EPISODE 01/10/07
Simon Leaves Henry

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January, 2007


WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2007

Scene 1:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Police Department

CARLY SNYDER, JACK SNYDER, JESSICA GRIFFIN

>> Jack: That too tight?
>> Carly: It's fine.
>> Jack: Can I get you anything? When was the last time you ate?
>> Carly: I don't remember.
>> Jack: I can order you something.
>> Carly: No, thanks, I don't want anything.
>> Jack: Let me know if you change your mind.
>> Carly: And stop being so nice to me, Jack. You are throwing me in jail. Jack -- thank you for letting me talk to the kids.
>> Jack: I'm sorry they couldn't change your mind.
>> Carly: Do you think I could talk to them later?
>> Jack: No, Carly, you already said your goodbyes. I don't want to put them through that again.
>> Carly: How long will I be here?
>> Jack: Depends.
>> Carly: On what?
>> Jack: On how long it takes you to decide that Simon isn't worth this.
>> Jessica: Carly, I just got your message.
>> Carly: Oh, Jessica, thank God you're here. I really gotta get out of this place. So, how quickly can you arrange bail?
>> Jessica: Sorry, have you forgotten the stipulations of your probation? Bail is off the table.


Scene 2:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Henry's Auto

SIMON FRASIER, HENRY COLEMAN

>> Henry: Simon, your problem isn't Carly. You're problem is you. You need to get out of here, okay big guy?
>> Simon: Not without Carly.
>> Henry: Okay, okay, so what's the plan here? Do we sneak into Emma's kitchen and bake a file into a cake?
>> Simon: I got a few ideas.
>> Henry: Right, let's hear 'em.
>> Simon: No, Henry, from now on I'm flying solo. All right? I need to get cleaned up. Well, I can't go rescue the woman I love looking like a bum.


Scene 3:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Police Department

CARLY SNYDER, JESSICA GRIFFIN

>> Carly: I need options, Jess. Jack is making this personal.
>> Jessica: Well, imagine that. The father of your children making it personal.
>> Carly: Oh please, you're not gonna start in on me, too. Are you?
>> Jessica: Carly, I'm on your side, but unless you start talking about Simon, you have no options.
>> Carly: You mean betray Simon.
>> Jessica: Do you know where he is?
>> Carly: No. No, and that is the truth.
>> Jessica: At the moment?
>> Carly: At the moment.
>> Jessica: All right then what do you know about these stolen jewels? Carly, I'm a lawyer, not a magician. You help the system, the system helps you. That's the way it works.
>> Carly: Unless the system wants me to turn on someone I love.
>> Jessica: Or we could call it telling the truth. Carly, this is your life we're talking about. Now you tell me. Name me one happy ending courtesy of Simon Frasier.
>> Carly: Thank you. Thank you so much for that uplifting look into my future. Just tell me what my options are so I can get out of here!
>> Jessica: Carly, unless you change your mind about Simon, you don't have any.


Scene 4:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Henry's Auto

SIMON FRASIER, HENRY COLEMAN

>> Henry: I got you plenty of trans fats from Al's.
>> Simon: Good man. I'm starving. I'm not gonna forget this, Henry.
>> Henry: Yes, you will.
>> Simon: Yeah.
>> Henry: No, no, no, if you want the threads, we're gonna play a little "what's the plan?" It's a great game where you tell me how you're gonna get Carly out of jail right underneath Jack Snyder's nose.
>> Simon: The less you know at this point the better. Henry, at this point the cops have nothing that's gonna stick on you. I wanna keep it that way.
>> Henry: Aw, that's sweet. I like this little male bonding were having here, but I've already aided and abetted, so unless you want to do this without pants, you better start talking.
>> Simon: All right, fine, once you give me the clothes I'll get dressed -- then we'll swing into action.
>> Henry: You'll tell me everything?
>> Simon: Oh, I'll do much better than that.


Scene 5:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Police Department

JACK SNYDER, CARLY SNYDER, GWEN MUNSON

>> Gwen: Where is she?
>> Jack: In the interrogation room. Her lawyer's gone. She just left. I talked to Jessica on the way over here. She couldn't convince Carly to stop protecting Simon.
>> Gwen: I don't know what I can do, but I'll do my best.
>> Jack: Thanks, Gwen.
>> Will: Good luck.
>> Carly: Wow, Jack's pulling out all the stops, huh?
>> Gwen: You okay?
>> Carly: Terrific. Jack fill you in?
>> Gwen: I'm not interested in Jack's version.
>> Carly: Well, I did it. I fell in love with another man. Guilty as charged.
>> Gwen: What about the jewels?
>> Carly: What about them?
>> Gwen: Is Simon really worth living a life without your kids?
>> Carly: Oh Gwen, that's Jack talking isn't it?
>> Gwen: No, no it's not. You know, the whole way over here, all I kept thinking about was you in some cell with crayon drawings on the wall to remind you that you even have kids. Or stacks of pictures with no voices, no laughter, just crummy photos of Parker going to his first dance or J.J. With a new soccer trophy or Sage blowing out her birthday candles.
>> Carly: You're good.
>> Gwen: It could happen. It will happen, Carly.
>> Carly: I don't want to talk about worst case. I know how bad this is. Let's talk about you. I wanna hear about your music. I want us to be just a couple of sisters sitting here and talking about anything -- anything but this.
>> Gwen: I can't help it. I'm scared to death for you, Carly.
>> Carly: Don't be.
>> Gwen: And so is Jack. You know, you guys were the first example of a real solid marriage that I've ever known.
>> Carly: I'm sorry my marriage let you down.
>> Gwen: That's not what I meant by that. I just don't understand how everything that was so important to you just slipped away once you became involved with Simon.
>> Carly: Have you ever looked in a man's eyes and everything you thought you knew, everything you thought you wanted out of your life changed -- just like that, just in an instant? Wasn't it like that with Will?
>> Gwen: You can't compare --
>> Carly: Why not? You love him. I love Simon. I knew his track record just like you knew Will's. But nobody wants to look at the good stuff, do they? They wanna harp on the bad, thinking that it can't be lived down, well it can. Simon is bent over backwards. He's been amazing with my children. He paid your college tuition. He is not the selfish user that everybody wants him to be.
>> Gwen: I'm not taking sides. I don't know enough to take sides, but if Simon did steal those jewels, he had to know that it would come back to hurt you.
>> Carly: Jessica will get me out of this.
>> Gwen: And what if she can't? You know, Carly, you and I grew up the hard way with people who had no business being parents. Who checked out on us when we needed them the most. And you spend your whole life looking for what you never got. And most of the times you look in all the wrong places because deep down you feel like your damaged goods.
>> Carly: That is not going to happen to my children. They have Jack. They will always have Jack.
>> Gwen: Jack isn't enough, Carly. He can't be you. He can't know all the little stuff that a mom knows, especially for Sage. Talk to Jack, Carly -- please. Tell him what he needs to know. And he'll bring you home to Parker and J.J. and Sage where you belong, okay?


Scene 6:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Police Department

CARLY SNYDER, GWEN MUNSON

>> Carly: Thanks. It's Parker that I'm worried about. He's so angry.
>> Gwen: He's been through a lot -- he lost his dad and his sister in one year, but he doesn't have to lose his mom, too.
>> Carly: He might be better off --
>> Gwen: How can you say that?
>> Carly: I haven't been a good mother to those kids in a very long time.
>> Gwen: That's not true. You're a great mom. They wouldn't trade you for the whole world.
>> Carly: Maybe they should.
>> Gwen: You don't quit, Carly. That's one thing I've known about you since the day we met.
>> Carly: I'm not quitting. I'm digging in. And if I have to take a detour through jail to be with Simon, then I will take that detour.


Scene 7:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Police Department

CARLY SNYDER, GWEN MUNSON

>> Gwen: What if you're wrong about Simon?
>> Carly: I'm not.
>> Gwen: He broke the law.
>> Carly: Yeah -- so did I. People do a lot worse. People get away with a lot worse.
>> Gwen: You're making excuses now.
>> Carly: I'm not. I'm just telling the truth. I'm asking you not to judge us.
>> Gwen: I'm nobody to judge.
>> Carly: Gwen, I don't want to miss out on your life. I certainly don't want to miss out on the lives of my children, but I don't want to miss out on my life, either.
>> Gwen: Going to jail isn't living, Carly.
>> Carly: I'm not going to go to jail.
>> Gwen: You don't know that.
>> Carly: I do. I know it -- deep in my heart, I know that Simon would never let that happen.


Scene 8:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Henry's Auto

SIMON FRASIER, HENRY COLEMAN

>> Henry: It's freezing out here. Would you hurry up and change, please?
>> Simon: What do you think? Much better, right?
>> Henry: Yeah. The world loves a well-dressed fugitive.
>> Simon: You didn't happen to get me an overcoat, did you?
>> Henry: All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. Before I give this to you, though, I want to know how you plan to spring Carly.
>> Simon: Okay, fine, fine. I'm gonna tell you your part of the plan.
>> Henry: Okay, I'm all ears. Give it to me straight up.
>> Simon: Fine, all right. Here's the deal -- straight up. Sorry man, it's much better this way.


Scene 9:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Police Department
CARLY SNYDER, GWEN MUNSON, JACK SNYDER, WILL MUNSON

>> Gwen: And don't worry. I'll stay close to Parker -- all of them. Will and I will take them out, do fun things.
>> Carly: Thank you.
>> Gwen: You don't have to thank me.
>> Carly: I want you to know that Parker and J.J. are pretty split on me. J.J.'s on my side and but Parker won't even talk about it. And it really scares me when they don't talk.
>> Gwen: Jack will stay on them. He's a -- he's a good dad.
>> Carly: Yeah, he is. You know, I always knew he would be. Gwen, you may not understand this right now, but I do love those kids. And I love Simon. And I know someday I'll figure out someway for us all to be together.
>> Gwen: I hope you're right. I love you, Carly.
>> Carly: You don't have to say that. I know I'm not very lovable right now.
>> Gwen: Yeah you are.
>> Carly: There's one more thing. It's very important.
>> Gwen: Okay.
>> Carly: Jack -- he's terrible when it comes to picking out Sage's clothes. >> Gwen: I'm on it. >> Carly: You are. Anything sparkly will do.
>> Gwen: Like her mom. I guess I should go. I'll come back if that's okay with you.
>> Carly: I'm counting on it.
>> Gwen: Take care of yourself, okay?
[ As Gwen leaves ]
>> Jack: Well, what'd you say?
>> Gwen: She's sticking by Simon.
>> Jack: Yeah, I knew it was a long shot.
>> Gwen: But if I could come back to see I'd really like that a lot?
>> Jack: Yeah, sure, of course. I don't know how long I can hold her though. It's an international incident -- lots of press, lot of heat. But I appreciate you coming down and trying. I'll see you soon, okay?
>> Will: I'll see you Jack.
>> Jack: Yeah, thanks Will.
>> Carly: Run out of family members to intimidate me?
>> Jack: I'm not trying to intimidate, Carly. Okay, I'm trying a little.
>> Carly: Well stop.
>> Jack: I can't. Losing you isn't an option.
>> Carly: I'm already lost.
>> Jack: Know what we still have in common?
>> Carly: Yes, Jack of course we have the kids.
>> Jack: I'm not talking about the kids. I'm talking about you and me -- two of the most stubborn people on the planet. We don't give up on what we want. And I want you away from Simon Frasier. I want you safe and free and out of this nightmare.
>> Carly: Jack, will you listen to me. Will you please really listen to me? What you want -- what you want for my life doesn't matter.
>> Jack: It matters to me. I love you, Carly. I tried to stop, but I can't. And no matter how hard you try, you can't talk me out of that one.


Scene 10:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Outside Henry's Auto

HENRY COLEMAN, COP

>> Cop #1: Sir, are you all right?
>> Henry: Simon --
>> Cop #1: Simon -- Simon Frasier? Did he take you hostage while trying to escape?
>> Henry: Yeah, yeah, that's what he did. He took me hostage while trying to escape.
>> Cop #1: Did he say where he was headed?
>> Henry: Uh -- Mexico? Canada! Canada -- Costa Rica. I'm sorry. I was pretty out of it, man. I wish I could help you, officer, but your guess is as good as mine.


Scene 11:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Police Department

CARLY SNYDER, JACK SNYDER

>> Carly: Is staring some sort of new interrogation technique I never heard of?
>> Jack: No, I just like the view.
>> Carly: Well it's not going to work. I will not turn against Simon.
>> Jack: How far away from Oakdale do you think he is by now?
>> Carly: I don't know.
>> Jack: That doesn't bother you?
>> Carly: I hope he's somewhere you'll never find him.
>> Jack: I'll find him, Carly.
>> Carly: You know, hunting Simon down and putting him in jail is not gonna change anything for us.
>> Jack: He ran out on you, Carly. Like he ran out on Katie and everybody else in his miserable life.
>> Carly: Am I supposed to feel sorry for Katie?
>> Jack: Your supposed to see his track record for what it really is. Look, do you know what I really want?
>> Carly: Besides Simon's head on a platter?
>> Jack: I want you to see that Simon is out of your life for good. Like I said, I'm stubborn. I can wait. I can raise our kids. I can give them a home. I can make sure they remember all the good times, because there are a hell of a lot of good times to remember. And one day, Carly, one day, you'll finally figure out that Simon's never coming back. One day you'll wake up and you'll realize that you have seen the last of Simon Frasier.


Scene 12:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Emma Snyder Home

SIMON FRASIER, VIENNA HYATT

>> Simon: You need a hand?
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