INT. TENEMENT APARTMENT - RIO DE JANEIRO - DAY

A dump, empty but for a table and chair. On the table lie THE PHOTOS that once lined Bella’s walls. Edward stands in the center of the room, stock still, staring out at the rising sun. His face is as empty and desolate as Bella’s was after he left.

A CELL PHONE on the table RINGS jarringly. He doesn’t move.  It continues. Finally, he whips the receiver to his ear, exasperated.

EDWARD
What?

ROSALIE (O.S.)
Wow, Edward finally answered the phone. I feel so honored…

INTERCUT WITH:
INT. TANYA’S ALASKAN HOME - DAY
Rosalie, on the phone, stands at the picture window —

ROSALIE’S POV - EXT. ALASKAN HOUSE - Emmett, Jasper, Carlisle and Esme walk away from the house, over the snow to the treeline, on their way to hunt. None wear coats.

EDWARD
I’m hanging up now…

Rosalie turns away from the window.

ROSALIE
Wait!… You should come home.
(no response)
Esme’s a wreck, Carlisle never smiles. Even Emmett’s depressed. You’ve
really done a number on them.

EDWARD (pained)
I’m sorry. I am. But they wouldn’t be happier with me around. Trust me.

ROSALIE
I… I just miss… us. The family.

EDWARD
I know. But the further away I am, the safer Bella will be. She deserves a shot at a normal life —

ROSALIE
But see, you don’t have to worry about that, not anymore —

She stops realizing she may be making a mistake. But Edward caught it, sits up.

EDWARD
Why, Rose? Did something happen?

ROSALIE
I - uh —

EDWARD
Tell me, Rosalie.
(rises, fierce)
Tell me! —

ROSALIE
(blurts)
— Alice had a vision. She saw Bella — threw herself off a cliff… She’s dead, Edward.

Edward reels, uncomprehending.

EDWARD
I… don’t believe it.

ROSALIE
Alice is there now. Thought she could help with the funeral or something.
STAY ON ROSALIE as —
Come home, Edward. It’s time…
Edward…?

She’s been disconnected. Off Rosalie, worried…



Again: how is this Rosalie’s fault?  All she was doing was telling Edward what she honestly believed was the truth.  SHE wasn’t the one who had a vision and jumped to conclusions, SHE wasn’t the one who ran off to Volterra to die in the most dramatic way possible.  She didn’t tell him to get him to kill himself, she told him because she missed him and wanted him to come home! She was being honest with her brother and yet everyone blames HER?   What was the alternative?  Did they really plan on NEVER telling Edward, the mind-reader, that Bella had died?  If Rosalie had LIED about it to get Edward home, that would be one thing, but she believed she was being honest with him when no one else would.  How is that bad?