- Barry Fife: Where do you think we'd be if everyone went around making up their own steps?
- Scott: Out of a job.
- Scott: Look, a beginner has no right to approach an Open Amateur.
- Fran: Yeah, well an Open Amateur has no right to dance non-Federation steps, but you did, didn't you?
- Scott: But that's different.
- Fran: *How* is it different? You're just like the rest of them! You think you're different, but you're not, because you're just, you're just really scared! You're really scared to give someone new a go, because you think, you know, they might just be better than you are! Well, you're just pathetic, and you're gutless. You're a gutless wonder! Vivir con miedo, es como vivir a medias!
- Barry Fife: Well, of course, you can dance any steps you like! But that doesn't mean you'll...
- [Slam into a close-up of Barry's mouth]
- Barry Fife: ...win.
- Fran: What happened to a life lived in fear and all that stuff?
- Scott: Fran...
- Fran: You really are a gutless wonder!
- Scott: There's a reason for this.
- Fran: I don't want to hear!
- Scott: Listen to me!
- Fran: No!
- Scott: It's hard for me too, Fran.
- Fran: *Hard*? Hard? How hard do you think it's been for *me*? To get you to dance with me in the first place? Frangipannidellasqueegymop. Wash the coffee cups, Fran, how's your skin, Fran? Hard?
- Scott: You don't understand.
- Fran: I understand. You've got your Pan Pacifics to win, and I'm back in Beginners, where I belong.
- Barry Fife: [referring to Ken Railings] Let's not forget, Les, that a Pan Pacific Champion becomes a hero, a guiding light to all dancers, someone who'll set the right example.
- [Meanwhile, on the dance floor]
- Liz: [fake smile] You've been drinking!
- Ken Railings: Bullshit! Push it!
- Liz: You bloody have!
- Shirley Hastings: [after berating Scott for leaving Tina hanging in order to find Fran] And what about Les? He's taught you everything you know and you're just throwing it back in his face!
- Scott: I'm bored with it!
- Shirley Hastings: I don't believe I'm hearing this! I have been with your father for twenty-five years - do you think I get bored? Of course I do!
- Shirley Hastings: And what about Les? He's taught you everything you know, and you're just throwing it back in his face!
- Scott: I'm bored with it!
- Shirley Hastings: I don't believe I'm hearing this! I've been with your father for twenty-five years! Do you think I get bored? Of course I do!
- Wayne: What the hell was that all about?
- Shirley Hastings: What?
- Wayne: You know, with Fran?
- Shirley Hastings: [uneasy laugh] Fran... Fran...
- Tina Sparkle: Fran? Wasn't she the girl that um...?
- Shirley Hastings: [laughs] Well, here we all are!
- [Scott approaches the group]
- Scott: Where is she?
- Shirley Hastings: Who?
- Scott: Fran.
- Shirley Hastings: Fran... Fran... Fran... who?
- Tina Sparkle: You know, the girl that fell.
- Shirley Hastings: Oh, she went home, darling. Don't worry about her!
- Barry Fife: If you can't dance a step, you can't teach it, and if you can't teach it - we might as well all pack up and go home. With young Liz available again, you've got a chance to get your status quo vadis back... so to speak.