Game 6

This could be it.

And if you're lucky enough to have tickets

for tonight's game at shea, better hit the road early.

Traffic's gonna be awful.

The Red Sox, with a chance to win

their first world series since 1918.

And now with a word on just how bad

it's gonna be out there, it's the traffic man

lone eagle, looking straight down at us.

Another day of traffic.

Traffic everywhere I look.

Cars stop and go and stop again.

People sit at the wheel, thinking their thoughts,

day in, day out, red light, green light.

Traffic on the major arteries,

and traffic in the little veins.

Cars, vans, taxis, trucks.

12 hours to game time,

and there's something you can't bear to face.

Is there a medication you can count on?

Does it prevent history from happening?

Limos, mopeds, bikes, and buses.

A menace looming in your life, accident here,

gridlock there, something washing slowly over you

down the years, through the decades,

birth, death, walk and don't walk.

Store this medication at room temperature.

Continue to take this medication

even if you're feeling well.

But when do you ever feel well?

Traffic, yesterday, today, and tomorrow,

bumper-to-bumper, soul-to-soul.

This is lone eagle, over and out.

Taxi, yo!

I used to drive a taxi.

I ate and I drove.

I wrapped my sandwiches in tin foil.

You are going where?

Across town.

Pretty bad today.

I had one of those big checkered cabs, you know?

I was religious about my ashtrays, man.

I used to clean my ashtrays religiously.

I am sitting here five years in traffic.

It is one continuous traffic since I arrive.

Why must it be?

Why must it be?

Laurel, honey, hey!

Wait, hey, keep the meter running, okay?

And try to stay abreast.

- Keep up. -

Hey.

- Hi. -

How come I don't see you anymore?

Where are you all day?

I'm at college. Thought you knew.

Wanna get a coffee?

I don't drink coffee, daddy,

and this is not what we should be talking about.

What do you wanna talk about?

I'll talk about anything you wanna talk about. What's this?

I'm seeing your play tonight, remember?

Why do you need a radio?

So I can listen to the ballgame at intermission.

Do you know that mother is seeing

a prominent divorce lawyer?

Don't talk like that.

Man.

How prominent, what are you implying?

She's doing like those Iranians.

I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee.

Okay, okay, look, look, look,

he has to hear it the same time I do?

What happened to family secrets?

Mother is, you know, totally upset.

So can we talk about it in private?

It's divorce, not incest.

Abulhassan, we're gonna be getting out here.

Clemens was hit hard here in game number two.

After a bout with the flu

and pitching on only three days' rest

for the third straight time...

- Nicky! - Hey, George!

You don't come in for a while. Everything's okay?

Everything's great.

Look at you, you're so healthy, thick body.

I just wanna punch you right in the chest.

- This is my daughter Laurel. - My pleasure.

I just wanna hear how it sounds.

I saw your picture in the paper. Two papers.

Yeah, it means they're getting ready to kill me.

That's not what I hear.

I got four or five actors working here.

It's the best play since yessiree Bob.

I'm telling you, they say this.

He doesn't wanna hear it.

Things the way I see it, hal.

Number one is pitching.

Number two is pitching.

And, don't be surprised, but number three is pitching.

If lawyers for the mob are called controversial,

why are divorce lawyers called prominent?

Because they get outstanding settlements.

Mother's determined this time that there's no turning back.

I just talked to her this morning, and she said not one word about this.

Because you refuse to believe she's serious.

You've always refused.

Why are you so steely-eyed?

You know why, it's that course you're taking in criminology.

Look, she wants you to stop seeing what's-her-name.

Okay, finally, now and forever.

Do you think that's too much to ask of your wife of 19 years?

- Look... - Mother won't even tell me

how long you've been seeing this person.

Okay, she's embarrassed to tell me,

so why don't you tell me?

Why do you always call her mother?

It sounds so tragic and unforgiven.

Whatever happened to mom? How about mom?

I didn't turn her into mother, you did.

This person and I are a thing of the total past, I promise.

You know what mother said to me?

That daddy's demons are so intense,

he doesn't even know when he's lying.

Jesus Christ.

I used to drive a cab.

Where you going, mister?

I loved driving a cab.

Loved it, loved my taxi.

I'd go 12 hours nonstop except to pee, take pee breaks.

Pee under the Manhattan bridge, peed in parks,

empty playgrounds, parking lots.

Peed many times under the Manhattan bridge.

I used to be head of neurosurgery,

big hospital in the ussr.

This hospital, I'm not kidding.

Big, huh?

I opened thousands of brains.

What'd you find?

A big mess, every time.

Hey.

How are you?

Was I expecting you?

Spur of the moment kind of thing.

Alan albright called me a handsome woman last night.

That's the second time he's done that,

the son of a bitch.

I heard Alan's sick.

Alan's very sick.

You know about Dell?

What about her?

She's dying.

She died.

I just talked to her like two days ago.

Well, apparently it didn't help.

- You know about Peter, of course? - Our Peter?

Yeah, they figured out why he can't remember his lines.

There's something living in his brain.

A parasite he picked up in Borneo doing a movie.

Will he get through it?

They're watching him closely.

There's an emergency rehearsal this afternoon.

They want you to be there, bolster his confidence.

And that's not all, Nicky.

I've been backing your plays for 15 years,

and I have never been more depressed.

About what?

Steven schwimmer, the most ruthless critic

in town getting his first crack at Nicky rogan.

This is another situation, right,

where you're trying to find a disaster

worse than anything I can come up with.

I'm not worried about this guy.

I just wanna get a haircut.

Yeah, well, ever since he started

reviewing Broadway, nobody's worried about anything else.

Yeah, let 'em send their brilliant boy critic.

I've got bigger things to worry about

than tonight's opening.

Red Sox.

I thought they were winning.

They are, three games to two,

but if you know anything about the team's history,

you'll know there's a tragedy in the making.

I've been carrying this franchise on my back

since I was six years old.

It can't be that personal.

A team you followed all your life

and they raise your hopes, crush them,

and then lift them, and then crush them.

You want me to tell you what that's like?

That's like having your whole childhood...

Die over and over and over again.

I mean, Nicky, really. No.

I've been waiting a long time for you to write this play.

I'm really proud of it.

Of course, you were a lot sexier when you were writing crap.

You didn't like me very much then, did you?

No, I didn't.

You really don't like me very much now, do you?