[Nash and Tess have arrived at the winery and Tess is less than impressed
with the run-down cottage they are going to be living in]
Nash: The owner died about six months ago.
Tess: No kidding.
Nash: Yeah, and his son's not into the wine business at all, so it
hasn't been taken care of in about six months. That's why the price
is so low.
Tess: Not low enough.
Nash: Oh, come on. Tess, use your imagination. I mean,
look, these vines are bearing fruit, the cottage.... (trailing off
lamely) Well, it shows potential.
[Tess has been freaked out by something in the cottage and Nash runs in
to see what's the matter]
Tess: Bugs!
Nash: A bug?
Tess: Did I say "a bug"? It was an army of bugs, okay?
I turned on the light and there were these really big, red bugs with
these antlers everywhere.
Nash: Antlers? They're called water bugs, okay, and I think
the term you're looking for is antennae.
[Nash tells Tess that if she doesn't want to stay with him, she can leave
if she likes]
Tess: You made all of those promises to me, you dragged me all the
way across the country to this God-forsaken place to tell me, what, if I
don't like it, I'm on my own?
Nash: (with a mocking tone) Hey, you're the "free spirit."
I can't tie you down.
Nash: Obviously this isn't your idea of paradise, so --
Tess: Oh, don't tell me that it's yours.
Nash: We just view this place a little differently, all right? The
hole in the roof. (gesturing towards it) I see a skylight.
I see the two of us laying in the bed looking at the stars. This
fireplace. (gesturing towards the fireplace) I see it cleaned
out, the two of us sitting in front of it toasting each other with a glass
of Brennan Winery Cask Reserve 2006.
Tess: If I stay here with you and work hard on the place and plant
roots here, then I -- I'll be like Jessica.
Nash: Oh, your twin sister?
Tess: Yeah, and she was so -- nothing. Never mind. But
people loved her anyway, and, I mean, nobody's ever loved me and --
Nash: I can't believe that.
Tess: Well, guess what.
Nash: What?
Tess: I did something.
[Tess shows him the sign that she's made -- "Brennan Winery" is written
in red lipstick]
Nash: (laughing)
Tess: And you'd better like it because I ruined a perfectly good tube
of lipstick to make it.
Nash: I love it. And I've loved you since the day you stole
my car.
Tess: You said I only ever see what's right in front of me. And
you're wrong. When I look at you, I see my future.
[Tess and Nash toast one another with grapes they've plucked off a nearby
vine]
Nash: To the future.
Tess: To our future.
[Nash and Tess get into a heated argument after he catches her trying
to flirt/manipulate the wine bar's former owner, Gene Pavano]
Tess: That guy walked in here with blood in his eyes, threatening
to kick us out. I don't know the ins and outs of your deal. I
don't know if you were being taken or not, so sue me for doing what I had
to do to loosen him up a little.
Nash: You were coming on to him.
Tess: Oh, grow up. I was flirting. Am I -- am I a bad
little girl? Should I be tossed in a dirty, smelly jail cell? Oh,
wait, look at where I am! I am in a dirty, smelly jail cell,
and you're my keeper!
Nash: Your keeper? You know, the last time I checked,
you were begging me to take you to California just as fast as your
legs could get us here. You're running from your past, from your old
life, and God knows who else, so don't try rewriting history to make this
out to be me manipulating you into some situation that you didn't know about
coming in!
Tess: Okay, you're right, fine, I did want to come to California.
But if it wasn't for me, Nash, you'd still be stuck in that tiny, little
apartment in New York, shutting your eyes, pretending to see the stars, making
wishes to pictures taped up on the wall. I was defending you
to that guy!
Nash: Defending me to that --
Tess: Yes.
Nash: Five more minutes, and you would've been hanging from the
nonexistent chandeliers with that guy! You said it yourself, okay?
You used to fall into bed with guys all the time. It's how you
got by. Then I come in that door, into our house -- our new house --
to see you cozying up to the one guy who can make or break this deal for
me -- for us. And for what? So that you can prove one
more time that no man can resist you?
Tess: Well, why would Gene Pavano be any different than any other
man I've ever met? Including you?
Nash: Oh. Oh, come on, you're better than that.
Tess: You told me this was going to be an adventure, that we'd start
over and never look back.
Nash: And I meant it. But if we're going to do this, we got
to do this together, 100%.
Tess: I'm here, aren't I?
Nash: That's not enough. If you're going to have faith in me,
you got to have faith in yourself. And I'm beginning to wonder if that
is ever going to happen.
Tess: Maybe it's not worth your time finding out.
Nash: (to Tess) You still don't think you're worth it?
After everything we've been through, I don't show you how much I care
about you every single day?
[Tess accuses Nash of implying that she's a slut]
Nash: I didn't. I told you to stop using sex to solve your problems.
I mean, that's why you left your old life, isn't it? Hey, come
on, whatever happened to feeling different around me, about opening up your
heart? Isn't that why we're here in the first place?
Tess: I don't know how to love anybody, damn it, okay? Not you,
not anyone!
Nash: Well, try! Just -- (at a loss for words, he presses
his forehead to hers and suddenly they start to kiss)
Tess: I am trying.
Nash: Well, just get some rest, lay down.
Tess: I would rather run naked through the grapevines with you.
Nash: Oh, yeah?
Tess: Yeah.
Nash: Oh, hold that thought. I am getting an image, a vision
of our first label.
Tess: Yeah. I'll show you how to crush the
grapes.
Nash: Hmm, count me in. Let's not share that little fetish of
ours with the health board, huh?
Tess: I know what I need. (she kisses him, then pulls away)
Oh -- sorry. You're going to catch it.
Nash: Oh, I already got it. It is incurable. (he kisses
her again)
[Nash returns from picking up medicine for Tess at the store]
Nash: All right, I got you not one, not two, but three cold medicines
and a magazine that will -- (he looks at the magazine cover) -- answer
all your questions about the Olsen twins. Tess? Tess?
Tess?
[But Tess is no-where to be found]
Nash: Very nice, Tess. Very nice.
[Nash finds Tess at Vinobar]
Nash: Trust you to find the one bar in 25 miles.
Tess: Good thing it's in walking distance.
[Tess is surprised that Nash isn't totally pissed at her for leaving the
cottage...she watches him sip the wine he's ordered]
Tess: Are you just going to sit there and say nothing?
Nash: You can actually taste the chocolate in this one.
(handing the glass to her) Try it.
Tess: You might get the flu.
Nash: I'll take my chances.
Tess: What's with you?
Nash: It's like I told you. I love ya. Try the wine.
Tess: So I guess my favorite part about being me is the cute way that
I have after, you know, taking off on you and you tracking me down at some
bar filled with men, of being able to completely go off on you as if
you did something wrong.
Nash: It's interesting how you can apologize without ever actually
using the words "I'm sorry."
Tess: You're so good at letting things go.
Nash: Hmm.
Tess: Or maybe you don't care enough.
Nash: I have a very inscrutable face.
Tess: Do you practice that in the mirror, or were you just born that
way?
Nash: A little bit of both. It comes in handy when your girl
keeps walking out on you for no apparent reason whatsoever.
Nash: It's just a little hard to compete with a mysterious past that
you know nothing about.
Tess: No, it's not. Trust me.
Nash: Oh, "trust me," she says.
[Nash and Tess are at Vinobar scoping out the bar's patrons]
Nash: See that guy in the corner?
Tess: The one with the ugly tie?
Nash: Yeah. He is flush with cash and loves to invest in
vineyards.
Tess: (correcting herself) I love that tie.
Nash: Hmm. I'm going to go say hi. You stay here and be
gorgeous.
Tess: As if I could be anything else.
Nash: Oh. As if.
[Nash is going over different types of barrels for the winery]
Tess: (looking at one of the pictures) Well, this is
the ugliest woman I have ever seen. She looks like a barrel.
Nash: Fancy that! It is a barrel.
Tess: I love you in this shirt.
Nash: Oh, you are just full of love today.
Tess: Today?
Nash: Uh-huh.
Tess: This week, this month. I used to hate love.
Nash: Hmm.
Tess: Makes you weak.
Nash: Yeah. That's why I never made any time for it until I
met you.
Nash: (to Tess) I want you to know, to believe that I
will do anything and everything I can to make you feel safe and to make you
feel loved. All right?
[Post-lovemaking...]
Tess: That's a hell of a way to beat a cold.
Nash: Yeah, we could bottle that.
[Back at Vinobar]
Nash: (seeing one of the other bar patrons) Ooh, it's
that investor I was talking to.
Tess: Ugly-tie guy?
Nash: Yeah, but I love the color of his money.
[Nash tracks down Harry, the PI who has hired by Antonio to follow
Tess]
Harry: Who the hell do you think you are?
Nash: Well, I think that I'm the guy who's in love with the girl in
that picture. Now, I want to know why you're looking for her, who sent
you, and most of all, Harry, how much is it going to cost me to make you
go away?
[Harry threatens to take word of Tess/Jessica's whereabouts to Antonio,
which pisses Nash off]
Nash: You son of a bitch!
Harry: Oh, now, that's really going to help a lot, yeah, yeah. Now,
I'm real anxious to give you answers.
Nash: Oh, hell. I don't want answers. I just want this
to stop!
Nash: (about Tess) Stay the hell away from her.
Harry: I don't get paid to stay away.
Nash: You can't make someone go back to something they don't want
anymore.
[Nash, after threatening the PI to stay away from Tess, tries to reassure
her without l etting her know that he's aware Antonio's after her]
Nash: I won't let anyone get between us, okay?
Tess: Why would they?
Nash: I'm just saying, you know? I mean, we came here from New
York to start over, and that's what we're going to do. All right? We
don't have to keep running, Tess. We didn't do anything wrong. Okay?
Just trust me. I'm not going to let anything happen to you or
to us. Okay, a couple of weeks. You know, we harvest the crop,
we can take off. We can do whatever you want. We'll go gliding
the Big Sur. We'll run naked down on Rodeo Drive or whatever twists
your rope that's not boring.
[Jessica takes control back from Tess...just in time to be confronted
by a towel-clad Nash -- who, of course, still believes she's Tess]
Jessica: What are you looking at?
Nash: You. I'm looking at you. Who are you?
Jessica: Who am I? I -- I'm --
Nash: You're like two totally separate people. I mean, you're
so sure of yourself, but afraid of shadows, and you're a worldly woman who
hasn't been around. It's confusing. I never know who I'm going
to be with, so who is it, Tess? Who am I -- who am I with today?
Jessica: (at a loss for words) Uh --
Nash: Oh, it doesn't matter. I can see the sky in those eyes.
I love you. I love all of you. All right? And I meant
what I said earlier, okay? I'm not going to let anything happen to
you. All right? Whatever happened in the past, it's -- it's the
past, all right? It can't touch us. All right? There's
nobody else, Tess. It's just us. Okay?
[Nash decides to tell Tess that he knows the truth about her]
Tess: Is something wrong?
Nash: I know.
Tess: You know what?
Nash: Jessica Buchanan is not your twin sister. You are
Jessica Buchanan.
[Tess, after running away from Nash after he told her he knew she was
Jessica, returns to the cottage, much to Nash's surprise]
Nash: I didn't think I'd see you again.
Tess: Neither did I.
Nash: So why'd you come back?
Tess: I'm tired.
Nash: A place to sleep.
Tess: No. I'm tired of running. I'm tired of hiding.
The easy way out hasn't -- it's not easy anymore.
Nash: So this is the new easy way?
Tess: No, it's not.
Tess: You don't know me, Nash. I am a liar.
Nash: You told me that you loved me. Was that a lie?
Tess: That wasn't even a teensy exaggeration.
Tess: Jessica is a part of my past. She's who I was. She's
how people knew me.
Nash: The past is hard to wipe away.
Tess: Maybe impossible.
Nash: What can I do to help?
Tess: Well, you can help me get rid of her, okay? I don't want
her anywhere near me, anywhere near us. You can help me -- you can
help me kill her.
Nash: Must have been pretty ugly to have to use the word "kill" when
you're talking about your past.
Tess: (talking about her past) It doesn't matter,
anyway.
Nash: No, it does if I'm going to help you stop your past from catching
up to you.
Tess: You'd do that for me?
Nash: I'd do anything for you. I love you.
Tess: I love you, too, so much.
Nash: (to Tess) Promise me something. If I ask
you something about your past, you can tell me to go to hell or you can tell
me you don't want to answer that, but don't lie to me. All right? I
will do whatever I can to keep Antonio away from you. I promise you
that, okay?
Nash: What do you say we toast to our anniversary?
Tess: You actually remember the date that we met?
Nash: Well, actually, I found the receipt to the restaurant that day
in my wallet, but I have very fond memories of that day.
Tess: Right.
Nash: Yeah.
Tess: It was hate at first sight.
Nash: Yeah, I hated you. You, on the other hand, were so smitten
with me that you had to steal my car to get my attention.
Tess: Oh, please. You were checking me out. You
were drooling so much, I'm surprised you didn't drive over your -- tongue.
Nash: Yeah, well, you didn't play fair, did you? I mean, come
on, the most gorgeous, spoonable you accosting me in a parking lot? Come
on.
Tess: Well, if I was so gorgeous and spoonable, why didn't you take
me to lunch?
Nash: Fear.
Tess: Oh, were you afraid of me?
Nash: You know you're scary. Come on, what would've happened
if I'd said yes, huh?
Tess: We would've gone to lunch?
Nash: Exactly, and then we would've started talking, I would've charmed
you, you would've kissed me --
Tess: Oh, oh, oh, hold on a second. You would've kissed
me.
Nash: Oh, even worse. Can you imagine? You never would've
let me live it down. You know, I was perfectly, happily living my fantasy,
swinging bachelor lifestyle.
Tess: Oh, that's just it, I guess -- fantasies don't really exist.
Nash: Minor detail. And the thought of me committing myself
to just one woman?
Tess: Oh, horrible.
Nash: Oh, come on. Imagine me moving 3,000 miles to a winery
-- I mean, albeit with an astonishingly beautiful, mysterious woman.
Tess: Ridiculous. Totally not your style.
Nash: (proposing a toast) To narrow escapes.
Nash: So I will fire up the barbecue pit and we will dine alfresco.
Tess: Ooh, you want to eat naked?
Nash: Well, I mean, technically, "alfresco" means "in the fresh" or
"outdoors," but -- hmm.
Tess: I knew that. I meant after dinner -- if you're lucky.
[Nash is outside when he sees a meteor shower]
Nash: Tess, come here! Oh, my God, you got to see this! Hurry
up, come on, it's a meteor shower! It'll only last a couple of seconds!
Look, look, look, look!
Tess: (looking up at the sky) Oh, wow, it's beautiful.
Nash: I know, right? We could make a million wishes.
[Nash and Tess sit down to dinner after watching the meteor
shower]
Nash: What was your wish?
Tess: Just that everything could stay how it is -- just you and me.
No problems, no complications.
Nash: No mistakes from our past come a-knocking on our door, huh?
Tess: Yeah, definitely not that.
Nash: You know, winemaking has its share of complications. A
drought, wipe out your entire crop. Same thing with rain, too much
sun, frost.
Tess: Or finding out that the vineyard is built on a sacred burial
ground. Okay, I hear you.
Nash: The important thing is that a complication only becomes a problem
if you let it.
Tess: Well, how do we stop that from happening?
Nash: We face it, together.
Tess: Like you and me against the world?
Nash: Something like that, yeah. You know, Tess, I really do
think that we can face anything as long as we face it together.
Nash: What do you got to tell me? Come on, you've got to know
you can tell me anything.
Tess: Just that I love you more than anything and I would do anything
for you.
Nash: You, too.
Tess: Well, you'd better go get the bottle, wino.
[Nash kisses Tess and then smiles at her]
Nash: Beautiful.
[Nash has found the pregnancy test box]
Nash: I figured out why you wouldn't drink that wine last night.
Tess: I told you --
Nash: Yeah, I know, your stomach's upset, but that's not why.
(holding up the pregnancy test box) This is. You're
pregnant.
Tess: (about the pregnancy test) Where'd you find that?
Nash: In the garbage.
Tess: Since when do you go rooting through the trash?
Nash: Come on, it doesn't matter. Just -- are you pregnant?
Tess: I thought that I was. I was late, and that's why I didn't
have any wine last night. I took the test, and, negative.
[Tess is lying -- the test came out positive -- but Nash doesn't know
this]
Nash: Hey, maybe -- maybe -- I mean, maybe you should do another
test.
Tess: Nash, I'm not pregnant, definitely not pregnant, okay? I
don't need to do another test to be sure. A relief, huh?
Nash: (definitely bummed out) Uh -- I guess.
Tess: You guess?
Nash: Well, I mean, we're -- you know, we're doing really great.
You know? But kids -- I mean, that's something that should be
talked about. It shouldn't be an accident.
Tess: (correcting him) No, it would be a train
wreck.
Nash: No -- now, yeah, maybe. But someday, you know --
Tess: Someday?
Nash: When I look into my future, I see you there. How about
you? Do you see me there?
Nash: I think we're the real thing. I think we could do it.
I want a family, so, what do you think?
Tess: Nash, I don't know. I mean, I want to spend tomorrow with
you and the next day and the next week and the next 10 years, of course,
but I -- I'm not much of a family person, at least not my family, and, I
don't know, when you start talking about kids, I -- I think --
Nash: Hey, someone's got to stomp the grapes, you know.
Tess: How many kids do you want to have?
Nash: Ah, 10, 12, baker's dozen.
Tess: Oh. Now you're really scaring me.
Nash: I don't want to scare you. (sizing up the serious
expression on her face) Ooh, I am scaring you. Look, I know
what I want for my life, besides a vineyard. I want a vineyard, I want
a wife, I want a real family of my own. You're part of that now. You
know? I mean, I want a future with you. At least I'm thinking
about it. I guess I'd like to know if you want one with me.
Tess: Could you imagine me pregnant?
Nash: (putting his hands around her stomach) Mm-hmm.
Tess: I mean, you know, out to here. (she gestures as if
her stomach was huge)
Nash: (smiling) Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Tess: No, really, Nash, there would be no more fun, no more freedom,
no parties, and you'd have to be ready for that.
Nash: But you're not.
Tess: Yet, no.
Nash: "Yet"? All right, well, you know, as long as there's a
someday, a possibility, I'll take that.
Tess: If I was ever to have a baby, it would be with you.
Tess: Some woman at the grocery store -- she cut me off in line, and
then she took the last wheel of brie.
Nash: Wheel of brie? Since when do you do groceries?
Tess: You domesticated me. What can I say?
[Note: this exchange is funny because the actress who plays Tess is named
Bree Williamson!]
[Tess is hesitating over whether she should have the abortion without
telling Nash she's pregnant]
Nash: What's wrong, Tess?
Tess: You like our life, right?
Nash: What do you mean?
Tess: I mean, the way that we live here together, free.
Nash: Yeah, sure I do.
Tess: But you like our life the way it is right now.
Nash: As -- as opposed to what? Is this -- is it because of
our little "kids" talk?
Tess: No, it's not, I swear. I just -- it's really important
and I need an answer.
Nash: I -- I love our life here. I love my life with you.
It's like we have our own little private world. It's perfect.
[Nash meets with the guy who will be designing the label for the winery's
bottles]
Nash: Well, I've wanted to own a winery my whole life, but if it wasn't
for this person I met, I would still be in New York dreaming about it, not
doing it.
Label Designer: Your muse.
Nash: Exactly. Yes, my muse. I'd like to make the label
a tribute to my muse.
Nash: (describing Tess to the label designer) If she
doesn't like you, she'll tell you to go to hell. She's the kind of
girl who will throw a mink coat on over a bikini and head on out -- and it
might not even be her mink coat.
[Nash is trying to come up with a better name for the winery]
Nash: I don't know about the whole Brennan Winery thing. I mean,
nobody goes to Ireland for the wine, you know?
Label Designer: French names work well, even in California.
Nash: French names, mon dieu -- I haven't spoken French since
high school. Esprit libre -- oh -- esprit libre, "free spirit." Free
Spirit Winery! That's it -- Free Spirit Winery.
[Nash calls Tess and warns her that Antonio is looking for her]
Nash: Look, nothing's going to happen, all right? I'll handle
this guy, I'll make him leave you alone.
Tess: I hope you can.
Nash: Of course I can. I love you, you remember?
Nash: (thinking about the winery label) "Esprit libre."
That's my Tess, all right.
[Nash shows up at the family planning clinic, where he overhears the nurse
and the doctor discussing a "procedure" Tess didn't go through with]
Nash: What procedure? What didn't she go through with?
Dr. Wallinsky: Mr. Brennan, I'm sorry, we can't divulge information
about a patient without her consent.
Nash: But you don't really have to, do you?
[Nash has a flashback to a few days ago when Tess told him she couldn't
drink -- he realizes what this means, and he suddenly smiles in
disbelief]
Nash: Oh, my God, Tess is pregnant.
[Tess is missing again and a frantic Nash gets a call from someone at
a bar who saw Antonio take Jessica away]
Nash: What do you mean, she was carried out of there? Was she
hurt? Who took her? A 5'10" Latino? Did he say where he
was taking her? Home? No, no, that's fine. I know exactly
where that is. Thank you. (hanging up the phone and speaking
aloud, with determination) Tess, I'm coming to get you. I'm
bringing you home. I'm bringing you and our baby home.