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- Subtitles by explosiveskull
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- <i>Oh, God, there must be a better way.</i>
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- <i>There must be a better way</i>
- <i>to describe things,</i>
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- <i>to arrange words in a new way,</i>
- <i>to use words,</i>
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- <i>to take you to a place beyond words.</i>
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- 00:00:34,125 --> 00:00:35,501
- <i>There must be.</i>
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- I'm so glad that we could finally
- sit down together.
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- 00:00:38,337 --> 00:00:42,675
- <i>I know we haven't had a chance</i>
- <i>to do that since Sonia retired.</i>
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- 00:00:42,842 --> 00:00:45,970
- I know that she is...
- She is very sad to go.
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- -Understandably, but...
- -It's just such a shame.
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- 00:00:49,974 --> 00:00:53,769
- Retiring at, what, 70? Why?
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- 00:00:53,936 --> 00:00:57,398
- -Well--
- -It doesn't make any sense to me.
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- 00:00:57,565 --> 00:01:01,277
- Well, I know that...
- That her husband obviously hasn't been--
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- 00:01:01,444 --> 00:01:05,907
- The husband is ill. The children
- are needy. The children are 40.
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- 00:01:06,073 --> 00:01:10,912
- But are more needy than ever.
- So that's confusing.
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- 00:01:11,078 --> 00:01:14,665
- And how long have you been
- at the agency?
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- 00:01:14,832 --> 00:01:17,251
- I know we've spoken on the phone...
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- ...for a couple of years.
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- 00:01:20,254 --> 00:01:22,465
- Well, I've been...
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- I think it's been eight years
- I've been at the agency now,
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- 00:01:26,594 --> 00:01:29,472
- and I've been assisting Sonia
- for the last seven.
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- 00:01:29,639 --> 00:01:33,684
- So, actually, I know it may seem
- that I'm new, but I've been...
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- -Gosh.
- -...working on your account
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- and working on your sales,
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- 00:01:37,855 --> 00:01:42,485
- and I should say that there is
- a lot of excitement at the agency
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- regarding your new manuscript,
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- and without wanting to pry too much,
- is there anything you might be able...
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- 00:01:49,784 --> 00:01:53,955
- -...to share with us?
- -Not really. Not at this point, no.
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- I'm sorry to be so blunt, but...
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- Sonia never invaded my process
- in any way,
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- and she always gave me free rein.
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- She gave me the dignity
- and the respect of complete autonomy.
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- 00:02:14,141 --> 00:02:17,687
- -Everyone's very excited. Um...
- -Great.
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- What do you like about my writing?
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- 00:02:20,147 --> 00:02:23,985
- I mean, what pulls you to the material?
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- 00:02:24,151 --> 00:02:26,612
- Well, um...
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- I have to say, I...
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- The first book of yours that I read was
- <i>You Always, You Never.</i>
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- 00:02:34,745 --> 00:02:38,666
- -And I was--
- -Did you read <i>A Function of the Body?</i>
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- Was that one of the ones
- that you liked?
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- 00:02:42,545 --> 00:02:47,091
- That was a much, much better book...
- Quite frankly.
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- 00:02:47,258 --> 00:02:51,220
- <i>You Always, You Never,</i>
- yes, it has a residual impact.
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- Uh, it won the Pulitzer, but it's...
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- It's a completely different thing
- than the Footling Prize.
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- Oh, yes, I meant to bring that up,
- actually. They are...
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- 00:03:02,940 --> 00:03:06,319
- They are asking for an answer.
- They're... they're...
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- 00:03:06,485 --> 00:03:08,988
- Obviously, they're hoping
- that you'll be able to make it, and...
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- 00:03:09,155 --> 00:03:14,493
- Do you realize that they don't give the
- Footling Prize in fiction every year?
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- It's something that other
- writers confer on writers.
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- -Well--
- -I'm so proud, but I just, uh...
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- I can't attend. I can't attend.
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- It's killing me.
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- 00:03:32,511 --> 00:03:34,805
- -But...
- -Well--
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- I can't fly, you see, so...
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- 00:03:38,309 --> 00:03:41,062
- -I can't fly.
- -Do--
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- -And along with the other things--
- -Would you consider...
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- I mean, there may be a way for you
- to get to the UK without having to fly.
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- 00:03:49,111 --> 00:03:51,697
- I mean, there's a crossing.
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- 00:03:51,864 --> 00:03:55,618
- There's a ship, the <i>Queen Mary 2,</i>
- that goes from New York to Southampton.
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- I happen to know the
- director of the Cunard Line.
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- You know, they have regular crossings
- between--
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- Transatlantic crossings, and I'm sure...
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- I'm sure if I spoke to him, they'd be
- willing to to give you a state room
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- and whatever you needed.
- I mean, in exchange for...
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- Perhaps if you did a little talk
- on the boat, then...
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- -Oh, well, I don't think...
- -Then something could be arranged.
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- Just hear me out. I think...
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- Yes, I think that might be the solution
- to be able to get you there,
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- because, obviously, this prize
- means so much to you, as it should,
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- and I know that they'd be thrilled
- if you were able to make it.
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- And it really is a lovely way to travel.
- It's a beautiful ship.
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- Could I bring guests?
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- -Yes, of course.
- -How many?
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- 00:04:45,876 --> 00:04:50,339
- And my main feeling is just feeling
- like I'm a burden on you, and...
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- Just, like, shoving myself
- in here when, you know...
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- And I appreciate it.
- Mika appreciates it.
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- You know, I invited you--
- May I just remind you?
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- I invited you.
- I'm your mom. I'm your family.
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- What's that for if not to...
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- I still don't understand it.
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- What... How could...
- You did this company together.
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- And I don't understand
- how he...
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- -I think he thinks that I--
- -...cut you out. Why he would do that?
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- He used the program
- that I had developed or I...
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- It was my idea. He actually did the...
- He was the engineer on it.
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- I don't know, honey.
- I really don't know.
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- I'm clueless, actually, about
- what you're going through with this.
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- That a friend should do this to you is
- kind of outrageous.
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- -It's shock... It's...
- -It makes me feel violent.
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- -Mom.
- -It does. Easily.
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- Don't let that motherfucker near me.
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- Why wouldn't you go on this trip?
- I mean, it sounds fascinating.
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- 00:05:57,823 --> 00:06:01,577
- Well, Cheryl needs more prep time
- before her parole hearing.
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- Mom, the hearing
- is six months from now.
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- -Roberta's going, right?
- -Yes, Roberta's definitely going.
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- 00:06:10,711 --> 00:06:14,257
- And you haven't heard from Alice
- since Dad died.
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- 00:06:14,423 --> 00:06:16,884
- And when did you last see
- her and Roberta?
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- Wow, I don't think we've seen each other
- since... Whoa...
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- Since we all got together
- in San Francisco.
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- -That was, like, when was that?
- -That was...that was over 30 years ago.
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- Well, you got to go.
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- You have... I think you have to go,
- just to find out why she's reaching out.
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- 00:06:41,242 --> 00:06:43,452
- And why you two? Why now?
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- -How are you?
- -Fine.
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- 00:06:47,999 --> 00:06:52,128
- So I am very frustrated right now.
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- -Oh, dear.
- -I know.
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- -I called ahead... Are you Carol?
- -No, I am Roberta, as you can see...
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- -I do see it now.
- -If you have eyeballs.
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- 00:06:59,927 --> 00:07:03,347
- I do. Okay, I called ahead
- and spoke to someone named Carol.
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- Perhaps was your manager, I don't know.
- And I don't want to get you in trouble.
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- 00:07:07,226 --> 00:07:13,816
- But she did tell me that you have
- a peacock blue panty and bra set.
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- 00:07:13,983 --> 00:07:19,322
- And that is what I'm here for,
- and all I am seeing is teal.
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- 00:07:19,488 --> 00:07:22,074
- -So...
- -Can I just point out
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- that the difference between teal
- and peacock is as fine as a hair.
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- 00:07:28,748 --> 00:07:32,376
- Maybe to you. I have a highly developed
- sense of color. I'm a designer.
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- There's too much yellow in this.
- Now, let me help you understand.
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- Clovis, remember,
- I am leaving today for two weeks,
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- and I'll be back on the 16th, okay?
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- 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,228
- -Wait, you're going away?
- -Yeah.
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- 00:07:50,394 --> 00:07:53,147
- I told you all this in the email
- about three weeks ago.
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- 00:07:53,314 --> 00:07:56,984
- -I gave you the whole itinerary.
- -I didn't get your email.
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- 00:07:57,151 --> 00:07:59,278
- -I think you did.
- -I didn't get an email from you.
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- 00:07:59,445 --> 00:08:02,740
- -Because I sent it.
- -Okay, can you get someone to cover you?
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- -'Cause I have you five days next week.
- -No, but I think you can.
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- Because that's your job as manager.
- Bye-bye.
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- 00:08:15,544 --> 00:08:19,006
- <i>Who are the other two people</i>
- <i>she invited?</i>
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- 00:08:19,173 --> 00:08:22,260
- They're her... like, her two
- oldest friends from college.
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- -Really?
- -They've been friends for 50 years.
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- 00:08:25,721 --> 00:08:28,015
- -Jesus.
- -Just been chillin'.
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- Or I guess they haven't seen
- each other in a while, I'm not sure.
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- 00:08:30,309 --> 00:08:32,436
- I don't know, for our generation,
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- what friendship will look like
- over a long period of time.
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- At least, I've only had friends
- for four years at a time,
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- 00:08:37,483 --> 00:08:40,069
- and these women have been
- friends for 50 years, so--
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- Trying to study them and learn. Maybe
- I can learn something from it, you know?
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- 00:08:46,909 --> 00:08:51,747
- -And, what, she's, like, a TV person?
- -No, she's a writer. She's... An author.
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- 00:08:51,914 --> 00:08:53,958
- -Do you not know this?
- -You didn't tell us anything about this.
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- 00:08:54,125 --> 00:08:59,088
- What do you mean? You don't know
- who my aunt is? You don't?
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- 00:08:59,255 --> 00:09:02,091
- Alice Hughes, <i>You Always, You Never.</i>
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- It won the Pulitzer Prize. It's been
- turned into a movie and a miniseries
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- in the last, I don't know,
- 15, 20 years or something.
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- 00:09:09,599 --> 00:09:13,895
- -You haven't seen it?
- -This was years ago? Or this was recent?
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- I'm really surprised. It's, like...
- Well, you should read it.
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- It's an unbelievable book
- and a great movie.
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- Can you not go? Why would you go?
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- -Yeah.
- -Aw, thanks.
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- 00:09:24,155 --> 00:09:26,032
- No, it's not a "thanks" moment.
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- I felt so much love from you
- in that moment, so I had to say thanks.
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- No, I got to go.
- I got to go do, um...
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- I just got to go do my thing, you know?
- Take care of these lovely old women.
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- 00:09:39,211 --> 00:09:42,381
- She desperately wants to accept
- the Footling Prize, but she can't fly,
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- 00:09:42,548 --> 00:09:45,676
- so I've booked her on the <i>Queen Mary 2</i>
- with her two friends and her nephew.
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- 00:09:45,843 --> 00:09:49,472
- I'm not... She gets on the boat,
- she takes the boat,
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- 00:09:49,639 --> 00:09:54,393
- and then you take the boat, too,
- for what purpose, exactly?
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- 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:59,440
- For years, she's been hinting to Sonia
- she's revisiting one of her characters.
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- 00:09:59,607 --> 00:10:02,652
- And we're hoping it's Rowena
- from <i>You Always, You Never.</i>
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- 00:10:02,818 --> 00:10:05,112
- Then again, whenever anyone mentions
- <i>You Always, You Never, </i>she slags it off.
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- 00:10:05,279 --> 00:10:07,698
- If she hated that book so much,
- why'd she put it out in the first place?
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- 00:10:07,865 --> 00:10:09,867
- -It was a long time ago, I understand...
- -Know what we're gonna get?
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- 00:10:10,034 --> 00:10:12,912
- Our luck, we're gonna get a sequel
- to <i>A Function of the Body.</i>
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- 00:10:13,079 --> 00:10:15,248
- Well, she did mention she considers
- that to be a much better book.
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- 00:10:15,414 --> 00:10:18,209
- Oh, my God. Of course she did.
- Here's a thought.
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- 00:10:18,376 --> 00:10:20,211
- How about a sequel
- to <i>You Always, You Never,</i>
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- 00:10:20,378 --> 00:10:24,298
- and maybe make it better than the
- original? How's that for a bold idea?
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- 00:10:24,465 --> 00:10:27,343
- I completely agree, which is why
- I think I need to be on that ship.
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- 00:10:27,510 --> 00:10:30,721
- It's a big ask. It's not just the cost
- of the trip. You'll be out of office.
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- 00:10:30,888 --> 00:10:34,600
- -I don't see that there's any other way.
- -All right.
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- 00:10:34,767 --> 00:10:37,645
- But if this doesn't work out,
- you're gonna wear it.
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- 00:10:40,314 --> 00:10:41,691
- All right.
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- 00:13:48,419 --> 00:13:51,464
- -I feel useful. I feel useful.
- -Yeah.
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- 00:13:51,631 --> 00:13:53,841
- -It's a wonderful feeling.
- -That's a good feeling.
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- 00:13:54,008 --> 00:13:57,303
- Sometimes it's a heartbreaking thing
- 'cause, you know, they won't get parole.
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- 00:13:57,470 --> 00:13:59,889
- You've been preparing,
- and the parole board just...
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- 00:14:00,056 --> 00:14:02,558
- Yes, yes.
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- 00:14:02,725 --> 00:14:05,937
- -Anyway, anyway...
- -You're fighting the good fight.
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- 00:14:06,103 --> 00:14:08,522
- I don't know. I'm trying. I'm trying.
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- 00:14:08,689 --> 00:14:12,902
- The main thing is the connection
- with the women...
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- 00:14:13,069 --> 00:14:15,321
- -Is just such a gift.
- -It's everything.
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- 00:14:15,488 --> 00:14:16,864
- It's a gift.
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- 00:14:17,031 --> 00:14:20,493
- What about you, Bert?
- What have you been up to?
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- 00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:24,747
- Oh, well...
- Not much, really, not much.
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- 00:14:24,914 --> 00:14:27,708
- I don't advocate for anybody except...
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- 00:14:27,875 --> 00:14:31,712
- I advocate for women's brassieres,
- basically. Just...
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- 00:14:31,879 --> 00:14:35,424
- -For what, hon?
- -I sell lingerie.
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- 00:14:35,591 --> 00:14:40,012
- -Your what, honey? You're in what?
- -I sell lingerie.
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- 00:14:40,179 --> 00:14:43,307
- Tyler, you brought the books.
- I've brought you books.
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- 00:14:43,474 --> 00:14:45,142
- -Oh, how wonderful.
- -So that I hope...
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- 00:14:45,309 --> 00:14:50,481
- I hope you'll look at the <i>Realm</i>
- <i>of the Owl, </i>which is her seminal work.
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- 00:14:50,648 --> 00:14:56,112
- She didn't write very much,
- but the work that she did write is...
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- Groundbreaking, and I think
- it's important that we all somehow...
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- 00:15:03,536 --> 00:15:09,917
- share the work before we go
- and stand at her... at her grave.
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- 00:15:10,084 --> 00:15:12,753
- Thank you.
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- 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:19,093
- So... speaking of writing, I'm just...
- I'm just not going to be available.
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- 00:15:19,260 --> 00:15:22,305
- I've got a draft of a novel
- I'm trying to finish.
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- 00:15:22,471 --> 00:15:25,016
- I have, uh...
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- 00:15:25,182 --> 00:15:27,351
- This address that's...
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- 00:15:27,518 --> 00:15:30,605
- You know, they don't give
- this prize every year.
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- 00:15:30,771 --> 00:15:34,400
- -But we'll have supper together and--
- -Good. Yes.
- 199
- 00:15:34,567 --> 00:15:39,113
- You can tell me all the things
- that I'm missing out on.
- 200
- 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,200
- Here's to picking up the conversation
- where we left off.
- 201
- 00:15:43,367 --> 00:15:47,705
- You know? And here's to, maybe,
- 202
- 00:15:47,872 --> 00:15:52,877
- reconnecting the gang
- of three we used to be.
- 203
- 00:15:53,044 --> 00:15:56,088
- -Cheers.
- -Cheers.
- 204
- 00:15:56,255 --> 00:16:00,718
- -Yeah, thank you. Have a good one.
- -Good night. Thank you. Good night.
- 205
- 00:16:03,054 --> 00:16:06,474
- Hey, Bert, want to go
- have a drink later?
- 206
- 00:16:06,641 --> 00:16:09,268
- No, I can't.
- 207
- 00:16:32,208 --> 00:16:35,753
- <i>Hey, don't freak out.</i>
- <i>This is Karen, Alice's agent.</i>
- 208
- 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:40,383
- <i>I'm actually on this ship. Can you meet</i>
- <i>me in the Verandah bar in 15 minutes?</i>
- 209
- 00:16:40,549 --> 00:16:41,926
- What?
- 210
- 00:16:42,927 --> 00:16:46,180
- -Hi. Karen?
- -Yeah, hi.
- 211
- 00:16:46,347 --> 00:16:47,765
- -Tyler.
- -Nice to meet you.
- 212
- 00:16:47,932 --> 00:16:51,060
- -Yeah, nice to meet you, too.
- -Heard so much about you from Alice.
- 213
- 00:16:51,227 --> 00:16:53,271
- -Really?
- -Yeah.
- 214
- 00:16:53,437 --> 00:16:55,815
- -Cool.
- -Would you like a drink?
- 215
- 00:16:55,982 --> 00:17:00,403
- -Sure, yeah. What'd you have?
- -Vodka soda.
- 216
- 00:17:00,570 --> 00:17:05,032
- Okay, so can I have a Margarita?
- 217
- 00:17:05,199 --> 00:17:06,701
- -Can you do margarita?
- -Yeah, sure.
- 218
- 00:17:06,867 --> 00:17:10,913
- Oh, it's amazing. I'm a guest
- of a friend who's speaking,
- 219
- 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:15,710
- so I'm very lucky
- to get to be on this ship.
- 220
- 00:17:15,876 --> 00:17:19,088
- I wouldn't have been able to otherwise,
- and it's magnificent.
- 221
- 00:17:19,255 --> 00:17:22,842
- Yeah. You know, I was only in the pub.
- They have a pub on here.
- 222
- 00:17:23,009 --> 00:17:27,138
- I was in the pub, and I actually...
- I actually managed to sell...
- 223
- 00:17:27,305 --> 00:17:31,142
- You're not supposed to do it,
- but I actually managed to sell
- 224
- 00:17:31,309 --> 00:17:35,730
- a big quantity of my shoelaces
- to a guy in the pub.
- 225
- 00:17:35,897 --> 00:17:39,317
- -Yeah, yeah.
- -Turned a profit on the ship.
- 226
- 00:17:39,483 --> 00:17:43,738
- I have already, yeah. I've done that.
- I know.
- 227
- 00:17:43,905 --> 00:17:46,782
- We're turning over a lot of money in it.
- 228
- 00:17:46,949 --> 00:17:49,577
- How much money would that be?
- 229
- 00:17:49,744 --> 00:17:51,579
- -Do you want to know?
- -Yeah.
- 230
- 00:17:51,746 --> 00:17:54,248
- -I've just met you. I mean...
- -I want to know.
- 231
- 00:17:54,415 --> 00:17:56,250
- Let me start at the beginning.
- 232
- 00:17:56,417 --> 00:18:00,004
- Alice has a manuscript
- that's due really soon,
- 233
- 00:18:00,171 --> 00:18:02,798
- and everyone at the agency
- is getting a bit nervous
- 234
- 00:18:02,965 --> 00:18:05,176
- and wondering whether
- it's gonna be finished on time,
- 235
- 00:18:05,343 --> 00:18:08,596
- whether it's gonna be a sequel
- to <i>You Always, You Never, and...</i>
- 236
- 00:18:08,763 --> 00:18:12,516
- The problem is nobody there
- has seen a manuscript.
- 237
- 00:18:12,683 --> 00:18:16,687
- I mean, I haven't seen a manuscript.
- Have you seen a manuscript?
- 238
- 00:18:16,854 --> 00:18:19,732
- No, I have not seen a manuscript.
- 239
- 00:18:19,899 --> 00:18:22,818
- Okay, the thing is...
- 240
- 00:18:22,985 --> 00:18:25,363
- I was meant to get some answers
- the other day,
- 241
- 00:18:25,529 --> 00:18:32,828
- and I didn't get any answers, and
- if I don't get any information soon...
- 242
- 00:18:32,995 --> 00:18:37,667
- I'm gonna be in deep shit.
- So this is... this is really important.
- 243
- 00:18:37,833 --> 00:18:42,296
- And I'd really appreciate
- it if you could help me out.
- 244
- 00:18:42,463 --> 00:18:45,549
- I need... It's a really
- delicate situation, and...
- 245
- 00:18:45,716 --> 00:18:48,344
- You know, I don't want to approach her
- at the wrong time,
- 246
- 00:18:48,511 --> 00:18:52,014
- and I can't really get close enough
- to see what her frame of mind is.
- 247
- 00:18:52,181 --> 00:18:57,228
- And I thought maybe you
- could maybe give me a heads-up as to...
- 248
- 00:18:57,395 --> 00:19:03,192
- how she is, whether she's okay,
- how's she's feeling and, and then...
- 249
- 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:04,944
- -Right.
- -Yeah.
- 250
- 00:19:29,677 --> 00:19:31,888
- Today won't be any different
- than any other day.
- 251
- 00:19:32,054 --> 00:19:33,431
- -Okay.
- -And that will be...
- 252
- 00:19:33,598 --> 00:19:40,187
- I'm going to start work on my manuscript
- and then I'm going to swim at 3:00.
- 253
- 00:19:40,354 --> 00:19:45,651
- Butler will bring-- Pierre will bring me
- some sort of lunch, I suppose, at 1:00.
- 254
- 00:19:45,818 --> 00:19:50,907
- Then I'll swim, and then I'll come back
- and work for two more hours.
- 255
- 00:19:51,073 --> 00:19:52,909
- Six o'clock,
- I'll start to get ready for dinner.
- 256
- 00:19:53,075 --> 00:19:59,123
- Dinner at 7:00 and then back
- to work or bed or both.
- 257
- 00:20:00,166 --> 00:20:02,209
- I'll probably work in bed.
- 258
- 00:20:02,376 --> 00:20:07,173
- And is there anything
- you need from me within...
- 259
- 00:20:07,340 --> 00:20:09,759
- Working before lunch...
- 260
- 00:20:09,926 --> 00:20:14,013
- No, most of what I want you to do
- is I just want you to...
- 261
- 00:20:14,180 --> 00:20:17,683
- Take care of them.
- And make sure that they're happy.
- 262
- 00:20:17,850 --> 00:20:20,978
- I just don't know
- what's going on with them.
- 263
- 00:20:21,145 --> 00:20:24,649
- You know, I tried last night to...
- What happened after I left?
- 264
- 00:20:24,815 --> 00:20:27,568
- -Did you go out with Roberta and Susan?
- -Um, no.
- 265
- 00:20:27,735 --> 00:20:31,155
- Did they go out together? Did they
- speak to each other? Did they...
- 266
- 00:20:31,322 --> 00:20:35,451
- I don't... I don't know.
- I was... I just went home.
- 267
- 00:20:35,618 --> 00:20:37,995
- -And started writing some stuff down.
- -You just went home?
- 268
- 00:20:38,162 --> 00:20:41,499
- -Yeah.
- -But, Ty...
- 269
- 00:20:43,167 --> 00:20:48,005
- Part of what I... I really do want you
- to watch out over them.
- 270
- 00:20:48,172 --> 00:20:50,841
- 'Cause I'm not able to be with them,
- and I don't know what they're thinking.
- 271
- 00:20:51,008 --> 00:20:54,720
- I don't know what they're saying.
- I don't know... I really...
- 272
- 00:20:54,887 --> 00:20:58,933
- It's very important to me that I know
- something of their state of mind.
- 273
- 00:20:59,100 --> 00:21:03,729
- -Okay. Yeah. Absolutely, I'll, um...
- -All right?
- 274
- 00:21:03,896 --> 00:21:07,441
- -But I just want to...
- -That makes me think of something.
- 275
- 00:21:07,608 --> 00:21:11,529
- Can you hand me the manuscript
- that's over there, on the couch?
- 276
- 00:21:16,951 --> 00:21:20,246
- -And a pen. The red pen.
- -Yeah.
- 277
- 00:21:20,413 --> 00:21:22,582
- Got two pens.
- 278
- 00:21:22,748 --> 00:21:24,792
- -Thank you, darling.
- -Here you go.
- 279
- 00:21:24,959 --> 00:21:28,921
- Is... is this your new book?
- 280
- 00:21:30,464 --> 00:21:33,342
- Yeah. This is it.
- 281
- 00:21:34,802 --> 00:21:37,346
- What's it about?
- 282
- 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:44,562
- it is about trying to catch
- lightning in a bottle
- 283
- 00:21:44,729 --> 00:21:47,398
- for a second time.
- 284
- 00:21:50,067 --> 00:21:51,611
- Nice.
- 285
- 00:22:05,166 --> 00:22:07,835
- <i>She's in her room till 3:00,</i>
- <i>then she swims,</i>
- 286
- 00:22:08,002 --> 00:22:12,256
- <i>then back in her room,</i>
- <i>then dinner at 7:00, then bed.</i>
- 287
- 00:22:13,716 --> 00:22:15,968
- <i>Thanks.</i>
- 288
- 00:22:25,603 --> 00:22:28,356
- <i>What are you doing after dinner?</i>
- 289
- 00:23:09,814 --> 00:23:12,483
- Five. Dealer, 21. Sorry.
- 290
- 00:23:22,952 --> 00:23:28,165
- And I'm so curious to talk to you,
- Alice and Roberta,
- 291
- 00:23:28,332 --> 00:23:32,003
- about what it was like
- to come up together
- 292
- 00:23:32,169 --> 00:23:37,383
- without any technology,
- without... to...
- 293
- 00:23:37,550 --> 00:23:41,262
- I can't help but feel like
- you have a glimpse
- 294
- 00:23:41,429 --> 00:23:47,143
- into the experience
- of what it's like to not...
- 295
- 00:23:47,310 --> 00:23:52,064
- be obscured by any sort
- of false selves
- 296
- 00:23:52,231 --> 00:23:56,319
- or to really be intimate
- with each other in moments of...
- 297
- 00:23:56,485 --> 00:24:02,617
- So I kind of feel like I'm spending time
- with three...
- 298
- 00:24:02,783 --> 00:24:06,037
- -Almost, like...
- -Dinosaurs.
- 299
- 00:24:06,203 --> 00:24:08,456
- -No. I was gonna say...
- -I'm teasing you.
- 300
- 00:24:08,623 --> 00:24:10,583
- -Well, I know...
- -I'm teasing you.
- 301
- 00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:15,254
- I just think that there's...
- It is true that after your generation,
- 302
- 00:24:15,421 --> 00:24:20,509
- I don't know who will carry the torch
- for...
- 303
- 00:24:20,676 --> 00:24:25,348
- What really...
- What humanity really is.
- 304
- 00:24:25,514 --> 00:24:28,476
- I don't think it's that different,
- you know?
- 305
- 00:24:28,643 --> 00:24:34,190
- I know it's vastly different
- when you look at it from the outside.
- 306
- 00:24:34,357 --> 00:24:37,193
- And what's happened
- to your generation...
- 307
- 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:40,655
- I mean, since you were two,
- you've been typing away,
- 308
- 00:24:40,821 --> 00:24:45,243
- and so you've grown up with this thing
- like an appendage on you, you know?
- 309
- 00:24:45,409 --> 00:24:47,912
- But I think that...
- 310
- 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:54,126
- Depending on what you join up with
- on, you know, the computer...
- 311
- 00:24:54,293 --> 00:24:58,339
- Facebook or Instagram
- or whatever you're joining up with...
- 312
- 00:24:58,506 --> 00:25:00,591
- Or not...
- 313
- 00:25:00,758 --> 00:25:05,930
- That human communication
- is basically the same because
- 314
- 00:25:06,097 --> 00:25:07,974
- humans are basically the same.
- 315
- 00:25:42,341 --> 00:25:44,427
- So, who should I sign this to?
- 316
- 00:25:44,594 --> 00:25:47,638
- Arabella. It'd be very nice.
- 317
- 00:25:47,805 --> 00:25:51,392
- -That's my granddaughter.
- -Granddaughter?
- 318
- 00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:56,397
- -Yeah, she's only about, 15 years old?
- -She's seven today. It's her birthday.
- 319
- 00:25:56,564 --> 00:25:58,357
- -It's her birthday?
- -She's on board, yeah.
- 320
- 00:25:58,524 --> 00:26:01,193
- -She's on board? Where is she?
- -Oh, yeah, she's by the pool.
- 321
- 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:03,905
- -By the pool?
- -Naturally.
- 322
- 00:26:04,071 --> 00:26:08,159
- Well, that's... Can she swim?
- 323
- 00:26:14,749 --> 00:26:18,127
- Okay, so don't look all
- at the same time,
- 324
- 00:26:18,294 --> 00:26:21,672
- but does anybody know who that guy is,
- sitting behind me to the right?
- 325
- 00:26:21,839 --> 00:26:26,052
- He was surrounded by a group
- of fans earlier today.
- 326
- 00:26:26,219 --> 00:26:29,513
- Oh, I think that's him.
- 327
- 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:31,474
- -I know that's him.
- -Who?
- 328
- 00:26:31,641 --> 00:26:35,186
- -Who?
- -Kelvin Kranz!
- 329
- 00:26:35,353 --> 00:26:37,271
- -Who?
- -Who is he?
- 330
- 00:26:37,438 --> 00:26:39,982
- -He's a writer.
- -He's a huge mystery writer.
- 331
- 00:26:40,149 --> 00:26:43,819
- -He's written hundreds of books.
- -Have you read any of them?
- 332
- 00:26:43,986 --> 00:26:45,655
- -Oh, all of them.
- -Almost all of them.
- 333
- 00:26:45,821 --> 00:26:50,660
- -Every one of them. Some twice.
- -Good Lord. How is that possible?
- 334
- 00:26:50,826 --> 00:26:54,664
- -How is that possible...
- -It's a thrill... He's not like you.
- 335
- 00:26:54,830 --> 00:26:58,501
- Nothing like you at all.
- He's a thriller, a mystery writer.
- 336
- 00:26:58,668 --> 00:27:01,045
- -A thriller writer.
- -Yes, I understand.
- 337
- 00:27:01,212 --> 00:27:04,507
- What I don't understand...
- 338
- 00:27:04,674 --> 00:27:06,717
- is how people...
- 339
- 00:27:06,884 --> 00:27:11,639
- How you can read the...
- The prose just...
- 340
- 00:27:11,806 --> 00:27:14,517
- That kind of writing seems to me like...
- 341
- 00:27:14,684 --> 00:27:17,228
- The prose seems like Styrofoam
- or something.
- 342
- 00:27:17,395 --> 00:27:21,607
- -But it's plot-driven.
- -Yes, but the plots are so simplified.
- 343
- 00:27:21,774 --> 00:27:24,402
- It's like a jigsaw puzzle. You know,
- you match the color and the shape,
- 344
- 00:27:24,569 --> 00:27:27,697
- and then you put it all together.
- It's all very pat and neat and done.
- 345
- 00:27:27,863 --> 00:27:32,159
- And then, you know, it's a picture
- that's completely unrelated to life.
- 346
- 00:27:32,326 --> 00:27:34,662
- Life is a mystery, a true mystery.
- 347
- 00:27:34,829 --> 00:27:39,333
- -It's true.
- -Yes. I can't wait for the next one.
- 348
- 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:42,878
- And also, it's like a puzzle
- you get to solve.
- 349
- 00:27:43,045 --> 00:27:46,048
- -Maybe I'll go over there.
- -No, no, don't.
- 350
- 00:27:46,215 --> 00:27:49,010
- No, not yet. Don't...
- 351
- 00:27:49,176 --> 00:27:50,887
- Wait until later.
- 352
- 00:27:52,555 --> 00:27:54,056
- -Thank you.
- -Ma'am, pleasure.
- 353
- 00:27:54,223 --> 00:27:57,810
- -Why don't we go get a drink tonight?
- -Oh, I can't.
- 354
- 00:27:57,977 --> 00:27:59,729
- I'm going to the masquerade ball.
- 355
- 00:28:02,690 --> 00:28:05,610
- Sounds like fun.
- 356
- 00:28:23,586 --> 00:28:25,880
- <i>Can you hang out?</i>
- 357
- 00:28:27,548 --> 00:28:28,925
- Fuck, yeah.
- 358
- 00:28:47,026 --> 00:28:50,029
- I saw the manuscript.
- 359
- 00:28:50,196 --> 00:28:52,949
- Just saw it. I didn't...
- I asked her what it was about.
- 360
- 00:28:53,115 --> 00:28:58,704
- She was not really interested
- in sharing, but she did say that
- 361
- 00:28:58,871 --> 00:29:05,461
- it's about... trying to catch lightning
- in a bottle for the second time.
- 362
- 00:29:10,841 --> 00:29:14,637
- Lightning in a bottle
- for the second time, that...
- 363
- 00:29:14,804 --> 00:29:17,890
- That could mean a sequel. Right?
- 364
- 00:29:20,977 --> 00:29:24,855
- Yeah, I suppose it could.
- I think it could mean a lot of things.
- 365
- 00:29:25,022 --> 00:29:27,233
- Well, that's pretty exciting.
- 366
- 00:29:51,716 --> 00:29:55,011
- I thought that was the direction
- I was gonna take my life in,
- 367
- 00:29:55,177 --> 00:30:00,141
- and I went to college,
- and I sort of... I don't know.
- 368
- 00:30:00,308 --> 00:30:02,101
- The more I separated from my dad,
- 369
- 00:30:02,268 --> 00:30:05,897
- the more I saw actually
- how sketchy of a guy he was.
- 370
- 00:30:06,063 --> 00:30:10,151
- He was, like...
- kind of an ignorant human being
- 371
- 00:30:10,318 --> 00:30:13,905
- in his politics and his...
- 372
- 00:30:14,071 --> 00:30:18,034
- Just kind of the way he treated...
- 373
- 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,288
- people and specifically,
- I think, women.
- 374
- 00:30:22,455 --> 00:30:25,166
- And...
- 375
- 00:30:25,333 --> 00:30:28,961
- And... Yeah, and then...
- 376
- 00:30:29,128 --> 00:30:35,468
- He actually got sent to jail
- because he...
- 377
- 00:30:35,635 --> 00:30:41,140
- blackmailed some very important people
- at the top of these companies
- 378
- 00:30:41,307 --> 00:30:44,518
- that... that that he worked for.
- 379
- 00:30:44,685 --> 00:30:48,689
- -Yeah.
- -I don't know if you heard about that.
- 380
- 00:30:48,856 --> 00:30:52,485
- -Yeah, I heard something about that.
- -Yeah, that's my dad.
- 381
- 00:30:52,652 --> 00:30:56,030
- -Anyway...
- -It's okay.
- 382
- 00:30:56,197 --> 00:31:01,702
- So... Are you even or odd?
- I'm odd.
- 383
- 00:31:01,869 --> 00:31:04,997
- -I'm even.
- -Okay.
- 384
- 00:31:05,164 --> 00:31:06,666
- -All right.
- -Good night.
- 385
- 00:31:06,832 --> 00:31:11,337
- -Good night. See you tomorrow?
- -Yeah, definitely.
- 386
- 00:31:11,504 --> 00:31:13,673
- -Okay.
- -Okay.
- 387
- 00:31:41,492 --> 00:31:47,999
- So it's strange to me the idea
- that she would come here and avoid you.
- 388
- 00:31:48,165 --> 00:31:52,295
- It's very strange to me. It's strange
- because she jumped at the opportunity.
- 389
- 00:31:52,461 --> 00:31:54,755
- You know, she jumped at the invitation.
- 390
- 00:31:54,922 --> 00:32:00,761
- Susan, it took two weeks for her to make
- the arrangements to be able to leave.
- 391
- 00:32:00,928 --> 00:32:05,725
- Then maybe she's trying...
- She wanted to come here to...
- 392
- 00:32:05,892 --> 00:32:07,935
- To make you uneasy.
- 393
- 00:32:09,186 --> 00:32:11,439
- Oh, I don't...
- 394
- 00:32:11,606 --> 00:32:13,482
- -Or she wanted--
- -Do you think she did?
- 395
- 00:32:13,649 --> 00:32:15,318
- Well, maybe not as a whole,
- but, you know, some...
- 396
- 00:32:15,484 --> 00:32:21,991
- Like, when I was a kid, I would get mad
- at my parents and yell at them
- 397
- 00:32:22,158 --> 00:32:24,493
- to see that they loved me.
- 398
- 00:32:24,660 --> 00:32:26,537
- Do you know what I mean?
- I would hurt them.
- 399
- 00:32:26,704 --> 00:32:30,374
- And when I saw the hurt in their eyes,
- that told me they loved me.
- 400
- 00:32:30,541 --> 00:32:33,169
- And that was a way
- of comforting myself.
- 401
- 00:32:33,336 --> 00:32:36,422
- Oh, gosh, well, that's a horrible,
- horrible thought.
- 402
- 00:32:36,589 --> 00:32:40,092
- I hope that's not... That's true,
- and I'm sorry that happened to you.
- 403
- 00:32:40,259 --> 00:32:42,845
- Well, I did it, so...
- 404
- 00:32:43,012 --> 00:32:45,431
- Yes, but I don't think you...
- 405
- 00:32:45,598 --> 00:32:51,187
- I'm sure your mother came through for
- you, but I can't imagine that Bud did.
- 406
- 00:32:51,354 --> 00:32:52,730
- Right.
- 407
- 00:32:52,897 --> 00:32:58,945
- Okay, this is the closest that I've been
- able to come to a viable candidate,
- 408
- 00:32:59,111 --> 00:33:01,572
- Murray Dix.
- He makes shoelaces.
- 409
- 00:33:01,739 --> 00:33:05,826
- I wish it were a little more glamorous,
- but I think he's got dough.
- 410
- 00:33:05,993 --> 00:33:10,373
- I need you to find out
- how much dough he really has.
- 411
- 00:33:10,539 --> 00:33:16,295
- Is it liquid?
- What's his marital history? Was...
- 412
- 00:33:16,462 --> 00:33:22,385
- Did he abuse a wife? Did he...
- I mean, am I gonna survive if I...
- 413
- 00:33:23,803 --> 00:33:26,681
- Are there any red flags?
- Did he do time?
- 414
- 00:33:26,847 --> 00:33:31,269
- That would not be good
- for my reputation, among other things.
- 415
- 00:33:31,435 --> 00:33:34,105
- Right. Right.
- 416
- 00:33:34,272 --> 00:33:38,109
- -So can you--
- -You want me to do a forensic deep dive.
- 417
- 00:33:38,276 --> 00:33:41,153
- -Yes, I know you can do that.
- -If you will... Yeah, I got you.
- 418
- 00:34:04,468 --> 00:34:06,846
- Where is it?
- 419
- 00:34:36,167 --> 00:34:38,586
- Oh, my God.
- 420
- 00:34:54,769 --> 00:34:56,687
- What?
- 421
- 00:35:02,985 --> 00:35:06,113
- Okay, that's a blemish.
- 422
- 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:10,660
- But he was acquitted.
- Isn't that the important thing?
- 423
- 00:35:41,148 --> 00:35:43,776
- -Hey.
- -Hey.
- 424
- 00:35:44,986 --> 00:35:47,572
- -How's it going?
- -Yeah, good. How are you?
- 425
- 00:35:47,738 --> 00:35:50,366
- I'm doing well.
- 426
- 00:35:50,533 --> 00:35:51,993
- How you feeling today?
- 427
- 00:35:52,159 --> 00:35:56,956
- I hate my life. I loathe my job.
- 428
- 00:35:57,123 --> 00:35:59,083
- I...
- 429
- 00:35:59,250 --> 00:36:02,628
- I desperately want money.
- 430
- 00:36:02,795 --> 00:36:07,842
- I really want money, and I'm not
- in a position to meet a guy who has any.
- 431
- 00:36:08,009 --> 00:36:11,721
- I mean, I get these old codgers
- who come into the store,
- 432
- 00:36:11,888 --> 00:36:14,557
- and they want to buy a thong
- for their teenage girlfriends,
- 433
- 00:36:14,724 --> 00:36:17,810
- while I'm old, rotten meat for them.
- 434
- 00:36:17,977 --> 00:36:19,604
- -They're not interested.
- -Oh, honey.
- 435
- 00:36:19,770 --> 00:36:21,355
- But, um...
- 436
- 00:36:21,522 --> 00:36:27,987
- You really do believe that Alice and her
- book just determined your whole life?
- 437
- 00:36:29,363 --> 00:36:31,699
- Don't you?
- 438
- 00:36:31,866 --> 00:36:38,331
- I know I'm not the quickest person
- around the place, but...
- 439
- 00:36:38,497 --> 00:36:45,254
- I read Alice's book. It never
- crossed my mind that it was you.
- 440
- 00:36:45,421 --> 00:36:49,550
- It never crossed my mind
- that it was Crawford.
- 441
- 00:36:49,717 --> 00:36:55,139
- It never crossed my mind
- that that mechanic guy...
- 442
- 00:36:55,306 --> 00:36:59,518
- had anything to do with Roberta.
- 443
- 00:36:59,685 --> 00:37:02,063
- Nothing.
- It never crossed my mind.
- 444
- 00:37:02,230 --> 00:37:05,399
- Even though the character's
- name was Rowena?
- 445
- 00:37:05,566 --> 00:37:07,818
- Why would I put that with you?
- 446
- 00:37:07,985 --> 00:37:11,822
- Well, it crossed everyone else's mind,
- Susan.
- 447
- 00:37:11,989 --> 00:37:14,867
- It certainly crossed Crawford's.
- 448
- 00:37:16,494 --> 00:37:20,873
- And the judge agreed with him,
- so, you know, what...
- 449
- 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:24,460
- -I got nothing.
- -Oh, God, that's so awful.
- 450
- 00:37:24,627 --> 00:37:26,712
- -Look, he was...
- -That's so awful.
- 451
- 00:37:26,879 --> 00:37:31,551
- He was a nice man. He was very wealthy.
- He took very good care of me.
- 452
- 00:37:32,718 --> 00:37:34,554
- -Until...
- -He didn't.
- 453
- 00:37:36,931 --> 00:37:39,892
- So are you seeing anyone
- at the moment?
- 454
- 00:37:40,059 --> 00:37:43,896
- No, no one right now.
- 455
- 00:37:44,063 --> 00:37:46,315
- I, um...
- 456
- 00:37:46,482 --> 00:37:51,946
- Okay, so the weirdest thing happened
- this morning. That guy...
- 457
- 00:37:52,113 --> 00:37:56,242
- I think, was coming out of Alice's room
- 458
- 00:37:56,409 --> 00:37:59,787
- when I went to go see her for breakfast.
- 459
- 00:37:59,954 --> 00:38:01,831
- -What?
- -Yeah.
- 460
- 00:38:01,998 --> 00:38:04,375
- Like, like, he'd stayed the night?
- 461
- 00:38:04,542 --> 00:38:09,338
- -Maybe. I don't know. Does that--
- -Do you think they're having an affair?
- 462
- 00:38:09,505 --> 00:38:14,010
- Again, yeah, I don't know, but it...
- I don't know why else...
- 463
- 00:38:14,176 --> 00:38:18,931
- he'd be leaving her room
- or why she wouldn't tell me, but...
- 464
- 00:38:19,098 --> 00:38:21,559
- Maybe she's having a secret affair.
- Good for her.
- 465
- 00:38:21,726 --> 00:38:25,438
- I know, yeah. Oh, God.
- 466
- 00:38:25,605 --> 00:38:28,399
- So I moved out,
- and I lived on my own for a bit,
- 467
- 00:38:28,566 --> 00:38:32,528
- and then I got introduced
- to this guy called Jan,
- 468
- 00:38:32,695 --> 00:38:38,451
- who is a hedge fund manager, and he
- works between New York and Zurich.
- 469
- 00:38:38,618 --> 00:38:41,370
- So we started seeing each other.
- 470
- 00:38:41,537 --> 00:38:44,040
- And things seemed
- to be going pretty well.
- 471
- 00:38:44,206 --> 00:38:47,043
- We moved in together.
- 472
- 00:38:47,209 --> 00:38:51,088
- I really felt like I was in a grown-up
- relationship for the first time.
- 473
- 00:38:51,255 --> 00:38:54,383
- Like, he's quite serious.
- 474
- 00:38:54,550 --> 00:38:57,386
- Like, I felt like it was time that I...
- that I calmed down.
- 475
- 00:38:57,553 --> 00:39:01,307
- Like, I don't know why I thought that,
- but in my mind I was like, you know,
- 476
- 00:39:01,474 --> 00:39:04,644
- "It's time to grow up."
- Like, "This is it. He's the guy."
- 477
- 00:39:04,810 --> 00:39:09,023
- "I'm gonna get married.
- I'm gonna have kids with him."
- 478
- 00:39:09,190 --> 00:39:14,904
- And I'm just... "This is the next phase
- of my life." That's what I thought.
- 479
- 00:39:15,071 --> 00:39:17,240
- We talked about children,
- but he said he wasn't sure
- 480
- 00:39:17,406 --> 00:39:20,034
- and he didn't know when he'd be ready,
- so, you know...
- 481
- 00:39:20,201 --> 00:39:25,790
- He said, why don't I freeze my eggs?
- So last year I... I did that.
- 482
- 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,254
- Even though, like, I thought
- that I'd be ready, like, now.
- 483
- 00:39:31,420 --> 00:39:33,297
- I mean, most of my friends
- have had kids and...
- 484
- 00:39:33,464 --> 00:39:37,802
- -Right.
- -You know, they've got families and...
- 485
- 00:39:37,969 --> 00:39:40,429
- I don't know, it's funny when
- you get to this age as a woman.
- 486
- 00:39:40,596 --> 00:39:44,850
- You feel a bit like if you're
- not doing that, you're gonna be...
- 487
- 00:39:45,017 --> 00:39:48,479
- Well, you're gonna miss your chance
- or you're gonna be, like...
- 488
- 00:39:48,646 --> 00:39:50,773
- ...left behind.
- 489
- 00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:53,359
- -Sorry, it's just...
- -No, it's all right. Are you all right?
- 490
- 00:39:53,526 --> 00:39:58,614
- Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine.
- I just haven't really talked about this.
- 491
- 00:39:59,657 --> 00:40:02,034
- Sorry.
- 492
- 00:40:02,201 --> 00:40:04,870
- It's ridiculous, really.
- 493
- 00:40:05,037 --> 00:40:08,291
- I don't know.
- 494
- 00:40:08,457 --> 00:40:10,668
- It's so crazy, you go through your 20s,
- and you're, like,
- 495
- 00:40:10,835 --> 00:40:12,753
- "I better not fucking get pregnant
- 'cause that would be a disaster."
- 496
- 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,173
- And then when you hit 35, everyone's
- like, "Are you thinking about it?"
- 497
- 00:40:16,340 --> 00:40:18,259
- Like, should you...
- "Are you gonna have kids?"
- 498
- 00:40:18,426 --> 00:40:21,888
- So it all kind of changes so quickly,
- 499
- 00:40:22,054 --> 00:40:25,516
- I thought that that was gonna happen,
- that Jan and I were gonna get married.
- 500
- 00:40:25,683 --> 00:40:30,521
- So it just, like, threw me when,
- like two months ago, he...
- 501
- 00:40:30,688 --> 00:40:33,649
- Well, he just ended it. And...
- 502
- 00:40:33,816 --> 00:40:38,863
- Like, I was basically homeless
- 'cause it was his place. And...
- 503
- 00:40:40,573 --> 00:40:46,078
- Yeah, I'm just... Guess I'm just
- still working through all of that.
- 504
- 00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,095
- -Good afternoon.
- -Hello.
- 505
- 00:41:03,262 --> 00:41:09,060
- Uh, I was given this gift certificate
- for a supreme manicure and pedicure,
- 506
- 00:41:09,227 --> 00:41:12,605
- which is very nice, but I don't like
- people touching my hands or feet,
- 507
- 00:41:12,772 --> 00:41:15,066
- so I would like to redeem it
- for cash, please.
- 508
- 00:41:15,233 --> 00:41:19,862
- We can't do that, madam, but we can
- offer you another treatment instead.
- 509
- 00:41:20,029 --> 00:41:22,990
- Uh, could I redeem it...
- 510
- 00:41:23,157 --> 00:41:25,159
- Could you put it on my credit card?
- 511
- 00:41:25,326 --> 00:41:27,787
- Unfortunately, no,
- because it is a complimentary one,
- 512
- 00:41:27,954 --> 00:41:30,706
- so we would be able to just transfer it
- to a different treatment.
- 513
- 00:41:30,873 --> 00:41:33,042
- Let me show you
- what we have available.
- 514
- 00:41:33,209 --> 00:41:37,380
- For the money that you have,
- you can have any of these.
- 515
- 00:41:37,546 --> 00:41:40,591
- Do men get massages here, too?
- 516
- 00:41:40,758 --> 00:41:42,802
- We do. We do do massages
- for everyone, yes.
- 517
- 00:41:42,969 --> 00:41:45,638
- Do you have any men getting
- a massage at the moment?
- 518
- 00:41:45,805 --> 00:41:49,058
- -We do at the moment, yes, madam.
- -What kind of massage are they getting?
- 519
- 00:41:49,225 --> 00:41:51,686
- They have all sorts of...
- All the different types we do.
- 520
- 00:41:51,852 --> 00:41:55,106
- At the moment, we have got a gentleman
- in. He's having a sports massage.
- 521
- 00:41:55,273 --> 00:41:57,483
- Ah, well, I would like
- to have the sports massage.
- 522
- 00:41:57,650 --> 00:41:59,068
- -The sports massage? Okay.
- -Yes, please.
- 523
- 00:42:09,036 --> 00:42:12,081
- -They're the same price?
- -Same price, yes.
- 524
- 00:42:12,248 --> 00:42:16,043
- Let's say we went to the Bordeaux,
- just in case.
- 525
- 00:42:16,210 --> 00:42:20,381
- He went like this.
- Now he's going like this.
- 526
- 00:42:20,548 --> 00:42:24,385
- Why don't you go up to him
- and, and talk to him?
- 527
- 00:42:24,552 --> 00:42:28,097
- -Tyler, I would never do that.
- -He really seems...
- 528
- 00:42:28,264 --> 00:42:32,059
- Oh, my God. You can't be intimidated
- by Kelvin Kra...
- 529
- 00:42:32,226 --> 00:42:34,103
- -Kelvin--
- -Oh, my God.
- 530
- 00:42:34,270 --> 00:42:38,149
- He seemed really nice to all the people
- who were going up to him yesterday.
- 531
- 00:42:38,316 --> 00:42:42,111
- Really? Oh, I'm not surprised.
- 532
- 00:42:42,278 --> 00:42:44,488
- I think he's probably a lovely man.
- 533
- 00:42:44,655 --> 00:42:48,326
- Speaking of writing,
- how is yours going?
- 534
- 00:42:51,621 --> 00:42:54,916
- Thank you for asking me that.
- 535
- 00:42:59,128 --> 00:43:02,882
- Well, it's... it's not going, actually.
- 536
- 00:43:03,049 --> 00:43:08,137
- It's not going.
- I've been whining to Tyler about it.
- 537
- 00:43:08,304 --> 00:43:11,432
- I'm sorry for doing that, but I just...
- 538
- 00:43:11,599 --> 00:43:15,144
- I've hit a... I've hit a wall.
- Sometimes it happens.
- 539
- 00:43:15,311 --> 00:43:19,273
- Sometimes you hit... You're blocked.
- 540
- 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,026
- Well, maybe you should take
- a breather.
- 541
- 00:43:22,193 --> 00:43:25,655
- You want to have tea tomorrow?
- We could go to the...
- 542
- 00:43:25,821 --> 00:43:27,657
- The Chart Room has a nice tea.
- 543
- 00:43:30,910 --> 00:43:32,620
- I would love to.
- 544
- 00:43:36,540 --> 00:43:39,293
- I didn't know
- whether you'd be up for it,
- 545
- 00:43:39,460 --> 00:43:41,128
- but have you been
- to a planetarium before?
- 546
- 00:43:41,295 --> 00:43:43,673
- No. Never.
- Or maybe when I was a kid.
- 547
- 00:43:43,839 --> 00:43:48,261
- Okay. Do you like stars,
- planets, the universe?
- 548
- 00:43:48,427 --> 00:43:54,058
- -Yeah, I love the universe.
- -Okay. Hopefully, you should enjoy this.
- 549
- 00:43:54,225 --> 00:43:58,854
- <i>The night sky,</i>
- <i>both beautiful and mysterious.</i>
- 550
- 00:43:59,021 --> 00:44:01,941
- <i>The subject of campfire stories,</i>
- 551
- 00:44:02,108 --> 00:44:04,402
- <i>ancient myths, and awe</i>
- 552
- 00:44:04,569 --> 00:44:07,196
- <i>for as long as there have been people.</i>
- 553
- 00:44:07,363 --> 00:44:09,657
- <i>Living beneath the open, dark sky,</i>
- 554
- 00:44:09,824 --> 00:44:13,619
- <i>the earliest humans</i>
- <i>were aware of nightly changes</i>
- 555
- 00:44:13,786 --> 00:44:16,330
- <i>as planets marched across the sky.</i>
- 556
- 00:44:16,497 --> 00:44:18,374
- <i>The moon waxed and waned,</i>
- 557
- 00:44:18,541 --> 00:44:22,587
- <i>and occasional meteors flared</i>
- <i>across the horizon.</i>
- 558
- 00:44:22,753 --> 00:44:26,048
- <i>Slowly, the simple early observations</i>
- 559
- 00:44:26,215 --> 00:44:28,968
- <i>revealed patterns</i>
- <i>that could be depended upon,</i>
- 560
- 00:44:29,135 --> 00:44:31,804
- <i>leading to the first calendars.</i>
- 561
- 00:44:31,971 --> 00:44:34,265
- <i>With the yearly cycle mapped out,</i>
- 562
- 00:44:34,432 --> 00:44:37,101
- <i>settlements in agriculture</i>
- <i>could develop,</i>
- 563
- 00:44:37,268 --> 00:44:40,229
- <i>and early civilizations thrived.</i>
- 564
- 00:44:40,396 --> 00:44:43,190
- <i>At the same time,</i>
- <i>the first maps of the sky</i>
- 565
- 00:44:43,357 --> 00:44:47,278
- <i>grouped the brightest stars</i>
- <i>into familiar constellations,</i>
- 566
- 00:44:47,445 --> 00:44:51,115
- <i>helping to develop</i>
- <i>navigational schemes...</i>
- 567
- 00:45:25,191 --> 00:45:27,235
- -Good evening, madam.
- -Hello.
- 568
- 00:45:27,401 --> 00:45:30,363
- How can I help you?
- I think you seem to be lost.
- 569
- 00:45:30,529 --> 00:45:32,156
- No, I'm not lost. I'm just wandering.
- 570
- 00:45:32,323 --> 00:45:36,077
- You're not actually allowed in this
- area, this is part of the crew area.
- 571
- 00:45:36,244 --> 00:45:37,954
- -Oh, okay.
- -And you're not insured.
- 572
- 00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,915
- -So, if anything does happen...
- -Okay, where shall I go?
- 573
- 00:45:41,082 --> 00:45:44,001
- So where would you like to go,
- and I can escort you, please?
- 574
- 00:45:44,168 --> 00:45:45,544
- Okay, no problem.
- 575
- 00:46:37,805 --> 00:46:40,641
- Kelvin Kranz is on this ship?
- 576
- 00:46:41,851 --> 00:46:44,645
- <i>Wait, is he...</i>
- <i>Is that a really big deal?</i>
- 577
- 00:46:44,812 --> 00:46:47,690
- -Come on, you have to have heard of him.
- -No, I've never heard of him.
- 578
- 00:46:47,857 --> 00:46:50,067
- I mean, he's huge.
- 579
- 00:46:50,234 --> 00:46:52,778
- Like, the guy's a one-man
- publishing industry.
- 580
- 00:46:52,945 --> 00:46:56,949
- Every single one of his books gets
- adapted into a film, in every language.
- 581
- 00:46:57,116 --> 00:46:59,535
- -His books have been translated into.
- -Okay, Kelvin.
- 582
- 00:46:59,702 --> 00:47:03,581
- He's massive. Like, bigger
- than all of them combined, like...
- 583
- 00:47:03,748 --> 00:47:06,042
- -Good for... good for Kelvin.
- -Yeah.
- 584
- 00:47:06,208 --> 00:47:08,294
- Good for that guy.
- 585
- 00:47:08,461 --> 00:47:12,131
- So I had a thought that I was...
- 586
- 00:47:12,298 --> 00:47:14,967
- Do you... Do you like dancing?
- 587
- 00:47:15,134 --> 00:47:16,719
- -Dancing?
- -Yeah.
- 588
- 00:47:16,886 --> 00:47:21,349
- -Like, just for fun?
- -No, there's a dance club on the boat.
- 589
- 00:47:21,515 --> 00:47:23,517
- I think it's like a disco-type spot,
- 590
- 00:47:23,684 --> 00:47:27,355
- and I figured maybe we could go,
- if you were interested.
- 591
- 00:47:28,439 --> 00:47:29,815
- Okay.
- 592
- 00:47:47,250 --> 00:47:50,253
- Yeah. Thanks for doing that with me.
- 593
- 00:47:50,419 --> 00:47:51,796
- -It was fun.
- -It was fun. Yeah.
- 594
- 00:47:51,963 --> 00:47:54,257
- -Good night.
- -Good seeing you.
- 595
- 00:47:54,423 --> 00:47:56,801
- -See you.
- -All right, have a good one.
- 596
- 00:48:19,782 --> 00:48:22,034
- Gosh, I just realized.
- 597
- 00:48:22,201 --> 00:48:25,454
- Last night I had a dream.
- 598
- 00:48:25,621 --> 00:48:27,665
- I guess...
- 599
- 00:48:29,292 --> 00:48:34,005
- Maybe that's why I thought about not...
- not losing touch.
- 600
- 00:48:34,171 --> 00:48:40,052
- I had a dream that a friend of mine
- that is no longer alive
- 601
- 00:48:40,219 --> 00:48:42,305
- came to me.
- 602
- 00:48:43,931 --> 00:48:47,435
- I was aware that I was dreaming.
- 603
- 00:48:47,602 --> 00:48:50,062
- I was aware that...
- 604
- 00:48:52,356 --> 00:48:56,569
- This person was saying to me,
- "This is how we'll communicate now."
- 605
- 00:48:56,736 --> 00:48:59,906
- Oh, no way.
- 606
- 00:49:00,072 --> 00:49:02,658
- Oh, my God.
- 607
- 00:49:02,825 --> 00:49:05,703
- Yeah.
- 608
- 00:49:05,870 --> 00:49:09,749
- Yeah. We never lose...
- 609
- 00:49:09,916 --> 00:49:12,168
- Never lose people.
- 610
- 00:49:13,210 --> 00:49:14,587
- Gosh.
- 611
- 00:49:20,384 --> 00:49:23,512
- -Hey, gorgeous.
- -Hey.
- 612
- 00:49:23,679 --> 00:49:26,641
- Do you understand this thing?
- 613
- 00:49:28,226 --> 00:49:30,394
- Do you know what you're gonna say?
- 614
- 00:49:30,561 --> 00:49:34,440
- I'm gonna say that
- actions have consequences,
- 615
- 00:49:34,607 --> 00:49:41,405
- and the consequences on my life
- of her actions were unacceptable.
- 616
- 00:49:41,572 --> 00:49:44,951
- And the least she could do
- is apologize.
- 617
- 00:49:47,662 --> 00:49:51,374
- How do you think she's gonna take that?
- 618
- 00:49:51,540 --> 00:49:53,960
- She'll go...
- 619
- 00:49:54,126 --> 00:49:59,257
- Well, I... She'll, she'll deny it.
- She'll say that... She'll deny it.
- 620
- 00:49:59,423 --> 00:50:04,470
- She'll say it was based
- on someone entirely different.
- 621
- 00:50:06,973 --> 00:50:09,976
- Doesn't that look
- like Professor Osbourne?
- 622
- 00:50:10,142 --> 00:50:14,730
- -I didn't see him.
- -It's a dead ringer for Prof. Osbourne.
- 623
- 00:50:14,897 --> 00:50:17,900
- -Remember him?
- -I... How...
- 624
- 00:50:18,067 --> 00:50:21,195
- If I'd seen him, I wouldn't have reacted
- like you are.
- 625
- 00:50:21,362 --> 00:50:24,949
- -Oh, my God.
- -What went on?
- 626
- 00:50:25,116 --> 00:50:27,910
- Nothing, nothing. I'm just...
- 627
- 00:50:28,077 --> 00:50:30,538
- I don't think so.
- 628
- 00:50:30,705 --> 00:50:32,623
- I had a threesome
- with him and his wife.
- 629
- 00:50:32,790 --> 00:50:35,001
- Well...
- 630
- 00:50:36,210 --> 00:50:38,546
- Well, well, well...
- 631
- 00:50:41,591 --> 00:50:44,886
- -Is that all?
- -Yeah. It was just a threesome.
- 632
- 00:50:45,052 --> 00:50:48,097
- It wasn't a foursome or a fivesome...
- 633
- 00:50:48,264 --> 00:50:50,433
- It wasn't an orgy.
- 634
- 00:51:33,559 --> 00:51:36,729
- That can't really be your first time...
- 635
- 00:51:37,730 --> 00:51:39,774
- Karen.
- 636
- 00:51:42,235 --> 00:51:44,654
- Heard a rumor you were on the ship.
- 637
- 00:51:44,820 --> 00:51:46,864
- Well, it's no rumor.
- 638
- 00:52:02,088 --> 00:52:05,132
- There's a big majority.
- I mean, we've got ex-service people.
- 639
- 00:52:05,299 --> 00:52:09,971
- We've got guys that have come up
- through the self-improvement.
- 640
- 00:52:10,137 --> 00:52:13,140
- You know, and those guys are generally
- very, very enthusiastic
- 641
- 00:52:13,307 --> 00:52:17,937
- 'cause they've spent a lot of money
- to get to where they are.
- 642
- 00:52:18,104 --> 00:52:21,399
- So, you tend to look after them
- a little bit more. You know, they'll...
- 643
- 00:52:21,566 --> 00:52:25,444
- They tend to want to understand
- the market.
- 644
- 00:52:25,611 --> 00:52:28,614
- With the ex-service guys,
- they're independent.
- 645
- 00:52:28,781 --> 00:52:33,786
- You can get them to go out and do a job.
- They don't need any support
- 646
- 00:52:33,953 --> 00:52:35,997
- from within the company.
- 647
- 00:52:36,163 --> 00:52:39,959
- But, you know, my job is
- to sort of oversee what's going on
- 648
- 00:52:40,126 --> 00:52:42,670
- and count the money as it comes in.
- 649
- 00:52:42,837 --> 00:52:44,672
- -That's probably fun.
- -Yeah.
- 650
- 00:52:44,839 --> 00:52:48,467
- Would you mind if we moved
- into the room next door?
- 651
- 00:52:48,634 --> 00:52:50,678
- -Not at all, not at all.
- -Great. Let's do that.
- 652
- 00:52:50,845 --> 00:52:52,680
- -Love to follow you in.
- -I'm meeting someone.
- 653
- 00:52:52,847 --> 00:52:57,685
- I mean, I like the ambition, truly.
- But what is your plan?
- 654
- 00:52:57,852 --> 00:53:03,232
- My plan was to approach her
- at the right point.
- 655
- 00:53:03,399 --> 00:53:06,527
- -You think that's a bad idea?
- -I think it's a terrible idea.
- 656
- 00:53:06,694 --> 00:53:09,196
- I don't think you can approach her
- at all on this boat.
- 657
- 00:53:09,363 --> 00:53:12,575
- I think you will scare her away.
- 658
- 00:53:12,742 --> 00:53:19,540
- I think that she might appreciate
- your tenacity, but really...
- 659
- 00:53:20,625 --> 00:53:25,004
- She's gonna decide what she does,
- and it's really out of your control.
- 660
- 00:53:25,171 --> 00:53:29,300
- -Right, it's what...
- -Absolutely. The shine on the tables.
- 661
- 00:53:29,467 --> 00:53:33,721
- -The decor is so...
- -Yeah. Alice, Alice.
- 662
- 00:53:33,888 --> 00:53:35,848
- Oh. Hi.
- 663
- 00:53:36,015 --> 00:53:41,103
- Alice... Sorry, this is Alice Hughes.
- This is Vernon.
- 664
- 00:53:41,270 --> 00:53:43,314
- -Vernon, hello.
- -Vernon. Pleased to meet you.
- 665
- 00:53:43,481 --> 00:53:46,359
- -Pleasure.
- -He's in aviation.
- 666
- 00:53:46,525 --> 00:53:48,819
- -Well...
- -Would you like to join us?
- 667
- 00:53:48,986 --> 00:53:50,613
- Please.
- 668
- 00:53:50,780 --> 00:53:52,865
- Oh. No, it's all right.
- 669
- 00:53:53,032 --> 00:54:00,039
- I was just wandering around the ship
- and passed the florist and thought,
- 670
- 00:54:00,206 --> 00:54:03,251
- "Why am I carrying this around
- like a fool?"
- 671
- 00:54:03,417 --> 00:54:05,962
- Let me, um, set it here.
- 672
- 00:54:06,128 --> 00:54:08,005
- Maybe I'll see you at dinner.
- 673
- 00:54:08,172 --> 00:54:10,216
- -You... Definitely.
- -Nice to meet you.
- 674
- 00:54:10,383 --> 00:54:11,759
- -Look forward to it.
- -Pleasure.
- 675
- 00:54:11,926 --> 00:54:14,345
- -Take care.
- -Bye.
- 676
- 00:54:16,931 --> 00:54:20,434
- -She seems nice.
- -Yeah, she's a very fine writer.
- 677
- 00:54:20,601 --> 00:54:23,271
- We went to university together.
- 678
- 00:54:23,437 --> 00:54:28,234
- I mean, it's madness, really.
- What, you want her to write a...
- 679
- 00:54:28,401 --> 00:54:31,362
- -A sequel to... Yeah.
- -A sequel to this?
- 680
- 00:54:31,529 --> 00:54:33,322
- I mean, everyone wants her
- to write a sequel to this.
- 681
- 00:54:33,489 --> 00:54:38,119
- Yeah, but she's never gonna do that.
- The book's her antichrist.
- 682
- 00:54:38,286 --> 00:54:39,787
- Don't you think?
- 683
- 00:54:48,546 --> 00:54:51,173
- <i>Tyler, it's Roberta. I need your help.</i>
- 684
- 00:54:55,052 --> 00:54:57,763
- Sorry, sometimes it takes a little while
- 'cause she could be...
- 685
- 00:54:57,930 --> 00:55:00,057
- There are two floors,
- so she could be upstairs.
- 686
- 00:55:00,224 --> 00:55:03,477
- -There... there's two floors?
- -Yeah.
- 687
- 00:55:04,520 --> 00:55:07,273
- It's a big one. Yeah.
- 688
- 00:55:10,568 --> 00:55:14,113
- So, here's the pen and paper.
- 689
- 00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:16,616
- Oh, thank you.
- 690
- 00:55:16,782 --> 00:55:18,993
- Okay.
- 691
- 00:55:35,259 --> 00:55:38,387
- Someday, that book's gonna end.
- 692
- 00:55:49,398 --> 00:55:52,485
- I want to lead you today
- 693
- 00:55:52,652 --> 00:55:55,571
- on a... on a tour
- 694
- 00:55:55,738 --> 00:56:00,159
- through the landscape
- of my inspiration.
- 695
- 00:56:00,326 --> 00:56:04,080
- Sometimes the sources
- that a writer uses
- 696
- 00:56:04,247 --> 00:56:07,625
- are very close to home...
- 697
- 00:56:07,792 --> 00:56:12,463
- Family, friends, enemies.
- 698
- 00:56:14,131 --> 00:56:17,176
- And sometimes
- our source is a visitor
- 699
- 00:56:17,343 --> 00:56:21,597
- from another time, another universe.
- 700
- 00:56:21,764 --> 00:56:26,519
- Blodwen Pugh... was a Welsh writer
- 701
- 00:56:26,686 --> 00:56:30,648
- at the turn of the last century,
- the end of the 19th century.
- 702
- 00:56:30,815 --> 00:56:34,986
- She worked in obscurity,
- she was completely unrecognized
- 703
- 00:56:35,152 --> 00:56:37,905
- until well after her death.
- 704
- 00:56:38,072 --> 00:56:40,992
- And even now,
- she's quite unfamiliar,
- 705
- 00:56:41,158 --> 00:56:46,414
- even to many in the most
- rarefied literary circles. She's...
- 706
- 00:56:46,581 --> 00:56:51,294
- She's lost to us, except for those
- who stand still enough to listen.
- 707
- 00:56:52,253 --> 00:56:55,631
- The writings, her one remain...
- her one novel,
- 708
- 00:56:55,798 --> 00:57:01,971
- which is called, I think it's
- the masterpiece of that... of that era
- 709
- 00:57:02,138 --> 00:57:04,765
- is called "Realm of the Owl."
- 710
- 00:57:04,932 --> 00:57:07,518
- When I read this novel,
- 711
- 00:57:07,685 --> 00:57:11,063
- it's... it's impossible for me
- 712
- 00:57:11,230 --> 00:57:15,526
- not to think what a miracle it is
- that this universe emerged.
- 713
- 00:57:15,693 --> 00:57:21,866
- What a miracle it is
- that consciousness emerged.
- 714
- 00:57:22,033 --> 00:57:24,118
- You know?
- 715
- 00:57:26,495 --> 00:57:30,833
- And what a miracle it is
- that Blodwyn Pugh...
- 716
- 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,420
- her thoughts and experiences...
- 717
- 00:57:34,587 --> 00:57:38,549
- that they could reach across time...
- 718
- 00:57:40,593 --> 00:57:45,097
- and reach into my consciousness.
- 719
- 00:57:46,307 --> 00:57:48,726
- That's a miracle.
- 720
- 00:57:48,893 --> 00:57:51,103
- Any questions?
- 721
- 00:57:53,231 --> 00:57:55,942
- Well, I have a question.
- 722
- 00:57:56,108 --> 00:58:00,529
- I mean, I don't know, it certainly raise
- to Blodwyn Pugh's "Realm of the Owl,"
- 723
- 00:58:00,696 --> 00:58:05,576
- but I have a question
- about "A Function of the Body",
- 724
- 00:58:05,743 --> 00:58:09,622
- and specifically when you
- were inspired to write it,
- 725
- 00:58:09,789 --> 00:58:15,670
- did you always know you'll gonna insert
- Georgia's diaries through the book?
- 726
- 00:58:17,213 --> 00:58:21,217
- I thought it was
- exquisitely crafted in that way.
- 727
- 00:58:22,260 --> 00:58:25,179
- And, I mean, everyone knows
- it's a very personal book.
- 728
- 00:58:25,346 --> 00:58:29,058
- It's known, so I don't feel
- badly saying that.
- 729
- 00:58:29,225 --> 00:58:34,188
- I mean, the way you did that with her...
- With the loss of her sister,
- 730
- 00:58:34,355 --> 00:58:38,818
- the ne'er-do-well brother
- who's sort of a psychopath,
- 731
- 00:58:38,985 --> 00:58:44,824
- whom you need, you know, whom you need,
- and who you're terrified of.
- 732
- 00:58:44,991 --> 00:58:47,493
- It... The way those diaries worked
- 733
- 00:58:47,660 --> 00:58:52,790
- just raised it to the highest level
- of... of literature for me.
- 734
- 00:58:52,957 --> 00:58:56,794
- I'm wondering how you...
- how you... how you did that.
- 735
- 00:58:56,961 --> 00:58:59,505
- -Did you know you were gonna do it or--
- -Oh, thank you.
- 736
- 00:58:59,672 --> 00:59:02,216
- Thank you very much for that question.
- 737
- 00:59:11,350 --> 00:59:14,145
- -My dad, at least.
- -Oh, my.
- 738
- 00:59:14,312 --> 00:59:16,564
- Oh, my. Oh.
- 739
- 00:59:16,731 --> 00:59:20,443
- -Your friends have come.
- -My friends, I want you to meet Roberta.
- 740
- 00:59:20,610 --> 00:59:22,111
- -Hello.
- -What a great pleasure.
- 741
- 00:59:22,278 --> 00:59:24,488
- -And Susan.
- -What a good pleasure.
- 742
- 00:59:24,655 --> 00:59:27,783
- Kelvin Kranz. And my nephew Tyler.
- 743
- 00:59:27,950 --> 00:59:30,328
- -Hey, Tyler. Handsome young man.
- -Oh, nice to meet you.
- 744
- 00:59:30,494 --> 00:59:33,748
- Nice to meet you.
- So you all, you're traveling together.
- 745
- 00:59:33,915 --> 00:59:37,418
- Yes. You have a table
- full of fans here, you know?
- 746
- 00:59:37,585 --> 00:59:43,090
- Really? Well, that's fantastic,
- you know. Thank you.
- 747
- 00:59:43,257 --> 00:59:47,178
- So you must be all going
- to "The Toad and the Harrow"...
- 748
- 00:59:47,345 --> 00:59:49,972
- -Oh, well, yes...
- -Are you taking your friends over?
- 749
- 00:59:50,139 --> 00:59:51,557
- -Is that what's happening here?
- -Yes.
- 750
- 00:59:51,724 --> 00:59:54,727
- But first, we're gonna make
- a little pilgrimage
- 751
- 00:59:54,894 --> 00:59:59,148
- to Blodwyn Pugh's gravesite
- outside Cardiff. The convent.
- 752
- 00:59:59,315 --> 01:00:02,026
- -How wonderful. That's special.
- -Yeah, yeah, I think...
- 753
- 01:00:02,193 --> 01:00:06,697
- I think it'll be sort of special, but...
- 754
- 01:00:06,864 --> 01:00:11,702
- I wanted to ask you, how long
- does it take you to write one of your...
- 755
- 01:00:11,869 --> 01:00:15,581
- -one of your books?
- -To write one?
- 756
- 01:00:15,748 --> 01:00:18,751
- Well, I spend about, maybe,
- 757
- 01:00:18,918 --> 01:00:25,800
- a month outlining it, and then, maybe,
- three months writing it,
- 758
- 01:00:25,967 --> 01:00:27,677
- so maybe four months...
- 759
- 01:00:27,843 --> 01:00:30,805
- At the outside, some of them
- maybe four and a half.
- 760
- 01:00:30,972 --> 01:00:34,517
- I try to... I've never done
- anything faster than three months.
- 761
- 01:00:34,684 --> 01:00:37,478
- That's longer than I thought.
- 762
- 01:00:37,645 --> 01:00:39,564
- Well...
- 763
- 01:00:39,730 --> 01:00:44,151
- That's interesting.
- It's a process, isn't it?
- 764
- 01:00:44,318 --> 01:00:48,573
- Well, I have a certain process.
- It's pretty specific, you know?
- 765
- 01:00:48,739 --> 01:00:51,158
- Well, anyway...
- 766
- 01:00:51,325 --> 01:00:54,870
- -Congratulations on getting the prize.
- -Oh, thank you so much.
- 767
- 01:00:55,037 --> 01:00:57,164
- It's a great honor.
- I think it's very special.
- 768
- 01:00:57,331 --> 01:01:00,459
- -And what a pleasure to meet you all.
- -Thank you. You too.
- 769
- 01:01:00,626 --> 01:01:02,795
- -Thank you. Thank you.
- -I'll see you again, yeah.
- 770
- 01:01:02,962 --> 01:01:05,715
- And you. I'll see you again.
- Take care, bye-bye.
- 771
- 01:01:05,881 --> 01:01:07,884
- -Bye-bye.
- -Have a nice supper.
- 772
- 01:01:08,050 --> 01:01:10,052
- Thank you. You too.
- 773
- 01:01:12,305 --> 01:01:13,973
- What a nice man.
- 774
- 01:01:16,309 --> 01:01:19,979
- -What a gent, isn't he?
- -What a gentleman. Classy.
- 775
- 01:01:23,608 --> 01:01:26,819
- -Missed you today.
- -Yes, I know. I'm sorry.
- 776
- 01:01:26,986 --> 01:01:29,363
- -Why don't we go now? Have a drink?
- -I can't.
- 777
- 01:01:29,530 --> 01:01:31,532
- -Why?
- -'Cause I'm going to the gala.
- 778
- 01:01:31,699 --> 01:01:33,659
- Oh, the gala.
- 779
- 01:01:33,826 --> 01:01:35,912
- Okay.
- 780
- 01:01:47,381 --> 01:01:49,425
- They're such iconic characters.
- 781
- 01:01:49,592 --> 01:01:53,346
- It is perfect for American characters
- right now because the border of...
- 782
- 01:01:53,512 --> 01:01:55,473
- -Hey.
- -Hi.
- 783
- 01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:57,058
- -You're here. Great.
- -You guys have met, haven't you?
- 784
- 01:01:57,225 --> 01:01:58,809
- Yeah.
- 785
- 01:01:58,976 --> 01:02:02,021
- -How's it going? Sorry to interrupt.
- -No, you're not interrupting at all.
- 786
- 01:02:02,188 --> 01:02:05,441
- -We're just finishing. Good to see you.
- -Good to see you, man.
- 787
- 01:02:05,608 --> 01:02:08,444
- -Leave you to it. To be continued?
- -Yes.
- 788
- 01:02:08,611 --> 01:02:11,656
- -We'll see each other again soon.
- -Yeah.
- 789
- 01:02:11,822 --> 01:02:15,159
- -Sorry to run you out of town.
- -No, are you kidding?
- 790
- 01:02:15,326 --> 01:02:17,745
- Have a good one.
- 791
- 01:02:17,912 --> 01:02:22,375
- -How's it going?
- -Does he know who you are?
- 792
- 01:02:22,541 --> 01:02:25,461
- Oh, yeah. Yeah, he knows, he knows.
- 793
- 01:02:25,628 --> 01:02:27,672
- -And that doesn't bother you?
- -He's cool. Don't worry.
- 794
- 01:02:27,838 --> 01:02:31,551
- No, he... He's not gonna say anything.
- Don't worry.
- 795
- 01:02:31,717 --> 01:02:35,179
- So you know that him and Alice
- are now friends, they're talking.
- 796
- 01:02:35,346 --> 01:02:37,890
- Yeah. Yeah, no, I, um...
- 797
- 01:02:38,057 --> 01:02:41,185
- Actually, I told him everything and...
- 798
- 01:02:41,352 --> 01:02:45,815
- He found the whole thing
- quite amusing, actually.
- 799
- 01:02:45,982 --> 01:02:48,359
- And he gave me some good advice.
- He, uh...
- 800
- 01:02:48,526 --> 01:02:51,237
- He told me he thinks it's probably
- not gonna be a good idea
- 801
- 01:02:51,404 --> 01:02:57,076
- for me to approach Alice on this trip,
- so I'm gonna back off, and...
- 802
- 01:02:57,243 --> 01:02:59,203
- -Yeah, I think he's right.
- -Great.
- 803
- 01:03:42,747 --> 01:03:46,417
- Did you get that note, by the way,
- that we left in your room?
- 804
- 01:03:46,584 --> 01:03:48,753
- What... A note is nothing.
- 805
- 01:03:48,920 --> 01:03:53,466
- I mean, she made a date with me,
- and, for tea.
- 806
- 01:03:53,633 --> 01:03:56,260
- And I went,
- and I interrupted my work.
- 807
- 01:03:56,427 --> 01:04:00,223
- It's not like I have hours
- and hours to wander the ship...
- 808
- 01:04:00,389 --> 01:04:02,266
- -Right.
- -And, you know, meet men.
- 809
- 01:04:02,433 --> 01:04:05,519
- -This is not what I'm here for.
- -So you went, and then what happened?
- 810
- 01:04:05,686 --> 01:04:08,814
- I went to tea at two o'clock sharp,
- and there she was,
- 811
- 01:04:08,981 --> 01:04:13,986
- sitting there like a beanbag
- next to this dodo who was her date.
- 812
- 01:04:14,153 --> 01:04:17,657
- And, clearly, I wasn't, you know...
- 813
- 01:04:17,823 --> 01:04:21,160
- So she canceled it? It was canceled.
- You didn't meet with her.
- 814
- 01:04:21,327 --> 01:04:25,957
- Well, I don't know what we were supposed
- to do, have a meeting with a...
- 815
- 01:04:26,123 --> 01:04:29,126
- -A dodo?
- -A person that... Yes.
- 816
- 01:04:29,293 --> 01:04:34,507
- I shouldn't say that. He's probably
- a perfectly nice, unsuspecting man,
- 817
- 01:04:34,674 --> 01:04:40,888
- who didn't know that he was, you know,
- in the talons of a carrion bird.
- 818
- 01:04:41,055 --> 01:04:43,349
- But I don't know what...
- I don't know what she's...
- 819
- 01:04:43,516 --> 01:04:47,144
- I don't know what she wants,
- because I just want to reach her.
- 820
- 01:04:47,311 --> 01:04:48,729
- Right.
- 821
- 01:04:48,896 --> 01:04:51,691
- Do you remember when you and Alice and I
- met in San Francisco
- 822
- 01:04:51,857 --> 01:04:53,693
- all those years ago?
- 823
- 01:04:53,859 --> 01:04:57,405
- That's when it all hit the fan.
- 824
- 01:04:58,573 --> 01:05:03,494
- I just was desperate
- to confide in someone,
- 825
- 01:05:03,661 --> 01:05:08,541
- and the two of you were the closest
- I've ever been with, so...
- 826
- 01:05:11,043 --> 01:05:15,047
- When we had dinner at the bar afterward,
- you went upstairs and went to bed,
- 827
- 01:05:15,214 --> 01:05:18,509
- and it was just me and Alice,
- and I thought...
- 828
- 01:05:18,676 --> 01:05:23,431
- "Well, Alice has always been interested
- in other people's lives."
- 829
- 01:05:25,433 --> 01:05:29,520
- And then I made the fatal mistake
- of telling Alice everything.
- 830
- 01:05:33,482 --> 01:05:36,193
- What I realize is...
- 831
- 01:05:36,360 --> 01:05:40,740
- if you can't keep a secret yourself...
- 832
- 01:05:40,907 --> 01:05:44,118
- You can't ask anyone else
- to keep a secret.
- 833
- 01:05:45,494 --> 01:05:47,747
- It's true.
- 834
- 01:05:49,373 --> 01:05:51,375
- It's true.
- 835
- 01:06:08,601 --> 01:06:12,063
- What I'm gonna tell you is this.
- 836
- 01:06:14,273 --> 01:06:18,194
- I didn't go upstairs
- to sleep that night.
- 837
- 01:06:20,947 --> 01:06:25,201
- There was a really...
- a really cute waiter,
- 838
- 01:06:25,368 --> 01:06:27,662
- and...
- 839
- 01:06:30,289 --> 01:06:32,792
- This is a...
- 840
- 01:06:34,293 --> 01:06:37,463
- Double letter, triple word.
- 841
- 01:06:38,464 --> 01:06:40,967
- -Baby.
- -I hate you.
- 842
- 01:06:41,133 --> 01:06:43,970
- Bow down, bitch. Bow down.
- 843
- 01:06:44,136 --> 01:06:47,014
- They have this incredible night
- together. They get really drunk.
- 844
- 01:06:47,181 --> 01:06:49,725
- They drink loads of cocktails.
- 845
- 01:06:49,892 --> 01:06:53,271
- And, yeah, they just get on really well.
- They hook up.
- 846
- 01:06:53,437 --> 01:06:57,775
- And she doesn't know that this guy
- is actually just a bartender.
- 847
- 01:06:57,942 --> 01:07:01,696
- Like, he's not a rich guy
- or anything, like...
- 848
- 01:07:01,862 --> 01:07:06,409
- But they fall for each other,
- and it's this comedy of errors.
- 849
- 01:07:06,576 --> 01:07:10,371
- It's kind of a farce. But they end up
- falling for each other,
- 850
- 01:07:10,538 --> 01:07:13,916
- despite the fact that they both pretend
- to be something that they're not.
- 851
- 01:07:14,083 --> 01:07:16,460
- Which is kind of the...
- yeah, the whole thing.
- 852
- 01:07:16,627 --> 01:07:20,423
- -And do you know who plays the guy?
- -He's this... He's this comedian.
- 853
- 01:07:20,590 --> 01:07:25,636
- He's funny. He's got this amazing face.
- But it's just such a charming film.
- 854
- 01:07:25,803 --> 01:07:28,431
- -You have to see it. It's brilliant.
- -I want to see it.
- 855
- 01:07:28,598 --> 01:07:31,976
- I'm trying to think of, like...
- I was actually in a comedy of errors
- 856
- 01:07:32,143 --> 01:07:35,563
- when I was in sixth grade,
- so when you brought that up...
- 857
- 01:07:40,109 --> 01:07:42,612
- Karen?
- 858
- 01:07:42,778 --> 01:07:44,739
- Hi.
- 859
- 01:07:45,740 --> 01:07:48,659
- And Tyler?
- 860
- 01:07:48,826 --> 01:07:50,995
- Hi.
- 861
- 01:07:52,455 --> 01:07:53,831
- Wait.
- 862
- 01:08:03,382 --> 01:08:06,761
- So you lied for her because...
- 863
- 01:08:08,679 --> 01:08:10,723
- you like her.
- 864
- 01:08:18,314 --> 01:08:23,903
- That's... that's as good a reason
- to lie as any I can think of.
- 865
- 01:08:29,951 --> 01:08:31,994
- So...
- 866
- 01:08:38,626 --> 01:08:41,420
- You're gonna see her tonight?
- 867
- 01:08:42,505 --> 01:08:44,382
- I don't know.
- 868
- 01:08:53,307 --> 01:08:56,936
- Who's that man I keep seeing
- coming out of your room in the morning?
- 869
- 01:09:02,191 --> 01:09:04,986
- Oh, that man.
- 870
- 01:09:11,450 --> 01:09:14,495
- That man is...
- 871
- 01:09:14,662 --> 01:09:18,749
- probably the one thing
- that keeps me going.
- 872
- 01:09:21,586 --> 01:09:24,088
- Besides you.
- 873
- 01:09:24,255 --> 01:09:25,631
- Thanks.
- 874
- 01:09:25,798 --> 01:09:30,636
- They all take ballroom-dancing classes
- on this ship.
- 875
- 01:09:30,803 --> 01:09:32,805
- So, when they go to the gala,
- 876
- 01:09:32,972 --> 01:09:36,475
- they want to show off what they've
- learned, and they take it very...
- 877
- 01:09:36,642 --> 01:09:39,729
- -Hi.
- -Hey. How are you? What a surprise.
- 878
- 01:09:39,896 --> 01:09:42,773
- -Fine, fine.
- -Very breezy day to have...
- 879
- 01:09:42,940 --> 01:09:46,736
- -Yeah, I love the fog.
- -...an intimate little discussion.
- 880
- 01:09:46,903 --> 01:09:50,364
- -You know, I've been thinking about you.
- -Really?
- 881
- 01:09:50,531 --> 01:09:54,952
- Well, one of the women that I work with
- 882
- 01:09:55,119 --> 01:09:59,290
- poisoned her husband,
- who was a batterer,
- 883
- 01:09:59,457 --> 01:10:02,835
- and guess where
- she got the idea.
- 884
- 01:10:03,002 --> 01:10:05,755
- From my first wife, of course.
- 885
- 01:10:05,922 --> 01:10:09,508
- -Or maybe my second wife.
- -Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
- 886
- 01:10:09,675 --> 01:10:12,803
- -No, no, but now I know a lot about you.
- -Yes.
- 887
- 01:10:12,970 --> 01:10:16,891
- No. From an early
- Agatha Christie book.
- 888
- 01:10:17,058 --> 01:10:21,562
- <i>-The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.</i>
- -Exactly. <i>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.</i>
- 889
- 01:10:21,729 --> 01:10:24,941
- Well, I kept that away from her.
- 890
- 01:10:25,107 --> 01:10:27,026
- And that's why you still stand.
- 891
- 01:10:27,193 --> 01:10:31,530
- So you've been thinking about poisoning,
- but why? I mean, just because...
- 892
- 01:10:31,697 --> 01:10:33,532
- Oh, no, because I...
- 893
- 01:10:33,699 --> 01:10:38,496
- This woman was incarcerated for trying
- to save her child and herself.
- 894
- 01:10:38,663 --> 01:10:41,582
- And she didn't want to kill him,
- she just wanted to disable him
- 895
- 01:10:41,749 --> 01:10:44,085
- so she could stop the violence.
- 896
- 01:10:44,252 --> 01:10:46,629
- But he died.
- 897
- 01:10:46,796 --> 01:10:49,840
- -I'm so sorry. That's awful.
- -Yes, it is awful.
- 898
- 01:10:50,007 --> 01:10:51,384
- Do you deal with a lot of people
- who poison?
- 899
- 01:10:51,551 --> 01:10:54,762
- I do. Oh, no, no. Not so many...
- 900
- 01:10:54,929 --> 01:11:01,352
- I mean, they take whatever weapon...
- the domes-- Is in the person's hand.
- 901
- 01:11:01,519 --> 01:11:03,896
- -And...
- -Can I join? Do you mind if I sit down?
- 902
- 01:11:04,063 --> 01:11:05,648
- -Of course, sit down.
- -No, join us.
- 903
- 01:11:05,815 --> 01:11:08,234
- -I've been fascinated by poison lately.
- -Why?
- 904
- 01:11:08,401 --> 01:11:12,905
- I'm thinking about writing something
- about someone who poisons people.
- 905
- 01:11:13,072 --> 01:11:18,452
- I think it's... I think,
- philosophically, poisoning is a...
- 906
- 01:11:18,619 --> 01:11:22,832
- a very intimate way to kill someone,
- and it's also very cruel.
- 907
- 01:12:43,788 --> 01:12:45,456
- How is that?
- 908
- 01:12:47,917 --> 01:12:50,127
- Very compelling.
- 909
- 01:13:10,481 --> 01:13:12,608
- -Hey.
- -Sorry.
- 910
- 01:13:12,775 --> 01:13:16,028
- -Sorry I'm late. Thank you.
- -Hello.
- 911
- 01:13:18,114 --> 01:13:20,533
- -Everybody well?
- -Everybody's well.
- 912
- 01:13:20,700 --> 01:13:25,496
- -How is work going?
- -Oh, well, not as...
- 913
- 01:13:25,663 --> 01:13:28,165
- Not as well as I'd like.
- 914
- 01:13:28,332 --> 01:13:31,711
- -Thank you.
- -You're welcome.
- 915
- 01:13:32,878 --> 01:13:35,715
- Where's Tyler?
- 916
- 01:13:35,881 --> 01:13:37,884
- Not coming.
- 917
- 01:13:38,050 --> 01:13:41,095
- -No?
- -He has a date.
- 918
- 01:13:42,847 --> 01:13:48,603
- -Who with?
- -Uh, someone he met on the ship.
- 919
- 01:13:49,937 --> 01:13:52,273
- So...
- 920
- 01:13:52,440 --> 01:13:55,401
- An older woman... Apparently.
- 921
- 01:13:55,568 --> 01:14:00,114
- -An older woman? How much older?
- -Like, in her 80s?
- 922
- 01:14:02,950 --> 01:14:05,536
- I would be surprised
- if that were the case.
- 923
- 01:14:05,703 --> 01:14:09,248
- -But he probably means 26 or...
- -Oh. Oh, right.
- 924
- 01:14:09,415 --> 01:14:11,000
- Thirty-six.
- 925
- 01:14:11,167 --> 01:14:15,129
- Thirty-six would be
- a significant difference.
- 926
- 01:14:15,296 --> 01:14:18,424
- -Or more. Who knows?
- -Really?
- 927
- 01:14:18,591 --> 01:14:20,718
- I can't tell people's ages anymore.
- 928
- 01:14:20,885 --> 01:14:23,471
- -No, I can't either.
- -I really can't.
- 929
- 01:14:24,972 --> 01:14:27,183
- Alice, I don't know
- what your schedule is,
- 930
- 01:14:27,350 --> 01:14:30,519
- but if you're free tomorrow
- before or after you swim,
- 931
- 01:14:30,686 --> 01:14:34,357
- maybe we could have a tea
- or a drink.
- 932
- 01:14:35,524 --> 01:14:37,693
- Well, I...
- 933
- 01:14:39,028 --> 01:14:42,865
- I would love to do that, but I actually
- have a business meeting tomorrow.
- 934
- 01:14:43,032 --> 01:14:46,661
- -Oh, sorry.
- -I don't know if I'll get my swim in.
- 935
- 01:14:46,827 --> 01:14:50,790
- Who knows how long it'll go on
- or what will happen in it?
- 936
- 01:14:50,957 --> 01:14:55,127
- -But let's do it another time. Promise?
- -Yeah, I'd love to. Great.
- 937
- 01:14:58,589 --> 01:15:02,260
- -Quite a day.
- -Yeah.
- 938
- 01:15:02,426 --> 01:15:04,387
- Shocking.
- 939
- 01:15:05,596 --> 01:15:07,473
- Yeah.
- 940
- 01:15:09,100 --> 01:15:10,643
- How you feeling?
- 941
- 01:15:12,728 --> 01:15:15,690
- I'm feeling okay, actually.
- Kind of...
- 942
- 01:15:16,732 --> 01:15:20,152
- -A bit relieved, to be honest.
- -Yeah.
- 943
- 01:15:21,946 --> 01:15:23,864
- I should actually say to you, like...
- 944
- 01:15:28,160 --> 01:15:29,996
- Yeah, I feel like
- I should apologize a bit.
- 945
- 01:15:30,162 --> 01:15:32,164
- I feel bad for dragging you
- into this whole thing.
- 946
- 01:15:32,331 --> 01:15:36,877
- I know you didn't want to lie to your
- aunt, and I slightly twisted your arm
- 947
- 01:15:37,044 --> 01:15:39,255
- and I feel bad about that,
- 948
- 01:15:39,422 --> 01:15:42,508
- and she clearly thinks
- so highly of you.
- 949
- 01:15:42,675 --> 01:15:45,261
- She loves you. She thinks,
- you know, she thinks the world of you,
- 950
- 01:15:45,428 --> 01:15:50,433
- and that was obvious when
- I spoke to her today. And I think...
- 951
- 01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:55,605
- That was probably part of the reason why
- she was so forgiving towards me. So...
- 952
- 01:15:55,771 --> 01:15:59,775
- Thank you for... Yeah,
- thanks for everything this, this week.
- 953
- 01:15:59,942 --> 01:16:01,736
- -Oh, well...
- -You've been amazing.
- 954
- 01:16:01,903 --> 01:16:07,325
- I know I've completely inappropriately
- unloaded a whole load of stuff onto you
- 955
- 01:16:07,491 --> 01:16:11,203
- that I probably shouldn't have done,
- so I'm sorry about that, and...
- 956
- 01:16:11,370 --> 01:16:14,749
- -Yeah, thank you.
- -Well, that's... That's sweet of you.
- 957
- 01:16:14,916 --> 01:16:20,296
- I appreciate that acknowledgement,
- and I...
- 958
- 01:16:21,380 --> 01:16:25,343
- It's been... It's so been my
- pleasure getting to know you, and...
- 959
- 01:16:25,509 --> 01:16:30,139
- I was skeptical at first about
- what our relationship would look like.
- 960
- 01:16:30,306 --> 01:16:33,351
- And I just felt like...
- 961
- 01:16:33,517 --> 01:16:36,020
- I don't know. I just really
- wanted to get to know you,
- 962
- 01:16:36,187 --> 01:16:40,566
- and I'm excited to hopefully
- continue to get to know you. And...
- 963
- 01:16:42,485 --> 01:16:45,071
- I don't know, maybe, you know,
- what our... what...
- 964
- 01:16:45,238 --> 01:16:50,743
- What our life can look like...
- moving forward.
- 965
- 01:16:50,910 --> 01:16:53,537
- Like, I don't know. There's just...
- 966
- 01:16:53,704 --> 01:16:56,666
- Maybe, um...
- 967
- 01:16:56,832 --> 01:17:00,836
- It's just been probably
- one of the biggest gifts
- 968
- 01:17:01,003 --> 01:17:05,132
- of the... the ship for me
- has been...
- 969
- 01:17:06,634 --> 01:17:09,470
- Getting to know you, so...
- 970
- 01:17:18,312 --> 01:17:22,858
- I was, uh, wondering if...
- 971
- 01:17:27,113 --> 01:17:31,075
- I know this is kind
- of a crazy question, but...
- 972
- 01:17:34,954 --> 01:17:38,124
- If maybe you wanted to...
- 973
- 01:17:41,419 --> 01:17:43,212
- If...
- 974
- 01:17:43,379 --> 01:17:46,465
- You're not gonna ask me out,
- are you?
- 975
- 01:17:46,632 --> 01:17:49,010
- I'm joking, I'm joking.
- You just suddenly looked so awkward.
- 976
- 01:17:49,176 --> 01:17:51,721
- Right. Right. I did. I was...
- 977
- 01:17:51,888 --> 01:17:57,685
- I was wondering if maybe I could
- kiss you at some point soon.
- 978
- 01:18:11,115 --> 01:18:13,409
- Fuck.
- 979
- 01:18:17,496 --> 01:18:19,624
- Oh, shit.
- 980
- 01:18:43,648 --> 01:18:47,318
- I think I...
- 981
- 01:18:47,485 --> 01:18:49,820
- made a...
- 982
- 01:18:49,987 --> 01:18:53,366
- a bit of a fool of myself.
- 983
- 01:18:58,162 --> 01:19:00,248
- In what way?
- 984
- 01:19:00,414 --> 01:19:07,672
- I just... I made some kind of an advance
- that didn't... That went un...
- 985
- 01:19:07,838 --> 01:19:10,758
- Unreciprocated.
- 986
- 01:19:15,763 --> 01:19:17,932
- Well, you can't...
- 987
- 01:19:19,350 --> 01:19:22,436
- I hope you don't regret that.
- 988
- 01:19:22,603 --> 01:19:27,608
- That's... that's... The trying is all.
- You know?
- 989
- 01:19:28,901 --> 01:19:32,405
- If you don't try, if you don't risk...
- 990
- 01:19:32,572 --> 01:19:34,699
- That's good to know.
- 991
- 01:19:37,618 --> 01:19:41,706
- I mean, it's... you shouldn't be shy
- with this kind of thing,
- 992
- 01:19:41,872 --> 01:19:46,252
- this... this attraction to someone.
- 993
- 01:19:46,419 --> 01:19:48,754
- I think attraction is...
- 994
- 01:19:48,921 --> 01:19:53,009
- It's the animating force
- in the universe, really.
- 995
- 01:19:54,051 --> 01:19:56,888
- -That's a fact.
- -Well, like...
- 996
- 01:19:58,472 --> 01:20:01,893
- Gravity or the pull of the poles,
- 997
- 01:20:02,059 --> 01:20:05,730
- what pulls
- the monarch butterflies...
- 998
- 01:20:07,064 --> 01:20:09,442
- to fly across the world.
- 999
- 01:20:09,609 --> 01:20:13,696
- If you feel attracted to someone
- from your heart,
- 1000
- 01:20:13,863 --> 01:20:19,160
- you know... and you look at them and
- you feel and you can see their soul...
- 1001
- 01:20:20,870 --> 01:20:22,580
- That's...
- 1002
- 01:20:23,789 --> 01:20:25,791
- There is...
- 1003
- 01:20:27,001 --> 01:20:31,005
- There's no bad version of that,
- 1004
- 01:20:31,172 --> 01:20:34,175
- to want to be a part of that.
- 1005
- 01:20:34,342 --> 01:20:37,595
- And we should...
- 1006
- 01:20:37,762 --> 01:20:41,891
- Oh, God... treasure it.
- It's, it's...
- 1007
- 01:20:42,058 --> 01:20:44,810
- We're lucky to have that feeling.
- 1008
- 01:20:44,977 --> 01:20:51,359
- It's the greatest, it's the fullest...
- expression of what it is to be alive.
- 1009
- 01:20:51,525 --> 01:20:53,444
- So...
- 1010
- 01:20:54,779 --> 01:20:57,323
- Do you think you'll, you'll...
- 1011
- 01:20:57,490 --> 01:21:01,494
- How did it end?
- I mean, do you think you'll try again?
- 1012
- 01:21:01,661 --> 01:21:03,371
- -No.
- -No?
- 1013
- 01:21:03,537 --> 01:21:06,707
- No. No.
- 1014
- 01:21:08,376 --> 01:21:12,129
- You know, Suze, I am convinced
- 1015
- 01:21:12,296 --> 01:21:17,802
- she asked me on this trip to find out
- what happened to me after my divorce.
- 1016
- 01:21:17,969 --> 01:21:23,266
- She wants to write about it
- as a sequel to her fucking book.
- 1017
- 01:21:23,432 --> 01:21:24,934
- -I know it.
- -No.
- 1018
- 01:21:25,101 --> 01:21:27,603
- -I know it.
- -No. You've got to ask her.
- 1019
- 01:21:27,770 --> 01:21:31,023
- -No.
- -You have to be direct and ask her.
- 1020
- 01:21:31,190 --> 01:21:34,777
- You know, you heard those things
- she said during that talk.
- 1021
- 01:21:34,944 --> 01:21:38,823
- She uses things
- and people from her life.
- 1022
- 01:21:38,990 --> 01:21:43,077
- -Well, I'm... I'm one of those people.
- -I know you are. I know you are.
- 1023
- 01:21:43,244 --> 01:21:47,790
- But that's what writers do, and she
- never meant to hurt you, I promise you.
- 1024
- 01:21:47,957 --> 01:21:49,959
- -She never meant to hurt you.
- -She doesn't care, Susan.
- 1025
- 01:21:50,126 --> 01:21:52,962
- I think she does care.
- She cares about you.
- 1026
- 01:21:53,129 --> 01:21:55,423
- And why would she be writing
- about you again?
- 1027
- 01:21:55,590 --> 01:21:58,050
- She loves you.
- She's obsessed with you.
- 1028
- 01:21:58,217 --> 01:22:01,762
- She said she uses people
- from her life,
- 1029
- 01:22:01,929 --> 01:22:04,765
- and she is going to use me
- in this sequel.
- 1030
- 01:22:04,932 --> 01:22:07,310
- I don't believe that, dear.
- I really don't.
- 1031
- 01:22:07,476 --> 01:22:11,314
- I know it could seem that way
- if you twist it.
- 1032
- 01:22:11,480 --> 01:22:14,191
- If you twist it the other way,
- 1033
- 01:22:14,358 --> 01:22:18,654
- you know, she has the same memories
- we do of our days together.
- 1034
- 01:22:18,821 --> 01:22:20,740
- -They're sacred.
- -Yeah.
- 1035
- 01:22:20,907 --> 01:22:25,161
- Maybe not sacred.
- That's a little pompous.
- 1036
- 01:22:25,328 --> 01:22:28,706
- But you know what I mean, what we
- were talking about the other day.
- 1037
- 01:22:28,873 --> 01:22:32,418
- -She has those, too.
- -Yeah, but she's very different now.
- 1038
- 01:22:32,585 --> 01:22:35,129
- I know she is.
- She really has changed.
- 1039
- 01:22:35,296 --> 01:22:37,298
- She's changed so much.
- 1040
- 01:22:37,465 --> 01:22:39,675
- -Did she always talk like that?
- -No.
- 1041
- 01:22:39,842 --> 01:22:41,552
- -She didn't?
- -Did not.
- 1042
- 01:22:41,719 --> 01:22:46,057
- -I wonder why she talks like that.
- -I know.
- 1043
- 01:22:56,275 --> 01:23:00,154
- Just so you know, she's invited me
- to dinner with all of you.
- 1044
- 01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:03,574
- Oh, fuck.
- 1045
- 01:23:03,741 --> 01:23:07,036
- Karen's very hopeful about
- the publishing business, actually.
- 1046
- 01:23:07,203 --> 01:23:12,416
- I mean, against all reason, in my
- opinion, but if you could talk a little
- 1047
- 01:23:12,583 --> 01:23:16,504
- about what the agency
- is going to do now and in the future.
- 1048
- 01:23:16,671 --> 01:23:19,882
- The old dead wood
- has been moved aside.
- 1049
- 01:23:20,049 --> 01:23:21,926
- It's been an interesting time.
- 1050
- 01:23:22,093 --> 01:23:23,678
- There have been quite
- a few changes at the agency,
- 1051
- 01:23:23,844 --> 01:23:28,224
- but I feel very optimistic about what
- we're going to be doing going forward.
- 1052
- 01:23:28,391 --> 01:23:31,602
- And I... We've got
- exciting plans for Alice.
- 1053
- 01:23:31,769 --> 01:23:35,565
- You know, Sonia did tell me that Alice
- was quite secretive about her work.
- 1054
- 01:23:35,731 --> 01:23:39,777
- -But I had no idea how secretive.
- -Well, I...
- 1055
- 01:23:39,944 --> 01:23:42,154
- I mean, I still haven't been able
- to deduce
- 1056
- 01:23:42,321 --> 01:23:47,159
- which of your literary characters
- that you are reviving.
- 1057
- 01:23:47,326 --> 01:23:49,954
- I do hope it's Rowena
- from <i>You Always, You Never.</i>
- 1058
- 01:23:50,121 --> 01:23:56,210
- Yes, I would love to know what Rowena
- has been up to the last 35 years.
- 1059
- 01:23:56,377 --> 01:23:58,713
- Oh, dear, you know...
- 1060
- 01:23:58,879 --> 01:24:00,381
- Let me just say.
- 1061
- 01:24:00,548 --> 01:24:04,218
- -On this subject...
- -I think everyone cares. Rowena...
- 1062
- 01:24:04,385 --> 01:24:06,012
- I don't think anybody really cares.
- 1063
- 01:24:06,178 --> 01:24:09,724
- What became of Rowena
- after her disastrous marriage?
- 1064
- 01:24:09,891 --> 01:24:13,603
- Did she find love again?
- Did she get another career?
- 1065
- 01:24:13,769 --> 01:24:15,479
- Did she have a child?
- 1066
- 01:24:15,646 --> 01:24:19,859
- Rowena is a beloved literary character.
- What, what...
- 1067
- 01:24:20,026 --> 01:24:22,153
- -She is. She is.
- -Bert, Bert.
- 1068
- 01:24:22,320 --> 01:24:25,781
- What I want to say about this... And...
- 1069
- 01:24:25,948 --> 01:24:28,492
- I should clarify for you
- 1070
- 01:24:28,659 --> 01:24:32,663
- that whatever character I write about,
- is essentially about me.
- 1071
- 01:24:32,830 --> 01:24:35,708
- I mean, honestly,
- that's what authors do. Don't they?
- 1072
- 01:24:35,875 --> 01:24:39,045
- -Let me... Just... I don't think...
- -And another thing...
- 1073
- 01:24:39,211 --> 01:24:45,218
- ...I have ever been at a table
- with two more self-obsessed people.
- 1074
- 01:24:45,384 --> 01:24:49,597
- I don't think I ever have.
- This is a first. This is a first.
- 1075
- 01:24:52,099 --> 01:24:55,311
- We care for each other. Do we?
- 1076
- 01:24:55,478 --> 01:24:58,314
- -Do we care for each other?
- -Yes, of course.
- 1077
- 01:24:58,481 --> 01:25:03,569
- Yes. We do care for each other.
- This happened in your youth.
- 1078
- 01:25:03,736 --> 01:25:07,365
- This happened so long...
- In your youth.
- 1079
- 01:25:07,531 --> 01:25:14,038
- And today, this very day,
- we have lived most of our lives.
- 1080
- 01:25:14,205 --> 01:25:20,378
- Right? Are you gonna continue
- this ancient battle
- 1081
- 01:25:20,544 --> 01:25:24,423
- for the little time that remains to us?
- 1082
- 01:25:24,590 --> 01:25:27,051
- Do you even know
- what happened yesterday
- 1083
- 01:25:27,218 --> 01:25:30,054
- when we were out of communication
- with the world?
- 1084
- 01:25:30,221 --> 01:25:32,056
- Do you know what happened?
- 1085
- 01:25:32,223 --> 01:25:34,058
- You don't know what happened.
- Do you know what happened?
- 1086
- 01:25:34,225 --> 01:25:36,269
- -Does anyone know what happened?
- -I was working, so I wasn't...
- 1087
- 01:25:36,435 --> 01:25:38,980
- Well, of course you were working.
- You're always working.
- 1088
- 01:25:39,146 --> 01:25:40,565
- Yes.
- 1089
- 01:25:41,691 --> 01:25:44,110
- Elon Musk...
- 1090
- 01:25:45,319 --> 01:25:50,408
- sent many, many telecom satellites
- into the sky
- 1091
- 01:25:51,701 --> 01:25:54,996
- that look exactly like stars,
- 1092
- 01:25:55,162 --> 01:25:56,664
- exactly like stars.
- 1093
- 01:25:56,831 --> 01:26:00,876
- So now when humans gaze
- at the night sky,
- 1094
- 01:26:01,043 --> 01:26:06,966
- they won't know if they're gazing
- at a star or at a machine.
- 1095
- 01:26:08,467 --> 01:26:14,098
- And we at this table,
- at this little table,
- 1096
- 01:26:14,265 --> 01:26:19,103
- we are among the last, the very last,
- 1097
- 01:26:19,270 --> 01:26:21,772
- ever, ever,
- 1098
- 01:26:21,939 --> 01:26:26,068
- to have seen the actual, real,
- 1099
- 01:26:26,235 --> 01:26:31,824
- the honest, truthful night sky
- from the ocean.
- 1100
- 01:26:31,991 --> 01:26:35,036
- We saw stars...
- 1101
- 01:26:35,202 --> 01:26:37,788
- Just stars.
- 1102
- 01:27:13,366 --> 01:27:17,036
- -Are you packed?
- -I'm killing it.
- 1103
- 01:27:17,203 --> 01:27:21,249
- -Yeah? Killing it with the bags?
- -No.
- 1104
- 01:27:24,794 --> 01:27:27,755
- No, my book.
- 1105
- 01:27:32,635 --> 01:27:36,639
- I deleted it...
- from my computer.
- 1106
- 01:27:36,806 --> 01:27:39,141
- I deleted it all.
- 1107
- 01:27:40,726 --> 01:27:44,480
- And I threw the hard copy
- in the recycling.
- 1108
- 01:27:44,647 --> 01:27:46,816
- Why?
- 1109
- 01:27:46,983 --> 01:27:49,026
- It's...
- 1110
- 01:27:54,073 --> 01:27:59,036
- You know what? It's like polishing
- the vase when the house is falling down.
- 1111
- 01:28:05,167 --> 01:28:07,628
- You don't know.
- 1112
- 01:28:07,795 --> 01:28:09,755
- You don't know
- what I'm talking about.
- 1113
- 01:28:11,340 --> 01:28:14,135
- Anyway, I'm gonna...
- 1114
- 01:28:14,302 --> 01:28:18,639
- ask you to bring the bigger bags
- down for me, okay?
- 1115
- 01:30:40,573 --> 01:30:44,201
- I think the words matter.
- I do think they matter.
- 1116
- 01:30:45,244 --> 01:30:50,625
- Which ones you choose to describe
- something or to express something.
- 1117
- 01:30:50,791 --> 01:30:55,504
- It takes time to worry those
- into existence,
- 1118
- 01:30:55,671 --> 01:30:59,884
- the right one, the right one.
- There's only one that's right.
- 1119
- 01:31:01,886 --> 01:31:05,932
- I lament... You know, sometimes I wait,
- I wait for a word to come to me.
- 1120
- 01:31:06,098 --> 01:31:09,143
- I wait... I'll wait a week.
- 1121
- 01:31:09,310 --> 01:31:12,772
- No, but it amused me on the ship
- 1122
- 01:31:12,939 --> 01:31:18,653
- how they were so eager that we not use
- the word "boat" to describe the ship
- 1123
- 01:31:18,819 --> 01:31:22,615
- because "boat" is
- sort of a diminutive...
- 1124
- 01:31:22,782 --> 01:31:26,661
- Or when they would say
- don't call it "a cruise."
- 1125
- 01:31:26,827 --> 01:31:29,956
- It's not a cruise. It's a crossing.
- 1126
- 01:31:34,001 --> 01:31:39,590
- And it is a crossing. You're crossing
- time zones. You feel them.
- 1127
- 01:31:39,757 --> 01:31:43,928
- -Yes, you do.
- -Crossing into something unknown.
- 1128
- 01:31:44,095 --> 01:31:48,099
- I mean, it's... The cruise
- just seems meandering and...
- 1129
- 01:31:48,266 --> 01:31:50,059
- And silly.
- 1130
- 01:31:53,854 --> 01:31:55,523
- Alice...
- 1131
- 01:31:56,649 --> 01:31:59,944
- What I'm trying to reconcile is
- 1132
- 01:32:00,111 --> 01:32:03,281
- who is the real you?
- 1133
- 01:32:05,491 --> 01:32:08,286
- I just...
- 1134
- 01:32:09,412 --> 01:32:12,540
- I just don't know
- who you are anymore.
- 1135
- 01:32:12,707 --> 01:32:16,961
- I mean, does...
- Does anybody trust you anymore?
- 1136
- 01:32:17,128 --> 01:32:20,298
- And is that hard for you? I mean...
- 1137
- 01:32:20,464 --> 01:32:24,093
- Are you okay with that?
- You seem to be okay with that.
- 1138
- 01:32:26,178 --> 01:32:30,600
- What do you mean?
- Because I write from my life and from...
- 1139
- 01:32:30,766 --> 01:32:34,604
- Oh, yeah, you write from your life,
- but you write from others,
- 1140
- 01:32:34,770 --> 01:32:41,319
- and those others experience it
- as a kind of betrayal.
- 1141
- 01:32:42,361 --> 01:32:45,197
- -You obviously...
- -Well, you know, you...
- 1142
- 01:32:46,616 --> 01:32:48,492
- Betrayal.
- 1143
- 01:32:48,659 --> 01:32:54,540
- I think that you perhaps betray
- the people that you love the most...
- 1144
- 01:32:54,707 --> 01:33:00,087
- Because you know that you have
- the expectation of forgiveness.
- 1145
- 01:33:00,254 --> 01:33:03,049
- The people that you don't know
- very well,
- 1146
- 01:33:03,215 --> 01:33:05,843
- trying to seduce or impress,
- 1147
- 01:33:06,010 --> 01:33:09,889
- you treat them much more tenderly.
- That's my experience.
- 1148
- 01:33:10,056 --> 01:33:13,976
- But it's harder to forgive
- 1149
- 01:33:14,143 --> 01:33:18,105
- when you're wallowing
- 1150
- 01:33:18,272 --> 01:33:21,609
- in the middle of the debris
- of what your life used to be.
- 1151
- 01:33:22,693 --> 01:33:27,698
- It requires a greater expanse of spirit
- 1152
- 01:33:27,865 --> 01:33:31,452
- than I think most people have.
- 1153
- 01:33:31,619 --> 01:33:35,831
- Did you come on this trip to, to...
- 1154
- 01:33:38,876 --> 01:33:43,256
- berate me or to forgive me or to...
- 1155
- 01:33:45,216 --> 01:33:47,593
- extract something else?
- 1156
- 01:33:47,760 --> 01:33:49,929
- An apology or...
- 1157
- 01:33:50,096 --> 01:33:55,560
- to reconnect, maybe, our friendship?
- 1158
- 01:33:55,726 --> 01:33:59,021
- Why did you say yes?
- 1159
- 01:34:01,941 --> 01:34:04,902
- I wanted an apology.
- 1160
- 01:34:05,069 --> 01:34:09,782
- I wanted you to at least acknowledge
- 1161
- 01:34:09,949 --> 01:34:12,618
- the damage that you caused in my life.
- 1162
- 01:34:16,247 --> 01:34:18,749
- And...
- 1163
- 01:34:18,916 --> 01:34:22,878
- And I wanted to extract...
- 1164
- 01:34:25,047 --> 01:34:28,092
- a little compensation for it.
- 1165
- 01:34:31,679 --> 01:34:37,602
- Because if you
- were going to write a sequel,
- 1166
- 01:34:38,895 --> 01:34:43,691
- I would tell you everything
- about the last 35 years.
- 1167
- 01:34:43,858 --> 01:34:48,154
- I would give you all the sordid,
- squalid details.
- 1168
- 01:34:48,321 --> 01:34:50,781
- You would have...
- 1169
- 01:34:50,948 --> 01:34:54,911
- You would have a great book.
- 1170
- 01:34:55,077 --> 01:34:57,580
- And all I want...
- 1171
- 01:34:59,123 --> 01:35:01,792
- is 30% of the profits.
- 1172
- 01:35:01,959 --> 01:35:06,756
- Wait. What did you...
- What did you just say?
- 1173
- 01:35:06,923 --> 01:35:10,009
- Well, I think you heard me.
- 1174
- 01:35:10,176 --> 01:35:13,054
- And I think it's fair.
- 1175
- 01:35:15,223 --> 01:35:17,600
- Oh, my God.
- 1176
- 01:35:21,270 --> 01:35:24,106
- Oh, my God. I just...
- 1177
- 01:35:26,567 --> 01:35:30,988
- I realize what this is about.
- This is not about...
- 1178
- 01:35:31,155 --> 01:35:34,492
- This is not about love.
- This is about money.
- 1179
- 01:35:34,659 --> 01:35:37,954
- I'm so sorry. I didn't realize that.
- 1180
- 01:35:40,581 --> 01:35:42,833
- I'll give you a check.
- 1181
- 01:35:49,298 --> 01:35:53,094
- -We really lost each other, you know?
- -Yeah, we did.
- 1182
- 01:35:55,763 --> 01:35:58,724
- I loved you when you were Al.
- 1183
- 01:36:09,360 --> 01:36:12,321
- Well, I'll see you tomorrow.
- 1184
- 01:38:02,765 --> 01:38:05,184
- -Excuse me, Tyler...
- -Hey.
- 1185
- 01:38:05,351 --> 01:38:09,397
- I'm Dr. Mitchell. I'm Alice's physician.
- Come in, please.
- 1186
- 01:38:09,564 --> 01:38:13,150
- What's happening? Is she sleeping?
- 1187
- 01:38:13,317 --> 01:38:16,612
- I'm very sorry to inform you,
- 1188
- 01:38:16,779 --> 01:38:21,117
- but your aunt passed away
- in the middle of the night.
- 1189
- 01:38:21,284 --> 01:38:23,578
- Oh, no.
- 1190
- 01:38:24,662 --> 01:38:28,624
- -Alice had a serious condition called...
- -Fuck.
- 1191
- 01:38:28,791 --> 01:38:32,003
- ...deep vein thrombosis,
- and it's a blood clot
- 1192
- 01:38:32,169 --> 01:38:36,048
- which can travel up to the lungs,
- the heart, or the brain.
- 1193
- 01:38:36,215 --> 01:38:40,803
- Right now we're not sure which
- until we get a coroner's report.
- 1194
- 01:38:40,970 --> 01:38:43,222
- I'm very sorry.
- 1195
- 01:38:44,891 --> 01:38:49,478
- The coroner as well as the police
- are headed here.
- 1196
- 01:38:49,645 --> 01:38:52,940
- If you'd like some time
- to spend with her before they get here.
- 1197
- 01:38:53,107 --> 01:38:56,193
- -Yeah. That would be great.
- -Okay, I'll be right outside.
- 1198
- 01:38:56,360 --> 01:38:58,029
- -Thank you.
- -You're welcome.
- 1199
- 01:38:58,195 --> 01:39:00,072
- Yeah.
- 1200
- 01:39:41,113 --> 01:39:44,951
- She had told me of her
- wanting to go to England
- 1201
- 01:39:45,117 --> 01:39:48,120
- to pick up the Footling Prize,
- 1202
- 01:39:48,287 --> 01:39:50,957
- see Blodwyn Pugh's gravesite,
- 1203
- 01:39:51,123 --> 01:39:54,710
- and also discuss her
- at the awards ceremony.
- 1204
- 01:39:54,877 --> 01:39:58,339
- She had at one point intended to fly.
- 1205
- 01:39:58,506 --> 01:40:02,593
- I certainly said that that would not be
- a good idea to travel by plane.
- 1206
- 01:40:02,760 --> 01:40:04,512
- It wouldn't be a good idea
- to travel at all.
- 1207
- 01:40:04,679 --> 01:40:06,973
- I strongly advised her
- to stay in New York,
- 1208
- 01:40:07,139 --> 01:40:11,435
- but as you all know, Alice is Alice.
- 1209
- 01:40:11,602 --> 01:40:16,440
- And she's very strong-willed,
- and, ultimately, she wanted to go.
- 1210
- 01:40:16,607 --> 01:40:20,736
- So, I then discussed with her perhaps
- I should come along with her
- 1211
- 01:40:20,903 --> 01:40:22,863
- to help her with the medication.
- 1212
- 01:40:23,030 --> 01:40:26,117
- The medication that we typically use
- in this situation is a blood thinner,
- 1213
- 01:40:26,284 --> 01:40:28,494
- but it needed to be injected.
- 1214
- 01:40:28,661 --> 01:40:31,289
- I would give the injections
- in the morning and in the evening.
- 1215
- 01:40:31,455 --> 01:40:35,668
- Could I just interrupt to ask
- if it could have been brought on
- 1216
- 01:40:35,835 --> 01:40:39,422
- by an emotional discussion,
- 1217
- 01:40:39,589 --> 01:40:43,259
- an emotional encounter?
- 1218
- 01:40:43,426 --> 01:40:49,181
- Most likely not. These things are,
- as I said, unpredictable in nature,
- 1219
- 01:40:49,348 --> 01:40:52,727
- and they can happen
- and it doesn't have anything to do
- 1220
- 01:40:52,894 --> 01:40:55,980
- with what's going on
- in someone's personal life.
- 1221
- 01:40:56,147 --> 01:40:57,565
- So, no.
- 1222
- 01:41:03,988 --> 01:41:08,034
- Shall I go rebook our flights now?
- 1223
- 01:41:08,200 --> 01:41:11,662
- -Oh, my goodness sake.
- <i>-Well...</i>
- 1224
- 01:41:11,829 --> 01:41:14,081
- -We've got to...
- -To when?
- 1225
- 01:41:14,248 --> 01:41:17,209
- -Tomorrow?
- -Maybe the next day.
- 1226
- 01:41:17,376 --> 01:41:22,214
- We've got to pack Alice's stuff
- and then pack all our stuff.
- 1227
- 01:41:24,717 --> 01:41:27,887
- I don't know.
- I was... I was sort of...
- 1228
- 01:41:28,054 --> 01:41:31,807
- It doesn't feel right to me to leave
- 1229
- 01:41:31,974 --> 01:41:35,937
- or to book the flight right now.
- I feel like we got to...
- 1230
- 01:41:36,103 --> 01:41:38,648
- The trip isn't over. Like, the...
- 1231
- 01:41:38,814 --> 01:41:44,153
- We should visit Blodwyn's grave,
- like Alice wanted us to.
- 1232
- 01:41:45,238 --> 01:41:49,075
- She brought us here. She chose us.
- 1233
- 01:41:49,242 --> 01:41:51,827
- The three... Just us three.
- 1234
- 01:41:51,994 --> 01:41:56,123
- Personally, for me, I... My life...
- 1235
- 01:41:57,333 --> 01:42:03,673
- I... Everything that's good in my life
- feels related to Alice in so many ways.
- 1236
- 01:42:03,839 --> 01:42:08,302
- I've been so ashamed
- of the family that I come from,
- 1237
- 01:42:08,469 --> 01:42:12,098
- for so long, until I met Alice.
- 1238
- 01:42:13,599 --> 01:42:16,018
- And...
- 1239
- 01:42:16,185 --> 01:42:21,232
- I can't leave here without going
- to that gravesite. I'm just...
- 1240
- 01:42:21,399 --> 01:42:24,569
- It would feel like...
- It would make me sick.
- 1241
- 01:43:41,979 --> 01:43:45,399
- Does anybody want to say anything?
- 1242
- 01:43:45,566 --> 01:43:48,236
- Tyler, I don't even know the woman.
- 1243
- 01:43:48,402 --> 01:43:51,322
- I don't even like her writing.
- 1244
- 01:43:52,907 --> 01:43:55,660
- This is for Alice.
- 1245
- 01:44:07,046 --> 01:44:09,298
- I guess we should go, then.
- 1246
- 01:44:13,094 --> 01:44:14,762
- I need a drink.
- 1247
- 01:44:32,321 --> 01:44:35,533
- Isn't there an editor
- or a fellow writer,
- 1248
- 01:44:35,700 --> 01:44:38,077
- someone who could do
- something with it?
- 1249
- 01:44:38,244 --> 01:44:40,037
- <i>Honestly, it's...</i>
- 1250
- 01:44:40,204 --> 01:44:43,291
- I don't know what it is
- or what could be done with it.
- 1251
- 01:44:43,457 --> 01:44:46,460
- I guess you could call it
- experimental.
- 1252
- 01:44:46,627 --> 01:44:50,673
- We could post it online
- and charge people to read it.
- 1253
- 01:44:50,840 --> 01:44:54,886
- I personally wouldn't feel
- comfortable doing that.
- 1254
- 01:44:55,052 --> 01:44:59,432
- Look, whatever this is, it's clearly
- in a very embryonic stage,
- 1255
- 01:44:59,599 --> 01:45:01,601
- and it's not meant to be published.
- 1256
- 01:45:01,767 --> 01:45:04,270
- She was trying something out,
- and she didn't get to see it through.
- 1257
- 01:45:04,437 --> 01:45:06,981
- <i>Yeah, but people</i>
- <i>might find that interesting.</i>
- 1258
- 01:45:07,148 --> 01:45:10,902
- Her readers, literary scholars.
- 1259
- 01:45:11,068 --> 01:45:14,322
- Look, maybe someone else
- can help you.
- 1260
- 01:45:14,488 --> 01:45:17,783
- You said she gave it to you.
- You can take it wherever you want.
- 1261
- 01:45:17,950 --> 01:45:20,703
- <i>You don't need me, not for that.</i>
- 1262
- 01:45:20,870 --> 01:45:25,291
- -Roberta, we need you on the floor.
- -Yeah, I'm coming, Clovis.
- 1263
- 01:45:25,458 --> 01:45:29,378
- I'll be right there. I'm coming.
- 1264
- 01:45:29,545 --> 01:45:32,632
- -Yeah, Mom...
- <i>-Should I send it back to you?</i>
- 1265
- 01:45:32,798 --> 01:45:35,301
- I'm coming. What?
- 1266
- 01:45:35,468 --> 01:45:38,512
- No, no, no. Keep it.
- 1267
- 01:45:38,679 --> 01:45:41,432
- Give it to Tyler.
- 1268
- 01:45:41,599 --> 01:45:46,437
- How about... how about this?
- How about a sequel?
- 1269
- 01:45:46,604 --> 01:45:50,191
- A sequel with real people,
- real people's names,
- 1270
- 01:45:50,358 --> 01:45:53,903
- <i>places, about what happened</i>
- <i>in my life</i>
- 1271
- 01:45:54,070 --> 01:45:57,823
- <i>after the publication</i>
- of You Always, You Never?
- 1272
- 01:45:57,990 --> 01:46:00,076
- <i>How about that?</i>
- 1273
- 01:46:00,243 --> 01:46:04,121
- Roberta, if you were ever
- to write that book,
- 1274
- 01:46:04,288 --> 01:46:06,123
- I'd love to see it.
- 1275
- 01:46:06,290 --> 01:46:10,461
- I just don't understand
- the whole agent thing,
- 1276
- 01:46:10,628 --> 01:46:13,089
- but I spoke to Karen
- 1277
- 01:46:13,256 --> 01:46:16,717
- and she said that, because
- she represents you now,
- 1278
- 01:46:16,884 --> 01:46:18,719
- she couldn't represent me.
- 1279
- 01:46:18,886 --> 01:46:20,888
- -No, no, no, no.
- -Yeah.
- 1280
- 01:46:21,055 --> 01:46:23,558
- -Okay, but she can find you an--
- -It's a conflict.
- 1281
- 01:46:23,724 --> 01:46:27,895
- Okay, but she can find you
- an agent and a lawyer, but...
- 1282
- 01:46:28,062 --> 01:46:31,691
- You should use my old agent. That's
- perfect. He'd love to represent you.
- 1283
- 01:46:31,857 --> 01:46:33,985
- -Okay.
- -He should be so lucky.
- 1284
- 01:46:34,151 --> 01:46:37,113
- Because the deal's 50-50.
- We're just gonna split it 50-50, right?
- 1285
- 01:46:37,280 --> 01:46:39,490
- -That doesn't make any sense at all.
- -Why?
- 1286
- 01:46:39,657 --> 01:46:43,661
- -You are the writer. It's not 50-50.
- -Well, yes, it is.
- 1287
- 01:46:43,828 --> 01:46:45,913
- I mean, unless you want more.
- I mean...
- 1288
- 01:46:46,080 --> 01:46:48,791
- -Don't be absurd.
- -You don't need an agent.
- 1289
- 01:46:50,334 --> 01:46:54,880
- You're better than your agent.
- Look, I am so happy to be doing this.
- 1290
- 01:46:55,047 --> 01:46:59,468
- This is my idea.
- We're splitting it 50-50. That's done.
- 1291
- 01:46:59,635 --> 01:47:02,471
- Forget it.
- Let's just move on and try to start.
- 1292
- 01:47:02,638 --> 01:47:05,641
- -Do you have some--
- -This might be interesting.
- 1293
- 01:47:05,808 --> 01:47:12,064
- But it turns out the main ingredient
- in antifreeze is ethylene glycol.
- 1294
- 01:47:12,231 --> 01:47:15,067
- -In antifreeze?
- -In antifreeze. Wait, now...
- 1295
- 01:47:15,234 --> 01:47:19,989
- Which is not only incredibly toxic
- but also very sweet.
- 1296
- 01:47:21,240 --> 01:47:26,203
- So that, people, when they want
- to poison someone, have used it a lot.
- 1297
- 01:47:26,370 --> 01:47:31,626
- And now 17 states require
- the manufacturer
- 1298
- 01:47:31,792 --> 01:47:35,129
- to add something
- to make it taste very bitter.
- 1299
- 01:47:36,422 --> 01:47:39,008
- Which leaves 33 states
- where they don't.
- 1300
- 01:47:39,175 --> 01:47:40,551
- -Exactly.
- -If my math...
- 1301
- 01:47:40,718 --> 01:47:43,804
- So I was thinking maybe
- as part of her plan,
- 1302
- 01:47:43,971 --> 01:47:47,600
- she either lives in a state
- that doesn't have the law...
- 1303
- 01:47:47,767 --> 01:47:50,436
- -Or moves to one.
- -And then moves to one.
- 1304
- 01:47:50,603 --> 01:47:53,022
- And then moves to one.
- 1305
- 01:49:23,446 --> 01:49:25,698
- <i>When I read this novel,</i>
- 1306
- 01:49:25,865 --> 01:49:29,076
- <i>it's... it's impossible for me</i>
- 1307
- 01:49:29,243 --> 01:49:33,623
- <i>not to think what a miracle it is</i>
- <i>that this universe emerged,</i>
- 1308
- 01:49:33,789 --> 01:49:39,921
- <i>what a miracle it is</i>
- <i>that consciousness emerged...</i>
- 1309
- 01:49:40,796 --> 01:49:44,550
- <i>And what a miracle it is</i>
- <i>that Blodwyn Pugh,</i>
- 1310
- 01:49:44,717 --> 01:49:47,720
- <i>her thoughts and experiences,</i>
- 1311
- 01:49:47,887 --> 01:49:52,350
- <i>that they could reach across time</i>
- 1312
- 01:49:52,516 --> 01:49:56,604
- <i>and reach into my consciousness.</i>
- 1313
- 01:49:57,563 --> 01:49:58,940
- <i>That's a miracle.</i>
- 1314
- 01:50:17,907 --> 01:50:22,907
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