:E6000 E / 6000 the tape continues DR. BRODEY Well. There are a considerable number of other items, which are detailed in writing in the documentation which accompanies this videotape. What I want to do here mainly, now that I've outlined the particulars of dividing up my estate, is to explain myself. First, to Helen. He will warm into it now: obviously the whole reason for the videotape is for the performance that follows. The nitty-gritty over, it is the justification and even the oneupmanship that keeps him going now. DR. BRODEY Surprised you, didn't I, dear? Thought I'd leave you high and dry, I bet. The thing is, dear, I've never been quite the ogre you thought I've been. I haven't been the easiest man to live with, I'm sure; and, yes, we began to go our separate ways some years ago; but I am not ungrateful for our years together, particularly early on; and, though you may find this hard to believe, coming from me, I do believe in marital responsibility. It would be outrageous if I acted like the scoundrel you accuse me of being. So you have much to enjoy for your remaining years, dear. The mansion, of course. Enough income to keep you happy, I should hope. I hope when you spend that income -- when you take your little "shop til you drop" excursions into the city, or into the regentrified northwest neighborhood below the west hills -- when you buy your perfumes and jewelry and soaps and whatever -- think of me a little bit, will you? I have been a good provider, you can't deny me that. Even at the end. Goodbye, Helen. I have to admit one thing: I hope you finally feel a little guilty for all the bad things you've been thinking about me in recent years. I hear about them, you know. There's not much that you do, not much that you think, that I don't find out about. Goodbye, Helen. He clears his throat: who to do next? Watching: SUSANNE This is extraordinary. JUSTIN It gets better. DR. BRODEY (on tape) Trudy. No, Jack first. Jack. What can you be thinking now? I haven't left you high and dry, by the way. In the documentation accompanying this videotape, you'll see I've left you a few things to remember me by: my hunting rifle, most significantly. I still think if you learned to hunt, you'd go far in taking the first step in redeeming yourself. A funny word, redemption. I don't know what to say to you, Jack, how to explain to you how much I expected from you and how much you disappointed me. Not by not following in my footsteps, for Christ's sake. I don't give a damn that you didn't become a doctor. You could've become anything, as far as I was concerned. JACK (over the tape) Asshole. DR. BRODEY (on tape) Anything -- as long as you became SOMETHING. The path you are on, Jack -- and I know I've told you this a hundred times -- JACK A million. DR. BRODEY -- the path you are on is going to destroy you. And sooner than you think. I don't know what I did wrong. I tried everything in my power to rehabilitate you, JACK You never did shit. DR. BRODEY to give you direction, to help you find meaning to your life. I make one final offer. A part of the money left to Trudy has been put in trust, a special trust which will revert to you, not to Trudy, if you undertake a full year in a drug rehabilitation center I've learned about in southeastern Washington. They've been working wonders there, Jack, believe me -- it takes a full year, all of it as an in-patient, but it does the job. You enter that program, and I've also made provisions to pay the considerable fees involved, you successfully undertake the program, and the trust money is yours. Otherwise, at the end of eighteen months -- so I'm giving you six months to decide on this -- otherwise the money goes to Trudy. And finally, to Trudy. Oh, sweetheart, this is the hardest part for me, because you're the one it's hardest to say goodbye to. JACK Where are the violins? TRUDY Sshh. DR. BRODEY I almost left you everything. That's how much I love you. But you'll understand that I have obligations to your mother, I'm sure you will. And I know you'll understand why I have to be tough with Jack -- "tough love," that's what we call it in the profession these days, "tough love." With you, I'm glad to say, love doesn't have to be "tough." We've had a very, very special relationship, you and I, in many ways the most intense and special relationship I've ever experienced. Well, I'm not saying what I want to say. Maybe I can say it to you in person, before I . . . He is almost losing it: he'll use Jack to get himself back in focus. DR. BRODEY I don't want to become sentimental here. Jesus. Maybe it's time to sign off. One thing: Trudy, I don't know if you can do anything to get Jack to seek treatment, you two haven't always been close, but if you can . . . No, let the sonofabitch seal his own destiny. Jack, you out there? You're a goddamn spoiled wimp, do you know that? Jack? A GODDAMN SPOILED WIMP! Everything's been handed to you, every opportunity, and you-- . . . I shouldn't even give you a last chance. He's angry. Now he gets up, perhaps knocking something over on the desk, and gropes toward the camera, which obviously is self-run, his blurring massiveness taking up the screen now, until the camera is turns off. END OF TAPE. TIME CODE: 63:30 /h2/ /h3/ /h4/ /h9/ ?"Continue" :"Continue" Continue