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(people chattering)
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(solemn music playing)
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(school bell ringing)
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student:
"It is not chaos or death.
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"It is form
and union and plan.
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"It is eternal life.
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"It is happiness.
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"The past and present wilt.
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"I have filled them,
emptied them,
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"and proceed to fill
my next fold of the future.
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"Listener up there!
What have you
to confide to me?
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"Look in my face
while I snuff
the sidle of evening.
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"Talk honestly,
no one else hears you,
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and I stay
only a minute longer."
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-(sirens wailing)
-"Do I contradict myself?
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"Very well then,
I contradict myself.
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I am large,
I contain multitudes."
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(whispers) My God.
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What is it?
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Clearly something more
interesting than Whitman.
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California.
There was another earthquake.
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A huge chunk's gone
from Santa Barbara to Fresno.
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-student 2: It's fucking crazy.
-Into the ocean.
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-Just like that.
-teacher: Alright, alright.
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Settle down.
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Got no connection.
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Anybody else have one?
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-(students muttering)
-student: No.
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teacher: Oh, eh, sorry.
Network's still down.
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I've got his file here, though.
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Uh, Dylan's
been diving lately.
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I mean, this semester,
he's gone
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from As and Bs to Ds.
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You keep hard copies?
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When the network
started acting up,
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a lot of us started
keeping hard copies.
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What do you think? I mean,
you think it's coming back?
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Well, I don't, I don't know.
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Dylan's mom:
I remember the world
before the internet.
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Why is it so hard to imagine
carrying on without it?
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It is, though, isn't it?
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How do we go back?
How-- Can we go back?
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What if it's down
for good this time?
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Internet's still down.
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teacher:
Yeah, but lucky for us,
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I've got hard copies
for each student.
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parent:
I think this might be it.
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I don't think
it's coming back this time.
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You might be right.
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But I do think
we should talk
about Emily.
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Her attendance
has really fallen off.
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Her attendance?
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Absenteeism's
at an all-time high
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all over the world.
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We got doctors
and pilots and cops
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and everyone's just pissing
the fuck off, right?
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But you, you want to talk
to us about Emily?
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parent 2:
How are they supposed
to study, anyway?
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Web's been on the fritz
for eight months.
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Half those sites
are just garbled.
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I mean, I get it,
sites go dark.
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But what about
all that other stuff?
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Like, sites are there,
but all the punctuation's wrong.
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Words spelled wrong.
How do you explain that?
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Well, I can't,
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but Brian can still
prepare for class.
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I mean,
the library's still here.
Internet or not.
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Pornhub's down.
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Did you know that,
Mr. Anderson?
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Yeah, I, uh,
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I, I, I had
noticed that. Yeah.
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Sorry if Bri's
been any trouble.
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It's just me now.
His mom...
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she left,
I don't know where.
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That's been happening
a lot more I hear,
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people just ghosting.
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Hers was some star-crossed
boyfriend from high school.
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They dated a month.
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Goddamn month.
She's gonna throw 20 years
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in the trash
to chase down a month.
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I guess she never stopped
thinking about him.
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I guess we've all got
someone like that.
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I mean, I get it,
if it really is the end,
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like those kooks
in the purple robes say,
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then who do you want
to be with for it?
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But to leave her son?
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Uh, she says she'll be back.
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I don't know. Um...
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Fuckin' Pornhub.
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What if that
never comes back?
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Fuckin' tragedy.
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I mean, even if it is
the end of all things...
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that's just fuckin' mean.
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(both laughing)
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-Sorry.
-Yeah.
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reporter:
It's a scene of devastation
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and heartbreak in California,
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as rescue workers sift
through what remains
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of the northern portion
of the state.
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reporter 2: 350 dead
in North Yorkshire
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as water levels
continue to...
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(reporter speaking French)
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(reporter speaking Spanish)
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(reporter speaking German)
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(reporter speaking Japanese)
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(reporter speaking Italian)
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narrator:
The day Marty Anderson
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first saw the billboard
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was just before the internet
finally went down for good.
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(horns honking)
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It had been wobbling
for eight months,
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but other problems,
like fires, earthquakes,
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and whole species of birds
and fish dying off
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had taken priority.
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newscaster (on radio):
...till today, thought to be
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the largest wildfire
in United States history.
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("Gimme Some Lovin'"
by Steve Winwood playing)
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♪ Well, I feel so good ♪
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♪ Everything is getting high ♪
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narrator: Ordinarily,
Marty would've driven home
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by way of
the Turnpike bypass,
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but that wasn't possible
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due to the collapse
of the bridge
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over Otter Creek.
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♪ So glad we made it ♪
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♪ You gotta ♪
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(horn honks)
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♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
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♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
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♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
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♪ Gimme some a-lovin'
every day ♪
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♪♪
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NPR host (on radio):
Well, with what
happened in California,
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that officially makes Nevada
one of the most
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populous states
in the Union now.
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NPR host 2: The thing that
must be said here is...
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narrator:
Felicia Gordon is a nurse
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at City General.
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Though for
the last few weeks,
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she's felt more
like an undertaker.
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The staff, whose numbers
have been dwindling
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since late summer,
have begun referring
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to themselves
as the Suicide Squad.
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NPR host (on radio): We'll be
back to talk more about this
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and, uh, also about the fires
in the Midwest,
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speaking of water scarcity,
back after this break.
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(upbeat jingle playing)
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announcer (on radio):
We'd like to say thank you
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to Charles Krantz
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for 39 great years.
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Thanks, Chuck.
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(jingle continues)
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man: Hey.
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Heard you got another one.
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Yeah. One more.
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nurse: Mine wasn't so lucky.
Slit wrists, so...
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what were we supposed
to do really?
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Hear about Marilou?
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No. What about Marilou?
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She left!
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-Her ex. Remember Pedro?
-Mm-hm.
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He showed up, and I don't know
what he said to her,
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but she walked out
holding his hand.
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And I remember how bad
that divorce was.
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-Do you remember?
-Yeah, I remember.
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Well, I guess
that's all bridge water
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'cause off she went.
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reporter (on radio):
...sinkholes that have
been opening up.
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nurse: I wonder what
the stats are.
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You think more people
are splitting up
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or getting back together?
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I mean, do you think
marriage rates are up
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-or divorce rates--
-Marriages.
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-You're an optimist.
-No. (laughs)
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Divorce takes way longer,
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and I don't think
anyone's filing.
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Why bother? Six months
of paperwork at least.
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Probably more.
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Marriage license
is one page
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and it takes an hour or so.
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I'm gonna guess marriages.
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man (on TV): Missed you for
lunch, missed you for dinner.
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What's the matter?
Don't you eat anymore?
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woman (on TV): Well,
I wasn't hungry tonight.
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man: Weren't you hungry
this morning either?
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-woman: Who stole my nylons?
-(phone ringing)
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Egads! The very...
Not very.
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man: Too much rehearsal
last night, huh?
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woman:
It was kind of a workout.
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man:
That why you slept late?
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woman:
Oh, I didn't sleep late.
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-I went uptown.
-(phone ringing)
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-man: Shopping?
-woman: No.
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Hey.
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Felicia Gordon (on phone):
Hi.
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You hung up?
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Felicia:
Yeah.
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But then I figured
you probably saw it. So...
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How are you?
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Marty Anderson (on phone):
I'm okay, I guess.
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How are you?
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I was, um,
thinking about you today.
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We were at work talking
about marriages and divorces.
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Like, which are happening
more now--
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Marriages, I bet.
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Ain't nobody waiting
on a divorce.
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Felicia:
What about remarriages?
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You want to buy
a guy a drink first or...
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Felicia:
I bet those are happening.
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I mean, it makes sense.
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People wanting something
comforting and...
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familiar.
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So... how was your day?
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You're just going right
for it, aren't you?
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Humor me.
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Marty: It was, um...
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It was a day, I guess.
(clears throat)
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You know? Weird.
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Parent-teacher sessions,
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felt like pissing
in the wind.
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You know about
California, right?
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Marty: Yeah.
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I know they're saying most
of it was already evacuated,
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but I heard today
there are hundreds of thousands
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of refugees trekking east.
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Did you know Nevada
is one of the most
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populous states
in the Union now?
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I heard a, a scientist
on NPR say
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California is peeling away
like old wallpaper.
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And another Japanese reactor
got inundated this afternoon.
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And they're saying, you know,
it was shut down and all's well,
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but I just, I, I don't
think I believe that.
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Marty: Cynic.
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Well, we're living
in cynical times, Marty.
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I mean, some people think
we're living in the last times.
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Not just the religious
crazies either.
Not anymore.
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And you are hearing
that from a member
in good standing
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of the City General
Suicide Squad.
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That's what we
call ourselves now.
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No lie.
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We lost six today,
but there's 18 more
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we dragged back,
mostly with naloxone.
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But supplies of that
are getting very thin.
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And I heard
the head pharmacist say
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we might be completely out
by the end of the month.
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That sucks.
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Felicia:
Yeah. Yeah. (laughs)
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Yeah, that sucks.
It, it really sucks.
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The internet's down,
and California's hanging
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by a thread.
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There's fires and famines
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and plagues
and all the rest.
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I mean, it just
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the center doesn't hold.
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It just won't let up.
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How long is this
gonna go on?
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How much can we take
before the whole thing...
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before the whole thing
goes apart, I mean.
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(sighs)
261
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I'm teaching the kids
Carl Sagan right now.
262
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You ever hear what he said
about the cosmic calendar?
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Uh... I don't know.
I don't think so.
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Well, the universe
is 15 billion years old.
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And if you took all of that,
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all, all 15 billion years
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and compress them into
a single calendar year,
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then the Big Bang happens in
the first second, January 1st.
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And, and today,
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oh, right now, we're in
the final millisecond
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of the last minute
of the last day,
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December 31st.
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But if you go back
to the start,
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if the,
if the Big Bang happens
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at midnight, January 1st,
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then each month
of this calendar
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is one and a quarter
billion years long.
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Hey, nobody told me
there was math on this exam.
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Marty:
The universe starts
January 1st,
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but the, uh,
the Milky Way didn't form
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until May.
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Our sun and our earth,
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they don't show up
until mid-September.
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Life appears soon after.
But not us.
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No. No, no, we don't appear
for guess how long?
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Again, I was told
there'd be no math.
287
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Marty:
December 31st.
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Last day on the calendar,
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and the very first
human beings on Earth
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made their debut
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around 10:30 p.m.
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10:30 p.m. on the last day.
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And, um, every minute
since then
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is 30,000 years.
295
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So, 11:46 p.m.,
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only 14 minutes ago,
humanity tamed fire
297
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and now we're out of minutes,
we're into seconds.
298
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11:59 and 20 seconds,
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the domestication
of plants and animals begin,
300
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an application for the
human talent for making tools.
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11:59 and 35 seconds,
302
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agricultural communities
303
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evolved into
the first cities.
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Our recorded history,
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everyone we've ever heard of,
306
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every single thing in any one
of our history books...
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happens in the last 10 seconds.
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The last 10 seconds
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of the last minute
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of the last day
on the calendar.
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December 31st.
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So how long is it
gonna go on?
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I don't know, Fel.
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00:14:44,017 --> 00:14:45,986
If you're right,
and you might be,
315
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that this really is
the, the last times
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and the universe is dying,
317
00:14:51,925 --> 00:14:53,293
and let's just say
it's a fast death,
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even if all of this
is happening in the,
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the last split second,
320
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microsecond,
321
00:15:00,835 --> 00:15:02,570
who knows how long
that'll last.
322
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Maybe seconds,
maybe eons.
323
00:15:06,206 --> 00:15:09,009
Maybe all this is happening
as the cosmos burps out
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its last breath.
325
00:15:12,514 --> 00:15:14,716
Maybe it's all happening
in the last
326
00:15:15,115 --> 00:15:18,218
single solitary heartbeat.
327
00:15:22,923 --> 00:15:24,458
Jesus, Marty.
328
00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:28,262
Yeah.
329
00:15:29,296 --> 00:15:30,698
(sighs)
330
00:15:34,401 --> 00:15:36,504
Listen, Fel, I should go.
I've, um...
331
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I've got tests to grade.
332
00:15:42,577 --> 00:15:43,511
Felicia: Marty...
333
00:15:45,312 --> 00:15:46,748
the world is going
down the drain,
334
00:15:46,848 --> 00:15:48,282
and all we can say
is, "That sucks."
335
00:15:48,382 --> 00:15:51,586
So, maybe we're going
down the drain too.
336
00:15:52,554 --> 00:15:53,954
Marty: Maybe.
337
00:15:54,188 --> 00:15:56,591
But, you know,
Chuck Krantz is retiring.
338
00:15:56,691 --> 00:15:58,058
-So...
-(Felicia laughing)
339
00:15:58,158 --> 00:16:00,895
...I guess there's a gleam
of light in the darkness.
340
00:16:00,994 --> 00:16:02,329
Yes.
Thirty-nine great years.
341
00:16:02,429 --> 00:16:04,164
Marty: Oh, you saw
that weird billboard?
342
00:16:04,264 --> 00:16:06,133
No, it was an ad
on the radio that, um,
343
00:16:06,233 --> 00:16:08,068
(clears throat) that NPR show
I was telling you about.
344
00:16:08,168 --> 00:16:09,303
Marty: If they're
running ads on NPR,
345
00:16:09,403 --> 00:16:10,572
it really is
the end of the world.
346
00:16:10,672 --> 00:16:11,606
(Felicia laughs)
347
00:16:11,706 --> 00:16:13,641
Tell me,
how does Chuck Krantz
348
00:16:13,741 --> 00:16:15,309
rate this kind of coverage?
349
00:16:15,409 --> 00:16:17,912
I mean... looks
like an accountant.
350
00:16:18,011 --> 00:16:19,313
I've never heard of him.
351
00:16:20,147 --> 00:16:21,950
Used an old photo too,
I guess.
352
00:16:22,049 --> 00:16:23,852
I mean, the guy
barely looks 40 at all,
353
00:16:23,952 --> 00:16:26,119
let alone 40 years
on the job.
354
00:16:26,220 --> 00:16:28,155
The world is full
of mysteries.
355
00:16:29,858 --> 00:16:32,694
And, hey,
no hard stuff, Marty.
356
00:16:32,927 --> 00:16:34,562
Okay? Have a beer instead.
357
00:16:36,831 --> 00:16:38,198
You got it.
358
00:16:41,769 --> 00:16:43,872
newsreader (on TV):
The Ohio EPA has now issued
359
00:16:43,972 --> 00:16:45,405
a code red
air quality alert
360
00:16:45,507 --> 00:16:47,140
for Cleveland
and its surrounding--
361
00:16:47,241 --> 00:16:49,544
-(switch clicks)
-(upbeat music playing on TV)
362
00:16:58,151 --> 00:17:00,788
(continuous beep)
363
00:17:06,995 --> 00:17:10,765
(beeping)
364
00:17:12,266 --> 00:17:15,537
Oh, shit on a stick.
365
00:17:15,637 --> 00:17:19,339
(upbeat jingle playing)
366
00:17:20,107 --> 00:17:21,643
announcer (on TV):
We'd like to say thank you
367
00:17:21,743 --> 00:17:22,944
to Charles Krantz
368
00:17:23,043 --> 00:17:25,980
for 39 great years.
369
00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:27,715
Thanks, Chuck.
370
00:17:32,052 --> 00:17:33,253
(jingle stops)
371
00:17:33,788 --> 00:17:35,155
(crackling)
372
00:17:35,255 --> 00:17:37,625
(continuous beep)
373
00:17:42,664 --> 00:17:44,666
(birds chirping)
374
00:17:49,236 --> 00:17:50,705
-(keys jingle)
-(groans)
375
00:17:55,175 --> 00:17:56,376
Marty: Gus!
376
00:17:57,612 --> 00:17:59,547
Oh. Hey, Marty.
377
00:18:00,113 --> 00:18:01,649
Where's your car?
378
00:18:02,016 --> 00:18:03,417
(Gus chuckles)
It's... it's on,
379
00:18:03,518 --> 00:18:05,019
it's on the sidewalk
halfway down
380
00:18:05,118 --> 00:18:07,055
Main Street Hill
with a hundred others.
381
00:18:07,154 --> 00:18:08,723
I finally just had
to turn around.
382
00:18:08,823 --> 00:18:10,357
Fuck it, I walked...
383
00:18:10,457 --> 00:18:12,026
What do you think it is,
like, three miles?
384
00:18:12,125 --> 00:18:13,561
I just walked three miles.
385
00:18:13,828 --> 00:18:16,163
Oh, you're going to school.
Hold on a sec.
386
00:18:16,263 --> 00:18:19,968
Uh, real quick,
you gotta, you gotta go,
387
00:18:20,068 --> 00:18:22,036
listen to me,
you gotta go out Route 11
388
00:18:22,135 --> 00:18:24,304
and then hook back
on, on, on 19.
389
00:18:24,404 --> 00:18:26,507
Yeah. There's gonna be
plenty of traffic.
390
00:18:26,608 --> 00:18:28,076
You gotta go out
at least 20 miles.
391
00:18:28,175 --> 00:18:29,476
You might make it
before lunch.
392
00:18:29,577 --> 00:18:32,046
-I wouldn't count on it.
-What happened?
393
00:18:32,145 --> 00:18:34,214
Giant sinkhole opened up
on Market and Main.
394
00:18:34,314 --> 00:18:36,283
Man, the-the thing,
it, uh, it's huge.
395
00:18:36,383 --> 00:18:38,452
All the rain probably had
something to do with it,
396
00:18:38,553 --> 00:18:40,320
lack of maintenance
maybe more so.
397
00:18:40,420 --> 00:18:42,523
But it's not my department,
thank God.
398
00:18:42,624 --> 00:18:44,659
But, yeah, there's,
there's gotta be
399
00:18:45,093 --> 00:18:46,561
-20 cars at the bottom.
-(Marty scoffs)
400
00:18:46,661 --> 00:18:48,663
And some of the people
in some of those cars,
401
00:18:48,763 --> 00:18:49,697
they ain't comin' back.
402
00:18:49,797 --> 00:18:52,432
Jesus, I was, I was
just there last night,
403
00:18:53,101 --> 00:18:54,201
backed up in traffic.
404
00:18:54,301 --> 00:18:56,136
Thank God you weren't
there this morning.
405
00:18:57,304 --> 00:18:58,873
I assume you know
about California.
406
00:19:00,008 --> 00:19:01,475
I didn't turn on
the TV this morning.
407
00:19:01,576 --> 00:19:02,910
-Oh!
-Is there something new?
408
00:19:03,011 --> 00:19:04,846
The, the rest of it went.
409
00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,348
I-I mean, th-they're saying that
20% of Northern California
410
00:19:08,448 --> 00:19:10,852
is hanging in there,
which probably means,
what, 10%?
411
00:19:10,952 --> 00:19:13,888
But the food-producing regions
are-- they're gone.
412
00:19:15,255 --> 00:19:16,991
And with the Midwest
turning to charcoal
413
00:19:17,091 --> 00:19:18,526
and Florida flooding,
that's like
414
00:19:18,626 --> 00:19:20,762
all the food-producing regions
415
00:19:21,161 --> 00:19:23,131
in the country
just gone.
416
00:19:23,230 --> 00:19:24,431
And the same thing
with Europe.
417
00:19:24,532 --> 00:19:26,100
I mean, it's famine
time in Asia.
418
00:19:26,199 --> 00:19:27,367
There's a million people dead.
419
00:19:27,467 --> 00:19:29,202
They're saying
it's the bub-bublonic,
420
00:19:29,302 --> 00:19:30,337
-bubonic plague.
-Bubonic.
421
00:19:30,437 --> 00:19:31,973
Bu-Bubonic plague. Yeah.
422
00:19:32,073 --> 00:19:34,642
And the bees,
I mean, they were
in trouble a decade ago,
423
00:19:34,742 --> 00:19:36,044
but they're
completely gone now.
424
00:19:36,144 --> 00:19:37,310
I mean, there's a couple
of hives or whatever
425
00:19:37,411 --> 00:19:38,880
down in South America,
426
00:19:38,980 --> 00:19:40,615
but there ain't
no honey, honey.
427
00:19:40,715 --> 00:19:43,084
And without those little guys,
like, what's gonna pollinate
428
00:19:43,183 --> 00:19:44,652
all the crops we have left?
429
00:19:44,752 --> 00:19:45,687
I mean, I can't do--
430
00:19:45,787 --> 00:19:46,954
Excuse me.
One sec.
431
00:19:47,055 --> 00:19:48,188
Yeah, yeah.
That's-that's cool.
432
00:19:48,288 --> 00:19:50,091
A-Andrea? Are you,
433
00:19:50,190 --> 00:19:51,993
are you Andrea
from Midwest Trust?
434
00:19:52,093 --> 00:19:54,062
I'm Felicia Anderson's
husband.
435
00:19:54,162 --> 00:19:56,164
Ex, actually.
436
00:19:56,263 --> 00:19:57,431
I think you and Fel
know each other.
437
00:19:57,532 --> 00:19:59,399
We met at a, a, a game
night at David's.
438
00:19:59,499 --> 00:20:01,502
-A few game nights.
-Yeah, sure.
439
00:20:02,070 --> 00:20:03,171
What do you want?
440
00:20:03,370 --> 00:20:05,940
I just had a long walk,
and my car is stuck,
441
00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:07,474
and the bank is,
442
00:20:07,942 --> 00:20:08,943
it's leaning.
443
00:20:10,243 --> 00:20:11,445
Leaning?
444
00:20:11,913 --> 00:20:13,047
Yeah.
445
00:20:13,346 --> 00:20:14,849
It's on the edge
of the sinkhole.
446
00:20:16,249 --> 00:20:17,518
Guess that's
the end of my job.
447
00:20:17,618 --> 00:20:19,419
Marty: Hey, I'm curious
about the billboard
448
00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:20,621
on the bank building.
449
00:20:20,722 --> 00:20:22,255
-Have you seen it?
-How could I miss it?
450
00:20:22,355 --> 00:20:25,292
And I saw the ads too,
on TV.
451
00:20:25,593 --> 00:20:28,029
No more ads for cars
or discount furniture.
452
00:20:28,129 --> 00:20:30,230
Just, "Charles Krantz,
453
00:20:30,330 --> 00:20:32,633
39 great years.
Thanks, Chuck."
454
00:20:32,734 --> 00:20:34,267
Marty:
So, he doesn't
work at the bank?
455
00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:37,004
He's not retiring
from the bank?
456
00:20:37,105 --> 00:20:39,140
I don't know Charles Krantz.
457
00:20:39,841 --> 00:20:42,442
I think it's just a prank.
Performance art.
458
00:20:44,912 --> 00:20:45,880
Take care.
459
00:20:52,553 --> 00:20:54,387
Gus:
They look like refugees.
460
00:20:55,355 --> 00:20:56,557
Marty: Yeah.
461
00:20:58,693 --> 00:21:00,695
No one looks
that concerned.
462
00:21:01,261 --> 00:21:03,030
(groans) What good
would that do?
463
00:21:03,131 --> 00:21:04,999
All was concerned
at the start.
464
00:21:05,465 --> 00:21:07,267
Remember the protests?
You remember...
465
00:21:07,367 --> 00:21:09,170
they knocked over the fence
at the White House,
466
00:21:09,269 --> 00:21:10,638
and all those students
got shot?
467
00:21:10,738 --> 00:21:12,673
-Yeah.
-And the overthrow
of the Russian government.
468
00:21:12,774 --> 00:21:15,408
You got the Four Day War
between Pakistan and India
469
00:21:15,510 --> 00:21:20,380
and the fucking...
the volcano in Germany.
470
00:21:20,715 --> 00:21:23,751
There was a volcano in Germany.
That's, that's crazy.
471
00:21:24,051 --> 00:21:26,687
And we just kept saying,
"Oh, it's gonna blow over."
472
00:21:26,788 --> 00:21:29,056
That doesn't look to be
happening, though, does it?
473
00:21:31,993 --> 00:21:33,127
No.
474
00:21:33,227 --> 00:21:35,730
I think that suicides
will slow down.
475
00:21:37,198 --> 00:21:41,468
I think people
will just... wait.
476
00:21:43,871 --> 00:21:45,338
For what?
477
00:21:46,007 --> 00:21:47,041
The end.
478
00:21:49,644 --> 00:21:51,344
This is the end
of everything.
479
00:21:52,847 --> 00:21:54,447
I mean, we're,
we're going through
480
00:21:54,549 --> 00:21:55,683
the five stages of grief.
481
00:21:55,783 --> 00:21:57,417
Don't you get it?
I mean, we just,
482
00:21:57,518 --> 00:21:59,821
we just landed
on the final stage.
483
00:22:00,288 --> 00:22:01,622
Acceptance.
484
00:22:03,390 --> 00:22:04,659
The waiting...
485
00:22:07,094 --> 00:22:08,696
I think that's
the hardest part.
486
00:22:10,397 --> 00:22:13,167
And the whole thing,
it just, it-it came out
of nowhere, right?
487
00:22:13,267 --> 00:22:15,903
I mean, everyone knew there was
trouble with the environment.
488
00:22:16,003 --> 00:22:18,172
I mean, I think even
the right-wing nutjobs
489
00:22:18,272 --> 00:22:19,774
were secretly,
they got it.
490
00:22:19,874 --> 00:22:21,108
But this...
491
00:22:22,577 --> 00:22:24,011
(voice breaking)
this...
492
00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:29,717
this is just 60 different
varieties of shit.
493
00:22:30,084 --> 00:22:33,321
It's just so much shit
that happened fast.
494
00:22:33,688 --> 00:22:36,423
It's like a year, man.
Fourteen months.
495
00:22:38,092 --> 00:22:39,794
(sighs) Sucks.
496
00:22:42,296 --> 00:22:43,463
(sniffles)
497
00:22:44,464 --> 00:22:47,201
Yeah. Sucks.
(laughs)
498
00:22:47,301 --> 00:22:50,571
(airplane droning)
499
00:22:50,671 --> 00:22:51,639
Huh.
500
00:22:52,073 --> 00:22:53,406
Skywriting.
501
00:22:56,177 --> 00:22:58,980
I haven't seen one of those
since I was a kid.
502
00:23:01,349 --> 00:23:02,650
Oh.
503
00:23:04,118 --> 00:23:05,418
What the fuck?
504
00:23:06,988 --> 00:23:10,825
My sentiments... exactly.
505
00:23:13,594 --> 00:23:17,131
-(helicopter whirring)
-(sirens wailing)
506
00:23:18,065 --> 00:23:20,500
(horns honking)
507
00:23:25,539 --> 00:23:28,075
(curious music playing)
508
00:23:41,222 --> 00:23:42,657
(lights buzzing)
509
00:23:42,757 --> 00:23:44,892
(panting)
510
00:23:45,492 --> 00:23:47,194
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
where have you been?
511
00:23:47,295 --> 00:23:48,529
Are you kidding?
512
00:23:48,829 --> 00:23:50,463
(panting)
I had to run here.
513
00:23:50,564 --> 00:23:53,500
The traffic's insane,
and half the cars are empty.
514
00:23:53,601 --> 00:23:54,835
Dr. Winston's MIA.
515
00:23:54,936 --> 00:23:56,003
-What?
-Yeah.
516
00:23:56,103 --> 00:23:57,605
He walked in this morning,
and he looked around
517
00:23:57,705 --> 00:23:58,639
and he walked out again.
518
00:23:58,739 --> 00:23:59,807
And now I can't find him.
519
00:23:59,907 --> 00:24:01,509
He dropped his pager
when he walked out.
520
00:24:02,343 --> 00:24:04,477
(panting) Okay.
I'll scrub in.
521
00:24:04,578 --> 00:24:06,213
The beds are empty.
522
00:24:06,881 --> 00:24:08,448
Most of them walked out.
I-I-I transferred
523
00:24:08,549 --> 00:24:09,951
the last of the stable ones.
524
00:24:10,051 --> 00:24:12,753
But, Felicia,
there's something weird.
525
00:24:12,853 --> 00:24:16,057
(monitor beeping steadily)
526
00:24:16,157 --> 00:24:17,525
What is that?
527
00:24:21,329 --> 00:24:24,832
(beeping continues)
528
00:24:29,904 --> 00:24:31,706
What's wrong
with the monitor?
529
00:24:32,139 --> 00:24:34,542
That's the thing,
it-it's, it's not
just that one.
530
00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:42,817
(monitor beeping)
531
00:24:42,917 --> 00:24:44,151
(sighs)
532
00:24:50,490 --> 00:24:53,894
(monitor beeping)
533
00:24:55,296 --> 00:24:58,966
(multiple monitors beeping)
534
00:24:59,499 --> 00:25:02,336
I don't know, Fel.
I don't know.
535
00:25:02,870 --> 00:25:06,173
I mean... I might want
to get out of here.
536
00:25:07,475 --> 00:25:09,610
I might wanna go home.
537
00:25:09,710 --> 00:25:11,112
I don't think I need
to be here anymore.
538
00:25:11,212 --> 00:25:14,148
(beeping continues)
539
00:25:15,249 --> 00:25:17,718
(continuous beeping)
540
00:25:18,552 --> 00:25:21,122
(changing channels,
all beeping)
541
00:25:23,190 --> 00:25:24,191
(static glitches)
542
00:25:25,326 --> 00:25:26,894
(TV switches off)
543
00:25:31,232 --> 00:25:32,600
(sighs)
544
00:25:37,371 --> 00:25:40,007
(line ringing)
545
00:25:40,107 --> 00:25:41,108
(call failure beeps)
546
00:25:43,110 --> 00:25:44,145
(sighs)
547
00:25:51,152 --> 00:25:52,153
(phone beeps)
548
00:25:55,489 --> 00:25:56,891
(phone beeps)
549
00:25:59,260 --> 00:26:00,327
(phone beeps)
550
00:26:03,130 --> 00:26:04,265
(sighs)
551
00:26:14,008 --> 00:26:15,076
(phone clatters)
552
00:26:29,857 --> 00:26:33,060
(solemn music playing)
553
00:26:38,232 --> 00:26:42,002
(birds cawing, tweeting)
554
00:26:48,742 --> 00:26:51,912
(airplane droning)
555
00:26:54,583 --> 00:26:56,350
(coughs)
556
00:26:56,551 --> 00:26:57,885
You okay, sir?
557
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,821
Yeah. Just taking a rest.
558
00:27:00,921 --> 00:27:02,223
(distant sirens wailing)
559
00:27:02,323 --> 00:27:05,693
I walked downtown
to look at the sinkhole
560
00:27:05,793 --> 00:27:07,194
and take a few pictures
with my phone.
561
00:27:07,294 --> 00:27:10,931
Thought one of
the local TV stations
might be interested,
562
00:27:11,031 --> 00:27:14,401
but they all seem
to be off the air.
563
00:27:15,436 --> 00:27:17,271
Except for pictures
of Krantz.
564
00:27:19,206 --> 00:27:22,176
-All Krantz all the time.
-(chuckles)
565
00:27:23,377 --> 00:27:25,412
-Any idea who he is?
-None.
566
00:27:26,013 --> 00:27:31,218
I've asked two dozen people,
at least. Nobody knows.
567
00:27:31,318 --> 00:27:35,856
Our man, Krantz, is the Oz
of the apocalypse. (chuckles)
568
00:27:35,956 --> 00:27:38,325
-Our last meme.
-(chuckles)
569
00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:40,995
-Where are you heading?
-Harvest Acres.
570
00:27:41,095 --> 00:27:43,264
Nice little enclave
off the beaten track.
571
00:27:44,498 --> 00:27:45,966
I'm heading there myself.
572
00:27:46,834 --> 00:27:48,369
-My ex lives there.
-Huh.
573
00:27:48,469 --> 00:27:49,638
Well...
574
00:27:49,737 --> 00:27:51,071
I can walk with you
if you like.
575
00:27:52,373 --> 00:27:53,674
What do you do, Sam?
576
00:27:54,241 --> 00:27:56,177
If you still do anything,
I mean.
577
00:27:57,546 --> 00:28:01,148
Owner and chief undertaker
for Yarborough Funeral Home.
578
00:28:01,248 --> 00:28:02,983
Oh, man!
(chuckles)
579
00:28:03,083 --> 00:28:04,185
Yeah.
580
00:28:04,285 --> 00:28:06,487
We had a boom.
581
00:28:06,588 --> 00:28:07,755
It's hard to feel good
about it,
582
00:28:07,855 --> 00:28:08,889
but business was
never better
583
00:28:08,989 --> 00:28:10,724
than it was
a few weeks ago.
584
00:28:11,892 --> 00:28:16,430
But my real interest's
meteorology.
585
00:28:17,632 --> 00:28:19,967
Dreamed of being
a television weatherman
586
00:28:20,067 --> 00:28:22,703
in my salad days,
maybe even one of the networks.
587
00:28:23,638 --> 00:28:25,272
But n-no.
588
00:28:25,839 --> 00:28:27,241
I keep up, though.
589
00:28:27,775 --> 00:28:29,009
Read the journals.
590
00:28:29,109 --> 00:28:30,411
(helicopter whirring nearby)
591
00:28:30,512 --> 00:28:32,213
And I can tell you
592
00:28:32,681 --> 00:28:35,216
something amazing
if you want to hear.
593
00:28:35,316 --> 00:28:36,283
(Marty chuckles)
594
00:28:36,585 --> 00:28:40,788
You know how people say
there are 24 hours in a day?
595
00:28:41,889 --> 00:28:43,357
Well, they're wrong.
596
00:28:43,891 --> 00:28:47,394
There were 23 hours
and 56 minutes
597
00:28:47,494 --> 00:28:48,829
in a stellar day.
598
00:28:56,470 --> 00:28:58,272
Plus a few odd seconds.
599
00:28:58,472 --> 00:28:59,641
Marty:
There "were"?
600
00:28:59,740 --> 00:29:02,810
Based on my calculations,
which I assure you
601
00:29:02,910 --> 00:29:05,145
I can back up,
my math is good,
602
00:29:05,846 --> 00:29:10,818
there are now 24 hours
and two minutes in a day.
603
00:29:11,151 --> 00:29:12,486
Do you know
what that means?
604
00:29:12,587 --> 00:29:15,322
Well, you're saying
the Earth's rotation
is slowing down?
605
00:29:15,422 --> 00:29:16,824
Exactly.
606
00:29:17,858 --> 00:29:20,027
Lot of folks think
all of these disasters
607
00:29:20,127 --> 00:29:22,162
are 'cause of
what we've done
to the environment.
608
00:29:22,263 --> 00:29:24,131
Not so.
609
00:29:24,231 --> 00:29:27,234
I'm the first to admit,
we treated our mother,
610
00:29:27,334 --> 00:29:30,639
yes, she's our mother,
all of us, very badly.
611
00:29:31,171 --> 00:29:33,941
Certainly molested her,
if not outright raped her.
612
00:29:34,576 --> 00:29:37,111
But... we're puny
613
00:29:37,211 --> 00:29:40,515
compared to the great
clock of the universe.
614
00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:42,783
No.
615
00:29:43,083 --> 00:29:44,251
Whatever's happening
616
00:29:44,552 --> 00:29:48,022
is much larger than
environmental degradation.
617
00:29:48,690 --> 00:29:50,124
The math says so.
618
00:29:51,258 --> 00:29:54,128
And, and math can do
a lot of things.
619
00:29:54,428 --> 00:29:56,531
I mean, math can be art...
620
00:29:57,898 --> 00:29:59,233
but it can't lie.
621
00:30:05,674 --> 00:30:07,308
You know what?
622
00:30:07,408 --> 00:30:09,243
I think I'll sit
623
00:30:10,044 --> 00:30:12,246
and enjoy the sunset
624
00:30:12,614 --> 00:30:15,816
while I wait
for the arthritis
625
00:30:15,916 --> 00:30:17,552
to settle a bit.
626
00:30:17,786 --> 00:30:19,053
You care to join me?
627
00:30:21,121 --> 00:30:22,489
(distant siren wails)
628
00:30:22,590 --> 00:30:23,758
(sighs)
629
00:30:23,991 --> 00:30:25,259
I think I'll go on.
630
00:30:26,427 --> 00:30:29,396
The ex. I understand.
631
00:30:29,496 --> 00:30:33,200
Well, it was nice
speaking with you,
Mr. Anderson.
632
00:30:45,479 --> 00:30:48,616
(ominous music playing)
633
00:31:00,327 --> 00:31:02,329
♪♪
634
00:31:15,309 --> 00:31:16,343
Hey.
635
00:31:17,244 --> 00:31:18,445
Hey.
636
00:31:18,912 --> 00:31:21,649
Don't worry. I'm going
to see my ex-wife,
637
00:31:21,750 --> 00:31:23,350
Felicia Anderson.
638
00:31:23,984 --> 00:31:26,353
I think she's back
to Gordon now.
639
00:31:26,755 --> 00:31:28,989
She lives on Fern Lane,
number 19.
640
00:31:29,791 --> 00:31:32,025
Yeah, I know Miss Gordon.
641
00:31:33,762 --> 00:31:35,062
What are you doing out?
642
00:31:36,531 --> 00:31:38,165
I wanted to go skating.
643
00:31:40,668 --> 00:31:42,136
I used to love skating.
644
00:31:43,337 --> 00:31:45,005
Then you should go skating.
645
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:46,974
(chuckles)
646
00:31:47,809 --> 00:31:48,909
Maybe I should.
647
00:31:49,009 --> 00:31:51,378
Why do you see Miss Gordon
if she's your ex?
648
00:31:53,548 --> 00:31:54,948
I still like her.
649
00:31:55,517 --> 00:31:56,950
girl: Do you fight?
650
00:31:57,918 --> 00:31:59,253
We used to.
651
00:32:00,889 --> 00:32:02,624
We get along better
now that we're exes.
652
00:32:02,724 --> 00:32:05,926
Miss Gordon gives us
gingersnap cookies sometimes.
653
00:32:06,661 --> 00:32:08,897
I like Oreos better, but...
654
00:32:08,996 --> 00:32:11,633
That's just the way
the cookie crumbles, right?
655
00:32:11,733 --> 00:32:13,000
Gingersnaps don't crumble.
656
00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:14,401
At least not until
you crunch them--
657
00:32:14,501 --> 00:32:16,437
(loud boom)
658
00:32:16,538 --> 00:32:18,172
(booming echoes)
659
00:32:19,106 --> 00:32:21,275
(ominous music playing)
660
00:32:25,012 --> 00:32:26,581
You better go home,
I guess.
661
00:32:29,316 --> 00:32:32,419
It's too dark for skating
without streetlights.
662
00:32:33,788 --> 00:32:37,257
Is everything gonna be okay?
663
00:32:39,794 --> 00:32:41,161
Sure it is.
664
00:32:44,766 --> 00:32:47,968
(ominous music intensifies)
665
00:33:15,964 --> 00:33:17,498
Go home.
666
00:33:18,332 --> 00:33:20,735
Go home
to your Mom and Dad.
667
00:33:22,971 --> 00:33:24,506
Do it now.
668
00:33:45,994 --> 00:33:48,295
(music softens)
669
00:33:48,696 --> 00:33:50,665
(melancholic music playing)
670
00:33:58,006 --> 00:33:59,172
Huh?
671
00:34:01,108 --> 00:34:02,677
(panting)
672
00:34:03,043 --> 00:34:04,012
(Felicia sighs)
673
00:34:04,111 --> 00:34:06,948
Oh, thank God.
Oh, thank God.
674
00:34:07,515 --> 00:34:09,483
-Thank God.
-Marty: They, they just...
675
00:34:09,584 --> 00:34:12,352
(both panting)
676
00:34:12,987 --> 00:34:15,924
They just, they just
started showing up.
677
00:34:16,024 --> 00:34:17,525
No, I know, I know, I saw.
678
00:34:18,793 --> 00:34:20,193
Is it just here?
679
00:34:20,828 --> 00:34:22,329
I think it's everywhere.
680
00:34:24,799 --> 00:34:27,334
I think it's almost...
681
00:34:31,906 --> 00:34:33,073
Yeah...
682
00:34:34,008 --> 00:34:35,510
Yeah, I think it's almost...
683
00:34:37,645 --> 00:34:38,713
(exhales deeply)
684
00:34:45,118 --> 00:34:47,555
(melancholic music continues)
685
00:34:53,327 --> 00:34:55,897
(monitor beeping)
686
00:34:55,997 --> 00:34:58,198
(music fades out)
687
00:35:01,234 --> 00:35:03,437
(beeping continues)
688
00:35:22,991 --> 00:35:24,191
(sniffles)
689
00:35:30,598 --> 00:35:31,599
(sniffles)
690
00:35:34,736 --> 00:35:38,171
(somber music playing)
691
00:35:41,274 --> 00:35:43,678
(monitor continues beeping)
692
00:35:51,351 --> 00:35:54,555
(melancholic music playing)
693
00:36:16,844 --> 00:36:19,547
Marty: It's the brightest
I've ever seen the stars.
694
00:36:25,053 --> 00:36:26,788
Just look at that.
695
00:36:29,090 --> 00:36:31,893
There's Aquila the eagle.
696
00:36:31,993 --> 00:36:33,293
Mm-hm.
697
00:36:34,062 --> 00:36:35,328
There's, uh...
698
00:36:35,930 --> 00:36:38,866
Cygnus the swan.
699
00:36:44,539 --> 00:36:46,239
♪♪
700
00:36:46,339 --> 00:36:47,709
You see it?
701
00:37:01,455 --> 00:37:02,890
And there's the North Sta--
702
00:37:07,195 --> 00:37:08,462
Did you just see that?
703
00:37:09,697 --> 00:37:10,732
Yeah.
704
00:37:14,836 --> 00:37:16,204
(loud echoing boom)
705
00:37:16,303 --> 00:37:17,939
There goes Mars.
706
00:37:22,076 --> 00:37:24,912
(multiple loud booms)
707
00:37:33,353 --> 00:37:34,789
I'm scared.
708
00:37:36,423 --> 00:37:38,226
-(shaky breaths)
-(loud booms)
709
00:37:38,325 --> 00:37:39,794
I am too.
710
00:37:40,228 --> 00:37:41,729
Chuck's wife:
It's okay, honey.
711
00:37:42,329 --> 00:37:43,965
(monitor beeping)
712
00:37:44,065 --> 00:37:45,032
You go on.
713
00:37:47,869 --> 00:37:49,504
You go on ahead, okay?
714
00:37:50,370 --> 00:37:51,706
(exhales weakly)
715
00:37:53,340 --> 00:37:55,610
(monitor beeping steadily)
716
00:37:55,710 --> 00:37:58,579
(crying)
Just thirty-nine years.
717
00:38:05,186 --> 00:38:07,054
Thirty-nine great years.
718
00:38:07,155 --> 00:38:09,857
(monitor continues beeping)
719
00:38:15,229 --> 00:38:16,764
Thanks, Chuck.
720
00:38:18,032 --> 00:38:21,035
(loud rumbling)
721
00:38:24,672 --> 00:38:27,340
("Gimme Some Lovin'"
by Steve Winwood playing)
722
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:28,976
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
723
00:38:29,076 --> 00:38:31,212
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
724
00:38:31,311 --> 00:38:33,047
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
725
00:38:34,649 --> 00:38:37,018
(music distorting)
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
726
00:38:42,790 --> 00:38:44,457
-(trembling breath)
-I love y--
727
00:38:58,405 --> 00:39:01,742
(voices speaking indistinctly)
728
00:39:08,481 --> 00:39:10,518
narrator: With the help
of her friend, Mac,
729
00:39:10,618 --> 00:39:12,286
who has an old van,
730
00:39:12,385 --> 00:39:15,022
Taylor Franck sets up
her drum kit
731
00:39:15,122 --> 00:39:16,324
in her favored spot
732
00:39:16,423 --> 00:39:19,093
on the Eighth Street
Promenade.
733
00:39:19,193 --> 00:39:20,761
(people chattering)
734
00:39:21,996 --> 00:39:23,831
It's Thursday afternoon.
735
00:39:23,931 --> 00:39:26,767
The weather
is fucking gorgeous,
736
00:39:26,868 --> 00:39:28,669
and the streets
are thronged with people
737
00:39:28,769 --> 00:39:30,771
looking forward
to the weekend,
738
00:39:30,872 --> 00:39:33,708
which is always better
than the weekend itself.
739
00:39:33,808 --> 00:39:36,110
-All good. Taylor?
-Yeah, thanks.
740
00:39:36,409 --> 00:39:38,613
Ten percent is all
the thanks I want, dude.
741
00:39:39,446 --> 00:39:41,816
narrator:
Taylor, and Mac too,
742
00:39:41,916 --> 00:39:42,783
work part-time
743
00:39:42,884 --> 00:39:45,553
at Doctor Records
on Castle Street.
744
00:39:46,053 --> 00:39:47,655
-But on a good day...
-(van door closes)
745
00:39:47,755 --> 00:39:50,124
...Taylor can make
almost as much busking.
746
00:39:50,224 --> 00:39:51,626
(van engine starts)
747
00:39:51,993 --> 00:39:55,263
Busk-drumming isn't what
her parents saw for her
748
00:39:55,363 --> 00:39:57,565
when she enrolled
at Juilliard,
749
00:39:57,665 --> 00:40:00,500
and they don't know yet
that she dropped out.
750
00:40:01,102 --> 00:40:04,505
Juilliard wanted you to think
about what you were doing,
751
00:40:04,605 --> 00:40:07,541
but as far as Taylor
is concerned,
752
00:40:07,642 --> 00:40:12,146
the beat is your friend
and thinking is the enemy.
753
00:40:12,246 --> 00:40:14,916
(slow-tempo drumming)
754
00:40:17,484 --> 00:40:21,322
She starts warming up,
going easy at first.
755
00:40:21,421 --> 00:40:23,658
Slow tempo, no cowbell,
756
00:40:24,091 --> 00:40:27,295
not minding that
the magic hat stays empty
757
00:40:27,395 --> 00:40:29,397
except for her
two crumpled dollars
758
00:40:29,496 --> 00:40:31,599
and a quarter
flipped contemptuously
759
00:40:31,699 --> 00:40:33,401
by a dude
on a skateboard.
760
00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:34,735
(coin clinks)
761
00:40:35,036 --> 00:40:38,572
There is time.
There is a way in.
762
00:40:38,940 --> 00:40:42,043
Finding the in
is half the fun.
763
00:40:42,343 --> 00:40:44,278
Maybe even most of it.
764
00:40:44,378 --> 00:40:45,478
(drumming stops)
765
00:40:46,013 --> 00:40:48,816
Janice Halliday
is on her way home
766
00:40:48,916 --> 00:40:51,919
from seven hours
at Paper and Page,
767
00:40:52,019 --> 00:40:54,388
and may walk all the way
to the ocean.
768
00:40:55,089 --> 00:40:58,826
Her boyfriend of 16 months
just broke up with her,
769
00:40:58,926 --> 00:41:01,295
and he did it
the modern way.
770
00:41:01,395 --> 00:41:02,462
Motherfucker!
771
00:41:02,563 --> 00:41:04,332
narrator:
It was totally unexpected,
772
00:41:04,432 --> 00:41:07,001
like having a door
slammed in your face
773
00:41:07,101 --> 00:41:09,469
just as you were getting ready
to walk through it.
774
00:41:09,804 --> 00:41:11,372
-It was...
-Fucking bullshit!
775
00:41:11,471 --> 00:41:12,807
narrator:
...fucking bullshit.
776
00:41:12,907 --> 00:41:14,675
She isn't in love with him.
777
00:41:14,775 --> 00:41:17,244
Never even kidded herself
that she was.
778
00:41:17,345 --> 00:41:18,713
-But still it...
-Fucking sucks.
779
00:41:18,813 --> 00:41:21,849
narrator:
...is a dismaying shock
just the same.
780
00:41:22,450 --> 00:41:24,685
She supposes
she'll have some wine
781
00:41:24,785 --> 00:41:26,620
when she gets home
and cry.
782
00:41:27,254 --> 00:41:30,224
Maybe queue up one
of her big band playlists
783
00:41:30,324 --> 00:41:32,393
and dance drunk
around the room.
784
00:41:32,793 --> 00:41:35,396
She loved to dance
in high school.
785
00:41:35,663 --> 00:41:38,566
Maybe she can recapture
a little of that happiness.
786
00:41:38,666 --> 00:41:40,835
-Fucking really?!
-passerby: Excuse me.
787
00:41:40,935 --> 00:41:43,604
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Not you, not you.
788
00:41:44,238 --> 00:41:45,740
(sighs) Fuck!
789
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,576
barista:
Got an oat milk latte for Chuck.
790
00:41:49,343 --> 00:41:50,911
narrator:
Charles Krantz,
791
00:41:51,612 --> 00:41:52,913
Chuck to his friends,
792
00:41:53,014 --> 00:41:55,983
is dressed in the armor
of accountancy.
793
00:41:56,083 --> 00:41:59,453
Gray suit, blue shirt,
blue tie.
794
00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:04,125
His Samuel Windsor shoes
are inexpensive but sturdy.
795
00:42:04,759 --> 00:42:07,028
He's here for
a week-long conference
796
00:42:07,128 --> 00:42:10,664
titled "Banking
in the 21st Century."
797
00:42:10,931 --> 00:42:14,702
He's been sent by his bank,
Midwest Trust,
798
00:42:14,802 --> 00:42:16,337
all expenses paid.
799
00:42:16,670 --> 00:42:20,541
Chuck has enjoyed
the speakers and the panels.
800
00:42:20,641 --> 00:42:21,942
He was on one panel
801
00:42:22,043 --> 00:42:24,045
and is scheduled
to be on another
802
00:42:24,145 --> 00:42:26,981
before the conference ends
at noon tomorrow,
803
00:42:27,081 --> 00:42:30,151
but has no wish to spend
his off-duty hours
804
00:42:30,251 --> 00:42:33,287
in the company
of 70 other accountants.
805
00:42:33,621 --> 00:42:35,089
He speaks their language,
806
00:42:35,189 --> 00:42:38,225
but likes to think
he speaks others as well.
807
00:42:39,126 --> 00:42:40,561
At least he did,
808
00:42:40,661 --> 00:42:43,697
although some
of the vocabulary is now lost.
809
00:42:44,732 --> 00:42:47,802
Now, his sensible
Samuel Windsor Oxfords
810
00:42:47,902 --> 00:42:50,539
are taking him
for an afternoon walk.
811
00:42:50,838 --> 00:42:52,640
His life is narrower
812
00:42:52,740 --> 00:42:54,742
than the one
he once hoped for,
813
00:42:54,842 --> 00:42:56,644
but he's made peace
with that.
814
00:42:57,111 --> 00:42:59,080
He understands
that narrowing
815
00:42:59,180 --> 00:43:01,749
is the natural order
of things.
816
00:43:02,616 --> 00:43:04,185
He has a wife, Ginny,
817
00:43:04,285 --> 00:43:07,054
to whom he is
scrupulously faithful,
818
00:43:07,154 --> 00:43:09,590
and an intelligent,
good-humored son
819
00:43:09,690 --> 00:43:10,724
in middle school.
820
00:43:11,192 --> 00:43:14,395
He also has only
nine months to live,
821
00:43:14,495 --> 00:43:16,397
though he doesn't
know that yet.
822
00:43:16,497 --> 00:43:18,933
(drum music playing)
823
00:43:21,235 --> 00:43:24,605
Taylor has been on the job
for 10 minutes now
824
00:43:24,705 --> 00:43:26,974
and has nothing
to show for it.
825
00:43:29,743 --> 00:43:32,113
She sees
a Mr. Businessman type
826
00:43:32,213 --> 00:43:33,582
coming toward her
827
00:43:33,681 --> 00:43:36,050
and something about him,
God knows what,
828
00:43:36,150 --> 00:43:39,787
makes Taylor want
to announce his approach.
829
00:43:41,222 --> 00:43:43,824
She slips first
into a reggae beat,
830
00:43:43,924 --> 00:43:45,726
then something slinkier.
831
00:43:46,026 --> 00:43:49,997
And for the first time today,
Taylor feels a spark
832
00:43:50,097 --> 00:43:53,334
and begins to whack
the cowbell on the downbeat.
833
00:43:54,201 --> 00:43:55,537
It's pretty cool.
834
00:43:55,903 --> 00:43:58,372
The groove has arrived,
835
00:43:58,472 --> 00:44:02,176
and the groove is like
a road you want to follow.
836
00:44:02,476 --> 00:44:06,480
She could speed the beat up,
get some tom in there,
837
00:44:06,581 --> 00:44:08,749
but she's watching
Mr. Businessman
838
00:44:08,849 --> 00:44:11,285
and that seems wrong
for this dude.
839
00:44:11,952 --> 00:44:15,823
She believes Mr. Businessman
will just go on past
840
00:44:15,923 --> 00:44:18,527
on his way
to the business hotel,
841
00:44:18,627 --> 00:44:19,793
and when he's gone,
842
00:44:19,894 --> 00:44:22,263
Taylor will switch
to something else.
843
00:44:24,698 --> 00:44:27,801
But instead
of floating on by...
844
00:44:27,902 --> 00:44:30,304
(upbeat drum music playing)
845
00:44:37,512 --> 00:44:39,813
♪♪
846
00:44:56,565 --> 00:44:59,833
♪♪
847
00:45:08,175 --> 00:45:09,710
(drumming stops)
848
00:45:17,218 --> 00:45:19,220
(drumming resumes)
849
00:45:34,134 --> 00:45:37,004
♪♪
850
00:45:45,179 --> 00:45:47,181
♪♪
851
00:45:58,759 --> 00:46:00,060
onlooker 1:
Woo!
852
00:46:04,331 --> 00:46:06,300
♪♪
853
00:46:08,637 --> 00:46:10,137
onlooker 2:
Yeah!
854
00:46:10,237 --> 00:46:12,473
♪♪
855
00:46:27,821 --> 00:46:30,659
♪♪
856
00:46:30,759 --> 00:46:32,459
(people exclaiming)
857
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,797
♪♪
858
00:46:41,835 --> 00:46:44,204
-onlooker: Woo!
-(crowd cheering)
859
00:46:45,774 --> 00:46:46,907
Come on.
860
00:46:48,409 --> 00:46:49,443
Come on, little sister.
861
00:46:50,512 --> 00:46:51,546
Let's dance.
862
00:46:51,646 --> 00:46:53,280
Dance.
863
00:46:53,380 --> 00:46:55,349
(people exclaiming)
864
00:46:56,518 --> 00:46:58,152
-Yeah!
-(crowd cheering)
865
00:46:58,252 --> 00:47:00,555
I'll lead you.
I got you.
866
00:47:01,355 --> 00:47:04,191
♪♪
867
00:47:20,874 --> 00:47:24,144
♪♪
868
00:47:30,417 --> 00:47:32,587
(crowd cheering)
869
00:47:42,296 --> 00:47:43,531
(crowd cheering)
870
00:47:49,436 --> 00:47:50,572
Uh.
871
00:47:55,309 --> 00:47:58,912
It's okay. It's my glasses.
It's my glasses.
872
00:48:00,347 --> 00:48:03,350
(crowd cheering)
873
00:48:08,790 --> 00:48:12,292
♪♪
874
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,901
(crowd cheering)
875
00:48:32,547 --> 00:48:36,350
-(fast-paced beat playing)
-(crowd cheering)
876
00:48:48,295 --> 00:48:51,165
♪♪
877
00:49:02,811 --> 00:49:05,012
(crowd clapping rhythmically)
878
00:49:09,082 --> 00:49:11,251
(drumming intensifies)
879
00:49:23,832 --> 00:49:24,965
(drumming stops)
880
00:49:25,065 --> 00:49:28,235
(crowd cheering)
881
00:49:34,809 --> 00:49:37,512
(cheering intensifies)
882
00:49:39,747 --> 00:49:41,014
What are we doing?
883
00:49:41,716 --> 00:49:42,717
I don't know.
884
00:49:51,091 --> 00:49:54,596
(cheering continues)
885
00:49:59,433 --> 00:50:01,268
Taylor Franck:
No more today, folks.
886
00:50:01,803 --> 00:50:03,070
No more today.
887
00:50:03,538 --> 00:50:05,773
No more today.
We gotta quit
while we're ahead.
888
00:50:05,874 --> 00:50:07,274
(crowd groans)
889
00:50:09,276 --> 00:50:11,078
Chuck Krantz:
Do you need a-any
help at all or...
890
00:50:11,178 --> 00:50:12,514
Mac:
Here, can you, uh,
take this?
891
00:50:12,614 --> 00:50:14,248
-Sure.
-Just, just spin
the thingy here.
892
00:50:14,348 --> 00:50:15,750
But watch out
for your fingers.
893
00:50:15,850 --> 00:50:18,118
It'll, it'll,
it'll get 'em good,
you know what I mean?
894
00:50:18,218 --> 00:50:20,254
-Yeah, yeah.
-(indistinct chatter)
895
00:50:20,354 --> 00:50:22,624
Janice Halliday:
What just happened?
896
00:50:22,724 --> 00:50:24,391
That was incredible.
897
00:50:24,491 --> 00:50:25,994
Mac:
You dance for a living?
898
00:50:26,093 --> 00:50:27,461
Chuck: No. (laughs)
Oh, no. I...
899
00:50:27,562 --> 00:50:29,496
-No, I do not, sir.
-What do you do for a living?
900
00:50:29,597 --> 00:50:31,298
Chuck:
Oh, no, I think I-- Did I--
I didn't break it, did I?
901
00:50:31,398 --> 00:50:33,300
I think he broke,
I think he broke it.
902
00:50:35,068 --> 00:50:36,236
Taylor:
Let's hit the pond.
903
00:50:36,336 --> 00:50:38,606
Mac:
We'll never find parking
by the Common.
904
00:50:39,473 --> 00:50:40,542
We will today.
905
00:50:41,843 --> 00:50:42,810
Today...
906
00:50:44,478 --> 00:50:45,580
is magic.
907
00:50:50,417 --> 00:50:52,219
Where did you learn
to dance like that?
908
00:50:52,787 --> 00:50:56,323
(indistinct chatter)
909
00:50:59,994 --> 00:51:02,129
Oh, no, no, no,
that's yours.
910
00:51:02,229 --> 00:51:03,330
Nope, we split it even.
911
00:51:03,430 --> 00:51:04,899
By myself, I wouldn't
have made half as much
912
00:51:04,999 --> 00:51:06,300
if I drummed
till midnight.
913
00:51:07,902 --> 00:51:09,236
(chuckles)
914
00:51:17,411 --> 00:51:18,580
You okay?
915
00:51:20,648 --> 00:51:21,716
Yeah.
916
00:51:23,551 --> 00:51:25,653
Yeah.
Just one of my headaches.
917
00:51:27,922 --> 00:51:30,490
Oh, no, no, no. Come on.
I don't need it. You keep it.
918
00:51:30,592 --> 00:51:32,392
Come on, man,
you earned it.
919
00:51:33,093 --> 00:51:34,361
Buy yourself dinner.
920
00:51:34,461 --> 00:51:37,097
Give it away.
But I'm handing it to you.
921
00:51:42,402 --> 00:51:43,738
You could do this
for a living, you know?
922
00:51:43,838 --> 00:51:45,506
-(Janice laughs)
-Chuck: I don't know
about that.
923
00:51:45,607 --> 00:51:48,208
I really think we could busk
our way to fame and fortune.
924
00:51:48,308 --> 00:51:49,544
(both chuckle)
925
00:51:52,479 --> 00:51:55,248
What made you stop
in front of me?
926
00:51:56,584 --> 00:51:57,685
(Chuck sighs)
927
00:51:57,952 --> 00:51:59,353
Why did you start moving?
928
00:52:01,623 --> 00:52:04,358
narrator:
He could say it was
because he was thinking
929
00:52:04,458 --> 00:52:08,228
about his old
half-assed band,
The Retros,
930
00:52:08,328 --> 00:52:10,898
and how he liked to dance
across the stage
931
00:52:10,999 --> 00:52:12,700
during instrumental breaks.
932
00:52:14,234 --> 00:52:15,469
But that's not it.
933
00:52:19,339 --> 00:52:20,675
I don't know.
934
00:52:24,277 --> 00:52:25,546
Mac:
Taylor, we gotta roll,
935
00:52:25,647 --> 00:52:27,015
or you're gonna end up
spending your take
936
00:52:27,115 --> 00:52:28,281
on my parking ticket.
937
00:52:29,651 --> 00:52:32,654
So, you guys don't want
a career change?
938
00:52:32,754 --> 00:52:34,622
Chuck: Career change?
How... I mean...
939
00:52:34,722 --> 00:52:36,189
Taylor:
We'll make a name
for ourselves.
940
00:52:36,289 --> 00:52:37,659
(Chuck laughs)
941
00:52:38,225 --> 00:52:39,827
You got to get in here
before you go.
942
00:52:40,895 --> 00:52:42,897
-Group hug.
-Oh, oh, okay.
943
00:52:42,997 --> 00:52:44,197
-Taylor: Group hug.
-Chuck: Okay.
944
00:52:44,297 --> 00:52:45,600
-(Taylor laughs)
-Chuck: Go.
945
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:47,334
-Taylor: Come on.
-(Janice chuckles)
946
00:52:48,002 --> 00:52:50,470
(gentle music playing)
947
00:52:53,841 --> 00:52:55,208
Buskers forever.
948
00:52:55,610 --> 00:52:57,078
Mac:
Yeah. Buskers forever.
949
00:52:57,177 --> 00:52:59,647
We gotta roll before
the meter maid shows up.
950
00:52:59,747 --> 00:53:03,450
♪♪
951
00:53:05,853 --> 00:53:07,287
Chuck:
I'm so sorry.
952
00:53:07,989 --> 00:53:09,123
That sucks.
953
00:53:09,222 --> 00:53:11,224
Janice:
It does suck. (sighs)
954
00:53:11,659 --> 00:53:13,326
I thought he was
a nice guy.
955
00:53:13,628 --> 00:53:16,229
He was a pretty good lover,
and we had fun and all that.
956
00:53:17,431 --> 00:53:19,332
If I can find
a video of us dancing,
957
00:53:19,433 --> 00:53:22,136
which I'm gonna look
because I bet we go viral,
958
00:53:22,235 --> 00:53:24,304
I'm gonna send it
to him with a text,
959
00:53:24,404 --> 00:53:27,842
a text that says,
"This is what you're missing."
960
00:53:27,942 --> 00:53:29,443
(Chuck laughs)
961
00:53:36,349 --> 00:53:37,785
You're gonna be fine.
962
00:53:39,754 --> 00:53:41,889
I don't know a lot,
but I know that much.
963
00:53:45,258 --> 00:53:47,227
You got a bright sunbeam
in front of you,
964
00:53:47,327 --> 00:53:49,697
and you're gonna step
right into it, I can tell.
965
00:53:52,967 --> 00:53:54,001
But yeah.
966
00:53:56,236 --> 00:53:58,673
It sucks.
Not much else to say.
967
00:54:01,441 --> 00:54:02,577
Everything goes
down the drain,
968
00:54:02,677 --> 00:54:04,645
and all we can say
is, "That sucks."
969
00:54:04,746 --> 00:54:06,514
Mm. Yeah.
970
00:54:07,715 --> 00:54:09,517
Maybe we're going down
the drain too.
971
00:54:11,886 --> 00:54:13,286
Maybe.
972
00:54:15,455 --> 00:54:16,591
I'm this way.
973
00:54:19,359 --> 00:54:21,394
Uh, I'm that way.
974
00:54:27,135 --> 00:54:28,468
Thank you for the dance.
975
00:54:30,571 --> 00:54:33,273
(gentle music playing)
976
00:54:33,373 --> 00:54:34,575
(Janice chuckles)
977
00:54:47,522 --> 00:54:49,524
(music fades out)
978
00:54:51,391 --> 00:54:53,561
(people chattering)
979
00:55:10,178 --> 00:55:12,345
(curious music playing)
980
00:55:23,758 --> 00:55:25,293
narrator:
As he passes the place
981
00:55:25,392 --> 00:55:27,195
where Taylor set up
her drums,
982
00:55:27,295 --> 00:55:29,530
those two questions recur.
983
00:55:32,166 --> 00:55:34,467
Why did he stop to listen?
984
00:55:35,937 --> 00:55:38,973
And why did he start
to dance?
985
00:55:41,976 --> 00:55:43,511
He doesn't know.
986
00:55:44,946 --> 00:55:47,849
And would answers make
a good thing better?
987
00:55:50,918 --> 00:55:54,255
Later, he'll lose
the ability to walk,
988
00:55:54,689 --> 00:55:57,225
never mind dancing
with little sister
989
00:55:57,325 --> 00:55:58,893
on the promenade.
990
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,730
Later, he'll lose
the ability to chew food.
991
00:56:03,831 --> 00:56:06,667
Later, he'll forget
his wife's name.
992
00:56:07,869 --> 00:56:11,305
Later, he'll lose his grip
on the difference
993
00:56:11,404 --> 00:56:13,574
between waking and sleeping
994
00:56:13,875 --> 00:56:17,311
and enter a land
of pain so great
995
00:56:17,612 --> 00:56:20,480
he will wonder
why God made the world.
996
00:56:21,015 --> 00:56:22,783
♪♪
997
00:56:22,884 --> 00:56:25,753
What he will remember,
occasionally,
998
00:56:25,853 --> 00:56:29,724
is how he stopped
and dropped his briefcase
999
00:56:29,824 --> 00:56:33,628
and began to move his hips
to the beat of the drums.
1000
00:56:34,494 --> 00:56:36,097
And he will think
1001
00:56:36,197 --> 00:56:38,799
that is why God
made the world.
1002
00:56:40,835 --> 00:56:41,936
Just that.
1003
00:56:44,972 --> 00:56:46,941
(music fades out)
1004
00:56:50,410 --> 00:56:54,649
(voices speaking indistinctly)
1005
00:56:58,418 --> 00:57:00,388
(distant toy train horn blows)
1006
00:57:00,487 --> 00:57:02,823
(children playing)
1007
00:57:05,793 --> 00:57:07,361
narrator: Chuck was
looking forward
1008
00:57:07,460 --> 00:57:09,263
to having a baby sister.
1009
00:57:09,697 --> 00:57:11,632
Of course, he was
also looking forward
1010
00:57:11,732 --> 00:57:13,668
to having parents,
1011
00:57:13,768 --> 00:57:16,469
but none of that worked out
thanks to a patch
1012
00:57:16,570 --> 00:57:20,341
of well-hidden ice
on an I-95 overpass.
1013
00:57:20,841 --> 00:57:23,377
-(train whistle hooting)
-(exclaims)
1014
00:57:23,476 --> 00:57:25,746
Chuck wasn't in the car
when it happened
1015
00:57:25,846 --> 00:57:28,616
because his parents
were having a dinner date
1016
00:57:28,716 --> 00:57:32,019
and he was being babysat
by his grandparents,
1017
00:57:32,119 --> 00:57:35,823
who, at the time,
he was still calling
Zaydee and Bubbie.
1018
00:57:36,223 --> 00:57:37,792
He was seven years old.
1019
00:57:37,892 --> 00:57:39,492
Excellent job.
1020
00:57:39,927 --> 00:57:42,330
narrator:
For a year and a half,
it was a house
1021
00:57:42,430 --> 00:57:44,598
of unadulterated sadness.
1022
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:48,669
Albie and Sarah Krantz
had not only lost
1023
00:57:48,769 --> 00:57:50,538
their son
and daughter-in-law...
1024
00:57:50,638 --> 00:57:51,906
Why're you not eating?
1025
00:57:52,006 --> 00:57:53,607
narrator:
...they had lost
the granddaughter
1026
00:57:53,708 --> 00:57:56,410
who would've been born
just three months later.
1027
00:57:56,510 --> 00:57:58,079
young Chuck:
What's going on?
1028
00:57:58,379 --> 00:58:00,781
narrator: The name had
already been picked out...
1029
00:58:00,881 --> 00:58:03,117
-Her name is Alyssa.
-narrator: ...Alyssa.
1030
00:58:03,217 --> 00:58:06,721
When Chuck said that
sounded to him like rain,
1031
00:58:06,821 --> 00:58:09,824
his mother had laughed
and cried at the same time.
1032
00:58:11,092 --> 00:58:12,560
He never forgot that.
1033
00:58:14,628 --> 00:58:16,597
Albie processed his grief
1034
00:58:16,697 --> 00:58:19,533
by turning to his
two absolutes,
1035
00:58:19,633 --> 00:58:22,303
numbers and alcohol.
1036
00:58:22,937 --> 00:58:25,506
Sarah, though,
could find no joy
1037
00:58:25,606 --> 00:58:27,508
in her usual pleasures.
1038
00:58:27,875 --> 00:58:30,311
She loved
the flavors of life,
1039
00:58:30,411 --> 00:58:32,713
music, art, and food,
1040
00:58:32,813 --> 00:58:35,316
but now,
found the world quiet
1041
00:58:35,416 --> 00:58:38,152
and gray and flavorless.
1042
00:58:40,087 --> 00:58:42,289
Some of the good feelings
came back
1043
00:58:42,390 --> 00:58:44,658
into the house with time.
1044
00:58:44,759 --> 00:58:46,327
There were a lot
of takeout meals
1045
00:58:46,427 --> 00:58:48,062
after the accident,
1046
00:58:48,162 --> 00:58:50,031
but around the time
Chuck turned 10,
1047
00:58:50,131 --> 00:58:53,000
his grandma started
cooking again.
1048
00:58:53,601 --> 00:58:56,137
She liked rock-and-roll
while she was cooking.
1049
00:58:56,237 --> 00:58:57,304
(music plays on radio)
1050
00:58:57,405 --> 00:59:00,474
Music Chuck would've thought
much too young for her,
1051
00:59:00,574 --> 00:59:02,743
but which she clearly enjoyed.
1052
00:59:03,144 --> 00:59:04,779
("Dance Hall Days"
by Wang Chung playing)
1053
00:59:04,879 --> 00:59:07,415
♪ Take your baby
by the hand ♪
1054
00:59:07,815 --> 00:59:09,050
(tapping rhythmically)
1055
00:59:09,150 --> 00:59:12,286
♪ And make her do
a high handstand ♪
1056
00:59:13,888 --> 00:59:16,757
♪ And take your baby
by the heel ♪
1057
00:59:18,793 --> 00:59:20,394
♪ And do the next thing
that you feel ♪
1058
00:59:20,494 --> 00:59:21,829
(chuckles)
1059
00:59:21,929 --> 00:59:25,166
Come on, little brother,
let's dance. (chuckles)
1060
00:59:25,266 --> 00:59:27,768
♪ We were so in phase ♪
1061
00:59:27,868 --> 00:59:31,672
♪ In our dance hall days ♪
1062
00:59:32,507 --> 00:59:36,077
♪ We were cool on craze ♪
1063
00:59:37,411 --> 00:59:39,680
♪ When I, you ♪
1064
00:59:39,780 --> 00:59:42,917
♪ And everyone we knew
could believe ♪
1065
00:59:43,217 --> 00:59:46,320
♪ Do and share
in what was true ♪
1066
00:59:46,420 --> 00:59:47,721
♪ Oh, I said ♪
1067
00:59:50,458 --> 00:59:52,259
♪ Dance hall days, love ♪
1068
00:59:56,163 --> 00:59:58,866
♪ Take your baby
by the hair ♪
1069
01:00:01,001 --> 01:00:03,671
♪ And pull her close
and there, there, there ♪
1070
01:00:05,673 --> 01:00:08,676
♪ And take your baby
by the ears ♪
1071
01:00:10,177 --> 01:00:13,314
♪ And play upon
her darkest fears ♪
1072
01:00:14,516 --> 01:00:16,518
♪ We were so in... ♪
1073
01:00:16,617 --> 01:00:19,854
(upbeat music playing on TV)
1074
01:00:22,456 --> 01:00:24,358
Sarah Krantz:
You could learn
those moves, kiddo.
1075
01:00:25,192 --> 01:00:26,193
You're a natural.
1076
01:00:26,927 --> 01:00:28,563
Wh-Where did you learn?
1077
01:00:28,662 --> 01:00:30,331
Sarah:
High school.
1078
01:00:30,865 --> 01:00:32,366
Chuck: What were you
like in high school?
1079
01:00:34,068 --> 01:00:36,470
-I was a kusit.
-(both laugh)
1080
01:00:36,571 --> 01:00:38,540
But don't you tell
your Zaydee I said that.
1081
01:00:38,873 --> 01:00:40,174
He's old school,
that one.
1082
01:00:40,274 --> 01:00:41,275
(snorts)
1083
01:00:41,375 --> 01:00:42,910
(both chuckle)
1084
01:00:43,444 --> 01:00:45,146
narrator:
Chuck never told.
1085
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,550
His grandparents'
house became
1086
01:00:48,649 --> 01:00:50,552
every inch his home
1087
01:00:50,651 --> 01:00:52,086
with one exception.
1088
01:00:53,254 --> 01:00:55,055
The cupola on the roof.
1089
01:00:56,423 --> 01:00:57,626
(switch clicks)
1090
01:00:57,892 --> 01:01:01,395
Chuck was forbidden
to go into the cupola.
1091
01:01:01,762 --> 01:01:03,931
That was
his grandfather's rule,
1092
01:01:04,031 --> 01:01:08,035
and it was absolute,
emphatic.
1093
01:01:08,135 --> 01:01:11,338
Albie wasn't a stern man
in other matters.
1094
01:01:11,438 --> 01:01:14,576
He was downright gentle
in most respects.
1095
01:01:14,842 --> 01:01:16,911
But on this point,
he was rigid.
1096
01:01:20,014 --> 01:01:22,316
Chuck asked about it,
of course,
1097
01:01:22,416 --> 01:01:23,552
and more than once.
1098
01:01:23,984 --> 01:01:25,352
What was up there?
1099
01:01:25,452 --> 01:01:27,955
What could you see
from the high window?
1100
01:01:28,055 --> 01:01:31,992
And the big question,
why was the room locked?
1101
01:01:33,194 --> 01:01:35,396
-Grandma said...
-Because the floor isn't safe
1102
01:01:35,496 --> 01:01:36,897
and you might go
right through it.
1103
01:01:36,997 --> 01:01:38,999
-narrator: Grandpa said...
-There's nothing up there
1104
01:01:39,099 --> 01:01:40,467
because of
that rotten floor.
1105
01:01:40,569 --> 01:01:42,836
And the only thing you can
see through the windows
1106
01:01:42,937 --> 01:01:44,705
is the shopping center.
1107
01:01:44,805 --> 01:01:47,542
narrator: He said that
until, one night,
1108
01:01:47,642 --> 01:01:50,010
just before Chuck's
11th birthday,
1109
01:01:50,110 --> 01:01:52,813
when he told
at least part of the truth.
1110
01:01:52,913 --> 01:01:54,081
Carl Sagan (on TV):
The cosmic calendar
1111
01:01:54,181 --> 01:01:56,750
compresses the local history
of the universe
1112
01:01:56,850 --> 01:01:58,852
into a single year.
1113
01:01:59,086 --> 01:02:01,590
If the universe began
on January 1st,
1114
01:02:01,922 --> 01:02:04,391
it was not until May
that the Milky Way formed.
1115
01:02:04,491 --> 01:02:07,529
narrator: Drinking is
not good for secrets.
1116
01:02:07,629 --> 01:02:09,830
And after the death
of his son,
1117
01:02:09,930 --> 01:02:12,900
daughter-in-law,
and granddaughter-to-be,
1118
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,236
Alyssa, who sounds
like rain,
1119
01:02:15,769 --> 01:02:18,138
Albie Krantz drank
a great deal.
1120
01:02:18,239 --> 01:02:20,107
Sagan:
Everything humans
have ever done
1121
01:02:20,207 --> 01:02:22,109
occurred in that
bright speck
1122
01:02:22,209 --> 01:02:25,045
at the lower right
of the cosmic calendar.
1123
01:02:25,145 --> 01:02:26,880
Chuck:
I'll bet you could see
1124
01:02:26,981 --> 01:02:28,849
way past
the Westford Mall
1125
01:02:28,949 --> 01:02:30,251
from the cupola.
1126
01:02:31,553 --> 01:02:35,055
You gotta be able to see
the whole town from up there,
1127
01:02:35,155 --> 01:02:36,190
I bet.
1128
01:02:37,091 --> 01:02:39,594
Albie Krantz:
If you went up there,
1129
01:02:39,694 --> 01:02:42,396
you might see a lot more
than you wanted.
1130
01:02:43,665 --> 01:02:45,099
That's why it's locked,
Chucko.
1131
01:02:45,533 --> 01:02:48,902
Every month is
one and a quarter
billion years long.
1132
01:02:49,136 --> 01:02:51,872
Each day represents
40 million years.
1133
01:02:51,972 --> 01:02:54,775
narrator:
He wanted to ask
what Grandpa meant.
1134
01:02:55,109 --> 01:02:58,879
But the adult part of him,
not there in person,
1135
01:02:58,979 --> 01:03:02,116
no, not at 10, but something
that had begun to speak
1136
01:03:02,216 --> 01:03:04,719
on rare occasions,
told him
1137
01:03:04,818 --> 01:03:06,887
-to be quiet.
-Sagan: At this scale...
1138
01:03:06,987 --> 01:03:09,823
narrator:
Be quiet and wait.
1139
01:03:10,424 --> 01:03:13,861
But all of human history
would occupy an area
1140
01:03:13,961 --> 01:03:15,095
the size of my hand.
1141
01:03:15,630 --> 01:03:19,333
We're just beginning to trace
the long and tortuous path
1142
01:03:19,433 --> 01:03:21,035
which began
with the primeval...
1143
01:03:21,135 --> 01:03:23,437
You know what style
of house this is?
1144
01:03:24,471 --> 01:03:25,839
Victorian.
1145
01:03:25,939 --> 01:03:27,141
That's right.
1146
01:03:28,108 --> 01:03:29,977
And not pretend
Victorian either.
1147
01:03:30,077 --> 01:03:33,414
It was built in 1885.
1148
01:03:34,114 --> 01:03:37,084
It's been remodeled
half a dozen times since.
1149
01:03:37,184 --> 01:03:41,088
But that cupola was there
from the start.
1150
01:03:42,089 --> 01:03:44,659
Been here since '71.
1151
01:03:44,759 --> 01:03:47,194
And in all those years,
I haven't been up
1152
01:03:47,294 --> 01:03:49,963
to that damn cupola
half a dozen times.
1153
01:03:50,064 --> 01:03:52,132
'Cause the floor is rotted?
1154
01:03:53,668 --> 01:03:55,570
'Cause it's full of ghosts.
1155
01:03:56,970 --> 01:04:00,407
Sagan:
...around 10:30 p.m.
on December 31st.
1156
01:04:00,809 --> 01:04:03,010
-Y-You remember Scrooge?
-Chuck: Yeah.
1157
01:04:03,110 --> 01:04:04,612
That Scrooge movie
we watched?
1158
01:04:04,713 --> 01:04:05,780
I remember.
1159
01:04:05,879 --> 01:04:08,550
Do you think of that
as a ghost story?
1160
01:04:09,818 --> 01:04:11,251
I-I-I guess so.
1161
01:04:11,352 --> 01:04:14,154
Heard someone say
it was a ghost story.
1162
01:04:16,725 --> 01:04:18,892
Christmas Yet to Come.
1163
01:04:19,627 --> 01:04:21,529
Sagan:
11:59:20,
1164
01:04:21,895 --> 01:04:24,298
evening,
last day of the...
1165
01:04:24,398 --> 01:04:26,867
Jefferies boy
was a month later.
1166
01:04:28,737 --> 01:04:30,404
Henry Peterson,
1167
01:04:31,706 --> 01:04:33,140
that took longer.
1168
01:04:34,308 --> 01:04:38,312
Four...
maybe five years on.
1169
01:04:38,412 --> 01:04:40,548
And by then...
1170
01:04:42,182 --> 01:04:45,119
I almost forgot
what I saw up there.
1171
01:04:47,488 --> 01:04:48,956
Almost.
1172
01:04:51,626 --> 01:04:54,529
Said I'd never go back
up there after that.
1173
01:04:56,330 --> 01:05:00,200
And I wish I hadn't
because of Sarah.
1174
01:05:03,237 --> 01:05:06,340
Because of
your Bubbie, Chucky.
1175
01:05:08,475 --> 01:05:10,244
Your sweet Bubbie.
1176
01:05:12,379 --> 01:05:13,681
And the bread.
1177
01:05:15,115 --> 01:05:17,552
Sagan: Every person
we've ever heard of,
1178
01:05:18,686 --> 01:05:19,821
somewhere in there...
1179
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:21,589
It's the waiting, Chucko.
1180
01:05:23,924 --> 01:05:25,527
That's the hard part.
1181
01:05:25,627 --> 01:05:27,862
Sagan: Everything in
the history books
1182
01:05:27,961 --> 01:05:30,063
happened here
1183
01:05:30,598 --> 01:05:33,233
in the last 10 seconds
of the cosmic calendar.
1184
01:05:33,333 --> 01:05:34,903
-(door slams)
-Sarah: Ooh!
1185
01:05:35,002 --> 01:05:36,771
It's getting cold out there.
1186
01:05:37,070 --> 01:05:40,007
Vera says hi.
She says thanks
for the soup.
1187
01:05:41,442 --> 01:05:43,745
She laid the gossip on me,
laid it good.
1188
01:05:44,077 --> 01:05:45,780
Of course...
(laughs)
1189
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,114
that's why we have
a Vera, isn't it?
1190
01:05:47,214 --> 01:05:49,082
So, what's the latest?
1191
01:05:49,183 --> 01:05:50,919
Well, I don't know
if you've heard,
1192
01:05:51,018 --> 01:05:54,354
but Trish is saying Karen
and Matty are in therapy.
1193
01:05:54,455 --> 01:05:56,925
-Again.
-Who's Henry Peterson, Zaydee?
1194
01:05:57,024 --> 01:05:58,693
Sagan: ...the universe
that made us
1195
01:05:58,793 --> 01:06:02,463
or we can squander
our 15 billion-year heritage.
1196
01:06:02,897 --> 01:06:04,766
Sarah: And get
some pancake mix.
1197
01:06:04,866 --> 01:06:07,000
Yellow box,
not the orange box.
1198
01:06:07,100 --> 01:06:08,937
-You got all that?
-Albie: I got it.
1199
01:06:09,036 --> 01:06:11,506
-Do you need me
to write it down?
-I got it.
1200
01:06:11,873 --> 01:06:13,040
Don't you think
about driving.
1201
01:06:13,140 --> 01:06:14,909
The walk will
sober you up.
1202
01:06:15,008 --> 01:06:16,511
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1203
01:06:16,611 --> 01:06:19,279
(insects chirping)
1204
01:06:22,917 --> 01:06:24,084
(door closes)
1205
01:06:34,428 --> 01:06:36,196
He'll be back
with some groceries.
1206
01:06:37,264 --> 01:06:38,933
Then, how about tonight,
1207
01:06:39,032 --> 01:06:41,736
we do some s'mores
in the fireplace?
1208
01:06:43,136 --> 01:06:45,272
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
1209
01:06:47,107 --> 01:06:49,343
Was he blabbing to you
about his ghosts?
1210
01:06:50,912 --> 01:06:52,412
The ones that live
in the cupola?
1211
01:06:54,782 --> 01:06:56,083
Yeah.
1212
01:06:56,618 --> 01:06:58,118
Well, are there?
1213
01:06:59,921 --> 01:07:01,121
What do you think?
1214
01:07:02,222 --> 01:07:04,659
I wouldn't pay too much
attention to Zaydee.
1215
01:07:04,959 --> 01:07:07,494
He's a good man.
But, sometimes,
1216
01:07:07,595 --> 01:07:11,733
well, sometimes,
he drinks too much.
1217
01:07:11,833 --> 01:07:13,133
Then he rides
his hobby horses.
1218
01:07:13,233 --> 01:07:14,602
I'm sure you know
what I'm talking about.
1219
01:07:14,702 --> 01:07:16,571
Who was the Jefferies boy?
1220
01:07:21,375 --> 01:07:22,376
Well...
1221
01:07:23,176 --> 01:07:24,779
that was
a very sad thing, kiddo.
1222
01:07:26,446 --> 01:07:28,683
He lived on
the next block over,
1223
01:07:28,783 --> 01:07:30,919
and he got hit by a car
1224
01:07:31,019 --> 01:07:33,053
when he chased a ball
into the street.
1225
01:07:34,121 --> 01:07:35,690
It happened
a long time ago.
1226
01:07:38,392 --> 01:07:40,828
And if your grandpa says
he saw it before it happened,
1227
01:07:40,929 --> 01:07:42,262
he's mistaken.
1228
01:07:47,167 --> 01:07:49,169
(weak laugh)
He just drinks too much.
1229
01:08:00,347 --> 01:08:04,184
You know, I could take those
to Mrs. Stanley if you want.
1230
01:08:05,118 --> 01:08:07,087
Oh, that's very thoughtful
of you.
1231
01:08:07,187 --> 01:08:08,455
I bet Vera'd love that.
1232
01:08:09,791 --> 01:08:10,792
Mm.
1233
01:08:11,826 --> 01:08:13,193
Just wonderful.
1234
01:08:13,293 --> 01:08:14,963
Your, your grandmother
is an artist.
1235
01:08:15,063 --> 01:08:16,631
Thank you for
bringing them over.
1236
01:08:16,731 --> 01:08:17,799
Was that your idea?
1237
01:08:18,131 --> 01:08:19,968
-Be honest.
-It was.
1238
01:08:20,068 --> 01:08:21,636
Well, can I make you
a cup of tea?
1239
01:08:22,003 --> 01:08:24,639
Um, I don't drink tea,
but, um,
1240
01:08:25,006 --> 01:08:26,641
I wouldn't mind
a glass of milk.
1241
01:08:28,509 --> 01:08:30,177
Well, your grandmother's
a saint.
1242
01:08:31,012 --> 01:08:32,179
And what about
your granddad?
1243
01:08:32,279 --> 01:08:34,147
Did he have that thing
on his back looked at?
1244
01:08:34,247 --> 01:08:36,951
Yeah, the, the doctor
took it off and had it tested.
1245
01:08:37,051 --> 01:08:38,218
(whispers)
Tell me everything.
1246
01:08:38,553 --> 01:08:40,454
It wasn't one
of the bad ones.
1247
01:08:41,355 --> 01:08:42,757
Thank God for that.
1248
01:08:43,123 --> 01:08:44,291
Yeah.
1249
01:08:45,593 --> 01:08:47,662
He, um, he was talking
to Grandma
1250
01:08:47,762 --> 01:08:50,698
about someone
named Henry Peterson.
1251
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:53,601
So awful.
1252
01:08:53,701 --> 01:08:55,302
You know,
Henry was a bookkeeper,
1253
01:08:55,402 --> 01:08:56,638
just like your granddad.
1254
01:08:56,938 --> 01:08:58,973
He did a lot of
the other businesses in town.
1255
01:08:59,073 --> 01:09:00,307
The ones that
your Zaydee didn't do--
1256
01:09:00,407 --> 01:09:01,909
How did it happen?
1257
01:09:04,478 --> 01:09:06,446
I don't think you want
to hear about that stuff.
1258
01:09:06,547 --> 01:09:10,952
Um, w-w-well,
Granddad said it was,
uh, peaceful.
1259
01:09:11,052 --> 01:09:12,720
(mouth full)
Peaceful?
1260
01:09:13,121 --> 01:09:15,623
He killed himself.
Hung himself.
1261
01:09:16,090 --> 01:09:17,424
His wife, you see,
she ran off
1262
01:09:17,525 --> 01:09:19,594
with this younger man,
barely old enough to vote.
1263
01:09:19,694 --> 01:09:22,162
And she was in her 40s.
What do you think of that?
1264
01:09:23,296 --> 01:09:24,899
-Wow.
-Damn right, wow.
1265
01:09:24,999 --> 01:09:27,200
And then, I heard that--
1266
01:09:32,940 --> 01:09:34,441
What's happening
at school?
1267
01:09:36,010 --> 01:09:38,211
-Who's smooching who?
-(chuckles)
1268
01:09:38,311 --> 01:09:41,281
teacher: "Talk honestly,
for no one else hears you
1269
01:09:41,381 --> 01:09:43,450
and I stay
only a minute longer."
1270
01:09:43,551 --> 01:09:45,953
-(students chattering)
-"Do I contradict myself?
1271
01:09:46,754 --> 01:09:47,889
"Very well then,
1272
01:09:48,756 --> 01:09:49,957
"I contradict myself,
1273
01:09:51,592 --> 01:09:52,660
"I am large.
1274
01:09:53,928 --> 01:09:55,429
I contain multitudes."
1275
01:09:55,697 --> 01:09:58,099
narrator: On the last day
of sixth grade,
1276
01:09:58,198 --> 01:09:59,299
Miss Richards,
1277
01:09:59,399 --> 01:10:01,703
a sweet, hippie-dippyish
young woman
1278
01:10:01,803 --> 01:10:04,304
who had no command
of discipline
1279
01:10:04,404 --> 01:10:06,440
and would probably
not last long
1280
01:10:06,541 --> 01:10:09,177
in the public
education system,
1281
01:10:09,276 --> 01:10:11,746
tried to recite
for Chuck's class
1282
01:10:11,846 --> 01:10:16,416
some verse
of Walt Whitman's
"Song of Myself."
1283
01:10:17,518 --> 01:10:20,521
"Failing to fetch me at first
keep encouraged.
1284
01:10:21,122 --> 01:10:23,624
Missing me one place,
search another."
1285
01:10:24,158 --> 01:10:27,260
-(bell ringing)
-(students chattering)
1286
01:10:37,171 --> 01:10:38,906
That went well,
don't you think?
1287
01:10:40,041 --> 01:10:42,610
Yeah, I'm, I'm
sorry about that.
1288
01:10:43,978 --> 01:10:48,549
What does he mean
when he says, "I am large,
1289
01:10:48,883 --> 01:10:51,251
I contain multitudes"?
1290
01:10:54,222 --> 01:10:55,723
What do you think
he means?
1291
01:10:56,490 --> 01:10:58,860
All the people
he knows.
1292
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:00,094
Yes.
1293
01:11:00,595 --> 01:11:02,395
But maybe he means
even more.
1294
01:11:03,731 --> 01:11:05,365
Here. Come here.
1295
01:11:09,170 --> 01:11:11,438
What's in there?
Between my hands?
1296
01:11:11,539 --> 01:11:13,340
-My brain.
-(chuckles)
1297
01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:15,777
No, um, that's not
exactly what I mean.
1298
01:11:16,811 --> 01:11:17,979
What's in there?
1299
01:11:18,311 --> 01:11:20,380
Right between
my hands right now.
1300
01:11:21,983 --> 01:11:23,151
I don't know.
1301
01:11:23,518 --> 01:11:24,886
All the people you know?
1302
01:11:26,020 --> 01:11:27,155
I guess.
1303
01:11:27,555 --> 01:11:29,289
Just the people you know?
1304
01:11:31,559 --> 01:11:32,927
Everything you see.
1305
01:11:33,528 --> 01:11:35,062
Everything you know.
1306
01:11:36,296 --> 01:11:38,266
The world, Chuck.
1307
01:11:38,365 --> 01:11:40,902
Planes in the sky.
Manhole covers in the street.
1308
01:11:41,002 --> 01:11:44,005
Every year that you live,
that world inside your head
1309
01:11:44,105 --> 01:11:48,308
will get bigger and brighter
and more detailed and complex.
1310
01:11:48,843 --> 01:11:51,646
You will build cities
and countries and continents,
1311
01:11:51,746 --> 01:11:55,783
and you will fill them
with people and faces,
1312
01:11:55,883 --> 01:11:57,151
real and imagined.
1313
01:11:57,251 --> 01:11:58,820
Do you understand?
1314
01:12:00,221 --> 01:12:01,488
Don't stop there.
1315
01:12:01,589 --> 01:12:03,624
You fill the whole thing
1316
01:12:03,724 --> 01:12:05,793
with everyone you ever meet,
1317
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:07,427
everyone you ever know,
1318
01:12:07,795 --> 01:12:10,531
everyone you ever
just imagine.
1319
01:12:11,431 --> 01:12:13,333
It'll be a universe.
1320
01:12:14,535 --> 01:12:18,371
A whole universe
right between my hands.
1321
01:12:20,208 --> 01:12:22,844
You contain multitudes.
1322
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:27,114
So...
1323
01:12:28,716 --> 01:12:31,853
what happens
to that universe if someone...
1324
01:12:33,154 --> 01:12:34,589
I don't know,
1325
01:12:35,022 --> 01:12:38,759
hits a patch of ice
and goes off an overpass or...
1326
01:12:41,696 --> 01:12:43,931
Don't worry too much
about those things.
1327
01:12:44,632 --> 01:12:48,501
Just remember that
you contain multitudes,
Chuck.
1328
01:12:50,238 --> 01:12:51,639
Isn't that wonderful?
1329
01:12:53,808 --> 01:12:56,244
Now, go on.
You were such a good boy.
1330
01:12:56,344 --> 01:12:58,411
I've really enjoyed
having you in class.
1331
01:13:02,750 --> 01:13:05,887
(melancholic music playing)
1332
01:13:05,987 --> 01:13:08,990
(students chattering)
1333
01:13:19,867 --> 01:13:22,036
narrator: Chuck did
enjoy his summer
1334
01:13:22,136 --> 01:13:23,704
until August,
1335
01:13:24,305 --> 01:13:25,740
when Bubbie died.
1336
01:13:26,107 --> 01:13:29,010
(indistinct praying)
1337
01:13:30,311 --> 01:13:32,113
It happened
at the grocery store
1338
01:13:32,213 --> 01:13:34,248
down the street, in public,
1339
01:13:34,348 --> 01:13:36,784
which was
a little undignified,
1340
01:13:36,884 --> 01:13:38,853
but at least it was
the kind of death
1341
01:13:38,953 --> 01:13:40,588
where people
can safely say...
1342
01:13:40,688 --> 01:13:42,422
Thank God
she didn't suffer.
1343
01:13:43,758 --> 01:13:45,226
narrator:
The other standby...
1344
01:13:45,326 --> 01:13:46,861
She had a long, full life.
1345
01:13:46,961 --> 01:13:49,330
narrator: ...was more
of a gray area.
1346
01:13:49,897 --> 01:13:53,100
Sarah Krantz had yet
to reach her mid-60s.
1347
01:13:56,804 --> 01:13:59,573
Once more, the house
on Pilchard Street
1348
01:13:59,674 --> 01:14:02,710
was one
of unadulterated sadness.
1349
01:14:03,811 --> 01:14:07,515
Albie wore his mourning band,
and lost weight,
1350
01:14:07,615 --> 01:14:09,884
and stopped
telling his jokes
1351
01:14:09,984 --> 01:14:13,788
and began to look older
than his 70 years.
1352
01:14:14,789 --> 01:14:17,158
(peppy music plays in store)
1353
01:14:21,228 --> 01:14:22,730
-That's it?
-Yeah.
1354
01:14:24,298 --> 01:14:25,866
Buck 75.
1355
01:14:28,069 --> 01:14:31,672
Um, that lady who was
in here a few weeks ago,
1356
01:14:32,406 --> 01:14:34,442
the one who died.
1357
01:14:35,009 --> 01:14:38,045
Where was she
when it happened?
1358
01:14:38,346 --> 01:14:40,214
That's a little creepy, kid.
1359
01:14:42,249 --> 01:14:43,718
She was my grandma.
1360
01:14:45,786 --> 01:14:47,688
clerk: She was getting
a loaf of bread.
1361
01:14:47,788 --> 01:14:49,590
Pulled down
almost everything
1362
01:14:49,690 --> 01:14:51,592
on the shelf
when she collapsed.
1363
01:14:52,093 --> 01:14:56,030
I'm sorry if that's
too much information.
1364
01:14:57,798 --> 01:14:58,966
Nah.
1365
01:15:00,368 --> 01:15:01,736
I already knew that.
1366
01:15:03,503 --> 01:15:07,675
(snoring)
1367
01:15:12,246 --> 01:15:13,714
(snoring continues)
1368
01:15:20,221 --> 01:15:22,990
(keys jingling)
1369
01:15:26,961 --> 01:15:28,095
(lock clicks)
1370
01:15:41,108 --> 01:15:42,076
(sighs)
1371
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,783
(door creaks)
1372
01:15:57,324 --> 01:15:59,093
-Albie: No!
-What?!
1373
01:15:59,960 --> 01:16:03,697
-Get away from there!
You get away from there.
-What? Hey, hey!
1374
01:16:06,133 --> 01:16:09,136
(dramatic music playing)
1375
01:16:15,176 --> 01:16:17,678
(gasping)
1376
01:16:26,787 --> 01:16:28,089
Give me that.
1377
01:16:30,057 --> 01:16:32,226
Give it to me.
Give it to me.
1378
01:16:32,760 --> 01:16:34,028
Give me it.
1379
01:16:34,128 --> 01:16:36,097
(sobs)
1380
01:16:38,432 --> 01:16:39,633
Oh.
1381
01:16:39,733 --> 01:16:41,836
Oh, I'm sorry.
1382
01:16:42,336 --> 01:16:43,971
I'm sorry.
1383
01:16:44,071 --> 01:16:45,540
Are you okay?
1384
01:16:45,639 --> 01:16:47,208
What did you see?
1385
01:16:49,443 --> 01:16:51,445
What did you see?
1386
01:16:51,546 --> 01:16:54,648
I'm sorry.
It's just, you can't.
1387
01:16:55,483 --> 01:16:57,751
You can't do that, Chucky.
1388
01:16:58,452 --> 01:17:00,154
You just can't.
1389
01:17:00,254 --> 01:17:01,590
Oh, I'm so sorry.
1390
01:17:01,689 --> 01:17:05,594
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm so, so sorry.
1391
01:17:05,693 --> 01:17:07,761
-(Chuck sobbing)
-I'm sorry.
1392
01:17:07,862 --> 01:17:10,631
(students chattering)
1393
01:17:11,533 --> 01:17:14,735
(melancholic music playing)
1394
01:17:29,984 --> 01:17:31,352
Sarah:
Come on, little brother.
1395
01:17:32,253 --> 01:17:33,787
(echoing)
Let's dance.
1396
01:17:41,228 --> 01:17:44,298
(indistinct chatter)
1397
01:17:49,436 --> 01:17:52,473
teacher: Hello, twirlers,
and hello, spinners.
1398
01:17:52,574 --> 01:17:55,209
What do you know?
Three boys this year.
1399
01:17:55,309 --> 01:17:56,545
It's a new record.
1400
01:17:56,645 --> 01:17:58,078
You gentlemen
might find yourselves
1401
01:17:58,179 --> 01:17:59,847
being teased
for your new hobby.
1402
01:17:59,947 --> 01:18:02,483
I assure you, you are
the smartest young men
1403
01:18:02,584 --> 01:18:03,751
in the whole school.
1404
01:18:03,851 --> 01:18:05,419
You'll soon see
what I mean.
1405
01:18:05,886 --> 01:18:08,822
For those who don't know me,
I am Miss Rohrbacher.
1406
01:18:08,923 --> 01:18:10,925
And when I'm not teaching
the girls phys-ed,
1407
01:18:11,025 --> 01:18:13,595
I am what a few students
have called,
1408
01:18:13,727 --> 01:18:15,362
"The Dance Monster."
1409
01:18:16,430 --> 01:18:17,998
Nothing? Alright.
1410
01:18:18,098 --> 01:18:19,634
You have chosen
what might be
1411
01:18:19,733 --> 01:18:21,869
the best club
this school has ever had.
1412
01:18:21,969 --> 01:18:23,704
'Cause if we didn't
have girls volleyball,
1413
01:18:23,804 --> 01:18:25,172
we wouldn't have nothing.
1414
01:18:25,272 --> 01:18:27,041
No, no, no.
1415
01:18:27,141 --> 01:18:30,945
Back, Mr. Mulford,
you are mine now.
1416
01:18:32,647 --> 01:18:34,748
-(waltz music playing)
-Waltz.
1417
01:18:36,083 --> 01:18:37,785
narrator:
Chuck knew it.
1418
01:18:39,486 --> 01:18:41,355
(energetic music playing)
1419
01:18:41,455 --> 01:18:42,756
Cha-cha.
1420
01:18:44,391 --> 01:18:45,492
narrator:
Chuck knew it.
1421
01:18:47,828 --> 01:18:49,631
-(upbeat music playing)
-Swing.
1422
01:18:49,730 --> 01:18:51,131
Triple step. Rock step.
1423
01:18:51,232 --> 01:18:52,967
-Triple step. Rock step.
-narrator: Chuck knew it.
1424
01:18:53,067 --> 01:18:55,936
Rohrbacher:
Triple step. Rock step.
1425
01:18:56,036 --> 01:18:57,972
-(upbeat samba music playing)
-Samba.
1426
01:19:00,774 --> 01:19:01,775
Don't know that one.
1427
01:19:01,875 --> 01:19:02,943
narrator:
He was, by far,
1428
01:19:03,043 --> 01:19:05,079
the best dancer
in the little club.
1429
01:19:05,179 --> 01:19:07,549
So, Miss Rohrbacher
mostly put him
1430
01:19:07,649 --> 01:19:09,283
with the girls
who were clumsy.
1431
01:19:09,551 --> 01:19:12,554
He understood she did it
to make them better,
1432
01:19:12,654 --> 01:19:14,522
and he was
a good sport about it.
1433
01:19:14,955 --> 01:19:17,559
Near the end
of their two hours, however,
1434
01:19:17,659 --> 01:19:20,160
The Dance Monster
would show mercy
1435
01:19:20,261 --> 01:19:22,830
and pair him
with Cat McCoy,
1436
01:19:22,930 --> 01:19:24,733
who was an eighth grader
1437
01:19:24,832 --> 01:19:27,868
and the best dancer
of the girls.
1438
01:19:28,703 --> 01:19:31,205
Chuck didn't
expect romance.
1439
01:19:31,438 --> 01:19:33,173
Cat was not only gorgeous,
1440
01:19:33,274 --> 01:19:35,976
she was a full foot taller
than he was.
1441
01:19:36,343 --> 01:19:38,946
But he loved
to dance with her,
1442
01:19:39,046 --> 01:19:40,981
and the feeling was mutual.
1443
01:19:41,315 --> 01:19:44,018
Rohrbacher: ...three.
Out, two, three. Switch.
1444
01:19:44,385 --> 01:19:45,620
And stop.
1445
01:19:46,053 --> 01:19:48,690
In, two, three.
Out, two, three.
1446
01:19:48,789 --> 01:19:50,891
Turn. Now box.
1447
01:19:50,991 --> 01:19:54,028
One, two, three.
One, two, three.
1448
01:19:54,128 --> 01:19:56,731
One, two, three.
One, two, three.
1449
01:19:56,830 --> 01:19:59,233
I don't know what that is.
1450
01:19:59,333 --> 01:20:00,669
Oh, my God.
1451
01:20:00,769 --> 01:20:03,337
Okay, 10 minutes freestyle.
1452
01:20:03,437 --> 01:20:06,508
("My Sharona"
by The Knack playing)
1453
01:20:15,416 --> 01:20:18,385
♪ Ooh, my little pretty one,
my pretty one ♪
1454
01:20:18,485 --> 01:20:21,322
♪ When you gonna give me
some time, Sharona? ♪
1455
01:20:21,422 --> 01:20:22,856
Hey. Watch this.
1456
01:20:22,956 --> 01:20:25,492
♪ Ooh, you make my motor run,
my motor run ♪
1457
01:20:26,493 --> 01:20:28,295
(Cat chuckles)
1458
01:20:28,996 --> 01:20:30,397
Show me how you did that.
1459
01:20:30,898 --> 01:20:32,433
Chuck: Ready?
1460
01:20:32,534 --> 01:20:35,302
Slide, slide, slide.
1461
01:20:35,603 --> 01:20:37,471
-(Cat chuckles)
-Here, ready?
1462
01:20:37,572 --> 01:20:39,607
Try it with me.
1463
01:20:39,708 --> 01:20:41,776
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona ♪
1464
01:20:41,875 --> 01:20:44,078
-Um...
-Uh, kick off your shoes
1465
01:20:44,178 --> 01:20:46,581
-and do it in your socks.
-Aye-aye.
1466
01:20:48,783 --> 01:20:50,518
Now, slide.
1467
01:20:51,285 --> 01:20:52,554
Slide.
1468
01:20:52,886 --> 01:20:54,888
Yeah. There you go.
1469
01:20:55,557 --> 01:20:57,991
Hey! Show me.
1470
01:20:59,828 --> 01:21:01,028
Pop. Slide.
1471
01:21:01,128 --> 01:21:03,497
Pop. Slide.
Slide. Slide.
1472
01:21:03,964 --> 01:21:05,466
Yeah, again.
1473
01:21:06,500 --> 01:21:07,569
Chuck:
Pop. Slide. Pop.
1474
01:21:07,669 --> 01:21:08,902
♪ Woo! ♪
1475
01:21:09,002 --> 01:21:12,039
♪ M-m-m-my Sharona ♪
1476
01:21:12,139 --> 01:21:13,941
narrator: Twirlers
and Spinners let out
1477
01:21:14,041 --> 01:21:15,943
half an hour late that day.
1478
01:21:16,043 --> 01:21:17,846
♪ My Sharona ♪
1479
01:21:18,078 --> 01:21:19,279
Cat McCoy:
That's so rad.
1480
01:21:19,380 --> 01:21:21,014
You figured that out
by yourself?
1481
01:21:21,115 --> 01:21:23,016
Chuck: Well, I just kept
rewinding and rewinding
1482
01:21:23,117 --> 01:21:24,952
til I figured it out.
1483
01:21:27,287 --> 01:21:28,889
We should do that
at the Fling.
1484
01:21:30,792 --> 01:21:34,995
Uh, not as a date
or anything.
1485
01:21:35,095 --> 01:21:36,964
I'm going out
with Dougie Wentworth.
1486
01:21:37,766 --> 01:21:39,333
You know that, right?
1487
01:21:39,433 --> 01:21:40,535
Yeah.
1488
01:21:42,637 --> 01:21:44,471
But that doesn't mean
we couldn't show them
1489
01:21:44,572 --> 01:21:45,740
some cool moves.
1490
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:47,074
(chuckles)
1491
01:21:47,174 --> 01:21:49,343
I really want to.
Do you?
1492
01:21:50,010 --> 01:21:51,579
I-I don't know.
1493
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:53,480
I'm a lot shorter.
1494
01:21:53,782 --> 01:21:56,383
(sighs)
I think people will laugh.
1495
01:22:11,900 --> 01:22:14,168
-That totally works.
-It totally does.
1496
01:22:14,268 --> 01:22:16,604
-Chuck: Are you sure?
-Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
1497
01:22:16,704 --> 01:22:18,405
Chuck:
Well, they feel great!
1498
01:22:19,072 --> 01:22:21,375
Uh, just a little big.
1499
01:22:24,344 --> 01:22:25,647
Cat:
That should be enough.
1500
01:22:25,747 --> 01:22:27,515
-Rohrbacher: Little more.
-Cat: Maybe one more.
1501
01:22:27,615 --> 01:22:29,049
Rohrbacher:
How's that?
1502
01:22:31,251 --> 01:22:34,021
Floor feels like ice.
(laughs)
1503
01:22:34,421 --> 01:22:35,824
You put scratches
on that floor,
1504
01:22:35,924 --> 01:22:37,892
-the janitor is gonna beat y--
-Timmy.
1505
01:22:37,991 --> 01:22:39,493
There won't be
no scratches.
1506
01:22:39,594 --> 01:22:41,596
He's too light on his feet
to leave any.
1507
01:22:43,030 --> 01:22:45,299
Albie:
Almost perfect.
1508
01:22:49,704 --> 01:22:51,338
Take another run
at these two.
1509
01:22:51,873 --> 01:22:53,508
(sighs)
1510
01:22:53,608 --> 01:22:55,375
You don't need to sigh.
1511
01:22:55,743 --> 01:22:56,977
You're good at this,
you know?
1512
01:22:57,077 --> 01:22:58,746
You're really good at it.
1513
01:22:58,847 --> 01:23:00,815
Yeah, but it's boring.
1514
01:23:01,248 --> 01:23:03,885
Boring?
What, you mean math?
1515
01:23:03,984 --> 01:23:05,152
Yeah.
1516
01:23:05,252 --> 01:23:07,287
I wonder
if maybe next semester
1517
01:23:07,387 --> 01:23:09,891
you might want to try
Math League after school.
1518
01:23:09,990 --> 01:23:12,059
I did it all high school,
in fact,
1519
01:23:12,159 --> 01:23:13,728
and it was so great.
1520
01:23:13,828 --> 01:23:15,630
I'm doing Twirlers
and Spinners.
1521
01:23:17,064 --> 01:23:18,332
Yeah.
1522
01:23:19,801 --> 01:23:22,604
Hey, hey, put that down
for a second, will you?
1523
01:23:23,605 --> 01:23:25,372
Just a little about math.
1524
01:23:25,940 --> 01:23:27,876
Because people
start out thinking
1525
01:23:27,976 --> 01:23:29,042
it might be boring,
1526
01:23:29,142 --> 01:23:31,178
and that's
their first mistake.
1527
01:23:31,646 --> 01:23:35,382
It's used in every career,
in every job,
1528
01:23:35,482 --> 01:23:38,051
in every facet of life
on this planet.
1529
01:23:38,151 --> 01:23:40,855
That's a fact.
Hell, the planet.
1530
01:23:41,288 --> 01:23:43,925
How do you think we figure out
how long a day is?
1531
01:23:44,526 --> 01:23:46,794
Everybody knows
how long a day is.
1532
01:23:47,127 --> 01:23:49,463
-How long?
-Twenty-four hours.
1533
01:23:49,764 --> 01:23:52,767
People say it's 24 hours,
but they're wrong.
1534
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:57,070
There are 23 hours
and 56 minutes
1535
01:23:57,170 --> 01:23:58,540
in a stellar day.
1536
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:01,809
Plus a few odd seconds.
Math proves it.
1537
01:24:02,342 --> 01:24:04,579
How do we know
how old the Earth is?
1538
01:24:04,679 --> 01:24:07,916
How old the universe is,
how long people have been here?
1539
01:24:08,016 --> 01:24:10,217
Or how to build a bridge
or a skyscraper
1540
01:24:10,317 --> 01:24:12,587
or how far apart
the stars are?
1541
01:24:12,921 --> 01:24:14,689
How did we land
on the moon?
1542
01:24:14,789 --> 01:24:16,323
The stars themselves.
1543
01:24:16,423 --> 01:24:18,693
Why they burn,
why atoms split and fuse,
1544
01:24:18,793 --> 01:24:20,795
and all the rest
is just math.
1545
01:24:22,797 --> 01:24:24,933
Hey, stars are just math.
1546
01:24:25,399 --> 01:24:27,267
When you look
at the night sky,
1547
01:24:27,367 --> 01:24:29,571
you're seeing
the greatest equation
1548
01:24:29,671 --> 01:24:31,104
in the universe.
1549
01:24:31,405 --> 01:24:34,174
Heck, your dancing,
that's math too.
1550
01:24:34,274 --> 01:24:37,210
I mean, what's
the language of dance?
1551
01:24:37,311 --> 01:24:40,314
How do you learn your steps?
It's even in the name.
1552
01:24:40,414 --> 01:24:42,817
I mean, they call it
"the count."
1553
01:24:42,917 --> 01:24:44,351
One and two
and three and four.
1554
01:24:44,451 --> 01:24:47,254
What's a waltz?
One, two, three,
one, two, three.
1555
01:24:47,354 --> 01:24:49,691
Just numbers, just math.
1556
01:24:50,390 --> 01:24:51,793
And more than that,
1557
01:24:52,927 --> 01:24:54,529
there's an art to it.
1558
01:24:55,395 --> 01:24:57,932
What I do,
all these files here,
1559
01:24:58,032 --> 01:24:59,499
all these folders,
1560
01:25:00,367 --> 01:25:03,037
these are all people's lives.
1561
01:25:03,136 --> 01:25:05,172
Every choice they made.
1562
01:25:05,873 --> 01:25:07,942
Last year, last 10 years.
1563
01:25:08,275 --> 01:25:10,243
Everything that's
important to them.
1564
01:25:10,344 --> 01:25:13,615
Every weakness they have,
every vice, every dream,
1565
01:25:13,715 --> 01:25:16,951
it's all here in numbers.
1566
01:25:17,417 --> 01:25:19,721
Some schmuck comes in,
takes those numbers,
1567
01:25:19,821 --> 01:25:23,558
does the math without artistry,
someone loses their house.
1568
01:25:24,025 --> 01:25:27,427
I take those numbers,
do a little art,
1569
01:25:28,029 --> 01:25:29,564
I save someone's life.
1570
01:25:30,364 --> 01:25:31,733
That's what I do.
1571
01:25:32,132 --> 01:25:34,702
That's what accounting is.
1572
01:25:35,235 --> 01:25:37,504
Chuck: Well, maybe
they should teach that,
1573
01:25:37,605 --> 01:25:39,206
the cool stuff,
1574
01:25:39,306 --> 01:25:42,510
and not just
all the boring stuff.
1575
01:25:43,111 --> 01:25:44,311
Hmm.
1576
01:25:48,082 --> 01:25:49,684
(gulps)
1577
01:25:51,519 --> 01:25:54,388
Math is something else too.
1578
01:25:54,488 --> 01:25:57,157
Some math,
math that's called statistics
1579
01:25:57,257 --> 01:25:58,826
or probability,
1580
01:25:59,359 --> 01:26:01,863
it can tell you stuff
about your future.
1581
01:26:03,230 --> 01:26:05,298
It could tell you,
for example,
1582
01:26:06,366 --> 01:26:08,201
you're more likely
to be drafted
1583
01:26:08,301 --> 01:26:10,237
by a major league sports team
1584
01:26:10,337 --> 01:26:12,940
than to make a real living
as a dancer.
1585
01:26:16,744 --> 01:26:20,114
The world loves dancers,
it truly does.
1586
01:26:20,548 --> 01:26:24,952
But it needs accountants,
so there's much more demand,
1587
01:26:25,053 --> 01:26:27,689
so there's much
more opportunity.
1588
01:26:28,723 --> 01:26:32,160
I know that might hurt,
but it's the truth.
1589
01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:37,131
Math is truth.
It won't lie to you.
1590
01:26:37,765 --> 01:26:40,702
It doesn't factor in
your preferences.
1591
01:26:40,802 --> 01:26:42,670
It's pure that way.
1592
01:26:43,905 --> 01:26:46,406
Math can do a lot of things.
1593
01:26:47,942 --> 01:26:49,342
Math can be art.
1594
01:26:51,244 --> 01:26:53,213
But it can't lie.
1595
01:26:53,681 --> 01:26:54,682
So...
1596
01:26:56,249 --> 01:26:58,052
take another run
at those two
1597
01:26:58,152 --> 01:26:59,419
because, Chucko,
1598
01:27:00,353 --> 01:27:02,456
you are good.
1599
01:27:03,323 --> 01:27:06,728
You... have art in you.
1600
01:27:11,032 --> 01:27:12,934
("All Been Said Before"
by Matt Nathanson playing)
1601
01:27:13,034 --> 01:27:14,969
♪ Hugging me like skin ♪
1602
01:27:16,137 --> 01:27:18,005
♪ And I'll sweat it clean ♪
1603
01:27:18,106 --> 01:27:20,307
♪ Until I can taste ♪
1604
01:27:20,407 --> 01:27:23,477
♪ The oxygen ♪
1605
01:27:24,344 --> 01:27:26,614
♪ Oh ♪
1606
01:27:44,297 --> 01:27:46,500
♪♪
1607
01:27:48,970 --> 01:27:51,005
Hey! You look great!
1608
01:27:51,105 --> 01:27:53,340
Thanks. Uh, you too.
1609
01:27:53,841 --> 01:27:54,876
(both chuckle)
1610
01:27:55,176 --> 01:27:57,044
Wanna show 'em
how it's done?
1611
01:27:57,211 --> 01:27:59,914
Uh, I don't know.
I kinda, um...
1612
01:28:01,048 --> 01:28:02,683
I kinda hurt my leg.
1613
01:28:04,252 --> 01:28:05,586
You hurt your leg?
1614
01:28:05,953 --> 01:28:08,623
Maybe, maybe let's, let's
wait for a better song.
1615
01:28:11,491 --> 01:28:15,328
("All the Time"
by We're About 9 playing)
1616
01:28:18,331 --> 01:28:20,835
♪ Today I changed
the picture ♪
1617
01:28:21,135 --> 01:28:23,571
♪ In our old oak frame ♪
1618
01:28:25,706 --> 01:28:29,409
♪ To a painting I made of
a photo inside... ♪
1619
01:28:30,778 --> 01:28:31,879
Hey, kiddo.
1620
01:28:33,080 --> 01:28:34,081
Hey.
1621
01:28:35,883 --> 01:28:37,985
Thought you were gonna
tear it up tonight.
1622
01:28:40,087 --> 01:28:41,556
I don't, I don't know.
1623
01:28:42,190 --> 01:28:44,091
My shoes feel all funny,
1624
01:28:44,192 --> 01:28:47,795
and... I hurt my leg.
1625
01:28:48,563 --> 01:28:50,430
Oh, you hurt your leg?
1626
01:28:51,732 --> 01:28:52,733
Yeah.
1627
01:28:53,134 --> 01:28:54,569
I'm sorry
to hear that.
1628
01:28:56,204 --> 01:28:57,872
So, you came stag, huh?
1629
01:28:57,972 --> 01:28:59,774
-Hmm?
-No date.
1630
01:29:00,340 --> 01:29:01,642
Nah, I...
1631
01:29:01,943 --> 01:29:04,946
That'll change.
Believe me, it'll change.
1632
01:29:05,046 --> 01:29:06,714
Just give it some time.
1633
01:29:07,648 --> 01:29:09,183
None of this,
none of--
1634
01:29:09,584 --> 01:29:12,385
None of that out there
really means anything.
1635
01:29:12,485 --> 01:29:15,189
It's all just,
just a scrimmage.
1636
01:29:15,289 --> 01:29:16,891
Just a practice.
1637
01:29:16,991 --> 01:29:19,260
(upbeat music playing)
1638
01:29:19,359 --> 01:29:21,562
Hey, this is perfect.
Come on.
1639
01:29:21,662 --> 01:29:23,396
Nah, I'm still, uh...
1640
01:29:24,131 --> 01:29:25,465
My leg's still wonky.
1641
01:29:25,566 --> 01:29:27,034
Chuck, come on.
1642
01:29:27,134 --> 01:29:28,401
We're gonna blow
the roof off.
1643
01:29:28,501 --> 01:29:29,837
I'm sorry.
1644
01:29:30,905 --> 01:29:32,405
It really hurts.
1645
01:29:37,979 --> 01:29:41,949
("Rock n Roll Boogie"
by The Math Club playing)
1646
01:29:46,654 --> 01:29:50,224
You know, I've been dancing
since I was eight,
1647
01:29:50,524 --> 01:29:52,126
and I teach PE,
1648
01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:55,029
and I've seen
when my kids get hurt.
1649
01:29:55,129 --> 01:29:56,631
I see how their walk changes.
1650
01:29:56,731 --> 01:29:58,933
I see how
their posture changes.
1651
01:29:59,033 --> 01:30:01,434
And don't mind me saying,
but you look...
1652
01:30:02,904 --> 01:30:04,705
Well, you look fine
to me, Chuck.
1653
01:30:06,073 --> 01:30:09,510
I'm not saying that you have
to dance with the girl.
1654
01:30:09,877 --> 01:30:11,812
It's up to you.
I'm just saying
1655
01:30:11,913 --> 01:30:14,515
dance or no dance,
you don't have to lie.
1656
01:30:16,117 --> 01:30:17,551
Tell her the truth.
1657
01:30:20,354 --> 01:30:21,589
She can take it.
1658
01:30:22,790 --> 01:30:26,027
(music continues faintly)
1659
01:30:28,129 --> 01:30:30,131
(insects chirping)
1660
01:30:44,011 --> 01:30:45,146
(chuckles)
1661
01:31:09,870 --> 01:31:13,074
("Gimme Some Lovin'"
by Steve Winwood playing)
1662
01:31:25,786 --> 01:31:27,487
♪ Well,
my temperature's rising ♪
1663
01:31:27,588 --> 01:31:29,256
♪ And my feet on
the floor ♪
1664
01:31:29,390 --> 01:31:32,626
♪ Crazy people knocking 'cause
they're wanting some more ♪
1665
01:31:32,927 --> 01:31:35,696
♪ Let me in, baby,
I don't know what you got ♪
1666
01:31:35,796 --> 01:31:38,099
-You ready?
-Yeah. Let's do it.
1667
01:31:39,066 --> 01:31:42,003
♪ And I'm so glad
we made it ♪
1668
01:31:43,170 --> 01:31:45,172
♪ So glad we made it ♪
1669
01:31:45,272 --> 01:31:46,574
♪ You gotta ♪
1670
01:31:46,741 --> 01:31:48,175
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1671
01:31:48,275 --> 01:31:50,144
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
1672
01:31:50,244 --> 01:31:51,445
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1673
01:31:51,545 --> 01:31:53,314
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
1674
01:31:53,414 --> 01:31:57,084
♪ Gimme some a-lovin'
every day ♪
1675
01:31:59,353 --> 01:32:01,789
(all cheering)
1676
01:32:09,497 --> 01:32:11,298
(all cheering)
1677
01:32:16,337 --> 01:32:18,039
♪ Well, I feel so good ♪
1678
01:32:18,139 --> 01:32:20,207
♪ Everything
is getting higher ♪
1679
01:32:20,307 --> 01:32:21,409
♪ You better take it easy ♪
1680
01:32:21,510 --> 01:32:23,177
♪ 'Cause the place
is on fire ♪
1681
01:32:23,277 --> 01:32:26,680
♪ Been a hard day
and I have so much to do ♪
1682
01:32:26,781 --> 01:32:29,350
♪ We made it, baby,
and it happened to you ♪
1683
01:32:29,450 --> 01:32:32,186
♪ And I'm so glad
we made it ♪
1684
01:32:33,487 --> 01:32:35,556
♪ So glad we made it ♪
1685
01:32:35,656 --> 01:32:37,124
♪ You gotta ♪
1686
01:32:37,224 --> 01:32:38,459
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1687
01:32:38,559 --> 01:32:40,494
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
1688
01:32:40,594 --> 01:32:41,662
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1689
01:32:41,762 --> 01:32:43,631
♪ Gimme, gimme some lovin' ♪
1690
01:32:43,731 --> 01:32:45,266
♪ Gimme some a-lovin' ♪
1691
01:32:45,366 --> 01:32:46,934
♪ Every day ♪
1692
01:32:47,034 --> 01:32:49,136
(all cheering)
1693
01:32:49,236 --> 01:32:52,239
♪♪
1694
01:33:04,885 --> 01:33:06,821
♪ Well, I feel so good ♪
1695
01:33:06,921 --> 01:33:08,856
♪ Everything
is getting higher ♪
1696
01:33:08,956 --> 01:33:11,859
♪ You better take it easy
'cause the place is on fire ♪
1697
01:33:12,126 --> 01:33:15,029
♪ Been a hard day
and nothing went too good ♪
1698
01:33:15,129 --> 01:33:18,132
♪ Now I'm gonna relax
like-a everybody should ♪
1699
01:33:18,232 --> 01:33:21,068
♪ And I'm so glad
we made it ♪
1700
01:33:21,368 --> 01:33:22,303
♪ Hey-hey ♪
1701
01:33:22,403 --> 01:33:24,472
♪ So glad we made it ♪
1702
01:33:24,573 --> 01:33:25,906
♪ You got to ♪
1703
01:33:26,006 --> 01:33:27,808
-♪ Gimme some a-loving ♪
-(cheering gets louder)
1704
01:33:27,908 --> 01:33:29,410
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1705
01:33:29,511 --> 01:33:30,545
♪ Gimme some loving ♪
1706
01:33:30,644 --> 01:33:32,880
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1707
01:33:33,914 --> 01:33:36,383
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1708
01:33:36,951 --> 01:33:39,286
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1709
01:33:40,354 --> 01:33:42,456
♪ Gimme, gimme some loving ♪
1710
01:33:42,557 --> 01:33:45,025
(all cheering)
1711
01:33:49,363 --> 01:33:52,066
(cheering gets louder)
1712
01:33:58,839 --> 01:34:01,543
all (chanting):
One more time! One more time!
1713
01:34:01,642 --> 01:34:03,410
One more time!
1714
01:34:03,512 --> 01:34:05,246
One more time!
1715
01:34:05,679 --> 01:34:07,281
narrator:
They may have been young,
1716
01:34:07,381 --> 01:34:10,251
but they were smart enough
to know when to quit.
1717
01:34:10,351 --> 01:34:13,320
(all cheering)
1718
01:34:18,759 --> 01:34:19,793
Thank you, guys.
1719
01:34:19,894 --> 01:34:21,530
narrator:
Six months before he died
1720
01:34:21,630 --> 01:34:25,299
of a brain tumor
at the unfair age of 39,
1721
01:34:25,399 --> 01:34:28,836
and while his mind
was still working, mostly,
1722
01:34:29,136 --> 01:34:32,406
Chuck told his wife
the truth about the scar
1723
01:34:32,507 --> 01:34:33,908
on the back of his hand.
1724
01:34:35,610 --> 01:34:37,211
When they'd first
started dating,
1725
01:34:37,311 --> 01:34:39,413
he told her he'd gotten it
from a boy
1726
01:34:39,514 --> 01:34:41,148
named Doug Wentworth,
1727
01:34:41,248 --> 01:34:44,251
who was pissed about him
dancing with his girlfriend
1728
01:34:44,351 --> 01:34:45,886
at a middle school formal
1729
01:34:45,986 --> 01:34:48,222
and pushed him
into a chain link fence
1730
01:34:48,322 --> 01:34:49,390
outside the gym.
1731
01:34:49,490 --> 01:34:50,958
I lied about that, though.
1732
01:34:54,028 --> 01:34:55,196
Oh, my.
1733
01:34:55,296 --> 01:34:57,431
A man of secrets,
1734
01:34:57,532 --> 01:34:58,899
even still.
1735
01:35:00,868 --> 01:35:02,403
Ginny Krantz:
What happened, love?
1736
01:35:02,503 --> 01:35:04,838
Chuck: When our fabulous
dance was over, I...
1737
01:35:05,272 --> 01:35:07,775
I was sweaty
and I was so hot.
1738
01:35:08,375 --> 01:35:10,645
I-I felt like my cheeks
were gonna catch fire.
1739
01:35:10,744 --> 01:35:11,879
You were great.
1740
01:35:11,979 --> 01:35:13,480
-Thank you.
-What a star.
1741
01:35:14,748 --> 01:35:15,883
Chuck:
All I wanted in that moment
1742
01:35:15,983 --> 01:35:18,352
was just darkness,
1743
01:35:18,452 --> 01:35:19,887
cool air,
1744
01:35:20,689 --> 01:35:22,223
and to be by myself.
1745
01:35:26,794 --> 01:35:28,929
There were millions
of stars that night.
1746
01:35:30,599 --> 01:35:31,932
Millions of them.
1747
01:35:32,299 --> 01:35:34,435
And millions more
behind them.
1748
01:35:35,102 --> 01:35:39,106
And sure, m-may-- Yeah,
maybe they were just math.
1749
01:35:40,040 --> 01:35:42,611
But they also danced.
1750
01:35:42,711 --> 01:35:45,813
I know 'cause
I saw one of them.
1751
01:35:47,515 --> 01:35:51,218
And I remember thinking,
the universe is large
1752
01:35:51,318 --> 01:35:53,722
and, and it
contains multitudes,
1753
01:35:53,821 --> 01:35:57,358
but it-it also contains me.
1754
01:35:58,526 --> 01:35:59,994
And in this moment...
1755
01:36:01,596 --> 01:36:03,264
I am wonderful.
1756
01:36:04,331 --> 01:36:06,934
And I have a right
to be wonderful.
1757
01:36:07,034 --> 01:36:09,103
-(fence rattles)
-Oh!
1758
01:36:10,605 --> 01:36:12,607
(groans)
1759
01:36:12,707 --> 01:36:14,341
Ginny:
Why lie about that, silly?
1760
01:36:15,943 --> 01:36:18,245
You're a strange wonder,
my dear.
1761
01:36:19,913 --> 01:36:21,982
narrator:
He doesn't offer more
1762
01:36:22,082 --> 01:36:25,786
because the scar was important
for another reason.
1763
01:36:26,820 --> 01:36:29,591
It was part of a story
he couldn't tell,
1764
01:36:29,990 --> 01:36:32,727
even though there was now
an apartment building
1765
01:36:32,826 --> 01:36:34,895
on the site
of the Victorian house
1766
01:36:34,995 --> 01:36:37,398
where he had done
most of his growing up.
1767
01:36:38,667 --> 01:36:41,335
The haunted Victorian house.
1768
01:36:41,435 --> 01:36:42,369
Mm.
1769
01:36:42,803 --> 01:36:44,004
No reason.
1770
01:36:45,674 --> 01:36:47,441
Funny thinking, I guess.
1771
01:36:47,875 --> 01:36:49,877
narrator:
The scar meant more,
1772
01:36:49,977 --> 01:36:52,012
so he had made it more.
1773
01:36:52,313 --> 01:36:56,518
He just couldn't make it
as much more as it really was.
1774
01:36:56,917 --> 01:36:59,019
That made little sense.
1775
01:36:59,119 --> 01:37:02,990
But as the glioblastoma
continued its blitzkrieg,
1776
01:37:03,390 --> 01:37:05,794
it was the best
his disintegrating mind
1777
01:37:05,893 --> 01:37:06,927
could manage.
1778
01:37:07,027 --> 01:37:10,164
(upbeat music playing on TV)
1779
01:37:19,039 --> 01:37:20,341
(switch clicks)
1780
01:37:22,843 --> 01:37:24,044
(switch clicks)
1781
01:37:28,949 --> 01:37:30,217
(switch clicks)
1782
01:37:31,586 --> 01:37:35,356
(groaning, gasping)
1783
01:37:36,223 --> 01:37:39,728
(groans)
1784
01:37:39,828 --> 01:37:41,495
narrator:
Chuck's grandpa,
1785
01:37:41,596 --> 01:37:42,863
his Zaydee,
1786
01:37:43,598 --> 01:37:45,099
died of a heart attack
1787
01:37:45,199 --> 01:37:49,136
five years after
the Fall Fling dance.
1788
01:37:49,236 --> 01:37:51,806
Chuck was a junior
in high school
1789
01:37:51,905 --> 01:37:54,942
singing in a band
and dancing like Jagger
1790
01:37:55,042 --> 01:37:57,111
during the
instrumental breaks.
1791
01:37:57,545 --> 01:37:59,913
funeral director: He made all
the arrangements himself.
1792
01:38:01,048 --> 01:38:02,983
Came in a few weeks ago
1793
01:38:03,083 --> 01:38:05,252
just to make sure
everything was to the letter,
1794
01:38:05,352 --> 01:38:07,689
which I thought
was strange.
1795
01:38:08,188 --> 01:38:10,190
Not many people bother
to do that.
1796
01:38:10,290 --> 01:38:11,425
Most people,
1797
01:38:11,526 --> 01:38:14,495
they come here once
to set it all up.
1798
01:38:14,995 --> 01:38:16,964
They aren't anxious
to come back again.
1799
01:38:18,165 --> 01:38:21,468
Next time I see 'em,
they're in their Sunday best,
1800
01:38:21,569 --> 01:38:22,637
if you get me.
1801
01:38:24,806 --> 01:38:28,075
He was a great man
and a good friend.
1802
01:38:29,276 --> 01:38:32,045
He's been doing
our books for 23 years
1803
01:38:32,146 --> 01:38:34,516
and saved our skin
more than once
1804
01:38:34,616 --> 01:38:36,016
when the tax man was coming.
1805
01:38:38,686 --> 01:38:41,255
So, do I owe you
any money?
1806
01:38:41,355 --> 01:38:42,757
Not a penny.
1807
01:38:42,857 --> 01:38:45,959
He took care of that too.
Settled his tab
1808
01:38:46,059 --> 01:38:47,562
that same visit.
1809
01:38:48,630 --> 01:38:49,631
You know...
1810
01:38:50,832 --> 01:38:52,232
the strangest thing.
1811
01:38:52,667 --> 01:38:55,936
And this will sound strange,
so bear with me.
1812
01:38:56,403 --> 01:38:58,972
See, I, uh,
1813
01:38:59,273 --> 01:39:01,709
dreamed of being
a television weatherman
1814
01:39:01,810 --> 01:39:02,877
in my salad days
1815
01:39:02,976 --> 01:39:04,546
with maybe one
of the networks.
1816
01:39:05,747 --> 01:39:07,214
Wasn't in the cards
for me.
1817
01:39:08,081 --> 01:39:11,985
But I did spend
a summer at WKNB.
1818
01:39:12,953 --> 01:39:15,690
Well, there was a guy
1819
01:39:15,790 --> 01:39:17,759
at KNB who they said
1820
01:39:17,859 --> 01:39:19,761
could feel a storm coming
1821
01:39:19,861 --> 01:39:21,729
two solid weeks away
1822
01:39:22,062 --> 01:39:23,665
without the radar.
1823
01:39:23,765 --> 01:39:25,265
Had a sixth sense.
1824
01:39:25,365 --> 01:39:27,501
Damnedest thing I ever saw.
1825
01:39:27,936 --> 01:39:30,070
Uh, used to make this face,
1826
01:39:30,170 --> 01:39:33,675
this face when people talked
about their travel plans,
1827
01:39:33,775 --> 01:39:35,777
if he knew something
they didn't.
1828
01:39:35,877 --> 01:39:38,880
Not... not a smile,
per se.
1829
01:39:38,979 --> 01:39:40,748
No joy in it.
1830
01:39:40,849 --> 01:39:44,184
Just a... knowing.
1831
01:39:45,152 --> 01:39:47,221
"Weatherman Stare,"
I called it.
1832
01:39:48,055 --> 01:39:50,792
And I didn't have it,
not me.
1833
01:39:50,892 --> 01:39:53,360
So, I'm here, not there.
1834
01:39:56,063 --> 01:39:58,900
Your granddad had
that same face
1835
01:39:58,999 --> 01:40:00,768
when he was in here.
1836
01:40:01,368 --> 01:40:05,038
Like... he knew
it was gonna rain.
1837
01:40:05,472 --> 01:40:08,208
And I was just a guy
selling him an umbrella.
1838
01:40:10,512 --> 01:40:11,679
Weatherman Stare.
1839
01:40:12,747 --> 01:40:14,348
(chuckles)
I'm sure of it.
1840
01:40:15,750 --> 01:40:17,017
The strangest thing.
1841
01:40:19,052 --> 01:40:21,154
narrator:
Albie left him everything.
1842
01:40:21,255 --> 01:40:24,491
More than enough to pay
for his college education.
1843
01:40:24,792 --> 01:40:27,494
And later on,
the sale of the Victorian
1844
01:40:27,595 --> 01:40:30,598
paid for the house
he and Ginny moved into
1845
01:40:30,698 --> 01:40:33,400
after their honeymoon
in the Catskills.
1846
01:40:35,235 --> 01:40:38,138
He flatly refused
to move to Omaha
1847
01:40:38,238 --> 01:40:40,675
to live with
his mother's parents.
1848
01:40:41,074 --> 01:40:42,744
-Look, I love you guys...
-narrator: He said.
1849
01:40:42,844 --> 01:40:46,246
...but this is where I grew up
and want to stay till college.
1850
01:40:46,346 --> 01:40:48,081
I'm 17. I'm not a baby.
1851
01:40:48,448 --> 01:40:50,919
narrator: So, they,
both long retired,
1852
01:40:51,019 --> 01:40:52,386
came to him
1853
01:40:52,486 --> 01:40:54,321
and stayed
in the Victorian
1854
01:40:54,421 --> 01:40:57,257
for the 20-odd months
before Chuck went off
1855
01:40:57,357 --> 01:40:59,527
to the University of Illinois.
1856
01:41:01,596 --> 01:41:05,198
They weren't able to be there
for the funeral, however.
1857
01:41:06,400 --> 01:41:09,037
It happened fast,
as Albie had wanted,
1858
01:41:09,136 --> 01:41:11,104
and his mom's folks
had loose ends
1859
01:41:11,204 --> 01:41:13,173
to tie up in Omaha.
1860
01:41:13,942 --> 01:41:16,811
Chuck didn't really miss them,
if he was honest.
1861
01:41:17,812 --> 01:41:19,881
His Zaydee hated a fuss
1862
01:41:19,981 --> 01:41:22,382
almost as much
as he hated a crowd.
1863
01:41:26,420 --> 01:41:29,189
A day before they were
scheduled to arrive,
1864
01:41:29,289 --> 01:41:31,559
Chuck finally opened
the envelope
1865
01:41:31,659 --> 01:41:33,561
that had been
sitting on the table
1866
01:41:33,661 --> 01:41:34,696
in the front hall.
1867
01:41:36,030 --> 01:41:38,533
It was from Sam Yarborough,
1868
01:41:38,633 --> 01:41:42,570
owner and chief undertaker
at Yarborough Funeral Home,
1869
01:41:42,670 --> 01:41:47,341
and inside were Albie Krantz's
personal effects.
1870
01:42:04,859 --> 01:42:06,060
(inhales deeply)
1871
01:42:06,159 --> 01:42:08,462
(sighs)
1872
01:42:08,763 --> 01:42:09,764
(switch clicks)
1873
01:42:25,145 --> 01:42:26,380
(lock clicks)
1874
01:42:37,290 --> 01:42:39,493
(door creaks)
1875
01:43:12,259 --> 01:43:15,530
-(birds tweeting)
-(dog barking in distance)
1876
01:43:24,237 --> 01:43:27,207
(monitor beeping)
1877
01:43:43,725 --> 01:43:46,694
narrator: In this room,
Chuck's grandpa had seen
1878
01:43:46,794 --> 01:43:48,029
the Jefferies boy,
1879
01:43:48,129 --> 01:43:50,330
body broken by the car.
1880
01:43:51,733 --> 01:43:55,103
He'd seen Henry Peterson
hanging from the ceiling.
1881
01:43:55,837 --> 01:43:58,973
He'd seen his own wife
lying dead.
1882
01:43:59,272 --> 01:44:01,542
And likely,
Chuck supposed,
1883
01:44:01,642 --> 01:44:05,146
perhaps the night
Chuck had stolen his keys,
1884
01:44:05,713 --> 01:44:10,151
Albie had even seen himself
crumpled to the floor,
1885
01:44:10,250 --> 01:44:12,419
still clutching
his upper arm.
1886
01:44:13,654 --> 01:44:16,256
"It's the waiting," he'd said.
1887
01:44:17,390 --> 01:44:18,993
"That's the hard part."
1888
01:44:19,093 --> 01:44:20,260
(monitor beeping)
1889
01:44:20,360 --> 01:44:23,296
Now Chuck's own
waiting would begin.
1890
01:44:24,699 --> 01:44:26,868
How long would
that wait be?
1891
01:44:27,668 --> 01:44:31,404
Exactly how old was the man
in the hospital bed?
1892
01:44:31,505 --> 01:44:34,474
(beeping continues)
1893
01:44:36,677 --> 01:44:39,279
-There was a final bip...
-(beeping stops)
1894
01:44:39,379 --> 01:44:41,348
...from the unseen monitor
1895
01:44:42,083 --> 01:44:43,951
and then that was gone too.
1896
01:44:46,921 --> 01:44:48,523
The man did not fade,
1897
01:44:48,623 --> 01:44:51,759
as ghostly apparitions did
in the movies.
1898
01:44:52,425 --> 01:44:54,361
He was just gone.
1899
01:44:54,929 --> 01:44:58,533
Insisting he had never
been there in the first place.
1900
01:45:00,234 --> 01:45:02,203
-He wasn't...
-narrator: Chuck thinks.
1901
01:45:02,570 --> 01:45:04,471
...and I will insist
he wasn't.
1902
01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:09,442
And I will live my life
until my life runs out.
1903
01:45:11,344 --> 01:45:12,747
I am wonderful.
1904
01:45:14,582 --> 01:45:16,449
I deserve to be wonderful.
1905
01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:21,022
And I contain multitudes.
1906
01:45:29,362 --> 01:45:31,966
(footsteps fading)
1907
01:45:32,066 --> 01:45:35,069
(melancholic music playing)
1908
01:45:37,538 --> 01:45:41,642
("The Parting Glass"
by Gregory Alan Isakov playing)
1909
01:46:00,393 --> 01:46:03,731
♪ Of all the money
I ever had ♪
1910
01:46:05,432 --> 01:46:09,804
♪ I spent it
in good company ♪
1911
01:46:10,437 --> 01:46:14,508
♪ And all the harm
I've ever done ♪
1912
01:46:16,110 --> 01:46:19,981
♪ It was to none but me ♪
1913
01:46:23,284 --> 01:46:25,620
♪ And all I've done ♪
1914
01:46:27,255 --> 01:46:29,724
♪ For want of wit ♪
1915
01:46:31,259 --> 01:46:35,997
♪ To memory now
I can't recall ♪
1916
01:46:38,465 --> 01:46:43,271
♪ So fill to me
the parting glass ♪
1917
01:46:43,771 --> 01:46:48,943
♪ Good night and joy be
to you all ♪
1918
01:47:11,933 --> 01:47:16,737
♪ Fill to me
the parting glass ♪
1919
01:47:17,204 --> 01:47:21,509
♪ And drink a health
whate'er befalls ♪
1920
01:47:22,176 --> 01:47:26,981
♪ Then gently rise
and softly call ♪
1921
01:47:27,515 --> 01:47:32,687
♪ Good night and joy be
to you all ♪
1922
01:47:55,943 --> 01:48:00,247
♪ Of all the friends
I ever had ♪
1923
01:48:00,815 --> 01:48:05,286
♪ They're sorry
for my going away ♪
1924
01:48:05,953 --> 01:48:10,791
♪ And all the sweethearts
I ever had ♪
1925
01:48:11,158 --> 01:48:15,730
♪ They would wish me
one more day to stay ♪
1926
01:48:18,532 --> 01:48:20,901
♪ Since it fell ♪
1927
01:48:23,137 --> 01:48:25,006
♪ Into my lot ♪
1928
01:48:26,841 --> 01:48:31,612
♪ That I should rise
and you should not ♪
1929
01:48:33,981 --> 01:48:38,552
♪ I'll gently rise
and softly call ♪
1930
01:48:39,086 --> 01:48:44,759
♪ Good night and joy be
to you all ♪
1931
01:49:07,748 --> 01:49:12,486
♪ Fill to me
the parting glass ♪
1932
01:49:12,887 --> 01:49:17,324
♪ Drink a health
whate'er befalls ♪
1933
01:49:17,892 --> 01:49:22,463
♪ Then gently rise
and softly call ♪
1934
01:49:22,997 --> 01:49:27,835
♪ Good night and joy be
to you all ♪
1935
01:49:28,202 --> 01:49:34,875
♪ Good night and joy be
to you all ♪
1936
01:49:36,577 --> 01:49:39,613
(song fades out)
1937
01:49:43,984 --> 01:49:47,154
(melancholic music playing)
1938
01:50:17,017 --> 01:50:20,187
(melancholic music continues)
1939
01:50:35,604 --> 01:50:37,771
(music fades out)
1939
01:50:38,305 --> 01:51:38,551
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