- [first lines]
- [the family is in the ice skating rink, Claudia and Charlie are talking about the restaurant]
- Claudia Salinger: A what night?
- Charlie Salinger: A lounge night. Kind of a '50s thing.
- [he almost slips on ice]
- Charlie Salinger: Whoa...
- Claudia Salinger: Oh, I got you.
- Charlie Salinger: Okay. Anyway, it'll bring a new crowd into Salinger's. You know, the whole lounge thing is very hip.
- Claudia Salinger: If you say so. Hey, look at her.
- [they see Kirsten doing figure skating on ice]
- Charlie Salinger: What a woman, huh?
- Claudia Salinger: If I were you, I'd marry her.
- [to Kirsten]
- Claudia Salinger: Hey, Kirsten, teach me how to do that.
- [the family is in the skating rink, Bailey is skating with Sarah, Julia talks to Griffin who is outside]
- Sarah Reeves: Help!
- [squeals]
- Sarah Reeves: Hey, Bailey! Bailey, slow down. Slow down.
- [they pass near Julia]
- Sarah Reeves: Julia, make him stop!
- Julia Salinger: [to Griffin] No warning? You just walked in, and he fired you. Well, did he at least give you a reason?
- Griffin Holbrook: Something about my attitude. He expects me to treat every customer like they're my best friend or something. I don't know. Who cares?
- Julia Salinger: Well, maybe if you apologized
- Griffin Holbrook: To him? Forget it. He should be apologizing to me. So you wanna blow this place, or what?
- [suddenly, Kirsten takes Julia's hand, while skating along Charlie, Sarah and Bailey]
- Julia Salinger: Oh, my God!
- [she squeals and the family laughs]
- Claudia Salinger: Pick me up!
- [Julia takes Claudia's hand but after a while inadvertently lets her go]
- Julia Salinger: Claudia!
- [she crashes with her arms against the wall]
- [Bailey reaches Sarah at school]
- Sarah Reeves: Thought you'd be in Seattle by now.
- Bailey Salinger: The idea wasn't to go alone.
- Sarah Reeves: I'm not like that, you know. I have a life. I can't just leave.
- Bailey Salinger: Look, I just... I just thought it would be fun. You know? I just wanted us to have a little fun.
- Sarah Reeves: So why does that suddenly mean different things than it used to?
- Bailey Salinger: I don't...
- [sighs]
- Bailey Salinger: Look... The way we were before, there were parts of me that you didn't know, and there are probably a lot of parts of you that I didn't know, and the whole thing of being together is, like, finding out those other parts. And I don't know, I guess sometimes for me that means being spontaneous. What's wrong with that?
- Sarah Reeves: Nothing, I guess. So?
- Bailey Salinger: So then let's just relax a little, okay? And have some fun. I mean, isn't that the point?
- Sarah Reeves: Yeah.
- Bailey Salinger: Yes?
- Sarah Reeves: Yes.
- [they laugh]
- [after a shower, Kirsten tells Charlie about the reading with the psychic]
- Charlie Salinger: Rob. You don't even know any Robs.
- Kirsten Bennett: I did once. This guy on my floor, freshman year. Rob Strapplemeyer.
- Charlie Salinger: Sounds like a sausage brand.
- [he starts reading a magazine]
- Kirsten Bennett: I dated him for a month. Total pig. No neck.
- [she brushes her hair]
- Charlie Salinger: Nice.
- Kirsten Bennett: Of all the guys I've ever known, he's the last person I'd think of marrying. Weird, huh?
- Charlie Salinger: Trippy.
- Kirsten Bennett: You know, Charlie, I had a thought. About the wedding? Well, I was thinking about the dancing, because, you know, you and I, we don't really dance together. And so my thought was...
- [she sees his look]
- Kirsten Bennett: Please don't hate me.
- Charlie Salinger: I hate you.
- Kirsten Bennett: Come on. It'll be fun. It'll get us out of the house. I'll pay.
- Charlie Salinger: You're really gonna make me take dancing classes?
- Kirsten Bennett: No, I'm not gonna make you take them. I'm gonna ask you. And you're gonna say yes.
- [Charlie and Kirsten are struggling in the dancing lessons and the teacher comes to check on them]
- Kirsten Bennett: If your foot was where it was supposed to be...
- Thomas: How are we going?
- Charlie Salinger: [to Kirsten] Why don't you find somebody else if I'm such a bad partner?
- Thomas: Kirsten? We feeling a little "My way or the highway" here?
- Kirsten Bennett: Do you mind?
- [the teacher leaves]
- Kirsten Bennett: Charlie, don't be an idiot. I don't want somebody else.
- Charlie Salinger: How about Rob? He was probably a great dancer.
- Kirsten Bennett: Who?
- Charlie Salinger: Rob. The guy you were supposed to marry... Rob... Sausage.
- Kirsten Bennett: Rob Strapplemeyer is a total pig. I haven't seen him in four years.
- Charlie Salinger: Well, maybe he's not such a pig anymore. Maybe now he's got a good job and a fat bank account and friends with taste and
- Kirsten Bennett: Rythm?
- Charlie Salinger: You know, I got a lot of work to do at the restaurant.
- [he leaves the ballroom while she stays upset]
- [Sarah enters the restaurant and Bailey welcomes her, while the band plays Cruel Spell]
- Bailey Salinger: Hey. I'm glad you came.
- Sarah Reeves: Yeah, well.
- Bailey Salinger: Look, I've been thinking a lot about some of the stuff you were saying about how we've been, about how I've been. And... I think you were right. I think I haven't been paying attention to you
- Sarah Reeves: Stop.
- Bailey Salinger: What?
- Sarah Reeves: Don't. 'Cause you can't really pay attention to someone when you're wishing she's someone else.
- Bailey Salinger: Excuse me?
- Sarah Reeves: I'm not her Bailey. I'm not Jill.
- Bailey Salinger: What are you talking about?
- Sarah Reeves: Well, that's what you been doing here. You've been trying to have the relationship you had with her with me.
- Bailey Salinger: What?
- Sarah Reeves: The road trip, cutting school... I mean, all that stuff has nothing to do with me at all. It's just stuff that you did with her, you know? It's Jill's stuff.
- Bailey Salinger: I don't know. I don't know. Maybe... Maybe I thought you would like that stuff too.
- Sarah Reeves: You know what really confuses me? Is that relationship wasn't good, Bailey. I mean, she was a mess. You were unhappy. You know and it ended so, so badly. So I don't get why you'd choose that over being happy with me. I... I really don't see why that's appealing.
- Bailey Salinger: Sarah... I'm sorry. I don't know
- Sarah Reeves: Hey, it's okay. It is. I just don't think stuff, you know, should be this hard. I mean look at us. It's brand-new, and already it's so difficult. So... we should just... not. Because you're great, but you're not ready. That's too bad.
- [looking around the restaurant and the band playing]
- Sarah Reeves: This place looks really cool. Tell Charlie I said so, okay?
- [she leaves and Bailey remains stunned]
- [last lines]
- [Julia is taking the garbage to the dumpster in the alley behind the restaurant and Griffin approaches her, while inside the band keeps playing Jumping Jack]
- Griffin Holbrook: You workin' or something?
- Julia Salinger: Just helping. Your replacement isn't working out. What are you doing here?
- Griffin Holbrook: I just thought I might run into you. Maybe we could hang out.
- Julia Salinger: You probably think that's a nice thing to say, don't you? Well, it's not. A nice thing to say is, "I was thinking about you," or, "I really wanna see you."
- Griffin Holbrook: Hey, I don't talk like that, okay? I mean... I'm not... I'm not like that.
- Julia Salinger: Yeah. Well, I am.
- Griffin Holbrook: I got this for you.
- [he shows her a helmet]
- Griffin Holbrook: I didn't really lose mine. I... I just thought I should probably have another one since... maybe you'd be riding with me some. So... This is for you.
- [she accepts it and they hug]
- [Charlie arrives home and sees Julia looking inside the fridge]
- Charlie Salinger: Midnight's a good time for that.
- Julia Salinger: Gotta get it done sometime.
- Charlie Salinger: Is Kirsten here?
- Julia Salinger: Yeah. She came home, grabbed a beer and stormed upstairs. You guys sure make being engaged look romantic.
- Charlie Salinger: I wish I knew how this happens.
- Julia Salinger: What?
- Charlie Salinger: Just tiny things... that mean nothing suddenly mean everything.
- Julia Salinger: Like...?
- Charlie Salinger: [sighs] Like dancing. I can't dance. I mean, we all know this. This is not news. So why is it suddenly such a big deal?
- Julia Salinger: Well, because every girl, even the smart ones, thinks how great it would be to dance with her husband at their wedding. It's dumb, probably, but it's kind of like there's this tiny part of you that believes that as soon as you start to waltz, this nice voice that knows exactly what it's talking about will come out of nowhere and say, "And they lived happily ever after."
- Charlie Salinger: Great.
- [he attempts to leave the dinning room]
- Julia Salinger: I can show you, if you want.
- [he sighs and they take hands]
- Julia Salinger: Just watch my feet and mirror what I do.
- Charlie Salinger: Okay.
- [they start dancing]
- Julia Salinger: One, two, three, one, two, three. One, two, three, one, two, three. You've got it! See? No problem. And if you loosen your grip, I'll get some blood back in my fingers, and that'd be good too.
- [both laugh]
- Julia Salinger: Dad taught me how to waltz by standing me on his feet.
- Charlie Salinger: Does Griffin know how well you dance? He should, Jule. It should matter to him because it matters to you. You deserve that.
- Julia Salinger: [sighs] You can twirl me if you want. Just put your arm up, and I'll spin.
- Charlie Salinger: Okay.
- [they do the twirl, keep dancing and laugh]
- [Julia, Claudia and Kirsten are sitting on a table and while the band keeps playing, Charlie approaches them]
- Charlie Salinger: This band cost me 500 bucks. Someone's gotta dance to it.
- Claudia Salinger: I'm not in the mood.
- Kirsten Bennett: In the mood, but are you sure?
- [he nods and takes her hand, Julia smiles and watches them dance while the band starts playing Jumping Jack]
- Kirsten Bennett: I'm feeling a little "Don't you dare try and tell me I can't dance, you so-and-so," aren't I?
- Charlie Salinger: Yeah, well, I decided to make a few changes in my life. Ever since I had my cereal read.
- Kirsten Bennett: Your what?
- Charlie Salinger: My breakfast cereal. It's the new wave in fortunetelling, you know, reading the gooshy gunk at the bottom of your cereal bowl.
- Kirsten Bennett: I hadn't heard.
- Charlie Salinger: Yeah. Very scientific. I got some clear images. One of good ol' Rob sitting there in his athleisure wear with his beer gut pressing the remote control.
- [she laughs]
- Kirsten Bennett: [chuckles] Ewww... .
- Charlie Salinger: I know, I'm so sorry.
- [both laugh]
- Charlie Salinger: And then I saw another image, this one at the wedding. You look beautiful. I look not half-bad too. Everyone around is watching us dance and they're saying "Look at them. They're perfect together. I bet they live happily ever after."
- Kirsten Bennett: I thought you didn't believe in all that mumbo jumbo.
- Charlie Salinger: Gotta believe in something, right?
- Kirsten Bennett: Right.
- Charlie Salinger: Try a spin?
- [he tries but accidentally his arm collide with her head]
- Charlie Salinger: Jesus! I'm sorry!
- [both laugh]
- Bailey Salinger: [to Claudia] You wanna dance?
- Claudia Salinger: I'm not in the mood.
- Bailey Salinger: You know what? Neither am I.
- [he takes her hand and they start dancing, while Charlie and Kirsten keep dancing next to them, laughing and smiling]