""There's no one" I feel safe with except my lifeguard." "I don't want to let go of you." ""Looks like she put you" right in the middle of a double cross." "I don't believe any of this." "Don't?" "Or don't want to?" "You saved my life." "That's an attachment, isn't it?" "This lady is with two guys in two days and they both end up dead." "Now she's with Mitch." "Why don't you come with me." "You saved my life, too." "Now we belong to each other." ""You have no idea where" this is going to end." "What are you waiting for?" "The sun's almost up." "I feel alive for the first time in years." "Kiss me underwater." "So why don't you bring Kim?" "Kelly." "Her name's Kelly." "Whatever." "No chemistry." "No chemistry?" "!" "What's wrong with her?" "She was gorgeous." "She was gorgeous, but there's no chemistry." "Aw, Mitch, you know what your problem is?" "Since your divorce, you've become cautious." "I got Hobie to consider." "I don't want him getting attached to anybody I'm not serious about." "Oh, he can handle it." "I think you're the one who's afraid of getting attached." "Sooner or later, you're gonna have to open up." "Call it in." "Ransom, take it!" "Rescue in progress." "Car submerged off Tower 19." "Repeat, 10-25, Tower 19." "That's good." "Spit it out." "That's good." "Okay, okay." "Yeah, take it easy." "Take it easy." "Is he dead?" "Is he dead?" "No!" "No!" "I'm sorry." "How's everything?" "Well, she's a lucky lady." "How you feeling?" "Okay." "Mind if I check your pulse?" "Strong." "I'm sure every woman's pulse is strong when you take it." "I don't know about that." "But I do need to know some information about what happened on the road back there." "Um..." "Steve was driving me to the marina, to my boat." "Can you give me specific information?" "I mean, there was no I. "D... "" "Um, I know." "He was..." "He was going to the beach right after." "Steve was, uh..." "We were in business together." "He was my partner." "Anyway..." "I don't really know what happened." "I must have dozed off in the passenger seat, and before I knew it, water was rushing in all over the place." "I'm sorry." "Oh, no." "It's okay." "Uh..." "Can bring you something, Miss, uh?" "Allison, please." "Um, coffee would be nice." "Okay." "Oh, unfortunately, there are some procedures that have got to be done before we can release you." "Like what?" "Well, a police report, for one." "There's an officer waiting for you upstairs." "Oh, uh..." "I don't think I'm really up to it today." "Do you think it could wait till tomorrow?" "Please?" "I'll see what I can do." "Thanks." "Okay." "Thanks for everything." "Cream and sugar?" "Black." "Okay." "She gave me all the information she could remember, so I put it all in this report." "She's still pretty shaken up." "From what Shauni tells me, "pretty" is the operative word." "Pretty doesn't even come close." "You gave her mouth-to-mouth." "You ought to know." "I gave you mouth-to-mouth once, too." "Believe me, it ain't the same as kissing." "I know, I know." "So you'll do me a favor, wait till tomorrow?" "Sure, this ought to suffice for now." "Coroner just picked up John Doe." "Says here his name's Steven Pierce." "Well, Mr. Pierce is one weird corpse." "Why is that?" "He was sucking up water like a vacuum." "Mitch, he was drowning out before we even had a chance to resuscitate him." "So, uh... how's the lady?" "Well, she's pretty distraught, but she came through the whole thing okay." "She must have a guardian angel." "Ready?" "Definite chemistry." "What?" "Do you suppose there's any way" "I can get my stuff before tomorrow?" "No, we can't get a crane to lift it out till then." "Well, what if somebody saw the crash and they dive down and try to steal my things?" "Don't worry, nobody's going to get in there." "The trunk is wedged against the bottom." "Come on." "Yep, yep." "You all right?" "Yeah." "I guess getting in a car again and driving up the coast..." "I think I'm scared." "That's okay." "I'll drive slow." "What am I going to do when you drop me off and leave?" "Is there somebody you can call?" "No, no one I feel safe with... except my lifeguard." "I don't want to let go of you." "It's going to be pretty hard to drive this way." "Sorry." "It's okay." "It'll be all right." "This is where you live?" "I only wish it was mine." "It belongs to another investor." "He's on a photo safari in Africa." "He's letting me stay here." "Come on in." "Make yourself comfortable." "Thanks." "I'll be right back." "Whew." "Operator, Pacific Palisades." "Can you connect me to Westview Patrol?" "Hi." "There's a man outside... 12973" "Horizon drive." "He's been sitting in his car for a couple of hours." "Would you mind sending someone over to check it out, please?" "Thank you." "How do you like the view?" "It's absolutely gorgeous." "I'll get us some drinks." "I'll be right down." "Okay." "My dad taught me to sail." "We used to run transpacs to Hawaii." "I once raced single-handed to the Farallons and back." " Now your boat's in the marina?" " Mm-hmm." "Obsession." "That's her name, and she is." "I'd like to take her around the world, though." "By yourself?" "Not necessarily." "Tell me why a man like you is still a lifeguard." "Most people hate to go to work." "I don't." "I know what you mean." "That's why I decided to go into business for myself." "No partners and no bosses." "What about your investors?" "Well, I've already paid back one of them." "And when I pay back the other," "I'll have complete and total freedom." "No attachments... to anyone." "What do they say in China?" "You saved my life, so you belong to me, or I belong to you?" "I think it's "you belong to me. "" "Well, that's an attachment, isn't it?" "You know, there's some swimsuits in the bathhouse." "Do you ever swim just for fun?" "I think it's time for me to leave." "Why?" "You said your son was with his mother all week." "Yeah, I know." "I just don't like starting something when I know where it's going to end." "Trust me... you have no idea where this is going to end." "Hey, lifeguard." "What are you waiting for?" "Mitch, Mitch." "There's someone in the house." "What?" "!" "I heard a noise in the living room." "Well, could it be the owners?" "Not without calling." "Please go and see who it is." "Okay, okay." "Mitch, be careful." "Okay, just wait for me." "I'll be right back." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "I'm okay." "Did I kill him?" "Shot him right through the heart." "He's dead." "Hey, now..." "Probably saved a thousand lives before, but that's the first time anybody's ever saved me." "Oh, God, if you weren't here, it would have been me dead on the floor." "You know who he is?" "Yes." "He's my ex-husband." "When I left him, he threatened to kill me." "Is that why you wanted me here... to protect you?" "No." "I didn't even know he followed me to Los Angeles." "But I did know that I'd be safe with you." "Where are you going?" "I'm going to call the police." "Mitch, wait." "Before you call, can we talk about this a second?" "Um, what if the police say that I shot my husband... that I murdered him?" "Your husband or your ex-husband?" "Ex-husband." "Well, they won't." "He broke in." "He had a gun." "He was about to shoot me." "You had no choice." "Allison, I've got to call the police... so if there's anything" "I should know before I do, tell me now." "No." "I've told you everything." "Okay." "Mitch, you shouldn't get involved in this." "You should go." "I'll call them." "There's no need to get involved." "I am involved." "Hey, you forgot." "You saved my life, too." "Now we belong to each other." "So what else did Detective Connors say?" "That's it." "Mitch stayed with her at the police station for most of the night, and then he said he was taking her back to his house." "Not gonna press charges?" "No, apparently not." "Don't you think that's a little weird?" "What?" "Well, this lady is with two guys in two days, and they both end up dead." "Now she's with Mitch." "I think this is the most wonderful time I've ever had." "And you are the most genuine, most passionate man" "I've ever met." "Allison, I think I'm falling..." "Mitch, please don't." "Mitch, I have to say good-bye." "What?" "I'm sorry, Mitch." "If things were different..." "Where are you going?" "South on "Obsession. "" "Maybe Mexico, Brazil." "Somewhere far away from everything here." "Including me?" "Why don't you come with me?" "You know I can't come with you." "You once said you didn't want to start something when you knew where it would end." "You were right." "If you come with me, we'll be too much in love to say good-bye." "Let's just say it now, while we still can." "Oh!" "So, when Eddie voiced his suspicions," "I had the coroner reexamine the body." "Now, Steve Pierce drowned all right, but not in the ocean." "His lungs were filled with chlorinated water." "See, he was already dead when that car was driven off the cliff." "Maybe he was swimming before the crash and swallowed some water." "He did..." "enough to drown." "Tell him about the wrist." "Yeah, there were marks on his wrist that indicated he'd been handcuffed before he died." "That's right, then I found handcuffs in her suitcase." "What the hell were you doing looking through her suitcase?" "I didn't trust her." " So you went through her things." "Fellas..." "Mitch, she was using you to protect her." "Her ex-husband was trying to kill her!" "It wasn't her ex-husband!" "It was her partner." "That's right." "He was a con man named Drew Lawrence." "Looks like she put you right in the middle of a double cross." "I don't believe any of this." "Don't?" "Or don't want to?" "You know, I have to bring her in for questioning." "She saved my life." "She's the one who put you in danger in the first place." "Where is she, Mitch?" "What's taking Connors so long?" "Do me a favor and check on him, will you?" "Hey, Mitch!" "Sorry!" "This is something I got to do myself." "Lower your sails." "Go back, Mitch." "Don't make this harder than it already is." "I said lower your sails." "I'm coming aboard." "Sit down." "Did Steven Pierce drown in the swimming pool... yes or no?" "Yes." "Oh!" "Was he handcuffed?" "Yes." "He killed himself, Mitch." "He killed himself because I told him I wouldn't marry him." "I went out to the pool and he'd already handcuffed himself to the bottom rung of the ladder." "I panicked." "He was married." "We had an affair." "It ended." "I didn't know what else to do." "I put his body in the car." "I was going to bury him at sea." "I got scared, and I started to cry." "That's when I drove the car off the cliff." "So everything from the beginning's been a lie, huh?" "Everything?" "No, not everything." "Not the way I feel about you." "That's not a lie." "I've come to take you back, Allison." "I won't go." "If you're telling the truth, you got nothing to be afraid of." "What do you know about fear?" "What do you know about being manipulated by people who want to control you?" "A hell of a lot more now than I did a few days ago." "I will never let another man run my life." "Not even you." "I don't want to kill you, Mitch, but I will." "Same way you shot your partner?" "Through the heart?" "You learned a lot in a short time." "What did the two of you con Steve Pierce out of, anyway?" "Was it money?" "Real estate?" "You're making it harder to let you go, Mitch." "Aw." "As hard as it was when you said your tearful good-bye?" "Wow." "What a performance." "Please don't make me do this." "Wouldn't you rather put a handcuff on my wrist?" "Drown me?" "I'll shoot." "I promise I will." "I don't believe you." "You all right?" "Yeah." "Do I still belong to you, Mitch?" "No." "You belong to him." "Let's go." "Mitch..." "Is this the way you thought it would end?" "No." "What are you doing?" "I want to see what's in here." "So this is what it was all about." "I guess so."