Grant Rosenmeyer credited as playing...
Ari Tenenbaum
- [Royal motions to Pagoda]
- Royal: He saved my life, you know. Thirty years ago. I was knifed at a bazaar in Calcutta, and he carried me to the hospital on his back.
- Ari: Who stabbed you?
- [Royal motions to Pagoda again]
- Royal: He did. There was a price on my head, and he was a hired assassin. Stuck me in the gut with a shiv.
- [last lines]
- [the family is gathered at the cemetery]
- Narrator: Among the few possessions he left to his heirs was a set of Encyclopedia Britannica in storage at the Lindbergh Palace Hotel under the names Ari and Uzi Tenenbaum. No-one spoke at the funeral, and Father Petersen's leg had not yet mended, but it was agreed among them that Royal would have found the event to be most satisfactory.
- [Chas, now wearing a blac Adidas tracksuit, nods to his sons]
- Ari: Fire!
- [Ari and Uzi, also in black Adidas tracksuits, fire their air rifles into the air]
- Ari: Fire!
- [they fire again]
- Uzi Tenenbaum: Who's your father?
- Chas: His name is Royal Tenenbaum.
- Ari: You told us he was already dead.
- Chas: Yeah, well, now he's really dying.