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61. Lady Heather's box
LINDSEY is dressed in Sleeping Beauty blue and lying on a make-shift bed in the middle of the stage. CATHERINE sits in the middle of the audience near the aisle, the proud parent holding a digital video camera, recording the play. LINDSEY turns her head and opens one of her eyes to look at her mom. She shuts her eyes and turns back to 'sleeping'.)
(...)
(On stage, the "Prince" makes his way toward LINDSEY.)
CATHERINE: You know how much this meant to Lindsey?
EDDIE: Can we argue about this later, okay?
(On stage, the "Prince" kisses LINDSEY on the cheek. Her eyes open.)
PLAY NARRATOR: (o.s.) Her eyes would open with true love's kiss.
EDDIE: (smiling) Hey! She's so beautiful. Give me that.
(He reaches for the camera. CATHERINE hands it to him. He resumes recording the plan.)
PLAY NARRATOR: (o.s.) The evil spell was finally broken.
CATHEIRNE: Nice perfume.
(EDDIE puts the camera down and sighs.)
(On stage, LINDSEY sits up ready to delivery her lines.)
LINDSEY: My ...
(At that moment, EDDIE has had enough.)
EDDIE: (loudly) Okay ...
(He stands up and looks down at CATHERINE.)
(LINDSEY and everyone else turns to look at EDDIE.)
EDDIE: Fine. Is this okay?
PLAY NARRATOR: (o.s.) (prompting) My prince ...
(EDDIE pulls back a chair one row in front of CATHERINE. He sits down.)
(LINDSEY swallows.)
PLAY NARRATOR: (o.s.) (prompting) My prince ... at long last, you've come for me.
(EDDIE raises the camera and resumes recording.)
LINDSEY: (upset) My ... my - my prince ...
PLAY NARRATOR: (o.s.) (prompting) ... at long last, you've come for me ...
(LINDSEY turns to look at her parents in the audience. CATHERINE nods at her and smiles encouragingly. But it's way too late. LINDSEY'S more than hurt. She starts to cry.)
(LINDSEY slides off of the bed and runs off stage.)

(LINDSEY sits next to EDDIE on the bench in the hallway. CATHERINE kneels in front of LINDSEY.)
CATHERINE: I'm sorry, baby. You did good, though.
EDDIE: Yeah, you were fine, Linds. Good.
CATHERINE: Hey, and you know what? It's just a play.
LINDSEY: No, it's not just a play. I was Sleeping Beauty and you guys ruined it.
CATHERINE: I'm sorry, honey.
EDDIE: Hey, I'll bet if you ask Mrs. Parker, she'd let you keep that blue dress.
LINDSEY: I want to go home.
(CATHERINE nods and stands up.)
CATHERINE: Okay. Let's go home.
LINDSEY: No, mom. I want to go with dad.
(EDDIE looks up surprised at LINDSEY.)
CATHERINE: You sure about that?
(LINDSEY nods.)

(Through the static, CATHERINE hears something that stops her cold.)
LINDSEY: Mommy ... (static)
CATHERINE: Lindsey? (beat) H-honey, (beat) I-I can't hear you.
LINDSEY: (crying) Mommy ... please ... scared ... all alone.
CATHERINE: You're alone? Well, honey, where's daddy?
(CATHERINE automatically heads for the door. NICK signals to her.)
LINDSEY: Daddy... (static)
NICK: You want me to just...?
(CATHERINE absently nods at NICK, her mind on her daughter.)
CATHERINE: Uh ... (to NICK) thanks-- (to LINDSEY) uh, yeah, honey. Yes, yes, I'm coming.
(Thunder rumbles in the sky and lightning flashes. It begins to pour.)
LINDSEY: (v.o.) Mommy, please! I'm scared... all alone! ...
(CATHERINE is behind the wheel of her car. She has her cell phone to her ear.)
LINDSEY: (on phone) ... We were in the car, going fast. (beat) We hit something.
CATHERINE: It's going to be okay, honey. I'm on my way. (pause) Do you know where you are.
LINDSEY: I don't know. There's lots of water, mommy!
CATHERINE: Are you near a lake? Are you near grandma's house?
LINDSEY: No, the water's in the car?
CATHERINE: In the car? (pause) Lindsey, can you get out?
LINDSEY: (looking around) No.
CATHERINE: It's going to be okay, honey. Just listen to me. Before the car crashed, where were you going?
LINDSEY: Daddy said the hospital.
CATHERINE: On the way there, did you see any hotels?
LINDSEY: I saw the castle.
CATHERINE: Excalibur. Did you see, did you see the pyramid?
LINDSEY: Yeah.
CATHERINE: Industrial Road? Is that, is that it? Lindsey, is it Industrial Road?
(The water begins to rise inside the car.)
LINDSEY: There was a bridge. We went through a fence. (there's more static.)
CATHERINE: Lindsey? Lindsey!
(CATHERINE can't hear LINDSEY anymore. They're disconnected. She hangs up.)

(CATHERINE'S driving along the Industrial Road. She looks outside the car window and sees a break in the wire fence. She pulls the car to the side and stops the car. She gets out of the car and runs to the edge of the walkway.)
CATHERINE: Lindsey? Lindsey!
(She sees EDDIE'S car down below semi-submerged in running canal water. In the back of the car, LINDSEY'S still inside, hitting the window with her hand.)
LINDSEY: (crying) Mommy!
CATHERINE: Hang on, honey!
(CATHERINE goes back to the car & opens the emergency kit in her trunk. She grabs the screwdriver and heads back to the car.)
LINDSEY: Mommy! Hurry!
(CATHERINE slides down the embankment toward the car and into the water.)
CATHERINE: I'm here, honey.
LINDSEY: (hits the car window) Mommy!
CATHERINE: I'm going to get you out. Hang on.
(CATHERINE checks the car window then instructs LINDSEY.)
CATHERINE: Okay. Listen. I have to break the window, okay? You've got to move to the front.
LINDSEY: Mommy, I can't! I can't. I'm scared!
CATHERINE: Okay, I'm going to come around, okay? I'm coming around.
LINDSEY: Please, mommy.
(CATHERINE moves around the side of the car that's covered in water. She lifts herself up on the car and looks through the window at LINDSEY.)
CATHERINE: I'm here, Lindsey. I'm going to go down. I'm going to go down.
(CATHERINE motions to LINDSEY, who shakes her head.)
LINDSEY: No, mommy! No!
(CATHERINE takes a deep breath and dives under the water. She reaches the front seat window. Using the screwdriver in her hand, she breaks through the glass. She reaches in and grabs LINDSEY. She pulls her daughter out through the open window and up toward the surface. They break surface, both coughing and gasping for air.)
(CATHERINE holds her daughter tight.)
CATHERINE: You all right? You okay?
LINDSEY: (nodding) Mommy.
CATHERINE: Yes? I got you. Hold on.

LINDSEY: The lady who was driving had pink hair. I don't remember her name.
DET. VEGA: But Lindsey, it was your father's car. Why wasn't he driving it?
LINDSEY: He had a stomachache.
(...)
LINDSEY: The lady got out and then daddy fell out. He didn't come back.
(LINDSEY turns to look at CATHERINE who doesn't say anything. Their eyes meet.)
DET. VEGA: Catherine?
(CATHERINE stands up and moves to the side with DET. VEGA. The paramedics continue to check LINDSEY.)
DET. VEGA: (quietly) Is Eddie the kind of guy that would leave his daughter abandoned in the back of a car?
CATHERINE: (immediately shakes her head) Never, never, never, no. He loves Lindsey. He'd never do that. Not willingly.
(...)
LINDSEY: Mom? (CATHERINE turns around.) He's dead, isn't he?
(For a moment, CATHERINE doesn't know what to say. She shakes her head.)
CATHERINE: I don't know, baby. I ... I'm going to go look for him, though. I'm just going to be right over there.
(CATHERINE points toward the car and SARA.)
SARA: Okay, that's enough.
CATHERINE: I want you to stay here with Detective Vega. Okay?
(CATHERINE pushes the blanket off of her shoulders and heads toward SARA and the car.)
DET. VEGA: (to LINDSEY) How you doing? Want some cocoa or something?

(Inside the Lounge, DET. VEGA and SARA question LINDSEY while CATHERINE watches.)
(LINDSEY looks at CATHERINE.)
DET. VEGA: So, after your recital, where did your dad take you?
LINDSEY: Leatherbey's. He got me a banana split.
DET. VEGA: I like whipped cream on mine ...
CATHERINE: (interrupting) Did he have anything to drink? Did he have a beer, a glass of wine?
(DET. VEGA glances at CATHERINE.)
LINDSEY: (looking at CATHERINE) Just water.
(...)
SARA: (to LINDSEY) So, it was just the two of you?
(LINDSEY turns and nods her head at SARA. She immediately turns back to look at CATHERINE.)
DET. VEGA: This lady you told us about -- the one who was driving, the one with the pink hair -- where did you meet her?
(LINDSEY doesn't look at DET. VEGA. She looks at her mother.)
LINDSEY: I don't know.
CATHERINE: (interrupting) You remember, Lindsey. Just think about it.
(LINDSEY looks at CATHERINE. DET. VEGA again glances at CATHERINE. SARA also looks at CATHERINE, then at DET. VEGA. Their eyes meet.)
LINDSEY: I fell asleep in the car, and I woke up when we stopped.
DET. VEGA: Was this at a house?
LINDSEY: No. It was a building.
SARA: Was it an apartment building ... maybe ... or maybe an office building?
LINDSEY: I don't know.
CATHERINE: Why did you stop there?
(LINDSEY looks at CATHERINE.)
(...)
LINDSEY: Daddy said he had a meeting. He told me to stay in the car and keep the doors locked.
CATHERINE: You mean he left you in the car alone.
SARA: Catherine ...
LINDSEY: (defensive) Mom, mom, it's okay. I said I could take care of myself. I told him I could stay in the car. Just don't be mad at him. He didn't do anything wrong.
SARA: It's okay, Lindsey. Nobody's mad at anybody.
(...)
(SARA sits in the seat vacated by CATHERINE, directly in front of LINDSEY.)
SARA: (softly) It's okay.
(...)
DET. VEGA: This lady was at the building?
(CATHERINE turns around to watch her daughter inside the room.)
LINDSEY: She was outside in the parking lot.
(Quick flashback to earlier that night. EDDIE walks outside in the rain, arms open wide to greet his girlfriend. LINDSEY is inside the car watching.)
(...)
SARA: This lady with the pink hair -- was she your father's girlfriend?
(CATHERINE looks at LINDSEY. LINDSEY hesitates in answering. She looks at CATHERINE.)
(...)
LINDSEY: Maybe. Well, he was mad at her. And then they, they were running back to the car. Daddy was holding his stomach.
(Quick flashback to inside the car. It's raining heavily outside. EDDIE runs to the passenger side. He gets in and groans.)
LINDSEY: Daddy, what's wrong?
EDDIE: (glancing at LINDSEY and groaning) It's just a stomachache, honey. I'll be fine.
(End of flashback. Resume to present.)
(CATHERINE'S phone rings. She answers it.)
CATHERINE: Willows. (pause) Yeah.
(CATHERINE pulls the phone away from her ear. She looks sadly into the room. LINDSEY turns her head and looks at her mom. Their eyes meet.)

CANDEECE: (to LINDSEY) Everything's going to be okay, honey. Okay, don't be afraid.

(LINDSEY walks out of her room and down the hallway to her mother's room.)
(CATHERINE is crying on her bed.)
LYRICS: ... stay tonight / we'll watch the full moon rising ...
(LINDSEY sits on the bed and puts her cheek on her mother's shoulder. She wraps her arms around her mom and brushes her hair soothingly with her fingers.)
LINDSEY: (softly) It's okay, mommy. It's okay. It's okay.

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