Fairly Legal (TV Series)

Satisfaction (2012)

Ryan Johnson: Ben Grogan

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• Ben Grogan : First Rule of Humanity: People are usually what they appear to be.

• [first lines] 

  Ben Grogan : [in single's bar, as he spots lonely lady peering into her glass]  Plymouth and tonic.

  bartender : [female voice]  Yes, sir.

  Kate Reed : Check please.

  Ben Grogan : You always come in the door leaving?

  Kate Reed : Uhm, it's not my scene.

  Ben Grogan : But here you are. So you were either born on that bar stool, or came in here disguised as a woman who wants attention.

  Kate Reed : And you're wearing a $3000 suit with a pocket square.

  Ben Grogan : I believe my motives are clear.

  Kate Reed : Sorry.

  [appeasing gesture] 

  Kate Reed : It has been a while since anybody's offered to buy me a drink.

  Ben Grogan : Really? Did the world go blind?

• Kate Reed : I'm married. Was married. Now, I'm not. Anyway, the ex is on his way to sign the... whatever. But it looks like he has blown me off.

  Ben Grogan : Well, it's just as well. He would have changed his mind.

  Kate Reed : [laughs]  Nice try.

  [somber:] 

  Kate Reed : Maybe it'll feel... normal someday.

  Ben Grogan : Do you believe in fate?

  Kate Reed : Wow, was that a line?

  Ben Grogan : It's a question.

  [she laughs] 

  Ben Grogan : Takes the edge off of picking up strangers in bars.

  Kate Reed : I'm 29.

  [sighs] 

  Kate Reed : I'm, uh, nearly divorced, recently orphaned, more recently out of a job. My life is kind of at this... turning point, so yeah... I do believe in fate. And I believe she's a fickle, fickle bitch.

  Ben Grogan : You seem broken.

  Kate Reed : Oh.

  [she scoffs] 

  Ben Grogan : I like that.

  Kate Reed : And you're a fixer.

  Ben Grogan : No.

  Kate Reed : Yeah.

  Ben Grogan : No, I tend to make things much worse, and then I disappear.

  Kate Reed : Well,

  [laughs] 

  Kate Reed : at least you're decent enough to be honest about it. You don't see that much.

  Ben Grogan : Oh, you must be a lawyer.

  Kate Reed : [lying]  School teacher.

  Ben Grogan : Right, you're a school teacher and I'm a decent guy. So...

  Kate Reed : Yeah.

  Ben Grogan : ...cheers to honesty.

  Kate Reed : Hey, cheers. Yeah.

  [laughs, both take sips] 

  Kate Reed : Mm. And good night.

  Ben Grogan : [as she leaves:]  Is truth the way to your heart?

  [as she turns around:] 

  Ben Grogan : Oh.

  [holding up his hands:] 

  Ben Grogan : Withdrawn, counselor, I misspoke. We have not yet established that you have a heart.

  Kate Reed : [up close:]  The way to my heart would be to do everything and to say nothing. No negotiation, no foreplay, no strategy. Just be who you are and take me.

  [as he hesitates:] 

  Kate Reed : Too late.

  [goes off] 

• Ben Grogan : [as he drives]  It figures you live in a boat.

  Kate Reed : It figures you think this is a time for us to chat.

  Ben Grogan : First rule of humanity, people are usually what they appear to be. I'm very good at this, Karen.

  Kate Reed : [sighs]  Kate.

  Ben Grogan : You live on a boat because you are afraid of commitment.

  [she laughs] 

  Ben Grogan : And you wear $500 shoes, but you won't spend ten bucks to fix a leaky seal on a propane stove. Which says old money, like the bent-over biddies on Nob Hill that yell at their Jamaican nurses for stealing soap and light bulbs...

  Kate Reed : Okay. All right, all right. First of all, easy. I don't have time to fix a stove. And second of all, you smell new.

  Ben Grogan : Mm.

  Kate Reed : Your car smells new, your clothes smell new. Everything about you smells like somebody just dumped enchanted aftershave lotion on the What-to-Wear section of Details magazine, and then all of a sudden,

  [gesturing comically:] 

  Kate Reed : poof, you appeared.

  Ben Grogan : I like nice things.

  Kate Reed : All right, that's it. Look at me.

  [he has to keep his eyes on the road] 

  Kate Reed : Look at me.

  Ben Grogan : I'm driving.

  Ben Grogan : Look at me.

  [pulls his face towards her, car tires screech] 

  Ben Grogan : I will talk to Mahoney

  [car horn honks at them] 

  Ben Grogan : and I

  [grabbing his face] 

  Ben Grogan : will get the settlement back on the table. Then you can go to Sam and convince him to just forget about the truth. Because you

  [grabbing his face again] 

  Ben Grogan : are probably really, really good at that. And then, you can go back to being a living example of everything I can't stand. And, yes... I live on a boat, because it's my father's... and he's dead.

  [moves way back to her side of the car] 

  Ben Grogan : So...

  [she glares at him] 

  Ben Grogan : you're afraid of commitment and you're stuck in the past.

  Kate Reed : Unbelievable.

  [shaking her head in disgust] 

• Ben Grogan : [as they wait in the hallway, Kate drinking from paper cup]  How much coffee do you drink?

  Kate Reed : I don't know. How much coffee is there?