Albert snaps his briefcase closed.
TRUMAN
Anything we should be working on?
ALBERT
Practice walking without dragging your knuckles on the
floor.
He moves to leave, but Truman blocks his path.
TRUMAN
Albert, you make fun of everyone and everything and
then act like you deserve an award for it. That's just not
right. Get out of here before I do something I won't
regret. Again.
ALBERT
(smiles)
While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact of the
matter is I'm merely a naysayer and hatchet man in the
fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch
and would gladly take another because I choose to live
my life in the company of Ghandi and King. My
concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge,
aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a
method . . . is love. I love you, Sheriff Truman.
Albert leaves. Truman turns to Cooper. A beat.
COOPER
Albert's path is a strange and difficult one.
Well, I, for one, think I made a genuine attempt to talk things over with Andrea, but apparently, I'm always nasty.
My role in her not-so-rich inner fantasy life, I expect.
Michele? Michael? Either of you want to try talking to the woman? I'm not permitted to post comments there anymore.
The one was too much, apparently.
Unless you count the trackbacks, though I've never been fond of the whole interspersing those with comments thing my own self. That's why I'm not linking her again in this entry; there's a couple links to choose from here already, and I imagine she'd manage to interpret MT automagically adding a trackback as me violating her boundaries or somesuch hysterical nonsense.
And, um, could someone possibly mention to her the whole "boy" thing? At first, I though she was joking, but since my opinion of her intelligence has been drifting ever downwards, right now I'm honestly not sure if she is or not.
And yes, I could jump all over that "people like this" line.
I choose not to.
Well, damn if you don't want me to actually think this morning! I haven't had my second cup of coffee yet!
I'll have to chew on this one and get back to you (and maybe her if she's not too irrational) later this afternoon/evening.
You ahve just quoted one of my most favoritest moments of television, ever, hands down. Albert rocks. ONe of very few fictonal charactres I can think of who so totally hangs on the division between fightin' words and actual fightin'.
I can say one thing about her -- she's definitely bitter.
Some people; liberal, conservative or otherwise seem happy only when they can bitch at someone about every and anything. They don't live in the same time-zone as rationality.
Shrug it off and roll on...
See, I'd kind'a hoped that wasn't the case, that it was just an act.
Well, live and learn.
Garrity, think I'm gonna have to pull out those old Twin Peaks tapes. Unless there's something on broadcast tv these days of the same quality.
Yep. Tapes.
And maybe rent the latest Sex Feet Under set. Have you seen any of that?