Another Bad Day For Lucy Caused By Joe Scully

Our scene opens at Luke's. Lucy is having another bad business day and Mike flirts with her. However, our hero, Dr. Kevin, quickly makes his entrance and Lucy tells Mike...

L: "Oh, well, actually, I'm about to be very well taken care of." (Kevin and Lucy simply wave at each other. Dr. Kevin, on his part, has his dimples cranked up full volume... ;-) When next we see them, they're seated and the attentive doctor observes...)

K: "You're in a stew."

L: "No, as a matter of fact, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not. I am just having business difficulties. There's no reason I should be overwhelmed. I can handle this."

K: "That's very good."

L: "Thank you. Then why do I feel like I have to scream?"

K: "Habit?"

(Mike arrives with mineral water for Kevin and champagne for Lucy, "I hope this does the trick" he tells Lucy. Kevin wonders...)

K: "And what trick would that be?"

L: "Nothing. I guess you would have had to been there."

(Mike asks Lucy, "Anything else?")

L: "Actually, you know, this is a blues club and just about now I could really use some blues."

(Mike leaves and turns up the music.)

K: "You know, you don't have to be stoic. You can tell me what's wrong."

L: "It's devastating. Late shipments, garbled orders... The business that was a well-oiled machine that I used to run with one hand tied behind my back is now in chaos."

K: "Maybe that's what did it."

L: "Don't say that. You're supposed to tell me everything is OK, I'm on top of the world, I can do this."

K: "You are everything you just said you are. Don't hyperventilate."

L: "I'm not. I'm cool, I'm relaxed, I'm calm, I'm in control."

(KatyB and Damian arrive.)

L: "Oh and ready, able and willing to slit my wrists."

(In the next act, Lucy seems to be telling Kevin the cellular phone story... And Kevin commiserates...)

K: "And the Maitre D' actually asked you to hang up your cellular phone? The cad."

L: "Well, I even tried flirting with him."

K: "I noticed. Didn't work, huh?"

L: "No, but I did get a free glass of champagne out of it."

K: "Lucy, Lucy, have you no shame? You don't have to resort to freebies, I'll just buy you a bottle."

(Kevin goes to the bar and KatyB descends on him. He looks at her as if she's just crawled out from under a rock. Kevin's lines only follow.)

K: "Well, I don't read anything into that but the obvious, Ms. Bell, we just don't like each other very much."

"Her `ex'?"

"Yes, interesting piece of projection you've made there. Excuse me, may we have a bottle of your best champagne sent to our table ASAP? Thank you."

(Lucy arrives to rescue Kevin from the dastardly Bell... )

L: "Why don't you keep your hot breath off my escort? Heaven knows what contagion you might be carrying."

(Katy leaves and Kevin holds Lucy and suggests...)

K: "Let's sit back down, my dear. Come... come..."

L: "Tell me what she said to you."

K: "All right, she just wanted to make sure that you knew that Tom Hardy was back in town. Your ex-lover."

L: "I know who he is. Oh, that little witch... She had no right to bring up ancient history like that."

K: "Ashamed of it?"

L: "Yeah..."

K: "Good. As long as you don't try to justify it, I'm perfectly comfortable with your past."

(The look on Lucy's face said it all, "this man's a keeper." Later, back at the table...)

L: "It's so crude and tasteless of Katherine to bring that whole matter up, you know? Tom Hardy and I were eons ago. I don't see how Katherine could know about that because she didn't come to town till much later. So there's no way she could have known, unless people are still talking about it. No, they couldn't possibly be doing that. I mean, really, the whole thing was irrelevant and immaterial."

K: "That's my thoughts exactly. You want to think about getting dinner sometime tonight?"

L: "You really don't care about this?"

K: "Well, it's just that the menu here is rather limited and, afterall, it is laden with saturated fat."

L: "You really, really, really, don't care about this?"

K: "You're really, really right."

L: "Why not?"

K: "Planning to resume the relationship?"

L: "Hardly."

K: "Well, then, there you go. So why don't we just leave it where it belongs, in your past? Along with all those other formative experiences that make you who you are now, the person with whom I choose to spend my time."

L: "You're not even a teeny, tiny, weeny bit jealous?"

K: "Of your past? No. I certainly hope you're not jealous of mine, especially since we resolved that entire Grace issue."

L: "Gosh."

K: "Yeah?"

L: "It's just certainly a whole new way of looking at things."

K: "Yes, the mature way."

L: "I think this is going to take some time getting used to."

K: "Adjustment, we call it in the trade."

L: "Oh..."

(Kiss... And later, they're holding hands...)

L: "I do think it's safe to say we are making enormous steps towards a mature relationship."

K: "True, but I'm not quite sure we're there yet, given that I have to compete for your attention with a duck."

L: "Aha! You are jealous."

K: "Of Sigmund? Of course. Priceless, isn't it?"

L: "Wait a minute, you gave him to me. How can you be jealous?"

K: "Why can't I be? Well, if you'd just keep him out of the bathtub."

L: "I will, I promise, while you're there. If you guarantee me, you will give me some credit for taking enormous strides toward that "m" word you mentioned. Not marriage, maturity."

K: "You know, I thought I had shown you how appreciative I am of you, but it I haven't done so adequately, I guess I'll just have to try harder, won't I?"

L: "Gee, that's fun to contemplate."

(When last we see our twosome, Kevin's beeper goes off, he borrows Lucy's cellular phone and gets the ominous news...)

"Ryan's dead."

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