may i help you?
yes, please have a seat. he'll be right with you.
howard, your one o'clock.
yes?
cole slaw, ice tea?
welcome, howard.
hi.
stan.  c'mon.
it's just. y'know.  i mean.
anyway, i've got to do my tap dance here.
'kay.
i better do this, stan.
ms. kruczynski?
how are you today?
here we are.
hello again, mr. barish. good, you've got your stuff.
how are you today? here we are.
may i help you?
please have a seat. dr. mierzwiak will be right with you.
how are you today?
here we are.
hi, may i help you?
oh, hey, patrick.
it's freezing out.
yeah. poor guy. have anything to drink?
well, allow me to do the honors. it's fucking freezing and i need something.
hey, hey.
oh, patrick, you didn't want any, did you?
blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
nietzsche. beyond good and evil. found it my bartletts.
yeah, i can't wait to tell howard! it seems really appropriate.
i love quotes. so did winston churchill. he actually has a quotation in bartlett's about bartlett's. isn't that trippy?
"the quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts."
i like to read what smart people say. so many beautiful, important things.
don't you think howard's like that? smart? important?
i think he'll be in bartlett's one day.
let him go, stan. i can help.
it's amazing, isn't it? such a gift howard gave the world.
to let people begin again. it's beautiful. you look at a baby and it's so fresh, so clean, so free. and adults.  they're like this messy tangle of anger and phobias and sadness.  hopelessness. and howard just makes it go away.
no. besides, howard's married, stan. he's a very serious and ethical man. i'm not going to tempt him to betray all he believes in.
what?
where?
well, what should we do?
sor-ry we have to do something. he can't wake up half done.
we should call howard.
this guy's only half cooked. there's no time to fuck around, stan.
he's coming?
hell no.
shit, i'm so stoned. i don't want him to see me stoned. stop being stoned, mary!
god, i look like shit! god!
there he is. oh my god. oh my god. do i look okay?
i'm still stoned. are you? crap.
your visine didn't do shit, fella.
i wanted to learn as much about the procedure as possible, howard. i think it's important for my job. to help comfort the clientele. you know.
that was beautiful to watch, howard. like a surgeon or a concert pianist.
i'm so sorry, howard, you must be tired.
i like watching you work.
do you like quotes, howard?
oh, um, like famous quotes. i find reading them inspirational to me. and in my reading i've come across some i thought you might like, too.
okay, um, there's one that goes "blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
yeah, yeah it is, howard. and here i was thinking i could tell you something you didn't know.
there's another one i like, i read. it's by pope alexander.
yes, shit. oops, sorry! sorry. it's just i told myself i wasn't going to say pope alexander and sound like a dope and then i go ahead and do it. like i psyched myself out.
you are such a sweetheart.
anyway, the quote goes "how happy is the blameless vestal's lot! the world forgetting, by the world forgot: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! each prayer accepted, and each wish resign'd".
really? i thought it was appropriate maybe. that's all. i really admire the work that you do. i know it's not proper to be so familiar but i guess since we're outside the workplace i feel a certain liberty to --
okay. good. great. thanks. i like you, howard.  an awful lot. is that terrible?
i've loved you for a very long time. i'm sorry! i shouldn't have said that.
i wish i was your wife. i wish i had your kids.
no you're right. once again. you're a decent man, howard.
what?
oh my god!
mrs. mierzwiak, it's true. and it's not mr. mierzwiak's fault. i'm a stupid little girl with a stupid little crush. i basically forced him into it. i swear.
tell me what?
what, howard?
do you swear you didn't know?
and you never even suspected? never saw us behaving in any unusual way together?
how did i look?
and after that?
do you remember anything else? what i was wearing? was i standing close to him? was i leaning against his car like i owned it? how did he look at me when i giggled? tell me everything.
thanks, stan.
you're nice. but i love him. i knew i loved him. now i know.
i need this signed, howard.
thanks. so.  do we talk about this.  or what?
do you love me? did you love me? something. i listened to my tape. i can't believe i've been sitting right in front of it for a year. it's like listening to someone else's story. i mean, i hear myself talking about having sex with you and i can't even imagine you naked. i can't even say "naked" to you!
you made me have an abortion.
you made me have you erased! i loved you. i love you! how could you --
oh.
what do you want, stan?
nothing.
then why did you ask me?
they have a right to know. howard is a thief. he steals the truth. i can't remember my baby! i can't remember my baby. it existed and i can't even remember. do you understand that?
i won't allow it. those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. what do you think of that? that's from my quote book.
remember the alamo! remember the alamo!
i don't want to hurt people. but these things happened! all these little sadnesses, the big ones. what if no one remembers? what does that do to the world? someone has to remember, stan.
may i help you?
yes, please have a seat. the doctor will be with you momentarily.
howard, your 10:30.