The Arrangement Page #7

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- You're selfish, mean-

- You have my blood, my brains.

- I have my blood, my brains!

- Look your face!

- I am not like you!

- You same goods like me.

- I was never like you!

- Now, why you don't give me money?

"Money, money, money. "

- I'm a bad business risk.

- I'm ashamed to be your son!

In your place, I do exactly that!

- You said-?

- I said, "I'm ashamed to be your son. "

All right.

Sam finished. Sam Arness finished.

All right.

All right.

First time in 45 years, I wasn't able

to control what I felt about that old man.

Eddie, look, what's that?

Evangelos!

Evangelos!

Evangelos!

Mr. Anderson?

Mr. Anderson.

Don't worry, Charles, I'm going away.

Where?

Into myself.

You're what?

You better see a doctor.

A priest. See a priest.

One last thing.

I don't know exactly who Andy's father is

and I don't care...

...but I did my arithmetic...

...and he's not yours.

So it's better this way, right?

Right.

Thomna! Thomna!

Thomna!

What's this bill? Tuition?

What's that? Tuition.

Thomna.

You put Shakespeare college

in this damn-fool boy's head?

All my life I work,

make business for this boy future.

And now when I need him,

you teach him leave his father.

Evangelos!

Taxi, I'm ready.

Sam, it's the boy's life.

He doesn't want rug business.

He wants something different.

Oh, Mom.

What the hell kind of lesson

was that to give a boy?

I can't blame Pop. You should've-

You should've taught me

to stick up for myself.

Not that, Mom.

Not that.

Are you out of your goddamn mind?

- clean. And when are you

going to change to Zephyr?

Now, what is it, your mother's fault,

your father's fault?

What's that, Freud? You are you, kid.

Eddie Anderson, the indispensable man.

All right.

Let's get down to nuts and bolts.

Congratulations.

- Congratulations.

- I've always said, time-

You had power, then.

Remember what it felt like? Power.

Ram it in.

Power.

The fact is, without your job and without

the money in your pocket, you're nothing.

Well, look at you.

The most impressive

part of you right now?

That cigar.

Hey, don't look at me like that, baby.

If you think you're gonna get rid of me,

you're out of your mind.

You had the perfect arrangement.

Fat job, beautiful house,

understanding wife.

All the side nooky you could handle.

You had it all.

You did.

What is that, Edward?

A little composition of your own?

They're coming to get you, Eddie.

- Edward.

- The Marines.

Edward, since I've come 3000 miles

solely for the purpose of talking to you...

...I don't think I should be required

to do so through a screen.

Edward.

Edward, I've come all the way

from California to chat with you.

And I'm going to chat with you.

Edward, you look terrible.

What are you doing to yourself?

This is not you. Something

has taken possession of you, Edward.

Come on now, snap out of it.

What? I can't hear you.

- This is me.

- Applesauce.

- Damn fool.

- Had it all.

You did.

Edward.

I'm gonna have to protect you and yours,

Florence in particular...

...from whatever demon

is at work inside of you.

And if extreme measures are necessary-

And at this point I think they may be.

- I will most certainly take them.

You are causing havoc on all sides.

You start by kidnapping a man

who doesn't know which end's up.

- Evangelos.

- Where is he? My father.

For reasons that are obvious,

I'm not prepared to tell you.

- He's my goddamn father.

- He's in excellent care.

- Where?

- Where he ought to be.

In a home for the aged and incompetent.

Evangelos.

- "Incompetent. "

- Yes, Edward.

I'm sorry, but you've got to be made

to face the facts.

Goddamn it, Edward,

pay attention to me.

If you don't like the way we live,

change it.

Be fair, be just, Eddie.

Time is short, Edward, but this marriage

can still be made to work.

That is what I consider to be my duty

as your family lawyer.

Darling, if I didn't see you through this,

what would I be for?

What would I be for?

Will you stop wandering and listen?

Forget the property involved,

although it's considerable.

But Florence, Edward, Florence.

You' re married, you damn fool,

to the perfect woman.

There isn't a man I know

who doesn't envy you.

How many women, I ask you, would

have endured what Florence has endured?

Maybe Florence shouldn't have.

Some instinct tells her that this marriage

can still be made to work...

...even though she's in a state of shock

and- Oh, hell.

Oh, Eddie, I know it's going to be

good again like it was in the beginning.

- I have faith in that.

- Faithless!

Incidentally, is the young lady

still upstairs?

And the way I really am.

Are you preparing a divorce action?

That will not be necessary,

providing you do precisely as I say.

You never meant it

when you said you'd leave your wife.

And that is...?

First, I want you,

for your own deepest good...

...to go away somewhere

for a long, long rest.

In a home for the incompetent?

Somewhere. I'll overlook the sarcasm.

Somewhere so that

you can regain your balance...

...reconstitute your sense of values.

- And so that Florence, well, can recover.

- Are you in love with my wife?

I beg your pardon?

I hit on something, didn't I?

I must try to remember

that you are in a paranoid state.

But I will say this:

Florence is an extraordinary woman...

...who is being slaughtered

by an ego run wild.

Since you won't believe me,

I suggest you ask Ellen...

- ... who drove out here with me-

- He's right, Daddy.

Mommy.

Hello, darling-

Look.

Hello, Florence.

Excuse me.

Dr. Leibman, Eddie's here.

Should I stay out a little longer?

No, no, of course not, come in. Come in.

Well, if it isn't my old playmate.

Well, if it isn't my old playmate.

I smell money. I smell money.

Whenever I see a psychoanalyst

and a lawyer, I smell money...

...but this time, I smell it all around me.

Florence, may I ask you

to explain that remark?

Dr. Leibman, please.

I have an appointment.

- Well, I'm going back on the 6:00 plane.

- I got a date with a manicurist downstairs.

I can fix it up for you too.

She's a little hairy here and there but-

- Edward, Edward.

- I need a quick consultation.

Can we have a quick consultation,

doctor?

Are you in love with my wife too?

Well, she is attractive.

You're so cute. I love his mustache.

I'd spend the whole week

playing with you, hold my hand.

- Edward, do you mind?

- You're damn right I mind.

I came here to talk to my wife, I didn't-

Arthur. Arthur, stop wandering.

Pay attention, please.

- Arthur, do something.

- All right.

- Thank you.

- Just- Let's settle back.

I smell money.

Oh, I can still smell money.

Am I getting warmer?

Is this what it's all about?

"Community property: both houses,

all land, art objects...

...automobiles, furniture, effects-" You

forgot the contents of the Deepfreeze.

"- to my wife Florence until I am, in her

judgment, again a responsible person. "

"Her judgment"?

Oh, well, give me a pen.

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