C.J. and Danny in “Institutional Memory”

C.J.

I missed the window. That's what's going on here. I... missed the window to figure out... how to do this.

Danny

How to...?

C.J.

Share my life with another person, how to be a partner or whatever condescending way you put it this afternoon.

Danny

Oh, I wasn't trying...

C.J.

I don't know how to do it. Maybe at one point I did, maybe I never did, but it's over now. It's too late. This and skiing. It's too late, it's not going to happen.

Danny

C.J...

C.J.

You said yourself, it's not an accident that this hasn't come together. This is who I am. I'm good at my job, Danny, I'm good at working, I'm not good at this.

Danny

You're right, you suck at it. You're going to need a tremendous amount of training. [pause] We're going to get good at new things.

C.J.

You don't know that.

Danny

I do.

C.J.

Don't make it sound like it's nothing.

Danny

You didn't miss it.

C.J.

What if I did?

Danny

You didn't miss it.

C.J.

What if we can't...

Danny

We'll figure it out. All of it. You can be scared. That's okay. But you're not going to walk away from me because you're scared. I'm not that scary.