When Harry Met Sally_part 5

Transcripted by Yours Truly

A Rob Reiner Film

Harry Burns - Billy Crystal
Sally Allbright - Meg Ryan
Marie - Carrie Fisher
Jess - Bruno Kirby
Joe - Steven Ford
Alice - Lisa Jane Persky
Amanda - Michelle Nicastro

(New scene, in Jess and Marie's house, a bunch of people playing pictionary or something similar. Sally is drawing something on the white board.)

Jess: Uh, it's a monkey. It's a monkey, monkey see monkey do! It's... an ape, going ape!

Woman: It's a baby!

(Sally points to her.)

Jess: Planet of the apes!

Harry: Planet of the apes? She just said it's a baby. How about planet of the dopes?

Jess: It doesn't look like a baby.

Harry: Hmm a big mouth... Mick Jagger is a baby!

Jess: Baby ape, baby ape!

Harry: Stop with the apes would you please?

Woman: Uh... baby's breath!

Harry: Rosemary's Baby's mouth! Won't you come home Bill baby!

Woman: Babababy...kiss the baby!

Harry: Melancholy baby's mouth!

Jess: Baba...baby fish mouth, baby fish mouth! (Out of shot: fifteen seconds.)

Woman: Baby boom!

Jess: Draw something resembling anything.

Woman: Crying baby, kiss the baby. Harry: Uh...Baby spitting up, exorcist baby!

Woman: Yes sir that's my baby!

Harry: No sir don't mean may be.

(Out of shot: That's it times up.)

Sally: Baby talk.

Jess: Baby talk? What's that, that's not a saying.

Harry: Oh but baby fish mouth is sweeping the nation. I hear them talking.

Man: Final score, our team one ten, you guys sixty.

Sally: I can't draw.

Julian: Nah, that's baby, and that's clearly talking. You're wonderful.

Marie: Alright who wants coffee?

Jess: I do and I love you.

Woman: Do you have any tea? Marie: One tea.

Harry: Industrial strength.

Sally: I'll help you, (To Julian) de-caf?

Julian: Yes.

Marie: Cream. Woman: Where's the bathroom?

Marie: Through that door down the hall.

Jess: (To Julian) Doesn't look like a baby to me.

Julian: Which part?

Jess: All of it.

Harry: Hey Jess, you were going to show me the cover of your book.

Jess: Oh yeah yeah, it's in the den. Look Julian, help yourself, have some... more wine or whatever you like OK? (To Harry) I like saying it's in the den, it's got a nice ring to it. (Marie and Sally in the kitchen making coffees.)

Sally: Emily is a little young for Harry don't you think?

Marie: Well she's young, but look what she's done.

Sally: What has she done? She makes desserts. (Harry and Jess in the den.)

Harry: Did Julian seem a little stuffy to you? Jess: He's a good guy, you should talk to him, get to know him.

Harry: He's too tall to talk to.

(In the kitchen.)

Marie: She makes thirty six hundred chocolate mousse pie a week.

Sally: Emily is "Aunt Emily"?

(Den.)

Jess: He took us all to a Met game last week, it was great.

Harry: You all went to a Met game together?

Jess: Yeah, but... it was a... last minute thing.

Harry: But Sally hates baseball. (Kitchen.)

Sally: Harry doesn't even like sweets.

Marie: Julian is great.

Sally: I know, he's grown up.

(Den.)

Jess: Emily is terrific.

Harry: Yeah, of course when I asked her where she was when Kennedy was shot she said, "Ted Kennedy was shot?"

Jess: No. (Harry is in bed, reading a new book. Flick to the last page to read the ending. Phone rings.)

Harry: Hello.

Sally: Are you alone?

Harry: Yeah I was just finishing a book.

Sally: Could you come over?

Harry: What's the matter?

Sally: He's getting married.

Harry: Who?

Sally: Joe.

Harry: I'll be right there.

(Sally opens the door for Harry, she is covered in tears.)

Sally: Hi.

Harry: Are you alright?

Sally: Come on in.

(Harry closes the door behind him.)

Sally: I'm sorry to call you so late.

Harry: It's alright.

Sally: I need a Kleenex.

Harry: OK.

Sally: OK?

(They walk into Sally's bedroom.)

Sally: He just called me up 'wanted to see how you were', fine. 'How are you?', fine. His secretary's on vacation, everything's all backed up and he's got a big case to do, blah blah blah. And I'm sitting on the phone I'm thinking, I'm over him, I really am over him. I can't believe that I'd ever be remotely interested in any of that. And then he said I have some news. She works in his office, she's a paralegal, her name is Kimberley. (Sob, Sob.) He just met her. She's suppose to be his transitional person, she's not suppose to be the one. All this time I've been saying that he didn't want to get married, but the truth is, he didn't want to marry me. He didn't love me. Harry: If you could take him back right now, would you?

Sally: No, but why didn't he want to marry me? What's the matter with me?

Harry: Aw, nothing.

Sally: I'm difficult.

Harry: You're challenging. Sally: I'm too structured, I'm completely closed off.

Harry: But in a good way.

Sally: No, no, no I drove him away, and I'm going to be forty.

Harry: When?

Sally: Someday.

Harry: In eight years.

Sally: But it's there. It's just sitting there like this big dead end. And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplain had babies when he was seventy three.

Harry: Yeah but he was too old to pick them up. (Sally laughs a little, then turns into sobbing again.)

Harry: Aw... Come here, come here, it's going to be OK. It's going to be fine, you'll see. (Sally is sobbing all over Harry's pullover.)

Harry: Oh go ahead, it's not one of my favourites anyway. It's going to be OK, hmm? You're OK? OK. (Harry kisses Sally.)

Harry: I'll make some tea.

Sally: Harry, harry, could you just hold me a little longer?

(They start kissing, it didn't stop and yes, it happened. They are in bed, Sally is wearing a smile, Harry is wearing a blank stare.)

Sally: Are you comfortable?

Harry: Sure.

Sally: Do you want something to drink or something?

Harry: No I'm Ok.

Sally: Well I'm going to get up for some water so it's really no trouble.

Harry: OK, water.

(Sally goes to get some water. Harry examines Sally's video indexing cards.)

Harry: You have all the video tapes alphabetising on index cards?

(Sally passes Harry the water.)

Harry: Thanks you.

Sally: Do you want to watch something?

Harry: No, not unless you do.

Sally: No, that's OK.

(Sally snuggles into bed.) Sally: Do you want to go to sleep?

Harry: OK.

(The next morning. Sally is still in bed. Harry is putting on his clothes about to leave.)

Sally: Where are you going?

Harry: I gotoa go. Gotta go home, I gotta change my clothes and then I have to go to work and so do you. But after work I'd like to take out to dinner if you're free, are you free? Sally: Yes.

Harry: Right, I'll call you later.

Sally: Fine.

Harry: Fine.

(Harry kiss Sally on the forehead and leaves. Sally just watches as he leaves.)

(Now we see Jess and Marie in bed. First Marie's phone rings.)

Jess: Yours.

Marie: Hello.

Sally: I'm sorry to call so early.

Marie: Are you alright?

Jess: I know I would've called at this hour.

Sally: I did something terrible.

Marie: What did you do?

(Jess's phone rings.) Jess: Now I know who I would call at this hour.

Sally: Uh, it's so awful.

Harry: I need to talk.

Marie: What happened? Jess: What's the matter?

Sally: Harry came over last night. Harry: I went over to Sally's last night.

Sally: Because I was upset that Joe was getting married.

Harry: And one thing led to another. Sally: And before I knew it we were kissing and...

Harry: To make a long story short.

Sally: We did it. Harry: We did it.

Jess: They did it. Marie: They did it.

Marie: That's great Sally.

Jess: We've been praying for it.

Marie: You should've done it in the first place. Jess: For months we've been saying you should do it.

Marie: You guys belong together.

Jess: It's like killing two birds with one stone. Marie: It's like two wrong's make a right.

Jess: How was it? Marie: How was it?

Harry: The doing part was good.

Sally: I thought it was good.

Harry: But then I felt suffocated.

Sally: But then I guess it wasn't.

Jess: Jesus I'm sorry.

Marie: No worries.

Harry: I had to get out of there.

Sally: He just diappeared.

Harry: I feel so bad.

Sally: I'm so embarassed. Jess: I don't blame you.

Marie: That's horrible.

Harry: I think I'm coming down with something.

Sally: I think I'm catching a cold. Jess: Look it would've been great if it worked out, but it didn't.

Marie: Ah, you should never go to bed with anyone when you find out your boyfriend is getting married.

Harry: Who's that talking?

Jess: Who?

Sally: Is that Jess on the phone?

Jess: It's Jane Fonda on the VCR.

Marie: It's Bryant Gumbel.

Jess: Do you want to come over for breakfast? Marie: Do you want to come over for breakfast?

Harry: No, I'm not up to it.

Sally: No, I feel too awful.

Marie: I... I mean is so early.

Jess: But call me later if you want.

Marie: I'll call you later OK?

Harry: OK bye.

Sally: Bye.

Jess: Bye.

Marie: Bye. (All hang up their phones.)

Marie: God!

Jess: I know. Marie: Tell me I'll never have to be out there again.

Jess: You will never have to be out there again.

(Sally putting on make up.)

Sally (Voice over): I'll just say we made a mistake.

(Harry in the shower.)

Harry (Voice over): Sally, it was a mistake.

Sally (Voice over): I just hope I get to say it first.

Harry: (Voice over): I hope she says it before I do. (Harry and Sally at a restaurant.)

Sally: It was a mistake.

Harry: I am so relieved that you think so too. I'm not saying last night wasn't great. Sally: It was.

Harry: Yes, it was.

Sally: We just never should've done it.

Harry: I couldn't agree more.

Sally: I'm so relieved.

Harry: Right.

Sally: Yah.

Waiter: Two mixed green salads.

Harry: It is so nice when you can sit with someone and not have to talk.

(Sally nods in agreement.)

(Harry and Jess power-walking in a park)

Harry: It's just like most of the time you go to bed with someone, she tells you her stories, you tell her your stories. But with Sally and me, we've already heard each other's stories, so once we went to bed, we didn't know what we were suppose to do, you know?

Jess: Sure Harry.

(Harry and Jess in the street.)

Harry: I don't know. May be you get to a certain point in the relationship where it's just too late to have sex, you know? (Marie getting her wedding dress fitted. Sally is sitting down, watching.)

Sally: Is Harry bringing anyone to the wedding?

Marie: I don't think so.

Sally: Is he seeing anyone?

Marie: He was seeing this anthropologist but...

Sally: What did she look like?

Marie: Thin, pretty, big tits, your basic nightmare. (Marie turns to Sally with the dress.)

Marie: So, what do you think? Sally: Oh Marie.

Marie: Tell the truth.

Sally: It's just beautiful.