The first 200 lines.
Professor!
What happened?
Number 22!
Come with me!
It worked.
Beautiful.
Wait until you publish...
when you tell the world...
No one can know about this.
What?
We will when it's ready.
We have to test it in other environments.
Jungles,
oceans, the Arctic.
Yes.
I understand.
It's so beautiful here.
Who is that?
- Hey. - How's it going?
Uh, fine.
Tell me.
She's, uh, talking about sex and what a swell time she's having.
I told you.
Even the best of us can wander and get lost down here.
Where are you? You sound strange.
Oh, it's just... My... My English is out of practice.
Uh, everything's fine. But I should probably go.
Um, I just wanted to say that I love you.
All right. Yeah, I love you.
No, no, no!
You did it.
Congratulations.
My, uh, sister.
What's it gonna be?
Because I'll kill you right now.
Our brothers and our sisters serve as a reminder...
...in an effort to prepare ourselves
for the everlasting life as promised to us after this life on earth.
May God grant all of us strength, comfort, and patience
during these difficult times.
And may he grant all of us
the perseverance to continue forward in our remaining days
with the utmost of faith.
And so we remember these people,
in this beautiful place, in this beautiful moment
and where we will never lose you again.
Standing before these 2,719 souls,
it's clear to me that we still
have a ways to go.
Assemblywoman Spiro, John Sugar.
- Yes. - Pleasure to meet you.
Ah, pleasure to meet you. Thank you for everything you've done.
Of course, of course, of course.
The sheriff's deputies, the medical examiner,
chief of staff.
- Now, they've all been arrested. - Hmm.
Oh, shit.
What about Lieutenant Vega?
They're still looking.
FBI.
- Freeze. - All right, all right.
Sometimes the worst ones get away.
Oh, I doubt he was the worst, don't you think?
- I don't know. - No?
Peter Bruno.
Dealing drugs and forging death certificates is one thing.
But securing government housing grants,
I mean, that's a whole different point of access.
There had to have been others. I mean something as big as Fire Sale?
Jonathan Siegel was one of your first supporters
- when you ran for office, wasn't he? - That's right.
Back in 1998.
He called you...
our next great defender of the defenseless.
In this world, in politics, it's one long compromise.
I wish it wasn't like that sometimes.
- And if you want to win in this game... - Betty.
You haven't won. You've lost again.
Hmm.
So, how are you doing?
Hmm, good.
Haven't spoken much since, you know, Vega.
- Mm-hmm. - Wondering how it's sitting with you.
It's all right.
Mmm.
You know, I've been listening to this podcast.
Happy, Healthy Wellness or some bullshit.
Guy says the number one reason women live longer
is because men don't talk.
Hmm.
Lack of conversation being detrimental to health.
Hmm.
- Anyway... - Stallings wasn't self-defense.
Yeah?
Yeah, I told you it was self-defense. It wasn't.
And Vega was the same.
Afterwards I was... Tom, I was sick.
I couldn't figure out...
What is wrong with me?
I couldn't... I couldn't even remember the moment.
It was like a blind rage.
And I can't...
- I can't reconcile who I thought I was. - Mm-hmm.
Hey,
two less miscreants in the world.
Fine by me.
Yeah, but Vega had a daughter who loved him. Stallings had a mom.
But sometimes all we can be is just...
...a little bit better than the alternative.
I guess.
What's a five-letter word for birdlike?
Avian.
Shit, that works.
Mr. Flybjerg.
Hey. Can I come?
Yeah, sure.
- One moment. - Okay then.
- Hey. - Hey.
- You all right? - Yeah.
No, you're not.
Your case is over.
You're restless, and you don't know what to do with yourself.
A little.
How about a movie?
Gotta be something in black and white showing somewhere in this town.
Yeah, Out of the Past is playing at The United.
Which one is that?
It's Robert Mitchum. He's in over his head with Jane Greer.
Doesn't sound like the Robert Mitchum I know.
It happens.
Ugh, I'd love to come with.
No, you're busy.
Yeah, it's... this presentation.
All hands on deck.
Forget about me and go relax.
Don't work too hard.
- We're still on for the beach tomorrow? - Of course.
On second thought,
I didn't feel like a movie.
All right. Go on.
Is this what it is to be human?
Come on, bro. Come on, bro!
Whoa!
Go, go!
"On my way to a new case in Abu Dhabi."
"Hendrik lied about the last time he saw his father."
"Watched starling murmurations...
...over Sassari."
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
This is Stanley Ondaatje .
Please leave a message.
Stanley, it's me. Call me back.
Ready?
Yeah.
You look beautiful.
Thank you.
Okay. Got it.
Biggest ocean on the planet, and just up the street,
and somehow, I always forget that it's here.
Hmm, most of us do.
I've been having a hard time lately.
I feel like I'm losing hold of something, who I am, where I'm from, how I started.
I used to see and know things so clearly, but now I'm just...
I don't know. I really have been having a hard time lately.
Yeah, I see that.
I'm sorry.
Should we go back to the hotel?
Is it wrong to just wanna stay here with you on the beach?
Well, I think if we wait until we stop hurting to be happy,
the beach will be gone.
- So here's the thing. - Uh-huh?
Milan.
Milan?
My job here is done,
so I'm going to Milan for debrief and reassignment.
You're leaving?
Yes.
When?
Soon.
Okay.
This has been nice.
It has been nice.
So come with me.
Come with you? To Milan?
See what it's like.
I've been. It's... It's lovely.
See what we are like.
Penelope, a friend of mine, she's got a café in the Cinque Vie.
You just sit outside in chairs, and you drink your espresso,
and you watch people walk up and down the Via Santa Maria, all day.
So, just up and leave?
Why not?
You need a break. Your job's over. You... All your friends are gone.
- We get along not bad. - All my friends are gone?
What's keeping you here? The crime?
Traffic?
What's keeping you here?
No pressure about Milan, okay? Just think it over.
I will.
I slipped up. He knows. I'm sorry.
No comments yet. Be the first to leave one.