Finally Apart Season 1 Episode 2: The New Guy


SETTING: CATHERINE'S APARTMENT UNIT

CATHERINE [thinking to herself]
Crap, I gotta get out of here. This CD player I bought it awful, I need another one. Do they make CD players that look different? Whatever, I need to just see.

CATHERINE leaves her apartment building and gets into her ride-sharing car. She walks into the store and goes over to the section of the store where she bought the other CD player. She's looking down at her phone.

CATHERINE
Hey watch it!

A man, 30s, DANIEL, gives her a dirty look for almost walking into him.

DANIEL
You almost walked into me and I'm the one who's supposed to watch it?

CATHERINE
Uh, yeah. No one gets in my way.

DANIEL
Excuse me for trying to buy some Britney CDs.

CATHERINE
What's that now? 

DANIEL
You wouldn't care...but OK, between me and you, Britney's my favorite singer.

CATHERINE
Mine too! Wait we're talking about the same Britney right?

DANIEL
The one who does all those Vegas shows?


CATHERINE
Yeah, that one! This is so crazy! 

DANIEL
What are the odds that I find a fellow Britney fan who just nearly walks into me?

CATHERINE
Actually fairly high, there are a lot of us.


DANIEL
[Laughs] So are you from around here?

CATHERINE
Nah I live in...actually yeah, I am from around here now, just moved in. I could use some company too.

DANIEL
OK, but don't tell my wife!

CATHERINE
Oh. Yeah, can't do that. Wow did I just say that?

DANIEL
I was joking! I'm separated. 


CATHERINE
So no wife?

DANIEL
Nah. Funnily enough, I actually had two of my kids because of Britney songs.

CATHERINE
Hey me too! Mine certainly were not planned.


DANIEL
Mine neither! Wow we have a lot in common already! Let's get out of here.

CATHERINE
I just need to buy a new CD player, and ask you a question: did you ever love your wife?

DANIEL
Nah, we were just together for the kids. Eventually my nephew accidentally talked me out of the marriage.


CATERINE
Yeah I'm sorry, I can't do this.

DANIEL
What'd I say wrong? I'll make it up to you!


CATHERINE
I didn't leave a guy to fall for one who's exactly the same as him.

DANIEL
Well if you change your mind here's my number.

CATHERINE
I won't.

[CATHERINE exits the store, forgetting she had set out to buy a new CD player. She arrives back to her apartment unit.]

CATHERINE [thinking to herself]
Did I just dump a guy before we even went on the first date? What's the matter with me? Or am I maturing? Ew I don't want to mature. [She opens her wallet to put in a stray dollar bill she found in the elevator.] Wow do I not have any money. I need a job. 

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