:37:00
We're crowded this evening.
:37:02
Why don't you sit on top of Billy Cortez?
:37:05
I'll see if Caroline will sit on my face.
:37:08
No thanks. The last time I sat on your face
I got a yeast infection.
:37:16
Good evening, Peter.
:37:21
Don't get up. Do you know my daughter?
:37:24
Of course. How are you, Evelyn?
:37:27
This is one of my invisible employees.
:37:29
One of the many journalists
who supposedly write for my newspaper.
:37:34
You're very honored to see him.
:37:37
I rarely do.
:37:40
I can explain. Come have a drink--
:37:43
We're having a private party.
:37:45
I was at a dinner last evening,
and halfway through the pudding...
:37:49
...a 4-year-old child came in
dragging a little toy cart.
:37:53
And on the cart was a fresh turd.
:37:56
Her own, I suppose.
:37:57
The parents just shook their heads
and smiled.
:38:01
I've made a big investment in you, Peter.
:38:04
Time and money, and it's not working.
:38:06
I could just shake my head and smile.
:38:09
But in my house, when a turd appears,
we deal with it.
:38:12
We dispose of it. We flush it away.
:38:16
We don't put it on the table
and call it caviar.
:38:19
Of course you don't.
I've been working at home.
:38:22
I'm working on a story that I can't talk
about here. It's a big story.
:38:26
I sincerely hope so, Peter.
:38:30
I sincerely hope so.
:38:37
It was the end of the road for me.
I could see it coming.
:38:42
See it coming? It was here.
:38:44
I'd had my chance and I'd blown it away
in a bottle.
:38:48
It was over. I had to face up to that fact.
:38:53
I could go back home.
:38:55
Small town, small newspaper.
:38:57
Or I could write a novel or two.