EPISODE 4/14/00
Lily and Iva Show The Letter To An Antique Dealer
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April, 2000
EPISODE #22
APRIL 14, 2000
Scene 1:
Location: Cal Stricklyn's farmhouse.
Scene: Living room.
SIMON FRASIER ALONE.
>> Simon: Well, I promised to finish the portrait, and finish it I will. I'm not my great grandfather, and she is not "beloved." That bloody diamond. It is taking too long to find it. Lily.
Scene 2:
Location: Lily Walsh Snyder's mansion.
Scene: Living room.
LILY WALSH SNYDER, IVA SNYDER, AND AN ANTIQUE DEALER.
>> Lily: So you'll be able to tell us everything we need to know about these letters?
>> Iva: And what exactly are you looking for?
>> Antique dealer: Watermarks. Approximate age of the ink and paper. When letters age, the acidity in the ink causes the paper to disintegrate in certain spaces. You see?
>> Lily: Absolutely.
>> Antique dealer: See the light shining through the dots?
>> Lily: So, what do you think? Are they authentic? Are they over a century old?
>> Iva: Or are they a fraud?
>> Antique dealer: Well, I think you'll be pleased to know, mrs. Snyder, that these are indeed the real thing, these letters.
>> Lily: Really? Well, that -- are you sure?
>> Antique dealer: And the penmanship is peculiar to someone not educated in the states.
>> Lily: Thank you very much. I'll write you a check.
LILY WALSH SNYDER, IVA SNYDER, AND THE NEARBY ANTIQUES DEALER.
>> Iva: "My family's objections to our love are of no consequence. I will always stand by you. No matter what the future brings, or how many people threaten you, please be assured that the rose is yours to keep for all time." So he gave his one true love a single rose. Oh, why aren't men this romantic anymore?
HOLDEN SNYDER ENTERS
>> Holden: Hey, who says that men aren't romantic?
>> Iva: Hello. How are you?
>> Holden: Good to see you. How goes everything?
>> Iva: Oh, great, great. How goes it with you?
>> Holden: Oh, everything's good.
>> Iva: How are you?
>> Holden: Hi, how you doing? Holden snyder. Somebody want to tell me what's going on?
Scene 3:
Location: Lily Walsh Snyder's mansion.
Scene: Living room.
LILY WALSH SNYDER, HOLDEN SNYDER, IVA SNYDER, AND AN ANTIQUES DEALER.
>> Lily: Holden snyder, I'd like you to meet jeff swindlehurst. He's an antique dealer.
>> Holden: Antiques? Oh, well, are we buying, selling or what?
>> Lily: Appraising.
>> Holden: Appraising? What are we appraising?
>> Iva: Holden snyder, for heaven's sake, can't your wife surprise you just once? I mean, you know.
>> Lily: I'll walk you to the door.
LILY WALSH SNYDER AND AN ANTIQUES DEALER.
>> Lily: Thank you so much for your help.
HOLDEN SNYDER AND IVA SNYDER
>> Holden: Hey, you know what? You look --
>> Iva: Hey.
>> Holden: You're looking pretty good these days.
>> Iva: Now, don't you think that you can charm a secret out of me, holden snyder.
>> Holden: Okay, fine. You know what? I don't want to know. Because I love surprises.
>> Iva: Oh, he loves surprises.
>> Holden: I have one more call to make. And then you're mine all night, you and me, okay?
>> Lily: Okay.
>> Holden: Be right back.
LILY WALSH SNYDER AND IVA SNYDER
>> Lily: If he even suspects that I have questions about simon, you know what's going to happen.
>> Iva: He's gonna toss him out on his ear.
>> Lily: And I will never find out why he has a picture of this woman who looks exactly like me. At least we know now the letters are real. That part of his story is true. But I need to know the rest.
>> Iva: All right. I will go back to the farm, and I will call jared and caroline's other children, and see if they know anything.
>> Lily: In the meantime, I'm gonna go back to cal's, and I'm gonna put the letters --
>> Iva: Oh, lily, lily, please, please be careful.
>> Lily: I have to get them back before simon knows they're gone. I've got to go.
Scene 4:
LILY WALSH SNYDER ALONE.
[Lily picks up the phone and calls Simon Frasier.]
[Phone rings.]
[Voice on machine.]
>> Simon: Hi, it's me. Leave a message after the beep.
[Machine beeps.]
[We see Simon listening.]
>> Lily: Hello, Simon? It's Lily. Are you there? I guess I missed you. I'll talk to you later.
[Lily hangs up.]
>> Lily: It's now or never.
[Lily leaves.]
Scene 5:
LILY WALSH SNYDER ALONE.
[Candles are lit throughout the room.]
[Lily walks over to the photocopy hidden on her desk and picks it up.]
>> Lily: This better work. It's just you and me now, beloved.
Scene 6:
Location: Lily Walsh Snyder's mansion.
Scene: Foyer.
LILY WALSH SNYDER ALONE.
[Lily opens a chest.]
[Lily gasps.]
>> Lily: Oh, this is exactly what I need.
[Doorbell rings.]
LILY WALSH SNYDER AND IVA SNYDER BENEDICT.
>> Lily: Oh, hi.
>> Iva: Hi, I can't find my key.
>> Lily: Did you find out anything?
>> Iva: No, no, but elizabeth promised to fax me the photos from the carpenter family album.
>> Lily: Great. That's great.
>> Iva: What is this?
>> Lily: It's part of my plan.
>> Iva: What plan?
>> Lily: I went back to cal's den, I put the letters back before simon got home.
>> Iva: Well, that's a relief.
>> Lily: His bags were packed. He's leaving, without finishing my portrait and without me finding out anything about that woman in that picture.
>> Iva: You're running out of time.
>> Lily: Desperate situations call for drastic measures. I am pushed against the wall, and I can only push back. Simon is not going anywhere, not until I get what I need.
LILY WALSH SNYDER ALONE.
[Lily picks up the phone and calls Simon Frasier.]
[Phone rings.]
[Voice on machine.]
>> Simon: Hi, it's me. Leave a message after the beep.
[Machine beeps.]
[We see Simon listening.]
>> Lily: Hello, Simon? It's Lily. Are you there? I guess I missed you. I'll talk to you later.
[Lily hangs up.]
>> Lily: It's now or never.
[Lily leaves.]
Scene 7:
Location: Cal Stricklyn's farmhouse.
Scene: Living room.
LILY WALSH SNYDER ALONE.
>> Lily: No. He can't leave. He can't leave. Not yet.
[Machine rewinding.]
[Mechanical voice.]
>> Message deleted.
[Machine beeps.]
SIMON FRAISER ALONE.
[Simon emerges from hiding after Lily leaves.
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