Helen Smith, John Smith and others in “Unfinished Business”

Helen Smith

This, this portal you're talking about I-I mean, what?

John Smith

You've seen it yourself, Helen. You've seen the movies. Well, I've been there. He's alive.

Helen

I have had that fantasy so many times, but it's just that, John, it's a fantasy.

John

No.

Helen

He's not -

John

[sits down and clasps her hands] I've seen him. Helen, I've seen our beautiful boy. He's real. He's real as you and me. I want you to - I want you to have the same thing I had, Helen, I want you to see him yourself.

Helen

[emotional] Well, of course I want that, but -

John

He's not sick, he's healthy, he's strong. He's doing so well. He's - There is a war, and he has enlisted. He is so much like our Thomas.

Helen

Uh, but he's-he's not. He's not our Thomas.

John

I can see what's gonna happen. Helen, he's gonna die all over again unless we do something. We can save him.

Helen

How?

John

We can bring him home.

Helen

[surprised at the idea] You want to bring this boy here? As what, as a-a prisoner?

John

Now, I've struggled with that. I know it's not gonna be easy, but, uh, I don't think we have any choice. I can't lose him again. He's gonna hate us, but he's gonna be alive, and I can live with that.

Helen

Well, I can't, I can't. I can't live with that.

John

When you see him again, you're gonna change your mind.

Helen

No. [stands up]

John

Helen -

Helen

No, No! Thomas is dead. Amy isn't ours anymore. Her mind belongs to the state, and Jennifer, well, Jennifer has rejected us. We had three chances and we wasted them all.

John

That-that's where you're wrong, Helen.

Helen

If there is a better version of me out there somewhere, I want her to have my son, because you and I, we don't deserve to have a child.

John

You're saying you have a chance to see your son again and you're not gonna take it?

Helen

I wouldn't want him to see what we have become.