Time of Your Life (TV Series)
The Time She Came to New York (1999)
Denis Arndt: Archer Fitzwith
Quotes
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Sarah Reeves Merrin : [coming up to Archer as he is in men's room] Excuse me?
Archer Fitzwith : What? Ah. What the hell are you doing?
Sarah Reeves Merrin : Uh, look, I know that this is kind of inappropriate.
Archer Fitzwith : Kind of? Get out of here!
Sarah Reeves Merrin : No! No, please...
Archer Fitzwith : Look, I heard you sing. You want a job, send me a resume.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : No, I'm not really a singer.
Archer Fitzwith : [assumes he's being propositioned] That's it!
[walking away]
Sarah Reeves Merrin : You can't walk out on me! No, you can't walk out on me!
[little gasp]
Sarah Reeves Merrin : I have tried to reach you every way I can. And now you're leaving the country.
Archer Fitzwith : Is there something wrong with you?
Sarah Reeves Merrin : No.
[slight sob]
Sarah Reeves Merrin : No, there is nothing wrong with me. God, my heart is, like, pounding, and I feel like I'm about to take a giant leap off a cliff.
Archer Fitzwith : There is something wrong with you.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : No, there isn't! I'm your daughter!
[he looks questioningly at her, and she nods]
Sarah Reeves Merrin : You're my father, and... I'm your daughter...
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Archer Fitzwith : Robin Merrin...
Sarah Reeves Merrin : I don't know the whole story. I know that you were in love with her. You directed her in a play starring her, and that's where you both fell in love. Uhm, William Landford told me that. The play happened between February and May '78, and I was born in January of '79, so you can see...
Archer Fitzwith : Yes.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : My name is Sarah. That's the name my adoptive parents gave me.
Archer Fitzwith : Sarah. Where is your mother?
Sarah Reeves Merrin : She's gone. She died about two years ago.
[he takes it hard, sits down, sighs]
Sarah Reeves Merrin : I know that this is a lot. And I don't know what I... expect to happen now exactly. I just know that it has been a long time. And that... you never came looking for me, but maybe... maybe you didn't know I was born. Is that it? I know that you're older, and...
[stammers]
Sarah Reeves Merrin : that you have a life... but I'm only twenty, you know, and I'm trying... trying to figure out who I am, and where I came from, and what that all means, so you matter to me.
Archer Fitzwith : Sarah...
Sarah Reeves Merrin : Just tell me that I didn't make a fool of myself, that I... at least got it right.
Archer Fitzwith : Oh, you've got so much of it right.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : What... what does that mean?
Archer Fitzwith : I was in love with your mother. God, I was so much in love with her... I would have married her, and I certainly would have slept with her... but I never did. She... uh... she met some guy, I don't know anything about him, he was some young kid. Uh, I don't know, he was dangerous or something, and... and she was twenty, just like you, she didn't want stability, so she left.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : [tearfully] Oh...
Archer Fitzwith : You might have been my daughter.
[she sobs]
Archer Fitzwith : I don't have a daughter. I'm sure that I would have loved that.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : [sobbing] Oh...
Archer Fitzwith : I'm sorry...
Sarah Reeves Merrin : No, no, I'm sorry. This is very inappropriate and embarrassing, I mean, God, you're an important man, and this is a men's room.
[runs off]
Archer Fitzwith : Wait! Wait a minute! I wanna talk to you!
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Sarah Reeves Merrin : [spotting Archer in the charge office] My God! I don't... believe this! What is he doing here? Why? Do you have any idea?
John Maguire : I called him for you.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : What?
John Maguire : You said you didn't have anyone to call. So I remembered his name from what you've told me.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : How the hell could you do that? How could you do this to me? I mean, I told you that I humiliated myself in front of this man before.
Archer Fitzwith : [sitting down next to her] Sarah...
Sarah Reeves Merrin : [at a loss] Mr Fitzwith.
Archer Fitzwith : Archer.
Sarah Reeves Merrin : Archer. I... really... never... never have called.
Archer Fitzwith : A co-defendant of yours left a message on my answering machine. Uh, luckily I picked it up in time. I brought a lawyer who I think needs to hear your story in a hurry.
[to this man:]
Archer Fitzwith : This is the Sarah that I told you about.