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00:00:42 Hey, buddy.
00:00:45 You don't waste time, do you?
00:00:47 I try not to.
00:00:48 Well, you need help?
00:00:50 Sure.
00:00:54 Would you like to tell us...
00:00:56 what the hell that was all about?
00:00:59 I don't like good-byes.
00:01:00 Kind of the point of
00:01:03 Went to a certain amount
00:01:06 Could've at least stayed
00:01:08 Eaten some of the food
00:01:12 I apologize, Harry.
00:01:13 But why are you moving so quickly?
00:01:15 You only resigned a couple of days ago.
00:01:17 You got the history chair at Stanford.
00:01:19 I wish.
00:01:20 Well, taquitos, chicken wings,
00:01:22 Roastie-toasties and beer.
00:01:25 If we'd had more time,
00:01:26 We'd have done something
00:01:28 Candlelight dinner at Mcdonald's.
00:01:30 Strippers.
00:01:32 Taquitos are fine.
00:01:33 A'right.
00:01:35 Art's gonna be along, too.
00:01:37 He's, uh, talking to a student. Pfft.
00:01:39 Is George taking over for you?
00:01:41 George or Trimbell - Has
00:01:44 He hasn't called.
00:01:45 My god!
00:01:46 Wh-What is this?
00:01:47 It looks like a Van Gogh,
00:01:48 But I've never seen it before.
00:01:50 Is that an original, John?
00:01:51 No, it's just a gift someone gave me.
00:01:54 Still, it's a superb copy.
00:01:56 Contemporaneous, I think,
00:01:58 May I take a closer look?
00:02:00 Please, yeah.
00:02:03 Yeah, it's the same
00:02:05 Yeah, there's writing
00:02:08 Oh, "To my friend Jacque Borne."
00:02:10 Wonder who that was?
00:02:12 Someone he knew, I guess.
00:02:13 Brilliant deduction, sherlock.
00:02:15 Surely you'll have this
00:02:18 Well, maybe sometime,
00:02:20 But I wouldn't really want money for it.
00:02:25 That does it.
00:02:27 Put that stuff in the kitchen.
00:02:29 No, I'm gonna put it
00:02:32 Gas is off, electricity's on.
00:02:36 Get comfortable while you can.
00:02:38 The furniture's going this afternoon.
00:02:40 It's been years since I sat on a floor.
00:02:43 Heh. I can't remember her name.
00:02:45 Eh, it's good for the back.
00:02:47 Can we do yoga exercises?
00:02:48 Tantric yoga, we can.
00:02:50 ( Chuckles )
00:02:51 So you're leaving good old "We teach you"?
00:02:54 Rather suddenly, you must admit.
00:02:57 Truth time, John.
00:02:59 Is there a problem?
00:03:00 No.
00:03:02 Oh, come on, you know we wanna help.
00:03:04 That's appreciated,
00:03:06 There's no problem.
00:03:07 Well, now I am curious.
00:03:10 Where are you going?
00:03:11 Givin' up tenure...
00:03:12 a decade of professorship,
00:03:14 In line to chair the department,
00:03:17 And you don't know where you're going?
00:03:20 Call it cabin fever.
00:03:21 After a while, I get itchy feet.
00:03:24 I've done this before.
00:03:25 No, no, no, you're too young
00:03:28 And he hasn't aged a day in ten years.
00:03:30 Every woman on the faculty
00:03:32 Would give anything to have that secret.
00:03:35 Is that what they're after, Edith?
00:03:36 Oh, stop, Harry.
00:03:38 ( Giggles )
00:03:41 Wow, can you pull this?
00:03:44 What the hell?
00:03:45 What do you hunt?
00:03:47 Deer, mostly.
00:03:48 Around big bear.
00:03:49 With a bow and arrow?
00:03:50 Most people can't bag a deer
00:03:52 With a rifle and a telescopic sight.
00:03:54 Though, good eatin'.
00:03:56 The best wild game.
00:03:57 Lives naturally, eats naturally.
00:03:59 Well, it's beautiful.
00:04:02 ( Motor hums )
00:04:04 Art.
00:04:07 Ah.
00:04:09 So, can I get an "a" for awesome?
00:04:12 Oh, my gosh.
00:04:13 ( Chuckles )
00:04:14 That was fun.
00:04:16 Hey, John.
00:04:17 You know Linda. You
00:04:20 Hi. Hey.
00:04:21 She's one of my victims
00:04:23 She wanted to come by
00:04:25 Is Art as tough as I hear?
00:04:26 Oh, archaeology's tough.
00:04:28 Dr. Jenkins is a fine teacher.
00:04:30 Oh, that's very politic.
00:04:32 It's very true. Uh-huh.
00:04:33 Something for you to
00:04:36 "Shadows of the cave:
00:04:39 Author: M. Jenkins.
00:04:41 Publish or perish.
00:04:42 I'd rather read
00:04:43 Than write another one.
00:04:44 Thank you.
00:04:46 Hi.
00:04:47 Oh, everybody, this is Linda.
00:04:50 Linda, this is everybody.
00:04:51 Linda. Hi.
00:04:53 So.
00:04:55 Where you going, John,
00:04:58 We've already covered that.
00:04:59 John's got itchy feet.
00:05:02 There are over-the-counter
00:05:04 ( Laughs )
00:05:07 So there is a problem.
00:05:08 No.
00:05:10 I just like to move on now and then.
00:05:12 It's a personal thing.
00:05:15 Well, not to pry.
00:05:25 I'm sorry I don't
00:05:28 Got conversation, some
00:05:30 And, uh...
00:05:35 Is he ducking out on us again?
00:05:39 ...I do have this.
00:05:41 Oh ho ho! Johnny Walker Green!
00:05:45 ( Laughs ) didn't even
00:05:48 What do they pay you?
00:05:49 Nothing is too good for my friends.
00:05:51 But I'm sorry-- We are
00:05:54 That's a sacrilege I'll tolerate.
00:05:56 I will do the honors.
00:05:58 Oh, come to papa.
00:06:01 Ooh! Here, cups, cups.
00:06:03 There we go.
00:06:04 Step on in here.
00:06:05 There ya go...
00:06:06 one for the birthday
00:06:09 No, not for me.
00:06:10 Oh, no, I don't drink.
00:06:11 ( Laughs ) we're not
00:06:13 All right, here, join
00:06:15 Well, to long life and good fortune
00:06:20 To our esteemed friend
00:06:22 And colleague, John Oldman.
00:06:23 May he find undeserved bliss
00:06:25 Wherever he goes.
00:06:27 Here, here.
00:06:28 Skael. Na zdorovye.
00:06:29 One off the top, John.
00:06:36 Mm! Oh, that's good.
00:06:38 Excuse me.
00:06:42 John, we're all sorry to see you go.
00:06:45 Truly.
00:06:49 Okay. Now we're done with that,
00:06:51 What do we do for the
00:06:53 Anyone got a good topic?
00:06:54 Like this, maybe? Heh.
00:06:56 What is that?
00:06:57 It's a burin of a parrot beak.
00:07:00 Inclined chisel point...
00:07:02 probably early magdalenian.
00:07:04 May I see that? Sure.
00:07:12 Yes indeed, that's what it is.
00:07:15 What's a burin?
00:07:16 A burin is a flint tool
00:07:18 For grooving wood and
00:07:21 To make spear and harpoon points.
00:07:23 Magdalenians weren't
00:07:25 So this is a very nice specimen.
00:07:27 Okay, what's a magdalenian?
00:07:29 A later Cro-magnon,
00:07:31 Without gettin' technical.
00:07:32 It's the final culture
00:07:35 If stones could speak, eh, Art?
00:07:37 So where'd you get that, John?
00:07:39 Believe it or not, from
00:07:42 You lucky dog!
00:07:43 I gotta go digging
00:07:45 Can I, uh...?
00:07:47 Yeah.
00:07:51 Huh.
00:07:57 Maybe...
00:07:59 I'm glad you did this.
00:08:01 Did what? You mean come over?
00:08:03 Maybe?
00:08:05 Definitely.
00:08:06 Gee, thanks.
00:08:08 Well, so are we.
00:08:09 So are we.
00:08:11 We couldn't let you just run off.
00:08:13 Thanks.
00:08:16 John, what is up, huh?
00:08:18 Are you on america's most wanted?
00:08:19 We won't turn you in.
00:08:20 Yeah, come on, out with it.
00:08:22 You're among friends.
00:08:23 Snoopy friends.
00:08:24 Forget it.
00:08:25 You are creating the mystery here.
00:08:27 Obviously, you have something
00:08:31 Well, maybe I...
00:08:34 ten, nine, eight, seven...
00:08:35 Harry, stop.
00:08:37 There is something I'm
00:08:40 I've never done this before,
00:08:44 ( Harry chuckles )
00:08:47 I wonder if I could ask
00:08:49 John, we're teachers.
00:08:50 We answer silly questions all the time.
00:08:52 Hey!
00:08:53 What if a man from the upper paleolithic
00:08:57 Survived until the present day?
00:08:59 What do you mean, survived?
00:09:01 Never died?
00:09:02 Yes. What would he be like?
00:09:04 Well, I know some guys.
00:09:06 You ever been to the ozarks?
00:09:08 It's an interesting idea.
00:09:09 What, are you working on
00:09:12 Say I am. What would he be like?
00:09:14 Pretty tired.
00:09:15 ( Laughter )
00:09:17 Well, seriously,
00:09:19 As Art's book title suggests,
00:09:21 He might be like any of us.
00:09:23 Dan. A caveman?
00:09:25 Well, there's no anatomical difference
00:09:26 Between, say, a Cro-magnon and us.
00:09:28 Except that as a rule,
00:09:31 What's the selective
00:09:33 Better to see predators
00:09:36 Actually, tall and skinny
00:09:38 Radiates heat more
00:09:41 And as for neanderthals,
00:09:42 I mean, we've all seen apish people.
00:09:44 That strain's still with us.
00:09:45 But he'd be a caveman.
00:09:48 No, he wouldn't.
00:09:49 John's hypothetical man
00:09:50 Would have lived
00:09:51 yeah, roughly.
00:09:53 ...and changed with every one of them.
00:09:55 I mean, assuming normal intelligence.
00:09:58 Well, we think men of
00:10:00 Were as intelligent as we are.
00:10:02 They just didn't know as much.
00:10:04 John's man would have
00:10:07 In fact, if he had an inquiring mind,
00:10:09 His knowledge might be astonishing.
00:10:13 If you do write that,
00:10:16 I'm sure you'll make some
00:10:18 It's a deal.
00:10:19 What would keep him alive?
00:10:20 What does the biologist say?
00:10:22 Cigarettes.
00:10:24 And ice cream. ( Laughs )
00:10:26 All right, all right, I'll play.
00:10:28 All right, um, in science fiction terms,
00:10:32 I would say...
00:10:35 perfect regeneration
00:10:39 Especially in the vital organs.
00:10:41 Actually, the human
00:10:43 To live about 190 years.
00:10:45 Most of us just die of slow poisoning.
00:10:49 Maybe he did something right,
00:10:50 Something everybody else
00:10:54 What, like eat the food,
00:10:55 Drink the water, and breathe the air?
00:10:57 Prior to modern times,
00:10:59 Those were pristine.
00:11:01 We've extended our lifespan
00:11:05 not fit to live in.
00:11:07 You know, it could happen.
00:11:09 The pancreas turns over
00:11:11 The stomach lining in three days,
00:11:13 The entire body in seven years,
00:11:14 But the process falters.
00:11:16 Waste accumulates, eventually
00:11:19 Now if a quirk in his immune system
00:11:22 Led to perfect detox,
00:11:23 Perfect renewal, then yeah.
00:11:25 He could duck decay.
00:11:28 Mm, that's a secret
00:11:30 Would you really want to do that?
00:11:33 Live 14,000 years?
00:11:35 Well, if I could stay
00:11:38 I mean, why not?
00:11:39 Yeah. What a chance to learn.
00:11:41 Is anyone hungry?
00:11:44 You know, the more I think
00:11:47 Anything is possible, right?
00:11:48 After all, one century's magic,
00:11:52 They thought Columbus
00:11:54 Pasteur, Copernicus?
00:11:55 Aristarchus long before that.
00:11:57 Right.
00:11:58 I had a chance to sail with columbus,
00:12:00 Only I'm not the adventurous type.
00:12:02 I was pretty sure the earth was round,
00:12:05 But at that point, I still thought
00:12:08 He might fall off an edge someplace...
00:12:21 look around, John.
00:12:23 We just did.
00:12:25 I suppose there's a
00:12:27 But I don't get it.
00:12:28 There's nothing to get.
00:12:30 What are we talking about?
00:12:32 We were just talking about a caveman
00:12:34 Who survives until the present time.
00:12:36 As you said, what a chance to learn,
00:12:39 Once I learned to learn.
00:12:42 Did you start the whiskey
00:12:46 Pretend it's science fiction.
00:12:49 Figure it out.
00:12:51 Okay, a--( Laughs )--
00:12:56 Living until the present.
00:12:59 ( Grunts loudly )
00:13:00 Oh!
00:13:01 ( Laughing )
00:13:05 What?
00:13:07 John just confided that
00:13:10 Oh, John, you don't look a day over 900.
00:13:14 Okay, okay.
00:13:15 All right, spock, I'll
00:13:17 What do you want? What's the punch line?
00:13:20 Every ten years or so, when people start
00:13:22 To notice I don't age, I move on.
00:13:26 That's very good,
00:13:29 I wanna read that
00:13:31 You want more?
00:13:33 By all means. This is great.
00:13:35 All right, now...
00:13:36 ( laughs )
00:13:37 So you think that you are a...
00:13:39 a, uh, Cro-magnon.
00:13:41 Well, I didn't learn it in school.
00:13:42 That's my best guess,
00:13:44 Based on archaeological data,
00:13:48 Since mesopotamia,
00:13:50 I've got the last...
00:13:53 You're ahead of most
00:13:56 Well, you know the background stuff,
00:13:58 So I'll make it brief.
00:13:59 In what I call my first lifetime,
00:14:02 I aged to about 35...
00:14:03 what you see.
00:14:05 I ended up leading my group.
00:14:07 They saw me as magical.
00:14:09 I didn't even have to fight for it.
00:14:12 Then fear came, and they chased me away.
00:14:15 They thought that I was
00:14:17 Stealing their lives away to stay young.
00:14:19 The prehistoric origin
00:14:21 That is good!
00:14:22 First thousand years,
00:14:23 I didn't know up from sideways.
00:14:26 How do you know the
00:14:28 An informed guess, based on what
00:14:30 I've learned in my memories.
00:14:31 Most people can scarcely
00:14:33 But you have memories of that time?
00:14:35 Like yours, selective.
00:14:37 You know, the high points,
00:14:40 They stick in the mind forever.
00:14:42 Put down at 3 or 35,
00:14:48 Go on.
00:14:50 I kept getting chased
00:14:53 So I got the hang of
00:14:56 I also got the idea of
00:15:01 We were semi-Nomadic, of course,
00:15:02 Following the weather
00:15:05 The first 2,000 years were cold.
00:15:07 We learned it was warmer
00:15:10 Late glacial period, I assume.
00:15:13 What was the terrain like?
00:15:15 Mountainous.
00:15:18 Vast plains to the west.
00:15:21 West--Something you
00:15:24 Towards the setting sun.
00:15:27 I suspect I saw the british isles
00:15:29 From what is now the french coast.
00:15:32 Huge mountains...
00:15:33 on the other side of
00:15:36 That was shadowed by the setting sun.
00:15:38 This is before they were separated
00:15:40 From the continent by rising
00:15:44 That happened?
00:15:45 Yes, the end of the pleistocene.
00:15:47 So far, what he says fits.
00:15:50 Oh, yeah, into any textbook.
00:15:52 And that's where I found it.
00:15:54 How can I have knowledgeable recall
00:15:55 If I didn't have knowledge?
00:15:57 It's all retrospective.
00:15:59 All I can do is
00:16:02 With modern findings.
00:16:04 Caveman, you gonna hit me
00:16:06 And drag me into the bedroom?
00:16:08 You'd be more fun conscious.
00:16:10 Oh, John.
00:16:11 Let me get this straight.
00:16:12 We're not talking about reincarnation.
00:16:14 You're not saying that you remember
00:16:16 Whatever the hell it would be,
00:16:17 200 separate lifetimes, dying
00:16:19 And being born again and yada yada?
00:16:21 One lifetime.
00:16:24 Some lifetime.
00:16:25 Wow.
00:16:26 Maybe there is something
00:16:29 You're supposed to come back
00:16:30 Again and again, learn and learn,
00:16:32 And somehow, John, you just managed
00:16:33 To bypass all the other bodies.
00:16:35 Well, what's the point?
00:16:40 What about oceans?
00:16:42 Didn't see them till much later.
00:16:44 So how would you know
00:16:47 Big waves--
00:16:49 I can only surmise in retrospect.
00:16:51 Were you curious about
00:16:54 We would look up at the sky and wonder.
00:16:57 "There's gotta be
00:16:59 What else made all this down here?"
00:17:01 At first I thought
00:17:02 There was something
00:17:04 Maybe I was a bad guy for not dying.
00:17:08 Then I began to wonder if I was cursed
00:17:12 Or perhaps blessed.
00:17:14 Then I thought maybe I had a mission.
00:17:18 Do you still think you do?
00:17:19 God works in mysterious ways.
00:17:21 I think I just happened.
00:17:25 ( Phone ringing )
00:17:31 ( Laughs )
00:17:32 Wow.
00:17:33 Hello?
00:17:36 Yes, ellie?
00:17:37 What's wrong?
00:17:39 Sandy?
00:17:41 Coming.
00:17:45 Yeah?
00:17:46 Do we have ellie's midterm here?
00:17:50 Yeah, sorry.
00:17:51 I picked it up with the periodicals.
00:17:54 Got it.
00:17:55 No, you're worried about your parents?
00:17:57 Don't--Don't
00:17:58 You passed, c+.
00:18:00 Take care of yourself.
00:18:02 Good kid.
00:18:03 What does pre-Med need with history?
00:18:05 Got it.
00:18:06 Thank you.
00:18:10 Sorry, guys.
00:18:11 John, please continue.
00:18:13 Come on, I thought we
00:18:15 No! Let's go on with it.
00:18:17 It's interesting.
00:18:18 Besides, I think he's making
00:18:21 Like hegel-- Logic
00:18:24 That Van Gogh?
00:18:25 He gave it to me.
00:18:27 I was, uh, jacque bourne at the time,
00:18:30 A pig farmer.
00:18:31 A pig farmer?
00:18:33 ( Laughing )
00:18:34 I like to work with my hands.
00:18:36 He would come out to the place, paint.
00:18:38 We talked about capturing nature in Art.
00:18:40 Turner, cezanne, pissarro.
00:18:43 Oh, the nolde landscapes.
00:18:45 Not in Van Gogh's time.
00:18:46 He would have loved them, though.
00:18:48 Yes.
00:18:49 Well, I don't understand
00:18:51 Why you can't remember
00:18:53 Geography hasn't changed.
00:18:55 I learned
00:18:56 Professor hensen's tepid lectures.
00:18:58 But you're right.
00:18:59 Where did you live when
00:19:01 Little rock.
00:19:03 Your mother, she took you to the market?
00:19:05 Mm-hmm. What direction was it?
00:19:06 From your house.
00:19:07 I don't know.
00:19:09 How far?
00:19:10 Um, three blocks.
00:19:12 Were there any references
00:19:13 That stuck in your mind?
00:19:15 Well, there was a gas station
00:19:16 And a big field.
00:19:18 I was told I could never go there alone.
00:19:20 And if you went back there today,
00:19:21 Would it be the same?
00:19:23 No. I'm sure it's all
00:19:26 Thus the saying-- "You
00:19:29 Because it isn't there anymore.
00:19:30 Picture it
00:19:32 I migrated through an endless flat space
00:19:35 Full of endless
00:19:38 Forests, mountains, tundra, canyons.
00:19:42 My memory sees what I saw then.
00:19:46 My eye sees freeways, urban sprawl,
00:19:50 Big macs under the eiffel tower.
00:19:53 Early on, the world
00:19:55 And then...
00:19:58 think what I've had to unlearn.
00:20:00 And now you're moving on.
00:20:01 As you've said, there's
00:20:04 And when that happens, I move on.
00:20:07 Well, it might make sense
00:20:11 Your next ten years, and
00:20:14 I've done that a few times,
00:20:16 Even passed as my own son.
00:20:17 "Oh, you're an engineer, too?
00:20:19 You're ben's son. He was a good man."
00:20:22 Saves trouble with
00:20:24 On the other hand, I've
00:20:27 Spent a year in
00:20:30 I won't
00:20:32 For faking a government application.
00:20:34 When'd you come to america?
00:20:36 1890, right after Van Gogh's death,
00:20:38 With some french immigrants...
00:20:40 moving on.
00:20:44 An answer for every question.
00:20:47 Except one, John.
00:20:49 Why're you doing this?
00:20:53 A whim. Maybe not such a good idea.
00:20:56 I...
00:20:57 wanted to say goodbye to you as me,
00:21:00 Not what you thought I was.
00:21:02 Well, since this isn't funny,
00:21:04 We think you might have a problem.
00:21:07 A very serious problem.
00:21:10 I've got boxes to move.
00:21:12 I'll give you a hand.
00:21:14 Wouldn't you have
00:21:19 To remind you of your early life?
00:21:22 Like this, maybe?
00:21:23 Thrift shop.
00:21:25 Really.
00:21:28 If you lived 100... 1,000 years...
00:21:33 would you still have this?
00:21:34 What would cause you to keep it?
00:21:37 As a memento to your beginnings,
00:21:38 Even if you didn't have
00:21:40 The concept of beginnings?
00:21:41 It would be gone, lost.
00:21:45 No.
00:21:46 I don't have artifacts.
00:21:50 Keep that.
00:21:54 Interesting.
00:21:57 You could have lied about that.
00:21:59 Don't talk about me while I'm gone.
00:22:09 Is he serious?
00:22:11 If he is, I'm sorry to say he's...
00:22:14 oh, how could he have
00:22:17 Least he doesn't appear to be dangerous.
00:22:22 What are you doing?
00:22:23 Checkin' for a hidden mic.
00:22:25 Candid camera.
00:22:28 He's fabricating these wild stories.
00:22:30 I've never seen him acting like this.
00:22:32 Oh, it's crazy.
00:22:34 All right, all right,
00:22:44 I love you, you know.
00:22:47 I know.
00:22:50 Since my first week at the office.
00:22:57 And?
00:22:58 I care very much about you,
00:23:01 But now you know what
00:23:04 Do you really think you're a caveman?
00:23:06 Do you?
00:23:14 Could you love me,
00:23:15 Or don't you believe in that anymore?
00:23:19 I've gotten over it too many times.
00:23:22 Fond of you...
00:23:25 certainly attracted to you.
00:23:30 That's it?
00:23:35 I can work with that.
00:23:40 If what I'm saying is true,
00:23:42 You and any children will age.
00:23:45 I won't.
00:23:46 And one day I'll leave.
00:23:48 You'll go back to your
00:23:51 The simple fact is
00:23:52 That I can't give you forever.
00:23:56 How long's forever?
00:24:00 Who ever really has it?
00:24:05 My parents split up before I was born,
00:24:09 And then my mom's next marriage lasted
00:24:11 What, a whole three years?
00:24:15 Then there's death,
00:24:20 no one knows how long they have.
00:24:23 Or how little.
00:24:29 I love you.
00:24:32 Take whatever you can get.
00:24:37 Like ten years?
00:24:44 Ah! Ha ha ha!
00:24:46 ( Yells )
00:24:47 Uhn!
00:24:48 Oh.
00:24:49 Why did you do that?
00:24:51 I wanted to see how fast you
00:24:54 I don't have eyes in
00:24:56 I can't hear a flea walking,
00:24:57 I am not in any way superman.
00:24:59 Well, I'm a second-degree black belt.
00:25:02 Give it another thousand years.
00:25:05 Well. I got it, I got it, I got it.
00:25:09 Jesus.
00:25:10 Smooth demonstration, Harry.
00:25:12 Sit on it, Dan.
00:25:15 I still have questions.
00:25:17 I-I do too, John.
00:25:18 I mean, are we done with prehistory yet?
00:25:21 Remember any of your original language?
00:25:24 A little. One thing
00:25:27 ( wolf whistles )
00:25:30 Did you ever do any cave Art?
00:25:32 Do you know the rock Art at les eyzies?
00:25:34 Mm-hmm.
00:25:36 It was the work of a man named...
00:25:40 giraud.
00:25:41 He did a pretty good job.
00:25:42 He would draw the animals
00:25:44 That we hoped to find to eat.
00:25:47 One day after a fruitless hunt,
00:25:49 Our chief stomped his teeth out
00:25:51 Because his magic had failed him.
00:25:53 After that, someone had
00:25:57 Finally, he
00:25:58 An infected jaw,
00:26:01 And he was abandoned.
00:26:02 That's awful.
00:26:04 You have to know what to kill.
00:26:06 Is this why all your students
00:26:08 Say your knowledge of history is...
00:26:10 so amazing?
00:26:11 No, that's mostly based on study.
00:26:13 Remember, it's one man,
00:26:17 My solitary viewpoint
00:26:20 Of a world I knew almost nothing about.
00:26:22 Well, let's talk about
00:26:24 What you say you
00:26:26 Historical times.
00:26:28 Don't encourage him.
00:26:29 Edith.
00:26:30 Next few thousand years, it got warmer.
00:26:33 A few thousand
00:26:34 See, now, I know you're guessing.
00:26:37 You can't get there from here, Art.
00:26:39 Well then, pray, continue.
00:26:43 We hunted
00:26:45 Bison, horses,
00:26:47 The game retreated northward
00:26:48 As the climate changed,
00:26:49 You got the idea of growing food
00:26:51 Rather than gathering it,
00:26:53 Raising animals rather
00:26:55 Am--Am I getting
00:26:57 I bet I am.
00:26:59 Lakeside living becomes commonplace,
00:27:01 Fishing,
00:27:04 John, this is out of any textbook.
00:27:06 Even yours.
00:27:07 You got most of it right.
00:27:10 Eventually I headed to the east.
00:27:11 I'd grown curious about the world.
00:27:14 I'd gotten the hang of going it alone,
00:27:16 Learning how to fit in when I wanted to.
00:27:19 East.
00:27:21 Towards the rising sun?
00:27:23 Yes. I thought it might be warmer there.
00:27:27 That's when I saw an ocean.
00:27:31 The mediterranean, probably.
00:27:34 It was around the
00:27:36 So I followed the trade
00:27:39 Copper, tin,
00:27:40 Learning languages as I went.
00:27:42 Everywhere, creation myths,
00:27:46 New gods, so many, so different.
00:27:50 I finally realized that it was...
00:27:52 probably all hogwash,
00:27:54 So I was sumerian for 2,000 years,
00:27:57 Then finally babylonian under hammurabi.
00:27:59 Great man.
00:28:01 And I sailed as a phoenician for a time.
00:28:03 See, moving on had been
00:28:08 difficult when villages emerged,
00:28:11 Tougher still in city states
00:28:14 Strangers were suspect.
00:28:16 It seemed as though I
00:28:20 I learned some
00:28:22 Even faked my death a couple of times.
00:28:26 I continued east
00:28:28 To india,
00:28:30 Luckily at the time of the Buddha.
00:28:34 Luckily.
00:28:38 Most extraordinary man I've ever known.
00:28:40 He taught me things
00:28:42 I'd never thought about before.
00:28:44 You studied... with the Buddha?
00:28:46 Until he died.
00:28:49 He knew there was something
00:28:52 I never told him.
00:28:54 This is fascinating.
00:28:57 I almost wish it were true.
00:28:59 Yeah, if it was true,
00:29:03 I mean, we might leave here today,
00:29:05 Go out there, tell everybody.
00:29:06 It would vanish in disbelief.
00:29:09 A story that goes around the room.
00:29:11 No credibility.
00:29:14 Even if I could make you believe me,
00:29:17 In a month, you wouldn't.
00:29:18 Some of you would call me a psychopath,
00:29:21 Others would be angry
00:29:23 Some of us are angry now.
00:29:25 This--This
00:29:27 Uh, I love you all, and I do not want
00:29:30 To put you through anything.
00:29:31 Then why are you doing it?
00:29:33 'Cause I wanted
00:29:35 As yourself.
00:29:36 I think you've done that,
00:29:38 Whoever that self is.
00:29:39 Easy, Edith.
00:29:40 We're just grading his homework.
00:29:42 I see what's going on. You're
00:29:45 That's fine. Just enjoy it.
00:29:46 All right, I think this
00:29:49 I should leave, but I'm gonna stay.
00:29:50 You know why? 'Cause I wanna
00:29:53 So do I. What is this all about?
00:29:55 Let's ask Dr. Freud,
00:29:57 Hey, will! Will!
00:30:00 Art. Hey.
00:30:02 John!
00:30:03 I'm glad I caught you.
00:30:05 Someone mentioned
00:30:07 Called you, told you that I've lost it.
00:30:09 Glad you're here. Things are
00:30:12 Yes, so I hear.
00:30:13 Hi.
00:30:14 Are you hungry?
00:30:16 Uh, thank you, no.
00:30:17 Whiskey? Johnny walker green.
00:30:19 Oh, yes.
00:30:23 ( Closes door )
00:30:25 You look very familiar,
00:30:27 I'm in your tuesday
00:30:30 Ah, well, this lesson may be something
00:30:33 I could not have imagined.
00:30:36 I regret being so
00:30:40 But these people are all
00:30:43 Yes, I'm cutting out paper dinosaurs.
00:30:46 I really wish I'd been
00:30:49 Me too.
00:30:50 Let me just say something right now.
00:30:52 There's absolutely no
00:30:55 For John to prove this story to us,
00:30:57 Just like there's no way
00:31:00 No matter how outrageous we think it is,
00:31:03 No matter how highly trained
00:31:06 There's absolutely
00:31:08 Our friend is either a
00:31:13 So while we're thinking about that,
00:31:14 Why don't we just go with it?
00:31:17 I mean, hell, who knows,
00:31:18 He might jolt us into believing him,
00:31:20 Or we might jolt him back to reality.
00:31:22 Believing? Whose reality?
00:31:25 So... you're a caveman.
00:31:27 Yes. Uh...
00:31:29 uh, I was a Cro-magnon, I think.
00:31:32 You don't know if
00:31:35 No, I'm sure about that.
00:31:36 A Cro-magnon, then.
00:31:37 When did you first realize this?
00:31:39 When the Cro-magnon
00:31:42 When anthropology gave them a name,
00:31:44 I had mine.
00:31:45 Well, please continue.
00:31:47 I'm sure you must have more to say.
00:31:49 Would you like me to lie on the couch?
00:31:51 ( Laughs ) as you wish.
00:31:55 As a physician, I'm curious.
00:31:58 In this enormous lifetime you describe,
00:32:01 Have you ever been ill?
00:32:03 Sure, as much as anyone.
00:32:05 Seriously ill?
00:32:06 Sometimes.
00:32:08 Of what? Do you know?
00:32:10 In prehistory, I can't tell you.
00:32:11 Maybe pneumonia once or twice.
00:32:15 Last few hundred years,
00:32:17 I've gotten over typhoid, yellow fever,
00:32:20 Smallpox...I survived the black plague.
00:32:23 Bubonic?
00:32:24 Oh, that's terrible.
00:32:26 More so than history describes.
00:32:28 And smallpox-- But
00:32:31 I don't scar.
00:32:32 No, John, that is not possible.
00:32:34 Please, let's take John's story
00:32:35 At face value and explore
00:32:38 If he doesn't scar, it's
00:32:41 John, would you please stop by my lab,
00:32:44 Suffer a few tests from
00:32:46 Your friendly neighborhood biologist.
00:32:48 I'm leery of labs.
00:32:49 Afraid I might go in and
00:32:51 While cigarette smoking
00:32:54 You don't think that I would betray you?
00:32:55 Walls have ears.
00:32:57 Medical tests might be a
00:32:59 I don't wanna prove it.
00:33:01 So you're telling us this,
00:33:02 The yarn of the century,
00:33:03 And you don't care if
00:33:05 I guess I shouldn't
00:33:06 You're not as crazy as you think I am.
00:33:08 Amen.
00:33:09 I've always liked you.
00:33:11 Why, thank you, dear.
00:33:12 Now that's changing.
00:33:13 Surely you don't believe this nonsense.
00:33:15 I think we should remain
00:33:17 Who we've known and trusted, Edith.
00:33:19 Here you sit--You
00:33:21 All you can do is thumb your nose at it.
00:33:24 Is that what you're doing, John?
00:33:26 Are you laughing at us inside?
00:33:28 I wish you didn't feel that way.
00:33:29 What you're saying--
00:33:33 So does relativity,
00:33:35 That's the way nature works.
00:33:36 But your story doesn't fit
00:33:41 But we know so little, Dan.
00:33:43 We know so little.
00:33:45 How many of you know
00:33:46 Five geniuses in your field
00:33:47 That you disagree with...
00:33:48 one you would like to strangle?
00:33:50 Strangle them all.
00:33:52 It's bad enough we have to listen
00:33:54 To Harry's idiotic jokes.
00:33:55 Thank you very much, Edith.
00:33:56 Maybe when I'm 110, I'll
00:33:59 If you lived as long as John did,
00:34:00 You still wouldn't grow up.
00:34:01 Come on, guys. Take it easy.
00:34:04 How often do we get to meet someone
00:34:06 Who says he's a stone age man?
00:34:10 Well, once is enough.
00:34:11 Edith.
00:34:12 All right. A guy
00:34:14 You'd have studied a great deal.
00:34:16 I have ten degrees,
00:34:20 except yours, will.
00:34:22 That makes me feel a trifle lilliputian.
00:34:24 That's over the span of 170 years.
00:34:27 I got my biology degree
00:34:30 So I'm a little behind the times.
00:34:32 The same in
00:34:33 I can't keep up with the
00:34:36 No one can.
00:34:37 Not even in their specialty.
00:34:38 So much for the myth
00:34:40 Of the super-wise,
00:34:42 I see your point, John.
00:34:44 No matter how long a man lives,
00:34:45 He can't be in advance of his times.
00:34:47 He can't know more than
00:34:50 If that--I mean, when the
00:34:53 You learned it.
00:34:55 It took some time.
00:34:56 News traveled slowly
00:34:57 Before communications were fancy.
00:34:59 There were social obstacles,
00:35:02 Preconceptions, screams from the church.
00:35:05 Ten doctorates.
00:35:06 That's impressive,
00:35:08 Some.
00:35:10 You might have all done the same.
00:35:12 Living 14,000 years
00:35:15 I just had time.
00:35:17 Time.
00:35:18 We can't see it, we can't hear it,
00:35:20 We can't weigh it, we can't
00:35:24 It's a subjective sense of becoming
00:35:26 What we are instead of what
00:35:31 Becoming what we will
00:35:33 The hopis see time as a landscape,
00:35:35 Existing before and behind us,
00:35:37 And we move-- We
00:35:40 Slice by slice.
00:35:42 Clocks measure time.
00:35:43 No, they measure themselves.
00:35:45 The objective referent
00:35:47 How very interesting. What
00:35:50 Oh, he--He
00:35:52 Who lives outside of time as we know it.
00:35:59 Yes, uh, well.
00:36:02 People do go around armed these days.
00:36:04 If I shot you, John--
00:36:08 Would you survive this?
00:36:10 I never said I was immortal, just old.
00:36:13 I might die.
00:36:14 And then you could wonder
00:36:15 The rest of your incarcerated
00:36:19 Well, uh, may I?
00:36:22 ( Sighs )
00:36:24 Preferable to a gun.
00:36:26 Will, that was a bit much.
00:36:29 Ooh. Books.
00:36:32 Doctorates.
00:36:34 Yes, you have grown and changed.
00:36:37 But there is always innate nature.
00:36:41 Wouldn't you be more comfortable
00:36:42 Squatting in the backyard?
00:36:44 Sometimes I do, will.
00:36:45 Look up at the stars.
00:36:47 Wonder.
00:36:48 And what did primitive man make of them?
00:36:50 A great mystery.
00:36:52 There were gods up there then.
00:36:55 Shamans who knew about them told us.
00:36:57 They still do.
00:37:00 Have you ever wished it would end?
00:37:04 No.
00:37:05 Fourteen thousand years.
00:37:08 Injuries, illness, disasters.
00:37:11 You've survived them all.
00:37:13 You're a very lucky man.
00:37:19 ( Knocks )
00:37:21 Come in.
00:37:25 John Oldman?
00:37:26 Yes.
00:37:27 Charity now. We're here
00:37:29 It's all yours.
00:37:31 Here, take this chair.
00:37:32 I'm gonna go drink in the corner.
00:37:36 You're, uh... you're donating it?
00:37:39 Everything?
00:37:40 I'll get more.
00:37:41 Do you always travel this light?
00:37:43 It's the only way to move.
00:37:47 Oh, you--
00:37:48 You've talked a good deal
00:37:50 About your extraordinary
00:37:53 What do you think of dying, John?
00:37:55 Do you fear death?
00:37:57 Who wouldn't?
00:37:58 How did primitive man regard death?
00:38:01 Well, we had the practical concept.
00:38:03 You know, we stopped,
00:38:04 Fell down, didn't get up,
00:38:07 Started to smell bad, come apart.
00:38:09 Injuries we
00:38:11 If someone's insides
00:38:14 Infections...
00:38:15 they were, uh, mysterious.
00:38:21 Aging...
00:38:22 the biggest mystery of all.
00:38:24 You realized you were different.
00:38:26 Longer to realize how I was different,
00:38:29 To find a way to synthesize
00:38:31 My experience into a view of myself.
00:38:33 At first, I thought everybody had
00:38:36 Something wrong with them.
00:38:37 They got old and they
00:38:41 but not me.
00:38:42 ( Coughs pointedly )
00:38:45 Oh, forgive me, my dear.
00:38:48 You live simply.
00:38:50 I've owned castles, but why leave a lot
00:38:52 If you're always leaving?
00:38:53 I have money.
00:38:55 What, you get into
00:39:00 As one grows older,
00:39:01 The days, weeks, months
00:39:07 What does a day or a year
00:39:11 Or a century mean to you?
00:39:13 The birth-death cycle?
00:39:15 Turbulence.
00:39:17 I meet someone,
00:39:18 Learn their name, say
00:39:21 Others come like waves. Rise, fall.
00:39:27 Ripples in a wheat
00:39:29 Do you ever get tired of it all?
00:39:32 I get bored now and then.
00:39:34 They keep making the same
00:39:37 Hey.
00:39:39 Then you see yourself
00:39:40 As separate from the rest of humanity.
00:39:43 I didn't mean it that way.
00:39:46 But of course...
00:39:49 I am.
00:39:50 ( Chuckles )
00:39:51 Are you comfortable
00:39:54 While everyone you knew--
00:39:58 Has died?
00:39:59 I've regretted losing people...
00:40:01 often.
00:40:02 Have you ever felt
00:40:04 Something akin to survivor's guilt?
00:40:07 In the strict psychological sense?
00:40:09 I suppose I have.
00:40:10 Yeah.
00:40:13 But what can I do about it?
00:40:17 Indeed.
00:40:20 I'm sorry, ma'am.
00:40:21 Gentlemen,
00:40:22 I'm gonna keep the couch.
00:40:24 Thanks.
00:40:25 Ladies? Will? Oh, no...
00:40:27 you've got a heart condition.
00:40:30 Hey, how about changing
00:40:32 Enough with the--
00:40:33 But this is the flip
00:40:37 I'm very curious to know his feelings.
00:40:40 Would you prefer I asked
00:40:43 I thought you always started with
00:40:44 "Tell me about your mother."
00:40:46 Yes, but prehistory was
00:40:49 Surely you remember your father.
00:40:51 I seem to remember a figure,
00:40:55 Perhaps an older brother,
00:40:58 Well, no matter.
00:41:00 I can scarcely remember mine.
00:41:04 Do you feel a vacancy
00:41:06 In your life about that, John,
00:41:08 Something you wish could be filled
00:41:10 By a face, a voice, an image?
00:41:15 Not at this late date.
00:41:17 There must be someone--
00:41:19 That you valued intensely.
00:41:21 Loved.
00:41:22 You saw them
00:41:26 A friend, a colleague, a wife.
00:41:29 Certainly you've had wives and children?
00:41:33 I'd move on.
00:41:34 I had to move on.
00:41:36 Making him history's biggest bigamist.
00:41:39 ( Chuckles softly )
00:41:40 Have you ever in your life thought
00:41:42 "It should have been me"?
00:41:46 Maybe.
00:41:47 Yeah, Art has told me
00:41:49 That some of your early fellows
00:41:51 Feared you were stealing their lives.
00:41:53 Have you thought that perhaps you were?
00:41:56 Perhaps you are!
00:41:58 There have always been
00:42:01 A creature not quite human
00:42:03 Taking not the blood,
00:42:07 My god, will.
00:42:08 Unconsciously, perhaps,
00:42:11 By some biological or psychic mechanism
00:42:15 That we can only guess at.
00:42:17 I'm not saying you would do
00:42:20 I'm not saying that you
00:42:23 would you?
00:42:26 But would such a thing be fair?
00:42:29 So you believe me now?
00:42:30 I'm only exploring what you have said.
00:42:34 Whether I believe it or
00:42:38 We will die...
00:42:39 you will live.
00:42:41 Will you come to my funeral, John?
00:42:43 Hey, will...
00:42:45 you've gone too far.
00:42:46 John didn't ask to be what he is.
00:42:48 And we did not ask to hear about it.
00:42:51 But if it were true,
00:42:53 Is there one among us
00:42:56 Even perhaps a touch of hatred?
00:43:00 You told us of yourself, John.
00:43:02 Can you imagine how we feel?
00:43:04 I never thought of that.
00:43:06 Since you may not die,
00:43:08 While we most assuredly will...
00:43:11 there must be a reason for that, no?
00:43:13 Perhaps you are an expert.
00:43:16 Uh, that's it, Mr.
00:43:19 Thank you. You too.
00:43:24 Or are you a vampire, John?
00:43:28 Even an unknowing one.
00:43:30 Do you stand alive and tall
00:43:32 In a graveyard that you helped to fill?
00:43:34 That's going too far.
00:43:36 Bored, perhaps lonely,
00:43:39 Cannot keep its treasures.
00:43:41 Is that what you're doing?
00:43:44 Have you led a wrongful life?
00:43:47 Well, then, perhaps...
00:43:50 it is time to die.
00:43:54 Wait a minute, now.
00:43:55 Look, I don't know what John is doing,
00:43:57 But I sure as hell don't
00:44:00 Give me that gun or I'm
00:44:02 You sound like our football coach, Dan.
00:44:05 What do you think, John?
00:44:07 A shot to the arm?
00:44:09 Perhaps we could watch it heal.
00:44:12 A bullet in
00:44:15 What exactly will happen?
00:44:23 I have papers to correct.
00:44:25 As much as I dislike that job,
00:44:28 It'll be preferable to this.
00:44:32 I leave you with it.
00:44:36 Jesus Christ.
00:44:38 What the hell was that all about?
00:44:40 Where'd he get a gun?
00:44:42 He had you on the ropes, John.
00:44:43 Are you really so damn smart?
00:44:45 It's not like will.
00:44:48 Mary passed away yesterday.
00:44:52 Who?
00:44:54 His wife.
00:44:58 She had, uh, pancreatic cancer.
00:45:01 Will!
00:45:04 I didn't know about mary.
00:45:06 I'm sorry. I can see how
00:45:09 Please, permit me to
00:45:13 Will, please.
00:45:27 ( Starts car )
00:45:32 What the hell were you thinking, Art?
00:45:33 Oh, come on. Something had to be done.
00:45:36 I have to say I agree.
00:45:37 And he's our friend.
00:45:38 Whatever else on earth is going on,
00:45:41 He's our friend!
00:45:42 You sure about that?
00:45:43 Why are you being so hard on him?
00:45:44 One of my favorite
00:45:47 Can you get alzheimer's at 35?
00:45:51 Maybe I'm trying to wake him up.
00:45:54 Maybe I'm too sad to cry.
00:46:02 What I said about myself hurt him.
00:46:05 He struck
00:46:07 That stuff about stealing life forces?
00:46:10 I've always wondered about the reasons.
00:46:19 Well, we still have an
00:46:25 Charades?
00:46:28 No. John?
00:46:31 I have a charade, and
00:46:33 Sandy, come here.
00:46:34 Come on, come on, come on.
00:46:36 Okay, this one's for you.
00:46:38 Ready?
00:46:40 ( Grunts like ape )
00:46:44 ( Wolf whistles )
00:46:46 ( Grunting )
00:46:51 Ooh!
00:46:53 Uhn.
00:46:54 My first wedding?
00:46:56 There you go.
00:46:57 There you go!
00:46:58 Very good, and I bet at least one of us
00:47:01 Is your direct descendent.
00:47:02 And I didn't even send a christmas card.
00:47:04 Christmas card? What
00:47:06 And don't even get me
00:47:09 with the blowing and the ( huffs )
00:47:11 For years with the blowing.
00:47:15 Yeah, all right. I tried.
00:47:17 Well, uh, call me underdeveloped,
00:47:20 But I'd like to hear more.
00:47:25 Me too.
00:47:26 More.
00:47:27 You double-damn swear
00:47:30 Science fiction story or...
00:47:32 you're pulling on us?
00:47:33 Next question.
00:47:36 You--You--You
00:47:37 This is an invitation
00:47:38 To men in white suits with happy pills.
00:47:40 Think about it--
00:47:42 A mechanism allowing survival
00:47:43 For thousands of years?
00:47:45 Run out of room even faster.
00:47:47 Then we'd have to go to mars as a colony
00:47:49 As we expanded, as we'd have to.
00:47:51 I'd like that.
00:47:53 On a planet of another star.
00:47:55 I envy you.
00:47:57 Did you have a pet dinosaur?
00:47:59 They were a little bit before my time.
00:48:02 At least something is.
00:48:03 No doubt you could give us
00:48:06 Corroborating your story,
00:48:07 From the magdalene to the Buddha to now.
00:48:10 Ten thousand,
00:48:11 And you could stay out of the books.
00:48:12 Oh, it's getting chilly.
00:48:15 Here, come over here. Join me.
00:48:20 That, uh, raises an
00:48:23 Could there be others like you
00:48:25 Who escaped the aging
00:48:27 Representing something terrific
00:48:28 We don't even know about biology.
00:48:30 We're learning all the time.
00:48:31 Yeah, but how would he know?
00:48:32 He doesn't wear an I.D. Badge
00:48:35 There was a man in the 1600s.
00:48:38 Where were you in 1292 a.D.?
00:48:40 Where were you a year ago on this date?
00:48:46 Anyway, it was the
00:48:48 And I had a hunch that he was...
00:48:51 like me, so I told him.
00:48:53 Ah. See, you said this was a first.
00:48:57 I forgot.
00:48:58 A crack in your story, John?
00:49:00 A touch of senility.
00:49:01 Anyway, he said yes,
00:49:04 But from another time, another place.
00:49:06 We talked for two days.
00:49:07 It was all pretty convincing,
00:49:09 But we couldn't be sure.
00:49:12 We each confirmed what the other said,
00:49:14 But how do we know if the confirmation
00:49:16 Was genuine or an echo?
00:49:18 I knew I was kosher,
00:49:20 But I thought, "maybe
00:49:24 You know, a scholar
00:49:27 He said he was inclined
00:49:30 Now, that's interesting.
00:49:31 Just as we can never be sure,
00:49:34 Even if we
00:49:35 I mean, if we were sure,
00:49:37 You couldn't be sure of that.
00:49:38 We parted, agreeing
00:49:41 Of course,
00:49:42 And 200 years later I thought I saw him
00:49:44 In a train station in brussels.
00:49:47 Lost him in the crowd.
00:49:48 Oh, what a shame.
00:49:51 I--I mean, if
00:49:53 Okay, here's one for you.
00:49:54 What do you do in your spare time?
00:49:56 ( Laughs )
00:49:58 Every 50 years or so,
00:49:59 When I wanna get away from the rush,
00:50:01 I go down to a primitive
00:50:03 Where I'm worshipped as an immortal god,
00:50:05 And they have a huge statue of me.
00:50:08 It's a big party.
00:50:09 Yeah, I've got a lot of pictures of it,
00:50:11 But I've already packed
00:50:13 I won't make the obvious nasty
00:50:17 Actually, bathing was the style
00:50:18 Until the middle ages
00:50:20 It was sinful to wash away god's dirt,
00:50:23 So people were sewn
00:50:24 Into their underwear in october
00:50:26 And they popped out in april.
00:50:27 You said you just happened.
00:50:29 I don't believe that.
00:50:31 If your story's true,
00:50:33 Why did god allow you to happen?
00:50:37 That makes an interesting point.
00:50:39 Are you religious, John?
00:50:40 I don't follow a known religion. No.
00:50:43 Ever.
00:50:44 Long time ago I did,
00:50:46 Like most people.
00:50:49 Some just never get over it.
00:50:50 Do you believe in god?
00:50:53 As laplace said,
00:50:55 "I have no need of that hypothesis."
00:50:57 He may be around, though.
00:50:59 He's everywhere. We just can't see him.
00:51:02 Pfft. If this was the best I could do,
00:51:04 I'd be hiding, too.
00:51:06 And creation...
00:51:07 it's here--I'm not so
00:51:10 What then?
00:51:11 Maybe it's just accumulated,
00:51:15 What about the source
00:51:17 Wouldn't that imply a prime mover?
00:51:19 I'd wonder about the
00:51:21 Infinite regress, but that
00:51:25 Back to the mystery.
00:51:26 It's a very old question,
00:51:28 But there's no answer
00:51:32 If you have faith, it's answered.
00:51:35 Did you ever meet any person
00:51:38 A biblical figure?
00:51:41 In a way.
00:51:42 Who?
00:51:44 We should skip this one.
00:51:45 No, no, no skipping. Come on.
00:51:47 Next question.
00:51:48 No, come on!
00:51:49 ( Clamoring )
00:51:51 Come on, spit it out!
00:51:52 Good lord! You were one of them!
00:51:54 This is going in a direction
00:51:57 I hoped it wouldn't--
00:52:00 Come on! You were someone
00:52:04 Yes.
00:52:05 In the bible?
00:52:07 Yes.
00:52:08 Someone we know?
00:52:09 How could we not know
00:52:11 I mean somebody important.
00:52:12 You may think you know him,
00:52:14 But it's mostly myth.
00:52:15 The entire bible is
00:52:19 With maybe some basis
00:52:22 You were part of that history?
00:52:26 Yes.
00:52:28 Moses.
00:52:30 Moses was based on misis, a syrian myth,
00:52:34 And there are
00:52:35 All found floating on water,
00:52:37 The staff that changed to a snake,
00:52:40 Waters that were parted so followers
00:52:42 Could be led to freedom
00:52:44 And even receive laws
00:52:45 On stone or wooden tablets.
00:52:47 One of the apostles.
00:52:50 They weren't really apostles.
00:52:53 They didn't do any real teaching.
00:52:55 Peter the fisherman learned
00:52:58 How do you know that?
00:53:03 The mythical overlay is so enormous...
00:53:07 and not good.
00:53:09 The truth is so, so simple.
00:53:15 The new testament in 100
00:53:19 I don't think I wanna hear this.
00:53:20 Harry, will you take me home?
00:53:22 No, not right now. I
00:53:24 Sit down, Edith. You
00:53:26 It's sacrilege.
00:53:28 How can it be sacrilege?
00:53:29 He hasn't said anything yet.
00:53:30 The new new testament is sacrilege.
00:53:33 There are a dozen new new testaments,
00:53:35 From hebrew to greek
00:53:38 All the way to king james,
00:53:40 All revisionist,
00:53:42 And all called revealed truth.
00:53:44 I mean a new new testament in 100 words.
00:53:47 I can give you the ten
00:53:49 Don't. Don't, don't, don't,
00:53:51 Don't, don't, don't,
00:53:53 ( Laughs ) Don't.
00:53:54 The commandments are just modern
00:53:58 Hammurabi's code.
00:53:59 That's right, they
00:54:02 Edith, I was raised on the torah...
00:54:05 my wife, on the koran.
00:54:06 My oldest son is an atheist.
00:54:08 My youngest is a scientologist.
00:54:10 My daughter is studying hinduism.
00:54:12 I imagine that there is room there
00:54:16 But we practice live and let live.
00:54:19 Why don't you sit down.
00:54:28 What is your preferred
00:54:31 The King James, of course.
00:54:32 It's the most modern, the
00:54:35 Modern is good.
00:54:38 All right, John, hit
00:54:42 Guy met the Buddha, liked what he heard,
00:54:44 Thought about
00:54:46 Say 500 years, while he returned
00:54:48 To the Mediterranean,
00:54:49 Became an etruscan.
00:54:52 Seeped into the roman empire.
00:54:54 He didn't like
00:54:55 A giant killing machine.
00:54:58 He went to the near east thinking,
00:54:59 "Why not pass the Buddha's
00:55:03 So he tried.
00:55:05 One dissident against rome?
00:55:07 Rome won.
00:55:08 The rest is history.
00:55:10 Well, sort of. Lot of
00:55:15 I knew it.
00:55:17 He's saying he was Christ.
00:55:19 Oh, no. That's the medal
00:55:21 They pinned on Jesus
00:55:23 The crucifixion.
00:55:25 He blocked the pain
00:55:28 In tibet and india.
00:55:29 He also learned to
00:55:31 Down to the point where
00:55:34 They thought he was dead.
00:55:35 So his followers pulled him
00:55:37 From the cross, placed him in a cave...
00:55:39 his body normalized as
00:55:43 he attempted to go away undetected,
00:55:46 But some devotees were standing watch.
00:55:49 Tried to explain.
00:55:52 They were ecstatic.
00:55:54 Thus, I was resurrected,
00:55:57 And I ascended to central europe
00:55:59 To get away as far as possible.
00:56:01 You don't mean a word of this, John.
00:56:03 My god, why are you doing this?
00:56:05 Let me see your wrists.
00:56:07 I don't scar.
00:56:08 Besides, they tied me...
00:56:10 but nails and blood make
00:56:13 ( Laughs ) all the
00:56:16 He was black, he was asian,
00:56:18 He was a blue-eyed
00:56:21 And hair straight out
00:56:23 He was a benevolent alien,
00:56:26 Now he's a caveman.
00:56:28 The Christ figure goes all
00:56:32 Hercules, of course.
00:56:33 Hercules?
00:56:34 Born of a virgin, Alcmene.
00:56:36 A god for a father, Zeus.
00:56:39 The only begotten.
00:56:42 The savior--
00:56:44 The good shepherd, the prince of peace,
00:56:46 Bringing gentle persuasion
00:56:49 He died, joined his father on olympus
00:56:52 A thousand years before gethsemane.
00:56:55 How can you compare pagan
00:56:58 Pretty damn closely, I'd say.
00:57:01 The early Christian leaders,
00:57:04 They threw away hebrew manuscripts
00:57:05 And borrowed from pagan
00:57:08 Do you realize how...
00:57:11 inconsiderately you're
00:57:13 About as inconsiderately
00:57:17 Well, he doesn't
00:57:19 Do you believe literally
00:57:22 Yes!
00:57:23 Before you say it,
00:57:24 I know it's undergone a lot of changes,
00:57:27 But god has spoken through man
00:57:29 To make his word clearer.
00:57:31 He couldn't get it right the first time?
00:57:34 We're imperfect! He had to
00:57:37 He couldn't get us right
00:57:40 Taken alone, the
00:57:43 Are buddhism with
00:57:45 Kindness, tolerance, brotherhood, love,
00:57:49 A ruthless realism acknowledging
00:57:51 That life is as it is here
00:57:54 The kingdom of god, meaning goodness,
00:57:57 Is right here, where it should be.
00:58:00 "I am what I am becoming."
00:58:02 That's what the Buddha brought in.
00:58:04 And that's what I taught.
00:58:05 But a talking snake
00:58:08 So we're screwed.
00:58:10 Heaven and hell were peddled
00:58:11 So priests could rule
00:58:14 Save our souls that we never
00:58:18 I threw a clean pass...
00:58:19 they ran it out of the ballpark.
00:58:21 This is blasphemy.
00:58:24 It's horrible! Who else were you?
00:58:26 Solomon, elvis, jack the ripper?
00:58:30 It's been said that Buddha and Jesus
00:58:32 Would laugh or cry if they'd known
00:58:33 What was done in their name.
00:58:35 And if there is a creator,
00:58:37 He'd probably feel the same way.
00:58:39 I see ceremony, ritual, processions,
00:58:42 Genuflecting, moaning, intoning,
00:58:45 Venerating cookies and wine,
00:58:48 And I think...
00:58:49 it's not what I had in mind.
00:58:51 But that's vatican flapdoodle.
00:58:52 It doesn't have a thing to do with god.
00:58:55 As you said, John,
00:58:57 from exalting life to
00:59:01 Rome does it as grand opera.
00:59:05 A simple path to goodness needs
00:59:07 A supernatural roadmap.
00:59:09 Supernatural...
00:59:11 a stupid word, I mean...
00:59:13 anything that happens,
00:59:15 Whether we believe in it or not.
00:59:17 Like a 14,000-year-old
00:59:20 ( Car approaching )
00:59:28 I--I--I drove
00:59:31 And then I sat for a while.
00:59:33 I'm so ashamed.
00:59:34 ( Shivering ) and I'm freezing.
00:59:36 Well, come inside.
00:59:37 I still don't believe you, of course.
00:59:39 You need help.
00:59:40 Everybody needs help.
00:59:41 Yes, well, some more than others.
00:59:57 From the Buddha to the cross,
01:00:00 I have always imagined
01:00:04 But I would like to hear more.
01:00:07 May I lie on the couch for a moment?
01:00:09 I'm not as young as I used to be.
01:00:15 Ohh!
01:00:16 ( Laughs )
01:00:18 So, you were Jesus.
01:00:22 Well, perhaps somebody had to
01:00:25 The jury is still out.
01:00:27 When did you begin to
01:00:30 When did you begin to believe
01:00:33 Since I graduated harvard medical school
01:00:36 And finished my residency,
01:00:39 Oh, I sometimes dream about it.
01:00:42 Have you acted upon this belief?
01:00:43 I had a private practice for a while,
01:00:46 And then I taught.
01:00:47 Nothing unusual--
01:00:49 Oh, until one day, I met a caveman
01:00:52 Who thought he was Jesus.
01:00:54 Do you find that unusual?
01:00:57 Very. I would stake my reputation
01:01:00 He as sane as I am,
01:01:02 So why does he persist in such a story?
01:01:05 There must be a reason, though.
01:01:07 Unless I imagined it all?
01:01:09 Is that possible?
01:01:10 I think you're as sane as he is.
01:01:12 Oh, god, I--
01:01:13 ( Laughs ) no.
01:01:17 Did you ever find it
01:01:20 Rather than be thought a heretic?
01:01:22 That would be something.
01:01:23 Other times, christianity
01:01:26 I had to pretend other faiths.
01:01:27 And what does Jesus have
01:01:31 Who find it difficult to believe in him?
01:01:34 Believe in what he tried to teach,
01:01:37 Without rigmarole.
01:01:39 Piety is not what the
01:01:41 It's the mistake they
01:01:51 Well, it's getting to be night.
01:01:56 I still have stuff to carry
01:01:58 And a long drive.
01:02:00 I'll help.
01:02:02 John, do you have a
01:02:07 Never mind.
01:02:08 I won't ask.
01:02:10 Thank you.
01:02:19 Anyone mentally ill can imagine
01:02:22 A fantastic background--
01:02:25 And sincerely believe it.
01:02:27 The man who thinks he is napoleon
01:02:30 Does believe it.
01:02:31 His true identity has taken a backseat
01:02:34 To his delusion and the need for it.
01:02:37 If that's the case with John,
01:02:40 There is a grave disorder.
01:02:41 Organized brilliantly.
01:02:44 He's got an answer for everything.
01:02:46 It might involve
01:02:48 Of his entire early past,
01:02:50 Replaced by this fantasy.
01:02:52 He says he can't remember his father.
01:02:54 Precisely why?
01:02:55 You said he was sane.
01:02:57 Did I?
01:02:59 Do you think that perhaps our caveman
01:03:02 Has a monkey on his back?
01:03:04 Drugs?
01:03:05 No, no, no, no.
01:03:07 I've done a lot of consulting
01:03:09 I've seen people
01:03:11 Whatever's up with John, it isn't that.
01:03:13 I've looked
01:03:15 Could cavemen really talk?
01:03:17 We think that language
01:03:19 60,000 years ago.
01:03:21 The structure of stone age culture
01:03:23 Is evidence of the
01:03:25 Verbally.
01:03:26 ( Wolf whistles; clicks )
01:03:28 Oh, shut up.
01:03:39 Maybe it'd be easier if I were.
01:03:42 Crazy?
01:03:44 No.
01:03:46 ( Coyote howls )
01:03:59 That is fascinating, isn't it,
01:04:02 A brave attempt to teach
01:04:05 It's no wonder he failed.
01:04:07 We're not ready for it.
01:04:08 You're talking
01:04:10 Well, it is possible, isn't it?
01:04:13 I mean, anything is possible.
01:04:15 Look, we have two simple choices.
01:04:17 We can get all bent out of shape
01:04:19 Intellectualizing or
01:04:21 Or we can simply relax and enjoy it.
01:04:24 I can listen critically,
01:04:26 But I don't have to make
01:04:29 But you think you do?
01:04:31 Well, unfortunately, there's
01:04:34 So we couldn't stop him there.
01:04:35 There are experts on the bible.
01:04:37 Dream on.
01:04:39 Yeah, thus the lost years of Jesus.
01:04:41 He didn't exist until John put on a hat.
01:04:44 I don't believe in angels and the
01:04:48 But there are stories about
01:04:51 History hates a vacuum.
01:04:53 Improvisation, some of it very sincere,
01:04:56 Fills the gaps.
01:04:57 It would have been easy
01:04:59 To falsify a
01:05:01 A few words, credulity--
01:05:05 Now you're talking as
01:05:07 Well, look at the
01:05:09 The Kennedy assassination
01:05:12 You had, uh,
01:05:15 That's a mystique that'll never go away.
01:05:18 It's always been a small step
01:05:22 I don't think anybody
01:05:25 We're more sophisticated than that.
01:05:27 We are?
01:05:28 We are.
01:05:33 Well, you're finally fulfilling
01:05:35 One prophecy about the millennium, John.
01:05:38 What's that?
01:05:39 Here you are again.
01:05:51 You like the fire, John.
01:05:53 Everywhere I've lived,
01:05:57 Childhood fixation, I guess.
01:06:01 Helps me to feel secure.
01:06:04 There are predators out there.
01:06:09 One thing I didn't pack...
01:06:10 I thought I might need it.
01:06:14 ( Plays beethoven's 7th symphony )
01:06:20 Wouldn't sacre du printemps
01:06:23 What?
01:06:26 You've got...
01:06:28 four men of science
01:06:31 We--We don't know
01:06:34 Did you know voltaire
01:06:36 That the universe was created
01:06:40 I think paul would agree.
01:06:42 And then goethe was the first to suggest
01:06:45 That spiral nebulae were
01:06:48 We now call them galaxies.
01:06:51 It's kind of funny how
01:06:53 Find their first tentative
01:06:56 So did beethoven do physics on the side?
01:07:01 He spent most of his
01:07:05 In front of his legless piano
01:07:06 Surrounded by orange
01:07:11 Now we're on the floor
01:07:15 Full circle.
01:07:17 Did you have, um...
01:07:20 any religious beliefs,
01:07:22 Or did you give it much thought?
01:07:25 You can't get there with thought.
01:07:26 You have faith?
01:07:28 In a lot of things.
01:07:30 Do you have faith in
01:07:33 I've seen species come and go.
01:07:35 Depends on their balance
01:07:39 We've made a mess of it.
01:07:40 There's still time,
01:07:42 If we use it well.
01:07:44 Christianity has been a worldwide belief
01:07:46 For 2,000 years.
01:07:48 How long did the egyptians worship isis
01:07:50 Or the sumerians ishtar?
01:07:52 In india, sacred cows wandered freely
01:07:55 As reincarnated souls.
01:07:56 In a thousand years,
01:07:58 And their souls will be in squirrels.
01:08:00 You weren't Jesus!
01:08:03 Oh, Edith.
01:08:07 ( Clears throat ) if
01:08:10 How do you know that?
01:08:11 I don't smell it.
01:08:16 Were you...
01:08:18 I guess... a medicine man?
01:08:21 I was a shaman a few times.
01:08:23 I revealed some truths
01:08:26 You think that's all
01:08:29 selling hope and survival?
01:08:32 The old testament sells fear and guilt.
01:08:34 The new testament is
01:08:37 Put into my mouth by
01:08:40 That are much smarter than I am.
01:08:42 The message is never practiced.
01:08:45 Fairy tales build churches.
01:08:48 What about the name "Jesus"?
01:08:50 Did you pull that out of a hat?
01:08:52 I called myself John.
01:08:54 I almost always do.
01:08:57 As tales of the resurrection spread,
01:08:59 The name was confused
01:09:01 Meaning "god is gracious."
01:09:03 My stay on earth was seen
01:09:05 As divine proof of immortality.
01:09:08 That led to "god is salvation"
01:09:12 Or hebrew "yahshua,"
01:09:14 Which in translation
01:09:17 Changing to late greek, "iesous,"
01:09:20 Then to late latin, "iesus,"
01:09:22 And finally medieval latin, "Jesus,"
01:09:25 And it was a wonder
01:09:28 Then you didn't claim
01:09:31 Began as a schoolhouse
01:09:34 I said I had a master that
01:09:38 I never said he was my father.
01:09:40 I wanted to teach what I learned.
01:09:42 I never claimed to be king of the jews,
01:09:44 I never walked on water,
01:09:47 I never spoke of divine
01:09:50 Of human goodness on earth.
01:09:56 No wise men came from the
01:10:00 I did do a little healing
01:10:02 With some eastern medicine I'd learned.
01:10:06 That's it.
01:10:11 The three wise men began as a myth
01:10:14 About the birth of the Buddha.
01:10:20 John, I should be home,
01:10:26 We're all here, trapped by your story...
01:10:30 hoping for a...revolution? I don't know.
01:10:39 Are there any, uh...
01:10:41 more revelations for us?
01:10:49 It's just like old times.
01:10:58 You weren't Jesus.
01:11:02 Quote the sermon on the mount.
01:11:05 Which one?
01:11:06 Darby, King James,
01:11:09 Do you know them all?
01:11:11 No one knows the one, not even me.
01:11:14 I...
01:11:16 I did some teaching on a hill one day.
01:11:18 Not that many people stayed.
01:11:20 But you...
01:11:21 biblical Jesus said,
01:11:23 "Who do you think I am?"
01:11:27 He gave them a choice.
01:11:30 I'm giving you one.
01:11:34 Were you?
01:11:37 If I said no, could you ever be sure?
01:11:48 ( Sobs )
01:11:57 Turn that off.
01:11:59 Please.
01:12:03 This has gone far enough.
01:12:05 It's gone much too far.
01:12:07 These people are very upset.
01:12:10 I don't believe you're mad,
01:12:12 But what you're saying is not true.
01:12:16 That leaves only one explanation.
01:12:20 The time has come when you must admit
01:12:22 This is a hoax...
01:12:25 a lie.
01:12:26 Isn't that true, John?
01:12:30 If you don't drop
01:12:32 I'll be convinced
01:12:34 That you need a great deal of attention.
01:12:37 I can have you committed
01:12:40 You know that.
01:12:41 I ask
01:12:43 I demand
01:12:45 That you tell these people the truth.
01:12:49 Give them closure.
01:12:52 It's time, John.
01:12:55 Please.
01:13:10 End of the line. Everybody off.
01:13:16 What?!
01:13:18 It was a story.
01:13:20 It was all a story.
01:13:22 ( Sobs )
01:13:23 Good god!
01:13:26 Another fairy tale?
01:13:27 All of it?
01:13:30 What in the name of heaven...
01:13:31 John, you had us wondering
01:13:33 And it's just a story!
01:13:35 Where'd you come off with such
01:13:38 At least you're relieved I'm not a nut.
01:13:40 I'd prefer you were!
01:13:41 You gave me the idea.
01:13:43 All of you.
01:13:45 Come again?
01:13:46 Edith saw my fake Van Gogh.
01:13:48 You could have just told me.
01:13:49 You commented that I never age.
01:13:50 You gave me the book on early man.
01:13:52 Dan, you spotted the burin
01:13:54 And you said, "if stones could speak."
01:13:56 I knew it.
01:13:57 I got the notion, I ran it past you
01:14:00 To check your reactions,
01:14:02 Too far?
01:14:04 Check my reaction.
01:14:05 You asked if I was a figure
01:14:08 If there were others like me,
01:14:09 If I'd created future identities.
01:14:11 We were chasing our
01:14:14 Enjoying the mystery,
01:14:17 You were playing my game!
01:14:19 I was playing yours.
01:14:21 Oh, man, you know, you
01:14:23 You were good, man.
01:14:24 You know those chinese boxes,
01:14:26 One inside the other inside
01:14:29 I feel like I'm in the last box.
01:14:32 You son of a...
01:14:34 bitch!
01:14:35 How could you do this to us?
01:14:37 I was worried about you.
01:14:39 I know, I was tempted
01:14:41 But I couldn't resist
01:14:44 You could refute what I was saying.
01:14:45 I had the
01:14:47 Anthropologist, archaeologist,
01:14:49 Christian literalist...
01:14:51 a psychologist.
01:14:54 Okay, I've had enough of this.
01:14:56 I'm outta here. You
01:14:59 So, John.
01:15:00 Are you gonna write the story?
01:15:02 If I do, I'll send you copies.
01:15:03 Don't bother with mine, okay?
01:15:05 You are absolutely certifiable.
01:15:08 I don't know you!
01:15:12 It was nice seeing
01:15:16 Your name's a pun, isn't it?
01:15:18 Old man?
01:15:20 Did that help you with your story?
01:15:23 Linda!
01:15:26 Bye.
01:15:31 Well, Art was half right.
01:15:33 ( Laughs )
01:15:34 Which half?
01:15:39 Well, at least I don't
01:15:42 Of what I know about biology.
01:15:43 Which half?
01:15:46 ( Chuckles )
01:15:47 It's a beautiful idea,
01:15:49 So rich, so full of possibilities.
01:15:54 Perhaps you should write
01:15:56 Maybe I will.
01:15:58 I'll interview you in the rubber room
01:16:00 For further details.
01:16:01 You may still need help, my friend.
01:16:17 My ass.
01:16:18 I thought it sounded pretty good.
01:16:21 They believe you because they have to.
01:16:23 But the one thing that I know about you
01:16:25 Is that you would never use people
01:16:26 Or abuse their goodwill and intelligence
01:16:28 Like they think you've
01:16:30 Psych 101?
01:16:31 No, it's woman,
01:16:34 So you're a pretty fast liar, Mr. Ugg,
01:16:36 But I wanna know--
01:16:39 Believe it or not, the
01:16:44 Why'd you cave to Gruber?
01:16:46 What happened was enough.
01:16:48 Just--Just
01:16:49 I shouldn't have expected it to work.
01:16:53 Fourteen thousand years old.
01:16:55 I bet that's a lot of women.
01:16:57 Are we counting?
01:16:59 Maybe.
01:17:02 Well, I'm taking Edith home.
01:17:04 Sandy?
01:17:07 I'm gonna stay.
01:17:12 Are you sorry for some
01:17:15 I'm sorry I said them.
01:17:17 Well.
01:17:19 Like a good Christian,
01:17:20 I...oh, John.
01:17:24 Oh! Well.
01:17:27 You did a terrible thing,
01:17:29 But we're all so
01:17:31 Even Art--He just hates
01:17:34 You're a sadist, John,
01:17:36 But I admit I got a kick out of
01:17:38 Chasing my tail around your maypole...
01:17:40 even if that is all I caught.
01:17:42 Good luck to you.
01:17:43 Wish you the best. Thank you.
01:17:45 Ready?
01:17:55 - Later on.
01:18:00 Mm-hmm.
01:18:04 Mmm.
01:18:05 I don't know, man.
01:18:08 Something about this...
01:18:10 something about you, John.
01:18:12 The more I think about it,
01:18:15 The more I'm no longer
01:18:18 ( Inhaling deeply )
01:18:19 I sense...space.
01:18:21 A kinda latitude of what
01:18:26 In which, as everybody keeps saying...
01:18:31 anything's possible.
01:18:32 Yes. No, no. No, no.
01:18:34 No--No
01:18:36 I'm gonna go home,
01:18:38 And I'm gonna watch star trek
01:18:40 For a dose of sanity.
01:18:42 Good luck to you, man,
01:18:44 Wherever this may lead you.
01:18:47 You drop me a line sometime.
01:18:49 Let me know how you're making out.
01:18:52 I will.
01:18:55 Mm. Mwah.
01:19:05 So, John Oldman.
01:19:08 What other pun names have you used?
01:19:10 Lots.
01:19:13 John Paley for John Paleolithic,
01:19:16 John Savage--
01:19:19 Got really crazy about 60 years ago.
01:19:21 When I was teaching at harvard,
01:19:22 I was John Thomas Partee.
01:19:25 John T. Partee--
01:19:28 I get it.
01:19:29 Yeah, I know.
01:19:30 Wait, wait, wait.
01:19:32 Boston?
01:19:34 60 years ago?
01:19:36 J-John Partee?
01:19:42 You did not teach chemistry!
01:19:48 Your mother's name was Nola.
01:19:50 No. Yeah.
01:19:52 No.
01:19:54 Yes, Nola.
01:19:56 ( Crying ) my mother!
01:19:59 I reject this!
01:20:03 My--My--My
01:20:06 We had him before I was born.
01:20:08 Woofie.
01:20:09 Woof, woof, woofie...
01:20:15 Gruber. She remarried?
01:20:17 She said you abandoned us.
01:20:20 Sorry, I had to move on.
01:20:22 You know that. I left enough.
01:20:24 I left enough. I'm cold.
01:20:26 Chilly willy, always cold.
01:20:28 Never could stand the cold.
01:20:30 ( Sobs ) wait, you--
01:20:34 Yeah, you used to tug on it
01:20:36 To see if it was real.
01:20:37 Agh! Will!
01:20:39 God.
01:20:41 911, now!
01:20:43 ( Gruber gasps )
01:20:44 Come on, Will.
01:20:46 Will.
01:20:47 Come on, buddy.
01:20:52 ( Siren blaring )
01:21:21 You'll stay in touch, Dr. Oldman.
01:21:23 In case there are any questions.
01:21:25 I'll be back for the funeral.
01:21:27 Miss.
01:21:38 You never saw a grown child die.
01:21:42 No.
01:23:24 Chantelle duncan: *I've seen rivers rise *
01:23:28 * seen mountains fall *
01:23:32 * seen endless vistas coming to an end *
01:23:39 * I've seen stars collide *
01:23:43 * heard oceans roar *
01:23:47 * I know what it means
01:23:56 * nothing lasts forever *
01:23:59 * that's what I've always heard *
01:24:03 * all things good must esnd *
01:24:06 * you know it's true *
01:24:10 * nothing lasts forever *
01:24:14 * but maybe some things do *
01:24:18 * forever is the way I feel for you *
01:24:25 * forever is the way I feel for you *
01:24:43 * I've seen men take *
01:24:47 * the world into their hands *
01:24:51 * and change it, mold it,
01:24:59 * I've felt the earth shake *
01:25:02 * seen men take a stand *
01:25:06 * and fight when it's
01:25:14 * nothing lasts forever *
01:25:18 * that's what I've always heard *
01:25:22 * all things good must end *
01:25:24 * you know it's true *
01:25:29 * nothing lasts forever *
01:25:32 * but maybe some things do *
01:25:36 * forever is the way I feel for you *
01:25:44 * forever is the way I feel for you *
01:25:56 * nothing lasts forever *
01:25:59 * that's what I've always heard *
01:26:03 * all things good must end *
01:26:06 * you know it's true *
01:26:11 * nothing lasts forever *
01:26:14 * but maybe some things do *
01:26:18 * forever is the way I feel for you *
01:26:25 * forever is the way I feel for you *
01:26:33 * forever is the way I feel for you *