CUT TO:INT. NEAL'S LOFT. BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN DAVID AND
                EDWARD.

                                      EDWARD
                          Are you still there?

                                      DAVID
                          I'm sorry.  I could have called you back.

                                      EDWARD
                          No!  No.  I'm sorry to have kept you
                          hanging.  It's just that she wouldn't
                          shut up.

                                      DAVID
                          Do you feel like a little cross gender
                          culture tonight?

                                      EDWARD
                          Um..yeah..ok.  But I can pay for my
                          ticket.

                                      DAVID
                          I got them for free.  Hedda is one of the
                          guys from the clinic.

                                      EDWARD
                          Oh, even better.  Not that Hedda's from
                          the clinic!  That didn't come out right.

                                      DAVID
                                (laughs)
                          I'll pick you up at 7:30.  ~I know the
                          address.

                                      EDWARD
                          Thanks for thinking of me.
                                (He grimaces)

                                      DAVID
                          Pardon?

                                      EDWARD
                          Oh, um, nothing.  I'll see you at 7:30.

                                      DAVID
                          See you then.

                                      EDWARD
                          Bye.
                                (He hangs up the phone. 
                                 To himself.)
                          Neal, you little shit.

                                                     CUT TO: INT. ELLEN'S
                                                           APT.AFTERNOON

                Ellen is sitting on her couch reading a magazine.  The
                phone rings.The camera now cuts between the two women.

                                      ELLEN
                          Hello?

                                                     CUT TO: INT. RANDI'S
                                                     OFFICE-MOMENTS LATER

                                      RANDI
                          Whatcha' doing?

                                      ELLEN
                          Nada.  Listen Cookie, I want to ask you
                          something and I need for you to be
                          totally honest.

                                      RANDI
                          Haven't we always been?

                                      ELLEN
                          Do you think I'm selfish?

                                      RANDI
                          No, honey!  You have one of the biggest,
                          giving hearts of any one I know.  Why
                          would you ask that?

                                      ELLEN
                          Kar...
                                (stopping herself)
                          Um, no reason.
                                (slight pause)
                          So what's up?