The Long Shot2004

Annie Garrett:
I know why you want Taylor in Denver. But why me?

Bonnie McCloud:
[frowns] That's a silly question.

Annie Garrett:
I don't think so.

Bonnie McCloud:
What's gotten into you?

Annie Garrett:
Just answer the question.

Bonnie McCloud:
Oh for goodness sake's, Annie, stop being melodramatic.

Annie Garrett:
Oh, I have p*ssy-footed around this for too many years, let's just get it out in the open right now, okay?

Bonnie McCloud:
I don't know what you're talking about!

Annie Garrett:
Katie's ghost. She permeates that house you call home.

Bonnie McCloud:
Why? Because I hang a few pictures of her on the walls?

Annie Garrett:
Pictures are great, but you've turned them into shrines, along with her whole bedroom!

Bonnie McCloud:
The memory of Katie lives in that room and will as long as I'm alive.

Annie Garrett:
You can cite how many ribbons she won and when she won them.

Bonnie McCloud:
Of course I can. I was there.

Annie Garrett:
How many have I won? Huh? I know you've always blamed me for Katie's death.

Bonnie McCloud:
That's a terrible thing to say.

Annie Garrett:
It's true. If I had picked up the ice-cream that night, she would still be alive.

Bonnie McCloud:
I don't blame you for that.

Annie Garrett:
Don't insult me by lying to my face. "She wasn't supposed to be driving, she was supposed to be home". That's what you said to me that night, Mother, and I heard it loud and clear.

Bonnie McCloud:
I had just lost a daughter!

Annie Garrett:
What, and I didn't lose anything?

Bonnie McCloud:
Losing a sister is not the same.

Annie Garrett:
Wrong! I lost more than Katie. That night, my mother died too. You emotionally died with her. I am trying to put away the guilt and move on with my life. Go home Mother, bury Katie, and get on with your own life. Taylor and I will be just fine.