Six Degrees Of Separation

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- My God!

- Is anything gone?

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- How can I look? I'm shaking.

- I wanna know if anything's gone.

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- Calm down.

- We could've been killed. The Kandinsky!

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- The Kandinsky!

- It's gone! Oh, my God! Call the police!

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There it is. The silver Victorian inkwell.

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- How can you think about things?!

- There's the inkwell.

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- We could have been murdered!

- Silver jaguar.

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Why?

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- Slashed. Throats slashed.

- There's the Degas.

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Go to bed at night happy and then

murdered. Would we have woken up?

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We're alive.

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- i(dog yelps)/i

- i(both scream)/i

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The dog, the dog, the dog. Oh, God.

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- Oh, my God!

- What is it?

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The wedding.

We have to go to the wedding.

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- I'm in no mood to go.

- We have to.

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- They're your friends.

- I beg to differ...

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- Hello?!

- What?

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You don't call out "hello" unless the...

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I think we could tell

if someone else was here.

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- We didn't all night.

- i(phone rings)/i

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Oh, God. No, don't pick that up! It's him!

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Bride's side or groom's side?

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Either side. I can't even

remember how we met them.

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Why are we here?

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Let's not make a scene.

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The most terrifying words in the world -

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- "Now I lay me down to sleep..." Think.

- "Pray the Lord my soul to keep."

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But then the nightmare part.

"If I should die before I wake..."

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"Pray the Lord my soul to take."

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- Are you OK?

- We were nearly murdered.

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- Throats slashed.

- It was awful.

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- You could've been killed?

- Only hours ago.

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- But we're here.

- We wouldn't miss it.

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Happy the bride the sun shines on.

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i(j& " Here Comes the Bride")/i

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Chaos, control. Chaos, control.

You like? You like?

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- I'll have a gin and tonic, please.

- Tell them.

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We were having

a wonderful evening last night.

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A friend we hadn't seen in years

came by for dinner.

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- Geoffrey Miller. From South Africa.

- Don't say that so portentously.

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- Geoffrey from Serth Efrica.

- Well, don't be gaga!

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- Scotch, please.

- Just something large.

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Geoffrey was in New York

briefly on business,

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and he asked us to ask him for dinner.

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Listen.

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What's wrong?

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It always amazes me

when New York is so quiet.

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Oh! i(laughs)/i

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With the kids away,

we get used to less noise.

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- Geoffrey is King-Midas rich. Gold mines.

- 70,000 workers in one gold mine alone.

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But he's short of cash.

His government won't let its people...

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- Its white people.

- ..take out any money.

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It's like taking in a war baby.

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His call was like a bolt from the blue, as

I had a deal coming up and was short by...

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- Two million.

- The figure is superfluous.

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I hate when you use

the word "superfluous".

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I mean, he needed two million.

We hadn't seen Geoffrey in a long time.

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While he might not have the price

of dinner, he might have $2,000,000.

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It's the awful thing about

having truly rich friends.

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Let's face it, the money does

get in the way. I'll take that one.

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Having a rich friend is like drowning

and he makes lifeboats.

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Only your friend gets very touchy if you

say one word - lifeboat. That is two words.

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We were afraid our friend might say we

were loving him because of his lifeboat.

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We weren't sucking up. We like Geoffrey.

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i(applause)/i

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- Shouldn't we...?

- Not on your life.

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- It was hardly a lifeboat evening.

- Portentous.

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But when Geoffrey called

and asked us to take him for dinner,

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he made a pattern in life's tea leaves,

because who wants to go to banks?

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Why do you stay in South Africa?

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One has to stay there

to educate the black workers.

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We'll know we've been successful

when they kill us.

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- Planning the revolution to destroy you.

- Putting your life on the line.

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You don't think of it like that.

I wish you'd visit.

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Oh, but we'd visit you

and sit in your gorgeous house,

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planning visits to the townships,

demanding to see the poorest of the poor.

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"Are you sure they're the worst off?

I mean, we've come all this way."

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"We don't want to see people just mildly

victimised by apartheid. We want shock."

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It doesn't seem right sitting on

the East Side talking about revolution.

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Only small, murky cafs

for Pp le Moko here.

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