Nights in Rodanthe Page #5

Thank you.

ADRIENNE:
Come on.

DOT:
Hey, there's more food!

Thanks.

[PEOPLE CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]

[SINGING "BEFORE I MET YOU"]

Okay, this is where I'll be flying

into Esmeraldas.

And then you take this long road...

...closer up

into these mountains over here.

That's where Mark's clinic is,

on the south incline of these mountains.

Wow.

There's no phones, electricity,

running water. Nothing.

[LAUGHS]

Nothing. It's true. And then I take...

...of course, the long road here up to that,

which continues along here...

...and up this very steep mountain...

...and down this beautiful...

...beautiful broad valley.

Then up this steep incline over here

and around the river.

And then, oh, there's the post office

I'm gonna be sending you letters from.

Yeah.

Then come around this beautiful tree

over here...

...and, oh, there's another post office

right there.

I'll send you another one.

And another one.

I don't know how long I'm gonna be

down there with Mark.

Maybe a long time.

I know.

As long as it takes.

It's the most important thing.

JACK:

You said we'd work it out!

ADRIENNE:

Jack, please.

[DOOR SLAMS]

[AMANDA CRIES]

AMANDA:

Daddy.

Come here, baby.

You'll see him in a bit.

He wanted me to talk to you first.

Here it comes.

Here comes the crap and the bullshit.

-Please, just listen. Come here, honey.

-What is there to listen to? Dad's gone.

Your father and I

are not going to be together.

You mean Dad wanted to come back

and you wouldn't let him.

He will always be your father,

but I will not be his wife.

Okay, I know that he's not perfect, okay?

But you say

that we don't have to be perfect.

-It's not about that.

-Why can't you just forgive him?

I forgive your father.

It's not about the past.

Of course it is!

-Amanda, stop it.

-God, I hate you!

-I really hate this!

-Stop it, please.

-No!

-Yes! Listen to me. Listen to me.

I know that this is hard for you

to understand.

AII I can tell you is that, listen,

I am still your mother...

...and I am not going anywhere, baby.

I love you so much, no matter what,

for my whole life.

Do you understand?

That goes for your father too.

That goes for your father too, Danny.

But this was my decision.

You have to trust

that I made the right decision.

Amanda.

Come here, baby.

It's gonna be okay.

It's gonna be all right.

It's all gonna be okay.

DANNY:

Hey, Mom! Watch this!

Keep it up, honey!

PAUL:
Dear Adrienne,

saying goodbye to you...

... was the hardest thing

I've ever had to do...

... and I know I'll never do it again.

I'm gonna look at our time apart

as a chance...

... to get to know you

even better than I do.

ADRIENNE:
Dear Paul, after you left,

I felt like I was waking up from a dream.

I am a grown woman, for God's sake,

not a teenager. I have a teenager.

I kept thinking,

was it the storm, the wine...

... the way you looked at me?

I don't know how or why,

but I'm old enough to know...

... how lucky I am to have found you.

[GIRLS LAUGHING]

GIRL:

Hi, Mrs. Willis.

-Hey, girls.

GIRLS:
Hi.

Ooh, that's a lot of stuff.

Your mom's looking pretty good

these days.

Anyways...

PAUL:
It's so beautiful here.

But believe me, nothing...

... nothing can compare to the peaks

and valleys...

... I traced along the map of your body.

[LAUGHS]

Mark is really something.

He never stops working.

He's available to everybody, all the time.

I never thought I'd say this,

but now I understand why he came.

ADRIENNE:
Dear Paul, if Danny and Amanda

were older, I'd be right there by your side.

But as parents, this is one of the sacrifices

we have to make.

If I've gone this long without seeing you,

talking to you...

... touching you...

... what's a few more months?

PAUL:
Listen, it's not just that you got

a hell of an arm, it's everything you are.

ADRIENNE:
When Jack left me,

it wasn't just our marriage ending.

It was the loss

of all the hopes that I'd had.

PAUL:
Your compassion, generosity,

the way you see beauty in simple things.

ADRIENNE:
I tried to move on, but the world

didn't seem that interested in me anymore.

PAUL:
Part of me wants to jump on a plane

and come back. I know I can't.

ADRIENNE:
Dear Paul, I can't believe it.

Amanda is actually starting to come around.

PAUL:
I must have seen

hundreds of patients.

ADRIENNE:
I'm counting the days.

PAUL:
I never would've believed

one weekend could change my life.

ADRIENNE:
And then you came along

and helped me believe in myself again.

Mm. Mm.

[LAUGHS]

Who writes letters like this anymore?

-I know.

-Let me see that picture again.

Looks this good, appreciates you,

and he has a dirty mind.

-He's definitely a keeper.

-Let me have that.

PAUL:
Dear Adrienne, when I write to you,

I feel your breath.

When you read these letters,

I imagine you feel mine.

-All right, guys, he's waiting.

DANNY:
Bye, Mom.

AMANDA:

Bye, Mom.

PAUL:

Our letters are a part of us now.

Part of our history.

A reminder that we made it

through this time together-

Wait. No, Jack has the children

until Monday. Oh, yes.

Thank you.

I'm making the same thing

that we had that night at the inn.

PAUL:
-and a promise

of what I hope our future will be.

I know.

Jean.

Jean.

His flight's landing soon.

I'm not even dressed.

No, I'm gonna have to-

I will, I promise. Of course I will.

-I love you, too, darling. Bye.

PAUL:
Love, Paul.

ADRIENNE:

Flight 2822.

Arrived on time?

Okay, um, well,

I'm actually calling about a passenger.

Yes, last name Flanner.

Well, I wanna know

if he was on the plane.

Of course, I understand you don't usually

give out that information, but, um...

Of course. Well, do you have a supervisor

that I could speak with, or...?

What would you do?

I mean, I just want this information...

...and I don't know who to ask.

I don't mind holding. I don't mind-

Thank you.

[DOORBELL RINGS]

Hi. Adrienne Willis?

Yes.

I'm Mark Flanner.

I'm...

I'm still trying to work it out myself.

MARK:

As soon as he got there, he was different.

I figured, once there, he'd immediately

start taking over like he usually did.

But instead, he just started working.

[SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

PAUL & CHILDREN:

Ahh.

MARK:
The conditions there were tough,

especially in the rainy season.

I'd gotten word that sections

of the mountain were starting to give way.

PAUL:

We gotta get out of here. We gotta go.

MARK:

Not until we get the rest of the supplies.

MARK:
I suppose if I hadn't been

so determined to take everything with us...

It'll take two weeks.

We'll lose too many people.

MARK:
You gotta understand,

in that part of the world...

...antibiotics and syringes are like gold.

All right, you load this stuff up.

I'll go get the rest.

Okay.

MARK:
Just as we were starting

to know each other again...

...he was taken away from me.

Because of you, he was a changed man.

You gave me back my father.

You saved him.

Well, we saved each other.

[SOBS]

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