The Plot Against America (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

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The city of Newark
is maintaining its commitment
to the safety and the security
of all of its citizens.
I wouldn't be standing here
if that wasn't true.
What steps are you taking?
Well, there
Now, listen. There are
There's been no danger, no threats.
Nothing has actually been identified.
- None at all.
- Thank you.
However, the city is providing police
resources anyway, in an effort to
At least they showed up this time.
Yeah, that they did
For what it's worth.
You'd think with all the vandalism
in the last few months,
police might put a man on.
How many Jews on the Newark
Police Force, you figure?
That shouldn't be the point.
Look, look, look.
Yeah, well, I'll work with anybody
who knows who's responsible for this.
In my opinion, it's probably
a rowdy group of kids.
You know, hooligans.
Boys cutting class.
- There is no indication
- Thinking about leaving.
Leaving?
Canada.
Boys will be boys.
I got boys, 'kay?
This is what they're like.
This is really nothing
out of the ordinary.
I'm not lettin' them run me off.
Nah, this is my country.
Jew haters want a country,
they got plenty to choose from.
This one, they're not getting.
Fellow congregants,
I'd like to take a moment
and thank you all for your
unwavering support
as I embark on a new journey
on behalf of our community,
our people, and our country.
As you are all aware, I was of some
modest service to President Lindbergh
during the recent political campaign,
and that I expressed real support
for his heroic commitment
to keeping our country
out of any European war.
The president has now offered me
a new and unique opportunity,
and one that I know
will reflect well on all of us,
here at Temple B'nai Moshe.
I have been asked to initiate a new program,
which will further and better assimilate our people
into the fabric of America.
The program, which is one
of my own conception and design
is called Just Folks.
Here's to number four.
- Truce!
- Another, Billy Boy?
Ah, Jesus wept, Gloria.
I give up.
What is this swill?
- It's Appleton's.
- It tastes like your tea
- after we tossed it in the Boston Harbor.
- Yeah!
Oh, go on. Blame the taste
when it's clear she can drink
both of you colonials under this table.
June, we're Americans.
Dear boy, you swore to protect king and country,
so at worst, you're both technically Canadians.
Come on, let's exercise
that hollow leg of yours.
Whee!
Wait, we're going again?
Woo-hoo!
Come on.
Let's get another round.
How 'bout some fresh air?
- How 'bout a canoodle?
- Canoodle?
Mm-hm.
You people don't talk right.
- Rabbi.
- Yes.
- Such a kawved for you and the shul.
- Oh, thank you.
To think of the president calling on you.
Well, he's a wonderful man
and very gracious to me, so
I thank him.
This is my friend
I don't care how long he's been here,
- this is an embarrassment.
- Lower your voice.
Pompous ass thinks he's gonna
use Charles Lindbergh
to be a big man, but we're
the ones getting used.
Come on, Henry, keep up.
Do you have trouble going to sleep?
No.
So, staying asleep is the problem?
- Uh-huh.
- Mm-hm.
Is it usually the same nightmare,
always with the Nazis?
- Okay, kiddo.
- Get dressed.
Fit as a fiddle, physically.
- But these dreams
- Since the election,
all my Jewish kids are having
fight or flight dreams.
They're anxious.
It's because of us, isn't it?
What do you mean?
We're upset, and they feel it.
They're kids. They miss nothing,
but are we wrong to feel this way?
And are they?
You don't want to be going down there.
Farrier Street's safe. Go. Go.
Any word yet about a mission?
No, I think soon.
- I hope not.
- Hey Come on.
- It's what I signed up for.
- I know, but still.
You started your hand-to-hand
combat training?
- Last week.
- Splendid.
Come on, love. Down the tube.
Sometimes, you can be alone in a crowd.
Hey. Ma.
Hey, Ma.
You want I should fix us some tea?
Where did you go?
I was at work with the rabbi.
The rabbi?
Yeah, Rabbi Bengelsdorf.
There's a rabbi?
Yeah, you met him.
I'm his assistant.
We're seeing each other.
Remember?
What does Herman say?
- Herman
- Bess, does your husband know
you're with another man?
No, Ma Ma, Bess isn't here.
I'm Evelyn.
Evelyn. Ev.
Yeah.
Bess?
Ma.
I'm Evelyn. I'm Evelyn.
Evelyn?
Evelyn is out with a boy.
He's a rabbi.
Your sister here yet?
She's outside with Sandy.
Phillip's in his room with his stamps.
Mm.
Ev says Mom's getting worse.
I'm sorry.
How was the doctor with Phillip?
Not surprised.
He's seeing it with all the Jewish kids.
It's that bastard Lindbergh.
Herman.
We have to be careful
not to show the boys too much.
Phillip, especially, is aware
of everything we say and do,
and he carries it around.
This is the world now.
He's gonna hear about it
from his friends, from everywhere.
We have to try.
I like what you've done with the place.
I've been busy living.
Before the war, every day
was the same, wasn't it?
Now, it's like we're living
on the edge of a knife.
It's crazy.
It's wonderful.
You think it's wrong to be caught up
in the thrill of the war?
Helluva thing.
Spittin' at death.
That's it, isn't it?
You spit at death,
and you make life worth living.
Yeah, maybe.
So, uh, what exactly do you do
at the Admiralty?
You never said.
Oh, really?
So, you're one of these hush-hush types
running this whole war?
You're looking at a signatory
of the Official Secrets Act.
Though I suppose I could tell a Yank a bit.
Why? You heard Lindbergh was strictly neutral.
Well, you aren't.
You're over here.
It's different for me.
I'm a Jew.
You didn't know?
From your name, sure.
I guess I just didn't think
about it very much.
You don't seem so different.
I mean, to say,
you believe in more or less
the same stuff as anybody else,
God and all that.
- I don't believe in God.
- Then why be Jewish?
You make it sound like a choice.
Isn't it in a way?
I believe in my father
who was a Jew.
And then his father, a Jew.
And his father and his father
and all the way back
to whatever the hell tribe
was wandering around the desert
when someone had the bright idea
to trim off the end of his prick.
- So, it's about family?
- No, it's more than that.
I'm a Jew because I was born a Jew,
and this whole fucking world
wishes I wasn't.
They want us gone. All of us.
And they drive themselves crazy
because after all this time,
they still can't get rid of us.
- That's it?
- Yeah, that's it.
I'm not over here because I'm an American.
Shit, my country's gone to hell.
I'm here to settle an old score.
Must be hard to be something out of spite.
- It's not the best reason.
- Oh, yeah?
It'll do.
Yeah, but, uh, what's dropping it off?
No, you can't do that.
You can't put one on top of the other.
It's not how much you can carry,
it's about the bruising.
But then we can get more done.
- Saul. My brother around?
- He's in the office.
Don't leave the dolly there.
I stopped by to tell you
they didn't mess with Jack's stone.
Oh, you didn't hear?
Hear what?
The goons came back
to Orange Avenue last night,
ran through the cemetery.
They left swastikas and curses
on whatever they couldn't knock over.
Again, fucking Lindbergh
and his goddamn America Firsters.
These assholes
you know, they've always been here,
but now, it's like they have
permission to crawl out
from under the rocks.
I'm glad we're on the same page with that.
'Cause there is something
I'd like you to do.
Oh, what, are you shakin' a can?
No. I want you and your merchants' group
to go and lean on our deadbeat
police commissioner
to do something.
Ah. What does that dumb mick care what the
The Jewish Merchants Association thinks?
Go talk to the mayor, then.
- Oh, please.
- You guys kicked in your share
when he ran for reelection.
So now, money has its uses?
Huh, boychik? Mm-hm.
Whatever happened
to my hothead, Debs-loving kid brother?
I never said money didn't matter.
I just object to it mattering above all else.
Ir'rah mishpucha. For you, my little socialist,
the bourgeois Jew peddlers
will do what needs to be done.
I'm as capitalist as you are.
Yeah.
I didn't vote for Eugene Debs.
You voted for Roosevelt twice.
That's enough so I don't disown you.
So, what's it all about?
Well, the whole purpose
of the program is to encourage
America's minorities to further
integrate into larger society.
And because it was
Rabbi Bengelsdorf's idea,
they made him director
of the New Jersey office,
and they put the pilot program
right here in Newark.
The president thinks so highly of Lionel
that he's gonna send his name to Congress,
and he's gonna run the whole thing nationally.
- How does it work?
- Oh, it Come here. Come here.
It's wonderful.
It's designed for city boys 12 to 18
to go spend a summer with a farm family.
Would I be able to draw
the animals and barns and stuff?
Of course. If you sign up.
To be honest, Sandy
I have been saving this one especially for you.
A wonderful family in Kentucky, the Mawhinneys,
with a boy, Orin, your age,
and they have all kinds of animals.
You really wanna do this, don't you?
You think Dad'll let me?
We'll see.
Evelyn, I need you to Oh.
You must be Evelyn's nephew.
- You ride horses.
- Excuse me?
Why, yes, I do.
I saw you by the old orphanage.
I I drew a picture of you and your horse.
Ah. Yes.
Your aunt tells me you are quite
the budding young artist.
So, you saw me riding Soos?
- Zeus?
- Soos.
S-O-O-S. Hebrew for "horse."
I'm a rabbi who rides a horse.
Imagine that.
My family is from South Carolina and in the South,
many young boys learn how to ride.
Speaking of which, Lionel,
Sandy here wants to sign up for Just Folks.
I don't doubt it.
You're gonna have a great,
and I might add, unique experience.
The world is more than New Jersey.
Yes, sir.
German tank columns
roll across the Russian steppes
toward Kiev and Moscow,
with Leningrad already preparing defenses.
Citizens are being mobilized
to line the city's perimeter
with open trenches, timber barricades,
wire entanglements
From everything on the radio,
it seems like they're falling
apart just like the French.
Yeah. It's not good.
With this action, Adolf Hitler
has established himself
as the world's greatest safeguard
against the spread of communism and its evil.
If the German army is successful
in its struggle against Soviet Bolshevism,
and there's every reason to believe it will be,
America will never have to face the threat
of a voracious communist state
imposing its pernicious system
- on our world.
- As opposed to the Nazi system.
Lying son of a bitch bastard.
Well, they played the same card with Spain.
You don't stand with the fascists,
and you're a red.
Meanwhile, to the west,
England fights alone
with its forced allied with the Greek army
battling the Nazis on the island of Crete.
And here, we see victorious Tommy commandos
returning from Operation Claymore,
where they captured or killed 200 Germans
and burned military stores and installations.
Meet Fritz, lads.
You've spent hours perfecting this maneuver,
but how many of you have had
the occasion to cut a throat?
It's not as easy as one might expect,
especially when one is tasked with
doing the deed in absolute silence.
And there's the no small matter
of all that blood to contend with.
So, today, gentlemen, another method.
One that I favor.
Notice it has three knots, one on either end
and one in the middle.
Why are the knots on either end?
Stay with it!
- Levin.
- So the rope won't slip through your hands.
Precisely.
The knee in the lower back is very important.
Provides the necessary fulcrum
for the snapping motion
that crushes the windpipe,
silences the vocal cords.
- Shall we give it a try?
- Line up!
How'd you know about the knots?
Motherfucker, I'm from Jersey.
That was a good meal, Mom.
Why, thank you.
Dad, could you sign this?
It's for a summer program.
Where did you get this?
Aunt Evelyn.
She's picked out a farm
in Kentucky for me to go to.
There's a boy my age. Orin.
Sandy.
Your sister is really working
on this crap with Bengelsdorf?
I thought you were gonna talk sense into her.
She shouldn't be anywhere near that man.
Office of American Absorption.
So, we need to be absorbed, do we?
We're not American enough yet?
Living on Summit Avenue in the city of Newark
in the state of New Jersey.
I'm not American enough?
Or your mother or you?
Or your brother?
This is just a great opportunity and that's all.
It is nothing to do with anti-Semitism,
- if that's what you think.
- It doesn't?
This is just a great opportunity.
I wanna go to Kentucky
and I wanna live on a farm
and I want to draw those things
in those places.
They're not sending you to draw.
Don't you understand, Sandy?
This is what Nazis do
with their Hitler Youth ideas.
They turn children against their parents.
You're not going.
You're scared of anything you don't know.
And you're scared of anywhere you haven't been
or anyone who isn't Jewish!
Is that what you think?
Hey!
Herman, stop! Herman!
Stop.
This is not helping him,
and it's not helping you.
Just stop.
I got it. I got it.
It's been a long time since
Yes.
Only my wife and
after her
I understand.
I hope that, uh
It's like riding a bicycle.
I don't know how to ride a bicycle.
She's his mistress, isn't she?
Mistress? He's a widower.
Bess.
At ease.
Okay, uh I know what this is.
It's the form that gives you
the right to kill me
if I open my mouth
about what he's gonna tell me.
Be assured, Private Levin,
the Secrets Act is not taken lightly.
If there are no more formalities
So, what are you sellin'?
You are aware of radar?
It's what we use on the coast
to track the German bombers, right?
We're also working on
an offshoot of radar technology:
pulsed navigation.
Can either of you make heads
or tails of that schematic?
Speak freely.
Uh I'm just
spitballin' from the diagram, but you
you put an electric beam or, uh a beacon
on a plane and it sends pulses.
Triangulate the pulses with ground units,
and you can locate planes.
Is that correct?
Quick studies, both of you.
Can I ask where you acquired
a healthy understanding of electronics?
- University of Warwick, sir.
- Irv Simkowitz's garage, sir.
Well, in any event,
your unit may soon be targeting
a facility where the Germans
are employing some version
of pulsed navigation of their own.
If so, we'd like to acquire it,
and of course,
that requires someone in your unit to know
what the components look like
and how they operate.
Uh, Hastings, sir, has been to college
and he knows a lot more
about this than me already.
We've nominated you both
on the good chance
that one of you gets killed
on the way in or out.
I signed on to kill Krauts,
not to rummage around machine parts.
Levin, if it's any solace,
I imagine you'll get some modest chance
to kill Germans just getting there and back.
Now, may we proceed?
Sandy, wait.
I'll be on the steps.
Do you wanna look at this house
on Chancellor today?
I have an errand after work.
Maybe tomorrow then.
Herman.
He'll get over it, Bess.
Just be gentle with him.
I'm gentle with everyone.
Watch me tonight at dinner with your sister.
I'll be the goddamn picture of calm.
in Washington.
President Lindbergh has left the country.
White House officials confirm
he's flying abroad
on a diplomatic mission
to an unnamed destination.
Of course, we can't be sure
what the German components
will look like, but the basic principles
are likely to be the same.
For you to know what you're looking for,
it's best if you know how it works.
Show them, sergeant.
All right, see the echo there
on the scope. You see it?
That's what you call in.
Admissible immigrants can be
American or British subjects,
however, you need to demonstrate
enough capital to maintain
a family or be an agriculturist
of sufficient means.
Your husband is not a farmer,
and you haven't amassed
sufficient capital to qualify.
Absent those economic preconditions or
any other familial connection
to the Dominion of Canada,
I'm not sure what I can say.
Familial connection?
That to June?
What'd you write?
Fuck you, Murphy.
It's just I wanna write
a letter to Gloria, you know.
In case.
And Jews are good with words.
Damn, brother.
You send this to me, and I'll marry you.
Wrap it up.
Complete the check of all gear
and leave last letters in your foot lockers.
The BBC has verified reports
that the American president
traveled to Iceland,
for a secret meeting
with Adolf Hitler and his
That son of a bitch.
Now, it's all out in the open.
What a What a betrayal.
Isn't that something?
To see the American president
shaking hands with Hitler
like he's any other fella?
Yes. It's something.
The Iceland Understanding
promises strict neutrality.
We just cut the British dead,
just like we did in Spain.
They're all alone. Just waiting
for the Germans to invade.
- Congress won't stand for it.
- Oh, won't they?
We don't have enough Democrats
left after the landslide.
Canada.
Before it's too late, Herman.
Oh, no, Phillip.
Um It's Shabbas.
We're eating in the dining room tonight.
In fact, can you go downstairs
and look on the inside line
to see if the good tablecloth is dry?
Use the towel, Martin.
You don't want to bleed on the bed sheet.
Is it okay if I go outside
and play if I'm finished eating?
If you finished your homework,
you can, but stay on Summit.
Don't go wandering off
with bedtime coming.
And say goodbye to your aunt, please.
- Bye, Aunt Evelyn.
- Bye, sweetie.
What are you doing?
- I thought Sandy would be here.
- I gotta go to bed soon.
- How soon?
- He's having dinner at a friend's house.
They had a school project.
Let's play over there until
- your mom says it's bedtime.
- Okay.
- Let's go, come on!
- Okay, coming!
Well in any event,
you know I spoke to him about Kentucky.
Why would I send my son
to another family for the summer?
Herman
What are you worried could
possibly happen on a farm?
- We know you meant to
- After seeing our president
shake hands with Adolf Hitler,
it's only natural for every Jewish father
to be concerned that this Just Folks program
is the first step in his plan
to come between Jewish children
and their families.
That's ridiculous!
Do you think Rabbi Bengelsdorf
would be part of any such thing?
I think that man
would sell every last Israelite
back to Pharaoh.
You're just afraid that Sandy
might escape winding up
as narrow minded and frightened as you.
That's a terrible thing to say.
- We have good reason
- It's okay, Bess.
Your sister is entitled to her opinion.
So, this isn't about making Jews less Jewish?
It's just about introducing city kids
to the wonders of real American life.
I'll tell you what, Evelyn, let's make a deal.
When the Just Folks program
sends the first Negro child
from Newark to summer with a white farm family,
I'll let Sandy go to Kentucky.
Bess.
See? That one's a leaner.
That's good?
You want to be closest to the wall,
and a leaner's as close as you can get, right?
Throw a card.
Kinda. But make it spin.
Seldon, is your dad doing any better?
I spin it like this?
Yeah.
Is your dad okay?
He coughs a lot.
Isn't that better?
That's a good one.
Hurry up, David.
You'll miss the bus.
That house on Bayview sold
in only three weeks.
There's three single-dwelling
listings in the neighborhood
with four bedrooms and two baths.
Why don't we take a look?
The Bayview house was newly conditioned,
but sold for 500 less than the asking price.
This house on Field Place,
that's the Kalmanowsky house.
I worked on the PTA with Rebecca.
I spoke with her Thursday.
They're selling to build up
capital to move to Canada.
So are the Silvermans.
This is not the time to buy, Herman.
I went into New York
to the Canadian consulate there.
- Bess.
- We are now on the preferred immigration list,
thanks to Alvin being in the Canadian army.
I'm not leaving, Bess.
Maybe it's too early to leave,
but it's not too early
to have a backup plan.
When school finishes,
instead of taking the boys to Washington,
why don't we drive up along
the lake and see Toronto?
We can get a sense of things.
See how it feels.
We've been planning and saving
for a Washington trip since last year.
The hotel is reserved.
We showed the boys the brochures, the monuments.
Herman
Just think about it, please.
There's a Statue of Freedom
on top of the dome.
I have a stamp of it.
Sandy, what do you want to see first?
I think I missed our turn.
I don't know.
Oh!
What's going on, Jersey?
We're looking for our hotel.
What's it called again, Bess?
- Um
- Speak up, miss.
- I
- Uh
The Douglas Hotel. K Street.
Thattaboy. Follow me, Jersey.
Thank you.
Hey. Hey! Stop.
We're getting the royal treatment.
But how do you know
where he's taking us, Herman?
- Where are we going?
- Bess.
We're going to our hotel.
Bess, he's taking us to our hotel.
What's wrong?
Nothing.
Nothing, forgive me.
Our car has arrived.
Was that painted in Charleston?
Yes, it was a wedding gift
from my parents.
Uh, that one over here, please.
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This is for you.
Thank you, sir.
Please enjoy your stay.
Herman, where'd you put the brochure?
Uh, should be in your bag.
Phillip. Pajamas, right now.
Mom.
There are four of these little soaps.
- One for each of us.
- That's swell,
but we have a big day tomorrow.
You need to be in bed.
Your wife was beautiful.
The portrait.
For a cleric, I seem to have
an eye for that sort of thing.
There's Ford.
- That's Henry Ford?
- Mm-hm.
As Secretary of the Interior,
he will be introducing me.
He hates Jews. Everyone knows it.
He does. And yet, he will be
entirely polite when you meet him.
Do you know why?
Because you have the president's ear.
And the president is not,
despite what others say,
a Jew hater.
So, Mr. Ford will behave.
A moment or two, please.
I know that in these sort
of things, it may say
the wrong thing to not start anew,
to have this be a memory
or keepsake of another woman.
I told myself a few times
that it wasn't fair of me
to try to connect my past to your present.
Oh, Lionel
Please, Evelyn, I thought about
what I wanted to say to you.
See, the truth is, I loved my wife,
and now, very quickly,
I find that I love you in the same way.
So, I can think of nothing
that meant more to me than
giving you this,
which was hers, and
now, if you will take it
entirely yours.
Put it on.
Good.
Flash: Washington.
It seems our president's embargo on all material
to warring nations has a loophole
that allows US Interior Secretary
and raving Jew-baiter Henry Ford,
along with other rogue industrialists
to quietly sell petroleum, vehicles,
and even munitions to the Nazis.
So, Mr. and Mrs. America,
those bombs falling in London
are stamped "Made in the US of A."
Flash: Montana. By next week,
this reporter will have the list of sites under
consideration for what my sources call relocation camps
in the event of any so-called national emergency,
sites mainly located in Montana,
home state of Lindbergh's Vice President,
suck-up Democrat, Burton K. Wheeler.
That's right, Mr. and Mrs. America,
there are plans for concentration camps
in the Land of the Free.
But that's it for now
from the editorial room of the Jergens Journal
and yours truly, Walter Winchell.
Son of a bitch isn't just in bed with Hitler.
Charlie Lindbergh wants to be
another little Hitler himself.
All out.
Think of it as another training mission.
With live fire.
Re-check the gear.
What are you most looking forward to seeing?
The Washington Monument.
The name's Taylor, folks.
I'm a professional guide to the capital.
I'll drive for ya, take you to the sites,
tell you all there is to know.
And I'll make sure you eat
where the price is right
and the food is good.
All it'll cost you,
using your own automobile,
is just nine dollars a day.
Here's my license.
Uh
Looks good to me, sir, but
I don't think nine bucks a day
is in the cards.
Not for this family.
I appreciate that, but on your own, sir,
you doing the driving
and not knowing your way and
well, trying to find parking
and a good meal?
Sir, you and your family
won't see half of what you will with me.
Let me take this up with the wife.
I don't know. Who sent him?
How did he spot our car?
Jersey tags, parked outside of a hotel.
It's his job to find tourists.
- Taylor, you said it was?
- Yes, sir.
Name's Levin.
Nine dollars for today will be fine, but
- In you go.
- we'll see how you do
before deciding on tomorrow.
That's perfectly acceptable to me.
Should we begin with a short drive
I thought it might be France.
Fuck it. Nazis wherever we go.
You want to save the Lincoln Memorial
for tomorrow?
It's not like you all
haven't seen your fill today.
Jefferson Memorial, Capitol dome,
Archives, Washington Monument.
We're here now.
And it will be beautiful at night.
I'm just glad we took
the elevator and not the stairs
at the Washington Monument.
I can only agree with you, ma'am.
And the monument was cleaned a few years back.
Took five months and 100,000 dollars.
- Under FDR?
- Yes, it was.
And do people care? No.
They want an airmail pilot for their president.
Hannah, come on!
We're going for ice cream!
- Marjorie.
- Boys.
- Yeah?
- Yes, Mr. Taylor?
This is the eastern facade
You've got to stop talking like that.
It's just expressing my opinion.
We do not know who this man is.
He's an authorized guide
with the documents to prove it.
We're not in Berlin.
Now, up at the top of the Memorial,
you boys will see the 36 states
preserved in the Union.
When you think of what this country does
- to its greatest presidents
- Herman, please don't start.
I'm not starting anything.
This was a great tragedy.
Isn't that right, boys?
I was just saying, Mr. Taylor,
it is the damnedest thing
what this country does to its great men.
Well, thank goodness for Lindbergh.
Compare Lincoln to Lindbergh?
Something bothering you about
what the lady just said?
Loudmouth Jew.
Now, boys. The original plans
indicated this entrance
was to be covered by a
Let's go over here and see
his most famous speech
chiseled in marble.
To hear those words, here,
in a shrine to a man like this.
Only 272 words in the address
Lincoln made at Gettysburg.
Think you'd hear that
if Roosevelt was president?
People wouldn't dare.
Read that, Phillip.
"All men are created equal."
It's plain as day.
Herman, I can't go on like this.
Last rites?
No, communion. A mass.
Last rites is when you think you bought it.
Don't, uh, Jews have a prayer they say
if they think they're gonna die?
Uh, the Sh'ma, yeah.
What's it say?
It says, uh
"God, you kidding me? Come on,
stop busting balls already."
Amen.
What's our luggage doing here?
Folks, I should apologize.
I packed these for you
as our clerk made a mistake.
The room that he gave you
was reserved for another family.
What?
My My wife wrote you people.
You You wrote us back,
we we had a reservation months ago.
Sir, the room is taken
and there are no vacancies.
Here is your deposit.
Uh, wait a minute.
We will not charge you
for your night in the room
or for a bar of soap that is missing.
Missing? A soap bar?
- Are you saying we stole it?
- No, sir.
I wouldn't haggle about something so small.
What the hell are you talking about?
Mr. Levin, if you are going
to make a scene
Yes, I'm going to make a scene
till I find out what's going on.
Then I have no choice
but to phone the police.
Shall I call the police, sir?
Or will you take your bags
and your family and leave immediately?
Call the police.
Mr. Levin, you are perfectly in the right,
but the police are not the solution here.
Yes, they are.
Herman.
Herman, it's over.
Mr. Taylor is taking our bags to the car.
Yes, operator, I need the police, please.
Yes, we're having trouble with a man here.
No, he is not a guest.
Officer, you had no right
to remove me from that hotel
where we had a reservation and a room.
Look, the manager already
returned your deposit.
He even packed up your belongings for you.
Because we're Jewish.
That's what this is about.
Herman, let's just go.
Mr. Taylor has found us a room nearby.
No. This officer knows why we were evicted.
He knows, the manger knows.
I think you ought to listen to your wife
Levin.
Leave the premises
before you wear out my patience.
"Loudmouth Jew."
I gotta tell ya, Mr. Taylor,
yesterday was a shock.
You listen to Winchell, Mr. Taylor?
On the radio the other night, he was asking
what else Hitler and Lindbergh agreed to in Iceland.
Did they reach an understanding on America's Jews?
And if so, what was it?
Hey, what's doin'?
Back up, will ya?
Do we have a problem?
Winchell's a Jew paid for by the British,
so if there ever was a loudmouth Jew
- That is enough.
- Hey! Hey!
This ain't a corner saloon,
mister, and don't forget it.
I want you folks to fill your coffee cups
as much as you like, and, um
And let the boys come
to the counter for some more ice cream. Okay?
That's very kind of you.
Thank you.
- Herman, let's just go.
- Absolutely not.
We are finishing our food.
And you, Mr. Taylor, more coffee?
No, I'm fine.
So, Mr. Taylor,
what kind of job did you do before this one?
Don't you worry. The Jews
will find out soon enough.
I was asking Mr. Taylor
what kind of work he did
before becoming a guide.
Keep eating your ice cream, boys.
Is it good?
You've apparently got more of it coming.
I was a college teacher.
I should have known. What college?
Uh, Wabash.
I'm from Indiana originally.
Ah, Wabash.
Everybody has heard of that.
I'm not so sure they have, Mr. Levin.
Isn't there a song about the Wabash River?
Oh, sure. I know that one. Uh
Good. That's very good.
My husband has a lovely singing voice.
There will be no encore.
Boychik
I'm thinking of letting you
go do Just Folks in Kentucky.
What? Why?
Well, if Kentucky is anything
like Washington, DC,
you'll probably meet some lousy people.
But if it's anything like Indiana,
you'll probably meet some
good ones like Mr. Taylor here.
But either way,
it will be for you to find out.
Now, you and your brother
go get that extra ice cream,
and uh pick out a sandwich for the road,
have them bag it up.
It's a long trip home.
Thank you for an excellent tour, Mr. Taylor.
Honored, Mr. Levin.
Now boarding on track two.
Now boarding on track two.
Train 64, The Jeffersonian.
It's gonna be an eye-opening
experience, you'll see.
Hope so, Evelyn.
- I hope so.
- Sandy.
Goodbye, Sandy!
- Bye, Mom.
- Have fun!
I will.
How's that? Now, let me know
if it's too tight.
That's fine.
You might prefer to look away.