"I'm still your brother's wife"
this is the main problem. Yelina still feels committed to Ray. He might be dead, but he still has control over her. maybe she feels guilty about her feeling for her brother in law.
I have to jump in here
as this quote needs to be taken in context. It also helps a great deal to actually hear the dialogue and the tone of expression between them. When Y says, "I'm still your brothers wife, hmm?", it is like she is stating it from H's point of view, like she is reading his thoughts, hence the questioning 'hmm?' at the end. I can understand why you may have interpreted it this way from just this quote
inge, but infact, the scenario is quite the oppsosite. It is infact Horatio that still feels committed to Raymond, and Yelina is the more willing of the two to move on.
As we know, H has a deep conscience. If he were to get involved with Yelina, he has guilt issues on 3 fronts:
- His sense of disloyalty to Ray (though this is misguided).
- He still feels somehow responsible for Ray's death.
- He has quite possibly always been in love with Yelina, even when she was married to Ray.
Here's the whole dialogue, but if you can get to see 'Blood Brothers', that is the best way of trying to make sense of what I'm saying!
H: I see Stetler over there.
Y: Yes. He said you told him to talk to me.
H: No, that's not what I said to him. I said to him that I couldn't speak for you.
Y: Nor for yourself apparently.
H: (looks uncomfortable and adjusts his footing) Okay. I used to think that if you hadn't met Raymond first, that you and I....
Y: Then Raymond died.
H: Right. And everything changed and it is easy to get used to those boundaries.
Y: Right. I'm still your brother's wife, hmm? (pause)
It's not your fault Raymond got killed. Nor mine. If anything you tried harder than anyone to get Raymond to be more careful.
H: Maybe I didn't try hard enough.
Y: That is not true. I don't believe that. But maybe you do. Okay, I suppose I'm going to have to accept things for now.
It is an amazing scene. The eye contact, the emotion, the acting, the chemistry, just wow!
