PENNY:
Hey
GORDON:
Hi
PENNY:
Listen, don’t let Roxanne get to you
GORDON:
They’re right though aren’t they?
PENNY:
You want an honest opinion?
GORDON:
Everyone seems to have one of me…none of it is particularly flattering
PENNY:
It seems you’re coming up with policies that you’re not sure you believe in, you just want them to be alternatives to whatever Roxanne’s put together
GORDON:
Great, so I’m no man with a plan, even in your eyes…
PENNY:
I’m just used to your plans coming apart
GORDON:
All my plans to ever ask you out maybe, but this was different Pen, it was so much different
PENNY:
All plans need to have commitment and passion put behind it, you had the passion, but just not the commitment
GORDON:
You realize this is stuff Roxanne’s already said to me, only said much nicer, which is surprising coming from you
PENNY:
Gordon, it’s better hearing this from someone who likes you than someone who doesn’t.
GORDON:
You like me all of a sudden?
PENNY:
You think all of those efforts to force your romantic notions on me make me like you less? They annoy me, but they don’t change the way I feel about you
(she clutches his hand tightly)
PENNY:
I may not reciprocate your feelings, but I understand them, and I tolerate them, and through it all, you’ve never gotten mad at my rejections or stopped caring about me, that leaves an impression on a girl more.
GORDON:
Thanks Penny
(They hug. Penny seems to enjoy the hug a bit too much, Gordon silently mouths “I love you”, she doesn’t hear it)
Suddenly, Penny’s beeper goes off)
PENNY:
It’s the hospital, I gotta go.