JASMINE: (into phone) Yes. Of course. Drop by any time. And thank you for calling.

CONNOR: The police lost them hours ago. Let me go out. I'll bring them down, I promise.

JASMINE: Soon. Soon you'll go out with all of my strength behind you... but first we have to celebrate. (smiles) That was the Governor on the phone. Very agreeable. He's dissolving his administration tonight. The time of the politician is over. This state now answers to me. (laughs) Ohh! It's happening. Don't you feel it? This world is about to kneel before me and shed all its avarice, all its woe. I will free them from the loneliness, from the empty horror of their lives. They won't know what hit them.

CONNOR: I'm sure of that.

JASMINE: And you'll be there, at my side. We will live in a palace built by the love of billions. It will make the pyramids of Giza look like the headstones in a pauper's graveyard. We'll be a family, Connor. Together, as one, forever. It's going to be beautiful. (hugs Connor)

CONNOR: Yes.

JASMINE: Then why aren't you smiling?

CONNOR: I don't know.

JASMINE: I think I do. To belong, to truly be a part of something, you have to surrender to it—completely. Cordelia has done that, but you...

CONNOR: I want to, really.

JASMINE: There's a part of you that you've kept from me—your pain.

CONNOR: I don't understand.

JASMINE: Pain has been the only constant in your life, the one thing that has never abandoned you. You think that pain is yours to keep and bear alone. But it's not. (digs her fingernails into Connor's palm) I want it. I want everything you are. Connor, father, let it go. Let me have it.

CONNOR: (nearly crying, submits) Ok.

(Jasmine pulls her hand off of Connor's palm revealing several semi-circular bloody marks where her nails pierced his skin.)

JASMINE: Ok.

(Jasmine holds up her hand then, and the bloody marks are on her palm now, and they fade away.)

• Connor & Jasmine
• The Beast, the Beast's Master, Jasmine, etc

written by: Ben Edlund; Original transcript by CariCranberry. Edited and formatted for this site by me. . Full transcript at:
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