- Harry and Sally spend the holidays alone. Harry keeps calling, apologizing, and trying to get Sally to pick up the phone.
- No dice.
- He tries everything: groveling, singing, clever banter. Nothing works.
- When Sally finally does pick up the phone, he apologizes and asks her out for New Years, seeing as how neither one of them has a date.
- But Sally says no. She's not his "consolation prize."