Zeppco is willin' to buy you out...

and bring this museum into the 21st century.

We'd keep you on as a consultant, with a huge salary and hefty pension.

So...

what do you say?

(Sighs)

- My sons... - (Whispers) Ernie.

- Ernie! - Yeah. Just a sec.

I want you...to have...something.

My most prized possession.

(Sighs) Oh, it's a piece of st-string.

Not just any string. THE string.

I found it my first day in America.

- What's with the string? - I've had it 60 years.

Here! I want you two to share it.

Maybe it'll bring you closer together.

- You haven't talked much lately. - Yeah.

- Ah! What are you doing? - I'm breaking it in half.

- No! I want you to share it. - No?

- Forever. - Sure, Pop, sure.