JOHN

I'm not here as a friend

I have a job to do

it's strange to find my work

should lead me here to you

Chris knows all about you

I have shown him all this

but I think that it's time

you know all about Chris



KIM

please, don't you see that's all I live for?

I have him and nothing more

at night, everything that's not him

disappears behind my door



JOHN

please, he went crazy when he lost you

spoke to no one for a year

then he finally said "I'm home now,

my life has to go on here"



please, let me finish talking, please

this was three whole years ago



KIM

yes, yes I know

I know how pain can grow

when the rock you hold onto

is a love miles away, listen:



please, I already know the story

take us to the U.S.A.



JOHN

when we've finished here, you'll see him

Chris arrived with me today!



KIM

oh Tam! He's here!

he is here, he's so near

we might breathe the same air tonight!

your father's here



KIM

oh Tam, it's true

my dream was right

you'll see him soon!



JOHN

I can't tell her like this

I should not be the one

Chris must come see his son



KIM

please,

don't you see we've been

watched over?

as we crossed

the wildest seas?

even god wants us together

can I end this journey,

please?



JOHN

they don't say

in the files

there's a woman in love here

what sustained her for miles

Chris still knows nothing of

can I end this journey

please?



(JOHN, unable to tell KIM the truth, returns to the hotel to inform CHRIS and ELLEN of the

impossible situation. The ENGINEER doesn't trust any of them, least of all an American GI

who has fathered a bui-doi son, and goes in search of CHRIS'S hotel address so that he can

send KIM there directly