At the Pont de la tour
Cooper: You looked great on ice today!
Jodie: Thanks but Tara was hard, you didn't hear her screaming at me to put my hips higher, to get more balance but in the end
Cooper: She was right?
Jodie: Yes and because she is so used to work with a video, you ll see everything and I think it's a good method when you don't have the mirror of a ballet studio.
Cooper: And you tried it again?
Jodie: Of course and with every minute I got better. I hope in a few weeks it will look perfect, although tomorrow Tara will train jumps with us and
Cooper: You ll manage!
Jodie: Hopefully yes, what do you think about the costumes?
Cooper: The once that are finished or the once that just exist on paper?
Jodie: Both!
Cooper: The one you will be wearing, the white one in the scene with Tara in the coma is wonderful. I think the whole audience will cry, it will be an essential part of the play and I admire Adriana and Tara for their skills and admiration to be able to create something like this!
Jodie: I can't draw!
Cooper: You can dance and cook!
Jodie: Yes maybe I ll start a second career after ballet!
Cooper: Good to know!
Both enjoy their evening together when suddenly Jodie looks around and turns white
Cooper: Is everything ok?
Jodie: Charlie, he is here, I don't think I
Cooper: Hey, it's ok. You are with me and not with him anymore!
Jodie with nearly no breath
Jodie: Jonathan, he is
Cooper: Hey, you need to breathe, come on in and out! Don't panic!
Cooper stands up, slides on the bench next to her and holds her tight while Jodie starts shivering
Cooper: Hey, again one deep breath, calm down! Let me do the talking!
Jodie nods and hopes she can hold back her tears.
Cooper: Hey Jonathan, Charlie, so alone?
Jonathan: Cooper, Jodie, what a nice surprise so see you here!
Charlie: I was right, you had an..!
Cooper: Hey, hey, you my friend should be careful what you about to imply!
Charlie: Why? It's obvious that are sleeping with her.
Cooper: After you dumped her with that letter I mean you could have told her in person but you weren't man enough to do that. She cried her heart out and yes I comforted her and realized how much I still love her but before she was a loyal girlfriend and don't you dare implying anything else but this. She is not Katherine, Jonathan.
Jonathan: Still jealous? Jealous that I got her and that she stayed with me and not you?
Cooper: You have an aging prima ballerina dancing with a guy that is obviously too young for her, that will look silly on stage.
Charlie: I am the lead in the new play and
Jonathan: Katherine won't be dancing the female lead in the new ballet, Eva or Anna will, I haven't decided that yet!
Cooper: Eva and Eric you mean!
Charlie: Eva and me you..!
Cooper: Well, well what a surprise. I can't imagine what lame ballet you will be doing again.
Jonathan: I heard you got yourself an anorexic!
Jodie fumes: Don't you dare talking about Maureen like that, she was ill because of you!
Jonathan: Jodie, you and Maureen would have never made it in my company.
Cooper: Jodie and Maureen are too good for you, I am so happy they decided to join my company! And now would you excuse us, we will continue our dinner elsewhere
Cooper holds out one hand for Jodie, leaving the restaurant
Jodie: Are we giving up?
Cooper: No! But I felt my bad temper coming through and I didn't want to hit Jonathan or Charlie and creating the scene that's why I needed to cool down and go out!
Jodie: Will we be better? Do you really think we can beat them on stage?
Cooper looks at her: Of course! Hey I know you like Eva, she is a good girl but Jonathan makes her into something she isn't. She changed, she wants to be like them and there is nothing you can do about it at the moment.
Jodie tears are rolling down her face, she misses Eva who used to be a great friend.
Jodie: I know
Cooper: Hey, our ballet will rock the world and at the end the public and not some critic is going to decide who wins and I think Jonathan forgets that sometimes...
Jodie: What are we doing about Eva? I don't want to fight with her. I like her, I
Cooper: At the moment? Nothing there is nothing we can do about that at the moment believe me. I might ask Maureens help, she was the one who got help from her before workshop!
The next morning at Coopers Apartment
Tara: I heard you met Jonathan and Charlie last night.
Jodie: Yes!
Cooper: And we
Jodie furious: They are so sure they will win so we have to be extra careful, we have to train harder, be more creative than ever and when we dance it has to look easy and light, Cooper was great and didn't
Sergey comes in
Sergey: You didn't hit the bastard? Not even Charlie? Believe me in your situation, I probably would have but so I am Russian, we do that.
Cooper laughing: You would have, I am sure. I didn't, I wanted but I didn't do it. Although nobody knows it better than you indeed how much I wanted to do that! Are you ok? I mean you can't have had an easy night?
Sergey: Yes I am ok and I didn't get drunk although I wanted to but I realized she isn't worth the headache and the trouble! Just a woman and there are others out there.
Tara grinning: Really?
Sergey: Yes I came to me after the first drink, I was thinking you might introduce me to some of your friends. So then I hit straight back to the ring and skated for the last 5 hours because I felt like it and now my body is hurting but not my head, it's clear and I loved every second of it!
Cooper: And? I know you aren't finished let me see what you done.
Sergey: You are right, I have a solo and hope you like it and are not mad at me that I created it myself!
Sergey puts in a video tape and everybody watches it.
Tara: You are great, wow that looks amazing!
Sergey: I
Cooper: Why did you never
Sergey: Because I thought I wasn't good enough and I loved ballet, I met Galina shortly before my first big competition and she wanted to be a ballerina and so I left everything behind.
Cooper: But you are
Sergey: Don't you worry I am a ballet dancer so I won't leave the company but I think I enjoy being back on the ice.
Alexei: You could have taken away the gold from me.
Sergey: Maybe on a good day but then it's good that you got it!
Alexei hugs him: Thanks buddy!
Jodie: Cooper and I created the solo for the last act, can we show it to them Coop?
Cooper: Of course! Sergey watch closely!
Sergey: Yep!
Cooper and Jodie show them the pas de deux
Maureen: I don't know what to say!
Cooper: That bad? Oh, I should have don't one the pirouette at the end is too much, right?
Maureen: Cooper shut up you are a genius the people will love it!
Sergey: Baryshnikov would be proud of that!
Cooper blushes: Hey I am not that good; I just tried things here and there...
Sergey: Let me try it, Jodie?
Jodie: At your service!
Dancing
Cooper: That looks good to me!
Sergey: Well let's see how good it looks on ice! I mean the people will love the mixture of it! I hope we will be able to switch quick enough between figure skates and ballet shoes.
Tara: You will and you are great, may I show you something I prepared for you guys?
Cooper: I am all ears.
Tara stands up and starts spinning and dancing in the studio after the she finishes Cooper leaps up and hugs her!
Tara: Hey, everything ok? Hey let me breathe, I am a tiny person and I am breakable, I am really stop shaking me, outch!
Cooper: Oh yes, you are the best that was nearly the exact same vision I had, with lights and in front of the Rockefeller Center it will be so perfect! You are so fantastic, I love you Tara you are amazing!
Tara: Thank you!
Cooper: My god, this is like a dream, I mean in front of the Rockefeller Center, the Christmas tree and Tara dancing and spinning on ice, you guys dancing your heart out as dancers, the mixture between dancers and skaters will be, that will blow of peoples mind. We will exceed everyone's expectation. We will be the best and Jonathan will be furious!
Jodie: Hey Cooper, calm down you know we aren't there yet but this will be good, we have a plan and we will do it.
Cooper: I know, I know but
Alexei: We are team, you are the boss but this is teamwork, we are working our butts off for you, understood? So go back, write and help us to make the best piece of ballet the world has ever seen.
Cooper: I will and the ABA will cry and they will hate us.
Maureen: Cooper! You said we would keep it professional.
Cooper: Oh well you all know what I mean and I don't care.
Jim comes in followed by his best friend Matt
Jim: Hey everybody, its good to see you. I hope we aren't disturbing?
Maureen: Jim, hey it's so good to see you!
Jim: Hey sweetheart, look who I brought for you guys.
Maureen: Matt, he could convince you to be part of this? I am impressed.
Matt: Of course, being a med student doesn't mean you can't have any fun, I already organized everything from the clinic and called one of dads contractors so they will help us to built all the wooden stuff and I secured the Rockefeller Center when I realized it wasn't booked yet.
Cooper: Shi...mmmm I forgot to do that and this is and
Matt laughs: I hope that was ok, I know I shouldn't have its your company but, I heard a few things here and there and I knew it would be a hard thing to do anyway. Maureen you know how big my parents are into art and Cooper I enjoyed watching you several times from our own balcony at the Lincoln Center.
Cooper: Balcony, Lincoln Center? Stop, how could you secure the Rockefeller Centre?
Matt looks guilty just realizing that now he has to tell him the truth.
Cooper: Why as a simple med student did you have the opportunity to watch me when you were like 10?
Matt looks even guiltier, he knows he has to tell him
Matt: I am, my
Cooper takes a deep breath
Cooper: Who are your parents? I mean securing the Rockefeller Center like booking a table at a simple restaurant, having your own spot at the Lincoln, I have met them, I have met your parents, but who, did I meet you, I really can't remember, should I?
Cooper looks at him trying to find out who he is and Matt's answers his thoughts!
Matt laughs to relieve him: My parents are Valerie and Paul Vanderbuilt.
Cooper spills out his latte onto Tara's shirt
Tara: Hey you idiot dumb boy, oh boss, oh I am sorry, I didn't mean it that particular way but spilled your latte into my
Cooper: You, your parents are, your mother...
Cooper blushes more than ever and mumbles something
Jodie looks at him and smiles and realizes this is something Cooper is afraid of telling her, a woman from the past, he really cares and with that
Jodie: Cooper, what did you, do I have to be jealous?
Matt laughs: Mom already told me so don't worry, she is a huge fan of your work and normally supports the ABA and I know she had a flirt with you when my dad was thinking of divorcing her don't worry really, calm down and relax I know it all. Anyway by coincidence I met Jim and he told me Maureen's story and I thought that Jonathan was crazy because Maureen looks good, sick on the pictures I saw of her and she isn't fat at all now I couldn't imagine that she was slimmer at one time, if I hadn't seen the pictures of her before I mean look at her, she is a great healthy looking girl.
Maureen: Thank you Matt, I really appreciate that coming from you!
Jim: Matt
Matt: Hey buddy no worries, I admire you for having a girl like her and let me continue after you told me what you are planning I convinced them otherwise. I convinced my parents to sponsor you Cooper instead of the ABA this year!
Cooper: You are really wow I don't know what to say I am overwhelmed, I am really
Matt: Well there is a catch!
Cooper: Anything! I ll do anything really because this helps a lot and I don't need to look for other sponsor and I will be able to fully concentrate on my job as a choreographer because I know that Valerie will do everything for us, she loves to get involved in every detail.
Matt: Good! J Here is the catch: I promised her in advance she gets tickets to every show and a backstage pass and that you dance for free at the next fundraiser she organizes because that will make her happy believe me and money isn't really everything if it's for a good cause.
Cooper: Tell her she gets a personal
Jodie: Cooper
Sergey: Ill do that
Matt: I ll tell her, thank god my parents are married for over 20 years now.
Cooper: This will be fantastic and my god another one of my problems solved. I will drag the ABA into the ground. This will be the best thing I ever
Matt: Of course it will be, because Jim and I were watching a few minutes and mom dragged me into many ballets this is different, this is something the people will love, the people can related to, that people will think is new and fresh and...
Cooper: I am going to make some calls.
Tara: I ll get us running!
Matt: Can I train with you?
Cooper who just had another sip of a bottle of water this time nearly
Tara: Don't do that again, I warn you, I just changed. Breathe and then swallow please just swallow it slowly...
Cooper swallows the water and Tara smiles at him
Tara: Well done boss!
Matt: If you are asking then the answer is, I need to stay fit and my mother wanted a ballet dancer for a son. But I going be a doctor, a good one or I become a philanthropist like my parents continuing their dreams, my brother Paul will overtake the family business and mom I think she is ok with the doctor.
Cooper: That explains it all, it really does, I think you enrolled in one of the ABA courses once when you were younger. Well you can train with us, studio is big enough but stop at the right time. These guys are professionals and
Matt: Don't worry
Tara gives him a big smile
Tara: Good, training starts people so let's go!