The Cutting Edge

Doug Dorsey:
Hey, there's only two things I do well, sweetheart, and skating's the other one!

Doug Dorsey:
[at the hospital after Kate had hit his nose with a hockey puck] Toe pick!

Doug Dorsey:
[preparing to lift Kate] You want me to put my hands where?

Doug Dorsey:
We're going to France! Parlez-vous Olympics!

Kate Moseley:
[repeated line] Toe pick!

Kate Moseley:
I swear, you let me down, and it'll take them a month to count the blade marks on your back.

Kate Moseley:
Excuse me. Naked male insecurity really leaves me cold.

Kate Moseley:
[referring to Doug] When we're through here, can we please teach it how to breathe with its mouth closed?

Anton Pamchenko:
Man and woman make flower. Douglas, you are stem. Katya, you are petal. Together, we make flower.

Rick Tuttle:
I wanna see your ass in the air!

Kate Moseley:
Until Hercules here learns how to lock his grip, this will have to do!

[Kate lifts up her skirt, showing her butt, and skates around the rink]

[Doug charges down the ramp to the arena, late for his Olympic hockey game]

Calgary cop:
Name, son.

Doug Dorsey:
Dorsey, U.S. Hockey!

Calgary cop:
Hell, son, they're just about to start!

Anton Pamchenko:
Jack, she is tremendous skater. Everyone is saying this. La petite, powerful, intelligent. But always is coming the big "B". What a b*tch!

Jack Moseley:
What about Spindler?

Anton Pamchenko:
Spindler? Spindler say before he skate with her, he wear garlic from neck and sleep with cross. Who is left? [speaks in Russian] I am at bottom of barrel.

Jack Moseley:
Then you find another barrel.

Kate Moseley:
Just who the hell do you think you are?

Doug Dorsey:
I know exactly who I am, sweetheart. I'm a guy who came a long way for lunch.

Kate Moseley:
Well, please don't let me keep you from the trough.

Doug Dorsey:
["addressing Anton"] Hey, I'm sorry, buddy. I wouldn't wish this on a snake. I'm outta here.

Anton Pamchenko:
[shouts in Russian] Enough! Introduction is over, conversation finished! Mouths closed, ears to be opened. [addressing Kate] Pair means...two! You have no partner. You are skating nowhere. [addressing Doug] And where are you going, eh, back to Siberia? Skating on small pond is big excitement, but believe me -- Gretsky --I am last person who is coming too look for you. Good. We skate!

Kate Moseley:
What, do you shower once a week?

Doug Dorsey:
Is that an invitation?

Kate Moseley:
I told you this was ridiculous. [to Doug] Would you please put me down?

[Doug drops Kate on her rear]

Kate Moseley:
[shouting] You, you cretin!

Doug Dorsey:
Guess that move needs some work.

Kate Moseley:
If you're so bored, why don't you read?

Doug Dorsey:
You mean, like a book?

Kate Moseley:
That is the generally accepted format, yes. What was the last book you read? You were in college?

Doug Dorsey:
The last thing I read was a letter canceling my scholarship when I couldn't play anymore.

Kate Moseley:
Okay, high school.

Doug Dorsey:
I was a hockey player. The only thing I had to read was a scoreboard.

Kate Moseley:
And they graduated you?

Doug Dorsey:
They revered me. I was a god.

Kate Moseley:
What a tragic commentary on our times.

Hale Forrest:
I don't like to see her upset.

Doug Dorsey:
If I was you, I'd invest in blindfolds.

Doug Dorsey:
Well, actually, it's kind of interesting.

Woman in bar:
I'll bet.

Drunk:
Tell him.

Woman in bar #2:
We're waiting.

Doug Dorsey:
I've been, I've been doing a little figure skating.

Drunk:
Damn.

Man in bar:
What did he say?

Walter Dorsey:
You been doin' what?

Old man back in bar:
Finger painting?

[After Doug has just told Walter he's "been doing a little figure skating"]

Walter Dorsey:
Are they gonna make you shave your legs?

Doug Dorsey:
You know what? I don't even know why I asked!

Walter Dorsey:
[laughs] Gotcha!

[Doug is carrying Kate's flowers and walking her back to her room; The long program is the next day]

Doug Dorsey:
Man, this overnight thing is brutal. Why can't it be a double header, you know? Short program, long program. Same night, boom, we're outta here, you know what I mean?

Kate Moseley:
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

Doug Dorsey:
It's like, enough already! It's like...what's the word? Uh, you know what word I'm looking for? You know what I mean?

Kate Moseley:
[trying to open her door] I don't know, uh, expectation?

Doug Dorsey:
No, no, when you, uh...

Kate Moseley:
Anticipation? Excitement?

Doug Dorsey:
Foreplay!

Kate Moseley:
[looks up in shock, stunned] Foreplay?

Doug Dorsey:
Yeah, you know, like foreplay.

Kate Moseley:
Yeah, I know what it means.

Doug Dorsey:
Well, wouldn't you rather just get right to it?

Kate Moseley:
What?

Doug Dorsey:
Skating. Long program.

[Kate stares, wild-eyed]

Doug Dorsey:
Chicago? Nationals? [holds up her bouquet] Flowers?

Kate Moseley:
[still stunned, takes her flowers] Sleep. I'd rather sleep.

[She goes into her room, leaving Doug very confused]

Doug Dorsey:
Sleep?

Kate Moseley:
God's gift to reckless abandon revealed as nothing but a prude in wolf's clothing.

Doug Dorsey:
You're a lousy drunk.

Kate Moseley:
And you're a lousy date.

Doug Dorsey:
It didn't have to be like this.

[Doug chases Kate into the hotel elevator]

Doug Dorsey:
Kate! Kate, will you wait a minute?

Kate Moseley:
Don't! Don't even try! Just looking at you makes me sick! To think I was coming to apologize! Lorie Peckarovski!

Doug Dorsey:
Hey -- were you, or were you not, engaged to be married until last night?

Kate Moseley:
Hardly the point...

Doug Dorsey:
You threw me out of your room!

Kate Moseley:
Count your blessings. She may not have waited much longer!

Doug Dorsey:
That's not how it happened!

Kate Moseley:
Spare me the details.

Doug Dorsey:
Where the hell do you get off?

Kate Moseley:
Me?

Doug Dorsey:
This is my fault? From the first day I walk into your rink, you treat me like a hired hand! Then one night, you get drunk, I'm supposed to roll over and thank my lucky stars? Sorry, I don't downshift that fast!

Kate Moseley:
Get out of my way!

Doug Dorsey:
No problem! I've been practicing that move for a year and a half!

[Kate runs out of the elevator; people are laughing at them]

Doug Dorsey:
Blind date...

Kate Moseley:
It's in.

Doug Dorsey:
It's out.

Kate Moseley:
It's in.

Doug Dorsey:
It's out!

Kate Moseley:
It's in!

Doug Dorsey:
What difference does it make?

Kate Moseley:
The difference is...I'm in the mood to kick a little ass.

Doug Dorsey:
You didn't have to.

Kate Moseley:
Yes, I did.

Doug Dorsey:
Why?

Kate Moseley:
Because I love you.

Doug Dorsey:
Just remember who said it first.

[They kiss ]

The King of the Rink is about to meet America's Ice Queen.

When true love breaks the ice. Theirs is a love/skate relationship.

The ultimate love/skate relationship.

Anton Pamchenko:
Do you know what I think would be wonderful? If you would go out there today and skate for these people the way I have seen you skate. Enjoy each other.

Kate Moseley:
What's the matter?

Doug Dorsey:
Nothing.

Kate Moseley:
Are you all right?

Doug Dorsey:
Fine. Kate, I'm sorry. My timing-- I know it stinks, but...I just keep thinking this thing with us...It's gonna go away. I keep thinking if I can just keep moving and checking, I'll get clear, but...Do you understand what I'm telling you?

Kate Moseley:
I don't wanna fight anymore.

Doug Dorsey:
No. I mean, yeah, I don't wanna fight.

Kate Moseley:
Look, we have to skate.

Doug Dorsey:
This won't wait. Kate, maybe I wasn't ready. Maybe- Maybe you didn't give me much of a chance. Maybe-- I don't know. I just-- I just--

Announcer:
Nine-six. Nine-three.

Doug Dorsey:
Kate, somewhere in the middle of all this I fell in love with you.

Official:
You may take the ice.

Doug Dorsey:
I'm saying I love you. I'm saying it out loud. Don't say we're not right for each other because we may not be right for anybody else.

Official:
You have to go on.

Doug Dorsey:
Will you shut up a minute. It can't be any harder to stay together than it was to stay apart.

Official:
Thirty seconds.

Doug Dorsey:
Will you wait a minute. Kate. I need you. I need you.

Kate Moseley:
We're doing the Pamchenko.

Doug Dorsey:
What?

Kate Moseley:
Oh, you heard me.

Doug Dorsey:
Think I'm doing this to get a program out of you?

Kate Moseley:
You wanna win, don't you?

Doug Dorsey:
No. It's no good, Kate. It's too dangerous.

Kate Moseley:
Then we’re agreed. We're putting it in.