The Dead Zone s02e11 Episode Script

I had the perfect life until I was in a coma for six years.
And then I woke up and found my fiancée married to another man.
My son doesn't know who I am.
Everything has changed including me.
One touch and I can see things things that happened, things that will happen.
You should see what I see.
John: I made coffee and decaf for Jason.
- What do you think about the - Whoa, what is with the fine china? I don't know.
I wasn't sure what the etiquette was for this kinda thing.
- So I just - Etiquette? Johnny, these are our best friends.
Are you nervous? We'II, it's been about seven years since they've seen me and 15 since we've been best friends.
Just don't tell me this'll be like old times, especially considering Jason's medical condition.
(doorbell rings) Regular mugs.
And let's set up in the living room, okay? Oh.
I'm Erin, Jason's wife.
Yeah, we met at your wedding, but I'm sure it was all a blur.
Please come in.
- Johnny.
- Hi, Kate.
Hi.
I've sort of adopted a general no-hugs policy.
Oh, that's right.
You know what? I knew that.
- And I forgot.
I'm sorry.
- It's okay, don't worry about it.
If I touch you, you see my future.
Or your past.
Oh, well, you don't have to worry about that.
Remember blue hair, junior year? Never got worse than that.
As for my future, nobody knows this yet, but I am planning on switching yoga instructors.
Also I believe I'm going to get screwed on my tax return.
I don't anticipate taking up golf or flying to Thailand or fulfilling any of my New-Year's resolutions Okay, give me that hug right now.
- Was I right? - Well, it doesn't work every time.
Oh, well, buzzkill, after all that.
Here, touch this then, and describe to me Jason's face when he sees it.
Erin: Kate! No.
I don't think it's a good idea to surprise Jason in his condition.
Come on, you know he's going to love it.
(soft rock music playing) (doorbell rings) Still living with your folks, huh? Yeah.
And they left me the key to the liquor cabinet.
Step inside, my man.
- What? - Women: Surprise! Huh? What the hell is this, some kind of joke? Jason, this is for you.
I flew back here to talk to Johnny, not sit in some frickin' healing circle and hold hands.
Johnny: Come on, man.
It's just the five of us, Jake.
What is your deal? What is my deal? I'm dying, Johnny, that's my deal.
I'm dying and everyone's throwing a party.
Wait a minute, I thought you were still in rehabilitation.
What, my sister didn't tell you? It's over.
It got worse so they put me on a waiting list for a transplant.
What? My heart's done, all right? Finished.
I need a new one or So I'm on the list, and they're telling me that I have a high chance of rejection.
So even if they do find a heart in time, it probably won't work with me.
You know, I pulled down $2 million last year.
I'm 37 years old.
Do I look like a guy who's not going to make it through the month? If that's the case, what're you doing here? Shouldn't you be near your hospital in case they call you? Look, I'm tired of waiting! I need to know.
That's why I called you, Johnny, I I need to know.
I can't do that, Jay.
I read that article on you and that kid, the hockey player.
Is it true that you saw his heart was going to stop? Well - Is it true?! - Look, it's not just Do you have any idea how many people write me letters? People in hospitals asking me to touch them to find out how long they have left or if they're going to make it.
Come on, man.
I'm not people in hospitals, Johnny.
I'm your friend.
I can't keep going like this.
- What's that supposed to mean? - It means, all things considered, I'd rather go out surrounded by women and drugs.
I'm sure Erin wouldn't mind the insurance payoff.
Oh, don't think like that, okay? There's still time, Jason.
There's still time.
Can you promise me that? I'm not asking for hope, Johnny.
Just peace.
That's all I want.
And no matter what you tell me, that's what I'm walking away with.
(sighs) (theme music plays) * Oooh * * Fall in love, fall in love, fall in love * * Fall in love * * Feel no shame for what you are * * Feel no shame for what you are * * Feel no shame for what you are * * Fall in love, fall in love * * Fall in love.
* - We got B-fib.
Prep for shock.
- (flat tone) (heart monitor beeping) Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
Get ready to close.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
You are you kidding me? Johnny, do you know what this means? Keg time? Oh yeah, it's keg time, man! - (laughs) - Oh yeah! * See the people walking down the street * * Fall in line just watching all their feet * * They don't know where they want to go * * They're walking in time * * They got the beat, they got the beat * * They got the beat * - How you doing? - This is my music.
It's old, but it's my music.
Thank you.
* All the kids just getting out of school * - (record scratches) - Can I have your attention, please? Some of you here tonight are family.
- Some of you are friends.
- Whoo! Whoo! And some of you are wondering, "Who the hell is that guy?" "Who is that guy?" Well, I am the guy who paid for this damn party.
- All right! - Whoo! He's good! No, he's good.
Good old Cleaves Mills.
All you've got to say is free booze, spread the word, and half the town shows up.
- That's right.
- Free booze! All right, let's do a survey.
How many people here tonight actually attended this fine educational institution? - (cheering) - Oh yeah.
Yes! Me too, class of '84.
'84! On account of being held back in '82.
- (laughter) - He was.
That was the best five years of my life.
- (applause) - True.
That's not why I'm here.
That's not why you're here.
This isn't a reunion, this is a party! (cheering) So enjoy yourselves, 'cause we're all here for the hell of it and I wouldn't want it any other way.
- Yeah! - All right! Whoo! DJ, kick it! ('80s pop music plays) Bill.
Paul.
Yo! I can't believe you rented out the library.
Hey, can you think of another place for me to celebrate my secret good news? Yeah, I just don't know how you got Pelsen to agree to it.
It is better to ask forgiveness than permission.
I like a guy who can't change.
Woman: Oh! * And I ran * * I ran so far away * * I just ran * * I ran all night and day * * I couldn't get away * High school friends rapidly approaching middle age and serious health problems throw a party on the same secret spot where they once swore never to grow old.
I fail to see the irony in that.
Me too.
I wanted to thank you for Jason.
What do you mean? He told me what you saw, Johnny.
He wasn't supposed to say anything to anyone.
He had to tell me.
I'm the reason he came to see you.
I love that song! * I ran all night and day * Would you at least pretend to enjoy yourself? What did you and John Smith talk about in his basement? It's Johnny Smith.
Can I get another one, please? I want to know what's going on? What, is there some rule against having fun? With terminal heart disease, yeah, I think we could find a rule somewhere.
Thank you.
Erin, let me ask you a question let's say I do get a new heart, are we going to resume the divorce talk? 'Cause I'm just wondering, you know, I need an operation and suddenly you're talking about working things out.
You're there for me in the bad times, what if they get good? Huh, are you going to stick around then? Jason since when did you like to spend your good times with me? * Each night I had to try again * I think it's amazing what you can do.
Thank you.
If you have any questions about it, you can ask me.
Well, I was wondering, can you see things about a certain person? I don't read minds, but I usually can see something that just happened or something that's about to happen.
Why, you got something to hide there? Umm actually okay.
I had I had a huge crush on you back in the day.
- What?! - I did.
- No! When? - I did.
- Senior year.
- We never even I know.
I know.
I know we didn't.
But we hung out almost every day, so Oh, please.
You were always into the stinky headbangers with bad attitudes, and I was just another skinny geek.
How could you have a crush on me? How's that possible? (laughs) - It just is.
- Come on, I have a right to know.
I thought you were just a really decent guy.
Oh, decent.
Decent, right.
As in, "Ooh, look at that guy.
He's so decent.
" Come on.
How'd you know I was a decent guy? I could've been another obnoxious bastard.
No, 'cause I saw how you were with Sarah.
Why didn't you say anything? 'Cause I saw how you were with Sarah.
* If I if I if I * * If I were to come along * * Holding up the torch for a newborn dawn * Oh, whoa.
That was a good one.
* Trying not to judge other people's addictions * Okay.
Come on, come on.
* If I want to take a stand * Come here, guys.
I want to get a picture.
Ah, my two favorite people.
Okay, ready? One, two three.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.
Get ready to close.
(beeping) (quick siren) (flat tone) See if we can save the heart.
(siren blares) Okay, oh, no wait.
Oh, let's do it again.
Come on, Johnny, smile this time.
I'll be right back.
* La-la-la-la-la * * A-la-la-la-la-la * * La-la-la-la-la * * La-la-la-la-la.
* My vision followed the heart back to Kate, to an accident sometime in the near future, I just don't know when.
And it looked like she got hit by a drunk driver.
- I just don't know.
- Surely you could find that out if you set yourself to the task.
Yeah, but if I can prevent the accident, then Jason doesn't get a heart.
- He'll die, Gene.
- You don't know that.
You're right, I don't.
But I do know that he's at high risk of organ rejection so receiving Kate's heart makes a sick kind of sense.
Hmmm.
I'm glad you came to me with this.
This is not a dilemma you should have to face on your own.
I didn't come here seeking guidance, Gene.
I need another heart.
I don't plan on choosing which one of my friends to save and which one to let die.
Good, 'cause I don't think that's your choice to make.
Yeah, but I just I can't sit and do nothing.
Your organization has the power to cut through the red tape, get Jason to the top of the list.
Or whatever it takes to find another heart besides Kate's.
Kate: He's gorgeous.
Just face it, you have a gorgeous kid.
(laughter) Yeah, he's a real little lady-killer-in-waiting.
Yeah.
So, what's up? On the phone you said you had something important you want to ask me.
Come on, the suspense is unbearable.
- It's about Johnny.
- Oh.
Last night at the party, we were talking and I felt something between us an attraction.
- Wow, you and Johnny.
- I know.
Believe me, I didn't expect it.
And I didn't plan it or but it's there.
And before I even let myself think about it, I wanted to know how you feel.
Oh, Kate.
Come on, I'm married and I have been for a while.
I mean besides, Johnny is his own person.
It's not like I can decide whether to keep him or give him away.
I know, but I'm asking anyway.
You know what? I can't imagine anyone better for him than you.
It's true.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Sorry I'm late.
Oh, wow, is it that time already? - I gotta run.
- Why? Oh, I gotta get JJ from soccer practice.
Okay.
You don't want any dessert or anything? No, no, that's fine.
You have dessert.
And we're still on for tomorrow night, right? Dinner? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
Okay, well, I will see you guys both then.
- Bye.
- Okay, bye.
- Hey.
- Hi.
So what were you two talking about? - The truth? - Mmm.
You.
I like you, Johnny.
I don't know what this means to you in the context of everything that's going on, but I've always liked you.
And before you say anything I have to say I'm sorry I didn't come to see you after you recovered.
- Oh, that doesn't matter.
- It does matter.
It matters to me.
It's important.
I was wrong.
They told me you had brain damage.
And I was afraid to see you.
And then I read how you were helping the police and that you were having the psychic visions.
I felt maybe that wasn't you anymore.
Maybe the Johnny I knew before was gone.
But I didn't talk to you.
I didn't come to see you.
That was over a year ago.
A lot's changed since then, you know? I just want you to know it wasn't because I didn't care.
I know.
(horn honking) Johnny.
Johnny? What is it? I'm fine.
I just I was just thinking that I need some more time.
You know, to think.
Okay.
Okay, no pressure.
We have all the time in the world to think about thinking.
Look, I told you it was a partial plate.
It was a brown Ford F150.
It's got to be enough to start.
- What is this about, John? - I don't know, the vision wasn't clear.
Come on, I don't buy that for a minute.
Level with me, will ya? Come on, Walt.
If you can just get me a name.
Gene: By his willingness to sacrifice Isaac, Abraham gave definition to faith.
But did her really pass the test that God placed before him? - (knocking) - Or did he in fail damn it! - (door opens) - Start again.
Oh, sorry to interrupt.
Would you give us some privacy, please, for a moment? Thank you.
Any luck yet, Gene? There exists an unofficial network of eyes and ears whose purpose it is to identify and monitor potential donors.
Who? Patients on life support? They have already begun an advanced search based upon the information you gave me.
They have confidence that a match can be found.
(sighs) Thank you.
I'm not sure what you thought before, but the last thing I wanted to do is to play God.
Oh, Johnny, don't you see? You already are.
By finding a heart for Jason, you're depriving someone else.
Someone who, due to our intervention, might not survive long enough to get another chance.
(cell phone ringing) Maybe we can help that person, too.
And the next one? And the one after that? This is Walt, I think.
(ringing) Kate, what is it? You have to come to the hospital quick.
Jason collapsed.
- Johnny? - Kate: Johnny? I'm on my way, Kate.
Call me when you find a match, Gene.
I'm going to need it.
Erin said he was fine at lunch and then when they got back to the hotel he collapsed in the elevator.
Woman: Nurse to room 4D.
Is he all right? Perhaps we should talk in my office.
No, whatever you have to say, you can say in front of them.
I'm Jason's sister.
Well, for the time being Jason's been stabilized.
He's breathing normally and he should be regaining consciousness soon.
What do you mean, "for the time being"? The condition of his heart is deteriorating rapidly.
It's not something that we can reverse.
And we can only keep it going with medication for a short time.
I just got off the phone with Jason's transplant coordinator in New York and we've moved him to status one effective immediately.
How much time, Doctor? A viable organ has to be located in the next 24 hours.
It's the only real option.
I'm sorry.
Oh no.
Sweetie, no, listen, shh.
- No, take a deep breath.
- 24 hours! Kate: It isn't over.
I promise you it isn't over.
Reverend Purdy is in a meeting right now.
May I have him return your call, Mr.
Smith? No, Mary, I'll just call back.
Thanks.
Jason's awake and he's asking for you.
(heart monitor beeping) Ah, there he is, the great seer.
How're you doing, Johnny? That depends on you, man.
How you doing? Can't you tell, or do you need to shake my hand again? Go ahead, because I don't need to know "if" anymore, and I sure as hell don't care about when.
I just want you to tell me why you lied.
What are you talking about? You're married to a chump, Erin.
'Cause I actually believed that my friend wasn't lying about his psychic powers.
I even believed him when he told me that he had a vision that I'd get a heart in time.
A vision? What did you do to him? - He asked me to - No, I I asked for the truth.
I told you the truth, Jason.
No, you told me what I wanted to hear because I was talking about suicide.
What? You know, Johnny, when I told you that I'd rather go out surrounded by women and drugs, I didn't mean nurses and morphine.
Maybe I should just go, man.
You know what you look like, with that coat and your cane? You look like death on three legs.
Shut up, Jason.
Oh, sure, Kate.
I mean you got what you wanted, right? What I wanted? Yeah.
You got to see Johnny again.
That's why you showed me the article he was in, huh? I mean, that wasn't for me.
That was for you.
Just tell me one thing.
Was he worth it? Where are you going? Kate! Kate! Come on, stop.
I can't catch up to you.
Maybe he's right.
No, he's scared out of his mind right now.
He's expressing himself the only way he knows how.
L I did show him that article.
I did pressure him to call you.
Listen, we all make our own decisions, Kate.
I didn't have to do what he asked me to do.
Yes, you did.
He knew that and so did I.
And that's why this is my fault.
I didn't think about any of the consequences of any of this.
I just followed my own stupid heart wherever it wanted to go.
And now look! Now look! Shh.
It's okay.
- Don't shout at me! - Don't lie to me! (honking) Just tell me honestly, did you lie to Jason because you thought it was the right thing? No, I told him exactly what I saw that he would get a heart.
- And you still see that? - Mm-hmm.
I'm going to go back.
He needs me.
- He needs you too, you know.
- Yeah.
I'll be back soon.
I just got to take care of something.
- We'll be here.
- Okay.
No.
No, I can save her, Gene.
I can save Kate.
The vision showed me how.
All I have to do is not get into a fight with her tonight.
Please tell me you got something.
There is a possible match in Philadelphia they just harvested.
It can be flown here in less than two hours.
Oh, that's good.
That's great.
That's exactly what I want to hear.
You have the number of Jason's transplant coordinator? He's already in contact with Dr.
Hitsky.
- Amanda Jane Ramsey.
- Who's that? Just another name I thought you should hear.
Who is she, the donor? No.
She's a 28-year-old teacher, who was diagnosed with severe cardiomyopathy after the birth of her second child.
She's been waiting for a transplant for 16 months the last two months in the hospital.
She's the next name on the list.
I'd do anything to help you, Johnny, you know that.
But I don't think I can do this.
Have you found any other matches? We're still looking for other matches, but for every match there's another name.
Call me if you find another match.
(cell phone rings) - Walt, did you find him? - Patrick Hanchin, drives a brown and tan Ford F150, License number 4886HL.
And he has a record double OUIs last year.
He's what we like to call a swinger, just short of his third strike.
The file said he started the heavy drinking just after he lost his job at some lumber company and then moved in with his mother.
Sounds like a real winner, right? Anyway, it seems like he likes to refresh himself at Avalon's on 3rd.
What's your deal with this guy anyway, John? Manhattan double.
I'll have the same.
Rodney, can I have another one of these pretty ladies? Coming right up.
Why don't you just order three and cut to the chase? Excuse me, have I forgotten you? I don't think so.
Do you have a social problem or some form of Tourette's? No, just making conversation.
This is a bar.
You want conversation, go to a Starbucks.
What about barstool philosophy, huh? I guess I do have a problem, though.
Trying to decide what I should do.
Well, the sex change operations can be a bitch.
I wish it were that easy.
Oh, gee, are you depressed? Is that your problem? Are you a sad and lonely man sitting in a bar? Here.
You want some barstool philosophy, take a look at this glass.
Is it half full or half empty? - What do you think? - What do I think? (laughs) Patrick Hanchin.
Whoa! Whoa, you really are depressed.
Jeez.
Come on, hit me.
- What? - Hit me with your problem.
What are you trying to decide? I can't really talk about it.
You can't? You are dying to talk about it.
Come on now.
Let me help you.
The doctor is in.
- I hope you have insurance.
- Don't listen to him.
How about this? Let's talk about it in abstract terms.
- Abstract terms.
- Utterly abstract, yeah.
Okay.
I have two friends.
One of them's gonna die.
And it's up to me to choose which one.
Is this a custody thing? Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Abstract, right.
You know, this reminds me of when I was in school, we used to do these story riddles in fifth grade.
I was marked as a gifted student.
Robbie! I need a thinking cap.
Okay, okay.
Tell me about my two friends.
What do you want to know? Enough to make a decision who lives, who dies, you know? A decision.
You sure you can? Okay, one of them's married.
One of them's not.
One of them doesn't know she's going to die.
One of them thinks he is.
Go on, go on.
One of them's gentle and sweet and outgoing, and the other one, the married one, has a good heart.
But he needs to seriously turn his life around.
Actually, he doesn't have a good heart.
She has a good heart.
If she keeps it then somebody else in Philadelphia may die.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, you've lost me.
- You've lost me entirely.
- I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you that they both have brown eyes.
Is that enough criteria for you? Wait, you have left out one important component.
Me.
- You? - Yeah.
- You're going to survive.
- Yeah, I know I survive, but how do I feel? Which one do I like better? It's that easy, huh? Just play God and go with what suits you best? First of all, don't bring God into this.
This is about you making your own choices and not letting anyone tell you what to do.
No preacher, cop, mother, father, God no, your answer is right in front of you.
You choose what you want.
(glass slams on bar) You know what? Maybe you're right.
Jesus! (horn honks) (country music plays) - (tires screech) - * She said that I was special * * A man among all men * * Oh, Lord, fooled again * No! No! No! No! - No! - (children scream) (crash, glass breaks) Get off me, man! Hey, get out! Get out of here right now! What the hell are you doing? Goddamn! I was just trying to have a conversation! Psycho! (respirator hissing) (car approaches) No.
- What are you doing here? - Looking for you.
At the hospital you said you were going to come back, and when you didn't, I got a horrible feeling.
(low) Come in.
- Why didn't you call me? - I did.
You must have turned your phone off.
No, I've been using it all da This is how it happens.
(screams) What are you doing? I can't see a way out of it, Kate.
I can't see a way out.
It he isn't going to get a heart in time, is he? Jason.
- He's not going to make it.
- I can't change what's going to happen.
I never asked you to change it.
Things will get worse.
I can't see all the consequences.
I know.
- Don't shout at me! - Don't lie to me! I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I brought you into this.
I just I had a thought (kids scream, crash) a crazy thought that I could save my brother's life.
Gene: Amanda Jane Ramsey.
I don't believe you.
What? I don't believe you, Kate! I think you brought me into this for yourself.
How can you say something like that? 'Cause it's the only thing I'm allowed to say.
- I don't understand that.
- Neither do I.
Now go! - Don't shout at me.
- Then don't lie to me! Lie to you? Maybe I didn't tell you everything I was thinking.
I thought you knew how I felt about you.
I didn't come right out and say it.
But that doesn't mean I lied.
(door closes) (car starts) No! Kate! Kate! No! Kate! Kate! (tires screech) Kate.
Sarah told me you'd be here.
She read to me what you said at the funeral, Johnny, your eulogy.
I knew.
I know.
I realized that after that you must have known from the beginning.
And I can't imagine what that must have been like for you.
I tried to stop it, Jay.
- I tried to save her.
- Johnny, I know.
I know you I talked to Reverend Purdy and he told me that You talked to him? Yeah, don't be mad.
He did the right thing.
He explained to me everything and I needed that.
Because when the doctor told me that it was Kate who I'm telling you, Johnny, I wanted to die.
But then I realized that would be selfish.
And that's when I decided that I need to change.
I have to change.
For Erin and and for Kate.
What about you? - What do you mean? - I mean, I I want to change.
What do you want? I want nothing.
I want nothing.
I don't want her to forgive me.
I just want her to understand.
I just want her to know.
I just want her to know.
Sarah: Okay, ready? One, two, three.
(theme music playing) - No no! - Yes yes! You're grounded.