After Nina tells Earl that he needs her to help him build a new life, they go out for drinks, but Earl finds it "difficult to be unfaithful to his wife." Only after a drunk Earl passes out in Nina's car does she profess her love for him.
When Nina visits his apartment to report that orders at the factory are piling up, Earl tells her to close the factory for him, but then breaks down and reveals that he only married Gwen to produce an heir to the business and was never really in love with her. Filled with self-pity, Earl begins a drinking binge in the ensuing weeks. When Ted runs into the room to embrace his father after learning the verdict, Earl's contempt for the decision prompts him to tell Ted he has always hated the child's resemblance to Gwen and push the child into his mother's arms.
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Rudolph admits to Earl and Gwen that each is capable of taking care of the boy, but because the ties between Ted and his mother need to be reestablished, Rudolph gives Gwen full custody. Seeing the boy alone, Rudolph learns that Ted loves and trusts his father and does not believe his mother cares for him. When Rudolph asks Gwen why she waited two years to seek custody, Gwen explains that she was hoping for a compromise without the court's involvement. The next week at the hearing, Judge Rudolph's questions about Earl and Ted's family life reveal that the businessman often leaves the child with his sixty-five-year-old housekeeper. At the club's bar, Sam's assistant lawyer Nina Wylie, cautiously flirts with Earl, but he is too consumed with family affairs to notice. Now guilt-ridden, Earl tells Seward that the couple can have Ted until the hearing the following week. When an embittered Earl argues that she gave Ted up in trade for her lover Seward, Gwen flees the room in tears. Later, at the Seward's country-club apartment, Gwen tells Earl that he was never truly in love with her and complains that the custody agreement has allowed for the boy to spend only nine weeks with her, which is not enough time for him to know his mother. A doting father, Earl is furious that he might lose his son, but his lawyer, Sam Dunstock, suggests that he negotiate with the couple in person. They are arguing that Earl coerced Gwen into giving him full custody only by threatening to besmirch Seward's political career. and set a court hearing to request six-month custody of the boy. He went from, like, doing Land of the Giants and Green Hornet to doing Mission: Impossible.Divorced factory owner Earl Carleton has full custody of his young son Ted, when his ex-wife Gwen and her new husband Bryan Seward, a state department official, unexpectedly return to town from Washington D.C.
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But they put him on Johnny Carson after that and he was a big hit on the Johnny Carson show, and then all of a sudden, because of the notoriety, he started doing better TV shows. And he’s a lifelong Democrat but he went and they f-ing dug him. “So he got invited to, like, the Republican Convention, alright, because it became this thing for, like, Nixon’s Silent Majority. “He also had a thing that happened with him in the late ’60s where three hippies were bursting into his house, and they were tripping, and they had a gun with them, and his stunt double basically beat the brains in of two of them, and Rick set the other one on fire with the flamethrower from The 14 Fists of McCluskey,” explained Tarantino. Tarantino later discussed the incident at Dalton’s house that inspired the third act of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. They went on to talk about Dalton’s career, specifically the Fireman films, why Donald Pleasence was in one of them, the four-picture deal Dalton made with Canon Films that begat Fireman 2, Joe Don Baker’s role in the film, Dalton’s lunch with Walter Hill about directing the follow-up, why the actor did not helm the sequel himself - since he shot the first one - and how Dalton’s former stunt double, Cliff Booth, came to direct the project. The revelation brought rolling laughter from Tarantino. The podcast then proceeded to conversation between Tarantino and the Avarys wherein the elder Avary described discovering that Rick Dalton owned a company called Rick Dalton Enterprises that made bedding and amenities for prisons.
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