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 Mrs.
Timmons could be the stereotype of the loving, caring grandmother,
grandmother who sometimes replaced parents in the upbringing of her
grandchildren, Keith and Katie. Old woman with silver hair, Mrs. Timmons
returns in the life of her last family member, her grandson Keith, after
an alarming phone call. Keith rushes to the bedside of his grandmother
without the slightest hesitation, abandoning Gina and the daily life.
This woman is certainly today the only person that Keith really loves,
without compensation. Because Mrs. Timmons represents a happy life, a
simple life, the life before... before Katie's death.
The
bedroom of Mrs. Timmons is like Mrs. Timmons, a vestige of another time
: a heavy wooden bed, flowers, paintings, but especially this bedroom is
a temple dedicated to the memory of Katie. Mrs. Timmons lives surrounded
by Katie's swimming cups and medals and many photos of her. Asleep at
Keith's arrival, she illuminates her grandson's face when she opens her
eyes. She seems tired, but today she has a little strength because,
before leaving, she wants Keith to find peace and she knows that today
could be the right date : it will be five years tomorrow that Katie died,
drowned. She knows her grandson, she knows the burning fire of the
hatred that consumes him; so she tries to explain to him that Cruz
Castillo is perhaps not responsible for her death, and that hating and
wanting to revenge will not bring him peace.
Because
she knows her grandson, she is afraid for him - she knows his project of
revenge against Cruz Castillo - so she wants to show him that turning
the page it is not to forget the past - besides she herself keeps her
alive in this room - it is just going on with your life. It is with a
nice smile that she asks him to find a woman, a woman he loves and with
whom he can build a life. She is radiant when between the lines of Keith's
answers, she understands that there is someone in his life - Keith
behaves almost like a teenager ! As a loving grandmother, she demands
several things : that he comes back tomorrow with his fiancée and that
he returns the earring that he imagines to be the proof of Cruz's
responsibility in Katie's death. Keith can only yield to the demands of
the one he loves.
Mrs.
Timmons, who has the chance to get to know her grandson's still-unavowed
love, Gina DeMott, does not hide her joy during this meeting. Gina plays
her role perfectly, giving the change to the old lady so that she
believes that she and Keith form a perfect couple, with perhaps a
wedding project, lying when the memory of Katie is evoked.
Mrs.
Timmons ends up passing away slowly, without pain, in the presence of
Keith. Coincidentally, she leaves this world on the same day as her
beloved Katie. Before her last breath, as a loving grandmother, she asks,
almost implores, one last time Keith to turn the page, to let the memory
of his young sister turn into a warm breath, soothing, like that south
wind that sometimes blows on the Santa Barbara beaches. After a last
look, a last kiss, Keith takes again the earring found on the beach five
years earlier; here he is ready to go to war against Cruz Castillo and
Victoria Lane.
Although
very brief, the meeting of Keith and his grandmother allows us to learn
more about Keith's personality and about the secret wound that has been
gnawing at him for years, giving him a sensitivity that was guessed at
the only contact with Gina.
Portrait
written for this site by Lilian
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