no, elliot, i said five hundred programs for today. this means we have no programs for the weekend. this means that tomorrow morning, at 9am, several hundred people will walk into thaw hall and have absolutely no idea where they are going. it's all right, elliot. i'll take care of it.
professor tripp.
i got the message you called.
well, hello, everyone. terry, good to see you again.
aren't you sweet to say so. i was beginning to wonder if you were ever going to--oh!
i'm sorry. it's these goddamned shoes. i don't know how anyone actually walks in these things.
i don't believe we've met.
poe!
poe' hush! now stop this. honestly.
that's funny. i need to talk to you, too. perhaps you could put some of these coats in the upstairs guest room, professor tripp.
well then. i'd better show you. terry--
walter just got it back from the framer today.
you go first.
i'm pregnant.
i'm sure.
i think walter would find this a little more than surprising.
she's left before.
so. i guess we just divorce our spouses, marry each other, and have this baby, right? simple.
is that cristaile?
my god, i wear the same scent as a transvestite. she is a transvestite, isn't: she?
has he asked to see the book yet?
and? are you going to tell him?
neither do 1.
i guess you're going to have to chew it off then.
i doubt i'd recognize a '63 chateau latour if i was sitting on it.
i doubt it, darling.
you want to keep him happy.
you had another one, didn't you? you have to see a doctor, grady. first thing monday morning. all right?
almost. wane to sit up? what's the matter?
then stand up. i'm too old for all this roiling around on the floor.
don't. i know what you're going to say.
you love emily. i know that. and you need to stay with her.
she'll come back. that's why i'm going to. . to not have this baby.
no. there's no way. i mean, don't you think there's no way?
no you don't. and fuck you for saying you do. and fuck you for "saying. . . . for saying there's just no way. because there could be a way, grady.
he must be finishing. we should go.
who's gun is that?
heavy. smells like gunpowder.
pow.
i love you, grady.
terry crabtree and james leer. leave it to you to make that mistake, wait here.
walter's on campus, being the good soldier for wordfest. but he's a basket case. someone stole marilyn's jacket last night. and poe's missing, too.
you heard? how?
did you confess?
your fingerprints were all over the bedroom.
i'm kidding. hello?
are you limping? why are you limping?
did you pass out again, grady? did you fall somewhere?
all right.
gee, grady, that sounded so heartfelt. i don't know whether to swoon or smirk.
i believe you. i believe you want to be with me. but this is not just about me anymore.
no, i don't think you do. and besides.  i haven't decided yet.
that . and you.
i'm not going to draw the map for you on this one, grady. times like these you have to do your own navigating.
who's that sitting in your car?
what's he doing out there?
isn't he lucky.
i tried to call, but apparently there's something wrong.
it seems one of our students is - missing and his parents found a dead dog in his bed.
i'm not very happy with you right now, grady. but more importantly, walter's not very happy and he's gotten the police involved. they seem to think james leer is somehow responsible for all of this. you wouldn't happen to know where james is, would you, grady?
and the jacket?
grady.
are you sure you parked it there?
i'll deal with this. you dig up james.
this is not what the university has in mind when it promises a liberal education, grady.
it's within the realm. he takes his souvenirs pretty seriously. and he was just a wee bit prickly this morning.
and what do you think you might have said?
he told me.
i said it didn't sound like you.
grady, what are you doing, you idiot?
i believe you. did that nice doctor let you out? or-is this you improvising again, grady?
terry told me about wonder boys. is it true? did you lose it all?
oh, grady. you're such a putz.
and you're old.
dozens. it's very sad.
oh?
some times.
i told walter.
it didn't come up.
did you just make that up?
don't write a page when a paragraph will do.
i know, but sometimes.