EPISODE 2/25/02
Simon Past Begins To Haunt Him

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2002

Scene 1:
Location: Java Coffee Shop

SIMON FRASIER, JILL, KATIE FRASIER

>> Jill: I was told to expect wild protests of innocence.
>> Simon: I'm done -- done trying to prove anything to you and your partners. I never wanted this money.
>> Jill: If it offends you so much, why not donate it to charity?
>> Simon: Maybe I will.
>> Jill: And maybe I'll sprout wings and fly away, but that isn't likely. Look into my eyes, Mr. Frasier. They're not desperate like the eyes of the women you've conned. And they're not innocent, like your wife's.
>> Simon: You leave Katie out of this.
>> Jill: Scared I'll tell her just how sordid your past really is?
>> Simon: I am not guilty of what you think.
>> Jill: But you're bloody well going to keep the money, aren't you?
>> Simon: If I do -- if I do, consider it payment for the hell that you and your cronies have put me through.
>> Jill: Payment? Sounds like an ending. But you can't outrun your past, Mr. Frasier. Sooner or later, it catches up to you.
>> Katie: You said you were at -- what is going on?
>> Jill: I was just leaving.
>> Simon: Please, please, listen, listen. Before you say anything, there is a really good reason why I told you I was at the airport --
>> Katie: That was the same woman that came by The Lakeview looking for you. What did she want?

Scene 2:
Location: Java Coffee Shop

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER

>> Simon: Here we go. One grande espresso latte with skim milk. Thanks for understanding about the airport thing. When I thought I was working for Margo, my cover was I was supposed to be out of town. But now that it's fallen through --
>> Katie: I didn't say I understood about the airport, Simon. I said I wanted an answer to this other thing first.
>> Simon: Okay, first can I ask you something? Can I ask you a question?
>> Katie: Maybe.
>> Simon: How did everything work out with Dahlia?
>> Katie: Great. I'm going ahead with the video.
>> Simon: That's great news. Congratulations. There's an old Aussie custom -- you have to kiss the one you're congratulating.
>> Katie: These lips are off limits until you tell me what that woman wanted. Who was she?
>> Simon: She was a lawyer.
>> Katie: Oh. Great. I knew it. As soon as we start to make money, someone is gonna want to sue us. Is it Craig?
>> Simon: No. No one is suing anyone, okay? In fact, quite the opposite. She offered me a very large check.
>> Katie: What for?
>> Simon: It doesn't matter. She got the wrong guy. Look, let's not let this custom go to waste, okay?
>> Katie: Listen -- that clears up question one. Now onto question two. Why did you lie to me?

Scene 3:

Location: Java Coffee Shop

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER

>> Simon: Look, don't -- don't call it lying. It wasn't --
>> Katie: You said that you couldn't spend my birthday with me because you had to go out of town, and then when I called you, you said you were at the airport. So if Dahlia hadn't come over then --
>> Simon: Wait, wait, wait. What has Dahlia got to do with any of this?
>> Katie: Never mind. She doesn't have anything to do with it. I just need to know why you said you were at the airport when you were really here.
>> Simon: I told you, Katie. It was a work thing.
>> Katie: Yeah, but if Margo told you to tell the whole entire world that you were out of town, fine. But she wouldn't tell you to lie to me.
>> Simon: Well, it doesn't matter now that the whole thing has fallen through anyway.
>> Katie: And why has it fallen through?
>> Simon: Listen Katie -- honey, I really need you to trust me right now, please. I need that very badly. Can you do that?
>> Katie: How can I do that when it feels like you're lying to me? You know, I'm sorry. I gotta go.
>> Simon: Sweetheart, please don't. Listen to me.
>> Katie: No, if you didn't want to spend my birthday with me, you could have just told me.
[ Simon's cell phone rings ]
>> Simon: I wanted to spend every single second with you.
>> Katie: I'll leave and give you a little privacy.
>> Simon: Katie, please -- hello. Wait up, Katie. Look, listen, listen, I'm really in the middle of something -- what? You're sure? So you're saying that Jack Snyder never actually left Oakdale?

Scene 4:
Location: Oakdale Police Station
Scene: Squad Room

SIMON FRASIER, MARGO HUGHES, HARRISON

>> Harrison: Sorry to interrupt, but it's your brother-in-law. He said it was a family emergency.
>> Margo: So, Katie get her pigtail caught in a door, huh?
>> Simon: Now, Margo, not now. It's her birthday.
>> Margo: You interrupted me.
>> Simon: I need you to sign her birthday card, okay?
>> Margo: Jack's passport was never used?
>> Simon: He never left the states.
>> Margo: What did Stenbeck do? Did he put him in a coffin and ship him out like Emily or Rose?
>> Simon: I already checked that out. My feeling is that he's still in the country, maybe still even in Oakdale.
>> Margo: Where? Where? Where could he be?
>> Simon: I don't know. Look, I'll follow it up in the morning.
>> Margo: No, no, Simon. Tonight.
>> Simon: Tonight? I can't. Look, Katie's already caught me in one lie. I need to go home and make it up to her.
>> Margo: No. You've got to do it tonight. We can't let Jack's trail get any colder. Stenbeck probably did this. Listen to me. I don't know how much longer I can hold him.
>> Simon: Just keep him overnight.
>> Margo: But I can't. He's winning in there. This is our only window. We've got to find Jack tonight.
>> Simon: All right.
>> Margo: Before Stenbeck gets out on the streets.
>> Simon: Okay. I'll go home, see Katie, then follow up as many leads as I can.
>> Margo: Okay. Tonight.
>> Simon: Yes.
>> Margo: Thanks.
>> Simon: All right. Thanks, Margo. Appreciate it.
>> Margo: Yeah, yeah.
>> Harrison: I'm really sorry, Detective Hughes. I didn't know it was about a birthday card.
>> Margo: Perfectly all right, you know? Family comes first, and Simon is family.

Scene 5:
Location: The Lakeview
Scene: Simon & Katie's Room

SIMON FRASIER, KATIE FRASIER

>> Simon: I know you're probably awake, but please, just don't say anything, okay? Because I have to leave again, and all I want to do is lie down next to you. Katie, look, I shouldn't have lied to you about being at the airport today. I took the coward's way out because I just didn't want to put either one of us through another good-bye. So be angry with me. You have every single right. But if you never believe another word I say, please believe this -- I wanted to be with you today and every single day for the rest of my life, and I always will, and I love you more than -- more than my own life.
>> Katie: Happy birthday to me.

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