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Mmm. Delicious.

You know, that's my second favorite treat.

Really? Yeah.

Well, well, well.

Two lovebirds are at it again.

We're ready to get out.

I don't have to. It's a free world and a free kitchen.

Come on, Theo. Let her stay.

Yeah, Theo.

Can't you control yourself for one minute?

All right, Rudy, you can stay. Just cool out.

Okay.

What's that I smell?

We're making chocolate mousse.

No, it's not the mousse.

I smell Dad's cologne.

Any left in the bottle?

I think the air smells very nice. Thank you, Justine.

Ow! He hit me!

Stop tormenting your little sister. Come on. I'm not doing anything.

I have a big brother, too, and I know what a pain they can be.

You said it.

Need some help? I'd be delighted.

Excuse us.

Oh, come on, you guys. I'm serious.

Come on. Yes, we are. Here you go.

Can't believe this.

Trying to be alone with my girlfriend. Look what I got to put up with.

She and I try to have a little bit of privacy if Rudy's going to come in and

start messing up things. She and I never get to be alone because there are

always people wherever we go. Dad, if we are in a subway car that's half full,

that's the most alone we get.

If you're looking for any sympathy from me, you're looking at the wrong person.

You're looking at a man who has been alone approximately one and a half hours

since 1963.

Now, if you want to be alone with Justine, I would suggest that you get a

buy a house, get married, and have no children.

All I'm asking is to be alone with Justine for a little while.

You want to be alone with Justine?

Yeah. Okay.

I'm going to give this to you once.

Your mother and I used to do this all the time.

Go to a bad movie.

Not just a bad movie, but a bad... foreign movie with subtitles whoo -hoo

nobody in that theater jack i mean a bad movie where there's they have a lot of

fog you know people walking around in the fog and the men cry you take into

that you'll be alone and you'll find even the candy counter is self -service

I think I found our bad porn movie, The Death Sonata, in Swedish with subtitles.

Nobody's gonna be there.

Perfect.

But it started a half hour ago.

When's the next showing?

Five hours from now.

Justine, why can't we just send your roommate out someplace?

No, Dolores broke her foot and her leg's in the cast.

Great.

Justine!

Hey,

Dolores! Looks like you're up and about.

Going somewhere?

No. I was supposed to work the alumni reception today. They need a waitress to

pay $75 plus tips. Do you want it?

Oh, I can't. Theo and I are going out.

Hey, Christine, go ahead if you want to. No problem.

You don't mind?

I can really use the money. Absolutely not. Thank you. Oh, see, now look at you

two. That's how a couple should be.

Understanding, flexible, and all over each other.

I'll call you when I get home. Bye, Theo.

Thanks, Laura.

See you later.

So what were you two going to do?

We're going to see a five -and -a -half -hour movie called The Death Sonata. Oh,

Bjorn Lundström. He's my favorite director.

The last two hours of the movie, the screen is black.

And all you hear is water dripping.

It's deep.

Drop it now.

Sometimes, if you just hold this button a little longer... Here you go.

What did you do that for?

Isn't this what you wanted?

Chomping down calories is supposed to make me feel better? No, it makes me

better. Only wish this was Randy Henley.

Well, I know Randy. He's a theater major, right? He is also my acting

with whom I'll be going down the tubes tomorrow in scene class because he can't

rehearse. He had to work.

Oh, that's too bad.

You're not a theater major, are you? No, why?

I'd ask you to help me run lines.

Run them where?

Read them with me. Run through the scene.

Well, I'm not doing anything now. Super. Let's do it.

We'll have to share this script.

I'm Joan of Arc. You're the third Inquisitor.

We'll start here.

You want me to deny who I am.

What I have been chosen to do.

What I speak is the truth.

It is all I have left. And if truth shall be my companion in the flames, so

it.

Stop your lies, you foolish girl.

Hold on.

I give you all of that, and you come back with, stop your lies, you foolish

girl.

Weren't you listening to me?

Well, no. I was waiting for my part to come.

Well, you have to listen to me.

And then feel what you're saying again.

And if truth shall be my companion in the flames, so be it.

Stop your lies!

You fool this girl.

You're useless, hopeless. You're wasting my time.

I'm wasting your time?

Look, I'm just trying to help you out. I didn't come ask you to run lines.

You ask, you tell me what to do, and all of a sudden I do it, and it's wrong.

Now, that's perfect.

What? See, you're frustrated. You're upset.

Draw from that.

I'll give you your cue.

And if truth shall be my companion in the flames, so be it.

I'm afraid of the heat.

I'm afraid of the fire. I'm afraid of screaming out. I'm afraid of being

Wow.

It sounds so real. That didn't sound anything like acting.

Really? Yeah, it sounded like it was really happening. You know, the flame,

heat. It did?

Yeah. I felt like, I don't know. Well, tell me, tell me.

Like grabbing a fire extinguisher.

Or grabbing you. Saving you. You should have.

I should have what?

Grabbed me.

Touched me. I mean, if that's what you feel, you should go for it. I mean,

that's what it's about.

Acting on your instinct.

Acting is your instinct.

Well, maybe I should sign up for this course. I got a lot of instincts.

You want to keep going?

Yeah. Your line.

You pretend to be more than human, but you aren't. No one is.

I pretend to be nothing but what I am.

Am I to be punished for that?

You're lying.

There's no more to be said.

That wasn't real. We were acting. We're rehearsing Joan of Arc. She's about to

get burned.

I was helping Jade run live.

Theo has great instincts.

I know all about Theo's instincts.

Justine. Listen, do we have to get all tensed out about this?

I mean, I know what's coming. Some big emotional scene.

Screaming, crying.

Why don't you just go ahead and get it over with? Go on.

Honey, this is not a play. This is real life, and you can get out.

Justine, call me if you need me.

Or my cane.

You couldn't even sneak off somewhere.

Justine, it wasn't what it looked like.

We were rehearsing Joan of Arc.

I don't remember Joan of Arc kissing anybody. You show me in here where Joan

Arc kisses somebody, then we have no problem.

She was only trying to help me. She was trying to get me to loosen up.

You look loose, all right.

Justine.

She was getting me to show my emotions, which I think is very valuable.

I do, because the thing is, it helps us, too.

Is our relationship in so much trouble that you have to go and practice with

somebody else?

What could you do with these?

How could you do this to me in front of everybody in the whole world?

Justine, I didn't mean to hurt you.

Look, can we go someplace else and talk about this?

I don't think so.

Wait, Justine, it was nothing, really. It meant nothing to me.

Neither do I.

Justine, it's me, Theo. Listen, please don't hang up.

Just tell him. Who does he think he is?

Vanessa, would you please keep it down? I need some peace and quiet right now.

Well, not keep it down. Do you have any idea what happened to me today?

I stayed late at school because I had a science club meeting. So when I left, I

took a shortcut home.

And right there on Flatbush Avenue in front of everybody, sitting on a bench

with his arm around Kyla Stevens was my boyfriend.

Excuse me, ex -boyfriend, Jeremy the Rat Nose Wilson.

He was?

So I went up to him and I said, what are you doing?

And he just looked at me and said, well, I was just sitting here with my arm on

the bench and she sat down next to me.

Can you believe that?

Right there. in public with his hands all over some other girl.

Would you do that to someone that you cared about?

Why would he do that, Theo?

Why? I don't know, Vanessa.

But just because he had his arm around another girl doesn't mean he doesn't

about you.

You should give him another chance.

That is the same kind of garbage he was trying to lay on me.

What is it with you guys? Do you all read from the same book of Bull?

Jeremy is history.

Do you know the sacrifices I made for this guy?

Well, what if he came to you and he confessed that he made a terrible,

mistake? I'd show him the door.

Okay.

What if he said he was really, really sorry and you saw he was in a whole lot

pain? If I see him again, he will know what pain is.

Ah, big paper do, huh?

Hey, Dad.

I'm just glad to come down here so Mom wouldn't hear the typing.

That's the kind of thing I love to see. My son's burning the midnight oil, Jack.

I'm writing a poem. Huh?

It's a justine.

Oh.

Oh, man.

Dad.

I messed up.

Sorry.

Justine. saw me kind of kissing another girl in her dormitory lounge it wasn't a

real kiss it was an accident one of those things that just happened uh you

were kind of kissing yeah but it was an accident you're talking to me

there's this theater major named miss jade and she was over by the candy

and that's when you tripped and your lips fell on her face

In one minute, I'm helping her rehearse the play, Joan of Arc. Next thing I

know, we're kissing.

And that's when Justine walked in.

That reminds me of a story.

Oh, boy.

It reminds me of a story.

When I was dating your mother, and we were going very, very steady.

And, uh, listen, uh...

Neighbors, I had a job, and I would walk their dogs.

And I had this one dog. His name was Abe.

A little dog.

Had a beard.

That's why they called him Abe.

And a squirrel came by.

Abe takes off.

Leash comes out of my hand. I chase Abe. Abe is chasing this girl through the

bushes, up in the tree and all around. I'm going through the bushes. Abe, Abe,

come back. I lost Abe. I walked through the park looking for Abe. Couldn't find

Abe. It started to get dark. I'm getting a little scared.

So I came on back home, very, very depressed.

And on the porch, almost smiling, was Abe.

What in the world does

that have to do with me?

I didn't lose my dog.

I lost my woman.

Which brings me to the point

I not found Abe.

Your mother would have been upset with me because your mother loved to play

Abe.

Thanks, Dad.

I'm going to go back to my poem.

See, I don't think that you want to write poems.

Poems is not the way you're going to get your woman back.

What you need to do now is go to the next.

if you want Justine back.

What's that?

Begging.

You need to do some serious begging. And I mean, other than the begging you've

been doing where you say, Justine, I'm sorry. And Justine, well, it wasn't me

that you saw, you know, that kind of thing. You need to do some serious get

underneath.

Please, please, please.

to the next level, which is just a second. I'll show you what I know.

This is the ultimate level.

This one.

There you go.

Now, pay attention to what I'm saying.

All right? This is the level you want.

That's what you want.

The blues.

Begging level, my son.

Now listen to me.

Justine, Justine.

Listen to me.

You're a dog.

You're a dog.

You're under the house.

It's 22 below zero.

The wind is blowing fierce.

You're freezing and you're cold. And the only person who can open that door for

you is Justine.

What do you need more acting lessons?

Justine, do you want me to leave?

No. Good.

Can I just see you alone for one minute? I don't want to see you at all. Okay,

wait, then take this. It's a poem. You can read it later. I'm not interested.

Then can I read it to you? We have to go. What's a hug to someone who's alone?

What's a call that doesn't reach the phone?

What's a mystery book?

without a plot what's a chili dog without the hot

they're not they're nothing and

that's just what i've got that's right

this out of justine will just listen to me but she won't now she might listen to

you no no i can't get involved in this deal get the pain i'm in

now if you could just get her to give me one minute alone that's all i

ask please help me please do i have to beg for you no no no don't don't be

that for me

She says to get rid of you and that she doesn't want to see you anymore and that

it's over.

No.

You got to go back and talk to her.

I'm in pain. Can't you see that I'm in pain?

You're the one in pain?

I'm the one in pain.

I'm the one with the bad foot. Look, I'm out of here.

Not too well.

Listen, I want you to know that what happened between me and you didn't mean

anything. You think it meant something to me?

You kissed me.

You mean that didn't mean anything?

That's acting.

Well, it's over.

Whatever you say.

Listen, I'm late for class. I gotta go.

Yeah, bye, Jade.

Bye, Leo.

The Cosby Show was taped before a studio audience.