Bo Learns the Truth

April 8, 2003

Max: You look like hell.

Gabrielle: Yeah, I've been better.

Max: Hmm. Hmm. Outside.

[Classical music plays]

Nora: Ok, what's going on with Dorian?

Bo: With that woman, you never know. Laurence is bad enough. Now, you add her to the mix? Ugh.

*~*

Gabrielle: Max, Bo has the right to know that he has a son.

Max: With Nora?

Gabrielle: Well, it shouldn't make any difference, should it?

Max: Well, you seem to think it will. Otherwise, you would have shown Bo the letter that Sam sent him.

Gabrielle: Instead of burning it, I know.

Max: Ooh, oh. That was final.

Gabrielle: But I had discovered that Sam had sent a duplicate copy of all that information to Nora, and I got a hold of it.

Max: And why didn't you burn it?

Gabrielle: That was the plan until I ran into Matthew.

Max: Uh-huh.

Gabrielle: Max, that's when I realized that little boy needs to know that he still has a father.

Max: So, you're going to give that to Bo?

*~*

Marcie: You want a cherry on top of that sundae, Matthew?

Matthew: How'd you know my name?

Marcie: I'm Marcie. I'm your sister Jen's best friend. Well, we used to be really close, but we met at her wedding. Well, almost-wedding, remember?

Matthew: My daddy took me.

Marcie: I know. I feel really bad about your dad.

Matthew: Mom says he's up in heaven.

Marcie: That's where all the good people go.

Matthew: I know. But I wish I still had a daddy here.

Nora: Fabulous party, don't you think?

Bo: Oh. Something tells me we haven't seen the worst of it yet.

Nora: Oh.

Max: If Bo were to look over here, he'd see you with your ex.

Gabrielle: If he were to look.

Max: But, see, that's the point. He doesn't seem to mind. Maybe you shouldn't, either.

Gabrielle: Max, they have a son.

Max: So do we. We're not going to be running into each other's arms.

Gabrielle: Perish the thought. You are the one who told me to hold on to love no matter at what cost it was.

Max: When did you ever start listening to anything I have to say?

Gabrielle: I do listen. And you're right. But if I tell Bo the truth, then --

max: Oh, come on, will you please give the guy a little credit? He's crazy about you, ok?

Gabrielle: I know about this one, max. Don't ask me how I know. I just have a feeling.

Max: Oh. Well, then you got a decision, all right? You can either burn the damn thing and then lie to him, or you put it all on the line, risk what you got to find out if you really got it.

*~*

Bo: What is your client trying to pull with this whole wedding thing, huh?

Evangeline: I advise my client on legal matters, not matrimonial.

Nora: But the fact that he married the aunt of the chief witness against him -- that has nothing to do with it?

Mitch: This is hardly the time to be discussing the charges against me.

Bo: Oh, Mitch, any time is a good time for me.

Gabrielle: Excuse me, Bo.

Bo: Hey.

Gabrielle: Hi.

Bo: Honey, what are you doing here? I didn't even --

Gabrielle: We need to leave.

Bo: I didn't even see -- ok. Well, I'm right in the middle of something.

Gabrielle: I need to see you.

Bo: Well, ok, if it's that important.

Gabrielle: Yeah, it can't wait.

Bo: Ok, I'll check with you later.

Nora: Oh, wait, wait, wait -- Bo, actually, before you go -- I'm sorry, there's just something -- Matthew asked me to give you this, and I completely forgot. It's a drawing of the two of you at the soccer game.

Bo: Oh, that's great. That's great. Thank you.

Nora: Come here.

*~*

Asa: I am out of this freak show. Excuse me.

Renee: Hold on, cowboy. I'm with you.

Nora: It's just Asa.

*~*

Gabrielle: This is hard for me to -- it's hard for me to tell you this because it's going to -- it's going to change things for us.

Bo: Oh, god. I think I know what this is about.

Gabrielle: You do?

Bo: Last week, you went to the doctor.

Gabrielle: No, Bo. No, it's not that. I'm fine. Really, I'm fine. Routine checkup.

Bo: That's great. All right, there's nothing that you can't tell me, then, ok? Because nothing can hurt us.

Gabrielle: God, I hope you're right.

Bo: Yeah.

Gabrielle: I hope that you understand why I did what I did, and that you won't be too angry at me.

Bo: For what?

Gabrielle: Last week, a letter came for you. I opened it. I read it. I burned it.

Bo: Well, what was in it?

Gabrielle: You should look for yourself. This is a duplicate package that was sent to Nora from Sam. There's information in there that you both need to know.

*~*

Nora: So -- oh! Napkin. What did -- what did you do today while I was at work, huh?

Matthew: That nice lady with the funny voice came over.

Nora: What -- what nice lady with the funny voice?

Matthew: You know -- Al's mom.

Nora: Gabrielle? What did she want?

Matthew: She read me a letter from daddy.

Nora: What?

Matthew: Daddy said he'll always love me no matter what.

*~*

Bo: How did you end up with a letter that Sam had written to Nora?

Gabrielle: I went to Nora's house and I stole it.

Bo: Oh -- you what?

Gabrielle: I'm not proud of that or anything else that I've done. It's just that I love you so much. And you have given me a life. You have given me a life I never could have dreamed of. And I don't want to lose that. And I don't want to lose you. But I'm prepared to risk it all because you've -- you've got to know the truth.

Bo: About what?

Gabrielle: Little Matthew Rappaport is your son -- yours and Nora's.