re a little ripe
to be this breathless.
Okay. Are you calm?
Good.
That, s more like it.
slow down.
Are you sure
about this?
Hell, you've neglected
your work long enough.
I can get to the head
and to the refrigerator.
What more is there
to life?
Put the roast in at 3:00? can do, skip.
There's nothing
I can get you?
No, you kids go have a good
time, leave Grandpa here.
He'll be all right
by himself.
Bye. Bye
- Nope. Leave the door open.
I wanna watch you leave.
I enjoy the view.
See you later.
Bye-bye.
There was a crooked man
And he ran a crooked mile
Oh, my.
He found a crooked sixpence
Against a crooked stile
He bought
a crooked cat
' Who caught
a crooked mouse '
'And they all
lived together '
'in a crooked
little house"
Oh, shit.
Hello. can I help you? We're
entirely at your service.
Uh, take anything you like.
We got a shower
and everything.
You big pussycat.
You think I'm afraid of that?
Well, you sense fear,
don't you?
But I won't show any.
Oh!
You don, t know that theory,
do ya?
Okay.
Oh.
You want the roast.
Right.
Okay.
Here you go.
it, s yours.
We'll have something else.
Don't worry about us.
Well, i-
i, II be going now.
see you later.
ust, uh,
take what you like...
and lock up
when you leave, okay?
i, II just step
out of your way here.
Oh, God.
esus.
Ernie!
Ernie?
How was your day?
Oh, Jesus.
This could set me back
a few days.
Weeks.
But you came out f
ne.
You were very lucky,
you know.
I owe it all to you.
Why?
Understanding nature,
imagining
you're the opponent.
In that split second
that mattered,
I imagined that I was
that mountain lion.
And what would discourage me
if I were a mountain lion?
I took my walking stick...
and hit him in the balls.
I'd never seen such big
balls, and I'm from chicago.
You're turning into
quite a mountain man. Mmm.
You may decide
to stay up here.
If I learn one more
mountain skill, I'll be dead.
You're doing f
ne.
How does your head feel?
Which one?
Where does it hurt?
Does it hurt up here?
Does it hurt there?
Mmm.
Maybe over here.
Mmm. Ooh.
ery painful. Ow.
Let me see
what's going on over here.
Howard?
Uh-huh?
How, s the patient?
in my book, technically dead.
He walks around with that
goddamn tree trunk in his hand.
He hasn, t written a word
since he got back.
she, s got a lot to answer for, that
woman. I have a newspaper to run.
i could kill her.
For years I make dinner parties
to fix him up with a nice girl,
and he goes and falls
for an eagle freak.
i should never have sent him
out of town it, s unnatural.
On the other hand,
you can, t expect her to give
up her life, s work just for him.
Hey, Souchak! Souchak!
Whose side are you on?
He can, t expect her to do that.
You did it for me.
You had no regrets.
What's that look
supposed to mean?
What look?
That look.
I've gotta go.
Mmm.
And you've got
a newspaper to run.
Be careful
on the way out.
There's a zombie
out there.
Oh, my God.
she must be one hell
of a mountain goat.
This has got to stop.
Bye, honey.
Bye-bye.
souchak, would you come
into my office, please.
Well?
i want you writing again.
You've been sitting around here
pickling your brain for two weeks.
It's enough already.
Maybe writing about it
will clean it out.
I don't want to write
about her.
Fine.
Write about
being back in town.
You can start writing
about Yablonowitz again.
Who?
Yablonowitz.
Yablonowitz!
Yablonowitz!
You remember him?
He's still around, you know.
All he had to do
after your last column...
was issue a press release
and fire a few relatives.
Uh-huh.
Now look, for my sake
as managing editor,
write something.
Anything. i
You told me it was for your sake last time.
I'm saying it again.
I'm saying it again.
Souchak, go see a shrink.
I give up.
It's a travel piece.
People love travel pieces.
When they're good.
Even when they're lousy.
These aren't good enough
to be