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Forget about it?

I got nothing else to do!

There's this thing

we got going down the road.

There might be something

in it good for you.

You got a script?

Yeah. I don't want to hear

about the quality, though...

'cause it's total sh*t.

Eddie, try not to get

too f***ed up.

One of us has that meeting

in less than two hours.

This is total sh*t, huh?

Total.

But there might be

something in it for me?

Where you going?

I'm gonna go read it

and pass out. I'm beat.

It's been one exhausting thing

I went through today.

Valium's by the bed.

Do you realize you're toking up

at 8:
58 in the morning...

on top of the sh*t

you already put up your nose?

You're going to show up to work

with a radish for a face.

You're going to show up there

talking like a fish.

You don't have to worry

about me.

What kind of tone is that?

That's my tone.

Yeah, but what does it mean?

My tone. What does my tone mean?

I don't have to interpret

my f***ing tone for you.

I don't know what it means.

OK. Well, just don't get

clandestine on me.

That's all I'm saying.

Well, there's just not a lot

of dynamite ladies out there...

anywhere you look, Mickey,

as we both know.

Hey, Eddie, we hit it off,

you know?

I mean, I asked you.

Absolutely.

I'm not claiming

any reprehensible behavior...

on anybody's part.

We're all sophisticated people.

Darlene and I certainly

had no exclusive commitment...

to each other of any kind.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

There's no confusion here.

Just have a little empathy,

for Christ's sake.

I mean, I bring home

this very special lady...

to my house to meet

my best friend and roommate.

Why do we have

to go through this?

I'm just trying to tell a story.

Nobody's to blame.

Certainly not you.

You came to me.

You'd experienced these vibes...

between you and Darlene,

isn't that what you said?

Couldn't you have said no?

Couldn't you have

categorically said no?

But you said, Eddie, you said...

"Everybody's free, Mickey."

That is what you said.

Look, I just want to verify

for you, Mickey...

everybody is free!

So, what's this, then?

You mean this conversation?

This is just me

trying to maintain...

a viable relationship

with reality.

OK? I want to make sure

I haven't drifted off...

into some solitary, paranoid

fantasy system...

of my own totally unfounded

and idiosyncratic invention.

I want to be in reality.

You want me to be in reality?

Personally, I want us both

to be in reality. Come on!

Absolutely. That's what I want.

I want us both to be in reality.

Absolutely.

Generals.

Casting.

So, you cover the generals,

I'll take this Turner meeting?

Or you take the meeting,

I'll do the generals.

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