Editing Winnie the Pooh Gets Home Alone/Transcript (section)

== Gus gives Kate a ride home ==
(We cut to Kate at an airport in Scranton)

Scranton Flight Agent: Everything's full.

Kate McCallister: Everything's full?

Scranton Flight Agent: I'm very sorry, but it is Christmas Eve.

Kate McCallister: (groans) What about another airline?

Scranton Flight Agent: (clacking keyboard) Nothing available. May I help you get a hotel room in the city? Tomorrow afternoon we can get you a flight to Chicago.

Kate McCallister: I can't wait that long.

Scranton Flight Agent: I'm terribly sorry, ma'am, but we're doing absolutely everything we can. (signals the next person in line to come to the counter)

Kate McCallister: Go ahead. I'm in your way. I'm sorry. Excuse me, you have places to go, people to see. You got a ticket there. That's good. Excuse me. (to the flight agent) Look. I have been awake for almost 60 hours. I'm tired and I'm dirty. I have been from Chicago to Paris to Dallas to-- Where the heck am I?

Scranton Flight Agent: Scranton.

Kate McCallister: I am trying to get home to my 8-year-old son! And now that I'm this close, you're telling me it's hopeless?

Scranton Flight Agent: I'm sorry.

Kate McCallister: No. No, no, no, no way. This is Christmas! The season of perpetual hope!

Scranton Flight Agent: Ma'am, if--

Kate McCallister: And I don't care if I have to get on your runway and hitchhike. If it costs me everything I own, if I have to sell my soul to the devil himself, I am going to get home to my son.

Scranton Flight Agent: Ma'am, if there was anything at all I could do for you today--

Kate McCallister: Do it. Do anything.

Scranton Flight Agent: I can get you a hotel room

(Gus Polinski approaches)

Kate McCallister: What?

Gus Polinski: Excuse me. (to the flight agent) Can you excuse us for a second? (to Kate) Can I see you for a second. Please? (to the flight agent) Excuse us. (to Kate) Come. Couldn't help but hearin' your-- you got a little bit of a dilemma there. We got a crisis ourselves. (chuckles) Allow me to introduce myself. Gus Polinski. (shakes hands with her) How are you? Polka king of the Midwest? The Kenosha Kickers? 

(The Kenosha Kickers wave hello) 

Gus Polinski: No? That's okay. I thought you might've recognized-- Anyways, uh, I had a few hits a few years ago. Uh, that's why, you know-- "Polka, Polka, Polka"? (singing) Polka polka polka (stops singing) No? "Twin Legs Polka." "Yamahoozie Polka," a.k.a. "Kiss Me Polka." "Polka Twist."

Kate McCallister: These are songs?

Gus Polinski: Yeah. Yeah. We-- Some fairly big hits for us. You know, in the early '70s, you know? Yeah, we sold about 623 copies of that.

Kate McCallister: In Chicago?

Gus Polinski: No. Sheboygan. Very big in Sheboygan. They loved it, you know?

Kate McCallister: I'm sorry. Did you say you could help me?

Gus Polinski: Anyway, I'm rambling on here. Our flight was canceled, so we gotta drive. So, uh, see the guy in the yellow jacket over there by the Budget sign? He's gonna rent us a nice big, uh, van, and we're gonna drive to Milwaukee. Now, I heard you had some problems here, uh, gettin' to Chicago to see your kid or somethin'?

Kate McCallister: Uh, my son. He-- We left and he's there.

Gus Polinski: Aw, geez. If you have to get to Chicago, we'll gladly drive you. It's on the way to Milwaukee.

Kate McCallister: You'd give me a ride?

Gus Polinski: Sure, we will. Why not, you know? You gotta get home to see your kid.

Kate McCallister: A ride to Chicago?

Gus Polinski: Sure. You know, it's Christmas time.

Kate McCallister: Thank you. Oh, thank you.

Gus Polinski: If you don't mind goin' with polka bums?

Kate McCallister: No, I'd love to.