EPISODE 6/12/02
Simon "Forgets" About Avanya

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2002

Scene 1:
Location: The Cottage

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER, MAC CALLAWAY

>> Katie: Yes. And of course, we'll want a pergola over the patio, with exotic vines and plantings. And definitely a view of the Rose garden from the new addition.
>> Mac: You know, a balcony would be perfect off the master bedroom suite.
>> Katie: Mac, you are a genius.
>> Simon: Master bedroom suite, huh?
>> Katie: Hey, babe! You're just in time. Whoa. This is Mac Callaway, AIA. Mac, this is my husband, Simon Frasier.
>> Simon: Mac, nice to meet you.
>> Katie: Mac just designed that gorgeous place on Lakeshore Drive.
>> Simon: Oh, ritzy, ritzy. Although, I have to tell you, all we really need is a roof and maybe -- and it's a big maybe -- a little indoor plumbing.
>> Katie: He's kidding.
>> Simon: So where's the punch line?
>> Mac: Katie, you have my card? I'll -- get back to me whenever.
>> Katie: Okay, great. I'll be in touch, definitely. Thank you so much.
>> Simon: Thanks, Mac. I pretended to be an architect too once. Sweet job.
>> Katie: I'm sorry. I should've told you that I was meeting with an architect. It was just kind of one of those spur of the moment things. Anyway, Mac has the freshest ideas for this place.
>> Simon: Fresh ideas, or getting fresh?
>> Katie: Hmm, really? Don't you want our house to be beautiful?
>> Simon: Of course, I do. But I want it to be our home and not someone else's idea of what a home should or shouldn't be.
>> Katie: Okay, I'm open to compromise.
>> Simon: Good. Good, so you'll settle for a three-car garage?
>> Katie: I'd settle for a two-car garage if we could have a Jacuzzi in the master bath.
>> Simon: All right, okay. We'll talk about it.
>> Katie: When?
>> Simon: When Mac comes up with some of these "fresh" ideas.
>> Katie: Hey, what's in that bag --
>> Simon: Nothing, it's just books.
>> Katie: -- That you're trying to hide from me?
>> Simon: It's just nothing. It's books.
>> Katie: Books? What kind of books.
>> Simon: Mysteries, thrillers.
>> Katie: Mysteries?
>> Simon: Things like that, yeah.
>> Katie: Romance? Let me see. "Avanya: City of Mystery." "Beware of the Dangers of Avanya." So that's why it's "no" to fixing up this place. You're going on another adventure, aren't you?

Scene 2:
Location: The Cottage

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER

>> Simon: It's just a little background information, that's all, to give Margo a hand.
>> Katie: Yeah, from the sidelines, right?
>> Simon: Yeah, well -- yeah, sure. Do you see my bags packed?
>> Katie: No. So you think you're up for some domestication?
>> Simon: Domestication? As in -- as in ordering blueprints and chintz curtains?
>> Katie: What's wrong with wanting our home to be nice?
>> Simon: Ah, nothing. Nothing, as long as that's not all we're about.
>> Katie: Well, I know what I'm about. I'm about belonging -- to our home, to our place with four walls and a nice fire during the winter -- a cozy kitchen with the smell of dinner. And if that makes me shallow, then fine, I guess I'm shallow, because you know what? I also want the master bedroom with a chandelier and pale yellow paint and a view of our Rose garden.
>> Simon: They're weeds, not Roses.
>> Katie: Yeah, well, whatever. You know what I'm talking about. I want a nursery right next to us so we can take turns getting up for the baby. And someday, then that room will be an office.
>> Simon: An off --
>> Katie: Or we can buy a bunch of gym equipment and we'll have a gym to fight off old age.
>> Simon: Wow, it really sounds like you've got it all figured out, don't you?
>> Katie: This place is not just floorboards and plaster. This is the place where we're gonna raise our children. All of our best memories are gonna be in this cottage, right here. Look around. Can't you imagine the pictures of our children all over this place, toys piling up in the corner? Can you do that?
>> Simon: Sure. Yeah, sure.
>> Katie: No, you can't. All you see are four walls, closing in on you more and more every day.

Scene 3:
Location: The Cottage

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER

>> Simon: Oh, damn!
>> Katie: What happened? Oh, my god! What happened?
[Simon covered in soot, backs out of the fireplace.]
>> Simon: This chimney's a fire hazard!
>> Katie: Well, add it to the list.
>> Simon: Meaning what?
>> Katie: Meaning that we are not on the same page. We're not even reading the same book.
>> Simon: Look, just because I don't want an architect drafting us into the poorhouse, doesn't mean I don't want a future with you, okay?
>> Katie: What kind of future?
>> Simon: The kind that just happens.
>> Katie: Oh, no. No, I've been there. The kind that "just happens" is not all it's cracked up to be, all right? My mom's agent calls and I end up spending the second grade in Las Vegas. Ring-ring. "Hey, Lila. It's Boris."
>> Simon: Boris?
>> Katie: Hand to god, that's his name. "Yeah, they want you at the Mohawk Lodge for the season." So guess what? It's summer camp in the Adirondacks for Katie. Why? Because it just happened.
>> Simon: Look, Katie -- you're not a child anymore, okay? We can make our own choices.
>> Katie: No, you're making choices and I'm having to smile and pretend that they're mine, too.
>> Simon: No, no. No, no, no. That's not what I'm doing.
>> Katie: I mean, don't get me wrong. We're great in a dog fight together. Maltese madmen, a crazy ex-sister-in-law. Piece of cake. But what about the big stuff?
>> Simon: What's bigger than cold-blooded killers?
>> Katie: Try six months cooped up during a long Oakdale winter. Six months of deciding what to fix for dinner and whose turn is it to take down the Christmas tree or clean out the spare bedroom. Was it you who got up for the 2:00 feeding, or was it me?
>> Simon: Baby, come on. We are gonna have those moments. We are.
>> Katie: When? Between running for our lives and dodging bullets? What happened to our resolution to have a different kind of adventure after all this Dahlia madness?
>> Simon: I'm not talking about adventure for its own sake. Can't we look at it like a way of helping people, like what I used to do for Margo?
>> Katie: Yes, but I'm sorry -- living with my heart in my throat is not a way to live, living on adrenalin because I'm waiting for you to walk through that door, wondering if you will.
>> Simon: I'll always gonna walk through that door.
>> Katie: You don't know that! I'm sick of solving other people's problems. You want to be Batman, solving problems in a cave and I want to be sitting on the couch and cuddling and holding hands.
>> Simon: So do I. Baby, come on. Let's do it now. So do I.
>> Katie: Then why the books?
>> Simon: Forget the books! Okay? The books, forget them. All right? Forget -- I'll get rid of the books.
>> Katie: You can't get rid of the way you're wired. You can't just forget about what's running through your blood.
>> Simon: All right, so what are you saying? That there's no solution that's gonna work for the both of us?
>> Katie: I'm just saying, to me, there's no place like home. But all my wishing can't make you want that as much as I do.

Scene 4:
Location: The Cottage

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER

>> Simon: I feel like I've ruined your day.
>> Katie: I'm fine.
>> Simon: No, you're not!
>> Katie: I just want to find some common ground on what our future should be. I mean, there's got to be something between streaking through the forest naked and ticking down a 30-year mortgage.
>> Simon: We will find it. But when we do, do we have to label ourselves?
>> Katie: So we just live?
>> Simon: Yeah. And go wherever life takes us.
>> Katie: To Avanya?
>> Simon: Forget Avanya, okay?
>> Katie: Avanya this week, then where is it next week?
>> Simon: Who knows? I don't need answers.
>> Katie: You don't even ask the questions, though.
>> Simon: Because -- do you know why I don't? Because it sets you up, Katie. You either get the answer you want or you don't. I just know what is. It's -- it's like fixing these floors. Do you know why I'm fixing this floor? Because I want to do it. Because I don't want to trip over on the way to the kitchen. Because I like working with wood. I'm not out to create a showplace, just a beautiful, comfortable home where I can live with my beautiful wife.
>> Katie: Between adventures?
>> Simon: Maybe. Maybe.
>> Katie: Life changes people, Simon.
>> Simon: Only if you let it.
>> Katie: Look at me. I was this glamorous anchorwoman. And then I went running off for the likes of you. Who knew I'd do that?
>> Simon: Well, I never asked you to do that.
>> Katie: I did it because I love you.
>> Simon: Yeah, and I'm bloody glad you did it. But when I set off to find you on that island, I didn't have a plan. I did it because I just knew I needed you in my life.
>> Katie: So we are just living like the kind of people who do what they want when they want.
>> Simon: If that's the way you want to label it.
>> Katie: Marriage is a label, Simon.
>> Simon: Not ours. It isn't, no.
>> Katie: Oh, okay, so I just let you breeze on in and out of here, follow you or don't follow you, sit here and sew curtains and play the loyal sidekick. But it doesn't matter, 'cause you're always gonna have one eye on that door waiting for a break from life's next adventure.
>> Simon: Yeah, whatever life is.
>> Katie: I know what life is. It's give and take. It's not take and take. And I'm not just gonna give away all of my dreams since I was 4 years old to hold onto you.
[Katie leaves and climbs the stairs.]
>>Katie: And you would hate Avanya!

Scene 5:
Location: The Cottage

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER

>> Katie: You're ripping up your books?
>> Simon: Yeah. Avanya's not all it's cracked up to be. Katie, if you want to nest, we nest.
>> Katie: That is what I want, but not if I have to change you to get it.
>> Simon: Ah, come on -- change is good. Besides, even going down to the store and picking out china can be an adventure with you.
>> Katie: Oh, I love you so much.

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