This is the fourth chapter in Mary le Chef: Cooking Passion.
Level 31 - Fresh Start
- Morey, Mary and Peter enter the market.
- Luigi: UNGRATEFUL SWINE!
- Quierno: STUBBORN MULE!
- Luigi: I'm a' closing my restaurant so I can travel Italy for the summer.
- Luigi: My brother here promised to run it for me while I'm a' gone, but now he says he's "too busy".
- Luigi: So I made him a' promise that you and Morey can a' work here.
- Luigi: APE!
- Luigi: Don' tell him I said this, but he is a genius.
- Luigi: You'll learn things about flavor, freshness and seasonality that you can't learn anywhere else!
- Mary and Luigi hug.
- Luigi gave Morey a hug.
- Luigi: FOOL!
- Quierno: DOG!
- Luigi gave Quierno a hug.
- Luigi: I love you - see you at the reunion.
- Morey: Sniff! I wish I had a brother.
- Peter: I'll see you later, babe - I start my first shift at The Country Mouse in an hour.
- Mary gives Peter a kiss. Then Peter leaves.
After the level
- Mary works the table while Jennifer enters the market.
- Jennifer: I have news! Come, sit down.
- Jennifer and Mary sat down.
- Jennifer: I'm leaving Gottleib to start my own firm.
- Mary: Wow!
- Jennifer: I'm taking two small clients with me - Gottleib won't even notice they're gone.
- Mary: That's awesome!
- Mary: What pushed you over the edge?
- Jennifer: You, sort of.
- Jennifer: I'm sick of the grind - working 80 hours a week, billing every waking hour of my life to a client.
- Jennifer: I always felt like a square peg in a round hole there - and I didn't like the person it was making me become.
- Jennifer: I need more balance in my life - time to sing...
- Jennifer: ...to get married, maybe even a kid one day. We'll see.
- Jennifer: Gotta run - but I want you to know that if you pass the bar, I can have a job waiting for you.
- Mary: Oh, thank you! My parents will be SO relieved to hear that!
- Jennifer: Study hard - I'll come by and help you when I can.
- Jennifer leaves the market.
Level 32 - Family Relations
- Quierno: My brother speaks a' very highly of you.
- Mary: Thanks!
- Quierno: Except for the dancing - he told me never to watch you dance unless I wanted nightmares.
- Quierno: I suppose he told you all about me?
- Mary: Er… actually I didn't even know he had a brother.
- Quierno: I need you to watch for delivery person, got it?
- Mary: You bet.
During the level
- Mary keeps an eye out for the delivery guy to accept.
After the level
- Mary opens the letter!
- Morey: Bad news?
- Mary: No... No, not really. It's just that I finally have a date and time for my bar exam.
- Mary: It's coming up soon. Sooner than I thought.
- There was Morey's dad came into the market.
- Morey's dad: Morey! There you are! Why haven't you returned any of my calls? Your mother's sick with worry!
- Morey: Uh... Hey, Dad.
- Morey's dad: Morey, he time has come for you to forget this mashugana showbiz dream of yours, and join the family business.
- Morey: B- but you said I had a year to try and make it??
- Morey's dad: Yeah, well - your mother wants me to retire before then.
- Morey: I DON'T want to sell granite countertops, Dad!
- Morey's dad: Those countertops pay for your lifestyle, young man!
- Morey: Not anymore they don't! I support myself, now.
- Morey's dad: Oh really? Well you didn't pay for that fiddle - it cost ME a fortune!
- Morey's dad took the violin away and leaves.
- Morey: It's a VIOLIN, not a fiddle!
Level 33 - Always Room For Dessert
- Mary enters the market. Richard enters with the books.
- Mary: Dad!
- Mary and her dad hug.
- Richard: I ran into Jennifer - she told me you've been studying hard for the bar.
- Mary: It's coming up soon. I'm actually considering putting it off until fall.
- Richard: Why would you do that?
- Mary: I'd rather just take it once and pass, then have to go through this twice.
- Richard: You're a Vanderworth - the law is in our blood! Of course you'll pass.
- Richard places the books.
- Richard: Here - I dug up some old textbooks to help you study.
- Mary: Thanks, Dad. Hey! How about I make you some lunch?
- Richard: I'm sorry, dear… They've called an emergency board meeting at the firm.
- Mary: Emergency, huh? Did the office run out of vermouth or something?
- Richard kisses Mary on her forehead.
- Richard: I'll have to take a rain check on that lunch...
- Richard leaves the market.
During the level
- Mary clears the books from the table, moves the book to the barrel.
After the level
- Mary studies the law.
- Morey: Hey, Mary! I've been working on some new jokes. Wanna hear?
- Morey: Ahem! What's a frog's favorite soda pop?
- Morey: Croak-a-cola!
- Morey: Get it? CROAK-a-cola?
- Mary pleases.
- Morey: You're right - it needs more work.
- Peter enters the market.
- Mary: Hey! How was the Country Mouse?
- PEter: I quit.
- Mary's scared.
- Peter: I spent a day in their kitchen and realized it just wasn't for me.
- Mary: Gee, a whole day, huh? What happened, you get passed over for a promotion?
- Peter: C'mon, I'll tell you all about it over some dessert.
- Mary: Alright, but I can't stay out long. I have to study.
- Peter and Mary leave for a date.
Level 34 - Safe With The Law
- Peter: I don't get it... Why go through all this effort? Your parents?
- Mary: It's really not about them, Peter.
- Mary: As a lawyer I'd have financial security, plus the chance to do pro bono work sometimes - help people who really need it.
- Mary: It doesn't hurt that my parents are owner-partners in their own firm, either.
- Mary: They have a million contracts I can take advantage of, and one day their shares in the firm will be passed down to me.
- Mary: Compare all that to bouncing from restaurant to restaurant once a month, and suddenly it doesn't sound so bad.
- Peter tries to serve Mary.
- Peter: Please, I've seen you drop those books like a hot rack the moment someone offers you a chance to do something interesting in the kitchen.
- Mary: Is that an offer?
- Peter and Mary kiss each other.
- Then Mary serves Peter.
- Mary: Anyhow, I'd think you be glad to have a wealthy sugar mama for a girlfriend.
- Peter: What'd be the point if I don't ever get to see you?
- Peter: Or if you're so miserable working a job you hate you've got no energy for anything else?
- Mary: Well then, maybe I'll have to buy us a restaurant where we can cook together sometimes.
- Morey enters the market.
- Mary: Anyhow, it's late... I should get back to studying. What time is it?
- Morey: Morning!
- Morey kicked the crate and slipped!
- Morey: AGHH!
- Peter and Mary kiss. Then Peter left the ice cream and leaves the market.
During the level
- Mary collects the scattered fruit.
After the level
- Luigi's brother: Luigi told me yo had the talent to be a great chef one day...
- Mary: He did!?
- Mary: I mean, of course he did.
- Mary: I plan on cooking in my spare time, then retiring early so I can open my own restaurant someday.
- Quierno: A lawyer and a cook have about as much in common as a porcupine and a porpoise.
- Quierno: And you? Luigi told me you play the violin like a lark...
- Quierno: ...when you can be bothered.
- Morey: Pfft! Who needs a violin when you have material like THIS!
- Morey: Ahem! Why won't the lobster share his toys?
- Morey: Because he's shellfish.
- Morey: 'Shellfish!'
- Quierno: Hire them,' my brother said. 'You'll thank me later,' he said...
- Quierno leaves the market.
- Mary's down.
Level 35 - Priorities
- Luigi's brother enters with a crate to Mary.
- Mary: Oh no! I fell asleep...
- Mary: I didn't get ANY studying done, and the mar exam is almost here!
- Quierno: Perhaps there is a reason why you fell asleep...
- Mary: Like what? Like I'm putting it off subconsciously because I don't want to pass? Don't be ridic-
- Mary: Oh, my gosh! Are those atemoyas!
- Quierno: That's right! Come, I'll show you how to prepare them.
During the level
- Mary brings Quierno what he needs to show you how to prepare atemoya fruit.
After the level
- Mary reads the law. There was a letter.
- Mary: Your whole life so mar has been in preparation for this moment. We believe in you! Love, Mom & Dad.
- Peter enters the market.
- Peter: Hey, a friend of mine who works at Rodeo invited us to come cook with him after hours.
- Mary: I can't - I really need to get serious about studying.
- Peter: They have truuuuuufles…
- Mary: I mean it, I have to stay focused.
- Peter: ...and REAL sherry from Portugal.
- Mary: PETER - I HAVE to study.
- Peter: Jeez, Mary! You can't keep living someone else's life.
- Mary: Uh... whose life am I living, exactly?
- Peter: I don't know - but whoever it belongs to, it's not yours.
- Mary: I think I know who I am better than you do, thanks.
- Peter: Weird, because I thought I was dating someone who was passionate about the same things I am.
- Mary: And what would that be, exactly? Drifting from kitchen to kitchen with no plans for your future?
- Peter: If THIS is your future, I don't want any part of it.
- Peter left the market. Mary stares.
Bonus 18 - Please Don't Stand Up
During the challenge, Morey makes jokes.
- Joke 1
- What starts and ends with E, but has only 1 letter in it?
- An envelope!
- Joke 2
- Whiteboards.
- They're remarkable.
- Joke 3
- What can you give and keep at the same time?
- A cold!
- Joke 4
- Why couldn't the leopard play hide and seek?
- Because he was always spotted.
- Joke 5
- What makes tissues dance?
- A little boogie!
- Joke 6
- What made the can crusher quit his job?
- It was soda pressing.
- Joke 7
- Did you hear about the identical twins who robbed a bank?
- After they were caught, they finished each other's sentences.
- Response:
- …
- Check, please!
- Sir, you're scaring the children.
Level 36 - A Turbulent Road
- Morey: So I sold my vacuum cleaner the other day...
- Morey: All it was doing was collecting dust!
- The customers leave.
- Morey: Wait! Come back! I've got more!
- Morey: Uh... Hi Dad.
- Morey's dad: Morey, it's time to come HOME...
- Mary: You know, I think you should really let Morey make his own decisions in life.
- Morey's dad: Excuse me? I think I know what's best for my own son.
- Mary: Oh yeah? Well you're wrong. For starters, Morey is VERY talented.
- Morey's dad REALLY? Tell him that, then. Honestly, tell him how funny he is.
- Mary: Er… I... uh...
- Mary: It doesn't matter! This is HIS dream, HIS life, not yours!
- Morey's dad: End of the month, Morey. If you haven't given up this facacta fantasy by then I'm disowning you... forever!
- Morey's dad leaves anyway.
During the level
- Mary gives the chicken what she wants, not the chicken laying the eggs.
After the level
- Quierno: You! Come a' here!
- Morey comes to Quierno. Luigi's brother has a violin!
- Morey: Oh, wow! Is... Is this for me?
- Quierno: You a' gonna pay me back my playing for my customers, eh?
- Morey: Yeah, sure! Thanks, Quierno!
- Morey takes the violin from Quierno.
- Quierno: Miss studiato! You hungry? I'm a' making a fisherman's insalata!
- Quierno goes to counter.
- Mary: Fisherman's salad? What's that?
- Quierno: Today it is a' shrimp, with miniature roasted stuffed peppers and wild greens.
- Mary stands up.
- Quierno: Tomorrow it could a' be something else. Depends what the fisherman catch.
- Mary: You know, what might go nicely with that is some fresh marjoram leaves.
- Mary: But no one has tho-
- Quierno has leaves.
- Mary: You know, why don't I take a little break and give you a hand with that?
- They work. Mary spins!
Level 37 - Lawyer and Order
- Mary: Hey, Jennifer - um... Do you think I could take you up on that offer for some tutoring help... again?
- Morey enters the market.
- Mary: I dunno, I'm just having a hard time staying focused.
- QUierno and Richard enter the market.
- Mary: Thanks, Jennifer. I'll see you later.
- Quierno: There is a gentleman a' here to see you...
- Mary: Peter?
- Mary: Oh, hi Dad.
- Richard: Some welcome! Who's Peter?
- Mary: OH... it's nothing, dad. What's up?
- Richard: Well, I thought I'd take my daughter up on her offer of lunch.
- Richard: Where shall we go?
- Mary: We don't need to go anywhere!
- Mary: Come, sit. Let me wait on you.
- Richard sits.
During the level
- Mary keeps serving Richard throughout the day.
After the level
- Richard: That was DELIGHTFUL!
- Mary: Eating fresh-from-the-farm makes a huge difference.
- Mary: Dad? Why did YOU decide to become a lawyer?
- Richard: Well, truth be told... it was because of your mother.
- Richard: I'm afraid it was an ACUTE case of live at first sight.
- Richard: We didn't meet until the end of our senior year of college...
- Richard: ...when I learned she applied to law school, I did the same.
- Richard: I suppose you could say I 'followed my passion'.
- Richard contacts Mary on her forehead.
- Richard: It was the best decision I ever made.
- Richard: Now, if you'll excuse me, dear, I must be off.
- Richard leaves the market.
Level 38 - Focused Work
- While Quierno cleans tables, Mary enters the market.