""There was a desert wind blowing that night." "It was one of those hot, dry Santa Ana's that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch." "On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight." "Sweet little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husband's necks." "Anything can happen. "" " Raymond Chandler." " Yes!" "Yes!" "Siberia from Irkutsk." " What's wrong with Kamchatka?" " Not again." "Kamchatka has far more strategic value than Siberia." "Fleischman, just roll the dice." "O'Connell, it's the gateway to North America." " Play." " Roll the dice." "It's just Risk, Joel." "Yes, thank you." "I'll take the Urals from Siberia." "Alright, I quit." " What do you mean, you quit?" " Like I said, I quit." "Just because you're losing, you quit?" "It's got nothing to do with winning or losing." " This is a personal vendetta to you." " Give me a break." "Give me a break." "You're not even looking at the big picture here." "Marilyn is sitting with two armies in Indonesia and Ruth-Anne is completely vulnerable in East Africa." " Come on." " I can attack anyone I want." "I came to play an intelligent game, not be victimized by some power freak with penis envy." "I ought to just punch you in the nose." " You and which army?" " You think I'm bluffing?" "Go ahead O'Connell, right there." "Oh God!" "NORTHERN EXPOSURE 4x16 "ILL WIND" Subtitles subXpacio" "They say it's an ill wind that blow no man to good." "Think our own Dr. Fleischman will testify to that." "For those of you that missed it, Maggie O'Connell scored a one-round decision over Dr. Fleischman." "Right job to the old honker T.K.O." "What better sign that the cold winds are once again upon us?" "In next few days, we'll be visited by crazy winds from the East." "My advice this year:" "Don't fight them, embrace them." "Know your enemy." "Good morning, Joel." "How's the nose?" "How's it look?" "It's broken." "It's pushed to the left." "I had to set it myself." "Any idea how painful that is?" " I thought Marilyn helped you." " She couldn't stop grinning." " Do you know where she is?" " Marilyn?" " Yeah." " She's not in the office?" " If she was would I ask?" " Pardon me for saying so, Joel, but I can see why Maggie punched you out." "I'm sorry Ruth-Anne." "I'm in pain." "My face feels like one big bruise, my sinuses are imploding, and I look like an idiot." " What can I get you?" " I'm out of Advil." "I'll check the back." " Hello, Dr. Fleischman." " Ed." " Broken?" " Sorry, I'm out." "Great." " Give me some slack, Stevens." " Ok, Maurice." "New transmitter!" "FCC finally came through." "Hell, no!" "I got tired of waiting for those boys in Washington to get off their butts." " We don't have permission for this?" " No." "We don't have permission." "KBHR's going outlaw?" " Yeah." "I guess you can say that." " Alright!" "Maurice, how far with this reach?" "Not factoring in sunspot activities," "I'd say the range would be a radius of about 200 miles." " Yeah." " Of course you know that there's not another town within 200 miles Maurice." "No, not yet, but there will be." "And when there is," "Minnifield Communications will be ready." "This'll be great." "The voice of Cicely spreading out over the tundra, communing with caribou, migrating puffins." "that ought to do it." "I got you!" "I got you!" "That was close." "Are you ok?" " Oh wow!" " Get your breath." " You ok?" " Yeah, I'm fine." "I'm fine." " Some wind, huh Ed?" " Yeah." "Come in." " Good morning." " Good morning." "It's 10:00." "I hate to be intrusive, but what are you doing?" "Cleaning." "I mean why aren't you at the office?" " The cohos." " The what?" " What's the wind have to do with it?" " It's bad." "The wind is bad?" "Is this an Indian thing going on?" "Marilyn, this is a superstition." "The wind cannot be good or bad." "It blows hot, blows cold." "It has no moral or ethical component." "You think I got this because of the wind?" "No, I got this because that nut O'Connell has a pathological hatred of men." "Not because of the wind." "Please I need you back at the office." "I have patients." "Marilyn, I hate to be technical but this is a weekday and your contract says you work weekdays." "I don't have a contract." "We have a verbal agreement, we have an understanding." " When the wind changes." " Marilyn, this could be days." "Oh God!" " Nose bleed?" " Yeah." "Here." "Scotch rocks and one draft." " Put it on my tab, Shelly." " Sure, Maurice." "Chris, everybody's talking about how you saved Maurice's life." " It was so totally cool." " It was no big deal, really." "You're a hero." "Don't worry." "They'll be talking about something else tomorrow." "No, no." "I'm a man that honors his debts Stevens." "Grabbing my tool belt maybe doesn't compare to pulling out of a spin with a couple of MIGs on your tail and leading a shot up wingman home..." " ...but you did me a service." " It was my pleasure, Maurice." "Saving a man's life, no matter how mundane the circumstances," " ...requires a certain..." " Reciprocity?" "Yeah, that's it." "I could see how you'd feel that." "It's an ancient concept." "Confucius used that exact word to summarize his entire philosophy." "Muslims cherish the idea of mutual obligation." "By their standards if somebody saves your life you owe that person until you save his." " Yeah, exactly." " The idea is hardly universal." "It's not?" "Certain Native American cultures believe saving a man's life or good deeds in general are a person's natural function in life and require no special reward." " You subscribe to that notion?" " Yeah, basically." "Sounds flakey to me." "What's the point?" "Holling, did you ever think of jumping off the Green River Bridge?" " Jumping?" " Yeah, just kind of..." "No, I can't say I have." "It'd be quite a fall though." " How far to you think that is?" " About a 1,000 feet." "1,000 feet." "That's a lot of time." "The wind roaring in your ears, just ripping at your clothes..." "The pull of gravity dragging you down, down," "down." "Time for one last look..." "Something to eat?" "No, thanks, Holling." " Hey, Maurice." " Maggie." "Good thing Chris was there this morning, huh?" " Yeah, dandy." " See you later." "Fleischman." " I don't want to talk to you." " That's some bandage." "You're unbelievable." "You punch a defenseless person in the nose and you have the audacity to comment on the results." " Does it hurt?" " No, it doesn't." "It throbs, pulsates." "Every breath is a new frontier of pain thank you." "Last night when I hit you I felt something I hadn't in a long time." "I hope this isn't one of your perverse stabs at an apology." "Just forget it." "No." "I felt good, empowered." "When my fist hit your face" "I felt like for that brief moment I knew who I was." "You're sick." "You're in desperate need of psychiatric help." "Come on, everyone knew you had it coming." "To the relief of civilized men the legal code isn't based on what's considered normal in Cicely, Alaska." "Here assault and battery may be considered an evening's entertainment but where I come from it's an actionable offense." "Welcome back to reality, Miss O'Connell." " What's this, Fleischman?" " It's a little legal thingy." ""Law offices of Hoberman and Hoberman"." " You're suing me?" " You got it." "Unbelievable." "You are such..." "You know this is so typical." "You can't settle something like a man." "So you go running off to your lawyers." "I don't see where testosterone has anything to do with it." "It's a clear cut case of damages as far as I'm concerned." "You want damages?" "Ok, Fleischman." "Let's get this over with once and for all." " Damage this, Fleischman." " You're making a fool of yourself." "Come on, Fleischman." "Give me your best shot." " Hit her, Doc." " Do you mind?" "Chance of a lifetime, Fleischman, this is a one time offer." "O'Connell, nothing would give me more pleasure than wiping that smirk off your perfectly arranged face, but I'd rather own your plane and your truck and your house." "That's how civilized people settle things." " In your dreams, Fleischman." " I'll see you in court." "Chicken!" "You're a coward, you hear me, Fleischman?" ""Chris in the morning" on the new, improved KBHR, with a special traffic bulletin for Cicely and outlying areas." "A herd of sheep is gently grazing down main street causing massive tie ups in all directions." "They appear to be Romneys, for any lonely shepherd wondering whether his livelihood has fled." "The cohos have played havoc on their sense of direction." "These little lambs are lost, anybody knows where they belong, why don't you give us a holler." "In the meantime morning commuters, get out a few minutes early and show some consideration to our whooly friends." "I don't owe you a thing." "Nobody said you had to grab my tool belt." "If I'd fallen off there, and my brains were on the sidewalk, that's no skin off your nose." "It's my life, and it's nobody's business what I do with it." "It's your business, not Cicely's, nobody's, got it?" "Ok." "I just didn't want there to be any misunderstanding." "No we've had this discussion." "That book is closed." " Ok." " Just wanted to get that straight." " It's straight." " Good." " What you think about poisons, Dave?" " Poisons?" "Yeah you know, Drano, Cyanide, industrial strength cleaners..." " What about them?" " Well I don't know." " Ever think about doing a shot of 'em?" " No." "I read once about this guy, got executed in the gas chamber." "It took him a full 10 minutes to die." " I ate some bad salmon once." " What was that like?" "I puked a lot." "Order up." "Hi." "Is this a joke?" " What?" " This." "This gross miscarriage of justice that you left taped to my door." "No." "It's not a joke and you have a week to get out." "You can't evict me." " Why not?" " Because you can't, that's why." "I'm a legal tenant with certain inalienable rights one of which you can't evict me simply because you feel like it." " Really?" " Yeah, really." "You ever tried reading the contract you gave me sometime?" "Normally I give 30 days." "A week in your case was generous." "I know what's going on here." "You're not fooling anyone." "I hit you with a law suit so you hit back with an eviction." "That's very mature but payback is not a generally recognized principle of legal conduct." "There is no way in the world you'll pull this off." "Watch me." "Does the word "injunction" mean anything to you?" " Fleischman, this is Alaska." " So what?" "What does that mean?" "Is there a suspension of the US jurisprudence system here?" "No, it means people have been known to disappear and the bodies are never recovered." "I can't believe you." "You are threatening me." "Do you realize the trouble you're causing yourself?" "Why don't you just shut your mouth for once in your life?" "I won't shut up while I'm subjected to this malicious crap." "Maybe I'll burn your house down." "It runs in the family." "You go ahead and joke." "When my lawyers are done with you, you'll be lucky if you have pocket change to call Grosse Point." "I always thought you had a modicum of intelligence." "I believed there was some baseline of logical thinking, a core of reasonableness somewhere that could be appealed to." "But in fact I was wrong." "You are exactly what I thought." "You're spoiled and frigid." "That's right." "You broke my broken nose!" "Having trouble, Maurice?" " Wind knot." " It wouldn't matter." " They're not biting anyway." " Damn wind." "Holling, do you consider yourself a lucky person?" "Lucky as the next fellow I guess." "Luckier maybe." "After all I have Shelly." "No offence, Maurice." "I don't believe in luck." "I believe each man makes his own luck." " Master of your fate." " Exactly." "Whenever I flew off on a sortie or did a test flight," "I always felt completely in control." "Not that things didn't go wrong, but when they did" "I knew I could get out of them." "And I did." " Coffee?" " No, thanks." " Unleaded." " Ok." "Then one day, you go up on a roof, wind comes up, somebody grabs you by the belt." "All the sudden everything's changed." "You're no longer in control." " Everything's different." " Just a gust of wind, that's all." " It could have happened to anybody." " But it didn't happen to anybody it happened to me, Maurice Minnifield." "And people have the nerve to tell me I was lucky." "I don't understand, Maurice." "Would you rather have gotten killed?" "You don't get the point, Holling." "I've saved men in combat, ridden an Atlas booster into space." "Do you think it was my fate to be saved from the meaningless death by some itinerant ex-con DJ?" "An employee?" "Damn wind." "In Los Angeles some teachers do not conduct classes during the Santa Ana because children become unmanageable." "In Switzerland the suicide rate goes up during a foehn and in the courts of some Swiss cantons, the wind is considered a mitigating circumstance for crime." "Surgeons are said to watch the wind because blood does not clot normally during the foehn." "Cicely, if you are feeling crummy there's probably a pretty good reason." "Hi." "It's open." "Hey, little buddy." "Hi, there?" " Are you Chris?" " Yeah." " Enrique." " Hi." "What can I do for you?" " Those are my sheep." " Great." "They got away during the night." "I don't know where we were." "We were lost to begin with, but I carried this little thing," "Radio Shack." "Pretty good for the money." "I heard you talking and I said to Lupe" " "Lupe, those are our sheep. "" " I'll bet they're glad to see you." "What's the point?" " You don't seem excited to see them." " Ever been a shepherd?" " No." " You sit, you watch, you work." "Then you sit, you watch, you work." "Exciting, eh?" "Hoberman, you're my lawyer." "You're supposed to protect me." "A month?" "I can't wait a month." "She's gonna evict me in a week." "Possession is 9 tenths of the law in New York?" "She's the missing 10th." "She is without mercy." "She's gonna evict me and I need an injunction." "I got to go." "I got a zillion patients here and no assistant." "Just do something." "Thank you." " Fleischman." " Yeah." "Fleischman..." " You're a mess." " Yeah." "Maurice, I'm a bit behind." " What's seems to be the problem?" " You might try direct pressure." "It's just a nose bleed." "I'm fine." "Listen, being a medical man I respect your opinion." " Think about this for me, will you?" " Shoot." "In your opinion, what is a human life worth?" " What?" " I'm just talking raw material." "Phosphorous, calcium, that sort of thing." " Are you serious?" " Yeah." "Ball park figure." "Nothing to do with Chris saving your life?" "Listen here." "I came to you in confidence." "What I do with this information is my business, but if you leak one word of this conversation to anybody," "I'll make sure you regret it." "Is it the wind that makes everyone think they can threaten the doctor?" "Let's hear some figures Fleischman." "I had a chemistry teacher who once added it up on the board." "And I believe, leaving out items such as gold fillings, the shopping bag price of the adult human body separated into discrete components was something like" " 14 dollars and 73 cents." " That's it, huh?" "It was a long time ago." "You got to allow for inflation." " It'd be around 15 bucks." " More or less." " I knew life was cheap." " We're not talking about life." "We're talking inanimate elements." "These are building materials." "You can't put a dollar value on human life." "I'm simply trying to determine, through objective means, the theoretical bottom line of human existence." "Yeah, and I'm telling you it doesn't work that way." "You read philosophy." "We live under a social contract that measures worth in intangibles like decency and fellowship and good will." " Not dollars and cents." " Yeah." "And like all contracts, it has its terms." "And terms are negotiable." "Oh God." " Come out from under there, Stevens." " Hey, what's up?" " Here." " What's this?" " 30,000 dollars." " Yeah." "And stock options for projects that are in the planning stages." " I don't get it." " It's a fair package, Stevens." "Don't you try to up the ante on me." "It took most of the night, but I finally hit on a formula that would calculate what my life would generate over the next quarter." "That doesn't include interest or dividends or returns on investments." "It's a earnings projection based on the sweat of my brow." "That's nice, but I don't want this." "I don't care if you want it or not." "You're gonna take it." "Maurice, we've been over this." "I don't want anything from you." "I know that's what you said." "But that dog won't hunt." "If I let you get away with this you have something to hold over me." "No matter how many bibles you swear on, eventually, some day when I least expect it, you'll come to me and want to cash in." "No I won't." "That's what you would do." "Maurice, I don't slight you for your opportunistic streak..." "Let's put this to bed right now." "The buck stops here." "I understand what you're trying to do, I even think it's interesting in a primitive domino theory of the soul way." "What the hell are you talking about?" "That metaphysical thorn you got sticking in your side." "What thorn?" "I'm trying to reach a settlement here." "No." "You're trying to recapture the illusion you're in control." "You're not." "Nobody is." "We're dust, atoms." "You and I are bound in ways we can never comprehend." "What happened on that roof is an extreme example, but we depend on each other every day for mutual survival and I can't take money for that." "Let me tell you something, Stevens." "I render unto Caesar what is his." "What I do with the rest of it is my own damn business." "Look at them." "They look peaceful, easy to handle." "You let one of them get away, there goes your whole afternoon." "I thought it was "Leave them alone and they'll come home"." "That's cows." "Cows are smart." "Pigs are smart." "Anything is smart compared to sheep." "Don't get me started." "So why are you a shepherd, Enrique?" "We're Basques." "My family is raising sheep all the time." "But I got to tell you, my life is going nowhere." "Every year the same." "Dipping, chasing, sheering." "It's sounds as if you're in a mid career crisis." "Lately, I ask myself what are people going to say about me after I'm gone." "Enrique Lopez, he raised sheep." "I got to try something else before I'm too old." " Like what?" " I don't know." "Cows maybe." " How's the schnoz?" " Don't ask." "Joel, you're a physically responsible person, right?" "I don't have a lot of physical to be responsible for," " ...but what do you have in mind?" " What do you think of that?" " 30,000 dollars." " Yeah, it's crazy." "Maurice has this thing about what happened up on the roof." " 30,000 dollars?" " He won't let it drop." "What should I do?" "Charitable cause?" "Some municipal foundation?" "My advice to you is cash it." "This morning." "Now." " Before he comes to his senses." " Excuse me." " What's the matter, Shelly?" " Have you talked to Ed lately?" "He's been acting creepy." " Creepy?" " Yeah." "This morning when I served him breakfast, eggs over easy on the hard side, he asked which I thought was better, hanging or drowning." "Then he wanted to know if I thought about jumping in front of a train." "He did ask me about jumping into the Green River Gorge." "He said something to Dave about Drano." " You don't think he's...?" " No." " What?" " Can we talk?" " Talk?" " Yeah." "Can you turn that off?" "Thanks." " How are you?" " How am I?" " Yeah." " You come up here to ask that?" "No." "Just wondering." "I'm busy." "I've a lot of work to do." " So if you're through..." " Could we take a walk or something?" " A walk?" "You and me take a walk?" " Yeah." "What is it?" "Just like to get away from any instruments of destruction." " Better be good." " Alright look, it's clear we've been having a communication problem as late." " Communication." " Yeah and although" "I can find no excuse for your behavior, I've thought about it, and my decision to pursue litigation may have been rash." " What are you hiding?" " Nothing." "I'm not hiding anything." "With the benefit of hindsight and a little sober reflection, maybe we can see the other side a little better." " And?" " And back down a bit." "Back down?" "I'm willing to drop the law suit if you'll drop the eviction." " Weak case, huh?" " Not at all." "If this were New York, you wouldn't have a prayer, but it ain't New York." "It's not even the 20th century." "You must be the shepherd fellow." "I understand you're trying to get out of the business." "I'll offer you 100 dollars for a sheep." " 100 dollars?" " Alright 100 and a quarter." " But that's my top offer." " You want only one?" "I only need one." "You're mutton will be the answer to my prayers." "Take any one you want." " That one there has a good coat." " I'm not interested in the wool." " You don't want the wool?" " No." " I'm gonna throw him off the roof." " What?" "What my friend's trying to say is in the interest of science we're gonna perform an experiment." " Not with my sheep you're not." " Wait a minute, friend." "They'll all end up lamb chops anyway." "These are Romney Marsh sheep." "Hand weavers depend on these sheep." "You do not drop a Romney Marsh sheep from the roof." " Just a minute." " Lupe." "You've making a big mistake." "Kermit, let's get the hell out of here." "You do not throw a Romney Marsh sheep from the roof!" "I am a shepherd." "Hello?" "Ed?" "Shelly, hi." " Ed, what are you doing?" " I was putting down some rat traps." " They're in the insulation." "Why?" " You weren't offing yourself?" "You know, all that talk about hanging and drowning," " ...and jumping in front of a train..." " Suicide is not the Indian way." " It's not?" " No." "Don't go where you're not invited." "Besides, I feel great." " You do?" " Yeah." "Being on that roof really go me thinking about death being all around us and how you'll never know when your number will be up." "Like when you walk across a bridge and you think about jumping off." " Why would you want to jump off?" " It's not that you..." " ...really want to jump off." " No?" "It's more like you can't help thinking about jumping off." "Yeah, you know." "How long will it take?" "Will you scream?" "Which part will hit first?" "Will death be instantaneous or would you feel something first." "Just stuff like that." "O'Connell, as explained at 110 dollars an hour by Hoberman, my esteemed lawyer, by the time I got a judge to issue an injunction against you, we might all be dead." "And in terms of my suit, it would triple my debt by the time I had my first conference." " What do you say?" " Forget it." " What do you mean?" " You have 6 days and you're history." "O'Connell, I am the injured party." "I'm trying to give you a break." "No, Fleischman, you start you can't win..." " ...and now you want out." " Alright fine, great." "You want to play it that way?" "I can't wait to see what a jury thinks when they see this." "Your honor to my recollection he went like this and said: "Right here"." "Listen to me, please, drop the eviction." "Get your hands off me or I'll punch you in the nose again." " No way you're hitting me again." " Get your hands off me!" "O'Connell!" " Stevens, get out here." " Ok." "I stopped payment on that check." "You can return the stock options anytime." " It's here, Maurice." "What's up?" " This." " A coconut?" " I started with melons." "I got an assortment:" "crenshaw, casaba, cantaloupe." "But none of them had the right density or mass to simulate the human skull." "Then I thought of coconuts." "I got a dozen of them." "One by one I dropped them off the roof." " You dropped them off the roof?" " Yeah." "The first three exploded on impact, then five partially fragmented, but three of them made it through intact." "And this one..." "Well look for yourself." "This scaring indicates the initial impact and this crack went through the husk, but not to the meat." "But look here." "The milk survived." "Intact." " Right." " You don't get it, do you?" " Why don't you help me a bit?" " You did not save my life." " I didn't?" " Hell, no!" "With any luck, I'd have survived that fall with massive cerebral trauma and internal hemorrhaging." "A quick airlift to Anchorage, emergency surgery and I'd have been on my feet again in 6 weeks." "3 months at most." "I know what you're thinking." "What about paraplegia?" "There is the possibility of spinal cord damage and I'd rather put a 9 mm slug in my brain then spend the rest of my life in a wheel chair." " But that is not the point." " No?" "No, no." "The point is that I did not need you." "I would have survived that fall." "So this was just a superfluous gesture of good will on my part." "A mighty generous gesture I might add." " It's all there, Maurice." " It better be." " What?" " No..." "People are looking at us, Fleischman." "There's a table." " You're blushing." " I can't help it." "They're looking at us." " What?" " Do you think they know?" " No." "How could they know?" " I don't know." "'Evening." "What can I get you two?" " What?" " What do you mean "you two"?" "Well..." "Can't two people sit together without being a couple?" " Well sure." " Good." " Good." " So what would you like, Maggie?" " Why don't you give us a few minutes?" " Yeah." "Alrighty." " He knows." " He doesn't know." "If he didn't before, he does now thanks to you." " What did I say?" " It's written all over your face." " No it's not.." " It is." "Is it?" "It is, isn't it?" "How could they know?" "Do you think someone saw us?" "God..." " God..." " What?" " We're gonna have to say something." " What?" "I don't know." "We'll have to make an announcement or something." " An announcement?" " Keep your voice down." "What do you mean?" "Like the parents of Mary Margaret O'Connell and Joel Chaim Fleischman..." " ...are pleased to announce..." " Don't be an idiot." " Thank you very much." "What?" " I don't know." "Look around." "Look at everyone." "It's so obvious." "Since you got here people have wondered." ""When are they gonna do it?" "Are they gonna do it?"" " You're kidding?" " No, and now that we've done, now that it's over, people are..." "People will talk behind my back." "So I think we need to do something," " ...don't you?" " Take the initiative?" "Yeah, exactly." " Let's do it." " Yeah." " Excuse me." " Hello." " Can we have your attention?" " Just a minute of your time." "We'd like to say something." "I know you've been wondering..." " Not that it's your business..." " It seems to have slipped out and we've decided to make it official." " Erase all doubts." " O'Connell and I..." "Well..." " Spit it out, Fleischman." " Well, I am." "How do you put this?" "We did it, so to speak." "It's in the books." "Happy now?" " Did what?" " It." " Sex." " The deed." " We had sex." " Together, me and him." "We just thought we'd be in your suspicions." "That's all, folks." "You can talk about it amongst yourselves, in the open." "We'll be here to answer questions." "Get it out of your systems." "Well..." " Ok." "That should do it." " Yeah." "Pull on those thermals, Cicely." "It's -7 degrees out." "The cohos are gone, outside temps back to normal, the inside temp will take some days to return to psychic stability." "Surveying this year's coho damage, except for Dr. Joel's busted beak," "I think we suffered the usual number of metaphysical bumps and bruises." "Got some news from the home front here," "Ed Chigliak dropped a note for me to read to everyone." ""Hey everyone." "I feel fine, really, but seeing Maurice almost go splat got me thinking about death." "Not in a bad a way, like when Greta Garbo threw herself under the Saint Petersburg express in 'Anna Karenina'." "Or Warren Beatty freezing to death in McCabe and Mrs. Miller hunched over in the snow." "He just stopped." "Does anyone else think about these things?" "Please let me know." "Your friend, Ed."" " Are we there yet?" " Almost." "It's coming." " Are you sure this is ok?" " It's ok." "Don't be scared." " I just put it anywhere?" " Anywhere you want." "Ok." "Great." "Come on." " Hey." "Hi." " Hi." " You busy?" " No." " Because if you're busy..." " I'm not busy." "Come on in." "Ok." "Good." " So?" " So." " We should talk." " You think?" " Maybe." " No, definitely." " I think we should talk." " Why don't you have a seat?" "Go ahead." "Talk." "I know we did what we did, but I can't believe we did it." " Well." " It was like we were different people." "I've been going over it in my head, over and over, and the only explanation I can come up with is temporary insanity." " Exactly what I was thinking." " The wind." " It was the wind." " I've been slow to accept that coho theory of human behavior," " ...but what else could it have been?" " Right, what?" "One minute we're trying to kill each other and the next minute, we were going at it like wild animals and then again." "You know how they say love is related to hate?" "I think that's true." "I think the cohos exaggerate all those feelings, they stir things up" " ...and sometimes they get..." " Confused." "Exactly." "Because, Fleischman, I think the real way we feel is basic hostility." "When I punched you in the nose that was the real me and when hit back with the law suit, that was the real you." "Interesting, so you're saying is that yesterday was like some freak switch being thrown." "We weren't ourselves." "We were the exact opposite, yeah?" "Exactly." "That's it." " At least I think that's it." " No, no." "That's it." "You got it." "If that's true, we don't have to worry about it happening again." " Absolutely because..." " There's no more wind." "Right." "No more wind." " Wow." " Alright." "Now we did it, and don't get me wrong, because it was fabulous." " Unbelievable." " Yeah." "We buried the needle." "Discovered another planet." "You should have seen the claw marks this morning." "Beyond beyond!" " But now that it's done," " Over." " I think it's out of my system." " Absolutely." "Which is wild because, the sexual tension was..." " ...you could cut it with a knife." " Try a hacksaw." "Right, but it's like..." "Like we had a tumor and it was removed." " I feel that it's..." " Cured?" "Yeah, I feel much better." "Good." "Good." "That's great." "So..." "So." "Come on." "I'll walk you out." " Good morning, Marilyn." " Good morning." "Well, Fleischman, I'm glad we talked." " Me too." " Yeah." "Ripped by subXpacio and TusSeries"