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                        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
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