Scott Paetty: Matt Carter

Quotes 

• Matt Carter : [in his office]  Can I help you?

  Lane McKenzie : I'm Lane McKenzie. We spoke last week at your house.

  Dean Collins : [introducing himself]  Dean.

  [they shake hands] 

  Matt Carter : Oh right, I remember. You were looking for my fiancee.

  Lane McKenzie : [nervous laugh]  Uh, sorry to disturb you at your office. We stopped by your house, and your neighbor gave us this address.

  Dean Collins : He said Jeannie might be here.

  Matt Carter : You just missed her.

  Dean Collins : Oh.

  [looks uncomfortably at Lane] 

  Matt Carter : Oh, you're friends of hers?

  Dean Collins : [voice thick with irony]  Yeah, yeah, we go way back.

  Matt Carter : Oh, great! I know she'll wanna see you. Lemme get a pen. I'll write down your names and numbers.

  Dean Collins : Have you and Jeannie been together long?

  Matt Carter : Almost a year.

  Lane McKenzie : [surprised]  A year?

  Matt Carter : Yeah.

  Dean Collins : When's the wedding?

  Matt Carter : [beaming]  She wants to be a June bride.

  Dean Collins : [as they share a laugh]  Well, you must be quite a guy. She was always so particular, it's hard to imagine Jeannie Collins married.

  Matt Carter : Collins?

  Dean Collins : Yeah. Jeannie Collins.

  Matt Carter : My fiancee's Jeannie Collier.

  Lane McKenzie : Collier?

  Matt Carter : You said you were looking for Jeannie Collier when you stopped by.

  Lane McKenzie : I said Collins.

  Matt Carter : Let's skip to the bottom of this.

  [opens drawer, takes out photo] 

  Matt Carter : Here, it's my fiancee Jeannie.

  Lane McKenzie : [taking a look]  It isn't her.

  Matt Carter : I beg your pardon?

  Lane McKenzie : I saw you kissing Jeannie Collins in the Savannah airport the other day.

  Matt Carter : Then you need glasses.

  Lane McKenzie : My eyesight is just fine.

  Matt Carter : What are you talking about? Who are you people?

  Lane McKenzie : I know you flew to Savannah. I saw the airplane passenger list.

  Matt Carter : [nods impatiently]  Not that it's any of your damn business, but I did go to Savannah the other day to conduct business. I flew back the same day. I didn't kiss any Jeannie Collins in the airport, I don't even know a Jeannie Collins, and if you don't leave right now, I'm calling the police!

  Dean Collins : No, no, no. That won't be necessary.

  [to Lane:] 

  Dean Collins : Come on.

  Lane McKenzie : But something's not right!

  Dean Collins : Come on, we'll talk about this outside.

  [she heads for the door] 

  Dean Collins : Sorry to take up your time.

  [leaves, closing the door, with Matt glaring after them] 

• Jeannie Collins : [entering just after Lane and Dean has left]  Oh... thank you so much, honey.

  [embraces him] 

  Matt Carter : I cannot believe they're trying to track you down.

  Jeannie Collins : [sighs]  Well, they must have seen us together at the airport the other day, and recognized me. I mean, they did see me on the day of the birth, it's just that the adoption agency promised no one can ever get my name.

  Matt Carter : It's a good thing that they at least warned us that couple is trying to find their child's birth mother.

  Jeannie Collins : I was only seventeen when I got pregnant, and... the circumstances were so awful...

  Matt Carter : Don't worry yourself about that. It's in the past. I'm here to protect you now.

  Jeannie Collins : You're not mad at me?

  Matt Carter : [scoffs]  Jeannie, honey, I love you! You're gonna be my wife!

  Jeannie Collins : [laughs]  Well, I don't want those people to ever find me.

  Matt Carter : Don't worry, I convinced them they're wrong. They're not gonna bother us again.

  [they hug, but secretly, she has a grim expression]