#56. In the restaurant
WAITRESS | Would you like a drink? |
ESABELLE | Patrome, please. Double. (to Jackie) What's up? |
JACKIE | Last year, I lost Ben. |
ESABELLE | What? |
JACKIE | In the supermarket. |
ESABELLE | You're lying. |
JACKIE | It's true. |
ESABELLE | That's impossible. You could never lose that kid for one second. |
JACKIE | I did. |
ESABELLE | Ben never mentioned it. |
JACKIE | He just remembers I found him. |
ESABELLE | Why didn't you tell me? |
JACKIE | You know why. |
ESABELLE | I never wanted to be a Mom. Well, sharing it with you is one thing. |
Carrying it alone the rest of my life... always being compared to you. | |
You're perfect. They worship you. | |
I just don't want to be looking over my shoulder every day for 20 years... | |
knowing... that someone else would have done it right... done it better... the way that I can't. | |
JACKIE | What do I have that you don't? |
ESABELLE | You're Mother Earth incarnate. |
JACKIE | You're hip and fresh. |
ESABELLE | You ride with Anna. |
JACKIE | You'll learn. |
ESABELLE | You know every story... every wound... every memory. |
Their whole life's happiness is wrapped up in you. Every single moment. | |
Don't you get it? | |
Look down the road to her wedding…I'm in a room alone with her... | |
fitting her veil... fIuffing her dress... telling her... no woman has ever looked that beautiful. | |
And my fear is... that she'll be thinking... ''l wish my Mom was here.'' | |
JACKIE | And mine is... she won't. |
But the truth is... she doesn't have to choose. | |
She can have us both... love us both. | |
And she will be a better person because of me... and because of you. | |
I have their past... and you can have their future. |
#57. In Jackie's house
BEN | Hey, guys, it's Christmas! Wake up! (runs downstairs in a hurry) |
I hope there's a white dove. There's gotta be a white dove. | |
ESABELLE | Hark, I hear the gentle sounds of Benjamin. |
LUKE | We'd better get out there before he starts ripping open all the presents. |
Ben, Ben, Ben, have a little patience. | |
BEN | Can I open my presents now? |
ESABELLE | Actually, your Mom wants you guys to go upstairs... and open presents with her first, |
then we'll open presents down here, okay? | |
BEN | Okay. Me first. (goes upstairs) |
JACKIE | Marry Christmas! |
Sweetie, I think this has your name on it. | |
BEN | Wow! A real magician's cape! Awesome! |
JACKIE | Come here. l'll help you with it. |
What does it have all over it? Could you see? | |
BEN | Pictures of me and you. |
JACKIE | And this right here? See that one? |
That's our first official photo of you and me as a couple. See that? | |
BEN | Did you know I was goodlooking right away? |
JACKIE | Everybody in the hospital was talking about it. Are you kidding? |
But this goodlooking was beyond my imagination. (kisses to Ben) | |
BEN | (sighs) Are you dying? |
JACKIE | What do you think? |
BEN | Yes. Then I won't see you anymore. |
JACKIE | Well, you won't see my body, but you know how a caterpillar becomes something else? |
BEN | A butterfly. |
JACKIE | Yeah. You just have to think of me as... off flying somewhere. |
And, of course, the magician knows the secret | |
that just because you don't see something doesn't meant that it's not there. | |
So even thought it might seem like I'm gone, the magician knows better. | |
BEN | So, where will you be? |
JACKIE | (puts hands on Ben's chest) Right here. Right here inside the magician. |
BEN | Can I talk to you when you're there? |
JACKIE | Always, always, always. |
You won't hear my voice but deep inside, you know what I'm saying. | |
BEN | It's not good enough. |
JACKIE | No..no.. Of course it isn't, because it isn't everything. |
And we want everything, don't we? | |
But we still have one thing. | |
One of our greatest things we'll always have. | |
You know what that is? | |
Our dreams. We can still meet in our dreams. | |
We can talk to each other there, and go for walks together in the summer | |
and in the winter and in the rain and in the sun… | |
and I can come and pick you up and we can go flying. | |
BEN | Nobody's loved you like I do. (hugs Jackie) |
JACKIE | Nobody ever will. |