The Affair

Ally: It's a what?

Elaine: A face bra. Next to aging and sun exposure, jogging is one of the leading causes of wrinkles. The up-and-down motion breaks down the skin's elasticity. This holds the face in place.

Ally: Elaine, you look like Hannibal Lecter.

Elaine: I may look silly, but this thing could be a gold mine. Ally, we could get a patent, and do an infomercial. I'm telling this is my best invention yet.

Ally: Even if we do get rich off of this, don't you think it would be embarrassing to tell people how we made our money?

Richard: There's no embarrassing way to make money. What's with the jockstrap? Somebody lay a trap?

Elaine: It's a face bra. I invented it. I plan to get a patent.

Richard: Run. Don't walk. I need to talk to you in private, Ally.

Richard : You remember Professor Dawson?

Ally : Why? What, what are you saying?

Richard : Well, evidence! You know, crim pro. You know.

Ally : Oh, oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Of course I remember him. Why?

Richard : He, he died Monday.

Ally: What?

Richard: A heart attack. Jogging, he just dropped. Ironic, really. He decides to take up running and he hits the ground dead.

Ally: He died?

Richard: I know you two were pretty tight.

Ally: Why do you say that?

Richard: Well, you researched a lot of his publishings, and I assumed you got along with the guy.

Ally: Oh, oh yeah.

Richard : Anyway, he was certainly fond of you. Evidently you were his favorite student.

Ally : Me?

Richard : Yeah.

Ally : Really?

Richard : That's what his wife says.

Ally : His wife? His, his, his wife, said, said that?

Richard : Yeah. She asked if you would be willing to be a pallbearer. Ally? Ally? Seemed pretty important to her. Can't tell her yes?

Ally: Okay.

Richard: Great.

Chapter 2

Ronny: So I thought we could drive up to Maine. The foliage is supposed to be peaking. And, uh, this friend of mine has this great place in Camden.

Ally: That sounds great. Good.

Professor Dawson: It's a crystal ball. It's beautiful.

Ally: I figured you'd like it.

Ronny: Ally, are you okay?

Ally: What? Um, well...

Elaine: She has to bury a dead mentor. It's hard enough to grieve without having the added pressure of lifting the coffin.

Ally: Could you guys both excuse me for a minute? I have to go check on something, and I'll be right back. Maine sounds nice. I like pretty leaves. Bye.

Elaine: Are you into venture capital?

Billy: What's up?

Ally: Not Professor Dawson. He's dead.

Billy: Oh, I heard. Yeah. I didn't know him too well.

Ally: I did.

Billy: Oh, I'm sorry, Ally.

Ally: His wife wants me to be a pallbearer.

Billy: Well, I guess you were close.

Ally: I slept with him.

Billy: What was that again?

Ally: I had an affair with him. Third year of law school.

Billy: You had an affair with Professor Dawson. Didn't you know he was...

Ally: Married?

Professor Dawson: Ally, you obviously knew this.

Ally: Well, I, uh, you said the marriage was over.

Ally: Of course I knew he was married. I just didn't wanna face it. I couldn't... I didn't... I couldn't think of myself as a home-wrecker. And I couldn't bear to think of him being in the same bed as...

Billy: So then what?

Ally: I broke it off immediately, about five months later.

Billy: Ally... Did he have kids?

Ally: Of course not. He... Only two little ones. Wasn't that bad what I did. I was in a monogamous relationship. I wasn't betraying anybody. You're just letting me talk because you know hearing my words is punishment enough. I know what you're doing. Oh God. How am I gonna be a pallbearer? They want me to carry his body which brings up my whole, you know, my death phobia. And I'll have to deal with that, too. I gotta carry something dead in a box. It's like on the same day I got to deal with two sure things in life: death and adultery. Stop letting me talk.

Chapter 3

Elaine: You see? When you jog, the face goes up and down.

Ronny: I don't really invest in infomercials. You think she's okay?

Elaine : Oh, sure she's fine. In fact, she's always a little tickled by drama. In time, she'll look back at this day and want to relive it.

Georgia: Hey.

Ronny: Hi.

Georgia: Elaine.

Elaine: Oh, it's not a good time, Georgia. Ally's in there having an upset.

Georgia: What now?

Elaine: A dead professor.

Mrs Dawson: Excuse me. I'm looking for Ally McBeal.

Elaine: I see. And you would be?

Mrs Dawson: The dead professor's wife.

Elaine: Oh. Excuse my bluntness. It is a device that I use to cope. Let me go get her for you. And I am very sorry for your loss.

Mrs Dawson: Thank you.

Billy's assistant: Doors closed.

Elaine: They have knobs.

Elaine: Billy, I have Georgia waiting for you. And, Ally, Professor Dawson's wife is here.

Ally: What?

Elaine: She'd like to meet with you.

Ally: Well, what, does she know I'm in here?

Elaine: Yes, I told her I would get you.

Ally: Okay. Tell her I'll be right there.

Elaine: Absolutely.

Ally: Oh God. What do I do?

Billy: She doesn't know about...

Ally: No! I don't think so. I mean, I mean she knew he had an affair because they split up for a while, but she didn't know it was with me or... Maybe she does. Maybe that's why she's here, maybe she has a weapon.

Billy: Ally, she asked you to be a pallbearer. Obviously she couldn't think of something going on between you and her husband.

Ally: Unless she's after some sort of sick revenge, making me carry him in some pine box. Oh, God, she knows.

Billy: Ally, go see her.

Ally: Easy for you to say. You didn't do it with her husband!

Georgia: Ally, hi!

Elaine: She's in your office.

Ronny: So, about the weekend, I'll just call or...

Ally: Mrs. Dawson. Hi. I'm so sorry about your loss.

Mrs Dawson: Thank you. Thank you for taking the time to see me.

Ally: Don't be silly.

Mrs Dawson: I know you and my husband were close. He spoke of you so often.

Ally: Oh, well, he was a wonderful...professor.

Mrs Dawson: Yeah. And I know he was close with many of his students but... The way he spoke about you...

Ally: (Oh, my God.)

Mrs Dawson: Do you mind if I ask you a question?

Ally: Sure.

Mrs Dawson: And I want you to just give me an honest answer.

Ally: Okay.

Mrs Dawson: Would you mind speaking at the funeral?

Ally: Excuse me?

Mrs Dawson: It wouldn't seem right not to hear from a former student. And you seem like the natural choice.

Ally: Oh, I, well, my voice doesn't carry great in large rooms. And my throat, I've been feeling a polyp.

Mrs Dawson: It would be important to him. And to me.

Ally: Okay. Sure.

Mrs Dawson: Thank you. The wake is tonight, and the funeral service is tomorrow.

Ally: Okay.

Mrs Dawson: Thank you.

Ally: Sure.

Chapter 4

Prof. Dawson: This is Daddy's friend, Ally.

Ally: Hi, Cara.

Prof. Dawson: She works with Daddy and she's gonna go to the zoo with us today. Okay, sweetheart?

Billy: Ally.

Ally: You scared me.

Billy: What happened?

Ally: She doesn't know.

Billy: Well, that's good.

Ally : Yeah, that's good, except that, that the bad part is, is that she asked me to speak at the funeral.

Billy : What?

Ally : Yeah, yeah. As his favorite student. And, and I said, "Yes."

Billy : You're going to get up there in church and eulogize a man...

Ally : Elaine!

Elaine : I pulled some bio stuff on professor Dawson. I thought for the eulogy it might help to be intimate.

Ally : Thank you, Elaine.

Elaine : And you have Ronald Cheanie on line three.

Ally : Tell him I'll call him back.

Elaine : His voice is beginning to take on a perturbed quality.

Ally : Elaine, tell him I'll call him back. And could you excuse us, please?

Elaine : Certainly.

Ally : So, um, ha, well, I, I guess if I can be an adulteress, it shouldn't be a stretch for me to get up and, uh...

Billy : Ally, you were close to him as a student. Just talk about that.

Ally: I don't know if I should work for you anymore.

Prof. Dawson: Why?

Ally: Well, well, lately, it, it doesn't seem, it doesn't always feel like work.

Ally: Billy, I really have to think hard to even remember him as a professor.

Billy: You never mentioned him before.

Ally: Well, yeah, yeah, because I couldn't even admit it to myself. I haven't even told Renee yet. I haven't told anybody and... Oh, God. Oh, God, please, you cannot tell a soul.

Billy: I won't.

Ally: Okay. I wouldn't even have told you except I really needed somebody to... Oh, God! How am I going to do this? The guy is going to be lying there in a casket.

Billy: Just breathe deep, don't talk too fast and you'll get through it.

Ally: Okay.

Billy : Hey, uh, do you want me to come to this thing?

Ally : Would you?

Billy : I had him for Con Law. I guess I could pay my respects.

Ally: Oh...

Richard: All set for the big wake? Ah, Ally, come here. Tonight, try not to look at it as a negative.

Ally: Don't look at it as a negative.

Richard: A lot of his former students will be there. This will be like a class reunion. Instead of a punchbowl, there is a coffin. But remember, reunions are meant to allow the more successful graduates to inform the less successful that, that's what they are. Less than. You and I? We're more than. Uh, especially me. I mean, I've got my own firm. I could possibly be the most. My, my point is life is all about attitude and tonight is a night for you to feel good about yourself. Yeah. That whole speech was a Fishism.

Ally: No doubt.

Richard: Hug to get started?

Chapter 5

Prof. Dawson: Do you... Do you know how long I've thought about doing that?

Ronny: Ally? Ally? Do you want me to go with you?

Ally: No. No, no, no. Billy and Richard are gonna be there, and I'll be fine. I don't need...

Ronny: Me? I know the back-story, Ally.

Ally: You do? Who told?

Ronny: You said. You and Billy basically grew up together.

Ally : Oh, oh, that, that backstory. Well, yeah, um, Billy, Billy had him as a professor and, and, and I think that he could, I, I, don't know, commiserate, or, and...

Ronny : And even though you're no longer a couple, when you feel like you're about to hit bottom, he's still the best cushion in town?

Ally : Something like that. I'm sorry.

Ronny: That's okay. It's, you know... But if you and I are gonna, you know, progress, you're going to have to let me in.

Ally: I know.

Chapter 6

Georgia: I think wakes are so ghoulish.

Ally: Don't tell me about it. Oh, God! It's an open casket.

Georgia: Can you imagine? It's a party for everybody to come and look at you dead! An embalmer does your makeup.

Billy: You're okay?

Ally: Fine.

Billy: Breathe through your nose. Don't talk too fast.

Ally: Okay.

Richard: I simply loved the man. The word is so overused these days but...

Mrs Dawson: Thank you for coming, Richard.

Richard: If not for him, I would not be where I'm right now.

Richard: I'd be in a lounge smoking a Cohiba.

Mrs Dawson: Hi, Ally.

Ally: Hello. Oh, hello.

Mrs Dawson: Hello. Thank you for coming. So many people came. It's wonderful.

Ally: He was wonderful. It's a wonderful night. How are you holding up?

Mrs Dawson: It's all a blur. I spoke to the minister, and he'll call you up after one of the songs.

Ally: Tonight?

Mrs Dawson: No, no. Tomorrow, at the funeral.

Ally: Right. Fine. Good.

Billy: Slow.

Ally: Shh. I feel like I might fall.

Billy: Why? You don't have to.

Ally: I do. I do.

Prof. Dawson: I have to stay with my family, Ally. I can't walk out on them.

Ally: Yeah, yeah. This is just a thing, James. It was a thing, I guess.

Prof. Dawson: No, Ally. You're the person I've always dreamed of all my life. I just didn't wait long enough.

Chapter 7
Ally: You know, when you think about it, whoever I'll end up with, assuming I'm lucky enough to end up with anybody, I cheated on him too.
Renee: How did you cheat on somebody you've never met?
Ally: Easy. Whoever I marry deserves somebody who puts a value on fidelity, obviously more than I do.
Renee: If you didn't value it, you wouldn't beat yourself up about it.

Georgia: Hey.
Billy: That's too much sex, Georgia. I'm too old.
Georgia: Yeah, you felt old.
Billy: First, when we go to bed. Then you wake me up at 3 in the morning. And now again. What's the matter?
Georgia: Statistically, most married couples make love 3.2 times a month. I just wanted to get October over with.
Billy: No, really. What's the matter? Your libido sometimes goes lock-step with your insecurity. I am not complaining. Part of me would like to keep you insecure forever. But only part of me.
Georgia: Maybe reading that Venus book again?
Billy: Maybe.

Chapter 8

Elaine: You have Katherine Dawson in your office. She wants to discuss the funeral.
Ally: Mine?
Elaine: She has been waiting since 8:30.
ALLY: (Okay. Lie. Just lie.)

Ally: Hi, Katherine.
Mrs Dawson: Hi. I'm sorry to intrude, but...
Ally: That's okay. I thought the wake went very well. Don't you think?
Mrs Dawson: It was you.
Ally: What?
Mrs Dawson: My husband left me briefly for another woman a few years ago. I always thought it was a member of the faculty, but... It was you.
Ally: Well, what... What makes you think that?
Mrs Dawson: My daughter remembers going to the zoo with you and her father. James wasn't a womanizer. It wouldn't be like him to stray unless it was for something special.
Ally: Well, as, as accusations go, at least that's a flattering one. (Where the hell is Elaine when I need her?)
Mrs Dawson: You would be the kind of woman he'd fall in love with. The way he used to speak about you. How could I be so blind? It was... It was right there in front of me.
Ally: We went on a couple of dates. It was a little, you know, thing. Small.
Mrs Dawson: Did he love you?

Prof. Dawson: I never meant to fall in love with you.

Ally: I don't know.
Mrs Dawson: Did you love him?
Ally: A little.
Billy: She's in there?
Elaine: I'm not positive what's going on, but it's good. I can feel it.
Billy: Maybe I should go in.
Richard: What's up?
Elaine: The dead professor's wife is in there with Ally. Whatever they're talking about, it's not that the mortician overdid ???
Richard: Maybe they're just going over the eulogy.

Mrs Dawson: I've actually been hoping that I would meet you, for a long time.
Ally: Oh? Why?
Mrs Dawson: Because I never knew what happened. For me it was like this big black hole. And all of a sudden, he wasn't there.

Prof. Dawson: It was a tragedy that I met you. I maybe had some chance of convincing myself that I was happy with my wife. But meeting you, it's a tragedy.

Ally: What did he say happened?
Mrs Dawson: He wouldn't talk about it. He just said, "I'm back, and it hurts too much to talk about why I was gone." I figured someday we would talk about it. And then he died.
ALLY: (Where the hell is Elaine?) Do you really want to talk about this?
Mrs Dawson: No. But I need to. Look, Ally. For me, the problem is, the man that I knew, he... But then again, maybe that's my problem. Did I know him? Maybe I never really knew him. Look, you don't have to tell me anything. It's just that I'm left here holding nothing but my memories. I don't even know if my memories are true.
Ally: I'll... I'll, um... I'll be right back.

Chapter 9

Ally: She knows.
Billy: She does?
Ally: She's waiting back there for me in my office.
Billy: Are you okay?
Ally: Yeah. Yeah. She's started to wonder whether she ever even really knew him. And I could tell her that it was just sex because I think that would lessen the betrayal for her but...
Billy: But?
Ally: But I think she's looking to cling on to the idea that he was really a good man. Which he was. And sex, I mean, is a cheap affair that cheapens him. I mean, I'm not sure she wouldn't rather hear we were just in love because, as painful as it is, it doesn't destroy her idea of who she thought he was. Does this make any sense?
Billy: What's the truth?
Ally: The truth? The truth is that he thinks the biggest tragedy of his life is not spending it with me.
Billy: You can't tell her that, Ally. You cannot tell her that.

Elaine: And what it does is holds the skin in place. Next to aging and sun exposure, jogging...
Ally : Isn't this fabulous? You, you know, medical studies do show that jogging causes wrinkles and, and, and, imagine, people run to preserve their youth, and it makes them look old. Terrible. And, and, and, and if you treat this mask with a moisturizer, it, it could even be better.
Elaine : I never thought of that. Maybe Retin-A.
Mrs. Dawson : Elaine, will you excuse us for a minute?
Elaine : Um, certainly. Retin-A. I wonder if you could time-release that.

Ally: So, where did we leave off?
Mrs. Dawson: You were going to give me a clue as to why my husband betrayed me.
Ally: Yes. That, well... Your husband and, you know...
Mrs Dawson: You?
Ally: Me. Yes. It...

Prof. Dawson: I wish I could say it was just some midlife crisis.

Ally: It was just a midlife crisis.

Prof. Dawson: I wish I could say I was...

Ally: Being sophomoric one last time.

Prof. Dawson: But it's not that.

Ally: That's all it was.

Prof. Dawson: I love you.

Ally: He loved you.

Prof. Dawson: If I didn't have any kids...

Ally: You were all that ever mattered to him.

Prof. Dawson: Ally, I have two children who need me to be there.

Ally: He loved you.
Mrs. Dawson: Well, I think... God, I... I had hoped there would be some explanation which would take away some of the...
Ally: I'm sorry.
Mrs. Dawson: Look. Under the circumstances, maybe you shouldn't speak at the funeral tonight.

Chapter 10

Vonda sings: Maybe I know that he's been cheating. Maybe I know that he's been untrue. But what can I do

Georgia: Those things are so disgusting. They also can cause cancer. Why do you smoke them?
Richard: Because we look good doing it. They're expensive and people know it. Do you think she'll plug the firm?
Billy : Sorry?
Richard : Ally, in the eulogy. Think she'll plug it?
Billy : Not right off.
Richard : Do you think she likes me? Not as a man but as a human being?
Billy : How could she not?
Richard : Well, sometimes I toss some jewel Fishisms her way. She just stares back with blanks.
Billy : Well, she gets thrown by profundity sometimes.
Richard: I'm gonna change my suit. Think we can all meet upstairs by half an hour? We all go together?
BILLY: Good idea.

Billy: So, are we gonna ever talk about it?
Georgia: About what?
Billy: About how a person can be so hot by night and so cold by day.
Georgia : It's just a little odd how Ally keeps going into your office and pouring out whatever it is she's pouring out.
Billy : I know. She just has stuff going on.
Georgia: Like what?
Billy: Well, I kind of promised her it'd be confidential.
Georgia: I'm your wife. Isn't the theory that husbands and wives tell each other everything?
Billy: Yes, but I did promise her on this.
Georgia: Oh... Whatever I add up to, I'm not her, am I?
Billy: Georgia, whatever she adds up to, she's not you. I've never been happier being anything than your husband.
Georgia: I know everything's great between us now. But you got to figure over the course we're gonna hit a few bumps. I guess I'm just nervous about Ally being in the next room when that happens.
Billy: Do you really doubt how much I love you?
Georgia: No.

Vonda sings: Maybe I know that he's been cheating. Maybe I know that he's been untrue.

Chapter 11

RENEE: I can go with you.
Ally: It's okay. We're gonna, um, meet back at, at the...
Renee: You know, Ally, you're not the first woman to have an affair with a married man.
Ally: Somehow that doesn't make me feel better. You know, what I did was worse than what he did.
Renee: How do you figure that? He was the one with the family.
Ally: Yeah. He took a risk. And me, I didn't even think about it. He had a wife, kids... I didn't even give that a thought.
Renee: The marriage was over. You said that, Ally.
Ally: But it wasn't over, was it? He stayed with her. It was never really over. It may have been close, but it... It wasn't over when I got in there. I put pain in that house, Renee. Anger. I mean, those kids lost their dad for a while because of me. And the little girl at the zoo... If a child can't trust her parents to love each other or to be honest with each other... I didn't even give that a thought.

Chapter 12

Elaine : I stayed late on account of the funeral. I know how things can slip through the cracks during times of wallow.
Ally : You're a godsend.
Elaine: Oh, Ally, I know how you hate to walk into your office and be surprised.
Ally: Who? The widow? Georgia?
Elaine: Cheanie.
Ally: You told him I was coming back?
Elaine: I did.

Ally: Ronny!
Ronny: Can we talk about it?
Ally: About what?
Ronny: Come on, Ally. Something's... You go behind closed doors with Billy, it may be innocent. But all the ways for me to go into a relationship, being confused isn't my favorite. Are you two...?
Ally: No!
Ronny: Then what?
Ally: My third year of law school, I had an affair with the dead professor. And I was ??? conflicted about the fact that I was the keynote speaker at his funeral. And the widow, she really needed to know whether it was a sex thing or whether their love had completely dried up on the marriage. And the truth seemed brutal, and I'm not a good liar. And so I've been going behind closed doors with Billy to confess and get his advice.
Ronny: You had an affair with your professor?
Ally: I knew you were gonna get stuck on that. No, no, no, no. Did you not hear the rest of what I said?
Ronny: Why didn't you come to me to confess or for advice?
Ally: I don't know. I just.. I just didn't think we were quite ready for that.
Ronny: Well... I think you're right.
ALLY: (I know that tone.)
Ronny: Look, I'm still interested. I still... I'm gonna change "overmatched" to just "over my head".
Ally: Ronny, the last few days have hardly been typical.
Ronny: Oh, but they have. The next high-wire act comes tomorrow. We just don't know what is gonna be it. You know, even if I was mature enough to handle this Billy thing, I don't want to. I don't want to be. I like being jealous, I like being possessive.
Ally: Ronny, just give me a couple more days. Can you at least do that?
Ronny: No. I realize it's probably my loss. But... There are just some victories I'm not equipped to handle.

Chapter 13

Richard: Hey, Ronny! Hey, we're all going to a funeral. Join us. It will be fun.
Ronny: Rain check.

Richard: Is it Ally?
Elaine: He just dumped her.

Richard: Ally, is it true? You and Cheanie?
Ally: I'll try to convince him not to fire the whole firm, Richard.
Richard : It's been a hard two days. You lost a professor you were close to. Katherine told me how close, by the way. That gave me a jump. Ally, one of the keys to life... The fast-forward. Every movie has its lousy parts. The trick is fast-forward through. Since time passes, you'll look back and say, "Oh, that little adultery thing. Oh, there." You fast-forward. Then, right now. And you're over it.
Ally: Fast-forward?
Richard: It's the Fish way.
Ally: That's your best one yet, Richard.
Richard: Is it? Well...

Chapter 14

Glory be to the Father
And to the Son
And to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning
Is now and ever shall be.
World without end.
Amen.
Amen.

Minister: We tend to judge people by the last chapter. Like the defining part of a man's life is where had he come to by the end. And it would be easy to do that here, wouldn't it? James Dawson was a successful professor, a wonderfully loving father and husband. But don't do that. Think of James yesterday as well as today. Think of what he might have been doing, say, 4 years ago. There's a whole life there. He didn't just love his family. He loved others. It was once said to me, "One true measure of a person is how much pain he or she causes others." Because it occurs to me that one can cause pain, enormous pain, simply by leaving. We hurt because he's gone. Before we continue on to our next hymn, we shall hear from one of James' former students. Ms. Ally McBeal. Ms. McBeal?
Ally: What do I do?
Richard: Go.
Ally: How can I go?
Richard: Go.
Minsiter: Ms. McBeal? I'm terribly sorry, but Ms. McBeal has been canceled. They said she was suddenly unavailable. Oh, it appears she is available. We'd be delighted.
Richard: Plug the firm.

Well, the thing about funerals... The guest of honor is always dead. And we hear people talk about the deceased, and then we hear all these things that we never knew and we think, "Oh, I wish I had known that." Or, "I wish I had known him better." Then we start to think, "Maybe that person up there is just saying nice things because, of course, you have to. You can't be at a funeral and say something not nice. You have to say something good no matter... You know, there's that story about the terrible, awful man who died and nobody could think of anything nice to say about him until finally somebody got up and said, "His brother was worse." That, that story doesn't apply here, does it? And, but what my point is, is, is... (Lost.) this. You hear all the things that we've heard about James Dawson and, um, they're all true. I mean, sometimes you think you know a person, and then you're not sure, but with, with James, you, you really did know him. And he, he, he is everything that the canned funeral book words say he is. Sorry. And he was all the professor and the good soul and the charitable. He was everything that we're hearing, but mostly, mostly he was a man hugely devoted to his family, his daughters, his wife. And I think in the end that's how he would have liked it to be said. He, he loved his wife and kids more than life itself. And that's something. A good father and a good husband, a good man and... We don't get to say that very often about people these days, do we? And you thought you really knew him. And you did.

Chapter 15
Mrs Dawson: Go with Granny and Grandpa. I'll meet you in the car.

Mrs Dawson: Ally. Thank you for your kind words.
Ally: Oh. Well, he meant a lot to me. I mean...
Mrs Dawson: I know.

Billy: Hey. Good speech.
Ally: Yeah, right. What are you doing here? It's almost midnight.
Billy: Just checking on you.
Ally: Oh, well, um... Well, I'm fine. How did you know I was here?
Billy: Well, you usually work through things with work. And I didn't figure you'd be with Cheanie. I'm sorry about that.
Ally: Oh, hey, for the best.
Billy: Really?
Ally: There were so many ways he just wasn't you... Right. Wasn't right. Anyway, thanks for checking on me.
Billy: Sure. Hey, do you remember when you thought you flunked Property and the stereo was broken and we just pretended to hear music because you said you needed to dance?
Ally: Yeah. What was that? That was a Johnny Mathis song. The one about the pyramids.
Billy: Yeah. I think you can use one dance.
Ally: Yeah, right.
Billy: It always made you smile.
Ally: No, my smiling license's been suspended.
Billy: One dance. Goes no further. Remember the song?
Ally: No.
Billy: You do too.
Ally: See the pyramids along the sand
Billy: Wall.
Ally: It was sand.
Billy: Wall.
Ally: No, there it was sand.
Billy: It was wall.
VONDA: See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sunrise on a tropic isle
Just remember during all the while
You belong to me