Episode Eighty-seven:
Jack Cannot Hide a Startling
Discovery from Kayla.

 

SCENE ONE: JACK AND KAYLA ARE BACK FROM ITALY AND JACK IS HELPING KAYLA INSIDE WITH HER BAGS.

 

KAYLA: Jack you really didn't have to walk me in.

JACK: Don't worry about. Sit down and put your feet up.

KAYLA: I'm alright.

JACK: You're not alright. You've been upset all the way back from Italy.

KAYLA: I'm fine now I'm at home.

JACK: Oh really? Prove it to me. Tell me nothing happened between Steve and Marina.

KAYLA: Do you call my husband in bed with his ex-lover, nothing?

JACK: It was nothing. He was sitting on the bed. Both feet on the floor.

KAYLA: With his arms around her.

JACK: Don't do this Kayla. Don't do it. You're throwing it all away without talking to Steve.

KAYLA: I have nothing to say to Steve.

JACK: Just talk to him. Pick up the phone. Maybe he has something to say to you.

KAYLA: Things have changed Jack.

JACK: You're letting him get to you. You're letting Marina get to you.

KAYLA: I don't want to hear this.

JACK: You don't understand do you? You don't know what kind of woman Marina is. She'll try anything to get what she wants.

KAYLA: Including seduce my husband.

JACK: Including making it look like she's seducing your husband. Kayla, for all we know, she figured out that you and I were going there and she staged the whole thing.

KAYLA: Oh come on Jack. You don't believe that anymore than I do.

JACK: Look, if there were really in bed together, why the hell was the door open?

KAYLA: Well what was he doing in her room in the first place?

JACK: I don't know. Ask him! Maybe he's got a perfectly logical answer for that.

KAYLA: He would never tell me the truth.

JACK: Why wouldn't he tell you the truth?

KAYLA: Jack, would you just go home please?

JACK: Sure. I'll just take your luggage upstairs and I'm gone.

SCENE TWO: WHILE JACK IS UPSTAIRS, KAYLA LISTENS TO HER MESSAGES AND THERE IS ONE FROM STEVE TELLING HER WHERE HE IS STAYING AND THAT HE LOVES HER. JACK HEARS THE END OF IT.

 

JACK: People spend their whole lives trying to get what you have. Their whole lives.

 

JACK LEAVES.

SCENE THREE: JACK COMES BACK A SHORT TIME LATER TO SEE HOW SHE IS. SHE IS SITTING ON THE GARDEN SWING OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR.

 

JACK: Kayla.

KAYLA: Jack, what are you doing back here?

JACK: I think you know.

KAYLA: I told you I'd be fine.

JACK: Have you called Steve yet?

KAYLA: I don't want to get into this again, Jack.

JACK: I'll take that as a no.

KAYLA: Why do you care if I did or not?

JACK: It's just important, that's all. It's just important.

KAYLA: Why?

JACK: You know that....er....the little....the little baby that you're carrying, I mean that could be my niece or nephew. And....er....I don't know, I just want it to have a happy home.

KAYLA: I don't think that's possible now.

JACK: DAMMIT! Kayla make it possible! We've got to wake up. I mean what has the last three years of our lives been worth if not for this? I mean all the lying and the hurting and the pain. I hate myself for some of...(Crying)....for some of the things I've done. I always thought that somewhere, there's something out there that's bigger. That's better. Steve and Kayla. Now Steve and Kayla are going to have a baby.

KAYLA: It's supposed to be one of the happiest times of my life.

JACK: It's going to be. It's got to be Kayla. I know that and you know that too.

KAYLA: It's not as simple as you make it sound Jack.

JACK: Steve's not trying to hurt you.

KAYLA: He already has.

JACK: No. He's trying to do everything he can to protect you, to keep from hurting you, so you don't get hurt.

KAYLA: I don't think I'd say everything Jack.

JACK: How do you know? You haven't even called him. What have you got to lose? I mean you're already convinced that he's cheating.

KAYLA: Maybe you're right. Maybe I should hear it from him.

JACK: See, you haven't given up on him yet.

KAYLA: Believe me, I want to find out that you're right Jack. I want this whole thing to be just a giant misunderstanding.

JACK: Then call him and you'll see that I'm right, that it is a misunderstanding. Just call him.

KAYLA: I guess I owe him that.

JACK: You owe it to everybody. You owe it to the baby.

KAYLA: Steve and I have been through a lot. I should fight for him.

JACK: That's right. Fight.

 

KAYLA STANDS UP AND BEGINS TO WALK INSIDE.

 

JACK: Yes, fight.

KAYLA: I better go and make that call.

 

KAYLA GOES IN THE DOOR.

 

JACK: Way to go Kayla. Way to go.

 

JACK WALKS OVER AND SITS ON THE PORCH RAIL. AS HE DOES SO, HE KNOCKS A POT PLANT ONTO THE GROUND.

 

JACK: Oh Jack. Break one thing, fix another, break another.

 

HE BENDS OVER TO PICK UP THE PLANT AND PUT IT BACK IN THE POT AND IN AMONGST THE SOIL HE FINDS A PIECE OF PAPER.

 

JACK: Wait a minute. What's this? Marriage License! Certificate of Marriage of Marina Toscano and Steven Earl Johnson. Oh no! Steve, you stupid....

 

KAYLA COMES BACK OUT THE DOOR.

 

KAYLA: Well I made the call. He wasn't there.

 

JACK TRIES TO HIDE THE MARRIAGE LICENSE AND HURRIEDLY PUTS THE PLANT BACK IN THE POT.

 

JACK: Ah....

KAYLA: Jack, what are you doing?

JACK: Um nothing. I knocked this stupid thing over and I was....sorry, I'll fix it. Don't worry about it.

KAYLA: What's that paper?

JACK: Nothing, really. It's just a piece of paper. Don't worry about it.

KAYLA: Then why are you trying to hide it?

JACK: I said, don't worry about it. It's none of your concern.

KAYLA: Why don't you let me decide, Jack?

JACK: (Very reluctantly) Alright. You do.

KAYLA: Steve and Marina were married? Where did you find this Jack?

JACK: It was out there in the dirt and when I knocked over the flower pot....I found it.

KAYLA: Some misunderstanding.

JACK: Kayla....I....

KAYLA: Jack, could you go?

JACK: Kayla....I....

KAYLA: Could you just go please?

JACK: Sure.