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BAY CITY FOREVER is rated TV-14 for an occasional mild expletive.
This episode takes place one week after the previous one ended. It is now June, 2003.
SCENE ONE
(The scene is Foster Park. Sofia and Tito are seated on a bench, talking.)
TITO: So have you told Joe?
SOFIA: No, not yet.
TITO: Why not? Don't you think he has the right to know that I am his son? And don't I have the right to my family?SOFIA: Joey doesn't need this right now. He's got enough to deal with.
TITO: Like what?
SOFIA: Like being under investigation.
TITO: (surprised) What for?
SOFIA: Chip Rayburn claims that two of Joe's officer's used illegal means to get him to confess to rape back in 1997.
TITO: And he waited all this time to make his accusations?
SOFIA: And Grant Harrison just couldn't wait to notify Commissioner Walters.
TITO: But are the accusations true?
SOFIA: I don't know. Joe isn't saying one way or the other.
TITO: Is he protecting himself, or the two officers?
SOFIA: Knowing my brother, my guess would be he's protecting the officers. Besides, we don't know if there actually was any wrongdoing. And
even if there was
FADE OUT
SCENE TWO
(The scene shifts to the Cory-Hutchins mansion. Carl is talking on the phone)
CARL: No, Lydia. I refuse to give in to any more of your demands. (Pause) No,
so far she hasn't found out. (Pause) For the last time, Lydia leave me alone. (Rachel walks in, unnoticed by Carl.) I've betrayed my marriage enough as it is. (Hangs up.)
RACHEL: Betrayed your marriage how?
CARL: How long have you been standing there?
RACHEL: Betrayed your marriage how? I want an answer, Carl.
CARL: I can't tell you. You'll just have to trust me.
RACHEL: That's difficult to do when I've just heard you say that you've betrayed
our marriage. Carl, we have so much history together.
CARL: Including some I'd just as soon forget.
RACHEL: I fought and fought to get my family to accept you, to believe that you
had changed.
CARL: And now, do you regret that?
RACHEL: Should I?
CARL: (hesitates) No, love.
RACHEL: Why did you hesitate? Is there something I should know?
CARL: I can honestly tell you that there is nothing you should know.
RACHEL: That sounds like hedging to me. Now, I think I have a right to
know what's going on.
FADE OUT
SCENE THREE
(The scene shifts to Joe's office at the 2-3. Joe and Josie are inside, talking)
JOSIE: Can they really fire you?
JOE: Don't worry about it, Josie.
JOSIE: How can I help worrying? This is all my fault.
JOE: How is it your fault, Josie? I'm the one who made the decision not to report
you and Toni that time.
JOSIE: But if I hadn't gone after the phone stalker the other day...
JOE: Stop right there, Josie. If you had known that Chip was setting you up so he
could complain about me to Grant, what would you have done?
JOSIE: I would have told you, and I wouldn't have gone after him.
JOE: Exactly. Now, remember when you went to Quantico for training?
JOSIE: Sure, I remember.
JOE: And then they partnered you with Cameron, and warned you not to tell anyone.
JOSIE: Including you. They said that if I told you, they'd ruin my career as a cop.
JOE: And they knew he was Gary's brother, and they kept you in the dark about that.
JOSIE: You didn't think much of that.
JOE: No, I didn't. If I had known that was how the Feds would treat you, I never
would have let you go to Quantico.
JOSIE: But you couldn't have known.
JOE: Exactly. And you couldn't have known that the phone stalker was Rayburn, and
that it was all a trap.
JOSIE: But when you let me go to Quantico, you weren't doing anything wrong. When I
went to the docks by myself, I was breaking the rules.
JOE: And that is the only thing you are responsible for, Josie.
JOSIE: No, it isn't.
JOE: What do you mean?
JOSIE: (hesitantly) I knew Rayburn was out of jail.
JOE: How long have you known?
JOSIE: A few months.
JOE: Toni told you?
JOSIE: Yes, sir.
JOE: She told me the whole story, but she didn't tell me that you knew.
JOSIE: Am I in trouble for not telling you?
JOE: No.
JOSIE: It seems like most of your problems on the job have been because of me.
JOE: No, Josie. I'd have to say that most of my problems are caused by corrupt judges,
a commissioner who is almost as big a jerk as Raines was, and... the mayor.
FADE OUT
SCENE FOUR
(The scene shifts to Foster Park. Tito and Sofia are still talking.)
TITO: So you're not going to tell him?
SOFIA: This isn't a good time. You know how Joe feels about you.
TITO: He hates my guts.
SOFIA: Can you blame him? You pretended to be Paulina's long-lost son, and because of that, she
almost went to prison to protect you. So I don't think Joe is going feel like
welcoming you into the family with open arms.
TITO: But I already am in the family, like it or not.
SOFIA: I don't want Joe to have to deal with this right now. I told you, he's got
enough to handle as it is.
TITO: So, you want to protect your big brother from the truth?
TITO: Would you rather he heard it from someone else?
SOFIA: Like who?
TITO: The truth is, I'm not the one who had all that research done.
SOFIA: Then who did?
TITO: Grant.
SOFIA: And?
TITO: He had the research done for him while he was in prison, and that's how he found out
that I am Joe's son.
SOFIA: Look, I've got to check this out. You give me some of your hair, and I'll get some
of Joe's.
TITO: Here you go. (pulls out a few strands of his hair, winces.) Now, can I trust you to use
Joe's hair and not someone else's?
SOFIA: (takes hair, puts it in wallet) You've got a nerve talking about trust. Weren't you the
one who substituted your hair for Remy's?
TITO: (changing subject) There's one more thing I've gotta ask you to do for me.
SOFIA: What?
TITO: Don't let Grant know that you know.
SOFIA: I don't talk to Grant. But why don't you want him to know that I know?
TITO: Because Grant was planning to reveal it, himself. He called it dropping the
bombshell.
SOFIA: And he'd reveal it in a way that would make Joe look really bad.
TITO: And then the words "Aunt Sofia" slipped out, and I couldn't tell Grant that I'd blown it.
SOFIA: So now you want me to tell Joe before Grant does? Why?
TITO: Because he'll believe you a lot sooner than he'll believe Grant. And maybe (hesitates)
SOFIA: Maybe what?
TITO: Maybe, deep down, I wish I'd known a lot sooner that Joe is my father.
FADE OUT
SCENE FIVE: CLOSING SCENE
(The scene shifts to the Cory-Hutchins mansion, several hours later. Rachel is no longer
there. Carl is on the phone.)
CARL: Eight o'clock one week from tonight at The Rosenthal Hotel. Room 1405. (Pause)Because I can't get away
before then. (pause) You'll be there?
(Pause) No, she doesn't suspect a thing.
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