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Changing Lanes Page #7
for 200 pianos.
You don't say anything about them.
You're taking everything
on your shoulder in this letter.
Why? You could send 'em to jail.
They gotta write their own letters.
Let me go.
Should've left me inside.
You're too important to me.
Come on. Let's go to a meeting.
No, no, no.
I went to one yesterday.
- Well, that was yesterday.
- Yeah, one day at a time, right?
Yeah, one day at a time,
and do the next right thing.
Let's go.
There's a meeting at 6:00.
""God, grant me the strength...
to accept the things
I cannot change.""
It's an admirable gesture,
but it's unnecessary.
It's unnecessary because
you've already filed...
the power of appointment
with the court.
to the judge just before 5:00...
and her bailiff signed for it.
Your note of apology was contrite,
but it was absolutely professional.
Everything's taken care of.
- You filed a forgery.
- Bullshit.
I filed what I had to file.
What happened to--
You just disappeared.
Time was up.
Come on.
You scared the hell out of us.
I didn't know what to do.
So you finally hit rock bottom?
Today you almost killed a guy.
Tomorrow you might go all the way.
Keep doing the next wrong thing,
Convince the so ber to drink.
Don't tell them...
to keep each other alive with hope.
You saw today that everything decent
is held together by a covenant.
An agreement not to go bat sh*t!
- You broke the contract!
- I didn't have a drink!
Well, wow!
Thank you for sharing!
You didn't have a drink today!
What an inspiration!
That's the point, isn't it?
God!
You know, booze isn't really
your drug of choice anyway.
You're addicted to chaos.
For some of us, it's coke.
For some of us, it's bourbon.
But you,
you got hooked on disaster.
F***!
Here's what you shouId do.
You get up Monday morning...
and you get yourself
on a plane to Texas.
Take that letter with you.
When you get to Texas...
you get on the defense team
And then put all your energy
into saving a man from execution.
And then come on back here
in a few months.
You still wanna confess, go ahead.
Come on.
How the hell do you think
Simon Dunne got his money?
in Malaysia...
have day-care centers in them?
Wanna check the pollution levels
of his chemical plants in Mexico...
or look at the tax benefllts
he got from this foundation?
This is all a tightrope.
This is all a tightrope.
How can you live like that?
I can live with myself
because at the end of the day...
I think I do more good than harm.
What other standard
have I got to judge by?
I have to thank you.
For the house?
I understand what
you were trying to do, but...
my wife's moving,
she's taking the boys.
too much for me right now.
I'm sorry.
I was a horribly unstable father.
And Valerie says
I'll never see them again.
But you know what?
I will.
I'll see 'em in a year or two...
may be three.
I'll go to Portland,
I'll call her...
and I'll find a way
How about you?
Well...
I have the file...
but I don't need it anymore.
It's been taken care of.
You know.
It never happened.
But it did happen. Right?
Right.
So, now what?
I'm going to dinner with my wife...
her parents.
And this weekend,
I'm gonna go look at a boat.
And then on Monday, I'm gonna
come back in here and go to work.
And then...
magically this whole...
incredible day just somehow...
becomes a memory.
It's like you go to the beach.
You go down to the water.
It's a little cold.
You're not sure if you wanna go in.
There's a pretty girl
standing next to you.
She doesn't wanna go in either.
She sees you.
And you know...
if you just asked her
her name...
Forget your life,
whoever you came with...
And after that day...
you remember her.
She comes back to you.
It's the memory...
of another life...
you could've had.
Today is that girl.
Me too.
You brought the file back.
When you're done, there's a lovely
little place on the hill where--
where you can get a--
- Cappuccino.
- Yes, that's right, dear.
They're lovely cappuccinos,
and it's clean and it's cool.
They have these prints on the wall.
I don't know who they're by.
They're by that artist--
- Chagall.
- Right. They're Chagalls.
There's three of them.
They're early Chagalls.
when he was visiting there.
Am I missing something this evening?
- What is this?
- This, my dear--
This is Simon Dunne's...
power of appointment.
- I got it back.
- No, you didn't.
- Yes, I did. This is it.
- Please.
This is behind us, isn't it?
Haven't we put this behind us?
I was thinking about
what you said to me.
About the end of the day--
about doing more good than harm.
That is what you said, isn't it?
- Don't you f*** with me.
- I am not f***ing with you, sir.
- Don't you f*** with me.
- I am not f***ing with you, sir.
Can you imagine how unpleasant
it would be...
if the judge
got ahold of this file?
That's not gonna happen.
That's not gonna happen, Gavin.
I think I might order the snapper.
I'm gonna hold onto this file. I'm
gonna keep it in a very safe place.
But I'm not going to Texas.
I'm gonna come back
into work on Monday.
I'm gonna start doing that pro bono
work that you recommended that I do.
But I'm gonna do it
from our office.
The first thing we're gonna do
is help a man buy a house.
- Gavin, can we please not do this?
- And I think...
I would like to be the one
to call Mina Dunne.
I'm gonna tell her
that you and Walter...
are gonna give back the three
million dollars you stole...
from her grandfather's foundation.
You were right.
I can do this.
I found the edge.
Can you live there with me?
Can you?
I haven't had a f***ing thing
to eat all day, and I'm starving.
So what are we gonna eat?
- Mrs. Gipson?
- Yes?
My name is Gavin Banek.
What do you want?
Five minutes, ma'am.
I owe your husband twenty.
Hell...
I'm only asking for five with you.
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