It Was The Music

CUT TO: INT. MEETING ROOM - PRESENT

STANLEY

Okay then.

JOSH

Okay then?

STANLEY

[nods] That's that.

JOSH

I'm cured?

STANLEY

[humoring him] Yeah, Josh. You're cured. No problem.

JOSH

Stanley...

STANLEY

I'm gonna recommend a therapist you'll like.

JOSH

I like you!

STANLEY

You're to easy a case for me.

JOSH

I broke a window!

STANLEY

Yeah. Stop doing that. I want to commend you on not hurting anybody else

and not hurting

yourself too badly, but nevertheless, stop doing that. [gets up from the

chair]

JOSH

And... that'll do the trick?

STANLEY

Yup.

Kaytha gets up.

JOSH

I-I'm gettin' short-changed here.

STANLEY

Merry Christmas, Josh! We're done. [puts papers in briefcase] I'll call your

office

after the holidays and give you a number.

KAYTHA

It was nice meeting you.

JOSH

Hang on! What happens if tomorrow some pilot with my birthday decides to

kill himself?

STANLEY

No, that wasn't what started it.

JOSH

What started it?

STANLEY

You were already cooking for a few hours before the pilot.

JOSH

I was?

STANLEY

Usually with a gunshot victim it's a car backfiring, or a twig snapping,

but that's not

what it was with you.

JOSH

What was it?

STANLEY

[turns to Kaytha] Kaytha?

KAYTHA

The music.

STANLEY

The brass quintet.

JOSH

Why would the music have started it?

STANLEY

Well, I know it's gonna sound like I'm telling you that two plus two equals

a bushel of

potatoes, but at this moment, in your head, music is the same thing as...

JOSH

...as sirens.

STANLEY

[nods] Yeah. [puts on his coat]

JOSH

So that's gonna be my reaction every time I hear music?

STANLEY

No.

JOSH

Why not?

STANLEY

Because we get better. [starts to leave]

JOSH

All the same, I need some more therapy!

STANLEY

Oh, you're gonna get some!

JOSH

I mean now! [gets up]

STANLEY

Merry Christmas, Josh!

JOSH

We can order a pizza!

STANLEY

[laughs] Have a good night!

Stanley leaves with Kaytha. Josh follows him out of the room and calls.

JOSH

Stanley, I haven't told you my dreams yet!

STANLEY [OS]

Fax 'em over to me!

JOSH

Merry Christmas.

Josh leaves the room as well.

CUT TO: INT. THE WHITE HOUSE LOBBY - NIGHT

Leo is sitting in a chair reading. Josh enters and doesn't notice Leo.

LEO

How'd it go?

JOSH

[turns] Did you wait around for me?

Leo takes off his glasses.

JOSH

He thinks I may have an eating disorder.

LEO

[gets up] Josh.

JOSH

And a fear of rectangles. That's not weird, is it? [pause] I didn't cut my

hand on a

glass. I broke a window in my apartment.

LEO

This guy's walking down a street, when he falls in a hole. The walls are so

steep. He

can't get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy shouts up "Hey you! Can you

help me out?"

The doctor writes him a prescription, throws it down the hole and moves

on. Then a priest

comes along and the guy shouts up "Father, I'm down in this hole, can you

help me out?"

The priest writes out a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on. Then

a friend

walks by. "Hey Joe, it's me, can you help me out?" And the friend jumps in

the hole! Our

guy says "Are you stupid? Now we're both down here!" and the friend says,

"Yeah, but I've

been down here before, and I know the way out."

Josh looks at him.

LEO [cont.]

As long as I got a job, you got a job, you understand? [gestures to Josh's

hand]

You wrapped that yourself, right?

JOSH

[raises eyebrows] The bandage?

LEO

Yeah.

JOSH

Yeah.

LEO

Okay. Donna's gonna take you to the emergency room.

JOSH

She knows?

LEO

She was the one who guessed.

JOSH

I don't need the emergency room.

LEO

Come on, it could be infected, you could have a thing.

JOSH

What thing?

Donna enters with Josh's coat.

LEO

How the hell do I know?

JOSH

Leo...

DONNA

Let's go.

She helps Josh on with his coat.

JOSH

See you later.

LEO

Okay.

Josh and Donna leave. Leo stands for a minute then leaves. Carolers can be

heard singing

"Carol of the Bells."