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Favorite Scenes   October 6, 1993 M: (talking to Powell) I just wanted to tell you that I did talk to Nora, thanks for telling me. She was pretty upset. P: How’s she doing, is she okay?   Hank, Nora and Rachel are at the Palace. H: Nora? N: Hmm? H: How’s your bacon and eggs? N: Good, it’s great, very tasty. R: Then why aren’t you eating? N: I am, I’m thoroughly, I’m just thoroughly enjoying this very healthy, hearty meal. R: As in the condemned man ate a hearty meal? H: Rikki. R: No, come on, why pretend that Mom’s not upset? Mom, things will work out with Bo. He just needs a little time. N: And what do you think time is going to do? R: It will be a way for him to get over the shock that you were involved with the accident. N: In which his wife died. R: He knows it wasn’t your fault. And he will give the two of you another chance. N: He’s already done that. R: What? N: Oh, yeah, see, but there’s not going to be a second chance. No matter what Bo says, he can only love me if I didn’t cause Sarah’s accident, but I did, so there will not be a second chance. Bo and I are through. B: Kevin, come on in. If you came over here to scrounge up a breakfast, man, you came to the wrong place. K: No, I ate, thanks. B: And you didn’t bring anything for your uncle. K: No. B: Nice nephew. K: (laughs) Listen, I was thinking about what you said yesterday at dad’s welcome home party about wanting to prove that Nora’s innocent. B: Yeah. And I am going to prove her innocent. I’ll let you in on a little secret, too, Kevin. K: What? B: I’m going to prove that Nora is innocent and I’m going to do it today. K: Well, how are you going to do that, clear Nora’s name? B: Why are you so interested, Kevin? Did Nora get to you? Huh? Did she try to get you to come over here and stop me, just because she doesn’t think this whole thing is going to work out? K: Bo... B: I’ll tell you something, she’s got another thing coming because I know, Kevin, okay? I know. K: Bo... B: So if she sent you over here to try to convince me that I’m spinning my wheels and I’m way out of line... K: Look, all right, look, take it easy, I did not talk to Nora, all right? B: You haven’t. Oh. I’m sorry, I get a little wound up. K: No kidding. B: Sit down, Kev. So, why are you so interested in what I’m doing? K: I want to help. Well, Dad’s welcome home party yesterday, Rachel didn’t come because of what’s going on between you and Nora. B: Yeah, I was wondering where Rachel was. K: Yeah. She felt a little uncomfortable, so in a sense, I’m helping her and I’m helping you and Nora. So what do you say? Need a little help? B: Okay. It’s you and me, kid. K: All right. Where do we start? B: We already have. You know that truck driver that pulled me out of the river the night of the accident, he’s going to be here in a little while, so you’re right on time. K: Didn’t he already tell you everything that he knew? B: He told us everything that we thought we needed to know, but if he can verify one little detail, then I can prove to Nora that she is not responsible for Sarah’s death. H: Nora, you cannot decide for Bo that the two of you are finished. R: Yeah, he may have already put this accident behind him. N: Oh, no, he is working himself absolutely into a frenzy trying to prove that I didn’t do it. H: He’s doing what? N: Oh, yes, Bo, last night, came up with some rigmarole about two car horns that he heard when he and Sarah were being forced off the road. R: What does that mean, why is that important? N: Well, one horn would be his, of course, and he’s saying that if I was blacked out, that I couldn’t possibly have hit my horn to warn him and Sarah. H: So there must have been another car that forced him off the road. N: Well, that’s what he’s saying. R: Well, that’s possible, isn’t it? N: Possible, remotely, but probable, no, honey. H: Why discard a piece of evidence without investigating it? N: Oh, Hank, please, give me a break! R: Wait, Mom, you were in a blackout, how could you have hit the horn? N: Who says I did? H: Bo does. N: Think about it. Bo thinks he heard two car horns because he wants to have heard two car horns, that way it would prove my innocence. R: You don’t know that, what if he’s right? Why don’t you work with him on this? N: Rachel, work with him? I can’t even... H: Rachel is right. The two of you working together, you can find out if he’s right about this horn blowing business. N: Listen to you, listen to both of you. You’re just like Bo, you’re grasping at straws, you’re twisting the truth around any way you can to prove that I’m innocent of this horrible... H: Nora, stop. This is an accident we’re talking about. There is no guilt or innocence. N: Sarah is dead. Someone, someone caused her death. You cannot change what happened! I don’t really feel like breakfast, it was never my big meal anyway. R: Mom... N: No, no, I appreciate this, I really do, unfortunately, I have totally forgotten that I have an appointment at Statesville, and if I don’t hurry, I’m going to be late. H: Look, Nora, don’t you... N: I’ll see you later, relax, I’m going to take the bus. B: Thanks for coming by, Jack. J: No problem, I’ll go almost anywhere for a free cup of high test coffee. B: Well, I’m a man of my word. I want you to meet my nephew, Kevin Buchanan. This is Jack Tucker, this is the man that saved my life, Kev, and tried to save Sarah’s. J: Hey, I was only doing what any decent person would do. K: Well, I don’t think your average guy off the street would dive into an icy river to pull a couple of people out of a car. J: I’m on the road a lot, I see a lot. Folks are nicer than you think. So, what’s going on, why’d you want to see me? I mean, it’s been almost a year since the accident, and... B: Yeah, well, I never stopped looking for that maniac that forced us off the road that night, and now there’s been a break in the case. J: You know who forced you over the guardrail that night? B: My friend, Nora Gannon, do you remember her? J: Sure. Redhead, great laugh, I saw you guys over at the courthouse. B: Yeah. Yeah. Well, she thinks she did it. J: Wow. I didn’t even know she was in the area that night. That’s really weird. Just remembering that night, I get cold thinking about that water. So, Nora Gannon, she was driving the blue car? B: No, she thinks she was driving the car that caused the accident, but I know she wasn’t. J: You do? B: Yeah. And I can prove it. That’s where you come in.   H: Rachel, don’t worry about your mother, she’s tough, she’ll work through this. R: I know you don’t want to hear this, but I think it’s great, the way you tried to help her. H: Rachel, listen, keep it down, okay? I’ve got my tough guy reputation to protect. R: Well, I’m sorry, pops, but your soft spot is showing. H: Yeah. R: I know that the two of you argued plenty, and you still do, but right now, I see the respect that you two have always had for each other, and maybe some left over feelings, too. H: Well, baby, I didn’t marry your mother for nothing, and I didn’t divorce her for nothing, either, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t still care a lot for my daughter’s mother. Rachel apologizes to Hank for treating him badly after the trial. H: You know, Rachel, the best thing your mother and I did was to make you. Nora is very lucky to have you with you. And sweetheart, she’s going to need all the help you can give her.   Nora is visiting Powell. P: I don’t really want to talk about myself, that’s just about all I get to think about these days. How are you doing? N: I’m fine. P: You seemed pretty upset the other day. N: Oh, well, everything’s fine. Problem solved. P: Marty called me. N: Oh? P: Yeah. She told me that you guys talked, and she didn’t go into details, but she didn’t think things were okay. N: Well, things aren’t so great, but, you know, I’m all right. It’s very sweet of you and Marty to be concerned, but, really, it’s just nothing to worry about. (unintelligible) P: Nora, I know something’s wrong. Now, can you tell me what’s happened? I mean, sometimes it helps. The last time you were here, you said you had hurt someone you loved and you wanted to tell that person the truth about what happened, about what you had done. Did you? Nora, if you want to talk about it, you know that I’d understand. N: Bo’s wife, Sarah, was killed last Thanksgiving. I’m responsible for her death. J: I’m not sure what you think I can tell you about the night your wife died, if Ms. Gannon says... B: Never mind what Nora says. She had a blackout. She has these intense headaches, and she figures that while she had passed out, she forced me off the road, but I know something that changes everything. J: Yeah, what? B: The car that swerved toward me, its horn was blaring. Now, I figure this guy realized we were on a collision course, and he was just trying to warn me. J: He. You know who it was? B: That’s not the point, the point is, Nora couldn’t have been driving the other car. J: Why not? B: Because she blacked out. She couldn’t have honked the horn. See, she’s essentially dead asleep, so there’s no way she could reach up and hit the horn. J: Okay, I guess. I don’t get where I fit in. B: Jack, I need you to confirm what I remember. So just tell me I’m right, please. Did you hear the horn? Did you? J: No. I don’t remember hearing any horn but yours. One horn. I’m sorry. B: No, you must have. It was just before the crash. J: I don’t remember hearing another horn. B: There was one. J: I don’t think- There definitely wasn’t another car horn. I’d remember if there’d been... B: No, no, no, no, it’s all right, you just didn’t hear it, that’s all. K: Bo, he’s been on the road most of his life, I think he’d know if he heard a car horn. B: No, no. There was another horn. J: Look, I think I’d remember, but maybe I didn’t. Maybe there was one, okay? B: No, no, don’t do that. Don’t do that. Don’t just agree with me, I’m not making this up. I heard the horn. K: Bo, what do you want him to do? B: I want him to think harder! Think hard until you can remember the sound of that second horn. J: Bo, I only know what I saw, okay? This little blue sedan passed me and then nearly ran head on into your car. K: So you saw it happen? J: Well, it was dark, but I saw the lights, and I heard the tires squealing, and then Bo’s car goes into the guard rail, goes over and down into the river, and the other car goes off the road and smacks right into this big sign. B: A billboard. Freddy’s pancake house. J: Yeah, right. Anyway, that’s when I went to help you. B: If you heard the sound of the tires, then you must have heard the two horns. Both of them. J: Look, Bo, it isn’t like I can’t see how important this is to you. Ms. Gannon, Nora, she’s a friend of yours, maybe more than a friend, none of my business, but the point is, you don’t want it to be true that she did this. B: No, no, she couldn’t have. She didn’t, okay, don’t even think it. I’m sorry, I’m sorry. J: Maybe it’s like the prayer, you know? B: The what? J: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. B: That’s the prayer they use in A.A., isn’t it? J: Yeah. Hey, I never hide it. I used to have a real problem with booze. And when you drink a lot, like I did, you find it hard owning up to things being the way they really are, you know? Maybe if you just try to accept it... B: No, look, I know the way things are, okay? I heard the other horn. Nobody is going to tell me I didn’t hear it. K: Listen, Jack, thank you for coming by. J: Right. Sorry I couldn’t be more help. See ya, Bo. (he walks away) I wish I could have told your uncle what he needed to hear. K: Hey, it’s not your fault. Thanks for going out of your way. Take care, Jack. (Jack leaves) Well, guess that puts everything in a different light. B: What does that mean? K: Bo, Jack was on the road that night too, and he didn’t hear a horn. B: I heard it, I heard it, Kevin. I can still hear it. K: Look, maybe it’s in your memory because you need it to be there. Maybe you should do what Nora’s already done, that’s accept the fact that she did cause that accident. P: I don’t understand it, how could you be responsible for her death? N: Sarah was killed when the car she was riding in was forced off the road by an oncoming vehicle. I was the driver of that oncoming vehicle. I killed her. P: Wait a second, this is terrible, but you’re talking about an accident, right? N: Yes. P: Then it’s not like you’re really responsible, not like that. N: I am. P: No, Nora, you didn’t do it deliberately. N: I have no business coming here and putting my troubles on you. So, I’m going to get going. P: Wait, Nora. Nora, wait. What are you going to do? N: Do? I’m going to walk out the door. I’m going to get on with my life, I’m going to help clients, I’m going to...work. P: I mean with Bo. N: Bo and I aren’t together. P: Really? N: Well, does that surprise you? P: It was just always so easy to see how much he loved you, I mean, really loved you. He would look at you across that courtroom, and, you know, you could just tell. And I always thought he was just kind of the guy who would forgive. N: Well, he’s come up with a cockamamie notion so that he...that proves my innocence so he doesn’t have to forgive me. P: Then he still loves you? N: Yes, he does love me. But he can’t forgive me. And not that I blame him, I can’t forgive myself, so why should he be a saint? P: Nora, you’ve got to stop thinking like that. It’s not as though you killed her deliberately. (Todd overhears) N: Powell, this is very sweet of you to be so concerned, really, I just have to do what I have to do, okay? Todd starts going ballistic and screams at Nora. (most unintelligible) Powell screams for help. T: You. You’re going to get your justice, too. Yeah. You’re going to do some time. You killed somebody. N: Stop it!!! T: You took somebody’s life, Nora! N: Stop it!!! P: Guard! Guard, get in here, help! T: You know what you should do? You should go home, you should get yourself a big old rope, and you should hang yourself, yeah, why don’t you go do that, Nora? You deserve it. You’re a murderer. Better yet, let’s do it right here. N: Stop! Shut up! No!!!!!!!!! (she is shaken) H: Hey, hey, Bo, good to see you. R: Hi, Bo. B: Hi, Rachel. How are you doing, Hank? H: Fine, how about yourself? B: Oh, I’m fine. R: Bo, I’m sorry about you and my mom... B: No, it’s okay, Rachel, don’t be sorry, because your mother is not responsible for the accident. Trust me, I know. H: Nora thinks she is. B: Yeah, but Nora doesn’t know, and I do. Look, that whole night is crystal clear to me now. I heard two car horns, Nora had blacked out, she couldn’t honk the horn, so one was mine, but the other one... H: So your feeling is that it was another car that caused you to have the accident? B: I’m sure of it, Hank. H: Do you have any proof? B: Well, I talked to the driver that pulled me out of the river that night, he came by this morning. H: Does he remember another car? K: No, he doesn’t remember hearing another horn. B: Yeah, but that’s all right, I don’t care, because I’m not giving up. I know I’m right. Nora did not cause the accident and I will prove it. N: Bo, stop it. Just when are you going to let go of this? N: You went to see Jack Tucker? B: No, actually, I asked him to come and see me. N: You shouldn’t have done that! B: Well, why not, he’s a witness? It’s just too bad he has a defective memory, but I gave it a shot, and you know what, I’m going to go on. I’m going to keep giving it a shot because I’m going to prove to you the accident was not your fault. N: But it was, and the sooner you accept that... B: Why are you so anxious to think that I am wrong, you know? I know what I heard. N: Bo, I think that this quest of yours, it isn’t healthy, okay? B: What, now I’m crazy? N: No, no, it’s just, what you’re doing is crazy, and if you don’t let go soon, it will make you crazy. B: I know what you’re thinking. And you’re wrong. You think that I’m going through all of this so that I can convince myself that you didn’t kill Sarah, and that way, I’ll be able to look at you, every morning, and every night. N: Well, now that you ask, yeah, that’s exactly what I’m thinking. B: Yeah, but it’s not that way at all. It is not. Because I was ready to forgive you even before I remembered. I was. I really was. I had accepted the fact that you did it. N: Well, hang on to that fact, because that’s the truth, not this second shooter on the grassy knoll theory. B: But there is nothing to forgive, because you did not do it! I wish you believed in yourself as much as I believe in you. But, you will. Soon. You’ll see.   October 7, 1993 N: I did not push Bo away. H: Nora, you practically chased the man out of here a while ago. N: He left on his own, determined to prove this theory. H: So what? Look, is that such a terrible thing? He’s trying to prove that you weren’t the one who killed Sarah. N: But I am the one, Hank. H: Why are you holding on to this thing so tightly? Do you want it to be true? You know, what Bo said makes sense. If you were in a blackout, how could you... N: Don’t you even listen? Isn’t there anyone around here who’s aware of reality? There was no horn. Bo’s making the whole thing up. That’s why I’m so worried about him. He’s pulling the wool over his own eyes and setting himself up for an even bigger fall. He can’t forgive me, that’s fine. I can’t forgive me either. H: Look, Nora, if you... N: There is no future for us, okay? Bo and I are through. Face it, I have. H: You’re not even open to letting me help. N: You want to help me? Fine. Then stop trying to get me to make it easier for Bo to go off the deep end. He’s going on and on with this crazy idea so much that he’s going to fall apart so totally, no one will be able to help him. K: I’m sorry, Bo, I’m trying to help you, all right, but it doesn’t make sense to me. B: Kevin, we didn’t go out to that accident site and take all these pictures for you to come back here and tell me this doesn’t make sense to you. K: Okay, all right, look, this one, look, here’s a view looking north from the bridge, right? Now, the sign is up about a hundred feet beyond it? B: Yeah. K: And that’s the direction Nora was traveling in. B: Yeah, but who knows how many other people? K: Yeah, but Nora was the only one who blacked out, and when she came to, she had hit the sign. Look, there’s a new post, look at the left post. B: All right, look. Here’s where I went off the bridge. If Nora had forced me off, she probably would have come back into her lane, traveled a little further, and stopped... K: About a hundred feet up, at the sign for Freddy’s flapjacks. It happened just like Nora said. B: No. Nora did not do it, Kevin! K: It was an accident, all right? An accident. It took Sarah. Now, don’t let it take Nora away from you too. H: We may be divorced in Llanview instead of married in Chicago, but one thing sure hasn’t changed. You are as stubborn as they come. Now, if you want to let Bo slip through your fingers, fine, you’re on your own. N: I never wanted it to end this way. H: Oh really, well, you could have fooled me. Now, you listen to this. The worst kind of loneliness is when you lose somebody who was really right, you know? The one. People like that don’t come along too often. N: Yeah, like us? H: Oh, come on, we were kids, we had to find out the hard way that we couldn’t live with each other. N: Yeah, definitely the hard way. H: But Bo. Bo doesn’t mind those quirks of yours that drove me nuts. Like tapping your teeth with your pencil, eating cold Chinese food for breakfast, and talking back at movies. In fact, he loved that stuff about you. When you find a guy like that, you should never let him go. No matter what. N: I think I’m doing the right thing, Hank. And not just for me, but for Bo, too. H: No, Nora, what you are doing is letting your bull-headed pride keep you from being happy. Now you chew on that for a while, huh? Then you tell me how right you are. ( she gets a headache and knocks a glass over) B: I don’t know, Kev. Maybe Nora’s right. Maybe you’re all right. K: It doesn’t have to ruin your life, Bo. B: But why am I so desperate to prove that Nora did not cause Sarah’s death? Is it that I can’t accept it if she did? K: Only you can answer that question. B: I don’t know why I just can’t let go. My life is so empty without Nora in it, I mean, she is my compass and my map, and without her, I don’t even know where I’m going or how to get there. K: Don’t talk like that, all right? Nora’s not out of your life, not yet. Now, if you need her so much, why don’t you go and tell her that? B: I did. Then this thing about the car horns and trying to prove that she’s innocent, I think she believes that I could never really forgive her for it. K: Can you? B: I think so. I felt I did, and then this thing with the two horns... K: Maybe you should just let that go, Bo, just accept the fact that Nora caused the accident. You love Nora, right? She loves you. Now, whether she forced you off the bridge that night or not doesn’t change the fact that Sarah’s gone. But you still have a chance with Nora. B: You’re right. It was an accident and I love Nora too much to lose her. K: Well, I think she should be the next one to hear that. B: Well, I guess we don’t need these any more, huh? (looks at pictures) K: What’s the matter? B: Something’s wrong. Something is very wrong. K: What do you mean, something’s wrong? B: Kevin, could you get me that police file on the accident? K: Yeah, where’d you put it? B: It’s in the drawer, by the phone. K: There you go. B: Thanks. K: What are you looking for? B: Just hold on one second. This. This is it right here. Take a look at this. K: It looks like the same shots, looking north from the bridge, what about it? B: Yeah, but there’s something missing. K: What? B: In our picture, right there, look, the sign. K: For Freddy’s Flapjacks. B: Yeah. You can’t see it. I mean, it’s nowhere around there. That’s it. K: What? B: That’s the answer. (looking in phone book) Hello, Freddy’s Flapjacks. Who am I speaking to, please? F: Freddy Grover. I own the place. B: Ah, Mr. Grover, you may think this is a little weird, but I’ve called about your highway sign, the one that’s out on Airport Road, north of Llanview? F: What about it? B: Well, I couldn’t help but notice that it looked like the post was fairly new. F: It should. The last clown banged it up so bad, I had to get a replacement. B: Ah, and when was that? F: Last Thanksgiving night. B: You’re sure it was Thanksgiving? F: How could I forget? It was the third time in a year somebody hit the thing. You would have thought it was a target. People come out of that crazy curve in the road and wham, three times. You know how much that costs? B: And what did you do about it? You did? Oh, that’s great news, thank you, Mr. Grover, thank you very much! Bye! (hangs up) I love pancakes! (starts out the door) K: Bo, will you tell me what’s going on here? B: Kevin, I just found out that what I couldn’t see is exactly what I’m looking for. H: Are you okay? N: I just knocked over a glass, Hank. H: Look, I didn’t mean to upset you, I just wanted to... N: Look, this is one of the reasons why we didn’t make it as a couple, okay? You just don’t know when to quit when you make a point. If you don’t mind, I’d like to be alone right now. H: Look, you will think about what I said, won’t you? N: (mutters) Oh, God. H: All right, all right, all right. I’m out of here.   Nora remembers what Hank said about loneliness. N: (to waiter with a phone) Excuse me, can I use that, please? W: Sure. N: I guess a message is going to have to do, Bo. Bo, it’s Nora. N: Well, I never meant to leave a long message, but then again, I’ve never had a short conversation with you, so...Bo, I have no idea what’s going to happen to either one of us. I just know that at our best, we were about making each other happy, and I don’t think I can stand the idea of you being any more hurt than you already have been, so I think that maybe it’s really time that we just say goodbye. Goodbye. (hangs up) I miss you already, Bo. B: I miss you, too. B: No, wait, before you say anything, I just want you to know, I have seen the light. This whole mess about the accident, it is crystal clear. N: It is? B: Absolutely. I can look you right square in the eye without even flinching and tell you that there is absolutely no way that you forced me off the road Thanksgiving night. N: Oh, Bo. B: No, I mean it! N: Oh, Bo, just don’t... B: I mean it! Nora, just listen to me, please. I’m not losing my mind. This is not some crackpot, pie in the sky theory that explains away your guilt. I have proof. You did not cause the accident. N: Proof? B: Yes. And it’s something that not even you can argue with, what I have this time, so, are you coming with me, or not?