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Did Jeffrey get greedy again?
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No. A man named Kenneth Jackson is claiming my nut-free muffins put him in anaphylactic shock.
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What happened?
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Too much gluten?
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Not enough gluten?
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Harvey, this isn't funny.
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This is my company, and my entire brand is based on quality.
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I'm sorry.
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I'll take it seriously.
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Thank you.
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Don't thank me.
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Thank Lewis, because he's gonna handle this case.
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What?
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This is a business matter, not personal, and I'm not stealing Lewis's client.
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You're not stealing me.
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You already handled my divorce.
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But are you gonna tell me that Lewis is a better lawyer than you?
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No, I'm gonna tell you that he's a damn good lawyer, and he'd do anything to protect you.
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That's not the point.
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I need this to go away quietly, and Lewis doesn't do anything quietly.
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Then tell him that.
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He never listens to me.
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Then get him to listen or get another law firm, because I'm not taking this case.
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Harvey, I don't need another firm.
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I need you.
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You know what I think?
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I think you want to go out with me again, and you came to me with this because you're afraid to say it to me.
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I don't believe you.
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You think I concocted a lawsuit against my own company just to tell a man I've already been with
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that I like him?
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Sure looks that way.
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In that case, I guess I do have the wrong man for the job.
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Thank you for taking the time.
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You need to tell Louis you've been sleeping with Esther.
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What?
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Oh, please.
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It took me all of two seconds to put it together after I saw you two mooning over each other this morning.
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It's not what you think.
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We bonded together during her divorce proceeding.
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Harvey, you said you wanted to be friends.
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This is me being your friend.
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Friends don't accuse each other of things.
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I'm not accusing you.
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I'm looking out for you.
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How is that looking out for me?
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Because like I said, you need to tell him.
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Well, you know what?
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I don't need to do that because for once, your radar is off.
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We haven't been sleeping together.
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We slept together one time.
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What difference does that make?
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You promised him you wouldn't do it at all.
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Donna, Louis isn't rational on his best days with issues that don't involve his sister.
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Now, how is he going to take it if I do what you're asking?
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And how do you think he's going to react when he finds out you kept this from him?
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He's not going to find out.
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Yes, he is.
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Because I didn't have to be me to see the way you two looked at each other.
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And someday Louis is going to see that too.
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Donna, I appreciate you telling me this as a friend.
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Now, as a friend, I'm telling you to mind your own business.
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I told you to settle this thing.
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And I'm trying to.
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Then why did I just get a notice that the FDA is investigating my company?
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What?
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What did you do?
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I was gonna settle, but then Rachel found out their lawyer has a history of blackmailing company, so her only option was to countersue.
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You filed a countersuit against my explicit instructions?
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You know what, Esther?
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You came to me for help.
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And I'll tell you how to bake your muffins.
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Because you don't know the first thing about my business.
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And you don't know the first thing about mine.
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I don't have to.
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I know you.
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And you've got a chip on your shoulder the size of Montana, and when it comes out, you make everything worse.
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You know what, Esther?
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I was right to do what I did.
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And for once, I'm not gonna let you treat me like I'm less than you.
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Less than me?
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Yes, less than you.
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I'm always your buffoon brother.
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Well, not this time.
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You had no right to do this without asking me.
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I didn't ask you because you wouldn't have listened.
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No, you never listened, which is why I wanted to go to Harvey in the first place.
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What?
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You heard me.
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How could you betray me like that?
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I wasn't betraying you.
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I was looking out for myself.
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If you were looking out for yourself, then why did you lie to me about going to him?
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Because you're always jealous whenever I ask anyone else to do anything.
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You're my brother, Louis, not my boyfriend.
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If you wanted Harvey so much, why don't you go to him right now?
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I can't.
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Because when I went to him, he told me I should trust you.
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He really said that?
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He didn't just say that.
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He said you were a damn good lawyer.
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I am a damn good lawyer.
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But I should have told you.
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Well, what are we going to do now?
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It depends.
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Do you think you can trust me or not?
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I can.
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Gretchen, where are we at with the Cabrillo claim?
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I have to go.
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I'm not Gretchen.
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That's too bad for you because she's still in the habit of covering for you.
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Covering for me for what?
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I told you Lewis was gonna find out about Esther.
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And I told you it's none of your business.
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Well, it became my business when Lewis asked me about it yesterday, and I had to lie to his face just to get him to leave it alone.
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I didn't ask you to do that.
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Yes, you did, and you know it.
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Donna, I don't have time for this.
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I have an appointment.
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What appointment?
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I checked with Gretchen so you couldn't get out of this with some made-up thing.
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Your calendar's empty.
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You know what, Donna?
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One thing I learned the hard way is not to tell your secretary everything.
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Well, be careful, Harvey.
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Because you're about to learn the hard way that I may have lied to Louis about this once, but I am never, never gonna do it again.
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I got in a fight with Donna.
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Fight about what?
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She wants me to tell Lewis that I slept with his sister.
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Why exactly does she want you to do that?
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Because I promised Lewis I wouldn't, and she thinks he's gonna find out.
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Why would you make a promise like that to Lewis if you had no intention of keeping it?
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I had every intention of keeping it.
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It's Lewis's sister.
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But then I met her, and.. it happened.
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Well, why don't you just tell him that?
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Because he's like a four-year-old, and on top of that, he doesn't own her.
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She's his sister.
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But this isn't about his relationship with his sister.
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It's about his relationship with you.
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You made him a promise.
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Yeah, and as long as he doesn't find out I broke it, it doesn't matter.
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And in light of the story you told me the other day, that's probably what someone you know very well said to herself. Are you shitting me?
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You're comparing me to her?
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I most certainly am.
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Right down to you putting Donna in a position not to say anything.
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Donna is not an eight-year-old boy, and I'm not cheating on my wife.
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No, but you're putting two people you care about in positions to feel betrayed.
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Betrayed?
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Yes, like when someone has an affair with someone else.
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Okay, you don't get to say that to me.
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It's my job to say things like that to you.
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Then you don't know what you're talking about, because I've lived my whole life not to be her.
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And when people do that, they very often become that very thing in a different way.
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Well, I'm not goddamn her!
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Well, then you better take a look in the mirror.
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Because you made a promise, snuck behind someone's back to break it, and when confronted with that fact, you're denying all responsibility.
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That sounds like an affair to me.
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Esther, what are you doing here?
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I'm actually going out to dinner with Louis and Donna.
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Well, thanks for the invitation, but that's the last thing in the world I want to do right now.
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That's not why I'm here.
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I was thinking about what you said about why I called you first and then about how you handled it.
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And I thought maybe you might want to take me out this weekend.
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Esther, what do you think is going on between us?
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I don't know.
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I just...
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You don't know?
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Well, I'll tell you.
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We had a moment.
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It was nice.
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But I'm not interested in sneaking around.
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Who said anything about sneaking around?
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I did.
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And you just got divorced.
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And you're a mother of two.
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And I'm not gonna be the reason that... That what? That nothing.
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Why don't you just go out to your dinner?
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Harvey, tell me what's going on.
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What's going on is you asked me out and I said no. So please, just leave me alone.
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Harvey...
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I said leave me alone.
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You and I are gonna have a talk right now.
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Okay, whatever it is, it can wait.
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I need to tell you something.
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Does that have something to do with why my sister just left here too upset to go out to dinner?
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You piece of shit, I knew it.
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What'd you do to her now?
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I didn't do anything to her, Louis.
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And when I say now, I mean as opposed to before when you slept with her.
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That's right.
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Donna, the one you tried to steal from me at dinner the other night told me.
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Calm down.
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I didn't try to steal anything.
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You made a promise to me!
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And even after I told you about when Esther and I were kids and the boys used me to get to her, you still went ahead and betrayed me.
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Lewis, it had already happened.
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And I was just now about to tell you.
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Bullshit.
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You were never gonna tell me.
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You were gonna keep it to yourself to the day you died.
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Lewis, you have to believe me.
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I swear I was just about to tell you.
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What you're about to do is get your ass kicked.
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All right, watch yourself.
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Don't threaten something you can't handle.
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You don't think I can handle you?
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You also thought I was too stupid to find out, but I did find out.
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I found out that you're nothing but a lying, cheating...
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I didn't cheat with Esther.
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It was two grown people making a goddamn decision for themselves.
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Well, that decision ended with her walking out of here near tears because she didn't have all the facts, like the fact that you're a serial womanizer who can't stand when anyone else has.
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Shut the hell up!
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So he takes whatever woman's inside...
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I'm telling you.
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...because he's so messed up from whatever goddamn thing happened to him in his pathetic childhood...
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Shut the hell up!
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He can't!
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Harvey.
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Get away from me.
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Get the hell out of here.
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Harvey.
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Get away from me.
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Get the hell out of here.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Harvey Calls It Quits With Esther”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: Harvey, Lewis, Donna, Esther, Louis. Questo video contiene 223 frasi e 1867 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 9:29. Chi parla va veloce, circa 197 parole al minuto: aspettati suoni legati e ridotti. Il 85% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare. 48 delle sue 223 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| betray verbo | /bɪˈtɹeɪ/ | consegnare |
| sneak verbo | /sniːk/ | intrufolarsi, sgusciare |
| cheat verbo | /ˈt͡ʃiːt/ | fregare, imbrogliare |
| gluten sostantivo | /ˈɡluːtən/ | glutine |
| accuse verbo | /əˈkjuz/ | accusare |
| blackmail sostantivo | /ˈblækˌmeɪl/ | ricatto |
| concoct verbo | /kənˈkɒkt/ | intrugliare, preparare |
| womanizer sostantivo | /ˈwʊm.əˌnaɪ.zəɹ/ | donnaiolo, farfallone |
| greedy aggettivo | /ˈɡɹiːdi/ | ingordo, avido |
| confront verbo | /kənˈfɹʌnt/ | affrontare, confrontare |
| bake verbo | /beɪk/ | cuocere (al forno), infornare |
| threaten verbo | /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/ | minacciare, impaurire |
| oppose verbo | /əˈpoʊz/ | opporre |
| explicit aggettivo | /ɪkˈsplɪs.ɪt/ | specifico, proprio |
| rational aggettivo | /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/ | razionale, lucido |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| find out verbo | scoprire | |
| calm down verbo | calmarsi, tranquillizzarsi | |
| go ahead verbo | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | procedere, andare avanti |
| go away verbo | partire, andarsene | |
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | comporsi |
Frasi da ripetere
Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:
- You know what I think?
- You're comparing me to her?
- Why don't you just go out to your dinner?
- What'd you do to her now?
- You don't think I can handle you?
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — un’azione iniziata prima e ancora in corso | you've been sleeping · haven't been sleeping |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | I've already been · I've lived |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 98 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, you're. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “th”: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: anaphylactic /ˌænəfəˈlæktɪk/, womanizer /ˈwʊm.əˌnaɪ.zəɹ/, invitation /ɪnvɪˈteɪʃən/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: sneak /sniːk/, cheat /ˈt͡ʃiːt/, accuse /əˈkjuz/, anaphylactic /ˌænəfəˈlæktɪk/, concoct /kənˈkɒkt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: anaphylactic /ˌænəfəˈlæktɪk/, blackmail /ˈblækˌmeɪl/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, react /ɹiːˈækt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come betray, sneak, cheat.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.