Beauty and the Beast (TV Series)

A Distant Shore (1989)

Ron Perlman: Vincent

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• Vincent : Three thousand miles. That's a great distance to be apart from someone.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : Someone close.

  Vincent : How long will you be away?

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : A week, maybe. Is there something you'd like me to bring you from California?

  [he gives a small nod] 

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : What?

  Vincent : Yourself, safely home.

• Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : I'm only going to interview someone. It won't be dangerous.

  Vincent : If something should happen to you...

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : I'll be all right. You'll be with me.

  Vincent : Tomorrow, you'll be standing on another shore. Looking out at another ocean.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : I'll be seeing it for both of us.

  Vincent : I'll miss you, Catherine.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : I already miss you.

• Vincent : One of my fondest memories, when I began to read, truly read.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : Voraciously, I remember.

  Vincent : Every night after dinner, we would read to each other something we'd found that day; a poem, a passage. Something that struck us in a deep place.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : Yes, I know.

  Vincent : And we'd talk, sometimes into the night, about what all the words meant. About... everything.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : Those were wonderful talks. I remember.

  Vincent : No child ever had a better education.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : And I promise you, Vincent, no father ever learned more from any child.

• Vincent : These four days...

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : I know. I know.

  Vincent : There was a moment I... I thought you were in great danger. There was nothing I could do. I wanted so desperately to reach out to you.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : But you did, Vincent. I could feel you watching over me. I heard you call out. Vincent, you saved me.

  Vincent : Catherine, this... this bond we share, this connection...

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : Yes. That strong.

• Jacob 'Father' Wells : You miss her.

  Vincent : I miss feeling her near, knowing where to find her.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : How fortunate you are, Vincent. To know that feeling.

  Vincent : Yes.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : So until she returns, you'll simply have to put up with me.

• Vincent : Park is beautiful when it's wet. I, uh... found myself on Caterine's balcony.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : There can be little comfort in that when it's empty.

  Vincent : I wanted a sense of her.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : What did you find?

  Vincent : Only her absence.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : What about your... your connection to her? Your bond?

  Vincent : I feel it. At a distance. She's so far away.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : But you can feel it?

  Vincent : Oh, yes.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : Then trust in that, Vincent. It's a remarkable thing. To feel the beat of a woman's heart... on a distant shore.

• Jacob 'Father' Wells : Vincent, how about a game of chess?

  Vincent : Not tonight.

  Jacob 'Father' Wells : I see. The prospect of beating me doesn't excite you.

  Vincent : Well, I must admit that thrill has begun to wear thin.