The Walker Page #5

If alive, he would regret ever

inspiring a person such as yourself

to enter public service.

Carl.

Shut up.

Essentially he is giving you

a three-day pass.

There was nothing

on that disk.

Does Mungo just hate me,

or is it all homosexuals?

Or is he determined

to bring down Lockner?

Or is it just plain

old-fashioned ambition?

Perhaps it's a

convergence of all four.

What do you know

about Lynn?

I tried to reach her.

And?

Unavailable.

They've started a

whispering campaign.

The bright-eyed little

errand boys from Justice.

Lynn and Robbie

having an affair.

Lynn having something

to do with his death.

And Lockner

knowing about it.

The press

isn't gonna buy that.

At certain point

it doesn't matter to them.

Whispering campaign itself

becomes the story.

I need to see Lockner.

What makes you think

he'll see you?

Just contact him discreetly.

See how he responds.

It's wrong direction

to take this.

What do you suggest?

Love yourself, Carl.

You may think you've

got friends in this situation,

but you don't.

Decide what's

in your best interest.

Then act upon it.

Carl.

I know.

I'm just picking

up some of my things.

How do you

what I'm gonna say?

Oh, you were gonna...

Tell me that because of market

uncertainties your accountant

suggested scaling back.

And I should take... What...?

A leave?

Well, yeah.

Something like that.

I don't blame you, John.

There won't

be a better moment.

Hello.

Sunflower.

Carl? Is that you?

No. It's a ravishing young

teenager pretending to be me.

How are you Abigail.

How are you?

Isn't it terrible?

- What?

What they're

trying to do to Lynn.

What who's trying to

do to Lynn?

You know who.

The whisperers. The cave dwellers.

They're trying to ruin

her reputation.

These are cruel times.

In former days men caught lying

would have their testicles tied.

Today they get a TV show.

Did you just make that up

or were you saving it?

I was saving in. For you.

Let's have a lunch.

We need a laugh.

Jack is meeting

with the vice-president.

His relatives are here.

It's keeping me busy.

- I understand.

I'll see you at

the Hargrave then.

Okay.

Okay. Bye-bye, dear.

Hear that, Lancelot?

It's the sound of doors closing

all over town.

Carter?

Hop in.

Senator Lockner.

Larry!

Thanks for the offer, the

legal expenses.

What are you talking about?

How is Lynn?

She's fine.

She went to visit her mother.

Her mother's health is failing.

How much do you know?

About Lynn?

Robbie Kononsberg's death?

I just know what Lynn told me.

She and Robbie

were good friends.

Nothing more.

But...

Kononsberg was a

lobbyist for AltiMed.

Your committee

is investigating AltiMed.

We were investigating.

Now we're just pretending

to investigate.

It's not my committee anymore.

You would have liked

to talk to him.

Yes, but I won't mind

talking to the vice-president either.

The V.P.?

Why?

Just the same line.

Lynn is afraid you'll resign

if she's somehow implicated

in all this.

I'm sure you must have

heard the rumors.

No. That's not gonna happen.

I'm not gonna step down.

How do the rich get

the poor to give them

more money?

They scare them.

Under no circumstances

am I stepping down.

But Lynn...

Lynn has an exaggerated notion

of her importance in the larger

scheme of things.

Why are we meeting?

I'm trying to decide what to do.

On the one hand I'm disloyal.

On the other....

Dishonest.

It's never easy.

Look at the big picture.

Hey, listen to this.

Mungo Tenant.

William and Mary School of Law.

Class of '86.

First intern then partner in

Colin Macken & Klein.

A firm originally founded

by Jack Delorean.

And senior partner, the

vice-president.

What are you doing?

What?

Are you still

playing private investigator?

Only a little bit

just in cyberspace.

Just stop.

I'm trying to help you.

I don't want your help.

Don't you see

what's going on?

They got you on a railroad.

And they're

going to railroad you.

And you just...

You just let it happen to you.

You don't confront them.

You're gonna end up in jail.

I can take care of myself.

No, you can't.

Anytime anything unpleasant

happens, you just smile and

tell a joke to your friends.

You know what?

You should be

more like your father.

He stood up.

He wasn't afraid of scandals.

He wasn't even afraid

to take on the president.

You're a paparazzi.

You make your money

off a scandal.

You have no idea

what a scandal really means.

How it destroys people.

And then what comes after.

We move to New York.

Buy a brownstone.

Adopt a brown baby.

Walk arm in arm

around the village for the

tourists to point at.

Why f***ing not?

It's ridiculous.

It's normal.

We're ridiculous.

Okay.

Okay.

You know I've...

I've stayed here only for you.

I don't know why.

I should have left six months ago.

I don't wanna lose you.

God, I always thought

ringing one's hands was a

figure of speech.

I thought you could change.

But you can't.

Carter Page III.

You'll never

be like your father.

They say I bend over.

You should

have seen my father.

That was a man who

bent over.

Carter Page II.

The legendary Carl Page.

The Watergate hearings'

great moment.

Every day someone comes

up and says...

Your father was a

great man.

And I smile and say,

Oh, yes he was.

He left Congress

twenty times wealthier

than when he entered.

What does that tell you?

He was a crook.

A fraud.

He was deeply shame to me.

But he's dead now.

Don't judge the dead.

Why not?

They judge us

each and every day.

Well, I was going

to invite her today.

But I understand

she's gone on vacation.

Well, well, well.

I was wondering if you'd got

the guts to show up.

It's Wednesday, isn't it?

And you're ready to play?

Yes.

Looks like

it's just the two of us.

Canasta is not ideally a

two-handed game.

Carl.

I love your nerve.

How about a drink then?

Why not?

You look wonderful, Nat.

I thank you.

Henry, I'll have a Seabreeze.

A vodka and tonic, please.

Certainly, ma'am.

We'll drink

to the good memories.

Oh, don't talk to me

about memory.

Memory is a

very unreliable organ.

Trust me, Carl.

It's right up there

with the penis.

There's something

I've been meaning to ask you.

I thought of it last night

and I can't get it out of my head.

Which actor portrayed

the most U.S. presidents in movies?

Oh, you.

Henry Fonda?

No. Actual presidents.

He played Lincoln,

but in 'Fail-Safe' he was

a fictional president.

I don't know.

Charlton Heston?

Close. But only two.

No.

It was Rip Torn.

He played Grant, Lyndon Johnson

and Richard Nixon.

L.B.J. and Nixon amazing.

Your drinks, Mr. Page.

- Thank you, Henry.

Don't let

them get you down.

I have had some

illusions shattered.

We all have.

I thought we weren't an

aggressive nation.

And I thought there was a

separation between church

and state.

Hell, I even thought that

the people elected the president.

You know, Carl.

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