Now and Again (1999) s01e06 Episode Script

NARRATOR:
Before on Now and Again:
MORRIS: The United States government
has since the conclusion of World War Il
spent billions of dollars in the hopes
of one day actually being able to build
a man.
An American man.
A man who could do those things
mere mortal men are loathe to do.
Travel in dangerous places,
take risks, wage war.
The man with the speed
of Michael Jordan,
the strength of Superman
and the grace
of Fred Astaire.
Just can't build a mind.
You really have to harvest one.
You know what I mean?
We were just about to give up hope,
and then you had your unfortunate run-in
with the F train.
And, well,
it just seemed like kismet to us.
I saw your family.
I know how precious
they must be to you.
But your government
can't let anyone know
about the existence of this technology.
You reaching out to anyone from your past
guarantees your immediate death.
And the death
of whomever you confided in.
MORRIS:
Fear is a contrary companion.
You wanna walk, it starts to run.
You wanna stay,
he wants to go.
Try to speak up, he steals your voice.
Say you wanna dance,
and fear will break your legs.
Fear is your Boss Hog,
your ruler, the man.
[SIRENS WAILING]
MORRIS: A Siamese twin
with your heart in his chest,
his hand wrapped around your throat.
Please, please, you've gotta help her.
You've gotta help her.
She's scared to death of heights.
She can't even change a light bulb.
Please, help her.
MORRIS: Fear will sometimes
leave the room but never the house.
You can always smell him.
- Don't be afraid.
MORRIS:- Always.
GERALD:
I'm 48 years old.
Despite all my accomplishments,
despite all my successes in life,
I look back
and all I see are missed opportunities.
The experiences, the moments,
the things that could've been but weren't.
It's ridiculous, right?
I mean,
here I am, I'm healthy, wealthy
and reasonably wise,
and instead of bounding out of bed
in the morning happy to be alive,
I open my eyes and I think,
"Oh, no, not another day".
Will I ever feel anything new again?
So maybe I should just chuck it,
you know.
Forget about work, forget about Laurie.
Forget about everything.
Just run away and start over.
Hmm.
This is really still about that woman,
that Lisa, isn't it?
Are you asking me?
Please don't ask me.
You're the psychiatrist.
If you've got a professional opinion,
just say it.
I mean, I'm a lawyer.
Do I go up to my clients and say, "Gee,
do you think what you did was illegal?"
Huh? Come on. God.
All right, I'll just say it.
I think that you're scared,
frightened, unhappy.
I think that
you're in an unhappy marriage,
and you're too terrified
to do anything about it.
I think that you have met someone
who makes you feel different.
But you won't risk everything
and go after it
because you're afraid
that you will be left with nothing.
I think you are a cowardly little man
with a lot of money and no gumption
who would rather sit here
and whine to me
rather than do something really difficult,
like trying to actually save your marriage,
or do something really painful
and admit that it doesn't work
and end it and go after this Lisa.
That's what I think.
And
I think it's pathetic.
Boy, we sure covered
a lot of ground there, huh?
Whew.
[GRUNTING]
Say when, doc.
All right, don't say when.
Say whatever you want.
Just let me put this thing down.
When.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Oh, uh, give me 35 miles
on the treadmill.
Heh, I don't think so.
- No?
- No.
I mean,
I just bench-pressed 1000 pounds.
That's 200 more than last week.
Normally, I do something like that
and you're running around
like a kid who's figured out how to get
his hamster to run on the wire wheel.
You've been on another planet all day,
and I'm tired of killing myself and
not getting any brownie points for it.
Let's just do something else.
Ahh, I don't know, let's, um--
Let's do mental things.
Mental things?
Can you be slightly more specific?
You know, puzzles,
mind-benders, brainteasers.
Figure them out,
they make you smarter.
I'm unfamiliar with such--
A plane crashes on the border
between New York and Pennsylvania.
Where do you bury the survivors?
Nowhere. You don't bury survivors.
[SIGHS]
A man is found stabbed to death
in a cabin
in the woods in the middle of winter.
No one can find the murder weapon.
Just a puddle of water beside his body.
Why?
[SIGHS]
The man was stabbed by a knife
made of ice.
Now you do one.
I think not.
[SIGHS]
Let's just call it a day.
[SIGHS THEN CLEARS THROAT]
Okay.
A woman absolutely terrified of heights,
according to her husband,
climbs a 300-foot-high tower
in Coney Island.
She sees the rescue team
coming to get her and lets go.
And the punch line is?
She dies.
I don't think you understand
how these work.
The most disappointing thing is
that the impact of the fall was so great
there's really not enough of her brain
left for any meaningful study.
That is a bummer.
As someone who's spent years trying
to understand how the human mind works,
I find this fascinating.
I know I'm freaking riveted.
Fear, Mr. Wiseman,
is the healthy and necessary set
of inhibitions our brains create
to keep us from doing things
that would cause us harm.
- Mm.
- In the absence of alcohol or drugs,
it would be interesting to find out
what chemical and electrical changes
were going on in the brain
that would allow this woman
to bypass all those natural inhibitions
to climb that tower.
How do I look?
Like a lamb to the slaughter.
It's not too late to get out of it.
You can call him,
tell him that you're sick.
I can help you come up
with a really good sick voice.
Not that I've ever done that before.
Heh, what are you talking about?
Why would I wanna get out of it?
I'm looking forward to it.
Besides, aren't you the one that keeps
wanting me to get out of the house?
Yeah, but I meant with normal people.
Not on a blind double date
that was fixed up by Uncle Roger.
I mean, you don't have to be Kreskin
to know that's gonna be a train wreck.
May I point out to you
that your Uncle Roger
was one of your father's
dearest friends?
And that I strongly suspect
we got the insurance money
because of your Uncle Roger.
So if he and Ruth want to take me out
to dinner
and invite a friend of theirs along
for me to meet, I'm happy to go.
Well, tell them it's me, that I'm sick,
and you can't leave me.
And then I'll make vomiting noises
while you're on the phone.
[RETCHES]
You'll thank me later.
And, hey, what about that guy
with the egg?
The guy you said kissed you?
Well, what made you think of him?
Well, I don't know.
He seemed like fun.
I mean, running through the streets
and jumping on our car.
I don't know, I guess I just thought
you liked him.
Well, yeah, I did like him okay,
but for a stranger.
I don't know anything about him.
He lives on 63rd and Madison.
He works for the government.
He looks like he was made by Mattel.
What else do you need to know?
He's a kid.
Besides, I don't hear the phone ringing
off the hook, do you?
- You could call him.
- I don't have his number.
You could just go to New York
and ring his doorbell.
Good night, Heather.
Are you afraid?
Don't be afraid.
Don't answer the door.
I'll be home by midnight.
Ruth?
[WATER RUNNING]
Darling?
I want to, uh, caution you.
We're going to Ortoni's.
I got us a fabulous table.
I'm reasonably confident
that Richard and Lisa will hit it off.
My only concern is that you won't be able
to resist ordering the escargot again.
RUTH: Let's not worry about me
and the escargot.
Let's worry about you and the VO.
You order more than one cocktail,
and I'm getting up and walking out.
Please, I'm not ordering any cocktails.
It's Ortoni's.
Maybe a bottle of wine for the table.
Uh, that's it.
But, uh, you remember what the, uh,
escargot did to you the last time?
You ended up spending
the entire evening in the loo.
And I was left all by myself with Amanda
and her little friend from college.
No fun for either of us.
Oh, I think it was fun for you.
I think it was plenty of fun for you.
Ogling that young girl
in her revealing top.
Come on.
Our daughter's college roommate?
And I certainly was not ogling.
I was trying to be, um, attentive.
[BLOW-DRYER WHIRRING]
That's not what Amanda says.
Amanda said you couldn't stop staring.
And then when she started choking
on that chicken bone
Ruth, darling, you know what?
Let's stop, because I don't wanna do this.
Your eyes just lit up.
"I know the Heimlich", you screamed.
"I know the Heimlich."
I did not scream.
She said you couldn't push the waiter
out of the way fast enough.
That's not true.
And you don't clear a blocked airway
by applying pressure to the breasts.
Uh, all right, fine.
You know what? Eat what you want.
Do what you want.
I'm dressing in the other room.
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]
WOMAN:
Hi, 10 dollars.
MAN:
Do you know her?
Her? No.
- Do you?
- No.
I wouldn't be here if I knew her.
Ward Lomax.
I'm in pharmaceutical research.
Never been to one of these.
William Fox, recreational and leisure
property management.
I've been to a couple.
Yeah.
It helps to come with a friend.
It makes it a little easier.
LOMAX:
So can I ask you a question?
Why don't you ask her to dance?
Boy, this is your first time, isn't it?
Look at her.
That is doctor's bait.
That's lawyer's chum.
I can't talk to her.
I'm not wearing the right watch.
Not wearing the right anything.
LOMAX:
Can I get you some punch?
Let me buy you a punch.
Yeah, sure.
One seventy-two.
- Huh?
- I guess weights. It's a party trick.
It's one of the things my wife,
my ex-wife, liked least about me.
And I'm guessing you're 172.
One seventy-six.
[CLICKS]
[DOORBELL RINGING]
Can I help you?
Oh, hi. Is your mother home?
Maybe. What do you want?
I'd just like to speak
with her if I could.
Who are you?
My name is Gerald Misenbach.
I used to be your mother's lawyer.
See?
I'll just put it in here.
So, uh, what do you say?
Can I speak with her?
HEATHER:
Mom, your old lawyer's here!
Look, she's in the middle
of a really big dinner party.
Lots of people are toasting her.
I really don't wanna interrupt.
Uh
Okay, well,
just please ask her to call me.
And tell her I heard about the house
and the insurance money,
and I'm very excited for her.
And you could also tell her that
some things have changed in my life,
and I'd really like to talk to her.
No problem.
One second!
Look, I really have to go.
They're running out of chips.
Chips, right, chips, for the toast.
Chips.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]
Ruth and Roger
just disappeared, huh? Ahem.
Yeah.
Lisa, I need to tell you something.
In between the time that Roger called me
and this evening,
I met somebody.
Oh, that's great.
No, I'm happy for you.
I probably should've canceled,
but I thought I'd feel bad
about ruining everybody's plans.
But now that I've met you, I feel worse
about having wasted your time.
It's not a waste of time.
I mean, it's very nice
meeting new people.
It's nice to go out.
So where'd you meet her?
- What's she like?
- Uh
- At the university where I teach.
LISA:- Uh-huh.
Mm. Well, she's, um--
She's on the young side.
Um, she's a student.
Well, that is young.
I used to be a student.
Of course, that was a long time ago.
ROGER:
So
You two kids
getting to know each other?
Uh, look, I'm sorry about Ruth,
but she's down for the count,
I'm afraid.
She does love those little snails,
but they simply destroy her every time.
Uh--
Am I interrupting something?
No, no. Um
- I was just explaining to Lisa about--
- Richard's met someone.
Oh! Well, this is, uh
Awkward.
No, well, not for me. No.
Well, it is for me.
She's 22.
Oh, my G-- Uh Um
I need another.
I don't expect either one of you
to understand.
Uh, I've been alone for a long time.
I'd meet someone, I'd see someone,
and I'd think, "Hey, maybe".
But then fear would just get
the better of me,
and I wouldn't do anything,
wouldn't say anything.
But, um, Samantha,
she's in a seminar of mine,
and I met her and I just, ahh
[LISA CHUCKLES]
And I thought about talking to her
for months, you know,
ask her out for a cup of coffee.
I know what this sounds like.
It's just so ridiculous.
But last week,
I'm coming out of one of my classes,
and I don't know what happened.
- Something just came over me.
- Mm-hm.
I saw her standing in the hall alone,
looking at a book.
And I thought to myself, "This is it".
This is the death of my reputation.
This is the death of my self-respect.
I mean, what kind of man
wants to be involved with a woman
who's 20 years his junior?
I literally started to quake.
But I did it. Heh.
I, uh, found the courage somewhere,
and, uh, I did it.
- And so you two had coffee?
- Yeah.
For three days.
[CHUCKLES]
Uh, don't rush off.
[SULTRY R AND B MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
Hot.
What are you afraid of?
She's right there.
Right across the room.
You're not afraid of rejection, are you?
Not afraid of the other men?
- Then why don't--?
- Shut up.
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
FOX:
Excuse me a minute. Excuse me.
We need to dance.
We need to dance?
You're not afraid of me, are you?
No.
She shoots.
She scores.
[MIMICS CROWD CHEERING]
Hello?
Wanna talk about it?
I'm from the generation
who loved Titanic,
so you know there's nothing I like
better than a good train-wreck story.
Leonardo never showed.
The whole night was nothing
but Billy Zane.
I'm sorry.
But all's not lost.
While you were gone, you actually had
what my English teacher refers to
as a gentleman caller.
He said he used to be your lawyer.
That he heard everything worked out
with the house and the insurance money,
that he wanted you to know
how happy he was for you.
Oh, and something about his life
being different now
and how he'd loved to speak with you.
Wow, that took a lot of guts,
coming out here.
HEATHER:
See? He did it and you admire him.
What's the difference between that
and driving into the city
and knocking
on what's-his-name's door?
Mr. Newman?
The hottie with the egg, yeah.
- Now, why would I do that?
- To thank him.
What for?
Didn't you say if it wasn't
for him stopping by that night,
you would've accepted the offer,
and now the house would be gone,
insurance money or no insurance money?
Yeah, but it's not like he bought it
or anything.
It's an excuse, Mom,
and that's all you need.
Heather, darling,
I don't even know the man.
And besides, you have to admit
that the contact that we have had
with him has been odd.
Besides, people my age
just don't do that.
You don't run around
ringing men's doorbells.
[SCOFFS]
What are you afraid of, Mom?
[GRUNTS]
Ask me again.
Just say when.
- A man
- I'm begging you.
stands in the middle
of a driving range
MICHAEL:
Just say it.
and when golf balls
start pelting him
Thank you.
he smiles up to the heavens,
spreading his arms open wide
as if asking for more
until he's pounded into a coma.
Why?
[GRUNTS]
Because his body contained a vaccine
designed specifically to block
the mind's natural responses
to people and situations
that pose a threat.
The same vaccine
that was found in that woman
who fell to her death
in Coney Island the other day.
The same vaccine that was found
in the saliva of 37 people,
all of whom were brought
to emergency rooms
between the hours of 2 and 4
yesterday morning.
Because? They seemed
completely unconcerned
with whether they crossed on the red,
green or in between. Ha, ha.
Some of them just crossed in front
of moving vehicles.
One woman was found walking naked
down 6th Avenue.
And you're saying this is a bad thing?
So the question becomes,
how was this vaccine introduced
into their systems?
What experience
do they all have in common?
Get to the point.
There may be more naked people
out there, and we're missing them.
They went to the same singles' dance.
They drank the same punch.
And all of them, to different degrees,
became fearless.
[CHUCKLES]
Look at you.
You'd think it was Christmas.
A woman died and a man is in a coma.
All you can think about is, "Whatever this
stuff is, why didn't I think of it first?"
I know, it's terrible.
But damn,
whoever created this vaccine
has discovered the biochemical
equivalent of a new world.
Think about it.
Whatever you fear, gone.
Kids afraid of the dark,
thing of the past.
Afraid of the water,
now you're diving like Greg Louganis.
Afraid of public speaking, now you're
rhyming like Jesse Jackson. Ha, ha!
[DOORBELL RINGS]
MORRIS:- What was that?
- Sounds like a doorbell.
But I can't really be sure, since I don't
think anyone's ever rung it before.
Well, what should we do?
I don't know.
We're not really set up for visitors.
[SIGHS]
Hi.
Oh, this is really, um
I probably should've called first,
but I couldn't find a
If this is a bad time, I could
go.
Mrs. Wiseman, what an honor.
We would invite you in,
but the fumigators are here.
Oh, well, you know, as I said, I probably
should have called first but, um
Do you live here too?
Oh, no.
Absolutely not. Ha, ha.
- Uh, this is Mr
- Newman's.
place.
Oh.
You speak now.
Uh
Is everything all right?
The last time we ran into each other,
you were worried about your house.
Oh, no, no, everything is fine.
And that's why I rang your bell.
If you hadn't asked me to wait a day
and if you didn't show up
with that insurance check, um
So I have been, um, trying to figure out
a way to thank you.
And so I was wondering if I could invite
you out to an early supper on me?
Uh, both of you.
Ha, ha. Well, that sounds lovely.
Yeah.
Lovely. That's the word I'd use.
Well, you have no idea
how nervous I was.
Um, so tomorrow night, 6:00?
At Antoine's? It's up on 78th Street.
- Well, that sounds splendid.
- Yeah, splendid.
- Another word I use all the time.
- Heh.
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
Ha, ha. Oh, it's over here.
Excuse me.
Uh, don't take this the wrong way,
but you look great.
Yeah, well, don't take this the wrong way,
but all that sweat kind of works for you.
Oh, well, I'll make a point
to wear some of it to dinner.
MORRIS:
Ahem. Duty calls.
Oh, uh, tomorrow, 6:00.
Six o'clock tomorrow.
Good.
MORRIS:
Close the door.
Thank you.
Yes.
MORRIS:- He came to.
- What's that?
The driving-range maintenance man
came out of his coma.
We're going to interview him.
Maybe he can shed some light
on who may have contaminated
that punch.
Didn't she look great?
MORRIS:
Mrs. Wiseman?
She looked nervous.
She looked confused.
Which is understandable.
She looked great. And you were great.
Saying yes to dinner?
Man, you could've knocked me over
with a feather, doc.
Yeah, well, tonight, tomorrow,
I'll call her and tell her we can't make it.
- I think it's the nicest way of handling it.
- What?
Mr. Wiseman, your widow just paid
a visit to the residence
that the United States government
has spent several million dollars
to obtain for you to help me keep
who you are and what you do a secret.
These are not visits
I like to encourage.
Now, I've got three choices.
I can kill her, I can kill you,
or we can stand her up tomorrow night
in the hopes that she gets so angry
she no longer seeks you out.
You pick.
MORRIS:
Mr. Fox, we strongly suspect
that at one point during the dance
you attended the night before last,
someone gave you a class of drug
that alters brain chemistry
that may have made it impossible
for you to resist
doing things normally
you wouldn't consider doing.
Do you remember ingesting anything
that night while you were at the dance?
FOX:
The punch.
This guy gave me some punch.
Do you remember anything about him?
Nice guy. Older.
He, uh, tried to guess my weight.
Missed it by 4 pounds.
He said he researched medicines.
Pharmaceutical research?
Since you're spelling everything out,
this guy didn't happen
to tell you his name, did he?
Yeah, sure.
Lomax.
Ward Lomax.
Well, you have been
extraordinarily helpful.
So we're gonna give you
some time to rest.
Listen.
If you find Mr. Lomax,
he turns out to be the guy
that got this drug in me,
could you ask him
if I could have some more?
MORRIS: Give me what you can
on a Ward Lomax.
Possibly involved
in pharmaceutical research.
You know the chances of that
being his real name are slim to none.
We're in an awfully good mood,
aren't we?
Don't you have another call to make?
I don't think so.
Change your mind?
No, just my strategy.
Since the object of this
is to raise Mrs. Wiseman's ire,
perhaps the best course of action
is no call at all.
Let her go to the restaurant.
Let her sit there,
letting her anger and humiliation build.
Not to put too fine a point on it,
but I think it's important
that she get on with her life too.
Every time we intrude,
we thwart that process, don't you think?
WOMAN: The business of opening
and closing an escrow
for the purposes
of selling residential real estate
is covered in a fairly thorough way
in your textbooks.
But to fully appreciate the finer points,
it's always great to have someone who's
sat on both sides of the bargaining table.
And so it's with great pleasure that
I present our guest for this evening,
one of Manhattan's foremost attorneys,
Mr. Gerald Misenbach.
[CLASS APPLAUDING]
Thank you very much.
Pleasure to be here with all of you.
GERALD: You know,
I stopped by your house last week
to see if you wanted
some home schooling.
Heh.
- Hi.
- Hi.
You couldn't be half as surprised
to see me here as I am to see you.
So you're going
after your real-estate license.
I think that's great.
Well, we'll see.
I haven't passed the test yet.
I haven't sold anything yet.
Um, I have been meaning to call you.
My daughter told me
that you came by the house,
and I just have been really preoccupied.
Lisa, you had no intention
of calling me, and that's just fine.
I just, um--
I wanted to apologize for that night.
And I wanted you to know
how pleased I am
that your insurance situation
worked out.
Also, uh, I'd like to give you
my new phone number.
I strongly suspect
that you're not gonna wanna use it,
but should you ever change your mind,
here you go.
- Okay.
- All right.
Oh, hey, by the way, you'd never know it
to look at me, but I'm separated.
[LISA CHUCKLING]
This has got to be
some kind of mistake.
[EASY-LISTENING MUSIC
PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
MICHAEL:
Well, this is convenient.
After we find our terrorist,
we can pick up some cough drops.
Can I help you?
I'm looking for a Ward Lomax.
CLERK:
Mr. Lomax, there's a man here for you.
I'm Ward Lomax. May I help you?
I'm Dr. Theodore Morris.
I work
for the United States government.
I was wondering
if I could ask you some questions.
Not the Dr. Theodore Morris
who pioneered the human construction
sciences movement
in the late '80s,
then dropped completely out of sight?
MORRIS:
Are you a doctor, Mr. Lomax?
Do I have a degree? No.
Why do you ask?
I'm asking because it's rare to see
anyone that knows anything about science
light up a cigarette these days.
Aren't you afraid of cancer?
I'm not afraid of much.
I'm certainly not afraid of you two.
But that's not what you came here
to ask me.
[CAT MEOWING]
MORRIS:
Amazing.
You cook it up right here, don't you?
No multimillion-dollar funding,
no government oversight.
Just you and your mortar and pestle.
I have no idea
what you're talking about.
But not everyone does everything
to get rich.
Some of us answer to a higher calling.
It's the dosage, isn't it?
You can't figure out the dosage.
So you're doing human trials, right?
You go to a dance,
you guess someone's weight,
spike the punch,
give them one glass or two glasses,
whatever you guesstimate it's gonna take.
What happened with the woman
in Coney Island?
She just kept coming back for more?
- I'm baffled by what you are saying.
MORRIS:- But?
But casualties are an inevitable
by-product of experimentation.
How many lives were lost in the discovery
of penicillin, insulin, X-rays?
MORRIS:
But to what end?
Don't you need manufacturing plants,
sales people, a distribution system?
Again, only if you want to make money.
Not if you want to be ubiquitous.
Ubiquitous?
Like the iodine in your salt,
like the fluoride in your water.
Again, there's no profit motive, just
the certainty that everyone will benefit.
If you'll excuse me,
I have a business to run.
Good news. I think we found our man.
But hear me.
I want this loon
watched round the clock.
He so much as takes out the garbage,
I wanna know about it.
[WHISTLING]
Nail polish, Mom?
What's up, the pope coming to town?
- Heh. I have a dinner date.
- Oh, yeah? With who?
I will be supping
with that hottie with the egg.
And that nice man that he works with.
They asked you?
No, better than that, I asked them.
Wow, I'm seriously impressed.
Was it hard? Was it scary?
Scary?
Ha! I fear nothing.
I am afraid of no one.
I will ask anyone
out to a meal at any time.
God, I've got so much to live up to.
- Call her.
- No.
- Call her.
- No.
- Call her.
- Mr. Wiseman.
[MICHAEL GRUNTS]
I'll be your best friend.
I am your best friend.
In fact, what you don't seem to understand
is that I am your only friend.
And that is as it should be.
That's why I'm not calling
Mrs. Wiseman,
we're not going to that restaurant,
and I'm not discussing it any further.
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
Yes?
Your pharmacist friend doesn't happen
to have a second job, does he?
Gas delivery, oil delivery
something like that?
Why do you ask?
AGENT: Well, he just pulled up
in a tanker truck.
Keep watching him.
We're on our way out the door.
MAITRE D':- Good evening, madam.
- Good evening.
I'm about 20 minutes early.
I have a reservation.
- The name is Wiseman.
MAITRE D':- Yes.
- It's for three.
MAITRE D':- Mm.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
Speak to me.
He's been putting powders into the tank
for about 15 minutes,
and now it looks like we're on the move.
Stay with him
until we catch up and take over.
AGENT:
He's bailing.
Exit sign says "Takaponic Watershed,
Restricted Access".
I can't follow him up there with this thing,
not without him suspecting something.
Guess I'll meet you back at the ranch.
So where's he heading?
Ubiquity.
[LIGHT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING
OVER SPEAKERS]
Pardon me.
Do you know what time it is?
[ENGINE STARTS]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
MAITRE D':
I'm sorry, madam.
I checked, but no one from your party
has called the restaurant this evening.
Well, thank you.
MAITRE D':
Oh, but please stay.
That's very kind of you,
but I'm sure that you need the table.
MAITRE D': Oh, madam, the 7:00 seating
has already commenced.
And besides, it's beginning to rain.
[SIGHS]
MAITRE D':
May I bring you a phone?
Perhaps you have a friend
who lives in the area.
GERALD [ON MACHINE]:
Hello, this is the temporary residence
of Gerald Misenbach.
You know what to do.
[MACHINE BEEPS]
LISA [ON MACHINE]:
Well, Gerald Misenbach,
this is Lisa Wiseman.
You have no idea how close you came
to having dinner with me tonight.
She's been sitting there
over an hour, doc.
How much angrier can she get?
Call the restaurant.
Put her out of her pain.
- What makes you think she's still there?
- I know her.
She'd wait forever for me.
Connect me
with Antoine's in Manhattan.
Hello.
I was wondering if I can get
a message to Lisa Wiseman?
Uh-huh.
Mm-hm.
Thank you.
I don't get it.
You didn't leave her a message.
She left 15 minutes ago.
Huh.
What you have to remember
is that she wasn't waiting for you.
Let's get this man home.