ONE LIFE TO LIVE
Wednesday, January 29, 1992
Starring
LAURA BONNARRIGO Cassie Buchanan
PHIL CAREY Asa Buchanan
CHRISTOPHER COUSINS Cain Rogan
JAMES DePAIVA Max Holden
PATRICIA ELLIOTT Renee Buchanan
MIA KORF Blair Daimler
WORTHAM KRIMMER Andrew Carpenter
PAMELA PAYTON-WRIGHT Addie Cramer
VALARIE PETTIFORD Sheila Price
GRACE PHILLIPS Sarah Gordon
ELAINE PRINCI Dorian Lord
CLINT RITCHIE Clint Buchanan
ERIKA SLEZAK Viki Buchanan
MICHAEL STORM Larry Wolek
JESSICA TUCK Megan Harrison
ROBERT S. WOODS Bo Buchanan
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BLAIR'S APARTMENT (Addie, Max)
(Max rings buzzer)
Max: Come on, Addie, it’s Max. Open up. Addie. I’m not going to hurt you.
Addie, I brought you a gift. (Opens music box. It plays "When You Wish Upon a
Star.") Hear that? Hmmm?
(Addie opens door)
Addie: She’s not here.
Max: I came to see you, Addie, not Blair. Now, may I please come in?
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PALACE HOTEL (Dorian, Blair)
Dorian: (dictating) "And please accept my apology and my check for $500 so that
you may continue your wonderful work. Yours, blah blah blah.’ No, no make that
$200.
Blair: The minimum suggested donation is $250.
Dorian: Blair, you better learn something if you’re going to work for me. I
hate to be contradicted.
Blair: I just thought you might want to...
Dorian: I said $200.
Blair: Of course, Dorian.
Dorian: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to snap. It’s just that I’m expecting my
daughter and I get a little edgy. I’m so anxious to be the perfect mother.
Blair: I’m sure you are the perfect mother.
Dorian: Oh, I wish Cassie thought so.
Blair: Well, why shouldn’t she? You’re perfect at everything else.
Dorian: Well, hardly perfect.
Blair: From everything I’ve seen, I assume it.
Dorian: You’re very kind. Oh, what the hell, make it $500! Well, you know,
Blair, that’s all for this morning. Cassie will be here at any minute and I
want a minute just to get myself together.
Blair: OK, I’ll go type these letters. I’ll see you at the office.
Dorian: Good.
(Blair runs into Asa and Renee at another table.)
Blair: Well, hello!
Asa: Hi.
Renee: Blair.
Blair: Renee, I have to hand it to you. You do know your horses.
Renee: I do?
Blair: Yes, that horse that you gave to Asa, Copper Beach, certainly
surprised everyone. Imagine, winning its first race.
Renee: Did you read about it in the paper?
Blair: No, I was lucky enough to be there. Your husband very kindly invited
me as his guest.
Renee: Asa, darling, have you started seeing beautiful young women behind my
back?
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BREAK
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BLAIR'S APARTMENT (Addie, Max)
(Addie has the music box and starts humming)
Max: Come on, Addie. What? You have a lovely voice. Yes, you do!
(Addie covers her ears and laughs.) Oh, can’t take a compliment, I see.
Well, I know you can hear me. The moon is made out of old bananas and green
shoes! (Addie laughs.) Ah-ha! Did you hear about the man who lost his left
eye? He’s all right now.
(Both laugh)
Addie: What did the mouse say to the elephant?
Max: I have no idea. What did the mouse say to the elephant?
Addie: Eek, an elephant! (Max looks befuddled) Get it?
Max: I’m not sure.
Addie: I made it up.
Max: You did? Let’s see, ‘eek an elephant.’ (Laughs) Yes! Very good,
very good. Oh, now what could this woman want to show me. I can’t imagine.
It must be something very ... whoa, here, let me help you with that. (Max
brings box of records to living room) Let’s bring it over here where there’s
some room. (Looking through the records.) Whoa. What a treasure. May I?
Now what do we have here, what do we have? Oh, what this here? Ah, “The
Student Prince.” (Singing) “Drink, drink, drink, do do do...” I never liked
that song anyway. Oh, look at this. Oh, my father used to love Paul Robeson.
(Singing) “Old man river, that old man river, he don’t do nothing...”
(Reads label on record) Clayton Psychiatric Hospital. Is that where you got
these? (Addie looks glum) Guess it wasn’t much fun there. Hey, hey, we
don’t have to do this. We don’t have to do this. There are lots of other
things we can do that are fun. (Picks up music box.) You know, I can never
remember the words. How do the words to this go? “When you wish upon a ...”
Addie: (Singing) “...a star. Makes no difference who you are. Anything
your heart desires will come to...” (Begins humming)
Max: That’s lovely, Addie. Tell you what, tell you what. I have got a
great idea. Let’s get some fresh air. Let’s go for a stroll. Come on, it
will be good for you.
Addie: (shaking head) Blair will be very angry.
Max: No, no, no.. I take full responsibility. Here, look. (Writes letter)
“Dear Blair, went to the park to count trees. Will be back soon. Love, Max
and...” Tell you what, you better write it so she doesn’t think I kidnapped
you.
Addie: Very, very mad.
Max: No, no, no. Everything will be just fine. Why don’t you just go get
your coat, OK? And bundle up, it’s very cold.
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PALACE HOTEL (Asa, Renee, Blair)
Renee: Asa, darling, it’s not often that I see you at a loss for words. I
only asked how long you’ve been seeing each other.
Asa: Blair, should we tell Renee our secret?
Renee: Secret, what secret?
Blair: Of course. No secrets from your wife.
Asa: This is to go no further, Renee. I am playing match-maker. Blair
has taken a fancy to Cain.
Renee: Cain.
Asa: Yes. She met him at the country club. And being the good-natured
fellow that I am, I invited her along to the race so she could flirt with him.
Blair: I wasn’t flirting. We were just getting to know each other.
Asa: She was batting her eyelids so hard that the curtains were blowing.
Blair: (Smiling) You’re embarrassing me.
Renee: My husband is famous for his subtlety.
Asa: She’s crazy about the guy.
Blair: Asa...
Renee: Well, he is a looker, I’ll say that for him.
Blair: You won’t say anything to him about my liking him?
Renee: Don’t worry. Well, what do you think? Asa Buchanan - cupid. Well,
I’m going to leave you two to visit. I’ll be right back.
(Renee leaves.)
Asa: Ooh, you are real quick on the uptake, kid.
Blair: Well, I wouldn’t want to embarrass you.
Asa: Real quick.
Blair: Well, thanks for the compliment. But do you want to tell me why we’re
keeping our friendship a secret?
Asa: My wife is a very jealous woman.
Blair: Why don’t you just tell her that she has nothing to be jealous about?
Asa: Like to keep her on her toes. (Winks at Blair)
(Cassie arrives while Dorian is admiring a bathrobe.)
Cassie: It’s lovely dahling, but don’t you think it’s a little too masculine
for you?
Dorian: (startled) Cassie, Cassie. It’s not for me, actually.
Cassie: (takes robe) Who’s it for? Well, it’s too long for Dad.
Dorian: Just give it back to me, darling. Thank you.
Cassie: Mother, are you blushing?
Dorian: Of course I’m not blushing.
Cassie: Oh, OK.
Dorian: Cassie, I’ve never blushed in my life.
Cassie: OK, OK.
Dorian: So, how are things in your household. How’s Bo?
Cassie: Bo, he’s fine.
Dorian: Sarah problems?
Cassie: Well.
Dorian: Now, look. Sarah is no threat to you unless Bo allows her to be.
Cassie: It’s more complicated than that, mother. I mean, Sarah does have real
problems. She was held in captivity for a year and her sister is desperately
ill. I mean, how can Bo not spend time with her without feeling like a heel?
I can’t think of anyway to stop it.
Dorian: Red lingerie?
Cassie: I tried red lingerie.
Dorian: Did it work?
Cassie: (Embarrassed) Mother!
Dorian: Well, come on, try it again. It’s like aspirin for a headache!
Cassie: And what kind of medicine is that jacket?
Dorian: We’re not going to talk about that, anymore.
Cassie: Mother, you are blushing again!
Dorian: Me? Oh!
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL (Sarah, Bo)
Bo: How are you doing?
Sarah: Well, I may have some good news. I might have a job here at the
hospital.
Bo: Really? Doing what?
Sarah: Sheila may have an opening as a patients’ advocate.
Bo: What would you do?
Sarah: Just be on the patient’s side. Help them get through red tape. Hold
hands. Provide moral support.
Bo: Yeah. Well, sounds like a lot of work.
Sarah: Well that’s what I like about it. Hard work is fulfilling. I mean,
like when I ran the program for the blind.
Bo: Yeah, but that was before...
Sarah: Well, Bo, you don’t need to keep reminding me about what I went through.
I mean, do you think I’m ever going to forget it?
Bo: No, no, of course not.
Sarah: OK. I just need to move on to other things. I just don’t like sitting
around the house doing nothing. I want to function. I mean, do you think you
would like sitting around the house?
Bo: No, I’m not saying you couldn’t do the job.
Sarah: Well, that’s funny, because that's kind of what it sounds like you’re
saying.
Bo: No, I’m just wondering if you’ve asked yourself if you’re really up
to it.
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL (Sheila, Dr. Jonas)
Sheila: All I’m asking you is if Sarah is up to working as a patients’ advocate.
Jonas: Sheila, you know I can’t divulge that kind of information to an employer.
Sheila: OK, I’m not asking as an employer. I’m asking as a health care provider.
Michael, I need to have your expert opinion as to whether this job will injure
Sarah.
Jonas: Sheila, don’t do this to me. Now, come on, I can’t tell you her
condition.
Sheila: Well, would you rather have your patient collapse?
Jonas: All right. Why don’t you hire her on a trial basis and we’ll see how it
works out?
Sheila: Good idea.
Jonas: And we’ll both keep an eye on her. But I’m telling you right now, if it
starts to be too much for her, I’m pulling her right out.
Sheila: That was simple, wasn’t it? Now, why did you give me such a hard time
about this?
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BREAK
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PALACE HOTEL (Dorian, Cassie)
Dorian: Now, would you just stop harping on that jacket? Just because I’m your
mother does not mean that I don’t have a personal life?
Cassie: Mother, are you in love?
Dorian: I am not going to discuss my romantic life with you.
Cassie: Romantic life! Are you having an affair?
Dorian: About Bo...
Cassie: Tell me his first name.
Dorian: Cassie, you should be sexy, alluring. Be vulnerable.
Cassie: How about being myself?
Dorian: Since when is being desperate, exhausted, and jealous attractive?
Cassie: Thank you, mother. You always have a way of being so supportive.
Dorian: Cassie, you don’t understand. Sometimes a man needs to be needed. I
mean, maybe your trouble is that you’re just too independent.
Cassie: You want me to be a clinging vine like Sarah?
Dorian: No, not clinging. But more clingish, hmm?
Cassie: I’m sorry, Mother. I can’t play that kind of game. I belive in honesty,
sincerity.
Dorian: Look, I don’t know about you, Cassie. But I would rather share my bed
with a man than a set of high moral principles.
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL (Sarah, Bo)
Sarah: Bo, I need to learn to take care of ... No, I want to take care of
myself. And look, about the other night, I am very sorry about making you stay
the night.
Bo: No, it’s OK, it’s OK. You were scared and you needed someone.
Sarah: No. I was being self-indulgent and I really don’t want to do that
anymore.
(Enter Sheila)
Sheila: Oh, hi, Sarah, I was looking all over for you. Hi, Bo.
Bo: Hi. Listen, I know that you two have some things to discuss. I want
to show Megan some pictures.
Sarah: No, stay, stay, it’s all right. I was just telling Bo that you may have
a job opening for me.
Sheila: Yes, I want to say that I am offering you the job.
Sarah: Oh, Sheila, that is so... You won’t be sorry. I’m just going to throw
myself...
Sheila: Sarah, it’s on a trial basis. I want to make sure that you can handle
this. I mean, you know you’ve been through a lot.
Sarah: But I’m fine. I’m getting better.
Sheila: Actually, the psychiatric department suggested that we make it on a
trial basis. We have some concerns, you know, about...
Sarah: (Glum) No. I understand. I understand perfectly. Excuse me...
(Sarah leaves.)
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PALACE HOTEL (Asa, Blair)
Asa: Blair, you’re a good sport. But of course, there’s nothing going on
between us. But I’ve learned the hard way, you’ve got to nip these rumors in
the bud. Women are like killer bees, and you don’t want to get them riled up.
Blair: Oh, so you think I’m like a killer bee?
Asa: No, more like a honey bee. Anyway, I didn’t want to put you in an
awkward position. It doesn’t take a women’s libber to know that there’s a
double standard in our society.
Blair: Well, that’s very sensitive of you to realize that.
Asa: Well, I’m a sensitive kind of guy.
(Blair laughs. Renee returns.)
Renee: What’s so funny?
Blair: Your husband thinks that my feelings for Cain are amusing.
Asa: No, no, no. I wasn’t making light of your feelings. I was just
thinking that Cain Rogan is not a sensitive kind of guy.
Renee: I have to agree with my husband on that.
Asa: Whoa, stop the presses. We finally agree on something.
Renee: I’d watch out for him. Don’t trust him.
Asa: Renee, don’t you think we should give Cain the benefit of the doubt?
Now, wouldn’t that be fair? And since you like him so much, we’ll all go
riding one day soon. I promise you that, Blair.
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BUCHANAN MANSION (Cain)
(Cain slips into Asa and Renee's bedroom and starts looking for Renee's diary.)
Cain: Come on, dammit. Which one is it? (Gets diary and starts reading.)
Dear diary. Let’s see what Renee’s been up to recently. “Wednesday, January 29.
This morning’s as gloomy as any other at this time of year, but Asa’s been as
chipper as a grosshopper. I guess because he thinks he’s found himself a new
surrogate son. Cain Rogan. Asa seems downright infatuated with him.” (Smiles)
All right.
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL (Viki, Clint)
Viki: I am not going to let you go.
Clint: Honey, look, do you want Andrew to go to Jaba City alone? Do you know
what that place is like? General Gazi’s police would just as soon shoot him as
a spy as look at him.
Viki: Yeah, well they could very well do the same thing to you, Clint, think
about Cord. I won’t let you go. (Losing it.) Don’t go. Please. I don’t
know how I’m going to get through these next couple of weeks. Please. Megan is
so sick!
Clint: Honey, for the moment, we can’t do anything about her health. But what
we can do is try to get her husband back.
Viki: But I need my husband! Everybody thinks I’m so strong right now. I
feel totally powerless. Please, Clint, I need you. I need your strength. I
have to be able to face whatever’s ahead. Please.
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BLAIR'S APARTMENT
(Enter Blair)
Blair: Mother, I’m home! Where are you? Mother, it’s Blair, come on, I don’t
want to play this game. Don’t make me look for you. (Reads letter) “Went to
the park to count the trees. Be back soon, love Max.” That son of a-- Max
Holden, how dare you? She’s going to be scared to death! (Doorbell rings; Blair
flings door open.) Dammit, Max!
Andrew: Blair.
Blair: Reverend Carpenter!
Andrew: You know, everybody calls me Andrew. Anything wrong?
Blair: No. No, I thought you were someone else.
Andrew: You thought maybe I was Max Holden?
Blair: Yeah, he said he might drop by. I’m glad to see you.
Andrew: I’m sorry to intrude. Blair, I am going to be flying to the Middle East
this afternoon. And I was hoping you might be able to fill me in on some of the
experiences you might have had with Jake in Jaba. I mean, if you have time,
that is.
Blair: Yes, of course I have the time. All the time in the world. Please.
Come in.
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BUCHANAN MANSION (Cain)
(Cain is reading Renee's diary)
Renee’s
Voice: Cain is undoubtedly pleasant and charming, but I still can’t bring
myself to trust him.
Cain: Well, guess I have to work on that, Renee.
(Renee and Asa’s voices in the hallway.)
Cain: God! (Rushes to put diary away. Grabs jewelry box and throws it
out the window, overturns a table, starts shouting, then punches himself.)
(Enter Asa and Renee)
Asa: What the hell’s going on?
Renee: What are you doing in our bedroom?
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL; MEGAN'S ROOM (Megan, Viki)
Megan: (Stirring) Hi. I was dozing.
Viki: Isn’t it time for your physical therapy?
Megan: Um, they canceled it.
Viki: Until later today?
Megan: Until I feel better, that’s what the nurse said.
Viki: Well, that’s ridiculous, darling. You need physical therapy. All this
lying around is going to be hell on your figure.
Megan: I think I’ve gotten over caring about how I look.
Viki: Hey, don’t give up, baby.
Megan: I think they’ve given up.
Viki: Well, if you’re talking about the physical therapy, we’ll just see
about that.
Megan: Wait, Viki, really, don’t make a fuss about this. I don’t want to
exercise. I mean, really, how am I going to do aerobics when there’s an IV
in my arm?
Viki: Honey, I’ll be right back.
(Viki leaves and flags down a passing nurse.)
Viki: Oh, excuse me I need to see Dr. Wolek immediately, please.
Nurse: He’s seeing patients at the moment.
Viki: I’m sorry, it’s urgent!
Nurse: He told me he does not want to be disturbed.
Viki: OK, fine. If you don’t page him, I will.
Nurse: Paging Dr. Wolek. Please come to the third floor, corridor A, stat.
Viki: Thank you. While we’re waiting, perhaps you could explain to me the
ethics of denying physical therapy to the people who need it most.
Nurse: Mrs. Buchanan, I did not order your daughter’s therapy terminated.
(Enter Larry in a panic.)
Larry: What is it? I was just down the hall. What is it?
Viki: Why did you cancel her physical therapy?
Larry: I would have thought that was obvious.
Viki: Oh, well, I’m sorry. Maybe I’m a little simple-minded. It seems to
me there must be some sort of easy, gentle exercises she could do rather than
obliterating her chances at any kind of recuperation.
Larry: Whoa, whoa. Slow down here a minute. She’s too ill to do any
exercises.
Viki: You think she’s going to die, don’t you Larry? Don’t you? And you
just don’t want to waste the therapy on her. Is that it?
Larry: I don’t know what you’re talking about, Viki. I desperately want
Megan to live. I love her!
Viki: No. You’ve written her off. I can see it all over your face. Well,
Megan is going to live, and I don’t care how much it costs. I don’t care how
many other doctors I have to see or other hospitals I have to go to. My
daughter is not going to die. Do you understand me?
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BREAK
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BUCHANAN MANSION
(Asa, Renee, Cain)
Cain: The window. It was a burglar! Call the police!
Renee: Oh, yes, of course. (Picks up phone and dials) Yes. Yes, this is
the Buchanan residence. Renee Buchanan. There’s been a robbery.
Description?
Cain: Yeah, OK. (Takes phone) Hello? He was a big guy. Over 6’4”. Burly.
Wearing a sweatshirt and blue jeans. No, I didn’t see his face. He was
wearing a mask. But I’ll never forget that voice. Yeah, OK. Here she is.
Renee: (Takes phone) Hello? Yes, of course we’ll be here.
Asa: I can’t wait for the police. He’ll be long gone by the time they get
here. I’m going to get my gun. I’m going to find him myself.
(Asa leaves.)
Cain: Hey. He’s never going to get there time. The guy’s going to be in
his car by now.
Renee: Are you hurt?
Cain: He hit me pretty hard. I caught him going through your jewelry box
over there.
Renee: Jewels. Oh my God! My jewelry box! I told Asa we should have put
those things in the vault. You have no idea how much jewelry was in there.
Cain: No, ma’am, I don’t.
Renee: Wait a minute. Where were you before the robbery?
Cain: Well, I just got here right before you and Asa did. And I came in,
and I remember the door was locked. OK, I was in my room and I heard noises
in here. I guess he came through that window, huh?
Renee: You didn’t hear an alarm?
Cain: No. I guess maybe he disabled the alarm or something.
Renee: Was the alarm system on when you came in?
Cain: I don’t know.
Renee: I don’t understand this. How could the thief break in without the
alarm being on? I mean, nobody was home. The alarm system had to have gone
off!
Cain: I don’t know. All I know is I didn’t hear the alarm. I swear.
Renee: Oh. Well then, perhaps whoever broke in had a key. Let’s see who
has keys to this household. I have them. Asa has them. The housekeeper has
them. And you.
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BLAIR'S APARTMENT (Andrew, Blair)
Andrew: All right, so tell me a little bit more about this Haseem. Can he
be trusted? Who is he working for?
Blair: Well, he said he was working for the freedom fighters, but who knows
who works for whom in that country? I do know that he was kind to me when he
didn’t have to be. He took me to try to identify Cord’s body. He put himself
at risk for that.
Andrew: OK, what about Jake? Where do you think I can find him?
Blair: Probably in the deepest, darkest hole of that horrible city.
Andrew: How do I find him?
Blair: Look, don’t worry about finding him. The people that have Jake will
find you. They’ll know everything about you, and you’ll know nothing about
them.
Andrew: You’re making it sound a little bit futile.
Blair: The game is always tilted in their favor. Cord didn’t have a chance.
Cord... You know, I tried to save him. The current was so strong...
Andrew: Blair.
Blair: I’m sorry. Do you have other questions?
Andrew: Just one, just one. Did you meet anyone you could trust?
Blair: No one. And that is my advice to you. Trust no one.
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BREAK
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL (Viki, Larry)
Larry: How could you accuse me of neglecting Megan? We’re all doing
everything we can to get her fever down, to make her comfortable as possible
under the circumstances.
Viki: Fix her, Larry. She’s getting weaker and weaker. Please save my
daughter. Do for her whatever you would do for your own daughter.
Larry: Viki, I feel as if she is my own daughter. She was the first baby
I ever brought into this world.
Viki: Larry, we have to get her another kidney. You know what, I’ll go
on television and I’ll make an appeal.
Larry: Even if we found a donor, it wouldn’t do any good right now. The
lupus has made her vulnerable. Her body couldn’t stand another operation.
We have to build her up. We have to stabilize her conditon. There’ll be
plenty of time for therapy after we save her.
Viki: After. After. You mean “if” you save her, right? You have given
up hope, haven’t you?
Larry: Am I here? Am I working?
Viki: Work harder! I won’t let my daughter die. And you know something?
I don’t care what I have to do to keep her alive.
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL (Andrew, Bo)
Bo: You know, I envy you, Andrew, because you have the opportunity to
do something for someone you love.
Andrew: Well, being near Megan, that’s very important right now. You know
that. Come on, you must know that, right? What are you looking at here?
Bo: Oh, just some pictures of Fraternity Row that I brought Megan.
Rehearsals and stuff. You want to see?
Andrew: Yeah, I would love to see. (Finds pictures in back of book.) Wait,
these are of you in Vietnam, right?
Bo: Yeah.
Andrew: Do you mind if I look at these, too?
Bo: Oh sure, go ahead. (They look at the pictures.) This is when I first
got there. Happy, smiling. Been there a couple of years there. See the smile
is gone, no cocky smile. My last tour I flew a helicopter. And we’re having a
peaceful little lunch. Sometimes we’d be out there having lunch, all hell
would break loose. All you can do then is return fire. Hope to hell you can
break contact and get out.
Andrew: I didn’t ever kill anyone. I just don’t believe in violence of any
kind, I guess. Didn’t exactly make me my father’s favorite son. He always put
on his best face, but I think he thought I was a coward. He might be right.
Bo: No, no, he’s not right. It takes a lot of guts to go charging off to
Jaba this way.
Andrew: What takes guts is what you did over there, Bo.
Bo: Andrew, listen, there’s something I want you to have. (Hands him
religious icon) I want you to take this with you. This is St. Michael.
Patron saint of paratroopers. Asa sent that to me my first...
Andrew: No, Bo. This is your family’s, I couldn’t take this.
Bo: No, look, you belong to our family. All right? You love Megan.
You’re going to risk your life to save Jake. I always felt this protected
me. Now may it protect you the same way. OK?
Andrew: OK.
(They hug.)
Andrew: Now, let us look at these pictures of Megan and Fraternity Row.
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL; MEGAN'S ROOM (Megan, Sarah)
Sarah: You know, I want to build a career that offers me new challenges.
And as a patients’ advocate, I would be faced with every conceivable...
Megan: (groggy) I’m really proud of you. I am. I have to admit it’s
kind of hard to follow what you’re saying right now. They have me doped
up on so much stuff I feel like I’m floating above the clouds.
Sarah: Sounds good to me.
Megan: No, no. I don’t want to be floating. I want to be on earth with
you. For all I know, I’m just dreaming all of this.
Sarah: No, Megan, you’re awake.
Megan: You sure?
Sarah: (takes her hand) Yeah, we’re right here together.
Megan: This is real. I can feel it. Oh, I wish I would get my mind back.
Do you know that Andrew is going to go to the Middle East and try and find
Jake?
Sarah: Yeah. Andrew loves you very much, Megan.
Megan: I love Andrew, too. (Sleepy) Would you be my eyes, the way he was
before he left? He used to tell me what was going on in the world. What
people were doing, what they were saying, the clothes they were wearing, you
know, the kind of weather we’re having. Would you do that for me?
Sarah: Yeah. Of course I will.
Megan: (Drifting off to sleep) Thanks. Thanks...
Sarah: Megan, I’m going to go, OK?
Megan: Come back.
Sarah: Yes. I promise I will.
Megan: OK.
Sarah: OK.
(Sarah thinks about popping a pill, but throws the bottle out instead.)
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BUCHANAN MANSION (Renee, Cain)
Cain: I was walking down the hall to my room. And I heard noises in here...
Renee: Noises?
Cain: Yeah, you know, footsteps, moving furniture, stuff like that. And I
came into the room and there was a burglar. You know the rest.
Renee: (Suspicious) It’s a real shame that I didn’t put my ruby brooch and
my diamond necklace in the safe with the other jewels. I mean, it must have
been a real temptation for someone. What do you think motivates people to
steal?
Cain: I don’t know. Why are you asking me?
(Enter Asa with jewelery box)
Renee: Oh, thank God, my jewelery box.
Asa: I found them in the bush under the window. The burglar must have
dropped them when he jumped from the limb of the tree.
Renee: And everything’s there.
Cain: Oh, good. I guess I must have scared him away, huh?
Renee: Yes, I guess so.
Asa: You saved the day, boy.
Renee: I don’t know about the day, but you did save my jewel box.
Thank you.
Asa: Come on, Renee. We would like to thank you.
Renee: I said, thank you.
Cain: Well, you’re welcome.
Asa: Get some ice on that. Guy packs a hell of a wallop.
Cain: Yeah, he sure does.
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BO AND CASSIE'S HOUSE
(Bo enters.)
Bo: Cassie? Cassie? (Following clues left by Cassie) “First place to go
is music for Bo.” “What don’t you go ahead and push my buttons, and when you
do that, on the table you will find a reward for your hard work.” (Music plays
“Makin’ Whoopee.” Bo laughs.) Scavenger hung for consenting adults. Let’s see.
“Thanks for dropping by, lover boy. Check sofa to pick up scent.” “A man like
you is heaven sent. Enlighten yourself.” (Finds boxer shorts.) “Tiger, tiger,
burning bright, in the forest of the night. Sneak your way to the alcove to
complete your treasure trove.”
(Enter Cassie in trenchcoat.)
Cassie: Cassie Callison, girl reporter. Reporting on her special assignment.
You told me to check out romantic honeymoon locations.
Bo: And?
Cassie: This is the most romantic place I can think of. No misery here. No
tears. Just fun. (Drops trenchcoat; she is naked.)
Bo: You didn’t wear your lingerie this time.
Cassie: You noticed. Welcome home. (They kiss and sink to the floor.)
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BREAK
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LLANVIEW PARK (Max and Addie)
Max &
Addie: (Singing) “Like a boat out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you
through. When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.” (They laugh.)
(Enter Blair.)
Blair: Mother! Thank God you’re OK! How could you, Max?
Max: How could I what? We went for a walk. You were home so late.
Blair: You know nothing about my mother. You put her in danger!
Max: From what, the squirrels?
Blair: Don’t think for a minute that I don’t know what you’re up to. You are
using her to get to me? Well, it doesn’t work. OK, Max? I am disgusted with
you!
Max: Now, wait just one minute here! We were doing just fine before you
showed up. We were having fun. You remember what fun is? I mean, are you so
into this big plan of yours that you’ve forgotten what it is to smile or to
laugh or think about the good things?
Blair: We’ll go home now, OK?
Max: Look, I’ll walk with you.
Blair: No. No, you won’t. You’ve done enough harm for one day.
Max: Bye, Addie!
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LLANVIEW HOSPITAL; MEGAN'S ROOM (Megan, Andrew)
Andrew: (Hands Megan toy robin) I didn’t have time to get this fixed, but I
wanted to bring it by. Thought it might keep you company while I was gone.
Megan: Andrew.
Andrew: Anyway, I’m on my way to the airport and I just wanted to say
goodbye.
Megan: Come back safely. If anything should happen to you...
Andrew: No. You’re surrounded by love, friends, and family. You’re
surrounded by God’s love.
Megan: Why are you doing this? You don’t have to.
Andrew: You know why.
Megan: Bring him back.
Andrew: Bye. I’ll pray for you. Pray for me.
Megan: (nodding) I’ll pray for you.
(They hug and Andrew leaves.)
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END OF SHOW
