I had to tell you in person. Because there's something else I need to say.
He studies her face, burning it into his memory.
RAFE:
Evelyn...you know the line -- let's make tonight memorable. What I feel about you makes it impossible for me to say something like that. If I don't come back, I don't want to saddle you with regret and sadness you'll carry the rest of your life.
EVELYN:
I don't know if you can choose that, Rafe.
RAFE:
Maybe not. But I need you to know. I love you. And I will come back. I'll find a way. And then we'll get a chance to know if what I felt the first moment I saw you, and every minute since then, is real.
EVELYN:
Do one thing for me, before you go.
She takes his hand and leads him inside.
INT. NIGHT CLUB - NIGHT She leads him onto the dance floor, and they dance, among the others, yet in a world apart from everyone else. And then they stop while all the others move around them, and kiss the kind of kiss that lasts a lifetime.
EXT. HOTEL - NIGHT The nurses are entering the hotel. Pilots are going in with them. But Rafe and Evelyn stop on the street.
A last kiss. Their hands touch a final time, and then part.
She moves inside the lobby, and looks out the glass doors as he walks away.
EXT. TRAIN STATION - DAWN Rafe and Danny stand on the platform. Rafe's got his gear packed in a bag slung over his shoulder.
CONDUCTOR'S VOICE All aboard!
Rafe glances once more toward the revolving doors from the station that lead onto the platform.
DANNY:
Didn't you say you told her not to come?
RAFE:
Yeah.
DANNY:
Then why are you looking for her?
RAFE:
It's a test. If I asked her to come and she came, it wouldn't tell me anything.
If I tell her not to come, and she comes...then I know she loves me.
VOICE:
ALL ABOARD!
DANNY:
You're still a kid, ya know that? Take care of yourself.
RAFE:
You too.
Rafe sticks his hand out to Danny. Danny knocks it away, and hugs him.
Rafe steps onto the train, and it pulls away. Rafe waves.