City of Angels Page #7

I thought he was a messenger.

Yeah, he's one of those...

..."hyphenates."

I'll be right back.

Here, can you cut this up?

So in what province in Canada

were you born?

I wasn't born in Canada.

What are your parents' names?

No parents.

You have very delicate hands

for a construction worker.

I'm not a construction worker.

Very pale hands. Let me see.

- Why did you do that?

- Let me see your hand.

No.

What's your last name?

You know my last name.

I don't.

Plate.

Seth Plate?

I cut you.

I cut you.

I cut you with that knife.

I felt it go in. You felt it.

Not the way you do.

The way I do?

What does that mean?

You mean the way a doctor does?

The way a woman does? What?

The way...

...a human does.

I have no sense of touch.

You feel that?

Don't be frightened.

You freak!

You liar!

Who... What are you?

I came to take Mr. Balford...

...and I saw you.

I couldn't take my eyes off you.

How you fought for him.

And you looked right at me...

...like I was a man.

- "To take Mr. Balford"?

- I was there.

- We're always there in every room.

- What are you talking about?

I was there in the stairwell...

...when you cried for your patient.

And I touched you. Remember?

Why are you doing this?

Because I'm in love with you.

I don't believe you.

Do you feel that?

You don't want to believe me.

I cannot conceive of it!

Just get out!

Get out!

Doctor?

Doctor?

Hello?

Seth?

Are you here?

I want to see you.

Let me see you.

Just stay.

Just stay until I fall asleep.

Oh, yes!

Thank you.

The baby can't sleep.

Has anyone ever seen the baby sleep?

I don't know. Let's check him out.

Choanal atresia.

There's hardly any air getting through.

How did you know?

I just...

...knew!

Maggie?

Yeah.

Are you alone?

Yeah.

Pretty intuitive call on the baby.

Think so?

I couldn't have done it better.

Well, that's a compliment.

What are you doing?

I'm spending time with you.

Will you marry me?

We can finally get up to Tahoe.

Get married on the Nevada side...

...honeymoon and be back

before we miss a case.

What do you want me to do?

Get down on my knees?

What do you want me to say?

We belong together.

We're the same species.

I'm not very good at matters

of the heart. I mean...

...the proverbial heart.

Please be my wife.

Just think about it.

Breathe in.

Breathe in.

I'm good.

I don't understand a God who would let

us meet, if we could never be together.

He didn't tell you.

Tell me what?

Maybe you should ask him.

No, I'm asking you.

Seth knows no fear...

...no pain...

...no hunger.

He hears music in the sunrise.

But he'd give it all up.

He loves you that much.

I don't understand.

He can fall.

He can give up his existence

as he knows it.

He can give up eternity and become...

...one of us.

It's up to you.

How do you know this?

Because I did it.

Seth, I need to talk to you.

Seth, please.

Please be here.

God, help me through this.

You are so beautiful.

You'll always be that way.

Jordan asked me to go away with him...

...and get married.

He knows me.

He knows the demands of my work.

You don't love him.

He and I are the same.

And I want that.

And I want somebody who can

feel my hand when I touch him.

But you can feel me.

You felt me.

I want to say goodbye.

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