Mick St. John quotes from Moonlight

Mick

Where were you coming from?

The Empress Pavillion, I love their pork buns.

Mick

But we don't eat.

I know, but I sure used to love those buns.

Mick

Anyway, last night, after your pork bun, what did you eat, and by what I mean who?

Mick

And wait in the car means?

Beth

Yeah, cause that worked out so well last time.

Mick

Hey.

Beth

Mick. Do you wanna come in?

Mick

No. I mean... uhm... You wanna know how I became a vampire?

Beth

Yes.

Mick

Okay. I told you I was married. Well, she was a vampire. I didn't know. And on our wedding night she turned me. I went to bed a very happily married man, I woke up a monster.

Beth

You're not a monster.

Mick

Believe me, I was.

Beth

You must find it hard to trust anyone now.

Mick

You asked me if I trusted you. You're the first human that I've told any of this, too. About who I am and what I am. So yeah, I trust you.

Beth

How long can you stay outside? How much is too much?

Mick

Any is too much.

Beth

You're a delicate flower Mick St. John.

We have to get you to a hospital. This is not just regular dehydration. Something is seriously wrong.

Mick

[delirious] No hospitals. Just keep trying to get a signal. Call the number I gave you. Ask for Beth. Just talk to her. Only Beth.

Who is she?

Mick

I trust her.

Hey, is she your girlfriend?

Mick

No! It's... complicated.

Beth

Mick. Mick. MICK. Stay with me. Stay with me! Mick. You burning up.

Mick

I better.. I die before I feed on her.

Beth

Mick, Leni is in the other room. She's fine.

Mick

I guess... I guess I'm a delicate flower.

Beth

I guess you are.

Mick

Take Leni back. Get her out of here. He's coming.

Beth

I'm not leaving.

Mick

You have to protect her now.

Beth

You're dying. [She's dropping the coat and bares her neck.] I don't know how to do this. But I know you need it, so...

Mick

No! Get out! Get out!

Beth

You need blood!

Mick

No, not yours!

Beth

Look...

Mick

Not like this!

Beth

...I want to do this.

Mick

[Voiceover] What would you do when the one thing you need to save your life is the one thing that would make life unbearable? [Both look to each other]

Beth

I know you won't kill me and I know you won't try to turn me either. I've got this vampire friend who has been explaining this stuff.

Mick

[Takes her forearm] At some point you're gonna have to stop me. [Sinks his teeth into her arm]

Josef

So, what's her name...

Mick

You know her name.

Josef

Yeah, so how's that going after.. happy hour?

Mick

Fine.

Josef

Well, knowing you, that means you're avoiding her. You're a romantic in the abstract, my friend, but the reality of fang on flesh...

Mick

Look, you said you could help me find the missing girl.

Josef

Did I?

Mick

Yes, you did.

Mick

Josef, Ryder, meet Beth Turner.

Josef

Beth Turner, Buzzwire. Such a beautiful woman on the internet.

Beth

Thank you... I guess. So, are you going to tell me what I'm doing here?

Mick said you had a great voice.

Mick

Ryder, here, has a got a list of all of the incoming calls from the dead escort's website in the last 24 hours of her life. One of them is probably the killer.

Beth

So you want me to call the numbers?

Josef

Eh. Quick study.

Beth

What should I say? I've never spoken to a serial killer before.

Josef

Well, be polite. Please, thank you.

Mick

Just do....

Whatever escorts do... [holding out an earpiece]

Mick

[narrating] Maybe it's the sum of a million coincidences we don't quite control that brings us to a particular place at a particular time. [he drops his keys, they roll under his car. He bends down to get them.]

Beth

[can't see Mick, walks beside his car]

Mick

[narrating] Or maybe it's the choices we make, the actions we take. If there's one thing I've learned in 85 years, it's that what we want doesn't always matter. [He stands with his keys, coming face to face with Beth. They both gasp]

Beth

You just took off.

Mick

Well, you were kinda tied up with your editor.

Beth

You could at least have said goodbye.

Mick

Good- [Beth stands on her toes to kiss him] bye.

Mick

[They kiss again] [narrating] What we want, doesn't always matter... but then again, sometimes it's the only thing that does.

Beth

so, why did you take Coraline's blood?

Mick

Answers. I think it might be the key to the cure.

Beth

You really hate being a vampire, don't you?

Mick

Hate is a strong word, so ye s, that works.

Beth

It can't be all that bad to live forever. You will see things when I'm gone, when everyone is gone that.....we can't even imagine now.

Mick

Like what?

Beth

Cars that can fly, diet soda that doesn't suck.

Mick

Yeah, but it is not so fun when you experience things alone.

Beth

So, take a vampire wife then.

Beth

Tried that one, it didn't work out so well.

Beth

You can save him.

Mick

No. I can't do that.

Beth

Yes, you can. Turn him. He'll live.

Mick

That's not living, Beth.

Beth

Save him, please, for me......PLEASE

Mick

He is human, Beth, okay? This is what happens.

Beth

Please, could you just leave?

Mick

Just give me a minute. I know that you are angry that I didn't turn Josh but I didn't kill him. Beth, his job killed him. You can't blame me for him being gone. Turning someone into a vampire isn't saving a life, it is taking one...

Beth

..because it's such a curse. I know. You tell me all the time.

Mick

You don't know, Beth. How could you know?

Beth

If you hate what you are so much, then why you go on living?

Mick

[thinking] You want me to.

Mick

I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure. I did a lot of bad things after I was turned, Beth. Things that you can never imagine. Things I carry tremendous amounts of guilt about. I wanna make up for them.

Beth

I just can't stop thinking about him. If you had done it, he'd still be here. What if it were me lying there instead of Josh, seconds before death, would you have saved me?

Mick

I would have done the same thing.

Mick

[narrating] She asked me something I have asked myself over and over again. The truth is; I don't know what I would do. What I do know is that by the end of the day not a lot separates life and death. Only one thing; eternity.

Mick

Beth. [She looks at him and walks away] Beth, hey come on, Beth. This is ridiculous. I did everything possible to save him.

Beth

You did everything humanly possible.

Mick

I live everyday regretting what I am. I am not about to subject Josh or anyone else to that fate.

Beth

I'm trying really hard to understand, okay? [She walks away]

Mick

Beth, I'll see you, okay? [she looks at him and nods]

Mick

You once told me you are giving me the greatest gift by turning me.

That was a long time ago, Mick.

Mick

Yeah, but what happened? Why is this sudden interest in becoming mortal?

I wanted to feel life again. And maybe....love can't exist without mortality.

Beth

Oh my god, what happened to your face?

Mick

It's a long story, that ended in a big fight. Coraline is gone. It's not meant to be. Never was.

Beth

Yeah, I.....I kinda know how that feels. Wait a second.....Are you human?

For now....yeah.

Beth

How does it feel?

Mick

The pain, the sun, the mortality. It feels amazing.