Transcripts from 251-254 episodes

Later on Mary is sitting in a chair. Mason approaches her.

Mason: Mary, I have thought that...
Mary: Please leave me alone!
Mason: A feeling of rage you're talking about? Obsession? Vengeance? I've got some feeling of guilt, mind you. If you knew my father you'd've... Oh, that's not... That's not important. I do know what it is to feel powerless though.
Mary: Oh, do you?!
Mary stands up and walks a bit away.
Mason (stand up as well and follows her): Yes! That's how I feel about what's happening to my brother right now. Look! Just because you've discovered injustice, this doesn't mean it's your private property.
Mary: Is there a point to this? You wanna an apology?
Mason: No. There is no reason why you shouldn't be just like the rest of the human race. Pain makes people selfish, believe me, I know.
Mary: Don't try to manipulate me! Ted's gonna be prosecuted if I have anything to say about it...
Mason: Look! Would you think about somebody else for a change? Not Ted. Not me. Christie? I haven't seen her, you have. I can only imagine what state she is in...
Mary: Oh, can you really? Well, I am a practicing nurse and I've seen rape victims brought into emergency room. Sometimes two or three a night. But I have never seen a girl, a little girl, in that condition. And I am not talking about just physically.
Mason: Do you really think it's gonna do her state of mind any good to have this trumpeted in the press, have every detail of her private life dragged out in court...
Mary: Oh, that's a wonderful argument, Mason! Just keep quiet, just let it go because doing the right thing might hurt a little bit?! What kind of a man are you?! You really think that Christie and I have so little backbone that we'd be afraid to stand up in front of the whole world if we needed to to tell the truth?!
Mason: And what makes you so sure you know what the truth is, Sister? Your cross? Your habit? I don't remember hearing that nuns were infallible...
Mary: If you're really so concerned about Christie's wellbeing at a trial, why don't you do the decent thing and tell your brother to confess?!
Mary leaves.

Mary: That's a lie! You, liar! You can't talk that way about my sister!
Mason: I have nothing further to say until this fiasco comes to trial. Thank you!

Steve speaks to the journalists. Later on Mason and Mary talk to each other again.

Mason: That's all I have to say, Mary. I'm sorry.
Mary: You told filthy lies trying to smear an innocent girl. How could you do that?!
Mason: I suggest you put that same question to your sister, Sister! It's all going to come out at the trial. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Mary: It's not true! You're just trying to protect Ted and you know he is guilty!
Mason: It is true. I'll feel sorry for you and all your family when the truth comes out.
Their conversation is interrupted by Steve

Mason calls Mary and ask her to meet him

Mary: Hello.
Mason: Ah... Mary, it's ah... it's Mason Capwell. Look, I ah... it's very important that I talk to you right away about Ted's case.
Mary: I don't think we have anything to discuss.
Mason: No, just give me a few minutes of your time. We desperately need to get a few things straight. Will you meet me down at LaMezza in one hour? Thank you!
Mason hangs up, so that Mary doesn't a chance to refuse him.

Mary: I'm sorry I... I can't stay.
Mason: Why?
Mary: Because I shouldn't be here.
Mason (sitting down at her table): You didn't like the way I looked at you, did you, Sister?
Mary: No I don't... I... I don't care. I'm leaving.
Mason: You're leaving because I've made you realise you are a woman underneath all that religious armour, aren't you?
Mary: You are way out of line, Counselor. Who are you to tell me what I'm feeling?
Mason: That look was mostly your fault, you know. I'm helpless before your feminine charms.
Mary: Good bye! (wants to stand up)
Mason (stops her): Wait a minute! I wanna talk about Ted.
Mary: No, I'm sorry. The only thing I want to hear about Ted is that he's confessed. Has he?
Mason: No.
Mary (stand up and leaves): Well, then we have nothing further to discuss, do we?
Mason: The Hell we haven't, Sister!

Mason: Am I interrupting your orisons or may I join you?
Mary: I would rather be alone, if you don't mind.
Mason: Well, unfortunately this is official.
Mary: Mason, I didn't wanna talk to you yesterday and I don't wanna talk to you today.
Mason: It has to do with the case or I wouldn't be troubling you.
Mason sits down opposite Mary.
Mary: There is nothing about the case that I want to discuss. You know my feelings. They are not sympathetic to your brother, your client, whatever you... however you look at him.
Mason: Both. Plus as a young man who's been unjustly accused.
Mary: Oh, well, fine! If we are back to that!.. (wants to stand up but Mason doesn't let her)
Mason: No, I think that somebody in your line of work ought to have a little more charity, don't you? Please hear me out.
Mary: All right. What is it?
Mason: Well, I know that Christie trusts you more than anyone else in the family. I wanted you to tell her that I am going to ask Ted to take a lie detector test.
Mary: Are you?
Mason: Yes, I have that much faith in him. I think that when she finds out she may open up to you about what really had happened the night she was raped.
Mary: Mason! Christie is not lying. I know that you wanna believe she is, but she isn't.
Mason: Not about being raped, but about who raped her. Now, I think it's possible it was too dark for her to see clearly the man who attacked her. He may've resembled Ted. She could've simply made a misidentification. Snack bar was closed, most of the lights were out, it's possible she made an honest error.
Mary: Well, why didn't you suggest that possibility at your... at your press conference instead of saying she sleeps with any man she runs into?
Mason: Now, look, Steve hasn't exactly been delicate in the way he characterised Ted, so let's not get into that, OK? Will you do it? Will you tell her about the lie detector? Well, here's Ted now.
Mary: I don't wanna talk to Ted.

Ted comes over to them.

Mason: Look, I think it's time you got to know the man that you may try to send to prison for the next twenty years.
Mary: I've met your brother and I have nothing to say to him. (stands up and tries to leave)
Ted: Please, look, I just wanna talk to you for a minute, all right?
Mason: Why not, Sister? Don't goodness and mercy count for anything anymore?
Ted: Oh, look, I... I... look... I'm just asking you to... to work something out so that I can talk to her, OK? Look, you can be there. I... I... I... I just wanna see her, you see? See... I just don't understand why she's doing it to me, man!..
Mary: No!
Ted: I just... Look, Mary, I wanna explain to her...
Mary: No, you don't... Do you wanna frighten her out of testifying against you! No, no, you cannot see her!..
Ted: Mary! I've never done... I've never touched her, OK? And we were friends. Oh, she is a great, funny and up-to-date girl...
Mary: You don't even have any right to talk about her now!
Ted: Do I look... Do I look like a rapist?
Mason: Ted, I want you to take a lie detector test. You willing to do that?
Ted: Yeah... yeah... as soon as they can set it up. I mean, this is gonna prove that I am telling the truth, won't it? Hah?
Mary: I'm sure Christie will be glad to take the same test.
Mason: All the better.
Ted: I just wish that there was something I could do to prove to... to... to you that Christie and I are friends. I mean we worked together at the Orient Express... and in fact I helped her to get that job... I... I mean... the day you know I went down there for your mother's birthday, I went out and bought some perfume for her so she could give it to her mother... I mean I got my dad to take her on as Brandon's babysitter...
Mary: So why did you rape her? Didn't she express her gratitude in the way you wanted her to?
Ted: No!!! Mary, that... You gotta... there's nothing like this!
Mary: I think it's exactly like that!
Ted: Ah, let me tell you something, all right? You know the day before she got raped, she came over to my house, OK? And she offered... she offered to sleep with me.
Mary: That is a lie! That is something that you and Mason have fabricated to slender her! And I'm not gonna sit and listen to it!

Mary stands up abruptly, Mason and Ted try to stop her.

Mary: I hope you get exactly what you deserve!
Mason: Hold on, Mary.
Mary: No, I'm not gonna hold on! He's sick! He should be locked away! You know, what you did was more that physically injuring young girl, you left her scars that she's gonna have for the rest of her life! I don't wanna see either of you again until I see you in court!
Angry Mary walks out.