EPISODE 01/17/07
Simon Faces Jack
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January, 2007
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2007
Scene 1:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Carly Snyder Home
SIMON FRASIER, CARLY SNYDER, JACK SNYDER
>> Carly: I need to see them. Don't stop me.
>> Jack: They're not here.
>> Carly: I just talked to J.J.
>> Jack: I know.
>> Carly: He told you?
>> Jack: He didn't have to.
>> Carly: Where are they?
>> Jack: Somewhere they wouldn't have to watch -- when the two of you finally go down for good.
Scene 2:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Carly Snyder Home
SIMON FRASIER, CARLY SNYDER, JACK SNYDER
>> Carly: Where are they, Jack? Where are my kids?
>> Jack: I got them out of here. I got Maggie to take care of them.
>> Carly: Because you knew I was coming?
>> Jack: Yeah. Although, I don't know why.
>> Carly: I had to explain to them --
>> Jack: Explain? You made J.J. lie for you, and Parker betray you so you could explain?
>> Carly: Parker told you?
>> Jack: He was listening in when J.J. was talking to you. He felt he had to say something.
>> Carly: Poor baby --
>> Jack: Oh, yeah, you should have been here. A grand time was had by all!
>> Carly: I'm sorry --
>> Jack: J.J. lied for you, and Parker had the good pleasure of turning his own mother in.
>> Carly: Please --
>> Jack: And of course, Sage doesn't know what hit her. Nor does anybody else in this family for that matter. She just has this feeling that she's never going to feel safe again.
>> Simon: All right, Jack. You know what? Honestly, that's enough. All right? Don't do this to her.
>> Jack: Don't do this to her?
>> Simon: Yeah, don't do this to her --
>> Jack: She needs to know what she's putting our family through! You know, you can lie to me over and over and over again, and I'm supposed to be an adult. If I'm a sucker, it's my own damn fault! But these are kids. They're your kids! They'd walk off a cliff for you, and this is how you repay them? You come by to explain that you're walking out of their lives forever!
>> Carly: I just -- I wanted to tell them that I was going to spend every single waking moment trying to figure out a way --
>> Jack: And then you have the audacity to bring him with you? "Hey, guys, here's the guy I'm walking out on you for. Sorry." How pathetic do you want their lives to be, Carly?
>> Carly: I just wanted to tell them that it wouldn't be forever. That I wasn't giving up.
>> Jack: After what you've done to them, do you think I would let you spend one day with them? One hour? You scared? You should be. Because I'm going to do what I should have done the first time. Both of you are going to jail. And this time for good.
Scene 3:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Carly Snyder Home
SIMON FRASIER, CARLY SNYDER, JACK SNYDER
>> Carly: Jack -- I'm not going anywhere, Jack. The situation is completely under control. You don't need the gun.
>> Jack: I should just trust you? Him?
>> Simon: Let her go, Jack.
>> Carly: Simon --
>> Simon: No, no, come on. Shoot me. Shoot me if you want, honestly. I don't care. This is all my fault, anyway. I'm to blame, not her.
>> Carly: Simon, shut up!
>> Jack: She's got a point. Something about your voice just rubs me the wrong way.
>> Carly: Jack -- Jack, why don't you call the station? Have them send some other cops, okay?
>> Jack: But you don't have to worry, Carly. As much as it would give me great pleasure to shoot him, I want to be able to think about him in prison, making new friends.
>> Simon: So, there you go. It is me you want me to pay. Not her. 'Cause you love her.
>> Jack: That's none of your business.
>> Simon: Yeah, you do. And you love your kids, right? See, I've heard how you talk about them, Jack -- how much they mean the world to you.
>> Jack: Okay, now it's me telling you to shut the hell up!
>> Simon: And how's it gonna make them feel, Jack? Growing up knowing that their own dad put their mom away? I'm here, Jack -- take me. Arrest me. I'll say I'd come here alone, all right? She was never here.
>> Jack: It's too late.
>> Simon: No, it's not. It's not too late, Jack. Do your job. Be a cop. Make me pay. But don't do this to her. Your kids are gonna end up hating you, Jack. Just like you're gonna end up hating yourself. Let her go.
Scene 4:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Carly Snyder Home
SIMON FRASIER, CARLY SNYDER, JACK SNYDER
>> Jack: So, you're ready to take the fall for both of you?
>> Simon: That's right.
>> Jack: You like the idea?
>> Carly: I don't know.
>> Jack: No? It sounds like a pretty good deal for you.
>> Carly: I don't think it's fair to ask for your help.
>> Simon: Just let her go, Jack. I'll play this any way you want.
>> Jack: She goes scot free?
>> Simon: She's not going to be free, and you know it. She's not going to see her kids for a while, isn't that revenge enough?
>> Carly: Jack doesn't want revenge. He's not like that.
>> Jack: I wouldn't be too sure about that.
>> Carly: He just wants to do the right thing. You and me, we don't always understand that.
>> Simon: Okay, you know what I understand, Jack? You know what I understand? I understand that you still love her. You don't want to, right? But you can't help it. Yeah, I know what that feels like.
>> Jack: Why'd you have to come back? Why couldn't you have just kept going?
>> Simon: So you do want her to keep going, right, Jack? She can still do that. All right, here -- me, you've got your arrest. You can give her a head start. All bases are covered.
>> Jack: You're just like this, what, this selfless guy now? Ready to do the far, far better thing, is that it?
>> Simon: No, no. You know what? I don't give a damn about anyone but myself, Jack, never have. You know why? I don't have kids. I wasn't even raised in a remotely sane family, Jack. But here I am, standing here in this house, where a happy family once lived. And you know what? I was the one who ruined it. Me, Jack. Not Carly. Everything is my fault. But please, don't make me responsible for those kids knowing that their mother is locked up. Because I think we all know, if you put her in prison, it's not going to be Carly that comes out.
Scene 5:
Location: Oakdale
Scene: Carly Snyder Home
SIMON FRASIER, CARLY SNYDER, JACK SNYDER
>> Jack: You care about my family, huh? Boy, I'd feel sorry for someone you hated.
>> Simon: My point is, Jack -- I'm bad news. We all know it. I was the one that screwed up your kids' lives by dragging Carly into this. All she was trying to do was protect them.
>> Jack: Is that all?
>> Simon: She's not stupid, is she? She knew the risk. But we were home, Jack, we were out of here. We were on that plane, gone. She begged me to turn it around and come back just so she could talk to her kids. You don't think she knew that this could happen?
>> Carly: Simon, that's enough.
>> Simon: You know I'm right, Jack. You know it. I can see it in your eyes. You know you want to let her go.
>> Carly: Simon, stop, please -- you keep putting everything on Jack's shoulders, and every time he's given me a break, I've let him down. What do you say, Jack? How about we just get this over with? Then maybe you could have some peace.
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