:51:03
Why don't you make some coffee, Wick? Strong, three cups.
:51:07
Look, Helen.
:51:08
Do yourself a favor. Go on, clear out.
:51:11
Because I've got a rival? Because you're in love with this?
:51:14
You don't know me, Don.
:51:15
I'm going to fight and fight and fight.
:51:18
Bend down.
:51:27
All right.
:51:35
That was three years ago, Nat.
:51:38
That's a long time to keep fighting, to keep believing.
:51:41
She knows she's clutching a razor blade but she won't let go.
:51:44
Three years of it.
:51:46
And what? How does it come out?
:51:48
I don't know. Haven't figured that far.
:51:51
Want me to tell ya?
:51:52
One day your guy gets wise to himself and gets back that gun.
:51:56
Or, if he's only got a buck then, he goes up
to the Empire State Building, way up on top and then...
:52:00
or he can do it for a nickel, in a subway under a train.
:52:05
You think so, Nat?
:52:07
What if Helen is right, and this guy sits down...
:52:09
and turns out something good... but good...
and that pulls him up and snaps him out of it?
:52:12
This guy? Not from where I sit.
:52:14
Oh, shut up, Nat. I'm going to do it.
I'm going to do it now. It's all there. You heard it.
:52:17
Yes, Mr. Birnam.
:52:19
That's why I didn't go away on that weekend, see,
so I can be alone up there and sit down at my typewriter.
:52:23
This time I'm going to do it, Nat. I'm going to do it.
:52:25
- Maybe you will.
- Thank you, Nat.
:52:28
- Am I all paid up?
- Yes, Mr. Birnam.
:52:30
Goodbye, Nat.
:52:31
I'm going home. This time I've got it. I'm going to write.
:52:37
Good luck to you.
:52:46
THE BOTTLE A Novel by Don Birnam
:52:54
To Helen - With All My Love