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[Paul Whiteman orchestra's
"Charleston"]
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[indistinct chattering]
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Violet? You're an
absolute killjoy.
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I'm sorry. I don't
know anyone here.
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That's what a party's for,
make a new friend.
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You never know, it could
be a Hollywood star
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or a bank man.
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The Bartlebys have
a beautiful home.
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Of course they have
a beautiful home
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they built the railroad
from here to Timbuktu.
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Do you think if you're this
rich you wake up in the morning
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feeling very different
from how we feel?
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Sure. You wake up warm.
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[gasps]
There's Bartleby.
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'Oh! He makes Valentino
look like a slob.'
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I bet these Bartlebys
feel well-rested
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and clear every day.
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Because they don't have
to dream at night.
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Why would they?
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You're an odd duck, Violet.
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But I like you.
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I swear, 1929 is gonna be
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the most splendid year of my
life. I'm gonna see the world.
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And I swear to meet a wealthy
man who's also handsome.
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[All]
Two!
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One!
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Happy New Year!
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[all cheering]
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[intense music]
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[phone ringing]
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[music continues]
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- Hi.
- Hi.
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I got a cup for you, too.
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I don't think it's too cold
but you could
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stick a finger in and see.
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Had some at home.
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I'm so relieved to see you.
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I mean, I read about what
happened to you last year
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with that maniac.
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But you're doing well?
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I...I thought maybe
you would call.
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I wanted to give you your space.
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You look fine.
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So do you.
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It's 'cause I'm happy.
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It's 'cause I'm getting married.
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That's why you wanted to see me?
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Lilly, when you know
someone's right for you
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you just feel it
undeniably in your bones.
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You ever had
that feeling?
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- What's his name?
- Jackie.
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So, will you let me buy you
a beautiful dress and shoes
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and will you be
my maid of honor?
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What about Chris?
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You're my firstborn.
Chris will understand.
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You can't find her, can you?
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Your sister's not
like you and me.
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She doesn't need a home base.
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She's running
from the law, mom.
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Lilly, watch what you
say about your sister.
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Yeah, I'm really busy. So--
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Yeah, I know, your job's
important to you.
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Well, yeah,
we're overloaded.
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- Sorry.
- Right.
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Well, don't have to make
a decision now.
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Have dinner with me
and Jackie.
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I-I'll see.
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Okay.
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My great-grandmother
was murdered in 1929.
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1929. Alright.
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I know it was a long
time ago, but I felt like
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I had to come
in here for myself.
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I've been preparing,
doing the family history
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and I found
this online.
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A death certificate.
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All I've got.
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There's no relatives listed
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just the boarding house
where she lived.
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She gave up my grandmother
for adoption
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'so all we've ever known'
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is her name, Violet Polley.
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That's not a lot
for us to go on.
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- Detective Rush, Aimee Goodman.
- Hi.
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Aimee's great-grandmother
was murdered in '29.
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'29, huh?
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Do you ever feel like you
want to change your life
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but you can't outrun
your screwed-up family?
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Yeah.
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Well, the women in my family
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have not had the greatest lives.
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I think it goes
back to Violet.
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Like...a curse
hanging over us.
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[Valens]
'The thing is, uh..'
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...look, we're swamped
right now, Aimee.
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Just not a lot
of spare time.
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We'll make the time.
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I'll give it
every second I have.
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[theme music]
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[Stillman]
'Violet Polley, found dead'
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on Christmas day,1929.
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Cause of death,
fractured skull
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from a blow to the head.
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Photo doesn't show a lot of
blood at the crime scene.
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[Stillman]
'So she didn't ' die there.
Body was dumped.'
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Looks like she
didn't have family
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to spend the holidays
with, none listed.
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Home address is Darlington
boarding house in old city.
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I know that place.
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It's on the historical register.
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Susan B. Anthony lived
there for a time.
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Made us go there
in junior high.
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Can't remember a thing
except the gift shop.
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[Valens]
Guys in evidence whined at me
like a bunch of pre-teens.
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Guess they hate dust.
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All the belongings
Violet had with her
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when the body was found.
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What's that?
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- A rattle.
- For her baby.
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Aimee's grandmother.
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- We know who the father was?
- No one knows.
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Don't even know specifically
when the baby was born.
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Just that she was brought
up at St. Mary's orphanage
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'in Germantown.'
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Start with the Darlington
boarding house.
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Maybe they can fill in the gaps
on Violet staying there.
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Okay.
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How'd it go with
your mom this morning?
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She's getting married.
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Ah.
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For the fourth time.
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[Old woman]
'That quilt was made from hand.'
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'Amazing, right?'
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That's a girl with time
on her hands.
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Better than snacking.
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[Woman]
Single girls
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lived in this place
from 1860 to 1934
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and left a lot behind.
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Quilt included.
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Plus, this.
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- Girl's journal.
- Covers the years '28 and '29.
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Ever seen the name
Violet Polley in there?
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She's one of your
main characters.
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Uh, starting on this page.
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"Ginger Swensen
made it her business
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"to turn Violet
from a rag-a-muffin
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to a real Sheba."
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No kidding. What's the date?
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December 31, 1928.
New Year's eve.
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"First order of business,
the hair."
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[Louis' Armstrong's
"Heebie Jeebies"]
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I won't even
recognize myself.
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That's the idea,
out with the old
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in with the swanky.
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Where'd you say
you're from, Violet?
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Oley Valley, near reading.
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- Mm?
- I don't drink.
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I keep my mind sharp
because I'm a writer.
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Well, that's funny, 'cause
every writer I've ever met
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is fried to the hat or passed
out on Nick Bartleby's couch.
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Violet, you got a daddy?
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He's dead.
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And my mother, too.
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- I mean, fella.
- Oh.
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I did, but...
that's all over.
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The male persuasion are saps
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all of 'em.
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I moved to Philadelphia
because that's what
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the bus ticket I stole
said on it.
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What about you?
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I heard a song on the radio
one day, back at home.
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It was the most on-the-level
song I'd ever heard
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and when it was over,
I felt utterly different.
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What song?
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"Poor man's blues"
by Bessie Smith.
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'That's why I'm here'
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to sell my songs
to wonderful singers.
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But Bessie Smith's a negro.
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A writer needs to see the world.
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Well, it ain't the world,
it's Philadelphia.
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We'll see it tonight
at the Bartleby mansion.
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It's gonna be the berries.
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Bartleby mansion. Hmm.
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You seen that place?
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I could fit 25 of my
apartments in there.
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Those people were
American royalty.
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Their parties were known
all over the east coast.
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Pretty good invitation for
a boarding-house girl.
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The girls who stayed here
would've been single
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and on the younger side.
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Ain't a party
without cute girls.
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Any Bartlebys left in Philly?
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Nick Bartleby died in a hunting
accident, I know that
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and the only one that's left
here is Muriel, and they say
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the old girl hasn't
left the house in years.
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Can we borrow this journal?
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Well, it's bad enough
I'm letting you touch it
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with your bare hands.
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Fine.
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But no direct sunlight,
and no moisture.
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[Vera]
I was plotting my escape, but
then I found something helpful.
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Shh!
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'WPA transcripts.'
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Interviewee,
Ginger Swensen.
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Name from the
boarding house journal.
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Girl who cut Violet's hair.
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WPA, during the new deal
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paid people to do interviews
with everyday Joes.
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This Ginger was one of them
talking about her roarin' 20s.
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"Before the big crash,
we whooped it up."
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According to this,
biggest whoop of all
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was that New Year's eve party.
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"Where a friend of mine,
an inexperienced farm girl
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from Oley valley, had a bit
too much to drink."
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[jazz music]
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Mine, it's my house.
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Your brother says to bed
right now, Muriel.
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You were right about liquor.
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It is an artist's
best friend.
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I'm full of a certain
joie de vivre.
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I'd like to sing a song
for everyone.
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Bet it's the cat's pajamas.
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Hit it, Violet.
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Violet?
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[indistinct chattering]
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Hello!
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This is a lovely party.
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This song is about poor
farmers where I'm from.
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Enjoy!
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[slow blues music]
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♪ Woke up this morning ♪
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♪ I got one dress left ♪
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♪ Woke up this morning ♪
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♪ I got one dress left ♪
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♪ Bank man say ♪
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♪ I ain't never
gonna get the rest ♪
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♪ I prayed for water ♪
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♪ I prayed to save our land ♪
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♪ Lord, I prayed for water ♪
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♪ I prayed to save our land ♪
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♪ The dust done come ♪
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♪ And I can't find ♪
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♪ A helping hand ♪
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♪ Daddy gone and left us ♪
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♪ Mama up and died ♪
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♪ If I weren't so thirsty ♪
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♪ I'd be likely to cry ♪
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♪ Woke up this morning ♪
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♪ Got this old dress left ♪
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♪ Woke up this morning ♪
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♪ This old rag is all
that I got left ♪
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♪ Gonna cut it ♪
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♪ Into curtains
and show the world ♪
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♪ How I look best ♪
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[crowd applauding]
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Thank you.
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What's your name?
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I am Felix Spyczyk.
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[Violet]
'Happy New Year, Mr. Spyczyk.'
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00:13:33,943 --> 00:13:35,118
Hey, what do you
mean to do here?
260
00:13:35,205 --> 00:13:38,208
Come with me,
someplace private.
261
00:13:38,295 --> 00:13:39,688
What kind of girl
do you think I am?
262
00:13:39,775 --> 00:13:42,822
Kind of girl who drinks
too much champagne.
263
00:13:42,909 --> 00:13:45,128
Uh, get your filthy
hands off me, mister!
264
00:13:46,913 --> 00:13:49,350
"We were only young girls
with the most vague idea
265
00:13:49,437 --> 00:13:51,787
of what catching a man's
eye could really mean."
266
00:13:51,874 --> 00:13:53,789
[Vera]
So this Spyczyk takes
advantage of the girls
267
00:13:53,876 --> 00:13:55,269
at his boss's party.
268
00:13:55,356 --> 00:13:57,314
Maybe what he did to
her had consequences.
269
00:13:57,401 --> 00:13:58,838
And those consequences
270
00:13:58,925 --> 00:14:01,362
wound up at St. Mary's
orphanage without a mother.
271
00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:08,978
Felix Spyczyk was
Bartleby's driver.
272
00:14:09,065 --> 00:14:11,459
That's what he told the
arresting officer in 1922.
273
00:14:11,546 --> 00:14:14,549
When he's picked up for
illegal possession of liquor.
274
00:14:14,636 --> 00:14:16,333
Don't forget frequenting
a bawdy house in '28
275
00:14:16,420 --> 00:14:18,292
and possession of opium, '25.
276
00:14:18,379 --> 00:14:20,729
[Rush]
'Not the man you'd want around
the young girls at your party.'
277
00:14:20,816 --> 00:14:22,470
Be great to ask
the Bartlebys about it.
278
00:14:22,557 --> 00:14:24,951
Kat and Scotty went to the
mansion this morning. No answer.
279
00:14:25,038 --> 00:14:26,387
Family lawyer hasn't
returned any calls.
280
00:14:26,474 --> 00:14:28,084
[Miller]
'Hey.'
281
00:14:28,171 --> 00:14:29,694
[Stillman]
Heard about your
Bartleby visit.
282
00:14:29,781 --> 00:14:31,740
Could've sworn I saw Muriel
through the curtains.
283
00:14:31,827 --> 00:14:33,524
She must leave
the house sometimes.
284
00:14:33,611 --> 00:14:36,179
Lie in wait while she
gets the morning paper?
285
00:14:36,266 --> 00:14:38,790
Uh, your mom called a few times.
286
00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:40,314
Wanted to make sure
you had the address
287
00:14:40,401 --> 00:14:41,837
for the restaurant.
288
00:14:41,924 --> 00:14:45,188
She wants me to be
her maid of honor.
289
00:14:45,275 --> 00:14:47,321
Buttering you up
with a free meal.
290
00:14:47,408 --> 00:14:50,280
I guess, if I go, at least
she'll stop calling.
291
00:14:54,502 --> 00:14:56,852
[Jeffries]
'We're investigating
the murder of a girl seen'
292
00:14:56,939 --> 00:14:59,637
at the Bartleby
New Year's eve party, 1928
293
00:14:59,724 --> 00:15:02,771
being manhandled
by Felix Spyczyk.
294
00:15:02,858 --> 00:15:04,773
My grandfather did many
things during that period
295
00:15:04,860 --> 00:15:06,514
that he was not proud of.
296
00:15:06,601 --> 00:15:08,255
'Includes everything
on his criminal record'
297
00:15:08,342 --> 00:15:11,301
and whatever young girls
he was seen manhandling.
298
00:15:11,388 --> 00:15:12,607
He told you about that?
299
00:15:12,694 --> 00:15:14,478
It was part of his job.
300
00:15:14,565 --> 00:15:17,003
- He was a procurer.
- For Bartleby.
301
00:15:17,090 --> 00:15:19,266
Whatever the great man wanted
that's what my grandfather
302
00:15:19,353 --> 00:15:20,441
had to get him.
303
00:15:20,528 --> 00:15:21,790
Booze and girls.
304
00:15:21,877 --> 00:15:24,401
Serves the guy for seven years
305
00:15:24,488 --> 00:15:27,970
then one day,
Nick Bartleby fires him.
306
00:15:28,057 --> 00:15:29,537
Plucks a clock off the mantle
307
00:15:29,624 --> 00:15:31,931
and says, "Take this
and hit the road."
308
00:15:32,018 --> 00:15:33,193
He made good, though.
309
00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,282
Sold the
clock for $75
310
00:15:35,369 --> 00:15:37,545
and started Spyczyk shipping.
311
00:15:37,632 --> 00:15:42,767
Took me years, but I tracked it
down bought it at auction.
312
00:15:42,854 --> 00:15:45,466
[Valens]
'Your grandfather tell you a lot
about his days with Bartleby?'
313
00:15:45,553 --> 00:15:49,165
At the end of his life,
he wanted to tell his stories.
314
00:15:49,252 --> 00:15:53,039
So I listened
and made tapes of them.
315
00:15:53,126 --> 00:15:56,042
How about the night he
procured Violet Polley
316
00:15:56,129 --> 00:15:57,869
at the New Year's party?
317
00:15:57,957 --> 00:16:01,221
The one girl who said
no to Nick Bartleby.
318
00:16:05,051 --> 00:16:08,793
[Felix Spyczyk on tape]
'She said, "My name is
Violet Polley from Oley valley'
319
00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,709
'and I am a songwriter,
not a boozy floozy."'
320
00:16:11,796 --> 00:16:13,624
That's her, our girl.
321
00:16:13,711 --> 00:16:15,887
[Felix Spyczyk]
'Mr. Bartleby had said to me'
322
00:16:15,975 --> 00:16:17,846
'"Get the singing dame."'
323
00:16:17,933 --> 00:16:19,500
'So I did.'
324
00:16:19,587 --> 00:16:21,893
[medium-tempo jazz music]
325
00:16:23,156 --> 00:16:24,331
Let me out!
326
00:16:24,418 --> 00:16:25,941
[Felix groans]
327
00:16:26,028 --> 00:16:29,118
Okay, Spyczyk, old boy,
let her out!
328
00:16:29,205 --> 00:16:31,164
You told me
bring this one.
329
00:16:31,251 --> 00:16:32,861
'Not if she's violently
opposed to being'
330
00:16:32,948 --> 00:16:37,083
'in the same room with me,
which she clearly is.'
331
00:16:37,170 --> 00:16:38,867
That is, unless I'm growing on
you and you'd like a drink.
332
00:16:38,954 --> 00:16:39,911
No, thank you.
333
00:16:39,999 --> 00:16:41,304
'Wait! Spyczyk,
bar the door'
334
00:16:41,391 --> 00:16:42,914
'until the lady
answers one question.'
335
00:16:43,002 --> 00:16:45,265
What on earth was that song?
336
00:16:45,352 --> 00:16:48,746
"One last dress" is
an original by Violet Polley.
337
00:16:48,833 --> 00:16:50,922
Oh, I know her. She's known
to get a little soused
338
00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:53,186
at soirees and show
her knickers to strangers.
339
00:16:53,273 --> 00:16:56,058
I do not!
340
00:16:56,145 --> 00:16:57,538
Well, darn it.
341
00:17:00,715 --> 00:17:02,630
Do you ever miss being
part of the human race
342
00:17:02,717 --> 00:17:04,240
with the rest of us
343
00:17:04,327 --> 00:17:08,766
or do you like life
up on your mountain?
344
00:17:08,853 --> 00:17:10,333
I don't think I'm any better
than the average Joe
345
00:17:10,420 --> 00:17:11,856
if that's what you're implying.
346
00:17:11,943 --> 00:17:13,989
I just wonder if it gets old
347
00:17:14,076 --> 00:17:17,558
waking up each morning
with nothing to work for.
348
00:17:17,645 --> 00:17:21,997
If I had a talent like yours,
I would work, Violet Polley.
349
00:17:22,084 --> 00:17:23,042
Thank you, Mr. Bartleby.
350
00:17:23,129 --> 00:17:24,782
But as God made me
351
00:17:24,869 --> 00:17:27,089
I can only offer you charm
which does nothing for you.
352
00:17:27,176 --> 00:17:28,308
True.
353
00:17:28,395 --> 00:17:29,918
And my loyal driver Spyczyk
354
00:17:30,005 --> 00:17:31,702
'half as handsome but twice
the man that I am.'
355
00:17:31,789 --> 00:17:34,096
He and I can see you safely
home in my Packard.
356
00:17:34,183 --> 00:17:35,750
I don't think so.
357
00:17:35,837 --> 00:17:37,621
I'm a songwriter,
Mr. Bartleby
358
00:17:37,708 --> 00:17:40,015
not a boozy floozy.
359
00:17:41,016 --> 00:17:43,932
[music continues]
360
00:17:49,807 --> 00:17:51,983
So Violet rejected
Nick Bartleby.
361
00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:53,420
That's a bold move.
362
00:17:53,507 --> 00:17:56,075
Here's the punch line,
Bartleby loved it.
363
00:17:56,162 --> 00:17:58,599
The one girl who says
no turns his head?
364
00:17:58,686 --> 00:18:01,384
Sent 300 flowers to her
boarding house the next day.
365
00:18:01,471 --> 00:18:05,040
Told my grandfather to lay them
thick as oriental carpet.
366
00:18:05,127 --> 00:18:06,607
How many of those tapes you got?
367
00:18:06,694 --> 00:18:07,999
Days worth.
368
00:18:08,087 --> 00:18:11,699
How much would you like
to know about Poland?
369
00:18:11,786 --> 00:18:13,004
We'll get back to you.
370
00:18:15,268 --> 00:18:17,618
"300 flowers" is the name
of an old blues standard.
371
00:18:17,705 --> 00:18:19,402
Yeah?
372
00:18:19,489 --> 00:18:22,840
The lyrics go "Like an oriental
carpet, thick and sweet."
373
00:18:22,927 --> 00:18:25,669
Violet was a songwriter.
Where'd you hear that?
374
00:18:25,756 --> 00:18:28,585
Singer I know
covers it, Lena.
375
00:18:28,672 --> 00:18:30,021
Lena, huh?
376
00:18:31,936 --> 00:18:34,330
Let me get a look
at the threads.
377
00:18:34,417 --> 00:18:36,376
- Alright.
- What are you doing?
378
00:18:36,463 --> 00:18:37,899
Just making sure you look good
enough to see the woman
379
00:18:37,986 --> 00:18:39,857
you talk about in your sleep.
380
00:18:39,944 --> 00:18:41,468
We're going to see her.
381
00:18:41,555 --> 00:18:42,947
Not we.
382
00:18:47,517 --> 00:18:49,954
"300 flowers"
by V. Polley.
383
00:18:50,041 --> 00:18:51,739
So she got a song published.
384
00:18:51,826 --> 00:18:53,436
Few dollars in her pocket.
385
00:18:53,523 --> 00:18:57,179
Pretty upbeat song,
but it is about a love triangle.
386
00:18:57,266 --> 00:18:59,050
Woman choosing between two men.
387
00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:00,922
Mm-hmm.
388
00:19:01,009 --> 00:19:05,100
"When I gave up what was ours
I met a man so kind."
389
00:19:05,187 --> 00:19:06,884
Nick Bartleby could be
the kind one.
390
00:19:06,971 --> 00:19:08,930
Leaving a woman
300 flowers
391
00:19:09,017 --> 00:19:11,846
is kind.
392
00:19:11,933 --> 00:19:14,065
Why don't you bring
it to life?
393
00:19:19,897 --> 00:19:22,770
[slow blues music]
394
00:19:27,775 --> 00:19:31,344
♪ You and I ♪
395
00:19:31,431 --> 00:19:33,955
♪ Said good-bye ♪
396
00:19:34,042 --> 00:19:38,481
♪ I thought I'd die ♪
397
00:19:38,568 --> 00:19:43,399
♪ 300 flowers ♪
398
00:19:43,486 --> 00:19:49,188
[Violet]
♪ I've been sitting
here for hours ♪
399
00:19:49,275 --> 00:19:50,624
Came here to take you back.
400
00:19:50,711 --> 00:19:52,582
♪ Can't seem to make
up my mind ♪
401
00:19:52,669 --> 00:19:53,670
But it seems like
you've plumb forgotten
402
00:19:53,757 --> 00:19:55,933
what you and me made together.
403
00:19:57,326 --> 00:19:59,067
♪ You and I ♪
404
00:19:59,154 --> 00:20:01,939
Hate to think of what you been
doing to earn these flowers.
405
00:20:02,026 --> 00:20:03,332
Been working on my songs.
406
00:20:03,419 --> 00:20:05,247
Get your head on straight,
Violet.
407
00:20:05,334 --> 00:20:07,075
You're acting
bigger than you are.
408
00:20:07,162 --> 00:20:09,556
I won't go home with you
to tend to pigs all my life.
409
00:20:09,643 --> 00:20:11,297
That's who you are, woman.
410
00:20:11,384 --> 00:20:13,037
'I don't want
to tell you again.'
411
00:20:15,257 --> 00:20:17,607
You have three guesses to guess
which gorgeous man
412
00:20:17,694 --> 00:20:21,655
'is downstairs asking
for you personally.'
413
00:20:21,742 --> 00:20:24,179
Oh.
414
00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:25,833
I'm..
415
00:20:29,663 --> 00:20:31,055
Hey!
416
00:20:31,142 --> 00:20:34,624
♪ Petals tickling my feet ♪
417
00:20:34,711 --> 00:20:36,235
♪ Like an oriental carpet ♪
418
00:20:36,322 --> 00:20:37,801
You been actin' loose?
419
00:20:37,888 --> 00:20:41,631
Be careful, she kicks.
I've seen it.
420
00:20:41,718 --> 00:20:44,155
She's spoken for.
You scram, cake-eater.
421
00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:47,028
She speaks for herself.
422
00:20:47,115 --> 00:20:48,682
You tell people back
in Oley valley
423
00:20:48,769 --> 00:20:50,161
they'll be hearing
about me.
424
00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:52,860
They will never
see me back there again.
425
00:20:54,644 --> 00:20:57,821
I'll take a ride
in that fancy car.
426
00:20:57,908 --> 00:21:00,171
I'd like to see
the world, please.
427
00:21:00,259 --> 00:21:05,786
♪ Don't be blue,
find someone new ♪
428
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,747
♪ 300 flowers ♪
429
00:21:12,271 --> 00:21:15,883
Sounds like your Violet
chose Bartleby.
430
00:21:15,970 --> 00:21:18,712
Song says "I left behind
what was ours."
431
00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:20,496
Think that could
mean a baby?
432
00:21:20,583 --> 00:21:21,758
Could be.
433
00:21:21,845 --> 00:21:23,586
Songs from this era
are coded
434
00:21:23,673 --> 00:21:26,328
when referring
to something scandalous.
435
00:21:26,415 --> 00:21:28,591
Hometown guy thinks he's
gonna get a second chance
436
00:21:28,678 --> 00:21:30,332
with the mother
of his baby
437
00:21:30,419 --> 00:21:33,727
but he gets thrown over
for someone new.
438
00:21:33,814 --> 00:21:37,165
Many sad songs written
about being thrown over.
439
00:21:37,252 --> 00:21:39,298
Many lives ended over it, too.
440
00:21:44,868 --> 00:21:46,522
We got the hometown
boyfriend's full name
441
00:21:46,609 --> 00:21:48,959
'from the boarding house
journal, Jeb Shiner.'
442
00:21:49,046 --> 00:21:51,005
Anything on him being
the father of Violet's kid?
443
00:21:51,092 --> 00:21:52,267
'Not yet, but'
444
00:21:52,354 --> 00:21:54,617
we know he didn't kill Violet.
445
00:21:54,704 --> 00:21:57,968
He was too busy with his pig.
446
00:21:58,055 --> 00:22:00,231
"Farmer's almanac."
447
00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:02,538
'"Jeb Shiner of Reading,
Pennsylvania'
448
00:22:02,625 --> 00:22:06,586
and his prize-winning swine,
December 22, 1929."
449
00:22:06,673 --> 00:22:08,283
Three days before
Violet was killed.
450
00:22:08,370 --> 00:22:10,590
And the pig contest
was in California.
451
00:22:10,677 --> 00:22:12,461
In 1929,it would've taken him
more than three days
452
00:22:12,548 --> 00:22:14,158
to get from there to here.
453
00:22:14,245 --> 00:22:17,161
So Jeb wasn't in Philadelphia
when Violet died.
454
00:22:17,248 --> 00:22:19,163
What'd you dig up on
the Bartleby relationship?
455
00:22:19,250 --> 00:22:21,122
[Valens]
That the man was a dog.
456
00:22:21,209 --> 00:22:22,863
Check it out.
457
00:22:22,950 --> 00:22:25,692
"Photoplay", US weekly,
back in the day.
458
00:22:25,779 --> 00:22:28,347
[Stillman]
And there's Nick Bartleby
looking smug with a gal named
459
00:22:28,434 --> 00:22:29,870
Carmela La Fleur.
460
00:22:29,957 --> 00:22:31,175
Who's that?
461
00:22:31,262 --> 00:22:32,438
She was Mae West-type actress.
462
00:22:32,525 --> 00:22:34,004
[Valens]
'Had a burlesque show.'
463
00:22:34,091 --> 00:22:35,658
It was pretty famous,
and she and Bartleby
464
00:22:35,745 --> 00:22:37,486
were an on-again,
off-again thing.
465
00:22:37,573 --> 00:22:39,183
Where's Violet fit in?
466
00:22:39,270 --> 00:22:41,272
According to gossip,
right in the middle.
467
00:22:43,753 --> 00:22:46,756
"Nick Bartleby had the nerve
to bring his new squeeze
468
00:22:46,843 --> 00:22:49,716
"to the black cat house
in Philadelphia.."
469
00:22:49,803 --> 00:22:55,243
♪ I'm wearing secondhand hats ♪
470
00:22:55,330 --> 00:22:58,246
♪ Secondhand cologne ♪
471
00:22:58,333 --> 00:23:03,947
♪ That's why they call
me Secondhand Rose ♪
472
00:23:04,034 --> 00:23:08,561
♪ Even our piano
in the parlor ♪
473
00:23:08,648 --> 00:23:10,780
I don't have the right
clothes for this place.
474
00:23:10,867 --> 00:23:12,913
To look like you
do in that dress
475
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,568
these women would pay $200.
476
00:23:15,655 --> 00:23:17,787
[Violet]
'Well, they only need
two and a quarter.'
477
00:23:21,138 --> 00:23:23,227
Nick, this might just
be the greatest night
478
00:23:23,314 --> 00:23:24,968
of my entire life.
479
00:23:25,055 --> 00:23:27,144
Is it me or the dancers?
480
00:23:27,231 --> 00:23:28,929
Right now, I'm looking
over your right shoulder
481
00:23:29,016 --> 00:23:33,020
at Carmela La Fleur,
in the flesh.
482
00:23:33,107 --> 00:23:35,152
'Trust me, you're not
seeing her in the flesh.'
483
00:23:35,239 --> 00:23:38,199
She is absolutely
sensationally beautiful
484
00:23:38,286 --> 00:23:41,507
and she'd be just the right
gal to sing my songs.
485
00:23:41,594 --> 00:23:42,812
Hello, Nick.
486
00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:46,468
Carmela.
487
00:23:46,555 --> 00:23:48,470
Oh, I see.
488
00:23:48,557 --> 00:23:50,994
So Philadelphia
really isa small town.
489
00:23:51,081 --> 00:23:52,300
Violet, let's go.
490
00:23:52,387 --> 00:23:54,084
'We can go anywhere you'd like.'
491
00:23:54,171 --> 00:23:57,261
I just don't want
our evening ruined.
492
00:23:57,348 --> 00:23:58,611
♪ Secondhand shoes,
secondhand hose.. ♪
493
00:23:58,698 --> 00:24:00,700
Hey, pal? What's
the meaning of this?
494
00:24:00,787 --> 00:24:02,832
The milk's for the girl
you're baby-sittin'.
495
00:24:02,919 --> 00:24:04,268
Help her grow up strong.
496
00:24:04,355 --> 00:24:05,748
Keep it to yourself,
would you, Carmela?
497
00:24:05,835 --> 00:24:09,491
From now on, I will, mister.
498
00:24:09,578 --> 00:24:10,840
[Carmela]
'Don't cry, darlin'.'
499
00:24:10,927 --> 00:24:12,668
This is nothing compared
to what I'll do to you
500
00:24:12,755 --> 00:24:15,628
if I catch your flat behind
with Nick Bartleby ever again.
501
00:24:18,152 --> 00:24:20,459
♪ Secondhand rings ♪
502
00:24:20,546 --> 00:24:22,025
Okay.
503
00:24:22,112 --> 00:24:23,940
Carmela La Fleur put
it out there.
504
00:24:24,027 --> 00:24:25,551
Don't be in public with my man.
505
00:24:25,638 --> 00:24:27,814
Could be Violet didn't
take the advice to heart.
506
00:24:27,901 --> 00:24:29,163
Got spotted again.
507
00:24:29,250 --> 00:24:31,121
Got a contact for Carmela.
508
00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:32,601
It's a local guy.
509
00:24:32,688 --> 00:24:33,646
[Stillman]
'Where'd you get that?'
510
00:24:33,733 --> 00:24:35,343
Name on a web site.
511
00:24:38,564 --> 00:24:40,000
"Mickey Stein.
512
00:24:40,087 --> 00:24:42,742
No. 1 fan."
513
00:24:42,829 --> 00:24:45,484
I know, fan sites are so cheesy.
514
00:24:45,571 --> 00:24:49,139
I put it up to attract
info for my thesis.
515
00:24:49,226 --> 00:24:51,141
What's your thesis
on, Mr. Stein?
516
00:24:51,228 --> 00:24:54,405
"Carmela La Fleur, the
quintessential vaudeville girl's
517
00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:55,668
"re-invention of the feminine
518
00:24:55,755 --> 00:24:57,670
"in her work
in Philadelphia
519
00:24:57,757 --> 00:25:01,021
from 1927 to 1930."
520
00:25:02,544 --> 00:25:03,850
Specific.
521
00:25:03,937 --> 00:25:06,461
And yet there's so much to tell.
522
00:25:06,548 --> 00:25:07,984
What sparked your
interest in Carmela?
523
00:25:08,071 --> 00:25:10,030
My grandfather was her dresser.
524
00:25:10,117 --> 00:25:12,554
His job was to put
her clothes on...her?
525
00:25:12,641 --> 00:25:16,776
Wardrobe. Personal assistant,
hair, full-time confidante.
526
00:25:16,863 --> 00:25:19,256
He tell you about Carmela's
relationship with Nick Bartleby?
527
00:25:19,343 --> 00:25:22,651
Like Elizabeth Taylor
and Richard Burton, those two.
528
00:25:22,738 --> 00:25:24,392
Back and forth.
529
00:25:24,479 --> 00:25:26,176
We're looking into
the murder of a girl
530
00:25:26,263 --> 00:25:27,438
that went out with Bartleby.
531
00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:28,875
Carmela wasn't happy about it.
532
00:25:28,962 --> 00:25:30,441
Murder?
533
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:31,660
Really!
534
00:25:32,269 --> 00:25:34,489
Do tell!
535
00:25:34,576 --> 00:25:37,144
We're gonna be the ones
taking notes here.
536
00:25:37,231 --> 00:25:38,449
Violet Polley.
537
00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:39,973
- Ever hear about her?
- Sure!
538
00:25:40,060 --> 00:25:41,452
Didn't know she was murdered.
539
00:25:41,540 --> 00:25:43,454
She really pissed Carmela off
540
00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:45,500
showing up at the burlesque
show with Bartleby.
541
00:25:45,587 --> 00:25:47,197
Well, that, that was then.
542
00:25:47,284 --> 00:25:51,158
A few months after that,
the girls made up.
543
00:25:51,245 --> 00:25:52,376
How do you know about it?
544
00:25:52,463 --> 00:25:53,682
My granddad was there.
545
00:25:53,769 --> 00:25:55,336
It was after one of Carmela's
546
00:25:55,423 --> 00:25:59,470
"Dragon lady" performances
at the Black Cat House.
547
00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:02,648
Such gorgeous silk.
548
00:26:02,735 --> 00:26:04,345
Straight from
the orient, darling.
549
00:26:04,432 --> 00:26:05,825
'I've got a china man
mad for me.'
550
00:26:05,912 --> 00:26:08,262
He thinks I'd be big
as tea over there.
551
00:26:08,349 --> 00:26:09,785
[chuckles]
552
00:26:09,872 --> 00:26:12,222
[Violet]
'Hello, Carmela.'
553
00:26:12,309 --> 00:26:14,660
Can I have one moment
of your time?
554
00:26:14,747 --> 00:26:17,097
Autographed pictures in an hour,
behind the stage door.
555
00:26:17,184 --> 00:26:19,752
- Shoo, fly.
- It's alright, Mickey.
556
00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:21,405
Don't you know who this is?
557
00:26:21,492 --> 00:26:23,059
It's Nick Bartleby's girl.
558
00:26:23,146 --> 00:26:24,887
Oh, dear.
559
00:26:24,974 --> 00:26:26,889
Carmela, please
don't turn me away.
560
00:26:26,976 --> 00:26:30,501
I'd like to ask you something.
561
00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:31,546
Well, what is it?
562
00:26:33,766 --> 00:26:36,595
I'm a songwriter,
writing original tunes.
563
00:26:36,682 --> 00:26:38,466
I write from the soul,
about the plight
564
00:26:38,553 --> 00:26:40,642
of the average Jack or Jane.
565
00:26:40,729 --> 00:26:42,688
People like my parents were
566
00:26:42,775 --> 00:26:45,038
[sobbing]
humble, good people..
567
00:26:47,170 --> 00:26:49,608
- Get her a soda water.
- Yes.
568
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,657
I'm sorry.
This is so strange.
569
00:26:55,744 --> 00:26:58,094
You been cryin'
like this regular?
570
00:26:58,181 --> 00:26:59,356
Nick's in Europe.
571
00:26:59,443 --> 00:27:00,923
I suppose I miss him.
572
00:27:01,010 --> 00:27:02,185
Feelin' queasy, too?
573
00:27:02,272 --> 00:27:04,274
Achy, like you got the flu?
574
00:27:04,361 --> 00:27:05,624
Yeah. That's it.
575
00:27:05,711 --> 00:27:06,886
[Violet]
'You had it, too?'
576
00:27:06,973 --> 00:27:09,715
I did. Once.
577
00:27:09,802 --> 00:27:13,240
You're knocked up, kid.
578
00:27:13,327 --> 00:27:15,677
No.
579
00:27:15,764 --> 00:27:18,071
What would you know about it?
You don't have kids.
580
00:27:18,158 --> 00:27:20,943
It doesn't always have to
end that way.
581
00:27:21,030 --> 00:27:23,424
But judging by the way you
filled out through the middle
582
00:27:23,511 --> 00:27:26,253
it's too late
for you.
583
00:27:26,340 --> 00:27:28,298
I don't know what I'll do.
584
00:27:28,385 --> 00:27:30,213
I've almost run
through my savings.
585
00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:31,650
Nick's gone
586
00:27:31,737 --> 00:27:34,174
and I've been
too ill to get a job.
587
00:27:34,261 --> 00:27:36,176
What about your humble parents?
588
00:27:38,047 --> 00:27:39,309
They're gone.
589
00:27:40,963 --> 00:27:43,400
Uh...cigarette?
590
00:27:43,487 --> 00:27:44,663
Scotch?
591
00:27:44,750 --> 00:27:46,708
No, thank you.
592
00:27:46,795 --> 00:27:50,451
Kid, how much for a song?
593
00:27:50,538 --> 00:27:51,931
How many do you want?
594
00:27:52,018 --> 00:27:54,063
How many you got?
595
00:27:58,024 --> 00:27:59,721
It was Nick Bartleby's baby.
596
00:27:59,808 --> 00:28:01,636
Aimee's a Bartleby.
597
00:28:01,723 --> 00:28:02,942
That ought a blow her socks off.
598
00:28:03,029 --> 00:28:04,683
I know I'd be thrilled.
599
00:28:04,770 --> 00:28:06,685
Rich guy doesn't wanna set up
camp with his side dish?
600
00:28:06,772 --> 00:28:08,338
And her illegitimate child.
601
00:28:08,425 --> 00:28:11,515
Gorgeous, rich man
seeks poor songwriter
602
00:28:11,602 --> 00:28:14,301
to birth scion and live
in marital bliss?
603
00:28:16,085 --> 00:28:17,913
I don't think so.
604
00:28:25,225 --> 00:28:27,314
[humming and laughing]
605
00:28:28,707 --> 00:28:30,839
Are you dating anyone?
606
00:28:30,926 --> 00:28:32,711
Ray came through town.
607
00:28:34,451 --> 00:28:36,105
Uh-oh. Who's he?
608
00:28:36,192 --> 00:28:39,239
I want better for you, is all.
609
00:28:39,326 --> 00:28:42,459
Well, there was this DA.
610
00:28:42,546 --> 00:28:44,418
Kite.
611
00:28:44,505 --> 00:28:45,636
He was a good one, but--
612
00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:47,987
He was too good, right?
613
00:28:48,074 --> 00:28:49,597
Not for me. I'm a lightweight.
614
00:28:49,684 --> 00:28:51,251
- She is.
- Alright.
615
00:28:51,338 --> 00:28:52,818
Remember when
you broke your jaw?
616
00:28:52,905 --> 00:28:54,602
She was always into something.
617
00:28:54,689 --> 00:28:56,822
What happened? You fell, right?
618
00:28:56,909 --> 00:28:58,606
A broken jaw is horrible.
619
00:28:58,693 --> 00:29:01,174
She used to run out in the
middle of the night, I can't
620
00:29:01,261 --> 00:29:03,176
believe I even slept,
I'd worry so much.
621
00:29:03,263 --> 00:29:04,960
I was attacked.
622
00:29:05,047 --> 00:29:07,180
I didn't fall.
623
00:29:09,748 --> 00:29:11,488
We lived
in some bad neighborhoods.
624
00:29:13,403 --> 00:29:15,841
How about I check on our order?
625
00:29:17,712 --> 00:29:19,409
The look on your face,
all night, what?
626
00:29:19,496 --> 00:29:20,759
He doesn't even know
that you're an alcoholic?
627
00:29:20,846 --> 00:29:23,370
Was. You could try
being polite to him.
628
00:29:23,457 --> 00:29:25,459
- This is my new husband.
- For the next month.
629
00:29:25,546 --> 00:29:27,635
Oh, stop it.
Maybe I fail, but I try.
630
00:29:27,722 --> 00:29:29,680
It's more than failed
when you bring home guys
631
00:29:29,768 --> 00:29:31,378
who hit you,
who steal from you.
632
00:29:31,465 --> 00:29:33,119
But I try.
633
00:29:33,206 --> 00:29:37,166
Okay? I find happiness,
if only for a little while.
634
00:29:37,253 --> 00:29:39,212
That's more
than you can say.
635
00:29:39,299 --> 00:29:41,083
At least I'm not alone.
636
00:29:41,170 --> 00:29:42,737
I'd rather be alone
than clinging to a man
637
00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:44,695
who doesn't even know me.
638
00:29:44,783 --> 00:29:46,001
Well, as usual,
you're so much better.
639
00:29:46,088 --> 00:29:47,524
Stop.
640
00:29:47,611 --> 00:29:49,309
How long did you and the DA
keep it together, huh?
641
00:29:49,396 --> 00:29:51,267
- More than a month?
- I can't go to your wedding.
642
00:29:51,354 --> 00:29:53,182
What, work
is so important?
643
00:29:53,269 --> 00:29:55,881
Because I-I can't smile
and-and pose for pictures
644
00:29:55,968 --> 00:29:58,448
and pretend that everything's
fine when it's not.
645
00:29:58,535 --> 00:30:01,930
I just want one night
of happiness with you there.
646
00:30:02,017 --> 00:30:03,453
Is that so wrong?
647
00:30:03,540 --> 00:30:05,891
Have I done so badly
I can't have that?
648
00:30:05,978 --> 00:30:08,328
Well, I can't
give it to you.
649
00:30:12,462 --> 00:30:14,682
You deserve it, too, Lilly.
650
00:30:14,769 --> 00:30:17,728
To just...be happy.
651
00:30:35,137 --> 00:30:37,748
[sighs]
652
00:30:40,577 --> 00:30:42,928
[indistinct chattering]
653
00:30:53,503 --> 00:30:56,463
[line ringing]
654
00:30:56,550 --> 00:30:59,031
[male on phone]
'I'm out right now.
Leave your message.'
655
00:30:59,118 --> 00:31:01,337
Kite.
656
00:31:01,424 --> 00:31:04,210
Lilly Rush.
657
00:31:04,297 --> 00:31:08,431
Well, you're workin' late,
I bet.
658
00:31:08,518 --> 00:31:10,259
Look, I want to say something
659
00:31:10,346 --> 00:31:12,827
and I know the ship
has sailed with us
660
00:31:12,914 --> 00:31:17,832
so that's not why I'm calling.
661
00:31:17,919 --> 00:31:21,444
[sighing]
I, uh.
662
00:31:21,531 --> 00:31:22,750
I'm just gonna say it.
663
00:31:25,274 --> 00:31:29,278
Look, I know it's on me,
how we ended things.
664
00:31:30,366 --> 00:31:31,585
I got flipped out.
665
00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:35,241
I just..
666
00:31:37,634 --> 00:31:40,986
...I just want to not end up
like my mom, you know?
667
00:31:41,073 --> 00:31:43,727
But I don't wanna end up
like this either.
668
00:31:45,816 --> 00:31:47,731
So, I'm done.
669
00:31:47,818 --> 00:31:52,345
I'm done with having
to walk home alone.
670
00:31:52,432 --> 00:31:55,304
She can't do it, but I can.
671
00:31:55,391 --> 00:31:57,002
I can change.
672
00:31:58,568 --> 00:32:00,527
[kite on phone]
'Lilly?'
673
00:32:08,361 --> 00:32:10,102
I'm related to the Bartlebys?
674
00:32:10,189 --> 00:32:12,104
- Yes.
- Definitely?
675
00:32:12,191 --> 00:32:14,628
[Valens]
'We got a lead from
Carmela La Fleur's biographer'
676
00:32:14,715 --> 00:32:17,022
on the doctor who helped
girls in trouble back then.
677
00:32:17,109 --> 00:32:20,895
This is the doctor's record
of your grandmother's birth.
678
00:32:22,853 --> 00:32:26,379
"Baby girl. Eight pounds,
three ounces. Rose."
679
00:32:26,466 --> 00:32:27,554
That's my grandmother.
680
00:32:27,641 --> 00:32:29,121
There's a quilt
681
00:32:29,208 --> 00:32:31,253
from the boarding house
where Violet lived.
682
00:32:31,340 --> 00:32:32,515
Says "Rosie" on it.
683
00:32:32,602 --> 00:32:35,083
Maybe Violet made it.
684
00:32:35,170 --> 00:32:37,085
So why did I grow
up the way I did
685
00:32:37,172 --> 00:32:40,001
and the Bartlebys grew up
the way they did?
686
00:32:40,088 --> 00:32:41,742
We're gonna find out.
687
00:32:41,829 --> 00:32:44,440
Your great-grandmother
was a songwriter.
688
00:32:45,615 --> 00:32:47,356
She published a song called
689
00:32:47,443 --> 00:32:49,271
"300 flowers."
690
00:32:49,358 --> 00:32:51,099
What's it sound like?
691
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:55,669
It's beautiful.
692
00:32:55,756 --> 00:32:56,975
I'll have to find it.
693
00:32:58,628 --> 00:33:01,153
Muriel Bartleby's gang
of lawyers just called.
694
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:02,850
'Says you've got 20 minutes.'
695
00:33:02,937 --> 00:33:04,156
And they're timing it.
696
00:33:06,158 --> 00:33:08,943
That sounds like
we're being summoned.
697
00:33:11,728 --> 00:33:14,427
[instrumental music]
698
00:33:20,389 --> 00:33:23,566
I hear we've got 20 minutes
with you, Muriel.
699
00:33:23,653 --> 00:33:27,527
I, uh...I don't see
people, as a rule.
700
00:33:27,614 --> 00:33:29,137
Thanks for the exception.
701
00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:33,228
Do you know
about our family?
702
00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:34,708
My brother had the most
703
00:33:34,795 --> 00:33:37,537
marvelous parties in this house.
704
00:33:37,624 --> 00:33:40,192
The walls pulsed with life.
705
00:33:41,323 --> 00:33:42,759
Now look.
706
00:33:42,846 --> 00:33:46,024
Violet Polley
had your brother Nick's child.
707
00:33:46,111 --> 00:33:49,027
People always wanted to claim
our name as their own.
708
00:33:49,114 --> 00:33:50,637
People like Violet?
709
00:33:50,724 --> 00:33:54,206
We were so careful not
to allow a crooked branch
710
00:33:54,293 --> 00:33:55,990
on the family tree.
711
00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,559
Now there are
no Bartlebys left.
712
00:33:59,646 --> 00:34:02,736
Except for Violet's descendants.
713
00:34:02,823 --> 00:34:04,303
[Jeffries]
'Sounds like your brother
will do anything'
714
00:34:04,390 --> 00:34:06,740
'to protect the family name.'
715
00:34:09,134 --> 00:34:12,311
My brother had nothing
to do with Violet's death.
716
00:34:12,398 --> 00:34:14,052
How do you know?
717
00:34:14,139 --> 00:34:16,924
Because I saw him
wash his hands of her.
718
00:34:17,011 --> 00:34:18,186
When?
719
00:34:18,273 --> 00:34:21,798
Some time after the crash.
720
00:34:24,584 --> 00:34:27,369
Violet was right here
721
00:34:27,456 --> 00:34:28,762
in this room
722
00:34:28,849 --> 00:34:30,894
with her baby.
723
00:34:30,981 --> 00:34:32,809
[Ethel waters' "True blue Lou"]
724
00:34:32,896 --> 00:34:34,637
Daddy gave it to me!
I won't sell it!
725
00:34:34,724 --> 00:34:35,943
Muriel!
726
00:34:36,030 --> 00:34:37,162
'Behave!'
727
00:34:39,381 --> 00:34:41,122
Our banker, Mr. Treehorn
728
00:34:41,209 --> 00:34:44,430
threw himself out of his
sixth floor window today.
729
00:34:44,517 --> 00:34:46,606
Buck up, Bartleby.
It'll turn around.
730
00:34:46,693 --> 00:34:48,216
It's the end
of the world.
731
00:34:50,436 --> 00:34:52,873
Violet Polley is here
to see you, sir.
732
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:54,527
Tell her I'm away.
733
00:34:56,659 --> 00:35:00,446
You should see her, sir.
734
00:35:00,533 --> 00:35:02,535
Get out of my house, Spyczyk.
735
00:35:02,622 --> 00:35:04,754
- Sir?
- I cannot afford you.
736
00:35:04,841 --> 00:35:05,929
You are dismissed.
737
00:35:06,016 --> 00:35:08,367
♪ In love with a guy ♪
738
00:35:08,454 --> 00:35:12,284
♪ She stuck to him,
but didn't know why ♪
739
00:35:12,371 --> 00:35:16,984
♪ Everyone blamed her,
still they all named her ♪
740
00:35:17,071 --> 00:35:20,596
♪ True blue Lou ♪
741
00:35:20,683 --> 00:35:22,903
♪ He gave her nothin'
she gave him all.. ♪
742
00:35:22,990 --> 00:35:24,818
Violet.
743
00:35:24,905 --> 00:35:28,648
You've been home a while now,
and you haven't rang me back.
744
00:35:28,735 --> 00:35:30,693
It ain't on me, kid.
745
00:35:30,780 --> 00:35:33,000
Me and him are
strictly platonic.
746
00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:36,873
What is that?
747
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,658
This is our daughter.
748
00:35:43,750 --> 00:35:45,404
I know you meant to be
through with me, Nick
749
00:35:45,491 --> 00:35:47,536
but this is our child.
750
00:35:47,623 --> 00:35:49,843
I named her Rose after
the roses you gave me.
751
00:35:49,930 --> 00:35:51,410
This is scandalous.
752
00:35:51,497 --> 00:35:52,802
Then marry me.
753
00:35:52,889 --> 00:35:54,326
Violet, that's ridiculous.
754
00:35:54,413 --> 00:35:55,631
[Violet]
'You're a grown man.'
755
00:35:55,718 --> 00:35:57,067
You can do as you please.
756
00:35:57,155 --> 00:36:00,288
I did. And now I'm through.
757
00:36:00,375 --> 00:36:02,899
♪ There's a reward
for that kind of love ♪
758
00:36:02,986 --> 00:36:04,727
If you won't marry
me, take Rose.
759
00:36:04,814 --> 00:36:07,339
I can't provide for her alone.
I need your help.
760
00:36:07,426 --> 00:36:10,342
I can't give you anything!
I can't help you!
761
00:36:10,429 --> 00:36:12,822
'I can't even
help myself.'
762
00:36:12,909 --> 00:36:14,215
You can take my clock.
763
00:36:15,651 --> 00:36:17,523
It's made of gold.
764
00:36:34,627 --> 00:36:36,759
You're no kind of man, Bartleby.
765
00:36:36,846 --> 00:36:38,370
Why don't you save
the day, Carmela?
766
00:36:38,457 --> 00:36:40,154
Take the baby yourself,
and raise it backstage
767
00:36:40,241 --> 00:36:42,200
with your opium pipe
and your fairies.
768
00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:51,165
We, uh...we could've
taken the little baby.
769
00:36:51,252 --> 00:36:53,036
'We survived.'
770
00:36:53,123 --> 00:36:54,299
When was this?
771
00:36:54,386 --> 00:36:56,214
Christmas day.
772
00:36:57,563 --> 00:36:58,955
You gave Violet
773
00:36:59,042 --> 00:37:00,305
your gold clock?
774
00:37:00,392 --> 00:37:02,872
A child's idea of help.
775
00:37:02,959 --> 00:37:05,310
Who knows how much
it was worth?
776
00:37:06,876 --> 00:37:10,532
Seventy-five dollars.
777
00:37:10,619 --> 00:37:12,752
Daniel, we'd like to take
the clock in with us.
778
00:37:12,839 --> 00:37:14,101
I'd rather you didn't.
779
00:37:14,188 --> 00:37:15,494
Why is that, Daniel?
780
00:37:15,581 --> 00:37:17,147
Well, it's a family heirloom.
781
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:20,238
You know the story Felix
told you isn't true.
782
00:37:20,325 --> 00:37:22,022
Bartleby didn't
give him that clock.
783
00:37:22,109 --> 00:37:24,154
Well, it's what
he always told me.
784
00:37:24,242 --> 00:37:26,983
Except that one time
when he told you the truth.
785
00:37:28,507 --> 00:37:29,856
You said your
grandfather wanted
786
00:37:29,943 --> 00:37:33,033
to tell you his stories
before he died.
787
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,774
To get them off his chest.
788
00:37:34,861 --> 00:37:37,994
[Valens]
'We think he told you
about a murder, Daniel.'
789
00:37:38,081 --> 00:37:41,389
Felix Spyczyk
was an honorable man.
790
00:37:41,476 --> 00:37:43,913
He was the last one seen
with her, day she died.
791
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,741
He took the clock from her.
792
00:37:45,828 --> 00:37:48,091
Why do you have to do this?
793
00:37:48,178 --> 00:37:50,877
He's gone now, he's long gone,
and he can't be punished.
794
00:37:50,964 --> 00:37:53,358
Violet's family
has been punished.
795
00:37:53,445 --> 00:37:55,708
Their lives would
have been so different
796
00:37:55,795 --> 00:37:57,449
'if they had
her around.'
797
00:37:57,536 --> 00:37:59,668
They deserve to put it to bed.
798
00:38:07,546 --> 00:38:10,853
I thought about
destroying the tape.
799
00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:13,421
'But it's
what he wanted.'
800
00:38:13,508 --> 00:38:15,380
He wanted to tell the truth.
801
00:38:18,818 --> 00:38:20,298
So, here.
802
00:38:24,084 --> 00:38:26,956
[instrumental music]
803
00:38:30,786 --> 00:38:33,311
[Daniel on tape]
'That's okay, grandfather.
You can rest now.'
804
00:38:33,398 --> 00:38:36,879
[Felix on tape]
'I want to say it,
what I did to her.'
805
00:38:36,966 --> 00:38:38,664
[Daniel]
'It's okay.'
806
00:38:38,751 --> 00:38:41,493
[Felix]
'It was after she
left Bartleby's'
807
00:38:41,580 --> 00:38:46,149
'with nothing but a crying baby
and that gold clock.'
808
00:38:47,977 --> 00:38:49,936
[baby crying]
809
00:38:53,940 --> 00:38:58,945
It's okay, baby Rose.
It's okay.
810
00:38:59,032 --> 00:39:00,555
It's okay.
811
00:39:04,951 --> 00:39:07,736
- He is scum.
- Yes, he is.
812
00:39:07,823 --> 00:39:10,348
People think he is like God,
all of them
813
00:39:10,435 --> 00:39:15,178
in their beautiful
house, Bartlebys!
814
00:39:15,265 --> 00:39:17,137
We know the truth
about Bartleby
815
00:39:17,224 --> 00:39:21,184
and what he did to you
and your little baby.
816
00:39:21,271 --> 00:39:23,143
We can tell the world.
817
00:39:23,230 --> 00:39:25,711
What are you suggesting,
Mr. Spyczyk?
818
00:39:25,798 --> 00:39:27,930
I will tell him,
give us money
819
00:39:28,017 --> 00:39:29,715
or we tell newspapers.
820
00:39:29,802 --> 00:39:31,804
He has no money.
You heard him.
821
00:39:31,891 --> 00:39:34,676
These people survive
like cockroach. He has money.
822
00:39:34,763 --> 00:39:37,853
He can always find what
he needs, Nick Bartleby.
823
00:39:37,940 --> 00:39:39,464
No. I've made it this far.
824
00:39:39,551 --> 00:39:43,250
- I'm a girl who finds a way.
- Wake up.
825
00:39:43,337 --> 00:39:46,384
You have baby and no money.
826
00:39:46,471 --> 00:39:48,124
Today I don't, but tomorrow--
827
00:39:48,211 --> 00:39:50,083
This is good plan.
828
00:39:50,170 --> 00:39:53,042
This is how to do
as the rich do in America.
829
00:39:53,129 --> 00:39:54,957
'Squeezing them.'
830
00:39:55,044 --> 00:39:58,874
I'm not that sort of person.
831
00:39:58,961 --> 00:40:01,007
You take clock already.
832
00:40:01,094 --> 00:40:03,618
You let him buy you.
833
00:40:03,705 --> 00:40:05,272
I'd rather find a way
to make it on my own
834
00:40:05,359 --> 00:40:07,187
than be a lowly blackmailer.
835
00:40:07,274 --> 00:40:08,710
I am not lowly!
836
00:40:08,797 --> 00:40:11,060
Blackmailing makes you
as bad as Bartleby.
837
00:40:12,975 --> 00:40:16,065
I'm not like Bartleby!
838
00:40:18,590 --> 00:40:19,852
I'm not.
839
00:40:22,115 --> 00:40:24,726
[Rose crying]
840
00:40:27,250 --> 00:40:28,991
Rosie.
841
00:40:30,732 --> 00:40:33,387
[Rose crying]
842
00:40:35,476 --> 00:40:38,392
[intense music]
843
00:40:46,705 --> 00:40:49,490
[Rose crying]
844
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:06,899
'Alright, moppet.
Alright.'
845
00:41:23,611 --> 00:41:26,484
["300 flowers"
by Allison Miller]
846
00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:35,449
[Violet]
♪ You and I ♪
847
00:41:35,536 --> 00:41:38,496
♪ Said good-bye ♪
848
00:41:38,583 --> 00:41:44,066
♪ I thought I'd die ♪
849
00:41:44,153 --> 00:41:49,463
♪ 300 flowers ♪
850
00:41:49,550 --> 00:41:55,904
♪ I've been
sitting here forever ♪
851
00:41:57,993 --> 00:42:04,739
♪ Can't seem
to make up my mind ♪
852
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:10,353
♪ You and I ♪
853
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:13,443
♪ Second chance ♪
854
00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:17,796
♪ Hometown romance ♪
855
00:42:19,014 --> 00:42:22,757
♪ 300 flowers ♪
856
00:42:24,324 --> 00:42:26,674
♪ When I gave up ♪
857
00:42:26,761 --> 00:42:31,374
♪ What was ours ♪
858
00:42:33,333 --> 00:42:39,818
♪ I met a man so kind ♪
859
00:42:42,951 --> 00:42:48,914
♪ Red petals ticklin' my feet ♪
860
00:42:50,219 --> 00:42:55,660
♪ Like an oriental carpet ♪
861
00:42:55,747 --> 00:42:58,140
♪ Thick and sweet ♪
862
00:43:00,621 --> 00:43:06,975
♪ What once was dust
now is grand ♪
863
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:15,114
♪ I believe I've
found my new man ♪
864
00:43:16,071 --> 00:43:20,162
♪ Baby, you ♪
865
00:43:20,249 --> 00:43:23,383
♪ Don't be blue ♪
866
00:43:23,470 --> 00:43:27,866
♪ Find someone new ♪
867
00:43:28,780 --> 00:43:34,176
♪ 300 flowers ♪
868
00:43:34,263 --> 00:43:36,483
♪ I've been sitting ♪
869
00:43:36,570 --> 00:43:43,011
♪ Here for hours ♪
870
00:43:43,098 --> 00:43:49,452
♪ I've up and changed my mind ♪
871
00:43:49,539 --> 00:43:53,587
♪ Yeah, I've up ♪
872
00:43:53,674 --> 00:43:58,548
♪ And changed my mind ♪♪
873
00:44:11,866 --> 00:44:14,434
Stay tuned for scenes
from our next episode.
874
00:44:15,391 --> 00:44:17,655
[theme music]