Imagined Dialogue For’ is our series by the hilarious and talented Chris Scott, of Reviews of Movies I Haven’t Seen fame. Next up? Chris takes a stab at guessing what happens in this summer’s most thrilling political thriller...the news.
INT. CAPITOL BUILDING. DAY.
JAMES COMEY: –so I had some time to kill anyway before picking my nephew up from soccer practice. And I needed some new plain white t-shirts anyway, so that’s when I decided to stop at Target. Huge mistake as I would come to realize soon enough.
SENATOR GILLIBRAND: Ok, if I may–
COMEY: I just–
GILLIBRAND: If we can get back to–
COMEY: No, no, I will. I’ll address Trump and the Russia thing. Just give me a minute.
GILLIBRAND: –if it’s not relevant–
COMEY: I’m at Target.
GILLIBRAND: Ok, you’re at Target.
COMEY: I’m at Target in the men’s section and I find the white t-shirts I’m looking for. I’m very particular.
GILLIBRAND: Ok.
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INT. CAPITOL BUILDING. DAY.
COMEY: –which was in and of itself a bit of a hassle, but whatever.
MCCAIN: And you’re still looking for your shirts, or you’ve already found them.
COMEY: I’ve already found them at this point but I saw other ones that I thought were the right ones. But I was right the first time, Hanes was what I was looking for.
MCCAIN: The Hanes shirts are the right ones.
COMEY: Right.
MCCAIN: Ok, how much longer is this because we have precious little time I’m afraid and–
COMEY: Just a couple minutes.
MCCAIN: Ok, sure, proceed.
COMEY: So, right. Found the shirts, then I head to the dressing room.
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INT. CAPITOL BUILDING. DAY.
SENATOR SCHUMER: If I may just– sorry to interrupt.
COMEY: No, go ahead.
SCHUMER: You said earlier these are shirts you already had.
COMEY: No, I’m at the Target buying them.
SCHUMER: Right, no, but the Hanes large white t-shirts. You’ve bought these before. You’ve worn them.
COMEY: Right, correct.
SCHUMER: So I guess I’m confused why you’re taking them to the dressing room in the first place if– I mean these things are pretty uniform, right?
COMEY: But they change them time to time. It really depends on where they’re manufactured.
SCHUMER: I understand that, but–
COMEY: And it’s just habit I guess. I don’t like to buy any clothing without trying it on.
SCHUMER: Will this all tie into Trump or Russia at any point?
COMEY: No.
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INT. CAPITOL BUILDING. DAY.
COMEY: So the woman asks how many items I have. I say six. Big mistake, which I’ll get to in a second.
SENATOR MCCONNELL: Sir, we have five more minutes to ask you questions about the Russia–
COMEY: Just a second. She hands me the tag with the number “6” on it. I go back to the dressing room, lock the door behind me. Open the package and take one of the six white t-shirts out. And I try it on and, what do you know [laughs] it’s too baggy. Senator Schumer, I hope you caught that.
SCHUMER: Sir, we don’t care about this at all.
MCCONNELL: You’re not supposed to open the package like that, just to try it on. You can’t–
COMEY: I put the shirt back in the package and walk out of the room and take it up to the lady. And I hand her the shirts and the “6” tag and she says I wasn’t supposed to open the Hanes package.
MCCONNELL: Yeah, I was going to say. You can’t just open it, because then they can’t sell it if it’s been opened.
COMEY: Be that as it may, how am I supposed to try the shirt on without opening the package. It doesn’t make any sense.
MCCONNELL: Sir, if I may, when you and President Trump were having dinner on the night of the 14th, did–
COMEY: THEN before I can even explain this to her, she goes “Where are the other five items?” And I said, “There are six, that’s why you gave me a number six.” And she goes, “No, there’s one package here, one item. Where are the other five?” And I — very calmly and clearly, I might add — I said, “There are six shirts here. One, two, three, four, five, six.” I count each shirt out just like that in front of her. And she says–
MCCONNELL: Sir, can I–
COMEY: One more minute. And she says–
MCCONNELL: Sir, we’re out of time.
