Ondine

Syracuse:
Once upon a time...

Annie:
So what's the story?

Priest:
I don't like this at all.

Syracuse:
She sings to the fishes and he catches them.

Annie:
[Describing the Selkies] They don't speak, they sing.

Syracuse:
How long are you staying?

Ondine:
Depends, I guess.

Syracuse:
On what?

Ondine:
On you.

Syracuse:
On me? It depends on me, you can stay forever.

Ondine:
Forever?

Syracuse:
Forever, happily ever after, once upon a time... I'm been telling my daughter a story, a fairy tale...

Sobriety Buddy:
Misery is easy. Happiness you have to work at.

[first lines]

Syracuse:
[into radio] Anybody out there? I need a little help.

Ondine:
I don't want to see anyone.

Syracuse:
Well I just disappear then?

Ondine:
I don't mind seeing you.

Syracuse:
"You don't mind seeing me." That's nice.

Ondine:
Say again?

Syracuse:
Most people do.

Annie:
You sure it's not some kind of wish-fulfillment kind of thing?

Syracuse:
Where did you learn words like that?

Annie:
I go to school.

Syracuse:
And I didn't...

Annie:
No. Let's be honest, you didn't. You move your mouth when you read.

Fishery Board Man II:
There's a girl here Syracuse, in your net.

Syracuse:
Is that illegal?

Fishery Board Man II:
No, but... it's unusual.

Syracuse:
What's wrong with being seen?

Ondine:
Nothing. When you look good.

Syracuse:
You don't like the dress?

Ondine:
No, I like it. It's just, underwear would be better.

Syracuse:
Doesn't fit?

Ondine:
Tight around the edges.

Syracuse:
You have edges?

Annie:
This town is what you call sartorially-challenged.

Ondine:
What does that mean?

Annie:
A supermodel's nightmare.

Syracuse:
So what kind of a tree are you father?

Priest:
Oh, well, I suppose I'm an Oak.

Syracuse:
You look more like one of the ones that they make holly sticks out of.

Priest:
Oh, an Ash, yeah...

Priest:
So, who's going to marry her, Syracuse?

Syracuse:
It's not like there's a queue, father.

Priest:
And I can't marry her.

Syracuse:
No, you're a tree.

Priest:
Exactly.

Annie:
So I supposed she isn't a Selkie really. 'Cause you can't marry a seal, can ya?

Priest:
No, you definitely cannot.

Annie:
Not in the real quotidian world, any way.

Priest:
Quotidian?

Annie:
Yep. Means the one we have to live in. If she was a seal, though, would you still do the wedding?

Priest:
Me?

[last lines]

Annie:
What about your past lives?

Ondine:
Are you sure I have them?

Annie:
Oh yeah, everybody does. It's just a matter of remembering.

Annie:
[to her dad] Stop peeping, would you?

Syracuse:
I don't peep.

Annie:
I mean, you could have even been married in one of them...

Syracuse:
[Ondine is sitting on the wheelhouse floor, steering the boat with her foot, showing lots of leg] You can't really guide a boat with your foot.

Ondine:
I'm not doing well?

Syracuse:
No, I never say that!