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Hope continues to question the bartender. 

Hope: Please... I have good reasons why I need to know a few details of their stay here. I know they were together.

Bartender: Look... I sympathize with you. It must be your husband and you are probably worried that he took this girl to the bar and...

Hope: No! It's not my husband... It's my brother. 

Bartender: Well either way... It's still a family affair and I won't be in the middle of it.

Hope: Look... If you prefer the cops showing here then...

Bartender: Whoa! The cops?

Hope: A girl had sex with my brother in this hotel. First they drank at your bar. She doesn't remember a thing... 

Bartender: But...

Hope: There is no "but"... Or you will talk to me... Or the cops will be here tomorrow. I bet that it wouldn't be good for this place image. 

Bartender looks down.

Hope: Okay, I guess you prefer the police to show up. 

Hope prepares to leave.

Bartender: Wait... Please don't go to the police. It's my uncle's business. He worked very hard for it. 

Hope: This girls life is absolutely broken because of what happened here so I need you to tell me everything.

Bartender: So these two were here together some days ago. The guy was drinking less... The girl was having one drink after the other. She seemed depressed.

Hope: Yeah... She was sad. Continue...

Bartender: So the guy is your brother?

Hope: Yes...

Bartender: What I will say might give him problems... 

Hope: Tell me.

Bartender: So they really had sex?

Hope: Yes...

Bartender: Well then she was really raped.

Hope: What do you mean?

Bartender: I was sure that they are a couple... So when I saw that she is completely wasted I told the guy about our rooms. He booked one. I helped him to carry that girl upstairs. 

Hope: So she was absolutely wasted?

Bartender: Yeah... Unconscious. There was no way that she could consent... I had no idea what when I will carry that girl to the room... That.... That she will be there with a guy that isn't her boyfriend and that will take advantage of her. He seemed sincerely worried about her. 

Hope starts crying.

Bartender: You need a tissue?

Hope: No, I'm fine...

Bartender: Please... Deal with your brother in private... I told you everything.

Hope: Don't worry. I'll deal with him.

Next scene: Karen and the doctor talk in Caroline's presence.

Karen: I told you Dean... I told you there is hope.

Dr Dean: I'm amazed... You are incredibly lucky, but we still don't know if she'll wake up and if she won't be very disabled. 

Karen: She has to wake up. She has a son.

Dr Dean: Karen, you kept him here for weeks hoping that Caroline will wake up... Now he is with a new mother.

Karen: Douglas has just one mother and it's Caroline. Hope is a... A substitute. 

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