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It's not like you had anything

to prove to any of us,

you're an exceptional

journalist.

It just bewilders me.

We'll have to be open with

our readers about this, Mike,

which is no small embarrassment.

Explain what you've done.

Do you know what that means

for those poor kids?

For the support your article

gave them, for their futures?

For your future?

What the f*** were you thinking?

Okay, that's enough, Karen.

All right.

I can, um, write a retraction,

if that's what you want.

That's what I can do.

I can go... I'll go right now.

I'll go and I'll

just write you a retraction,

if that's what you want, okay?

Just, can you not print

the apology?

If you print the apology,

no one will touch me.

Can you just...

Can you do that?

Can you just not print

the apology?

Just that, please?

You have a great future

ahead of you, Mike.

But not here.

Ladies and gentlemen,

this is your captain speaking.

We're about to begin our descent

into Bozeman, Montana.

For those of you returning,

we would like to

welcome you home.

For those passengers visiting

Montana for the first time...

I can be working again

by summer.

If I can find something good.

I can ask the university

for a raise,

or take on some

high school teaching.

No, I'll make some calls.

It'll be nice to have you

back for a while.

Tonya, it's Mike.

Finkel. Yeah.

I know, it's been a long time.

Anyway, listen,

I have this great idea.

It's a snowboarding piece.

I'm going to shoot with

my war photographer, Chris,

okay, so it's going

to look like...

But this is...

This is winter sports.

This doesn't have anything

to do with what happened.

Hi, Ed, it's Mike Finkel.

Since the A.P. awards dinner,

yes.

So, listen, Ed,

I have this thing

I've been working up

on black ops in the Marine

Corps from my war days.

And it feels like a GQ piece.

Right, but none of my other

work has any suspicion.

How long have

we known each other?

Don't make me beg here.

Right, but it's 11:30.

I know he can't

be at lunch because

Playboy doesn't even

open until 11:
00.

I understand.

Okay.

Hey.

Hang on, hang on.

Here.

Hey, it's okay.

It's okay. It's okay.

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

Hello?

Hi, my name is Pat Frato.

I'm a reporter with

The Oregonian.

I'm sure you're buried

in all this by now,

but I wanted to get your side

on the Christian Longo story.

Who?

Christian Longo?

The child killer?

He murdered his entire

family out here in Newport.

You must know about him.

They finally took him down

in Cancun last week.

You hadn't heard?

No. Why are you

telling me this?

Because when

they apprehended him,

he said he was Mike Finkel,

of The New York Times.

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