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Monday, August 19, 2002

Today's Avanya story begins with Lucinda and Henry on the deck of Slade's boat, desperately trying to bail out the water.  "You might as well use a teacup," despairs Henry as Lucinda continues to cheer, "Keep bailing, keep bailing!"  "Why don't you call the Coast Guard," suggests Henry.  "Call Aquaman, call somebody!"  Lucinda goes inside the boat where Simon is at the wheel trying to steer around the storm.  Joe and Rose are sitting below deck, and Rose promises him that they'll be OK.

Up on deck, Simon and Lucinda appear to be enjoying the excitement of the storm.  Suddenly the lights go out, and Simon says they must be taking on too much water.  He asks what Henry is doing.  Henry is out on deck getting drenched by a huge wave.  "Why can't anything ever be easy for me?" he cries.  As he dumps a bucket of water overboard a hand grabs him and Donovan pulls himself on deck.  He threatens Henry with a knife and demands the diamond and provenance.  Henry claims it was washed overboard.  Donovan doesn't believe him and threatens to kill him for lying, then search his pockets.  Henry hits Donovan over the head with his bucket and rushes inside, locking the door behind him.  "He's here, he's here!" he cries excitedly.  "Henry, relax.  Who's here?" asks Simon.  Henry doesn't need to answer because Donovan's face appears at the window, banging on the door.

Simon tells Paul to take the wheel while he goes outside to take care of Donovan.  "Don't die," begs Henry.  "If he kills you and then comes in here he'll slay all of us like some horror movie!"  Simon tries to reassure Henry, telling him to kill the first Simon he sees.  "What?" asks Henry.  Simon tells him to remember what he's wearing.

The two Simons face off on deck.  They struggle, and both go overboard when a wave crashes over the deck.  Paul runs out onto the deck, calling for Simon.  He pulls him in, but Henry points out that they can't be sure it's the real Simon.  His shirt has come off in the water and he's just wearing a tank top like Donovan was.  Lucinda grabs him and kisses him, then delightedly announces that it's the real Simon!  "Cheers, mate," he says.  Rose points out the moon; the sky is clearing.  Henry kisses Simon on the cheek in happiness, and Rose runs to get Joe, telling them that now they're going to survive.

Henry is getting sick at the railing, and Simon pats him on the back saying, "About done, Henry?"  "I'm really good in a pinch.  It's afterwards that I toss my cookies, I'm polite that way," responds Henry.  "Grab a bucket, sunshine," orders Simon.  They need to bail out the boat and dry off the generator so they can get the power back.  "Hallelujah," cries Henry.

Lucinda tells Simon that he did a good job, and not to worry about Katie.  "God protects lunatics and drunkards."  Henry approaches and puts his arm around them, saying, "Comrades in arms, who would've thought that we would've made it through this whole thing without killing each other."  Lucinda tells Henry that he should count himself lucky.  Henry says he does, and that "I'm a modest man, but I do think I deserve some kind of compensation for all of this.  I'm not talking a lot of zeros."  Lucinda laughs and tells him he can start tomorrow.  "You've got your zeros.  But I'm going to wring the blood, sweat, and tears from you to make it worth my while."  Henry looks as if he's not sure he knows what he's gotten himself into.

Today’s episode was directed by Chris Goutman and written by Royal Miller.

Transcripts from ATWTweekly

[ Off the Coast of Avanya ]
>> Henry: Oh, you might as well use a teacup!
>> Lucinda: Keep bailing! Keep bailing! Pump, kid, pump! Both arms!
>>: Why don't you call the coast guard? Call aquaman, call somebody! Open the door!
>> Paul: Looks like the storm's heading northeast.
>> Simon: All right. Then we head west!
>> Paul: All right, well, turn. Turn this thing! Turn it!
>> Simon: I'm fighting the current! It's all right.
>> Lucinda: Are we gonna have a good chance to get where we wanna go?
>> Simon: If I can just turn this baby around without flipping her, we'll be all right!
>> Paul: All right. All right. Watch your starboard! Watch your starboard!
>> Rose: Open your eyes! Open your eyes! You okay?! Hey, look, you gotta hang in there. You gotta hang in!
>> Joe: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
>> Rose: Oh, no. That's it. Don't say anything! Just hold -- please, don't say a word. Just save your strength. Can you do that, please? And no more apologies. Don't worry. I'm getting you out of here. I won't let anybody -- anybody -- take you away from me again.
>> Paul: All right, all right. Just stay on this heading, and we should avoid the worst of it.
>> Simon: This storm better not shift, 'cause we're never gonna outrun it.
>> Paul: Joe? How you hanging in there?
>> Joe: Please tell Rose to stop worrying about me.
>> Paul: That's her job, Joe. What do you think we came all the way down here for? Stay strong, baby. I promise I'm gonna get us home, okay?
>> Rose: Hey!
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Lucinda: Never a dull moment with us.
>> Simon: That's just the way we love it.
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Lucinda: Look! That doesn't look good. Come about. Come about.
>> Simon: No, no, no. No, no, no, no. If we get hit broadside, then we'll capsize the boat. We need to go straight, ride this out.
>> Paul: All right, is everybody okay?
>> Rose: Yeah, yeah.
>> Simon: Come on! Is that the best you got!
[ Lucinda laughs ]
[ Electricity crackles ]
>> Simon: Don't do this to me. Don't -- oh, damn!
>> Lucinda: Are they gonna come on again?
>> Simon: All right, the generator shorted out. We're taking on too much water. What's Henry doing? What's he doing?
>> Lucinda: Uh --
[ wave crashes ]
>> Henry: Why can't anything ever be easy for me?!
[ Henry screams when Donovon appears on board ]
>> "Simon": Not a word.

[ Off the Coast of Avanya ]
>> Henry: I can't believe you --
>> "Simon": Shut your mouth.
>> Henry: Okay!
>> "Simon" I want the diamond.
>> Henry: It's -- it's probably washed over, 'cause the waves took it. I don't know. It's the darnedest thing.
>> "Simon": Or I'm gonna kill you now just for lying and then search your pockets.
>> Henry: Help! Help! Help! Help! [ Banging at door ] Help, help!
>> Lucinda: Okay. All right, all right. [ Lucinda lets Henry in ]
>> Henry: Can't anyone hear me screaming out there?!
>> Lucinda: Go on, get out. Go, go on out.
>> Henry: He -- he's here! He's back! He's back!
>> Simon: Who? Who? Henry, relax. Who?
[ Shouting over each other ]
>> Rose: Okay, okay.
[ Talking over each other ]
>> Simon: I've got him, I've got him. Take the wheel. Take the wheel. Lock the door when I leave, okay?
>> Henry: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay? 'Cause if you go out there, and he kills you, and then he comes back in here, and we think that he is you --
>> Simon: Shh!
>> Henry: And it'll be like some horror movie, and he'll slay all of us!
>> Simon: You have to kill the first Simon that walks back in that door.
>> Henry: All right -- what?!
>> Simon: Or just remember what I'm wearing, all right?
[ On the Deck ]
>> "Simon": You just love being the hero, don't you?!
>> Simon: You just ran out of lives.
>> "Simon": What's the matter? You don't like the fact that the plastic surgeon made me better looking than you?
>> Simon: Yeah, well, I hope you have as much luck with your mortician.
[ Waves crashing ]
[ Simon and Donovon struggle on the deck of the boat and both go overboard]
[ Inside the Cabin ]
>> Henry: I can't see them. No, no, no. If they're not dead already, one of them's coming through this door.
>> Rose: Paul, what are you doing?! What are you doing?!
>> Paul: Saving Simon's life if he's still alive.
>> Rose: No!
[ On the Deck ]
>> Paul: Simon! Simon! Simon!
>> Simon: Over here!
>> Paul: Where are you, Simon?!
>> Simon: Down here.
>> Paul: Come on.
>> Henry: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
>> Paul: What, what?
>> Henry: Simon said to remember his clothes.
>> Paul: So?!
>> Henry: So this guy's wearing the same thing! We don't know who's who!

[ Off the Coast of Avanya ]
>> Paul: Of course it's Simon!
>> Lucinda: We don't want the wrong one. We don't want the monster.
[ Lucinda grabs Simon and kisses him ]
>> Lucinda: It's him.
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Rose: Lucinda, how do you know?! How do you know?!
>> Lucinda: Oh, honey, it's him.
>> Simon: Excuse me?
>> Rose: Hey, hey, everybody. Everybody, l straight ahead, I can see the moon.
[ Shouting ]
>> Henry: One for you. One for you.
[ Lucinda laughs ]
>> Rose: Hey, look. I told ya, pop! Told you we were people that could survive this.

[ Off the Coast of Avanya ]
>> Simon: You about done there, Henry?
>> Henry: I'm really good in a pinch. It's just afterwards, I toss my cookies. I'm polite that way.
>> Simon: Yeah? Well, grab a bucket, sunshine. Let's get some of this water out of here. We'll clear the generator out, dry it off, and then we'll have power again.
>> Henry: Hallelujah.
>> Rose: How ya doing, pop? Huh?
>> Joe: Take a look at all those little lights. For a couple of moments there, I didn't know if I'd ever see a sight like that again.
>> Rose: And now you've got the rest of your life to look at all those beautiful stars.
>> Joe: It's all that clear space. You know what it makes me think about?
>> Rose: What's that?
>> Joe: Napoli.
>> Rose: Oh! Yeah, when you were a little boy?
>> Joe: Out there in the countryside, you took a good look up, and there was this curtain -- curtain of stars hanging all the way down to the ground. Sometimes, when I'm sitting on my stoop in jersey and looking up at the sky, I know that my people in Naples are looking at the same things I'm looking at. I miss 'em, Rose.
>> Rose: You'll see 'em again, pop. You will.
>> Paul: Joe, I didn't know you were a stargazer.
>> Joe: Huh?
>> Paul: Isn't that -- yeah, yeah, that's it. Cephus, king of Ethiopia.
>> Rose: Am I -- am I missing something here?
>> You're smooth.
>> Rose: What? I get a little hint? What's going on?
>> Paul: The king's daughter was the most beautiful woman in the world, and Perseus, the hero, saved the King's life, and as a reward, he gave Perseus his daughter.
>> Joe: I'm not a king, but I got a good-looking daughter. And you're a hero in my book, Paul. I'm gonna give her to you on the wedding day.
>> Rose: Hey. You know, I -- I really can't concentrate on much of anything, I mean, especially a wedding, until you're playing bocce ball again every Saturday.
[ Joe coughs ]
>> Joe: I'm not letting you spend any more time on me, especially not in New Jersey.
>> Paul: All right. Then how about Napoli? I mean, I'm gonna have Rose for the rest of my life. I'll let her have some time off to get you back on your feet.
>> Rose: You know what? Stop it, stop it. Stop talking. Just relax. You've been talking too much. You just calm down until we get you to the hospital.
>> Paul: Joe, I wouldn't argue with her if I were you.
>> Rose: Come on.
[ Lucinda sighs ]
>> Lucinda: Well done again. Well done, well done.
>> Simon: Well I won't be happy till we're off this bloody boat.
>> Lucinda: Now, don't you worry about Katie. Katie is just fine. God protects lunatics and drunkards.
>> Henry: Comrades in arms. Hey, who would have thought we would have made it through this whole thing without killing one another?
>> Lucinda: Count yourself lucky.
>> Simon: Yeah, let's not start now.
>> Henry: Hey, I am gonna count my luck. You know, Lucinda
>> Lucinda: Yes?
>> Henry: I'm a modest man, but I do think that I -- I do think that I deserve some kind of compensation for all of this. I'm not talking about a lot of zeroes here, but --
>> Lucinda: Okay. You can start tomorrow.
>> Henry: "Start"?
>> Lucinda: Yeah. Yeah, your new job. You'd get the zeroes. You've got the zeroes, only I'm going to wring the blood, sweat and tears out of you to make it worth my while.
>> Rose: How did you know that I wanted to take my pop to Napoli?
>> Paul: I know you. I look in those eyes, and I see everything.
>> Rose: And I love you for that. But I know we were supposed to get married and everything, and I just don't know if I can think about that right now.
>> Paul: I know. Just let your father get back on his feet, and then we'll take everything from there, okay?
>> Rose: I don't deserve you.
>> Paul: [ looking at the diamond ] I never really saw that up-close. It's beautiful.
>> Rose: Oh, yeah. It's beautiful, all right. It's covered in blood. It's caused more misery than I can even think about.
>> Paul: Well, it's still your birthright.
>> Rose: Yeah, you know, but you know, even a multimillion-dollar rock is not worth it. It's got nothing to do with my family. I've got a great arm. You ever see it?
>> Paul: No.
>> Rose: Oh, yeah. That.
>> Paul: What?
[ Water splashes as Rose throws the diamond into the ocean ]

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