Season 1:Episode 4
Previously.......
Claire:Kathy,can we meet tomorrow at Manilla airport please?
Katharine:Claire needs me tomorrow at the airport.
Roxannie:She is going insane and accusing you
for what you never did.
David:She is behaving the way you would if you
had a miscarriage of me too.Understand her.
Roxannie:I warned you a long time ago about that woman.She is a scam.Am not gonna allow that to happen.
David:Damn it.We will have to use the emergency exit to the staircase.
Roxannie:Open this door Claire!You are such a ruthless pretender.Aren't you going to Singapore?
David:Mom!Why did you do that?
Carmen:Mommy,are you and grandma Roxy fighting?
Claire:Of course not baby.We were just having an adult discussion.
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[The next morning(6:46 am)Birds chirping]
David:(putting on his jacket)Why do you have to
leave this early?
Claire:(wounds a scarf around her neck)My plane
takes off at eight past five minutes.
Carmen:(comes out of her room)Mommy,i already
have my shoes on.Daddy,do you know
where mommy is taking us out?
Claire:Come.(lifts Carmen and places her on the
bed)Can i tell you something and don't get
mad my teddy beaut?
Carmen:(nods in acceptance curiously)Mhm.I
won't get mad mommy.
Claire:(sighs)Okay.Your mommy here is going to
Singapore for two years.
Carmen:But why mommy?Have i made you sad?
Claire:No baby girl.I have to go and work.(soothing
Carmen's cheeks)Hmm?
Carmen:Will you come back mommy?
Claire:I promise.
Carmen:Promise?
Carmen:Promise.Now,lets go.(puts on dark spects)
(Davao)
Katharine:(takes a last sip of coffee and grabs her
handbag)Mother?I'm going now.
Marissa:Have you finished your breakfast?
Katharine:(observing herself on a mirror)Mhm!
Marissa:I better not find a speck of coffee on your
cup or crumb on your plate Kathy.
(cleaning utensils)
Katharine:(combing her hair)Mom,do you always
have to doubt me about food?
Marissa:You know very well that i can never trust
you on completing your food.
Katharine:(whispers)I don't have time for quarrels.
Marissa:Excuse me?I didn't get that cleary Kathy.
Katharine:Because it was never meant for your
hearing mother.It was nothing anyways
just singing.Bye.(leaving)
Marissa:Have a safe journey dear.
[Manilla airport terminus(7:50 am)]
Voice on booth:Passengers boarding flight number
MA129S kindly proceed to your
respective arrangements.
Claire:I have to leave now.
Carmen:(holding Claire's hand tightly)Mommy,are
you going to leave us forever?
Claire:(softly)No,of course not darling.You know
mommy can't do that.I will come back my
teddy beaut.Hmm?(kisses Carmen on the
forehead then looks at David)
David:So you're gonna leave for two years?
Claire:I'm sorry but i have to.(turns to Kathy)Kathy,
please take good care of them.Okay?
Katharine:Yes ma'am.
[Plane takes off moments later]
Matanges(8:30 am)
[Symphony skin care and beauty spa]
Roxannie:(chewing gum gossiping while having
some massage done on her back)That
shameless woman left behind her family
just because if a stupid business project.
Jeska:(enjoying a cup of white coffee)Just because
of a stupid business project?And David
accepted to it?So pathetic.(bluffs)
Sarah:(gets in the spa)You two gossipers.Don't you
have work to do?Or should i call you queens
of rumor mongers?
Roxannie:(gets up furiously)Excuse me?Did you
just call us gossipers?
Sarah:Exactly,cause all you ever do is gossip about
people's lives the whole day.Let me ask you
Roxannie,what did my daughter ever do to
you?
Roxannie:(chukles then laughs in an arrogant voice
You know what Sarah?All that daughter
of yours ever brought to our family is
nothing but grief.She,has,now escaped
as a mother and a wife just to go to
and exhibit her stupid skills in skin care?
I mean,who does that?One thing that i
always regret and i will live to regret is to
accept Claire as a wife of my son.I wish i
knew.She would never ever have been a
Ladesma.
Sarah:But now she is.And you will have to live with
it whether you like it or not because you are
not the one who married my daughter it's
your son David.So,you keep on regreting.
(raises her voice furiously)But you know
what?I also regret very much that you of all
women in the world had to be the mother-in-
law to my daughter.Now,leave my spa and
never come back here you morons.
Roxannie:Oh,come on.You are now asking me to
leave this cheap spa of yours which your
good for nothing daughter built by the
use of my son's money.Jeska,let's leave.
The services here are so cheap.
Jeska:The coffee is also too awful to taste.(putting
on her shoes)
Roxannie:(grabs her purse)My is also too itchy.I
think there are bedbugs in this cheap
and good for nothing spa.
Sarah:Maybe you never took a shower today.
Spa attendants:(laugh)
Roxannie:(imitates the spa attendnts' laughter)
What's so funny.(whispers close to
Sarah's ear)Don't you think that we are
done here.I will make sure your daughter
suffers deeply.Mark my words Sarah.
(leaves)
Sarah:(exclaims)Whatever!Go to hell!
Jeska:You too!(they laugh as they get in their car
and leave)
(A few moments later)
Spa attendant 1:You know what ma'am Sarah?
Those two women should not
make you worry so much.
Spa attendant 2:You shut their beaks very well.
They are really great parrots to be.
Sarah:(makes a serious face and turns to the spa
attendants)Get back to work.
[Manilla Airbus 129 S]
Claire:(rotating her ring on her finger looking
looking outside through the plane window
flash backing)
[2020(Manilla City Hospital)]
Claire:Doc,i feel very painful on my lower
abdomen everytime i try to lie down.
Doctor:How old is your pregnancy?
Claire:Seven months old doc.
Doctor:We will have to take an ultra sound to see if
the baby is fine.
(A few moments later)
Claire:(lying on a bed having an ultra sound)Doc,
is the baby fine?Why isn't he moving?
Doctor:(whispers to David)Sir,we need to get your
wife in the theatre right away for a surgical
procedure.
Claire:Doctor!Tell me.Is my baby okay?Doc
please.
Doctor:(sighs)Am sorry to say this but you have a
miscarriage.Your child is dead.
Claire:(cries as she gets out of the bed)No,no,no,
no.You're lying.
David:(shocked)Are you sure doc?
Claire:(sobbing)David please,tell her to say that
she is lying.
Doctor:I know it's hard for you to accept but that's
the truth.You have a miscarriage and you
need a quick surgical procedure or you will
lose your life too.
Claire:(pushes the doctor to the wall and points a
pen to her neck)You tell me the truth doc.
My baby is not dead and that he is okay
and breathing.I can feel my baby playing
doctor.(sobs loudly)
David:(grabs the pen from Claire and throws it
away)Claire you need to calm down or you
will kill the baby.
Claire:(smiles in pain and hopefully)So the baby is
not dead.Isn't it?
David:(places his palms on Claire's cheeks)The
baby is fine but you will have to accept the
surgery if you want to save him.
Claire:(continues to sob loudly)No i won't.You just
want these doctors to abort my baby.
(scatters everything on the floor furiously)
I won't allow anyone to do such a thing to
my baby!
David:(at a distance)Claire!Stop this nonsense!
Claire:(pulls the monitor and knocks it down
furiously)My baby is not dead David!
You've got to believe me and not those
monsters!David my baby is alive!(feels
dizzy and loses conciousness)
[Flashback ends]
Air hostess:(snapping her fingers infront of Claire's
face)Miss?Miss are you okay?(pats
Claire)
Claire:(responds in shock)Oh,yes,yes,aaa--m okay
Air hostess:Are you about that?What about some
water?
Claire:(exaclaims furiously)I just told you am fine!
I don't need anything!
END OF EPISODE 4:NEXT ON EPISODE 5
Passenger:Age is just a number.You could be his sugar mommy.Isn't that what this generation believes?That's what the world is now.
Jeska:Roxy,let me ask you something.Are you really mad that Claire has gone away from your son?
Roxannie:Do you think that am mad that she is gone?Am very happy you know.David has to marry legally now.
Passenger:You told me that you had a miscarriage.
You should dig dipper and find justice for your baby before it's too late Claire.
Roxannie:Roman,i need your help.I need you to prepare me a fake marriage certificate.
Jeska:OMG!You are really something else Roxy.Am proud of you girl.
Roxannie:Did you ever think that i would ever allow that scumbag to be a Ladesma?Over my dead body.
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