December 11, 2001

Transcribed by Cindy Popiela, edited by Karen Ross

At The Country Club

Sam: Hi! We have dinner reservations for two.

Matre'd: Certainly sir. What's the name?

Sam: Name?! Nora what name did you put this under?

Nora: Hmmm. (staring at Troy and Lindsay)

Sam: Nora, what name did you put us under?

Nora: Ah Buchanan. Nora Buchanan.

Matre'd: Ah yes, we have a special table for you. Let me make sure it's ready.

Sam: Thanks. (Nora walks over to him) You okay?

Nora: Maybe we should go someplace else.

Sam: What?! Why?

At Troy's table

Troy: Go ahead, make a wish.

Lindsay: Come on! I mean I just make a wish on this thing and . . . and it will come true?

Troy: This is a very powerful talisman. If there's anything you've ever wanted in your entire life, now's the time to wish for it!

Lindsay: Okay! I wish . . . Nora would stay out of my life.

Sam and Nora walk into the dining room.

Nora: Hello Troy! Lindsay! (Nora walks to their table)

Sam: Troy, I'm so glad I ran into you. I've been wanting to talk to you.

Troy: Well, actually we're in the middle of dinner here.

Sam: I'm sorry, but this will only take a minute.

Lindsay: Sam, we just got our food.

Sam: I promise to bring him back, right back! Okay!

Troy: Okay. Lindsay, please excuse me. (Sam and Troy leave and Nora gets up and come to sit down at Lindsay's table)

Nora: (sitting in Troys chair) Hello Lindsay!

Lindsay: (holding up Troy's talisman) Nora!

Nora: So what are you up to?

Lindsay: What?!

Nora: WHAT ARE YOU UP TO?!

Lindsay: I don't know what you mean.

Nora: You're having dinner with a man you just recently tried to smother.

Lindsay: Oh I did not!

Nora: So what are you doing with him?

Lindsay: Well, not that it's any of your business, but I'm helping him with a fundraiser for his clinic.

Nora: Oh God, that's a good one. That really is. I think that's the best one you've come up with ever!

Lindsay: You know what Nora, I really don't care if you don't believe me.

Nora: Well clearly if you're going to keep making up such lies.

Lindsay: Anyway, what do you care what I'm doing with Troy? You're not interested in him. Or are you?

Nora: I'm not interested in Troy in that way.

Lindsay: Yes you are! Or you wouldn't be pulling that Nora thing.

Nora: What! What Nora thing?!

Lindsay: To have every man in the world interested in you.

Nora: Oh for goodness sakes! So Troy's interested in you?

Lindsay: Well why not? He's a single man, I'm a single woman.

Nora: Well you're right about the biological thing, and you got the marital status on your side too.

Lindsay: And we have alot in common.

Nora: Well, what, does he think I broke up your marriage too?

Lindsay: We both appreciate art.

Nora: Well clearly you're a perfect match!

Lindsay: Sam believes so.

Nora: What?!

Lindsay: What else do you think that Sam's talking to Troy about?

In the hallway.

Sam: I thought you and I had an understanding Troy?

Troy: An understanding?!

Sam: Mmm hmm.

Troy: I'm not sure what you're talking about. Maybe you could refresh my memory.

Sam: Refresh your memory, isn't that your new specialty?

Troy: This is about Nora, is that it?

Sam: Yes it is. What did you think you were doing?

Troy: I was doing what Nora wanted me to do. I was giving her back her memories.

Sam: By experimenting on her brain? By treating her with who knows what?!

Troy: Look Sam, Nora came to me.

Sam: Because you're a doctor. Because she trusts you!

Troy: And apparently you don't!

Sam: You convinced her to lie to me Troy!

Troy: Okay look, whatever Nora wants to tell you or does not want to tell you, that's Nora's business.

Sam: When it risks her life, it's my business!

Troy: I wasn't risking her life, I was giving her back her life!

Sam: But she has a life.

Troy: And that's great! And now she has her memories. And if she'd let me try again, then maybe she can regain some more memories.

Sam: (shaking his head) No! NO! Absolutely not!

Troy: What is it Sam, huh? What are you so afraid of? Are you afraid that I can give Nora something you can't?

Sam: You honestly think you can give Nora something I can't?

Troy: You can't give her her memories back Sam.

Sam: True! But I can help her make new ones.

Troy: And that's great. But they don't replace the ones that she's lost. Do you even care what she remembered?

Sam: Of course I care Troy. I love the fact that she can remember Matthew's birth. I love the fact that she remembers the first years of his life.

Troy: She also regained some memories about you Sam.

Sam: And I love that too! But as great as that is, I'd give that up if it would spare her the pain of those horrible things that she's gone through!

Troy: You mean the things that Lindsay did!

Sam: Yeah! Listen Troy, Nora and I love each other. She and Matthew and I have a great future ahead of us. That's the direction we want to go . . . forward, not backwards. That's a decision that Nora has made as well

Troy: I know that. I think it's an unfortunate decision. But I do recognize that it is Nora's decision to make. Apparently you don't! If you'll excuse me, I have someone waiting for me.

At Nora's table

Sam: (the phone rings) Excuse me! . . . Hello! . . . Jen! What's wrong? . . . Okay, I'll be right there.

Nora: Is everything alright?

Sam: I'm not sure.

Nora: What is it?

Sam: I'm not . . .

Lindsay: Sam, is Jen okay?

Nora: Does NASA know about your supersonic hearing?

Lindsay: What happened?

Sam: She's fine. She's back from New York.

Lindsay: Why is she back so early?

Sam: Well apparently there's been some kind of trouble.

Lindsay: Well what kind of trouble?

Sam: I don't know. I'm going to find out. I'm going to meet her at the train station.

Lindsay: Okay, I'm going to go with you. (to Troy) We can do this some other time.

Troy: Absolutely.

Sam: No Lindsay! I don't think it's a good idea. She wasn't very happy to see you the last time.

Lindsay: Sam, I can fix that.

Troy: You know Lindsay, I'll pick up the check. Don't worry about the check.

Lindsay: Thank you! (to Sam) What are we waiting for?

Sam: I'm sorry.

Nora: I'm fine.

Sam: Sorry.

Nora: No, I can get myself home. It's okay. I'll walk out with you. Come on.

Sam: Alright.

Troy returns to his table and holds up his talisman.

Troy: I got a wish I wouldn't mind coming true! Maybe more than one! (Nora walks back into the dining room and sits down at his table)

Nora: Okay Dr. MacIver! What exactly are you doing with Lindsay Rappaport? (he has this grin on his face)

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