Beyond Friends Episide Thirty Seven "How Do You Talk To An Angel"
Cameron Diaz as Naomi
David Schwimmer as Ross
Courteney Cox as Monica
Adam Sandler as Steve
Tea' Leoni as Linda
"Angel Eyes"
Chandler sighed. He could not believe it. He was actually bored enough that night to pay Ross a visit at the museum. He went there after he had hung out with Joey for about an hour before he got restless and left. Nothing seemed to make him happy that night, and not many things were holding his attention for long. He had followed Ross around while he looked at dinosaur specimans found a a dig recently. For the past ten minutes he had watched Ross use what looked like an old barbershop shaving cream brush to brush off sand on a delicate bone.
Ross could sense his recurring restlessness before Chandler could.
"Chandler, you know there are more parts to the museum than just the dinosaur part." Ross said after shutting off a tape recorder he had been using.
"Really?" Chandler looked up in shock. "You're kidding."
After scanning his comment for any patent Chandler sarcasm, Ross realized he wasnt kidding. Chandler never really spent a lot of time at his workplace. Ross decided to humor him in case he was kidding.
"Well, if you go this way and to the left, you will be able to see the gallery, with paintings and stuff in it." Ross said pointing with his brush.
"Hmm, this is something to look into." Chandler sat up from his stool seat.
"If I'm not mistaken theres some kind of Gaguin exhibit open right now." Ross said returning to his bone. Chandler looked at him questionably. "Hes a painter, I think."
"I'll find out for the both of us." Chandler said as he left the room.
Ross smiled and adjusted his light. "Time enough at last." He muttered as he hunkered into his work.
The Karaoke Joint
Monica and Rachel were still standing at the doorway when they recognized a certain man at the bar.
"I can't believe Steve has nerve enough to be at a singles bar when he dumped you last week." Rachel said giving Steves head a dirty look.
"Thanks for the reminder." Monica said. "Why did he break off the wedding?"
"Well, your engagement was kinda whirlwind. It happened really fast. Maybe Steve realized it was way too fast for him." Rachel said. "He kept changing his mind about all the important wedding details. That fact alone should have hinted us off to some of what was going on in his head. He wasn't ready, Monica." Rachel said. She gave her friend a hug.
"Yeah, you're right. But I would have been willing to wait." Monica said looking into Rachels eyes.
"Monica, we all knew that you wanted to get married more than any of us did." Rachel said.
"Yeah." Monica said. "Hey Steve is greeting someone over there."
"Maybe a guy friend?" Rachel asked hopefully.
"No, definately female. I would never kiss one of my guy pals like that." Monica said squinting. "She seems new."
"Yeah." Rachel nodded. "Why don't we leave.Theres not exactly a point to staying here anymore..." Rachel abruptly stopped when she saw someone. "Mon, thats no ordinary new girl." Rachel pointed.
"Oh my god." Monica said getting a clear look of the woman with Steve. She stopped. "Who is it?"
"It's Linda!" Rachel said. "She dumped Chandler to go to California in a transfer. At least thats what I heard her say to him the night she left."
"Rachel."
"Yea?"
"I got a feeling there is more to this than a undecisive bridegroom and a power hungry bitch." Monica said.
"What do we do?"
"What else? We talk to them. No punching." Monica said as they started to cross the floor to the bar area.
The gallery
Chandler took his time and walked around and looked at the paintings. He looked one over and tried to figure out its meaning. He looked around to see if he was the only one visiting the night gallery that Saturday night. Five people were circulating among the paintings and the sculptures. Two dark clothed were vehomently discussing a portrait of just a big red dot under they were told to shut up by a burly looking guard. Chandler stayed quiet, he wouldnt want that guy in his face.
He was about to move on to a painting of water lillies when he spotted a gorgeous blond observing the painting with an "in awe" look in her eyes. Chandler smiled at her.
"Are you gonna stare or are you gonna say hi to me." The woman said softly. She turned to him, some strands of perfect blond hair swayed into her face. With one fluid motion she moved the errant hairs back into place.
"Hi." Chandler said. "Chandler."
"Ah." The woman said. "Chandler - meaning to make candles. Do you make candles?" The woman asked.
"No, I'd burn down my apartment if I lit a candle I made. I'd accidentally use hog fat instead of candle wax."
She laughed. She had a musicial laugh that seemed to dance in her eyes and her smile.
"I'm Naomi." She said while extending her hand. "I'm not sure if it means anything."
"I'm sure it means something beautiful. Magical. Much like its owner." Chandler said leaning on the wall. Naomi smiled.
"Hey!" The guard yelled from his post. "No leaning on the wall!"
"Sorry." Chandler said standing straight up again.
"You been here before?" Naomi asked.
"A friend of mine works here in the dinosaur department but remarkably I've never been in this gallery before." Chandler admitted. "I'm not much of a painting person."
"You're kidding." Naomi said. "Well its easy if you do this." Naomi reached for his hand. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna sexually harass you."
"Thats ok. This type of harassment I can take." Chandler said letting Naomi take his hand.
"Close your eyes." Naomi instructed. Chandler slowly closed his eyes. Naomi brought Chandlers fore finger to the painting. "This is the famous work of art Water Lillies. It's by Manet, or Monet. I get them mixed up." She said while bringing Chandlers finger so it lightly brushed the paint on the easel. "Feel it here? The soft strokes here indicate water, if you think hard you would actually think you are lying here in the lilly pond with these lilly ads." Naomi said while brushing Chandlers forefinger across the easel. She brought his finger a little higher. "This where the land begins. Concentrate and its like actually putting your hands into wet sand and dirt."
"Oohhh." Chandler said smiling.
"We're done now." Naomi said letting go of Chandlers hand. His eyes opened back up. "Being this close to a work of art like this makes you feel like you are actually part of it."
"Wow." Chandler said in awe. "I felt so connected to it when I was touching it. I mean besides the fact that my finger has connected to it."
"Yeah." Naomi smiled as a clock bell went off in the gallery. The people who were so fervertantly arguing about the red dot picture turned and left suddenly, along with just about everyone else, including the guard. "We gotta go now." Naomi said leading Chandler out the back door of the night gallery. "Its time for the gallery to close and well its past my bedtime."
"Wait. Isnt there some way I can see you again?" Chandler asked grabbing her hand.
"Yeah, I'll be back here tomorrow night." Naomi went into the darkness.
"Naomi!" Chandler yelled. "I don't even know your last name!"
"It's Baker." Naomis voice called, seemingly coming out of nowhere. "Naomi Baker."
"Naomi." Chandler said to himself. He went in the direction she went in and when he go to the spot where he thought he heard her voice, there was no one around. It was like she wasn't even there.
"This is unreal." Chandler said as he turned to go home.
The Karaoke Joint
Monica and Rachel walked up to the bar where they saw Steve and Linda.
"Steve?" Monica asked. He turned around and nearly jumped back three feet. "Why?"
"Well uh." Steve squirmed in his seat. "We were going way too fast Monica."
"I could have waited."
"We both know thats not true." Steve said. "I met Linda at a bar recently. This bar. She was going out with your friend Chandler."
"Yeah." Linda said. "I met this wonderful man and we just fell in love. I knew he was getting married to you but he decided not to go through with it. Just to be with me. I told Chandler I was going to California just so he wouldn't look for me if I just suddenly broke it off with him."
"What makes you think Steve won't do the same thing to you if he meets some other woman?" Rachel asked while she watched Monica. She was on the on the brink of tears.
"If you didnt want to get married, all you had to do was say so." Monica said turning to leave.
Steve grabbed her arm. "I'm so sorry Monica."
Monica turned and slapped Steve across the face. She had slapped him so hard he fell back a couple of inches.
"Goodbye Steve." Monica said then looked at Linda. "I hope your happy."
Monica left the bar and headed for home. Rachel had to run just to keep up.
Home
Monica and Rachel were walking up the stairs at Rachels apartment.
"Well, on the bright side, at least you got closure." Rachel said to her as she started to unlock the door.
"Wait Rachel." Monica asked stopping her from putting the key in the lock.
"What?"
"Should we tell Chandler we found Linda in town tonight?"
"I don't know." Rachel said. She thought for a minute. "He should know."
"It'll hurt him." Monica said.
"But wouldn't he be better off knowing?" Rachel asked.
"True." Monica said. "Let's go in."
They walked in and Chandler was in the kitchen.
"Oh you are just in time." Chandler said. "I'm making pizza." Chandler said making a bad attempt to toss the dough into the air. He missed but managed to catch the dough before it hit the floor.
"Chandler, we have something to tell you."Monica started.
"I met the most wonderful girl tonight." Chandler said cutting them off. "Her name is Naomi and shes like an angel."
"Chandler hon, we saw Linda downtown tonight with Steve." Rachel touched Chandlers shoulder.
"Can we stay on topic?" Chandler said. "I'm over Linda. The Age of Linda is over, we are talking Naomi now."
"Wow." Monica said. "Tell us about her."
"Well we met at the night gallery and...." Chandler stopped abruptly. He was putting the pizza sauce on the dough when he stopped. "Oh my god. I just met the most wonderful woman in the world and I know nothing more than her first and last name."
"You'll see her again?" Rachel asked.
"Oh yeah. I'll just go back to the night gallery, ask her out for a drink." Chandler said. "I don't care what I have to do, I just gotta see her again." Chandler said going into the bathroom to wash up.
"I guess Lindas not gonna bother him." Monica said.
"Nope." Rachel said smiling. "You wanna go back out?"
"I want to stay for the pizza." Monica confessed.
"Me too." Rachel agreed and sat down and awaited Chef Chandlers return.
After the pizza was done they each held up a slice.
"A toast." Chandler said. "To mended hearts, may they all heal quickly."
"To mended hearts!" Rachel and Monica said as they ate their slice.
Cameron Diaz as Naomi
David Schwimmer as Ross
Courteney Cox as Monica
Adam Sandler as Steve
Tea' Leoni as Linda
"Angel Eyes"
Chandler sighed. He could not believe it. He was actually bored enough that night to pay Ross a visit at the museum. He went there after he had hung out with Joey for about an hour before he got restless and left. Nothing seemed to make him happy that night, and not many things were holding his attention for long. He had followed Ross around while he looked at dinosaur specimans found a a dig recently. For the past ten minutes he had watched Ross use what looked like an old barbershop shaving cream brush to brush off sand on a delicate bone.
Ross could sense his recurring restlessness before Chandler could.
"Chandler, you know there are more parts to the museum than just the dinosaur part." Ross said after shutting off a tape recorder he had been using.
"Really?" Chandler looked up in shock. "You're kidding."
After scanning his comment for any patent Chandler sarcasm, Ross realized he wasnt kidding. Chandler never really spent a lot of time at his workplace. Ross decided to humor him in case he was kidding.
"Well, if you go this way and to the left, you will be able to see the gallery, with paintings and stuff in it." Ross said pointing with his brush.
"Hmm, this is something to look into." Chandler sat up from his stool seat.
"If I'm not mistaken theres some kind of Gaguin exhibit open right now." Ross said returning to his bone. Chandler looked at him questionably. "Hes a painter, I think."
"I'll find out for the both of us." Chandler said as he left the room.
Ross smiled and adjusted his light. "Time enough at last." He muttered as he hunkered into his work.
The Karaoke Joint
Monica and Rachel were still standing at the doorway when they recognized a certain man at the bar.
"I can't believe Steve has nerve enough to be at a singles bar when he dumped you last week." Rachel said giving Steves head a dirty look.
"Thanks for the reminder." Monica said. "Why did he break off the wedding?"
"Well, your engagement was kinda whirlwind. It happened really fast. Maybe Steve realized it was way too fast for him." Rachel said. "He kept changing his mind about all the important wedding details. That fact alone should have hinted us off to some of what was going on in his head. He wasn't ready, Monica." Rachel said. She gave her friend a hug.
"Yeah, you're right. But I would have been willing to wait." Monica said looking into Rachels eyes.
"Monica, we all knew that you wanted to get married more than any of us did." Rachel said.
"Yeah." Monica said. "Hey Steve is greeting someone over there."
"Maybe a guy friend?" Rachel asked hopefully.
"No, definately female. I would never kiss one of my guy pals like that." Monica said squinting. "She seems new."
"Yeah." Rachel nodded. "Why don't we leave.Theres not exactly a point to staying here anymore..." Rachel abruptly stopped when she saw someone. "Mon, thats no ordinary new girl." Rachel pointed.
"Oh my god." Monica said getting a clear look of the woman with Steve. She stopped. "Who is it?"
"It's Linda!" Rachel said. "She dumped Chandler to go to California in a transfer. At least thats what I heard her say to him the night she left."
"Rachel."
"Yea?"
"I got a feeling there is more to this than a undecisive bridegroom and a power hungry bitch." Monica said.
"What do we do?"
"What else? We talk to them. No punching." Monica said as they started to cross the floor to the bar area.
The gallery
Chandler took his time and walked around and looked at the paintings. He looked one over and tried to figure out its meaning. He looked around to see if he was the only one visiting the night gallery that Saturday night. Five people were circulating among the paintings and the sculptures. Two dark clothed were vehomently discussing a portrait of just a big red dot under they were told to shut up by a burly looking guard. Chandler stayed quiet, he wouldnt want that guy in his face.
He was about to move on to a painting of water lillies when he spotted a gorgeous blond observing the painting with an "in awe" look in her eyes. Chandler smiled at her.
"Are you gonna stare or are you gonna say hi to me." The woman said softly. She turned to him, some strands of perfect blond hair swayed into her face. With one fluid motion she moved the errant hairs back into place.
"Hi." Chandler said. "Chandler."
"Ah." The woman said. "Chandler - meaning to make candles. Do you make candles?" The woman asked.
"No, I'd burn down my apartment if I lit a candle I made. I'd accidentally use hog fat instead of candle wax."
She laughed. She had a musicial laugh that seemed to dance in her eyes and her smile.
"I'm Naomi." She said while extending her hand. "I'm not sure if it means anything."
"I'm sure it means something beautiful. Magical. Much like its owner." Chandler said leaning on the wall. Naomi smiled.
"Hey!" The guard yelled from his post. "No leaning on the wall!"
"Sorry." Chandler said standing straight up again.
"You been here before?" Naomi asked.
"A friend of mine works here in the dinosaur department but remarkably I've never been in this gallery before." Chandler admitted. "I'm not much of a painting person."
"You're kidding." Naomi said. "Well its easy if you do this." Naomi reached for his hand. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna sexually harass you."
"Thats ok. This type of harassment I can take." Chandler said letting Naomi take his hand.
"Close your eyes." Naomi instructed. Chandler slowly closed his eyes. Naomi brought Chandlers fore finger to the painting. "This is the famous work of art Water Lillies. It's by Manet, or Monet. I get them mixed up." She said while bringing Chandlers finger so it lightly brushed the paint on the easel. "Feel it here? The soft strokes here indicate water, if you think hard you would actually think you are lying here in the lilly pond with these lilly ads." Naomi said while brushing Chandlers forefinger across the easel. She brought his finger a little higher. "This where the land begins. Concentrate and its like actually putting your hands into wet sand and dirt."
"Oohhh." Chandler said smiling.
"We're done now." Naomi said letting go of Chandlers hand. His eyes opened back up. "Being this close to a work of art like this makes you feel like you are actually part of it."
"Wow." Chandler said in awe. "I felt so connected to it when I was touching it. I mean besides the fact that my finger has connected to it."
"Yeah." Naomi smiled as a clock bell went off in the gallery. The people who were so fervertantly arguing about the red dot picture turned and left suddenly, along with just about everyone else, including the guard. "We gotta go now." Naomi said leading Chandler out the back door of the night gallery. "Its time for the gallery to close and well its past my bedtime."
"Wait. Isnt there some way I can see you again?" Chandler asked grabbing her hand.
"Yeah, I'll be back here tomorrow night." Naomi went into the darkness.
"Naomi!" Chandler yelled. "I don't even know your last name!"
"It's Baker." Naomis voice called, seemingly coming out of nowhere. "Naomi Baker."
"Naomi." Chandler said to himself. He went in the direction she went in and when he go to the spot where he thought he heard her voice, there was no one around. It was like she wasn't even there.
"This is unreal." Chandler said as he turned to go home.
The Karaoke Joint
Monica and Rachel walked up to the bar where they saw Steve and Linda.
"Steve?" Monica asked. He turned around and nearly jumped back three feet. "Why?"
"Well uh." Steve squirmed in his seat. "We were going way too fast Monica."
"I could have waited."
"We both know thats not true." Steve said. "I met Linda at a bar recently. This bar. She was going out with your friend Chandler."
"Yeah." Linda said. "I met this wonderful man and we just fell in love. I knew he was getting married to you but he decided not to go through with it. Just to be with me. I told Chandler I was going to California just so he wouldn't look for me if I just suddenly broke it off with him."
"What makes you think Steve won't do the same thing to you if he meets some other woman?" Rachel asked while she watched Monica. She was on the on the brink of tears.
"If you didnt want to get married, all you had to do was say so." Monica said turning to leave.
Steve grabbed her arm. "I'm so sorry Monica."
Monica turned and slapped Steve across the face. She had slapped him so hard he fell back a couple of inches.
"Goodbye Steve." Monica said then looked at Linda. "I hope your happy."
Monica left the bar and headed for home. Rachel had to run just to keep up.
Home
Monica and Rachel were walking up the stairs at Rachels apartment.
"Well, on the bright side, at least you got closure." Rachel said to her as she started to unlock the door.
"Wait Rachel." Monica asked stopping her from putting the key in the lock.
"What?"
"Should we tell Chandler we found Linda in town tonight?"
"I don't know." Rachel said. She thought for a minute. "He should know."
"It'll hurt him." Monica said.
"But wouldn't he be better off knowing?" Rachel asked.
"True." Monica said. "Let's go in."
They walked in and Chandler was in the kitchen.
"Oh you are just in time." Chandler said. "I'm making pizza." Chandler said making a bad attempt to toss the dough into the air. He missed but managed to catch the dough before it hit the floor.
"Chandler, we have something to tell you."Monica started.
"I met the most wonderful girl tonight." Chandler said cutting them off. "Her name is Naomi and shes like an angel."
"Chandler hon, we saw Linda downtown tonight with Steve." Rachel touched Chandlers shoulder.
"Can we stay on topic?" Chandler said. "I'm over Linda. The Age of Linda is over, we are talking Naomi now."
"Wow." Monica said. "Tell us about her."
"Well we met at the night gallery and...." Chandler stopped abruptly. He was putting the pizza sauce on the dough when he stopped. "Oh my god. I just met the most wonderful woman in the world and I know nothing more than her first and last name."
"You'll see her again?" Rachel asked.
"Oh yeah. I'll just go back to the night gallery, ask her out for a drink." Chandler said. "I don't care what I have to do, I just gotta see her again." Chandler said going into the bathroom to wash up.
"I guess Lindas not gonna bother him." Monica said.
"Nope." Rachel said smiling. "You wanna go back out?"
"I want to stay for the pizza." Monica confessed.
"Me too." Rachel agreed and sat down and awaited Chef Chandlers return.
After the pizza was done they each held up a slice.
"A toast." Chandler said. "To mended hearts, may they all heal quickly."
"To mended hearts!" Rachel and Monica said as they ate their slice.