02x02 - Ice Water in Their Veins

[bunniefuu]

♪ ♪

[grunts]
That is... that is so cold.

[nurse]
I know, Mrs. Paley,

but in a few minutes,
you won't mind.

The body gets used to it.

How long until
I start losing my hair?

Not everyone does.

I have to tell you, this is much
better than radiation.

That's so much harsher.

[Babe]
You're hovering, Bill.

Can I get you another blanket?

No.

Uh, could you wait in that
little waiting area outside?

- Sure.
- Thank you.

Oh, Bill. Call Maria.

We have Amanda's kids
for dinner tonight.

They'll want her favorite,
chicken cacciatore.

And have Maria call Paul,
because they actually have

those San Marzano plum tomatoes.

And-and tell her
to set the breakfast nook

exactly like a pizza parlor

with the red and white
check tablecloths.

They'll like that.

You don't want me to cancel
the grandkids coming over?

No, of course not.

All right.

[laughs softly]

[Bill]
Plum tomatoes and, uh...

[crying]
She'll know what to do.

♪ ♪

[flashbulbs popping]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[Jimmy]
My mother...

my mother was so strong,

despite the, um...

...the unfairness of all of it.

And she taught me
how to hold onto strength,

even as a-a merciless snake
whispered lies

and fanciful distortions

that so many of you
whispered back to one another.

A whispering that became,
in fact, an actual m*rder,

not a made-up one by a vile
writer of fiction named Capote.

The only way she knew
to find peace...

Did nobody vet this?

...was to m*rder herself.

[organ playing]

[retching]

- [grunts]
- [toilet flushes]

♪ ♪

[Slim]
I know that Bernini,
Faun Teased by Children.

It's worth whatever it costs
to have it at the Met.

Are you all right, darling?

You look slightly malarial.

Yes, it seems all the jungles
have finally caught up with me.

I'm just a little tired.

Let's enjoy our lunch, shall we?

You're "tired," Babe, because
you don't know what to do

in this atrocious situation.

[Babe]
Please, can we not actually
discuss Truman now?

I was hoping for a pleasant
lunch with my friends.

Did he reach out
to either of you?

Of course he has.
I got a card today.

He's in Hollywood, acting.

"Acting" in some grotesque
little farce, Neil Simon,

but he'll try and slither back.

- He's insidious.
- [C.Z.] Lee, Slim,

Jesus, come on.

You heard Babe.
Let's give it a rest.

Let's have a nice lunch,
get a really good bottle

of Pouilly-Fumé,
and go home and sleep it off.

It's important
that we are unified,

because he's going
to try to get in

through whomever
is most vulnerable,

and that is Babe,
because he's closest to her.

So, if you don't want
to deal with it,

- I'm sorry, but...
- Was.

Was the closest.

[C.Z.]
Oh, there's always
a silver lining.

We're still at
the best table in the place,

and we have each other.

Oh, C.Z., do you hear yourself?

It's like you're
an apologist for him.

"We have each other"?
Of course we do.

The reason we have
the best table

is because we keep
this place open.

C.Z., you of all people.

What? Do you think
they come here

for the f*cking salade niçoise?

They come because we do.

[Lee]
Babe, look, friendships,

some of them,
they run their courses.

Believe me. Even between
sisters, as you know.

And it hurts terribly
when a great friendship is lost,

especially between women,
it hurts.

Sometimes far worse
than failed romance.

For women,
we have these friendships,

and they're our,
um, armies, really.

- Mm.
- So you have to keep going,

because there is always
something different or better.

A better, different friend
in the future.

It's the misogyny.

Hatred of women, yes.

And maybe it's something
that gay men are prone to.

Maybe it's something that all
gay men actually think about us.

I never expected it from him.

It's the revulsion
he writes from.

Truman loves women.
Don't get it twisted.

No. No, you did not bear
the brunt of it.

The revulsion
he has for us, for me,

my foolishness at being duped.

And-and all of Bill's lies
being paraded out

for public consumption.

[exhales]
Was I the only one

who read all the disgust
in his story?

He finds us disgusting.

Babe, you are not the only one.

He did me dirty, too. But yes,
g*dd*mn it, I saw that, too.

For instance,
this image he provides

of menstruation as though
it were a medieval horror.

As if women's vaginas
were hell gates.

[Slim]
Well, there's only one thing

to be done now.

I need your word.

We stand united
and we destroy him.

- [Lee] Hmm.
- I need you all to promise

- not to waver.
- Oh, I'm in, honey.

If you go out,

you go out very, very ostensibly
with other h*m*.

The men who would have been
second choice after Truman.

The evenings
that Truman lives for.

No.

It's Bill. Bill Blass.

Charming, civil, witty,
knows everything you need.

Truman won't have anyone
to go to an opening with.

He'll be stuck at home

in that sad little apartment
at the U.N.

Don't accept any more notes.

None of his words. No flowers.

Make sure he knows
they are rejected.

Thank you.

And the phone calls,
they must be refused.

[Lee] Because he will drink
and he will call

and he will weep and he will
plead and he will beg

and he will simper.

C.Z., what?

I think it's cruel
and deliberately small.

C.Z., don't break ranks
with us here.

Do you know, I sometimes feel...

so tired of all of us,

of this...

[laughs softly]
...I could die.

Excuse me.

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♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Yes, it's Truman Capote
for Mrs. Paley.

Uh, yes, it's Truman Capote
again for Mrs. Paley.

Yes, yes, not available.

Well, please tell her I called.

Would you, really?
It's important.

And please tell her
that I'm in California,

if she wants to know,
for the time difference,

at Joanne Carson's.

It's three hours later here.

Earlier. Earlier.

[phone clatters]

♪ ♪

"You tricked
your readers for years,

"tortured us
with surprise endings

"that made no sense.

"You've made it impossible
to guess who did it.

"But now...

"the tables are turned.

"And when the world learns

I've outsmarted you..."

[P.A.]
Mr. Capote?
They're ready for you.

Mm. Mm.

"And when the world learns
I've outsmarted you..."

- [bell rings]
-"When the world learns

I've outsmarted you..."

"When the world learns
I've outsmarted you..."

I am indeed Lionel Twain.

You have all been
so clever for so long,

you've forgotten
how to be humble.

You've tricked and fooled
your readers for years.

You tortured us all
with surprise endings

that made no sense.

You've introduced...

♪ ♪

...characters
in the last five pages

that were never even
in the book before.

You have...

You...

You have...

...withheld clues

and information, you...

You have...

...withheld clues
and information.

You have...

You have...

You
have...

You... have hurt me.

All of you.

I did what I do.

What did you th...

[heart b*ating]

- Line?
- [Peter] Jesus.

Would you f*cking cut,
please, Robert?

- [Robert] Cut.
- [bell rings]

- I'm sorry.
- You can write your lines
on a board, mate.

I'm okay, thanks.

Mm.

Thank you. Thank...

You need a doctor, Truman.

I'm okay, I'm okay.

Thank you. Are we going again?

[bell rings]

[line ringing]

[Martha] [over phone]
Paley residence.

Martha, please, can you just
put me through to her?

- It's important.
- One moment.

[piano music playing]

♪ ♪

Martha.

- Can you help me put this on?
- Oh, yes.

Thank you.

Mr. Capote's on the phone.

Tell him I'm indisposed.

Mr. C.? I-I'm so sorry.

She's indisposed at the moment.

Please, can you just
tell her it's important?

I will tell her that.

Thank you. Goodbye.

[line clicks]

That piece looks so beautiful
on you, Mrs. Paley.

They love you so much
when the clock is ticking.

♪ ♪

[grunts]

[grunts]

♪ ♪

Dear Lord,

please turn this weakness
into strength.

Allow me to trust
in your goodness

and find hope in faithfulness,

even in the midst
of this struggle.

[mutters]

[exhales sharply]

- Hello.
- How is she doing today?

- As could be expected.
- [laughs softly]

[knocking on door]

Oh.

Thank you, darling.

[gasps]

Jesus. Babe.

What the hell is all this?

It's sleight of hand
is what it is, Slim.

- [chuckles]
- Do you know, all these pieces,

almost to a one, are gifts from
Bill after he cheated on me?

Well, the affairs don't last,
but the jewelry remains.

- [both laugh]
- Come, sit, I want to show you.

Now, don't start trying
to give me this stuff.

- [sighs]
- You're going to need it all.

- No.
- I won't have it, Babe.

I can assure you,
trips to Sloan Kettering

don't require a six-figure ring.

- Look at it.
- Ugh.

- [Slim] Oh, yeah.
- And it was made

exactly to Bill's
specifications, or so he claims.

I'm just...

I'm just trying to be pragmatic.

It's called planning
for the future.

Hmm?

Now, come on, look at these.
Don't you love them?

Please, just take some of them.

- Go on.
- No. Jesus, Babe.

I'm not playing
this g*dd*mn scene with you.

Next summer, I'll be b*ating
the pants off you

at tennis on Long Island.

Now, stop it this minute

- or I'm leaving.
- [coughing]

Come on. Now, don't pretend
you don't want it.

- [sighs]
- That one. Go on. [laughs]

[Slim]
Oh, the Verdura.

- [Babe] Mm-hmm.
- Jesus.

Just so I know, this one was
a mea culpa for which affair?

- Happy.
- Ah.

The ineptly named
first lady of New York.

Mrs. Happy Rockefeller.

Well. Hmm.

The only reason I'm taking it
is to flaunt it in front of her.

- [chuckles softly]
- [laughs]

Aw.

This is the real jewel. Hmm?

- Us.
- Mm.

What our friendship is.

Men are so pathetic.

They can't even do this.

Hmm?

All they can do is buy their way

in and out of trouble.

- [gasps]
- [music box playing]

Truman gave me that.

It was a gift
from Audrey Hepburn

when they made
Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Don't start
telling me about him.

We're not doing that today.

I miss him. It's hard.

I don't know how much longer
there is, and...

you know the way we are,
women, we...

don't remember pain
so much as we do

- the actual...
- The good times?

- Yes.
- Ha.

I don't know
where the fun is anymore,

and I don't know...

I don't know what to do
without it.

We just move on, Babe.

That's the fact of it.

Just keep moving,
nothing to see here.

[laughs softly]

You know, if one can do

what Truman did to us
and get away with it,

then nothing means anything.

And I won't live like that.
No, sir.

[grunts softly]

Hey, Slim. How you doing?

Have you taken
your pills, darling?

[sighs]
I don't need you reminding me,

for God's sake, Bill...

Look, if you want
to make yourself useful,

why don't you sit down
in the kitchen

with some of my recipes
and learn how to make

a simple meal like Welsh rabbit
so you can feed

your grandkids now and then
after I'm gone?

Before you find your next wife?

[exhales]

[coughing]

- Okay, listen.
- [groans]

Enough.

You've got to be strong, hmm?

- For him?
- No. Bill...

Bill's your business. Truman.

He's back, and he's making
all sorts of chess moves

trying to get back in.

[scoffs]

I wonder what kind
of predator does this.

Because everything in life
is also in nature.

But I can't find a correlation
for Truman Capote.

Nothing in nature

pretends to love you
and then tries to eat you.

[laughs]
Nothing.

[sighs]

[Truman]
The fact of it is, it's gonna be

a huge success, at least for me
and maybe Peter Sellers, too.

Mmm, Joanne Carson
saw some of the rushes

and she loves the movie.

She thinks
it's gonna be a big hit.

C.Z., you have an odd expression

simply plastered on your face.

Is something wrong
with the fish?

You seem angry at it.

It's you who's bugging me, frankly.

Ah, so, you, too,
you're mad at me, too?

My God, it's just a book.

Just a book?

Those are your friends
you splayed out

on those magazine pages.

I'm here with you,
at least, Truman.

Yes, let's talk about it.

What you did was wrong
in every respect.

I've tried to understand
what you could be thinking.

Can you possibly explain it?

Because it's fiction.

[laughs]
It's fiction?

You were too jaded
to even change some of the names

to protect the guilty.

It's assh*le behavior.
And you know it.

Why is it so f*cking hard

for everyone to accept the idea
that society is filled

with secrets and lies
and allegiances and innuendos

and that was worth exposing?

What do they all
think I do, C.Z.? I write.

I am always listening.

It doesn't just drift off
into outer space.

I am recording,

because this is the way
of our world.

And what about civility?

Respect for the people
one loves?

Discretion?
For God's sake, reciprocity?

- What about reciprocity?
- Well, dear,

I don't know if, as an artist,

I can live within
the same codes of good manners.

- Oh, Truman, don't give me that.
- I don't understand

why nobody is able
to look past the surface

and appreciate
the writing itself,

which is accurate;
it is an accurate account.

Does it mean
that I don't love them?

- The people that I...
- No, Truman,
there's no love in those pages.

All it is is a collection
of cruel scalpel cuts

without the benefit
of anesthesia.

It may be that it is art
and someday

it will be accepted as that.

But it seems too high
a price to pay for me.

And I can't understand
how it seems worth it to you.

I mean, is this what you wanted?

To be vilified? Banished?

No, of course not.

I miss Babe.

I am trying very hard
to reconstitute myself.

I am trying.

I'm drinking very little,
I am...

pulling myself back together,
and I keep trying to apologize,

but she won't take my calls.

Is there anything you can do?

Can you talk to her?

God, I worry about you, Truman.

I see you being so careless
with all these gifts,

let alone your life.

Not only your friendships,
but talent.

Truman...

Babe... I don't know.

But I'll try.

I'll try.

♪ ♪

I don't know what to do
about Thanksgiving.

Can I come to you
in Palm Beach, please?

God, you are such a child
sometimes, aren't you?

Oh, Truman, what a mess.

Of course you can
fly down with...

[laughs softly]

Oh, dear child.

Désolé.

You're gonna be in trouble now.

[butler]
Lady Keith is here.

I know.

I'm sorry to barge in
unannounced. [chuckles]

Julie Canter asked me to look at

the Newbury property
down the road with her.

How is Mercury?

We're about to
take him for a walk.

He's had a little hoof issue.

- Come with us?
- Yes, please.

Isn't Mercury a good horse?

Strong, loyal,
never any surprises.

So unlike humans, aren't they?

Must be why we make them
our friends.

All right, all right, all right.
Enough code, Slim.

- What did I do now?
- Lunch with the traitor.

Christ, the man is suffering.

Come on, Slim.
Can we please try and fix this?

You are such
a good friend to people.

You really are.

You keep above the fray,
don't you?

I admire that, I really do.

But I live in the fray.
And this is about Babe.

- [clears throat]
- Okay?

Yes? You have
something pithy to say?

I'm not sure
how pithy it is, but...

[sighs]

Man-to-man...

There was a certain g*dd*mn
truth to it all, wasn't there?

That's why everyone is
so furious.

- Careful.
- Don't tell me to be careful

in my own allée, darling.

Truman was right
about Bill Paley.

Sure, it wasn't his place
to splay it out in public,

- but he was right.
- Maybe.

Maybe there are
strands of truth.

Of course I'm not going to
defend Bill Paley.

Nevertheless...

Truman hurt Babe.

Our Babe, and that...

is a line in whatever sand
there is.

In any case,
I really came to deliver this.

It's from Babe.
She wants you to have it.

[C.Z.]
Oh, God. The Verdura?

- Why?
- Because that's
where we are now.

Do you get it?

She'd give it to you herself,

but she's too weak
to make the trip down.

Chemo is breaking her.

Oh, what are we going to do?

There's not a lot we can do.

But let me tell you one thing.

You can't have Truman
for Thanksgiving.

I don't want to be angry at you.

It would take too much
out of both of us.

So don't have him.
It can't be.

Let him eat Swanson's frozen

turkey dinner alone
in Sagaponack.

["Let's Stick Together"
by Bryan Ferry playing]

[humming along]

[phone ringing]

♪♪ And now the marriage vow
is very sacred... ♪

Capote residence,
Petunia speaking.

[coughs, clears throat]
Hello, Petunia, dear.

[Truman]
Ooh, you don't sound great,

but I'm making my famous
sugared almonds to bring down.

And they will,

along with a stiff toddy,
cure anything.

Ow.

If I don't k*ll myself first.
[chuckles]

I've been dreaming about
your turkey

and especially your crudités.

What is that sauce
you do for them?

[C.Z.]
Horseradish cream dip.

Crème fraîche and horseradish.
[clears throat]

Well, it makes me feel like
a true WASP from Connecticut.

Mm.

Are we eating
on the green majolica?

I'm afraid I have
not-very-good news.

I can't shake this flu
that everyone seems to have.

[C.Z. clears throat]

You canceling?

Well, there's nothing
to be done.

- Okay, dear.
- Okay, sweetie, I've got to go.

The doctor just walked in.

- You get better, dear.
- [clears throat]

[exhales]

[Chris] Dad, will you please
think about it?

It would be nice.

Maybe Mom would come.
The Plaza has a nice buffet.

Well, you don't have to
have turkey.

Which is what I like
about that, you know?

There's prime rib.

Not everyone loves turkey,
you know.

It doesn't have to be turkey.

I know.
Be good, okay?

- Yeah.
- Bye.

Bye.

[flask top spinning open]

Okay, you can go.

I want more time for us.
For me.

- [door opening]
- To kind of back up

and start over and get it right.

I can get it right, Nancy, if
you just give me some more time.

Oh, hi.

[door closes]

The writing on this show
is so good.

I mean, Tennessee
would be jealous.

The secret is,
they all love each other,

no matter how badly they behave.

[John] Thought you'd be
packing for Florida.

Florida's canceled, dear.

C.Z. has a dreadful cold,

which is Palm Beach
for cold feet.

We're disinvited.

Joanne Carson's saving the day.
Pan Am to L.A. tomorrow night.

Truman, I'm spending
Thanksgiving with my kids.

[smacks lips] And who puts
carrots in Peking duck?

I'm not spending
Thanksgiving with you.

The tragic irony is,
if you try to avoid the carrots,

pretty soon
the dish is only carrots.

Truman, are you hearing me?

Why would your nuclear
little family

want to have
Thanksgiving with you?

They've moved on, baby.

There are no bittersweet

Thanksgiving buffet dinners
with pineapple cake

and crab dip in the Oak Room
in this episode of Family.

Want to know why?

Because nobody would believe
that the cocksucker banker

who walked out
on his wife and kids

would be warmly
welcomed back home

for them to pretend that
it was just a little crisis.

They know too much, baby.

They know that dear old Daddy is

just a third-rate suburban
f*gg*t banker who sticks

his uncircumcised mick penis
into the glorious assh*le

of America's greatest
living author,

whom he's supposed
to be managing,

- but he's really just--
- [grunts]

Who the f*ck do you think
you're talking to, huh?

You look at me.

Don't you ever play a scene
like that again with me.

And you do not talk
about my kids

like their name's on
a f*cking page you're writing.

[quietly]
You like that, huh?

[door opens, slams closed]

[doorman]
Mrs. Paley.

- Thank you.
- Of course.

Babe?

[Babe]
Jack.

I know what you're here to ask.

He's in very bad shape
without you.

Can you just...?

Please, let me come inside
so we can talk.

He's not good.

I found him beaten up.

I went over there.
The, uh, bank guy, he's just...

Jack.

[Jack]
It's like a death dance, Babe.

He needs absolution.

[sighs softly]

Well, I'm no minister,
I'm not like you.

My contract with him
isn't the same as yours.

Yours is longer and deeper.

Which he did not
care about when--

When what, what, when he,
when he wrote about you?

It wasn't about you.
It was entirely about him.

There is something in him

that sees the way that
humans behave, like...

astronomers see constellations.

It's... this-this is his reflex.

[scoffs] The argument
that genius is an excuse.

Of course not. No. No.

But if some part of you
still wants to,

you would be saving him.

Actually saving
what is left of his life.

- He has to save himself.
- No.

You are his only chance.

Nothing I say makes
any difference.

I'm just watching him
being eaten up by--

A cancer?
[scoffs softly]

Why do you keep
coming back, Jack?

Do you think you're
strong enough to survive him?

How much has he taken from you?

♪ ♪

[stubs out cigarette]

Take care of yourself, Jack.

[brakes squealing]

[Truman sighs]

John, this is tiresome.
Can we please call a truce?

Thanksgiving is the one holiday
I love unconditionally.

You don't love anything
unconditionally, Truman.

[grunts]

I need a minute.

Thank you.

[Joanne]
Hi, honey.

Oh, hi.
I come bearing gifts.

Ooh, gracias.

Thank you, thank you.

- Happy Thanksgiving.
- Mwah, mwah.

Why is your friend
sitting in the car?

John wants me to buy him
a house in Malibu.

Little Prince Pauper is pouting.

Once he realizes there's
a Manhattan waiting for him,

- he'll come in.
- [chuckling]

- When's dinner?
- In an hour.

But there's lots of
snacky, drinky things.

- Mm.
- I hope you like
nachos and tamales.

- Ooh, I love them.
- Do you know what that is?

[chuckling]

[festive music playing]

I'll drop these bags off
in the kitchen.

♪ ♪

Oh.

[chuckles softly]

Oh, hi.

[laughing] Ah.

Mm-hmm.

[Joanne]
Truman, come in, come in.

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[gong clanging]

♪ ♪

Mm.

I am so grateful...

that all of us have each other.

To have friendship.

To have people with one
whom can share life.

A life.

This year I think it's
Slim's turn

to say the Thanksgiving prayer.

Should we hold hands?

[Joanne] Blessed be the hands
that helped prepare this meal.

May those hands and ours
and bodies, too,

be well and quick to heal.

Thank you, Lord God, for
this food we are about to eat.

[Joanne] Blessed be
our friends and family,

and all of our loved ones.

Blessed be our Mother Earth

and Father Sky and sun.

[Slim] Thank you for the hands
that prepared it

and for those
seated around the table

who are here to share it.

And for the ability to be here
together under one roof

and enjoy these blessings
at your hand.

[Joanne]
This food was born of

the bounty of this Earth
in warm sunlight,

rich earth, and cool rain.

May it nourish us
in body and mind,

and provide us with all things
good and living.

We also thank you for
what we don't have this year.

For we trust
that you have withheld

out of your goodness

and in your divine
protection of us.

- Amen.
- [guests] Amen.

- [Bill] Amen.
- [Joanne] Amen.

- Amen.
- Amen.

Well, I prefer a more, uh,

Long Island kind of
traditional prayer,

- but okay.
- [Joanne] Who's gonna carve
the turkey?

[John]
I can carve it.

[groans] Excuse me.

[grunting] Oh, come on, come on.

[Truman]
Don't mind John. He...

He's pretending it's me.
[chuckles softly]

- [John] All right.
- [Truman] I'm gonna get another

actual drink-drink. [chuckles]

[Joanne]
Oh, easy, easy.

Oh, how I love
the emptiest room at a party.

I'd like a screwdriver,
please, dear boy.

- Mr. Capote. Sure thing.
- [chuckles]

Happy Thanksgiving.
Carlos, is it?

Close enough.

I think... I think you had
the last of the vodka.

- Mm.
- I'll be right back.

There's another bottle
somewhere.

Promise, because
I am rather desperate.

[chuckles] If there isn't,
could you run down the hill

and where's... wherever's open,
bring back the good stuff?

And there's
for your troubles, Diego.

Oh, it's not Carlos.
My God. It's... Diego.

I'll make it work out.

[sighs]

[bottle clattering]

[humming]

[female voice]
Zip me up, Tru.

So, son...

you got fat, didn't you?

God, and you were so,

you were so, so beautiful.

Too beautiful.

A normal boy would have
outgrown the beauty

and hardened.

But you...

You got soft.

- And the booze...
- [bottle clinks]

Christ.

It's all in the blood, Mother.

It's in the blood.

And it ran in the Faulks,
didn't it?

You really can let go, dear.

You've done the work.

You did it,

and you did it all for me.

So you can let go.

What did I do for you, exactly?

- You avenged me, of course.
- Did I?

I wasn't aware.

All those people
I wanted to be part of,

all those people
that had no time for me.

Those...

women of New York society

who would have no... part of me.

Just like your swans.

You knew how I felt.

Southern...

Odd.

A little trashy.

A spectacle.

- Mm.
- Just like you did. [scoffs]

So you took them out,
didn't you, hmm?

And you did it so brilliantly,

with such... [chuckles softly]

surgical precision.

With so much...
[kisses] deep hatred.

So...

What now, Mother?

I think it's time for you
to join me, isn't it?

Come on.

Let me be your mother again.

Truman,

where I am
and where you are going...

A mother can be
a very important guide.

[chuckling softly]

Come on, darling.

You're almost there already.

Poor little heart
is encased in fat,

and your liver is
riddled with...

...cirrhosis.

In this pocket,
you have Halcion.

[chuckles]

In a little Tiffany pill box
that Babe gave you

with all the phenobarbitals

and the pretty pastel
little Valium.

- Just jiggling
around in there...
- [pills rattle]

And the vodka, oh, my God!

[both laughing]

Oh, my God.

You could go right now.

Go to that little guest room
here that you love so much.

Just lie down under that piñata.

That Day of the Dead piñata.

Have your own little
Day of the Dead celebration.

Hmm?

No.

You may be real,
you may be ghost.

You may be risen from the grave,
Mother, but I am not ready.

I am not on your schedule.

I still have
a masterpiece to finish.

And they're waiting for it.
They're waiting.

So I'm not going anywhere.

With you.

[sighs]

Hmm.

♪ ♪

- [Diego] Mr. Capote?
- Hmm?

Your screwdriver, Mr. Capote.

[scoffs]

Thank you, Diego.

Oh, Babe, how come
I can't get the lighting

as soft as in your dining room
on the island?

[Babe] You need to find
these soft pink bulbs.

I use them in every lamp
everywhere now.

And they come in three
variations: 50, 100, 150...

C.Z., they make
such a difference.

[chuckles]
How are you doing, my darling?

Oh, you know,
actually, I'm good,

if you can be good
in this state.

Bill has actually become
a best friend to me.

He barely goes into the office
for more than a few hours a day.

He wants to be with me.

And he's insisted on being
at the treatments with me.

All of them.

[muffled chatter]

So this is a little bit what
peace looks like, I suppose.

But...

I really miss him.

Truman.

I wonder where he is today.

He loved being with us
on Thanksgiving.

He said it made him feel wanted.

Well, he must have wanted this.

To be cast out.

He must have wanted
to not be loved.

Oh, I don't think that's true.
I think he just misjudged the--

Extent to which we loved him.

You mean he thought
we loved him so much

- that we'd forgive him?
- No.

He misjudged exactly
how much we loved him

and how much he could hurt us.

Only real love can wound you
the way he did.

[John] Yeah, I'm moody,
Truman, 'cause I'm stuck

in this house,

at this rat f*ck of
a Thanksgiving dinner,

and g*dd*mn Mexican sh*t
all over the f*cking walls.

Oh, please,
you were dying there.

Enough of the sob story
about what you left

in that little ticky-tacky house
on Long Island.

That little box.

The only thing saving you were
your frequent trips to the baths

where you swung that enormous
horse cock of yours at anyone.

Oh, you should see it.
Why don't you show everyone?

It's more interesting than
anything that comes

out of your mouth.

Anyone, anyone he thought

might save him from
another trip back home

- on the Long Island--
- [bangs table]

No, don't talk about my family!

My mother loved Thanksgiving.

Don't talk to me about
your Thanksgiving.

It was our day.

And I wrote
the perfect expression of it.

I wrote
"A Thanksgiving Visitor,"

for God's sake.

How dare you mope on my day?

My favorite day!

It's, "Where's my daughter?"

- Don't, m*therf*cker!
-"Buy me a house."

- [grunting]
- [guests scream]

[Joanne]
No!

- Stop!
- [Roddy] Enough!

Enough, enough.

[clamoring]

Get the f*ck off me!

- Get the f*ck off me.
- [guests gasping]

- [Joanne] Are you okay?
- [Roddy] Truman,
are you all right?

Here. Here's some ice.

John, how could you?

On this day, of all days!

Oh, Truman, honey,
put some ice on it.

Ow.

Well, baby doll,

vodka stings more
than your fists, baby.

Yeah? [spits]

Oh. Get out!

Just get out!

What's wrong with him?

[winces]

Joanne, I'm gonna have to
get away from this man

or he's gonna k*ll me.

Oh, call a doctor.

[sobs]

[line ringing]

- [Babe] Hello?
- [Jack] Babe, don't hang up
on me, please.

I wasn't gonna call you again.

And don't imagine
that I enjoy pleading.

It's just it's not really,
uh, my nature.

There was some v*olence again
on Thanksgiving in L.A.

And then when they got back,
he put Truman in the hospital.

[Babe]
How bad is it?

[Jack] I just got him home
with a nurse.

How long is it gonna take
for him to get better?

He's pretty banged up.

He could have d*ed
this time, Babe.

[nurse] But he's not
in any pain right now.

He can't feel a thing.

[Jack]
Christ, do you want him to die?

Is that what you think
he actually deserves?

[Babe]
And you want me to lie

- and say, "I forgive you"?
- Well...

it needn't be a lie,
Babe, really.

That's up to you.

But you see, Jack, I don't.

I don't forgive him.

[line clicks]

[Bill]
Maybe you should go to him.

And have him be
my second husband again?

No. No, Bill.

I want what we have, you and I,
not what I had with him.

You think I don't miss it?

Well, it's gone.

And this is what is now.

♪ ♪