EPISODE 8/19/02
Simon And "Simon" Take A Dip

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MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2002

Scene 1:
Location: Avanya Harbor
Scene: Slade's Boat Deck/Cabin

SIMON FRASIER, ROSE D'ANGELO, LUCINDA WALSH, HENRY COLEMAN, PAUL RYAN, JOE D'ANGELO

>> Henry: Oh, you might as well use a teacup!
>> Lucinda: Keep bailing! Keep bailing! Pump, kid, pump! Both arms!
>> Henry: Why don't you call the Coast Guard? Call Aquaman, call somebody! Open the door!
[ Lucinda and Henry join the others in the cabin. ]
>> Paul: Looks like the storm's heading northeast.
>> Simon: All right. Then we head west!
>> Paul: All right, well, turn. Turn this thing! Turn it!
>> Simon: I'm fighting the current! It's all right.
>> Lucinda: Are we gonna have a good chance to get where we wanna go?
>> Simon: If I can just turn this baby around without flipping her, we'll be all right!
>> Paul: All right. All right. Watch your starboard! Watch your starboard!
>> Rose: Open your eyes! Open your eyes! You okay?! Hey, look, you gotta hang in there. You gotta hang in!
>> Joe: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
>> Rose: Oh, no. That's it. Don't say anything! Just hold -- please, don't say a word. Just save your strength. Can you do that, please? And no more apologies. Don't worry. I'm getting you out of here. I won't let anybody -- anybody -- take you away from me again.

Scene 2:
Scene: Slade's Boat Cabin

SIMON FRASIER, ROSE D'ANGELO, LUCINDA WALSH, HENRY COLEMAN, PAUL RYAN, JOE D'ANGELO

>> Paul: All right, all right. Just stay on this heading, and we should avoid the worst of it.
>> Simon: This storm better not shift, 'cause we're never gonna outrun it.
>> Paul: Joe? How you hanging in there?
>> Joe: Please tell Rose to stop worrying about me.
>> Paul: That's her job, Joe. What do you think we came all the way down here for? Stay strong, baby. I promise I'm gonna get us home, okay?
>> Rose: Hey!
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Lucinda: Never a dull moment with us.
>> Simon: That's just the way we love it.
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Lucinda: Look! That doesn't look good. Come about. Come about.
>> Simon: No, no, no. No, no, no, no. If we get hit broadside, then we'll capsize the boat. We need to go straight, ride this out.
[ Waves crashing. ]
>> Paul: All right, is everybody okay?
>> Rose: Yeah, yeah.
>> Simon: Come on! Is that the best you got!
[ Lucinda laughs. ]
[ Electricity crackles. ]
>> Simon: Don't do this to me. Don't -- oh, damn!
>> Lucinda: Are they gonna come on again?
>> Simon: All right, the generator shorted out. We're taking on too much water. What's Henry doing? What's he doing?
>> Lucinda: Uh --
[ Waves crash out on deck where Henry is bailing water. ]
>> Henry: Why can't anything ever be easy for me?!
[ Henry screams. ]
>> "Simon": Not a word.

Scene 3:
Scene: Slade's Boat Deck

"SIMON FRASIER", HENRY COLEMAN

>> Henry: I can't believe you --
>> "Simon": Shut your mouth.
>> Henry: Okay!
>> "Simon"" I want the diamond.
>> Henry: It's -- it's probably washed over, 'cause the waves took it. I don't know. It's the darnedest thing.
>> "Simon": Or I'm gonna kill you now just for lying and then search your pockets.
>> Henry: Help! Help! Help! Help!
[ Pounding at door ] help, help!
>> Lucinda: Okay. All right, all right.
>> Henry: Can't anyone hear me screaming out there?!
>> Lucinda: Go on, get out. Go, go on out.
[ Henry back in cabin. ]
>> Henry: He -- he's here! He's back! He's back!
>> Simon: Who? Who? Henry, relax. Who?
[ Shouting over each other ]
>> Rose: Okay, okay.
[ Talking over each other ]
>> Simon: I've got him, I've got him. Take the wheel. Take the wheel. Lock the door when I leave, okay?
>> Henry: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay? 'Cause if you go out there, and he kills you, and then he comes back in here, and we think that he is you --
>> Simon: Shh!
>> Henry: And it'll be like some horror movie, and he'll slay all of us!
>> Simon: You have to kill the first Simon that walks back in that door.
>> Henry: All right -- what?!
>> Simon: Or just remember what I'm wearing, all right?
[ Simon leaves the boat cabin. ]

Scene 4:

Scene: Slade's Boat Deck

SIMON FRASIER, "SIMON FRASIER"

>> "Simon": You just love being the hero, don't you?!
>> Simon: You just ran out of lives.
>> "Simon": What's the matter? You don't like the fact that the plastic surgeon made me better looking than you?
>> Simon: Yeah, well, I hope you have as much luck with your mortician.
[ Thunder crashing and sounds of fighting. ]
[ Both men go overboard. ]
>> Henry: I can't see them. No, no, no. If they're not dead already, one of them's coming through this door.
>> Rose: Paul, what are you doing?! What are you doing?!
>> Paul: Saving Simon's life if he's still alive.
>> Rose: No!
[ Paul leaves the boat cabin in search of Simon. ]
>> Paul: Simon! Simon! Simon!
>> Simon: Over here!
>> Paul: Where are you, Simon?!
>> Simon: Down here.
>> Paul: Come on.
[ Paul helps someone aboard. ]
>> Henry: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
>> Paul: What, what?
>> Henry: Simon said to remember his clothes.
>> Paul: So?!
>> Henry: So this guy's wearing the same thing! We don't know who's who!

Scene 5:
Scene: Slade's Boat Deck

SIMON FRASIER, LUCINDA WALSH, PAUL RYAN, ROSE D'ANGELO, HENRY COLEMAN, JOE D'ANGELO

>> Paul: Of course it's Simon!
>> Lucinda: We don't want the wrong one. We don't want the monster.
>> Lucinda laughs after she and Simon kiss. ]
>> Lucinda: It's him.
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Rose: Lucinda, how do you know?! How do you know?!
>> Lucinda: Oh, honey, it's him.
>> Simon: Excuse me?
>> Rose: Hey, hey, everybody. Everybody, look. Straight ahead, I can see the moon.
[ Shouting ]
>> Henry: One for you. One for you.
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Rose: Hey, look. I told ya, pop! Told you we were people that could survive this.

Scene 6:
Scene: Slade's Boat Deck

SIMON FRASIER, HENRY COLEMAN, ROSE D'ANGELO, PAUL RYAN, JOE D'ANGELO, LUCINDA WALSH

>> Simon: You about done there, Henry?
>> Henry: I'm really good in a pinch. It's just afterwards, I toss my cookies. I'm polite that way.
>> Simon: Yeah? Well, grab a bucket, sunshine. Let's get some of this water out of here. We'll clear the generator out, dry it off, and then we'll have power again.
>> Henry: Hallelujah.
>> Rose: How ya doing, pop? Huh?
>> Joe: Take a look at all those little lights. For a couple of moments there, I didn't know if I'd ever see a sight like that again.
>> Rose: And now you've got the rest of your life to look at all those beautiful stars.
>> Joe: It's all that clear space. You know what it makes me think about?
>> Rose: What's that?
>> Joe: Napoli.
>> Rose: Oh! Yeah, when you were a little boy?
>> Joe: Out there in the countryside, you took a good look up, and there was this curtain -- curtain of stars hanging all the way down to the ground. >> Sometimes, when I'm sitting on my stoop in Jersey and looking up at the sky, I know that my people in Naples are looking at the same things I'm looking at. I miss 'em, Rose.
>> Rose: You'll see 'em again, pop. You will.
>> Paul: Joe, I didn't know you were a stargazer.
>> Joe: Huh?
>> Paul: Isn't that -- yeah, yeah, that's it. Cephus, King of Ethiopia.
>> Rose: Am I -- am I missing something here?
>> Joe: You're smooth.
>> Rose: What? Can I get a little hint? What's going on?
>> Paul: The king's daughter was the most beautiful woman in the world, and Perseus, the hero, saved the king's life, and as a reward, he gave Perseus his daughter.
>> Joe: I'm not a king, but I got a good-looking daughter.
>> Rose: Aw.
>> Joe: And you're a hero in my book, Paul. I'm gonna give her to you on the wedding day.
>> Rose: Hey. You know, I -- I really can't concentrate on much of anything, I mean, especially a wedding, until you're playing boccie ball again every Saturday.
[ Joe laughs ]
[ Joe coughs ]
>> Joe: I'm not letting you spend any more time on me, especially not in New Jersey.
>> Paul: All right. Then how about Napoli? I mean, I'm gonna have Rose for the rest of my life. I'll let her have some time off to get you back on your feet.
>> Rose: You know what? Stop it, stop it. Stop talking. Just relax. You've been talking too much. You just calm down until we get you to the hospital.
>> Paul: Joe, I wouldn't argue with her if I were you.
>> Rose: Come on.
[ Lucinda sighs ]
>> Lucinda: Well done again. Well done, well done.
>> Simon: Well, I won't be happy til we're off this bloody boat.
>> Lucinda: Now, don't you worry about Katie. Katie is just fine. God protects lunatics and drunkards.
>> Henry: Comrades in arms. Hey, who would have thought we would have made it through this whole thing without killing one another?
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Lucinda: Count yourself lucky.
>> Simon: Yeah, let's not start now.
>> Henry: Hey, I am gonna count my luck. You know, Lucinda --
>> Lucinda: Yes?
>> Henry: I'm a modest man, but I do think that I -- I do think that I deserve some kind of compensation for all of this. I'm not talking about a lot of zeroes here, but --
>> Lucinda: Okay. You can start tomorrow.
>> Henry: "Start"?
>> Lucinda: Yeah. Yeah, your new job. You'd get the zeroes. You've got the zeroes, only I'm going to wring the blood, sweat and tears out of you to make it worth my while.
>> Rose: How did you know that I wanted to take my pop to Napoli?
>> Paul: I know you. I look in those eyes, and I see everything.
>> Rose: And I love you for that. But I know we were supposed to get married and everything, and I just don't know if I can think about that right now.
>> Paul: I know. Just let your father get back on his feet, and then we'll take everything from there, okay?
>> Rose: I don't deserve you.
>> Paul: I never really saw that up-close. It's beautiful.
>> Rose: Oh, yeah. It's beautiful, all right. It's covered in blood. It's caused more misery than i can even think about.
>> Paul: Well, it's still your birthright.
>> Rose: Yeah, you know, but you know, even a multimillion-dollar rock is not worth it. It's got nothing to do with my family. I've got a great arm. You ever see it?
>> Paul: No.
>> Rose: Oh, yeah. That.
>> Paul: What?
[ Water splashes. ]

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