A Beautiful Piece of Dialogue

I was watching the M. Night Shyamalan movie Unbreakable,not a big favourite of mine the first time I saw it at the movies, but I thought I would give it a second chance and started to see a few glimmers of Night’s genius (somewhat missing of late). But I found this absolutely gorgeous piece of dialogue for the character of MEGAN.

Megan stands in the darkened hall.

Beat.

DAVID(whisper)
Hi.

Megan nods. Beat.

MEGAN (whisper)
I’ve come to a decision.

DAVID (whisper)
Oh.

Beat.

MEGAN(whisper)
Let me just ask you
something okay? And you can
be totally honest. I’m
prepared for any answer. It
won’t affect me…

David nods, “yes.”

MEGAN(whisper)
Have you been with anyone?
Since we started having
problems? The answer won’t
affect me.

Beat. David stares at his wife.

MEGAN(whisper)
It won’t affect me either
way.

Beat. David doesn’t say anything. He just nods, “No.”

Megan’s face starts to tremble. She starts crying. Tears roll over her very
affected face. She tries to wipe them away, but there’s too many. Beat.

MEGAN(soft)
…My decision is… I’d
like to start again. Pretend
we’re at the beginning.
(beat)
It’s a big deal you walked
away from that train. It’s
a second chance.
(beat)
If you want to ask me out
sometime, that would be
okay.

Megan nods and walks down the stairs as she wipes her face. David watches her
disappear into the shadows.

DISSOLVE TO:

It’s a beautiful piece of dialogue in my opinion because of the denial in the repetition of ‘it won’t affect me either way’, it’s a total lie on her part,but she has to say it because she’s can’t bear to say what she means.

Exquisite.