insane asylum.
Well, all you need
to start an asylum...
is an empty room and
the right kind of people.
Thats right.
Oh, good evening, Mrs. Jordan.
Look what I brought with me.
Oh, why, look!
- And the baby came along too!
- Here.
Take a look at the dizzy
old gal with the goat.
Ive had to look at her for years.
Thats Mrs. Bullock.
Alexander!
- Alexander! Alexander!
- Im terribly sorry.
How do you
for this invasion.
Yes, we are.
You do know, that this apartment
has a very special meaning for me.
As a thirteen-year-old
schoolboy, I used to live here...
...with my mother and
my two brothers.
This was a small, rather shabby
boarding house...
...now restored of course.
- That was in the Fifties?
I was just thirteen.
The odd thing was that I lived here
with Klaus Kinski for months.
Oh, really?
for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist ... We
must never let the weight of this combination
endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
We should take nothing for granted ...
ELECTION IMAGERY
School kids reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. WPA films of farmers
harvesting the Texas plains. Rain, thunderheads, a dusty car coming
from far away on a road moving to
for a beat through the opaque helmet visor.
Approves. Slips the rolled-up stolen canvas into the empty tube.
Leaves. Before we follow, we shift angle to see the replacement
canvas...
A cheerful acrylic portrait. Bozo the Clown.
WITH the Thief now, moving fast, into a panelled library. There is
a CHUTE built into the wall, a brass lid with the words U.S. MAIL.
The Thief pops the labeled tube DOWN
for me
and the rising star keeps rising.
The case is yours.
And just how high
do I get to rise this time?
Ive been junior partner
for too long now, Karl.
- Its not like other firms havent called.
- Erin...
I want my name on the door,
right next to yours.
Okay.
Try to get the deal.
If the priest wont
and this goes to trial
the archdiocese feels he could
be an embarrassment.
So under no circumstanc