MARLENA: I'm glad I got here before it was too late.

JOHN: I just left a message on your answering machine.

MARLENA: You can't leave like this...you can't...

JOHN: it's best!

JOHN: Damn it, I don't know why I'm saying It's best, It's not best.

MARLENA: What is it?

JOHN: Why did you come here?

MARLENA: Are you sure you're doing the right thing?

JOHN: I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure.

MARLENA: John, look at me.

JOHN: It's not going to make any difference, Doc.

MARLENA: I just want to see your face. Surely you'll allow me that, won't you?

JOHN: Allow you?

MARLENA: I'm so scared. I'm just scared for all of us. Mostly, I'm scared for Brady. You can't take him away from the only family he has ever known. You can't have thought this thing through, have you?

JOHN: I have thought this through, and it's going to be tough going for Brady and me for quite some time but down the line...

MARLENA: You lost Isabella. Don't separate yourself and your son from the rest of your family.

JOHN: This is the way it's gotta be, Doc. You know that.

MARLENA: No, I don't know that. No, I don't! We're adults, we. . .

JOHN: This is the adult thing to do, trust me.

MARLENA: Running away isn't. No, no, running away is not adult. You and I can live in the same town. We can. . .

JOHN: And do what? And do what? Just see each other at functions? Say hello and maybe or maybe do a little kiss on the cheek? At arms length we'll engage in some sort of trivial chit chat? Oh, I don't think so!!!

MARLENA: All right...all right. But you're taking Brady away just because...

JOHN: Just because...

MARLENA: just because of...of what's going on between us.

JOHN: That's right... Because if I stay here in Salem, I'm going to hurt Roman and. . .I'm going to hurt you... and I respect Roman far too much and god knows I care for you...and I don't even know why we're having this conversation. I've already said all this over and over again. So tell me, please, what is the point?

MARLENA: All right. How long will you be gone?

JOHN: I don't know.

MARLENA: Weeks? Months?...John. . .you're wrong. . .

JOHN: No.

MARLENA: If you think you're doing this for me, you're wrong. I can't even. . .imagine my life without you. I don't want to imagine my life without you. I want you. . .in my life. I need you!!!

JOHN: You shouldn't have come here, Doc.

MARLENA: Well, there are a lot of things I shouldn't have done. I never should have fallen in love with you to begin with...I...I shouldn't have done that... It shouldn't have happened...The man that I love and will always love is Roman. But then you came along and...and it just happened... It just happened... I...I couldn't help it. Oh god, that's so pathetic.. It didn't have to happen, I wanted it to happen...I really wanted to love you. I do love you. . .and now I'm driving you away...(crying).

JOHN: No, it's the only way out.

MARLENA: Is it? I...I don't know that. I don't know that. I also don't know that, if...at some point in my life, I'm going to stop having these feelings I have for you...

JOHN: Yes, in time. . .that's all.

MARLENA: Well, I...it's just. . .you're so much a part of my life...I don't know what...I don't know what I would do...if you weren't...

JOHN: Doc...hey come on, don't be unhappy. That's the last thing I want.

MARLENA:That doesn't make you unhappy at all?

JOHN: I'm past that, Doc! I'm free falling!...with just the idea that I am never going to see you again. I am never going to hear you laugh. I'm never going to smell your perfume and I'm never going to touch you...

MARLENA: (crying harder) Oh God!!...

John grabs her and start to kiss her passionetly, and they start making love.

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