FEBRUARY 1, 1999

Transcribed by Barb

Jesse is at the door to the lighthouse and knocks.

Jesse: "Michelle are you in there?"

Danny: "Listen to me--There are TWO lives at stake here-- Jesse's---and yours--- now come ON.

Jesse: "Open up it's me Jesse.

Danny pulling at his jacket on Michelle's shoulders: " Now come on!"

Michelle: "No…NO there has to be another way!"

Danny: "No Michelle!"

Michelle: "No…No Jesse!"

Jesse: "Michelle?"

Michelle runs to the door as Danny tries to stop reaching for her as she goes by.

Michelle: "Jesse please don't come in here. I don't want to see you Jesse."

Michelle is leaning on the door with all of her weight holding on to the doorknob.

Michelle: "No I don't --I Don't want you to see me. I don't want to see you."

Jesse: "Michelle open the door. What's going on? Look I Know you wanted me to come up here I Know you did!"

Michelle: "No maybe a part of me did but, but it was the old part."

Jesse gets the door open.

Michelle begging: "Jesse…We have so many memories, we have so many beautiful memories, please don't ruin them!"

Jesse: "Michelle how am I going to ruin anything?"

Michelle: "Trust me…Just GO!"

Jesse: "Michelle--Look I'm not going to get shut out by you again OK? I love you. I knew I was right about this."

Jesse forces his way into the room.

Jesse: "Let me in!"

Michelle crying: "No."

Jesse looks at Michelle in Danny's jacket, turns and sees that Danny's in bed. Jesse turns back to Michelle stunned: "Why? Why?"

Michelle clutching the jacket around her: "You know how much I love this place and I wanted to share it with my husband."

Jesse: "You can't be serious Michelle. Michelle this is our place. How could you do this after everything that we've been through here Michelle!"

End of scene.

Michelle and Jesse walk farther into the room. Danny's still in bed.

Michelle speaking softly, gently: "I hate that you had to see this. I'm sorry but you--you have to understand…I'm with Danny. I love him…I love this place and Danny's my husband, he's my family. My family has owned this place for years and now that he's a part of me I wanted to share it with him. I'm sorry, if I'd known you were going to come I'd have brought him here a different time when we wouldn't have been interrupted."

Jesse:" I don't believe this. Is this some kind of setup?"

Glancing at Danny. Michelle still speaking softly: "No this is REAL. I love him, I keep trying to tell you that but don't seem to get it." Michelle lets Danny's jacket fall from her shoulders and crying softly: "Jesse----Look----open your eyes. We're finished, we're over." Jesse can't look in Michelle in the eyes and Danny looks concerned.

Michelle: "I need you---I NEED YOU to listen to me, I need you to hear--hear what I'm telling you--OK? You need to stop bothering me, you need to go away. You need to just leave me alone!" Jesse turns back and forth not able to look at Michelle or Danny.

Jesse: "Is that what you really want?"

Michelle putting Danny's jacket back on: "Yes--that's what I really want."

Jesse: "Fine. I won't bother you again!"

Jesse leaves. Michelle turns sobbing and starts walking towards the door, her knees buckle and she falls on them next to Danny in the bed.

End of scene

 

Michelle is cradling her head in her hands on the bed.

Danny gently sighs: "Michelle are you OK?"

Michelle: "How can you ask me that. Did you see the look on his face?"

Danny softly: "You did what you had to do Jesse won't be a threat to your safety anymore."

Michelle: "My safety? Do you think I care about my safety? Do you think I care about my happiness or anything else in my life? Nothing matters! I just broke Jesse heart---my Mom's heart!"

 

Danny gently: "I'm sorry---I'm sorry it had to be this way."

Danny sighs: "What?----What can I do?"

Michelle: "I think you've done enough already."

Danny concern fills his voice: "You know Michelle…I know how much this cost you. I know."

Michelle crying: "You have no idea."

Danny slowly leans down to Michelle: "If you could just stop seeing me as your enemy and--come on--try to let me make you feel better."

Michelle: "The way a man makes a women feel better?" Danny's fingers are curled in Michelle's hair and are caressing her cheek. "The way a husband makes a wife feel better?"

Danny: "Uh huh."

Michelle: "Oh you have some nerve. Just don't you get it. JESSES GONE. He's never coming back." Michelle wipes her face with hands and starts to stand. "Alright the shows over!" Michelle throws Danny his sweater. "Put your clothes back on and you know what---Stay away the hell away from me!"

 

 

Michelle starts to walk by Danny, Danny puts his arm out and grabs Michelle by the waist pulling her back on the bed next to him. Danny anger in his voice: "Don't you ever--talk to me like that again.!"

Michelle coldly: "Why? Because I'm you wife?"

Danny still angry: "Yes--Because YOU…you are my wife Michelle."

Michelle: "Well before you carry me off to a cave why don't you clear something up for me."

Danny leaning back in the bed: "Whats that?"

Michelle: "What happens now? Jesse's gone." Michelle tries not to cry. "He's not coming back."

Danny: "Ya, what do you mean."

Michelle: "So tonight, today, tomorrow, the next day, the day after that, where do we go from here?"

Danny: "We're having the wedding just liked we planned."

Michelle: "And then what Danny. What? Am I supposed to fall in love with you, learn to love you?"

Danny looking anywhere but at Michelle: "Look I don't care one way or the other. OK?"

Michelle softly: "LIAR! Jesse told me how you feel about me Danny and this marriage is not about you protecting me or saving me anymore. It's about YOU and YOU wanting something that you are--NEVER----NEVER going to have!"

Danny can't take his eyes off of Michelle.

End of scene

Danny and Michelle are getting dressed.

Danny: "You know if you spend all your time trying to get away from me and my family you're just going to make your life a living hell."

Michelle: "No that's your job. I didn't ask to be married to someone that I barely know."

Danny: "No. You'd rather be dead!"

Michelle: "Ya." Choking back tears. "After what I just did to Jesse---Yes I would rather be dead!"

Danny: "You're acting like a spoiled brat Michelle."

Michelle: "Fine! Then divorce me!"

Danny waving his shoe around: "Look--I didn't want my life to end up like this either but I'm trying my best to make this work!"

Michelle still emotional: "HOW---HOW can this possible work? I DON'T LOVE YOU--I don't love you…I never will!"

 Danny: "Never say never Michelle. My grandparents had an arranged marriage and----"

Michelle: "And What they lived happily ever after?" Angrily blowing out candles.

Danny: "Ya they did! As a matter of fact they did!"

Michelle blowing out the candles: "Well good for them!"

Danny: "No good for us! If my grandparents never laid eyes on each other (Danny's thisclose to Michelle's face) before they were married and they ended up happy then maybe we can to!"

Michelle incredulous: "So if it's good enough for the Santos family it's good enough for us? Is that another guide in the Santos family guide to living? If you don't kill the girl--marry her then maybe she'll love you!"

Danny taking his jacket off of Michelle: "Maybe if you' stopped fighting me long enough to give it a chance--Ya!!"

Michelle: "I have news for you! We're living ALMOST in the 21st century--21st! We're in Springfield not some third world country and I DON"T have to love you. If you were the last man on earth--lowering her voice--I wouldn't love you. This is (pointing to Danny) about you wanting me to feel something for you the way you feel about me."

Danny's staring at Michelle shaken and then a mask falls over his face: "You know what? You don't know how I feel! Anyway our feelings don't matter."

Michelle: "They matter to ME. Walking towards Danny choking back tears. Because I had something--I had something that was so strong and more beautiful that anything you could even fathom and what I just had to do was the hardest thing I'll ever have to do in my life!"

Danny putting on his coat: "Jesse's a big boy, he'll get over it. Believe me!"

Michelle: "And maybe he will! Still choking back tears, Maybe he'll go to Drew I just handed him to her on a silver platter."

Danny: "Well at least he's safe now. That IS what you wanted---Right Michelle?"

Michelle trying to control herself: "You know what I? I wish I'd never met your brother because none of this would've happened if I hadn't! We'd be safe and happy!"

Danny: "NO Michelle--If you hadn't killed my brother none of this would've happened."

Danny throws Michelle her sweater., Michelle's crying, Danny covers his face in his hands and sighs: "Get dressed. We're going home. My mothers expecting us for dinner."

End of scene

 

Danny and Michelle walk into the Santos home. Michelle looks like she's in a daze. Danny looks around to make sure no one can see like this.

Danny: "OK. Look we're home now so you can drop the cold shoulder treatment. I don't give a damn what you do when we're alone but that face won't fly with my mother."

Carmen calls for Danny. "Ya Mother I'll be there in a minute." Danny turns to Michelle and takes her by the arms: "Hey, Listen to me. Pull yourself together, She cannot see that you've been crying."

Michelle snaps out of it clenches her teeth: "I'll just go splash some cold water on my face."

Danny: "Do that…Be quick about it we're having dinner soon."

Michelle goes to freshen up and Danny enters the study and pours himself a drink. Danny informs Carmen that Jesse had given his notice about 10 minutes earlier and wouldn't be working for the family. Carmen wants to know what Danny did to him--Danny says nothing…Jesse just realized that his and Michelle's marriage was for real and warns Carmen that he wants her to start treating Michelle with respect. Michelle enters and tells Danny that she would like to speak with Carmen alone. As Danny leaves he gives Michelle a small hug as he walks by and she leans into it. Michelle tells Carmen she wants a big wedding and wants to meet the whole family. Carmen isn't sure anymore about the wedding and warns Michelle that she knows what Michelle is up to. Carmen leaves and Michelle vows to bring down the family.

End of show

 

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