Scene: Kate's office.
Barry: "Here are the reports you asked for. Let me know if anything isn't explained well enough for a jury and I'll go over it with you."
Kate: "Thank you. Also, I have a favor to ask."
Barry: "What?"
Kate: "I have a political event to attend Friday night. It would be helpful to me to have an escort for the evening. Since you are already aware of certain, um, circumstances, you would be ideal. I wouldn't have to carefully explain everything and be nervous that the wrong details would get out."
Barry: "Ah. I take it a certain state senator is expected to be in attendance?"
Kate: "With spouse. I've noticed that you have managed to be discreet regarding the relationship. For some reason, I trust you."
Barry: "No good will ever come of that. I suppose I don't get to wear sneakers and a "Fight the Power" T-shirt?"
Kate: "You most certainly do not. If you don't have a decent suit, get one."
Barry: "I wonder if the hardware store has any suits?"
Kate (sternly): "You will NOT..."
(She realizes he is teasing her, recovers herself.)
Kate: "Just wear appropriate attire. If you need advice, go ask Megan."
Barry: "I think I can manage to dig something out of the closet. My wife wouldn't let me wear a T-shirt to my kid's wedding, either. Women get so hung up on clothes..."
Kate: "Something your wife approved of for you to wear to a wedding sounds OK. Just try not to embarrass me with day-glo colors."
Barry: "I guess that rules out everything from the Elton John designer collection. Incidentally, if the senator's wife will be there, I'd recommend you dress down."
Kate: "That's what I was planning."
Barry: "Good. I can pick you up if you want."
Kate: "If we pull up in your mini-van, security will think it's a terrorist attack. The function is being held only a couple of blocks away from here. If you want you could bring a change of clothes, park in your regular parking spot and walk over."
Barry: "Sounds good."
(end scene)
Scene: At a political fundraiser. Very posh. Barry has managed to dress well, and Kate looks good, considering.
Kate: "Thank you for coming with me tonight. I wasn't sure you had nice clothes."
Barry: "I wasn't sure you had anything that dowdy. This may be the first time I've ever been able to compliment a woman on how poorly she dressed."
Kate: "I'm so nervous. I hope Senator Winchester's wife isn't going to come after me and cause a scene."
Barry: "I'll divert her if it comes to that."
Kate: "That's what I'm afraid of... Here they come now."
(a couple walks over to Barry and Kate)
Cole: "Dr. Murphy. How nice to see you again. This is my wife, Gail."
Kate: "Pleased to meet you. Senator, this is Barry Gray. He is a forensic data specialist who has been helping us out in the medical examiner's office from time to time."
Cole: "What is a forensic data specialist?"
Barry: "I help them out with some of the technical aspects of their investigations. Recovering data from media that was supposedly erased, tracking down social media postings, that sort of thing."
Gail: "That sounds really boring. I just want my computer to work. I don't care how. It seems as though the other work in the coroner's office would be much more interesting."
Kate: "Barry gets an occasional opportunity to go out in the field with us. In fact, he was the talk of the police department a while ago."
Cole: "Oh, why was that?"
Kate: "We were out on a run and a gunman came upon us suddenly. We were pinned down in a doorway with a couple of homicide detectives. Barry used a gun from an injured detective and shot around the corner. He aimed with his cell phone camera and dropped the guy with one shot. It was pretty impressive. He's my hero."
(Kate takes Barry's arm and moves closer.)
Gail: "How romantic. How long have you been seeing each other?"
Barry: "We started dating after that incident. Prior to that, she had been seeing the ex-husband of someone else in the office. I convinced her that I was much more dashing. And, you know..."
(Barry moves close to Gail, lowers the tone of his voice, touches her on the arm.)
Barry: "Much better in bed."
Gail: "Mr. Gray, I am a married woman. My husband is standing right here. Keep your dirty thoughts to yourself."
(she moves away)
Barry (sighs): "Of course. All the good ones are taken."
Kate (to Barry): "Are you running a fever? Because you seem suddenly delusional. I resent the false insinuation, Mr. Gray, that I am so easy that I've already slept with you. Particularly when you are trying to use me as some sort of sleazy reference for your sexual resumé."
Gail: "Thank you."
Kate (to Gail): "You don't need to take him seriously. We don't. He somehow manages to simultaneously aggravate and entertain the entire office."
Gail: "What do you mean?"
Kate: "For example: his first day, he tried to give the department the nickname of 'Kate's Body Shop'."
Cole (laughing): "That's rich. I'll call you the next time I need to write a speech."
Kate: "Unfortunately, he has plenty more material where that came from. He takes particular delight in annoying Dr. Megan Hunt, one of our assistant medical examiners."
Barry: "She deserves it for the dates she tried to set me up with."
Gail: "What?"
Kate: "Before we started going out, Megan set Barry up on a few dates. They did not go well."
Barry: "That's an understatement. I would classify them as legendary fails. My favorite was the woman who slept with me."
Gail: "We don't need to hear your bawdy tales, Mr. Gray."
Kate: "Not as bawdy as you think. She slept with him, he didn't sleep with her."
Gail: "I don't understand."
Barry: "Dr. Hunt gave us concert tickets to the symphony. My date fell asleep during the performance. So, she slept with me. Technically."
Gail (laughs): "Padding your resumé again, sir?"
Barry: "My feelings were deeply hurt. Dr. Murphy is probably just a rebound relationship."
Kate: "Thanks. You flatter me."
Barry (to Cole and Gail): "Well, at least you may sleep soundly knowing that I am keeping a watchful vigil against the zombie hordes the ME's office is trying to create..."
Gail: "What?"
Kate: "Trust me, you don't want to get him going. A driver brought in a victim who had been declared dead at the scene, but the person revived when warmed up. Barry's overactive imagination has declared this to be the first zombie in my army of the undead. I think we need to block his syfy channel."
Barry: "If the Winchesters have tired of being regaled with tales of my heroic deeds, perhaps we could discuss other topics, like politics or the economy. Hey, would you like a hot investment tip?"
Cole (interested): "What have you got?"
Kate: "I don't know what's coming, but I'm not sure you actually want to hear this..."
Barry: "Keep your money in Irish banks."
Cole: "What? Why?"
Barry (smirking): "That way, your capitol (capital) will always be Dublin (doublin')."
Gail: "That is awful. Your next investment should be to buy some decent material."
Cole: "Well, it has been charming to chat with both of you. I daresay this is likely to be the most unusual conversation of the evening, but for now I think we need to mingle a bit. Shall we?"
(he takes his wife's arm, they stroll off.)
Kate: "Much better in bed?"
Barry: "Hey, you don't know that I'm not."
Kate: "Granted. Dare I ask what prompted the latest performance?"
Barry: "I wanted her to totally focus on me. I want to stand out in her mind, put you in the background. I am the colorful rogue; you are merely the attractive but much duller and prudish cohort. Or did you have a different objective?"
Kate: "Ah. Well, that was nerve-wracking, but I think it turned out all right. Now I could use a drink."
(she grabs a couple of glasses from a circulating tray, hands one to Barry.)
Kate (toasting): "You handled that situation quite deftly, Mr. Gray. Thank you."
Barry: "You're welcome. You're a pretty hot date, for a frumpy zombie queen."
Kate: "Again with the flattery."
(they start to drink, Kate stops, moves to his side and leans in while he is drinking his wine.)
Kate: "Mmm... Perhaps sometime I will have to see if you really ARE better..."
(Barry starts to sputter, Kate laughs.)
(end scene)