Mädchen Amick credited as playing...
Lena
- Lena: They say you replace every molecule in your body every seven years. I changed my name eight years ago. No more Thelma Sneeder.
- Lena: Isn't the real question, who are you? Are you really Ray Reardon, or is that the name your parents hung on you?
- Lena: Look, just 'cause I'm halfway pretty guys look in my eyes and think they know me. Like I'm their fantasy. I'm just a regular screwed-up person. So when you say I'm beautiful, it's like you're not seeing me at all.
- Ray: Yes, I am.
- Lena: No.
- Ray: "Only God, my dear, can love you for yourself alone and not your yellow hair" - Yeats.
- [causing Lena to smile]
- Ray: [at party, ccidentally bumps into Lena] I'm so---!
- Lena: Will you look where you're going!
- Ray: [Lena's drink is spilled over her dress] Oh, Jesus...!
- Lena: This is wine. You've ruined...
- [Ray tries to wipe away at the stain]
- Lena: Get your hands off me, it's bad enough that you've ruined my dress!
- Ray: I was just...
- Lena: So, I'm VP Sales, and moving up. Then the CO decides he likes me. I say no, but he's used to getting what he wants.
- [nods]
- Lena: I had to threaten to call his wife. So, of course he fires me. He spreads the word. It's a small community. I couldn't get hired anywhere in New York.
- Ray: You should have gone to court, and filed some...
- [shakes his head]
- Lena: Sure. If, as he put it, I wanted to hear every guy in the company testify that they had me. I moved out here instead.
- Ray: What a terrible...
- Lena: Yeah.
- [they share meaningful looks]
- Ray: [smiles] I've never done this before.
- Lena: Done what before?
- Ray: Pick somebody at the supermarket.
- Lena: [smiles] You didn't pick me up. We bumped into each other.
