Beauty and the Beast · Season 2
Please, Laura, remember we're all your friends, and you know our rules as well as anyone. If you to continue as part of us then you must-at the very least-abide by the moral principles according to which we live.
[signs] What principles? Love? Trust? Those are just words. What good will they do me in the world Above? Yes, I love. I trust. But I also hate. I also distrust. There are other, more complex feelings I need to help me survive.
You are always free to return here. We will always welcome you.
[signs] I have another family now...We live as we must. The only way we can. We live as all of you do. We have made the same choices, to live outside of society. The only difference that I see is that you have chosen to live down here.We have chosen to live bound by our deafness...Down here you taught me that I was no different, that I was the same as everyone. Now you call me handicapped?! It makes no difference. It is the same everywhere. I carry a shield with me now to protect me. You can vote if you want. I reject your vote! I reject your judgement!
[to Jerry] Secrets can get pretty heavy.
[writing in his journal] It is late. Yet, I cannot sleep. I am thinking of Laura. Cold up there tonight. I can feel it. The chill down through the layers of pipes there to protect us, insulate us. What is happening to her? Can there be anything so painful as watching a child that you love falter in the world? Refuse your help? At what point do you draw quietly away from their lives? At what point do you say, "I am no longer responsible." We taught Laura to depend on herself, to think her own thoughts. Do we now tell her to disregard those lessons, to doubt herself, to change? She is a woman now, no longer a child. What is happening to her up there?
[signing to Laura] Don't be ashamed. Hate and rage are powerful forces in all of us. Don't punish yourself for feeling them. They're part of us we understand the least, and yet they are the part of us we should try to understand the most.
You have a lot to be proud of, Vincent, all that you have given to Laura and taught her.
I never realized until now just how much she's given me...and how much I miss her.
She has been through a lot.
The world has tested her.
And yet she chooses to remain Above.
She is in love.
That she could forgive Jerry...that took courage. That's the rarest kind of love.
To surrender yourself completely to your heart, to trust in it fully, to believe in it without doubting.
To let it guide your life. Somehow, Laura's found the way.
Yes.
Will it make her life any simpler, do you think?
No, not simpler.
But she'll be happier.
Perhaps.
Trust me, Vincent. She will be happier.
Michael, you are a part of us. You always will be, wherever you go. There are times when you must go. When the greatest possibilities, in good faith, cannot be denied. The world Above has so much to offer you; gifts of the imagination, learning. You have the mind and the heart to cherish these gifts. You are on the brink of a wondrous adventure. But every adventure, must begin in farewell.
Some adventures don't end happily.
All you can do is proceed, with the faith that they will.
I want to do this for you.
No, Michael, you must do this for you. This is your journey.
Perhaps, I have done him a disservice.
By encouraging him to embrace his future?
I assumed that is what he wanted.
Vincent, he has come this far because of his desire, and because you believed in him.
I always believed Michael would want this opportunity.
You dreamed he could have what you couldn't have. And it is a little frightening when our dreams begin to come true.
Yes.
Then Michael must come back to face that world, to face those disappointments, to make his peace.
Don't worry, Vincent. Michael comes Above with a great advantage over almost everyone else up here. He has your faith in him.
How do I thank you?
You already have. Go now. The world awaits!
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