therapy episode 2.1 transcript (excerpt)

The Puttanesca

Michael: Vincent. Good afternoon.

Vincent: Hi. G'day Michael. How are you?

Michael : Yeah, I'm good. Thank you.

Vincent: Yes , so , yeah. Bit of a ... bit of a mix up. Sorry about that. I had to change it from the morning ti the afternoon, so it feels really different already.

Michael: You. Yes. Look, so there's a couple of things in terms of regularity .. we've missed last week and all that. I'm trying to be accommodating and.. just switching at the last minute again... Lets just go with it.

Vincent: But really... I really apologise. I know that you're very busy with other clients and studying and everything. I just couldn't.

Michael. No, honestly. Apology not accepted.

Vincent : Okey. Yeah. Fair enough.

Michael: no, simply because it is not necessary. But listen , lets move on. It's Friday, and we've got lots of things to discuss. I'm sure there's things you bought, but let's get through with... Thank you for sending through the photo. I can see... well you were .. when you took the photo prone on the couch , so it wasn't a newspaper, but it's fine what you have. What I can see in front of me is teh menu from an Italian restaurant, and I can only surmise ... I can only read into it ... that you went out for lunch.. and it looks like a lovely spot.

Vincent: We don't get the paper delivered anymore.. and I sort of.. had to steal it the last time. I stole the newspaper from next door.

Michael: Sure?

Vincent: There was a big hullabaloo. I've worked out that .. I can get ... like... Next. time I'm just going to use milk cartons because they have the date.

Michael:  I'm just going to stop you there . Look , you canceled last minute in the morning, and you rescheduled for the afternoon. And then I've got a photo of you holding up the menu from an Italian eatery, and you mentioned you're Italian. So , what I can see and I wanted to raise this before we get into the session proper. I can see there squid ink risotto on this menu for forty two dollars. And I can see there's some pasta puttanesca on the menu now. I don't know ... what is puttanesca?

Vincent: Puttana is "slut" in Italian.

Michael: Oh goodness.

Vincent: It's a spicy dish.