Starr & Cole [2008]
[Starr got a car for her birthday]
Cole: Is your dad home?
Starr: No, I think he went to my Aunt Viki's, why?
Cole: I don't want him taking your birthday present and running me over with it.
Starr: Cole, all I want is for us to just be close again. I know everything that you're going through -- it doesn't have anything to do with me, but just know that -- that birthdays and anniversaries -- they're just dates on a calendar. All I really care about is -- is that we're together, okay?
Cole: Nothing can change that.
[Starr suspects that Langston and Cole are having an affair]
Dorian: Are you sure you’re not being overly sensitive?
Starr: Oh, you know what? You're right -- I am and it's completely my problem that Cole and Langston are probably out having an amazing time tonight while I'm stuffing V8 Fusions in the gift bags, but I should definitely give them the benefit of the doubt, shouldn't I?
[Starr is thrilled when she discovers that Cole and Langston are throwing her a surprise sweet 16 party]
Starr: Cole, I love you so much. This is by far the best night of my life.
Cole: Well, I'm glad, and I love you, too.
[Starr accuses Todd of moving the family to Hawaii in order to keep her from Cole]
Starr: You hate Cole!
Todd: Well, am I required to like him?
Starr: You keep torturing him, though, Dad. He just lost his mom, he has no parents left, but you just don't care about that, right? It's just not your problem?
Todd: Starr, if I wanted you and Cole broken up, there are a myriad of easy ways I could do it. I wouldn't have to move you guys to Hawaii.
[Starr tells Cole she's refusing to move with her family to Hawaii]
Starr: He wants to keep me away from you -- and although he denies it, I know that it's the truth. I know that it's the whole stupid reason why he's moving us to Hawaii.
Cole: Starr, I don't know. I mean, that sounds kind of extreme, even for your dad.
Starr: What am I going to do, Aunt Viki? It's hard enough not seeing Cole for one day, but the rest of my life? I don't know what I'm going to do. I'll die!
Viki: You're not going to die. You're going to be really unhappy -- for a while -- but you will survive.
Cole: I can't believe it. I mean, I've gotten so used to seeing her -- seeing her at school, seeing her walk down the hallway, doing homework together, watching those stupid slasher movies that she loves so much.
Langston: She and I -- she's my best friend, more like a sister.
Cole: Strange, huh? When you lose someone or think you're going to lose them, how much it hits you -- more than it ever did before -- how much you really love them.
[Starr and Cole are together for one last night before her family moves away]
Starr: I'm so sorry.
Cole: Why?
Starr: Because I said that I wouldn't cry and -- here I am. I just love you so much.
Cole: I love you, too. You're so beautiful.
Starr: No, I'm not.
Cole: Yes, you are. And I know you don't think it, and that's what makes you even more beautiful. And that's what I thought the first time I saw you.
Cole: Not only that you were the prettiest girl there but there was something about you, just the way you carried yourself. And the things you said -- I could tell you were really smart and funny and totally real.
Starr: That's the same way I felt about you.
Starr: Hey -- I know how you feel in your heart more than anyone else.
Cole: Yeah, you do.
Starr: I feel like when two people are in love with each other, that they feel exactly what the other one feels. It's like they're the same -- you know, their hearts. Does that sound stupid?
Cole: No, it doesn't because I feel the same way. I mean, sometimes, I even think we're thinking the same thoughts.
Starr: It's because we are. It's because we were meant to be together.
Starr: I want you to hold me and never let go. Cole, make love to me.
Cole: I didn't know you wanted to make love -- I mean, well, now, I mean.
Starr: I do. You don't?
Cole: No. No, I do.
Starr: Okay, then, what's wrong?
Cole: Nothing. Nothing's wrong. I mean, I've thought about it a million times, dreamt about it. I -- I just -- I just thought it'd be different.
Starr: Believe me, I thought it would be different, too. I thought that it would be after some important date, that it would be really romantic and something really special. It -- it is my first time.
Starr: Cole? I love you more than anyone. Okay? And that's why I want you to be my first and my only.
Cole: Yeah. Me, too. I feel the same way.
Starr: We might not have this chance again, and I want to show you how much I love you.
Cole: Hey. You don't have to do this to show me how much you love me. I mean, I know how much you love me. You love me a lot. And I don't want you to do anything that -- I don't want you to do this because you think you have to. You know, if -- if we do do this, then it's because we both think that it's the right thing to do -- and because we both love each other.
Starr: Cole? I know that I want this. And I have never been so sure about anything in my entire life.
Cole: Then I'm sure, too.
Starr: I love you, Cole. I'll never love anyone else.
Cole: I'll never love anyone else, either.
[Starr is furious with Todd after he ruins her night with Cole]
Starr: (to Langston) It was supposed to be perfect. Cole and I -- we knew that the time was right. I thought that I was going to be scared because it would be my first time and all, but he made me feel so safe. And then my Dad came in and he ruined it.
Starr: (to Langston) If I had to choose between losing my dad or losing Cole, I don't want my dad to be any part of my life.
[Starr begs Dorian to help her sneak out to see Cole]
Starr: Please, Aunt Dorian --
Dorian: I already gave you --
Starr: It'll be just like "Romeo and Juliet" where the nurse helps them both out.
Dorian: Oh, yes, and that had a happy ending.
Blair: I know that you're angry with your father but I think you kind of need to take a little responsibility in all this.
Starr: Me? I do? For what?
Blair: Well, Starr, nobody -- nobody made you go over to Langston’s to be with Cole. That was the choice that you made.
Blair: You love Cole, right? What -- what does that mean to you?
Starr: You know what it means.
Blair: No, no, I just -- I want to hear it from you, your own words. Tell me.
Starr: It means that I want him to be happy, that I want to share everything with him, that I want to be there for him if he has any problems.
Langston: I want you to tell me straight up that you don't love Cole.
Starr: I can't love Cole. Okay? He needs to think that I am completely over him, because if he doesn't -- if he doesn't, he's going to know that I love him with all of my heart, and then he's not going to give up. He's never going to give up, and then things are going to be worse for him than they already are.
Todd: Let's toast our daughter's future without Cole.
Blair: Todd, it's not that simple.
Todd: I think it is. She's a beautiful, smart, talented young woman. There will be plenty of guys out there for her. I mean, it's not as if Cole was some big catch, anyway. Out of sight, out of mind -- give her a couple of weeks, she'll forget all about him.
[Langston is shocked to learn that Starr and Cole slept together]
Langston: So, you and Cole, you -- you actually --
Starr: Langston, could you please stop acting so shocked?
Langston: Well, I -- I'm sorry but I just -- I can't believe you actually had sex.
Starr: We made love -- it's different.
[Langston tries to talk Starr out of aborting her baby]
Langston: What if next week your dad decides that you and Cole can see each other again?
Starr: Oh -- then that'll be great! Then we can get married and we can raise our child together. Langston, I'm 16 and he's 17. I get cranky when I have to baby-sit Sam and Jack.
Cole: I don't care how long it takes -- I'm going to wait for you. You're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Starr: Still?
Cole: Yeah, still.
[Cole finds Starr at the abortion clinic]
Cole: Whatever you do, I want you to be sure about it. But to me, it kinds of seems like maybe you were just doing this to protect me. And, Starr, that's not a good enough reason.
Starr: Then what do you want me to do?
Cole: I want you to be 100% sure that this is the right thing for you. I can take care of myself.
[Cole wants to run away with Starr]
Starr: Do you remember the first time we tried to run away? My dad practically killed you.
Cole: It'll be different this time.
Starr: Yeah, it will be different, because I'm pregnant and I have a bodyguard. That's really going to help us.
Cole: Starr, we'll make it work. We'll be a family. We'll get married.
Starr: You want to marry me?
Cole: Believe me, I imagined it differently. I wanted to get you a ring, get down on one knee -- that whole thing.
Starr: Cole, I don't care about that stuff, it's just I didn't think we'd be talking about marriage for a really long time.
Cole: Well, neither did I. I love you, Starr. I want to spend the rest of my life with you.
Starr: I love you, too. But how is this going to work?
Cole: I got us a couple IDs; mine saying 19, yours, 18. For once, we don't have to get our parents' permission for anything. All right? So there won't be anyone to keep us apart. Just imagine going to sleep every night together. Wake up the next morning seeing each other there. This can work, Starr. This can work. So what do you say? Run away with me?
Starr: Cole says that we're going to be a family and that everything's going to be okay. I just -- I can't believe that all of this is happening. I -- look, tonight, I remembered how much I love my dad and that he really does love me. I actually thought that I was going to stay. But then I remembered that my dad would never accept Cole. And if he finds out that I'm pregnant, I don't know what he's going to do.
Starr: Cole, why can't you tell me where we're going?
Cole: Because I want to surprise you.
Starr: Okay, well, why can't we take one of these interstates or something?
Cole: Because if your dad's already reported us missing, that's where the cops will be.
Starr: Okay, true, but you do know that this is why God invented one of those internet mappy thingies?
Cole: And that's what He called them, too.
Starr: You know what? I'm going to ask the waitress for directions to the interstate.
Cole: Starr, don’t. All right, I told you, we're not using the main roads. Now, just please sit back down. You cannot be drawing attention to yourself like that. Okay, all your dad has to do is post a little picture of you in the paper with "reward" written underneath and the waitress will be dialing 1-800 "they're heading towards Springville."
Starr: Except we're not really going to Springville, are we?
Cole: I just didn't want to be overheard.
Starr: You know what? Maybe in our new life, you should be a secret agent.
Cole: Ah, you know what? I'd like that.
[Cole objects when Starr wants to pay for breakfast]
Starr: Look, Cole, I don't want you to be responsible for everything that we do.
Cole: I got you into this whole mess, okay? And I don't want you to think that I'm incompetent.
Starr: I don't think that. And -- look, just because I am pregnant, I don't want you to think that I'm helpless. I mean, I'm not -- yet.
Cole: So what you're trying to say is that we're both incompetent?
Starr: Yeah. Equally, together.
Starr: Well, it's my turn to drive. Cole, I'm driving.
Cole: Okay, fine, but I get the radio.
Starr: Okay, but if I hear one boy band song, I am going to drive us off the road, okay?
Cole: Gee. I cannot wait to marry you.
Starr: Me, neither.
[Starr and Cole move into a motel]
Cole: Well, it's not exactly La Boulaie.
Starr: No, you're right about that. My dad's not ranting at me, Shaun’s not watching me 24/7. I do kind of miss the pool, though.
Starr: Okay, we -- we have a situation here. And, yeah, it's not what I wish would've happened, but I will not take back one thing that I said or felt that night, okay?
Cole: Me, neither.
Starr: I just wish that we would've had the conversation -- I mean, that we would've talked about it, that you would've worn a condom. I really wish that I'm not pregnant.
Starr: Hey, Cole, do you remember Patty Piscatelli?
Cole: Uh -- black hair, right?
Starr: Yeah, and she was always in detention. Well, me and Langston once overheard her and her best friend talking, and she said that you can't get pregnant the first time you have sex. And me and Langston actually laughed at her.
Cole: Well, people are supposed to get pregnant. That's how the species continues.
Starr: Right, but not until after college.
Starr: Will you sleep with me tonight? I mean, just -- just sleep.
Cole: I know what you mean. That's one thing I regretted. Your dad bursting in the door and -- we didn't get a chance to fall asleep together.
Starr: I would like that.
Cole: Me, too.
[Cole has bought Starr a T-shirt that says "Oh Great One" on it]
Starr: Okay, how did you know that my name was "Oh Great One"?
Cole: I know everything about you, Starr Manning.
Cole: I told you I'm going to take care of you.
Starr: You know, you really did think of everything.
Cole: Well, hey, it's the least I could do for "Oh Great One."
Starr: If you knew how I got that name --
Cole: You saved a guy's life and insisted on being called "Oh Great One."
Starr: Who told you that?
Cole: I've got my sources.
Starr: Yeah, well, I -- I wanted to save this guy, but my dad didn't believe me about it. Just like he didn't believe that I love you.
Cole: You know that funny looking restaurant, like, halfway down the boardwalk?
Starr: Get out of here. The one with the crab carapace as the roof?
Cole: I like a girl that knows her marine biology.
[Cole and Starr look at the prizes for the Skeeball game on the boardwalk]
Cole: See something you like?
Starr: It's Fred the Magic Frog.
Cole: What, did you used to have one of those?
Starr: Yeah, my dad gave me one when I was little, and he said that it was magic, and whenever my dad was gone, I could just talk to Fred and he could hear me.
Cole: How hungry are you?
Starr: Why?
Cole: Well, this place closes in about 20 minutes, and Fred II there costs 500 tickets, so we're going to have to skee the best skeeball of our lives to win that bad boy.
[Starr and Cole try to win the stuffed frog by playing Skeeball]
Starr: Okay, so how much is this going to cost us?
Cole: Nothing I can't make up in tips tomorrow. Besides, we're not wasting money because our baby is going to need toys to play with, right? And I'm pretty sure a magical frog is mandatory.
Starr: Okay, fork them over.
[Starr has just had another bout of morning sickness]
Cole: (to Starr's stomach) Hey, kid, this is dad. You do that to your mom again, I'm going to --
Starr: You're going to...?
Cole: There's -- there's no way I could do this discipline thing. You're going to have to be the one to bench the kid.
Starr: Oh, gosh. I remember Jack would never, ever stay in his time-outs.
Cole: Well, maybe we'll get lucky, and it'll be a girl.
Starr: Wait -- you really want to have this baby, don't you?
Cole: Yeah, I'm -- how could you not want something that's half of you and half of me? I mean, it's -- it's a living soul. I mean, this baby -- this baby will be ours. You know. Strong like my dad and beautiful like my mom.
Starr: Everything good about my mom, nothing bad of my dad.
Starr: I know for a fact that the baby will have your eyes.
Cole: Mm-hmm. Well, and will love snakes just as much as you do.
Starr: Well, they're going to have your laugh.
Cole: And your beautiful smile.
[Cole and Starr read a book about what to expect during the pregnancy]
Cole: "At this stage, the mother is likely to become a jumble of conflicted emotions."
Starr: I could basically write that chapter.
Cole: Okay, well, it gets better.
Starr: It can't get worse.
Cole: "By the end of this month, the mother should start to feel more energetic, and if she's been experiencing morning sickness, it should begin to abate."
Starr: It really does say that?
Cole: Right here.
Starr: Oh.
Starr: What -- what are you doing?
Cole: I'm trying to find the part where it says you’re supposed to start cleaning all the time.
Starr: Cleaning? Get out of here! Okay, even if it did say that in this book, it's not happening, all right? Now we're going back. Let's see. It says -- "at your next doctor's visit, you should be able to hear the baby's heart beat."
Cole: Wow.
Starr: Wow.
Cole: You're my life.
Starr: You're mine, too.
Cole: Starr, this can't be good for you or for the --
Starr: Your baby is fine, all right?
Cole: Well, I'm just looking out for you, all right?
Starr: If you would have been doing that before, then we wouldn't be in this situation right now.
[Cole wants to take a picture of pregnant Starr]
Starr: No pictures. I don't want to take a picture right now.
Cole: I want to remember everything. I mean, every time you molt and -- and --
Starr: Snakes molt.
Cole: They -- they do molt and I thought you would like that, you know, because you like snakes.
Starr: Okay, one picture.
Starr: Do you think we're really ready to be parents?
Cole: No. No. Here, sit down. Listen. Even couples in their 20s and 30s aren't ready their first time around.
Starr: Okay, I guess that makes me feel better.
Cole: And that's the beauty of nature. Because besides the smoking-hot molting girlfriends, it also gives us nine months to prepare and get ready for the baby. Three down, six to go.
Cole: Did you ever have to do that weird experiment with the egg in life skills?
Starr: Oh, yeah, the one where, like, you had to take care of it for a week and see how you did with it?
Cole: That's it. How'd you do?
Starr: Well, I dropped it the second day, and then I had to go to the store to buy one that looked just like it, just like everybody else in the class. How'd you do?
Cole: I actually put mine in an extra knee pad, drew a smiley face on it, and by the end of the week, that thing was going strong.
Starr: No kidding.
Cole: I mean, I know we can't put our baby in my football gear.
Starr: Oh, that's a relief.
Cole: I thought that you ought to know that I'm kind of natural at this stuff.
Starr: Ever since that eighth grade egg.
Cole: And this will be our baby.
Starr: You know, you're kind of a natural at this.
Cole: Yeah, I told you.
Starr: Yeah, but not how you think. I mean, you make it seem so easy, and, like, you're ready. You make it seem possible.
Cole: It is.
Starr: I'm scared, okay?
Cole: I know.
Starr: No, you don't know. Do you have any idea what labor pain is supposed to feel like? It's supposed to feel like your stretching your lip over your forehead. Yeah, it's awful. Then they say that the best thing for the baby is breastfeeding because of all the natural immunities and everything, but that means that the baby would have to be with me 24/7 when it first comes, and, I mean, I know you say that you and I will be in this together, but, really, I'm going to be all alone, okay? It's going to be all on me.
Cole: (about Shaun) You know, as cool as he is, I'm kind of looking forward to going out without a bodyguard following us around.
Starr: I'm kind of getting used to Shaun, though.
Cole: Yeah, me, too. That's what worries me.
Cole: So, have you thought about when and how you're going to tell your dad that we're pregnant?
Starr: I'm pregnant, not you.
Cole: Right. I don't know why I said that. I -- I hear the guys on the television say it....
Cole: (abot Blair) I can't believe she could be so cool to the guy that got her daughter pregnant.
Starr: Okay, wait, stop saying it like that. You didn't get me pregnant, okay? We got me pregnant together. It's not like it was just you. It's not like I was sleeping and you just, like, put a baby in me or some -- this is just disgusting. What?
Cole: Okay, I know that you're mad and this is kind of a serious situation, but that was -- that was kind of funny.
[Starr tells Cole her decision about the baby]
Starr: The best thing for the baby is for it to have two parents that will take care of it. That's not you or me.
Cole: Starr, yes, we can.
Starr: We can’t. And that's why I'm going to give the baby up for adoption.
[Cole objects to Starr's idea of giving the baby up for adoption]
Starr: Cole, how can we be parents when I can't even tell my dad that I'm pregnant?
Cole: We'll figure it out, okay? All right, you just -- you have to trust me.
Starr: What's the baby going to do while we're figuring this out? Come on, we're just kids. We are stupid kids who did a stupid thing.
Cole: Huh. That's what you think. Making love to me was a stupid thing.
Starr: Cole, you know there are adults out there that want and need a kid right now.
Cole: They'll be strangers. What are you talking -- they won't know our kid. They won't know what would make our kid happy.
Starr: Okay, neither do I, though. Babies don't come with instructions.
Starr: I'm not ready for it, Cole. And as bad as it sounds, I'm not ready to give up being a kid. Okay, and I'm afraid that if I do, and if you do that, you'll end up hating me someday.
Cole: I could never hate you for giving me the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Starr: Okay, how can we be parents when we still need parents?
Cole: You know what? Some of us don't have them.
Cole: It might be different for you. You have a family, as weird as it is. But our baby's the only family I have.
Starr: You have me, too.
Cole: Not if you do this. Not if you give away the only family I have.
Starr: Don't say that to me.
Cole: It's just how feel. Starr, please. Please don't do this. Please, please, please don't give our baby away.
Starr: I love you, Cole. But I'm sorry, I just can’t. Cole.
Cole: I love you, Starr. But this is -- it's not going to work.
Starr: What? Are you saying that the only way we can be together is if I keep this baby?
Cole: I don't know.
Cole: You want to give away our baby, and you don't care what it's doing to me.
Starr: I love you, Cole.
Cole: I love you, too. That's how we ended up having this baby together.
Starr: No, okay. We made love because we love each other. I mean, me getting pregnant, it wasn't fate or a miracle. It was an accident.
Cole: It's not how I see it.
[Starr is upset when she learns that Cole told Todd about her pregnancy]
Cole: I don't want you to get hurt. That's the last thing I want, because I do love you.
Starr: If you loved me, you wouldn't have done this to me. You don't care about me. All you care about is winning, just like my father.
[Starr is horrified to learn that Todd and Cole are planning to file an injunction against her decision to give her baby to Marcie]
Cole: I didn't know what he was planning to do until I got here today. He asked me to meet him here.
Starr: At the courthouse? You thought he was just going to do something nice? Let things slide like he never does? No, you're doing this because I wouldn't do what you wanted.
Cole: No.
Starr: Yes. This is my worst nightmare. I am having a baby, and the father of that baby is just like my father.
Cole: I have to do what I think is right, just like you do.
Starr: Don't talk to me. Talk to him. (she points at Todd) He's your new best friend, now.
Langston: You're starting to show. I can't believe there's a little person in there.
Starr: I know, it's crazy, right? I think about him all the time. And everybody's been telling me that I'm carrying high, which means it might be a boy. Could you imagine? I mean, I wonder if he'll be good at sports, what he'll look like, if he'll look like Cole or me. What he'll be like, you know? I wonder what he'll think about me, if he'll hate me for giving him up.
[Langston films a video for Starr to give to her baby]
Starr: You know what -- wait. Um -- I have one more thing.
Langston: Yeah. It's still rolling.
Starr: Okay. I know that people have a lot of words to describe the decisions that I've made, the choices that I've made. But I -- I want you to know that even though you were not planned, you were -- you were never a mistake. Never. I know that you are the best of me and your father, and I love your father. And I will love him for the rest of my life.
[Cole brings the adoption papers to Starr]
Cole: Here. It's done. I signed. You win.
Starr: Wait, you're -- you're going to let the McBains adopt?
Cole: I'm giving up my rights.
Starr: Oh, my gosh, Cole --
Cole: No, no, no, no. I'm not just giving up my kid. We're through.
Cole: (to Starr) You can give the baby to Marcie, but we're over for good.
Starr: There is nobody in this world who knows what I'm going through except for you, okay? I need you. I can't do this on my own, but I know that we can do this together.
Cole: What makes you think so?
Starr: Because you're the love of my life, and I will never, ever let you go.
Cole: You already did.
Starr: I waited to make love to you until I thought that we were ready. But we were so not ready. But I would have waited forever for you, Cole, because -- because I don't want to be with anybody else, okay? We're Starr and Cole, we can't --
Cole: Starr and Cole made a baby and there's no going back.
Cole: (to Starr) When I look at you now I feel sad. I don't want that. I want to remember us the way we were, because that was the happiest time of my life.
Starr: (about Cole) I know that I still love him. And that he still loves me. But -- he said that all he's going to think about when he sees me is how I gave away his baby. And even if -- even if I decided to keep the baby, that he knows that I would only be doing it for him -- and how he knows that I don't want our baby.
Langston: That's harsh.
Starr: But I still love him, Langston. And that's how he feels. And I know that he still loves me -- I do. But he never -- he never wants to see me again. Never -- and there's just nothing that I can do about that.
Starr: I just want to thank you for everything.
Cole: You were always my friend, Starr.
Starr: And you're always mine.
[Cole and Starr try to keep a comatose Rex company by reading something to him]
Cole: Well, I have a back issue of "Craze." "Fifty ways to leave your hairdresser."
Starr: Better than my aunt Dorian's copy of "Collette."
Cole: Yeah, my dad used to always recite these "important" poems to me. Dude was totally into Yeats.
Starr: Irish -- it figures.
Cole: It's not that he wasn't good or anything, I was just a little kid. So my mom broke out Lewis Carroll and read me "Jabberwocky" for the first time.
Starr: And let me guess, you loved it.
Cole: Yeah, you know, it's all those made-up words, that's what made it great.
Cole: (to Marty) You didn't get to know Starr very well. She's fearless. No, she wouldn't have been afraid of the frog. She's not afraid of anything. She's not even afraid to give our baby away. And I used to hate her for that. But I don't anymore. If anything, I love her now more than I did before.
[Starr and Cole are together on Halloween]
Cole: What do you say we get out of here and go find Langston and Markko and smash some pumpkins?
Starr: I actually have a better idea. I think I have some toilet paper in my car and we should go T.P.-ing.
[Starr is at the hospital, in labor]
Cole: I just don't want you to be afraid. Everything's going to be fine.
Starr: I was scared about your driving.
Cole: I just didn't think you'd want to have the baby at my mom's grave, that's all.
Starr: I just think you didn't want to be one to deliver the baby.
[Starr asks Cole to stay with her during the labor]
Starr: You love this baby, and you wanted us all to be a family. And no, I don't want to be alone, not even for a minute.
Cole: Okay. I'll try not to freak out like I did before.
Starr: Actually, your freaking out kind of calmed me down.
Cole: How could screaming "she's having a baby" calm you down?
Starr: Because I knew you wouldn't let anything bad happen to me. Before, when I went into false labor, I was really scared. But with you here, I'm okay.
Starr: Just so we're clear, there's no way you're going to be there in the delivery room.
Cole: Darn it. You know, guys really like that kind of thing, too.
[Starr has to break the news to Cole that their baby has died]
Cole: Is it the baby? I thought everything was okay. Is it not?
Starr: Cole, our baby did not make it. Our baby is dead.
Cole: Our baby died? How? What happened?
Starr: I don't know. She was sick.
Cole: She -- it was a girl?
Starr: She was a beautiful little girl. She was just perfect.
Starr: After the baby was born, I was -- I was happy and sad. I was just all over the place. She had been a part of me for so long, right underneath my heart. She was always a part of me.
Cole: I know.
Starr: (about baby Hope) When she came out, she let out this big cry. I was so surprised that someone so little could make so much noise. And just -- just for the few minutes that she was in this room, we all just fell in love with her.
Cole: She must have gotten that from you.
[Starr and Cole are horrified to learn that Todd was keeping Marty hostage]
Starr: Oh, I can't believe my dad did that to your mom. It's like he can't stop doing one horrible thing after another.
Cole: Yeah, this is kind of the worst, right? I mean, he's kind of running out of people to screw with.
[Starr and Cole learn that baby Hope died from RH disease]
Starr: Bad blood.
Cole: What?
Starr: That's usually what they say when two people hate each other, or more with us, two families. They say that there's bad blood between them. I'm surprised you even want to be in the same room as me right now.
Cole: You're not your father and you never will be.
Starr: Well, he's the one who started all this bad blood.
Cole: Yeah, but when you and I got together, I thought we were going to change all that. We were good together.
Starr: For a while. I guess you can't fight bad blood.
Cole: Come on, Starr, it just happened, all right? Sometimes bad things happen for no reason.
Starr: Then why do people go around doing bad things to one another?
Starr: (about Tea) When she was married to my dad, she was special to me. I promise you that she's not just a barracuda.
Cole: I really don't want to hear about her soft side, okay? Anyone who would defend your dad after he held my mom hostage and everything else he did is less than human.
[Cole says he wants to kill Todd]
Starr: If you kill my dad, then you will go to prison.
Cole: It doesn't matter.
Starr: Prison, Cole. Have you ever seen what it's like in there? Because I have. I've seen it a million times. I've visited my dad there a million times. You will not last in Statesville. And they're not going to send you to some place with grassy lawns or therapy. No, they're going to send you there. And I'll only be able to see you once a week, maybe. We'll have to talk with a barrier in between us. Would you want that? And even if you don't get killed, Cole, you're going to change. You're going to become a different person. And I'm going to lose the best friend that I've ever had in my entire life. And I can't do that, Cole. I can't lose you. Not you, too. You were the only one who was in this with me. That baby belonged to both of us. And if you're not here, then I'm in this all alone.
[Starr explains to Cole why she wants to testify against Todd]
Starr: That was our baby my dad was going after. Our little girl, okay? And yeah, we weren't planning on raising her, but that doesn't change the fact of who she was. I'm doing this for you and me, but most importantly for Hope.
Cole: Also, I don't want you to think that -- I mean, I know what I said and how mad I was. But I would never shoot your dad. I mean, I just wouldn't do that. I mean, he's your dad, and no matter what he does, you still love him.
Starr: He doesn't love me. Even though he says he does, I know he doesn’t. He couldn’t. Not if he was planning on stealing our baby.