Waking the Dead Page #2

This way, eventually...

I can make some real,

substantial changes...

without throwing away my life

on some ultimately meaningless gesture.

Sometimes meaningless gestures

are all we have.

You're very ambitious,

aren't you?

I'm afraid I am.

Be careful.

Ambition is...

the ice

on the lake of emotion.

Who said that?

I did.

Can I come up?

- Too fast.

- Oh, come on.

Can't we think of this

as a wartime romance?

Come on up, Fielding.

Oh, God.

Please don't let them

send you to Vietnam.

I'll be okay.

All right?

It's not that.

What?

If you go over...

you'll be getting shot at

by the people I want to win.

I don't want to have to choose

who to root for.

You still with us, Fielding?

I'm just thinking.

Do you realize what the governor

is offering here, Fielding?

It's a big jump from

the county prosecutor's office...

to the United States Congress.

What the hell are you

looking at out there?

He's thinking, Ed.

You don't want a snap decision,

do you?

I don't wanna spend all day

sitting here either.

Look, there's no problem.

Nothing to be scared of, kid.

You can't lose.

You know the last time a Democrat lost

a special election in this district?

Hell, I was still

going to high school.

What about Jerry Charmichael?

He hung himself.

One thing to be a fag, but he got caught

putting his boyfriend on the US payroll.

Anyway, he's announced his resignation.

That's his business.

Yours is:

Do you want this seat or not?

All right.

Now, tell me if there's

anything about you I don't know...

that maybe I ought to.

I never know

how to answer that.

- What the f*** are you playing with?

- Oh, come, come.

- He's kicking a gift horse in the nuts.

- He's a good kid.

Clean as a whistle.

Father's a union man.

All right.

I owe your friend Isaac.

I'll get you to Washington.

By the time you learn to find your ass

without using both hands...

it'll be time

for the regular election...

and if we ain't friends

by then...

that'll be that.

- I gotta go.

- Of course.

It'll all work out.

I'll have my people call you.

All those years.

I want a life

that makes sense.

You're my lover, Fielding.

I have one too.

Sometimes meaningless gestures

are all we have.

Sarah?

I want to apologize

to the people of my district.

I've let them down...

and that's something I'll have to

live with for the rest of my life.

I also want to apologize

to my wife Lorraine...

my two children...

Insiders say the man most likely

to fill the vacant seat...

is a 32-year-old attorney

from the DA's office...

Fielding Pierce,

a bachelor and political unknown.

Governor Kinosis

is expected to announce...

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