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Hank: "Keri? Where's Keri....and what are you doing here?" R.J.: "You know that moral high ground you've been squatting on all these years? Well, it's starting to look a little soggy, brother." Hank: "What are you talking about?" R.J.: "What am I talking about?! What am I talking about? I'm talking about you. I'm talking about a self-righteous phony that's spineless, too. You know... what you're doing is worse than anything I've ever done." Hank:" What have I done?" R.J.: "Well, let's see....You have a daughter, and she's gotten a little too big to hide." Hank: "Keri told you." R.J.: "Yeah, she told me. She told me all about you. You.....what kind of man are you? Huh? And what's this about trying to keep me away from Keri?" Hank: "For her sake." R.J.: "'For her sake.'For her sake'? NO, NO! You can't pull that! You can't blame this on me! Look, you got to tell me something! Give me one....one real reason why you won't admit that you're that girl's father." Hank: "Because I'm not." R.J.: "Look me in the eye and tell that lie again!" Hank: "I'm not lying, R.J." R.J.: "Henry, I've seen the checks you wrote to support her!" Hank: "I'm not lying. I'm not keri's father!" R.J.: "Well then, if you're not, who is?" {scene ends} R.J.: "Congratulations, Henry. I mean, who would have thought that Llanview's renowned district attorney was also a player?" Hank: "You don't know what you're talking about!" R.J.: "Hmm....So what was it? Are you ashamed of your careless ways?" Hank: "I have nothing to be ashamed of...not when it comes to Keri." R.J.: "Then why don't you just tell that girl the truth??" Hank: "I did tell her the truth, R.J...I am not her father." R.J.: "Then who is?" {scene ends} R.J.: "Well, come on! Speak up! Can't hear you over all the denial. Who is the girl's father?" Hank: "Eliz...Keri's mother wanted to keep this private. I think you need to respect that." R.J.: "Hmmm..well..see, I'd love to, except 'that' is now a young woman who hates me because of my association with you, and you keep trying to scare me away from her, which makes you look guilty. Well, fine, fine. Maybe I'll just tell Keri what little I do know. Maybe it'll help her find her real father." Hank: "No!!" R.J.: "You're awful protective of a woman who is not your daughter." Hank: "Keri doesn't need to be involved with somebody like you." R.J.: "So, what, what, now I'm like her father?" Hank: "He's not a father. He doesn't know how to be one. He doesn't want to be one. And family doesn't matter to him..to him, family's just an inconvenience-- just something to make fun of." R.J.: "You know, that sounds familiar. Why does that sound so familiar...I know. It's exactly what you always say about me." {scene ends} R.J.: "Well, okay, Henry, okay. What is it about this mystery man, huh? Why not let him pay for his own love child?" Hank: "He doesn't know." R.J.: "He doesn't know? He doesn't know? What, was this, just some little fling with her mother?" Hank: "No." R.J.: "No...it wasn't a little fling..." Hank: "No." R.J.: "Oh...so you never had anything to do with her, right-- not even once?" Hank: "No, R.J." R.J.: "And you still sent money to support her child?" Hank: "Yes, I did." R.J.: "Ohhh! Come on! That's bull!" Hank: "That was the right thing to do, R.J." R.J.: "The right thing to do--sure, sure...if she was family, which you keep swearing she's not." (Hank looks at him oddly) "What? What's the look? Why are you looking at...Keri is family? Well, then, if she's not your child, Henry...No. Uh-uh, no...Then tell me: What's Keri's mother's name?" Hank: "Elizabeth." R.J.: "Elizabeth...Elizabeth Reynolds...I don't know an Elizabeth Reynolds." Hank: "That was her husband's name." R.J.: "Her...then what was her name then?" Hank: "Coleman." R.J.: "Coleman. Elizabeth Coleman...I didn't know an Elizabeth...I knew a Liz Coleman, but...So, Keri is family, but she's not your child. She's my daughter?" {scene ends} R.J.: "Come on, Henry! First, your story is that there is no story. Now it's that I'm Keri's father? Come on! Just for once, tell me the truth!" Hank: "Do the math, R.J...And while you're at it, get out of my face." R.J.: "Do the math??? Based on what, huh? I'm telling you, it's impossible, but I'm supposed to believe..." Hank: "Why else would I take care of Keri all these years?" R.J.: "I don't know!!!" Hank: "Because Elizabeth didn't want you to know, so she turned to me." R.J.: "You? Why you, if I'm supposed to be the girl's father?" Hank: "No, R.J...You got her pregnant. That does not make you a father!!" R.J.: "Oh, oh..and when were you father of the year, huh? Or didn't your daughter kill her roommate?" Hank: "Do you remember what you were involved with back then? What kind of father do you think you would have been to Keri?" R.J.: "Well, we will never know because you and your super-ego decided to keep her away from me!" Hank: "I kept her away from you?? Can't you even figure out what you were doing then? When your daughter was born, you were doing time. You were locked down..." R.J.: "And so what? That gives you the right to...to...to play God with my life and with her life?" Hank: "I respected Elizabeth's wishes, and I did right by Keri, and you know I did." (R.J. walks off) "Where do you think you're going?" R.J.: "Do you really think I'm going take your word for this?" Hank: "Do you think that I would lie to you about something.." R.J.: "Henry, today is not the day for you to finish that sentence. You have lied to me every time you spoke to me!! For years you just kept me in the dark because you decided that you were better than me. And now I'm just supposed to trust you." Hank: "It was not my call to make." R.J.: "'It was not my call to make'? Henry, you are a disappointment, and you make me sick." {scene ends} ++ Return to Timothy D. Stickney's Domain |