Kevin and Lucy Watch The Tape Of Serena

At the lighthouse, Kevin is asleep. Lucy slips out of bed and begins to search through Kevin's video collection. She knocks over a stack of tapes and Kevin startles awake.

L: "Oh... shhh... sorry, go back to sleep."

K: "Lucy, it's a little early in the day for rearranging furniture, but what the heck, I'm game."

L: "I am not rearranging."

K: "Too bad, that would have been easy."

L: "Why don't you just go back to sleep? Sorry. You relax and we'll talk about this later, OK?"

K: "No, now my interest is really piqued."

L: "I was looking for the tape on Serena."

(Later, Kevin is out of bed and into his pale blue bathrobe.)

L: "I just can't seem to get Serena out of my mind ever since fate brought me and Madame Maia face-to-face yesterday. Kevin, she knows me and she knows about my little girl. She's Scott's little girl, I know that, but she feels like she is mine. And then when you have a total stranger just walk up to you and start talking about her... it really makes you feel like she is yours. Don't you see? How could she know that unless she was real? She has to be the real thing. Could you please say you understand?"

K: "I understand that things have many different explanations."

L: "Well, all I understand at this point is that I have to see her. I want to see her face, I desperately need to find that tape, so I was looking for the tape and I realized it might be gone. What if you threw it out or what if you taped over it? You know how you like all those old movies."

K: "Don't worry, I haven't lost and I haven't taped over Serena's tape."

L: "How do you know that?"

K: "Well, if you'll turn the volume down a notch, I'll put your mind at rest. Here."

L: "She's safe."

K: "Yeah, well, knowing the way that I am, I thought I should take some steps to protect it. Want me to put it in?"

L: "Yeah, no, no. I mean this is silly, isn't it? I haven't watched it in all these months, why should I watch it now? Because I want to see her. I'll put it in. OK. OK. Oh... she's beautiful. I told you."

K: "Yes, you did."

L: "Oh, look at her. She's wonderful. She's my little Serena. She does have a buzz-cut. Oh good grief, how could he do that to her? Oh... look at that smile. Look at that. She has to be the happiest little girl in the whole world."

K: "I think she's the most happy child I've ever seen."

L: "She's walking. Look, she's up, no, she's down. Oh, she's the most graceful faller I've ever seen. Kevin, why did you say she looked like me? She doesn't look like me, does she?"

K: "Hmmm-mmm..."

L: "She kinda does, doesn't she?"

K: "It's the sparkle."

L: "I am just so incredibly proud when I look at her. I mean, I did this. And my heart fills with so much love, I feel like I could just explode. She's beautiful, isn't she? How can she help but be? She's Scottie and Dominique's. I could just kick myself, though, I don't know why I waited so long to watch this. Yes, I do. It makes me miss her all that more. Oh boy, Doc, this is awful."

K: "Lucy, that's a natural reaction, you'll sort it out, you'll see."

L: "Yeah, right, when she's in College maybe I'll sort it out. What am I saying? I can't wait that long to find out about her."

K: "Lucy?"

L: "Well, Kevin, it's been months and months since that tape was made. She's changed, she's grown up. I need to know about her now."

K: "Lucy, unless Scott decides to get in touch with you independently, how do you expect to do that?"

L: "Maybe there's a way."

K: "How?"

L: "You know, Madame Maia."

K: "How do you think she can help you?"

L: "Well, she already has recognized my torment without any clues. She put her finger right on my pain."

K: "First on your pain, then your pocketbook."

L: "I'm going to ignore that cynicism. Besides, I don't care, it might work, it might be worth it."

K: "Lucy, I don't want to impugn the woman's integrity, but it's not like she's unfamiliar with commercialism."

L: "But she's a psychic and psychics sense things and if she senses anything, anything at all that might be of some value about Serena, then it's valuable to me. What do you think, she's just going to flat out lie to me?"

K: "Well, not so much like, but tell you what you want to hear."

L: "Could you please give me a little credit to just be smart enough to know if she's just saying something because it makes me feel good."

K: "I know you're going to do this, whether I agree to it or not, just promise me you'll try not to invest too much of yourself into what she says."

L: "I can't. I can't promise that. I carried Serena for nine months for Dominique and for Scott. I love her. And I couldn't bear the thought of her growing up and me completely disconnected from her and not knowing her. So if Madame Maia can tell me anything at all about her, I want to know. I have to."

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