When Harry Met Sally (11 page)

SALLY
    Hi.

HARRY
    Are you all right?

SALLY
    Come on in.

Harry follows her inside and closes the door
.

INT. SALLY'S APARTMENT—NIGHT

SALLY
    
(through tears)
    I'm sorry to call you so late.

HARRY
    It's all right.

She goes on sobbing, then pulls back and gives a huge wheeze
.

SALLY
    I need a Kleenex.

HARRY
    Okay.

SALLY
    Okay.

Sally starts into the bedroom
.

INT. SALLY'S BEDROOM—NIGHT
Sally enters the room, looks for the Kleenex. Harry sits on the bed
.

SALLY
    He just called me up. Just wanted to see how you were. Fine, how are you? Fine…. His secretary's on vacation, everything's all backed up, he's got a big case in Newark, blah blah blah, and I'm thinking, I'm over him, I really am over him, I can't believe I was ever remotely interested in any of this, and then he said, “I have some news.”

Sally starts to cry again
.

SALLY
    (
CONT'D
)    She works in his office. She's a paralegal. Her name is Kimberly.
He just met her
. She's supposed to be his transitional person, she's not supposed to be the one.
(beat)
All this time I've been saying he didn't want to get married.
(beat)
But the truth is he didn't want to marry
me
. He didn't love
me
.

HARRY
    If you could take him back right now, would you?

SALLY
    No. But why didn't he want to marry me? What's the matter with me?

HARRY
    Nothing.

SALLY
    I'm difficult.

HARRY
    You're challenging.

SALLY
    I'm too structured. I'm completely closed off.

HARRY
    But in a good way.

SALLY
    No, no, no. I drove him away.

Crying even harder now
.

SALLY
    (
CONT'D
)    And I'm going to be forty.

HARRY
    When?

SALLY
    Someday.

HARRY
    In eight years.

SALLY
    But it's there, it's just sitting there like this big dead end. It's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had babies when he was seventy-three.

HARRY
    Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.

She smiles a little, then starts crying again
.

HARRY
    (
CONT'D
)    Oh, c'mere, c'mere.
(he gives her a
hug)
It's going to be okay. You're gonna be fine, you'll see.

Sally sniffles into Harry's shirt
.

HARRY
    (
CONT'D
)     Go ahead, it's not one of my favorites anyway. It's gonna be okay.

Harry holds her. He gives her a kiss, starts to break the hug
.

HARRY
    (
CONT'D
)    I'll make you some tea.

SALLY
    Harry, could you just hold me a little longer?

HARRY
    Oh, sure. There.

Harry holds her. After a beat, Sally looks up at him, almost searching for something. She kisses him. A hungry, needy kiss. Harry is caught slightly off guard, but returns the kiss. As they begin to make love—

CUT TO
:

INT. SALLY'S BEDROOM—LATER
They've made love. Both of them lying in bed, Sally is in Harry's arms. Sally has a smile on her face. Harry stares straight ahead
.

SALLY
    Are you comfortable?

Harry nods
.

HARRY
    Sure.

After a pause
.

SALLY
    Do you want something to drink or something?

HARRY
    No, I'm okay.

SALLY
    
(getting up)
    Well, I'm going to get up for some water, so it's really no trouble.

HARRY
    Okay. Water.

INT. KITCHEN—NIGHT
Sally enters and gets a bottle of water from the refrigerator. She goes to the cabinet and takes out two glasses and pours
.

INT. BEDROOM—NIGHT
Harry lying in Sally'
s
bed, still staring straight ahead. Finally, he looks around and reaches for a file box he sees. He opens it and looks inside
.

INT. KITCHEN—NIGHT
As Sally stands thinking, a little smile on her face
.

INT. BEDROOM—NIGHT
Harry is sitting up in bed with the light on, looking through the box of index cards
.

Sally comes in with the glasses of water
.

HARRY
    
(looking up from the box)
    You have all your videotapes alphabetized and on index cards.

Sally hands him the water
.

HARRY
    (
CONT'D
)    Thank you.

A silence while Harry desultorily goes through the box
.

Unbelievably awkward
.

Every SOUND is louder than it actually is. The riffle of the index cards. Sally taking a gulp of water. Harry rearranging his pillow
.

SALLY
    Do you want to watch something?

HARRY
    No, not unless you do.

SALLY
    No, that's okay.

A pause. He puts the file box back. Sally slides back into bed, nestles into his shoulder
.

SALLY
    (
CONT'D
)    Do you want to go to sleep?

HARRY
    Okay.

She turns off the lamp and settles in beside Harry
.

CUT TO
:

INT. BEDROOM—DAY
Sally wakes up. Sees the other half of the bed empty. Where's Harry? She turns over and sees him getting dressed
.

SALLY
    Where are you going?

HARRY
    I gotta go.

Sally stares at him
.

HARRY
    (
CONT'D
)    I gotta go home, I gotta change my clothes, and then I have to go to work and so do you, but after work I'd like to take you out to dinner if you're free. Are you free?

SALLY
    Yes.

HARRY
    Fine. I'll call you later.

SALLY
    Fine.

HARRY
    Fine.

Harry gives her a little kiss, walks out.

HOLD on her in bed as the door SLAMS.

Next to her is the phone
.

INT. JESS AND MARIE'S BEDROOM—MORNING
A bed with a phone on each side. Jess and Marie asleep in bed
.

The phone on Marie's side of the bed starts to RING. Marie and Jess both wake up, look at the clock. They can't
believe how early it is
.

It RINGS again
.

JESS
    
(accusingly)
    Yours.

Marie picks up the phone, pulls the phone onto the bed
.

MARIE
    Hello.

WIPE IN FROM RIGHT:

Sally sitting up in bed, talking on phone

SALLY
    I'm sorry to call so early—

MARIE
    Are you all right?

JESS
    No one I know would call at this hour.

The phone RINGS on Jess's side of the bed
.

SALLY
    I did something terrible.

Jess picks up the phone

MARIE
    What did you do?

WIPE IN FROM LEFT:

Harry standing at public phone. Now we see all four of them on-screen, Marie and Jess in their bed on their phones, talking to Sally in her apartment at the far right, and Harry on a pay phone in the street at the far left
.

JESS
    
(into phone)
    No one I know would call at this hour.

SALLY
    It's so awful.

HARRY
    I need to talk.

MARIE
    What happened?

JESS
    What's the matter?

SALLY
    Harry came over last night …

HARRY
    I went over to Sally's last night …

SALLY
    … because I was upset that Joe was getting married …

HARRY
    … and one thing led to another …

SALLY
    … and before I knew it, we were kissing … and then …
(she shakes her head in horror, remembering)

HARRY
    … to make a long story short …

MARIE
    
(back to Sally)
    That's great, Sally.

JESS
    
(back to Harry)
    We've been praying for it.

MARIE
    You should have done it in the first place.

JESS
    For months we've been saying, you should do it.

MARIE
    You guys belong together.

JESS
    It's like killing two birds with one stone.

MARIE
    It's like two wrongs make a right.

HARRY
    … but then I felt suffocated.

SALLY
    … but then I guess it wasn't.

JESS
    Jesus, I'm sorry.

MARIE
    The worst.

HARRY
    I just wanted to get out of there.

SALLY
    He just disappeared.

HARRY
    I feel so bad.

SALLY
    I'm so embarrassed.

JESS
    I don't blame you.

MARIE
    That's horrible.

HARRY
    I think I'm coming down with something.

SALLY
    I think I'm catching a cold.

JESS
    Look, it would have been great if it had worked out, but it didn't.

MARIE
    You should never go to bed with anyone when you've found out your last boyfriend is getting married.

HARRY
    Who's that talking?

JESS
    Who?

SALLY
    Is that Jess on the phone?

JESS
    It's Jane Fonda on the VCR.

MARIE
    It's Bryant Gumbel.

Marie and Jess look at each other, horrified
.

HARRY
    No, I'm not up to it.

SALLY
    No, I feel too awful.

MARIE
    I mean, it's so early.

JESS
    Call me later if you want.

MARIE
    I'll call you later, okay?

HARRY
    Okay, bye.

SALLY
    Bye.

JESS
    Bye.

MARIE
    Bye.

Everyone hangs up. Harry and Sally frames WIPE OFFSCREEN LEFT AND RIGHT, leaving Jess and Marie on-screen
.

HOLD on Marie and Jess
.

Marie looks at Jess
.

MARIE
    God.

JESS
    I know.

MARIE
    Tell me I'll never have to be out there again.

Jess puts his arms around her and holds her
.

JESS
    You'll never have to be out there again.

They kiss
.

CUT TO
:

INT. SALLY'S BATHROOM—DAY
Sally looking at herself in the mirror as she puts on makeup

SALLY
    
(Voice-over)
    I'll just say we made a mistake—

CUT TO
:

INT. HARRY'S BATHROOM—DAY
Harry is showering
.

HARRY
    
(Voice-over)
    Sally, it was a mistake—