1 00:00:06,541 --> 00:00:10,791 America is faced with a peril like never before. 2 00:00:13,708 --> 00:00:16,500 It's time for the true patriots to reveal themselves. 3 00:00:17,625 --> 00:00:18,666 Take action. 4 00:00:19,958 --> 00:00:21,041 Today, 5 00:00:21,666 --> 00:00:23,583 we bring a reckoning. 6 00:00:24,166 --> 00:00:27,750 I can no longer stay quiet about the dire state of affairs in Washington. 7 00:00:27,833 --> 00:00:29,000 As vice president, 8 00:00:29,083 --> 00:00:31,958 having sworn an oath to safeguard our republic, 9 00:00:32,041 --> 00:00:33,875 I can't sit back and allow… 10 00:00:33,958 --> 00:00:34,833 A tyrant! 11 00:00:35,625 --> 00:00:38,250 A corrupted autocrat in sheep's clothes, 12 00:00:38,333 --> 00:00:42,416 hell-bent on mining power from the states to stoke his own radical agenda. 13 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:43,625 It's tough to admit. 14 00:00:43,708 --> 00:00:45,750 He's my president, 15 00:00:45,833 --> 00:00:49,750 but Garfield has just not been square with those who put him where he is today. 16 00:00:49,833 --> 00:00:52,375 Not a shred of loyalty. 17 00:00:52,458 --> 00:00:56,541 Merely… broken promises. 18 00:00:56,625 --> 00:00:58,583 -"Broken promises." -Broken promises. 19 00:00:59,791 --> 00:01:02,875 Have you seen him lately? Has any of you? 20 00:01:02,958 --> 00:01:05,375 Attribute me directly. Fuck it. 21 00:01:05,458 --> 00:01:09,250 The president now dodges the American people altogether, 22 00:01:09,333 --> 00:01:12,083 issuing blanket decrees from the closed doors 23 00:01:12,166 --> 00:01:13,375 of his big White House. 24 00:01:15,375 --> 00:01:16,875 Can you imagine? 25 00:01:17,458 --> 00:01:20,750 For a few months, I actually got to be vice president. 26 00:01:20,833 --> 00:01:24,500 I call on every honest, God-fearing citizen 27 00:01:24,583 --> 00:01:26,250 to make their voices heard, 28 00:01:26,333 --> 00:01:28,458 to march up to Pennsylvania Avenue 29 00:01:28,541 --> 00:01:33,000 and demand that their so-called president honor his commitments. 30 00:01:33,083 --> 00:01:34,458 Send him a message. 31 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,666 Loud and clear. 32 00:01:36,750 --> 00:01:39,875 The people will not be ignored! 33 00:01:46,458 --> 00:01:50,958 I'll be glad when you're dead You, rascal, you 34 00:01:55,041 --> 00:01:56,958 This is just about the ports! 35 00:01:57,041 --> 00:01:59,000 Let New York keep its damn collector! 36 00:01:59,083 --> 00:02:01,333 Conkling will call off his dogs. 37 00:02:01,416 --> 00:02:03,166 He's too powerful an enemy. 38 00:02:03,250 --> 00:02:07,000 He will grind regular government to a halt 39 00:02:07,083 --> 00:02:08,750 until you rescind that nomination, sir. 40 00:02:08,833 --> 00:02:12,291 You are some of the most powerful men in Congress! 41 00:02:12,375 --> 00:02:14,333 Conkling casts one look and-- 42 00:02:14,416 --> 00:02:16,125 You're fomenting the discord. 43 00:02:16,208 --> 00:02:19,291 You're the one that is tearing this party apart 44 00:02:19,375 --> 00:02:22,375 on account of, I don't know, some petty vendetta that you have! 45 00:02:22,458 --> 00:02:24,583 You're inviting me to knock the teeth out of your mouth… 46 00:02:24,666 --> 00:02:26,583 Really? Violence?! 47 00:02:26,666 --> 00:02:29,125 That's what you think is going to be the solution? 48 00:02:30,416 --> 00:02:35,083 Gentlemen, we have work to do! To do your jobs! 49 00:02:35,166 --> 00:02:39,666 Gentlemen, calm yourselves this instant! 50 00:02:39,750 --> 00:02:43,250 Or I will expel you from this building for good! 51 00:02:43,333 --> 00:02:46,833 That includes you, Mr. Secretary. 52 00:02:51,250 --> 00:02:52,083 Now, 53 00:02:52,875 --> 00:02:56,625 I made a vow to end the rot in our government. 54 00:02:57,250 --> 00:03:00,125 Spoils, patronage, call it what you want. 55 00:03:00,208 --> 00:03:01,708 It's no good. 56 00:03:02,375 --> 00:03:06,958 Do-nothings siphoning taxpayer money for jobs that don't even exist! 57 00:03:07,958 --> 00:03:12,041 Elected officials brazenly peddling their influence at auction. 58 00:03:15,666 --> 00:03:19,041 This is not how democracy endures. 59 00:03:19,125 --> 00:03:20,791 This is wrong. 60 00:03:21,708 --> 00:03:23,541 And all of us know it. 61 00:03:27,333 --> 00:03:28,958 This is our fight. 62 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,625 One day, years from now, 63 00:03:32,416 --> 00:03:36,375 each one of us will be judged by what we do in this moment. 64 00:03:39,583 --> 00:03:42,541 How will they talk about us, I wonder. 65 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:44,416 Hm. 66 00:03:52,958 --> 00:03:55,875 Suspend all other points of order in the Senate 67 00:03:55,958 --> 00:03:58,500 until Judge Robertson is heard for the collector's post. 68 00:03:58,583 --> 00:03:59,416 What? 69 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:00,875 Wait, can-- can he do that? 70 00:04:00,958 --> 00:04:03,666 My mind is settled. It will not budge. I have to see my wife. 71 00:04:03,750 --> 00:04:06,291 -Good day. -No, wait! Mr. President! 72 00:04:06,375 --> 00:04:07,541 Mr. President, could-- 73 00:04:08,916 --> 00:04:11,416 Weren't you idiots supposed to be a committee of conciliation? 74 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:13,458 The tide yawed a different way. 75 00:04:13,541 --> 00:04:14,500 Gee, did it? 76 00:04:14,583 --> 00:04:16,625 Then allow me to yaw it back for you. 77 00:04:16,708 --> 00:04:19,166 Any senator that votes to proceed with Garfield's man, 78 00:04:19,250 --> 00:04:20,708 that vote will be his last. 79 00:04:20,791 --> 00:04:22,041 Have you considered 80 00:04:22,125 --> 00:04:25,375 that the body might perhaps be swayed more by compassion than by threats? 81 00:04:25,458 --> 00:04:27,416 Your voice makes me want to hang myself, Levi. 82 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:29,583 How's that for compassion? 83 00:04:30,166 --> 00:04:31,000 Out! 84 00:04:31,750 --> 00:04:33,041 Okay, come on, let's go. 85 00:04:41,166 --> 00:04:43,666 The seams are starting to show. 86 00:04:45,583 --> 00:04:46,791 What do you feel? 87 00:04:46,875 --> 00:04:49,125 You've got more horse sense than any of them. 88 00:04:51,541 --> 00:04:54,291 Can a collectorship really be so important? 89 00:04:54,791 --> 00:04:58,250 Is it worth expending all your capital on one front? 90 00:04:58,333 --> 00:05:01,833 It's the ports. It's patronage. I have no legacy save for this. 91 00:05:01,916 --> 00:05:04,041 No, you are loved. 92 00:05:05,375 --> 00:05:08,541 Don't you know you're the most popular man in all of New York? 93 00:05:08,625 --> 00:05:10,208 Patronage or no? 94 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,750 Street vendors on every corner tumble over themselves 95 00:05:14,833 --> 00:05:16,250 just to shake your hand. 96 00:05:16,333 --> 00:05:19,958 Parents name their children after you purely out of admiration. 97 00:05:20,041 --> 00:05:21,875 It could all go away in a heartbeat. 98 00:05:22,375 --> 00:05:25,041 You've got too low an opinion of other people, 99 00:05:25,708 --> 00:05:27,500 what moves them. 100 00:05:34,083 --> 00:05:35,583 A good leader 101 00:05:36,250 --> 00:05:39,916 knows when to fight wars and when to bring peace. 102 00:05:40,500 --> 00:05:42,166 You know, Mrs. Sprague… 103 00:05:45,083 --> 00:05:47,625 I might truly be lost without you. 104 00:05:58,333 --> 00:05:59,791 Which is why… 105 00:06:01,333 --> 00:06:04,541 I ended things with the governor 106 00:06:05,375 --> 00:06:06,708 earlier today. 107 00:06:08,958 --> 00:06:09,958 I'm ready. 108 00:06:11,333 --> 00:06:13,541 I don't want to live my whole life in the shadows. 109 00:06:13,625 --> 00:06:14,500 No. 110 00:06:16,250 --> 00:06:18,500 Your husband will blame me for this. 111 00:06:19,166 --> 00:06:21,541 He'll come after me in the press 112 00:06:22,041 --> 00:06:24,791 at a time I need every bit of support. 113 00:06:32,333 --> 00:06:33,708 Is that all you can think about? 114 00:06:33,791 --> 00:06:36,958 Kate, I have a family back in Albany. 115 00:06:37,958 --> 00:06:40,041 Julia and our daughter. 116 00:06:41,208 --> 00:06:43,083 We've hardly been shy. 117 00:06:44,625 --> 00:06:47,458 The entirety of D.C. already knows about us. 118 00:06:47,541 --> 00:06:49,291 Sure, sure. 119 00:06:52,375 --> 00:06:54,291 That won't play in Albany. 120 00:07:05,833 --> 00:07:07,833 You want me to give up my Senate seat? 121 00:07:08,416 --> 00:07:10,083 Both of us must resign, Tom. 122 00:07:11,333 --> 00:07:12,750 I like being a senator, though. 123 00:07:13,791 --> 00:07:14,833 Relax. 124 00:07:14,916 --> 00:07:16,083 It's temporary. 125 00:07:16,583 --> 00:07:19,833 A show of protest to cuckold the fucker at the other end of the avenue. 126 00:07:19,916 --> 00:07:21,250 But with our vacant seats, 127 00:07:21,333 --> 00:07:24,000 the Democrats get a majority in the Senate, we lose control. 128 00:07:24,083 --> 00:07:25,958 For a few weeks, sure. 129 00:07:26,041 --> 00:07:28,208 During which, chaos reigns the day. 130 00:07:28,791 --> 00:07:32,875 We sit back and watch as Garfield sees his whole agenda sacked and pillaged. 131 00:07:32,958 --> 00:07:34,625 That is, until our friends from New York 132 00:07:34,708 --> 00:07:38,541 elect us right back to our old seats by a unanimous vote. 133 00:07:39,083 --> 00:07:43,500 We waltz back into the Senate triumphant with a potent new mandate 134 00:07:43,583 --> 00:07:47,125 and a feckless fucking president flinging himself at our feet, Tom. 135 00:07:47,916 --> 00:07:51,875 Remind Garfield he can't so much as shit without New York's say-so. 136 00:08:06,791 --> 00:08:10,375 First Corinthians, 15:42. 137 00:08:12,791 --> 00:08:15,583 "The body that is sown is perishable." 138 00:08:16,750 --> 00:08:19,166 "It is raised imperishable." 139 00:08:20,250 --> 00:08:22,666 "Now I declare to you, brothers and sisters, 140 00:08:23,333 --> 00:08:26,833 flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God." 141 00:08:28,625 --> 00:08:32,666 "We will not sleep, but we will be changed." 142 00:08:34,458 --> 00:08:38,416 "In a flash, the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet." 143 00:08:39,958 --> 00:08:41,958 "For the trumpet will sound, 144 00:08:42,750 --> 00:08:45,000 and the dead, they will be raised." 145 00:08:46,750 --> 00:08:50,583 "O grave, where is thy victory?" 146 00:08:52,750 --> 00:08:54,958 "O death, where is thy sting?" 147 00:08:58,375 --> 00:08:59,791 "The sting of death is sin, 148 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,750 and in the power of sin we find law--" 149 00:09:03,833 --> 00:09:05,541 What know ye of Christ?! 150 00:09:19,083 --> 00:09:21,708 This city gets stranger by the day. 151 00:09:21,791 --> 00:09:22,708 Hm. 152 00:09:29,791 --> 00:09:30,875 Garfield! 153 00:09:31,541 --> 00:09:34,625 Garfield, I need to speak with you. It will not wait a moment longer. 154 00:09:36,250 --> 00:09:37,291 Certainly. 155 00:09:37,791 --> 00:09:40,625 Do you mind if I do a bit of light packing while we chat? 156 00:09:40,708 --> 00:09:42,875 I'm running dreadfully late as it stands. 157 00:09:44,166 --> 00:09:45,500 You're taking off early? 158 00:09:46,083 --> 00:09:50,125 I'm bringing Crete up to Monmouth to continue her recovery there. 159 00:09:50,708 --> 00:09:53,333 Dr. Edson's advised a gentler air. 160 00:09:53,833 --> 00:09:54,958 Mm. 161 00:09:55,041 --> 00:09:56,500 Shore's good for that. 162 00:09:56,583 --> 00:09:57,833 Mm-hm. 163 00:09:58,458 --> 00:10:01,583 Brought Nellie there when she got sick. 164 00:10:03,166 --> 00:10:06,291 I'm sorry, Chester. All this time, I've never asked you about her. 165 00:10:08,041 --> 00:10:09,208 It's a funny thing. 166 00:10:09,291 --> 00:10:14,833 Even among my closest friends, the topic of my late wife seldom comes up, so… 167 00:10:15,541 --> 00:10:16,541 Mm. 168 00:10:17,625 --> 00:10:20,500 No matter! It's not why I've come here today. 169 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,166 -Please. -No, no, no. 170 00:10:23,250 --> 00:10:24,458 If it's all the same… 171 00:10:28,375 --> 00:10:29,750 Surely you've read the papers. 172 00:10:29,833 --> 00:10:32,458 You know that I spoke against you. 173 00:10:34,958 --> 00:10:36,916 That sounds familiar, yes. 174 00:10:37,541 --> 00:10:38,375 Does it? 175 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,041 Good. 176 00:10:42,125 --> 00:10:43,916 Thusly, I… 177 00:10:44,916 --> 00:10:48,833 submit my resignation as vice president. 178 00:10:55,041 --> 00:10:55,916 Thank you. 179 00:10:59,291 --> 00:11:00,208 Thank you. 180 00:11:03,125 --> 00:11:04,375 I don't accept it. 181 00:11:08,125 --> 00:11:10,666 -What? -I'm not going to take your resignation. 182 00:11:10,750 --> 00:11:12,000 Not yet, anyway. 183 00:11:12,875 --> 00:11:15,916 I'd really like it if you'd give the job one more go. 184 00:11:17,125 --> 00:11:20,291 Hang on. Uh, no, you must not grasp… 185 00:11:20,791 --> 00:11:23,125 I was openly disloyal. 186 00:11:23,208 --> 00:11:26,250 I-- I called you all sorts of names in the press. 187 00:11:26,333 --> 00:11:28,541 Then I hope you'll come to me first next time 188 00:11:28,625 --> 00:11:30,916 prior to airing your concerns with the public. 189 00:11:33,916 --> 00:11:39,208 I feel it my duty to explain to you that you really ought to fire me. 190 00:11:39,958 --> 00:11:42,750 I'm a truly bad vice president. 191 00:11:43,500 --> 00:11:44,333 Not always. 192 00:11:45,166 --> 00:11:47,583 You didn't reject my other nominees on the Senate floor 193 00:11:47,666 --> 00:11:49,041 when you had the chance to do so. 194 00:11:49,125 --> 00:11:51,041 I didn't approve them in, either. 195 00:11:51,125 --> 00:11:53,041 I didn't even show up to the Capitol! 196 00:11:53,125 --> 00:11:55,208 Eh, sure, but that's not nothing, is it? 197 00:11:56,291 --> 00:11:58,291 Our politics are not the same! 198 00:11:58,375 --> 00:11:59,833 I'm aligned with Conkling. 199 00:11:59,916 --> 00:12:05,166 In two days' time, I'll go to Albany to ensure his and Platt's re-elections. 200 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,458 Well, you must do what you feel is right. 201 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,666 I don't see your game in this! 202 00:12:14,750 --> 00:12:16,541 For some reason, it eludes me! 203 00:12:20,750 --> 00:12:22,250 There's no game. 204 00:12:22,750 --> 00:12:24,791 You've made your views perfectly well-known. 205 00:12:26,375 --> 00:12:27,750 As your leader at present, 206 00:12:27,833 --> 00:12:30,166 I feel it's incumbent upon me to change them. 207 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:32,083 They'll not change! 208 00:12:32,166 --> 00:12:33,416 They will not evolve! 209 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:35,750 They're fixed! For good! 210 00:12:36,250 --> 00:12:39,916 Don't be a stranger, Mr. Arthur. My door is always open to you. 211 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:40,958 Fuck! 212 00:12:45,500 --> 00:12:47,625 Finally! You canned the prick. 213 00:12:47,708 --> 00:12:48,583 No. 214 00:12:48,666 --> 00:12:50,375 I'm gonna give him another try. 215 00:12:50,458 --> 00:12:53,708 Another try? He's the worst vice president in history. 216 00:12:53,791 --> 00:12:56,833 Perhaps, but I feel there's some good in him, deep down. 217 00:12:57,916 --> 00:13:00,541 That, and he's the only one who knows 218 00:13:00,625 --> 00:13:03,916 where the lion's share of our federal revenue is buried. 219 00:13:04,416 --> 00:13:06,500 Yeah, it would be nice to see that again. 220 00:13:06,583 --> 00:13:07,708 Wouldn't it? 221 00:13:10,875 --> 00:13:15,083 Wow. When'd those two get so chummy? 222 00:13:17,666 --> 00:13:18,875 What? Really? 223 00:13:19,458 --> 00:13:21,791 Oh, my. 224 00:13:22,666 --> 00:13:24,458 You've been preoccupied. 225 00:13:25,916 --> 00:13:28,000 When was the last time you got any sleep? 226 00:13:31,541 --> 00:13:34,458 I don't know what I'm meant to do. Conkling is just… 227 00:13:35,625 --> 00:13:37,125 too damn powerful. 228 00:13:39,291 --> 00:13:41,916 He bought every man in Albany his seat. 229 00:13:42,625 --> 00:13:45,500 This vote is nothing but a big charade. 230 00:13:46,333 --> 00:13:50,041 He'll be back on the Senate floor within days, him and Tom Platt. 231 00:13:50,125 --> 00:13:51,791 They'll demand my head on a pike. 232 00:13:51,875 --> 00:13:53,250 Probably. 233 00:13:54,291 --> 00:13:57,500 Perhaps I can't… change anything. 234 00:13:57,583 --> 00:14:02,083 I mean, what if I put my nominees, good, honest men, in harm's way? 235 00:14:02,166 --> 00:14:04,750 I've gambled them off on a war I can't possibly win. 236 00:14:04,833 --> 00:14:07,958 They will still see that there was one man who fought anyway for what was right. 237 00:14:08,041 --> 00:14:10,083 And lost his presidency at that. 238 00:14:10,166 --> 00:14:12,791 Then it's a good thing that you never wanted to be the president. 239 00:14:20,291 --> 00:14:21,458 Give it. 240 00:14:22,458 --> 00:14:24,916 Mollie can take me up to Monmouth alone. 241 00:14:25,416 --> 00:14:27,000 You need to stay here in Washington 242 00:14:27,083 --> 00:14:29,125 and show them you will not run from the battle. 243 00:14:29,208 --> 00:14:31,083 If you think I'd abandon my wife-- 244 00:14:31,166 --> 00:14:33,208 She will survive one week. 245 00:14:33,291 --> 00:14:35,291 You come to me when this is finished. 246 00:14:35,791 --> 00:14:36,791 Mm. 247 00:14:52,875 --> 00:14:54,875 Roscoe, it's a pleasure having you home. 248 00:14:54,958 --> 00:14:58,541 Pleasure's all mine. William, thank you for that banner. 249 00:14:58,625 --> 00:14:59,625 Of course. 250 00:15:00,208 --> 00:15:03,041 Upstate yokel fucks. They know who butters their bread. 251 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:11,541 -What? What are you laughing at? -What, you didn't hear about Tom? 252 00:15:11,625 --> 00:15:13,208 He's all anybody's talking about. 253 00:15:13,833 --> 00:15:16,500 Why? He's duller than a bag of hay. 254 00:15:16,583 --> 00:15:19,958 Word on the street is last night at Delavan House 255 00:15:20,041 --> 00:15:26,125 some of our half-breed rivals caught Platt in flagrante. 256 00:15:28,416 --> 00:15:30,541 You've been a naughty, naughty boy, Thomas. 257 00:15:30,625 --> 00:15:33,416 Some gal ought to teach you a lesson. 258 00:15:48,666 --> 00:15:51,000 I did not think Tom had it in him. 259 00:15:51,083 --> 00:15:54,708 Well, I guess you never can tell with some men. 260 00:15:54,791 --> 00:15:55,875 Cut him. 261 00:15:56,791 --> 00:15:57,875 What? 262 00:15:57,958 --> 00:16:00,916 He couldn't keep his cock in his pants for one night. 263 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,916 Now the whole delegation's openly mocking him. 264 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,291 Come on. It's just harmless fun. 265 00:16:05,375 --> 00:16:06,958 He's a clown to them now. 266 00:16:07,041 --> 00:16:08,291 A clown and a cheater. 267 00:16:08,375 --> 00:16:11,041 Men like that don't get voted back into the Senate. 268 00:16:11,125 --> 00:16:14,791 Either we cut ties, or the weight of him will drag us all under, Chester. 269 00:16:19,375 --> 00:16:21,666 We have known Tom for 20 years. 270 00:16:21,750 --> 00:16:24,000 I'm godfather to his kids. 271 00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:26,625 He has always stood for us, and he is our friend. 272 00:16:26,708 --> 00:16:30,208 You know better than anyone there isn't any such thing in politics. 273 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,291 Now, we'll do it quietly. Swap him off the ticket. 274 00:16:34,375 --> 00:16:36,708 Replace his name with that of some other party loyal. 275 00:16:36,791 --> 00:16:38,875 Can it really be as simple as that? 276 00:16:40,916 --> 00:16:41,875 Murtha! 277 00:16:46,416 --> 00:16:48,083 You want to move to D.C.? 278 00:16:48,166 --> 00:16:51,083 I, uh… Well, the cherry blossoms-- 279 00:16:51,166 --> 00:16:53,041 Stupendous. Then it's settled. 280 00:16:53,125 --> 00:16:56,125 Willie, my boy, welcome to the big leagues. 281 00:16:56,708 --> 00:16:57,791 Now fuck off. 282 00:17:02,458 --> 00:17:05,416 Whatever it takes. That's our law. 283 00:17:11,208 --> 00:17:13,875 So, what's the good word, big man? 284 00:17:15,791 --> 00:17:19,083 Chester? Is there something the matter? 285 00:17:21,250 --> 00:17:22,750 Let's have a walk, Tom. 286 00:17:22,833 --> 00:17:24,041 Just me and you. 287 00:17:28,458 --> 00:17:30,416 Good evening, Father. 288 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:32,833 It's been a long time since my last confession, 289 00:17:32,916 --> 00:17:36,208 but I have something to ask the Lord. 290 00:17:36,291 --> 00:17:38,166 He listens always. 291 00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:40,583 Speak freely. 292 00:17:45,125 --> 00:17:48,125 I have been charged, you see, 293 00:17:48,208 --> 00:17:53,000 with a great and terrible task. 294 00:17:55,125 --> 00:17:59,041 And I know it must be done and that I am the man to carry it out. 295 00:17:59,125 --> 00:18:00,750 There is no other who will. 296 00:18:01,375 --> 00:18:03,750 But… 297 00:18:10,833 --> 00:18:13,708 But I'm-- I'm scared, Father. 298 00:18:17,208 --> 00:18:19,208 I feel an evil 299 00:18:20,458 --> 00:18:21,708 that pervades our earth. 300 00:18:21,791 --> 00:18:23,250 I-- I-- I see it. 301 00:18:23,916 --> 00:18:30,208 I see it proliferate day by day and infect the souls of other men, 302 00:18:30,291 --> 00:18:33,166 and I fear that if left unchecked, 303 00:18:33,250 --> 00:18:37,166 it will-- it will plunge us into a second great war. 304 00:18:39,291 --> 00:18:41,083 But what is one life 305 00:18:41,166 --> 00:18:46,375 when weighed against hundreds of thousands of others that may die if I do not act? 306 00:18:47,708 --> 00:18:49,041 If I'm too weak? 307 00:19:01,833 --> 00:19:05,416 It is God that grants me purpose. 308 00:19:08,375 --> 00:19:11,000 Gentlemen, last call for votes. 309 00:19:11,083 --> 00:19:13,916 I mean, they sure are taking their sweet time. 310 00:19:14,416 --> 00:19:17,083 I'd milk it too if I were them. 311 00:19:17,166 --> 00:19:19,541 It's not often a band of Podunk state senators 312 00:19:19,625 --> 00:19:22,000 gets to hold the nation's fate in their hands. 313 00:19:22,083 --> 00:19:23,500 It's adorable. 314 00:19:32,083 --> 00:19:34,833 The legislators' wives, I presume? 315 00:19:34,916 --> 00:19:37,583 They show their faces before every big vote. 316 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:44,458 Julia. 317 00:19:52,375 --> 00:19:53,916 Oh, shit. 318 00:20:13,541 --> 00:20:14,500 Stop the vote. 319 00:20:14,583 --> 00:20:16,625 Stop the vote. Stop the vote! Stop the vote! 320 00:20:17,416 --> 00:20:18,250 Stop the vote! 321 00:20:19,875 --> 00:20:22,458 The vote's already been rendered, Mr. Conkling. 322 00:20:29,416 --> 00:20:31,250 The final combined tally. 323 00:20:32,416 --> 00:20:35,750 Thirty-four for Senator Roscoe Conkling, 324 00:20:36,875 --> 00:20:39,083 and 50 for Chauncey Depew. 325 00:20:58,333 --> 00:20:59,416 What is it? 326 00:21:02,958 --> 00:21:04,125 Son of a bitch. 327 00:21:06,291 --> 00:21:07,125 Mm-hm. 328 00:21:08,333 --> 00:21:10,166 Glory be! 329 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:17,708 Shut up! 330 00:21:19,333 --> 00:21:23,000 Put our nominees up for a floor vote, every single man! 331 00:21:23,083 --> 00:21:23,916 Do it now! 332 00:21:27,708 --> 00:21:29,416 My darling Crete… 333 00:21:32,125 --> 00:21:36,583 I dare say, somehow, we live to fight another day. 334 00:21:36,666 --> 00:21:40,250 It appears Conkling's invited himself straight out of the Senate. 335 00:21:40,333 --> 00:21:43,541 His and Tom Platt's seats now belong to us. 336 00:21:43,625 --> 00:21:45,041 Chauncey Depew for New York. 337 00:21:45,125 --> 00:21:47,375 Elbridge Lapham for New York. 338 00:21:48,166 --> 00:21:49,833 What happens now, Mr. Arthur? 339 00:21:51,833 --> 00:21:53,708 We just lost our fucking collector. 340 00:21:55,083 --> 00:21:56,291 William H. Robertson. 341 00:21:56,375 --> 00:21:58,500 Time for us to confirm our men, 342 00:21:58,583 --> 00:21:59,583 put them to work, 343 00:21:59,666 --> 00:22:02,541 forge ahead on the agenda we swore to the people. 344 00:22:02,625 --> 00:22:06,000 Conkling's chokehold over this country is finally at a close. 345 00:22:08,083 --> 00:22:11,125 My heart is light for the first time since we left Ohio. 346 00:22:12,291 --> 00:22:15,041 Trust that the boys have been keeping me on my toes. 347 00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:18,875 I'm counting down the hours till we're together again. 348 00:22:18,958 --> 00:22:22,708 Always the same, and forever your own, Jim. 349 00:22:25,250 --> 00:22:31,083 All my life I've had to hold my tongue and notch my wins discreetly. 350 00:22:33,083 --> 00:22:37,458 I played the long game just to get my name on a piece of paper. 351 00:22:37,541 --> 00:22:40,500 One they won't be able to deny. 352 00:22:43,208 --> 00:22:44,333 Now… 353 00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:50,541 every dollar bill printed in America will have a Black man's signature on it. 354 00:22:55,041 --> 00:22:56,541 It's not everything. 355 00:22:58,291 --> 00:23:00,250 But it is something. 356 00:23:04,833 --> 00:23:06,708 Oh, dear. 357 00:23:15,416 --> 00:23:18,666 We've been fielding inquiries from every newspaper in the country. 358 00:23:18,750 --> 00:23:20,625 They all want to know how you did it. 359 00:23:21,166 --> 00:23:22,041 Did what? 360 00:23:22,125 --> 00:23:23,125 How you won. 361 00:23:23,208 --> 00:23:25,166 How you single-handedly dismantled 362 00:23:25,250 --> 00:23:27,916 the most powerful force in all of politics. 363 00:23:29,041 --> 00:23:30,083 You're a hero, sir. 364 00:23:31,041 --> 00:23:32,958 How? Nothing's been done yet. 365 00:23:33,916 --> 00:23:35,916 Three months in office, nearly a hundred days, 366 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:37,916 I haven't passed a single bill. 367 00:23:38,416 --> 00:23:41,250 My only focus was on some petty partisan feud. 368 00:23:41,333 --> 00:23:44,333 Sir, if you can outplay Roscoe Conkling… 369 00:23:44,416 --> 00:23:46,583 There was no play, Joe. 370 00:23:49,625 --> 00:23:52,166 Make no mistake, we got lucky this time. 371 00:23:52,250 --> 00:23:53,708 Very lucky. 372 00:23:56,416 --> 00:24:00,041 But for so long as America should stand, 373 00:24:00,125 --> 00:24:02,833 there will always be more Roscoe Conklings. 374 00:24:06,625 --> 00:24:09,375 Now go enjoy a few days off. 375 00:24:10,375 --> 00:24:11,791 Because after that, 376 00:24:12,333 --> 00:24:13,916 the real work starts. 377 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,541 -I look forward to it. -I'm proud of you, Joe. 378 00:24:16,625 --> 00:24:18,458 You're where you ought to be. 379 00:24:49,166 --> 00:24:52,416 Well, hopefully you'll enjoy the fireworks this weekend with your wife. 380 00:24:52,500 --> 00:24:56,125 I shall be occupied toasting Conkling's demise. 381 00:24:56,208 --> 00:24:57,916 Harriet changed the locks again? 382 00:24:58,000 --> 00:24:59,583 You bet. 383 00:25:01,625 --> 00:25:03,250 Robert, you're Secretary of War now. You-- 384 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:12,833 Dad? 385 00:25:33,166 --> 00:25:34,000 Stop him! 386 00:25:35,708 --> 00:25:37,583 Stop that man! 387 00:25:38,208 --> 00:25:39,166 That's him! 388 00:25:45,208 --> 00:25:46,750 He shot Garfield! 389 00:25:47,416 --> 00:25:48,250 Get him! 390 00:25:48,833 --> 00:25:50,500 He shot him! 391 00:25:50,583 --> 00:25:52,041 -Grab him! -Right there! 392 00:25:53,541 --> 00:25:54,708 Get back! 393 00:25:55,291 --> 00:25:57,083 I did it! I did it! 394 00:25:57,166 --> 00:25:58,541 Take me to jail! 395 00:25:58,625 --> 00:26:00,625 Now Chester Arthur will be president! 396 00:26:01,625 --> 00:26:03,083 The Republic is saved! 397 00:26:03,166 --> 00:26:05,166 -Take him away! -Take that man! 398 00:26:05,250 --> 00:26:06,750 Move back! Move! Move! 399 00:26:06,833 --> 00:26:07,666 Move, move! 400 00:26:07,750 --> 00:26:10,416 -Keep them back! -For God's sake, give him some air! 401 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,458 Move back. Move. 402 00:26:17,041 --> 00:26:18,708 Water. Water! 403 00:26:19,291 --> 00:26:21,708 -Whoa, whoa, whoa. -I'm a doctor, Charles Purvis. 404 00:26:21,791 --> 00:26:25,125 -Chief Surgeon at the Freedman's Hospital. -Then go tend to your freed men. 405 00:26:25,208 --> 00:26:27,041 This is the president of the United States. 406 00:26:27,125 --> 00:26:30,166 He won't be for much longer if you don't get the hell out of my way. 407 00:26:40,333 --> 00:26:42,250 Sorry, Mr. President. 408 00:26:57,333 --> 00:26:59,291 The bullet hasn't left his body. 409 00:27:09,541 --> 00:27:13,000 I think you'd better telegraph Crete. 410 00:27:25,541 --> 00:27:27,958 You have them put me in a cell with a view of the park. 411 00:27:28,041 --> 00:27:31,833 When this is all over, I'll have Arthur name you chief of police. 412 00:27:34,541 --> 00:27:37,041 Oh! You'll want this, no doubt. 413 00:27:38,958 --> 00:27:41,375 Jesus Christ. 414 00:27:43,125 --> 00:27:44,791 It's quite something, isn't it? 415 00:27:45,541 --> 00:27:48,291 My little pistol changed the course of history. 416 00:27:54,083 --> 00:27:55,041 Here! 417 00:27:58,708 --> 00:28:01,583 Sarah, have one of the men boil some water from downstairs 418 00:28:01,666 --> 00:28:04,041 to fix in place on the lower extremities. 419 00:28:06,791 --> 00:28:08,958 We need boiled water, quickly. 420 00:28:12,375 --> 00:28:14,250 Freedman's Hospital, you say? 421 00:28:14,333 --> 00:28:15,416 That's right, sir. 422 00:28:15,500 --> 00:28:16,708 Hold this, please. 423 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:22,833 And before then, at Camp Barker, during the war… 424 00:28:26,333 --> 00:28:31,125 I believe I… passed through Barker once. 425 00:28:32,416 --> 00:28:35,000 Yes, Mr. President. I remember. 426 00:28:39,708 --> 00:28:41,791 What are my chances, you think? 427 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:44,833 They're not good. 428 00:28:46,416 --> 00:28:48,291 I'd put you at a one in a hundred. 429 00:28:54,041 --> 00:28:57,500 Well, then we'll take that chance and make good use of it. 430 00:29:19,333 --> 00:29:20,458 Gentlemen, 431 00:29:21,541 --> 00:29:23,208 I believe it possible, 432 00:29:24,083 --> 00:29:25,958 but if he's to have any hope, 433 00:29:26,458 --> 00:29:28,583 the offending bullet must be removed. 434 00:29:29,208 --> 00:29:33,500 You will have the entire services of our nation at your disposal. 435 00:29:35,375 --> 00:29:37,750 I require only a probe and scalpel. 436 00:29:43,416 --> 00:29:44,666 It's okay, sir. 437 00:29:45,708 --> 00:29:47,083 We'll fix you up. 438 00:29:48,041 --> 00:29:51,958 It would appear our bullet slid on past the first lumbar vertebra… 439 00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:55,500 …and has lodged itself further. 440 00:30:01,750 --> 00:30:04,083 Close now, I sense. 441 00:30:05,041 --> 00:30:05,916 Hm. 442 00:30:11,083 --> 00:30:12,541 -Doctor? -Thank you. 443 00:30:12,625 --> 00:30:14,500 I need absolute silence. 444 00:30:22,958 --> 00:30:26,750 It's all right. Loss of consciousness is to be expected. 445 00:30:27,541 --> 00:30:30,833 Lacerated tissue or relatively firm coagula. 446 00:30:30,916 --> 00:30:32,125 Probably the latter. 447 00:30:32,208 --> 00:30:34,166 Sir, this probe is damaging your patient, 448 00:30:34,250 --> 00:30:36,083 and your equipment is not properly sanitized. 449 00:30:36,166 --> 00:30:37,541 It's a critical moment. 450 00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:39,916 -We can't waste time. -Forgive me, sir. 451 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,958 Have you heard of the new research coming out of Europe on antisepsis? 452 00:30:43,041 --> 00:30:44,666 We are not in Europe! 453 00:30:44,750 --> 00:30:50,666 Doctor Purvis, invisible monsters are a thing of superstition, not science. 454 00:30:51,250 --> 00:30:52,791 The methods you question today 455 00:30:52,875 --> 00:30:55,875 are the very same which saved thousands of lives in the war. 456 00:30:56,541 --> 00:30:59,375 They are tested and true. 457 00:30:59,458 --> 00:31:01,625 Simply, they work. 458 00:31:12,208 --> 00:31:13,500 Now, sir, 459 00:31:14,666 --> 00:31:17,958 do I have your permit to continue with my examination? 460 00:31:53,416 --> 00:31:54,791 -Do you think he-- -No. 461 00:31:58,500 --> 00:31:59,541 I would know. 462 00:32:16,291 --> 00:32:17,916 They think we're murderers. 463 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,833 This whole country. 464 00:32:19,916 --> 00:32:24,666 This killer says he did it in my name, that… I'm a friend of his. 465 00:32:24,750 --> 00:32:25,791 We're to blame. 466 00:32:25,875 --> 00:32:28,541 Will you shut the fuck up? 467 00:32:28,625 --> 00:32:31,625 Some poor jackass from off the street figured he'd make a name for himself. 468 00:32:32,208 --> 00:32:34,666 The inquiry will run its course. We'll be clear. 469 00:32:34,750 --> 00:32:39,541 Our president was shot down today like a stray fucking dog. 470 00:32:39,625 --> 00:32:41,541 And he'll surely fucking die. 471 00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:44,083 He may be dead even now, for all we know, 472 00:32:44,166 --> 00:32:49,125 which will, in turn, trigger the process of succession. 473 00:32:51,125 --> 00:32:51,958 What? 474 00:32:52,041 --> 00:32:54,250 Don't tell me you haven't been thinking it. 475 00:32:54,333 --> 00:32:57,291 -Wrangling over a couple of Senate seats. -No, don't say it. 476 00:32:57,375 --> 00:32:59,208 We can rebuild what we had back in New York 477 00:32:59,291 --> 00:33:01,916 on a national scale, Arthur. 478 00:33:04,125 --> 00:33:05,125 No. 479 00:33:06,833 --> 00:33:09,666 I'll refuse the job outright. 480 00:33:10,250 --> 00:33:12,541 I am not fit to be a president! 481 00:33:12,625 --> 00:33:14,250 The beauty of America, my friend. 482 00:33:15,750 --> 00:33:17,458 After everything we've been through, 483 00:33:17,541 --> 00:33:20,666 are you so dense you can't grasp that we've just been gifted 484 00:33:20,750 --> 00:33:23,000 the biggest windfall in the history of the country? 485 00:33:25,125 --> 00:33:25,958 Stop the cab! 486 00:33:37,875 --> 00:33:40,041 What the hell's the matter with you today? 487 00:33:42,625 --> 00:33:45,208 To be frank, I'm not totally sure. 488 00:33:45,833 --> 00:33:49,500 But I have a strong compulsion not to ride with you for a moment longer. 489 00:33:49,583 --> 00:33:53,750 So… so what? Your plan is to hoof it all the way back to Washington instead? 490 00:33:53,833 --> 00:33:56,166 Sometimes a man's just gotta walk. 491 00:33:56,666 --> 00:33:57,750 Jesus. 492 00:33:59,875 --> 00:34:02,208 It's nearly 100 degrees out there, Arthur. 493 00:34:02,291 --> 00:34:04,291 Your heart will give out within a mile. 494 00:34:05,375 --> 00:34:08,708 Quit being a shit, get back in the goddamn carriage. 495 00:34:14,541 --> 00:34:17,000 You're going to hurt my feelings, Chester. 496 00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:19,166 Well, 497 00:34:20,250 --> 00:34:23,916 then it's good there's no such thing as friends in politics. 498 00:34:25,416 --> 00:34:27,208 You son of a bitch. 499 00:34:27,291 --> 00:34:29,208 You son of a bitch. 500 00:34:29,291 --> 00:34:31,125 Don't you turn your back on me! 501 00:34:31,208 --> 00:34:33,625 After everything I've done for you! 502 00:34:33,708 --> 00:34:35,833 I fucking made you! 503 00:34:38,666 --> 00:34:39,708 Arthur! 504 00:34:40,833 --> 00:34:42,000 Art-- 505 00:35:07,666 --> 00:35:11,375 -Oh, you're here. Thank God. -You stay down. Do not exert yourself. 506 00:35:11,458 --> 00:35:13,000 Is it bad? Are you in a lot of pain? 507 00:35:13,083 --> 00:35:16,916 Oh, the upper deck still functions, my dear. 508 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,375 It's only the hull that's been damaged. 509 00:35:20,125 --> 00:35:21,875 No major organs were hit. 510 00:35:21,958 --> 00:35:26,000 Dr. Bliss says that he's nearly isolated the bullet's position, so once it's out… 511 00:35:26,083 --> 00:35:27,583 We'll be in good shape. 512 00:35:27,666 --> 00:35:29,166 Okay. And where are the boys? 513 00:35:29,250 --> 00:35:30,666 They haven't been told yet. 514 00:35:31,416 --> 00:35:33,166 -We'll see to them. -All right. 515 00:35:34,666 --> 00:35:35,958 It's okay. 516 00:35:40,125 --> 00:35:44,041 What am I going to do with you? I mean, I leave you alone for one week. 517 00:35:44,125 --> 00:35:44,958 Mm. 518 00:35:45,458 --> 00:35:47,333 There is no time. 519 00:35:48,541 --> 00:35:50,833 We have to make arrangements. 520 00:35:51,791 --> 00:35:52,708 No. 521 00:35:54,041 --> 00:35:55,291 I don't accept that. 522 00:35:56,291 --> 00:35:59,750 I f-- I feel it everywhere. 523 00:36:00,666 --> 00:36:03,583 I'm here now, and I'm going to bring you back to life. 524 00:36:05,083 --> 00:36:07,083 Fight. You are going to fight. 525 00:36:07,666 --> 00:36:09,958 You do not speak to me of death again. 526 00:36:20,291 --> 00:36:21,416 Hang him! 527 00:36:34,083 --> 00:36:36,166 Guiteau! 528 00:36:38,125 --> 00:36:42,041 What would compel this devil Guiteau to go out and buy a gun? 529 00:36:42,125 --> 00:36:44,166 You can't parse a deranged mind. 530 00:36:44,250 --> 00:36:47,250 -Can he be in league with Conkling? -No. 531 00:36:47,333 --> 00:36:51,208 Conkling may well have created the climate for a Guiteau, 532 00:36:51,291 --> 00:36:52,875 but he did not facilitate this. 533 00:36:52,958 --> 00:36:55,708 I can't help it. I know it's not right, but I want every one of them 534 00:36:55,791 --> 00:36:57,458 to pay for what they did. 535 00:36:57,541 --> 00:36:59,583 Here's your first victim. 536 00:37:00,458 --> 00:37:02,625 Mrs. Garfield. 537 00:37:02,708 --> 00:37:05,291 Lord, help me, ma'am. I traveled through the night. 538 00:37:05,375 --> 00:37:06,375 Good God. 539 00:37:07,125 --> 00:37:09,041 You reek of cow dung. 540 00:37:10,041 --> 00:37:11,250 That makes sense. 541 00:37:11,333 --> 00:37:14,333 I hitched a ride to D.C. in the back of a farm cart. 542 00:37:14,416 --> 00:37:15,833 How's the president? Does he live? 543 00:37:15,916 --> 00:37:17,916 He does. He's resting. 544 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,166 Thank Christ. Thank the Lord. 545 00:37:20,250 --> 00:37:21,833 -Mr. Arthur. -I don't want it. 546 00:37:21,916 --> 00:37:24,583 I didn't want any of it. It was ambition. It was-- 547 00:37:24,666 --> 00:37:26,833 Chester, pull yourself together. 548 00:37:26,916 --> 00:37:28,666 You're vice president of the United States. 549 00:37:28,750 --> 00:37:30,250 Fuck if I am. 550 00:37:30,333 --> 00:37:31,333 I quit it all. 551 00:37:31,416 --> 00:37:34,541 What are you talking about? The American people are afraid. 552 00:37:34,625 --> 00:37:37,791 They are looking to us. They are looking to you, Chester. 553 00:37:37,875 --> 00:37:39,000 Curse me! 554 00:37:39,083 --> 00:37:41,875 I can't do it. I'm not fit! 555 00:37:41,958 --> 00:37:46,791 This president put his faith in me, and I shanked him at every turn! 556 00:37:46,875 --> 00:37:48,833 Lord, God, strike me down! 557 00:37:48,916 --> 00:37:51,625 I am naught but a low-down, dirty pig! 558 00:37:51,708 --> 00:37:55,416 You read me now, Chester Arthur, and you read me fucking well! 559 00:37:57,625 --> 00:38:02,916 Great emergencies can rouse, shall we say, generous and long-dormant traits in men. 560 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,208 If there was even a shred of real nobility in you, 561 00:38:05,291 --> 00:38:07,291 I think now is the time to let it shine. 562 00:38:08,625 --> 00:38:10,125 So what will you do, Chester? 563 00:38:10,208 --> 00:38:13,833 Will you resign like a coward in disgrace, or will you step up and reform? 564 00:38:17,541 --> 00:38:18,375 Reform. 565 00:38:18,958 --> 00:38:20,583 Reform, ma'am. 566 00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:22,791 I'll change my ways. 567 00:38:22,875 --> 00:38:24,375 You have my solemn oath. 568 00:38:24,458 --> 00:38:26,083 I will change my ways. 569 00:38:27,083 --> 00:38:27,916 Good. 570 00:38:36,125 --> 00:38:40,041 Remember, that's a $25 royalty for all newspaper use. 571 00:38:40,916 --> 00:38:43,458 Though I will give discounts to the local outlets. 572 00:38:43,541 --> 00:38:44,625 Or will I? 573 00:38:48,208 --> 00:38:52,250 I want to reaffirm that I bear no ill will towards the president. 574 00:38:52,333 --> 00:38:53,458 It was… 575 00:38:54,083 --> 00:38:57,666 It was an unfortunate political necessity. 576 00:38:57,750 --> 00:39:00,291 My aim was to unite the party once and for all, 577 00:39:00,375 --> 00:39:01,708 and to save the Republic. 578 00:39:01,791 --> 00:39:05,583 Yes, I shot him, as I would a rebel pulling down a flag. 579 00:39:05,666 --> 00:39:09,833 How many hundreds of thousands were sacrificed over the course of the war, 580 00:39:09,916 --> 00:39:10,791 and to what end? 581 00:39:10,875 --> 00:39:13,083 To protect our greatest of nations. 582 00:39:13,166 --> 00:39:16,291 I sacrificed only one, to that same end. 583 00:39:17,750 --> 00:39:21,625 Though I leave my justification to God and the American people. 584 00:39:21,708 --> 00:39:26,875 Oh, and for added context, look no further than my diary, The Truth, 585 00:39:26,958 --> 00:39:29,666 um, soon to be available wherever books are sold. 586 00:39:58,791 --> 00:39:59,625 Mm! 587 00:40:01,958 --> 00:40:04,958 -Let's give it a go. -Ready? 588 00:40:06,083 --> 00:40:06,958 Here we are. 589 00:40:23,208 --> 00:40:25,041 All right, all right, all right. 590 00:40:25,125 --> 00:40:26,541 It's okay. 591 00:40:27,291 --> 00:40:29,583 Okay. All right, it's all right. 592 00:40:30,416 --> 00:40:33,000 We're going to try again tomorrow. 593 00:40:33,791 --> 00:40:35,958 He's growing weaker by the day. 594 00:40:37,458 --> 00:40:41,458 It's the constant battery of well-wishers. They're placing strain on him. 595 00:40:42,166 --> 00:40:46,000 We need the wing locked down outside of the immediate family. 596 00:40:46,958 --> 00:40:50,666 When the president talks, he makes use of his diaphragm, 597 00:40:50,750 --> 00:40:54,583 which will in turn agitate the liver, pushing the bullet, 598 00:40:54,666 --> 00:40:55,958 impaling it deeper in. 599 00:40:56,041 --> 00:40:59,375 He's breathing. Won't breathing cause the diaphragm to move just as well? 600 00:40:59,458 --> 00:41:01,625 You're right, but breathing's gentle. 601 00:41:02,250 --> 00:41:03,291 Talking is violent. 602 00:41:21,250 --> 00:41:22,875 Healthy stream of pus. 603 00:41:25,083 --> 00:41:27,666 I've been writing to Chester Arthur. 604 00:41:27,750 --> 00:41:29,791 And he's not at all like Garfield. 605 00:41:29,875 --> 00:41:32,916 He knows who his friends are, 606 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,375 and who, who more stalwart than I 607 00:41:35,458 --> 00:41:39,875 that lifted him from… from a cipher to a president. 608 00:41:39,958 --> 00:41:40,791 Charlie-- 609 00:41:40,875 --> 00:41:43,791 And very soon, uh, the public will be reading my book. 610 00:41:44,625 --> 00:41:45,750 Your book? 611 00:41:46,333 --> 00:41:47,416 The Truth. 612 00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:50,083 It lays out my thinking in words that'll move 613 00:41:50,166 --> 00:41:51,708 even the most fervent deniers, 614 00:41:51,791 --> 00:41:54,583 and I've already had a dozen publishers ask for rights, 615 00:41:54,666 --> 00:41:58,000 and I'm just-- I'm playing them off, one against the other. 616 00:41:59,583 --> 00:42:02,375 You're speaking about this like it's some kind of game, Charlie. 617 00:42:02,458 --> 00:42:03,416 Yes, it is! 618 00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:06,833 Well, it is. That's exactly what it is. It's a big game, with winners and losers. 619 00:42:06,916 --> 00:42:09,541 For once, Franny, for once in my fucking life, I am the winner. 620 00:42:09,625 --> 00:42:12,041 And, of course, everything now will be different 621 00:42:12,125 --> 00:42:15,791 because I have name recognition to spare to launch my syndicate, 622 00:42:15,875 --> 00:42:17,333 The Daily Theocrat. 623 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,333 I did it, Fran. 624 00:42:20,083 --> 00:42:21,875 I did it for us. 625 00:42:22,458 --> 00:42:24,041 Look. 626 00:42:24,541 --> 00:42:26,083 Look at this. 627 00:42:26,166 --> 00:42:30,041 These people are writing to me every day, 628 00:42:30,125 --> 00:42:33,666 offering me support and-- and pledging money. 629 00:42:34,250 --> 00:42:36,416 Franny, I was so scared, I thought I was alone! 630 00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:39,291 But they're here! They were always here! 631 00:42:40,041 --> 00:42:42,416 And now, they're coming out in droves! 632 00:42:43,291 --> 00:42:47,833 Because I gave them something to believe in. 633 00:42:55,666 --> 00:42:57,833 -I have to go. -Huh? 634 00:42:59,333 --> 00:43:00,291 Oh. 635 00:43:02,375 --> 00:43:03,916 Fran? 636 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:05,333 -Guard? -Franny? 637 00:43:05,416 --> 00:43:06,250 Guard! 638 00:43:24,916 --> 00:43:27,416 Thank you for coming on such short notice, Professor Graham Bell. 639 00:43:27,500 --> 00:43:29,750 It's just Bell, Mr. Brown. 640 00:43:30,250 --> 00:43:33,958 If you could show us to the president, we may yet be able to save his life. 641 00:43:34,041 --> 00:43:36,041 The induction balance. 642 00:43:36,583 --> 00:43:38,916 Designed to detect traces of metal in a system 643 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,083 by means of an electric current. 644 00:43:41,166 --> 00:43:44,208 -Tainter, cue the power source. -Yes, Professor Bell. 645 00:43:45,333 --> 00:43:47,041 We know the bullet's made a home 646 00:43:47,125 --> 00:43:48,375 somewhere in his right side. 647 00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:52,125 -Mr. President, if you'd be so kind. -Okay. 648 00:43:53,291 --> 00:43:55,833 I got you. I got you. 649 00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:59,875 Don't you worry, sir. 650 00:44:00,791 --> 00:44:01,750 Steady down. 651 00:44:07,958 --> 00:44:10,375 I will require absolute silence, please. 652 00:44:24,708 --> 00:44:27,291 What's happening? What are you hearing? 653 00:44:27,375 --> 00:44:28,791 Something's not right. 654 00:44:30,541 --> 00:44:33,333 In success, it's meant to tick, but this isn't-- 655 00:44:35,833 --> 00:44:38,208 It's gone haywire with excitement. 656 00:44:39,833 --> 00:44:41,166 No, no. 657 00:44:41,250 --> 00:44:42,416 The bullet's here. 658 00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:44,041 Right where we always knew it to be. 659 00:44:44,125 --> 00:44:45,416 -By the liver. -Doctor-- 660 00:44:45,500 --> 00:44:46,791 I can hear it perfectly. 661 00:44:46,875 --> 00:44:49,375 Is it meant to sound like a sputtering? 662 00:44:50,250 --> 00:44:52,000 Tainter, shut off the power. 663 00:44:52,083 --> 00:44:54,708 No, no, no, no. Nearly there. 664 00:44:54,791 --> 00:44:56,208 I just need-- 665 00:44:56,291 --> 00:44:58,166 I don't think he can take much more. 666 00:44:58,250 --> 00:45:00,458 I'm not going to lose him. 667 00:45:00,541 --> 00:45:02,250 -Doctor! -Someone hold the patient still! 668 00:45:02,333 --> 00:45:05,208 -Dr. Bliss, stop this right now. -I am the ranking physician here! 669 00:45:05,291 --> 00:45:07,458 Drop that scalpel! 670 00:45:07,541 --> 00:45:10,375 Or I'll drive it through your fucking eyehole. 671 00:45:19,583 --> 00:45:21,083 What is it, dear? 672 00:45:21,583 --> 00:45:22,416 It's metal. 673 00:45:22,500 --> 00:45:25,625 The bed, it's made of springs, so it might have interfered with-- 674 00:45:25,708 --> 00:45:26,958 -We can still-- -No. 675 00:45:28,083 --> 00:45:31,625 But the bullet isn't the culprit, my dear. 676 00:45:35,916 --> 00:45:38,625 There's something else in me now. 677 00:45:39,208 --> 00:45:41,666 I'm not going to be able to… 678 00:45:45,041 --> 00:45:47,666 I want you to know how proud you've made us, 679 00:45:47,750 --> 00:45:49,000 me and your mother. 680 00:45:53,208 --> 00:45:55,750 I honestly don't know what I'm supposed to do without you. 681 00:45:55,833 --> 00:45:57,458 Dear… 682 00:45:58,208 --> 00:46:00,041 you don't need me. 683 00:46:02,375 --> 00:46:04,375 Mark my words. 684 00:46:05,708 --> 00:46:09,750 You, my brilliant, beautiful daughter, 685 00:46:10,958 --> 00:46:13,291 are going to be great. 686 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:27,375 What's this about the president leaving Washington today? 687 00:46:27,458 --> 00:46:30,625 He's asked to be by the ocean to resume his trip up to Monmouth. 688 00:46:30,708 --> 00:46:32,458 No. As his surgeon, I must refuse. 689 00:46:32,541 --> 00:46:34,666 I have watched my husband preyed upon and picked apart. 690 00:46:34,750 --> 00:46:36,750 And I think I'm done. 691 00:46:37,333 --> 00:46:38,583 And he is done. 692 00:46:38,666 --> 00:46:40,666 We are days away from finding the bullet. 693 00:46:40,750 --> 00:46:44,083 I would advise you to choose your next words very carefully, Dr. Bliss. 694 00:46:48,125 --> 00:46:49,375 I think that's enough. 695 00:47:32,750 --> 00:47:34,750 I don't even know where to begin. 696 00:47:34,833 --> 00:47:35,916 You will. 697 00:47:37,208 --> 00:47:38,750 I believe in you. 698 00:47:41,416 --> 00:47:43,958 When you see the way, you'll know. 699 00:49:16,916 --> 00:49:19,833 As a boy, I dreamed of the ocean. 700 00:49:20,583 --> 00:49:26,541 Sailing to parts unknown like some sort of Crusoe. 701 00:49:27,208 --> 00:49:31,125 Awfully ambitious dream for a boy that never learned to swim. 702 00:49:32,708 --> 00:49:38,500 Well, my head's always been a bit big for my station. 703 00:49:39,750 --> 00:49:40,750 Well… 704 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,458 Why did I give that speech in Chicago? 705 00:49:47,833 --> 00:49:49,916 I knew what I was doing 706 00:49:51,250 --> 00:49:53,416 when I walked up to that podium. 707 00:49:56,083 --> 00:49:59,708 I wanted them to know me. 708 00:50:08,041 --> 00:50:10,708 You gave the speech because what you had in your heart 709 00:50:10,791 --> 00:50:13,500 could not be contained to Ohio. 710 00:50:17,791 --> 00:50:22,375 Do you think my name will have some place in human history? 711 00:50:25,458 --> 00:50:27,041 Yes, a grand one. 712 00:50:28,333 --> 00:50:29,458 Mm. 713 00:50:29,541 --> 00:50:33,083 But a grander place still in human hearts. 714 00:50:44,833 --> 00:50:46,041 It's all right. 715 00:50:49,583 --> 00:50:52,166 I will be right here with you all night long. 716 00:51:37,625 --> 00:51:41,125 May the Lord carry him home. 717 00:51:43,583 --> 00:51:44,708 Amen. 718 00:51:56,208 --> 00:51:58,583 Note that the shot migrated left, 719 00:51:59,166 --> 00:52:01,500 tucked neatly behind the pancreas. 720 00:52:05,875 --> 00:52:10,000 It would seem the shot interrupted not one of the president's organs, 721 00:52:10,625 --> 00:52:12,416 that the wound healed on its own. 722 00:52:12,500 --> 00:52:13,916 What could have killed him then? 723 00:52:15,708 --> 00:52:17,250 Septic poisoning. 724 00:52:18,375 --> 00:52:21,750 Evidenced by the abscesses throughout the body. 725 00:52:22,833 --> 00:52:24,041 Infection. 726 00:52:25,416 --> 00:52:26,375 I don't understand. 727 00:52:26,458 --> 00:52:28,250 Do you mean he would have recovered naturally 728 00:52:28,333 --> 00:52:30,166 if the bullet had been left alone? 729 00:52:37,750 --> 00:52:38,833 I… 730 00:52:41,666 --> 00:52:44,375 I think we may have made a mistake. 731 00:52:47,250 --> 00:52:49,541 I heard Arthur asked you to stay on. 732 00:52:49,625 --> 00:52:50,750 Mm-hm. 733 00:52:50,833 --> 00:52:52,333 Can you imagine? 734 00:52:53,250 --> 00:52:55,416 All the years we spent working for it. 735 00:52:57,083 --> 00:52:59,416 Job's handed to that fat fuck. 736 00:52:59,500 --> 00:53:01,666 He's… He's come a long way. 737 00:53:02,375 --> 00:53:03,625 Truly. 738 00:53:03,708 --> 00:53:07,500 In time, he-- he may even make a good president. 739 00:53:09,333 --> 00:53:11,125 I believe it. 740 00:53:11,208 --> 00:53:14,458 I'm not sure he can win in '84, though. 741 00:53:14,541 --> 00:53:17,041 You really are one craven bastard. 742 00:53:17,125 --> 00:53:19,875 So you won't be joining my ticket, then? 743 00:53:25,291 --> 00:53:27,041 That son of a bitch. 744 00:53:27,125 --> 00:53:29,375 He stole my ports and… 745 00:53:31,625 --> 00:53:33,500 he killed my whole career. 746 00:53:35,291 --> 00:53:38,166 May we see his like again one day. 747 00:54:13,875 --> 00:54:14,916 Fran? 748 00:54:17,625 --> 00:54:19,041 Franny? 749 00:54:19,125 --> 00:54:21,000 Oh! I knew you'd come. 750 00:54:26,333 --> 00:54:28,041 I lied to my family. 751 00:54:28,125 --> 00:54:30,833 Told them I was seeing to affairs in New York. 752 00:54:31,666 --> 00:54:34,583 Nobody knows I'm here aside from the warden. 753 00:54:34,666 --> 00:54:37,000 But I… could not let you go. 754 00:54:37,083 --> 00:54:38,166 I had to meet you first. 755 00:54:38,250 --> 00:54:42,166 Well, we have met before, Mrs. Garfield. 756 00:54:43,041 --> 00:54:46,958 We spoke at the ball at your husband's inauguration. 757 00:54:47,750 --> 00:54:51,208 You struck me as kind, and I pray for all your family-- 758 00:54:51,291 --> 00:54:55,458 If you think I welcome prayer from you, you are fiercely mistaken. 759 00:54:55,541 --> 00:54:57,541 I'm not here to give you absolution. 760 00:54:58,583 --> 00:55:01,833 I think about the last question he ever asked me the day he died. 761 00:55:01,916 --> 00:55:05,166 He said, "Do you figure my name might have some place in history?" 762 00:55:06,416 --> 00:55:08,916 That question has some merit in it. 763 00:55:10,916 --> 00:55:13,541 And I said history would remember him grandly. 764 00:55:15,791 --> 00:55:17,208 But it felt… 765 00:55:18,333 --> 00:55:21,708 so strange coming out of my mouth because I… 766 00:55:23,083 --> 00:55:24,000 I didn't believe it. 767 00:55:26,208 --> 00:55:28,458 My last words to him were a lie. 768 00:55:32,458 --> 00:55:34,625 Because in reality, I know history 769 00:55:35,833 --> 00:55:37,666 won't remember him at all. 770 00:55:39,375 --> 00:55:41,083 Be no reason to. 771 00:55:41,708 --> 00:55:44,000 Be a minor footnote at best. 772 00:55:44,583 --> 00:55:46,458 An idle piece of trivia. 773 00:55:47,333 --> 00:55:49,958 Do you recall poor old what's-his-name 774 00:55:50,041 --> 00:55:53,333 who was shot three months into his presidency? 775 00:55:53,416 --> 00:55:55,625 And they won't ever know about the man that he truly was. 776 00:55:55,708 --> 00:55:57,666 The hero who waged wars. 777 00:55:57,750 --> 00:56:01,291 Who would slip me stupid little love poems in made-up Latin. 778 00:56:01,791 --> 00:56:04,416 Who would do headstands and sing show tunes 779 00:56:05,041 --> 00:56:06,666 just to see his children laugh. 780 00:56:09,750 --> 00:56:10,750 No. 781 00:56:12,833 --> 00:56:15,041 Surely no one will ever know that man. 782 00:56:18,250 --> 00:56:22,041 America may mourn him today, but as the years pass by, they'll forget. 783 00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:26,791 And I can… 784 00:56:28,291 --> 00:56:30,000 feel him waning away. 785 00:56:32,208 --> 00:56:33,583 Even now. 786 00:56:37,541 --> 00:56:40,125 In no time, he'll just be another face on the wall. 787 00:56:40,708 --> 00:56:43,000 Lost to history. 788 00:56:47,875 --> 00:56:49,208 But then again… 789 00:56:51,291 --> 00:56:52,166 so will you. 790 00:56:54,708 --> 00:56:56,625 This is your destiny also. 791 00:56:58,291 --> 00:57:01,333 Only in your case, there will be no portraits. 792 00:57:02,500 --> 00:57:04,625 No children will learn your name. 793 00:57:04,708 --> 00:57:06,291 You don't know what you're saying. 794 00:57:06,375 --> 00:57:07,416 I do. 795 00:57:08,708 --> 00:57:11,166 In fact, I'm going to see to it myself. 796 00:57:12,208 --> 00:57:13,666 I understand you've written a book. 797 00:57:14,458 --> 00:57:16,458 I will make sure it is never printed. Ever. 798 00:57:16,541 --> 00:57:18,666 Not while anyone who cares still draws breath. 799 00:57:18,750 --> 00:57:21,541 You will have no voice once you exit from this world. 800 00:57:21,625 --> 00:57:23,250 I will erase you… 801 00:57:23,916 --> 00:57:26,500 as you did to the man I loved most. 802 00:57:26,583 --> 00:57:27,916 No. 803 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,000 You can't because you don't have the right. 804 00:57:30,083 --> 00:57:32,625 I've already done it, Mr. Guiteau. 805 00:57:35,208 --> 00:57:37,291 I came here because I wanted you to know 806 00:57:37,375 --> 00:57:40,083 when you are on your way up to those gallows… 807 00:57:41,708 --> 00:57:43,375 they will forget you. 808 00:57:45,375 --> 00:57:46,333 Wait. 809 00:57:46,416 --> 00:57:47,791 Wait. 810 00:57:47,875 --> 00:57:48,750 Wait! 811 00:57:49,291 --> 00:57:51,333 Wait, wait! 812 00:57:51,416 --> 00:57:52,333 Wai… 813 00:58:22,291 --> 00:58:24,833 I stubbed my toe on the gallows. 814 00:58:24,916 --> 00:58:25,958 My son. 815 00:58:28,333 --> 00:58:31,583 From Matthew 10, verse 28. 816 00:58:32,500 --> 00:58:35,708 "And fear not them which kill the body, 817 00:58:35,791 --> 00:58:39,125 but are not able to kill the soul, 818 00:58:39,208 --> 00:58:45,750 but rather fear him, which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." 819 00:58:45,833 --> 00:58:48,375 Also from Matthew, 820 00:58:51,208 --> 00:58:55,166 "Except that you become as a child, 821 00:58:55,250 --> 00:58:58,958 ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven." 822 00:59:01,583 --> 00:59:05,916 I'm going to the Lordy I'm so glad 823 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,708 Oh, glory hallelujah! 824 00:59:08,791 --> 00:59:11,625 Glory hallelu-- 825 00:59:11,708 --> 00:59:17,791 I saved my party, I saved my land 826 00:59:17,875 --> 00:59:21,875 I'm gone to the Lordy 827 00:59:21,958 --> 00:59:25,666 I'm so glad! 828 00:59:42,041 --> 00:59:42,875 Oh. 829 00:59:47,291 --> 00:59:48,208 Glory, glory. 830 00:59:48,291 --> 00:59:49,208 Glory. 831 00:59:49,291 --> 00:59:50,791 Glory. Glory. 832 01:00:11,916 --> 01:00:13,208 Sir. 833 01:00:13,291 --> 01:00:14,208 Thank you, sir. 834 01:03:01,541 --> 01:03:04,291 So I'm going to the Lordy 835 01:03:04,375 --> 01:03:07,000 I'm so glad 836 01:03:07,083 --> 01:03:10,458 And I'm going to the Lordy 837 01:03:10,541 --> 01:03:12,333 Ha-hallelujah 838 01:03:12,416 --> 01:03:13,250 Yeah 839 01:03:13,958 --> 01:03:17,000 I'm going to the Lordy 840 01:03:17,083 --> 01:03:18,416 Hallelujah 841 01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:19,916 Whoa, glory 842 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:22,708 I'm going to the Lordy 843 01:03:22,791 --> 01:03:25,041 I'm so glad 844 01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:33,083 I wonder what I'll do When I get to the Lordy 845 01:03:33,166 --> 01:03:37,416 I wonder what I'll do when I get 846 01:03:39,666 --> 01:03:45,333 I wonder what I will see When I get to the Lordy 847 01:03:45,875 --> 01:03:51,375 I wonder what I will see when I get to 848 01:04:03,875 --> 01:04:06,666 So I'm going to the Lordy 849 01:04:06,750 --> 01:04:08,916 I'm so glad 850 01:04:09,416 --> 01:04:12,708 And I'm going to the Lordy 851 01:04:12,791 --> 01:04:14,625 Ha-hallelujah 852 01:04:14,708 --> 01:04:20,500 And love the Lordy with all my soul 853 01:04:20,583 --> 01:04:21,916 Oh, whoa 854 01:04:22,416 --> 01:04:25,041 I'm going to the Lordy 855 01:04:25,125 --> 01:04:27,333 I'm so glad 856 01:04:28,958 --> 01:04:31,958 Glory, I will weep no more 857 01:04:32,041 --> 01:04:35,000 Glory, I will weep no more 858 01:04:35,083 --> 01:04:37,875 Glory, I will weep no more 859 01:04:37,958 --> 01:04:41,166 Glory, I will weep no more 860 01:04:41,250 --> 01:04:44,291 Glory, I will weep no more 861 01:04:44,375 --> 01:04:47,375 Glory, I will weep no more 862 01:04:47,458 --> 01:04:50,458 Glory, I will weep no more