ACT 6, SCENE 48
INT. BERRY RESIDENCE
LATER THAT SAME NIGHT.
RACHEL HAS JUST GOT HOME. SHE'S JUST ABOUT FLOATING, AND IF THE SMILE ON HER FACE GOT ANY WIDER... WELL... IT WOULD BE REALLY, REALLY WIDE!
SHE TOSSES HER BAG ON THE BED, HEADS FOR HER DRESSER AND STARTS TAKING OFF HER JEWELLERY. SHE'S SMILING AT HERSELF IN THE MIRROR, UNTIL HER EYES FALL ON THE PHOTO JAMMED IN THE FRAME IN THE TOP LEFT-HAND CORNER.
A PICTURE OF HERSELF AND FINN, PULLING GOOFY FACES FOR THE CAMERA.
THE SMILE WAVERS A LITTLE. THEN THERE'S A
CRACK!
SHE SWINGS ROUND, GIVES A LITTLE YELP AT THE NOISE. IT CAME FROM THE WINDOW. SCARED, SHE TIPTOES OVER AND PEERS OUT, ONLY TO SEE A FIGURE MOVING THROUGH THE LEAVES OF THE OAK TREE OUTSIDE HER WINDOW. THEN, SHE CATCHES A FLASH OF THE FIGURE'S FACE IN THE MOONLIGHT, AND YANKS OPEN THE WINDOW.
RACHEL
Finn! Finn, what the hell are you doing? Get down from there! You're going to break your neck!
FINN HAS NO BREATH TO SPARE FOR EXPLANATIONS. HE'S CLIMBING FROM LIMB TO LIMB, EXERTING HIMSELF UNTIL HE REACHES A BOUGH THAT DRAWS HIM LEVEL WITH RACHEL'S WINDOW. HE MANAGES TO CROUCH THERE, ONE ARM FLUNG AROUND ANOTHER BRANCH.
FINN
I had to talk to you.
RACHEL
I have a front door!
FINN
I figured this would be more romantic.
RACHEL
Romantic? Finn, what-?
FINN
You remember how I told you that you seem to hear me best when I'm not talking?
RACHEL
Yeah.
FINN
Well, you listen best when you're not talking.
(HE CHECKS HIS WATCH)
Turn on the radio.
RACHEL
What?
FINN
Now! Quick!
DECIDING IT'S BEST NOT TO ARGUE WITH A CRAZY PERSON, RACHEL GOES OVER AND FLIPS ON THE RADIO.
FINN (cont'd)
99.5!
SHE ADJUSTS THE DIAL, AND
DJ (V.O.)
...here on WKRP! This next song goes out to Rachel, from Finn!
RACHEL
(TURNS BACK TO THE WINDOW)
I wish you hadn't done this.
DJ (V.O.)
Rachel, Finn says he doesn't care that you're a lesbian now! If It worked out for that Jewish guy on Friends, it can work for you two!
RACHEL
He didn't end up with her!
FINN
But he ended up with Rachel, right?
RACHEL BITES HER LIP.
DJ (V.O.)
Wow, guys, you seem to have some issues. I hope it works out for you. Rachel, here's your song...
AND FINN SINGS ALONG.
FINN
Shadows fill an empty heart,
As love is fading.
From all the things that we are, And are not saying.
Can we see beyond the stars, And make it to the dawn...?
SHAKING HER HEAD, RACHEL APPROACHES HIM, WHERE HE'S STILL HANGING PRECARIOUSLY OUTSIDE THE WINDOW.
FINN (cont'd)
Change the colours of the sky,
And open up to,
The ways you made me feel alive,
The ways I loved you.
For all the things that never die,
To make it through the night,
Love will find you...
SHE CROUCHES BY THE WINDOW, WITH HER ARMS ON THE SILL - MUCH LIKE SHE WAS IN THE AUDITORIUM THE DAY THEY BROKE UP. IT'S ANOTHER ROMEO AND JULIET SCENE. BUT, AGAIN, NOT QUITE.
FINN(cont'd)
What about now?
What about today?
What if you're making me,
All that I was meant to be?
What if our love,
Never went away?
What if it's lost behind,
Words we can never find?
Baby, before it's too late...
SHE SILENCES HIM WITH A KISS.
IT'S SO SUDDEN, SO UNEXPECTED, HE ALMOST FALLS OUT OF THE TREE. BUT HE MANAGES TO HOLD ON.
RACHEL HAS HER EYES SCREWED TIGHT AS HER LIPS LOCK TO THE ONE SHE'D PROMISED TO LOVE FOREVER. OUT THE CORNERS, WE SEE SAD TEARS ESCAPE.
WHEN SHE BREAKS AWAY, HE'S BREATHLESS, AND SHE'S CRYING.
FINN (cont'd)
Does this mean...?
(SHE SHAKES HER HEAD)
But...
RACHEL
I love her.
FINN SEEMS TO SAG. SCARED HE'S GOING TO FALL, SHE LUNGES FORWARD, BUT HE DRAWS BACK.
FINN
You love her?
RACHEL
(SO SOFT)
Yes...
FINN CAN'T SEEM TO PROCESS THIS. HIS FACE IS BLANK. HE LOOKS SO LOST. ALMOST ROBOTICALLY, HE STARTS THE LONG CLIMB DOWN. RACHEL CAN'T BEAR TO WATCH, AND CLOSES THE WINDOW.
SHE SINKS DOWN ON THE FLOOR UNDERNEATH THE SILL, WEEPING. GREAT, WRACKING SOBS THAT WELL UP FROM THE PIT OF HER STOMACH.
ON THE RADIO, THE ONE SONG ENDS, AND ANOTHER BEGINS.
RACHEL (cont'd)
Never look back, we said...
How was I to know, I'd miss you so?
Loneliness up ahead, emptiness behind,
Where do I go?
And you didn't hear all my joy through my tears,
All my hopes through my fears, did you know?
Still I miss you somehow...
SHE'S A WRECK, CAN BARELY GET THE WORDS OUT. BUT SHE TRIES. BECAUSE SHE MUST.
RACHEL (cont'd)
From the bottom of my broken heart...
There's just a thing or two I'd like you to know.
OUTSIDE, FINN HAS MADE IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE TREE. HE STARES UP AT THE LIGHT COMING THROUGH THE WINDOW. LOOKING LIKE A MAN WHO'S WORLD HAS GONE.
RACHEL (cont'd)
You were my first love, you were my true love.
From the first kisses to the very last rose.
From the bottom of my broken heart...
Even though time may find me somebody new.
You were my real love, I never knew love,
Til there was you...
From the bottom of my broken heart.
FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THIS WHOLE SORRY MESS BEGAN... FINN HUDSON STARTS TO CRY.
SIXTH COMMERCIAL BREAK:
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