Episode 17: “FACE/OFF”



SC.1a: EXT. –SUE ELLEN´S MANOR AT TURTLE CREEK, DALLAS:

(Establishing shot of the manor, at the early afternoon. Sue Ellen parks her dark grey Mercedes by the entryway, and she gets out of it. She walks pensively towards the house door and opens it, and then gets inside. The murmuring of the kids playing and chatting with each other calls her attention. Sue Ellen stands aback and closes her eyes as she deeply takes a breath to face her family, in spite of her state of mind.)

SC.1b: INT. – SUE ELLEN´S LIVING-ROOM:

Sue Ellen: Hello everybody! (she finally says, with a smile in her face) You´re obviously having a funny time, aren´t you, Ellie?
Ellie: Hi Sue Ellen! (The girl gets up and rushes to the person who might be considered her step-grandmother)
Cally: Honey don´t call your grandma like that...!
S.E.: Don´t worry Cally. That´s fine for me, though I´ve never grown accustomed to the idea of being a grandma, even having two beautiful grandchildren...
Jimmy: Besides she´s not your grandma, Ellie. Don´t ye know who you´re named after?
James: Hey come on kids, what´s goin´on here? Let Sue Ellen have a break and get comfortable and you go on playing with the videogame I brought to you.
John Ross (walking downstairs and joining them at the living-room): Hello mother...How did it go?
S.E.: O.K....I´m gonna go up to my room, don´t worry about me, all right? Enjoy yourselves.
J.R.: (Exchanging looks with Cally and James): Wait mother! (He follows her, who holds his arm as they walk upstairs) How was Rusty Dusty?
S.E.: My God John Ross, don´t be so nasty...! (Hitting his arm jokingly)
J.R.: Was he that bad? (They both walk on and out of shot, returning to the first floor)



Cally (looking upset): Is anything wrong with Sue Ellen?
James: Well, she ´s just met Dusty Farlow, as it seems...
Cally: Clayton´s son?
James: Yeah, and her former lover too. The first time she dumped my dad, she did it for Dusty...but things didn´t work out.
Cally: Are you hinting they could have a second chance now?
James: I´d love to, but all in this family have had experiences I wouldn´t wish to anyone, and she and John Ross aren´t an exception to it.
Cally: I know, and sometimes I feel lucky and guilty at the same time for being so happy with you now...
James: Don´t be silly. Now, only today matters...
Jimmy: Come back here daddy and help me, Ellie thinks she can win over me and she´s just a silly girl...
Cally: He´s your son, there´s no doubt...(laughing and making James laugh)
James: I suppose some things are transmitted through genes. (Walking towards the place where the children are playing)
Cally: I hope others can´t be never transmitted...just for the sake of us...(she mutters to herself)

SC.1c: EXT. – SUE ELLEN´S BEDROOM:

J.R.: I can´t remember anything at all about the time we spent at the Southern Cross Ranch. If I hadn´t heard Grandpa Farlow talk about it so often, I wouldn´t even remember its name.
S.E.: It´s natural darlin´. You´re hardly two years old when we moved in to their house...
J.R.: Don´t make me wait: what did Dusty want to talk of?
S.E.: He lost the ranch due to his divorce settlement from Carrie, Barbara´s daughter. First he had health problems related with his former injury, then lost his dad and, eventually, his wife walked out and almost left him broke.
J.R.: Is that all?
S.E.: Can you see thru me?
J.R.: Yes I can. Especially if you may be having a hard time.
S.E.: Dear son...you´ve got a special gift to know my real feelings. Actually Dusty asked me for help, he´s down and wants us to get back together.
J.R.: You and he...back as a couple?
S.E.: Yes. Suddenly I feel so confused...It brought to my mind the months I spent thinking of Dusty and wishing he wasn´t dead, and how frustrated I was to know he was gonna marry Linda...
J.R.: Have you ever wondered why all his marriages failed?
S.E.: No, of course not...
J.R.: Well, maybe it´s time to wonder now...(he kisses his mother and leaves her alone.)

SC.2: INT. – BOB EWING´S MANOR AT DALLAS, TEXAS:

(Establishing shot of the manor, zooming into one of the first floor windows)

Val: I don´t want you to get involve in anything dangerous...
Gary: Val, you must trust us, it´s really important for us to go.
Bob: Gary´s right Valene. We can´t tell you more for safety reasons. (Bob puts one hand at one of his ears as the other points at the phone.)
Val (looking serious): No, not again...I lost my first husband Ben for something like that, and I myself went thru an awful situation when I began to search for a biography. Our grandson is next door and I do not want that lifestyle for him or any of our sons either, especially Lucy.
Bob: Would you prefer us to wait for Pam to be back before leaving?
Val: I simply want a quiet life...It´s just about time...(staring at Gary, until he holds her and she looks at Bob)
Bob: All right, we´ll wait for Pam, and, if you want to, the four of us will drive together...(Val gets away from Gary and holds Bob too. The door is half-opened and a surprised Peter shows his head. The others notice him and smile amused.)



SC.3: INT. – FARLOW MANOR AT BRADDOCK, TEXAS:

Forsythe: Mrs. Farlow asked me to tell you that she pays you off through the check you will find in this envelope.
Julian: I want to talk to her in person Forsythe, and won´t leave until I have.
Forsythe (saddened): I deeply regret this situation sir, but it´s Mrs. Farlow´s orders and I have to respect them.
Julian: Madeleine! (he shouts. He lets the butler back and runs upstairs) Madeleine, I know you´re here and I won´t go until I had talked to you...!
Madeleine (she comes up): Don´t worry Forsythe dear. You can retire...(then he leaves and Madeleine walks into Julian´s bedroom and begins to empty his closet) Knowing you, you´ll probably want to take all this design clothes I bought you (she takes the hangers off and leaves the suits over the bed).
Julian (holding her arm and making her to look at him): You will listen to me.
Madeleine: Don´t make me laugh. You will listen to me. I found you exactly on the worst streets of your city, running away from the police. You are a runaway from justice, a suspect of murder, and I can immediately cancel your green card, since I´m your employer, at least until now.
Julian: Why did you let me into your limo and make me your bodyguard? I´d like to know what you were doing at the Budapest slums...
Madeleine: Frankly my dear, I don´t give a damn.
Julian: Maybe I was a suspect of murder but you are a suspect of a few murders, aside of many more crimes...
Madeleine: Get rid of those delusions of grandeur Julian...or should I call you...(she waits for a second to remember his real name) Kóvacs János, which is, by the way, a rather common name in your country, as I understand.
Julian: I was not wanted for murder, but for...who cares...Maybe my name is common, but when you met me, I was fighting for values you have never known...
Madeleine (wide eyes open, skeptical): I am still on time to report you as responsible of my late husband´s death, now get out of here...

(Fade into next scene: Madeleine throws his elegant design clothes off the window. His suits end up at the pool and Julian jumps into it to pick it up, until Madeleine slams the window and he smiles...)

SC. 4: EXT – EWING MANOR GARDEN:



(Medium shot of Bob and Pam walking around the manor garden at night, and then sitting down by the pool. The song “Through the years” begins to play)

“I can´t remember when you weren´t there
When I didn´t care for anyone but you
I swear we´ve been through everything there is
Can´t imagine anything we´ve missed
Can´t imagine anything the two of us can´t do

Bob: I asked Gary to take Val and Jimmy to the movies, and Lucy will spend the night at Sue Ellen´s…so we´ll have time to have a talk alone...
Pam: I´m so sorry for slapping you when we argued before I left...It was the first and last time this will ever happen. I promise.
Bob: I know Pam...You´re goin´ through a really stressing situation that has overlasted due to my inertia, my passivity...When we lost Southfork, I also lost part of me along with those lands. As if the only thing I kept from Daddy and Mama, and even J.R., had been taken away from me. And I respected Clayton´s opinion so much that his last will was sacred to me...
Pam: I know darlin´. All my life I wanted to have a son of my own. I had two miscarriages before to adopt Christopher, you know...and the idea to disturb his childhood after my car crash was what obsessed me before leaving that hospital...and your lives.
Bob: I know Pam. All that is forgiven and not part of us anymore. Maybe it was my own emotional condition, but when you returned from that trip to Milan, I noticed you were more distant than ever...They all had a lot of trouble back then: Gary and Val had to take care of Peter and Lucy was still in a coma, John Ross and James broke, Sue Ellen delegated to you and disappeared, Barbara tried, unsuccessfully, to get our support to contest Clayton´s will, and Donna was working hard to overcome the loss of her son-in-law´s loss and a big man too, Dave Culver.
Pam: I´m aware of all that...Have you ever thought that Christopher could have been in psychological trouble when we were living at Canada? Cliff told me once that he had received a couple of calls from his teachers who asked him for permission to put him under therapy. He seemed to have a hard time assuming he had a brother out there, Jenna´s son...Cliff visited him and talked to his therapist, and everything seemed to be under control...
Bob: Being apart from you one more time has confirmed what I´ve always known...(The Kenny Rogers´ song continues)

I can´t remember when you weren´t there
When I didn´t care for anyone but you
I swear we´ve been through everything there is
Can´t imagine anything we´ve missed
Can´t imagine anything the two of us can´t do

(Pam stands up, takes her shoes off and sits down on the edge of the pool...The garden lights illuminate the night and give a magic touch to the water...Bob does the same thing...)
Bob: I wanna spend the rest of my life with you, and fight together to get our son back. But if he had decided to live on his own, then we´ll have to accept that. I love you Pam...
Pam: Bob, there´s something I´ve got to tell you...I must tell you...
Bob: Do you love me Pam?
Pam (teary-eyed): I always have Bob...
Bob: Therefore you don´t have any obligation to me...Anything you wanna tell me, just say it tomorrow...(Bob tenderly takes her head towards his and kisses her with passion, as the song plays on).



Through the years, you´ve never let me down
You turned my life around, the sweetest days I´ve found
I´ve found with you ... through the years
I´ve never been afraid, I´ve loved the life weve made
And I´m so glad I´ve stayed, right here with you
Through the years

I can´t remember what I used to do
Who I trusted whom, I listened to before
I swear you´ve taught me everything I know
Can´t imagine needing someone so
But through the years it seems to me
I need you more and more

Through the years, through all the good and bad
I knew how much we had, I´ve always been so glad
To be with you ... through the years
It´s better everyday, you´ve kissed my tears away
As long as it´s okay, I´ll stay with you
Through the years

Through the years, when everything went wrong
Together we were strong, I know that I belonged
Right here with you ... through the years
I never had a doubt, wed always work things out
I´ve learned what love´s about, by loving you
Through the years

(Fade into next scene: from the bottom of the pool, we can see Bob and Pam´s silhouettes getting into the pool in their underwear...When they rock bottom, swim upwards together and surface, still kissing. Bob takes his only cloth and so does Pam with her underwear, and they start making love...The song continúes until the end.)

Through the years, you´ve never let me down
You´ve turned my life around, the sweetest days I´ve found
I´ve found with you ... through the years
It´s better everyday, you´ve kissed my tears away
As long as it´s okay, I´ll stay with you
Through the years!”

(1)

(Fade out and End of Act 1)

SC.5: INT. – BARNES HOUSE LIVING-ROOM, AT BRADDOCK, TEXAS



(Establishing shot of the Barnes House, near the former Ewing lands. Medium shot of Cliff, Pam and Will sitting at the Barnes´ living-room table. Afton walks into the room and joins them)

Afton: A little more of coffee Will?
Will: No thank you Afton.
Cliff: Well dear cousin, what´s all this mystery about?
Will: Before to go on, I must know if you are going to help your sister and her family to get their lands back, unconditionally.
Afton (wide eyes open): Is it possible?
Cliff: I´m offended by your doubts, Will.
Pam: Of course he is, Will. He better is...
Afton: Don´t worry, he will...(Cliff arches his eyebrows and nods.)
Will (looking serious, while he opens his suitcase and takes a bulky folder out of it): The information I´m going to share with you must be kept secret...On my recent trip to San Francisco, I accessed confidential data of Madeleine Farlow´s personal account, which she oddly opened there, not in Dallas. Through my connection, I found out that Madeleine´s account balance is 200.000 dollars, a ridiculous sum, knowing that she is the universal heiress to the Farlow fortune who now owns the Southfork and Southern Cross lands...



Afton: Madeleine got the Farlow Ranch too? Oh mine, she´s more dangerous than I thought...
Will: Afton, “dangerous” is an understatement for her. Just wait and see...(Will shows them photocopies of driver licenses from several states and countries, featuring different pictures of Madeleine) Sally Matthews, Annie Savoy, Louise E. Sawyer, Michaela Odone, Regina Love (I really love the latter, though there are even more...), Helen Prejean, Jackie Harrison, Beverly Clark, Susan Tomalin...and maybe someone we didn´t find. As you can see, all of them are forged licenses for or by Madeleine, who has bank accounts all over the world at these fictional people´s names, preferably at the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
Cliff: Perhaps I should contact her and ask her abut her methods...
Afton: Oh stop it, Cliff. This is serious, let Will finish...
Will: However, there is one leakproof account: the most recent one with unknown name. She travelled to the Washington D.C. bank to do the signing. We found out the name of the man who was with her then: a member of the U.S. Navy, a retired high position who´s probably his accomplice for her next and mysterious operation...
Pam: With this record, it makes me shudder to think what she´s up to now...
Will: It will possibly be her last and final operation, before her vanishing act. If we don´t move fast, maybe soon we won´t even take a look at the Southfork lands from a distance...
Cliff: You´re talkin´ of fraud, speculation, or something?
Will: And also a much more serious thing, like Clayton Farlow´s murder...(Pam and Afton look at each other and then at Will)
Pam: I think it´s time to talk with Barbara Southworth...
Will: I agree with you...(zooming in to his unusually tough cold face).

SC.6: EXT. – WEINSTEIN ACADEMY AT HOUSTON, TEXAS

(Establishing shot of the Academy entrance, as Bob and Pam wait for Jane, Chris´s presumed girlfriend, who soon comes out)

Jane: Hello I´m Jane. Are you Mr. and Mrs. Ewing?
Bob: Yeah, she is my wife Pamela and I´m Bob.
Jane (looking amazed): Oh, do you mean that you are Christopher Ewing´s parents?
Bob: Yes, that´s right.
Pam: Is true that you used to date our son?
Jane: Yes it is, but I don´t understand why you´re making me this question...Chris explained to me that he told you about me when we met and also that we got together again a few months ago...
Bob: That´s impossible. As we understand, you two met when we checked Chris into the Academy...and began to date a couple of years later.
Jane: Yep, at least openly. You must know that Chris had a lot of problems of adaptation at the beginning...
Pam: Yes, though what you´re telling us is a big surprise, Jane, ´cause Bob and I were living at Toronto when this happened, and Chris never told us about you two. We found out through a third person...(Jane walks away from them and gets close to one of the lush trees surrounding the building. They go after her.)
Jane: All this is very upsetting to me. Don´t think you have a reason to lie to me, but if you´re right, it was Chris the one who lied to me...
Bob: Jane, we need your help: Chris is missing for about eight months. We don´t know where he can be, but his absence is affecting both of us more and more, especially his mother...(Jane looks at Pam)
Pam: Please, Jane, I don´t know if you have any baby, but Chris is our only son. You know he´s adopted, but we never treated him as such, just as if I had given birth to him myself.
Jane: Oh, Pamela...This is getting more difficult every day...
Bob: Our son is trapped in a troubled situation, isn´t he? (Crying, Jane stares at her...) Don´t think it over and just get into our car if you really do love Christopher...(zooming into Jane´s face)

SC.7: INT. – GARY AND VAL´S AT GALVESTON, TEXAS



(Subtitle: “Two weeks after”. Zoom into one of the house windows. First shot of frowned, arm-crossed Bobby)

Gary: This can´t go on Bobby...Since your 18th birthday, you´ve comin´ and goin´ with no explanation and using your credit card...
Bobby: I just went out on a holiday trip to San Francisco to celebrate my birthday with some friends, what´s wrong about that?
Gary: You spent three weeks at a luxury hotel and flew to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, business of course. Don´t wanna intrude in your private life but you seemed to want to impress someone...
Bobby: I don´t need the Ewing money for that, I am good enough for that!
Gary: I give up! (Gary drops onto the couch, crossing his arms)
Val (getting closer to him): Sweetheart, I don´t want you to make a mistake with us. We do love you and respect your lifestyle but you can´t forget you get a job and that Ray was expecting you back at the hotel after that first weekend...
Bobby: You´re arguing with me because you know I´m gay and not being a minor anymore, I´m free to do whatever I want to...
Val: That´s nonsense. We always let you and your sister Betsy free to do your will. You didn´t want to go to college and we accepted that. Ray is a great guy and we thought it would be fine for you to work with him at the hotel. But you gotta prove you´re responsible and committed to enjoy all the advantages we can offer you...You must remember that, the years we lived at Knots Landing, we had a modest life at that little two-floor house that Bobby and your Gradma gave to us. Your dad has invested all his money on his natural gas company and never asked you to work with him, the way Jock told him when he was young. Precisely because he wanted to get to this state of things.



Gary (standing up and walking towards Val and Bobby): Your mother is telling the truth boy...I used to have a great time doing the ranch duties until J.R pulled us to kick us off...first me and then your mama...Please learn from our mistakes. We wasted a lot of time for putting up with that shit and surrender to J.R. No J.R. any more in our lives. Nor second chances most times.
Bobby: (turning around to hide his tears) O.K., I´ll think of all this...Please let me alone now... (Gary nods and puts his arm around Val´s shoulder, then she turns and adds:)
Val: Honey, if you wanna talk of something...anything...you know you can count on me...(they close the door and Bobby is let alone. He picks up his cell phone and searches for Will´s number in his agenda. But instead of pushing the call button, he angrily throws the phone onto his bed)



Bobby (in low voice): You damned Will, I hate you, I hate you...God, how I...! (he drops over his bed and goes on crying in silence)

SC.8: INT. – KREBBSES´ AT SOUTHFORK HOTEL

(Donna walks into the widest room of the Krebbses´ hotel annex and joins Ray, Barbara and Julian)

Donna: I just talked to him. He´s confirmed he´ll attend the fundrasing´ Ball at Southfork...
Ray: Great Donna...! Everything goes our way.
Barbara: Nothing should stop us from kick that witch off the lands that belong to us by birthright...She´s a speculator, one of the top execs in a fake corporation that has been conning the European landowners for a decade and now is planning to do the same onto us...
Julian: Don´t underestimate that woman just like I did. Her whole life revolves around land purchase and sale, she has no personal life. Her marriages have been just financial operations and she has no scruples at all.
Ray: You didn´t tell us if she had something to do with Clayton´s death yet.
Barbara (looking at Julian with trust): Julian and I have made an agreement about this subject and prefer to keep it secret until time is right...
Ray: All we have is at stake, and this can be applied to Dusty too...
Barbara: I have no resentment towards him, Ray, in fact I feel a big sympathy for being able to stand my unbearable daughter Carrie for so long.
Julian: I have nothing, only the freedom to stay here, in your country. That´s what I have to lose...(looking at Barbara), well, maybe something else...
Donna: May be talk you and I in private Barbara?
Barbara (smiling): Sure. Pardon us...(Barbara and Donna go to the kitchen and the latter closes the door)
Barbara: Shoot me honey.



Donna: I only want to tell you a couple of things, and will go to the point...
Barbara: That´s fine for me.
Donna: First is, if as it seems, you´re having an affair with Julian and this puts our plan in danger, Ray and I will support Bobby if he decided to stand against you again.
Barbara: That´s fair.
Donna: Second: I know everything about your relationship with Ray, previous to our new marriage. I can understand why he did it and I know what you saw in him, and that you let him go so he could re-unite his family...
Barbara: I´m dying to know the end of the story...
Donna: Ray is my husband, and I would fight for him tooth and nail if someone put in the middle of us. I did it before and I would do it again. Move just one teeth to try something with him again...and you´d better start to run off...
Barbara (smiling ear to ear, though she feels somewhat afraid): I respect you big deal, darlin´. In fact, you remind me of myself when I was in college. How could you get to our age and still be like that?
Donna: Quite easy: I married two extraordinary men who also were big pals and never told them one lie. If you think that Ray explained to me something about what happened when I was in Washington, no, he didn´t: he didn´t have to. (Donna looks at her eyes and heads to the door).
Barbara: Donna! (she turns around) I envy you and not only for having Ray. You´re a helluva woman and hopefully we´ll be friends.
Donna (sonriendo): Course. I´d love that...(zooming into her face)

SC.9: INT. – DUSTY´S MOTEL AT DALLAS



(First shot of door nº 37, and zoom backward, until Dusty´s back appears. The door is opened and we see a first shot of Madeleine)

Madeleine: Hi darlin´.
Dusty: Give me a reason to not to slam the door onto your nose...
Madeleine: What about this document?
Dusty (taking it and reading the first page, he waves her to make her in): What the hell is all this of the unpaid doubts of the Southern Cross?
Madeleine (entering and checking the room out with her look): You didn´t think I forgot my dear stepson, did you? I didn´t buy that ranch to your wife to remember the terrible time you made me go thru when Clayton and I visited you a couple of years ago...
Dusty: You deserved that and much more. I wish I could have opened Clayton´s eyes that day to get rid of an opportunist like you...
Madeleine: It´s funny..and don´t mean this trashy motel...Saving a couple of little exceptions, everyone at Southfork welcomed me arm-open, but you...I don´t know, maybe it had something to do with the fact that you were just the bastard son of Clayton´s crazy sister...
Dusty: What do you want?
Madeleine: I own the promissory note for the sum then owed by the ranch to Treasurer, besides of other providers from the area. It was part of the agreement I made with your beloved ex-wife...a very clever and pretty woman, by the way.
Dusty: You two share the same sense of family loyalty, no doubt about it...
Madeleine: Fine then, I can´t waste any more time with you. You have six months, not even one more day, to return to me the three million dollars the ranch owed to the “Cattlemen´s Bank”. Your debts are settled with the creditors and, from now on, I am the one who will make you pay those debts. If you don´t pay, you´ll end up in jail. Ah, and I´ll see you at the fund-raising Ball at Southfork, oh, I meant, at the Farlow Manor. Costumes are required and I suggest you the costume of drunk beggar to save money...(Madeleine leaves right away, leaving the door open. Dusty closes it and heads to the table, where he has his last bourbon bottle, and fills an empty glass, which he quickly drinks...)




SC.10: INT – GOVERNMENT BUILDING AT HOUSTON, TEXAS

(First shot of an angry Bob)

Bob: Where the hell is my son Christopher?
Professor: You´re talking to the wrong person, your son doesn´t work for us anymore.
Pam: Your daughter Jane says that she went to see him yesterday, but she would lose her job if she gave us his precise location...
Professor: Maybe it´s too late for that...
Jane: I don´t mind dad...(entering the meeting-room where they are) They know that Chris´s life is in danger, in fact, an agent from the Gov called on them a couple of weeks ago...Tell them the truth...
Professor: Whose truth? His truth, ours or the truth of the people who are trying to kill him?
Pam: If so, we must know why they want to kill Christopher...You are a father too, you have the moral obligation to help us...
Jane: If you don´t tell them, then I will...
Professor: All right, all right...
Bob: The person who talked to me said he had been threatened by several terrorist groups...(he looks at Pam, unquiet...) What reasons can people like that have to attempt against Chris´s life?
Professor: “People like that”, as you call them, don´t need any reason...As you must know, Christopher had already finished three different careers at eighteen years old. His master for one of them was actually a project to elaborate the precedent of the most sophisticated GPS satellite tracking devices in the world. Advised by his teachers, Chris got the patent issued and sold it out to NASA, which offered him a regular job at Houston. But he wanted to live at Dallas and be independent, so he founded the city-based “Ewing Computing Resources” and kept on working for us. About eight months and a half, he contacted us again: in fact, it was Jane the one he visited.
Jane: He spent some days with me and then, something terrible happened...
Bob: You mean the WTC attacks?
Jane: No, this happened the summer prior to September 11.
Professor: We were told there had been a top-secret terrorist alarm and they needed an updated version of Christopher´s project. The cell threatening the country safety was located in California and only he could tune in the device in such a way to track them down.
Pam: Did he make it?
Professor: Yes indeed. Most of the responsible people were arrested and condemned, through the following year. Except two of the leaders, who succeeded to hacker the Agency database and find out who had provided them the media to frustrate their attack. Soon thereafter, they failed to murder him twice, one of them being with Jane, and the top charges decided that Chris had to eliminate all sign of life and touch with his family. The terrorists haven´t been arrested yet.
Bob: But, what role had Chris´s stepbrother in this?
Jane: I had no idea he had a stepbrother...
Professor: I don´t see him related to the rest of the story. I can only tell you that nobody will agree to set your son free...
Bob: Don´t undervalue the Ewings´ influence, pal...
Professor: I´m not, but I am being real. Jane was Chris´s schoolmate and as brilliant as he was, but she had to accept a position at the Academy Commission to live a normal life...though she can´t get out of here. She is being watched and still will because she knows too much...
Pam: And Christopher too?
Professor: Right. As you can see, it´s a rather intricate situation...I only receive orders and nobody, I repeat it, nobody, is willing to put your son´s life in danger letting him go.
Bob (looking at Pam): Don´t ask us to give up on our son. You may think it´s o.k. for your daughter to live as a prisoner but be sure that we won´t let that happen to Christopher...

(Fade out and End of Act 2)


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