Home Transcripts Snappies Fan Creations M & M Press Links January 23, 1997: Tad, Liza, and Jake at the Sleepy Hollow Inn. [Liza is at the Sleepy Hollow Inn. She's thinking about the time she spent there with Jake. Tad comes in, breaking her reverie. Unbeknownst to them, Adam has planted a listening device in Liza's purse and is listening to their conversation from his office.] Tad: Well, looks like Ferguson's stuck on the interstate. Liza: Oh, well, he's the reason we came here. Tad: Yeah, we're just going to find another way to amuse ourselves 'till he arrives. Liza: Got any ideas? Tad: Yeah. [He holds up a book.] "The Farmer's Almanac" - 1973. Liza: You're no help. I'm just saying. Tad: What about you? What'd you do to pass the time on your last trip up here? [Liza looks at him.] Liza: There are a million things to do here if you'd just stop and take a deep breath. Tad: [He tosses the book onto a desk nearby.] Name two. Liza: [Smiling] I took a long walk in the woods. Tad: As much as I love frostbite, I think I'll pass. Liza: I went on a picnic. I actually took a dip in the lake [she laughs]. Tad: Jinkies - water sports on frozen ponds. Liza: Fine. You want to be bored, be bored. [She grabs the book from the desk and gives it to him.] Look up October 14, 1973. See if the sun even came up. Was there a high tide? I- I- When was the last time you ever just stopped your car in the middle of nowhere and jumped in a pile of leaves? When did you ever watch the sun go down? Tad: Well, since when did you become such a fan of the great outdoors? Closest you ever got to nature was feeding french fries to the pigeons at Burger World. Forgive me if I can't exactly envision you up here by yourself becoming one with the wilderness. Liza: Who said I was by myself? Tad: You met somebody? [Liza smiles and walks past him.] A guy somebody? [Liza shrugs and sits down.] Hello? Circa your wedding to Adam? Liza: Even brides to be are prone to last minute panic attacks. Tad: Yeah, especially when Adam Chandler is the groom-to-be. [He sits down on the table in front of her.] Liza: Look, you tried to warn me, okay? And to be fair, not on bended knee. I was having second thoughts, I came up here to clear my mind, to examine my feelings. Tad: It sounds like you came up here to have one last fling. Liza: It wasn't something that I planned. It's just that when you're stalled at the crossroads, life can throw you some pretty interesting turns. [She smiles.] Tad: So, this guy - whoever he is - were you with him when I was upstairs waiting for you half the night? Liza: Actually, I was saying goodbye to him. I was saying goodbye to somebody who had opened up a whole new world to me. And I, um, I suppose that I should apologize for being a little over the top with my emotions when I found you in my room. Tad: Okay, I'll bite. So who is this mystery guy? [Liza smiles at him. Adam is listening in intently.] Liza: There was this guy who was here doing odd jobs around the place. Tad: You're kidding? The TV exec and the handyman? [He is highly amused.] Was his name Eldon, by any chance? Liza: What his name was doesn't matter. Tad: Earl? Liza: You want to hear this? I mean, you asked, didn't you? Tad: Forgive me, I'm sorry. So you and this handyman - how exactly did you hook up? Small talk over widgets? Liza: He actually fell out of a tree and he landed at my feet. [She smiles.] Tad: He fell out of a tree? [Liza nods.] That's not exactly your average entrance. Liza: Well, he definitely wasn't your average guy. Tad: Huh. What was he doing up there to begin with? Liza: He was stringing lights. Tad: Why? Liza: It was a random act of beauty. Tad: Did he knit little sweaters for the squirrels? Liza: All right, Tad, I'm not going to explain to you something that you don't even want to understand. Tad: There's nothing to understand. [He laughs.] Come on, the sensitive guy routine went out with quiche and topsiders. Liza: For your information, you know, qualities like compassion and empathy do not ever go out of style. Tad: Oh, wait, wait, wait. Did he tell you he was going to name a star after you so [he talks with an accent] every time you look at the night sky he'd think of you? Liza: Let me tell you something, all right? You reduce everything to, like, this horrible cliché and this guy is not made up of stuff that comes from a dime-store greeting card. There was this tree and it was beautiful in the night sky with these beautiful, blinking lights against the pine green canopy. It was a celebration of joy and - stop smiling - and life. It was a reminder that we didn't fall from the Garden. It's all around us. Tad: [Laughing] Liza, can - are you listening to yourself? This guy laid out the schmaltz and you lapped it up like gravy. I'm disappointed in you. I gave - no, no, seriously - I gave you more credit for brains. Liza: Mhmm. I spent two days with this guy - two brilliant days with a man who knew me more than I knew myself at the end. Who knew me more than you will ever know me, I might add. Tad: Whoa, whoa. You're getting this hot and bothered under the collar about a guy that you knew for two days? What exactly happened up here? Adam: [In his office] Yeah, that's what I want to know! Liza: Where do you get off asking me to explain this to you? I don't share my grocery list with you, much less the intimate details of my life, do I? Tad: Oh, yes. So intimate you ran home and married Adam. Give me a break. This mystery guy is nothing but a fiction, and all you're doing is yanking my chain. Liza: I'm not yanking your chain. He exists. Tad: Uh-huh. Give me a name. [He looks at her expectantly.] What is it? Casper? Harvey? [Liza sighs. Tad gets up.] I get it - he's probably with us right now, only you're the only person that can see him. Liza: [She gets up.] You know, if my friend stopped by, believe me, you would be in for the biggest surprise of your life. Adam: [In his office] His name, damn it! What's his name? [Skye walks in and interrupts his spying.] Tad: Well, you can see whoever you want to, I just don't understand why you have to be so damn cryptic about it. What's in a name? It's not like I'm going to know the guy. [Liza simply smiles. Before she can say anything, Steve Ferguson walks in.] Steve: Hey, Tad. Hey, I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Tad: No, no. No problem. It's good to see you. You know Liza Colby Chandler. Steve: Oh, yes. Congratulations. Adam's a lucky man. Liza: [Smiling] My husband thinks so. Steve: Where is Adam? Liza: He couldn't be here at the last minute. Tad: So he sent his better half. [To Liza] Um, are we expecting anybody else? Liza: Not that I know of. Tad: Are you sure? You never know when somebody's going to drop in out of the blue. Liza: [To Steve, ignoring Tad] Actually, why don't we just go in and go over the syndication package while we have something to eat? Steve: Good idea. Liza: Great. [They all go. Jake comes in after they do. He's still there when Liza returns for her purse. She sees him and they talk.] Jake: Do you - do you regret the time you spent here? Liza: Not at all. [Tad walks in but they don't see him.] In fact, I was thinking earlier about our tree, if the lights were still on it. Tad: Excuse me? Jake: Uh, Tad. Looks like old home week. Tad: [To Liza] Did you just say 'our tree'? [to Jake] You're the sensitive guy, the one with the lights in the tree? My God, what the Hell happened up here? [Liza and Jake look at each other.] Liza: It's just like your brother to take a casual comment and blow it out of proportion. As if I have anything to hide. Tad: No, don't - don't dodge the question. Liza: Well, Steve is waiting for us. We have a meeting, it would be rude to keep him waiting. Are you coming? Tad: No. No, tell him I got held up on the phone for a minute. Liza: [Sighs] All right. [She leaves.] Tad: Well, this is weird. Jake: Weird? What? What's weird? Liza and I ran into each other by chance. We hit it off - not hard to do with her. She's nothing if not fascinating. I mean, Tad, what would you do if you were in my shoes? Tad: The same thing I should have done when I had the chance. I would've ran for the hills. Jake: Oh, please. You're you, I'm me, okay? Tad: Joey, come on, you've got to admit it. She's hardly your type. Jake: My type? Okay, I'll bite. What type is that? I mean, whose type is she? Your type? Tad: That's not fair. You better than anybody know how bad she's been for me. We work together. I keep my distance. Jake: Yeah, you work together. Well, isn't that kind of hard? I mean, a woman as sharp and smart and as attractive as Liza is-- Tad: Yeah, yeah. She's smart. She is. She's attractive, okay? But she's also obsessive. She's very, very dangerous, especially now that she's married to what's-his-name. Jake: Okay, well-- Tad: Joey, no, listen, listen, listen, please? Just for a second. Do yourself a favor - don't get involved with Adam Chandler's wife. Jake: Okay. Your concern is duly noted, thank you. Tad: Can I ask you one more question? Jake: What? Tad: She said that the two of you had, uh, hit it off. What exactly does that mean? Jake: I refuse to answer that on the grounds it's none of your business, all right? Tad: You're my little brother, that makes it my business. Jake: Hey. Hey, yeah, I'm your little brother, but your little brother's grown up, okay? Look, let's just leave it. [Liza walks in.] Liza: Tad, it's rude to keep Steve waiting. Tad: Yeah. [Tad leaves. Liza and Jake talk a while longer until Jake leaves, leaving her thinking.]