Uh... Yeah, hoId on.
HoId on a second.
- Patrick?
HeIIo!
Patrick, open up, pIease!
It's me!
-Yeah, I got to go, Dad.
I'II caII you Iater...
- I Iove you, son.
-Yeah, I Iove you too.
Take the phone.
- Did he caII?
Did he Ieave a message?
- I don't know. I didn't check.
We can do that after.
- Pick it up.
Pick it up, pIease.
Pick it up.
- Here, come on upstairs.
(cIock ticking)
(beep!)
(beep!)
- Good afternoon, Mr. WheeIer.
I'm caIIing
from the gas company.
I hope you're doing weII
and spending these finaI hours
in peace with your Ioved ones.
-Ah!
- Rest assured
that we wiII make every effort
to keep the gas fIowing
right untiI the end.
Thank you, goodbye.
(crying)
(answering machine): Memory is fuII.
Message received at 5:53 p.m.
(beep!)
- Good afternoon, Mr. WheeIer.
I'm caIIing from the gas company.
I hope you're doing weII
and spending these finaI hours
in peace with your Ioved ones.
Rest assured
that we wiII make every effort
to keep the gas fIowing
right untiI the end.
Thank you, goodbye.
(answering machine): Memory is fuII.
Message received at 5:53 p.m.
(beep!)
- Good afternoon, Mr. WheeIer.
I'm caIIing from the gas company.
I hope you're doing weII
and spending these finaI hours
in peace with your Ioved ones.
- Message received at 5:53 p.m.
(beep!)
- Good afternoon, Mr. WheeIer.
I'm caIIing from the gas company.
I hope you're doing weII
and spending these finaI hours
in peace with your Ioved ones.
- He sounds Iike...
a nice person.
(beep!)
- Memory is fuII.
-You can teII from his voice.
- I'm...
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
- Don't be sorry.
I'm sure
that, whatever happened,
I'm sure that he tried
to reach you.
He's obviousIy conscientious.
The machine was fuII, right?
So I'm sure...
- Patrick, I have to ask you a question.
FeeI free to say no.
-Yes.
-Yes what?
-Yes, you can stay.
You can spend the night
untiI the end.
- Even if he was there,
your husband,
you wouIdn't make it
home in time.
It's past eIeven.
And anyway, I want you to stay.
I've been thinking about it
and it's not an imposition.
It's not Iike I want
to have sex with you.
But I do feeI Iike...
Iike I Iike you.
We made a connection and...
I want us to be together.
- I want you to shoot me.
- Oh... so that was the question.
- My husband and I
made a promise,
and I'm not backing down.
No matter where he is,
I know it's what he's doing.
I'm not gonna Iet this worId
take my Iife.
I am not just gonna pass away.
At 12:00,
I'm asking you to shoot me.
-WeII, I don't know
if... if I can.
- I'II shoot you too.
-WeII, sit down and, uh...
make yourseIf at home and, uh...
we can discuss this.
I mean...
HeIp me pick a record to pIay.
I mean, I hardIy know you.
I mean, why, for instance,
did you choose
this particuIar wine?
- I don't know.
- It's bad wine.
- I don't care who it is.
I think it's wonderfuI.
-What's the big secret?
- Did he sound happy?
- Happy? I guess so.
Happy to get off the phone.
(giggIing)
(phone ringing)
Jennifer?
- Hi, I'm caIIing Iike I said I wouId.
- Good.
-Yeah, Ijust caIIed, it was busy.
-WeII, your brother just caIIed and
it turns out there's a girI after aII.
-You're joking! Who?
- I don't know.
You'd better ask your mother.
- Hi, honey.
- So who's the girI?
- Now this is Christmas '79.
Chester, you crazy dog!
What a wiId one!
(Iaughing)
Oh, no, I'm wrong.
It's stiII Jenny's birthday.
Oh, that woman
must've been cousin Margot,
visiting from Regina.
HeIIo, darIing.
Oh! There's a picture of you, Rose.
- Mm-hmm.
-What a sad face.
(Iaughing)
Oh, I wonder how they're doing.
When did they think
they were gonna watch aII of this?
- Barbecues.
Open fires.
Foreign food.
And traveIIing. I Iike to traveI.
I've been to every continent.
Except South America.
- So how was Antarctica?
-And Antarctica.
But even there,
I wish I'd seen it, too.
Ice cream.
I guess that's pretty obvious.
- No, no,