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Previously on Forgive Me

Priest: Jesus Christ. John! John! Jes.. Gene!

Johnny: Is it true about the Prelate? You know, what they say?

Priest: He's dead, yeah.

Johnny: He killed himself?

Gene: They're dismantling an enterprise I've spent

fourty years building and caring for. And now it's

going to die on my watch. Priest: On my watch actually.

John Dominic: They are going to turn the parish

against you for lying, and pretending to be something you're not.

Priest: That's not true.

John Dominic: It doesn't have to be true.

Gene: The Bishop's office called. You're the new Prelate.

Priest: I always wanted to be the Prelate.

Whether or not I wanted to be the Prelate who tries to sell

off the pews while the church gets reduced to

rubble is probably a different question.

Priest: We can either stick around here and come out of the

closet or we've got to leave the area.

Noelle: You want me to come out of the closet?

Priest: Yeah, as my daughter.

Psychiatrist: When these saints visit you, what do they do?

Priest: Christopher? [screams]

Gene: Well, medication might help you sleep.

Priest: They're not worried about me sleeping. They're worried

about my brain tumor.

Gene: It's back?

Priest: Gene?

Gene, what's going on? Are they taking his things?

Gene: No, they're bringing things in.

Priest: What things?

Gene: The Bishop's things.

Priest: The Bishop is coming back?

Gene: Yes, he'll be visiting for awhile.

Bishop: You'll hear things in this booth that you'll

spend the rest of your life wishing you never heard.

Johnny: Why do you think they told you in confession?

So you would know and not tell.

They sucked you in. You're part of the cover-up.

Priest: How low would the settlement have to be for the church to survive?

Bishop: Why? Priest: You put me in charge

of the parish, sir. I just want to know what I'm up against.

Bishop: Who do you think you're up against?

The parish? Me?

Priest: Frankly, whichever one of you

is trying to tear down my church.

Bishop: That remains to be seen.

Gene: What did you think would

happen when you let this cat out of the bag? When you

gave him a 40-year old letter saying the Priest

knew about his abuse, huh? This is what happens.

Roman Soldier: [in latin] Renounce Jesus Christ! Renounce him!

Priest: [screams] [Groans] [knocks]

Priest: [screams] [Groans] [knocks]

Johnny: Woke ya.

Priest: No, you didn't.

Johnny: Sure I did. I can always tell.

Priest: I asked you not to come here.

Johnny: Well, this is my church.

Priest: Not for long.

Johnny: Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

Priest: Stop. Stop. I'm not taking your confession.

Johnny: Hey. I'm going to drop it.

Priest: What?

Johnny: The lawsuit. Priest: No, please don't do that.

Johnny: It'll save the church from the wrecking ball.

Priest: Well, maybe so but it shouldn't be save

like that, alright? It'll be sick, it'll be wounded

There will be no chance for forgiveness.

Johnny: No, there can be forgiveness. Because maybe I'm ready.

It's me. I'm the one that has to forgive, right?

Priest: What you need to do is not settle, alright?

Do not drop that lawsuit.

Johnny: I only have so much strength and stamina for this.

I can only handle so much of this.

Priest: With me you're not alone. I can help you be strong.

Johnny: You won't even talk to me.

Priest: Dropping the lawsuit isn't going to heal--

Johnny: This did not happen to you. I don't want to

hurt you anymore. I don't want to hurt this parish.

Priest: It shouldn't be a choice between

Johnny: It's not working anymore. It's just opening old

wounds and shedding fresh blood. I'm fucking done with it.

Let it go.

Johnny: Morning.

Priest: Good morning. This is weird, right?

Johnny: Weirder for you, but yeah.

Priest: Did you ever imagine this?

I mean, did you ever think of me this way?

Johnny: You're very pretty, so.

Did you ever

Priest: No.

No, I never thought I'd have sex again.

Johnny: You thought about it.

Priest: Yeah. Yeah, but not with you if we're being honest.

Johnny: So, how was it? After all that time.

Priest: There were a lot of firsts about last night.

I don't have the words. [sighs]

Priest: I'm afraid.

Johnny: Of? Priest: All the things that could go

horribly wrong as a result of this.

Johnny: Who are you going to tell?

Priest: No one.

Johnny: Well, then no one will no.

Priest: So what do we say now?

Johnny: I'll confess it to you.

Priest: Well good. Who do I confess it to?

Johnny: Me.

Priest: There's so much wrong with this situation.

I'm a Priest. I'm in a situation of authority over you.

Johnny: Ah, that position you were in last night

That's not what we call the position of authority.

It's quite the opposite.

I'm not a kid. I've got twenty years on you.

Let's not make this into that, okay? This is not that.

Priest: No, of course. Johnny: Whatever this is for

you, I did it because I care about you. I know you care

about me. You've proven that over and over.

I just wanted to be with you.

Priest: This is going to destroy both of us.

Johnny: Let it. Torch it.

This shithole life could use some rebuilding.

Priest: I'm a little worried about the people that get caught

up in that bonfire.

Johnny: Then that's their problem.

I won't tell anyone. Priest: Alright, how do I

explain where I was last night? Johnny: Don't say

here. Or do. Tell them you were here comforting me.

Because that's true. Priest: It doesn't matter.

I became the scandal I was trying not to let them make me.

Johnny: There is no scandal here.

Priest: Is this even real? Johnny: Well, as these things go,

my feelings are real. Priest: I'm still afraid.

Johnny: I won't tell anybody. Priest: I'm not afraid of

you telling anybody. I'm just l'm afraid of how I feel.

I've never done the morning after thing, you know?

I'm just kind of freaking out a little.

Johnny: Stop thinking. Stop plotting. Breathe. Okay,

without all that stuff, without Bishops, without

churches, scandals, without vows, how do you feel?

Priest: Happy.

Gene: How's the sermon coming along?

Priest: It's, uh, fine, I think.

Gene: Let me know if you want any feedback. Your first

sermon's a big deal. You'll remember it.

Priest: Right.

Young Priest: You can go in now.

Arch Bishop: Come in. Close the door.

- Priest: Your Grace. - I'm--- Arch Bishop: I know who you are.

You've made quite an impression around here, to be sure.

Priest: Not by design, your Grace.

Arch Bishop: Well, maybe not by intelligent design.

Priest: I've uh--- I've made some mistakes, yes.

Arch Bishop: Why are you here?

Priest: To appeal to your sense

of right as it regards my parish, sir.

Arch Bishop: So you think I need you to tell me what's right?

Priest: No. But I do think that you need

more information. A clearer picture, more than one perspective.

Arch Bishop: You think the Bishop has

misrepresented the situation in your parish?

Priest: Possibly. Probably, yeah.

Arch Bishop: Sit down.

Priest: Your Grace,

the Bishop has a vested interest

in the outcome of the child abuse settlement.

Arch Bishop: And you don't? Priest: I guess

maybe we all do, but the Bishop was aware of the

abuse from the very beginning. He had the report

from the mother and he was aware of her suspicions.

Enough so, sir, that he sent the accused to a different

parish out west. He was an active participant in this

cover up, sir, and it's something that he would very

much like to keep covered up. He should not be

negotiating on behalf of the parish.

Arch Bishop: Your former Prelate, um--- Well, he, um, left us

dramatically. He told me that you've already

betrayed the church and the victim. Who do you think

should be negotiating? Priest: You.

Arch Bishop: That would cause considerable delay in the

process. I'm not nearly familiar enough with this history.

Priest: The Bishop wants that settlement to be

high enough that the church gets bulldozed in order to

pay for it. Our congregation will scatter, all the

institutional memory will be buried.

Arch Bishop: What do you want? Priest: I just want justice.

And, I want to save my church. Arch Bishop: In which order?

Priest: It doesn't serve the victim at all if that church

gets knocked down. I know that's not what he wants.

He loves the church.

Arch Bishop: You know his mind rather well.

Priest: Yeah.

Bishop: So you're telling me that he would take a humbler settlement

than the Bishop is offering. Priest: Sir, I believe that

he would if we could offer him some kind of guarantee

that the church was standing afterwards.

Arch Bishop: And the Bishop would sacrifice a house of God in order to

protect his own reputation? Priest: I know that he would.

Arch Bishop: Now, how do you know these things?

That the Bishop is involved with covering up abuse?

Priest: Does it, does it matter?

Arch Bishop: Well, it's a big accusation. You have any proof?

Priest: I'm not asking to testify against the guy in court.

I'm just asking that you remove him from the negotiation.

Arch Bishop: So you don't have any proof.

Priest: He told me.

Arch Bishop: Why would he do that?

Priest: To be forgiven for it.

Arch Bishop: By you?

Priest: By God.

Arch Bishop: So you've come here to desecrate a sacrament.

Priest: No, sir.

Arch Bishop: You-- You've broken the seal of the confessional.

Why should I not have you laicized?

Priest: I found a letter, an old letter about the abuse

with the Bishop's name on it. I took the letter.

I furnished it to the accuser. The Bishop came and told me

in a confessional when he was vulnerable. He told me

before I had the chance to find out. He's the one

that desecrated the sacrament, not me.

Arch Bishop: But how do you know he's protecting himself

and not somebody else? Priest: The only other

priest that was mentioned in the letter was Father

Genesius. The victim knows about that already.

He punched Gene in the face. Arch Bishop: Well, what

about the names not in the letter? How do you know who

made these terrible decisions?

Priest: That's what a lawsuit would be designed to

uncover. That's exactly what a settlement is

designed to cover up.

Arch Bishop: So you believe Genesius and the Bishop

were the only ones who conspired

to send the child abuser to another parish?

Priest: With all due respect, there's no way I could possibly know that.

Arch Bishop: These things tend to be a Pandora's box.

Priest: The accuser will settle.

Arch Bishop: And he told you this I gather?

Priest: Yeah, but not in the confessional.

Arch Bishop: You're asking for an awful lot of blind faith.

Priest: If you don't have it, who does?

Arch Bishop: Look, I don't doubt your earnestness, son.

But what if you're wrong?

Priest: If O'Leary won't settle for less,

we're right back where we are right now. But he will settle.

Arch Bishop: And when did he tell you this?

Priest: This morning. It was yesterday-- It was last night.

Arch Bishop: So you--- you're very close to this accuser.

Priest: I've seen a fair bit of him, yeah.

Arch Bishop: Really? You do like to play with fire, don't you?

Priest: Your Grace, what I'm asking you for;

for the Bishop to be removed

from the negotiation is just the simplest route for all of us.

If you refuse, Mr. O'Leary will reject any

settlement offered to him and he will instigate the

court proceedings. And that, sir, will be your Pandora's box.

Arch Bishop: And why would he do that?

Priest: Because I'll ask him to.

Arch Bishop: Wait here.

Young Priest: Do you want anything now? Coffee, water?

Priest: No.

Do I know you from somewhere?

Young Priest: You were ahead of me at the seminary.

We overlapped by a year. I remember you.

Priest: What's he doing? Young Priest: I don't know.

Praying for guidance? You in trouble?

Priest: Always. Young Priest: Still. Later.

Arch Bishop: You will negotiate it.

Priest: Are you sure about the optics of that?

Arch Bishop: Well, we're not going to look good

no matter what we do. But if you have some sort of

influence over this accuser, use it. Formally.

Priest: What about the Bishop? Arch Bishop: What about him?

Priest: He's going to see this as an attack by me.

Arch Bishop: Isn't it? What, are you afraid of the Bishop?

Priest: Well, he's a pretty scary guy, yeah.

Arch Bishop: Well, you wanted to play with the big boys. Now you are.

Priest: Sir, if you were to handle

the negotiation there wouldn't be any repercussions.

Arch Bishop: No. No, I wouldn't touch any part of this.

This is a fourty year old child

abuse complaint against a parish employee that

you've dug up and the Bishop wants to bury.

And you along with it. And an accuser over whom you seem

to have some sort of inexplicable influence.

No, this is your parish. You are in charge.

Priest: He's in charge of the Diocese.

Arch Bishop: Fight it out.

The mediator will be in touch.

Priest: Thank you, your Grace.

Next time on Forgive Me

Johnny: And upon further reflection, after a lot of

thought, it no longer seems like the right course of action to

pursue a civil suit against the church.

Johnny: Romantic love, it doesn't have to be sexual.

Gene: Listen, I can see that you're judging yourself very harshly.

But you've sat on this side of the booth and you've

heard other people say that they've broken

vows; marital infidelity, an oath, perjury. And how

harshly did you judge them?

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