"MAN 1:" "Make sure those corks are in tight, huh?" "We don't want any slip-ups through American customs." "MAN 2:" "Especially since the senator is kind enough to VIP this through without any inspection." "MAN 1:" "Ha, ha, I wonder what their reaction would be if they knew their was heroin in these bottles." "[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON PA]" "AMANDA:" "Let's see if we can beat our record." " Go." " Whoop!" "[DOOR OPENS]" " How's it going?" " You know the way it usually works." "You knock on the door, I say, "Come in."" "Yeah, I know." "This is emergency." "I've been walking the neighborhood, Amanda, taking its pulse." "And you know what?" "This place is dead." "Huh?" "Who's dead?" "Our neighborhood and I've got the perfect cure." " An old-fashioned block party." "AMANDA:" "Have you met your neighbors?" "They're very quiet people." "Most of them are retired." "Ah, good." "Maybe we'll give them something to stay up about." "A costume party." "[GRUNTS]" "Better yet, a "come as your favorite movie character" costume party." " Buck." "No, not on this block-- BUCK:" "No, no, no." "We can get a permit." " We'd close off the street" " Buck, please." "I bet I can even score one of those searchlights to give that Hollywood premiere touch." "Yeah, I'll get my W.C. Fields costume out of mothballs." "Oh, this is gonna be sharp, okay." "Thank you, my little chickadee." "Amanda, what did we do to deserve a neighbor like that?" "I don't know, mother, I'm gonna change that lock." " How do we do?" " Oh, new record." "Oh, I love it." "McNElL:" "I brought this collection in to the country myself." "The wine is an anonymous donation to the auction." "So, uh, get them to sign the receipt letter in there and bring it back to my house, okay?" "Don't forget, or my tax accountant will come after you." "Addressed to a Mr. Twillie, Congressman McNeil?" "Uh-huh." "People pay good money for the names of charity donors." "And Mr. Twillie gives me some distance." "[CHUCKLES]" "And Mr. Twillie couldn't resist a bottle for himself." "[BOTH LAUGHING]" " Well, charity begins at home." " I guess." "So when will this be delivered?" "Oh, jeez, hard to say." "It goes to the warehouse then waits in line." "Then it gets shipped out and we're backed up to the ceiling." " Well, see what you can do." " Gosh, a whole five." "Hey, I am only a congressmen." "[SIGHS]" "Ah." "[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]" "What the hell's wrong with this, Jim?" "I think you got stuck with a bad bottle." "I hope the whole case isn't bad." "[TIRES SQUEAL THEN CAR HORN HONKS]" "[TIRES SQUEAL]" "[COUGHING]" "[SHOUTS]" "A congressman, a marine general and a Nobel physicist." "All dead at approximately the same time." "The preliminary cause of death is listed as heroin overdose for all three." "It's either a bizarre murder plot or a very strange coincidence." "The question is which?" "If they were murdered, it could mean anything." "They all had defense clearance to the top." "Didn't know each other socially, in government?" " Not according to what we have." " What do we have?" "We're still waiting on the coroner's report from pathology." "But we do have a gift here from our friends in the coroner's office." "They found that in McNeil's car, empty." "And we have our lab workup here." "Man, 1945 Chateau Monet, very rare." "Look at this, McNeil, Stargate and Hallman all signed the label." "They knew each other well enough to share a very expensive bottle of wine." "And they all had tickets to the Potomac Services charity auction this week." "I have friends too." "Every mover and shaker in this town buys dozens of tickets." " It's not gonna help us." " Let's find something that will help us." "Let's find out what this is all about before the metro police or the FBI or who knows whom lets the cat out of the bag." " If it is a cat." " Whatever it is I don't like it." "I want us to have the control." "Check out that auction." "Take Amanda with you." "She's had experience." "Experience?" "Rolling nickels and quarters?" "Running a baked goods concession?" "Billy, we are talking high society here." " What has he got to loose?" " Time, sleep his flawless reputation." "Take Amanda." "She might spot something that you'd miss." "[SIGHS]" "Check any connection between the dead men and the auction." " Then we'll visit the McNeil place." " Right." "Now, since we really don't know what we are after we should make a list of the things being auctioned..." " ...and the names of the donors, hmm?" " Lee, that's Jill Hulsman." "She's the auction coordinator, probably got an inventory list on that clipboard." " Hello, Jill." " Amanda King." "Long time, no see." "It's nice to see you." "This is, uh, Dr. Stetson." " Doctor, this is, uh..." " Ahem." " ..." "Jill Hulsman." " A doctor?" " Hope you brought your checkbook." "AMANDA:" "Heh." "I can show you some lovely pieces." "Jill, it's Dr. Stetson's first auction, maybe you could preview him." "Of course." "I'd be delighted." "[LEE CHUCKLES]" "Doctor, let me show you something over here." "I'll just take care of this for you." "I'm telling you, the case he brought me is nothing but wine." "All of it." "I'd searched most of his house when his daughter showed with the cops, nothing." "Yes, I'm going back." "I'll search the car first." "The police have it in their impound yard." "That's easy for you to say, I'm the one who is risking everything." " There we go." " Oh, doctor, thank you." " We can certainly use this." " Oh, it's my pleasure." " Here you are." " Thank you." "You got a cure for shark bite?" " At least, it's for a good cause." " Uh-huh." "And, look, McNeil, Hallman and Stargate are not on that list." "But there are 11 bottles of the same wine found in Congressman McNeil's car." " Eleven bottles of Chateau Monet?" " Right." "It's gotta be from the same case." "Was McNeil the donor?" "I don't know." "The donors are all anonymous and the wine is not here yet." "Maybe we can find a receipt at the house." "Come on." "Who let you in here?" "[SPEAKING IN FRENCH]" "AMANDA:" "Thank you." "LEE:" "Yeah." " You, uh...." " Oh, thank you." "If it was murder, I doubt all three men were supposed to die." "So you think, uh, two of them were just unlucky." "Yeah." "Wrong time, wrong place, wrong wine." "We've got to pinpoint the real victim." "Starting with McNeil." " Excuse me." "Agent Lamberson?" " Yeah." "Yes, I'm Lee Steadman." " This is Amanda Kane." " Hello." "We are from the Congressional Protocol and Liaison Office." " We are here to help you." " With what?" "Anything you need help with, we'll be happy to help you with." "Anything, you know, you just tell us, we'll just wait here..." " ...and help you when you need us to." " This is terrible." "Is all this because of the, uh, crime?" "Not directly." "Somebody broke in this morning and searched the house." "Might mean something." " Oh, who's that?" " Penny McNeil, the deceased's daughter." "She's visiting from school." "Oh, is she all right?" "I tell you what, why don't I just be sure she's all right?" " Yeah." " Okay?" "Oh, gosh." "Here, let me give you a hand with that." " Thank you." " It's a mess, isn't it?" " I can't seem to do anything right now." " Let me just take care of this for you." " Are you with police?" " Uh, no, I'm not." "I'm with another government agency." "Part of the investigation." "Trying to find out what happened." "Yeah, what did happen?" "I mean, no one has told me anything." "One minute I am in exams at Berkeley, the next I'm here." "The house's been ransacked, my father's dead." "Doesn't make sense." "He was a healthy man." "There wasn't anything wrong with him." "There were just the two of us." "Ms. McNeil, we're ready for you." "Uh, look, why don't I leave my name and my phone number here." "And if you just, you know, want to talk, I'll be there." "What's this doing here?" "Hey, space cadet!" "Unplug your brain for a minute." "[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER HEADPHONES]" "Your bad vibes are definitely a bummer, man." "I thought this was going out yesterday, Hullen." "We deliver no wine before its time, heh." " It's time." "Get it out of here." "Now." " Ooh!" "The police looked everywhere, um, except Daddy's den." "Since they didn't ask to see it, I didn't volunteer." "I suppose I should have." "It's just that it's always been so private." " So much his." " Are you all right?" "Yeah." "It's just that, um, one of the last times I saw Dad he was heading towards the den with a case of wine he'd brought back from Europe." "LEE:" "Do you know what kind of wine?" "PENNY:" "It was all he'd talk about his unbelievably wonderful 45 Chateau Monet." "My father had three loves in his life after his family:" "politics, wine, W.C. Fields." "Oh." "That's my father with two of his friends." "I never met them, but he used to call them the three wise men." "Stargate and Hallman?" "Yeah, maybe." "I want to get a copy of that." "Look, I've got some high-speed film out in the car." " I'll be right back." " Hmm." "[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]" "He used to love to read and collect books about wine." "[CHUCKLES]" "I think secretly he wanted his own vineyard, but he didn't have the time." "Instead, he built a wine cellar in here." "[ALL SCREAM]" "[BOTH GRUNT]" " You're all right?" " Yeah, I'm fine." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "AMANDA:" "Thank you." " I'll make sure it doesn't happen again." " Thank you." " Well." " How's Penny?" "Oh, she's all right." "She's nervous and she's worried, but she won't leave." "Hmm." "Okay." "Lamberson's gonna screw this place down tighter than Fort Knox." " Good." " Whoever was in that cellar went through McNeil's wine collection like a tornado." "Oh." "Considering the risk, he must've been after something pretty important." "You mean like, uh, some very rare French wine?" "Yeah." "Suddenly, the year 1945 has become very interesting." "The final autopsy report confirms they all died of a heroin overdose." "Eighty-five percent pure heroin." "The same percentage of junk found in the bottle in McNeil's car." "Well, the customs confirmed that he VlPed two cases of the '45 Monet through Dulles when he returned from Paris." "The Congressman was involved in smuggling?" "Smuggling's a guess, but it's clear he brought the laced wine into the country." " Yeah, but then why would he drink it?" " Heh, I don't have an answer for that yet." "BILLY:" "We've enlarged the picture you found at McNeil's." "Strange outfits." " What's the bug?" " It's good question." "I'm hoping Plato has an answer for that." "PLATO:" "My mother, like myself, was a person of voracious appetite in a time when such hunger was...." "How shall I say this, decidedly unladylike." "I was conceived on the acropolis on a moonlit night." "A Russian prince, she told me, ha, ha." "But Mother always had a flair for hyperbole." "Anyway, she named me Plato after the other famous Greek to commemorate the occasion." "Plato, the picture." "PLATO:" "Uh-oh." "Now this little buggy is called phylloxera." "A hundred years ago, he nearly destroyed all the vineyards in France." "He, too, had an insatiable hunger." "About the Halloween costumes?" "Standard costume of the Phylloxera Brotherhood." "Very hush-hush wine society." "And the crème de la crème of Escoffier America." " You mean the gourmet society?" "PLATO:" "Mm-hm." "The Brotherhood keeps a cellar there with some of the rarest wines in the world." "And they'd really appreciate a case of '45 Monet." "'45?" "They'd kill for it." "Any chance that we could get a membership list for the Brotherhood?" "PLATO:" "Hardly." "Of course a well-heeled couple from New York with a proper introduction selling a priceless Bordeaux could undoubtedly get in the door of Escoffier." "And once inside, I'm sure you could think of some way to find the membership list for the Brotherhood." " Thank you." " Thank you." " All right." " I'm a little nervous about this" "LEE:" "It's okay, we've got a good cover." "AMANDA:" "All right." "We're Lilly and Gregory Peterson..." " ...from Hillsborough, New York." " Mm-hm." "You're in computer software and I am a wealthy art patron." " That's it." " I'm Lilly Peterson, wealthy art patron." "All right, here we go." "Yes, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Peterson to see Mr. Robinson." "Please, come in." " Thank you." " Thank you." " Thank you very much." " Thank you." "LEE:" "Hmm." "Ah, if there is a membership list of the Brotherhood, it's got to be right there." " I have to get to that office." "AMANDA:" "Right." "Now that the foul is seasoned we can simply put it aside and prepare the vegetables for the stuffing." " Mr. and Mrs. Peterson." " Ooh." "As manager of Escoffier Americas, I just want to assure you it's a great honor to be allowed to consider your collection of Bordeaux." " Thank you very much." " Ha, ha." "Have you been collecting long?" " No, not really." " For sometime, yes." " It only seems a long time." " Several years, actually." " It's the second marriage for both of us." " Ahem." "I understand that you're also very active in the arts." "Oh, yes." "Well, uh, we both feel that a life without art would be like a day without sunshine, you know." "Now, if I can find a volunteer to help me with the chopping of the vegetables..." " ...and don't worry, I have aprons." "CROWD:" "Ha, ha." "How about, um, you?" " Yes, how about you?" " No." " Oh, go ahead." " No, I really don't want to." " Dear, it might be fun." " I don't wanna go." " Come on." " Oh, I'd be happy to help you." "[CHUCKLES]" "WOMAN:" "Don't be shy." "I hope you don't mind, but, uh, I asked Cecilia to distract your wife." "When your sponsor asked that you be shown our private cellar." "I thought best that we just keep it between us men." " Hmm." " Please." "[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER HEADPHONES]" "What is going on, man?" "You're going, Hullen." "And not on." "Out of here." "Right now." "[ENGINE STARTS]" "[TIRES SQUEALING]" "[ENGINE STARTS]" "We're very, very proud of our collection, uh Haut Brion, Margaux, Chateau Lafite, all first growths, of course." "LEE:" "Let me ask you something." "Even in New York, I've heard rumors of a secret society a brotherhood, if you will, of wine lovers." "They take their name from the phylloxera." " A wine society?" " Yeah." " No, I'm afraid I can't be of much help." " Ah." "Let me offer you an excellent Montrachet." "I was in Paris last week and I ran into a member of yours." "A Congressman McNeil." "Yes." "Of course." "Yeah, we bumped into each other in a little wine shop in Montmartre." "We were both looking for a '45 Chateau Monet." " Not an easy wine to find." " Jean Pierre." " I'd like you to meet Gregory Peterson." " Hello." "Darrell tells me about the collection you have." "It would make a wonderful addition to the cellar." "Jean Pierre is a master sommelier." "One of the three in the States." "He recommends all of our big European purchases." "Including every bottle of '45 Monet I can lay my hands on." "So if you have any luck." " I'll keep you in mind." "JEAN:" "Thanks." "Now, I see you two have business to discuss." "You're a good sport." "Thank you very much." " Oh, you're welcome, Cecilia." " Heh." "Now if you'll all step forward, you can see how I dress the bird." "Hello." " May I help you, madam?" " Uh no, I came up here to use the, uh, telephone." "By all means." "I can't use it because I don't remember the number." "My husband probably does." "He's good with numbers." "I should go get the number from him." "Then I'll just use another phone and I won't bother you in your office." "I'm so sorry." "I didn't mean to intrude." "[DOOR CLOSES]" "Psst!" " What?" " Hello, are you alone?" "What are you doing down here, huh?" "Cecilia finished stuffing a bird and I got upstairs to the membership office." " You, what?" " Yeah." " Amanda, I told you not to" " Listen." "I found the membership list for the Escoffier." "Now, there are hundreds of names on it, but I found another list, a shorter one and Congressman McNeil, Stargate and Hallman were all on that list." "LEE:" "The Brotherhood." "Gotta be." "AMANDA:" "There's more." "There was a calendar in the same file, the day that they died was marked on it." "They had their membership meetings right here in these cellars." "Look, I found on the floor." "Oh." " The bug." " Yeah." "[LEE GRUNTS]" "JEAN:" "They're with the cops, the DEA, maybe even Interpol." "CECILIA:" "I don't care if they're the Marines." "We made a deal, we're gonna deliver." "Follow her." "Find out who she is, what's she's up to." " And if there's a problem?" " Take care of it." "[AMANDA SIGHS]" "ROBINSON:" "We've never ever had an accident of this kind." "Now, look, here, uh, is our lawyer." "The insurance company is on the back, please just send everything to them." "Once again I am so sorry." "I am sorry." "[IN UNISON] Sorry." "Some accident." " What do we do now?" " We go home and change." "Then right back to the agency." " We're gonna dissect the Brotherhood." " Right." " Wait a second." " Huh?" "Think you can remember other names from that list?" "Able brown bears cough deftly enough frightening grown hens." " What?" " It's word association." "Able brown bears cough deftly enough frightening grown hens." "Abele, Brown, Barrett, Caufman, uh, Dickerson, Evans uh, Fergusson, Hallmark." "Yeah." "Yeah, I got it." "I think." "You're sure you want me to get in your car like--?" "Oh, I'm really sorry about this." "[AMANDA GRUNTS]" "[AMANDA SIGHS]" "LEE:" "Maybe we should check in on Penny and see how she is doing." "[DOOR CLOSES THEN ENGINE STARTS]" "No, no, no." "You go get it." "You go get it." "I'm not going back." "I mean, that guy grabbed me by the knuckles and I'm not going back there." "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "Yeah, he's here." "Yeah, he just pulled up." "All right." "Yeah." "Yeah, sure." "You take it." "He can have his damn job." "Have a good life." "Guy's a real psycho." "[TIRES SQUEALING]" "Same to you, cowboy." "Buck, you cannot just rent sawhorses and block up the whole street." "With those search lights, you're gonna have people coming from all over town." " That's the idea, Dot." "It's a party." " Oh." "Amanda, I want you to-- What in the world happened to you?" "Nothing." "A little accident at work." "The street looks like a prison yard after a riot." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Hello." "Uh...." " Amanda." "AMANDA:" "Mm-hm?" "There's a girl on the phone." "She sounds very upset." "Thanks, mother." "Hello." "Oh, Penny, sure, yeah." "Uh, ha, ha." "What?" "Uh, sure, I could probably be there in half an hour." "[SIGHS]" "Okay." "All right, don't worry, bye-bye." "Just a friend from work." "I'll probably explain later." "DOTTY:" "Sure, you will." "Prison yard?" " Okay." "Calm down." "What's the matter?" " Police are here again." "Tearing the house apart." "Daddy might have something to do with drugs." "Okay." "We're going to call Lee and find out what's this is all about." "BILLY:" "We got these an hour ago from Paris the same time that Lamberson got them." "Now, guy with McNeil in the black coat is Armand LaCoste." "The Camel Man." "He earned that moniker when he was caught smuggling heroin in camels." "Big news." "The Camel Man was busted in Marseilles last night." "He's singing like Edith Piaf and Jean Pierre's name is in every verse." "McNeil brought the heroin-laced wine into the United States, right?" "But apparently he thought he was doing some sort of a harmless favor by VlPing it through for Jean Pierre." "Probably when he got both cases home, he confused his wine with the bad stuff." "Well, Jean Pierre didn't organize this plan himself." "I want to talk to Lamberson before he locks him up." "Jump on it." "We're losing the race against time and press." "I want this nailed down before they get claws in it." "You got it." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Hello." "Uh, just a minute." "Billy." "It's Amanda looking for Lee." "I'll take it in here." "All right." "Now, Mr. Melrose said he'd call as soon as he knows anything." "Excuse me, ladies." "This the Twillie residence?" "Twillie?" "No, this is Congressman McNeil's house." "Another screw up." "I've got a registered delivery receipt for a Mr. Twillie for this address." "Oh, well, you know, Twillie that was a W.C. Fields character in My Little Chickadee." " It's the wine." "PENNY:" "My dad's wine?" "Uh, look, I'll explain everything later." "I got to find Lee." "What?" "[DOOR OPENS]" "[ENGINE STARTS]" "[SIGHS]" "[TIRES SQUEALING]" "What a surprise." "Looking for another telephone, perhaps?" "[TIRES SQUEAL]" "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "Oh, Mr. Peterson." "May I help you, sir?" "Yes." "I certainly hope so." "I'm looking for Jean Pierre Henri." "Oh, I haven't seen Mr. Henri in sometime." "If he is in the building, he most probably is in the cellar." "If you wish, I could check." "No, no." "I'll do it myself." "I know the way." "Thank you." "We have a problem." "The woman's here with me." "Why's not important." "Just get over here." "Now, who the hell are you?" "I've already told you." "My name is Lilly Peterson." "I'm from Hillsborough, New York." "My husband is in computer soft" "Stop this." "I don't want to hear more useless details about your obviously bogus cover." "I want to know who you're working for." "Right now." "AMANDA:" "You have my identification." "My name is Lilly Peterson." "JEAN:" "Who is it?" "[BOTH GRUNT]" " What are you doing here?" " What the hell are you doing here?" "It wasn't my fault." "He was following me." "So I did what the agency training manual said to do." "I lost him." "I thought I better figure out why he's following me so I followed him." "He must've executed a good double cut-back reversal because he caught me." "That was crazy." "You know that?" "Crazy." "It didn't seem dangerous at that time." "I had no idea I was gonna end up in" "JEAN:" "Oh." " Shh." "All right, my friend, come on." "Let's go." "Now, the Camel Man was picked up yesterday." "He's been doing a lot of talking about you." "Now it's your turn." "Come on, Jean Pierre." "You're a bad sommelier and an even worse crook." "Who are you working with?" "Um, I must have immunity." "LEE:" "That's not my side of the table." "[GUN COCKS]" " I can't make those kind of promises." " All right." "All right." "I do have a partner." "What do I always tell you to do?" " Wait here." " Right." "[CROWD CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]" "Hey, a guy came through here with a gun." "Which way did he go?" "[WOMAN GASPS]" " Come on." " What's he doing?" "If that's just a normal case of wine we're still missing a full case of wine laced with heroin." " No, sir." " No." "Not anymore." " It's at the auction." " Yes, sir." "How do you know that?" " Ask her." " It's very simple, sir." "You see Congressman McNeil loved W.C. Fields." "So he donated the wine to the auction under the name of Mr. Twillie." "That's a W.C. Fields character in My Little Chickadee." "I know because I was at Congressman McNeil's house when the receipt for the wine came addressed to Mr. Twillie." "That makes sense." "What's the plan?" "Jean Pierre was tracking the wine full of the heroin, right?" "So was his partner." "Now, all we've gotta do is put out the word that the wine will be auctioned off and see who shows up to buy it." "Yes, sir and we start right here at the Escoffier." "This is the truly exceptional cabernet from Kenwood Valley." "That's number 107 on your program." "But more importantly, all the sales benefit a superb charity." "So do I hear 700?" "700, thank you, sir." "Do I hear 8?" "Eight hundred, thank you, sir." "Do I hear 9?" "Nine hundred, thank you, madam." "Nine hundred going once, going twice." "[GAVEL BANGS]" "Sold for 900 dollars." "[CROWD APPLAUDING]" "Good." "Chateau Monet is next." "The higher we go, the better." "See that'll burn off some of the collectors and the philanthropists." "Whoever is left should be our man." "I'm gonna go up to the balcony and take a look." "You keep an eye on me." "Once things start here, keep kicking up the price until I tell you to stop." " I got it." " Good." " See you later." " Yeah." "MAN:" "Uh, ladies and gentlemen, before we continue the directors of the Potomac Community Services Center wish me to thank you for your wonderful support and donations." "And particularly our friend in the White House for his generous support." "Now, for our next item of bid is number 108." "That's a broken case of Chateau Monet '45." "Now, those of you who know great wines know the reputation of Chateau Monet particularly the '45." "Shall we begin the bidding at 5000?" " Five thousand." "MAN:" "Five thousand, thank you, sir." "Surely, that's just a beginning for such a fine vintage." "Another thousand, the bidding is at 6." "Sixty-five hundred." "Do I get 7?" "Ladies and gentleman, there are 10 bottles here." "Normally, they go for $1500." "Do I get another bid?" "Ah!" "Seven thousand." "Thank you ma'am." "Seventy-five hundred." "Excellent." "Eight thousand." "Nine thousand." "Ten thousand." "Eleven thousand, very good." "Eleven thousand going once." "Twelve thousand dollars." "We have a bid for $12,000 going once." "Last call." "Twelve thousand going twice." "Thirteen thousand dollars." "We have a bid for 13,000." "Do I hear more?" "Sold for 13,000." "[CROWD APPLAUDING]" "The Community Services Center thanks you, madam." "That was a very generous bid." "BILLY:" "I'm afraid you have to come with us." "Don't anyone move." "She is dead." "Please stay calm." "Everyone, stay calm." "Don't move." "Do exactly as she says." "[WOMEN SCREAMING]" "FRANCINE:" "That's Cecilia Kemper." "Come on." "AMANDA:" "Yes, sweetheart." "Put grandmother on the phone." "Yeah, put your grandma on the phone." "Hi, Mother." "Yeah, I'll be in home in about an hour." "You want me to" " Okay, I'll stop off at the store and pick that up." "Okay, Mother." "Sure, I'll hold on." "I should've known it was Cecilia." "Who could've known, huh?" "A respected chef, on the board of Escoffier." "Come on." "She nearly fried her croutons to a crisp." "She obviously had her mind on" "Yes, Mother." "Okay." "All right, I love you too, bye-bye." "Well, that was certainly exciting, wasn't it?" "Yeah, I hope the auction made some money." "Oh, it was a fortune." "But the most fun was going to the White House." " The what?" " The White House." "I thought it would be fun to take one bottle of wine from each donated case to the White House cellar so I took some of them myself." "Ten bottles, McNeil drank one and one is on the way to the White House." " On the way to the White House." " Come on." "[DOOR OPENS]" "What did I say?" "[DOOR CLOSES]" "LEE:" "Dispatch." "Patch me through to the White House." "This is a Priority One emergency." "And the dining room captain told the pastry chef who passed the buck to me." "I'd only think about the wine cellar and then during the confusion the valet came for the president's glass of wine." "No one tells the President's valet what to do." "Where is his valet?" "Taking the president his nightly glass of wine." "Uh-huh." "Come on." "AMANDA:" "Whoop!" "LEE:" "Hold it." "I beg your pardon?" "Did this come from a bottle of Chateau Monet?" "Apparently you are unaware of our president's roots." "He only drinks California wine." "[CHUCKLES]" "Excuse us." "I found the Monet." "It hasn't been opened." "Oh." "[SIGHS]" "[EDNA LAUGHING AND CROWD CHATTERING]" "What is Edna Gilstrap doing?" "[CHUCKLES]" "I've never heard her laugh like that." "Actually, I've never heard her laugh." "You really gotta give Buck credit, he got them out of their rocking chairs." " Heh, it sounds like fun, doesn't it?" " You wanna go see." "All right." "Except let's swallow our pride and do this with class." "I've got a slinky bright dress that'll put Mae West to shame." " W.C. Fields will be happy." " Back in 10." "I'll just clean these up." "[KNOCKING ON WINDOW]" "[SIGHS]" "Okay, Buck." "You win." "Ah." "Ha, ha." " What did you do?" "Go to that party?" " It was the only way I could get in." "This place is surrounded by crazy people, huh?" "I've been to calmer parties during the Chinese New Year..." " ...in Hong Kong." " Ha, ha." "I borrowed this mask from a guy who was bobbing for apples in a hot tub." " See, now, that would be Buck." " Buck?" "Oh, Buck." "Well, anyway, the, uh, reason I came over here is, uh, I just dropped in to see Penny and she's doing fine." " Ooh, good." " She's going back to school and she asked me to give you something personally." "She made me promise." "Amanda, have you seen--?" "Amanda." "[English" " US" " SDH]"