New Tricks2003

[first lines]

Trainer:
So, to sum up: Creative Problem Solving. Techniques that allow us to move forward as individuals, as teams, as an organization.

Gerry Standing:
[standing] Right.

Trainer:
One last thing before we finish. [Gerry sighs and sits down] Could you stand up, please. Right. [holding a large soda bottle] You catch it; you come up with a new use for it. If you get stuck, use the check-list. Don't censor.

Supt. Sandra Pullman:
[catches the bottle] Um, cut the bottom off, attach four strings, tie them to a silk canopy: hot air balloon.

Trainer:
Great. [Amanda tosses the bottle to Brian]

Brian Lane:
Sterilize, crush, melt and mince a hundred bottles providing fibrous polyester strands which we weave into a fleece. [tosses the bottle to Gerry]

Gerry Standing:
Um... Nah, I'm sorry, me brains gone blank.

Trainer:
Relax; use the check-list. You have an idea, Gerry.

Gerry Standing:
Huh. No, I haven't.

Trainer:
If it's sexual, perfectly normal.

Gerry Standing:
No, I'm sorry, sweetheart; nothing.

Trainer:
Don't block, Gerry.

Gerry Standing:
I'm not.

Trainer:
You have the answer.

Gerry Standing:
I haven't!

Trainer:
What are you holding?

Gerry Standing:
Eh?

Trainer:
Say it, Gerry!

Gerry Standing:
What?

Trainer:
What's in your hand?

Gerry Standing:
It's a bottle, for Christ's sake!