Robin Tells Anna About Stone (June 4, 2001)
Before being forced to leave Wildwind, Robin tells Anna about getting HIV and Stone.

Robin: "The grounds are amazing. I mean, this place is just absolutely out of control."
Edmund: "Well, it's even more beautiful when you're not tripping over security guards every 10 paces."
Robin: "Yes, but that's good thing, under the circumstances."
Edmund: "Absolutely. Keeping your mom safe is my top priority. Listen, I hope you understand now why I had to keep the truth from you about your mom being alive."
Robin: "Yes, I understand. But I still wish you'd told me. If my mom needs her memory back, I'm the best person to help her do it."
Anna: "No, I didn't want you here. I needed to keep you out of harm's way."
Robin: "You think that matters to me?"
Edmund: "I see you all share the same chutzpah gene. Has she met Alex yet?"
Anna: "Yeah."
Robin: "Oh, yes. Today has certainly been a day of surprises."
Edmund: "Okay. Well, you guys got a lot of catching up to do."
Anna: "Yeah, bye."
Robin: "Okay."
Anna: "Thank you."
Robin: "Bye. Thank you."
Edmund: "You're welcome. Bye."

Anna: "You want some tea?"
Robin: "Yes, please."
Anna: "Okay. Alex has gotten them trained around here, you know."
Robin: "You know, I liked him a lot when I first met him."
Anna: "Oh, yeah, he's very nice. He's very nice. He's had his share of difficulties."
Robin: "Really? Like what?"
Anna: "He was very much in love with his wife, and she died suddenly. And then when he finally fell in love again, it didn't end very well."
Robin: "Yeah."
Anna: "Here."
Robin: "I can see that. There's a sadness in his face."
Anna: "Yeah. It's always there, and it's such a shame because he's a really good guy."
Robin: "Are you in love with him?"
Anna: "Am I in love with Edmund? Oh, wow. If you knew the shape my mind had been in recently, you'd know that was impossible."
Robin: "Oh, ok. Well, I thought I saw something in the way you two looked at each other."
Anna: "I'm very grateful to him. Very. I think that sometimes when he looks at me, he's not seeing me."
Robin: "What do you mean? There's something wrong with his mind?"
Anna: "He's in love with my sister."
Robin: "Oh. But she's married..."
Anna: "Yes."
Robin: "Wow. I mean, wow. With everything else going on around here, to have that hanging over you, it's beyond weird."
Anna: "I remember the last time I saw you, you were just a baby."
Robin: "I was 13."
Anna: "Yes, exactly... a baby. I didn't see you grow up."
Robin: "You know what? When they first told me that you and Daddy died, I didn't believe them. I didn't believe them for the longest time because I thought you guys could survive anything because you'd always come back before."
Anna: ": Who took care of you?"
Robin: "Uncle Mac."
Anna: "Oh, yeah."
Robin: "Of course."
Anna: "Yeah."
Robin: "I mean, he was always there for me. But, you know, I still was pretty lonely. What was strange was that I didn't act out or anything. I mean, it was really the opposite. I mean, I got straight as and I hung out with all the right people."
Anna: "Uh-huh."
Robin: "I didn't give him any trouble at all. Until I met Stone."
Anna: "Stone. Is he the one... where is he now?"
Robin: "He died. Of AIDS."
Anna: "Oh."
Robin: "Just before he died, you and Daddy came to me."
Anna: "We did?"
Robin: "Yeah. It was like your spirit was talking to me. I remember you told me to be strong."
Anna: "God, you must have needed us so much, especially then. Stone."
Robin: "Yeah. His real name was Michael, but I never called him that."
Anna: "Did you love him very much?"
Robin: "Very much."

Robin: "Thanks."
Anna: "Tell me when you... tell me about when you found out you had the virus."
Robin: "Well, Stone... he lived on the streets. He was a runaway. And from the first time that we met, he was HIV-Positive, but he didn't know it because it hadn't shown up on the test yet. And then he got really sick. He'd had this girlfriend before that had used drugs, and... I mean, he hadn't seen her at all since we'd been together. When he found out, I mean, he couldn't forgive himself for putting me in danger. He tried pushing me away. But... I don't know. It was too late. I couldn't have stayed away anyway."
Anna: "Were you with him when he died?"
Robin: "Mm-hmm. I laid down next to him, put his arms around me. He had lost his sight because of AIDS. So, you know, he couldn't see anything, but right before he died, he looked up, and he said that he saw me. He said, "I can see you, Robin." He did. I know he did."
Anna: "I'm sorry you had to go through all that."
Robin: "You know what the thing is? I consider myself ally lucky. I mean, I know what it's like to be in love with this just beautiful person. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't do a thing different."
Anna: "You're not a little girl anymore. You're a grown woman. And I missed it. I wasn't there. I'm sorry."
Robin: "It's ok. It's okay."

Anna: "What kind of mother was I? Running around the world on secret assignments and I should have been with you. Just think what our lives would have been like if I was an accountant or something."
Robin: "Well, I can't think that way, you know. I have to deal with what is."
Anna: "You are an amazing person, you know? You are."
Robin: "I want you to know that I never doubted that you and Daddy loved me, that you put me first in your own way."
Anna: "Even when I couldn't remember anything else, I always felt that there was somebody out there in the world that I loved more than myself and I had to get to them. You have to believe that."
Robin: "I do. I do because you have come back to me. Maybe now we can be a family again."
Anna: "Oh, a family. My daughter and me. We could be happy again, couldn't we?"
Robin: "Yes. Yes, we could, Mom. Definitely."
Anna: "There is something I was thinking about... Christmas. I remember... did I have, like, Christmas ornaments in my ears or something?"
Robin: "Christmas?"
Anna: "Yeah."
Robin: "Yeah. Actually, I think you did. That was our last Christmas together."
Anna: "It was. And Daddy was, like, really mad with you about something. Roger. A Roger?"
Robin: "Oh, God, Roger. Roger Hollander... the first guy I ever dated. Yeah."
Anna: "That's right. He was tall and skinny, and he kept bumping into the furniture and stuff. Oh, my God, of all the things to remember, I'd have to remember that."
Robin: "God, I can't believe it. I mean, no one else knows about that. I'm so glad I have you back."
Anna: "Oh. I can't make up for all the time I've missed, but we still have so many years ahead..."
Robin: "Yeah. We do. We've got a lot of years, Mom. Our whole lives. Ok, I'm going to promise you that I'll never leave you. You've got to promise me the same thing back."

Edmund: "Sorry to interrupt. Robin, let me ask you a question. Do you have a cell phone with you here?"
Robin: "No. I left it at home. Why?"
Edmund: "Do you mind if I have a word in private with your mom?"
Robin: "Is it about my mom being in danger?"
Anna: "No, no, that's okay. I'm not hiding anything from her."
Edmund: "All right. I talked to the head of security, and there was apparently a cell phone call placed to England from somewhere in Wildwind."
Anna: "Security traced it?"
Edmund: "Yeah, just overseas, and then it was scrambled. Robin, does anyone know you're here?"
Robin: "Just my landlady and a couple of my friends. Why? What does that mean, someone calling England on a cell phone?"
Edmund: "Well, I'm not sure. It'll just be better when we find out who it is, that's all."

Robin: "Mom, I just found you. If I leave, I might not ever see you again."
Anna: "That's not going to happen. It was always my plan to come to you as soon as I figured out who was after me, and that's still what I intend too."
Robin: "Yeah, but how do you know how long that's going to take?"
Anna: "Well, we're getting closer. If you stay here, we're going to worry about keeping you safe, so it's better if you go."
Robin: "Well, I'm not going back to Paris to wait. Not indefinitely."
Anna: "All right. Then give me a few weeks, and I'll fly to Paris to be with you."
Robin: "You promise?"
Anna: "Oh, you have my word. Yes."
Robin: "You don't show up, you know I'll come back here for you."
Anna: "Yes. I know that. You won't have to. I'll come to Paris, and I'll never leave you again."
Robin: "Okay. Mom, I need you much more than I realized before today."
Anna: "Oh, I need you, too. It's all right."
Robin: "I want you to be very, very careful. I don't want to have to mourn you all over again."
Anna: "I'll do my best. I promise."
Robin: "Here." [She gives Anna the bracelet.]
Anna: "No."
Robin: "Take this."
Anna: "You've had it forever."
Robin: "No, take it. It's a loan. You can give it back to me when you come to Paris."
Anna: "I will."
Robin: "Promise me."
Anna: "I promise."
Robin: "All right. Come here."
Anna: "Shh. I love you."
Robin: "I love you, too."
Anna: "Okay."
Robin: "I'll see you soon."
Anna: "Okay." [After Robin leaves, Anna collapses into a chair and sobs]

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