The Affair
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One day you will regret choosing him over me.
Athena
Athena: You're having an affair with that man.
Alison: What?! No I'm not.
Athena: Oh please, Alison, I'm an energy reader and I'm very familiar with lust energy. It's obvious. You just had sex.
Alison: What?! That's insane.
Athena: Oh fine. You don't have to admit it to me, but I just want you to know I totally approve. You deserve some joy. There's been so much pain. This is the first time I've seen your life force since we lost Gabriel. You think I"m not with you, but I am. Energetically, I am with you all the time and I know that the pain was unbearable so you shut down your heart. Well, now it's open. You are allowing a vital flow of energy to flow through you to connect with someone else in a real way. That's what life is, sweetie, It's not about some oppressive set of rules from about 2,000 years ago about good wife/daughter/mother-ness.
Det. Jeffries: So Oscar had a relationship with the victim?
Alison: Yeah. They were friends.
Det. Jeffries: And Scotty stopped by that day because...
Alison: I honestly don't know, Detective. You asked if I remembered them being together, and that's what I remember.
Det. Jeffries: Do you remember being worried at the time?
Alison: No. But I should have been.
I love that dress on you.
Cole
Alison: Can I ask you something?
Noah: Anything.
Alison: What do you see now, when you look at me?
Noah: What do you think I see?
Alison: Death.
Noah: No.
Alison: What do you see then? You don't want this.
Noah: Alison, I'm a grown man. I know what I want.
Cole has this tattoo on his back of the angel Gabriel and it's the first thing I see every fucking morning and I want to die.
Alison
Alison: I had a son.
Noah: Had?
Alison: He drowned.
But let me make one thing very clear, there's nothing about you that seems easy and whatever darkness you think you're hiding, well it's written all over your fuckin' face. And you know what? I kinda like it!
Noah
Trust you? Are you insane? You're a married man with four kids who's cheating on his wife.
Alison
Noah: I can't make you out. There's about an hour before the boat leaves. Are there any other incredibly depressing places you want to tour like a graveyard or an old gallows in town you want to check out?
Alison: Screw you.
Noah: That's a much better idea.
Alison: They say if you listen closely to the wind, you can hear the sound of the little boy who died on the ship calling for his mother.
Noah: Jesus.
Alison: There's no wind today. I've heard it before. You don't have to believe me, but I have.
Noah: I still hear my mother's voice. I still talk to her. Starting right after she died, I'd be on my way to school or going to sleep at night.
Alison: What does she say?
Noah: That's the crazy thing. I don't know what she's saying. I hear her voice and I know she's trying to tell me something, but they're just sounds, not words. It's like she's speaking in the language of the dead and I can't understand it. I think she's saying something like let it go. It sounds a little like 'let it go.'
Noah: I don't want to hurt you.
Alison: Me?
Noah: I'm never going to leave my wife.
Alison: I would never expect you to.
Noah: She can never find out.
Alison: I understand.
Noah: You still want to do this?
Alison: Yes.
