Yes.
HARRY Â Â Â Â Would you like to have dinner?
Sally looks at him suspiciously
.
HARRY Â Â Â Â ( CONTâD )Â Â Â Â Just friends.
SALLY Â Â Â Â I thought you didnât believe men and women could be friends.
HARRY Â Â Â Â When did I say that?
SALLY Â Â Â Â On the ride to New York.
HARRY Â Â Â Â No, no, no, no. I never said that.
(reconsiders)
Yes, thatâs right. They canât be friends â¦
(figuring this out)
⦠unless both of them are involved with other people. Then they can. This is an amendment to the earlier rule. If the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possible involvement is lifted.
(thinking this over)
That doesnât work either. Because what happens then, the person youâre involved withdoesnât understand why you need to be friends with the person youâre just friends with, like it means something is missing from the relationship and you have to go outside to get it. Then when you say, âNo, no, no, itâs not true, nothing is missing from the relationship,â the person youâre involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person youâre just friends with, which you probably areâI mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, letâs face itâwhich brings us back to the earlier rule before the amendment, that men and women canât be friends. So where does that leave us?
SALLY Â Â Â Â Harryâ
HARRY Â Â Â Â What?
SALLY Â Â Â Â Goodbye.
HARRY Â Â Â Â Okay.
They look at each other. Though they have said goodbye, they are now in that awkward place of still going in the same direction next to each other on the moving sidewalk. After a beat:
HARRY Â Â Â Â ( CONTâD )Â Â Â Â Iâll just stop walking, Iâll let you go ahead.
FADE OUT .
FADE IN:
DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE
Another OLDER COUPLE sitting on a love seat, looking at the CAMERA
.
THIRD MAN Â Â Â Â We were married forty years ago. We were married three years. We got a divorce. Then I married Marjorie.
THIRD WOMAN Â Â Â Â But first you lived with Barbara.
THIRD MAN Â Â Â Â Right. Barbara. But I didnât marry Barbara. I married Marjorie.
THIRD WOMAN Â Â Â Â Then you got a divorce.
THIRD MAN Â Â Â Â Right. Then I married Katie.
THIRD WOMAN Â Â Â Â Another divorce.
THIRD MAN Â Â Â Â Then, a couple of years later at Eddie Callichioâs funeral, I ran into her. I was with some girl I donât even remember.
THIRD WOMAN Â Â Â Â Roberta.
THIRD MAN Â Â Â Â Right, Roberta. But I couldnât take my eyes off you.
(beat)
I remember, I snuck over to her and I saidâwhat did I say?
THIRD WOMAN Â Â Â Â You said, âWhat are you doing after?â
THIRD MAN Â Â Â Â Right. So I ditched Roberta, we go for coffee, a month later weâre married.
THIRD WOMAN Â Â Â Â Thirty-five years to the day after our first marriage.
FADE OUT .
EXT. NEW YORK RESTAURANT WITH VIEWâDAY
ITâS FIVE YEARS LATER .
Sally is sitting at a table with two other women, MARIE and ALICE. Marie is a dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty. Alice is cute and plump, a married lady
.
MARIE Â Â Â Â So, I go through his pockets, okay?
ALICE Â Â Â Â Marie, why do you go through his pockets?
MARIE Â Â Â Â You know what I found?
ALICE Â Â Â Â No, what?
MARIE Â Â Â Â They just bought a dining-room table. He andhis wife just went out and spent
$1,600
on a dining-room table.
ALICE Â Â Â Â Where?
MARIE Â Â Â Â The point isnât where, Alice. The point is, heâs never going to leave her.
ALICE Â Â Â Â So what else is new? Youâve known this for two years.
MARIE Â Â Â Â
(glumly)
    Youâre right, youâre right. I know youâre right.
ALICE