Anne Heche: Melissa Egan
Photos
Quotes
-
Helen : [Approaching Missy Egan's House] What if they're waiting for us? What if they recognize us? They could have a gun and shoot us dead.
Julie : It's been a year, Helen, they could have done that already.
Helen : Jodie Foster tried this and the skin-ripping serial killer answered the door.
[Julie knocks on the front door twice, but with no answer]
Helen : Well, it was a good try.
[Julie walks away, going around to the side of the house, with Helen becoming more nervous; Julie climbs onto some logs to peek into the side window]
Helen : We're adding Breaking and Entering to our crime spree?
Melissa Egan : [Missy Egan approaches the girls] Can I help you?
Julie : Oh, um... Hi.
[laughs]
Julie : Uh, our car stalled down the road and we were just wondering if. maybe, we could use your phone?
Melissa Egan : [Entering Missy's living room] Phone's over there.
Julie : Oh, thanks. Um... Jodie... would you call Triple A?
Helen : You got it... Angela.
[They all smile; as Helen turns to use the phone, she bumps into fisherman's slicker, startling her; she and Julie laugh it off, as Helen goes over to the phone and makes her phone call]
Melissa Egan : [to Julie] My name's Missy Egan. Are you girls from Erbelle?
Julie : Uh, Southport.
Melissa Egan : Oh, oh, I went to Southport High.
Julie : Yeah, I, I knew you looked familiar. What, what year?
Melissa Egan : Uh, Class of '88.
Julie : Your name, Egan, sounds very familiar. Did you have a, a brother or something?
Melissa Egan : I did, but he was younger than me: David. Younger.
Julie : What class was he?
Melissa Egan : Ah, '92, but he's dead. He died last July.
Julie : I'm... I'm so sorry.
Melissa Egan : Thanks.
[She starts to walk towards the kitchen]
Julie : Do... do you, ah, do you live alone?
Melissa Egan : [She stops, laughs, then answers Julie's question] Yeah, I do. Ah, well, my Dad died a long time ago and my, my, Ma, she's in a home, you know, in Aurora because she didn't take too, too well what happened with David. Things just haven't been the same since he died.
Helen : [Helen comes back into the room] They're on their way.
Melissa Egan : I could, uh, uh, make you guys a cup of tea while you're waiting.
Helen : Thanks.
Julie : Yeah, thanks, that's, that's nice of you.
Helen : [Missy goes into her kitchen to start making a pot of tea, as Julie and Helen look at the pictures] You know, I think I remember David. He had a friend, right, what was his name?
Melissa Egan : [From the kitchen] Who?
Helen : Didn't he hang out with this guy? And they were really close. God, what was his name? Um...?
Melissa Egan : [Coming back into the living room] Oh, I, I don't know I didn't, I didn't know too many of David's friends.
Helen : Oh.
Melissa Egan : But there, there was one guy. One guy, he, he, he stopped by not too long after David's death and and, he came to pay his respects.
Julie : Really?
Melissa Egan : Oh, yeah. He... was a really nice guy, he was cute and smart. We were, we were... sweet on each other for about 2 minutes. But it didn't, it didn't work out. You know, he didn't... he never really said it, but I think it hurt him to be around me.
Helen : Where is his old friend now?
Melissa Egan : Oh, I... I don't know.
Helen : Do you remember his name?
Melissa Egan : Billy.
Helen : Did he have a last name?
Melissa Egan : Blue. Billy Blue.
Julie : Well, you know what? Um... we should probably wait back at the car.
-
Melissa Egan : Don't, don't be ridiculous. Why don't you, ah, stay?
Julie : No, I, I, I don't, I don't want to miss Triple A.
Helen : We appreciate the phone.
Melissa Egan : [as Julie and Helen leave the house] Anytime. You know, I, I don't get too many knocks on my door now 'days.
Helen : [In Julie's car] You okay?
Julie : I freaked out, I'm sorry. But being in his house and seeing his sister. God, do you see what we've done?
Helen : It was an accident.
Julie : Helen, we killed a man and then ruined the lives of everyone he knew.
Helen : I don't think we're that powerful, Julie. You're giving us way too much credit.
Melissa Egan : [Missy jumps up on the Julie's side of the car, trying to catch up with them, startling both Helen and Julie] HEY! You forgot cigarettes.
[She hands them to Julie, who hands them over to Helen]
Julie : Thank you.
Melissa Egan : Well, I see you got this car started, didn't ya?
Julie : Yeah. Damnedest thing, it just started right up.
Melissa Egan : Funny how that happens.
[They drive off, while Missy begins to look suspicious of them]
-
Julie : [while visiting Missy a second time, they continue to discuss Missy's brother's suicide, as Missy is filleting fish] I need to find your brother's friend, Billy Blue. I need to talk to him, thinking maybe you could look through this yearbook, that way-...
Melissa Egan : [a little impatient] What's, what's this all about?
Julie : Well, it's too crazy to explain, but it has to do with your brother and last July 4th.
Melissa Egan : [Still impatient] What about it?
Julie : What happened to your brother wasn't an accident, there's more to it than that.
Melissa Egan : I know.
Julie : You know what?
Melissa Egan : It's why he killed himself.
Julie : He what?
Melissa Egan : Yeah. He, he went up there to die that night. That's where she died. See, the whole town blamed him for her death.
Julie : How do you know it was a suicide?
Melissa Egan : He left a note.
[She puts down her knife and walks over to a shed to retrieve the suicide note to show Julie]
Melissa Egan : I had to keep this from the insurance company because they wouldn't pay me the money if they found out it was a suicide.
[She comes out of the shed with the note]
Melissa Egan : The money's already been spent.
[She hands Julie the note which reads, "I will never forget last Summer"]
Julie : This isn't a suicide note. This is a death threat.
Melissa Egan : What are you... what are you talking about?
Julie : Your brother didn't kill himself. I saw him, I was there and whoever sent this was there, too.
Melissa Egan : What do you mean you saw him? Where? Where did you see him?
Julie : Crossing the road, we hit him. It was an accident.
Melissa Egan : NO!
[She snatches the note back from Julie]
Melissa Egan : My brother drowned!
Julie : I saw him. He had Susie tattooed on his arm.
Melissa Egan : Tattoo? He doesn't have a tattoo!
Julie : I saw it on his arm-...
Melissa Egan : YOU DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING! GET OUTTA HERE!
[No response]
Melissa Egan : GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!
[She goes back into the shed, glaring at Julie]
Julie : [Realizing David Egan was not the one she and her friends hit that night] Oh, my God. It wasn't your brother.
