The Mountain Between Us Page #4

two years.

I'm gonna go cut more wood.

I'm not like you, Alex.

I still can't talk about it.

Mmm.

Morning.

Morning.

Ben...

I've been thinking.

There has to be a road.

We must be close to something.

I'm trying...

to find us a way.

You'll make it faster if I stay here.

I don't wanna leave you here.

I might not even make it.

But you have to.

We can't just stay here.

Alex, my wife didn't leave me

the way you think she did.

We were married happily...

for eight years.

She got sick.

A brain tumor.

My wife became my patient.

And I couldn't save her.

She died.

I'm so sorry.

Alex.

You're coming with me.

I'm gonna get you home.

I'll slow you down.

- I can't leave. Not without you.

- What?

Oh!

I can't. I'm sorry.

We're gonna get there.

Alex!

Alex.

Alex.

Come on. Come on. Please, please. Come on.

Come on. We're here. We're here. We're here.

Come on, come on.

Alex.

Alex, do you see that?

- Yeah, I see.

- Alex.

I see it. I see.

Oh, God.

Ben?

I know.

Won't say anything.

I won't say anything.

Where's the dog?

- He'll find us. Come on.

- Yeah.

Come here, boy!

Walter's dog, come here!

Hey, buddy. Come here. What are you doing?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! No! Come here.

Now! Now! Here!

See what that is?

We gotta go. Let's go. There you go.

We need to get out of here.

We're almost home.

Ben?

Alex!

Ben!

Ben?

Oh, my God! Oh, my God!

- Jesus! Jesus.

- Alex.

Jesus Christ. What... what are we gonna do?

No! No! Alex. Alex!

Please! No. No. Just...

Alex.

Ah! Alex!

Go get... Go get... Go get help.

Okay.

Christ.

Stop!

Stop!

Alex?

Alex?

We need a doctor in 111 immediately.

Dr. Bass?

Yeah.

Oh, Ben.

Oh, my God.

Oh, God.

We made it.

You... Can you believe it?

Yeah.

Your hands, let me see.

- Look at your hands.

- I know. I won't be...

I won't be knitting for a while.

I feel alive.

I feel alive because of you.

Yeah.

Oh. I want you to meet Mark.

You're Mark.

Yeah. Ben, right?

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Yeah. I can't begin to...

Thank you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

- Yeah? Okay, babe?

- Yeah. Yeah.

So, this is Ben.

Yeah, I know. I know.

Wow, it's Mark. Good. It's good to, uh...

it's good to meet you.

Alex told me how you saved her life.

Yes. No.

No, you saved my life, Alex.

- Ben. Ben.

- Um...

It's true.

Yeah.

Um...

They're chasing me. I need to go back, okay?

All right.

Careful. Here you go.

Come here. Come here.

Come here.

Go on.

Mrs. Qabbani, how are you?

Are you feeling better?

How is your arm? Let me see.

We're really serious

about this type of criminality.

Yes, but in the end, that won't matter,

for the public and businesses

when shopping online.

Retailers are highly impacted

by retail crime.

And we estimated cost to be

somewhere around 1.3 billion pounds,

which will impact everyone, including...

- Don't leave me.

- I'm not.

It's our party, you know?

I know, but, you know.

- Honey...

- I don't wanna be...

I just don't wanna be by myself.

These are our friends to welcome you.

Everybody okay?

You all have drinks? Need anything?

Could use a little ice,

actually, if you don't mind.

Oh, that's really funny.

Oh, Pam! Hi! How are you?

- I'm fine, dear.

- Great to see you.

Look at you. You look wonderful.

- Oh, thank you.

- You know,

I don't want to pry, I don't want

to be inappropriate,

but I'm sure that you took some pictures

during your ordeal.

Oh. Um...

This is an amazing story,

and I expect those photos are amazing, too.

I really think people would like to see them.

Well, I...

You know, Pam, I'm not really...

I'm not really ready for that.

- Will you think about it?

- Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Yeah. I'll think about it.

Hi, Ben.

It's Alex again.

Just calling to say hi.

Try me back.

Tell you what. We'll skip out early,

you know, once the thing's over.

We can leave before the reception.

Hey.

What?

It's all right.

- Was... did you...

- Yeah, no.

I was just talking about the fund-raisers.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Sorry.

Alex, I...

I get that you haven't wanted

to talk about this...

but... I... I know what I'm in with you.

I always told myself I'd...

I'd get some call from somewhere.

So, I made a deal with myself.

That I would always love you,

even if you came home missing

a piece of yourself.

Hello?

Hi. I'm sorry I'm later than I...

You look brand-new.

- Oh, so... so do you.

- How are you?

Yeah. Good.

Sit down.

Can I get you something to drink?

Oh, no. Just water's fine, thanks.

So, how are you?

How's your leg?

How's yours?

Yeah.

I can't run, but I get by.

I kept the dog.

- Oh, yeah?

- Yeah.

So what'd you call him?

Um... dog.

- He still...

- No.

He still doesn't have a name.

You look... You look...

You look beautiful, Alex.

Thank you.

How is everything?

Um, good.

I'm working with people more.

Post-trauma patients,

you know, the extreme cases.

I sort of float between a NHS clinic

and a rehabilitation center

in South London, where I live now.

- It's good to be home.

- No more surgery?

No. No, I can't do that anymore.

And you? How are you?

I'm okay, too. Yeah.

I... I came home and...

everything had shifted, but...

I kind of had to wait it out, but it's okay.

No more conflict zones.

And the last thing

I feel like doing is getting on a plane.

So I'm teaching now, part-time,

staying closer to home.

Yeah.

How was it? How was the wedding?

Oh. We didn't have one.

What?

What? You didn't...

No.

I couldn't.

Mark is a really wonderful man, but...

but I...

I couldn't.

I'm really sorry, Alex. That's...

Why didn't you tell me?

You're not that great

at picking up the phone.

Are you guys hungry?

- No.

- No.

I didn't pick up my phone

'cause I thought you were married, Alex.

I thought you were married.

You could have called back.

It was hard enough for me to lose Sarah.

I struggled with the idea of losing you, too.

And then when you sent those photographs...

I, uh... I felt alive.

I really did. I...

We made it, you and I.

And I had to see you.

I loved you on that mountain.

I tried to pretend that I didn't, but I did.

I came home and nothing was the same.

And then I tried to reach you, and it...

it was so...

It was just too painful.

So I had to...

make myself accept

that maybe it wasn't real,

and it would never work,

not in real life.

- Thank you.

- Mm-hmm.

There's a moment for these things,

and then it... it passes.

Hey, so...

Could you... Could you give the dog a name?

He kind of deserves it.

I think you're wrong, Alex.

I think we survived because we fell in love.

Up there it was just...

it was just me and you.

The world is bigger than that.

And the heart is just a muscle.

Right?

What idiot said that?

# Not tryna be indie #

# Not tryna be cool #

# Just tryna be in this #

# Tell me how you choose #

# Can you feel where the wind is? #

# Can you feel it through? #

# All of the windows #

# Inside this room #

# 'Cause I wanna touch you, baby #

# And I wanna feel you, too #

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