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Previously on Forgive Me

Smith: I'm gonna drop it.

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

Johnny: This did not happen to you.

Priest: This is weird, right?

Johnny: Weirder for you, but yeah.

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 �I just wanted to be with you.

Priest: This is going to destroy both of us.

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.

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 uh �

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

Johnny: Um, upon reflection, after a lot of thought, it no longer seems the right

course of action to pursue a civil suit against the church.

Mediator: Would you sign off on that? It's just so the parish can be assured

that you won't instigate a lawsuit down the road.

Priest: Counter-offer.

Three hundred thousand.

Mediator: That's-- The plaintiff is dropping the suit.

He's asking for nothing and you're countering with three hundred thousand?

Priest: Yeah.

Mediator: That's not how this works.

Priest: Usually.

Mediator: Would you settle �I don't even know how to ask this question.

Johnny: What is this?

Priest: You want to drop the lawsuit because you don't want them to tear down the church

to pay for the settlement, right? So, accept three hundred thousand as opposed

to a million and there's no need to tear down the church.

Mediator: Okay, I think you should stop now.

Priest: Listen, he's entitled to know this, alright. It's his church too.

It doesn't belong to the Bishop, it doesn't belong to me.

Meditator: So, you're not accepting his demand for

nothing and you're countering with an offer of

three hundred thousand.

Priest: Yeah.

Mediator: So again, will you accept three hundred thousand?

Johnny: Yeah.

Mediator: Okay. I'll draw up the papers. I'll circulate them tomorrow.

Gentlemen. That was, um - weird.

Johnny: it shouldn't have been you.

Priest: It had to be me.

Johnny: Well, what are you going to do now?

Priest: I still have so many pieces of this to put together.

Johnny: What are you going to do about me?

The money doesn't matter anymore

as long as I can have the other thing.

Priest: No. You got the money.

Gene: You were up early.

Priest: Yeah, I had a meeting.

Gene: What kind of meeting?

Priest: Just personal business.

Gene: And yesterday morning? Spending nights out now?

Priest: No, I'm just fell asleep at the church.

Gene: I called the church.

Priest: I was in the sanctuary.

Gene: Why were you there so late?

Priest: It wasn't late when I fell asleep.

Gene: Are you sick?

Priest: No, Gene. I'm just -

Gene: I don't know what's going on.

Priest: I think maybe our house guest is leaving.

Gene: Why?

What's--, what's changed?

Priest: Can you do something for me today?

Can you just cover for me in the booth?

I'll come by after I see Noellle.

Gene: Yeah. Fine, I guess.

Priest: Thanks.

Priest: Hey.

Bishop: Give us a minute, will ya? Thank you.

Priest: Leaving?

Bishop: Leaving here. Leaving my job. Isn't that the deal you made with the Arch Bishop?

Priest: I don't get a say in who gets to be Bishop.

Bishop: You get to keep your church, and I get shipped off to a nursing home.

Priest: I'm sure you'll be well taken care of there.

Bishop: [laughs] Sure, yeah.

Priest: I came here to tell you that your secret goes with you.

Bishop: Secret? What secret?

Priest: That time that you covered up a case of child abuse and sent the accused

out west where he abused other kids.

So what I'm saying is that as long as no other kids come forward, this is settled.

Your reputation can stay intact. Nobody will look into the cover up or dig into what happened.

Bishop: Okay, I see. Which means that you've orchestrated your own cover-up, huh?

Priest: No, I've negotiated a settlement, which you could

have done if you weren't so determined to bankrupt my parish.

Bishop: If we're making this lawsuit go away, you get my

silence about your own secrets. Right?

Priest: They don't compare. I'm not ashamed of my daughter.

And I'm not ashamed of my past, or the way I feel, okay?

I'm not the Prelate. I'm not going to be bullied into suicide.

I am not afraid of you anymore.

Bishop: Is that what you think I did? Is that why you hate me?

Priest: I don't hate you.

Bishop: I didn't know he was gay, nor do I care.

Priest: You're lying.

Bishop: Well, you're almost right.

Father John was afraid of being exposed. Not by me, by you.

By the investigation you prompted and furnished evidence for.

Priest: No, that lawsuit wasn't about him.

Bishop: No, it was. You're all angry about who would send a

child abuser away to another parish and who knew about it.

Heh, he wasn't in charge yet. It wasn't his decision.

But he covered it up, just like you're doing now.

And that was the secret that drove him to despair.

At the thought that you and everybody else would find out.

Priest: We've got to bide our time here a little longer.

Noelle: So I'm still a secret? Everything you've

been saying for the past two months has been bullshit?

Priest: Look, I asked you if you wanted to get out of here and start over someplace else.

You said you wanted to stay here, which is fine.

But the plan that I had did not work the way that I wanted it to, okay?

I mean, is it really that big a deal to you that people know?

Noelle: I've been an orphan for this long.

Priest: You're not an orphan, okay?

I am your father, it's just not everybody's business.

Noelle: What if I tell?

Priest: Listen to me, I just saved the church from the brink

of destruction over some decades long scandal. Look, it's a delicate time.

Noelle: Your whole life is a delicate time.

Priest: Yeah, that's true. Since I found out about you, which I wouldn't trade.

Noelle: What would happen if everyone found out you had a daughter

from before you were a priest? A teenage mistake. What would happen?

Priest: They'd always see me as that stupid teenager.

You understand? I would lose my moral authority.

Noelle: You would lose the illusion of moral authority.

Priest: Fair enough.

Noelle: What else?

Priest: Noelle, this parish has enemies. People who will use you,

to get to me to discredit the church. They'll spin it as a corruption.

Noelle: The only corrupt thing about me, is that I'm your secret.

Priest: I know.

Noelle: Two weeks ago you said

we were going public.

Priest: I know, I'm sorry.

Noelle: I already told the bocce team and my roommate.

By now, half the school knows, so prepare for the worst.

Priest: Hmm. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Priest: Morning.

Gene: Morning. Quite a bit of hubbub at the rectory this morning.

Priest: The Bishop's all moved out.

Gene: Ah, I'll miss him.

Yeah.

Priest: [laughs] In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been a week si--,

I-- it's been about two weeks actually since my last confession.

Gene: Yes, my child.

Priest: I had sex.

Gene: Ooh, tell me more.

Priest: It isn't funny, Gene.

Gene: No.

Priest: I broke my vow.

Gene: Well, yes, that's a sin.

Priest: It's more than a sin. I broke my entire---

Gene: No--

Priest: Yeah, I did.

Gene: Listen, I can see that you're judging yourself pretty 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?

Priest: Not very.

Gene: Then judge yourself the same way.

Priest: It just feels like it's so much harder to forgive myself.

Gene: It shouldn't be. And anyway, that's why I'm here.

Priest: You don't know who it was with.

Gene: I don't need to.

Priest: I think it will effect the penance.

Gene: Then let the other person confess and the penance will be doubled.

Priest: You really don't want to know?

Gene: It's irrelevant. You can't confess on their behalf.

Priest: I think if I was sitting in your seat, I would want to know.

Gene: Well, when one's life is somewhat cloistered, it's tempting to live

vicariously through the secrets of others.

Priest: I should probably confess to that then, too.

I'm pretty nosey when I'm in here.

Gene: I think it's a matter of personal style.

I've known priests who wanted all the gory details. I'm not one of them.

Priest: Well, Father John used to be pretty

chastising whenever I was in here confessing to him so

I'm thinking maybe I adopted some of his personal style.

Gene: He was like the town busy body, that one. But he always liked to try to help people.

Priest: Do you know why John really killed himself?

Gene: I think that will forever be a matter of opinion.

Priest: What we thought was wrong?

Gene: Look, did you kill him?

Priest: No.

Gene: Then leave it out of your confession.

Priest: I disobeyed the Bishop. I went over his head to the Arch Bishop

and that's why he's moved out.

Gene: I whole-heartedly forgive you for that.

Priest: And I stepped in to end the settlement with O'Leary.

I got him to settle for lower so the church is safe from demolition.

Gene: That's fantastic.

Priest: I'm confessing. I used personal influence over O'Leary

to get him to accept less than he deserved.

Gene: But you saved us.

Priest: I saved a building.

Gene: And the parish, and our jobs, and our home.

Priest: It's not exactly true. You're being retired, Gene.

I made a deal with the Arch Bishop that said the church could

go on if I could find a way to cut the costs over a five

year period to pay for the settlement. I made that decision.

Gene: I'm the cost.

Priest: You're past age. You'll get your benefits.

Gene: This is what you want.

Priest: The parish needs a fresh start, Gene.

Gene: Yeah, a fresh start from Johnny O'Leary.

Priest: Yeah, well, you're pretty tainted with that scandal, so--

Gene: And you are as well, you just said.

Priest: I'm sorry, but it's time.

Gene: What happens when you get sick?

Priest: Well, maybe I won't.

Gene: So,

you're finally in charge; in charge of no one. Just you and your demons.

Johnny: You know, I was thinking. I don't necessarily need the sex.

Priest: What, with me?

Johnny: Yeah, with you.

Priest: I'm not sure that I follow you.

Johnny: Well, you and I have this friendship now and it'll never be the way it was before.

Priest: Yeah, you can't pretend like this didn't happen.

Johnny: What matters to me is getting to spend time with you.

To hear your ideas, give you mine.

To let you be a little pompous because you feel morally superior.

Priest: Tell me more.

Johnny: I like that. I think it's cute.

I wanna snuggle with you. I wanna go for runs.

I wanna watch movies and talk about them.

It doesn't need to be out at a theatre, we could stream it here.

I want to go for a drive in the country.

Maybe we'll go to the ocean, and hike along the bluffs.

Maybe we'll bring a baguette and a spicy cheese.

Priest: Spicy cheese?

Johnny: Or a tomato. Whatever. I don't want to eat just a baguette.

I want to do that stuff with you.

Priest: It all sounds really nice.

Johnny: If that's all there is, then that's fine. I don't need the sex.

Priest: Johnny---

Johnny: Please call me Smith. I like that there's a name that only you can call me.

Priest: You going to call me Father?

Johnny: Yeah. Yeah, I like it. It's not creepy at all.

Priest: Smith, you're talking about taking a vow of celibacy.

So you can what; so you can be in love with a priest?

Johnny: It's a kind of love, right?

I mean, just as long as I can hold you like I love you sometimes.

Priest: It's too much to ask of you.

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

Romantic love, it doesn't have to be sexual. It can be sensual.

Priest: We have a sensual romance.

Johnny: Look, I can feed you. I'm a good cook.

We'll pick a favorite dish from every cuisine.

I'll rub your feet. I can put moisturizer where you could never reach.

I want to listen to music with you. I want to listen to audio books while we fall asleep.

And once in awhile, I want to just maybe put our foreheads together, on our chests.

So we can hear each other's hearts beat. And just feel each other.

Priest: Sounds like paradise. There's an awful lot of snakes near a garden of Eden.

Johnny: We'll keep our snakes in our shorts.

Priest: You know I'm crazy, right?

Johnny: Yeah. So am I.

If you want this and you want to still be a priest,

you don't want to break this vow, I'll keep it with you.

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