"Copyright from ecOtOne™" "(BIRDS CALLING)" "(MEN SHOUTING)" "(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON P.A.)" "MAN: (ON P.A.) All hands on deck." "Be advised." "All good." "All good." "How'd yöu pull that off, Cole?" "Just a roughneck who got lucky." "I see that." "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "Hey, Mom." "What are yöu doing?" "Thinking." "Avoiding the dishes..." " Nice out." " It's beautiful." "Yeah, it is." "How are yöu doing?" "Just thinking about next fall." "About leaving." "What's gonna happen to me." "Just the rest of my life." "No big deal." "Yöu know, there are whole civilizations that used to believe they could see their destiny in the stars." "(DEEP RUMBLING)" "(METAL CREAKING)" "MAN:" "Yöu feel that kick?" "Mom, are yöu OK?" "MAN:" "Man that ramp!" "(RUMBLING INCREASES)" "(MEN SHOUTING)" "Blowout preventer!" "Hit the blowout preventer!" "(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)" "(GROANING)" "Hey, buddy!" "Hey, come here." "We're gonna get yöu out of here." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Get him up the deck." "(SCREAMING)" "Go!" "That's an..." "MAN:" "Yöu're the company's hero, Mr. Cole." "Those two men yöu saved are gonna be just fine." "If yöur vitals stay stable, yöu can go home tonight." "It's incredible." "Yöu were in the water almost four hours." "No evidence of hypothermia." "The fall alone should have killed yöu." "It's a miracle that yöu're alive, Mr. Cole." "There's just no other word for it." "Is there anyone we can call to come get yöu or...?" "Uh, no." "I'm good." "DAWSON:" "When I was yöung, I looked for a shape to things." "A reason or a design." "So much of what happened to me, though, felt like an accident." "So I guess I lost faith in all that." "When I survived my fall, I began to wonder if there wasn't some purpose to my life." "Maybe I was on a destined path even if I couldn't see it yet." "(PEOPLE CHATTERING, LAUGHING)" "Go, go, go, go, go!" "(CHEERING)" "(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)" "Yöu're looking good in there, Michael Phelps." "Hey, hey, have yöu decided on a major yet?" " BOY:" "Not really." " MAN:" "He's thinking about finance." " What?" " I didn't say anything." "Look, it's tough out there and it's getting tougher." "Finance makes the most sense." " Whoa, whoa, whoa, grab me a Bud?" " Yeah." "All I said was he's thinking about it." "Here." "Yöu know, Pop, honestly the only thing I'm thinking about is the beach and what girls on the beach will or will not be wearing this summer." "(PEOPLE CHEERING)" "(CELL PHONE RINGING)" " Reynolds' residence." " MAN:" "Amanda Collier, please." "Amanda Reynolds now, but Amanda Collier." "Yeah, yöu found her." "Amanda, my name is Morgan Dupree and I'm the estate attorney for Tuck Hostetler." "Oh, God." "(DISTANT BOAT HORN)" "(CELL PHONE RINGING)" " Hello?" " MORGAN:" "Dawson Cole, please." "Yeah, this is he." "My name is Morgan Dupree." "I'm the estate attorney for Tuck Hostetler." "I'm afraid I have some bad news." "Mr. Hostetler died in his sleep last night." "He was 92." "Look, I'm sorry about yöur friend." "I really am." "But we've got stuff going on here." "I got to be at Tulane on Saturday for the Sigma Nu thing." "Monday night we've got the dinner with the guy from Chase and his wife." "Next time someone I know dies, I'll call yöur secretary first." "I'm sorry." "Yeah." "(SNIFFLING)" "(CAR APPROACHING)" "(CAR DOOR SLAMS)" "Amanda?" "Dawson?" "Hey, Amanda." "Hi." "Man, I'm sorry I'm all messed up." "(LAUGHS)" "How did yöu find out?" "I got a call from a lawyer." "Something in Tuck's will." "I'm supposed to meet with him tomorrow." " 10:00am?" " Yeah." " Yeah, me too." " Oh." "It's been a long time." "Twenty years." "Well, 21, but I mean, who's counting?" "Yöu look amazing." "I gotta go." "I'm late." "Meeting my mom." "I'm gonna meet her." " Oh, all right." " At her house." "Yeah." " Good to see yöu." " Yeah, yöu too." " I'll see yöu tomorrow." " Tomorrow?" " Yeah, the lawyer." " The lawyer." "It's 10:00am." "That's right." "OK." " (DOOR CLOSES) - (CAR STARTS)" "( ♫ Toad The Wet Sprocket:" ""All I Want")" "(LAUGHTER, CHATTER)" "APRIL:" "Hey, Dawson." "Hey, Dawson?" " Food's here." " Thanks, April." " How yöu feeling?" " MAN:" "She was throwing up a lot." "But I'm not now, so that's good." " She's so pretty." " She sure is." "Yöu OK?" "It's going to be tough, but..." "her parents are really good to us." "They don't judge us." "They just want a Bible name for the kid." "(CHUCKLES) What do yöu think about Aaron?" "I think it's better than Moses." "I know it's crazy and we're yöung, but... the other day when I felt that little heartbeat..." "I don't know." "It made me feel happy." "That's good, Bobby." "That's real good." "(LAUGHING)" " (ENGINE TURNING OVER)" " It would just start I think..." " But it's not..." " (CAR HORNS HONKING)" "BOBBY:" "Just try again." "Try again." " APRIL:" "I'm sorry." "Tell them I'm sorry." " April, it's fine, OK?" "Put it in neutral." "We'll push yöu out of the way." "Come on, Bobby." "MAN:" "What's the matter?" "Yöu forget how to drive?" "(HORNS HONKING)" "Yöur dad take yöur learner's permit?" "Come on!" "Move yöur car!" "Yöu guys wanna get out and help us push or yöu just gonna sit there and keep honking?" " It won't happen again." " Yeah, sorry." "Thank yöu." "Ma'am." " (HORN HONKING) - (ALL LAUGHING)" " Hey, we could be friends." " What?" "Let's go!" "Will yöu boys grow up!" "Where are yöu going?" "Over to the right, April." "Hi." "DAWSON:" "All right." "Good." " OK." " (ENGAGES PARKING BRAKE)" " Should I call a tow truck?" " No, it's all right." "I got it." "I'm sorry about my friends." "They try to be funny but only succeed at being idiots." " Amanda, let's go." " Yeah, come on, let's get out of here." " OK!" " MAN:" "Come on!" " MAN 2:" "Amanda." " MAN:" "Seriously." "It's all right." "Yöu don't have to wait around." "Oh." "OK." " Thanks for yöur help." " Yeah." "Anytime." "Amanda!" "Yöu're wasting yöur time." "MAN:" "Thank yöu." "MAN:" "Later!" "BOBBY:" "I don't want yöu to take this the wrong way 'cause yöu're my cousin and I love yöu, but yöu are a jackass." "Did yöu not see the beautiful girl who just pushed a car to try to talk to yöu?" "She was being nice, all right?" "She's nice." " Yeah, she is." "She's also hot." " She is hot." "Start her up." "She'll be fine now." " Thanks, Dawson." " Go on." "It's all right." "See yöu later." "(DOORS SHUT)" "(CAR STARTS)" " (BELL RINGING) - (KIDS SHOUTING)" "(SIGHING)" "I turn the key and nothing happens." "What do yöu think?" "Karmic payback for being party to the honking?" "I think the universe dispenses swift justice." "(LAUGHS) He speaks." "He's sort of funny." " Hey, Amanda." " Hey." " Try it now." " OK." "(CAR STARTS)" "Thank yöu." "Yöur battery got disconnected." "It's not major." "It happens." "All right." "Are yöu actually about to say something else?" "My cousin thinks yöu were trying to talk to me the other day." "I was." " He thinks I blew it." " Yöu did." "Yöu don't know how to flirt, do yöu?" "Guess not." "Well, what are yöu gonna do about it?" "OK." "This isn't working." "OK, I'll tell yöu what." "Uh..." "I want yöu to think about it and, uh meet me at Squeals Saturday night at 6:00... maybe?" " Is that a yes?" " Yeah." "OK." "Maybe yöu'll figure out how to flirt with me by then." "(CAR STARTS)" " Thank yöu." " Yöu're welcome." "( ♫ The Lemonheads:" ""into Yöur Arms")" "(EXHALES)" "♫ I know a place where I can go ♪" "♫ When I'm alone ♪" "♫ Into yöur arms Whoa into yöur arms I can go ♪" "♫ I know a place that's safe and warm ♪" "(MAN YELLING)" "♫ Into yöur arms Whoa into yöur arms ♪" "♫ I can go... ♪" "(GUN FIRING)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)" "Where yöu runnin' off to, Dawson?" "I expect yöu to say hello." "Hello." " Yöu're cute." " He is cute." "Looks like his daddy." "(LAUGHING)" "Come on in here." "Sit down." "Let's play a hand of cards or something." "No, I'm..." "I got stuff to do." "I got homework." "He thinks he's smarter than us." "Abee, why don't yöu take that stupid goddamn hat off in the house." " Yes, sir." " Is that true?" " Yöu think yöu're smarter than us?" " No, sir." " Yöu too good for this family?" " No, sir." "That's good." "'Cause this is where yöu belong." "Here." "Why don't yöu go out back and tune up the Merc." "We got a delivery upriver tomorrow night and yöu're going with us." "I can't go tomorrow night." "I got something to do." "Yöu didn't listen to a goddamn thing I said, did yöu?" "(GRUNTS)" " I'm not..." " I'm not what?" " (GRUNTS)" " Hey, hey, come on, Pop." "Let's play some cards." "I swear to God, Dawson, yöu are a slow fucking learner!" "That's a bad thing to be." "Yöu still got someplace to be Saturday night?" "Yes, sir." " Hit him again, Papa." " Ted, shut the hell up!" "(GRUNTS)" "Yöu wanna hit me?" "Yöu hit me, yöu see where that'll get yöu." " MAN:" "Hormones." " (WOMAN LAUGHING)" "That's what his problem is." "(THUNDER CRASHING)" "(THUNDER CRASHING)" "(THUNDER CRASHING)" "(THUNDER CRASHING)" "(THUNDER BOOMS)" "(ROOSTER CROWING)" "(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)" "Yöu are either the worst car thief in the history of the world or yöu have a story to tell." " What's yöur name?" " Dawson Cole." " Tommy Cole's boy?" " Yes, sir." "Well, that is unfortunate." "(SNIFFS, EXHALES)" " What happened to yöur eye?" " I just ran into a tree." "A tree with a mean right cross." "Yöu got any place to stay?" "Friends?" "Anything like that?" "No, sir." "Shit." "MAN:" "Where yöu going?" "That cot over yonder ought to be more comfortable than this car." "Water out of the hose is good to drink." "If there's any trouble, anything goes missing, anything like that, the next one to wake yöu up will be a sheriff's deputy." "Yöu understand that?" " Yes, sir." " Do yöu understand that?" "Yes, sir." "All right, then." "Shit!" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "( ♫ Spin Doctors:" ""Little Miss Can't Be Wrong")" "GIRL:" "Good night, Amanda." "♫ Little Miss, Little Miss, Little Miss can't be wrong ♪" "Where is he?" "(CAR APPROACHING)" "(DOOR SHUTS)" " I decided not to come." " Mm, yeah, I got that." "I didn't know how to get a hold of yöu." "Oh, I was at Squeals." "Yöu could have gotten a hold of me there." "(CRANKING TOOL)" "Do yöu live out here?" "Is this some kind of game yöu're playing?" "Huh?" "With yöur friends?" "A little science experiment yöu got going on?" "What is it?" " That's crazy." " That's crazy, is it?" "Or maybe yöu just like strays." "Or maybe I like smart guys who haven't had it handed to them." "(SNORTS) Right." "God, yöu just don't get it, do yöu?" "I guess I don't." "(CAR DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)" "Yöu know, I just wanted a date." "I wanted to go somewhere and maybe have some coffee or some ice cream." "Come on, yöu know, yöu ask me questions, I ask yöu questions." "And if we just so happen to like the answer, Dawson, then maybe we'll go on another one." "And if we don't, then we won't." "But God, I mean, if that's just too much to ask, then fine." "Forget it." "I'm exhausted." "I'm done." "(DOOR SHUTS)" "This is why I didn't want to go out in public." "Well, then take me somewhere private." "AMANDA:" "So what're yöu gonna do after high school?" "DAWSON:" "Uh... (LAUGHS)" "AMANDA:" "OK, I'll go first." "I'm going to Tulane in the fall." "Double majoring in child psychology and public policy." "I'm hoping to intern at a law firm while I'm there." "And then after law school, I'd like to work for a non-profit." "Maybe in another country, that deals with children's issues." " Yöu wanna work with children?" " Mm..hm." "Yöu wanna have a family of yöur own?" "Yeah, I would." "I'd like to have a little girl." "Maybe name her Bea." "That's a real nice name." "It's really beautiful out here." "I've never seen so many stars." "I've always loved the stars." "I feel closer to them up here." "When I was a kid, I built my own telescope." " Wow." " No, it's pretty easy." "Yeah, for yöu, maybe." "DAWSON:" "Humans have always looked to the stars." "Instruct their way of life, consult them." "AMANDA:" "Yöu were gone for a while." "Yeah, my dad made me quit school when I was 16." "He said he needed me around the home." "How do yöu feel about that?" "I don't know." "I guess I didn't like it much." "It was a hell of a fight to come back." "Is it weird to be there now?" "Kind of." "I mean, I just wanna finish, get out." "Where do yöu want to go to college?" "Do yöu think everyone goes to college?" "People who build their own telescopes usually do." "(CHUCKLES)" "I don't know, it's just... it's not something I can do right now." "Is it something yöu want to do?" " Why do yöu care?" " Why won't yöu answer?" "Yöu are gonna be a really good lawyer someday." "Do yöu want to go, yes or no?" "No." "Yöu're a bad liar." "I like that." "DAWSON:" "I'd like to do this again sometime." "I'd even shower and show up." "How about that?" " (LAUGHS) Yöu promise?" " Yeah, I promise." "I guess I wanted to do that." "I wanted to do that, too." "Good to know." "I wouldn't mind doing that again." "Then do it." "MORGAN:" "Now first thing that Tuck stipulated was for me to apologize on his behalf for any inconvenience." "He asked that I pass on his gratitude for yöur being here and yöur friendship always." "His words." "He would like yöu to spread his ashes together, outside the cottage of Vandemere." "There is to be no funeral, no reception, nor store-bought bouquets." "Not a dime is to be spent on frivolities." " Again..." " BOTH:" "His words." "(CHUCKLING) That's right." "He asks that yöu pack up his things and he would like yöu to go through it, and take whatever yöu want." "He left instructions that his assets be liquidated and that the proceeds be donated to the American Pediatric Cancer Society." "The only asset not to be sold is the cottage at Vandemere, which he left to yöu both." "Now, typically, in situations like this, one party will buy the other out, unless yöu're interested in joint ownership." " We're not." " No." "No." "When he was in the hospital, he wrote these." "Mm..hm." "(CLEARS THROAT) Excuse me." "He would like yöu to read them on yöur own." "Well, yöu still living around here?" " Baton Rouge." " Yeah?" " I see yöu got married." " 18 years." "Nice." "Yöu guys got kids?" " Two." " Boys?" "Girls?" "Yöu know, we don't have to do this." "Ask the questions, tell our stories, pretend to want to know about each other's lives." "Well, I do want to know." "We're not here for a reunion." "We're here for Tuck, so..." "How about this?" "Yöu go to the house today and I'll come out tomorrow." "And we'll meet out at Vandemere tomorrow afternoon." "We'll say our goodbyes." " Does that work for yöu?" " Yeah." "Bye." "I'm sorry." "TUCK:" "Yöu remember that thistle problem I had in the garden last year." "Thistle is one tough weed." "Yöu can't pull it or mow it." "Yöu have to dig it out by the root." "While I was digging, I got to thinking about yöu and Dawson." "Yöu have wounds that have never healed." "Yöu've lived with them so long, yöu don't even know they're there anymore." "Pain has deep roots." "The only way to dig it out is to forgive him and forgive yöurself." " DAWSON:" "Don't yöu get bored out here?" " AMANDA:" "Completely." "When are yöu gonna let me get my hands dirty?" "(LAUGHS) Yöu want to get yöur hands dirty?" "Absolutely." "What?" "This dirty?" "No." "Dawson, yöu're not gonna do..." "'Cause I'm the grease monster from the bayöu!" "(LAUGHING) Stop it!" "Dawson!" "Don't!" "Yöu're gonna get me all dirty, yöu little punk!" "(SHRIEKS)" "Yöu gotta leave!" "Yöu gotta get out of here." " What?" " No, please, just get out of here now." " Who's that?" " Get out of here, please!" "Leave!" " Dawson!" "Yöu're hurting me!" " Leave!" " Don't ask any questions." "Get out!" "Now!" " Why do I have to go?" " Go, go, go!" "Go, please!" "OK, Dawson." " OK." " Go!" "OK!" "Time to come home, Dawson." "Yöu didn't introduce us to yöur girlfriend." "That's that Collier girl, Pop." "Yöu know her." " Collier girl." " Yes, sir." "(CHUCKLES)" "All right, get yöur stuff, put it in the truck." " Yöu're coming home with us." " No, I'm not." "I ain't gonna tell yöu again, boy." "I have had it with yöu, Dawson!" "Yöu're all puffed up, yöu're thinking that yöu're special." "Well, let me ask yöu something?" "Do yöu really believe that that girl is gonna have anything to do with a white trash piece of shit like yöu?" "No." "Come on." "Get yöur stuff, put it in the truck and let's go." "(GUN FIRES)" "Yöu touch him again, the next one will kill yöu." "Now, I've come here for my boy and I ain't leaving without him, so..." "I guess yöu're gonna have to shoot me." "All right." "That windshield is gonna cost yöu about $1,000." "And those floods run about $500 each." "Do yöu want me to keep going?" "Go on now." "This is nice." "What yöu've done here." "Yöur wife plant these?" "Get in the truck, Ted." "(TRUCK STARTS)" " If I stay, they'll come back." " (CHUCKLES)" "I just shot up a $17,000 pick-up truck." "About broke my heart to do it." "They'll be back whether yöu're here or not." "Not safe for yöu to sleep out here anymore." "I'll fix yöu a place inside." "Well, come on." "(SNIFFLING)" "(THUNDER RUMBLING)" "(SIGHS)" "(KNOCKING ON WINDOW)" "(KNOCKING CONTINUES SOFTLY)" "Dawson..." " What are yöu doing?" " I had to see yöu." " Well, come in." " That's not a good idea." " I need to talk to yöu." " OK." " Wait, what are yöu doing?" " I mean, if yöu're not gonna come in." "(LAUGHING)" " My parents think yöu're dangerous." " They're right." "Sooner or later, I'm gonna have to pay for what happened today and I can't have yöu standing next to me when I do, OK?" " I can't have yöu getting hurt." " I'm not gonna get hurt." "Yöu hang around with me long enough and yöu will." "I don't care!" "I don't care!" "I mean, Dawson, do yöu want this?" "Do yöu want me?" "I do." "I do." "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "(LAUGHTER CONTINUES)" "All right." " Just give me one second." " Sure thing." "Yöu work here?" "No, sir." "Just picking up some stuff for my uncles." "Yöu look a lot like an old friend of mine." " People tell me I look like my dad." " Yeah?" "Bobby Cole?" "Yöu knew him?" "MAN:" "Goddamn it, Aaron." "How many times I gotta tell yöu that yöu..." "Well, as I live and breathe." "Man 2:" "The Prodigal Son returns." "Yöu might wanna stay away from that shit." "Good talking to yöu." "MAN:" "It's been a long time, Dawson!" "About 20 years?" "Thank yöu." "Thank yöu." " Yöu know who that is, Aaron?" " That's Dawson Cole." "I thought maybe yöu'd need a hand." "Hey." "I thought yöu might want this." "Yöu can take it." "I just didn't want to pack things away if yöu might want to keep 'em." "It's OK." "I don't want much." "I'll make my own box." "OK." " What?" "What is it?" " Nothing." "Is there something yöu want to say?" "No." "I guess I just want to know if yöu're happy." "Yöu want facts?" "I... went to Tulane, as planned." "Got pregnant sophomore year, not planned." "Got married, moved to Baton Rouge." "Bought a house." "Had another baby." "Did some volunteer work." "Bought a bigger house." "Law school?" "I didn't finish college." "I had so many plans and I don't know what happened." "Life?" "I guess." "Anyway." "Am I happy?" "Being a mother makes me happy." "Look what I found." "Oh, wow." "I forgot he had this." "She's a real beauty." "Thanks." "(DAWSON HUMMING)" "AMANDA:" "So if yöu're not going to college, then why do yöu study so much?" "Oh, wait, I know why." "Because yöu are going to college." "Yöu'll definitely get in." "Yöu'll probably get a scholarship." " Grab the stuff from the back, please?" " I got it." "All right, these are applications." " I know what they are." "I've seen them." " All right." "Well, get started on them." " There's a problem." " Already?" "Yöu haven't even started yet." "They want a home address." "Yöu live with Tuck." "Why don't yöu ask him?" " No, don't ask Tuck, please." " Why?" "He's private." "He won't like yöu snooping around and stuff..." "Amanda!" " OK!" " Amanda." " Tuck?" " In here." " Oh, hi." " Hi." "Wow, yöu look handsome." "Here, I got yöu these." "They're chocolate covered pralines." "I hope yöu like them." " Can I ask yöu a couple questions?" " OK." " Do yöu have an onion?" " I do." "Good. 'Cause we forgot one." "Second thing, we were just going over Dawson's college applications and we were wondering, can we use yöur address as his home address?" " That'll be fine." " Great." "Let's get cooking." " Maybe yöu should set the table." " Maybe I should set the table." "Wow, those are beautiful." "Yeah, they came in real good this year." "It was a wet spring." " These are my wife's favorite." " Oh, yeah?" "How long were y'all married?" "We're still married." "We're just on different schedules." "She had a stroke four years ago this May." "I'm sorry." "There's still times that I'll step outside there at night and have a little chat with Clara." "Ain't that foolish?" "AMANDA:" "All I'm saying is when two cars break down on consecutive days, that bring two people together that fall in love, that's destiny." "Destiny?" "No, Destiny is the name the fortunate give to their fortunes." "What is that supposed to mean?" "That means that people never call bad things destiny." "Yöu are absolutely impossible." "Why can't yöu just agree with anything that I have to say, Dawson?" "Why?" " Tuck, please help me out here." " Come on, Tuck." " What?" " What do yöu think?" "I never did believe in any of that stuff." "But I will tell yöu one thing now." "Uh, back in the war," "I was in the Navy, I'm serving aboard a destroyer." "And at the Leyte Gulf, we..." "we took a Jap torpedo." "Blew me right off the deck." "Broke my back." "There I am bobbing around in the water like a fishing cork, all hell breaking loose all around me and I..." "I started singing." "(LAUGHING)" "This old Irving Berlin song." "What'll I do with just a photograph to tell my troubles to?" "What'll I do?" "What'll I do?" "What'll I do?" "(SOFT CHUCKLE) Well, after a few verses of this, this calm just, poof, came over me and I knew right then I was gonna be all right." "That I was gonna go home, that I was gonna..." "I was gonna hold my wife again." "Well, a few years pass by, we built that little cottage at Vandemere and I walked outside one day and Clara was out there in the garden singing..." "What'll I do?" "(EXHALES)" "Now, she saw the look on my face and so I told her the story." "And then she told me hers." "It seems like right about that same time, she'd had a dream." "A dream where I was singing to her." "And yöu care to take a guess at the name of the song?" "Come on." "Get out of here, Tuck." "Well, now, I don't know exactly what yöu'd call that, but whatever yöu call it, it got me home." "(CHUCKLES)" "( ♫ Irving Berlin:" ""What'll I Do?")" "Would yöu dance with me?" " Yöu can dance?" " (CHUCKLING) No." "But I figured yöu'd make me learn sooner or later." "I guess yöu have a good point." "(CHUCKLES)" " Now, don't step on my feet." " I'll try not to." "Hey, look at me." "(STOPS MUSIC)" "AMANDA:" "Dawson?" "I'd like to talk to yöu." "Four years after Jared was born, Frank and I had another child." "A wonderful little girl." "She was so full of joy." "Tuck loved her." ""She shines with her own light," he said." "He was right about that." "She was diagnosed with leukemia a few weeks after that picture was taken." "She'd just turned two." "And I remember that day." "Yöu know, it was just a day." "And yöu want so much to go back to just a not-so-special day like that, yöu know." "But yöu never can." "(SIGHS) I can't imagine how difficult that must have been for yöur family." "We both started drinking too much." "I quit." "He never did." "I wish I'd have been there for yöu." "Yeah." "That didn't happen." "That's life." "What was her name?" "Bea." "Her name was Bea." "Bea." "Yöu've gotten better at that." "Yeah, 20 years later, I can chop an onion." " Sorry." " Sorry." "I bet yöu're the smartest guy on the rig, huh?" "Well, of course I am." "(BOTH CHUCKLING)" "Yeah, yöu know, I got pretty good at computer, actually, and the boss wanted me to go back to school, get certified as an IT specialist." "And let me guess." "Yöu don't want to do that." " I like my job." " But yöu might like the new one more." "I don't know why yöu don't go to college and get the piece..." "Piece of paper." " Well, I don't." " Yeah, that's her." "That's the girl who just wouldn't let me settle." "Yeah, well, I haven't seen much of her lately, so..." "Yeah, but there she is." "To her." "AMANDA:" "Does it ever get lonely out there?" "DAWSON:" "I mean, are yöu asking me if I'm single?" "Are yöu?" "(LAUGHS)" "Well, I've had, yöu know, relationships, I guess." "And things..." "I mean, nothing..." "Yeah, no, not right now." "Yöu ever been in love?" "With yöu." "That was 20 years ago." "Twenty-one." "Well, what do yöu want me to say, yöu set a high bar." "Seriously?" "Are yöu saying that I'm the reason that yöu're alone?" "Don't ask questions if yöu don't want any answers." "That's ridiculous." "I mean, honest to God." "(LAUGHING)" "What?" "Why are yöu laughing?" "I don't know." "I guess I just..." "I miss this." "I miss... yöu getting all mad at me." "I'm not mad." "Yöu're being a little pushy." "I'm not pushy." "Yöu just care so much, Amanda." "Yöu just can't help yöurself." "I should go." " What?" " This is dangerous." "We've had wine and somehow yöu have gotten better looking, which is so annoying." "Couldn't yöu have gotten bald or fat or something?" "Jesus!" "Yöu know, it seems a little silly to take two cars to Vandemere tomorrow." "I have a confession to make." "OK." "It wasn't destiny when my car broke down at school." "I disconnected the battery myself so yöu could save me." " I know." " What?" "I know." "I knew the minute I saw yöur battery line yanked out." "(LAUGHING) Oh, my God!" "Why didn't yöu tell me?" "How often is the mechanic the hero of the story?" "(DOOR OPENS, SHUTS)" "DAWSON:" "Oh, I gotta go to Vandemere." "Tuck's been putting it off for weeks." "Now his back's out, he's worried about the garden." " I'm sorry." " No, it's OK." "Yöu go take care of Tuck's garden." "He needs yöu." "I just want yöu." " Maybe next weekend." " Can't wait." " Be good." " I will." " Don't wreck." " I won't." " I love yöu." " I love yöu, too." " I love yöu." " (DAWSON LAUGHS)" "All right." "(FLOORBOARD CREAKS)" "(DOOR CREAKS)" "I told yöu I couldn't wait." "Well?" "( ♫ Shel  Gareth Dunlop:" ""Hold On")" "♫ I put my faith in yöur promise ♪" "♫ That yöu'd be here soon ♪" "♫ Don't doubt it, darlin' ♪" "♫ The stars may be falling ♪" "♫ I'm still coming for yöu ♪" "♫ I can hear yöu whisper ♪" "♫ Every doubt screams where are yöu ♪" "♫ And every moment waiting ♪" "♫ Makes the day harder to get through ♪" "Are yöu sure about this?" "I'm sure." "Just kiss me." "♫ Hold on ♪" "♫ Hold just a little longer ♪" "♫ Hold on ♪" "♫ Hold just a little longer ♪" "♫ Hold on ♪" " Good morning." " Good morning." "♫ I can swear I feel yöu ♪" "♫ Every time I lay my head down ♪" "♫ Nothing but restless ♪" "♫ Sleepless, long nights now ♪" "Eat." "Dig in." "♫ The stars may be falling ♪" ""...and yöu think good days are preparing for yöu." "Do not believe it." "It can never be so." "Nothing can bring yöu peace but yöurself."" " Pull it." " I am!" " Pull it." " I am!" "(SHRIEKS)" "(BOTH LAUGHING)" "Yöu're such a jerk." "No, no!" "Stop it!" "(PLAYFUL SHRIEKING)" " Come here!" " No!" " Whoo!" " (SCREAMS)" "♫ Hold just a little longer ♪" "It's cold!" "♫ Hold just a little longer ♪" "♫ Hold on ♪" "♫ Hold just a little longer ♪" "♫ Hold ♪" "♫ On ♪" "(FIRE CRACKLING)" "What happened here?" "That was for talking back." "That was for not answering." "That was for disrespect." "I don't remember what that was for." "Hey." "It's OK." "They don't hurt anymore." "AMANDA:" "We need a song." "In case one of us gets deployed in World War lll?" "No, I'm serious." "Something we can keep forever." "Then pick one." "There's nothing romantic about picking one." "Here." "First song that comes on clearly." "We're in the middle of nowhere." "Yöu're not gonna get anything." "Even if yöu do get something, it's gonna be a public broadcast on fly fishing." "( ♫ The Cowboy Junkies:" ""Sweet Jane")" " Why are yöu always right?" " I guess it's just a gift." " Look at yöu." " I've been practicing." " With who?" " Tuck." "(LAUGHING)" "♫ Sweet Jane... ♪" "(LAUGHING)" "(BAND PLAYING UPBEAT TUNE)" "(INDISTINCT CHATTER)" "AMANDA:" "Dawson!" "(SHRIEKING, LAUGHING)" "So, Dawson, tell me, what are yöur plans for the future?" "Well, I hope to go to college next year, sir." "He is going to college." "He got a 4.0 and 1520 on his SATs." "Well, that's good, son." "Where did yöu apply?" "I applied to Tulane, Loyola and LSU." "I mean, I'll probably end up at LSU." "It's the most realistic." "Yeah, and it's not too far from New Orleans, that way we could still see each other, right?" "I take it yöu know a few things about cars." " Yeah, a little, I guess." " I got a bunch of them in the back." "Yeah, Amanda said yöu have a collection." " How many cars yöu own?" " Too many." "A few." "Would yöu like to see them?" " Recognize that one?" " It's a '71 Oldsmobile 442." "Yöu know why they call it that?" "Yeah, a four barrel carb, four speed gear box, dual exhaust." "It's a beautiful car, sir." "Smart boy." "I can see why she likes yöu." "Go on." "Take a look underneath." "Yeah." "I know yöu want to." "I'd love to." "Wow." "Say, have yöu given any thought to how yöu'll pay for college?" "There's..." "There's scholarships, financial aid, loans, stuff like that." "Tuition's a killer." "And yöu need money for books, room and board." "It's expensive." "It can be prohibitive for kids like yöu." ""Kids like me?"" "Yöu're a nice guy, Dawson." "I'd like to help yöu, if yöu'll let me." "Well, how's that, sir?" "Well... four years of school, say... $15,000 a year for tuition." "Another five to live comfortably." "Yöu want to give me $80,000?" "If yöu'll let me." "Just stay away from Amanda, right?" "Yöu'll come out debt-free." "With a real chance to make something of yöurself." "This isn't personal, son." "I just want what's best for my daughter, and I can't have her anywhere near yöur family." "It's gonna end anyway." "This way, yöu get something out of it." " I don't want yöur money." " What's that?" " I don't want yöur money." " Yöu think about it." "I don't have to." "(GLASS SHATTERS)" "Yöu know what yöu can do with that 80 grand, sir?" "Shove it up yöur ass." "Yöu think about it." "(BAND MUSIC CONTINUING)" "(TRUCK DRIVING AWAY)" "I'm sorry." "My dad's an asshole." "He's right, though." "Yöu got a big life ahead of yöu." "Yöu're gonna do great things." "I don't want to get in the way of that." "Dawson, what would yöu risk for me?" "Everything." "Then let me love yöu like that." "Please." "OK." "OK." "How much did he offer?" "There's not enough money in the world." "Well, I mean, if he was gonna throw in that Cobra, I'd have to think about it." "(LAUGHING) Yöu're so mean." " AMANDA:" "Nice car." " DAWSON:" "Tuck's policy." "AMANDA:" "All rebuilds must be test driven..." "DAWSON:" "Before they're returned." "AMANDA:" "Are yöu gonna let me drive?" " Yöu learned how to drive a stick?" " Yes." " Really?" " Kind of." " All right." " All right." " Kind of?" " Mm..hm." "God help me." " (ENGINE REVVING)" " All right." "Easy on the clutch." "Easy." "(AMANDA MAKES REVVING SOUND)" "All right." "Go to first gear." "Up." "There we go." "Now, slow." "Slowly let the clutch out." " OK, there yöu go." "Slow down!" " Whooo!" "( ♫ Lady Antebellum:" ""Falling For Yöu")" "♫ I'm fallin' I'm fallin' ♪" " (INDISTINCT CONVERSATION) - (LAUGHING)" "♫ Just lay me down ♪" "♫ And steal my heart tonight ♪" "♫ So hold me now ♪" "♫ I'm fallin' I'm fallin' ♪'" "♫ To yöu ♪" " (ENGINE SHUTS OFF) - (BIRDS CHIRPING)" "God, it used to be so beautiful." "I just... this is how we're supposed to do this?" "I mean, yeah, I don't know." "This is where he scattered Clara's ashes, so..." " Right." " Seems all right to me." "Well, we should say something." "Not like a a long winded eulogy or anything like that." "Just..." " No, no, he'd hate that." " Right." "No fuss." " No." " OK." "We love yöu." "We do." "Oh!" "Oh, shit." "Oh!" "(LAUGHS)" " Just scatter it." " Yeah?" "Yeah, just..." "Oh!" "OK." "Well, maybe we throw it." " That was much better." " Yeah." "OK." "Here." " To Tuck." " To Tuck." " Sure yöu don't want another one?" " No." "Nah, I'd better not." " When are yöu going home?" " Tomorrow." "Last time I was out, there was this explosion." "Wait, that was yöur rig?" "Yöu were on it?" "Yeah, I fell 100 feet into the water." "I still have no idea why I didn't drown." "I wasn't wearing a vest." "Doctors couldn't figure it out either." " God, yöu were lucky." " Maybe." "I saw yöu." "I had, like, a..." "It wasn't a dream." "Yöu were there with me." "And it was strange 'cause I hadn't seen yöu in so long." "And then I get out of the hospital and I get this call about Tuck." "Then I come here and I see yöu." "And it's like..." "I don't know." "Just strange." "I'm glad yöu're OK." "What are yöu gonna do, Amanda?" "What do yöu mean?" "If yöu're unhappy." "Wait." "Yöu got all this advice for me, yöu know?" "What are yöu gonna do?" "Yöu know what this feels like to me?" "Fate." "That's what it feels like to me." "I'm trying to get my head around it since it all happened." "Why the hell am I still here?" "And maybe it's 'cause of this, yöu know?" "Maybe it's a chance to see yöu again and... a chance to tell yöu how sorry I am." "And tell yöu how much I still love yöu." "Yöu want me to fall back in love with yöu?" "How do I do that if I haven't ever stopped?" " Tuck?" " Yeah." "I..." "I got yöu something." "It's not much at all, but I didn't want yöu to have to worry about a dry spring anymore." "Yeah." "She'll need one of these." "Tuck, no one's ever treated me like yöu have." "No one's ever shown me" " this kind of dignity and respect." " Yöur tie is crooked." "(CAMERA CLICKING)" " BOBBY:" "How about a smile, Tuck?" " This is a smile." "(LAUGHING)" "(CAR STARTS)" "(DISTANT TRAIN HORN BLARES)" "Oh, shoot." "Whoo!" "Get down there!" "Get on down there!" " Come on, g-up, mule." " Smile pretty." "Oh, oh." "Oh, no, no, no, no." "Wake up, yöu gotta wake up." "I want yöu to see this." "Now, look at that." " There it go!" "There goes the squash." " Whoo!" " (LAUGHING)" " Just about ready to pick." "Let me ask yöu something." "Those pretty tulips right there, all those flowers." "Not the tulips." " Did yöu and yöur wife plant those?" " (CACKLING)" "Come on, yöu get a good look." "Get a good look." "(ALL CHATTERING)" "Hey, I forgot Amanda's flower thing." "Can we turn around?" " Oh, yeah, it's just right there." " Yeah." "Mayhall can't even tie his shoe." "It's Tuck!" "Stop!" "Stop, stop, stop, stop!" "Get out, get out!" "Tuck!" "Tuck!" "Call 911!" "Go, now!" "Bobby, yöu go help!" "Go help, go help, go help!" "Tuck!" "Tuck, what happened?" "I ran into a tree." "Bobby, yöu stay with him." "Yöu help him." "Tuck." "Someone's on their way, Tuck." "OK?" "Yöu're gonna be OK." " Dawson!" "What are yöu gonna do?" " TUCK:" "Go on, stop him now." " Dawson, don't do this!" " Just talk to me!" "Give me the gun." " Just give him the gun, Dawson!" " Get out of the truck, Bobby." "Don't do this." "It's what he wants." " Get out of the truck, Bobby!" " No!" " Bobby!" "No!" " Stay with Tuck." "Stay here with Tuck." " It's gonna be OK." " Bobby!" "BOBBY:" "Dawson." " Bobby!" " BOBBY:" "Stay here." "BOBBY:" "Cool down, cool down, cool down!" "Just think!" "Dawson, come on." "Turn the car around." "Come on!" "Stop!" "This is stupid." "Dawson, yöu don't want to do this." "Told yöu he'd come back." " Stay back, Bobby." " Dawson." " Stay there!" " Uh..oh." "Yöu know, the last person that pointed that rifle at me, he had an accident." "He tripped down his wheelchair ramp." "(LAUGHING)" "Look at him." "Look at yöu, yöu're all dressed to kill." "Is that what yöu are?" "Yöu're a killer now?" "What are yöu gonna do?" "Yöu're gonna kill all three of us?" "No." "Just yöu." "Why don't yöu go on and do it then?" " Put down the gun, Dawson!" " Oh, he will." "Don't worry, Bobby." "I know this one." "He ain't no killer." "Yöu're not a killer, son." "Here." "Yöu ain't nothing." " Hell, no." " Ted!" "Hey, Ted!" " Get up!" " (GROANING)" "Get up!" "I gotta tell ya." "I didn't see that coming." "SON:" "Yeah, Papa!" "(LAUGHING)" "SON:" "Come on, hit him!" "SON:" "Get up, Papa!" "SON:" "Yöu got this." "(BOTH GRUNTING)" "BOBBY:" "Dawson, that's enough!" "Yöu're gonna kill him." "Come on!" "(CHOKING)" "Come on, Dawson." "(SPITS)" "Dawson, look out!" "(RIFLE FIRES)" "Bobby." "Bobby!" "Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, no, no." "Bob, Bob, look at me, look at me." "Look at me, Bobby!" "(PANTING) Bobby... (GROANING)" "DAWSON: (CRYING) I'm so sorry!" "DAWSON:" "Bobby was getting out." "He was gonna be a dad." "Tuck, he was gonna be such a good dad." "He's the only family I ever had." "TUCK:" "Look at me, son." "I said look at me." "The DA doesn't want yöu." "He wants Tommy." "If yöu help them, then they will help yöu." "I killed him, Tuck." "I deserve to be here." "Yeah, yöu showed up there with a loaded gun and... (SIGHS) ...yöu're gonna have to do some time for that." "But, son, there is a reason that yöu are here." "Yöu have a life to live." "And yöu're gonna fight back and yöu're gonna keep fighting back." "'Cause no matter what yöu think, yöu are not just yöur father's son." "Dawson, yöu are not like them other boys." "Yöu're a good boy." "(VOICE BREAKING) And yöu're my boy." " (DAWSON CRYING)" " Yöu hear me?" "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." "Yes, sir." " (TIRES SCREECHING) - (HELICOPTER NOISE)" "(OVER LOUDSPEAKER) This is the DEA." "We have the house surrounded." " (MEN SHOUTING) - (DOGS BARKING)" "(SIREN WAILING)" "Ted!" "(YELLING)" "(RADIO CHATTER)" "MAN:" "Do yöu see any of those individuals present in the courtroom at this time?" "DAWSON:" "I do." "MAN:" "Can yöu point out Abee Cole at this time?" "Can yöu also point out Theodore "Ted" Cole at this time?" "DAWSON:" "Yes." "MAN:" "Can yöu also point out Thomas "Tommy" Cole at this time, please?" " (DOOR CLOSES) - (DOOR BUZZES)" " Hey." " Hey." "I brought yöu some books and things." "Thanks." "Yöu just let me know if I need to bring anything else for yöu and I'll bring it next time, all right?" " There can't be a next time." " What do yöu mean?" "I got eight years." "I mean, it's, what, four before I'm even eligible for parole?" " I'll wait." " No." "No, I can't let yöu do that." "Yöu don't get to make that choice." "If this was the last time yöu're gonna see me what would yöu say?" " Please don't do this." "I'd say thank yöu." " I'm not walking away." " I'd say I love yöu." " Dawson." " I always will." "Dawson, please don't do this." "Please." "I love yöu. (SNIFFLING)" "(MOUTHING)" "Wait, Dawson!" "Dawson!" "Dawson!" "Dawson!" "(PANTING)" " Ma'am, I need yöu to come with me." " OK." " OK." " Please." " Oh, God." " Please come with me." "Come with me." " Right this way." " OK." "Thank yöu." "Excuse me." "MAN:" "Brentwood, please come to the front." "GUARD:" "He's not taking any visitors." "Collier." "I'm sorry, Miss Collier." "He doesn't want to see yöu." "OK." "(DOOR BUZZES)" "(CRYING)" " Man." "Back again, huh?" " Yeah." "AMANDA:" "I went every day for a month, and then every week for a year." "Did they tell yöu that I came?" "They told me." "I guess maybe I hoped they didn't." "Do yöu even know that I went when Frank and I started dating?" "I told him I was going to see my parents." "They told me every time." " And yöu didn't want to see me?" " That's the only thing I did want." "I never stopped loving yöu, Amanda." "Not once." " Then why didn't yöu?" "!" " Because I..." " I know this doesn't make sense..." " It doesn't." "All right, Amanda." "Listen to me." "I wanted to do something good." "And I wanted to save yöu from some of the pain." "Yöu didn't save me from anything." "I lived with the pain every day of my life, Dawson, and I blame yöu." "I blame yöu for thinking yöu knew what was best for me" " when it was yöu that was best for me." " I know." "I couldn't have yöu wait for me." " There was so much yöu wanted to do." " But I wanted to do it with yöu." "And I would have waited for as long as it took." " I didn't deserve yöu, Amanda." " Oh, deserve me?" "Jesus, Dawson." "Don't yöu understand?" "When I had Jared, and I know this is wrong, but do yöu know that when I had him I wanted to tell yöu." "(CRYING) And when I lost Bea..." "I wanted yöu to hold me." "And when I was alone at night, I wanted..." "I wanted yöu and I cried for yöu and I hated yöu and I hated yöu because... because I would have chosen yöu no matter what, and yöu took that away from me." " I made a mistake." " Yes, yöu did." "I did." "I hurt yöu." "But see, I still love yöu." "I still love yöu." "AMANDA:" "Do yöu remember the last time we were here and I turned on the radio?" " "Sweet Jane."" " Yeah." "God, I knew a song would come in and then it did." " Clear as day." " I know." "As if it was cued up for us." "Yöu know, I used to feel that way about everything." "I'd just blindly trust in life to work out." "And then it would." "I don't feel that way anymore." "What?" "Where yöu going?" "( ♫ The Cowboy Junkies:" ""Sweet Jane")" "(LAUGHING)" "Anymore, I don't like to leave things to chance." "(LAUGHING) Wow." "Yöu're not stepping on my feet anymore." "Well, not yet." "(LAUGHING)" "Would yöu do one thing for me?" "Would yöu forgive yöurself?" "Yöu're a good man, Dawson." "Believe it." "That shirt looks a lot better on yöu." "(WHOOPING)" "( ♫ Colbie Caillat:" ""In Love Again")" "It's so cold." "Do yöu remember it being so cold?" "Nah, don't be a baby." " I'm not a baby." " Come here." "Lie back." " Happy?" " Yeah." "(CELL PHONE RINGING)" " I'm sorry." " That's OK." "Hi, Jared." "Yeah, I'm doing OK." "How are yöu?" "Are his parents going?" "I just don't want yöu to get in the car, yöu know, if anyone's been drinking." "I know, but Mike can barely drive if he's sober." "All right, well, just ask yöur dad." "I miss yöu, too." "All right, I'll see yöu in a couple of days." "OK, be careful." "Bye." " Sorry." "It's Jared." " It's OK." "We can't do this, can we?" "I know yöu, Amanda." "I know yöur heart." "Yöu're the girl who came every day for a month and every week for a year." "Yöu have a husband." "And yöu have a son that yöu love very much." "Yöu won't give up easy." "These past few days have been so good." "A chance to see yöu and to talk to yöu." "To heal a little." "To love yöu again." "People spend their whole life looking for that and they never find it." "But we did." "We're the lucky ones." "No matter what happens, Amanda, I want yöu to know how grateful I am." "'Cause at the end of it all I get to say I know what it's like to have loved someone." "Truly love someone because I've loved yöu." "(CRYING) I have to go back." "And I don't know how I'm gonna say goodbye to yöu." "I'll always be here." "And I'll always love yöu." "I'm gonna trust in the stars." "(SOBBING)" "Hello?" "Hey." "I'm home." " Yöu just get back?" " I did." "How was it?" "Nice..." "Sad." "How's yöur mom?" "She missed us at Easter." " It's a busy time of year." " I said." " I got to, uh..." " I'll get dinner started." "Wow." " Cheers." " (CELL PHONE RINGING)" "Sorry." "Hello, Chas." "(LAUGHING)" "Uh..huh." "Right, pal." "No." "Brooksie already told me yöu shot eight over par, so... (WHISPERS) Eat." "...yöu're busted." "What the hell are yöu doing out there, man?" "I saw yöu hacking away like it was a... (LAUGHING)" "Oh, yeah, OK, no." "Blame it on the partner, that's good." "Is that what yöu said about me last week, yöu son of a bitch?" "(CRYING)" "TUCK:" "Dawson, over the years I've come to know Amanda pretty well." "She's got a lot of good inside her." "A lot of pain, too about the past, about yöu." "I got yöu together here because I don't want either of yöu living with regret." "Yöu two were meant to love each other." "Yöu needed a chance to remember that." "I'm not saying yöu're gonna be together." "I don't know that." "And if it doesn't work out, yöu'll miss her so much yöu'll barely be able to move." "Yöu'll feel yöu have no purpose no reason to go on." "But there's nothing to do but wait." "Wait and it'll get clear to yöu." "Yöu'll get on with yöur life and gifts will come into it." "I was lost when Clara died." "Then one day this kid walks into my garage." "I want yöu to know the gift yöu were to me." "I thank yöu for it." "I knew yöu were back." "I saw the flowers on Bobby's grave." "(SIGHS) I haven't had a chance to do that in a while, April." "We've been getting the money." "Yöu don't have to send that." "Yöu don't owe us anything." "How'd yöu know it was me?" "(LAUGHS) Who else would it be?" "Who else would send cash through the mail?" "I figured if I wrote yöu a check with my name on it, yöu wouldn't cash it." "We told him to get out of the truck." "We both did." "It wasn't yöur fault." "It's just something that lives in my head, yöu know?" "I play it over and over." "Look at me." "Look at me!" "Dawson, yöu didn't kill him." "They killed him." "And now it's Aaron." "What do yöu mean?" "Ted and Abee started coming around when he was about 14." "They took him out." "Eased him in." "Yöu know, girls and cars and booze and..." "DAWSON:" "So he's been hanging around out there?" "APRIL:" "All the time." "He didn't get in any real trouble until yöur father took him under his wing." "And how he's running errands for them and making deliveries." "He's a good kid." "He's not like them." "(CRYING) He's like his dad." "He just doesn't know it." "AARON:" "What are yöu doing here?" "Aaron." "I want yöu to come with me." " Why the hell would I do that?" " (DOOR OPENS)" "Dawson." "They told me yöu were here." "What a surprise." "It's not even my birthday." "What line of bullshit is he feeding yöu, son?" "He lives here now, with family." "This is no family." "It never was." "Well, not to yöu, maybe." "But yöu never figured that blood counted for much, did yöu?" "I'll tell yöu what I do know." "There was never an ounce of love in this house." "Oh..." "love." "Yöu're a weak piece of shit, Dawson." "Yöu know that?" "Yöu always were, yöu always will be." " I'm weak?" " Mm." "Yöu were my father and yöu treated me like an animal." "I tried to make a man out of yöu." "But yöu didn't appreciate a goddamn thing I gave yöu." "And what did yöu give me?" "These?" "Yöu are weak." "And yöu're not worth it." "And I'm not gonna let yöu ruin another person's life like yöu tried to ruin mine." "I'm taking the boy, if he'll go." "And there's nothing yöu can do to stop me, because yöu're just a scared old man who doesn't want to go back to prison." "Don't get in my way." "It's all right." "Amanda!" "Yes?" "I didn't know yöu were there." "Did yöu see my golf glove?" " Can I talk to yöu?" " Nothing is where I left it." " Jesus, Frank." " What?" "What do yöu want to talk about?" "Us." "Come on, Amanda, I'm 20 minutes late for my tee time with Hal." "I can't do marriage counseling." " I've lied to yöu, Frank." " About what?" "For a long time I have lied." "But I want to tell yöu the truth." "OK." "I saw someone this weekend." "Someone I fell in love with a long time ago." "What, yöu mean, the guy, the kid..." " Dawson." " Cole?" " Yes." " Yeah?" "I'm still in love with him." "(SCOFFS)" "I didn't know I was going to see him." "I didn't expect to." "But I'm glad I did because it made me realize how completely lost" " I have been." " Yöu sound a little crazy." "I don't expect yöu to understand." "When I lost him, I lost who I was." " Right." " I lied to yöu, Frank." "I have lied to yöu and I have lied to myself." "And I've tried to make it work." "We both have." "But I can't do it anymore." "So what?" "Yöu want me to stop drinking?" "Is that what yöu want?" "What I want is to stop sleepwalking through my life." "Then stop!" "I mean, just listen to yöurself." "Get over it." "No." "Look, this is my life, too." "Yöu don't just get to choose." "Yes, I do." "And I am done pretending." "(DRY CHUCKLE) OK." "Good." " What are yöu doing?" " Does it matter?" "(PHONE BUZZING)" "Hi, it's me, it's Amanda." "I was hoping maybe we could talk." "A lot of things have changed since I last saw yöu." "And well, I just..." "I want to say I love yöu." "I do, Dawson." "And I always have." "All right, call me if yöu have a moment." "(CELL PHONE RINGING)" "Hello?" "Yes, this is his mother." "Frank, it's the fourth time I've called." "Jared's at Delta West." "I need yöu to come as soon as yöu get this." "Mrs. Reynolds?" " How's my son?" " Post-op." "We went in, had a look around." "He's stable for now." " All right, what happened?" " His car hit a tree," " he was thrown from the vehicle." " Oh, my God." "The blunt trauma from the accident has resulted in serious damage to his heart." " What does that mean?" " Amanda!" " Sorry." "I was..." " Wait, Frank." "What's happened?" " Frank, just listen!" " What's going on?" "Where's my son?" "It means one of the valves of his heart is torn." "It's my determination that we can't repair it." "AMANDA:" "What does that mean, exactly?" "DOCTOR:" "He needs a transplant and very soon." "AMANDA:" "Doctor, I have lost one child already." "I cannot lose another." "DOCTOR:" "I understand." "( ♫ Eric Paslay:" ""Rain From Heaven")" "(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)" "(TRAIN HORN BLARING)" "(EXHALES)" "(BELLS CLANGING)" "(PHONE CHIMING)" "Hi, it's me, it's Amanda." "I was hoping maybe we could talk." "A lot of things have changed since I last saw yöu." "I wanted to say I love yöu." "I do, Dawson." "(ENGINE REVVING)" "Come on!" "(GRUNTS)" " (YELLS)" " Abee!" "Abee!" "(SCREAMING)" "Ted!" "Oh, hell!" "Where is he?" "What's going on?" "What happened?" "They're prepping him for surgery." "They found a heart." "He's got a chance now." "Amanda." "Dawson." "What are yöu doing here?" "(DOORBELL RINGING)" "Mom." "I overslept." "I gotta get back to the hospital." "Jared's all right, sweetheart." "I just spoke with Frank." "All right." "Let me get dressed." "Yöu'll come with me, right?" "Jared will want to see yöu." "Amanda." "Yeah, Ted and Abee." "Both down." "All right, thanks, sheriff." "No, I can bring 'em down." "That's all right." "I got nothing but time." "I can bring 'em to yöu." "That sounds good." " TED:" "Dawson Cole!" " Yöu got it." " (GUNSHOT) - (BULLET STRIKES)" "(SHOT ECHOING)" "I'm so sorry." "(HEART BEATING)" "(SOBBING)" "Oh, God!" "I commend the soul of Dawson Cole to God." "Amen." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Children's Legal Defense Fund." "Yes, of course, hold please." " Hi, doll." "Yöur ex called." " Thanks, Jamie." " MAN:" "Hey." "So what'd yöu figure out?" " Hey." "Well, after weighing everything that we discussed, it is my recommendation that we go all the way back to 1959." "We can look at the UN's declarations of the rights of the child and we can structure our argument from there." "Good." "Thank God for paralegals." "But if we do that, we have to make sure that we" " keep in mind the 1976..." " (CELL PHONE VIBRATING)" "Sorry, it's my son." "Well, we are the Children's Defense Fund." "(CHUCKLES)" " Hi, Jared." " Hey, Mom." " Everything OK?" " Uh, yeah." "Why wouldn't it be?" "Well, this is yöur third phone call in two days." "That's a record for yöu." "Very funny." "No, I'm actually calling because there's something that I wanted yöu to know." "Yöu remember how Dr. Charbonneau told me that if I waited a year" "I could file a request to find out who donated my heart?" "Yeah." "Did yöu decide to go ahead with it?" "Well, actually, I did go ahead with it." "Oh." "And I got the information yesterday." "So, here, give me one second." "Yeah, it says he was 39 years old when he died." "Get this, he was actually from St. Olivia, so I thought that maybe yöu knew him." "Dawson Cole." "Mom, yöu there?" "Yeah." "I'm here." "So, did yöu know him?" "Yes." "I knew Dawson." "Great, so when I'm home for Spring Break maybe yöu can tell me a bit about him." " I would love that." " Oh, hey, Mom, I gotta go." "I'm meeting this girl for lunch." "She's in my English class." " OK." " I'm totally loving it here." "All right, I love yöu, Mom." "Bye." "Everything all right?" "Yes." "It is." "Good." "So, like I was saying, if we start in 1959, we can..." "DAWSON:" "Dear Amanda, when I was yöung, I looked for a shape to things." "A reason or a design." "So much of what happened to me, though, felt like an accident." "So I guess I lost faith in all that." "When I survived my fall, I began to wonder if there wasn't some purpose to my life." "Maybe I was on a destined path, even if I couldn't see it yet." "When I saw yöu again, I believe we'd been given a second chance." "That the universe had decided to give us that." "Yöu have commitments, I understand, and yöu want to keep them." "I can only love yöu more for that." "I hope to see yöu again someday, but if I don't... (AMANDA GASPS) ...just know that these last days have been the best of my life." "I love who I am when I'm with yöu, Amanda." "Yöu are my dearest friend, my deepest love." "(GASPS)" "Yöu are the very best of me." "(LAUGHING)" "Forever, Dawson." ""Hope You've Liked  Enjoyed The Movie"" "Copyright from ecOtOne™" "( ♫ Lady Antebellum:" ""I Did With Yöu")" "♫ I remember thinking 'bout forever ♪" "♫ Sitting there with yöu by the river ♪" "♫ We danced in the headlights ♪" "♫ And fell for the first time ♪" "♫ I remember telling yöu I loved yöu ♪" "♫ The Northern star rising above yöu ♪" "♫ And in that moment ♪" "♫ I thought every dream would come true ♪" "♫ Oh, but some just never do ♪" "♫ Love comes in circles ♪" "♫ And love takes its own time ♪" "♫ Bending and breaking ♪" "♫ Not taking a straight line ♪" "♫ I never knew another love timeless and true ♪" "♫ Oh, but I did, yeah I did with yöu ♪" "♫ Oh, I did I did with yöu ♪" "♫ Through the years I just kept on believing ♪" "♫ Had to be a plan or a reason ♪" "♫ But Heaven was silent ♪" "♫ And life just kept moving along ♪" "♫ 'Til my heart knew the moment was gone ♪" "♫ Love comes in circles ♪" "♫ And love takes its own time ♪" "♫ Bending and breaking ♪" "♫ Not taking a straight line ♪" "♫ I never knew another love timeless and true ♪" "♫ Oh, but I did yeah, I did with yöu ♪" "♫ Love is the reason why ♪" "♫ Miracles never die ♪" "♫ They just live on and on ♪" " ♫ Like a song ♪ - ♫ Like a song ♪" "♫ In the hearts of the ones yöu leave behind ♪" "♫ Ooh, yeah ♪" "♫ Love comes in circles ♪" "♫ And love takes its own time ♪" "♫ Bending and breaking ♪" "♫ Not taking a straight line ♪" "♫ I never knew another love timeless and true ♪" "♫ Oh, but I did yeah, I did with yöu ♪" "♫ Oh, I did yeah, I did with yöu ♪" "( ♫ Phoebe Hoffman:" ""Crossroads")" "♫ I just don't know what to do when yöu cry ♪" "♫ On my shoulder ♪" "♫ I could make a joke ♪" "♫ On that's about how we're getting older ♪" "♫ Yeah ♪" "♫ Or I could hold yöu close ♪" "♫ And say everything will be all right ♪" "♫ Or I could give yöu a little time ♪" "♫ And just say good night ♪" "♫ Say good night ♪" "♫ I'm a crossroad ♪" "♫ I feel yöu down low ♪" "♫ But I just don't know ♪" "♫ Should I stay or go ♪" "♫ I'm at a crossroad ♪" "♫ I know yöu want me ♪" "♫ But I just can't see ♪" "♫ Maybe I'm crazy, baby ♪" "♫ I just don't know what to do ♪" "♫ When yöu say yöu're gonna leave me ♪" "♫ My heart says, "Run" ♪" "♫ But my head says ♪" "♫ "Heart, don't deceive me" ♪" "♫ I'm at a crossroad ♪" "♫ I feel yöu down low ♪" "♫ But I just don't know ♪" "♫ Should I stay or go ♪" "♫ I'm at a crossroad ♪" "♫ I know yöu want me ♪" "♫ But I just can't see ♪" "♫ Maybe I'm crazy, baby ♪" "♫ I'm at a fork in the road ♪" "♫ Don't know which way to go ♪" "♫ Both roads sound good to me ♪" "♫ This decision is bittersweet ♪" "♫ I just don't know what to do when yöu say ♪" "♫ That yöu need me ♪" "♫ I know ♪" "♫ So all I know is that I ♪" "♫ Can't let yöu bleed me dry ♪" "♫ I'm at a crossroad ♪" "♫ I feel yöu down low ♪" "♫ But I just don't know ♪" "♫ Should I stay or go ♪" "♫ I'm at a crossroad ♪" "♫ I know yöu want me ♪" "♫ But I just can't see ♪" "♫ Maybe I'm crazy ♪" "♫ I'm at a fork in the road ♪" "Copyright from ecOtOne™"