Kate:
[about the apartment]
So, what's the big surprise? You didn't rent this for the weekend, did you?
Jack:
Think bigger.
Kate:
For the week?
Jack:
This place is a perk, Kate.
Kate:
A perk? For what?
Jack:
A company called PK Lassiter investment house. Uses it to attract new executives. I'm going into arbitrage, Kate. It turns out, I have an act for it.
Kate:
Jack, what are you talking about?
Jack:
I'll be making twice what I make now, plus a hefty bonus and that's just the start. And we can live in this apartment practically rent free until we find a place of our own.
Kate:
Are you out of your mind?
Jack:
I don't think so. This is gonna be a better life for us. We can put Annie and Josh into private schools...
Kate:
Annie goes to a great school, Jack.
Kate:
I'm talking about the best schools in the country here, Jack.
Kate:
Jack, what could you possibly thinking about? What about my - what about my job?
Jack:
Well, this is New York City. It's like the needy people capital of the world. Your Jersey clients aren't a tenth as pathetic as the ones you could find here.
[laughs]
Kate:
I can't even believe you're talking about moving back into the city, Jack. I thought the reason that we left was because we didn't want to raise the kids here.
Jack:
No. No. This is the center of the universe. If I were living in Roman times, I would be in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman empire. New York is Rome itself. - John Lennon.
Kate:
Jack!
Jack:
Listen, Ok, you know something? I'm detecting, like, a funky tension here and this was supposed to be a happy day, so guess what? I don't need this. We don't have to live here. Forget it. I'll commute. I'll drive to work.
Kate:
God! In traffic, Jack. It's over an hour each way. That's like three hours every day. When are you ever going to see the kids?
Jack:
Kate. You're not understanding me. I'm talking about a perfect life, a great life. Everything we pictured when we were young. The whole package. You said so yourself. Life is throwing us a few surprises and we made sacrifices. Well, guess what? Now I can finally get us back on track. I can do that, Kate. I want to do that. I-I need to do that as a man! For all of us. Please just think about this for one second. No more lousy restaurants. No more clipping coupons. No more shoveling snow.
Kate:
Then get a goddamn snowblower, Jack! Don't go get a new career without even telling me about it! And don't - don't take Annie out of a school she loves and don't move us out of a house we've become a family in.
Jack:
You're-you're... Don't you see? I'm talking about us finally having a life that other people envy.
Kate:
Jack. They already do envy us.
