Brooke: What?
Edmund: Marry me.
Brooke: Edmund.
Edmund: Be my wife, my soulmate, my joint-tax filer.
Brooke: Is this your idea of a joke?
Edmund: No. Joke? Would I joke about...?
Brooke. Look I know I've been a clod in the romance department, but...come here. (He leads her into the living room and gets down on one knee). Brooke I love you. Will you be my wife?
Brooke: Don't do this, okay? Don't do this.
Edmund: Don't do what? What's going on? It's no, right? Your answer's no? Brooke unless you know c.p.r. you better say something in the next five seconds. What's going on?
Brooke: I don't know which Edmund I'm looking at.
Edmund: Same one as normal--tall, dark, irreverent.
Brooke: The one who told me if I couldn't respect his privacy I should get out of his life?
Edmund: Oh, that! Honey, I was just fifteen again and mad at the world. Maybe I was at Wildwind. Maybe I'm just crazy, but I tell you I never meant to hurt you.
Brooke: And now you think that we should get married?
Edmund: Yeah. Start a brand new life together. Just bury the old ghosts once and for all.
Brooke: I love you. And when I told you that I wanted to share our life completely you treated me like a stranger.
Edmund: Honey I'm sorry. Brooke when you came back and tried to reach out to me I felt your love, it was overwhelming. But I never really knew how deeply you loved me until you told me about Laura.
Brooke: I wish I hadn't.
Edmund: Oh no, don't say that. I know how much it costs you just to talk about her. Brooke just don't say it's over.
Brooke: I'm afraid I can't live life by your rules. I can't open up a vein and share something with you and have you walk away.
Edmund: I'm not walking anymore.
Brooke: No. Not right now you're not. This proposal, this is something you staged. It's all under your control. Everything is fine as long as we're living under your rules.
Edmund: Brooke, look, when you find out where I've been and why I came back...
Brooke: It doesn't matter, all right? It doesn't matter. The last thing I can think about right now is... is marriage.
Edmund: What do you mean? Marriage in general or marriage to me?
Brooke: I'm not even sure that I even want to see you again.
Edmund: Brooke, I went to the gardener's shack where I grew up and Marick had turned it into some happy hunting lodge. There was absolutely no sign that an unhappy American family had ever lived there.
Brooke: How did you get in?
Edmund: Dimitri was there. Don't worry we didn't come to blows we just got into it as usual, but the weird thing is is what he said got to me.
Brooke: I don't understand.
Edmund: There is nothing from the past that is there for me anymore. And I realized that I have been stuck, just clinging to some bitter emotional memories that have no place in my...in my life right now. I mean they're buried long ago and I've just got to wipe them clean like Marick gutted that shack.
Brooke: So all the anger and resentment is suddenly gone?
Edmund: Of course not. This is just a step, a first step. But I want to get on with my life, our life, together.
Brooke: Look I'm not a psychiatrist, but I know how long it takes to really change how you feel.
Edmund: Brooke I know it's going to be a long haul, okay? I just don't want to do it alone. Brooke you are the reason why I've gotten this far. And I'm not going to let the ghost of my father or anything else destroy us. And I swear to you I will never shut you out again. Now just please give us a chance.
Brooke: There's just one thing I don't understand. Why now? Why today?
Edmund: It was Laura. Just the memory of her and how you have had to hold onto it your entire life, it just made me realize what a self-centered jerk I have been. Brooke I love you. I may be crazy and messed up, but there's one thing I know in the bottom of my heart and that is that you are the love of my life and I want to share with you who I am and what I am. And right now I'm about as scared as I've ever been, so if you don't say yes... Brooke be my wife.
Brooke: Edmund I love you so much.
Edmund: That's a good start.
Brooke: Before you came into my life I never thought I'd feel this kind of passion again.
Edmund: Passion's good. Keep going.
Brooke: It takes more than that.
Edmund: I'll give more than that.
Brooke: I know you'll try.
Edmund: You were gonna say but and I hate that word. There's just you and me. I love you. You love me. You can give me a thousand reasons why we shouldn't get married, but there's only one that counts, we love each other.
Brooke: Look we're not kids.
Edmund: Oh, well, speak for yourself. Listen would you forget logic and reason? You just take my hand and I will show you an adventure that most people only dream about.
Brooke: I have responsibilities, all right? I have a son.
Edmund: We have a son. Look I will be the best dad that Jamie has ever had. Thanks to my father I know all the things not to do.
Brooke: I see. One minute you're a loner the next you're totally ready for marriage and for fatherhood?
Edmund: Well, look, I understand it's new ground for me, okay? But baby when I hold you at night I just thank God that I'm alive. We've got our whole life that we can share together. We've got a whole world to see. We can honeymoon in the Orient. We can camp out in the Rockies. We can take Jamie to every amusement park...
Brooke: Edmund, stop it! Just stop it and listen to me, okay? I don't want to marry you. I can't.
Edmund: Can't? They pass a law against marrying somebody you love?
Brooke: It would never work.
Edmund: Okay, so the wedding's off.
Brooke: Come on Edmund. We have only known each other for a few months.
Edmund: You say you want intimacy? And I tried to give it all to you. You want honesty? I have bared my soul to you.
Brooke: And getting married makes it all seem like it's real?
Edmund: Translate.
Brooke: It's a quick fix. It's like putting a band-aid on years of pain and bitterness.
Edmund: Oh, so that's what you think I'm doing? You think... You think once I get you married, bam, I'm going to slam the door in your face? Let me tell you something lady, I don't say things I don't mean, especially to someone that I love.
Brooke: Well you don't solve problems by pretending they don't exist.
Edmund: That is not what the hell I am doing. You know maybe the problem here is that the person that you really don't trust is you.
Brooke: Oh, that is ridiculous.
Edmund: Is it? Well I promise that I will give you every thing you want, every thing you have asked for and you are terrified!
Brooke: I am not.
Edmund: You put it all on me it takes it off of you. Will you admit it? You are as afraid of commitment as I am. Deep down you're running just as hard as I did.
Brooke: I'll tell you what if I am running away it's because you have proved yourself incapable of having a complete relationship.
Edmund: Oh, this is just great. Listen we can go around and around in a circle on this. I don't even want to talk about this. I don't want to argue with you. I came here to ask the woman I love to marry me and I just got the answer loud and clear.
He storms out knocking over a chair on the way. He goes to Phoebe's where she explains to him that ever since Laura died Brooke has been afraid to get close to anyone for fear of losing them. That has led to bad choices in men and her refusal to marry him. Just as Phoebe finishes explaining Brooke shows up with Jamie. Phoebe takes Jamie so they can talk.
Brooke: She's right. I'm terrified and I don't know what to do about it. I hate having my life reduced to one of Aunt Phoebe's quick fix explanations.
Edmund: I hope that you don't mind that I came here and talked to her.
Brooke: You know what I really hate? She's right. I mean I've thought for so long that I had every thing under control. You know I was handling every thing just fine. And then you came along.
Edmund: With my easy going personality.
Brooke: Edmund I don't want to walk away from happiness anymore. I really don't. I... I once told myself I wasn't going to let fear run my life.
Edmund: Brooke I wish that I could guarantee that we would have the perfect life together, but I can't. But I can promise I'll do everything I can to give it to you.
Brooke: We're quite a pair aren't we?
Edmund: Yup. Well, can a couple of emotionally repressed, but well-intentioned lovers make it in this bizarre world of love and romance?
Brooke: Yeah. If we face our fears together.
Edmund: I'd like that very much.
Brooke: You know that question you asked me back at my apartment? Would you ask me again?
Edmund: (taking her hand) Brooke I love you with my whole heart. Please marry me.
Brooke: Yes, I'll marry you.
They have a nice long romantic kiss.