Thirtysomething (1987) s03e14 Episode Script

1 [theme.]
[Hope.]
He's wonderful.
He's a great humanitarian.
He's really sensitive, but he's strong, too.
He's very unique.
I think he's great.
If he's so great, why isn't he married? You're not married.
- Hope.
- What? Come on, blind dates are terrible.
They never work out, and you always end up hating the person that sets them up.
- I'll take that risk.
- [Michael.]
Come here, sweetie.
I got your towel.
- Come here.
Come here.
- Go to Daddy.
- Michael, will you rescue me? - From what? Hope wants me to go out with this guy Billy Sidel.
Billy Sidel? He got parole? Michael, you're no help.
He's a great guy.
I think he drives a very expensive car.
What is a grown man doing with a name like Billy? He's terrific.
I bet he'd let you call him Bill.
[Hope.]
Or maybe William.
I have to wash my hair.
Really, I do.
Every Friday and Saturday night I have to wash my hair.
It's a ritual.
Oh, he's a graphic artist.
He's got a great sense of humor.
You'll like him.
He's got a dog.
- What kind? - Little poodle.
- Michael.
- Golden Retriever.
- Okay, I'll go.
- You will? Yeah.
If he turns out to be a loser, maybe his dog will like me.
He's fun.
He's perfect for you.
If he's so perfect for me, how come you guys didn't tell me about him sooner? Hm? - [laughing.]
- [whistle blows.]
You're too good.
You were probably a lifeguard.
[Ellyn.]
Yeah, I was.
I always wanted to be a lifeguard, save people from drowning.
Mostly you just keep kids from peeing in the pool.
Who you looking for? Nobody.
I know who I'm looking for.
Did you see his thighs, the way they were just sort of skimming through the water? Yeah.
I like thighs.
Lethal thighs, excellent thighs.
What do you look at first? Oh, you know, faces, I guess.
Not really handsome ones.
That's too, I don't know, obvious.
I like strength in a face, though, strong features, but then he also has to have gentleness.
Oh, like a chiseled gentleness.
- Yeah.
- So what else besides physical? Oh, you know, brains, humor, sensitivity.
A guy who can cry.
Oh, yeah, I like crying.
Yeah, not weeping and sobbing, though, just sort of welling up a little.
And kindness.
He's got to be really kind.
I know.
Beards, I like beards.
I like the way they scratch.
Lee had a beard.
Yeah? Lee's old enough to grow a beard? Ha-ha.
Do you like beards? Yeah.
Beards are nice.
What was it your grandmother used to say? Don't pull your cousin's hair while I'm making soup.
No, about finding the right man.
A man will come.
If you want the right man, sing a little song.
And how did it go? You think I'd actually ask her to sing it - after advice like that? - Come on, sing it.
Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel I made him out of clay I didn't sit by the window Oh, send my man today You made that up, right? Didn't you? I like teeth, strong, white, teeth.
Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel - I made him out of clay - [knock on window.]
Hi.
Hi.
Uh, you're leaving.
Um, yeah uh, leaving Yes, I'm leaving.
- You're - Uh, coming.
Oh, uh-huh.
I've missed you.
Yeah, well, I haven't really gotten a chance to go to the gym much.
- I've been really busy.
- That's not what I meant.
Oh.
I blew it.
I panicked.
I got scared.
I didn't know what I was doing.
Jeffrey, you're married.
I don't know what I was thinking about.
Look, I spend all my time trying to do the right thing.
This is what I do every day, and then you come along and oh, God.
Nothing makes any sense.
And I felt something that and, yes, yes, I tried to stop it and not think about you, and then all I could do was think about you.
I couldn't do anything else but think about you.
What am I saying? I really have to go.
I've got a meeting.
[gasps.]
[phone rings.]
[ring.]
[Jeff.]
Hi, Well, you didn't change your phone number.
I guess that's something.
Listen, I don't blame you for not wanting to talk to me, but I'm not going to give up.
You're much too important to me.
I have to talk to you.
Now, tomorrow at lunchtime I'm going to be at Franklin Park.
When you show up, I'll buy you a hotdog or a Porsche.
Your pick.
[machine beeps.]
[groans.]
[Gary.]
Ellyn.
Hey.
- Gary.
Hi.
- How you doing? - I'm fine.
How are you? - Good.
Nice day for a walk.
Yeah, well, nice day for a bike ride.
Yeah, well, Susannah came home from lunch.
It was the only chance I had to get out.
Oh, I get it.
So what's a little downpour? Right, what's a little downpour? [chuckles.]
- So.
- So.
How are you? How are you doing? - How's work? - Me, I'm fine.
It's fine.
Work's great, good.
- Yeah? - Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, well, I'm up to my ears in diapers, - so it's, uh, yeah - Oh, how's Emma? - She's good.
She's very good.
- Oh, good.
Yeah, she's eating solid food now.
- Solid food.
- Yeah, rice cereal.
Rice cereal, wow.
That's cool.
- Rice cereal? - Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow, it's raining, huh? [sighs.]
So I better get going again.
I got another lap.
Okay, Gary.
- Good to see you.
I'll see you around.
- Okay.
Yeah, bye.
Bye-bye.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Whoa, I picked a good day, huh? - Yeah.
- Who was that? It was just a friend.
Don't worry.
He didn't see you.
Oh.
You know, there's a coffee shop right around the corner No, I don't want to do that.
It's all right.
It's all right.
I understand.
We could You want to Yeah, okay.
Oh Oh, cats and dogs.
It's raining cats and dogs.
Did you ever wonder where that expression came from? I mean, why not toasters and Tupperware? I'm sorry.
Yeah, well, life goes on.
Ellyn Ellyn, listen What am I supposed to say? Yeah, you should be sorry.
I mean, you led me on, made me expect things.
Forget it.
I can't forget it.
Jeffrey, look, it wasn't serious for you.
- Nothing happened.
- No.
No.
It was a little flirtation.
It was a little weirdness.
No, we danced.
Remember? You know what that felt like.
Oh, God, I can't listen to this.
I mean, you're the one that wanted I mean, sure it was a shock, and I was really hurt, but then then I felt kind of relieved, and I let it go.
I can't do that.
You already did.
No, I didn't.
Don't you understand? You think I'm a schmuck, don't you? You think I was toying with you.
I don't even know how to toy.
That's That's Look, I have spent my whole life trying to make people happy, trying to [sighs.]
accommodate people to the point where I never even knew what I wanted.
I never even knew that I could want anything.
And then I met you and I wanted you so much it scared me.
And I I had to push you away.
Oh, Jeffrey.
I don't know what's right, you know.
I keep trying to always do the right thing, and it just doesn't I'm miserable when I'm not with you.
What are you saying? I am saying I am not going to hurt you again.
Oh, don't say that.
I have to say that.
[whispers.]
Cats and dogs.
I like showers.
It's like standing in very warm rain.
Baths are okay, too.
Lee has this little bath toy of a dragon.
You squeeze its stomach, and water shoots out of its mouth.
Whitman used to wash my back.
Having somebody wash your back is nice.
- Yeah.
- Maybe Billy Sidel will wash your back.
Billy Sidel? You know about Billy Sidel? What what, did you go out with him? Oh, Hope and Michael didn't think I was good enough.
Are you nervous? Um, no.
Eh, mm, sort of No, I'm not.
Why aren't you nervous? Oh, because I I don't know.
Because what? Because There's somebody else.
Well, sort of, yeah.
Sort of? I know.
I mean, sort of weird.
How weird? Married weird.
Oh, this is that guy, that hypothetical married guy you were talking about.
Yeah, only now he's not hypothetical anymore.
He kissed me yesterday.
And? And I think I'd like him to do it again.
Oh.
Am I just this completely horrible person? Well, how do you fell about him? Oh.
Oh, I feel like I could be in a lot of trouble with him.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
Ellyn, do you want some advice? I don't know.
Do I? Just don't overanalyze it.
I mean, just don't beat yourself up about it.
If you think it's good for you Yeah.
I wish I knew the answer to that.
- You're here.
- Yeah, I'm here.
- So should we - I don't know.
We're just having dinner.
I know, but it sounds so sneaky.
Do we have to sit at a corner table or something? - I don't like it either.
- Well, I hate it.
- I hate it, too.
- Then why are you doing it? Because I would hate not doing it more.
I don't know a thing about wine.
Do you know about wine? Red stains more.
Yeah.
That's about what I know.
How did you get out tonight? Valerie had to work late, and Christie is with a sitter.
Can we talk about something else? Um, sure.
Something safe, like maybe the weather or why you're here and not at home in the first place.
- Ellyn, uh - Or how about your first marriage? I mean, did you give her a chance? Did you at least try? You think it was me, don't you? What? You think I ran out on her.
Well, yeah, that's what I thought.
Mm-hm.
No, she was the one who did the running.
My weight, remember? I remember you said you were heavy.
Yeah, fat.
I was And my first wife, she was always putting me on these little diets, and I'd lose a couple of pounds, and she'd alter my pants.
Then I'd celebrate by eating a whole box of Ding Dongs.
So she said she got tired of alterations, and she left me probably for some other fat guy she could try to change.
I'm sorry.
No.
No, it was great.
I mean, humiliation was a great motivator.
I lost the weight, and then I met Valerie, and she was the first Well, she's she's attractive, and I don't know.
I was flattered, I guess, that this incredibly attractive woman would want I I never stopped to ask myself if I really loved her.
You mean, you didn't love her when you got married? I don't think I ever knew Tell me about you.
How come you're not married? Um I've had my share of screwing up relationships.
Oh, no, you mean you're not perfect? Oh, you don't think I am, do you? No, but it doesn't matter.
[both chuckling.]
[Jeffrey sighs.]
So I guess I better - Yeah.
- Yeah.
Yeah, so I am going to Okay.
Well - Can we go somewhere? - Where? I don't care, anywhere.
Can we go to your apartment? Jeffrey, what are we doing? - We can't do this.
- Can we just go? - No, I can't.
No.
- Please, please.
No, really, I gotta [Melissa.]
I like the belt.
I think it sort of pulls the whole outfit together.
I don't know.
Black on a first date? Isn't that kind of funereal? Funereal? I think black's appropriate.
How about white? Oh, you still have your wedding dress, Hope? Unless you think that's overkill.
You know, we are just trying to help here.
Yeah, we're just trying to help.
How about that green thing that's just kind of sexy, hangs off your shoulder? We're just going to a movie.
- French movie? - No.
How about this? - Well - Uh, it's sort of - Okay.
- Yeah.
Yeah? Then you approve? Well, it is a first date.
First date I'd like to be going on a first date.
Are you kidding? They're terrible.
You get nervous.
You break out.
Come on, they're full of potential and expectation and mystery.
Oh, shh [laughs.]
Don't you just hate these triplexes? No, I love being crammed in a room the size of a shoebox with a dozen sweaty people.
And now they show commercials.
Do you believe they show commercials Oh, I'm sorry.
You can never see the screen anyway because the fat lady with the big hair sits right in front of you.
Every time.
Oh, there's a seat.
Ah.
So I hope you got Hope and Michael's handprints off your back.
What? What do you mean? You look like you were shoved on this date.
I look shoved? Blind dates always require a little shoving.
Um, you sound experienced.
Do you do this a lot? I have a lot of married friends.
They worry about me too much.
Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about, believe me.
- You do? - Yes.
Hey, looks like we're going to get lucky.
- Yeah.
- [fanfare.]
- Get back, man - No way, you're back at counter-punching.
- You're dead.
- And again, and again, and again.
- Where's the buck? - Inside, inside.
- said we must sign these.
- All right, before the end of this year.
Okay? Please.
We will, we will.
Oh, Gary, do you know Jeffrey? - Hi, Jeffrey Milgrom.
- Uh, Gary Shepherd.
- Nice to me you.
- Yeah, you, too.
There's some lukewarm beer in the fridge in there.
I've got an errand to run.
- I'll see you guys.
- Bye, thanks.
Okay, take it easy.
Sign the papers, okay? Bye.
He's our attorney.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've seen him around.
He's a nice guy.
Yeah, how long has he been going out with Ellyn? - Inside, Gary.
- What? - Inside.
- What? - What? - [Elliot.]
Shh, shh.
[Man in movie.]
I love you, too.
It's too bad the guy had to die at the end.
What about the woman? - [audience member.]
Shh.
- I mean, he shot her.
She goaded him into it.
He killed her husband.
You see, that's the trouble with passion.
You always get what you deserve.
Get a cup of coffee? Um, I'm a little tired.
Oh, a little tired.
Uh-oh, kiss of death.
No.
No, I really am.
Yeah, you'll probably tell Hope I was very nice.
I think you are very nice.
Hm, a little tired, very nice.
Strike two.
Next you'll probably say you just want to be friends.
Oh, listen, I should've called you.
I Oh, this sounds bad.
No, it's not bad.
It's just bad timing.
I'm sort of seeing someone.
Oh.
Hope doesn't know about it, so I Oh, I just should've called and cancelled.
I'm sorry.
No, that's okay.
You're honest.
I appreciate that.
I had a really good time.
So did I, but I guess that's the way it goes.
- Yeah, I'm sorry.
- Well, don't be.
Tomorrow night I'm going out with, uh, Libby somebody.
My married friends Dan and Joan set us up.
They promised me the same things about her that Michael promised about you.
Oh, you sure you're okay? Oh, hey, I'm good at this.
I'll walk you to your car.
Thanks.
- Hi.
- Oh, hi.
- Hi, I brought you some cannoli.
- Hi.
- Oh.
- You weren't here.
No, I was out.
Uh, don't worry.
I can only stay for about 20 minutes, so You're dressed up.
Um, yeah, I was on I went to a Ugh, it was a blind date.
You were on a date? Yes, Hope and Michael set it up for Well, what business is it of yours? None.
What was he like? - What? - Tell me about him.
I can't tell you about him.
Was he good looking, huh? Yeah, I suppose.
Yeah? Was he smart? Did he make you laugh? He was pretty smart, and I guess I laughed.
- How many times? - What? - Huh? - How many times did he make you laugh? Seven times.
He made me laugh seven times.
Only seven, huh? - Seven.
- Not eight.
Definitely not eight.
You didn't fall in love with him, did you? No.
Good.
I can go home now.
Do you have to? [elevator pings.]
[Rickie Lee Jones' "It Must Be Love".]
It must be love that whispers in my ear It must be love that we keep trying to hear [laughs.]
'Cause I imagined this kind of wonderful choice I imagine you hear the very same voice When I speak to you You say, "That's just my imagination" Oh no, no, no It must be love Oh, it must be love Perhaps one girl who was moving in a fine line Finds one boy in back that she can always stand behind And it's you and me 'Cause that's where we want to be Oh, it must be love Oh, it must be love People look through everything they see 'Cause there's so many other things to be I have seen you walking in the rain I wanted to know why you were crying I wanna fix what's wrong - I wish - What? That you didn't have to go.
You know, I wish that, too.
Do you believe that? Yeah, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.
Hm.
I'd like to make you breakfast.
I don't eat breakfast.
I just have a cup of coffee.
I'd like to make you coffee.
Let's have breakfast.
It's 4:00 in the afternoon.
[giggles.]
So, honey, what are you doing today? Oh, I don't know, dear.
I thought I'd clean the house and maybe play Bridge with the girls, and then maybe I'd go and get my nails done.
What about you, honey? Oh, you know, just another day at the salt mines.
Just trying to keep my little pumpkin happy.
Here, you eat one of these.
- No way.
Forget it.
No.
- Ooh, yummy, yummy pancakes.
Look at all that butter.
Come on.
Oh.
[laughs.]
You're a mess.
- Thanks to you.
- Here.
- Hm.
- Hm.
Mm, you're sweet.
You have to get back to the office.
I know.
I know.
I have to go.
So go.
I'm going.
So go.
I can't go.
Just go.
Want to go to the mailbox with me this afternoon? Yeah.
- Hi.
- Hey.
Looks like you're putting her to work.
Yes, I'm training her for the post office.
I'm returning your earrings.
That's good.
You haven't been returning phone calls.
Yeah, I've been really busy.
- Yeah.
- [Janey.]
There, I'm done.
So what did Billy think? Of the earrings? He wants to borrow them.
How did it go? It was He's a nice guy.
- And? - And what? And are you going to see him again? - Um, I don't know.
- [Janey babbling.]
Is there something else you want to tell me? I mean, you would if there was, right? Well, what's to tell? Is there anything else? You mean about the date? Mm, it's just one date.
Okay.
Okay.
But you did like him.
He's a really nice guy.
I know.
[Ellyn chuckles.]
Okay, well, I'm going to go, so bye.
You sure you don't want to keep these in case there's a next time? Oh, no, I don't want him to think I only have one pair of earrings.
[Melissa.]
I'm going to kill Russell.
He said this guy was great.
[Ellyn.]
I don't think he's so bad.
He's terrible.
The food's terrible.
The food is good.
Then maybe we should put the food on the wall and eat the paintings.
I think I should be singing the National Anthem.
What, does he only have three colors? Red, white, and blue.
There should be an amendment for keeping this guy from showing his work.
[Ellyn laughs.]
Ellyn.
[gasps.]
Oh, Valerie.
Yeah, and and Jeffrey.
We met at Hope and Michael's.
Yes.
- Hello.
Hi.
- [Ellyn.]
Hello.
Hello.
- Oh, this is Jeffrey Steadman.
- Melissa This is um, Melissa is she's Michael's hope uh, the cousin.
Um, these are the Milgroms.
Oh, the husband and wife attorneys.
- Right.
- I've heard a lot about you.
- Hi.
- Oh, what a nice surprise.
What do you think of the exhibit? - I think it's, um - Um I think I'm really interested in this one.
In buying it? I love the colors.
We have a really empty spot in the den.
What do you think, for that empty spot in the den? Uh, yeah, it would fill that spot all right.
Jeffrey says he always sees you at the Y.
[Jeffrey.]
I do.
I see her there sometimes.
Yes, I see him at the gym.
I have a membership, but I just don't ever seem to find the time to make it there.
I can't ever find the time either.
Well, I'm going to track down that guy with the champagne.
Oh, you're going to track down the guy with the champagne? - Yes.
- Oh, okay.
Well, it's really nice to see you again.
- Yes.
- Nice meeting you.
[Valerie.]
It's good meeting you.
It's nice meeting you, too.
Bye.
You okay? - No.
- Me, neither.
- He looks nice.
- I need champagne.
Okay.
[sighs.]
- I'm sorry.
- Yeah.
No, really, I am.
I didn't know you were going to be here.
God.
Listen, I was going to call you.
Valerie has to go out of town tomorrow, and she doesn't have to come back until the next day.
So? Christie's going to be sleeping over at one of her girl friends', so listen.
we could spend the whole night together.
We could? Ellyn, the whole evening - No, no.
- and the next morning.
Huh? I could make you dinner.
[whispers.]
Good-bye.
Hope, it couldn't possibly matter.
Besides it's homemade.
I got a big clump of wet noodle here.
Yes, I followed the directions.
Well, I took a shower when the water was boiling.
Okay, I can do that.
Uh-huh.
I sort of They're ripping.
Melissa, I realize this may not be your sphere of expertise, but do you know anything about how to personalize lasagna? Uh-huh.
Ah.
[doorbell rings.]
Her trip got cancelled.
- Did it? - Of course it did.
She was at home.
I couldn't call you.
I can't stay very long.
I made lasagna.
You made lasagna? Yeah.
You want to see it? Oh, that's that's terrific.
Can you freeze it? Sure.
Okay, so you freeze it, and we'll do this again, all right? Your kitchen smells good, smells like oregano.
Listen, this is ridiculous.
I don't want you here.
Why don't you just go? [sighs.]
No No, I don't have to go right now - Really, go.
- No, I got about 15 minutes.
Well, maybe traffic might be heavy and everything.
[clatters.]
- [Gary.]
Go.
- The Koran.
- Okay, um, no, uh.
- The Talmud, the Torah.
The Bible.
The Bible.
The Bible! - The Bible! The Bible! - [Michael.]
You said the Bible.
Like, ten times you said the Bible.
Wait, those dishes, those Mormon dishes, the Mormon plates The what? The what? Okay, the Bhagavad-Gita, obviously, and the Veda.
- What's that? - It's on there, guys.
[Melissa.]
The psalms.
The psalms? The Bible.
The Bible! - [Hope.]
No.
- That Buddhist thing.
- [Gary.]
Um - Buddha! The Buddha.
The Tripitaka.
- [Hope.]
You got it.
- The Tripitaka, yes, Tripitaka.
- What? - Oh - Wait, wait, wait, wait - Time.
[makes buzzing sound.]
Okay, okay, okay, you got eight.
You did not get the Dead Sea Scrolls Damn it, right.
and the Guttenberg Bible.
Guttenberg Bible? Give me a break.
- Oh.
- What kind of a category is famous holy books anyway? You guys always get the easy ones, like "things in a taco.
" Come on, we're going to kill them with this one.
Wait, where's Susannah's not here.
Yeah, she's been upstairs looking at the baby for, like, ten minutes.
Okay, I'll play on your team just this once.
All right, you want to time this? [Melissa.]
Here we go, here we go.
Okay, ready? Famous couples.
- Adam and Eve.
- Tom and Jerry.
Damon and Pythias.
- Who? - [Gary.]
Bert and Ernie.
Sacco and Vanzetti.
Jim and Tammy Faye.
Oh, you guys are pathetic.
Okay, okay, Of Mice And Men, Lenny and - Squiggy.
- [Gary.]
Yeah, Romeo and Juliet, right? Michael and Hope.
Gary and Susannah.
Melissa and, um Lee? Ellyn and Jeffr [sighs.]
Ellyn, I didn't say anything.
- Sure.
- No, really, not a word, not even to Lee.
- Really? - Yeah.
Oh, well, I don't know why I bother trying to keep anything secret.
Everybody knows everything around here anyway.
Just, uh, murdered Michael.
Hope and Susannah are burying him in the front yard.
Thank you.
This is my fault.
The day at the park.
- I saw y yeah.
- Oh, right.
I mean, I just didn't know that you guys were, you know? - Never mind.
- I'm sorry.
It's okay.
Just forget it.
I mean, you know, it's just I mean, Ellyn, it's just sort of one of those Just forget it.
Don't say anything.
I know what you're thinking.
You do? Yeah.
You're thinking I'm this ugh, I hate this.
No, what? I mean, Ellyn, this is your life.
You know, what you do, who you date, nobody cares.
I know, but I just hate the idea that you're all sitting around judging me.
- We're not judging you.
- We're not judging you.
You're doing that to yourself.
Ellyn, this is your life.
I mean, what do we know anyway? - Yeah.
- [Ellyn.]
Yeah.
Yeah, not much.
[chuckles.]
[door opens.]
- So you know.
- Yeah.
- And? - And what? And what do you have to say about it? I don't have anything to say.
- Right.
- Do you? What, do you want me to apologize or something? It's just that never mind.
Oh, Hope.
I really wish you could be in my shoes for just an hour, 15 minutes, or just just so you could see what it was like because it's not what you think.
I don't know.
I guess I don't know what it's like.
I just don't want to see you get hurt trying to rationalize something.
See, I know that Jeffrey's married and that it's a big deal, and I know it's a big mess, and I know that but it's also that he's just Jeffrey, and who he is and what I want are I really think that he's the man I've been looking for.
Jeffrey.
I really think so.
I'm afraid you like him because he is married, and that makes him unobtainable, and it's safe.
No, it's not.
I mean, I think that's what I thought at first.
I mean, I thought, wow, this is weird and scary and wrong, but now I Oh, Hope.
Hope, he's he's good.
He's passionate, he's I mean, it's like he's grown up.
He already knows what he wants, and he doesn't need to I mean, it's like he's there already.
He's not Oh, I don't know what I'm talking about.
I used to wonder how Michael and I ended up together, like it was destiny, but it's not.
It's simple.
I love Michael because I sleep in his arms every night, and we each have our separate days, but at night I get into bed with him.
In the morning we brush our teeth, and then we start all over again.
So what are you saying? I'm saying you have to sleep a lot of nights in a man's arms to know if it's real.
Yeah.
I don't have that.
I know.
I may never have that.
You're asking me if it's worth getting rid of somebody when you think they might be the one.
Yeah, I think so.
I think that's what I'm asking.
That's a hard one, Lynnie.
I wish I could help.
I mean, part of me wants to tell you to get rid of him because there's a lot of pain and baggage and other people involved.
I know.
But if he really means that much to you, then Hi.
- I'm sorry.
- How many minutes? Excuse me? How many minutes do we have this time? I have about an hour.
Oh.
Ellyn, uh, listen I know.
You said you'd do everything you could to accommodate me.
You said you would always be there for me, and here we are, and it's all about minutes.
- No - Why are you still married to her? I told you.
I don't know.
You said you don't love her.
Isn't that what you said? Ellyn, I can't respond to this.
Back off.
Okay.
I don't know if I can explain this.
Look, you don't know what my life has been like.
All of this, it's I mean, I Oh, jeez.
- All of this, it's new to me.
- This? I've never been in this situation before.
I've never been in this situation either.
No, no, no, not this situation, the married part, but you the two of us, what we have.
I mean, you know, two strikes, the third pitch, you don't expect to hit it out of the park.
I hate baseball.
- What? - I hate baseball.
I have never had this.
I'm in love with you.
And, okay, I don't know what to do about that.
So this is what you do, you stay with Valerie? This is being in love? Is that what it is? Sneaking around? We go to a restaurant, you pay in cash because you can't use your credit card.
You're afraid she'll see the receipt and get suspicious.
I know, I know.
It's just It's awful.
It's awful.
It's deceitful.
We're deceiving people.
That's what we're doing.
I can't call you.
I can't go to your house.
Ellyn, I'm sorry.
I am so sorry about all this.
I'm sorry, too.
You keep telling me how great it is, but you know something? It's not, and you know something else? I deserve more, a lot more.
You can't love me in your spare time.
That's not what I'm asking of you.
What are you asking of me? Patience.
For how long, Jeffrey? How long can we keep doing this? I don't know.
I guess that was the wrong answer, huh? Bingo.
Okay, then I'll leave Valerie.
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