EPISODE 6/19/01
Lily And Simon Talk At Al's

Home
Simonscript
June, 2001


TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 2001

Scene 1:
[ Al's Diner ]

>> Lily: Okay, you dropped this on me at the church and then you don't say anything about it on the way over here in the car. What's going on?
>> Simon: Lily, I guess I'm wondering if I should have just kept my mouth shut. I don't want you going and getting on a plane to Malta, convinced that Holden and Luke are still alive when I might be wrong.
>> Lily: If I get on a plane, Simon, it'll have absolutely nothing to do with you. What I'm feeling inside, the fact that they're out there somewhere, and they're alive -- I had this feeling inside of me long before you said a word. I can't be around my family right now, because they want me to say good-bye to my husband and my son. I can't take my daughter, Faith, back to our house because of what's happened there. I just walked out of my husband's memorial service, because I cannot accept what's going on, so do not worry about influencing me. I'm not asking for hope. I'm not. Please just tell me what you know.
>> Simon: Okay. It's not much. Damian may have rented a third boat. Jake and I tracked it down and found something stuck to the back of one of the seats.
>> Lily: What?
>> Simon: You ever seen it?
>> Lily: A lollipop? Is it supposed to mean something?
>> Simon: I knew it was a long shot.
>> Lily: Wait a minute! Wait! Holden had this with him. The day of the explosion, it was in his pocket!

Scene 2:
[ Al's Diner ]

>> Lily: This is a real lead, Simon.
>> Simon: Tell me what you're thinking.
>> Lily: Faith had a lollipop just like this one the day we -- the last day that we were all together. She went to the pediatrician with Holden. She got a lollipop from the doctor. She didn't finish it. Holden put it in his pocket for her. Where did you say you found this? You said something about a third boat?
>> Simon: Yes. It was in a rented speedboat, stuck to the back of one of the seats, and it struck me as odd. But we shouldn't read into this too much, okay? Lily, it could be just a total coincidence.
>> Lily: Why would you bring this to me unless you were thinking exactly what I'm thinking? If Holden left this for somebody to find, then he and Luke did not die in that explosion. They're alive. I've never been more sure of anything in my life.

Scene 3:
[ Al's Diner ]

>> Simon: It's just a lollipop, Lily. It's not a magic wand. Finding this does not mean that they're still alive.
>> Lily: But it's something. That's Faith's lollipop. I know it is. I saw it. I saw it that day of the explosion. Holden had it. I know it's -- I know it's Faith's. So tell me -- the boat. Something about a boat.
>> Simon: Jake and I saw a phone number that Damian had written down in the hotel room. It was for a boat rental place owned by some guy named -- Doyle. Doyle, in Kenosha.
>> Lily: Wisconsin?
>> Simon: Just north of the Illinois border.
>> Lily: Did this Doyle person? Did he know Damian?
>> Simon: No, no. That's the thing. He says he had never seen him before. Funny thing is though, this guy, this guy now has enough cash to retire to Florida.
>> Lily: Damian paid him off.
>> Simon: Either that or the boat rental business has become very lucrative.
>> Lily: Well if Damian did rent a speedboat, then Luke and Holden could have ended up on it, and Holden could have put this on the seat -- stuck it to one of the seats.
>> Simon: Just remember, though, that this boat must get rented out all the time, okay, Lily? To families who have kids, with lollipops.
>> Lily: Maybe -- maybe there was a family on that boat, but maybe it was my family. Maybe Holden stuck this to one of the seats so that I would know that he and Luke are alive. Oh. Oh, my God, please let me be right. Please let my husband and my son be okay. Please keep looking. Please! There's gotta be more leads.
>> Lucinda: Lily! "Leads"? Don't listen to him. He's deluding you. Consider the source. Once a con man, always a con man.

Scene 4:
[ Al's Diner ]

>> Lucinda: Mr. Frasier, are you enjoying this? Exploiting my daughter's grief.
>> Lily: My heart is broken, not my brain. No one's exploiting anybody.
>> Lucinda: Listen, Mr. Frasier, I will give you, in cash, whatever you want so that you go away and leave my daughter and stop distressing her.
>> Simon: This is going to be very hard for you to fathom. But this is not about money. I would never do anything to hurt Lily, but since you're not gonna believe me, all right, fine, I might as well leave. Are you going to be all right? I hope I helped.
>> Lily: You have. Can we talk again, please?
>> Lucinda: No. No.
>> Lily: Mother! You are so wrong about what Simon is trying to do. I begged him -- I tried to drag the information out of him.

[ Outside Al's Diner ]

>> Rose: Hey, Outback! Hey! Come on, don't go.
>> Simon: Why? Why stay? To try and convince the Queen Mother that I was only trying to help her daughter? You know, I don't give a damn what she thinks.
>> Rose: What about me? You care what I think? Why don't ya give me half a chance?

[ Al's Diner ]

>> Lucinda: My darling daughter. This is going -- this is what is tearing you apart. You know they're gone. You know it. And I know it. And you know it because you saw it with your very eyes. You saw the boat explode.
>> Lily: No, Mother. I saw a boat explode! But Holden and Luke weren't on it. And if I'm right -- and Simon thinks that I am right -- they're alive out there somewhere, then! Simon found out that Damian rented another boat -- a speedboat. They tracked down the speedboat and they found this stuck to one of the seats.
>> Lucinda: Sweetheart, that's a lollipop. That proves that Luke and Holden are alive?
>> Lily: It's a sign. It's a sign that I'm on the right track. I believe that Holden had this stuck to one of the seats so that I would know that he and Luke are alive. He knows that I would remember the fact that he had this lollipop that day. And if I found this lollipop, he knew that I would not stop until I tracked the both of them down, wherever they are. So that's what I'm going to do, I'm going to follow every sign that Holden leaves me, and I am not going to give up looking for them until I bring them home.

[ Outside Al's Diner ]

>> Rose: Look, I am a part of this family. And I'm worried about everybody -- Lily, Iva, Emma -- the whole clan.
>> Simon: You want Holden back as badly as Lily. Rose, I know how much you loved the guy.
>> Rose: Like Liberace loved rings, yeah. But it didn't stop there. I fell for all of them -- all of them, Faith and Luke and Lily, too. There's something about those people. I stayed too long. And I lost myself. But they changed me. Before I knew it, I was so far gone on all of them, I just wanted to settle for just a piece of what they have, you know? Can you understand that?
>> Simon: Yeah. Yeah, I think I can.
>> Rose: Yeah, of course you can. That's why you went off to run out and investigate this explosion. Lily didn't ask you to do nothing, and there you a like Sir Lancelot out there, searching everything down. Because you still got it bad for her, don't you?
>> Simon: That's why I gotta back off. Look, if Lily wants help, if Lily needs help, it's gotta come from the family, not me. So Rose, if you want to know what I found out about Holden and Luke, you've gotta ask Lily. Let her tell you what I told her. Make up your own mind.
>> Rose: You better believe that I will. And if Holden is out there and Luke, I'll find them myself.

[ Al's Diner ]

>> Lucinda: Darling, you mustn't let your heart's -- desires and needs trick you into believing something that is gonna be so dreadfully painful down the road. You have to be strong now. You have to be strong for Faith.
>> Lily: My heart is not tricking me, mother. My heart is leading me. And as for being strong for Faith, that's exactly what I'm doing. If it's my responsibility to bring her father and her brother home, I welcome the responsibility. I take it on!
>> Lucinda: Honey, you know, grief is like that. You've gotta -- you can't -- you can't skirt around it. You just -- you have to wade right into it.
>> Lily: Whatever way this turns out, I'll handle it. Okay? But I'm a little angry right now. And I have a choice to make. And I am choosing to fight for my husband and my son.
>> Lucinda: You're the bravest girl I ever met. Bravest girl I ever saw in my life. You are, but there are some battles you can't win.
>> Lily: Then I'll find it out the hard way. Because I can't lose them, Mother.
>> Lucinda: I understand that.
>> Lily: You can't take away my hope. No one can. So please don't try.


Home
Simonscript
June, 2001