Talking with Addie

May, 15, 2003

Bo: Addie? Hi. It's Bo Buchanan.

Addie: I know who you are. You're always so nice to me.

Bo: How are you doing?

Addie: I'm doing fine. I'm working on a craft project -- a collage.

Bo: Ah, good for you.

Addie: Let me show you.

Bo: No, no, no. You know what? I'm sorry, but really, I'm in a hurry. It's really important that I talk to Lindsay Rappaport.

Addie: Oh, no. Oh, no. I don't think she'll talk to you today.

Bo: Why is that?

Addie: She's having one of her bad days.

Lindsay: I didn't kill Mitch. I didn't do it. I didn't kill him. I didn't kill Mitch. I didn't kill Mitch. Uh-uh. I didn't do it. Didn't do it.

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Bo: Lindsay?

Lindsay: Bo? Did you come to see me?

Bo: Yeah, yeah. How you feeling?

Lindsay: Not so good today.

Bo: No?

Lindsay: No, I feel like i can't wake up. They gave me a sedative yesterday, and I slept and I slept, and I had really bad dreams -- nightmares, you know, all night long.

Bo: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, but you do feel better now, right? I mean, do you feel like answering a few questions?

Lindsay: No, I don't want to -- why do I have to answer more questions?

Bo: No, no, no --

Lindsay: Because Nora was here --

Bo: Take -- take it easy. Because, you know, if you're not up to it --

Lindsay: She was here yesterday, asking me lots of questions, too, and she was accusing me and pointing her finger in my face like that, that witch. I hate that.

Bo: Yeah. Listen, why don't we just talk, then? You and me? You know, I don't have to ask you any questions at all. You can just tell me everything that's been happening, and then you have no reason to get upset.

Lindsay: Well, why shouldn't I get upset? I have every right to be upset. I don't even have to talk because nobody believes me anyway. You know what it's like to want to tell the truth and then somebody laughs in your face, and it's humiliating.

Bo: No, Lindsay, I promise you, I won't laugh at you. And if you tell me the truth, I'm going to believe everything.

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Bo: Lindsay, I swear I'll believe everything you tell me.

Addie: I need something very shiny for my collage.

Bo: Oh.

Addie: Could I borrow your badge?

Bo: My -- Addie, no, I'm sorry, but I can't loan you this badge.

Addie: But just for a little while. Let me show you what I'm doing. It'd be so nice! Oh!

Bo: Ok, well, we'll see how it looks. Excuse me one second.

Bo: It does look good. Ok, excuse me, Addie. Sorry, Lindsay. You were about to tell me something?

Lindsay: Yeah, I really need to tell somebody the truth, I do, but it's kind of -- it's so hard to explain, so you have to promise me that you're going to try to understand.

Bo: I promise.

Lindsay: Ok. I -- I just don't want to admit it, not even to myself, but I know that if I have any hope of getting better that I need to face it, so you promise you're not going to hate me, Bo?

Bo: I promise.

Lindsay: I killed Sam. You know, out of all the things that I've done, that's just got to be the worst. He was really the most kind man I ever knew, and he was a good, caring father, and now Matthew's going to have to grow up without that. Are you going to put me in jail?

Bo: No, Lindsay. The court decided that you'd be better off here so that you could work on getting better.

Lindsay: It's been really hard, you know? I just really -- I didn't realize what I had done, and then when I did realize it, I couldn't face it, so that's why I had to go away and be by myself, and that's why I left here.

Bo: Oh, but where did you go?

Lindsay: I don't know. I don't remember because it's really all kind of fuzzy. But I know I was thinking about Sam because he's a really good man, just like you, Bo.

Bo: And you're sure you don't remember where you went? Maybe it could have been down by the docks?

[Phone rings]

Bo: Sorry. Buchanan.

Evangeline: Evangeline Williamson, commissioner. I'm calling to remind you the reading of Mitch Lawrence's will begins in half an hour.

Bo: Yes, thank you. I'll be there. Bye-bye. I'm sorry, Lindsay. I have to go. But we'll -- we'll talk again soon.

Lindsay: Oh, I would like that.

Bo: Ok.

*~*