Here

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Timber!

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That's a deep hole.

And getting deeper.

Why are you digging it?

We're building a house.

Down there?

I don't know, Richard.

That back porch window just doesn't want to stay closed.

Even had my husband sand down where it's warped.

Even though nobody seems to care,

a million dollars is a steal these days.

- Hmm. - Here are the keys.

Please remember to put them in the lockbox

- when you're finished. - Look, we won't be long.

20, 30 minutes, tops.

And thank you for arranging this.

- It means a lot. -

- My pleasure, Richard. -

You truly won't find

a more perfect house.

There's a full basement where we have

an ultramodern central heating furnace

with copper pipes, an oil burner.

No more of that coal stoking.

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Uh, it's only been on the market 18 days.

It won't last long.

The house was originally built in 1900, Mr. and Mrs. Young.

A half colonial.

It is as sturdy as an old tree.

So, as you can see, Mr. and Mrs. Young...

Al and Rose is fine!

Al lost the hearing in his left ear

when a shell exploded right next to him.

The doctors say it will eventually clear up.

Oh, that's fortunate.

He also has bomb fragments lodged in his hip.

He'll have to carry that around for the rest of his life.

My husband went missing at sea.

- Oh. - At Midway.

Three years in June now.

I've heard of people having the doorbell ring

and their husband is standing right there.

Al was in the Battle of Saint-Lo.

11,000 casualties in two weeks.

For crying out loud, Rose, what does any of this

have to do with the price of tea in China?

China!

The house is 1,800 square feet

with enough lot to add on if you grow.

There's a dining room.

Yeah, custom kitchen cabinets, a breakfast nook,

a lovely back porch,

which can always be converted into a spare guest room.

Upstairs, four large bedrooms,

bathrooms, one with a shower,

a powder room and large closets.

The kitchen appliances come with the house.

A four-burner Norge range,

complete with a built-in electric clock and timer.

I don't like it much at all.

It's like a shoebox.

I can't imagine anyone living here.

Not much of a view for what you're asking.

If I may.

Of all my listings, this property is by far

the closest to the new grade school.

And it's less than a mile from the new aerodrome

they're going to build.

Could come in handy in the future.

- The future? - That's right, Pauline.

It's the only direction we're headed.

And it's happening right now, right here.

John, is living near an aerodrome

really that important to you?

It is, Pauline. It truly is.

It's the future.

["CONCERTO FOR CLARINET" BY ARTIE SHAW PLAYING]

Well, I guess I'll get used to that monstrosity

- across the street. - Darling, you are a peach.

- You're an absolute peach. -

- So, they're asking 3,400. -

That's a very good price.

I have two more couples who are coming just today.

One is a colonel, I understand.

Married an Italian woman.

She doesn't speak a word of English.

Has a lovely smile.

Why don't I give you a moment to talk it over?

3,400? Gee whillikers, Rose, no.

We agreed we couldn't pay more than 3,000,

even with my dad's money.

I'm pregnant.

You're what?

I'm pregnant!

- You are? - Yes.

- Really? - Three months.

Any thoughts?

The price is right in line with the G.I. Bill guarantee.

- We'll take it. - Yes!

- We'll take it! Yes, we will. -

Ricky, it's your first Christmas.

- Yes! Get you here. Okay.

Oh, look at him.

He's such a perfect angel.

Ricky, smile. Oh, Ricky...

Ready and... smile. -

- - Okay, calm down, Ricky.

Ricky? Ricky, sit down.

- Sit. Over here. -

- Ricky. Ricky. Yes.

Okay, we get it. You can jump.

- Ricky. Quit jumping. Ricky, sit down, honey.

Sit down next to your... -

- Sit down next to your sister. - We're gonna take a picture.

- It's all right. Sit down. - Ricky! Ricky, sit down!

- Smile. Smile. - Goddamn it, Ricky, sit down!

- Oh, my God!

Okay, Ricky Ricardo, time to give it a rest.

- - Yeah, that... it's...

really loud for Daddy's head.

- Ricky, listen to me. Look, Jimmy, look.

Rick... Ricky!

Ricky, stop it, goddamn it!

Look, Jimmy, look!

Yeah, and I think Santa's lost his goddamn mind.

Those drums are from your mother.

Well, they're going in the garage.

Jimmy, Elizabeth, I'm warning you two.

- - Get ready for bed, please.

Elizabeth, take your brother upstairs.

Now.

- Thank you. Come on.

I met the couple who moved into the new house, honey.

Oh, honey, don't close the drapes.

I hate it. It looks like a funeral parlor.

Ted and Virginia.

Yeah? What are they like?

Well, she's gonna have a baby.

- What are they like? - Um...

Well, they like to laugh.

They're so, I don't know, filled with life.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

How long they been married?

- Stop it. -

- Ricky, sweetheart, 20 minutes. - I'm just playing.

That's it, all right? And put this stuff away.

Elizabeth! Jimmy!

That's a hell of a battle you got going there.

Who's winning?

The Americans just shot all the Krauts.

Good.

Did you ever shoot anybody?

Come again?

In the war-- Did you shoot anybody?

It's hard to know.

Everything happens so fast, it's just a blur.

You never really see the enemy, just the flash of a helmet.

Guy next to me, Carl Bolton, from Wesley, Ohio...

he had two different color eyes-- One...

one brown, one blue.

Two-tone.

Called him Two-tone.

Saw him get his jaw blown off.

What did you do?

What? Do?

After that guy got his jaw shot off, what'd you do?

I don't want to talk about it.

[GASPS SOFTLY, SPEAKS INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE]

They should arrive within a fortnight.

And to be perfectly honest, I dread it.

Oh, William, your own father, your own son.

- Please. - I... I know.

I'm just nervous to see little Billy.

He's 13 now.

It's been years since we were last together.

You know, he might as well be my father's son.

Your father is certainly a presence,

but you are an important man in your own right.

My father thinks he can overthrow the Crown.

And this treasonous rabble that follows him