script

Question 1

Karen: Uh huh, i think so too.

Answer 1

Gabe: Now wait a minute, we dont know the whole story.

Question 2

Karen: He cheated on her.

Answer 2

Gabe: Yeah yeah but it cant be as simple as that, Karen. You know that it never is.

Question 3

Karen: That snake.

Answer 3

Gabe: Honey, you’re talking about someone who up until like two hours ago you thought was salt of the earth.

Question 4

Karen: What does this say about my judgement?

Answer 4

Gabe: Karen, come on. He’s the same person youve known and loved for years

Question 5

Karen: He was never that person.

Answer 5

Gabe: Honey.

Question 6

Karen: He never cared at all

Answer 6

Gabe: Come on.

Question 7

Karen: What a simpatico guy: decent, loving, hard-working, a good father…

Answer 7

Gabe: He is all of those things. so he made a transgression

Question 8

Karen: a transgression???

Answer 8

Gabe: It’s still the same old Tom.

Question 9

Karen: This is more than a mere transgression! How could I ever look him in the eye again? I can’t. After what he’s done to Beth and the kids?

Answer 9

Gabe: So what do we do, abandon him? He is my oldest friend.

Question 10

Karen: I cant look at him anymore

Answer 10

Gabe: Maybe he’s really in trouble. Maybe he is. What kind of friends would we be if we went and punished him? I’ve got a feeling Beth is doing a pretty damn good job punishing him herself.

Question 11

Karen: She is the injured party

Answer 11

Gabe: So what does that mean? She’s the injured party so we can only stay friends with her?

Question 12

Karen: Not to be trusted.

Answer 12

Gabe: You are so strict

Question 13

Karen: One of those words.

Answer 13

Gabe: Okay, I’m sorry.

Question 14

Karen: Principle

Answer 14

Gabe: But doesn’t forgiveness enter into it for you? Or are you just too principled for that?

Question 15

Karen: This is not forgivable

Answer 15

Gabe: Boy

Question 16

Karen: Consequences

Answer 16

Gabe: Remind me not to get on your bad side

Question 17

Karen: You are out of here

Answer 17

Gabe: Really?

Question 18

Karen: None of that sleeping in the den shit

Answer 18

Gabe: It’s for the kids sake. That’s what she said. I can understand that

Question 19

Karen: I’m sorry

Answer 19

Gabe: But it’s for the kids

Question 20

Karen: He lost that privilege

Answer 20

Gabe: Wow, you are really tough

Question 21

Karen: Throw him the hell out

Answer 21

Gabe: So if in a moment of weakness I sleep with a check out girl or something and am foolish enough to confess to you and beg for your forgiveness, you’d tell me what? To go fuck myself?

Question 22

Karen: That’s right.

Answer 22

Gabe: You mean we couldn’t still be friends?

Question 23

Karen: Are you kidding?

Answer 23

Gabe: You mean we couldn’t even be civil with one another? At least now i know where you stand.

Question 24

Karen: As if you had any doubt

Answer 24

Gabe: The thing is, you never know what couples are like when they’re alone; you never do. You know that: there’s no way of knowing. It’s all very mysterious.

Question 25

Karen: There goes the Vineyard.

Answer 25

Gabe: Oh, God, you're right. How would we work that?

Question 26

Karen: We couldn't. What, we'd have Beth come with the kids for two weeks, then she would go and Tom would take over? That’s ridiculous.

Answer 26

Gabe: It sounds awful.

Question 27

Karen: What a mess

Answer 27

Gabe: It’s like a death, isn’t it?

Question 28

Karen: Why were you so quiet tonight?

Answer 28

Gabe: What? What do you mean?

Question 29

Karen: When Beth was telling us. You were so silent.

Answer 29

Gabe: I wasn’t silent. I was shocked, I was stunned.

Question 30

Karen: You let me do most of the talking

Answer 30

Gabe: That’s not unusual. Hey! No, I mean it, you do most of the talking.

Question 31

Karen: I do not.

Answer 31

Gabe: Yes you do. You generally have more to say on any given subject than I do. That's why we work well together: you talk, I write, you edit me.

Question 32

Karen: You’re evading.

Answer 32

Gabe: No, I’m not. Evading what?

Question 33

Karen: I think what Beth was telling us... I think it was very hard for you.

Answer 33

Gabe: Of course it was hard. No one wants to hear about his closest friends going through something like this.

Question 34

Karen: No, no, that's not what I mean. Don't get defensive. It's just, I think, all this... marital talk... It's too close to home. I think it made you very uncomfortable.

Answer 34

Gabe: Made me uncomfortable.

Question 35

Karen: Yes.

Answer 35

Gabe: Well, like I said, it’s not the most pleasant of topics.

Question 36

Karen: Don’t play dumb with me Gabe.

Answer 36

Gabe: What?!

Question 37

Karen: You’re playing dumb.

Answer 37

Gabe: No, I’m not, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Question 38

Karen: You do that, you know, whenever I want you to talk to me about something like this, something important...

Answer 38

Gabe: Oh, great, you trying to pick a fight with me, or what?

Question 39

Karen: No, Gabe…

Answer 39

Gabe: What do you want me to say, that this whole thing scares the shit out of me?

Question 40

Karen: Yes!

Answer 40

Gabe: Well, it does. Okay?

Question 41

Karen: It does me, too. You think you're safe, on solid ground, then all of a sudden the earth cracks open.

Answer 41

Gabe: Who the hell is that? Oh, shit, you re not gonna believe this, I think it's Tom.

Question 42

Karen: You’re kidding. (Tom outside)

Answer 42

Gabe: It *is* Tom.

Question 43

Karen: He’s supposed to be in Washington.

Answer 43

Gabe: Well, he’s not; he just pulled into our driveway.

Question 44

Karen: I don’t want to see him; tell him I went to bed.

Answer 44

Gabe: Karen, come on, you can’t do that.

Question 45

Karen: He's not here to see me, anyway, he's here to see you; he's *your* friend.

Answer 45

Gabe: That’s not true. You *love* Tom.

Question 46

Karen: No, I thought I did. (*There’s a knock at the door.*)

Answer 46

Gabe: Karen. Please? (*Another knock; childlike*) Don't leave me alone with him? (*Gabe goes to the door and opens it*)