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Fallow arriving, area A. Do you copy?
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Hi, Mr. Fallow. Welcome.
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Hi, so nice to see you!
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Careful with that!
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We're in a bit of a rush...
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so let's hop on the cart and get going.
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There are a lot of people waiting.
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We're so honored to have you.
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This is really
an historic occasion, Peter.
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Mr. Fallow, I'd like
to take this private moment...
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to tell you how much I admire your book.
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When Faulkner was asked
to recommend three novels, he said:
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"Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina,
Anna Karenina."
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Today, he'd say:
"The Real McCoy and the Forgotten Lamb.
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"The Real McCoy and the Forgotten Lamb,
The Real McCoy and..."
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I know you've heard it a million times...
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but the scene where the mayor is hit
in the head with the mayonnaise jar...
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Well, to be continued.
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Right this way.
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I've got Mr. Fallow.
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Get away!
This should never have happened.
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I'm so sorry.
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Right this way, Mr. Fallow.
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We're just going through these two doors.
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We're on our way.
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But I must say, if I may quote you...
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Look at all the busy bees.
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If I may quote you...
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"How in the name of God...
Who in the name of God...
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"would bring a half-eaten jar
of mayonnaise to a public meeting?"
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Ambassador!
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I'm Charles Buchanan. This is my wife,
Stephanie, and my daughter.
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Mr. Fallow, I read your book 15 times.
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Next year, next year I'm going
to take a course in it.
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We're going to go up by ourselves.
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Are you hungry?
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That's salmon, but I don't think
you should touch that.
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Mr. Fallow, it's such an honor
to finally meet you.
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Oh, my God!
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Oh, my God!
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We are running a bit late.
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I don't know what to say. Let me see...
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-What's your name?
-Suzanne.
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Are you married?
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Excuse me!
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Excuse me!
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Animals!
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Someone needs deodorant.
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All right, all right, here we go.
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Everything is under control.
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Nothing to worry about.
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Excuse me. I haven't
introduced myself, have I?
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My name is Peter Fallow.
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I am a writer.
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But you know that already.
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Unless you haven't read a newspaper
or seen a TV recently...
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you know exactly who I am.
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I am the man of the moment.
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The hero of the evening.
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Me and a book I happened to write.
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The real hero of the evening
is not even with us tonight.
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We'll come to him in a minute.
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For now, indulge yourself
in the extravagance of the moment...
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and remember, ifyou will,
a phrase from another little best-seller.
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"What does it profit a man if he gains
the whole world and loses his soul?"
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They're waiting.
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This is a story about such a man.
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There he is!
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And it begins on a rainy night
a little over a year ago.
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Our hero, Sherman McCoy,
was about to make a simple phone call.
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But despite the existence of 11 phones
and seven different lines...
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in the 14 rooms
of his $6-million-plus apartment...
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this was a phone call
he could not make at home.
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Gotcha!
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What on earth are you doing?
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I'm taking the dog for a walk.
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You're not taking "the dog" for a walk,
you're taking "Marshall."
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Marshall has a name. He's family.
And, anyway...
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it's raining.
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I know that.
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So does Marshall.
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He doesn't want to go.
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Do you, Marshall?
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Judy...
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All right. Have a nice time.
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He's not happy about it, Mr. McCoy.
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Neither am I, Bill.
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Tony, sir. My name is Tony.
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Well, whatever.
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Let's be men about this.
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Hello, Sherman.
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Good evening, Pollard.
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It's raining, you know.
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I did notice, yes.
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Ah, Sherman, a true friend
to man's best friend.
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Pollard, you old phrase-maker.
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I beg your pardon?
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Is that the best you can do?
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Is that as witty as we get?
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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Furthermore, if you're wet
when you return, take the service elevator.
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Come on, Marshall.
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Maria, hello. It's me.
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Who?
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I'm sorry.
May I speak to Maria?
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Who is this?
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Maria?
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Sherman?
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Sherman, is that you?
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Jesus!
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We're back.
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You were right. I got soaking wet
and Marshall didn't do anything.
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If you want to talk to a Maria...
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why call me?
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What do you mean?
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Please don't lie.
It makes your forehead crinkle.
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What are we talking about?
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You should see your face.
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I don't get it.
Did I miss something?
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You're going to stand there and say
you didn't call here asking for Maria?
121
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You think I don't know your voice?
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Judy, I was out walking the dog.
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Crinkle, crinkle.
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I am not lying. I took the dog for a walk.
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Then I came back here and wham!
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I hardly know what to say.
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You are asking me to prove
a negative proposition.
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Negative proposition?
129
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Oh, God, Sherman.
130
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Listen to the way I sound.
Listen to the stress. Hear it?
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I don't want to be this person. I don't.
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I am thin and beautiful.
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I do not deserve this.
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Here's the phone. Call her from here.
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I don't mind. I really don't mind.
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You are cheap and rotten and a liar.
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And you are dripping
on my Aubusson carpet.
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She was right.
139
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And Sherman knew it.
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Christ! How could he have been so stupid?
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A simple phone call.
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The next day, Judy's words still rang
in his ears.
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"Cheap, rotten and a liar."
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-Campbell, are we ready?
-I'm out of here.
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Hold on.
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Where is your mother?
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Campbell!
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She's crying on the Lifecycle.
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"Crying on the Lifecycle."
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Like so many men before him,
he was no match for a woman's tears.
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She won't kiss me because I'm all wet.
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Campbell, come and give
your mother a kiss.
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Judy?
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Why couldn't hejust say it:
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"Look, Judy, I still love you.
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"I still love our daughter,
our home, our life.
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"But I am a Master of the Universe.
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"I deserve more."
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Like the few privileged others
on Wall Street.
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How many? Two, three,
maybe 400 at most.
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For these men,
these Masters of the Universe...
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and Sherman McCoy was one of them...
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there were no limits whatsoever.
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Hi. This is 555-8771.
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Leave a message and I'll call you back.
Thank you.
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Maria, I've been calling you for days.
Call me at the office.
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Gene's on from London.
168
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-Let's go! Let's go!
-Calm down, Rawlie.
169
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Let's not get overexcited.
170
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Calm, cool, collated.
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Let's not lose our composure
over a few hundred million dollars.
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Christ, Sherman, you must be made of ice.
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Just remember, a frantic salesman
is a dead one.
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00:13:05,972 -- 00:13:09,885
What the hell
will this crazy Giscard deal cost us?
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00:13:09,972 -- 00:13:12,361
I need $600,000,000 to buy the bonds.
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00:13:12,652 -- 00:13:15,007
You want us to sit
on $600,000,000 worth...
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of French government bonds?
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I'm confident on this.
It's a real sleeping beauty.
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-Where are you, Gene?
-At a cricket match.
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Somebody just hit the hell out of the ball.
181
00:13:26,252 -- 00:13:28,720
-Who's playing?
-Don't get technical.
182
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A bunch of men in white pants.
183
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How about it? Are we in or out?
184
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Gold has to hold steady.
185
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Bernard Sachs is already in
for $300,000,000.
186
00:13:38,172 -- 00:13:39,525
Feel better?
187
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You are going to make me
an old man.
188
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A rich old man, Gene. A rich old man.
189
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A $600,000,000 deal.
190
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Sherman's commission
would be $1.7 million.
191
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All in a day's work.
192
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He was there! At the top!
193
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Impervious, untouchable...
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insulated by wealth and power.
195
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A Master of the Universe.
196
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A great height
from which to view the world.
197
00:14:05,652 -- 00:14:07,722
A great height from which to fall.
198
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Sherman, you are an absolute angel
coming all the way out here.
199
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I had to talk to you.
I did a very stupid thing.
200
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Are we going to talk about it now?
201
00:14:48,732 -- 00:14:50,450
I'm afraid we have to.
202
00:14:50,652 -- 00:14:53,371
Sherman, don't you want
a little poontang first?
203
00:14:56,132 -- 00:14:59,568
I know it has its funny side,
but it isn't funny.
204
00:14:59,852 -- 00:15:03,367
It's your own fault
for getting caught like a red herring.
205
00:15:04,092 -- 00:15:06,003
You mean red-handed.
206
00:15:07,212 -- 00:15:09,965
Can't we stop talking
about your wife now...
207
00:15:10,252 -- 00:15:16,202
and head over to our little hideaway
on 59th Street and just hide away a little?
208
00:15:16,652 -- 00:15:17,926
I think she knows.
209
00:15:18,012 -- 00:15:20,401
Of course she knows. That's not the point.
210
00:15:20,492 -- 00:15:21,766
It isn't?
211
00:15:22,572 -- 00:15:25,132
God, Sherman, you are so sweet.
212
00:15:25,332 -- 00:15:29,166
I could eat you alive if I could get
this goddamn zipper down.
213
00:15:30,612 -- 00:15:32,523
Isn't that the turnoff?
214
00:15:33,292 -- 00:15:34,725
The turnoff to Manhattan?
215
00:15:34,812 -- 00:15:37,007
I can't get over right now.
216
00:15:37,212 -- 00:15:39,362
We'll just exit and get back on.
217
00:15:40,372 -- 00:15:42,602
Exit and get back on.
218
00:15:42,692 -- 00:15:44,045
Maria!
219
00:15:53,652 -- 00:15:55,131
Where are we?
220
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The Bronx.
221
00:15:57,132 -- 00:15:58,531
What does that mean?
222
00:15:58,612 -- 00:16:01,080
It means we're
north of Manhattan.
223
00:16:01,772 -- 00:16:05,606
All I need to do is make a right
and find a street back.
224
00:16:10,572 -- 00:16:12,164
And there it was.
225
00:16:12,252 -- 00:16:14,163
A simple wrong turn.
226
00:16:15,052 -- 00:16:16,770
Anyone could have done it.
227
00:16:16,852 -- 00:16:18,410
A simple phone call...
228
00:16:18,492 -- 00:16:21,086
a simple wrong turn,
and you're off the track...
229
00:16:21,172 -- 00:16:23,970
moving towards a destiny
you never imagined.
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-Sherman?
-Yes, Maria.
231
00:16:42,772 -- 00:16:44,728
Where are all the white people?
232
00:16:50,292 -- 00:16:52,362
Are they going to scratch the car?
233
00:16:56,332 -- 00:16:59,404
I'm from the South
and I don't like this very much.
234
00:17:00,372 -- 00:17:01,441
Excuse me.
235
00:17:01,812 -- 00:17:03,564
Please don't touch the car.
236
00:17:06,972 -- 00:17:08,405
Get us out of here.
237
00:17:09,132 -- 00:17:10,724
I have a red light.
238
00:17:12,852 -- 00:17:13,921
Hey, baby!
239
00:17:15,172 -- 00:17:16,890
We're having a party!
240
00:17:27,532 -- 00:17:29,762
Get us out of here!
241
00:17:33,012 -- 00:17:35,890
I want my money.
I want my money now!
242
00:17:47,372 -- 00:17:49,442
There was no need to panic.
243
00:17:49,972 -- 00:17:51,530
That's what you think.
244
00:17:51,692 -- 00:17:54,001
I have all my luggage with me.
245
00:17:54,132 -- 00:17:58,045
I just don't want to do anything stupid.
If we keep our heads, we'll be fine.
246
00:17:58,132 -- 00:18:00,805
We're in the middle
of a war zone...
247
00:18:01,012 -- 00:18:03,810
and you're worried about
doing the right thing?
248
00:18:06,012 -- 00:18:07,127
An arrow!
249
00:18:07,212 -- 00:18:09,487
Right there. It's an arrow!
250
00:18:09,772 -- 00:18:11,171
I see it.
251
00:18:11,372 -- 00:18:12,805
Then turn!
252
00:18:13,012 -- 00:18:14,161
I'm going to.
253
00:18:22,612 -- 00:18:25,410
There's the ramp
back to Manhattan. See?
254
00:18:26,412 -- 00:18:27,845
What's that?
255
00:18:29,772 -- 00:18:31,171
It's a body!
256
00:18:31,252 -- 00:18:32,480
It's an animal!
257
00:18:32,652 -- 00:18:33,767
Is it dead?
258
00:18:33,932 -- 00:18:35,763
It's a tire, that's all!
259
00:18:35,892 -- 00:18:39,521
-It's a dead tire?
-Calm down! It's just a tire!
260
00:18:45,652 -- 00:18:47,085
What are you doing?
261
00:18:47,852 -- 00:18:50,082
I can't drive around it.
262
00:18:51,132 -- 00:18:52,804
You're going to move it?
263
00:18:53,332 -- 00:18:56,051
Yes, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
264
00:18:57,012 -- 00:18:59,572
Sherman, be careful of your shoes.
265
00:19:26,692 -- 00:19:28,444
Sherman, come on.
266
00:19:32,292 -- 00:19:34,852
Touching that dirty old tire.
267
00:19:38,212 -- 00:19:40,487
I just want to get out of here.
268
00:19:40,972 -- 00:19:43,167
I want to get to Manhattan.
269
00:19:43,492 -- 00:19:45,084
Come on, Sherman.
270
00:19:48,292 -- 00:19:49,884
Oh, my God.
271
00:19:50,532 -- 00:19:52,409
Oh, my God.
272
00:19:52,492 -- 00:19:53,891
Natives!
273
00:19:55,452 -- 00:19:56,931
Sherman! Sherman!
274
00:20:11,972 -- 00:20:13,564
Yo. Need some help?
275
00:20:14,852 -- 00:20:15,921
No.
276
00:20:17,892 -- 00:20:19,484
No, thank you. Hi!
277
00:20:21,252 -- 00:20:23,686
What's the problem? Need help or what?
278
00:20:24,812 -- 00:20:28,168
I don't think so. No. Thank you.
Very much.
279
00:20:34,412 -- 00:20:35,686
Shit.
280
00:20:36,132 -- 00:20:37,247
Shit!
281
00:20:37,772 -- 00:20:39,490
Sherman, come on!
282
00:20:53,052 -- 00:20:54,326
Sherman.
283
00:20:58,732 -- 00:21:00,484
I have to go.
284
00:21:04,612 -- 00:21:06,728
Where are you going with the tire?
285
00:21:10,052 -- 00:21:13,124
This is yours? Oh, then here, you take it.
286
00:21:19,172 -- 00:21:20,764
Oh, my God!
287
00:21:20,972 -- 00:21:22,690
Get in the car, quick!
288
00:21:24,692 -- 00:21:25,807
Here they come!
289
00:21:25,892 -- 00:21:27,086
Lock the door!
290
00:21:27,332 -- 00:21:28,287
Drive.
291
00:21:28,452 -- 00:21:30,204
Open the door!
292
00:21:30,852 -- 00:21:32,683
Get away! Get away!
293
00:21:32,772 -- 00:21:34,000
Careful. Look out!
294
00:21:36,292 -- 00:21:37,566
Back up!
295
00:21:37,772 -- 00:21:40,969
Get away from the car! I can't see a thing!
296
00:21:45,892 -- 00:21:47,325
Watch out!
297
00:21:50,732 -- 00:21:51,687
Go, car!
298
00:21:55,172 -- 00:21:57,083
Bitch, open this door!
299
00:22:03,532 -- 00:22:05,250
Where's the ramp?
300
00:22:06,692 -- 00:22:09,160
What are we doing here?
301
00:22:09,252 -- 00:22:11,163
Just make a left.
302
00:22:12,012 -- 00:22:14,367
A left? Okay, a left.
303
00:22:47,332 -- 00:22:51,325
Sherman, fuck the luggage.
Let's go have a drink.
304
00:23:01,932 -- 00:23:04,605
Maybe we should tell
the police about this.
305
00:23:04,692 -- 00:23:05,841
The police?
306
00:23:05,932 -- 00:23:09,129
Yes, the police.
We were almost robbed.
307
00:23:11,692 -- 00:23:16,288
There's a possibility that you...
that we hit one of them.
308
00:23:18,372 -- 00:23:21,569
There was this sound,
like we hit one of them.
309
00:23:21,892 -- 00:23:23,962
Did you see him get hit?
310
00:23:24,132 -- 00:23:25,121
No.
311
00:23:27,212 -- 00:23:28,645
Neither did I.
312
00:23:28,932 -- 00:23:32,925
So, if a question ever arises,
two boys blocked the road.
313
00:23:33,132 -- 00:23:36,329
They tried to rob us, and we got away.
That's all we know.
314
00:23:36,492 -- 00:23:39,848
But if we call the police now,
then we're not--
315
00:23:40,132 -- 00:23:43,329
Let's call them and invite them
to our little love nest.
316
00:23:43,492 -- 00:23:45,244
They'd love to get us.
317
00:23:45,412 -- 00:23:49,087
The police, the press,
and all the rest of the "mediarites."
318
00:23:50,252 -- 00:23:51,844
Mediarites?
319
00:23:52,452 -- 00:23:56,764
The newspapers, radio, television.
I can see it now.
320
00:23:56,932 -- 00:24:02,165
"Mr. Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue,
and Mrs. Arthur Ruskin of Fifth Avenue...
321
00:24:02,732 -- 00:24:06,407
"are recuperating after their adventures
in the Bronx."
322
00:24:11,492 -- 00:24:13,722
Explain that one to your wife.
323
00:24:14,212 -- 00:24:16,123
Yes, you have a point.
324
00:24:20,132 -- 00:24:21,770
But I'd feel better if--
325
00:24:22,412 -- 00:24:24,926
You don't have to feel better.
326
00:24:25,772 -- 00:24:27,842
I was the one who was driving.
327
00:24:28,292 -- 00:24:30,362
And I say I didn't hit anybody.
328
00:24:30,532 -- 00:24:33,729
And I'm not reporting anything
to the police.
329
00:24:34,052 -- 00:24:38,682
And if you're a gentleman,
you'll support me in that decision.
330
00:24:45,892 -- 00:24:47,769
We were in the jungle.
331
00:24:48,972 -- 00:24:51,202
-We were attacked.
-That's true.
332
00:24:51,492 -- 00:24:54,131
-We fought our way out.
-We could've been killed.
333
00:24:54,212 -- 00:24:55,645
We fought.
334
00:24:56,132 -- 00:24:58,043
I feel like an animal.
335
00:24:58,572 -- 00:25:00,767
You drove the hell out of that car.
336
00:25:00,932 -- 00:25:04,288
The hard part was getting into the seat,
over that gearshift.
337
00:25:04,452 -- 00:25:06,010
No, it was instinct.
338
00:25:06,092 -- 00:25:07,684
God, and that tire!
339
00:25:07,972 -- 00:25:10,725
-He was big, wasn't he?
-Sherman was bigger.
340
00:25:11,212 -- 00:25:13,726
-You were great.
-We were both great.
341
00:25:15,852 -- 00:25:19,049
This could be the best sex we've had
in a long time.
342
00:25:19,532 -- 00:25:22,524
-I still think--
-Don't think!
343
00:25:22,732 -- 00:25:24,290
Just fuck!
344
00:25:32,612 -- 00:25:34,443
Mr. Sonnenberg?
345
00:25:35,972 -- 00:25:38,247
Where the hell is Mr. Sonnenberg?
346
00:25:40,172 -- 00:25:44,006
Mr. Lockwood, you sit down.
If and when your lawyer appears--
347
00:25:44,292 -- 00:25:46,123
Two to six, Judge.
348
00:25:46,412 -- 00:25:50,041
Two to six. Two weeks ago,
he told me two to six.
349
00:25:50,572 -- 00:25:52,210
Two to six, or we go to trial.
350
00:25:52,292 -- 00:25:54,965
-Nobody wants to go to trial.
-I'll go.
351
00:25:55,052 -- 00:25:56,405
Approach the bench.
352
00:25:56,492 -- 00:25:58,403
I'll approach the bench.
353
00:26:01,132 -- 00:26:05,091
Listen, you son of a bitch.
You're a nice boy, with a lot going for you.
354
00:26:05,252 -- 00:26:09,086
We got 7,000 felony indictments
in the Bronx every year.
355
00:26:09,292 -- 00:26:12,090
We got room for 650 trials.
Yours isn't one of them.
356
00:26:12,172 -- 00:26:13,366
I go to trial.
357
00:26:13,572 -- 00:26:15,483
You go sit down.
358
00:26:15,812 -- 00:26:19,327
And you'll take whatever plea bargain
we give you.
359
00:26:19,532 -- 00:26:23,411
You'll kiss my ass and thank me
that I didn't put you away for 25 years.
360
00:26:23,532 -- 00:26:27,650
That's what you'd get if this case goes
to trial. Now get out of my face.
361
00:26:37,932 -- 00:26:39,206
What'd he do?
362
00:26:39,972 -- 00:26:44,443
Robbed and raped a 70-year-old lady
and put her in a garbage can.
363
00:26:44,652 -- 00:26:46,085
Jesus Christ.
364
00:26:46,412 -- 00:26:48,164
Welcome to the South Bronx.
365
00:26:49,572 -- 00:26:51,847
People versus Harold Williams.
366
00:26:52,772 -- 00:26:55,366
Indictment number 294721.
367
00:26:57,612 -- 00:27:00,001
This case was dismissed three weeks ago.
368
00:27:00,132 -- 00:27:01,531
Go get 'em, tiger.
369
00:27:02,532 -- 00:27:04,090
Why is this case here?
370
00:27:06,052 -- 00:27:08,771
May I approach the bench, Your Honor?
371
00:27:09,572 -- 00:27:11,085
Who the hell are you?
372
00:27:13,132 -- 00:27:15,248
Assistant District Attorney Kramer.
373
00:27:15,692 -- 00:27:18,252
Mr. Kramer, you are new here.
374
00:27:18,572 -- 00:27:20,563
Let me explain something to you.
375
00:27:21,252 -- 00:27:24,483
This case is what we call a piece of shit.
376
00:27:24,812 -- 00:27:28,600
Which, loosely translated,
means you don't have any evidence.
377
00:27:30,372 -- 00:27:34,365
Except that District Attorney Weiss
has instructed me to show you--
378
00:27:34,532 -- 00:27:37,569
I know who the District Attorney is,
Mr. Kramer.
379
00:27:38,732 -- 00:27:42,042
The only reason Mr. Weiss is interested
in this case...
380
00:27:42,252 -- 00:27:44,607
is because Mr. Williams over there...
381
00:27:44,972 -- 00:27:48,806
is a white man who lives
in a nice big house in Riverdale.
382
00:27:50,252 -- 00:27:51,765
I'm not following you.
383
00:27:51,852 -- 00:27:54,002
Because it's an election year.
384
00:27:54,092 -- 00:27:57,528
Ninety-nine percent of those you shovel
through this court are black...
385
00:27:57,612 -- 00:28:00,763
and the other ninety-nine percent
don't speak English.
386
00:28:01,252 -- 00:28:02,731
But they do vote.
387
00:28:03,532 -- 00:28:06,729
So your boss, the District Attorney,
Mr. Weiss...
388
00:28:07,172 -- 00:28:11,006
who dreams every night
of one day becoming mayor of New York...
389
00:28:11,212 -- 00:28:12,930
needs a white man.
390
00:28:13,092 -- 00:28:16,482
He needs to find him, book him,
and throw him in jail.
391
00:28:16,972 -- 00:28:18,644
Then everybody likes him.
392
00:28:18,732 -- 00:28:20,643
The press and voters like him.
393
00:28:22,412 -- 00:28:24,687
Even your mother would like him.
394
00:28:24,972 -- 00:28:27,008
-You following me?
-I am now.
395
00:28:27,212 -- 00:28:29,521
Now you tell your boss,
"Captain Ahab" Weiss...
396
00:28:29,612 -- 00:28:33,890
that I know he's out there looking
for "the great white defendant."
397
00:28:34,092 -- 00:28:36,765
But Mr. Williams, over there, is not it!
398
00:28:39,212 -- 00:28:40,884
Don't take it personally.
399
00:28:41,252 -- 00:28:43,243
Maybe he didn't like your shoes.
400
00:28:43,652 -- 00:28:44,846
You Andruitti?
401
00:28:45,252 -- 00:28:48,688
I'm Martin, this is Goldberg.
We just came from Bronx Hospital.
402
00:28:49,092 -- 00:28:52,641
Kid named Henry Lamb came in last night
with a broken wrist.
403
00:28:52,932 -- 00:28:55,207
They fixed him up and sent him home.
404
00:28:55,492 -- 00:28:58,370
This morning, he comes back in
with a concussion.
405
00:28:58,532 -- 00:29:01,251
He goes into a coma
and now they say he'll die.
406
00:29:01,412 -- 00:29:02,970
Did you talk to him?
407
00:29:03,052 -- 00:29:04,644
He's in a coma.
408
00:29:05,612 -- 00:29:07,330
What else?
409
00:29:07,492 -- 00:29:09,483
There's a nurse busting my balls.
410
00:29:09,572 -- 00:29:13,087
Says the kid told his mother he was hit
by a Mercedes, which drove off.
411
00:29:13,172 -- 00:29:15,732
-Hit-and-run.
-The mother told you this?
412
00:29:15,812 -- 00:29:19,725
She's got a pile of parking tickets
and won't talk to the police.
413
00:29:19,812 -- 00:29:21,131
Why come to us?
414
00:29:21,292 -- 00:29:24,602
You've got an unconscious victim,
no witness, and no driver.
415
00:29:25,292 -- 00:29:28,648
You've got what we call a piece of shit.
Right, Kramer?
416
00:29:28,972 -- 00:29:30,803
What we've got is a problem.
417
00:29:31,012 -- 00:29:33,082
Ever hear of Reverend Bacon?
418
00:29:33,892 -- 00:29:35,848
No, not me, gentlemen.
419
00:29:36,132 -- 00:29:39,010
Kramer, this is all yours. See you later.
420
00:29:41,572 -- 00:29:43,051
Reverend Bacon?
421
00:29:52,012 -- 00:29:54,207
This is a tragedy!
422
00:29:55,332 -- 00:29:58,404
A fine young man has been struck down.
423
00:29:59,532 -- 00:30:03,525
God-fearing, church-going,
never in trouble...
424
00:30:04,132 -- 00:30:07,966
graduated from high school,
on his way to college.
425
00:30:08,172 -- 00:30:12,051
Somebody comes along,
some rich white people...
426
00:30:12,332 -- 00:30:15,165
in a rich white man's car and wham!
427
00:30:18,052 -- 00:30:21,408
They run him down and never even stop.
428
00:30:25,292 -- 00:30:27,852
Now what'll we do
about these parking tickets?
429
00:30:31,332 -- 00:30:33,846
First of all, Reverend...is it Reverend?
430
00:30:33,932 -- 00:30:36,321
Is, was and always will be.
431
00:30:37,892 -- 00:30:40,326
First of all, we have no evidence--
432
00:30:40,652 -- 00:30:42,563
This is your evidence!
433
00:30:45,292 -- 00:30:47,647
I'm sorry. I didn't see you.
434
00:30:47,852 -- 00:30:50,730
Mrs. Lamb is not speaking to the police.
435
00:30:51,052 -- 00:30:53,805
Until we have proper counsel,
I'll speak for her.
436
00:30:54,252 -- 00:30:55,844
Fine. That's good.
437
00:30:56,132 -- 00:31:00,444
I just want to get a few things straight.
The boy was hit by a car?
438
00:31:00,612 -- 00:31:02,125
On Bruckner Boulevard!
439
00:31:02,212 -- 00:31:05,409
Innocently walking along
minding his own business.
440
00:31:05,612 -- 00:31:08,001
A clear case of hit-and-run.
441
00:31:08,612 -- 00:31:12,969
But there were no witnesses.
Without a witness, you have no case.
442
00:31:13,252 -- 00:31:15,083
You got what he told his mother.
443
00:31:15,172 -- 00:31:16,446
It's hearsay.
444
00:31:16,612 -- 00:31:20,651
You and I may believe it,
but it's not admissible in a court of law.
445
00:31:21,092 -- 00:31:23,811
If this boy was born on Park Avenue...
446
00:31:23,972 -- 00:31:27,009
and was run down by two niggers
in a Pontiac...
447
00:31:27,172 -- 00:31:29,242
then you'd have a case, right?
448
00:31:29,372 -- 00:31:31,886
I work Park Avenue
and Bruckner Boulevard.
449
00:31:31,972 -- 00:31:34,122
There's good and bad in both places.
450
00:31:34,212 -- 00:31:36,601
We'll try to help this lady...
451
00:31:36,732 -- 00:31:38,802
but there's not much to go on.
452
00:31:40,332 -- 00:31:42,892
I want you to make an investment here.
453
00:31:43,172 -- 00:31:46,369
An investment in steam control.
454
00:31:47,372 -- 00:31:48,646
Steam control?
455
00:31:49,132 -- 00:31:50,724
Steam control.
456
00:31:51,372 -- 00:31:55,206
A righteous steam is building up
in the souls of my people.
457
00:31:55,492 -- 00:31:57,722
And that steam is ready to blow!
458
00:31:58,092 -- 00:31:59,320
I see.
459
00:31:59,972 -- 00:32:03,044
On Judgment Day, I am your safety valve.
460
00:32:03,212 -- 00:32:05,885
Because when it blows, and it will...
461
00:32:06,092 -- 00:32:10,529
how grateful you will be
that I am on your side.
462
00:32:10,732 -- 00:32:15,408
The one nigger who can control
the steam and save your white ass...
463
00:32:16,052 -- 00:32:18,282
from being burned
off the face of the earth.
464
00:32:18,372 -- 00:32:19,646
So to speak.
465
00:32:23,052 -- 00:32:25,612
Thank you. We'll see what we can do.
466
00:32:26,372 -- 00:32:27,646
Excuse me.
467
00:32:39,532 -- 00:32:41,204
Thank you.
468
00:32:42,212 -- 00:32:43,850
He said...
469
00:32:44,332 -- 00:32:47,210
He said it started with an "R."
470
00:32:48,292 -- 00:32:51,329
The second letter was an "E"...
471
00:32:52,012 -- 00:32:53,445
or a "P."
472
00:32:53,892 -- 00:32:58,329
Those were the first two letters
of the license plate.
473
00:33:00,932 -- 00:33:03,162
We should move up here.
474
00:33:05,252 -- 00:33:09,086
Have you ever thought about moving out
of New York?
475
00:33:09,572 -- 00:33:13,406
Keep a small place in town.
Save loads of money. What do you think?
476
00:33:15,012 -- 00:33:16,286
About what?
477
00:33:16,972 -- 00:33:19,327
Do you think we could leave New York?
478
00:33:21,052 -- 00:33:22,531
No.
479
00:33:22,852 -- 00:33:24,171
My father did it.
480
00:33:24,452 -- 00:33:26,682
You are not your father.
481
00:33:28,492 -- 00:33:30,562
She knew how to hurt a guy.
482
00:33:30,852 -- 00:33:33,571
No, he was nothing like his father.
483
00:33:34,412 -- 00:33:38,087
His father, "The Lion of Dunning,
Sponget and Leach."
484
00:33:38,372 -- 00:33:41,728
His father, who took the subway
to work every day of his life.
485
00:33:41,932 -- 00:33:44,969
His father, who believed
in principles and ethics...
486
00:33:45,292 -- 00:33:49,922
whose lessons about duty and debt
had whistled through his son's head.
487
00:33:51,652 -- 00:33:54,086
Sherman McCoy was
nothing like his father.
488
00:33:55,372 -- 00:33:57,932
What're you looking for
in that paper?
489
00:33:58,412 -- 00:34:00,482
Nothing. Nothing special.
490
00:34:00,812 -- 00:34:02,404
What's a bond?
491
00:34:02,692 -- 00:34:04,444
Sherman, do explain it.
492
00:34:04,652 -- 00:34:07,689
Yes, your mother and I really want
to hear this.
493
00:34:09,732 -- 00:34:12,963
A bond is a way of lending people money.
494
00:34:13,292 -- 00:34:17,763
Say you want to build a road or a hospital,
and you need a lot of money.
495
00:34:18,052 -- 00:34:20,486
What you do is issue a bond.
496
00:34:21,412 -- 00:34:23,004
Do you build roads?
497
00:34:23,652 -- 00:34:26,041
No, I don't actually build them.
498
00:34:26,212 -- 00:34:27,884
You're in over your head.
499
00:34:28,132 -- 00:34:29,724
Let me try.
500
00:34:30,412 -- 00:34:34,883
Darling, Daddy doesn't build roads
or hospitals or anything, really.
501
00:34:35,652 -- 00:34:38,689
Daddy handles bonds for the people
who raise the money.
502
00:34:38,892 -- 00:34:41,281
That's what he said. Bonds.
503
00:34:43,172 -- 00:34:46,847
Just imagine that a bond is a slice of cake.
504
00:34:47,532 -- 00:34:50,092
Now, you didn't bake that cake.
505
00:34:50,412 -- 00:34:53,882
But every time you hand a slice
of that cake to somebody else...
506
00:34:54,052 -- 00:34:55,883
a little piece comes off.
507
00:34:55,972 -- 00:34:57,610
Little crumbs fall off.
508
00:34:58,092 -- 00:34:59,969
Really. Crumbs?
509
00:35:00,812 -- 00:35:03,531
And you are allowed to keep those crumbs.
510
00:35:03,812 -- 00:35:07,327
And many a man has sold his soul
for those little crumbs.
511
00:35:07,532 -- 00:35:09,284
And that's what Daddy does.
512
00:35:09,572 -- 00:35:13,406
Daddy passes somebody else's cake around
and picks up all of the crumbs.
513
00:35:14,052 -- 00:35:18,887
But you have to imagine a lot of crumbs,
and a great big golden cake...
514
00:35:19,372 -- 00:35:21,442
and a lot of golden crumbs.
515
00:35:22,692 -- 00:35:26,401
And imagine Daddy running around
picking up every little golden crumb...
516
00:35:26,492 -- 00:35:27,720
he can grab.
517
00:35:28,132 -- 00:35:30,362
And that's what Daddy does.
518
00:35:31,972 -- 00:35:34,327
You can call them crumbs if you want to.
519
00:35:34,412 -- 00:35:36,448
I'm doing the best I can.
520
00:35:37,452 -- 00:35:38,885
Excuse me.
521
00:35:47,692 -- 00:35:50,684
In my day, there was some integrity to it.
522
00:35:53,732 -- 00:35:57,566
Now it isn't about anything, is it?
Except the money.
523
00:35:58,052 -- 00:36:00,612
Well, I don't make the rules, so...
524
00:36:01,132 -- 00:36:03,566
All the more reason not to play the game.
525
00:36:06,372 -- 00:36:08,283
We're just having a little...
526
00:36:08,652 -- 00:36:10,563
It's nothing really.
527
00:36:15,052 -- 00:36:18,249
Up to this point in our story,
I was blissfully ignorant.
528
00:36:18,332 -- 00:36:20,926
I had no idea of the storm
that was gathering.
529
00:36:21,052 -- 00:36:22,929
Never even heard of Sherman McCoy.
530
00:36:23,012 -- 00:36:27,244
Hadn't the faintest notion that soon
his name would be inexorably tied to mine.
531
00:36:27,452 -- 00:36:30,888
That his fate would be inextricably bound
to my own destiny.
532
00:36:31,132 -- 00:36:32,724
I had my own problems...
533
00:36:32,932 -- 00:36:36,925
and I had no idea that Sherman McCoy
was the solution I was looking for.
534
00:36:38,652 -- 00:36:40,085
You're bad!
535
00:36:44,812 -- 00:36:46,962
Caroline, you look beautiful!
536
00:36:47,292 -- 00:36:48,691
-You devil.
-You pig.
537
00:36:48,772 -- 00:36:51,605
-Join us for a cocktail.
-No, I'm with someone.
538
00:36:52,092 -- 00:36:54,003
And a pretty someone he is.
539
00:36:55,772 -- 00:36:58,889
Filippo Chirazzi, the artist.
Peter Fallow, the has-been.
540
00:36:58,972 -- 00:37:00,451
Enchant.
541
00:37:00,732 -- 00:37:02,643
We're crowded this evening.
542
00:37:02,852 -- 00:37:05,571
Why don't you sit on top of Billy Cortez?
543
00:37:05,852 -- 00:37:08,412
I'll see if Caroline will sit on my face.
544
00:37:08,612 -- 00:37:12,890
No thanks. The last time I sat on your face
I got a yeast infection.
545
00:37:16,252 -- 00:37:17,731
Good evening, Peter.
546
00:37:19,852 -- 00:37:21,126
Good evening.
547
00:37:21,212 -- 00:37:23,772
Don't get up. Do you know my daughter?
548
00:37:24,932 -- 00:37:27,321
Of course. How are you, Evelyn?
549
00:37:27,532 -- 00:37:29,762
This is one of my invisible employees.
550
00:37:29,852 -- 00:37:34,004
One of the many journalists
who supposedly write for my newspaper.
551
00:37:34,332 -- 00:37:36,243
You're very honored to see him.
552
00:37:37,212 -- 00:37:38,361
I rarely do.
553
00:37:40,292 -- 00:37:42,965
I can explain. Come have a drink--
554
00:37:43,132 -- 00:37:45,202
We're having a private party.
555
00:37:45,572 -- 00:37:49,121
I was at a dinner last evening,
and halfway through the pudding...
556
00:37:49,372 -- 00:37:53,081
a 4-year-old child came in
dragging a little toy cart.
557
00:37:53,452 -- 00:37:55,966
And on the cart was a fresh turd.
558
00:37:56,252 -- 00:37:57,685
Her own, I suppose.
559
00:37:57,892 -- 00:38:00,770
The parents just shook their heads
and smiled.
560
00:38:01,212 -- 00:38:03,931
I've made a big investment in you, Peter.
561
00:38:04,132 -- 00:38:06,521
Time and money, and it's not working.
562
00:38:06,892 -- 00:38:09,565
I could just shake my head and smile.
563
00:38:09,892 -- 00:38:12,850
But in my house, when a turd appears,
we deal with it.
564
00:38:12,932 -- 00:38:15,651
We dispose of it. We flush it away.
565
00:38:16,572 -- 00:38:19,291
We don't put it on the table
and call it caviar.
566
00:38:19,652 -- 00:38:22,166
Of course you don't.
I've been working at home.
567
00:38:22,252 -- 00:38:26,564
I'm working on a story that I can't talk
about here. It's a big story.
568
00:38:26,852 -- 00:38:29,446
I sincerely hope so, Peter.
569
00:38:30,332 -- 00:38:32,084
I sincerely hope so.
570
00:38:37,372 -- 00:38:41,047
It was the end of the road for me.
I could see it coming.
571
00:38:42,052 -- 00:38:44,122
See it coming? It was here.
572
00:38:44,892 -- 00:38:47,804
I'd had my chance and I'd blown it away
in a bottle.
573
00:38:48,092 -- 00:38:50,925
It was over. I had to face up to that fact.
574
00:38:53,092 -- 00:38:54,889
I could go back home.
575
00:38:55,172 -- 00:38:57,288
Small town, small newspaper.
576
00:38:57,692 -- 00:39:00,252
Or I could write a novel or two.
577
00:39:00,892 -- 00:39:02,803
Or I could slit my wrists.
578
00:39:03,052 -- 00:39:07,603
This last idea seemed most appealing,
as it required the least amount of effort.
579
00:39:09,852 -- 00:39:11,763
And then the telephone rang.
580
00:39:16,772 -- 00:39:17,841
Yeah?
581
00:39:17,932 -- 00:39:19,923
Peter! Albert Fox here.
582
00:39:21,612 -- 00:39:22,761
Peter?
583
00:39:23,052 -- 00:39:24,610
Peter!
584
00:39:25,852 -- 00:39:27,763
Yeah, this is Peter.
585
00:39:28,132 -- 00:39:30,043
You sound terrific.
586
00:39:30,412 -- 00:39:31,970
Any pulse?
587
00:39:33,412 -- 00:39:37,883
I called the paper. No one knew
where you were or who you were.
588
00:39:38,172 -- 00:39:39,810
Anything I should know?
589
00:39:39,932 -- 00:39:42,400
No, I'm just working at home today.
590
00:39:42,652 -- 00:39:46,645
Good. There's something
I want to talk to you about.
591
00:39:46,852 -- 00:39:48,922
There's a hell of a story in it.
592
00:39:49,252 -- 00:39:52,085
Meet me at NBC, studio 4H, 7:00.
593
00:39:52,332 -- 00:39:53,811
Ciao.
594
00:39:54,052 -- 00:39:55,531
Yeah. Ciao.
595
00:39:59,612 -- 00:40:01,921
You see that Henry Lamb material?
596
00:40:02,012 -- 00:40:03,843
Yeah, I looked at it.
597
00:40:04,292 -- 00:40:05,771
What do you think?
598
00:40:05,852 -- 00:40:07,126
What do I think?
599
00:40:07,452 -- 00:40:10,489
I think it's an unfortunate situation.
600
00:40:10,812 -- 00:40:12,484
Where's the Goddamn story?
601
00:40:12,572 -- 00:40:16,724
A poor, innocent black kid
walking down the street...
602
00:40:16,972 -- 00:40:20,362
and boom! Hit-and-run.
There's a story in it for somebody.
603
00:40:21,332 -- 00:40:23,243
The black community's up in arms.
604
00:40:23,332 -- 00:40:27,120
And when Reverend Bacon gets a feather
in his ass, the shit flies high.
605
00:40:29,052 -- 00:40:31,168
What's your angle on all this?
606
00:40:31,972 -- 00:40:34,088
What do you stand to get out of it?
607
00:40:34,972 -- 00:40:38,009
I'm a lawyer. I want justice done.
608
00:40:39,452 -- 00:40:42,410
Reverend Bacon is my friend.
It'll be good for him.
609
00:40:42,892 -- 00:40:46,646
And knowing your situation,
I thought if you broke the story--
610
00:40:46,812 -- 00:40:48,245
Wait a minute.
611
00:40:50,092 -- 00:40:52,242
What do you mean, my situation?
612
00:40:55,292 -- 00:40:57,760
Your boss was at my house for dinner.
613
00:40:58,332 -- 00:40:59,845
He said a few things.
614
00:41:01,892 -- 00:41:03,166
I see.
615
00:41:06,212 -- 00:41:08,772
-You have a little daughter?
-Yes, I do.
616
00:41:08,932 -- 00:41:10,968
I bet she has a toy wagon.
617
00:41:11,212 -- 00:41:12,884
Yes, she does. Why?
618
00:41:13,132 -- 00:41:14,690
Got any scotch in that car?
619
00:41:15,652 -- 00:41:17,643
Henry Lamb. Who's that?
620
00:41:17,852 -- 00:41:21,208
He was a student of yours
at Ruppert High.
621
00:41:21,412 -- 00:41:23,004
He was? What's he done?
622
00:41:23,292 -- 00:41:25,852
Nothing. He's been seriously injured.
623
00:41:26,212 -- 00:41:28,089
I'm a newspaper reporter.
624
00:41:28,292 -- 00:41:29,805
I don't remember him.
625
00:41:29,932 -- 00:41:31,888
What kind of student was he?
626
00:41:31,972 -- 00:41:34,532
If I don't remember him,
I guess he was okay.
627
00:41:35,332 -- 00:41:36,924
Was he a good student?
628
00:41:37,692 -- 00:41:41,844
Good doesn't apply at Ruppert High.
They're cooperative or life-threatening.
629
00:41:42,692 -- 00:41:45,286
-Wasn't he going to college?
-City College.
630
00:41:45,892 -- 00:41:50,682
If you live in the city, graduate high school,
and breathe, they take you.
631
00:41:52,492 -- 00:41:56,451
What about his performance in class?
Any aptitude, special skills?
632
00:41:57,692 -- 00:41:59,762
I got 65 students in each class.
633
00:41:59,932 -- 00:42:02,571
Tests, homework, any written work?
634
00:42:02,692 -- 00:42:06,810
There hasn't been written work
at Ruppert High for 20 years.
635
00:42:08,132 -- 00:42:10,521
How do you keep track of the kids?
636
00:42:10,732 -- 00:42:13,405
There must be some records.
637
00:42:13,692 -- 00:42:16,650
You're thinking about
honor students and grades.
638
00:42:16,732 -- 00:42:20,486
We don't make those comparisons.
We just try to keep them off the streets.
639
00:42:20,572 -- 00:42:22,483
At Ruppert, an honor student...
640
00:42:22,652 -- 00:42:26,361
is somebody who comes to class
and doesn't piss on the teacher.
641
00:42:31,012 -- 00:42:32,604
By that standard...
642
00:42:33,532 -- 00:42:35,602
was Henry Lamb an honor student?
643
00:42:38,572 -- 00:42:39,971
He never pissed on me.
644
00:42:40,252 -- 00:42:44,723
No, you're exaggerating
the situation. The franc is no problem.
645
00:42:45,292 -- 00:42:49,729
We can hedge that to next January,
to the term or to both, whatever.
646
00:42:50,852 -- 00:42:52,968
I don't think that's necessary.
647
00:42:56,732 -- 00:42:59,769
Look, Bernard, we've had our share of...
648
00:43:00,252 -- 00:43:05,929
Hell, I wouldn't even call them...problems,
so let's not work ourselves up...
649
00:43:06,212 -- 00:43:08,442
into a...coma.
650
00:43:08,732 -- 00:43:10,643
Jesus Christ, let me see that!
651
00:43:10,852 -- 00:43:12,444
No, not you, Bernard.
652
00:43:21,572 -- 00:43:24,405
Wait. What the hell are you talking about?
653
00:43:25,052 -- 00:43:28,249
No, we can't wait.
We have to move on this thing now.
654
00:43:31,852 -- 00:43:34,047
You're bringing up phantom issues!
655
00:43:34,332 -- 00:43:37,369
We must pull ourselves together
and fucking do it!
656
00:43:37,532 -- 00:43:38,647
Look!
657
00:43:38,852 -- 00:43:40,683
Bernard. Bernard!
658
00:43:41,052 -- 00:43:43,612
But it was too late. It was gone.
659
00:43:43,852 -- 00:43:45,080
Oh, Jesus.
660
00:43:46,812 -- 00:43:48,723
$600,000,000.
661
00:43:49,412 -- 00:43:53,928
On Wall Street, a frantic salesman was
a dead salesman. And Sherman knew it.
662
00:44:01,532 -- 00:44:03,045
You know what?
663
00:44:03,292 -- 00:44:06,170
I was just thinking of you.
Where have you been?
664
00:44:06,332 -- 00:44:07,890
Have you seen this?
665
00:44:08,092 -- 00:44:10,401
-Don't I get a kiss first?
-Have you read it?
666
00:44:10,492 -- 00:44:13,689
You know I only read
the newspapers spasmodically.
667
00:44:15,132 -- 00:44:16,724
Sporadically?
668
00:44:18,972 -- 00:44:23,602
Who is this Peter Fallow
character? He's got it all wrong!
669
00:44:23,932 -- 00:44:26,810
Excuse me, but what is going on here?
670
00:44:27,132 -- 00:44:30,807
I'm installing a new intercom system.
Super let me in.
671
00:44:31,172 -- 00:44:33,402
Are you Caroline Heftshank?
672
00:44:35,452 -- 00:44:37,329
I need you to sign a receipt.
673
00:44:37,412 -- 00:44:41,087
I don't live here.
I'm a guest of Miss Heftshank.
674
00:44:44,252 -- 00:44:46,163
No problem. I'm all done.
675
00:44:50,212 -- 00:44:52,407
-That was close.
-What's going on?
676
00:44:52,612 -- 00:44:56,571
I don't know. Caroline pays $300 rent
for this place.
677
00:44:56,812 -- 00:45:00,248
It's rent-controlled. I sublet it for $1,100.
678
00:45:00,452 -- 00:45:02,363
But it's not legal.
679
00:45:02,652 -- 00:45:05,962
To get Caroline out,
they have to prove she doesn't live here.
680
00:45:06,052 -- 00:45:10,364
Isn't it weird that he came here today?
After that piece in the paper?
681
00:45:12,772 -- 00:45:15,332
You are completely "paranoidical."
682
00:45:15,812 -- 00:45:19,646
I have to leave for the airport
in about 20 minutes.
683
00:45:20,332 -- 00:45:23,130
So, we don't have much time.
684
00:45:25,252 -- 00:45:27,686
Do you think they could trace
the car to me?
685
00:45:27,772 -- 00:45:30,809
How? They don't have
the full number or a witness.
686
00:45:30,972 -- 00:45:34,965
The only person who could recognize you
is in terminal "comatosis."
687
00:45:35,132 -- 00:45:38,169
But the other fella.
Suppose he comes forward?
688
00:45:38,372 -- 00:45:41,682
If he was going to materialize,
he would have by now.
689
00:45:41,932 -- 00:45:44,810
And he hasn't because he's a criminal.
690
00:45:46,372 -- 00:45:48,010
What a wretched painting.
691
00:45:48,092 -- 00:45:50,970
It's a Filippo Chirazzi.
He's a friend of Caroline's.
692
00:45:51,052 -- 00:45:54,647
-Know him?
-I hope not. God, that looks like you.
693
00:45:54,892 -- 00:45:56,450
No. How could it?
694
00:45:58,812 -- 00:46:03,124
-Where are you going?
-The airport. The car's coming soon.
695
00:46:03,332 -- 00:46:06,404
We have time for a quickie.
What do you say?
696
00:46:08,732 -- 00:46:12,884
I've lost $600,000,000 today.
Possibly my job.
697
00:46:13,532 -- 00:46:16,285
I don't feel terrifically sexy at the moment.
698
00:46:19,612 -- 00:46:22,843
You know I'm a sucker
for a soft dick, Sherman.
699
00:46:22,932 -- 00:46:25,446
You are incorrigible.
700
00:46:28,972 -- 00:46:33,887
I suppose we could still go to the police.
We could get a talented lawyer.
701
00:46:34,012 -- 00:46:36,731
And put our heads right
into the tiger's mouth?
702
00:46:37,372 -- 00:46:39,522
I'm the one who was driving the car.
703
00:46:39,772 -- 00:46:42,809
Shouldn't I be the one
to make that decision?
704
00:46:43,492 -- 00:46:46,052
And I say no. I say no.
705
00:46:47,812 -- 00:46:49,131
Trust me.
706
00:46:49,892 -- 00:46:53,202
Nothing will come
of that little newspaper article.
707
00:46:53,932 -- 00:46:55,843
Absolutely nothing.
708
00:47:12,892 -- 00:47:15,122
Mr. Fallow. Our hero.
709
00:47:15,652 -- 00:47:17,131
Reverend Bacon.
710
00:47:17,252 -- 00:47:20,244
I feel as we already know each other.
And Mr. Corsaro.
711
00:47:21,052 -- 00:47:22,610
Nice to see you again.
712
00:47:22,732 -- 00:47:25,326
You have an exclusive.
Understand?
713
00:47:25,692 -- 00:47:29,241
I could've had every newspaper
and TV station spreading this news.
714
00:47:29,572 -- 00:47:34,009
But I have chosen only
you two. And I expect big coverage.
715
00:47:34,732 -- 00:47:36,450
In-depth coverage.
716
00:47:36,932 -- 00:47:38,331
Let's get to work.
717
00:47:38,452 -- 00:47:39,726
Let's go.
718
00:47:45,052 -- 00:47:49,045
Might we be making a mountain
out of a molehill? Honestly--
719
00:47:49,212 -- 00:47:51,328
Honesty has nothing to do with this.
720
00:47:51,612 -- 00:47:55,446
This is show business. I've never known
the two to go hand in hand.
721
00:47:55,652 -- 00:47:58,644
Neither have I.
And I'm supposed to be a journalist.
722
00:47:58,812 -- 00:48:01,246
You're a drunk. That's what I heard.
723
00:48:01,692 -- 00:48:05,048
And you're almost out of a job.
Or am I misinformed?
724
00:48:05,212 -- 00:48:06,611
You have the wrong man.
725
00:48:06,692 -- 00:48:08,603
No, I don't think so.
726
00:48:08,932 -- 00:48:10,650
I don't think so at all.
727
00:48:11,492 -- 00:48:13,005
TV's ready, Reverend.
728
00:48:16,012 -- 00:48:19,925
Stay in the wide shot.
Push in when you see the action.
729
00:48:23,932 -- 00:48:25,331
He's something, isn't he?
730
00:48:25,412 -- 00:48:26,561
He sure is.
731
00:48:26,692 -- 00:48:29,923
He's on the level with this one, right?
The story's legitimate.
732
00:48:30,012 -- 00:48:31,047
Of course.
733
00:48:31,132 -- 00:48:32,804
This Henry Lamb's a nice kid.
734
00:48:32,892 -- 00:48:35,770
The neighbors like him. No record.
Honor student.
735
00:48:36,092 -- 00:48:37,684
No question about it.
736
00:48:37,892 -- 00:48:42,124
Personally, I don't care. But, when I finish
with this story, the kid'll be a saint.
737
00:48:42,212 -- 00:48:44,248
Be nice to know it's true, that's all.
738
00:48:44,332 -- 00:48:45,560
It's true.
739
00:48:46,332 -- 00:48:48,562
We're rolling the cameras. Go ahead.
740
00:48:54,492 -- 00:49:01,330
Brothers and sisters, I stand before you
with a heart that is broken.
741
00:49:02,372 -- 00:49:07,082
And I stand before you
with a heart that is angry.
742
00:49:08,132 -- 00:49:14,970
It's heartbroken because our brother,
our neighbor, our son, Henry Lamb...
743
00:49:15,452 -- 00:49:19,764
has been struck down
in the prime of his young life.
744
00:49:20,332 -- 00:49:25,326
And now he lies in a hospital...
broken, like my heart.
745
00:49:25,892 -- 00:49:28,611
But I tell you, my heart is also angry.
746
00:49:28,892 -- 00:49:30,405
Yes! Angry!
747
00:49:30,652 -- 00:49:34,850
Because the driver
of that car didn't do nothing for him!
748
00:49:35,212 -- 00:49:37,123
And neither did the police!
749
00:49:37,372 -- 00:49:40,125
And neither did this man!
750
00:49:40,772 -- 00:49:42,410
Mr. Abraham Weiss.
751
00:49:42,652 -- 00:49:45,849
That's my name. My own fucking name.
752
00:49:47,012 -- 00:49:48,923
That's a complete fuck-up.
753
00:49:50,172 -- 00:49:53,926
-Who the hell are you?
-Assistant District Attorney Kramer.
754
00:49:54,052 -- 00:49:55,610
I work in this office.
755
00:50:04,452 -- 00:50:07,364
Sources at Motor Vehicles say...
756
00:50:07,452 -- 00:50:12,048
less than 200 Mercedes have plates
beginning with "RE," "RB," or "RP."
757
00:50:14,572 -- 00:50:17,928
How did they get this information
out of Motor Vehicles?
758
00:50:18,052 -- 00:50:21,044
Calm down. We've had this information
for over a week.
759
00:50:21,412 -- 00:50:25,121
Why aren't we doing anything about it?
Why aren't we tracing the car?
760
00:50:25,212 -- 00:50:27,123
Actually, I suggested we--
761
00:50:27,812 -- 00:50:29,928
What am I? The Wizard of Oz?
762
00:50:30,052 -- 00:50:34,250
Trace the car? Trace the car?
We don't even have a witness.
763
00:50:34,652 -- 00:50:37,849
We don't know where it happened,
or even if it happened.
764
00:50:38,012 -- 00:50:39,161
Trace the car.
765
00:50:39,532 -- 00:50:42,683
We don't have a case,
even if we find the car.
766
00:50:43,132 -- 00:50:46,522
If we found the driver,
and the driver came to us and said:
767
00:50:46,852 -- 00:50:49,207
"Yeah, that's right.
768
00:50:49,412 -- 00:50:53,246
"I hit this kid the other night,
and I didn't stop.
769
00:50:53,532 -- 00:50:57,844
"I didn't report it. I'm the guy. I did it."
Then we got a case.
770
00:50:58,172 -- 00:51:00,288
Just trace the fucking car.
771
00:51:07,932 -- 00:51:10,492
Yesterday, I was
a respected Jewish liberal.
772
00:51:11,292 -- 00:51:14,807
Ten minutes of news like this,
and now I'm a hymie racist pig?
773
00:51:17,212 -- 00:51:19,362
The Italians are going to love this.
774
00:51:19,452 -- 00:51:20,885
The Irish, too.
775
00:51:21,692 -- 00:51:22,966
And the WASPs.
776
00:51:24,652 -- 00:51:27,610
They love this shit more than anybody.
777
00:51:27,932 -- 00:51:29,570
They love laughing at me.
778
00:51:30,332 -- 00:51:32,209
All the rich sons of bitches.
779
00:51:32,332 -- 00:51:34,243
They still think they own this town.
780
00:51:34,332 -- 00:51:39,452
They sit in their co-ops, Park Avenue, Fifth,
Beekman Place, snug like a bug.
781
00:51:39,532 -- 00:51:42,205
Twelve-foot ceilings, a wing for them,
one for the help.
782
00:51:42,292 -- 00:51:44,044
They think money'll protect them.
783
00:51:44,132 -- 00:51:45,884
You stupid sons of bitches!
784
00:51:50,852 -- 00:51:54,925
I'd like to light a fire under their
white asses. Let them see how it feels.
785
00:51:55,012 -- 00:51:58,163
Let the Third World see the smoke
and come after them!
786
00:51:58,652 -- 00:52:03,646
Let them feel what it's like when every
Puerto Rican, West Indian, Cuban, Korean...
787
00:52:03,732 -- 00:52:07,168
Albanian, Filipino, black man
from every borough...
788
00:52:07,492 -- 00:52:10,325
The future knows how to cross a bridge!
789
00:52:12,412 -- 00:52:13,481
You laugh.
790
00:52:14,212 -- 00:52:17,443
You laugh! All right!
Here's what we're going to do!
791
00:52:17,732 -- 00:52:20,929
We're going to turn this thing around
if it kills us!
792
00:52:21,212 -- 00:52:24,170
We'll prove to these black motherfuckers--
793
00:52:24,452 -- 00:52:25,885
Pardon my language.
794
00:52:26,092 -- 00:52:31,086
We'll prove to these niggers
that this administration loves them!
795
00:52:31,652 -- 00:52:33,404
No matter what it takes.
796
00:52:33,772 -- 00:52:36,161
I am no racist hymie.
797
00:52:37,252 -- 00:52:38,446
By November...
798
00:52:39,332 -- 00:52:42,529
they are going to be thinking of me as...
799
00:52:44,732 -- 00:52:47,690
the first black district attorney
of Bronx County.
800
00:52:50,492 -- 00:52:52,722
They're going to beg me to be mayor.
801
00:52:53,172 -- 00:52:54,969
We'll walk away with that election.
802
00:52:55,052 -- 00:52:56,087
No question!
803
00:52:56,172 -- 00:52:57,685
That's what we'll do!
804
00:52:57,772 -- 00:52:58,841
Yes!
805
00:52:59,292 -- 00:53:03,922
If we have to screw every white asshole
from Albany to Park Avenue, we will!
806
00:53:14,852 -- 00:53:16,444
Here he comes now.
807
00:53:16,612 -- 00:53:18,330
-Tony, hi.
-It's Eddie, sir.
808
00:53:18,412 -- 00:53:20,846
I'm Detective Martin,
this is Detective Goldberg.
809
00:53:20,932 -- 00:53:24,288
We're investigating a car accident.
Maybe you heard about it.
810
00:53:27,692 -- 00:53:29,808
Yes! On television.
811
00:53:30,052 -- 00:53:31,963
Last night. My wife...
812
00:53:32,212 -- 00:53:36,524
We said, "We have a Mercedes
and the license starts with 'R.'"
813
00:53:36,652 -- 00:53:38,005
You and a lot of people.
814
00:53:38,092 -- 00:53:39,320
Going up?
815
00:53:39,532 -- 00:53:41,887
Yeah. Yes, yes, I will.
816
00:53:42,372 -- 00:53:43,646
Should we...?
817
00:53:43,812 -- 00:53:46,246
-Is it bad time for you?
-No, no...
818
00:53:48,932 -- 00:53:50,809
We just have a few questions.
819
00:53:51,332 -- 00:53:54,130
-Was your car in use the night it happened?
-When?
820
00:53:54,292 -- 00:53:55,725
Tuesday, a week ago.
821
00:53:55,812 -- 00:53:57,643
Let me think.
822
00:53:57,772 -- 00:53:59,649
Anybody else use your car?
823
00:53:59,852 -- 00:54:01,604
My wife sometimes.
824
00:54:01,892 -- 00:54:03,120
The men at the garage.
825
00:54:03,212 -- 00:54:06,170
Parking garage? You leave your car
and they park it?
826
00:54:06,372 -- 00:54:08,488
Can we go see it?
827
00:54:09,772 -- 00:54:11,364
The car? Now?
828
00:54:11,572 -- 00:54:15,042
Since we're here.
There's certain things to look for.
829
00:54:15,332 -- 00:54:18,051
We don't find them, we're out of your hair.
830
00:54:18,292 -- 00:54:20,328
So you want to look at the car?
831
00:54:20,812 -- 00:54:22,530
I see. I see.
832
00:54:22,732 -- 00:54:27,487
We don't have a description of a driver,
so we have to look for the car.
833
00:54:27,812 -- 00:54:31,009
We're sorry for the inconvenience,
but it's routine.
834
00:54:31,172 -- 00:54:32,491
I understand.
835
00:54:32,772 -- 00:54:37,846
But if there is a routine,
then I ought to follow the routine...
836
00:54:37,932 -- 00:54:41,720
that's appropriate to me,
to someone with a car in this situation.
837
00:54:41,812 -- 00:54:42,847
You see?
838
00:54:43,812 -- 00:54:45,723
No, I don't follow.
839
00:54:46,412 -- 00:54:49,961
If there's a routine
in an investigation like this...
840
00:54:50,212 -- 00:54:53,727
there must also be a routine
for a person like me.
841
00:54:54,892 -- 00:54:57,645
For the owner of a car
with a license number.
842
00:54:57,892 -- 00:54:59,848
That's what I need to consider.
843
00:55:00,652 -- 00:55:02,085
The routine.
844
00:55:03,212 -- 00:55:05,328
We just want to look at your car.
845
00:55:06,212 -- 00:55:08,328
That's what I mean. You see?
846
00:55:09,052 -- 00:55:09,848
No.
847
00:55:10,732 -- 00:55:12,882
Excuse me, Mr. McCoy.
848
00:55:13,572 -- 00:55:15,642
Do you want to tell us something?
849
00:55:15,732 -- 00:55:16,721
No.
850
00:55:18,052 -- 00:55:19,485
How do you mean?
851
00:55:19,972 -- 00:55:23,169
I mean, if there is,
now is the time to tell us.
852
00:55:23,332 -- 00:55:25,243
Before things get complicated.
853
00:55:25,332 -- 00:55:26,651
No, no, no...
854
00:55:26,732 -- 00:55:29,565
I just think that to be certain...
855
00:55:29,812 -- 00:55:32,770
to be safe, sure, I think--
856
00:55:35,172 -- 00:55:39,006
If you want to cooperate, that'd be great.
857
00:55:40,452 -- 00:55:42,920
If you have a reason not to cooperate...
858
00:55:43,012 -- 00:55:46,527
you don't have to say anything.
That's your right.
859
00:55:46,692 -- 00:55:49,286
If you want, you can say nothing at all.
860
00:55:49,972 -- 00:55:52,281
You also have the right to an attorney.
861
00:55:52,612 -- 00:55:54,682
For that matter...
862
00:55:55,252 -- 00:55:57,766
if you lack funds for an attorney...
863
00:55:58,052 -- 00:56:01,010
the state will provide you
with one free of charge.
864
00:56:01,732 -- 00:56:03,450
If that's what you wanted.
865
00:56:07,052 -- 00:56:09,407
I think what I should do is...
866
00:56:12,332 -- 00:56:14,050
talk to an attorney.
867
00:56:15,092 -- 00:56:17,560
So I casually read him
his rights.
868
00:56:17,732 -- 00:56:20,405
Then he sits down
on the guy's desk.
869
00:56:20,492 -- 00:56:23,882
And his eyes get bigger
and he starts double-talking like crazy.
870
00:56:23,972 -- 00:56:25,963
I know that there's something there.
871
00:56:26,052 -- 00:56:28,327
Mr. Weiss, I think we got him.
872
00:56:29,932 -- 00:56:31,001
Got who?
873
00:56:31,252 -- 00:56:33,163
Sherman McCoy. We got him.
874
00:56:33,412 -- 00:56:34,845
You think it's him?
875
00:56:35,492 -- 00:56:38,052
It's him! This guy is Park Avenue.
876
00:56:38,212 -- 00:56:42,683
His father ran Dunning, Sponget and Leach.
His wife is a socialite.
877
00:56:42,772 -- 00:56:45,161
Does this put an end
to this white-justice shit?
878
00:56:45,252 -- 00:56:47,004
We have zip on him.
879
00:56:47,172 -- 00:56:50,289
We could bring him in for questioning,
then go public.
880
00:56:51,172 -- 00:56:54,960
Go public? With what?
The only witness is in a coma, likely to die.
881
00:56:55,492 -- 00:56:57,881
Don't listen. You got a speech to make.
882
00:56:58,252 -- 00:57:00,766
Send a signal to the poor people
of the city.
883
00:57:00,932 -- 00:57:02,604
Let them know justice is blind.
884
00:57:02,692 -- 00:57:06,765
Let them know that rich whites
get the same treatment as poor blacks.
885
00:57:06,892 -- 00:57:08,928
You must give the people hope.
886
00:57:09,572 -- 00:57:11,802
You mean, we nail the WASP?
887
00:57:12,052 -- 00:57:13,565
To the wall.
888
00:57:15,892 -- 00:57:17,610
I like this man.
889
00:57:18,892 -- 00:57:21,611
So I tell him, "I'm your lawyer
from Legal Aid."
890
00:57:21,732 -- 00:57:25,645
He says, "I don't want a nigger lawyer.
I want a Jew."
891
00:57:25,892 -- 00:57:26,927
Nice guy.
892
00:57:27,012 -- 00:57:31,449
-It's his third drug arrest. He wants a deal.
-He'll say he was at the scene?
893
00:57:31,732 -- 00:57:34,246
He'll say whatever you want him to say.
894
00:57:34,732 -- 00:57:38,725
Get me Andruitti. Tell him it's urgent
about this Lamb shit.
895
00:57:39,172 -- 00:57:43,723
Suppose this other fellow comes forward.
There was another fellow. He was big--
896
00:57:44,132 -- 00:57:48,648
I believe you. It was a set-up.
They were going to rob you.
897
00:57:48,932 -- 00:57:51,492
He has good reasons not to come forward.
898
00:57:51,692 -- 00:57:53,728
Now, you just sit tight.
899
00:57:54,372 -- 00:57:58,684
Look, you were recommended
as the best criminal lawyer around.
900
00:57:58,892 -- 00:58:01,247
But I didn't come here to...
901
00:58:01,572 -- 00:58:05,611
I want to preempt this situation.
I don't want it to go any further.
902
00:58:06,212 -- 00:58:07,440
What does that mean?
903
00:58:07,532 -- 00:58:09,648
I want to take the initiative.
904
00:58:09,892 -- 00:58:12,247
I want to go to the police with Maria...
905
00:58:12,332 -- 00:58:15,210
with Mrs. Ruskin,
and tell them what happened.
906
00:58:15,492 -- 00:58:19,007
I feel morally certain
that what we did was right...
907
00:58:19,252 -- 00:58:21,163
in the circumstances we were in.
908
00:58:22,652 -- 00:58:25,371
Yeah, you Wall Street honchos
are real gamblers.
909
00:58:28,012 -- 00:58:29,923
What are you, nuts?
910
00:58:30,692 -- 00:58:32,922
They will devour you.
911
00:58:33,172 -- 00:58:34,685
-Eat you alive.
-Why?
912
00:58:35,332 -- 00:58:37,607
Forget that it's a political football.
913
00:58:37,732 -- 00:58:40,644
Forget about the TV and Reverend Bacon...
914
00:58:40,932 -- 00:58:43,162
and Weiss's upcoming election.
915
00:58:43,372 -- 00:58:47,570
Remember that everyday, the Bronx DA
prosecutes people with names...
916
00:58:47,812 -- 00:58:50,531
like Tiffany Latour, Sancho Rodriguez...
917
00:58:51,332 -- 00:58:54,404
Chong Wong and Shabazz Tamali.
918
00:58:54,692 -- 00:58:59,322
So he's dying to get his hands on a nice
white couple like you and Mrs. Ruskin.
919
00:58:59,972 -- 00:59:01,769
I mean, Biscuit City.
920
00:59:02,052 -- 00:59:04,486
Open your mouth and they will arrest you.
921
00:59:04,612 -- 00:59:09,049
They will make a big show of the arrest.
It will be very unpleasant. Guaranteed.
922
00:59:10,252 -- 00:59:13,210
And you don't want to be arrested
in the South Bronx.
923
00:59:17,412 -- 00:59:18,845
Put him on.
924
00:59:19,732 -- 00:59:20,801
I'll hold.
925
00:59:21,092 -- 00:59:23,560
I'll need to talk to Mrs. Ruskin too.
926
00:59:25,132 -- 00:59:27,009
I understand you went to Yale.
927
00:59:27,652 -- 00:59:29,404
Yeah. You too?
928
00:59:30,852 -- 00:59:32,365
What did you think of it?
929
00:59:32,452 -- 00:59:35,489
It was okay, as law schools go.
930
00:59:35,692 -- 00:59:38,206
They give you the scholarly view.
931
00:59:38,452 -- 00:59:43,048
And it's good for anything you want to do
that doesn't involve real people.
932
00:59:45,572 -- 00:59:47,847
Andruitti, you guinea bastard!
933
00:59:52,772 -- 00:59:55,809
I'm sitting here with Mr. Sherman McCoy.
934
01:00:00,812 -- 01:00:03,804
I don't know if he needs a lawyer.
What do you think?
935
01:00:06,212 -- 01:00:08,123
Okay. So what does that mean?
936
01:00:11,212 -- 01:00:13,203
Yeah, yeah...
937
01:00:16,292 -- 01:00:17,930
We got a problem.
938
01:00:19,012 -- 01:00:20,411
What is it?
939
01:00:20,772 -- 01:00:22,603
They're going to arrest you.
940
01:00:24,132 -- 01:00:28,444
While Sherman faced catastrophe
in his career and in his marriage...
941
01:00:28,612 -- 01:00:32,605
and while the police were circling,
while his life hung in the balance...
942
01:00:32,692 -- 01:00:34,603
Sherman went to the opera.
943
01:01:37,252 -- 01:01:38,890
There he is...
944
01:01:39,052 -- 01:01:43,011
Don Juan in the vise-like grip of fate...
945
01:01:43,332 -- 01:01:47,484
facing his crime, facing his entire life
of selfish consumption...
946
01:01:47,652 -- 01:01:50,371
and profligate wasting
of himself and others.
947
01:01:53,412 -- 01:01:55,243
You're Judy McCoy's husband.
948
01:01:55,332 -- 01:01:56,321
Yes.
949
01:01:57,172 -- 01:01:59,402
Have you met Aubrey Buffing, the poet?
950
01:01:59,492 -- 01:02:02,529
He's up for the Nobel Prize. He has AIDS.
951
01:02:03,732 -- 01:02:05,643
We were talking about the opera.
952
01:02:05,732 -- 01:02:08,007
The wrath of heaven must be at hand.
953
01:02:08,292 -- 01:02:10,760
Itsjustice will not tarry.
954
01:02:10,892 -- 01:02:13,611
I see the deadly thunderbolt
poised above his head!
955
01:02:15,332 -- 01:02:17,766
Suddenly, he saw her in the crowd.
956
01:02:18,052 -- 01:02:19,326
Maria!
957
01:02:23,012 -- 01:02:27,324
He followed her past the grinning faces
full of boiling teeth.
958
01:02:27,652 -- 01:02:29,244
Past the conversational bouquets.
959
01:02:29,332 -- 01:02:32,483
Past the impeccably emaciated
ladies of society.
960
01:02:32,812 -- 01:02:34,689
The social X-ray women.
961
01:02:34,892 -- 01:02:37,201
Christ, was this the world he lived in?
962
01:02:37,972 -- 01:02:41,362
Before he answered the question
he saw Maria being introduced...
963
01:02:41,452 -- 01:02:42,851
to his wife.
964
01:02:53,252 -- 01:02:55,288
Maria's just back from Italy.
965
01:02:55,372 -- 01:02:57,010
She lives on airplanes.
966
01:02:57,092 -- 01:03:00,243
She goes back and forth
from Italy like a Ping-Pong ball.
967
01:03:01,612 -- 01:03:03,011
Judy?
968
01:03:03,292 -- 01:03:04,486
Sherman!
969
01:03:06,092 -- 01:03:08,208
Have you met Nunnally Voyd?
970
01:03:08,612 -- 01:03:10,045
At last.
971
01:03:10,852 -- 01:03:13,127
Bobby Shalfet from the opera.
972
01:03:15,492 -- 01:03:17,084
And Arthur Ruskin.
973
01:03:19,332 -- 01:03:21,163
And his wife, Maria.
974
01:03:22,532 -- 01:03:23,965
We've met.
975
01:03:29,412 -- 01:03:32,802
Couldn't you try just once
to be a little bit interesting?
976
01:03:32,972 -- 01:03:35,486
I wanted you to meet Aubrey Buffing.
977
01:03:35,772 -- 01:03:39,321
Aubrey Buffing.
He's on the short list for the Nobel Prize.
978
01:03:39,412 -- 01:03:41,323
He has AIDS. You'll love him.
979
01:03:43,172 -- 01:03:46,847
We are in the middle of the room,
a married couple talking to each other.
980
01:03:46,932 -- 01:03:49,844
You simply don't do it. Go mingle. Please.
981
01:03:51,212 -- 01:03:55,046
And even when
repentance is offered, he refuses.
982
01:03:55,372 -- 01:03:57,442
He refuses to deny his life.
983
01:03:57,732 -- 01:04:00,929
The food, the drink, the flesh...
984
01:04:01,132 -- 01:04:04,647
fatal as they may be,
he cannot resist them.
985
01:04:24,172 -- 01:04:26,208
Maria, may I speak to you?
986
01:04:26,372 -- 01:04:28,203
We have to stop meeting like this.
987
01:04:28,292 -- 01:04:30,726
-Do you know Boris, the ballet dancer?
-No.
988
01:04:34,732 -- 01:04:37,121
-He's defective.
-You mean, he defected.
989
01:04:37,292 -- 01:04:39,681
No, I mean he doesn't speak English.
990
01:04:40,132 -- 01:04:42,088
Really? Are you sure?
991
01:04:42,212 -- 01:04:43,884
Do you know what's going on?
992
01:04:43,972 -- 01:04:46,406
Boris, want me to eat your ass?
993
01:04:49,012 -- 01:04:51,401
You see? It went right over his head.
994
01:04:51,532 -- 01:04:54,524
-We have to talk.
-Of course we do.
995
01:04:54,772 -- 01:04:57,650
But keep smiling because
my husband is watching.
996
01:04:59,012 -- 01:05:01,162
He's so pleased with himself.
997
01:05:01,292 -- 01:05:06,571
He'sjust closed a new deal.
Charter business. He'll fly Arabs to Mecca.
998
01:05:06,692 -- 01:05:09,889
-I'm going to be arrested.
-The planes are from Israel.
999
01:05:10,052 -- 01:05:11,371
By the police.
1000
01:05:11,572 -- 01:05:13,722
He'll make a Goddamn fortune.
1001
01:05:13,892 -- 01:05:15,723
My lawyer, if you can call him that--
1002
01:05:15,812 -- 01:05:19,964
He called me a whore today!
Right in front of the servants!
1003
01:05:21,092 -- 01:05:24,323
Really! How does he expect me
to run the house...
1004
01:05:24,532 -- 01:05:27,490
if he humiliates me in front of the help?
1005
01:05:27,972 -- 01:05:29,724
You have a point.
1006
01:05:31,532 -- 01:05:34,808
I'm sorry. What are we talking about?
1007
01:05:36,292 -- 01:05:39,329
The other guy's come forward.
Says I was driving.
1008
01:05:39,692 -- 01:05:41,762
I'm going to be arrested tomorrow.
1009
01:05:41,892 -- 01:05:45,567
I need to know from you
what you want me to say.
1010
01:05:46,732 -- 01:05:49,883
Maria, darling, I need your advice
about something.
1011
01:05:49,972 -- 01:05:52,645
Sherman, have you met Aubrey Buffing?
1012
01:05:55,052 -- 01:05:56,770
Like so many of us...
1013
01:05:56,972 -- 01:06:02,444
until Death itself takes us into his arms
and burns us with the fever of living...
1014
01:06:02,732 -- 01:06:06,691
dragging us like Don Juan
into the bonfires of hell!
1015
01:06:07,172 -- 01:06:09,891
The voice of the ghost ringing in our ears!
1016
01:06:10,132 -- 01:06:11,565
"Repent!"
1017
01:06:26,852 -- 01:06:30,925
Careful. My kid got Styrofoam shit
back there and it sticks to your clothes.
1018
01:06:31,012 -- 01:06:32,923
-How do you feel?
-Top notch.
1019
01:06:33,092 -- 01:06:34,810
This is just a formality, right?
1020
01:06:34,892 -- 01:06:36,803
No problem. They promised me.
1021
01:06:37,772 -- 01:06:41,924
I told Maria. I saw her last night.
In case we need her.
1022
01:06:42,092 -- 01:06:44,970
That explains it.
She left the country this morning.
1023
01:06:45,172 -- 01:06:48,164
You know an Italian painter
named Filippo Chirazzi?
1024
01:06:49,892 -- 01:06:52,611
I think your girlfriend's
got a new boyfriend.
1025
01:06:52,932 -- 01:06:55,492
It won't be so bad. This is routine.
1026
01:06:55,732 -- 01:06:58,405
Andruitti promised we'll be in
and out of there.
1027
01:06:58,972 -- 01:07:00,928
No one will ever know what happened.
1028
01:07:01,012 -- 01:07:02,047
Cuff him.
1029
01:07:02,132 -- 01:07:03,247
What?
1030
01:07:03,892 -- 01:07:06,486
The zone captain will be there.
And the press.
1031
01:07:06,692 -- 01:07:09,081
What the fuck? What press?
1032
01:07:09,412 -- 01:07:11,482
Ray promised no bullshit.
1033
01:07:11,692 -- 01:07:14,729
Weiss gave the order this morning.
1034
01:07:16,012 -- 01:07:18,082
Somebody's going to pay for this.
1035
01:07:24,812 -- 01:07:27,201
I made sure I was there that day.
1036
01:07:27,652 -- 01:07:29,882
That day would be full of revelations.
1037
01:07:30,092 -- 01:07:32,322
I would meet Sherman McCoy at last.
1038
01:07:32,612 -- 01:07:34,443
When he finally appeared...
1039
01:07:35,892 -- 01:07:38,360
Well, excuse me, what the hell...?
1040
01:07:38,852 -- 01:07:41,730
Who were these people?
What were they doing here?
1041
01:07:41,892 -- 01:07:43,245
This was my story!
1042
01:07:43,332 -- 01:07:46,529
Sherman McCoy was my baby!
My creation!
1043
01:07:58,412 -- 01:08:01,006
Look at these punks.
Get out of here!
1044
01:08:01,132 -- 01:08:02,724
Why'd you hit that kid?
1045
01:08:03,012 -- 01:08:05,128
Put the cuffs on him.
1046
01:08:07,852 -- 01:08:09,205
I'm going to jail, aren't I?
1047
01:08:09,292 -- 01:08:12,921
Don't say a word. Don't hide your head.
1048
01:08:13,132 -- 01:08:15,202
You don't even know they're there.
1049
01:08:15,492 -- 01:08:17,448
I'm going to jail.
1050
01:08:28,452 -- 01:08:31,330
What do you have
to say for yourself?
1051
01:08:31,532 -- 01:08:33,204
You been arrested before?
1052
01:08:33,412 -- 01:08:35,642
Where's your wife?
1053
01:08:35,852 -- 01:08:39,481
You ran down Mrs. Lamb's son.
Have you anything to say to her?
1054
01:08:39,652 -- 01:08:42,689
Here! Let me take your picture, shithead!
1055
01:08:42,892 -- 01:08:45,645
How do you like this cocktail party?
1056
01:08:48,812 -- 01:08:50,450
Hello, Mr. McCoy.
1057
01:08:50,692 -- 01:08:53,729
Don't make any statements!
Don't talk to anybody!
1058
01:08:53,932 -- 01:08:56,002
I'll meet you at the arraignment.
1059
01:10:01,092 -- 01:10:03,811
Quiet! You people sit down!
1060
01:10:04,132 -- 01:10:05,406
Shut up!
1061
01:10:19,492 -- 01:10:20,891
Mr. McCoy...
1062
01:10:22,612 -- 01:10:26,446
do you know the charges
that have been brought against you?
1063
01:10:27,812 -- 01:10:28,767
What?
1064
01:10:31,172 -- 01:10:33,640
How do you plead to the charges?
1065
01:10:36,452 -- 01:10:37,771
I'm sorry.
1066
01:10:39,892 -- 01:10:42,565
I am very sorry. Please forgive me.
1067
01:10:43,932 -- 01:10:45,490
Order!
1068
01:10:48,172 -- 01:10:52,131
I am truly sorry for everything.
Please forgive me.
1069
01:10:52,372 -- 01:10:54,681
For my life. For everything.
1070
01:10:55,172 -- 01:10:56,446
I'm truly sorry.
1071
01:10:57,292 -- 01:10:58,407
Shut up!
1072
01:10:58,612 -- 01:11:00,648
The defendant pleads not guilty.
1073
01:11:04,652 -- 01:11:07,246
Bail has been set at $10,000.
1074
01:11:12,172 -- 01:11:13,571
Order! Order!
1075
01:11:14,572 -- 01:11:16,722
You people sit down!
1076
01:11:24,532 -- 01:11:28,366
We do not believe it will serve
the interests of justice...
1077
01:11:28,612 -- 01:11:30,842
to allow this man to walk free...
1078
01:11:31,732 -- 01:11:33,768
on a token bail.
1079
01:11:35,572 -- 01:11:40,646
Mr. Kramer knows perfectly well
that my client won't jump bail!
1080
01:11:40,852 -- 01:11:43,241
Think of the emotions of this community!
1081
01:11:49,492 -- 01:11:53,326
That is patent nonsense.
Bail has already been agreed to.
1082
01:11:53,612 -- 01:11:59,687
Mr. Weiss has instructed me to ask
for bail in the amount of $250,000.
1083
01:12:00,172 -- 01:12:01,491
Cash!
1084
01:12:03,852 -- 01:12:05,444
Order!
1085
01:12:09,412 -- 01:12:13,963
If your office has any information
bearing on bail status of this case...
1086
01:12:14,212 -- 01:12:16,168
make a formal application.
1087
01:12:16,852 -- 01:12:18,490
Meanwhile, I release Mr. McCoy...
1088
01:12:18,572 -- 01:12:20,961
under a bond in the amount of $10,000.
1089
01:12:21,172 -- 01:12:23,447
Now get this sideshow out of my court!
1090
01:12:26,572 -- 01:12:30,690
Your Honor, your action will irreparably
damage not only the people's case...
1091
01:12:30,892 -- 01:12:32,325
I have spoken!
1092
01:12:33,252 -- 01:12:35,288
...but the people's cause as well.
1093
01:12:35,372 -- 01:12:36,566
Mr. Kramer!
1094
01:12:36,652 -- 01:12:39,120
It ill-behooves the criminal justice system!
1095
01:12:39,212 -- 01:12:41,362
Kindly behoove me no "ill-behooves."
1096
01:12:43,012 -- 01:12:45,242
The court directs you to shut up!
1097
01:12:49,412 -- 01:12:53,451
He's coming out the back!
Fall out! He's coming out the back!
1098
01:12:53,732 -- 01:12:55,051
Go get him!
1099
01:12:56,332 -- 01:12:57,651
Get him.
1100
01:12:58,892 -- 01:13:01,008
He's getting away!
1101
01:13:05,572 -- 01:13:07,005
He's getting away.
1102
01:13:17,252 -- 01:13:20,164
So much for my introduction
to Sherman McCoy.
1103
01:13:20,692 -- 01:13:23,570
Before we could even speak,
he had been swept away.
1104
01:13:25,012 -- 01:13:28,129
I began to appreciate the power,
the magnitude...
1105
01:13:28,292 -- 01:13:31,523
the sheer force unleashed
by my little story.
1106
01:13:34,412 -- 01:13:35,686
Jackals.
1107
01:13:36,172 -- 01:13:37,605
These dogs...
1108
01:13:38,052 -- 01:13:40,361
yapping at the heels of their prey.
1109
01:13:40,612 -- 01:13:42,887
And my God, I was one of them.
1110
01:13:43,372 -- 01:13:45,932
Let them have it. Enough is enough.
1111
01:13:46,412 -- 01:13:49,609
With what little dignity I had left,
I decided to go home.
1112
01:13:56,292 -- 01:13:59,807
Excuse me. Do you know
where I can find a taxi?
1113
01:14:06,852 -- 01:14:07,921
Sherman McCoy.
1114
01:14:08,012 -- 01:14:09,730
Yeah, I know who you are.
1115
01:14:13,492 -- 01:14:16,848
-What are you doing out here?
-I need a taxi.
1116
01:14:17,092 -- 01:14:19,162
There he is! There's McCoy!
1117
01:14:22,892 -- 01:14:25,486
You need to get out of here. Come on.
1118
01:14:26,692 -- 01:14:29,001
We'll get out of here
on the subway.
1119
01:14:29,092 -- 01:14:32,004
I don't usually travel in the subway.
1120
01:14:48,052 -- 01:14:50,043
I owe you an apology.
1121
01:14:50,252 -- 01:14:52,129
No, you were very helpful.
1122
01:14:52,292 -- 01:14:55,170
-You don't know who I am.
-It's all right. Thanks.
1123
01:14:57,652 -- 01:14:59,085
I should go.
1124
01:14:59,332 -- 01:15:01,288
Go where? You're on a train.
1125
01:15:03,532 -- 01:15:05,648
Come over here and sit down.
1126
01:15:09,452 -- 01:15:11,363
I'll make sure you get home.
1127
01:15:23,372 -- 01:15:25,602
-Want some?
-No thanks.
1128
01:15:25,892 -- 01:15:27,211
Fuck it.
1129
01:15:27,972 -- 01:15:29,530
What'll they do?
1130
01:15:29,612 -- 01:15:31,045
Arrest you?
1131
01:15:42,852 -- 01:15:46,242
Does this train go
anywhere near Park Avenue?
1132
01:15:47,572 -- 01:15:49,767
Not for the last million years.
1133
01:15:51,812 -- 01:15:55,043
My father rode the subway
every day of his life.
1134
01:15:57,572 -- 01:16:00,291
He didn't live in the South Bronx, though.
1135
01:16:01,372 -- 01:16:02,566
No...
1136
01:16:05,092 -- 01:16:06,525
I look terrible.
1137
01:16:08,092 -- 01:16:09,525
You look like shit.
1138
01:16:10,532 -- 01:16:13,046
You don't smell good, either.
1139
01:16:17,932 -- 01:16:21,447
I think when I was in jail
I pissed in my pants.
1140
01:16:34,612 -- 01:16:36,170
Take it easy.
1141
01:16:36,332 -- 01:16:38,209
I'm all right.
1142
01:16:39,412 -- 01:16:40,731
I can't think.
1143
01:16:41,532 -- 01:16:43,011
Cheer yourself up.
1144
01:16:52,092 -- 01:16:53,445
Thank you.
1145
01:16:53,532 -- 01:16:54,885
Your welcome.
1146
01:17:01,892 -- 01:17:05,123
Then this newspaper thing started.
This Peter Fallow.
1147
01:17:05,412 -- 01:17:09,087
Everything was wrong.
Total disregard for the truth.
1148
01:17:09,292 -- 01:17:10,645
This is your stop.
1149
01:17:10,732 -- 01:17:15,169
Everyone calls me by my first name,
like they know me. Like they own me.
1150
01:17:15,412 -- 01:17:20,008
Lawyers, police, newspapers.
How did I get to be so important?
1151
01:17:20,332 -- 01:17:24,166
You're not important. You're dinner.
Don't you get it?
1152
01:17:24,372 -- 01:17:27,444
A week from now,
they won't even remember what they ate.
1153
01:17:28,772 -- 01:17:30,683
Thank you for everything.
1154
01:17:30,892 -- 01:17:35,568
I should have just called the police
right away. Right when it happened.
1155
01:17:35,852 -- 01:17:38,924
But it really wasn't my decision to make.
1156
01:17:39,172 -- 01:17:40,844
I wasn't driving the car.
1157
01:17:42,932 -- 01:17:45,321
Stand clear of the doors, please.
1158
01:17:45,412 -- 01:17:47,607
Sherman, wait a minute!
1159
01:17:52,012 -- 01:17:54,082
It's going to be fine.
1160
01:18:31,972 -- 01:18:34,440
-What do we want?
-Justice!
1161
01:18:34,532 -- 01:18:37,330
-What do we get?
-Racism!
1162
01:18:55,852 -- 01:18:58,889
It's Sherman! A bravo, everybody!
1163
01:19:12,652 -- 01:19:15,962
You sly fox. Don't let the newspapers
keep you down.
1164
01:19:16,132 -- 01:19:18,202
The press are bloody fruit flies.
1165
01:19:18,372 -- 01:19:20,840
They hover over the feces.
Just swipe them away.
1166
01:19:20,932 -- 01:19:22,729
But they always come back to the shit.
1167
01:19:23,972 -- 01:19:26,042
I always thought you were dull.
1168
01:19:31,532 -- 01:19:32,965
Congratulations.
1169
01:19:33,652 -- 01:19:36,530
Has anybody talked to you
about television?
1170
01:19:36,772 -- 01:19:39,889
We'd have to play down the racial thing.
1171
01:19:40,012 -- 01:19:42,287
Kind of make you more sympathetic.
1172
01:19:42,692 -- 01:19:47,208
I know I'm first, but I wanted to be there
before the corpse was cold.
1173
01:19:47,812 -- 01:19:49,211
$200,000.
1174
01:19:49,292 -- 01:19:51,681
-I beg your pardon?
-Fuck my pardon.
1175
01:19:51,972 -- 01:19:54,281
I'll suck your dick for the rights. $250,000.
1176
01:19:54,372 -- 01:19:58,411
A book, a mini-series. $500,000.
Go to jail, double.
1177
01:19:58,692 -- 01:20:01,570
-Is that a great blow job or what?
-Excuse me!
1178
01:20:07,972 -- 01:20:10,281
Didn't mean anything to interrupt anything.
1179
01:20:10,372 -- 01:20:12,124
Gene asked me to come by.
1180
01:20:13,252 -- 01:20:15,402
I haven't talked with anyone yet.
1181
01:20:15,532 -- 01:20:17,727
If there's anything we can do...
1182
01:20:19,492 -- 01:20:21,722
I'll be back to work in a day or two.
1183
01:20:21,892 -- 01:20:25,726
That won't be necessary.
That's what I was sent to...
1184
01:20:25,972 -- 01:20:27,405
You don't have to.
1185
01:20:28,132 -- 01:20:30,851
I mean, you shouldn't come down.
1186
01:20:31,972 -- 01:20:34,122
They don't want you to come down.
1187
01:20:35,172 -- 01:20:36,924
Sherman, I'm sorry.
1188
01:20:37,252 -- 01:20:40,369
Between this and the way you handled
the Giscard deal...
1189
01:20:40,452 -- 01:20:43,489
-I mean, $600,000,000 is a--
-This is final?
1190
01:20:43,732 -- 01:20:45,927
Well, the firm feels that...
1191
01:20:47,092 -- 01:20:48,445
I'm sorry.
1192
01:21:07,372 -- 01:21:09,840
Judy, could we...
What's going on?
1193
01:21:09,932 -- 01:21:14,562
This dinner party was planned weeks ago,
if you bothered to check your calendar.
1194
01:21:16,372 -- 01:21:18,090
Under the circumstances--
1195
01:21:18,172 -- 01:21:21,403
I know the whole story.
I saw it on television.
1196
01:21:23,172 -- 01:21:25,561
I'm sorry. Judy, I am.
1197
01:21:26,092 -- 01:21:29,801
You betrayed us. Me. Campbell.
Even yourself.
1198
01:21:30,292 -- 01:21:34,604
But I'm chairing the museum benefit
thanks to your escapades.
1199
01:21:35,092 -- 01:21:37,128
What can I say? Life goes on.
1200
01:21:37,412 -- 01:21:40,563
I'll make the best
of an appalling situation.
1201
01:21:40,932 -- 01:21:43,002
Can you forgive me?
1202
01:21:46,132 -- 01:21:50,444
I suppose I can forgive anything,
but not television.
1203
01:21:52,172 -- 01:21:53,571
I'm leaving you.
1204
01:21:56,292 -- 01:21:57,725
After the party.
1205
01:21:58,532 -- 01:22:01,251
Now if you will excuse me,
we have guests.
1206
01:22:04,972 -- 01:22:08,806
I'm terribly sorry to bother you.
Is this a bad time?
1207
01:22:10,892 -- 01:22:11,881
No.
1208
01:22:12,932 -- 01:22:14,445
The more the merrier.
1209
01:22:14,572 -- 01:22:17,245
I've been in touch with the co-op board.
1210
01:22:17,452 -- 01:22:20,205
We want you to know
you have our support.
1211
01:22:20,292 -- 01:22:21,771
Oh, thank you!
1212
01:22:22,052 -- 01:22:23,963
You know, I wanted to die...
1213
01:22:24,172 -- 01:22:27,403
with everybody calling my name
in that courtroom.
1214
01:22:27,652 -- 01:22:29,529
Of course. It's hard to believe.
1215
01:22:29,612 -- 01:22:32,809
And then I thought, "I have a gun."
1216
01:22:34,372 -- 01:22:36,283
A 12-gauge, pump action.
1217
01:22:36,532 -- 01:22:38,488
We've known each other a long time.
1218
01:22:38,572 -- 01:22:41,644
We went to Buckley together.
My father knew your father.
1219
01:22:41,732 -- 01:22:44,485
I speak as a friend and also for the board.
1220
01:22:44,692 -- 01:22:46,922
How do I get the barrels into my mouth?
1221
01:22:47,012 -- 01:22:49,606
How am I going to pull the trigger?
1222
01:22:49,772 -- 01:22:52,969
I read about a man who took off his shoe...
1223
01:22:53,252 -- 01:22:55,561
and pulled the trigger with his toe.
1224
01:22:57,772 -- 01:23:00,366
This can't be a comfortable situation
for you.
1225
01:23:03,412 -- 01:23:04,606
Is that a gun?
1226
01:23:07,532 -- 01:23:09,170
Where would I do it?
1227
01:23:09,772 -- 01:23:11,842
And who would find me?
1228
01:23:12,172 -- 01:23:13,764
Yes, exactly.
1229
01:23:14,052 -- 01:23:15,804
Have you considered...
1230
01:23:16,772 -- 01:23:18,842
changing residence for a while?
1231
01:23:21,932 -- 01:23:23,490
You want me to leave?
1232
01:23:26,852 -- 01:23:28,365
This is my home.
1233
01:23:29,332 -- 01:23:33,450
I have no safe place to go.
People are threatening my life.
1234
01:23:33,892 -- 01:23:35,450
I must protect myself.
1235
01:23:37,532 -- 01:23:42,162
People are demonstrating out front.
Black people with basketballs.
1236
01:23:42,332 -- 01:23:44,402
You're putting everyone at risk!
1237
01:23:44,492 -- 01:23:47,086
It's not your fault. But that's the fact.
1238
01:23:47,372 -- 01:23:49,761
If you're so scared, you move out.
1239
01:23:50,692 -- 01:23:51,647
Please.
1240
01:23:52,172 -- 01:23:53,321
Start...
1241
01:23:54,292 -- 01:23:56,601
by moving out of my apartment now.
1242
01:23:56,772 -- 01:23:58,683
I came here in good faith.
1243
01:23:59,492 -- 01:24:00,607
Now, out!
1244
01:24:02,572 -- 01:24:05,086
You were a fat blowhard at Buckley...
1245
01:24:05,252 -- 01:24:07,288
and you're a fat blowhard now!
1246
01:24:07,372 -- 01:24:10,409
I'll enforce the provision
on unacceptable situations.
1247
01:24:10,692 -- 01:24:14,844
Another word and you'll have
an unacceptable situation up your ass!
1248
01:24:16,292 -- 01:24:17,566
March!
1249
01:24:23,572 -- 01:24:26,564
That goes for the rest of you too! Out!
1250
01:24:36,772 -- 01:24:38,524
I said, "Get out!"
1251
01:24:41,932 -- 01:24:44,207
Parasites! Everybody out!
1252
01:24:44,492 -- 01:24:47,689
Out of my house! Out of my apartment!
1253
01:24:50,212 -- 01:24:51,531
Out of my life!
1254
01:24:56,612 -- 01:24:59,001
Sherman McCoy is dead!
1255
01:24:59,372 -- 01:25:02,921
Sherman McCoy of Park Avenue
and Wall Street...
1256
01:25:04,932 -- 01:25:09,210
will never be Sherman McCoy again!
1257
01:25:14,732 -- 01:25:19,248
Meanwhile,just a few blocks away,
I was being praised and congratulated.
1258
01:25:19,652 -- 01:25:22,530
It should have been
a triumphant yours truly...
1259
01:25:22,892 -- 01:25:24,245
but it wasn't.
1260
01:25:24,932 -- 01:25:28,447
My encounter with the real
Sherman McCoy was spoiling everything.
1261
01:25:29,092 -- 01:25:30,684
Truth has a way of doing that.
1262
01:25:30,772 -- 01:25:32,285
Daddy, dinner.
1263
01:25:32,452 -- 01:25:36,286
-Yes. Shall we take Peter with us?
-Lovely.
1264
01:25:36,532 -- 01:25:39,330
Pay full attention to this story.
1265
01:25:39,532 -- 01:25:42,842
We look better and better
the more we do for the Lambs.
1266
01:25:43,012 -- 01:25:45,287
These poor little Lambs.
1267
01:25:45,572 -- 01:25:47,961
These fuzzy-wuzzy little wogs!
1268
01:25:51,892 -- 01:25:54,360
Phone call for you in the office.
1269
01:25:55,332 -- 01:25:58,881
Thank you. I'm expecting a call
about the story.
1270
01:25:59,212 -- 01:26:01,885
I'll see you at dinner. Thank you.
1271
01:26:18,692 -- 01:26:20,250
Where's the phone?
1272
01:26:20,332 -- 01:26:21,765
I lied.
1273
01:26:22,532 -- 01:26:24,762
I wanted to see you alone.
1274
01:26:26,092 -- 01:26:28,481
I'm going to do you a favor.
1275
01:26:28,852 -- 01:26:32,003
Does this mean I'll finally get
into your panties?
1276
01:26:34,892 -- 01:26:37,406
You don't deserve this, Peter.
1277
01:26:39,892 -- 01:26:42,008
I'm going to tell you
something.
1278
01:26:42,092 -- 01:26:44,765
I'm with some people right outside.
1279
01:26:46,732 -- 01:26:48,324
Relax, darling.
1280
01:26:51,532 -- 01:26:52,931
Do you remember...
1281
01:26:53,412 -- 01:26:57,724
my pretty little Italian friend?
The painter.
1282
01:26:59,372 -- 01:27:01,966
Frederico. No. Franco.
1283
01:27:02,212 -- 01:27:03,611
Filippo.
1284
01:27:03,692 -- 01:27:05,125
The shit.
1285
01:27:07,252 -- 01:27:09,243
You are very intoxicated.
1286
01:27:11,172 -- 01:27:15,484
Filippo has run off with a little slut
you should know about.
1287
01:27:19,292 -- 01:27:20,805
Isn't that dangerous?
1288
01:27:23,092 -- 01:27:24,923
At the very least, unsanitary?
1289
01:27:25,012 -- 01:27:26,684
Shut up, Peter.
1290
01:27:26,852 -- 01:27:28,444
You're not listening.
1291
01:27:28,772 -- 01:27:32,606
Her name is Maria Ruskin.
1292
01:27:34,412 -- 01:27:36,801
She was subletting my apartment.
1293
01:27:39,892 -- 01:27:42,360
She was also subletting Filippo.
1294
01:27:45,572 -- 01:27:47,164
As it turns out...
1295
01:27:47,852 -- 01:27:52,607
she was in the car with Sherman McCoy
when he had his little mishap.
1296
01:27:55,372 -- 01:27:56,930
You're joking.
1297
01:27:57,172 -- 01:27:58,685
I never joke.
1298
01:28:00,812 -- 01:28:03,042
She was in the bloody car.
1299
01:28:05,612 -- 01:28:06,886
How do you know?
1300
01:28:08,692 -- 01:28:10,808
The apartment was bugged.
1301
01:28:12,052 -- 01:28:14,043
They had a wire in the intercom.
1302
01:28:15,652 -- 01:28:18,883
They wanted to prove
I wasn't living there.
1303
01:28:19,972 -- 01:28:21,405
Which I wasn't.
1304
01:28:23,172 -- 01:28:26,721
Now I've lost the apartment
and the boyfriend.
1305
01:28:29,932 -- 01:28:31,684
Do you know where they are?
1306
01:28:31,772 -- 01:28:32,761
No.
1307
01:28:37,892 -- 01:28:40,964
I am trusting you to find them.
1308
01:28:44,492 -- 01:28:45,925
When you do...
1309
01:28:46,732 -- 01:28:48,450
give them this.
1310
01:28:50,252 -- 01:28:53,881
Tell them it's from the little twat
who turned them in.
1311
01:28:55,612 -- 01:28:59,048
Thank you for seeing me
on such short notice, Mr. Ruskin.
1312
01:28:59,252 -- 01:29:00,526
Peter Fallow.
1313
01:29:00,692 -- 01:29:03,206
I'm a good friend of your wife.
1314
01:29:03,372 -- 01:29:04,964
My wife. My wife.
1315
01:29:05,292 -- 01:29:08,807
I'm glad she's not here.
Otherwise I couldn't have a drink.
1316
01:29:09,292 -- 01:29:12,489
A Courvoisier VSOP. Put it in a sidecar.
1317
01:29:12,692 -- 01:29:13,761
Where is Maria?
1318
01:29:13,852 -- 01:29:16,366
Italy. She's always in Italy.
1319
01:29:16,652 -- 01:29:19,041
She's young. She needs young people.
1320
01:29:19,212 -- 01:29:20,964
I know what goes on.
1321
01:29:21,132 -- 01:29:23,088
I'll want to talk to her.
1322
01:29:23,252 -- 01:29:24,924
My office has her number.
1323
01:29:27,092 -- 01:29:31,131
I'm not supposed to drink,
but I love a sidecar.
1324
01:29:31,372 -- 01:29:33,442
So you're on The City Light?
1325
01:29:34,012 -- 01:29:37,925
We're profiling the new tycoons.
Naturally, we thought of you.
1326
01:29:38,252 -- 01:29:40,368
Good. Good. I like that.
1327
01:29:40,732 -- 01:29:43,610
New tycoons. What do you want to know?
1328
01:29:45,452 -- 01:29:48,046
The best one happened
a few weeks ago.
1329
01:29:49,772 -- 01:29:53,128
My jackass pilot lands long
and the plane goes off the runway.
1330
01:29:53,292 -- 01:29:54,930
I was on the plane.
1331
01:29:55,212 -- 01:29:58,887
We were going to Mecca.
The plane is full of Arabs with animals.
1332
01:29:59,092 -- 01:30:03,290
Goats, sheep, chickens. They don't
go anywhere without their animals.
1333
01:30:03,572 -- 01:30:07,406
We had to put plastic in the cabins.
They urinate, they defecate.
1334
01:30:07,692 -- 01:30:12,891
Anyway, the plane goes off the runway
and lands into that sand with a jolt!
1335
01:30:13,132 -- 01:30:17,683
The right wing tip digs into the sand
and spins around in a circle.
1336
01:30:18,092 -- 01:30:21,767
Three hundred and sixty degrees.
I'm scared shitless. Panic!
1337
01:30:22,252 -- 01:30:26,086
I look in the cabin. In there, calm, quiet...
1338
01:30:26,412 -- 01:30:29,290
they're picking up their luggage
and animals...
1339
01:30:29,492 -- 01:30:32,848
and looking out the window
at a little fire on the wings.
1340
01:30:33,052 -- 01:30:36,488
They're waiting for the doors
to open like nothing happened!
1341
01:30:36,692 -- 01:30:38,330
Then it dawns on me.
1342
01:30:38,612 -- 01:30:40,364
They think it's normal!
1343
01:30:42,452 -- 01:30:44,329
That's how you stop a plane!
1344
01:30:44,572 -- 01:30:47,769
Stick the wing in the sand
and let it spin until it stops!
1345
01:30:52,652 -- 01:30:55,849
They'd never been on a plane before!
What do they know?
1346
01:30:56,172 -- 01:30:58,242
They think this is how you do it!
1347
01:31:06,012 -- 01:31:07,411
Mr. Ruskin?
1348
01:31:15,692 -- 01:31:16,966
Mrs. Ruskin?
1349
01:31:17,212 -- 01:31:20,488
I'm Peter Fallow.
I want to express my sympathies.
1350
01:31:20,692 -- 01:31:22,284
How very kind.
1351
01:31:22,612 -- 01:31:24,170
Did you know Arthur?
1352
01:31:24,332 -- 01:31:27,290
Actually, I was quite close to him
when he died.
1353
01:31:29,132 -- 01:31:33,762
I have reprobated myself,
over and over again, for not being there.
1354
01:31:34,092 -- 01:31:37,129
I understand that
you're Sherman McCoy's lover.
1355
01:31:37,452 -- 01:31:38,521
Excuse me?
1356
01:31:38,612 -- 01:31:42,924
And that you were driving the car
on the night of that unfortunate accident.
1357
01:31:43,212 -- 01:31:46,966
-Sherman would never tell you that.
-Tell me what happened that night.
1358
01:31:47,052 -- 01:31:49,441
Listen, Mr. Peckerhead.
1359
01:31:49,852 -- 01:31:53,003
I am here for my husband's funeral.
Understand?
1360
01:31:53,292 -- 01:31:56,204
Go away. Disappear. Disintegrate.
1361
01:31:59,092 -- 01:32:02,926
Yes, yes, yes.
This story was getting better every day.
1362
01:32:03,412 -- 01:32:04,811
I could smell it.
1363
01:32:05,052 -- 01:32:07,327
Hell, some of it was even true.
1364
01:32:08,692 -- 01:32:12,048
I was back on track.
I was a reporter again.
1365
01:32:16,652 -- 01:32:19,689
You're a muckraking yellow journalist!
1366
01:32:19,852 -- 01:32:24,323
You print this story without so much
as a by-your-leave to me or the Reverend.
1367
01:32:24,692 -- 01:32:26,250
Who do you think you are?
1368
01:32:26,332 -- 01:32:28,288
For chrissakes, calm down.
1369
01:32:28,372 -- 01:32:31,045
You have to keep
your voices down.
1370
01:32:32,972 -- 01:32:36,885
Sherman McCoy was not driving the car.
I think I can prove it.
1371
01:32:37,012 -- 01:32:38,001
So what?
1372
01:32:38,092 -- 01:32:41,801
This is our case. Right here.
The hospital is the guilty party.
1373
01:32:42,252 -- 01:32:43,526
The hospital?
1374
01:32:43,732 -- 01:32:47,566
The hospital. A young man comes in
with a cerebral concussion.
1375
01:32:47,852 -- 01:32:49,570
They treat him for a broken wrist.
1376
01:32:49,652 -- 01:32:53,691
That is our case. That is the lawsuit
we'll bring against the hospital.
1377
01:32:53,932 -- 01:32:57,607
That is what we have been
working toward all this time.
1378
01:32:57,812 -- 01:33:00,406
And you are confusing the issue.
1379
01:33:01,452 -- 01:33:03,363
What about Sherman McCoy?
1380
01:33:03,852 -- 01:33:05,365
What about the truth?
1381
01:33:05,492 -- 01:33:06,925
Congratulations.
1382
01:33:07,732 -- 01:33:09,609
You're a reporter again.
1383
01:33:10,732 -- 01:33:13,292
Don't forget where your story came from.
1384
01:33:13,612 -- 01:33:16,331
That's right.
You our boy, Peter.
1385
01:33:16,852 -- 01:33:19,685
You take care of us
and we'll take care of you.
1386
01:33:20,092 -- 01:33:25,041
I promise you that is going
to be a very profitable relationship...
1387
01:33:25,452 -- 01:33:27,363
for all of us.
1388
01:33:39,772 -- 01:33:44,892
Annie, I know nothing can heal
the wound that you've suffered.
1389
01:33:46,412 -- 01:33:51,281
But $10,000,000 in damages
will make your grief more comfortable.
1390
01:33:59,372 -- 01:34:01,169
I could use a few things.
1391
01:34:01,772 -- 01:34:06,971
I feel that the presentation of my person
should be carefully designed.
1392
01:34:08,172 -- 01:34:11,050
I think I should have the right wardrobe.
1393
01:34:11,372 -- 01:34:15,684
So if Mr. Fox's limousine could pick me up
tomorrow morning...
1394
01:34:16,172 -- 01:34:18,003
I could do some shopping.
1395
01:34:20,652 -- 01:34:21,926
Certainly.
1396
01:34:24,412 -- 01:34:26,482
I printed the story they wanted.
1397
01:34:28,852 -- 01:34:31,924
If you work in a whorehouse,
there's only one thing to be.
1398
01:34:32,012 -- 01:34:33,843
The best whore in the house.
1399
01:34:34,092 -- 01:34:38,131
And I was beginning to see
even greater possibilities in my situation.
1400
01:34:38,412 -- 01:34:41,131
They're going to sue the hospital.
1401
01:34:42,292 -- 01:34:43,930
All they want is money.
1402
01:34:45,132 -- 01:34:49,011
Can you imagine using a tragedy like this
for your own selfish motives?
1403
01:34:49,172 -- 01:34:50,651
It really is terrible.
1404
01:34:50,732 -- 01:34:52,245
Shut up, asshole!
1405
01:34:56,492 -- 01:35:00,326
What is happening to my campaign?
The People versus Sherman McCoy?
1406
01:35:01,452 -- 01:35:02,931
Where is my issue?
1407
01:35:04,012 -- 01:35:05,764
Where is my cause?
1408
01:35:07,132 -- 01:35:08,690
Where is my hope?
1409
01:35:12,012 -- 01:35:14,572
We've got to talk to this Ruskin woman.
1410
01:35:20,012 -- 01:35:24,005
You go to the press. Tell them we're going
to question the woman.
1411
01:35:24,212 -- 01:35:28,728
If she's the woman in the car,
she faces possible charges, etc., etc.
1412
01:35:32,492 -- 01:35:33,720
And you!
1413
01:35:34,772 -- 01:35:37,161
Mr. Wise-Guy-Know-It-All-Shitface!
1414
01:35:37,452 -- 01:35:40,330
You got us into this!
You're going to get us out.
1415
01:35:40,532 -- 01:35:42,443
Look at me when I talk to you!
1416
01:35:43,412 -- 01:35:47,928
Go to this broad.
Tell her she's in a whole lot of trouble.
1417
01:35:48,412 -- 01:35:52,849
But, if she's willing to cooperate,
if she'll say what we want her to say...
1418
01:35:53,012 -- 01:35:54,923
we will grant her immunity.
1419
01:35:57,172 -- 01:35:59,083
What are you waiting for? Go!
1420
01:36:03,372 -- 01:36:04,487
Today?
1421
01:36:05,452 -- 01:36:07,841
Her husband's funeral is today.
1422
01:36:10,252 -- 01:36:13,927
I don't care if today is
her mother's bar mitzvah.
1423
01:36:14,412 -- 01:36:16,164
Go to her. Now!
1424
01:36:20,652 -- 01:36:23,883
I hear you did some creative wiring
in the building.
1425
01:36:24,692 -- 01:36:27,286
You bugged
Caroline Heftshank's apartment.
1426
01:36:27,412 -- 01:36:29,972
In three minutes,
I had what I needed.
1427
01:36:30,252 -- 01:36:33,608
It was more than a story.
I had the makings of a book.
1428
01:36:33,812 -- 01:36:36,406
A great book. A prize-winning effort.
1429
01:36:36,892 -- 01:36:38,325
All I needed was a finish.
1430
01:36:38,412 -- 01:36:41,131
-Do you have the tape upstairs?
-I got it.
1431
01:36:41,612 -- 01:36:44,410
I shipped off a present
to McCoy's lawyer...
1432
01:36:44,492 -- 01:36:46,210
and waited for the fireworks.
1433
01:36:46,292 -- 01:36:49,364
I don't feel
terrifically sexy at the moment.
1434
01:36:49,452 -- 01:36:52,728
You know I'm a sucker
for a soft dick, Sherman.
1435
01:36:52,812 -- 01:36:55,201
You are incorrigible.
1436
01:36:55,692 -- 01:36:58,490
That is me! That's Maria!
Where did you get this?
1437
01:36:58,572 -- 01:36:59,561
Listen!
1438
01:37:02,132 -- 01:37:06,250
We could still go to the police.
We could get a talented lawyer.
1439
01:37:06,412 -- 01:37:09,449
And put our heads right
into the tiger's mouth?
1440
01:37:09,652 -- 01:37:11,802
I'm the one who was driving the car.
1441
01:37:12,052 -- 01:37:15,203
Shouldn't I be the one
to make that decision?
1442
01:37:15,692 -- 01:37:17,648
And I say no. I say no.
1443
01:37:18,932 -- 01:37:22,242
The apartment was wired?
It was bugged all that time?
1444
01:37:22,412 -- 01:37:23,527
Why?
1445
01:37:23,692 -- 01:37:24,761
Who knows?
1446
01:37:24,892 -- 01:37:29,443
Whoever sent this tape is either a fan
of yours or not a fan of Maria's.
1447
01:37:29,812 -- 01:37:31,643
Then we have this as evidence!
1448
01:37:31,732 -- 01:37:34,485
This tape is illegal. Totally illegal.
1449
01:37:34,732 -- 01:37:37,371
The guy who did this could go to jail.
1450
01:37:37,612 -- 01:37:40,331
If this were your tape, it'd be legal.
1451
01:37:40,492 -- 01:37:41,527
But it's not.
1452
01:37:41,612 -- 01:37:43,523
If it were my tape?
1453
01:37:43,692 -- 01:37:46,081
If you recorded your own conversation...
1454
01:37:46,292 -- 01:37:48,044
it would be okay.
1455
01:37:49,852 -- 01:37:52,571
But this tape can't be used as evidence
in a court of law.
1456
01:37:52,652 -- 01:37:54,165
Then what good is it?
1457
01:37:54,252 -- 01:37:56,561
-It gave me an idea.
-What kind of idea?
1458
01:37:56,852 -- 01:37:58,968
About what you wear to the funeral.
1459
01:37:59,372 -- 01:38:00,964
What funeral?
1460
01:38:40,652 -- 01:38:42,165
Please be seated.
1461
01:38:44,572 -- 01:38:48,201
In accordance with the wishes
of Mr. Ruskin...
1462
01:38:49,172 -- 01:38:53,450
Manny Leerman will play a medley
of Arthur's favorite songs.
1463
01:39:00,652 -- 01:39:02,244
It's me. Sherman.
1464
01:39:16,652 -- 01:39:19,610
I need to talk to you.
Can you come?
1465
01:39:28,012 -- 01:39:29,411
What are you doing here?
1466
01:39:29,492 -- 01:39:31,050
I had to talk to you.
1467
01:39:31,852 -- 01:39:36,323
Sherman, it seems like you've been doing
all your talking to the newspapers.
1468
01:39:36,532 -- 01:39:40,810
I had nothing to do with it.
We didn't want your name brought up.
1469
01:39:41,292 -- 01:39:42,247
I see.
1470
01:39:42,732 -- 01:39:44,802
Maria, you have to help me.
1471
01:39:45,932 -- 01:39:47,365
How can I help you?
1472
01:39:47,452 -- 01:39:51,764
This may sound strange,
but you could start by...
1473
01:39:52,652 -- 01:39:56,486
telling the police
what really happened that night.
1474
01:39:56,692 -- 01:39:59,252
Sherman, you are the sweetest thing.
1475
01:39:59,332 -- 01:40:02,369
I'm not sure anybody knows
what really happened that night.
1476
01:40:03,692 -- 01:40:05,205
Not anymore.
1477
01:40:05,292 -- 01:40:07,283
Oh, God! Oh, God!
1478
01:40:13,132 -- 01:40:16,966
There's something about funerals
that is so stimulating.
1479
01:40:17,212 -- 01:40:19,601
My panties have been wet all morning.
1480
01:40:22,972 -- 01:40:24,325
Maria, stop.
1481
01:40:24,412 -- 01:40:27,404
What's wrong with you?
Why are you all hunched over?
1482
01:40:27,692 -- 01:40:29,444
What's on your back?
1483
01:40:30,452 -- 01:40:32,488
This lump, this piece of metal.
1484
01:40:32,572 -- 01:40:35,769
-That's my belt buckle.
-You don't have a buckle in the back.
1485
01:40:35,852 -- 01:40:37,922
There's subterfuge afoot!
1486
01:40:38,252 -- 01:40:42,962
You're secreting something on
your body! I want to see what it is!
1487
01:40:44,212 -- 01:40:47,090
A hidden microphone? A wire!
1488
01:40:49,052 -- 01:40:50,451
Sherman!
1489
01:40:52,012 -- 01:40:54,572
You rotten, dishonest bastard!
1490
01:40:54,652 -- 01:40:57,803
I didn't want to do it!
You gave me no choice!
1491
01:41:00,612 -- 01:41:02,011
Mrs. Ruskin?
1492
01:41:02,612 -- 01:41:04,250
Go away, whoever you are!
1493
01:41:04,332 -- 01:41:08,962
I'm so sorry. I'm Jed Kramer,
of the district attorney's office.
1494
01:41:11,252 -- 01:41:13,163
District attorney's office.
1495
01:41:16,492 -- 01:41:18,448
My, my, my, Mr. McCoy.
1496
01:41:18,732 -- 01:41:21,804
I'd say your goose is just about home-fried.
1497
01:41:22,692 -- 01:41:26,241
I have protected you.
I have been a gentleman about this.
1498
01:41:26,332 -- 01:41:30,769
I've tried to keep your name out of the
papers. Now you must do the right thing!
1499
01:41:31,412 -- 01:41:33,926
Never. Never! Never!
1500
01:41:37,132 -- 01:41:40,363
I hope you die and hang
in the electric chair!
1501
01:41:43,052 -- 01:41:46,249
Mrs. Ruskin,
I apologize for the intrusion...
1502
01:41:47,052 -- 01:41:48,201
He's gone!
1503
01:41:48,812 -- 01:41:51,565
I know. And I'm sorry for your loss.
1504
01:41:51,852 -- 01:41:53,763
He just ran out the back door!
1505
01:41:56,372 -- 01:41:58,124
-Who?
-Sherman McCoy!
1506
01:41:58,492 -- 01:41:59,686
Jesus!
1507
01:42:05,132 -- 01:42:08,841
I'm sorry if I alarmed you,
but he was acting very strange.
1508
01:42:10,092 -- 01:42:13,448
Where are my manners?
My name is Maria Ruskin.
1509
01:42:15,412 -- 01:42:16,845
I'm Kramer.
1510
01:42:17,292 -- 01:42:18,566
Jed Kramer.
1511
01:42:20,692 -- 01:42:23,252
I'm the assistant district attorney.
1512
01:42:23,692 -- 01:42:25,011
Bronx County.
1513
01:42:27,292 -- 01:42:28,361
I see.
1514
01:42:28,732 -- 01:42:31,405
What a handsome district attorney you are.
1515
01:42:33,052 -- 01:42:35,247
We have a lot to talk about.
1516
01:42:36,012 -- 01:42:38,572
Because if I'm going to testify...
1517
01:42:38,652 -- 01:42:41,120
I need to know what I should
or should not say.
1518
01:42:41,772 -- 01:42:43,842
You can start by telling the police...
1519
01:42:43,932 -- 01:42:45,763
what really happened that night.
1520
01:42:45,852 -- 01:42:48,082
Sherman,
you are the sweetest thing.
1521
01:42:48,172 -- 01:42:51,084
I'm not sure anybody knows
what really happened.
1522
01:42:51,372 -- 01:42:52,805
Not anymore.
1523
01:43:19,212 -- 01:43:21,931
They weren't sure downstairs
if you were here.
1524
01:43:25,452 -- 01:43:27,522
I usually come up the back way now.
1525
01:43:28,012 -- 01:43:30,651
I see. May I?
1526
01:43:30,732 -- 01:43:32,324
Yes. Yeah, sure.
1527
01:43:38,892 -- 01:43:40,803
It's all gone. Everything.
1528
01:43:42,452 -- 01:43:44,090
Judy's gone too?
1529
01:43:44,172 -- 01:43:45,571
Yes.
1530
01:43:46,292 -- 01:43:47,930
She moves quickly.
1531
01:43:49,012 -- 01:43:51,287
She's got a good lawyer.
1532
01:43:53,932 -- 01:43:57,766
I'm not sure I ever really liked her,
your wife.
1533
01:43:58,812 -- 01:44:00,609
No, of course not.
1534
01:44:00,692 -- 01:44:04,844
Or this apartment, for what you paid for it.
1535
01:44:05,132 -- 01:44:06,645
Or the furniture--
1536
01:44:06,732 -- 01:44:10,964
Or my car, or my job,
or my clothes, my life, my money!
1537
01:44:11,932 -- 01:44:15,402
Christ! You did not come
all the way here...
1538
01:44:16,332 -- 01:44:18,562
on a fucking subway to tell me...
1539
01:44:18,892 -- 01:44:20,211
I am not...
1540
01:44:20,572 -- 01:44:24,531
at this late date, going to get
the ethics and morality speech!
1541
01:44:24,812 -- 01:44:29,442
Not now! Not when I have to do what
I'm going to do in court tomorrow.
1542
01:44:29,932 -- 01:44:32,651
If you came to give me that...
Jesus Christ!
1543
01:44:38,332 -- 01:44:40,721
I don't know how to do this.
1544
01:44:42,652 -- 01:44:45,803
You didn't call. We wanted to help.
1545
01:44:48,692 -- 01:44:52,162
I came to say that we're here for you.
1546
01:44:52,452 -- 01:44:56,331
You're our son and we love you.
1547
01:44:58,292 -- 01:44:59,930
I don't mean "we."
1548
01:45:00,812 -- 01:45:02,131
I mean "I."
1549
01:45:03,572 -- 01:45:05,005
I love you.
1550
01:45:06,252 -- 01:45:07,526
That's all.
1551
01:45:10,252 -- 01:45:11,367
Please.
1552
01:45:27,892 -- 01:45:30,360
Have you thought about
what you want to do?
1553
01:45:33,812 -- 01:45:36,201
There's only one thing I can do.
1554
01:45:37,172 -- 01:45:39,811
I want the truth to come out
and burn every one of them.
1555
01:45:39,892 -- 01:45:41,883
There's only one way to do that.
1556
01:45:44,012 -- 01:45:45,286
Lie.
1557
01:45:49,652 -- 01:45:53,440
I have always been a great believer
in the truth.
1558
01:45:54,092 -- 01:45:57,243
I've lived my life as honestly as I can.
1559
01:45:58,012 -- 01:46:02,244
I believe in the truth as an essential
companion to a man of conscience.
1560
01:46:02,452 -- 01:46:06,730
A beacon in this vast and dark
wasteland that is our modern world.
1561
01:46:06,932 -- 01:46:08,160
And yet...
1562
01:46:09,772 -- 01:46:11,091
Yes?
1563
01:46:12,972 -- 01:46:16,965
In this case,
if the truth won't set you free...
1564
01:46:18,892 -- 01:46:20,211
then lie.
1565
01:46:26,652 -- 01:46:30,327
Did this incident take place
on the ramp to the expressway...
1566
01:46:30,412 -- 01:46:32,482
or on the avenue itself?
1567
01:46:33,372 -- 01:46:35,966
On the avenue. Right on the street.
1568
01:46:37,892 -- 01:46:41,328
Was there a barricade,
or an obstruction of any kind...
1569
01:46:41,412 -- 01:46:43,642
that forced the car to stop?
1570
01:46:45,372 -- 01:46:47,966
No, there was nothing like that at all.
1571
01:46:51,932 -- 01:46:53,888
Just one last question.
1572
01:46:54,172 -- 01:46:57,403
Who was driving the car
when Henry Lamb was hit?
1573
01:47:02,012 -- 01:47:04,890
Sherman never let anyone drive his car.
1574
01:47:09,532 -- 01:47:12,729
So, Sherman McCoy was driving the car?
1575
01:47:17,532 -- 01:47:18,806
Yes.
1576
01:47:22,652 -- 01:47:27,123
Lock him up! Bang it shut!
Lock him up! Bang it shut!
1577
01:47:28,452 -- 01:47:30,647
Chill, everybody. Chill!
1578
01:47:31,772 -- 01:47:33,524
And there it was.
1579
01:47:34,052 -- 01:47:35,963
The end of Sherman McCoy.
1580
01:47:37,252 -- 01:47:39,607
It wasn't the ending I was hoping for.
1581
01:47:39,932 -- 01:47:43,288
All my work, all my efforts,
down the tubes.
1582
01:47:44,612 -- 01:47:47,172
My hero was gone. Finished.
1583
01:47:48,532 -- 01:47:52,002
Maria might as well have put a gun
to his head and pulled the trigger.
1584
01:47:52,092 -- 01:47:54,208
She and everyone in this courtroom.
1585
01:47:55,812 -- 01:47:58,201
I saw a wave of triumph wash over them.
1586
01:47:58,492 -- 01:48:02,087
I could feel them rising like the tide
as Sherman sank before them.
1587
01:48:03,292 -- 01:48:06,648
The Master of the Universe was
going down for the third time.
1588
01:48:07,132 -- 01:48:08,406
It was all over.
1589
01:48:08,892 -- 01:48:10,450
There was no hope now.
1590
01:48:10,852 -- 01:48:13,082
The darkness closed in around him.
1591
01:48:13,892 -- 01:48:16,281
And then I noticed a peculiar thing.
1592
01:48:18,492 -- 01:48:20,722
Sherman was smiling.
1593
01:48:21,572 -- 01:48:23,881
You people settle down!
1594
01:48:23,972 -- 01:48:26,167
I will have you all thrown out!
1595
01:48:27,812 -- 01:48:29,723
You are out of order!
1596
01:48:31,452 -- 01:48:33,408
Order in here! Order!
1597
01:48:37,532 -- 01:48:38,681
Order!
1598
01:48:43,652 -- 01:48:45,244
Go on, Mrs. Ruskin.
1599
01:48:46,212 -- 01:48:48,123
And I wanted...
1600
01:48:48,292 -- 01:48:52,285
to report the incident,
but he wouldn't let me.
1601
01:48:52,732 -- 01:48:54,962
He said that he was driving...
1602
01:48:55,292 -- 01:48:58,170
and that it was his decision to make.
1603
01:48:59,772 -- 01:49:03,651
And did that surprise you?
1604
01:49:03,972 -- 01:49:05,564
I was shocked.
1605
01:49:06,372 -- 01:49:11,241
There are certain qualities of virtue
that I admire in a human being.
1606
01:49:11,972 -- 01:49:13,530
Virtues that I hope...
1607
01:49:13,732 -- 01:49:15,324
I possess myself.
1608
01:49:15,412 -- 01:49:17,562
We have time
for a quickie.
1609
01:49:17,652 -- 01:49:18,926
What do you say?
1610
01:49:25,812 -- 01:49:28,804
I don't feel
terrifically sexy at the moment.
1611
01:49:28,892 -- 01:49:32,362
You know I'm a sucker
for a soft dick, Sherman.
1612
01:49:35,332 -- 01:49:37,243
You are incorrigible.
1613
01:49:39,452 -- 01:49:43,365
We could still go to the police.
We could get a talented lawyer.
1614
01:49:43,492 -- 01:49:45,926
And put our heads
into the tiger's mouth?
1615
01:49:46,012 -- 01:49:48,162
I'm the one who was driving the car.
1616
01:49:55,812 -- 01:49:57,211
Order!
1617
01:50:06,532 -- 01:50:08,568
Order in here, Goddamn it! Order!
1618
01:50:13,372 -- 01:50:15,124
Approach the bench.
1619
01:50:17,732 -- 01:50:19,165
Now, gentlemen.
1620
01:50:23,812 -- 01:50:24,881
Damn it.
1621
01:50:26,172 -- 01:50:27,890
That can't be used.
1622
01:50:43,612 -- 01:50:45,523
-Whose tape is this?
-Mine.
1623
01:50:45,852 -- 01:50:46,887
Shut up!
1624
01:50:54,052 -- 01:50:56,930
I remind you that you are still under oath.
1625
01:51:01,532 -- 01:51:04,126
Did you record this conversation?
1626
01:51:05,532 -- 01:51:07,170
Yes, sir, I did.
1627
01:51:07,932 -- 01:51:10,127
I recorded the conversation on this tape.
1628
01:51:10,212 -- 01:51:12,043
My tape. This is my tape...
1629
01:51:12,252 -- 01:51:13,810
of my conversation.
1630
01:51:14,852 -- 01:51:16,410
I recorded it.
1631
01:51:26,012 -- 01:51:27,411
Get out of my face.
1632
01:51:29,612 -- 01:51:30,522
All of you!
1633
01:51:32,972 -- 01:51:35,247
You can't let them get away with this!
1634
01:51:37,252 -- 01:51:38,526
Order!
1635
01:51:39,972 -- 01:51:41,963
Order in the court!
1636
01:51:44,772 -- 01:51:47,969
You insist on testing the will of this court?
1637
01:51:48,452 -- 01:51:50,522
Now shut up and sit down!
1638
01:52:03,452 -- 01:52:04,567
Very well.
1639
01:52:05,652 -- 01:52:08,530
In the case of
The People versus Sherman McCoy...
1640
01:52:12,732 -- 01:52:15,769
based on the evidence contained
in this recording...
1641
01:52:18,372 -- 01:52:21,808
I order the indictment dismissed
in the interest of justice.
1642
01:52:29,052 -- 01:52:31,168
That's not justice, you racist pig!
1643
01:52:32,612 -- 01:52:33,647
Racist?
1644
01:52:38,332 -- 01:52:40,892
You dare call me racist?
1645
01:52:45,212 -- 01:52:46,964
I say unto you...
1646
01:52:47,972 -- 01:52:51,169
what does it matter
the color of a man's skin...
1647
01:52:51,452 -- 01:52:52,851
if witnesses...
1648
01:52:52,932 -- 01:52:54,684
perjure themselves?
1649
01:52:55,292 -- 01:52:56,691
If a prosecutor...
1650
01:52:57,252 -- 01:52:59,163
enlists the perjurers?
1651
01:53:00,292 -- 01:53:02,203
When a district attorney...
1652
01:53:03,172 -- 01:53:05,128
throws a man to the mob...
1653
01:53:05,372 -- 01:53:07,283
for political gain?
1654
01:53:08,092 -- 01:53:10,162
When men of the cloth...
1655
01:53:12,772 -- 01:53:14,967
men of God...
1656
01:53:16,412 -- 01:53:18,482
take the prime cuts?
1657
01:53:24,932 -- 01:53:26,570
Is that justice?
1658
01:53:33,412 -- 01:53:35,004
I don't hear you.
1659
01:53:40,252 -- 01:53:42,812
I'll tell you what justice is.
1660
01:53:44,412 -- 01:53:45,845
Justice...
1661
01:53:46,852 -- 01:53:48,410
is the law.
1662
01:53:50,052 -- 01:53:51,644
And the law...
1663
01:53:52,132 -- 01:53:54,521
is man's feeble attempt...
1664
01:53:55,652 -- 01:53:59,167
to set down the principles of decency.
1665
01:54:01,892 -- 01:54:03,291
Decency.
1666
01:54:04,572 -- 01:54:06,290
And decency is not a deal!
1667
01:54:08,132 -- 01:54:12,045
It isn't an angle, or a contract or a hustle.
1668
01:54:14,372 -- 01:54:15,964
Decency...
1669
01:54:22,652 -- 01:54:27,089
Decency is what
your grandmother taught you.
1670
01:54:31,132 -- 01:54:33,202
It's in your bones.
1671
01:54:37,572 -- 01:54:39,130
Now you go home.
1672
01:54:41,692 -- 01:54:46,720
Go home and be decent people.
1673
01:54:51,292 -- 01:54:53,044
Be decent.
1674
01:55:02,692 -- 01:55:05,081
Mr. McCoy, you're free to go.
1675
01:55:09,412 -- 01:55:11,289
I don't fucking believe this.
1676
01:55:13,452 -- 01:55:14,441
Shit!
1677
01:55:21,412 -- 01:55:23,846
So we come to the end
of our story.
1678
01:55:24,772 -- 01:55:27,332
That was the last I saw of Sherman McCoy.
1679
01:55:27,612 -- 01:55:29,409
The last anyone saw of him.
1680
01:55:29,732 -- 01:55:30,926
He was gone...
1681
01:55:31,612 -- 01:55:34,968
in a blaze of glory. A hero for our times.
1682
01:55:35,332 -- 01:55:38,404
Or as close to a hero
as we're likely to get these days.
1683
01:55:50,972 -- 01:55:54,647
And now, without further ado,
the man of the moment.
1684
01:55:55,332 -- 01:55:57,323
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
1685
01:55:57,412 -- 01:56:00,370
the National Book Award
and every other prize you can win.
1686
01:56:00,452 -- 01:56:02,966
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Peter Fallow.
1687
01:56:25,572 -- 01:56:29,247
Sherman, who started with
so much, lost everything.
1688
01:56:29,732 -- 01:56:31,450
But he gained his soul.
1689
01:56:31,652 -- 01:56:34,212
Whereas I, who started with so little...
1690
01:56:34,692 -- 01:56:36,205
gained everything.
1691
01:56:36,612 -- 01:56:40,287
"But what does it profit a man
if he gains the world and loses..."
1692
01:56:40,772 -- 01:56:41,887
Ah, well.
1693
01:56:42,492 -- 01:56:44,562
There are compensations.