Family (TV Series)
Annie Laurie (1977)
Sada Thompson: Kate Lawrence
Quotes
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Doug Lawrence : Good evening, Kate.
[notices her setting the table for dinner]
Doug Lawrence : And what are you doing?
Kate Lawrence : Stealing the silver. You caught me. Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes.
Doug Lawrence : I told you, this morning, I was going to take you OUT to dinner.
Kate Lawrence : So you did. When I didn't hear from you all day, I figured it was off.
Doug Lawrence : Sorry. I forgot to call. I didn't have five minutes.
Kate Lawrence : Of course, playing hockey can really keep a person on the move.
Doug Lawrence : [confused] Playing hockey?
Kate Lawrence : I stopped at your office. Your temporary secretary told me you were playing hockey. I presumed she met hooky.
Doug Lawrence : [shocked] That isn't like you, Kate.
Kate Lawrence : That's what I thought about you. And lying.
[Doug follows Kate into the kitchen, where she gathers dishes and Doug takes a couple aspirin]
Doug Lawrence : All right. All right, let's start over. I'm sorry if I was a little edgy.
Kate Lawrence : A little?
Doug Lawrence : The materials for the merger hadn't arrived, so rather than sit around the office, all day, staring at each other, Annie and I...
Kate Lawrence : Played hooky.
Doug Lawrence : What's so terrible about that?
Kate Lawrence : Nothing. Therefore, I don't know why you didn't just say so in the first place.
Doug Lawrence : I'm a human being! I made a mistake! I'm not perfect!
Kate Lawrence : You're telling me. And everybody else around here tonight.
Doug Lawrence : [frustrated] What's bothering you, Kate?
Kate Lawrence : Bothering me? You took out after Buddy, the minute you came in. It was mean. You hurt her feelings. Willie managed to hold his own.
Doug Lawrence : Well, he usually does.
Kate Lawrence : If you're feeling guilty about having a good time today, I wish you'd knock it off.
Doug Lawrence : Why should I feel guilty? I had a terrific time! For the first time in years, I left the office, in the middle of the day, and I enjoyed myself. I took a walk in the park, I ate a hot dog.
Kate Lawrence : I think you mean you and Annie Laurie took a walk in the park and you, and Annie Laurie had hot dogs.
Doug Lawrence : All right, we did. What about it?
Kate Lawrence : Exactly. What about it?
Doug Lawrence : Nothing.
Kate Lawrence : I think there's something.
Doug Lawrence : Stop it, Kate.
Kate Lawrence : I didn't start it. I don't know what there is, but I do know there is something.
Doug Lawrence : There isn't.
Kate Lawrence : Then, why did you come the way you did? Snapping at everybody, trying to put as much distance between us, as you possibly could?
Doug Lawrence : Distance?
Kate Lawrence : I think that's what's been happening. I wish you'd cut it out, before the distance gets any greater.
[Doug sarcastically nods his head and exits through the back door]