:18:03
What a thoughtless present
to give a woman.
:18:05
Chocolates!
:18:07
Dorothy Michaels,
Rita Marshall's office.
:18:10
You're a complicated lady.
:18:12
On the one hand,
you're a real pain in the ass.
:18:16
I've got one of the most
expensive directors in soaps--
:18:19
I owe myself a quarter.
:18:22
And you've got him
defensive and hostile.
:18:24
I don't mean to.
:18:25
However, we're getting
2000 letters a week...
:18:28
...and we've picked up
three share points.
:18:32
And it's largely due to you.
:18:34
You are the first woman character
who is her own person.
:18:37
Who asserts her own personality
without robbing someone of theirs.
:18:41
You're a breakthrough lady for us.
:18:43
We're picking up your option for
another year. Congratulations.
:18:48
Come on, Mike. What do you mean,
get you out of it?
:18:52
There's no way out.
It's their option.
:18:54
What? Who gave them that?
:18:56
You signed the standard contract.
:18:59
But I didn't know I'd be working
for the rest of my life as a woman!
:19:02
You gotta make it work.
:19:04
They'll pay. They'll go from
650 to 850 an episode.
:19:07
You get me out of this,
or I'll go in and tell them.
:19:11
Tell them what?
:19:12
That you put a network on the spot?
:19:14
You're making a fool out of women?
They'll kill you!
:19:17
My secretary wants to be like
Dorothy Michaels. I want to fire her.
:19:21
We're talking major fraud here.
Major fraud! You can't tell them.
:19:26
What about me? You think anybody
will believe I wasn't in on this?
:19:29
It's not just ruining yourself.
This is ruining me too.
:19:34
You can't do it.
You gotta make it work.
:19:37
-Can you take that many Valium?
-We'll see.
:19:40
Maybe your contract has
a morals clause.
:19:43
If Dorothy did something filthy or
disgusting, they'd let you go.
:19:48
But you've already done everything
filthy and disgusting on your show.
:19:59
Dorothy, it's Julie.