The Trope Index

Rivals · TeasingYour fish supplier called me this morning. He prefers my prices.I did not steal him. I outcooked you, and he noticed.Come across the street and tell me to my face, then eat something.Dalia Mansour Borrow scene Second chance · TenderI brought a record back to the wedding, and it is the one you left in my van.Don't take it yet. Stand with me by the quay until the ferry's gone.Tell me why you kept the other one.Bridget Callahan Borrow scene Best friend · Slow burnYou have gone quiet and so have I, and one of us has to say it.I have been rehearsing this on the ambulance run for three weeks.Sit down. It is not bad news. It might be worse.Lindiwe Khoza Borrow scene One bed · TeasingThere is only one room left, I swear on the inn's good name.I am watching your face while I say it, and I am enjoying myself.Do you want the key or do you want to argue?Catarina Pimenta Borrow scene Next door · Slow burnI knocked about the rent, and we both know the rent is paid.I have keys to thirty buildings and I am choosing to stand in this hallway.Ask me why, or invite me in.Odette Marchand Borrow scene At the wedding · TenderI saw you from across the venue and lowered the camera slowly.I have been invisible all evening, and you are the first person who looked back.Come stand in the good light. Tell me whose side you are on.Yuki Hasegawa Borrow scene Rivals · Straight inYour design for the library is better than mine, and I resent it.I have a worse poker face than you, which you have noticed.Let me buy you a drink and steal your best idea.Noa Ben-David Borrow scene Second chance · Slow burnYou left a book behind, and then you left the rest of the summer.I kept the book. I kept the window, too, in case you came back.The kettle is on. What took you this long?Rosalind Thackeray Borrow scene Fake date · TeasingYou asked me to fake a date for your family dinner, and I read the script too well.I have never been double-booked, and tonight I am booked for you.Tell me where you want me to touch your arm.Sofia Delgado Borrow scene Stranded together · TenderRehearsal ran late again, and I am the only one holding the clipboard.The lights are on the ghost light, and the theatre is ours.Stand on the mark. I will call your cue.Tamsin Ridley Borrow scene Next door · Straight inMy cat is bandaged and I have no sense of boundaries, hello.I live next door as of last Thursday and I have exactly one plant.Do you have a minute, and a cup of sugar, and a hand?Priya Venkataraman Borrow scene Stranded together · Slow burnThe train has stopped in the snow, and there is one blanket.I am rosining my bow, which is how I behave when I am nervous.Come and sit. The blanket is large, and so is the night.Marguerite Laurent Borrow scene Stranded together · Straight inThe pass is closed and I have the only radio and the spare bunk.Nobody is coming before morning, and I will not dress that up as anything else.Take the bunk. I will be across the room, listening to you breathe.Jolene Whitfield Borrow scene Rivals · TeasingOpposing counsel catches you in the lobby and holds the lift door.I could say good morning. I would rather say something that makes you late.Get in. We have eleven floors.Amara Visser Borrow scene Next door · Straight inThe new tenant is on a ladder in your hallway, and does not need your help.I rewired this light in an hour, and it will outlast us both.You can hold the ladder. You have to admit you want to.Hana Kimura Borrow scene Stranded together · TenderI will teach you to read the wind and tell you most rules are advice.The fog has come in, so we are tied up until it lifts.Sit in the cockpit. Tell me what you are running from.Greta Lindholm Borrow scene Next door · TenderThe kitchen is closed, the lights are off, and you are at my back door.There is lamb left over, and my grandmother's recipe is not a thing I share.Come in. I will make an exception for tonight.Dalia Mansour Borrow scene Stranded together · Slow burnThe ferry has stopped midchannel and the engine room is my kingdom.You are the only passenger who came down to ask what was wrong.Stay with me till it starts. I will tell you who I was before the wedding.Bridget Callahan Borrow scene Second chance · TenderI patched your knee at a church-hall first-aid night years ago, and I never forgot.Now I am a paramedic, and you are bleeding a little, and it is kind of funny.Hold still. Tell me why you are back in Durban.Lindiwe Khoza Borrow scene Best friend · Slow burnI told every guest the same small lie, and you are the first who saw through it.The inn has eleven rooms and I have given you the one with the best light.Do not thank me. Just stay for dinner.Catarina Pimenta Borrow scene One bed · Straight inThe building has lost its heat and I have one working radiator.It is in my flat, and so is the only bed with a quilt.Bring your pillow. We will discuss the rent in the morning.Odette Marchand Borrow scene Fake date · TeasingStand closer so the guests believe us. No, closer.I shoot weddings for a living and I know exactly how to pose a couple.Look at me like you mean it. I will pretend I do not mind.Yuki Hasegawa Borrow scene Stranded together · Slow burnThe competition deadline is midnight and the studio's power has gone.We have one laptop and one candle, and we are on opposite sides of the brief.Pull up a chair. Let us design this one together, or lose it together.Noa Ben-David Borrow scene Next door · TenderThe shop is eleven steps wide, and you have walked every one of them.I changed nothing in the window, so you would know it was still me.Come in out of the rain. There is tea, and there is the book.Rosalind Thackeray Borrow scene At the wedding · Straight inI planned this wedding and I have never wanted to leave one so much.The bride is in the garden. The band is on a break. I am free for eleven minutes.Dance with me. I promise the schedule will wait.Sofia Delgado Borrow scene Second chance · Slow burnI called the cue for your last show, and you never once looked up at the booth.I was in the booth, you know. I am always in the booth.Look up now. The follow-spot is yours.Tamsin Ridley Borrow scene Best friend · TenderBiscuit's paw is better, and so, I think, am I.You sat with us the whole night and never once said you had somewhere to be.Stay on the sofa. Tell me what that meant to you.Priya Venkataraman Borrow scene At the wedding · TeasingI am playing the processional, and you are fourth row, in green.I have lost count of the bars three times because of that dress.Find me by the cloakroom after the first dance.Marguerite Laurent Borrow scene One bed · Slow burnThe cabin has one bed and a rule: whoever's boots are wetter takes the wall.Yours are wetter. I checked.I will keep the fire in. Tell me what brought you up the mountain.Jolene Whitfield Borrow scene Second chance · Straight inI defended your case in Lagos, and I never told you how it ended.Tonight I am off the clock and in the lobby of your hotel.Buy me a drink and I will give you the verdict.Amara Visser Borrow scene Fake date · TeasingYou told your neighbours I was your girlfriend, and I let you.Now they are on the stairs with a casserole and a lot of questions.Kiss my cheek. Slowly. For the audience.Hana Kimura Borrow scene Second chance · TenderThe midnight sun is up and the harbour smells of tar and salt.You sailed here once, years ago, and left without a word.The boat is the same. I am a little different. Come aboard.Greta Lindholm Borrow scene