Doc Hollywood Page #4

Look, I'll make it worth your while,

all right?

I get back to L.A.,

maybe we can work something out.

Why on earth would I want to do that?

How am I gonna convince you

to stay here if you're not here?

We need a doctor. You need patients.

Get off the interstate, Ben Stone!

Right? Huh?...

Now don't let the signs of prosperity and

urban sprawl here in downtown scare you.

We're still the same sleepy little paradise

that many big-city shrinks recommend for..

.. their patients with nervous disorders.

It's the calming effect of

Grady's natural ozones.

In fact, there's a world-class

mental hospital just up the road a ways.

That's a comforting thought.

Ben Stone. do you like coffee?

Do you like coffee? We won't go in here.

Is that him?

That's him.

He's young, huh?

Boys, this here is Ben Stone,

.. a Hollywood physician who's gonna

spend a couple few days with us.

Ben, this here is, Mortimer, John, Audrey.

Probably don't want to shake his hand.

Sorty over in the corner, there.

Sorty got a cow that sings.

'Course you remember Cotton, Miss Lillian.

Hi.

Hollywood. La-la-Land.

Beverly Hills, actually.

Hmm, whatever.

Well, William's been a movie star.

Oh Audrey.

It was just an Army training film.

Oh, come now, you were the star.

You played the leading role.

It was about V.D. I was the bacteria.

Had a big scene with penicillin.

Mmm, yes. A death scene.

Take a load off, Doctor.

This'll stop your worries.

Or start 'em.

So, Doc, what do you think of our town?

I don't know. I haven't seen all of it yet.

Oh yeah, you have.

Opportunity abounds here.

Yeah, the growth rate was up

point three percent last year.

There's no crime.

By the way, we are the county seat.

Fellas, fellas, no point in beating a dead

horse to death. That's all in the brochure.

Ben Stone.

We are prepared to offer you..

.. a permanent position as medical

practitioner supreme here..

.. in the greater Grady metropolitan area

and Squash capital of the South.

The salary's twenty-seven thousand dollars

per annum, and plus housing.

Twenty-seven thousand?

There, you see, Nick, I told you...

Hold on, ho... thirty thousand.

Look, you people don't even know me.

Well, I noticed right off that

he double knots his shoelaces.

Oh, excellent credentials.

Shows he's careful.

Anyway. don't you already have a doctor?

Oh, yeah, yeah. We got Hogue.

See, the problem with Hogue is that...

He's old.

Old and wholly unpleasant.

Point is, he's not going to be

around forever. Thirty-five thousand?

Well, yeah, but that'd take a unanimous

vote of the whole entire city council.

All in favor say "aye. "

Aye.

Unanimous.

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