:55:01
-How'd a guy like you get into Harvard ?
-Capped teeth.
:55:04
- Lester !
- [ Drums Continue ]
:55:07
Herb, what exactly did you
tell the grand jury ?
:55:10
No, you can't ask me that.
lt's-- lt's sealed. lt's illegal.
:55:14
Well, uh, just between us.
:55:18
They made me take a dive.
Marty.
:55:20
They made me lose on Marty
just to humiliate me.
:55:24
- Who made you take a dive ?
- Dan Enright.
:55:26
He told me l had plateaued,
that the ratings had plateaued.
:55:29
A sinking ship
and the rats stayed.
:55:30
Do you think in a million years
l wouldn't know Marty, and
meanwhile, Charles Van Moron...
:55:33
would be on the show
11 weeks in a row ?
:55:35
l don't understand. H-How could they
make you take a dive ?
:55:38
- What ?
- Why didn't you just answer Marty
if you knew it ?
:55:41
- What, and throw away
his future in television ?
- Would you please go inside...
:55:45
and tell Gene Krupa
to take five ?
:55:47
Lester.
Lester !
:55:49
You're so naive. lt's a fix.
lt's all-- lt's all a fix.
:55:52
A setup. l made a study of it. They
always follow a Jew with a Gentile.
:55:55
And the Gentile wins more money.
What is that, a coincidence ?
:55:59
Herb, you're saying this whole grand
jury thing was because of you.
:56:01
You know what you have to do ?
You have to nail Van Doren.
:56:05
- Are you gonna nail Van Doren ?
- Look, first of all, l'm not
here to nail anyone, okay ?
:56:07
- This isn't McCarthyism.
- Listen, think about what
McCarthyism did for McCarthy.
:56:11
Let me ask you something.
Do you have any corroborative
evidence to what you're saying ?
:56:13
Listen to me. Don't make
necessarily the mistakes
that l might have made in life.
:56:18
Think about your career. You nail
Van Doren, it'll be bigger than Sputnik.
:56:21
lt'll be like a big, blond
Sputnik crashing right down
on his, whew, friggin' head.
:56:28
Charlie ? Hi.
Dick Goodwin.
:56:31
l hope you don't mind.
The English Department gave me
your number up in Connecticut.
:56:35
Yeah. Look, um, l met with
Herbert Stempel yesterday.
:56:38
He told me a couple of things.
l'm kinda curious--
:56:43
What ?
:56:45
Sure. Well,
what train was that ?
:56:47
Yeah, just hold on.
l got a pen right here.
:56:50
Grand Central Station.
:56:52
Housatonic.
:56:54
Cornwall, Connecticut.
:56:56
l will, uh-- l will, uh--
l'll get right on the way.