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[Rachel] Okay, so I--
I kinda had an epiphany. [chuckles]

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[sighs]
What I realized is that one of my problems

3
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is that I'm just really resistant
to new things.

4
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I just say no too often,
which is totally fear. [sighs]

5
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So I decided I'm just gonna start
saying yes to stuff.

6
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So when you needed someone to drive you,

7
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I just said yes because
maybe I can learn something, you know?

8
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Anyway. [chuckles]
I guess what I'm trying to say is,

9
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I really think you can help me
with some important life stuff,

10
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and I really appreciate the opportunity.

11
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Oh, were you talking to me?

12
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W-- Yes.

13
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I'm sorry, dear girl.

14
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There are certain octaves of the female
voice that I am no longer able to hear.

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I'll take it as a compliment
you knew I was a girl.

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Honestly, I do appreciate the support.

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As you know,
I would not have broken my solitude

18
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were it not a matter of utmost urgency.

19
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Yeah, that sounds like some serious shit,
man. Where are we going?

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To the home of an old writer friend.
Well, it's a foe.

21
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He's an untalented hack
who stole the love of my life.

22
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We haven't spoken in 40 years,

23
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and recently he reached out
and begged me to come and see him.

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Says he wants to apologize.

25
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Oh, that's nice.

26
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-So you guys are gonna make up?
-No.

27
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I'm gonna fuck his wife.

28
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Look, I'm not sure
I'm totally comfortable with this.

29
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Oh, don't worry about it.
I'll be in and out in 15 minutes.

30
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Yeah, it's not the time that's the issue.

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It's more the part where you're gonna,
like, fuck some guy's wife.

32
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I'm not literally
gonna have sex with his wife.

33
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Anne died years ago.
I'm speaking figuratively.

34
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I've come here to cuckold Peter.

35
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Emasculate him beyond repair
by flaunting my many successes.

36
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Oh. That's sounds super petty
and unnecessarily convoluted.

37
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Ah. That's what they said about my books.

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That didn't stop me from besting Peter
in that department.

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I'm gonna crush him
beneath the weight of my literary oeuvre.

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And then when the moment is right,
I'm gonna whip it out.

41
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Ah, do not whip it out.

42
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Oh, yes. I'm whipping it out
and shoving it right in his face.

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-My Nebula.
-Oh, thank God.

44
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You can help. Talk me up in there.

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Say nothing of the video games.

46
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It's looked down upon
in the literary world.

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Focus on my books.

48
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This isn't what I had in mind.

49
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Finding answers doesn't always follow
what you had in mind.

50
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Jump the fuck in. Get weird.

51
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You might actually learn something.

52
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Hello. You must be Mr. Longbottom.

53
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Yes, you're right.

54
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And, uh, you are?

55
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Magda. It's a pleasure.
Peter is expecting you.

56
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Mm. [chuckles]

57
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[fire crackling]

58
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Whoa.

59
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-Cool house.
-Well, thank you, dear boy.

60
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I'm a girl.

61
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Ah, apologies. It was the hair.

62
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-Peter.
-Carl. [chuckles]

63
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-[C.W. chuckles]
-Hello, old friend.

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-[chuckles]
-It's been a long time.

65
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-Yeah, a long time indeed.
-Oh.

66
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-You look well.
-I look terrible, but I-- I feel great.

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-So happy to see you.
-[chuckles]

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[clears throat]

69
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-Oh, sorry. [chuckles] Hi, yeah. I'm--
-This is my driver.

70
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Yep. I'm the driver. [chuckles]

71
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And yet you came in.

72
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Yes.

73
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-That was an interesting choice.
-Mm.

74
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-Nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you. [chuckles]

75
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How's everyone doing out here?

76
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Can I offer you something to drink?
Tea, lemonade?

77
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Whiskey, neat.
My driver will have the same.

78
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-Oh, uh, it's kinda early.
-Indeed.

79
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And I'm driving.

80
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Oh, very professional.

81
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I hire only the best. I'll have hers.

82
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[chuckles] Of course.

83
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She is lovely.

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-That's Magda.
-Oh.

85
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She's been with me a few years.
Don't know what I would do without her.

86
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Interesting.

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[chuckles]

88
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Very interesting.

89
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Hey. [chuckles] Is this you, C.W.?

90
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Yes.

91
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Oh, I'm surprised you keep this up here,
old boy.

92
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Why wouldn't I? It was
one of the greatest times of my life.

93
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Oh. Oh, yes.

94
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-[smacks lips]
-This was when I met Anne.

95
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Yes.

96
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And together we made this wonderful brood.

97
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Ten grandchildren, if you can believe it.

98
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That's a lot of grandchildren. I have 12.

99
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-She's one.
-What?

100
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Your driver is your grandchild?

101
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Mm. Calpurnia. She's my biggest fan.

102
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-Yes, I am.
-She's also gay.

103
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Yep.

104
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Yep, yep, yep.

105
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Ah, the Nebula. This looks familiar.

106
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This is Anne's, of course.
All of these are.

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She was quite celebrated.

108
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Peter, on the other hand, well, he was...

109
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Uh, is "prolific" the right word?

110
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I suppose you could say that. [chuckles]

111
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Well, what else can you say
about someone who wrote 19 novellas?

112
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Nineteen! And all about
the same character, mind you.

113
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Called <i>The Hammerfall Cycle.</i>

114
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You wouldn't have heard of them.

115
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Maybe you'd like to read one?

116
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Yeah, thank you. That's nice.

117
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-Start with this one. That's Anne's.
-Okay.

118
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She was a true genius.

119
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She was. One of a kind.

120
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-Here you are.
-Ah. [chuckles]

121
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Why, thank you.

122
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Oh. [slurps, swallows] Ah.

123
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Well, on to the matter at hand.

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Ladies, would you excuse us, please?

125
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No need to take more of your time.

126
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No, I suppose, uh, 40 years is long enough
to... [coughs] ...wait for an apology.

127
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[chuckles] I should think so.

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[C.W. exhales, smacks lips]

129
00:07:01,109 --> 00:07:04,445
[sighs] It's hard to know where to begin.

130
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Hmm.

131
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-Whenever you're ready.
-[chuckles]

132
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I'm quite ready.

133
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Yeah, so am I.

134
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[whispers] Go ahead.

135
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Me?

136
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I'm not apologizing. You are.

137
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[chuckles] I am not.

138
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Then why did I drive all the way up here?

139
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You're going to apologize to me.

140
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Like hell I am. You reached out to me.

141
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Said you wanted to set things right.

142
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-Set things right?
-Yeah.

143
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[chuckles] Damn it.

144
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Ginny. My daughter.
Just like her mother. Headstrong.

145
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She must have set this up.

146
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[chuckles]

147
00:08:01,586 --> 00:08:03,421
And you thought I--

148
00:08:03,504 --> 00:08:06,382
What on earth
would I have to apologize for?

149
00:08:08,176 --> 00:08:10,011
-For breaking up the tripod.
-Oh. [scoffs]

150
00:08:10,094 --> 00:08:13,514
You disappeared from our lives, Carl.

151
00:08:14,807 --> 00:08:18,519
You didn't even come to Anne's funeral.

152
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She made her choice.

153
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I see.

154
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I always suspected that you were jealous.

155
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[chuckles] Jealous? Of a boob?

156
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A man so dunderheaded
he was duped by his own progeny? Hardly!

157
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That's enough of that.

158
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-You can go.
-Oh.

159
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Not until I get my apology.

160
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Don't be absurd. What am I meant
to be apologizing to you for?

161
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Oh, I don't know.

162
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Perhaps for hanging yourself
around Anne's neck like an albatross.

163
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For poisoning her against me.

164
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You became an insufferable blowhard
after you won the Nebula.

165
00:08:55,682 --> 00:08:58,268
-Oh.
-Disparaging me at every turn.

166
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I did no s--

167
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You told Anne
I was a fecund literary slut.

168
00:09:02,355 --> 00:09:05,024
That was taken out of context.
But I also stand by it.

169
00:09:05,108 --> 00:09:07,527
You did everything you could
to turn her against me!

170
00:09:07,610 --> 00:09:10,905
Oh, was I the one
who gave you a face like a fucked ass?

171
00:09:10,989 --> 00:09:13,116
I presumed that was your mother!

172
00:09:13,199 --> 00:09:15,451
You son of a bitch!

173
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[C.W.] Hey! Hey! Hey!

174
00:09:17,704 --> 00:09:19,372
You've got some nerve coming here.

175
00:09:19,455 --> 00:09:26,129
As do you, churning out 19 installments
of that <i>Hammerfall</i> dross

176
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while married to
one of the great writers of our age.

177
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Anne loved <i>The Hammerfall Cycle.</i>

178
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-She called them vibrant and electrifying.
-"Electrifying."

179
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Yes, I've seen the dust jacket note.

180
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It's the same one on every book.

181
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I guess I held up the standard.

182
00:09:42,687 --> 00:09:44,647
Oh, is that the holdup on book 20?

183
00:09:44,731 --> 00:09:47,275
Can't find anyone to read the damn thing?

184
00:09:47,358 --> 00:09:49,485
Never wrote the damn thing.

185
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When I lost Anne, I lost my muse.

186
00:09:52,322 --> 00:09:56,826
Oh, please. Don't blame her for
your undercooked literary miscarriages.

187
00:09:56,910 --> 00:10:00,330
What glowing quotes
grace the covers of your books these days?

188
00:10:00,413 --> 00:10:03,625
I'll have you know
<i>Harper's</i> called my last book

189
00:10:03,708 --> 00:10:07,420
"unbridled space smut." [chuckles]

190
00:10:07,503 --> 00:10:09,297
What happened to you, dear boy?

191
00:10:10,131 --> 00:10:11,841
You began with such promise.

192
00:10:11,925 --> 00:10:13,134
<i>Tears</i> was...

193
00:10:14,510 --> 00:10:16,012
a triumph.

194
00:10:16,095 --> 00:10:19,015
You couldn't finish the trilogy. Why?

195
00:10:19,098 --> 00:10:20,892
I'm writing it.

196
00:10:20,975 --> 00:10:25,230
Not that you'd know it, dear boy,
but good writing takes time.

197
00:10:25,313 --> 00:10:28,608
And what does 42 years
of drinking and whoring around take?

198
00:10:35,532 --> 00:10:37,784
I won a Nebula Award.

199
00:10:39,118 --> 00:10:42,205
You can write 10,000 books
and never accomplish that.

200
00:10:42,288 --> 00:10:46,793
Whereas I could never write another word
for as long as I live,

201
00:10:47,585 --> 00:10:50,922
but I would still have hard proof

202
00:10:51,005 --> 00:10:54,926
my very first book was a stroke of genius.

203
00:10:55,009 --> 00:10:56,803
But the sequel...

204
00:10:58,763 --> 00:11:00,890
it didn't quite stand up, did it?

205
00:11:00,974 --> 00:11:02,600
It's a bit limp.

206
00:11:06,479 --> 00:11:07,730
[grunts]

207
00:11:09,357 --> 00:11:13,486
Who does he think he is?
Tw-- Myself? Not a chance.

208
00:11:13,570 --> 00:11:16,281
That was intense.
Are you ready to get out of here, Grandpa?

209
00:11:16,364 --> 00:11:19,868
No. No, no, no. I'm not leaving yet.
I'm gonna fuck his wife.

210
00:11:19,951 --> 00:11:21,160
I know. Figuratively.

211
00:11:21,244 --> 00:11:25,582
No, literally. I'm literally
gonna have sex with his new wife.

212
00:11:25,665 --> 00:11:28,543
-Who are you talking about?
-That Eastern European strumpet.

213
00:11:28,626 --> 00:11:30,503
I'm gonna take her as my own.

214
00:11:30,587 --> 00:11:32,380
Magda is his nurse, man.

215
00:11:33,006 --> 00:11:36,009
Oh. Well, then that changes everything.

216
00:11:36,801 --> 00:11:38,553
I'm gonna fuck his nurse.

217
00:11:38,636 --> 00:11:39,971
Good God.

218
00:11:40,638 --> 00:11:42,056
Is everything okay out here?

219
00:11:42,140 --> 00:11:43,433
-Yes. [chuckles]
-No.

220
00:11:44,017 --> 00:11:45,518
-So are you staying for dinner?
-No.

221
00:11:45,602 --> 00:11:46,811
Yes.

222
00:11:48,938 --> 00:11:50,231
Yes.

223
00:11:53,193 --> 00:11:55,445
[C.W.] Mm. Oh.

224
00:11:56,154 --> 00:12:01,284
[sniffs] This chicken is beyond, Magda.
You're a fantastic cook.

225
00:12:01,910 --> 00:12:04,162
-Oh, no. I'm not--
-No, no, no. Don't be modest.

226
00:12:04,245 --> 00:12:06,831
It's wonderfully moist.

227
00:12:06,915 --> 00:12:09,167
Carl, she didn't make the food.

228
00:12:09,250 --> 00:12:10,627
She's the nurse, remember?

229
00:12:10,710 --> 00:12:14,380
-Don't back talk me, Cassandra.
-Calpurnia.

230
00:12:14,464 --> 00:12:16,466
Oh, right. [chuckles]

231
00:12:16,549 --> 00:12:19,260
I'm confusing her
with my many other grandchildren.

232
00:12:19,344 --> 00:12:20,887
The, uh-- [clears throat]

233
00:12:20,970 --> 00:12:24,682
The Longbottoms
are notoriously robust of seed.

234
00:12:27,936 --> 00:12:29,771
I'm glad you like the food, Carl.

235
00:12:30,396 --> 00:12:35,026
It means a lot coming from a man who
knows his way around a rotisserie spit.

236
00:12:35,902 --> 00:12:40,281
Were you aware that your grandfather
hawked chicken at the state fair?

237
00:12:40,865 --> 00:12:43,034
It was the Renaissance fair.

238
00:12:43,660 --> 00:12:46,371
And I was the Grand Roast-Master

239
00:12:46,454 --> 00:12:49,332
of an award-winning
rotisserie chicken victualler's.

240
00:12:49,415 --> 00:12:52,919
Oh. No wonder you didn't write
any good books for 40 years.

241
00:12:53,962 --> 00:12:55,547
You were busy basting.

242
00:12:55,630 --> 00:12:57,715
I've been busy finishing my trilogy.

243
00:12:58,216 --> 00:12:59,217
Also award-winning.

244
00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:03,555
-One of them.
-Yes. The books vary.

245
00:13:03,638 --> 00:13:08,560
You see, some of us don't like
writing the same book 19 times.

246
00:13:08,643 --> 00:13:10,436
It's called a nonodecology.

247
00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,982
Ooh, I'm sure it is. [chuckles]

248
00:13:14,065 --> 00:13:18,152
Speaking of endlessly repeating things,
I'd love a refill.

249
00:13:19,195 --> 00:13:20,697
Nurse.

250
00:13:20,780 --> 00:13:25,326
I'll drink as fast as I like, California.
[stammers]

251
00:13:26,077 --> 00:13:27,495
I think you've had enough.

252
00:13:27,579 --> 00:13:29,622
Oh, I'm just getting started.

253
00:13:29,706 --> 00:13:30,957
Really?

254
00:13:31,666 --> 00:13:33,835
'Cause all I see is a man who's finished.

255
00:13:34,377 --> 00:13:38,298
Oh, that's it! I'm going.

256
00:13:38,381 --> 00:13:40,508
-Well, it's been fun.
-To the bathroom.

257
00:13:52,896 --> 00:13:58,234
[rock music plays]

258
00:14:02,405 --> 00:14:03,615
[grunts]

259
00:14:09,037 --> 00:14:10,163
Ah.

260
00:14:11,706 --> 00:14:13,416
Mm. [smacks lips]

261
00:14:16,002 --> 00:14:17,545
Jackpot. [chuckles]

262
00:14:21,674 --> 00:14:23,801
Call me a chicken man.

263
00:14:25,428 --> 00:14:27,347
[sips, smacks lips]

264
00:14:28,598 --> 00:14:30,016
Ah.

265
00:14:37,357 --> 00:14:39,484
[chuckles]

266
00:14:41,027 --> 00:14:43,571
Well, this chicken man...

267
00:14:45,281 --> 00:14:49,869
is gonna shit in your desk, daddio.
[grunts]

268
00:14:57,293 --> 00:14:59,128
[sighs]

269
00:15:02,465 --> 00:15:07,011
So, Calpurnia,
how long have you been a lesbian?

270
00:15:07,095 --> 00:15:11,349
-I should check on him.
-No need. Here I am.

271
00:15:11,432 --> 00:15:12,559
What is this?

272
00:15:12,642 --> 00:15:15,436
I'd like to apologize
for my previous transgressions.

273
00:15:16,312 --> 00:15:18,857
I'm-- I'm feeling a bit more myself now.

274
00:15:18,940 --> 00:15:21,568
-I'm not sure that's a relief.
-[chuckles]

275
00:15:22,652 --> 00:15:24,988
[chuckles, burps]

276
00:15:25,071 --> 00:15:26,781
I'll darken your doorway no longer.

277
00:15:26,865 --> 00:15:28,491
Calamari, we're leaving.

278
00:15:28,575 --> 00:15:30,702
Go start the car.
I'll-I'll be just a minute.

279
00:15:30,785 --> 00:15:32,203
-Yes!
-[chuckles]

280
00:15:32,954 --> 00:15:36,249
Yes, uh, w--
well, thank you for having us,

281
00:15:36,332 --> 00:15:37,375
and for the books.

282
00:15:37,458 --> 00:15:38,918
I-- I will read them both.

283
00:15:39,002 --> 00:15:42,797
And I'm sorry, and yes.

284
00:15:42,881 --> 00:15:45,091
-I'll walk you out.
-Oh, you don't have to. It's okay.

285
00:15:45,174 --> 00:15:47,844
-No, please.
-Okay.

286
00:15:53,016 --> 00:15:54,976
Let's not part on bad terms.

287
00:15:56,019 --> 00:15:58,021
The truth is I respect you.

288
00:15:58,104 --> 00:16:01,441
[chuckles]
How could I not? You've written 19 books.

289
00:16:01,524 --> 00:16:02,901
That's commendable.

290
00:16:04,068 --> 00:16:07,780
It's an odd number though, 19.
Why not go for 20?

291
00:16:07,864 --> 00:16:12,410
Oh!
Yes, you stopped writing after Anne died.

292
00:16:13,119 --> 00:16:18,875
You lost your muse.
Or was it... your career?

293
00:16:20,752 --> 00:16:25,590
<i>Annihilation Entire.</i>
The 20th book of the <i>Hammerfall</i> series.

294
00:16:25,673 --> 00:16:27,050
What are you doing with that?

295
00:16:27,133 --> 00:16:29,928
What are you doing with it?
You said you never wrote it!

296
00:16:30,011 --> 00:16:34,432
But there it was in your desk drawer
for anyone to find.

297
00:16:34,515 --> 00:16:36,851
Why not publish?

298
00:16:36,935 --> 00:16:38,937
-I'm still tinkering with it.
-Liar!

299
00:16:39,604 --> 00:16:41,439
You finished this.
You even copyrighted it.

300
00:16:42,357 --> 00:16:44,317
-Give me that!
-Ah, ah, ah, ah.

301
00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,778
-Oh-ho. Oh, oh, oh. Whoa. Oh.
-Give me that!

302
00:16:48,321 --> 00:16:49,572
[pants]

303
00:16:49,656 --> 00:16:52,700
Oh. [gasps]

304
00:16:52,784 --> 00:16:54,452
Careful, old boy.

305
00:16:54,536 --> 00:16:57,038
You're no longer as spry

306
00:16:57,121 --> 00:17:01,417
as the writer of
<i>Hammerfall 1: The Darkest Hour.</i>

307
00:17:01,501 --> 00:17:04,419
Peter, pray tell, who published this gem?

308
00:17:04,504 --> 00:17:07,382
Ah, here we go. Random House.

309
00:17:08,049 --> 00:17:10,842
And who was Anne's publisher at that time?

310
00:17:12,011 --> 00:17:14,806
Yes, Random House. What a coincidence.

311
00:17:14,888 --> 00:17:19,769
But then she switched publishers
at one point, didn't she?

312
00:17:19,851 --> 00:17:22,480
And who was the new one?

313
00:17:22,563 --> 00:17:24,607
What was that-- Ah.

314
00:17:24,691 --> 00:17:26,024
Tor, of course.

315
00:17:26,109 --> 00:17:28,027
And isn't this interesting?

316
00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:33,032
You switched publishers that year.

317
00:17:33,116 --> 00:17:37,871
And who had the good fortune to publish
your newest volume?

318
00:17:37,954 --> 00:17:40,540
Ah, Tor. My, my.

319
00:17:41,332 --> 00:17:45,169
In fact, Tor continued to publish
both you and Anne.

320
00:17:45,753 --> 00:17:49,966
Every book,
all the way up until her death. Wow.

321
00:17:50,049 --> 00:17:54,220
Of course, they could no longer continue
publishing Anne at that point.

322
00:17:54,304 --> 00:17:57,140
She was gone.
But why did they stop with you?

323
00:17:57,223 --> 00:17:59,392
I'll tell you why.

324
00:18:00,143 --> 00:18:03,563
Because they only published you
as a favor to her.

325
00:18:05,190 --> 00:18:06,232
The star!

326
00:18:06,316 --> 00:18:09,903
And when she died,
they cut loose the baggage.

327
00:18:09,986 --> 00:18:11,404
[manuscript thuds]

328
00:18:11,487 --> 00:18:16,284
[chuckles]
You'll never be able to end the saga

329
00:18:16,367 --> 00:18:19,746
because there's no one around
who cares to hear it.

330
00:18:22,165 --> 00:18:24,626
Well, they rejected my last book.

331
00:18:24,709 --> 00:18:26,753
At last we know the truth!

332
00:18:27,712 --> 00:18:30,506
And shame on you
for using your own daughter

333
00:18:30,590 --> 00:18:35,011
to lure me here so you could get me drunk
and make me embarrass myself.

334
00:18:35,094 --> 00:18:37,472
I did no such thing.

335
00:18:37,555 --> 00:18:39,557
Really? Then why did she do it?

336
00:18:40,141 --> 00:18:42,268
Because I'm dying, you idiot.

337
00:18:46,773 --> 00:18:48,233
What?

338
00:18:48,316 --> 00:18:49,943
I'm dying.

339
00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:55,406
And my daughter's
still young enough to believe...

340
00:18:58,326 --> 00:19:01,329
that closure exists. [clears throat]

341
00:19:06,209 --> 00:19:08,670
Well, it does exist.

342
00:19:11,881 --> 00:19:13,716
Just not for you.

343
00:19:15,677 --> 00:19:17,512
[clears throat]

344
00:19:17,595 --> 00:19:20,515
And by the way, the chicken was dry.

345
00:19:21,683 --> 00:19:22,725
Carl.

346
00:19:25,186 --> 00:19:27,313
"Watch out for stobor."

347
00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:32,652
Huh. [groans]

348
00:19:35,029 --> 00:19:37,323
-[crickets chirping]
-[coughing]

349
00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:40,952
[mumbles]

350
00:19:47,417 --> 00:19:49,586
Drive! [coughs]

351
00:19:49,669 --> 00:19:52,088
-Drive!
-I'm driving.

352
00:19:52,171 --> 00:19:54,048
Jesus Christ, dude.

353
00:19:54,132 --> 00:19:55,133
[sighs]

354
00:19:57,594 --> 00:19:58,595
[sighs]

355
00:19:58,678 --> 00:20:00,763
So did you get what you wanted?

356
00:20:00,847 --> 00:20:01,848
Huh?

357
00:20:02,974 --> 00:20:04,726
Did you cuckold him or whatever?

358
00:20:04,809 --> 00:20:06,769
Yes. [chuckles]

359
00:20:06,853 --> 00:20:08,855
Uh, I am victorious.

360
00:20:10,231 --> 00:20:12,483
-[snorts]
-Okay. That's good, I guess.

361
00:20:12,567 --> 00:20:13,568
[chuckles]

362
00:20:13,651 --> 00:20:16,237
I don't know, man.
I feel more confused than when we started.

363
00:20:16,321 --> 00:20:18,865
I mean, I jumped in,
and shit definitely got weird.

364
00:20:18,948 --> 00:20:20,617
But I don't feel like I learned anything.

365
00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:22,202
Watch out.

366
00:20:23,161 --> 00:20:26,706
-What?
-Watch... out... for... sto--

367
00:20:28,208 --> 00:20:29,250
[gags] sto--

368
00:20:29,834 --> 00:20:33,129
No, no, no, no, no. C.W., no! No! No!

369
00:20:33,213 --> 00:20:35,215
I have been saying yes all goddamn day.

370
00:20:35,298 --> 00:20:37,675
I am not saying yes
to you puking in my car!

371
00:20:37,759 --> 00:20:40,803
[echoing] Oh, my God, dude.
I said yes to driving you

372
00:20:40,887 --> 00:20:43,389
and to the weird fucking cuckolding thing.

373
00:20:43,473 --> 00:20:46,809
And-- And watching you get
blasted out of your mind. I'm sick of it.

374
00:20:49,312 --> 00:20:50,480
Stobor.

375
00:20:52,065 --> 00:20:53,066
Sto--

376
00:20:55,652 --> 00:20:56,653
C.W.?

377
00:20:58,613 --> 00:20:59,697
Uh, C.W.?

378
00:21:01,574 --> 00:21:03,076
-[Rachel] <i>C.W.</i>
-Carl.

379
00:21:05,286 --> 00:21:06,579
[woman] <i>Carl.</i>

380
00:21:09,082 --> 00:21:10,375
[echoing] <i>Carl.</i>

381
00:21:13,419 --> 00:21:15,129
[echoing] Carl.

382
00:21:16,464 --> 00:21:18,591
[snores]

383
00:21:21,928 --> 00:21:23,012
[echoing] Are you okay?

384
00:21:23,096 --> 00:21:24,806
[stammers] Anne?

385
00:21:24,889 --> 00:21:28,017
Oh, no. I'm Ginny, her daughter.

386
00:21:29,477 --> 00:21:32,105
My God, you look just like her.

387
00:21:32,188 --> 00:21:34,148
[chuckles] Thank you, yes.

388
00:21:34,232 --> 00:21:37,318
I inherited my mother's looks
and my father's acid reflux.

389
00:21:37,402 --> 00:21:40,238
-Huh?
-Here. Drink this.

390
00:21:41,197 --> 00:21:42,657
How'd I get back here?

391
00:21:42,740 --> 00:21:45,118
Your granddaughter brought you back.

392
00:21:45,201 --> 00:21:48,204
You passed out in her car,
and she thought you were dying.

393
00:21:49,038 --> 00:21:54,043
I got it. [grunts] Oh. [winces]

394
00:21:54,878 --> 00:21:58,548
[grunts] Perhaps she's right. [winces]

395
00:21:59,132 --> 00:22:02,093
So this is C.W. Longbottom.

396
00:22:03,386 --> 00:22:05,513
I have to say
you're not at all what I expected.

397
00:22:06,097 --> 00:22:09,017
Well, I'm not what I expected either.

398
00:22:09,100 --> 00:22:11,185
I'm sure your mother
told you horror stories.

399
00:22:11,269 --> 00:22:13,605
Actually, she never mentioned you once.

400
00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,481
Oh.

401
00:22:15,565 --> 00:22:19,444
Until, one day, she comes home with this.

402
00:22:21,571 --> 00:22:23,573
-[chuckles]
-She asked me to put it in the VCR.

403
00:22:24,741 --> 00:22:27,619
It's not every day your 70-year-old mother
comes home with a video game.

404
00:22:27,702 --> 00:22:30,622
But then she tells me
that an old friend wrote it.

405
00:22:32,624 --> 00:22:36,377
She kept this totem of my failure
to humiliate me.

406
00:22:36,461 --> 00:22:38,755
What? No. No.

407
00:22:38,838 --> 00:22:41,049
She was proud of you
for finding your thing.

408
00:22:41,716 --> 00:22:43,843
She said you predicted
the whole video game thing

409
00:22:43,927 --> 00:22:45,929
back in the '70s or something.

410
00:22:46,012 --> 00:22:50,308
[chuckles] I did. Yes.

411
00:22:50,391 --> 00:22:51,476
She remembered.

412
00:22:51,559 --> 00:22:54,812
Yeah. She also said you snorted
the next three decades up your nose.

413
00:22:56,064 --> 00:22:57,398
Also yes.

414
00:22:59,150 --> 00:23:03,321
Anyway... I'm sorry
for tricking you into coming here.

415
00:23:06,324 --> 00:23:09,494
Silly of me to think two old men
who share the same profession

416
00:23:09,577 --> 00:23:11,704
and the same wildly specific interests

417
00:23:11,788 --> 00:23:14,582
might rekindle a friendship
before one of them dies.

418
00:23:16,209 --> 00:23:18,002
I guess forgiveness is hard to find

419
00:23:18,086 --> 00:23:20,880
when you're a stubborn ass
who can't admit when he's wrong.

420
00:23:23,383 --> 00:23:25,134
[whispers]
I'm talking about you, by the way.

421
00:23:25,843 --> 00:23:27,428
Yeah, I got that.

422
00:23:29,430 --> 00:23:30,431
Great.

423
00:23:33,518 --> 00:23:36,729
Oh! Don't forget this bad boy.

424
00:23:37,605 --> 00:23:39,732
God, do they just
give these out to anybody?

425
00:23:42,026 --> 00:23:43,570
Yes, they do.

426
00:23:46,114 --> 00:23:47,824
I'm just gonna steal one of these.

427
00:23:52,745 --> 00:23:54,038
Hey.

428
00:23:55,164 --> 00:23:57,250
"Watch out for stobor."

429
00:23:58,710 --> 00:23:59,711
Huh?

430
00:24:01,421 --> 00:24:02,589
Nothing.

431
00:24:11,139 --> 00:24:13,057
[inhales sharply]

432
00:24:15,268 --> 00:24:16,644
Goodbye, old girl.

433
00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:24,652
[sighs, grunts]

434
00:24:26,196 --> 00:24:27,739
[groans]

435
00:24:28,740 --> 00:24:30,074
[sighs]

436
00:24:35,580 --> 00:24:36,748
[gasps]

437
00:24:43,004 --> 00:24:47,175
Peter, my behavior last night,
I acted like a contemptible fool.

438
00:24:48,092 --> 00:24:51,846
And I said things which were unforgivable.

439
00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:58,478
You also took a shit in my desk.

440
00:24:59,354 --> 00:25:02,190
Oh, yes. That too.

441
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,861
You didn't say anything that wasn't true.

442
00:25:10,782 --> 00:25:12,033
I just wish...

443
00:25:12,116 --> 00:25:14,327
[inhales]

444
00:25:14,410 --> 00:25:16,120
He needs some fresh air.

445
00:25:16,204 --> 00:25:17,455
I, um...

446
00:25:19,123 --> 00:25:20,667
May I?

447
00:25:48,528 --> 00:25:49,737
Oh, my goodness.

448
00:25:52,782 --> 00:25:55,243
She started it the day we moved in.

449
00:25:59,622 --> 00:26:02,208
-"To the seeds that blossom."
-[grunts]

450
00:26:03,167 --> 00:26:04,752
-Indeed.
-[chuckles]

451
00:26:05,336 --> 00:26:07,839
Of course,
I wanted to live in the city, but...

452
00:26:08,756 --> 00:26:10,341
You did it for her.

453
00:26:11,259 --> 00:26:12,844
You're a better man than I, Peter.

454
00:26:14,262 --> 00:26:15,346
Yeah, a good man...

455
00:26:17,181 --> 00:26:19,142
and a mediocre writer.

456
00:26:20,768 --> 00:26:22,270
Well, I don't know about that.

457
00:26:23,563 --> 00:26:27,984
How many writers can claim
they've written an icosology?

458
00:26:28,693 --> 00:26:30,778
[chuckles] Wh-- How do you--

459
00:26:30,862 --> 00:26:32,655
Oh, doesn't matter.

460
00:26:33,573 --> 00:26:37,035
You know, it's sad
the world will never know how it ends.

461
00:26:37,118 --> 00:26:40,580
It ends with a dead body. Mine.

462
00:26:40,663 --> 00:26:46,044
No, I mean for Bjorn Hammerfall
and the crew of the <i>Bellerophon.</i>

463
00:26:46,127 --> 00:26:48,296
The last we saw them,

464
00:26:48,963 --> 00:26:53,468
they had just slipped into hyperspace
from the Andromeda sector.

465
00:26:53,551 --> 00:26:57,222
You read volume 19?

466
00:26:57,305 --> 00:26:58,306
[C.W. chuckles]

467
00:27:00,308 --> 00:27:02,227
I read them all.

468
00:27:03,269 --> 00:27:05,271
Some more than once.

469
00:27:05,855 --> 00:27:07,690
I've always been a fan.

470
00:27:08,566 --> 00:27:09,776
[chuckles]

471
00:27:09,859 --> 00:27:11,778
Was jealous, yes.

472
00:27:11,861 --> 00:27:13,530
Angry, certainly.

473
00:27:13,613 --> 00:27:15,240
Drunk most of the time.

474
00:27:17,825 --> 00:27:19,285
Always a fan.

475
00:27:26,543 --> 00:27:27,544
Take it.

476
00:27:29,879 --> 00:27:31,798
At least one person will read it.

477
00:27:34,592 --> 00:27:37,387
I'd prefer to hear it read
by the author himself.

478
00:27:37,470 --> 00:27:38,638
[scoffs]

479
00:27:39,347 --> 00:27:42,934
It's quite long.
How much time do you have?

480
00:27:55,947 --> 00:27:57,156
Till it's over.

481
00:28:08,501 --> 00:28:11,087
["Jealous Guy" playing]

482
00:28:13,381 --> 00:28:15,592
"The only sound

483
00:28:16,718 --> 00:28:22,307
in the command center
of the USPC Battle-Cruiser <i>Bellerophon</i>

484
00:28:23,766 --> 00:28:27,228
was the low pulse of the sub-light drives.

485
00:28:28,062 --> 00:28:34,736
The crew stood silent as they looked out
upon the shattered remains of Antigone V."

486
00:28:34,819 --> 00:28:36,613
-"Shattered remains"?
-Mm.

487
00:28:36,696 --> 00:28:37,739
What happened to Antigone?

488
00:28:37,822 --> 00:28:41,701
"Hammerfall awoke with a start.
It was a dream."

489
00:28:41,784 --> 00:28:43,578
Ah. [chuckles]

490
00:28:44,621 --> 00:28:46,372
"Or maybe a nightmare."

491
00:28:46,456 --> 00:28:47,457
[sighs]

492
00:28:48,499 --> 00:28:50,043
[exhales, coughs]

493
00:28:51,252 --> 00:28:53,338
"Perhaps a vision of the future.

494
00:28:53,421 --> 00:28:56,591
He swung his legs off the zero-G hammock,

495
00:28:56,674 --> 00:29:00,887
strode over to the comms panel
and punched through to the bridge."

496
00:29:01,846 --> 00:29:04,682
[continues reading indistinctly]

497
00:29:07,227 --> 00:29:09,145
[song continues]