Where The Truth Lies Page #5

I know that everyone

dreams about being famous...

...but it would be interesting

to know...

...what it's like

to relinquish all anonymity.

- Gets me a date.

- Does that bother you?

That people only wanna be with you

because of who you are?

- As opposed to?

- Well...

...the real you.

The real me.

The real me was brought up

as a nice middle-class kid...

...which is not the easiest thing...

...when you are extremely poor

and living in a slum.

The real me spent most of his time

getting the sh*t kicked out of him...

...and dreaming about

something better.

Like being here

with someone like you.

Fifteen years ago, he had,

for one brief moment...

... made me feel like

the most special person in the world.

"The miracle in my life

is not that I survived polio...

...and am standing here today.

No. The reason I consider myself

to be a miracle girl...

...is because I had

the good fortune...

...to meet Lanny and Vince

when I was sick."

It was a moment

seen by millions of people...

... but felt only by me.

That moment had changed my life.

I was about to find my own way

into Lanny's book...

... after he had found

such a powerful way into mine.

Checking out today?

Is there a message

for Bonnie Trout?

- From one of our guests?

- Yes, Lanny Morris.

I'm afraid not.

- Are you sure?

- Oh, yes, I'm sure.

Do you need a cab?

I still don't understand

why Vince Collins is willing...

...to be involved in such

an expos of himself.

Vince is a realist.

The days of his box-office

power are drawing to a close.

Given the amount of money

we're offering...

And it's because the investment

in Mr. Collins is so large...

...Ive compiled a list of questions

we'd like the miracle girl to ask.

I don't wanna look at your questions.

I have my own approach.

Ms. O'Connor, we're not paying

a million dollars for your approach...

...we're paying for what

Vince Collins has to say.

To me. What he has to say to me.

Greg, this is not as easy as it looks.

If you go to Vince Collins

and ask him a series of questions...

...you'll come back here

with a 300-page press book.

Well, as I've always understood

this company's policy...

...while the book is being written...

...the relationship between the author

and editor is sacrosanct.

This isn't your typical book deal.

We've really just leased

an oil well called Vince Collins...

...and granted Ms. O'Connor

the right to tap.

I think we have a responsibility to...

...monitor the drilling.

- Hello.

- Mrs. O'Flaherty?

Yes.

My name's O'Connor.

I'm the one writing the book.

The book will be

centered around Vince Collins.

I'll be asking him a lot of questions.

I wanted to know if there were any

you'd like to have answered yourself.

Maureen and I planted this tree

on her fifth birthday.

Father did most of the digging,

of course.

She'd be 38.

I'm 59 myself.

If she were alive now...

...we'd be talking about things,

back and forth...

...like two women.

Like you and I are doing.

And Maureen's father?

Frank died six years ago.

He took his own life.

One night, just before he died...

...he dug up the earth

around this tree...

...he took the urn

with Maureen's ashes in it...

...and spread them around its roots.

So this is my daughter.

This is what I have of her.

- Are you Catholic?

- My... My mother was.

Then you will understand

my dilemma.

Our faith offers an afterlife.

A daughter needs her mother.

So I have to live out this life

as far from sin as I can manage.

I'll never see my husband again.

He's consigned himself to hell.

But what if Maureen

killed herself too?

She's in hell, with my husband.

The life I'm trying to lead

will bring me to heaven's grace...

...only to hear

their screams of torment.

Chief Scaglia,

you were in the hotel room...

... when they found

Maureen's body in the tub.

So was Sally, so was Lanny,

so was Vince.

And there was also

a PR lady there from the hotel.

How do you think she died?

She died in an auto accident

two weeks later. It was terrible.

No, Maureen.

- How did Maureen die?

- She drowned.

- Why?

- What do you mean, why?

You and I take baths all the time.

We don't drown in them.

You and I do not mix

sleeping pills with booze.

- She committed suicide?

- Overdose is the official story.

What's the official story on the fact

that the staff of the hotel in Miami...

... all seemed to know she delivered

room service to the boys' suite...

...three days before

and was never seen alive again?

What happened to her?

How did she end up

in a hotel room in New Jersey?

Sally never had any problem

moving girls around. Okay?

He had two hotels.

- So Sally arranged it?

- No, I don't think so.

You see, she was brought up there

as a reward for the boys...

...and I think she started

to party just a little too early.

She was a student.

This was a summer job.

Listen to me...

...the Palace Del Sol was very

important to Sally, okay?

He launched his new wing...

...with a push

from Lanny and Vince...

...and this stupid girl

shows up dead.

She's not gonna come back.

We do the best thing for all of us.

We speed up the investigation

and we cremate her. Okay?

End of story.

- Here you are.

- Here's your lobster.

- Enjoy.

- Looks great.

"Sally said, 'I'll have them send you

up your own shipment of lobsters.

You like lobster?"'

We said we did

because we really did.

You shouldn't have done that,

Stanley. I don't eat lobster.

Were there any signs of violence

on her body?

No, no. There were some

small scratches on the torso.

Why did my daughter die?

Did she kill herself?

What had they done to her

that would make her do that?

What had they done?

Once upon a time...

... when terrible things

happened to people...

... they were left as a mystery.

Even the tabloids kept a distance.

Some things were allowed

to be left just the way they were.

Any trouble with the directions

I gave you?

- Only the parts where I had to turn.

- Sorry.

It's the price of seclusion.

You haven't switched over

to cassette?

- Actually, it's my dad's.

- And what does he do?

He was a journalist too.

He did a big story on you once.

Followed a little girl who had polio.

You took her under your wing...

...and now she's interviewing you.

He must be proud that his daughter's

making such a name for herself.

I'd like to think so.

- He died last year.

- Sorry to hear that.

- Would you like some coffee?

- Sure.

Are you alone here?

Yes. The thought of having live-in help

is a little poisonous to me.

Why's that?

Well, I'd have to talk to them...

...ask them how

their family was doing...

...hear about this and that,

introduce them to the guests...

...and tell them

how their family was doing.

All so that I would

seem to be a nice guy...

...which is an awful lot of work...

...considering what I cherish

most in life these days...

...is not to have to be Vince Collins.

No Reuben in your life?

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