"8:45." "Let me guess, one apple fritter, one raspberry jelly, decaf coffee, two sugars and a cream on the side." ""Hi Clair, nice outfit, say, it's a bit warm today, isn't it?"" "Three problems." "Nr one, coffee without caffeine, can someone explain that to me?" "That's like sex without the spanking." "You caught me at a bad time, Trevor..." "I'm here." "Number 2, do you ever wonder why those apple fritters don't taste the same as they used to?" "I'll tell you why." "A rat problem like they have, simply doesn't go away overnight." "Yikes." "Number three..." "Can this wait-- a month, maybe six?" "Predictability!" "Routine!" "Your whole life is planned." "I know what's in that bag because that's always what's in that bag." "Is there a point to all this, or are you just here to charm and delight me?" "I have a bone to pick with you." "Oh, I" " I was hoping for a boneless day." "It's taking me too long to match up couples, and it's your fault." "Ha ha." "My fault?" "It's your fault." "You're slowing people down." "In particular, your singles therapy group." "Gee, she said desperately trying to hold on to her good mood, haven't we had this conversation." "You got them all making lists." "Common interests, compatibility standards..." "You're turning the world into you." "A number of people have benefited from my advice, you know." "A number of people eat other people, doesn't mean it's right for everyone." "Look if I had my bow and arrow none of this would matter." "If I'm gonna hook up 100 couples to get back to Olympus without it," "I'm gonna need better odds." "I need your help." "I'm all ears." "Actually you're not." "I've seen you naked." "The god thing, omnipotence." "Third date." "You where twenty-five years old." "Kind of a cosmic window peeking thing." "You have a real nice..." "I would think changing the subject would have been a good idea, but look, Trevor, there's a huge advantage of getting someone with a like-minded profile." "Know what your problem is?" "Not walking fast enough." "Your problem is, is that you stick everyone into these neat little psychological shoe boxes." "Needy co-dependant, insensitive aggressor, delusional psychotic." "If the shoe box fits..." "You just can't pick a profile and assume that it'll get the job done." ""Hi my name is Trevor, I'm a Pisces." "My pet peeve is the development of global thermal nuclear weaponry." "My favourite colour is rug burn..."" "I'm talking about finding characteristics, things you're interested in..." ""I hardly ever do those midnight sacrifices of small animals." "I can't get the otter blood out of my coffee table..."" "Oh, where is an open man hole cover when you need one?" "You know what, they're just-- they're facts." "They have nothing to do with the heat, chemistry and the stuff that makes up love." "You know what, that's funny, because the thousands of people who read my books and my column think so." "The people who pay me to counsel them think so, and you know who else thinks so?" "No." "The people who want to hire me to be the managing director of the Sharpnack Institute, which happens to be the-- the foremost psychological institute in the state..." "So, you-- you've got the job then?" "Yes." "Almost." "Uh, well hopefully by the end of the week." "They're sending an observer to come watch me work and, if everything goes well, the job is mine." "Making it one more resounding validation of my work." "Don't you think?" "That's perfect." "That's exactly what I need." "A job like that means you get to reach more people." "All I need is for you to influence a couple of people my way." "Mayb..." "No?" "No." "Why-- why're you being like this?" "Why am I being like this?" "I asked you first?" "Look, Trevor, this job is important to me because it may be the biggest step in my career and I am certainly not going to use it to help Cupid redeem himself in the eyes of the gods, okay?" "That time of the month, huh?" "What did you say?" "You know, the first." "Rent's due, bills to pay." "Always makes me cranky." "Ah, come on." "Look, I never ask you for anything outside of bail last week, but look, I see statues and fountains, I'm trained to think public urinal." "Doc, I need a little help." "And I'm looking to give you some." "Now, the group meets at seven o'clock, maybe that's a good place for you to discuss what kind you need." "I" " I'm sorry, I won't be there." "Won't be there?" "You have such a knack for cutting through it." "I love it when you do that." "Excuse me, you have a legal obligation to be at those group meetings, so I expect to see you there at seven o'clock." "Yeah, I'm sorry, but I shan't be there." "I will be elsewhere." "I'll be at a Greek wedding, possibly a gay bath house, places where people are looking to fall in love." "Listen, Trevor... okay, you know what, fine." "Fine." "Fine!" "If you want to ignore the fact that you have been charged to my care." "If you want the courts to find out and re-institutionalize you." "If you want to sit in a padded room and watch the world series on an imaginary TV, then really, why should I care?" "Huh?" "!" "Because you're his doctor." "Hah, look at that." "Um, uh, Trevor, this is Dr. Pat." "Stroud!" "Stroud." "Dr. Pat Stroud." "Uh, "Dr. Pat" I don't even know what I was thinking." "Dr. Stroud is on the board of the Sharpnack Institute, where I hope to be working under him." "Careful, your Freudian slip is showing." "Doc, for what it's worth, I think that you've got a keeper here." "She in her wonderfully passion-free take on relationships reminds me of that saying." ""She's not getting older, she's getting bitter"." ""Better", "better"." "It's "she's getting better"." ""Better"." "Are ya sure?" "Yeah, it's "better"." "Well, all right." "I hate to banter and run, but I have a hundred things to do." "Okay, nice meeting you." "And you, Trevor." "He says the gods are punishing him." "Delusional, of course." "Although, sometimes, I'm not sure the gods aren't punishing me." "I want you to know how honored I am that you are considering me for the job." "Just between you and me, we're way past just considering you." "I got all the releases from my patients and my group, so you're free to eavesdrop all you like." "Dr. Allen." "Your nine o'clock is here." "Great, thanks." "Hi Angela." "Dr. Allen." "How are you?" "This is Dr. Stroud, he's here to sit in, I told you about him on the phone." "Uh, is your husband coming?" "Uh, he's running a little bit late." "Ok." "If you'd like you can sit on the couch." "Uh, thank you, uh, if you don't mind though, I" " I might just uh..." "What I mean is, my husband has become a bit... unpredictable." "I" " I mean we've had other problems, but lately he gets distracted." "Distracted how, exactly?" ""Forget your troubles, Come on get happy We're gonna dance all our blues away"" ""ba-dum ba, Shout hallelujah Come on get happy"" ""Get ready for the judgment day The sun is shining"" ""Come on get happy I'm here waiting to take your hand"" ""Shout hallelujah Come on get happy"" ""We're gonna be going to the promised land, yeah"" ""We're gonna dance all our blues away Shout hallelujah"" ""Come on get happy, Get ready Get ready for that judgment day. "" "Bravo!" "Bravo!" "Encore!" "Distracted like that." "I'm aware that it seems insane." "I'm aware that you don't normally see a man break into song and dance in the middle of a busy street corner, but I can assure you it's the sanest thing I've ever done." "Have you broken any limbs?" "Uh, my arm once." "So you've worn a cast then, you know what happens, right?" "It atrophies." "Whatever's in the cast atrophies." "It actually starts to shrink from all those weeks of not using it, remember." "All right, well, I know this sounds a little melodramatic, but that's what happened to my soul." "It atrophied." "It started shrinking and shrivelling up because all the best parts of it were never getting used." "And dancing has become your way of.." "building it back up, giving it what it wasn't getting." "Yeah, that's it." "It was like I forgot how to feel anything, you know?" "Like I was sleepwalking through the day, at work and at home." "I wasn't bringing anything to either one." "And now?" "Embarrassment." "He's bringing embarrassment." "People don't seem to mind." "I mean, those people out on the street seemed to like it." "How about Mrs. Bennett?" "That's right, Michael." "How about me?" "When we're out at a restaurant, or on a train and you suddenly... do this." "I just..." "I used to be so proud of you." "I used to love people seeing me with you." "It's just dancing, Angela." "I'm guessing what your wife's having trouble with, Michael, is where you're dancing." "Have you given any thought to enjoying it in more appropriate places, like night clubs?" "He's never been able to get me out to dance." "It never came very easily to me." "See the truth is, Dr. Allen, the whole point is spontaneity." "I got off the "L" this morning and I looked at the morning rush." "The traffic, the noise, the people on a mission, oh god, it was-- the city was so exciting, it was so alive." "I" " I felt inspired, so I danced." "I mean you've seen the old musicals, Fred Astaire, right?" "When he was happy bam, he danced." "When he was sad he danced." "When he was in love he danced." "I mean he was just this-- this regular guy with this amazing way of expressing his emotions, and he made you wish for those few moments that your own life could be like that." "And now mine is." "But mine isn't." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I just can't give this up." "I'm saying-- all I'm saying is the guy was amazing." "He brought the whole street to a stand still." "I had other plans tonight, but then I realized this is your answer to your search for romance." "What, gridlock?" "I brought the whole street to a stand still last week." "I hit a light pole." "Look it, the guy was not afraid to put himself out there, all right." "He grabbed a little bit of what everyone in here should grab a lot more of and that's the big "A"." "Attention." "Attention from a street full of strangers?" "No, no, no." "From a street full of possibilities." "Everyday we pass a thousand people on the street, right?" "Any one of them could be our Fred or Ginger, but we're to preoccupied to notice." ""Did my hair dry right?" "Does my tie go with my shirt?"" ""Should I have left grandma at home with the rottweiler, when I'm out of kibble?"" "We don't see one another." "That's your thousand people out there." "Every one of them was watching Mr. Hoof-n-mouth." "The dancer." "Hoof, mouth - dancing, singing." "Need some subtitles?" "Look it, if everyone put themselves out there into the world a little bit more," "I'm laying odds you'd be laying more than odds." "Well, you're assuming that this person was dancing in the street in order to get someone to respond." "No, I'm saying that people did respond, and you as his doctor are more concerned with why he did it." "What do you mean "his doctor"?" ""His" - possessive pronoun," ""doctor" - medicine guy from the Latin "to overcharge"..." "Just answer the question." "I wanted to talk to the guy." "Afterwards he made a beeline to your office." "I didn't figure that Arthur Murray was making house calls to your door." "Was I wrong?" "I'm not at liberty to discuss my cases." "Oh, gotcha." "Big brother watching." "We'll chat later." "Actually I'm more interested in chatting now, about why Trevor Hale wants people to pretend to be something they're not in order to get attention." "Look, most of this bunch can't even go up to a girl in a bar." "How do you expect them to dance in the street." "Do what you do." "Tell a joke, recite a poem, play the Brandenburg concerto on a kazoo." "The four main words are:" "hey, look, me, over!" "You know what it is?" "It's just great advertising." "The guy is practicing the first rule of moving the product." "Sell the sizzle not the steak." "Buy a steak just for the sizzle, it's a good way to get burned." "Yeah, it's also a good way to get a little heat in the kitchen." "Heat's cheap." "Sizzle fizzles." "I really don't think anyone here believes that flaunting yourself in public is an effective way to find a mate." "Gosh." "Really?" "Yeah." "So, okay, Mother Nature had it wrong the past hundred million years." "Procreation 101, class." "The Mating Dance." "Male lions show off their mane, the moose with the biggest antlers gets all the babes, a peacock without any colour, just another turkey." "Yes, but lucky for some of you, human nature has evolved a step or two past Mother Nature." "Oh really?" "Lucky how?" "Well for instance, unlike certain species, our mating dance doesn't require us to kill the male after a one night stand." "Look we may have all, from time to time, wanted to sing, dance, emote grandly and spontaneously in public but what keeps most of us from doing so is common sense." "Because we realize it would be viewed for what it is, off-putting and self-oriented behaviour which drives people apart, rather than bring them together." "So, shall we move on." "Thank you." "Dr. Allen's office." "Oh, hey, Mom." "No, no." "Uh, actually, I'm getting a jump on some packing" "I haven't even had a chance to tell you, but I think I got the job." "Isn't that amazing?" "Gee, Mom, I guess I was expecting a slightly bigger reaction." "What is it?" "Um, what are you saying?" "When?" "He's dead?" "Come in." "Surprise." "Hi." "Hi." "Wow, uh, I didn't exp-- I mean you never..." "I know." "Just me being spontaneous." "Um, I just thought I'd stop by, see if maybe you'd like to have lunch together?" "Oh, I can't." "I'm on my way to a meeting." "and they're gonna go straight through." "I didn't know..." "Oh, no, no, no, it's okay." "It was a long shot, I just..." "I used to know things like that." "When you had meetings." "Well, uh, listen, you have to get back to work." "I didn't mean to bother you." "Wait-- wait you didn't bother me." "I'm glad you dropped by." "It's just I..." "I thought you might need these." "They were behind the bed stand." "Ah." "You know how they fall back there sometimes after you read at night." "Thank you." "I was looking for them." "See you tonight." "Great, you got my message." "Just tell me why I'm wearing a suit, and how much I get paid." "Yes the job, right." "You're really gonna love it." "You get to practice your skills, which if you think about it, is much more rewarding than getting paid." "100 dollars or I walk." "50." "80." "60 and I'll do the windows." "I've got this husband and wife, the Bennetts, yet another couple that Claire is gonna talk out of romance, anyway I happen to be reading their files..." ""Happen"?" "Like it's my fault she takes a bathroom break and leaves her cabinet door unlocked." "Anyway..." "Trevor, this is not going to work." "I know, I thought the same thing too but you know, if the gods are willing to give me credit for matching new couples," "I figured if the love is dead..." "No, I mean this." "Us." "You don't get it do you." "No." "You don't break into confidential files." "You don't butt into people's marriages and you especially don't involve your roommate in other people's marriages." "Do you understand what I'm saying." "Loud and clear." "You're reaching out." "We can see someone about controlling that anger." "Dr. Hale?" "Yes." "Angela Bennett." "Thank you for meeting me at work." "Oh, you kidding?" "My pleasure, Mrs. Bennett." "Whatever makes it easy for the client." "I'm sorry, but you said you are part of the observation team watching Dr. Allen?" "I'm keeping a close eye on Dr. Allen and as I mentioned earlier this is Champ Terrace." "My assistant." "Assistant?" "Yes." "Hi, Mrs. Bennett." "It's very nice to meet you, but actually I have to be..." "Moving things along." "Yes, indeed." "We always overbook." "So many couples in need." "Why don't we get right to our plan to save your marriage." "Mr. Terrace, chop, chop." "As I said when I called, I'm very well acquainted with your file." "I had a similar case once, many years ago, and I truly believe that dance lessons are the answer to solving you problem." "Dance lessons?" "Dance lessons." "Taught, as promised, by our own Mr. Terrace." "Wha- excuse me, Dr. Hale..." "Yes?" "... can we have a word here." "Oh no, not to worry, she understands all of your qualifications." "Master class at the dance academy, Steppenwolf, theatre company and Tony award winning actor." "Well, student Tony." "I have to tell you, even if I could learn," "I don't think I'd be able to do it on a street corner." "Oh, no." "Like I said, you wouldn't have to." "It's all about the effort." "All right, what if I told you he wished you could feel the same joy that he feels when he dances?" "Did he tell you this at your office or during a house call?" "I've probably said too much already." "Mr. Terrace, I'll do my best." "If there's a chance it'll save my marriage," "I owe that to Michael, don't I?" "So, when do you want to start?" "That was the case load administrator, he'd like to see you tomorrow." "Oh." "Let's say breakfast, then at lunch we can discuss any questions that arise and then go over institute policy at dinner." "That is if that fits in with your schedule." "No, no, all those meals, I'm beginning to wonder if this job has a minimum weight requirement, heh." "Hello everybody." "It's a great day isn't it?" "Ooh, kinda Sly and the Family Stone-esque don't you think?" "You know why?" "Because I've got to "dance to the music, ow."" "I know what you're thinking." ""Nice ambience here, I gotta come more often"." "You should. 'Cause we know how to be happy." "You know, I am gonna miss my three o'clock if I don't leave right now, so I'm going to excuse myself and I'll see you tomorrow." "What?" "Something I said?" "Claire?" "Trevor, no." "Not today." "What's the problem?" "There was this guy, used to come in here a lot." "Claire met him here one night." "Jack Conathon was a pilot." "Uh-huh." "They had this very short, very passionate relationship." "They were even talking about marriage." "Wait, hold on, our Claire." "Icy demeanour, yay tall." "Had a passionate relationship?" "Yes." "Until he left." "No explanations, no goodbyes." "I don't think Claire ever got over it." "If you ask me, she was still in love with him." "What happened?" "The guy get married?" "No." "He died last week in a plane crash." "Morning." "So it is." "How you doing?" "Good." "Fine." "Top of the heap." "You look very, uh..." "Late for a breakfast meeting with Dr. Stroud?" "That too." "Came by last night." "Your light was on but you weren't around, I guess." "Must have been grocery shopping." "Well, I saw your car out front." "Uh, it's a short walk." "Really?" "Called a bunch of times." "Got your machine for three or four hours..." "Long grocery list, Trevor." "Okay, look, I was trying to get you out to dinner, you know." "But then I ended up going out by myself." "Italian joint." "I had pasta and antepasta." "Ended up still being hungry." "Pasta and "anti" pasta, they cancelled each other out." "I made a funny." "Got it." "Look, Trevor, I hate to banter and run, but I'm late..." "Listen, about Taggerty's, I didn't know... about your friend." "That sounds amazingly close to an apology." "Look, Linda told me a little bit about him and it sounds like he was more than just a friend..." "Was." "Yeah, it was a long time ago." "I haven't seen him in several years and he lived unhappily ever after and it's really not something I'm interested in talking about, okay?" "So you put all behind you then?" "You know what I can't figure out?" "Is that a trick question?" "Why you're doing this." "I'm not a psychologist but I know when you're holding back." "You're right, you're no psychologist." "You never got a final word,you never got to resolve it." "That's gotta make you mad?" "I'm not mad." "I am not mad, Trevor." "I am sad." "But he died last week and..." "I learned about it two nights ago and I have had time to get past it." "If you say so." "I do say so and I'm done saying so, okay, Trevor." "People die." "It's too bad, but they do." "Friends, relatives, ex-lovers." "They die." "I'm gonna die, you're gonna die." "We're all going to die." "Okay?" "I hate to split hairs, but us immortals have the improved HMO." "Really?" "Yeah." "Give me your hand." "Ow." "What was that?" "A prick." "I doubt it, it was way too pointy." "See that." "That's blood, Trevor." "Greek god or not, you seem to be just like everyone else." "Stuck in a very imperfect container." "A container that's not designed to survive plane crashes, car crashes, or-- or falling pianos." "A container with a heart, a liver, kidneys and-- and they could all just stop functioning at any time, causing complete and irreversible... death." "Just a little fact that we mortals have to deal with, that these bodies weren't built to last." "Life has endings, Trevor." "You just learn to deal with them." "That's all." ""The way you wear your hat The way you sip your tea" "The memory of all that" "No, they can't take that away from me The way your smile just beams" "The way you sing off key" "The way you haunt my dreams No they can't take that away from me" "We may never, never meet again on that bumpy road to love" "Still I'll always, always keep the memory of" "The way you hold your knife The way we danced till three" "The way you changed my life No they can't take that away from me" "We may never, never meet again on that bumpy road to love" "Still I'll always, always keep the memory of" "The way you hold your knife The way we danced till three" "The way you changed my life No they can't take that away from me" "No they can't take that away They won't take that away" "They can't take that away From me."" "You all right?" "I'm sorry." "I'm so clumsy." "It's okay." "I just have to..." "Have a seat." "It's all right." "I guess I'm not the best student." "Don't be so hard on yourself." "I mean, that move is a little tricky, you know." "You're being polite." "We've been going over that all afternoon." "We'll keep going over it, you know." "The key to this is practice." "Dance is the sort of thing that can take..." "Years." "I know." "It's a little bit like a marriage, if you don't keep practicing one day you wake up and you find you're out of step." "You know, maybe this is a good place to stop." "For tonight?" "Thank you, Mr. Terrace, for trying." "Listen, Angela..." "Trevor, what is going on?" "Couple tight pennant races, a further erosion in our faith in government." "If you need any more than that, you may want to grab a Newsweek." "I mean with the glasses." "I'm speeding up the mating process." "Which you didn't help by botching up those dance lessons." "Botching?" "Botching." "You know exactly what I'm talking about." "Sixteen messages I left her, three times I went to her house just to convince her to continue all the dance lessons." "Haven't heard a word." "Well, maybe she doesn't think dancing is the answer." "That is the problem, everyone is thinking too much." "I'm gonna take the thinking out of it." "I'm pouring Tequila for everyone in here, and I am not stopping until they're so sloppy they're asking chair legs to go home with." "All right?" "What?" "!" "Trevor, you can't-- no." "Yes." "Free Tequila shots everybody!" "Here we go." "Enjoy that." "I figure if I can get enough people to bumpin' body parts a certain percentage of them are bound to fall in love." "You can't do that." "Oh yeah?" "Give me four good reasons." "You don't have any money." "Linda will fire you." "Right." "You'll be liable and I'll be the one keeping a bar full of drunks from breaking tables over each others heads." "You don't understand." "You thought I wanted to get out of here bad before?" "I just got a complete check-up, except for the rubber glove thing." "Bad memories." "Bachelor party over at Mercury's." "The minatours got all crazy, they all..." "Look, I get the results in one week." "Okay?" "What if I've got something?" "What if it's fatal?" "You know how many things can go wrong with this body?" "I did a little reading about this." "Fifty trillion cells, sixty thousand veins and arteries, and thirty feet of colon." "That is a lot of road." "The only pot hole that I want is at the very end." "I got immortality waiting for me, all right?" "I don't want to die." "I've never had to think about this kind of stuff." "You know, not surviving things..." "Trevor." "You're not gonna die." "Okay?" "Ever?" "Tell Linda to take my shift, all right?" "I'm gonna take a sick day." "Jaclyn!" "What's up?" "Have you seen the McBlane file?" "I can't seem to find it anywhere." "It should be in your file cabinet, Dr. Allen." "Yeah, I know it should be there but it isn't and I looked in every drawer." "I wouldn't know then." "You usually organize your files." "Yeah, I know." "I usually organize my files." "I organize my files." "I organize my clothes drawers." "I organize my CDs." "I organize my whole day." "See, I've become a very organized person." "Did you know that I have coffee and doughnuts every morning at 8:45?" "Never mind." "Can you please check the file room for me." "Oh, Mr. Bennett." "I'm sorry." "Am I interrupting you?" "I was gonna call but I work close by and I thought..." "Is there anything wrong?" "Well, it's just..." "I'm sorry." "I've decided to discontinue our sessions." "It isn't personal, Dr. Allen." "I just..." "I don't think you're ever really going to understand the choices I've made." "I see, and your wife?" "I think Angela feels that it wouldn't do much good to come by herself." "Well, that's the point, isn't it?" "By herself." "I'm sorry?" "Angela." "She's by herself." "You're leaving her by herself, now." "I mean she has to work through all this by herself." "Does that sound fair to you?" "Does that really seem right?" "I'm not really sure I understand where you're going with..." "Mr. Bennett, um..... you may think that it takes a lot of courage to spot a problem and change your life to solve it and maybe it does." "But maybe it takes more courage to do right by a person who is clearly devoted to you, a person who loves you." "Relationships demand a certain stability, a certain reliability and more than that, they demand trust." "Now a person in a loving relationship made a promise that he'll be there, that he won't abandon them." "That he won't just up and leave her behind while he's off pursuing whatever selfish agenda he might want to pursue." "Now any man who does not keep that promise should know that he is doing something that can forever change that woman he has left behind." "Forever leave her with an anger and frustration that she may never get past and as far as I'm concerned, Mr. Bennett, any man who does not have the decency to honor his commitments the same way that she is honoring hers" "is not a man who deserves any sympathy and is certainly not a man who deserves to be mourned when he is gone." "I'm sorry, Doctor, Mr. Bennett, I'll come back at a better time." "No, he was very nice about it." "Apologetic even." "But?" "But, they can't have the head of the institute allowing personal problems to cloud her professional judgment, so.." "Sorry, Claire." "I know how much you wanted it." "I know." "Things do seem to be slipping away from me." "Don't they?" "You know, I was thinking about the only time I was on that ferris wheel." "That was my first date with Jack." "Wasn't that the same night you met him?" "You worked fast." "Oh, you don't know how fast." "We slept together that night." "We couldn't help it." "I couldn't help it." "We just... we couldn't keep our hands off of each other." "He took me up in his plane once." "He put it on auto-pilot." "We must have circled the lake for about two hours." "You mean in the plane?" "Isn't that dangerous?" "I'm sure it was." "That was our second date." "You know, it's not true he just left for no reason." "It was because of me." "I was everything I tell my clients not to be." "I went from zero to sixty overnight." "I was almost irrational." "I pushed, I pulled, I held on as tightly as I could." "For the whole four months we were together." "I guess that's what just drove him away." "So I learned... and I became everything I am today." "A new job would've been nice." "Come on, let's go." "Look out!" "Knock." "Knock." "Is someone there?" "Everything's fuzzy." "You took on half a ton of bricks." "The bricks won." "Zeus?" "!" "Is that you?" "I was waiting for you on top of that building all night." "More to the point is who you are." "Some pathetic Joe who's just wondering what's gonna happen if he dies before he matches a hundred couples?" "Exactly." "Except you know, for the pathetic part." "Maybe part of your punishment here on Earth is to find out about mortality." "You know that whole "act outrageous" bit you were running earlier?" "The shrink lady's right." "Mortals don't "do it" to bump body parts." "They do it because every once and a while they gotta thumb their nose at death." "It makes them feel more alive." "Alive." "Okay." "Okay." "So-- so getting back to me..." "The way I see it, there's a plan." "So far, so good." "So I'm outta here." "No." "Wait." "Hold on." "You didn't answer my question." "Am I still gonna be immortal?" "I mean, if something happens to me, are you going to let me die?" "Don't worry... you're not gonna die." "Hey you got it?" "You just had a bump on the head." "That's all." "You're not gonna die." "Hey buddy, you yammered a lot when you were out." "Must have been a nice dream." "Hi." " Hi...." "I'm sorry, this section is closed." "I was just finishing up." "I just wanted to talk." "I thought, maybe..." "I don't know." "I haven't come to see you at work in a while and I thought that..." "Well, I'm pretty much done, I mean... we could just talk here." "I saw Dr. Allen this morning." "I told her we weren't coming back." "She said a couple of things..." "I don't really know what I'm doing." "You know?" "I just...." "I'm getting older." "I'm getting scared." "I guess I was just looking for something to keep me excited." "I get scared, too, Michael." "But all it makes me want to look for is you." "I'm really sorry." "You know, I didn't mean to leave you behind." "Look, the thing is, if you're interested, I'd be willing to go back to Dr. Allen and-- and work through all of it, you know, the dancing and everything else." "I'm interested." "But... just to be fair..." "someone's been trying to convince me that I need to make a compromise too." "Would you like to dance?" ""It seems we stood and danced like this, before" "We looked at each other in the same way then" "But I can't remember where or when" "The clothes you're wearing are the clothes you wore" "The smile you are smiling you were smiling then" "But I can't remember where or when" "Look at you." "You're just... this-- this is... wh-when did you...?" "We're really not so old, you know?" "We'll be roaming the Earth a little while longer." "I just want to do it together." "Me too." ""And so it seems that we have met, before And laughed, before" "And loved, before But who knows where or when."" "Hope you don't mind." "Linda told me you'd be here." "Wanted to come down and check up on you." "See how you're doin'." "Yeah, I just wanted to come by..." "Make sure I guess." "Sorry about your job." "The truth is, it may be a blessing." "You can stop wrapping your whole life up in your work." "Do I do that?" "Yeah." "Oh, I got a call from Angela Bennett." "She and Michael are coming back to counselling." "Angela Bennett?" "Not a familiar name." "Really?" "No." "Well, she also wanted to thank Dr. Hale." "Thought you might know what that's about." "Okay." "Uh, here's the deal." "I did something kind of bad and now that it's over and everything's worked out and you're dealing with everything you're dealing with," "I'm not gonna tell you what it was." "Okay?" "Okay." "But whatever you did, don't do it again." "Fair enough." "I'm here to take you away from all this." "You are?" "I are." "It's been a rough couple of days for you." "I think it's time for you to bust out." "Get a little crazy." "Dr. Hale's prescription for mental health?" "Yeah, you know." "Nothing rough." "Nothing hard." "Won't hurt you." "I promise." "We'll have fun." "Look, Trevor... thanks." "It has been a rough couple of days." "All I want to do is go home tonight and go to sleep." "Nothing wrong with sleeping." "My second favourite thing to do in bed." "You're kind of new to this cheering people up thing, aren't you?" "You helped me out... yesterday." "I got a quick look at the fear that you all live with." "You know, of dying." "And that helped you?" "Oh yeah." "It helped me a lot." "It's a motivater." "It makes you want to go after life really hard, every single minute and that's all I'm suggesting you do." "Go after it." "Well, Trevor, that seems more like your style." "I heard it used to be yours." "I tell you what." "I will come down a little bit, ease off the romance thing a little bit." "You bring it up a notch, and we'll meet somewhere in the middle, okay?" "Think of it as rekindling a romance with yourself." "That way I can get credit for another match..." "Trevor, I mean I don't even..." "I don't even know what I'd do." "What about dancing?" "Dancing?" "I don't think dancing makes you feel better about this kind of thing." "I don't know." "Doesn't it depend on where you dance?" "Heaven...he's in heaven." "You're serious?" "Here?" "I can see that." "Come on." "One moment of saying "what the hell"." "One moment of spontaneity." "Why don't you grab back a little bit of the control that he took away from you?" "Oh gosh." "This is crazy." "Exactly." "This doesn't mean anything's changed, you know?" "It doesn't mean I'm gonna have a whole new take on counselling." "Or relationships." "Or romance." "Or anything." "Of course it doesn't." "Just so you understand." "I understand." "But, thank you." "You're welcome."