- [first lines]
- Jerry: [into phone] Aw, don't say that.
- [pause]
- Jerry: Lanie, don't say that. I'll change. I promise I will.
- [pause]
- Jerry: Lanie, I can't live without you, baby.
- [pause]
- Jerry: It is *not* hopeless. Lotsa girls are frigid.
- [pause]
- Jerry: I'm sorry. Sorry. Okay?
- [pause]
- Jerry: Yeah?
- [pause]
- Jerry: No, I'm... I'll *stop* drinking
- [caresses the neck of a one-third full bottle of Jack Daniels]
- Jerry: I will... and I'll get my old job back.
- [takes a swig]
- Jerry: Uh-huh, I'll get down on my knees and I'll beg your father to... to... to get me my job back. I will.
- [pause]
- Jerry: What other women?
- [pause]
- Jerry: Oh... *that*. Th-h-hat was just... that was just desperation.
- [pause]
- Jerry: Sure, that's all it was, desperation.
- Lanie: I told him that no nice person would finger her vagina while she was on the phone with her fiancé. It's just not done. And besides, I *only* come alone.