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Whatever it is, you can tell me. Baby, please! (She continues to look away without responding) JACK (The unknown is taking its toll) (Pause) GINA (Looks forward now. Taking deep breaths and fighting back tears. Dreamlike) A few hours ago… the vehicle I was riding in… was hit by a roadside bomb… Jack, although part of me is here with you now… the rest of me… the rest of my body… the rest of my being… is in Baghdad… I’ve been taken to an army field hospital but there’s nothing they can do… I won’t regain consciousness… I won’t make it. JACK (Unnerved. Confused) I don’t understand. What are you saying? GINA (Looks in his eyes. Solemnly) I died today Jack… Our vehicle was destroyed and so was I (Jack whimpers in shock. He doesn’t understand what’s going on but just hearing these words spoken is horrifying. He grasps her hands again tightly)…At this very moment, two soldiers in full dress uniforms are at our house in Baltimore… They’re breaking the news to your mother…And at any moment she’s going to call you and tell you the news. JACK (Scared) Baby, you’re really scaring me!…(Unsure) I’m dreaming right? 65
66 (He looks into her eyes and realizes she is telling the truth. Horrified, he freezes in terror and looks at her for a beat) JACK (Releases her hands and hugs her. Crying) Gina! Please, tell me this is some kinda nightmare!…(More intense) Dear God, wake me up… tell me this isn’t happening… (The cell phone begins to ring. JACK is startled and freezes) GINA (Solemn and Encouraging) Jack…Honey…you have to answer it. (The cell phone continues to ring) JACK (Holding her tight) No…No, I can’t!…I won’t! (The cell phone stops ringing) JACK (Almost hysterical) As long as I don’t answer it, you’ll be here, right?…I mean, as long as I don’t officially know, than it never happened!…You’re here with me now and that’s all that matters!… Honey, we’re together…on our anniversary…in your family’s cabin…where we spent our honeymoon… Remember?…Two years ago?… (Starting to tear up) …Before all this mess in Iraq… Before you mobilized…(With anger) Before this fucking “surge”…(Happy) Remember how we held each other under the stars… and how we watched the sunrise… and made
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(He looks into her eyes and realizes she is telling the truth.<br />
Horrified, he freezes in terror and looks at her for a beat)<br />
JACK<br />
(Releases her hands and hugs her. Crying)<br />
Gina! Please, tell me this is some kinda nightmare!…(More intense)<br />
Dear God, wake me up… tell me this isn’t happening…<br />
(The cell phone begins to ring. JACK is startled and freezes)<br />
GINA<br />
(Solemn and Encouraging)<br />
Jack…Honey…you have to answer it.<br />
(The cell phone continues to ring)<br />
JACK<br />
(Holding her tight)<br />
No…No, I can’t!…I won’t!<br />
(The cell phone stops ringing)<br />
JACK<br />
(Almost hysterical)<br />
As long as I don’t answer it, you’ll be here, right?…I mean, as long as<br />
I don’t officially know, than it never happened!…You’re here with me<br />
now and that’s all that matters!… Honey, we’re together…on our anniversary…in<br />
your family’s cabin…where we spent our honeymoon…<br />
Remember?…Two years ago?…<br />
(Starting to tear up)<br />
…Before all this mess in Iraq… Before you mobilized…(With anger)<br />
Before this fucking “surge”…(Happy) Remember how we held each<br />
other under the stars… and how we watched the sunrise… and made
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