(David comes in to Blue Moon hung over) David ---You think for all the rent we pay here we could get a room that didn't spin around. *** David ---I come to work two hours late looking like something that got found under a sofa cushion, and you give me a bonus check? What is reality? Maddie ---David, I've accepted the fact that you miss meetings. David ---You have? Maddie ---I have. David ---Oh, no you haven't. Maddie ---Getting mad takes too much time and energy...I've got a business to run. David ---Oh, I see...We're gonna get the old "I'm not gonna get mad at David" speech. Happens once a quotes, usually lasts about one episode. I seem to remember the last time I heard this speech you were dancing around in your underwear doing the horizontal hoochie coochie with the spaceman. *** Maddie ---David, I'm not saying there are things about me that you know better than anyone else in the world...but there's a lot of other things...parts of me you've never seen. David---Like that extra thigh you've got stashed in the closet. *** David ---So...What you're saying is that after four years, 93 million miles to the sun and back, that this is just a casual relationship. Maddie ---Of course not, David! You know that's not true...We're friends, good friends...better than good friends. We're....pals. David ---Pals? Maddie ---Pals. David ---For a minute there I thought you were gonna say chums, or worse yet...buddies. *** David ---My habits are not mine own, I merely rent them. *** David ---C'mon, Maddie. You don't just forget a person. I remember every pore on every body that I've ever rubbed ribs with. Every mole, every birthmark, every hill, dimple, pimple, tattoo... Maddie ---Tattoo? David ---Etched right up here. Same as you. Maddie ---I don't remember everything about every encounter I've ever had. David ---Well, how many we talking here? Maddie ---David... David ---Just a ball park figure. Maddie ---It's personal. David ---We're discussing a case, it's business. Maddie ---How many people I've been intimate with... David ---Intimate?...Is that before or after pals? Maddie ---...in my life is none of your business...It has nothing to do with this case or any other case. David ---Well, if you put them all together, could you get up a game of football? Maddie ---David... David ---Basketball? Maddie ---David...! David ---Bridge? Ping-pong? Maddie ---I don't wanna talk about this. David ---Alright then I'll tell you...Six....Let's see. There was the football player in high school... Maddie ---I didn't date football players. David ---...under the bleachers after the big game...You were worried about your reputation, but when you saw him in shoulder pads and cleats, you threw caution to the wind, and your legs in the air. Maddie ---I'm not listening to this. David ---Then there was Joe College, golf team, average appearance, had his own room in the frat house, had a sign on the door that said "Slippery When Wet." Maddie ---I hope you're enjoying yourself. David ---After college you moved to the city... Maddie ---Obviously, you're enjoying yourself. David ---...you had an affair, probably some unavailable guy, probably married, which you broke off and then took a vow of celibacy, which... Maddie ---Why are you doing this to me? David ---..looked pretty good until you ran into the spaceman again...Now, does he count twice?...Then you had a fling with a pal and that leaves room for a one night stand. Maddie ---Are you finished? David ---Yeah..that's six. Maddie ---You're wrong. David ---Well, I don't know if you put out for the football player... Maddie---Maybe I did and maybe I didn't... David ---So there was a football player.... Maddie ---...the point is that if the football player showed up on my doorstep tomorrow, I'm not even sure I'd recognize him. David ---You're right...With a little cherry bomb like you, I'd keep my helmet on too. *** (discussing the bounty check for Richard Cooper, who "died" when his car blew up) Maddie ---I don't care...We're not gonna keep it. David ---Why? We found him...It said dead or alive. It didn't say anything about being charbroiled. *** Maddie ---You're just as confused about us as I am. David ---As far as I'm concerned there isn't anything confusing about us. "Us" banters and "us" solves cases and "us" used to do "it" alot more than "us" is doing it now. *** David ---I know what you are thinking...You're thinking, you selfish swine... Maddie ---That's the nine o'clock version of what I'm thinking. *** (going through Nora Cooper's lingerie) David ---Why don't women wear all the good things on the outside? *** (on the bicycle) Maddie ---Pump! David ---I'm pumping! Maddie ---Pump harder! David ---I'm pumping as hard as I can! Maddie ---I know for a fact you can pump harder when you want to! David ---That's easy for you to say...All you have to do is go along for the ride. *** |