Marshall Mann quotes from In Plain Sight

Mary

I've got this dinner with Raf.

Marshall

Raf? When did this happen? You didn't mention that?

Mary

[pointing out Marshall's not telling her he proposed] Oh, by the way, I got engaged. The Isotopes hired him as some kind of coach.

Marshall

Okay, so this dinner/date, is it dinner or a date?

Mary

Dinner with Raf and his wife. Yeah, that's right, he dropped the wife-bomb on me and then ran for cover.

Marshall

You didn't cancel.

Mary

Why would I? I broke up with him. Anyway, he's a friend, I want to see how he's doing.

Marshall

Don't think so. No, I think.

Mary

Here we go.

Marshall

-- you and Raf didn't work out so how, pray tell, did the story end?

Mary

Shoot me now.

Marshall

You don't do well with unresolved. Understandable, given your decided lack of resolution with your father.

Mary

Okay, Freud, kick back and get your feet up. You know, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Marshall

Mary, it's me.

Mary

Okay. Fine. Yeah, fine. So yeah, maybe I'm curious. Maybe I want to see how things turned out.

Marshall

You just want to see if she's pretty or not.

Mary

I hate when you know me.

Marshall

Listen, my dad is in town for the weekend.

Mary

I know.

Marshall

And his arrival, totally planned, it's thrown me. Just him showing up.

Mary

What's your point?

Marshall

Your dad showed up unannounced, out of thin air, and you're having to be professional at a time when personal issues, for years deeply personal issues, well let's just say "thrown" doesn't even touch it. Mary, talk to me.

Mary

I've been talking all day.

Marshall

Yeah. Okay.

Do you know what your mother would say if she were here? Abigail is the girl we'd always hoped you would bring home.

Marshall

Thanks, dad. You know, I can't help but notice that ever since you retired that the old, gruff you is MIA.

I'm not finished.

Marshall

There he is.

The thing is, in marriage there is no guess work, and who you're there for at four in the morning, that's the one. So you've got to ask yourself, is Abigail the girl you always thought you'd bring home?

Mary

I remember when I was seven, almost seven, I remember asking someone "what's the point of a partner if you're just going to do it yourself?" My whole life I think I haven't understood that word. Not really. I don't know. I just know a partner doesn't leave you on the doorstep; he follows you there, even at four in the morning.

Marshall

I wonder what you're dad would say about that.

Mary

The same thing he always said: never trust your partner.

Mary

Hey, so if I were someone who could tell these things, how could I tell if these were fake?

Marshall

Ever gotten faux jewelry from a guy?

Mary

I've never gotten jewelry from a guy, and don't say faux.

Abigail

So it was just the two of you at the funeral home. Wow. Intimate.

Marshall

It's her father, Ab. She's my partner.

Abigail

Marshall, I need you to remove the phrase "she's my partner" from your arsenal. I know she's your partner.

Marshall

My arsenal?

Abigail

I don't want to be that girl. Don't make me that girl. The insecure -- yes, she's your partner and she is your friend. Your best friend.

Marshall

You've got to understand --

Abigail

When do we come first? I mean, Marshall, skipping an appointment to meet with our minister?

Marshall

I wasn't skipping.

Abigail

Cancelling. Last minute because Mary needs you. Again.

Marshall

Look, Mary and I --

Abigail

I get it. You know what? I don't get it. I don't even think you do, not really, and until you do, until you figure this out, I think we need to put any appointments with ministers, any anything with ministers, on hold.

Marshall

Abigail.

Abigail

Marshall, I love you. This isn't jealousy. This is important for me, important for you. Just talk to her.

Marshall

This, what we have, it's undefinable, and up until now nothing's ever come along to jeopardize that.

Mary

Marshall, you're my best friend. You're my only friend. I mean, forget friend, you're -- you know.

Marshall

I know. I love that. But that's the problem.

Mary

Because you're getting married.

Marshall

Yeah. I'm getting married. I love Abigail deeply, and because I do that's why I need you to do something for me.

Mary

Anything.

Marshall

I need you to release me. I need to be free enough to have a life with Abigail, and I need you to be okay enough for that to happen, because if you call I'll come. Every time.

Mary

Well, I don't know a lot these days. All I know is that more than anything in the whole world, I want you to be happy. So, I'm going to say this once and only once: I want you to marry Abigail. She makes you happy. I like her and I like you together. I know, I hide it well.

Marshall

Yeah. Okay. So, shall we get on with the rest of our lives?

Mary

You first.

Mary

Douche bag. I can't believe you buried the lead.

Marshall

With all that's gone on this week, my making chief hardly makes the lead. It's ancillary.

Mary

Don't say ancillary.

Marshall

Why not?

Mary

I don't know. It's annoying.

Marshall

It's the exact word for what I'm trying to convey.

Mary

Don't say convey.