So Long, Marianne

You're throwing that jersey on for the first time,

it's just so many emotions.

I think we're gonna be pretty good.

Everything we can do to play our games,

bring it to the finish line.

I didn't take the job to survive.

I took it to kind of accomplish something.

We have to have a winning mindset,

otherwise we'll be in a build for many, many, many years.

The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens.

Stream now on Crave, presented by Bell.

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I know you've heard that song before.

I wrote that.

I just wanted to get your attention.

I was 33 when I released my first song,

and at that point I used so much Quaalude

that people called me Captain Mandrax.

That's a pretty splendid superhero name if you ask me.

Captain Mandrax.

They used to call me a womaniser but I never was.

It was just easier to get someone else to love me

than it was to love myself.

And what is love anyway?

It's the one that comes and goes without leaving a mark,

but then there's that other kind,

the one that stays with you your whole life.

Somewhere, even though life goes on, it lives inside of you.

It's in love that we are made

and in love that we disappear,

and you're always there.

I knew you before I even met you.

You look a little lost.

Is it that obvious? (giggles)

No, I know most of the foreigners on the island, and uh,

a lot of the Greeks, and I've not seen you before.

I'd remember.

I'm Leonard.

Leonard Cohen.

Charmian.

You can call me Charm.

- Charm? - Mm.

Please join me.

I'm not disturbing any-

Not at all.

So what brings you to Hydra, Leonard?

Oh, escaping from London.

Ah, so did we.

You don't sound, you don't sound English.

No, neither do you, I'm Australian.

Australian family mix. I'm Canadian.

So, we're the outsiders.

Have have you been here long?

Ages.

You're a writer?

All the foreigners here are either painters or writers.

Which one are you, are you a painter or a writer, or?

I'm a novelist.

I was a cannoneer in the army during the war.

Anyway, after that, I got a job at the Argus,

which is in Australian newspaper,

which is where I met my husband, George.

It was quite a scandal because he was married at the time,

and I was 23 and he was 35.

How old are you, Leonard?

I'm 26, but don't hold it against me.

Oh, that's a great, great age.

Anyway, I got fired.

George resigned in protest, bless him.

And he got a job in London, at the London Times,

as an editor, and we endured many years of bad weather,

and then we decided that we both wanted to write,

which was of course, financially disastrous,

so we found the cheapest place we could.

We packed up our children and here we are.

Life.

Under two minutes.

I heard there were some rooms available

in a guest house or a guest house in a room.

Oh, you're looking for something a little more long term

and less expensive?

Oh darling, you don't have to be ashamed

about lack of funds here.

Nearly everybody on the island is broke on a regular basis.

Come.

Where are we going?

Well (clears throat), we have a guest room,

if you don't mind the children.

It's got its own private entrance.

Okay, how much is it?

- Oh no. - I really am strapped

right now. - No, no, no.

You pay what you want, you pay what you feel.

Welcome to Hydra.

I mean, are you really accusing me of being drunk?

Your son found you passed out

on the fucking couch last night,

next to two bottles of wine!

Gimme a break, I was working like a dog.

I fell asleep. (sighs)

Anyway, where were you last night?

Oh, don't pretend that you bloody care, George?

If I didn't care, I would've left here years ago!

You know what?

You know, maybe you are the reason that I drink?

Just to endure your self-righteous bullshit!

If I didn't drink then I would've left you years ago.

Hey, Leonard?

Yes, Leonard, sorry.

How are you? George.

Nice to meet you, mate.

Nice to meet you, sorry.

So, what's going on?

You're not leaving, are you?

I was just packing, packing up my stuff.

I'm sorry about all the ruckus.

It's um, it's got nothing to do with you, honestly.

- All right. - Look,

why don't you hang your things back up and come upstairs

and have a glass of wine with me?

You like wine?

Oh, love wine.

Well, you'll fit right in.

- Okay. - I'll see you up there.

All right.

You all right?

I'm okay, thank you.

Okay.

Oh, I'm fine. Thank you.

Okay.

You're a writer as well?

Yeah, you know, Charmian and I, we,

we write together, live together, have three kids,

so it can get a little claustrophobic at times.

It's complex, isn't it?

Marriage, or humanity, more generally.

Well, genetically speaking, we were designed to live amongst

a non-monogamous herd,

and now we're all put into these little pairs

and it's our morals, you see?

Battling our genes, it's, um-

Exhausting.

It can be.

Well, I suppose I should go and check on her really.

You don't know where she is?

Oh, I know where she is (snickers).

Too right, I do.

You wanna come?

Come on.

Uh, Martin, just gonna pop out for a hit, mate.

Will you look after the others?

Good man.

Just got paid a residual on our latest book, you see,

so that's why I was over in the mainland,

'cause they don't have a bank over here.

Anyway, Charm's in there, paying off our tab,

which is good, but, you know, means she can start a new one.

Leonard!

(speaks in Greek) Nikos!