Quote-athon!! "I'm Curious....Maddie."

[bluemoongirl]

Ok peeps....here 'tis. I will admit, in the spirit of the 'greatness' that is this episode....I have decided to quote it exactly. So I cheated and watched the ep. So sue me. It's been 20 yrs. ;D I got most of it right in my head, though - as I was typing. I only put in minor direction points....but other than that, it's all dialogue. I decided to forgo the opening re-cap. "Oh hell! You can read the card!".... Have fun, kiddies!!!

“I’m Curious….Maddie”

Maddie sneaks back in the house to the tune of ‘When a Man Loves a Woman….’

Sam: “Welcome Home.”
Maddie: “You scared me.”
Sam: “Didn’t mean to.”
Maddie: (sighs) “Morning”
Sam: “Yeah. Sure is.”
Maddie: “You’re probably wondering.”
Sam: “Probably right”
Maddie: “I was on a case.”
Sam: “Case?”
Maddie: “The Johnson case. There was a new development. The phone rang in the middle of the night. You were asleep. It was just this case. I had to go.”
Sam: “Did you go on this case by yourself?”
Maddie: “By myself? No. I wouldn’t go out in the middle of the night by myself. No. There was someone else - other than me.”
Sam: “Ok…Hey, uh, would you like some breakfast?”
Maddie: “Breakfast? You made breakfast?”
Sam: “Yeah, I was just showing off. I just wanted to show you I make a mean bowl of Cornflakes. I would’ve waited, but I didn’t know when you were coming back. So - hungry?”
Maddie: “Hungry? You did this?”
Sam: “I did this.”
(Maddie sighs)
Sam: “Come on.”
Maddie: “Where?”
Sam: “To bed.”
Maddie: “Sam I don’t think….”
Sam: “No, not us. You. You need to sleep.”
Maddie: “I don’t need any sleep. We have a lot to talk about.”
Sam: "Talk later. C'mon."
~~~~~~~
(Maddies’ bedroom. phone rings)
Maddie: “Hello? -Sam wait.- Hi mom. No. No, I wasn’t actually doing anything. I worked all night, and I was about to get some sleep. No. There’s nothing to report. Nothing special going on. Just the usual routine. Uh huh. No, I’ll call you later. I love youtoo, mom. Bye. - Sam I don’t want you to think that I haven’t thought about it . About what you said last night. I don’t want you to think I took it – casually.”
Sam: “Get some sleep. We’ll talk about it when you wake up.”
~~~~~~~~
(David wakes up suddenly to see Sam standing over him)
Sam: “Getting to be a familiar sight - you flat on your back. Guess you didn’t hear me knock, huh? Your keys from the other night. I think it’s time you and me talked. The way I see it - the situation is. We have something in common - some ‘one’ in common. You following me so far? Kind of a shame it had to come down to this. You see - I like you David. And you’re hard not to like. But the fact remains, we got a problem. See -she’s real confused. Which is kinda funny cuz uh, I don’t think there’s anything to be confused about. I mean look at you. You’re a mess. Look at the way you live. Look at this place. Hey, don’t get me wrong. I mean - it’s kinda endearing. And I know that you like it. But, I happen to think that Maddie deserves better.”
David: “You do, huh?”
Sam: “Yup. Yeah, I sure do. See - I’ve known her for a long time. I know what she needs. I know what she wants. You're not even close. It’s like I said. She’s real confused. Kind of unfortunate. Last night I made her a proposition - a real serious proposition. One that I think under any other circumstances, she would have jumped at. See - what I’m trying to say - is that if you don’t really care about her - you should tell her. And if you do care about her....well, she should know that too. Its just that it’s real obvious who and what’s best for her. It’s real simple David. Why don’t you do everybody a favor and just back off.”
~~~~~~~~
(elevator doors open. Maddie walks slowly to the office)
Maddie: “Morning Ms. Dipesto.”
Agnes: “Good morning, Ms. Hayes”
(enters office - Maddie is surprised to see David sitting in her chair.)
David: “Why didn’t you tell me? (she runs out of the office and down the hall.) Maddie! Hey! Come here! He asked you, didn’t he!”
Maddie: “I don’t want to talk about it!”
David: “He did it, didn’t he!”
Maddie: “I don’t want to talk about!”
David: “You see I find this really interesting, that’s all. According to him, he asked you last night – noche - last night. Before you came to my place. Before we ran all over town. Hither and yon - yon and hither. Well, I don’t recall you mentioning it.”
Maddie: “You’re right I didn’t mention it. And you want to know why I didn’t mention it. I didn’t mention it because it’s none of your damn business!”
David: “None of my damn business! None of my damn business?!”
Maddie: “None of your damn business!!”
David: “Well – alright - maybe it is none of my damn business. But I got a right to know.”
Maddie: “Right to know. What right to know! You don’t have any right to know!”
David: “Oh no!”
Maddie: “No!!”
(elevator doors open – M&D walk in and out)
David: “He asked you didn’t he! He said it, right?!”
Maddie: “Stop it!”
David: “No! Look! He said it. Didn’t he?!”
Maddie: “Get out of here!!”
(elevator door close – Maddie is audibly frustrated. They head back to the office.)
Maddie: “I want to be alone!”
David: “So what did you say?”
Maddie: “I want to be alone.”
David: “You said that?”
Maddie: “I’m saying that!!”
David: “Are you saying you said that, or that you’re saying that?”
Maddie: “I wanna die.”
David: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Who’d you say that to?”
(Re-enters office)
Agnes: “You’re back!”
David: “You’re right.”
Maddie: You’re scum!"
(in office)
David: “I just want to talk to you about this.”
Maddie: “Why?”
David: “Why? Why, Maddie….”
Maddie: “David I asked you a question. Why should I talk to you about this. What difference will it make?”
David: “It’ll make a lot of difference.”
Maddie: “It won’t make any difference.”
David: “I don’t believe you’re saying this.”
Maddie: “The two of you act like you’re competing for me. Ms. Dipesto comes in here and makes speeches about how you’re falling apart. You walk around here like the jilted lover, like the world is coming to an end. Well, you’re not the jilted anything, David. You won’t even put yourself in the game. It’s not fair. You want me to tell you everything. But you tell me nothing. I don’t know how you feel. Am I supposed to think that because you chased me down the hall, that you care about me that you don’t want me to marry Sam?.... How about we do it all again. Only this time, I’ll chase you. How do you feel about me, David?! How do you feel about all this, David?! I have a right to know, don’t I? Don’t I!....Yes. He asked me to marry him. No. I haven’t said yes, yet. But yes, I’m thinking about it. He’s willing to make a commitment to me. How about you? If you want to say something, now’s the time to say it. If you want to talk, talk. C’mon David….speak now or forever hold your peace…Right....Are we through?”
David: “Sure sounds like it.”
Maddie: “Sure does.”
(fade out)

(commercial break….”Seagrams. Golden Wine Coolers.”)

[elvira]

Wow. You are great. It's creepy, because even though I haven't seen this episode in ages, some of it is very familiar. I can see some of the scenes in my head, hear the voices. Not everything, but snippets. Thanks for this.

[rose35]

Oh my....This is too funny. You really did it BlueMoon Girl! Wish i could take over form her but my twins are keeping me busy. I feel like i am watching this episode LOL Hmmm wish i could go and watch it right now but the kids are watching their programs during the day. I watch my Moonlighting at night once they go to sleep LOL Maybe i watch it tonight

[bluemoongirl]

elvira said:

Wow. You are great. It's creepy, because even though I haven't seen this episode in ages, some of it is very familiar. I can see some of the scenes in my head, hear the voices. Not everything, but snippets. Thanks for this.

You're welcome. But, I'm not really great, Elvira. I remembered a lot of it, but I cheated and watched the ep. I typed while it played. I was going to try to do it from memory, but I didn't want to screw it up so it's verbatum. Sorry, Rose...couldn't help it. Didn't want to get the dialogue wrong.
So for those who haven't seen this ep in eons or never saw it - at least it's refresher course. Ok, Rose. Now it's your turn....

~blue moon girl
when is Season 3 coming....

[babyhayes]

wow, fantastic, thoroughly enjoyed reading that...now who's going to carry on? Please?!

[bluemoongirl]

I'll finish it .... it's you're interested BabyHayes.
Try to have it the next day or so....

[bluemoongirl]

Act 2

(All the employees are ‘bummed’ – “Stormy Weather” is the score to this scene. Agnes and Burt are playing Go Fish.)

Herbert: “Life’s funny, isn’t it? I mean the delicate balance. The fragility. The precariousness of any given moment.”
Agnes: “Do you have any three’s?”
Herbert: “Take office relationships….Just to randomly pick something off the top of my head. One minute, they’re safe and sane. All bark and no bite. Then suddenly…they change.
Agnes: “It’s true.”
Herbert: “Tricky figuring out how to handle it.”
Agnes: “Hmm.”
Herbert: “Lot of conflicting emotions. Like…will you miss the sexual tension. Day in and day out rush of adrenaline you get from….being very close to somebody you’re… wilding excited about, and yet….don’t know whether you really should have.”
Agnes: “Or will it be wonderful getting to know that person in a whole new way?.”
Herbert: “Is what’s happening, hypothetically speaking, is what’s happening a natural hormonal reaction to somebody you spend a lot of time with?”
Agnes: “ Or is it the real McCoy?”
(Bert starts climbing over the desk to kiss Agnes.)
Herbert: “Do you risk telling that person how you long for her. How…how all you can think about is putting Mathis on the walkman, and dancing with her in the executive washroom.”
Agnes: “Or do you keep your feelings to yourself, and just let that person find another person to love.”
Herbert: “When the person each of you really wants, is right under your noses.”
Agnes: “When the person each of you really wants, is right under your noses.”
Herbert: “Boy, you can really see the problem Mr. Addison must be having.”
Agnes: “Not to mention Ms. Hayes.”
(Main office door opens suddenly and Bert falls off the desk. Sam enters.)
Herbert: “Take the beltway around this one, bucko!”
Sam: “Pardon me?”
Herbert: “The scenic route is out.”
Agnes: “Ms Hayes is expecting you.”
Sam: “Thanks.”
(Sam heads for Maddie’s office. Agnes and Burt scurry to David’s office- which is a total disaster. He’s watching Divorce Court on tv.)
Herbert: “Mr. Addison?”
David: “Excuse the mess. Got a little frustrated. Couldn’t find any paperclips.”
Agnes & Herbert: “Oh well, I know how that can be.
That…that is frustrating.”
David: “You ever notice how many bombs we got on daytime tv. I mean you got your occasional Oprah. Maybe a Vanna here and there. But mostly bombs.”
Agnes: “Mr. Addison.”
David: “You ever watch Divorce Court? It’s pretty good. Husband whines – wife whines. Lawyer does his little dance. And while uh, she goes home with lovely parting gifts. And he gets the room at the Y. (laughs cynically) Marriage…..So, just in the neighborhood, or what?”
Herbert: “Sam’s here.”
David: “Well, I guess he’s gotta be somewhere. Maybe Saturn’s closed.”
Agnes: “They’re going to dinner.”
David: “Kay.”
Herbert: “Well, sir, I…”
Agnes: “It’s just that…”
Herbert & Agnes: “We just thought…”
Agnes: “We thought that there might be something you might wanna say….”
Herbert: “… to Ms. Hayes.”
Agnes: “While she still is ‘Miss’ Hayes.”
(David runs out of the office- H&A give each other high-fives. David goes down to the parking garage. Sam and Maddie are leaving in the BMW. David stands in front of the oncoming car. Sam skids on the brakes. David tries desperately to get Maddie out of the car – to talk to her.)
David: (yells at car.) “Hey! Hey!....Maddie.”
Sam: “David, c’mon. Time out. What are you trying to do?”
David: “This has got nothing to do with you!” (back to Maddie) Get out of the car.”
Sam: “Will you get your hand off the car, please.”
David: “Maddie I want to talk to you. Hey, didn’t you hear me. I wanna talk to you.”
Sam: “But see, ‘she’ doesn’t want to talk to you.”
David: “Butt out, Buck Rogers!!” (back to Maddie) Look, I just wanna talk to you, please.”
Maddie: “Go away David.”
(David scrambles over the hood of the car and tries to get in. Maddie jumps out and hurries to the elevator.)
Sam: “Maddie!”
Maddie: “I can’t deal with this. I can’t deal with this.”
David: “Maddie. Come ‘ere. I wanna talk to you. Hey!”
Maddie: “Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God! Leave me alone - both of you!”
(doors close on Maddie in the elevator.)
Sam: “David. Why don’t we just stop.”
David: “Get your hands off me pal.”
Sam: “How ‘bout me and you take a walk around the block.”
(they fight)
Sam: “You’re an ass, you know that.”
David: “I just wanted to talk to her.”
(Maddie re-emerges from the elevator to see David on the ground with a split lip.)
Maddie: “I want the two of you…. On my God! David!”
David: “That me. Missed it, Maddie. Fight of the century. The barrage in the garage. TKO, SOS, SOB…that’s me. (walks away) I’m fine. I’m fine. I came down here cuz I wanted to talk to you – two. I didn’t realize how busy you are. But now, of course, I realize how busy you are. I’m fine. I’m great. Really. Just walking along, singing a song…. ‘I’m singing in the rain, I’m singing in the rain, what a glorious feeling…I’m hap-happy again.”
(Maddie sadly watches David walk away.)
(Fade out)

commercial break: “Some people say I’m attractive…I say I agree” - Loreal

[ryangie97]

Wow I am impressed Bluemoongirl

like your commercial break ;D

[bluemoongirl]

Hey, believe me, Angie. I'm using up some valuable 'couch potato' time doing this for ya'll. ;D
But it's fun...it's a distraction from the 'work' I'm supposed to be preparing for.

[bluemoongirl]

P.S. I really hate when I make typos...Grrrrr!!
Sorry....

[elvira]

This is great, bluemoongirl. Thanks so much!

Now, you have to give us the rest! Soon! I remember snippets of it when you quote it, but I can't remember what comes next!!! We're counting on you!

[bluemoongirl]

"Moonlighting will return in a moment."

[bluemoongirl]

ACT 3

(Sam and Maddie are driving in the car. There is palpable tension between them. And Maddie is distant and non-responsive.)
Sam: “For what it’s worth, I didn’t take the first swing.”
Sam: “Ok!”
Maddie: “Sam, does it really matter?”
Sam: “Yeah. Yeah it matters to me. Just to set the record straight, I didn’t start any of this.”
Maddie: “I didn’t say you did.”
Sam: “Nope. No ya didn’t. You haven’t said a thing….You know it’s kinda funny, Maddie. I come to pick you up for dinner, your partner – he throws a roadblock on the way out, grabs you out of the car, tries to separate my head from my shoulders….Somehow I can’t shake the feeling that somehow I’m being cast as the bad guy.”
Maddie: “Nobody’s calling you the bad guy. Nobody’s calling you anything.”
Sam: “You know what else is kinda funny. The last time I checked my watch, it was 36 hours since I asked you what I asked you. Now I haven’t heard the slightest response. Which wouldn’t be too bad, except that the woman I asked, on the very same night I asked her, hadn’t left our bed in the middle of the night….Hey, but that’s not what sticks in my craw the most. Um-Um.You wanna know what that is?...That’s when the woman I asked to marry me, the morning after I asked her, tells her mother, that I’ll lay odds that she hasn’t talked to in quite awhile, that there’s nothing going on. That’s it’s just the ‘same old routine’. I don’t know…. Really kinda funny, Maddie…. I’m not saying you don’t want to be married. I’m just saying maybe it’s not to me.”
Maddie: (sighs) “Well, I don’t think I feel much like having dinner.”
Sam: “Fine. Let’s go home.”
Maddie: “Yeah, right. My home.”
Sam: “What’s that supposed mean?”
Maddie: “Nothing. It means nothing.”
Sam: “It’s mean something.”
Maddie: “It’s means!…I need time. I need space. I’m not glib. If you want glib marry David…. I’ve gotta think this through. That’s who I am! That’s what I am.! And while we’re on the subject..!”
Sam: “Will you stop yelling.”
Maddie: “….who told David Addison about your proposal?”
Sam: “Me! Me.”
Maddie: “You?!”
Sam: “I did. Yes.”
Maddie: “Thank you.”
Sam: “You gotta problem?”
Maddie: “Yeah, I got a problem. It’s none of your damn business.”
Sam: “None of my damn…?”
Maddie: “It’s none of your damn business! It’s my business to tell him! It’s my business to even choose to tell him! Mine! My business – my choice!...My God!! This isn’t something you settle between the two of you! This is something I settle between the two of us – the one of me! Don’t I have something to say about all this! You and I may have known each 20 years longer than me and David – ‘who’ isn’t the issue here! But that doesn’t mean that you can waltz in here after all these years, and stake your claim like I was a piece of real estate!”
Sam: “I didn’t think that’s what I did.”
Maddie: “Well, that sure feels like what you did!”
Sam: “I guess maybe I’m just not used to asking someone to marry me.”
Maddie: (sighs) “I know. I’m not used to being asked.”
(cut to: the car pulls up in front of Maddie’s house.)
Sam: “Home.”
Maddie: “Sorry about dinner.”
Sam: “It’s ok. I’ll take a rain check.”
Maddie: ”Sam, I think maybe I’d like to be by myself for awhile.”
Sam: “Me too.”
(both get out of the car)
Sam: “Yeah. Right.”
Maddie: “No. Really.”
Sam: “It’s easier if I go.”
Maddie: “No, it’s easier if I go.”
Sam: “You stay here.”
Maddie: “No you stay here.”
Sam: “This is your home.”
Maddie: “But you have no place else to go.”
Sam: “I’ll go to somebody else’s home. I’ll go to a hotel.”
Maddie: “Please, it’s ok. I’ll take the car and you take the house.”
Sam: “Work out the alimony later.”
Maddie: “I’m sorry. See ya later.”
Sam: “Yeah. See ya later.”
(Sam goes in the house.)
(cut to: Maddie laying on her office couch in the dark after hours. She gets up and goes to David’s office. Trying to open the door she sees what he has done to his office.)
Maddie: “David…”
(She starts to clean up – Agnes has returned to the office to do the same thing.)
Agnes: “Ms. Hayes. I thought you were going to dinner.”
Maddie: “Yeah, I know. I didn’t feel much like dinner. I didn’t feel much like anything.”
(Maddie has picked up David’s broken hockey stick.)
Agnes: “Mr. Addison’s favorite. He must have been pretty upset.”
Maddie: “What are you doing here, Ms. Dipesto? It’s late.”
Agnes: “I don’t know. I just didn’t want him to come in here tomorrow and find this mess. He’s so…”
Maddie: “I know. You’re a good person, Agnes.”
(Agnes starts picking things up.)
Agnes: “I know this is none of my business, Ms. Hayes. But it seems like Mr. Addison isn’t the only one who’s upset around here.”
Maddie: “I’m fine.”
Agnes: “If there’s anything I can do.”
Maddie: “No. I don’t think so.”
(Agnes nods.)
Agnes: “Wanna get wrecked?”
Maddie: “Excuse me?”
Agnes: “You know. Bombed, pickled, polluted. All the boy detectives do it.”
(cut to: M&A bellying up to the bar.)
Agnes: “It’s better at the end of the bar. People don’t try to pick you up. And it’s easier to get the bartenders attention.”
Bartender: “What’ll it be, ladies?”
Maddie: “White wine, please.”
Agnes: “Wine gives me a headache. I think I’ll have double Kamakazie.”
Maddie: “So.”
Agnes: “So?”
Maddie: “I don’t know.”
Agnes: “Oh.”
Maddie: “Not only do I not know. I don’t even know why I don’t know, you know?”
Agnes: “I think so.”
(Maddie watches as Agnes downs her first Kamakazie.)
Agnes: “You know. When I have a big problem, and I need someone to talk to, I talk to Mr. Addison. I’m not saying that’s what you should do….”
Maddie: “Good.”
Agnes: “But he usually has good advice. And then he says one of those cute little things that only Mr. Addison can say….”
Maddie: “Ms. Dipesto.”
Agnes: “….Or he tells one of those cute little stories that only Mr. Addison can tell.”
Maddie: “Ms. Dipesto!”
Agnes: “And then suddenly, I feel all cheered up. Like magic. Like Jiffy Pop – without the grease.”
Maddie: “Ms. Dispesto! This is not a problem I care to discuss with Mr. Addison.”
Agnes: “Oh….Hey! People are thirsty down here!”
Maddie: “Maybe this is not something you can discuss with anyone. Cuz no one else knows what’s in your heart.”
(Agnes has just downed another Kamakazie.)Agnes: “Like Mr. Addison says, you can lead a horse to water, but that doesn’t make him a duck.”
Maddie: “What does that mean?”
Agnes: (laughs) “I don’t know. It just always sounds so cute, when Mr. Addison says….”
Maddie: “I don’t care what Mr. Addison says. This is not about Mr. Addison!”
Agnes: “It isn’t?”
Maddie: “It isn’t!”
Agnes: “Oh….Bartender! What is this? The self-serve isle?”
Maddie: “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to snap. I’m confused. It’s just that marriage is such a huge thing, that maybe you never know if you’re ready. Maybe it’s impossible to be sure you’re ready.”
(Agnes has just downed another Kamakazie.)
Maddie: "Maybe it’s only possible to be sure you’re not ready….Sam was right. I owe him an answer, I owe him an answer, and I’m going home to give him an answer. This is hardest thing I’ve ever had to do….Ms. Dipesto??”
(Agnes is staring off into space, and then immediately falls over backwards.)
(Fade out)

commercial break…”Now look here Mr. Seagrams…You’re my kind uh guy...”[/b]

Hold onto your bandwidth….The Big Bang is next!

[queensgirl]

Thank you!

Still spine-chilling after all these years...

I swear, this makes me feel like I'm still a 13-year-old gripping the living room couch that night in March...

Maybe I took time to breathe, during the commercials.

[elvira]

Woo hoo! Big Bang, coming up!