"Vincent:" "This is where the wealthy and the powerful rule." "It is her world," "A world apart from mine." "Her name..." "Is catherine." "From the moment I saw her, she captured my heart" "With her beauty," "Her warmth and her courage." "I knew then, as I know now," "She would change my life..." "Forever." "Catherine:" "He comes from a secret place, far below the city streets," "Hiding his face from strangers," "Safe from hate and harm." "He brought me there to save my life." "And now, wherever I go, he is with me in spirit." "For we have a bond stronger than friendship or love." "And although we cannot be together," "We will never, ever be apart." "(subway train passing in distance)" "Catherine:" "Vincent?" "In here." "(heavy sigh)" "Oh, vincent." "You like it?" "It's beautiful." "It's perfect." "How could kanin carve solid rock into something like this?" "Because he trained himself." "I don't think he knows what can't be done." "That explains him asking me to get lilacs at this time of year." "When he asked me to light the candles," "I thought he meant four or five." "(laughs gently)" "How much time do we have?" "We should hurry." "Was olivia's first husband this romantic?" "How can I judge?" "I didn't know kanin was this romantic." "In there, too." "You think olivia will like this room?" "Olivia will love this room." "Kanin:" "No, not yet." "Olivia:" "Kanin." "(whispering):" "Vincent, they're here." "Right here." "Okay, now come and stand right over here." "Turn this way." "Okay, are your eyes closed?" "Yes." "Keep them closed now." "Okay, open 'em." "Happy anniversary." "You like it?" "Is it ours?" "There always seemed to be another family" "Whose need for a chamber was greater than his own." "I think olivia had given up." "Hi." "Here he is." "Hey, luke." "Tell mary one of us will be by for him" "First thing tomorrow morning." "You be a good boy." "I love you." "Vincent, catherine, thank you." "Don't worry about luke." "I also have one more present for you." "Kanin!" "(gentle tune playing)" "Oh, it's beautiful." "(melody continues)" "Dance with me, livvy." "¶ ¶" "(music box melody fades into car horns blaring)" "It would be like, uh..." "Try this one." "All right." "Yeah, it feels just about heavy enough," "I think it'll fit." "Well, okay." "It should do it." "(tools clinking onto shelf)" "(grate clanks)" "(grate clanks)" "(workmen conversing indistinctly)" "(water splashing)" "Set it down here, mouse." "(panting heavily)" "Kanin..." "What's the matter?" "Nothing." "Uh, what are you doing here?" "I brought you your lunch." "What's wrong?" "Nothing." "Thanks." "I-I-I have to get back to work." "Are you sure you're all right?" "Yeah." "Thanks for bringing this." "Livvy?" "Your hair." "I like it that way." "Hey." "Just in time." "That was quick." "Get drills?" "No, they were out." "Pick some up next trip." "(clanking)" "(boy screams, tires screech)" "(glass shatters, scream echoes)" "Hello, vincent." "It's late." "Yeah, I know." "Thanks again for your help last night." "Was olivia surprised?" "Yeah." "Must be a world's record for keeping a secret." "How long before the room is ready to move in?" "Uh..." "Well, now that livvy knows, I figure I've got about a week." "At most." "Luke will probably celebrate the occasion by walking for you." "Yeah, he's sure trying." "Catherine:" "What about harris v. Georgia?" "No, that's not the one I want." "Wait, I got it." "What about..." "Wasn't there some case" "Against the albany police department a couple of years ago?" "Yeah, well read it to me." "Radcliffe." "Uh, hang on, charlie." "Sorry." "No." "It's your turn." "No!" "Just some odds and ends." "Joe, I am swamped." "You're breakin' my heart, radcliffe." "Yeah, I'm here." "Why don't you read it to me." "Oh, that's perfect." "I need the opposite decision." "Well, what am I gonna do?" "This case is on the docket for next..." "(wind whistling)" "Catherine!" "Hi, mouse." "Be careful!" "I need to talk to kanin." "We're right in the middle of this." "It's important." "Got this." "You sure?" "Yeah, go ahead." "Okay." "(doors creaking)" "(door bar thuds)" "Kanin," "I got a file on my desk this morning." "The person I'm supposed to find" "Is you." "Do you believe there's a god, catherine?" "Yes." "Do you believe if you pray very hard for something," "God will answer your prayers?" "Not necessarily." "I've been praying that woman didn't recognize me," "Even though I knew she did." "But even then, I've been telling myself" "What difference would it make?" "How could she possibly find me down here?" "It's funny what the mind does." "Not once did I ever think about you." "Have you told anybody else?" "No." "Why did you run, kanin?" "I was 20 years old-- I was scared." "Jail isn't a place you want to be when you're 20." "But every year after that I didn't go back," "It got a little easier." "Finally I just lived with it." "Does anyone know?" "No." "So, what are you going to do?" "(sighs)" "I think the question is what are you going to do, kanin?" "What?" "What is it?" "You're scaring me." "Just tell me." "Catherine..." "Catherine found something out about me." "About my past." "What?" "When I was 20 years old," "A year before I came to the tunnels," "I was in a car accident," "Coming home from a party one night." "A little boy was killed." "I was arrested for driving while intoxicated." "But you don't drink." "I'd had a couple of beers." "I haven't had one since." "The other day, while I was topside The mother of that little boy spotted me." "She's bringing it all up again." "How is she bringing it up again?" "Livvy, I ran." "16 years ago, I jumped bail, and I ran." "There's a warrant for my arrest." "Then..." "What you told us..." "Why you came here..." "It's a lie." "Everything I told you was a lie." "Not everything." "Catherine says I have to go back up." "I can't ask her to lie for me." "No." "No." "Catherine:" "When I was talking to him," "I kept seeing this look in his eyes." "He wouldn't ask it, but he was begging me:" "Can I just let it go?" "How much trouble is he in?" "He killed someone," "He jumped bail," "He hid out for 16 years," "He was spotted, and he ran again." "If there's a mistake he hasn't made, I don't know what it is." "Now he has a wife and a son." "He's begun a new life." "Ten other desks in that office" "Why did this have to land on mine?" "!" "So you could help him." "Yeah, all right, well, check it out" "And get back to me will you?" "Yeah all right, I'll talk to you later." "Cathy!" "Yes?" "Those case files I put on your desk" "One was a dwi?" "Yeah?" "Yeah, well, the mother's here." "What?" "Why?" "She wants to talk to you." "W-what about?" "I don't know." "She's in the conference room." "Oh, well, joe, I haven't done anything with it." "I know, look," "Just go in and see what she wants." "I'll stick my head in a few minutes and rescue you, okay?" "Is there a problem?" "No." "No." "Joe:" "I need a second opinion on a couple of things..." "Mrs. Davis?" "Yes." "I'm catherine chandler." "I'm the deputy district attorney assigned to your case." "Uh, but I'm afraid I just got it" "And I haven't really had a chance" "To do much with it yet." "Have you been able to do anything?" "No, not really." "Well, is there something you'd like me to do?" "No..." "Not really." "Are there any questions you want to ask me?" "Uh, not yet," "But I do have your phone number if I need to call you." "You think you're going to find him?" "We will do everything we can." "And how long will it take?" "A week, two weeks?" "Mrs. Davis, I don't want to make any promises." "I'm sorry I can't believe this has all come back." "(knocking at door)" "Excuse me, cath, but, uh..." "Joe, I'm in the middle of something." "Could it wait?" "Yeah, sure." "I'm very sorry." "I know how uncomfortable this makes people." "Don't apologize." "What will happen to him if you find him?" "Well, he'll be brought up on charges," "And there will probably be a trial." "And how long will that take?" "Maybe a year until it gets into court." "I wish I had never walked into that hardware store." "Mrs. Davis, don't you want to see this man found?" "I want it for joey." "And what about for yourself?" "I just want it over." "16 years ago In less than a minute, the world changed." "I lost joey, and after that I..." "His father left me, he couldn't take me anymore." "And neither did my friends." "And then, three days ago I saw that face in the hardware store." "I don't want to go back to where I was." "I'm gonna lose everything all over again." "Catherine:" "I knew I was withholding information from her" "She needed to know." "Part of me wanted to tell her about kanin," "To promise her that the end is in sight." "I don't know what I'm supposed to be here, vincent." "Am I a friend or a prosecutor?" "How can I be both?" "You follow truth." "The truth is..." "Most of the time I think the people we prosecute" "Deserve to be punished." "But I know kanin." "He's a good man," "And I know what he means to all of us." "Where is the justice in that?" "Perhaps in making it possible for these two people" "To finally release their burden." "To do that, kanin has to come above." "I don't see any other way." "There is none." "Father and I will talk to him." "Kanin:" "If I go up," "If I turn myself in..." "What do I say?" ""I've been a good guy, trust me"?" ""I've been a good guy for the past 16 years."" ""I haven't had one drink in the past 16 years."" "Do you think they're just gonna to take my word for that?" "Don't you think they're going to wonder," "If I am such a good guy," "Where all my friends are," "Why nobody is standing up for me?" "Catherine will be there." "Catherine can't say any more than I can." "Not to the judge, not to that mother..." "They're going to put me on a witness stand" "And swear me to tell the truth, and what do I say?" "I can't tell them where I've been living" "Or what I've done with my life." "Is that fair?" "Is that justice?" "We're all supposed to be a family here." "We're supposed to take care of each other." "How can you just send him away?" "But for the safety of the community," "We cannot harbor a criminal." "He isn't a criminal." "There is a warrant out for his arrest," "And he has admitted the crime." "Technically, he is a criminal." "Technically, he's one of the most decent men" "You've ever met!" "Has catherine explained to you" "That, because this is your only offense," "The sentence may not be as harsh as we thought." "Vincent..." "I live with that night." "A day doesn't go by where I don't think of it." "There isn't one thing I've done" "That isn't in some way trying to make up for it," "To give back." "To give something back." "Because that's my sentence." "I'm already serving life." "I had friends above, a family." "I was going to college," "I had a life." "I read..." "In a paper, eight years ago, that my father died." "It said he was survived by" "His wife, two sons, and a daughter." "Another son was deceased." "That's me." "I'm deceased." "I don't exist anymore." "All the topsiders wanted was one or two years of my life." "I'm the one that said forever." "I'm the one that said this is going to be forever." "And now you're telling me that I have to go back" "And serve their sentence, too?" "Kanin, all we're telling you" "Is that your presence here jeopardizes the whole community." "Then we'll leave." "No." "Yes." "Yes, you know the tunnels," "You know places." "If these people don't want us here, we'll find someplace else." "Livvy, this is your home, this is where you were born." "Vincent:" "Olivia," "No one wants you to find someplace else." "Then don't ask me to say good-bye to someone I love." "And don't ask kanin to try to fix something" "That can't be fixed." "Thank you." "You're welcome, ms." "Chandler." "Radcliffe." "Morning." "Have I gotta talk to you." "What's up?" "I met this woman last night." "Congratulations." "Where'd you meet her?" "I met her at the grocery store." "That's a healthy start." "Radcliffe, this is serious." "This isn't just any woman." "In fact, she isn't like any other woman I've ever met." "So she wasn't wearing spandex?" "Excuse me, did I just say this was serious?" "(laughing):" "I'm sorry." "Now my next move with this woman" "Could affect the rest of my life." "So what's my next move?" "Call her." "You don't think it's too soon?" "No." "Okay, good." "So far, so good." "I did, I called her." "This morning?" "Yes." "What'd she say?" "Ms. Chandler?" "Mrs. Davis." "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt." "Uh, no, that's okay." "Is something wrong?" "I just haven't heard anything." "Um, I'll be up in a minute." "Yeah, sure." "There's a coffee shop next door." "Come on, let's go sit down." "Well, we are working on your case," "I just don't have anything to tell you yet." "Have you been to the hardware store" "And talked to the people who work there?" "No, the police will cover that." "No, they aren't." "I was just there at the police station." "Nobody is working on this case." "Mrs. Davis, has something happened?" "What's happened?" "I want him found." "It's-it's all such a joke, you know?" "16 years ago, my life was going along just fine," "Everything's fine." "Kanin evans comes along and boom." "Last week, my life was wonderful." "Great job." "Great man who loves me." "Kanin evans comes along and my life is falling apart again." "I haven't been to my office in four days." "I don't sleep." "It's just I keep seeing him." "Kanin evans?" "No, my little boy." "Every time I close my eyes, I see him." "Everywhere I look, I see him in that car." "He looks up at me, and he says, "mama, help me."" "But I can't..." "I can't..." "Reach him." "I can't even touch him." "I told him I loved him." "I don't know if he heard me." "The man who did that to my child has never spent one day in jail." "Kanin evans will be prosecuted." "Who are you kidding?" "They're never going to find him." "Nobody's out looking for him." "And then they're gonna start telling me" "That I have to learn to live with it." "Yes, but they can't go and live" "In the tunnels outside the perimeter." "Oh, they can." "They can survive." "It's just not the life any of us would wish for them." "Olivia was just being rash." "She has her own concerns" "About kanin going topside." "Hmm?" "Yes, I suppose she does." "Well, what are we going to do?" "We can't ask catherine to lie." "Why not?" "We may have to, vincent." "Or maybe you can just feed kanin to the wolves." "No one is gonna feed kanin to the wolves." "Not being friend." "But our rules state quite clearly..." "Our rules don't apply here, father." "Or we have to change them." "Or make an exception." "We can't do that." "This particular rule" "Is a fundamental principle to our world." "It speaks to the trust" "We are able to have in each other," "To our very security." "We should wait for kanin's decision." "The decision has been made." "They're going." "Kanin's leaving." "He and olivia are packing." "They're not serious." "Are you forgetting what kanin has meant to us?" "No, I am not forgetting." "Unfortunately, what kanin has done for us is not the point." "What the hell is?" "!" "Father, kanin is no more a criminal than you or I." "It's not going to help anybody for him to turn himself in." "It'll help the mother." "A woman up there is being destroyed by all of this." "'cause of her own vengeance." "That is not true." "People, we're talking about kanin here." "We don't even know this mother." "Does justice belong only to the people we know?" "No." "We're saying the mother has friends topside" "And kanin doesn't." "I am his friend." "Then let him go." "(subway train passes in distance)" "(music box playing gentle melody)" "We're leaving." "Livvy wanted to..." "Something we left here." "Where will you go?" "I don't really know." "There's nothing more to talk about here, vincent." "Don't do this." "Don't do what?" "Don't stay with my family?" "Don't care for them?" "They'll be cared for here, you know that." "No." "You prefer to run from this for the rest of your life?" "I'd walk into hell" "If it meant I wouldn't have to face that woman!" "I would." "I can't face her, vincent." "I don't know how." "With courage." "I don't have that kind of courage." "You do." "No." "If someone took luke, if someone did to luke" "What I did to her son, I'd never forgive them." "I'd tear off my arm" "If I thought it would bring her son back." "I would do anything." "Then face her." "That's what she needs." "If that's the only thing you can do for her," "Then do that." "It won't do any good." "It'd give her somebody to blame" "And then..." "Then it would give her somebody" "To begin to forgive." "She's never going to forgive me." "You've never given her that chance!" "You're afraid there's nothing you can do for this woman." "There is so much you can do for this woman!" "You can change her life." "What do I say to her?" "Livvy:" "Why can't we go with you?" "Kanin:" "Where would you stay?" "I don't care where we'd stay." "We'd be with you." "Livvy, I've already jumped bail once." "You know what that means?" "No." "It means they're going to keep me in jail!" "Now, now you have to stay here." "Come back to me." "I will." "Mrs. Davis:" "So how did you find him?" "Catherine:" "He turned himself in." "Will I be able to say anything to him?" "Yes." "I don't know what to say to him." "Say anything you want." "He'll listen." "So, what's his story?" "Where's he been?" "He has a family-- a wife, a ten-month-old baby." "A boy or a girl?" "A boy." "It was hard for him to leave them." "I'm so nervous." "Can I get you something?" "A glass of water or something?" "No." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I am, too." "(door opens)" "(door closes)" "Vincent:" ""what though the radiance which was once so bright" ""be now forever taken from my sight," ""though nothing can bring back" ""the hour of splendor in the grass," ""of glory in the flower..." ""we will grieve not," ""rather, find strength in what remains behind;" ""in the primal sympathy which, having been, must ever be;" ""in the soothing thoughts that spring out of human suffering;" ""in the faith that looks through death," "In years that bring the philosophic mind..."" "I'm not asleep." "No?" "Mm-mm." "Just in that wonderful place in between." "Where everything shimmers and floats." "Am I floating?" "Yes." "(chuckles)" "A great burden has been lifted." "They both seemed finally freed." "Now maybe the healing can begin." "Rest now." "As long as you keep reading." ""and o, ye fountains, meadows, hills and groves..." ""forebode not any severing of our loves." ""yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might." ""I only have relinquished one delight," ""to live beneath your more habitual sway." ""I love the brooks which down their channels fret," ""even more than when I tripped lightly as they;" ""the innocent brightness of a newborn day is lovely yet;" ""the clouds that gather round the setting sun" ""take a sober colouring from an eye" "That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.""