:26:01
Uh, Scotch rocks, now that you don't
look like you want to slip me a mickey.
:26:05
Seems we started off
with sort of a ruckus.
:26:08
Divided loyalties
over my mother and father.
:26:10
Here you are.
:26:14
You're on, Uncle Jack.
:26:20
Honey, a long time ago,
I fought oil fires for a living too.
:26:25
Your dad and I were, well,
just like he and Greg are now.
:26:29
We were coming back
from a job in Indonesia,
:26:33
and we stopped off
in San Francisco.
:26:35
Chance had promised
some gal a fur coat,
:26:38
and he went to Randolph's
to buy it.
:26:40
I never did know
what happened to that fur coat.
:26:43
But two weeks later he showed up
here in Houston...
:26:45
married to your mother.
:26:47
I knew from the start
our work terrified her.
:26:51
But she wouldn't let on to Chance,
and she wouldn't let me tell him.
:26:54
Then you came along.
:26:58
And two weeks later,
I broke my back in a fire.
:27:02
The next few months,
:27:04
every job Chance went on
was a nightmare for her.
:27:08
She couldn't hide it anymore
and he couldn't quit,
:27:11
so she packed up and took
you back to San Francisco.
:27:14
Then how is it
I remember him?
:27:17
I must've been
five or six.
:27:20
That's right, honey.
:27:22
Then went back together
a half dozen times,
:27:24
but your mother could never
get over her fear.
:27:26
And your father knew
if she was to be happy,
:27:29
he'd have to stay
out of her life.
:27:31
So, that's the decision
he made for them.
:27:38
I understand a lot of things
about my mother now.
:27:43
I don't think she's ever been
out of love with him.
:27:46
Oh, well, I know he's never
been out of love with her.
:27:49
But still, he couldn't
give up his work.
:27:52
Honey, since my accident,
:27:55
I've been extremely lucky
in everything I've touched.
:27:58
But I'm just another Texas oil man
with his own building.