which he admitted he never managed to
read the novel through to the end and he
doubted whether anyone in the audience
could finish the damn thing either ha ha
ha you threw Austen hidings packaging
afterwards I hung around and invited on
for tea or sherry or opium something and
he accepted and did he seduced you UO
catamite no he fell asleep
you know this poached salmon was a bit
off today how was your veal not bad
isn't that you know he's famous
you mean the writer yes well they say he
tried to poison his second life no I saw
you on television
Oh Hawking my wares in the marketplace I
forget what you said you gave that any
viewer a difficult time she was an idiot
your new book I haven't read it of
course but it's supposed to be wonderful
so I've been told I told you I think
I'll do without coffee today rich let me
sign for it thanks my best to slim and
company I'll pass on this agitations
no scar have a nice day sir
you're Austin Blair yes here you go here
I go
you
connealy want you whatever it is I'm
busy
kind of want you now he saw the hand I
just got dealt he'd wait
full house his master's voice guess who
bought the farm who Austin Blair Austin
Blair hack writer of trash novels Austin
Blair very rich very successful hack
writer trash novels if someone once said
that's not writing that's typing well
he's dead
somebody shot him some wacko in front of
the Arts Club on Gramercy what okay 45
minutes ago public deprives of his
insights world mourns find out who
killed him like to shake his hand well
you could shake his hand in the morgue
psycho popped himself in the head after
he offs Blair why me I got a hunch
this'll sell you're my golden boy won
the prize on the police corruption
series I'm handing you this on a platter
so you're thinking it's a play above the
fold at least a couple days you do this
right everybody's gonna want to take us
to dinner
you
hey you can't hang around here please
visit let's go it's okay officer he's
went to newspaper you put my name in the
paper sure if you look here you can
still see the blood on the pavement
there we're gonna get all that blood
impressive
okay thanks that's mccrane spilled MC I
got it captain to see crane well you
have a name right okay all right we just
got an ID on the killer and well and we
have to notify the family
yeah protect your privacy right so who
is what's in it for me I'll be your best
friend hard you get my catcher's mitt
I'll let you have my two-way Dick Tracy
wristwatch slicing the movie rights
Burgess Eliot Burgess Burgess hello this
is Burgess yeah hello my name is David
leader I'm a reporter for really can't
talk right I just wanted to ask you a
couple X not possible no no I understand
is it not yes
I just want you'll have to please leave
me alone
great
hello hi hey I thought were meeting for
lunch today
oh I'm sorry I was interviewing yeah I
figured something was up so are you
working on this time Austin Blair I
heard somebody shot him yeah there's
some rich kid family won't talk not even
a TV but if I can get the goods this
could be the one
meaning talk shows book deals film
rights you name it yeah this could be
the one I liked his books
who's Austin Blair David I like this
book oh please I did they were very
smart witty he had great insight into
women Hannah his books make people
magazine look like Proust when's the
last time you read Bruce Davis so okay
maybe I've only read the classics
Illustrated version haven't made any
dinner I'm starving
you're pastina which this is there's
posturing yeah so one the magazine I
showed you I don't remember
no remember you asked me to make a boy
some time so no you made it you're
welcome
you
never told me riddles to Blair
come on into an eosinophil town location
spell the monster the assailant had one
foot a pin in his inner jacket pocket
his pants pocket containing a set of
keys 45 cents and who's changed a wallet
containing 51 dollars the membership
card to musicians union membership card
to the Museum of Modern Art's Social
Security card driver's license to credit
cards and photos and a pocket tape
recorder Austin Blair appeared on a.m.
New York earlier this week a publicist
his latest novel man and a writer but I
am transforming raw material and people
get well huh Capote did it and look what
happened to him
hey you what time is it
great
I'll have the hammer name how's it going
working on something big the Blair
killing uh-huh
you always get the good ones here's my
good stories
the women yeah but people respect you
booth huh
you ever read any of Blair's stuff not
if I could help it why would someone
want to whack him didn't like his prose
style which got on the killer's family
still lived at home with his mother and
his father and a sister but he's the
quiet type always walking little old
ladies across the street and then he
hears dogs talking to him where'd he get
the gun he's serious this is America
anybody can get a gun I walk into
Safeway I pick up a gun thought there
might be something to finding out where
he got the gun but what do I know I work
for another paper I gotta get to the mom
before the TV slime makes great copy and
moms they love me oh my good come on yes
I'd like to speak to mrs. Burges who is
this I'm a reporter for these I'm not
good a spokesman for our firm we'll make
a statement of the press at the
appropriate time excuse me but your son
just murdered if I'm aware of what
happened there will be a statement later
when we live it right over here
mind if I walk with you do I know you no
I'm a reporter for them hey give me a
second okay I've got nothing to say hold
it wait please I want to understand
there's nothing to understand a terrible
thing happened my brother did a terrible
thing man to live with that
I cook for them I took the regular
dinners and when they have company you
know more than four or five they have
somebody extra tell me about Elliot
I talked already to the police yes I
know but we have our little arrangement
and I'll bet you could remember a thing
or two you forgot to tell them well he'd
stay up in his room long time sometimes
most of the day sometimes he'd be
practicing his violin other times
nothing you ever see a gun in his room I
never saw a gun he could raise hell with
the father the two of them always
arguing over the sister Emma huh
anybody criticize her bed bull explode
screaming waving his arms you want to
pay me now
be a part
why are you following me excuse me
you're following me I could call the
police this is harassment it's against
the law believe me what I do is not
against the law and yes I was following
you I want to ask you a few questions I
already told you I have nothing to say I
think you've got a lot to tell me not
I'd settle for a few minutes look I
don't want to follow you and really
terrible at it
I spotted you right away see I'd rather
talk to you directly
you know I I can't why do you have to
know it's not me it's them who's them
everybody buying a paper it's news
somebody and it happens to be a brother
I'm very sorry that it's him but he
kills somebody they want to know why and
what about you me it's just a job is my
business but if you talk to me these
crowds go away see they're just fun
things put in perspective once the
mystery is solved
story's over I don't have answers
I don't let me be the judge of that
here you can call me my name is David
leader here's my office number please
give me a call miss Burgess
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give me nothing better not crap on the
six o'clock news I'm working on it
close the door
I'm intrigued by this story I'm willing
to play it out to the end you don't have
something by the end of the day make it
up nothing major nothing outright Falls
but factual speculation factual
speculation got me where I am today well
I I got an angle I'm all ears it's about
justice yeah it's the concept and
abstraction it can't be defined yet we
all seek it wrong must be righted
now vengeance we don't think of as one
of the highest of human emotions but if
you ask me vengeance is at the heart of
justice now it's not enough to just
catch a bad guy and send him or her away
it's it's never enough it's got to be
finished killing someone that finishes
it in a way
fantasize about killing is normal we all
do it
now you need to talk now I have a
meeting every week have you seen this
movie yes no I remember I should have
rented something else do you think she's
beautiful I think she's very beautiful
she's flawed she's a funny little black
spot on her lip someone should tell her
why don't you tell her next time we see
her
you
I know Elliot through Emma and then I
it's been a few weeks since we've gotten
together we talked on the phone we know
each other from school and then we
weekend together at the Hamptons and
Elliot Elliot was a very withdrawn
person did you ever talk to him always
with him he was very protective if I man
you would have terrible fights with her
father over Emma Emma could be I should
not be telling you this oh no no no
please go ahead
we used to thank em illicit teens you
know she had that reputation she would I
think she's over this period not because
but she would lead men on she wouldn't
get very serious with any one man and
she so she had this reputation
you must think and
we used to be very close I wouldn't want
you to think badly of her no no now do
you have that picture yeah here it is
like they were a couple can I have this
thanks Amy
so how's it coming fine
yeah you know what you could do for me
what you know Austin Blair's book his
latest you read it
not yet maybe you could read it for me
you know skim it tell me what it's about
what you want like a book report kind of
thing yeah I know you want try five
personally I can't stomach the guys
stuff so what do you say I don't know
thanks I appreciate it hello hi David
oh hey Kathy you know I was just
thinking about you
she's so hot
a prize-winner doesn't have time to read
a book thanks he sets a hot check done
Johnson you noticed like the source
spring he was always a woman he uses a
ways you only dream honey that's true
does it sound true sure it's true
good admit though I'm gonna miss Austin
Blair really you ever see him on the
talk show he was quick we could rip
these guys apart
so it was good for a laugh someone
else's expense
excuse me this scene runs the continuous
narrative sequence in which there's an
intermingling of God's demigods and
mortals we now pass from the reading of
the ritual in the sacrifice to a complex
dionysia group which occupies the center
panel in it - God is reclining upon the
lap of his counselor Ariadne would you
all excuse me for a minute what are you
doing here I'm fascinated by Roman
frescoes really I come to this section a
museum once assume no lunch that's all I
ask
let me buy you lunch I find it
refreshing you worked in museum once a
week your father gave you the job my
mother actually she's on the board seems
her family's on the board of just about
everything I imagine you have access to
our tax returns and phone records nope
maybe even go looking through our
garbage at night oh no no I draw the
line at garbage shipping I personally
don't believe this all can be explained
by just the facts maybe none of us want
to explain maybe we would rather just
course you would but here we are in a
cafeteria I'm trying to be pleasant that
won't change anything
I'd like to know why Austin Blair I mean
he's a novelist for God's sake nobody
shoots a writer I can't imagine anything
he'd scribble out would compel someone
to shoot him or your brother take his
own life
Elliot read everything novels history
philosophy
he had a brilliant mind mr. leader he
was brilliant and disturbed look I'm
still trying to understand I think we
should talk again miss Burgess I don't
think that's a good idea
I do otherwise who knows what I'll write
about your family
I have to go
have you read this in the paper what
they're saying about Elliot about that
we did nothing to stop him as if we
could as if we were responsible I don't
wish to discuss this further you not
give them the satisfaction okay so I
look to Blair's book last night
uh-huh okay so it was slick but
entertaining lifestyles of the decadent
rich and famous you know and this woman
Muriel she's the step from this rich
family families very old money very
conservative and she's the black sheep
she's always sleeping around and getting
smashed and getting in the newspapers
and embarrassing the family God but in
reality she just wants to be loved she's
even sleeping with her brother I think
oh I figured out who some of the other
characters is supposed to be one of them
is Jackie I think it was trashy but I
liked it somebody left this for you
whoo-hoo-hoo
this woman what's he look like what'd
she look like what are you a friggin
parrot you know I tell you this woman
leaves this thing and and you know I
read the book for you and so next time
I'm not gonna help you out
jerk Jarek Simon little buddy what do
you want chill out okay I'm sorry
all right thanks thank you for your help
it's all right so uh you got a tape
player like do I have one on me yeah for
you you want to borrow a tape player
from me yes sorry I don't have one okay
tell the boss if he wants me I'm working
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October 7th I begin these tapes as a
record of the conspiracy I begin to see
revealed I will record the facts but the
facts speak for themselves but the facts
speak for themselves
sorry what is it Elliot
it's alright I'm letting the world now
I'm setting it down
are you talking about I'm reading lost
in Blair's new book yes he knows what's
going on October 8th
I finished Blair's book in a rush I saw
what his intention was Blair has in some
way I've yet to determine been spying on
our lives he has taken our existence and
for his own sinister purposes turned us
into grotesques but this will not go
unanswered
perhaps you're unaware of what is
happening are you speaking to me Elliot
I'm talking to you and mother and over
what are we unaware the conspiracy to
discredit this family what conspiracy
what do you people do all day if there's
no need to be I'm sorry I just seem to
be the only person taking this seriously
he's talking about Austin Blair
the writer you're a lawyer you should do
something legally what are you talking
about in this piece he calls a fiction
he's written a portrait of us of the
family in highly unflattering terms I
think we have a very solid legal case
and I think we should seek damages I
haven't read this book you have a copy I
destroyed it I burned it Elliot don't be
so melodramatic it's in my room I'll get
it please finish dinner we'll deal with
this after dinner yes all right
yes yes I called the paper they said
you'd love I wanted to work here did you
even notice I wasn't here last night
David
did you not really we're all grown-ups
here are we I'm a grown up David listen
I hope this important story you're
working on is going well it is and you
don't need my help
no I know where this is going - do you
do this story you're not exactly sure
it's latent and that's exciting but I
know it's about the girl David your
stories like this are always about the
girl and God this won't road that at me
why not it's the truth oh fuck off okay
what do you want from me
you know what I've decided what I don't
want to be just another chapter in your
big story you know I'm not up for that
fine what's for dessert give me a day or
two and I'll have something good how
good's every other paper in towns moving
the story to the back pages I'm working
on a source I've got a lead I've just
got to play it out your hunch yeah now
don't get excited but I'm working on
something that could put us out in front
of everybody I love this guy why don't I
love this guy so much because I deliver
later we've been up to was he been up
are you kidding is he kidding I'm only
doing the biggest story in town Austin
Blair
without Austin Blair about him being
shot Austin Blair was shot when this
happened read something besides a sports
page you work on ray really somebody
shot him who's Austin Blair you got a
car why you need a car
why you need a car get the hell out of
New York where you gonna go
you hate the rest of the country she ate
here we should all have your problems
you know it's too bad that you work for
that rag we should be working together
you're too good to be working for
another you know what what is lonely at
the top leader
Oh
you
who is it delivery from Simon at the New
York glow October 11th I present
evidence to Emma I taped a number of
appearances on these talk shows
look this is yeah do he admits it's
mightor and yes people their lives their
personal lives that's what makes good
fiction well fiction that sells but then
isn't what you're doing isn't it more a
job of reporting oh you could say that
of course but I am transforming raw
material and these people get well
Capote did it look what happened to him
but like him oh I know these people I
know their world I know their dirty
little secrets wouldn't you like to know
what I know
I never read his books Eliot it doesn't
matter
doesn't matter hey what's wrong with you
that you don't even argue about this we
never argue
yes
I doubt and I believe I'm being followed
by detectives or some persons seeking to
do me harm I tried to call Austin Blair
his numbers unlisted of course so now
I'm going to write him stating my
objections and asking for an apology
perhaps he'll be a gentleman in your spa
do you have any books by Austin Blair
yeah he's very popular over there is a
novel we have some signed copies left
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October 13th getting no response from
Blair I take action
I go to City Hall
may I help it Elliot Burgess I'm here to
see the mayor man
yes the mayor of New York City this is
where his office is I'd like to see him
it's very important I'm afraid you can't
come here yes of course I didn't make an
appointment perhaps I could make an
appointment too do I need to do that
could you do that for me
well there is an assistant available to
help that's terrific that'd be great
can I talk to him mr. Burgess I still
don't see what this has to do with the
office of the mayor well I believe I
said Austin Blair has hired people to
follow me i sear from they follow me
sometimes there are two of them you just
think it does seem to be an overreaction
I don't understand why right now Mr
Blair Griffith I'd like to point out
that my father is a very prominent
attorney in this city laughs who your
father is
I'm also aware of how helpful he was in
the mayor's reelection campaign why
don't you let me look into this I
appreciate that mr. Adamson
I read sections of this novel you've
been ranting about Elliot I really no
legal grounds for action as far as I can
see besides isn't there an Austin Blair
at our club we all Betty I don't
remember that well I'm sure if he's a
member he would never write about us
thanks for taking the time to see me mr.
Wilson not at all
oh I generally don't make it a habit to
talk to the papers a unofficial Club
policy the burgesses our members here at
the club yes so they don't seem to make
it out here to the island as often as
they used to now they're out here to
3-week strings from that song but they
come out here on occasion yes Emma I've
seen a few times she shows up she's
she's a real charmer
you've met Emma Burgess oh yes I
interviewed her for the story Oh ash yes
what about earlier than the year
you know it's best not to talk too much
about that one yet and I've always
thought he was a bit day you wouldn't
have a register something like that that
tells when the family was here oh yes
yes I'm sure there's a record when they
sign for meals you know we sent him your
the statement if I could just take a
look at no I don't know about this
members like their privacy you know I
understand but I really like to help out
on the down payment of that sailboat
you've been eyeing sailboat iron
oh yes that one in there well she's real
beauty sir just a few hundred for this
tell me how'd you know I was the sailing
sort my job
October 15th I do not know whether Blair
ever met my sister or not it doesn't
matter
he admitted to the public at large that
it was his job his profession his art to
turn life into fiction but there is a
cost Austin Blair should know the cost
of his fiction and he will I now believe
that Blair is trying to fake a case
against me or do me serious bodily harm
or both last night about 10 o'clock I
was looking out my window when I noticed
an attractive young woman standing at a
second-story window across from me this
woman was 20 years old she smiled over
at me an appointed manner and on
catching sight of me she lifted her hand
and waved it I could not decide if this
was an involuntary motion of interest on
seeing me or was meant as a sign of
encouragement for me to start flirting
with her a man then came aside it was
Austin Blair I think the woman was a
relative of Blair's and the two of them
were amusing themselves at my expense
fact is stranger than fiction listen how
would they say she wants me to know know
what what was happening in the family
but these tapes they only cover a week
maybe not oh there's more she's doing it
just how I want unless she's doing you
we need to go somewhere I've read Austin
Blair's novel I liked it very much
those tapes I could have printed them
don't you understand I could have done
that I'm breaking the rules I'm doing
that for you they're everywhere now
I never you are why are you doing this I
said I know who you are you work for the
mayor I think it'll be best if you went
back to your table
I recognize who you are well I'm not in
my office now I'm trying to people are
looking at us
I give these facts for what they may be
worth
called again last night on Blair they
said he had gone so my trouble has been
in vain is he at home now
there's glare watching me Blair's
ignoring of my last letter is itself the
confession of guilt a man who has done
nothing wrong will listen to a man who
claims that he has also the whole tone
of my letter showed that my intentions
were as amicable as he would let them
build it yes I think maybe it would help
if you talk with someone I love you Emma
I won't let anyone do anything to
disgrace you I would never let that
Elliot I just maybe it would be good if
you talk with someone who doesn't know
us who could be ejected about all of
this you think you
yeah
I haven't read this particular book then
I wonder how qualified you are to
continue this discussion well I feel I'm
qualified to talk to you about this
feeling that you're followed by agents
of Blair Austin Blair I did not know
conclusively that they work for him I do
not have proof yes
yeah sure
I found Elliot a very stimulating case
very stimulating did he did he ever talk
about in any detail I mean what it was
exactly that made him feel well you know
I finally read this novel of his of
Blair's and I didn't understand what all
the I didn't find it particularly
well-written or insightful exactly don't
read much fiction myself don't have the
time but Elliot yes Elliot read to the
point where fiction and fact blurred I
tried to impress on Elliot the need to
stick to the facts like you do as a
newspaper reporter you can't print lies
can you no of course not
October 17th
here are some thoughts I've written down
for titles poems or articles
dreams in the dark love and pain the
vulture let me see them well I haven't
actually written them yet Holmes but I
have every intention of doing so
show them to me when you do send them to
you first I'll show them to you did
actually send him oh that's funny
the doctor the one that I said I've been
going to huh I don't go there you don't
know I go to the movies
I go to the movies and then I come home
and I practice the practice the violin I
know I haven't played in a while
by the way I'll play for you though you
love me and I say you love you stop this
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October 30th October 30th
they're spying on me
Elliot what are you doing on the tree
what were you sleeping on the floor no
it was I was exercising it was
concentration exercises Eastern mind
expansion techniques how interesting
I never done this before
appreciate your help oh you'll need to
fill out these applications for a
license I'll take about two weeks not
that much of a hurry there wait for me
telling
it's beautiful it's just it's been some
time since I'm sorry don't be sorry
November to Bliss is an effervescence
joy of flood happiness is golden
November 11th armed I feel great power I
feel invincible
this is what the common criminal must
feel this lack of power transformed by
the gun in the pocket does that make me
a common criminal
I would like to talk to someone from the
Metropolitan section who you I have some
information about about a news story
what news story well it hasn't actually
happened yet we're all pretty busy right
now why don't you leave me your name and
phone number when this story actually
happens we'll get in touch with
thank you phone you later
Elliot do you think that that doctor has
been of any help a great deal he puts so
much in perspective
you actually costs enough since when do
you worry about what things cost I just
don't like to be hustled he is very well
respected in his feet if you believe in
that sort of thing but I never had to go
and talk about my childhood L my dreams
to some total stranger I'm doing just
fine
thank you very much Elliot stays in the
house too much I don't really I don't
think he does I think the solution is
read less fiction more history I was a
young the history major before law
school a civil war now that's a
fascinating subject you have to look to
the future yes maybe going back to
school and do what more perhaps you
could find a place in no thank you
being an attorney doesn't appeal to me
Elliot you have to do something maybe
I'll run for office political office
that would be exciting he's not serious
I talked to the mayor the other day no
one would vote for you you could make
them vote for me father
can I help you Oh where's the dining
room are you a member sir actually I was
wondering if I could just look at your
dining room well I'm afraid it's members
only but if you know a member of the
club you could have a drink as a guest
I'm a reporter doing a story on Austin
Blair oh I see well I think perhaps it's
all right
you'd be my guest well thank you you're
welcome
I'm read you Shaw let me get you a drink
God knows I need one well it's dinner
time in London so somebody must be
toasting me Austin look around you here
the average age of the members of this
club is the same as room temperature
we're all disgustingly rich we have more
money than we know what to do with so
most of us married six times or drink
what about Blair oh he only married
three or four times and I could drink
him under the table no his a nice fella
actually you know I miss him a very
great deal he was so wonderfully nasty
but nasty in a very witty way I miss
that he and you had lunch with him that
afternoon afternoon he was shot yes I
did know what I remember most what the
poached salmon was off how the poached
salmon is never off should have been a
worn how could you have known
well I couldn't really but he did
mention various letters and phone calls
but he did get those sometimes well he's
a public figure and someone disagrees
with you it does happen who knows
someone may be stalking you right now me
it's somebody who doesn't especially
like the way you've been nosing around
so much no the thing that I have learned
about the people who join clubs like
this yes they like quiet they're willing
to pay for
I don't suppose you have a price
everybody's got a price
archers young man good lunch at a fancy
private club with a charming old fart
like me
you
what are you doing I had a gun you know
how easy would be to kill you
really easy are you robbing me or
something oh no no not at all I'm
imagining what it'd be like to lock up
someone you don't know and shoot them uh
I don't have a gun that's good for me
have a nice day
why does somebody kill to be God power
of life and death but then why does he
kill himself guilt over exercising that
power he must punish himself huh we all
fantasize about the ability to kill it's
normal the actual realization right is
abnormal but we all of us at some time
fantasize about killing somebody for
example for example I might think about
killing my father I did think about
killing him in his eyes I constantly
failed no matter what I'm a failure the
child in me unconscious wants to kill
him but doing no but the wish is there
you ever want to kill somebody sure sure
someone I don't like someone who makes
more money than I do someone that I
think doesn't deserve the recognition
they have sure of course
somebody could feel that way about you
FBI agent Jack Malone he's got his own
star is born
you're not watching without a trace on
TNT you don't know jack without a trace
Wednesday's for back-to-back episodes
starting at 7:00 on TNT November 20th I
have decided to confront Blair
are you Austin Blair
no sorry I thought you might have been
someone else
I received a phone call today at my
office
I imagine you received several every day
but I suppose this pertain to me well it
was from this doctor the one you were
supposedly seeing now he says you break
appointments or you don't show up you've
lied to us there's an idiot he's a
nonentity I think that you should talk
to this person we are concerned about
you really very capable I will not be
humiliated I have a position you will
see this doctor tomorrow that's
understood I go to another doctor so
that they will feel this might deter me
it won't bother you can fool them first
they like to hear themselves talk with
the doctors you pay them to hear them
talk then you talk then they talk and
then you go home I'd like to recommend
some medication French that might be
judged I should let's just be safe shall
we see you Thursday
you
I'm glad that you seeing this dr.
Leonard yes he's very good he agrees we
have a case father he does why couldn't
God have made things move as quickest
light rather than his slowest planets
I wish I could have been introduced to
Austin Blair some time ago things would
have turned out so differently I noticed
something today father I noticed on a
legal pad in your office that you had
written your name five times to form a
star and that once you had written your
name in a circle that doesn't mean
anything
ah and also I noticed that you had a
habit of writing your name on little
slips of paper torn from book margins
fly leaves in the backs of bills it
indicates to me a type of compulsive
behavior that surprised me perhaps they
would help you to talk to someone about
this the doctors put him on medication
he stopped whisper about me it's very
rude you're right
we're sorry Emma are you going out later
yes
I'm meeting a friend from school oh you
remember Ann Hodges oh yes of course
she's a cow
she's also rumoured to be bisexual a
bisexual bovine I cannot finish this
food
can I help you yes does Austin Blair
live here yes I'm aware of the time I
would like to see Austin Blair do you
know who you're talking to
you tell him Elliott Burgess was here
you tell him idiot
you shouldn't have this feel how heavy
it is it's much heavier than I imagined
the man in the store said it was one of
the better models it would do the job
promise me you'll never use this I
should never have showed you I've lost
you ever I've lost you to somebody else
nothing matters if I've lost you
a man in the world who does just about
as he pleases is liable to be a social
outcast a member of the top 400 or both
Oh perhaps the blue pinstripe Elliott I
can do this myself mother
but it's very important the picture you
give to the world I'm old enough to pick
out my own clothes you'd be lost without
me
don't patronize me mother please don't I
look for Austin Blair in the park at his
club outside his home
it's time
you
the world is beautiful I carry the gun
with me just in case
I'm going to talk to her but she's
trouble
this woman sounds like trouble I know
it's wrong but I got to what's so
special about this one if you saw her
you wouldn't ask really really I'm gonna
see this out if you were me you would -
I know you the lawyers that I shouldn't
be seeing those tapes Elliott made you
left them for me
you have no idea give me a little credit
you left me the tapes you knew I'd have
to listen them all and you knew I'd use
them and I'll use them but not how you
meant for me to shall I go on all right
first when I figured it was you left me
the tapes I couldn't answer a big
question why I dropped this stuff in my
lap I couldn't see it as some compulsion
to have the world know the truth far
from it after all you've been acting all
along like I was some sort of vampire
taking your family in your life and
putting them in the papers it's your job
mr. later so I come back to why why the
tapes and why me because to anyone
listening to the tapes they prove that
Elliot wasn't sane that he was convinced
that Austin Blair was writing about you
that somehow he'd found out your dirty
little secrets and Elliot loved you too
much to let that go but the truth is
what Elliot thought was true was true
what exactly is that that in fact Austin
Blair was writing about that you told
him everything he needed that you slept
with Blair Elliot wasn't fantasized not
as much as you want people to believe
you did know him I went out to your club
and the records showed when you were
there that summer before and I did a
little further looking and I found out
when Austin Blair was there too there
were enough times in common to draw some
conclusions you can't prove anything
I don't have to I'm not a lawyer I'm a
reporter I worked for a newspaper you're
guilty until proven innocent all I have
to do is say it and it's true and I
think you know that which is why you
left me the tapes but I didn't come up
with a story you hate it are you doing
this to me
you're just a story I don't believe that
look you don't either why don't you get
out of my life I'm not in your life it's
not true none of what you say is true I
how can you live with yourself when you
do this to people sometimes I can't
hello you should know I've directed the
firm who continue libel proceedings
against the paper don't think that's
necessary you don't know I'm taking care
of this on my own we don't need to
involve the firm I'll see it through and
it'll be settled our way
December first
you
and in my room I've kept a record of
what's happened on tape I put down the
facts and my votes it's important that
everything be documented I'm leaving it
for you
I don't want this Elliott even if we
were awarded a decision it wouldn't be
enough vengeance is at the heart of
justice I'm just completing something
Blair Stark
your scars
have a nice day sir
Austin Blair
yes here you go here I go
yes connealy there
what are you doing here
you were standing out I know I shouldn't
have come here
had to was afraid to call you
my family they don't know about you and
Blair no and they're proceeding with
this lawsuit one what you know comes out
it's gonna ruin our family look I don't
care about myself I don't care what
anybody has to say about me I have done
these things I live in this world for
everybody does these things maybe when
you have money you get bored huh tonight
with you I want to sleep with you
you wanted it to
didn't you
yes
I knew that
otherwise I will come I knew you wanted
me how much did you think about this
happening too much you won't let me go
until you do this
you
Law & Order has never had a night like
this boys
battleground every Tuesday see three of
our favorite episodes the ones you can
not smack Hill Justin Leonard
it all starts Tuesday nights at 8:00 on
TNT I'm thinking about taking some time
off time off from what from the paper I
want to spend time with her hmm
it's important I do that you know yeah
so you're taking time off of the broad
yes what what are you saying here Dave
I'm saying the story is there is no
story
this kid Elliott was crazy he gets an
idea that this book was written about
him and his family and he's nuts and it
was a waste of time I didn't find out
anything new what's this about it's just
about more money mr. house it's about
you need to make more money what the
Trib want you over there I work for the
Trib there's scum you're better off
staying here it's not about money
you told me you're on to something but I
was wrong I don't know you don't know
you don't know what you're on drugs this
is a series it's good okay you're stuck
a little people aren't talking you feel
you deserve a higher salary it's got
nothing to do with we've been here
before leader we've reached this point
there's a story blue ribbon ours at a
bust you told me you said give me a few
days I got something I held you in
reserve now it's time oh I can't finish
it
tell me something else get someone else
god help me get Simon better yet just
let it die Oh
Lori's been talking you know know any
liable thing with paper behind you it's
all we can beat it that's it I'm done
with it
I'm off the story I thought you should
know I told them there was no more story
I don't want I don't know what exactly I
don't want I'm thinking of you
told my father to drop the suit
stop legal proceedings against the paper
he's not
fire fused to testify there is no case
we can't do this again
can't
I don't trust you
it's the problem
what what if I gave you something what
something valuable
ha
backed pinellia
it's going be serious
panties you told the paper you want time
off and spend it with me
I intend to we can't just disappear
how's it going to look do you care how
things look no the story's over
when you're first with it all right and
in answer till you Elliot was crazy just
like himself just like we said
so go away with me
how once
alright I'll make the
what's this I'm leaving Simon another
assignment huh taking some time off
couldn't finish that great American
novel you've been struggling with right
yeah that's it well good luck Thanks hey
you can have this it's not bad
I quit the paper it was everything I
ever wanted and I just tossed it funny
you should bring this up
guess who calls me today who connealy
really yeah asks if I want to work with
him says he's always had his eye on me
says he thinks I could go the distance
offers me your job so I take it what can
I say
I congratulate you on this career move I
do I gotta say I don't know what you're
doing either do i but it's too late it's
out of my hands
hi we're on Northwest flight 763 meet me
at JFK at 4:00 p.m.
everything is ready I think you don't
want yours of Washington and shuttle
delight for one night they're everything
getting changed hello I'm here to pick
up some tickets flight 763 your name
David leader and and one should be under
Burgess
Emma Burgess mr. leader we have your
reservation but there's no Burgess no
Emma Burgess um why did the enter some
other name check it again Burgess B you
are gess nothing under that look I'm
meeting someone here and like there's
got to be sorry the number you have
reached is not in service at this time
and there is no new number please be
sure you have checked the telephone
directory for the right number and you
are dialing correctly this is a
recording
Oh
like courtesy telephone
should I clear well I'm not quite
finished yes you can clear gene we're
done now you can take it away
you