Claudia has just resigned from the firm. As she returns home, Michael asks questions. He asks the result of the hearing. While Claudia explains to her that she wants to sue Dana's attacker, Michael tells him that at least the latter, having been killed in a motorcycle accident, will not hurt anybody else. But for Claudia this is not worth a condemnation. Michael then notices his gaze in the void and understands that there is something else.
M: Honey, you can not always go after things. Sometimes you have to know how to give up.
Claudia came out of her thoughts and fell into Michael's eyes.
C: I know. But you know that solving the worries encountered in the army is close to my heart. For the army everything must be perfect, the orders respected, the code of honor too, towards the women who have more. But this problem of ...
M: Claudia ...
This last sighed.
M: Ok, what's going on? You seem concerned about something ...
It only takes a look from Claudia for Michael to understand.
M: Chandler ... you told me he did not do anything ...
C: Yes, and that's the truth. But we had a long discussion that made me make this decision. And I understood that when he kissed me it was not a mistake.
M: What?
C: When I wanted to continue my research on Dana's attacker, he summoned me to his office. He forbade me to do it, he told me that it was not for me to decide and that I had obligations to the cabinet. I did not see the problem if the other files were moving normally beside. And there he told me that he was too lax with me, that people talked about me as the teacher's favorite.
M: Wait, he hired you because you were the best of his students, it's normal that he lets you do things since you're good at this job. And now he blames you?
C: I was as surprised as you. But I quickly understood that something was wrong. Grant told me he had feelings for me.
Michael was stunned. He knew that Claudia had had boyfriends in high school. But he had been the only great love of his life, the only one who had the right to love him, to prove him every day. Seeing that another man could feel what he felt for his wife made him angry.
M: What? You tell me he had not started again! Claudia ...
C: He did not do anything, we just discussed okay? I appreciated his honesty because he could have said nothing and try to continue his "mistakes" and apologize again and again. That's when I realized that I had to resign and leave the office.
M: You loved this job, it fit perfectly with our life on the base. Because of him you will find no other position with these qualities of schedules, work.
C: I know, but it does not matter. I did not want to go to work wondering what Grant would say to me, or do it every time.
M: The fact is that he tried to break our marriage by kissing you. He thought maybe we would separate. You never told him about us?
C: Yes, he knew very well what you represent for me and vice versa. He tried his luck but ...
M: To know that someone other than me feels love for you, I can not stand it.
C: Michael, I'll never see Grant again. You do not need to think about it because you know very well that the only man who loves me and has the right to love me as he does is you.
Michael smiled back. Claudia knew that Michael, although he had never had a chance to show it, was jealous and possessive. Because of their life in the army and because they had a unique trust and respect in the other, they had never betrayed each other. But Claudia knew that because their love was deep, fusional, Michael could not stand to hear that. She wanted to take the thing with a smile to forget once and for all.
C: And then a positive thing, her watch at least that your wife is still attractive ...
M: Attractive? You are so beautiful my heart, so everything, I will want to hold you against me every minute of the day, to breathe your smell, to kiss you ...
C: Michael stops, it looks like the words of a teenager who has just fallen in love.
Claudia was joking, but Michael became serious again.
M: Claudia, honey, every time I look at you, I fall head over heels in love with you. You know that every time I gasped to wonder how it is possible to have the chance to have you near me.
Claudia got up from the chair she was sitting in and hugged Michael. She separated from him, stared at him for a moment and kissed him.
C: I know, maybe it's crazy, but even after so many years together I wonder how it's possible to love each other so much and still have so much other.
Michael got up in his turn.
M: We found each other, and without you I do not know what I would be. I love you sweetheart.
C: Ohh honey, me too.
They kissed tenderly. They smiled at each other, then Michael went back to read, Claudia packed her things, and they went back to their daily lives.