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Benjy: Is this it? Is this where my daddy lives?
Meg: I'm sorry, but if you're looking for his father you're not gonna find him here.

Ben: My fiancee and I are leaving tonight, to elope, actually.
Tess: Oh no.
Ben: Oh yes.

Tess: Talk about the worst kind of timing in the world.

Meg: My God, Ben, can't you see what she's saying?
Ben: I can see, I'm just not sure I want to.

Tess: I tried to explain to him [Benjy] that you were just surprised to see him.
Ben: Well, that would be true, wouldn't it?

Maria: Ben... I... I didn't know.
Ben: I still don't.

Casey: Hank, listen to me. Ben is a good man. He'd just had a very complicated life.
Hank:Casey, it's a little too complicated if you ask me.

Ben: (to Tess) You turn up here with a whole bundle of details, all wrapped up in a nice neat little bow and somehow it just doesn't quite add up.

Tess gives Ben American Psychiatric Monthly with an article on Maria:
Ben: (sarcastically) You read this kind of journal often, Tess?

Ben: I promise, just as soon as we get this straightened out we're off.
Hank: Oh, yeah, where have we heard that before.

Meg: God, Sara, how can this be happening to me again?!!!

Sara: (to Meg) Maria is suddenly willing to give up Ben, she is suddenly willing to fly down to the Dominican Republic for some overnight divorce, she came up with this idea herself -- which, by the way, is the most saintly act in the history of woman kind!

Sara: For God's sake, Meg, doesn't this all seem just a little too convenient?

Sara: Don't you think it's just a little bit bizarre that when Maria finally recovers her memory, the only part that's missing is the part where she supposedly had this child?
Meg: I know that it sounds strange...
Sara: It doesn't sound strange, it sounds deliberate.

Ben: What do I have to do to convince you? Nothing, nothing is gonna stop us from being together, Meg.
Meg: I don't know anymore.
Ben: Now, what's that supposed to mean?
Meg: I have tried so hard and I have fought for us when you couldn't and I have loved you till it hurt, but all this it makes you wonder if... it makes you wonder if it's really meant to be.
Ben: Meg, don't say that.
Meg: What if there's no such thing as fate?
Ben: Fate or no fate we are supposed to be together.
Meg: Or maybe we were just supposed to be together for a short time.
Ben: Hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, I am not going to let you stop believing, Meg. Now you said you fought for me when I couldn't, well, now it's my turn to fight. And I will not let you give up on us, hmm? Now, I LOVE YOU.
Meg: Ben...
Ben: And through all of this no matter what's been thrown at us that's the one thing that hasn't changed. I love you and dammit you love me!
Meg: Yes, I do love you, but is that enough to get us through this?
Ben: It's okay. It's gonna be okay.
Meg: Do you really believe that things are gonna be okay?
Ben: With all my heart, with everything I am. You and I will be married Meg.

Tess: Did I make a mistake bringing Benjy here?
Maria: The only mistake you made was thinking we'd be one big happy family.
Tess: But that can still happen.
Maria: Not in my lifetime.

Ben: Look, there's no point discussing it until we have all the facts.
Meg: Okay, then what should we talk about, the weather, the Oscars, they Y2K problem?

Meg: Look, I just want to resolve this, I want it over NOW!
Ben: I know you do, but since we're not going to find our answers tonight why don't you concentrate on this instead. (He pulls her in for a kiss) Any better?
Meg: No, it's worse. Now I realize how much I stand to lose.
Ben: Well, son or no son, you're not losing me. I'm afraid I'm in this with you to the end.
Meg: So you say.
Ben: Better start believing it then. Put it this way, I love you Meg and nothing is gonna to change that.

Ben: Meg?
Meg: I'm okay, really.
Ben: Hey, no, you're not.
Meg: I'm sorry, I didn't... I didn't want this to happen, I didn't... I didn't want to do this to you.
Ben: Hey, don't worry about me, it's what it's doing to you.
Meg: I know you keep saying that everything will be okay, that we'll be together.
Ben: Well, after all that's happened I suppose that assurance is wearing a little thin.
Meg:I just can't help wondering when?
Ben: Well, it may not be tonight or tomorrow, but when I gave you these pearls I gave you my promise and I have no intention of going back on that promise, Meg, not for anything.

Tim: It's about Ben? Did he hurt Meg again?
Hank: Ben hurt Meg? No, you know Ben never hurts Meg. It's always the secondary things that... things that complicate things!

Tim: Is this woman [Tess] for real?
Hank: Yeah, for everybody except the king in denial.

Maria: How could a mother forget?

Tim approaches Sara:
Sara: Whatever it is, I don't wanna hear it.

Tim: He told me the whole thing about Maria and the kid, everything.
Sara: Did he tell you it was a croak?
Tim: How do you know that?
Sara: Because I live on planet Earth.

Sara: Do you have any idea how pathetic you are? You actually think that this is an opening for you with Meg.
Tim: This is a big opening, Sara. And YOU are gonna help me sail right through it back to Meg.
Sara: When pigs wear a pinafores and dance, Tim.

Sara: Will you just give it up, Tim? Meg is not gonna come back to you no matter what happens with Ben. Why don't you use what is left of your brain and think!
Tim: You don't know everything, Sara.
Sara: I know THAT.

Tim: Your father just said that I was better of with Meg then Ben. [he didn't]
Sara: Oh my God, you are certifiable.

Tess feels anxious around Maria:
Ben: Then maybe it's time to remove the distraction. [what I've been saying all along]

Tess: I'm sorry, I... I lost it a little bit there.
Meg: It's completely understandable considering the circumstances.
Tess: Meaning?
Meg: Meaning you have got to be completely honest with us and give us some concrete proof or you gotta stop this right now. Any questions? [go girl!]

Tim: I am what is called a go-getter, all right? People like me aren't content with just sitting back and watching life passing by.
Sara: You are so full of it!
Tim: Maybe. But when I see things in life I go after it and I get it. Have you read that book? The... You should read that book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"?
Sara: What?
Tim: Yeah, I think I could have written that book. I mean, it's all about not giving up.
Sara: Hello? You are a bus boy!

Sara: I wonder, how do you sleep at night?
Tim: Well I don't actually, I mean, not very well.
Sara: Well, I wouldn't think so.

Maria: I know that if Benjy does turn out to be our son, it's gonna complicate your plans with Meg.
Ben: This has nothing to do with that!

Tim: Tess, Bess, whatever the hell her name is, I wanna know who she is. [we'd like to know that as well, honey]

Ben: Benjy, Meg is a friend of mine, a very special friend and I like it when she comes places with me, it helps me. Do you understand that?
Benjy: Uh-huh, she's like Tess.
Ben: Well, actually not quite, she's very different from a nanny.
Benjy: That's because you're too old to have one.

Ben: Too old to have a nanny, am I?

Meg: Thank you.
Ben: For what?
Meg: For saying all those things to Benjy about me, for wanting me to go along.
Ben: Well, you, Mrs. Evans to be, come with the dinner.
Meg: Maybe, but it's getting pretty crowded at the table.

Tyus: Okay, Benjy, this is gonna be a breeze. All I have to do is draw a little blood from your arm and that's it.
Benjy: I don't want to do it.
Maria: Maybe we should just do it another time.
Ben: Well, if you think so, of course then Benjy might get another doctor and miss out on Dr. Robinson's wild west show.
Benjy: What?
Ben: You didn't know? Yeah, Ol two barrel Tyus is the fastest shot this side of the Mississippi.  He'll have this thing in and out of your arm before you can say Doc Robinson.
Tyus: Thanks partner.

Meg: You owe me big time.
Ben: Oh, I do, do I?
Meg: Uh-huh.
Ben: Then maybe I should start repaying you this afternoon.
Meg: What do you have in mind?
Ben: You better come with me and find out.
Meg: I hear the ocean. Are we going swimming?
Ben: Better.
Meg: Skinny dipping maybe?
Ben: Hmmm, well, maybe not quite that good [rats!], but will this do? (he shows her the picnic)
Meg: Oh, Ben! This is wonderful!
Ben: You, me, a blanket, and enough champagne to forget about everything but each other.
Meg: This will do just fine.

Annie: Since when does Ben need... I don't know, corn pops and animal crackers?
Maria: They're for Benjy.
Annie: Who's Benjy?
Maria: My son.
Annie: Oh, that's very funny.

Meg: I can't believe that you did all of this, that we did all of this. This is one of the best days of my life.
Ben: Well, you remember that, okay? Cause no matter what happens from here on in, no one can take this away from us.

Meg: Wow, first a picnic on the beach and now this. You're just full of surprises today, aren't you?
Ben: Well, since I was showing you how much I love you I thought it only fitting we end up here.
Meg: Where we realized we were meant to be together?
Ben: And we will be. No matter what happens today.

Ben: Wish we could stay here forever wrapped up like this.
Meg: Tucked away in our nice little hide a way from the world. [I do too!] That would be wonderful.
Ben: Except for one thing.
Meg: What?
Ben: I'm starving again. You hungry?
Meg: You wait here and I'll get the picnic basket from the car.
Ben: You're too good to me.
Meg: Oh, I know, I know.

Meg: What's this?
Ben: What?
Meg: This brochure.
Ben: That was supposed to be a surprise.
Meg: Another one?
Ben: For another time.
Meg: Well, the time is now. What is it?
Ben: Well, if you must know it's a villa I rented for us in Tuscany.
Meg: A villa?
Ben: Yeah, a villa. You said you might want to tour the Italian wine country when we are on our honeymoon, so...
Meg: Ben, it's beautiful. You are the most romantic man in the entire world.
Ben: It only takes a good woman.

Meg: No one could have predicted that Tess was gonna show up on our doorstep with Benjy.
Ben: Yeah, Madam Carmen didn't even predict that one.

Ricardo: What does Ben Evans think about all of this?
Maria: Well, he's skeptical.
Ricardo: Yeah, well, why doesn't that surprise me?

Meg: I have a bad feeling about all of this.
Ben: Meg, listen to me, nothing is going to change between us, no matter how this turns out. I love you and I always will love you. Do you understand that?
Meg: Yeah, sometimes I just need to hear you say it.
Ben: Well, sometimes I need a little reminding myself.
Meg: You know how much I love you.

Hank: That boy came to town the same day that my daughter, Meg,  was supposed to elope with your husband, a husband that you definitely didn't want to get rid of.
Maria: Well, that may be, but it doesn't make me guilty of anything.
Hank: Yeah, well, it does in my book and let me tell you one thing young lady, you are not going to get away with it.

Tess: All right, Mr. Cummings, I'm all yours.  What can I help you with?
Maria: You know, I think  I can answer that for you, you see, he's wondering whether the two of us are working together.
Tess: Working together?
Maria: Yes. Mr. Cummings has accused us of devising a plan to pass Benjy off as Ben's son.
Hank: So, am I right, Tess?  If that is your name.

Meg: Dad, look. All of your questions will be answered just as soon as we get the results of the paternity test.
Hank: Paternity test. Oh, great, that's the first intelligent thing I've heard all day long, now if we can just find a test to see if Mary Poppins here is legit.

Hank: Can't YOU give us the results of the paternity test?
Stacy: And you are?
Ben: Leaving perhaps?

Meg: Stacy, could we just wait in Tyus' office until he returns?
Stacy: This is not a trashy talk show, this is a hospital, but I suppose I can let you wait inside if you behave.

Casey: What were you guys just arguing about?
Sara: Arguing?
Casey: I saw you guys through the window.
Tim: What are you -- a Peeping Tom?

Meg: (picks up a book)  Ben, look at this. "Pre-natal care, your baby's first 30 days." I never imagined we'd be seeing a doctor except for the birth of our own child. Do you really think that is ever going to happen?
Ben: Meg, I know how difficult all of this is. Whatever the result it has no bearing on the family we plan to have together.

Tim: (to Sara) Just go out there with your David Hasselhoff.

Sara picks up the phone:
Sara: Meg?
Tim: No, it's her future husband.

Meg: I'm sorry, Tess, I did not mean to snap.
Tess: You love Ben a lot. I understand.
Meg: Another thing that you need to understand is that none of this will affect what Ben and I have.

Tess: Ben's pretty hard to give up, isn't he?
Meg: He is.

Benjy: Mommy, want to come see my sandcastle?
Ben: You look like you were living in your sandcastle.

Ben: Look, I'm not about to lose you over this. Meg, I know having Benjy here with us is gonna change things, but it won't change us, Meg, not what we mean to each other.
Meg: Ben, it's gonna change a lot.
Ben: Do you think it will be an unhappy life for the three of us? If I thought that I would never suggest it.
Meg: What if it's not just the three of us?
Ben: How do you mean?
Meg: Do you still want to have a family with me?
Ben: Of course I still want to have a family with you.
Meg: Then I understand why you want Benjy here, I mean, why wouldn't you want him here.
Ben: What about what you want?
Meg: I still want my life with you. Nothing is gonna change that.
Ben: Meg, you have no idea how happy that makes me.
Meg: If you can work things out with Maria which I don't think is gonna be that simple then Benjy is more than welcome here and Tess for however long Benjy needs her here.
Ben: I am very lucky to have you, Meg.
Meg: And I'm very lucky to love a man who would do so much for his son.

Meg: Well, I told my family I would let them know what happened, but I think I should probably tell them this in person.
Ben: Want me to come with you?
Meg: No, I don't. I think my Dad is gonna throw a fit and I really don't want to referee.

Meg: My family says that they love me and if they do then they are just gonna have to trust me and learn to love your son as much as I will.
Ben: Meg.
Meg: Yes?
Ben: I love you.
Meg: I love you.

Maria: Ben is not my concern, Tess. He loves Meg.
Tess: But you still love Ben. As much as you always did.
Maria: It doesn't matter. Because he has found Meg and she saved him.
Tess: From what?
Maria: Himself. He... he told me as much. You know, he mourned for me for years and then he found Meg. And whatever it was that we had together, well, it can't compare to what he's found with Meg.
Tess: But you can't deny your feelings.
Maria: No, I can't, but I will not fight for a man who doesn't love me and is in love with someone else!
Tess: Even if you have a child to fight for now?
Maria: Nothing has changed, Tess, you have to understand that, nothing ever will!

Hank: Meg, you know everything that I say and do is out of my love for you. You know that.
Meg: Then maybe you can understand that everything that I am doing is out of my love for Ben.

Maria wants to move in...
Ben: Maria, NO. We tried it before and that you'd even want to repeat that is beyond me.
Maria: I can handle it this time.
Ben: It's not just you I'm thinking about and furthermore have you forgotten what you told me before we were going off for this divorce in the Dominican Republic? You said it would be impossible for you to step foot back in this house again because Meg was the woman I love now.
Maria: That was before I knew about Benjy. Everything has changed.
Ben: No, not everything. We are still getting a divorce and I'm still marrying Meg. I love her and I'm not about to let any of this change that.

Meg: Dad, I'm extremely committed to Ben and I always will be.

Maria wants to furnish a room for Benjy:
Ben: Let's talk to Meg first. Even... even if she agrees to your staying here, this is still her home now. [Yeah, you tell her!]

Ben: Maybe I would buy him one of those race car beds or something. (Maria gives him THE look) Oh, come on, he'd love it.
Maria: YOU would love it more.

Meg: (to Ben) Are you coming?

Sara has had another of her fantasies:
Sara: I have got to stop having naps!

Maria moves back in...
Meg: Going somewhere?

Hank: You know as well as I do this whole thing is a recipe for disaster.

Meg: Maria I agreed for you to live here for Benjy's sake. That doesn't mean I have to like it or even think that it's right.
Maria: Then why did you agree to it?
Meg: Because I love Ben that much.

Maria: There is nothing fun with living in the same house with your ex-husband and the woman that he has chosen over you.

Sara: So, what's up?
Ben: I'll be short and sweet, Sara, I don't want any trouble from you.

Sara: You know, I defend you on a daily basis to my father.
Ben: That would explain his deep affection for me.

Sara: (to Ben) I am NOT the villain in this piece.

Ben: (to Sara) Would you just stop trying to make my personal life part of your daily drama?

Sara: I wonder if this is Nanny From Hell's room. Oh, yes, I'd know that cheap perfume everywhere. It's called Deceiver, where nothing is as it seems.

Sara: (to Tess) Are you from Seattle, or did you just migrate there with all the other early ninety-slackers?

Sara: So, you were there for five years working with... I mean, FOR Maria?
Tess: Look, I don't like being set up, Sara.
Sara: Well, is that what you think I'm doing?
Tess: Aren't you?
Sara: Should I be?

Sara: (to Tess) Most people don't mind when you ask them where they're from. I mean, I don't. I'm from Kansas. I have nothing to hide.

Casey: You know, this place [Ben&Meg's] is pulsing with tension, you know.
Sara: Tell me about it.
Casey: Let's get out of here before we catch it.

Meg: You know, Maria, you really are a piece of work.

Ben witnesses Meg and Maria hugging:
Ben: Would somebody please tell me at what point did I pass over into the Twilight Zone?

Meg: Maria and I have negotiated a truce. We've decided to take a stance of peaceful co-existence.
Ben: Meg, I think the president could use you in the Middle East.

Meg: Benjy. We're going to do everything we can to give him a real home. One where he'll feel safe, secure and loved.
Ben: You really mean that, don't you?
Meg: I don't want anything else to come between you and your son and you have a few years to make up for. Why are you looking at me that way?
Ben: Just when I think I couldn't possibly love you any more, you blow me away all over again.
Meg: He is my future stepson, you know.
Ben:Come here. [BIG KISSES!!!!]

Meg: So, what would you call this, a late lunch or early dinner?
Ben: I'd call it no one home and some precious time to ourselves.
Meg: I thought you were hungry?
Ben: Ravenous. [We all know what he meant by that, don't we?]

Ben picks Meg up in his arms:
Meg: What are you doing?
Ben: Making it all work out.

Tess: When the man you love walks...
Maria: ... walks out of the door to be with the woman he loves. That's what makes it so hard. Knowing I'm not that woman anymore.

Tess: It's funny, because no one has mentioned a Tim Truman in this house since I've been here.
Tim: Well, I'm sure they've been pretty busy trying to get used to having a five-year-old around.

Ben: You've been a miracle to me about everything ever since Maria turned up at our wedding up until now.
Meg: Well, now that your first wife is back from the dead, and you found out that the two of you have a son together, you should be smoothly sailing from here on out. I'm trying to be funny.
Ben: Well, you're being incredible. Like you are every day.

Meg: Go home and see Benjy.
Ben: I have a little more time.
Meg: It's really okay, I can stay here...
Ben: Oh no, no, you can't ditch me that easily.

Ben: Does that door lock?
Meg: Are you crazy?
Ben: For you. You didn't answer my question. Does it lock?

Ben: (picks up a phone) Ben Evans.
Annie: Ben, hi, it's Annie. Please, don't hang up.

Tim: Man, I can't believe Ricardo got shot.
Joan: Can you imagine? Right in the Java Web.
Tim: That's pretty scary. I mean, if it can happen there, it can happen at the Shockwave.
Joan: Thank you, Tim, that's very reassuring.

Meg: (to Annie) Why is it that I don't believe a word you're saying?

Tim: Meg, you think I can talk to you for a minute, in private?
Meg: No. I don't want to talk to you in private or any other place.

Tess: I am throwing you out now.
Tim: Oh, Tess, come on, please.
Tess: I'm sorry, Tim, but I don't like liars. Get lost.

Meg: I think that Benjy and I need to get to know each other a little bit better.
Ben: Good idea. I bet by dinner time he'll be as smitten as I am.

Ben: You don't want a divorce?
Maria: That's not what I said exactly.
Ben: Then what did you say exactly?

Maria: He's five years old and he can't understand why his mommy and daddy don't want to be together anymore.
Ben: I realize that.
Maria: And on top of that he just got here and is just getting used to having us in his life. I don't want to take that away from him.
Ben: Well, it's going to be taken away from him eventually.

Casey: (to Meg) I'm sure you'll clear this up, you'll see.
Hank: Well, she wouldn't have to clear up anything if Mary Poppins hadn't run out of here like a school girl with her feelings hurt.

Sara: Look who's back. Nanny Dearest.

Meg: Break time.
Vanessa: Ah, not a moment too soon. I am Life and Styled out.

Meg: Why do things have to be so complicated with me and Ben?
Vanessa: Are you two okay?
Meg: We're fine, it's just the growing onterarge that's driving me nuts. I mean, who's going to show up next, Ben's long lost cocker spaniel?
Vanessa:And she'll have a litter of puppies with her no doubt.

Sara: Meg, Meg, hey, I have been looking everywhere for you.
Meg: Is something wrong?
Sara: Only that I'm watching your life come apart at the seams.
Meg: You know, this is not what I want for my after work relaxation time.

Sara: (to Meg) I really think Maria is paying Tess to take part in this elaborate B-movie scam to make Ben see the light and live happily ever after with her.

Sara: Those two chicks are plotting to destroy your marriage and they won't stop until they oust you right out of this house so they can live happily ever after with Benjy.
Meg: Sara, please, do you hear yourself?
Sara: Yeah, loud and clear.

Sara: Look, Maria remembers everything about her life with Ben. She remembers her honeymoon, for God's sake, she even remembers his favorite enchilada recipe that she made for him, but can she remember the big enchilada? No, namely that she had Ben's son and lived in Seattle with him for five years! Then, Tess, the patron saint of Seattle shows up complete with the little poster boy from central casting in tow!

Sara: Look, sister, nothing in DC was this rich, not my thing with Congressman Blythe, or the thing with Monica Lewinsky. This takes the cake!

Sara: You don't even know her. She could be some Hand That Rocks the Cradle mad woman who has an agenda that we couldn't even dream up.
Meg: Okay, Sara, what do you want me to do? Do you want me to call America's Most Wanted?
Sara: No, that would be just a little bit too noticeable.

Meg: Honestly, Sara, who would do something like going through Tess's room?
Sara: Me.
Meg: What?
Sara: Yes, I tried. I almost found something, too.
Meg: Ben will have your head on a plate if he knew this.
Sara: Yeah, but he's going to send me roses when he realizes that Tess is a fraud and was plotting with Maria to break up your marriage.

Meg: I am really, really uncomfortable with Tess living here. That's just how I feel. I know she's been considerate and she's great with Benjy, but I feel like she wants you to end up with Maria. You're disappointed in me, I can tell.
Ben: Of course I'm not disappointed in you, Meg. How could I be disappointed in the most incredible woman I've ever known?
Meg: Well, Tess thinks I'm incredibly awful and I would, too if I were her.
Ben: Well, Tess doesn't matter here. WE matter, you and me. Quite honestly, I'm just grateful everyday you still put up with all of this.
Meg: I do it for you.
Ben: I know and I love you for it.
Meg: I promise to make this all up to you.
Ben: You don't have to do that, Meg. If anything, I need to make it up to you. And I will. Somehow.

Ben: Did I mention how wonderful you are recently?
Meg: Yes, but you can tell me anytime.
Ben: Okay... [kisses]
Meg: And, we should definitely talk about it more when you get back tonight.
Ben: Okay... [more kisses]

Ben: When I came in you were in the middle of a conversation with Tess.
Meg: Yes, how much did you hear?
Ben: I didn't really hear anything, but I could sense you wasn't discussing Gabi's china pattern.

Ben: She's right you know.
Meg: Who's right?
Ben: Maria.  I do love you. And that ain't ever gonna change.
Meg: Even though Benjy wants me to disappear?
Ben: It's all gonna work itself out, trust me. Then we'll be a family.
Meg: I hope so because I want that more than anything.

Meg: Oh, you're going to get Benjy a kitten?
Ben: I thought it might help.
Meg: Of course. I will still be Cruella Deville because I gave away the first kitten.

Ben: Benjy, come over here, I think you and I need to talk.
Benjy: About what, Daddy?
Ben: Meg. You know, I've told you how much Meg means to me and that's she's always going to be in my life.
Benjy: Like Mommy!
Ben: No, not like Mommy. I like and I respect you Mommy very much but, we'll raise you together and we'll always love you, but I'm going to be spending the rest of my life with Meg. Do you understand that?

Sara: I have no intention of apologizing to you.
Meg: You are not going to apologize for ruining my life?
Sara: No, I'm not going to apologize for telling Ben what YOU should have been telling him yourself!

Sara: You should be fighting for Ben yourself.
Meg: What the hell do you think I'm doing?!

Ben: Is something wrong?
Maria: Nothing.
Ben: Your mother perhaps?
Maria: It's here.
Ben: Here?
Maria: Ben, I shouldn't be here.  This is yours and Meg's room now.

Meg walks in on Ben comforting Maria:
Maria: Meg.
Meg: In the flesh.
Maria: I was upset and Ben...
Meg: I don't want to hear it, Maria.
Maria: I'm going.

Ben: I'm not sure what we're talking about, I'm not sure what's clear and what isn't!  I don't know!
Meg: Do you blame me? Maria, your ex-wife, whatever she is, her son and the serious nanny, they are all living with us! Your son hates me! Maria comes to you for comfort in our bedroom and don't even get me started on Tess!
Ben: I understand your feelings, I'm just asking you for more time.
Meg: HOW MUCH TIME?!!!

Ben: There's no reason you need to be running away.
Meg: Ben, I'm not running away, I just need a break.
Ben: From what? From me?
Meg: From us, from this house!  From Benjy and Tess and not to mention, Maria!

Meg: I'm not trying to be selfish, but ...
Ben: But? But what?
Meg: But I've got to figure out where I fit in here. I've got to do that.
Ben: Well, if it's any help, you're still the woman I love.

Ben: You have doubts about us now?
Meg: No, Ben, I do not have doubts. I love you and I always will, but I can't keep tiptoeing around my own house.

Meg: Ben, I know that you love me, it just hurts too much. I just need a few day, please, that's all that I'm asking from you.
Ben: Meg...
Meg: Ben, I love you. Please just accept my decision.

Casey: Do you still love Ben?
Meg: Oh Casey, with my whole heart.

Ben: I'd like to try to convince you not to move out.
Meg: Ben.
Ben: Before you say no, listen to what I have to say.
Meg: Ben, it's not as if I'm moving out forever, I just need some time alone, I told you that.
Ben: But how much time?
Meg: As long as it takes for me to work this situation out Tess and Benjy and Maria. I don't know, a few days, a week...
Ben: Six months, a year?
Meg: That's not going to happen.
Ben: As you said, who knows. I do know this, it's a lot easier to sit in the quiet of a hotel room and deal with problems occasionally.
Meg: That is not fair. Don't you think I'm going to spend every minute trying to work this out?
Ben: And what good is that going to do if you're not at home?  That's where the problem is. How can we possibly work things out if we're not working it out together?

Maria: Meg, I just have to know, are you moving out of Ben's?
Meg: No, Maria, I'm not moving out of Ben's house as you like to call our home, OUR home.

Meg: (to Maria) Please, don't play victim with me.

Ben: Reminds me of our wedding day.
Meg: We may have had a wedding day, but we didn't have a wedding.
Ben: I don't need to be reminded nor do I need a ceremony to confirm my vows to you. What can I say, you're the only woman in my life, you know that don't you?
Meg: It's not that simple anymore, is it?
Ben: Not right now, no. But it will be if we stick together.

Ben: We are going to work it out, we just need time.
Hank: There is no time!

Hank: California weddings are now beginning to look like Ben and Meg's.
Sara: Well, at least Ricardo's first wife didn't show up and ruin everything.

Ben: Meg, you have a minute?
Meg: Please don't try to talk me out of it again Ben.
Ben: all right, what if I try and talk you into it? With a small change, that is, we go together.
Meg: Are you serious?
Ben: Yeah, I'd say we need some time alone, wouldn't you?
Meg: That sounds incredible, but how are you going to explain it to Benjy?
Ben: Well, don't worry, I'll be damned if I'm going to sit back and let you slip away from me.

Benjy: Daddy, I thought weddings were supposed to have a happy ending?
Ben: Not all of them, Benjy.

Ben: (to Meg) You're a good friend, it's just one of the things I love about you. Well, actually, I love everything about you.

Ben: You know, we did talk about the possibility of going away together.
Meg: I know that, and I know that would be incredible, but we both know that it's not going to happen.
Ben: What's stopping us?
Benjy: Daddy, can we go home now, I want to watch Blue's clues with you.
Meg: That is.

Tess: Ben, you're presence has been requested in master Benjy's room.
Ben: Time of Blue's Clues, is it?
Tess: Well, at least it's a change from Rug Rats.
Ben: I don't know, I was beginning to get quite fond of Tommy and Chucky.

Benjy: Will Meg still be here then?
Ben: I hope so Benjy, with all my heart.

Meg: It's only a couple of days.
Ben: Couple of days?
Meg: Do you actually think I'm going to let go of the most incredible man I have ever met?

Ben and Meg are talking about the possibility that Maria may recover her memory:
Meg: Then everything will change.
Ben: Everything will change for Maria, not for us. Not for what we have.

Ben: I came by to make peace with your daughter. What do you say you and I try and do the same?
Hank: I'd be happy to bury the hatchet, Ben, as soon as you do right by my daughter.
Ben: Do right by your daughter.
Hank: Yeah, instead of making promises you keep breaking, why don't you let her go, let her live her own life?
Joan: Hank!  How could you even suggest such a thing!  Meg would be devastated!
Hank: Come on, Joannie, she's devastated now living with him and his wife and...
Joan: That was her choice. Don't listen to him, Ben.
Ben: Look, believe it or not, I love Meg far too much to let her go.
Hank: But not enough to commit to her.
Ben: I know this has been hard on Meg, on all of you, but I am more committed than ever to marry her.
 

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Maria: You think I'm afraid of my future?
Annie: Maria, you're my best friend and nothing would make me happier than to see you and ben back together.
Maria: But that's not gonna happen. Ben loves Meg and nothing can change that.
Annie: Exactly.
Maria: Even you finaly admit it.
Annie: Well, it took me a long time.

Jake has just talked to Maria, the Whining Queen:
Jake: That screaming lunatic, she managed to get one part right.

Ben: Brad, mouth shut? Got it?
Brad: Got it.
Ben: Good, don't forget it.

Tess blamed Meg for Benjy's kidnapping, Meg feels awful:
Joan: None of us here blames you.
Hank: Nobody that matters.

Meg: You're not Dorothy, I am Dorothy from Kansas.
Annie: Yuck!  What are you doing in my fantasy?
Meg: Oh, I'm just here to prove that you are a fake even in your own dreams. You don't even have Toto!
Annie: Go on before you ruin everything! Go on before a house lands on you.
Meg: Well, I will go, but you haven't seen the last of me. I have a feeling our storylines will cross again very soon.
Annie: Oh God, help me!

Jake: I took him away, I'll bring him back. Guaranteed free delivery, all right, he'll be back in your arms.
Ben: When?
Jake: When? As soon as I get my sack of dead presidents.

Ben says he won't pay the ransom:
Jake: What did you say?
Ben: You heard me.
Jake: Yeah, but I figured you wanted to live so you might reconsider. You know, I wouldn't argue with a 9 millimeter, pal.

Jake: See, if you don't give me the money, I'm going to shoot you and then the little heir to your throne is going to grow up without his Daddy. So what is it gonna be, door number one, or door number two?

Jake: Give me the damn gun!
Ben: Like hell I will!

Ben: Don't move!
Jake: Or what? You're gonna kill me?
Ben: No, but I'm gonna make your living all more painful if you even breathe the wrong way!

Ben: Polo Road, where the hell is that?
Jake: Buy a map.

Casey: Come on, man, start talking. You know the routine, right? I've got the gun, now how about a name?
Jake: Al Pacino.
Casey: I'll cut Ben loose on you so fast when he gets back.

Ben: Don't leave because you think that's what a five-year-old wants.
Meg: He's not just any five-year-old, he's your son.
Ben: Just because he's my son, it doesn't mean he should get what he wants.

Meg: I can live with Benjy resenting me or fearing me but there's one thing that I can't live with.
Ben: What? Tell me what it is.
Meg: What I can't live with is what I see in your eyes every time you look at me!
Ben: Every time I look at you? Meg, I love you. That's the only thing there is to see.

Meg: Ben, you were this incredible fantasy to me. You were the soul mate that I always wanted and then I found you and I fell even more in love with you.
Ben: So did I.

Meg: I don't care what Tess thinks, I only care what you think.
Ben: You know what I feel for you. And in spite of what you said earlier, my feelings for you haven't changed.

Meg: It's just that every time I look at him, I'm reminded of the love you and Maria used to share.
Ben: Used to, used to being the operative word.

Meg: Ben, please, just answer one question for me. Are we gonna be all right?
Ben: What...?
Meg: Oh, you can't say it, can you!  Ben, I can't stay here anymore, I can't take it here anymore!
Ben: Look,just... just hold on, all right?  Stop thinking the worse and we might get through this.
Meg: No! We're not going to get through this, don't you understand that?
Ben: We'll just have to try a little harder, we can't give up, come on.
Meg: Why shouldn't we?
Ben: Because I love you dammit and you love me!
Meg: Ben, don't you see that it makes it ten times harder for me to leave but I've got to leave. Right now.

Meg left...
Ben:  DAMMIT!!!

Maria: You've had quite a rough day and I don't just mean what happened with Benjy.
Ben: What gave you that idea?
Maria: Well, our son is in there safe and sound and you still look like your world has fallen apart and Meg's not here.

Maria: Just because you don't love me anymore, it doesn't mean I've stopped loving you. (Ben is uncomfortable)  I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that, uh, actually, you know, I'm not going to apologize for telling the truth because I do love you.
Ben: Maria as much as I'd like to say the same thing back to you...
Maria: I know it. You can't. You love Meg.

Maria: You know, Antonio, I'd give anything to stay married to Ben and raise our son together.
Antonio: Maria, I understand why you wanna go there, but just try not to get too far ahead of yourself, okay?
Maria: Yeah, you're right, I mean, Ben still loves Meg and he's... he's not gonna let her walk out of his life that easily.

Meg: I'm all right.
Casey: No, you're not. And you won't be until you're back with Ben again.

Meg: (to Sara) I can't imagine not having him in my life! God, what have I done?

Jake: You know, Tess? You should really take some anger management classes.

Meg: (to Sara) To be honest with you I can't imagine my life without him. My God, what am I gonna do?

Meg: I am sure he [Hank] hang up the phone and ran out the door straight to Ben's house.
Casey: You really think so?
Meg: I don't wanna think about it, Casey! I just imagine the fireworks!

Meg is going to Ben's:
Meg: Casey, I gotta take care of this tonight.
Casey: Because you can't stay away, huh?

Casey: It's for Ben and Meg to work out on their own somehow.
Sara: Well, what if they can't?
Casey: Well, they have to work on it. With everything they got, you know?
Sara: Yeah, and what if that's not enough?
Casey: Sara, if two people belong with each other it has to be, don't you think?

Meg: Sara told dad that I moved out and I was afraid he was gonna come by here and cause trouble.
Ben: Oh, I can handle Hank. Losing you is a different matter.

Meg: Maria, it's not what it looks like.
Maria: It doesn't look like anything, Meg. This is your house. You're welcome here whether you live here or not.

Maria: Do you have any idea what you're doing to Ben?
Meg: Excuse me?
Maria: Do you have any idea what you are doing to all of us by moving out?
Meg: Maria, what are you doing?
Maria:  I'm trying to be truthful Meg.
Meg: I thought that you would be glad that was moving out.
Maria: Why, so I could win Ben back? Look, Meg, it is easy to see that he is lost without you.

Maria: Meg, I still care about Ben.
Meg: I realize that Maria.
Maria: And I don't like to see him in pain and right now he's in a lot of pain over you!

Maria: [to Meg] I know that you and Ben still love each other and my staying and your going doesn't work for anyone.

Meg: Ben, you know there is nothing in this world that I want more than to be with you!

Ben: Meg, what more can I say to convince you I don't blame you!
Meg: You can't say anything.
Ben: Then I'll just have to show you. (He pulls her in for a kiss.... Meg pushes him away)
Meg: Ben don't!
Ben: Don't show you how much you mean to me?  How much I will lose if you walk out that door?
Meg: I have to!
Ben: ( covers his face with his hands) I love you!
Meg: (cries) I love you, too, I love you so much!

Maria: I just want you to be happy. And I realize the only way for that to happen is if you're with Meg.
Ben: She's my life, Maria.

Ben: (to Meg) What are you suggesting, that Maria and I are going to jump in bed together? It's never going to happen!

Meg: Ben, you're a family!  A mother, a father and a child. As much as I don't want to say it or even accept it, there is no place in that family for me.
Ben: There is if I say there is!

Ben: What about us? Our dreams, our plans for the future?
Meg: Our dreams? Our future? We did that for us! Just for us! That is something that just doesn't exist anymore...
Ben: Meg, please!
Meg: Ben, just let it go! Let's just forget about it and move on. Good-bye. (she runs out the door)
Ben: Meg!

Tim: I'm gonna move on. Meg and Ben are probably gonna love each other forever.
Tess: So, it's a complete waste of time to even try break them up?

Tim: [Benji's kidnapping] definitely drove them to the brink. But I've had them there one hundred times before. And every single time Ben and Meg seem to find their way back to each other in the end.
Tess: It's hopeless? Is that what you're saying?
Tim: That's what I'm saying.

Tim proposes to use a man who'd hook up with Meg, to break up Ben and Meg:
Tess: Who?
Tim: Mr. You Can Always Cry On My Shoulder.

Maria: Uh, I got Benjy back in bed, he's uh, got his eyes closed but I don't know how long that's gonna last.  Ben?
Ben: I heard you.
Maria: Um, where's Meg?  Did she go?  (Ben doesn't answer and continues his stare straight ahead) Um, I can't believe that she really moved out.  (Ben still doesn't acknowledge her) I'm so sorry, I know how hard this must be for you. Well, um, it's pretty late and you could probably use some rest. And I'm sure after a good night's sleep, things... things will look much better in the morning and uh, you'll know what to say. You'll... you'll know what to do.  (She reaches and touches his arm. He jerks away )
Ben: Just stay, stay away from me!
Maria: Fine. If that's what you want, I understand how you feel.
Ben: I doubt it.