I Love Lucy1951

Ethel Mertz:
What's the matter?

Lucy Ricardo:
You're looking at a future doornail.

Ethel Mertz:
Huh?

Lucy Ricardo:
Ricky just tried to kill me.

Ethel Mertz:
[smiling] Really? Then I'm a better fortune teller than I thought! [pauses] What am I saying? What are you talking about?

Lucy Ricardo:
I overheard him on the phone! He's been planning this a long time, and he finally decided to do it! Last night was just a dress rehearsal.

Ethel Mertz:
Oh, no, Lucy, you must have just misunderstood him.

Lucy Ricardo:
No, I didn't, he took a shot at me already, but he missed!

Ethel Mertz:
[They look for a bullet hole] Was that the noise I heard just now?

Lucy Ricardo:
Yeah, he bought a gun specially for it. Let's see if it's in that desk!

Ethel Mertz:
[Lucy finds a gun in the desk] Oh, you poor thing!

Lucy Ricardo:
[Lucy picks up an ink blotter] Ricky wrote something when he was talking on the phone and he blotted it on this blotter!

Ethel Mertz:
[Moves away from the desk] Where are you going?

Lucy Ricardo:
The mirror!

Ethel Mertz:
Mirror? Oh, so you can read it! My, you're clever!

Lucy Ricardo:
I don't read mystery books for nothing.

Ethel Mertz:
[Reading the list] Helen, Anne, Mary... What does it mean?

Lucy Ricardo:
[Wailing] I'm not even cold yet and Ricky's lining up girls to take my place! Helen, Anne, Mary, Cynthia, Alice, Theodore. [Turns to Ethel] THEODORE!