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Favorite Scenes   September 24, 1993 Nora is in the temple. She remembers telling Hank, “I have proof that I killed Sarah Buchanan.” N: Oh, dear God, please give me strength. Rabbi: (enters) Nora? N: Rabbi Solomon. R: It is you. Wonderful. It’s been some time. I’m glad you came early. N: Early? R: Yes. Yom Kippur begins at sundown. N: I forgot. I can’t believe it. R: Intellectually, you may have forgotten, but your heart still remembered, made sure you were here for the service. N: Day of atonement. Holiest day of the year. R: Nora, if you’d rather not talk about it, that’s your choice. Obviously you’ve been crying. N: I’m sorry, Rabbi, I know how busy you are, I know how important this day is. R: Just tell me. N: Rabbi, I’ve done something so terrible. I have done something completely unforgivable. B: (rehearsing) Thought you might like some tacos, only there’s a a little extra-special surprise in here. This is stupid! She doesn’t want stupid, she wants traditional. She wants romance. Nora, I want you...It’s not what I want, it’s what she wants. No. Marry me. That’s too trite. Nora, marry me and be my wife. That’s redundant, it’s conditioned. H: (walking in) Hey, Bo. B: Nora...Hey, Hank. Hey, Hank. H: Hey, sorry, man, your door was open. B: Yeah. I just was heating up a couple of tacos and one of them just caught fire, so I just thought I’d, you know, air the place out. H: Look, is Nora around? B: No, she’s not, she’s not. H: Listen, Bo, maybe it’s none of my business, man, but as I walked in, did I hear what I think I heard? B: (laughs) Yep. H: You’re going to... B: Yeah. I’m going to pop the big question. Look at this, Hank, tell me what you think. Is that going to make Nora happy? Because believe me, if she says yes, I’m going to be the happiest guy in the whole world. N: I’m afraid. I know I need to face it, but I need to be forgiven. R: You know the Jews don’t give absolution, Nora. N: I know, I know. R: But I can give advice. N: My world has fallen apart. There’s nothing sound. R: Nothing? N: This man that means so much to me, I have hurt him so terribly, so horribly. He doesn’t know. R: I see. This is then, the thing that you can’t face. N: When he finds out what I’ve done, it’s going to hurt him every bit as much as I love him. I just, I can’t even stand to think about it. His face... R: Nora, look at me, look. This day, Yom Kippur, I like to think of it not so much as a day of atonement, but as a day of forgiveness, to ask and receive. N: Oh, but it’s not that easy. R: You know, for us Jews, forgiveness is no birthright. It has to be earned, not by prayer, but by doing. N: I don’t know what you mean. R: Go to your friend. N: Oh, I can’t go to him. R: But before you go to him, go to your own heart. You have to forgive yourself. Only then can you begin to ask forgiveness from another. Go. Go find peace on this day of atonement. H: I should have known. Ever since she moved in... But she never told me that you guys were talking about it, though. B: Yeah, well, we haven’t really, I mean, not formally, but...we always like that spur of the moment thing, you know, that’s what we like. H: But you’re sure she’s ready? B: I could be surprised, but I think she’s going to go for it, yeah, sure. I think the ring would put her right over the top, what do you think? H: Well, Bo, I think that you both deserve happiness. And look, if wishing means anything, well, you’ve got mine. All good things, man. (shake) B: Hey, thanks. Thanks. You know, I was really hoping that was the way you were going to feel. I didn’t know, you being the big bad ex-husband and all that, but, you know what I’m trying to say. H: Yeah, I know, I know. Listen, since I did catch you down on your knees, I guess you’re going to ask her pretty soon? B: Real soon. H: As in? B: Today! I’m going to be down on one knee the second she walks through that door.   Nora walks in to empty house. N: Bo? Bo, are you here? (sniffs)Must be cooking something. (reads note) “Grocery store, back in a little while. P.S. I love you.” (knock on door) It’s open. H: You’re back. N: Hank! Oh, don’t tell me, you’re going to lecture me about leaving my door unlocked. H: Sorry to disappoint you, Nora. That is low on my list. N: Why, what’s the matter? What’s going on? Is it Rachel? H: Look, I stopped over a little while ago. N: When Bo was still here? H: Yeah. And we had a little talk- don’t worry, I didn’t say anything about your problem. N: Thank you. H: When are you going to tell him, Nora? N: Soon. H: Nora, I know you haven’t slept since the last time I saw you. You never could. Not sitting on something like this. Nora, I just came by to see how you were. N: Well, here I am in all my neurotic glory! H: You’ve got to get this thing out in the open. N: I know, Hank! H: So what are you waiting for? N: I can’t do it, okay? There! I can’t tell him, Hank! I know I should, I know I’m supposed to. I know if I came to me and asked me for advice, I would tell me, tell him. H: Nora, you have a medical problem, you didn’t even know about it when the accident happened. You are totally blameless for what went down on that bridge. N: Okay, I may not be legally responsible... H: Not legally, not morally, not in any way. Listen, baby, you’ve got to stop blaming yourself and beating yourself up for this. There was no intent, Nora. An accident is an accident. N: I know, okay, okay, it was an accident, all right? I believe it was an accident. But will he? I mean, even if he can accept it, how could he ever look at me again the same way? How can I look at him? That’s what I have to face. It’s not the guilt. I mean, I’m Jewish, you know? It’s not that I have to tell him, I know I have to tell him. But when I do, I have to be ready to face the worst. I know how much Sarah meant to him. H: Nora, listen to me... N: No, you listen to me. When I do get up the courage, when I do tell Bo, it’s over, see? I will lose him forever. H: So you say you know your man, huh? N: Yes. H: Well, if I were you, I wouldn’t be underestimating the way Bo feels or what he can or cannot forgive. Look, Nora, I know you better than I know anyone, and when it comes to making sure that the truth be told, why, you’re like a junkyard dog with a bone. N: Always the flatterer, aren’t you, Hank? H: And however scared you are, Nora, you never let that hold you back. I mean, look at Marty Saybrooke! N: You know, sometimes it works, sometimes... H: And it can work itself out again, Nora! The way it should. The way it’s supposed to. Justice. N: Right. Justice. H: (hugs her) That’s my girl. I remember you. N: Yeah. I remember you, too. I remember how I hated it when you were right. There’s no choice, is there? Bo has to know. And I have to be the one to tell him. Today. N: (writing a note) My dearest Bo, there’s something I need to...(crumples up) Bo, I love you so much, I can’t- I have to (crumples up) (out loud) You are such a coward! You’re such a coward! (looks in mirror) That’s right- you! You’re a wimp! You’re a little ninny! Come on, Gannon. Pull it together. Get your act together and tell him. You tell him now. (car pulls up) Bo. Oh, Bo. B: (outside door) Okay, red, I know you’re in there. I’ve got everything we need here for a yes celebration, and I know she is going to say yes, I just know it. Okay, this is it, Bo, this is it. It’s now or never. Quit fooling around out here, you coward, it’s now or never. N: Okay, Gannon. It’s now or never. (he opens door- their eyes meet)   September 27, 1993 B: Okay, red, I know you’re in there, and I’ve got everything we need for a yes celebration, and she is going to say yes. I just know it. It’s now or never, Buchanan. N: It’s now or never, Gannon, it’s now or never. B: (comes in)Well, hey! N: Hey. B: What’s happened, what’s going on? Don’t even, don’t tell me there’s nothing going on, because I can already see it here? N: Bo... B: Nora, hey, what is it, you’re starting to scare me here? N: I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. B: For what? What is the big mystery? Nora... N: It was me, Bo, it was me. I’m the one. B: You’re the one what? N: Sarah. B: What are you talking about? N: Sarah, the accident, it was me. It was me. B: No, just let me get rid of this stuff... N: Will you listen to me?! Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me. I was the driver of the car, all right? All that searching, all those nights, I was the driver, I was the one. It was a blue car, license plate number MA (Bo double takes after rest of number) 345H29... B: Nora, Nora... N: I forced you off the road last Thanksgiving. B: Now, what are you talking about? No, no, no this is totally crazy! Where would you even get an idea like that? N: Look at me, look at me. Crazy or not, I wish it weren’t true, God knows, but I know now, all right? I know now. I have the facts. I have all the facts. I lost control of the car. I had a blackout, and I swerved in the left lane, and I forced you off the road, and I killed her, I killed her, Bo, I killed your Sarah! N: Oh, Bo, please, say anything, do anything, but don’t turn away from me. B: I don’t understand you, Nora, I don’t understand you at all right now, how could you do something like this, God! Especially on a day like this. Look, you know how I get when I have to deal with what happened to Sarah. N: Oh, what I would give not to have to tell you this, to hurt you like this, to destroy what we have. I found out all this over the last few days. You have to know, I can’t keep it secret. B: No, no, this is all insane, you know. You could not be the one... N: I am, Bo. I am. B: No, there’s no way... N: Yes, I am. B: No, there is no way in the world! I don’t care how it looks, I don’t care what you think you know, it is simply not possible. N: Yes, it is. B: No, I know what it is. I know what this is. You get in so deep when you really care about something, you know, I should have realized this. Honey, you helped me so much when I was grieving for all those months, you were there. So now for some reason you think that you just have to take on some of the guilt just because you happened to be there... N: I’m taking all the guilt because I’m responsible. B: No, you’re not!! You’re not responsible! You made me let go, I did. Now you have to do exactly the same thing, come on. Honey, look, we have something, we have something so special, we do. It’s wonderful and it’s so real. N: This is real, Bo. This is real, what I’m saying. The accident, the blue car, the license plate, this is real. B: For crying out loud! N: I am the driver, I am the driver of the car that caused that accident. I have proof. B: No! N: I have proof. B: No, there is no proof!! N: There is. There is proof right here, you can’t explain it away, you can’t ignore it! Jack Tucker. The statement. Blue car, license plate beginning with an M. Here. Here’s a rental agreement from Scotty’s Car Rental, Nora Gannon, Blue car, license plate MA 45H29. B: No, no... N: Bo, here’s the damage report, I returned the car dented, Bo. I returned it dented. I hit the pancake sign. Just from my dreams, remember? The signs, the dogs, the dogs, that’s the logo for Scotty’s car rental. I was on the airport road, Bo, same time you were. I was going to the airport to catch a flight to go to Chicago. I had a headache, they told me not to get behind the wheel of a car, because of my blackouts. Larry Wolek said they might be dangerous, and they were, but I didn’t know it at the time. I didn’t know any of this. I do now, it all fits, it all goes together, you just can’t...Bo. Bo, will you look at me? There it is. You believe me. And there’s that look in your eye. The look that will always be there, always between us. I’m so sorry. (she gets up and leaves) (he gets out the ring and stares at it, then drops it on the floor)   September 28, 1993 Bo is at Sarah’s grave. B: Paradise. With thee in paradise. (remembers car before accident “Had it engraved in both of them. With thee in paradise. You like it? Sarah: I love it. And I plan on it. All of this life and forever in paradise, you can count on it, Mr. Buchanan. Bo: What the hell are they doing? Hang on, sweetheart! (crash)) Sarah. Nora. Nora. Nora is leaving Bo’s house with her bags. She looks in the mirror. N: Coward. (picks up a picture of the two of them and leaves them propped against a chair) I’m so sorry. I just can’t stand to see the look in your eye. Once was enough. Andrew comes across Bo in the graveyard. A: Bo? Bo? What’s wrong? B: Everything. All of it. A: Okay, I’m here, you want to let me help? B: She did it, Andrew, Nora was driving the car that killed Sarah. A: Nora? B: Yeah. And there’s proof, she showed me the proof. There’s a lot of proof, you know Nora, when she’s on a case, there’s details, details, details. So after all that time, we tracked down the driver, Nora, Nora tracked herself. A: How did it happen? B: She blacked out. Nora has headaches, she has these migraines, but she knows she was on the road to the airport that night. A: Bo, even if she’s right... B: No, she’s right, Andrew, she’s always right. A: It was an accident, she had no control over the car. B: Don’t you think I know that? A: She told you this, I’m sure she told you as soon as she knew, right, I mean, think about that, think what it would take for her to do that. B: Now would you just stop, stop with this, please. A: Bo. You can’t ask anything more of her, Bo. B: But why? Dear God in heaven, why did this have to happen? You know, I had everything ready, I had a ring in my hand, I had practiced everything that I was going to say, Andrew, I mean, all systems were go. We were so happy, all we had to do was see each other, but... A: None of that has to change. B: No? A: No. B: Let me tell you something. The whole time that we were looking for the driver, Nora and me, we were looking for that driver that forced me off the road that night, you know what I kept saying? I kept saying, all I want to do, is I want to see a face. I just want a face. When I close my eyes, I want to see this face and I want somebody to blame, somebody to hate. Here’s a piece of advice, you be careful for what you wish for. Because now I have my killer, and now, every time I close my eyes... A: Don’t do this... B:... it’s Nora that I’m going to see! So that’s it. There’s no future for us. None. There’s nothing. Nothing. A: Bo, Bo, forgiving, forgiving isn’t easy, I know, but sometimes it is simpler than it sounds, because we get in our own way when it comes to letting go. B: Letting go? A: Nora’s suffering, Bo, she’s suffering, suffering every bit as much as you, maybe more, because she knows that she’s the one that did this. B: (skeptic) Yeah. A: Look, I have to say something and you have to hear this. Bo, as much as we would all like to go into our past, change all the things that went wrong, there does come a time, if we want to move forward, that we just have to, we have to let it go! B: Look... A: You lock Nora out of your life, you lock her out of your life, who’s going to be there for you? Who’s going to come in after you this time? And what about her? I mean, what about Nora? B: Are you finished now, Andrew? A: You can’t do it alone. You can’t do this alone. Neither can she. You need each other to heal. And what you have built with Nora is strong, it’s strong. Give that love a chance, Bo. B: I don’t know if I can.   Bo walks into house. B: Nora? Nora, are you here? She’s gone. (remembers her telling him) (doorbell rings) Viki. V: Bo! Bo, you are not going to believe this. I no sooner got home from telling you about Clint earlier than I got the most wonderful news and I wanted to come back and tell you. B: Great! V: You look positively ashen, what’s wrong? Has something happened? (pause) Where’s Nora? Nora brings her luggage back into her old apartment. Collapses on the couch and is crying. R: Mom? N: Oh, it’s me, it’s the klutz! I’m just running into everything here. R: Hey, it’s okay, it’s nothing. Mom, you’re shaking here. Are you okay? N: No. No. R: (notices luggage) Mom, you’re not leaving Bo, are you? B: Nora’s, uh, I don’t know, she’s gone somewhere, she’s just, she’s gone. Here, come on, sit down, sit down, tell me. What’s this great news about Clint that you had to just rush all the way over here in such a hurry to tell me about? V: He’s coming home tomorrow. B: No kidding. God. That is great. V: Yeah. Cord called me, Cord called me from Arizona. He said that the doctors finally cleared Clint for travel, so they had no sooner left the room than he was on the phone making plane reservations. B: That’s my brother. Cord and Joey and Jessica, they all going to come back too? V: Oh, yes. He has his very own honor guard escorting him back to Llanview. B: Maybe I could pull some strings, get that Llanview High School Marching Band to meet his plane out there at the airport, you know, play Hail the Conquering Hero... V: Bo. Something is obviously upsetting you. B: I’m fine. V: No, you are not fine. It has to do with Nora, doesn’t it? Oh, no. You were going to propose to her. She didn’t turn you down, did she? B: No, it never came to that. V: Why not? Bo, honey, this is me. Talk to me. You didn’t have a fight, did you? B: No. It wasn’t a fight. V: What happened? B: She told me something. V: About? B: Just something that- something she’d done, a while back. She, uh, she...   R: Mom, what are you talking about? N: Do you remember all those months that I was working with Bo to try and find the driver of the car that forced his car off the road and killed his wife? R: Of course I do. You were always on the go, trying to help Bo, and trying to find things out for him. N: We were a wonderful team. R: Oh, you were great together! N: Day after day, following lead after lead, we found out more about each other than we ever did about that driver. A chili dog here, and an old movie there, and then, a look, a laugh, a dance, a touch. Life is strange. Here we were looking for Sarah’s killer and we found each other. R: Mom, I know all this. Please, what happened? N: We had a break in the case. R: That’s great! You got a lead on who killed Sarah? N: We got more than a lead. We found out who did it. R: Who? N: Me. R: Mom, what are you saying? N: Bo was driving Sarah back from the airport around 8:30 on Thanksgiving night when he was forced off the road by a blue car with a license plate that began MA. R: Look, you found this out months ago. N: A few days ago, I found out from Jack Tucker, he was the truck driver who described the car, that there was a bumper sticker on it from Scotty’s Car Rentals. That same night, at that same time, on that same road, I was going towards the airport in my little blue rented car from Scotty’s Car Rental with a license plate MA 45H29. R: No. No, you couldn’t have done it. N: I did, I did it. R: No, no. This is impossible. Mom, I mean, you would have known it! N: I had blackouts. R: What? N: I mean it, I’m driving down the road, and the next minute I’m parked by a pancake house sign on the other side of the bridge. In other words, I was driving across the bridge in a blackout, and I swerved into the left lane, and forced Bo and Sarah off of the bridge into the river, and I just kept driving over the bridge until I stopped by hitting the pancake house sign, and when I came to, no one was around, so I drove away. R: Mom, this, this is crazy. N: I then went back and looked at the sign. It’s a relatively new post. Probably replaced sometime last fall because somebody hit it, somebody like me. R: Or someone else! N: I returned my rented car with a dent in the front fender. N: I did. In my nightmares. R: You just stop it. There’s got to be a mistake. N: Oh, sweetheart. (hugs her) Oh, you’re trying so hard to make it not my fault. R: It isn’t. It isn’t. N: Oh, sweetie. Oh, my beautiful, lovely, wonderful daughter. My baby girl. I love you so much. But you can’t change the truth, not with all the love in the world. I’m responsible for Sarah’s death and that’s just something I’m going to have to live with.   B: I couldn’t believe when Nora told me, I....How could Nora, my Nora, be the one that killed Sarah? V: She obviously convinced you. B: You know what a great lawyer she is, I mean, she came up with all the evidence, all the pieces, put them together bit by bit, you know. She had photographs, she had receipts from Scotty’s Car Rental, and the truck driver, and physical evidence, her blackouts, she just...She just weaved it all together, you know, just like one little thread at a time, until you just couldn’t miss the pattern. V: I am...I am so sorry for both of you. Where’s Nora now? B: She’s gone. She moved out. V: Well, you can’t allow that! B: Oh, Viki, what am I supposed to do? V: You’re supposed to go after her. Bo, darling, you are both in a lot of pain, but you have to face this together. Come on, honey, this was a horrible twist of fate. No one could have predicted that this was going to happen and no one could have prevented it. I mean, surely you know that Nora never meant to cause Sarah’s death? She loves you. B: Yeah, yeah. No, right. V: And she virtually saved your life, you know. Last winter, when you were in the very depths of despair, she’s the one who gave you the energy and the will to go on. B: That seems like so long ago. V: Because you have lived so very much since then. Honey, please do not go back into that despair. You and Nora have to face this thing together. That is truly the only answer for two people who love each other the way you two do. You do still love her, don’t you? B: Do I still love Nora? Viki, do you think that I’d be this torn up if I didn’t? V: Then you have to go after her. She is a wonderful woman, don’t let her get away from you. B: Yeah. The sad thing is, that even after what Nora told me, I don’t love her any less. I don’t. She’s always been there for me, she’s like a miracle. I never thought that I’d ever feel this way about a woman again after Sarah. But you see, here’s the problem. Nora is the reason that there is an after Sarah. V: Bo... B: No, Viki, you told me that I have to face this thing, believe me, I am looking it right square in the eye. And what I see is Nora forcing me off the bridge on Thanksgiving night and Sarah dying in the seat right next to me. V: It was an accident. B: Yeah, but it happened. So now that fact is right there, right along side all the great things about her. V: Bo, the pain that you are feeling right now stems from the tragedy of Sarah’s death. Now, what do you think she would want you to do? B: About Nora? V: Mmhm. I knew Sarah pretty well, and I think she would be the first one to say it was an accident and no one was to blame. B: So Sarah would have forgiven Nora? V: I think so. More importantly, she would have wanted you to forgive Nora. B: Viki... V: Now, Bo, please, listen to me. Sarah loved you so much, and all she ever really wanted was for you to be happy. Now, do you seriously think that she would have wanted you to destroy this wonderful relationship that you have with Nora because of an accident? Don’t you think she would have wanted you to go on, to build a life together? Don’t you think she would have wanted to see this house alive again and full of love?   N: I’m so sorry to have to tell you this story. I’m even sorrier that it ever had to be told. Oh, sweetie, I don’t want it to end up hurting you. R: Me? N: Oh, you- with Kevin. R: Oh, please, stop. I don’t want you to worry about me and Kevin. You are the only thing I care about right now. I just wish I could say some magic words to make everything better. N: Oh, sweetie, mmnmm, no, no, no, there aren’t any words, you see. Words won’t change anything, not even magic ones, okay? R: There is something that I can do. (gets up) N: What are you doing, where are you going...? R: I know you, I know you, and when you’re upset, you, you need to be alone, so you stay here, and I am going to Kevin’s house. N: No, no. No. You see, I’m leaving. R: Why? N: Because there’s something that I have to do. R: No, what you need to do is take care of yourself! N: Believe me, honey, that’s exactly what I’m trying to do. Don’t worry about me, okay? I won’t be driving. I’ll take a cab. R: Mom, please, just stay and let me help you. N: You can’t help me, honey. You can’t help me. No one can, unless they can undo what I did to Sarah. She leaves. Rachel is crying. R: (on phone) And you’re sure she hasn’t come in? And no one else has seen her either? (knock on door) Okay, thank you, thank you. (opens door) Viki, hi. V: Rachel, hi. I really, I need to speak with your mother, please, it’s very important. R: Um, she’s not here. Well, she was, but she took off. V: Do you have any idea where she went? R: Afraid not. V: Do you think I might use your phone? I’ll call her offices, maybe they’ll know where she is. R: No, actually, I called the security guard and he said no one’s come in the building all night. You know, don’t you? V: Yeah, Bo told me. R: Viki, how can this be happening? V: Oh, I wish I had the answer to that! R: It is so unfair! My mother loves him so much. V: Oh, honey, Bo loves her so much. R: So what’s going to happen to them?   Nora is at Sarah’s grave. N: We never met, but I know you very well. I know your smile from Bo’s pictures, and I know your warmth and your sweetness from the love that Bo still feels for you. But everything you had and everything you were is gone because of me. (Bo shows up) N: I’m sorry, I should never have come here. B: No, it’s okay, it’s okay. N: No, I have no right to be here. B: Look, would you just... N: No, it’s okay, I’m leaving... (turns to leave) B: Nora, no. Don’t you dare walk away.