Mousehunt1997

[In Rudolf Smuntz' flashback]

Rudolf:
My sons...

[Lars whispers] Ernie. Ernie!

[Ernie is reading a magazine] Yeah, just a sec.

Rudolf:
I want you...to have...something. My most prized possession. [He holds a string]

[Lars sighs] Oh, it's a piece of st-string.

Rudolf:
Not just any string. The string. I found it my first day in America.

Ernie:
What's with the string?

Rudolf:
I've had it in my pocket for 60 years. Here! [He gives the string to Ernie and Lars] I want you two to share it. Maybe it'll bring you closer together. You haven't talked much lately.

Ernie:
Yeah. [He starts to tug on it]

Rudolf:
Ach! What are you doing?

Ernie:
I'm breaking it in half.

Rudolf:
No!

Ernie:
No?

Rudolf:
I want you to share it. Forever.

Ernie:
Sure, Pop, sure. You carry it the first 50 years, I'll take it the next.

Lars:
Sure.

Ernie:
And turn up the morphine drip a little.

Rudolf:
I heard that. [Ernie goes back to reading the magazine] Promise me... that you will never sell... Smuntz String... to one of those big conglomerates. Keep it between you. Brothers. Family. Promise.

Lars:
I promise, Pop. [back in the present] I promise.