The Million Dollar Hotel Page #8

Officer Charles Best

from the Los Angeles Police Department...

Oh, there's another painting

under there.

It's a stolen Schnabel. He stole

the Schnabel and poured tar over it.

- Jesus Christ.

- What's a Schnabel?

Back to Jean Swift.

Pursuing the murderer, police and tar experts...

Police and art experts

have made a startling discovery.

Apparently the tar used

in the Goldkiss art pieces

has been covering other paintings,

stolen from downtown galleries.

Among them, a Schnabel

and two by Alejandro Garmendilla.

Whether the murder

and the art scam are connected

may not be discovered until Tommy T.

Barrow, the retarded fugitive, is captured.

I'm Jean Swift, Channel 6 News.

So...

You're on television.

But this, this...

This is... very much better than TV.

It's even better and better than...

very, very best moment in my life.

- Tom!

- And I certainly hope this is maybe even...

good and better for you, too,

and this here... with me?

Oh, baby.

You can just pour it.

Tom...

So Dixie and the others,

they helped you get on TV?

Yes, they were very much helpful

in getting me on TV.

Oh, you're leaving us, Sergeant Pilcher?

The party has just begun.

Yes, well. Enjoy your moment of glory,

whoop it up. Twist and shout!

'Cause when they catch up with you,

you'll find the things that they do

make me feel all right.

Now, I can tell you about Leroy Neiman,

a marvellous artist.

But as for this Schnabel,

I don't know who that man is.

Apparently, he's very well known

in the... art world.

- How old was Izzy?

- Like Jesus, about 30... 30 years old.

You pushed and killed your best friend,

and now they're gonna try

and take you away... and hurt you.

Because, because you

said you pushed him.

I pushed him.

So you're saying that you pushed him?

I'm saying... I went ahead,

I went ahead and let...

...Izzy go off the roof,

and now I'm the main man...

- And now I need to go.

- Yes, Tom, you are the main man.

But you know what?

It's very dangerous for you here.

So, why don't we just get out of here

and go someplace else?

Charlie Chocolate on four,

gotta go, go, go.

This is very much good and better,

and safer. It's our very own room.

What are we going to do?

We have to call the police?

No, we talk to Skinner, the truth.

- You confessed to a murder you didn't commit.

- Listen, listen...

No, you listen! They're gonna take you

to some hospital. Don't you get it?

- They're gonna take you away from me.

- Izzy...

Stop saying that!

I'm not gonna listen to you any more.

Everything on television is not real.

Stop this!

You remember everything, don't you?

You certainly remember

what Izzy went ahead and did to you.

Who cares?

I care...

for you.

Because you should certainly have yourself...

Even if Izzy didn't think so

and said you were nothing

and went ahead and did

what he did to you.

And that's why I went ahead

and let him go off the roof

just like he wanted.

He wrote this like nearly

two hundred years ago

for this girl who was hauntin' him,

you know, from another dimension.

The name, Eloise,

came to him like in a dream.

Hello, hello, Eloise, hello, hello...

# I am he, as you are he,

As me are you and we are all together...#

We are all together, man.

That's the only thing, you know?

This, what is this? What is this crap?

# I am he

# As you are he

# As you are me and we are all together

# Oh, yeah

# See how they run, like pigs from the gun,

See how they fly.

# I'm crying,

# I'm cr-y-y-y-ying. #

Here we go again, you know, Ed.

# Sitting on a cornflake

# Waiting for the van to come. #

I don't know where the f***

I got that from.

# Corporation T-shirt,

Stupid bloody Tuesday,

# Man, you been a naughty boy,

You let your face grow so long.

# I am the eggman, all right?

# Oh, they're the eggman

# Because I am the walrus.

# Coo-coo-cachoo, coo-coo-cachoo...#

We gotta find a safe place

to stay for a few days.

We can check it out. You know that guy,

Jerry, that lives downstairs?

He lives on the fourth floor,

he plays the soul music all day.

He has an apartment just like this,

with the windows.

You can look down

and you can watch me.

When the coast is clear, I'm gonna be

downstairs. Right below there's an exit.

You watch out there,

you make one of your little sounds.

One of those little sounds,

and then I'll know that I can go.

We can make our way

down to South America, maybe.

Wow, can you imagine?

That would be so amazing.

It's supposed to be so much warmer there.

It's like a wet heat,

because it's raining...

all the time.

And the air gets so damp...

and the fish, they come in the door

and swim out the window.

And it gets hot, too.

Very hot.

And the birds...

...and they break through the screens...

...to die...

...in the bedrooms.

I knew her plan could never work.

It would never work.

But it was the sweetest thing

I ever heard.

The sweetest thing I ever heard.

Tom Tom, I have to tell you something.

- No, Izzy, please. Don't.

- Don't jump... or don't tell you?

- Come down.

- You have to understand about Eloise.

I understand that I love her.

You can't love something

puts no value on itself.

Yes, you can.

You know what I did for you?

So you'll realize you're in love with nothing.

She's not nothing. I know she's not!

I'm gonna tell you what I did to her.

I wasn't trying to hurt you.

She was wearing that stupid sweater

with the stripes and those red tights.

Bare and dirty feet, dirty bare feet.

I thought you should know.

She just lay there like a sack of potatoes.

It was really pitiful.

She was nothing.

I f***ed nothing.

No, no, no.

So now you know.

It's funny the way stuff

finally hits you.

Take love, for example...

All that love that led me to Eloise...

is the same love that led me

to kill my best friend.

Exact same love, different results.

Maybe in the future

they'll have all this figured out.

You missed the show.

I saw it on TV.

It's not the same.

You know, I always liked Skinner.

Maybe because I knew

he was really one of us.

Even if he tried so hard to forget.

I felt kind of bad

that he couldn't figure out it was me.

And by the way, I think it WAS my ego

that made me do it.

I didn't even know I had one

until I met Eloise.

She came...

just like I always imagined it.

I wish I was still there.

Yeah, like I was saying,

after I jumped, it occurred to me:

life is perfect, life is the best.

It's full of magic and beauty

and surprises.

You just don't see all that clearly

when you're still there.

All I ever wanted

was just to reach Eloise.

just to reach her.

I did. And I ended up turning

the world upside down along the way,

even if just for a moment. Wow!

# All my life I worshipped her,

# Her golden voice, her beauty's beat;

# How she made us feel,

How she made me real,

# And the ground beneath her feet...

# And the ground beneath her feet.

# No, I can't be sure of anything,

# Black is white and cold is heat.

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