I just watched this show for the first time tonight and was touched by some parts of the closing monologue for the episode 'One Night Stan'. Is there anywhere I could find a copy of the text of it? Thanks.

Mary's monologues are always one of the best parts of the show and this one was particularly good. Hopefully, someone who TIVO's it will be able to put up a transcript somewhere.

I once dated a man who taught quantum physics; I learned two things that night.
The first being, if you ask a quantum physicist to explain how gravity works--not what it is, not how it behaves, but how it works,
he will first talk himself in circles and you wind up crying, and finally sometime between entree and dessert, he'll call you a bitch and leave.
The second revelation came as I sat at the bar in morose solitude, pondering the cantilevered relationship between the bartender's gut and lower extremities. And this is important, so pay attention. Before the big bang, before time itself, before matter, energy, velocity...there existed a single immeasurable state called yearning. This is the special force that on a day before there were days obliterated nothing into everything. It is the unseen strings tying the planets to stars. It's the maddening want we feel from first breath to last light.

Thank you so very much for posting that. I've got In Plain Sight on my radar for future weeks, thank you again.

Thanks for typeing that out! I always like Mary's closing monologues and that was probably one of the better ones.

This is honestly so beautifully done...

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Before the big bang, before time itself, before matter, energy, velocity...there existed a single immeasurable state called yearning. This is the special force that on a day before there were days obliterated nothing into everything. It is the unseen strings tying the planets to stars. It's the maddening want we feel from first breath to last light.

I'm a huge fan already, but I have to say this just elevated the quality of the writing and the purpose behind the show for me. I'm an literature buff, like the old romantics, and I honsetly believed this must be a quote from some old poet, but can't find it anywhere.

So kudos to the writers. I'm using this again, somwhere in my life.

Ending monologues for Season 1 are here.

I posted monologues for Season 2 in another message, but it has been deleted from the forum (I don't know why).

I thought the ending from One Night Stan was one of the two or three best from the entire series.

Thank you for posting this, it is one of my favorites of Mary's monologues.