LIAM

Benihana.

DAPHNA

Do you know it?

MELODY

No. I don’t.

DAPHNA

It’s this restaurant where they cook your food in front of you on a really hot stove top and use all sorts of scary looking knives. Remember that?

JONAH

Yeah.

DAPHNA

Liam was in ten year old boy heaven, but— oh my god! Do you remember that night? I’m just— who was it, it was my family, your family, Poppy and Grandma, nine Jews with Jewish digestive tracts eating some pretty intense Asian food. And— do you remember, like, one by one, people would be eating and all of a sudden it would hit them, like: boom. Look at Jonah!

JONAH is already hysterical at the memory.

And they would like waddle walk, they waddle walked away from the table and then came back like eight minutes later, but there was only one uni-sex bathroom, which Grandma refused to use so 3 times she went across the street to this hotel lobby …

JONAH

And Poppy was like:

In Eastern European accent

Vat is wrong vis dis bassroom?

When dinner was over, we couldn’t leave because …

DAPHNA

We literally, we’d start to walk outside and it was like, wait, Aunt Fanny’s about to … We hailed a taxi, Poppy’s bending down to—

JONAH

He ducks into the cab, he’s starting to sit and then, woosh, he pops out like—

LIAM

I never saw Poppy run like that—

JONAH

Like the Road Runner.

DAPHNA

The hostess looked at us like we were actual Jewish aliens.

LIAM

And Poppy comes out of the restaurant twenty minutes later, and he’s like, he says …

DAPHNA is so hysterical, she can’t breathe. So is JONAH.

MELODY

What does he say?

But now LIAM is too hysterical. Whenever someone gains their composure, they see one of the others and explode with laughter all over again.

MELODY

What did he say?

No one responds to MELODY, they’re laughing too hard. She takes out her phone and texts. Finally the laughter subsides. JONAH’s happy.

DAPHNA

Ohhh boy.

LIAM

I forgot about …

JONAH

Wow. Amazing. Amazing.

A long Moment of catching their breath. LIAM sees MELODY staring at him: This is the fucking bitch you were railing against? Really?

LIAM

Are you tired?

MELODY nods.

Yeah. I’m like ready to pass out. You ready for bed?

MELODY nods. LIAM goes to his suitcase.

Let me just brush my teeth, then we’ll …

DAPHNA

Uhm, hey, uhm, before we … there’s something I wanted to … Jonah and I talked before and we’re on the same page—

JONAH

Wait, Daphna. Let’s not—

DAPHNA

It’ll just take a second.

JONAH

No, let’s not do this tonight maybe—

DAPHNA

Jonah. Let me—

JONAH

Daphna. Another—

DAPHNA

Poppy’s chai.

Quick beat.

LIAM

Jonah’s right let’s go to bed.

DAPHNA

I just wanna make sure we’re all on the same page—

LIAM

Yeah we are let’s go to bed—

DAPHNA

So it’s cool then for me to have it—