Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990): Season 2, Episode 10 - A Gentle Rain - full transcript

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.

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.

Vincent?

In here.

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.

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.

No, not yet.

Kanin.

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!

Oh, it's beautiful.

Dance with me, Livvy.

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.

Set it down
here, Mouse.

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.

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.

- 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...

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

Why can't we go with you?

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.

So how did you find him?

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.

"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.

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."