Disclaimer: Hey, Aliiance Communications Corp, et al, guess what! I know
these guys don't belong to me! I never for a moment thought they did!
Thank you very much for letting me borrow them; you are very kind!! 

PS- the song, "If I Can't Love Her" is off the "Beauty and the Beast:
the Broadway Musical" soundtrack

"If I Can't Love Her"

by Compass

(as the music rises, we see Kowalski joking with Frannie.  He wears a
characteristic smirk, but we can see in his eyes that his heart isn't
quite in it.  As the words begin, he turns and walks off.  Frannie watches
him, and we see there is puzzlement in her eyes)

And in my twisted face there's not the slightest trace 
Of anything that even hints at kindness

(As the song continues, we see Kowalski is in the closet.  He's gone
there for escape.  He huddles in the corner, head leaning back against
the wall, eyes squeezed shut.  The camera spirals down on him.)

And from my tortured shape, no comfort, no escape.
I see, but deep within is utter blindness

(a tear trickles down Kowalski's face)

Hopeless, as my dream dies
As the time flies
Love a lost illusion 

(He stands quickly, throwing a punch at a nearby, brown paper package,
denting it and sinking back to his knees)

Helpless, unforgiven
Cold and driven to this sad conclusion

(He leaves the closet, eyes clear now, and sees Frannie as the words
continue.  He follows her to the breakroom, where he proceeds to get
a cup of coffee to hide his odd behavior, all the while glancing
surreptitiously
in Francesca's direction.)

No beauty could move me,
No goodness improve me,
No power on earth, if I can't love her.

(Francesca notices his glances, and returns them with her own curious
gaze.  Upon seeing she notices him, Kowalski hurriedly leaves the
breakroom,
leaving a puzzled Francesca behind.  But realization has begun to dawn
in her eyes)

No passion could reach me, 
No lesson could teach me.
How I could have loved her, and make her love me, too.
If I can't love her,
Then who?

(Scene switches abrubtly to a new scene.  Time has elapsed. Kowalski
is sitting at his desk, staring over at Francesca, who is obviously aware
of his gaze but unsure what to do about it.  As the words begin again,
Kowalski stands and begins to walk to Frannie's desk, purposeful: we
all know what he's going to tell her.  Frannie, glancing up from her
paperwork, sees him and looks back down quickly, a grin on her face.
She's obviously come to the conclusion that she feels the same for him
as he does for her.  Excitement seems to crackle between them)

Long ago I should have seen
All the things I could have been
Careless and unthinking I moved onward

(suddenly, a man bearing a bouquet of roses swoops down from behind
Frannie,
planting a kiss on her cheek, obviously taking her by surprise: an old
friend, reuniting with her for a lunch date.  Frannie looks pleased;
Kowalski looks stricken.  He's frozen in place, eyes lost. Realization
at what this must look like hits Frannie, and she turns a frantic gaze
to Kowalski, as though begging him not to cease and desist what he was
doing.	But Kowalski feels betrayed, unwanted, and as the words start
again, he backs away and begins to jog from the squadroom, picking up
speed as he does)

No pain could be deeper,
No life could be cheaper,

(Frannie wrenches herself from her friend's hold and follows Kowalski)

No point anymore
If I can't love her

(Kowalski bursts from the front doors of the CPD, pain etched on his
face)

No spirit could win me,
No hope left within me;
Hope I could have loved her, and that she'd set me free!

(Frannie comes to the door on the last line, grabbing it as it swings
closed.  She watches Kowalski's fleeing form, and screams out his name.
We see her mouth form the syllables, "Ko-wal-ski!"  But he's gone) 

But it's not to be.
If I can't love her

(Kowalski runs down the sidewalk, faster and faster, knocking aside
pedestrians
as he goes.)

Let the world be done with me!

(as the last note hangs, our picture switches back and forth: Kowalski
running; Frannie sinking down against the doorframe of the CPD;
Kowalski pulling to a stop and leaning shakily against an alley wall,
eyes closed;  Frannie crying on the steps of the police department.)

Music down

Fade to black

The End

Well, what do you think? Does the song fit the mood? I love this song,
and one day it just hit me that it was the perfect Kowalski/Francesca
tune. This was fun! Maybe I'll try it again sometime.....