May 14, 1999 Santos Mansion (Ben walks into the "Family" room) Carmen: What took you so long? Ben: You wanted me? Carmen: I called you about an hour and one-half ago. Where have you been. Ben: What's the big emergency this time? Carmen: This family is in a crisis, Ben. (Um huh) We're in danger of losing everything. Ben: Did you find Danny? Carmen: Yes I found him. He was with Michelle as I suspected. When I called you, I told you that I needed to see you immediately. Why did you take your sweet time in getting here. Ben: I couldn't decide whether to come at all, actually. Carmen: And what does that mean. Ben: It means, Carmen, that you and I have an arrangement. I devoted my practice to you and you promised to bring down hell fire on Alan Spaulding. And so far, you've done nothing. So, I'd say your account is WAY past due. Carmen: Maybe it is. I've had a lot on my mind lately. Ben: I know all about what's been on your mind, Carmen. Carmen: I haven't forgotten about our arrangement, Ben. You'll have your revenge on Alan Spaulding, I promise you that. But first we have to fix this situation. You'll have access to all of my resources. But right now, I need you. I'm desperate. Ben: Because of your children. Carmen: My worst nightmare is coming true. Mick is dead. Danny and Pilar have turned against me. Michelle and Danny are closer now than ever and it's all my fault. I should have "killed" that girl when I had the chance. Bauer Bedroom Michelle: You know what? You ruined my fun. Danny: Sorry. Michelle: And you owe me a party. So, fine, so let's party. (Kissing! Danny lowers Michelle back on the bed and takes his jacket off. He hesitates and raises up) Danny: Ohhhh. Hold on a minute. (Danny lowers back down as if to start kissing Michelle again) Michelle: No! Fine! (She pushes him off the bed and he falls flat on the floor) Tell me... How do I compare to Drew. How is it! AM I AS GOOD AS SHE IS, DANNY? Danny: (looks up at her while on the floor) Great! Enter...the "Light" (This is just hilarious! Michelle gets up and starts stomping on the bed, having a tantrum! She jumps off the bed and almost on top of Danny, like she's attacking him!!) Michelle: How about it? How do I compare to my good friend Drew, Danny? Danny: (trying to defend himself!!!) HEY! HEY! HEY! Take it easy! C'mon I just had a car accident. Michelle: I'm just looking for some constructive criticism, right? (Danny is up and walking around the room... Michelle is in "hot" pursuit!) Danny: Well, forget it! I'm taking a fifth on that question! Michelle: Why? WHY? HOW COME! You don't have to worry about hurting my feelings or anything...it's a little late for that,,,listen...I know I'm not as experienced as Drew is, but I'm a quick learner. So, come on... let's go....come on (Michelle goes after Danny's belt, trying to start undressing him!) Danny: Stop it. Come on. Stop it! Michelle: You know you don't want me to stop! Danny: I'm not playing with you, I'm not! Michelle: Why? You had no problems "playing" with Drew! Danny: Big sigh! Michelle: Don't you want me as much as you wanted her, Danny. Danny: You're nuts. You're crazy. How can you ask me something like that? Michelle: (pulls the straps on her dress down) Come on. Fine. Let's go. Let's go Danny. Right here Right now. Danny: Stop. No. Cut it out. Michelle: You are just no fun at all tonight. Danny: Well, baby, this isn't fun. Michelle: No, it's not fun? Why not? Just a little meaningless SEX between two friends and I've been drinking so it doesn't really count. Danny: Because it wouldn't be meaningless. Michelle: Come on Danny. I'm looking for a good time and I hear YOU are the MAN for the job! (She grabs his shirt) Danny: Hey! Michelle: We'll just sleep together and we could forget it even happened the next day. Alright. And I'll go back to my Frat Party and you can go back to your life of crime. Come on! Take me NOW! Take me just the way you took Drew. Come on! Danny: You're wasted. You know this is not what you want! You know that! Michelle: (Now laying back on the bed playing Ms. Seductress) This is what we both want isn't it? Isn't this why you look at me the way that you do. The way that you stare me like you're looking into my..... Danny: No, it's not. You know that. Michelle: (gets up from the bed heading towards the door) Fine! You're not going to give me what I want, then I'll go some place else for it! (Danny grabs her and heads for the bathroom. Both are yelling NO to each other!!) Danny: You're gonna be like this? Then I've got no other choice! Michelle: LET GO OF ME!!! OHHHHH!!! Santos Mansion Carmen: As my attorney, Ben, I should be able to say anything to you without you walking out on me. Ben: You're taking chances, Carmen. You're making decisions based on "personal" reasons. You keep going like this, you're headed for disaster. IRS. The other families. They are just waiting for you to get sloppy. Carmen: Oh, can't you see, Ben. None of this matters without Danny and Pilar. Ben: And you think taking Michelle Bauer off this planet is going to bring your children back to you? Carmen: I don't know what else to do. I can't just sit back and watch them walk out on me. They're my babies. No matter what happens, I love them more than anything in this world. Ben: Even your own life? Because if word gets out that you have internal problems, I think somebody's going to decide that you are vulnerable. Carmen: I'm not afraid. Ben: Well, you should be. Carmen: On the other hand, maybe that wouldn't be such a "bad" thing. If my children were to think that I'm in some kind of danger, maybe they would come back to me. Ben: (jokingly) What are you gonna do? Take out a contract on yourself? Carmen: Precisely. Y2K Club Bill: Waitress! Waitress! Pilar: WHAT! I'M BUSY! Bill: When you get a minute I'd like a menu. I'd also like an explanation for why you've been blowing me off! Pilar: I'm really busy right now! Bill: No. You're not getting off that easily. Pilar: Please Bill. I don't have time. Bill: Yeah, you do have time. So, tell me exactly what I did and why all of a sudden you think that I'm trying to take advantage of you? Customer: Excuse me miss? (Bill takes the food tray from Pilar and gives it to a customer-hauls her off to the other room) Pilar: You can't do THAT! Bill: I just did. (hauls her off to the other room) Pilar: Honestly, you want to cost me my job. Bill: Hey! I'm the one that got you this job in the first place. Remember that? In fact, since the minute I've met you all I've tried to do is help you out. I got you away from your brother. I got you out of your mother's house. I even let you stay at my place. So, please, tell me, where is it that I went wrong! HUH? Pilar: Maybe I finally figured out why you did all that stuff in the first place. Bill: Because I like you? Pilar: Huh! Yeah! I bet you do! Bill: What the hell is that suppose to mean? Pilar: It means I know how you guys think. Bill: Oh, you do? Pilar: Yeah. Well, I'm learning. You guys are all the same, you only want one thing. Bill: HEY! I barely even laid a hand on you. Not that I haven't given it a thought, but ... Pilar: Right. I bet that's all you've been thinking about the whole time. Just like a guy. Bill: Will you please tell me where all this is coming from? Pilar: Like I said. You guys are all the same. You, my brother. Bill: Oh. Okay. Now I get it. What did your brother do? Pilar: More like who! Michelle's best friend. (Hilary and Erica .....I'm thinking like you guys now!! I want to watch with y'all!!!) Bill: I thought I was Michelle's best friend. (took the words right out of my mouth, Bill!) What are you talking about? Pilar: No. The other one. Bill: Who? Abby? (this is too funny!) Pilar: No. Drew. Drew. Okay. He slept with Drew. Bill: Drew and Danny? Pilar: Yes. While he was still married to Michelle. While he "claimed" to love her so much. Bill: Danny's the one. Jesse thought it was me at first. Pilar: OH! It "figures." Bill: HEY! ENOUGH! Danny's the one you should be mad at here, not me. Pilar: Yeah. But you think it's okay, right. It's just "what guys do." Bill: And women. Drew was in that room too, remember? Pilar: Yeah. But Drew wasn't married to anyone else. She didn't "claim" to love anyone else. Bill: Look, Pilar. It happens. Pilar: Why does everyone keep saying that? Bill: Because it does. People make mistakes all the time. Even when they are in love. Back to the Bauer Bathroom (Danny opens the shower door, while Michelle is fighting him) Danny: No. No. Michelle: Let me go. You think just because, because you saved my life that you're responsible for me? I HATE you. I HATE YOU. (Puts Michelle in the shower under cold water) Michelle: No, NO, NO. Danny. Danny: There you go. There you go. There you Go! (Gets into the shower with her) Michelle: It's FREEZING! NO! NO! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU for everything that you've done to me. Danny: No you don't. Don't say that. (She starts crying and holding onto him/he holds her/ they kneel down together on the floor) Michelle: (Sobbing uncontrollably. It's difficult to understand what she's saying here, but it sounds like "Why did you make me care for you?" "Why can't I hate you?") Danny (as he holds her): It's okay. It's alright. Okay. Okay. (Danny turns off the water, gets her out of the shower, puts a towel around her. Takes her to the bedroom and gets her a robe. Michelle lays down on the bed while Danny sits beside her) Danny: You ok? (Michelle shivers) Danny: Come on. Let's get you dried off. Let's go. (Puts the towel around her) Danny: You're a wet puppy. Come on. (they walk into the bedroom) Danny: Sit down. Sit down. Michelle: Please go. Danny: Nope. I'm not going anywhere. Michelle: Danny, come on. You, you kept me away from the party, you're mission's accomplished, so GET OUT! Danny: I'm not leaving you alone. So you can complain all you want. (puts a robe around the towel) Danny: Here. Okay. Now. Let's talk. Michelle: There's nothing to talk about. You had a need and Drew was there, alright. (Michelle fixes pillows to lay down on them) Who cares, right? Right, who cares? Danny: Well, apparently "you" care. Michelle: No, no Danny, alright. I'm over it, ya know. Danny: Michelle. How many ways do I have to say I'm sorry. Look, I hate that I hurt you. Michelle: Then why did you do it? Danny: I told you. I was upset, and you betrayed me. I thought we were over. Michelle: (pleadingly) Danny, please don't make this my fault. Danny: I'm not making...I know I'm completely responsible for what I do.. But.. I'll never hurt you again. Michelle: I can't...I don't know how to trust you...Can you just tell me how I'm suppose to trust you? Danny: I don't know...I guess you're just going to have to close your eyes and ˇ¦jump. Michelle: I can't.. I can't do that anymore. I'm just finally realizing I thought I knew where you were from and who you are, but I don't. Danny: Why? Why do you say that. Just because of what happened that one night. Michelle: It's not that one night. I'm just.. This woke me up a lot, y'know? It made me realize that (sighs) our worlds don't mix. Danny: Michelle. You know, you KNOW that we should be together. You can't just deny how we feel. Michelle: Feelings don't make a difference anymore, Danny (Yes they do) they don't because I can't keep making excuses for you. Danny: What do you.... Michelle: (crying) Your family kills people for a living. They kill people, Danny. You're not misunderstood. You're a gangster. I can't live like that. I can't live with who you are. Danny: Okay. Ok! Then I'll change. I'll change for you. Michelle, you're all that matters to me. Back at Y2K club: Bill: Look. I'll admit it. I'm a man (you too, Billˇ¦LOL). I'm guilty of that. But I'm not your brother and I didn't make your brother sleep with Drew. Pilar: I know. I know. Bill: Look. I agree with you. Danny did a terrible thing, but I never thought Danny should be with Michelle in the first place. I know you don't agree with me on that. Pilar: No, actually I'm starting to think you were right about that. Bill: Okay. So, that we've cleared that up, can we just get past it? Pilar: Yeah. I'm sorry, Bill. You've been nothing but nice to me since I've been back in town. I'm sorry. Bill: You're not blaming me for the mistakes of every other guy in the world anymore? (smiling) Pilar: No. I'll let it go this time, if you promise to forgive me. Bill: I do. To be honest, it makes me feel a little bit better to know I really didn't do anything wrong. Pilar: Well, not this time. Bill: Thanks for the vote of confidence. Pilar: No problem. (starts to walk away, stops and looks back at Bill) Pilar: By the way. Who was that lady you were with the other day, in the hall. Bill: I'm surprised you even remember it, considering how fast you flew by us. Pilar: (laughs) I caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye. Bill: Well, that would be my mother. Pilar: Oh my God! Oh my God. That was the first time she met me. Bill: Well, she didn't actually get a chance to meet you. Pilar: She must really hate me. (Pilar, baby, you better hope not!!) Bill: Don't worry about it. She's seen a whole lot worse. My whole family, in fact. Pilar: You don't know how bad I really feel...God! Bill: Don't worry about it. You didn't come across exactly the way I described you, but it's okay. Pilar: And how did you describe me? Bill: Very smart. Very beautiful. Pilar: Really? That's the way you described me? Bill: Umm huh. I tell you what. I'll let you made amends if you agree to go out with me tonight. What time do you get out of here? Pilar: You know what? Drew's not around (thank goodness..sorry, I just couldn't resist that one!) and she's not very high on my list right now. SO. As far as I'm concerned. I'm off... Right now. Bill: Sounds good to me. Where do you want to go? Pilar: How about that new Latin club __________ ( please fill in the blank with a Spanish word, 'cause I do not have a clue!) One of the waiters was telling me that it's really cool! Bill: I'm in! Pilar: Yeah? Oh, wait. There's only one problem. I don't have anything to wear. Bill: And why don't I believe you. Pilar: No, I'm serious. I left most of my clothes at my mother's house and I know the perfect dress that I want to wear tonight and it's hanging right there in the closet. Bill: You sure you want to go over to the house? I know you don't want to run into your mother. Pilar: Don't worry. I have a spare key to the back door. We'll just sneak in without anyone even knowing we were there. Okay? Bill: Alright. (Bilar leave Y2K together) Santos Mansion Carmen: I'll just have one of my men shoot up the house a bit. Make it seem like an attempt on my life. Ben: Danny is not going to buy this, Carmen. Carmen: Danny will believe it. We have enough bad blood between our assoicates to make it seem possible. And he'll know it happened because he left this family, leaving us weak and vulnerable. It's perfect. Ben: Desperate. Carmen: Yeah. Well, I am desperate. My children have abandoned me. And in this world that I live in, the one that you have chosen to "visit," a real attempt on my life is not so far-fetched. Ben: No, a real attempt makes sense. Carmen: I'm going to need your help, Ben. Ben: (a good Ben laugh here) I'm sorry, Carmen, I'm not good with a gun. Carmen: All I need is for you to make sure that Danny comes to see the aftermath. I want him to feel responsible for leaving me unprotected. Ben: A phone call? Carmen: Just a phone call, Ben. Just one. You'll keep your hands clean and I'll get my Danny back....for good. Ben: Okay. Carmen: I'd better go make the arrangements. Ben: Whatever you do, you better tell whoever does this, to be "absolutely sure" that no one's in the house when the fireworks start. Carmen: Of course. Michelle's Bedroom (During this scene Danny and Michelle are sitting on the bed. They are talking with about 4" between them. Very sweet. Very soft talking!) Michelle: So, you'd give up your family, your business, everything? Danny: Yeah. All of it. Michelle: I don't believe you can do it, Danny. Danny: Michelle, none of those things... I don't care about doing those things if I can't have you. Michelle: Your mother will never let you go. Danny: Oh forget her. She doesn't have a choice. Michelle: Danny, it's who you are. You can't just change. Danny: It's who I was. (Lays his head on her shoulder....ahhh)You know. Ever since I was a boy I've been groomed to take over the business. And for a while, I thought that's what I wanted, but I don't anymore. Michelle: How do you know? Danny: I want you. Michelle: And what about the loyalty that you have to your family. You'll give that up, too? Danny: I'll do whatever it takes if that's what I have to do for us to be together. I'll take us as far away from here; as far away from my family as we have to go, Okay? Michelle: It's too late. You can't change who you are. You said it yourself. Danny: No, I can, I can. I want to and put my mind to something. I can. Michelle: Why...Why are you willing to do all of this for me? Why now? Danny: You know why. (ok, i realize that we're going to get the "i love you's" later, but this would have been a good time!!! jmho!) Say yes. Say you'll be with me and I promise I'll take care of everything else. Santos mansion. (It's dark in the family room as Bilar sneak in) Pilar: That was easier than I thought. It doesn't look like there's anyone around. Bill: Yeah. Well, it's a good thing. Pilar: Believe me, I know. Well, I'm going to get that dress, okay. Bill: Wait, wait, wait. What do I do if someone comes back while you're gone. Pilar: Shhhh. Can you impersonate a couch? (laughs) Bill: Yeah. Just make it fast, ok? Pilar: Ok. (Pilar walks off. Bill walks around the room to the mantle. I don't know the significance of this but Bill sees the mantle clock has the wrong time. He opens the door and advances the time by 5 minutes! The way the camera zoomed in on this, it seems to mean somethingˇ¦Ideas??) Outside the Santos Mansion....Thug Unlimited on the phone! Thug: I want to make sure you're good and safe, Boss! Yeah. Mr. Warren's car should be far enough away from the gunfire. Just stay there until I'm done, ok? I checked, no one's in the house. Back inside the Santos Mansion (Pilar walks back into the "Family" room holding a dress.) Pilar: Any unwanted visitors? Bill: Just your Mom and a couple of thugs, but I told them to get lost. Pilar: Good for you. (laughing) Bill: You're not wearing the dress? Pilar: No. I didn't want to press my luck. Bill: I really wanted to see you in it. Pilar: You know, I'm really impressed! Most guys would have tried a cheesy line like " I really want to see that dress, on the floor, beside my bedˇ¦." or something like that. Bill: Well, I didn't think I needed a line. I've already picked you up, haven't I? Pilar: Oh yeah. (Michelle and Danny are still on the bed, but even closer. She has her arm around him/etc. Oh, I'd say about 2" apart now! Both keep looking at each other's lips! I can't imagine what they're thinking!) Danny: Michelle, give me a chance. You know I'm not the person that my mother raised me to be when I'm with you. I don't want to be that person anymore. Michelle: (whispering and looks like she wants to put a "lip-lock" on him, their noses are touching) Danny, I don't know what to say. Danny: Say yes. (leans in as if to kiss her) (The phone rings. Michelle goes for the phone after a couple of rings. Danny tries to stop her.) Michelle: Hello. Ben: This is Michelle? Michelle: Yes. (Danny starts kissing her neck, and then lower, and then lower) Ben: This is Ben Warren. I'm looking for Danny Santos. Is there with you. It's an emergency, Michelle (UMMM) If he is there you have to let me speak to him. Michelle (holds the phone to Danny, who definitely has other things on his mind): It's Ben Warren. Danny: Yeah Ben. Ben: Danny, I just left your mother over at the house. As I was driving away, I heard gunfire. Danny: What? Ben: I think that there has been an attempt on your mother's life. Danny: Okay. I'll be right there. (Danny gets up and starts to put his shoes on) Michelle: What's going on? Danny: Uhhh. Someone took a shot at my mother. I gotta go, I'm sorry. Michelle: I'm coming with you. I'm coming. (They leave.) Santos Mansion "Family" room Pilar: I think we should get out of here now. Bill: Where are you going to change? Pilar: What's it to you? (very amused) Bill: I'm just curious, that's all. Pilar: Uh huh! I see the way you're looking at me. Bill: Ummm. I'm being a typical guy, again? Pilar: Yeah. But it's okay! I like it. Kiss! Outside the Santos Mansion, Thug-man is putting the magazine into a mean looking automatic weapon!!!