EPISODE 4/20/01
Simon And Katie Attend Lien's Party

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THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2001

Scene 1:
[Lakeview Dining Room ]
>> Katie: Ah, here we are, right back where we started this amazing day. I can't believe how much fun it was just to hang out together. I felt like I was 12 years old again at the zoo. I know you didn't want to go, and you wanted to see a movie instead. But maybe we can see one after dinner.
>> Simon: No, no, no, no. I'm done and turning in for an early night.
>> Katie: Okay, whatever. My sister and her husband. I wonder what they're doing? They're having a party?
>> Simon: I don't know.
>> Katie: Simon, it's obvious. Unbelievable. They don't even think to invite me.
>> Simon: Katie -- just relax --
>> Katie: Stop it. So, whose birthday is it? Adam's? Casey's? You could have called. But I guess you always have time to call when things are bad. But if things are good? No time, huh? Well, that's okay. We'll just go upstairs and have dinner with the one person in my family who is on my side.
>> Margo: Oh, who?
>> Katie: Craig.
>> Margo: Why? What happened? What'd you pull this time?

Scene 2:
[ Lakeview Dining Room ]
>> Katie: So, everybody else in this family is allowed to make mistakes but me?
>> Margo: Oh --
>> Katie: I screw up just a little bit, Margo.
>> Margo: Oh, Katie, you have lied! You pulled the victim card! You have this phantom baby, and you call that screwing up?
>> Katie: Oh, please. Okay, I haven't forfeited all of my rights, have I?
>> Margo: No, of course not.
>> Katie: I am still your sister. So if there is a family reunion, then I should be allowed to be there.
>> Margo: You're here!
>> Tom: Will the defendant please rest? Now listen carefully. This a party for Lien.
>> Katie: That's Tom's daughter from Vietnam.
>> Tom: I said "rest." Margo tried to call you so she could tell you about it.
>> Margo: There was no answer at the garage.
>> Katie: Oh, I guess that's probably because we moved into the room connecting to Craig's suite.
>> Margo: Yeah, why?
>> Katie: Because the garage is disgusting.
>> Margo: No, I mean, why would Craig have you move back in after he went to all the trouble of kicking you out?
>> Katie: Maybe he's not as judgmental as some other people in my family are.
>> Tom: I am trying to do something nice here, so don't make me change my mind. I would love it if you and Simon would like to stay for the party. How 'bout it?
>> Katie: We would love nothing more. Right, Simon?
>> Simon: Yeah, that'd be great. Thanks.
>> Margo: Okay. I think Katie and I are gonna have a private talk here.
>> Tom: That would be our cue to disappear. Would you mind helping me set up?
>> Simon: Sure, sure, not at all.
>> Margo: Katie, I am very happy that you're gonna be part of this. Don't roll your eyes like that. You think I don't want our family reunited? I would like nothing better.
>> Katie: But?
>> Margo: But the cop in me can't help but wonder why Craig would welcome you an fake husband back into the fold.
>> Katie: Do you even realize how insulting you're being?
>> Margo: All right, yeah, all right. I know, I'm but you do know what I mean. I mean, Craig has been in a lot of trouble lately, and he's been keeping to himself more than usual. Why would he change that pattern?
>> Katie: I don't know. Maybe he's sick of it. Maybe he's finally realizing how important family is. Maybe he just wanted to make up with me. Did you ever think of that?
>> Margo: Katie, I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm not, really. I just find it a little difficult to believe that Craig is having you move in so he can take care of his little sister. Did he do that?
>> Katie: No, it's a job perk. Simon's working for Craig now.

Scene 3:
>> Kim: Okay, let's go.
>> Tom: Oh, thank you for getting here so early.
>> Kim: Oh, when is Lien due?
>> Tom: Hi. Soon, and I'm gonna need all your help. We have a lot to setting up to do.
>> Bob: Okay, where do you want all this?
>> Kim: And this?
>> Tom: All of it goes here.
>> Kim: Okay. Hi, how are you doing?
>> Simon: Poker? Excellent. Who plays?
>> Tom: Lien. She came to me when she was 16, and the first thing we shared together was a love of the game. Now, I taught her how to play, but she was a natural. She had no trouble catching on.
>> Bob: He spent his childhood begging us to play cards.
>> Nancy: We played for cookies -- my homemade ginger snaps, of course.
>> Bob: Yeah, and he cleaned us out of house and home. And then, lien came around, and you met your match.
>> Kim: It took her all of a week to learn to beat him.
>> Tom: Well, thank you both for sharing.
>> John: Casey has promised to teach me the finer points of the game. I don't gamble myself.
>> Nancy: Oh, that's what all the sharks say.
>> Isaac: Hello, courtesy of java underground.
>> Tom: Oh, thank you. Thank you.
>> Isaac: It looks like somebody's already started setting up.
>> Bob: Courtesy of the Hughes family.
>> Isaac: I didn't realize you all were a group of high rollers.
>> Simon: Yeah, well, maybe we should start warming up if lien's as good as you say.
>> Curtis: Pick a card, any card.

Scene 4:
[ Lakeview Dining Room ]
>> Margo: So what is Simon's job for Craig? I mean, what is his job description exactly?
>> Katie: I don't know. I'm going to go help set up for the party.
>> Margo: Ah, ah, ah -- you didn't ask?
>> Katie: Of course I asked. No one will tell me anything.
>> Margo: Good, it's better you don't know. That way you can't be implicated.
>> Katie: Why are you so suspicious of Craig?
>> Margo: I didn't say I was. But you're my little sister. And if there's going to be cross fire, I want to make sure that you're kept out of it.
>> Katie: No. Whatever Simon is doing for Craig, it's not dangerous. He would never put me in the line of fire.
>> Margo: So then you won't mind if I go talk to him.
>> Katie: Go ahead.
>> Margo: Simon, a suggestion -- watch out for Craig.
>> Simon: Why the sudden warning?
>> Margo: Katie told me that you're going to be working for him. And though he's my brother, he does tend to not look before he leaps. I don't want Katie in any more trouble.
>> Simon: Then you'd better tell her, 'cause she has a way of causing trouble wherever she goes.

Scene 5:
>> Simon: So tell me, are you incapable of keeping a secret? Because secret is what my job was supposed to be. You didn't have to go and tell your sister the cop that Craig hired me.
>> Katie: She's a professional interrogator. She wormed it out of me!
>> Simon: Oh, please, please, please. That is pathetic, Katie, even for you.
>> Craig: Simon, I need you.
>> Katie: Craig, I was just having fun at a party with my husband!
>> Craig: Well now, you're saying good night.
>> Simon: So what's up?
>> Craig: Ruby and Gabriel Frank are working my son again, and he thinks they're on his side.
>> Simon: Well, they're on no one's side but their own.
>> Craig: Yes, well, I don't like it, and they have to hear that in no uncertain terms.


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