When Harry Met Sally by Nora Ephron

conversation
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    HARRY     Boy, the holidays are rough. Every year I just try to get from the day before Thanksgiving to the day after New Year’s.
    Sally nods
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    SALLY     A lot of suicides.
    Harry nods. Sally nods
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    A WAITER comes up with a tray of hors d’oeuvres
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    WAITER     Would you like a pea pod with shrimp?
    SALLY     
(with all the warmth she hasn’t
been showing Harry)
    Thank you.
    She takes one. Waiter turns the tray to Harry
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    HARRY     No thanks.
    The Waiter leaves
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    HARRY     How’ve you been?
    SALLY     Fine.
    A pause
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    HARRY     Are you seeing anybody?
    Sally looks at him
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    SALLY     Harry—
    HARRY     What?
    SALLY     
(cutting him off)
    I don’t want to talk about this.
    HARRY     Why not?
    SALLY     I don’t want to talk about it.
    Sally turns and walks away. Harry follows
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    HARRY     Why can’t we get past this? I mean, are we gonna carry this thing around forever?
    Sally stops, whirls around to face him
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    SALLY     Forever? It just happened.
    HARRY     It happened three weeks ago.
    Sally looks at him disbelievingly
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    HARRY     ( CONT’D )    You know how a year to a person is like seven years to a dog?
    SALLY     Yes.
    Harry throws up his hands as if it’s self-explanatory
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    SALLY     ( CONT’D )    Is one of us supposed to be a dog in this scenario?
    HARRY     Yes.
    SALLY     Who is the dog?
    HARRY     You are.
    SALLY     I am? I’m the dog?
    HARRY     Um-hmm.
    SALLY     I am the dog?
    People are starting to notice the intensity of the conversation
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    Sally is really furious now. She starts toward the large doors in the background, thinking they can get some privacy there. Once in front of the doors, she stands angrily with her hands on her hips, away from the guests
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    SALLY     ( CONT’D )    I don’t see that, Harry. If anybody is the dog, you are the dog. You want to act like what happened didn’t mean anything.
    HARRY     I’m not saying it didn’t mean anything. I’m saying why does it have to mean
everything?
    SALLY     Because it does, and you should know that better than anyone because the minute that it happened, you walked right out the door.
    HARRY     I didn’t walk out—
    SALLY     No, sprinted is more like it.
    HARRY     We both agreed it was a mistake—
    SALLY     The worst mistake I ever made.
    INT. KITCHEN—DAY
    They go through the doors Sally was heading for and now they’re in the kitchen. Waiters are banging by with trays, dumping glasses into the sink, opening champagne, etc. Harry and Sally shouting now over the DIN
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    HARRY     What do you want from me?
    SALLY     I don’t want anything from you.
    HARRY     Fine, fine, but let’s just get one thing straight. I didn’t go over there that night to make love to you. That’s not why I went there. But you looked at mewith those big, weepy eyes. “Don’t go home tonight, Harry. Hold me a little longer, Harry.” What was I supposed to do?
    SALLY     What are you saying? You took pity on me?
    HARRY     No, I …
    SALLY     Fuck you!
    Sally slaps Harry across the face. Then bursts out of the kitchen with a stunned Harry right behind her
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    INT. PUCK BUILDING—WEDDING RECEPTION—DAY

The entire wedding party is assembled around the bandstand
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    The band is PLAYING some kind of musical riff that signals that attention must be paid. Sally stomps through the room, Harry just behind.