A New Leaf

Would you like to step out

and have a cigarette, Mr Graham?

No, thank you.

We'll call you as soon as we know.

No.

I understand.

She'll be alright now, Mr Graham.

Thank you.

Did you ever have any trouble

with it before, Mr Graham?

Well, I have to take it in

2 or 3 times a week.

Which is somewhat inconvenient,

but the car is well worth it.

2 or 3 times a week?

How often do you drive it?

2 or 3 times a week.

I have to take it in every time I drive it.

And then it usually needs

a tune-up every few weeks.

So I actually don't get

to drive it very much.

Oh, you have a real

problem then, Mr Graham.

Yes. My own mechanic

has not been very helpful.

Is there anything you can recommend?

Well ... you don't live

out here on the island, so ...

I can't check it regularly enough

to get a real picture.

All I can advise is never drive her under

3,000 rpm in a forward gear. Ever.

And there's a lot of carbon on the valves.

Yes, there always is. So thank you

very much for the recommendation.

Usually needs a tune-up every few weeks.

I wonder what he does to her that bad.

Oh, Mr Graham. Your attorney, Mr Beckett,

has been trying to reach you.

He's been calling the

superintendent's office all week.

Well, if he calls again tell him

I no longer live with the superintendent.

Have this car taken to my garage.

- Broke down again, didn't it?

- I don't care to discuss it.

... and he told me there

was carbon on the valves ...

which was no news to me 'cause

there's always carbon on the valves.

My own mechanic picked up

the car yesterday ...

and returned this afternoon with the news

that there was carbon on the valves.

I asked him why the car

broke down so frequently ...

and he said it was probably because

carbon got on the valves.

Ha ha, I told you a Ferrari

was useless in the city.

Buy a Bentley and stop carrying on.

How dare you?

Mr Graham!

- Henry! Henry!

- What a day. That's a perfectly insane ...

- Oh, Mr Graham!

- Who is it? What is it?

- A Mr Beckett on the phone!

- Beckett?

Says he's your attorney!

Has an urgent message. Says he'll wait.

Tell him I'm out.

I don't have much chance to

take her out and open her up.

Half the time is spent taking off and

the other half is spent on landing.

And she needs a lot of upkeep.

Every time I bring her out

she has to have repairs.

What seems to be the trouble?

My mechanic says it's carbon on the valves.

Zero One Foxtrot.

This is Long Island tower.

We're holding an emergency telephone call

for Mr Henry Graham...

from his attorney, Mr Beckett.

Over.

Roger. Zero One Foxtrot...

I'll just get out here, thank you.

I'm not taking that call.

Oh, Jerry!

Mr Von Rensaeller?

Has Mr Graham come in yet?

Yes. He's in the lounge with Mr Beaumont.

Have I told you that my apple trees

have crown gall?

Frequently.

Well, then you can relax.

They don't anymore.

I sprayed and the crown gall is gone.

Hello, Dan. I was just telling Henry

that my apple trees had crown gall.

But I sprayed and the crown gall is gone.

Really? Oh, you must be very relieved.

Yes. Yes, I am.

Could I have a word with you, Henry?

We've had several calls from your bank ...

saying there have been insufficient funds.

Ah, those idiots.

I was prevailed upon as honorary secretary

to bring it to your attention ...

so you can stir it up at the bank.

Been going on for weeks.

I wonder if Beckett would go this far

to get me to call back?

Now, listen to me very carefully, please.

You see, when you have capital ...

you are able to derive ... No.

I will attend to the check

in a moment, Mr Graham.

I understand about the check.

I'm trying to explain something to you ...

that is terribly important.

When we spend more,

per month or per year ...

than we have in income,

you must then dip into the capital ...

eventually exhausting the capital

and of course, therefore, the income.

Do you see what I mean?

Mr Beckett. This check must be paid.

- Mr Graham ...

- And at once.

I'm trying to explain to you that

it is impossible to pay the check ...

because your expenses

have exceeded your income ...

to such a point that you have

exhausted your capital.

Now you have no capital, no income ...

therefore no funds for the check, you see?

Don't treat me as though

I were a child, Mr Beckett.

I am as aware of what it means

to have no capital as you are.

- Oh, good.

- Now, what about this check?

Well, are you entirely sure

that you really do understand ...

what I mean by ... capital, Mr Graham?

You see, you've exhausted the capital.

I can't cover the check ...

because the check is for $6,000

and you don't have $6,000.

In other words, you don't have $60.

Come to the point, Beckett.

The point, Mr Graham, is that

you don't have any money.

The capital and the income are exhausted

and you no longer have any money.

I wish there was some

other way I could say it.

What could I ...?

How could I put it? That money ...

You have no capital, you have no income ...

you have ... no, it's only money.

You have no money. There's no other

way to put it.

You mean I have no money?

Yes, that's what I mean.

You have no money.

And what of my stocks, my AT&T,

my General Motors?

Y-yes, I know ...

My Emeralda Peat?

Yes, yes, I know about Emeralda Peat.

Let me show you something.

Mr Graham, you see,

it was necessary for me to sell ...

several shares per year in order

to cover the checks that you ...

- Who gave you the right to do that ?

- You did, sir.

- I did not!

- Yes, you did.

See, 15 years ago, when you told me

that you wished to live on $200,000 ...

despite the fact that the income

on your trust fund was only $90,000 ...

That is beside the point.

This check must be paid.

Do you realize that this check has

bounced, Mr Beckett? I mean, bounced!

- As though I were some indigent ...

- Yes, I know the check has bounced.

It is not the first check that

you've had bounced, Mr Graham.

I personally have covered three overdrafts

of yours to the extent ...

- I'd like to show you

this check - of $550.

This is of my own money, not the

firm's money, but that is not ...

a policy that I wish

to continue in the future.

Who gave you the right to do that?

Well, you did, Mr Graham.

You mean to say that I'm now in

the position of owing you $550?

No, no, no, don't, don't, please,

don't think of it as a loan, Mr Graham.

I have no more hope of receiving it than

you'll ever have of scraping it up.

Oh, thank you very much, Mr Beckett.

May I say that if you expected even

the smallest amount of gratitude ...

you have wasted $550

of the excessive fee I pay you ...

for the tiny services you render.

Mr Graham.

I would like to explain something to you.

I have given you $550 of my own money

for only one reason ...

Disliking you as intensely as I do,

I wanted to be absolutely certain ...

that when I looked back

upon your financial downfall ...

I could absolve myself completely

of any responsibility for it.

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