"You hear that pop, Ed?" "That's my maximum clubhead speed." "Where I want to make contact with the ball." "I built that into my muscle memory five minutes a day every day." "Sound stroke people say I can shave 3 to 5 strokes off my handicap." "Not bad." "A dentist named Silvera in Los Angeles invented this." "Shows that our lesser brethren in the medical hierarchy can do a little more than pull teeth." "Ok..." "Shoulder in, head down." "Wamoh!" "Set me up again, Ed." "Let's go." "Ed?" "Sorry, Dr. Fleischman, I was thinking." "Look at this instrument, It's such a simple idea, but it's so elegant, so brilliant, so right." "It's just what the game needed." "Think what this could do for tennis, for hockey or the Shot put." "Sometimes I think of an idea for a movie and then it just seems dumb." "I've been blocked before." "I might just have to go fishing or something." "Ok..." "Ok." "Ok." "Set me up again, Ed." "NORTHERN EXPOSURE 4x06 "ON YOUR OWN" Subtitles subXpacio" "Cock a doodaldoo!" "Rise and shine, Cicely." "It's Chris in the morning." "I'm looking down Main St." "and you cannot believe what I am seeing." "It looks like one hand clapping." "Here comes my favorite childhood toy, slinky, but in king size." "This is good." "This is very good." "This is the parallel universe, the one where toasters talk and slurpy straws walk." "It's "Alice in Wonderland"." "The other side of Roger Rabbit, only this is not cartoon." "I'm not making this up." "I got a flyer here that says it's Enrico Bellati and his new perception players." "They welcome one and all to an evening of awe and expectation at People's Park next to the Brick"." "Be there or your teapot may never speak to you again." "Howdie guys." "Bob, what are you doing here?" "You look shorter." "What happened to your foot?" "Bad landing?" "Can you fly?" "Too bad!" "Me?" "Yeah, I thought about you." "A lot?" "I don't know." "Some." "Who's your friend?" "Fritz?" "Hi, Fritz." "Hi, Bernie." "Hi, Hans." "What's the deal?" "You quit the circus?" "How come?" "It's good to have creative control." "Do you guys want some iced tea?" "Come on." "Ok, folks." "One pitcher of light..." "Two jumbo mugs." "No problem." "There you go, Mr. Block Head." "Looking real hunky." "It's Kimchi." "Korean cabbage." "Smells like an old pair of gym shoes." "Hey, Maurice." "Kimchi?" "Where'd you get that?" "Duk Won." "In a jar all the way from Korea?" "Yeah, he made it." "It says here he had it buried in the yard for four months." ""Father, I think of week with strong handsome father" "USA astronaut." "My heart pitter patter for you daddy." "So with most love and proud, your warm son, Duk Won"." " That's sweet!" " Yeah." "I suppose so." "You don't like Kimchi?" "I love Kimchi." "That's why he sent it." "Who asked him to send me presents?" "Who asked him to write me?" "I have to be reminded that he's my own flesh and blood?" "He was just thinking of you, Maurice." "Well he's thinking too loud." "He's crowding me." "I was gonna get to it, but then the audit, the rains..." "Get to what?" "Changing my will." "What else?" "After I get the quarterly taxes done," "I'll fly down to Tulsa, powwow with the suits and give the boy his due." "So you'll put Duk Won in your will?" "Are we having the same conversation here?" "I think that's really nice." "Nice?" "It's not nice." "It's expected." "The boy is my heir, even if he is nipping around for his cut." "The fact is I hate giving my stuff away, even if I am worm bait." "And I hate being reminded of that eventuality." "What the hell!" "I'll just go ahead and get it over with." "Wait for the next catastrophe." "When I start trying to think of a good movie idea, there's big clump of weeds just strangling my brain." "I know how you feel, Ed." "I had the same problem once." "You had director's block Dave?" "No, at the grill." "I lost my rhythm." "I couldn't get the burgers out with the fries, broke all my yolks." "I felt like I'd never cook again." "It could happen to anybody, look at Connie Colbert." "Who's there?" "Rookie right hander for the Phillies." "Won 11 games, bonus baby." "Came back next year couldn't even find the plate." "Really?" "He had his eyes examined." "Took him to some big orthopedist in LA, even took him to a head shrinker." "What happened to him?" "He went into sales." "Pete was blocked in bed." " Blocked?" " Thought about performance too much." "But time passed." "I got looser." "You'll work through it, Ed." "I got one!" "Looks like a big one, Ed!" "Set the hook." "Don't let him swallow it." "He's running for that rock." "Bring him this way." "Alright, Ed." "He's a big one." "Nice fish." "Hello!" "Anybody home?" "Maggie, you're out late." "I had your books on tap and I was gonna drop them by tomorrow, but then I thought, you might like them here tonight." " So here they are." " Thanks." "If you could just put them in the detox box." " Come in if you'd like." " Ok." "I hope I'm not interrupting anything." " No, I was just doing some charts." " Really?" " Jet stream?" " No, desertification." "I'm tracing the effects of deforestation on the ecosystem." "Look." "Here." "Nigeria." "It'll be completely denude of trees by 2000 AD." "And over here in Ethiopia, they're losing over a billion tons of top soil per year, to over cultivation." "A billion tons of topsoil?" "The green house effect, global warming." "The Earth is cooking itself." "It could bring on the next ice age." " Really?" " Yeah, absolutely." "And what's anybody doing about it?" "I'll tell you what." "The EPA has just pushed back automobile emissions standards another five years." "Nobody's even factoring in jet aircraft." "They're dumping over 50 million tons of CO2 into the stratosphere every year." " Wow!" " Prime greenhouse gas." "Do you know what that does to the ozone?" " Destroys it?" " Exactly." "They could at least spring for liquid hydrogen." "They leave a water vapor trail." "I really don't know how you do it." "This constant barrage of bad news would drive me crazy." " What else am I gonna do?" " Play Scrabble." " Do a jigsaw puzzle." " Right." "Do you know there's a 50 million dollar class action suit in El Paso?" "This big chemical company wants to dump their toxic byproducts 10 miles from city center." "10 miles!" "You want a little apple beet juice or a glass of distilled?" "Beet juice." "Beet juice." "What did you use for bait, Ed?" "Dave made stink bait out of cheese and anchovies." "It works every time." "Goodness, isn't he a beauty!" " Yeah." " I like them like that, poached with their eyes up." "Yeah, like Richard Burton in "Night of the Iguana"." "Fish?" "The movie." "He gives up the ministry, goes to Mexico and drinks himself to death." "I think that's all there is left for me, Ruth-Anne." "Come on, Ed." "He just hit a snag." "All artists have ups and downs where inspiration is concerned." "Napkins?" "Under the cans." "I don't know, it's all over for me." "I'm fresh out of ideas." "Ed, don't you think you're giving in a little too soon?" "It may be hard and you may feel lost, but you've got to hang in there." "Give it a chance." "You never can tell when the muse is gonna strike." "What is it?" "Did you lose a filling or hit a nerve?" "It's a ring." " A ring?" "I see." " It was in the fish." "My heavens!" "It's big." "Well it was a big fish." "Handsome ring." "The stone looks to me like a ruby." "See if there's an inscription." "I can't see without my glasses." "There is." "It says "F. F., con amore, Giulietta."" " Con amore?" "Italian isn't it?" " Yes, ma'am." "It means "with love"." "Well, well, well!" "Imagine finding something like that in a fish." "It must be your lucky day." "And the American Film Institute lifetime achievement award goes to a director whose films have revolutionized not only Italian cinema but the world's cinema." "Distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen," "Ed Chigliak." "Me?" "Thanks, Federico." "Steven." "Thank you." "Wow!" "Thank you." "I would have thought I'd be a little young for this one." "Lifetime achievement award." "I'd think they'd give it to one of the old guys." "It wouldn't be fair if I didn't thank everyone who came before me." "Francis," "Steven," "Federico," "Marty, Lina..." "I'm nothing without you, guys." "I'm less than nothing, I'm dirt." "Well, bugs." "I'd like to thank everyone in Cicely." "That's where I'm from." "We all come from the place we 're from and we can't be from anywhere else and that's where I am." "The cold Cicely, not the hot one, where Michael Corleone loses Apollonia in the big car explosion." "Well I guess that's it." "As we Cicelians like to say:" ""If it's not soup, It's wet bread"." "Ciao." "Marilyn, unbelievable." "200 yards 5 iron with the Sound stroke." "That's almost PGA." " What is that?" " Flo." " Flo?" " Flo." "Flo?" "That's Flo?" "What's Flo doing here?" "And what exactly is Flo?" "A plumbing fixture?" "A slinky?" " She's sick." " Sick?" "What kind of sick?" "Earache." "Of course." "And you sir..." " Mister..." " Bellati." "What can I do for you?" " Check his foot." " Well, this I can handle." "Come on in, Mr. Bellati." "To tell you the truth, Mr. Bellati, about the cast," "I'd feel more comfortable if we wait before we took it off." "Give the bones maximum time to heal, you know?" "Especially considering the nature of your work." "Being a flying man." "One who flies." "Wouldn't it be an occupational hazard to be in the stratosphere knowing you have a crack in your landing gear." "Wait." "Hold on." "There's something I wanted to talk to you about." "Last time you were here we discussed your inability to speak." "You said you weren't deaf, and nothing's wrong with your voice." "No history of trauma, injury?" "Congenital?" "You just don't talk." "That's interesting." "You can whistle." "Look, I'd like to do a workup on you." "I hate a real talent for ENT at Mt." "Sinai." "We could take a look and maybe we'll get to the root of your problem get you talking again." "Terrific!" "It won't take long." "We'll get a few cultures maybe stick a scope down there." "It could just be a polyp." "What?" " They need Bob." " They need Bob?" "Rehearsal." "Later." "Fine." "I'll look forward to it." " How you doing, Mike?" " Good." " How's the spacesuit treating you?" " Fine." "I sure saved my tail at zero Gs." "Be careful would you?" "Keep the dirt out of the zippers." "Yeah!" "Sure!" "What's up guys?" " Mike, Maurice's son Duk Won..." " Duk Won?" "That's right." "He's Korean." "Yeah." "He sent Maurice some Kimchi and a lovely note." "Anyway Maurice would like to have his will changed." "Maggie tells me you had a practice in Saint Paul." " Litigation mostly." " I'll tell you, Mike." "This is not some two pager, who gets the piano and the St. Bernard." "I've got real estate, mineral rights, foreign currency, bonds, that sort of thing." " You think you can handle that?" " Well..." "Maurice, Mike sued the State of Florida and won." "Hospital malpractice." "Routine." "Is that a fact?" "Well..." " I guess we need to talk about fees." " Hold on, Maurice." "I'd love to do the work for you." "Don't get me wrong." "There's nothing I'd like better than to get my hands on some probate, but I'm gonna pass." " Sorry." "I just can't help." " Mike." "Mike, come on." "Maurice needs this will changed and you're the only lawyer in town." "And besides I thought it could keep you busy, maybe take your mind off..." "you know, things." "I can't handle that much exposure to paper." "With the gloves and the suit, the whole process just gets way too cumbersome." "I could type." "I'm not good at shorthand, but I can write fast." "Well..." "What do you want, Mike?" "A retainer?" "Or are you one of these hourly people?" "Hello, Block Head." "Federico...?" " You're here?" " Ed?" "Fellini." " What?" " It's Federico Fellini." " You want some lunch?" " Yeah." "Some chocolate milk." "One brown milk." "In the event that Duk Won should expire for any reason in the first calendar year after the dispersal of my estate, the whole shooting match will revert to the Minnifield library and museum." " So that would be under...?" " Section four." "Got it." "Section four." "You're probably wondering why I only cut the boy in for 25%." "I've wrestled with that and come to the conclusion that I can afford to bleed off anymore from the Minnifield library." "Maurice, 17 million dollars is still a lot of money in anybody's book." "Oh goody." "That's lunch." "Just a minute." "That's a few greenback's alright." "Enough to keep the boy in shoelaces and sake." "But you know what really galls my stones?" "That 45% estate tax that I have to pay for Duk Won's inheritance." "That just burns me up!" "Here we go." "Have you thought about setting up a trust fund for Duk Won?" "That way you wouldn't have to pay any tax." "That's not a bad idea, Mike." "And I do like the idea of keeping my principle intact." "Mike was ninth in his class in Chicago." "He made the Law Review." " Yeah?" " Kelp loaf?" "Ground kelp." "It's a sea protein." "No, no, no, no." "I take my protein on the hoof." "Animal meat?" "Laden with chemicals, Maurice." "It poisons the Earth." "Do you realize how much methane is produce by cattle?" "50,000 metric tons a day." "One more silly gas just fouling up the air." "Well, if you say so." "That doesn't smell half bad, Mike." "Maggie made it." " Maggie?" " Yeah." " Well..." " You don't cook." "No, I don't cook cook, but I bake." "I bake all the time." "Muffins mainly." "Bran muffins, corn muffins, all kinds of muffins." " More plumb juice?" " Yeah, thanks." "I'll get you a glass." "Hi, Bob." "Gorgonzola." "You remembered." "Just a little." "I have to go back to work." "You want to get back together?" "No." "I know we clicked." "Yes." "We were good dance partners." "We like the same books." "I can't go back, Bob." "Or forward." "My home is here." "My job is here." "It won't work." "Banana?" "Will you look at that!" "I don't suppose you guys play?" "See this thing?" "A dentist invented it, a genius." "He also invented an ionophoresis toothbrush." "It shoots fluoride into teeth with positive ions." "But this was his masterpiece." "Centrifugal force meets weight shift." "It's the answer to my 200 yard dreams." "Hi, Ed." "How's it going?" " Hello, Dr. Fleischman." " Back in the saddle?" "Actually I just thought I'd try and shoot some film today." "Yeah, that's kind of what I meant." "Yeah." "I decided to work without a script." "Just shoot some random scenes from the daily life of Cicely and see if, well if form wouldn't dictate content." "Well good." "Sounds like the well is full again." "I'm inspired, Dr. Fleischman." "It's this ring." " The ring?" " Yep." "You always think a fish is a fish." "You never stop to think about who's mouth it's been in..." " ...or who's hand it's been in." " I'm sorry." "Come again." "See right there? "F. F '."" " "F. F '."?" " Federico Fellini." "Federico Fellini, the movie director?" ""Con amore, Giulietta. " That was his wife, Giulietta." " Where did you get this?" " A fish ate it." " A fish?" " Yeah." "Then I ate the fish." "Squid eats plankton, the bronzini eats the squid down in the Adriatic," "through the Straits of Magellan." " Ed, are you hallucinating?" " Yes, but not right now." "Well, I'll see you fellows later." " What?" " I'm missing Article 3." "Appointment of fiduciaries." " Could you look for that?" " Ok." "Let's see..." "Disposition of tangible property," "Residue of Estate..." "Here we go." "Bingo." "Good." "Ok." "Now I want to double check the specific bequests." "See how this sounds." ""I give and bequeath my George III silver collection, including sauce boat, mustard pot and snuff mull, to Yoon Yong Ja, who is the mother of Duk Won, provided she survives me. "" " Wait a sec." " What?" "Aren't there a pair of sugar nips?" "Oh God, you're right." "Sugar nips." "Good." "Good catch." " You got to get a load of this." " What's that?" "Look at this." ""In appreciation of his faithful service," "I give and bequeath my silver inlaid Luftwaffe commemorative Luger to Ed Chigliak." "I give and bequeath my uniforms, including A2 leather flight jacket with color representation of the Korean peninsula and the inscription 'Give 'em hell' to the Smithsonian Institution." "I give and bequeath my 19th kingwood vitrine, an extremely rare piece, to Miss Shelly Tambo, as a token of my deep and abiding affection for her. "" "Oh right..." " I didn't mean..." " Maggie..." "It was just... really I..." "You were just and I..." " I never meant to..." " No, I know." "You know, I'm in here in this bubble..." "Yes." " That's the reality of my life." " Of course." "This one wall..." "You don't have to..." "I know that." " It's not that I don't think..." " Of course not." " I mean you're really..." " You too, really." "It was just that your head and my head..." " It was purely..." " Maggie." "What?" "Oh God." "How could I...?" "I'm sorry." "Wait." "Wait." "Wait." "I have a whole life." "A career, a business." "I'm a pilot." "I have people to fly, really." "And the will." "I know you need a witness for the signing." "I'll send somebody, ok?" " Please don't..." " Bye." "How do I change my executor." "My executor." "If I want to change my executor, how do I do that?" "No problem." "It's a simple amendment." "Any attorney can do it." " I don't like this." " Is there some mistake?" "No, there's no mistake." "The work's fine." "It's exactly like we talked about." "Mike, we've opened Pandora's box." "Duk Won is still young enough to have more children." "And Bong is right on the cusp of procreation, if he hasn't started already." "There's just too much here." "I'll be in here every 6 months." "Ruth-Anne!" "I'm not wearing any make up, Mike." "And my clothes are 100% cotton." "Much appreciated, thank you." "Where the hell is Maggie?" "How should I know, Maurice?" "She blew into the store and told me you needed a witness." "Told me the time and place and flew out again." "Terrific!" "I don't know what's gotten into that girl." "All the sudden she's a vegetarian." " A vegetarian?" " Yeah." "Wearing a dress and spouting off about cow flatulence." "That's methane gas." " She was wearing a dress?" " Yeah." "She was also cooking some kind of seaweed something." "I don't know." " And she cooked?" " She cooked all morning." "Kelp loaf, banana bread." " She did make fudge one time." " Yeah, that's true." "Let's put this thing to bed." "Come on." "Chop chop." "Let's get it done before I change my mind." "I hope Duk Won appreciates this." "Hi, Bob." "I don't want to argue." "I have to go." "Please." "You talked." "You did." "I heard you." "You talked." "I love you." "Please." "I'm sorry." "Who gets the pastrami?" "Enjoy." " Ed?" " Hello, Shelly." "I'll have a glass of red wine." "You want wine?" "Red wine?" "Chianti, if you have it." "You don't drink, Ed." "Are you sure?" "Grape juice then please." "Ed." "New look?" "I like it." "I like that hat." "I like the do." "The jacket, I don't know." "It's been 6 years, man." "I've never seen you without that leather jacket." " Chris, I'm changing." " Changing?" "Chris, do you believe that objects can..." "They can control your life?" "You mean they like have powers?" "Healing?" "Curses?" "Oh yeah." "Absolutely." "The Holy Grail, Excalibur..." "My uncle Roy Bower had this lucky hunting cap." "He swore it made him invisible to the white tailed deer." "Is that what you had in mind?" "I mean more like Donovan's Brain." "It's this movie, Chris." "This well meaning scientist preserves the brain of a sociopath in this really big jar." "Slowly but surely, the brain begins to take over the mind of the scientist until..." " ...he is Donovan." " Cool!" "Grape juice, rocks with a twist." " Uno más?" " Please." "Hi." "Busy?" "I don't suppose you want to talk about it." "Why don't you talk?" "I'm not good with words." "Words are heavy things." "Like rocks." "They weigh you down." "If birds talked, they couldn't fly." "Eduardo, why all this acidità?" " Why so upset?" " I've lost my vision." " I don't understand." "Vision?" " I'm not Fellini." " What's the big deal?" " What's the big deal?" "I'm stealing his imagery." "Eduardo, when are you gonna get smartened up?" "I tell you, you gonna make a big movie." "You're gonna famous." "You're gonna be rich." "You're gonna see a lot of girls." "You know what I mean?" "Are you telling me to sell my soul?" "Gesù, Giuseppe e Sant'Anna Maria." "Wait a minute..." "Are you...?" "I mean you couldn't be...?" "You're not...?" "I mean you're...?" "What's that?" "Now you did it." "What did I do?" "Take my advice." "Scrambolini." "Spreaders." "I found no congenital deformities in your larynx." "No paralysis, no scarring, no inflammation, no polyps." "Throat culture was negative." "There's nothing to biopsy." "No growths, no thickening, no indication of laryngemphraxis." "Turn please." "And basically your vocal chords are clear." "Scissors, please." "You indicated that your lack of speech was not precipitated by anything emotionally traumatic?" "Gravity?" "I'm not trying to trivialize Mr. Bellati's affliction." "But good news, Mr. Bellati." "I may have gotten to the root of your aphonia." "We call it morbus sine causa corporea, which in laymen's terms basically means nothing." "See, there's nothing wrong with you biologically, but I'll tell you what might do it." "A shock to the system to snap you out of it." "Like a boo!" "Not just a boo, but like a really big boo." "Case history." "A 47 year old woman in Syracuse is blind since birth." "She falls out of an airplane." " Splat?" " You would think." "But actually she survived." "It was the fall, the impact, the air pressure." "Something restored this woman's sight." "And that's what you need." "Something big." "Boo." "Exactly." "There." "Easy, easy." "Here." "I guess now you'll be able to take wing again." "Right." " Hi." " Hi." "Come on in." "What a nice surprise." "I brought some grated carrots." "Thanks." "Can I get you something?" " I just pressed cranberry juice." " No, no." " Papaya, cantaloupe?" " No, no." "I'm so glad to see you." "Listen we have to talk." "Ok?" "Ok." "I wanted to make something clear." "Despite whatever impression you may have gotten," "I'm not looking for any sort of relationship." "Because my life is great." "I'm personally and professionally fulfilled." "I have no need, no desire for any sort of entanglement." "I understand." "You do?" "Because I love being single and solitary and unencumbered and..." "I intend to stay that way." "Sure." "But that doesn't mean on some purely platonic level you and I can't be..." " Well..." " Friends?" "Friends." "That's what I'd like us to be." "Friends." " You want to go for a walk?" " A walk?" "Yeah." "You and me outside." " But..." " No buts." "Just you and me and the outside world." " No suit?" " No suit." "Are you feeling ok?" "I'm feeling better than ok." "I feel good." "The air is clean today." "Infinitesimal levels of methane, PCPs." "I didn't sense any fluorocarbons at all." "Come on." "Let's do it." "Where are you headed?" "Mallorca?" "Yeah." "Good spear fishing." "Bye, Bob." "Bye, Fritz." "Bye, Bernie." "Take care." "The hardware store's hitting the road, huh?" "It hasn't been too bad having a few new nuts and bolts running around this town." " What about Bellati?" " He flew." " Rocks?" " Bob says goodbye." "And so we bid a fond farewell to Enrico Bellati and his friends." "We owe them all a great debt of thanks." "I know I for one will never again look at... a mailing pin or roll of TP in the same inanimate light." "Isn't that the point of this merry go round?" "To throw out all those stale assumptions?" "Keep shopping for a fresh baked perspective." "Così I'amore che viene e va." "Gioie e dolore, sempre ci da." "Such is love that comes and goes." "Joy and sadness, it's always that way." " You ok?" " I'm fine." "Let's not go too far." "Look." "A curlew." "The plumage hasn't turned yet." "Yeah." "What?" "Is there a problem?" "Mold, pollen, fluorocarbons?" " No." " No?" "The air is clean." "It's sweet." "Smell it." "It's as good as it gets." "Ripped by subXpacio and TusSeries"