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 | Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Gary Shepherd: Stage One C? What is that? Good or bad? What does that mean? Melissa Steadman: It could be worse. It was very contained, but there were a small number of cells outside the ovary. Bad cells. Michael Steadman: It means she has to have chemo. Melissa Steadman: Yeah, mild course. Six to twelve cycles. Gary Shepherd: Oh, God. Melissa Steadman: She's going to be pretty sick. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Well. How do you know all this? Melissa Steadman: I called Vicky Mercer and Robby Schloss. Michael Steadman: You called Robby Schloss? Melissa Steadman: That's how scared I am. Gary Shepherd: Oh, God. Poor Nancy! Hope Murdoch Steadman: [visibly showing in her pregnancy] She must hate me every time she sees me. Melissa Steadman: Oh, Hope. Hope Murdoch Steadman: I mean she had a complete hysterectomy. They took out her ovaries and everything. Melissa Steadman: They didn't want anymore kids, did they? Gary Shepherd: Did they? Hope Murdoch Steadman: I don't think so, but they took everything out and she still might die. |
| Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Michael Steadman: So, you like Philadelphia? You've been here before? Nancy's Sister Deborah: Yeah, a few times. Michael Steadman: Really? That's nice though. Elliot Weston: [coming in from the Steadman kitchen with a cup of coffee] Hey! Michael Steadman: [seeing that Elliot has a hangover] Hey. How's the head, Elliot? Elliot Weston: Hey, c'mon! Michael Steadman: [waggling his fingers in front of Elliot's eyes] Is everything going WAH WAH WAH? Elliot Weston: Easy, easy! Are you psychotic? You think that's funny? |
| Season 3 / Episode 13: - Post-Op Elliot Weston: And the most impressive thing is how well, I mean no, honest to God, it's really selling. It's really selling. I mean - we got a preliminary report from the publishers and it's all computerized now so you can track exactly where it's selling, who's buying it, what breakfast cereals they eat in the morning... I mean it's great! No, it really is, and Nancy was... Elliot Weston: How long has she been asleep? Eleanor Krieger: About five minutes. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Poor baby. Elliot Weston: She tried to do too much today. Honey? Nancy Krieger Weston: [roused by Elliot] Oh. Oh, I'm sorry. I was tired. Elliot Weston: It's okay. Nancy Krieger Weston: What? Elliot Weston: It's okay. Nancy Krieger Weston: No, it is not okay. It's not okay to fall asleep during dinnertime. That is not okay. Hope Murdoch Steadman: We know you're tired. Nancy Krieger Weston: [irritated] Yes, I am tired. I have just had half of my insides removed, and I'm going to start chemotherapy in a week or two, so yes, I am tired. I'm tired of thinking. [looking around at them] What - why were you whispering? I mean, what were you talking about? Michael Steadman: We were just talking about how well your book's doing, Nance. Nancy Krieger Weston: Apparently. Gives new meaning to the words 'publish or perish', doesn't it? Nancy Krieger Weston: [breaking the awkward silence] Could I have some coffee? Hope Murdoch Steadman: [about to get up] Yeah. Sure. Michael Steadman: [already up] I got it. You want something in it? |
| Season 3 / Episode 12: - Another Country Michael Steadman: [seeing Elliot's expression just as Elliot's phone beeps] You okay? Elliot Weston: Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. [the phone continues to beep as he struggles with something to say] Michael... Michael Steadman: What? Elliot's Secretary: [finally over intercom] Mister Drentell on line 5104. Elliot Weston: [changing his mind and deciding to pick up the phone] Uh, nothing. Nothing. Hi. |
| Season 3 / Episode 12: - Another Country Gary Shepherd: [all while Elliot watches Nancy quietly] Why would I make something like that up? Seriously. I swear. I put them both in front of her, right? Runaway Bunny and Ulysses. Michael Steadman: And let me guess: she went right to Ulysses? Gary Shepherd: Right. Susannah Hart: And put it in her mouth. You forgot to mention that, right? Michael Steadman: So big deal. Listen. Janey, by the time she was five months old had eaten most of the major early work of Saul Bellow, up to and including 'Henderson the Rain King', but hey, I don't like to brag. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Oh, I'm sure Emma's as bright as a button, Gary. Nancy Krieger Weston: Hey, hey, what was that woman on the Lucy Show that was always bragging about her kids? Susannah Hart: [definitively] Caroline Appleby. The kid's name was 'Stevie.' Gary Shepherd: [turning to her, clearly surprised] I... I thought you hated pop culture? Susannah Hart: Lucy isn't pop culture. Lucy is God. |
| Season 3 / Episode 12: - Another Country Michael Steadman: You're amazing! You're amazing. I mean, we aced that meeting. Elliot Weston: You think so? Michael Steadman: Are you kidding me? Did you see the client? He was drooling. I mean, he could practically smell the money. Elliot Weston: You think so? Michael Steadman: Tonight? We're celebrating tonight. The four of us. Hey, Katherine? Katherine! Would you get my wife on the phone? [to Elliot] Where do you want to go? Elliot Weston: Mike, I don't know. Michael Steadman: C'mon, name it. It's on me. Elliot Weston: Mike, I don't know. I don't know. You pick it. Katherine: [beeping on intercom] Hope's on five-seven-three-eight. Michael Steadman: [on phone with Hope] Hi, honey. Good. Listen, do you think there's any way we can get a sitter for tonight? Really? Oh, that's good. Okay, would you try to call her? Yeah? Good. I have a little surprise. Yeah. Okay. I'll call - no, you call me back. Okay. Good. I miss you too. Okay. Bye, sweetie. Michael Steadman: [to Elliot] Le Bec Fin. Hope loves Le Bec Fin. Katherine? Hey, Katherine! Katherine, would you, uhm, see about getting reservations for tonight? Elliot Weston: [realizing, changing his mind] Michael... Michael Steadman: Wait a second. Four for tonight at Le Bec Fin? Eight o'clock? Thank you. Elliot Weston: Mike. About tonight... Katherine: [beeping] Hope's on the line. She says she can get a sitter and what's the surprise? Michael Steadman: Uh, just tell her to hold on a second? [to Elliot] Do you want us to pick you up? Seven thirty? Elliot Weston: [reluctantly] No, Mike. Michael, I don't think tonight is going to be good for us. For Nancy. Michael Steadman: Oh. Uh, tomorrow? Elliot Weston: [very reluctantly] I don't know about tomorrow. You see... uhm... Nancy's... she's sick. Nancy's uhm... Michael Steadman: [not getting it] She's sick? Elliot Weston: Yeah. Yeah, she's sick, Mike. She's got cancer. Elliot Weston: So I'm sorry, okay? Michael Steadman: [quietly] Okay. |
| Season 2 / Episode 15: - Be a Good Girl Hope Murdoch Steadman: [entering and interrupting Michael and Melissa] Excuse me, but Janey would like to see her aunt Melissa. Immediately. Melissa Steadman: Immediately? Oh, ho, God! What a push kid. All right, I'm coming. Start getting cute! Michael Steadman: [hugging her, reassuring] Okay. |
| Season 2 / Episode 15: - Be a Good Girl Michael Steadman: Oh, Melissa. I don't know how you do it. It's like you're totally honest with everybody but your family. Then you just, unzip your skin, hang it next to Rose's mink, and out steps this completely different person, who isn't you. Melissa Steadman: Who is she then? Michael Steadman: She's like this really good girl. Who doesn't see the truth. Melissa Steadman: And what is that? Michael Steadman: There's this old bat, sitting on a throne, running everybody's life, only now she can't even run her own. But she yells 'limbo' and the whole room starts dancing. I mean, look at your mom. Look at... You gotta face her, Melissa. Worse thing that can happen, she turns you to stone, right? Right? |
| Season 2 / Episode 14: - New Job Michael Steadman: I just... I want to explain, okay? It's just that the timing of this has been so weird. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Well, I'll try to plan the next miscarriage better. Michael Steadman: Wait a second. Hope? Now wait a second. Hope Murdoch Steadman: What? Michael Steadman: Look. Things are out of control right now. I mean, neither of us has a handle on anything. So sometimes it just... it gets hard to figure out priorities. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No. Your priority is your new job. Michael Steadman: So what did you want me to do? Did you want me not to take it, Hope? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Of course not. Michael Steadman: Okay, so then if I take it I have to do it well, right? Because if I don't do it well, and I mean really well, I mean excel at it, then I'm out, you understand that, right? Michael Steadman: [grabbing Hope by the arm when she tries to walk away] Wait a minute. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [pulling her arm away from him] Fine. Go ahead. Excel at it. What do you want me to say? Michael Steadman: Okay. Look. I know that it's not that simple. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No. You make it simple. You couldn't be there today because Drentell walked into your office. You couldn't say 'excuse me, Miles, I have an appointment'? If you walked into his office, he would leave. No, you couldn't be there, thinking you were going to lose your job because you had an appointment at your daughter's school? Michael Steadman: No! That's not fair. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No, it is that. I mean that's what your priorities are: job, money, family, in that order, and that's doesn't even include throwing sports in there. Michael Steadman: Those are not my priorities. Damn it, Hope, see? You don't even know my priorities. I have responsibilities. I mean... I'm the provider here, Hope! Hope Murdoch Steadman: I have a job, excuse me! Michael Steadman: Okay, you could have been the provider, okay? But we chose to do it this way. And that... that's fine. Okay? I don't have a problem with that. But that means I have a responsibility. Don't make a face at me, Hope! So if I'm out of work for two months. And I find a job... Hope Murdoch Steadman: You don't even like this job. Michael Steadman: ...and I find a job. And I see a chance to breath again. And not have to worry about a budget, or what a new baby needs, everything that goes with a new baby, then your damned right I'm going to work hard at it. Hope Murdoch Steadman: We don't have a new baby. Michael Steadman: Yeah. But we were going to. And we were living off our savings. And we had a mortgage rate that seemed to go up every month. We had bumped-up car insurance rates... Hope Murdoch Steadman: And the baby's liabilities outweighed its assets. Michael Steadman: No, Hope! That's not what I'm saying. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No, no! Fine. Fine! This was a bad time for me too. I didn't want this baby either. |
| Season 2 / Episode 14: - New Job Michael Steadman: No, no, just to be, you know, just to be in a place where there were empty drawers to fill up, and all these people with expectations and I could worry about not failing because that's easy to worry about. Because if I worried about, you know... oh, God... it just... I just wanted this baby so much, you know? I just really wanted this baby so much. So I just had to push it away. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Why? Michael Steadman: I don't know. Because... because there just wasn't room for all that. I guess. |
| Season 2 / Episode 14: - New Job Michael Steadman: Tell me. Hope Murdoch Steadman: No. Michael Steadman: Please? Hope Murdoch Steadman: What? That I feel like a failure? Because my body failed? Michael Steadman: It wasn't you, Hope. Hope Murdoch Steadman: You know, and I... and I see when you look at me, and I think you blame me. Michael Steadman: How could I blame you? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Because I let you down. You didn't lose this baby, I did. And I don't want to go through this again. And I don't want to think that every time we make love, we're going to be afraid. And that I'll think about it. Michael Steadman: It's too soon, Hope. It takes time. Hope Murdoch Steadman: But I don't feel like there is time. Michael Steadman: Shhhhhh... Hope Murdoch Steadman: I want you to make it all better. Michael Steadman: Listen to me. Listen. We'll make another baby. Hope Murdoch Steadman: But it won't be this baby. Michael Steadman: No, it won't. Michael Steadman: [holding Hope as she breaks down and weeps against him] Shhhhhh... |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Hope Murdoch Steadman: Why would he call, if it wasn't about a job? Michael Steadman: Probably just to taunt us. You don't know this man, Hope. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Yeah, but if he called... I mean it indicates interest and it could mean a job. Michael Steadman: Listen. Speculation is pointless with Miles Drentell. The guy is like a bear, you know? You can never tell what he's thinking. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [wistfully] Oh, a job. I can stop playing leapfrog with the Visa cash advances. Oh, and I can stop worrying about them taking the baby to pay for the delivery room. Michael Steadman: Here it is. Yeah, I should probably read this, huh? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Is the workshop going to interfere with the job at DAA? Michael Steadman: Read my lips: there is no job at DAA. |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Michael Steadman: The clock over the door stood at 2.43. Harrison watched the progress of the minutes. The second hand moved with the thoughtlessness of an underwater plant, caught in a lethargic current. Harrison carefully arranged himself on the stool and listened to the sad, tubercular sighing of the coffee urn. Once again his eyes were drawn back to the clock. Ivy Dunbar: [as a customer in the café Michael is writing about] Well, this isn't very interesting, is it? Melissa Steadman: [as waitress] I don't understand. Michael used to be very imaginative. Ivy Dunbar: I'm very disappointed. It lacks focus, intent, detail. Gary Shepherd: [as customer reading a newspaper with no print on it] I'll say. Look at this. He's got me reading a blank newspaper! |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Michael Steadman: [narrating] The clock over the door stood at 2.43. Harrison watched the progress of the minutes. People seemed to aimlessly drift like lost, soulless leaves... Ivy Dunbar: [as waitress] I know I told you there weren't any rules, but could you tell me exactly why you felt you had to split an infinitive? |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Michael Steadman: [narrating] People drifted through his field of vision like lost, soulless leaves. The sounds of their shoes on the checkerboard tiles was like the dragging of monks' sandals. He singled her out mid motion. No, no, no, no... the coffee shop was empty except for her. She wore her ennui the way lesser women wore diamonds. Her dress was the iridescent black of raven's wings. No, no, no it wasn't! Her dress reminded him of rich, summer burgundy, port, sangria... Jeez! Her frock was the color of polished emeralds. As opposed to what? Unpolished emeralds? He approached the woman in the blue dress. Their eyes met. And they folded themselves into the waiting leather of the booth. The rain in the window streaked a pattern along her face... no, no, no, no, no... the sun through the window bleached... no, no, no, no... neon blinked beyond the window at her side. Michael Steadman: [as Harrison] Nice dress. Michael Steadman: He said. Nancy Krieger Weston: [as Woman In The Blue Dress] I'm in mourning. Michael Steadman: She replied. Michael Steadman: [as Harrison] For what? Nancy Krieger Weston: For life? Michael Steadman: [narrating] Sorrow went about her like a wet chamois. Nancy Krieger Weston: What's the point? Michael Steadman: She asked the air. Nancy Krieger Weston: We move through life, trapped by time and events, our empty days piling up like discarded socks in God's hamper. Michael Steadman: She was depressed. |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Nancy Krieger Weston: [as Woman In The Blue Dress] We move through life, trapped by time and events, our empty days piling up like discarded socks in God's hamper. Michael Steadman: [as Harrison] She was depressed. Nancy Krieger Weston: We struggle, but what does it get us? Michael Steadman: Perhaps nothing. Perhaps love. Michael Steadman: [narrating] She looked at him and smiled. Nancy Krieger Weston: You're a funny sort of a guy, aren't ya? Michael Steadman: [narrating] It was a sad smile just the same. Nancy Krieger Weston: But I'm afraid, we met a lifetime too late. Michael Steadman: [narrating] The door of the coffee shop opened with the sound of a sad bell. He took his eyes off the woman and watched a man walk in. Nancy Krieger Weston: [standing and pulling out a gun] Clive. Elliot Weston: [as Clive] Rebecca! I can explain everything! I mean, really, I can! Nancy Krieger Weston: That's the problem, isn't it? Nancy Krieger Weston: [shooting Clive twelve times with a revolver and collapsing into Harrison's arms with a heavy sigh] We met... Michael Steadman: She whispered. Nancy Krieger Weston: ...at a carnival. Ivy Dunbar: [after a stunned, embarrassed silence engulfs the classroom] 'Socks in Gods hamper'? Michael Steadman: It was a metaphor. Ivy Dunbar: That would be one way to describe it, yes. |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Hope Murdoch Steadman: Hi. Michael Steadman: Hi. Hope Murdoch Steadman: What's cooking? Michael Steadman: Chicken Ohmygosh. It used to be Chicken Paprikosh but then I realized we don't have any paprika. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Pretty damned sneaky of you being nice to me when I'm angry at you. Michael Steadman: Yeah. Is it working? Hope Murdoch Steadman: Not yet. Michael Steadman: I don't want this to come as a shock to you or anything, but, uhm, sometimes I can be pretty thoughtless. Hope Murdoch Steadman: I wish it was a shock. Michael Steadman: Look. I didn't want you to see me crawl to Drentell. I didn't want you to see me turn into somebody other than the man that you married. Hope Murdoch Steadman: It wouldn't have made any difference to me. Michael Steadman: Oh. Well, maybe that's part of what was bothering me. I made promises to you. I don't want you to let me off the hook. I don't want you to... to settle for ten cents on the dollar. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [distracted, looking through work papers] My husband, the Blue Light Special. Michael Steadman: I'm going in to talk to Miles tomorrow. Hope Murdoch Steadman: Is that something you want to do? Michael Steadman: Yes, I want to do it. Because it's time I do it. Hope Murdoch Steadman: [turning to him] And what about the writing? Michael Steadman: The writing. I could take workshops from now till Doomsday. I could wear down enough pencils to make a forest. But I could never make a sentence that means half as much to me as you do. |
| Season 2 / Episode 13: - Michael Writes a Story Michael Steadman: Watching his straight back walk away, I realized how busy the office had been beyond us. I hadn't noticed it. I had been aware of the sound, but not a human one. I had turned the sounds of the office into the sounds of the storm: rain, thunder... if I had closed my eyes, I might have seen the lighting reflected on our swords. Ivy Dunbar: [leaning over his shoulder, very pleased] It's about time. |
| Unknown Episode: Miles Drentell: You don't look well. Have you been sleeping properly? Michael Steadman: [who wasn't gotten actual sleep in days] Like a top. [Exits] Miles Drentell: [to himself] "Like a top"... |
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