Promise (1986 TV Movie)

James Garner: Bob Beuhler

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• Bob Beuhler : D.J.

  D.J. : Hi, Bobby.

  Bob Beuhler : How do you feel?

  D.J. : I'm feeling better.

  Bob Beuhler : Good. The doctor said you were.

  D.J. : I could hear you trying to help me. I wanted you to say I'm sorry...

  Bob Beuhler : No.

  D.J. : But I couldn't.

  Bob Beuhler : It's my fault too.

  D.J. : Yes, it is. Because you don't what it's like.

  Bob Beuhler : I guess I don't.

  D.J. : Do you wanna know what it's like, Bobby?

  Bob Beuhler : Sure.

  D.J. : It's like all the electric wires in the house are plugged into my brain and everyone has a different noise so I can't think. Some of the wires have voices in them and they tell me things like what to do and that people are watching me. I know there really aren't any voices but I feel that there are, that I should listen to them or something will happen. That's why I sat for all the ads on TV because I feel the voice and the ad is talking to me. I hear them talking to me. He tells me to buy the things and well I'm afraid if I don't. I see things in the crowd, I see people looking at me and talking, I hear them talking about me and sometimes I hear them planning to kill me. I don't want to. I want to be like everybody else. I want to be like you, Bobby. I remember when it was like before. I was a class officer, I had friends. I was going to be an aeronautical engineer. You remember, Bobby? Do you remember me?

  Bob Beuhler : Of course I do.

  D.J. : I've never had a job. I've never owned a car. I've never lived alone. I've never made love to a woman. And I never will. That's what it's like. You should know. That's why I'm Hindu because maybe it's true. Maybe people are born again and if there is a God, maybe he'll give me another chance, I believe that. Because this can't be all I got.