Kevin & Lucy's Big Fight After Brenda's Party

(We begin in the lighthouse. It seems as if Kevin has just walked in. He's unbuttoning his collar and is obviously upset. He even slaps the chair. He is standing by the fireplace when Lucy storms in.)

L: "Good-bye, Lucy? Good-bye, Lucy? Is that what you said?"

K: "I'm glad you're here. I want my keys."

L: "What? Have you lost your mind? I am not accepting any of this."

K: "Lucy, keys."

L: "No."

K: "Keys, please, now."

L: "No, forget it. Forget it. What is wrong with you?"

K: "What is wrong with me?"

L: "Yes, what is wrong with you? You just in public told me good-bye in your most sonorous and ponderous tones and now you are asking for your keys back? What exactly are you trying to say to me, Kevin?"

K: "Well, it's very simple, Lucy. A) I don't want you flying into my house anytime you feel like it anymore, because B) we won't be seeing each other any longer. Not as long as you insist on hatching these ridiculous revenge plots with Luke Spencer involving dangerous men like Joe Scully. From now on, Lucy, you're on your own."

L: "You're breaking up with me?"

K: "It's the only leverage I've got, Lucy."

L: "I see, so you're going to withhold your affections until you get what you want? That's awfully mature, Doc, very learned, very professional."

K: "I don't want to see you get killed, Lucy. Is that so difficult for you to understand?"

L: "So the truth finally comes out, you just see me as incompetent. That's what you're saying, isn't it?"

K: "I don't know why I bother."

L: "That's what you're saying. Don't you see what you are doing? You are insulting me. You are insulting me down to the very depths of my soul. Kevin, after all the time we've spent together and after everything we've been through? How many times have you seen me land on my feet against impossible odds?"

K: "Frankly, it's a lot more entertaining to concentrate on the times you've landed on your butt. Let's see if we can conjure up one of those images right off the top of our heads, shall we? Oh my goodness, here comes one now. Is that, yes it is, the bet with Damian."

L: "Oh for heaven's sake, how many decades am I going to have to spend to live that one down?"

K: "That's very hard to say when you take into consideration the extension of the bet in, I might add, a prescient partnership with yet another dangerous thug."

L: "Luke Spencer is hardly a dangerous thug. You even almost like him."

K: "Not anymore. And don't stop me, I'm just getting warmed up. Let's see if we can't call up the image of you teaching Scott Baldwin a lesson by driving off into a snow storm alone and pregnant to get yourself carjacked and then end up stranded in a deserted cabin to give birth to a baby in the middle of a blizzard. Oh boy, you sure fixed him."

(This was Kevin's one truly cruel and unnecessary moment. He knows nothing about this from Lucy, only what Filly told him. And he was wrong about Lucy's motivation. And he knows what a painful topic Serena is. Kevin must be really hurting to pull out the big guns like this.)

L: "You are being so hateful. How dare you bring that up when you didn't even know me then."

K: "Wait a second, let's fast-forward to the Nurses' Ball, shall we? That time you literally landed on your butt minus half your clothes in front of half the town after making a public spectacle out of Bobbie and Tony in addition to the bet that broke up their marriage."

L: "Oh, you are being so very ghastly because you know I learned from every single one of those mistakes. I learned and you, of all people, know that."

K: "I thought so, but obviously my judgment is flawed. But not to worry, it's getting clearer every day. You know, Lucy, when people truly learn from their mistakes, they usually try to avoid repeating them. They don't rush pell-mell into the next dangerous and/or foolish scenario that they can dream up."

L: "Dream up?"

K: "Dream up."

L: "Dream up? Oh, I beg your pardon, Kevin, Deception being ripped off to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars every other day by Damian Smith and Joe Scully, that's not a dream, this is very real. I'll be damned if I sit by and hold it in my hands and watch somebody else send it crashing down into the flames."

K: "Well, then, I guess we've come full circle, Lucy, that's exactly how I feel about you. Keys, please."

L: "No."

K: "You make me crazy, Lucy. Do you listen to me at all, on any level whatsoever?"

L: "Not when you're being a manipulative bully."

K: "A manipulative bully?"

L: "Yeah, yeah, you admit it. You admit it, this is really just a control issue for you, isn't it?"

K: "You know, you are absolutely right, who has it and to what extent? Do I exert any over you and if I do, does that make me wrong? But doesn't someone have to? Because you're obviously incapable of exerting any over yourself."

L: "Could you just put away all this double-talk, please? Because this is all very elementary, my dear Watson. You are controlling me with your actions because you are jealous, jealous, jealous."

K: "Oh, here I thought I was a manipulative bully."

L: "You are a jealous, manipulative bully. Oh and that is low, especially for a professional. You really should be ashamed of yourself."

K: "All right, before we step any further into the abyss of the Twilight Zone, let's just define the parameters of this particular argument. Is this about jealousy or is it about control?"

L: "This is about your little green monster, so let's not confuse the issues here."

K: "I wouldn't dream of it. Now for my own edification, who am I supposed to be jealous of?"

L: "Luke and me."

K: "Oh, I wasn't aware the two of you came in a package."

L: "Kevin, this isn't about sex, this is about the fact that you think things to death. Better living through analysis. Whereas Luke and I are doers. If we see a crisis, we grab it by the throat, we throttle it, wrestle it to the ground and then we annihilate it."

K: "Meanwhile, Luke chokes on his own testosterone. And you get so high from game-playing, you can't even see the ground. And neither of you, meanwhile, take into consideration the consequences of your actions, Lucy. Am I jealous? No. Am I worried? Oh yes. Am I sick to death of it? Absolutely. But jealous. Never."

L: "Oh, Kevin..."

(Lucy reaches out to touch him and he bellows...)

K: "Don't touch me."

(Kevin walks away and puts his hand over his face, Lucy walks up to him and tries to take his hand, he's more in control, but insists...)

K: "I said, don't touch me."

L: "So, now who is the one who is regressing? Do you remember last time you tried this silly little tactic? It was last Summer in the park at that picnic, you know. And I walked up to your blanket and you wouldn't let me sit on it. That didn't work them and it's not going to work now. And if you remember correctly, that collaboration that developed with Luke, it got something done. We got Damian out of ELQ and it worked."

K: "Now this is where your brain derails and you confuse me with someone who cares about Damian and the Quartermaines or anybody else like them. Lucy, my only investment here is you, God help me, and I can't bear it when you just cavalierly put yourself into a situation where your own safety might be at risk or where your actions might affect an innocent bystander. That terrifies me. And it makes me angry. And ultimately I just feel powerless and I hate that because no matter what I say, it doesn't penetrate. You won't stop, Lucy. So I'll just make it easier on both of us and I'll do the walking away, all right?"

L: "You really do mean this, don't you?"

K: "You tell me."

L: "Now we have come full circle, Doc. And I refuse to accept your childish behavior. I am not going to let you walk away from me or us. (She puts the keys in her purse.) And I refuse to acknowledge or agree to this break-up in any way and in any form."

K: "It's not negotiable, Lucy."

L: "I am not hearing you. And I refuse to be your enabler in this because we love each other and you're just being a little bit unreasonable now, and I will not hold that against you when you come begging my forgiveness after I have been brilliantly successful in attaining all my goals. I will forgive you. And to show you what a generous, mature person I can really be, I will let you spend oodles and oodles of time making up to me for causing me such unnecessary stress tonight. Good-bye."

(Lucy, crying, walks out. Kevin looks hopeless, lost and bereft.)

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