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Like, uh, Viennese kinda, um...

- ...chairs and stuff.

- (PHONE RINGS)

Like, you know,

like curlicue leg things.

Yeah?

That is correct. An Edward Morra.

He's here.

Victim's sister.

EDDIE:
I hadn't heard her voice

in ten years.

MELISSA:
Eddie?

- Melissa?

MELISSA:
You were there?

- Um...

Just before. I had run into him

on the street and, uh... yeah.

MELISSA:
Oh, God.

I wish I was more surprised.

He was involved in some stuff.

I'd better not say any more.

No, no, that's probably a good idea.

So, uh... We should probably, uh,

meet or something, right?

MELISSA:
No, I gotta do the funeral

and God knows what else. I just...

We can't meet, OK?

Right. Well, I'll just... I guess I'll

just see you at the funeral then.

MELISSA:
No. I don't want that. Please

don't. I'll call you at some point, OK?

- When this is over.

- OK, all right.

MELISSA:
OK.

(DIAL TONE)

You know, something doesn't get here.

Write down your number.

I may need to contact you later.

(SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE)

EDDIE:
Worth the risk?

What would you do?

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

EDDIE:
Vern's cash, combined with

an unprecedented surge of motivation,

enabled me to finish the book

in four days.

A tablet a day

and what I could do

with my day was limitless.

(PIANO PLAYING)

EDDIE:
I learned to play

the piano in three days.

(PLAYING CLASSICAL MUSIC)

EDDIE:
Math became useful.

And fun.

EDDIE:
I'm all in.

(GROANING)

(FOREIGN LANGUAGE

PLAYING ON HEADPHONES)

EDDIE:
Even half-listening

to any language, I became fluent.

- (HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYS)

- (SPEAKING FRENCH)

So that Shakespeare's catchiness

belies mediocrity?

There's no arguing with you.

EDDIE:
This was great.

So, Mom, I've been doing a little

research on Aunt Helen's tumor.

And it's totally clear that anybody with

familial adenomatous polyposis

should be supplementing

platinum-based doublet regiments

with eicosapentaeonic acid.

EDDIE:
I suddenly knew everything.

About everything.

Well, sure, you get a short-term spike,

but wouldn't that rapid expansion

devalue that stock completely

in two years?

- No, because there are safeguards.

- Against aggressive over-expansion?

There aren't. Because there are

no safeguards in human nature.

We're wired to overreach.

Look at history, all the countries

that ever ruled the world.

Portugal with this big massive navy.

All they got now are salt cod

and cheap condoms.

- And the Brits?

- (LAUGHTER)

Now they're just sitting on a dank

little island fussing over their suits.

No one's stopping and thinking,

"Hey, we're doing pretty well.

We got France, we got Poland,

we got a big Swiss bank account.

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