Guiding Light Transcript Thursday 2/21/02
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Reva: Hey! Hi, sweetheart.
Marah: Hi.
Reva: My goodness!
Marah: I hope you don't mind, but if I'd have taken this to the college laundry, it would have taken forever to get a machine. Everybody always waits till the last minute.
Reva: Unlike you, of course.
Marah: Well, I've been a little busy.
Reva: Oh, I'm glad you're here.
Marah: You and Dad skipped out pretty early at the Valentine's Day dance.
Reva: Oh, and here I thought we were being so discreet. What about you? Did you have a good time?
Marah: Yeah. I guess so.
Reva: Well, now, that doesn't sound convincing.
Marah: No, it's fine.
Reva: What about Ben? He looked like he was having fun. You know, honey, I can teach you everything you need to know about getting your whites whiter, and your brights brighter, but I think you've got something else on your mind.
Marah: I found out at the dance that Tony and Catalina are going to get married.
Reva: Married? Wow. They're just kids. Marah, I'm sorry. I know how much you still care about Tony.
Marah: Yeah, well, it doesn't matter anymore.
Reva: It does matter. I saw the way Tony looked at you at the dance. He seems to be a little confused, too.
Marah: Could we just drop it? He has to be with her.
Reva: Has to be? She's pregnant? (Sighs) I'm sorry.
Marah: Me, too. And I'm giving him up; I really am. And I've got Ben, and he's so nice, and I'm really lucky to have him in my life.
Reva: But?
Marah: But I know in my heart that no matter what I do or how hard I try, I'm never going to be able to let go of Tony.
Catalina: Hi.
Tony: Hey.
Catalina: Thank you. Thank you for last night. You made Valentine's Day unforgettable.
Tony: Good. That's what I wanted.
Catalina: I was surprised that you were gone for so long.
Tony: Well, it took me a while to find a place that sold non-alcoholic champagne.
Catalina: Oh, you will take such good care of me, and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life taking care of you and our baby. You know, I don't have a very large family, so I want to have a lot of kids, but only if they look like you. Tony, are you okay?
Tony: I've been thinking.
Catalina: Yeah?
Tony: I think we should move. I think we should leave town.
Catalina: Really?
Tony: I mean, look, a kid with the last name Santos is going to have two strikes against him in this town. We should have a fresh start, go somewhere else. I've got family in Arizona. We could go check it out over there, see if we like it.
Catalina: Do you really mean it?
Tony: I've got to get out of here. I've got too many distractions. I've got too many memories here. We'll give our little family a fresh start, you know? That is if you want to.
Catalina: Yes. Yes, I do. I do.
Tony: I know this means you giving up school and everything.
Catalina: No, Tony, I can go to school anywhere. This means the world to me. I'm going to make you so happy. I promise. You won't regret this.
Danny: I remember everything now.
Carmen: Danny, you need your rest.
Danny: I was in the warehouse, I got into a fight with one of your idiots and then the whole place went up in flames.
Carmen: It was a nightmare, Danny. That's all it was.
Danny: Don't... Don't...
Carmen: Your head still needs clearing up.
Danny: ...Don't talk to me like that. I almost died because of you.
Carmen: Danny, you have to believe this. Do you think that I wanted that to happen? Look at me. Look at me! Do you think that I would actually want to have you killed?
Danny: Well, maybe you didn't know I was going to be there.
Carmen: Of course I didn't.
Danny: But that doesn't change the fact that you had the warehouse torched. So what were you trying to hide? Why don't I call Harley Cooper and your good buddy Gus Aitoro? They'll be here in a few minutes. You can answer their questions if you don't want to answer mine.
Carmen: Danny, please, don't do this.
Danny: Gus Aitoro will be so thrilled to haul you off to jail. You say you love me?
Carmen: Of course I do. You know I do.
Danny: Mm-hmm. All right. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. I'm not going to turn you over to the police.
Carmen: Oh, Danny, thank you.
Danny: Instead... Instead, I'm going to set you free.
Carmen: Oh, thank you. Thank you. I knew you loved me. I knew you loved me.
Phillip: Hey, honey, why don't sit at the desk? You'll be more comfortable.
Lizzie: I'm fine.
Phillip: Oh, come on. Come on. Let's sit at the desk. Here you go. Let's get up at the desk. You can pretend that you're Granddad, you're bossing people around. There you go. That's better. What are you working on? Something I can help you with?
Lizzie: No. It's art history. Mom always helps me with that kind of stuff.
Phillip: Okay, honey.
Lizzie: I mean, how could you just leave her in jail? How could you do that to her?
Phillip: Honey, that woman is not your mother.
Lizzie: Yes, she is.
Phillip: No, she's not.
Lizzie: You can say that a million times, but I know she is.
Phillip: No, she's not.
Lizzie: I want to go see her.
Phillip: Well, you can't, because she's not there anymore.
Lizzie: She isn't?
Phillip: No.
Lizzie: Is she coming home?
Phillip: No, she's not coming home, because she's not your mother. Honey, you have to... You have to believe me. Your mother is gone. Now I bailed out Lorelei Hills and I sent her away so that she won't hurt us anymore.
Alan: You did what?
Lizzie: When did she get out?
Phillip: Last night. And you see, honey, she didn't come here, did she? If she were really your mother, the very first place she would come would be here to see you. But that woman knew that she did not belong here. Honey...
Alan: What were you thinking?
Phillip: Look, all I want is for her to be gone. I told her if she left town I would drop the charges.
Alan: And I will have her brought back kicking and screaming if I have to.
Phillip: No, you will not!
Alan: After what's she's done to this family, Phillip, you would give her a "get out of jail" card? Unbelievable!
Phillip: I want her gone, and I don't want her to come back. That's all that matters.
Alan: And she is laughing her head off at you right now.
Edmund: Lorelei, thank God. You there, I'll be checking out of this no star hotel now. Thank you very much.
Lorelei: Not quite yet, Eddie. Whoa!
Edmund: What's wrong? What's wrong?
Lorelei: Coming down with the flu I guess.
Edmund: All right. We'll get you a doctor as soon as I get out of here. Now what did you mean by, "Not quite yet?"
Lorelei: Well...
Edmund: Well, what?
Lorelei: Well, I got a card game together, you know, to get the money that we need for you to get out of here. Well, I couldn't concentrate and I lost. Everything.
Edmund: There wasn't much to lose was there?
Lorelei: Well, it's all gone now. I don't know. I just kept zoning out. I couldn't keep my train of thought, you know.
Edmund: God. I can't believe I'm going to spend another night in this God forsaken army surplus flea bag. Look, you came back for me. You could have easily said you've gave it your best shot and skipped town and left me here to rot, but you didn't.
Lorelei: Eddie...I'm not about to hang you out to dry. We'll figure a way to get you out of here. Today.
Edmund: Good. But there's just a small matter of the bail money.
Lorelei: Yeah, I know. I'm going to figure out a way to raise it, I am. Eddie, I just...I want to leave Springfield tonight. I do. I want to leave and I never want to look back.
Edmund: All right. Now be careful. Just be careful. Hurry back.
Alan: This Lorelei Hills came into our home and emotionally took our family for everything we're worth. And it's important for Lizzie to understand that when a Spaulding is hit, we hit back twice as hard.
Phillip: What will that accomplish?
Alan: Lizzie has been hurt. And it is important for her to know that we will protect her no matter what. I think a trial...
Phillip: No.
Alan: You would deny your own daughter the right to see justice? To see Lorelei on a stand exposed for who she truly is? Phillip, whatever your feelings are for this women, eliminate them. It's that simple.
Phillip: I know everything is simple for you.
Rick: Hi, Alan.
Alan: Lizzie? Lizzie, why don’t you come with me and we'll go to Company. It might cheer you up if you had one of those good ice cream sodas that you like so well. What do you say? Oh, come on. Come on. Might cheer you up. Let's go get our coats. What do you say?
Rick: So what are we drinking?
Phillip: Something that burns.
Rick: So what's going on? It sounded urgent.
Phillip: Lizzie is not handling this very well, and I don't know what to do about it.
Rick: Well, how do you expect Lizzie to get over this when you haven't?
Phillip: Look, I'm doing the best I can here, Rick.
Rick: Phillip, you have to give yourself a chance to say goodbye to Beth. You have to do that for yourself.
Lorelei: Oh, yeah. Okay. Just one more win for Mamma, huh? Hot damn, yeah. Hey, either one of you handsome devils like to play cards or maybe a little poker? Three card Monty... Hey, I'm sorry, Father. Sorry about that.
Tony: You know, you don't look so good. You should be home in bed.
Lorelei: I'll take that under advisement. Excuse me. (Coughing) I don't have any money, okay. Don't worry about it. Well, there's a first. I'm not even hungry.
Marah: Last night Ben was in my dorm, and I wanted him to be there. But before anything could happen, his phone rang and he had to leave. And a little while later there was a knock on the door, and I thought it was Ben, but it wasn't. It was Tony.
Reva: And you wanted him to be there from the beginning, is that it?
Marah: I know. I know. I'm a horrible person.
Reva: No, Marah, you're not. Did anything happen with Tony?
Marah: No.
Reva: Sweetie, I know how difficult it is to walk away from someone you love so much.
Marah: Yeah, you probably don't ever have to do that. I mean, you always fight for what you want.
Reva: Most of the time. But I walked away once. I was in the very same position you're in right now. The man I loved had been involved with another woman and as we were planning our wedding, she informed him that she was pregnant with his child.
Marah: And what did you do?
Reva: For once in my life, I didn't fight for what I wanted. I walked away. It was the most difficult thing I've ever had to do. But I know it was the right thing. It didn't make it any easier though. And I was as close to giving up on myself as I've ever been.
Marah: And what happened to the guy?
Reva: He married the woman. And they had Ben.
Marah: Ben, Ben. You mean Ben Reade?
Reva: Mm-hmm.
Marah: So you and Fletcher...
Reva: Oh, no. (Laughs) No. It was Ben's biological father, Kyle Sampson.
Marah: That's right. I always forget that Fletcher adopted Ben.
Reva: Mm-hmm. So every time I see Ben, I'm reminded of that time in my life.
Marah: Are you sorry that you walked away?
Reva: No. Because some really wonderful things came out of all that pain. I found my way back to your daddy. And we had you, Shayne. And it was the right thing for everyone.
Marah: And now Ben, who changed your life so much, is a big part of mine. Wow!
Reva: (Laughs) Yeah, "Wow" is right. Life's funny, huh? You and Ben have been through so much. Maybe you can offer each other something right now.
Marah: Maybe. I don't know. Ben is such a good guy. I mean, he even knows about how I feel about Tony and he's still right here. I just... I'm so afraid that I'm going to hurt him. And he doesn't deserve that. I know he would never hurt me.
1st frat guy: Ben Reade! Ben Reade! Ben Reade!
Ben: Do you want to keep it down?
1st frat guy: Laughing boy doesn't believe that when I called you last night, you were in Marah's room.
2nd frat guy: He could have been tutoring her for all we know.
1st frat guy: Yeah, that's what they're calling it now.
Ben: Grow up, man.
2nd frat guy: So, Ben, did you deflower the precious virgin Marah?
1st frat guy: Of course he did. What do you want? Proof? Face it, he won the bet.
2nd frat guy: I want him to swear he slept with her.
Marah: Well, you should have told him that you weren't going to back to the dorm tonight.
Ben: There's a problem. They need me over there.
Marah: What kind of problem?
Ben: It can't wait. I'm sorry, Marah. I'm sorry.
1st frat guy: Come on, Ben, tell him. Let's show this little wannabe who the real man is.
Ben: I'm sorry, guys. No go. I tried my best, but no, I didn't sleep with her.
1st frat guy: You struck out?
Ben: What can I say? The bet's over. You guys won fair and square. I know when to fold.
1st frat guy: She must have really dropped you like a ton of bricks if you're willing to walk away from five grand.
2nd frat guy: Yeah, sounds like Marah will be ripe and ready for me.
Ben: You stay away from her, man.
1st frat guy: Hey, Ben, lighten up. She's up for grabs now.
Ben: No, no, she's off limits. I mean it. If I see any of you guys make a move on her, I swear I will sweep the floor with you.
1st frat guy: You didn't lose the bet. You're just calling it off. Look at you. You're stuck on her.
Reva: You know not being with Tony is the right thing for now, right? So you have two choices. You can sit all alone, all by yourself, totally close yourself off to any feelings that may come your way. Or, you can go out there and you could live your life, and open up your heart to so many other possibilities.
Marah: Like Ben.
Reva: Maybe Ben... Maybe someone else. Maybe no one.
Marah: No one?
Reva: Yes. For now. Don't make the same mistake I made in my life. I always felt like I needed a man to define who I was. Honey, you're enough. All by yourself. You are enough.
Marah: Thank you. Thank you for helping me see that I can do this by myself. All right, I should probably do laundry.
Reva: Yes. (Laughs) You probably should. I've got a couple of loads down there, too, you have to remember.
Marah: (Moans)
Reva: Whites, colors. Don't mix them together.
Ray: You know, I think it's great. A fresh start in a new town is just what you both need.
Maria: New beginnings can be very costly.
Tony: Well, I think we can handle that.
Maria: A moment alone with Antonio please?
Ray: If she offers to pay, take it.
Tony: Abuela, you know this is really sweet of you and everything...
Maria: You're making a terrible mistake.
Tony: What?
Maria: Your baby must be raised here with the Santos.
Tony: Hey, look, Catalina and I...
Maria: Catalina doesn't count.
Danny: Stop. I want you to listen to me. I don't want to fight with you anymore.
Carmen: So stop. I have...
Danny: I can't... I can't forget everything that you did to Michelle and Robbie.
Carmen: I would never hurt Robbie.
Danny: I know.
Carmen: I love that little boy more than anything.
Danny: We lost our first baby because of you. We almost lost Robbie because of you. Do you remember that?
Carmen: Of course I remember that horrible day. You remember when you almost tried to kill me? But I have gone on, Danny. I can forgive. I can forget.
Danny: I can't.
Carmen: Of course you can.
Danny: I won't. I won't.
Carmen: Of course you can. That's why you are not calling the police.
Danny: No. I can try to forget if you do one thing for me.
Carmen: Anything. Anything.
Danny: Walk away. Forget about me. Forget about my family. Let me have the life that I want.
Carmen: You don't mean this, Danny.
Danny: You say you love me, you've got to prove it.
Carmen: I can't. I can't walk away from you. I just can't.
Danny: Okay. All right. Well, let me put this in a way that you'll understand. You have two options: You either say goodbye to me or I will send you to prison.
Lizzie: Mom, you're here!
Alan: Lizzie? Lizzie? I'm sorry. Sit down, please.
Lizzie: No.
Alan: I'm doing this for your own good. That woman is not your mother, do you hear me? Now I want you to sit right here, order whatever you'd like and I'm going to have a few words with Miss Hills.
Lizzie: Grandpa, please, why can't she sit with us?
Lorelei: Alan, come on.
Alan: What the hell do you think you're doing?
Lorelei: Hold on a minute, Alan.
Alan: Phillip posted bail on one condition, and that was for you to disappear.
Lorelei: I'm trying to get out of town.
Alan: Well, you're not trying hard enough.
Lorelei: Look, I just need to get a little money so I could take care of some things, and then I'll get out of town. You want me out of town so bad, why don't you give me a loan so I could leave?
Alan: You listen to me, Lorelei, whatever your name is, Phillip may have folded like a house of cards, but I'd just assume see you back in jail where you belong!
Lizzie: Don't yell at my mother!
Beth: Lizzie. Lizzie, Lizzie. Oh, sweetie. Oh, my sweet baby. Oh, Lizzie, sweetie. Oh, my baby.
Rick: Look, pal, you've barely had a chance to process that Beth was dead when Lorelei showed up, and you let yourself believe that she'd come back. I mean, we all did that. And of course, you're having trouble letting that go. I just think... I think that Lizzie's picking that up from you.
Phillip: Look, I was falling in love with her again, you know. It's true. Since I've found out the truth, I've just been going on fumes. I've been dealing with Lizzie and Lillian and with all the legal issues of what Lorelei did. I think you're right. I don't know that I have accepted the fact that Beth is gone.
Rick: Phillip, you've been jerked around with this and of course this is hard to deal with.
Phillip: You know, last night, I went down to the jail to see her.
Rick: Phillip...
Phillip: No. I know what you said. And I didn't have a choice. She keeps stringing Lizzie along with this thing. So I went down there to threaten her, and I'm telling you, Rick, I was so mad. I felt like I could grab the bars from that cell and just shake it until the whole damn place came down around her. And then I looked at her.
Rick: It's not Beth.
Phillip: I know that. I know. But when I looked at her, I just felt all the anger drain out of me, and all that was left was pain. And I mean pain like somebody had just reached in and grabbed my heart and squeezed it until I couldn't breath. And I was standing there having this thought. I thought, "I'm about to be killed by a ghost," how about that? See, that's the problem, Rick. I am haunted by Beth. And I always will be.
Alan: Elizabeth, it's time for us to go home. Come on.
Lizzie: I'm not going anywhere without my mom.
Beth: Oh, Lizzie, sweetie, sweetie, I need to just speak to Grandpa alone for a minute, okay?
Lizzie: Okay, but you won't go anywhere, will you?
Beth: No, I'm going to stay right here. I am. It's okay. It's okay. Alan, I don't know what's going on.
Alan: You listen to me. You listen to me. I will not allow you to use Lizzie as a pond in your sick little game, do you understand me?
Beth: You are not going to take my daughter away from me. I'm very confused about...
Alan: She is not your daughter.
Lizzie: Granddaddy?
Alan: Come on, Elizabeth, it's time to go.
Lizzie: No, no.
Alan: It's time for us to go.
Lizzie: No. Mom wait.
Beth: No. Lizzie?
Lizzie: Mommy, don't...
Beth: Lizzie?
Alan: I want you out of this town by tomorrow morning or I will make your life a living hell, do you understand?
Beth: (Crying) Lizzie, it's going to be... It's okay, sweetie.
Danny: You know how I feel. If you love me, go.
Carmen: You know, some day you'll understand. Someday you will want me back in your life. I just hope that when that day comes, it's not too late for us.
Tony: I know what you're going to say.
Ray: So now you're a mind reader?
Tony: You're going to tell me not to sacrifice my happiness.
Ray: You shouldn't.
Tony: I went to see Marah. I did. And I told her how I felt, but she sent me away.
Ray: Bro, I'm sorry.
Tony: Don't be.
Ray: Running away is not going to change how you feel.
Tony: I don't see it as running away. I see it as running towards something. Catalina and our baby. She's a good woman. My life is in her hands now. She's my future, Ray. And Marah, she's my past. She made that more than clear to me.
Ben: I still want Marah Lewis. It's not about money anymore.
1st frat guy: Obviously.
Ben: Listen. This is the official Ben Reade bet book, all right. So I’ll scratch you guys off, write you check, and the Marah bet is over. And nobody... Nobody ever says a word about it again, okay? It's like it never happened.
Marah: Hey, you.
Ben: Marah.
Marah: Hi.
Ben: Hi.
Marah: What's the check for? Hush money?
Alan: The nerve of that woman. The mitigated gaul.
Phillip: All right. You sure that all she wanted was a hand out?
Alan: Phillip, I know a leach when I see one.
Phillip: All right. Come on.
Alan: Yes. And she tried to use Lizzie to soften me up. But I told her in no uncertain terms that I wanted her out of town tomorrow morning or I will destroy her life.
Phillip: And you did all of this in front of Lizzie?
Alan: Lizzie was in great pain, Phillip, and it hurt me to see her that way. I did what I had to do at the time. Someday... Someday she'll thank me for it.
Phillip: Do you want to cry, honey? I know that you feel like you don't understand everything that happened tonight. I wish that there was something that I could do to make it better for you.
Lizzie: I'm never going to see her again, am I?
Phillip: No, honey. I'm sorry. Come here. I'm so sorry, honey. It's okay.
Ben: What?
Marah: (Laughs) I'm kidding. What's the check for?
Ben: It's just us frat guys having another big party, right guys?
1st frat guy: Yeah.
Ben: They tracked me down to get my money. This should cover me, guys, okay?
Marah: Oh, well, if you guys are running low on cash, I can pitch in.
Ben: No, no, we're fine. We're fine.
Marah: I'm sure you're going to take me though, right?
Ben: Nah, this is strictly a guys' event, right guys?
1st frat guy: Yep.
Marah: Bye. You want to come in?
Ben: Sure, sure. Thanks. Listen, about last night, I wanted...
Marah: Look, I didn't know that Tony was going to come over after you left.
Ben: No. Of course not. I know.
Marah: But nothing happened. And nothing will happen. He and Catalina are moving away. And I think that it's the best thing that could happen for all of us.
Ben: I'm really glad to hear you say that. Oh, no.
Marah: What?
Ben: I forgot. I've got a tutorial. See you later?
Marah: Yes, you will. And thank you for being so amazing and understanding.
Ben: Sure. Bye.
Marah: Oh, hey, Ben.
Ben: See what you do to me? Forgetting things now. (Marah laughs) Bye.
Marah: Bye.
Edmund: Where are you, Lorelei? You have to get me out of here.
(Doorbell rings)
Phillip: I'll get it.
Lizzie: Mom? Mom?
Phillip: Honey, look out. Move.
Lizzie: Yes, but...
Phillip: Look out.
Lizzie: Dad, she's sick. We have to help her.
Phillip: She'll be all right. She'll be all right.
Lizzie: Mom?
Phillip: Just come on. Close the door.