Francine Desmond quotes from Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Francine

Oh. Alright. Okay. So that’s fine. Here’s what we’ll do. You give us your black book, we’ll divide it up and just start dialing.

Amanda

Right.

Lee

Books.

Amanda

Books?

Lee

I have four of them.

Francine

I should have known.

Amanda

Where is Mr Melrose?

Francine

That is on a need to know basis.

Amanda

I need to know.

Francine

Well I don’t need to tell you.

Francine

Well you’d better get hazardous duty pay Amanda, because M street is kind of a combination of ah…tag team wrestling and full contact karate.

Amanda

Do you know that first hand? – I’m just kidding Francine, I’m sorry I never should have opened my mouth, I know you’ll get me back.

Francine

You’re right.

Amanda

I really am sorry… I couldn’t help it.

Francine

Oh well isn’t this a cozy little place you to have here.

Amanda

My room's down the hall Francine.

Francine

Oh, well, how times have changed Scarecrow.

Francine

I thought Dr. Smyth was going to get off his rump for once and stop it.

I got off my rump. Fat lot of good it did. Hi, guys...

Billy

All right, Francine, they sifted through the ashes and you can relax; there’s no signs of human remains... And stand upǃ

Francine

Yes sir, that’s good news

Billy

The last of it - all my other news is bad.

Lee

I’m in kind of a hurry Francine.

Francine

Well this won’t take long, come here. I have just one word to say to you 'stop it'.

Lee

That’s two words but why quibble.

Francine

Congratulations Lee.

Lee

On what?

Francine

Your new assignment, this memo just floated across Billy’s desk… Elissa Danton hmm. You are just the man for the job.

Lee

And a job is all it is Francine, purely professional, Ok.

Francine

Oh how times have changed, I seem to recall lots of stories about you and Elissa that kept many a boring DC cocktail party going. Oh my favorite one, you Elissa and that little French ballerina, how did you ever manage all of that in the back of an Italian sports car?

Lee

She was a Violinist it was a Limo and it wasn’t easy, I was in traction for a week.

Francine

What more could we ask for?

Lee

A better story in case someone asks us what we were doing passing classified documents to a civilian.

Francine

Well I don’t know it worked out pretty good for you and Amanda.

Lee

Well Amanda’s one in a million.

Francine

Lee listen, I have thought this over and in my mind and I really don’t know what I could have done differently.

Lee

Probably nothing, what are you worried about, relax huh you probably got as lucky with this guy as I did with Amanda.

Francine

Oh no he’s not my type.