05x14 - O'Brother: Part 2

[bunniefuu]

Johnny mathis: ♪ I bet
we've been together ♪

♪ For a million years ♪

Deniece williams: ♪ and I
bet we'll be together ♪

♪ For a million more ♪

♪ Oh, it's like I
started breathing ♪

♪ On the night we kissed ♪

Both: ♪ and I can't remember ♪

♪ What I ever did before ♪

♪ What would we do, baby ♪

♪ Without us? ♪

♪ What would we do, baby ♪

♪ Without us? ♪

♪ And there ain't no nothing ♪

♪ We can't love
each other through ♪

♪ What would we do, baby ♪

♪ Without us? ♪

♪ Sha la la la ♪

Come in, maureen.

It's good to see you.

It's good to see
you, too steven.

Maureen. What a surprise.
How did you know I was here?

Well, it wasn't easy
running you down.

You've been covering
your tracks pretty well.

Covering my tracks?
What are you talking about?

I haven't been
covering anything.

Months ago, you
were in new york city

At your friend
roger's apartment.

I wouldn't have known that

If roger hadn't called
to ask me what to do

With your travel alarm,
which you left there.

As if I care!

Rob, what were you
doing in new york city?

Then, last month, you were in
yellowstone national park camping out.

I wouldn't have known that if
a forest ranger hadn't called

To ask me what to do
with your inflatable pillow.

You were in yellowstone
national park?

For the last weeks, I
had no idea where you were

Because you didn't
leave anything anywhere.

Rob, rob, I don't understand.

I thought you came
directly from buffalo.

I... I am... I did.

I'm originally from buffalo.

Yes, I know.

That's where we met.

You mean he hasn't told you?

Look, maureen, I
really don't think...

He walked out of the house
months ago without a word to me.

He left his business
without a word.

His clients have been
calling me at the house.

Here. You're the
accountant, not me.

You answer those. The first are
from people who are planning to sue us.

Mom is suing us?

Ok. Well, they're out of order.

Uh, look, maureen, I understand

You must feel pretty
bad right now and...

Ah, rob. You could always
see right through me.

I just want to say
I am sorry about...

Look, I didn't come to
hear your apologies.

I'm trying to get
on with my life.

Whether or not that's a life
that's going to include you

Is not the issue here.

You have certain
responsibilities and obligations,

And you are damn well
going to live up to them,

Because if you don't,

The next message
on that little pile

Is going to be from my lawyer.

He's going to sue your...

Aunt maureen. Hi, sweetie.

Aunt maureen. Hi, honey.

Aunt maureen. Hi, hon.

Aunt maureen.

So I'm on my way home from work.

I stop at the supermarket.

Got a car full of groceries.

Pull into the driveway,

I'm honking the horn.
Nothing happens.

See, on tuesdays, rob
usually gets home before me,

And he helps with the groceries.

So, finally, he
comes downstairs,

And he's got this
funny look on his face.

He walks over
to me, and he says,

"Maureen, I think
we should split up."

So, I say, "fine.

First, help me with the
groceries, then we'll split up."

I cannot begin to imagine what
you're going through here.

But maureen, whatever
happens between you and rob,

I want us to stay close, ok?

I mean, you're still family,
for goodness' sakes.

Thanks, elyse.

Your support means a lot to me.

And I really think I'm starting
to get a handle on this.

I mean, I know I'm
going to be ok.

I've no intention of
spending the rest of my life

Dwelling on rob and
what might have been.

It's over. It's in the
past. It's behind me.

Good for you.

So who was the little
hussy downstairs?

Kathy. She's...

She's just a phase
he's going through.

They go out dancing.

Rob goes... Rob goes dancing?

He's the worst
dancer in the world!

At our wedding, he stepped
on my toes so many times,

I had to be carried out.

Come in. Excuse me.

I'm really sorry about
this, aunt maureen.

But your car's
blocking mine, and...

And I really want to leave.

Oh, I'm sorry, mal, but I'm going to
have to use my computer down here.

It's like a w*r zone upstairs.

Is everyone still fighting?

In every possible combination.

First, it was dad
and rob in my room.

Then, it maureen and
rob in mom and dad's room.

And then, it was mom
and rob in your room.

And then, it was andy
and rob in the bathroom.

Oh, but I think
that one was just

A misunderstanding about towels.

How is it up there?

Not great. Not great.

And andy isn't helping any.

He's been running around saying,

"Is she my aunt
maureen, or isn't she?"

How can people who
really love each other

Become separated?

How can they lose that love?

It's a lot more common
than you think, jennifer.

I watch a lot of soap operas.

It seems to happen
at least once a show.

I mean, if rob and maureen

Can't hold their marriage
together, who can?

Let's talk about that, girls.

He's got that phil
donahue look again.

Now, come on. Come on.

Let's try and...

Let's try to put this in
historical perspective.

Oh, can we, please?

Yes, we can.

You see, in the old days,

Marriages were
arranged by the parents,

And these marriages were based,

As they should be, on money...

The bond that doesn't break.

Now, let's say later
on there's some trouble.

The man is unhappy. The
marriage isn't working.

What does he do?

He takes a mistress.

And if the woman is unhappy,

What does she do? She...

Learns to knit.

See, the important thing is
the family stays together,

And they get some nice sweaters.

Rob, I want some answers.

You can't run away from me.

I'm not running away. I just
want to get a cup of coffee.

I want to talk about this now.

I'll try the living room.

Oh, hey, let me
help you with that.

Oh, me, too.

We're all right. We got it.

Here we go. Ok.

Boy, you really painted

A pretty picture for
yourself there, rob.

Marriage is over, amicable
separation, nobody's hurt.

You didn't say you
ran out months ago

Without a word to maureen.

Well, do you think it's easy
for me to talk about this?

I mean, don't you think
it's embarrassing?

I'm still your older
brother, you know.

So, why did you
come here at all?

I wanted to be in a home again.

I got tired of living
in campgrounds,

Lying out there at night,
staring up at the stars,

Trying to explain
divorce to an owl.

Try explaining it to me, rob.

Explain how you...

How you can just walk out,

How you can turn
your back on years.

I was in the middle of a
meeting with one of my clients...

Bill hodges, hodges
oldsmobile up on clinton?

Regular monthly
meeting. Nothing special.

Just talk about
this, talk about that.

The new oldsmobiles
are coming out.

There's more room
in the back seat now.

Then, he starts in
on me from nowhere.

He's unhappy with
the new tax laws.

And he's blaming
me. He's yelling at me.

"Where are my shelters?
I want my shelters!"

Well, I said,
"hey, take it easy.

"Why are you yelling at me for?

"I didn't write
the new tax laws.

I'm not a congressman.
I'm an accountant."

I heard myself saying it.

"I'm an accountant."

I'm an accountant, stevie.

How did this happen?

I hate numbers.

I hate everything
about accounting.

It scared me.

It scares me, too, rob.

You're my accountant.

The next thing I know,

I'm at the batting range
up on jerome avenue...

You know, where we used
to go when we were kids?

And I go into the fast cage.

Remember the monster, the
one we were afraid to go into?

Well, I stayed in there
for hours, stevie,

But I did it.

I hit one off the
sign in left center.

It cost me $ in quarters.

I did it!

I felt better than I
have felt in years.

So, what are you saying, rob?

You want to give up accounting

To become a designated hitter?

I want to hold on to
the feeling I had that day.

I can't go back to my old life.

I can't be that guy anymore.

It would k*ll me, stevie.

Now, the key to a really
great piece french toast

Is that the bread
has been soaking

In the egg mixture

For precisely hours.

Ok? Now, cooking must be done

Over a medium flame
in a cast-iron skillet

Until the edges
are a golden brown.

Ok? Now,

If you follow these
directions step by step,

Painstaking as they may seem,

You'll have the perfect
piece of french toast.

Any questions?

Can I have cereal?

Cereal? Cereal?

You don't ask a
person of my caliber

To make you cereal.

All you got to do is
open the box, pour in milk.

Anybody can make cereal.

All right. Ok, mallory
can't make cereal.

But what I am offering you,

French toast a
la alex, is special.

You know, it's the kind of thing

You keep between brothers.

In fact, do you
know what it means,

That we're brothers?

It means that I have to do
everything that you say.

That's a big part of it, yep.

But it also means

That when you're
somebody's brother,

You're always that
person's brother.

It's like dad and uncle rob.

You know, they will
always be brothers.

Is she my aunt
maureen, or isn't she?

Aunts are different.

But you and i, we will
always be brothers.

Now, you may meet,
you know, other people.

You may... Meet a girl.

You might get married.

But I will always be

The most important
person in your life.

Gotcha.

All right.

Hey! How are you doing? Listen.

How would you like a
spectacular piece of french toast?

Oh, no, thanks. I had
breakfast at the hotel.

Is your uncle rob around?

Uh, no. As a matter of fact,

He and dad went to
the batting range.

Ah, yes. The new career.

Mom's here. I can
go up and get her.

No, it's ok. I haven't
had a chance

To talk to you or
andy since I got here.

I was hoping we could
spend some time together.

Me, too.

Who are you?

I'm your aunt maureen.

Then who's the other lady?

She's your uncle's
midlife crisis.

You still don't get it.

What I'm trying to tell you is.

You have to wait on a curve.

I did wait.

Hi, maureen.

Hey, andy, why don't we
go out for breakfast, huh?

Ok. Who's buying?

You are.

Again?

Ahem...

Rob, I've got some things here

We really must go over.

Yeah, of course.

Well... I'll leave you
two alone then, huh?

Thanks, steve.

Maureen, I really feel...

No, rob. Please,
don't say anything.

It isn't necessary.

Let's just try to take
care of this business

As quickly as possible, hmm?

Ok.

Some of your clients'
tax returns came

While you were gone.

You completed these out
and filed them yourself?

Just because we're
separating is no reason

For those people to go to jail.

Maureen, I want to apologize

For everything I've done...

The way I've done it.

This is your
american express bill.

It's months overdue. I really
think you should take care of it.

And this is mastercard...

It's not like I don't know

What you're going through.

Or that I'm not
going through it, too.

Oh, and we need a new roof.

You were right. The first
big rain of the season,

And we've got buckets
in the dining room.

Who should I call
for that, calloway?

Maureen, please. I'm
trying to apologize.

Not that words can
make it hurt any less

Or make it any better.

I just wish it could have
been some other way.

You deserve so much better.

But I tried, maureen.
I really tried.

I know you did.

I did, too.

Now, what about
the car insurance?

I can't begin to understand

What they're going
through in there.

I'm sitting here thinking

Is there any way we
could have helped them,

Anything else we
could have done?

Like what? Oh, I don't know.

I guess we did
everything we could.

We listened,

We cried,

We drove kathy home.

You know, with
maureen and rob split up,

I think we're the only couple

From the old group
still together.

Remember charlotte and eddie?

Yeah. They split up.

That's a little
different, though.

Charlotte realized she was gay.

Mitch and denise.

Split.

denise realized she was gay.

Charlotte and denise.

They're still together.

All right? And if you
need any extra money,

Just call hendricks

Because he has all
the account numbers.

I will.

I guess this is good-bye.

I guess so.

Um... Well, I'll
talk to you soon.

Give our love to
jonathan and marilyn.

I will.

My love to the kids.

Don't worry about
us. We're going to be ok.

Come on. I'll walk
you to the car.

Well... It's over.

It's really over.

It's hard to believe.

What are you going to do?

I don't know.

You realize, stevie,

I've never really lived alone?

I mean, I went
from living at home,

Sleeping next to you,

To marrying maureen
and sleeping next to her.

I really resented it, too.

I remember thinking,

"What does she have
that I don't have?"

You must have been so
happy when I moved out.

You finally had that
room to yourself.

You could sleep
next to the window.

I missed you.

You're kidding.

I was surprised, too,

The way you used to t*rture me.

I never tortured you.

Come on. What about
the time you cut my hair?

Well, you asked me to.

I didn't ask you to
make a big bull's eye

On the top of my head.

I thought it looked cute.

What about old shep?

You don't still hold
that against me?

You knew that record
always made me cry,

And yet, you'd play it
over and over again,

And I'd cry and cry and cry.

What's a big brother for?

On rainy days, you'd invite
your friends over to the house.

You'd say, "hey,

Want to see my kid brother cry?"

Then you'd put on old shep,

Hold me down, and
make me listen to it.

When it got to the part
about shep going to...

Doggy heaven...

I'd cry, your friends
would applaud,

And you'd all go out
for an ice cream soda.

Hey, buffalo's a slow
town on a rainy day.

You were a good
big brother, rob.

You were always there for me.

Later on, through all the
things you didn't understand...

The protests, the
marches, the sit-ins...

All the things you hated...

You were there.

$ Stuffed into my shirt,

Which I wouldn't find
till after you'd gone.

Some clothes for the baby

That would mysteriously
appear around christmas time.

I want to be there for you.

I want to help. I just...

I feel so bad.

Don't... Don't feel bad.

I mean, for the
first time in my life,

I feel like I'm on
the right track...

My own track.

I feel like I have a sh*t

At finding out who I am.

Thanks, stevie, for all
the help you've given me.

Hey.

What's a little brother for?

Hey. Alex.

I saw aunt maureen out front.

I said good-bye.

She seemed ok.

She's going to be just fine.

What's that?

Oh, it's a record
called old shep.

It's about a boy and his dog.

When I was a kid, robbie
always used to play it,

And I'd cry.

You kept it all these years?

Some things are hard to give up.

You know, dad,
you're a good man,

And you're a great father,

But you're just
way too emotional

For your own good.

old shep.

Pshaw.

♪ when I was a lad ♪

♪ and old shep was a pup ♪

♪ o'er hills and
meadows, we'd stray ♪

♪ just a boy and his dog ♪

♪ we were both full of fun ♪

♪ we grew up together that way ♪

Sorry to interrupt, dad.

I just want to get my
business section here.

♪ the years sped along ♪

♪ and at last, he grew old ♪

♪ his eyesight was
fast growing dim ♪

♪ then one day, the doctor ♪

♪ looked at me and said ♪

♪ I can't do no
more for him, jim ♪

♪ with a hand that
was tremblin' ♪

♪ I picked up my g*n ♪

♪ I aimed it at shep's
faithful head... ♪

They sh*t him?

Man: sit, ubu, sit.

Good dog.