YOU'VE GOT MAIL

        JOE
  Mister 152 Felony Indictments --

        KATHLEEN
  Mister 152... insights into my soul.

        JOE
  Yes.  Well.  Can't compete with that.

        KATHLEEN
  Well.  I keep bumping into you.  Hope
  your mango's ripe.

        JOE
  I think it is.  Want to bump into me
  Saturday?  Around lunchtime?

 EXT. COMPUTER SCREEN - NIGHT

 As Joe types.

        JOE (V.O.)
  How about meeting Saturday?  The first
  day of spring.  4 P.M.  There's a place
  in Riverside Park at 88th Street where
  the path curves and when you come around
  the curve, you'll find me waiting.

 INT./EXT. SATURDAY - GREY'S PAPAYA - THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING

 Kathleen and Joe are putting mustard on their hot dogs.

        JOE
  Today?

        KATHLEEN
  Today.

        JOE
  Whoa.

        KATHLEEN
  I know.  In Riverside Park.

        JOE
  Isn't that amazing?  Maybe I've seen him,
  and I don't even know it.

 EXT. COLUMBUS AVENUE - DAY

 As they walk uptown, eating their hot dogs and drinking
 papaya drinks.

        JOE
  He could be the Zipper Man.

        KATHLEEN
  Who's that?

        JOE
  This guy on Amsterdam who repairs
  zippers.  You'll never have to buy new
  luggage.

        KATHLEEN
  Stop teasing.

        JOE
  Timing is everything.  He waited until
  you were primed.  Until you knew there
  was no other man you could ever love.

        KATHLEEN
   (almost believe it)
  Yes.

        JOE
  Sometimes I wonder...

        KATHLEEN
  What?

 They stop walking, they look at each other.

        JOE
  If I hadn't been Foxbooks and you hadn't
  been The Shop Around the Corner and we'd
  just met --

        KATHLEEN
  Don't.

        JOE
  I would have asked for your phone number
  and I wouldn't have been able to wait 24
  hours before calling and asking, "How
  about coffee, drinks, dinner, a movie,
  for as long as we both shall live?"

        KATHLEEN
   (almost a swoon)
  Joe...

        JOE
  And then we would never have been at war.

        KATHLEEN
  No.

        JOE
  The only fight we'd ever have is what
  video to rent on Saturday night.

        KATHLEEN
  Who fights about that?

        JOE
  Some people.  Not us.

        KATHLEEN
  We would never.

 A long beat.

        JOE
  If only...

        KATHLEEN
  Please.  I have to go.

 She doesn't move.

        JOE
  Let me ask you something?  How come
  you'll forgive him for standing you
  up and you won't forgive me for a
  little tiny thing like putting you
  out of business?

 Kathleen looks at him.  Shakes her head.

 They look at each other.

        JOE
  Oh how I wish you would.

 It's all Kathleen can do not to forgive him.

 It's all Joe can do not to kiss her.

        KATHLEEN
  I really do have to go.

        JOE
  You don't want to be late.

 She's in agony.

 He turns and walks away.

 After a moment, she does too.

 EXT. KATHLEEN'S APARTMENT - LATER

 As we see Kathleen come down the street and walk into her
 house.

 EXT. KATHLEEN'S APARTMENT - LATER

 As she comes out of the apartment house, having changed her
 clothes.