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Days and Nights
Obsessions sometimes
grab hold of a man.
He may think, for example,
days and nights of nothing
else but the moon.
I have such a moon.
Days and nights, I'm held
in the grip of a memory.
It consumes me.
An idea for a story...
Why, this country is a
shining city on a hill.
The strong... the strong,
they tell us...
will inherit the land.
And I ask you now,
ladies and gentlemen,
brothers and sisters,
for the good of all of us,
the love of this great nation,
for the family of America
for the love of God, please make
this nation remember how futures
are built.
Thank you and God bless you.
DAYS AND NIGHTS:
sync, fix:
titlerLast call for Harlem...
Fordham, Woodlawn, Wakefield,
Mt. Vernon, Fleetwood,
Rossville, White Plains,
Valhalla, Mt. Pleasant,
- Concord, Pleasantville,
Mt. Kisco... - We're late.
- You're late. - ... Bedford Hills.
- Apologies.
- Please, can't we drive?
- We already fought about this.
- You're too old for trains.
- I like trains.
I'll buy you one.
Peter.
Peter!
This is ridiculous.
Did you know that, in Korea,
by sealing themselves in
a room filled with lilies?
Apparently,
the perfume is toxic.
I wonder how many you'd need
to kill everyone on this train.
He liked trains because, on them,
couples rarely feel the need to speak.
He might not have to hear the
reasons why her show got canceled,
casting her in his next film.
He wouldn't have to endure the endless
questions about her brother's illness.
What could her doctor friend tell her
that she didn't already suspect?
He might not have to discuss
her son's artistic anarchy,
caretaker's daughter,
and her marriage
of necessity.
He'd meet all of them,
soon enough.
They were off to her country house
to celebrate her brother's birthday.
It was Memorial Day
weekend, 1984.
I feel like Meryl in
"Silkwood. "
Where is she?
- Oh, God. Brace yourself.
- Where is she?
No one here.
Oh, oh.
No one here.
Oh, my God!
I didn't recognize you.
Stop.
- Johan, Peter. Peter, Johan.
- Okay, Johan. Hi.
Mass transit. The witch's
tit must have froze over.
- It's hell. - What?
- Hell must... n-never mind.
- What? And? - And everything's
coming up cats and dogs.
- Here. Smell these.
- Oh. - Breathe deep.
Mm.
Oh, the hell froze over.
Thinks he owns the place.
- Where's the wagon?
- I had things to do.
- Why is there a gun in the car?
- It's a rifle.
I tagged a bull on the way in.
You know, it shoots darts.
- Johan!
- What? Sorry.
That's how we medicate
now these days.
- Gentle.
- Like foot rot, blackleg,
cancer eye, foot and mouth,
lumpy jaw, warts, wood tongue...
- ... it's what's for dinner. - Don't think
about it. - Sorry. - Johan!
- This is very expensive luggage.
- Pain in the neck. Get it?
- I pay him.
- Well, hardly.
- After you. - I don't know
how Mary puts up with him.
- Ohh, it stinks in here.
- Sorry.
Imagine you're attacking
the audience.
I'm attacking the audience,
but without emotion?
- Just like you're reading it.
- That doesn't make any sense.
Come on.
"All experience hath shown that
mankind are more disposed to suffer... "
- That's great. That's better.
- Really? - Mm-hmm.
- One more time.
- Herb is gonna hate this.
No, he's not.
Come on, just read.
Just...
Why couldn't you get him a tie or
a goldfish, like any normal person?
- I'm not a normal person.
- Your mom is gonna hate it.
Of course she's gonna hate it,
she's not in it.
Is she really bringing
Peter this time?
No idea.
- I love his movies.
- Just read the lines.
I could get discovered.
- He's blind. Did you know that?
- He could put me in a movie.
- And deaf. - I could be a star.
- Good luck.
- I got to go.
- What?
- You won't come back in time.
- My Dad doesn't even know I'm here.
I got to go.
Hey!
- Don't be late.
- I won't.
Promise.
- You're late.
- Oh, hello, Mary!
- Here.
- Oh, beautiful!
- Peter.
- Mary, Peter. Peter, Mary.
Oh, we have heard
so much about you.
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
- Your husband is an imbecile.
- He's a stupid, stupid jerk.
- When grandma farts, we hit the dog.
- You got it? - Yeah.
- Did the wig work at all?
- Not a soul.
- Wonderful. - Oh, sorry.
How do I look?
Well, fair to middling.
- Not bad, huh?
- No.
Yeah.
Put me in a movie.
- Yeah, okay.
- Just put me in a movie, you know?
Shut up, Johan.
There is a bear
in the woods.
For some people,
the bear is easy to see.
Others don't see it at all.
Some people say
the bear is tame.
Others say it's
vicious and dangerous.
Since no one can
really be sure who's right,
isn't it smart to be
as strong as the bear...
if there is a bear?
96.3.
100.5.
Move.
99.8.
99.5.
Huh.
- Very much... retrovirus.
- I understand.
- Thank you. Okay.
- Take care. - I will. - Bye.
- Oh, Mary, I love the plantings.
They're gorgeous. - Thanks.
- Herb behave himself?
- You know your brother.
- It's locked.
- Well, it can't be.
- It's never locked.
- Knock.
Hello?
- Oh, I just heard something.
- It's not opening.
- Well, it's probably stuck.
- Use your shoulder.
- You. - Step aside.
Step aside. Step aside.
Everything is a production.
- Ow!
- Ohh. Herb.
- Herb!
- Herb!
- Ohh!
- Oh, my God.
- Ohh!
- Honey. Where's Louis?
I'll... I'll get him.
Louis!
- Oho! - Peter?
- Yes.
- How wonderful to meet you!
- You, too.
- Welcome.
- Happy birthday.
- Sorry again.
- Johan! - Sorry.
Oh, Herb. Come on.
Let's go sit down.
Come on. He's getting
blood everywhere.
- Ohh! Impossible.
- What happened?
- He hid and sought.
- Ow!
- Come sit down.
- Once my brother, now my son.
What did we say about
acting your age?
- That it's pointless.
- Come. Have a seat.
- Here, tilt your head back.
- I can't stand the taste of blood.
- Keep pressure on it.
- It's like I'm eating somebody.
- Does he need the hospital?
- He'll be fine. - Oh, thank God.
Steaks. Wonderful.
Peter, Doctor. Doctor, Peter.
- Oh, Louis. Nice to meet you.
- You, too.
- Excuse me. Sit tight.
- Like a lion with fresh kill.
Oh, Alex.
Sorry.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Stephen.
Oh, whoa,
you look lost.
- She... she has me in a relative pin.
- Well, that... that sounds painful.
- Hello. - Oh, Stephen,
Peter. Peter, Stephen. - Hi.
Alex, Peter.
Peter, Alex.
- Oh, there's that...
- Keep still.
- ... beautiful baby of yours...
- Ah! - ... piece of sunshine.
Aww. I understand you're expecting
another one. - We are?
Oh, Stephen is single-handedly saving
mother nature one bird at a time.
He's taken over the
entire waterfront...
...even got the county
restricting our land use.
- The neighbors love us.
- My God, what are you doing?
Keep still.
- I'm starving. Where's my son?
- Stop.
- He's up in his room.
- He's getting his movie ready.
- Movie? - Installation thing.
Whatever. - Tonight?
- You were warned.
- For f***'s sake! - I need to wash.
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