Something Borrowed

Something Borrowed (Lecture Hall)

• Rachel White: (looking at TORTS book, and then flashback.)
• Dexter Thaler III: You don't happen to have four extra pens, do you?
• Rachel White: Oh, I do actually. I brought a bunch.
• (Rachel looks up and there’s Dex, grinning, she is immediately struck by how handsome he is, then she blushes... a little awestruck).
• Rachel White: You're making fun of me.
• Dexter Thaler III: No, I'm impressed. You're making me feel really inadequate right now. (shows his one and only pen)
• (Professor Dennis Zigman walks into the room.)
• Professor Dennis Zigman: I'm Professor Dennis Zigman and this is TORTS. A few ground rules, Never introduce a contingency in your answer.
• (Rachel grabs her notebook from her bag and puts it on the desk, shoving it forward... right into the pens which fall into the crevice between her row and the row in front of her.)
• Professor Dennis Zigman: A supposed tortfeasor may be argued to have committed a tortious act... when four conditions have been met.
• (Rachel tries to catch them, to no avail.)
• Professor Dennis Zigman: Each is necessary. None is, in itself, sufficient. There must be a duty or obligation. This duty must have been breached.
• Dexter Thaler III: (slides over his only pen.)
• Professor Dennis Zigman: This breach must have caused damage.
• Rachel White: (looks at his pen, then whispering) What about you?
• Professor Dennis Zigman: Duty, breach, causation...
• Dexter Thaler III: (whispering) That's okay. I'll just listen.
• Professor Dennis Zigman: ...damage.
• Rachel White: (looks at Dex.)
• Dexter Thaler III: (nods)
• Rachel White: (takes the pen.) Thank you.
• Professor Dennis Zigman: Duty, breach, causation, damage.
• Rachel White: (smiles at Dex, then she turns and tries to pay attention to the Professor and not Dex, but it’s hard, so she sneaks another look at Dex)
• Dexter Thaler III: (then Dex look at her.)