Thirtysomething (1987) s02e11 Episode Script
Payment Due
1 [theme.]
[Steve.]
Ellyn? - Ellyn? - [knocking.]
Are you all right? I'm okay.
What are you, the bathroom monitor? - Were you sick? - I'm okay.
That's the third time this month.
You're not-- No, I'm not.
You think it's a virus? No, it's probably just those soggy cheese steaks.
I told you not to cut onions.
I know.
I should've listened.
Oh, what a beautiful morning Oh, what a beautiful day - Frosted Flakes! - Yeah.
I poured 'em myself, right out of the package.
- Mmm! - There was even a prize.
See? Mm.
Mm.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
[humming.]
Mmm! Good coffee.
Thanks.
Sorry it's instant.
I forgot how that bean grinder works.
Well, it's very complicated.
You push a button.
Somebody at the Inquirer loves you.
- Hmm? - "The mayor's office announced yesterday "that the most recent proposal for the south side redevelopment project will be brought before the Planning Commission within two weeks.
" Yeah.
Does it also say that the developer may be indicted at any minute for bribing members of said commission? "Ellyn Warren, who heads the project for the city, could not be reached-- - Where is that? Give me that.
- "for comment, because she had been bound and gagged and tied to bedpost by the chief planning officer--" Give me that right now! No! No! I can't help it.
Sometimes he drives me crazy.
Come on.
You've been saying that since the third date.
It comes right after "I really like him, but.
" Yeah.
But recently, he's been mothering me too much.
It makes me feel weird.
Oh, I know.
Warm, secure, loved.
I can understand why it would make you upset.
You grew up in a Norman Rockwell painting.
Mine was more like Hieronymus Bosch.
Oh, come on.
Marge and Bob aren't so bad.
I know.
I should be a very happy person, in fact.
I got this great guy-- - Oh, I'm sorry.
Is this yours? - No.
Go ahead.
You know, I got this great guy, I got this great job, I got my friends.
Everything's going my way You know what I don't trust? Advertisers.
I don't trust advertisers.
Yeah.
You know, the ones I know personally are very, very shifty characters.
Look at this.
Milk of Magnesia.
Milk of Magnesia? I mean, who are they kidding? Since when does milk get produced by magnesium? See? They really want you to make some kind of deep psychological connection.
Isn't this a little excessive? What? Oh, I'm stocking up.
For what, Armageddon? Are you okay? Yeah.
I'm always okay.
[imitating engine humming.]
Right.
- Suzie Q, how are you? - Aah.
Okay.
- Uh-oh.
How's John? - He hasn't called in a week.
They say you can reach out and touch someone.
With this thing, I ought to be able to reach out and beat him to death.
- What are these? - Jo Ann called in sick.
[scoffs.]
What is it this time? - Her inner ear.
- Inner ear.
I like that.
- [phone ringing.]
- I don't think we've heard that one from her before.
Wait.
City Services.
Please hold.
The meeting's been changed to the fourth floor conference room.
And Dave, uh, what's-its-- - Who? - Who knows you from the DA's office.
- Dave Calloman? - Yeah.
He's sitting in.
See ya.
City Services.
So, barring any unforeseen circumstances, and assuming that the Planning Commission doesn't throw us any curves, we should be breaking ground by, what, June of 1990? - [laughter.]
- I know, I know.
If you don't come in on Saturday, don't even bother to come in on Sunday, right? It's gonna be tough, guys, but if we can beat accounting in softball three years in a row, we can do anything.
- Go.
More, more, more.
- You got it.
So, Mike, how soon can we see the new EIR? - Two more days.
- No, no.
Gotta have it before this weekend.
Please? Gotta do that.
And what about the homeowners thing? - Did you get that deal? - Donna's on that.
- Not Donna.
- I'll take care of it.
Okay.
And what happened to the copies of the other blueprints? Machine's down.
Sorry.
Machine's down.
Don't you love it? [laughter.]
Okay, children, you're dismissed.
- Yay.
- If anybody has any questions, call me over the weekend.
- At home? - Here.
Good work, guys.
Thank you.
- So is Farraday going to jail? - I don't know.
What do you think? [Mike.]
He wears lizard-skin shoes.
He must be guilty of something.
[laughs.]
So, what's a nice assistant DA like you doing in a place like this? - Slumming.
- Ah.
You gonna leave me my developer, or arrest him? Don't know yet.
Is he your developer? Is that a subpoena in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? Don't give me that look.
I only work here.
I just want some background on what's been going on around here.
Oh, great.
Just what I need-- an ambitious little assistant DA breathing down my neck.
Sounds like fun.
What are you doing for lunch? - Today? - Yeah.
I don't know.
I'll see.
- Steve.
- Hey.
How you doing? - All right.
How are you, man? - Hi.
Hey, did you see Harry's new bike? It's a carbon-fiber frame with a Kevlar disk wheel.
- Eight speed straight fly? - Of course.
It's gonna sit in his basement 51 weeks out of the year.
- [Woman.]
Dave Calloman? - Yeah.
Um, I guess I'll call.
We'll set something up.
- And nice work.
- Thanks.
- Take care, Steve.
- Hey.
See ya.
"Nice work.
" Oh, right.
So how'd this thing go? Fine.
Everybody's happy.
Right.
What'd big bad Dave want with you? He think you can help him get Farraday? No.
He knows I don't know anything.
He just, you know, wants some background information or something.
Oh, really? What did he think you knew? You can wire me for sound, okay? - What? - Nothing.
Sorry.
Hi.
- [Man.]
Ellyn? - Oh.
Bye.
Bye.
- Is Woodman coming tonight? - Yeah.
But I don't know about her.
I called to ask her to bring dessert, and he says he hasn't seen much of her lately.
And I called her to go with me to the movies twice.
Both times, she said she had to work.
Then she never called me.
You know, I think this redevelopment thing's been a nightmare for her.
What about Gary? They're not coming.
What, they have to, uh, register for crib bumpers at Layettes R Us? - [grunts.]
- [chuckles.]
Okay, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
What is it with everybody, huh? I mean, Gary and I can't deal with each other.
You and Elliot are barely speaking, not to mention Elliot and Nancy.
- [door opens.]
- [scoffs.]
- Who aren't you talking to, Hope? - [door closes.]
- Hi.
- Hey.
- Who isn't Hope talking to? - No one.
Hope's not talking to no one.
I never see you anymore.
How's the big project coming? - It's coming.
- Oh, she's doing a great job.
Right.
I'm doing a great job, but the developer's about to be indicted, and the whole thing's gonna fall apart.
Come on.
You don't need him.
It's not your project.
You don't understand.
- [Hope.]
Dinner's ready.
- Um, Hope, I'm not that hungry.
- Michael, can I just have some wine? - Yeah.
Help yourself.
Lynnie, can you get the bread? It's in the toaster oven.
Please.
Sure.
Ow! Damn it! [crash.]
Sorry.
Showed that sucker, didn't you? I have this thing about small appliances.
When I was a child, I was abused by a Mixmaster.
- Are you still riding? - Mm-hmm.
- Really? - Every day, if I can.
- Every day? - Yeah.
It's relaxing after work.
I'm gonna start woodworking again.
I got time, that's for sure.
[chuckles.]
Oh.
Listen, Michael did all my darkroom cabinets.
- He's great.
- Woodworking, Michael.
That's very male.
You gotta prove that your drill still works now that your business has failed? [laughs.]
What? [laughs.]
Are you licensed to carry that mouth? [Ellyn scoffs.]
You guys, it was a joke.
It's, like, what we do.
Usually we don't do it so badly.
Excuse me.
It's fine.
I'm merely a shell of my former self anyway.
Hope, I'm sorry.
It just kind of slipped out.
I wasn't thinking, you know? I mean, he seems so okay about it all the time.
I just thought Hope, I said I was sorry.
- What do you want from me? - I want you not to be vicious.
I want you to deal with whatever the hell it is that's bothering you and stop taking it out on us.
I'm sorry.
Not to mention the toaster oven.
[forced chuckle.]
Apologize to Michael, not to me.
- It's green.
- [Michael chuckles.]
Sorry, Michael.
I didn't mean it.
You know I didn't mean it.
It's fine.
It's okay, really.
[Steve.]
I'd like to know what's going on here.
But if you don't want to talk about it, I guess that's okay.
I mean, maybe it's work, maybe it's a delayed reaction to your parents' divorce.
You can jump in anytime here.
What do you want me to say? Steve, I know that I've been kind of not too nice lately.
Yeah, you've been kind of not too nice lately.
[sighs.]
[groans.]
How long after you eat does this happen? Oh, it doesn't happen every time.
It's just that irritable bowel deal again, right? Yeah.
I haven't seen your parents at the club lately.
- How are they? - Divorced.
Oh, no.
They were married for how long? - 40 years? - 38.
Aw.
It just doesn't seem right.
No, it doesn't.
Now, listen, there's a great GI group I've been working with over at Hahnemann.
I'm sending you to Jay Schiff.
You'll love him.
Oh, no.
I just came in for a new prescription for Lomotil.
- I've had this before.
- You're probably right.
But that's why you're going there-- to make sure.
- Come on-- - Otherwise, I'll tell your mother you were on birth control pills in tenth grade.
- Eleventh.
- [door closes.]
[Woman.]
Doctor's office.
I can have him get back to you as soon as he's free.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Doctor's office.
Ellyn? Ellyn! - Hey! - Hi! - I tried to call you.
- Yeah? Yeah.
What are you doing? Oh, about 150.
- What are you doing? - Working.
- Working? - Yeah, we're on a stakeout.
- Right.
- No, really.
Come on.
This is a stakeout.
See? Yeah.
That is so cool! - Come on.
Get in.
- Yeah? Yeah.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Wow! [radio chatter.]
[whispering.]
Are you guys, like, tapping phones and stuff? Are you listening to what they're saying, like in that movie with Harrison Ford and Gene Hackman? - You don't have to whisper.
- Is this for real? Nah.
The police do all the work.
We just sit here and listen and eat doughnuts.
- [Man.]
Wait.
Wait.
Here they come.
- What's that? [chatter continues.]
Is this part of the Farraday investigation? Sort of.
Is somebody gonna get shot now? I love this.
- See this car? - Yeah.
What, is it gonna blow up or something? No, dear, it's not gonna blow up.
But in about half an hour, an overweight accountant from Trenton is gonna get in that car, and we're gonna follow him.
To, like, some real dangerous rendezvous spot or something? No.
Probably the nearest Burger King.
- That's boring.
- [Man.]
Yep.
- No guns? - No guns.
[sighs.]
That's okay.
It's still pretty neat.
Yeah.
Well, we think so.
So when are you gonna talk to me? Any time you want, DA Dave.
Now I'm real scared of you.
All right.
Tonight we'll get dinner.
- Can't.
- Hey, I thought you were scared of me.
Call my secretary.
[laughs.]
[door opens.]
Hello! Michael! [Ellyn.]
Hello! I am an iron plant impervious to neglect.
I will bloom even in nuclear winter.
- Hi.
- Hi.
What is that for? Um, it's a get well present for your toaster oven.
- Gee, thanks.
- Yeah.
Is it really ugly? The people next door are moving to Oregon.
They said that I could have it if I gave it a good home, so I thought it would make you like me again.
It helps.
You wanna put it over there? But don't let Janey see it, 'cause she'll think you're a babysitter and have a fit.
Hey, Hope, um, I'm sorry that I've been such a jerk lately.
- You kind of have been.
- Yeah.
But I got everything under control finally.
Things are really great with Steve, and the project's going fine now, and I'm gonna eat better and sleep more and take care of myself.
I even started running again.
So everything's pretty great.
That's great.
I mean, really, great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You don't believe me, right? No.
I-- I do.
Hope, God, you never have any faith in me.
Of course [laughs.]
What? What? Just, um Do you think an affair counts as an affair if you're not married? If you've just been living with a guy for a little while? - You're kidding.
- I haven't done anything.
It's just a speculation.
Who? This guy that we know from the DA's office.
You don't know him.
Why would you wanna do this? Hope, I said I haven't done anything.
God, don't get all bent out of shape.
I know, but you were just saying that things between you and Steve were going really good.
Yeah, they are.
It doesn't mean that all the other men on the face of the earth are suddenly null and void.
Yeah, well, maybe it should.
Oh, come on, Hope.
When did you get like this? - Like what? - Just like all holier than thou and preachy.
I don't think it's preaching to suggest that you might want to grow up and stop trashing the people who care about you.
See, so now you're looking at me down that nose of yours again.
I thought you came here to apologize.
Yeah, you're right.
I did.
I just forgot how you always think you know all the answers.
- I don't.
What is this about? - Your answers.
- Oh, your answers.
- [door opens, closes.]
It's babies and Michael and more babies-- - That is just about enough! - [Michael.]
Hi.
- Hi.
- Thanks for the cracker.
Bye.
[door opens, closes.]
Good morning, Jo Ann.
How's your inner ear? Fine, except for this dizziness.
It's just some viral thing.
If you give me your virus, I'm gonna kill you.
Steve was by looking for you a few minutes ago.
Uh, somebody named Tester called.
And Dave Calloman called twice.
- Is he here? - I don't know.
You want me to find out? Uh, no, no.
That's okay.
[clears throat.]
- [clears throat.]
- Are you all right? Yeah.
Could you just close the door on your way out? Yeah.
Thanks.
[door closes.]
[groans.]
Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn.
What's that, a new mantra? No, I just broke a nail.
It's nothing.
Sure you did.
[clears throat.]
It's your stomach again, isn't it? I'm just hungry.
Okay.
Thanks.
Oh, uh, I got a meeting tonight.
I'll probably be home kind of late.
Okay.
Thanks.
See ya at home.
Bye.
[groans.]
I should be working.
It's lunch! This is insulting.
I haven't seen you for weeks except for that awful dinner at Hope's when you were so delightful.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Ooh.
Ooh.
No.
No.
The guy.
The guy.
- Yeah, that's the best.
- Yeah.
- God, I'm good.
- Mm-hmm.
Don't you worry about the aluminum? - What, these? - Yeah.
Uh, no.
My mother cooked in aluminum pots my whole life.
I'm in big trouble if aluminum gives you that disease where you can't remember anything-- that I can't remember the name of.
- Alzheimer's.
- Al-- Al who? Do you still get that sharp pain in your stomach after you eat? Or is it that kind of all-over burning sensation? Not anything in particular.
Just ordinary nervous stomach.
- Why? - No reason.
Can I have one? Russell and I went out for Cuban food last night.
- Oh, sure.
- Hope says she hasn't had a stomach-ache her whole life.
- Oh, Hope.
- Hope says people just don't know how to eat right.
Now, just what is it that makes her think that she can tell everybody else how to live? God, she's bugging me.
I'm gonna go, okay? You mean she wasn't always like that? Oh, well, there was always the tendency.
Sure.
But ever since she got married and had a kid, she acts as if she's authorized to monitor my moral development or something.
So life isn't so neat and tidy all the time.
So what? Anything in particular that's not neat and tidy? Well, no.
Just the usual-- Woodman and everything.
What's the everything? Are you gonna yell at me, too? No.
Never.
What? It's just this guy that I'm interested in at work.
And I'm not gonna do anything stupid or anything, but when I just mentioned it to Hope, you would've thought that I was about to service the entire Planning Commission in Rittenhouse Square, all at once.
- She's just jealous.
- Yeah? Yeah, I bet you're right.
Sure.
I mean, Michael's cute an all, but how much fun can it be sitting home watching him sulk night after night? - Thanks.
- A million dollars.
Check's in the mail.
Hey! Hi.
Jo Ann told me you called.
I tried to call you back, but you were gone.
- Another stakeout? - Same one.
Ah.
Burger King again? House of Pancakes.
Is there any glamour left? You've shattered all my illusions.
Sorry.
Did you want to, um Did you wanna go over that Farraday stuff with me? Oh, you have some time now? Uh, yeah.
Sure.
Why not? Um, sit down.
Listen, uh, do me a favor.
- Come bowling with me.
- What? No, no.
It'll be fun.
I've been sitting in a parked car all day.
- Bowling? - Please.
I-- I gotta tell you, Dave, bowling is not really my sport.
I'll teach you.
Come on.
I really wanna see you in those two-tone bowling shoes.
- I don't know.
- Oh, please.
I'm begging here.
Oh, gee, how can I say no? You look so pathetic.
All right.
Great.
Let's go.
Okay, but you have to promise not to laugh at me.
- Moi? I promise.
- [laughing.]
[Ellyn.]
I can't believe I'm doing this.
Are we really going bowling? [Man on TV.]
triple digits in the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Lucky 3s were the order of the night when the daily number was picked in Harrisburg.
Hi.
Hi.
Payout tonight, the second highest in the history, 30 million dollars-- - You're still up.
- Mm-hmm.
I wanted to watch the news.
Somebody leaked the toxic waste results.
I think the mayor'll make the Olympic backstroke team in 1992.
Good.
Now maybe the city will have to deal with it.
Did you work late tonight? Uh, yeah.
Yeah, I did.
Calloman wanted me to go over the Farraday investigation with him.
I would've called you, but I thought that you were out late, too.
No, actually, I just got in a little while ago.
Oh.
Good.
Oh, well, I think I'm gonna go to bed.
I'm beat.
- I'll come.
- No, no.
Finish the news.
I'll be asleep before my head hits the pillow anyway.
Okay.
Good night.
Good night.
[TV continues.]
[door opens, closes.]
[knocking on door.]
- Hi.
- Steve.
I've had these in my car for about a week, so I thought I'd bring them by.
Oh, oh.
Thanks, thanks, thanks.
- Come in.
Come in.
Come in.
- Okay.
- So, did they help? - Oh, yeah.
I wish you'd come to work for us.
My researchers haven't really progressed much beyond Junior World Book.
- [laughs.]
- So - Is Michael home? - Uh, no, not yet.
- Where's Janey? - She's sleeping, but I could have her call you when she wakes up.
Oh, listen-- Uh, the answer to your question is I don't know what's going on with Ellyn.
- She's driving me nuts.
- Have you done her bodily harm? No, it's still in the planning stages.
Mmm.
You want something to drink? Coffee? Anything? Uh, no, thanks.
Oh, Grendel! Come on, come on, come on.
Go, go, go, go, go.
Ohhh! So, has she done anything in particular? Sit.
No.
If she'd do something in particular, I think I could deal with it.
[sighs.]
You know how prickly she can be.
I try to make allowances.
Prickly.
That's a good word for her.
It's just these insidious little I don't know.
I think if I alienate her, I'm just giving her what she wants, you know? So I try to be real generous whenever she-- And then I think she holds me in contempt for not hitting back.
You know? Well, she's trying real hard to push me away.
She's just using you to hurt herself, you know.
Right.
I'm an innocent bystander in an act of self-destruction? It's not the first time.
- Small comfort.
- [snickers.]
I hope that Oh, listen, I know how aggravating she's been, and I wish I could tell you why, but I can't.
Please, just-- I don't know-- stick with it.
I know that this sounds silly, but I think that you're really good for her.
I mean, you're smart and you don't buy into her craziness, and the two of you are good together.
And she'll come to her senses eventually, I think.
You think? Yeah, I do.
- Hope? - Yeah.
Can I have that research back? I'm not done with it.
[snickers.]
Yeah.
- Surprise! - Hope, what are you doing here? Oh, hey, that's Melissa's.
That's great.
Yeah.
Everybody compliments me on it.
So, what are you doing here? Oh, I don't know.
I just I was downtown and, well, I guess I just thought I'd come and check up on you.
I was worried about you.
Okay? Okay.
Hope, it's really nice of you to be worried about me.
And I'm really sorry for what I said the other day to you.
Right, right.
Sorry, sorry.
I'm sorry I jumped on you about the affair.
- It's not an affair.
- I know, I know.
The possibility of an affair.
I mean, Woodman's a good guy, you know? Yes, I know.
Woodman is a very good guy.
So, you wanna talk about this other person? Dave? Not really.
No.
It's just, you know, he's a nice guy.
I just We went out bowling together.
That's all.
- Bowling? - Yeah.
Bowling.
Mmm.
That's all, though.
All under control, promise.
Really? Oh, for God's sake.
Hope, why did you come here if you're just gonna start in again? - I'm not-- - Sure you are.
Sure you are.
Look, just leave me alone, okay? Really.
I've got work to do.
[door closes.]
- Good night, Mr.
Woodman.
- Good night.
[Ellyn.]
I was just thinking that we should probably get back to work.
You miss me? [laughing.]
Yeah.
[laughs.]
[chattering.]
[door opens.]
[door closes.]
[door opens.]
[door closes.]
[retching.]
[toilet flushes.]
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh-- Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my-- Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
[groans.]
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
Pete.
Pete! Hi.
Could you get me a cab, please? - Right away, Ms.
Warren.
- Thank you.
Oh, excuse me.
Can you tell me where I can find Dr.
Price, please? - Thank you.
- [chattering.]
- Dr.
Price? - Well-- - Yes? - Oh.
Oh, hi.
- Excuse me.
- Sorry.
My name is Hope Murdoch.
They called me about Ellyn Warren.
- Is she-- - She's okay.
Don't worry.
- What happened? - She fainted in Admitting, and your name was on the emergency card in her wallet.
- Can I see her? - Sure.
God, Lynnie, what happened? What are you doing here? Well, the hospital called me.
How do you feel? What do you need? Nothing.
I don't need anything.
Where's your mom? [scoffs.]
How should I know? - I'll call her for you.
- Don't you dare.
- Lynnie! - I don't need your help.
- [barks.]
- When's your interview? 10:30.
You want me to pick up Janey? I'll get her.
It's okay.
You know, it's not terminal.
She's gonna be okay.
She's my best friend.
Oh, evidently, she doesn't think so.
Well, she's in the hospital, and she's very sick, and I don't know how to help her.
Well, you're obsessing.
That's useful.
That's not even the worst part.
Part of me is glad.
I mean, part of me is glad she's suffering because she's been so mean lately.
And you can't forgive yourself for having normal human reactions.
Does she have a history of ulcers? Not that I know of.
Want me to tell you how evil I can be? See, I love you, so that makes me think that, um, anybody who makes you unhappy deserves ulcers.
I don't know why I can't go home.
It's just an ulcer, right? A bleeding ulcer.
You're severely anemic.
You've lost a great deal of blood.
And if that's perforated, we're going to have to operate.
Like I said, I'm fine.
It isn't funny.
You're gonna make some changes in your life.
You're gonna change your diet, you're gonna change your work habits, and you're gonna find someway to relax.
I'm giving you the number of Winston Phipps.
He's a psychiatrist who deals with stress-related disorders.
Oh, come on.
What, you want me to do some caring and sharing? Getting in touch with my feelings? That sort of thing? I can treat the symptoms, but if you don't deal with the causes, you won't get well, period.
- Where's your mother? - Mom? She's, um I don't know.
She-- She, uh She ought to be here.
I haven't told her.
If you don't call her, I will.
Oh, come on, Dr.
Meyer.
What about the confidential doctor-patient relationship? To hell with it.
I've known you since you were 7.
Wait.
Let me see who's still around.
Steve! Listen, there's some reporter here, and he wants to talk to someone about the south side redevelopment project.
- So? - Ellyn's the project head on that.
Yeah, but, see, he had an interview set up with her, and she hasn't been in today.
Oh, great.
Well, call her at home or something, try to find her.
I tried.
Nobody knows where she is.
I was just gonna call you anyway.
Well, I don't know what the hell to say to him.
Look, keep trying to find Ellyn, okay? Okay.
[Woman on P.
A.
system.]
Dr.
Cohen to Cardiology.
- Ellyn.
- Oh.
Hi, Mom.
- Uh - My friend here.
- Hi.
- Hi.
What are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be in bed? - Uh - I mean, it's cold here.
Yeah.
But I was going nuts in there, so I just thought I'd come out here.
Well, at least sit down.
Oh, come on.
Mrs.
Garcia, please call Admitting.
- So how's the packing coming? - Oh Ellyn, why didn't you tell me you were sick? Because I didn't know myself, Mom.
Well, I should've known.
I should've Has your father been here? Uh, no, no.
The office said that he was in Washington on business or something for the week.
I-- I can't help wondering What? Well, it isn't because of Daddy and me, is it? No, Mom.
It's just everything, you know? It's nothing in particular.
It's just everything, you know? Don't worry so much.
Don't tell me not to worry.
[door opens.]
Come on, you guys.
How am I supposed to get better when you keep taking blood? Hi.
- Hi.
- Hi.
You could've let us know.
I'm sorry.
You in a lot of pain? You all right? Yes.
No.
Well, don't make more out of it than it is.
What do you mean? Just these things happen.
I'll be okay.
[clears throat.]
- How is everything at the office? - [scoffs.]
Hey, Ellyn What? - You blew it.
- At the office? [sighs.]
Not at the office.
Oh, this-- It's fine.
Really.
Most ulcers are-- - Can it.
- No.
I mean it.
I-- I don't wanna hear about your ulcer right now.
Why did you come here if you don't care what's wrong with me? I came here because I felt sorry for you.
Well, it's just an ulcer.
I felt sorry for you because you do such stupid self-destructive things.
Oh, is that what I do? Am I supposed to tolerate you running around with Dave Calloman and God knows who else? No one else.
Oh, just lie down and take it like a good little dog? Really, Ellyn, you are so predictable.
Predictable? I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
- [crying.]
- Don't cry.
Don't cry.
I'm sorry.
Oh, God.
You can't even fight back-- I'm sorry.
Are you in a lot of pain? I'm not predictable.
Right now, Jim Gardner and the entire Action News team standing by with these stories and more next at 6:00.
We will have a live update on the bombshell from Harrisburg today-- the bombshell dropped on Philadelphia's Department of Human Services-- - Hi.
- Hi.
Nice plant.
- A friend told me it's impervious to neglect.
- Ah.
If you want me to leave, you're gonna have to throw me out bodily.
- I don't think I'm up to it.
- Hmm.
So, what do you need? Newspapers? Magazines? - Clean underwear? - Nothing, really.
My mother came.
Yeah.
Old Doc Meyer made me call her.
She cleaned out the whole lingerie department at Saks on her way over.
- Anything good? - Mm-hmm.
If I don't mind looking like Heidi.
[snickers.]
Move over.
[TV continues.]
Woodman been here? Oh, Hope, I am such a jerk.
As soon as I get out of here, I'm gonna really make it up to him, I swear.
It's not fair of you to go and get sick and need my help just when I was really angry at you.
It's very hard to be empathic and murderously angry at the same time.
Hey, do you think I did this on purpose? I wouldn't put it past you.
Just don't let it happen again, okay? Okay.
[Man on TV.]
There's no reason for [sighs.]
[sighs.]
[Woman on TV.]
Ready for breakfast, dear? [Girl.]
Well, I'm trying to be.
But I can't be very good at these buttons.
- My thumb gets lost in the holes.
- [knocking on door.]
Oh.
Yeah.
Come in.
I thought you might be awake.
Ready for some soup? Oh, thanks, Mom.
[TV continues.]
I've almost finished the den.
Do you want to go through the books before I pack them up? Oh, um, maybe tomorrow, okay? Okay.
Julia's got a van coming for all this stuff on Thursday.
I don't know.
Maybe I should tell her to hold off.
Oh, no, Mom.
You gotta be out of this house by Monday.
I'll be okay.
Really.
Sweetie, the new apartment's not big, but I'd be happy to make room for you.
Oh, no, Mom.
I'll be fine at home, at my place.
Really.
Thanks.
Okay.
- [Girl.]
Oh! Oh, I'm sorry.
- [Girl #2.]
That's all right.
Yeah.
Yeah, but don't forget, I'll-- I'll be checking on you there.
Thanks.
[Girl.]
Can we do the presents now? [Woman.]
Yes, but your gift first, Sara.
This is from me.
[Sara.]
Oh, thank you, Miss Minchin.
Now all I need is to know how to sew.
- [laughter.]
- [crying.]
[Miss Minchin.]
And this, from the entire school.
There are pictures of your native India.
Oh, thank you ever and ever so much! I shouldn't have to pretend nearly so hard when I wanna make believe I'm there.
[Miss Minchin.]
And now you want the others to have their presents? [Sara.]
Yes, if you please.
They're all over here.
And your names are all on them.
- Here you are, Miss Rose.
- [Miss Rose.]
Oh, how nice.
[Girl.]
Oh, no, Miss! Do you see what I do? [Sara.]
I don't know what you see, but I don't think I believe what I'm seeing.
[Girl.]
Well, I never! - [Sara.]
Do you feel that? - [Girl.]
Yes, Miss.
- [Sara.]
What do you see? - [Girl.]
Well, I sees a fire, Miss.
[Sara.]
And a table with food on it and a rug and a lamp and - [line ringing.]
- [Man on phone.]
Hello.
- Yes.
Hello-- This is Dr.
Phipps, and I can't come to the phone right now, but if you just leave your name and number and a brief message, I'll get back to you later.
- [beep.]
- Hi.
Um, this is Ellyn Warren.
I was-- I was, um, told about you by Dr.
Meyer, and I-- I just, um-- I wanted to know if you could call me back at 555-2727.
Thank you.
[Girl.]
How did it all get here? Did you pretend it into happening? [Sara.]
I don't know.
I never pretended as good as this before.
Closed-Captioned By J.
R.
Media Services, Inc.
Burbank, CA And dance by the light of the moon
[Steve.]
Ellyn? - Ellyn? - [knocking.]
Are you all right? I'm okay.
What are you, the bathroom monitor? - Were you sick? - I'm okay.
That's the third time this month.
You're not-- No, I'm not.
You think it's a virus? No, it's probably just those soggy cheese steaks.
I told you not to cut onions.
I know.
I should've listened.
Oh, what a beautiful morning Oh, what a beautiful day - Frosted Flakes! - Yeah.
I poured 'em myself, right out of the package.
- Mmm! - There was even a prize.
See? Mm.
Mm.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
[humming.]
Mmm! Good coffee.
Thanks.
Sorry it's instant.
I forgot how that bean grinder works.
Well, it's very complicated.
You push a button.
Somebody at the Inquirer loves you.
- Hmm? - "The mayor's office announced yesterday "that the most recent proposal for the south side redevelopment project will be brought before the Planning Commission within two weeks.
" Yeah.
Does it also say that the developer may be indicted at any minute for bribing members of said commission? "Ellyn Warren, who heads the project for the city, could not be reached-- - Where is that? Give me that.
- "for comment, because she had been bound and gagged and tied to bedpost by the chief planning officer--" Give me that right now! No! No! I can't help it.
Sometimes he drives me crazy.
Come on.
You've been saying that since the third date.
It comes right after "I really like him, but.
" Yeah.
But recently, he's been mothering me too much.
It makes me feel weird.
Oh, I know.
Warm, secure, loved.
I can understand why it would make you upset.
You grew up in a Norman Rockwell painting.
Mine was more like Hieronymus Bosch.
Oh, come on.
Marge and Bob aren't so bad.
I know.
I should be a very happy person, in fact.
I got this great guy-- - Oh, I'm sorry.
Is this yours? - No.
Go ahead.
You know, I got this great guy, I got this great job, I got my friends.
Everything's going my way You know what I don't trust? Advertisers.
I don't trust advertisers.
Yeah.
You know, the ones I know personally are very, very shifty characters.
Look at this.
Milk of Magnesia.
Milk of Magnesia? I mean, who are they kidding? Since when does milk get produced by magnesium? See? They really want you to make some kind of deep psychological connection.
Isn't this a little excessive? What? Oh, I'm stocking up.
For what, Armageddon? Are you okay? Yeah.
I'm always okay.
[imitating engine humming.]
Right.
- Suzie Q, how are you? - Aah.
Okay.
- Uh-oh.
How's John? - He hasn't called in a week.
They say you can reach out and touch someone.
With this thing, I ought to be able to reach out and beat him to death.
- What are these? - Jo Ann called in sick.
[scoffs.]
What is it this time? - Her inner ear.
- Inner ear.
I like that.
- [phone ringing.]
- I don't think we've heard that one from her before.
Wait.
City Services.
Please hold.
The meeting's been changed to the fourth floor conference room.
And Dave, uh, what's-its-- - Who? - Who knows you from the DA's office.
- Dave Calloman? - Yeah.
He's sitting in.
See ya.
City Services.
So, barring any unforeseen circumstances, and assuming that the Planning Commission doesn't throw us any curves, we should be breaking ground by, what, June of 1990? - [laughter.]
- I know, I know.
If you don't come in on Saturday, don't even bother to come in on Sunday, right? It's gonna be tough, guys, but if we can beat accounting in softball three years in a row, we can do anything.
- Go.
More, more, more.
- You got it.
So, Mike, how soon can we see the new EIR? - Two more days.
- No, no.
Gotta have it before this weekend.
Please? Gotta do that.
And what about the homeowners thing? - Did you get that deal? - Donna's on that.
- Not Donna.
- I'll take care of it.
Okay.
And what happened to the copies of the other blueprints? Machine's down.
Sorry.
Machine's down.
Don't you love it? [laughter.]
Okay, children, you're dismissed.
- Yay.
- If anybody has any questions, call me over the weekend.
- At home? - Here.
Good work, guys.
Thank you.
- So is Farraday going to jail? - I don't know.
What do you think? [Mike.]
He wears lizard-skin shoes.
He must be guilty of something.
[laughs.]
So, what's a nice assistant DA like you doing in a place like this? - Slumming.
- Ah.
You gonna leave me my developer, or arrest him? Don't know yet.
Is he your developer? Is that a subpoena in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me? Don't give me that look.
I only work here.
I just want some background on what's been going on around here.
Oh, great.
Just what I need-- an ambitious little assistant DA breathing down my neck.
Sounds like fun.
What are you doing for lunch? - Today? - Yeah.
I don't know.
I'll see.
- Steve.
- Hey.
How you doing? - All right.
How are you, man? - Hi.
Hey, did you see Harry's new bike? It's a carbon-fiber frame with a Kevlar disk wheel.
- Eight speed straight fly? - Of course.
It's gonna sit in his basement 51 weeks out of the year.
- [Woman.]
Dave Calloman? - Yeah.
Um, I guess I'll call.
We'll set something up.
- And nice work.
- Thanks.
- Take care, Steve.
- Hey.
See ya.
"Nice work.
" Oh, right.
So how'd this thing go? Fine.
Everybody's happy.
Right.
What'd big bad Dave want with you? He think you can help him get Farraday? No.
He knows I don't know anything.
He just, you know, wants some background information or something.
Oh, really? What did he think you knew? You can wire me for sound, okay? - What? - Nothing.
Sorry.
Hi.
- [Man.]
Ellyn? - Oh.
Bye.
Bye.
- Is Woodman coming tonight? - Yeah.
But I don't know about her.
I called to ask her to bring dessert, and he says he hasn't seen much of her lately.
And I called her to go with me to the movies twice.
Both times, she said she had to work.
Then she never called me.
You know, I think this redevelopment thing's been a nightmare for her.
What about Gary? They're not coming.
What, they have to, uh, register for crib bumpers at Layettes R Us? - [grunts.]
- [chuckles.]
Okay, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
What is it with everybody, huh? I mean, Gary and I can't deal with each other.
You and Elliot are barely speaking, not to mention Elliot and Nancy.
- [door opens.]
- [scoffs.]
- Who aren't you talking to, Hope? - [door closes.]
- Hi.
- Hey.
- Who isn't Hope talking to? - No one.
Hope's not talking to no one.
I never see you anymore.
How's the big project coming? - It's coming.
- Oh, she's doing a great job.
Right.
I'm doing a great job, but the developer's about to be indicted, and the whole thing's gonna fall apart.
Come on.
You don't need him.
It's not your project.
You don't understand.
- [Hope.]
Dinner's ready.
- Um, Hope, I'm not that hungry.
- Michael, can I just have some wine? - Yeah.
Help yourself.
Lynnie, can you get the bread? It's in the toaster oven.
Please.
Sure.
Ow! Damn it! [crash.]
Sorry.
Showed that sucker, didn't you? I have this thing about small appliances.
When I was a child, I was abused by a Mixmaster.
- Are you still riding? - Mm-hmm.
- Really? - Every day, if I can.
- Every day? - Yeah.
It's relaxing after work.
I'm gonna start woodworking again.
I got time, that's for sure.
[chuckles.]
Oh.
Listen, Michael did all my darkroom cabinets.
- He's great.
- Woodworking, Michael.
That's very male.
You gotta prove that your drill still works now that your business has failed? [laughs.]
What? [laughs.]
Are you licensed to carry that mouth? [Ellyn scoffs.]
You guys, it was a joke.
It's, like, what we do.
Usually we don't do it so badly.
Excuse me.
It's fine.
I'm merely a shell of my former self anyway.
Hope, I'm sorry.
It just kind of slipped out.
I wasn't thinking, you know? I mean, he seems so okay about it all the time.
I just thought Hope, I said I was sorry.
- What do you want from me? - I want you not to be vicious.
I want you to deal with whatever the hell it is that's bothering you and stop taking it out on us.
I'm sorry.
Not to mention the toaster oven.
[forced chuckle.]
Apologize to Michael, not to me.
- It's green.
- [Michael chuckles.]
Sorry, Michael.
I didn't mean it.
You know I didn't mean it.
It's fine.
It's okay, really.
[Steve.]
I'd like to know what's going on here.
But if you don't want to talk about it, I guess that's okay.
I mean, maybe it's work, maybe it's a delayed reaction to your parents' divorce.
You can jump in anytime here.
What do you want me to say? Steve, I know that I've been kind of not too nice lately.
Yeah, you've been kind of not too nice lately.
[sighs.]
[groans.]
How long after you eat does this happen? Oh, it doesn't happen every time.
It's just that irritable bowel deal again, right? Yeah.
I haven't seen your parents at the club lately.
- How are they? - Divorced.
Oh, no.
They were married for how long? - 40 years? - 38.
Aw.
It just doesn't seem right.
No, it doesn't.
Now, listen, there's a great GI group I've been working with over at Hahnemann.
I'm sending you to Jay Schiff.
You'll love him.
Oh, no.
I just came in for a new prescription for Lomotil.
- I've had this before.
- You're probably right.
But that's why you're going there-- to make sure.
- Come on-- - Otherwise, I'll tell your mother you were on birth control pills in tenth grade.
- Eleventh.
- [door closes.]
[Woman.]
Doctor's office.
I can have him get back to you as soon as he's free.
Okay.
Bye-bye.
Doctor's office.
Ellyn? Ellyn! - Hey! - Hi! - I tried to call you.
- Yeah? Yeah.
What are you doing? Oh, about 150.
- What are you doing? - Working.
- Working? - Yeah, we're on a stakeout.
- Right.
- No, really.
Come on.
This is a stakeout.
See? Yeah.
That is so cool! - Come on.
Get in.
- Yeah? Yeah.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Wow! [radio chatter.]
[whispering.]
Are you guys, like, tapping phones and stuff? Are you listening to what they're saying, like in that movie with Harrison Ford and Gene Hackman? - You don't have to whisper.
- Is this for real? Nah.
The police do all the work.
We just sit here and listen and eat doughnuts.
- [Man.]
Wait.
Wait.
Here they come.
- What's that? [chatter continues.]
Is this part of the Farraday investigation? Sort of.
Is somebody gonna get shot now? I love this.
- See this car? - Yeah.
What, is it gonna blow up or something? No, dear, it's not gonna blow up.
But in about half an hour, an overweight accountant from Trenton is gonna get in that car, and we're gonna follow him.
To, like, some real dangerous rendezvous spot or something? No.
Probably the nearest Burger King.
- That's boring.
- [Man.]
Yep.
- No guns? - No guns.
[sighs.]
That's okay.
It's still pretty neat.
Yeah.
Well, we think so.
So when are you gonna talk to me? Any time you want, DA Dave.
Now I'm real scared of you.
All right.
Tonight we'll get dinner.
- Can't.
- Hey, I thought you were scared of me.
Call my secretary.
[laughs.]
[door opens.]
Hello! Michael! [Ellyn.]
Hello! I am an iron plant impervious to neglect.
I will bloom even in nuclear winter.
- Hi.
- Hi.
What is that for? Um, it's a get well present for your toaster oven.
- Gee, thanks.
- Yeah.
Is it really ugly? The people next door are moving to Oregon.
They said that I could have it if I gave it a good home, so I thought it would make you like me again.
It helps.
You wanna put it over there? But don't let Janey see it, 'cause she'll think you're a babysitter and have a fit.
Hey, Hope, um, I'm sorry that I've been such a jerk lately.
- You kind of have been.
- Yeah.
But I got everything under control finally.
Things are really great with Steve, and the project's going fine now, and I'm gonna eat better and sleep more and take care of myself.
I even started running again.
So everything's pretty great.
That's great.
I mean, really, great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You don't believe me, right? No.
I-- I do.
Hope, God, you never have any faith in me.
Of course [laughs.]
What? What? Just, um Do you think an affair counts as an affair if you're not married? If you've just been living with a guy for a little while? - You're kidding.
- I haven't done anything.
It's just a speculation.
Who? This guy that we know from the DA's office.
You don't know him.
Why would you wanna do this? Hope, I said I haven't done anything.
God, don't get all bent out of shape.
I know, but you were just saying that things between you and Steve were going really good.
Yeah, they are.
It doesn't mean that all the other men on the face of the earth are suddenly null and void.
Yeah, well, maybe it should.
Oh, come on, Hope.
When did you get like this? - Like what? - Just like all holier than thou and preachy.
I don't think it's preaching to suggest that you might want to grow up and stop trashing the people who care about you.
See, so now you're looking at me down that nose of yours again.
I thought you came here to apologize.
Yeah, you're right.
I did.
I just forgot how you always think you know all the answers.
- I don't.
What is this about? - Your answers.
- Oh, your answers.
- [door opens, closes.]
It's babies and Michael and more babies-- - That is just about enough! - [Michael.]
Hi.
- Hi.
- Thanks for the cracker.
Bye.
[door opens, closes.]
Good morning, Jo Ann.
How's your inner ear? Fine, except for this dizziness.
It's just some viral thing.
If you give me your virus, I'm gonna kill you.
Steve was by looking for you a few minutes ago.
Uh, somebody named Tester called.
And Dave Calloman called twice.
- Is he here? - I don't know.
You want me to find out? Uh, no, no.
That's okay.
[clears throat.]
- [clears throat.]
- Are you all right? Yeah.
Could you just close the door on your way out? Yeah.
Thanks.
[door closes.]
[groans.]
Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn, damn.
What's that, a new mantra? No, I just broke a nail.
It's nothing.
Sure you did.
[clears throat.]
It's your stomach again, isn't it? I'm just hungry.
Okay.
Thanks.
Oh, uh, I got a meeting tonight.
I'll probably be home kind of late.
Okay.
Thanks.
See ya at home.
Bye.
[groans.]
I should be working.
It's lunch! This is insulting.
I haven't seen you for weeks except for that awful dinner at Hope's when you were so delightful.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Ooh.
Ooh.
No.
No.
The guy.
The guy.
- Yeah, that's the best.
- Yeah.
- God, I'm good.
- Mm-hmm.
Don't you worry about the aluminum? - What, these? - Yeah.
Uh, no.
My mother cooked in aluminum pots my whole life.
I'm in big trouble if aluminum gives you that disease where you can't remember anything-- that I can't remember the name of.
- Alzheimer's.
- Al-- Al who? Do you still get that sharp pain in your stomach after you eat? Or is it that kind of all-over burning sensation? Not anything in particular.
Just ordinary nervous stomach.
- Why? - No reason.
Can I have one? Russell and I went out for Cuban food last night.
- Oh, sure.
- Hope says she hasn't had a stomach-ache her whole life.
- Oh, Hope.
- Hope says people just don't know how to eat right.
Now, just what is it that makes her think that she can tell everybody else how to live? God, she's bugging me.
I'm gonna go, okay? You mean she wasn't always like that? Oh, well, there was always the tendency.
Sure.
But ever since she got married and had a kid, she acts as if she's authorized to monitor my moral development or something.
So life isn't so neat and tidy all the time.
So what? Anything in particular that's not neat and tidy? Well, no.
Just the usual-- Woodman and everything.
What's the everything? Are you gonna yell at me, too? No.
Never.
What? It's just this guy that I'm interested in at work.
And I'm not gonna do anything stupid or anything, but when I just mentioned it to Hope, you would've thought that I was about to service the entire Planning Commission in Rittenhouse Square, all at once.
- She's just jealous.
- Yeah? Yeah, I bet you're right.
Sure.
I mean, Michael's cute an all, but how much fun can it be sitting home watching him sulk night after night? - Thanks.
- A million dollars.
Check's in the mail.
Hey! Hi.
Jo Ann told me you called.
I tried to call you back, but you were gone.
- Another stakeout? - Same one.
Ah.
Burger King again? House of Pancakes.
Is there any glamour left? You've shattered all my illusions.
Sorry.
Did you want to, um Did you wanna go over that Farraday stuff with me? Oh, you have some time now? Uh, yeah.
Sure.
Why not? Um, sit down.
Listen, uh, do me a favor.
- Come bowling with me.
- What? No, no.
It'll be fun.
I've been sitting in a parked car all day.
- Bowling? - Please.
I-- I gotta tell you, Dave, bowling is not really my sport.
I'll teach you.
Come on.
I really wanna see you in those two-tone bowling shoes.
- I don't know.
- Oh, please.
I'm begging here.
Oh, gee, how can I say no? You look so pathetic.
All right.
Great.
Let's go.
Okay, but you have to promise not to laugh at me.
- Moi? I promise.
- [laughing.]
[Ellyn.]
I can't believe I'm doing this.
Are we really going bowling? [Man on TV.]
triple digits in the Pennsylvania Lottery.
Lucky 3s were the order of the night when the daily number was picked in Harrisburg.
Hi.
Hi.
Payout tonight, the second highest in the history, 30 million dollars-- - You're still up.
- Mm-hmm.
I wanted to watch the news.
Somebody leaked the toxic waste results.
I think the mayor'll make the Olympic backstroke team in 1992.
Good.
Now maybe the city will have to deal with it.
Did you work late tonight? Uh, yeah.
Yeah, I did.
Calloman wanted me to go over the Farraday investigation with him.
I would've called you, but I thought that you were out late, too.
No, actually, I just got in a little while ago.
Oh.
Good.
Oh, well, I think I'm gonna go to bed.
I'm beat.
- I'll come.
- No, no.
Finish the news.
I'll be asleep before my head hits the pillow anyway.
Okay.
Good night.
Good night.
[TV continues.]
[door opens, closes.]
[knocking on door.]
- Hi.
- Steve.
I've had these in my car for about a week, so I thought I'd bring them by.
Oh, oh.
Thanks, thanks, thanks.
- Come in.
Come in.
Come in.
- Okay.
- So, did they help? - Oh, yeah.
I wish you'd come to work for us.
My researchers haven't really progressed much beyond Junior World Book.
- [laughs.]
- So - Is Michael home? - Uh, no, not yet.
- Where's Janey? - She's sleeping, but I could have her call you when she wakes up.
Oh, listen-- Uh, the answer to your question is I don't know what's going on with Ellyn.
- She's driving me nuts.
- Have you done her bodily harm? No, it's still in the planning stages.
Mmm.
You want something to drink? Coffee? Anything? Uh, no, thanks.
Oh, Grendel! Come on, come on, come on.
Go, go, go, go, go.
Ohhh! So, has she done anything in particular? Sit.
No.
If she'd do something in particular, I think I could deal with it.
[sighs.]
You know how prickly she can be.
I try to make allowances.
Prickly.
That's a good word for her.
It's just these insidious little I don't know.
I think if I alienate her, I'm just giving her what she wants, you know? So I try to be real generous whenever she-- And then I think she holds me in contempt for not hitting back.
You know? Well, she's trying real hard to push me away.
She's just using you to hurt herself, you know.
Right.
I'm an innocent bystander in an act of self-destruction? It's not the first time.
- Small comfort.
- [snickers.]
I hope that Oh, listen, I know how aggravating she's been, and I wish I could tell you why, but I can't.
Please, just-- I don't know-- stick with it.
I know that this sounds silly, but I think that you're really good for her.
I mean, you're smart and you don't buy into her craziness, and the two of you are good together.
And she'll come to her senses eventually, I think.
You think? Yeah, I do.
- Hope? - Yeah.
Can I have that research back? I'm not done with it.
[snickers.]
Yeah.
- Surprise! - Hope, what are you doing here? Oh, hey, that's Melissa's.
That's great.
Yeah.
Everybody compliments me on it.
So, what are you doing here? Oh, I don't know.
I just I was downtown and, well, I guess I just thought I'd come and check up on you.
I was worried about you.
Okay? Okay.
Hope, it's really nice of you to be worried about me.
And I'm really sorry for what I said the other day to you.
Right, right.
Sorry, sorry.
I'm sorry I jumped on you about the affair.
- It's not an affair.
- I know, I know.
The possibility of an affair.
I mean, Woodman's a good guy, you know? Yes, I know.
Woodman is a very good guy.
So, you wanna talk about this other person? Dave? Not really.
No.
It's just, you know, he's a nice guy.
I just We went out bowling together.
That's all.
- Bowling? - Yeah.
Bowling.
Mmm.
That's all, though.
All under control, promise.
Really? Oh, for God's sake.
Hope, why did you come here if you're just gonna start in again? - I'm not-- - Sure you are.
Sure you are.
Look, just leave me alone, okay? Really.
I've got work to do.
[door closes.]
- Good night, Mr.
Woodman.
- Good night.
[Ellyn.]
I was just thinking that we should probably get back to work.
You miss me? [laughing.]
Yeah.
[laughs.]
[chattering.]
[door opens.]
[door closes.]
[door opens.]
[door closes.]
[retching.]
[toilet flushes.]
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh-- Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my-- Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
[groans.]
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
Pete.
Pete! Hi.
Could you get me a cab, please? - Right away, Ms.
Warren.
- Thank you.
Oh, excuse me.
Can you tell me where I can find Dr.
Price, please? - Thank you.
- [chattering.]
- Dr.
Price? - Well-- - Yes? - Oh.
Oh, hi.
- Excuse me.
- Sorry.
My name is Hope Murdoch.
They called me about Ellyn Warren.
- Is she-- - She's okay.
Don't worry.
- What happened? - She fainted in Admitting, and your name was on the emergency card in her wallet.
- Can I see her? - Sure.
God, Lynnie, what happened? What are you doing here? Well, the hospital called me.
How do you feel? What do you need? Nothing.
I don't need anything.
Where's your mom? [scoffs.]
How should I know? - I'll call her for you.
- Don't you dare.
- Lynnie! - I don't need your help.
- [barks.]
- When's your interview? 10:30.
You want me to pick up Janey? I'll get her.
It's okay.
You know, it's not terminal.
She's gonna be okay.
She's my best friend.
Oh, evidently, she doesn't think so.
Well, she's in the hospital, and she's very sick, and I don't know how to help her.
Well, you're obsessing.
That's useful.
That's not even the worst part.
Part of me is glad.
I mean, part of me is glad she's suffering because she's been so mean lately.
And you can't forgive yourself for having normal human reactions.
Does she have a history of ulcers? Not that I know of.
Want me to tell you how evil I can be? See, I love you, so that makes me think that, um, anybody who makes you unhappy deserves ulcers.
I don't know why I can't go home.
It's just an ulcer, right? A bleeding ulcer.
You're severely anemic.
You've lost a great deal of blood.
And if that's perforated, we're going to have to operate.
Like I said, I'm fine.
It isn't funny.
You're gonna make some changes in your life.
You're gonna change your diet, you're gonna change your work habits, and you're gonna find someway to relax.
I'm giving you the number of Winston Phipps.
He's a psychiatrist who deals with stress-related disorders.
Oh, come on.
What, you want me to do some caring and sharing? Getting in touch with my feelings? That sort of thing? I can treat the symptoms, but if you don't deal with the causes, you won't get well, period.
- Where's your mother? - Mom? She's, um I don't know.
She-- She, uh She ought to be here.
I haven't told her.
If you don't call her, I will.
Oh, come on, Dr.
Meyer.
What about the confidential doctor-patient relationship? To hell with it.
I've known you since you were 7.
Wait.
Let me see who's still around.
Steve! Listen, there's some reporter here, and he wants to talk to someone about the south side redevelopment project.
- So? - Ellyn's the project head on that.
Yeah, but, see, he had an interview set up with her, and she hasn't been in today.
Oh, great.
Well, call her at home or something, try to find her.
I tried.
Nobody knows where she is.
I was just gonna call you anyway.
Well, I don't know what the hell to say to him.
Look, keep trying to find Ellyn, okay? Okay.
[Woman on P.
A.
system.]
Dr.
Cohen to Cardiology.
- Ellyn.
- Oh.
Hi, Mom.
- Uh - My friend here.
- Hi.
- Hi.
What are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be in bed? - Uh - I mean, it's cold here.
Yeah.
But I was going nuts in there, so I just thought I'd come out here.
Well, at least sit down.
Oh, come on.
Mrs.
Garcia, please call Admitting.
- So how's the packing coming? - Oh Ellyn, why didn't you tell me you were sick? Because I didn't know myself, Mom.
Well, I should've known.
I should've Has your father been here? Uh, no, no.
The office said that he was in Washington on business or something for the week.
I-- I can't help wondering What? Well, it isn't because of Daddy and me, is it? No, Mom.
It's just everything, you know? It's nothing in particular.
It's just everything, you know? Don't worry so much.
Don't tell me not to worry.
[door opens.]
Come on, you guys.
How am I supposed to get better when you keep taking blood? Hi.
- Hi.
- Hi.
You could've let us know.
I'm sorry.
You in a lot of pain? You all right? Yes.
No.
Well, don't make more out of it than it is.
What do you mean? Just these things happen.
I'll be okay.
[clears throat.]
- How is everything at the office? - [scoffs.]
Hey, Ellyn What? - You blew it.
- At the office? [sighs.]
Not at the office.
Oh, this-- It's fine.
Really.
Most ulcers are-- - Can it.
- No.
I mean it.
I-- I don't wanna hear about your ulcer right now.
Why did you come here if you don't care what's wrong with me? I came here because I felt sorry for you.
Well, it's just an ulcer.
I felt sorry for you because you do such stupid self-destructive things.
Oh, is that what I do? Am I supposed to tolerate you running around with Dave Calloman and God knows who else? No one else.
Oh, just lie down and take it like a good little dog? Really, Ellyn, you are so predictable.
Predictable? I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
- [crying.]
- Don't cry.
Don't cry.
I'm sorry.
Oh, God.
You can't even fight back-- I'm sorry.
Are you in a lot of pain? I'm not predictable.
Right now, Jim Gardner and the entire Action News team standing by with these stories and more next at 6:00.
We will have a live update on the bombshell from Harrisburg today-- the bombshell dropped on Philadelphia's Department of Human Services-- - Hi.
- Hi.
Nice plant.
- A friend told me it's impervious to neglect.
- Ah.
If you want me to leave, you're gonna have to throw me out bodily.
- I don't think I'm up to it.
- Hmm.
So, what do you need? Newspapers? Magazines? - Clean underwear? - Nothing, really.
My mother came.
Yeah.
Old Doc Meyer made me call her.
She cleaned out the whole lingerie department at Saks on her way over.
- Anything good? - Mm-hmm.
If I don't mind looking like Heidi.
[snickers.]
Move over.
[TV continues.]
Woodman been here? Oh, Hope, I am such a jerk.
As soon as I get out of here, I'm gonna really make it up to him, I swear.
It's not fair of you to go and get sick and need my help just when I was really angry at you.
It's very hard to be empathic and murderously angry at the same time.
Hey, do you think I did this on purpose? I wouldn't put it past you.
Just don't let it happen again, okay? Okay.
[Man on TV.]
There's no reason for [sighs.]
[sighs.]
[Woman on TV.]
Ready for breakfast, dear? [Girl.]
Well, I'm trying to be.
But I can't be very good at these buttons.
- My thumb gets lost in the holes.
- [knocking on door.]
Oh.
Yeah.
Come in.
I thought you might be awake.
Ready for some soup? Oh, thanks, Mom.
[TV continues.]
I've almost finished the den.
Do you want to go through the books before I pack them up? Oh, um, maybe tomorrow, okay? Okay.
Julia's got a van coming for all this stuff on Thursday.
I don't know.
Maybe I should tell her to hold off.
Oh, no, Mom.
You gotta be out of this house by Monday.
I'll be okay.
Really.
Sweetie, the new apartment's not big, but I'd be happy to make room for you.
Oh, no, Mom.
I'll be fine at home, at my place.
Really.
Thanks.
Okay.
- [Girl.]
Oh! Oh, I'm sorry.
- [Girl #2.]
That's all right.
Yeah.
Yeah, but don't forget, I'll-- I'll be checking on you there.
Thanks.
[Girl.]
Can we do the presents now? [Woman.]
Yes, but your gift first, Sara.
This is from me.
[Sara.]
Oh, thank you, Miss Minchin.
Now all I need is to know how to sew.
- [laughter.]
- [crying.]
[Miss Minchin.]
And this, from the entire school.
There are pictures of your native India.
Oh, thank you ever and ever so much! I shouldn't have to pretend nearly so hard when I wanna make believe I'm there.
[Miss Minchin.]
And now you want the others to have their presents? [Sara.]
Yes, if you please.
They're all over here.
And your names are all on them.
- Here you are, Miss Rose.
- [Miss Rose.]
Oh, how nice.
[Girl.]
Oh, no, Miss! Do you see what I do? [Sara.]
I don't know what you see, but I don't think I believe what I'm seeing.
[Girl.]
Well, I never! - [Sara.]
Do you feel that? - [Girl.]
Yes, Miss.
- [Sara.]
What do you see? - [Girl.]
Well, I sees a fire, Miss.
[Sara.]
And a table with food on it and a rug and a lamp and - [line ringing.]
- [Man on phone.]
Hello.
- Yes.
Hello-- This is Dr.
Phipps, and I can't come to the phone right now, but if you just leave your name and number and a brief message, I'll get back to you later.
- [beep.]
- Hi.
Um, this is Ellyn Warren.
I was-- I was, um, told about you by Dr.
Meyer, and I-- I just, um-- I wanted to know if you could call me back at 555-2727.
Thank you.
[Girl.]
How did it all get here? Did you pretend it into happening? [Sara.]
I don't know.
I never pretended as good as this before.
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