"Hello?" "Is anybody there?" "what's up?" "Slow down." "Who are you talking about?" "I don't have a clue what you're" "An apartment?" "no!" "Of course I'm not looking at an apartment!" "Why would I be looking at an apartment?" "wait." "I know what this is." "Oldest trick in the book." "Yeah." "Did a realtor call you?" "Yeah." "I spoke to the husband." "I'm looking at a" "My card?" "My business card?" "I don't know." "That I don't know." "I don't know why he has my business card." "Maybe he then." "Yeah." "surprise ruined." "it's all right." "but I but you're gonna love it." "I know." "the car never picked me up for this thing at the Waldorf." "honey?" "too." "It's okay." "Big kiss." "then." "Bye-bye." "let me ask you a question." "You a real estate broker or a professional fucking idiot?" "I really think we ought to let the super do that." "I got it." "Just move that stuff." "I did not say my wife needs to see the apartment." "I said Amber needs to see the apartment." "Amber." "Amber sound like the wife of a man my age to you?" "picked it up right now." "will you?" "baby." "What do you want me to do with it?" "Just keep it out of my way." "it's not exactly a love nest is it?" "get the window." "Okay?" "Ready?" "and inside." "stop talking." "Because I'm thinking." "I'm thinking!" "I don't You know what?" "Just kill it." "kill it." "Kill the whole thing." "good." "See?" "DIY. "Do It Yourself." "no!" "Call me over the weekend." "Leave a message on the home machine and that the whole thing's my God!" "dead." "You are not gonna believe what almost just happened!" "Did you see that?" "Someone call 911!" "is he dead?" "He ain't happy." "What?" "You cannot be serious!" "Not now." "go ahead and spit." "the very first scene just takes your breath away." "You have to remind yourself that you're in the theater watching a play." "just adored it." "He wanted his father to see it with us." "That's better." "really enjoyed the costumes" "Dr. Pincus?" "Hi." "I'm gonna need the panoramic X-ray machine so if that fits in with your appointments" "Fine." "I've cleared my schedule for tomorrow." "Really?" "I hear it's supposed to be a lovely day." "And?" "I just thought that maybe you were taking the day off to go and" "Right." "Sorry to bother you." "we brought some cake." "so if you" "That'd be delightful." "Start without me." "so" "What a cute baby." "She is so cute." "she really is." "How long was the labor?" "Ten hours." "Ten hours?" "my God." "not really." "It's not?" "Not really." "too long." "It's so worth it." "you know?" "you know?" "Look at that." "So cute." "Stop global warming?" "just a tiny It might take a little jiggle." "Doctor." "You know what?" "Let me just open it." "Hey!" "Can you hold the elevator?" "Please?" "Yeah." "Holding." "Thank you." "hold." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Good." "Still some more. make it." "please." "yet?" "They're there." "I appreciate it." "Spell it." "P-I-N-C-U-S." "Date of birth?" "Why?" "What day were you born?" "I understood the question." "Why do you need to know that?" "Let's leave it blank." "Weight?" "Last night or this morning?" "You pick." "Hundred and eighty-two pounds." "Number of alcoholic beverages consumed per week?" "they want to know. but I don't want my intimate details willy-nilly." "I'll put zero." "Marital status?" "Pass." "Profession?" "Irrelevant." "Food allergies?" "I'm not gonna be eating here." "Are you allergic to sticking plaster?" "What a ludicrous question." "really." "Do you smoke?" "Stop it." "listen." "When was the last time you ate?" "A pertinent question at last." "lunchtime." "Thanks for asking." "but" "Did you drink the laxative solution?" "Yes." "Did it work?" "It was as advertised." "Did you evacuate your bowels?" "I drank copious amounts of drain-cleaning fluid." "What followed was fait accompli." "what I'm asking is if you were" "I shat." "Okay?" "Good." "Again and again. okay?" "Fine with me." "Good." "this." "Wait till they get you in the back." "Dr. Pincus." "Hi." "Don't anticipate any difficulties today." "We'll have you up and on your feet in no time." "Okay." "Quick question." "I notice you requested a general anesthetic." "It's not really typical for this type of procedure." "It's not necessary and we normally Sorry." "I have no intention of being around when they go where they're going." "When does the surgeon arrive?" "I'm the surgeon." "Really?" "Yeah." "Why do you look that tan?" "Thanks for noticing." "I got a spray tan on my way to work today." "Looks natural." "Yes." "It's better for you." "so" "Yeah." "It has an odd smell." "I can't quite place it." "I don't want to smell your fake tan!" "What are you It's like dirt." "like a good dirt." "Not like a garbage dirt." "You gonna go darker?" "I think I am." "I think I'd like to go darker." "It's really gonna make my eyes pop." "You could get your teeth whitened like I did." "that makes a difference." "Very nice." "I don't like having trays in my mouth and my teeth are small." "you babbling idiots." "Can we talk about my bowels?" "Wouldn't that be a good idea?" "huh?" "Makes people say crazy things." "I haven't given it to him yet." "Going in now." "How old are you?" "So are you here on a school field trip?" "Dr. Pincus? I choose my cat." "She hunts dwarves." "She takes them up the tree." "They're still alive." "You can see their little legs going." "Sounds like Norah Jones when she plays the piano." "you must be excited to get home and see your cat." "What cat?" "I thought yesterday you said you had a cat." "I despise cats." "What sort of men waste their affection on a cat?" "Pathetic." "when I was a little girl. take a look at all these lonely cats" "What a wonderful man he must have been." "listen. but I wasn't." "Who were they?" "I don't know anything about that." "Right." "thank you." "Come back soon!" "What a terrible thing to say in a hospital." "Nice." "Fine example for healthcare workers." "I suppose smoking serves a purpose." "Thins the herd." "Weeds out the stupid." "Are you speaking to me?" "not you." "good." "I picked one that should be in a straightjacket." "My mistake." "it follows you home." "Unbelievable." "Sorry!" "too?" "He can see us!" "Who?" "That guy?" "why don't you open your eyes?" "Hey!" "mister!" "just hold up!" "Idiot." "Get out of the road." "Wait!" "Hey!" "I just need two minutes Look out!" "of your time!" "huh?" "And you're not like us." "that cab almost hit you!" "and he yelled at you!" "I don't feel well." "Why on earth" "Hey!" "there's loony weirdoes." "I don't know why they're here." "I'm a dentist." "good." "come back here!" "I wanna talk to you!" "don't be scared!" "I'm a cop!" "He can see us?" "Who?" "That guy?" "from the moment I left the hospital." "What kind of side effects?" "Hallucinations." "visual or aural?" "Both." "that's not normal." "you know?" "Really." "I'd have thought." "Did anything unusual happen during my procedure?" "Did any Did any what but did anything Where?" "Why do you just keep talking while I didn't hear what well" "Did anything unusual happen You kind of interrupted me a little bit." "Just answer the Just." "Did anything unusual happen?" "Where?" "where?" "That's not a proper Yes or no?" "Did anything unusual happen during my procedure?" "Yeah." "What?" "No." "You said "yes" first." "no" means no." "Did anything unusual happen during my procedure?" "And if so Can you hold on one" "Can you hold on a second?" "it's me." "Can you stop what you're doing and come down here right away?" "It's that thing that we talked about." "so" "Okay." "What was that?" "What's the thing?" "You told someone the thing came back." "so I had to call my doctor." "You Miss!" "Yes?" "Me!" "What the What?" "Can you" "Can I Yes." "Follow you?" "To the To my office." "And then you'll tell me." "Yeah." "What?" "Did anything unusual What?" "I wasn't so we just have to be quick." "Did anything unusual happen during my procedure?" "What's he" "Can you please define "unusual"?" "unanticipated." "this went well." "normal." "Right. you responded The cessation of what?" "I really I don't need to tell you that every medical procedure doesn't follow the same path." "Everyone's different." "Yeah." "There are subtle variations in even the simplest surgical for example?" "one doesn't wish to use jargon." "No." "technically Yep." "it's beginning" "Okay." "Yeah." "You died." "I died?" "Little bit." "For how long?" "Seven minutes." "A bit less." "I died for seven minutes." "A bit less." "Approximately seven" "That's really the only thing that I can think of" "How did I die?" "we did not recommend that you use the general anesthesia. of a biochemical anomaly." "Where's the anesthesiologist?" "I want to see him now." "He does not work here anymore. we have a very strict three-strikes policy." "My anesthesiologist had two strikes?" "let's all calm down." "Let's just not overdramatize the situation." "Why is he calming down?" "Everybody dies." "and just the once and forever." "Everybody's different." "And you weren't even gonna tell me." "you didn't." "We told you that night." "We gave you the full report." "we" "It says here that you gurgled to me a little bit." "Have you any idea how much I'm gonna sue you for?" "I'm afraid." "He's perked up." "Go on." "Saint Victor's Hospital and Cooperative Institutional Health Partners from any liability related to your anesthetic-induced cessation of heart function." "I definitely did not." "Is this your signature at the bottom?" "When did I sign that? legally mandated by the state of New York." "Obviously I didn't know what I was doing!" "You knew enough to sign your name." "I dotted the "I" with a little love heart!" "right?" "about these hallucinations." "What are you seeing?" "People." "got a sec?" "huh?" "No." "I'm not the guy." "It's another guy." "Go away." "got to hit you up for a favor." "he's still there." "Unbelievable." "excellent." "Thank you!" "what?" "no." "buddy?" "Don't do that!" "You're a busy little guy." "Let me get right to the point." "that's my wife." "That's perfect." "My widow." "She's got a very serious problem." "I need your help to fix it." "pal?" "Tell him 54th and Madison." "I don't want to go to 54th and Madison!" "that narrows it down." "I don't want a Sapphire martini up with olives." "that narrows it down." "you're making kind of a fool out of yourself." "You can't talk to me when somebody's standing there." "Campari and soda." "Campari soda." "No." "Pimm's Cup." "Pimm's Cup." "Pimm's Cup?" "Pimm's?" "Just get a real drink." "Shut the fuck up!" "Okay!" "Sorry." "Can I have the first thing I said?" "Sapphire martini up with olives." "right?" "it's okay." "It's okay." "You need a little time to adjust." "I get it." "I haven't done jack in 14 months." "I can wait I died today!" "What do you mean?" "I was dead." "For seven minutes." "Yeah?" "I can that's the thing." "New York is lousy with ghosts. too. which is why we're still here." "we can't talk to the living and you can imagine." "A lot of excitement." "Why are you dressed like that?" "Were you a maître d'?" "okay?" "You shouldn't." "You wear what you died in." "At least I look nice." "Sapphire martini up with olives." "Thank you." "Drink your drink." "I'm gonna drink my drink." "All right." "Just shut up." "Aesthetically pleasing." "aren't I?" "you wouldn't be here." "and" "It's all gonna be a dream." "now you're back." "Have a drink." "Have another one." "God knows I would if I could." "You can take your BlackBerry with you?" "I guess." "have you got a signal?" "but I keep trying." "Not yet." "Thank goodness I downloaded Tetris before I went." "Damn it!" "How'd you die?" "Something went wrong with the anesthetic." "I went in for a colonoscopy and it went all" "I never got one of those." "I don't think you have to worry about it now." "What kind of anesthetic did they use?" "They didn't want to use any." "What?" "Yeah." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Expected me What about your ass feelings?" "Don't actually say "ass feelings." I knew what you meant with that." "I just We're not gonna be hanging out!" "young man?" "It's about my daughter." "She lives in Far Rockaway." "Marjorie!" "don't talk to them." "I certainly see no harm in making a request of the young man." "How about the fact that I found him first?" "you." "very good." "I know you're there." "huh?" "Come on." "you're keyed up." "You do yoga?" "You do yoga?" "My girlfriend's got a studio." "I'll show you where it is." "Girlfriend?" "I thought you said you were married." "Did I say I was a perfect person?" "okay?" "You're the bizarre aftereffects of some poorly-administered anesthetic. you'll be gone." "That would be truly rotten luck for my wife who just needs a little bit of your help." "If you would come through for me I'm not listening anymore." "but I will if I have to." "right?" "Pincus." "Pincus?" "Pincus?" "This is a matter of life or death." "okay?" "She lives right Widow." "all right?" "She's getting married in a couple of months bad guy." "Somebody's got to stop this." "What do you care?" "You were having an affair." "right?" "Okay." "You need time." "I can take a hint." "It's not a hint." "Dr. Pincus." "Just go to hell." "What?" "Is this a bad time?" "My letter went under the carpet." "and I know where it is." "but that's nuts! did I accidentally give everybody your home address?" "she won't nobody was more excited than Naked Guy." "He's" "Leave me alone." "Dr. Pincus?" "Back off!" "sorry." "Never mind." "God." "Thank you." "Bless you." "Thank you." "Bless you." "Thank you." "Bless you." "Stop it." "I'll assume Thank you." "Just" "I'm not very well." "It's not you." "It's a bit you." "Mainly You can't But you're adding." "there's a reason I'm here and this is it." "trying to get his hands on her money." "you know." "My head." "It's throbbing." "I'm like her guardian angel." "You can be the guardian angel's assistant." "Pass." "What?" "You don't want to help me earn my wings?" "I don't care." "okay?" "didn't she? 'cause that seems to be her thing." "leave me alone." "I've got a crown at 8:00 a.m." "I get it." "What?" "What do you get?" "You." "Just this whole self-loathing thing." "please." "Frankie spent some time on the couch." "dentists have one of the highest suicide rates of any other profession." "But this might really give you a chance to connect with another human being Shut up." "Shut up!" "Okay?" "Don't you understand?" "I don't give a shit!" "I like what I do." "Do you know why?" "It suits me." "Because 90% of the people I come into contact with have cotton wool shoved in their mouths." "I'm not interested in their political opinions." "I don't care what they thought of Spamalot." "I don't care about their lives." "I just like the quiet!" "You are a sad little man." "I'm not a bigamist." "I'm an adulterer." "It's a whole different thing." "my mistake." "You were a real catch." "Come on." "You don't think I'm gonna find you in a hotel?" "all right?" "You want your quiet life back?" "I'll make you a deal." "Okay?" "get them to leave you alone." "I'm good at talking people into things." "It's what I do." "Did. okay?" "Problem solved." "okay." "The mummy's been examined" "but Pepi the Third's cause of death at the relatively young age of 23 still remains a mystery." "It can't be that hard to break up a relationship." "I used to screw these things up all the time." "you know?" "That woman lives in my building?" "Or we send her an anonymous letter from his other family." "I've never seen her before." "One of those things?" "then." "man." "a brain in a jar?" "Okay." "I want to hear what she's got to say." "Really?" "Yes." "And the grand manner in which Mummy 1999.1.4 was preserved as opposed to curbside-marketplace perverts" "Preservists." "That's awkward." "I suppose the simplest way to break it up would be to plant a seed of doubt in her mind." "Give her another option." "I don't get it." "I thought of that." "You mean hire a good-looking male model don't need right?" "just approachable." "Sort of rugged and somebody tough." "if anything and sensitive." "though. and that would be attractive." "Really?" "Yeah." "She might like that." "Yeah." "But he's gonna have to be tall." "Tall is important." "no." "Average." "Really?" "Yeah." "Bordering on the short." "you mean you." "I'm Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Forget it." "Don't walk away mad!" "Come here!" "Pink-Ass!" "I would like to elaborate further on Mummy 1999.1.4's burial site." "Here" "I'm sorry." "Forget it." "a lot of great ideas sound completely ridiculous at first." "Sorry I even brought it up." "it might work." "all you're gonna have to do is be charming enough you know?" "Be a challenge." "Almost impossible." "you know?" "Pulling the strings." "I think I can do it." "Really." "I can do this." "I can do it." "Forget it." "are you?" "no." "No?" "You got a girlfriend?" "currently." "I don't use hookers." "We've also conducted extensive CT scans as you may remember was the case with Tutankhamen as shown here on slide 43." "you know what?" "It's possible that she could actually go for you." "you work out or" "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Twice a week." "Free weights." "Okay." "All right." "thick head of hair." "Protein shampoo." "She's gonna like that." "Yeah." "Look after your scalp." "Right." "you know?" "you show up as the cable guy or innocent pizza boy or don't you?" "No." "I was inclined to regard this injury as the result of attempts by plunderers to hastily remove the wrappings from the mummy." "I tell you what I'm gonna do. and strike up a conversation with her." "Yeah." "I know." "What?" "I don't know." "better not." "Yes." "I came straight from work." "Okay." "I'm a dentist." "This is what we wear." "Yeah." "Yeah." "baby." "Okay." "the 12th." "thank you very much for coming." "it's an interesting story." "My daughter went to Egypt." "yeah." "all right." "I owe you an apology." "Do you mean for stealing my cab or for not holding the elevator?" "no." "I know." "Maybe it was for that time that you told the super that somebody down on nine was cooking stenchy ethnic food that stings the eyes?" "Was that you?" "It was tacos." "They told me that any complaints would be kept anonymous. and you never even looked at me." "I'm a very private person." "What you are is a little bit of a jerk." "D.D.S. So I've read." "I enjoyed your lecture very much." "Thank you." "Don't take the walk-outs personally." "I hadn't noticed." "thank you for that encouragement." "quite a few." "What do they know?" "Atrocious dental hygiene." "I'm sorry?" "Your mummy. 1999.1.4." "He was no flosser." "Dental humor." "Is there something else?" "Shoes." "Your shoes are comfortable." "Bye." "I knew you were gonna come off scary." "I wasn't scary." "I caught her at a bad time." "and it scared her." "I'm not scary!" "Don't make eye contact." "no." "Let me preface this." "What the hell is your problem?" "I don't have a problem." "no." "You got a big problem." "Big problem with women." "I take it back." "You got a problem with people." "they suck." "Would you quit banging that drum?" "bad lady went and broke your heart?" "get over it." "It's in the past." "do you?" "I know you got to forget about this and let it go." "It's not helping you out there." "the thing with women is that they" "I do fine with women." "Thanks very much. you do great with women." "You do great." "But you stink with this one." "So we got work to do." "And she likes a man who's a man." "She likes you to order for her in a restaurant." "And don't get bossy!" "Pincus." "This will make her absolutely nuts." "Yeah." "I do know how to talk to people." "don't you?" "Yeah." "you got to show her you care." "got to be suspicious." "Why on earth would I do that?" "'Cause it shows you're interested." "This is the worst advice I've ever had in my life." "and she's no dummy." "she'll raise one eyebrow and cock her head." "I call it her pirate look." "Rattles the hell out of you." "Hi." "I'm gonna get the next one." "Don't be silly." "Get in here." "I don't want to Okay." "Pincus." "you're not ready." "okay?" "Don't do this." "And get that face off." "You're not Don't do it!" "I've been thinking about your decaying jawbone." "Pitting is what I'm talking. and on the upper left mandibular gum line." "The mummy." "Open invitation to a little vitis called "Gingi." "Gingivitis?" "but essentially if I" "But wouldn't that just be ordinary wear and tear?" "you idiot." "I don't think so." "How do the ladies resist that rap of yours?" "all right." "Not a total disaster." "you just got to listen to what it is that I'm saying." "Excuse me?" "Do you think maybe you could come by someday and maybe examine him?" "shall we?" "Okay." "Okay." "tomorrow is out." "That." "Cannot move that." "Cannot move that." "That is set in stone." "And that little puppy is hunkered in good." "dock." "either." "Busy bee." "commitments abound." "Rawhide." "No way is that gonna so" "Great." "Okay." "Good." "See you then." "God." "thank God you're back." "you sadist!" "forget it." "I'm not in the mood anymore." "Where have you been?" "and you're out God knows where." "You meet interesting people." "You have a career." "is that a new shirt?" "and it's got sleeves." "well." "Pinky's got himself a brand new shirt for the big" "Hi." "Hi." "yeah." "huh?" "You should have seen the state he was in when we found him. fully retreated lips." "Five thousand years of acid reflux will do that to you. and it's what's underneath that counts." "they suctioned his brain out through his nose. intestines" "Beautiful." "so that they could be separately preserved in Canopic jars." "But what's really exciting about Pepi is how they handled his organ." "his dick." "I got it right here." "You wanna see it?" "Please." "There's nothing unusual about the phallus itself." "Sure." "It's the way it was stored." "the penis and the heart are kept together they removed it and preserved it in this separate gold-encrusted jar." "God." "I can see why he was king." "You okay?" "Yeah." "eventually." "geez." "I see he died happy." "That's it." "That's enough." "He must have had huge hands." "no." "Yeah." "Is this here the pitting that you were referring to?" "really bad there." "We just assumed that was post-mortal decay." "Don't be naive." "That is the work of an untreated abscess." "That was a absolute magic carpet of bacterial infection." "And that could have killed him? he'd have pennies on his eyes in no time at all." "the mouth." "A coin in the mouth. but and just in time for our opening next Thursday." "will you come?" "What?" "Big opening with loads of people Yeah." "No." "That's You don't like crowds?" "It's not so much the crowd as the individuals in the crowd I don't like." "you let me know." "Just seems so obvious now." "Why didn't I call a dentist sooner?" "Everybody waits until it's too late." "So you're a funny dentist." "You wanna touch him?" "This is my lucky day." "Yeah." "yeah." "like Down there." "Isn't that amazing?" "Wow." "Brilliant." "Don't you just love that smell?" "It's not decay." "It's the resin." "It's pine." "good. it triggers your vomit impulse." "Like visiting your grandmother." "Sugar-free treat?" "Sure." "Okay." "It's sweetened with Splenda." "Surprisingly delightful." "Have you lived in the building long?" "Four years and one month." "and then" "Why'd you move?" "London." "Just too much." "just no privacy." "Just too many people." "So you picked Manhattan?" "The reasoning is a little bit convoluted." "It's difficult to explain." "What's her name?" "Sarah." "Wife?" "No." "Girlfriend?" "Yeah." "Still together?" "Possibly." "I haven't spoken to her for years." "actually." "Quite sad." "She had a rare condition." "Have you heard of auto-cannibalism?" "She actually ate herself." "I made that up." "I was joking." "But that's not funny." "Funnier than the truth." "and the truth about Sarah is Very boring and ordinary." "How long you been here?" "Can you just hold on one second? and I can never find my keys." "just after my husband died." "You lost your husband?" "I'm sorry to hear that." "Thanks." "and you tell me if it's inappropriate." "Okay." "Okay." "This tooth." "it's just just warm the drinks up." "Let's have a look." "Head back." "Open wide." "Ah"?" "Dentist!" "I need you to clip a guy for me." "Can you tell what it is?" "It's bad molar contact." "I accepted payment for a job which I wasn't able to complete." "is it really very serious?" "You should come and see me." "Should I?" "You have to finish it for me." "Yeah." "There's a.38 snub-nose taped under the seat of my mother's Cadillac." "You just give him two in the head." "Leave the gun on the floor." "Maybe I will." "Okay." "What the Is now a good time?" "Is everything okay?" "geez." "don't Careful." "right in the ear nearly." "you know there." "Hey!" "Good." "Another one." "hey!" "I didn't see you." "alive." "Why did this fellow have his hands in your mouth?" "my fiancé. that dentist that I told you about in the building." "I think he's got a really terrific idea about what might have killed Pepi." "Really?" "That's fantastic." "myself." "Doctor?" "At Gwen's." "I'm making curry." "She's really cute." "Don't love to." "right below you." "Thank you." "I hope it was edible." "Best curry I've ever tasted." "Stop complimenting him!" "You're too kind." "you're making him look good." "I had a friend who was generous with her time." "Richard's being modest." "He worked for three years with homeless prostitutes in Bengal." "You still in the sex trade or" "That's inappropriate." "I confess an ulterior motive in asking you here tonight. you could do an awful lot of good in the developing world." "They're in desperate need of modern dental care." "Modern dental care." You believe this guy?" "the money's there." "What an act." "So pompous!" "Sorry." "What is that?" "My new puppy." "NGOs are being supported." "Record levels." "I need you to punch him." "But what we really need" "Come on!" "are boots on the ground." "Kick his self-righteous teeth in!" "How can teeth be self-righteous? I know the answer." "they can't." "What is essentially dentin and enamel have no moral code." "and that's passive." "from" "What were you saying?" "we need" "We need people like you who can bring their expertise to bear sub-Saharan Africa." "sticky places." "I'm just not a humidy person." "Palm Springs?" "There's breezes." "what are the teeth like in Saint-Tropez?" "the French." "Shrugging and smiling." "sweetie." "I have to take this." "huh?" "Do you want some more wine?" "That tent pole stuck up his ass." "Please." "Okay." "that is perfectly unacceptable." "Shut What?" "What?" "Am I throwing you off your game?" "just give me a fake cough and I'll was that okay!" "I'm gone." "he takes his job very seriously." "so you should with human rights." "I take human rights seriously." "creed or circumstance." "We're all the same on this planet." "Except the Chinese." "What?" "they are." "They're the odd ones out if you had to pick one." "I'm not having a go." "not their faces." "no." "But they call each other things like Kwok Stop it." "You're gonna and they don't have to call a kid Kwok." "And they No." "Some people are called Pong stop." "and there's about a million Wangs. you can use all those names on one little" "You could call a kid Kwok Pong Wang." "Ming Wa Men and Ho Lee Park have been arrested in Shaolin." "I have to get down to the office." "they're being arraigned in 30 minutes and the government will only allow Not again." "their attorneys to appear by closed-circuit." "I'm sorry." "I'm afraid I have to go." "it's been a so you guys stay and have fun and finish up." "poor Leonard." "Do you mind if I let him out?" "be right back." "When did you get your horse?" "A couple of months ago." "I found him at this shelter in Long Island." "They were gonna put him down." "did they?" "I know." "His mood levelers give him this ulcerating skin rash." "Are you okay?" "Got a very sensitive gag reflex." "dear." "And the mixture of that and that." "Are you all right?" "Do you want to Sorry." "You know what?" "I think he needs to go out." "Do you want to maybe walk him now or we could finish up and yeah." "Get some air with some oxygen in it." "you good boy!" "That is so healthy!" "good boy!" "That's a good boy!" "That's a good boy!" "You wanna finish dinner?" "I don't think I'm quite ready for solid foods just yet." "though." "Sure." "There's Bemelmans is just around the corner." "have you ever been to that new" "I like Sting because you can hear he's educated in his lyrics." "Pimm's Cup for the lady." "Thank you." "And a Sapphire martini up with olives." "Thank you." "that was Frank's favorite drink." "I forgot." "Sorry." "You forgot?" "You forgot what?" "Forgot?" "Yeah. and the polite thing to do in this situation would have been to check what the deceased's drink was as not to evoke any horrible memories." "Why would you assume that they were horrible?" "Painful." "Not necessarily horrible." "of drink-related death memory." "I like a Pimm's Cup." "This is exactly the kind of girly drink that Frank would have teased me about." "I ordered a Screaming Orgasm." "I'm the only one giving for God's sake!" "Sorry." "Just running on about my dead husband." "no." "I've just seen someone I hate." "It's that's sweet." "They never get over Frankie." "do you wanna leave?" "no." "He should leave." "Let's do some You were saying that Frank had his flaws." "and that's really healthy because you should not romanticize the dead." "You should remember their faults." "I remember them." "let's make a list." "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "actually." "You can trust me." "I'm a dentist." "then." "Okay." "His faults." "Number one." "Frank could be a little controlling." "that's what made me successful." "so say so." "he was occasionally obnoxious." "I imagine." "you walked her into that." ""Obnoxious." "Pincus." "Marjorie?" "You rubbernecking?" "be quiet!" "Let them talk." "You could learn something." "He had a shoe fetish. up the" "Right. "Pervert." "And he was rude to waiters." "And I hate that." "So do I. You mind?" "aren't they?" "What a nasty piece of work." "So what about his physical characteristics? was he?" "he was actually starting to get into yoga at the end there." "I'll bet he was." "But he spent a lot of time at the gym." "this is shaping up nicely." "obnoxious pervert who's rude to waiters." "It's a good list." "I don't have to listen to this shit." "Disloyal." "I think that's enough." "I didn't know you knew." "I didn't find out until the day he died." "Can you imagine? like a normal person." "I'm sorry." "I" "That must feel Unfinished." "Sarah." "And the trips got longer and longer." "she didn't come back at all." "Married a man in Portland." "Sorry." "Travel will do that to a relationship." "Yep." "I just got this amazing offer to go map tombs in the Valley of the Kings for six months." "But I think I'm gonna say no this time." "Because of Richard." "Yeah." "Good night." "Good night." "by the way." "you know? just because it's more dramatic." "What happens matters." "but it matters." "Good night." "Good night." "What?" "What's with the doom and gloom?" "It's going good." "You're weaseling your way right in there." "This is gonna work." "I just I think Gwen really loves him." "You know he's a human rights lawyer. you think he's gonna have little red horns and carry a pitchfork? and he's gonna give all of his money to the homeless." "wouldn't he lose the title "the devil"?" "You know what I mean." "I got better things to do with my time." "I wouldn't just be hanging out here." "is your problem with Richard?" "I told you!" "The guy is setting her up to rob her blind." "And what proof have you got?" "I don't" "What are you basing this on?" "I saw things with my own two eyes." "Saw what?" "Just enough to know." "Come on." "What did he do?" "that's He's okay?" "Yeah." "And they're eating. and this clown says that his wallet is in his coat." "It's over at the coat check." "right?" "Right. let me get this." "Yeah?" "And he accepted." "is there?" "don't you see?" "He showed his true colors." "yeah." "he's a perfectly lovely human being." "there are other things!" "He took five grand from her." "He what?" "000. put it right in his sweaty little fist." "It was wasn't he?" "see what drops." "yeah." "AIDS?" "No." "Refugees?" "Orphans?" "Orphans." "Good." "You're missing the point." "Yeah." "he's a lawyer." "Yeah." "A lawyer who fights to protect the rights of the underprivileged." "Come on!" "There must be something wrong with him." "There must be some reason why all this is happening." "what am I doing here?" "I'm out." "no." "What do you mean?" "I'm not gonna interfere with Gwen's life anymore." "And I can't lie to her. and I nearly confessed to everything there and then." "You can't abandon her to this creep." "She loves him." "She doesn't love him!" "I haven't seen her laugh once with this guy!" "He's a good man." "with his whole Mother Teresa schtick?" "I hate him." "Okay?" "electric car." "But he's what Gwen wants. she deserves a bit of happiness." "You're in love with her." "You are." "I knew it. and now you want to take it back to your cave and crush it with a rock." "That's what you wanna do." "I quit." "You can't quit." "I'll make your life a living hell." "It already is." "There you go." "That's such a good boy." "Such a good boy." "open." "sweetie." "Come on." "Leonard." "Don't be a jerk." "Come on." "God damn it." "Come on." "Come on." "sweetie?" "Wait." "Leonard!" "It is too late." "Too late. how do they get there? I have no clue what to say Head back." "because his father not when we're popping this in." "Okay." "Bite down there." "There you go." "Good." "Just leave that there." "Isn't that good?" "So much better." "and I'm resting my ears and we're all winners." "Can you get these over to the lab?" "A little rush job." "Mr. Harriman's bridge is on the verge of" "I thought I was through for the day after this." "You are through." "What about the" "What about what?" "Frank." "Who?" "I don't know who you mean." "What are you Who?" "I've never my opinion is that you didn't make sense just now." "I don't know who you're talking about." "please?" "I'm having a bit of a he'll run." "That's him!" "don't piss me off!" "Thank you." "He's not in the office!" "then he must be upstairs." "Doctor." "Good to see you." "You look smart." "Just been to the toilet." "around the so I just took my time." "you can take a long time next time if you" "Good." "Okay." "That's set." "it has to be" "Good." "Dr. Pincus?" "He seems to be in a lot of pain." "Life is pain." "Does that mean yes?" "So we have an emergency on our hands." "I'm Dr. Pincus." "hi." "Thanks for seeing me." "Yep." "What seems to be the problem?" "I don't know." "I think I must have cracked a filling." "That was silly." "Head back." "shall we?" "Open up." "there it is." "you've got the bite of an Inuit." "Have you been chewing seal hide?" "I tend to grind my teeth pretty hard when I'm stressed and I'm" "I don't know." "Last night was a tough one." "I came home and Gwen was What?" "never mind." "you were gonna say something about she was just" "I can't forget about it." "it's nothing." "it is something you know I mean just to" "I'd rather not talk about it." "Why don't we just "Finish what you started" is my motto." "I'm a good listener." "Please." "I'd rather not talk about it." "can you wait a minute then?" "I'm in pain." "Please." "Dr. Prashar?" "Jahangir?" "That's his first name." "aren't you?" "Excuse me." "I'm from India." "Yeah." "like us." "I'm a Hindu." "How would you extract information from a hostile? I would ask them politely." "I just need a technique." "I'm with a patient." "Yeah." "Okay." "So where were we?" "You were telling me about Gwen." "Something yeah." "Tooth." "yeah." "Let's do this professionally." "All work and no play makes Jack a valuable member of society." "Open up." "take your word for that." "But it almost certainly would in this situation." "Do you know the worst thing in the world for teeth?" "Sugar?" "Secrets." "you will feel better." "it's private." "I really would like to keep this on a professional footing." "please." "We can play it any way you want to." "Actually." "That's not Novocain." "it is a little dab of nitrous oxide." "Nitrous?" "I didn't know you guys still used nitrous." "Are there any side effects?" "A few." "Some people laugh." "Some people get sleepy." "But they all talk." "Frankie!" "Fancy seeing you here." "You back on the job yet or you need me to send more?" "I got a couple Civil War re-enactors that'll talk your ear off." "They used live ammo." "Didn't get the news." "Job's done." "Richard's history." "What?" "She dumped him last night." "How do you know?" "He told me." "The marriage is off." "So he's out completely?" "but she's done with him." "She said she was confused about her feelings so" "Why would Richard tell you all this?" "Because I gave him 700 milliliters of nitrous oxide." "Is that a lot?" "No." "It's not fatal till 750." "I think this sounds a lot like a premarital spat." "young couples at this stage No." "Definitely not." "no." "to get into this She's taken the job in Egypt." "She's going there for six months." "right after the exhibition opens." "this is great news." "Yeah." "I guess." "neither." "wait!" "What's in the bag?" "Nothing." "Is that from a jewelry store?" "my gosh." "Is that for Gwen?" "It doesn't matter." "whatever happened to the "I will not interfere" thing?" "is there?" "The relationship's over!" "She doesn't love him." "And you think she's gonna love you?" "I'm sorry." "you'd leave me alone!" "I broke up the marriage!" "Leave me alone!" "you should at least let me help you pick out something!" "Do you have any idea how much "Please forgive me" jewelry" "I bought her over the years?" "I can take it from here! I'm telling you!" "Frank!" "Listen!" "has been rather unpleasant. at least" "You gonna finish?" "Done. we finished what you had to finish." "And who knows?" "we meet up again." "but" "But why am I still here?" "Construction crane dropped two tons of steel on us." "That must have hurt." "It was a hydraulic leak." "An act of God!" "Why does he do those things?" "he thinks it's all his fault." "therapy time!" "Don't panic." "It's nothing." "A key chain." "I needed a key chain!" "good." "I can't believe you remembered." "That is just" "What a strange and practical man you are." "It was down to that or a set of socket wrenches." "I hope you didn't spend too much." "$140." "The receipt's in the box." "you don't actually have to tell people in that situation." "no." "I'm just saying it was no big deal." "It's not like it's Peruvian gold or anything." "And the reason I say that is because there was a set of earrings a little bit out of my price range." "So" "What?" "Stop giving me the pirate look." "nothing ostentatious or pushy. and I think you should accept it in the spirit of friendship with which it was given." "Pirate look"?" "How could you possibly know about that?" "I don't." "You do." "Common expression?" "No." "How do you know about any of this stuff?" "Pirate look?" "Peruvian gold?" "Everyone knows about Peruvian gold." "Frank's favorite drink?" "take it easy." "Don't tell me to take it easy." "You hate that." "How do you know what I hate?" "Lucky guess." "Can we start again?" "spill it." "She's leaving anyway in a few days." "no choice. and then I'm out of here." "How do you know this stuff from my life with Frank?" "It'll sound crazy." "Try her." "Try me. but there was complications." "And I died." "Just for a few minutes with us." "it's cruel." "How else would I know all the things I know?" "you must have known Frank." "maybe you were his dentist." "then." "Something that I couldn't possibly know." "How do you get like you?" "Please." "you'll never see me again." "Frank used to have this nightmare over and over." "but me." "What was it?" "Drowning. no matter how hard I swam. he couldn't." "isn't it?" "Not even close." "No!" "You know the first time I met you?" "What a jerk." "right?" "And I convinced myself that I saw something human in you. needs a little work." "But to use intimate details about my dead husband that's unforgivable." "You're sick." "I love you." "Don't call me!" "You lied." "Why would you do that?" "Because you're a heartless son of a bitch who doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone but himself." "She's already had one of those." "Dentist." "What?" "It's my daughter." "you mentioned something about that." "her only sister. but I slipped a letter under her door the day before I died." "It explained everything." "But there was carpeting in the entryway." "I didn't know the letter went under the carpet." "She never got it." "aren't you?" "a squirrel." "It was his favorite." "He took it everywhere." "Couldn't get to sleep without it." "But he lost it on the day I died." "They don't know it's just under the front seat of the car." "they just can't see it. because to him that toy is me." "I can't help you." "You mean you won't help us." "Isn't that the truth?" "shall I?" "We live alone and then we die alone." "we stay alone." "isn't it?" "You idiot!" "I'm sorry!" "Unbelievable!" "Come on." "Hello." "What a day." "it appears that winter is upon us." "Hail." "What?" "It doesn't even have the decency to snow." "Is there any more stupid form of precipitation than hail?" "I suppose that is the stupidest." "Jahangir?" "Yeah." "We're friends." "Well Associates." "Yeah." "We have things in common." "Yeah." "We share stuff and for example." "Yeah." "We're close." "but What the is it?" "Listen." "I met a woman." "The kind of a woman that makes you want to go back in time to before you met her." "it's not as bad as the hell now." "Knowing she's out there and you can't have her." "What I'm trying to say is could you write me a prescription for Percocet?" "What?" "can I?" "Legally." "It's for my sleep and to pretend she never happened." "Or Darvon." "Or Vicodin." "if you don't want me to keep bothering you." "And I'll be out of your hair." "I'm not even gonna ask for morphine." "Come with me." "What are we doing?" "Just sit down." "No." "Sit down." "Why?" "Just sit down." "never mind." "This is important." "Look." "Brilliant." "The other one." "that's good. and ask yourself the ultimate question." "This business of what is it really getting me?" "You said something about a letter." "You should try it on." "Mom!" "Look what I found!" "What?" "Where'd you find this?" "Where did it come from?" "It fell out of his backpack." "Thank you." "Dr. Pincus?" "I didn't" "Thank you." "Thank you so much!" "I never realized." "Thanks." "many insights into the life and death of King Pepi." "Thank you." "Thank you very much." "Thank you very much." "Thank you." "Gwen!" "What are you doing here?" "I've got to talk to you." "I've figured it out." "Please leave me alone." "I think they've got it completely wrong." "Ghost stories." "Could you not do this here tonight?" "they buried him with everything a dead guy doesn't need." "money." "They even put his penis in a big jar." "Why would they do that?" "But you saw that penis." "It wouldn't have fit in a little jar." "not why did they put it in a big" "Why'd they put it in a jar at all?" "Why?" "What?" "Why would they go to all that trouble for someone they'll never see again?" "Because they love him and they want to make sure he'll be okay." "Because if they know he's okay they can let him go." "You were fabulous." "Thank you." "That's very sweet of you." "Appreciate it." "Exactly." "They can let him go." "Gwen." "Let him go." "then shouldn't he let me go?" "No." "He can't." "It's not him." "It's you. it's us that are unfinished." "Let Frank go." "Let the pervert decay in peace." "stop following me." "it's nice to see you both." "That came out all wrong." "okay?" "I'm trying to" "Maybe you guys were a couple of buddies." "no and you went out drinking and went to strip clubs my God." "and laughed at your wives" "I swear." "What was the matter with me?" "Why didn't he love me?" "I did love you." "I still do." "He did love you." "Then why wasn't I enough?" "have you?" "What?" "Useless." "change? ever?" "just for a few seconds?" "I am who I am." "I suppose you're talking to him right now?" "Is that what you want me to believe?" "What do you want to tell him?" "What do you want to say?" "I want an answer!" "I want to know why I wasn't enough for him." "It wasn't you that wasn't enough." "It wasn't you that wasn't enough." "I don't know why I did the shit that I did." "And he doesn't know why he did the things he did." "And you don't get any smarter just because you're dead." "You don't get smarter after you die." "how much I hurt you." "But he's seen how much he hurt you." "And" "honey." "What?" "What'd he say?" "He said he's sorry." "That's it?" "He's sorry?" "it was" "He's sorry." "He's sorry." "yeah." "Heartfelt." "Good guess." "I got to go pack." "you should have heard it!" "I'm really not doing it justice!" "Gwen!" "Wait!" "Why should I talk to you?" "You couldn't even get his dream right!" "because he told me the wrong dream to try to make me look bad." "He stitched me up." "Then what's the right one?" "is he?" "that's convenient." "it's not convenient." "It's really inconvenient." "okay?" "self-centered." "I'm not a liar and I'm not lying now." "I've lived more in the last few days the first time." "Right?" "Do you know what I mean?" "Nope." "Right." "I'm born and then" "Someone call an ambulance!" "Try to get help!" "Somebody do something!" "my God." "Now that is a real shame." "too." "pal." "Goddamned MTA strikes again." "right?" "I'm not dead!" "I'm afraid so." "kiddo." "you." "Kind of nice." "Feels good." "I was just getting started!" "every minute up till now has just been a waste of time!" "Just a warm-up!" "Yeah." "This is the worst part." "Somebody do" "Watching her cry." "Do something!" "Knowing she needs somebody to comfort her and knowing it can't be you." "Has anyone called 911?" "Wait a minute." "You got to be kidding me." "call them!" "Wait a minute." "Space!" "Give me space!" "He's doing CPR." "He knows CPR." "Of course!" "He knows CPR." "he needs space." "He's probably gonna cut open your chest and massage your heart back to life with his bare hands." "Lord!" "Spare this man!" "I really can't take this guy anymore." "I can't." "Come on!" "there's something I should tell you." "It might come in handy if you make it back." "You're gonna help me?" "Why? now." "Listen up." "I think my ride's here." "always good to see you." "What happened?" ""Don't walk." "I'm afraid." "Gwen." "Was there a woman here? security would have escorted her off the premises." "guys." "yes." "Looks good." "Makes your eyes pop." "six months." "only floss the ones you wanna keep." "Hi." "I didn't know you were back." "Hi." "Hi." "I thought you were in Egypt." "I felt like sticking around." "You're okay?" "Yeah." "Under the circumstances." "but they wouldn't they run a tight ship over there at Cooperative Institutional Health Bastards." "You okay?" "I have bad molar contact." "Sit down." "I was wondering if you had that seen to." "I'm not." "I actually made the appointment with Dr. Prashar." "I didn't know" "He's a lovely man." "but don't tell him I said so." "I'm glad to see you're looking well." "And you." "He's eight years old." "Sorry?" "What?" "Frank." "In his dream." "The real one." "And he's walking in the woods with his dad." "his dad's not there. and that's his nightmare." "That he's lost and he can't find his way home." "That's it." "Do you still see him?" "He found his way home." "That's good." "It hurts when I smile." "I can fix that for you." "Subtitles ßy MühàmmáÐ Ü§mâñ"