One Fine Day Page #4

- Actually, we've all noticed.

Hey, there we go. Hi.

I know that you're sensitive,

but frightened.

I'm gentle,

but brutal.

Think about it. Think about me, Jack.

I will.

OK.

Brutal.

Marla? Have you seen my daughter?

Have you seen Maggie?

- No, I haven't.

- Excuse me, please.

Have you seen my daughter? No?

Maggie? Damn it!

Hey, Jack.

Hi, Daddy.

"Hi, Daddy?" Do you do this with

your mother, this wandering-off thing?

- Yeah.

- Cos it's not a good thing to do.

Now I've gotta go talk to a guy downtown.

It's kind of a tricky thing

and I only have one shot at it, so...

- I can't come?

- That's right. What am I gonna do with you?

This is incredibly difficult for me, but you are

the absolute last person I can think of to ask.

I'm really in a bind. I could lose my job.

I know you're recording but...

Can you hold on a minute?

I know you're recording

but it would just be for an hour.

From two to three.

Come on, Eddie. You're his father.

Fine. Never mind. I'll think of something.

Are you at least coming to his soccer game?

Six. It would mean a lot to him.

- Mel!

- Sammy!

Sammy, get off of that.

Time out!

What is the matter with you?

You almost broke it again!

Why can't you play quietly for five minutes?

Don't you realize how important this is?

- I'm taking you to the drop-in center.

- I don't wanna go there.

- Too bad.

- Those kids'll beat me up.

- They won't.

- They will.

Well, you're just gonna have to be brave.

Vincent, I'll be back in an hour for the model!

When the little hand

gets between 4 and 5, that's 4:30.

- I'm sorry.

- You're not being punished. I'll be back.

- We can go to your soccer game.

- That's too long.

Sweetheart, I set the alarm and I'll be here

for you by the time it goes off. I promise.

- But I don't wanna go in there.

- But it'll be fun!

Look! It's Superhero Day!

Hey! Spiderman!

He can't come in here. He's not a superhero!

Oh, yeah? You guys sure about that?

- He doesn't look like one.

- He looks like a poo-poo crybaby.

When the big hand gets to there,

and the little hand gets to there,

- then...

- You'll be back.

Wait a minute.

Now you're wearin' Daddy's watch.

- But I don't have a costume.

- A costume?

OK. How about...

Bessie the choreographer?

Five, six, seven, eight!

I don't have... You know,

I don't have a costume, darling.

Hey.

Hey, Maggie. Look, honey. Maggie.

- Hi, Sammy.

- Hi, Maggie.

- You said you weren't gonna bring him here.

- Well, I got desperate.

Me too.

So, looks like we need

two superheroes - and fast.

Mama said there'll be days like this

There'll be days like this, Mama said

Mama said, Mama said

Mama said there'll be days like this

There'll be days like this, my mama said

Mama said, Mama said

I went walking the other day

And everything was going fine

I met a little boy named Billy Joe

and then almost lost my mind

Where do you get a bag like that?

Mama said there'll be days like this...

If those mean boys give you any more

trouble, first go to the teacher.

If she doesn't help, call me on the mobile.

And if you can't reach me, call 911.

Kick the mean boys in the shins.

- Bye!

- Bye!

- Thanks for doin' that.

- Sure. It's hard enough being a kid.

- It is excellent.

- And you would know.

- What's that?

- Nothing.

- Know what my mother told me?

- Gee, no.

"Love your guy like a little boy

and he'll grow into a man."

- She knew you were gay?

- I'm not gay.

- Then why the advice about loving guys?

- She hoped I'd meet a woman like that.

I can't stand those people who blame their

worst traits on everyone but themselves.

It's so '90s.

What are you talkin' about?

You're blaming your Peter Pan complex

on your mother.

- Do you have any friends?

- I don't have time.

That's because of

your Captain Hook complex.

- My what?

- Captain Hook complex.

- There's no such thing.

- Yes, there is. And you have it.

- Here's your phone back.

- Here's yours.

Thank you!

Hey! Feldstein!

- Hey!

- I can't meet with you right now, Jack.

Hey, Manny!

Manny!

- Hey, Manny.

- Please don't hit me.

- I won't. What's goin' on?

- I've been having thoughts.

- We already had our thoughts.

- Please don't yell.

You were the one who said to me

this garbage thing stinks.

I waited for a month for you

to get comfortable with this.

We print the story. It runs on the front page.

And now you tell me you are having

thoughts? What is the matter with you?

I've been having trouble with my medication.

You get the dose wrong, you get grandiose.

We talked about takin' down the mayor

and the Mob together. That's crazy.

- No, it's not.

- It is!

Now that I'm a little better regulated,

I realize they will kill me!

Hey, listen to me.

Don't do this to me.

All right? Look at me. Hey.

I'm the one who started your standing

ovation for "If I Were a Rich Man," right?

- I can't do it.

- You can do it. You're my guy.

I got a wife and a family. I'm their guy too.

You're hurting my neck.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right.

I'm sorry, Jack.

- All right. Gimme a name.

- I can't think of any names.

- Whose name is on the account?

- I don't know. I only saw numbers.

- Who set up the account?

- I don't know.

- Who set up the account, Manny?

- Eddie McCoy, maybe?

Maybe Eddie McCoy? How...

You know what? I'm gonna figure it out

myself. OK, Manny? Thank you.

- Hello?

- Mommy.

- What happened?

- I don't wanna stay here anymore.

And neither does Maggie.

- Sweetie, you have to, just for a little while...

- No.

What happened?

Spiderman kicked me

and She-Ra took Maggie's snack.

Let me talk to the teacher.

She's outside talking to the Hulk

about not using the F-word.

Sammy, you'll just have to be brave and...

- What's LSD?

- LSD?

Spiderman was talking to Maggie

about LSD that he got from his brother.

Don't move. Stay right where you are.

You will both be picked up in ten minutes.

No. Manny's a dead end.

- You get anything?

- McCoy probably set up the account.

As campaign manager,

he wouldn't implicate himself.

- City comptroller?

- He'll never talk.

- How about the sanitation commissioner?

- Lieberman?

Metro!

- How do we get ahold of Lieberman?

- He's in Barbados.

- He's in Barbados.

- The sanitation commissioner in Barbados?

- During a garbage scandal.

- Maybe the mayor wanted him outta town.

- Metro!

- What?

- What's Lieberman doin' in Barbados?

- He's there with his new girlfriend.

- He's there with his new girlfriend.

- Which leaves his very angry wife.

- Bingo.

- I'm in the lobby. I'll be right up.

- Yeah?

- Jack, it's Melanie Parker.

We have a problem with our kids. They're OK

but they have to be picked up right now.

- Can you do it?

- Me? Now?

I'd definitely jeopardize my career

and my life if I picked them up now.

But your press conference isn't

until five. My presentation is at two.

I gotta see Elaine Lieberman

for some information.

- Can't you phone?

- Yeah...

- Great.

- Isn't there anybody else you can call?

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