"And finally, through a small incision in the skull the nano device is placed directly into the brain." "Where, once activated, it causes everything the subject eats to taste... sweet!" "The implications for weight loss are enormous." "And while an eletric brain surgery isn't test THAT great, it still tests better than dieting and exercise." "Excellent work, everybody." "Thanks for staying late." "Oh, shoot." "What's the matter?" "My driver died a few days ago, and I haven't got a replacement yet." "Oh, I'm sorry ..." "I can give you a ride home." "I suppose that's OK." "But I can't ?" "you what my old driver was ?" "ing." "You don't have to pay me, I just thought it's a nice thing to do." "All right... thank you!" "Thank you, right?" "Thank you?" "Yes." "I'll go get my things." "Oh, we can stop at an outlet on the way?" "Sure." "Oh, still free." "Then pull the car around." "We never were getting along." "I think that maybe ?" "some time sun melt the chill." "I always thought Veronica lived here." "Me, too." "You know, she just finds a comfortable chair and powers down for the night." "Come on, we are gonna be late!" "You ?" "share the bathroom mirror." "Hey, guys." "Thought we may go to McTaggert's for beers." "Now?" "tonight, without warning?" "You don't have to get home to your daughter?" "Nope." "Her mom's visiting after a year in Botswana, which, by the way, is the year that Botswana won't never get back." "Anyway, they're hanging in New York for a week, until Stacy finds a country to go fix, so she ?" "work on herself." "So..." "I am free." "I wish my wife would go to Botswana." "The thing is, we kind of have plans." "Although, if you want it to..." "Oh, I see." "You are going some place you do not want me to come." "It's cool." "You'd think it was lame." "I promise I wouldn't." "Well, then maybe then ..." "Phil, can I can talk to you for a minute?" "It's not about you." "An occasional drink is fine, but being friends with your boss is a slippery slope." "Guys, we can get past the "boss" thing." "I consider you friends." "So can I talk to you a little further away for a minute?" "Still not about you." "You think you are their friend, but when push comes to sharp, they are always your boss and they know it." "?" "but Ted is not like that, he's a good guy ..." "Don't touch that!" "Besides, ?" "us a lot of ?" "It's ?" "." "You know, credibility." "Now that finally makes sense." "Thanks for swinging by my grandmother's place, and for helping me carry all her possessions." "You're really handling all this pretty well." "I can't believe your grandmother and your driver both died in the same week." "What?" "Oh, that's funny." "No, they were the same person." "You hired your own grandmother to drive you around?" "She needed money, but he did'nt want the handout." "She was a very proud woman, and a very proud driver." "You maybe wanted to talk about her?" "You know, how you're feeling about losing her." "Oh, that's sweet, but ..." "No." "Are you sure?" "I fear that could change our relationship and make it difficult to continue working together." "But I suppose is's the risk I'm willing to take." "Or..." "I could just go." "Don't be silly." "Let's talk." "Would you like some wine?" "I'd like a whole bunch of wine, yes." "Ok, but we'll have to pour it ourselves, my housekeeper died this week." "I've never been in the ?" "basement before." "They don't want executives down there, because of all these ?" "." "If you work for a company this intense, you have to find ways to relax." "We tried the Veridian chess club and the ?" "club, but those are ?" "markets." "Besides, nothing releases tension like this." "A-ho." "Welcome to Medieval Fight Club." "Veridian Dynamics." "Bosses." "Everybody has one." "Without bosses we would be like these worms." "disgusting." "Bosses make everything better." "So listen to your boss ... and don't question them." "Otherwise, you're no better than a worm." "Veridian Dynamics." "Bosses." "Necessary." "You have to fight your way up the ladder." "The newbies start as peasant farmers." "Here are your soiled rags." "Sorry, we have stay on character." "The King is watching." "This is Gill the IT guy?" "On the surface world." "Here he is our king." "Listen, fellows, this all seems really ..." "Cool?" "Sure." "Let's go with "cool"." "But I think I'm ?" "go." "Ted, wait!" "You were the first executive that's ever been down here," "You leaving like this makes us look like fools!" "And we haven't been fools for months." "Let him go." "It's not your fault." "Bosses and employees just shouldn't hang out, it's like a ventriloquist trying to be friends with his dummy." "At the end of the day you know who is sleeping in a suitcase." "The dummy." "All right, I was the first who 1st proposed to hang out, so I should endure this." "I mean, suffer through..." "I mean, support you." "Because that's what friends do." "And she married my grandfather at 18." "And my grandfather had an amazing life." "He came to this country with nothing but a huge fortune and then" "Oone day ... tragically ... he got deported." "(drunk voice) Oh..." "That's so sad." "I have a question." "We've been drinking all night." "How can you be so sober and me completely fitchased [drunk]?" "Oh, I've always been like this." "My body just doesn't process alcohol that way." "You want one of these?" "You want one of these?" "That's what I thought." "Linda." "My grandfather ..." "I never liked him." "His smell of onions and once cheated on my grandmother with Eleanor Roosevelt, who ... hated men but loved onions" "Why you are telling me all this?" "Because I've never told anybody." "I'm the one who turned them in." "I had'em deported." "I declare Ted the victor and Victor the loser." "God, that was fantastic." "Can you fight more than once in one night?" "You have done well to bring a warrior of suck pluck into the vault." "I told you that'll work out." "?" "We ?" "king's moped." "My ex-wife is spoiling the hell out of our daughter." "I can spoil her, too, but one of us has to be a good parent." "Really, sweetie?" "Ice cream for breakfast." "No, you're right." "I don't let you do that." "You know what I do let you do?" "Get vaccinated." "Ok, I love you too Rose." "That bitch is driving me crazy." "Oh, easy." "Hey, hey, she's 7." "Not Rose... my ex-wife." "Oh, Stacy." "Yes, she was ..." "Crazy." "Crazy hot." "Totally agree." "You were an animal last night." "No-one has ever won four battles in a row." "Can admit this medieaval stuff is a ?" "." "And it wasn't just the winning." "It was a constant winning." "I can't wait to get back there tonight." "There's no ?" "tonight." "They give us the basement once a week." "I took care of that." "I have the AAA (alcoholics anonymous) ?" "mini?" "moved to the utility closets," "So we can have the basement." "The Medieval Fight Club for two nights in a row?" "Man, my cog piece (?" ") just tightened (?" ")." "See?" "It's good to be friends with the boss, ah, fellows?" "I hate to break it to you, but we can't make it tonight." "Mom's birthday." "Oh, that's OK." "See you the next time." "I can't miss MFC." "That's how rumours start." "Would it be weird to bring my mother?" "Yes." "Morning, Linda." "I couldn't sleep all night." "I really mess things up with Veronica." "Last night she opened up and told me something very personal." "Now I know too much." "What if she has me fired, or deported - I mean, who knows what?" "Hello, Linda." "I need to see you in my office." "Ok, ?" "heard that, everyone?" "Veronica wants to see us all in her office." "No, just you." "I don't know why I drink..." "I always (at the end?" ") get laid or fired." "I have to start drinking." "I like those odds." "Linda, there is no easy way to say this." "You are firing me." "No, that would be easy." "You're fired." "What I want to say is," "I've been keeping that secret about my grandfather for years, and it fewlt wonderful to finally get ot off my chest." "Oh, really?" "I'm glad to hear that." "So, thank you for listening to me." "We're letting you go." "What?" "That would be another way to say it." "Anyway, I slept like a baby all night." "Actually," "I'll be afraid that I would tell people your secret." "Oh, I haven't thought of that." "I haven't thought of that at all." "But do what you're going to do, Linda." "Oh, I'm not gonna do that!" "We're friends." "Friends don't do things like that." "Friends." "I like the way that sounds." "Ok, we are friends." "Oh, good." "Because you never have too many." "I used to feed my sister in her sleep, so she wouldn't be skinnier than me." "Wow..." "You are my first friend that has ever done something like that." "You feel so good to finally admit that to someone." "Let's take the morning off, so we can talk somewhere." "I'll take you to breakfast." "Somewhere where the mills ?" "end of the world slam." "I don't know." "I've got a lot of work to do on the Doppler project." "You're with the boss, relax." "Besides, I can give the Doppler project to Joe." "Really?" "Because I do hate the Doppler project." "And I hate Joe." "So everybody wins." "No-one gets in!" "No-one gets in!" "Alright, I'm calling it." "Did I win?" "Well, he didn't get in, but... no." "And this defeat brings you all the way down to the court jester." "Ted, in order to advance to squire, there is but one knave standing in your way." "I propose a mutual surrender." "Valiant try, you giant ball of wuss." "I declare Ted the victor." "Hey guys, no hard feelings, ah?" "No, we like that you're succesfull in everything you do." "And you realize, a forfeit takes YOU down to a court jester as well." " Fine, whatever." "But it's going to be the same jokes you heard the last month." "Hey!" "Your hair look nice." "You like it?" "Veronica took us out to get our hair done." "We've been spending tons, and tons, and tons of time together this week." "Well, at least you to are bonding." "We are not bonding, I'm being absorbed." "Well... whatever it is you're doing, keep it up, 'cause your hair looks great." "You think I care what my hair looks like?" "Linda went loudly explaining that the hair isn't important to her right now." "Because being friends with Veronica, hmm, had a price." "Sure, they were shopping..." "I once slept with my boyfriend's therapist to find out if he was cheating on me." "He wasn't." "And there were massages And I accused Omar Sharif of being a terrorist." "So he'd been kicked off the plane, and I could get his 1st class seat." "...And midnight girl-talk." "Hallo?" "Hi, it's me." "I'd ask you over but..." "My sister's in town for my grandmother's funeral." "...But the friendship came with a price." "Veronica keeps dumping all this stuff on me." "I'm like her brain toilet, I don't know how much more I can take." "Just because she's your boss doesn't mean you have to prop with her,." "Or jump every time she calls you." "Phil, Lem!" "Is he coming?" "Just go, go!" "That's weird, I could have sworn they saw me." "Hey, friend!" "I was thinking we'd have lunch today." "One o'clock?" " Excellent." "I ..." "I don't think that's such a good idea." "Afterwork drinks?" "Veronica, I'm sorry." "It 's just..." "I see." "You're dumping me." "No, no!" "It's just I'm really enjoying spending time with you, and don't deserve this much pleasure." "I know, I messed up." "I'm just a big old bucket of crazy." "But I thought, again, because of my own inadequacies, we should take a little break." "Well, isn't that funny, because I've been wanting to take a break, too" "So, this works up perfectly." "Goodbye." "You want to take a break from Medieval Fight Club?" "But don't you want to see my new tunic?" "It's got clovers on it." "You bought a tunic?" "It's a big investment, considering you stop coming when Rose gets home." "That's right, you stop coming when Rose gets home." "No way, I am hooked." "I'll just get a sitter couple of nights a week." "But it's not goint to be the same without my two court jesters." "The thing is..." "We've been under a lot of pressure from the model train club to get back ?" "Also, I have a chance of being the first black mayor of the tiny towns, so ..." "Well." "I guess I can't force you to keep coming to Fight Club" "Oh, by the way ..." "I'm going to see the specs on taste-altering brain implant on my desk by 9 A.M." "No way!" "We cannot do it that quickly!" "Well, looks like you're gonna be up all night." "Although..." "If you had good reasons for not to be working," "I suppose it can wait a few days." "?" "..." "Maybe The Fight Club would be good enough for a reason?" "That's what I want to hear." "C'mon, guys, it's gonna be fun," "Be there or be squired!" "OoOoOo :)" "Be there or be squired!" "I said that two years ago." "You were right, Lem." "His true boss nature came through and attacked." "We have to ?" "a way to drop out of the Fight Club." "Yes, but how?" "And if we pick ?" "the Groth?" "The Groth?" "Well ..." "I guess it was put on this Earth for a reason." "I do not think so, fellows." "I'm done with the Medieval Fight Club." "I have a girlfriend now." "It's just one time." "Please, Groth!" "For us." "Meanwhile,itturnedout Veronica didn't like to take a friendship break." "Oh, hold it!" "And since Veronica was the boss, she had lots of ways to make it clear." "Here you go, Joe, enjoy your extra room." "Br-r-ing him to me-e-e!" "You're OK, Ted?" "You look a little nervous." "You can call off now and never come back." "No, I just got off the phone with Rose." "She's gonna stay a few more days in New York with her mom, who didn't clear with me first, so now if I say no," "I'm the bad guy." "But.. stuff happens." "No ?" "Who dares challenge?" "What the..." "Linda," "I feel like you've been wanting to get our relationship back to the way it was." "What gave you that idea?" "The fact that you turned my cubicle into a hobbit hole?" "Let's not get into the "who's shrunk whose office", or "who's canceled whose dental plan"" "The point is... we had something special and you'd like to get back to that." "And I accept." "Veronica, I'd like to be friends, but real friends don't just talk about their problems all the time." "Real friends listen to each other." "Okay." "I am listening now." "Oh.. well, let's see ... here's something." "When I was growing up, I wanted to be a gimnast, and every night after my parents went to sleep," "I used to sneak out of my bed and put on my leotard." "And one night, when I thought that my parents were sleeping..." "I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to stop you." "You're going on and on about yourself..." "It feels... nnn... needy." "Needy?" "I told you one thing that happened to me, one thing that's important in my life ..." "You're doing it again." "And I find that it off-putting." "I'm sorry," "I can't be friends with you any more." "You've changed." "Hey." "No, it's ok, I got it." "Oh, sorry." "I'm a little preoccupied." "I almost killed a man in the basement." "Last week, a story like that would have surprised me." "So who's that you've alnost killed?" "Was it Joe?" "I hate that guy, he took off my cubicle." "No, I've been do this Medieval Fight Club," "Since Rose had been with her mom, and..." "I got carried away." "Your ex-wife's in town?" "No, no, she ?" "in New York for a couple of weeks." "And since she's never around, I had to drop everything so Rose can go be with her." "Well, when Rose gets back, she wants to stay up late, and to have ice cream for breakfast, and I don't let har, because I am an actual parent, not Willy Wonka." "So I'm the bad guy." "Rose gets mad at me, and..." "I'm going back to the basement." "Why?" "There's your wife down there?" "What?" "Because it sounds like you've been fighting ?" "all week." "Either that, ot you've been turning into a sort of gigantic nerd." "First of all, you're speaking to a knight of ?" "." "So show some respect." "Second of all, eh..." "you might be right." "There's a single dads' club that meets on the fifth floor every week." "You should check it out." "I think I can go beat up some single dads." "But I see what you're saying." "You're smart." "In the basement they would drown you as a witch." "Actually they'd just spray you with water ..." "It's like a..." "Mediaeval Wet T-shirt ?" "." "Good news, Ted." "We took a vote, and made you the new king." "Then we took another vote, and you're died." "Gloriously in battle." "Listen, fellows." "I owe you an apology, I've been working out some personal stuff and I acted like a jerk." "I hope I can make it up to you." "Just... rest in peace, King Ted." "It means... you're dead, so don't come back." "I got it." "Just making sure, because ?" "guy who can miss ?" "." "At least you two got an apology from your boss." "All I got from Veronica was a week's worth of frustration." "Translation: n/a" "Review:" "MosheDayan" ":" "Netzah Yisrael Lo Yeshaker :"