41,049 --> 00:31:43,049
Really?
Uh, yeah.

617
00:31:43,069 --> 00:31:44,099
Huh.

618
00:31:51,099 --> 00:31:53,190
MARCO:
Yeah, isochronism
is out of beat.

619
00:31:53,210 --> 00:31:55,220
Is it?
Yeah.

620
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,190
This is your balance cock
and your hairspring.

621
00:32:00,210 --> 00:32:02,019
( soft rattling )

622
00:32:02,039 --> 00:32:04,109
The fourth wheel
and the third wheel here.

623
00:32:04,130 --> 00:32:05,210
That's me.

624
00:32:05,230 --> 00:32:06,220
Hmm?

625
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,119
Oh, what am I
thinking?

626
00:32:08,140 --> 00:32:09,220
You kids should
get going.

627
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,000
Maybe we should.

628
00:32:12,019 --> 00:32:13,119
I've always
cherished this thing.

629
00:32:13,140 --> 00:32:15,210
My father kept
perfect time--

630
00:32:15,230 --> 00:32:18,000
marked it, measured
it with this--

631
00:32:18,019 --> 00:32:20,039
the hellos
and good-byes.

632
00:32:20,059 --> 00:32:23,210
It keeps faltering,
nobody can do anything.

633
00:32:23,230 --> 00:32:25,160
Well, I could retool it.

634
00:32:25,180 --> 00:32:27,119
It wants a timing machine.

635
00:32:27,140 --> 00:32:30,019
Send it to you
in a few weeks from Paris.

636
00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:32,170
France? You're a
convicted felon.

637
00:32:32,190 --> 00:32:34,200
How do I know
you won't steal it?

638
00:32:34,220 --> 00:32:36,000
I'm not a recidivist.

639
00:32:36,019 --> 00:32:37,200
It would be a pleasure,
Mr. Cregg.

640
00:32:37,220 --> 00:32:39,119
After all,
you taught me how to...

641
00:32:39,140 --> 00:32:42,180
calculate the number
of stones in the great pyramid.

642
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,089
I did?
Mm-hmm.

643
00:32:45,109 --> 00:32:48,039
How do you do that?

644
00:32:48,059 --> 00:32:49,210
I can't remember
anything.

645
00:32:49,230 --> 00:32:51,230
For days sometimes.

646
00:32:52,009 --> 00:32:53,109
I...

647
00:32:57,069 --> 00:33:00,019
I can't remember who this is.

648
00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:17,019
We should be going, Mr. Cregg.

649
00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:20,019
Oh... forgive me.

650
00:33:44,029 --> 00:33:46,049
C.J.:
Are we that old?

651
00:33:46,069 --> 00:33:48,069
MARCO:
Do you recognize anyone?

652
00:33:48,089 --> 00:33:52,039
Oh... Bill Morton
from debate.

653
00:33:52,059 --> 00:33:56,019
Julia Keller
from cheerleading.

654
00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:58,099
Liz Varney from tennis.

655
00:33:58,119 --> 00:34:01,170
MARCO:
Ben Ehrenreich...
he was sweet.

656
00:34:01,190 --> 00:34:03,029
( cell phone rings )

657
00:34:03,049 --> 00:34:04,119
Tried to kiss me once.

658
00:34:04,140 --> 00:34:07,130
( ringing continues )

659
00:34:07,150 --> 00:34:10,050
( ringing )

660
00:34:10,070 --> 00:34:11,219
( ringing )

661
00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:20,210
I don't think I can...
face it right now.

662
00:34:27,090 --> 00:34:28,190
When do you give your speech?

663
00:34:28,210 --> 00:34:31,159
After dinner,
before the scary dancing.

664
00:34:31,179 --> 00:34:33,099
After dinner?

665
00:34:48,050 --> 00:34:49,210
( engine starting )

666
00:34:53,019 --> 00:34:57,039
( playing aria from
Bach's Goldberg Variations )

667
00:35:07,059 --> 00:35:11,130
( aria from Bach's Goldberg
Variations continues playing )

668
00:35:17,219 --> 00:35:23,199
(Goldberg Variations continues)

669
00:35:32,030 --> 00:35:34,079
♪ ♪

670
00:35:34,099 --> 00:35:35,130
Mm!

671
00:35:35,150 --> 00:35:38,099
I'm, like, I'm, like, on
in a few minutes.

672
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:41,050
No, that, no, that...
that clock's 20 minutes fast.

673
00:35:41,070 --> 00:35:42,079
Oh.

674
00:35:42,099 --> 00:35:44,090
( chuckling )

675
00:35:44,110 --> 00:35:46,139
Anyway, you're about
to find out.

676
00:35:46,159 --> 00:35:49,050
What am I about to find out?

677
00:35:49,070 --> 00:35:52,130
The bittersweet thrill
of high school popularity.

678
00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:55,050
♪ ♪

679
00:35:55,070 --> 00:36:00,010
There were days,
some days, when...

680
00:36:00,030 --> 00:36:02,019
we'd played at a party,
The Mollusks

681
00:36:02,039 --> 00:36:05,050
or we'd won
a baseball game and...

682
00:36:05,070 --> 00:36:10,000
there was just
that... thing, that...

683
00:36:10,019 --> 00:36:11,159
Hmm.

684
00:36:11,179 --> 00:36:15,090
...everybody loving you
in that moment.

685
00:36:18,039 --> 00:36:21,179
Are you saying... you're
one of those people

686
00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:23,210
who think like, in
F. Scott Fitzgerald,

687
00:36:23,230 --> 00:36:26,019
their best years
were 20 years prior?

688
00:36:26,039 --> 00:36:27,139
Oh, God, no.

689
00:36:27,159 --> 00:36:32,059
No, I think the best day's
got to be the next day.

690
00:36:32,079 --> 00:36:34,170
Life is...

691
00:36:34,190 --> 00:36:38,059
all..."what's next?"

692
00:36:38,079 --> 00:36:40,150
It's like those billboards where

693
00:36:40,170 --> 00:36:43,010
before the actual ad goes up

694
00:36:43,030 --> 00:36:45,190
they put in,
in big block letters...

695
00:36:47,219 --> 00:36:50,059
"Watch this space."

696
00:36:50,079 --> 00:36:52,230
( typing )

697
00:36:53,010 --> 00:36:58,030
(Goldberg Variations
playing in background )

698
00:37:06,090 --> 00:37:09,070
My name is C.J. Cregg.

699
00:37:09,090 --> 00:37:10,190
( applause )

700
00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:18,090
As you know, I work for the
President of the United States.

701
00:37:18,110 --> 00:37:22,079
This is why I was asked to make
a short speech for our reunion.

702
00:37:24,210 --> 00:37:27,190
It's a terrible subject,
a terrible idea

703
00:37:27,210 --> 00:37:30,190
"The Promise of a Generation."

704
00:37:30,210 --> 00:37:33,099
So bad, I was gonna start out
with a joke

705
00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:36,000
and fill the whole thing
in with more jokes.

706
00:37:36,019 --> 00:37:39,159
But I find the topic
has gotten under my skin

707
00:37:39,179 --> 00:37:42,039
while I wasn't paying attention

708
00:37:42,059 --> 00:37:44,230
because every generation
has promise

709
00:37:45,010 --> 00:37:48,219
and every generation fails
that promise in some respects.

710
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,199
How can we not? What is promise

711
00:37:50,219 --> 00:37:53,230
if not something that's
impossible to live up to?

712
00:37:54,010 --> 00:37:57,150
My boss had to recently make
his case to the American people

713
00:37:57,170 --> 00:37:59,099
that he was worth reelecting

714
00:37:59,119 --> 00:38:03,070
and it was...
not an easy process,

715
00:38:03,090 --> 00:38:06,030
nor should it be.

716
00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:09,019
And in its wake,
I've been thinking a lot

717
00:38:09,039 --> 00:38:14,170
about civility, civic duty
and kindness,

718
00:38:14,190 --> 00:38:18,019
and how pervasive and powerful
they are,

719
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:23,059
how enduringly persuasive those
qualities are in American life,

720
00:38:23,079 --> 00:38:27,139
and how I see them
all around me day after day.

721
00:38:30,059 --> 00:38:33,010
America's a terribly
difficult idea

722
00:38:33,030 --> 00:38:37,210
filled with promise
and impossible to live up to.

723
00:38:37,230 --> 00:38:41,139
Promise is inchoate
and promise is what binds us.

724
00:38:41,159 --> 00:38:44,179
Some of us died, some got sick,

725
00:38:44,199 --> 00:38:49,099
some got rich, some...
had bad luck,

726
00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:53,039
some of us were fortunate,
more than others.

727
00:38:57,159 --> 00:39:01,190
But failed promise
only truly fails

728
00:39:01,210 --> 00:39:04,019
when it leads
to lowered expectations.

729
00:39:04,039 --> 00:39:05,079
( cell phone rings )

730
00:39:05,099 --> 00:39:06,079
Um...

731
00:39:06,099 --> 00:39:09,139
( ringing )

732
00:39:09,159 --> 00:39:11,139
Sorry.

733
00:39:11,159 --> 00:39:14,130
( ringing )

734
00:39:14,150 --> 00:39:16,070
Excuse me one sec.

735
00:39:16,090 --> 00:39:17,199
( ringing stops )

736
00:39:17,219 --> 00:39:19,219
Toby, not now, not now,
not in the--

737
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:21,130
Something's happened.
Turn on CNN.

738
00:39:21,150 --> 00:39:23,010
C.J.:
I hope it's monumental

739
00:39:23,030 --> 00:39:25,019
not some joke timed
for the exact moment

740
00:39:25,039 --> 00:39:27,050
I'm giving my speech, Toby.
It is.

741
00:39:27,070 --> 00:39:30,059
Two car bombs outside
our embassies in Asia.

742
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:31,119
One went off, one didn't.

743
00:39:31,139 --> 00:39:33,130
A message to expect
more of the same

744
00:39:33,150 --> 00:39:35,059
within the next
24 hours, Four.

745
00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:36,059
Oh, geez. How many...?

746
00:39:36,079 --> 00:39:38,019
No casualties, thank God.

747
00:39:38,039 --> 00:39:42,030
If you can try
and-and get back, uh...

748
00:39:42,050 --> 00:39:43,110
There are no direct flights

749
00:39:43,130 --> 00:39:45,079
but if you connect
out of Chicago

750
00:39:45,099 --> 00:39:48,130
you can be in, we think,
at 6:30 in the morning.

751
00:39:48,150 --> 00:39:50,110
Um... let me get moving.

752
00:39:50,130 --> 00:39:54,150
I'll call you in a few minutes
on my way to the airport.
Okay.

753
00:39:54,170 --> 00:39:56,070
I'm sorry. I have to go.

754
00:39:56,090 --> 00:39:57,210
There's been.... We have...

755
00:39:57,230 --> 00:40:00,119
I'm sorry. I...

756
00:40:00,139 --> 00:40:02,050
What happened?

757
00:40:02,070 --> 00:40:03,190
Some bombing threats
to embassies.

758
00:40:03,210 --> 00:40:05,050
I'm sorry, I have to go,

759
00:40:05,070 --> 00:40:08,159
I have to get back to D.C.
I'll get the car.

760
00:40:08,179 --> 00:40:11,099
Are you alright?
I have to go.

761
00:40:11,119 --> 00:40:13,230
Tal, I-I don't know
what to do about this situation.

762
00:40:14,010 --> 00:40:16,159
Well, nobody does,
we'll just try
and figure it out.

763
00:40:16,179 --> 00:40:18,030
Between the lot of us

764
00:40:18,050 --> 00:40:20,190
there's surely one superior
mind still working.

765
00:40:20,210 --> 00:40:22,159
I don't
know whose.
Right.

766
00:40:22,179 --> 00:40:25,130
We'll drive with you
to the airport if you like.

767
00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:31,050
TALMIDGE:
C.J.

768
00:40:31,070 --> 00:40:33,110
Before I forget.

769
00:40:33,130 --> 00:40:37,079
Tell Marco...
send it back to me soon.

770
00:40:37,099 --> 00:40:38,210
Please.

771
00:40:38,230 --> 00:40:40,059
And working.

772
00:40:42,110 --> 00:40:43,219
Time matters.

773
00:40:52,059 --> 00:40:55,039
I'll see you next week.

774
00:40:55,059 --> 00:40:57,210
You can't keep flying
back and forth.

775
00:41:03,210 --> 00:41:07,079
(Goldberg Variations playing)