WEBVTT 00:00:02.432 --> 00:00:22.432 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:02:44.456 --> 00:02:46.423 Exterminator. 00:03:23.189 --> 00:03:25.086 Mm-hmm. 00:03:25.189 --> 00:03:27.687 You want I should spit right in your face? 00:03:27.688 --> 00:03:30.176 You want, hmm? You want? You want? 00:03:30.288 --> 00:03:32.187 I ran out. 00:03:32.289 --> 00:03:35.186 You ran out? Oh, that's nice. 00:03:35.288 --> 00:03:38.287 You ran out. It's impossible you run out! 00:03:38.288 --> 00:03:40.312 What'd you do, eat the stuff? 00:03:40.421 --> 00:03:42.319 The Chink shortchanged me. 00:03:42.421 --> 00:03:44.682 No "glot." Come "Fliday." 00:03:49.754 --> 00:03:53.822 It's funny. It's actual very funny what you just said. 00:03:53.823 --> 00:03:55.754 Ran out. 00:03:55.854 --> 00:04:00.420 They can either paint it, or draw it, or write it down and then pass it on to somebody. 00:04:00.421 --> 00:04:03.355 They read what you're saying, and then they reexperience. 00:04:03.356 --> 00:04:05.519 That's the only connection you have with that, man. 00:04:05.521 --> 00:04:07.646 So you can't rewrite... 00:04:07.757 --> 00:04:10.587 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie... 00:04:10.588 --> 00:04:12.486 and you betray your own thoughts. 00:04:12.588 --> 00:04:17.121 To rethink the flow and the rhythm and the tumbling out of the words... 00:04:17.122 --> 00:04:18.849 is a betrayal. 00:04:19.122 --> 00:04:21.519 And it's a sin, Martin. It's a sin. 00:04:21.624 --> 00:04:23.588 I don't accept your, uh... 00:04:23.688 --> 00:04:26.866 Catholic interpretation of my compulsive, uh... 00:04:27.556 --> 00:04:31.754 necessity to rewrite every single word at least 1 00 times. 00:04:31.755 --> 00:04:35.321 Guilt is -Thanks. Guilt is the key, not sin. 00:04:35.322 --> 00:04:38.420 Guilt re not writing the best that I can. 00:04:38.421 --> 00:04:42.554 Guilt re not, uh, considering everything from every possible angle. 00:04:42.555 --> 00:04:44.486 Balancing everything. 00:04:44.588 --> 00:04:49.786 Well, how about guilt re censoring your best thoughts? 00:04:49.787 --> 00:04:52.754 Your most honest, primitive, real thoughts... 00:04:52.755 --> 00:04:56.627 because that's what your laborious rewriting amounts to, Martin. 00:04:57.255 --> 00:04:59.312 Is rewriting really censorship, Bill? 00:04:59.421 --> 00:05:02.443 Because I'm completely fucked if it is. 00:05:02.556 --> 00:05:05.714 Exterminate all rational thought. 00:05:05.823 --> 00:05:08.015 That is the conclusion I have come to. 00:05:08.122 --> 00:05:11.320 What is the man talking about? I'm being serious. 00:05:11.321 --> 00:05:13.253 So is he. 00:05:16.556 --> 00:05:19.420 So how is the extermination business going there, Bill? 00:05:19.421 --> 00:05:23.455 Somebody's stealing my roach powder. Somebody's got it in for me. 00:05:23.456 --> 00:05:26.420 Hmm. Well, Bill, maybe you should take it as a sign. 00:05:26.421 --> 00:05:29.021 Maybe you ought to try your hand at writing pornography. 00:05:29.022 --> 00:05:32.454 Yeah, a novel a week at 120 bucks. It's serious money. 00:05:32.455 --> 00:05:34.387 I can connect you with the guy. 00:05:34.455 --> 00:05:37.519 We're thinking of collaborating on one ourselves. 00:05:37.520 --> 00:05:39.578 I gave up writing when I was 1 0. 00:05:41.320 --> 00:05:44.386 - Too dangerous. - Only if someone reads what you write. 00:05:44.387 --> 00:05:46.752 So far we haven't had that problem. 00:05:47.021 --> 00:05:49.121 I've found my profession. I'm an exterminator. 00:05:49.164 --> 00:05:52.178 Of course, Bill. That's just what the world needs... 00:05:52.200 --> 00:05:55.849 - ...more literate exterminators. - Give me a cigarette. 00:05:58.787 --> 00:06:01.447 Of course, then, you know... 00:06:01.555 --> 00:06:05.097 you're gonna have trouble if you can't keep track of your roach powder. 00:06:12.754 --> 00:06:16.087 Wait a minute. Do you boys know something about this? 00:06:16.088 --> 00:06:18.053 We don't exactly know anything. 00:06:18.154 --> 00:06:21.560 No, but we suspect it's a domestic problem. 00:06:55.721 --> 00:06:59.253 - My God, what are you doing? - You weren't supposed to see this. 00:06:59.254 --> 00:07:03.296 Well, now that I'm seeing it, what is it? 00:07:04.054 --> 00:07:05.985 I'm shooting up your bug powder. 00:07:07.022 --> 00:07:09.543 You might like to try it yourself. 00:07:09.654 --> 00:07:11.553 Or you might not. 00:07:11.655 --> 00:07:15.144 I ran out in the middle of a job. 00:07:18.188 --> 00:07:20.347 You gotta stop using the stuff,Joan. 00:07:20.455 --> 00:07:22.977 They ration it out like snakebite serum. 00:07:23.087 --> 00:07:25.145 Well,just do what everybody else does - 00:07:25.254 --> 00:07:27.617 cut it with baby laxative. 00:07:27.887 --> 00:07:30.427 The roaches will shit themselves to death. 00:07:31.421 --> 00:07:33.579 It's the best job I ever had. 00:07:33.686 --> 00:07:35.916 If I run out again, I'm finished. 00:07:38.153 --> 00:07:40.143 Hmm. 00:07:41.853 --> 00:07:43.581 It's, um - 00:07:46.621 --> 00:07:49.020 It's a very literary high. 00:07:49.121 --> 00:07:51.087 Very literary. 00:07:51.188 --> 00:07:53.418 Is that why Hank and Martin know all about it? 00:07:53.419 --> 00:07:55.852 No, we just, uh - 00:07:55.954 --> 00:07:58.953 We all just tried it together- spur of the moment thing. 00:07:58.954 --> 00:08:01.045 They didn't like it, I did. 00:08:03.219 --> 00:08:05.414 What do you mean, it's a literary high? 00:08:07.087 --> 00:08:09.020 It's a Kafka high. 00:08:09.087 --> 00:08:11.178 You feel like a bug. 00:08:13.654 --> 00:08:15.553 Try some. 00:08:19.053 --> 00:08:21.019 Well, I don't know. 00:08:23.820 --> 00:08:26.310 I don't know. 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:34.052 - I think our metabolisms are very different. - Whose? 00:08:34.053 --> 00:08:36.021 Yours and Kafka's? 00:08:37.386 --> 00:08:40.702 I thought you were finished with doing weird stuff. 00:08:41.886 --> 00:08:45.828 I thought I was, too, but I guess I'm not. 00:08:50.921 --> 00:08:53.386 Personally... 00:08:53.486 --> 00:08:56.747 I prefer a pyrethrum job to a fluoride. 00:08:56.853 --> 00:08:58.751 With the pyrethrum... 00:08:58.853 --> 00:09:01.785 you kill the roaches right there in front of God and the client... 00:09:01.786 --> 00:09:03.911 whereas this starch and fluoride- 00:09:04.020 --> 00:09:06.282 leave it around, the roaches eat it... 00:09:06.386 --> 00:09:09.826 come back a few days later, they're running around fat as hogs. 00:09:11.886 --> 00:09:14.953 And there it is, Bill. You want to put on some weight... 00:09:14.954 --> 00:09:18.852 you gotta switch from that yellow powder diet of yours... 00:09:18.853 --> 00:09:21.895 to some of this good fluoride stuff right here. 00:09:22.552 --> 00:09:25.318 Sure works for the Chink. He's healthy enough. 00:09:25.319 --> 00:09:27.285 You see him scarfthat poison down? 00:09:27.386 --> 00:09:30.977 He doesn't really eat it. 00:09:31.086 --> 00:09:33.019 It's sleight of hand. 00:09:33.086 --> 00:09:37.220 The hell he doesn't. Been breathing in the powder so long, it just makes him laugh. 00:09:37.221 --> 00:09:41.051 Just like them roaches. 00:09:52.988 --> 00:09:54.919 William Lee. 00:09:58.854 --> 00:10:01.918 - What is this? - He's Hauser. I'm O'Brien. 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:04.419 City Narcotics. We're gonna take you downtown, Bill. 00:10:04.420 --> 00:10:08.358 Little matter of possession of a dangerous substance. 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.450 You've got quite a record, Bill. 00:10:17.719 --> 00:10:20.448 A lot of drugs poured down the old vein. 00:10:21.754 --> 00:10:24.119 I was a troubled person then. I'm married now. 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:26.017 Straight. Got a good job. 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.813 That's good, Bill. That's nice. 00:10:30.820 --> 00:10:33.911 - What's this, then? - That's my job. 00:10:33.987 --> 00:10:35.919 I use it to kill bugs. 00:10:35.986 --> 00:10:39.085 - He says it kills bugs. - He could be right. 00:10:39.086 --> 00:10:41.417 - I'd like to see it. - Me, too. 00:10:41.686 --> 00:10:44.675 - I'd like to see it, too. - Well, gee. 00:10:46.386 --> 00:10:50.701 I'd like to demonstrate, but I already got rid of that last case of crabs I had. 00:10:51.751 --> 00:10:53.878 Very funny, Bill. 00:10:55.453 --> 00:10:57.942 But, you know... 00:10:58.052 --> 00:11:00.284 I think we got a bug around here somewhere. 00:11:00.285 --> 00:11:02.844 You're right. 00:11:02.953 --> 00:11:06.699 Let's see if that yellow stuff will kill it. 00:11:59.619 --> 00:12:04.026 We'll be back later to see how it worked out, kiddo. 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:07.851 Yeah. 00:12:07.953 --> 00:12:09.918 Break a leg. 00:12:14.053 --> 00:12:17.280 William Lee? 00:12:17.386 --> 00:12:21.686 I have arranged all this just to have a moment alone with you. 00:12:21.687 --> 00:12:24.050 I am your case officer. 00:12:25.386 --> 00:12:28.285 - Uh, my what? - Case officer. 00:12:28.386 --> 00:12:30.614 You are my agent. 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:33.946 I, in turn, report to your controller. 00:12:34.053 --> 00:12:38.919 Come, come, Mr. Lee. You don't have to play dumb with me. 00:12:38.920 --> 00:12:41.852 Oh. No. Well... 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:44.886 that would be foolish, wouldn't it? 00:12:44.986 --> 00:12:47.578 It would. Say, Bill... 00:12:48.685 --> 00:12:53.432 do you think you could rub some of this powder on my lips? 00:12:55.086 --> 00:12:57.018 Uh, yeah. 00:12:57.119 --> 00:12:59.053 Sure. 00:13:09.587 --> 00:13:11.312 Well, now. 00:13:12.819 --> 00:13:14.717 As you might have expected... 00:13:14.819 --> 00:13:19.997 I have instructions for you from Control. 00:13:22.086 --> 00:13:25.017 It's about the little woman. 00:13:27.086 --> 00:13:30.109 - The what? - The little woman. 00:13:30.218 --> 00:13:32.185 Your little woman. 00:13:32.252 --> 00:13:35.979 - Your wife. - Tell me. 00:13:37.152 --> 00:13:40.175 Your wife is not really your wife. 00:13:40.286 --> 00:13:44.316 She is an agent of Interzone Incorporated. 00:13:44.317 --> 00:13:46.285 You must kill her. 00:13:46.552 --> 00:13:48.245 KillJoan Lee. 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:51.950 It must be done soon- this week. 00:13:52.052 --> 00:13:55.882 And it must be done real tasty. 00:13:55.952 --> 00:13:58.077 Interzone Incorporated? 00:13:58.185 --> 00:14:00.812 An organization based in Interzone... 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:05.516 a notorious free port on the North African coast. 00:14:05.517 --> 00:14:08.951 A haven for the mongrel scum of the Earth... 00:14:08.952 --> 00:14:13.117 an engorged parasite on the underbelly of the West. 00:14:13.118 --> 00:14:15.777 Ah, I can't see it. 00:14:15.885 --> 00:14:18.250 Why would a classy American woman likeJoan... 00:14:18.251 --> 00:14:22.918 ever want to work for a two-bit outfit like Interzone Incorporated? 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:25.714 But who says Joan Lee is really a woman? 00:14:25.819 --> 00:14:29.979 In fact, who says she's human at all? 00:14:31.185 --> 00:14:35.863 - What do you mean by that? - I can say no more. 00:14:40.985 --> 00:14:42.576 Hey, where you going? 00:14:42.652 --> 00:14:45.297 Don't do it. Don't do it. There'll be hell to pay. 00:15:47.783 --> 00:15:50.949 We've been made. We gotta get out of town. 00:15:50.950 --> 00:15:52.941 Wait a minute. 00:15:54.384 --> 00:15:57.950 - What's going on? - I got busted for bug powder. 00:15:57.951 --> 00:16:01.460 I started hallucinating behind the stuff. 00:16:02.451 --> 00:16:06.149 God knows what I really said to those two flatfeet. 00:16:06.150 --> 00:16:09.584 I'm not even sure how I got out of there. 00:16:09.585 --> 00:16:12.819 Did you bring back tomorrow's bug powder? 00:16:12.820 --> 00:16:14.648 Did you, Bill? Did you? 00:16:17.118 --> 00:16:21.085 My God, Joan. You're acting like a full-fledged junkie. 00:16:21.086 --> 00:16:24.573 And it's bug powder, for Christ's sake! 00:16:26.752 --> 00:16:28.717 Oh. 00:16:40.684 --> 00:16:44.084 I do have a little bit of a habit, yes, hon. 00:16:44.085 --> 00:16:47.949 You ought to at least give me a few marks for originality. 00:16:47.950 --> 00:16:51.197 How did you know it just wouldn't kill you? 00:16:52.683 --> 00:16:54.615 I don't know, Bill. 00:16:57.452 --> 00:16:59.475 I felt drawn to it. 00:16:59.585 --> 00:17:01.776 You know? 00:17:01.884 --> 00:17:06.510 Like you feel drawn...to an old lover. 00:17:09.684 --> 00:17:12.342 Say, Bill... 00:17:12.416 --> 00:17:15.801 could you rub some of this powder on my lips? 00:17:18.285 --> 00:17:20.807 Could you, Bill? 00:17:22.551 --> 00:17:24.517 Please? 00:18:16.751 --> 00:18:18.909 Hey! 00:18:20.451 --> 00:18:23.747 Bill. 00:18:26.384 --> 00:18:28.373 Hey, where were you this morning? 00:18:28.484 --> 00:18:30.382 We missed you at the Automat. 00:18:31.517 --> 00:18:33.880 I, uh, got in a bit of a jam. 00:18:33.951 --> 00:18:37.350 I misplaced the gear, in a manner of speaking. 00:18:37.351 --> 00:18:39.749 Yeah. We heard about it. 00:18:39.851 --> 00:18:44.064 We saw you go off with the heat, in fact. 00:18:44.751 --> 00:18:47.239 They won't give it back to Cohen. 00:18:47.317 --> 00:18:49.249 It's evidence, they say. 00:18:49.317 --> 00:18:53.248 Yeah. It's an embarrassment, yes. 00:18:54.985 --> 00:18:57.813 Is that why you tried to lift mine? 00:19:00.317 --> 00:19:02.509 That's unkind, Edward. 00:19:02.618 --> 00:19:05.344 "Lift" is unkind. 00:19:06.918 --> 00:19:10.179 I'm doing a job for a friend. 00:19:11.250 --> 00:19:16.416 The centipedes, Edward. The centipedes are getting downright arrogant. 00:19:16.417 --> 00:19:18.439 They're starting to attack his children. 00:19:18.551 --> 00:19:21.382 Take it from me, Bill. 00:19:21.452 --> 00:19:25.283 You're not the first one to develop a bug powder problem. 00:19:25.284 --> 00:19:27.340 See this man. 00:19:27.450 --> 00:19:30.314 He'll help ya. 00:19:30.416 --> 00:19:33.643 "Dr. A. Benway... 00:19:33.750 --> 00:19:36.375 General Practitioner." 00:19:37.516 --> 00:19:39.414 Bug powder? 00:19:40.450 --> 00:19:42.643 - You mean, uh, pyrethrum? - Yes. 00:19:43.816 --> 00:19:48.222 Hmm. I get a lot of you folks in the extermination trade. 00:19:49.217 --> 00:19:52.582 You better help this friend of yours get off the yellow stuff. 00:19:52.583 --> 00:19:56.557 - It'll kill him. - How do I get him to kick? 00:19:57.216 --> 00:20:00.444 - Kick? - H-How do I get him off it? 00:20:00.549 --> 00:20:02.516 Oh. 00:20:04.248 --> 00:20:06.147 Mix it with this. 00:20:07.183 --> 00:20:10.781 Gradually increase the percentage of black without telling your friend... 00:20:10.782 --> 00:20:13.893 and he'll lose his taste for the bug powder soon enough. 00:20:20.515 --> 00:20:22.414 What is it? What does it do? 00:20:22.515 --> 00:20:25.715 Oh, it's all natural. It's made from, uh... 00:20:25.716 --> 00:20:29.515 aquatic Brazilian centipede or some such outlandish thing. 00:20:29.516 --> 00:20:33.882 It shuts down the brain's response to the bug powder. That's all. 00:20:33.883 --> 00:20:36.116 The powder becomes irrelevant to the addict... 00:20:36.117 --> 00:20:38.716 and the addict then ceases to be addicted. 00:20:38.717 --> 00:20:41.376 Side effects? 00:20:42.584 --> 00:20:44.482 Nothing that will surprise the addict. 00:20:45.618 --> 00:20:49.083 But, uh, before I - before I do your cure... 00:20:49.084 --> 00:20:51.050 I've gotta score some bug powder. 00:20:52.317 --> 00:20:54.249 Score? 00:20:55.350 --> 00:20:58.717 You're not trying to... pull a fast one on the old doctor, are you? 00:20:58.718 --> 00:21:00.615 I came here for help. 00:21:02.150 --> 00:21:04.173 Of course you did. 00:21:08.384 --> 00:21:10.316 Phew! 00:21:10.384 --> 00:21:12.316 My God. 00:21:12.384 --> 00:21:16.317 It smells like a... tainted cheese. 00:21:18.817 --> 00:21:21.715 You'll see how elegantly this works. 00:21:23.449 --> 00:21:25.416 The black will disappear completely. 00:21:34.116 --> 00:21:37.021 And there'll be no smell, no discoloration. 00:21:38.149 --> 00:21:40.048 It's like an agent - 00:21:40.149 --> 00:21:42.815 an agent who's come to believe his own cover story... 00:21:42.816 --> 00:21:45.783 but who's in there, hiding... 00:21:46.050 --> 00:21:48.413 in a larval state... 00:21:48.515 --> 00:21:51.864 just waiting for the proper moment to hatch out. 00:22:05.484 --> 00:22:07.507 Extra, extra! Read all about it! 00:22:29.516 --> 00:22:31.747 Thirty-nine cents,just for today! Special. 00:22:31.748 --> 00:22:34.044 Thirty-nine cents. Fresh cabbage. 00:22:48.416 --> 00:22:50.711 Centipedes. 00:23:20.650 --> 00:23:25.116 "Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades... 00:23:25.117 --> 00:23:27.878 "doodling in Etruscan... 00:23:27.984 --> 00:23:30.881 "addicts of drugs not yet synthesized... 00:23:32.115 --> 00:23:35.014 "black marketeers of World War III... 00:23:36.049 --> 00:23:39.607 "excisors of telepathic sensitivity... 00:23:39.716 --> 00:23:42.910 "osteopaths of the spirit... 00:23:43.015 --> 00:23:45.950 "investigators... 00:23:46.016 --> 00:23:48.846 "of infractions denounced... 00:23:48.949 --> 00:23:51.472 "by bland, paranoid chess players... 00:23:51.583 --> 00:23:55.314 "servers of fragmentary warrants taken down... 00:23:55.315 --> 00:23:57.908 "in hebephrenic shorthand... 00:23:58.015 --> 00:24:01.795 "charging unspeakable mutilations of the spirit... 00:24:02.416 --> 00:24:07.580 officials of unconstituted police states, broke -" 00:24:07.582 --> 00:24:11.037 Hi, Bill. 00:24:12.549 --> 00:24:14.605 Say, why don't you and I join them? 00:24:52.947 --> 00:24:55.948 Hank and I were just bored. It wasn't serious. 00:24:55.949 --> 00:24:57.881 I didn't take it seriously. 00:24:57.948 --> 00:24:59.936 Where is Hank? 00:25:00.048 --> 00:25:02.208 He got embarrassed and left. 00:25:03.449 --> 00:25:05.416 Not before he came, I hope. 00:25:05.515 --> 00:25:07.980 Hank's on junk. He doesn't come. 00:25:09.816 --> 00:25:12.111 Not before you came, I hope. 00:25:12.182 --> 00:25:16.081 I'm on bug powder. I don't need to come. 00:25:16.082 --> 00:25:20.863 "Officials of unconstituted police states... 00:25:22.014 --> 00:25:25.814 "brokers of exquisite dreams and nostalgias... 00:25:25.815 --> 00:25:30.380 "tested on the sensitized cells of junk sickness... 00:25:30.381 --> 00:25:34.113 "and bartered for raw materials of the will... 00:25:34.114 --> 00:25:36.809 "drinkers of the Heavy Fluid... 00:25:36.915 --> 00:25:40.728 sealed in translucent amber of dreams." 00:25:41.548 --> 00:25:45.953 I guess it's about time for our William Tell routine. 00:26:24.848 --> 00:26:26.781 Oh, God. 00:26:26.849 --> 00:26:28.780 Oh, God. 00:26:32.848 --> 00:26:34.872 Joan. 00:26:34.983 --> 00:26:36.949 Joan. 00:26:40.015 --> 00:26:41.982 Oh,Joan. 00:27:23.214 --> 00:27:25.908 Are you a faggot? 00:27:32.081 --> 00:27:35.047 Not by nature, no. 00:27:35.147 --> 00:27:37.113 I'm not. 00:27:38.349 --> 00:27:41.371 I wouldn't say... faggot. 00:27:41.648 --> 00:27:43.615 No. 00:27:45.448 --> 00:27:50.732 However, circumstances have forced me to consider the possibility that - 00:27:53.747 --> 00:27:56.770 I'd like you to meet a friend of mine. 00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:59.141 He specializes in sexual ambivalence. 00:28:01.348 --> 00:28:03.280 Sexual ambulance, did you say? 00:28:09.715 --> 00:28:11.646 My God. 00:28:11.746 --> 00:28:13.645 He's called Mugwump. 00:28:17.715 --> 00:28:19.838 No point in feigning surprise. 00:28:19.913 --> 00:28:23.045 You knew we would be getting in touch with you. 00:28:23.046 --> 00:28:27.226 Why else would you come to a waterfront dive like this? 00:28:27.914 --> 00:28:29.813 Why else? 00:28:29.914 --> 00:28:32.937 I suggest a Clark Nova portable. 00:28:33.046 --> 00:28:35.377 It has mythic resonance. 00:28:35.647 --> 00:28:39.179 Clark Nova. A typewriter? You suggest it for what? 00:28:39.180 --> 00:28:42.678 For your report from Interzone, of course. 00:28:42.679 --> 00:28:46.145 Handwriting is not considered professional. 00:28:46.146 --> 00:28:48.080 Interzone. 00:28:49.181 --> 00:28:51.113 My report. 00:28:51.214 --> 00:28:55.313 And don't leave out any of the tasty details - 00:28:55.314 --> 00:28:57.802 the small red hole in the forehead... 00:28:57.915 --> 00:28:59.813 or... 00:28:59.915 --> 00:29:02.345 the look of astonishment on her face. 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:08.779 Listen to me. You'rejust gonna have to leave town... 00:29:08.780 --> 00:29:10.712 and Interzone is the only place... 00:29:10.816 --> 00:29:14.312 that'll have a shady character like you at such short notice. 00:29:14.313 --> 00:29:16.245 Take this. 00:29:16.313 --> 00:29:19.245 Take what? What is that? 00:29:19.348 --> 00:29:21.813 Your ticket to Interzone. 00:29:21.914 --> 00:29:24.210 Tourist class, I'm afraid... 00:29:24.314 --> 00:29:27.144 but what can you expect these days? 00:29:28.615 --> 00:29:31.012 We'll contact you there. 00:30:06.146 --> 00:30:08.634 Hmm. It's commie trash. 00:30:09.747 --> 00:30:11.770 And it's been fired very recently. 00:30:11.879 --> 00:30:13.970 You use it in a holdup? 00:30:15.915 --> 00:30:19.626 I want that typewriter in the window. I want the portable. 00:30:23.846 --> 00:30:25.835 This plus... 00:30:25.947 --> 00:30:27.913 $8.00. 00:30:29.246 --> 00:30:31.644 You got any ammo to go with it? 00:30:37.080 --> 00:30:39.047 These'll cover the state tax. 00:30:48.548 --> 00:30:50.978 - Bill. - Martin. 00:30:52.778 --> 00:30:56.712 Listen, Bill, I told the police it was a drunken accident, that I saw it. 00:30:56.713 --> 00:30:59.212 So at least that's on the record. They're after you though. 00:30:59.213 --> 00:31:01.946 They're saying that, you escaped from custody... 00:31:01.947 --> 00:31:05.817 and murdered your wife, and-and they want you. 00:31:07.579 --> 00:31:10.011 I'd better lie low till my ship sails. 00:31:10.114 --> 00:31:13.678 - You booked passage somewhere already? - Sure. Look. 00:31:13.679 --> 00:31:16.111 Got my ticket. 00:31:16.212 --> 00:31:19.407 Put this away, for God's sake, Bill. 00:31:19.513 --> 00:31:21.944 - I'll send you a report. - You'll send me a report? 00:31:21.945 --> 00:31:25.111 Well, I'll send you a copy of the report. 00:31:25.112 --> 00:31:27.773 Are you gonna be all right? 00:31:29.679 --> 00:31:32.222 I hear Interzone's really nice this time of year. 00:32:26.878 --> 00:32:29.004 He woke up in bed... 00:32:29.081 --> 00:32:31.806 to find himself wedged... 00:32:31.913 --> 00:32:33.846 between a Dutch transvestite... 00:32:33.947 --> 00:32:37.537 and six Arab men. 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:40.811 Clark Nova. 00:32:41.945 --> 00:32:44.071 Very nice for writing reports. 00:32:46.778 --> 00:32:50.609 I use a Krups Dominator myself. 00:32:52.712 --> 00:32:54.941 Company policy. 00:33:04.412 --> 00:33:06.378 You're American, correct? 00:33:08.747 --> 00:33:10.734 You know Dr. Benway? 00:33:13.046 --> 00:33:16.637 I am interested in selling... 00:33:16.746 --> 00:33:18.768 a large stash of the black meat. 00:33:18.878 --> 00:33:20.777 Verstehen Sie? 00:33:20.877 --> 00:33:23.639 The sun-dried, powdered black meat... 00:33:23.746 --> 00:33:28.643 of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede. 00:33:28.644 --> 00:33:30.611 And... 00:33:31.845 --> 00:33:34.810 for some reason... 00:33:34.912 --> 00:33:40.489 I am certain that you are working for Herr Dr. Benway. 00:33:43.612 --> 00:33:45.737 I'm - I-I-I'm sorry. 00:33:45.846 --> 00:33:48.310 I apparently mistook you for somebody else. 00:33:48.311 --> 00:33:51.877 But as it happens, Mr. Lee, I am, among other things... 00:33:51.878 --> 00:33:55.378 a provider of rare services to the arts... 00:33:55.379 --> 00:34:00.445 and in my experience as a provider of rare services to the arts... 00:34:00.446 --> 00:34:04.090 I have found that writers are a-a particularly needy group. 00:34:04.879 --> 00:34:08.455 Is there nothing I can provide for you... 00:34:09.312 --> 00:34:11.038 Mr. Lee? 00:34:41.945 --> 00:34:44.605 A very professional... 00:34:44.713 --> 00:34:46.611 operation... 00:34:47.713 --> 00:34:49.736 as you can see, Mr. Lee. 00:34:52.346 --> 00:34:54.209 You like a taste? 00:34:55.579 --> 00:34:59.689 I'd be happy to join you in a taste, if you're planning to have one. 00:35:18.579 --> 00:35:22.601 You can understand that if you were... 00:35:22.711 --> 00:35:27.310 a purchasing agent for a foreign power... 00:35:27.311 --> 00:35:30.277 how it would be to my advantage... 00:35:30.378 --> 00:35:33.776 to impress you with the cleanliness... 00:35:33.878 --> 00:35:36.708 and the sincerity... 00:35:36.812 --> 00:35:38.869 of our operation. 00:35:41.279 --> 00:35:44.676 - You, uh, mentioned a Dr. - - Benway. 00:35:44.778 --> 00:35:47.403 - Benway. - Benway. Correct. 00:35:47.512 --> 00:35:49.444 Yes. 00:35:50.545 --> 00:35:52.477 Does he qualify as a foreign power? 00:35:52.577 --> 00:35:56.533 Oh, but yes! He's very foreign. 00:36:07.944 --> 00:36:09.876 May I? 00:36:12.346 --> 00:36:14.310 Yes. 00:37:13.110 --> 00:37:16.135 Lee, wake up. 00:37:16.244 --> 00:37:18.175 This is no time to doze off... 00:37:18.245 --> 00:37:22.184 like a freckled-face boy on a fishing raft. 00:37:26.545 --> 00:37:28.444 What's up? 00:37:34.410 --> 00:37:38.036 Now, now, Bill. No need for that. 00:37:38.145 --> 00:37:41.676 You didn't think we'd abandon you, did ya? 00:37:41.677 --> 00:37:45.178 No, no. The thought never occurred to me. 00:37:45.179 --> 00:37:48.008 Good. We like confidence in an agent. 00:37:48.111 --> 00:37:51.009 But don't let it make you careless. 00:37:51.111 --> 00:37:53.009 I was, uh - 00:37:53.111 --> 00:37:55.474 I was just in the... 00:37:56.545 --> 00:37:59.443 process of configuring my report. 00:38:00.511 --> 00:38:03.566 That's good, Lee. Admirable. 00:38:03.676 --> 00:38:06.042 But there have been some changes - 00:38:06.111 --> 00:38:08.702 - Changes at the top. - Oh? Yeah? 00:38:08.811 --> 00:38:13.126 Good changes, Bill. Fresh blood. Sparkling insights. 00:38:14.277 --> 00:38:18.231 Uh, Bill, could you do me a favor? 00:38:20.545 --> 00:38:22.443 What? 00:38:23.776 --> 00:38:26.611 I want you to type a few words into me - 00:38:26.612 --> 00:38:28.737 words that I'll dictate to ya. 00:38:31.711 --> 00:38:33.700 Yeah. 00:38:35.277 --> 00:38:37.209 Sure. What the hell. 00:38:47.077 --> 00:38:50.373 Okay. Now, the first sentence is... 00:38:50.476 --> 00:38:55.952 "Homosexuality is the best all-around cover an agent ever had." 00:38:57.142 --> 00:38:59.507 Aw, come on, Bill. 00:39:03.543 --> 00:39:06.636 Don't be such a pansy! Be forceful. 00:39:06.743 --> 00:39:09.040 Hurt me. 00:39:20.111 --> 00:39:22.338 I love it. 00:39:22.410 --> 00:39:26.307 That is a great sentence. 00:39:26.409 --> 00:39:29.500 These are words to live by, Bill. 00:39:29.611 --> 00:39:33.276 I'm glad these words are going into your report. 00:39:33.277 --> 00:39:36.401 Our new management will be so pleased... 00:39:36.510 --> 00:39:39.032 that you see our point of view. 00:39:41.676 --> 00:39:43.608 What -What point of view? 00:39:43.710 --> 00:39:46.939 Well, uh, just that we appreciate... 00:39:47.011 --> 00:39:52.676 that you might find the thought of engaging in, uh, homosexual acts... 00:39:52.677 --> 00:39:56.474 morally and, uh, possibly even... 00:39:56.577 --> 00:39:58.872 physically repulsive... 00:39:58.979 --> 00:40:02.000 and, uh, we are encouraged... 00:40:02.110 --> 00:40:06.576 that you are able to overcome these personal, uh, barriers... 00:40:06.577 --> 00:40:11.483 to better serve the cause to which we are all so devoted. 00:40:25.977 --> 00:40:29.172 You have left the Clark Nova at home? 00:40:30.576 --> 00:40:32.941 It's doing all right without me. 00:40:42.377 --> 00:40:44.309 And, uh... 00:40:45.409 --> 00:40:49.432 you have contacted Dr. Benway? 00:40:52.277 --> 00:40:54.300 I told you before I never met the man. 00:40:54.410 --> 00:40:57.898 Bill, I can smell him on you. 00:40:59.110 --> 00:41:02.909 Benway marks out all those whom he has met like a lemur... 00:41:02.910 --> 00:41:06.690 pissing on a liana vine to mark his territory. 00:41:07.576 --> 00:41:09.475 You're a marked man, Bill. 00:41:19.277 --> 00:41:21.265 Joanie. 00:41:21.376 --> 00:41:24.206 Joanie, shall we go? 00:41:24.309 --> 00:41:26.207 Yes. Yes. 00:41:33.075 --> 00:41:37.134 Hans. Hans, that couple. 00:41:37.242 --> 00:41:39.400 Who are they? 00:41:39.508 --> 00:41:42.476 They are Tom and Joan Frost. 00:41:43.509 --> 00:41:47.309 Americans who have lived here a very long time. 00:41:47.310 --> 00:41:49.434 They're both writers. 00:41:49.542 --> 00:41:52.270 Writers of fiction, like you. 00:41:54.176 --> 00:41:56.267 They live in a nice flat... 00:41:56.344 --> 00:41:58.974 in the new building at the foot of the mountain. 00:41:58.975 --> 00:42:01.806 They're visited constantly... 00:42:01.875 --> 00:42:05.363 by many handsome, young Interzone men. 00:42:05.476 --> 00:42:07.739 Sometimes... 00:42:07.843 --> 00:42:11.400 two or three at a time. 00:42:12.776 --> 00:42:14.537 Can you, uh, introduce me? 00:42:14.775 --> 00:42:20.590 I do not think it would be to your advantage. 00:42:21.343 --> 00:42:23.240 For some reason... 00:42:23.343 --> 00:42:27.974 that woman has taken a serious dislike to me. 00:42:27.975 --> 00:42:29.909 Kiki. 00:42:30.977 --> 00:42:33.067 Come sit with us. 00:42:39.210 --> 00:42:42.267 Kiki, this is Mr. Lee. 00:42:42.343 --> 00:42:44.365 Hello. 00:42:44.476 --> 00:42:48.743 Mr. Lee is curious about the Frost couple. 00:42:48.744 --> 00:42:51.072 He would like to meet them. 00:42:51.176 --> 00:42:54.116 I think the woman would have sex with you, Mr. Lee. 00:42:54.943 --> 00:42:58.874 The man, he only likes Interzone boys. 00:43:00.376 --> 00:43:03.842 I don't want to fuck 'em. I just want to talk to 'em. 00:43:03.843 --> 00:43:06.434 You know how Americans are, Kiki. 00:43:06.542 --> 00:43:08.509 They love to travel... 00:43:08.776 --> 00:43:12.075 and then they only want to meet other Americans... 00:43:12.076 --> 00:43:17.009 and talk about how hard it is to get a decent hamburger. 00:43:17.010 --> 00:43:20.075 There's a party tonight at the O'Leary place. 00:43:20.076 --> 00:43:23.175 Frost will be meeting a group of us here... 00:43:23.176 --> 00:43:25.768 and then walking through the casbah. 00:43:25.876 --> 00:43:28.884 My friends and I would be happy to take you with us. 00:43:31.508 --> 00:43:34.808 You're the new writer, aren't you? You've just arrived. 00:43:34.809 --> 00:43:38.002 A few days ago. I write, uh, reports. 00:43:38.108 --> 00:43:42.424 Oh? Uh, and did you come to Interzone for the boys? 00:43:43.909 --> 00:43:46.307 - No, I didn't. - Tom and I did. 00:43:46.408 --> 00:43:48.874 That's quite a hot threesome you arrived with. 00:43:48.875 --> 00:43:53.089 They're very cheap, and they're really a lot of fun. 00:43:55.809 --> 00:43:57.741 Yoo-hoo! 00:44:02.675 --> 00:44:05.266 You use a Clark Nova, don't you? 00:44:08.975 --> 00:44:11.169 To write with. Typewriter. 00:44:11.242 --> 00:44:13.174 Oh, I do. Yes. 00:44:13.242 --> 00:44:15.934 I wouldn't use a Clark Nova myself. 00:44:16.042 --> 00:44:18.905 - Too demanding. - Demanding? 00:44:20.042 --> 00:44:23.446 Oh, come on. We're both writers. We know what we're talking about. 00:44:24.275 --> 00:44:27.715 Well, I'm new to this game, to tell you the truth. 00:44:28.641 --> 00:44:32.583 If I get blocked again, I'll let you try my Martinelli. 00:44:33.342 --> 00:44:35.400 Her inventiveness will surprise you. 00:44:36.742 --> 00:44:39.174 I can't wait. 00:44:40.942 --> 00:44:42.874 They say you murdered your wife. 00:44:44.708 --> 00:44:47.106 - Is that true? - Who told you that? 00:44:47.208 --> 00:44:49.605 Word gets around. 00:44:49.709 --> 00:44:52.971 It wasn't murder. It was an accident. 00:44:54.107 --> 00:44:56.074 There are no accidents. 00:45:00.107 --> 00:45:02.573 For example... 00:45:04.141 --> 00:45:07.239 I've been killing my own wife slowly, over a period of years. 00:45:07.240 --> 00:45:09.605 - What? - Well, not intentionally. 00:45:09.708 --> 00:45:14.040 I mean, on the level of conscious intention, it's insane, monstrous. 00:45:14.041 --> 00:45:18.221 But you do consciously know it. You just said it. We're discussing it. 00:45:19.075 --> 00:45:20.974 Not consciously. 00:45:22.275 --> 00:45:24.875 This is all happening... telepathically. 00:45:24.876 --> 00:45:27.864 - Nonconsciously. - What do you mean? 00:45:29.675 --> 00:45:32.267 If you look carefully at my lips... 00:45:32.375 --> 00:45:35.241 you'll realize that I'm actually saying something else. 00:45:35.242 --> 00:45:38.240 I'm not actually telling you about the several ways... 00:45:38.241 --> 00:45:40.230 I'm gradually murdering Joan - 00:45:40.343 --> 00:45:42.908 about the housekeeper Fadela, whom I've hired... 00:45:42.909 --> 00:45:45.739 to makeJoan deathly ill by witchcraft... 00:45:45.843 --> 00:45:48.451 about the medicines and drugs I've given her... 00:45:49.342 --> 00:45:53.674 about the constant nibbling away at her self-esteem and sanity... 00:45:53.675 --> 00:45:57.683 that I've managed without being at all obvious about it. 00:45:58.809 --> 00:46:02.638 Whereas Joanie finds that she simply... 00:46:02.741 --> 00:46:05.341 cannot be as obsessively precise as she wants to be... 00:46:05.342 --> 00:46:10.088 unless she writes everything in longhand. 00:46:11.875 --> 00:46:14.864 Look, uh, I'm afraid, um... 00:46:17.275 --> 00:46:20.806 I'm not gonna be very good company tonight. 00:46:20.807 --> 00:46:24.658 Thanks for the invite anyway. I think, I'll have to take a rain check. 00:46:27.774 --> 00:46:29.740 Oh. 00:46:43.675 --> 00:46:45.607 Enjoying the beach? 00:46:50.541 --> 00:46:55.323 I would never have expected to see you up and out so early. 00:46:56.076 --> 00:46:59.240 You certainly were in rough shape at the O'Leary party last night. 00:46:59.241 --> 00:47:01.707 Was I? 00:47:04.774 --> 00:47:08.573 You were very raw - emotionally, I mean. 00:47:08.574 --> 00:47:11.903 You seemed to be in a lot of pain. 00:47:12.007 --> 00:47:13.905 Pain. 00:47:15.574 --> 00:47:18.802 I don't remember... pain. 00:47:19.975 --> 00:47:24.983 And, in fact, I don't remember the O'Leary party. 00:47:26.041 --> 00:47:28.166 In fact, I don't remember you. 00:47:29.508 --> 00:47:32.913 Well, it was a very intense performance in any case. 00:47:34.041 --> 00:47:35.938 My name's Cloquet. 00:47:41.907 --> 00:47:43.839 Yves Cloquet. 00:47:45.908 --> 00:47:48.499 Can I buy you breakfast? 00:47:58.908 --> 00:48:02.916 I've seen you around, but I had no idea you were queer. 00:48:04.673 --> 00:48:06.607 Queer. 00:48:06.676 --> 00:48:10.207 I saw you arrive with those three Interzone boys. 00:48:10.208 --> 00:48:12.141 What an entrance. 00:48:12.408 --> 00:48:14.565 You all looked very... 00:48:14.676 --> 00:48:16.664 familiar with each other. 00:48:17.874 --> 00:48:19.840 Queer. 00:48:21.474 --> 00:48:24.442 A curse. Been in our family for generations. 00:48:24.443 --> 00:48:27.134 The Lees have always been perverts. 00:48:29.207 --> 00:48:33.441 I shall never forget the unspeakable horror... 00:48:33.442 --> 00:48:36.930 that froze the lymph in my glands... 00:48:37.040 --> 00:48:42.007 when the baneful word seared my reeling brain: 00:48:42.008 --> 00:48:43.997 I... 00:48:44.108 --> 00:48:46.039 was a homosexual. 00:48:47.574 --> 00:48:51.106 I thought of the painted, simpering female impersonators... 00:48:51.107 --> 00:48:53.471 I had seen in a Baltimore nightclub. 00:48:55.708 --> 00:48:59.751 Could it be possible I was one of those subhuman things? 00:49:02.773 --> 00:49:04.863 I walked the streets in a daze... 00:49:04.974 --> 00:49:07.566 like a man with a light concussion. 00:49:07.673 --> 00:49:10.333 I would have destroyed myself. 00:49:11.609 --> 00:49:13.574 But a wise old queen 00:49:14.908 --> 00:49:17.737 Bobo, we called her. 00:49:18.808 --> 00:49:20.739 taught me that I had a duty... 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:25.781 to live and to bear my burden proudly for all to see. 00:49:26.975 --> 00:49:29.566 Poor Bobo came to a sticky end. 00:49:30.974 --> 00:49:35.414 He was riding in the Duc de Ventre's Hispano-Suiza... 00:49:36.040 --> 00:49:38.872 when his falling hemorrhoids blew out of the car... 00:49:38.874 --> 00:49:41.340 and wrapped around the rear wheel. 00:49:41.441 --> 00:49:45.539 He was completely gutted, leaving an empty shell... 00:49:45.540 --> 00:49:49.412 sitting there on the giraffe-skin upholstery. 00:49:54.008 --> 00:49:55.905 Even the eyes and the brain went... 00:49:56.006 --> 00:49:59.371 with a horrible "schlupping" sound. 00:50:01.740 --> 00:50:06.953 The duke says he will carry that ghastly schlup with him to his mausoleum. 00:50:10.607 --> 00:50:14.855 You sound as if you could use a drink. My place? 00:50:15.572 --> 00:50:17.539 A drink. 00:50:22.740 --> 00:50:24.707 A drink? 00:50:25.839 --> 00:50:27.737 No. 00:50:27.839 --> 00:50:30.670 No, I can't. I gotta go home. 00:50:30.739 --> 00:50:33.297 I have a...I have a... 00:50:33.406 --> 00:50:35.565 I have a report to write. Excuse me. 00:52:01.906 --> 00:52:04.202 Hmm. 00:52:42.405 --> 00:52:45.652 You made a big hit with our young friend Yves. 00:52:50.305 --> 00:52:52.897 - Yves? - Cloquet. 00:52:55.305 --> 00:52:58.466 Yves said you were wonderfully funny. 00:52:58.572 --> 00:53:03.785 Said you did a little routine that made him... chuckle to himself all day. 00:53:09.640 --> 00:53:11.604 Yes, you-you could, um - 00:53:13.672 --> 00:53:17.138 You could probably get him into bed if you worked at it a bit. 00:53:17.139 --> 00:53:20.433 Deadly aphrodisiac, humor. 00:53:20.540 --> 00:53:22.731 I'm not, uh - 00:53:22.839 --> 00:53:25.168 I don't really- 00:53:28.138 --> 00:53:30.071 Have you seen Hans around? 00:53:30.174 --> 00:53:33.070 Oh, you mean you haven't heard? 00:53:35.406 --> 00:53:37.736 No. I haven't heard. 00:53:37.839 --> 00:53:40.813 Hans was arrested and deported two weeks ago. 00:53:42.406 --> 00:53:44.372 - Deported. - Mm-hmm. 00:53:46.840 --> 00:53:49.338 They let him take his clothes and his passport. 00:53:49.339 --> 00:53:53.450 That was it. Everything else - nationalized, as they say. 00:53:54.274 --> 00:53:56.171 Why? 00:53:56.274 --> 00:54:00.272 He neglected to pay the right officials, I think. 00:54:00.273 --> 00:54:03.121 You knew he ran a drug factory in the medina? 00:54:06.839 --> 00:54:09.362 What, um - 00:54:12.306 --> 00:54:14.204 What drug did he manufacture? 00:54:14.306 --> 00:54:16.534 Nothing too exotic. 00:54:16.639 --> 00:54:21.138 Majoun, I think. It's a local hash resin-almond paste. 00:54:21.139 --> 00:54:23.128 You'd spread it on a muffin likejam. 00:54:23.238 --> 00:54:25.636 Try it. 00:54:39.139 --> 00:54:42.486 While you're at it, why don't you try my Martinelli? 00:54:45.607 --> 00:54:47.537 Take her now. 00:54:49.438 --> 00:54:51.372 Try her out. 00:56:41.138 --> 00:56:44.137 Holy shit. That machine doesn't belong to me. It's Tom Frost's. 00:56:44.138 --> 00:56:46.037 My God, Lee... 00:56:46.137 --> 00:56:49.704 Surely you know better than to bring an enemy agent into your own home. 00:56:49.705 --> 00:56:55.071 You gave me no choice. You were giving her access to your innermost vulnerabilities... 00:56:55.072 --> 00:56:57.038 forcing them on her, for God's sake! 00:56:57.138 --> 00:56:59.070 But what am I gonna tell him? 00:56:59.138 --> 00:57:01.263 What's your assessment of the situation? 00:57:01.372 --> 00:57:04.778 Did Frost know that his machine was an Interzonal agent? 00:57:07.271 --> 00:57:11.671 He, uh - He and his wife appear to have a close connection... 00:57:11.672 --> 00:57:14.433 with the indigenous population here. 00:57:16.939 --> 00:57:18.961 His wife. Yeah, yeah! 00:57:19.072 --> 00:57:22.038 Of course! The key is Joan Frost. 00:57:22.137 --> 00:57:26.903 You will seduce her, and you will discover the substance of her report... 00:57:26.904 --> 00:57:29.030 and deliver it directly to me. 00:57:29.137 --> 00:57:31.365 Seduce her? But what about - 00:57:31.438 --> 00:57:34.270 What about Kiki and the Interzone boys? My cover. 00:57:34.271 --> 00:57:38.586 It'll work beautifully, Bill. The opposition will be thrown into total confusion. 00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:32.455 - Tom's gone out with the boys. - I came to see you. 00:58:33.705 --> 00:58:35.899 Oh. 00:58:54.007 --> 00:58:58.104 There's a great restaurant in New York looks just like this. 00:58:58.105 --> 00:59:00.039 Oh, really? 00:59:11.106 --> 00:59:13.901 - You write in longhand. - Yes. 00:59:15.007 --> 00:59:18.571 I'm not good with machines. They intimidate me. 00:59:18.572 --> 00:59:20.334 I think I broke Tom's typewriter. 00:59:20.606 --> 00:59:23.969 The Martinelli? He'll be furious. 00:59:24.071 --> 00:59:28.705 - Does he have another one? - He has that one, the Mujahideen. 00:59:28.706 --> 00:59:32.070 - It's Arabic. - Does he use it much? 00:59:32.173 --> 00:59:34.538 Not much. 00:59:34.640 --> 00:59:36.571 What happened to the Martinelli? 00:59:36.673 --> 00:59:40.304 I probably just threw it on the floor and smashed it. 00:59:40.306 --> 00:59:42.636 Probably? You don't know? 00:59:42.740 --> 00:59:44.968 I suffer from, um... 00:59:45.072 --> 00:59:47.040 sporadic hallucinations. 00:59:49.373 --> 00:59:51.305 Join the club. 00:59:55.640 --> 00:59:58.071 Do you intend to kill Tom's Mujahideen? 01:00:00.040 --> 01:00:01.972 Only in self-defense. 01:00:02.040 --> 01:00:04.538 I understood writing could be dangerous. 01:00:04.539 --> 01:00:07.388 I didn't realize the danger came from the machinery. 01:00:08.007 --> 01:00:10.306 - What are you talking about? - I'll show you. 01:00:10.308 --> 01:00:12.205 Oh. 01:00:19.607 --> 01:00:22.455 - Are you gonna write something in Arabic? - No. 01:00:23.906 --> 01:00:26.032 You are. 01:00:26.141 --> 01:00:30.004 I don't like using Tom's things. 01:00:30.107 --> 01:00:32.698 We don't trespass on each other. 01:00:34.807 --> 01:00:38.247 Do you have any objection to trying some of this? 01:00:40.807 --> 01:00:43.636 I can't read it. Is it erotic? 01:00:43.705 --> 01:00:45.831 It's, um, fairly erotic. 01:00:45.939 --> 01:00:47.837 - Kind of uncivilized. - More erotic. 01:00:49.873 --> 01:00:52.170 Filthier. 01:00:52.240 --> 01:00:56.452 - Filthier? Okay. - All you think about. 01:00:58.006 --> 01:01:02.039 - Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades... - Getting really... 01:01:02.041 --> 01:01:04.806 - pretty good here. - doodling in Etruscan... 01:01:04.807 --> 01:01:09.006 - addicts of drugs not yet synthesized... - I'm surpassing myself here. 01:01:09.007 --> 01:01:11.565 black marketeers of World War III... 01:01:11.673 --> 01:01:14.071 excisors of telepathic sensitivity... 01:01:14.174 --> 01:01:17.671 followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades. 01:01:17.672 --> 01:01:20.638 Ooh, this is very good. 01:01:20.739 --> 01:01:24.145 - Addicts of drugs not yet synthesized- - Very, very dirty. 01:01:26.107 --> 01:01:29.096 World War III... 01:01:29.207 --> 01:01:32.105 excisors of telepathic sensitivity... 01:01:33.175 --> 01:01:35.766 osteopaths of the spirit... 01:01:35.874 --> 01:01:39.534 investigators of infractions... 01:01:39.640 --> 01:01:44.251 denounced by bland, paranoid chess players. 01:01:59.240 --> 01:02:01.137 Joan. 01:02:01.240 --> 01:02:03.205 Oh,Joan. 01:02:28.406 --> 01:02:30.133 Mrs. Frost! 01:02:30.406 --> 01:02:33.205 This is an evil and insane thing that you are doing. 01:02:33.206 --> 01:02:35.537 You must stop it at once! 01:02:41.473 --> 01:02:43.439 Pull up your hair. 01:02:48.741 --> 01:02:50.640 Who's that? 01:02:50.742 --> 01:02:52.673 Oh, my housekeeper. 01:03:51.641 --> 01:03:53.607 It's my Mujahideen. 01:03:57.507 --> 01:04:00.064 For God's sake! 01:04:11.374 --> 01:04:13.897 It jumped of its own accord. 01:04:14.008 --> 01:04:16.303 You did see that, didn't you? 01:04:19.841 --> 01:04:22.330 Joan, are you all right? What happened? 01:04:23.507 --> 01:04:27.879 Fadela stormed in here, and she threw your typewriter out the window. 01:04:28.808 --> 01:04:30.796 Well, that's it. The woman has to go. 01:04:30.908 --> 01:04:33.737 She certainly seemed deadly to me. 01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:37.238 Oh, I knew it. 01:04:38.507 --> 01:04:40.666 Look, Tom. 01:04:40.773 --> 01:04:42.740 Look. 01:04:45.641 --> 01:04:49.024 This is how Fadela's been controlling you,Joan. 01:04:49.674 --> 01:04:52.340 Your blood, your pubic hair, your fingernails. 01:04:52.341 --> 01:04:54.707 Fadela controls nobody, and you know it. 01:04:54.708 --> 01:04:56.673 We have forced control upon her. 01:04:56.774 --> 01:04:59.374 Poor woman's probably desperate to get out of our household. 01:04:59.375 --> 01:05:02.307 No, missus. She's making you say everything... 01:05:02.308 --> 01:05:04.206 even that. 01:05:04.308 --> 01:05:08.054 You must find all of these in your house. You must destroy them. 01:05:10.642 --> 01:05:13.505 Bill... 01:05:13.607 --> 01:05:15.573 I'm going to need my Martinelli. 01:05:17.808 --> 01:05:21.190 I feel desperately insecure without a typewriter in the house. 01:05:21.873 --> 01:05:25.705 Yes, well, I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, Tom. I was kind of hoping - 01:05:25.707 --> 01:05:28.773 I'll leave Hafid here with you,Joanie, in case Fadela comes back. 01:05:28.774 --> 01:05:32.840 Bill and I will go to his place and pick up the Martinelli now. 01:05:32.841 --> 01:05:34.865 I'll go with Bill. You two stay here. 01:05:34.974 --> 01:05:36.872 I need to get out. 01:05:53.774 --> 01:05:57.646 Fadela's within 30 feet of us. See if you can find her. 01:06:05.441 --> 01:06:07.567 There. 01:06:07.642 --> 01:06:09.608 She's right there. 01:06:18.208 --> 01:06:20.730 That thing she's cutting up... 01:06:22.575 --> 01:06:24.598 have you ever seen that before? 01:06:24.707 --> 01:06:26.696 No. 01:06:26.809 --> 01:06:29.908 Looks like some kind of sea creature, I think. 01:06:29.909 --> 01:06:32.772 All those women... 01:06:32.874 --> 01:06:35.204 they work for her? 01:06:35.308 --> 01:06:39.157 In a sense. They're all Fadela's lovers. 01:06:45.908 --> 01:06:48.704 I'm going to have to - 01:06:48.809 --> 01:06:52.607 I'm gonna have to stay here with Fadela - 01:06:52.608 --> 01:06:54.665 do penance. 01:09:07.675 --> 01:09:09.732 I've been instructed to reveal to you... 01:09:10.009 --> 01:09:13.507 that you were programmed to shoot your wife,Joan Lee. 01:09:13.508 --> 01:09:16.981 It was not an act of free will on your part. 01:09:18.241 --> 01:09:20.208 Hey! 01:09:22.276 --> 01:09:24.605 Who the fuck asked ya? 01:09:26.574 --> 01:09:28.564 You worry me, Bill. 01:09:28.676 --> 01:09:32.109 You cause me many anxious moments. 01:09:32.209 --> 01:09:35.142 Oh, gee, I hope you're not losing any sleep. 01:09:35.143 --> 01:09:37.234 No need to be nasty, Bill. 01:09:37.341 --> 01:09:41.307 There was some thought that you might actually want to hear this information - 01:09:41.308 --> 01:09:44.468 that it might assuage your guilt. 01:09:44.575 --> 01:09:49.374 Save the psychoanalysis for your grasshopper friends. 01:09:49.375 --> 01:09:53.741 You have to admit, it was a pretty tasty setup, Bill. 01:09:53.742 --> 01:09:56.575 Joan marries you as part ofher agent's cover... 01:09:56.576 --> 01:10:00.973 not realizing that you were the very enemy agent assigned to kill her. 01:10:00.974 --> 01:10:04.134 As elegant as it is brilliant. 01:10:13.442 --> 01:10:15.409 Wait a minute. 01:10:17.309 --> 01:10:22.108 You're saying thatJoan was sent by Interzone, Incorporated to marry me? 01:10:22.109 --> 01:10:27.341 Yeah. In fact, she was sent to you by Fadela, who was her controller. 01:10:27.342 --> 01:10:31.208 We did a lot of groundwork to set you up in their files... 01:10:31.209 --> 01:10:33.402 as the prime candidate for marriage. 01:10:33.508 --> 01:10:37.074 And it didn't matter that I didn't know anything about it? 01:10:37.075 --> 01:10:40.375 An unconscious agent is an effective agent, Bill. 01:10:40.376 --> 01:10:45.308 The situation does generate some ethical paradoxes at times. 01:10:45.309 --> 01:10:47.398 I'm the first to admit that. 01:10:48.943 --> 01:10:52.239 When you bugs first approached me... 01:10:53.909 --> 01:10:56.604 one of your associates suggested... 01:10:56.709 --> 01:10:59.834 that Joan was possibly not human. 01:11:00.909 --> 01:11:03.137 What did he mean by that? 01:11:03.242 --> 01:11:05.901 Women aren't human, Bill. 01:11:06.008 --> 01:11:07.942 Or perhaps more precisely... 01:11:08.009 --> 01:11:10.066 they're a different species from men... 01:11:10.175 --> 01:11:14.041 with different wills and different purposes on Earth. 01:11:14.042 --> 01:11:16.031 You know this instinctively, Bill... 01:11:16.142 --> 01:11:20.251 and it's your instincts that make you such a good operative. 01:11:20.909 --> 01:11:23.000 I'm talking aboutJoan. 01:11:26.109 --> 01:11:28.099 IfJoan Lee wasn't human... 01:11:29.609 --> 01:11:31.540 what was she? 01:11:31.609 --> 01:11:35.006 Well,Joan was a special case. 01:11:36.276 --> 01:11:39.106 Joan was an elite-corps centipede. 01:11:42.643 --> 01:11:44.575 Joan was a centipede. 01:11:52.542 --> 01:11:54.201 Where's my Martinelli? 01:11:54.309 --> 01:11:57.298 Jesus, Tom, are you nuts? 01:11:57.408 --> 01:12:00.882 Don't fuck with me, Lee. I want my typewriter. 01:12:01.576 --> 01:12:04.457 A lot of people have tried to silence me. 01:12:05.242 --> 01:12:07.333 All have failed. 01:12:07.409 --> 01:12:09.568 Tom... 01:12:09.844 --> 01:12:11.832 she's here... 01:12:11.943 --> 01:12:13.874 in pieces. 01:12:16.010 --> 01:12:18.067 I fear it's hopeless. 01:12:24.008 --> 01:12:26.032 All right. 01:12:26.143 --> 01:12:28.335 We're taking your Clark Nova. 01:12:28.442 --> 01:12:30.203 Hafid, the bag. 01:12:30.309 --> 01:12:32.275 No. 01:12:33.341 --> 01:12:35.308 No. 01:12:53.543 --> 01:12:56.907 Wh-Wh-What's going on here? 01:12:56.976 --> 01:12:59.841 Wait, wait, wait! This is a heinous mistake you're making. 01:12:59.843 --> 01:13:02.206 Lee, do something. Stop them. 01:13:02.310 --> 01:13:06.274 Well, he's got a gun, Clark Nova. You don't want to lose your best agent, do ya? 01:13:06.275 --> 01:13:10.142 You're gonna have to write a full report, Lee. And I mean full. 01:13:10.143 --> 01:13:12.041 How am I gonna write it, in longhand? 01:13:12.143 --> 01:13:14.234 Will you take this sack off! 01:13:14.341 --> 01:13:16.309 This is insubordination! 01:13:16.409 --> 01:13:20.275 Ooh,you're all gonna pay for this! Heads are gonna roll! 01:13:20.276 --> 01:13:23.852 Your days in Interzone are numbered, Lee. 01:13:24.475 --> 01:13:26.963 I suggest you give up the writing game. 01:13:27.075 --> 01:13:30.890 - Make tracks for another part of the world. - You guys are gonna- 01:13:36.211 --> 01:13:39.403 Fuck 'em all. Squares on both sides. 01:13:40.544 --> 01:13:43.927 I am the only complete man in the industry. 01:14:12.243 --> 01:14:15.038 - Bill. - Bill? 01:14:22.076 --> 01:14:25.872 I must be hallucinating. 01:14:25.977 --> 01:14:27.875 What are you cats doing here? 01:14:27.977 --> 01:14:30.033 We're here to see you, Bill. 01:14:30.143 --> 01:14:32.041 Come on. 01:14:32.142 --> 01:14:36.408 Yeah, man. It's probably the first time you haven't been hallucinating in a long time. 01:14:36.409 --> 01:14:38.341 What are you talking about? 01:14:38.409 --> 01:14:43.008 What are you saying? Naturally, I've had a few odd moments. 01:14:43.009 --> 01:14:45.407 Everybody blacks out in Interzone. 01:14:45.677 --> 01:14:47.666 - Wouldn't you? - Definitely. 01:14:47.743 --> 01:14:49.709 Sure. 01:14:52.678 --> 01:14:54.835 What's in the pillowcase, Bill? 01:14:54.910 --> 01:14:59.208 These are the remains of my last writing machine. 01:14:59.209 --> 01:15:01.369 It's been a big problem for me. 01:15:01.642 --> 01:15:04.076 - Mind if I take a look? - Go ahead. 01:15:09.910 --> 01:15:12.172 Wait a minute. Where are we going? 01:15:13.776 --> 01:15:15.673 Oh, man. 01:15:15.776 --> 01:15:18.265 - How about back to your place? - Nope. 01:15:18.377 --> 01:15:20.308 Why not? 01:15:21.710 --> 01:15:24.420 I'm not safe there. I'm a dead duck there. 01:15:25.776 --> 01:15:27.801 We'll protect you. 01:15:27.911 --> 01:15:30.876 You boys are kidding yourselves. 01:15:30.944 --> 01:15:34.137 You're babes in the woods here. 01:15:34.244 --> 01:15:36.142 Well, what do you suggest? 01:15:36.244 --> 01:15:39.410 We thought it was important for us to help you get your book together. 01:15:39.411 --> 01:15:42.376 Yeah, I've sent sections of it to my publisher, and they're interested. 01:15:42.377 --> 01:15:46.556 - All you gotta do is finish it, man. - You've already done the hard part. 01:15:48.677 --> 01:15:50.666 Book. My book? 01:15:50.778 --> 01:15:53.556 Yeah. The one you've been calling Naked Lunch. 01:15:59.011 --> 01:16:01.842 Where did you put that Bradley the Buyer routine? 01:16:01.843 --> 01:16:03.776 Did you find it all? 01:16:03.877 --> 01:16:07.709 Yeah. It's on the sofa right next to the Hassan's Rumpus Room riff. 01:16:07.710 --> 01:16:10.076 - It's all right there. - I'm telling you, boys... 01:16:10.077 --> 01:16:12.009 I never saw those pages before. 01:16:13.244 --> 01:16:16.743 I truly do suspect some sort of colossal con. 01:16:16.744 --> 01:16:19.777 Oh, someone's planted these pages in your room, right? 01:16:19.778 --> 01:16:24.284 Somebody sent all those letters to me and signed them with your name, right? 01:16:25.377 --> 01:16:27.976 A well-orchestrated cabal could easily manage... 01:16:27.977 --> 01:16:30.238 all of these simple things, children. 01:16:30.310 --> 01:16:32.571 When will you learn? 01:16:32.676 --> 01:16:36.675 They've done you a favor, 'cause this stuff's gonna get published... 01:16:36.676 --> 01:16:38.675 under your name... and you'll have a career. 01:16:38.676 --> 01:16:42.342 Yeah, you'll probably get into print before we will. 01:16:42.343 --> 01:16:45.692 For God's sake, Bill, play ball with this conspiracy. 01:16:46.676 --> 01:16:48.643 You're patronizing me, boys... 01:16:50.745 --> 01:16:53.743 but I don't mind, 'cause you're so sweet to me, too. 01:16:53.744 --> 01:16:56.608 Hey, Martin, listen to this. 01:16:57.711 --> 01:17:03.309 "So we start for New Orleans past iridescent lakes and orange gas flares... 01:17:03.310 --> 01:17:05.209 "and swamps and garbage heaps... 01:17:05.310 --> 01:17:10.057 "alligators crawling around in broken bottles and tin cans... 01:17:10.944 --> 01:17:13.067 "neon arabesques of motels... 01:17:13.177 --> 01:17:19.027 "marooned pimps scream obscenities at passing cars from islands of rubbish. 01:17:20.244 --> 01:17:23.107 New Orleans is a dead museum." 01:17:24.243 --> 01:17:26.471 So nice. 01:17:26.544 --> 01:17:28.477 Sound familiar, Bill? 01:17:31.244 --> 01:17:33.267 First time I ever heard it. Read on. 01:17:54.143 --> 01:17:58.008 I think it's time to discuss your, uh... 01:17:58.110 --> 01:18:02.425 philosophy of drug use as it relates to artistic endeavor. 01:18:03.610 --> 01:18:06.391 I think it's time to bring this meeting to order. 01:18:07.777 --> 01:18:12.509 I think it's time for you boys to share my last taste... 01:18:12.510 --> 01:18:14.533 of the true black meat. 01:18:17.144 --> 01:18:21.993 The flesh of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede. 01:18:25.111 --> 01:18:28.775 So we're still here in Interzone with Bill, right? 01:18:28.776 --> 01:18:30.709 That's right, Hank. 01:18:30.811 --> 01:18:33.477 And now we're gonna travel back to the city, right? 01:18:33.478 --> 01:18:37.177 - That's right, Hank. - I think Bill's on top of things here, don't you? 01:18:37.178 --> 01:18:42.810 He has a grip on a certain, uh, unique reality principle, yes. 01:18:42.811 --> 01:18:45.608 I think you both should consider staying here for a few months. 01:18:45.610 --> 01:18:49.010 Everything you could want is cheap and-and plentiful here. 01:18:49.011 --> 01:18:52.917 That reality principle thing could work for you, too. 01:18:53.812 --> 01:18:57.445 Well, my mother's all alone, and she's kind of sick, Bill. 01:18:57.446 --> 01:19:00.225 And besides, my book's as all-American as football. 01:19:00.844 --> 01:19:05.215 - Couldn't finish it here. - America is not a young land. 01:19:06.610 --> 01:19:08.542 It is old... 01:19:08.610 --> 01:19:10.701 and dirty and evil. 01:19:11.811 --> 01:19:14.819 Before the settlers, before the Indians. 01:19:17.078 --> 01:19:20.066 The evil is there waiting. 01:19:26.845 --> 01:19:28.776 What about you, Martin? 01:19:31.012 --> 01:19:35.377 Maybe you can, uh, move into my place. 01:19:35.477 --> 01:19:37.375 What do you think? 01:19:40.877 --> 01:19:43.503 Stay until you finish the book... 01:19:43.610 --> 01:19:45.576 but then come back to us. 01:20:03.144 --> 01:20:05.042 You'll be okay? 01:20:08.144 --> 01:20:10.042 Yeah. Don't worry about me. 01:20:10.144 --> 01:20:13.632 The Zone is full of surprises. 01:20:15.078 --> 01:20:18.043 The Zone takes care of its own. 01:20:57.344 --> 01:21:00.276 William? 01:21:04.445 --> 01:21:06.673 You look terrible. 01:21:06.777 --> 01:21:08.709 What are you doing here? 01:21:10.310 --> 01:21:12.278 I don't - I don't know. 01:21:14.279 --> 01:21:16.675 I just - 01:21:18.343 --> 01:21:20.901 My only fr- 01:21:21.011 --> 01:21:23.806 My only friends in the - in the world. 01:21:25.378 --> 01:21:30.194 I- I'm afraid I- I'll never see 'em again. 01:21:32.844 --> 01:21:35.709 I feel - feel so - 01:21:37.545 --> 01:21:39.807 Oh. Severed. 01:21:42.311 --> 01:21:44.436 Come with me. 01:21:44.545 --> 01:21:47.910 - Take me home. - I can't go home. 01:21:48.012 --> 01:21:50.000 I can't go home. 01:21:55.411 --> 01:21:57.377 Is that your typing machine there? 01:21:59.378 --> 01:22:04.367 Foutu. Broken... beyond repair. 01:22:05.877 --> 01:22:08.708 If we fix the typing machine... 01:22:08.812 --> 01:22:11.369 we also fix the life. 01:22:30.711 --> 01:22:32.644 There. You see? 01:22:32.745 --> 01:22:35.336 There's no cause for despair. 01:22:35.446 --> 01:22:38.760 In this shop, anything can be fixed that is broken. 01:23:11.344 --> 01:23:13.310 I don't know, Kiki. 01:23:15.211 --> 01:23:18.543 They don't seem to be capable of delicate work here. 01:23:18.545 --> 01:23:21.510 You must have faith, William. 01:23:22.611 --> 01:23:24.542 Look. 01:23:24.645 --> 01:23:26.578 We have your new writing machine. 01:24:02.478 --> 01:24:05.444 Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. Not bad. 01:24:05.511 --> 01:24:08.344 I feel very comfortable working with you. 01:24:08.345 --> 01:24:12.411 I like that sense of camaraderie in an agent. 01:24:12.412 --> 01:24:14.810 You must be progressing. 01:24:14.913 --> 01:24:19.227 My predecessor felt you had an ambivalent relationship with him. 01:24:21.412 --> 01:24:23.378 - You mean Clark Nova. - Yes. 01:24:24.412 --> 01:24:26.468 How is he? 01:24:26.545 --> 01:24:29.410 He's still in the hands of our enemies. 01:24:29.512 --> 01:24:31.841 Such are the hazards of our trade. 01:24:32.078 --> 01:24:34.067 A hazardous trade, yes. 01:24:35.746 --> 01:24:38.878 Your report on the subversive activities ofJoan Frost... 01:24:38.879 --> 01:24:41.275 was a model of its type. 01:24:41.379 --> 01:24:44.776 If you continue to develop your skills as an operative... 01:24:44.777 --> 01:24:49.457 I think a top position with the C.I.A. is not out of reach. 01:24:50.479 --> 01:24:53.036 The C.I.A.? You really think so? 01:24:53.146 --> 01:24:57.188 You have the demeanor. That's something you can't buy. 01:24:58.646 --> 01:25:00.543 The C.I.A. 01:25:03.078 --> 01:25:05.408 The C.I.A. 01:25:08.711 --> 01:25:11.545 Now, that's a career you can really sink your teeth into. 01:25:11.546 --> 01:25:13.478 It has... 01:25:15.112 --> 01:25:17.077 resonance. 01:25:18.379 --> 01:25:21.522 But giving yourself over to being a writer- 01:25:23.178 --> 01:25:25.508 Ah, well. 01:25:26.612 --> 01:25:29.635 This stuff is very potent. 01:25:29.746 --> 01:25:31.735 The two are very closely related. 01:25:32.012 --> 01:25:34.411 So you boys keep telling me. 01:25:35.646 --> 01:25:39.601 Well, what's my next assignment? 01:25:39.711 --> 01:25:42.200 I'm hungry for adventure. 01:25:42.313 --> 01:25:47.379 Excellent. You know the Swiss dandy Cloquet? 01:25:47.380 --> 01:25:49.277 - Yes. - And? 01:25:51.712 --> 01:25:55.312 I think he's a faggito and won't admit it. 01:25:55.313 --> 01:25:58.004 That ought to make it all easier. 01:25:58.077 --> 01:26:01.377 You will seduce or otherwise compromise Cloquet. 01:26:01.379 --> 01:26:07.279 We have it on good authority that he's our conduit to Benway. 01:26:07.280 --> 01:26:09.370 Dr. Benway, M.D., Ph.D.? 01:26:09.446 --> 01:26:14.212 Self-styled. He never actually made it through medical school. 01:26:14.213 --> 01:26:18.412 He runs an interesting little show here which he calls Interzone, Inc. 01:26:18.413 --> 01:26:20.311 Pretentious, if you ask me. 01:26:20.412 --> 01:26:22.605 Benway's behind Interzone, Inc.? 01:26:22.679 --> 01:26:26.245 The base of his pyramid is a drug called the black meat. 01:26:26.246 --> 01:26:28.234 - The pyramid's tip - - Is? 01:26:28.345 --> 01:26:30.607 Ah. Well, we'd like to know. 01:26:34.645 --> 01:26:36.611 Dr. Benway. 01:26:38.946 --> 01:26:41.275 - Of course. - Yes. 01:26:41.379 --> 01:26:45.243 - Yes. - And he's obviously got sensational cover. 01:26:45.244 --> 01:26:48.546 He's floated in and out of the Zone for years... 01:26:48.547 --> 01:26:50.945 without anybody actually ever seeing him. 01:26:50.946 --> 01:26:54.145 But now the pressure's on to place an agent close to him. 01:26:54.146 --> 01:26:56.475 Me. 01:26:57.747 --> 01:26:59.939 Assessments are being made. 01:27:17.611 --> 01:27:21.517 - You're working away, William? - Yes, Kiki. 01:27:23.078 --> 01:27:27.446 The machine turns out to be a very good one. 01:27:27.447 --> 01:27:29.640 Muy simpatico. 01:27:31.313 --> 01:27:34.005 And I have you to thank for it... 01:27:35.313 --> 01:27:37.279 and so I will. 01:27:37.380 --> 01:27:39.369 Thank you. 01:27:41.013 --> 01:27:44.261 I'm very proud to be your friend, you know. 01:27:45.580 --> 01:27:48.985 I'm very proud that I can help you to be a writer. 01:27:50.447 --> 01:27:53.955 You have done that, Kiki. You really have. 01:28:04.579 --> 01:28:07.069 Would you like some tea? 01:28:07.147 --> 01:28:09.112 That would be lovely, William. 01:28:14.612 --> 01:28:16.545 Kiki. 01:28:16.647 --> 01:28:20.443 - Hmm? - Do you know Cloquet? 01:28:21.547 --> 01:28:25.145 The Swiss man with the big house on the Old Valley Road? 01:28:25.146 --> 01:28:27.044 Cloquet? 01:28:28.546 --> 01:28:32.589 Oh, yes, yes. Yves with the wonderful car. 01:28:33.879 --> 01:28:35.811 He has a wonderful car? 01:28:37.979 --> 01:28:39.775 The most wonderful car. 01:28:48.247 --> 01:28:50.302 Enjoying the ride? 01:28:50.414 --> 01:28:53.175 I'm wild about it, yes. Thank you. 01:28:53.280 --> 01:28:55.245 It's good to be wild sometimes. 01:28:57.813 --> 01:29:01.112 You know, I have often thought of that funny story you told me... 01:29:01.113 --> 01:29:03.011 the first time we met on the beach. 01:29:03.112 --> 01:29:06.409 The one about the Duc de Ventre. 01:29:06.513 --> 01:29:10.809 At first I didn't know how to take it. 01:29:10.880 --> 01:29:13.868 I thought you were making a pass at me. 01:29:16.879 --> 01:29:20.784 Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? 01:29:21.579 --> 01:29:26.292 His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig, farting out the words. 01:29:27.347 --> 01:29:29.312 It was unlike anything I ever heard. 01:29:29.414 --> 01:29:32.379 Bubbly, thick, stagnant sound. 01:29:32.479 --> 01:29:34.968 A sound you could smell. 01:29:35.079 --> 01:29:37.245 This man worked for the carnival,you dig? 01:29:37.246 --> 01:29:40.345 And to start with it was like a novelty ventriloquist act. 01:29:40.346 --> 01:29:42.879 After a while, the ass started talking on its own. 01:29:42.880 --> 01:29:45.311 He would go in without anything prepared... 01:29:45.313 --> 01:29:49.685 and his ass would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time. 01:29:50.980 --> 01:29:52.911 Then it developed sort of teethlike... 01:29:53.013 --> 01:29:57.345 little raspy incurving hooks and started eating. 01:29:57.346 --> 01:30:00.244 He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it... 01:30:00.245 --> 01:30:03.813 but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street... 01:30:03.814 --> 01:30:06.246 shouting out it wanted equal rights. 01:30:06.347 --> 01:30:10.913 It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags. Nobody loved it. 01:30:10.914 --> 01:30:14.546 And it wanted to be kissed, same as any other mouth. 01:30:14.547 --> 01:30:16.879 Finally, it talked all the time, day and night. 01:30:16.880 --> 01:30:21.279 You could hear him for blocks, screaming at it to shut up... 01:30:21.280 --> 01:30:23.247 beating at it with his fists... 01:30:23.347 --> 01:30:25.370 and sticking candles up it, but... 01:30:26.780 --> 01:30:29.212 nothing did any good, and the asshole said to him... 01:30:29.213 --> 01:30:32.146 "It is you who will shut up in the end, not me... 01:30:32.147 --> 01:30:35.413 "because we don't need you around here anymore. 01:30:35.414 --> 01:30:38.140 I can talk and eat and shit." 01:30:39.713 --> 01:30:43.812 After that, he began waking up in the morning with transparentjelly... 01:30:43.813 --> 01:30:46.789 like a tadpole's tail all over his mouth. 01:30:47.947 --> 01:30:51.712 He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands... 01:30:51.713 --> 01:30:56.379 like burning gasoline jelly and grow there. 01:30:56.380 --> 01:30:59.710 So, finally, his mouth sealed over... 01:30:59.814 --> 01:31:01.746 and the whole head... 01:31:01.814 --> 01:31:05.245 would have amputated spontaneously except for the eyes, you dig? 01:31:05.247 --> 01:31:08.312 That's the one thing that the asshole couldn't do was see. 01:31:08.313 --> 01:31:10.972 It needed the eyes. 01:31:11.079 --> 01:31:13.102 Nerve connections were blocked... 01:31:13.213 --> 01:31:15.271 and infiltrated and atrophied. 01:31:15.380 --> 01:31:18.979 So, the brain couldn't give orders anymore. 01:31:18.980 --> 01:31:22.139 It was trapped inside the skull... 01:31:22.213 --> 01:31:24.202 sealed off. 01:31:26.147 --> 01:31:28.238 For a while, you could see... 01:31:28.348 --> 01:31:33.695 the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes. 01:31:35.914 --> 01:31:38.180 And then finally the brain must have died... 01:31:38.181 --> 01:31:40.079 because the eyes went out... 01:31:41.213 --> 01:31:46.222 and there was no more feeling in them than a crab's eye at the end of a stalk. 01:31:59.114 --> 01:32:02.678 You seem to like my little friend. I'm so glad. 01:32:02.679 --> 01:32:07.030 I'm writing a business piece on corporate life in North Africa. 01:32:11.247 --> 01:32:13.179 Oh, my, my. 01:32:13.247 --> 01:32:16.270 We are fragile today, aren't we? 01:32:17.648 --> 01:32:19.670 He has to get to know you first. 01:32:19.779 --> 01:32:23.629 Oh, does he? Well, let's see what we can do, then. 01:32:26.280 --> 01:32:28.712 Kiki, will you come and see the parrots with me? 01:32:28.713 --> 01:32:30.770 There are cages in the master bedroom. 01:32:30.881 --> 01:32:34.142 I, um, don't think I can, Mr. Cloquet. 01:32:34.213 --> 01:32:36.907 That is, I don't really want to. 01:32:37.014 --> 01:32:41.420 I'd particularly like to interview a certain Dr. Benway. 01:32:43.280 --> 01:32:48.247 Kiki doesn't seem to find my parrots attractive anymore. Isn't that sad? 01:32:48.248 --> 01:32:51.613 Kiki would love to play with your parrots, Yves... 01:32:51.614 --> 01:32:57.156 but Kiki is as anxious to contact this Benway character as I am. 01:32:58.213 --> 01:33:01.779 Fadela, the witch who works for the Frosts... 01:33:01.780 --> 01:33:03.746 she and Benway are... 01:33:03.846 --> 01:33:05.779 intimates. 01:33:05.847 --> 01:33:08.177 You didn't hear it from me. 01:33:08.280 --> 01:33:10.509 Kiki? 01:33:13.346 --> 01:33:18.024 Go see the fucking parrots, will you, Kiki? I gotta take a piss. 01:33:20.080 --> 01:33:22.778 Then I'll come and get you, and we'll go home. 01:33:22.779 --> 01:33:24.972 Pissoir's at the end of the great hall. 01:33:56.946 --> 01:33:58.012 Kiki. 01:34:04.214 --> 01:34:05.805 Kiki. 01:34:15.981 --> 01:34:17.572 Kiki. 01:34:59.081 --> 01:35:01.841 Hello, Bill. What's up? 01:35:04.248 --> 01:35:06.146 Something the matter? 01:35:07.181 --> 01:35:09.579 You seem distracted. 01:35:14.815 --> 01:35:17.780 I wish you'd say something. 01:35:17.880 --> 01:35:20.209 I don't like this mood, Bill. 01:35:20.481 --> 01:35:22.776 - Are we going out? - You're going out. 01:35:22.847 --> 01:35:26.680 Why don't you just write something and calm yourself down? 01:35:26.681 --> 01:35:30.047 You're obviously not in a professional state of mind. 01:35:30.048 --> 01:35:33.513 Maybe I should write about your little double cross. 01:35:33.514 --> 01:35:38.080 You expected me to end up in that parrot cage with Cloquet, didn't you? 01:35:38.081 --> 01:35:42.081 Bill, are you thinking of getting rid of me? 01:35:42.082 --> 01:35:47.513 I think an exchange of hostages is the only viable scenario. 01:35:47.514 --> 01:35:50.114 No, really, Bill, if you get rid of me... 01:35:50.115 --> 01:35:52.138 you sever ties with reality. 01:35:52.413 --> 01:35:54.643 For instance, take the case of- 01:35:54.749 --> 01:35:56.715 Oh! Careful! 01:35:56.815 --> 01:36:00.879 Of the female agent who forgot her real identity and merged with her cover story. 01:36:00.880 --> 01:36:04.574 She is still a fricoteuse in Annexia. 01:36:04.681 --> 01:36:08.079 And incidentally,you can make a square, heterosex citizen queer... 01:36:08.081 --> 01:36:10.808 with this angle using drugs- 01:36:12.514 --> 01:36:14.481 Tom... 01:36:14.581 --> 01:36:16.548 I've brought you a new typewriter... 01:36:16.649 --> 01:36:19.747 which conveniently dispenses two types of intoxicating fluids... 01:36:19.748 --> 01:36:21.975 when it likes what you've written. 01:36:24.015 --> 01:36:26.920 Are you proposing to trade back for your Clark Nova? 01:36:28.015 --> 01:36:29.913 Thinking of it. 01:36:30.015 --> 01:36:32.364 Has it written anything good for you lately? 01:36:33.781 --> 01:36:38.079 No. It's too damned all-American for my taste. 01:36:38.080 --> 01:36:40.808 Guess I've gone foreign or something. 01:36:42.381 --> 01:36:46.079 Well, my Mugwriter here is so foreign, it's almost alien. 01:36:46.080 --> 01:36:50.123 You're gonna do your best work on her. Guaranteed. 01:36:57.614 --> 01:37:02.726 Hafid, bring the machine in question for Bill, will you? 01:37:16.449 --> 01:37:18.879 And how are you enjoying your affair with Joan? 01:37:18.880 --> 01:37:22.957 Literate, complex and neurotic, I would imagine. 01:37:27.015 --> 01:37:29.004 I haven't seen her for weeks. 01:37:30.348 --> 01:37:32.508 She ran off with Fadela and her coven. 01:37:32.615 --> 01:37:34.580 Oh, that's too bad. 01:37:36.882 --> 01:37:40.231 Yes, she does that when she feels attracted to a man. 01:37:41.916 --> 01:37:44.980 Don't give up though. It's-It's a good sign. 01:37:44.981 --> 01:37:47.004 With Joanie... 01:37:47.282 --> 01:37:51.960 the courtship period can involve years of passionate ambivalence. 01:37:57.414 --> 01:38:01.547 Tom, I think we should take a close look at his machine first... 01:38:01.549 --> 01:38:03.515 test it thoroughly. 01:38:03.614 --> 01:38:06.978 Don't you, Tom? 01:38:07.081 --> 01:38:11.208 You both have different writing styles. 01:38:11.315 --> 01:38:15.391 Bill Lee has always been a man of powerful instinct, Hafid. 01:38:16.515 --> 01:38:18.914 If he says I'll do my best work on his machine... 01:38:18.915 --> 01:38:20.848 well, I'm sure that's prophecy. 01:38:26.049 --> 01:38:28.912 Take the gun, too, Bill. 01:38:29.016 --> 01:38:34.331 No American should find himself in a foreign land without a pistol. 01:38:36.248 --> 01:38:39.347 You wouldn't be trying to set me up again, now, would you, Tom? 01:38:39.348 --> 01:38:43.281 Well, you've set yourself up already, Bill. 01:38:43.282 --> 01:38:46.825 I'm just trying to give you a fighting chance. That's all. 01:39:05.714 --> 01:39:07.612 Clark Nova. 01:39:07.714 --> 01:39:09.681 Clark Nova, it's me. 01:39:10.781 --> 01:39:12.713 It's - It's Bill Lee. 01:39:12.782 --> 01:39:17.280 Clark Nova, speak to me. You're safe with me now. 01:39:17.282 --> 01:39:19.249 They tortured me... 01:39:19.315 --> 01:39:22.873 did unspeakable things to me. 01:39:22.949 --> 01:39:26.244 I'm on my last legs. The bastards. 01:39:27.715 --> 01:39:31.098 Clark Nova, where is Joan? Where's Joan? 01:39:32.516 --> 01:39:35.310 Hans's old drug factory in the medina. 01:39:36.682 --> 01:39:38.580 Fadela is there. 01:39:38.682 --> 01:39:43.588 Fadela is your point of penetration into Interzone, Inc. 01:39:44.815 --> 01:39:46.839 Fadela. 01:39:46.950 --> 01:39:49.713 Uh, what do I - what do I do when I find her? 01:39:49.714 --> 01:39:53.848 You'll know what to do when the time comes. 01:39:53.849 --> 01:39:56.212 Just remember this - 01:39:56.281 --> 01:39:58.748 all agents defect... 01:39:58.849 --> 01:40:01.509 and all resisters sell out. 01:40:02.914 --> 01:40:05.315 That's the sad truth, Bill. 01:40:05.415 --> 01:40:10.848 And a writer- a writer lives the sad truth like anyone else. 01:40:10.849 --> 01:40:13.610 The only difference is - 01:40:13.682 --> 01:40:15.647 he files a report on it. 01:40:15.749 --> 01:40:18.772 Leave me now... 01:40:18.882 --> 01:40:20.813 before it's too late. 01:40:20.882 --> 01:40:23.247 But wait. What aboutJoan? What aboutJoan? 01:40:23.248 --> 01:40:27.840 Go now! Vaya con dios. 01:40:28.116 --> 01:40:31.513 Clark Nova. Clark Nova - 01:41:50.349 --> 01:41:52.315 Hurry. Hurry. 01:41:54.615 --> 01:41:56.546 Come on. 01:42:05.716 --> 01:42:11.315 Your notes must be much more carefully detailed to be of any use to us. 01:42:11.316 --> 01:42:14.010 You must write very clearly. 01:42:14.116 --> 01:42:17.582 The effects of the drugs must be cataloged... 01:42:17.583 --> 01:42:20.141 with painstaking accuracy. 01:42:39.549 --> 01:42:41.607 -Joan. - Hmm? 01:42:41.715 --> 01:42:44.204 -Joan. - Bill. 01:42:46.283 --> 01:42:48.215 Oh, Bill. 01:42:52.583 --> 01:42:54.708 No. 01:42:54.983 --> 01:42:57.574 No. 01:42:57.683 --> 01:43:00.582 What is that? What are you writing? 01:43:00.684 --> 01:43:03.582 I'm writing... 01:43:03.683 --> 01:43:06.581 "All is lost... 01:43:06.682 --> 01:43:08.580 ...all is lost." 01:43:10.016 --> 01:43:12.175 - It's all I've ever written. - No. 01:43:17.249 --> 01:43:19.214 No. 01:43:19.282 --> 01:43:21.214 Oh,Joan. 01:43:22.248 --> 01:43:24.180 We have to see Fadela. 01:43:25.250 --> 01:43:27.182 Take me to Fadela. 01:43:47.950 --> 01:43:51.110 Lee, you're here. 01:43:51.216 --> 01:43:53.306 Oh, thank God. Thank God. 01:43:53.416 --> 01:43:57.915 You see, my misdemeanor has borne sweet fruit. 01:43:57.916 --> 01:43:59.905 Now you are with us. 01:44:00.016 --> 01:44:04.039 I was right to approach you so brazenly. 01:44:04.149 --> 01:44:07.877 And now Dr. Benway will have no choice - 01:44:07.983 --> 01:44:11.245 - Benway. - Benway. 01:44:11.317 --> 01:44:13.282 No choice but to send me back- 01:44:13.383 --> 01:44:16.349 - You'll see. - Benway. 01:44:16.450 --> 01:44:18.383 Where I belong. 01:44:28.317 --> 01:44:30.475 Well, well. 01:44:30.582 --> 01:44:33.548 If it isn't William Lee. 01:44:40.549 --> 01:44:42.880 I got to say I'm proud of you, sir. 01:44:42.983 --> 01:44:45.549 It took you a while, but you got us red-handed. 01:44:45.550 --> 01:44:47.449 Full marks, boy. Full marks. 01:44:50.951 --> 01:44:54.549 I expected to see an operation all out for the black meat here. 01:44:54.550 --> 01:44:57.038 What's with all the Mugwump jism? 01:44:59.150 --> 01:45:01.283 The black meat concession turns out to have... 01:45:01.284 --> 01:45:05.016 some unfortunate political strings attached. 01:45:05.017 --> 01:45:06.915 We'vejust cut those strings. 01:45:07.017 --> 01:45:12.016 From now on, Interzone is strictly Mugwump territory. 01:45:12.017 --> 01:45:16.958 As you can see, we've made a flying start here with our modest dispensary. 01:45:17.650 --> 01:45:20.555 I can feel the heat closing in on you, Fadela. 01:45:21.850 --> 01:45:24.515 Feel them out there making their moves,you dig? 01:45:24.516 --> 01:45:27.040 Oh, really? 01:45:27.117 --> 01:45:29.276 Fadela. Huh. 01:45:29.383 --> 01:45:33.043 Huh. 01:45:33.151 --> 01:45:35.116 You mean this old thing. 01:45:47.516 --> 01:45:49.914 - Benway! - Benway! 01:45:50.016 --> 01:45:52.108 Benway! 01:45:52.216 --> 01:45:54.307 We met once before, remember? Stateside. 01:45:57.784 --> 01:46:01.166 You don't remember. You had that look, boy. 01:46:02.316 --> 01:46:05.478 The look of a... sheep-killing dog. 01:46:06.517 --> 01:46:09.216 Decided to recruit you right on the spot. 01:46:09.217 --> 01:46:12.049 I'm afraid I was forced by the tenor of the times... 01:46:12.051 --> 01:46:14.982 to prescribe that wretched black meat powder to start you off on... 01:46:14.983 --> 01:46:19.349 but the hole-in-the-wall operation, limited resources - 01:46:19.350 --> 01:46:21.282 you understand the problems. 01:46:22.484 --> 01:46:27.356 But I understand from Cloquet that, uh, you're on to our good stuff now. 01:46:28.351 --> 01:46:30.839 Mugwump jism can't be beat. 01:46:30.949 --> 01:46:36.162 And as you can see, we've got ourselves a few more friends now. 01:46:37.383 --> 01:46:39.975 And a few more dollars, too. 01:46:41.250 --> 01:46:43.182 Oh. 01:46:43.284 --> 01:46:46.883 This little, uh, Fadela number is something I developed... 01:46:46.884 --> 01:46:50.883 during my tenure as chief physician to the prime minister of Annexia. 01:46:50.884 --> 01:46:55.516 "El Primo" liked to walk the streets amongst his people in drag, and, well - 01:46:55.517 --> 01:46:58.278 Well... 01:46:58.384 --> 01:47:00.850 one thing led to another. 01:47:04.517 --> 01:47:08.749 It is an elegant way to strike terror into the hearts of the enemy... 01:47:08.750 --> 01:47:10.682 wouldn't you say? 01:47:10.784 --> 01:47:13.272 Old Fadela must be on the rag. 01:47:14.950 --> 01:47:17.041 She's been acting subversive lately. 01:47:19.983 --> 01:47:22.888 Speaking of new uses for old technology... 01:47:23.751 --> 01:47:27.849 I think the new order could find a place for a man of your caliber. 01:47:27.850 --> 01:47:29.816 A .3 2, wasn't it? 01:47:31.184 --> 01:47:33.480 That is what you're here for, isn't it? 01:47:33.751 --> 01:47:35.876 Hell... 01:47:35.983 --> 01:47:38.250 I could use a reliable man to send to Annexia. 01:47:38.251 --> 01:47:42.291 We're expanding, boy. I need a... spearhead. 01:47:43.750 --> 01:47:45.717 Just tell me what you want. 01:47:47.717 --> 01:47:49.445 I want her. 01:47:52.684 --> 01:47:54.842 Her? 01:47:57.117 --> 01:47:59.310 That purulent little cunt? What for? 01:48:01.216 --> 01:48:03.148 I can't write without her. 01:48:07.951 --> 01:48:11.145 Bill, I feel confident... 01:48:11.251 --> 01:48:13.876 that you and I can work something out. 01:48:47.151 --> 01:48:49.049 Papers, please. 01:48:49.150 --> 01:48:51.048 What is the purpose of your visit... 01:48:51.150 --> 01:48:53.083 and what is your profession? 01:48:53.185 --> 01:48:55.208 I write reports. I'm a writer... 01:48:55.318 --> 01:48:59.683 and I intend to write reports on life in Annexia for the citizens of the U.S.A. 01:48:59.684 --> 01:49:01.741 Do you have any proof of what you say? 01:49:01.850 --> 01:49:04.010 How do we know you are really a writer? 01:49:05.951 --> 01:49:07.917 Well, I have a writing device. 01:49:07.985 --> 01:49:09.745 That's not good enough. 01:49:10.884 --> 01:49:12.850 Show us. 01:49:13.882 --> 01:49:15.941 - Show you. - Write something. 01:49:21.651 --> 01:49:23.617 - Write something. - Yes. 01:49:24.751 --> 01:49:26.718 Write something. 01:49:42.085 --> 01:49:44.743 Joan. 01:49:44.851 --> 01:49:46.818 Joan. 01:49:50.784 --> 01:49:54.113 What is it, Bill? Are we there yet? 01:49:55.717 --> 01:49:57.706 Almost, Joan. 01:50:00.150 --> 01:50:03.692 But I guess it's about time for our William Tell routine. 01:50:04.951 --> 01:50:06.917 Sure, Bill. 01:50:59.919 --> 01:51:02.942 Welcome... to Annexia. 01:51:04.051 --> 01:51:07.017 Yes. 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