EPISODE 4/30/01
Lily Catches Simon With Ruby

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MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2001

Scene 1:
Location: Lucinda Walsh Estate
Scene: The Mansion - The Library

LILY SNYDER, SIMON FRASIER, AND RUBY FRANK

>> Lily: Simon?
>> Simon: Fancy meeting you here.
>> Lily: Who are you? What's going on here? Where's my mother?
>> Simon: Lucinda isn't here right now. I was just here visiting Ruby.
>> Lily: Ruby? Ruby? Ruby, that's your name?
>> Ruby: Yes. And you are -- ?
>> Lily: I'm someone with a right to be here. What are you doing in my mother's house -- besides the obvious?
>> Ruby: Well, Ms. Walsh invited me to stay with her for a while. I'm a friend of Bryant's.
>> Lily: Bryant? Where's Bryant?
>> Ruby: Right this minute? I don't know.
>> Lily: Well, where's Matthew? Matthew!
>> Ruby: He's gone.
>> Lily: My mother left you alone here, a stranger, in her house, and you're here with her on the couch doing this and -- there's something that doesn't make any sense to me, so I'm going to ask again. What is going on?
>> Simon: Well, we're just two friends hanging out.
>> Lily: Oh, is that your story, too?
>> Ruby: Well, it's true.
>> Lily: All right, you don't want to explain it to me? That's fine. You can explain it to my mother.
[Lily starts to call Lucinda]

Scene 2:
Location: Lucinda Walsh Estate
Scene: The Mansion - The Library

LILY SNYDER, SIMON FRASIER, AND RUBY FRANK

>> Simon: There's no need to involve Lucinda in this, Lily. Please? I'll leave.
>> Lily: You're not going anywhere without an explanation.
>> Simon: Okay, sure.
>> Lily: You drove your car through her foyer not too many months ago. She had you arrested. And here you are, in her house with this woman, on her couch. And she's not even home.
>> Simon: It's just as Ruby explained. Ruby's here as Lucinda's guest, and I'm here as Ruby's guest. That's all.
>> Ruby: And you are Lucinda's daughter. You and Simon seem to know each other so well. Are you one of his many ex-wives?
>> Lily: What?
>> Simon: That's enough, Ruby.
>> Ruby: Oh, come on, Simon. Don't be shy now. I'm enjoying these little episodes with your scorned lovers. It's like dinner theater without the lousy food.
>> Lily: What is she talking about?
>> Simon: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
>> Lily: Nothing?
>> Simon: Nope.
>> Lily: Well, that doesn't sound like nothing to me. It seems that Ruby has many stories that I've never heard. Would you like to explain them to me, please?
>> Ruby: I was just joking. Right?
>> Lily: Is that true? Was that a joke?
>> Simon: No.
>> Lily: You were married before Katie?
>> Simon: Yep. Yes.
>> Lily: And divorced?
>> Simon: Yes.
>> Lily: More than once?

Scene 3:
Location: Lucinda Walsh Estate
Scene: The Mansion - The Library

LILY SNYDER, SIMON FRASIER, AND RUBY FRANK

>> Simon: I don't have to answer any more of your questions, Lily. You knowing what I'm doing here is one thing, but beyond that, my past is none of your business anymore, is it?
>> Lily: Our past -- our past is my business. I have to know what we shared together was based on some sort of reality.
>> Ruby: Oh, that's right. She's the special one you told me about, right, Bryant's aunt?
>> Simon: Ruby, please, just stop.
>> Lily: Your next conquest seems to know everything about me, so I think it's fair for me to know about the rest. Isn't it?
>> Simon: Why? There's no point.
>> Lily: That woman -- that woman who called my house and left a message on my answering machine last year --
>> Simon: Don't do this.
>> Lily: -- She called you a liar and a cheat. Was that what you were -- was that a wife?
>> Simon: Look, I explained that phone call to you at the time, remember?
>> Lily: On the machine, She said, "Shame on any fool who'd trust Simon Frasier." What -- how stupid! How stupid was I?!
>> Simon: This is pointless.
>> Lily: "Pointless"? Was she your wife? How many others?
>> Simon: I don't know. I don't know. I lost count along the way.
>> Ruby: Poor Simon. He's so unlucky in love.
>> Lily: You never intended to tell me this?
>> Simon: Look, it never came up. It never came up.
>> Lily: We were spending -- we were gonna probably spend the rest of lives together. And you left out this detail, this big detail?! Why? Was everything that we had -- was it just a lie?
>> Simon: I loved you. That I didn't lie about.
>> Lily: How about all these other women lining up to be the next Mrs. Simon Frasier? Where did they fit in?
>> Simon: Love had nothing to do with it.
>> Lily: You were married twice, 3 times, 60 times, and you never said that you loved these people? You never planned to spend the rest of your lives together? You never promised that you'd be there for them the way you did for me?!
>> Simon: Listen, listen. What does it matter what I promised them?! Okay, I didn't love them.
>> Lily: Then why? Then what? What was it all about?!
>> Simon: It was how I made a living.

Scene 4:
Location: Lucinda Walsh Estate
Scene: The Mansion - The Library

LILY SNYDER, SIMON FRASIER, AND RUBY FRANK

>> Lily: What were your plans for me?
>> Simon: You know the answer to that.
>> Lily: I thought I did.
>> Simon: I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.
>> Lily: No, you wanted to use me. You were gonna marry me for my money, and then you were going to dump me aside like the rest. To think of everything that I almost gave up for you. Oh, and my Holden -- I hurt --
>> Simon: Well, I got what I deserved, didn't I? I mean, you went back to your husband, and everything turned out just as it should have, didn't it?
>> Lily: Were you planning on me being the next ex-Mrs. Simon Frasier?
>> Simon: No, I wasn't.
>> Lily: You told me that you loved me, and now, you're telling me that you used women for money. What am I supposed to think?
>> Simon: Believe anything you want about me but not that -- not that I didn't love you. Even --
>> Lily: Don't. Don't, don't, don't.
>> Simon: Look, you heard Ruby, okay? I told her about you, that you were the one that changed me.
>> Lily: I can't believe you. How am I supposed to believe her?! For all I know, you two crashed in here, you got in here somehow, and you're gonna steal everything of my mother's and put it in the trunk of your car.
>> Simon: Oh, come on. That's -- don't be -- that's ridiculous.
>> Lily: The man that you showed me didn't exist. You were a complete fraud. Everything -- nothing -- nothing about you -- nothing about you was real.
>> Simon: Okay, hold on to that, Lily. Yeah, talk yourself into believing that I felt nothing for you if that's what helps you to move on without any guilt.
>> Lily: I'm in a different place right now in my life, a good place. And I know that I belong with Holden. But I cared about you. I almost gave up everything -- everything for you. And I think about that now, I think about what we shared, and it wasn't real. And I feel ashamed of myself for everything that we shared. And I want you to get out. I need to just -- I need you to get out. You gotta get out of the house now!
>> Ruby: Simon, I'll get in touch with you once it all gets cleared up, okay?
>> Katie: Get in touch with this, honey.
>> Simon: Katie, stop it. Come here.
>> Katie: Stay away from my husband, or I'll have to decide what to break first, your fingers or your face!
>> Ruby: It won't change anything. He'll still want me.
>> Katie: Face wins.
[Katie goes after Ruby but Simon holds her back]
[grunting.]

Scene 5:
Location: Lucinda Walsh Estate
Scene: The Mansion - The Library

LILY SNYDER, SIMON FRASIER, AND RUBY FRANK

[grunting and screaming.]
>> Lily: Hey, stop it!
>> Katie: Let me go! You're mine, and she's gonna know it!
[Lily is holding back Ruby]
>> Ruby: I'm gonna tear her apart!
>> Lily: Nobody is tearing anybody apart! What right do you have coming in here like Xena, the warrior princess?
>> Katie: Simon is my husband. Mine. Not yours, not hers -- mine.
>> Simon: Settle down, okay, please?
>> Katie: No, I'm gonna settle this once and for all, okay? 'cause I am so sick of being expected to share my husband with sorry older women, like you, who can't get a man on their own.
>> Lily and Ruby: "Older women"?
>> Katie: I'm Simon's wife, and I have duties to protect the man that I promised to love and cherish for better or for worse.
>> Lily: Oh, that's very good.
>> Katie: The most important of which is to make sure that tramps like you keep their slimy tentacles off of him.
[Ruby grunts.]
>> Simon: Can we stop? Stop, okay?
>> Katie: So take a lesson, Lily. If you want a man, you gotta fight for him.
>> Simon: Katie, I'm not your property, okay?
>> Katie: I didn't mean it like that. I just meant --
>> Simon: Please, just -- just go home! Please!
>> Katie: You're not coming?
>> Simon: I will be there shortly, okay?
>> Katie: Oh, no, no, no. There is no way that I am walking out of here and leaving you in between the cheating wife and that no-brained slut --
>> Ruby: Shut your mouth, or I'll shut it for you!
>> Simon: Stop it now, all right?
[all yelling.]
>> Katie: Come on!

Scene 6:
Location: Lucinda Walsh Estate
Scene: The Mansion - The Library

LILY SNYDER, SIMON FRASIER, LUCINDA WALSH, AND RUBY FRANK

>> Lucinda: Simon, you better have a pretty good reason for being back in my home or within 100 yards of my daughter.
>> Simon: Look, I was just leaving.
>> Lucinda: You just wait! Dear, did you bring this vile specimen back into my home?
>> Lily: No, no. I came in here, and I found him cavorting, with your houseguest, on the couch.
>> Lucinda: Ruby, did you invite him here?
>> Ruby: Well, he's my friend. I didn't know he wasn't allowed here.
>> Lucinda: Well, know it now. He's not! Go on.
>> Ruby: Ow!
>> Lucinda: Come on, get out. Get back -- get to your room, and stay there until I call you. Simon, what were you doing with that girl?
>> Simon: This.
[Simon walks over to Lucinda and kisses her.]
>> Katie: And, you, don't you get any ideas, either. All right? He's mine. Simon, wait! Where are you going?!


Scene 7:
Location: Lakeview Towers Hotel
Scene: Craig Montgomery's Suite

CRAIG MONTGOMERY AND SIMON FRASIER

[Craig jocundly.]
>> Craig: Oh, the things we'll do together, Barbara Ryan-Montgomery.
>> Simon: That stinks.
>> Craig: Hmm? Oh, how'd it go with Ruby? Did you get an idea on what she and Gabriel are going to do to fleece Lucinda?
>> Simon: Oh, it's nothing too impressive. They're gonna wait for the right moment and then just take off with the family silver, a couple checkbooks, whatever else they can carry.
>> Craig: Small-time, just as I figured. Well, I'm gonna have to set a new agenda for the Franks. They have a little talent but no imagination.
>> Simon: Should I set up a meeting?
>> Craig: Yes, as soon as possible. And I need you to get back to Lucinda's.
>> Simon: Oh, no, no, no, no. No way. I'm not gonna do that. I can't do that.
>> Craig: Why not?
>> Simon: Well, Lily and Lucinda showed up while I was there today. It was quite a scene.
>> Craig: I'll bet.
>> Simon: Yeah, and as usual, Katie makes an appearance, just adding to the chaos.
>> Craig: Well, what a surprise that is. But she is your burden. Still, I need you to get those photos back.
>> Simon: You're kidding, right? Once again, you expect me to break into Lucinda's house?
>> Craig: No, my son has them in the guest house. I want you to go in there and get them, 'cause nothing can stop my marriage to Barbara Ryan.


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