08x06 - Final Vow

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08x06 - Final Vow

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oh good evening i'm taking up a new hobby
tattooing it's a rather neglected art form a

shame really for it has many advantages over more
conventional forms tattooing adds a dimension most

paintings do not have motion and it sometimes adds
the element of sound when i stick the needle in

too far actually i am only an apprentice i'm
practicing on this piece of raw beef steak

my assignment is to use varying shades of brown
to make the steak look medium rare in this way

if the aspiring artist can't sell
his canvases he can always eat them

i think tattooing will revolutionize the cosmetic
field if your lips aren't red enough or you want

the roses put in your cheeks allow me or
if you wish to avoid m*llitary service i'm

quite good at varicose veins but enough about body
murals we are almost ready for tonight's narrative

first however an item that is
certain to get under your skin

oh i'm so sorry all right sister perfectly
all right no please please excuse me

oh sister not tears again you've
cried a whole river these past weeks

sorry slipped again i have only myself to blame

you're not thinking of what we spoke of the
other day i haven't been thinking of anything

sister i've tried not to think and have you
prayed i prayed sister i prayed for humility

and obedience but there was no answer in my
heart sister gem only silence god if i'm wrong

sister if i truly belong to you wouldn't i know
wouldn't i feel it inside you must give yourself

time my child these things can't be harrowed
i don't feel worthy of renewing my first vows

you mustn't talk like that

dear reverend mother wants to see you

she's with sister lily in the infirmary is sister
lydia worse no it's about something else go on

hurry

good morning reverend mother good morning sister
pamela sister lydia wants to talk to you yes

i'm so glad you're here sister please sit down

i know how troubled you are sister i know
the signs i was a novice myself at your age

i remember all my tears and all my unanswered
questions then something happened i was teaching

in the parochial school and there was a boy his
name was william michael downing a wild unruly boy

he became a criminal sister i'm sorry for
you sister for years i wrote to him

hoping that the change would take
place he never answered until now

he wants me to come and see him in his fine home
i'm happy for you sister of course i can't go now

but i want you to go for me i want you
to see what faith and prayer will do

will you do it for me sister i'll

we'll have to find a bus that goes
past mr downey's house oh dear i

do hope it won't be a long ride i i'm exhausted
it's so warm it's a long trip well i don't

mind i certainly sleep like a log tonight
even in the strange bed at a hotel

come in sisters

let the donny be right with you please
make yourselves comfortable thank you

so nice and cool in here sister
jim did you notice this painting

sister

how do you do sister i'm sister pamela this

is sister jem i'm afraid the trip has
tired her out no no don't wake her up

i'd much rather have a little private talk
with you i'd feel much better if you sit down

of course

how's sister lydia not well but
very happy to hear from you at last

she's told me all about you yes very dear lady
she never lost faith in me in spite of everything

for years she kept up with me in prison and out
carded christmas a letter on my birthdays and i've

got to hunt he still mentions me in her prayers
i'm sure of it you should be very glad glad sister

i suppose you think her prayers have helped me
yes i do of all your prayers been successful too

your home is lovely mr downey you must be a great
art collector funny isn't it an old heathen like

me you still haven't answered my question system
prayers aren't business deals mr donny they can't

be judged as successes or failures sounds like
your prayers haven't been working out so good then

you're new at the game you look very young sister
i suppose you haven't been at the convent long

no it was a lot better than facing
a cold cruel world wasn't it

why did you say that because
there's something about you that

look sister i've been through it all myself the
world's a noisy messy place full of problems so

wise for trouble if you can avoid it run from it
find a quiet hiding place retreat please i'm not

blaming you sister that's not what i got you
here for yes sir bring it in arnold that's it

our business won't take long sister but i
hope you and your friend will stay for dinner

we had planned to eat at the hotel mr downey
sister jim is very tired whatever you say

i wanted to give sister lydia this it's beautiful

should look nice in the chapel don't you
think this is very kind of you mr downey

i would have preferred handing it to cecilia
myself but i went to parochial school there

and that was enough and i'll be blessed if i
set foot in that gloomy old place again yes

must be very old about five centuries
comes from the medici palace

it's a couple of donatella donatello
it's priceless trying to tell us some

beautiful work in bronze but this is one of
his masterpieces it's magnificent sister jen

sister gem look oh my goodness
did i fall asleep look sister

saint francis for the moment i thought i
was still dreaming it's a donatello sister

a priceless art treasure and mr downey is
giving it to sister lydia and the holy name

how do you do sister i don't know
what to say mr downey eclipt thank you

now perhaps you'll change your mind stay for
dinner i don't know oh sister lily will be so

happy to see this i think we better go back to the
convent tonight it would be better than medicine

for her yes there is one more train if we hurry
thank you mr downey i'll have my man get your cab

tell sister lydia i'm sorry i never answered
her letters i hope this will make it up to her

don't pour it on too thick

tray number two arriving on track eight from
chicago south bend toledo let me carry the

statue ohio no that's all right i can manage
i just wanted to check the train schedule

i just don't understand all these little
notations well here it is we'd better hurry

excuse me can i help you sister no thank you no
please please i'd like to help i i saw it was too

heavy for you you uh you know the track number
yes track . track . this way you follow me

strain number eight the
wolverine arriving on track three

sorry sister will be late thank
heavens for that man i don't see him

where'd he go well i'm sure it's all
right he knows we're going to try at .

all aboard do you see him anywhere he must be here

trashy's gone on the train

excuse me did you see a young man carrying a long
narrow brown suitcase and he had another black one

and he was wearing a gray hat sorry
sister an awful lot of people have

gone through this gate he's not here
he's not here he's got to be here oh

sister how could you do it how could
you trust that man he's got to be here

okay sergeant bring him in all right gentlemen

i'll be sure and look them over carefully
sisters all the men you'll see here today

have committed the same crime in the past so
we may be lucky can these men see us loot at it

no they can't sister you have nothing to worry
about all right sergeant number one step forward

take off your hats next step
back number two step forward

number five step forward you know all right
sergeant step back all right take him out francine

lieutenant do you think
the man knows what he stole

its true value well naturally we're keeping
that fact quiet if he knew the statue was

worth a fortune he'd be that much harder to
find all right sergeant sent him in clancy

come on come on move lively men
pick a spot take off your hats

recognize somebody's sister

i'm not sure but the one on the end number
five sergeant number five front center

state your name my name's uh james k breson that's
with a b what can i do for you sarge i'll ask the

questions what are you doing these days bryson
still working the terminals uh you got me all

wrong sergeant i'm uh newly employed where it's
a gramercy appliance company over on th street

i'm in a shipping department there but i won't be
for long if you guys keep picking me up like this

not uh snatching any more suitcases i never
snatched suitcases that last time was a bum

rap and that as*ault charge you served time for
was that a bum wrap too what do you think sister

it's the voice the voice more than anything
you uh ever go to church preston ah what

who me sorry what are you trying to convert me he
could be the one he could be the one oh no sister

he was much taller don't you remember and much
younger you were hanging around the union terminal

friday night weren't you was that friday night
yeah say around uh . no no i was out with my

girl friday night sergeant uh you don't believe me
yes her i was there from five to uh midnight yeah

midnight man what's the name of your girl uh her
name's bess mackin she lives at rice avenue

i uh never left her joint for a minute you see
how could he be we can't accuse an innocent man

he's so much like him now don't
let his alibi fool you sisters

his witness is his girlfriend and you know what
that's worth we can't be sure it happened so fast

but uh what do you say sarge

i'm just not sure lieutenant all
right sergeant step back person

i wish to leave the order reverend mother you
can't know what you're saying i know reverend

mother but you're not a child sister pamela
you mustn't respond to trouble like a child

i thought about it reverend mother i've thought
and i've prayed when a child is naughty it wants

to run away from home but your home is with god
you cannot run away from him i'm not running

away from god i wish to leave the order reverend
mother i'm not suited i've known it for some time

mr downey was right about me mr downey why
should anything that mr donnie says affect you

because he knew the truth some people retreat
to god not advance towards him and that's what

i've done i've hidden myself away from the
world for what i know to be selfish reasons

but is that so bad sister i haven't been honest
not with myself not with you and not with god

what happened in that terminal was like a sign
from heaven telling me i couldn't be trusted i

failed my responsibility nonsense poor sister
lydia what shall i give her my sincere regrets

that statue would have meant so much to her
it was more than a gift of the holy name

it was a reward for a lifetime of
work we will pray for its return

now take hold of yourself i've got to
leave very well sister pamela but think

pray and if ever you want to come back i've got
to leave reverend mother there's no other way

of course it looks a lot better
when the sun comes out and um

you can see the river and a good day i think
it'll be nice and comfy here it'll be fine thanks

anything else you need you just call me thank you

what do you think about girls who come to
work for us eight out of ten of them will

end up getting married and having babies that's
nice for them i suppose but it's awfully tough

on the personnel department i see you're
not married engaged no well that's a relief

your typing test is pretty good
how come you never had a job before

i didn't need to work no i see well we do
have an opening in the billing department

that pays a little more ever learned to use
a statistical typewriting no i'm afraid not

i've only learned general typing oh well mrs
argument will be glad to get you in the typing

pool i'm sure i'll process your application and
if it's okay with mrs erdman you can start work

on monday and i'm sure it's going to be okay
but here's an employee's manual and some other

information you'll need you might as well take
it along thank you and don't get married over the

weekend

baby watch yourself

that concludes the first half
of the alfred hitchcock hour

we now have what is known as a station break i
know that during a coffee break one drinks coffee

i have no idea what one
drinks during a station break

quite some time ago i mentioned that during
a coffee break one drinks coffee but i had

no idea what one drank during the station
break after enduring that last one i know

if your constitution can stand it we have one more
commercial and then the second half our final vow

would you like to have lunch with us pamela
we're going to the griddle oh no thank you i

brought my lunch today i thought i'd try and
save until payday okay we'll see you later

hey you got a match no i'm sorry everybody soon
you ran a joint here you uh when you worked for

any ergonomic yes yeah you know battle axe ain't
she's very nice to me yeah let me yeah let me give

you a little good advice about this place around
here you don't want to be an eager beaver you

know what i mean nobody likes a hard worker around
here they uh they spoil it for the rest over here

my name's uh jimmy what's uh what's
your name pamela camera camera

and a high class name let i said
honey social register stuff forever

yeah you call me james if you'd like to

see that no no don't get excited
don't get excited i'm just uh

looking for the evidence yeah just checking
you know just checking for rings and

stuff like that yeah
everything checks out just fine

everything i think i'll get some milk

one milk please listen uh you live here
in town yes what are you saying let's

hear me taking a movie tonight tonight yeah
tonight or tomorrow night the night after

you uh tell you ask your social secretary
when you're free you know rather

what's your matter what's the matter you got
some against me huh you got something against me

or is it a shipping department it's not that

the typing pool ain't exactly the executive
floor or is that what you're waiting for

okay okay you had your chance no please wait

what are you afraid to grab me alone i
mean you've been hearing things about

me no i haven't heard anything oh yeah a
little party friday night see you know a

few friends of mine someone from the
company here you know a little party

and i thought maybe you might come over let
me let me give you address here it's uh

rice avenue that's apartment uh c and the
name is smackin i won't be able to pick you up uh

i think that you're finally by yourself yes yeah
yeah that's right best mecca it's uh let's say

you try to be over there oh about about nine
o'clock got that and i uh i think we'll have a

ball

and miss wiley a letter came for you oh thank you

it's from a convent you got
friends in the continent

yes

dearest sister these past weeks have been
empty ones for me since you left the holy name

we speak of you often and pray
that someday you will return

as for sister lydia she was given extra motion
last week but the poor woman survived the crisis

was well enough by morning to take a little
nourishment however the doctor isn't very hopeful

so

come on you bum back to
the cheaper seas back there

some people they don't know
where they belong on princess

hey hey you guys what take a little drink

no thanks really

i'm uh i'm thinking about taking up the minuet you
know what i mean uh what how about you want to men

you wear with me but uh why do you know what do
you know how do you think you could even smile

maybe there's uh maybe there's some hope for you
there princess uh i have a lot of laughs when you

get to know me oh i'm awfully warm yeah yeah oh
yeah yeah it's harder than ever in this joint here

maybe uh maybe you and me we could we go
for a little walk wait wait we'll walk

jimmy i could use some help

hey wait a minute

i'll be back

i think i'll be leaving wait
wait wait wait i'll show you out

you know the party ain't over yet uh some of
the crowns are going to meet me up with the

moon garden you know what i mean it's uh the moon
garden is it's a real nice place you know i mean i

think you'd like it it's a kind of thing i think
i'd better be getting home really wait wait look

you can sleep all in the morning princess it's a
saturday you know can you do that come on let's


have a look you're a nice kid real nice kid i
mean you just gotta relax you gotta have some

fun you gotta have some games you know and i'm
just the boy to show you how to do it i know all

the rules you know what i'm gonna do please let me
go please you b*mb you no come on take it easy man

come on best take it easy come on take it easy

all right all right now look i ain't got all
night you coming with me all right all right

what do you want what are you hanging around
for anyway i'm sorry bess i didn't mean to

cause any trouble trouble you you don't
know what trouble is have you got a hanky

that bum ooh he's rotten you were smart not
to go with him you can't trust a guy like that

don't don't drink anymore listen don't give
me orders i take enough orders there's a

hundred million men in the world and
i gotta get stuck with jimmy breson

he's no good and he never was any good jailbird
sure he's out on parole right now where are the

cigarettes but he is trying to reform isn't he i
mean he has a job you call that a job bucks a

week he only took that to satisfy his parole
officer he spends more than that on herotonic

well don't just sit there help me
find a cigarette for pete's sake

you think he ever takes me
anywhere buys me anything

look at this it's very pretty glass that's all he
ever gives me he's got plenty of dough to spend on

the horses though for that he hawks everything
he can get including what he can get from me

and all i get back of the pawn tickets

maybe i can find one in the
kitchen i'm fed up let me tell you

you watch he'll come crawling back here
tonight only he's gonna be surprised

i'm throwing him right out on his ear that's
what i'm doing the minute he walks in here

hey what are you doing with that pawn ticket what
are you anyway some kind of a fancy snake thief

i'm sorry biz go on get out of here
you've caused enough trouble already

out

so

pawn bye bye what you want to huck something or
sell something lady bye but i don't know if you

have what i want i'm looking for something
ornamental for my apartment well like what

oh i don't know an interesting lamp maybe sorry
don't carry your lamps well an interesting antique

you're looking for the antique shop lady this is
a pawn shop well do you have any religious objects

i got rosaries and jewelry some pictures tell
me what you want and i'll see if i got it

i'm not sure maybe a piece of sculpture would be
nice sculpture you like statues why yes yes that

would be perfect do you have any religious
statues small ones wait a minute i'll check

how about that

that's a real fine piece of work
lady ain't one of them cheapies

how much well let's be doing
so much stuff like this

i'll let's have him for bucks it's exactly
what i've been looking for all right bucks

yeah i'll do it for you what are you doing helping
you lady but why i just wanted to buy the statue

sure you did all i want to do is check in this
business i like to know who i'm dealing with

what took you so long i stalled as long as
i could you'll get to come around the corner

do you find anything ah nothing no g*n
identification nothing you sure she's a

cop i don't know i don't know if she's been acting
like a cop all right that's why i told you to call

me when she showed up here all right right girl
you want to do a little talking now sweetie please

jimmy i just came to buy something this statue
yeah you just came to buy something all right

best told me yes about the pawn tickets
last night when i came back to your place

you never figured on it i'm not with the police i
swear it yeah then why all the noise around here

bright girl i don't know trouble in here if she
ain't a cop she's something woman i mean she's

got to be something aren't you something
please i just wanted the statue that's all

you're the nun what

she's a nerd warmer a nun she was carrying this
thing in the terminal only how did you find out

about how did you find out about me huh how'd you
find out about me when you talked to me talk to me

talk to me i left the order over a month ago i had
i found out where you worked because of the police

line up what are you what are you talking about
police i had to find the statue again don't you

understand it was a gift to the convent it meant
so much to them oh bad luck jimmy bad luck robin a

nun shut up i didn't come to get you into trouble
jimmy all i wanted was the statue i swear that

yeah you went to a lot of trouble didn't you you
got a job down to grandma say just get next to me

that stash you must be quite a statue huh

a mess some mess to me i don't like this
kind of business i couldn't be more careful

that's valuable it belongs to the convent
jimmy i wanted to see it back where it

belonged please let me have it i swear not to
involve you that's uh it's sacred stuff jimmy

we can't fool around with stuff like
that you stop bothering your jerk

this thing is old i should have seen that
before maybe maybe hundreds of years old so

what so what good is it this thing may be worth
a fortune that's what you know you may be right

in that religious stuff is worth thousands you
only heard once about yeah maybe we could uh

handle it through some odd collector or maybe we
could uh just handle it through mike to broker

you know you know what this thing's worth i'm
gonna bring mikey on this yeah bring mike in on

this why not what do you mean you haven't yourself
all your nickel and dime stuff here what about her

huh that depends you don't have to sell it please
i'll pay anything you ask yeah how much honey

huh how much you think maybe you could uh maybe
scrape up a couple of grand if you'll give me time

you see the woman they say you must be worth
plenty all right girl i'm getting back from him

you call mike you tell him to come to us
he won't come here come on here's what we

got here i got a feeling about this
woman yeah i got a real good feeling

hey

yeah mike he's calling him
somebody's in the neighborhood

only just uh he's just double
checking he's a wise fox at mike

you uh you tell him everything's okay
to come over mike it's okay come on over

what about her just relax just relax no i mean
afterwards actually make the deal with mike that's

what i want to know about look if the deal's good
enough don't worry don't worry about it where my

people disappear don't you i mean
you read about it every day you know

you mean it jude that's right i'm
tired of these nickels and times

i'm sick of these little deals i want
to reach out for once in my life i want

to grab something golden real gold you
know what i mean this might be it right

hey hey hey guys hey hey hey baby look over
here look at me hey let go jimmy come on hey

princess come here hey come here get me hey come
on look at me this is a pretty little picture

only i came all the way across town
for this so make it fast and good

who's the girl shut up i didn't ask
you she's a nun i'm not mike no kidding

don't give me that since when do nuns wear
lipstick please shut up can't you keep her

quiet you keep your mouth shut like mike said
she was a nun mike only she left the convention

she was after the statue i swiped from her and
that's how come i knew the statue was so valuable

what statue you thought might be worth plenty

we figured that you'd know we figured maybe we
could make a deal yeah yeah that's right mike

only we want a straight cut we want a good terms
this time right straight down the middle .

uh-huh what happens to the girl after
we'll take care of her you can trust us

yeah i bet i can

you had this thing on sale well
yeah but that was how much um

what were you prizing it at well
we didn't know what to put you know

you know i was gonna sell it for
bucks can you imagine a thing like that

you're a fool warmer your mouth is down for scrap
it's worth maybe two bucks next time you want to

handle junk call a junk dealer but don't call mike
you know wait a minute this ain't gonna be worth

some i mean that day you went to so much trouble
over there don't teach me my business junior

it was worth something out of hand that
that's my livelihood it's a cheap copy

of something that wasn't any good in
the first place there's a million of

them floating around the country
yeah but the nun was yeah the nun

that's what you get for being so stupid
brenson she doesn't understand about money

they'll knock themselves out for a scrap
of junk just because it's been blessed

and you better be careful this one's liable to
say a prayer and send you both to the devil not

that you don't deserve it what we do now do
you let her go of course what else oh wait

wait wait wait mike we can't do that we do as
mike says we don't need that kind of trouble

all right all right all right are
you listening and you listen good

to me princess i'll swear i'll k*ll you i mean
i'll k*ll you if you turn me in you understand

i said i wouldn't give you away jimmy all
i ever wanted was the statue just a minute

take it hey you can't do that

go on sister go on do what he says you
said bucks yeah consider yourself lucky

well at least i got bucks oh shut up

sister pamela can i give you a lift

you want me to wait for you no you don't have
to wait i'm going to stay goodbye goodbye

sister i said some rough things to
you i mean the day you came to see

me i just wanted you to know i was wrong
you're not hiding from anything thank you

don't forget to say hello to sister lydia
for me come on let's get out of here

i've graduated from tattooing raw beef
steak to working with a live model i'm quite

excited some localities busy bodies are
destroying the natural beauty of the landscape

by removing billboards we hope to circumvent
this by tattooing advertisements on the size

of the animals that graze along the
highway thus art nature and commerce

are fused in a beautiful tribute to
man's ingenuity and speaking of commerce

so

you
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