Nora the Hero
Lindsay (on phone): Is Dr. MacIver on duty tonight? Uh, did he take a dinner break? I helped him with the fundraising for his clinic. I have an idea that I�d like to run by. Palace? How nice. No, no. No message. I�ll catch up with him later, (turns off phone) You bet I will. (Troy is helping Suzanne with her leg.) Starr: Does it still hurt? Troy: She�s gonna� be fine, sweetheart. But you know what? The next time you want to hit a few grounders, you may want to be a little more careful. Okay? Starr: I told her that she would get better faster if she came to your free clinic. Troy: Well she�d definitely get better faster. (Nora waves to him.) Uh, hey, Suzanne, on your way out you may want to stop by the nurse�s station, they�ll have your prescription there. Suzanne: Oh, thanks. Starr: Bye! Troy: Alright. (Lawyer approaches him.) Lawyer: Excuse me, doctor. I�m Ned Sanders; I�m an attorney. I�m very afraid I�ve got some bad news; you�re out of business. (Troy stares at him with an � Excuse you?� face. It�s one of my favorites.) (commercials) Troy: What are you talking about? Lawyer: This injunction says your clinic is closing, doc. (Troy takes it and looks at it.) Troy: Well, it can�t close because I have patients to treat. (he slaps it back on the lawyer�s shoulder) Thank you. Lawyer: Like poor Mr. Jenkins? Troy: What�s the matter with Mr. Jenkins? Lawyer: He�s in extreme pain, it�s probably permanent. Because of improper treatment he received at this clinic. And because of Dr. Ben Davidson, your clinic is being sued. How much would all of this equipment auction, for because Mr. Jenkins�s medical bill is going through the roof. Mr. Jenkins: Ned, you know, I�d better sit down. My arm is acting up again. Troy: You do realize that you�re suing a man who�s comatose, correct? Lawyer: Excuse me? Troy: Ben Davidson is in a coma. Lawyer: Well, we can always settle it in court. We think this is a fair settlement. (He slips paper out of his jacket and gives it to Troy. Troy: Do you? (Troy takes it and unfolds it.) Troy: This is our operating budget for an entire year. Lawyer: We can�t let you continue to entice people into trusting some shoddy clinic that practices sloppy medicine--- Troy: �Shoddy clinic�? Let�s get something straight, here, okay? When patients come to this clinic, they receive nothing but state of the art highly personalized care. Starr: (with attitude) Yeah! And when they come here, they get Dr. Troy; the best doctor in the whole wide world. Suzanne: It�s okay, honey. Starr: (Happily and Excitedly) And he made Mathew well. And my mom said that he didn�t even charge him a dime! Lawyer: Will someone silence this obnoxious little girl, please? We have serious business to discuss. (Troy stands proud and he smiles at Starr as she begins to approach him with anger.) Starr: I don�t like you Mr.-Lawyer-Man (she�s pounding her baseball bat into her other hand) And you might have a problem. (She tries to hit him but he shields himself with his suitcase as she�s beating the suitcase back and forth.) (Troy watches with humor and Nora gets up and leaves.) (commercials) Troy: Uh--- Starr: Ugh! (He stops her) Troy: Look, look, look Starr, Starr, listen to me, okay? I appreciate you looking out for me and everything but--- (whispers) I think I got this one, okay? Starr: But your clinic, it�ll be alright? Troy: Absolutely, the clinic is going to be fine, okay? Starr: Better be. Troy: It will. Now, Suzanne, you have your prescription, right? Suzanne: Yes, the nurse just gave it to me. Thank you so much, doctor. Troy: No problem. (Gives her baseball bat) I�m going to give this to you. And you, I�m going to see you later. Starr: Okay! See you! (Troy bends down to her and he and Starr hug) Troy: Alright. Starr: Bye! Troy: Bye (He straightens up again as she leaves.) Troy: So now, let�s talk because this clinic provides a very important service to this community. It�s not shutting down. Lawyer: Well, with your professionals, you�re ready to talk settlement? I�m right here. (Nora walks into the scene.) Nora: May I please see that injunction, please? Lawyer: Nora� Buchanan? Nora: Yeah, in the flesh. Lawyer: What are you doing here? Nora: I�m just an interested party. Troy: Uh, Nora, don�t worry about it. It�s okay, you don�t have to get involved. Nora: Yeah, I do. (She�s flipping through the pages.) Oh! It�s just what I thought. Why, this injunction is uh--- preliminary; which means that I can have it dismissed by a mere call to the judge. Lawyer: Fine, see you in court. Nora: That is if there�s merit to Mr. Jenkins�s claim. Mr. Jenkins: Oh, there�s merit, alright. My arm hurts something awful. Lawyer: Yes, because of that quack, Davidson, set it so that it healed like a pretzel. Nora: (not listening but ruffling through papers from her briefcase) Mm-hmm� Lawyer: The man can�t move his arm. It�s useless. He�s a truck driver; he can�t do his work; he can�t even do his chores around the house. Nora: Yes, I know, it�s all in here. (Points to papers) Do you know what else is in here? It says Dr. Ben Davidson set the broken arm on the 28th of the month? Lawyer: So? Nora: Well, this is a worksheet on who was here on what day and for how many hours. (Nora kindly shows the worksheet to Troy and lets him observe it) The next time you come up with a scam like this, I think you need to do your homework a little better. Lawyer: What? (Troy hands the paper to Ned Sanders, the lawyer.) Nora: Dr. Ben Davidson couldn�t possibly have sent anyone home with a broken arm on the 28th ; he was unconscious and in intensive care. (commercial) Lawyer: So the date is wrong, so what? If it�s a typo, the fundamentals remain the same. My client was disabled because of your clinic. Nora: Then we�ll fight you in court. Lawyer: Too bad. You won�t have Dr. Davidson to testify. That could really hurt you case, juries are so unpredictable. I�d settle if I were you. Nora: Yes, I guess you�re right. We just might have to do that. They do have your clinic in a bind, Troy. Troy: Wait, what? Nora: Yeah. Troy: Wait, I don�t wanna�--- Nora: We�ll work on a settlement, then. Troy: Settlement? No, wait, there�s no settlement, here. If we settle--- Nora: Troy--- Troy: Then the clinic place goes out of business. Nora: Excuse me, would you mind, I would like to talk to talk to him. Would you excuse me, please? Lawyer: Of course. (They go to the side.) Troy: Wait a minute. What are you talking about a settlement, here, Nora? This is some cool lawyer tactic, here, right? I mean, you do understand that we�re not settling this. Nora: I understand, I understand. Do me a favor? Is Mr. Jenkins standing behind me? Troy: �Yeah. Nora: Is there anyone standing between me and Mr. Jenkins? Troy: �No. Nora: I�m gonna� need you to watch this, okay? In case I need a witness. Troy: Okay, well what am I watching? Nora: The oldest trick in the book. Excuse me. (She turns around and throws her suitcase.) Nora: Heads up! (He catches it.) Nora: Oops, thank you. (commercials) (Jenkins drops suitcase.) Mr. Jenkins: Ah, my arm. Look what she made me do. Lawyer: Yeah, I�m looking. Nora: What x-rays are you planning to use in court? Not yours, I hope. (She bends down to pick up her briefcase.) Mr. Jenkins: It really hurts. Nora: Yes, I know. I feel the same way when I lose. We�ll be seeing you very soon, Mr. Sanders, very soon. Lawyer: Why�s that? Nora: Because Dr. MacIver can press charges with a district attorney for conspiracy as a fraud. Mr. Jenkins: Can he do that? Lawyer: Will you be quiet? Nora: I think it carries a minimum of� 10 years in Statesville prison� or did the legislator move it up to 20 years? 20 years, yeah, I think it�s 20 years. Mr. Jenkins: We got to get out of here! I can�t believe I let you talk this into me this? Lawyer: Would you listen to me--- Mr. Jenkins: Now I could wind up in prison! Lawyer: Shut up! (They leave) Nora: Did you ever hear of that old story about the law firm, Dewey, Fleecum and Howe? Troy: Yeah, actually I believe I just met one of their attorneys, Mr. Cheatum. Nora: You did? I don�t think you�re going to hear from those two again. Troy: You just pulled the Bradey Bunch trick! Nora: I did! Troy: Nice job! Nora: (She does the curtsy) Why, thank you very much. Troy: Can I tell you something? (Wraps arms around her waist) You are very hot in action. Nora: Oh? Troy: Oh, yeah. Nora: Really? Troy: I�m going to have to check you out in court (caresses her cheek) Nora: Oh, you can check me out anytime, anywhere. Troy: Is that so? Nora: Oh, that IS so. (He walks backwards, holding her hands) Nora: We make a pretty good team, you know? Troy: Yeah, I think so. But you already knew that, now didn�t you? (They kiss� yay!) (Lindsay is pathetically sitting alone in the Palace when Truth Seekers walk in. He has her arm wrapped around her shoulder.) Troy: Well, the 1st thing we�re gonna� need is a bottle of your best champagne, please. Renee: Oh, sounds like you�re celebrating! Nora: Ah, yes; a fantastic partnership. Renee: Hah! That�s good news in this room tonight. (Renee leaves.) Troy: You know (moving into the table) I still can�t believe how you handled that lawyer this afternoon. You saved the clinic, you know that? Nora: Well, it�s sort of interesting because the clinic saves lives and I guess that with you and I are together, no one can bring us down. (She caresses his face and he holds her hand to his cheek while Lindsay watches with jealousy. Ha ha.) FLASHBACK Lindsay: Joanna�s dead? Are you sure? Joanna�s lover guy: Quite sure. FLASHBACK CLOSES (Nora raises glass for toast.) Nora: To a wonderfully talented, dedicated doctor who owns my heart. Troy: To a smart, sexy lawyer who owns mine. Nora: To the future? Troy: The future. (The idiotic blonde whom I shall not name walks in.) Lindsay: What a wonderful toast, now, I don�t believe I would have made a better one myself; because after all one doesn�t really know what the future may holds, right? (He looks at her with a guilty but a �Will you shut the hell up?� face.) (Freaky African music plays with drums and the episode ends with Nora staring eye to eye with her enemy and Lindsay seems so delighted to see Troy squirm in his seat. Continuation is LINDSAY MAKES TROY SQUIRM)
