Crisis in Six Scenes (2016): Season 1, Episode 3 - Episode #1.3 - full transcript

Hi. Who are you?

I'm a friend of Kay's.
Who... who are you?

I'm Allen Brockman.
It's so nice to meet you.

I... You took me by
surprise' cause I didn't think

they were having a guest today.

Yeah, I dropped in unexpectedly.

Well, that's nice. And you are...

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God, wait a minute, you're...

I know you.

I know you... You're from...



Who are... You're that girl.

You're the girl from the
papers, from the papers.

I've seen you before, from the papers.

They're chasing you.

- You're wanted.
- Look, keep it down.

Nobody's gonna get hurt, okay?

Look, I got to say... Jesus,
you're even prettier in person.

It's amazing. Your photographs,

they don't even come
close to doing you justice.

You're beautiful.

Wow, God, it's Lenny Dale.

You said she'd be out of here by now.

Well, she's not,

and the police have
traced her to New York,



and she's hot as a pistol.

She can't leave until
the coast is clear.

Kay, we're gonna wind up in prison.

You know, and I'm the
type that gets sodomized.

I'm fair skinned and,
you know, rather shapely.

Yes, you are, but
we're safe now, we are.

If the cops come, I got a rap sheet.

You got a what?

Remember when we were in Beverly Hills?

I was arrested for jay walking.

They... they threw me up
against the car, they frisked me.

I only got out on a plea deal.

Listen, I can't turn her out.

I just can't turn her out.

Have you seen how much this woman eats?

I mean, do all
revolutionaries eat so much?

Did Lenin eat so much?

She's been starving, starving.

She... she ate... First of all...

First of all, my Fig
Newtons, she finished.

The chicken is gone.

I mean, you know, what...
what's going on here?

She never stops.

Will you forget about the
chicken and the Fig Newtons?

You'll live without the Fig Newtons.

We've got bigger fish to fry.

Yeah, she also ate all the fish.

You know, I bought sturgeon.

Don't you have any pity at all for her?

I have no pity.

Sturgeon is, you know how
much sturgeon costs a pound?

Oh, you're still in the kitchen.

Yup.

I met Allen.

Did you?

I gave him marijuana.

Oh, great, that's great.

Can you believe that
he's never tried it?

What a sheltered life.

Drugs, what does he need drugs for?

Not drugs, grass, and don't worry,

he's in his room trying it.

I told him not to smoke it here

or you'd have a cerebral hemorrhage.

Hey, um, uh...

Are you gonna eat that
last piece of sturgeon?

Why, do you want it?

Yeah, I... I have a little
tradition here, Friday mornings.

Sure. It's all yours.

You plutocrats are lost
without your high end luxuries.

Hey, don't give me the
plutocrats routine, okay?

I came from a poor family in Brooklyn.

My father was a baker.

I used to... we had no
money at all, you know?

I would... I would sneak
into his shop after hours

and suck the jelly out
of the jelly donuts.

That was my dessert.

You sound like Nixon.

Yeah, well, I... I'm the guy
that had to earn the money

for the family.

I originally I wanted
to be Chekhov or Salinger

is who I really wanted to be, Salinger.

But I had to support
everybody so I got a job

on Madison Avenue writing commercials.

Oh, yeah, so you could
sell people products

that they don't really want
or need with false claims.

No, never false.

Never, never false claims, you know?

Although I did have to use some
ingenuity to persuade people

to buy a musical toilet seat.

It's a disgraceful way to make money.

Well, you know, it's not
robbing a bank like you do.

You know, I... I... I
had a... a... a novel,

my first novel was on
the best seller list.

In what paper, the
poultry man's journal?

Hey, don't give me that.

I'm sure you've never
read it, of course.

It was called "Let There Be Light".

It was about a
proctologist who finds God

in the strangest places.

Hack claptrap.

Yeah, well, I still get
plenty of royalties from it.

Of course, so you can buy
all the stupid products

that a capitalistic society has to offer

its moron customers.

Possessions, possessions, status,

you know just anything
to create an illusion

of happiness in life.

What the hell are you talking about?

You know, you rant
and you... you babble.

What... what... what...
what are you discussing here?

- Like that.
- What... This is my waffle iron.

You're politically
against my waffle iron?

- And this?
- That's a blender.

Yes, I have appliances.

And what the hell is this?

It's a hot fudge machine.

Do you understand that...
that people are starving?

- For hot fudge?
- No, you boob.

Families can't feed their
children the essentials of life.

Here in America, do you
know the malnutrition rate?

And while kids are starving,
you stand here and dick around

- with waffles and hot fudge.
- Yeah, and you make bombs.

And it's not that you're
stupid, which you are,

it's just that you're like

millions of other passive Americans.

You're a mindless, cowardly follower.

A stooge with herd mentality.

Out, get out.

I want you out.

I want you out of my house.

- I know.
- No, no.

Nevertheless, I have to
stay here for a while.

I'm... You have to stay?

You have to stay?

I'm the master of this house and...

Oh, God, give it a rest.

Kay makes the rules around here

and she understands my problem.

All right, I'm setting up your room.

Now, what do you like to sleep
on, foam rubber or feathers?

What are you nuts? Don't
set a room up for her.

Have you no conscience?

Didn't your parents ever teach you

that social injustice is wrong?

That everything that you believe

is America the beautiful
is just a fantasy?

That it's not the place that
it purports itself to be?

But it can be, if
everything's just scrapped

and we start over.

My parents taught me how
to make ice cream sodas

without soda water using Alka Seltzer.

Look, I'm gonna leave the country soon.

I just, I need a little bit of time.

I... I can't be a law breaker, I can't.

I'm sure you cheat on your income tax.

I never cheat.

I just don't declare everything.

Wow, I feel so relaxed.

Just good and loose and nice.

And... Lenny, I have to thank you.

I feel so good, like I'm
surfing in Acapulco Bay.

Just mellow.

Hey, you hear that, Kay? He's surfing.

She... she... she gave him a cigarette.

Mellow is for cheese.

Listen, Allen, Lenny's
gonna be staying with us

for a while but you're...
you're not to tell anybody

'cause it's top secret.

Okay, my lips are sealed, you know?

This woman, she's a gift from God.

Oh, you read Job too.

I got to confess something though.

I was a little awash in guilt
on meeting this creature.

Guilt, why?

Because I've always
had this crush on her

and then you meet her and even
sexier in person, you know?

Would you two guys want to be alone?

I could open a bottle of wine.

Look how well they get along.

I would never have guessed it.

I introduced him to his fianc?e.

What a beautiful revolutionary.

It's just a mellow combination.

Well, this corrupt system
needs to be changed.

I mean, by any means necessary.

Yeah, here, here. I agree with her.

See, I see where she's coming from.

The Constitutional Liberation
Army, the Black Panthers.

- They want action.
- Not rhetoric.

No, and they're willing to go to jail

for what they believe in.

So, am I not gonna
stay in that same room

I was in last night?

No, that's my office and
it's on the first floor

which is not a good idea.

I'm gonna put you on the second floor

in the guest room as soon as
Sid clears out the cartons.

No, no, no.

This is not... I invoke
the Napoleonic code.

You will not stay here.

Sid, stop ranting.

It's just treason, Kay.

It's worse than treason.

It's barratry, it's barratry.

It's arson at high sea.

I'll get your room ready. Come on, Sid.

No, Kay, this is arson at high sea.

Thanks for sticking up for me or...

or are you just high?

Yeah.

But I feel... I feel good, you know?

I feel good and I do believe
America needs radical change.

And how do you think those
goals are gonna be achieved,

by writing irate letters
to the New York Times?

Well, there's such a thing
as passive resistance.

You can't make an omelet
without breaking eggs.

I know, I get it. Life is a choice.

Yeah, but real change comes
at the barrel of a gun.

It also comes in the voting booth.

What? I donate.

Okay, you're thinking all
easy no risky stuff right?

Yeah, talk talk talk while people die.

Okay, fine.

Talk is cheap, talk is cheap.

So what do you do?

Will you let me explain?

Oh, God, why are you
getting defensive already?

Do you manufacture arms or something?

I come from a banking family.

It's a long tradition I was born into.

It doesn't bother you
that this... this country

is run by corporate oligarchy?

I'm not saying I agree with
everything my father says.

That very few people control the wealth.

Look, life isn't fair.

Do they have any dessert?

If Washington and Jefferson
just voted and donated

you wouldn't even be here.

I mean, don't you think
I'd like to do what you do?

Something that would make a
difference in the real world?

It's just I'm not sure the
only way to achieve that

is with the barrel of a gun.

Violence is the sire of
all the world's values.

Do you know who wrote that?

Robinson Jeffers, he's
one of my favorite poets.

Next time you go down to the city,

I'm gonna give you a
list of books to read.

You can get some for Kay,
too. I know she likes to read.

Yeah, that's a great idea.

She has that book club, so...
I don't think they really

do political stuff
though. It's mostly novels.

Fiction is just fairy tales.

Jeez.

How did you get radicalized?

Actually it was a guy that I
fell in love with at college.

There were actually two guys I
fell in love with at Berkeley.

A Jew and a Black.

That's a lethal combination.

Abe Cohen.

He was a radical Marxist.

And then there was Elton Crawford.

He used to write the
most beautiful sonnets

about blowing up the White House

and poisoning the reservoirs.

I used to sleep with
the Black in an effort

to kind of absorb some
of his political rage

and then the Jew to help
me get some of that anxiety

and guilt over being middle class.

Sexual intercourse can
be very enlightening.

Yeah, I had a shrink at the time

who was a strict Freudian.

He never talked, never moved.

You know, I came in one
day and laid on the couch.

I guess three minutes into it,

he had a quiet heart attack and died.

I had no idea, I kept
talking for 55 minutes.

I really think it's probably

my most productive session, actually.

You know, I had a shrink too.

- Why?
- I have impulsivity problems.

The shrink thought it was from having

two strict hovering parents.

But, you know, I love them though.

Why am I telling you this? I just...

Look, I just mean that I
believe in shrinks, that's all.

Incidentally, do you have
any more of that grass?

I'm upset, Kay. I've got
to call into my lawyer.

Oh, you don't you dare tell your lawyer.

Please don't leak this.

She's here for a few
weeks and then she'll go

unless you just spoil
everything with your nervousness.

Yeah, but she's bound to be caught

and then she's gonna implicate us.

Oh, she's gonna implicate us.

You know that? She'll never talk.

She'll talk. They'll get,
they know how to get it out.

They'll beat it out of
her with nightsticks.

They don't use... It's in
the movies they do that.

In real life, they use rubber hoses.

Jesus, they won't have to use anything.

You know, she talks in her sleep.

They'll bug her cell and she'll say,

"Thank you, Kay and Sidney Muntzinger,

"for helping me betray my nation."

I'm so nervous.

Hello?

No, no, not necessary
to send anybody over.

I hit the wrong button on the alarm.

We don't need a repairman.

No, no. No, no, no.

But... but thank you for the concern.

No, everything's fine.

Yes, God bless, God bless you.

- Hang up.
- God bless your children.

You're crazy.

What are you doing?

For God sakes, what are you
fussing so much over the room?

It's not a hotel.

I'm surprised you don't put, you know,

two little mints down on her bed.

Will you go to work?

Just go... just go pitch
your... your TV show.

Come on.

Basically it's... it's a
kooky family and, you know,

it's a father, mother, and
a son and two daughters.

And, you know, one of the
daughters is very beautiful.

The other one is, you know,
let's say on the plump side.

You know, 'cause that way we can get in

a certain amount of fat jokes.

Not... not cruel jokes, but
you know there's a rich vein

of humor to be mined with...
with the overweight jokes

and, uh, and I'll give you
what the basic idea here is.

It's that they don't really
live in a beautiful house.

They live in caves.
They're Neanderthals.

We go back a million years
and there's fires in the cave

and they have loincloths and clubs

and they have a pet
tyrannosaurus, and...

Don't we have a meeting at noon?

Well, let me tell you the
plot. Let me tell you...

The plot is that the
son is kind of sensitive

and he wants to draw.

He draws, he draws bisons on
the wall and other, you know,

but basically bisons.

I think mostly that's
what they draw on the wall

and he's in love with
a girl from another cave

and she's evolved higher.

She's not a Neanderthal,
she's... now I don't know

what the hell they were,
Cro-Magnums or something.

Cro-Magnons, I can never
follow it, but she's higher.

So you can see the comic possibilities.

I mean, Mel here is great at jokes,

absolutely fabulous at jokes,

and I'm very good at texture

and the comic possibilities are myriad.

Thank you.

Oh, and you know what, I'll
have a... a cup of coffee.

Thanks.

How, how, how do you think it went?

I think you told it well.

But you know I sensed, I don't know,

maybe they were looking for
something more contemporary.

I don't know.

How's everything at home by the way?

What do you mean how's
everything at home?

It's fine, absolutely fine.

Why would you ask that?

Okay, what you get so jumpy about?

I'm not jumpy.

I'm, you know, I'm not jumpy.

I just asked how everything was at home

'cause I know you have a house guest.

She'll be out quickly.

Oh, she? Oh, I thought it was a guy.

It is a guy.

It's, it's, what do... It's a guy.

Okay, all right, well, you said "she."

Okay, but it's a guy.

His name is Allen.
It's, it's a, you know...

Hey, you want to meet him?

I can let you meet him if you want.

Okay, he's a male, I got it.

Can we change the subject?

Look, I know you're
a little nervous today

but you know, you should just relax.

You know, I mean, look,
you made the presentation.

There's nothing you can do.
It's up to the network guys.

Please, everything is
completely normal at home.

Okay, you just said you
want to change the subject.

So bring up a topic.

Okay, how 'bout those guys
who shot their way out of jail?

Huh, you hear about that?
That revolutionary group?

You following that manhunt?

One of them's a girl.

You see that? Good-looking chick,

but apparently hard as nails.

I hear she comes from
a decent home, you know?

But, uh, yeah, that's the papers said.

But you know what it is?

These people, they look around
and they don't like the war.

You know, the way the poor people,

the negroes, are getting shafted

and all of a sudden they decide

they want to change the government.

They want, you know,
like a whole revolution.

Yes, but what... they... have
to work within the system.

That's the way to do it.

'Cause otherwise, I was
telling Lenny, it's chaos.

Who's Lenny?

Lenny, Lenny is, you, Lenny
is Lenny Lipshitz, my tailor.

We discuss politics and...
and I'm explaining to him

that the founding fathers
have given us a way

to amend the constitution.

You're right, can't have chaos.

You know, if I ever ran
into somebody like that,

I would sit her down and
give her a good talking to.

I hear there's a reward
out for the woman.

There's like some big
reward 'cause, you know,

she become a symbol now.

She's definitely a symbol.

There's no question that she's a symbol.

What, what... what is she a symbol of?

Come on, she's white,
she's middle class, female,

she's militant, uncompromising,

known to be violent.

She's a radical.

Exactly. I got a thing
about kids like her.

Why did they call it clam chowder?

There's, I don't see a single
clam in your clam chowder.

This is false advertising.

You know, my theory is
she's just a punk, you know?

People like that, she grows up with

all this personal baggage, you know?

You know, family gripes, hurt
by one parent or the other,

trouble with siblings, boyfriends,

all this psychological
garbage, you know?

This anger builds up inside
and she's got to give it

some kind of stupid noble justification.

End the war, help the
poor, Black Panthers.

Why don't we just rage
against the government?

You know, it's a rationale
so she can express

her own personal rage and
give it some kind of patina

of some kind of political do gooding.

But there are no clams
in your clam chowder.

Does that bother you?

Did you listen to what I'm saying?

Do you hear? Hello?

Yes, I understand what you're saying.

You're saying that
she's... makes an omelet

and she's willing to
break eggs to do it.

What does that have to do anything?

It's a saying.

You can't make an omelet
without breaking eggs,

or legs, legs, legs or eggs.

Eggs, not legs, eggs. Eggs, okay, eggs.

'Cause I broke a leg making an omelet.

I was making a mushroom
omelet in the kitchen,

I slipped on some
chicken fat on the floor,

I broke a leg.

I mean, do you think
it's right for these kids

to burn the American flag?

No, I think that's terrible

and, and what's really
terrible is shooting a cop.

I, I don't know why
I'm speaking so loud.

You're right in front of me.

Well, it's infuriating. These
kids get drafted and right away,

they got to take off to Canada.

Hey, do you know how
cold it is in Canada?

Do you know how
freezing it is in Canada?

When you got drafted, come on,

did you try to get out of it?

I never would go near Canada.

I've never, never been to Canada.

Yeah, well, when I got drafted, I went

and I did my time and I served.

I did what I was supposed
to do for this country.

I went to the draft
board and I threw up.

Really?

That was the sight of
all those naked men.

I couldn't stop vomiting.

You know, well, naked,
you know, naked men do it.

Not just the men. I
mean if I go to Chinatown

and they hang those ducks in the window,

you know, they're naked, and I get sick.

Anything like that.

I mean my wife, I can tolerate.

There's no doubt they're
gonna catch this crazy broad.

They've got every cop in
America looking for her.

You know, they got ways
of tracking these people.

The paper said they
think she might even be

right here in New York.

Really?

Do they give an address?

They speculate she's
got contacts in the area.

FBI is checking everybody in her past.

Well, yeah. She's...

This kid deserves to go to jail.

Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.

What do you keep looking at?

Do you see those guys?

Do you think that
they're checking us out?

No.

Do they look like agents to you?

One of them looks like a
guy from William Morris.

I don't mean show business agents.

I mean federal agents.

FBI?

No, but so what if they are?

What do you mean so what?

Do you think that we should
be under surveillance?

You know what, they
don't look like FBI agents

and if they are, what do we
care? We didn't do anything.

Can you just check
the napkin thing there

for a microphone?

For a microphone? You're kidding
me. What, what are you nuts?

You're kidding me.
What, what are you nuts?

No, just check it.

They put the microphones,
they can plant them anywhere.

Check, check the napkin.

Give it just a quick
check. What's the big...

I'm eating, I'm not checking out...

What do... What are you crazy?

Is, is, is, is that a blintz?

It's a taco.

Can I look in it?

You want to look inside my taco?

Yeah, can I?

- Hey, hey, put down my...
- They have wireless microphones

and they can put them any place.

I just want to...

Miss, can I get a check quickly?

We got to get out of here.

- Yeah, let me have this.
- I'm still eating.

No, no, no, but don't,
don't talk into the taco.

Here, here, miss, this is for you.

Whatever. Thanks for everything.

- We have to go.
- Okay.

We have to go. Let's go.

- Thank you.
- That's $60.

That's all right, it's all right.

It was good service.

- Thank you.
- Come, come, quickly.

- Sid...
- Thank you.

I've been working on this list for you.

It's some political books I
think you should check out.

- You'll really like 'em.
- Hmm.

Who's Chairman Mayo?

You say it Mao.

Mao. Mao, Mao.

You should have the ladies

in your reading group read these.

They'll find these
writers very interesting.

Oh, thanks.