The Woman Who Wasn't There Page #7

regular day in Barcelona,

you know, getting up like

everyone else.

You know, someone made some form

of an announcement

that there's a terrorist attack

going on in Manhattan.

[MUSIC]

BRENDAN:
From what I can tell,

she had never been

in the World Trade Center.

It's obvious she did her

research on Dave,

whom she had never met.

I mean, she knows where her

company was located.

So, she probably did her

research on us.

She was probably just watching

us and trying to see

what we were talking about and

how we felt,

and she adopted the personality.

You know, she knew how survivors

felt

after going through something

like that,

and she became one of us.

[MUSIC]

BRENDAN:
We didn't know much

about

her present life at the time.

ELIA:
It would have been

actually cruel

for any one of us to question

her on anything.

It would have been downright

cruel.

[MUSIC]

BRENDAN:
I mean, she mentions

working for Merrill Lynch

and in this financial think tank

that she told us about,

but we had never been to her

office.

We had never met any of her

co-workers,

and from what I understand,

she would actually rent office

space to meet people,

and nobody ever questioned it.

[MUSIC]

BRENDAN:
Tania, to give her a

compliment,

she's the best liar I've ever

met.

I mean, she was so good at

staying on her story

that I really didn't notice any

inconsistencies

until I knew her for a couple of

years.

ELIA:
Had we actually compared

notes like we do now,

we would have realized something

was wrong.

LINDA:
She told me that she lost

her wedding ring in,

on September 11th and that

Tiffany's had replaced

the wedding ring that she had

lost.

GERRY BOGACZ:
There were

references to her fianc

that, that changed from fianc

to husband back to fianc.

RICHARD She even promised the

Crowthers that she

had saved a piece of her burnt

clothing and would put it

in a plaque and give it to them.

LINDA:
She told me on the day

that her brother died

that his wife had a baby on the

same day,

and they named the baby, Dave.

[MUSIC]

[MUSIC]

ELIA:
I remember I was in her

apartment one time,

and she always talked about her

dog, Elvis,

and her dog, Elvis, and her old

dog, Elvis.

And one of the times that I was

in her apartment, I said,

"Where's your dog? I never see

your dog."

And she would always have the

same answer.

"Uh, Lupe is walking him."

And I remember one day I said,

"Boy, that dog gets walked a

lot. (Laughing)

That's the most walked dog.

I mean, that dog must love Lupe

because she's always walking

him."

But one day, I went into the

apartment,

and I asked her, "Where's,

where's your dog?

I wanna see your dog."

And she said, "Oh, you know,

Lupe's walking him."

And I said,

"Tania, do you or don't you have

a dog?"

I got right in her face because

it bothered me

that I couldn't, I love dogs,

so, it bothered me that I

couldn't see the dog.

And she just looked at me and

went,

"Oh, yeah, of course I have a

dog."

[MUSIC AND BIRDS]

MARTA FORN:
[SPEAKING IN

SPANISH]

MARTA FORN:
[SPEAKING IN

SPANISH]

[MUSIC]

BRENDAN:
After The Times

article, she disappeared,

and I don't know if it's because

she actually

just left the country or if

she's just been hiding well,

but really, none of us have had

any contact

with her since then.

ELIA:
The other thing she did

was she wrote me an email

and said, "Hello." That's it.

I saw that as her way of opening

up a line of communication.

I just deleted the email, and

that was it.

ELIA:
There had to be some sort

of recognition

that she was doing something

wrong,

and, um, and she was deviant in,

in, in that way,

but that is only something that

we see now.

That's something that we

couldn't see then.

[MUSIC]

MALE POLICE OFFICER: Go across

the street.

LINDA:
Right over here at this

light.

MALE POLICE OFFICER: See those

two ladies with the two orange

hats?

LINDA:
Yes.

MALE POLICE OFFICER: You're

gonna tell them you're family,

family members, right?

LINDA:
Well, we're actually all

survivors,

let me tell you, yeah.

MALE POLICE OFFICER: So, you let

them know,

and they'll let you in so you

can go inside,

all right, ma'am?

LINDA:
Thank you.

So, follow me, guys.

No pushing, no shoving. (Laughs)

[MUSIC]

JANICE:
I just hope that she

really does get

the help she needs and that she

can live a full life.

She's a smart woman.

She's talented, and she can

offer

a lot of great stuff in this

world.

So, forgiveness, yeah.

This, there, I absolutely

forgive her.

BRENDAN:
I know we should

forgive, but I don't know.

It, it would really take a lot.

I, I don't think I could ever do

it.

I, I just, I just feel that

hurt, that wronged.

[MUSIC]

ALISON CROWTHER:
She was a

troubled person.

There were issues that drove her

to do this.

And because she was not

functioning in a normal way,

how can you hold, you know, not

forgive someone like that?

[MUSIC]

GERRY BOGACZ:
She's never

apologized.

This is all a great mystery, and

it's, it is what it is,

and, and it's not gonna affect

my life any longer.

ELIA:
I've already forgiven her.

Holding onto all the feelings

that I had

once I found out that she had

lied to us is

not gonna take me anywhere where

I wanna go.

We'll get through it. You know

that?

We'll get through it. You know

that.

LINDA:
All the things that I was

doing this year

putting this together, I was

thinking,

"Where's Tania when you need

her?"

You know what I mean?

And it just made me feel even

more upset because I'm like,

"I miss her." I really, I miss

her.

You know, I, I miss it like I

miss life

back on September 10th.

I miss, I miss that.

I miss, I miss the what was.

I miss the what could have been.

That's what I miss.

[MUSIC]

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