Christine: I have to say I find this very strange. I always thought I’d be
the one visiting you in a mental hospital.
Christine: I’m excited about tomorrow. Please tell me we have a shot. I don’t
know how much longer I can take it in here.
Alan: We have a shot. I’ll get you out.
Christine: I don’t need to hear it, Alan. I need it to happen.
Alan: The board will question you directly. It’s entirely possible they’ll
try to provoke you.
Christine: Make sure I’m bomb proof?
Alan: Sorry?
Christine: It’s an expression with horses. To be safe to ride a horse it
needs to be bomb proof. It doesn’t spook easily. Can’t have one who just flies
off.
Alan: Yes. In addition to not flying off, you need to show contrition. They
like to see that you’re sorry.
Christine: I am. I -- I am so sorry. So deep--deeply ashamed. How do I say it
right?
Alan: Just like that. Christine, you were in love with a man who was unworthy
of you. Who made you doubt everything that you had a right to count on. Who
perhaps even toyed with your sanity.
Christine: Still no excuse for trying to kill him.
Alan: Perhaps he had it coming.
Christine: Perhaps you did.
Paul: Why is it we agreed to bifurcate the trial?
Brad: There’s been no claim for punitive damages, only compensatory. But our
fear was the jury could be so outraged, they might artificially inflate
compensatories as a de facto puni, so we opted to bifurcate. Separate juries --
one for liability, one for damages. The client concurred.
Alan: Do you do tongue push-ups?
Brad: This is a staff meeting. I encourage all to conduct themselves
professionally, keeping in mind that remarks are tantamount to assertive
conduct.
Paul: Lansing versus Mahoney.
Brad: Hospital settled out. Deposition of Dr. Mahoney is today. We’re hoping
to make some movement on that as well.
Paul: Lot of eyes are on us. We’ve got an HMO on the bubble here waiting to
see how this lawsuit is restored. I assume you’ve prepared for today’s
deposition.
Brad: Actually, Denny’s taking it.
Paul: Denny’s taking the deposition?
Brad: Yes.
Paul: Wouldn’t it be better to save Denny for trial? Roll out the big gun
later?
Denny: Roll out the big gun now, this won’t be a trial. Move along, Paul.
Paul: In re Christine Pauley.
Alan: Mine. Ex-girlfriend. Tried to kill me.
Paul: This is the commitment proceeding?
Alan: She was committed. This hearing is to secure her release.
Lori: Wait a second. She tried to kill you?
Alan: She did.
Lori: And now she wants out?
Alan: She does.
Lori: And you’re trying to help her get out?
Alan: I am.
Alan: You’re angry with me.
Sally: I’m just busy. Okay? I’m not gonna even discuss the absurdity of
representing an ex-lover who tried to kill you. But how do you not at least tell
me? That isn’t something that I should know?
Alan: I wanted to surprise you with it.
Sally: You think it’s funny? You think it’s appropriate for me to learn about
it in a staff meeting?
Alan: Forgive me. As you can imagine, I haven’t kept up with the
boyfriend/girlfriend regulations. What I can say is she’s a client and a friend
that I’m trying to free from the clutches of an overreaching asylum.
Dr. Gill: You keep calling it an asylum. This is a psychiatric hospital.
Alan: I mean no disrespect, doctor, but the word “hospital” implies
treatment.
Dr. Gill: And she has gotten treatment.
Alan: Is she less crazy?
Dr. Gill: Excuse me?
Alan: As a result of your treatment, is she less crazy?
Dr. Gill: Crazy is not a medically recognized term, Mr. Shore. As I’ve just
explained, Christine has what the D.S.M. refers to as intermittent explosive
disorder.
Alan: Then please tell us. Is she less intermittently explosive?
Dr. Gill: She has improved.
Alan: And to what do you attribute that?
Dr. Gill: Primarily the pharmacological regimen.
Alan: Pills.
Dr. Gill: Twenty-five milligrams each of three different anti-psychotics
administered three times daily.
Alan: Then maybe it’s a good thing she’s here. That sounds like a very
complicated protocol to administer on one’s own.
Dr. Gill: Indeed
Alan: How do you know she actually takes these pills?
Dr. Gill: Obviously, we keep very careful records.
Alan: I’m sure you do, but, hypothetically, suppose there was a patient who
felt she didn’t belong here. Felt she’d entered your hospital quite troubled,
but essentially sane, and was being driven insane by this institution? Maybe
she’s a New York University graduate. A respected attorney. A charming,
intelligent, sensitive, funny woman. A fully functional person with the
exception of one incident. So each and every time your orderlies come around
with your 75 milligrams of powerful anti-psychotics for her to swallow, she
hides the tablets under her tongue and saves them day after day. A growing
collection of thoroughly unnecessary medication that her primary psychiatric
caregiver wants to shove down her throat.
Dr. Gill: Are you asking if this hypothetical scenario could happen?
Alan: I am.
Dr. Gill: It could not. We keep very careful records.
Dr. Mahoney: Look, I don’t see why I need to be present.
Brad: A part of her emotional distress claim goes to how you informed her of
her husband’s death.
Dr. Mahoney: I’ve been a surgeon for 30 years. If there’s a pleasant way to
tell a family a patient died….
Denny: We’ll need your response to her account.
Brad: We’re in Conference Room 1. We’ll be right in.
Kevin: Thank you.
Dr. Mahoney: Why can’t I just review the transcript? I really don’t want to
sit in that room.
Brad: We don’t need you to do or say anything. We just need you to sit there
and listen.
Paul: Brad? One second please.
Paul: You can’t let him first chair this deposition.
Brad: Paul, he’s insisting.
Paul: First of all, the case could turn on this proceeding. And second, as I
mentioned, we have several medical corporations, potential clients, taking a key
interest….
Denny: Hey, guys. What are we talking about? It looks interesting from afar.
Anything I might enjoy?
Paul: What’s this case about, Denny? The deposition you’re about to conduct.
What’s it about again?
Denny: A man died during angioplasty, leaving him dead. Tragic.
Carrie: He even described the procedure as common. So for--
Denny: One of your allegations goes to how Dr. Mahoney informed you of the
tragic outcome.
Carrie: He just came out and said my husband had a cardiac arrest and was
dead. He just turned and walked away. But he said he was going to talk to me
later.
Denny: Do you make room for the possibility that Dr. Mahoney himself was
devastated at this time?
Carrie: The patient was my husband. Whatever pain he had, I---
Denny: These are difficult questions. You’re, um, 40 pounds lighter since
before your husband’s death?
Carrie: Yes.
Denny: Dating again?
Kevin: Objection. This certainly has no relevance.
Denny: All objections have been waived till the trial. Except for the form of
the questions, sport. This your first deposition?
Kevin: This is not my first deposition.
Denny: Well then play by the rules. Don’t make me move for costs, which
she’ll end up paying. In this last year, would you say you’ve had more or less
sex since the time of your husbands’--
Kevin: Objection!
Brad: All right. This is a tough deposition for everybody. Let’s just try to
get through it. Denny.
Denny: More or less sex this past year?
Carrie: My physical relationship with my husband had waned, partly because of
his heart condition. We remained very much in love.
Denny: And did you go on lots of trips together, you and your husband?
Carrie: Some. He was very busy with work.
Denny: Did he regularly tell you how incredibly--incredibly beautiful you
are? Did you wear this perfume when your husband was alive?
Carrie: I believe I did.
Denny: That’s magnificent.
Kevin: All right. This deposition is over.
Denny: Why?
Kevin: It’s over. Come on, Carrie.
Denny: All right. Off to court we go, cub scout.
Kevin: Oh, we’ll be going into court all right. We’re done here.
Dr. Bender: The fact that she was secretly refusing to take her medication
does not persuade us of progress.
Alan: But it does show she’s capable of going six months un-medicated without
incident.
Dr. Bender: Mr. Shore, you were her lover.
Alan: Any bias that I might have in favor of Christine would be more than
offset by the fact that she tried to kill me.
Martha: Frankly, we’re insulted by that. It might get you a spot on Good
Morning America, but--
Alan: I’m trying to get her a spot of freedom.
Dr. Bender: Freedom is a privilege, Mr. Shore, not a right.
Alan: A privilege?
Dr. Bender: Yes, and it’s revocable. Especially if you try to run someone
over with an automobile.
Alan: Christine Pauley is well. You have an affidavit from three different
independent psychiatrists who evaluated her.
Dr. Bender: And likely made her sign waivers as soon as you paid them.
Alan: The only reason you’re holding her is you’re afraid of being sued
should she do something.
Dr. Bender: We’re afraid she’ll hurt herself or someone else, you cynical
snot! Is liability to the hospital a factor? Yes. We can’t treat patients out of
bankruptcy.
Alan: I hardly see how that makes me a snot. She’s in here because of one
isolated incident she’s not likely to repeat.
Dr. Bender: Oh, you can gaze into some crystal ball--
Alan: I can gaze into her. I saw the look in her eyes the day she was brought
here. I saw the look in her eyes which led to her being brought here. She had
that look then. She does not have it now.
Martha: Who would be this woman’s guardian? Why is no one here to present--
Alan: Her parents would serve as guardians. You’ll find their affidavit--
Martha: They live in Illinois.
Alan: Where Christine would be going upon release.
Martha: And until she gets to Illinois?
Alan: Until then, I will be her guardian.
Dr. Bender: Miss Pauley?
Christine: Well, at the risk of also sounding biased, I agree with him. This
is not a parole board. This is not a prison. As you say Dr. Gill, this is a
hospital. And when patients are healed, they’re let out of hospitals.
Lori: Coffee not good?
Sally: Oh, no. I was just thinking about something.
Lori: Yeah, I do that. Thinking about what?
Sally: It’s kind of private.
Lori: You know, I’d stake out a little distance from that Shore guy, Sally.
He tends to leave people’s minds a little worse off than he finds them. His old
girlfriend, case in point.
Alan: You two discussing cases? I wasn’t aware you provided emotional counsel
as well as legal Lori. That’s quite a perk.
Lori: A woman tries to kill you. You go to represent her. You don’t think
there’s a pathology at play here? I refer to yours.
Alan: I got the reference. Thank you. Speaking as an enormously unlikeable
person, I find it difficult to maintain grudges against all those who wanna kill
me. Don’t you? Yes, you’ll perhaps find that witty comeback in your office.
Brad: He’s got a motion for costs. For sanctions. He’s ordered a transcript
so he can read back to the judge what you said today.
Denny: Good. Then I won’t have to bother trying to remember.
Brad: Damn it, Denny. You’re way out of line. This woman has just lost a
husband. You’re asking her questions about her sex life, her perfume.
Denny: I know what I’m doing.
Brad: Which is?
Denny: It’ll come to me.
Brad: That lawyer is going to pick you apart in open court tomorrow.
Denny: Let him try. Denny Crane.
Brad: Listen to me. Do you know why I was brought here? The firm thinks that
you are becoming a liability. They wanted me to control you.
Denny: Who thinks I’m a liability?
Brad: It doesn’t matter.
Denny: Who?
Brad: Denny, where you were once something to aspire to, you’re now becoming
something to parody. You walk around saying “Denny Crane. Denny Crane,” like
it’s supposed to intimidate or conjure up awe. You’re a complete joke. If that
gets me fired, so be it. I’m saying it just the same. You know why? ‘Cause I
love you. I adore you. But it hurts to see you deteriorating into a--
Denny: Get the hell out of my office.
Christine: You didn’t have to get me a hotel room.
Alan: I didn’t. You’re staying in my place.
Christine: I beg your pardon?
Alan: I won’t get fresh.
Christine: You live in a hotel?
Alan: I do.
Christine: What happened to your big grotesque house with your more grotesque
swimming pool and your even more grotesque rumpus room?
Alan: I sold it. I require a lot of fresh towels and nightly turndown
service.
Christine: Why would you live in a ho---. Oh, I see. The comfort of being
able to check out on a whim. You know, as much as you explained it, you’ve never
really explained it.
Alan: I demand only one thing in a relationship, Christine. That I remain
utterly alone.
Christine: Nice out, Alan.
Alan: I’m sorry?
Christine: Even in conversation, you always have a nice out.
Brad: I did my best to control him.
Paul: And the other attorney has brought a motion for sanctions?
Brad: Which he wants to argue himself.
Walter: My God.
Paul: We count on you to help prevent these kinds of situations, Brad.
Brad: Paul, I’m a relatively junior partner. What exactly do you expect me to
do?
Walter: If that man gets up in open court--
Lori: Excuse me. The man can still handle himself in court.
Paul: Oh, please. The only possible good that could come form his-- is he
adamant about arguing this himself?
Brad: I’m afraid so.
Paul: Well. I guess we can’t say no. His name still is first on the
letterhead. Let him argue.
Alan: We’re up early.
Christine: I’ve been up since 6:00, actually. I’ve been waiting for you to
get up so I could say good-bye. There’s a cab outside waiting.
Alan: I thought your flight’s at 11:00.
Christine: I’m going to the airport early. Ridge upped the security to level
mauve.
Alan: Let me drive you.
Christine: No. I-- I’d prefer to--. Thank you. For getting me out. For
forgiving me. Well, that’s it, creep.
Alan: Hmm.
Christine: Better go.
Alan: Call me when you land.
Brad: I just think I should argue.
Denny: Why? So you can control me? Nobody controls me.
Brad: Denny, you’re the subject of the hearing. I’m certainly gonna have more
objectivity--
Denny: I’ll argue the motion. When Denny Crane gets attacked, he stands up
for himself. I don’t need you or anybody else controlling or protecting me.
Brad: You’re not going to court in this state.
Denny: Brad, you can join me or not. Your choice.
Lori: What’s going on?
Brad: He still plans to argue it himself.
Lori: The partners said let him.
Brad: I know. But I thought--
Lori: You know why they’re saying ‘Let him.’? A public debacle on record is
just what they need to convince the full partnership in January to broom him.
Brad: What?
Lori: Yeah. They want him to self-destruct, Brad. They obviously think losing
a few clients is worth losing him. You cannot let him argue this motion.
Sally: You’re her guardian, and she slept in your hotel room last night.
Alan: You see, you get upset when I don’t tell you these things. But then,
when I do-- She’s gone to Chicago. It’s --
Sally: It’s not about her.
Alan: Excellent
Sally: It’s, it’s us. Is there an us?
Alan: Sally, I know this seems difficult. You know what? Can we go shopping
for shoes? Or a new dress? Something revealing for the office party. Soft, but
tight.
Christine: Alan.
Alan: What are you doing here?
Christine: My flight was canceled. I thought you might feel like an early
lunch.
Alan: Christine Pauley, Sally Heep.
Christine: Hi. It’s nice to meet you.
Sally: Hi.
Alan: Your flight was canceled?
Christine: I’m rescheduled at 4:30. This is why I’ve refused to fly for the
last two years. That, and I’ve been locked up. So can I steal you for lunch?
Alan: Actually, no. We were just about to go on--
Sally: It’s okay, really.
Christine: Very nice to meet you. Maybe I shouldn’t have come. Truth is, you
weren’t my first choice for lunch. I called a few friends. Everybody seems to
need a little distance. It was all like, “Oh, Christine. How nice to hear from
you.”
Alan: You’re smart enough to expect that.
Christine: Never got it from you. Are you and Sally --
Alan: We’re seeing each other.
Christine: Oh. She seemed nice.
Alan: She is.
Christine: Certainly attractive.
Alan: There’s that.
Christine: Well. It’ll be easier when I get to Chicago. Easier to start over
there, I think.
Alan: I agree.
Christine: Yeah. So. Lunch?
Alan: On your next visit.
Christine: Well. Goodbye. Again. Uh--
Alan: Good-bye Christine.
Brad: Denny, listen to me. Some of the partners are coming down to watch the
motion and not in support. They’re hoping you crash in there. They’re hoping to
get some leverage to be able to say at the partnership meeting “it’s time to
take Denny Crane out of the game.”
Denny: What game?
Kevin: I don’t know if he was trying to humiliate her or hit on her. It
wasn’t clear. What was clear was the indecency of it. This is what lawyering has
degenerated to. Carrie Lansing lost her husband. He’s probing her about her sex
life. It was a blatant abuse of our process. It was an embarrassment to the
integrity of our profession. This attorney should be sanctioned severely, your
honor. A message has to be sent to the bar, that our bar is raised higher than
an episode of reality television. Denny Crane demeaned Carrie Lansing. He
demeaned our court system, and he should be dealt with.
Judge Baker: Mr. Crane?
Brad: Denny, I have a good feel for this. Can I take it?
Denny: I’ll take it. This is, um, pretty powerful stuff. I can see Mr.
Ripley’s a very powerful man. And that’s a big thing with lawyers, isn’t it?
Power. Fear of feeling weak. I’ve seen it before. Attorneys coming up against
Denny Crane. They jump and stomp and shake their fists and bellow with
impassioned rage. It makes quite a demonstration, doesn’t it? When you cut
through the merits, this lady has alleged, in her complaint, loss of consortium.
Legal terms meaning sex and affection, and if she’s enjoying sex and affection,
it’s relevant. It’s a mitigating factor. I’m entitled to explore it. Mr. Ripley
may not like it, but it’s legitimate and, I may add, that I conducted my probe
in the relative privacy of a closed conference room. Mr. Powerful Man made it
much more public with his impassioned chest-thumping in a courtroom.
Kevin: I object to this.
Denny: Oh, go ahead and pound the table. I’ll tell you what I object to. We
have an offer on the table you so love to pound. An offer I can’t discuss
because the settlement talks have been sealed. Suffice it to say it’s on the
high side, the extreme high side, considering the fact that liability is not
certain. Mr. Lansing had a preexisting heart condition, but instead of taking
the offer, powerful guys like Mr. Ripley want to go to trial. Why? Because I’m
the opponent. It’s a coup to beat the big guy. Well, what if you don’t? You
demean the profession, Mr. Powerful Guy. You’re using your client to get a
notch. You’re making Carrie Lansing go through the ordeal of a trial for your
own ego.
Kevin: Objection!
Denny: A trial you may lose, in which case she gets nothing!
Kevin: Objection!
Denny: Oh, but if you’re loud enough--
Kevin: Objection!
Denny: Forceful enough and strong enough, she may never realize that you blew
it.
Sally: Brad?
Alan: Funny. You’d like me to feel threatened, wouldn’t you? I may not be
able to talk as fast, but my tongue is certainly more versatile. You disapprove
of me. That warms my cockles. I’m afraid something’s come up.
Sally: Oh, don’t tell me--
Alan: Her flight left an hour ago. She’s gone. So. Shopping. Maybe not shoes.
But something….slippery to perhaps slide out of later.
Sally: I’m not that easy.
Alan: Well, I am.
Sally: Do you feel responsible for her being in there?
Alan: I certainly was a precipitating factor.
Sally: Is she well now?
Alan: I think so. But perhaps I’m inclined to believe that. You might come to
value my latitude on these matters a little more fully on the day you try to
kill me.
[Sally laughs]
Sally: I miss you. I have a friend who has this amazing house in Vermont.
Maybe for Columbus weekend we could sneak up there.
Alan: I love Vermont. Would you allow me to cover your body in maple syrup?
Excuse me.
Tara: Where does she stay?
Alan: I have no idea. I wouldn’t even know where to go look for her.
Tara: Well, she clearly knows where to look for you. Alan, she is stalking
you.
Alan: She’s not--
Tara: Crazy? She tried to kill you. She was institutionalized. Now she’s out,
and she’s stalking you. You said that you were her legal guardian.
Alan: That’s a technicality.
Tara: Well, you may have certain rights to have her recommitted.
Alan: She hasn’t done anything to warrant that.
Tara: At the very least you could get a restraining order.
Alan: There’s nothing to warrant that either.
Tara: Do you really want to wait till there is?
Paul: Brad. You hear? He won the motion and settled the case.
Brad: You must be disappointed. I know what you were hoping for, Paul.
Paul: Let me tell you something, my friend. I have loved and admired Denny
Crane a lot longer than you have. We all want him to be great.
Brad: If you loved him, you wouldn’t have wanted his demise to be public.
Brad: Hey.
Denny: Hey. The plaintiff lost his motion for sanctions. Accepted our offer.
The case is over. Settled. Done.
Brad: I heard. Denny, you did an incredible job. I think you turned his own
client against him in there.
Denny: Is that what you think? Am I now to put stock in what you think?
Brad: Denny, I just came here to congratulate you.
Denny: I don’t need your praise. Hmm, hardware, trunks full of praise.
Brad: Denny--
Denny: I want your respect! I’m senior partner. Respect goes with the job.
Not to mention I’ve earned it. I’ve earned it. Don’t you think I feel the wagons
circling?
Alan: Now comes the plaintiff here and after the alleges and charges as
follows -- Count one. On September 11 in the year of our --
[knock on door]
Christine: I’m so, so sorry. I came to see you last night --
Alan: Why did you not go to Chicago?
Christine: I decided to collect a few letters of recommendation before I
leave. If I’m going to try --
Alan: You could do that by phone.
Christine: I could, and I plan to. But Bernie Levinson, senior partner at my
old firm, insists on meeting me in person. Evidently, he wants to be sure I’m
not nuts. So I’m seeing you at 2:00. I fly out at 6:00.
Alan: All right. So why’d you come to find me last night?
Christine: You weren’t picking up your cell, and--Alan, I’m so sorry. I had
no idea you were on a date. I shouldn’t have come at all. I realized that and I
left as soon as I saw the expression on your face. And--I truly, truly
apologize.
Alan: I have to be honest, Christine. It scared the hell out of me.
Christine: Believe me. If I had thought for a second that you were on a
date--Sally--is it, is it serious?
Alan: I really don’t want to talk about it.
Christine: May I ask why not? We’re friends, are we not? Good friends. It’s
only natural for us to discuss our lives with each other.
Alan: I really don’t want to talk about it.
Christine: Are you embarrassed? Is this just some young thing you like to
screw? Dinner and a quickie? Something casual? I’m sorry. That was
inappropriate. I--Maybe I still do get pangs. Anyway. I again apologize for just
showing up last night. I think I will leave before this gets awkward.
Sally: Why don’t we rent a nice restaurant for these things?
Tara: Because it’s all about impressing the clients. They like to know that
inflated fees buy fancy offices.
Brad: Hey, how ya doing?
Alan: Brad, just talking about you. Okay, we weren’t.
Brad: Sally, will you dance with me?
Sally: Well, I---
Brad: Oh, that’s right, you’re with Big Al. Tara?
Tara: I’d love to.
Brad: They make a lovely couple and he’s got a nice, tight ass. Don’t you
think?
Sally: You think?
[cell phone rings]
Alan: Oh Christine?
Christine: Something’s come up. Nothing bad. It’s great, actually. But I
think I better discuss it with you in person. Can I steal two minutes?
Alan: I’m at an office party. Can you tell me about it over the phone?
Christine: I’d really prefer to do it in person.
Paul: Congratulations. Denny, I---
Denny: I accept your congratulations. Don’t linger like we’re friends.
Paul: We used to be friends. We used to sit out on balconies at night as kids
and criticize each other’s openings and closings. Remember those days, Denny?
When we were open to each other’s criticism and candor?
Denny: “Open” was a funny choice of word. You an “out in the open” sort of
fellow, Paul?
Paul: You know exactly what sort of fellow I am.
Denny: I’m still a good lawyer.
Paul: Yes. You are. You remember Muhammad Ali’s last fight? We had ringside
seats. He lost so pathetically to Larry Holmes. We were so crushed. The tragedy
that night, Denny, wasn’t that he couldn’t still box. He could. The tragedy was
that he still thought he was Ali. You’re a good lawyer, my friend. You’re just
not Denny Crane.
Alan: Hanging out with all your friends?
Lori: Whoever designed women’s shoes---
Alan: May I? Nothing personal. It’s a fetish.
Lori: Your fingers are so--
Alan: Yes, thank you. My uncle was a butcher.
Lori: Don’t you think Sally might object to this?
Alan: We’re non-exclusive when it comes to feet.
Lori: Oh.
Alan: Oh dear. You have a bunion.
Lori: Did you come in here for something?
Alan: Why are you counseling Sally to distance herself from me?
Lori: There are “happily ever after” guys and there are guys who leave girls
in a heap, and I can tell the difference.
Alan: You speak from personal experience?
Lori: That’s private.
Alan: Then perhaps I should get to know you better and ask again. And I’d
love to. But right now I’m going to go dance with Sally.
Sally: This is nice.
Alan: I know a cozy little photocopy machine we could adjourn to.
Sally: You’re expecting a visitor, remember?
Alan: She said it would take two minutes.
Sally: She’s beautiful.
Alan: Excuse me?
Sally: She’s here, and she’s beautiful.
Alan: Time me. Two minutes.
Alan: Christine, you look stunning.
Christine: Well, I knew you were having a fancy party. I didn’t wanna appear
conspicuous, so I threw something on.
Alan: I see. And what did you want to talk about?
Christine: Well, can we go to your office?
Alan: I prefer not.
Christine: Well, being that I just showed up at your date the other night, I
didn’t want you to think I was following you. You know I wouldn’t do that.
Alan: What have you come to talk about Christine?
Christine: My meeting with Bernie Levinson went incredibly well, and, well,
he’s rehired me. I can start as soon as Monday. Can you believe it?
Alan: What about Chicago?
Christine: I think I have a better chance at achieving normalcy in Boston. I
called Dr. Gill. He agreed. The less change, the better. I can see him as an
outpatient, and--
Alan: Your guardians, your parents are in Illinois.
Christine: I was released to you in Massachusetts. I was afraid you’d freak
if I told you this on the phone or if you just ran into me at the courthouse.
This is why I wanted to give you the news in person.
Alan: Okay.
Christine: It’s truly fantastic news. Isn’t it? Alan? I got my old job back.
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