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Previously on Degrassi…
[Emma’s room]
(Manny’s reading Emma Jordan’s e-mail)
Manny: “Emma, you saved my heart and my project. Love you, Jordan.”
Emma: Love you. (They squeal)
[Playground.]
Manny: Guys, it’s cool. Jordan’s 16. He’s coming here on a school trip.
J.T.: School trip? It’s summer.
[Emma’s room]
Emma: U hacked my e-mail? Haven’t you ever heard of privacy?
Spike: Relax, I couldn’t hack my way out of a paper bag. But I can tell when my daughter’s getting interested in boys.
[Degrassi’s Media Immersion Lab]
Emma: And he wants to meet me. Tomorrow.
[Stairway in the Nelson House.]
Caitlin: I mean, do u like him?
Emma: Yeah, we get along so great. Sometimes, it’s like he can read into my soul.
Caitlin: Well, sometimes, you just have to take a chance…
[Emma’s room]
(She writes Jordan an e-mail about meeting and sends it)
Emma: Go for it.
Theme song
[Nelson House - Downstairs]
Emma: Mom, you’re gonna be so late.
Spike: Too late. I am late.
Emma: Wow, you look incredible.
Spike: You sure?
Emma: Seriously. It’s kinda scary.
Spike: I feel like I’m going to the prom I never got to go to. Oh, that sounds so lame.
(Spike grabs her car keys off the table. Emma waves her purse in the air.)
Spike: You really want me out of here, don’t you? Is there something you’re not telling me?
Emma: Yeah, Manny and I are going to watch TV all night. We might even eat popcorn, with real butter. Very shocking.
Spike: Ok, smart mouth. (Takes the hat off Emma’s head) Wish me luck. (Kisses Emma’s head) Bye. (Spike leaves)
(Emma makes sure she’s gone and runs upstairs.)
[Degrassi]
(People are starting to arrive for the reunion. Principal Raditich greets them.)
[Inside Degrassi.]
Caitlin: Hey.
Archie: How’s it going? (Gives her a kiss on the cheek.) (To Keith) Welcome (They shake hands.) Why doesn’t Ashley here give a tour of the new and improved Degrassi? (To Caitlin) And I’ll hook up with you right before the speeches, ok?
Caitlin: Ok.
Keith: What, we have to take a tour? How about I go get us some drinks?
Caitlin: Ok.
[Classroom]
Terri: The media immersion program is very unique to our school. We have over 50 high- speed computers with internet access and other educational programs. We also have the most up to date software all part of the renovations planned by Mr. Raditch.
(Caitlin is walking around as Terri talks. She turns around and sees Joey. He waves at her. She waves back.)
[Emma’s room]
(She’s talking to Manny on the phone (It goes back and forth between showing Emma and Manny on- screen))
Manny: So…have you made your mind?
Emma: Yea, I’m not going.
Manny: Really? I’m so relived.
Emma: Yeah. Maybe I’ll meet him when I’m older, right?
Manny: Hey, absolutely. Want me to come over?
Emma; Um…There’s this show on tonight about the wildlife refuge and I really wanna watch it. You know, for Jordan.
Manny: I could help you research.
Emma: It’s ok. I really need to concentrate.
Manny; Oh, ok.
Emma: It’s about to start, so I’ll call you tomorrow, ok?
Manny: K.
Emma: Bye.
(They hang up.)
[Degrassi hallway.]
Ashley: Here we have our history room to the right, our geography room to the left, and the English department up ahead.
Joey: (To Caitlin) What I really wanted to say was that I’m really sorry about last night. It wasn’t the way I pictured seeing you again after all these years.
Caitlin: Me neither.
Joey: Can we just say the past is the past, and that the present is now the past, and the future, is, uh, I don’t know what I’m saying. I’m trying to say I want us to be friends again, ok?
Caitlin: Me too.
Joey: Good.
Caitlin: Joey, stay. Just hang out. Come on, no pressure. It won’t be a reunion without you.
(A woman named Allison comes up to them.)
Allison: Oh my god! Caitlin Ryan! Joey Jeremiah!
Caitlin: Allison.
Joey: Hi.
Caitlin: Wow. It’s been…
Allison: Ages. (To Caitlin) But I see you every week on that show. What’s it called? (Caitlin goes to speak, but Allison keeps talking.) Oh and you. Your commercial.
Joey: Yeah, I know. It’s totally cheese.
Allison: No, Joey, it’s sexy. The way you rip off your shirt. Almost made me want to buy a car.
Joey: Oh yeah?
Allison: Well, can I buy you a drink instead?
Caitlin: I think they’re free.
Allison: Oh, come on, for old times sake.
Joey: I’ll catch up to you later?
Caitlin: Bye.
[Hotel]
(Emma gets out of a cab and walk into the hotel where she will meet Jordan)
Recording: Please record your message now.
Emma: Hi, Jordan. This is Emma. I know I’m a little early so I guess I’ll wait down here. But I’m wearing….you know what I look like. Okay I guess I’ll see you soon. (Hangs up the phone)
[Toby’s House]
Jeff: Toby, you have a visitor.
(Manny walks in the room.)
J.T.: Manny, what’s up?
Manny: I’ve got a bad feeling. I went by Emma’s. Not there. I tried her cell. Didn’t pick up.
J.T.: So…?
Manny: So…she said she was staying home tonight, to watch a show on wildlife refuge. It’s not on. I checked.
Toby: Well, she didn’t go meet that Jordan guy, did she?
Manny: I have no idea. But, she was acting really weird.
Toby: So, this girl from BC, she meets this guy on-line, they h*t it off, she goes to meet him, they days later they find her d*ad, like in pieces.
J.T.: That was some psycho. Emma’s way too smart for that. She gets like practically straight A’s.
Toby: So? This isn’t school. Where would they go?
J.T.: Well, we can’t call her, we can’t read her e-mail.
Toby: Why not?
[Degrassi]
(Joey is carrying drinks. He hears Keith talking with Allison. He stops to listen.)
Keith: You know that better than me, right? You went to high school. It’s just, Katie is really pushing this marriage thing, and I’m about to h*t it big down in LA, and so her career would have to take the back seat, you know, and I don’t think that’s fair. To her.
Allison: I completely understand. I mean, you’re an artist. You need to be free. Open to, uh, new experiences. I’d love to come visit you.
Keith: That’d be great. I could take you out, show you around.
[Hotel]
(Emma is sitting in a chair, waiting for Jordan. A guy walls by with pizza. He stops when he sees Emma. Little does she know, that is Jordan.)
Jordan: Wait, You’re not Emma, are you?
Emma: Who are you?
Jordan: My name’s Mr. Nightstrom. I’m a teacher with a school trip. One of my students is supposed to be meeting a girl. Are you Emma?
Emma: Yea.
Jordan: (as she gets up) Oh, great. I’m Jordan’s teacher. Don’t tell him that I told you this, but he is so excited to meet you.
Emma: So am I. I mean, to meet him.
Jordan: Well, come on up. We’re just about to have some dinner. If you’d rather wait here, I can send Jordan down after he eats. But, he did want you to sign his petition.
Emma: He brought it with him?
Jordan: All the way from Yellowknife.
[Emma’s Room]
(Toby, J.T., and Manny are trying to read her e-mail to find out where she is. They’re trying to figure out her password.)
Toby: What’s her mom’s maiden name?
Manny: Nelson. Same as Emma.
(He tries it. It doesn’t work.)
Toby: Okay that’s not it. Does she have a dog? A fish? Anything? Ah, here we go. Secret question: What’s mom’s favorite rock band?
[Hotel Hallway]
(Emma and Jordan are walking to his room.)
Jordan: Next week, he’s going to be sending the petition off to the United Nations.
Emma: Wow. That’s incredible.
Jordan: Jordan’s a pretty impressive kid. After you. (Emma puts the key in and they go in.)
[Hotel room.]
Jordan: (knocks on a door) Hey, guys! Pizza’s here! We’re going to be making a video journal of this trip. It’s a really big deal for these guys to be coming here (the camera focuses on Jordan’s video camera as he talks for a second) Well, there’s no use letting this get cold (Opens the pizza box and takes out a slice). The guys are going to be back in here any minute. So Jordan’s talks about you all the time. I hear you’re a fellow hiker? I take the guys hiking around Yellowknife sometimes. There’s really some amazing trails there. What’s the matter, you don’t like mushrooms?
Emma: No, I’m not hungry. You know what? I think I left my bad downstairs. I’m just gonna go see if it’s there.
(Emma starts to leave.)
Jordan: Emma, your bag’s right here.
(She tries to leave, but the door is locked. She runs into the bathroom.)
Jordan: What’s going on?
Emma: You’re Jordan, aren’t you?
[The Degrassi Reunion- The gym]
Mr. Raditch: Give a big hand to Degrassi’s own environmental crusader, Caitlin Ryan.
(Everyone claps as Caitlin approaches the podium on the stage to give her speech.)
Caitlin: Wow. This is amazing. Seeing you all here, together again. You know, I was afraid to come here. Afraid that nothing would compare with our memories of this place. Or that we’d spend tonight rehashing old mistakes, you know, comparing ourselves…
Keith: She’s pretty good, isn’t she?
Joey: Some of us think so. Some of us aren’t too sure, are they Keith?
Keith: Excuse me?
Joey: Hey, Allison, are you planning on going to Los Angles before or after he breaks up with Caitlin?
Keith: Ok, your BI- polar jealous thing has got a little out of hand.
Joey: Excuse me? What kind of loser comes to his fiancés high school reunion and tells a stranger he’s going to break up with her when he makes it big?
Keith: What, you were eavesdropping? That is so un cool.
Joey: Un cool?
Keith: And so none of your business.
Joey: Hey, she’s my friend. I’ll make it my business. Whether you tell her or I will.
Keith: just relax, Joey. (Pats Joey’s face)
Caitlin: So, a toast…
(As she talks, the talk between Joey and Keith was going on. Now, they get up and start fighting. Keith punches Joey.)
Keith: Like that, Joey?
(They keep fighting.)
Keith: Joey…
(Caitlin goes over to them.)
Keith: Come on. (His phone starts ringing)
Joey: (Joey grabs the phone) Is this what you want? Huh? Is this more important to you? Take it.
Caitlin: What the hell is going on?
Keith: This psycho just came running at me with all this crap about, uh…
Joey: Just tell her before it’s too late.
Keith: Katie, there’s nothing going on here. He’s insane, he’s jealous.
Caitlin: Tell me what?
Allison: So he has doubts about getting married. Who doesn’t?
Caitlin: You don’t wanna marry me, Keith?
(She leaves.)
Mr. Raditch: Uh, music. Everyone, let’s dance.
[Hotel Room.]
(It goes back and forth between Emma and Jordan talking, showing her in the bathroom and him outside the door.)
Jordan: I didn’t tell you my real age. I thought you’d stop writing me.
Emma: I just… I wanna go home.
Jordan: Ok, but, you can’t go home while you’re locked in the bathroom. Emma, please. The last thing I want is to scare you. So, I tell you what, I’m gonna go down to the lobby. You can leave or you can stay if you want, just to talk. It’s up to you.
(Un-locks the door and opens and closes it, to make Emma think he left.)
[Bathroom in Degrassi]
(Caitlin is helping Joey clean himself up.)
Caitlin: (first a close up of her holding the ring, then it shows her talking to Joey) Bring back any memories? You know what? I’m relived. As bizarre as that may sound.
Joey: Doesn’t sound that strange.
Caitlin: I mean, here I am, practically turning 30, right? Never having a relationship lasting longer than a few months. And then- because I’m always working. I meet Keith, and he’s not always such an ass.
Joey: Could have fooled me.
Caitlin: And then, when it does last longer than a few months, well…
Joey: You ask him to marry you.
Caitlin: I thought it could work. He’s so not The ONE. I mean, it’s so obvious. I gave Emma relationship advice last night. I am such a fraud.
Joey: No, no, Caitlin. You’re not a fraud. You’re one of the most trusting caring people I know. You could never be a fraud.
Caitlin: Joey, with Julia, how did you know that it was right?
Joey: (Goes to stand next to Caitlin) I loved that she called me Joe. Her hair, it smelled like rain. And she always, always made me laugh.
Caitlin: I’m sorry.
Joey: No, no, no, don’t be. I’m not. I was lucky.
Caitlin: Yeah, you were.
[Emma’s room]
(Her friends are still trying to find out her password.)
Toby: There. (Points to an old picture of Spike) A picture of her mom. What does her t-shirt say?
J.T.: Who were the pogues?
Manny: Come on, guys. Emma wouldn’t make her password that easy.
(Toby tries it and they get in.)
Toby: If I can do it, so can Jordan. Sorry, Emma, we’re going in.
[Hotel Room]
(Emma opens the door, and checks if Jordan is there. She doesn’t see him, so she goes to the door to leave. The door is locked, so she un-locks it. When she opens it, Jordan slams it closed.)
Jordan: One noise and I tape your mouth. I don’t think you’d want that.
[Emma’s room]
(Her friends are looking through her e-mail.)
Manny: I don’t get it.
Toby: See? Look here. You and Emma rent Chicken Run. The next day, she mentions it in an e-mail to you.
Manny; So?
Toby: Jordan’s next e-mail?
J.T.; He likes Chicken Run, too. Big deal.
Toby: Coincidence, right? The next day, Emma e-mails you some garbage about how great fresh air is. Jordan’s next e-mail?
Manny: “I love hiking. Being out in the fresh air makes me feel so free.”
Toby: Emma writes to you or to anyone, he echoes it back to her. The guy’s not looking into her soul, he’s reading her e-mail.
[Hotel Room]
(Jordan and Emma are sitting on the bed. He’s taping them.)
Jordan: Emma, your mother’s at her reunion. She doesn’t even know that you’re missing. We have hours.
[Emma’s room]
(They’re reading her latest e-mail from Jordan.)
Toby: There. His last message. He’s at the Bartley Valley, room 1409.
(They leave, to go tell Emma’s mom.)
[Street]
(They’re running to Degrassi, to tell Spike.)
J.T.: Toby, come on.
(They enter.)
[Degrassi- Gym]
(Spike is dancing with Archie.)
Archie: I love being back here. I get to teach kids like Emma. I get to dance with her mother.
Spike: Someone’s gotten smoother in the last 10 years.
(Manny, J.T., and Toby enter the gym.)
Manny: Ms. Nelson!
J.T.: There she is. Right over there.
All: Ms. Nelson!
Spike: Guys, what’s up?
All: It’s Emma! (They all start talking at once)
Spike: Wait a minute.
Archie: One at a time
[Outside]
Spike: Hello, police? My daughter’s in danger. I don’t know who she’s with. All I know is it’s someone she met on the Internet. Please hurry. You guys go home. I’ll call your parents
(Spike and Archie drive away to go save Emma.)
[Hotel Room]
Jordan: (smelling her hair) You smell so sweet.
[Lobby]
(Spike and Archie are running to the room.)
[Hotel Room]
Jordan: (Touches her lips) I feel so close to you.
[Hallway]
(Spike and Archie open a door run looking for the room.)
[Hotel Room]
Jordan: (Touches her face) I’ve been dreaming about this, over and over and over again. (She makes fists with her hands) Waiting.
[Hallway]
(Spike and Archie find the room (*Goes back and forth a minute between in the room and outside it*))
Spike: Emma.
Emma: Mom! (Jordan covers her mouth)
Spike: Are you in there? Open the door.
Archie: Emma!
(In the room, she gets his hand off her mouth, and gets off the bed.)
Spike: Open the door now.
Archie: Open the door!
(Emma opens the door and comes out.)
Spike: Are you in there? Are you ok?
Jordan: There’s been a misunderstanding.
(Archie pushes Jordan against the wall and puts his hand on Jordan’s neck.)
Archie: You make a move, I’m gonna break your neck. Clear?
(Jordan nods. The police come down the hall.)
[Nelson House]
(A man is carrying the computer out of the house.)
Spike: When will we get it back?
Man: You’ll get it back after the trial. He’s a repeat offender. This time they think they can finally nail the creep. But, we need this as evidence.
Spike: So he’s going to jail?
Man: Oh, yeah. And when this comes back, keep it downstairs. Keep the cyber stalkers out of her room.
(He leaves. Spike closes the door.)
[Emma’s room]
Emma: I’m sorry I ruined your reunion. Hope you had some fun last night.
Spike: How could you do that, Emma? How could you do something so incredibly stupid?
Emma: I made a mistake.
Spike: A mistake? You could have been…you could have been k*lled.
Emma: You’ve never made a mistake before? Like maybe having me?
Spike: It’s not the same thing.
Emma: I screwed up. I’m a dumb kid.
Spike: No, you’re not dumb. That’s what’s so confusing. You kept this guy a secret for 8 months. Why didn’t you tell me? You know you can talk to me about anything.
Emma: No, I can’t! You’re my mom, don’t you get it? You don’t remember what it’s like being 12! You don’t remember anything!
Spike: Actually, I do. Em, will you remember one thing? Even when you hate my guts, I’ll always try to listen. And I’ll try to understand. But, we’ve got to keep talking, ok? I love you. More than everything else in the world, ok?
Emma: Mommy, I was so scared.
Spike: I know you were, baby. I know.
(They hug. Emma cries.)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x02 - Mother and Child reunion Part2"} | foreverdreaming |
[The Kerwin House - Ashley’s Room]
(While getting ready for school, she’s talking to her friend Terri on the phone.)
Ashley: This is gonna be the best year ever! (Working on her poster for Degrassi student council president.) The first thing we need to do to, Terri, we need to get you a boyfriend. It’ll happen. Trust me. Uh, Terri, I am not a shoe in (as she leaves the room, we see her poster which says “Ashley Kerwin Your Choice For Degrassi Prez” with her picture in the center) We won’t even know if I’m president till the final vote is counted (closes her door.) Yeah, I just need to have a shower and get dressed. Oh, no, not again. Ter, I’ve gotta go. All right, I’ll see you at school. Bye (hangs up with Terri) (Knocks on the bathroom door- goes back and forth a minute between showing Toby in the bathroom and her outside the door) Toby, out.
Toby: How do you know it’s me? It could be your mom, could be my dad.
Ashley: They have their own bathroom.
Toby: Then, go use it. I just got here.
Ashley: Toby, come on, be reasonable. I have to get to school to put up my election posters.
Toby: Aren’t you the only one running? (Opens the cabinet and sees Ashley’s bra hanging in the shower)
Ashley: Toby, remember what Dr. Fried said? “A generous attitude makes for a generous family.” Now, get out the bathroom, now! Toby, what will it take you to open that door?
Toby: Just say “please”.
Ashley: Please.
Toby: (while fixing his hair) Now say “Toby Isaacs is the coolest kid at Degrassi. Way, way cooler than any stupid grade 8 could ever hope to be.”
Ashley: Toby, I have to get something?
Toby: Get what? Your hairbrush? Your eyeliner? Your (opens the door with her bra on) training bra?
Ashley: Mom!
Theme song.
[Degrassi]
Toby: I mean, I hadn’t even spit out my toothpaste and she wanted in.
JT: Maybe you should explain to Ashley that bathroom time is private time.
Toby: She’d probably go and cry to her mommy.
JT: Really?
Toby: She has no sense of humor and she’s a neat-o-holic. Yesterday, I left my gym socks on the couch, she freaked.
JT: Your gym socks can reek something fierce.
Toby: Just ‘cause me and dad move in to their house, Ashley treats me like…
JT: Dirt? Gum stuck on her shoe?
Toby: All of the above. So, ready for Day 1 of the rest of our junior high lives?
JT: What do you think?
[Inside Degrassi]
(Terri is helping Ashley put up her posters.)
Ashley: Dr. Fried says we need to work together and become more like siblings.
Terri: You fight all the time, you can’t stand the sight of each other, you’re already acting like siblings.
Ashley: I mean I don’t mind his dad Jeff, and I’m glad my mom’s happy, but Toby, he’s everywhere. He’s like a little mosquito that keeps buzzing in your ear.
Terri: Hey, Ash, maybe when you’re president, you can get him expelled.
Ashley: Yeah, from my life.
(A blond girl named Paige comes up to them. She’s wearing a red shirt that says “Hottie”, blue capris, and sunglasses)
Paige: Hey, guys. Haven’t seen you all summer. How are you doing? (As she talks, the camera moves up from her feet to her face)
Terri: Paige?
Paige: New year, new look, new Paige (a guy stares at her and hits a locker.) You’re putting up your campaign posters already?
Ashley: The election’s on Friday.
Paige: Wow, you’d rather on the issues than your appearance. That’s so…admirable.
Paige walks away.
[Another part of Degrassi]
(Emma and Manny are coming into school.)
Emma: Manny, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
Manny: Nothing but the grade 8’s.
Emma: They’re only a year older than us.
Manny: Yeah, a whole year to think of ways to make us suffer.
(Emma drops some papers. As she goes to pick them up, Spinner and Jimmy approach them. Spinner steps on the papers.)
Spinner: Hall pass.
Emma: What?
Spinner: You’re not allowed on school property without a hall pass.
Emma: But, we didn’t get one.
Spinner: Then you’ll both have to leave.
Manny: But, we can’t. It’s the first day of school.
Spinner: (To Jimmy) Grade 7’s are such geeks.
(Spinner and Jimmy leave. Emma picks up her papers.)
[Outside a room]
(Toby and JT walk up to the room that’s homeroom, but the door’s locked.)
Toby: (To Emma and Manny) Hey, guys.
Emma: Hey.
Manny: Hi. That’s our homeroom?
Emma: Cool.
(The bell rings. Mr. Simpson comes to the door and un-locks it.)
Mr. S: Hey, guys. Sorry I’m late. Hey, Em. Okay, here we go. (As the kids enter the room and sit down) All right, just choose your own seats for the time being. Okay, welcome to Degrassi Community School. I’m Mr. Simpson, I’m your homeroom and Media Immersion teacher. And I gotta say you guys really lucked out, I mean it. This is by far the coolest homeroom in the entire school. First order of business: These are the code of conduct forms (passing them out to everyone), concerning the computers, and the internet, all right? I wanna get these out of the way before we get to know one another (takes JT’s hat off his head).
[Ms. Kwan’s homeroom (grade 8 with Ashley, Paige, Spinner, etc)]
Ms. Kwan: Some of you I know already and a few of you are new faces altogether. Welcome. Gavin Reginald Mason.
Spinner: Um, I prefer Spinner.
Ms. Kwan: This year will I have to give you, what was it, another 14 detentions?
Spinner: Not if you don’t want to.
Ms. Kwan: Learning and good grades are all important here at Degrassi, but so is getting involved in the school.
Paige: (raises her hand) That’s why I’m starting a spirit squad this year Ms. Kwan. We so need one.
Ms. Kwan: Great, Paige. That’s so industrious of you. And speaking of industrious, Ashley?
Ashley: Yes?
Ms. Kwan: The first day of school and you already have a professional campaign under way? Excellent start.
Ashley: Thank you
[Hallway]
(Starts with a close-up of Ashley’s poster.)
P.A.: Students are reminded that 3:15 today is the deadline for student council nominations.
(Emma and her friends are walking.)
Emma: See, Manny, this isn’t so bad, isn’t it?
Manny: As long as we don’t run into that jerk again.
(They stop in front of Ashley’s poster.)
Emma: Is that your step-sister?
Toby: She’s not my step-sister. We just to be stuck in a forced living arrangement.
Manny: Well, I think she’s pretty.
Toby: Ashley hates I live in her house and she hates that I go to her school. Which she’s obviously never heard of democracy.
Emma: What are you talking about?
Toby: This election. No one’s even running against her. She’s a shoe-in.
Emma: Why don’t you run?
Toby: Because it would provoke a rupture in our fragile family dynamic. It’s family counseling speak for “my dad would k*ll me”.
Manny: So? Get someone else to run.
JT: Yeah, right. Who’d wanna run for student council? The whole thing’s a joke.
Toby: Did u say joke?
JT: No way, Toby. I am not going a joke campaign.
Toby: Come on, JT. It’s the perfect way to stick it to Ashley.
JT: But this is my first day at Degrassi.
Toby: Exactly. You’re in the same boat as a large percentage of the student body. Which is why they’ll love you. Come on, JT, this is your once of a lifetime opportunity.
JT: For you to stick it to Ashley.
Toby: No, for you to practice your stand-up material on a large perceptive audience.
JT: Keep talking.
Toby: You want to be famous, right? This is instant fame. Just think: assembly the whole school hanging on your every word.
JT: And you’ll do all the work?
(Toby nods.)
JT: Deal. Here we are right here. What if I win?
Toby: Trust me. You don’t stand a chance.
[Hallway]
Ashley: The poster’s a little low on the left. Just bring it.
Liberty: Ashley Kerwin. We haven’t met. I’m Liberty Van Zandt and I’m running for secretary. We’re gonna be a great team. Just think. I’d like to discuss a few ideas so our policies will be in sync. First, I think we should tackle a lack of the school newspaper.
Ashley: Why don’t we wait until after the election?
Liberty: Great. Um, your poster’s a little high on the left.
(She leaves. Jimmy comes up to Ashley and puts his arm around her (which means they’re boyfriend/girlfriend))
Jimmy: What was that all about?
(They walk away.)
[Classroom]
(Toby is making copies of something- we see it says JT’s name on it, which means it must be posters.)
Mr. S: You do know it’s 10 cents a copy?
(Toby tries to make them stop.)
[Hallway]
(Toby’s putting up JT’s posters.)
Ashley: I’m gonna make so many changes at this school, Terri. And not just superficial stuff. I want the students to feel heard.
(They stop when they JT’s posters.)
Terri: Uh, Ash….
Ashley: What is that?
Toby: Oh, a poster without your picture on it.
Ashley: JT Yorke. That annoying little friend of yours?
Toby: What’s wrong Ashley? Afraid of a little competition?
Ashley: You are so wasting your time. School president is always in 8th grade.
Toby: Well, uh, this year that’s going to change.
(Ashley and Terri walk past Toby.)
Toby: ‘Bye, Ashley.
[Hallway]
(Someone comes to JT with a camera.)
Boy: Hey, JT. Why do you wanna run for president?
JT: Why do I wanna run for president? Uh, that’s a good question.
Toby: In one word people: democracy. The backbone of our fine nation.
JT: Hear, hear!
Toby: He is, people, our great alternative. In a world dominated by cruel selfish 8th graders, JT is our last shining hope.
JT: I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thank you, Degrassi.
[Outside]
Liberty: A grade 7 running for president? I wouldn’t be caught d*ad voting for him. Besides, I think Ashley and I, Liberty Van Zandt, will make an excellent team.
[Another part of school]
JT: If elected, I, JT Yorke, will do what a real politician would do: absolutely nothing. And, like a true politician, I will accept bribes.
(Ashley and Terri are watching.)
Ashley: People are actually paying attention to him?
Terri: He’s pretty funny. If you like total amateur humor. You’re not actually worried are you?
Ashley: No.
JT: I, JT Yorke: Unknown, unremarkable…
[Hallway]
(Someone with a camera is talking to Emma.)
Emma: Personally, I think it’s great. Grade 7’s have just as much right to run for school president as anyone. I’m voting for JT.
[Outside]
Ashley: Greater representation the school boards.
Terri: (passing out fliers) And up-to-date recycling programs.
Ashley: I’ll even get us a night dance. All it costs is a vote.
[JT’s speech to students.]
JT: What about the staff washrooms? (It shows Ashley watching) I’ll bet you any money that they have softer toilet paper. If you elect me, I’ll those staff washrooms, our washrooms. So vote for JT. You’ll do the right thing. I know you will. (To Toby) It’s working.
Toby: (sees Ashley watching) I know.
JT: Vote for JT. It’ll do you good. You’ll love me. Nice to meet you.
[Kerwin House: Kitchen]
Ashley: Toby Issacs, you shrimp, who are you doing this to me?
Toby: I’m not doing anything. JT’s running for president and I’m just helping him out.
Ashley: JT doesn’t care about the school.
Toby: How do you know? Guess what: Degrassi doesn’t revolve around you. Anyone can run.
Ashley: The guy is an idiot! And he doesn’t know anything because he just got there
Ashley’s mom, Kate, walks in.
Kate: Ashley, What’s the problem?
Ashley: Great. Take his side again. Don’t even try to figure out what we’re talking about. I mean, I put all my effort into this race…
Toby: There was no race. Now there is.
Kate: Toby, are you running against Ashley?
Ashley: No, his friend, JT, is.
Toby: I’m helping my best friend run his campaign. What’s wrong with that?
Ashley: What’s wrong is he’s only doing it to bug me.
Kate: Come on, Ashley, I’m sure he’s not.
Ashley: But Mom….
Kate: Toby has every right to help run his best friend’s campaign.
[The Next Day- Kerwin Bathroom]
(Ashley, in curlers, knocks on the door.)
Toby: Today’s the big day. Written your defeat speech yet?
Ashley: JT is not going to win.
Toby: You wish. Just think: you’re about to lose to a 7th grader.
(Ashley goes in the bathroom.)
[Degrassi Hallway]
(Someone is taping Paige.)
Paige: Hi. My name’s Paige + of course Ashley’s going to win today. Sure, some students may resent her for being perfect, but, Ashley always get what she wants, so why would today be any different? Actually, I’ll tell why today is different. See, I just got these brand new glasses and I think they look rather nice with my outfit, don’t you? Oh, and my belt. Please get a close-up of the belt. Thanks. And my new purse so everyone can see all that I own. What do I have in here? This, this isn’t mine.
(The cameraman starts to walk away.)
Paige: (O.S.) Hello! I’m not done here!
[Computer room]
(Toby and JT are on it, checking polls for president.)
Toby: Look at this! You’ve got as much support as Ashley!
JT: It’s just some stupid poll.
Toby: This is before your speech (show a close-up of the poll: Ashley- 48%, JT- 52%). Forget Ashley. You’re on the verge of making Degrassi history! Am I the only one excited here?
JT: I thought the plan was to make her sweat.
Toby: Exactly! The closer you come to beating her, the sweater she gets.
JT: Yeah, well, I’m getting pretty sweaty too. Because if I win this thing, I’ll have to do a lot of work.
[Another part of school]
(Someone is taping Liberty.)
Liberty: It would be tragic if Ashley lost today. But if she did, and if I, Liberty Van Zandt, am elected as secretary, I would work closely with JT to ensure excellent standards of student government.
[Hall]
(JT closes his locker and starts to head to class when Spinner and Jimmy grab him.)
JT: Uh, hi.
Spinner: You’re coming with us.
JT: What? What did I do? I’m going to be late for class, you’re going to be late for class. That’s a lot of lateness. Do you want to get a dentition? I know I don’t. What did I do?
[A classroom]
Ashley is in there waiting.
JT: Is this about the election? If I promise you something you got a problem with, just tell me and I’ll change it. Really, I will
(They drop him on the floor.)
Ashley: Thanks. That’s all for now.
(They leave. JT gets up.)
JT: What’s going on?
Ashley: Here’s the deal: you quit the race for school president and I give you 50 bucks.
JT: 50 bucks?
Ashley: 5-0. Okay, 60.
JT: You see, I’d jump at that but I’ve got this older brother. He just lost the race for school president.
Ashley: 65.
JT: My parents were shattered. They had to go on Prozac. I can’t put them through that again.
Ashley: 80 bucks and that’s my final offer.
JT: 80’s good.
Ashley: Glad to hear it. But for that amount, I want a show. I want you to quit in front of the whole school.
JT: At assembly? Cool. I still get to say my speech.
Ashley: Half now, the rest after. (Gives him the money)
JT: It was a pleasure doing business with you, Ms. President. (Puts out his hand but she doesn’t shake it) I’ll go now.
(He grabs his bag and leaves.)
[Hall]
Manny: Once the election’s over, I head straight home.
Emma: And avoid Spinner.
(Spinner comes up behind them and hits Manny with a spitball.)
Manny: Ow.
(Holds her neck and starts to cry.)
Emma: Oh, great. Now look what you’ve done.
Spinner: I was just kidding around.
Terri: Wow that’s so cool, Spinner. Making a grade 7 girl cry.
Spinner: Look, I didn’t mean to make her cry.
Emma: Well, you did. Congratulations.
(Spinner walks away.)
Emma: It’s ok, Manny. He’s gone.
Manny: I knew it would work. Always does on my brother.
(They walk away.)
[Hall]
(Toby catches up to JT.)
Toby: She bribed you?
JT: She paid me.
Toby: It’s wrong.
JT: Wrong? What about this campaign?
Toby: What about it?
JT: We did this just to get back at your step-sister.
Toby: She’s not my step-sister!
P.A.: Would all candidates please report to the stage?
JT: Look, if it makes you feel any better, we’ll split it. 50/50.
Toby: I don’t want her blood money. It’s just helping Ashley get exactly what she wants…again.
[Assembly]
(Liberty is finishing her speech.)
Liberty: And in conclusion, I promise that if elected, I, Liberty Van Zandt, will fulfill my responsibilities as student council secretary with enthusiasm and even more enthusiasm. Thank you. (Applause as she sits)
(Mr. Raditch comes to the mike.)
Mr. R: Thank you very much, Liberty, for that enthusiasm. Next up, our two candidates for school president. Each will have 3 minutes to deliver their speeches and we will begin with, JT Yorke. (Applause)
(JT goes to the mike.)
JT: Ladies and gentleman, it’s a long year. You gotta vote for me. You need something to laugh at. Now if I could just say a few words about my presidential platform, this speech would be a whole lot shorter. But, seriously, if there’s one thing I’ve learned in my zero years of political experience, well, it’s nothing.
Toby: Ashley! (She ignores him) Ashley!
(She gets up and goes out the door.)
Ashley: What?
Toby: You bribed JT.
Ashley: No I didn’t.
Toby: Yes you did. I saw the money. It’s corruption.
Ashley: Oh, how thrilling. You learned a new word.
Toby: Oh you want thrilling? Wait’ll I go up on stage and tell everyone what you did.
Ashley: But, JT took the money.
Toby: No, he excepted it as evidence.
Ashley: You wouldn’t.
Toby: Oh, I will. I’m heading up there and telling everyone what a fraud Ashley Kerwin is.
Ashley: Fine. My life’s a disaster anyway. It might as well get worse.
Toby: Your life’s a disaster?
Ashley: I want my mom to be happy and I’ve tired to be nice, but the moment you moved in, everything become all about you.
Toby: About me? Do you have any idea what’s it like living in your house?
Ashley: Please! My mom dotes on you. She doesn’t care what I feel, as long as you’re happy.
Toby: What?
Ashley: And now I can’t get away from you. You’re everywhere: at home, at school, even in my campaign.
Toby: That’s not true…
Ashley: I wanted just one thing that you couldn’t take away from me. But you found a way. Please. Before you go up there and publicly humiliate me, just listen to my speech. Then decided if you don’t think I deserve to be President.
[Inside Assembly]
JT: She’s got the looks, she’s got the brains, she’s got the brains, she’s got everything. Don’t pity her; pity me. Thank you. Oh, and by the way, I quit the race for school prez. Vote Ashley. (Sits down)
Mr. R: Well that’s rather interesting. JT, you sure? (He nods) Well, I still think we’d like to hear what Ashley has to say. Ashley? Ashley? (To JT.) We’ll talk later.
[Outside Door]
Ashley: Please.
Mr. R (O.S.): Ashley?
[Kerwin House - Outside]
Ashley: No way!
Jimmy: Yeah, whatever, I’m not lying.
Ashley: Yeah, right. Well, thanks, uh, and I’ll see you tomorrow. (They hug)
Jimmy: Congratulations, Ms. President.
(Jimmy leaves. Ashley walks over to Toby, who is sitting at a table.)
Ashley: So, is this what defeat looks like or just guilt?
Toby: Congratulations, Ashley.
Ashley: Yeah, whatever.
Toby: I mean it. Congratulations. You deserved to win.
Ashley: Ok, what have you done with the real Toby Isaacs?
Toby: it’s not my fault JT’s in trouble for riding the joke campaign. I should’ve never put him up to it.
Ashley: You’re right. You shouldn’t have.
Toby: Ash, I’m trying to apologize here. I knew it would drive you crazy. I just couldn’t stop myself.
Ashley: You hate me that much?
Toby: Sometimes.
Ashley: I gotta admit sometimes I feel the same way about you. The fact is Toby, we have to live with each other in the same house and that sucks, right?
Toby: You can say that again.
Ashley: But does it have to such this much?
Toby: Maybe not.
Ashley: Maybe not. Are we bonding here?
Toby: Bonding? Us?
Ashley: Well, the first time in a month, I don’t wanna rip your eyes out.
Toby: Wow, Dr. Fried would be so proud.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x03 - Family Politics"} | foreverdreaming |
[The McGregor House]
Mr. G: So, big night tonight, huh? My little girl, out dancing with boys. You’re all grown up.
Terri: Dad….
Mr. G: Oh, yeah. I can see it now. They’ll be lining up for miles.
Terri: Yeah, maybe in some alternate universe.
Mr. G: What? What? Honey, wait.
Terri: Dad, face it. I’m fat. Guys don’t even notice me.
Mr. G: Terri, you’re not fat. That’s ridiculous.
Terri: No, Dad, it’s true.
Mr. G: Honey, you’ve gotta stop beating yourself up. You are beautiful. You’re beautiful. Tonight you’ll see.
Terri: No I won’t see ‘cause I’m not going, ‘cause no one’s going to want to dance with a fat cow like me.
Mr. G: Terri, come on, don’t say that. Come on.
(Terri leaves.)
Theme song.
[Degrassi]
(Spinner is with friends. A younger kid comes up to them.)
Spinner: Here you got something (hits the kid with his finger) Loser. Hey, Terri.
Terri: Hey, Spinner.
Spinner: Um, so is it okay if I borrow those geography notes?
Terri: Yeah, I got ‘em right here. (Opens up her bag + takes out a binder and gives it to Spinner)
Spinner: Uh, thanks. I really appreciate this. So are you going to the dance tonight?
Terri: Actually, I can’t. It’s my dad. He’s kinda old.
Spinner: Ok.
(Ashley approaches. She has a box with her, which must be for the dance.)
Ashley: Hey Terri!
Spinner: Thanks again for these.
Terri: See you.
(Spinner leaves.)
Ashley: Okay, I am beyond nervous. This has to go perfect. Amazing turnout. Zero problems. Otherwise, Raditch says it’s daylight dancing for another year.
[Inside Degrassi]
(Paige is walking in the hall. She spots Spinner and approaches him.)
Paige: Just the man I was looking for.
Spinner: Hey, Paige.
Paige: So, you ready to get down?
Spinner: Huh?
Paige: The dance. You are going?
Spinner: Oh, uh, yeah.
Paige: Well, you better save a dance for me.
Spinner: Uh, sure. Whatever. Look, I gotta get to my locker.
(Spinner leaves. Ashley and Terri come in and Paige joins them)
Ashley: So, what was with the Spinner/Terri convention I interrupted?
Terri: Nothing. I was just giving him some notes for class he missed.
Ashley: Spinner wants class notes? Since when? Hon, that’s called a flirtation deface.
Paige: Something’s happening with you and Spinner?
Terri: No, Ashley got an overactive imagination.
Ashley: You should totally ask Spinner to go with you tonight.
Terri: Uh, no point. I can’t go.
Ashley: What? You have to. You’re on the dance committee.
Terri: Ash, it’s not me. It’s my dad. He’s making me do chores.
Ashley: On a Friday? Come on.
Paige: If Terri can’t go, Terri can’t go.
Liberty: Ashley! You’re going to be late for the announcements.
Ashley: Tell me something I don’t know, Liberty. (To Terri) I’m not through with you yet.
(Ashley leaves to do the announcements.)
[Outside]
(A man drops off a boy (who we find out is Sean Cameron). He takes off his helmet after he gets off the bike. He puts his hands through his hair, sighs, and goes inside.)
Sean: thanks for the ride.
(Tracker (Sean’s older brother) be good.)
[Mr. Simpson’s Homeroom]
Emma: I can’t believe you guys are chickening out (meaning JT and Toby)
Toby: We’re not chickening out.
Emma: Fine.
Toby: Fine.
JT: We’re just not going to the dance, ok?
Emma: (To Manny) I just it’s just me and you then. You did talk to your parents?
Manny: Yes… and no. If the dance was during school hours, fine. But it’s at night.
Emma: So who am I supposed to go with?
(They sit down. Mr. Simpson enters, with Sean behind him.)
Mr. S: Morning, people. I would like to meet Sean Cameron. He was here for a few months last year, before he moved up north. Why don’t you tell the class about yourself?
Sean: No.
Mr. S: Ok, well, um, maybe when once you’ve more settled in. Why don’t you have a seat?
(He sits down.)
Ashley: (over the announcements) So, come make history tonight when I host Starlight, Starbright, Degrassi Community School’s first ever nighttime dance. Thanks again, Mr. Raditch. And I know I speak for all of us when I say tonight’s going to be the best dance ever.
[Ms. Kwan’s room]
Ms. Kwan: Ok kids, now hold back on your excitement. Because today we’re starting a unit on, ta-da, romantic poetry.
(Paige looks at Terri who Spinner is looking at. She is not happy. (Which means she likes Spinner))
[Hall]
(The bell rings)
P.A.: A reminder to all dance committee members, please report to the gymnasium for set up
[Gym]
(Ashley, Terri, and Paige are setting up for the dance. Ashley comes up to Terri.)
Ashley: Alright, Terri. What’s the real story here?
Terri: I told you, my dad.
Ashley: Yeah, and your dog ate your homework.
Terri: I don’t have a dog.
(Paige comes down from a ladder.)
Ashley: Ter, you’re lying. I can always tell. Your eye twitches. Just, talk to me. Why don’t you want to go tonight?
Terri: Because who’d want to dance with me?
Ashley: What? What are you talking about? This is crazy. I’m not letting you do this.
Terri: Fine. Tell me how to lose 10 pounds in 6 hours, and I’ll be there.
[Outside]
(Jimmy is dribbling a ball when someone takes it from him. He pretends to sh**t a ball in the trashcan. He sees Sean and sits next to him.)
Jimmy: Hey, buddy. What’s going on? It must be weird being back and all. Don’t worry. The guys won’t treat you any differently because, well, you know. Alright? (Hits Sean on the arm.)
(Sean looks at him weird and leaves. He sits down on a different bench. Emma looks at him, then looks away. (meaning she likes him.))
[Gym]
Ashley: You know what you’re missing? Self-confidence. Seriously, Ter. Just let me come over tonight. I’ll get you dressed up, I’ll do your make-up…
Paige: You want to give Terri a makeover? What, are we on some trashiod talk show here? Leave her alone.
Ashley: It’s about having fun, and Terri’s not gonna have fun until she starts feeling better about herself. We’ll have a great time, whoever we dance with. I promise.
Paige: If this makeover has to happen, I better be there, too. Terri needs all the support she can get.
(Bell rings.)
[Ms. Kwan’s Classroom –with grade 7]
Ms. Kwan: (To Sean) Welcome. Why don’t you take that seat and that’s your book.
(Sean sits down. Emma and Manny watch. Toby and JT come in and walk over to them.
Toby: Emma…
(Emma and Manny walk away.)
Toby: That girl’s not happy.
JT: Ever since boy bands reared their genetically perfect heads they expect us to know how to dance. Curse them and their fancy footwork.
Toby: On the other hand, what else is there to do tonight?
JT: Oh, uh, Toby-woby wants to dance with his girly-wirly friend.
Toby: Shut up! Emma’s not my girlfriend.
JT: Yeah, well, forget about her. I have an alternative (pulls out a piece of paper)
Ms. Kwan: Ok, guys, quiet down. I want you to open up your books and we’re gonna read chapter 4.
(JT gives a piece of paper to Toby.)
Toby: Where’d you get these URL’s?
JT: I got this cousin who’s really into the ‘Net. Best thing about them, they’re all free. Girls too sexy for me, I doubt it.
Toby: I don’t know.
JT: Come on, Toby. It’s a right of passage.
(Ms. Kwan comes by as she watches to see if everyone’s working.)
Ms. Kwan: Boys, open up your books.
(The camera goes over to Emma, Manny, and Liberty.)
Manny: Em, I totally wish I could go tonight.
Emma: Yeah, well, at least you have a real excuse. Those two?
Manny: They’re wusses.
Liberty: Emma, are you really gonna let a couple of prepubescent boys dictate your amusement?
[Toby’s House]
(Toby and JT are waiting for Kate and Jeff to leave.)
JT: I thought you said your parents were going out tonight.
(Jeff comes in the room. He gets his keys.)
Jeff: Hey, you guys sure we can’t give you a ride to the dance?
JT & Toby: No.
Jeff: Oh.
(Kate comes in the room.)
Kate: Ok. Alright, so, um, we’re off. See you later.
Jeff: Bye.
Toby: Bye, Dad. Bye, Kate
(Kate and Jeff leave.)
JT: One parent away, two parents away, three parents away, four parents away.
Toby: Parents are gone.
JT: What are we waiting for?
[Terri’s]
(Ashley and Paige are helping Terri get ready for the dance.)
Ashley: Terri, you alive in there?
Terri: I’ll be out in a second.
Ashley: Well, hurry up. I’m leaving in 5 and I want to see the final result.
(Terri comes out. She is wearing a black top and a colorful skirt. Her hair is up.)
Terri: I knew this was stupid.
Ashley: Ter, stop. You look… incredible.
Paige: Wow. You actually do.
Terri: You’re sure?
Ashley: Totally. I know it’s early but I really have to set up. Terri, you are coming?
Terri: I guess so. I just wish I wasn’t so nervous.
Paige: You go, Ash. I just want to freshen up a bit. Ter, wanna wait?
Ashley: Paige, you look fine.
Paige: Please, it’s boiling in here. I’ve sweated off all my makeup.
Terri: It’s okay. I’ll wait.
Ashley: Alright, but I gotta run. Terri, I’m so glad you changed your mind. Spinner is gonna freak.
(Ashley leaves.)
[Degrassi]
(Spike is dropping Emma off at the dance.)
Spike: (as Emma gets out of the car) Call me when you want me to pick you up. You sure you’re okay going in there alone?
Emma: I’m fine.
Spike: Okay. Good luck. But, do not walk home alone.
(Kids hear this and start to laugh.)
Emma: Mom… please.
[Terri’s]
(Terri is looking at herself in a mirror.)
Paige: Okay. That’s better. I don’t know about you, but I always get a little nervous before these things. Hey, you okay?
Terri: Um, don’t you think this outfit is a little too sexy?
Paige: Hon, it’s not that wild.
Terri: Then maybe it’s not sexy enough?
Paige: Well, we could just a few final touches.
(Paige makes Terri’s skirt a little shorter by raising it up.)
Terri: Paige, I don’t know if I can go out looking like this.
Paige: Terri, you’re just nervous. You need to calm down. Come on. I think we could use a glass of cheery.
Terri: Really?
[Degrassi]
Liberty: Your signs were blah.
Ashley: Now you can’t even read them. They’re too covered in glitters, squiggles, and sparkles.
(As they’re talking Sean is waiting in line. He gets tired of waiting so he goes to the front of the line, pays, and goes in.)
Liberty: It’s called marketing.
Ashley: It’s called messy. $5.00 please. It goes towards the Degrassi Community Food Bank, though you wouldn’t know that from the sign.
(Ashley takes Emma’s money and Emma enters the dance.)
Ashley: (To person after Emma) $5.00 please.
[The Dance]
Spinner: Hey! It’s little Miss Big Mouth + look she’s got a heart on.
(Jimmy laughs and high fives Spinner. Emma walks away.)
[Kerwin House]
Toby: It’s weird. I didn’t surf for this stuff before. As soon as Kate installed the filter…
JT: Well, you can disable it, right? You weren’t just making that up?
Toby: (types in some stuff) It’s gone. (JT gives him the paper) Ok, where should we start? Foxy ladies? Babes in heat?
JT: How about the one with three X’s?
Toby: Ok, triple sex XXX. Here we come.
(They try to enter a site but something comes up that the connection dropped, which means they can’t surf the Web till it’s back up.)
JT: What just happened?
Toby: Stupid connection dropped.
JT: Well, how long till it’s back up?
Toby: Could be minutes, could be hours.
[Terri’s]
(She and Paige are drinking as they talk.)
Paige: See the thing with guys, they love it when you take the lead.
Terri: They do?
Paige: They’re shy too. You can’t make them to do all the work. So, don’t be nervous. Be yourself, just maybe a little more so.
Terri: This is helping. (Meaning the drink)
Paige: Here take mine. Hon, the more you have, the better you feel. Trust me. (Pours Terri more)
[Kerwin House]
(The computer makes a noise.)
Toby: The connection’s back up.
(They run to the computer.)
JT: Boobage, here we come.
(They click on a site.)
JT: Nice.
Toby: I’ll say. Picture number two.
[Street]
(Paige and Terri are walking to the dance. Terri is having a hard time walking, so you know she must be drunk.)
Terri: Oops, Paige you saved me.
Paige: Yeah, you owe me big time.
Terri: I do. Um, you’re such a good friend and I just owe you for tonight for looking out for me. Do you think I actually have a sh*t with Spinner? I like him, a lot, and I want him to like me too.
Paige: Of course you do. We’re going to make sure it happens. Let’s go.
(She grabs Terri’s hand and they head inside. As they do, Terri, drops the bottle she was carrying and it breaks. She laughs.)
[Inside]
(Ashley sees them and goes over to them.)
Ashley: Finally. I was starting to think you weren’t coming.
Terri: Fear not, Ashley. We’re here.
Ashley: Uh, Terri?
Terri: Bring Spinner on. I’m ready for my man.
Ashley: Have you been drinking?
Paige: I tried to stop her.
Ashley: Get her inside. Now.
(Mr. R comes up to her.)
Mr. R: How’s it going?
Ashley: Fine, Mr. Raditch.
Mr. R: Good.
(He walks away. Ashley goes into the gym.)
[The gym]
(Emma gets some food and starts to walk around. Paige and Terri go to the food. Paige pours a soda. Spinner comes up to them.)
Spinner: Hey. I thought you weren’t coming.
Terri: Oh, you know, I changed my mind.
Spinner: Cool.
Paige: Hi Spinner.
Spinner: Hi. Uh, Terri, you look, wow.
Terri: Ashley, my friend. I love you.
Ashley: Yeah, I love you, too, but maybe you should tone it down a bit before Raditch realizes you’re drunk.
Terri: I’m not drunk. I’m just…happy.
Ashley: Paige, how much did she drink? And don’t lie.
Paige: I don’t know. A few glasses.
Ashley: What were you thinking? And what is with your skirt? (fixes Terri’s skirt)
Spinner: Uh, Ter, wanna dance?
Terri: I thought you’d never ask.
(Ashley gives Paige a look. Paige sees Raditch and waves and leaves. Raditch walks around watching everyone. It shows Terri and Spinner dancing. The camera moves over to Emma. She is just standing there. Then it shows Sean. Jimmy goes over to him.)
Jimmy: Hey, man. After party at my place. It’s grade 8’s only, but we’ll make an expectation just for you. What are you doing?
Sean: (gets angry and grabs Jimmy) Just stop reminding me, ok? It sucks about having to repeat the 7th grade, and I don’t have to have you rubbing it in my face.
Emma: (sees Raditch coming) Do you wanna dance?
Sean: (let’s go of Jimmy) Yeah.
(They go on the dance floor and start dancing. It shows Ashley and Paige watching Terri and Spinner. It shows them dancing.)
Terri: Our very first dance. This is gonna be my favorite spot in Degrassi from now and forever. You’re so cute. I can’t believe I just said that.
Spinner: Um, thanks.
Terri: Do you believe in love at first sight?
Spinner: Um, I don’t know.
[Kerwin House]
(Toby and JT are still on-line.)
JT: Whoa. She can be my on-line officer anytime.
Toby: Oh, yeah.
JT: Let’s do some more exploration, shall we? (Points to a site on the paper) That
(Toby types it in.)
Toby: Whoa. Are those real?
JT: Real something.
(Jeff and Kate come home.)
Jeff: Actually, I’d say silicon.
Kate: Or saline solution.
(JT and Toby turn around, shocked when they realize Kate and Jeff are home.)
[The dance]
(A new song is on. Terri is dancing around Spinner. Paige and Ashley are watching. Paige laughs.)
Spinner: Um, are you okay?
Terri: I’m fine. Never better.
Spinner: Okay.
(Terri falls.)
Spinner: Are you okay?
Terri: Um, Actually, I don’t feel so good.
(Terri runs to the bathroom. Ashley follows her.)
Paige: I told Terri not to drink so much. So, did you save me that dance?
Spinner: Uh, yeah. I guess.
(Paige grabs his hand and he spins her. She starts dancing with him.)
[Hall]
(Terri is running with her hand over her mouth to the washroom. Ashley runs after her.)
Ashley: Terri!
(From inside, you can hear Terri puking.)
[The next day at school - The hall]
Manny: You actually asked him to dance?
Emma: I know. He seems all scary and dangerous, but he was actually pretty nice.
JT: I told you it was a stupid idea.
Emma: What did you guys do Friday night?
Toby: Nothing, why?
JT: Nothing. Just imagine the most embarrassing possible moment of your life then multiply it by eternity.
Manny: What happened?
JT: The internet, Toby’s perverted curiosity.
Toby: Me? It was your idea, remember?
Emma: You guys stayed home to look at p*rn?
Toby: So? It’s a right of passage.
Manny: Please.
JT: His dad and Kate came home early and found us.
Toby: They made us look at p*rn sites with them, including sites with men. To teach us a lesson about objectifying women.
Emma: they made you look at p*rn?
Manny: With them?
Emma: Males and Females?
Toby: Not so loud, okay?
Emma and Manny: Losers.
(They walk away.)
[Outside]
(Terri is walking. Ashley walks up to her.)
Ashley: Hey, so how come you didn’t call me all weekend?
Terri: Because I wanted to fall off the face of the earth and die.
Ashley: Well, if it makes you feel any better, Mr. Raditch says we can have another right dance next semester.
Terri: Well, at least I didn’t wreck everything.
Ashley: Of course you didn’t. Things are going to work out, just trust me.
(Spinner comes up to them.)
Spinner: Hey, Terri. Hey, are you feeling better?
(Terri nods.)
Spinner: Look, here are those notes back. Thanks again.
(Terri takes them back.)
Paige: (she comes up to them) Yeah, Ter, thanks, but Spinner’s gonna use my notes from now on.
Spinner: Bye.
(Spinner and Paige leave Terri looking sad. The camera shows Ashley looking sad for Terri then moves back to Terri.)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x04 - Eye of the Beholder"} | foreverdreaming |
Degrassi Community School
(Toby and JT are heading in.)
Toby: 28 hours, 14 minutes, 7 seconds. 28 hours, 14 minutes…
JT: Would you stop with the countdown please?
Toby: Sure, you’ve got Parents’ Day in the bag.
JT: What? Ok, you Einstein. Me, brain-d*ad.
Toby: I mean, your parents aren’t homesuidal maniacs.
JT: I thought Kate and Jeff were getting along great.
Toby: I’m not talking about Kate.
JT: Whoa. Your mom’s coming tomorrow? Oh, man. I should sell tickets. Remember that time at camp when they both came to pick you up?
Toby: Don’t remind me.
JT: Can’t you just ask your mom not to come?
Toby: Sure, if I want to start a nuclear custody w*r.
JT: Maybe they won’t start screaming this time.
Toby: Yeah. Maybe Mr. Armstrong will your parents about the “D” on your last math test.
JT: How much time do we have left?
Toby: 28 hours, 13 minutes, and 17 seconds. 28 hours, 13 minutes, and 16 seconds. 28 hours, 13 minutes, and 15 seconds.
Hall
Toby: The way it works now is perfect. Every other weekend with my mom, the rest of the time with my dad. And as long as they don’t have to talk to each other, everything’s fine.
JT: Sorry, man. I didn’t know it was that serious.
Toby: Yeah, well, it is that serious.
JT: Hey, we could contaminate the water foundations with E coli, that way they’d have to shut down the school, right?
Toby: There probably is E coli in the foundations.
Mr. S: (as he’s taking a drink) Actually, we test our water on a daily basis, boys. It’s fine.
(Bell rings.)
Mr. Simpson’s homeroom
Mr. S: Ok guys, quiet down. (JT and Toby come in behind him) We don’t have Ashley today, but we do have this week’s News About Kids broadcast.
Emma: Uh, NAK again.
Mr. S: Em? Something you wanna share?
Emma: No, Mr. Simpson. (She sits down)
(Mr. Simpson turns on the tv. The NAK people appear on screen.)
Ryan: Hi, I’m Ryan, and this is Nicole. And welcome to NAK: News About Kids. Today we’ll be talking about that infests major cities everywhere
Nicole: And we’re not talking cockroaches, we’re talking squeegee kids.
Ryan: Stalking street corners, waiting to pounce on un suspecting cars. (Shows footage as he talks). Hijacking your hard-earned cash to waste on drugs and tattoos. (Shows Emma watching.)
Nicole: Are squeegee kids legit or lazy? Are they using their “cool” trend for today’s media saturated youth?
Mr. S: Remember guys, you’re here for media studies after lunch.
(The students leave for class.)
Manny: Em, it was just a TV show.
Liberty: Squeegee kids are very annoying.
Emma: No, squeegee kids are poor. They live on the street and wash windows. It’s their living.
Liberty: My father says that if another one of those ragamuffins tries to dirty up his window, he’ll call the mayor. He knows the mayor.
(Liberty walks away.)
Emma: Last week NAK told us to join the army. What’s tomorrow? A hole in the O-Zone is good because it makes a better tan? Imagine being a squeegee kid. Out in the cold, no school, no parents.
Toby: No parents?
Emma: Toby this isn’t a joke. (Starts to walk backwards, so she bumps into Sean.)
Manny: He stared right at you.
Emma: Yeah, because I bumped right into him.
Girls’ Washroom
(Ashley is at the mirror looking at her face. Paige and Terri come in.)
Paige: Oh, here we go again.
Ashley: Here we go what again?
Paige: Every time NAK claims your airspace, you go all manic-depressive.
Ashley: That is so not true. I just- look at this zit!
Terri: That’s a pore and Paige has a point.
Ashley: Terri…
Terri: I don’t get why you gets so bothered. Everybody loves your morning announcements. Even Heather Sinclair said you were better than those lame-o NAK hosts.
Paige: Oh, yeah, big accomplishment. They’re total freaks.
Terri: Heather even has an agent. You could totally get an agent.
Paige: Heather Sinclair has an agent? With that overbite?
Terri: See? Ashley’s got the look and tv experience. It’s perfect.
Paige: Where would Ashley find an agent?
Ashley: Guys, Toby is mom’s a casting agent. Terri, you rock!
(Ashley and Terri leave the bathroom. Paige stays behind to wash her hands. She is not happy.)
Outside
Toby: JT, come on. We’ve got to come up with an anti-parents plan.
JT: What does it look like I’m doing?
Toby: Uh, playing the seeds for a massive heart att*ck?
JT: To plot evil, I need energy (Ashley + Terri come up to them)
Ashley: Hey. Just the person I was looking for. Your mom’s a casting agent, right?
Toby: Yeah, so?
Terri: So, is she coming to Parents’ Day?
Toby: Thank you, for reminding me.
Ashley: Is that a yes?
Toby: Yeah, why?
Ashley: No reason.
(They walk away.)
JT: What was that about?
Toby: I have no idea.
(They go to a table where Manny and Emma are.)
Manny: It’s not like people really think about it.
Emma: That’s the thing. They don’t us to think. They want us to become brain-d*ad NAK robots.
Toby: What’s with her?
Manny: NAK rage, kind of like road rage.
Emma: And the announcements? They have commercials. They’re trying to buy our bran loyalty in homeroom.
JT: Emma, who are you talking to?
Emma: I could talk, or I could take action.
(Emma leaves.)
JT: Imagine being her for a day.
Hall
(Spinner is walking and talking with Paige.)
Spinner: Ok, so then the guy goes, “What are you going to do for a face when the monkey wants its butt back?” (He laughs, but she doesn’t.) What? You don’t get it? The guy has a face like a monkey’s butt?
Paige: Spinner, do you think Ashley’s prettier than me?
Spinner: What?
Paige: Because she’s thinking about getting an agent (they sit down).
Spinner: Oh, Ashley’s getting an agent? I could totally see her on TV.
Paige: What? And you couldn’t see me?
Spinner: I didn’t say that.
Paige: So you think that I could get an agent too, right?
Spinner: Uh, yeah. Sure, why not? Ok, back to my joke. So then the guy goes…wait, is that the right word? Yeah, no, yeah, yeah. So, then the guy goes… (While he’s talking, Paige isn’t listening)
Mr. Raditch’s Office
Emma: Mr. Raditch, could I talk to you about this morning’s NAK broadcast?
Mr. R: I’m all ears.
Emma: NAK is totally bias. This morning they tell us squeegee kids suck, and then they tell us which running shoes to buy? It’s wrong.
Mr. R: How you seen the new computers in the Media Immersion lab? 18 computers thanks to NAK. In exchange, we show their morning broadcasts.
Emma: Whatever they want to report?
(Mr. R nods.)
Emma: But that’s bribery.
Mr. R: No, it’s 18 new computers we wouldn’t have otherwise. Parents voted for it. And remember, not everyone at Degrassi has a computer at home. But, if you feel strongly about it, write an opinion piece. Make sure you get it in by 4:00. Make the Parents’ Day addition.
Emma: 4:00 today?
Mr. R: Think you can do it?
(The bell rings. Emma nods as she leaves.)
Hall
(Ashley and Terri are leaving class.)
Ashley: So, I signed us up for the welcoming committee, Teri. Which means, I’ll be the first person Toby’s mother sees.
Terri: Great.
Paige: Unless she sees me first.
Ashley: What?
Paige: Well, I am helping out tomorrow.
Ashley: Since when?
Paige: Ashley, you asked me like, 3 weeks ago to volunteer, remember? Anyway, see you two later.
Media Immersion.
Manny: I can’t believe the principal is asking you to do this. You’re like, attacking the school.
Emma: I know. It’s very cool.
(They go to sit down, but Sean’s stuff is in a seat.)
Manny: I’ll stand.
(Emma nods and sits down.)
Emma: Ok, so let’s try to imagine. You’re a squeegee kid.
Manny: Ok. I’m a squeegee kid.
Emma: So how does it feel being compared to a cockroach?
Manny: I’d say, “Hey, preppy kids. Get off my case. We’re people, too.”
Sean: Oh, please.
Emma: Could… We need the chair.
(Sean gets up and leaves.)
Emma: Talk about negative energy.
Another part of Media Immersion
Toby: Emma’s right. I could whine or I could do something about Parents’ Day.
JT: Ok, so, what are you going to do?
Toby: Convince my parents there’s no need to show up. Ok, I downloaded the logo from the Degrassi website. Then, I scanned Mr. Simpson’s signature from the last newsletter he sent home. It’s a masterpiece.
JT: Masterpiece or insanity. OK, your parents don’t have to come because of your exemplary performance in all of your scholastic pursuits. What?
Toby: Translation: I’m acing school. It’s all in the details, my friend. This’ll work. It has to.
Hall
(Emma is running to the newspaper office to hand in her story.)
Emma: (knocks on the door) Liberty, my NAK editorial. I just finished.
Liberty: (checking her watch) You’re 17 minutes late.
Emma: I’m sorry.
Liberty: The Grapevine deadline is 4 P.M. I’m trying to run a professional operation.
Emma: Even professional newspapers give extensions. It’s 17 minutes.
Liberty: I suppose I could make an exception for you. But, please try not to get used to it. Remember, as editor, I’m only as strong as my weakest link.
(Emma gives her the disk and leaves.)
Kerwin House
(Toby is in the kitchen with his dad.)
Toby: I was shocked more than anyone. Who knew I was doing so well? You know, this transfer to Degrassi has really…
Jeff: “Uplifted Toby’s grade classification to a premium standard.” Interesting choice of words from Mr. Simpson.
Toby: Well, you know, he’s a computer guy. Writing isn’t really his thing.
Jeff: Neither is spelling. Two E’s in premium. What’s going on?
Toby: Nothing’s going on.
Jeff: You don’t want me to go to Parents’ Day?
Toby: I didn’t say that.
Jeff: You didn’t need to. Are you doing that badly in school or what? Talk to me Toby.
Toby: Mom called, ok? She wants to go tomorrow.
Jeff: And she didn’t even tell me. That is so typical of your mother.
Toby: See? You guys can’t even be in the same room without freaking out.
Jeff: Toby. We’re on much better terms now. It’s not like it used to be. So, what you don’t want to go?
Toby: I want you to go and I want her to go. I just don’t want the two of you to go there… together.
Jeff: Hey, come on buddy. Everything’s going to be fine. No fights. Promise. (Holds up his hand)
Degrassi’s Parents’ Day
(As parents head inside, the camera closes up on a sign that says “Welcome Parents to D.S.C Parents Day”.)
Girls Washroom.
(Ashley and Terri are in there. Ashley is trying to put on eyeliner.)
Ashley: Look at me. I’m shaking. You do it. (Gives it to Terri, but Terri pokes her in the eye) Ow! Be careful. It’s my eye. It’s what I see with.
Terri: Sorry. I’m not good at this.
Paige: Ladies. (She comes out a stall wearing a yellow sparkly top that’s very short)
Ashley: What are you wearing?
Paige: It’s Parents Day. I have the right to look fabulous, don’t I?
Ashley: For who, the parents? Or Toby’s mom?
Paige: See you out there.
(Paige leaves, then Ashley and Terri follow.)
Hall
(Toby and Jeff are waiting for Toby’s mom.)
Toby: Guess she forgot.
Jeff: You know your mother. We’ll give her two more minutes. Hey, tobs, it’ll be fine.
Ashley: Mrs. Demcowski? Room 102.
Man: Thank you.
(Toby’s mom comes up to them.)
Terri: Hi, can I help you?
Ashley: Uh, Terri, this is Toby’s mom, the casting agent. Welcome to Degrassi, Ms. Issacs.
Annemarie: Hi.
Paige: Can I just say that that is a great outfit? So avante garde.
Annemarie: Thank you. Wholt Rentthrough. On Sale.
Toby: Hi, mom.
Annemarie: Hey, tiger. I’m sorry I’m late.
Jeff: Annemarie. Flat tire?
Annemarie: I could Toby that I might beheld up at work. Parents Day isn’t over already, is it?
Jeff: No, no. We’d better get moving though.
Paige: Paige Michalchuk. It’s very nice to meet you. I’ve heard so much about you.
Ashley: Smooth, Michalchuk. I bet you’re on the next flight to Hollywood.
Paige: Hon, I’d re-think the eyeliner. You’re looking a little washed out.
Media Immersion.
(Toby and his parents are in there, meeting with Mr. Simpson.)
Mr. S: Uh, there’s no doubt Toby is a bright kid, but, uh, he has trouble with details, particularly his spelling, some of the basic points of grammar. This tends to bring down his marks. For example, in Media Immersion, Toby could be at the top of his class if he just applied himself.
Toby: “Apply” is such a relative term.
Mr. S: Toby, come on. Your last media assignment was 3 days late. He’s just not getting the results he should for someone so bright.
Annemarie: 3 days late?
Jeff: First I’ve heard of it. Toby?
Annemarie: Jeff, I’m talking to you. This is Parents Day. You’re the parent.
Jeff: We’re both the parents here and we’ll discuss it later, ok?
Annemarie: We will discuss it now. Why aren’t you helping Toby get his work in on time? Why is he under achieving?
Jeff: Toby and I will work it out. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Hall
Spike: I am so proud of you. Rave review after rave review.
Emma: Mom, my editorial.
(Tracker and Sean come out of a room.)
Tracker: So you have to watch this video every morning? Free computers are free computers, man. What idiot wrote this?
Emma: Excuse me, I wrote that.
Tracker: Oh, sorry.
Emma: Don’t look at her. It’s my piece and I’m right. Students shouldn’t be force fed advertising while we’re at school. If you don’t get it, you’re the idiot.
Spike: Emma…
Sean: Look, it’s not that serious.
Emma: What? Expressing my opinion isn’t important?
Sean: That’s all my brother’s trying to do.
Emma: I could tell, and he’s wrong.
Tracker: I’m wrong? Tell me Emma, is it fair or is it wrong that Sean here is falling behind in school because we can’t afford a computer?
Emma: He can do his homework here.
Tracker: What? Yeah, on the free computers.
Emma: If you read the entire article, you would know…
Tracker: That it’s a piece of garbage.
Emma: It is not garbage!
Tracker: (crumples it up) Looks like garbage to me. Smells like garbage.
Sean: Tracker, man…
Tracker: All I’m saying is there is two sides to every story. Try to remember that next time.
(Tracker and Sean leave.)
Media Immersion.
Mr. S: It was only once, but still, skipping a class even once at this grade level.
Annemarie: What is going on here?
Toby: One class. I got carried away in the computer lab.
Annemarie: I thought moving in with you and June Clever was supposed to be good for Toby’s grades, wasn’t that the point?
Jeff: What are you saying?
Toby: Dad, come on.
Annemarie: I’m saying that maybe we need to reassess Toby’s living arrangements.
Jeff: Don’t thr*at me.
Annemarie: Hey that’s your game.
Jeff: What? And breaking commitments is yours? That’s why Toby lives with me.
Mr. S: Mr. and Mrs. Issacs. These are common problems for many students.
Annemarie: So it’s my fault? Jeff, let’s not get into the reasons why I left, ok?
Jeff: Reasons why you left? There’s only one reason, Annemarie. Your career. Your career that meant so much more to you than we ever did. That’s why Toby lives with me and he’ll never….
Toby: Mom! Dad! Yeah, my assignment was late! Who’s to blame? Video games! I’m telling you, they’re destroying my generation.
Annemarie: Toby, this isn’t a joke.
Toby: I’m not joking, ok? I don’t have an excuse, but Dad can’t do my homework for me or make sure I go to class. It’s my life, right? So, it’s my problem. Stop blaming each other and then using me as another excuse to argue. It’s not fair. I’ll try harder. I promise.
Mr. S: Moving on. All right then. Let’s take a look at some of the recent test results.
Hall
Ashley: Hey. How did it go in there?
Jeff: Oh, it went okay. Toby just has to apply himself more.
Annemarie: Yeah, we’re gonna make sure he does his homework on time. But, it went okay.
Paige: Toby, hon, that’s so great.
Annemarie: Honey, listen. I’ve gotta run.
Toby: Gotta get back to work, huh?
Annemarie: Yeah. But, hey, listen. Your message came in loud and clear back there. Toby, I’m really sorry. All this stuff between your dad and me, it’s tough.
Toby: I know.
Annemarie: I love you so much. (They hug) Ashley, you have my permission to keep this monkey in line.
Ashley: Oh, I will. Don’t you worry. And it was a pleasure to see you again. An absolute joy. By the way-
Paige: (gives Annemarie a picture of herself) Something to remember me by.
(Annemarie sees Terri and gives Terri her card.)
Annemarie: If you’re interested in acting, give me a call. You have an interesting look.
(Toby’s mom leaves. Paige isn’t happy that Terri got the card.)
Classroom
(Sean is in there doing work. Emma comes in. He moves his stuff so she can sit down. Emma sends Sean a message apologizing about what happened on Parents Day. The computer tells him he has a new message. He opens it and reads it.)
Sean: I’m sorry too.
Emma: I’m a little outspoken. It runs in the family.
Sean: Maybe it’s contagious. Did you hear my brother?
Emma: “Looks like garbage.”
Sean: “Smells like garbage.” It wasn’t garbage.
Emma: Thanks.
Hall
(Toby is walking when Mr. Simpson comes up to him.)
Mr. S: Toby. Can I speak with you for a minute? Listen, yesterday….
Toby: I just want to apologize again for my parents’ behavior.
Mr. S: Oh, Toby, it wasn’t your fault. Are they always like that?
Toby: Only when they’re together. Honestly Mr. Simpson, yesterday was good. It cleared a lot of air.
Mr. S: I’m glad. Oh, listen, before I forget, next time you want to forge my signature, maybe you should spell my name correctly, and erase the file from the server.
Toby: Mr. Simpson, I can explain.
Mr. S: Good, why don’t you start with a 10 page essay on why it’s wrong to falsify documents, say by, um, tomorrow morning. And you know what? One final thing. Good work yesterday. Your parents should be proud of you. I certainly was.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x05 - Parent's Day"} | foreverdreaming |
Ms. Kwan’s English Class
(Ashley is showing Terri what she got Jimmy for their anniversary. It is a silver chain that has the letter A (for Ashley) and a J (for Jimmy))
Ashley: You think Jimmy will like it?
Terri: It is so perfect. Romantic, yet masculine. Just like Jimmy.
(Ashley looks at Jimmy. He smiles at her.)
Ms. Kwan: Shakespeare’s language can be hard to follow. So what we’re going to do is break up into groups and we’re going to perform scenes from Romeo and Juliet. (As she talks, she’s passing out papers)
Spinner: Oh, come on!
Ms. Kwan: We’re going to perform the scenes next week with the text fully memorized.
Terri: I’m playing Balthezar. Who’s she?
Ms. Kwan: He is Romeo’s servant.
Terri: Let me guess. You’re Juliet and Jimmy’s Romeo.
Ashley: He’s Romeo, but I’m the nurse.
Terri: So who’s Juliet?
Paige: “Romeo, Oh Romeo. Where fore art thou, Romeo?” (Meaning: Paige is playing Juliet)
(Ashley doesn’t seem happy.)
Media Immersion
JT: Hey, Tobster. Check it out. Dr. Sally is coming to Degrassi, today.
Toby: Who’s Dr. Sally?
JT: The sex lady. But she’s only talking to the eighth graders, of course.
Toby: Of course.
JT: It’s totally unfair. I heard that she brings like props. And she gets graphic. As in p*rn. Eighth graders get all the luck.
Mr. S: Ok, people as we dicussed in at the end of the last class today you guys are going to be creating a website on an animal of your choice.
Emma: (raises her hand) Ooh! Can we do it on a specific animal, like Mama Onu?
Mr. S: Mama who?
Emma: Mama Onu. She’s an endangered greenturtle from the South Pacific.
Mr. S: That sounds very informative. You know, but don’t forget to have fun and use the technology and your imagination, ok? That’s what it’s all about…
(As he’s talking, Toby is daydreaming about Emma (Meaning: He has a crush on her) It shows Emma flipping her hair and coming toward Toby.)
Toby: Whoa.
Emma: Toby.
(End of daydream.)
(Sean comes up to him.)
Sean: Hey, man. Thanks for letting me borrow your notes.
Toby: Yeah, no problem Sean.
(Toby looks over at Emma.)
Emma: Is that what he said? To your friend’s brother?
JT: You ok?
Toby: Oh, yeah, fine, perfect.
Eighth graders talking with Dr. Sally
Dr. Sally: As the male becomes aroused, the penis fills with blood and he gets an erection. Now, if you want to avoid herpes, Aids, or chlamydia, and a un planned pregnancy you must practice safer sex by using one of these, a condom. Roll the condom down over the penis right to the base leaving a space at the tip. This is very embarrassing, I know that. But it’s something you really need to know. Protection for both of you. (Sees Spinner raising his hand) Yes?
Spinner: Yea, I have a friend. He’s about my age. He and his girlfriend are like totally serious. I’m talking like 8 months serious.
Dr. Sally: Mm-hmm.
Spinner: And how are they supposed to know when or if they’re ready to you know, do it?
Dr. Sally: Well, anatomically physically you’re ready right now. But, emotionally psychologically, we’re not sure. You have to be able to decide. Decide whether you like your body…
Out in the hall
Terri: Ok, I will never eat banana as long as I live.
Paige: I think it was good she was so blunt. I mean, we’re not all going to wait till we get married.
Ashley: I’m going to strangle Spinner. Can you believe he asked that? I mean, hello, who else in this school has been going out 8 months?
Paige: Well, what about you and Jimmy? I mean, 8 months is a long time.
Ashley: Our relationship is deep enough without sex. (Gets out a box) Look what he made me for our anniversary (It’s a pink heart made of clay) It’s supposed to be his heart.
Paige: Looks more like a pile of-
Ashley: I think it’s sweet.
Terri: It is so romantic.
Paige: Romantic or…
Ashley: What?
Paige: Well, you got him a $50.00 chain, right? And he got you a hunk of clay? But, what do I know? (She shuts her locker and leaves)
(Ashley looks at Jimmy’s gift and smiles.)
Cafeteria.
(Spinner is sitting reading. Jimmy comes and sits down.)
Jimmy: Spinner’s reading? Quick, record the time and date.
Spinner: Yo, man. Shakespeare was wild. Juliet like does it with Romeo, at 13. You know, I guess she was ready physically and emotionally.
(Paige comes up to them.)
Paige: (To Jimmy) Hey, Romeo. I’ve memorized my lines already.
(Paige leaves.)
Guy: I heard she did it last summer, at camp with a counselor.
Jimmy: I have a girlfriend, right?
Spinner: Right, Ashley “you’ll never get past second base” Kerwin.
Jimmy: Spinner “you’d better shut your mouth” Mason.
Spinner: Look, all I’m saying is you got two diners, but only one selling fries and you’ve really got a craving for fries.
Jimmy: Shut up.
Toby, JT and Liberty coming out of line.
Liberty: I could help you with your assignment. I get straight A’s.
JT: And I get straight D’s. So why rock the boat?
(She leaves. JT and Toby approach their lunch table with Emma, Manny, + Sean.)
Toby: Oh, hey Sean.
(He puts down magazines about turtles.)
Emma: The wonderback turtle? Is that for Media Immersion?
Manny: Isn’t Emma already doing endangered turtles for her assignment?
Toby: I was inspired after learning about Mama Onu to uncover the plight of other turtles. That’s okay, isn’t it?
Emma: Of course. Who knew I could have such an impact?
Toby: You know I saw this DVD in the video store the other day. It’s a documentary on endangered species. We should watch it tomorrow night.
JT: I thought we were going to the movies.
Toby: Maybe the future of helpless animals is a little more important than that.
Manny: We could watch it at my place. My dad won’t let me go out on a school night, but you guys can come over.
Emma: How about you, Sean? Wanna come?
Sean: No, I’ve got other plans. See you guys later.
Hall
JT: Don’t you think that was a bit much? “Oh, hi, Emma. I rented this dvd for tomorrow night.”
Toby: JT, you better shut up.
JT: “I was so inspired by Mama Onu and the plight of other turtles. Emma, I…I…I love you.”
(Toby hits him in the stomach. Liberty sees this.)
Liberty: You do know that physical v*olence violates the Degrassi Code of Conduct, don’t you?
(She leaves.)
Toby: Violates the code of conduct?
Ms. Kwan’s Class
Ms. Kwan: I’ll be back in a couple of minutes.
(Paige and Jimmy are rehearsing lines from Romeo and Juliet.)
Jimmy: “Oh dear saint let lips do what hands do. They pray, grant thou. Lest faith turn to despair.”
Paige: “Saints do not move grant now for prayer’s sake.”
Jimmy: “Then move not while my payer’s effect I take. Thus from my lips by thine my sin is purged.
(They kiss.)
Ashley: “Madam, your mother craves a word with you.”
Ms. Kwan: Ashley, you don’t come in for a half page. Ok, why don’t we start from the top and keep doing what you’re doing ‘cause your chemistry’s great.
(She leaves. Ashley is not happy.)
Hall
Terri: Ash, don’t worry about it. It’s a just a homework assignment.
Ashley: You don’t get it. Even when we were little, anything I ever had, Paige had to have too. I have to draw the line at my boyfriend.
Terri: Well, see you later.
(Terri leaves.)
Paige: Hey, Ash. You were a great nurse.
Ashley: I know what you’re doing Paige Michalchuk.
Paige: What are you talking about?
Ashley: I’m not blind. You were all over Jimmy in there.
Paige: It’s called rehearsal.
Ashley: It’s called backstabbing.
Paige: Ashley, we’re studying Romeo and Juliet, not Julius Caesar, ok?
Ashley: What does that even mean?
Paige: Anyway, just because you two have been going out for like forever, doesn’t mean that Jimmy’s bored of you. At least, he’s never said so to me.
Ashley: You’ve heard Jimmy’s bored with me?
Paige: Not at all. But, if I were you, I’d make sure he wasn’t. Before someone with a little more chemistry comes along.
Hall
(Jimmy is at his locker when Ashley comes up to him.)
Jimmy: Hey, Ash I was looking for you, I just-
(Ashley interrupts him by kissing him.)
Spinner: Yeah.
Jimmy: Whoa. What was that for?
Ashley: Didn’t you like it?
Jimmy: Sure.
Ashley: Well, if you like that, you’ll love what I have planned for our anniversary. Mom’s going to go see Jeff perform at his orchestra and Toby’s going to a friend’s house, so we’ll be all alone. Remember what Dr. Sally said today? Well, I’m ready.
(Ashley leaves.)
The street
(Jimmy is walking with Spinner and a friend.)
Guy: (has a basketball in his hands) He sh**t, he scores! The crowd goes wild!
(He passes the ball to Spinner. Spinner gives it to Jimmy. It hits him in the stomach.)
Jimmy: Hey!
Spinner: What’s with you today?
Jimmy: For our anniversary, Ash wants to give me the ultimate gift.
Spinner: A Ferrari?
Jimmy: You’re such an idiot. No. What Juliet gave Romeo?
Spinner: Ash wants to have sex? Man, you’re going to get some? You got horseshoes up your butt.
Jimmy: Yeah. Cool, huh?
Spinner: To mark this heroic occasion, I think you better get little Jimmy Jr. there a present.
Jimmy: What?
Spinner: Condoms, you idiot.
Jimmy: Condoms. Right.
Kerwin House
(Ashley is on the computer. Terri is there.)
Terri: French delight?
Ashley: Thai tickler.
Terri: I can’t believe you can buy condoms on the ‘Net.
Ashley: Terri, you can anything on the ‘Net.
Terri: Why isn’t Jimmy, you know, taking care of this?
Ashley: You heard what Dr. Sally said. It’s the guys’ and the girls’ responsibility.
Terri: Are you sure you’re making the right decision?
Ashley: Of course. I mean, Jimmy and I love each other, right?
Terri: It’s just, you said your relationship was deep enough without sex, then Paige-
Ashley: This has nothing to do with Paige.
Terri: I just don’t want you to regret this later. It’s a big deal.
Ashley: I can’t believe I’m listening to relationship advice from someone who’s never even been on a date.
Terri: Ok. I’m gonna be late for dinner.
(Terri grabs her backpack and leaves. Ashley turns to the computer. At first she’s not sure to order the condoms, but she then sends the order.)
Media Immersion.
(Emma is trying to find information on her project, but can’t find anything.)
Emma: There’s nothing.
Toby: Something wrong?
Emma: Yeah, people that are hunting green turtles have also wiped them off cyberspace.
Toby: Can I try?
Emma: Go ahead, but it’s hopeless.
(He types something in and finds lots of sites.)
Emma: How did you do that?
Toby: It’s a little gift I have.
Daydream
(They both grab the mouse.)
Emma: Toby…
End of daydream
(Emma hits the mouse.)
Emma: Toby! If we’re going to work on this together, could you at least try to stay awake?
Toby: Sorry.
(She rolls her eyes and works on the computer.)
Emma: Whoa, check at this site. It has tons of stuff on turtles. Way more than I’ve hoped for.
(Toby looks bored.)
Cut to: Hall
Ashley walks past Terri.
Ashley: Hey. I need to get in (meaning: Her locker. Jimmy is leaning on it)
Jimmy: So, are we still on for tonight?
(Paige approaches them.)
Paige: Hey, Ashley. Uh, rehearsal tomorrow? We can do it without you. If you wanna do something else.
Ashley: Why would I wanna do that?
Paige: Well, the scene’s all about Jimmy and me. So why would you want to wait around for what two lines? But, it’s up to you of course.
(Paige leaves.)
Ashley: We are so on for tonight.
(Ashley leaves.)
Hall
Emma: Come on, guys. Let’s go watch Toby’s DVD.
(Liberty comes up to them.)
Liberty: Emma, you said you’d help proofread this issue of The Grapevine, remember? It’s scheduled in my palm pilot.
Emma: Right. (To the others) I’ll be there in an hour, I promise.
(Emma leaves with Liberty. Manny waves good bye. Toby stares after them. JT waves his hand in Toby’s face. Toby shoos away JT’s hand. They leave. JT puts on his hat.)
JT: Whoop.
Kerwin house.
(Ashley walks in the door. She sees her mom is home.)
Ashley: Mom. What are you doing here?
Kate: Last time I looked, I lived here.
Ashley: But aren’t you going to see Jeff perform tonight?
Kate: Yup. That’s why I had to go home and make myself gorgeous.
(There is a knock at the door. Kate goes to get it.)
Ashley: I’ll get it.
Kate: Ok.
(She goes outside. There is a postman there with a package.)
Postman: Package for you.
Ashley: Hi.
(She takes the package and gives him a credit card. He runs it through the machine. As she’s waiting, it shows Kate checking her face in a compact. Ashley comes back in.)
Kate: Hey. What’s in the box?
Ashley: Oh, you know, just girl stuff.
Kate: Girl stuff? What kind of girl stuff?
Ashley: Mom…
Kate: Ok, ok.
Store
(Jimmy goes in the store to buy condoms.)
Spinner: Well, come on. They’re not going to bite you.
(They go to the register.)
Man: Are you sure these are the right size for ya? ‘Cause we got small, medium, large, and extra large.
Jimmy: Those are fine.
Man: But then, you’ve also got your choice of regular and super sensitive.
Jimmy: Just ring them in.
Man: But, then there’s colors to think of. ‘Cause personally, I think a little bit of color spices things up.
Jimmy: Just, just, ring them in, please.
Man: (laughs) Ok.
Kerwin House.
(Jimmy comes to the door and knocks. Ashley answers the door, wearing a black dress.)
Jimmy: Hey.
Ashley: Hey.
They go inside.
Ashley’s room
(They go inside and shut the door.)
Jimmy: So…
Ashley: Right
(They sit on the bed. Jimmy puts the bag down. He gets up and then sits down again. They’re just sitting there, not looking at each other, so you can tell they’re nervous.)
Degrassi
Liberty: You sure my editorial on school fountation bacteria breeders isn’t too long?
Emma: Positive.
Liberty: Great. Hey, on the way home wanna grab a smoothie?
Emma: Um, actually, I forgot.
Liberty: Forgot what? Not something for the paper I hope?
Emma: No. Sean asked me to help him after school. I gotta run.
Liberty: Ok, see you tomorrow then. Or as they say in Italy: “ado mane.”
Media Immersion
(Sean is in there working on his project. Emma comes in.)
Emma: Springer spaniels? Hardly on the endangered list.
Sean: So? Mr. Simpson didn’t say they had to be.
Emma: No, you’re right. Of course not. Why Springer spaniels?
Sean: I used to have one when I lived with my parents, Charlie.
Emma: What happened to him?
Sean: I had to leave him. My brother’s building, it doesn’t allow dogs.
Emma: You must miss him.
Sean: He was sorta dumb, you know? He chased his own tail, he was afraid of cats, but I miss him a lot.
Ashley’s room
(Ashley and Jimmy are laying down on her bed kissing when she gets up.)
Jimmy: What’s wrong? Ash?
Ashley: I’m just going to go and freshen up. I’ll be right back.
(She goes in the hall and stands outside the door.)
Ashley: Come on, Ash, grow up. You can do this, just grow up.
(She goes back in the room.)
Ashley: Sorry about that.
Jimmy: Ash, what’s wrong?
Ashley: I can’t. I’m sorry, Jimmy. I just can’t. Maybe somebody like Paige can….
Jimmy: What did you say? About Paige?
Ashley: Maybe she’s the girl for you.
Jimmy: You think because of this Shakespeare stuff, I wanna be with Paige?
Ashley: She’s ready to do this. She’s done this. But, I’m not.
Jimmy: Good, ‘cause to be honest, neither am I.
(Ashley smiles.)
Outside Manny’s
(Toby and JT are sitting outside. Manny comes outside and sits down.)
Toby: I can’t believe Emma didn’t show.
Manny: She’s probably still at school. You know what Liberty’s like.
JT: Emma’s lucky. That boring DVD almost put me on the endangered species list.
Toby: I rented it for her.
(Toby leaves.)
Kerwin House
(Toby is going upstairs. He opens Ashley’s door.)
Toby: Ash, I’m home.
(When he opens the door, Ashley and Jimmy are bl*wing up the condoms like balloons.)
Ashley: Oh, Toby, um, you’re home early. We were just…
Jimmy: Making decorations.
Ashley: Yeah, for the dance.
Toby: You think I’m a complete idiot? (Picks one up off the floor) Better get these condoms away before Dad and Kate get home. I’m going to bed. And Jimmy, girls are not worth it, believe me.
(Toby shuts the door. Ashley and Jimmy start laughing. Jimmy blows one in Ashley’s face.)
Ashley: Ow! (He takes one and gets a marker) What are you drawing?
Jimmy: A symbol of our love.
Ashley: Oh, I almost forgot. (Gives him his gift) If you don’t like it, then…
Jimmy: No. It’s exactly what I want, Juliet.
Ashley: Romeo.
(They hug and kiss.)
Hall
(Manny and Toby are walking when Emma shows up.)
Emma: Hey, guys. Sorry about last night.
Toby: Liberty chew your ear off?
Emma: No, I ran into Sean, we just started talking. He used to have this dog…
Toby: So you didn’t even bother showing up? Not even a phone call?
Emma: What’s the big deal?
Toby: You said you’d come. What kind of friend are you anyway?
(Toby leaves.)
Emma: What’s his problem?
Manny: Uh, he’s got a major crush on you.
Emma: Toby?
Another part of the hall
(Jimmy’s at his locker. Spinner approaches him.)
Spinner: Hey. How’d it go?
(Jimmy shrugs.)
Spinner: What, you guys didn’t…?
Jimmy: Man, we were this close. Then, her brother came home early. Messed up everything.
Spinner: That sucks. Want me to take care of him?
(Jimmy gives him a weird look saying “No” then walks away.)
Terri and Ashley
(Terri is at her locker. Ashley approaches.)
Ashley: Hey. About what I said yesterday? I was totally out of line. I guess I was just nervous, not that that’s an excuse.
Terri: Fine.
Ashley: I’m sorry, Terri. Really sorry. Anyway, Jimmy really liked his gift.
Terri: You guys didn’t actually…?
Ashley: No, of course not. It wasn’t right.
Terri: Jimmy wasn’t upset?
Ashley: No, he was pretty cool about it. Entirely cool about it, actually.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x06 - The Mating Game"} | foreverdreaming |
Degrassi - Gym
(Sean has a basketball in his hands. He throws it to Jimmy. He tries to guard Jimmy. Jimmy goes past him and makes a sh*t.)
Jimmy: Yeah.
(A whistle is blown.)
Coach: Bring it in guys. (The guys all gather around) Tomorrow’s exception game is against Earl Gray. You have to come out strong, play hard. Now, my final cuts will be based on how you perform in that game (They groan). Sorry, gentleman. I have 15 talented players here and only 12 spots. (Bell rings) (He looks at his watch) Okay, guys, you better change before you’re late for homeroom. Good job.
(Everyone leaves except Jimmy and Spinner.)
Spinner: Dude, you heard Armstrong. Homeroom calls.
Jimmy: Homeroom can wait. I want to try this one more time.
Spinner: Jimmy, you b*rned up the floor this morning. You’re doing fine.
Jimmy: Fine? I want to do better than that.
Spinner: (as Jimmy’s taking a sh*t) Downtown. Go, Jimmy! Oh, yeah! Who’s the man? (He high fives Jimmy)
Jimmy: You’re looking at him. Degrassi Panthers, Jimmy Brooks is on the prowl.
Ms. Kwan’s Class
(Jimmy is walking in and Ms. Kwan holds out her hand.)
Jimmy: Ms. Kwan, please. Let me make the team first, then I’ll give you my autograph.
Ms. Kwan: How about you give me your English assignment instead?
Jimmy: My assignment, right. I wanted to talk to you about that.
Ms. Kwan: Jimmy, I already gave you an extension. You did read chapter 8 for today, right?
Jimmy: Of course. I’m totally on top of the reading, it’s just the actual work.
Ms. Kwan: Jimmy, you’re falling seriously behind. I’m concerned you’re not up to juggling both academics and sports.
Jimmy: Oh, but juggling is a sport, Ms. Kwan. There’s nothing to worry about, I’m fine.
Hall
(Liberty is running to where Ashley does the announcements.)
Announcements
Cameragirl: (checking her watch) Ashley, the bell’s gonna ring any second.
Ashley: Where is she?
Liberty comes through the door. Ashley takes the notecards that she’s supposed to read.
Liberty: Well, there’s a- (she’s interrupted by Ashley taking the notes) There’s a little joke at the end. I think you’ll like it.
Ashley: What I’d really like is for you to be on time, ok?
Bell rings
Ashley: Good morning, Degrassi. Tomorrow, morning announcements will be replaced by (now shows Ashley on the TV in grade 7 Media Immersion homeroom) a very special afternoon pre-game screening as the Degrassi Panthers face off against Earl Gray in an exception match, so, Go, Panthers, Go.
JT: She’s pretty suavee, got it together.
Emma: It’s not suavee, it’s suave.
Liberty: Television is so stressful.
JT: Ashley doesn’t seem stressed.
Manny: I know. She’s better than the people on the news. Calm, cool, a total natural.
Ashley: So, if you see the Earl Gray team holding lighters, it’s because they always lose their matches. Have a great day, guys.
JT: Lose their matches. Not bad.
Liberty: That was my joke. I mean, I wrote it after I found it on the ‘Net.
Emma: It’s true, you know. You do all the work and Ashley takes all the glory. You should really talk to her.
Sean: Or quiet. Why spend any more time at school than you already have to?
Toby: you’re going out for basketball.
Sean: My social worker says it’s beneficial. Personally, I couldn’t give a rat’s-
(Mr. Simpson runs in.)
Mr. S: Class, sorry for the delay.
Liberty: It just makes me mad that people think Ashley is so funny and clever, when all she’s doing is reading my words.
Manny: Yeah, a monkey could do that.
Emma: Personally, I’d say it’s time you asked Princess Ashley to share the air, but, hey, it’s your career.
Mr. S: Alright, today we’ll be exploring the fascinating world of HTML.
Ms. Kwan’s class
Ms. Kwan: I’ve been reading your assignments, well, those that have been handed in. Your thoughts on chapter 8 have been fascinating, so, let’s open it up for discussion. Jimmy?
Jimmy: Oh, uh, chapter 8? It’s great, just like the rest of the book.
Ms. Kwan: Could you elaborate? For example, which character do you relate to?
Jimmy: Well, that’s a very interesting question, Ms. Kwan, I-
Ms. Kwan: Jimmy, it’s not that hard.
Jimmy: Ok, um, I associate most with the main character.
Ms. Kwan: It’s an ensemble piece. Which main character?
Jimmy: The Lord of the Flies. Who else? (Everyone starts to laugh)
Ms. Kwan: The Lord of the Flies is a severed pig’s head resting on a stake. You haven’t read the book, have you?
Hall
Spinner: Busted. Total crash and burn.
Jimmy: I’m doomed, man.
Spinner: Come on, Ms. Kwan can’t stop you from playing. She’s an English teacher.
Jimmy: MY English teacher who’s thr*at to talk to MY coach who needs to cut three players.
Spinner: Jimmy, you’re a total natural. Coach Armstrong’s not gonna cut you. Just try harder at school.
(They go through doors.)
Jimmy: School that’s my problem. It’s totally in the way. I concentrate on English, my playing is crap. Concentrate on basketball and I don’t have enough time to do my homework. It’s a no win situation.
Spinner: Got that right. It’s a Catch 42.
Jimmy: Catch 22.
Spinner: Like you know. You thought you were Lord of the Flies.
Jimmy: And now I’ve got Kwan on my back, I’m bagged, man.
Spinner: Yeah, I know the feeling. Since they upped my Ritalin, I’m like a complete zombie.
Jimmy: Yeah, but I’ve seen you when you don’t take them; not pretty.
Spinner: Yeah, I know. Don’t call me Spinner for nothing.
(Spinner takes his pill and takes a drink. Jimmy walk away.)
Cafeteria
(Ashley pays for lunch and starts to walk to her table, when Liberty comes up to her.)
Liberty: Ashley. Can I talk to you for a second?
Ashley: Now? Ter, save me a spot, ok?
Terri: Sure.
Ashley: How can I help you, Liberty?
Liberty: I want to read the announcements.
Ashley: What?
Liberty: I do all the writing, it’s only fair if I get to go on air once in a while.
Ashley: Liberty, you’re a writer, I’m a performer. You’re yin, I’m yang. We’re very different.
Liberty: How?
Ashley: Just maybe next year, ok?
(Ashley walk away.)
Gym.
(The players are practicing while Jimmy is reading.)
Coach: Remember, follow through with the wrist, ok? (Sean sh**t and it goes in) Nice sh*t, Sean. You see how he uses his legs and not his hands? Very important. Jimmy, why don’t you give it a try? (Jimmy is reading and doesn’t hear him at first. When he does he puts down the book and gets up) Or you can keep reading, if you want to.
Jimmy: Sorry, Coach. (Goes up to the basket and does a lay-up)
Coach: Excellent, technique, Jimmy. But, we’re practicing our sh*ts, not our lay-ups. Impress me tomorrow. Give it another try.
Hall
Paige: (says something in French) I’ve been told I have perfect Parisian accent.
(Ashley and Terri keep walking and run into Liberty.)
Liberty: I just want to do it once.
Ashley: Liberty, when I said no the last time, what didn’t you understand?
Liberty: Give me a chance, come on, why not?
Ashley: Because it’s my job.
Liberty: Fine, I’m going on strike. No research, no more writing, no more jokes. I figure you can do it yourself. Takes about, oh, an hour a day, if you’re fast.
Ashley: Liberty, you’re not playing fair.
Liberty: I’M not playing fair? You’re the one being greedy.
Ashley: It’s just, I’m good at this.
Liberty: Anyone can read a cue card. A monkey could do your job.
Ashley: Fine, go ahead, tomorrow’s pre-game announcement’s, they’re all yours. Knock yourself out.
(Ashley walks away. Liberty smiles.)
Gym
(Spinner is putting the balls away. Jimmy is leaving.)
Guy: Jimmy, what’s up, buddy? (They bump fists)
Jimmy: Hey, Sean, good work out there today. You got no problems making the team.
Sean: I don’t know about that. Guess we’ll see tomorrow.
Jimmy: Yeah.
(Sean leaves.)
Jimmy: “Don’t know about that.” Whatever. Coach loves him. Sean probably made the team the minute he signed up.
Spinner: Jimmy, Sean’s a good player.
Jimmy: Yeah, so am I (Takes a drink from a water bottle).
Spinner: And who’s saying you’re not?
Jimmy: Coach Armstrong. You saw him just now, tore my game apart.
Spinner: He was just giving you pointers.
Jimmy: Hello, I know how to sh**t a basket. And sorry, but lay-ups? Way more important than three-pointers.
Spinner: Look, if you don’t make the team, which you will, you can be my co-manager.
Jimmy: Thanks, but it’s not the same.
Spinner: Right. Not much glory handing out towels and bottles of water. Anyway, let’s go catch a movie or something, get your mind off this.
Jimmy: Can’t, pulling an all-nighter. Got that assignment, remember?
(Spinner takes a pill out of a box and takes it with a bottle of water.)
Jimmy: Wish there was a pill I could take, one that would boost me up.
Spinner: Ritalin would boost you up, big time. It’s like 50 cups of coffee.
Jimmy: I thought it was supposed to calm people down.
Spinner: It does, calm me down. Has to do with something with the configuration of my brain.
Jimmy: YOU have a brain?
Spinner: Ha, ha. But for normal people, exact opposite. It’s like, Speed.
Jimmy: Weird.
Spinner: Yeah, but you know something, drugs aren’t the answer. Just say no.
(Jimmy smiles. Spinner gets up.)
Hall
(Bell rings.)
Kwan’s classroom.
(She’s looking down at papers. Jimmy enters.)
Jimmy: Ralph.
Ms. Kwan: Pardon me?
Jimmy: You asked me who I related to in The Lord of the Flies, It’s Ralph.
(Jimmy gives her a paper.)
Jimmy and Spinner
(Jimmy sits down.)
Jimmy: I’m wiped. Got nothing left for the game.
Spinner: Man, you got your English assignment done, Kwan will get your back now.
Jimmy: Doesn’t help if I don’t make the team.
(Something beeps. Spinner takes out the box to take his Ritalin.)
Jimmy: But, you could help me, Spinner.
(Spinner gives him a look. Jimmy looks at Spinner as if to say “Give me the pill.”)
Spinner: No way.
Jimmy: it’s not like steroids, I mean, it’s not illegal.
Spinner: Of course it’s not illegal. You see me in jail?
Ms. Kwan: Ok guys, let’s discuss the next chapter.
Jimmy: Please? I need it. Look at me. I’m half-alive.
Spinner: Jimmy, it’s my last pill, I can’t miss it.
Jimmy: Just this once. A little energy boost. This game’s my last chance to prove myself to Armstrong. Please?
(Spinner hands the pill to Jimmy.)
Jimmy: Do I take it now?
Spinner: I guess. Takes about an hour to kick in.
(Jimmy raises his hand.)
Ms. Kwan: Yes, Jimmy?
Jimmy: I need to use the washroom.
(Ms. Kwan nods. Jimmy gets up and leaves.)
Outside Classroom
(Mr. Raditch walks to Jimmy.)
Mr. R: Jimmy! Good luck this afternoon with the game.
Jimmy: Thanks, Mr. Raditch.
Mr. R: Go get ‘em, son.
(Mr. Raditch leaves. Jimmy looks at the pill, then takes it.)
Liberty.
(Liberty is messing around with the camera before she does the announcements. She doesn’t know, but it’s on air.)
In Media Immersion.
Sean: What happened to Ashley?
Girl: Liberty, we’re on!
JT: She’s doing a great job.
Sean: This is just sad.
Liberty: (reading cards) Welcome to Degrassi’s special pre-game announcements. Today the Degrassi Panthers start a whole new reason, season, of basket…ball. Basketball. Uh, by biting Earl Gray. (As she’s talking people are watching and laughing in grade 8 homeroom) You can run, but you can’t hide, Earl Gray-Gray. The prowl is on the Panthers. The Panthers are on the prowl. This has been Liberty Van Zandt, filling in for Ashley Kerwin.
Paige: More like Loser Van Zandt. Good job, Ash. I’m impressed. You totally set her up.
(Paige leaves. Ashley looks guilty about it.)
Locker room
(Jimmy is playing with the ball. He is really energized because of the pill.)
Sean: Somebody had a nutritious breakfast.
Jimmy: Yup, toast, cheese, eggs, bacon, solid protein. Lot of protein. Brain food, man, brain food.
Coach: All right, how you guys doing? You pumped?
Jimmy: You know it, Coach. You know it.
Gym
(The game is going on.)
Spinner: Come on, Jimmy. Show them what you got.
(Jimmy nods.)
Spinner: Come on! Start this game, come on!
(The ref throws the ball in the air and the game starts.)
Spinner: What’s wrong with all of you? Come on? (As Spinner talks Degrassi gets the ball. A teammate passes the ball to Jimmy. Jimmy dribbles it down the court)
Sean: Jimmy! Pass the ball. Jimmy!
Spinner: Come on. What’s he doing? Come on.
Sean: Pass the ball.
(Jimmy sh**t the ball and it goes in.)
Spinner: Oh yeah! You the man!
Announcer: Degrassi leads 3-0.
(Jimmy jumps up, very excited. He high fives a player.)
Liberty in the hall.
(She is there with another girl. She is upset because of the announcements.)
Girl: Not bad, for your first time. Wanna head over to the gym?
Liberty shakes her head “No”. She hits her head on a door in the room she’s in. People walk by.
Girl #1: That’s her. (People laugh) Oh my god. So funny.
(Liberty runs away with her hand over her mouth.)
Girl: Liberty!
Gym - The Game
(Jimmy has the ball.)
Spinner: Go, Jimmy! You the man! Yeah! Come on! Go, Jimmy, go, Jimmy, go. Go, Jimmy. Yeah, come on.
Sean: Pass it.
Spinner: Come on, Jimmy.
(Coach looks worried about Jimmy’s behavior.)
Coach: Gavin, You’re the team manager, not head cheerleader.
Spinner: Come on, Coach. I was just giving Jimmy some mortal support.
Coach: Moral support. You want to show your support? Clean up this bench. Bring it in, guys. Good job, good job. Half time conference in thew locker room. Let’s go.
Spinner: (as they pass him) Good job, guys, Jimmy.
Announcer: Half time! 22-24, Degrassi.
(Spinner takes out a boombox and turns it on. A cool b*at comes out of it. Spinner gets into it.)
Girls’ Washroom
(Liberty is in there, crying. Ashley comes in.)
Ashley: Liberty? I know you’re in here. Liberty, come on.
Liberty: What do you want?
Ashley: I just want to talk to you.
Liberty: What, to tell me I was horrible? Thanks, I already figured it out.
Ashley: You weren’t great, but you weren’t completely horrible.
(Liberty opens the stall door and comes out.)
Liberty: I wasn’t?
Ashley: No, you just need a few pointers. I’ve got a plan. Trust me on this.
Locker room
Coach: Listen up. We’re in the lead. Stay with your man. Keep up the pace. Play like a team. You’re hearing me, Jimmy?
Jimmy: Loud and clear, Coach A. Loud and clear.
Gym
(Spinner’s sitting on the bench. The music is still playing. Spinner gets up after turning the music up.)
Spinner: Yo, Degrassi. We need some half time entertainment.
(The crowd cheers. Spinner starts dancing. The crowd cheers him on. Mr. R is watching and doesn’t look happy. All of a sudden, Spinner moons them. Mr. R drags him away.)
Spinner: Good night, Degrassi.
Mr. Raditch’s office
Mr. R: What were you thinking?
Spinner: I don’t know, it was funny.
Mr. R: Funny.
(Spinner nods.)
Mr. R: It wasn’t funny. It made us look like idiots.
Spinner: But, Mr. Raditch…
Mr. R: Sit down.
(Spinner sits.)
Mr. R: First, no extracurricular activities until the end of the semester.
Spinner: What? But, Mr. Raditch…
Mr. R: No discussion. Consider yourself lucky. I could suspend you for this.
Spinner: But, sir, it’s medical.
Mr. R: Gavin, you’ve been taking Ritalin for two years now, you know what happens when you miss a pill. Unless there’s some another explanation.
Spinner: I forgot, ok?
Mr. R: Fine, but you won’t forget again. Because you’ll be taking your pills in front of my secretary.
Spinner: But, Mr. Raditch…
Mr. R: Three times a day.
(He gets up and opens the door.)
Mr. R: Mrs. Smith, could you come in here, please? And would you bring Mr. Mason’s file.
Gym - The Game is on again.
(Jimmy has the ball.)
Sean: Jimmy! Pass the ball. I’m open. (Jimmy isn’t listening) Pass it, come on.
(Jimmy sh**t, but misses. Coach is taking note of how Jimmy is acting. Sean gets the ball.)
Jimmy: Sean, pass the ball. Sean, I’m open. Sean!
(Sean doesn’t, so Jimmy hits him, gets the ball, and scores the winning sh*t. Buzzer.)
Jimmy: Yeah! Who’s the man? Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about.
(Coach goes to Sean who is on the floor, hurt.)
Coach: Sean, you ok? Is it your ankle?
(Sean nods.)
Coach: I want you to wiggle your toes for me.
Announcer: Degrassi wins 39-37.
(Everyone is excited about the win.)
The Hall
(JT, Toby, Emma, and Manny are walking and talking.)
JT: Degrassi rules.
Toby: I bet we go all the way to the regionals.
Emma: But, what was up with that Jimmy guy out there? He was like a lunatic.
JT: Sports are not for the weak of heart.
Emma: Like you’d know, and besides, that doesn’t mean you get to injure people.
Manny: (Sees Liberty on the TV) Oh, no.
Liberty (On TV): Way to go, Degrassi. Our team just kicked some serious Earl Gray butt…
JT: Liberty said butt?
Liberty: … Just before the buzzer we scored an awesome three pointer winning the game, 39-37.
Manny: She’s actually doing ok.
Liberty… Pathers, you’re off to an sonsational start. (Goes to where liberty is reading it) This is Liberty Van Zandt, wrapping up today’s special video coverage. Thank you. (Girl turns camera off)
Ashley: See? It’s not so hard. The trick is to remain calm, cool, and sure of yourself. You’re pretty good at that, already.
Liberty: Thank you, Ashley.
Ashley: And you’ll be even better when you read the announcements again, next year, after I graduate.
Locker room
(The guys are really excited they won. Coach comes in the room.)
Coach: Jimmy, can I talk to you for a second? It’s about this afternoon, out on the court.
Jimmy: I know, 12 points plus the game point. It’s the best I’ve ever played.
Coach: In terms of scoring, yes. But, you show boated, you ball hogged, you blew plays, you weren’t a team player.
Jimmy: I know.
Coach: But you know what really worries me? It’s what you did to Sean. You know you almost broke his ankle out there?
Jimmy: That was an accident.
Coach: An accident? Come on, Jimmy. You fouled your own player, deliberately. And you know we have a zero tolerance policy for v*olence.
Jimmy: it was stupid. It’ll never happen again. I promise.
Coach: I can’t take that chance. Sorry, Jimmy, you’re cut.
(Jimmy is upset. He looks over at Sean, who is being bandaged up by Coach Armstrong.)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x07 - Basketball Diaries"} | foreverdreaming |
Road
(Ashley and her dad, Robert Kerwin, are in a car. He is driving her home.)
Ashley: Thanks again for brunch, Dad. I had a great time.
Robert: Me too, Ash.
Ashley: Mr. Simpson is so excited that you’re coming to speak to our class tomorrow. So am I.
Robert: (As he turns into Ashley’s driveway) It should be a lot of fun.
Ashley: I can’t wait to show you off.
Robert: Ashley…
Ashley: Yeah?
Robert: Nothing, uh, just see you tomorrow (gives her a kiss; Ashley smiles)
Ashley: (Gets out of the car) ‘Bye, Dad.
Robert: ‘Bye, Hon.
Inside the House
(Ashley is entering the kitchen and hears Jeff and her mom.)
Kate: You didn’t put the vinegar in the dishwasher like I asked you to, right?
Jeff: I’m sorry, Kate, I just can’t remember things like that.
Kate: Come on, that’s an excuse Toby would make.
Jeff: (Loud) Oh, Kate, come on, you’re gonna compare. (To Ashley) You’d better be careful. She’s in one of her moods again.
Kate: Well, I wouldn’t be if you’d grasp the concept of hard water. (To Ashley) Oh, don’t worry about that. We’re just having one of our things. So, how was brunch?
Ashley: Great. Dad told me he went to this royal reception last week and shook hands with Prince Charles.
Kate: Wow. Very sheshe. So, uh, did you talk about anything else? Or just, uh, life in London?
Ashley: No. Why, was there something else?
Kate: No, just me being noisy. I’m glad you had a good time.
Degrassi Community School
(It starts on a close-up of inside a gold locket with pictures of Terri’s mom and dad. Terri is showing it to Ashley.)
Terri: My dad gave it to my mom on their first anniversary. She left it for me after she died.
Ashley: Terri, it’s beautiful. But, your mom, she’s so pretty.
Terri: My dad called her his movie star. I know, it’s pretty cheesy.
Ashley: No, it’s sweet. You look just like her, you know.
Ms. Kwan: (Comes in and closes the door; she has a poster in her hand) Quiet down. Remember, our Lord Of The Flies test is in two days. So, let’s use this time in class to catch up on any reading you haven’t done.
(Terri puts her binder up so she and Ashley can whisper to each other without getting in trouble.)
Terri: So, what did your mom think of your dad moving back?
Ashley: I’m not sure.
Terri: They don’t get along?
Ashley: No, they get along fine, but, yesterday after my dad dropped me off, she was acting pretty weird.
Terri: How?
Ashley: I don’t know. She just seemed tense or something. And then she and Jeff had this fight.
(Ms. Kwan comes over to them.)
Ms. Kwan: Ashley!
(She walks away.)
Terri: So, your dad’s still coming to Media Immersion this afternoon, right?
Ashley: Yup. You’re not going to believe some of the stuff he’s uncovered, more than the news.
Terri: Wow.
Grade 7 Media Immersion
(Toby is helping Mr. Simpson.)
Toby: Ok, so, all you have to do is highlight this here, and then, you click the hyperlink button and you’re done.
Mr. Simpson: Good.
Emma: (To Sean) Have you finished your haiku for Ms. Kwan yet? Her class is in like 10 minutes.
Sean: Have you?
Emma: “Ancient waves so pure, lapping on the shores of time. Early death our fault.”
Sean: That’s happy.
Emma: That’s about our polluted oceans.
Sean: Mm-hmm.
JT: Hey guys, check this out. (He throws a paper airplane that goes right past Mr. Simpson’s head, which make everyone laugh)
Mr. Simpson: (He has it in his hand as he gets up) Ok, so who’s the aeronautics’ genius?
(Liberty gets up and approaches Mr. Simpson.)
Mr. Simpson: Liberty, this is yours?
Liberty: Yes, and I apologize profusely.
Mr. Simpson: Well… don’t let it happen again. (He sits back down. As Liberty sits back down, she smiles at JT and he smiles back and nods his head at her)
Hall
Manny: What was with Liberty? She was acting, like, totally weird.
JT: She is weird.
Toby: Why would liberty, whose never missed a day in her life, put her neck on the line, and for you?
Emma: Hello, Liberty has a major crush on JT.
JT: What?
Emma: Come on, it’s so obvious.
(JT shakes his head. Liberty approaches.)
Liberty: (Gives JT the airplane) I took it when Mr. Simpson wasn’t looking.
JT: Thanks, but, you didn’t have to. You didn’t have to take the blame in homeroom.
Liberty: Well, you know, you get in trouble so much, someone has to watch your back.
Emma: That’s very sweet of you Liberty.
Liberty: Oh, and by the way, it’s time The Grapevine has a 7th grader as Student Pick Of The Week, so, I pick you.
JT: Why?
Liberty: Well, you know, everyone knows you’re gonna be famous one day, so, I just want to say I interviewed you first.
JT: Cool.
Liberty: So, interview after school?
JT: Sure.
Liberty: ‘K.
(Liberty leaves.)
Manny: (singing) JT and Liberty (Emma joins in) sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
JT: Would you shut up? She does not have a crush on me.
Emma: Sure.
Toby: Yeah, right.
Ms. Kwan’s Class
(Sean is reading his haiku and counting the syllables.)
Sean: “Poetry is crime, No idea have to rhyme, stupid waste of time.”
Ms. Kwan: A poem about hating poetry. Since poetry’s about putting your feelings into verse, this haiku actually works. Nice job, Sean. Ok, who’s next? (Liberty raises her hand) Liberty, come on down.
(Liberty gets up and goes to the front of the room.)
Liberty: “Smile like a sunbeam, height saboreant to his heart, makes me lie awake.”
Ms. Kwan: Liberty, wow. One too many syllables in the second line, but your feelings are definitely shinning through. Great work. (Liberty smiles at JT and he gives her a weird smile)
Grade 8 Media Immersion where Ashley’s dad is talking to the class
Robert: Well, they, uh, stitched me up in a field hospital on the cost of old order. I, uh, still have a piece of shrapnel (points to his lower stomach) right here. Uh, but I’m supposed to be talking to you about the role of masscommunication in society, not rehashing old w*r stories.
Mr. Simpson: That’s ok. Does anyone else have a question for Mr. Kerwin?
Paige: When the shrapnel h*t, did your life, like, flash before your eyes?
Robert: My life? No, not a bit, but, the b*mb blast sure did. (Ashley is smiling as she watches)
Gym
(Ashley, Terri, and Paige are walking through the gym.)
Paige: Ok, I am so in love.
Ashley: Paige, he’s my father.
Paige: Father, smather. Your dad’s hot. In an old man sort of way. I can’t believe your mom ever let him go.
Ashley: Let him go? It didn’t exactly happen like that (They are now in the hall) He left us and moved to Europe, there wasn’t much my mom could do.
Terri: So why did he leave?
Ashley: I don’t know.
Paige: Was there another woman?
Ashley: No, he doesn’t even have a girlfriend now. They just didn’t get along.
Paige: Well, maybe now that he’s back, maybe your mom and dad will work things out, get back together.
(After talking with Mr. Simpson, Ashley’s dad comes up to them.)
Robert: Hey, Ash. Need a ride home after school? (She nods) Meet you out front. Nice meeting you girls. (He walks away)
Terri & Paige: ‘Bye, Mr. Kerwin.
Ashley: (Imitating Paige & Terri) “’Bye, Mr. Kerwin.”
Hall
(Toby is at his locker.)
JT: Toby. Toby, over here. Tobs. (Knocks on a locker he’s inside of)
(Toby hits one and opens it. He finds JT inside it.)
Toby: What are you doing?
JT: Avoiding Liberty.
Toby: What about your interview?
JT: Did you hear her haiku? She wants me, man. I’m out of here.
Liberty: JT, you were supposed to meet me seven minutes ago. (Takes his picture with a camera)
JT: Ah, Liberty, I forgot to tell you I can’t come to the interview tonight. Toby and I’ve got (Sees a poster for dance lessons) dance lessons tonight.
Toby: Right. Tonight it’s… ballroom.
Liberty: Oh, I get it, it’s a joke. JT, you are beyond funny. Dance lessons? With a boy? Anyway, (takes him out of the locker) let’s use your humor in the article, but, uh, if you actually want to take dance lessons, you should look me up.
JT: (Whispers to Toby) Help!
Car. Robert is driving Ashley home. He is pulling into the driveway.
Robert: (As he stops the car and Ashley takes off her seatbelt) Here we go.
Ashley: Thanks again for talking to our class today, Dad. Have I told you how happy I am that you moved back?
Robert: I’m happy, too, Ash. Ashley, can we, uh… (Kate comes outside)
Kate: I thought I heard a car. Hey, Robert (gives him a kiss).
Robert: Wow, you look great.
Kate: I’m holding a bag of garbage. Ash, there’s another bag in the garage. Could you get it while your dad and I catch up?
Ashley: Sure. (Gets out of the car) Oh, uh, Dad, we’re still on for Sunday, right?
Robert: Definitely.
Ashley: Great. (As she walks away, she watches them talking)
Kerwin kitchen
(Ashley is helping her mom.)
Kate: You know, the older your dad gets, the handsomer he becomes. Lucky guy.
Ashley: Everyone at school loved him today.
Kate: Everybody always loves him. He’s the most charming man on the planet.
Ashley: You still think so? After everything you guys have been through?
Kate: Of course. Your dad and I still care about each other, you know that Ash.
Ashley: Gee, it uh, almost sounds like you two want to get back together.
Kate: Get back together? No. What makes you say that?
Ashley: I don’t know. You guys have been acting like there’s some big secret lately. Just thought maybe it was something about you two. What, is there something?
Kate: Ash…
Ashley: He hasn’t found some other woman, has he? He’s not getting married?
Kate: No.
Ashley: Well then what? Is he gay, is that what you’re trying to tell me?
Kate: Ash, there are things your dad and I should have talked to you about a long time ago.
Ashley: Mom, I was joking.
Kate: It’s not a joke. Your dad is gay. (The camera does a close-up on Ashley’s shocked face about this news)
Hall
JT: I don’t get it. How can Ashley’s dad, like, do it with other guys? Not only that, how does he?
Toby: I don’t know JT. I didn’t ask.
JT: Women, ok? Real women, not girls, are sexy. But, guys, I mean, we have muscles, we smell, we have body hair…
Toby: You wish. Women can have body hair, too. My aunt Patina has…
JT: That’s not what I mean.
Toby: I don’t know, JT. Some people are just gay, I guess. So, how’d your interview with Liberty go?
JT: Don’t ask, don’t tell.
Cafeteria
(Ashley is sitting at a table pouring chocolate milk. Terri comes to join her.)
Terri: Hey, Ash. Can I join you?
(Ashley shrugs, so Terri sits down.)
Terri: Is everything ok?
Ashley: Yeah, everything’s fine.
Terri: You’ve been acting weird all day.
Ashley: I found out something about my dad.
(Paige comes to the table.)
Paige: Hey, Ash. Is everything ok?
Terri: Paige, we’re talking.
Paige: Perfect, because I wanted to talk about something, too. (Sits down)
Ashley: Paige, I’m really not in the mood.
Paige: Concerning your dad.
Ashley: What about him?
Paige: Ok. I was thinking. Robert Kerwin, handsome, stylish, charming, successful, total catch, right? And yet, still single.
Ashley: What’s your point?
Paige: Well, he could still be hung up on your mom, or, and I’m sure this isn’t the case, but, have you ever wondered if maybe your dad’s gay? It would explain a lot.
Ashley: is this supposed to be a joke?
Paige: No, hon, not. (Ashley throws her chocolate milk on Paige)
Ashley: (getting up and leaving) Just better mind your own business for once Paige.
Paige: But, uh, my oldest brother’s gay. Ter, I was trying to help. (Terri tries to help clean Paige up)
Outside
(At one part, JT and Toby are eating. At a table, Liberty, Emma and Manny are eating. JT and Toby are goofing around, while Liberty is staring at JT.)
Liberty: Don’t, don’t you think I’m making headway with JT? Wouldn’t it be something if we became the new Jimmy and Ashley?
Manny: Yeah, something.
Liberty: Do you think I should ask him out? Or is that even ok to do?
Emma: Sure, if you think he likes you back.
Liberty: You don’t think JT likes me?
Manny: JT’s a boy. Who knows what’s going on in his head?
(Liberty looks at JT, but he notices, so she looks away.)
JT: Ok, that’s it. I’m stood her up, I’ve ignored her, I’ve been very rude to her, and she will not take a hint.
Toby: Just tell her point blank. You’re not interested.
JT: Ok, this may sound desperate, but it’s a plan. Remember that little talk we had about Ashley’s dad and his orientation?
Toby: Yeah…
JT: Well, you know what coming out did to his marriage. What if I came out to Liberty?
Toby: Um…
JT: It’d work. You know it would.
Hall
(Ashley is walking until she sees her dad.)
Robert: Ashley.
Ashley: I have to get to class.
Robert: I’ve signed you out the rest of the afternoon. Ash, we need to talk, please?
Stairs
JT: Liberty, wait up. We need to talk.
Liberty: I couldn’t agree more. You first.
JT: You’ll be the only person who knows what I’m about to tell you, and, uh, I’d like to keep it that way, ok? So, do you promise you can keep a secret?
Liberty: Ok, I promise.
JT: Cross your heart and hope to die, promise?
Liberty: Yeah. What is it?
JT: I’m gay.
Liberty: What?
JT: I like boys, not girls. Gay.
Liberty: You, you’re joking.
JT: No, I’m not. And I thought you should know since you think we…
Liberty: You thought I had a crush on you? Please. Of course I don’t.
JT: Ok, well, um, great. It’s a lot easier than I thought it would be. You wanted to tell me something?
Liberty: No. It’s not important. But thanks for letting me know, and, uh, it’s our little secret.
Outside
(Ashley is talking with her dad.)
Ashley: So were you ever planning on telling me?
Robert: Ash, you were too young to understand.
Ashley: Too young? When you left us, ok, but, you guys had five years.
Robert: Well, we didn’t handle it correctly, I admit, but, we thought it would be best if we waited till you were older.
Ashley: Guess what? I’m older.
Robert: And it’s still pretty hard to hear, right? (She nods) This is gonna sound so selfish, and, uh, incredibly lame, but I had to find myself, Ash. Even if it meant hurting you and your mother. It’s nobody’s fault, and it’s not wrong. It’s just the way I am.
Ashley: So, why did you even get married? You didn’t love Mom.
Robert: Ash, of course I did. I still do. But, I’m not in love with her. I tried to make it work, but I just couldn’t. And I hate myself for hurting you. But it was the only thing I could do. Honest. (He holds Ashley close to him)
Media Immersion
Toby: I can’t believe that worked. No, I can’t believe you used that excuse.
JT: Ok, there she is. It’s time to cement the deal. (Kind of high pitched and acting weird) Hey Liberty girlfriend! (Walks to his seat with his hands on his knee and tilts his head)
Toby: Maybe you should tone it down. (Puts his arm around Toby. Liberty walks out as Mr. Simpson is coming in. He looks at JT and Toby and Toby takes JT’s arm off him and they turn their chairs around)
Ashley and Robert Kerwin
Ashley: Have you, you know, been with…
Robert: Other men? (She nods) Mostly just one man. Christopher.
Ashley: Christopher?
Robert: My partner. He’s a great guy.
Ashley: Christopher.
Robert: Mm-hmm.
Ashley: The blond guy with the mustache. The guy we went to the zoo with the day I got that horrible sunburn.
Robert: Mm-hmm.
Ashley: The guy you said was a friend from work. Dad, we had him over for dinner at our house.
Robert: Honey…
Ashley: You left us for him.
Robert: Ash, it’s not that simple. We fell in love. I’m sorry, but, I just don’t know how else to say it.
Ashley: No.
Robert: Ash…
Ashley: how could you do this to me?!
Robert: You see, this is exactly why I wanted to wait until you were older so that you would understand.
Ashley: Understand?
Robert: Yes, and not just hate me.
Ashley: For what Dad, huh? For knowing that you were gay or for knowing that all you’ve ever done is lie to me?!
Robert: Ashley…
(Ashley walks away quickly back into Degrassi.)
Hall
JT: Liberty, didn’t you hear what I said earlier?
Liberty: Loud and clear. And though it came as a shock, I should have seen it coming. Dance lessons? And that boy band compilation CD you own?
JT: That’s my sister’s CD.
Liberty: Whatever. So I was thinking, wouldn’t it be great, I mean, you could say no, but, wouldn’t it be great if you came out in The Grapevine?
JT: What?
Liberty: Well, you know, as part of the interview to help other kids struggling with the same issue?
JT: Liberty, I don’t think that’s a very good idea.
Liberty: JT, there’s nothing to be ashamed-
JT: Liberty, I’m not gay, ok?
Liberty: You lied?
JT: Yeah, ‘cause you wouldn’t take a hint.
Liberty: Am I really that horrible?
JT: Liberty…
Liberty: If you didn’t like me, you should have just said so. (She walks away)
Hall
(Ashley is at her locker.)
Terri: Ash, where were you after lunch?
Ashley: Nowhere. Just, leave me alone.
Terri: Ash, come on. Something happened.
Ashley: You wanna know what’s happening? My dad came here to tell me not only is he gay, but, he dropped out of my life because of his boyfriend. Is that what you wanted to hear? Does that explain it all for you?
Terri: Ash, come on.
Ashley: I’m come to a decision. My dad is cut out of my life, for good.
Terri: Ash, come on.
Ashley: I have my mom, I have Jeff, I even have Toby. I don’t need him.
Terri: Ash, what you found out, of course you’re upset, but you don’t mean that.
Ashley: Don’t tell me what I mean, ok? You have no idea what I’m going through.
Terri: My mom died, Ash. She’s never coming back. But you? You have your dad back.
Ashley: Terri, it’s not the same.
Terri: No, it’s the same. You wanna know why? Because you have a choice, I don’t. Don’t make the wrong one. (Terri walks away)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x08 - Secrets and Lies"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside the Kerwin house.
(Ashley walks outside and meets up with Jimmy and Terri. Jimmy puts his arm around her as they walk.)
Jimmy: Hey. You know, the thing about turning 14, it’s like, I’m a man now.
Ashley: Oh, yeah? In what country?
Terri: Where are your parents taking you this year, Jimmy?
Jimmy: Actually, my mom’s cooking.
Ashley: Now, is this for real cooking or “let’s order a pizza” cooking?
Jimmy: For real cooking. Lobster, for you, me, and dad.
Ashley: You mean, we’re actually going to have dinner with your parents at your house? I don’t believe it.
Jimmy: Lobster’s no big deal. Just throw ‘em in a pot.
Terri: And then they die, slowly, screaming.
Ashley: Thanks for sharing.
Degrassi
Jimmy: (kisses Ashley on the cheek) Catch you later.
(After he leaves, she rolls her eyes at Terri.)
Terri: What? You hate lobster? You hate his parents?
Ashley: I don’t hate anybody. At least it’s not at my house. He has had dinner with us eight days in a row. I know, poor me. My boyfriend and my parents actually get along.
Terri: Yes, that must really suck.
Ashley: It’s just, I already have a little brother, I don’t need another one.
Outside
(Ashley, Paige, and Terri are outside sitting at table. Terri is reading a quiz to Ashley about Love.)
Terri: When you see your man, do you: A-Indifferent, B-Nauseous, C-Relieved or D-The earth moved.
Ashley: C-Relieved. He’s a guy, not an earthquake.
Paige: What, he doesn’t vibrate on your Richter scale?
Terri: Why does that sound so gross?
(As she talks, Jimmy and his friends come up to them.)
Ashley: Jimmy, come on, we’re kind of in the middle of this. Go play football. You don’t want to hear this stuff. It’s stupid.
Guy: Hey Jimmy, you coming or what?
Jimmy: Pass up a chance to hear my girl’s inner thoughts? Are you kidding? (Hugs Ash) So, you want to hang out with Mr. Right tonight?
Ashley: Tonight? I, uh, can’t. Terri’s coming over, girls night. We talked about it yesterday, remember?
Jimmy: Girls Night, huh? That’s cool. (He gets up and leaves taking the basketball with him, he dribbles it, then hands it to Ashley)
Media Immersion
(Emma is studying for a test in Science.)
Sean: I found the coolest site, yesterday. It shows how the positions of the stars affect your personality.
Emma: Yeah, that’s called astrology.
Manny: Cool, I’m a Leo. What does it say about me?
Emma: Manny, how many moons on Jupiter?
Manny: I don’t know, a lot. Now, read mine.
Emma: 13. And which planets have rings?
Sean: Ok, I need your date of birth and your place of birth.
Manny: Well, I was born in Manila.
Emma: Hello, the test is on astronomy, not astrology.
Sean: Ok, now I need your birth date.
Emma: Doesn’t anyone care that we have a science quiz in, oh, 15 minutes?
Manny: August 15, 1989.
Emma: Blah, blah, blah! (Shuts her book) I can’t even think! (To Manny) Are you coming?
Manny tells Sean without saying that Emma is crazy.
Emma: I saw that! (They leave)
Science Class
(It shows everyone working on the quiz, when, all of a sudden the bell rings. Emma slams down her pencil.)
Emma: I failed. I totally failed.
Manny: Em, you studied all last night.
Emma: Yeah, but I was counting on this morning, to refresh.
Manny: Wow, maybe you’re a workaholic.
Emma: I am not a workaholic. Some of us want to make it university. I want a career in something other than horoscopes. (She leaves in a huff)
Outside Ashley’s
(Ashley and Terri are walking to Ashley’s, eating food.)
Terri: I am so behind in Kwan’s Class. I should spend the night catching up.
Ashley: Yeah, me too, Ter. But not tonight. Tonight’s all about having… (She sees Jimmy in the driveway helping Toby with basketball even though she told Jimmy not to come over)
Jimmy: (To Toby)…Don’t suffocate it. It’ll come to you. (They start to play, but they notice Ashley and Terri) Hey.
Ashley: Hey.
Jimmy: (As they walk past them into the house) Just pretend I’m not even here.
Ashley: So much for girls night.
It shows Jimmy and Toby playing after the girls leave.
Inside The Kerwin House
(Ashley shuts the door after they go in.)
Ashley: Pretend he’s not here? He is here.
Kate: Hi, girls.
Ashley: Hi, Mom.
Kate: Oh, Terri. I almost forgot you’re staying for dinner.
Ashley: Um, we have enough, don’t we?
Kate: Yeah, even though Jimmy eats like a horse.
Ashley: Mom…
Kate: It’s okay, we have enough.
Ashley: Jimmy is not staying for dinner!
Terri: Um, I’m gonna go, you know.
Kate: Ok, what’s going on?
Ashley: Nothing, I’m sick of him eating here every night.
Kate: Well, we don’t have to invite him. But, I just feel bad for the kid. He’s always alone. I wonder about his parents sometimes. (Jimmy and Toby come in)
Toby: Kate, can Jimmy stay for dinner? You said you have enough food.
Kate: Well, um…
Ashley: Just never mind. Just forget about it. It’s fine. (Jimmy and Toby high five each other as they leave)
Nelson house
(Emma is watching a sad show on TV, eating chips and crying.)
TV Guy: Laura, please. We’re born alone, we die alone. We don’t want to live our life alone.
TV Girl: Jack, our love can’t save us now. It’s too late.
TV Guy: What? Love is everything. We’ve got it. We’ve got it right in our hands. The clothes we wear…
(Spike enters the room.)
Spike: Emma, mind taking out the garbage? Honey, what’s wrong?
Emma: Nothing.
Spike: Em, those shows are designed to upset people.
Emma: It’s just, we’re so small and the universe is so massive. We’re just little specs, floating, alone.
Spike: Uh-oh. Solar system anxiety. I remember it well. Big huge universe, tiny little me. What’s the point? You can’t b*at it. But, you can shop. I did well this week. Let’s go spend my tips. It’s called retail therapy. (They high five)
The mall
(Emma and her mom are walking, eating ice cream and have shopping bags with them.)
Emma: I like retail therapy. And I love my new sweater. It’ll go with everything. My little blue skirt, my blue chinos, my jeans.
Guy They Pass By: Oh, I’d like a lick of that.
Spike: (Turns around) Excuse me?
Guy: I’d like a lick of your cone. Sue me.
Spike: I probably could because I don’t think that’s what you meant.
Emma: Mom…
Spike: Guess what? You don’t talk to women like that, especially young women.
Guy: It was a joke, I was just kidding.
Spike: My daughter and I came here to shop, not to be harassed by some pig masquerading as a comedian. When you talk to women like that, it’s scary. It makes us feel bad. Don’t do it again. (He walks away)
Emma: Mom, can we go now? I am mildly dying.
Spike: See? This is the problem. You’re embarrassed because of what he said. (They are walking as she talks) It’s so wrong. Seriously Emma, don’t ever let a guy make you feel bad just for being female, okay? Promise.
Kerwin House
(Ashley is saying good-bye to Jimmy.)
Jimmy: See you tomorrow. (They kiss and hug)
(After he leaves, she goes inside.)
Inside
Ashley: (With her head on the wall) Toby, you can’t just ask Jimmy for dinner every single night, okay?
Toby: He’s your boyfriend.
Ashley: Yeah and he’s driving me crazy. (Turns around and leans against the door)
Terri: (They walk away from the door) He’s totally sweet.
Ashley: He’s totally here all the time. It’s suffocating. You know what? At this point, I’m just about ready to break up with him. (When Toby hears this, he drops something that makes a loud noise because he is shocked. When Ashley and Terri look at him, he picks it up.)
Degrassi-Hall
(Emma is walking with Manny.)
Emma: See? It goes with everything. (She turns around to show Manny when JT and Toby show up)
JT: Wow, sexy shirt.
Manny: Em, don’t get mad.
Emma: Please. It’s not exactly like JT is Mr. Fashion Forward.
JT: Fashion who?
Toby: Uh, JT, I’ll see you in homeroom.
(Toby stops at Jimmy’s decorated locker for his birthday. It says “Happy Birthday Jimmy, Luv Ashley”, and it in the middle, it has a picture of Jimmy and Ashley, with his arm around her and other kids have signed it.)
Kids: Happy Birthday, Jimmy. (They spray him with Silly String)
Jimmy: (Opening his locker) Hey, Tobs, did you master that move I taught you?
Toby: Almost. Happy Birthday.
Jimmy: Thanks. We can work on it later.
Toby: Great, later. Uh, you know, I’ve been thinking, about what you said last night, you know, about when you’re trying to master a really complicated move, leave it alone for a while, come back to it later.
Jimmy: Yeah.
Toby: You know, give it a rest. Don’t suffocate it. Kind of like with girls.
Jimmy: Tobs, what are you saying?
Toby: Nothing, nothing. It’s just interestingly similar, that’s all. No biggie.
Jimmy: What did Ashley say? Come on, you’re my friend. What, is she feeling suffocated? (Toby nods) Like-like, we’re together too much? (Toby nods) She doesn’t want to break up, does she? (Toby nods) (Jimmy walks away. Toby shuts Jimmy’s locker and then lays down the floor)
Outside
(Toby is sitting on a bench with JT, Emma, and Manny.)
JT: You shouldn’t have said anything.
Manny: JT, Jimmy’s like Toby’s older brother. He had to tell him.
Emma: Yeah, but Ashley is his older sister. Sort of. Maybe she was just having a bad day.
Toby: More like a bad decade.
Guy: Hey, Sean!
(Sean comes up to them.)
Toby: Before this decade gets any worse. (JT and Toby leave)
Sean: Hey, Emma.
Emma: Sean, what’s up?
Sean: (Takes a sip of his drink) Nothing. Listen, I, uh, came to apologize about that astrology thing.
Emma: No, it’s my fault. I shouldn’t have acted like that. Maybe you could do my horoscope on the computer. It could be kind of fun, and we have time before class.
Sean: Yeah that’d be great.
(Emma gets up, but Manny sits her back down.)
Manny: Emma, did you sit in something?
Emma: What? No, I. (Looks at the back of her skirt and sits down after getting up)
Sean: You coming?
Emma: I don’t know. What do I do?
Manny: I don’t know. This hasn’t happened to me yet.
Emma: Um, no. I don’t think we have time for the horoscopes. So, you should go, to class, now. (He leaves)
Manny: (breathing heavily) Okay, don’t panic. Everything’s going to be fine. We’ll figure out something.
Front of School
Ashley: I can’t break up with him tonight.
Terri: Why not?
Ashley: It’s his birthday.
(Jimmy approaches.)
Ashley: Oh, Jimmy, hey. We were just, um…
Jimmy: You don’t have to come tonight.
Ashley: What? Jimmy, it’s your birthday, of course I’m coming.
Jimmy: I’m just saying.
(He leaves.)
Hall
(Emma is walking inside with Manny behind her, hiding the back of Emma’s skirt.)
Manny: We should celebrate.
Emma: Celebrate what exactly?
Manny: Becoming a woman. Em, you can get pregnant now.
Emma: Oh, great. Can we celebrate by finding me a washroom?
Girls Washroom
Manny: Yesterday, I thought you were a workaholic. It was just PMS.
Emma: Manny, I can’t go to class like this.
Manny: Em, we have a book report to do. Do you have a jacket? You could tie it around your waist.
Emma: I don’t have a jacket, it’s like summer outside.
Manny: I know, your gym shorts.
Emma: I brought them home to wash.
Manny: Me too. I’ll figure out something. (She leaves)
Emma: Manny, don’t leave me.
Hall
Ashley: Hey Tobs, wait up. Can you remind Mom that I’m at Jimmy’s for dinner tonight?
Toby: Why are you even going, I mean, if you’re going to dump him?
Ashley: Oh, real nice, Toby. Listening in on my private conversation.
Toby: You were three feet away. Ash, Jimmy’s amazing. He’s nice to you, he’s nice to me.
Ashley: He’s always around, he’s always there in my face.
Toby: You’re being just like our parents. One hint of trouble and they walk.
Ashley: Toby, my dad’s gay it’s not exactly one hint of trouble. Oh, you don’t understand anything!
Toby: You don’t bring people in your life just to throw them away.
(Toby walks away. Ashley groans and hits her head with her binder.)
Girls Washroom
(Emma is looking at her skirt, when Paige comes in.)
Emma: Manny, what took you-
Paige: Wow, Little Miss Save The World’s skipping a class. You’re not protesting something, are you? (Notices Emma’s skirt) Uh-oh. Your friend came to visit. Hun, you don’t wear light colors when you’re getting your period.
Emma: I didn’t know. It’s my first time, ok? Just leave me alone. (She enters a stall. Paige goes in the one next to it)
Paige: (opens her purse) I’ve got a pad, if you need it. I mean, you could get one from the office, but, that’s kind of a drag.
Emma: Ew. Imagine. “Mr. Raditch, could I have a maxi pad?”
Paige: Mini. But, yeah, totally gross. (Hands Emma the pad) It’s got wings.
Emma: Man, I am so not ready for this.
Paige: Hey, you’ll get boobs now.
Emma: Like I want boobs.
Paige: You might at some point. They’re actually really great.
Emma: But, I mean, I liked being a kid.
Paige: You’re still a kid. Just, with a mini pad. Big deal.
Emma: So, I’m not going to turn into…
Paige: Me? Honey, you wish.
(As Paige comes out of the stall, Manny runs in.)
Manny: Emma!
Paige: What? It’s the girls washroom. Sue me.
(Emma comes out. Manny hands her the shorts she got for her. She unfolds them and they’re way too big for Emma.)
Ms. Kwan’s Class
(JT + Toby are finishing their book report presentation.)
JT: So, in the end, everyone died and everyone was really sad.
Toby: Really, really sad. And that’s our book report on how Bantepool Changes Everything. Thank you. (As they sit down, JT hands Ms. Kwan their report)
Ms. Kwan: It would have been nice to hear your interpretation on the book, boys, instead of a plot synopsis, but at….
(Emma and Manny come in.)
Manny: Sorry, Ms. Kwan. We had a bit of a-
Emma: Emergency.
Ms. Kwan: Really? Well, you can give me the details after class, but, right now, book report please.
Emma: okay, our book was I heard the owl call my-
Toby: Gym shorts?
Ms. Kwan: Ssh.
JT: Yo, Yo. Puff Emma’s in the house.
Girl: Good one, JT. (Ms. Kwan shakes her head)
Emma: This book is a bit-
JT: Too big for you?
Emma: Metaphorical.
Ms. Kwan: Guys, pull yourself together.
Emma: Do you have a problem?
Manny: Em, it’s ok. We can just…
JT: Aw, did Emmy pee her pants?
Emma: No, I just got my period, for the first time. (Toby drops his pen. Sean gets a loom of shock on his face) Menstruation. You may have heard of it. It happens to, oh, 50 percent of the population. Perfectly natural. Nothing to be ashamed of, right Ms. Kwan?
Ms. Kwan: Absolutely right Emma.
Emma: Now, can we continue? (JT and Toby nod) Our book was I heard the owl call my name. It’s a bit metaphorical because it relates the life of a young priest…
Manny: Who didn’t like owls very much. (As they talk, they try to keep Emma’s shorts up)
Jimmy’s House
(Jimmy and Ashley go inside and Ashley turns on the lights.)
Ashley: Well, what did you ask for?
Jimmy: Told my dad I wanted a snowboard. He probably didn’t even hear me. Mom? Dad? I’m home. They’re not like your family, ok? (Ashley puts down the balloon and gift she was holding on a table) 10 bucks says she’s picking up Chinese. (He puts down his backpack) She left me a message.
Ashley: It’s cool. I love Chinese. (He checks the messages) Is everything ok?
Jimmy: Mom just called to tell me her and dad are working late again. She said I should order myself a pizza.
Ashley: Well, why don’t we have your birthday at my house? My mom’s making wings.
Jimmy: Ash, forget it. Look, can we just break up and get this over with?
Ashley: What?
Jimmy: You’re feeling suffocated, right? Toby told me.
Ashley: Don’t listen to what Toby says. He doesn’t know anything.
Jimmy: So he was wrong? You don’t want to break up?
Ashley: Look, can we just forget this? It’s your birthday.
Jimmy: Oh, I get it. You don’t want to break up with me because it’s my birthday. What, is that like my birthday present?
Ashley: Jimmy…
Jimmy: You want to break up, Ash? Then, let’s break up, now, okay? It’s over. So go. Get out of here. What, are you deaf? Go! (She runs out) (Jimmy calls a pizza place to order pizza) Hi, Antonio, it’s Jimmy. Yeah, the usual. Medium pepperoni, thanks. (He hangs up the phone)
Outside Degrassi
(Emma has a petition that a girl is signing.)
Manny: So, you feeling okay?
Emma: Oh yeah Manny I love being a woman. I don’t feel any different.
Girl: Here you go.
Emma: But I did have this idea. Like my mom says, never be embarrassed to be female. Paige, do you wanna sign my petition to get a tampon dispenser installed in the girls washroom?
Paige: Yeah, sure. (Signs it)
(Sean rides by on his bike.)
Paige: Hey, Sean! Wanna sign Emma’s petition, for tampons?
Sean: Sure. If Emma came up with it, it’s gotta be a good idea.
(Paige rolls her eyes and leaves. Sean signs it and leaves. Emma is very happy about what he did.)
Hall
(Ashley opens her locker. We see a picture of Jimmy with his arms open wide. It says, “Ashley, I love you this much. XO, Jimmy.” She touches it, looking sad, then touches another picture in her locker of her and Jimmy. She sees him at his locker. He opens it and looks at a picture of Ashley in his locker. He touches it, then, rips it off and puts it away. Ashley shuts her locker. She starts to leave, but decides to approach Jimmy.)
Ashley: Hey Jimmy.
Jimmy: What do you want?
Ashley: I just wanted to make sure you were all right.
Jimmy: I’m fine. Thanks for asking. (He shuts his locker)
Ashley: Jimmy, please. Can we talk?
Jimmy: I think we talked enough last night.
Ashley: I just think that maybe I over reacted. Maybe I didn’t mean to call you…
Jimmy: Suffocating? Clingy? A suction cup?
Ashley: Jimmy, please. (She hugs him)
Jimmy: You’re not doing this just because you feel sorry for me, are you?
Ashley: Of course not.
Jimmy: I love you, Ash.
(She hugs him again.)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x09 - Coming of Age"} | foreverdreaming |
Hall at Degrassi
(Emma is walking with a friend.)
Emma: I just gotta hand this in to Armstrong. I’ll see you later.
(She goes to Armstrong’s classroom. She goes to open the door, but she sees Mr. Armstrong with Liberty, very close to her and hugging her. The camera shows them and then a close-up of Emma watching, very scared or something.)
Media Immersion
JT: So I’m telling my mom that joke, you know, the one about the duck.
Manny: That one’s pretty good.
JT: And when I tell her the punch line, she spews milk out of her nose (Toby, Manny, and JT laugh, but Emma doesn’t) Uh, Emma? Milk out of my mom’s nose? Funny.
Emma: Huh? Oh, yeah, funny, JT.
(Emma walks over to Liberty who is on a computer writing e-mails.)
Emma: What’s going on?
Liberty: Nothing, just writing some e-mails.
Emma: Um, I wanted to ask you, I saw you and Armstrong this morning.
Liberty: And what’s your point?
Emma: It looked like…
Liberty: Looked like what? I had a few questions, about equations. So? Are you trying to read my e-mails? (Moves the computer so Emma can’t see the screen)
Emma: No, not at all.
Liberty: E-mails are private. Mind your own business.
(Emma goes to sit down. When she does, she looks over at Liberty.)
Outside
(Emma and JT are sitting at a table, eating. Emma is looking at Mr. Armstrong who is helping Sean with basketball.)
JT: Don’t you think you’re being a bit obvious?
Emma: About what?
JT: Sean. If you stare any harder, your eyeballs will pop out.
Emma: JT, what do you think of Armstrong? I mean, as a person?
JT: Teachers aren’t people, they’re… teachers.
Emma: You know what I mean. Do you think he’s…ok?
JT: Oh, yeah. Armstrong’s given me lots of extra help. He’s been really nice. To me, anyway.
Emma: Yeah, come to think of it, he’s nice to everyone. (Mr. Armstrong sees Liberty come outside. He catches up to her and gives her a piece of paper after talking to her, then touches her arm. Emma is watching.)
JT: You gonna eat that?
Emma: Huh? No, you take it. (Emma leaves)
JT: Something I said?
Cafeteria
(Jimmy and Spinner are getting lunch.)
Jimmy: Hey, Sheila. Two specials, please. (She hands them some type of mushy food)
Spinner: What is that, nuclear waste?
Sheila: I don’t want to hear about it, Gavin. (He takes the food)
Spinner: Hey guys, did you see the sign in the bathroom? Plush twice, it’s a long way to the cafeteria.
Sheila: Gavin, it might take a few extra years, but I can’t wait for the day you graduate. (He takes his food to pay. As he waits, he picks at it and notices a bug in it. He throws it, it lands in a girl’s hair. He goes to Sheila to tell her)
Spinner: Oh, man.
Girl: Ew! What is it? Ew!
Spinner: Sheila, there’s a bug in my squash.
Sheila: I think the joke goes, “Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup.”
Spinner: I’m serious! It’s right over… (As he looks a kid steps on it)
Sheila: Yeah, nice try, Gavin. By the way, don’t forget to pay for that. It’s $4.99 plus tax. Next! (Spinner leaves)
Hall
(Emma and Manny are at Emma’s locker.)
Manny: So, Em, for Media Immersion, should we use html?
Emma: Yeah, sure, whatever. Manny, has Armstrong ever touched you?
Manny: What? No. Did he touch you?
Emma: No, no. Not me, Liberty. I saw him touching Liberty.
Manny: Are you sure?
Emma: (shuts her locker) Yeah. I know what I saw.
Manny: I don’t know Em. (They start walking) Armstrong’s a pretty physically guy. Maybe you got the wrong idea.
Emma: I hope so. (They stop walking) But this morning, he had his arm around Liberty and I saw him passing her a note outside. It really looked like he was coming on to her (The camera moves and we see Terri is listening to them talk).
Manny: Mr. Armstrong?
Hall
(Spinner, Ashley, Paige, and Jimmy are walking.)
Ashley: You’ve got to be making this up.
Spinner: No, I swear.
Paige: It just so happens you’re always complaining about the food and now you find a bug. Hmm.
Spinner: Hey, Paige, come on. Does this look like the face of a liar?
Paige: You want an honest answer?
Spinner: Why won’t anyone believe me? Tell her, Jimmy.
Jimmy: There was some kind of weirdness on his plate.
Ashley: You sure it wasn’t just a hair?
Jimmy: A moth, I think.
Spinner: An earwig, dude. An earwig.
Ashley: See? You two can’t even get your story straight. (Ashley and Paige leave)
Spinner: Boycott the caf. Hey, guys, the caf has bugs. Boycott the caf.
Ms. Kwan: That’s a serious accusation.
Spinner: Ms. Kwan, I found a bug in my food, an earwig.
Ms. Kwan: And where is offensive creature now?
Spinner: Stuck to a kid’s shoe.
Ms. Kwan: Gavin, defamation and roomemogering are serious offenses. The next time you have an accusation like that you better have proof. (She leaves)
(Jimmy and Spinner head into math class. Terri is sitting, looking at Mr. Armstrong with a weird look on her face.)
Paige: What’s with you? You look awful.
Terri: Thanks Paige.
Paige: No, I mean, what’s going on? It’s good to get things off your chest. You’ll feel way better.
Terri: I guess so, but…
Paige: Terri, we’re friends, right? Friends talk to each other.
Terri: Ok, but you have to promise to keep it a secret. I really mean it.
Paige: Of course. What is it?
Terri: You know Liberty that kid in seventh grade? Well I heard Armstrong was coming on to her.
Paige: Ew. You’re kidding, right?
Terri: No, I overheard Emma. She saw him with his arm around her. Then on the steps, he gave her a love note. So what do we do, report it?
Paige: Hun, you can’t report a rumor. (The bell rings so Terri turns around)
Mr. Armstrong: Afternoon everyone. (Sees Terri and Paige with weird looks on their faces) Something wrong girls?
Paige: Oh, no. Nothing, Mr. Armstrong.
Mr. Armstrong: Ok, today we’re going to take a look at distributive properties. All right, in review, you’ll remember the three main rules… (As he talks Paige types something to her best friend Hazel on her message thing. Hazel cell makes a noise. She picks it up and reads it. When she does, she gives Paige a shocked look and Paige nods at her.)
Hall
(Hazel is talking to someone on her cell phone.)
Hazel: Get this: Liberty and Armstrong were seen kissing outside. Yeah, they were in his car kissing in front of everybody. (Sean, who is sitting on the stairs, hears this as she walks past)
Class
Sean: (To Spinner) She got a ride in with him this morning. Do you think they spent the night together? How could Coach Armstrong do that?
Hall
Spinner: (To Jimmy) Dude, Liberty and Armstrong are doing it.
Media Immersion
(Jimmy is typing a instant message to Ashley. It says: Jimmy411: Liberty. Armstrong. Doing it. Ashley is in shock.)
Ashley: (Mouths to Jimmy) Is it true?
(He nods at her.)
Class
(A sign says, “Student Council in Session.” People are looking in.)
Guy: There she is. (Referring to Liberty) Ha ha. (They laugh and make a loser sign)
Ashley: Next on the agenda, the motion that Liberty put forward last meeting.
Liberty: Right, about the talent show. So, what do you think Ashley, should we have one?
Ashley: Sure, sounds great. (The other kids nod)
Liberty: Wow that was easy. We argued about it for hours last week. (Ashley is whispering to a girl next to her) Guys, you can stop whispering. I know what you’re talking about.
Ashley: Um, you do?
Liberty: Of course. Everyone knows what happened, so we might as well discuss it.
Ashley: Um, okay, but, don’t you want to discuss it in private?
Liberty: It’s no secret Ashley. We all know some microphones were stolen at last years show, but it won’t happen this year. I promise.
(Liberty is leaving, when Ashley stops her.)
Ashley: Liberty.
Liberty: If it’s about the microphones…
Ashley: It’s not. Do you even know what’s going on? People are talking about you and Armstrong. That you’re pretty close.
Liberty: What does that mean?
Ashley: It means that people think that you two are extra friendly.
Liberty: They think he’s doing things to me?
Ashley: Yes. Is it true?
Liberty: Of course not. (She runs away)
Ashley: If it is, we have to report it. Liberty, please, just wait. We can talk.
Next day at school at Degrassi
Emma: I knew something was going on.
Toby: You did?
Manny: We talked about it yesterday. I just couldn’t believe it. I still can’t. Maybe we should report it.
JT: Armstrong would be toast.
Emma: That’s true. We should wait to find out for sure.
Toby: This whole thing? It’s disgusting. Just the thought … uh, makes me want to take a shower.
JT: That wouldn’t be such a bad idea.
Emma: So what do we do now? (They see Liberty and look at her as she looks at them then she runs away so Emma runs after her)
Girls Washroom
(Emma enters.)
Liberty: Leave me alone, Emma.
Emma: Liberty, what you need right now is a friend, someone to talk to.
Liberty: But there’s nothing to talk about.
Emma: It’s ok, you can tell me.
Liberty: I am telling you.
Emma: Are you sure you’re not lying? Because we really have to report it.
Liberty: Emma! I swear on my life that nothing’s going on.
Emma: But the whole school is talking.
Liberty: I know and it’s just a vicious rumor, honest. What if it gets to Mr. Raditch? To my parents? What will Mr. Armstrong say when he hears this?
Emma: then there’s only one way to handle this: stop the rumor and track down its source. Then give whoever who started it…
Liberty: A good swift kick?
Emma: I was going to say a good talking to, but that’ll do. (They leave after Liberty dries her tears)
Hall
Terri: Hey Spinner, find any bugs in your breakfast this morning?
Spinner: Very funny. So I made a mistake.
Jimmy: Why do you say a mistake?
Spinner: Because I did.
Jimmy: What?
Spinner: I’m always complaining about the food, right? So, I must have made it up.
Jimmy: Ok now I’m completely confused.
Spinner: It would have totally different if someone else found that bug. Then everyone would believe it. Even the wrath of Kwan.
Jimmy: I guess so.
(Spinner tells Jimmy to follow him. He shows him a container.)
Jimmy: Better not be tuna salad in here. (He opens it and there’s bugs in there)
Spinner: Today’s special: earwig surprise. Took me hours to collect them. (Jimmy gives him the bugs back) When I get done, the caf will be closed, permanently.
Media Immersion
Ashley: Are you sure it isn’t true though? When I talked to Liberty yesterday, she was really defensive, like she was hiding something.
Emma: She was probably just upset. Wouldn’t you be?
Ashley: Yeah I would. Poor girl. Who would spread a rumor like that?
Emma: That’s what I’m trying to figure out. Who’d you hear it from Ashley?
Ashley: It was Jimmy. But he heard it from Spinner.
Hall
Spinner: Hey, it wasn’t me who started it. Talk to this guy (Meaning: Sean).
Emma: Sean?
Sean: What?
Spinner: He’s the one who told me.
Sean: About Coach Armstrong and Liberty? Man, that’s just sick.
Emma: It’s not true Sean.
Sean: It isn’t?
Emma: No.
Sean: Oh, man. I knew it sounded fake. I should have never believed her.
Emma: Believed who?
Girls Washroom
Hazel: I’m innocent. Talk to Paige. (Paige comes out of a stall)
Paige: I was merely imparted information. And besides, I heard it from Terri. She’s the one you need to speak to.
Hall
(Terri is at her locker.)
Emma: I need to talk to you.
Terri: Ok.
Emma: The whole school’s gossiping about Liberty and Armstrong.
Terri: no kidding. I have ears too.
Emma: Well it’s not true. It’s just a rumor. Paige spread it around. She heard it from you.
Terri: I swore her to secrecy.
Emma: As if she’d keep quiet. Paige lives for rumors.
Terri: I was upset, ok? I was shocked. I had to tell someone. I’m sorry.
Emma: Well too late. I hope you’re happy.
Terri: Me?
Emma: Hello, you’re the one who started the rumor.
Terri: Hate to tell you, but no. It was right here yesterday, you were talking to Manny about Liberty and Armstrong, remember? You started the rumor, Emma.
Cafeteria
Jimmy: Spin, you sure you wanna do this? Don’t you think it’s a bot drastic?
Spinner: Nope. All is fair in love and w*r, and dude, this is w*r. (They sit down at a table with Ashley.)
Ashley: You’re eating the cafeteria food again?
Spinner: I decided to be, you know, mature. I probably never even saw that bug.
Ashley: Good for you Spinner. Jimmy, could you pass me the pepper? (As she gets the pepper, Spinner puts bugs on Ashley’s plate) Thanks. What are you smiling at? (She looks at her food and notices the bugs)
Jimmy: You put bugs on her tray?
Spinner: Nobody believes me, but they’ll believe her.
Ashley: Spinner you idiot.
Spinner: Ash, calm down. I told you, there’s bugs in the food.
Ashley: Because you put them there. What’s in that container?
Spinner: Nothing. (She opens it and finds more bugs, which she drops on the tray)
Ms. Kwan: Gavin, what is going on here?
Math Class
Liberty: Math class. I’ve been dreading this all day. (They go in and sit down) So did you track down the rumor?
Emma: Yeah, but I need to say something to you first. (The bell rings)
Mr. Armstrong: Ok, today we’re going to be working on equations. Now, when dealing with equations, we always use the BEDMAS rule. Now, who can tell me what that stands for? (No one answers) What’s with everyone today? Ok, why don’t you tell us Liberty, you and I have been working on it. (People start to laugh) What is so funny?
Mr. R: That’s enough. Mr. Armstrong, could I have 5 minutes of your time?
Mr. Armstrong: I was just about to get started here.
Mr. R: Mrs. Smith will take over the class.
Mr. Armstrong: Right, okay. Class, I want you to begin working on the order of operations exercises on page 129. (They open their books)
Mr. R: Liberty, would you join us, please? (Liberty leaves with them so Emma gets up and leaves, too)
Principal’s Office
Liberty: What are you doing here?
Mr. R: Emma, go back to class.
Emma: I need to talk to you, Mr. Raditch.
Mr. R: Well, it’ll have to wait. I’m in the middle of something right now.
Emma: It can’t wait. You see, I’m in the middle of it, too.
Cafeteria
Sheila: You’ll help me serve at every lunch and then after school you can help me clean up. (Bell rings) Oh and uh (Hands him a hair net) don’t forget about this.
Spinner: I’m not wearing that.
Sheila: Health regulations princess. You do know about health regulations.
(He takes it and puts it on. Jimmy and Ashley approach.)
Jimmy: Hey Spin, how long are you. (Start to laugh when he turns around wearing the hair net)
Ashley: Nice net, Spinner. (They leave laughing and Spinner hangs his head down)
Sheila: Oh, cheer up. It won’t be for long. Only for about two months.
Spinner: Two months?
Sheila: You owe the school $300. That’s what it’ll cost to exterminate the cafeteria.
Spinner: But the caf needed to be exterminated anyway.
Sheila: Sure it did, Gavin. Sure it did. (She leaves)
Girls Washroom
Emma: Liberty? I know you’re in here. (Checks the stalls until she finds Liberty) I was responsible for the rumor starting, but I didn’t spread it. (Liberty comes out)
Liberty: And there’s a difference? You’re lucky Mr. Armstrong didn’t lose his job. And you what makes me really mad? That you thought I could do that.
Emma: Do what? Be violated? And what were you doing with Mr. Armstrong anyway? He had his arm around you, passed you a note.
Liberty: You want to see my note? (Gives her a paper)
Emma: Dyscalculia?
Liberty: it’s a learning disorder, like dyslexia, but with numbers. I’m been really upset about it. Mr. Armstrong’s been helping me. (Takes the paper back)
Emma: So that’s the explanation? Why didn’t you say something? Because it means you’re not perfect?
Liberty: Because it means I’m stupid.
Emma: Stupid? You’re one of the smartest kids in school.
Liberty: Not in math I’m not.
Emma: Who cares?
Liberty: I do! It’s important to me to be the best. You don’t understand.
Emma: Liberty, I feel really bad. Is there something I can do, to help?
Liberty: No, Emma. Go back to saving rainforests and whales, because when it comes to help people, you suck. (Liberty leaves)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x10 - Rumours And Reputation"} | foreverdreaming |
Degrassi - Hall
Manny: It’s called passion plain.
Emma: Ooh, very hot.
Manny: Speaking of hot…
Sean: Hey.
Emma: Hey.
Manny: Oh, gee, I forgot. I have to go talk to Liberty. (She leaves)
Sean: So, did you do that math assignment?
Emma: Yeah, it was brutal.
Sean: Yeah it was. So, it’s Friday.
Emma: Yup.
Sean: Do you have any plans?
Emma: No.
Sean: Ok well, maybe we could hang out.
Emma: Sure.
Sean: All right. Cool. Well, I’ll see you.
(Manny cokes back after he leaves.)
Manny: Ok, so, what’d he want?
Emma: Manny, I’m not sure, but I think he asked me on a date. (They squeal with excitement.)
Media Immersion
(Emma and Manny enter.)
Manny: This is so exciting, your first date.
Emma: I know.
Manny: And romantic. So, how’d he ask you?
Emma: I don’t know, he just asked me.
Manny: Well, it had to be more than just “Oh, he asked me”.
Toby: Hey guys. I mean girls. I mean-
Emma: Let’s go sharpen our pencils.
Manny: Great idea.
Emma: Why couldn’t just Toby, I don’t know, like you instead of me?
Manny: Forget about him and give me details, exactly what Sean said.
Emma: Well first we talked about that horrible math assignment and then he mentioned it was Friday. I know kind of weird. And he said maybe we could hang out.
Manny: Ok, and?
Emma: Nothing. Just hang…out.
Manny: Oh.
Emma: This is a date, right?
Manny: Of course… I think.
Grade 8 Homeroom
Ms. Kwan: (Holding up forms) These are permission forms for next week’s bus trip to Stratford to see Romeo and Juliet. (There’s a loud tapping noise being heard) Sorry, but whoever’s making that noise please cease and deist? That means stop (It stops for a minute) Have a parent or guardian sign the form and enclose a check. (The noise starts again) All right, who’s doing that? (She goes to Spinner who has his binder up and she finds out it’s him and she takes it off his ears) Detention, after school.
Spinner: What? But…Hey, you can’t. (He tries to grab it from her and it falls to the floor) My Discman!
Ms. Kwan: No, your fault, for listening to it in my homeroom. Keep wasting my time, Gavin, and I’ll keep wasting yours.
Gym
(Emma and her class are getting ready to start class.)
Manny: I’m sure he was asking you out.
Emma: Well I’m not so sure anymore. And besides, even if he was, couldn’t he have been a bit more romantic?
Manny: Well here’s your chance to find out. (Sean comes toward Emma so she stands up)
Emma: Sean, about tonight.
Sean: Yuh. (He walks away)
Emma: Yuh? Sean!
Mr. Armstrong: Okay today we’re going to play some dodgeball. (Gives Emma the ball, and she throws it, trying to h*t Sean and he looks shocked) Good arm Emma. (A guy throws Emma the ball and she tries to h*t Sean again) Again, nice sh*t, but there are other targets you know.
Hall
(Spinner is at his locker, getting his lunch uniform.)
P.A.: Grade 8 students that are interested in the Stratford field trip are reminded to talk to their parents this weekend and return your permission forms to Ms. Kwan.
Jimmy, Ashley and Terri in the hall.
Jimmy: Ms. Kwan’s such a tyrant.
Terri: Come on, Jimmy. Spinner let insects lose in the caf, Kwan had to do something.
Ashley: So, who are sitting with on the bus to Stratford?
Jimmy: My Juliet, of course. (They start kissing when Ms. Kwan shows up)
Ms. Kwan: Miss Kerwin, Mr. Brooks. This is a school, not a petting zoo. Kindly disengage yourselves.
Ashley: But we were just…
Ms. Kwan: Would you prefer to take it up with the principal? I’m sure he’d be happy to discuss the finer points of the Degrassi Code of Conduct. You two may think you’re adorable, but that doesn’t mean anyone else does. (She walks away)
Jimmy: Total tyrant.
Cafeteria
Sheila: Here you go, one lamb stroganoff.
Spinner: Kwan did it to you too? Man, she’s made it her mission to make our lives miserable. I wouldn’t be working here if it wasn’t for her.
Jimmy: No, you wouldn’t be working here if you wouldn’t have dumped bugs in Ash’s food.
Spinner: A minor detail. Jimmy, you and I should join forces, get Kwan back. Teach her a lesson. (They look at Ms. Kwan eating lunch)
Jimmy: No way man. We try to get revenge and I’ll end up wearing a hairnet too. (He leaves)
Sheila: Hey princess. Less talk, more work.
Hall
Emma: Manny, I have no idea what to do. Toby says Sean was just making conversation.
Manny: You asked Toby about Sean?
Emma: I know but I’m desperate here.
Paige: Having a little boy trouble, Emma? Anything I could help you with?
Emma: No, nothing’s going on.
Paige: Hun, your thing for Sean is more obvious than Heather Sinclair’s bargain basement nose job. Do you want my advice or not?
Emma: Ok, Sean asked me to hang out with tonight. Not go out, hang out. I thought he might be asking me on a date. I was wrong?
Paige: Hun that’s a date.
Manny: Told you.
Paige: Just in guy speak. Vague, short. Yes, no, grunt.
Emma: Yuh?
Paige: Yuh definitely qualifies. Em, it’s Sean we’re talking about. He’s a one- syllable kind of guy. (Bell rings)
Grade 8 English class
Terri: Kwan’s in a meeting with Raditch. She says to review Romeo and Juliet to get ready for our field trip. She’ll be back soon.
Spinner and Jimmy are sitting in the back when Spinner goes to the front of the room, pretending to be Kwan.
Spinner: Okay class listen up. Shakespeare is the greatest writer, not just of his time, but of all time.
Jimmy: But Ms. Kwan, if he’s such a great writer, why is reading him such a big yawn?
Spinner: Because you are a moron. (Everyone laughs)
Jimmy: But Ms. Kwan…
Spinner: And for being a moron, I punish you with a week’s detention.
Jimmy: A week’s detention?
Spinner: if you want to waste my time, I’ll waste yours. (He sits down when he sees her coming)
Ms. Kwan: Sorry I’m late. I know you’re all anxious to begin. Shakespeare is the greatest writer, not just of his time but of all time. Even though some of you may find reading him a big yawn. Mr. Brooks, did you know Mr. Raditch’s office has a direct link to this classroom? When you turn the intercom on, you can hear every single word that’s spoken in here. Mr. Brooks, Gavin already has a detention tonight. You can keep him company.
Media Immersion
(Emma sees Sean is on a computer like she is, so she writes him a message. It says: Sean, what’s going on? He responds: Going on? Besides you hating me? She says: I don’t hate you! Why would you think that? After reading it, he comes over to her.)
Sean: Maybe because you tried to k*ll me in dodgeball? So you don’t hate me?
Emma: Of course not.
Sean: So we’re still on for tonight?
Emma: Absolutely, if you want to.
Sean: Oh, I want to. I’ll pick you up at seven at your place.
Emma: Great. See you then. (He leaves and she sighs with happiness)
Spinner and Jimmy in Ms. Kwan’s Class for Detention
Jimmy: It’s Friday afternoon and we’re stuck here. So unfair.
Spinner: Now do you think something should be done?
Ms. Kwan: (Looks up) Guys, I’m teaching a night school course in three more hours. You don’t want to join me, do you?
(Spinner writes Jimmy a note and crumples it up and passes it to him. Jimmy opens it; it says “Tonight = Revenge”. Jimmy nods at him.)
The Nelson House
(It shows Sean heading there to pick up Emma.)
Inside The House
(Emma is coming down the stairs.)
Emma: Ok, which shirt do you like better, this one or the one I’m wearing?
Spike: Both are great. So, your first date. I remember my first date.
Emma: Let me guess, you’re going to tell me all about it.
Spike: It was awful. I was so nervous. I kept laughing like a hyena and I had the worst case of verbal diarrhea. Sorry, this isn’t helping, is it? (Sean knocks on the door) I’ll get it. (She opens the door and lets Sean in) Sean, hi.
Sean: Hi Christine.
Spike: Emma, your date’s here.
Emma: Hi.
Sean: Hi.
Spike: You kids have a good time. And be home by 10. (They start to leave) Wait. I almost forgot. (Grabs a camera)
Emma: Mom.
Spike: Just one photo that’s all. Sean, take one giant step toward Emma. (He does) And cheese. (She takes the picture)
Outside
(They’re walking down the stairs.)
Emma: Sorry about my mom.
Sean: No problem.
Emma: So what do you want to do?
Sean: Oh well we…
Emma: I was thinking we could go see a movie or we could grab a bite or we could go to Playdium or there’s this free concert in the park…
Sean: Relax, okay? Whatever we do tonight, we’re going to have fun.
Emma: Right. Oh God, that was verbal diarrhea, wasn’t it? (Bird poop lands on her jacket)
Principal’s Office at Degrassi
(When the janitor leaves, Spinner and Jimmy sneak in the principal’s office.)
Ms. Kwan’s Night Class
Ms. Kwan: This test focuses on English verb tenses. You will write the test, you write the test, and in an hour you’ll be able to say you wrote the test. Please begin.
Principal’s Office
(Jimmy turns on the P.A. Spinner chews his gum really loud into the microphone.)
Ms. Kwan’s Class
Ms. Kwan: Excuse me, but whoever’s chewing gum, please spit it out immediately. It’s disturbing the rest of the class. (She outs her book down, stands up and stares at the class, really angry. She hears Jimmy laughing from the intercom) (To the class) I’ll be right back. (She goes to the office and tries to open the door, but it’s locked, so she knocks on the door) Is anyone in there? Lou, have you seen anyone hanging around? (He shakes his head no) Would you mind opening this door for me? (He takes out the key and opens the door) (She goes in and turns on the light, but she sees no one there so she turns off the light and leaves) (When she leaves, Jimmy = Spinner come out of hiding)
Spinner: Time for part two. (He picks up the phone and dials a number) Hi, I’d like to make an order please.
Emma and Sean’s date
(Emma is carrying a tray of food to a table and sits down with Sean.)
Sean: You didn’t have to buy me dinner.
Emma: Please, after going back to my house so I could change and have my mom take another picture of us, it’s the least I could do.
Sean: Well, ok. I’ll get the movie.
Emma: Deal. I got you a veggie burger, hope that’s ok.
Sean: Yeah, fine, as long as it’s not a hamburger.
Emma: You’re a vegetarian too?
Sean: Actually I love meat. But last summer I spent a month with my aunt and uncle on their farm. They raise cows for harvest.
Emma: Harvest?
Sean: Yeah that’s a more polite way of saying slaughter. Anyway, I saw a couple of these cows get harvested. It was awful, the sounds, and the blood and guts oozing all over the place, and the smell, it was just…Sorry. I didn’t really mean to…
Emma: No, it’s ok, really.
Sean: Anyway, I figured if I couldn’t handle watching them become meat, then I couldn’t eat meat either.
Emma: It’s a good way of looking at it. I mean, so many people are hypocrites (we see a bit of ketchup on her chin) that way. They just pick up their meat at the supermarket in the nice shiny packages and don’t even think about what happened to it before it got there.
Sean: You got this blob on your chin. (Wipes it off)
Ms. Kwan’s Class
(Someone knocks at the door; she goes to answer it.)
Man: Yeah, 12 dozen-honey garlic wings here.
Ms. Kwan: But I didn’t order anything.
Man: Is the number here 555-1950?
Ms. Kwan: Yes.
Man: And you’re Ms. Kwan?
Ms. Kwan: Yes, but…
Man: Then you ordered this. That’ll be $53.48 please.
Ms. Kwan: There is no way that I am paying that.
Guy: Ms. Kwan, I help pay. I have hunger.
Ms. Kwan: I am hungry Rachesh.
Guy: Ok. (Goes back to his seat with some of the food)
Guy #2: I am hungry too, Ms. Kwan.
Man: You’re hungry man? You got money?
Guy: Hey, Ms. Kwan, I will eat the chicken wing. I eat the chicken wing. I ate the chicken wing.
Principal’s Office
(Jimmy and Spinner laugh and high five.)
Emma and Sean’s date
(Emma is looking through her purse.)
Emma: My wallet.
Sean: I’m paying for the movie, remember?
Emma: No, it’s not that. My wallet was on the tray and then we threw out our stuff.
Sean: You threw out your wallet?
Emma: I don’t know. I think so.
(Sean looks in a garbage can and pulls out a thrown out burger, which he throws on the floor in disgust.)
Sean: I think I got it. (A security guard shows up) Hi. She lost her wallet. Guess you kid of like us to continue this someplace else, huh?
Outside - Ms. Kwan’s Car
(Jimmy and Spinner come outside with a bucket of eggs. At first, only Spinner is throwing eggs at the car.)
Spinner: This is for making me spend every lunch hour in the cafeteria and this is for making me wear a hairnet in public. Come on, Jimmy, f*re away.
Jimmy: I don’t think so.
Spinner: You don’t know what you’re missing. (Throws another egg) This is for making me read Shakespeare in public.
Jimmy: And this is for making me and Ashley feel like dirt. (Throws an egg)
She comes outside, so they hide. When she sees her car, she leans next to it and starts to cry.
Emma and Sean’s date
(Sean is looking for her wallet.)
Sean: It’s not here.
Emma: Someone must have stolen it.
Sean: Are you sure you left it on your tray?
Emma: Of course I’m sure. I bought the meals, set my wallet on the tray…
Sean: You almost spilled ketchup on it while you were eating…
Emma: And then I…Oh no…Oh no… (Looks through her purse and finds it) Um, it’s here. (She runs away after finding it)
Media Immersion
(Emma is showing her friends the pictures from her date with Sean.)
Manny: (points to one photo) So this is pre poop (points to another one) and this is post poop.
JT: I like your first outfit better. (Emma gives him a mean look)
Emma: I’ll be lucky if Sean ever speaks to me again.
Manny: Emma, if Sean really likes you…
Toby: He’s not gonna let some bird crap, rotting garbage, and a couple of embarrassing pictures changes his mind, really.
Sean comes in and over to Emma so her friends leave them alone.
Sean: So, how’s your wallet?
Emma: Sean, I am so, so, so sorry about Friday night.
He picks up one of the pictures.
Sean: Could I have this?
Emma: It’s all yours.
Sean: Thanks. (He leaves and she sighs a happy sigh)
Ms. Kwan’s Class
Spinner: Oh, you should have seen the look on her face. I wish I had a video camera. (Imitates Ms. Kwan crying)
Jimmy: It was pretty funny.
Ashley: Sounds sort of cruel to me.
Spinner: Look, whatever. Kwan asked for it and Kwan got it, big time.
The bell rings and Mr. Raditch enters the room.
Mr. R: Good morning, everyone. Ms. Kwan will not be here today or for the rest of the term. She’s requested a leave of absence, which I’ve granted. So, I’ll be filling in for her. Unfortunately, this means that we’ll be canceling your trip to Stratford (Kids groan) Ms. Kwan wanted me to apologize to you for that. (Terri raises her hand and he silently says “Yes?”)
Terri: Is Ms. Kwan gonna be okay?
Mr. R: Well, she’s been under a lot of pressure lately. Her husband is very ill, the stress of that, and plus working full time, overtime really, was just too much for her. Right, open your textbooks and your malleable little minds.
(The camera ends on Jimmy and Spinner looking sad.)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x11 - Friday Nights"} | foreverdreaming |
Degrassi - Hall
Liberty is interviewing Paige, Hazel, and a guy named Oskar about Degrassi’s Spirit Squad
Oskar: Sorry I’m late.
Liberty: No problem, the interview isn’t over yet. Hazel, you were saying?
Hazel: Well, we’re a school Sanken club.
Paige: So now, it’s just a question of getting enough people to sign up, but they will, of course.
Liberty: Ok, what would you say to a student who thinks cheerleading is sexist?
Hazel: I’d say, get over it. Welcome to the new millenium.
Paige: Totally. I mean, cheerleading is such a positive thing. It’s great exercise.
Hazel: It builds leadership skills.
Oskar: It’s better than watching TV.
Paige: And it boosts school spirit. I mean, what’s bad about that?
Liberty: Thank you and good luck. (Liberty leaves)
Manny comes up to Paige and taps her on the shoulder.
Paige: Can I help you?
Manny: I’m Manny, I’d like to try out.
Paige: Ok, what can you do?
Manny goes to the end of the hall and does a great cartwheel.
Paige: (When Manny finishes) Manny, sweetie, sign right here.
Manny takes the clipboard, signs it, and gives it back to Paige with a smile.
Media Immersion
Paige is on the TV, talking about the Spirit Squad
Paige: School spirit, can you have enough? If you ask me, the answer is no. That’s why I’ve formed the Degrassi Spirit Squad. So come sign up, girls and boys. Give me a D! Give me an E! Give a G! Give me a R! Give me a A! Give me an S! Give me an S! Give me an I! What does that spell Degrassi! Whoo!
Emma: Give me a break. Cheerleaders? Please. (Manny nods as she watches)
Hall
Emma and Manny are walking.
Emma: It’s like we’re traveling back in time. Cheerleading is so over.
Manny: What? Cheerleading is huge, more popular than ever.
Emma: So are a lot of things that are just sexist and wrong.
Manny: How can it be sexist if there are guys?
Emma: I bet the guys won’t be wearing tight sweaters and mini skirts.
Manny: I hope not. Anyway, I was just thinking cheerleading might be fun.
Emma: Fun? Manny, you’re not thinking of…You want to become some pom-pom - pumping robot? I’m surprised.
Manny: Em…
Emma: Too tell you the truth, I don’t Degrassi should have a squad. Period.
Manny: Ok, forget it. You’re right. Can we talk about something else?
Another part of the hall.
JT and Toby are stuffing their faces with Pringles chips.
JT: I can’t taste them anymore. I can’t taste anything anymore.
Toby: it’s just the sodium. Keep going, faster.
Mr. R is going up the stairs and sees them.
Mr. R: What exactly are you two doing?
JT and Toby: Nothing. (They turn around and hurriedly finish eating)
He leaves
Cafeteria
Spinner is setting some food out. As he does, he notices JT and Toby are at a table with a lot of Pringles cans on it.
JT: Why don’t you trust me?
Toby: I don’t not trust you. I just want to make sure you didn’t overlook the Ace of Clubs.
JT: As if I’d overlook that.
Toby: You’re right. You didn’t. No luck. (Liberty walks by, eating Pringles) At 12:00, Liberty Van Zandt, chip can. (They run up to her)
Liberty: (They turn her around) What?
Toby: We can’t come over to say hi?
JT: Ok, we want your chip can. (Toby elbows him)
Toby: Shut up.
Liberty: Guys, what’s going on?
JT: It’s a contest. Get one can with the Ace of Spades and one with the Ace of Clubs. You win a million bucks.
Toby: We already have the Ace of Spades and it’s in a top secret hiding place.
JT: Yes, yes. Very top secret.
Toby: But, we still need the other half and the deadline’s in three days.
Liberty: You’ve been doing this how long?
Toby: Two months.
Liberty: Some advice: Find a dictionary and look up “Pathetic”.
JT: Can we just have your can?
Liberty gives it to them. Toby dumps the chips in JT’s hand and look inside. Then, puts his hand over it.
Toby: “Sorry, try again.” Like the rest of them.
Liberty: (Sees the inside) Try again?
JT: Liberty, wait. Liberty, let’s make a deal.
Emma and Manny
They are walking past Paige’s table with food.
Emma: So you’re still coming tonight to study right? (Manny nods)
Paige: Manny, there you are. Let’s see that awesome cartwheel again. (She doesn’t move) Come on, Manny. If you want to be on the Spirit Squad, you can’t be shy.
Manny puts her tray down and does the cartwheel.
Oskar: Still amazing. Hazel: Yeah, but her landing could have been smoother, if you ask me.
Paige: Better watch out, Manny. You’re making Hazel jealous. (Hazel laughs as if to say “yeah, right.”)
Girls Washroom.
Emma: Please. Paige? Hazel? Are you gonna like, do your colors like, together like?
Manny: Come on, Emma. They’re the coolest kids in school.
Emma: Mm-hmm.
Manny: And they like me, a grade 7. That’s a pretty big deal you know.
Emma: The big deal is no one in this school except me is pointing out the bad side of cheerleading.
Manny: Maybe because no one else feels the same way you do. Most people realize that it’s just good fun.
Emma: Well, maybe if my views were brought to the school’s attention…
Manny: What? Are you saying you’re gonna write another article for the Grapevine?
Emma: No. It’s not that big a deal.
Manny: Great. Can we just talk about something else for a while, please? (They leave the Washroom)
Library
Liberty: You’d have nothing without me.
JT: And you’d have nothing without us. 50/50, that’s our final offer.
Spinner: (Comes out from behind a bookshelf) Make that 45/45.
Toby: That only makes 90%.
Spinner: That’s right, Einstein. Plus, 10% for me.
Liberty: What for?
Spinner: For protection.
Toby: Protection? From who? The only people who know about this are me, JT, Liberty, and you. (Spinner backs him up against a curtain. Then, the bell rings)
Hall
Toby: Ok, JT will bring the Ace of Spades tomorrow.
Spinner: I’ll hold on to the Ace of Clubs in the meantime, for protection.
Toby: Then, we go cash in. One million smackers.
Outside
Manny is walking outside alone, when she runs into Paige and Hazel.
Paige: Hey, girl. Something wrong?
Manny: It’s Emma. She’s taking this whole cheerleading is sexism thing too far.
Paige: Really? How far?
Manny: She did say she might write something for the Grapevine.
Paige: You know what Manny needs, Hazel? Some time with the girls. Want to hang out?
Manny: (Hooking arms with Paige and Hazel) Wow. That would be amazing. My house is like 2 minutes from here.
Manny’s Room
Hazel is looking in her closet as they talk.
Hazel: I’d say an 8.
Manny: Hello, we’re talking about Joseph here. Try 9.
Paige: Try 4. He doesn’t wear deodorant. Major pointage loss on the scent factor. But, I guess we shouldn’t be rating boys. Perfect Little Emma would say it’s sexist.
Hazel: Just like cheerleading. (The phone rings)
Manny: Guys, it’s her.
Paige: Make sure she’s not writing the article Manny.
Manny: (She answers it) Hello?
Emma: Manny, where are you? I thought you were coming over tonight to study.
Manny: I was, but I’m not feeling too well. Must be a 24- hour flu.
Emma: Oh, well I hope you feel better.
Manny: Thanks. But, Em, I was just wondering, just to make sure, you’re not really going to write that article for the Grapevine?
Emma: I told you I wasn’t. Why?
Manny: (Whispers to Paige and Hazel) She’s not.
Paige: I mean, trying to protect the world from cheerleading? As if.
Emma: Did I hear Paige?
Manny: She’ll be leaving soon and then I’ll come by.
Emma: Don’t bother. (She hands up)
Manny: guys, she heard you. (Paige and Hazel don’t look like they care)
JT’s Room
His room is a mess because he can’t find the other can.
JT: I am toast.
Gym
The Spirit Squad is practicing.
All: Hey, all you Panthers fans. Show some spirit, clap your hands. D.C.S., let’s hear it. D.C.S. let’s hear it.
Hazel: Ok, let’s try this new move. It’s called The Toe Touch. I’ll show you. (She does a move that has her foot go up in the air) Ok?
Paige: Not bad, but let’s not get crazy here. Besides, I’m sure Manny could do it better.
Manny: I don’t know about that, girl.
Paige: Try.
Manny does the move, then does a split, waving the pom-poms over her head.
Paige: Manny, sweetie, you’re so going to be the star of the show. After me, of course.
The camera goes to the door, where we see Emma watching and then she leaves.
Room
Liberty is on a computer, when Emma knocks on the door.
Liberty: Emma, can I help you?
Emma: I know this is totally last minute, but I have an article here for the Grapevine.
Liberty: Emma, I’m just about to publish.
Emma: Please, just read it before you say no.
Liberty: (Takes it) “How can we advance as women if some of us insist on wearing short skirts and dancing like bimbos?” Wow. That’s harsh.
Emma: Really? I didn’t think it was strong enough. I could make it harsher.
Liberty: No, no. This is good. You do know that Manny signed up for the Spirit Squad? Isn’t it’s weird that you’re attacking it?
Emma: No, what’s weird is Manny. She’s totally becoming this phony person.
Liberty puts her feet up on the desk.
Emma: What are those?
Liberty: Aren’t they the most beautiful boots you’ve ever seen?
Emma: They are…they’re something.
Liberty takes something off one boot, then puts it back on the desk, smiling.
Hall
Manny is walking with Paige and Hazel
Paige: Manny, that last hand stand was flawless. Oh look it’s “Little Miss Save The World”.
Emma: And it’s “Little Miss Plastic”. Shouldn’t you out testing your make up on animals?
Paige: Shouldn’t you be out hugging trees?
Manny: Guys, come on.
Emma: Manny, you were asking about this. It’s coming out at noon.
Paige: “The spirit squad’s only spirit is the spirit of sexism.” Look what your little friend wrote. (Gives it to Manny)
Manny: Nice, Emma. So I’m a bimbo too. (She crumples it up then stomps away into the bath -room. Emma picks it up and follows her in.)
Girls Washroom
Emma throws the paper in the trash.
Manny: I can’t believe you wrote that article, Em. You’ve got to get Liberty to cancel it.
Emma: How long have we been friends?
Manny: Since Kindergarten.
Emma: And now you think you can drop me like a hot potato just because, ooh, some eighth grader is finally talking to you?
Manny: It’s not like that, Em. I want to become a cheerleader that’s all.
Emma: Please.
Manny: Is it so wrong if I become friends with Paige in the process?
Emma: You honestly think Paige is your friend?
Manny: Is that so hard to believe? That for once someone cool likes me?
Emma: She’s just using you, Manny.
Manny: no, you’re just jealous.
Emma: Jealous? Of that pretentious wannabe?
Manny: You know the difference between you and Paige? Paige is fun. You’re so boring sometimes I want to scream.
Emma: Well I sure hope you and Paige have fun together. Just don’t come drying to me when she s*ab a Kn*fe in your back. (She leaves)
Manny: Don’t worry, I won’t.
Media Immersion
Emma goes in and sits down.
Toby: Please. I can afford it. It’s yours. Really. Take it. (A girl takes something Toby had in his hand and leaves)
JT: What are you doing?
Toby: It was cheap. I’m upgrading my whole electronics system.
JT: You want to stop doing that for a while.
Toby: Why? You do have the other can, don’t you? You lost the Ace of Spades?
JT: I didn’t lose it, I just misplaced it.
Toby: How could you misplace our chance at a million bucks?
JT: My mom went on one of her cleaning binges. I just can’t remember where I moved it to.
Toby: Well, think man think!
Liberty: Ah, my two favorite people. Anything wrong? (The bell rings)
Mr. Simpson: Ok, our last unit was on-line portfolios. (Manny comes in and sits down just as he closes the door) Today I’m going to introduce you to Photo shop. So you can begin to learn how to scan and edit images digitally. It’s amazing what these programs can do. You change hair color, eye color, whatever you want. Now, we’re going to take it slow at first because I don’t want you guys to get too caught up with playing around with the technology…
Bell rings
The Hall
P.A.: Students, remember to pick up a copy of the new edition of the Degrassi Grapevine, out now. And lunch today is Mongolian chicken stir-fry.
Manny is walking, when she sees Paige and Hazel take all the copies of The Grapevine and go in the gym. She follows them.
Gym
Manny: What you guys doing?
Paige: Just making some editorial changes (They start ripping out what Emma wrote of the Grapevine). Emma’s article is just horrible. I mean, it’s really going to hurt us. Here Manny, you do the next one. Normally I wouldn’t put stock in anything a grade 7 wrote, no offense.
Hazel: But we need 12 people for the squad and we only have 8. This article might convince people not to join.
Paige: And then, no spirit squad. I mean, you do want a spirit squad?
Manny: Of course.
Paige: Then prove it.
Manny takes the newspaper from Paige and rips out the article.
Paige: There. Was that so hard?
Outside
Toby: This can’t be happening. This can’t be happening. This can’t be happening. JT, when was the last time you remember having it?
JT: What are you, my mother? If I knew that, I’d have it right now. I lost it. So sue me.
Liberty: JT, if you find that can, or I will sue you. (Spinner is with her)
Toby: Spinner, shouldn’t you supposed to be at work?
Liberty: He has his priorities. And his priority right now is to hurt JT. I told him everything.
JT: Guys, I’ll make it up to you. I’ll be your sl*ve.
Spinner: Sorry, I don’t speak dork. JT, you’re gonna find that can if I have to stuff you in your locker-
JT: My locker. That’s it.
Hall
JT opens his locker and tries to find the can, throwing everything out that isn’t it on the floor.
JT: No, they’re not in there. It’s in a plastic bag. (Gets a blue bag) There it is. Ace of Spades, Ace of Clubs, we’re rich.
Spinner: (Looks at the cans) You moron, they’re both clubs? (Shows JT)
Toby: Oh no.
JT: Ace of Spades, Ace of Clubs, they’re so similar.
Spinner: I knew it was a mistake, hooking up with a bunch of loser grade sevens. (He leaves)
JT: Guys, come on. (Liberty and Toby stuff JT in his locker and closes it and leaves) Help, help!
Media Immersion
Paige is looking at designs for a cheer uniform with Manny and Oskar there.
Paige: I think I like the shorter skirts better, Oskar. In the blue and gold. Oh yeah, it’s it.
Manny: Yeah, I think that looks way better.
Emma and Mr. Simpson enter with the Grapevine newspapers.
Mr. Simpson: You guys know anything about this? (Shows the page where the article used to be)
Paige: Who would do something like that?
Emma: You tell me. My opinion piece was stripped out of every copy of the Grapevine.
Paige: Well, I nothing to do with it.
Mr. Simpson: No one’s accusing you, Paige. Even if it was, it was Emma’s critique of the Spirit Squad that was att*cked. I don’t have to tell you that vandalism could result in suspension. This is pretty serious.
Manny: (stands up) Mr. Simpson…
Paige: Let me, Manny. If anyone should tell you this Mr. Simpson, it should be me. As head of the Spirit Squad. But, we saw Hazel hanging around foyer earlier, acting suspicious.
Mr. Simpson: More incidents like this, and the school may question having extracirrculars activities at all, including the Spirit Squad. You got it? (Manny sits down)
Hall
Manny is at her locker.
Paige: So, two more people signed up. We’re really on our way.
Manny: Why did you do that? Why did you back s*ab Hazel?
Paige: Hello, I had to give up somebody and you were about to spill your guts. I was simply looking out for you.
Manny: Well, don’t, okay? Not if it means dragging me into your dirty work.
Paige: My dirty work? You were there, too.
Manny: Yeah, I ripped one newspaper.
Paige: One? More like all. Or at least that’s what I’ll tell Mr. Simpson if you don’t shut up.
Manny: Paige you were the one who…
Paige: Who’s he gonna believe? You or me?
Manny: Let’s go find out.
Paige: Manny, what is your damage?
Manny: You, Paige.
Paige: You better watch your mouth.
Manny: Or what? You’ll spread lies about me? Deface my locker? Just try it. (Moves closer to Paige and glares at her)
Girl: Whoa.
Girl # 2: Crazy.
Paige: F.Y.I: Your attitude sucks. Good luck making the squad. (She leaves in a huff, pushing people put of her way)
Manny leaves and we see Emma was watching.
Outside
Manny is outside her house when Emma approaches her.
Emma: Hey.
Manny: Hey.
Emma: Can I sit down?
Manny: Sure.
Emma: Manny, I wanted to apologize. I should have supported your cheerleading, not att*cked you.
Manny: Why? It’s just a bunch of stupid sexist idiot girls prancing around.
Emma: Manny I was wrong, I’m admitting it.
Manny: It’s just, all I wanted to do as have fun, Em. Then Paige took an interest in me. It all became so complicated. I’m sorry.
Emma: So what are you gonna do? About the Spirit Squad, I mean?
Manny: Give it up. Paige won’t want me anymore, not after what I said to her.
Emma: Manny, you’re good. Paige is mean, not dumb. She’s not gonna cut you from the squad. And besides, what you said, that was amazing.
Manny: You were there?
Emma: (nods) And you know? I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Manny smiles at her.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x12 - Wannabe"} | foreverdreaming |
The Kerwin House
Ashley and Terri are at the piano. Ashley is practicing on the piano while Terri is working on a project.
Terri: Hey, wanna hear something cool? A protection chant.
Ashley: Uh, Terri. I’m sorta busy right now.
Terri: “I call upon my angelic guardians, I call upon my spirit guides.”
Ashley: I call upon Terri to stop freaking me out. Why did you pick that topic for your presentation anyway?
Terri: I love this mystic oracle stuff.
Ashley: It gives me the creeps. Anyway, I think I’ve got our song down, finally. Listen. (Singing) Oh, just tell me how I can be, all that you ask of me and still feel that I am free, free to be who I am. (Terri moved to the piano while Ashley is singing) Wow, we’re so gonna be the stars of the cabaret.
Terri: Uh, I thought we were going to pick the songs pace up a bit.
Ashley: This is the right pace. You know that right?
Terri: Uh, sure. I just thought this was a duo, you’re singing this on your own.
Ashley: We are a duo. Come on, sing along this time.
Terri: Ok.
Ashley: (Singing) Oh, just tell how I can be, all that you ask of me…
Degrassi Grade 8 Homeroom-
The morning announcements about Cabaret are on.
Liberty: Are you serious about performing for lunchtime cabaret? Then you need to sign up with me by noon today. I’ll decide if your act is appropriate and up to our usual standards.
Paige: Ter, we should totally hook up for Cabaret.
Terri: I’m already doing a duo, with Ash. “Two Girls and a Keyboard”.
Paige: Hun that sounds lamer than Heather Sinclair’s highland sword dance.
Terri: I know but the song Ash wrote means the world to her. Too bad it’s just blah.
Paige: Well you need me. To jazz it up, add some style.
Terri: I tried to get her to do that already, but she won’t.
Paige: She won’t? It’s a duet, not a dictatorship. Just tell her you want a popper song and a trio. (Bell rings)
Mr. R: Good morning, aspiring scholars. In the light of Ms. Kwan’s continued absence, I am going to be your homeroom teacher again today (kids groan but stop when he looks up) Please take your seats. (Ashley comes in and sits next to Terri)
Ashley: This cabaret’s gonna be the best one. Just wait till they hear our song.
Terri: Ash?
Ashley: Yeah?
Terri: Yeah, can’t wait. (Paige isn’t happy because Terri didn’t tell Ash)
Media Immersion
Emma: It’s a poetic dance on an environmental theme, Sean. You’ll love it.
Sean: I don’t dance.
Emma: You don’t have to dance. Manny and I will dance. I just want you to be the hunter.
Sean: I don’t wear leotards.
Manny: We don’t wear leotards. Just black, like panthers, in honor of our basketball team.
Emma: And because they’re in dangered. In our piece, we’re g*n down by a hunter. It has a strong message.
Sean: I don’t hunt.
The bell rings.
Emma: I can’t believe Sean won’t do it. It’s gonna be so good. The audience will be entertained and learn something that pros us.
JT: Leotards and learning don’t go together. Leotards and laughter do.
Emma: You’re so primitive.
Manny: Who are we gonna get to be the hunter?
Emma: We’ll find somebody.
Toby: I’ll do it.
JT: What?
Emma: Really? (He nods) Toby, you’re the best!
Toby: Hey, I do what I can.
Emma: We rehearse after school in the gym.
Toby: See you there.
Manny and Emma leave.
JT: Well, I think it’s cool when guys get in touch with their feminine side
Toby: Of course you do, JT. Look at you.
JT: Ha, ha. Funny.
Media Immersion
Terri is giving her presentation
Terri: There are many mystic oracles, but tarot and ouji are my favorite. Now, could I have a volunteer?
Spinner: Madame Terri? I’ll do it. (He goes up to Terri)
Terri: Take a deep breath. What would you like to ask the oracle?
Spinner: Great mystic oracle, am I really a super stud?
Mr. Simpson: You don’t an oracle to answer that one, Gavin. Ask another serious question, please.
Spinner: What was the name of my first pet?
Terri: I call upon my angelic guardians, I call upon my spirit guides. (She moves the pointer on the board. Spinner says each letter as she moves it)
Spinner: R…O…C…K…Y. Rocky. How did you… That’s cool and just a bit creepy. (He sits down)
Mr. Simpson: That was something, Terri. Excellent use of power point. You’ve earned top marks. Which is just as well because I wouldn’t want the mystical oracles against me.
Paige: Ash, you don’t believe in all this stuff do you?
Ashley: In the real stuff yeah. My aunt predicted my grandma’s stroke by reading tea leaves. (Terri sits down)
Paige: So, if you heard a prediction, one that affected you, you’d believe it?
Ashley: Yeah. I’d be stupid not to. (Terri and Paige look at each other, excited)
Outside
JT: You don’t even know how to dance.
Toby: I don’t have to, I’m just hunting.
JT: You’re doing this just to get close to Emma.
Toby: Duh.
JT: News flash Toby: She has a boyfriend.
Toby: Who refused to dance. So who’s the hero now?
Table
Terri is doing tarot cards with Manny.
Manny: So, I’m a fool?
Terri: No, in tarot, the fool represents fate. What’s important is it’s upside down. In means your day will end unexpectedly, with a twist.
Manny: A twist? What’s that supposed to mean?
Terri: It means you should watch out.
Manny leaves, and Paige comes over and sits.
Terri: Yes, Paige. What would you like to know?
Paige: Oh, mystic oracle. Should Two girls and a piano become a trio?
Ashley: Paige, it’s Two girls and a keyboard, and no. We’re fine.
Terri: You ask. If you’re right, the oracle will back you up.
Terri shuffles the cards and Paige picks one after Terri puts them in three stacks.
Terri: Wow, the three of rods. Rods represent creativity, our band, and the three…
Paige: The oracle has spoken.
Class
Ashley: “The oracle has spoken”. (Imitating Paige)
Terri: The oracle did speak. Paige joins the band.
Ashley: Sounds like you want her to join. Terri, she’ll make it all sexy and stupid. She’ll wreck everything.
Terri: I thought you said you totally believed in the oracles.
Ashley: I do, but my aunt was an expert. You’re an imitator.
Terri: Was I an imitator when I found out Spinner’s pet’s name?
Ashley: Please. Spinner told you about his cat Rocky about a month ago.
Terri: How’d you know?
Ashley: I was there, remember?
Outside
Paige: I can’t believe she didn’t buy it.
Terri: She said I was an imitator, and she thinks your style will like clash.
Paige: Me? Clash? As if. Don’t tell me you agree with her. Then tell her you don’t agree. What’s the worst that could happen?
Ashley: Paige, I know you want to be in the band.
Paige: No, I know the band needs me.
Ashley: Well Two girls and a keyboard is gonna remain just that. Sorry.
Manny: What do you think about adding a jested? Something like this? (She starts walking on the steps and hurts her leg) Aah! (She falls on the ground. Ashley, Paige, and Terri try to help)
Ashley: Can you stand on it at all?
Emma: It’s already starting to swell. We should probably take you to the nurse.
Manny: I can’t believe this. How am I gonna dance? How am I gonna be a panther?
Ashley: Ter, you predicted a twist and she just twisted her ankle.
Terri: She did. I can’t believe she did.
Paige: And you were right about me.
Ashley: Who am I to argue with the oracles? You’re in Paige.
Paige: Yes! Ter, aren’t you happy?
Terri: Totally, I just can’t believe I predicted that. I am creepy.
Degrassi - The next day.
Paige is showing Ashley a poster.
Paige: Even I’m amazed at my brilliance.
Ashley: Paige Michalchuk and the Sex Kittens? Please.
Paige: What’s wrong with it?
Ashley: Why don’t we just make it 3 girls and a keyboard? Nice and simple.
Paige: Nice and boring.
Ashley: Ter, what do you think? 3 girls and a keyboard or Paige Michalchuk and the Sex Kittens?
Terri: I think they’re both interesting.
Paige: Ter, you don’t like 3 girls and a keyboard do you?
Terri: I think we should just focus on getting the song down. The name will come later.
Ashley: Fine. (To Paige) Here’s the song on CD. Learn it and must us at the wall at four to practice.
Mr. R: All right, settle everyone. Let’s continue with our discussion from last class. We talked about sentence and paragraph structures. (As he’s talking, the camera is focused on Paige listening to the song, which you can tell she doesn’t like by the look on her face)
Hall
Emma: All we have to do is adjust the dancing. Tone it down a bit. Manny can be the hunter.
Toby: I don’t know, Em. I’m not exactly the best dancer.
JT: I think it’s a great idea, really. I can’t wait to see it performed.
Toby: Playing the hunter is one thing. But dancing?
Emma: You’re the only one who’s been to all the rehearsals.
Manny: You know the part.
Toby: Of the hunter. Why can’t we just have two panthers and one hunter?
Emma: Just forget it. I’ll go tell Liberty we’re not going on.
Toby: Fine, I’ll do it. But I’m not wearing a leotard.
Emma: You don’t have to. Toby, thank you, I mean it. (After Emma and Manny leaves, JT dances and Toby hits him)
Girls Washroom
Terri and Paige are in there.
Paige: Ok, ready? (Paige comes out of a stall wearing a kind of short sparkly blue top) Viola.
Terri: Wow. That’s an incredible look…for you.
Paige: And you.
Terri: I don’t think so. I’d look like a sausage.
Paige: Silly. You’ll look great. We’re so going to get a record deal. Especially after you hear my ideas for the song.
Terri: Have you listened to it yet?
Paige: Yeah.
Terri: And?
Paige: Well, it has promise. But right now, it sounds like a bunch of cows dying. (They laugh as Ashley enters)
Ashley: Paige, what are you wearing?
Paige: Our new look. You like?
Ashley: I don’t. You want us to look like prost*tute?
Paige: Fine. I’ll go get us some nun costumes.
Ashley: Very funny Paige.
Terri and Paige go outside to talk privately.
Paige: She’s holding us back.
Terri: I’ve tried Paige.
Paige: And failed. Listen, I have some ideas for the sing, but Ashley is going to hate them. We need the mystic oracles to convince her.
Terri: After Manny, I’m not messing with the oracles again. But…
Paige: But what?
Terri: What if you and I try your ideas? Made a new version of the song. Maybe Ash would like it.
Paige: That’s a big maybe. Huge. But, ok. And I think I know exactly who can help us. I just have to change. (They go back in the washroom)
Media Immersion
Terri: Mr. Simpson, this synthesizer, you talked about in class once, didn’t you?
Mr. Simpson: Right.
Paige: Well, we weren’t really playing attention. But we wish we were.
Terri: ‘Cause we have this song here and we want to make another version of it.
Mr. Simpson: Well you came to the right place. This set up here is amazing. Wish I had back when I was in a band?
Paige: Stop, rewind. Mr. Simpson, you were in a band?
Mr. Simpson: Zit remedy. We even had a video. You ever head of us? (Singing) Everybody wants something that… (Stops) I’ll take that as a no. Let me show you how this works. Ok.
Gym
Emma, Manny, and Toby are practicing. Jungle music is playing as Emma dances.
Manny: (When Emma tilts her head up) Toby, that’s your cue.
Toby: Oh sorry. (Toby runs on stage. They dance, until Toby and Emma bump heads)
Emma: JT, stop the music. (The music stops) Toby, you keep leaning in the wrong way.
Toby: Right, sorry. Wanna try again?
Emma: No, I think I’ve had enough head injuries for today.
Toby: Ok.
Emma: Maybe you should try it at home, in front of the mirror or something.
Toby: Sure. (Emma and Manny leave)
JT: Man, how far will you go?
Toby: JT, shut up, now.
media immersion
A really cool b*at is being heard on the computer.
Paige: This is so perfect, Mr. Simpson. It’s so danceable.
Mr. Simpson: (He stops it) Y’all ready for this? (He presses a button and a new b*at starts)
Terri: Wow.
Hall
Ashley is waiting for them and she hears the noise.
Ashley: What is that? (She gets up to find out)
Media Immersion
Paige & Terri: (singing) Oh, just tell me how I can be, all that you ask of me. And still feel-
Ashley: I guess I missed the rehearsal. I don’t believe this. You guys re-did my song?
Mr. Simpson: Ashley, it’s just an alternate tape. Both versions are still on the computer, so there’s no problem.
Paige: We weren’t trying to ruin your song. We were taking it to another level, you know?
Ashley: No, Paige. I don’t know. First, the name, then the clothes, now my music. Forget it.
Paige: Well I think we should go with our version right, Terri?
Ashley: Ter, there’s no argument. You know the song was better before.
Terri: I…I don’t know.
Paige: You should let the oracle decide. We can all agree on that. After all, Terri is in touch with the other side.
Ashley: Ok, we’ll consult the oracle.
Terri: mystic oracle, which version should we go with? (Ashley picks a card) High priestess. It means…go with the new. Sorry, Ash. The oracle has spoken.
The next day
P.A.: Lunchtime cabaret will be commencing shortly. Those interested in attending should make their way to the gym.
Room
Paige and Terri are sitting in their outfits.
Paige & Terri: (singing) …and still feel that I am free, free to be who I am. (Ashley comes)
Paige: Did someone miss the announcement? We’re on in like 5 minutes Ash.
Ashley: I did some internet research on your last reading. The high priestess means stay with the old. You said go with the new. You lied, Ter. Why?
Terri: Because you hate all of my suggestions.
Ashley: That is so not true.
Terri: It is. I don’t get a say in anything. It’s not fair.
Lunchtime Cabaret
Kids clap as Liberty goes on stage
Liberty: Welcome to Lunchtime Cabaret. I expect you’ll handle yourselves appropriately. So without further ado, please welcome our first act, a dance piece entitled Endangered. (She goes off the stage and Emma goes on in her panthers outfit and does her part, then Toby comes on beside her and they dance until they bump heads)
Emma: Toby.
Toby: Sorry.
Spinner: Man, this is too easy. (They continue dancing. Then Manny comes on and sh**t them. Toby falls.)
Jimmy: What is this? (Everyone laughs loudly)
Sean: (Gets up) Hey! Shut up! Let them dance. (Emma smiles at him)
Toby: Emma, we’re not done. (They finish)
Paige, Terri, and Ashley.
Paige: Guys, we’re going on in like two seconds.
Ashley: Look, the oracle said go with the old. You guys better watch out. Who knows what might happen if you defy them.
Liberty: Guys, you’re on.
Terri: I don’t care what the oracle says. We’re using with the new version.
Ashley: Fine. Then, you can use the new group, the one without me.
Paige: Fine. Ter, come on.
Liberty: Did you settle on a name? Finally?
Terri: Just call us “Paige and Terri”.
Cabaret
Liberty: Degrassi’s own Paige and Terri!
Paige and Terri come on stage just as the b*at starts.
Paige and Terri: (singing) (They move around and dance as they sing) Oh just tell me who I can be, all that you ask of me. And still feel that I am free, free to be who I am. Oh, just tell me how I can be, all that you ask of me. And still feel that I am free, free to be who I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. (It also shows Ashley watching) (After the song is over and people are clapping, Paige and Terri hug then we see Ashley watching again and Terri sees her)
Hall
Manny and Toby are walking.
Manny: That wasn’t so bad was it?
Toby: No, but my panther dancing days are over.
Manny: Unless a certain someone asks you again, right?
Emma shows up.
Emma: Toby, you were great out there. Thank you so much.
Toby: Yeah, so, do you want to go and maybe…
Emma: (Sees Sean) I’ll be right back, ok? Sean. I don’t know what to say.
Sean: You don’t have to say anything.
Emma: The way you just stood up like that, told everyone off, it was so brave. (Kisses him on the cheek)
The camera moves to Toby watching and he looks very sad.
Washroom
Paige and Terri are in there fixing their hair.
Paige: Ok, we were awesome.
Terri: I could totally do this for a living.
Ashley approaches them.
Paige: So?
Ashley: (Smiles) You guys were great!
Terri: Really?
Ashley: I admit it, your version totally rocked and the audience loved it.
Terri: I think you should join with the group again.
Ashley: Ok. But first things first what about a name?
Paige: Well there’s always Paige Michalchuk and the Sex Kittens.
Ashley: No.
Paige: Hello, let me finish. I’m talking about the initials, PMS.
Terri: PMS?
Paige: What? It’s edgy, it’s cool.
Ashley: And gross. Why don’t we stick with 3 Girls and a Keyboard?
Paige: No way.
Terri: Ter, it’s one to one. Your vote breaks the tie.
Paige: You should consult the oracle.
Terri: (Taking the cards & throwing them out) The oracle and I are no longer on speaking terms. But I sorta like PMS.
Ashley: Fine.
Paige: (Putting her arms around Ashley and Terri and kid of hugging them) Then we are PMS.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x13 - Cabaret"} | foreverdreaming |
The Kerwin house - Kitchen
Toby: Last Day of school, here I come.
When he enters the kitchen, he takes from Ashley the muffin she was eating.
Jeff: Ash, we’re going to drop you and Toby off on our way, ok? (To Kate) You ready?
Kate: I’ll be there in a minute.
Jeff: Ok. Come on Tobs. Oh, working the muscles I see? You’re going to be such a girlie boy. (As they go out the door) Come with me! Let me eat you!
Ashley laughs
Kate: Here’s Mrs. Rehn’s number, in case you need anything.
Ashley: Stop worrying. Toby and I are going to be fine. You’re just going overnight.
Kate: I know. I’m a being a mother. Ok, so tonight…?
Ashley: I know. One friend over each and no parties. I heard.
Kate: Good for you for being so responsible.
Degrassi - Ms. Kwan’s Class
Ms. Kwan: A student I’ll never forget. Even after years and years of therapy. Who could that be? (Spinner gets up to get his award)
Spinner: I’ll never forget you either, Ms. Kwan.
Ms. Kwan: Have a good break, Mr. Mason
Media Immersion
Mr. Simpson: Well what can I say? It’s been great teaching all of you. (Emma raises her hand) Emma?
Emma: We’re gonna miss you too, Mr. Simpson. So, look at the screen. (Everyone crowds around) See the present icon? Click it. (When he does, we hear kids shout “Thank you Mr. Simpson” and the grade 7’s heads pop up, saying great things about him)
Mr. Simpson: This is incredible.
Ms. Kwan’s Class
Ms. Kwan: This one needs no explanation. The student of all students. Drumroll please. (Jimmy does one on the desk) Ashley Kerwin. (Ashley gets up to get it)
Ashley: Thanks, Ms. Kwan.
Ms. Kwan: (Hugs Ashley) I’m gonna miss you. (Ashley sits back down)
Ashley: Student of all students? That is so lame.
Terri: I think it’s sweet. (Paige sticks out her tongue, puts her finger in her mouth pretending to gag, to Hazel)
Ms. Kwan: This next award is for Dave, because he puts the capital G in good student.
Media Immersion
Mr. Simpson is looking at what they gave him, very happy, when the bell rings.
Mr. Simpson: Ok, go. Go clean out your lockers and have a great safe vacation.
Liberty: Bye Mr. Simpson.
Mr. Simpson: Adios.
Kid: Ciao, Mr. Simpson.
Mr. Simpson: Bye-bye.
Hall
Ashley, Paige and Terri are cleaning out their lockers.
Paige: Wow, the Kerwin/Issacs prison. What’s Jimmy gonna say when he finds out?
Jimmy: Finds out what? (Kind of spins Ashley around)
Ashley: That I can only have one friend over tonight.
Paige: And she invited Terri. Not you or me.
Jimmy: Oh, ok.
Ashley: I thought you’d be upset.
Jimmy: (With his hand in Ashley’s hair) Rules are rules, right? We’ll do something tomorrow.
Jimmy leaves.
Ashley: Ok, am I missing something here?
Paige: No, just the chance to hang out w/ me + have way too much fun.
Ashley: Paige, if you really want to come over, whatever. (She leaves. Paige shrugs and goes back to cleaning her locker)
Hall
JT: So girls, what are your plans for this very momentous eve?
Emma: Girls’ night at my place. Meaning no boys allowed especially boys named Sean. (He walks by as she said that)
Hall
(Toby and JT are being a trash can to their lockers to clean them out)
Toby: Maybe she’s learned that bad boys only lead to heartache.
JT: And now she’s looking for a good boy? One named Toby? Not likely. What you need is a new approach. (Sean walks by) Sean’s approach. Hey Sean! Toby here is having the boys over tonight. To play some cards, talk girls, guy stuff. Wanna come?
Sean: No. (He starts to walk away)
JT: You know Emma’s gonna be there.
Sean: (As he turns around + stops walking) Emma?
Toby: Yeah we’re…
JT: Having the girls over…later.
Sean: Ok. (He leaves)
Toby: (Pushes JT up against a locker) Are you insane?
JT: After tonight’s little tutoring session, Emma will be all yours. Trust me.
Hall
(Ashley and Terri are walking. Terri is throwing some things out as they pass trashcans)
Ashley: Do you think Jimmy’s reaction was weird? About tonight?
Terri: No I think he was just trying to be a good boyfriend.
Ashley: A good boyfriend would wanna come over no matter what. My parents are away… he should… never mind.
Terri: Anyway I thought you were cooling on it.
Ashley: Exactly the opposite. After you’ve been going out for awhile, things get deeper.
Terri: Oh.
Ashley: Unless he’s cooling on me.
Terri: I don’t think that’s how it is.
Ashley’s
Paige and Hazel are outside. Ashley clears her throat to get their attention.
Paige: Ok, before you go all parental on me, I forgot. Hazel and I had plans tonight. I didn’t think it would be a problem.
Ashley: No, it’s fine.
There is loud noise heard and Toby and JT come outside, all dirty from whatever it was. They are coughing. Toby wants to go back inside but JT stops him.
Toby: Ash.
Ashley: Ok, I know Mom + Jeff said only one friend each…
JT: But nothing Ashley. It’s our pleasure to share this fine evening with such lovely young ladies. (Before going inside, he winks at Paige)
Paige: Did that… THING… just wink at me?
Everyone laughs.
Inside Ashley
They are watching a scary movie wearing 3-D glasses. Hazel screams and covers her eyes when something happens.
Terri: Guys I can’t handle this.
Paige: Do you really think the star’s gonna die?
Ashley: Paige, you’re ruining the movie.
There is a knock at the door.
Paige: I didn’t invite anyone else honest.
Sean comes in. They all look.
Ashley: Sean? What are you doing here?
Sean: Toby invited me.
Ashley: Toby? Little scammer. They’re upstairs. (He leaves) Ok, Toby’s hanging out with Sean? That’s weird.
Paige: Has Sean become such a total babe since that fight or what? (They laugh then all scream because of the movie)
Toby’s Room
Toby, JT, and Sean are playing cards.
JT: So Sean girls. Care to share your expertise?
Sean: Wh-what?
JT: You know on how you score like Sundien.
Sean: I don’t.
JT: Come on. Girls like drool over you.
Sean: I don’t know. I just act like myself, I guess. Why? Who do you like?
Toby: So guys we gonna play or what?
Sean: Emma knows I’m here, right?
JT: Yup.
Sean: And she’s fine with this?
JT: Of course. Even more fine is this. I brought us a little party favor boys. (He takes out of a bag a drug)
Toby: Aspirin.
Sean: Ecstasy.
Toby: E? JT, what’d…
JT: Ecstasy is the love drug, right? There’s a whole room of girls down there needing some love.
Sean: I don’t know man. This stuff’s pretty intense.
JT: Better be, I paid my cousin 2 weeks allowance for it. Let’s split it.
Sean: Ok give me the pill. (JT hands it to Sean) I’ll do it. (He leaves the room)
JT: What?
Toby: Not a good idea.
Kitchen
Ashley is preparing food and drinks for her and her friends when Sean comes in.
Ashley: Hey Sean. Having fun upstairs?
Sean: A little too much fun. (Throws her E)
Ashley: Is that…? Sean you brought drugs?
Sean: Not me, JT.
Ashley: JT? Toby? They’re way too young to be experimenting with drugs.
Sean gets an aspirin and cuts it in half with a Kn*fe.
Sean: Flush it down the sink. They’ll never know the difference. (He leaves)
Ashley looks at the E.
Toby’s Room
JT: Toby, come on. Wanna be a bad boy? Start acting like one.
Sean: (Opens food) Bad boy?
Toby: Ignore him. (Takes the aspirin) Let’s just do it.
JT: Sure you don’t wanna join us?
Sean: Yeah my social worker would k*ll me.
JT: Ok. (Eats it)
Sean: Hey wait. Chew it slowly. Gives you a better high.
Kitchen
Ashley picks up the E and sticks it in her apron. She picks up the food when Paige comes in the kitchen.
Paige: Terri’s slipping in video numero two. Sorry, but uh, this get together, is getting seriously lame.
Ashley: Ok then. What do you wanna do?
Paige: Invite Jimmy over. Just stop being boring and break a rule for once.
Ashley: I already did.
Paige: Then invite him again. Hun, you just need to live a little. ‘Cause you’re pretty cool when you do honest. (She leaves)
Ashley sets the food down and calls Jimmy.
Ashley: Jimmy come over. We’ll have fun, together. (Takes the E out of her apron as she talks. After she hangs up with Jimmy, she takes the E and gags from the taste after she swallows it)
Toby’s Room
JT: Toby, I’m floating, on a fluffy white cloud.
Toby: Right.
JT: Can’t you feel it? How can you not feel it?
Toby: I’m starting to, I think.
JT puts his hands on the lava lamp and makes buzzing sounds. Sean watches it and can’t believe what JT is doing)
Toby: Dude, this is incredible.
JT: Dude, this ecstasy. I’m feeling the love. It’s time to call.
Sean: Emma? (Gives JT the phone)
JT: (Has the phone upside down, but flips it and then dials) Girls say hello to your destiny.
Downstairs
Ashley enters and steps on Hazel’s hands.
Hazel: OW! Ash, my hand.
Ashley: Sorry. (She lays down. She watches the movie and screams really loud)
Paige: Ok now I’m officially deaf.
Ashley: Oh that was so scary. I bet you they heard my scream al the way in China. (They look at her weird as she laughs and then screams again)
Outside Ashley’s
Emma, Liberty, and Manny are outside.
Manny: Guys, this is gonna be great. A real party. But if my dad finds out I’m here, I’m gonna be grounded until my wedding day.
Ashley comes out.
Ashley: Hey you’re not Jimmy and Spinner. Unless they had a sex change. (She laughs) Liberty I didn’t invite you. How did you know? Was I sending out psychic vibrations?
Emma: Uh, no. JT and Toby called.
Ashley: (Laughs) Yeah, one in inviting too many people. Liberty, I’ve wanted to tell you this for like forever. But I get you. You’re like me only sorta not, you know?
Liberty: Uh…
Inside Ashley’s
Ashley: You guys look who’s here: Liberty. (Ashley shuts off the movie and turns on music)
Terri: Ash…
When she turns on music she starts dancing with Liberty.
Ashley: Get down Liberty! (She laughs as she takes off her apron and whirls it around)
Terri: Ash wanted to have fun tonight. I guess she’s having fun.
As she dances, Ashley breaks a vase. Paige starts to laugh, but stops.
Toby’s Room
JT is spinning around on a pole when there is a knock at the door. JT opens it.
Emma: Hello. (JT moves his tongue around) Toby?
JT: Welcome to the Issacs Zone of Invanite Love and Harmony. Sit.
Manny: Thanks, uh, for inviting us.
Toby sits next to Emma.
JT: (Puts his hands as if he’s praying) Shalom.
Downstairs
Jimmy and Spinner and some friends come in. Spinner has a watermelon.
Jimmy: Hey. What’s going on?
Ashley: (Putting her hands in the air) Hey!
Spinner: This is my kind of party.
Ashley: Jimmy you’re here, finally.
Jimmy: When did you decide to have a party? I thought your parents…
Ashley: Isn’t this just incredible? (Hugs him)
Jimmy: Ash you’re burning up.
Ashley: Oh I know. So hot in here.
Jimmy: Have you been drinking?
Ashley: No. (Near his ear) A…B…C…D…E.
Jimmy: Ecstasy? Where’d you get ecstasy?
Ashley: Toby, JT. One of them.
Jimmy: do you know how stupid that is?
Ashley: Stop being so melodramatic. I’m having fun you can too.
Jimmy: You need to drink water and lots of it. (Grabs her hand but she lets go) I can’t believe you could take E.
Ashley: Ok calm down Dad. Paige is right loosen up a little bit.
Paige: (Whispers) Ecstasy?
Jimmy: Ash what…?
Ashley: I’m going upstairs to the bathroom. I’ll drink some water from the toilet. (She laughs as she leaves the room. When she leaves everyone laughs except Jimmy)
Toby’s Room
Sean enters.
Sean: Emma.
Emma leaves.
Sean: Emma. Emma.
Emma: Sean, just leave me alone. If I knew you were gonna be here I would’ve stayed home.
Manny: I’ll go find Liberty. (She goes downstairs)
Sean: Emma, can we talk, please?
Emma: There’s nothing to talk about.
Sean: Emma you’re not being fair.
Emma: Sean you went too far. We’re over, as in finished. (She goes downstairs)
Ashley comes out the bathroom.
Ashley: Sean. Are you ok? (He looks at her and he is crying) You need to talk to someone. Come on. (They go into a room)
Sean: This is so stupid.
Ashley: I know what you’re going through.
Sean: How?
Ashley: Ok, everyone thinks you’re bad, right? Well everyone thinks I’m this perfect boring girl. (They sit down)
Sean: I just thought Emma was so different.
Ashley: Why? She’s just like Jimmy. She only sees…
Sean: What she wants to see.
Ashley: Exactly! Sean, don’t cry. Don’t cry. (She looks at his face and then she kisses him. After she kisses him, they kiss again, laying themselves down on her bed)
Downstairs
Everyone else is hanging out having fun. Toby comes downstairs
Toby: Hey Jimmy, have you seen Emma?
Jimmy: There you are, Mr. Drug Dealer.
Toby: What?
Jimmy: Don’t you know that E leads to harder things, like my fist?
Toby: What do you care if I did E?
Jimmy: ‘Cause you didn’t. Ashley did. And she said she got it from you.
Toby: Sean switched it.
Jimmy: Sean? Sean’s here?
Toby: Yeah, he’s upstairs.
Jimmy runs upstairs. While she drinks, Paige watches.
Upstairs.
Jimmy goes in a room but doesn’t find Sean. Sean comes out of another room.
Jimmy: Sean…what…?
As Sean goes downstairs, Ashley comes out of the same room Sean did.
Ashley: Jimmy, oh. (Jimmy looks at how her hair and clothes are messed up and goes downstairs so she follows him)
Outside
Toby: Emma? (He sees her sitting) There you are. Look, it was stupid of me to invite Sean. And I want you to know the only reason I did is because… (Sean comes outside and leaves. When Emma sees him, she looks sad. When Sean looks back, he sees Emma hug Toby)
Inside Ashley’s
JT: 1…2…3… (He jumps and they catch him)
Jimmy: Where’s Sean?
Ashley: Jimmy stop.
Jimmy: Where’s Sean, Spinner?
Spinner: He left, like 2 minutes ago.
Jimmy starts to leave but Ashley stops him.
Ashley: Jimmy stop. Ok, I know you’re upset, but what just happened was the most intense experience of my life. It was like this telescope and I saw me, the real me.
Jimmy: Look, you don’t know what you’re saying.
Ashley: What?
Jimmy: it’s not you, it’s the drugs.
Ashley: Oh yeah keep going Dad. Keep telling me who I am.
Jimmy: Ash look…
Ashley: No, this is exactly why me and Sean just…he gets me, you…
Terri: Ash, stop.
Ashley: Ter, I love your shirt. It’s so shiny, like stars.
Jimmy: I’m outta here.
Ashley: What I should have done is broken up with you on your birthday like I was going to.
Paige: Ash would you stop being such a hag already?
Ashley: Paige you are a hag. On two fronts: your looks and your personality. (She laughs)
Paige gets a mean look on her face and leaves.
Ashley: Jimmy, just you don’t have what Sean has and you never will. You’re just not enough for me, sorry. Oh now you’re upset, don’t be, it’s ok, it is, it’s all good, it is. (As she talks she goes up to him but he pushes her away and then leaves and then everyone else does)
Spinner: Nice Ash.
Ashley: Guy, where are you going? Come on it’s a party. Come on. Where’s everyone going? Come on guys. Guys. (She dances and laughs) Come on.
Downstairs - The next day
Terri and Toby are cleaning when Ashley comes in the room in a bathrobe.
Ashley: Hey. When did that break?
Toby: While you were dancing with Liberty. When you were strung out on E. What were you thinking Ash?
Ashley: What was I thinking? What were you and JT doing with it in the first place?
Terri: Guys, it doesn’t matter.
Ashley: Was I really that bad? (They don’t answer) What if I just call Jimmy?
Terri: Ash, Paige won’t talk to you. Do you really think Jimmy will?
Ashley: I’m such an idiot. How am I ever gonna face everyone again? (There is a knock at the door. Ashley runs to the door) Jimmy? (Someone comes in and it’s Spinner with a box)
Spinner: here Jimmy doesn’t want this stuff anymore.
Ashley: Spinner how is he?
Spinner: Just take it and don’t call him. (He leaves)
Ashley closes the door.
Terri: Ash?
Toby: Ok, somebody get this place cleaned up. (He goes in the other room)
Ashley falls on the floor
Toby: They’ll be home soon. I mean come on…
Ashley is crying with Terri next to her.
Toby: Ash? You ok? (He goes back to where Ashley and Terri are and he goes next to her and hugs her)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x14 - Under Pressure"} | foreverdreaming |
The Kerwin house - Kitchen
Toby: Last Day of school, here I come.
When he enters the kitchen, he takes from Ashley the muffin she was eating.
Jeff: Ash, we’re going to drop you and Toby off on our way, ok? (To Kate) You ready?
Kate: I’ll be there in a minute.
Jeff: Ok. Come on Tobs. Oh, working the muscles I see? You’re going to be such a girlie boy. (As they go out the door) Come with me! Let me eat you!
Ashley laughs
Kate: Here’s Mrs. Rehn’s number, in case you need anything.
Ashley: Stop worrying. Toby and I are going to be fine. You’re just going overnight.
Kate: I know. I’m a being a mother. Ok, so tonight…?
Ashley: I know. One friend over each and no parties. I heard.
Kate: Good for you for being so responsible.
Degrassi - Ms. Kwan’s Class
Ms. Kwan: A student I’ll never forget. Even after years and years of therapy. Who could that be? (Spinner gets up to get his award)
Spinner: I’ll never forget you either, Ms. Kwan.
Ms. Kwan: Have a good break, Mr. Mason
Media Immersion
Mr. Simpson: Well what can I say? It’s been great teaching all of you. (Emma raises her hand) Emma?
Emma: We’re gonna miss you too, Mr. Simpson. So, look at the screen. (Everyone crowds around) See the present icon? Click it. (When he does, we hear kids shout “Thank you Mr. Simpson” and the grade 7’s heads pop up, saying great things about him)
Mr. Simpson: This is incredible.
Ms. Kwan’s Class
Ms. Kwan: This one needs no explanation. The student of all students. Drumroll please. (Jimmy does one on the desk) Ashley Kerwin. (Ashley gets up to get it)
Ashley: Thanks, Ms. Kwan.
Ms. Kwan: (Hugs Ashley) I’m gonna miss you. (Ashley sits back down)
Ashley: Student of all students? That is so lame.
Terri: I think it’s sweet. (Paige sticks out her tongue, puts her finger in her mouth pretending to gag, to Hazel)
Ms. Kwan: This next award is for Dave, because he puts the capital G in good student.
Media Immersion
Mr. Simpson is looking at what they gave him, very happy, when the bell rings.
Mr. Simpson: Ok, go. Go clean out your lockers and have a great safe vacation.
Liberty: Bye Mr. Simpson.
Mr. Simpson: Adios.
Kid: Ciao, Mr. Simpson.
Mr. Simpson: Bye-bye.
Hall
Ashley, Paige and Terri are cleaning out their lockers.
Paige: Wow, the Kerwin/Issacs prison. What’s Jimmy gonna say when he finds out?
Jimmy: Finds out what? (Kind of spins Ashley around)
Ashley: That I can only have one friend over tonight.
Paige: And she invited Terri. Not you or me.
Jimmy: Oh, ok.
Ashley: I thought you’d be upset.
Jimmy: (With his hand in Ashley’s hair) Rules are rules, right? We’ll do something tomorrow.
Jimmy leaves.
Ashley: Ok, am I missing something here?
Paige: No, just the chance to hang out w/ me + have way too much fun.
Ashley: Paige, if you really want to come over, whatever. (She leaves. Paige shrugs and goes back to cleaning her locker)
Hall
JT: So girls, what are your plans for this very momentous eve?
Emma: Girls’ night at my place. Meaning no boys allowed especially boys named Sean. (He walks by as she said that)
Hall
(Toby and JT are being a trash can to their lockers to clean them out)
Toby: Maybe she’s learned that bad boys only lead to heartache.
JT: And now she’s looking for a good boy? One named Toby? Not likely. What you need is a new approach. (Sean walks by) Sean’s approach. Hey Sean! Toby here is having the boys over tonight. To play some cards, talk girls, guy stuff. Wanna come?
Sean: No. (He starts to walk away)
JT: You know Emma’s gonna be there.
Sean: (As he turns around + stops walking) Emma?
Toby: Yeah we’re…
JT: Having the girls over…later.
Sean: Ok. (He leaves)
Toby: (Pushes JT up against a locker) Are you insane?
JT: After tonight’s little tutoring session, Emma will be all yours. Trust me.
Hall
(Ashley and Terri are walking. Terri is throwing some things out as they pass trashcans)
Ashley: Do you think Jimmy’s reaction was weird? About tonight?
Terri: No I think he was just trying to be a good boyfriend.
Ashley: A good boyfriend would wanna come over no matter what. My parents are away… he should… never mind.
Terri: Anyway I thought you were cooling on it.
Ashley: Exactly the opposite. After you’ve been going out for awhile, things get deeper.
Terri: Oh.
Ashley: Unless he’s cooling on me.
Terri: I don’t think that’s how it is.
Ashley’s
Paige and Hazel are outside. Ashley clears her throat to get their attention.
Paige: Ok, before you go all parental on me, I forgot. Hazel and I had plans tonight. I didn’t think it would be a problem.
Ashley: No, it’s fine.
There is loud noise heard and Toby and JT come outside, all dirty from whatever it was. They are coughing. Toby wants to go back inside but JT stops him.
Toby: Ash.
Ashley: Ok, I know Mom + Jeff said only one friend each…
JT: But nothing Ashley. It’s our pleasure to share this fine evening with such lovely young ladies. (Before going inside, he winks at Paige)
Paige: Did that… THING… just wink at me?
Everyone laughs.
Inside Ashley
They are watching a scary movie wearing 3-D glasses. Hazel screams and covers her eyes when something happens.
Terri: Guys I can’t handle this.
Paige: Do you really think the star’s gonna die?
Ashley: Paige, you’re ruining the movie.
There is a knock at the door.
Paige: I didn’t invite anyone else honest.
Sean comes in. They all look.
Ashley: Sean? What are you doing here?
Sean: Toby invited me.
Ashley: Toby? Little scammer. They’re upstairs. (He leaves) Ok, Toby’s hanging out with Sean? That’s weird.
Paige: Has Sean become such a total babe since that fight or what? (They laugh then all scream because of the movie)
Toby’s Room
Toby, JT, and Sean are playing cards.
JT: So Sean girls. Care to share your expertise?
Sean: Wh-what?
JT: You know on how you score like Sundien.
Sean: I don’t.
JT: Come on. Girls like drool over you.
Sean: I don’t know. I just act like myself, I guess. Why? Who do you like?
Toby: So guys we gonna play or what?
Sean: Emma knows I’m here, right?
JT: Yup.
Sean: And she’s fine with this?
JT: Of course. Even more fine is this. I brought us a little party favor boys. (He takes out of a bag a drug)
Toby: Aspirin.
Sean: Ecstasy.
Toby: E? JT, what’d…
JT: Ecstasy is the love drug, right? There’s a whole room of girls down there needing some love.
Sean: I don’t know man. This stuff’s pretty intense.
JT: Better be, I paid my cousin 2 weeks allowance for it. Let’s split it.
Sean: Ok give me the pill. (JT hands it to Sean) I’ll do it. (He leaves the room)
JT: What?
Toby: Not a good idea.
Kitchen
Ashley is preparing food and drinks for her and her friends when Sean comes in.
Ashley: Hey Sean. Having fun upstairs?
Sean: A little too much fun. (Throws her E)
Ashley: Is that…? Sean you brought drugs?
Sean: Not me, JT.
Ashley: JT? Toby? They’re way too young to be experimenting with drugs.
Sean gets an aspirin and cuts it in half with a Kn*fe.
Sean: Flush it down the sink. They’ll never know the difference. (He leaves)
Ashley looks at the E.
Toby’s Room
JT: Toby, come on. Wanna be a bad boy? Start acting like one.
Sean: (Opens food) Bad boy?
Toby: Ignore him. (Takes the aspirin) Let’s just do it.
JT: Sure you don’t wanna join us?
Sean: Yeah my social worker would k*ll me.
JT: Ok. (Eats it)
Sean: Hey wait. Chew it slowly. Gives you a better high.
Kitchen
Ashley picks up the E and sticks it in her apron. She picks up the food when Paige comes in the kitchen.
Paige: Terri’s slipping in video numero two. Sorry, but uh, this get together, is getting seriously lame.
Ashley: Ok then. What do you wanna do?
Paige: Invite Jimmy over. Just stop being boring and break a rule for once.
Ashley: I already did.
Paige: Then invite him again. Hun, you just need to live a little. ‘Cause you’re pretty cool when you do honest. (She leaves)
Ashley sets the food down and calls Jimmy.
Ashley: Jimmy come over. We’ll have fun, together. (Takes the E out of her apron as she talks. After she hangs up with Jimmy, she takes the E and gags from the taste after she swallows it)
Toby’s Room
JT: Toby, I’m floating, on a fluffy white cloud.
Toby: Right.
JT: Can’t you feel it? How can you not feel it?
Toby: I’m starting to, I think.
JT puts his hands on the lava lamp and makes buzzing sounds. Sean watches it and can’t believe what JT is doing)
Toby: Dude, this is incredible.
JT: Dude, this ecstasy. I’m feeling the love. It’s time to call.
Sean: Emma? (Gives JT the phone)
JT: (Has the phone upside down, but flips it and then dials) Girls say hello to your destiny.
Downstairs
Ashley enters and steps on Hazel’s hands.
Hazel: OW! Ash, my hand.
Ashley: Sorry. (She lays down. She watches the movie and screams really loud)
Paige: Ok now I’m officially deaf.
Ashley: Oh that was so scary. I bet you they heard my scream al the way in China. (They look at her weird as she laughs and then screams again)
Outside Ashley’s
Emma, Liberty, and Manny are outside.
Manny: Guys, this is gonna be great. A real party. But if my dad finds out I’m here, I’m gonna be grounded until my wedding day.
Ashley comes out.
Ashley: Hey you’re not Jimmy and Spinner. Unless they had a sex change. (She laughs) Liberty I didn’t invite you. How did you know? Was I sending out psychic vibrations?
Emma: Uh, no. JT and Toby called.
Ashley: (Laughs) Yeah, one in inviting too many people. Liberty, I’ve wanted to tell you this for like forever. But I get you. You’re like me only sorta not, you know?
Liberty: Uh…
Inside Ashley’s
Ashley: You guys look who’s here: Liberty. (Ashley shuts off the movie and turns on music)
Terri: Ash…
When she turns on music she starts dancing with Liberty.
Ashley: Get down Liberty! (She laughs as she takes off her apron and whirls it around)
Terri: Ash wanted to have fun tonight. I guess she’s having fun.
As she dances, Ashley breaks a vase. Paige starts to laugh, but stops.
Toby’s Room
JT is spinning around on a pole when there is a knock at the door. JT opens it.
Emma: Hello. (JT moves his tongue around) Toby?
JT: Welcome to the Issacs Zone of Invanite Love and Harmony. Sit.
Manny: Thanks, uh, for inviting us.
Toby sits next to Emma.
JT: (Puts his hands as if he’s praying) Shalom.
Downstairs
Jimmy and Spinner and some friends come in. Spinner has a watermelon.
Jimmy: Hey. What’s going on?
Ashley: (Putting her hands in the air) Hey!
Spinner: This is my kind of party.
Ashley: Jimmy you’re here, finally.
Jimmy: When did you decide to have a party? I thought your parents…
Ashley: Isn’t this just incredible? (Hugs him)
Jimmy: Ash you’re burning up.
Ashley: Oh I know. So hot in here.
Jimmy: Have you been drinking?
Ashley: No. (Near his ear) A…B…C…D…E.
Jimmy: Ecstasy? Where’d you get ecstasy?
Ashley: Toby, JT. One of them.
Jimmy: do you know how stupid that is?
Ashley: Stop being so melodramatic. I’m having fun you can too.
Jimmy: You need to drink water and lots of it. (Grabs her hand but she lets go) I can’t believe you could take E.
Ashley: Ok calm down Dad. Paige is right loosen up a little bit.
Paige: (Whispers) Ecstasy?
Jimmy: Ash what…?
Ashley: I’m going upstairs to the bathroom. I’ll drink some water from the toilet. (She laughs as she leaves the room. When she leaves everyone laughs except Jimmy)
Toby’s Room
Sean enters.
Sean: Emma.
Emma leaves.
Sean: Emma. Emma.
Emma: Sean, just leave me alone. If I knew you were gonna be here I would’ve stayed home.
Manny: I’ll go find Liberty. (She goes downstairs)
Sean: Emma, can we talk, please?
Emma: There’s nothing to talk about.
Sean: Emma you’re not being fair.
Emma: Sean you went too far. We’re over, as in finished. (She goes downstairs)
Ashley comes out the bathroom.
Ashley: Sean. Are you ok? (He looks at her and he is crying) You need to talk to someone. Come on. (They go into a room)
Sean: This is so stupid.
Ashley: I know what you’re going through.
Sean: How?
Ashley: Ok, everyone thinks you’re bad, right? Well everyone thinks I’m this perfect boring girl. (They sit down)
Sean: I just thought Emma was so different.
Ashley: Why? She’s just like Jimmy. She only sees…
Sean: What she wants to see.
Ashley: Exactly! Sean, don’t cry. Don’t cry. (She looks at his face and then she kisses him. After she kisses him, they kiss again, laying themselves down on her bed)
Downstairs
Everyone else is hanging out having fun. Toby comes downstairs
Toby: Hey Jimmy, have you seen Emma?
Jimmy: There you are, Mr. Drug Dealer.
Toby: What?
Jimmy: Don’t you know that E leads to harder things, like my fist?
Toby: What do you care if I did E?
Jimmy: ‘Cause you didn’t. Ashley did. And she said she got it from you.
Toby: Sean switched it.
Jimmy: Sean? Sean’s here?
Toby: Yeah, he’s upstairs.
Jimmy runs upstairs. While she drinks, Paige watches.
Upstairs.
Jimmy goes in a room but doesn’t find Sean. Sean comes out of another room.
Jimmy: Sean…what…?
As Sean goes downstairs, Ashley comes out of the same room Sean did.
Ashley: Jimmy, oh. (Jimmy looks at how her hair and clothes are messed up and goes downstairs so she follows him)
Outside
Toby: Emma? (He sees her sitting) There you are. Look, it was stupid of me to invite Sean. And I want you to know the only reason I did is because… (Sean comes outside and leaves. When Emma sees him, she looks sad. When Sean looks back, he sees Emma hug Toby)
Inside Ashley’s
JT: 1…2…3… (He jumps and they catch him)
Jimmy: Where’s Sean?
Ashley: Jimmy stop.
Jimmy: Where’s Sean, Spinner?
Spinner: He left, like 2 minutes ago.
Jimmy starts to leave but Ashley stops him.
Ashley: Jimmy stop. Ok, I know you’re upset, but what just happened was the most intense experience of my life. It was like this telescope and I saw me, the real me.
Jimmy: Look, you don’t know what you’re saying.
Ashley: What?
Jimmy: it’s not you, it’s the drugs.
Ashley: Oh yeah keep going Dad. Keep telling me who I am.
Jimmy: Ash look…
Ashley: No, this is exactly why me and Sean just…he gets me, you…
Terri: Ash, stop.
Ashley: Ter, I love your shirt. It’s so shiny, like stars.
Jimmy: I’m outta here.
Ashley: What I should have done is broken up with you on your birthday like I was going to.
Paige: Ash would you stop being such a hag already?
Ashley: Paige you are a hag. On two fronts: your looks and your personality. (She laughs)
Paige gets a mean look on her face and leaves.
Ashley: Jimmy, just you don’t have what Sean has and you never will. You’re just not enough for me, sorry. Oh now you’re upset, don’t be, it’s ok, it is, it’s all good, it is. (As she talks she goes up to him but he pushes her away and then leaves and then everyone else does)
Spinner: Nice Ash.
Ashley: Guy, where are you going? Come on it’s a party. Come on. Where’s everyone going? Come on guys. Guys. (She dances and laughs) Come on.
Downstairs - The next day
Terri and Toby are cleaning when Ashley comes in the room in a bathrobe.
Ashley: Hey. When did that break?
Toby: While you were dancing with Liberty. When you were strung out on E. What were you thinking Ash?
Ashley: What was I thinking? What were you and JT doing with it in the first place?
Terri: Guys, it doesn’t matter.
Ashley: Was I really that bad? (They don’t answer) What if I just call Jimmy?
Terri: Ash, Paige won’t talk to you. Do you really think Jimmy will?
Ashley: I’m such an idiot. How am I ever gonna face everyone again? (There is a knock at the door. Ashley runs to the door) Jimmy? (Someone comes in and it’s Spinner with a box)
Spinner: here Jimmy doesn’t want this stuff anymore.
Ashley: Spinner how is he?
Spinner: Just take it and don’t call him. (He leaves)
Ashley closes the door.
Terri: Ash?
Toby: Ok, somebody get this place cleaned up. (He goes in the other room)
Ashley falls on the floor
Toby: They’ll be home soon. I mean come on…
Ashley is crying with Terri next to her.
Toby: Ash? You ok? (He goes back to where Ashley and Terri are and he goes next to her and hugs her)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "01x15 - Jagged Little Pill"} | foreverdreaming |
WHEN DOVES CRY (1/2)
A boy named Craig Manning (Brown hair and eyes, kind of tall) is taking pictures of a girl named Angela Jeremiah, his half sister from a distance (She is about 5, brown hair, She is with Emma Nelson, playing. Then he sees her bl*wing bubbles with her dad, Joey and takes pictures. He is not allowed to see her because of his dad). When Craig thinks Joey sees him, he runs home.
Inside The Manning House
Craig’s dad is sitting at the table waiting for Craig.
Mr. Manning: Craig!
Craig: Hey dad. (Takes off his jacket and sits at the table)
Mr. M: What happened to 6:00?
Craig: I know. I’m sorry. It’s just the light outside, late summer, incredible. I just uh…
Mr. M: Got distracted and missed dinner.
Craig: Yeah, uh, Dad I’m sorry.
Mr. M: (throws a plate on the floor) When I say 6:00, I don’t care how great the light is, you’re home. Do you understand me? Clean it up. (He walks out of the room and slams a door)
Cut to: Degrassi
Everyone is arriving at school.
Toby: Man, Grade 8 was supposed to be ours. This is so unfair.
JT: I have no problem with an expanded Degrassi. Way more fish in the sea.
Toby: What, you’re fishing for a new baby -sitter?
JT: dude, older women. Hot sexy older women just waiting to make me into a man, okay? This year, Toby. Just trust me, I know it.
They head inside.
Cut to: Craig
He is getting out of his dad’s car.
Craig: Thanks for the lift.
Mr. M: Ok. You need a lift tonight?
Craig: No, no, I can, uh, make it home. I’ll be on time tonight, ok?
Mr. M: Good luck to you sport.
As he goes inside, we see Emma and Manny watching him.
Manny: Is that the sound of your heart pounding? No way, it’s mine.
Emma: Proving that summer is so overrated. (They h*t their boxing gloves as high fives to each other as they head in)
Inside
Spinner and Jimmy are sitting together.
Spinner: Back at this dump for four more years. Four long years.
Jimmy: Look at this place, it’s a zoo in here.
Spinner: You said it.
Jimmy: (Sees Sean) Look there’s one of the monkey’s now. (Sean goes to get a drink)
P.A.: Good morning students and welcome to Degrassi. If you’re a new student and haven’t received your homeroom number yet, please see Mrs. Smith in the main office immediately.
Sean: (Craig bumps into him) Is Degrassi a high school and a blind school this year?
Craig: Sorry man. I’m lost.
Sean: Buy a map.
Craig: (Holds up a map) Already got one. I’m not blind, just uh, directionally challenged.
Girl: Hey boys. (To Craig) Hey cutie.
Craig: M.I Lab?
Sean: Here I’ll-I’ll show you.
Spinner: (Imitates Sean) “Here, I’ll show you”.
Grade 8 English
Ms. Kwan: Closing down the high school was a last minute board decision, meaning we’re not fully prepared for the influx of students. (Liberty raises her hand)
Liberty: Will there be a separate student council? Separate video announcements? What about The Grapevine?
Ms. Kwan: Ok, my question at a time. In the short term, Degrassi’s gonna be a very crowded place.
JT: Small price to pay, huh? Older women, younger men, very hot.
Toby: Older women, JT Yorke, very not.
Sean comes in.
Ms. Kwan: Take a seat. (Sean goes and sits down and Emma sees him) You may even have to share lockers. (To Sean) See me after class. We’re going to be covering…
Grade 9 Media Immersion
Mr. Simpson: Adding grades 9 to 12 is a great opportunity for Degrassi and for you guys. I taught you M.I. for the past two years. You get for another four. (As he’s talking, he’s handing out locks for their lockers) (He slams Craig down to wake him up) Late night last night, huh, Craig?
Craig: Very… very…very late night, sir. I kept on waking up in anticipation of well this exact moment…sir.
Mr. Simpson: Yeah well save the Zs for home, ok? (Bell rings) Don’t forget to pick up your textbooks in the gym. And even though today is a half-day, tomorrow is not.
Hall
Toby: Ok, and every second week we’ll take out lunches, old school stuff…
JT: Whatever you say roomie.
Manny: I can’t believe you guys volunteered to share.
JT: Eh, it’s just our way of giving something back to Degrassi, is all.
Emma: Yeah or of destroying your friendship.
JT: (Liberty pushes past him) Slow down.
Emma: How soon till we tell them we told so.
JT: Now I get the top shelf, all right?
Toby: Why? We said I got it.
JT: No I get the top shelf because I’m taller.
Toby: Yeah, by like a millimeter.
JT: No check this out. Look. (He measures them) See? Way taller.
Hall
Hazel: Paige, your hair is fine.
Paige: Fine? I have a mullet.
Terri: What’s a mullet?
Paige: (Points out kids they walk past who have one) That. Hairstyle of the trailer dwellers and fashion impaired.
Hazel: So get it fixed.
Paige: But that’ll cost about 80 bucks. I have 50 put away, but my evil parents are insisting I can clean out the garage for the rest. Hello? Child labor.
Craig: You know, there are laws against child labor.
Paige: Ok, thanks, Mr. News- at-5.
Terri: Cute.
Hazel: Very.
Paige: Try deranged.
Ashley runs up to them.
Ashley: Guys, hey. I tried to call you when I got back. How was your summer?
Paige: Anyway, about my hair. (Paige and Hazel walk away)
Terri: Give them time. I’m sure they’ll…you know…
Ashley: What, forgive and forget? Right. (They go under something and walk down the hall)
Outside
Angela is bl*wing on a windmill. As she does, Craig is taking her picture.
Angela: Craig!
She runs up to the fence, which he is on the other side of.
Angela: You’ve been gone forever.
Craig: I know. But summer’s over, I’m back from camp, and now you won’t ever get away from me. Ok, say Bad Donkey Breath.
Angela: Bad Donkey Breath. (He takes her picture) Let me take yours.
Craig: Who, me? I’ll break the camera.
Angela: Give it.
Craig: Remember how to use it? One hand there. (She moves it around and he makes a weird face that she takes a picture of, then gives him back the camera)
Angela: Daddy and me are gonna go visit Mommy. Wanna come?
Craig: Just um…just tell her I miss her. Ok? (She nods) And you can’t tell you Dad about us meeting, all right?
Angela: I promise. Always, always.
Woman: Angela!
Craig: Love you kid.
He leaves.
Woman: Angela, honey. Who was that?
Angela: My brother.
Media Immersion.
Toby: Ok, I give you The Isaacs System.
JT: The what?
Toby: Ok, you want an older woman? This system determines your best match. Meet, Terri McGregor. (He clicks on her picture)
Mr. Simpson: Guys, your dedication to grade 8 is impressive, but, uh, go home already!
Toby: Can we just finish this first?
Mr. Simpson: Five minutes.
JT: Terri’s not really my type.
Toby: Pretty and breathing. Exactly your type.
JT: No, I need more of a challenge. Someone like… (Lands on Paige’s picture) All righty.
Toby: But you only have like a 0.03 % chance of scoring with…
JT: Paige Michalchuk. Come to Papa. (Puts on his sunglasses and smiles)
Cemetery
Joey and Angela are there, visiting with Joey’s wife who passed away.
Joey: That’s a lot of yellow, Angie.
Angela: But that was Mommy’s favorite color. Remember?
Joey: Yes I do. (They go to her grave stone. Joey kisses it and puts his hands on it while Angela puts the flowers around it)
Angela: Do you think she misses us?
Joey: I know she does. Just as much as we miss her.
Angela: But do you think she likes it up in Heaven? Craig said that…
Joey: Craig said what? Did you see Craig?
Angela: No, I just I promised…
Joey: Come on, sweetie. Tell me the truth. (Joey looks up and notices that Craig is there, taking pictures) Stay right here, ok? Craig? (Craig runs away as Joey approaches him) Craig?!
Craig’s House
He is developing pictures he took in his dark room. It’s a picture of Joey and Angela at the cemetery with a different picture of Craig next to them. When it’s dry, he puts it on a paper that says “The Perfect Family”.
Mr. M: Hey sport. Are you ready to eat? Craig? (He is quickly putting away a folder)
Craig: Uh… yeah. Uh… I’m just coming. (He takes pictures down that are hanging up)
Kitchen
Craig and his dad are eating.
Craig: Wow, roast beef, mashed potatoes, yorkshire pudding.
Mr. M: Your favorite.
Craig: Yeah totally. I love roast beef. Remember how Mom used to make it? (His Dad gives him a look so Craig keeps quiet)
Mr. M: So how’s was the first day? Make any friends?
Craig: Yeah, one guy. Sean. He’s cool.
Mr. M: That’s great. Listen, there was a message on the machine today.
Craig: For me?
Mr. M: No for me. From Joey Jeremiah. Any thoughts, any ideas on why he might be calling?
Craig shakes his head.
Mr. M: You didn’t call him?
Craig: Dad come on, why would I call Joey?
Mr. M: Why would your mother leave a surgeon for a used car salesman, Craig? I mean, the mysteries of the universe are infinite to me.
Craig: Well , I didn’t…I didn’t…call. Promise. I’m not…um…I’m not like Mom, ok? So, uh…you gonna call him back?
Mr. M: Now, why would I do that?
Degrassi
JT: Ok, my destiny is approaching. Project Paige has officially g*n.
Toby: Yeah, it’ll be over in about two minutes.
JT approaches Paige
Paige: Oh look. It’s gross and grosser.
Hazel: Looks like grosser wants a word with you.
JT: Uh Paige may I say that you’re looking rather radiant today? May I carry your bag for you?
Paige: You want to carry my bag?
JT: Yeah, I’ll carry to home, I’ll carry it to school. Your wish is my command.
Paige: In that case I wish that you’d go back to your girlfriend over there and leave me alone….Now. (Takes her bag from him and she and Hazel walk away)
Toby: Wow, you-you are an inspiration.
JT: The battle has just g*n. Paige Michalchuk will be mine.
Toby: Ok. (They go inside)
Library
Manny: So, he’s in grade 9?
Emma: Yeah, I saw him coming out of Simpson’s homeroom this morning.
Manny: Why do the 9ers get all the hotties?
Emma: What do you mean? We have JT and Toby.
Manny: Shh! There he is.
They see Craig coming in. When they do they put up their books as if they’re reading.
Craig: Emma Nelson right? You baby-sit Angela Jeremiah.
Emma: I do? I mean I do but…
Craig: You don’t recognize me? Five years ago. Our mothers made us dance.
Emma: The wedding. Craig is Joey’s stepson. Angela’s half-brother.
Manny: Oh. Oh hi. (He nods at Manny)
Craig: Hey. Anyway, uh…nice to see you again. (He gets up to leave)
Emma: Craig, wait! I’m baby-sitting Angela later. My mom’s having this big party and I was wondering if maybe you want to come along.
Craig: I wouldn’t want to crash.
Emma: No, you’d be my guest. If you want to come, meet me out front after school.
Craig: I’ll be there. Thanks. (He leaves)
Manny: He’s coming tonight. (They squeal)
Joey’s dealership. He is showing a car to a couple.
Joey: If this car is a lemon, which it is not, I will give you a real lemon and let you squeeze it in my eyes. Sound fair?
Mr. M: Oh, listen to the man. He knows cars.
Joey: Would you excuse me for just a minute? Why don’t you open her up and see how she feels? Ok? I’ll be with right away. Hello Albert. You got my message.
Mr. M: Sure did.
Joey: Good. Well, it’s about Craig. This is really none of my business but…
Mr. M: You’re just gonna butt in anyway.
Joey: I just want to know how is he doing.
Mr. M: What’s your interest in my son?
Joey: Just…
Mr. M: He’s my son, right?
Joey: Yes, but he’s also Angela’s brother.
Mr. M: Half-brother. What’s your point?
Joey: Angela misses him. Ok? And I know he misses her. And you and I need to do something about it.
Mr. M: Ok, you and I need to do nothing. Except stay away from each other.
Joey: Ok, You’re not getting it here, ok. Craig wants to see Angela and I know he has been seeing her. I just found out myself, he’s been doing it on his own time. You and I may hate each other, but do our kids have to? (As he talks Craig’s Dad is getting in his car to drive away) Even if it’s just once a month.
Outside
Toby: Ok, according to The Isaacs System, you and Paige are never gonna happen.
JT: Would that be the same system that stopped you from doing anything about Emma last year? News flash Toby. It doesn’t work. (Paige, Hazel, and Spinner walk by) Uh, Paige. Hold up.
Paige: Ok, I need a restraining order. What?
JT: Uh…will you go out with me? All I’m asking for is one date. If we click, then we’ll talk commitment. What do you say? (They laugh at JT as they walk away)
Spinner: Man, that is classic.
JT: In time.
Paige: Ok, has my rep fallen to the point where a loser like JT thinks he can ask me out and get away with it?
Hazel: It’s hilarious. You should totally do it.
Spinner: Yeah, Paige and JT on a date. Oh yeah.
Paige: Never going to happen, ever.
Hazel: Everyone has their price. Like say…30 bucks. Enough to get your hair done.
Paige: You honestly think I will go out in public with IT for 30 bucks?
Hazel: A light evening with Frodo? Or an entire day gagging through cobwebs in your parents’ garage.
Spinner: Yeah, you know, it’s about the earwigs. Sharp pinchers, just waiting to climb…
Paige: $30.00, in cash. Fine. But… there will be conditions. Big conditions.
Emma’s
Craig is there w/ Angela, Emma, and Manny. Craig is drawing something in chalk.
Angela: Is that a frog?
Craig: Are you kidding? This is a big razor-toothed dinosaur with a taste for little girls named Angela! (He goes over to her and tickles her)
Spike: What are you guys doing to her?
Craig: Just feeding her to the dinosaurs.
Spike: Ok, guys. Dinner’s served. (They cross the street to go get food) Come on. (Joey approaches with a gift and waves at Angela)
Angela: Daddy!
Joey: Ya! Mmmwah! (Hugs and kisses her)
Spike: Hey, we didn’t expect you. I mean it’s only my birthday. Much less important than a blind date.
Joey: Ok, Ok, My bad.
Snake: So, Jeremiah, how was Miss November?
Joey: She was Miss November of 1973. Ooh. It was like going out with my mother.
Snake: Ah, well you know women of a certain age do have a special appeal.
Spike: You can leave now!
Snake: What, and miss watching you turn gray?
Joey: Don’t worry, he’s coming home with me, after we eat. (Walks a little bit and sees Craig) Craig. Hey, what are you doing here?
Emma: I invited him.
Craig: It’s okay, isn’t it?
Joey: Yeah, yeah, no, um…Can I talk to you for a second? (Craig nods and walks over to Joey) It’s great seeing you, I mean that. But you dad doesn’t want.
Craig: Oh. He’s fine with this.
Joey: He knows you’re here? (Emma walks by as they talk) Look, I don’t know why, but he doesn’t want you hanging out with me or with Angie. He’s made that radically clear.
Craig: Wait, you talked to him?
Joey: He came by the dealership this afternoon. (Craig starts to walk away) Craig, come on! Your dad won’t allow it, what do you want me to do?
Craig: No problem, I get it! Hey, um, Ms. Nelson, thanks for the hot dog! (After he leaves, the camera goes up to Emma’s face where she doesn’t look happy for Craig)
Craig’s
He goes in and his dad is at the table, being silent.
Craig: I’m gonna go down to my dark room.
When Craig enters the room, he sees it is all a mess, the place has been trashed. He is shocked. His dad comes in.
Mr. M: Are you looking for something? (Holds up something of Craig’s)
Craig: What are you doing?
Mr. M: Are you looking for something? (He starts hitting Craig with it)
Craig: What are you doing?
Mr. M: Are you looking for something? (He grabs Craig by his arms and then throws him down on the floor. He then throws something in the air and leaves the room. The camera closes up on Craig on the floor, scared and crying then moves to Craig’s broken camera and a happy smiling picture of him)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x01 - When Doves Cry"} | foreverdreaming |
Craig’s Room
He is looking in a mirror. He doesn’t have a shirt on. We see he has big deep bruises on his chest. He touches it + it hurts him.
Degrassi
Craig’s dad is dropping him off at school.
Mr. M: Here we are. Listen, hold on a second, Craiger. Got something for you. (He hands Craig a stack of money) Maybe you can get yourself a new camera. One of those digital ones.
Craig: Wow! Thanks.
Mr. M: If you need anything else, just ask.
Craig: Sure, sure. Thank you.
Mr. M: You’re welcome. No hard feelings?
Craig: No hard feelings.
Mr. M: All right, then. (Craig gets out of the car)
Degrassi Cafeteria
Hazel: It’s gotta be a real date, like a dinner and a movie date.
Paige: No way.
Spinner: Yes, way. We want value for our entertainment dollar. Besides we’re not the ones with the mullet.
JT: Paige Michalchuk and I will go out this year. It may take a little time, but—
Paige: Oh, JT.
JT: Uh, hey, Paige. To what do we owe this pleasure? This honor? This uh…
Paige: I just wanted to apologize… for the other day when you asked me out. Sorry.
JT: Oh, ok.
Paige: Movie and a bite. Your treat.
JT: Really? Great.
Paige: Tonight, the mall, 5 P.M. sharp. (She leaves. Tony stares at JT in shock)
Outside
Craig is talking with Sean as they sh**t hoops. Craig sh**t and it goes in.
Sean: Man, you should try out for the school team this year.
Craig: I’m not really a team sport kinda guy.
Sean: Didn’t think I was either, but it’s cool. Over here. (Craig gives him the ball. Sean tries to make a basket, but isn’t really close to making one)
Craig: Whoa, maybe I should join the team if you’re the star player.
Sean: Nah, never said I was.
Craig: I’ll give the Panthers some hope.
Sean: Ah. (They start to play when Sean hits Craig where his dad hurt him)
Craig: Ow! Man, this isn’t hockey.
Sean: Oh, I’m sorry.
Craig: For what? Being a total idiot?
Sean: Excuse me?
Craig: Take it! (Throws the ball to Sean) You need the practice. (Craig leaves)
Sean: Craig!
Craig in the hall
He is looking in his book of a picture of Angela. He then picks up the money his dad gave him.
P.A.: If you are interested in helping organize the upcoming junior and senior dances, the social committee wants you…join them in the student activity room in 15 minutes.
Emma is walking with a ton of books when someone bumps into her, making her drop her stuff.
Guy: Watch where you’re going.
Craig: Hey! How was the rest of the party?
Emma: Good, until all the supposed adults started singing ‘80s hits.
Craig: Sorry I missed it.
Emma: You shouldn’t have had to.
Craig: Did Joey talk to you?
Emma: No, I wasn’t eavesdropping, it just sort of happened. (Sits down next to him) I’m supposed to pick Ang up from school. Did your dad say you can’t hang with me too?
Craig: (Smiles) And hey, how was I to know you were going to go pick up my sister? (Emma smiles back at him)
Emma and Craig
They are outside. They are walking.
Craig: Thanks by the way. For inviting me to the barbecue.
Emma: It was no big deal.
Craig: No, no, to me it was. It was really, it was really nice of you to…it was really…comfortable. (Emma nods as Angela shows up)
Angela: Craig! (She jumps on his back)
Craig: What’s up, kid?
Angela: Can we go to the park?
Emma: I don’t know, guys. I got a whole chapter of math homework, so the TV’s gonna help baby-sit.
Angela: But I want to.
Craig: I can take her, right?
Angela: Park, park, park!
Craig: Right? Drop her off on my way home?
Emma: I don’t know guys.
Craig: Can you say please?
Angela: Please, Emma, please? Park, park, park.
Emma: Just for a little bit, ok?
Park
Angela and Craig are running around water, with Angela on Craig’s shoulders.
Craig: Close your eyes, Ang. You’re flying. Flying far far away from here.
They go to some grass and Craig takes her off his shoulder.
Craig: Get up. (She tickles him and then we see where Craig’s dad hurt him) Ow.
Angela: What is that?
Craig: Well, um, remember that dinosaur? (She nods) It also likes boys named Craig. That’s where it bit me.
Angela: Does it hurt?
Craig: Yeah. You know what would be great? To go someplace where dinosaur’s can never ever get to us.
Angela: Like where?
Craig: Come on. Come on. (They get up and he grabs her hand) Come on, let’s go. (They start to run and she laughs)
Outside Emma’s
Emma is outside doing homework, when Joey shows up.
Joey: Emma. (She looks up as he gets out of the car) I closed up early today. Where’s Ang?
Emma: Um…she’s…
Joey: She inside with your mom?
Emma: No, she’s…
Joey: Emma, where is she?
Emma: She’s with Craig, ok?
Joey: You let her go off with him?
Emma: To the park. It’s only fair since his dad won’t let him.
Joey: Excuse me?
Emma: Joey, he’s her brother.
Joey: And you are just her baby-sitter. So leave the parenting decisions to me. (He gets back in his car)
The Mall
JT is waiting for Paige. While he’s waiting, we see he has a bear in his hand. Then, someone (Paige) wearing a hood on her head and sunglasses taps him on the shoulder.
JT: (As she takes her hood and sunglasses off) You are Paige, right?
Paige: I’m late.
JT: Thought maybe you stood me up or something. Here, I got you a little present. (Gives her the bear)
Paige: Can we go to the movie already? (They go in)
The movie
They are watching the movie. Paige is looking freaked out about a part of the movie. JT looks at her, then back at the screen. JT puts his hand near Paige’s, but she pushes it away. Paige starts to get up, but she sees Spinner and Hazel, who wave, so she sits down.
The Park
Joey is looking for Craig and Angela
Joey: Craig! Angie!
Craig/Angela
They are buying ice cream.
Ice Cream Man: Here you go.
Craig: Thanks. Don’t eat it too fast. (As she licks it, she sees all his money)
Angela: Is that a million dollars?
Craig: It’s a lot. But not that much. You remember British Columbia?
Angela shakes her head “No”.
Craig: It’s beautiful. The weather’s warm.
Angela: I don’t remember.
Craig: You were just a baby. You know, this isn’t a million bucks, but it is enough to get us there.
Angela: Together?
Craig: Let’s go. The bus station’s not far. Come on. (They get up and he takes her hand)
Joey: Ang! Angie!
Angela: Daddy! (Runs up to him and hugs him)
Joey: I was worried. (To Craig) I thought you guys were going to the park.
Craig: We did. But, uh, Ang got hungry.
Joey: I’ll take it from here, ok?
Angela: Craig, can Daddy come too?
Joey: Come where?
Angela: On the bus. Craig’s got a million dollars in his pocket.
Craig: It was pretend. We were just playing.
Angela: Show him the money!
Craig: No, no.
Angela: We’re moving to British Columbia!
Joey: What are you doing? You think you can just take her and go somewhere with her?
Craig: No, I- No it was just pretend.
Joey: Yeah, like that money in your pocket is pretend, right? Just stay away from Angie, ok? Like your dad said.
Craig: Joey, I can’t do that.
Joey: I mean it! (Joey and Angela leave)
Craig: Bye.
Craig’s
He’s sitting at the table when his dad comes in.
Mr. M: Hey kiddo. How come you’re home so early? Everything okay?
Craig: Yeah. I’m fine. I’m fine, I just, uh, had a long day.
Mr. M: Well, don’t worry about it. We got Chinese food and a couple of videos, take it easy tonight. How does that sound?
Craig: Sure.
Mr. M: Great. Listen, did you get the camera?
Craig: Uh…No.
Mr. M: Why not?
Craig: Well, the one I really wanted was about a $100.00 more.
Mr. M: That’s no problem. We’ll go together. Your father’s an understanding haggler. (The phone rings) Uh, how does tomorrow night sound? Dinner out? (He picks up the phone) Hello? Joey? What do you want? (Craig leaves and runs up to his room) Yeah, go ahead. I’m still here. (Craig runs in his room, shuts the door and locks it, then takes out his phone and calls Sean. As he talks, he packs some stuff)
Craig: Sean? Hey. Hey man. Um, I was wondering if you were, uh, were doing anything tonight. (For a second, it goes to Craig’s Dad coming up the stairs and knocking on his door)
Mr. M: Craig?
Craig: Okay, I’ll be right over. (He hangs up the phone)
Mr. M: Open this door now.
Craig throws his stuff out the window, then goes out the window himself.
The Mall
Paige is sitting at a table with the bear alone, when JT shows up with food.
JT: Okay. Wanna hear a joke? You got to promise not to get upset or something.
Paige: As if I’d get upset at a joke.
JT: What is a cheerleader’s favorite drink? (She looks at him as if to say, “I don’t know”) Root beer. Get it? Root Beer. Root.
Paige: I can’t believe you’d make a cheerleading joke to last year’s head cheerleader. I’ll forgive you, if you answer me this: What’s the difference between a North Park cheerleader and a bag of trash?
JT: I don’t know. What?
Paige: Trash gets taken out more often (He spits out his soda and they both laugh) Better get that.
JT: Yeah. (They keep laughing, until Spinner and Hazel show up)
Paige: Hazel, what are you doing here?
Hazel: What are you doing? It looks like you’re having fun. (Gives Paige the money) You’ve more than earned this.
Spinner: Let’s go. (Hazel nods as if to say “Come on”)
JT: You got paid to go out with me?
Paige: Sue me. (She gets up and leaves. JT watches her go. Then he picks up the bear he gave her that she left behind)
Train Tracks
Sean and Craig are walking on them and talking as they walk.
Craig: Where are your parents? You live with your brother, right?
Sean: Yeah. Yeah, they’re far away, which is, you know, good.
Craig: So you and your parents didn’t get along? They h*t you or something?
Sean: No. No, they were too drunk to do much. Total welfare cases. How about your dad?
Craig: He’s a surgeon. He fixes people.
Sean: Surgeon, huh? Is he rich?
Craig: Yeah, crazy rich. But, his job’s stressful, so um, so we fight. (They sit down) And I’ve been thinking, I’m gonna go solo. I’ve got the money. I’m thinking B.C.
Sean: Are you serious?
Craig: Yeah, deadly serious. I’m outta here. Tonight.
Sean: You’re gonna wind up on the streets.
Craig: Then, come with me. We’ll watch out for each other.
Sean: Craig, come on. Look, I can’t leave. Look, uh, before you asked me if my parents h*t me, right?
Craig: Did I? So?
Sean: I don’t know. Does your dad h*t you? (Craig doesn’t answer. Then we see a skateboard h*t the ground and Craig takes off) Man, what’s wrong with you?!
Emma’s
She’s painting her toenails when Sean shows up.
Sean: Emma!
Emma: What are you doing here?
Sean: It’s about Craig.
Emma: What? Is everything okay?
Sean: I don’t think so. (The camera goes up to Emma’s face)
Joey’s
Joey and Angela are at the table.
Joey: Okay this is an easy one. 2 and 2 is…
Angela: 4.
Joey: Yeah.
Emma: Joey! Joey! We need to talk to you. It’s about Craig. He said he’s going to B.C., but you know he’s just gonna end up on the street.
Joey: Guys, what do you want me to do? I can call his dad again…
Emma: Joey, his dad is the problem.
Sean: He beats him.
Joey: Now wait a minute. Do you know what a serious accusation that is? I can’t go around accusing the guy of that, all right?
Angela: Is something wrong with Craig?
Joey: Not now, honey, ok? This is serious.
Angela: No, I saw today.
Joey: No, I know you saw him today, ok?
Angela: No I saw, all purple. A dinosaur hurts him. He told me.
Joey: Okay. Sean, why don’t you and I start at the railroad tracks. Emma, could you please just watch her?
Emma: Of course. (They leave. Emma puts the bag on the table)
The Railroad tracks
Craig is walking. As he walks, we see homeless men watching him.
Car
Joey and Sean are driving around, trying to find Craig.
Joey’s
Emma is looking through Craig’s book of pictures of Joey and Angela.
Joey/Sean
Joey and Sean: Craig!
Joey: Where else would he have gone?
Sean: I have no idea. I’ve only known the guy since Tuesday.
Joey: All right, let’s keep looking. (They get back in the car)
Joey’s (It goes back and forth between Emma and Joey in the car)
The phone rings.
Emma: Hello?
Joey: Hey, any sign of him?
Emma: Nothing.
Joey: Okay, we’re gonna do one more sweep of the area, and if we don’t find him, we’re gonna go to the police, okay? Um, we may be late.
Emma: Hold on a sec. (She sees a picture that says, “We miss you, Mommy! It shows Craig’s mom’s grave) I think there’s one more place you should look.
The Cemetery
Craig is there, touching his mom’s grave, when Joey and Sean show up.
Joey: Craig? Craig?
Craig: What do you want?
Joey: Hey, whoa, I just wanna help okay?
Craig: I’m fine!
Joey: Yeah, right. Look at you. Just calm down and get outta here, okay?
Craig: Where am I gonna go? Where am I gonna go? Back home, so Dad can…?
Joey: What? Do what? What does he do to you? He hits you, doesn’t he? Doesn’t he?
Craig: Yeah, he does. (He starts to cry. He goes to Joey and Joey hugs him as he cries)
The Next Day - Hallway of Degrassi
Paige is walking to JT. He sees her and starts to walk away.
Paige: JT, please. Stop. I’m having some residual guilt about Friday night. That said, I really needed the money.
JT: Wow, you know what? That really makes me feel a whole lot better.
Paige: JT, you’re a good date. If you weren’t 5’1” and in a subterranean social strata, I’d maybe even consider going out again.
JT: Really?
Paige: Yes, but no. Sorry, hun. I only date up. Nothing personal.
JT: Sure, of course. But, um… you know, I would feel better if…
Paige: If what? Spit it out.
JT: Call me romantic, but I always imagined my first date ending in a kiss.
Paige: No way.
JT: Come on, Paige. You’d be making my dreams come true. (Paige makes sure no one is looking, then she kisses JT on the cheek.)
Paige: We’re so even.
JT: Oh, here. Forgot your bear (She takes the bear and shakes her head as she leaves. JT smiles)
Craig’s
Craig is in the car with Joey.
Craig: I wanna do this alone.
Joey: Okay. But do it just like we talked about. Go in, say as little as you can, get you can, go upstairs, get your things, and come out. He knows you’re coming. And he knows what has to happen. (Craig gets out of the car and goes to the door. Before he knocks, his dad opens the door. He sees Joey standing there. He steps aside and lets him in)
Craig: I’m just gonna get my stuff.
Mr. M: Craig, just leave it, leave it. Come back when we’ve cooled down. We’ll talk this thing through.
Craig: No, no more talking, ok?
Mr. M: Ok. But you’re breaking my heart, you know that, just like your mother. Just, Craig. I know I’ve been impatient, but work’s been really stressful. You can’t leave, Craig. I love you.
Craig: There are three options, Dad. I can go to Children’s Aid right now, I can go stay with Joey while we sort this stuff out, or I can come back here, and let you b*at me,
Mr. M: I don’t b*at you. (Craig goes up to his room)
Outside
Craig comes outside with his stuff. He puts his stuff to the car. Joey goes up to Craig’s Dad. Then, Joey goes to the car. It goes to the hood and the car door shutting. Then, Craig and Joey drive away. Craig looks back, watching his dad get farther and farther away.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x02 - When Doves Cry Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At the Nelson House - Emma’s Room
Emma is on her computer when her mom, Spike, comes in with popcorn.
Spike: Are you sure you don’t want popcorn?
Emma: If I eat popcorn, I’ll get greasy fingers, and greasy fingers mean a slimy keyboard.
Spike: (Moving it in front of Emma) Mmm…popcorn.
Emma: Ms. Kwan, poetry assignment.
Spike: You’ll get it done. Come on. (She shuts off the computer)
Emma: Ok…
Spike: So you know that Mr. Simpson and I have been friends for a long time.
Emma: Yeah and he’s been here all the time lately.
Spike: I know, I know, that’s sorta what this is about.
Emma: What’s that supposed to mean?
Spike: It means that we’re more than just friends, Em. We’ve been dating each other.
Emma: Mr. Simpson? He’s my teacher!
Degrassi hallway
Emma and Manny are walking and talking.
Manny: So…did you get your poetry done?
Emma: No.
Manny: It’s due today.
Emma: I know. But some stuff came up with my mom.
Manny: Serious stuff? (To a kid she bumped into) Sorry.
Emma: She wanted to talk to me about her new boyfriend.
Manny: And you didn’t call me? Who is it?
They see Mr. Simpson, with gum stuck to his shoe.
Snake: Got myself a bit of a uh sticky situation here. (They walk past him)
Emma: That’s who. Simpson. My mom is seeing Simpson.
Manny: What?
Emma: It’s no big deal, really.
Manny: Em, your mom is dating your teacher. That is huge.
Emma: I know. And I’d like you to keep it quiet, ok? I’m fine with this. And you can be too.
Video Announcement
Guy: And Liberty says get you red shoes on…
Liberty: And dance the blues, this afternoon’s eighties dance for the junior class will be held in the café, at 2:30, with Mr. Simpson presiding.
Guy: The senior dance will be at 7:00 in the gym with DJ’s Mad Dog and Billy from Kiss 92 presiding. Oh, get your freak on for the break dancing contest. First prize: ring side tickets to a leaf game. (It goes to Mr. Simpson’s class as he talks. When he’s done, the bell rings)
Spinner: (To Jimmy) Those leaf tickets belong to us. (They high five)
Snake: Hope you guys have a great time busting a move tonight.
Spinner: My break dancing CD, the ultimate.
Jimmy: Oh, my eighties outfit, even more the ultimate. As you will witness tonight.
Spinner: My hip-hop collection rules. Best old school mix ever.
Paige: Guys, like take a downer. Eighties dance, remember?
Spinner: Anyway, we’ve got all the moves. Leafs, here we… (We hear music playing and then we see Marco in the hall break dancing)
Paige: Well, um, you could always buy tickets.
Spinner: Come on, sure Marco’s good, but he can he bust moves like this? (Spinner starts break dancing badly)
Jimmy: Uh, Spinner? Not here, ok? (Jimmy and Paige walk away)
Paige: Ok, I saw better dancing at Heather Sinclair’s grade 3 sock hop. Do you want to win this contest?
Jimmy: Of course I do.
Paige: Then two words: go solo. (Paige leaves. Jimmy looks at his CD)
Media Immersion
Snake: So, for your weekend assignment, find a few examples of flash animation on the web. Don’t forget to e-mail the URL to your D mail…
Manny: I thought him and your mom were friends. What changed?
Emma: She had a thing for him back in high school. Rekindled love?
Manny: I can totally see your mom going for him. He is kind of cute.
Emma: Yeah, for an old guy.
Manny: He’s got a nice smile.
Emma: And he’s tall. That’s always good.
Manny: He’s funny. And he’s cool, in his dorky Mr. Simpson way. (The bell rings)
Snake: Hey guys, looking forward to the junior back to the future dance this afternoon? I’ll be working the turn table. (Everyone starts to leave, but he stops Emma) Emma. Um, I just wanted to, you know, check in with you.
Emma: I’m good, thanks.
Snake: Because your mom told me, you know, that you talked, and, I just don’t want things to be awkward.
Emma: I’m fine.
Snake: Emma, are you un-happy with this situation with me and your mom?
Emma: (Shakes her head) No, I think it’s great.
Snake: Really?
Emma: 100 %. Wow look at the time. I’ve gotta go. (She and Manny leave)
In the hall
Manny: What was that?
Emma: He wanted to “check in” with me. This whole thing is getting really confusing and weird and I can’t get my head around it. (Emma is not looking and almost hits Craig)
Craig: Hey Emma.
Emma: Craig. Sorry.
Craig: So, uh, you two going to the dance tonight?
Manny: Can’t. Seniors only.
Sean: Tell me about it.
Craig: Oh yeah, sorry Junior.
Sean: Thanks for rubbing it in. You know how much I love spending lame nights at home alone. (Sean leaves)
Emma: Manny and I are having a girls’ night with my mom.
Craig: Nice. Well, uh, maybe next year. (Craig leaves)
Manny: It’s so obvious Craig likes you.
Emma: You think? (Manny nods)
P.A.: Attention students. The junior dance is starting now in the cafeteria.
Hall
Spinner: You think Max will talk to us?
Jimmy: No, he’s got to focus on his game, right? Um, The Leafs focus on their own strengths, right? So, maybe we should, too. Like, say, I do the dancing, you do them music.
Spinner: You don’t want me to break?
Jimmy: No, no. Just…
Spinner: Just what? You’re jealous. You want the spotlight all to yourself.
Jimmy: Spin, you…you move like a wounded polar bear, buddy. I…I’m sorry.
Spinner: Yeah, I get it. I can’t dance ‘cause I’m white.
Jimmy: That’s not what I’m saying.
Spinner: Yes it is. Polar bear’s are white, I’m white. And you’re r*cist.
Jimmy: What are you talking…? Okay, I’m not saying you can’t dance ‘cause white. I’m saying you can’t dance ‘cause you suck.
Spinner: Fine. I’m going solo. You’re fired.
Jimmy: You can’t f*re me. I’m going solo. Enjoy the leafs game, on TV. (As he talks, Spinner leaves)
The Cafeteria - The Junior Dance
Eighties music is playing and people are dancing or talking or standing around
JT: Can’t believe this is actually considered cool.
Toby: I don’t know. I think I look pretty good.
JT: I think you look like a big retro loser.
Toby: Shut up. (He hits JT)
JT: Hey! (He hits him back)
They walk past Manny and Emma
Toby: Hey ladies.
JT: What’s up?
Toby: Wanna dance? (Holds out his hand)
Emma: This is what the junior is dance is all about. Serious immaturity.
Snake: Now here’s a hot little eighties retro number from my very own band, The Zit Remedy. (As he talks he talks with a British accent. After he talks the song plays)
Emma: Uh! I hate that stupid song.
Liberty: Wow, Em. You hate everything today.
Emma: No. Just Simpson’s taste in music.
Snake: Thought I saw you girls playing wallflower by the door.
Liberty: This girl she likes to party all the time.
Snake: Get on in. How about you guys? Come in and get down?
Emma: We’re more like gonna get lost. (Emma and Manny leave)
The Nelson’s
Spike is getting ready to go out as Emma and Manny come in. When Emma first talks, she is off screen.
Emma: Mom!
Spike: I’m in here!
Emma: Can you feel the excitement? Girls’ night is just minutes away.
Manny: We’ve got romance, suspense…
Emma: A whole range of empty calories. (Sees Spike) And a dress code?
Spike: I’m so sorry. I completely forgot. Mr. Simpson called. He lucked into last minute Elvis Costello tickets. And as you know, we both live for Elvis.
Emma: Great. Have fun.
Spike: I’m sorry. I was excited. We can reschedule, okay?
Emma: Unless, of course, another antique eighties singer rolls into town.
Spike: So how was your dance?
Emma: It sucked. Thanks to the DJ.
Spike: Wasn’t Mr. Simpson DJ-ing?
Emma: That’s sort of my point.
Spike: Well I’m sure he tried his best. Have fun tonight. I won’t be late.
After she leaves, Emma throws something.
Manny: It’s no big deal, Em.
Emma: Not to her. You know what? We deserve some excitement too. What do you say we crash the seniors dance?
Manny: Oh yes!
Emma’s room
Manny is getting ready in front of a mirror. Emma comes in the room, spraying her hair.
Manny: Wow. You look just like your mom in her high school photo.
Emma: No, I don’t. I look like Cindi Lauper.
Manny shows Emma her mom’s picture and we sees Emma does look kind of like her.
Emma: Ugh. I’m changing.
Manny: No, don’t. You look great.
Emma: You’re right. When she was my age my mom was totally cool. She didn’t date dweebs like Mr. Simpson.
Manny: She dated guys like Craig.
Emma: She wishes.
Manny: No, but you do. (Makes fun of Emma) “Oh, Craig. I love your eyes. And your hair. And your smile.”
Emma: We are so gonna have fun tonight.
Manny: We are so gonna see Craig tonight. (They start jumping on the bed)
Joey’s
Craig, dressed for the dance, hops down the stairs and sees Joey on the couch
Craig: I thought you had a date tonight.
Joey: I did. She canceled on me. Story of my life. Who are you supposed to be?
Craig: Sid Vicious.
Joey: Who?
Craig: Sid Vicious, from the Sex p*stol. You weren’t too hip back in the ‘80s, were you, Joey?
Joey: Oh, you wanna see hip? Oh I’ll show you hip. Oh yeah. (He gets up and goes to a closet) So you got a hot date for tonight? Got someone special?
Craig: Yeah, there is this one girl. But, uh, she won’t be coming tonight.
Joey: Looks like we both have bad luck tonight. (He gives Craig his hat) That’s what I’m talking about. Wouldn’t be an ‘80s dance without this. (Throws it to Craig)
Craig: This is your definition of hip?
Joey: Hip and cool. Trust me.
Craig: (Puts it on) Not so sure I want to. (Then he takes it off and looks at it)
‘80s Dance
Kids are arriving.
Manny: This is so cool. We are so cool.
They keep walking when Emma ducks.
Emma: Raditch alert! (They run over to bushes and hid)
Paige and Hazel walk up to some friends.
Paige: Hey! You didn’t even dress up. These gloves are so totally rad.
Ashley and Terri approach.
Ashley: Hi guys.
Paige: Gross me green, like totally. (She and Hazel leave, shortly after Terri and Ashley go inside)
Emma: There’s Craig.
Both: Craig!
Manny: Over here!
Craig: Hey look, valley girls. What are you doing here?
Manny: We want to crash the dance.
Craig: Cool.
Emma: But we sorta need your help.
Craig: (Looks at Raditch) Meet me at the east door, 10 minutes.
Both: Yes!
Inside
Paige and their friends are walking by Spinner, who is break dancing. He stops as they walk by.
Paige: Groddy. For sure.
Hazel: Nice moves, Spin
Spinner: Ladies, you want moves? I’ll show you moves. (He follows them. When he leaves, Jimmy turns off the stereo and switches Spinner’s CD. Jimmy walks down the hall into the dance. He is dressed like Michael Jackson. Before going in, he does a little spin move.)
East Door
Craig goes to the door and lets Emma and Manny in.
Manny: This is so exciting I could burst.
Emma: Manny, Shh!
Craig: Keep your heads down, okay? If Raditch sees us, we’re busted.
They walk and open a door. They look through another door and see Raditch.
Manny: Raditch!
He hears the door shut and goes to where they are.
Craig: Come on. (They move away from the door and go hide. Raditch opens the door but doesn’t see anything so he shuts the door and leaves)
‘80s Dance
It’s the gym. ‘80s music is playing as people dance.
Mad dog: Hey, what’s up, Degrassi? We’re Mad dog and Billy from Kiss 92.
Billy: And we’re spending all night in the ‘80s before you was even babies.
Spinner: (To Marco) You are going down, homie. I am so pumped, I can nail this. (He sees Jimmy kissing girls’ hands) Check it out.
Jimmy: So who are you supposed to be, Vanilla Ice?
Spinner: Ooh! Who are you supposed to be, Michael Jackson?
Paige: Um, yeah, Spin. He is.
Spinner: Oh. Well, how are you supposed to break in that get up? Who’s the dumb one now?
Jimmy: Uh, you are. Still. (Holds up his backpack) See, these are for break dancing. You may have the grooves, but um, (spins around) do you have the moves? (He walks away)
The camera goes to people dancing. It shows Marco break dancing.
Locker room
Jimmy goes in and puts his pack down. When he leaves, Spinner takes it.
Dance
Craig enters with Emma and Manny. They run in.
Emma: We did it. We’re in.
Manny: The seniors dance. Most fun ever.
They look over at Craig. He tips his hat to them before walking away.
Billy: All right everybody. It is time for the break dancing competition. First prize is this: a pair of primo gold seats to an upcoming Toronto Maple Leafs hockey game.
Mad dog: That’s right. First up we have Jimmy Brooks. Jimmy?
Jimmy: What did you do with my clothes?
Spinner: Clothes? What clothes?
Mad dog: Jimmy? Any day now, Jimmy.
He goes over. Everyone cheers. He gives them his CD, which they put on. When it starts to play, he goes in the middle of the room and starts to dance. When he bends down, his pants rip. Everyone laughs. For a second, he stands there and then he runs away.
Mad dog: That gives a whole new meaning to doing a moon walk. Anyway, next up we have Spinner Mason. Spinner? Bring in on, Spinner.
He goes up and gives them his CD. Music is playing, but it’s not his music. It’s some kind of ballad song with no words.
Spinner: Party people, get ready for some serious tunage. (Everyone claps) That’s not my music.
Billy: Dance….dance…dance… (Everyone chimes in with him. It goes to a close up of his face)
Dance
It first shows Ashley, sitting alone, not dancing. It goes to other people, dancing. As Emma and Manny are dancing, Craig is watching.
Mad dog: All right, it’s slow time, for all you couples out there. Here’s one of my favorites. (The song starts to play)
Emma starts walking, when Craig approaches her and Manny.
Manny: (Whispering to Emma) Craig’s coming right this way.
Emma: Hey Craig.
Craig: Emma, Manny. You, uh, you having fun?
Emma: (Nods) Yeah.
Manny: I haven’t had this much fun since, well, ever. (She laughs)
Craig: Well, great.
Manny: Great.
Craig: Yeah, so. Manny. You wanna dance?
Manny: Me?
Craig: Yeah.
Emma: Yeah. Great. You two dance. I’ll stand here.
They go on the dance floor. As they dance, Manny looks at Emma. Emma looks sad watching them, so she leaves.
Outside
Emma walks home. When she gets there, she sees Spike and Snake kissing good night on the porch. She clears her throat and they stop.
Spike: Emma. What are you doing out here? You should be in bed.
Emma: Really? So should you two. (She storms inside)
Spike: Emma!
She shuts the door and runs up to her room, crying.
Outside Degrassi
Jimmy is sitting on a bench. Spinner comes up to him and gives him his stuff.
Jimmy: I can’t believe you did that to me.
Spinner: Well, can’t believe you did that to me. (He sits down)
Marco walks by with some girls, showing off that he won the contest.
Spinner: Can’t believe Marco.
Jimmy: Yup, he got the tickets, he’s got the girls, what have we got?
Spinner: Painful and humiliating memories.
Emma’s
She is lying on her bed when her mom comes in.
Emma: Have you ever heard of knocking?
Spike: Have you ever heard of manners?
Emma: I’m not the one playing tonsil hokey on our front steps.
Spike: What Archie and I do together is none of your business. And you were supposed to be at home, not dressed up like me at some dance.
Emma: I’m not you, I’m Cindi Lauper.
Spike: I don’t care who you are. You were way out of line tonight.
Emma: Me, out of line? What about you not telling me about Simpson?
Spike: I did tell you.
Emma: Yeah, when it was too late.
Spike: Is it so wrong that I finally found someone I care about?
Emma: Yes.
Spike: Why?
Emma: Because you’ve got me.
Spike: Em, you’ll always be the most important person in my life. Just Snake and I are dating doesn’t mean things between us are gonna change.
Emma: It’s not true. Things are already changing. You and Manny.
Spike: Manny?
Emma: We both liked this guy, we both thought he liked me.
Spike: And he liked her.
Emma: I felt like such an idiot.
Spike: I’m sure she didn’t plan it, Em. Neither did I. Nice work on the ‘do.
Emma: You did this every single day?
Spike: Imagine. So are you gonna be okay with this? Simpson and me?
Emma: I’m not sure.
Spike: That’s okay.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x03 - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"} | foreverdreaming |
Degrassi
Hazel: It’s all about the tight satin shorts, if you ask me.
Jimmy: Ooh, tight satin shorts. We’re there. (He high fives Spinner)
Paige: Then pencil it in, boys. Retro roller skating party.
Ashley: Retro roller skating party? That sounds cool.
Paige: Funny how something is cool one year, and so totally uncool the next. Kinda like people.
Ashley: I get it Paige. You don’t have to invite me to your dumb party.
Paige: Oh, but I was hoping you could take drugs, act like a total freak, and destroy everything. Oh wait. You did that last year. (Paige and Hazel go inside and Spinner and Jimmy follow)
Ashley: I don’t get it. It was just one mistake. All right, one big mistake.
Terri: It’ll all blow over.
Ashley: Or it won’t. I want my friends back, Ter. And just standing by is not gonna make that happen.
Homeroom
Paige: Which do you like better, left profile or right?
Hazel: It’s not a fashion sh**t.
Paige: But it’s our photo day, and I want it to be just perfect. (She goes to sit down and she sees Ellie in the seat next to her) Elie, right?
Ellie: Uh huh.
Paige: Here’s the deal. Hazel and I, best friends. But, Hazel’s stuck on the other side of the room. You, however, are right here.
Ellie: And you want me to switch?
Paige: I knew you’d understand. (They wait for Ellie to move) Um, hon? Maybe you didn’t hear me.
Ellie: I did, loud and clear, thanks. (Paige and Hazel look at each other. Then Hazel goes to sit down. Paige sighs. Ashley comes over to talk to Paige)
Ashley: Hey Paige.
Paige: Okay, this is so not the time to talk to me.
Ashley: Just for a sec, please?
Paige: What?
Ashley: You and I have been friends since grade two. That’s like seven years, half our lives.
Paige: Is this an apology or a math lesson?
Ashley: An apology. What I called you…
Paige: I believe the word was hag.
Ashley: It was wrong. I was the real hag and I’m sorry. (Ellie listens to Ashley. Ashley goes to sit down)
Mr. Simpson: Morning folks. Photo day is coming and I’ve got the forms to prove it. (Ashley looks over at Paige, Paige looks at her too)
Hallway
Toby: (Sees an anime poster) Man, I can’t believe how many sites are devoted to anime.
JT: Not this again.
Toby: JT, anime is the biggest development in animation in years.
JT: And I really don’t care. And I think it’s for geeks.
Emma: Anime is actually very current.
Toby: See? She knows about anime. Who’s your favorite character? Ashuhara?
Emma: I said I know about it, I didn’t say I liked it.
JT: See?
Manny: Toby, girls aren’t into that stuff (Sees Craig) Hey Craig! (She and Emma go over to him)
JT: You see Toby? That’s what girls are into.
Toby: It’s sure not me. I may be the first Jewish monk. (He walks away)
Grade 9 Science Class
Ms. H: All right, so what molecule do you get when you have two atoms of hydrogen and two atoms of oxygen. (Spinner is looking at her legs) Uh, Gavin. Gavin? (He looks up at her)
Spinner: Uh, yeah. Sorry, Ms. Hatzilakos, I don’t know.
Ms. H: Hydrogen Peroxide. Or very blond hair if you’re not careful. (The bell rings) All right, remember the first twenty elements on the Periodic Table for next class.
Ashley gets up and goes over to Jimmy.
Ashley: Jimmy. (He goes to leave) Stop and listen, please? I’m really sorry for humiliating you, for being cruel, and what happened with Sean. (It shows Spinner is standing there, waiting for Jimmy) It was the drugs. It wasn’t me.
Jimmy: You make it sound like it was no big thing.
Ashley: It was. And I’ve been paying for it, Jimmy. I spent the summer in counselling. (He sits down) You okay?
Jimmy: Yeah, I just, I missed you, Ash. I missed you a lot.
Ashley: I missed you too. It hasn’t felt the same. Even my mom misses you.
Jimmy: Really?
Ashley: Toby too. His basketball game is totally hurting without your help.
Jimmy: Well maybe I could come over sometime. If Toby would want me to.
Ashley: You know what? I think he would.
Jimmy: Okay. (Ashley leaves. Spinner looks at Jimmy)
Media Immersion
Toby: Hey, Mr. Simpson, is that, uh, anime drawing CD-rom in yet?
Mr. Simpson: Uh, sorry, Tobs. I forgot you wanted it, and I lent it out to something else.
Toby: All right who’s got it?
Kendra: Me. (Toby looks at her. You can tell he likes her)
Mr. Simpson: Toby Isaacs, meet Kendra Mason, my biggest anime fanatics.
Kendra: Meet me at lunch tomorrow and I’ll hand this off. What do you say?
Toby: Great. I’ll see you at lunch then. Okay. (He starts to leave + hits the wall. Kendra laughs at him then he leaves)
Outside
Paige: Guys, this is classic Ashley. She’s sweet-talking her way through all of us.
Jimmy: Paige, come on.
Paige: Come on, what?
Jimmy: If I can forgive Ash, then so can you.
Paige: You still like her, don’t you?
Jimmy: We-we had a good talk, like old times.
Spinner: Yeah, totally like old times. Ash has been missing Jimmy, too.
Paige: Okay, am I the only sane one here?
Hazel: Or the only thr*at one.
Paige: What did you just say?
Hazel: I said, maybe you should let it go. Ash made a mistake. She apologized.
Paige: You guys might be right. But, if you’re not, Ash better watch out. (She rolls her eyes)
Cafeteria
Ashley hands Sheila money for her lunch.
Sheila: Listen, Queen Bee, this isn’t a soup kitchen I’m running here.
Ashley: I know. I’ll bring the extra dollar tomorrow, I promise.
Sean: (He sees what’s going on) Hey, I got that. (Craig watches)
Sheila: (He gives her the money) Saved by the next in shining denim. (Gives her a milk) Next.
Ashley: Thanks for that.
Sean: Don’t worry about it.
Ashley: So, how long are we going to pretend like nothing happened? Haven’t we paid for it by now?
Sean: If you say so.
Ashley: I do. Friends, okay?
Sean: Yeah. (She walks away)
Craig: (He goes over to Sean) Are you ever going to tell me what happened between you two?
Sean: Party last year. We hooked up.
Craig: And she’s ignored you ever since. Well she’s not ignoring you now. (He walks away. A bell rings)
Grade 9 English Class
Ms. Kwan: Ok. Twelfth Night. Act five. Everything all wrapped in a Shakespearean hollywood ending. (She writes on the chalkboard. As she does, Ashley walks in. Paige moves her bag so Ashley can sit down) The only thing I dislike more than lateness, Ashley Kerwin, is people trying to get away with it. See me after class.
Ashley: Sorry, Ms. Kwan. (Ms. Kwan nods and goes back to writing)
Paige: Let’s, uh, hang a bell around Kwan’s neck, ‘cause she’s a total cow. (Hazel laughs. Paige looks at Ashley. Ashley smiles.)
Ashley’s house
She’s in her room trying on clothes for photo day as Terri sits in a chair putting on make up.
Ashley: Okay what about this? (She turns around in front of the mirror)
Terri: What about this massive zit on my face the day before photo day?
Ashley: They can photo shop that out. (Ashley picks up shirts and sees which one to wear) Nope. Nope.
Terri: Someone’s in a good mood.
Ashley: Someone’s had the best day in a long time. I should have apologized months ago. It’s all about knowing what you want and then going for it. (The phone rings) Hello?
Sean: (Shows him outside his house) Hey. It’s-it’s me.
Ashley: Hey you. (Lowers her music. Mouths to Terri “It’s Sean”)
Sean: Hey, uh, listen what are you doing this weekend?
Ashley: This weekend? Um, I don’t know. Why?
Sean: I don’t know, I was thinking maybe if you wanted we could catch a movie on Friday.
Ashley: Yeah, sure, sounds great.
Sean: Really? Yeah, okay, uh, I’ll see you tomorrow at school. (He hangs up)
Ashley: (She hangs up too) Okay, Sean Cameron just asked me out. Remind me, did last year even happen? This is incredible.
Terri: I guess.
Ashley: No, it’s perfect. It couldn’t be better if I wanted it to be.
Terri: But what about Jimmy? What will he do when he hears you’re dating Sean?
Ashley: I’m not dating anyone. And I’m not Jimmy’s girlfriend. (She gets up)
Terri: I know, but maybe you should just keep a low profile for a bit.
Ashley: Ter, one day when a guy likes you, you’ll understand how this works. (Realizes what she said) I didn’t mean it like that. (It shows Terri shocked at what Ashley said)
Degrassi – Boys Washroom.
Spinner: Isaacs.
Toby: Hey Spinner.
Spinner: Kendra Mason, do you know her? She’s short, dark hair, cartoon freak.
Toby: Uh, yeah. Why?
Spinner: Well, she seems to know you. She wouldn’t stop talking about you just now, actually.
Toby: Really? Cool.
Spinner: Not cool. See, her last name is Mason, my last name is Mason. Gee, what’s the connection?
Toby: You’re brother and sister? No, but she’s-she’s…
Spinner: Adopted, moron. And only in grade seven. So go near her, I turn your glasses into contacts. (He leaves)
Hallway
Paige is at her locker with Terri who’s putting on make-up. Ashley walks by.
Paige: Hey sex kitten. Hot outfit.
Ashley: Not looking bad either, Michalcuk. (She heads upstairs. After she leaves, Terri and Paige start walking. Terri rolls her eyes at Ashley)
Paige: Um, what was that?
Terri: What was what?
Paige: That little rolling trick you did with your eyes. That’s my move.
Terri: It’s nothing. We were talking about Ashley’s date with Sean on Friday, and Ash said something mean to me.
Paige: You’re kidding. A date, Ashley and Sean?
Terri: So? They’re just going to a movie.
Paige: So? Jimmy is still totally in love with her and she made him think there was some hope. I knew this would happen.
Terri: Paige, come on.
Paige: She doesn’t care what she did, she’s playing all of us.
Terri: She’s not.
Paige: You’re right. She’s not. Not anymore. I’m gonna make sure of that. (She walks away)
Science Class
They’re doing a lab.
Ms. H: All right, so now what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna take some dry ice and we’re gonna place it in water. (As she talks, Ashley and Jimmy look and smiled at each other as Paige watches). Ok, so this experiment illustrates the sublimation process. We have frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, and basically, (She places it in the water) it gets destroyed in the water.
Paige: Gee, that uh, kinda reminds me of two other elements. This (meaning the beaker) is Ashley Kerwin. (Picks up the ice) And this is Jimmy Brooks.
Jimmy: That’s, that’s really funny, Paige.
Paige: You know what I heard? Friday night, Ashley, a date. Not you. Gee, guess who?
Ms. H: Paige, Jimmy. The experiment, please. Observe and take notes, okay? (Paige puts the ice in the water)
Hallway
Toby: I finally meet the girl of my dreams. So cute. So into the same things as I am.
JT: And so related to Sasquatch. Just forget about her. Look there she is. Come on. (She waves at Toby) Toby, let’s go. Fine, but wipe the drool off your chin.
Kendra: Hi Toby. Watch Ashuhara last night?
Toby: Yeah. I love Ashuhara.
Kendra: Me too. So lunch today?
Toby: Yeah, lunch. (Spinner sees them talking)
JT: Uh, sorry to break this up. Big foot’s heading this way. (Toby sees Spinner) Let’s go. (They run away. Kendra watches them with a confused face)
Hallway
Sean is at his locker. Jimmy comes up to him and shuts his locker.
Jimmy: Sean Cameron.
Sean: Jimmy Brooks. Thought me and you were cool, man.
Jimmy: There is no me and you.
Sean: Fine by me. (Opens his locker. Jimmy shuts it again.)
Jimmy: One warning though. You stay away from my girl. (He pokes him as he said it)
Sean: What are you talking about?
Jimmy: Ash and I are a thing again.
Sean: Really?
Jimmy: Yeah, really.
Sean: Guess I’ll have to ask her that when I take her out on Friday. (They start fighting)
Craig: Hey! Hey! (He breaks it up) Take it easy. You all right?
Sean: Yeah, I’m fine. If Jimmy knows what’s good for him. (Jimmy walks away)
Media Immersion
Ashley: Hey Jimmy.
Jimmy: Don’t talk to me, you slut.
Ashley: What did you say?
Jimmy: That’s a word for girls who cheat on their boyfriends.
Ashley: You’re not my boyfriend.
Jimmy: Yeah, well, I was last year when you went and messed around with Sean and now you want to do it all over again? (He leaves the room. Shows close up of Ashley’s face. The bell rings)
Hallway
PA: Attention would Mrs. Chitlo’s grade seven homeroom and Ms. Kwan’s grade eight please head to the gym.
The gym
A kid is getting his picture taken.
Photographer: Perfect, thanks.
Liberty: So do you think this look works? I went for sharp yet casual.
Emma: You look great, Liberty. (She goes over to Toby, who’s looking at Kendra. Kendra sees and waves, but he doesn’t wave back. He looks away. Emma makes chicken sounds)
Toby: Shut up.
Emma: I’m trying to help you, Toby. You like her, she likes you.
Toby: Her brother likes to maim and k*ll.
JT: With his teeth.
Toby: Look, Spinner almost caught me talking to Kendra earlier.
Emma: And?
Toby: And I don’t wanna die. (Kendra tries to get his attention but he looks away)
Cafeteria
Paige and Hazel are sitting at a table. Ashley goes over to them.
Paige: If you worry about blinking Hazel, you’ll blink. Just trust the camera. (She sips her soda)
Ashley: (Now wearing a Degrassi sweatshirt) Guys, I’m so glad I found you. I think maybe I made a big mistake… (She goes to sit down, but Paige moves her bag to the chair)
Paige: There’s no room at this table.
Ashley: Oh. Um, I thought…
Paige: You thought wrong. (Ashley leaves) The key is to think about someone really hot like Brad Pitt. You’ll keep your eyes open and you’ll have a genuine smile on your face. (Terri comes to the table)
Terri: What was that all about?
Paige: Nothing.
Terri: Are you sure? Ash looked upset.
Paige: Hon, it’s simple, really. Four years of high school. Will you spend them cool with all of us? Or as a big outcast loser with one of her? You decide.
Hallway
Toby is walking when he bumps into someone.
Girl: Watch it! (He falls down. He sighs as he gets his stuff)
Kendra: (She comes over and gives him the CD) Take this. I’m down with it. Where were you at lunch?
Toby: Lunch? I had some work to do.
Kendra: Really? And what about the gym earlier? You ignored me then too. I don’t get it. What did I do wrong?
Toby: It’s just that you’re in grade seven and I’m in grade eight. (He sees Spinner watching them)
Kendra: And we can’t be friends? Why not? (She sees Spinner too when she turns around) You’re afraid of my brother.
Toby: No. That’s not it.
Kendra: Look me in the eye and tell me that’s not it. (He can’t do it) Coward. (She leaves)
Ashley at her locker.
Sean comes up to her.
Sean: Hey. (She turns around) Friday night, we can see whatever you want, you know? It’s up to you.
Ashley: Okay, great. Um, but I was wondering, would you totally hate me if I postponed?
Sean: You don’t want to go out with me, do you?
Ashley: I do, but…
Sean: But you’re seeing Jimmy again, right?
Ashley: This has nothing to do with Jimmy. (He looks over and sees Paige)
Sean: Does it have to do with Paige and… Yeah, whatever. (He walks away. Ashley slides to the floor)
Ellie: That went well.
Hallway
Toby sees Kendra and Spinner. He starts to leave but decides to go talk to her.
Toby: Spinner.
Spinner: What do you want?
Toby: I want to talk to your sister.
Spinner: Isaacs, move on. Now.
Toby: (He starts to leave but doesn’t) No.
Kendra and Spinner: No?
Toby: No.
Spinner: You are aware that I can rip out your bowel + eat it for breakfast?
Toby: Yeah, I’m willing to take that risk.
Spinner: As long as you know what happens if you break her heart, we’re cool. (He leaves)
Kendra: Best me around again and I’ll rip out your bowel myself, Isaacs. Want to go for ice cream?
Gym
Ashley is ahead of Hazel and Paige. They’re whispering to each other about her.
Paige: Nice sweatshirt. (They laugh. Ashley looks at them) So sad. (Terri comes in)
Ashley: Ter, over here. (She looks at her and at Paige. Paige and Hazel wave at her. She goes over to them. Paige puts her arm around Terri and look at Ashley)
Photographer: Miss? (Ashley sits in the chair) What a long face. A girl as pretty as you should never frown.
Ashley: Just take the picture.
Photographer: Not until you smile.
Ashley: Take the picture please. (He takes the picture. It ends showing a close up of Ashley’s face, as she realizes what she’s really done to her friends.)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x04 - Karma Chameleon"} | foreverdreaming |
At Emma’s house.
Her, her mom, and Mr. Simpson are eating dinner.
Mrs. Nelson: Today was so crazy. Melissa called in sick again.
Mr. Simpson: Uh huh.
Mrs. Nelson: I forgot poor Mrs. Hursh under the dryer for an hour.
Mr. Simpson: It is the time you found a junior stylist.
Mrs. Nelson: I know. (They’re touching hands. They look at Emma, who doesn’t look happy)
Mr. Simpson: So, Em, what are your plans for the big weekend? Got any hot dates?
Emma: No, Mr. Simpson. (She breaks apart her chopsticks)
Mrs. Nelson: Emma’s been working really hard on her science fair project.
Mr. Simpson: Oh great. What’s it on again?
Emma: The effect of healthy breakfast on school performance. The better you eat, the better you perform.
Mr. Simpson: Sounds very impressive.
Emma: Thanks, Mr. Simpson. (They look at each other)
Mr. Simpson: Emma, um, Mr. Simpson is fine for school, but when we’re here, I’d like it if you called me Archie.
Emma: Would you pass the kun pow, Mr. Simpson?
Outside Degrassi
Emma is going stuff for her experiment. Manny is doing exercises. Emma blows her whistle so Manny stops.
Manny: How many?
Emma: Uh, 48. That’s 14 more than you did last week, when you were eating junk. (She sees Mr. Simpson and she groans) Everytime I turn around, there he is. At home At school.
Manny: Can you ever get too much Mr. Simpson?
Emma: Uh, yeah. He came over again for dinner last night. And guess what he asked me?
Manny: What?
Emma: If I had any hot dates this weekend.
Manny: Ew, gross.
Emma: You want grosser? He wants me to call him by his first name, Archie.
Manny: Does that make your mom Betty?
Emma: I always thought she was more of a Veronica type. (She turns a blender on)
Hallway
Jimmy is holding Ellie’s hand.
Jimmy: We would have fun on a date. Guaranteed. (Spinner is watching as he eats a banana) All I need is your phone number.
Ellie: Jimmy, your ex is my new best friend. You’re cute, but no. (She walks away)
PA: May I have your attention please? Senior students, please note that gym classes are cancelled today for junior science fair. (Jimmy stands up and goes over to Spinner)
Jimmy: Story of my life, eh? Come on, let’s go.
Spinner: I can’t, man. My bat, it’s wooden.
Jimmy: Sorry, my ears weren’t plugged this morning, sorry.
Spinner: I have a boner.
Jimmy: Oh.
Spinner: And it’s been like this all week, a girl walks by, and bam! It’s all ‘cause of Emma’s stupid science fair project.
Jimmy: What does the project have to do with it?
Spinner: She made me eat granola + fruit.
Jimmy: Banana’s don’t give you boners, hormones do.
Spinner: All I know is I ate some healthy food and now I’m like the sex Superman.
Jimmy: You’re a superfreak. Let’s go.
Spinner: Jimmy, I’m still in the red, remember?
Jimmy: I don’t know why I’m doing this. Here. (Hands him a binder)
Spinner: Binder boner shield. Nice. (Gets up with the binder there)
Grade 8 Science Class.
They’re working on their science fair projects.
Ms. H: All right, remember the fair is tomorrow at 9 sharp. Well, looks like some of you are almost finished. (She’s walking around) And looking around the room, it looks like some of you are lagging behind. Does anyone need any help?
JT: Yes please, Ms. Hatzilakos. (She goes to help him)
Manny: Em, your project is gonna be so awesome. I can’t believe how much work you did. (She puts some kind of helmet thing on Toby) You are so gonna win.
Liberty: Um, no. My project on the effects of life deprivation on household plants is so detailed, so thorough, it impresses even me. Sorry.
Manny: Don’t let her bug you.
Emma: It’s not her. It’s my project. It’s not working. Two of the kids did better eating junk food (Liberty is listening to her and smiling).
Manny: Really, who?
Emma: Spinner Mason. And guess who else? (They look at JT, who spilled some of his stuff on Ms. H)
JT: Sorry. (They’re staring at him. Toby looks too. JT looks at Toby and tells him to look at Ms. H. Toby takes off his helmet) Sorry.
Hallway
Emma goes over to JT and Toby.
JT: Whoa, what I do now?
Emma: You did better after eating junk. You faked my test and you ruined my project.
JT: Moi? Why would I do that? I only did your stupid project for the free food.
Emma: Well there’s no other explanation.
Toby: Sure there is. The health food you eat for breakfast stinks.
JT: Yeah, and it’s trying to escape. (He burps. Emma leaves. Toby burps.)
Hallway
Emma is trying to find Spinner
Spinner: I’m not eating any more granola.
Emma: You don’t have to. You already messed up my project.
Spinner: You messed up my life. Your health food un-released the beast within. (He turns around bumps into Ellie)
Ellie: Spinner, open your eyes.
Spinner: Sorry, Ellie. (He puts the binder there again. Emma looks at him) I have to go now.
Emma: Wait. I want to go over these results with you. Spinner! (He walks away. She groans and puts her books on her head and walks away)
Emma’s
Her mom and Mr. Simpson are watching TV while Emma is working on her project in the kitchen.
Mr. Simpson: You want some ice cream?
Mrs. Nelson: Yeah.
Mr. Simpson: Yeah?
Mrs. Nelson: Yeah.
Mr. Simpson: I’ll go get some.
Mrs. Nelson: Okay.
He gets up and goes in the kitchen.
Mr. Simpson: (Opens the freezer) So, how’s the project? (Gets the ice cream and closes it)
Emma: How does to look? A disaster.
Mr. Simpson: (Gets spoons) What’s the matter?
Emma: JT and Spinner are the matter. My hypothesis fell apart.
Mr. Simpson: You know Einstein said that imagination is more key than knowledge. Maybe you need to get a little creative. (Mrs. Nelson is listening and smiling) Look at things from another angle.
Emma: Gee, that’s helpful. How handy it is to have you right here in my house. (Mrs. Nelson’s smile disappears)
Mr. Simpson: Well I guess we’ll leave you to it then. Good night Emma. (He leaves the room)
Degrassi – The Science fair
JT: Mr. Raditch, I give you, the woman of the future.
Mr. R: (Picks up the project) Do I want to know what this is?
JT: It’s a replace for silicon in breast implants. 100% natural. (He picks them both up) Made of water, flour, and lard. (Puts them on his chest)
Toby: Uh, Mr. Raditch, would you like to see my project?
Mr. R: Yes, please. (He goes over to Toby)
Toby: Surveillance: Friend or Foe?
Emma + Manny
Emma: My project was gonna be so good. (Manny is eating a candy bar. She offers some to Emma) Chocolate in the morning?
Manny: I know it’s not good for me, but it tastes like happy.
Emma: Manny, what did you say?
Manny: It tastes like happy. Why?
Emma: Manny, you are brillant! (She leaves the room)
Manny: Thank you.
Media Immersion
Emma erases her title: A Virtue Of A Healthy Breakfast. She changes it to The Mind/Body Connection. She prints it + smiles as she does. She runs back to the fair.
Science Fair
Liberty: (She’s pointing at everything with a red light pen) Hour 147, notice a lack of green on the fern. Hour 148, even the cactus is beginning to dry out. Hour 140…
Mr. Simpson: Thank you Liberty. That’ll do.
Liberty: But there’s 52 more hours.
Mr. Simpson: Oh, I’m sure there are. If only we had enough time. (They go over to Emma’s)
Liberty: Two of her subjects produced irregular results. Plus she’s not even here.
Emma: (She runs in) Wait! Sorry. (Puts the new title up) Last minute burst of inspiration.
Mr. Simpson: No problem at all.
Emma: You’re judging?
Mr. Simpson: Yup. And I can’t wait to hear about your inspiration, so, go ahead.
Emma: Okay, for my project, I set out to prove that healthy food is good for you, but as scientists, we must remember the human factor. Take JT Yorke, for example. (Shows JT and his results) His results threw me, until I realized that chocolate and burritos make him happy. Better mood, better performance.
Liberty: What about Spinner Mason? How do you explain his results? (Shows Spinner)
Emma: Margin of error. It makes sense, since it is Spinner.
Mr. Simpson: That’s a very original project. (He walks away. Emma smiles)
Hallway
Spinner opens up his locker. He takes pictures of girls that are in his locker. Jimmy comes up to him.
Jimmy: Oh I love those girls.
Spinner: Yeah, me too. I really love them.
Jimmy: Still in the red zone? (Spinner nods. He takes out some food) What are you doing?
Spinner: (Shuts his locker) Fighting the health food molecules. Chemicals and preservatives are the antidote.
Jimmy: It’s not the health food molecules giving you boners, you realize that?
Spinner: How do you know?
Jimmy: Because that’s stupid.
Spinner: You’re stupid. Man, all I have to do is get back my chemical enriched metabolism and I’ll be back to my old self. (They have arrived to class)
Ms. Kwan: We’re waiting for you to begin. Could you two move any slower? (She takes Spinner’s food. They all go in)
Science Fair
They’re awarding the prizes.
Nadia: Maybe, one day, people will realize that the wolf is actually our friend. Thank you. (Everyone claps)
Ms. H: Congratulations once again, to Nadia, for winning first prize in the grade seven class. And now, for our final award, junior science fair first prize. (Liberty moves the crowd because she thinks she won)
Liberty: Hope the engraver spelt my name right. Excuse me.
Ms. H: And it goes to…Emma Nelson, for Mind/Body Connection. (Everyone claps. Liberty looks confused that she lost. Emma goes to get her prize) Congratulations.
Mr. Simpson: All right Emma! (Emma smile disappears when she hears him) Woo hoo! (He claps)
Manny: (Whispers to Liberty) You are so jealous.
Liberty: I’m not jealous. I’m appalled. Teacher’s pet wins again. (Emma smiles and holds up the trophy)
Cafeteria
Spinner: Okay. I’ve been thinking, you know, about my condition.
Jimmy: Do we have to talk about this?
Spinner: Okay, look, it’s not all bad. Inconvenient, yes, but it does have its’ upside.
Jimmy: What?
Spinner: Well, whatever’s giving me boners is turning me into a major chick magnet. (To girls walking by) Hey. And girls have been looking at me, different.
Jimmy: (Sips his soda) Different, like you’re crazy.
Spinner: (Moves his tray) Now, take this. (He means the food on the tray) Sheila let me take this stuff for free. She even complimented me on my ensemble. Hey. (He waves at Sheila. Jimmy looks at her. She waves back)
Jimmy: What’s your point?
Spinner: That the female race is a sl*ve for Spinner. So why fight it? Fruit and only fruit from now on. (He bites into an apple. He gives Jimmy an orange)
Grade 8 Media Immersion
Everyone is talking.
Mr. Simpson: (He whistles) Okay! We all had fun at the science fair, but back to business. Mother boards. Now as you can see this one has no front side bus. It’s practically an antique. Now the term bus actually comes from a similarity to a city bus that drops off and picks up riders. The same in a computer. When you turn the computer on the bus drives along and signals are dropped off or picked up to the devices attached to the line. Like the hard drive or a CD-ROM drive or any other… (As he talks Emma and Manny type messages. The first one says, “Archie Simpson loves high-tech.” The second one says, “Archie Simpson loves Emma’s Mom. When Manny sends that to Emma, the whole class gets it. ) Now what happens if the bus misses a device, can’t just walk to the next stop, right? Anyone have any ideas?
Manny: Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.
Emma: Manny!
Manny: I’m sorry. (When Toby sees it, He elbows JT)
JT: Oh Lordy.
Mr. Simpson: Emma? What’s wrong?
Emma: Don’t look at your e-mail. (Liberty gets a grin on her face. Mr. Simpson goes to his computer)
Mr. Simpson: Ms. Santos, you’ll see me immediately after class.
Hallway
Jimmy is in the hall. He sees Ellie give Spinner her number.
Spinner: Thank you. I’ll be calling you. (Ellie leaves.)
Jimmy: Ellie’s number?
Spinner: Yeah. (Jimmy takes his basketball and slams Spinner up against a locker with it) What? Okay. Okay. Jimmy, I’m a lover not a fighter (He pushes the ball away. He tries to leave, but Jimmy pushes him back). Okay. Okay. Okay. Listen, evolution class. Charles Derwin said that man has to spread his seeds to survive. So dating Ellie is just part of my human duty.
Jimmy: It’s Darwin. The guy’s name is Darwin, there’s no Derwin.
Spinner: Whatever. Oh and uh, have you ever considered changing your diet, because with a little health food, this could have been yours. (He leaves. The bell rings)
Girls Washroom
Manny: And now I have to write a 1,000 word essay on internet privacy. (Liberty comes out of a stall)
Liberty: So it’s true?
Emma: Simpson is dating my mom? Yes.
Liberty: And now everyone knows. Embarrassing. (She takes out floss) Of course, I was a victim of gossip last year, so I sympathize.
Emma: Thanks, Liberty.
Liberty: Your welcome. So let’s talk about what you’re going to do.
Emma: About what?
Liberty: There was a judging basis in your favor. Simpson’s dating your mom.
Emma: So?
Liberty: So his basis doesn’t bother you?
Manny: Don’t listen to her, Em.
Liberty: She can make up her own mind. It should bother you, because you, Emma Nelson, are a woman of conscience. One simple solution. Turn in the award. (She zips her bag and leaves)
Media Immersion
Emma goes in. Mr. Simpson is doing something to the computer before his class starts.
Emma: Mr. Simpson.
Mr. Simpson: I know what happened with Manny was unfortunate.
Emma: Yeah, but it was a mistake. We’re both sorry about it.
Mr. Simpson: Okay, fair enough. (She doesn’t leave) Anything else, Em?
Emma: So I don’t get punished, just Manny?
Mr. Simpson: She sent the e-mail.
Emma: Yeah, but I told her about you and mom.
Mr. Simpson: There’s nothing to hide, Em. What’s this all about?
Emma: Kids are talking that I won the award because of favoritism. (His class starts coming in)
Mr. Simpson: What?
Emma: Well it’s true. When guys like you date single moms, they always try to bribe the kids.
Mr. Simpson: Guys like me? We need to discuss this later.
Emma: No, we’re going to discuss this now.
Mr. Simpson: Emma, class is about to start.
Emma: I don’t care. You’re basist, just admit it, Archie! (The class starts to laugh)
Mr. Simpson: Emma, you won the award on your own merits. The runner-up, Liberty Van Zandt, made a strong effort, but the judges thought it lacked flair. Yours was exciting and original.
Emma: (Mocking him) Original, exciting. Of course that’s what you’re going to say.
Mr. Simpson: Because it’s the truth! And I’m not the only one who felt that way. Look at the judging sheets. (She takes the sheets and sighs.)
Ms. Kwan’s Grade 9 English Class
Ms. Kwan: Okay, enough time left for improve. We need two volunteers. Nominees?
Jimmy: Um, I’m going to go with Paige… (She gets up) and Spinner. (Everyone claps)
Spinner: Don’t. You know I can’t. Jimmy. (Paige pulls him up to the front)
Ms. Kwan: What’s the situation?
Jimmy: Situation? Uh, Spinner’s delivering a package, and Paige is a lonely housewife. Very lonely.
Spinner: Uh, Miss. I have a package for you.
Paige: I’ll bet you do, big boy.
Spinner: Uh, yeah. So just take it and sign, okay?
Paige: (She grabs his arm as he tries to leave) What’s the hurry, you big handsome hunk of man? Why don’t you, uh, bring that package in for a little drink?
Spinner: Uh, no. No. I can’t, because, uh, because I hate you. (He tries to leave again)
Paige: I won’t sign, unless you come in for something. (He turns around)
Ms. Kwan: Gavin, we need to see your face so we can hear you.
Spinner: Uh, Ms. Kwan, I can’t. (She turns him around. When she does everyone laughs at him, so he leaves the room)
Paige: Okay that is why no one should ever wear track pants.
Cafeteria
Spinner is sitting at a table by himself with his head down, when Jimmy sits with him.
Jimmy: Hey Spin. And how is little Spinner doing today? What are you still in the red?
Spinner: Little Spinner is hiding. And you should be too, because I’m gonna k*ll you.
Jimmy: Come on. It was funny.
Spinner: Yeah, for you. For me, it was just, brutal.
Jimmy: You can’t spend the rest of your hormonal life like this.
Spinner: Okay, it’s not my fault. It is the health food.
Jimmy: For the last time, food has nothing to do with it. Uh, Sheila. Can you come here for a second? (She goes over to them)
Sheila: What can I do for you ladies?
Jimmy: Um, question. Does food, health food, help get men in the mood?
Sheila: Well they say clams do, but I cooked them up for my hubby and all he got was gas.
Jimmy: Okay, um, say you knew this teenager and he was always in the red, would food have anything to do with it?
Sheila: Food? (She laughs) You’ve got to be kidding. At your age, it’s all about hormones.
Jimmy: (To Spinner) See?
Sheila: Ah, don’t worry Jimmy. It’s just a stage. A hormonal hiccup. It’ll pass. (She lightly hits him on the chin and leaves)
Jimmy: I, I can’t believe she thinks it’s me.
Spinner: Well, I mean, why not? Well it’s all about the hormones, right? It can happen to anyone.
That Night – Emma’s House
Mrs. Nelson: I never win anything.
Mr. Simpson: Well you must be on a streak. First me, now the centerpiece. (She laughs. He sees Emma) Hey Emma. I should probably get going.
Emma: Mr. Simpson? Can I talk to you first? (He goes to her and sits down) I was a bit of a freak today.
Mr. Simpson: You were concerned. Your mom and I put you in an uncomfortable situation.
Emma: No kidding.
Mr. Simpson: Would’ve been nice if you hadn’t done it in front of my class. You know I do care about your mother.
Emma: No, it’s not about that. It’s about me and school and everyone thinking I’m your little pet.
Mr. Simpson: I promise I will treat you exactly the way I treat everyone else.
Emma: That won’t matter. People think what they wanna think.
Mr. Simpson: I don’t know. Maybe we should transfer you out of my class.
Emma: No.
Mr. Simpson: Or your mom and I should stop dating.
Emma: I don’t want that either.
Mr. Simpson: You know, I was proud of you today. The way you saved your project at the very last second, it was very, very cool and very deserving of first place, okay?
Emma: Okay. Thanks, Snake.
Mr. Simpson: No problem, Emmers.
Emma: Archibald.
Mr. Simpson: Emmalada.
Emma: The Snakester.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x05 - Weird Science"} | foreverdreaming |
CRAIG: You can't walk away from this car, Sir.
COSTUMER: No?
CRAIG: No, full sport suspension. You pitch it around a corner, it'll stay glued.
COSTUMER: Really?
JOEY: (walks over to costumer) hello. How are we today?
COSTUMER: Good. Your assistant was singing the praises of this car. Do you mind if I…?
JOEY: Oh, yes. Please do. I'll be back with you in a second. Craig, can I talk to you? Great job partner.
CRAIG: You think so?
JOEY: Yeah, you're a natural. Listen, I want you to do me a favor. A costumer is coming to take a test drive of this car. It needs a serious clean, ASAP. (Holds out car keys). Here are the keys. Come, on, take the keys.
CRAIG: (takes keys) You mean, drive it?
JOEY: yes, yes. Just across the lot. You'll be fine. (Walks away)
(Craig excitedly gets in and starts the car)
The Jeremiah household
Craig runs down the stairs to the kitchen.
JOEY: (on the phone) Yeah, well, Bianca booked this surprise spa and relaxation weekend thing and I need you to pick up Angie. I'll be by on Sunday to pick her up. Thanks Ma. Bye. (Hangs up phone.) (To Craig) What's up?
CRAIG: Nothing. Just, uh, you're going away. So, uh, where do i go?
JOEY: I figured you'd stay here.
CRAIG: Alone?
JOEY: You're 14. You know how to cook and how to clean. You'll be fine.
CRAIG: Wait, so, I really get the run of the house for the whole weekend?
JOEY: yeah. Hey, if you want you can invite some of your buddies over, that's cool. But 3 ground rules: no drinking, no chicks, no parties, I mean it.
CRAIG: Got it. You can trust me.
JOEY: I know I can, partner
Degrassi - hallway
(Marco, Jimmy and Spinner are talking.)
JIMMY: My dad's been working on Kid Albert tickets all week. He's pulled every string he has and they're totally sold out.
SPINNER: Well, how about you Marco? You're mom works in the music biz.
MARCO: She teaches piano, Spinner.
CRAIG: (walking up to the guys) Who died?
MARCO: oh, Kid Albert's sold out. It's so unfair.
CRAIG: So? Joey's gone for the whole weekend and I got the pad all to myself and you guys are all invited.
JIMMY & SPINNER: Yes.
MARCO: So, who else is on the guest list?
CRAIG: Uh, you three plus Sean.
JIMMY: Oh, you invited him? I'll take a pass.
CRAIG: Well, I can't un-invite him now.
JIMMY: No, it's cool. Well, just do this some other time, right.
SPINNER: Dude. (Jimmy walks away) Fine, your loss cuz we are gonna party.
CRAIG: No parties, Spin.
SPINNER: Girls.
CRAIG: No girls.
SPINNER: Booze.
CRAIG: No booze.
SPINNER: Donuts?
CRAIG: That we could do.
SPINNER: I'm there.
CRAIG: Sweet. This weekend is gonna be awesome.
Ashley and Ellie's lockers
ASHLEY: Did you know there's no word in the English language that rhymes with "orange?"
ELLIE: Did you know it's Friday? The weekend?
ASHLEY: Sure do. I thought we'd go see that new movie "Strange Evil." (Ellie gives Ashley a look) The reviewer said it looked edgy.
ELLIE: Lame. Besides, I'm getting my cartilage pierced. (Shirt goes up a bit and Ashley notices her belly button is pierced.)
ASHLEY: Hey, Ellie. Do you think I should get me belly button pierced? I've wanted to for a while.
ELLIE: Come with me after school.
ASHLEY: After school? He'd be able to squeeze me in on such short notice?
ELLIE: Let's fine out.
Ms. Kwan's classroom
MS. KWAN: As you should all know by now, a simile is a comparison using "like" or "as." While a metaphor is a figure of speech, in which things are compared by stating the one thing is another. (Craig is bored and is looking at the clock) Both similes and metaphors are used in poetry, and we'll be look at that today. (Reading) The day is done and the darkness falls on the wings of night. (Craig still looks at the clock, which appears to be moving very slowly. The bell rings and we the guys running outside school and walking to Craig's house.)
SPINNER: Weekend, here I come.
SEAN: Woo!
SPINNER: Ok, next time the Kid's in town, we gotta get tickets months early.
MARCO: Hey, Nr. Jeremiah.
JOEY: What's this? I go away for the weekend and you invite the whole school? Got ya! (Laughs) You should have seen the looks on your faces. Come here. (Opens trunk of car) Weekend supplies, gentlemen.
CRAIG: Oh, yeah.
JOEY: We got the four major food groups We got chips, chips, chips, and kraft dinner. (Closes trunk of car and woman we assume is Bianca comes out of the house. The two of the get in the car.) Have a good weekend boys.
SPINNER: Wow.
SEAN: You know his weekend's gonna be great.
SPINNER: He's one lucky guy.
(Joey drives away)
GUYS: Yeah!
Outside a piercing parlor
(Ellie opens the door to go inside, but Ashley hesitates.)
ELLIE: I know it looks a little nasty. I keep telling Attila that we should…
ASHLEY: Attila?
ELLIE: It's a family name. Come on.
(Attila starts to pierce Ellie's ear as Ashley looks around)
ASHLEY: So, uh, Attila. Is that the same kind of needle you'll be using to pierce my belly button?
ATTILA: Oh, no. I'll be using a much larger one. Like this. (Hands Ashley a big needle in a package. Ashley looks it over, seeming nervous)
ASHLEY: Oh, wow.
ATTILA: (to Ellie) All done cuz. (Ellie gets up to look at her ear) So what's the word Ashley? Still interested? Because I've got an opening tomorrow at 10.
ASHLEY: (looks to Ellie who nods) Ok, sign me up.
ATTILA: Great Now just get your mother to sign this permission slip first. (Hands her the slip)
ASHLEY: (reading off paper) Parlor assumes no responsibility in case of infection?
ATTILA: It is an invasive procedure. But don't worry. Everything sterilized.
ASHLEY: My mom will not sign this.
ELLIE: How do you know?
ASHLEY: Just because she's my mom. She won't. Sorry.
Craig's living room
(The guys are looking bored. Sean and Marco are playing cards)
SEAN: Fish.
MARCO: You really don't have a queen?
SEAN: Fish.
SPINNER: Hark, a soldier approaches. (Burps) Encore Maestro. (Burps)
CRAIG: Guys, this is so boring.
SPINNER: Yeah, let's call Jimmy.
SEAN: What, do you miss your girlfriend?
SPINNER: Shut up.
SEAN: No, you shut up.
SPINNER: No, you shut up.
SEAN: shut up.
SPINNER: Shut up.
CRAIG: Both of you, shut up. We have a house to ourselves and we're wasting it.
SPINNER: I got it. You guys wanna live life on the edge? Come with me. (Everybody gets out and follows Spinner out of the house)
Outside a store
(Spinner comes out with a bag)
SPINNER: Ok, guys. Alright, alright. (Takes something out of bag)
CRAIG: Spray cheese?
SPINNER: We did it at camp. It's a race.
MARCO: Do you get crackers?
SPINNER: No, loser. You do it like this. (Starts spraying cheese into his mouth.)
SEAN: Oh, come on, man. (Sean, Marco and Craig start to walk away)
SPINNER: What? Guys, what?
Ashley's kitchen
ASHLEY: I was thinking about getting my belly button pierced. (Hands mom the permission slip.) (To Ellie) See, told ya.
ASHLEY'S MOM: Told Ellie what? I just reacted.
ASHLEY: You made a total face.
ASHLEY'S MOM: Do you want my permission or not Ashley? (Ashley nods her head) Now, you just have to clean it scrupulously For weeks.
ELLIE: But it's worth it. (Lifts up shirt to show her ring)
ASHLEY'S MOM: If only I were ten years younger. (Signs slip and gives it to Ashley.)
Craig's living room
(Spinner is still spraying cheese into his mouth)
EVERYONE BUT SPINNER: (unenthusiastically) Spinner, spinner…
(Can runs out of cheese)
SPINNER: Yeah, king of the world. Who's next? I dare you guys. (They all talk at once making excuses) Oh, come on. You guys suck.
MARCO: Wait, I have a dare. (Gets telephone and starts dialing)
SPINNER: uh, oh. Bathroom break. (Runs off)
(Marco hands phone to Sean.)
SEAN: What, this is your dare? A prank phone call?
MARCO: What, scared of talking to a stranger?
SEAN: (Into phone) Hello, this is the power company.
EMMA: (on the other line) So this is what you do for fun, Sean. Prank your ex-girlfriend.
SEAN: (hangs up phone) You're d*ad phone boy. You're d*ad. (Chases Marco around the kitchen)
Craig's front porch
(A radio is on)
CRAIG: Yeah, this is the life. You know what? I like you guys.
SEAN: What, are you gonna kiss us now?
MARCO: Shut up Sean.
CRAIG: No, I mean, with my dad, he's never let me have you all over like this.
SEAN: Yeah, well, I bet it's a lot different over here, I suppose, eh?
CRAIG: Totally. With Joey, it's like I can do no wrong. I get total 100 percent freedom. I mean, he even let me drive.
SPINNER: Um, you, you drove?
CRAIG: No big thing. Just some clunker at the car lot. Man, it was a huge thing. It was the coolest thing I've ever done.
SEAN: Sweet. Windows down, tunes pumpin'. I'd give anything for that.
CRAIG: Well, it was just across the lot.
SPINNER: And I bet you know where Joey hides the keys to his dealership.
SEAN: yeah, let's take it out for a test drive. You know, just around the block.
MARCO: On the road? No, we'd so get caught.
CRAIG: Well, what about tomorrow?
Craig’s kitchen the next morning
(Craig grabs the keys and the other guys get up.)
SPINNER: Hey, still going on that ride today?
CRAIG: Sure, but, uh, maybe later.
SPINNER: Later?
SEAN: Man, you're not chickening out on us, are you?
(Craig twirls to keys in is hand and smiles)
Jeremiah Motors
(The Guys go into Joey's office)
CRAIG: Right, here. Keys to the kingdom.
(the phone rings and Marco screams, prompting everyone else to scream too)
SPINNER: Shh, man, you gave me a heart att*ck.
CRAIG: (walks over to phone) What do I do?
SPINNER: Answer it.
SEAN: No, you idiot. We're not supposed to be here. Let's go.
(They leave and go to the car Craig drove in the beginning of the episode)
SPINNER: Why are we taking this anything?
CRAIG: Cuz I've driven it before, I know how to drive it.
MARCO: Guys, maybe this isn't the greatest idea.
SEAN: Come on. We'll just take it around the block a couple times.
CRAIG: (everyone gets in the car) Gentlemen, let's roll. (Starts to drive and the car stalls)
SPINNER: Uh, short ride, dude.
(Craig restarts the car and drives off the lot)
Outside Ashley’s house
ASHLEY'S MOM: Hey girls. Off to your piercing?
ELLIE: Yeah, wanna come? You could get one too.
ASHLEY'S MOM: Oh, no thanks. None for me please. I'm not as brave as you two. (She’s trimming a bush and Ashley eyes the shears nervously)
Guys driving the car slowly
SPINNER: (sarcastically) Whoa, slow down there. It's getting scary.
CRAIG: Keep talking Spinner. Your idea of fun is spray cheese. (Laughs)
RADIO: So, how do you get to the sold out Kid Albert show tonight?
SPINNER: Guys, guys. Shh.
RADIO: Just come down to Melview park and find me in the mix mobile. Answer a skill testing question, and you and three friends are going to kid Albert tonight.
MARCO: Pull over. Melview's only 10 minutes away if we run fast.
SPINNER: who's running? We're driving?
SEAN: In 10 minutes that park will be full of people.
MARCO: I thought we were only gonna take the car around the black and that's it.
SPINNER: That was before the contest. I say we take the car.
SEAN: I'm down with that
MARCO: Guys, no.
SPINNER: Ok, two for, one against. Deciding vote goes to Craig. What do you say?
(Craig smiles and steps on the gas)
Ashley and Ellie inside the parlor
(Ashley is laying down, shirt up, exposing her navel.)
ATTILA: (point to navel) I'm going to pierce here and feed it through till it comes out there. Here's the clamp I'll use to hold the skin while I do the piercing, ok? This is an antiseptic gel. It's gonna feel a little cool. (Puts gel on her belly button. Ashley and Ellie hold hands in anticipation of the piercing) Now I'm marking the point of entry. (Makes mark of her with a marker, then clamps her skin) Ashley, you're gonna feel a bit of pressure now. (Gets needle and is prepared to pierce, but Ashley pushes his hand away and sits up)
ASHLEY: I'm sorry, I can't. I don't care how cool it'll look. That thing is not piercing my body.
The park
(Radio personality is talking to a contestant in the contest)
RADIO PERSONALITY: Now here's the skill testing question. Name Kid Albert's wife. (The guys pull up and get out of the car) You have no clue, do you? (Contestant shakes his head as Guys run up to them) That's ok. (Shakes contestant's hand and he walks away.)
CRAIG: We're here for the contest.
RADIO PERSONALITY: Ok, catch your breath champ. Tell us your name first.
CRAIG: My name's Craig.
RADIO PERSONALITY: Ok, Craig. Now, tell me the name of Kid Albert's wife.
CRAIG: That's a trick question. Cuz Kid Albert's divorced.
RADIO PERSONALITY: You know what? You can give my best to the Kid tonight cuz you just won four tickets to his show. (Guys yell and grab the tickets) Have fun. (Guys run back to the car and drive off)
MARCO: Man, I can't believe we're going tonight.
SEAN: We have tickets to the Kid.
MARCO: Yeah!
(Farting)
CRAIG: Spinner! Not in the car, man.
SPINNER: Sorry, excitement makes me fart.
MARCO: Oh, you're sick. That's disgusting.
SPINNER: It's the spray cheese. I shouldn't have had that third can.
(Car stops at a red light. A police car pulls up next to them. A cop is talking on his radio)
SEAN: Just keep it cool, alright?
COP: (on radio) Roger. (Car lights turn on. Guys are worried. Car drives away.)
MARCO: So, lucky. So luck, so let's go back, ok?
CRAIG: OK. (Drives back to lot and guys get out of car)
MARCO: Guys that was amazing!
SPINNER: That was the best day ever.
SEAN: Go for a joyride, win Kid Albert tickets.
MARCO: Pull up right next to the cops. That part was so cool.
SPINNER: Now you say it's cool. Before you were crying like a little baby.
MARCO: I was crying cuz of your cheese farts. It was so gross.
JOEY: (come out of his office) What were you thinking?! Do the words "silent alarm" mean anything to you?! You, you, and you. Gone. Now! (Sean, Spinner and Marco leave)
Ashley and Ellie walking on the street
ELLIE: Are you gonna talk… ever?
ASHLEY: I don't know what to say.
ELLIE: Why? What's the big deal?
ASHLEY: I acted like an idiot and I totally embarrassed myself.
ELLIE: Yeah, you did… kidding. So what happened?
ASHLEY: I'm just scared on needles. I can't explain it.
ELLIE: So why would you try a piercing?
ASHLEY: I dunno, I just… thought it would look cool. And I thought I’d gain some points with you.
ELLIE: Points?
ASHLEY: You know what I mean.
ELLIE: I don't. Ash, you're my friend. You don't need a piercing to impress me. (They smile and continue walking)
Craig sitting on the couch in his living room
(He stands up)
JOEY: Sit.
CRAIG: You're not my dad.
JOEY: Sit. (Craig sits again and Joey sits across from him) What you did was serious. Yor drove a car without a license. You could've k*lled somebody.
CRAIG: I know.
JOEY: I don't think you do. If you were some punk of the street I would have had you arrested and pressed charges. (Craig nods his head) I trusted you.
CRAIG: It was stupid. It was so stupid. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
JOEY: You're ground. Three weeks.
CRAIG: Three weeks?
JOEY: And one more thing. (Takes the tickets out of Craig's shirt pocket and rips them)
CRAIG: Wait, you can't. What am I supposed to tell my friends?
JOEY: You should have thought of that before you took the car. (Walks away)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x06 - Drive"} | foreverdreaming |
(Music plays, Spinner is running down the soccer field and kicks the ball into the net, referee blows a whistle and you hear screams and clapping. Score: 3 to 2. Paige is mesmerized by a member of the rival team, background noise fades and you hear Paige’s breathing echoed.)
Spirit Squad: 5,6,7,8, What do you know? We kicked their butts, and we’re proud to show! Woo!
Spinner: Good game.
Hazel: Can you believe Spinner scored the winning goal!? Paige? Paige?
Dean jogs past Hazel & Paige to the bus.
Hazel: It ain’t never g*n happen.
Paige: Ain’t never? That’s a double negative. You are a double negative, and you’re raining on my love parade.
Spinner: (running up to the girls and then walking with them) Hey
Paige: Spinner hey.
Hazel: You were totally amazing out there. See, double positive.
Spinner: So you saw me win the game?
Paige: (watching Dean get on the bus) Um hmm, you were… great.
Spinner: (Dean looks over at Paige) So Saturday, do you wanna hang out with Degrassi’s new MVP? (Walking backwards) Maybe a… movie?
Paige: (stopping & finally looking away from Dean) Saturday? Right, um, I was g*n work on my M.I. project.
Spinner: Oh, uh couldn’t you do that Sunday?
Paige: Um… sure. But Spinner, nothing gory ok? No cops, no aliens, no psychos with masks.
Spinner: Ok, I promise. Chick flick, all the way. (He runs to the dressing room)
Hazel: He’s so in love with you.
Paige: What are you talking about? We’ve done stuff together before.
Hazel: Not like this. Spinner. Chick Flick.
Paige: So what? Anyway I’m looking to date up this year remember?
Hazel: I don’t care what you say, Spinner’s got a crush.
Paige: Spinner and I are JUST friends.
In the locker room
Jimmy: I knew you were more than friends.
Spinner: (Jumping on the bench) I am a winner on the field and with the ladies! I couldn’t have picked a better day to ask her out.
Jimmy: Paige is the coolest girl in grade 9, you are aware of that?
Spinner: Of course.
Jimmy: You’re the man these days. But- the stakes are still high. Plans?
Spinner: I’m going with the movie option. Classic, but casual.
Jimmy: That’s not bad… but you’ve got to rent. Ok? Empty rec room, comfortable couch… (Jimmy makes hand motions and Spinner nods & says “Ah…”) You gotta lead the horse to water my friend. You can’t make her drink, but you can make her thirsty.
The whole team starts spraying their water on Spinner, Scene changed to Hazel & Paige outside by the buses. Dean is walking on the bus behind another team mate.
Paige: He’s handsome, he’s mature-
Hazel: And he’s totally leaving. Paige you’re life is calling.
Paige: And I am definitely going to answer.
Paige walks over to the bus and knocks on the window at Dean’s seat.
Paige: I uh, just wanted to say hi. (She puts her arm out to shake hands with Dean) Paige Michalchuk.
Dean: (Shaking her hand) Let me guess. Cheerleader.
Paige: Head cheerleader. But, uh, we call it spirit squad.
Dean: (Shaking her hand again) Hey spirit, I’m Dean.
Paige: I know. (She looks around wondering why she said that) I mean uh, you’re the competition. Know your enemy and all that right?
Dean: You guys wanna come to a party tomorrow night? Help us… I don’t know, celebrate defeat? (The bus starts to pull out while Dean hangs out the window)
Paige: I don’t know. Where?
Dean: 122 East Pate. Anytime after 7.
The bus turns the corner and Hazel & Paige let out a girly scream.
Paige: He’ll be so sweet to let me know where. (Not sure what Paige says)
Scene changes to inside of Degrassi.
Toby opens his & Jt’s locker and massive amounts of trash falls out.
Toby: Jt!
JT: (Taking off his mascot head) You called? Whoa buddy, deodorant is your friend.
Toby: (Holding up a green molded bag) It’s your lunch. From last week!
JT: (Throwing it away) Hmm, from solid to liquid in seven days. Fascinating. Oh my clown wig! (He puts it on) The possibilities! (Toby starts choking him) AH! Humane society!
Toby: We’re not animals we’re humans beings and this is discusting!
JT: It’s a man cave.
Toby: It’s… it’s a toxic dump! I can’t believe I volunteered to be your locker mate.
JT: Hey, share a locker, do something for Degrassi, Raditch our friend.
Toby: If you want us to stay friends, you’ll clean this up.
Scene changes to Paige & Hazel who are window shopping. There is a pair of shoes in the display of a store with stiletto heels.
Hazel: They’re like 6 feet off the ground. Forget it. Trust me, we’re good.
Hazel starts pulling a pouting Paige away from the window when Paige’s cell phone rings & she takes it out of her purse.
Paige: It’s Spinner.
Hazel: You did cancel for tonight right? (Paige shakes her head) You have to cancel.
Paige: (While texting) Spinner, sorry to bail. Gramma in hospital. Xox –
Paige. (She hits send and throws the phone back in her purse) There, we’re good. Look, I know what I want, and I want those shoes!
Camera zooms in on the shoes and then the scene changes to Spinner & Jimmy in the movie store.
Spinner: Ok, we’ve got “Tender Emotions”, “Love & Stardust”, “Breakfast in the Sun”…
Jimmy: Dude, it’s a date, not a marathon.
Spinner: Ok, I just need some choices. Ooo oh oh! Food! Glorious food! Doritoes- (his phone rings) Oh, um, cheetoes and pretzels. Hey, it’s from Paige! (He starts to read the message)
Jimmy: (Mockingly) Dear Spinner God, ever since you scored the winning goal I-
Spinner: Dude, it’s not funny. Her grandmother’s in the hospital. She’s canceling.
Jimmy: Don’t worry about it partner. I’ve got an alternative. You trust me, ok?
Jimmy starts putting the food back while Spinner looks hurt. Scene changes to show Paige and Hazel arriving at the party dressed up. The girls reach the door, and Paige rings the doorbell. Paige breathes deep and looks around.
Hazel: Paige, you look great. Relax.
Dean opens the door as Paige turns back around
Paige: Hi Dean.
Dean: Spirit. Friend… Come on in.
Inside of the house
Dean: So you decided to show up after all.
Paige: Yea well after your tragic loss, I figured you could use all the cheerin’ up you could get.
Dean: Really, and uh- Edwardo where you been man?! (Dean walks away)
Hazel: We are totally overdressed.
Paige: We DO stand out, but that’s good. All we need is the attitude to back it up. Watch this.
Paige walks over to where Dean and a few of his friends are talking.
Girl: He’s intense. That electro-slash stuff he does with Lucky.
Dean: And W is always complete genius.
Paige: Oh, yea, he’s great. I pretty well love all electro-slash.
Everybody gets silent and lets out awkward glances.
Paige: Dean, are you a big techno fan? I’d love to know what you think.
Dean: Sure, but how about a drink first?
Paige: Please, I am completely parched. (Dean leaves)
Girl: Hey, you might just wanna chill, ok.
Paige: Excuse me?
Girl: Just, he’s a little old for you.
Paige: And you’re a little jealous.
The girl leaves as Dean comes back and hands Paige a drink
Dean: Hey Spirit, everything cool?
Paige: Perfect.
Paige takes a sip of the drink and coughs a bit realizing that its alchohol. She smiles and continues drinking. Scene changes to Jt’s kitchen where Jt has many items in a large mixing bowl.
Jt: It’s all about the right combination of tastes. I’ve yet to discover the
perfect match.
Toby: Marshmallows? In KB?
Jt: Just living life on the edge. So I’ve been processing what you said yesterday and I’ve decided to do my very best to respect your needs when it comes to our locker. Cheese flavoured corn snack? No? …And while some would say that clean freaks like yourself are totally annoying, you’re my friend and I plan to keep it that way. Now… mmmm… want some?
Scene changes back to the party – now outside. Paige is sitting on the porch railing and Dean is leaning against the wall, drink still in his hand. Hazel is standing a few feet away.
Dean: The whole squad was great, but you totally stood out.
Paige: I did? What are you looking at?
Dean: Your eyes. Are they green or blue?
Paige: It depends on the light.
Dean: Most amazing coloured eyes I’ve ever seen. They’re very beautiful.
Paige smiles and blushes a bit. Hazel sees Spinner and Jimmy at the end of the drive way and taps Paige on the arm. She turns and answers angrily.
Paige: Yes?
Hazel: (She points over to Jimmy & Spinner) Let’s just go ok?
Paige: No way, I’m THIS close! Dean, um… it’s so loud out here, do you think we could go someplace a little more private. (Dean puts down his drink and leads her inside) After you.
Inside of the house, Dean is guiding Paige from behind her, hugging her waist
Dean: (Whispering in Paige’s ear) You are so cute. I think my friend’s room should be quiet.
Paige nods in agreement and Dean takes her hand and leads her up the stairs. When they get to the room, Paige turns on the lights, but Dean immediately turns them off.
Dean: I kinda like it dark.
Paige: (Giggling) But I can’t see anything. Ow.
Dean: There’s the bed, there’s the door, and here’s the party.
Paige and Dean stop in front of the window.
Paige: Why are we whispering?
Dean: Cause my friends are Neanderthals, so we don’t want them to hear us. Right? Ok?
Paige: Ok.
They kiss for a few moments.
Dean: You are so adorable.
Paige: I am?
Dean: Yeah. Come here.
Dean lightly tosses her down on the bed.
Dean: Is this ok?
Paige: (wiggling a bit) No… yea. (Dean starts to kiss her again, now down her neck) Just take it slow ok? (He starts to get rough and lower on her chest) Dean, I said slow!
Dean sits up and pulls a condom out of his pocket
Paige: What are you doing? I don’t think so!
Dean shakes his head at her and pushes her back down on the bed with one arm, Music starts to play.
Paige: Dean! I said no! (The camera moves to the window, Paige sounds like she is about to cry) Stop. Please.
The following Monday at school. Paige is sitting alone on the bleachers before school starts. She is hearing the conversation her and Dean had right before he r*ped her. The bell rings and she starts walking toward the school. Paige is now at her locker when Hazel comes up and pokes Paige’s stomach surprising her.
Paige: (letting out a gasp) Hazel! Give me a heart att*ck why don’t you?
Hazel: It was a joke. What’s wrong with you?
Paige: Nothing.
Terri runs up excited
Terri: Ok, what’s the big news?! Does it have to do with…? DEAN!?
Paige: Maybe…
Hazel: Please, they went up stairs.
Terri: Upstairs? Like alone?
Hazel: Uh, what do you think Terr?
Terri: So you did?
Paige: (Smiling) Yea, we did.
Jimmy turns around from his locker having heard the whole conversation. The next scene is the 9th graders in M.I.
Mr. Simpson: Ok, the vannen-nal project. Now please tell me you remember me assigning this last week. Today we’re g*n look at first drafts, text only.
Mr. Simpson walks by Paige’s desk and sees that she has nothing on her screen.
Mr. Simpson: That’s a pretty distinct desk save Paige. Text. Sometimes involves the odd word.
Paige: I worked all weekend… but since I’m such a dork, I forgot to e-mail it to my school account. (Mr. Simpson seems to not believe her) It was so fascinating. Did you know pharaoh princesses made lipstick out of iron oxide?
Mr. Simpson: Hmm, sounds toxic.
Paige: Lead eye liner, hello.
Mr. Simpson: No wonder they’re all d*ad. Tomorrow ok? (Paige nods her head and Mr. S walks away)
Hazel: (Whispering) Someone’s in love.
Paige: Please, I’m not in love. Or… Dean’s not. He hasn’t called.
Hazel: So, he will.
Paige: He would have by now.
Hazel: Girl, give him time.
Paige: Hazel, you don’t understand. He didn’t just kiss me, we…
Hazel: (Shocked; still whispering) What! Paige? You didn’t? You did! You did it with Dean!
Hazel has a look of pure amazement on her face while Paige nods and semi-smiles.
Mr. Simpson: Paige! Hazel! Your assignments.
Paige starts typing at her keyboard and Hazel sits for a moment, still shocked. The scene changes to Toby at his & Jt’s locker as Jt is walking up. Toby is cutting a piece of caution type tape that he put in the now clean locker.
Jt: What are you doing?
Toby: Oh well, you snooze, you loose. What does THIS say to you?
Jt: Severe mental illness.
Toby: It says boundaries Jt. Boundaries.
Jt: Why do you get to decide what MY boundaries are?
Toby: Because you have none! (While pointing) My side, your side. From now on, you will follow my rules. It’s my way or the highway.
Toby takes a folder out from his half of the locker causing the sleeve of his sweatshirt to fall over to Jt’s side. Jt looks at it and then takes a pair of scissors from Toby’s “utensils” organizer.
Jt: (While cutting the sleeve, imitating Toby) My way, or the highway.
Jt kicks the piece of the sleeve into the nearby trash can. Scene changes to Spinner & Jimmy who are walking from inside of the school to the picnic table out front.
Spinner: Ok, so I was thinking Star Wars at the cinnesphere. Ok, Paige is g*n freak. (They sit down and Jimmy has a worried look on his face) What? Star wars is lame?
Jimmy: No, it’s just… I’d cool it on the Paige f*re. She’s busy man, I mean she’s got media immersion, she’s got the spirit squad-
Spinner: What are you saying?
Jimmy: Nothing, forget. I just heard… stuff. (Spinner motions for Jimmy to go on) She hooked up.
Spinner: What are you talking about?
Jimmy: That party we went to. She was there.
Spinner: No, no, no. Her gramma, her gramma was sick. I got—I got the… I- I didn’t see her there.
Jimmy: Yea, um that’s cause she was upstairs. With Dean. From- from Bardell.
Spinner looks away hurt while Jimmy pats him on the shoulder nudging him a bit. The scene changed to Mrs. Kwan’s class. Paige and Hazel are talking, Spinner is sitting in the row behind them listening.
Mrs. Kwan: Please take out your novels. As you read quietly, I’ll take a look at your journals.
Hazel: (Whispering) How can you even concentrate? This is VERY big news you know.
Paige: It’s not news, ok.
Hazel: Well, how’d you know it was right?
Paige: It’s not like I planned it.
Mrs. Kwan: Ladies.
Hazel: Was it totally romantic?
Paige: Can we talk about this later? Please. I’m trying to read.
Hazel: Come on Paige, give me something. I’m dying here!
Paige: I’ll switch seats if you don’t SHUT UP. Ok?
Paige continues to read, Hazel has a surprised look on her face and then she starts reading too. The camera shows Spinner who is upset because he thinks that Jimmy told him the truth. Scene changes to Paige walking alone in the hallway looking down at the ground. She walks past Spinner without seeing him and he turns around.
Spinner: Paige!
Paige: (Turning to see Spinner) Oh, hey Spin.
Spinner: How’s your gramma?
Paige: (Turning once more) What?
Spinner: You know your grammar. The one that was sick on Saturday night.
Paige: Oh, she’s ok thanks.
Spinner: Yea, and Dean? How’s he doing? (Paige stops and turns around) I know what happened, ok.
Paige: (Getting upset) Yea, were you in the room with me? Cause I don’t think you were!
She turns to leave but Spinner grabs her elbow
Spinner: You lied to me.
Paige: Don’t touch me! Don’t you EVER touch me!
Spinner: (Yelling) Why not? Everybody else does!
Paige slaps Spinner and turns straight into the girl’s washroom on her right while Spinner looks around shocked. Scene changes to Jt & Toby’s locker; Toby opens it and looks around for his sweater sleeve.
Toby: (Realizing) Jt!
Jt: (Sitting nearby) What?
Toby: You ruined my sweatshirt!
Jt: It was in MY space! YOU threw my stuff on the floor!
Toby: It was discusting!
Jt: It wasn’t your property! (Jt & Toby start fighting; Mr. Raditch walks up)
Mr. Raditch: Uh boys, what seems to be the problem here?
In the girls washroom, Paige is crouching in one of the stalls crying when Hazel comes in
Hazel: Paige? Paige? I just saw Spinner. He was completely out of line. Paige: It wasn’t what I thought, you know. First time… kinda hoped it’d be beautiful or something. I’m so stupid.
Hazel: You’re not stupid.
Paige: (Coming out of the stall) Those shoe’s! I wanted it to work! I wanted him to wanna be with me.
Hazel: He did.
Paige: Yea, sure.
Hazel: He’ll call you. You don’t have to get so upset.
Paige: (Almost crying again) I didn’t even want to do it Hazel! I said no over and over again!
Hazel: (Worried) You said no? (Paige nods and lets out a few tears) And he didn’t listen?
Paige: (Crying again) He just pushed me down! Harder. He didn’t stop! He wouldn’t stop!
Hazel: Paige… hunny. (She puts her hand on Paige’s shoulder but Paige shrugs it off) If you said no… that’s r*pe.
Paige: No! (She cries even harder now repeating no a couple of times)
Scene changes to Jt & Toby sitting on a bench in the hallway with Mr. Raditch standing in front of them.
Mr. Raditch: Now boys, I want you to know that I appreciate what you’re doing for Degrassi by volunteering to share, but you two are stuck together. So I want you to remember the 3 c’s. What are they again?
Jt & Toby: (Bored & unenthusiastic) Cohabitation requires coordinated cooperation.
Mr. Raditch: Excellent, very good. So, get along. End of story. (He leaves)
Jt: My parent’s are g*n k*ll me for doing this, but…
He tucks his arm into his shirt and offers his sleeve to Toby who in return cuts it. The shake hands and then the scene changes to Paige and Hazel outside of the school. Paige is far ahead of Hazel who is trying to catch up.
Hazel: Paige! Hey wait up! Paige! Whatever happened to going to the doctor after school?
Paige: (Angry) Why would I?
Hazel: I don’t know, to check on STD’s, pregnancy.
Paige: He wore a condom. Safe sex, all the way. I’m fine.
Hazel: What Dean did is illegal! You know that right?
Paige: (Stopping and turning around) Yea, and what about what I did?
Hazel: (Confused) You didn’t do anything.
Paige: (Yelling) Yea, so I didn’t dress like a slut? I didn’t drink? I didn’t come on to him in front of the WHOLE party?
Hazel: Paige…
Paige: I guess I didn’t ask him to go upstairs either.
Hazel: You said no.
Paige: It doesn’t matter! (She turns and starts walking away again; Hazel follows)
Hazel: It does matter! Paige, you have to tell someone!
Paige: No I don’t! I can deal with it.
Hazel: Paige, you were r*ped!
Paige: (Turning around once more) Look, MY business, MY problem! I’m fine!
Paige storms off as Hazel stands where she is looking worried.
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x07 - Shout"} | foreverdreaming |
Girls washroom.
The light is blue-ish. Paige enters wearing her cheerleading uniform and washes her face. She lifts her hand and sees in the mirror that Dean has appeared behind her
DEAN: Hey Spirit.
PAIGE: Dean, what are you doing in the girls washroom?
DEAN: Thought I'd say hi. (Walks towards her)
PAIGE: Ok.
DEAN: Relax, we had a good time at that party, didn't we?
PAIGE: Dean you…
DEAN: I what? I didn't do anything. We just had a good time.
PAIGE: (raising voice) You r*ped me.
DEAN: You wanted it and don't you dare tell anyone any different.
PAIGE: (Pushing him away) Get off me. Stop. (Picture begins to get wavy) Please. Stop it.
Paige’s bedroom.
She's asleep. Her alarm goes up and she awakes with a gasp. She sighs and turns off the alarm.
Outside on the sidewalk.
Terri runs up to Paige.
TERRI: Paige. Wait. (Has a piece of paper in her hands) Read it. (Holds out paper, so Paige can read)
PAIGE: (reading) Pro-voice song writing contest. Celebrating what women have to say. Does your band have what it takes to make a splash on the music scene?
TERRI: This is our chance.
PAIGE: Terr, we don't have a band. PMS broke up, remember?
TERRI: It's too perfect.
PAIGE: (reads the sheet again) (excited) Winning band gets a demo CD and a trip to LA.
TERRI: I told you.
PAIGE: (still reading) To perform live for record executives. (Stops reading) This is a serious prize. It's not like winning a beach towel or movie pass. Terri, we could move to LA. (They do an excited girl giggle)
Mr. Simpson’s class.
See computer screen where Paige is signing up PMS for the contest.
PAIGE: PMS could totally win this.
TERRI: With Ash we'd have a batter chance.
PAIGE: Not in this band. (Bell rings)
MR. SIMPSON: Have a good day g*ng.
TERRI: We need a real singer.
PAIGE: Fine. (Gets up and spins Hazel's chair around to face them) Meet Hazel Spice. New member of PMS.
HAZEL: Really? (Paige nods) (Singing, not very well) Amazing grace. How sweet the sound. That saved a wretch like me.
PAIGE: OK, (moving out of classroom) Can we please keep it to a dull roar?
HAZEL: I've been taking voice for three years now. You won't regret this.
TERRI: And we can use my English poetry lyrics.
Ms. Kwan's room.
Terri's standing up, reading her poem.
TERRI: I pray at night, you'll see the light. You'll come and hold me, till everything's all right. I wish I knew, just what to do, to make this secret wish come true.
SPINNER: (quietly to Jimmy) Cuz my poem smells like poo. (Jimmy laughs)
MS. KWAN: Guys. Thanks Terri. (Teri smiles and sits down)
TERRI: What'd you think?
PAIGE: It was sweet, in a rhyming dictionary sort of way.
MS. KWAN: Ashley, you ok to go next?
ASHLEY: (standing up, begins to read) It happens to other people. You say how said, you say poor thing But when it's you it's something else. It's everything. It started with something minor, went from there to something worse. (looks up at Jimmy) The friends you loved and thought you knew, just disappeared. (Jimmy looks up at her) It felt so weird. (Paige and Terri look at her) Half blessing, half curse. It happens to other people. You say how sad, you say poor thing. (Sits down).
Mr. Simpson's class.
Sean is doing a PowerPoint presentation.
SEAN: When Gottlieb Daimler died in 1900, he had no idea how far or how fast the Boneshaker motorcycle he invented would take us. Thanks. (Sits back down and students clap a bit)
MR. SIMPSON: Good edition to our biography file. Uh, we have time for one more… Liberty. (Liberty gets up and prepares to do her presentation.)
JT: I have something done on time for once, and we run out of time. Typical.
TOBY: Typical is your project.
JT: Mr. Simpson said we could do our project on anyone we wanted.
TOBY: Anyone appropriate. Something tell me Hugh Hefner doesn't count.
JT: As my quest for a woman goes on, name me a better role model. (In background, Liberty puts on a backwards hat)
TOBY: Just go for Liberty already.
JT turns around and looks at Liberty, who is bending over, grabbing something from a bag. He makes a fake shivering noise.
TOBY: (in background, Liberty puts on wild print shirt) That's not how she feels about you. In fact, she finds you fascinating. Just wait and see.
JT: Ok. Now you're scaring me.
LIBERTY: Fellow students. (Blows a kazoo) My hero isn't from the history books. He'll be famous later. The next Jim Carey. (Pic of JT in a funny hat comes up on screen and the class laughs)
LIBERTY: Yuck it up, Tobester. I'm JT Yorke, here to talk about my favorite subject, myself. (Pic changes to young JT on a rocking horse) You're gonna love it cuz it don't get any cooler than Yokeman: The Early years. (More laughs) From the very beginning, I was a real urban cowboy. (Pic changes to JT in a powder blue suit.)
JT: You gave her my photo album?
TOBY: (fake innocent) Mio?
LIBERTY: They call me the terminator. (Pic of JT in speedo, inner tube and arm floaties and another of him in just a Speedo in a model pose. Even more laughing. Another on of him in Speedo and equipment, doing a body builder pose)
Hallway.
A group of people are laughing.
EMMA: The sh*t of him in the headgear, I thought I was going to lose it.
JT: (walking up) It wasn't that funny.
TOBY: Trust me, it was.
JT: Imitation is the lowest form of humor.
LIBERTY: It wasn't an imitation. It was an homage. A tribute.
JT: You want a tribute? (Clears throat) (In girly voice) You take that back. I do to have friends. Ten textbooks, a thousand stuffed animals. Oh, and sometimes, my parents even like me. (Liberty walks away, partially running into JT)
EMMA: (Walking and running into him) Loser.
MANNY: (doing the same) Freak.
JT: Jeez. (Shakes head) (Bell rings)
Music room.
Hazel is doing scales, not very well.
PAIGE: Hazel. (Hazel stops. Paige is holding a guitar) Must you?
TERRI: (Coming in, wearing her PMS outfit from Season one, when they did lunchtime cabaret.) Sorry I'm late. I wanted to get in the mood.
PAIGE: You wore that last year. And cheesy pop chicks are over. Why do you have to be so out of touch?
TERRI: (Strapping on bass) Why do you have to be so mean?
PAIGE: I'm not mean. I'm right. So, new wardrobe please.
TERRI: (taking off sunglasses) No.
PAIGE: Pardon?
TERRI: What didn't you get? I said no.
HAZEL: Terri.
TERRI: Paige doesn't understand that word. Never has.
PAIGE: You better stop right there.
HAZEL: Ok, Paige. Look, we want to win, so let's just rehearse, ok? (Looks at Paige) Paige? (Looks at Terri) terr? (Paige turns on backbeat on keyboard. Terri starts playing bass)
HAZEL: (singing loudly and poorly) I wish I knew Just what to do, yeah. To make this secret wish come true. (Paige takes off guitar) Paige? What are you doing?
PAIGE: This isn't working. (Terri stops playing and Paige walks out of room. Terri shrugs)
Outside Ashley's house.
Paige walks up to door. Can hear Ashley playing piano and singing inside. Paige knocks on door and Ashley answers it.
ASHLEY: What are you doing here?
Inside Ashley's house.
Ashley is sitting on piano bench.
ASHLEY: I can't believe you're even asking.
PAIGE: We need you. It's embarrassing.
ASHLEY: (sarcastically) On no. can't let this happen. Poor Paige.
PAIGE: Your poem was great. It's about something real and it made me think.
ASHLEY: It doesn't matter. It's gonna be just like last year.
PAIGE: It won't. I promise.
ASHLEY: (sighs) I wanted to take it seriously, but you guys wouldn't.
PAIGE: We cheesed out. But this time we need to sing about real stuff.
ASHLEY: Like what?
PAIGE: Like how it feels when you're dumped. Or, like… abuse. Pain. Feeling sad. Whatever you want. Just so long as it means something.
ASHLEY: This doesn't sound like Paige.
PAIGE: Without you, we don't have chance.
ASHLEY: (turns around and plays something on piano) Do you seriously think we have a chance?
PAIGE: You know what? I do. (Ashley turns around, smiles and gives a nod)
Music room.
Ashley is there, playing something on the keyboard. There are papers on the keyboard as well. Paige, Terri, and Hazel come in.
PAIGE: We have lyrics?
ASHLEY: Just finished them this morning. (Grabs papers and walks over to them and gives them each a sheet) And I printed out copies for each of you in media immersion.
PAIGE: Sneaky girl. (Begins to read)
ASHLEY: The melody's the same, but the words are way more powerful now.
HAZEL: It's kind of heavy.
ASHLEY: Well, yeah, I mean, it's about r*pe. Paige said last night, let's make it real. My poem was ok, but I did some research online.
PAIGE: You took my body and tore it in half? This really isn't working for me.
ASHLEY: But the stories are incredible. From girls our age. You wouldn't believe some of the things I read.
PAIGE: Let's use the original lyrics, ok?
ASHLEY: But this is way more interesting.
TERRI: I agree.
PAIGE: (raising voice a bit) Well, I don't really care. I like the original version better. (Puts on guitar. Ashley storms over to keyboard and turns on backbeat.)
Hallway.
Liberty, Emma, and Manny are walking, looking at paintings.
LIBERTY: Your painting is masterful.
MANNY: It took ages to mix that many shades of pink.
LIBERTY: Well worth it. I'd like to work on my artsy side.
JT: (at locker) But that might distract you from being, you know, deebo supreme
EMMA: can't you just lay off? (Girls start to walk away)
JT: Oh, Liberty can dish it out, but she can't take it.
LIBERTY: (turning around and raising voice) I didn't dish and I'm not a geek, JT Dork
JT: Oh, them's fightin' words.
LIBERTY: You want fighting words? Ok, sucky baby. Poor sport.
JT: Priss face. Goody-to-shoes.
LIBERTY: You don't even know me. You don't know one true thing about me.
JT: You want one true thing? You're boring. B-O-R-I-N-G. (Has red permanent marker in hand and points with it for every letter)
LIBERTY: Stunned. JT spelled a word.
JT: You want another one? Fun. F-U-N. Something you wouldn't know if it came up and bit you on the butt.
LIBERTY: (grabs marker and writes a big A in a circle on JT's locker) Fun enough for you? (Throws marker on floor and walks away. JT tries to wipe it off with his hand but has no luck)
Mr. Simpson's room.
Paige is the only one there. She's sitting down and reading Ashley's lyrics, a single tear running down her cheek.
ASHLEY: (coming in room) You wanna win, right?
PAIGE: Not with those lyrics. You've written-
ASHLEY: I wrote exactly what we talked about. Something real. This is just like last year.
PAIGE: Give it up Ashley, ok?
ASHLEY: Tell me what's wrong with the new lyrics and I will.
PAIGE: (standing up. People are starting to filter in) Singing a song about r*pe will not win the contest.
ASHLEY: I thought we had an agreement.
PAIGE: (yelling) I said something real. Not something you got off the internet and don't know anything about.
ASHLEY: I'm allowed to imagine.
PAIGE: No, you're not! (The whole class is looking at them, including Mr Simpson.) (Quietly) After school in the music room. Bring the right lyrics. (Ashley walks away and Paige sits down.)
Hallway.
JT is running to catch up with Liberty.
JT: Liberty, how could you do that?
LIBERTY: Go away, little man.
JT: You wrote graffiti on my locker.
LIBERTY: I'm on f*re.
JT: You're on something.
LIBERTY: No stranger to danger, my friend. I laugh at authority. (She's now in the doorway to Ms. Kwan's class)
MR. RADITCH: Mr. Yorke. (Walking up to them) Hold it. Do you have anything to say?
JT: About?
MR. RADITCH: About that little piece of art people say they saw you creating. (in the doorway, Liberty is smiling)
JT: It wasn't me. I didn't do it. (Mr. Raditch grabs JT'S hand, which has ink on it) Mr. Raditch, I was, I was, trying to erase it. (Mr. Raditch drags JT down the hall) I didn't put it on there
MS. KWAN: Come on in. Take a seat. (Liberty sits down while Ms. Kwan closes the door) Ok, back to Lord of the Flies
TOBY: (whispering) Hey, have you seen JT?
LIBERTY: I think your little friend is in the office, with Mr. Raditch.
TOBY: That's it.
LIBERTY: What do you mean?
TOBY: They'll call his mom. And JT's mom…
LIBERTY: What?
TOBY: Battleaxe. thr*at to send him to private school if he got in trouble with Raditch again. I hope you said good-bye.
Music room.
Paige, Terri, and Ashley are practicing.
ASHLEY: (singing) It happens to other people. You say how, you say poor thing. But when it's you it's different. It's everything. (Hazel walks in) The friends you loved and thought you knew, just disappeared (Hazel holds up sign that says "I can't sing" They stop playing)
PAIGE: Hun, you're not that bad. (Hazel turns sign over. It says "polyps")
TERRI: (trying to read) po-lipe-sis?
HAZEL: (in soft, strained voice) Polyps. Over practice.
TERRI: But we go on tomorrow.
PAIGE: Ash, you're singing the solo.
ASHLEY: Awesome. Sorry Hazel. (Hazel grabs tambourine) One, two, three, four. (Start playing again) You took my body and tore it in half. You took my childhood, my heart and my laugh. (Paige strums guitar, not playing a real chord. Everyone stops playing)
PAIGE: (yelling) How many times do I have to say it? We're not using those lyrics. (Takes off guitar)
ASHLEY: Paige, if i'm singing, then those are the lyrics I'll perform.
PAIGE: I can't believe I wanted you back in this band. (Walks off, taking lyrics off keyboard, crunching them, and throwing them on the floor.)
Hallway.
Paige opens her locker and Ashley comes out to talk to her.
ASHLEY: The song is stronger. Anyone with half an emotion would know that.
PAIGE: What do you know about r*pe?
ASHLEY: I researched it. I know a lot more about it than you do. (Paige slams locker and sits on ground, crying) Paige?
PAIGE: Just leave me alone.
ASHLEY: (Sitting down) I, I had no idea. I'm so sorry. (Puts her hand on Paige’s.)
PAIGE: Nobody knows. Just hazel. I keep trying to forget, but i can't. He's in my nightmares.
ASHLEY: Have you been to a doctor?
PAIGE: He wore a condom. Very thoughtful, huh?
ASHLEY: What about a councilor?
PAIGE: I can't, ok? I just, I can't. And I can't play that song. I know it's about a virgin but… (Puts head on Ashley’s shoulder)
ASHLEY: It's ok. We'll play the other one tomorrow. It's ok. It's gonna be ok, Paige.
Hallway
Mr. Raditch is holding a jar of soapy water and a toothbrush, which he hands to JT.
MR. RADITCH: The custodial staff have requested that you leave a streak free shine. I couldn't reach your mother, but when this is clean, we'll call again.
LIBERTY: (running up) I did it. I'm a vandal.
MR. RADITCH: This is no time to be covering for Mr. Yorke
LIBERTY: I'm not covering. It was a bad thing to do. (Looking at JT) It wasn't boring, but it was pretty stupid.
MR. RADITCH: And you did this? (Liberty nods) Why?
LIBERTY: I was acting on impulse, Sir (JT smiles)
JT: I told you I didn't do it. (Hands brush and water to Liberty.)
LIBERTY: It was truant, rebellious, misdirected-
MR. RADITCH: Ok, Mr. Yorke, you are free to go. (He and JT walk away and Liberty starts to clean)
Backstage at the Pro-Voice contest.
Paige is looking at herself in a mirror.
ASHLEY: You look totally gorgeous. You ok?
PAIGE: yeah, I promise.
TERRI: (holding bass) I am so nervous.
PAIGE: (picking up guitar) Don't sweat it. We'll be fine.
ASHLEY: No, we'll be great. Original lyrics and all.
ANNOUNCER: Our next band is a group from Degrassi. Give it up for PMS. (Hear applause)
TERRI: (girls do handshake) Let's go do it. (Girls go on stage.)
ASHLEY: (Paige and Terri are plugging into the amps on stage) Alright. We are PMS and this is Poor Thing. (Turns on backbeat. Hazel and Terri start playing. Paige strums and turns around and heads over to mic. She sees Dean in the audience. He smiles and nods to say hello. Paige backs up. Hazel and Terri stop playing. Paige turns around to face Ashley)
ASHLEY: (moving her mike) What's going on?
PAIGE: He's here.
ASHLEY: Who?
PAIGE: Him. I can't. (Looks to Dean who smiles and nods again.) It, it happens to other people. You say how sad, you say poor thing. (Turns to face audience and starts walking to mike) But when it's you it's something else. It's everything. (Plays chord and looks at Dean) You'll never know the nightmares. (Plays chord) Never know the pain you caused. (Plays more) You'll never see the scars you left. (Dean looks mad and the other girls come in) The things you stole. Everything was lost. (Dean stands up. Others sing when needed, otherwise it's just Paige) You took my body. Tore it in half. (Dean looks at Paige, then walks out. Paige keeps her eyes on him until he's gone) You took my childhood, my heart, and my laugh. You took everything I kept for myself. Then you're gone. I'm not your poor thing. You took my body. Tore it in half. You took my childhood, my heart, and my laugh. (In audience, Ellie is smiling) You took everything I kept for myself. Then you're gone. I'm not your poor thing.
School hallway.
JT's sitting on a bench. He throws something at a garbage can, but misses.
LIBERTY: (appearing with a broom and dustpan) Pick it up liter bug.
JT: What are you doing?
LIBERTY: (cleaning) AM and PM liter duty. A whole week of it.
JT: Raditch threw the book at you, huh?
LIBERTY: Totally. He even called my parents. But JT, (Sits down next to him) thanks for sticking up for me
JT: Whatever.
LIBERTY: I think I might also owe you an apology.
JT: Nah, you fessed up. That was cool.
LIBERTY: Did JT Yorke just call me cool?
JT: Don't let it go to your head. See ya around, rebel. (Puts face close to hers, then gets up and starts walking away. He turns to look at her again, and winks, then starts walking again and shakes his head)
Different part of hallway.
Paige, Terri, Hazel and Ashley are laughing.
HAZEL: I guess those California beach boys will have to wait.
ASHLEY: LA's really not that great. It's all like, mini malls and freeways.
ELLIE: (catches up and puts arms around Paige and Ashley) You were robbed. I can't believe you only got an honorable mention.
PAIGE: Seriously? You liked it?
ELLIE: (nodding) Paige, you were awesome. Truly.
ASHLEY: But she was right though. A song about r*pe will never come in first.
PAIGE: Especially not when I'm singing it. (They laugh. Paige and Ashley stop while the others walk on. They're outside the guidance office.)
ASHLEY: So, you ok?
PAIGE: I'm ready to talk at least. Well, as ready as I'll ever be. (Paige opens door and starts to go in)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x08 - Shout Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
Ms. Kwan’s classroom.
Liberty is on TV doing announcements.
LIBERTY: Congratulations to Toby Isaacs and the rest of the computer programming team. Thanks to them, Degrassi placed third in the regionals.
MS. KWAN: Nice work, Toby. (Claps and the students clap politely for a few seconds)
TOBY: That's it?
JT: Nascar's exciting. Britney in a hot tub, that's exciting. Third place in some geek contest… no. (Emma and Manny start laughing)
LIBERTY: In sports, for all boys interested in the wrestling team, there's a meeting after school in the gym. Speaking of wrestling, last year's champion, Sean Cameron, has been named this month's overall sports MVP by the students.
MS. KWAN: That's fantastic Sean. (Starts clapping. The students begin the clap and cheer)
TOBY: Nice to be him. Forget it. Just forget it.
JT and Toby in Ms. Hatzilakos’ class.
JT: What did you expect? (In a girly voice) Oh, Toby. I just love a man who can write binary code.
MS HATZILAKOS: Boys, want to share with the class?
TOBY: I was just wondering if everything about us was decided by DNA.
MISS HATZILAKOS: Some things, like your eye color. But there are others things about us that we have the power to change. (Bell rings, students start to get up to leave) Remember to bring back these diagrams for tomorrow's class.
TOBY: But no one notices me.
JT: Sure they do. You're the loveable, if forgettable, computer expert.
TOBY: That's it?
JT: Yeah, well. (They head out into the hallway) No big deal. You could change your image… You could moon the cafe.
TOBY: I could dye my hair green.
JT: You could take up snow boarding.
TOBY: (seriously) I could try out for wrestling.
JT: (laughing a bit) Yeah, now that's funny… No. Bad Toby.
TOBY: No one ignores geeks. I think it's a great idea. (Walks on)
Outside at the picnic tables.
Spinner is holding a cell phone.
SPINNER: Wireless web access, e-mail, and GPS. Terr, your phone rules.
TERRI: The salesman said it was the best. (Takes her phone back)
PAIGE: (walking up with Hazel) Terr! Ok, hun. We grow tired of your games. You gotta spill.
TERRI: What are you talking about?
HAZEL: Two days ago a new coat. Yesterday a new bag…
PAIGE: Today a new cell phone. We won't stand it any longer.
TERRI: My dad made some extra money.
PAIGE: What'd de do, rob a bank?
SPINNER: Paige, get off her back.
PAIGE: I will. When she tells me where the money's coming from.
TERRI: I forgot my lunch in my locker. (Grabs her stuff and walks into the school. Spinner follows)
HAZEL: Can you believe her?
PAIGE: ok, call me crazy. But do you think that Terri's got a bad case of sticky fingers… more like shoplifting?
The cafeteria. JT and Toby are in line.
JT: Toby, you realize you'll get k*lled. Creamed. Squashed. Mutilated.
TOBY: Quit it JT.
JT: I'm just being realistic. Remember what happened in gym class yesterday?
TOBY: That's because all I ever do is sit behind a computer.
JT: uh, huh.
TOBY: If I go up for wrestling, I'm gonna have to get fit. Then nobody will ever laugh at me again.
ASHLEY: (coming up) Toby, do you have your keys? I won't be home after school.
TOBY: For your information, Vampire, I have wrestling practice after school.
ASHLEY: (laughing a bit) You, wrestling? Right. (Walks away)
TOBY: (to JT) Don't say a word. I can make the team JT.
Hallway. Paige, Hazel and Terri are sitting down when Terri’s phone rings.
HAZEL: Secret admirer?
TERRI: No, just a friend.
PAIGE: (whispering to Hazel) Just her parole officer.
SPINNER: (walking inside the school) Terr, why didn't you tell us?
TERRI: Tell you what?
SPINNER: You don't know? k, come with me. I gotta show you something.
PAIGE: Not that again.
SPINNER: I meant outside. Come on. (Spinner leads Them to a bus stop where there's a huge picture of Terri in an ad) Terri McGregor. Undercover super model.
PAIGE: Terr, you look fabulous. Why didn't you tell us?
TERRI: Why? Because I'm fat.
HAZEL: Terri, there's nothing to be ashamed of.
PAIGE: At all. You're a model.
SPINNER: In a huge ad campaign.
MUHAMMAD: (walking by) Yo! Beluga!
SPINNER: Yo, shut up Moron.
MUHAMMAD: Hey, did the photographer use a wide angle lens or what?
PAIGE: Yes, loser. Just like they need a microscope to find your… (Hazel hits Paige with her elbow) (To Hazel) I was gonna say brain.
Wrestling practice. Toby is watching Sean wrestle someone.
TOBY: Oh, man.
SEAN: Toby? You lost?
TOBY: No, uh, I'm here for wrestling.
MR. ARMSTRONG: Ok, guys. Listen up. The try-outs are next week and as you know, we only have room for one wrestler per weight class. So let's get started. Andrews. (Andrews walks up and gets on the scale) 51 kilos. Good (Andrews steps off) Isaacs. (Gets on scale) 55.
ANDREWS: Should Toby and I start?
MR. ARMSTRONG: No, you guys are in different weight classes. Isaacs, you're in the 54 to 57.5 kilo class up against… Sean. (Sean just pinned his opponent. Sean and Toby start to wrestle. Toby is pinned in about 10 seconds.)
Mr. Simpson’s class.
MR. SIMPSON: Ten minutes left of class. Use this time for internet research.
JT: Hey, I found the best wrestling site. (Site comes up on Toby’s computer. There's a picture of a wrestler with two girls hanging on him)
TOBY: Maybe in a few years I could be like this guy.
JT: Uh, earth to Toby. Let's just concentrate on getting you on the team first. (Clicks on link that says "training". A page comes up saying "Making weight- a bad move")
MR. SIMPSON: (comes up and grabs Toby’s shoulder) Hey, congratulations for getting 3rd in the finals. I'm very proud of you Toby. (Looks at computer) Interesting research topic guys. You know, making weight is a serious problem. A lot of guys end up in the hospital. You know, on the computer team we don't make weight. We make programs. (Laughs. Toby laughs a little) Isn't that right Toby? (Walks away)
TOBY: That's right coach… I have to make the wrestling team.
Training montage… JT and Toby in the gym JT with a whistle and Toby doing push ups… Toby running outside… Toby doing pull-ups in the gym, helped by JT… Toby running outside… Toby running up and down steps while JT eats a donut… Toby doing sit-ups… JT throwing a weighted ball to Toby and Toby falling backwards when he catches it… Toby on a scale… Toby running outside.
TOBY: This is m*rder. Three days and I've only lost one pound.
JT: Ding. Losing attitude. Penalty… 30 crunches. (Toby puts JT in a head lock) Ah! Not cool. Fine, we'll get a drink first.
Inside a store. JT has a drink and Toby is looking at a package of laxatives.
JT: Take it from someone who learned the hard way. Those aren't really chocolate.
TOBY: Only you'd make that mistake. (Puts package down)
JT: Uh, laxatives. So tasty going in, so nasty going out. (Walks out of store. Toby looks at package again)
Toby’s bedroom. He's standing shirtless in front of his mirror, laxative in hand. He eats it and makes a face as if it doesn't taste very good.
Gym. Toby is holding his stomach and blinking his eyes. It's the day of try-outs.
MR. ARMSTRONG: Isaacs. Scale. (Toby gets on scale) 53 kilos. That's quite a loss.
TOBY: Been training hard coach.
MR. ARMSTRONG: Mmm hmm. You know any player caught making weight will be cut.
TOBY: Would I do anything so stupid?
MR. ARMSTRONG: Andrews, it looks like you've got some competition. Let's go. Shake hands. (They shake)
ANDREWS: Good luck.
TOBY: You too. (They wrestle and Toby pins him in under 30 seconds)
MR ARMSTRONG: (blows whistle) Fast Isaacs. Welcome to the team. (Everybody cheers and Toby is very happy)
Kerwin-Isaacs kitchen. Ashley is sitting down, drinking something. Toby comes in, whistling.
ASHLEY: Someone's in a good mood.
TOBY: Today marks a new chapter in the book of Toby Isaacs.
ASHLEY: Making the wrestling team is that important to you?
TOBY: Yes. Cuz now I'm a jock. Nerd Toby is no more.
ASHLEY: Well, jockstrap. There are two of those giant chocolate muffins you like in the bread cupboard.
TOBY: Not hungry.
ASHLEY: That's what you said yesterday. And the day before that.
TOBY: Thank-you Mom. (Grabs backpack and heads towards the door)
ASHLEY: So you're not eating breakfast?
TOBY: No. Now go back to sipping your blood and leave me alone. (Leaves)
School hallway. Muhammad is sitting behind a table with jackets on it.
MUHAMMAD: You make the team, you get a windbreaker. (Hands Toby one) Congratulations buddy. (Toby puts it on and walks to Kendra and Nadia)
TOBY: Hey, Nadia. Take a picture.
NADIA: For the yearbook?
TOBY: yeah, sure. Today's a momentous occasion. (Strikes a stupid pose and Nadia takes the picture) Ok, now Kendra stand here… Act like you're in awe of me. Grab my arm if you like.
KENDRA: Um, I think I'll pass. So, big meet today We'll be there to cheer you on.
TOBY: My own personal fan club. Cool. Catch ya… lata. (Kendra and Nadia are weirded out)
KENDRA: (mouthing, no sound) ok, let's go. (They leave)
JT: (walking up) So, you got your new wind breaker, huh?
TOBY: Cool, huh?
JT: Did you get a new personality to go with it? Catch ya… lata.
TOBY: That's how wrestlers talk.
JT: Cool… not.
TOBY: Are you jealous cuz I'm on a team and you're just a mascot?! Great. (Walks away)
Mr Simpson’s class. Paige, hazel and Terri are checking out Terri’s modeling website.
HAZEL: That mini skirt photo is wow.
PAIGE: I'd totally wear it… if I was a plus.
HAZEL: So when's the next sh**t?
TERRI: Today, but my agent called and canceled.
PAIGE: Nice, another lie from Miss McGregor.
TERRI: It's not a lie. (Softer voice) I don't wanna go, ok?
PAIGE: Not ok. You're in a national ad campaign.
TERRI: It wasn't national when I agreed to do it.
PAIGE: So that's it?
TERRI: That… and what Muhammad said.
MR. SIMPSON: (coming into classroom) Good morning. Five seconds to home room lift off.
PAIGE: Who cares what Muhammad said? This discussion is not over.
MR. SIMPSON: Oh, yes it is Paige. Or it will be in 3, 2, 1. (Bell rings)
Cafeteria. Toby is in line and only has an apple on his plate.
ASHLEY: (walks up to him) Big meet today. Doing anything special to get ready? (Toby shrugs) Or maybe not doing something? Like not eating.
TOBY: Not this again.
ASHLEY: Toby, you're normally a garborator.
TOBY: I'm just not hungry these days.
ASHLEY: Fine, I'll just take this up with Mom and Jeff.
TOBY: (to Sheila) Bacon cheeseburger supreme, chunky fries, extra Sheila sauce.
SHEILA: hey, easy big guy. I gotta feed a whole school. (Gives Toby a plate of food) There you go lumberjack.
TOBY: See (takes a bite of burger) Eating. Happy? (Takes another bite. Ashley and Mr. Armstrong, who's on the background just look at him)
Boy’s washroom. Toby is standing in front of the mirror. He goes into a stall. JT comes in and starts fixing his hair. Toby throws up.
JT: Toby? Is that you? (Heads over toward the stall)
TOBY: (flushing toilet) Sheila's special sauce ain't so special.
JT: oh
TOBY: Can you leave me alone?
JT: Do you want the nurse or something?
TOBY: No. Just some privacy… now. (JT walks out of the bathroom and to his locker. Ashley comes up to him)
ASHLEY: JT.
JT: Oh, hey Ashley. I was wondering when you were going to tune into my love vibe.
ASHLEY: Let's skip your little fantasy.
JT: Ok, let's talk about yours.
ASHLEY: JT, I'm worried about Toby.
JT: I know. He's been acting so weird and crabby lately… But, he is in training.
ASHLEY: Training for an eating disorder.
JT: I'm pretty sure Toby's a guy. I mean, that's girl stuff.
ASHLEY: No it isn't. Guys can have it too. So if you notice anything, I wanna know.
Mr. Simpson’s class. Toby is staring blankly at his computer and blinking. JT notices.
MR. SIMPSON: Ok, pop quiz. Click on the pop quiz link. You have 15 minutes and when time's up, the test will automatically end. (Walks to Toby) Are you ok? Do you want to see nurse Henderson?
TOBY: No, I'm fine, Mr. Simpson. (Mr Simpson walks away)
The bus stop where Terri’s ad is. She's sitting down, talking on her cell phone.
TERRI: (on phone) Anne Marie please. I need to cancel a sh**t… yeah, she can call me back. (Hangs up phone)
SPINNER: (walking up) Terri?
TERRI: (getting up) More Grrrl can find a new model. (Starts to walk away)
SPINNER: Why? Ok, none of my business I just think it's too bad you're giving up.
TERRI: (stops walking) Spinner, I dreamt of being a model… for years. But not a plus sized. Not (puffs out cheeks)
SPINNER: So, you're not some twig. You think guys really like that?
TERRI: Don't you?
SPINNER: Sometimes. But lots of time guys like girls like you, with a figure.
TERRI: Girls like me. You mean fat?
SPINNER: Terr, you're pretty.
TERRI: You don't have to lie.
SPINNER: I'm not. Terr, you're really pretty. And any guy who tells you different is blind or jealous. So, just tell them to shut up.
Boys locker room. Toby is sitting on a bench, rubbing his eyes. JT comes in.
JT: Hey (sits down) Toby, you look awful… I caught you yakking.
TOBY: That was Sheila's sauce.
JT: That was you… Ash and I are worried.
TOBY: You've been talking to her? Behind my back? (Gets up)
JT: (gets up too) Toby, don't wrestle.
TOBY: What?!
JT: Don't wrestle.
TOBY: there's a gym full of people waiting for me...me. And I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna win. And not 3rd place in some geek contest.
MR. ARMSTRONG: (coming in) Isaacs. Weigh in. Let's go. (Toby leaves)
Gym. Toby is sitting on a bench with his fellow wrestlers. His vision is blurry.
MR. ARMSTRONG: Next up for Degrassi, Toby Isaacs. (Crowd cheers and Toby goes to the mat) Shake hands. (They do and begin to wrestle. Toby’s opponent knocks him down, but Toby gets back up. He then collapses) Toby? (Ashley and JT run up to him)
JT: Toby?
ASHLEY: Toby?
MR. ARMSTRONG: Give him some air. (In the stands, Kendra and Nadia look worried)
JT: Buddy, wake up.
ASHLEY: Toby?
MR. ARMSTRONG: Toby?
The sidewalk. Terri, Paige, and Hazel are looking at Terri’s newest modeling pictures.
TERRI: look at the touched sh*t. (Hands photo to Paige)
PAIGE: So nice. (They walk by an ice cream stand where Muhammad is working)
MUHAMMAD: Hey, look who it is. It's the more of everything girl. Hey, you know what? I think you should join our sumo team. Seriously. (The girls turn away, but Terri walks up to him)
TERRI: Hey, most girls on the planet look like this. So get used to it.
PAIGE: No kidding.
TERRI: I made 500 bucks today as a plus sized model. Yeah, plus sized. What do you make, ice cream boy? (Walks away)
PAIGE: Nice Terri. (She, Terri and Hazel laugh)
Kerwin-Isaacs kitchen. Toby is sitting down with an ice pack on his wrist.
JT: (comes in) Hey. You ok?
TOBY: Ash is on the phone with my dad. He's on his way.
JT: You're off the team, right?
TOBY: Mr. Armstrong chewed me out. He said I was playing with my life.
JT: Listen Tobes. You can cry if you want, but I'm not giving you a hug.
TOBY: At least I gave everyone a good laugh.
JT: Hardly. Word got out, people freaked. Even Sean asked if you were ok. (Toby shakes his head) The whole school was worried… I had a nice little chat with Kendra. She's like. (in a girly voice) I hope he's ok, I'm so worried. (Both guys smile) So… still think you're invisible Tobes?
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x09 - Mirror in the Bathroom"} | foreverdreaming |
Manny is in Ms. Kwan's classroom
MS. KWAN: But for many writers, romance isn't so simple. Is is often a confusing experience. (Manny picks up her book. There is a knock at the door.)
CRAIG: (Coming in) Excuse me, Ms. Kwan. I'm sorry to interrupt. (Manny lowers her book and looks at him. The lighting becomes purplish, piano music starts playing, and suddenly Craig is in a tuxedo) But I've come to collect my one and only true love. (Starts walking to Manny, who's now in an evening gown. He begins to sing) Won't you be my Cinderella? Could I kiss you, Manuela? (He extends his hand and she accepts it, standing up)
MANNY: (singing) You can tease me however. (Craig pulls her close to him) You must love me
CRAIG AND MANNY: (Singing) Forever.
MANNY: (singing) Forever.
Back to reality
CRAIG: I need to get that.
MANNY: Pardon me?
CRAIG: The AV cart behind you. Mr. Simpson sent me to get it and, um, you're on the cord.
MANNY: Oh. (Moves her chair)
CRAIG: Yeah, you could just move it. (Collects cord)
Mr. Simpson's room. Emma looks out the door
EMMA: He's coming. (Mr. Simpson walks in)
TOBY: Mr. Simpson, something terrible has happened to your computer.
MR. SIMPSON: (sits at his computer, with half the class looking over his shoulder) JT, did you e-mail me naked baboon pictures again?
EMMA: It's serious. I think your computer has a virus. (On the computer, there's animation of Mr. Simpson and Emma's Mom on a weeding cake with hearts. The wedding march is playing.)
MR. SIMPSON: (smiling) You had me going? Who did this?
EMMA: (elbows Toby) So you're not upset that I told everyone you and Mom got engaged?
MR. SIMPSON: No, it's sweet. Thank-you.
MANNY: How does it feel Mr. Simpson? I mean, you find your one true love?
MR. SIMPSON: Well, I just hope someday that you all find someone who truly makes you happy. (The bells rings) Ok, we still have stuff to learn today… (Manny's notebook is open. The page has "Craig" written all over it.)
Emma and Manny are walking in the hallway
EMMA: The ring is so nice. It's a diamond solitaire with platinum settings. Mr. Simpson let me help him pick it out.
MANNY: he checked with you before he proposed?
EMMA: No, because he didn't propose. My mom did.
MANNY: Your mom did? (Not sincere) Oh, that's cool.
EMMA: Women can propose too.
MANNY: I know, but it's not as romantic.
EMMA: Because my mom saw what she wanted and went for it? Why not? (Craig and Sean walk by. Manny and Craig smile at each other) I think Craig really likes you.
MANNY: Then why doesn't he just ask me out? Ugh, this is t*rture.
EMMA: Manny, this is what we just talked about. You know what you want, so go for it. (Leaves)
Ellie is sitting at a table outside reading. Marco comes up to her and notices the book
MARCO: My favorite letter's E.
ELLIE: (turns page, then reads) E is for Ernest, who choked on a peach. (Marco sits down) You like Edward Gorey?
MARCO: I love him. I mean, his stuff is the perfect balance between dark and funny.
ELLIE: Kwan thought it was too morbid for my book report.
MARCO: So small-minded, huh?
ELLIE: Not like you and me.
MARCO: catch you later. (Gets up and walks past table with Hazel and Paige)
HAZEL: What do you think of Marco?
PAIGE: Kinda cute, I guess.
HAZEL: I think he's really cute.
PAIGE: Which poses the question: cute, smart, nice, and still single?
HAZEL: Not for long. Hazel’s on the case. I think I need help with my math homework. (She gets up and talks to Marco, which Ellie sees.)
Mr. Simpson's class. On a computer screen we see a message- "S as in Secret I admire. You, from A-afar. XO Bad-Rhymer" It's Ellie's computer. Ashley sees the message as she sits down
ASHLEY: Personal e-mail during class? You're such a rebel Nash.
ELLIE: You know me.
ASHLEY: No, cuz I had no idea you liked someone. Who? (Ellie doesn't answer) You're embarrassed.
ELLIE: No.
ASHLEY: And you're shy. Ellie Nash. Wow.
ELLIE: I've never liked anyone like this before. It's weird.
ASHLEY: It's love.
ELLIE: It's none of your business. Shut up. (Ashley smiles. Ellie sends e-mail. Marco receives it, looks perplexed, then looks at Hazel. She smiles and waves. Ellie sees this and is disappointed.)
MR. SIMPSON: (coming in) Sorry I'm late. (He's wearing rubber gloves and waders) Flood in the men's washroom. Not a pretty picture.
Manny is putting on lip-gloss at her locker. Light goes purplish again. The same piano music starts to play. Craig walks up to her in the tux and hands her a rose
CRAIG: For you.
MANNY: Oh. (Pause) Do you like me?
CRAIG: Like you? Manny, I think I love…
Back to reality. Manny sees Craig talking to Ashley, then Ashley leaves. Manny shuts her locker and goes up to Craig
MANNY: (sounding determined) Craig, I like you. (Craig looks surprised and Manny's determination is gone.) I can't believe I just said that. (Starts to back away) Well, nice talking to you? (Walks away, embarrassed)
CRAIG: Wait, Manny. (Follows her) I… um. I like you too.
MANNY: (screams in a girly way) Oh, sorry, sorry. I'm such a ditz.
CRAIG: No, no. It was cute.
MANNY: So, Craig. Tonight. Wanna catch a movie? At the mall?
CRAIG: Movie? Sure. (Pauses) Oh, you mean with you? (Smile is wiped of Manny's face) I dunno. (Pauses) Kidding. I'm kidding.
MANNY: (smiles with a nervous laugh) Ok, you so had me there.
CRAIG: I couldn't resist.
MANNY: So pick me up at Emma's house. Seven? (Walks away)
Marco and Ellie are in the library
ELLIE: I'll talk about high and low pressure systems colliding.
MARCO: (unenthusiastically) Yeah, cool. Uh, Elle. I got this really weird e-mail and it's sort of confusing me.
ELLIE: What does it say?
MARCO: S and in secret I admire. You from A-afar. XO bad-Rhymer.
ELLIE: Wow. Cryptic.
MARCO: Yeah, which is cool. But what does it mean?
ELLIE: Someone likes you?
MARCO: Ok, so why tell me like that?
ELLIE: E-mail's anonymous. Afraid of the response, it keeps you a step away.
MARCO: You mean, you do that too?
ELLIE: Telling someone you like them is hard.
MARCO: Yeah, yeah it is.
Craig’s house. He comes bouncing down the stair to the kitchen wearing a dress shirt and putting on a suit coat. Joey is on the phone and Angela is sitting down, coloring
JOEY: Sorry Bianca. It didn't work out. You have to stop calling me now, alright? Good--bye. (Hangs up phone) I should have ended it weeks ago. Let that be a lesson. What are you all dressed up for?
CRAIG: A date. My first.
JOEY: Hey. Congratulations. (Shakes his hand) So you finally asked that Ashley girl out?
CRAIG: No. Manny asked me out.
JOEY: Manny? Isn't she a bit young for you?
CRAIG: Just 11 months Joey. Just 11 months.
JOEY: Alright, age ain't nothing but a number.
ANGELA: (Showing Craig a picture she colored of a cow and her stuffed animal cow) Look at Mr. Moo Moo Craig. Mr. Moo Moo Craig.
CRAIG: (laughs) very nice.
JOEY: So she asked you out. Check out Craig, super stud. Takes after his step dad. Just be back by 10. I'm serious. (Phone rings)
Emma's house. Emma is doing Manny's make-up
MANNY: So you know what to say if my parents call?
EMMA: Manny, we've been through it.
MANNY: And what if your mom comes home?
EMMA: She's out till 11 with Mr. Simpson. Don't worry.
MANNY: (makes nervous noise, then gets up and presents herself) So?
EMMA: Craig doesn't have a chance.
MANNY: I'm trying not to freak, but this is the first boy who's ever liked me.
EMMA: And he won't be the last. Trust me. (Doorbell rings and they both engage in girly screaming)
MANNY: he's here. he's here. Go get it. (Emma opens door)
CRAIG: hey, uh, I heard screaming.
EMMA: That's the tv. (Manny checks her breath. Craig comes in. Emma pushed Manny into his view)
CRAIG: Manny, you (pause) you look incredible.
MANNY: You too.
CRAIG: Oh, I almost forgot. (Hands her a rose) This is for you.
EMMA: That is too picture perfect. (Pushes Manny next to Craig and grabs camera) Smile. (Takes picture)
CRAIG: You ready for our date?
MANNY: I am so ready.
School hallway: Manny, Emma and Liberty are walking together
MANNY: At first I was so nervous. But them I got into it. And by the end, I just knew. Craig was the one.
LIBERTY: So you're girlfriend, boyfriend now?
EMMA: It's official? You've talked to him?
MANNY: No, but I don't have to. I just know. That's what falling in love is all about.
Outside: Craig joins Jimmy and Spinner at a table for lunch
JIMMY: Check out the quiet man.
SPINNER; He hasn't said a word all day.
CRAIG: Sorry. I, um… I got a lot on my mind. (Spinner and Jimmy hear the girls laughing and look over at them)
SPINNER: Ah, I get ut. Craig is lost in love with little Miss Santos.
JIMMY: It must have been a seriously hot date.
CRAIG: Hot? No, I'd say the best was to describe our date is (pause) bizarre.
Back to the girls
MANNY: The only way to describe our date is magical. I thought we'd just go to the mall, see a movie. Nothing special. And then we get there and…
Manny and Craig enter the mall to find a carnival
MANNY: Oh my gosh. The carnival is on!
CRAIG: So you don't wanna see the movie?
MANNY: And miss all this? I love the balloons and the clowns. (Leads him to funhouse mirror) Oh, look. (Leads him to cotton candy vender) And the cotton candy, It's so delicious.
CRAIG: So delicious. (Realizing that she wants some) One cotton candy please. (Gives it to Manny, who takes a piece off to feed to Craig) No, no. It's for you.
MANNY: Don't be silly. (Feeds it to him. Her voice become a voice-over) The most incredible thing happened. My fingers brushed his lips. And I thought I would die.
Back to the boys
CRAIG: Maybe you can help figure it out. Manny looked so awesome. And I was happy to be with her. But then…
Manny and Craig enter the mall again
MANNY: (sounding like a little kid the entire scene) The carnival is on!
CRAIG: Wait, so we're not gonna see the movie?
MANNY: And miss all this? I love the balloons and the clowns. (Drags him to funhouse mirror) Look. (Giggles stupidly, then goes over to cotton candy vender) And the cotton candy. Yummy yum yum.
CRAIG: (weirded out) Yeah. Yummy yum yum. (Manny takes off a huge piece of cotton candy) No, no. It’s for you.
MANNY: Don't be silly. (Shoves it in His mouth)
CRAIG: (voice-over) The cotton candy incident. She nearly choked me with it.
Back to the boys, who are laughing
JIMMY: Look on the bright side, dude. If it was the candy apple, you would have been d*ad.
CRAIG: You think that's funny? You're gonna love this. (He throws his lunch bag into the garbage, which becomes a ball winning the ball toss at the carnival)
MANNY: Woo! Go Craig go! Today ball toss, tomorrow the world. You're, like, I dunno, the next famous pitcher guy or something. (Worker hands Manny a stuffed horse as a prize) Oh, this is the best. It's so cute. It's name is Wuzzy Horse. I already have Piggy Pig and Lamby Lamb. (Notices Craig's confused look) You know, the Fluffy Fluff collection?
CRAIG: (voice-over) I thought she'd never stop talking.
MANNY: It's the best gift. Thanks Craig. (Craig checks his watch) Am I talking too much?
CRAIG: What? No, it's just (pause) It's your turn to win me… whatever. Just try not to throw it too hard, ok? (Manny grabs a ball and throws it. It bounces off the wall and hits Craig in the head) Oh. (Grabs head)
MANNY: Oh, oh. Craig, I am so sorry.
CRAIG: No, it's ok. (He sits down and Manny examines the bump on his head. Craig's voice becomes a voice-over) Then I looked into her eyes and I saw how beautiful she was… (Manny leans in for a kiss)
Back to the boys
CRAIG: I mean, the thing is, I do like her. Just (pause) she's a bit young.
JIMMY: Only by a year, dude.
CRAIG: You wanna know the real reason I couldn't kiss her. (Pause) She reminds me of my five year-old half sister.
JIMMY: Right.
Spinner: Uh, that's messed up.
JIMMY: Yeah.
SPINNER: Don't say that ever again.
CRAIG: Yeah, I know. That's the problem, cuz she's also really sweet. So, what do I do?
The girls are at Manny's locker. Manny is looking at the rose Craig gave her
EMMA: I can't believe he gave you a rose.
MANNY: Craig is a true romantic. (Pause) I just wish the date had ended better.
LIBERTY: Why? What happened?
MANNY: More like, what didn't happen.
At the mall, Craig wins the ball toss
MANNY: Today ball toss, tomorrow the world. (Worker hands her the prize) Oh, this is the best. My favorite thing. Cuz you won it. Thanks Craig. (Craig looks at his watch) Am I talking too much?
CRAIG: Not at all. It's your turn. Just try not to throw it too hard, ok? (Manny throws ball. It bounces off the wall and hits Craig's head) Oh, dear. That smarts.
MANNY: Craig, I'm so sorry.
CRAIG: No, it's ok. It's ok.
MANNY: I'm really, really sorry. (Craig sits down and Manny examines wound. She leans in for a kiss)
CRAIG: Manny, um. I should get you home. (Manny pulls away)
Back to the girls
EMMA: I bet he wanted to, but he just wanted to get you back to my house on time, which I think is cool.
LIBERTY: Absolutely. Craig has my two favorite qualities: passion and punctuality.
MANNY: That's why he's my guy.
Mr. Simpson's class. Ellie is writing another e-mail: "M is for Marco. Z is for zen garden. Meet me after school." She send it to Marco, who smiles when he receives it
Hallway: Manny smells her rose at her locker. Craig comes up to her and she puts the flower away
CRAIG: Manny.
MANNY: Hey you. Where've you been? Did you miss me? I missed you.
CRAIG: Everybody's talking about us.
MANNY: Yeah. They say we're Degrassi's hottest new couple.
CRAIG: Yeah. (Emma is nearby at her locker, and can hear from Craig's voice that he doesn't bring good news)
MANNY: I'm embarrassed too. People talking like this. But I had such an amazing time. The carnival, the gift. It was like the best night of my life. And all because of you.
CRAIG: (doesn't know what to say) Great. Well… I'll see you later. (Walks away)
MANNY: Great. (To Emma) That was… weird.
EMMA: Maybe Craig's not really into this.
MANNY: No. no. He's just moody.
EMMA: Maybe you should slow down. You know, before you get hurt.
MANNY: No, he just needs cheering up. Which I'm great at. (Walks away)
Ellie is sitting in zen garden alone. Marco sees her from inside and goes out to her
MARCO: (sounding surprised) Hey. What are you doing?
ELLIE: (avoiding eye contact) Nothing.
MARCO: because I was supposed to meet Hazel and…
ELLIE: I know.
MARCO: Yeah?
ELLIE: I kinda know firsthand, actually…
MARCO: Ellie, have you been the one writing me? (Ellie gets up and walks away) Ellie…
Outside school: Ellie's phone rings and she picks it up
ELLIE: Hello?
MARCO: (just on the phone) Ellie.
ELLIE: I hope you're calling to tell me about your sudden case of amnesia. (There is a figure in the background, that's slowly coming closer)
MARCO: No.
ELLIE: I wish I had amnesia. I don't take rejection well.
MARCO: Ellie, turn around. (She does and sees Him coming towards her) I didn't reject you.
ELLIE: Felt like it.
MARCO: Of course it did. You didn't let me finish.
ELLIE: But you were…
MARCO: I was gonna meet Hazel to tell her that, well, to tell her that she's not my type. I mean, I go for cool, alternative (hangs up phone because he's close enough for her to hear him) girls like Ellie Nash.
ELLIE: Oh. I'm such an idiot.
MARCO: No. If you were, would I still ask you out? (Takes her phone and hangs it up) For C, as in coffee?
Craig walks to his locker to see it being decorated by Manny
MANNY: How was photography club?
CRAIG: What happened to my locker?
MANNY: I thought it'd cheer you up.
ASHLEY: (walking up) I hope I'm not interrupting. You said you wanted to sign this? (Hands him clipboard)
CRAIG: Yeah, the petition protesting GM foods, right? (Signing then giving it back to Ashley)
MANNY: GM?
ASHLEY: It stands for "genetically modified."
MANNY: Does that make them good?
ASHLEY: (to Craig) I'll see you later. (Walks away)
MANNY: I don't think you should talk to her anymore.
CRAIG: Uh, she's in my class.
MANNY: So, what are we doing Friday night? (Craig just slightly shakes his head) You're moody again. Is it your locker? You don't like it?
CRAIG: No, Manny. I'm sorry. (Pause) But it's not my locker I don't like. It's you. (Manny is crushed)
End | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x10 - Take My Breath Away"} | foreverdreaming |
Inside Degrassi, at Terri’s locker
Terri: Maybe I should bring haggis for International Day.
Hazel: Isn’t that made from stomach or liver or something even grosser?
Terri: Yeah, but it’s my Scottish heritage.
Paige: Terri you are under arrest for wearing last year’s jeans. Fashion crime!
(Paige gives her a fashion ticket.)
Hazel: Well I know someone who could use a ticket herself.
Paige: Me? A fashion criminal?
Hazel: Yeah for starting the school year with a mullet, but you guys want a real fashion crime?
(Fareeza walks by wearing a hijab.)
Terri: Do you think they’re maybe bald under there?
Ashley: Do you think maybe you’re just a bit ignorant?!
Hazel: You’re under arrest. Crime: t*rror1st-chic.
Fareeza: Very funny Hazel.
(Hazel stands in front of Fareeza until she takes the fashion ticket. Fareeza crumples up the paper and throws it on the ground.)
Paige: Woah. Okay Haz, when I’m offended you know you’ve really gone too far.
Hazel: Well dressed like that what do you expect, right?
In Media Immersion, Spinner and Jimmy are playing hacky sack
Mr. Simpson: (Grabs the hacky sack away from them) Woah. Thank you, it’s not even my birthday.
Spinner: Yeah. Sir, can I have that…? Later.
Mr. Simpson: First up a reminder that tomorrow is Grade 9 International Day. So I expect to be dazzled by each and every one of your displays.
Spinner: What if you don’t have a culture?
Mr. Simpson: Gavin we’ve been through this. Everyone has a culture so bring food, dress up, do a play.
Hazel: And what if we do nothing?
Mr. Simpson: Nothing? Thought you would have been into this Hazel, but if not…class participation is 10% of your mark. Okay attendance.
(He starts taking attendance.)
Paige: Haven’t you started yet? Oh well if you haven’t, maybe I could help you finish it tonight. As in me coming over to your place, finally.
Hazel: Sure. Maybe.
Paige: Hun the complete lack of invite chez vous, paranoia inducing. Are we best friends or not?
Hazel: What do you think?
Mr. Simpson: Michalchuk?
(Paige looks up.)
Mr. Simpson: I know you’re here. Talking to Hazel as always.
In sewing class
Liberty: I suck.
JT: Yeah, you might be right about that.
Liberty: That’s your hand sewing project? It’s perfect.
JT: Yeah. I guess it’s not bad.
Toby: I’d rather stick sewing needles in my eyes than do another project.
Liberty: Morton’s assigning more today.
Toby: Yeah and they’re based on how well we did these.
Sean: I don’t even care. This stuff is for girls.
Liberty: And not even true! Just look at JT.
JT: Why Liberty. I’m horrible.
Sean: Doesn’t look like it Gay-T.
JT: Uh yeah. No, no that’s not mine. This is mine.
(He takes Liberty’s pillow and shows it to Sean.)
Sean: You win man. That’s the worst.
Mr. Morton: Please have your projects ready. Ms. Santos. It’s very nice.
JT: Here take it, pretend it’s not mine.
Mr. Morton: Ms. Van Zandt? Absolutely incredible work. Wonderful.
Liberty: Uh thank you sir.
Mr. Morton: Mr. Yorke.
(JT gives it to him.)
Mr. Morton: Perhaps we should send you back to geometry to find out what a square looks like.
In the hallway
Spinner: Last night I asked my mom what my culture was. She pointed to the globe and said I was from Earth.
Paige: It’s good to know. I had my doubts.
(Spinner pretends to laugh loudly as him and Jimmy walk by.)
Paige: Okay I don’t know why you are so against International Day.
Hazel: Because we’re people. Why do we need labels?
Paige: I am wearing full Ukrainian down to my chabote and am I complaining? Of course I did make a little update.
Hazel: You’re an inspiration. Really.
Paige: Please! All you have to wear is some cutoff shorts and bring in like roti or jerk-chicken.
Hazel: I eat jerk-chicken all the time, but why would I bring it?
Paige: Well it’s Jamaican, isn’t it?
Hazel: Jerk-chicken? Totally.
Paige: And you’re Jamaican aren’t you?
Hazel: Right. Jamaican mon!
Mr. Raditch: (On the PA System) A reminder to grade nine students that tomorrow is International Day.
Outside the school
Liberty: JT! You have to help me. Do you see the project I just got assigned?
JT: Yeah the skirt thingy. Eh piece of cake.
Liberty: A whole skirt, on a machine?!
JT: You can do it Liberty.
Liberty: Oh right. You saw what Morton thought of the pillow I did, aka your project! You got a D. Well I got a D, but you claimed the D.
JT: Look Liberty, I don’t care okay and you’ll be fine.
Liberty: Probably sew my finger off.
JT: Not my problem.
Liberty: Don’t make me tell the guys you’re the next Martha Stewart!
JT: You’re kidding. You wouldn’t.
Liberty: Try me.
JT: Fine I’ll do it, but if you tell anyone I’ll sew your finger off.
Liberty: Thanks. Now I was thinking a slit up the side might be cute you know, have a really nice plaid fabric there…
At the Crescent Moon Caribbean restaurant
Wayne: Welcome sweetness!
Hazel: Hey Wayne!
Wayne: Here for your usual curried goat?
Hazel: No. For school. I want to give my class a taste of the real Jamaica.
Wayne: Go for the gold. You love it.
Hazel: I do, but I’m not sure they will.
Wayne: Ah how’s about some jerk-chicken? That’s pretty safe.
Hazel: Perfect. How much for like 50 people? Just to give them a taste.
Wayne: Tell you what, since you’re such a good customer I’ll give you a break.
Hazel: Wow. Thanks.
Wayne: What’s this for?
Hazel: Um I’m doing a project on Jamaica. Thought I’d go for the extra points.
Wayne: But you’re not from there.
Hazel: I know. It’s for geography. I’ve always liked Jamaica. Hope to visit some day.
(He hands her a Jamaican poster.)
Wayne: Food and decorations. I see an A+ in your future.
Inside the school during International Day
Spinner: This is the Gavin Mason little slice of pride. Russian sausage, polish sausage, and German sausage.
Mr. Simpson: It’s certainly a creative look at your heritage. What are the white chunks?
Spinner: Oh those are Chinese water chestnuts, in honour of my sister.
Mr. Simpson: How long did you cook this for?
Spinner: I don’t know. Five minutes. Why?
(He spits it out and Jimmy laughs.)
Mr. Raditch: Ms. Michalchuk, I have to compliment you on your Ukrainian outfit. Don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like it.
Paige: Well I had to make some modifications just to bring it up to date.
Mr. Raditch: Oh it’s definitely up to date.
Paige: Thank you sir! Pierogi?
Mr. Simpson: This is excellent jerk-chicken Hazel.
Hazel: It’s my mother’s recipe.
Mr. Simpson: You know I live by the Crescent Moon Caribbean restaurant. She’d give those guys a run for their money.
Hazel: Thanks. My mom is from Jamaica so you know, they all kind of learned in the same place.
Mr. Simpson: Yeah mon!
Hazel: Yeah.
(Hazel and Fareeza glare at each other.)
Mr. Raditch: Citizens of the world, that’s lunch. Be back in 45 minutes. We’ll begin the presentations then.
Outside the school
Fareeza: Hazel Aden. So you’re Jamaican?
Hazel: What was your first clue?
Fareeza: Just Aden, not really a common name…maybe in Somalia.
Hazel: Really and what’s your last name? Oh right! I don’t care.
Fareeza: Funny thing is you sort of look Somalian too.
Hazel: Really? Well, why don’t you mind your own business Fareeza before Jamaica declares w*r on Iraq.
In the sewing room
JT: Anybody out there?
Liberty: Not a soul!
JT: Good. Can you cut me a 6 centimeter strip of that stuff please?
(Liberty starts cutting the fabric.)
JT: No! No, no, no, no! Stop. Stop. Look, just snip and rip.
Liberty: You never stop surprising me JT. You’re normally such, how do I put this nicely, a slob!
JT: Oh thanks. First you blackmail me into sewing and then you insult me.
Liberty: I’m not insulting you. I’m impressed. You must like it.
JT: I don’t like it Liberty. My mom’s a seamstress. I guess I just grew up doing it.
Liberty: Like mother, like son.
JT: You see it’s that kind of comment that makes me want to pretend I’m not good at it.
Liberty: Why are guys so weird about this?
JT: I don’t know. We just are. Look no more questions, okay? I’m trying to concentrate. Seam ripper.
In the hallway
Jimmy: Spin I can’t believe you finished two Sheila specials.
Paige: Yeah after devouring the rest of the world before lunch.
Spinner: I was just demonstrating my appreciation for Degrassi’s culinary culture.
(They all stop suddenly.)
Spinner: Woah.
(Fareeza’s display has been destroyed and spray painted.)
In Mr. Simpson’s class
(Fareeza and Mr. Raditch are talking to the police outside the class.=
Mr. Simpson: A hate crime has been committed here. By who we don’t know, but we’re gonna find out. Until then International Day is on hold. All classes are on hold too.
Terri: But none of us did it.
Mr. Simpson: Are you sure?
Terri: Yeah. None of us are like that.
Ashley: So Ter you didn’t make fun of Fareeza’s clothing the other day? And what about you Hazel?
Mr. Simpson: Ashley I know you’re upset.
Ashley: Just because Fareeza’s from Iraq doesn’t make her a t*rror1st.
Spinner: Ash people are scared. I mean, what do you expect?
Jimmy: Spin you can’t be serious.
Mr. Simpson: You want to explain Jimmy?
Jimmy: My neighbor had his bank account frozen three times just because his name is Osama. Is that fair?
Terri: Of course not, but what does that have to do with Fareeza’s display getting trashed?
In Ms. Kwan’s class
Sean: It’s just some kid trying to get attention.
Toby: Come on Sean! It’s hate.
Ms. Kwan: Hate’s an interesting word.
Toby: It’s like h*tler. He hated Jews. Both my great grandparents died in the holocaust.
In Mr. Armstrong’s class
Kendra: My parents, they’re white. I’m Chinese. We’re still a great family. I’m living proof that race doesn’t matter.
Mr. Armstrong: Interesting.
In the media immersion class
Jimmy: No matter what we say in class, it doesn’t change anything.
Ashley: Nice attitude.
Spinner: Okay I don’t want to be all r*cist, but I don’t exactly want to get blown out of the sky by some t*rrorists either.
(Mr. Raditch walks in.)
Mr. Raditch: I need to see Hazel in my office.
Mr. Simpson: Hazel could you come here?
Terri: What’s going on?
Paige: I don’t know.
In Mr. Raditch’s office
Hazel: But I spent the entire lunch with Paige and Jimmy.
Mr. Raditch: And your thr*at about Jamaica declaring w*r on Iraq?
Hazel: It was a joke.
Mr. Raditch: Really? It wasn’t funny.
(Hazel glares at Fareeza.)
M. Raditch: Don’t blame being here on Fareeza. I wanted to know everything that went on and everything pointed toward you.
Hazel: Okay I’ll admit, Fareeza is not my favourite person, but I would never do that to her display.
(His phone rings.)
Mr. Raditch: (On the phone) Yes. You do? Tell the police I’ll be right there.
(He hangs up.)
Mr. Raditch: The police have caught the culprits it seems.
Fareeza: Who are they?
Mr. Raditch: Two boys in grade 10.
Hazel: So can I go now?
Mr. Raditch: What happened to Fareeza’s display was a large example of racism, but smaller things, like words, it’s where this stuff starts…like your fashion crime ticket, accusing Fareeza of being a t*rror1st.
Mr. Raditch: I’d like to apologize to you on behalf of the school and invite you to recreate your display in the foyer.
Fareeza: Thank you.
In the hallway
Emma: I still can’t believe that could happen at Degrassi.
JT: I’m just surprised Fareeza did a display on Iraq at all.
Emma: Why?
JT: I mean it’s not going to be too popular.
Toby: So what’s she supposed to do? Hide who she really is?
Liberty: JT…
JT: Look Liberty I know what you’re going to say, okay? So don’t.
Liberty: You heard them. It’s wrong to hide. It’s a natural talent JT. You should be proud.
In sewing class
Manny: That skirt is so cute.
Emma: You honestly made that Liberty?
Liberty: Of course.
JT: Did you bring it?
Liberty: I feel terrible about this.
JT: I know, but it’s my choice.
Mr. Morton: Okay time to look at your work. Let’s start with Mr. Yorke who gave us such an entertaining piece of art last time.
(JT gives him Liberty’s pillow.)
Mr. Morton: It’s improved. You’ll never be a tailor, but you will pass the course.
JT: Thank you sir.
Mr. Morton: Now Ms. Van Zandt I’d been waiting all day. Your work please.
(Liberty stands up and shows him the skirt.)
Mr. Morton: Look at the drapery. Perfectly flat stitching. It’s remarkable. Absolutely remarkable. You have a real gift, a true talent, a sewing genius.
Liberty: JT sewed this! He’s the genius.
Mr. Morton: What?
JT: What? She’s lying.
Liberty: He’s lying. I’m all thumbs sir. Compare my blood to that on the pillow if need be. Forensics sir.
Mr. Morton: JT, Liberty we’ll sort this mess out after class, shall we?
Sean: JT’s a seamstress.
Toby: Could you make me a matching blouse, Mr. Fashion Designer?
In the hallway, Fareeza is putting her display back together
Fareeza: You don’t have to help me.
Hazel: Don’t you think I should?
Fareeza: No and I’d prefer if you didn’t.
Hazel: Fareeza I know how hard it is to be Muslim, especially now.
Fareeza: How? You’re Jamaican remember?
Hazel: My name Aden? You said before it sounded Somalian. My name sounds Somalian because it is. That’s what I am.
Fareeza: I know.
Hazel: At my last school something happened to me. I got, I got cornered by these girls. One of them held me. The other h*t me. Called me a t*rror1st.
Fareeza: And you sure learned from them.
At JT’s locker
Toby: Oh Mr. Stitchery.
Sean: You want to make me a nice apron?
JT: Go ahead laugh it up. Really funny.
Emma: Um JT we were wondering if-
JT: Yes Emma. Give your best sh*t. Come on.
Manny: We were wondering if you would make us skirts like Liberty’s.
Emma: We’d be happy to pay you.
Toby: You’re serious?
Emma: Liberty’s skirt was really great.
Manny: I couldn’t believe it. Who knew our own JT had so much talent?
JT: Ladies I’ll be happy to oblige, but I will have to measure you.
Manny: Me first.
(JT takes a measuring tape and starts measuring Manny.)
JT: How about $35 each or two for $60?
In media immersion class
Mr. Simpson: Guys. Settle. We’re gonna start today a little differently. Hazel has something she wants to show us.
Hazel: I lied to you all yesterday. Some of you I’ve been lying to longer than that. So let me introduce myself. My name is Hazel Aden and I was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. Not Jamaica and yes I’m a Muslin. These are my parents. My mom came here first with me to flee a civil w*r. My dad who was fighting in the w*r came later.
Terri: Fareeza wears that headscarf thing. How come you don’t?
Hazel: It’s a hijab and I do when I go to mosque, but to take it on full time it’s a personal and important decision. Anyway I’m sorry I lied. Unlike you guys I was ashamed of who I am, but not anymore.
(They begin clapping for her.)
END | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x11 - Don't Believe the Hype"} | foreverdreaming |
In media immersion
Mr. Simpson: Question thirty. RAM, what does it stand for?
Liberty: Random access memory.
Mr. Simpson: Hmm, I’m sorry?
Liberty: You asked a question. The answer is random access memory.
Mr. Simpson: Right. Right, I’m sorry guys. I’m uh more than a little distracted today. I can’t believe I’m actually getting married…tomorrow. Okay well uh that’s it. Any final questions?
Liberty: Yes. When are you going to open this?
Mr. Simpson: Guys…
All the kids: (Chanting) Speech, speech, speech, speech, speech, speech-
Mr. Simpson: Okay. Okay uh, where to start? Love. Exciting and new.
(He keeps talking about love.)
JT: Do we really have to hear this?
Manny: JT shut up! I’m trying to listen.
JT: And I’m about to throw up.
Sean: Somebody’s never been in love.
Toby: And you have Sean?
Manny: Really? With who exactly? Not Emma by any chance?
At Emma’s house, Emma wakes up, screams and jumps out of bed
Emma: Mom! Mom! Mom! There you are. I thought you left without me.
Spike: Em, remember breathe. I had to get something for my head.
Emma: You don’t have a cold?
Spike: No. No, just a headache.
Emma: Okay. Okay I’m trying not to panic, just being realistic. We have a lot to do today before tomorrow.
Spike: Em let me just go upstairs and take this first.
Emma: No. Take it in the car. Go! Go!
Spike: Okay!
(They leave and drive over to Degrassi.)
Emma: Okay I’ll just run in and out, okay? Then we’ll h*t the engravers, the caterers and home before Caitlin arrives to perm my hair and don’t forget to take your headache stuff. I’ll be back before you know it.
(Spike is shown taking a pregnancy test out of the bag.)
In the hallway
Manny: True love does too exist JT.
JT: Yeah right.
Manny: Just because your quest for an older woman has been like pointless doesn’t mean it’s not real.
(Emma comes running by.)
Toby: Is she real?
JT: Hey I thought you were off today Emma!
Emma: I am! I have to turn this in to Kwan.
(She runs over to Ms. Kwan’s class.)
Emma: Ms. Kwan one essay, one attendance slip.
Ms. Kwan: If only all students were as hard working as you Emma.
Manny: So Em remember a certain someone you dated last year?
Emma: Sean.
Manny: Thinks he’s still in love with you.
Emma: Sean? In love with me? No. Sean and I dated. We weren’t in love.
Manny: Not what he says. So you have to invite him to the wedding.
Emma: No I don’t. Sean and I are over no matter what you heard. What did you hear?
Manny: Doesn’t matter right? It’s over.
Emma: Right and I’m late, so butt out. You’re still coming over tonight though, right?
Manny: Yeah I guess.
Emma: Okay bye.
Manny: Put on your shoes!
In the library
Manny: Hey Sean.
Sean: Manny.
Manny: So tomorrow, big wedding.
Sean: Yeah give my best to Ms. Nelson.
Manny: Actually you can tell her. Emma came by earlier to get some books and she said this was for you.
Sean: Emma wants me at the wedding?
Manny: Yeah she made me promise I’d like get this to you.
Sean: Cool. Thanks.
(Manny dangles the invitation in front of him and pretends to take it away a few times before giving it to him.)
Sean: Thanks Manny.
In the hallway
Toby: JT math class is that way.
JT: Yeah I know, but we have a very important pit stop to make.
Toby: Okay.
JT: I’ve been thinking, there are some upsides to love. Emma got the day off.
Toby: Yeah.
JT: Simpson cancelled homework .
Toby: True.
JT: And strippers.
Toby: Because when I think of love, I always think of strippers.
JT: Marriage equals stag party equals strippers, which equals tonight!
Toby: A stripper tonight?!
JT: Just keep it cool. Craig Manning!
Craig: JP and uh Tony. What’s up?
JT: Yeah it’s actually JT and Toby. Uh, so we heard that your step-dad is hosting a little get together tonight, huh?
Craig: Yeah. A stag.
JT: Right. We were just hoping that maybe we could uh drop by and maybe wish Mr. Simpson good luck.
Toby: And if there’s a stripper there we’d love to give her our best.
Craig: No strippers guys. Simpson told Joey not to get one.
JT: What?
Craig: I…
JT: It’s, it’s like a right of passage.
Craig: I…
Toby: It’s Simpson’s last night freedom. He can’t not have a stripper!
Craig: I know. I know. It’s lame. It’s unforgivably lame.
JT: So Craig you want to do something about it?
Outside a strip club
Craig: Let me do the talking boys and tonight it’s show time.
Toby: She’s the one Craig. She has got to be the one.
Craig: Down boy.
JT: Yeah Tobes. Gross, but we can get her right?
Bouncer: Boy Scouts are down the road.
Craig: Uh we’re actually here to enquire about Miss Fanny.
JT: Fancy!
Craig: Fancy. If she’s available tonight.
JT: Yes for an outside engagement.
Bouncer: Fancy don’t do no square dancing. Come back when you’re legal.
Craig: Wait. No!
(He closes the door on them.)
Craig: This is gonna take some very delicate negotiating, which is why you two are staying here.
(Craig walks over to Joey.)
Craig: Hey Joey.
Joey: Craig did you get everything I need for tonight?
Craig: Almost everything. It’s like this. I’m at the store faced with a choice.
Joey: Excuse me.
Craig: Yeah. Now do I get, listen. Do I get plain boring chips, or hot and spicy nachos and what do you think I got?
Joey: I don’t know. Ice cream.
Craig: I got hot and spicy.
Joey: Good.
Craig: Like say tonight, plain boring stag event or hot and spicy stag party. All it takes is one fancy stripper.
Joey: No.
Craig: Come on! It’s tradition Joey.
Joey: Yeah I know it’s a tradition Craig.
Craig: Yeah so how about it?
Joey: No. It goes against Snake’s wishes alright? It’s sexist, it’s-
Craig: Yeah, but-
Joey: And it’s perfect. You know what? I’m gonna embarrass the heck out of him. Fine, but technically this was your idea. I’m not getting in trouble for it. Angie!
Angie: I’m going to grandmas!
Joey: Yes you are. Come on baby.
At Emma’s house
Emma: Okay so you’re sure it’ll just be a body perm, right?
(Emma shows her the picture on the box.)
Emma: Like this?
Spike: Em I do this for a living. Yes. Okay twenty minutes. Are you okay if I go up and have a shower?
Emma: Yes. Just go and relax.
(Spike is shown holding a pregnancy test and she closes the bathroom door.)
Delivery woman: Wedding cake.
Emma: Okay.
Delivery woman: Just sign here please.
Emma: Thank you.
(She opens the cake and looks at the inscription.)
Emma: Happy Bat Mitzvah Rhoda?!
(She rushes upstairs to show Spike.)
Emma: Mom. Major emergency! This cake isn’t yours, unless you changed your name to Rhoda.
Spike: Just send it back. No big deal.
Emma: No big deal?! This is your wedding cake.
Spike: There’s way more important stuff going on Em. Way more important.
Emma: Yeah, like what?
Spike: The test is positive. Em I’m pregnant.
(Emma drops the cake and takes the phone away from her ear.)
Outside Emma’s house
Manny: Hey Em. Em what’s wrong?
Emma: My mom is pregnant.
Manny: Wow. How did it happen? I mean I know how it happened, but did they plan it?
Emma: No. At least I don’t think so.
Manny: Well it’s kind of exciting…on some level. How about some good news?
Emma: Please anything.
Manny: Guess who’s coming tomorrow?
(Emma shrugs.)
Manny: Sean Cameron. Your love.
(Emma gives her a shocked look.)
Manny: You’re not smiling.
Emma: Manny I told you no Sean!
Manny: But I was trying to help!
Emma: By playing matchmaker? Go help and un-invite him.
Manny: Okay, but what’s that smell?
(Emma screams.)
Emma: My perm! Mom! My hair!
Spike: Your hair!
(Spike takes the supplies out and blow-dries Emma’s hair.)
Emma: My hair.
Spike: Honey it’ll be okay. I promise.
Emma: When? When?!
Spike: Well after the wedding. I can’t put any more chemicals in your hair right now. It’ll fall out.
(The doorbell rings.)
Spike: I’ll get that.
Emma: I’m gonna be your maid of honor looking like this.
Spike: It’ll be okay.
(Spike opens the door and greets Caitlin and Lucy.)
Outside, Caitlin and Lucy are showing Spike their dresses
Caitlin: So what do you think? Good enough for your wedding party.
Spike: I love them. I just told you guys wear whatever you want.
Lucy: We are. It just so happens we both love the same dress.
Caitlin: Yeah we wanted to do it. Come on.
Spike: Guys, it’s just a wedding.
Caitlin: Yeah. Your wedding!
Lucy: To Snake, to Archie.
(Emma walks outside.)
Caitlin: How are you? And what happened?
Emma: Somebody left my perm solution in too long.
Lucy: Spike you didn’t! I thought you’re supposed to be a professional.
Spike: I am, but…
Emma: Getting married is huge.
Caitlin: Well that’s why we’re here to help.
Lucy: That’s right and to take your mind off things we’re throwing a little girls night out later.
Caitlin: Because if Snake can go out tonight, so can you!
Lucy: That’s right!
Spike: That’s great! You guys are so great!
(They all start hugging each other.)
Outside Sean’s house, Sean is working on a motorbike
Tracker: Doing some good work man.
Sean: Huh?
Tracker: Here use this.
(He hands Sean a tool.)
Tracker: So I thought maybe we’d uh get out of the city tomorrow. Go up to the space side back roads, up near Acton.
(Sean shows Tracker the wedding invitation.)
Tracker: Nelson, as in Emma Nelson?
Sean: Yeah.
Tracker: Looks like you got some better plans.
Manny: Sean!
(Manny trips and falls down.)
Tracker: Are you okay?
Sean: Manny, you okay?
Manny: Fine.
Sean: Something wrong?
Manny: Yeah, sort of.
Tracker: What?
(Sean gives him a look telling him to go inside.)
Tracker: Oh my god. You gotta be kidding me.
(He goes inside so Manny and Sean can talk.)
Manny: You remember that invite I gave you?
Sean: Yeah. Right here. (He holds it up)
Manny: It’s sort of a mistake. Sean I’m really sorry. It’s just…
Sean: Don’t worry about it.
Manny: Sorry.
Sean: No. No. Don’t worry. It’s no problem.
(Manny leaves with the invitation and Tracker comes back outside.)
Tracker: Everything alright?
Sean: Yeah I’m fine. Fine.
Tracker: ‘Cause my offer for tomorrow still stands if you want.
Sean: Yeah.
At Emma’s house
Mr. Simpson: We’re back.
Caitlin: Hey!
Mr. Simpson: Hey! How are you doing? Good to see you.
Caitlin: I’m good. Congratulations.
Mr. Simpson: Thank you.
Joey: Hi.
Caitlin: Hey.
Joey: How are you?
Caitlin: Good.
Mr. Simpson: Hi.
(Him and Spike kiss.)
Joey: You look good.
Caitlin: Thanks.
Joey: Good to see you again.
Caitlin: Likewise. Um what is all this stuff?
Mr. Simpson: Uh it’s mine. You know my lease is up at the end of the week so I’m moving in bit by bit.
Caitlin: Don’t you have enough to worry about right now?
Joey: Snake, worry? Come on.
Mr. Simpson: Ah that’s funny Jeremiah. Between the wedding and moving in, I’m like a heart att*ck in motion.
(Joey brings in the snake statue.)
Caitlin: Oh no. Does it bite?
Mr. Simpson: Wedding gift from my class. It’s very um…
Emma: Very ugly. I know. Sorry.
Caitlin: Um so guys what do you got planned for tonight? Doing the typical guy stuff? Scotch, cigars, strippers…
Mr. Simpson: I told Joey no strippers, right?
Joey: Nope. No, we’re going bowling!
Spike: Snake. Come here. Talk to me.
Mr. Simpson: Yes master. Sounds serious.
Spike: No just wedding stuff.
Lucy: Hey guys.
Joey: Hey Luce!
Lucy: Can you believe this wedding? So when are you guys gonna have a little mini-Spike or a mini-Snake to add to mini-Caitlin over there?
Mr. Simpson: We’ve discussed it. We definitely want kids.
Spike: Definitely and who knows, it could happen sooner than you think.
Mr. Simpson: Well I sure hope not.
Caitlin: Just like a man. Never wants to rush into anything.
Mr. Simpson: We’ve got a lot on our plates right now. You know I’ve got to settle in, get used to being a husband and a step-dad.
Spike: Right.
Mr. Simpson: Oh I’m not saying never, just not right now. Hey you wanted to talk wedding?
Spike: No I figured it out. Thanks.
At the stag party
Joey: Hey!
Guest: Hey! What’s up?!
Joey: Listen man, cigars are over there, booze is served until 2am.
Guest: Alright. Perfect.
Joey: Have a good time.
Guest: Thank you.
Joey: Alright. Snake! What’s going on man? Loosen up! It’s your stag.
Mr. Simpson: I’m trying. I’m trying.
Joey: Here you go. I got something planned for later to cheer you up, okay?
Craig: I’ll get it.
Joey: Alright.
(Craig opens the door and sees JT and Toby.)
Craig: Guys.
Toby: What’s the problem?
Craig: Well I haven’t cleared you with Joey.
Joey: Look guys whatever you’re selling we’re not interested in, okay? What are you selling anyways?
JT: Actually we’re uh, we’re here for the show.
Craig: Fancy was sort of their idea.
Joey: Oh really? Oh well in that case, no!
JT: But come on!
Joey: No. Get out of here. Both your ages combined would not make you old enough.
JT: But how come Craig gets to stay and watch the show?
Joey: Craig gets to go upstairs in his bedroom and watch TV, okay?
Craig: But Joey!
Joey: No. No! Eh no!
JT: Look Craig we’re in the same boat as you, so you know-
(Craig shakes his head angry and shuts the door.)
At a Mexican restaurant, Spike, Caitlin and Lucy are sitting at a table
Spike: Make them stop or you’ll have four d*ad Mexicans on your hands.
(Caitlin laughs and shoes the musicians away.)
Lucy: Okay uh, there’s a problem here Spike.
Caitlin: Is it Em?
(She shakes her head no and Lucy hands Spike an alcoholic drink.)
Lucy: Here have this. It’ll help.
Spike: I can’t.
Lucy: What do you mean you can’t? This is your bachelorette party.
Spike: I just can’t, okay?
Lucy: You know that kind of sounds to me like you’re pregnant Spike.
(Spike doesn’t say anything.)
Caitlin: Okay. You’re pregnant! It’s nothing to be ashamed of.
Lucy: Yeah I mean totally. Look at least this time you’ve got someone who loves you.
Caitlin: Yeah someone who’s gonna be there for you.
Spike: A guy who doesn’t want kids. You guys heard him.
Caitlin: Yeah-
Spike: He made where he stands very clear. He doesn’t want a kid right now.
Lucy: So what are you gonna do?
Spike: I don’t know. Cancel tomorrow? I mean I love Snake, but Emma and I have gotten this far on our own. Maybe, maybe this wasn’t meant to happen.
Caitlin: Spike!
Spike: I’m serious Caitlin.
Lucy: What are you gonna do about the baby?
Spike: That wasn’t meant to happen either, so maybe it won’t.
At Emma’s house
Emma: So Sean, you’re sure he wasn’t too upset when you told him?
Manny: For the millionth time he wasn’t upset.
Emma: Good. I hope Snake will take his news just as well.
Manny: My parents have like 20 siblings so I say the more the merrier.
Emma: Actually I’d love to have a little brother or sister. I’m not picky. I just, I want us to feel like a family and a new baby would so do that.
(Spike and Caitlin walk in.)
Emma: Hey! How was your last night as a single woman? Did you guys get all wild and crazy?
Spike: It was fine.
Emma: So can I take this off now?
Spike: Sure.
Caitlin: Here.
(They take the towel off and Emma’s hair is still ruined.)
Emma: How’s it look?
Spike: I’ve ruined everything!
(She runs upstairs and Emma starts to follow.)
Caitlin: Spike. I wouldn’t she’s pretty upset.
Emma: Still?
Caitlin: Why don’t you stay down here. We’ll try and uh iron it out.
Emma: I’ll just be one minute.
(Emma goes into the washroom.)
Emma: Okay I know what you found out is beyond weird, but it’s not the end of the world. I’m fine with this and Snake will be too. We just have to convince him that.
Spike: Convince him? How?
Emma: I don’t know. However you convinced me about you two.
Spike: If I even have this baby.
Emma: What?
Spike: We don’t want any more kids right now. End of story.
Emma: End of story for who? You’re not thinking of having an abortion.
Spike: I might. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x12 - White Wedding"} | foreverdreaming |
In Emma’s bedroom
Emma: How could you even think of having an abortion?!
Spike: It’s a woman’s choice.
Emma: What about the baby’s choice?
Spike: I’m not gonna debate this with you. It’s my decision Em.
Emma: What about Snake?
Spike: Of course. He’d be a part of it.
Emma: Yeah like he’s a part of it right now.
Spike: Emma you’re way out of line.
Emma: What do you expect me to say?
Spike: Maybe something supportive.
Emma: If you had an abortion the first time, I wouldn’t be here.
Spike: Well if you were in my shoes and made this mistake a second time-
(Emma storms off angry.)
Spike: Em. No! I didn’t mean it that way.
Outside Joey’s house, JT and Toby are dressed all in black
JT: Okay Fancy probably won’t be on for a while, but we’ll have to stay awake, okay?
Toby: Yeah. Yeah okay. I’ll take first shift. You take second.
JT: Deal.
Toby: What if we get caught?
JT: We won’t and even if we do, what are we doing wrong?
Toby: I don’t know. Invasion of privacy?
JT: Toby she’s a stripper! Privacy isn’t in her vocabulary.
Toby: Yeah I guess you’re right. She is taking off her clothes.
JT: And she’s getting paid.
Toby: I just wish we were inside.
JT: I know. We’ll still be closer than either of us have come to seeing a real live naked woman.
Toby: Except for that time when you walked in on your grandma in the shower.
JT: We both agreed that never happened!
Toby: Right.
JT: Come on.
Toby: Go, go, go, go, go!
(They sneak over to the house and hook up their camera.)
Toby: Time to test out the Fancy cam.
(They turn on the camera and see Mr. Raditch.)
JT: Raditch!
Toby: Raditch!
(They both scream.)
JT: Turn it off. Turn it off!
Toby: Sorry.
JT: Why is he there?
Inside Joey’s house
Mr. Simpson: It’s getting late. I thought we were heading to the bowling alley?
Guest: Oh you were serious about the bowling alley?
Mr. Simpson: What? Bowling’s fun!
Mr. Raditch: Archie my man this is your stag, I want you to get into it!
Mr. Simpson: Right Mr. Raditch.
Mr. Raditch: And I mean right now and it’s Dan tonight. Oh cheese balls!
In Emma’s bedroom
Manny: I’m sure she didn’t mean it.
Emma: She said ‘same mistake twice’.
Manny: Yeah, but she didn’t have an abortion.
Emma: So?
Manny: So you were wanted.
Emma: Okay fine. Whatever, but this isn’t about me. It’s about my future half-brother, or sister, and what about Snake?
Manny: Emma.
Emma: I mean here we are debating abortion and he doesn’t even know she’s pregnant. What if she doesn’t tell him?
Manny: Do not even think of interfering!
Emma: Don’t worry. I’m not that stupid.
Manny: Good. So let’s get some sleep because-
(She plays with a stuffed animal and talks in a funny voice.)
Manny: -tomorrow’s gonna be a long and wonderful day.
Outside Joey’s house, Fancy knocks at the door
Joey: Hold on. Guys the party’s started.
Craig: No. No!
(Craig and Joey race to the door.)
Fancy: Hi.
Craig and Joey: Hey.
Fancy: You Snake?
Craig: Why uh yes I am.
Joey: No you’re not.
Craig: Come on!
Joey: Go upstairs. Go upstairs now. Hi.
(She walks inside and the guys start clapping.)
Joey: Uh that’s Snake right over there.
Mr. Simpson: Jeremiah.
Joey: It’s your party man. Have fun!
Fancy: So, Snake.
(JT and Toby are shown outside asleep and their video feed falls apart.)
At Emma’s house, Spike and Caitlin are talking downstairs
Caitlin: Emma doesn’t hate you.
Spike: If you could’ve seen the look in her eyes. What was I thinking?
Caitlin: Yeah, but you’ve just been thrown for a major loop. You got to cut yourself some slack.
Spike: I need to talk to Archie.
Caitlin: Uh not tonight though, right? Bachelor party. Not in a state to hear this.
Spike: He needs to know.
Caitlin: And you need to get yourself together, alright? Call him in the morning. It can wait.
(They hug.)
Caitlin: It’s gonna be okay.
In Emma’s bedroom, Manny is sleeping and Emma is laying awake
(Emma gets up and starts walking outside in her pajamas over to Joey’s house. She bumps into JT and Toby.)
Toby: Ahh!
Emma: Ahh!
Toby: Ahh!
Emma: What are you two doing here?
JT: Seeing a stripper…and you?
Joey: Surprise, surprise. Come here. Come here both of you. Where are you going? Get in the house. Both of you. Do you know what time it is?
(Joey, JT and Toby go inside, while Emma and Mr. Simpson stay outside.)
Emma: Mr. Simpson, we need to talk.
Joey: Your parents must be worried sick.
JT: My parents? What about us? We missed Fancy. How do you think we feel?
Joey: Do you think I care? But I’m sure your parents will. I want you both to stay right there. Don’t get in any trouble. I’m taking you both home.
Mr. Simpson: Emma, is everything okay?
Emma: I don’t even know how to say this.
Mr. Simpson: Well try because you’re giving me a heart att*ck.
Emma: Mom is pregnant and she’s thinking of having an abortion.
Mr. Simpson: I’m worried about a stripper and she’s pregnant.
Emma: Snake please just listen.
Mr. Simpson: Emma why are you here? Why are you here telling me this?
Emma: Because you need to know!
Mr. Simpson: Why you? Why not your mom? Why not your mom?!
(Emma starts crying and doesn’t say anything.)
Mr. Simpson: I’m sorry. Really what kind of family is this? You wait here and Joey will drive you home.
At Emma’s house, Spike is on the phone
Spike: This is just great. It’s my wedding day and the groom has disappeared. He’s not at his apartment or at Joey’s. He’s not answering his cell.
(Mr. Simpson rushes into the house.)
Spike: I’ve been trying to reach you.
Mr. Simpson: But not yesterday, not last night. No, right because it was Emma that was looking for me.
Spike: What?
Mr. Simpson: How does information travel in this family? Oh right! Every which way except from you to me!
Spike: Emma!
Mr. Simpson: No! Not Emma! This is about you and me! How could you not tell me that you were pregnant?
Spike: We need to talk, but we are not doing it here.
Mr. Simpson: We are gonna talk about this right now.
Spike: Not here!
Outside, Joey and Manny are playing with helium balloons
Joey: (Singing with helium) Everybody wants something, they’ll never give up. Everybody wants something.
Caitlin: Hey Em!
Manny: (With helium) That’s a dumb song.
Caitlin: It’s save the hair time. If we’re gonna do this come on inside.
Joey: (With helium) I’ll give you the shirt off my back.
Caitlin: Hey come on. I know things looks bad, but we gotta keep going as if the wedding’s happening.
Emma: As if it’s happening, which means its not.
Caitlin: Hey come on. We don’t know that.
Emma: Just forget it. I’ve ruined everything.
Manny: Emma, stop being a baby. Just get ready for the wedding.
Emma: Manny, mind your own business.
Manny: Oh that’s funny. Didn’t I tell you the same thing last night?
Emma: I did what I felt was right.
Manny: Yesterday you freaked because I talked to Sean. What you did was so much worse.
Emma: Well gee Manny thanks for the support. What a best friend you are!
Caitlin: Guys.
Joey: Hey, hey, hey ladies. Ladies take it easy. Everything’s gonna be fine. I know it.
(Emma leaves and Manny kicks Joey’s car angrily.)
Joey: Hey!
Caitlin: (With helium) Don’t h*t the car.
Outside, by a pier
Spike: I just found out yesterday.
Mr. Simpson: Then you should have come to me.
Spike: I know.
Mr. Simpson: To hear it from Emma and an abortion!
Spike: Do you really think I’d send Emma in the middle of the night to break the news to you?!
Mr. Simpson: You know sometimes it’s like you and Emma are the couple, not you and me.
Spike: She’s my daughter. You can’t expect that I’ll just change our relationship.
Mr. Simpson: Of course not, but if this is gonna work then some things have to stay private.
Spike: I don’t like secrets Snake.
Mr. Simpson: Neither do I. Trust me. You sure you’re not having doubts?
Spike: Archie…
Mr. Simpson: This all happened pretty fast.
Spike: We’ve known each other since junior high.
Mr. Simpson: Yeah as friends. Maybe we’re supposed to keep it that way.
Outside Sean’s house, Tracker is looking through a magazine
Tracker: Man these wrestlers today.
(He sees a hot girl on one of the pages.)
Tracker: Oh Sean you got to check this out man.
Sean: She’s nice…
(Tracker sees Emma and quickly closes the magazine.)
Tracker: Hey Emma.
Sean: Emma. Great.
Emma: Sean I’ve ruined everything.
Sean: What are you talking about?
Emma: I interfered and I ruined everything and I don’t even think the wedding’s gonna happen and everyone is going to hate me.
Sean: Emma, you interfering…it’s nothing new. Did people ever hate you for it?
Emma: Maybe behind my back.
Sean: No. Never. So don’t worry about it. It’ll all work out.
Emma: I really, really hope so. Sean! What about what I did to you? It was…
(Tracker shows the magazine picture to Sean behind Emma’s back and Sean glares at him.)
Sean: It sucked, alright? Manny should have never invited me.
Emma: I know. I should have. Sean if the wedding does happen, the party starts at 3.
Sean: Thanks. Emma! What happened to your hair?
(She points her finger at him jokingly as a warning and leaves.)
Sean: You’re, you’re an idiot.
Tracker: So um I take it, change of plans today?
Outside the wedding
Joey: Where is the bride?
Caitlin: No bride, no groom.
Joey: No bridesmaid either.
Inside the wedding
Toby: How bad did your parents bust you?
JT: On a scale of 1-10…136. Yeah I’m grounded ‘til doomsday.
Toby: Me too. If I wasn’t an usher Kate wouldn’t have let me out of the house.
Craig: Hey!
JT: Oh look who it is. You here to steal another one of our brilliant ideas, Craig?
Craig: No. I’m here to tell you that someone very fancy, just pulled up.
JT: Fancy?
Craig: Yeah. Fancy.
(Fancy walks in and the boys rush over to her.)
JT: Madam! You’re here for the groom?
Fancy: No the bride. Christine does my hair.
JT: Oh very good. Right this way.
Fancy: Oh thank you.
Toby: He gets lost easily. Allow me.
Fancy: Oh thank you.
JT: No. No me.
Toby: No really.
JT: Okay.
Toby: Okay that’s enough JT.
Some guy: I got it.
Outside the wedding
Lucy: Spike’s just late as usual.
Caitlin: Yeah, nothing to worry about…right?
Joey: Oh I just hope I can get my money back for this suit.
Caitlin: Ha!
Lucy: Joey!
Emma: Hey are they here yet?
Caitlin: Not yet, but I’m glad you’re here.
Emma: Sorry about earlier.
Joey: Sorry about the hair.
Caitlin: Lucy if it’s humanly possible could you please try and do something about this hair?
Lucy: Sure. Come on Emma.
Outside. On the pier
Mr. Simpson: I just can’t understand how it happened.
Spike: You were there.
Mr. Simpson: I mean you’re on the pill.
Spike: Yeah, which is 98% effective.
Mr. Simpson: So we’re just in the unlucky 2%. Great.
Spike: Some couples would think of this as a blessing. It’s too bad you’re against kids.
Mr. Simpson: I never said that.
Spike: How about yesterday? You said you have too much on your plate.
Mr. Simpson: Yeah I do. I’ve got a lot going on right now. I’m moving in. I’m gonna be a husband and a step-dad and I got a lot-
Spike: A lot of adjusting. I know, but life doesn’t wait for you to get adjusted Snake. It just happens! I mean look at Emma. She couldn’t have come at a worse time, but was it a mistake to have her? No! I wouldn’t trade her for anything.
Mr. Simpson: You’re right. You’re absolutely right. It’s hard to believe there’s a little one growing in there.
Spike: There is. She or he is gonna be beautiful.
Mr. Simpson: So which one of us doesn’t want to have this baby anyways?
At the church
Priest: It is a bit late.
Emma: They’ll be here any second.
Priest: Well we have another wedding coming in here in an hour. I’m afraid if they’re not here soon we’re going to have to reschedule.
Joey: No, they’ll be here. Not to worry. Emma it’ll be fine. They’ll make it.
(Emma walks outside the church and sees them running.)
Emma: Ahh!
Spike: Emma!
Mr. Simpson: Hey.
Emma: Mom! Snake!
Spike: We’ve got a wedding to go to.
Mr. Simpson: Come on we’re getting married!
(They rush inside and everyone cheers.)
During the wedding
Priest: Do you Christine Nelson take Archibald Rupert Simpson to be your lawfully wedded husband?
Spike: I do.
Priest: And do you Archibald Rupert Simpson take Christine Nelson as your lawfully wedded wife?
Mr. Simpson: I do.
Priest: Then by the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride.
(They kiss and everyone starts cheering.)
At the wedding reception
Spike: Connie! You made it.
Fancy: Of course I made it. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Spike: This is my husband Archie.
Fancy: Archie, huh? Funny, don’t look like an Archie to me. Congrats.
Spike: Honey, is everything okay?
Mr. Simpson: Uh, no.
Spike: What is it?
Mr. Simpson: I um,…uh how do I say this? Joey sort of arranged for a stripper to come to the stag. As a matter of fact it was Fancy…Connie!
(Spike starts laughing.)
Mr. Simpson: You’re not mad.
Spike: Fancy can do what she wants with her body. It’s her business.
Mr. Simpson: What a relief.
Spike: Wait a second. I’m cool with how Fancy makes her living.
Mr. Simpson: I sense a but coming.
Spike: But I’m not cool with my husband being one of those pathetic losers who goes to strippers, especially when I know the stripper. Gross!
Mr. Simpson: Point taken. Never again.
Spike: Wait a minute. What if people find out?
Mr. Simpson: Well they won’t. It’ll be our little secret.
Spike: That’s what you think. Girls!
Mr. Simpson: No, no, no, no. Don’t! Don’t! Don’t!
Spike: It’s time to toss the bouquet. Come on. Who will be the lucky girl?
(Spike tosses her bouquet and Joey ends up catching it.)
Joey: Looks like I’m the lucky girl!
Mr. Simpson: Wicked catch.
Caitlin: Sorry.
Joey: What?
Caitlin: That actually has to be caught by a girl.
Joey: But I had so many plans. Excuse me, do you mind putting that down for me? Thank you.
Caitlin: Do tell.
Joey: I will, but uh you have to dance with me first.
Caitlin: Well alright!
Joey: Alright.
Caitlin: Alright then. So demanding.
(Joey and Caitlin start dancing, Toby and Fancy start dancing until JT tries to cut in, Craig and Manny are dancing and Emma sees Sean standing by himself.)
Emma: Hey.
Sean: Hey. Uh it’s a slow song and you’re not dancing.
Emma: No one really caught my interest.
Sean: Oh. How ‘bout now?
Emma: I’d love to.
(Emma and Sean start dancing together and kiss.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x13 - White Wedding Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside the school at the basketball courts
Spinner: sh**t! Yeah. It’s alright, alright.
Sean: What are you looking at f*g?
Marco: What?
Sean: You can’t take your eyes off of me.
Marco: Yeah. As if buddy.
Jimmy: Come on guys. Let’s play.
Spinner: Hey Jimmy, how ‘bout your team is skins now?
Marco: So I get it, you just want to see me take my shirt off. Is that it?
Sean: No.
Spinner: No.
Marco: (sh**t a basket) There. Who’s the man now?
Jimmy: Hey just do that while we’re actually playing.
Spinner: Alright girls. We having a game or not?
In the hallway
Ellie: You’re sure I look okay?
Marco: Since when do you care about what people think anyways?
Ellie: I don’t really, just certain people.
Marco: Well I think you look great. Hipper than hip. Oh hey Jim! Yeah wait up! Uh I’ll see you later.
Ashley: What no kiss goodbye?
Ellie: I wish. He’s a great friend but-
Ashley: But you want more, right?
(Ellie nods and the bell rings.)
In Mr. Simpson’s class
Mr. Simpson: Okay big day for you guys. Dr. Sally is back.
Ellie: Who’s Dr. Sally?
Mr. Simpson: Sex health educator. Very frank. Very informed.
Jimmy: Mr. S? I’m all for the sex talk of course, but didn’t we do this last year?
Mr. Simpson: You did, but there's always more to learn about healthy sexual relations, sexual identity, being gay positive…
Spinner: Sure he doesn’t mean HIV positive?
Mr. Simpson: Gavin! Derogatory jokes are not acceptable ever. Intolerance comes from ignorance so it's good you're seeing Dr. Sally in health today. Hey uh, she's a valuable resource so make use of her okay? Ask her those burning questions.
In Mr. Armstrong’s class
Dr. Sally: Now if you do decide to have sex, then it must be condoms, condoms, condoms and that kind of respect is key in heterosexual and same-sex relationships.
Spinner: Same sex.
Jimmy: It’s two guys.
Mr. Armstrong: Gentlemen. Floor’s yours. Don’t be shy.
Jimmy: Oh um most guys, chicks turn them on.
Spinner: Oh yeah.
Jimmy: Right. Okay so gay guys, how does seeing another guy do it for them?
Dr. Sally: The same way as seeing an attractive female does it for straight guys.
Paige: Um my older brother’s gay and he‘s known forever. Says he was born that way.
Dr. Sally: Well that’s one thought. Some people think it’s genetic.
Ashley: Wouldn’t that mean that gay parents have gay children?
Dr. Sally: Well if a child is born with the so-called ‘gay gene’, then yes it’s possible.
Terri: Some people say it’s a sin.
Dr. Sally: Which is the greater sin: being yourself or pretending to be somebody you’re not?
In Media Immersion, Toby is waving to Kendra from outside the classroom
Mr. Simpson: Now sometimes referred to simply as the processor or central processor, the CPU is where most calculations take place. In essence it's the brain of your computer, the part your computer uses to think. It processes data and any instructions you give to it, either directly or through a program.
(Toby starts bl*wing kisses to Kendra.)
Kendra: What is he doing?
Mr. Simpson: Now the speed it works at helps determine how quickly you can do your work on the machine. This rate is referred to as the central processing speed and it is measured in megahertz.
Nadia: I think it’s kind of cute!
Kendra: And kind of obsessed.
Mr. Simpson: Kendra tell your boyfriend that class time is my time, not his.
Kendra: Sorry Mr. Simpson!
Mr. Simpson: In terms of computer power the CPU is the most important element.
In Mr. Armstrong’s classroom
Mr. Armstrong: Thank you Dr. Sally.
Dr. Sally: You’re welcome.
Mr. Armstrong: Everybody don't forget to pick up your sample packs on the way out and to re-cap for more information you can go to Dr. Sally's website. The address is on the board and every Wednesday night there's a gay/lesbian/bi/transgender youth meeting at the community center on Church. Check it out.
Ellie: Dr. Sally. Hey.
Dr. Sally: Go ahead. I’ve heard everything.
Ellie: It’s about a boy. I like him, he likes me...at least as a friend.
Dr. Sally: But not-?
Ellie: I don’t know. I told him I liked him, but nothing’s happened.
Dr. Sally: Guys get nervous too. Why don’t you talk to him. Be brave. Talk to him some more.
(Ellie nods and Spinner hands Ellie a care package.)
Spinner: Here you go. Hey Marcie don’t forget your femme-care.
Marco: Shut up.
Spinner: What, distracted by Dr. Sally’s advice on boy-on-boy love?
Marco: Spinner shut up, okay?
Spinner: Um it was a joke, dude.
Jimmy: Look just tune him out. He’s just trying to get you started.
Marco: I hate f*g okay? What they do makes me sick.
Jimmy: Hey Marco…
Marco: So just quit it. I mean like yesterday, okay?
Outside the school, during lunch
Toby: Your eyes are so beautiful. They have flecks of green, gold, topaz.
Kendra: Really?
Toby: Yeah.
JT: Uh hi I’m still here! Trying to eat.
Kendra: Sorry. We must be pretty gross.
JT: Eh, not so much. *Toby and Kendra hold hands* Oh I’m so lying. See ya guys.
Kendra: Toby?
Toby: Mm hmm?
Kendra: Maybe JT has a point.
Toby: JT? A point? That’s a new one.
Kendra: Seriously. Maybe we should, you know, cool it or something.
Toby: What do you mean?
Kendra: When you blew kisses at me in Simpson’s class I got in trouble.
Toby: Yeah me too. Kwan didn’t think I needed that much bathroom time. I was thinking about your English troubles.
Kendra: You’re sweet Toby, but I’m fine.
Toby: No I want to help. So I’ve scheduled some tutoring sessions for the two of us, and some study breaks to be together.
Kendra: Wednesday’s my hockey practice.
Toby: Don’t you think your English marks are a little more important than that?
Kendra: No. No they’re not. So just please stop.
In Mr. Simpson’s class
Mr. Simpson: Now if your group is watching carefully you should be able to note the film maker's tricks. Pay attention to the narrative in voiceover techniques, consider the editing choices. How is music influencing the filmmaker’s point of view, okay? All projects are due on Friday. Have a good one guys. Guys I’ll be back in a few minutes to close up shop, okay?
Marco: Uh yeah no problem Mr. Simpson.
(Marco checks out the Dr. Sally website and looks up ‘sexual orientation’.)
Spinner: Hey Marco!
(Marco quickly tries to close down the page before Spinner sees it.)
Spinner: Are you walking home with us or not?
Marco: Uh no. No that’s okay. Uh I’ll just see you guys tomorrow.
Spinner: Okay…
Outside
Marco: But I like the sour keys.
Ellie: Sure they’re good, but there’s a whole gummi world to explore. Here. Marco?
Marco: Sorry, what?
Ellie: It’s not so easy for me to ask.
Marco: Oh well I’m listening. I am.
Ellie: Okay well are we just friends?
Marco: Ellie I like you, a lot, and I mean you like me too, right?
(Ellie nods.)
Marco: So let’s go out. On a real date.
Ellie: You’re serious?
Marco: Yeah totally.
At the movies
(Marco and Ellie are watching a movie, Ellie tries to hold his hand but Marco pretends to sneeze and pulls away.)
Outside, on their way to school
Ashley: The Media Immersion group is meeting at my house at 7, okay?
Terri: Sure. I’ll bring the tape.
Ashley: Weird having Jimmy over again.
Terri: Well he’s in our group.
Ashley: Hey El! Wait up. Can I meet you inside?
(Terri leaves and Ashley walks over to Ellie.)
Ashley: El, hold on.
Ellie: Please don’t make this into some cheesy girl-talk scene. I’m fine.
Ashley: Okay. Let me guess, bad date?
Ellie: No I had fun. I always have fun with Marco, but that was all.
Ashley: Oh. No kiss? Not even goodnight?
Ellie: Maybe he doesn’t like me that way.
Ashley: Or um maybe he doesn’t like girls.
Ellie: From Spinner I’d expect that, but from you…disappointing.
Ashley: I’m just concerned.
Ellie: Because?
Ashley: What my family went through before my dad came out, not fun.
Ellie: And not relevant. Marco’s straight.
At Kendra’s locker, Toby is putting up a bunch of pictures and cutout hearts
Manny: Someone’s in love.
Toby: Yeah, but uh I think she’s mad at me.
Manny: And you’re doing this for her?
(Toby nods.)
Manny: Big mistake. Trust me Toby it’ll make her feel smothered.
Toby: Smothered? No it’ll show her I care.
Kendra: Toby? What are you doing?
Toby: For you.
Kendra: Thanks.
(She opens her locker, tearing through some of the pictures Toby put up and she leaves quickly.)
Manny: Told ya.
In the boys locker room
Spinner: Hey Marcie! Aren’t you in the wrong change room?
Jimmy: Shut up idiot. You’re good for one joke a year and you repeat it over and over and over.
Marco: Nah I don’t care how many jokes this guy makes because um, I’m the one with the girlfriend.
Jimmy: Serious? Who?
Marco: Ellie.
Jimmy: Um Ellie’s your friend who is a girl, but she’s not your girlfriend. They’re different things.
Marco: Well not after last night.
Spinner: Okay Del Rossi. Details.
Marco: Burgers, movie, long walk home…
Jimmy: How far did you get? Third base? Second base? Did you make out?
Marco: Yeah the last one. Uh we like kissed for like forever.
Spinner: And you’re a bad liar.
In a classroom
Teacher: I want each of you to write a two page essay about your dream career. Don’t worry about being practical. This exercise is about hopes, not fears.
Toby: My fear is that Kendra hates me. My hope is that I die.
JT: Give me a break.
Toby: She wants to dump me.
Teacher: What’d I say about talking?
JT: Sorry sir.
Toby: Can I be excused?
Teacher: No you can start the exercise.
Outside the school
Sean: Hey it’s Marco’s girlfriend or is it his wife? I really can’t keep up.
Marco: Just a minute guys. Hey Ellie.
Ellie: Hey.
Marco: I had a really great time last night.
Ellie: Yeah me too.
Marco: But I sort of forgot something.
(He leans in and kisses her.)
Jimmy: Woo!
Spinner: Marco!
Sean: Yeah!
Marco: They’re waiting. See you later?
Ellie: Mm hmm.
Spinner: Yo Marco.
Jimmy: Things are looking up for you buddy.
In the hallway, after Kendra’s soccer game
Kendra: That play was amazing. I mean it was like the ball was waiting for me to kick it. It was so cool. Hey! Toby? Where are you going?
Toby: What do you care?
Kendra: Oh come on!
Toby: No! You don’t like me. I’m smothering you.
Kendra: I never said that.
Toby: You didn’t have to.
At Ashley’s house, they’re watching a video on TV
Spinner: What’s that?
Terri: Go back to sleep Spin.
Jimmy: sh*t 126 of a road. Save me.
Ashley: Pizza’s here.
Jimmy: I’m saved!
Marco: Uh guys, ladies first, huh?
Spinner: Oh well then after you Marco.
(Ellie gets up.)
Spinner: Aw did we offend Ellie?
Jimmy: Gee, you think?
Ellie: Don’t flatter yourselves. I’m going to the bathroom.
(Ellie gives Marco a look telling him to follow her.)
Marco: Uh I’m just gonna get some water.
Ashley: Oh I’ll get it.
Marco: No it’s okay. I can get it.
(He gets up and follows Ellie upstairs.)
Ashley: I didn’t know my kitchen was upstairs.
Upstairs at Ashley’s house
Marco: You wanted to talk?
(Ellie leans in and kisses him.)
Ellie: Sorry.
Marco: No that was great.
(Ellie kisses him again.)
Ellie: You’re shaking. Should we go downstairs?
Marco: No. I want to be here.
(They begin kissing and Marco pulls away.)
Ellie: Could’ve fooled me.
Marco: Ellie I like you and I want to kiss you.
Ellie: Then kiss me. Am I doing something wrong?
Marco: No Ellie you’re perfect.
Ellie: But you don’t think I’m attractive.
Marco: You’re beautiful.
Ellie: That’s not what I mean. Do you think I’m hot?
(Marco doesn’t say anything.)
Ellie: It’s a simple question. Do you like girls at all?
Marco: Ellie I want to.
Ellie: And I want you to so much, but if you can’t it’s not fair to leave me hanging. Please. Please would you tell me!
Marco: Ellie I don’t know! Ellie…I’m just, I’m trying. I am, but I’m just so confused.
At Toby’s locker, Toby is taking down pictures of Kendra
JT: I think maybe you’re overreacting.
Toby: What was I thinking? Me, Toby Isaacs with a girlfriend. As if a girl would ever like me.
JT: Hard to believe. I know, but Kendra does.
Toby: Kendra doesn’t.
Kendra: Kendra speaks for herself, thanks.
Toby: Just go ahead. Fine. Break up with me.
Kendra: Oh is that why I’m here? Toby I like you-
Toby: But just as friends.
Kendra: That’s exactly it. Right there!
Toby: What?
Kendra: You answering for me, just being there constantly!
Toby: You can’t stand being around me!
Kendra: (She kisses him) I love being around you, just not all the time okay?
At Marco’s locker
Jimmy: Marco Del Studdly.
Spinner: Now officially Marco was just getting a glass of water, of course.
Jimmy: Of course and how did that glass of water taste? Sweet?
Marco: Like sugar man. You guys can be officially jealous of me now.
Ellie: Jealous of what?
Jimmy: Of you two and you’re extended bathroom break Friday night.
Ellie: You should be totally jealous.
(Ellie kisses Marco.)
Jimmy: Sweet.
(Jimmy and Spinner leave.)
Marco: El…
Ellie: You’re welcome, but I can’t pretend forever. You can’t either.
Marco: I know.
Ellie: I was thinking that gay youth group Mr. Armstrong mentioned…if you ever wanted to go check it out, I could come…
Marco: Ellie!
Ellie: Sorry.
Marco: No thank you. Really. It’s just that I’m not ready for that yet, okay?
Ellie: When you are, I’m there.
(They hug.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x14 - Careless Whisper"} | foreverdreaming |
In science class
Ms. Hatzilakos: The physics of attraction and repulsion is what we’re going to explore today using static electricity. So I want all of you to pay careful attention to your experiments and please make sure that you take detailed notes.
(JT is playing with the mastodon skeletons and talking in a funny voice.)
JT: Will you be my friend Toby Isaacs?
Toby: Will you shut up and do your work?
JT: Hello!
(He pops up, scaring Emma and Manny.)
Emma: JT!
Manny: Ugh! You idiot.
JT: I’m a mastodon and I died ten thousand years ago.
Emma: You ruined this!
JT: Will you be my friend?
Emma and Manny: No!
JT: You have the cutest little bones. I bet you say that to all the skeletal mastodons. No, just you. I’m going to kissy kissy you all over.
(JT starts making the mastodons hump each other and everyone else laughs.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: JT Yorke!
JT: Uh sorry Ms. Hatzilakos. (He speaks as the mastodons again) Uh I’m sorry too. No, don’t listen to him. He’s lying!
Ms. Hatzilakos: One week guinea pig duty. Everyday before and after school. Right here with me.
The next morning, JT is walking up to the school before it opens
JT: Thanks.
(He walks into the classroom.)
JT: Good morning Ms. Hatzilakos.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Oh good morning JT. Okay let’s get started. Right this way. So we mainly feed the guinea pigs dried Timothy grass, supplemented with pellets, fresh vegetables. Of course they always need a fresh supply of water.
(JT stands in front of the cupboard.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Do you mind?
JT: Oh sorry.
(Ms. Hatzilakos and JT purposely drops his pen on the ground.)
JT: Oh is that your pen on the ground?
Ms. Hatzilakos: No. Must be yours. Okay let me introduce you to the brood. Right here we have Jasper, Bismarck and this cutie is Isabella.
JT: She’s like a big ball of fluff. A really fat ball of fluff.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Yeah. She is much bigger than usual. Well look at you. You have the magic touch. Did you ever think of becoming a veterinarian?
JT: I tried once, but there aren’t enough recipes. Plus I love meat.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I uh said veterinarian, not vegetarian.
JT: I know. I was just joking.
In Mr. Simpson’s classroom
Mr. Simpson: The medium is the message. Does anyone know who said that? Marshall McLuhan, the godfather of modern media and communications and did you know McLuhan was Canadian?
(Mr. Simpson keeps talking.)
Sean: Hey. How was your quality time with Ms. Hot Sauce?
JT: Hot and saucy.
Sean: Full report now.
JT: First I did one of these. Oops.
(JT drops his pen on the ground and Mr. Simpson picks it up.)
JT: Then she bent down to pick it up.
Mr. Simpson: JT is this yours?
JT: Yeah.
Mr. Simpson: You want to pay attention? Okay.
JT: Anyways you guys can’t imagine the things I saw.
In Mr. Armstrong’s class
Mr. Armstrong: Not bad Gavin, but what exactly is a sexagram?
Spinner: That thingy with 6 points.
Mr. Armstrong: Uh no, that’s a hexagram.
Spinner: Oh. Oops.
Mr. Armstrong: Come take a look at this. You really need to take another look at your answer for problem number 10.
Spinner: Oh that has to be a trick question.
(Spinner is leaning over the table and Mr. Armstrong makes a face when he smells Spinner’s B.O.)
Mr. Armstrong: Uh no. Just uh simple bath, uh math. Julian can I see your assignment please?
(Spinner walks back to his desk and Ashley and Ellie make faces when they smell him.)
Ashley: Is that Spinner that smells? Should we tell him?
Ellie: Honesty never hurts.
(She walks over to Spinner.)
Ellie: Rule number one of puberty, shower every day.
In the hallway
Spinner: Dude! Dude! The truth, do I stink?
Jimmy: Um yeah actually. You smelled really bad all week.
Spinner: Well why didn’t you tell me?
Jimmy: I didn’t want to hurt your feelings.
Spinner: Well better I hear from you than Ellie, dude. The truth from now on.
Jimmy: You can’t handle the truth!
(Jimmy shakes Spinner who gives him a weird look.)
Jimmy: Jack Nicholson?
Spinner: Um okay, but this, it’s serious. It’s important. Come on let’s make a pact.
Jimmy: Sure man. Whatever.
Spinner: Jim…
(Spinner goes to the water fountain and washes his armpits.)
In Mr. Armstrong’s class
Mr. Armstrong: Okay it takes Fred 45 seconds to fill his 10 litre fish t*nk. How long will it take him to fill his other t*nk? Now five of them are 5 litre t*nk and ten of them are 2 litre t*nk.
JT: Yeah uh I think Fred needs to get a life.
Mr. Armstrong: Thank you Mr. Yorke.
Toby: JT has a life. He’s got a new girlfriend.
Emma: Really? You mean Liberty, finally?
JT: No.
Toby: Ms. Hatzilakos.
Emma: That is so typical.
Manny: No, so JT. Mature and dumb.
JT: Why? What’s wrong with a younger guy dating an older woman anyway?
Manny: There’s a rule. The youngest you can date is half your age, plus 7.
Emma: So for Ms. H who’s what, 30? That’s 15 plus 7.
Manny: Which is 22 and you’re short by a couple of years.
Toby: And more than a couple of feet.
In Ms. Kwan’s class, Ashley is reading a poem
Ashley: Milan just stared into the soul of the eclipse and saw the world for what it was. A shadow of black, empty, despairing nothingness.
Spinner: Wow. Happy.
(Spinner and Jimmy laugh while pretending to cut their arms.)
Ms. Kwan: Thoughts anyone? Jimmy Brooks.
Jimmy: Oh. Um well I you know thought it was poetic.
Spinner: You made a promise dude.
Jimmy: Spin shut up.
Ms. Kwan: Gentlemen if you have any comments please share them with the class.
Jimmy: I don’t.
Spinner: Oh he does, Ms. Kwan. Jimmy?
Jimmy: Okay. Uh I thought you were trying way too hard to be profound and you just lost the story. Honestly it sounded like a su1c1de note.
Ashley: Well I wouldn’t expect a conformist to understand.
Ms. Kwan: Ashley this exercise is about constructive criticism. Okay we’ve got about 15 minutes left. Enough time for two more volunteers. Anyone? Steven are you ready to read?
In the hallway
JT: Hey what’s up?
Ms. Hatzilakos: JT! I want to show you something.
JT: I’ll bet she does.
(JT and Sean smirk and shake hands.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well I thought about what you said, about Isabella’s weight problem. Well it’s not that. She’s pregnant.
JT: Wow. A hundred little guinea pigs just waiting to be born.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well more like 3 or 4. I could feel them inside her. That’s how I realized. Here.
(She hands Isabella to JT.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Right there. Can you feel them?
JT: Wow. I can’t believe Isabella is gonna be a mom. That is so cool. Does she need anything? Like a special diet or something? How about I do some research?
Ms. Hatzilakos: That’d be great. That’d be a great help. Thanks JT.
In the Media Immersion room
Emma: What are you doing here, and on your lunch hour?
JT: Just trying to do some research for Ms. Hatzilakos.
(Emma looks at the screen and sees that JT is spelling guinea pig wrong.)
Emma: Your spelling.
JT: Uh there is such a thing as privacy you know.
Emma: Yeah I know, but-
(She spells it properly and a bunch of results show up.)
JT: Oh. Thanks.
Emma: No problem.
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ class
Ms. Hatzilakos: Now when Manny rubs the balloons on her hair they become negatively charged and they become attracted to her positively charged hair. Now the moment Manny steps away the balloons repel because they’re both negatively charged.
Mr. Armstrong: Ms. Hatzilakos can I see you for a second?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Um sure. Why don’t you continue bl*wing up your balloons and I’ll just be a minute.
Sean: Looks like your girlfriend has a boyfriend.
JT: Mr. Armstrong is married.
Sean: So? Ms. Hatzilakos isn’t.
JT: She’s not like that.
Sean: It was a joke.
Toby: Yeah remember? You used to tell them.
(Toby gets a mastodon skeleton and uses a funny voice.)
Toby: Hello! I’m a mastodon.
JT: Toby shut up! I’m trying to concentrate.
Toby: Sorry Liberty.
Sean: So teacher’s pet, uh when is Ms. H getting you your own cage?
JT: I’m not her pet.
Sean: Oh really? Let’s see here. We got Jasper, Bismarck, Isabella…JT.
(JT puts a couple balloons in his shirt and everyone starts laughing at him.)
JT: What’s the matter Sean? Huh, you jealous? You want to be my other guinea pig boy? Oh and what about you Toby? My, my, my you’re a furry little one. Yeah I’m sure you do.
(Ms. Hatzilakos walks in and sees JT with the balloons. She gives him a hurt look and he slowly takes the balloons out of his shirt.)
Outside the school
Jimmy: Ash and I were this close to reconnecting and you had to ruin it with your stupid honesty pact.
Spinner: Dude you did her a favour. She should have thanked you.
Jimmy: Yeah well tell her that. Spin sometimes people don’t want the whole truth.
Spinner: Well then they’re stupid. If it was me, I’d want the whole truth enchilada.
Ashley: Jimmy.
Jimmy: Ash. Um look I’m really sorry about yesterday.
Ashley: Actually you saved my story.
Jimmy: What?
Ashley: You were right. I went through it last night and made some changes and it is way better. I like this new Jimmy.
Jimmy: I guess you were right man. All honesty, all the time from now on.
Spinner: Good. Uh can I be honest with you?
Jimmy: Go ahead. We’re tight.
Spinner: Okay. You and Ash getting back together, stupidest idea I ever heard.
Jimmy: What?
Spinner: Well you become this weak, pathetic puppet when she’s around and she’s the evil puppet master. Here, this is you: Ashley I don’t want to go. *makes a whipping sound* Okay. Okay I’m going. *makes another whipping sound* Ow that hurts. Ow!
Jimmy: Okay, okay. I get it. Thanks for the honesty.
Spinner: Dude, my pleasure.
In the courtyard
JT: Look. I’m sorry okay? I apologize.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Thank you.
JT: That’s it?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Pardon me?
JT: I apologized. What more do you want?
Ms. Hatzilakos: J.T. do you know why I’m angry?
JT: Because of the thing I did.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Yes, but do you know why I’m really angry?
JT: No.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Look you’re funny okay, but you’re also very intelligent and you’re just wasting it by always being the class clown. Just wasting it.
JT: Well then I’ll just stop wasting your time. I’ll transfer out of your class.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well you do whatever it is you need to do.
In the media immersion room
Terri: What are you doing? School’s out.
Jimmy: Uh it’s an honesty list about Spinner.
Terri: Are you crazy?
Jimmy: No. It’s constructive criticism.
Terri: ‘You’re cheap’. Very constructive.
Jimmy: Okay don’t make me start a Terri list. Top item, nosy. Doesn’t mind own business.
Outside Ms. Hatzilakos’ classroom, the door is locked
JT: Oh great. Hello? Oh no. Ms. H! Ms. Hatzilakos!
(JT runs outside to try and find Ms. Hatzilakos.)
JT: Ms. H.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I’m on my way out.
JT: Yeah I know, but I need your help.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well my office is open early tomorrow.
JT: No it’s Isabella. She got out of her cage.
Ms. Hatzilakos: What? Oh no!
JT: I was just on my way to clean the room and the door was locked.
(They rush back inside.)
JT: I was just walking by and I saw that she was underneath your desk. The cage!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Wait. There she is. Okay shh. Let’s be very quiet.
JT: Okay.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Close the door behind you. Alright try not to scare her. Come on Isabella.
JT: I’ll try and push her towards you.
Ms. Hatzilakos: That’s a good girl. Come on!
JT: Oh! Go. You go that way. Go that way!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Okay, okay! There she is.
JT: Quiet. Shh.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I got her. I got her. I got her. I got her!
JT: Ah. Ow!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Ow, my elbow.
JT: There she is!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Where’d she go?
JT: Right there. Right there!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Where? Where’d she go?
(Isabella crawls into a small space under a desk.)
JT: Looks like she just found a dark, safe spot to have her babies. It’s what they like to do. I did some guinea pig research on the computer.
Ms. Hatzilakos: She’s not safe JT. The janitor spread rat poison all around the school because of rodent problems.
JT: What?!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Yeah.
JT: Isabella, come on!
Outside the school
Jimmy: Sixteen, dances like a stupid robot. Seventeen, bad taste in movies and eighteen, sh**t baskets like a girl.
Spinner: Okay dude, are you done?
Jimmy: Um one more thing. You say dude like every third word.
Spinner: Oh yeah well you have a shiny forehead, dude.
Jimmy: What?!
Spinner: And can you stop copying me?
Jimmy: You’re the one that copies me!
Spinner: Okay poppy seed bagels. The seeds stick to your teeth and you walk around all day like some poppy-toothed freak.
Jimmy: Shrimp chips. They make you stink up the change room. Shrimp and B.O.
Spinner: You’re a bum and you hang out at my house too much.
Jimmy: That’s because you pee on the toilet seat and my mom doesn’t want you over! What?!
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ classroom
Ms. Hatzilakos: Come on Isabella. Come on.
JT: Come out.
Ms. Hatzilakos: This is all my fault. I think I left her cage open when I fed her.
JT: No. No, it’s not your fault.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Come on!
JT: I can’t quite reach her.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well it doesn’t look like she’s coming out any time soon. Look J.T. I can stay. You can go.
JT: No. Look can you call my parents? Tell them I’m staying here until Isabella comes out.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Okay, but this could take a while.
JT: It’s okay.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Come on.
A couple hours later
JT: Maybe we have to lure her out. Make it seem more comfortable out here.
Ms. Hatzilakos: It’s hopeless. If I wasn’t so tired-
JT: I saw on the net that they like soft music and low light. Hey you ever wonder why they call them guinea pigs? I mean they’re not from Guinea and they’re not pigs.
Ms. Hatzilakos: They’re rodents.
JT: Exactly. It’s like quick sand. Call it quick sand, but it actually works really, really slowly and a boxing ring is square.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Stand up comic, huh? Alright. I can see it.
JT: So should I give up my dreams of vet-hood?
Ms. Hatzilakos: No. You should do exactly what it is that you want to do. Make sure you graduate from school first.
JT: Were you always a science teacher? I mean never a, a model?
Ms. Hatzilakos: No. Teaching is my life JT and that’s why what you did really hurt me.
JT: I’m sorry, okay? I really am.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Uh J.T. Your plan worked. Look.
JT: Hey! Close the door.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Alright!
JT: Yes!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Good job!
In Ms. Kwan’s class
Spinner: Any more honesty you want to share?
Jimmy: Um yeah. Your idea sucked.
Spinner: Yeah the truth does hurt.
Ms. Kwan: Okay, let’s take out your copies of the Chrysalis.
(Jimmy and Spinner are laughing at the blue ink all over Ms. Kwan’s mouth.)
Ms. Kwan: Gentlemen is there something wrong?
Jimmy: Um, no. Nothing at all, honestly.
Spinner: Yeah we were just uh talking about how stunning you look today Ms. Kwan.
Ms. Kwan: Okay let’s start with the theme. Most featuristic science fiction involves-
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ class
JT: You know I wasn’t really gonna transfer out of your class.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Really? Oh maybe you should have. The tough part of the term starts today. We got a k*ller pop quiz. Gotcha.
Sean: Hey. Heard you had a little quality time last night with Ms. Hot Sauce.
Toby: Yeah so uh throw us a bone here. What happened?
JT: Last night, well lights were dimmed, soft music played on the radio. We just looked into each other’s eyes. I mean we were this close and…
Toby: And?!
JT: It was beautiful. Isabella crawled into her cage and had her babies 15 minutes later.
Sean: That’s it?
Toby: That’s all?
JT: Hey guinea pig childbirth is a very exciting process guys! | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x15 - Hot For Teacher"} | foreverdreaming |
At Sean’s house
(Sean is pouring a couple glasses of coke for him and Emma.)
Sean: So uh this is the palace.
Emma: I always wondered what it looks like in here.
Sean: Yeah.
Emma: Okay so…chemistry!
Sean: I hate chemistry.
Emma: Right. Um periodic table. Who created…
(She starts to lean back in the chair.)
Sean: Careful! That chair’s broken.
Emma: Oh.
Sean. Um you gotta lean forward.
Emma: Okay. Yeah so the periodic table.
Tracker: (On the phone) I don’t care! Look tell that knob that I don’t give a flying-
(Sean gives Tracker a look and he stops.)
Tracker: (On the phone) Look if he wants to talk to me that way then I quit and that’s it.
(He gets off his phone.)
Tracker: Hey sorry.
Sean: Nice to see you.
Tracker: How’s it going Em?
Emma: Good.
Tracker: Welcome to our uh very, very humble abode. What you guys doing?
Sean: Oh we’re just doing some-
Tracker: Chemistry huh? That’s cool. Don’t go building no b*mb. So uh-
(Tracker makes a motion for them to leave.)
Sean: Yeah um I guess we’re just gonna go to the library then.
Tracker: That’s cool. Yeah. Hey Em, good to see you. Take care of yourself, alright?
Emma: You too.
In the gymnasium, the boys are playing basketball
Mr. Armstrong: Jimmy. Sean. Now that’s the kind of teamwork I want to see in the regionals gentleman.
Sean: No problem.
Jimmy: You got it coach.
Mr. Armstrong: Good work.
Spinner: Man! Man you guys, you really do play great together. Like Vince and JYB.
(Nobody says anything.)
Spinner: Oh wait. Did I just break the don’t talk to Sean and Jimmy at the same time rule?
Sean: Shut up Spinner.
Spinner: No you shut up. I mean, okay you two. You had a fight a long, long time ago. Why don’t you just let it go? Ask him.
Jimmy: I’m having a party tonight to celebrate making the regionals and you can bring Emma if you want to.
Sean: Cool.
(They do a little fist pump action.)
Spinner: Aw you two. You make me very, very happy.
(Spinner puts his arms around Jimmy and Sean.)
Jimmy: Dude! Armpits near the face.
In the hallway
Manny: So is Sean excited about tonight? Em you didn’t tell him, did you?
Emma: If I told him last week he would have worried himself into a coma.
Manny: Well enough’s enough. You have to tell him, like right now.
Emma: Sean!
Sean: Emma.
Emma: Hi um…are you busy tonight?
Sean: Why am I getting that weird, scary vibe?
Emma: Um because…I know this sounds awful, but my parents were wondering if maybe you wanted to come to dinner.
Sean: No!
Emma: But you have to! I told them you’re coming.
Sean: Emma we have Jimmy’s party tonight. We were invited.
Emma: Yeah I know, but I think my parents would be a little more disappointed if you don’t show up than Jimmy will.
Mr. Simpson: Hey one word for you. Chutoro!
Sean: Chut-…Emma!
Emma: It’s a kind of sushi. You know, raw fish?
Sean: Yeah I know.
Emma: Anyway my mom makes it for special occasions so you have to come! We’ll go to Jimmy’s after. I promise. Please. Please!
In a classroom, Jimmy is staring at Ashley
Spinner: Checking out Ashley huh? Dude could you be any more predictable?
Jimmy: Okay Ash has changed. She’s not the same girl she was last year.
Spinner: Oh yeah. Yeah I know. She’s become a vampire.
Jimmy: I’m not talking about her style. I mean she’s more down to earth.
Spinner: Yeah.
(Terri walks by.)
Jimmy: Oh Ter I’m having a party tonight at my house. Can you make it?
Terri: Totally.
Jimmy: Tell Ash she can come to if she wants. It’s no big deal.
Spinner: (Mimicking Jimmy) Tell Ash she can come to. It’s no big deal.
Jimmy: (Mimicking Spinner) My armpits smell!
In the hallway
Paige: A vote. Hands or feet?
Ellie: Are we supposed to understand what that means?
Paige: It means my weekend at the spa with mom includes either a free manicure or pedicure. My choice.
Terri: You’re missing Jimmy’s party for a pedicure?
Paige: No for a spa weekend. Look it’s more fun than a room full of Neanderthals.
Ashley: So El, how about you?
Ellie: I’d have more fun sculpting my earwax. Why? Are you going?
Ashley: Nah. I don’t think so.
Terri: Ash! You so want to go.
Ashley: But he didn’t really invite me. He just sort of invited me.
Terri: I see the way he looks at you. He still likes you.
Ashley: I’m not sure I believe that Ter.
Terri: Well only one way to find out.
At Sean’s house
Tracker: Sean it’s just a job, okay? Everything’s gonna be alright.
Sean: You know what? That’s what dad said and it never was!
Tracker: I know. I know, but me and you, we’re not mom and dad, right?
Sean: No? We live like them. You’re out of work!
Tracker: Yeah money’s important Sean, but so’s my pride.
Sean: You know what Tracker? You sound just like dad, whenever he lost his job or whenever he quit or whenever he got fired and he just…
Tracker: Yeah except then he’d go and take all our money and blow it on booze. Do you see me doing that?!
Sean: No.
Tracker: That’s right. Look I got a job interview lined up for tomorrow. Does that sound like dad?
Sean: Aren’t you special.
Tracker: I’m trying. Where are you going with my pickled herring, punk?
Sean: Tonight I, I have dinner with Emma’s parents.
Tracker: Well isn’t that nice. Say hello to the family for me.
At Emma’s house
Spike: Em. Nervous?
Emma: Not for me. For Sean. You guys aren’t gonna grill him, right?
Spike: Just the octopus, but I, I hear you, okay?
(Emma sets out the napkins.)
Emma: Black.
Spike: Just relax!
Outside
(Sean is walking towards Emma’s house.)
At Emma’s house, during dinner
Mr. Simpson: You know I was reading that uh the average sumo wrestler weighs around 400 pounds and one of the best tipped the scale at 700 pounds. Can you believe that?
Spike: That’s because they eat like a ton of rice, morning, noon and night.
Mr. Simpson: Mm. Speaking of rice I think I’m going to have some more of the kamaboko.
Spike: So Sean, I uh hear you’re quite the basketball star?
Sean: Uh I’m okay I guess.
Mr. Simpson: Don’t be modest. I saw you tearing up the court the other day.
Spike: Your parents must be proud.
Mr. Simpson: Uh Emma can you pass the nigiri please?
Emma: Yeah sure.
Sean: Uh they’re in Wasaga Beach. I live with my brother.
Spike: Oh right.
Emma: Uh mom, um the California roll looks great.
Mr. Simpson: What does your brother do?
Sean: Well he’s…
Emma: Snake!
Sean: It’s alright. Emma it’s alright. He installs side view mirrors on minivans.
Mr. Simpson: Oh he’s an auto worker. That’s a noble profession.
Sean: Yeah he quit yesterday.
Spike: Oh. I’m sorry to hear that.
Sean: Um do you guys mind if I get some water?
Spike: No not at all. Help yourself.
(Sean gets up and goes to the kitchen.)
Emma: You guys, I thought I asked you not to do this!
Spike: It’s just that children shouldn’t have to live with that kind of stress.
Sean: Does anybody else want any water?
Mr. Simpson: No I think we’re all fine.
(Sean sees a bottle of alcohol on the counter, pours some into his glass and drinks it quickly before walking back to the table.)
Spike: So Sean? Have you uh seen any good movies lately?
Sean: No.
Spike: Oh uh I really like them. Mr. Simpson, Snake and I, we like them. Going to them. Don’t we?
Mr. Simpson: Yeah. Yeah. A lot. Popcorn, soda, Godzilla…
Sean: Cool. Emma you want some more pie?
Emma: Yeah sure.
(Sean starts to pass the pie and knocks over Emma’s plate onto her lap.)
Mr. Simpson: Oh, oh, oh!
Emma: Oh.
Sean: I’m sorry!
Emma: Oh.
Sean: I’m sorry. Here let me, let me help you clean up.
Emma: No it’s okay.
Sean: Here I’ll do it-
Emma: No. Really. I’ll just go change.
Mr. Simpson: You know I feel like some coffee. I’m gonna put a pot on.
Spike: So uh Snake and I are really glad that you could come. It’s given us a chance to get to know each other a bit more.
Sean: No problem.
Spike: Anytime. Hey why don’t I pack you up some leftovers?
Sean: You, you already made me dinner.
Spike: Give you a nice home cooked meal.
Sean: Because I don’t get nice home cooked meals at home?
Spike: Sean we just have extra.
Sean: For a welfare case!
Spike: That’s not what I was saying. Sean. Where are you going? Sean!
(Sean puts his jacket on and leaves quickly.)
At Jimmy’s party, Terri and Ashley walk in
Ashley: I shouldn’t be here.
Terri: Spinner!
Spinner: Hey. Uh Terri, Ash. Uh great you came. Uh where’s Paige?
Terri: At the spa, but we’re here.
Spinner: Oh yeah uh great. That’s-
(Someone sprays Spinner with whipped cream and Spinner chases after her.)
Terri: You should go find Jimmy.
Ashley: I already have.
Jimmy: So you came.
Ashley: I came.
Jimmy: Good.
Ashley: Good.
Guest: Hey Jimmy!
Jimmy: Sorry I got guests to attend to. I’ll catch you later.
Ashley: Wow. Guess he really didn’t want me to come after all.
Terri: I know the feeling.
At Emma’s, Emma comes downstairs wearing different clothes
Emma: Hey I-
(Emma sees that Sean isn’t there.)
Emma: Where’s Sean?
Spike: He uh, he left.
Emma: What?! Why? What did you say?
Spike: Nothing. I, I offered him leftovers. He totally misunderstood and that’s all. Honest.
Emma: Yeah really.
Mr. Simpson: Emma.
Spike: Where are you going?
Emma: To find him!
At Jimmy’s party, Sean walks in
Sean: Yo what’s going on? I heard there’s a party here!
Craig: I thought you weren’t coming man.
Sean: No I am. This is a party. I love parties. Yeah!
Spinner: Yeah party. Woo hoo. Anyways you know, got to get my ladies, tend to them. See you later.
Sean: Sweet man. He’s got ladies. Yo what’s going on buddy? What do you say?
Craig: Yeah um, you been drinking?
Sean: No! Maybe a little. Come on man let’s go. Yo introduce me to some people. Jimmy. What’s going on man?
Jimmy: Hey you made it! What’s up?
Sean: Nothing.
Craig: What’s up man?
Jimmy: Not much. Uh napkins. I need napkins.
(He reaches under the counter for the napkins where his parents keep the booze.)
Jimmy: Catch you boys later?
Sean: Yeah.
(Sean looks at the alcohol under the bar.)
Craig: So uh where’s Emma?
Sean: Emma? Uh she’s at home. We’re through.
Craig: What? You guys just got back together.
Sean: I know, alright? But her mom called me a total welfare case or something. So I told her off and I left. I totally freaked out and whatever, okay? It’s over and obviously Emma’s never gonna forgive me.
Craig: You don’t know that. Call her.
Sean: No man. It’s over, alright?
Craig: Sean, just pick up the phone…
Sean: Okay?!
Craig: Okay.
Sean: Okay.
Craig: You coming?
Sean: Yeah just give me a minute.
(He pours out some of his soft drink and pours the alcohol into his bottle. A random guy walks over to Ashley.)
Party guest: You plus me, destiny.
Terri: Okay, let’s go.
(Ashley and Terri start to leave.)
Jimmy: Ash! You can’t go.
Ashley: Uh yes I can.
Jimmy: No, no. We didn’t talk yet.
Ashley: You’ve got a lot of guests.
Jimmy: You’re the guest I want to be with.
Ashley: I can stick around for a bit.
Jimmy: That’s great.
(Emma walks in looking for Sean.)
Emma: Sean! Sean! Here you are. I’m so sorry about my mom. What did she say exactly?
Sean: Exactly?
Emma: Yeah I want to call her on it. What did she say?
Sean: She said the truth, alright? She said the truth.
Emma: Sean are you drunk? Where did you get that?
Sean: My host, Jimmy Brooks and it’s time for a refill.
(He starts opening the bottle.)
Emma: Sean!
Sean: Yo Emma calm down. What are you gonna give me for it?
(He starts holding the bottle away from her as she tries to grab it.)
Emma: Sean! No!
Sean: What are you gonna give me for it?
Emma: Sean!
(He drops the bottle and the music stops.)
Jimmy: So you, you come to my house to steal my parents booze?
Sean: Jimmy come on man. Your parents are so rich they won’t even know.
Jimmy: Just get out of here.
Sean: At least let me clean it up.
Jimmy: Just get out!
(Emma grabs Sean and they leave, while Jimmy and Ashley start picking up the broken bottle pieces and Jimmy cuts his hand.)
Jimmy: Ah.
Ashley: Here.
(She puts a napkin on his hand and they’re about to kiss when Ashley pulls away.)
Ashley: You know what? Um Terri’s waiting.
Outside Jimmy’s, Sean and Emma are sitting down
Sean: I don’t feel good. I have to go home.
(He starts to stand up and Emma helps him sit back down.)
Sean: Why do you even bother?
Emma: What are you talking about?
Sean: I’m just a big, stupid loser. My parents are drunks, my, my brother’s out of work. I’m just a big, stupid loser like them.
Emma: Yeah so is that what you want me to say? Do you want me to call you a big, stupid loser Sean? Is that what you want?
(Emma takes out her cell phone.)
Sean: Who are you calling?
Emma: My mom.
Sean: What? No. Hang up.
Emma: (On the phone) Mom you know you said if I ever needed you’d pick me up no questions asked? Great. We’re outside Jimmy’s.
In the hallway
Ashley: How’s your hand?
Jimmy: I’ll survive.
Ashley: I’m sorry about the other night.
Jimmy: Nah the party got out of hand. I got serious flack though.
Ashley: That’s not what I mean. I mean-
Jimmy: Oh. Uh look I guess it was kind of my fault ‘cause I weirded you-
(Ashley kisses him.)
Ashley: So now we’re even.
(Jimmy is about to lean in and kiss Ashley when Sean interrupts.)
Sean: Hey Jimmy.
(Jimmy and Ashley ignore him and walk away.)
Emma: Sean! Sean. Sean why are you doing this?
Sean: Because I screwed up, alright Emma?
Emma: Once! Everybody screws up once.
Sean: Emma homeroom is about to start.
Emma: I know, but this is more important, so stop!
(They sit down by the lockers.)
Sean: Things are always gonna be like this.
Emma: Like what?
Sean: Me screwing up. It’s in my blood.
Emma: It’s in your head and that’s all.
Sean: Your mom and Simpson aren’t gonna be as forgiving.
Emma: Did my mom give you the third degree?
Sean: No.
Emma: I mean if she has to drive you home drunk a second time it might be a different story.
Sean: You don’t have to worry about that, alright? Tracker gave me a lecture and I just don’t-
Emma: Okay, but this isn’t about Tracker or your parents or my parents. This is about you and me. Sean I like you.
Sean: I like you too. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x16 - Message in a Bottle"} | foreverdreaming |
At Ashley's house. Ashley is playing her piano in the dark, with candles being the only light. Jimmy is watching her, an unhappy look on his face.
Ashley: (singing) You're brave, but you can't see it. You're strong, but you can't feel it. You're good, but you don't know it.
Jimmy: I love it.
Ashley: It shows how glad I am we're back. Rediscovering each other.
Jimmy: Yeah. Yeah, me too.
Ashley: I mean, last year were just this, this thing. But now we really connect. Let me play you the rest. (singing) I know you. The real you. I know you. The real you.
Opening Credits
Announcement: Attention students, if you lost a keychain with a pink whistle on it…
Ashley is at her locker putting eyeliner on.
Jimmy: Looking for someone?
Ashley: Yeah, actually. My boyfriend. Tall, cute, might have seen us together last year.
Jimmy: Speaking of last year… Grade 8 yearbook.
Ashley: Grade 8… Not exactly my best.
Jimmy: (shrugs) Some of it was pretty good. So, will you sign it?
Ashley hesitates.
Jimmy: We're back together now, right?
Ashley: Back together. Sounds nice.
Jimmy: So sign it.
Ashley: (looking through the yearbook) Okay, did my mom pick out my clothes?
Jimmy: You look great.
Ashley: I look awful!
Sully: You got that right! Freak show.
Jimmy: Try looking in a mirror!
Sully: Careful Jimmy. Although it is nice of you to date the creepy chicks. Leave the hot ones for us!
Leaves with his friends.
Jimmy: (under his breath) Shut up. Sorry, Ash.
Ashley: Happens all the time.
Jimmy: If jerks like him knew how beautiful you were on the inside, they'd keep their mouths shut.
Bell rings.
JT: It's the event of the year! Dr. Sally's sex talk!
Toby: As if I could forget about it with you keep talking about it every two seconds.
JT: First you get the knowledge, then you get the power, then you get… (looks at Paige)
Paige: What?
Toby: Believe me. You don't wanna know.
In class
Mr. Armstrong: Now in addition to condoms, we have the pill, the diaphragm, and the IUD. Guys, there's nothing to be embarrassed about.
JT: (raises hand) Maybe we'd feel a little more comfortable if Dr. Sally was here.
Mr. Armstrong: Like I told you at the beginning of class, Dr. Sally is in China.
JT: Well, send her a plane ticket or something!
Mr. Armstrong: Being sexually responsible means being prepared, but the best form of protection is abstinence.
Manny: What's, what's abstinence?
Mr. Armstrong: Not having sex. No sex, don't get pregnant or contract an STD. (JT accidentally flicks a condom onto Mr. Armstrong's back) However, if you decide not to abstain, make sure you always have a condom on you. (Class laughs)
Ms. Kwan's class. The students are watching a video in the auditorium.
Announcer on television: Until next time, we hope you enjoyed this classic presentation of Taming of the Shrew.
Ms. Kwan: (turns off the television) So, any thoughts on Shakespeare's comic masterpiece? Gavin?
Spinner: Um, maybe add a joke or two?
Ms. Kwan: You didn't find it funny.
Spinner: Funny? Ha, um, no, sorry.
Ms. Kwan: No need to apologize. Because I'm offering you all a challenge. I've paired you up, and I want you to work on Act II, Scene I. This play's been around for over 400 years, so it must be doing something right. What I want, guys, is a version that rings true for you. Have fun with it.
Ashley shows Jimmy her script. It has Craig Manning written in red marker at the bottom. Jimmy turns his paper: Hazel Aden.
In the hallway
Craig: Good morrow, Kate, for that's your name I hear.
Ashley: Hey, I was thinking about our scene.
Craig: And you wanted to sh**t yourself?
Ashley: I can't believe we have to do this comedy! It's so…
Craig: Sexist? Outdated? Unfunny?
Ashley: All three. So I was thinking.
Craig: What if we show that? And play it for what's really going on. …Or not?
Ashley: No, totally. I'm just so glad we're on the same page.
Craig: Yeah, Kwan's gonna regret pairing us.
Toby and JT are eating lunch outside.
Toby: Was it just me or was health class more than a little confusing?
JT: Why? 'Cause Dr. Sally let us down? 'Cause Dr. Sally didn't even-
Toby: Would you shut up already?! I mean condoms. They're confusing.
JT: They're pretty simple, Tobes. You just open the package, slip 'em on, and
Toby: No, I mean, you know, when do we buy them?
JT: No time like the present! Know the drill. Practice. I mean, we could meet the girl of our dreams tomorrow.
Toby: I already met mine. (Waves at Kendra. She waves back)
JT: Look, that is exactly why you want to be prepared.
Toby: It's way too early for that.
JT: What if passion takes over some day? And you, Toby Isaacs, get a chance to get it? Don't you want to be prepared?
Toby: I guess.
JT: Yes, you do. So, drugstore. After school. Our studly future calls.
In the hallway
Jimmy: The concept's hilarious.
Hazel: Asses are made to bear, and so are you!
Ashley: Hey guys.
Hazel: Your boyfriend: Hysterical. Ciao.
Ashley: Someone's having fun.
Jimmy: Yeah, yeah. Scene should be good. 'Course not as good as if I had worked with my favorite partner.
Ashley: (notices an old picture of her in Jimmy's locker) That's a joke, right? Burn it, please.
Jimmy: Oh, but you look so cute. So, dinner?
Ashley: Jeff's making burgers and Kraft dinner. You know, my parents missed you. I did, too. I'm so glad you're coming.
At the drugstore
(JT picks up a package of extra large condoms)
Toby: JT, you do not need extra large.
JT: What does this mean - "ribbed"?
Toby: For her pleasure? No idea.
JT: Hmm… Better find out.
Toby: Did you see the pina colada flavor?
JT: Yeah. Too bad they don't have bacon.
(Toby gives him a weird look)
JT: So, what did ya get?
(Toby holds up a box of Glow condoms)
JT: Ohhh, the force is strong within you. (He picks up a cane and hands one to Toby. The two begin "laser sword fighting" making Star Wars noises.) Come on, let's go.
Cashier: Okay, so call me later? Okay. Bye.
JT: (places the condoms on the counter) We just wanna be ready, you know?
Toby: He does. And, and me. And me. Together. But not together.
JT: Uh, could we have those in separate bags, please? And, uh, maybe your phone number?
At the Kerwin/Isaacs household
Ashley: So, did Dr. Sally come today?
Toby: Uh, no. Armstrong filled in.
Ashley: Did he give out condoms?
Toby: What?! No, not that that's any of your business.
Ashley: Relax. I just think that kids should have access to condoms. It's an important issue, eh, Jimmy?
Jimmy: Sure it is. Uh, I'm starving.
Mr. Isaacs: I don't know. Teachers giving out condoms suggests that kids should be having sex.
Mrs. Kerwin: Well, kids are gonna have sex, Jeff, but at least they should be protected.
Ashley: Jimmy, what do you think?
Jimmy: I'm not sure. You all have really good points.
Ashley: (sighs) And what's your point?
Jimmy: I think Jeff's right. Handing out condoms sends a message. Sorry.
Ashley: Don't be. You're allowed to have an opinion. I just wish I didn't have to drag it out of you.
At school
(Toby puts the packages of condoms into his and JT's locker)
JT: What are you doing?
Toby: You're the genius who talked me into buying them. They're your problem now.
Spinner: (practicing his lines) For I am born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate confrom… a Kate confar… confrabled…
JT: That's right, Spinner. Walk and talk!
Spinner: Hahahahaha. (Throw JT into the locker causing all of the condoms to spill onto the floor) Woo hoo hoo. JT the Stud. (Turns to Manny and Emma) Check this out.
(Manny laughs)
JT: Guys, they're not mine.
Manny: Then whose are they?
Emma: They must be Toby's. That's gross.
Manny. Ew! That is so classic!
Spinner: Toby? Kendra? He's planning? With my sister?!
JT: No! Spinner, it's just…
Spinner: When I find Isaacs, he's finished.
In the hallway
(Ashley is trying to take a picture of herself)
Craig: Need some help with that?
Ashley: Sure. It's for Jimmy.
Craig: Yeah.
Ashley: Thanks.
Craig: No problem. Hope he likes it. (leaves)
Ashley: (gives the picture to Jimmy) Jimmy, for your locker.
Jimmy: Thanks. (He hangs it next to the Grade 8 picture)
Ashley: Um, it's supposed to replace that one.
Jimmy: The more pictures of you the better. (He leans in to kiss her, but she turns her head) What?
Ashley: Nothing. It's just…
Jimmy: What?
Ashley: Which picture do you like better?
Jimmy: I like them both.
Ashley: You didn't answer my question.
Jimmy: Ash!
Ashley: Speak your mind! I mean it! Which one do you like more?
Jimmy: The old one, okay? The old one.
Ashley's house the next morning
She sits at her makeup mirror flipping through the yearbook.
At school
Ashley walks through the hallways dressed in blue, sans makeup, while every one laughs at her.
In Mr. Armstrong's classroom
Raditch on PA: Would Nicole Hamilton please report to the main office immediately. Again, Nicole Hamilton.
Ellie: I'll be honest. I don't get it.
Ashley: This is who I've been since before we met.
Jimmy: Ash, wow.
Spinner: You, you actually look alive.
Ashley: Thanks, I think.
Jimmy: I was just getting used to the whole Goth thing. This is so…
Ellie: Tamed?
Mr. Armstrong: Everyone take your seats, please.
Computer Lab
Toby: Spinner's locker page? Why do you want me to die?
JT: I'm trying to save your life. Look, if we can figure out his schedule, maybe you can avoid him for the rest of the year.
Toby: What about Kendra? She probably thinks I'm slime.
JT: You'll explain it to her. She'll understand. Everything will be fine.
(On the web page it says: Who's face should I rearrange? Toby Isaacs, Toby Isaacs, TOBY ISAACS!)
JT: Or not.
(A message pops up on the screen that says You have new DMail)
Toby: Don't open it!
JT: Too late.
(It says: Are you afraid? You should be. Look behind you. The boys turn and Spinner waves at them. Toby and JT run out of the lab into the hallway)
Toby: (stops running) Oh, good.
Kendra: (throws him into a locker) How old am I?
Toby: Uh, twelve.
Kendra: And what grade am I in?
Toby: Seven.
Kendra: And you thought I'd have sex with you?! Pervert!
Outside
Paige, Terri, Hazel, and Ashley are sitting at a picnic table.
Hazel: I know. I love Existential jeans. They fit so perfect!
Paige: I love that commercial where that hot guy says, "Life is meaningless without jeans."
Paige, Hazel, & Terri: Existential!
Ashley: Haven't seen that one yet.
Terri: Don't worry. We'll get you back in the loop.
Paige: Speaking of loop, what's with the style rewind anyway?
Ashley: You don't like it?
Paige: Sure, but the Goth look was sort of working for you. Why the change?
Ashley: I have to go. I have to meet Craig.
Craig: For I am born to tame you, Kate, and…
Ashley: Hey. Sorry I'm late.
Craig: And you are…?
Ashley: Late. Sorry. Can we start?
Craig: Yeah, sure. Good morrow, Kate, for that's your name I hear.
Ashley: Wait.
Craig: What, not strong enough?
Ashley: No, it's just… The way Petruchio wants to change Kate… Isn't it out of love?
Craig: That's what he claims. So?
Ashley: So we're making him into a villain. What if we're wrong?
Craig: Ash, the guy's a sexist pig. And abusive.
Ashley: I know. I read the play, but…
Craig: But nothing. Even if he wasn't, he'd still be a jerk.
Ashley: Why?
Craig: Because if he really loved Kate, he wouldn't want to change her. He'd love her for who she is.
Back at school, in the hallway
Spinner: (grabs Toby and goes to punch him) It's judgement day, Isaacs.
Toby: (takes off glasses) Go ahead. But I want you to know that the reason I bought that stuff was cause I really like your sister. I mean, I really like her, but I wasn't thinking about having sex with her. We've only kissed. Once.
Spinner: If you weren't thinking about it why'd you buy all that stuff?
Toby: Because if I was gonna have sex with Kendra - which I'm not - I'd want to take care of her. I mean, having sex never even occurred to me until JT started talking about being prepared and I…
Spinner: JT? So this was JT's idea?
Toby: No. No, no, no, no. He just suggested that I buy that stuff, you know. So, you know, just in case…
At the entrance to the auditorium
Jimmy: Break a leg.
Ashley: You, too.
Jimmy: You okay?
Ashley: Yeah, just a little nervous.
Jimmy: You'll be great. And I'll be right there watching. (Kisses Ashley on her head)
Hazel: You guys are so cute!
In the auditorium
(Jimmy and Hazel are performing. Jimmy is in a football uniform and Hazel is wearing her Spirit Squad uniform)
Jimmy: Kate, in sooth you scape not so.
Hazel: I chafe you, if I tarry. Let me go.
Jimmy: Nay, I am born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as any household Kate. I must and will have Katherine to my wife.
Hazel: Give me an L-O-V-E, Go Love!
(The class applauds)
Ms. Kwan: So, thoughts?
Paige: It kept my attention.
Terri: Me too. Love the costumes.
Ms. Kwan: Why football?
Jimmy: Well, we thought adding a modern twist would make it funnier.
Hazel: Petruchio's a manly man. Making him a football player seemed perfect.
Jimmy: And he makes Kate into the perfect wife for him. His own cheerleader.
Ms. Kwan: Good job. Okay, Ash and Craig.
Craig: You ready?
Ashley: Yeah, for real.
(Craig is dressed in a suit and wearing glasses; Ashley is wearing a wig and an apron)
Craig: (grabs Ashley's wrists) Kate in sooth you scape not so!
Ashley: I chafe you, if I tarry. Let me go!
Craig: (throws Ashley to the ground) Thou must be married to no man but me. (Holds her by her throat) For I am born to tame you, Kate, and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as any household Kate. I must and will have Katherine to my wife.
(Ashley cries. Craig stands up and takes off the glasses.)
Ms. Kwan: Wow. Intense.
Craig: Uh, yeah. We saw it a bit differently. Ash?
Ashley: Um, it definitely didn't seem like a comedy to us. It felt darker.
Ms. Kwan: Can you tell us why you felt that?
Ashley: (looking at Jimmy) It's about breaking a person, their spirit. Taming them and making them into someone they aren't. Making them into a lesser version of themselves.
At school, Spinner grabs Toby in the hallway and pulls him into a classroom
Spinner: Isaacs. Just the man I was looking for. (Shows Toby that JT is covered in condoms) Like his new look? Okay, and now for your feat.
JT: No, Spinner, please, please! I promise I'll never buy condoms again.
Spinner: It is not about buying condoms. It's about Kendra. There's enough pressure out there about having sex. She doesn't need any more from you two.
(JT nods)
Spinner: Now, ladies and gentlemen - Isaacs, h*t the lights - I give you the human glowworm.
At Jimmy's locker
Ashley: Hey.
Jimmy: Hey.
Ashley: I signed it like you asked.
Jimmy: (begins reading) We cling to one another
Storm raging around (Ashley begins to back away)
My head slips under the water
You don't hear me cry
So I let go
Drift away
Leave your comfort behind
Save us
Ashley: (tearfully) Love always, Ashley
END | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x17 - Dressed in Black"} | foreverdreaming |
In the gymnasium during tryouts
Kendra: Over here Liberty! Pass!
(Ms Hatzilakos is watching the girls and jotting down notes when Kendra scores.)
Kendra: Yes!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Great stuff girls. Bring it in. Alright the final roster will be posted tomorrow. Not everyone made the cut, but today I was really impressed with all your effort. Good stuff everyone.
(Everyone starts to leave.)
Emma: You ready?
Liberty: Yeah.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Uh Liberty nice effort out there.
Liberty: I was pleased with my stick handling, though my scoring could have been better.
Ms. Hatzilakos: You didn’t score.
Liberty: We’ll need to work on that if I’m gonna lead our team to victory.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I know how much this means to you, but I’m sorry Liberty you didn’t make the cut.
Liberty: There must be a mistake. I’ve never lost anything in my life.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well you haven’t lost because I do want you on the team.
Liberty: To do what?
Ms. Hatzilakos: The role of team manager. This team really needs you.
Liberty: The team needs me, then I’m there.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Great.
In the hallway, the roster has been posted
Manny: Awesome I made it.
Kendra: Great. Now for the initiation.
Manny: Initiation?
(Kendra and Emma start spraying Manny with silly string when Liberty walks over.)
Liberty: Congratulations one and all.
Emma: Thanks. Sorry you didn’t make the team.
Manny: But you’re manager. That’s good.
Liberty: That’s great and believe me I’m gonna keep you girls in line.
In history class
Teacher: The outline for your essay is strong and thought-provoking.
Liberty: Napoleon was fascinating. I only hope my essay does him justice.
Teacher: I’m sure it will. You always accomplish what you set out to do.
Liberty: Not always, but thank you sir.
In a classroom
Terri: A strong fate line means you know what you want to do.
Hazel: But my lifeline’s so faint.
Terri: Your quest for meaning will be an eternal one.
Ashley: Didn’t you learn anything last year about playing with dark magic?
Paige: Wow. Déjà vu. Freaky occult and Ash freaking out.
Ashley: You have to have a little respect.
Paige: And I have to have a little fun, so Ter, read the palm.
(Terri starts looking at Paige’s palm and stops suddenly.)
Paige: What’s it say mystic oracle?
Terri: It’s, it’s great. Your palm’s perfect.
Paige: Um hon. I was kind of looking for a reading.
Mr. Armstrong: Morning class. Let’s open our textbooks to chapter 12, polynomials.
Paige: What do you see Terri?
Mr. Armstrong: I see Paige Michalchuk in detention after school.
Outside the school
Hazel: Ter! You’ve been avoiding me all day.
Terri: Not you. Paige.
Hazel: Why?
Terri: Your fate line was really faint. Paige’s lifeline doesn’t exist.
Hazel: Her days are numbered?
Paige: Whose days are numbered? Either you tell me what you saw in my palm or my nails get up close and personal with your face.
Terri: Okay your palm…no lifeline. You’re gonna die.
In the locker room Liberty is doing the team’s laundry
(She has a daydream about her leading the team to victory and everyone is cheering for her.)
Mr. Armstrong: So Liberty, how do you like being team manager?
Liberty: Great. I love it. How come the girls get to wear these ratty things and the boys get uniforms?
Mr. Armstrong: That’s because we didn’t budget for a girls floor hockey team. We didn’t think there would so much interest.
Liberty: You do know boys teams get 80% of the athletics budget.
Mr. Armstrong: That’s because there’s more boys teams. Money is tight for all teams these days.
Liberty: There must be a way around it. What about fundraisers or sponsorships?
Mr. Armstrong: Sure. That takes a lot of work.
Liberty: Mr. Armstrong, work’s my forte and I know exactly where to start.
Outside Joey’s house
Liberty: Plus you can write the sponsorship off as a tax credit.
Joey: Yes I know, but the boys have already asked me to sponsor their basketball team.
Liberty: They don’t need your help Mr. Jeremiah. We do!
Joey: But the Panther’s have done awesome all year.
Liberty: Yes and we can too if we get the same full support. Look, say your daughter was on our team. Would you want her wearing this? We need this Mr. Jeremiah.
(She shows him the uniform the girls have to wear.)
Joey: Okay look. I can’t sponsor both teams, but I’ll think about it okay?
-In the gymnasium-
Liberty: Our New Jersey design.
Manny: Wow. That’s awesome Liberty.
Emma: Yeah. That’s really good.
Liberty: Thanks. We do have to convince Mr. Jeremiah to sponsor us and not boys basketball, but a minor detail.
Emma: Yeah like the boys need funding.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I know girls you’re excited about this, but even with sponsorship we’re not gonna win anything unless we practice, okay? So take your positions. We’re gonna do passing drills.
(The girls get ready to practice.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Oh and can you clean the pinnies? They need washing.
Liberty: I just washed them the other day.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I know. They’re dirty again. Okay girls come on! Can we focus please!
In the media immersion lab, Hazel and Paige are on the computer
Hazel: Here. In palmistry no one indicator by itself is conclusive.
Paige: Okay.
Hazel: Which hand did she read?
Paige: Um my left.
Hazel: And you’re right handed.
Paige: And your point is?
Hazel: You’re supposed to read someone’s dominant hand. The one you use.
Paige: Hey! I do have a lifeline.
Terri: Here Paige. To express my grief.
(Terri hands Paige flowers.)
Paige: Um thanks.
Terri: Anything I can do for you in your time of need, let me know. Anything.
Hazel: So when are you gonna tell her?
Paige: About my miraculous recovery from the brink of death? Hmm I don’t know.
Outside the school
Emma: Liberty we just wanted to say that we really appreciate what you tried to do.
Liberty: Thanks, but Ms. H put me in my rightful place, the laundry room.
Jimmy: Van Zandt, what’s up with trying to steal our sponsorship?
Spinner: Yeah. Who cares about girls sports? Except of course mud wrestling.
Jimmy: Look you girls are crazy. Jeremiah’s gonna back us because we’re a winning team.
Liberty: You really think you’re better than us?
Spinner: Uh welcome to the conversation. Yeah.
Liberty: Then prove it. Floor hockey. Girls versus boys.
Manny: Uh Liberty.
Jimmy: Okay. Say um winner gets the sponsorship?
Liberty: And loser does the other team’s laundry for a week.
Spinner: Awesome. I sweat like a pig.
Outside the school
Ms. Hatzilakos: So whose idea was this again?
(The girls look at Liberty.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well I’m not coaching you guys so you can get into a grudge match with the boys over bragging rights.
Liberty: It’s not about bragging right. It’s about a sponsorship.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well why gamble for it? Let Mr. Jeremiah decide.
Liberty: He can’t so we have to do this.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Look I know this is very important for you, but between school and preparing you girls for the actual competition, I can’t help you with this. I’m sorry.
Liberty: But we need a supervisor.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Yes. Yes you do.
Manny: Great. Now who’s gonna coach us?
Liberty: I will and I’ll lead us to victory like Napoleon in the battle of Leipzig.
In a classroom, Liberty tosses a huge book on the table
Emma: 100 Days To Glory?
Liberty: Our strategy. It outlines what we have to do to win the regionals.
Manny: Yoga. Meditation…and no junk food?
Liberty: To achieve perfection, one must envision perfection. Envision, achieve, win. A simple formula.
In the gymnasium, the girls are complaining about Liberty’s rules
(Liberty walks in wearing an outfit like Napoleon’s and they all stop talking.)
Liberty: Napoleon said if you want authority you must dress the part. I look regal, commanding-
Kendra: Stupid.
(The girls laugh and Liberty blows her whistle.)
Liberty: Silence!
Manny: Liberty I can’t practice today. I sort of have my period.
Liberty: Manny a true champion doesn’t let a silly, little monthly visitor stand between her and victory.
(Liberty hands Manny a tampon.)
Liberty: Now lets get started. Fall in positions!
In the hallway
Paige: And then I realized I’ll never have a driver’s license or a senior prom. Ter I am too young to die.
Terri: Don’t cry. Can I get you anything?
Paige: Sure and maybe you could even do my book report for Kwan. With all this stress you brought me how am I supposed to concentrate?
Terri: You’re right. I’m there.
In the gymnasium, Liberty is going over the plays
(Spinner and Jimmy are outside the gym watching the girls and laughing.)
Liberty: You stay on the left wing allowing the fore-checkers to go deep in the offensive zone.
Kendra: What’s this play called again?
Liberty: The left wing lock. It limits break out space and forces the opposition’s defense to carry the puck or bank it up on the boards. Girls this is child’s play.
(Manny starts giggling.)
Liberty: Hey little Ms. Happyface. What’s a neutral zone trap, huh?
Manny: I don’t know.
Liberty: Page 16. Did you read it? Maybe you don’t know how to read!
Manny: Why are you picking on me?
Liberty: Because you’re the weakest link.
In the hallway
Liberty: Don’t test me Kendra.
Kendra: Why not Napoleon?
Liberty: If you want to win, you players need to pull together.
Kendra: We’re not going to win Liberty, not with you barking orders!
Liberty: They’re not orders. They’re plays.
Kendra: We don’t understand them. They’re useless, kind of like you as coach.
(Kendra leaves and Liberty sees a boys jock string taped to her locker.)
Liberty: Ew!
In the media immersion room
Terri: Finished.
Paige: Ter your head.
Terri: Oh I get zits when I’m stressed. I just e-mailed your report. I didn’t get mine done, but that’s okay. I only lose 10%.
Paige: Are you sure? Thanks.
Hazel: Who said dying wasn’t any fun?
(Ashley overhears them.)
In the hallway
Ashley: Hey Terri. What’s up?
Terri: Trying to figure out when I can get some sleep. Being Terri and Paige is hard work.
Ashley: Can I talk to you about that?
Terri: What?
Ashley: Well let’s just say when I tell you, you’re gonna want to k*ll someone who’s technically already dying.
In the gymnasium
Spinner: Some girls team, eh? What are they doing, putting on their makeup?
(The girls march in.)
Liberty: Closed set. Everybody out.
Spinner: Um it’s just a hockey game, Liberty.
Liberty: No Spinner it’s your funeral. Last time, out!
(Everyone starts to leave.)
Liberty: You, Panther, scoreboard.
JT: Ai captain!
Liberty: Okay girls remember what Napoleon said. One must know when to leave the skin of a lion to take the skin of a fox
(Nobody says anything.)
Liberty: So get out there and give it to them, right?!
The girls: Right!
(Joey blows his whistle to get the teams ready.)
Joey: You ready? Ready? Let’s go!
(They start playing as Liberty watches and JT keeps score.)
Outside Degrassi
Hazel: We should totally go to that movie tonight seeing as your homework’s already done.
Paige: And maybe we could even get Terri to pay.
(The girls see Ashley and Terri with a Ouija board.)
Paige: Ashley on a Ouija board?
Ashley: Terri told me the sad news. I thought that we should get a second opinion. Hey Terri wouldn’t it work better if Paige was sitting here?
Terri: Yes it would.
Paige: Do I have to do anything?
Terri: No. Just watch and read. Mystic oracle, is it true?
(Terri makes the Ouija pointer move to ‘yes’.)
Paige: Is what true?
Terri: That you and Hazel played me for a fool.
(Terri makes the Ouija pointer move to ‘yes’.)
Paige: Wow. I, I really better get going.
Terri: You’re d*ad Michalchuk. I’m gonna get you! Get back here!
(Terri starts chasing after Paige.)
During the game, the score is 4-1 for the boys
Liberty: Manny take it in. Take it in!
Manny: I can’t!
Liberty: Take it in now.
(Spinner and Manny bump into each other and Manny falls down.)
Joey: Hold on guys. Hold on. You okay? Help me get her up guys. Get her up. Get her up.
Manny: Ow.
Joey: Slowly. Where does it hurt?
Jimmy: Are you okay?
Manny: It’s my wrist. I landed on it.
Liberty: She’s fine. You’re fine, right?
Joey: I don’t want to take any chances. Manny go see the nurse.
Liberty: No! She’s going back out on the floor where we need her.
Joey: I’m the ref and I’m telling her to go see the nurse.
Liberty: After this period.
Joey: Get someone else to play.
Liberty: Those girls, they’re alternates for a reason Joey. No!
Kendra: You’re being a tyrant.
Liberty: I’m doing my job!
Emma: Liberty maybe you need to relax.
Liberty: And maybe you need to shut up and do what I tell you! All of you!
Kendra: Good luck trying to win short two players, Liberty.
Joey: Someone make sure Manny goes to the nurses office, please.
Liberty: I can’t believe you girls. I thought you wanted to win.
Emma: Not like this.
(The guys start cheering.)
Joey: Hey game’s not over guys. They can still come out and finish it.
In the locker room
Liberty: I can’t believe you’re all quitting. This is a team.
Kendra: We’re not quitting the team Liberty. We’re quitting you.
Liberty: That’s so unfair.
Emma: Coaches are supposed to inspire people. You just bark at us.
Kendra: And give us crazy textbooks. 1000 ways to make us miserable.
Emma: And the stupid cape.
Kendra: Plus that whole thing with Manny.
Liberty: Alright I get the point. Look you’re a great team. Be mad at me, but don’t let those guys win. Kendra your slap sh*t is d*ad-on. Emma you’re a good offensive captain. Focus on getting Kendra to the net, let her do the scoring and it’s your game.
Kendra: She does have a point. We can’t let those jerks get the jerseys.
Emma: Let’s get ‘em!
(They cheer and head for the gym.)
Emma: Liberty we’ve got it covered, okay?
Liberty: Alright. Well go get ‘em.
(Everyone leaves except for Liberty.)
Liberty: I’m the weakest link.
Outside the gym
Ms. Hatzilakos: Hey Liberty.
(Liberty doesn’t say anything.)
Ms. Haztilakos: The game is still going on. What are you doing out here?
Liberty: I ruined everything Ms. H.
Ms. Hatzilakos: What are you talking about?
Liberty: The girls all hate me.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Did you push them too hard?
Liberty: I really wanted them to win those jerseys.
Ms. Hatzilakos: It’s a worthy cause.
Liberty: Yeah, but I think I squished out all the fun of playing.
Ms. Hatzilakos: You know Liberty it’s tough for any coach. Balancing winning with having some fun.
Liberty: Yeah and it’s so not worth it.
In the locker room, Liberty is doing the boys’ laundry
Emma: Having fun?
Liberty: Yeah. So much.
Emma: Sorry we didn’t win.
Liberty: You almost own. Losing by 1 point sucks, but impressive.
Emma: Thanks.
Liberty: Not impressive enough to get Joey’s uniforms of course.
Emma: I don’t know about that…girls!
(The girls all walk in wearing their new uniforms.)
Kendra: Mr. Jeremiah said he hadn’t seen such a great battle of the sexes since Billie Jean King b*at Bobby Riggs.
Manny: Whoever they are!
Liberty: I don’t understand.
Emma: Joey’s sponsoring both teams. We impressed him that much.
Liberty: Wow. You girls look incredible.
Kendra: You mean we look incredible.
(Kendra hands Liberty a jersey that says ‘team manager’.)
Emma: Try it on! It’s perfect. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x18 - Relax"} | foreverdreaming |
At Emma’s house
Mr. Simpson: Ms. Nelson how do you propose to get genetically modified foods out of the caf?
Emma: Well Mr. Raditch we can start by looking at organic food suppliers.
Mr. Simpson: Organic food in the cafeteria. What’s next? Fresh mountain spring water in the water fountains?
Emma: Archie be serious.
Mr. Simpson: I’m sorry Em, but how many more times are we going to do this mock debate?
Emma: Until I’m ready for the big meeting. Second period tomorrow!
Mr. Simpson: You’re more than ready for Raditch. You’re ready to take on the UN. Oh it’s way past your bedtime. Hey uh made your lunch for tomorrow, done your homework, brushed your teeth?
Emma: Archie relax.
Mr. Simpson: I’m sorry. I’m just, I’m not used to being in charge.
Emma: You’re doing great and remember mom will be home in two days. Wait.
(She makes another change to her poster.)
Mr. Simpson: Attention Degrassi students! Emma Nelson report to bed immediately or face a year’s detention.
Emma: But sir, what about my spotless academic record?
Outside the school
Emma: Hey guys! Wait up.
Toby: Uh what’s that?
Emma: It’s for my presentation to Raditch.
JT: Uh oh. Emma’s on the warpath. Better head for the hills.
Manny: You guys should be proud of Em. She’s Degrassi’s very own Joan of Ark.
Toby: Uh Joan of Ark was a lunatic who took orders from a burning bush.
Manny: But Joan was also brave and strong and an inspiration to women everywhere. Just like our Emma.
Emma: Thanks guys, but I’m no Joan of Ark. I’m just following my conscience.
In the hallway, there’s a poster for part-time work in the cafeteria
Craig: Help needed in the caf. You applying for that?
Marco: I don’t know Spinner. Working in the caf probably sucks.
Spinner: Okay I worked in the caf last year, remember? It definitely sucks.
(Jimmy walks over wearing all new name brand clothes.)
Marco: Well, see now here’s a guy who never has to worry about getting a job.
Craig: Woah. Did you win the lottery?
Jimmy: No, but dad took me shopping last night. A little belated birthday gift.
Marco: Yeah. Did you guys leave anything on the racks?
In Mr. Raditch’s office
Emma: We know it’s unrealistic to expect all GM foods out of the caf.
Ashley: But a number of companies do sell non-genetically modified foods.
Nadia: We can order as much food from them as possible.
Mr. Raditch: At double and triple the cost.
Emma: Mr. Raditch try one of these.
Mr. Raditch: Tomatoes.
Nadia: Genetically modified tomatoes, like Sheila uses in the caf.
Mr. Raditch: It’s perfectly fine.
Emma: Yeah and you could hardly even taste the scorpion, can you? They add scorpion DNA to make them resistant to pests. Of course nobody knows what eating scorpion DNA will do to us.
Mr. Raditch: You’re right. That is disturbing, but it’s also speculation. I’ve done some research on GM foods and I know they haven’t proven to be harmful.
Ashley: Or harmless.
Mr. Raditch: Making crops resistant to drought and disease might be worth the risk. Thanks for all your hard work and for bringing this to my attention, but with the cutbacks we’re lucky to even have a cafeteria. I’m sorry.
In the media immersion lab
Mr. Simpson: Okay let’s wrap up with a little free internet research time.
(Spinner is on the computer looking up expensive clothes when he sees Jimmy’s MP3 player.)
Spinner: You got an MP3 player too? Man this must have cost like 500 bucks.
Jimmy: Yeah it’s just uh, just dad going overboard as usual.
Spinner: I mean, it’s like the Mercedes Benz of MP3 players.
Jimmy: I guess.
Spinner: Um why am I more excited about this than you are?
Jimmy: It’s just an MP3 player.
Spinner: Just an MP3 player? Man since Kwan broke my Discman last year, I’m back to cassettes.
Jimmy: Sucks to be you.
Outside the school
Sean: If you don’t like the food in the caf, then just don’t eat it.
Emma: That’s not it. I want people to know what they’re eating. That like the apples they sell in the caf might have fish DNA in them.
Sean: The apples got fish stuff in them? Man that’s messed up.
Emma: That’s what I mean.
Sean: I don’t know. I don’t usually care about this kind of stuff, but it seems like you got something important to say.
Emma: I think I do.
Sean: Well then don’t back down. Don’t let Raditch shut you up.
(He kisses her on the cheek before leaving.)
On the basketball court
Marco: Man you got those shoes for your birthday too? I just wish I had your dad Jim. Wait a second, you think your parents would adopt me?
Jimmy: Uh no. They already have another son, Spinner. This dude has worn serious grooves in my couch. I’m thinking of putting a sign up. Something like ‘Spinner lives here’.
Marco: Well if your parents do love Spinner so much, why don’t they take him shopping? I’ve seen you wear that shirt like 600 times now.
Spinner: You have not. Anyway I like this shirt.
Jimmy: Yeah, yeah. I like, I liked it too, back when you bought it…in grade 7.
Spinner: Is that supposed to be a joke?
Jimmy: Yeah.
Spinner: Really? Wasn’t funny!
Jimmy: Okay.
Spinner: We don’t all have rich parents who will just buy us whatever we want. Oh papa! Please spoil me.
Jimmy: My parents already do spoil you. Freeloader.
(They leave and when Spinner gets his bag he sees Jimmy’s MP3 player and puts it in his pocket.)
Outside the school, Emma is passing out flyers
Emma: If you care about the food you eat, don’t eat at the cafeteria. If you care about the food you eat, don’t eat at the cafeteria. If you care about the food you eat, don’t eat at the cafeteria. If you care about the food you eat, don’t eat at the cafeteria. If you care about the food you eat, don’t eat at the cafeteria.
Ellie: Sheila’s trying to poison us? Come on.
Emma: I wouldn’t expect you to be on the GM food side Ellie.
Ellie: I didn’t say that I was, but if it means kids can afford lunch-
Emma: Yeah and cancer twenty years from now.
Ellie: If I was starving to death in the third world, I’d rather die of cancer in the future than not have a future at all.
Mr. Raditch: May I have that Ms. Nash?
Emma: Um I’m just trying to inform people.
Mr. Raditch: School grounds are my jurisdiction. I make the rules and spreading propaganda is unacceptable.
In Ms. Kwan’s class
Ms. Kwan: Hi Jane come on in. Brandon. Toby.
Manny: So he just took them away?
Emma: After he went blah, blah, blah, jurisdiction, propaganda, blah, blah, blah.
Manny: So what are you going to do now?
Emma: I don’t know. I guess I’ll just give up. He wins. At least it got some kids thinking about it, right?
Manny: Yeah.
Ms. Kwan: Class settle down. Time for the morning announcements.
Liberty: (On the TV) First up a very special announcement live from the cafeteria. Take it away Sheila.
Sheila: (On the TV) Good morning one and all and welcome to the Degrassi cafeteria. Purveyors of fine food since 1999. Some people have been questioning the quality of my food of late.
JT: (On the TV) Really Sheila? But why?
Sheila: (On the TV) I just don’t know, for I use only the finest of ingredients and look what I have to offer. We have hot lunch special everyday for just $3.99.
JT: (On the TV) And Sheila’s sauce is always free.
Sheila: (On the TV) For in my cafeteria, kids come first. Don’t you deserve the best?
Emma: Raditch accused me of spreading propaganda? What was that?! You know what I just said about giving up? I lied.
In the cafeteria
Toby: JT can I have your autograph?
JT: Toby your jealousy bores me.
Emma: JT what were you thinking and Toby what are you doing?
Toby: That a trick question?
Emma: You’re actually buying this toxic junk?
Sheila: Hey watch it! That’s slander.
Emma: Well so was your commercial. Look at these fries. The potatoes were probably created in some laboratory.
Toby: Give me back my lunch!
(Emma and Toby are both grabbing the fries when they go flying and h*t Jimmy.)
Jimmy: Better get running!
(Jimmy throws his lunch and it hits Paige.)
Paige: Okay. Someone is not making it out of here alive!
JT: No, no, no!
(She throws the food, misses JT and hits Craig, who throws food back at her.)
Someone: Food fight!
(A huge food fight breaks out.)
In Mr. Raditch’s office
Mr. Raditch: You’re suspended for the rest of the day.
Emma: But I didn’t throw anything!
Mr. Raditch: You started it by all accounts. First the flyers and then all this-
Emma: So that’s what this is about? You’re punishing me for protesting? If you’re calling my mom she’s away at a stylist convention.
Mr. Raditch: Then I’ll release you to your step-father.
Emma: Fine. Archie…Mr. Simpson will support me 100%.
In Ms. Kwan’s class
Ms. Kwan: Okay guys your essays on Oliver Twist are due on Monday. No excuses.
Jimmy: You uh heard the new Kid Elrick? Hold on. I got it on my player.
(He starts looking for his MP3 player.)
Jimmy: Wait a minute. My MP3 player.
Marco: What do you mean?
Jimmy: It’s gone. I’ve lost it. I’m such an idiot.
(He throws his backpack against the wall.)
Spinner: Woah Be careful with your new bag Jimmy. You don’t want to make papa angry.
Jimmy: I don’t want to hear it.
Spinner: Hear what? That you should take better care of your stuff?
Marco: Okay Spinner!
Spinner: Well what does Jimmy care? His rich dad will just buy him a new one.
Jimmy: Man you’re so jealous.
Spinner: I’m not. Besides I can buy my own stuff. I’m gonna order a Triple 5 Soul hoodie today.
Jimmy: Triple 5 Soul and since when do you have money to pay for that?
Spinner: Since…none of your business!
In media immersion
Mr. Simpson: Now when adjusting the screen colour this should be a smooth rainbow, with no banding or dots. Now just as important as the colour, are the gamma and the contrast.
(Emma walks into the classroom.)
Mr. Simpson: Emma, but why aren’t you at home? Mr. Raditch suspended you.
Emma: Yes he did and I think it’s wrong.
Mr. Simpson: What are you doing?
Emma: I’m waiting for you to continue your lesson.
Mr. Simpson: You’re gonna have to wait until tomorrow. You’re suspended.
Emma: Why, for speaking my mind? It’s called freedom of speech and I have a right to an education.
Mr. Simpson: It’s called a food fight.
Emma: I didn’t start it…intentionally.
Mr. Simpson: Let’s have a talk in private.
JT: Good girl gone so bad!
Mr. Simpson: What is this really about, hmm? Are you testing me?
Emma: It’s not you. It’s Radtich and since you’re my new dad, I though you’d support me.
Mr. Simpson: Emma you’re suspended. You have to go home now.
In the boys washroom
Spinner: Sully my friend! Remember uh last week, we were talking MP3 players?
Sully: Yeah.
Spinner: Well you said you would do anything to get your hands on a model like this.
Sully: Wow. How’d you get that?
Spinner: My dad, birthday present. Anyway you want to buy it? $120.
Sully: At that price? Deal. This isn’t stolen, is it?
Spinner: Um do you want it or not?
Sully: Alright yeah. Meet me in the foyer after school.
In gym class, Mr. Armstrong is bringing the class outside
Mr. Armstrong: Toby!
Toby: Here.
Mr. Armstrong: I didn’t think I’d ever see this. Emma Nelson, suspended?
JT: Yup. She went bananas. Cuckoo like Joan of Ark.
Manny: JT shut up. How about a little support?
(They see Emma across the street protesting with a poster.)
Liberty: She really has gone insane.
Ellie: So you don’t mind answering a few questions for the Grapevine?
Emma: Not at all.
Ellie: Principal Raditch suspended you?
Emma: He blamed me for the food fight, for my protest over GM foods.
Ellie: We know your position. You’re against GM foods.
Emma: This isn’t about that anymore.
Ellie: Then what is it about?
Emma: It’s about freedom of speech. It’s about my right to protest.
Mr. Raditch: This interview is over Ellie. You about done here Ms. Nelson?
Emma: I’m not on school property and I’m not leaving until my voice is heard.
Mr. Raditch: Oh your voice will be heard.
Emma: That sounds like a thr*at…sir.
Mr. Raditch: It’s a suggestion. You either apologize for all this on tomorrow morning’s video announcements or you get a one week suspension.
In the foyer, after school
Jimmy: Look I’m sorry, okay?
Spinner: For what?
Jimmy: For making fun of your shirt or whatever. It was just a joke.
Spinner: Uh okay fine. Apology accepted.
(Jimmy just stands there.)
Spinner: What? Why are you still here?
Jimmy: Come on. Isn’t this the part where we walk home together, best friends again?
Sully: Hey Spinner.
Spinner: Um why don’t we uh just walk to school tomorrow, okay? I’ll be happier then, okay?
Sully: I got your money. Gimme the goods.
Spinner: Uh Sully here, he just owes me some money.
Sully: Uh loser owes me an MP3 player. Top of the line, the best, 120 bucks.
Jimmy: Wow. Sounds like a steal.
(Jimmy walks away and kicks the garbage can over.)
Sully: So are you selling it or what?
At Emma’s house
Mr. Simpson: Hey.
Emma: May as well get it over with.
Mr. Simpson: Get what over with?
Emma: The yelling. The speech. The ‘you’re in serious trouble’ talk.
Mr. Simpson: I think you probably heard enough speeches today.
Emma: Did you hear Mr. Raditch? I either apologize on tomorrow’s announcements or I get suspended.
Mr. Simpson: Ah.
Emma: I can’t. I can’t apologize for doing something I believe in.
Mr. Simpson: Emma there are hills to die on. Are you sure this is one of them?
Emma: You and mom have a baby on the way. My little brother or sister. Aren’t you worried? Do you really want them eating this weird Frankenstein food?
Mr. Simpson: We don’t even know if it’s harmful.
Emma: We don’t know if it’s safe and I’m scared to take that chance.
Mr. Simpson: As a part of your family I totally support you, but as your teacher-
Emma: You’re stuck.
Mr. Simpson: Yeah I’m stuck. So I think you’re gonna have to make this decision on your own.
In the cafeteria
Jimmy: Uh let me get one of Sheila’s breakfast burritos and a side of home fries.
(Spinner puts Jimmy’s MP3 player on the tray.)
Spinner: Your food will be coming up in a moment sir.
Jimmy: Spin.
Spinner: It’s Gavin when I’m in the hairnet. Look I’m really sorry, okay? You get like whatever you want and I can’t even afford anything.
Jimmy: So you steal it?
Spinner: No! I mean yeah I was going to, but I couldn’t. You’re my best friend.
Jimmy: Was.
(He takes the MP3 player and walks away.)
In a classroom, before the morning announcements
Mr. Raditch: Very good Emma. I’m glad we straightened this out.
Emma: Thank you sir.
Liberty: We begin our morning announcements with a word from Emma Nelson.
Emma: Fellow students, staff and faculty. I’ve been asked here this morning to apologize to you and to Mr. Raditch, but I can’t. I can’t apologize for wanting to be heard. I’m sorry the food fight happened and for making a mess in Sheila’s cafeteria, but other than that I feel I did nothing wrong yesterday. You can agree or disagree with me about GM foods. That’s not the point. The point is I have a right to express my opinion and you have a right to be informed. If fighting for that will get me a week suspension then I can live with that.
(She walks over to Mr. Raditch.)
Emma: Guess I’m going home now huh?
Mr. Raditch: Yes you are. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x19 - Fight for your Right"} | foreverdreaming |
In Miss Sauve's office
Paige is sitting and reading from a notebook.
PAIGE: What you did changed my life. I still can't sleep without the light on. Sometimes I look under the bed, worried you might be there. I made a mistake going upstairs with you, but, Dean, you made more than a mistake. You made a choice.
MISS SAUVE: An important distinction.
PAIGE: Well, yeah. This whole thing belongs on Mr. Evil's conscience.
MISS SAUVE: And your conscience?
PAIGE: I said no, so how could I feel responsible?
MISS SAUVE: (smiling) You've stopped blaming yourself.
PAIGE: Yeah, I have.
MISS SAUVE: Excellent progress. And we'll keep working on it. Same time next week?
PAIGE: Um, Miss Sauve. Therapy is great, but… (Getting up)
MISS SAUVE: I strongly recommend we continue. I'll pencil you in anyway.
PAIGE: Pencil away, but it is a waste of an appointment.
Opening Credits
Hallway
Raditch is talking on the PA system. Paige walks up to JT, who is pretending to be a mime in an imaginary box
JT: Paige, help! I'm stuck in a box.
PAIGE: Does it say, "Caution: Freak inside?"
JT: What? Can't hear you. Box.
(Paige opens imaginary door and JT steps out of box)
JT: Thanks. (They start walking) A little mime magic for my mascot routine. You like?
PAIGE: I always like your stuff. Just make sure you bring that magic to tomorrow's basketball tournament.
JT: Wait a minute. Did you just talk to me without saying "midget," "twerp," or "dweeb?"
PAIGE: I think I did. Lucky you. (JT leaves and Paige walks by Spinner and Marco) Hey boys.
MARCO: Oh, hey Paige.
PAIGE: Spin, I love the roots. (Touches his arm) Tre cool.
In Mr. Simpson's room
Marco and Ellie are showing him papers.
MARCO: I know it's a competitive market, but unisex cologne doubles our buyers.
ELLIE: (holding up cologne) Share you scent. Sing a duet.
MR. SIMPSON: I'm impressed. You guys thought through your mock product and campaign and finished first. So, time to move on to part two of the project and film your ad.
ELLIE: It'll be great. Total cheese musical.
MARCO: Fun and fabulous.
MR. SIMPSON: Sounds great. Camera's all yours.
ELLIE: (heading back to her computer) You sure you don't want to direct?
MARCO: Positive. Listen, I trust you.
CRAIG: (on his computer, turing around in his chair) Your love brings tears to my eyes.
MARCO: Just wish everyone could be so lucky. (Kisses Ellie's hand. Craig turns back to his computer as Marco and Ellie sit down at their's.)
ELLIE: Nice on boyfriend.
MARCO: Thank-you, girlfriend.
Spirit Squad practice in the gym
SPIRIT SQUAD: Blue and gold sh**t for two.
PAIGE: That was great guys. Take a break.
HAZEL: Paige, that choreography kills.
PAIGE: I try. The crowd tomorrow won't know what h*t them.
HAZEL: (noticing Spinner entering gym) Spinner, finally decide to join spirit squad?
SPINNER: Ha-ha, dream on. Got the final team's name in for tomorrow's tourney. (Puts sign with "Bardell" on tournament board.) Bardell. You're boyfriend's back. (Leaves)
PAIGE: Hazel, he's coming to me school.
Miss Sauve's office
MISS SAUVE: Paige, back so soon.
PAIGE: (sitting down) Yeah, um. I wanted to ask about pressing charges against Dean.
MISS SAUVE: Ok, we'll have to set up a meeting with your mom.
PAIGE: No, I know. But, what actually happens?
MISS SAUVE: Well, the police will get involved. You'll probably be asked to testify.
PAIGE: And then we send him to jail?
MISS SAUVE: If there's enough evidence, yes.
PAIGE: Well, I had all those doctors exams.
MISS SAUVE: And they reassured us that you were injury free and that you hadn't developed any STDs.
PAIGE: (realizing)They're not evidence.
MISS SAUVE: Unfortunately, Paige, the longer you wait to report, the less physical evidence there is.
PAIGE: So, what? I could go to court, tell the truth, and I could still loose?
MISS SAUVE: Possibly.
PAIGE: But that is so unfair.
MISS SAUVE: Don't get discouraged. If this is what you want, then we'll make the best case we can.
PAIGE: Forget it. I just thought I'd ask.
Outside
Ellie is working on the commercial storyboard. Ashley walks up.
ASHLEY: Wow. Bright.
ELLIE: Marco is obsessed with Bolly-wood musicals. It seemed fun.
MARCO: (walking up) A surprise for la senorita. (Hands her a container of food) It's my mom's eggplant parmesan. I know how much you like it.
ELLIE: Wow. Thanks.
MARCO: And there's enough for both of you, so I'll leave you ladies to your girl talk. (Walks away)
ELLIE: (sitting down at table) This is the perfect vegetarian dish.
ASHLEY: From your perfect boyfriend. Really, could you two be more meant for each other?
Outside in the courtyard
Paige is sitting alone. JT knocks on the window from inside to get her attention. He pretends to be walking against a hard wind. Paige is not amused and walks inside.
JT: Come on. Wind tunnel man. That's comic gold.
PAIGE: I thought mimes were supposed to be silent.
JT: Paige, are you mad at me? Did I do something wrong, like at practice?
PAIGE: No, for once it's not about you. It's about me not cheering tomorrow.
JT: What? We need you.
PAIGE: Too bad. Deal with it.
JT: Why?
PAIGE: It's really none of your business.
JT: If I'm sweating in a mascot costume and you're at home watching tv, it is my business.
PAIGE: Someone's coming tomorrow. From Bardell. And I can't see him.
JT: Did he dump you or something?
PAIGE: Or something.
JT: Well, just give him some of your world-famous attitude. Show him who's boss.
PAIGE: Is that why you've been stalking me? To give me a pep talk? (JT looks hurt and walks away)
Outside
A camera and colorful backdrop are set up for the commercial. Ellie is behind the camera and Marco is in front of the backdrop.
ELLIE: So the you lean in, close, romantic. And you say your line.
MARCO: Alright, let's do it. (Gets off the set)
ELLIE: Action. (Marco dances on set) Cut. You're out of frame.
MARCO: It's hard to know where to stop without Heather here.
ELLIE: I'll stand in. (Goes on set while Marco steps to the side.) Action. (Marco dances to her and puts a pink boa around her neck) Great. Now, arm behind me. Raise the perfume and say…
MARCO: Share your scent. Sing a duet.
ELLIE: (kissed a surprised Marco, then goes back behind the camera, embarrassed.) Yeah. That was great. Let's move on.
Paige's room
She is sitting on the bed, fully dressed, looking at her cheerleader outfit hanging on the wall. The alarm clock goes off and Paige quiets it.
Bardell's bus pulls into school as Paige and hazel are walking there.
HAZEL: Are you ok?
PAIGE: I'm staying far away from him.
MANNY: (walks up to them, forcing them to stop) Hey Paige. Are we doing the elevator formation first or…? (Paige sees Dean getting off the bus)
HAZEL: Let's go. (They start walking)
DEAN: (notices Paige and runs up to her) Spirit. Hold on. (Paige slowly turns around) So what's in today's plan? Some ra-ra cheering or another serenade from your little girl band?
PAIGE: This is my school and I don't want to see or talk to you again. (Turns and walks into school)
DEAN: (following) Lighten up. We had fun.
PAIGE: (stops and turns around again) Fun? You think what you did to me was fun?
DEAN: (to Hazel) The night of the party, you were there. Who did Spirit come to see? Right. Me.
PAIGE: I said no.
DEAN: So shake your little pom-poms and look cute Spirit. I got a game. (Walks away)
Mr. Simpson's class
Marco is talking with Craig. Ellie walks in with poster board.
ELLIE: Hey, Marco.
MARCO: So, you ready for your directing debut?
ELLIE: Yeah, and I've got a bit of new direction. (New storyboard is all black and white)
MARCO: Who died?
ELLIE: It's called minimalism.
MARCO: I call it boring. What happened to Heather and all the dancing girls?
ELLIE: Unnecessary. Duet was getting lost in all the glitz.
MARCO: Ok, if you say so, we'll do it this way. You're the director.
ELLIE: You're fine with it?
MARCO: Yeah, whatever you want. Honest.
B-ball team is walking in the hallway
JIMMY: We rule. This tournament is ours. Bardell has absolutely no chance. (High fives another player)
SPINNER: (to random guy) Jimmy should calm down. Bardell's a tough team.
PAIGE: We can b*at them.
DEAN: (coming up behind her) You think so Spirit? Good-luck. (Walks away)
PAIGE: (to Hazel) I'll see you later. (Walks off in different direction)
SPINNER: (walking up to Hazel) What's up with her? Is she still hung up on Dean?
HAZEL: No.
SPINNER: Come on, Hazel. I was at the party. I know what happened.
HAZEL: What's that?
SPINNER: He and Paige… Paige dumped me and then did it with him.
HAZEL: And what if it wasn't like that? What if she said no?
SPINNER: Good one, Hazel. But the only one she said no to was me. (Walks away)
On the new black and white set for MARCO and ELLIE's commercial
MARCO: Duet. We are as one. We absorb… (Cuts off and laughs)
ELLIE: Marco, that's the seventh take.
MARCO: I'm sorry. It's just that when I say, "absorb each other" it sounds like we're selling tampons or something.
ELLIE: Are you making fun of my writing?
MARCO: But it doesn't even go with our whole concept. A duet with one person? I can go find someone right now, and we can do the dance like before.
ELLIE: No, you can't.
MARCO: I said yes to this whole weird concept. But ever since then you've been treating my like your sl*ve.
ELLIE: Funny, cuz that's how I always feel around you. You may not like what you're doing here, but it's way better than some flaming… (Cuts off)
MARCO: So that's what this is about. I can't be who you want.
ELLIE: Can't? Or Won't? (Marco shakes his head and leaves)
Outside
Paige and Hazel are eating lunch at a picnic table.
PAIGE: You told Spinner?
HAZEL: I wanted him to understand.
PAIGE: Well, what did he say?
HAZEL: He didn't believe me.
PAIGE: He thinks I wanted it, right? I'm going home. (Gets up)
HAZEL: Paige.
PAIGE: You were right. I should have stayed there. Dean wins again. (Sees Dean and Manny talking and turns back to Hazel)
(Paige walks up to Manny, who is at her locker.)
MANNY: hey Paige. I can't wait for halftime. I'm nailing that flip. What's going on?
PAIGE: Um, earlier I saw you and Dean talking outside.
MANNY: He started talking to me.
PAIGE: No problem. Um, just don't be alone with him, ok? Someone warned me about him once and I should have listened. He seems nice…
MANNY: He is nice.
PAIGE: What do you know? You talked to him for five minutes.
MANNY: I know you guys had a date. And I know he never called you back. And I know you're jealous. Get over it. (Walks away)
On the basketball quart
JT walks up to Hazel.
JT: Where's Paige?
HAZEL: I dunno.
JT: This panther's on the case. (Leaves)
Outside school
Paige is sitting down, and JT comes out to talk to her.
JT: Oh, fearless leader.
PAIGE: Go away.
JT: Paige, you say that all the time, but we both know you don't mean it.
PAIGE: Yeah, well this time I do. (Gets up and starts walking)
JT: (following) Paige, the squad needs you.
PAIGE: Leave me alone.
JT: This is just about some guy, right?
PAIGE: (sitting down) You mean Dean? Bardell's resident sports hero. (Pauses) And r*pist. Yeah, he r*ped me. And no one in the whole world seems to be able to do anything about it. (JT walks towards the school, forgetting his mascot head. Paige picks it up and starts to follow) JT!
Inside gym
Dean fouls Jimmy and they set up for the free throws. JT comes in and pushes Dean. JT is not succeeding in hurting Dean, who is slightly amused. Paige silently watches.
JT: Too much for you Mr. r*pist? (Dean, no longer amused, throws JT onto the ground and is about to punch him when a referee pulls him off)
REF: You're benched. Game suspension. (Mr. Armstrong helps JT up) And the mascot…?
MR. ARMSTRONG: Is going to the principal's office. Now. (JT grabs his head from Paige and leaves. Spinner walks towards Paige, who goes out into the hallway)
SPINNER: Paige, what is going on?
PAIGE: Nothing.
SPINNER: JT in the mascot uniform attacking Dean, that's not nothing. (Paige turns to leave and Spinner grabs her arm) Paige…
PAIGE: (turning around and shrugging off his hand) (loudly) Spin, could you please… (Cuts off)
SPINNER: Something happened to you.
PAIGE: I just got what I asked for, right?
SPINNER: He took it too far, like Hazel said, right? Didn't he? (Dean walks out of gym and continues out the main door.) Hey. (Spinner follows him and Paige follows Spinner) Hey, you're not going anywhere. (Pushes Dean up against his bus. Dean pushes him back.)
DEAN: Your mascot came at me.
SPINNER: You think that's what this is about?
PAIGE: Spinner, stop.
SPINNER: (pushes Dean again) What, he deserves it.
PAIGE: (breaking them apart) Spinner, please.
DEAN: Water boy your boyfriend?
PAIGE: I have one thing to say to you Dean. Get ready because I am coming after you this time. Not like Spinner or the mascot. For real. (Dean gets on his bus)
In Mr. Simpson's room
Ellie is on a computer editing the commercial. Marco comes in.
MARCO: So much for us being as one, huh?
ELLIE: I'm sorry.
MARCO: (sitting down) Elle, you're my best friend. But if that's not enough…
ELLIE: It's really hard Marco. Pretending to be something…
MARCO: …you're not. I know.
ELLIE: But did you ever think about how hard it would be for me? Are you still confused?
MARCO: No. (Pause) Ellie, I'm gay. And you and me…
ELLIE: …will always just be friends. (Marco nods, then Ellie nods as well.)
Miss Sauvé's office
MISS SAUVÉ: You're sure?
PAIGE: Mom and I talked. I want to press charges.
MISS SAUVÉ: Good. Now it's a legal matter. So no more conversations with Dean.
PAIGE: Fine by me.
MISS SAUVÉ: So, Tuesday?
END | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x20 - How Soon is Now"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside the school
Craig: So I turn it over and I’m sure I studied the wrong stuff.
Ashley: I know the feeling. The exam I’m really dreading is science.
Craig: Tell me about it. Science is totally my worst subject.
Dr. Manning: Maybe you need a little help from your old science study partner.
Craig: Dad? What are you, what are you doing here?!
Dr. Manning: I just thought I’d come by and see my son…meet his friends.
Ashley: I’m Ashley Kerwin.
Dr. Manning: Hi Ashley. Nice to meet you…and you?
(Dr. Manning sticks out his hand and Sean spits on the ground.)
Dr. Manning: Can I give you a lift home?
Craig: I live with Joey now.
Dr. Manning: To Joey’s. We can catch up on the way.
Craig: Um, I can’t.
Dr. Manning: Okay uh I don’t know, maybe we could have dinner tomorrow night. You can come by work.
Craig: Dad.
Dr. Manning: Just think about it, okay? I got to go.
Ashley: He seemed nice.
Craig: Yeah well he didn’t have a belt in his hand.
Sean: You’re not actually gonna go, are you?
At Joey’s house
Craig: Tell me again why I need to know about genetics?
Joey: So you can clone me and I can be in a million places at once. I got to take Ang to ballet class-
Craig: -dinner’s in the freezer. You two will be home late. I know. If I’m home.
Joey: Ang sweetie finish your cereal. Come on.
Angela: Don’t want to.
Joey: Okay well have some orange juice then, okay? Come on.
(She spills the juice all over Craig’s work.)
Joey: Ang!
Craig: Angela careful!
(She starts crying.)
Joey: It’s okay. No, no honey, it’s okay. Daddy’s not mad. It’s okay. Is the book a goner?
Craig: No. It’ll be okay.
Joey: What a mess.
Craig: Yeah this whole place is a mess!
Joey: Well then why don’t you earn your allowance today, come home early and clean up around here?
Craig: I’m studying tonight at Sean’s.
Joey: Then come home early.
(He picks Angie up and takes her upstairs.)
Joey: It’s okay. It’s okay.
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ class
Ms. Hatzilakos: Okay does anyone have any questions?
Craig: Yeah. What I still don’t get is what makes an element a noble gas.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Noble gasses are s*ab because they have the maximum number of electrons in their outer shell, they don’t form compounds very easily, okay?
Craig: Alright thanks.
Spinner: Oh summer without Hatzilakos.
Craig: I’m trying to concentrate okay?
Spinner: But how can anyone concentrate with-
Craig: So shut up!
Spinner: Oh someone’s a browner.
Marco: Someone is just in a bad mood.
Craig: Someone just wants to pass his science exam, alright?
Ashley: Is everything okay?
Craig: Yeah.
Ashley: It’s just the exams?
Craig: Yeah I wish that was it.
Ashley: Your dad, huh? You two don’t have the best relationship?
Craig: Uh no! Sorry. We talk on the phone once in a while, but yesterday…it’s the first time I’ve seen him in months.
Ashley: People can change.
Craig: I guess.
In geography class, JT is stuck while taking his test
JT: Psst!
(Liberty gives JT a dirty look and puts her arm over her test before finishing and giving him a smug look.)
Outside the school
Liberty: JT. JT hello?
JT: Uh hi.
Liberty: I know what you’re gonna ask, so do you want my tutoring help or not?
JT: Uh yes I do. Will you help me Liberty? Please. Pretty please with a cherry on top.
Liberty: I want one ticket to paradise. Hawaiian surf paradise.
JT: The dance? What? No that’s a rip-off.
Liberty: That’s the price you’ll pay. You want me as a tutor, I want you as a date. Final offer.
JT: Fine. Make it so.
At the hospital where Dr. Manning works
Dr. Manning: Mrs. Holland, how are you? Listen to me I’ve done this operation thousands of times. You’re a very healthy woman. You have absolutely nothing to worry about. I guarantee success, okay?
(He sees Craig.)
Dr. Manning: Hey!
Craig: Hey.
Dr. Manning: So you here for dinner?
Craig: Uh yeah if you still want it.
Dr. Manning: Of course I still want it. I’ll be right back and we’ll go, okay?
Nurse: Craig? Hey!
Craig: Hey.
Nurse: So how’s life up at boarding school?
Craig: Boarding school? Um it’s you know, it’s great.
Nurse: Your dad didn’t tell me you were back in town.
Craig: No, uh surprise visit.
Nurse: Well it’ll do your father good. That’s the first smile I’ve seen on him since you left.
Dr. Manning: Craiger, you ready?
Craig: Bye.
Nurse: Bye.
At the restaurant
Craig: Good to see everyone at the hospital again, but um dad boarding school?
Dr. Manning: Well I couldn’t tell everyone where you went, why…
Craig: Yeah I guess not.
Dr. Manning: You know you leaving was a huge wakeup call for me. I got myself into anger management. I’ve gotten better. I’ve gotten a lot better. Everything working out okay at Joey’s?
Craig: Right now it’s a bit crazy you know ‘cause of exams, but-
Dr. Manning: But you can concentrate on your exams? I mean your marks are so important.
Craig: Yeah it’s under control, really.
Dr. Manning: Well if you need any help with anything, you let me know.
Craig: I’d have to ask Joey.
Dr. Manning: Especially science. Is that still your worse subject?
Craig: Yeah. Some things never change.
Dr. Manning: Some things do.
At Joey’s house, Joey and Angie are sitting on the couch
Joey: Let’s see. You do have a fever baby.
(Craig walks in.)
Joey: Where have you been Craig? I thought you’d be home a long time ago.
Craig: I got caught up at studying.
Joey: Ang got sick at ballet tonight. I come home, this place is still a disaster!
Craig: Sorry.
Joey: Craig I need your help around here.
Craig: And I need to study for exams. I am allowed to study, right?
Joey: Yeah fine.
Craig: Fine. You still want me to clean up?
Joey: That would be helpful. Thank you.
Craig: You’re welcome.
(Angie starts whining.)
Joey: Okay, okay, okay. Time for bed. Let’s go. Come on.
At Dr. Manning’s house
Dr. Manning: Craig!
Craig: So what do you know about the periodic table?
(He smiles and makes a motion for Craig to come in.)
Inside Dr. Manning’s house
Craig: Noble gasses: helium, neon, argon, krypton, radon, xenon.
Dr. Manning: Good. Defining characteristic?
Craig: s*ab! Yes.
(Craig puts down his glass of juice on the table.)
Dr. Manning: If only you could figure out what the coaster’s for.
(Craig imagines his father taking off his belt and hitting him.)
Dr. Manning: Craig? I just don’t want rings on the table. It’s not a big deal.
Outside the school
JT: Okay maybe you don’t get it, alright? I have to go to this dance with Liberty.
Toby: She’s helping you get through exams. Suck it up.
JT: What about my dream? Paige…dancing with me. So close, so slow.
Toby: So impossible.
JT: Well maybe I could still ask her out.
Toby: You can’t use Liberty to pass, then dump her and go with Paige, Romeo.
JT: Oh flashcards. Quel surprise.
Liberty: Start. Capitals of Europe.
JT: Albania, Tirana. Austria, Vienna. Belarus, Minsk. Minsk….hello?!
Liberty: Do you prefer chartreuse or fuchsia? I can’t decide on my gown for this dance.
JT: Liberty it’s a luau, okay? You don’t need some big gown. I mean it’s not even a-
Liberty: I know. It’s not a real date, but I just want something you’ll like.
JT: Okay. Moving on.
Liberty: Ireland.
JT: Um Dublin.
(She holds up another flashcard.)
JT: I have no idea.
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ class
(Ashley and Craig walk inside to start their tests.)
In geography class
Teacher: In my day we were lucky enough to get pencils. You get your geography exam online. 60 minutes guys.
(JT starts the test and Liberty smiles at him.)
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ class
(Craig is filling out the answers and him and Ashley smile at each other.)
In the hallway
JT: Look who’s moving up to grade 9. I am the king of Degrassi and there’s my queen. Paige! This is turning out to be one of the best days of my life.
Paige: I’m thrilled for you sweet potato.
JT: Uh yeah and you know, you could make it even better by answering one little question…the dance-
Liberty: JT! You finished before me. I’m guessing you did well?
JT: Um yeah. Can we maybe talk later?
(Liberty grabs and hugs JT excitedly.)
Paige: Alright um love to stay and soak up your collective joy, but the million dollar question re: the dance?
JT: Yeah. The Hawaiian surf paradise.
Paige: Heather Sinclair’s title, not mine.
JT: Whatever. Do you want to you know…do you want to help Liberty pick out an outfit? She’s my date.
Paige: Um I’d love to. You know for a second there I thought you were gonna to ask me.
(She laughs and walks away.)
Liberty: Thanks!
JT: Yeah ask you Paige. Yes that’s funny.
Outside the school
Craig: Free from science for two months!
Ashley: And I’m so sure our knowledge of the periodic table will come in handy.
Craig: So year end dance…you going?
Ashley: Uh I’m on the committee, remember?
Craig: No I meant with anyone.
Ashley: Oh. No.
Craig: Me neither. Should we go together?
Ashley: Yeah we should.
Craig: Dad what are you doing here?
Dr. Manning: I just wanted to see how you did on the exam.
Craig: Uh it was great.
Ashley: I should go. Nice to see you Dr. Manning.
Dr. Manning: Nice to see you too Allison.
Ashley: It’s Ashley.
Dr. Manning: Interesting girl.
Craig: She is.
Dr. Manning: So dinner tonight to celebrate the exam?
Craig: Um I’m supposed to baby-sit ‘til 8.
Dr. Manning: I can push it off. I’ll meet you at the Bistro at 8:30. Craig…?
Craig: Right. I’ll be there.
Dr. Manning: Okay. See you tonight.
At Joey’s house, Craig is playing a video game
Angela: Again! Read it again.
Craig: Ang I’ve read it 5 times already. I could recite it.
Angela: Craig please! I’ve got the chicken pox!
Craig: Fine. Your wish is my command.
(The phone rings.)
Craig: Here count how many spots you have.
(He gives Ang a mirror and she hands him the phone.)
Craig: (On the phone) Hello? Joey you’re late!
Joey: (On the phone) Yeah I know it’s late Craig, but I got a potential sale here, okay? I’m going to be at least another hour.
(Angie starts counting her spots while Craig is on the phone.)
Craig: (On the phone) I have plans…with friends. You can’t get home sooner?
Joey: (On the phone) If you want me to lose the sale, yeah.
Craig: (On the phone) No. It’s fine. Bye.
Joey: (On the phone) Okay. See you in a bit.
Angela: 17, 18 spots!
Craig: Lucky you. Okay the book.
At the restaurant
Waitress: Dr. Manning may I bring you anything?
Dr. Manning: For the tenth time I’m waiting for someone, okay?
(Craig rushes in.)
Craig: Dad. Dad I’m sorry. Uh Joey got held up.
Dr. Manning: Just sit, sit. I got you a little present.
(He hands Craig some tickets.)
Craig: Tickets to London?
Dr. Manning: We’ll start there, take the Chunnel to Paris, rent a car for a couple of weeks.
Craig: Dad that’s awesome. Really?
Dr. Manning: This is the perfect opportunity for you and I to acclimatize, you know before school starts.
Craig: What do you mean?
Dr. Manning: It’s time for you to come home Craig. I mean Joey’s was necessary, but it’s not the best environment.
Craig: Um, but I like it at Joey’s.
Dr. Manning: Of course you do with Angela there, but look at your study situation. It is not s*ab.
Craig: Being at Joey’s is s*ab, dad…
Dr. Manning: You know…
(He gets up and leaves angry.)
Craig: Dad!
(Craig follows him out of the restaurant.)
Craig: Dad! Dad, wait up.
Dr. Manning: Are you talking to me or are you talking to Joey?
Craig: Oh that’s not fair!
Dr. Manning: Life’s not fair and you’re right Joey is better for you. This way you can kiss your potential goodbye, settle for some interesting little goth girl…
Craig: Don’t talk about Ashley like that!
Dr. Manning: -your marks can drop and one day you can take over the car lot.
(Craig pushes his dad and Dr. Manning smacks him across the face.)
Dr. Manning: Craig I’m so sorry. It’ll-
Craig: It’ll never happen again? Huh?! Is that what you were going to say? ‘Cause that’s what you always say!
Dr. Manning: ‘Cause you always screw up.
Craig: No dad you’re the one who screws up! It won’t change! Ever!
(He gets in his car and starts speeding off while Craig watches upset.)
At Joey’s, Craig walks in upset
Joey: Hey Craig. You’re home early.
Craig: Hey. Yeah uh don’t want to wear out the summer too fast.
Joey: Something wrong?
Craig: I got in a fight.
Joey: With who?
Craig: My dad.
Joey: Your dad? You saw your dad? Why didn’t you tell me?
Craig: Well ‘cause you wouldn’t have let me.
Joey: You’re right I wouldn’t have let you Craig. I’m gonna call the police.
Craig: No. Tomorrow I want us to go to Children’s Aid and I want to make sure I never have to see him again.
Joey: Okay.
Craig: I hate him Joey. I hate him so much.
Joey: Um we’ll talk more about this in the morning. Why don’t you clean up?
At Joey’s, the next morning
Craig: Morning.
Joey: Hey morning. So you guys want me to add anything to this grocery list?
Craig: Yeah a steak for my eye or maybe just a patch, sort of like a pirate, huh Ang?
Angela: Arr!
Craig: Arr!
Joey: So uh you really gonna do this, Children’s Aid thing?
Craig: Yes. This is where I need to be for good.
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Craig: I wonder if that’s him.
Joey: Your dad? I doubt it.
(Joey answers the door and he starts talking to two policemen.)
Angela: Craig yesterday I had 18 spots. Today I have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 spots! Oh wait! 14, 15 spots.
(The police leave and Joey closes the door.)
Joey: Angie can you go upstairs and clean your room please?
Angela: Do I have to?
Joey: Yes please.
Craig: So my dad sent the police to come get me? What?
Joey: Have a seat Craig.
(They sit down.)
Joey: I don’t know how to tell you this.
Craig: What?
Joey: Your dad had an accident last night.
Craig: He’s in the hospital?
(Craig starts to stand up.)
Joey: No, no. Sit, sit. He didn’t make it.
Craig: What? What does that mean?
Joey: I’m sorry Craig. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x21 - Tears are not Enough"} | foreverdreaming |
In Mr. Simpson’s class
Sully: (On the TV announcements) And finally the dance committee is reminded that they have first period off to transform our gym into a Hawaiian surf paradise. Aloha!
Mr. Simpson: Guys. Guys, your attention please. Some of you have already heard, but I have some unfortunate news. Craig Manning’s father died over the weekend in a car accident.
Marco: Uh Craig’s okay, right? I mean he wasn’t in…
Mr. Simpson: He’s fine, but he won’t be back for the rest of term.
Ashley: Um Mr. Simpson I thought that we should send flowers, so I’m taking up a collection if that’s okay.
Mr. Simpson: That’d be great Ashley. Thank you.
Ashley: Give what you can, guys. I’ll make sure Craig gets them today.
(Craig walks in suddenly.)
Craig: Sorry I’m late sir.
(Nobody says anything.)
Craig: Is something wrong?
Mr. Simpson: No. No, we just um…we weren’t expecting you.
Craig: Not summer holidays yet!
Mr. Simpson: Not yet. So uh take your seat.
(Craig sits down smiling.)
Mr. Simpson: Okay let’s see who else is here? Aden, Auzryan-
In the gymnasium
Paige: Ash, uh my donation for the flower fund.
Ashley: Thanks Paige.
Mr. Raditch: I told you there’s no pressure on having you come to ten classes.
Craig: Yeah.
Paige: Happy way to end such a happy year.
Hazel: I know. Poor Craig.
Ashley: I just wish I could do something for him you know?
Terri: You can’t, not really. I know firsthand. My mom, remember?
Ashley: I know, but I’m gonna try.
(Ashley walks over to him.)
Ashley: Hey Craig how you doing?
Craig: I’m fine. I mean I was going crazy at Joey’s, needed to get out, so I’m here! Wow the gym looks amazing. I can’t wait for the dance.
Ashley: You still want to go?
Craig: Yeah why wouldn’t I?
Paige: Well I’m making sure my year ends on a positive note. Notice anything?
Hazel: I think you’re getting a pimple on your nose.
Paige: I went to the tanning salon yesterday. If I’m gonna win the part, I’ve got to look it, right?
Hazel: If you’re gonna win what part?
Paige: Spin and me, luau king and queen.
Hazel: Um this dance is open to kids all the way up to grade 11.
Paige: So?
Hazel: So one of them will get the crown.
Paige: Not if I get all the 7s, 8s, and 9s to vote for me.
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ class
Ms. Hatzilakos: You know I was really surprised at the results of your test. You must have studied very hard.
Marco: I can’t believe how well he’s taking it.
Jimmy: I wouldn’t be that cool.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Good job. I’m proud of you.
(Craig shows them his test.)
Jimmy: A! That’s my man.
Marco: Wow. That’s amazing buddy.
Craig: Yeah my dad actually did something worthwhile for me. He was a good study partner.
Jimmy: Look we’re really sorry to hear about your dad, man.
Marco: Yeah. So you okay?
Craig: Guys I’m fine. Hey I’m the lucky one. My dad died. I, I walked away with a scratch.
Marco: I thought you weren’t in the car…
Craig: Friday night we’re like speeding down the highway, my dad’s mad and he won’t slow down. Ahead there’s a rig. I see it, my dad doesn’t and we h*t…hard.
(He laughs.)
Craig: Guys I was at Joey’s when it happened! I had you going though.
In the hallway
Marco: It was like he was joking about it.
Jimmy: It’s not like he was. He was. Yo cafeteria boy you better hurry. You’re gonna be late for work.
Spinner: Yeah glad to see you still have your sense of humor.
Jimmy: Yeah well you didn’t get around to stealing that.
Spinner: Enough already, okay?
Jimmy: Gavin could you tell me about some of today’s lunch specials?
Spinner: Go ahead. Laugh it up, but you won’t be laughing when I’m voted luau king.
Marco: Okay. Guys could we just do this later?
Spinner: Yeah we’ll do this later. Count on it.
Jimmy: *Mimicking Spinner* Oh we’ll do this later. Oh okay!
Marco: Okay Jimmy, give it up. He and Paige would make an amazing luau king and queen.
In the cafeteria
Jimmy: Just the girl I was looking for.
Hazel: Oh hi.
Jimmy: The dance, you still going solo? ‘Cause you’re not anymore.
Hazel: Um okay…
Jimmy: And who knows, I mean maybe we’ll even walk away with the luau crown.
Hazel: Paige wants that crown.
Jimmy: So? It’s a free country.
Hazel: Yeah, but she’s my best friend.
Jimmy: And you’ve been in her shadow for how long? Isn’t it time for Hazel Aden to step into the spotlight? Think about it.
In the media immersion room
Toby: And there you go. You’re on the list.
Paige: So rumor’s true.
Jimmy: Ah it’s nothing personal Paige. There’s twenty couples on this list.
Paige: Yeah and only one from 9th grade.
Spinner: You’re splitting our vote.
Jimmy: People can vote for who they want.
Kendra: What does it matter anyway? Who wants to be some stupid luau thing?
Toby: And that’s why I love you. No! No, not love you. Just like you, a lot.
Outside Mr. Manning’s house
(Joey and Craig drive up and go inside.)
Joey: You okay?
Craig: I’m going upstairs.
(Craig walks upstairs and looks around crying.)
At the funeral
Priest: Goodness and mercy all my life shall surely follow me; And in God’s house for evermore my dwelling-place shall be. Amen. The grace of our lord and the love of God be with us evermore. Amen. At this time I call on Dr. Steven Whatley, one of Albert’s coworkers, to say a few words. Steven?
Steven: I knew Albert Manning for almost twenty years and he was a good friend, a topnotch surgeon, an absolutely devastating squash player and a dedicated father, but if you were to ask him, his last role was the most important.
Craig: Please.
Steven: Albert told me time and time again how his son Craig was the greatest gift he’d ever received. A gift he cherished, a gift he never wanted to relinquish.
(Craig starts laughing loudly.)
Caitlin: Maybe Craig needs some air.
Steven: Most of us who knew Albert knew his dedication to helping others. This was why he was a great doctor and a great surgeon. We’re gonna miss him.
(Craig keeps laughing as him and Joey walk outside.)
Craig: Can you believe that idiot? (Mimicking) Albert Manning was a dedicated father.
Joey: Craig you, you and your father had a complicated relationship.
Craig: Yeah! He b*at me. Not gonna do that again now, is he? I’m happy Joey. I’m really happy ‘cause he’s d*ad. ‘Cause he’s gone for good.
In the hallway
Ashley: It was disturbing. The coffin’s right there and Craig’s laughing.
Ellie: Funerals are stressful. Weird things happen.
Craig: Ladies!
Ellie: Hey Craig.
Craig: Hey uh you ready for the Hawaiian surf paradise?
Ashley: Um sure. Can’t wait.
(Ellie starts to take their picture.)
Craig: Hey save the film for tonight when Ash and I win the luau crown.
Ashley: You put us in the contest?!
Craig: Yeah this is our night. Everyone’s gonna know it.
Ashley: Okay…
Craig: Great. I gotta go clean out my locker, but I’ll see you later.
At the tanning salon
Employee: So you get in, pull the lid down, press the start button.
Spinner: Um wait. Do I really have to pull the lid down? ‘Cause I’m kind of claustrophobic.
Employee: If you really want to tan, yeah.
(Spinner gets in and pulls the lid down.)
Spinner: You can do this. Okay. Okay.
(Spinner starts screaming and yelling.)
Paige: What was that?
(Spinner runs out into the waiting area.)
Spinner: Okay Paige I can’t do it. I can’t. I told you I was claustrophobic.
Paige: Spinner! Can I at least have my turn now?
Spinner: No! I’m scared. I want to go.
Paige: I’ll tan my way. You tan yours, okay?
(She hands him some tanning spray and the magazine she was looking at.)
Employee: Follow me.
At Joey’s
Joey: Craig? Oh you got the big dance tonight.
Craig: Yeah. Oh I hope you don’t mind, but I borrowed one of your old shirts.
Joey: Knock yourself out. Hey listen before you go to Aruba, I wanted to uh-
Craig: Hawaii.
Joey: Right. Um look I hate to bring this up, but we have to go over what you’re gonna say tomorrow with Children’s Aid.
Craig: Now?
Joey: Yeah if that’s okay.
Craig: Um just I’m just a bit distracted, you know? Ashley, the dance…You don’t think I should go, do you?
Joey: No I do. I think it’s great you’re trying to have fun Craig, but-
Craig: But what?! I’m fine.
Joey: No one is fine after losing someone. I wasn’t with your mom. I just think the pain is gonna catch up to you.
Craig: I’ve got a dance to go to.
At the dance
Toby: Ladies and gentlemen step right up. Cast your vote for Degrassi luau king and queen. Thanks for your vote. Step right up and vote for luau king and queen.
Jimmy: Aloha. Welcome to Degrassi Island. Don’t forget to vote for your luau king and queen, Jimmy and Hazel. Aloha. Don’t forget to vote for your luau king and queen, Jimmy and Hazel. Aloha and-
(Jimmy sees Paige and Spinner and starts laughing at their tans.)
Jimmy: Welcome to Degrassi Island.
Paige: What are you laughing at? Your lame attempt at stealing our votes?
Jimmy: Red I don’t have to steal anything tonight, but hey maybe Spin can try.
Spinner: Dude, like ancient history.
(Paige and Spinner start dancing together.)
Paige: Spin! Spin if you want to win stop doing that robot thing.
(Liberty and JT toast drinks, Sean and Emma do the limbo, and Marco and Ellie are sitting together laughing while she takes pictures.)
Craig: Goth luau, cool.
Ashley: I thought it’d set us apart.
Craig: And you know keep your dignity intact, until we start to limbo of course.
Mr. Simpson: Guys! The time has come. Votes are in for the luau king and queen. Oh and uh, thanks to Toby Isaacs and Kendra Mason for all their hard work on this. And the winner is from grade 9, Ashley Kerwin and Craig Manning!
(Everyone starts cheering for them as they go up and get their crowns. Craig looks out at everyone and sees his father.)
Craig: Dad? Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad. Dad look. Look! Look I won!
(He walks over to a teacher and taps him on the shoulder.)
Craig: Sorry Mr. Boyd. I thought you were…
(He starts backing away, takes off his crown and runs into the hall.)
Ashley: Where have you been? They’re waiting for our dance. Craig, are you okay?
Craig: I’m fine. I’m just really tired.
Ashley: I knew coming here was a mistake.
Craig: What?
Ashley: It’s too soon. You should be home.
Craig: Could you like revel in this any more? Miss, miss goth, miss doom and gloom!
Ashley: That’s not fair. I’m just concerned about you.
Craig: Well I’m sick of you and everyone just being concerned.
Ashley: Craig!
(Craig starts ripping down the huge poster in the hallway as everyone watches, then he runs down the hall.)
Mr. Raditch: Let him cool down. Everyone back in the dance. I’ll check in on Craig in a minute.
(Terri goes to find Craig.)
Craig: What’s wrong with me?
Terri: Nothing. You’re angry and you’re sad.
Craig: This was supposed to be my night. I’m with Ash for the stupid luau king and queen.
Terri: When my mom died I was at my friend’s birthday party. I was having a great time and then my dad came to tell me.
Craig: At the party?
Terri: Yeah. I was so mad.
Craig: ‘Cause she died.
Terri: No, ‘cause I couldn’t play pin the tail on the donkey.
Craig: That’s a fun game when you’re a little kid.
Terri: Exactly. It wasn’t until later that it h*t that, that she was d*ad.
Craig: Before my dad died I wanted him gone, so why am I crying now that he is?
Terri: ‘Cause you love him.
(Craig starts crying, Mr. Raditch sees them in the hallway and leaves them alone.)
Back in the dance
Paige: I’m worried about coming in 8th place in some stupid luau contest and poor Craig is having a breakdown. Can we say shallow?
Hazel: Shallow.
Jimmy: Well Paige isn’t the only freak.
(Jimmy takes out his Kleenex and sneezes.)
Spinner: Dude, what plague do you have?
Jimmy: I think it’s these flowers. I’m allergic to them.
(He takes the lei off and tosses it aside.)
Paige: At least you don’t have radioactive skin or a pumpkin for a date.
Jimmy: Pumpkin and the dress.
Ellie: Oh losers!
(She takes their picture.)
Ellie: I’d say yearbook. Front cover.
At the entrance of the dance, Ashley is about to leave
Craig: Going somewhere?
Ashley: Are you?
Craig: Soon. I’m gonna go home. I think we owe everyone a dance.
(He takes her hand and they start walking to the dance floor.)
Craig: You can ask.
(They start dancing.)
Ashley: Ask what?
Craig: How I’m doing. I won’t go psycho.
Ashley: How are you doing Craig?
Craig: Better. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "02x22 - Tears are not Enough Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside Emma’s House
(Emma is reading a book.)
Spike: (From Inside) It’s time!
Emma: It’s time? (Realizes what this means and runs inside the house)
In the garage
Snake: It’s time! (Runs into the house)
Inside Emma’s House
(Snake and Emma run into the living room, Spike is breathing heavily. Emma holds Spike’s hand, Snake picks up the phone and begins dialing.)
Snake: (On the phone) Uhh, Liz! Liz! Liz, it’s Snake, Spike’s going into labor, we need you here ASAP.
Emma: Ok. (Runs to get a mattress.)
Spike: Ok… Midwife. (Snake takes her hand) There we go.
Emma: (Entering with mattress) Remember Mom, breathe. 1, 2, 3.
Snake: Tell me when you experience contractions.
Spike: NOW!
Snake: (Goes to get something, but trips over the mattress)
Emma: Leave it, I’ll get the supplies.
(She returns with a laundry basket full of supplies and starts taking them out.)
Emma: Ok We’ve got a plastic drop sheet, heating pad…
Snake: Em.
Emma: …Almond oil.
Snake: Emmy, this is just a drill
Emma: (Major disbelief) Again?
(Snake breaks down in laughter.)
Emma: You’ve been drilling us all summer.
Spike: (Indignant) This having a home birth thing is a pretty huge deal. Sorry if it’s putting you out.
Emma: And I’m sorry for getting in the way of your perfect delivery. (She storms out)
Emma’s Basement, her new room
(Emma is lying in bed, Spike comes down the stairs.)
Spike: Em? Better get ready. Gonna be late for your first day.
Emma: (Groggily) I know, mom. Thanks.
Spike: And don’t forget, the baby shower’s tonight at Joey’s.
Emma: Baby shower, how could I forget?
(Spike exits, Emma’s alarm clock rings and she turns it off.)
Outside Degrassi
(Craig is taking pictures of students. Paige and Spinner are kissing.)
Paige: So, this is it. The start of grade 10, a whole new year. I’m just so happy I have you to share it with.
Spinner: Me too, honeybee.
(Ellie and Marco are sitting on a bench.)
Ellie: Honeybee? Did he say honeybee?
Craig: Yeah. I bet you guys have pet names too.
(He tries to snap a picture of Ellie and Marco, but Ellie get her camera out like in a sh**t and manages to get Craig first. She blows on it like a smoking g*n.)
In the school parking lot
Sean: I thought you didn’t mind moving.
Emma: It’s not about the room Sean, I’m just sick of them making me feel like a second class citizen.
Sean: Well, maybe you should tell them.
Emma: Right. Mom’s half crazy with 9-months-pregnant hormones, and Snake doesn’t want anything to upset her.
Sean: Well then maybe he’s right. Maybe for now you should just suck it up.
Inside Degrassi
(Hazel, Paige, and Spinner are picking up class lists.)
Paige: I wonder which homeroom we get this year.
Hazel: I hope it’s Armstrong, he’s so cute!
Paige: Easy there, hormone girl, he’s a teacher. (Inspects the list) Sorry, Simpson again.
Marco: Believe me guys, it could be worse.
Spinner: Oh, the pain of my existence.
(Ms Kwan turns around.)
Ms. Kwan: The word is “bane” Gavin. Don’t worry I’ll tell you what it means in class. Grade 9 English, that is. Again.
Spinner: Yeah, go ahead guys, laugh at the big fat failing dummy.
Paige: No one was laughing at you.
Jimmy: I was.
Paige: Don’t listen to him, Spin. Fail English, no biggie. Fail gym, then we need to talk. (She kisses him and exits)
(Spinner buries his head in his hands.)
Ms Hatzilakos’s classroom
(Ms. Hatzilakos is handing out locker keys, she hands JT his and he walks back to his seat.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: (Reading names) Liberty Van-Zandt.
Toby: So JT, which lovely lady will you be going after this year?
JT: Well, there’s Ms. Hot-zilakos, always tempting.
(Ms. Hatzilakos continues calling out names.)
JT: And then there’s the tangy Ms. Kwan.
Manny: JT, charming as always.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Chris Sharp.
Chris: Here. (Goes to the front of the class)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Here’s your locker, Chris. And your locker number.
Chris: Thanks.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Emma Simpson.
Emma: You mean Emma Nelson?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Oh, I have you down as Simpson.
Emma: That’s a mistake.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Ok.
Emma: I mean, just because Mr. Simpson married my mom doesn’t mean I automatically took his name. She didn’t even do that.
Ms. Hatzilakos: O…kay
Emma: I mean, hello? Feminism?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Emma, there was just some confusion at the front office. That’s all. Now regarding locker assignments, I’ve placed a map of the corridor in the back, please have a look at it before you leave today, and if you have any questions or problems, come and see me after class.
In a rundown corridor
Paige: You’ve got to be kidding me. This is where my locker is? Smack dab in the middle of “The Wasteland?”
Spinner: Well, it’s got a nice…
Paige: Smell?
(She opens her locker and finds a rat inside and screams in shock. People around start laughing.)
Paige: There’s something alive in there.
Random Student: Nice one.
Spinner: (Inspects the rat, it’s just a toy on a string) It’s not this rat, honey.
Paige: This is terrible, I cannot live here.
Hazel: It’s just for one year.
Paige: Easy for you to say, your locker’s off the girls’ bathroom, I’d give anything to be there. I have to go now. (She leaves)
(Hazel starts to go, but Spinner pulls her back.)
Spinner: Hazel, you’re Paige’s best friend, right? You don’t like to see her in pain, right?
Hazel: No.
Spinner: Then you won’t have any problem giving her your locker.
Hazel: Um, I’d rather die than live here.
Spinner: Ok, it’s our 4-month anniversary in five days, and I need to get her a great gift, so can’t you just…
Hazel: So, go buy her a pony. (She exits)
P.A.: Attention students, club signups are starting now.
At the club fair
(Snake is holding an insect sculpture trying to persuade people to sign up for the insect club.)
Snake: (Talking to a kid who is ignoring him and walking away) Sign up? Maybe later? Cool. (Gives a thumbs-up)
(Emma is leafing through a book.)
Craig: Hey, whatcha got?
Emma: Just an old yearbook from the eighties.
Craig: Ok, that I gotta see. (He looks at the book) Oh my god, it’s Joey with hair.
Ashley: Isn’t that your mom? Her hair’s insane. I think that should be my style.
Craig: Don’t make me take this book away.
Ashley: Kidding. (Kisses him)
Emma: (Looking at a photo of Shane McKay)
Ashley: Friend of your mom’s?
Emma: No, ex-boyfriend. Can we drop it?
Craig: Why? What’d he do?
(Emma doesn’t respond.)
Craig: Ok, well I guess we’ll have to ask Mr. Simpson. Hey, Mr. S!
Emma: Fine. He got my mom pregnant and then took off.
Ashley: That’s your dad?
Emma: Shane McKay. But I only met him once, when I was three. We visited him at work. He was a doctor and it didn’t go well.
Flashback to Shane’s office
(3 year old Emma is playing with a small pink ball and watching Spike and Shane argue.)
Shane: Well, I just think you’re talking about Emma like she can’t hear you right now, and that wasn’t the deal at all.
Spike: You know what? I think it’s a little confusing for her. Maybe you should think about that.
Shane: Well I think she can hear you right now you’re pretending she can’t. Maybe we can talk about this another time.
(The ball rolls out of Emma’s hands and stops near Shane.)
Shane: I refuse to not be involved in this child’s life. (He stomps on the ball) She needs me.
Back to present
Ashley: So he’s not around at all?
Emma: Never. But (something?) just… to wonder.
At Caitlin’s Workplace
Caitlin: (On her phone, walking through the halls) It must be (something?)
(Mmkay Hangs up)
Worker: (Handing her a clipboard) For you.
Caitlin: Why did I take this job?
Joey: Probably because you missed TO, and your family, your friends, and uh, I think it’s because you missed me.
Caitlin: What? Nice to see you haven’t lost your confidence.
Joey: Look Caitlin, I don’t want to rush you but we gotta get going if we’re going to get my place ready for Spike’s baby shower
Caitlin: Yeah, um, you’re really going to hate me, (hands him a box of supplies) but I have a major deadline.
Joey: Oh, no no no, come on. No, you suckered me into hosting this thing, now you want me to decorate it too?
(A woman walks by and hands Caitlin more thing which she puts into the box.
Caitlin’s phone rings.)
Caitlin: (Answering the phone) Caitlin Ryan. Uh yeah, um, he’s going to call me back.
Emma’s House
(Snake is painting Emma’s old room for the baby.)
Snake: (Singing) Strange animal, that’s what I know (begins humming) …Strange animal.
(Emma enters.)
Snake: Old room’s looking pretty good, huh?
Emma: Did you change my name at school?
Snake: Pardon me?
Emma: Today during attendance, Ms. Hatzilakos said “Emma Simpson”
Spike: (Entering with a sandwich and soda for Snake) I’m sure it was a mistake Em, the office probably just got confused.
Emma: How? Unless Snake said something.
Snake: Uh, no. The new secretary does know you’re my daughter.
Emma: But I’m not your daughter.
Snake: Em, what’s going on?
Emma: I’m his stepdaughter, I only have one dad, and he’s not here.
Spike: Shane?
(Snake opens the soda loudly.)
Emma: Yeah.
Spike: He’s had nothing to do with you for ten years.
Emma: Eleven. And a lot can change in eleven years.
Spike: Where are you going with this?
Emma: I don’t know, I just thought it might be nice to actually know who he is. Or where?
Spike: No. I’m sorry, but no. That’s not going to happen.
Emma: Mom…
Spike: End of Story.
(Emma exits.)
Snake: Honey, one day we’re just going to have to tell her the truth.
Snake: Yeah, Piece of cake.
Outside Joey’s House
(Someone carrying a gift basket for Jack rings the doorbell.)
Inside Joey’s house, the baby shower...
Caitlin: (Filming Spike) Door.
Spike: (In a funny voice, waving to camera) My bel-ly. (Turns to her friends) I’m having him at home.
Lucy: A home birth? With no epidural?
Liz: You don’t need it, you just breathe right through the pain.
Heather: So Spike, aren’t you scared?
Spike: Why would I be? I’ve got the best midwife in all of Canada: Liz.
Lucy: Well, you’re a braver woman than I am. Ok, it’s gift time. Open my present. (Hands Spike a gift)
Heather: Or you can open mine. (Hands her a gift too)
Spike: Ok, one at a time
(Caitlin accidentally spills her drink on herself, and grads a napkin to wipe it up.)
Sydney: Oh, try club soda on it. I’m Sydney.
Caitlin: I always do this. Hi. Caitlin. (They shake hands) I’m a very old friend of Spike’s.
Sydney: Then you know Joey too?
Caitlin: Do I?
Sydney: I guess you know him well.
Caitlin: It’s one of those unrequited romances. Well, requited, then unrequited, requited again, on, off, revolving door.
Sydney: Oh yeah um, one of those.
Caitlin: I actually just moved back here, so I guess we’ll see.
Joey: (Comes over and kisses Sydney) Hey, you made it. Caitlin, this is Sydney.
Caitlin: The new girlfriend.
Sydney: Right.
Joey: Sydney, this is Caitlin.
Caitlin: An old friend.
Sydney: Yeah.
Caitlin: Yes.
Sydney: Can I help with the snacks, Joe?
Joey: Yeah, that’s be great. Thank you. Come on, Ang.
Caitlin: It was nice meeting you.
(Emma is sitting on a couch boredly knitting. Caitlin comes up to her.)
Caitlin: Having a good time?
Emma: Yeah. Great. Amazing.
Caitlin: Uh, this is Caitlin you’re talking to, so for real. What’s on your mind?
Emma: What do you know about Shane McKay?
Caitlin: That’s a question for your mom.
Emma: I asked, and she won’t answer.
Caitlin: Then I can’t either.
Snake: Caitlin! I want to open your gift now.
Emma: Come on. I need to know.
Caitlin: I’m sorry. (Walks over to Snake)
Late at night, Emma’s room
(Emma tries to fall asleep but can’t, she turns on the computer and searches “McKay, Shane Andrew” on “Canada’s People Finder” but no matched come up. She takes out “Andrew” but still no matches. Finally, she changes “Shane” to “Dr. Shane” and one match comes up. She smiles.)
Next day, in Degrassi
(Marco is fixing his hair in a mirror in his locker, Spinner approaches.)
Spinner: Dude, I cracked it. I know how to get Hazel’s locker.
Marco: (Doesn’t look up) Oh, cool. How?
Spinner: Ok, I was playing Monopoly last night. I needed Park Place from Kendra, but I didn’t have enough money.
Marco: Sounds familiar.
Spinner: Anyway, she needed Atlantic, which my dad had, and he needed Vermont, which I had. So…
Marco: You traded your dad for Atlantic, and…
Spinner: Gave it to Kendra for Park Place. Property, dude, property. Anyways, so I planned out a series of trades. I call it (Holds up a diagram) Operation Locker Storm.
Marco: Spin, what can I say? You’re a genius.
Ms. Kwan‘s classroom
(Someone throws a paper airplane at JT. He throws it back.)
Emma: Sean, I found Shane’s address.
Shane: Cool.
Emma: I know, I barely slept last night, so come on, we gotta...
Sean: Whoa, easy. I got grade 10 shop after this.
Emma: Don’t you think that finding my birth dad is a little more important?
Sean: Emma, why skip? We’ll go this weekend.
(Emma turns to leave.)
Sean: Emma…
Emma: Fine. Whatever. I wouldn’t want you to get in trouble.
(Bell rings, Ms. Kwan enters.)
Ms Kwan: Class, can we please settle down and get to work?
In the hallway
(JT and Toby are talking, Spinner approaches.)
Spinner: JT! Isaacs! I’m conducting a locker poll. Grade your locker for me, JT.
JT: (Opens his locker and Toby and Spinner look inside) OK, A for quality, D for location. I ask you, where are the ladies?
Spinner: Well, I have a locker that happens to be grade F for quality, but grade A for ladies. You like tough chicks?
JT: (Shrugs) Yeah.
Spinner: (Turns JT’s head towards his) You like tough chicks?
JT: Do I?
Spinner: Good. (Slams the locker shut)
(It opens and he’s at Chris’s locker now.)
Spinner: Chris, I could get you a locker right next to the MI lab. I mean, I know someone willing to give theirs up.
Chris: It would save me time carrying my LP’s back and forth, but naw. The ladies are cool.
Spinner: (Sees Chris’s poster of DJ MadBullets) DJ MadBullets, huh? Hear that rare jam session he did in Paris last year?
Chris: Tough still.
Spinner: Oh it is, and uh, I’ve got a rare bootleg copy with your name on it. For the locker.
Chris: Alright, alright, aright.
Spinner: G-Dawg represent. (He walks away)
(Chris closes his locker. When it opens again, Spinner is now at Hazel’s locker.)
Hazel: Beg, plead, whatever. I’m not slumming it all year in the wasteland.
Spinner: Ok, that’s good, because I got you a locker in the lanes, Degrassi’s coolest neighborhood.
Hazel: For boys. For girls, this is the place. It’s close to our office, (sh*t of a few girls entering the girls’ bathroom) near the courtyard, natural light…
Spinner: Yeah, but, (Leaning in close) come on. The lanes are so pretty with the red and orange lockers, and… (He realizes he’s not going to sell it, and steps away. He gets down on his knees and begins to beg) Ok, forget Paige, forget the lanes, I need this because it’s the only thing I can give her. Please?
Hazel: Fine, whatever.
(Spinner runs off cheering and skipping.)
Elsewhere in Degrassi
Emma: Craig, what are you doing right now?
Craig: Going to art class.
Emma: Do you really want to go?
Craig: Instead of…
Emma: Finding my father. I’ve got his address.
(Craig looks reluctant.)
Emma: Sean won’t got with me, and Manny’s mom would k*ll her if she skipped.
Craig: Oh yeah? And what do you think Joey’s going to do to me?
Emma: I can’t go alone.
Craig: But why me? I mean, you could ask JT, or Toby…
Emma: Because I thought you’d understand, with your dad and all.
Craig: (Smiles) So what are we waiting for?
(Craig and Emma are shown leaving school and running across various streets until they reach their destination.)
Craig: Ok, so just go up, ring the bell, introduce yourself, and I’ll be right here.
Emma: I cannot believe this is real. I’m actually going to meet him.
(Emma and Craig walk up to the house and Emma rings the bell. The door opens.)
Emma: Hi, I’m Emma… (She realizes it’s not the person from the yearbook)
Dr. McKay: And I’m Dr. McKay. How may I help?
(Emma doesn’t respond.)
Emma’s House
Emma: My mom will be home any second.
Craig: There’s got to be a record here somewhere.
Emma: Ok, records, um hospitals?
Craig: Schools? Police stations? I don’t know?
Emma: Snake is the chair of the alumni committee. He’s got this huge address book.
Craig: Ok, I’ll look out for your mom.
(Emma gets on Snake’s computer and find “McKay, Shane” on the list. She clicks it.”.)
Emma: Found it! Shane McKay, 1405 Shaw Ave… Stouffville?
(She writes it down.)
Degrassi hallways
(Spinner is leading Paige with his hand over her eyes.)
Spinner: Ok, ok. Come on, come on, come on.
Paige: Ok, ok, ok. I’m going to fall.
Spinner: No you won’t. (Narrowly avoids a collision) Ok (Removes his hands from her eyes.) Okay, I know it’s early, but (He opens the locker) happy anniversary!
(On the inside, the locker looks rundown)
Paige: (Confused) There’s nothing inside.
Spinner: Yeah, we have to move your stuff first.
Paige: Wait, let’s throw it in reverse here. The locker is my gift?
Spinner: Well yeah, I mean it’s prime real estate, I mean you have your office right there…
Paige: O-kay, location perfect, the locker? No.
(Spinner looks crestfallen.)
Paige: Oh, but you’re so sweet for trying. (She looks over at Jimmy’s locker. He’s got an electronic lock on his.)
Spinner: I didn’t know you had a locker here.
Jimmy: Not a locker. The locker.
(On the inside, there’s a fresh coat of paint and it looks much better kept.)
Paige: Mmm, now that is prime real estate.
Jimmy: Yeah? Well, keep dreaming. ‘Cause it’s never going to happen.
Paige: We’ll see. I happen to know a miracle worker. (Puts her arms around Spinner..)
(Cut to a montage of Emma and Craig traveling by train. When they get up, they find Shane’s house and walk towards it.)
Emma: I don’t even know what to call him. Shane? Dr. McKay? Do I shake hands? Hug him? What if he’s married and has a bunch of kids? What if he doesn’t like me?
Craig: Em, stop it.
Inside the house
(It’s more like a doctor’s office than a residence. A nurse runs by, and Emma tries to stop her.)
Emma: Uh, hi. We’re looking for Shane McKay.
Nurse: Do you have an appointment?
Emma: No.
(We hear the noise of a heart monitor detecting no pulse. Several medics run by.)
Medic #1: Room 115.
Medic #2: We have a code red.
Nurse: Hold on.
(The Nurse turns to go after the medics.)
Craig: (Looks at the list of rooms, and sees “S. McKay”) Room 209. Go.
(Emma doesn’t move.)
Craig: Go! (Prods Emma) I’ll cover!
(Emma runs up the stairs to room 209. The door is open a little, and inside the room is a man pacing around and continuously adjusting a plate of food.)
Emma: (Knocks on the door. When the man doesn’t respond, she lets herself in) Hi. I’m looking for Shane McKay.
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The nursing home, Shane‘s room
Emma: But you were supposed to be a doctor, not a patient. *Backs away* This was such a mistake.
Shane: Don’t go! Please! Wait, don’t go! *Feels Emma’s hair* You have pretty blonde hair like Emma’s.
Emma: *Slaps his hand away* Stop it!
Shane: *Picks up a photo of Spike and Emma* She’s my daughter. But she doesn’t love me.
Emma: Why would you say that?
Shane: She never comes to visit me, she doesn’t care about me.
Emma: *Beginning to cry* Maybe she couldn’t find you until now. I’m Emma
Shane: No, Emma’s just little. She… *Looks into Emma’s eyes* You’re Emma. *He hugs Emma* Don’t be sad. Everything’s ok. Your daddy’s here now. Daddy’s here.
-The skate park-
Spinner: Still mad I stole your stupid MP3 player?
Jimmy: No, it’s ancient history.
Spinner: Good, then let’s just bury the hammer.
Jimmy: Fine. Is that it?
Spinner: No, well I… I kind of need your locker.
Jimmy: You need my locker, or Paige does?
Spinner: I just… I need it
Jimmy: *Laughs* Ok. What you do need is a backbone. *In a funny voice* Oh, Paige I’d do anything…
Spinner: *Shoves Jimmy* Hey, shut up ok? I’m not like that.
Jimmy: You know what? Admit it and the locker’s yours.
Spinner: Ok, I have no backbone
Jimmy: No. See, you’re preaching to the converted. You need to tell everybody. Tomorrow by noon or no deal. *He skates away*
*Spinner heaves a great sigh*
-Shane’s room-
Emma: How long have you been here?
Shane: *Eating his lunch* About since I fell and h*t my head.
Emma: You fell?
Shane: Yep. *Emma stares blankly* Don’t be sad, my head’s ok now. *Taps his head* See? It doesn’t hurt, I’m ok.
Emma: Why didn’t anyone tell me this?
*The nurse barges in with Craig*
Nurse: Shane? Can I borrow your guest please? *Pulls Emma aside* Just who do you think you are just barging in here?
Emma: I’m his daughter Emma, actually.
Nurse: Oh. *She turns to Shane, who nods.* But you can’t surprise him like that. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, so he has specific routines that he needs to stick to, but I think that’s enough for today. Ok Shane? Emma has to go home now, so stand up and say goodbye.
Shane: No! *Throws his tray of food on the floor* She’s staying!
Nurse: Shane…
Shane: She can’t go. No.
Nurse: *Tries to give him his knitting* Here
Shane: She can’t go!
Nurse: Take your knitting and…
Shane: No!
Nurse: Yes *Gets him to sit down*
Shane: No!
Nurse: It’s ok, she’ll be back. Come on
Shane: No
Nurse: Take your knitting. It’s ok. Come on
*Shane begins to calm down*
Emma: I’m going to write you. And you can write me too, ok? And I’m going to visit again. Soon. *Writes down her address*
*Craig takes a picture*
Nurse: Come on *Ushers Emma and Craig out*
Shane: Promise?
Emma: Promise.
*Shane smiles and begins knitting*
-At the train station-
Emma: My mom is such a liar!
Craig: She’s probably got an explanation.
Emma: Like what? She’s evil? I hate her! I so wish she wasn’t my mom.
Craig: No, you’re overreacting.
Emma: Craig, my father is brain damaged.
Craig: At least you have a dad. Last time I checked, you had two.
Emma: I’m sorry, I’m an idiot.
Craig: No, you’re not. Let’s just… Let’s just go home
*They approach the ticket window*
Worker: Sorry, you just missed the last train. No more till morning.
Emma: Nothing?
Worker: No.
-Joey’s house-
*Joey, Angela, and Caitlin are cleaning up*
Joey: Are you going to help daddy?
Caitlin: *Playing with a baby toy* Spike forgot one of her gifts. This is very cute, who got it?
Joey: Actually, that’s uh the gift Sydney got her.
*Caitlin breaks the toy*
Joey: What’d you do?
Caitlin: Hardly even touched it. I can’t help it if people buy cheap gifts.
Joey: Hey Ang, I think Caitlin is Jealous of Daddy’s new friend.
Caitlin: Dream on. You know what your problem is? You have a big head.
Joey: I have a big head?
Caitlin: Yeah.
Joey: Angie, does daddy have a big head?
Angela: Yep
Joey: *Laughs* Oooh, you little…
*The phone rings, Joey answers it*
Joey: Hello? You’re where?
-Train station-
*Joey is walking Emma and Craig to his car, he is very angry*
Joey: What a great way to start off the school year, guys. Second day of school, and like “Oh, oh I know. Let’s skip. Oh aren’t we cool?” You know it took me over an hour to get here? What am I, a taxi service? Just one question. Stouffville? What on earth is in Stouffville?
Emma: My dad. *She gets into the car.*
-Emma’s house, late at night-
*Spike is knitting, Snake is tapping the table, Emma enters*
Spike: *Angry* You have a lot of explaining to do.
*Emma says nothing*
Spike: You’re not talking to me? Emma, you start talking right now!
Emma: You lied to me, mom. I found him
Spike: Shane? You found Shane?
Emma: Right where you left him. In that prison in Stouffville, how could you?
Spike: I didn’t put him there, his parents did!
Emma: You didn’t stop them? How could you?
Spike: I was 16! *Suddenly groans in pain*
Snake: *Guides her back to her chair* Come on, sit down. *Sits her down*
Spike: False alarm.
Snake: Emma, please. Let’s just talk this through rationally.
*Emma shakes her head*
Snake: Emma, sit!
Emma: You don’t talk to me like that, you’re not my dad. *Storms off to her room, and breaks down into tears*
-Degrassi, Mr. Armstrong’s class*
Mr. Armstrong: (B-3)*(4B-7) Now, in this problem, we need to solve for B.
*Spinner is fidgeting nervously*
Jimmy: *Making ticking noises behind him* It’s 11:45. Time’s running out Mr. Spineless.
Mr. Armstrong: So, who’s going to be brave and come up to the board and solve this one for me?
*Spinner goes up to the front*
Mr. Armstrong: Gavin, I can’t tell you how excited I am to finally see you up here *Hands him some chalk*
*Spinner stares at the board blankly*
Random Student: Come on, genius.
Spinner: *Turns around* I have no backbone.
Mr. Armstrong: Excuse me?
Spinner: I have no backbone.
*Everyone laughs, Jimmy signals for him to continue*
Spinner: I’m whipped. I’m spineless. My girlfriend completely runs my life.
Mr. Armstrong: OK, alright, settle down. I knew it was too good to be true. Gavin, please take your seat. *Spinner sits down* Anyone else? Michelle, why don’t you come up here and show him how it’s done?
Spinner: Are you happy? Can I have the locker now?
Jimmy: Yeah, you earned it.
*Spinner smiles, and looks over at Paige, who is quite unhappy. He sighs*
-Emma’s house-
*Spike is listening to Mozart and knitting. She drops a stitch. From outside, someone rings the doorbell furiously. She goes to answer it, ringing continues*
Spike: Alright, I’m coming. *She opens the door, and sees Shane* Shane…
Shane: Miss me?
-Degrassi-
*Emma is walking through the halls and Snake stops her*
Snake: You missed breakfast.
Emma: Wasn’t up to it.
Snake: Can I talk to you for a minute? *Emma walks away* Please, this is important. *She turns around* From where you sit your mom looks terrible, heartless. But you don’t know her side yet. When Spike got pregnant, Shane wanted to be involved, but his family wouldn’t let him. One night he took acid, and jumped off a bridge, or fell, who knows? She took you to visit him once.
-Flashback to the doctor’s office-
Shane: *Leaning in close to 3-year-old Emma* Hi Emma. Hi Emma. Hi Emma. *Two doctors restrain him and pull him away* No! I want to… No! No!
*The pink ball rolls out of Emma’s hand*
-Back to present-
Snake: Your mom was afraid that he might hurt you.
Emma: Ok, but she could have told me.
Snake: She was waiting till you got older, and maybe… maybe that was wrong. *Tosses her a quarter* Just call her, ok? *He walks away*
-Emma’s house-
*Shane is looking at a picture of Spike and Snake in their wedding outfits*
Shane: When did you marry Snake?
Spike: Last year.
Shane: You didn’t tell me.
Spike: No, I didn’t have to.
Shane: He doesn’t have to be your husband
Spike: He is.
Shane: But if he wasn’t, this could be me. *Feels the baby* This could be ours. *Listens to the baby kicking*
*Spike ties to reach for the phone, but Shane grabs it*
Shane: You’re not calling anyone!
-Degrassi-
*Emma puts the coin in the slot and dials home. She gets a busy signal. She hangs up and leaves.*
-Emma’s house-
*Shane has left the phone off the hook*
Spike: Shane, I have a pre-natal checkup. Why don’t we call you a cab?
Shane: I’ll stay.
Spike: I’m sorry Shane, you can’t.
Shane: But this is my home.
Spike: No it isn’t. Look around
Shane: *Throws the phone on the ground* No! No! *Starts knocking stuff over while Spike looks on shocked* No! No! No!
-Degrassi-
Spinner: Paige…
Paige: Leave me alone, Spinner.
Spinner: Let me talk to you.
Paige: For what? So you can call me a shrew, a hag, or some freaky shrieky demanding witch?
Spinner: I didn’t mean it!
Paige: Why? Why would you do something so horrible?
Spinner: I made a deal, if I said I had no backbone in class, Jimmy would give me his locker.
Paige: And you did it? You humiliated me just to get a locker?
Spinner: I didn’t humiliate you!
Paige: You did so!
Spinner: You know what? I have no idea how to please you, you just tell me to work a miracle, then you’re mad at me for doing it, what do you want?
Paige: From you? Nothing, ever!*She storms off*
*Spinner kicks his locker and throws his binder on the ground*
-Emma’s house-
Spike: Shane, you hurt your hand. Why don’t I go get some ice for it?
Shane: No.
Spike: Shane, you have the phone, it’s not like I can call anybody.
Shane: No.
Spike: Would you at least let me look at it then?
*Shane allows her to, she plucks the phone out of his hand and begins to dial*
Shane: You liar! How could you lie to me like that? *Makes several attempts to grab the phone, but fails* Give me the phone! *He finally wrests it from Spike, Spike starts doubling over, clutching her stomach in pain. Shane begins kicking things*
Spike: Oh, no! The baby’s coming.
*Emma comes in*
Emma: Mom, what happened? *Sees the mess* Shane? What are you doing?
Shane: She tricked me!
Spike: Em, this is it. It’s time.
Shane: She’s a liar!
Emma: She’s my mom, and if you hurt her, I will never ever speak to you again.
Spike: Phone Snake.
Shane: No, you’re trying to send me away. I’m not going anywhere.
Emma: But mom needs help. So give me the phone *Shane doesn’t give it up* Take mom’s knitting. You like to knit *Shane gives her the phone and takes the knitting. Emma calls the school*
-Degrassi-
Secretary: *Answering the phone* Degrassi community school, this is Ms. Smith
*Mr. Raditch and Joey enter*
Mr. Raditch: I seem to recall you skipping class a couple times *They both laugh*
Secretary: Mr. Raditch? I have Emma Nelson on line 2, she’s looking for Mr. Simpson. His wife is in labor.
Mr. Raditch: Oh, he’s out back with his insect club.
Joey: I’ll go get him.
Secretary: Emma, we’re going to get him now
-Emma’s house-
*Shane continues to knit, Spike is in labor*
Emma: Remember mom, breathe in through your nose, out through your mouth, all at once. I’ll phone Liz. *She calls Liz on speed dial*
-In the forest behind Degrassi-
*Snake with Liberty and 2 others is slowly approaching a butterfly on a leaf*
Snake: *Whispering* Moving softly, moving gently, moving quietly.
Joey: Snake! Snake! Spike’s going to have the baby, man! Come on! She’s in labor, let’s go.
Snake: I’m going to be a dad? I’m going to be a dad, I’m going to be a dad! *Hugs Liberty, and then runs away with Joey*
Joey: Wait up!
-Science classroom-
*Mr. Raditch is talking with Spinner*
Mr. Raditch: …And code of conduct says that students that wish to trade lockers must ask for permission from the office. You are going to move back. And everyone else that’s involved in your “scheme” is going to be back in their lockers by the end of the day. *He exits*
*Paige approaches*
Paige: So, can I still sit here, do you want me to maybe trade with somebody? *Spinner says nothing* Ok, thanks *she sits down*
Spinner: I was just trying to make you happy. I wanted you to have the perfect locker.
Paige: I don’t need the perfect locker.
Spinner: Yeah? Then why didn’t you take Hazel’s?
Paige: It wasn’t… It wasn’t good enough.
Spinner: Yeah, like me. What kind of loser fails English, plus I’m totally broke, course you hate me.
Paige: I so do not hate you. I’m sorry if I was demanding, ok? You’re free to say I wasn’t, hon.
Spinner: I never noticed.
Paige: It was a super sweet idea.
Spinner: Well how about a kiss then?
*They kiss, Jimmy enters*
Jimmy: *Making a whip crack noise* Kiss me now.
Paige: Poor lonely jealous James. If only he had someone to kiss. As if.
Spinner: That’s why you’re my girl. *He kisses her again*
-Emma’s house-
*Liz as arrived and is helping Spike through the delivery*
Liz: The baby’s fine. There’s nothing to worry about.
Spike: Except for the mind-bl*wing agony. Ow!
*Liz wipes Spike’s forehead*
Spike: Em. Em, I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you. I meant to. I wanted you to hear it from me, not this way.
Emma: Don’t worry about it now.
Spike: You’re important, you’re so important. You’re important to me. *She continues pushing*
*Snake runs in*
Snake: What happened in here?
Shane: Hi, Snake.
*Snake looks bewildered, but realizes it’s not the time to ask*
Emma: Don’t worry about it now, we’re all ok.
*Spike gives one final push*
-Later that day, Emma’s front porch-
*Shane is finishing up the wool hat Spike was making*
Emma: You fixed it. It’s beautiful.
Shane: Your mom’s not very good at knitting.
*A black People Carrier from Shane’s nursing home pulls up*
Nurse: Shane, it’s time to go.
*Shane makes his way towards the vehicle*
Emma: Wait *She hands him Craig’s photo* It’s a photo of me and you. Craig took it.
*Shane embraces the photo*
Shane: Bye-bye, Emma
Emma: Bye
*Shane gets in the van, and it drives away*
*Emma goes back inside the house, Spike and Snake are cuddling with baby Jack*
Snake: Hey, who’s that pretty girl? That’s your sister. Her name’s Emma
Spike: Em, what I said before, how I wanted to tell you…
Emma: Yeah, I know. Thanks.
Liz: Em, come sit down so I can take your picture.
*Emma goes over to Snake and Spike*
Emma: You know what Jack? You look just like our dad.
*Liz snaps the photo* | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "03x02 - Father Figure Pt. 2"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside Degrassi
(The boys' soccer team and cheerleaders are returning from a victorious game.)
Paige: I can't believe we b*at them 6-2.
Spinner: Did you see Sully bend that last kick before...
(Sully walks by.)
Sully: (Calling to someone off-screen) Hey Spence, wait up
Manny: (Nervously) Hey Sully, Sully um... you did great today, congratulations...
Sully: Thanks. (Walks away)
Paige: Someone has a crush.
Manny: So, you think he'd be interested?
Spinner: With you? Um...
Paige: Spin doesn't want to be brutal, so um, I will. (Sigh) Sully... not really your type. But I can think of 10 guys you'd be adorable with.
Manny: I don't want to be adorable. Bunnies and puppies are adorable.
Paige: Hon, if you don't want to be cute, don't be. Just change your image, simple as that.
Opening Credits
The next day, outside Degrassi
Emma: This club will be my mission for the year. I'm calling it S.I.T.E. "Students Improving The Environment"
Manny: (Not paying attention) Cool.
Emma: We'll have letter writing campaigns, and endangered species week...
Manny: Wanna hear my mission? I wanna be hot. Not cute. Not adorable. (Takes off her jacket to show Emma her new, more revealing outfit) Hot.
Emma: Wow.
Manny: There's no way I'm getting dumped this year... (Removes her hair scrunchee) ...For being too young.
(JT is skateboarding and can't take his eyes off Manny. He inadvertently skates into the street and wipes out.)
Outside Joey's house
(Joey is getting Angela into the car.)
Angela: Where's my juice?
Joey: Oh, sh**t, I always forget something, I'll be right back (Turns around to see Craig and Marco, Craig is holding a juice box triumphantly)
Craig: I never forget the Angie fuel!
Joey: Atta boy! Here you go. (Give the juice to Angela) So, ready to celebrate tonight?
(Craig looks confused.)
Joey: Your grounding for skipping class. Finito.
Marco: Yes! Man, our band so needs their lead singer back.
Joey: Band? You guys have a band?
Craig: Well yeah, I mean we don't even have a name yet, but um...
Joey: This is so cool! Did I ever tell you guys I was in a band?
Craig: Like a million times.
Joey: Hey, uh guys, what about rehearsals? Do you need a space? I've got a space. You can use my space.
Marco: Your garage?
Joey: Anytime you want, alright?
Joey: Rock on, dudes! (He drives away singing) Everybody wants something, they'll never give up.
Ms. Hatzilakos's classroom
(Ms. Hatzilakos is showing a movie about frogs. Manny is drawing in her notebook, JT is watching her. Manny notices, and JT looks away quickly, but Manny notices.)
JT: Sorry. I was just, uh, looking at your...
Many: At my what?
JT: (Motioning to the notebook) Can I see that?
(Manny shows him her drawings.)
JT: You know, I do do doodle interpretation.
Manny: Doodle interpretation.
Liberty: Shhhh!
JT: Your doodles say a lot about you.
Manny: Really. What do my doodles say?
JT: Well, this flower one here... (He reaches across to point it out.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: JT, quiet please.
At Joey's house
(Joey has set up the dining room for a romantic night.)
Sydney: Look at this place. Candles, music, you in an apron. (Joey laughs)
Joey: What can I say? I enjoy creating an atmosphere.
(Sydney and Joey kiss, but are interrupted by Craig's band practicing in the garage.)
Sydney: Is that roadwork? It's late.
Joey: That's Craig's band. Um, could we pop in for just a minute?
Sydney: (Reluctant) Sure
In the garage
(Craig, Spinner, Marco, and Jimmy are playing as Ashley and Angela watch. Joey and Sydney enter.)
Craig: Stop, stop.
(They stop playing.)
Joey: Hey guys, how's it going?
Craig: It's going good, it's really good.
Joey: Still finding your sound?
Spinner: Well on the road, Mr. Jeremiah. (He hits the crash symbol, and it topples over)
Joey: All right! But three guitars, aren't you kind of limiting yourselves? Let me show you what I'm talking about, I've got um.. (Takes his keyboard out of the drawer) It'll do piano, it'll do sax, bells, whatever you want, this thing'll do everything. (He plugs it in)
Craig: What, you think Ash should join the band?
Joey: Um, no I was gonna just... jam with you guys? Show you what you're missing?
Craig: What? Uh...
Joey: This is a wicked little number, I'm gonna dedicate it to my baby Angie, and my sweetie, Sydney.
Jimmy: Joey, what's the key?
Joey: Um, H? I don't know. Go, just go. 1,2,3. (He begins playing "Everybody Wants Something." The others try to keep up, but can't. The result sounds terrible) That's it. (Sings) Everybody wants something, they'll never give up. Everybody wants something, they'll take your money. And never give up. Give me more! Come on! (Starts jumping around) Yeah!
At the mall
(Emma and Manny are shopping for clothes.)
Emma: Doodle interpretation?
Manny: I know, he was totally flirting. It was weird, but at the same time, kind of nice.
Emma: Oh my god, you like him!
Manny: No! I mean, he's cute, totally cuter than last year, and I'm glad he's interested because it means my new look is working.
Emma: But...
Manny: He's still just JT
Emma: Oh.
Manny: My look still feels too tame, or acute, it‘s not... (She sees a thong and grabs it) This. This is what I need
Emma: A thong.
Many: What? It's perfect. What do you think?
Emma: I think they shouldn't sell this at the mall.
The next day, at Degrassi
(Manny is walking down the hall with her pants hiked down to show off her thong.)
JT: I mean, this whole thing is just weird y‘know. I've known Manny since I was about four.
Toby: Last year was hot older women, this year it's hot younger women. So what?
JT: You're right. So what? So I like her, big deal. I mean it's not like she's become a totally different person... (He sees Manny's thong and is unable to look away. He's not looking where he's going and walks straight into a doorpost)
Mr. Armstrong's class
(Liberty, sitting directly behind Manny is staring at her thong condescendingly.)
Liberty: Psst, Manny. Are you aware I can see your underpants?
Manny: Are you aware that I don't care?
Liberty: Maybe some people don't want to have to see your underpants all day.
Manny: If some people don't like it, maybe they shouldn't look.
Liberty: Do you have so little confidence you have to show your entire body?
Manny: I didn't ask for your opinion, Liberty. What I wear is none of your business.
Liberty: Fine. But it's against code of conduct. And if someone were to point that out to Mr. Radich, I'm sure he'd think it was his business.
Outside Degrassi
(Manny and Emma are passing out fliers for Emma's club.)
Manny: Are you sure this isn't too much?
Emma: You look great. I wouldn't say it if it wasn't true. And apparently JT agrees.
(JT and Toby are sitting nearby.)
Toby: Just go talk to her
(JT shakes his head.)
Emma: So what are you going to do when he asks you out?
Liberty: (Coming over) When who asks Manny out?
Emma: JT. Isn't it so cute?
Liberty: Oh. I didn't know you liked JT.
Manny: I might
(Liberty looks disappointed.)
Toby: Go.
JT: Ok.
(He walks towards Manny.)
Emma: Better hurry up and decide.
JT: Manny...
Emma: We've got to go to a meeting. So, bye. (She runs away with Liberty in tow)
Manny: Hi.
JT: I guess, let me guess, I just interrupted a big talk about... endangered platypuses.
Manny: Um, something a bit more serious.
JT: Well um, what's more serious than a mammal that can lay eggs?
Manny: I don't know, you tell me.
(Sully approaches.)
Sully: Hey um, Manny, right? (He looks at the fliers) This thing, are you going to be there?
Manny: (nervously) Yeah... Yeah, well my best friend is organizing it.
Sully: Great, well um, maybe I'll show up.
JT: Manny? (Manny is entranced by Sully) Manny?
Manny: Oh, uh, sorry. What were we talking about?
JT: Platypuses. What's more serious? Manny? (Manny has gone back into her trance-like state.) Hello?
At Emma's club
(Emma and Ashley are giving their presentation on protecting the rainforest. No one is paying attention, they're all more interested in Manny.)
Emma: What I'm saying is, if your parents want to buy a tropical hardwood toilet seat, don't let them. Ever year, millions of hectares of tropical rainforests are destroyed. And rainforests are important for so many reasons...
Sully: Manny. What's that short for?
Manny: Manny? Um, Manuela.
Sully: Manuela. Nice.
Emma: ...If your parents still insist on buying tropical hardwood, tell them that by buying the toilet seat, they're destroying the rainforest, Our planet‘s lungs.
At CQJH
Joey: Caitlin!
Caitlin: Joey. What are you doing here?
Joey: Actually I was wondering if I could borrow the video camera you had at Spike's baby shower.
Caitlin: Oh, yeah, sure. What is it, for Angela?
Joey: Actually, it's for Craig's band.
Caitlin: Band?
Joey: Yeah
Caitlin: (Laughs) Oh, you must be having some serious flashbacks
Joey: Oh, am I ever. We were jamming in the garage last night, it was like totally like the Zits again. All over.
Caitlin: Uhh, jamming?
Joey: Yeah
Caitlin: Joey, you're not a teenager.
Joey: I know, I just thought the boys could use some direction. If I knew that you thought the Zits were a joke...
Caitlin: I did not!
Joey: But if we had some guidance back then, maybe things would have been different.
Caitlin: And maybe if you'd written more than one song (Hands him the video camera) There you go. Camera. Just, uh... never mind.
Joey: What?
Caitlin: Just remember that they're teenagers. That's all I'm going to say. Bye.
Joey's Garage
(The boys are playing while Joey films them.)
Joey: Ok, ok guys, stop, stop, stop. Craig, I'm only getting your profile, man.
Craig: Joey, this is just a rehearsal, I really think we should hold off with the camera and...
Joey: We talked about this guys, this camera is your audience, alright, an stage presence is just as important as your sound. And speaking of sound, I know you guys want to play your own music, and I think that's a great goal, ok, but maybe you should start with some covers first. Like, uh, maybe some George Michael. Crag, I know you know the words to Faith.
Craig: Joey!
Joey: What?
(The phone rings, Joey sets down the camera and Joey goes to answer it.)
Joey: Just think about it, I mean, you guys have to learn to walk before you can run, ok? (Picks up the phone) Hello? Oh, I can't hear you, hold on. Yeah (He exits)
Jimmy: Man, Joey's brutal.
Spinner: Gotta learn to walk, before you can run.
Marco: I'm sorry, ok? It's funny. In a sad in pathetic sort of way.
Spinner: Dude, you really need to talk to him. George Michael?
Jimmy: Yeah. Faith?
Craig: Hey, shut up. What am I supposed to tell him? He's so deluded he thinks he's in the band. He's embarrassing himself, and he doesn't even know it.
(Close up of the video camera. Unbeknownst to them, it's been rolling the entire time.)
At Degrassi
(Emma is taking down her environmental club poster, Sean runs up.)
Sean: Hey.
Emma: Look who's here to help.
Sean: I'm sorry, I really wanted to go.
Emma: But you were abducted by aliens.
Sean: Close, I had to help Mr. Ehl in the shop. How was it?
Emma: Well, you're practically the only guy in school who wasn't there.
Sean: Should I be jealous?
Emma: They weren't there for me.
Sean: No?
Emma: Or the environment. They only wanted...
(Manny walks by.)
Manny: Hey Em. Hey, Sean.
Sean: I'm... just gonna take down the rest of the posters in that hallway.
Emma: Thanks
(Sean exits.)
Manny: That was an amazing turnout, huh?
Emma: Yeah, if any of them come back.
Manny: Don't worry, I'll make them.
Emma: So, what's happening with JT?
Manny: What do you like better, Manny or Manuela? Sully likes Manuela, he says it's exotic. Manuela Santos. Oh yeah, did you say something?
Emma: Yeah, but it was nothing.
(Mr. Radich enters.)
Mr. Radich: Manny, I've been meaning to talk to you about your attire. It contravenes the code of conduct.
Manny: But everybody wears crop tops.
Mr. Radich: It's not about the crop top. I expect you to show up tomorrow in an outfit that does not reveal your undergarments.
Manny: But lowriders are in. And I...
Mr. Radich: And I've had complaints. So no more visible underwear.
Joey's house
(Joey is watching the video of Craig and his band. Craig enters.)
Joey: Hey, did you turn everything off in the garage?
Craig: Uh-huh. What are you watching?
Joey: Footage that I sh*t. I want to show you what I'm talking about with that stage presence thing (He fast forwards a little) Oh, I went too far.
(On video.)
Spinner: Gotta learn to walk, before you can run.
Marco: I'm sorry, ok? It's funny. In a sad in pathetic sort of way.
Spinner: Dude, you really need to talk to him. George Michael?
Jimmy: Yeah. Faith?
Craig: Hey, shut up. What am I supposed to tell him? He's so deluded he thinks he's in the band. He's embarrassing himself, and he doesn't even know it.
(Joey and Craig look on, shocked.)
Craig: I think I'll... (He exits)
At Degrassi, the next day
Emma: Manny, I know you were really upset that Radich busted you.
(Manny takes off her jacket. Her outfit is not that much different from yesterday's.)
Manny: Actually, it turned out not to be such a bad thing.
Emma: Do you want to get suspended?
Manny: What? I'm not breaking any rules.
Emma: Manny, Mr. Radich said...
Manny: He said no visible underwear. And do you see any underwear?
Emma: No, but...
Manny: That's right. (whispers) Because I'm not wearing any.
(She walks away, drawing stares from everyone passing by.)
Ms. Hatzilakos's classroom
Ms. Hatzilakos's: So frogs, they're amphibians. They live both on land and in water, and they find food in both realms. Insects, small fish, and even other frogs. So, who wants to feed our web-footed friends a little snack? Manny?
Manny: Sure. (She walks up to the front, everyone is staring at her ass. She accidentally drops something on the floor, everyone looks closer as she bends down.)
JT: Uh, Stop! (He hurries to the front of the class) Why does Manny get to feed these frogs when I don't?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Because you didn't volunteer.
JT: Well, I volunteer then.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Ok, so feed them and then sit down.
JT: Ok.
In the halls immediately after class
JT: Uh, hey Manny.
Manny: Hey JT.
JT: Look, I was just wondering if maybe you were free tomorrow? If maybe we could go see a movie?
Sully: See this JT? (Holds up his hand) Buh-bye.
Manny: Actually, JT, I'm busy tomorrow. I'm sorry.
Emma: Manny, um, I need to talk to you. (Takes her aside)
Manny: Now?
Emma: How could you do that to JT?
Manny: What? I didn't do anything.
Emma: No, you just broke his heart.
Manny: Emma, come on.
Emma: You're getting this huge ego.
Manny: I am not. Just because I'm dressed nice...
Emma: You're dressing like an idiot. But what I really care about is how you're acting.
Manny: I'm always there for you Emma. When you fight with Sean, when you find out your mom's pregnant, for your stupid environmental club.
Emma: It's not stupid.
Manny: The one time it's not about you, you do this to me.
Emma: I'm just concerned...
Manny: Because it sounds more like you're jealous!
Emma: You know what? Just forget this. Bye.
Manny: This is who I am now, Em. If you can't accept that, then don't talk to me.
Outside Joey's house
(Craig has just come home.)
Joey: Hey. Thought you were never coming home.
Craig: Uhh, I had rehearsal in Marco's basement, and... Joey, I'm really sorry.
Joey: I should have known better.
Craig: No, you were trying to help.
Joey: I was... (Sighs) Craig, when I was in high school, my band the Zits meant everything to me. And they were good times, some of the best. Anything felt possible. And then I wake up one day, I'm in my 30's, and I have a daughter and a teenage stepson, and I'm thinking to myself "Whoa. When did this happen?" I guess I was just trying to feel that way again. So Marco's basement, huh?
Craig: Yeah.
Joey: You know, there's better acoustics in the garage.
Craig: What about the keyboard?
Joey: It's back in the box.
Craig: (silently) Thank you!
At the Dot
(Manny watched as Emma an JT pass by outside, Sully comes over with two coffees.)
Sully: Manuela? Something wrong?
Manny: No. Everything's just great.
(Emma and JT see her through the window as they pass by, but don‘t stop.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "03x03 - Seduction"} | foreverdreaming |
In front of a house
(Marco is dressed for the beach; Ellie is wearing all black. They are walking towards a blue van.)
Marco: I don't know why you hate Paige.
Ellie: 'Cause she's pure evil?
Marco: She's very sweet, actually. And don't worry about today, okay? You're my guest.
(Marco and Ellie reach the van. Paige opens the door.)
Paige: Ellie, hun, I thought vampires couldn't go out in the sun.
Spinner: I guess that leaves g*n for DelStudly. Unless he wants to sit back here with his honey.
Marco: No, that's cool. Uh, g*n for me.
Paige: Oh, uh, Marco, meet my brother, Dylan, our chauffeur for the day.
Dylan: Hey Marco!
Marco: Hey. (Stares at Dylan)
[Opening Credits]
At the beach, the g*ng is climbing out of the car
Jimmy: Dylan, thanks for the ride, man. Bring on the bikinis!
Spinner: Woo-hoo! Beach!
Hazel: Nice beach! Wow, we are going to have so much fun!
Marco: Come on, El. Cheer up.
Paige: Hey guys, don't forget the umbrellas.
(She hands Spinner a colorful basket from the rear of the car.)
Hazel: Okay.
Spinner: Yeah, um, I'm not carrying that.
Paige: Why not?
Spinner: What, want me to look like some h*m*? (He gets a look from Paige and Dylan)No, not, not h*m* as in gay, h*m* as in, uh…
Dylan: Milk? It's okay. I told her not to pack that ridiculous picnic basket.
Paige: Gee, and I told Spin not to be an insensitive jerk today.
Jimmy: Guys, let's go!
Marco: Guys, where's the water g*n?
Spinner: Wait, where are the marshmallows?
(The g*ng walks towards the beach.)
At the Nelson-Simpson household
(Spike is walking and bouncing baby Jack. Snake and Emma enter the house.)
Snake: Achoo!
Spike: Shhh! Shhh! Shhh!
Emma: When you gave birth it-
Spike: Shhh!
Emma: It was to a baby, not a jet engine, right?
Spike: Emma.
Emma: Between Jack's all night crying and the drip-drip-drip of that hot water heater, I'm not sleeping.
Snake: I'm on it. Foam wrapped around the heater. No more drip-drip-drip. (He cuts himself with the razor while trying to open the package) Ow!
(Jack starts crying.)
Spike: Shhh!
Snake: Fiddlesticks!
Spike: Oh, Snake! (She hands Jack to Emma, gets a towel, and wraps it around Snake's finger.)
Snake: Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!
Spike: If you're sick you can't stay here. Jack just got over a cold.
Snake: Spike!
Spike: I'm serious!
Emma: Mom, Jack's not in a bubble.
Spike: Really? Do you want to breast feed him when he's running a fever?
Snake: No, and neither do you, so… (picks up the phone)
Spike: There we go. (Places Jack in the baby seat) That's a good boy.
Snake: Jeremiah, feel like having some company this weekend? Achoo!
Spike: Shhh!
At the beach
Dylan: Let's play some volleyball, man.
Paige: (spraying bugs) Ew! Ew! Ew!
Marco: (to Ellie) Okay, so maybe it was a mistake inviting you today.
Ellie: Well, I couldn't let my "honey" come here all by himself. Earlier. Spinner called me your honey and you didn't correct him
Marco: I didn't think it was that big a deal.
Ellie: Last year, fine. But I'm not lying anymore. I'm not your girlfriend.
Marco: Okay, fine then. No more lies, okay? We're just friends from now on.
Hazel: Hey guys! Volleyball game. You in?
Marco: I am.
Ellie: You play. I'll read.
(A montage of volleyball. It's Paige, Hazel, and Dylan verses Marco, Spinner, and Jimmy. Spinner trips Jimmy, Spinner gets distracted by girls and gets h*t in the head with the ball. Jimmy and Marco laugh at him. Paige hits Spinner in the butt with a ball. After the game is finished, walking away)
Jimmy: Yeah, Junior A Hockey Star.
Dylan: Guys, I've got four tickets to our exhibition opener on Tuesday. You want 'em?
Spinner: Yeah, sure.
Jimmy: We'll be there.
Paige: Come on.
(They all leave except for Dylan and Marco.)
Marco: Man, you totally creamed us. Like bad.
Dylan: The trick is to toss the ball lightly and then serve. Don't slam. Control. (He moves away and spreads out his arms) Pretend I'm the net and just concentrate on getting it over.
Marco: Okay.
(He hits the ball and Dylan catches it.)
Dylan: See, you're a natural. (He squeezes Marco's shoulder.)
Marco: Thanks. (Blushes)
At Craig's house. Craig is playing his guitar and then stops to sit next to Ashley on the couch.
Craig: Okay, so I'm thinking put Ange to bed at 8, Joey won't get back til like at least midnight, and, uh, we've got the house pretty much to ourselves.
Ashley: Missing the beach is not so bad after all.
(He lies her back on the couch and they kiss. The doorbell rings. Joey goes to answer it.)
Joey: I'm still here. (Opens the door to see Snake) Wow, you look awful.
Snake: Good to see you, too, Jeremiah.
Angela: Uncle Archie's here! Yay! (Runs into his arms)
Craig: Uh, Joey?
Joey: Uh, yeah, I forgot to tell you. Snake's spending the weekend with us.
Craig: What?
Snake: Yeah. I got a cold. Spike's a little crazy about germs and the baby right now, so ...
Craig: Oh, so you can come here and infect us?
Joey: No, he gets to help with the babysitting. Oh, I gotta go. I'm gonna be late. I've got to pick up Sydney. I'll see you later. Have fun!
Snake: Didn't plan on spending Saturday night with ol' Mr. Simpson, huh?
Craig: No, not really.
Back at the beach, Spinner, Marco, and Jimmy are squirting each other with water g*n. Paige and Dylan are watching them while sitting on their towels
Dylan: Looks like the guys are having fun. Look at them.
Paige: Mmm-hmm.
Dylan: So, you and Spin are like joined at the hip, Jimmy used to date Ashley, and Marco…?
Paige: Dates Ellie.
(Dylan's face falls.)
Paige: What?
Dylan: Nothing. Just… I just thought that maybe he might be, you know.
Paige: Not everyone is gay, Dylan.
Hazel: (joining them) I'm freezing. Who's gay?
Paige: Dylan thinks Marco is. Even though he and El have been dating forever.
Dylan: Like I've never dated girls. What's your take on this, Hazel?
Hazel: Well, as someone who had the most pathetic crush on Marco last year, join the line up. He and Ellie are soul mates. Sorry.
Dylan: No problem. (He eyes a group of passing male joggers) Moving on…
Paige: Hello there!
Dylan: Look at them sweat!
Spinner: That's just wrong.
Jimmy: What? He's gay. It's what they do.
Spinner: Yeah, but it's gross. Touching another guy, kissing…
Jimmy: You were all over Marco just a second ago.
Spinner. Ha ha ha. That's funny. (Squirts Jimmy with the water g*n)
At the Jeremiah household, Craig and Snake are playing a skiing video game. Ashley is watching them, annoyed
Snake: I'm going all the way on this one!
Craig: No, you're going down, Simpson!
Snake: Yes! Who is the Sultan of the Slopes? Who is the Master of the Moguls? (Stands up, drops the controller, and falls back onto the couch)
Ashley: Mr. Simpson?
Snake: (nose bleeds) I must have taken that last turn a little bit too hard.
Craig: Um, you're bleeding. (Hands Snake a tissue) Should I call Spike?
Snake: No, I'm fine. I'm just a little over stimulated. I need to take it easy.
Ashley: Are you sure?
Snake: Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Spike will just get worried over nothing. So, one more Slalom. Come on, Manning. Take me on. I'll k*ll you.
At the beach… Ellie is strumming on her guitar, Hazel is spreading mayo on bread, Spinner and Paige are toasting marshmallows
Jimmy: (waves broken sausage in Hazel's face) Want some of that?
Hazel: Ew!
Dylan: That's just gross.
Paige: Okay, I want it soft and gooey, but not burnt-carcinogenic, so not so close to the f*re… (Sarcastic) Thanks.
Spinner: (mocking Paige) Not so close to the f*re. Marco, why are you all the way over here? Ellie's over there. Go be a boyfriend.
(Marco sits on the bench next to Ellie.)
Marco: So, uh, whatcha playing?
Ellie: I don't know. Nothing. Just strumming.
(Spinner motions for Marco to put his arm around Ellie. Marco places his hand on her shoulder.)
Ellie: Marco?
Paige: Uh, hun, it's okay. He's your boyfriend.
Ellie: He is not my boyfriend, actually. We, we broke up. Didn't we, Marco?
(Marco walks away with Dylan looking after him. Dylan leaves after Marco, finds him on some rocks, and sits next to him.)
Dylan: You okay?
(Marco shakes his head 'no,' but won't look at Dylan. Dylan places his hand on Marco's leg and then takes it away.)
The next day at Degrassi Community School, Paige and Spinner are walking into the building
Spinner: I can't believe they broke up.
Paige: Sorry, but I'm not surprised. Ellie must have been a blast to date.
Spinner: Yeah, but why didn't he tell me?
Paige: Cause maybe it wasn't any of your business?
Spinner: Uh, we're like best friends now.
Paige: Well, maybe that's not all he's lying about. It's stupid, okay, but Dylan thinks that Marco might be gay.
Spinner: What?! No. He's been with Ellie.
Paige: So, like Dylan never dated any girls before he came out? Though you've gotta admit, they would make a cute couple.
Spinner: Paige!
Paige: What? Dylan's a total catch.
Spinner: Stop. Marco's not gay. End of story.
In the boy's bathroom, Marco is playing with his hair and wearing a new hockey jersey
Marco: He sh**t, he scores. (Leaves bathroom)
Craig: Too much sun on the weekend, Marco? What are you wearing?
Jimmy: First the whole break up mystery and now you've got a sudden interest in hockey?
Marco: Hey, I like hockey, and as for El, look man, I don't know. I was embarrassed. DelStudly losing his girl.
Jimmy: Oh, please. There's plenty of more fish in the sea, my man.
Spinner: So, uh, Marco, what do you think of the Andropov trade to the Redskins?
Marco: Andropov? I think it's great. I really think that his, uh, skating skills - they're really gonna help.
Craig: (laughs)
Marco: What?
Spinner: Redskins are football. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Craig: Oh-kay.
At the school library. Dylan is photocopying from a book. Marco comes to the glass wall in front of the copier and taps on it. Dylan looks up
Dylan: Marco, hey.
Marco: Hey.
Dylan: You have fun at the beach?
Marco: Yeah. I mean, it's the beach, right? Fun's sort of built in there and… yeah.
Dylan: Cool. You're a fan of the Buds. (Marco stares at him blankly) The Maple Leafs? Your jersey?
Marco: Yeah, I love 'em. They're a great hockey team.
(Jay enters the room and clears his throat.)
Jay: Hey, Buddy, you better not drop anything in front of h*m*. (sits down at a table)
(Dylan pulls a book off the shelving cart and throws it at Jay's feet. He leans over the table, staring straight at Jay.)
Jay: Whatever. (He gets up and leaves.)
(Marco walks over and picks up the book.)
Dylan: (surprised) Thanks.
Marco: No problem.
In the hallway
Craig: Hey, Emma.
Emma: Hey. Did your houseguest totally ruin your weekend?
Craig: No, he was pretty cool.
Emma: Since Jack was born, my mom has been a total germ freak. Snake's got a cold. Big deal. What?
Craig: I'm just - I'm not sure that's all that's wrong.
Outside of DCS, Marco is greeting a bunch of girls. Spinner watches all of this contemplatively while listening to his cd player
Marco: Hey, guys, what's up? Kelly, how are you? Anyways, I gotta jet. Take care guys.
In Ms. Hatzilakos' science class
Ms. Hatzilakos: Okay the first step you're going to add two drops of the paramecium specimen to your slide. Then you're going to add one drop of methyl cellulose. That's going to help slow down the movement of the paramecia.
Spinner: So, you never told me why you and Ellie split.
Marco: Oh, I guess we felt more like brother and sister. Friends.
Spinner: So, uh, why don't we get you a real girlfriend?
Marco: Who? Everyone's paired up.
Spinner: Not Hazel. What? She's single, she's hot, she liked you last year. I mean, what's the problem?
Marco: Nothing. Cool. Hazel. Great.
Spinner: Great, I'll set it up. For tonight.
In Mr. Simpson's office. He is fixing his bandaid
Manny: It's a silent auction. All proceeds are going to the Junior Spirit Squad cheer campaign. Our routines are so 2001!
Snake: I'm sorry. What do I have to do again?
Manny: Just donate something for the silent auction and be there for the bidding. Whatever you want.
Snake: Fine, you got me.
(Emma enters and Manny leaves.)
Snake: (sighs) Manny should get into sales.
Emma: Yeah.
Snake: Is something wrong?
Emma: I don't know. Is there? Craig told me you passed out.
Snake: Yeah, and, uh, thank you for the concern, but I am not the first person with a cold to get a little dizzy.
Emma: But what if it's not a cold? What if it's more serious?
Snake: (yelling) Emma, would you stop thinking the worst? I'm overtired, I'm overworked. I've, I've, I've got a cold, so what?
(Emma backs away.)
Snake: (calmer) That's all it is, okay?
Emma: Okay, sorry. (Leaves)
Snake: (pulls out his cell phone) Hi, this is Archie Simpson. I'd like to make an appointment with Dr. Margota. 4:30? This afternoon? Um. Okay. Thanks. (Blood is coming through his bandaid)
At the Dot. Paige, Spinner, Marco, and Hazel are laughing and drinking soda
Marco: And this film is about this woman in a coma, right? And her male nurse is hot for her.
Spinner: For a chick in a coma?
Marco: That's what I'm saying!
Hazel: Sounds hilarious. So, um, you wanna see it again? We could go together.
Marco: Yeah, sounds good. I'm getting kinda dry. Does anyone want another drink? (Spinner rubs his fingers together, making a money sign) On me?
Paige: Okay!
(Marco goes up to the counter.)
Hazel: He's so cute!
(Ellie enters the Dot.)
Spinner: Maybe he needs a little help.
Hazel: Oh. (She joins Marco at the counter) Thought you might need some help with those drinks. (Looks at Ellie, then puts her hand on Marco's arm.) Marco?
Marco: (looking at Ellie) Sorry.
(Hazel and Marco bring the sodas back to the table. Ellie rolls her eyes.)
Spinner: Dude, just ignore her.
Hazel: Totally. We should all go see that movie. You don't like subtitles to begin with, but
Paige: Yeah, they involve reading.
Spinner: Heh.
Hazel: But it might be cool. You know. All of us? We could cover the story.
Marco: I gotta go. My mom's making marinara sauce and I always help her. Thanks, Hazel, it's just getting kinda late. (Walks out of the Dot)
Hazel: Did I do something?
(Spinner walks out after Marco.)
At the doctor's office, 6:14 p.m.
Snake: So, doc, since when has bloodletting become a cure for the common cold, eh?
Doctor: I wish it were that trivial.
Snake: There's nothing trivial about a cold. Sneezing, sniffling…
Doctor: I have to do more tests and, uh, a bone marrow biopsy.
Snake: Bone marrow. Why?
Doctor: Because your symptoms all point to acute myeloid leukemia - cancer of the blood.
Snake: Cancer, but, uh…
Doctor: It's a scary word, I know, but like I said, we have to run more tests. The important thing is if it is cancer, we've caught it early. And we can b*at it, okay?
In an alleyway, Spinner has caught up to Marco
Spinner: What are you doing?
Marco: Leave me alone, Spin.
Spinner: You just walked out on your date with Hazel. She's sitting there and…
Marco: I mean it, Spin! Please, back off!
Spinner: (throws Marco against a dumpster) What's going on?!
Marco: You don't understand!
Spinner: That you're a psycho? You walked out on a date with one of Degrassi's coolest girls for your mom's pasta sauce? It doesn't make sense!
Marco: Yes, it does!
Spinner: Oh, yeah. Well, stop crying and explain it to me, 'cause obviously I'm a moron and don't get it.
Marco: Because, Spin!
Spinner: Because what?!
Marco: Because I'm gay.
(Spinner shoves past Marco, hitting his shoulder. Marco is left crying.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "03x04 - Fierte"} | foreverdreaming |
Front of school
Spinner: (To extras) Yeah, alright. Take it easy.
Marco: (Walks up to Spinner sitting on steps) So…
Spinner: So, what?
Marco: Look Spin. Um… you didn’t tell anyone, did you?
Spinner: Tell anyone what?
Marco: About what I said yesterday… (Spinner acts confused) At the café… (Spinner shrugs his shoulders, acting to be clueless) Man, after the date with Hazel. You know what I’m talking about!
Spinner: (Laughs) Dude, I can’t read your mind, so just say it.
Marco: (Sits down next to Spinner) That I’m gay.
Spinner: Oh that! Well, you know, maybe I did. Maybe I didn’t. (Gets up and walks away)
[Opening Credits]
In hallway
Ellie: (Walking down hallway with Marco) I’m sure he didn’t tell anyone. Why would he?
Marco: To make my life a living hell…
(Cut to Craig and Jimmy)
Craig: (To Jimmy) Alright, Spin asked us to keep it a secret until he’s thought about it more, so you can’t tell anybody, alright?
Jimmy: Promise.
(Ellie and Marco overhear)
Ellie: (To Jimmy and Craig) Keep what a secret?
Marco: (Says nervously) Yeah…what’s the big news?
Jimmy: Uh….okay, Paige is turning 16 in a few weeks, and Spin is planning a surprise party.
Craig: Yeah, meaning you two can tell no one.
Marco: (Feeling relieved, hugs Craig and Jimmy) Guys, I’ll carry the secret to my grave, okay? (Walks away) See you in homeroom, huh? (Bumps into extra and apologizes)
(Ellie walks away while giving a confused look to Craig and Jimmy)
Media Immersion Lab
Emma: (Knocks on window to Snake inside, waves, and walks inside) Hey! Just wanted to check in, see how you’re holding up.
Snake: Good! Well my last meal was 14 hours ago, so I’m a little hungry, but uh… (Looks at Emma’s food and Emma jokingly hides it behind her back) I wasn’t going to lunge at it…I’m not an animal.
Emma: So my mom’s picking you up this afternoon.
Snake: For my biopsy, yes. And you can say Leukemia, too, ‘cuz I don’t have it yet. (Looks down and appears to be in pain)
Emma: Maybe you should just go home.
Snake: No, no, I’m fine. I’m fine. Besides, Manny’s silent auction is at lunch. Nothing says jackpot like a personal (something) portrait. Hey look, what do you think? (Types on computer) He looks more like me, or Spike?
Emma: (Looks at a blank screen on computer) He looks like a bunch of code.
(Picture of Baby Jack appears, and Emma leans on Snake in a loving way)
Snake: Actually, I’m g*n look a lot like Jack if Chemo has its way. Bald, bald, bald. (Emma stands up)
In hallway
Craig: (To Spinner and Jimmy) Why are they teaching us about soil erosion? I’m not a farmer! I’m never g*n be a farmer!
Dylan: (Shows up and gives them tickets) Here are the tickets I promised!
Craig, Jimmy, and Spinner: Nice!
Dylan: You guys still coming to come see me play?
Craig, Jimmy, and Spinner: Yeah!
Dylan: Alright, see you tonight! Oh, remember, one of those is for Marco.
Craig: Oh man, hockey, The Gardens…boy’s night out! (Slaps Jimmy’s hand)
Jimmy: Boy’s night!
Spinner: Oo Hockey! Oo Boy’s night out! Could you two be bigger “f*g”?
(They start walking down the hall)
Jimmy: Okay…now I don’t know who’s a bigger weirdo today - Spinner, or Marco.
Spinner: Marco. And he’s not coming. (Craig and Jimmy exchange looks) What since when does Marco like hockey? He’s doing some “gay” artsy thing with Ellie anyway.
Jimmy: Uh, they broke up.
Spinner: Right. Broke up. Funny. (Walks away)
In Gym
Jimmy: (To Marco) Marco, what’s this idea about you bailing on us tonight?
Marco: Bailing?
Craig: Yeah, Dylan’s game. You’re chilling with Ellie, right? It’s too bad man…
(Marco gives Spinner an upset look)
Mr. Armstrong: Alright, guys and your teams, I want you to spread out on either side of the net. This is a volleying drill meaning I want to see three successful volleys among your own players before putting it over. Let’s get started…
Marco: (To Spinner) So what now, huh? What? Are you freezing me up with guys?
Spinner: Why do you want to come anyway? It’s hockey, not ballet. (Walks under net)
Marco: Dylan invited me!
Spinner: Yeah, and that’s the only reason you want to go - your big gay crush.
Mr. Armstrong: You guys going to gossip or play? Let’s go. (Throws ball to Spinner’s team) This side serves first.
(The ball is in play and makes its way to Spinner. Spinner then spikes the ball at Marco, and Marco falls down)
Mr. Armstrong: Gavin, did I say to spike? (Spinner shakes his head)
Craig: (Makes fun) Nice going Spinner!
Mr. Armstrong: Then volley like I told you. Okay Matt, you serve. (Throws ball to extra)
(Extra “Matt” serves the ball to Spinner, and Spinner spikes it again at Marco)
Mr. Armstrong: Gavin, Change Room now! (Points to Change Room, starts walking there, and Spinner follows)
Marco: (On floor) Good thing Spin spikes like a girl! (Spinner looks at Marco and walks away)
In Front Foyer
Snake: (Leaning against stairs talking to Liberty) Liberty, come on. Two dollars?
Liberty: Okay, I guess I could go up to five.
Snake: You can go up to ten! Come on, Manny’s counting on me to bring in the big bucks!
Manny: (Arrives) Even fifty bucks would be nice. (Looks at Mrs. H) Looks like someone’s already there!
Mrs. H: (To extras)…So why don’t you place your bids and the highest bidders get to spend a day with me. We’re going to the Science Center. It’ll be a lot of fun, okay? Here you go. (Hands bidding sheet to extra)
Snake: Alright…watch this. (Walks up stairs of front foyer to make an announcement) Degrassi…Degrassi! I issue you a challenge! Raise 250 bucks by this time tomorrow, and I’ll shave my head right here in the foyer! (Crowd cheers) Make me proud people!
In Bathroom
(Spinner is writing something on the wall. Jimmy walks in)
Jimmy: What’s your problem with Marco?
Spinner: What’s my problem? (Points to “Marco is a ‘f*g’” which he wrote on the wall) That’s my problem, okay? And its true. He told me himself.
Jimmy: Marco’s gay?
Spinner: Yeah. And if you don’t back off, (nudges Jimmy away) I may start to think you are, too. (Walks over to sink and washes his hands)
Jimmy: So what are you g*n write next? Something about me being black?
(They exchange looks, and Jimmy walks away)
In hallway
Ellie: (To Marco) Hey! I heard about gym class. You’re not g*n take that, are you?
Marco: (Opens his locker) What am I supposed to do El?
Ellie: I dunno…get Dylan to use Spinner as a hockey puck tonight?
Marco: Yeah. I’m not going. (Puts away his books)
Ellie: Dylan invited you. You have to.
Marco: Why?
Ellie: Marco, come on. I’m not blind. Go to the game.
Jimmy: (Arrives) You better be coming Del Rossi. Pizza at The Dot first, then a night of our national sport.
Marco: But Spin…
Jimmy: (Interupts Marco) Spin’s an idiot. Okay, so come.
Marco: Fine. But I’ll meet you at the arena okay, ‘cuz pizza and Spin…
Jimmy: Always a bad combo.
Marco: Yeah.
Jimmy: Okay, I’ll see you there. (Walks away)
(Ellie pats Marco on shoulder and walks away. Marco leans against locker and thinks to himself)
At The Dot
(Paige walks in to greet Spinner, Craig, and Jimmy at table)
Craig: Um, I thought this was boy’s night.
Paige: For you. For me it’s “watch Dylan play hockey for the gazillionth time night.” (Looks around) Where’s Marco? (To Spinner) Spinner?
Jimmy: Um, actually he’s g*n meet us at the arena. (To Craig) Wanna go settle the bill? (Both Craig and Jimmy get up and leave)
Paige: (Sits down) Okay, hun, get over it already.
Spinner: Paige…
Paige: I’ve been there with Dylan, and it’s hard, I know.
Spinner: Yeah, but Dylan’s your brother. You had to deal.
Paige: And you have to deal with Marco!
Spinner: No, actually, I don’t. (Gets up and leaves)
Emma’s House
(Joey and Sydney brought food over for Snake)
Joey: Okay, I think that’s everything. Salad. Sydney’s Seafood Jumbalaya.
Sydney: I know, sounds suspect. But the mega 3 fatty acids will do wonders for Snake’s immune system.
Emma: Cool.
Joey: Salad, bread, and dessert. (To Sydney) Okay, we should go before they arrive.
Sydney: Right.
(Door opens and Snake, Spike, and Jack arrive home)
Snake: Ugh, that was a pain in the… (Sees Joey and Sydney) Surprise…
Spike: What are you guys doing here?
Joey: We just thought we’d drop off some food, and now we’re g*n leave ‘cuz we know you’ve had a hard day. (Sydney and Joey start to leave)
Snake: No, what this? No it’s nothing! Stay, Stay!
Spike: Archie, come on. You’re exhausted.
Snake: No I’m not!
Spike: Fine, but I want you to sit.
Snake: Oh, sit, right. The biopsy was from my pelvic bone so, uh, I won’t be complaining about hemorrhoids anytime soon.
(Joey, Emma, and Sydney exchange looks)
Snake: That was a joke! You know I’m not d*ad yet.
Spike: Snake!
Snake: What? What, we’ve got good food, my friends are here, and I just had marrow taken out of my butt. So sue me if I want to have a good time. Come on… (Turns on CD player) Let’s get this party started! (Dances as Emma, Joey, and Sydney walk back over to the table) Smells great! (Hugs Spike)
On a city street
Marco: (Walking outside on the phone with Jimmy) Hey Jim! It’s Marco. I got off at the wrong stop. I know! I just turned onto Church Street. I’ll be there soon. Ciao. (Hangs up phone)
(Marco soon realizes he is walking through a h*m* area of the city. He keeps walking and he notices a group of men outside. We see a man clench his fist. Marco tries to keep walking, but they surround him)
Man: (To Marco) What? Are you, lost? Huh?
Marco: No, actually I’m just meeting some friends for a hockey game.
(Marco tries to walk by but the man pushes him back)
Man: Boy’s night out in boy’s town, huh? Huh?
(Men surround Marco. Marco looks terrified.)
Marco: Uh, uh…yeah. Actually I think I can find it, thanks.
(Marco is pushed)
Man: I don’t care what you want, “f*g”! (Takes off his jacket) Do you know what I want? Huh? (Knocks Marco’s hat off and puts it on, then punches his hand in front of Marco’s face)
At hockey game
(Dylan walks by crowd to get on the ice. Paige, Craig, Jimmy, and Spinner cheer for him as he walks by)
Spinner: (To Paige) You’re such a cheerleader! (”Accidentally” knocks Jimmy’s popcorn out of his hand)
Jimmy: Open your eyes!
Spinner: Dude, it was an accident!
Jimmy: No, it was you being a loser. Look if Marco gets here before I get back, don’t let him out of your sight. (Walks away)
Spinner: Yes, mom, I’ll be nice to your girlfriend. (Joins Craig and Paige watching the game)
Jimmy: (In aisle, dials Marco’s number)
In the park
(The men are playing around with Marco)
Man: You are pretty, aren’t you? (Men laugh at Marco) Almost girl pretty.
(Marco’s phone rings)
Man: Oh! I think that’s his boyfriend! Answer it, answer it, come on! Answer it!
Marco: (Answers his phone) Guys help me! I’m in the park!
(Man knocks phone out of Marco’s hand and it smashes to the ground)
At hockey rink
Jimmy: (Confused) Marco? Marco? (Walks out of the stands)
In the park
(Marco is thrown on the ground, and the men b*at him up. Marco tries to fight it, but he can’t. He tries to tell them to stop, but they don’t listen. A police car arrives at the scene, and the men run away and leave Marco)
Police Woman: Hold it! Stay right there! (Stops at beaten up Marco on the ground and comforts him as another police man chases after the men)
At hockey rink
(Jimmy tries calling Marco again but only gets his voicemail. He leaves the rink)
In the park
(Police Woman and Marco are leaning against the police car. She is telling him he will be okay)
Jimmy: (Arrives) Marco! Marco!
Police Woman: Hey! (Holds him back)
Jimmy: I’m a friend.
Police Woman: Your friend’s g*n be just fine. We’ll get the creeps that did this to him.
Jimmy: (Hugs Marco) It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s alright. You’re g*n be just fine. It’s alright. I’m here and I’m not going anywhere, okay? (Marco is crying) You’re alright. You’re g*n be okay.
At school
Manny: (On TV) Big news, Degrassi. Mr. Simpson’s spur of the moment fundraiser – a huge success. So after-school in the foyer there’s going to be some head- shaving goin’ on.
(Paige, Emma, and Hazel are in the hallway watching the TV)
Paige: (To Emma) Nice to know someone in your family has a sense of humor, Emma. (Her and Hazel walk away)
(Marco and Ellie walk by)
Ellie: So you’re walking through the gay village alone, at night, and you get “ swarmed for your shoes”?
Marco: That’s what happened. (Looks at Ellie) Look, you don’t believe me El? Whatever.
Ellie: I don’t. You should talk to the police.
Marco: I did, last night!
Ellie: And your parents?
Marco: What don’t you get, El? With Spin and after last night I am not telling anybody anything ever again!
Ellie: So, what? You’re just g*n pretend…”
Marco: (Interrupts) No, I’m just…I’m just not g*n be anything, okay? Gay or straight.
Ellie: And so what about Dylan?
Marco: Ellie, just drop it, please! It’s over.
In the hallway
(Dylan faces Marco through the glass doors. He opens the door for Marco)
Dylan: Wow, they really did a number on you… (Tries touching Marco’s face)
Marco: (Hits Dylan’s hand away) Yeah. (Walks by)
Dylan: Marco!
Marco: Look, I’m fine, okay? So just leave me alone. (Walks away)
In front foyer
(We see a crowd of people in the foyer and hear them chanting, “Shave the Snake!” Snake is sitting in a chair on the stairs and Manny runs down to meet him)
Manny: Mr. Simpson, thanks so much for doing this. The Squad owes you.
Snake: Yeah….a toupee. So, whose the lucky hairdresser?
(Sheila the lunch lady arrives holding a garden utensil (or something))
Sheila: It’s been ten years still (something) cod on the Grand Bay Princess. Hands steady as a surgeon.
Snake: (Nervous) Okay…
Sheila: (Gets behind him with the hair buzzer) Sit back. Relax.
(She starts buzzing his hair off. We see Emma looking upset, and not seeing the head-shaving as a joke. We see Ellie video-taping the event. The crowd claps when Sheila is done, and Snake’s head is bald)
Snake: (Looking in mirror) Whoa… (Gets up) Thank you, thank you. (His phone rings and he looks at it and then Emma) Remember, guys, bald is beautiful. Thanks for coming out and supporting the Junior Spirit Squad Fundraiser. (Leaves the foyer)
Manny: (To Emma) Even you’ve got to admit that was cool. (Emma doesn’t respond) Okay, what now Em? How have I offended you this time? Emma…what is it?
Emma: (Seeing Snake outside on the phone) Nothing.
Manny: Then why do you look like you’re g*n cry?
Emma: (Crying) Home’s not too good right now, okay?
Manny: Is it the baby? Are your parents fighting?
Emma: Snake is sick and it might be bad. But they’re just doing tests. They’re might be nothing wrong at all, right?
Manny: Yeah, he’s g*n be fine, Em. I know it.
On basketball court
(Jimmy sh**t a perfect sh*t)
Jimmy: (To Spinner) Didn’t touch the rim, so sixteen to four, extra point (something) “mwa.” Dude, I know basketball’s not your game, but come on, at least try.
(Spinner runs up and steals the ball from Jimmy and sh**t a lay-up)
Spinner: Ohhh, what’s that? Sixteen to five?
Jimmy: No it’s not, because this is twenty-one we’re playing. You sh**t, and you score. (sh**t ball) No lay-ups.
Spinner: Oh, well, we must follow all the rules to the letter or Mr. Teacher will get mad. Dude, you’re worse than Marco.
Jimmy: What’s bugging you now?
Spinner: The guy gets a black eye and it’s the end of the world. (Spinner holds his eye and fakes crying. Jimmy then throws the ball at him forcefully) Hey!
Jimmy: Look, you weren’t there last night when I found him, okay?
Spinner: Okay, calm down hero. Just relax.
Jimmy: You’re such a loser. (Picks up bag and starts to walk away)
Spinner: Why? ‘Cuz I’m not all broken up over Marco and his stolen dancing shoes? Look, if he would’ve walked to the game with us none of that would’ve happened! Last night was his fault, not mine! (Throws ball at fence)
Outside Degrassi
Emma: (To Snake) So, was it the hospital? (Snake nods) And?
Snake: Better get used to the new look. My first round of Chemo is in a couple of days. Looks pretty sexy, I think. You know, get me some fancy duds, buy me a new sports car, I’ll be stylin’. (Emma cries) Em…don’t cry. (Gets up from bench) Don’t cry. There’s nothing to cry about.
Emma: Snake, you have cancer. You’re sick, and you’re always just so calm, or joking, or shaving your head like nothing’s wrong.
Snake: Because I have to be like this, Emma, if I’m g*n b*at it.
Emma: And are you?
Snake: Yes! I promise you, and Jack, and your mom. Yes! (Wipes Emma’s tears)
In boys bathroom
Jay: (To Marco) Hey Marco, I always knew you and Dylan were meant for each other. (Jokingly kisses the air and walks away)
Marco: What?
(Marco walks over to where Spinner wrote about him, and sees it. Spinner walks in)
Marco: No, huh? You didn’t tell anybody my secret, did you Spin?
Spinner: I don’t need this.
Marco: Man, all I did was tell you the truth!
Spinner: I never asked you to!
Marco: And just like I didn’t ask to be gay. Or you didn’t ask to like Paige, or Craig didn’t ask to like Ash.
Spinner: It’s not the same!
Marco: No…you get it easy.
Spinner: Then stop being gay!
Marco: Oh right, Spin, I’m just g*n go do that!
Spinner: Well, why not? It’s not like you’ve actually done anything yet! Not that I need to know.
Marco: Spin…
Spinner: And nobody else needs to know, either. I mean, you can try dating Hazel, for real. (Marco shakes his head) Why not?!
Marco: Even strangers know, Spin. Last night wasn’t about my shoes. Those guys, they knew! And they bashed me because they hate it. Just like you do!
Spinner: Dude, that’s brutal, but you can’t compare me to those guys.
Marco: Really? Why not? (Walks away)
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At Sean’s house. He’s dialing Emma’s number
Emma’s answering machine: This is the Simpson-Nelson residence, please leave a message.
(Sean hangs up. Tracker and Wendy come in.)
Sean: Need help with that?
Tracker: Um, Sean. This is uh Wendy.
Wendy: Hi
Tracker: This is my little bro, Sean
Wendy: Bathroom?
Tracker: First door on the right… Sorry bout’ that bro. Figured you’d be over at the girlfriends, you know, as usual
Sean: Haven’t been there in a month. Thanks for noticing.
Tracker: What? Did you guys break up or something?
Sean: Her step-dad is sick.
Tracker: Yeah, well, that’s too bad. Look, why don’t you um, why don’t you go buy him a get well card or something.
(Sean calls Emma again.)
Emma’s answering machine: This is the Simpson-Nelson residence, please leave a message.
Outside Degrassi
Toby: My (something) should just buy stock in the photo company, they ordered like two dozen prints.
Sean: Are they blind?
(Jay’s civic comes up.)
JT: See that guy Jay? One hundred percent pure psycho.
Toby: Park there you’ll get a ticket.
Jay: Oh not a ticket!
~Jay grabs Toby’s pictures~
Toby: Hey give those back!
(Sean grabs them.)
Jay: What are you? His body guard?
Sean: His friend.
Jay: pfft.
Media Immersion
Mr. Simpson: Good job… Spell check, try it some time.
Sean: He’s in a great mood.
Emma: He started chemo last week.
Sean: Oh, sorry.
Emma: It’s okay. The laptop was a surprise from Mom to cheer him up.
Sean: Cause’ nothing says happy like a new computer.
Emma: true, if you’re Archie Simpson…Did you call last night? There were some hang ups.
Sean: No. Wasn’t me…I was thinking. Why don’t we get together tonight. You know, watch some TV, order a pizza, like we used to
Emma: I don’t know if I can
Sean: Come on. A movie, a couch, double cheese, me.
Emma: How could I resist?
Hallway. Jay’s breaking into a vending machine
Jay: Yo what’s up? Get up.
(Jay gives Sean a chocolate bar. Sean sits next to Emma at her locker.)
Sean: Hey. What is this?
Emma: Tempe alp alpha and peanut sauce. Hello, vitamins.
Sean: Hello, taste good.
Mr. Simpson: Emma, I’m calling a sub, I’m going home.
Emma: Not feeling well?
Mr. Simpson: Your mom’s stuck at the salon tonight. So you got a come straight home.
Emma: I can’t Sean and I are…
Mr. Simpson: Are going to have to reschedule.
(Emma sighs.)
Sean: Did you guys ever hear of babysitters?
Emma: Sean?
Sean: Yeah I know, it sucks
Emma: I know
Outside
Kendra: Wow, (something) you can’t do that!
Liberty: Oh, I can, a rare but legal move of opportunity by the lonely pawn.
Nadia: Toby, is everything okay?
Toby: JT was supposed to be here.
Nadia: Then why is he sitting over there?
Toby: He probably just forgot today’s the inaugural meeting of the Rooks and Knights Society. Hey JT! Over here!
Kendra: Yeah, he really forgot.
Toby: Hope he hasn’t forgotten he’s staying over at my house tonight. Nadia: Check mate four
Shop class
Craig: When I try doing that with a wrench, it just felt looser.
Sean: Maybe you should stick to selling cars.
Craig: Hey shut up! Man, this was supposed to be my bird’s course for the semester.
Sean: I don’t know many birds that can change a transmit ion.
Mr. Ehl: Ah, nice job Sean, you can work my pit any day.
Craig: Sean? What’s his problem? Don’t mess with him man.
Sean: You’re doing that wrong… Try removing the injector line first. Righty tighty, lefty loosy.
Jay: You’ve got guts Cameron
Classroom
Mr. Armstrong: Now in an obtuse triangle, one angle is greater then 90 degrees, where as in a scalene triangle…
(Mr. Raditch comes in.)
Mr. Raditch: May I see Sean Cameron please?
Mr. Armstrong: Sure, Sean?
(They go outside the classroom.)
Mr. Radicth: Someone broke into a vending machine near your locker. Did you see anything?
Sean: No.
Mr. Raditch: Really? Some students said that they saw you-
Sean: Saw me what?!
Mr. Raditch: I’m just trying to get to the bottom of this.
Sean: So that points to me? The poor kid?!
Mr. Raditch: That’s not what I said
Sean: Then what are you saying?!
Mr. Raditch: Watch your tone. Sean, I’m just trying to get to the bottom of this.
Sean: Well I’m not at the bottom of it.
Mr. Raditch: Well the way you’re acting, I’m beginning to think you are. I’m watching you, Mr. Cameron.
Outside
Jay: What’s your problem?
Sean: You! Raditch is all over me because of that stupid vending machine!
Jay: Did you tell him anything?
Sean: No. But he thinks I did it!
Jay: Oh, I’m in trouble with Raditch! I’m gonna get a detention!
(Sean punches Jay, and a fight breaks out.)
Mr. Armstrong: Hey, I said cool it!
Office
Jay: Technically, the sidewalk is city property. Fight was off school grounds. We should get a warning.
Sean: Don’t talk to me.
Jay: You handled yourself pretty good.
Sean: I said don’t talk to me.
Jay: Look at you, all Eminem on the outside, big scared baby on the inside.
Sean: I’ve got a record okay?
Jay: You’re that guy aren’t you? Nearly k*lled a kid in Wasaga!
Sean: It was a fight, and I deafened him in one ear.
Jay: Sorry? What, I can’t hear you?
Sean: You know, you’re a real comedian for someone sitting in the principal’s office.
Jay: Chairs got my imprint in it. Look, you ever wanna hang with some real
people, your people. Not geeks. You let me know.
Mr. Raditch: Jason, you first. In my office now.
JT’s dream
JT: Liberty…
(Wakes up.)
Toby: JT, get up. We’re gonna be late.
JT: Toby quit it! Stop!
Toby: What? Did you pee the bed or something? You had a wet dream? 3 feet above my head?
JT: Can you keep it down?!
Toby: Who was it about?
JT: Your Mom.
Toby: It was Liberty wasn’t it? Liberty…Liberty…
JT: Toby! I swear if you tell anyone, I’ll slaughter you!
Toby: Okay sh**t. So, what time do we meet the cool kids for lunch?
JT: Lunch? No, no you’re not having lunch with us okay?
Toby: Oh yes I am. Unless you want everyone to find out about your sticky situation.
Outside School
Sean: Cold air intake.
Jay: Yeah, how’d you know?
Sean: It’s a simple mod. Sucks air into the engine, adds about 5 horses.
Jay: You know your cars.
Sean: You don’t. It’s loose. Now, the cold air in takes a start, but if you really wanna tweak this, add a full cap back system…It, it’s a pipe running from the (something) converter to the exhaust, it adds about 15 horse power.
Jay: Sweet. How much?
Sean: In parts? A few hundred.
(Jay whistles.)
Sean: The parts aren’t cheap, but if you want, I can do the labor for free.
Lunch room
Paige: Oh it might be a trump nine, but it does not b*at a left bower.
Spinner: I, I don’t understand. I mean trump, bower, Euchre? Is this even English?
Toby: Actually Euchre is an English word. But it’s origins are unknown. Love Euchre, always play with my Buby. Deal me in.
JT: I’m Toby Isaacs, I know everything.
Toby: I was just making an observation.
JT: Really? Would you like to hear my observation Toby? No one cares.
Toby: Well I know something everyone here might care about.
JT: Toby
Toby: The nocturnal emission , better known as the wet dream. I’ve had them, Spinner’s had them, even Mr. Raditch has even had them.
Paige: Okay, I so did not need that mental image.
Toby: Know who else has had them?
JT: Hey guys, lets get back to the cards
Toby: JT York
Spinner: Okay. Is there a point to this?
Toby: Oh there’s a point. Right there.
Spinner: I’m still lost.
Toby: So was JT this morning, in sweet dreams of Liberty.
Hazel: Uh, gross. Can we change the topic?
Paige: No way, this is such juicy gossip. Pardon the pun.
Ravine
Emma: We have one hour to pick up each and every last piece of garbage. Remember guys, today we’re gonna
Everyone: clean the ravine!
Jay: This is how you’re gonna spend lunch? Picking up garbage?
Sean: I promised I’d help out.
Jay: Fine, help out. We’re going for a drive.
Emma: Sean, I was thinking you and I could start on the northeast slope.
Jay: Uh oh, chemical spill!
Emma: Well I’m gonna go start.
Jay: Great sense of humor. Look man, it’s your choice. Come for a ride, or “Clean the Ravine!”
Emma and Sean in the Ravine
Emma: Want a drink? Thanks for helping. I know this isn’t exactly your idea of fun… Sean?
Sean: The garbage isn’t going any where.
(They start to make out, but Kendra comes up.)
Kendra: Uh, lot, lot a garbage?
Sean: Emma?
Emma: Anybody could walk by.
Sean: Who cares?
Emma: I do.
Hallway
Emma: See you in class… Fine, be like that
Sean: Like what?
Emma: Sulky.
Sean: You’re so uptight!
Emma: Why? Because I didn’t wanna like make out in front other people.
Sean: No, because you never wanna do anything. Not with me!
Emma: I just spent my entire lunch with you!
Sean: Yeah! Cleaning the Ravine!
Emma: Well sorry that I care about stupid unimportant things like the environment!
Sean: That’s all you care about! Emma Nelson! Environmental Crusader. A babysitter. A nurse.
Emma: Snake has cancer Sean.
Sean: Yeah, I heard!
Emma: Fine, tomorrow you spend lunch with those losers!
Sean: You know what? I will! Because at least they’re fun!
Emma: Fun?! And you! You’re just pathetic.
(Sean slams her locker.)
Shop class
Mr. Ehl: This is not a barn yard. I am not your mother. So clean up. Okay? All of you who have cleaned up, get outta here.
Jay: Righty lefty loosy huh? Hey, remember the cap back system? I’ve been working on a scheme to get the cash.
Sean: Oh yeah?
Jay: It’s pretty good.
Sean: Good, lets do it.
Jay: Don’t you need permission from the boss?
Sean: She’s not my boss. Lets go.
Jay: Alright
Hallway
Jay: Alright, I’ll break in. You guys make sure the janitors are occupied.
Sean: Yo, the keyboard will get you $50 if you’re lucky. Now that, that’ll buy you a cap back system.
Jay: Since it was your idea.
(Sean slips the laptop into the bag.)
Outside School
Sean: Alright, I got this. All you gotta do is clamp here.
Jay: Up front?
Sean: And another one at the (something) should be at the back.
Emma: Sean, can I talk to you for a minute? Alone?
Sean: No.
Jay: Go ahead and talk. We’re all interested.
Emma: It’s about yesterday. We both said a lot. I was hoping we could talk, really talk, about everything.
Sean: Got nothing to say.
(Emma walks away.)
Alex: She really is as flat as a board.
Outside
JT: How could you do that?
Toby: Me? What about the way you’ve been acting?
JT: You told them I had a wet dream over Liberty!
Toby: You treated me like crap for no reason! You stood me up for lunch, you act like I’m some big loser. What did I do to you?
JT: Look, you’re they’re my friends, you’re my friend, but you and them..
Toby: Are never gonna happen?
JT: No… Toby, Toby, wait up! Let’s have lunch together today, okay?
Mr.Simpson’s room
Emma: What’s the matter?
Mr. Simpson: My, my new laptop. I, I thought I left it locked in here last night. I mean I know the chemo’s making me stupid, but I cant believe I actually lost it.
Emma: Maybe it’s not the chemo… | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "03x06 - Gangsta, Gangsta"} | foreverdreaming |
Mr. Nash: Hey. Saying goodbye is the worst part.
Ellie: Seriously
Mr. Nash: I'm going to be fine, it's just a peace keeping mission
Ellie: I know, but… (Looks over at her mom)
Mr. Nash: Your mother's fine, she's under control. There's my girl, come on. (Starts walking towards Mrs. Nash) It'll be fine.
(Kisses Mrs. Nash.)
Mrs. Nash: Okay.
Mr. Nash (to Ellie): You just got to keep that smile on, ok?
Ellie: Bye Dad.
Mr. Nash: Bye.
Ellie: Mom, you okay?
Mrs. Nash: Don't make a scene Eleanor, just shut up, smile and wave. (Pause) Oh, there he is! (Waves)
Walking towards school
Ashley: Ellie, hey, how are you?
Ellie: What are you, my counselor?
Ashley: Sorry, it's just that your dad left yesterday and...
Ellie: He's in the army, he leaves, it happens.
Ashley: So, you want to go to a movie after school?
Ellie: Sweet. And I would, but I got my co-op interview.
Ashley: Right. You nervous?
Ellie: Interviewing for my dream job. Why would that make me nervous? Not that it matters, Paige is going to get it.
Ashley: Well, Caitlin's TV show is about social issues right? Paige probably thinks it's about social life. (Imitating Paige) Hi, I'm Paige and I'm reporting for style factor. You'll get it, just be yourself.
Ellie: Like that is gonna get me the job.
(See hand put a rose on a locker.)
Hazel: By the time Scott calls me back, I'm on the other line with Paige. Secret Admirer struck again.
Terri: That's the fourth one.
Hazel: And you have no idea who it is? Can't you just ask your tarot cards?
Terri: Tarot doesn't work like that. But with my luck, it's probably the janitor.
Hazel: Please, it could be anyone.
Terri: I know who I want it to be (watches Rick walk by)
Hazel: You've got the hots for Rick?
Terri: Shhhh.
Hazel: You should ask him out (pushes her towards Rick)
Terri: What if it's not him? (bumps into him) Uh, I got to get to class
(Rick watches them leave and smiles.)
In Math class
Ellie: Homework. Talk to me.
Marco: What, you didn't do it?
Paige: Ellie, read for the interview? I am so nervous. My mom was like, Paige, you've got the clothes, the brains, your fine.
Ellie: Of course.
Paige: Please. Mothers always say that, it is so tedious.
Mr. Armstrong: Okay folks, put your books away.
Ellie: No way.
Mr. Armstrong: Were starting today with a pop quiz. Now, if you did your homework, you should be fine. Paige, could you pass these out for me please?
Paige: Break a leg hun.
In cafeteria
(Ellie looking at her quiz, a big 48% and F at the top.)
Marco: Okay, so um, why do teachers lie? I did the homework like he said, and I was not fine.
Ellie: Marco, you got a B+.
Marco: Yeah, but my average is…
Ellie: It's only worth like what, 2% of our final grade? Were both gonna pass.
Marco: I can't believe your this cool about it
Ellie: Actually Marco, I…
(Marco sees Dylan taking off his sweatshirt.)
Marco: Oh dio mio, um, yeah, hold that thought
(Marco leaves and Ashley and Paige sit down.)
Paige: Sucks to be straight. Come on, it's gotta be hard watching your ex-boyfriend fall madly in love with my brother.
Ms. Sauvé: Hey girls, sorry to interrupt your lunch, I need you to fill these out before your co-op interview. And Ashley, congrats, it's really hard to get those record company jobs. But remember, school is your first priority.
(Paige puts on glasses and starts reading the paper.)
Ashley: Since when do you wear glasses?
Paige: Alright, what's my goal? Hello, on camera, anchor desk.
Ellie: It's not a on camera job.
Paige: It's television, same deal. What's your goal?
(Reaches for Ellie's paper and tries to pull it away from her.)
Ellie: Hey!
Paige: What? I'm just…
(Red juice spills all over Ellie's white shirt.)
Paige: Oh, Ellie, I'm so sorry
(Ashley tries to help wipe it off.)
Ellie: Don't. It's fine.
(Ellie walks away.)
Paige (to Ashley): What? It was an accident
You see Ellie in bathroom trying to scrub off her shirt, then at CQJH
Paige: I am thrilled to have finally met you Caitlin, thank you so much for an amazing interview.
Caitlin: Well, you’re very welcome, bye bye. (To Ellie in a big yellow raincoat) Ellie, hi, is that for me? (Takes papers) Great. You can take the coat off.
Ellie: Right. So, I really loved the piece on tent city. I actually interviewed one of those guys for the grapevine.
Caitlin: Oh really? Which one?
Ellie: Um, I forgot his name. Young, brown hair, glasses.
Caitlin: Andrew Lister?
Ellie: That's it, I actually… (Wipes eye and eyeliner smears) Sorry, I'm really nervous
Caitlin: That's okay. Here. (Gives her a Kleenex and Ellie tries to wipe her face off) And uh, just tell me what you were going to wish for…
Ellie: Just, well, it's probably stupid, but, it would be cool to see those activists now. Now that the tents are gone.
Caitlin: Actually, we are doing a follow up. Okay, well, tell me about the grapevine. How long have you been writing for them?
Ellie: A while.
Caitlin: That's a great paper to be writing for.
At School
Hazel: Don't be such a chicken, anyone else would just ask him. Hey, Manny, help me out here. Say you like a guy.
Manny: Is he single?
Hazel: We think so. Do you go for it?
Manny: Completely. (Sees Craig) Life's too short.
Terri: Fine. Tomorrow in geography I'll…
Toby: Hello Therese
Terri: Hello?
Toby: Do you know what I'm thinking?
Terri: No
Toby: Oh, I think you do.
Manny: Toby, stop being weird
Toby: Til next we meet. (Gives Terri a strange look while walking away)
Hazel: Or maybe your secret admirer is Toby
(They look at each other and shudder at the thought.)
At Ellie's house
Ellie: Mom, sorry I'm late.
(Sees mom almost passed out on the couch.)
Ellie: Mom, you okay?
(Mom groans.)
Ellie: I brought us some dinner like you asked.
(Picks up several vodka bottles off the table by her mom.)
Ellie: Had my interview today. Total disaster. My whole day was a disaster. Look at my shirt.
(Offers mom food.)
Mrs. Nash: Oh, the smell
In Ellie's room
(She is pacing back and forth.)
Ellie: Okay, okay, okay.
(Sits down and takes out homework. Hears mom crash into things and throw up in the other room. Papers fall on the ground, compass blade falls on the ground. Ellie picks it up and is about to cut herself with it. She starts crying.)
Alarm goes off next morning
(Ellie looks at the mark she made on her arm.)
At school
Paige: Caitlin's awesome. So smart, totally pretty, we really connected. I mean Caitlin and I have so much in common.
(Ellie walks in and over to Marco.)
Marco: Hey. So how did it go?
(No answer.)
Marco: Aw, come on, you know you got it.
Ellie: No, I don't.
Marco: Ellie, they'd be absolutely crazy not to love you, ok?
(Ms. Sauvé knocks on door.)
Ms. Sauvé: Can I just steal Ellie and Paige for a moment?
Mr. Armstrong: Sure.
In the hall
Ms. Sauvé: So, I heard from Caitlin Ryan and she made a decision. Congratulations Ellie. Don't worry Paige, were gonna find you something great.
Paige: Wow, I guess she really did feel sorry for you.
(Ellie smiles as she walks back into class.)
Ashley: Terri Isaacs has a certain ring to it.
Terri: I can't believe Hazel told you.
Ashley: She had to, I'm going to be your future sister-in-law. But come on Terri, it's cute.
Terri: It's awkward…
Ashley: And strangely disappointing?
Terri: Just a bit.
(Toby steps in front of them and stops them.)
Terri: Toby, are you following me?
Toby: I don't know. Am I?
Terri: Can we take the long way to music class?
(See Toby smiling as they walk away.)
At CQJH
Caitlin: Ellie, I'm so thrilled to have you here.
Ellie: You are?
Caitlin: Oh, yeah, absolutely. I'm just sorry it's only going to be once a week.
Ellie: I can do more. Mornings, afternoons, weekends.
Caitlin: You sound just like me. But as my therapist says, it's important to have a life.
Ellie: I'll fact check, I'll file, pick up your dry cleaning, get you coffee, whatever you want.
Caitlin: Sorry, this is the best we can do. (About Ellie's room she is working in) So let's start with a project, teen hotlines, manned by teens, for teens, let’s see if they work and go! I'll check in on you later.
(On phone.)
Ellie: I'm calling from Caitlin Ryan Unscripted. Could I talk to the head of your youth hotline? That's fine, I'll wait.
(Interviewing a guy from hotline.)
Guy: We deal with everything, abortion, su1c1de, alcoholics, schoolwork, cutting, anorexia.
Ellie: Wow, that must be hard.
Guy: It's amazing, to actual be able to help. It's the best thing in the world.
On phone at home
Ellie: Hi dad, your okay? You've made it to Kabul? I'm so relieved. How's mom? She's fine, (looks over at her on couch and sees her drinking) totally fine. No, she can't make it to the phone right now, but I'll tell her that you called. Okay. Bye.
At CQJH looking at scissors when Caitlin comes in
Caitlin: Here, go through all of these, especially that one.
Ellie: Okay.
We see Ellie eating while her mom is drinking. Ellie laying on floor in her room, she sits up and cuts herself. Putting blanket on her mom on the couch
Ellie running to school
Ellie: I need a late slip please.
Secretary: Note please.
Ellie: I was at my co-op and…
Secretary: Board policy states that all students must provide a note.
Ellie: It won't happen again, please, can I just go to class?
Secretary: You were late twice last week, 3 times the week before, you could lose your placement over this.
Ellie: You’re not serious
(Secretary holds slip just out of reach of Ellie, then hands to her. Ellie walks away to bathroom looking worried. In bathroom she paces, then takes out her compass and cuts herself. Paige walks in.)
Paige: Let me guess, your latest expose, the hygiene of Degrassi's bathrooms.
Ellie: I'm running late.
(Paige sees blood in sink.)
Paige: Ew, Ellie, your bleeding.
Ellie: Yeah, I h*t my arm on the thing.
(Picks up her stuff and leaves. Paige follows her outside.)
Ellie: What?
Paige: Ellie, I saw.
Ellie: I h*t my arm, I'm gonna file a complaint with the janitor.
Paige: Bull.
Ellie: Pardon me?
Paige: Why would you do that to yourself? Does it feel good or what? Look, I totally get that you don't want to talk to me.
Ellie: My arm's fine.
Paige: I'm not talking about your arm. You need to talk to someone, like Ms. Sauvé, or…
Ellie: All I need is for you to leave me alone like you normally do.
(She gets up and walks away.)
Hazel: It's been 2 weeks, just break the little nerds heart already.
Terri: His hearth or his neck?
Toby: Therese!
Terri: Did you leave this rose?
(Terri breaks the rose and throws it on the ground.)
Toby: I don't know, did I?
Terri: Stop talking like that, it's driving me crazy.
Hazel: If that's some kind of Terri scrapbook, I'm calling the police.
Toby: Scrapbook? It's a science report.
Terri: On what?
Toby: ESP. Ash told me you were physic or something, but I've been testing you and you've failed… Therese.
Terri: So you’re not my secret admirer?
Toby: You wish.
(Terri and Hazel smile at each other.)
In the hallway
(Paige is sitting and Ellie is walking by.)
Ms. Sauvé: Hey Paige, just give me a minute and we'll talk about your friend, okay?
Ellie (to Paige): About who? Me?
Paige: I don't care if you get mad. What you’re doing is dangerous. It's scary.
Ellie: You can't handle it. You have to take away the one thing that matters.
Paige: What are you talking about?
Ellie: You want my co-op job
Paige: I don't care about the stupid job, you’re hurting yourself. This is beyond me. I don't know how to help you, but Sauvé will.
Ellie: I don't need help.
Paige: Then show me your arm.
Ellie: There's nothing wrong with me.
Paige: Then show me your arm. Ellie. Ellie, please, show me your arm.
(She rolls up her sleeve to show lots of cut marks and she starts crying.)
Paige: Oh, Ellie. It's okay. It's okay.
At Terri’s locker
(Rick puts another rose on the locker; Terri appears from where she was watching.)
Rick: Um, Hi. Uh, yes, you've caught me.
Terri: I've been waiting for hours, I can't believe how sneaky you are.
Rick: Well, for one, a secret admirer is a demanding occupation and 2, you’re worth it. I do hope leaving roses wasn't too intrusive, I'm a little shy.
Terri: Me too and I think it's sweet.
Rick: You had no inkling it was me?
Terri: Nope, guess I'm not physic.
In Ms. Sauvé’s office
(It is very quiet. Ellie look like she is going to talk, but doesn't.)
Ms. Sauvé: Well, that's all the time we have for today.
Ellie: Sorry, I wasted your time.
Ms. Sauvé: No, you'll talk when you’re ready. But recognizing you need to talk and not cut, that's a big first step. So, tomorrow?
Ellie: Tomorrow. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "03x08 - Whisper to a Scream"} | foreverdreaming |
At the car lot, Paige is pouring water on a car
Paige: I christen thee… what's your new baby's name Spin?
Craig: Sparky? Looks like a Sparky. Herbie? Thomas?
Spinner: The Love Mobile. That's what this is, it's our love mobile.
(He and Paige kiss.)
Craig: And you're calling me a dork?
Joey: Hey you don't own that quite yet.
Spinner: $2700 for 386 miserable hours of waiting tables.
Joey: Congratulations.
(Joey hands Spinner the keys and he and Paige are shown driving around town.)
Spinner: Wicked, wicked, wicked day. Okay tonight I am taking you to the drive-in. Load up the car with some blankets, some slow jams of love.
(They kiss as a cop pulls up behind them.)
Paige: Mm breath spray for you.
Spinner: Holy crap on a stick.
Paige: Oh my god I told you, you were speeding.
Spinner: What do I do?
(The cop knocks on his window and Spinner rolls it down.)
Spinner: Uh nice day, huh officer?
Police officer: Lovely. I'm looking for Paige Michalchuk at this address.
Paige: Michalchuk. Um I'm Paige.
(He hands her a letter.)
Paige: Notice to appear?
Police officer: You pressed charges in a sexual as*ault case in 2002.
Paige: Wow. Um really, now?
At the drive-in
(Paige screams while watching the horror movie.)
Paige: Ew! Cuddles please!
(Paige and Marco cuddle together and scream at another scary part.)
Marco: I hate zombie movies! Didn't I tell you?!
Paige: Oh they're totally devouring that chick. Gross.
Spinner: I can't even see.
Paige: Okay well it's more than we shorties could see if we were stuck behind you, bebe.
Spinner: Yeah, but it's my car.
Paige: Ew. Okay enough with the creepy un-d*ad wrestlers. Who needs more corn?
Marco: This movie sure doesn't.
Spinner: Uh yeah I'll come with you.
(He turns to Jimmy and Hazel who are making out.)
Spinner: Uh you guys need anything? You know keep up your energy? More fluids? Guys? Huh?
Paige: Oh I want to get more of those sour things too. Who cares about carbs?
(As Spinner tries to kiss her something gross happens in the movie.)
Paige: Ew! Wow um romantic… and since I’m as hungry as Paris Hilton looks.
(Paige pulls Marco out from the car.)
Paige: Come on. There is no way you’re surviving the sludge eating fest on your own love.
Marco: Did you see how those veins were dangling from those severed heads?!
Paige: I was distracted by her huge silicone investments.
(Spinner shakes his head and walks away.)
Outside at Marco’s van, unpacking Dylan’s stuff
Marco: It’s the heaviest box in the world.
Dylan: Don’t make me laugh. I’ll drop this on your toe! Come here.
(Dylan takes Marco’s hand and kisses him.)
Marco: What was that for?!
Dylan: For being so darn cute. For helping me move. For borrowing your dad's van.
Paige: For telling your dad a fantastic lie about who needed to borrow it. Um all I know is that you owe us Dylan for making us do this on labor day, the official funeral of summer vacation.
Dylan: Well consider me your living, breathing VIP pass to every dorm party this year.
Marco: And the first one in oh, only 54 hours!
Paige: Grade 11 with dorm parties. Having cake, eating cake too and uh won’t you be the life of my all year party Mr. Pouty.
Spinner: Yeah like you’d wanna party with me!
Paige: Okay what’s the problem?
Spinner: You’re my girlfriend. That’s my problem.
Paige: Spinner!
Spinner: We’re always with 3 thousand people and if we’re not, you invite them.
Paige: Um Dylan’s moving and Marco’s his boyfriend. They have to be here.
Spinner: We’re never alone, okay? You make me feel like some kind of leopard.
Paige: Leper. The word is leper. I’m sorry, okay? I’m sorry. It won’t always be like this.
Spinner: Really?
Paige: It’ll change. Once that stupid trial is finally over. I promise.
Dylan: Lovebirds! I need someone to help me with my wardrobe and I need someone to go to Mrs. Vanelli’s to get our pizza.
Paige: I got the pizza.
Marco: How many boxes are left?
Dylan: Oh 25…
(Paige is walking in the park holding a pizza box and she sees Dean with a few people showing off his car.)
[Flashbacks to the night of the party with Paige and Dean in the bedroom]
Dean: Hey!
Paige: Don’t.
Dean: Wait Paige! I’m not stalking you. We’re in a public park. There’s people everywhere. Can we talk? Just one minute?
(Paige keeps walking.)
Dean: So court, huh?
Paige: I’m not supposed to talk to you.
Dean: It’s gonna be really horrible going through it all. Your parents hearing the details. My girlfriend, your boyfriend. It was a really long time ago. I’m sorry. I should have listened. It was a huge mistake. If I could go back-
Paige: Do you have a point?
Dean: Why go through this? You could tell them you don’t want to testify. Skip it. It’d be that easy. They’d have to drop the case.
Paige: My brother’s pizza…um it’s getting cold.
Dean: Okay. But you’ll think about it right? I mean maybe we never see each other again and you can forget.
At school
(Spinner is getting out of his car, polishing it off and Emma, Toby and Liberty are walking together.)
Emma: Chris and I broke up in July.
Toby: Sorry. Kendra and I broke up in August.
Liberty: Sorry. I believe I was abducted by aliens over Labor Day weekend. And Towerz and I broke up.
Emma and Toby: Sorry.
(They walk into the school as Paige walks by Ellie, Alex, Jay and Sean.)
Paige: Morning Ellie!
Ellie: Hey Paige. Great outfit!
Paige: New year, new look, new Paige.
Alex: Ellie, just because Princess Prissy talks to you doesn’t mean you have to answer.
Paige: I’m going, I’m going.
Sean: As usual. Glad we’re guys. (Sean and Jay do some hand shake thing)
In the school, Manny and JT are walking in the halls
Manny: Oh my god! They’re so cute. Remember when we were that afraid of Degrassi?
JT: Remember when we were that short?
Danny: Do you know where the principal's office is?
JT: Yeah it’s downstairs, through the foyer and to the left.
Danny: Good. Go on down. I need to spend time alone with your girlfriend.
(JT pushes Danny away.)
At Craig’s Locker, it's all decorated for his birthday
(Ashley accidentally bumps into Craig.)
Craig: Ashley? Did you?
(She walks away without saying anything.)
Craig: Nice going Craig. Really uh, really really smooth.
Marco: Oh hey happy birthday buddy!
Craig: Wow! Uh you h*t the mall lately?
Marco: You think it was easy finding those streamers and musical notes?
Craig: No, I meant your outfit.
Marco: You like it?
Craig: Yeah man and I love the locker, thanks.
Marco: No problem!
Craig: Man, are you dating anybody? I’m serious.
At Spinner's locker
Spinner: Think Paige will be mad if I put up a picture of Mandy Moore?
Jimmy: I saw her. In L.A. when that scout who liked me took the whole camp to see a Lakers game. Are you listening?
Spinner: Maybe Hilary Duff will be better.
Jimmy: Why? Why would that be better?
Spinner: She looks more like Paige.
Paige: I’d rather look like Lindsay Lohan.
Jimmy: Aren’t you at court today?
Paige: I always wanted an assistant to handle my calendar. Thanks Jim. But it was supposed to be tomorrow.
Spinner: Wait, supposed?!
Paige: Not going. Don’t really see the point.
Spinner: I do!
Paige: K, then you can go!
Spinner: You’re really, you’re not going?!
Paige: Nope!
Spinner: I can’t do this anymore.
Paige: Do what anymore?!
Spinner: This. Us!
Jimmy: What was that?!
Paige: Did he just dump me?
In the school parking lot
Paige: Spinner! Gavin! Honeybee!
Spinner: You said everything would be okay…after the trial.
Paige: I don’t need the trial. Look it was one night almost 3 years ago. I’ve moved on. You know I have! Look let’s go park someplace tonight, okay. Just us.
Spinner: I guess I’d set a pretty bad example if I turned that down.
(Paige kisses him.)
At Joey’s house
(They're watching a videotape of Caitlin that she sent for Craig's birthday.)
Caitlin: Hey Craig! It’s usually a big load of it when so-called grownups give you that "these are the best years of your life" stuff, but um my wish for you Craig is that these really are. So happy birthday! Signing off from Thailand. Swatika!(?)
Angie: Now we eat Cake!
Craig: Hey I am the birthday person here and I’m dying to open my big present Joey.
Joey: Sorry Angie! Craig is right. Cake will have to wait.
(Craig sticks out his arms for something big, then sees the envelope and opens it.)
Joey: Happy Birthday!
Craig: Holy! 10 grand?! Joey! I can’t believe you did this!
Joey: No Craig I uh didn’t…
Craig: Wait. This is from my dad’s estate.
Joey: He specified it as a birthday gift. I guess to tide you over until your 18th, when you get your full inheritance.
Craig: Wow.
Angie: Cake noooow?!
Joey: You okay Craig?
Craig: Hm? Yeah, no I’m fine.
Parked outside, Paige and Spinner are in his car making out
Paige: Is it okay?
Spinner: Mm hmm. Get back here.
Paige: Hey um where’d you get this song? Her voice sounds like..
Spinner: Shh.
(He begins to kiss her again and she pulls away.)
[Flashbacks to Dean’s face]
Spinner: What? Did I do it wrong?
Paige: Sorry!
(Spinner slowly reaches to touch Paige’s breasts.)
[More flashbacks to Dean]
Paige: No! Stop!
Spinner: What!?
Paige: Stop! No!
Spinner: Hey come on!
Paige: I said no!
Spinner: You’re okay.
Paige: I’m not. I’m not okay!
Spinner: Paige…
Paige: I have to do it. I have to go.
Spinner: I’ll go with you.
In Mr. Armstrong's class
(Craig is drawing music notes.)
Ashley: Those are backwards.
Craig: Thanks.
Ashley: Listen I didn’t mean to be all weird yesterday.
Craig: No you weren’t weird. You just ignored me, which I guess is sort of being weird, but not. Sorry, now I’m being weird.
Ashley: Look I was hoping we could be friends, but as soon as I saw you…
Craig: You got sucked into some bizarro last year time warp?
Ashley: Yeah…so good birthday?
Craig: Also weird.
Ashley: Weird good?
Craig: Well my freak of a dad left me this check for 10 grand in his will.
Ashley: Are you serious?
Craig: Yeah the guy is half eaten by worms and he’s still trying to buy me. It's pathetic.
Ashley: Hey your dad owes you. Maybe he was just trying to make it up a little.
Craig: Well Joey gave me this lecture about investing it for my future blah, blah, blah, but I’m going to rip the check up. I don’t want it.
Ashley: Do you have any idea how much fun you could have with that much money?
Mr. Armstrong: Alright grade 11. Time to start really preparing you for university math!
Outside the courtroom
Paige: Thanks for being here today mom.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Honey, where else would I be? You’re gonna do great in there!
Paige: I just want this all to end.
Mrs. Michalchuk: I know. And it will.
Paige: When he goes to jail!
Mrs. Michalchuk: Remember what we talked about in counseling Paige, about why we’re doing this. So you can get some closure, feel heard.
Spinner: Paige! Hey Paige. Hey Mrs. Michalchuk.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Hello Gavin.
(Dean gets out of his car.)
Mrs. Michalchuk: Ignore him. He can’t hurt you.
Paige’s Lawyer: Morning all. Rose could I just have a minute, please?
Mrs. Michalchuk: You’ll be okay?
(Paige nods.)
Spinner: I hate that guy.
Paige: You should go home Spin. I don’t want you hearing all this.
Spinner: I know what happened.
Paige: Not the details. When you hear them…picture it. It’ll keep playing on the VCR in your head. Rewind, pause, play. Rewind, pause…you can’t stop it. You’ll dump me and I’ll die alone with my 6 cats.
Spinner: Paige, I’ll never dump you.
Paige: Hello, you did it yesterday.
Spinner: Yeah, but that was a test. I can’t dump a girl as cool as you and you just being here, doing this, is amazingly cool.
Paige: Let’s get this over with.
In the courtroom
Dean’s Lawyer: Ms. Michalchuk, did you go upstairs willingly with my client? Did you not in fact suggest it?
Paige: Yeah.
Dean’s Lawyer: Why’d you do that?
Paige: I just thought…
Dean’s Lawyer: What. Play pinnacle? Crazy eights?
Paige’s Lawyer: Objection your honor.
Judge: Please rephrase the question.
Dean’s Lawyer: What were your intentions Ms. Michalchuk in going up to that room?
Paige: I just thought we would be alone together.
Dean’s lawyer: And you find my client attractive?
Paige: Yes. I did. Before.
Dean’s lawyer: When my client put his hand inside your blouse, did you immediately reject him? Slap him? For the record please.
Paige: No.
Dean’s lawyer: This is very difficult for you I know, but when my client touched your breast how did you respond? Did you enjoy it?
Paige: No. Well at first yeah.
Dean’s lawyer: You’re telling us that you did. Ms. Michaelchuk, did my client ever hold a g*n to your head? A Kn*fe to your throat? A grenade?
Paige: No.
Dean’s Lawyer: Did he not in fact wear a condom?
Paige: Yeah, but that doesn’t make him-
Dean’s Lawyer: You could show me how he managed to open one of these and roll it onto his penis without offering you a chance to get away, if you wanted to.
Paige: I said no! He is bigger than me! Stronger…I was afraid. I’m not sure.
Dean’s Lawyer: Oh so you don’t know! How many men have you had sex with Miss Michaelchuk?
Paige’s Lawyer: Objection!
Paige: Actually I’d like to answer that. That was my only experience and I certainly would not have chosen to lose my virginity upstairs at a house party with a guy I’d known for an hour.
At a music store, Craig and Ashley are shopping together
Ashley: 20 sets of handmades? Jack White doesn't go through that many strings in a year.
Craig: Maybe he should.
Ashley: How about this? Legendary Cry Baby WaWa.
Craig: I thought I already made you cry enough last year? Wah wah wah.
(Craig laughs at his joke and Ashley shakes her head.)
Ashley: Craig.
Craig: Sorry. That wow… that was really stupid.
(Ashley looks at a guitar.)
Ashley: How beautiful is this?!
Craig: Is that a 62 Stratocaster?
Salesperson: Uh 69! Master built American.
Ashley: Sunburst finish. Classic.
Salesperson: Rosewood Fret board.
Ashley: 3 way switch with fazing.
Salesperson: It’s got all the original hardware.
Craig: I feel like I’m in church.
Salesperson: You think you could put that back now? It’s worth over 4 grand!
Craig: I’ll take it. My dad would hate it!
Ashley: Perfect.
Craig: Yup.
Back in the courtroom
Bailiff: All rise!
Paige: It’s good that she’s ready with the verdict already right?
Paige’s Lawyer: Sure. Yeah, sure it is.
The Judge: Ms. Michalchuk’s testimony was extremely compelling and I want to applaud her for having the courage and the strength for doing what she did here today. It’s the kind of case that keeps me awake at night because it’s not the kind a justice in my position wants to hear. Given that there are no eyewitnesses and no physical evidence I have no choice, but to find the defendant not guilty. Mr. Walton you are free to go.
In Paige’s bedroom
(Someone knocks on her bedroom door.)
Paige: Just tell them to go mom. How hard is it?
Marco: Uh was I supposed to hear that?
Paige: Do you know I have zero style? I hate everything I own.
Marco: So leave it. Come to Dylan’s!
Paige: Yeah, because everyone loves partying with a wretched, badly dressed, r*pe victim loser.
Marco: Paige you’re not a loser, okay? Besides we weren’t even thinking that.
Paige: K well I am, along with um: what’s the point?! Why bother?
Marco: Look I felt the exact same way when I got bashed. I just wanted to change my skin…just stop being. The fact that those guys never even got caught…
Paige: Of course not. What a joke.
Marco: Look grade 11’s your year, remember? You can’t let him control you.
Paige: Marco I just lost my case 3 hours ago. Dean was found not guilty of raping me.
Marco: I know… Paige I’m sorry, okay? Just-
Paige: What?! You’re just what Marco?
(Marco stands up to leave.)
Paige: I’ll be down in a minute.
Outside Dylan’s
Spinner: Hey um this afternoon…
Paige: Didn’t happen!
Spinner: Honeybee I’m sorry.
Paige: We’re not talking about it, okay?
Spinner: Well if you don’t feel like partying.
Paige: I didn’t say that.
Spinner: Or if you feel like leaving early…
Paige: I didn’t say that either!
Spinner: Just let me know, I’ll take you home.
Paige: Do you want me to have a bad time? Hazel! I came to party, not stroll through the park okay!
Marco: Come on Spin! Let’s go make some soup!
At the party
(Spinner puts his arms around Paige and Paige breaks free. While she’s walking away she bumps into some girl and pushes her into the wall.)
Paige: What?!
(Hazel is sitting on the floor with the girl Paige pushed.)
Spinner: Paige?
(Spinner is looking for Paige while she’s off dancing and doing body sh*ts with some random guy and then Spinner comes over to take her away.)
Spinner: Hey! (He pushes the guy away)
Paige: (laughing) Sorry he gets jealous.
(Spinner grabs Paige and pushes her into a room.)
Paige: I did make you jealous!
Spinner: Okay. Put me in traction for asking whatever, but what the hell is going on with-
(Paige tries taking off Spinner’s shirt.)
Paige: Wow you’re so tough.
Spinner: What are you doing?!
Paige: What do you mean?!
Spinner: Paige!
Paige: What?! I’m easy! Everyone knows it. The judge, my mother, now you! Like Dean! Just get me alone, do whatever you want. No one will stop you. What? You don’t want me?
Spinner: Not right now, no.
Paige: ‘Cause Dean got there first?
Spinner: You have to let that go!
Paige: You want me to just let it go? Like someone was rude or stole my seat at lunch.
Spinner: No that’s not what I…! I just, I want my girlfriend back, okay? I want Paige back!
Paige: You don’t even know her.
Spinner: That’s stupid.
Paige: The truth? Paige went upstairs that night. She never came back. You know what I would really like, if I never had to see your idiotic face again! Okay, how about that?
(Spinner leaves and slams the door while Paige finds Spinner's keys on the bed and takes them.)
At Joey’s house, Craig and Ashley walk in
Joey: Hey, hey guys. Keep it down. Angie is sleeping.
Craig: Oh Joey, remember Ashley? The bad influence?
Ashley: It was burning a hole in your pocket. I was trying to help!
Craig: Well uh she MADE me do this!
Ashley: Did not!
(Craig opens the guitar case.)
Joey: Is that a Fender Strat?!
Craig: Yep! Exactly like Hendricks had! And it’s all mine!
Joey: Wow, what did this set you back? $400? What 6? 650?
Craig: Uh 4 grand…It’s the real thing. It’s a piece of history.
Joey: Enjoy it. (He walks away)
In Joey’s garage
(Craig is playing his new guitar as Joey walks in.)
Craig: Got a little ways to go until I sound like 4 grand.
Joey: Little bit…Craig! Craig! I was thinking maybe you could help out with a little rent…the mortgage.
Craig: My dad’s estate gives you money.
Joey: Yeah like 250 a month. That barely keeps you eating pizza. You go through shoes like no one I’ve ever seen.
(Craig starts playing his guitar again.)
Joey: Craig, Craig! I heat this garage for you…I mean with the price of hydro…
Craig: Would you ask Angie this?
Joey: For one thing she’s seven, she eats like a bird, she didn’t just buy herself a four thousand dollar guitar.
Craig: And that’s the only reason it’s different?
Joey: Of course!
Craig: Yeah well I’m not so sure.
Back at the party
Jimmy: North Carolina scout is coming back down in December. He wants to see me play ball again.
Hazel: Have you seen Paige?
Spinner: No! I’m sure she’s happy about that.
Hazel: Spinner, I’m worried.
Cuts to Paige outside another party
Paige: Oh uh hi. I’m here to see Steve.
Guy at door: Steve?
Paige: Steve. The cute one. Second year. He totally invited me today in line at the bookstore and I was like sure I’ll come by.
Guy at door: Are you 19?
Paige: 20, actually. Just short…
(The guy lets her in and she sees Dean pouring drinks.)
Paige: I have to talk to you!
Dean: No you don’t! Not now!
Paige: I have something to say! Actually everyone should hear it!
Dean: Not guilty! Nothing else to say!
Paige: You have to listen to me! Do any of you here know what your buddy is? Do you know what he does?
Dean: Shut up!
Paige: He is a liar! Okay! A liar and a r*pist!
Dean: Ex-girlfriend you know! Outside NOW!
Paige: Don’t forget it. I was fifteen!
Dean: I don’t recommend you do that again. I am trying to get into that fraternity.
Paige: This was my life. You r*ped me!
Dean: Yeah!
Paige: You admit it! Just like that?
Dean: I figure I must have done something wrong if you keep punishing me.
Paige: You didn’t say that in court!
Dean: I must have done something right too. You keep coming back like this.
Paige: I’m not coming back.
Dean: You can’t blame me for wanting some more of this.
Paige: Excuse me?!
Dean: Listen sweetheart. Go home, call your sad little boyfriend. If you want to have fun sometime, call me. You were good!
(Paige gets into Spinner’s car and backs it up into Dean’s car as Spinner walks around the corner and sees everything.)
Spinner: Paige!
Spinner: Stop it! Stop!
Paige: Spinner!
Spinner: Get out!
Paige: Spinner, relax!
Spinner: Go home! Just get in the cab and go home! GO!
(A montage starts with Paige getting into a car. Joey sitting at home looking worried. Craig calling Sean then showing up at his house. Joey trying to call someone. Paige at home looking in the mirror. Spinner walking outside and looking at his car that’s totally smashed on the back. Paige lying in bed smiling.)
In the school counseling office
Ms. Sauve: (On the phone) Hi Paige. Chantalle Sauve. We had an 8:45.
(Paige walks in.)
Paige: Whoops.
Ms. Sauve: Don’t worry. Have a seat. Well this isn’t the Paige I expected to see this morning!
Paige: I’ve got multiple personalities. That explains a lot.
Ms. Sauve: You know what I mean. I want to congratulate you on yesterday. I know things didn’t turn out the way you wanted them to, but the outcomes going to be good for you in the future because you did the right thing, the only thing by going to court. The justice system isn’t perfect but I watched it help you to find your voice again and to heal. You’ve triumphed over your r*pist morally because you’ve been honest.
Paige: Sure. Thanks.
In a classroom
Paige: You okay?
Spinner: Hope it felt good.
Paige: A little. How’s the uh Love Mobile? I’ll get a job, okay? I’ll give you the money to fix it. Whatever it takes.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Gavin you’re wanted outside.
(Outside the cops are taking evidence from his car as Spinner is crying while being taken away by the cops.)
In the computer lab
Ashley: You know you guys should try going a little more post-Emo. Still punk, but less mopey.
Craig: I don’t think the other guys even know what regular emo is. Spinner probably thinks it’s a muppet.
Mr. Simpson: Ooh fries and gravy! Good on a plate, not so good on a keyboard.
Craig: I’ll be careful. No worries.
Mr. Simpson: You wanna tell your dad that? The uh no worries part. Called me last night and this morning.
Craig: Oh yeah? I don’t have a dad, remember?
Ashley: See you in class Craig.
Craig: Yeah bye.
Mr. Simpson: It’ll break Joey’s little heart to hear you talk like that.
Craig: He’d probably make me pay for it, because apparently I’m the bank of Craig.
Mr. Simpson: Joey stepped up when no one else was going to. That takes a lot. A lot of guts and a lot of commitment. What you owe him is a little more respect than you’re showing him right now! (He snatches the food out of Craig’s hand)
In Paige’s Bedroom
(Paige’s phone starts to ring.)
Paige: Hello?
Spinner: Paige.
Paige: Where are you?
Spinner: Cop shop 55.
Paige: You didn’t make me your one phone call Spin.
Spinner: Failure to remain at the scene of an accident, mischief and dangerous driving. I’m scared.
Paige: You didn’t do anything!
Spinner: Dean called the police with my license plate number. I told them I did it.
Paige: No-
Spinner: You’ve been through enough, okay? I saw you go through enough. You’re safe. I just wanted to tell you.
Cop: Time’s up. Your mother’s here.
Spinner: Bye Paige.
At Joey’s House
(Craig opens the front door and Joey’s standing there inside.)
Joey: Craig where have you been?
Craig: I’m just getting my guitar and some clothes. I won’t eat any of your food.
Joey: Craig! Craig!
Craig: What?
Joey: I might lose my business.
Craig: What?!
Joey: I didn’t want to tell you. I didn’t want you to worry.
Craig: Well you should have said something!
Joey: I’m trying to be the dad here…and instead like an idiot I h*t you up for cash!
Craig: So you ask me the stupid rent thing instead…
Joey: I know. My line of credit is sh*t. My bills, they’re huge!
Craig: Look I’ll give you the money Joey. I’ll take my guitar back and you can have it all.
Joey: No. I can't do that.
Craig: Well you have to let me do something.
Joey: I know you want to be a big rock star someday, but if you needed it, I’d like the dealership to be there for you.
Outside the police station
Dean: Your boyfriend is d*ad!
Paige: I did it.
Dean: You wrecked my car? You’re gonna go down for that. I’ll prove it was you.
Paige: Sorry to uh take away your fun, but I’m about to confess. That’s what good people do when they realize they’ve done something wrong.
Dean: That frat didn’t let me in because of you and what you said.
(Paige starts to walk away.)
Dean: Hey! I’m not finished.
Paige: Well I’m very finished with all of this, okay? But especially with you! It’s over Dean. I’ve got something to do. Something more important.
(Paige walks into the police station, up to the counter.)
Paige: Hi, um I’m here about something that happened last night.
At Joey’s car lot
Joey: Now this is a gorgeous car! You really should take it for a test drive.
Customer: I don’t think so.
Joey: Oh what could it hurt!
Craig: Cute car! You would look great in it!
Customer: I’ll go get my bag.
Joey: You are a bargain at three times the salary!
Craig: Hey three times free is still free!
Outside Spinner’s house, he’s trying to fix his car
Paige: Hi.
Spinner: What happened?
Paige: Well I lost my license, which was exciting and I’m probably stuck with a year of community service.
Spinner: Teaching anger management?
Paige: I think I’d be good at that. I also thought I might embroider ‘On Probation’ on all my clothes…give myself that bad girl edge.
Spinner: So you came by to make jokes?
Paige: I came to say that…I don’t know what else to say. I wish I’d never hurt your car…or you.
Spinner: Okay.
Paige: And I meant it when I said I’d pay! Would you like to go out with me? Triple feature at the drive-in this weekend. Sour candies on me?
Spinner: If I get the car in decent shape by then.
Paige: Wrench?
Scenes for next week:
Voiceover: Marco has his eyes on the prize.
Marco: Marco for president. Come out and vote!
Voiceover: But he better watch his back
Mr. Simpson: Hey Marco, hope you’re ready for a horse race! She’s got a lot of kids talking already.
Voiceover: Cause this looks like trouble.
Marco: Nobody’s gonna vote for you okay? Nobody!
Alex: Not yet!
Marco: Not ever!
Alex: We’ll see. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x01 - Ghost in the Machine"} | foreverdreaming |
At the car lot, Paige is pouring water on a car
Paige: I christen thee… what's your new baby's name Spin?
Craig: Sparky? Looks like a Sparky. Herbie? Thomas?
Spinner: The Love Mobile. That's what this is, it's our love mobile.
(He and Paige kiss.)
Craig: And you're calling me a dork?
Joey: Hey you don't own that quite yet.
Spinner: $2700 for 386 miserable hours of waiting tables.
Joey: Congratulations.
(Joey hands Spinner the keys and he and Paige are shown driving around town.)
Spinner: Wicked, wicked, wicked day. Okay tonight I am taking you to the drive-in. Load up the car with some blankets, some slow jams of love.
(They kiss as a cop pulls up behind them.)
Paige: Mm breath spray for you.
Spinner: Holy crap on a stick.
Paige: Oh my god I told you, you were speeding.
Spinner: What do I do?
(The cop knocks on his window and Spinner rolls it down.)
Spinner: Uh nice day, huh officer?
Police officer: Lovely. I'm looking for Paige Michalchuk at this address.
Paige: Michalchuk. Um I'm Paige.
(He hands her a letter.)
Paige: Notice to appear?
Police officer: You pressed charges in a sexual as*ault case in 2002.
Paige: Wow. Um really, now?
At the drive-in
(Paige screams while watching the horror movie.)
Paige: Ew! Cuddles please!
(Paige and Marco cuddle together and scream at another scary part.)
Marco: I hate zombie movies! Didn't I tell you?!
Paige: Oh they're totally devouring that chick. Gross.
Spinner: I can't even see.
Paige: Okay well it's more than we shorties could see if we were stuck behind you, bebe.
Spinner: Yeah, but it's my car.
Paige: Ew. Okay enough with the creepy un-d*ad wrestlers. Who needs more corn?
Marco: This movie sure doesn't.
Spinner: Uh yeah I'll come with you.
(He turns to Jimmy and Hazel who are making out.)
Spinner: Uh you guys need anything? You know keep up your energy? More fluids? Guys? Huh?
Paige: Oh I want to get more of those sour things too. Who cares about carbs?
(As Spinner tries to kiss her something gross happens in the movie.)
Paige: Ew! Wow um romantic… and since I’m as hungry as Paris Hilton looks.
(Paige pulls Marco out from the car.)
Paige: Come on. There is no way you’re surviving the sludge eating fest on your own love.
Marco: Did you see how those veins were dangling from those severed heads?!
Paige: I was distracted by her huge silicone investments.
(Spinner shakes his head and walks away.)
Outside at Marco’s van, unpacking Dylan’s stuff
Marco: It’s the heaviest box in the world.
Dylan: Don’t make me laugh. I’ll drop this on your toe! Come here.
(Dylan takes Marco’s hand and kisses him.)
Marco: What was that for?!
Dylan: For being so darn cute. For helping me move. For borrowing your dad's van.
Paige: For telling your dad a fantastic lie about who needed to borrow it. Um all I know is that you owe us Dylan for making us do this on labor day, the official funeral of summer vacation.
Dylan: Well consider me your living, breathing VIP pass to every dorm party this year.
Marco: And the first one in oh, only 54 hours!
Paige: Grade 11 with dorm parties. Having cake, eating cake too and uh won’t you be the life of my all year party Mr. Pouty.
Spinner: Yeah like you’d wanna party with me!
Paige: Okay what’s the problem?
Spinner: You’re my girlfriend. That’s my problem.
Paige: Spinner!
Spinner: We’re always with 3 thousand people and if we’re not, you invite them.
Paige: Um Dylan’s moving and Marco’s his boyfriend. They have to be here.
Spinner: We’re never alone, okay? You make me feel like some kind of leopard.
Paige: Leper. The word is leper. I’m sorry, okay? I’m sorry. It won’t always be like this.
Spinner: Really?
Paige: It’ll change. Once that stupid trial is finally over. I promise.
Dylan: Lovebirds! I need someone to help me with my wardrobe and I need someone to go to Mrs. Vanelli’s to get our pizza.
Paige: I got the pizza.
Marco: How many boxes are left?
Dylan: Oh 25…
(Paige is walking in the park holding a pizza box and she sees Dean with a few people showing off his car.)
[Flashbacks to the night of the party with Paige and Dean in the bedroom]
Dean: Hey!
Paige: Don’t.
Dean: Wait Paige! I’m not stalking you. We’re in a public park. There’s people everywhere. Can we talk? Just one minute?
(Paige keeps walking.)
Dean: So court, huh?
Paige: I’m not supposed to talk to you.
Dean: It’s gonna be really horrible going through it all. Your parents hearing the details. My girlfriend, your boyfriend. It was a really long time ago. I’m sorry. I should have listened. It was a huge mistake. If I could go back-
Paige: Do you have a point?
Dean: Why go through this? You could tell them you don’t want to testify. Skip it. It’d be that easy. They’d have to drop the case.
Paige: My brother’s pizza…um it’s getting cold.
Dean: Okay. But you’ll think about it right? I mean maybe we never see each other again and you can forget.
At school
(Spinner is getting out of his car, polishing it off and Emma, Toby and Liberty are walking together.)
Emma: Chris and I broke up in July.
Toby: Sorry. Kendra and I broke up in August.
Liberty: Sorry. I believe I was abducted by aliens over Labor Day weekend. And Towerz and I broke up.
Emma and Toby: Sorry.
(They walk into the school as Paige walks by Ellie, Alex, Jay and Sean.)
Paige: Morning Ellie!
Ellie: Hey Paige. Great outfit!
Paige: New year, new look, new Paige.
Alex: Ellie, just because Princess Prissy talks to you doesn’t mean you have to answer.
Paige: I’m going, I’m going.
Sean: As usual. Glad we’re guys. (Sean and Jay do some hand shake thing)
In the school, Manny and JT are walking in the halls
Manny: Oh my god! They’re so cute. Remember when we were that afraid of Degrassi?
JT: Remember when we were that short?
Danny: Do you know where the principal's office is?
JT: Yeah it’s downstairs, through the foyer and to the left.
Danny: Good. Go on down. I need to spend time alone with your girlfriend.
(JT pushes Danny away.)
At Craig’s Locker, it's all decorated for his birthday
(Ashley accidentally bumps into Craig.)
Craig: Ashley? Did you?
(She walks away without saying anything.)
Craig: Nice going Craig. Really uh, really really smooth.
Marco: Oh hey happy birthday buddy!
Craig: Wow! Uh you h*t the mall lately?
Marco: You think it was easy finding those streamers and musical notes?
Craig: No, I meant your outfit.
Marco: You like it?
Craig: Yeah man and I love the locker, thanks.
Marco: No problem!
Craig: Man, are you dating anybody? I’m serious.
At Spinner's locker
Spinner: Think Paige will be mad if I put up a picture of Mandy Moore?
Jimmy: I saw her. In L.A. when that scout who liked me took the whole camp to see a Lakers game. Are you listening?
Spinner: Maybe Hilary Duff will be better.
Jimmy: Why? Why would that be better?
Spinner: She looks more like Paige.
Paige: I’d rather look like Lindsay Lohan.
Jimmy: Aren’t you at court today?
Paige: I always wanted an assistant to handle my calendar. Thanks Jim. But it was supposed to be tomorrow.
Spinner: Wait, supposed?!
Paige: Not going. Don’t really see the point.
Spinner: I do!
Paige: K, then you can go!
Spinner: You’re really, you’re not going?!
Paige: Nope!
Spinner: I can’t do this anymore.
Paige: Do what anymore?!
Spinner: This. Us!
Jimmy: What was that?!
Paige: Did he just dump me?
In the school parking lot
Paige: Spinner! Gavin! Honeybee!
Spinner: You said everything would be okay…after the trial.
Paige: I don’t need the trial. Look it was one night almost 3 years ago. I’ve moved on. You know I have! Look let’s go park someplace tonight, okay. Just us.
Spinner: I guess I’d set a pretty bad example if I turned that down.
(Paige kisses him.)
At Joey’s house
(They're watching a videotape of Caitlin that she sent for Craig's birthday.)
Caitlin: Hey Craig! It’s usually a big load of it when so-called grownups give you that "these are the best years of your life" stuff, but um my wish for you Craig is that these really are. So happy birthday! Signing off from Thailand. Swatika!(?)
Angie: Now we eat Cake!
Craig: Hey I am the birthday person here and I’m dying to open my big present Joey.
Joey: Sorry Angie! Craig is right. Cake will have to wait.
(Craig sticks out his arms for something big, then sees the envelope and opens it.)
Joey: Happy Birthday!
Craig: Holy! 10 grand?! Joey! I can’t believe you did this!
Joey: No Craig I uh didn’t…
Craig: Wait. This is from my dad’s estate.
Joey: He specified it as a birthday gift. I guess to tide you over until your 18th, when you get your full inheritance.
Craig: Wow.
Angie: Cake noooow?!
Joey: You okay Craig?
Craig: Hm? Yeah, no I’m fine.
Parked outside, Paige and Spinner are in his car making out
Paige: Is it okay?
Spinner: Mm hmm. Get back here.
Paige: Hey um where’d you get this song? Her voice sounds like..
Spinner: Shh.
(He begins to kiss her again and she pulls away.)
[Flashbacks to Dean’s face]
Spinner: What? Did I do it wrong?
Paige: Sorry!
(Spinner slowly reaches to touch Paige’s breasts.)
[More flashbacks to Dean]
Paige: No! Stop!
Spinner: What!?
Paige: Stop! No!
Spinner: Hey come on!
Paige: I said no!
Spinner: You’re okay.
Paige: I’m not. I’m not okay!
Spinner: Paige…
Paige: I have to do it. I have to go.
Spinner: I’ll go with you.
In Mr. Armstrong's class
(Craig is drawing music notes.)
Ashley: Those are backwards.
Craig: Thanks.
Ashley: Listen I didn’t mean to be all weird yesterday.
Craig: No you weren’t weird. You just ignored me, which I guess is sort of being weird, but not. Sorry, now I’m being weird.
Ashley: Look I was hoping we could be friends, but as soon as I saw you…
Craig: You got sucked into some bizarro last year time warp?
Ashley: Yeah…so good birthday?
Craig: Also weird.
Ashley: Weird good?
Craig: Well my freak of a dad left me this check for 10 grand in his will.
Ashley: Are you serious?
Craig: Yeah the guy is half eaten by worms and he’s still trying to buy me. It's pathetic.
Ashley: Hey your dad owes you. Maybe he was just trying to make it up a little.
Craig: Well Joey gave me this lecture about investing it for my future blah, blah, blah, but I’m going to rip the check up. I don’t want it.
Ashley: Do you have any idea how much fun you could have with that much money?
Mr. Armstrong: Alright grade 11. Time to start really preparing you for university math!
Outside the courtroom
Paige: Thanks for being here today mom.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Honey, where else would I be? You’re gonna do great in there!
Paige: I just want this all to end.
Mrs. Michalchuk: I know. And it will.
Paige: When he goes to jail!
Mrs. Michalchuk: Remember what we talked about in counseling Paige, about why we’re doing this. So you can get some closure, feel heard.
Spinner: Paige! Hey Paige. Hey Mrs. Michalchuk.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Hello Gavin.
(Dean gets out of his car.)
Mrs. Michalchuk: Ignore him. He can’t hurt you.
Paige’s Lawyer: Morning all. Rose could I just have a minute, please?
Mrs. Michalchuk: You’ll be okay?
(Paige nods.)
Spinner: I hate that guy.
Paige: You should go home Spin. I don’t want you hearing all this.
Spinner: I know what happened.
Paige: Not the details. When you hear them…picture it. It’ll keep playing on the VCR in your head. Rewind, pause, play. Rewind, pause…you can’t stop it. You’ll dump me and I’ll die alone with my 6 cats.
Spinner: Paige, I’ll never dump you.
Paige: Hello, you did it yesterday.
Spinner: Yeah, but that was a test. I can’t dump a girl as cool as you and you just being here, doing this, is amazingly cool.
Paige: Let’s get this over with.
In the courtroom
Dean’s Lawyer: Ms. Michalchuk, did you go upstairs willingly with my client? Did you not in fact suggest it?
Paige: Yeah.
Dean’s Lawyer: Why’d you do that?
Paige: I just thought…
Dean’s Lawyer: What. Play pinnacle? Crazy eights?
Paige’s Lawyer: Objection your honor.
Judge: Please rephrase the question.
Dean’s Lawyer: What were your intentions Ms. Michalchuk in going up to that room?
Paige: I just thought we would be alone together.
Dean’s lawyer: And you find my client attractive?
Paige: Yes. I did. Before.
Dean’s lawyer: When my client put his hand inside your blouse, did you immediately reject him? Slap him? For the record please.
Paige: No.
Dean’s lawyer: This is very difficult for you I know, but when my client touched your breast how did you respond? Did you enjoy it?
Paige: No. Well at first yeah.
Dean’s lawyer: You’re telling us that you did. Ms. Michaelchuk, did my client ever hold a g*n to your head? A Kn*fe to your throat? A grenade?
Paige: No.
Dean’s Lawyer: Did he not in fact wear a condom?
Paige: Yeah, but that doesn’t make him-
Dean’s Lawyer: You could show me how he managed to open one of these and roll it onto his penis without offering you a chance to get away, if you wanted to.
Paige: I said no! He is bigger than me! Stronger…I was afraid. I’m not sure.
Dean’s Lawyer: Oh so you don’t know! How many men have you had sex with Miss Michaelchuk?
Paige’s Lawyer: Objection!
Paige: Actually I’d like to answer that. That was my only experience and I certainly would not have chosen to lose my virginity upstairs at a house party with a guy I’d known for an hour.
At a music store, Craig and Ashley are shopping together
Ashley: 20 sets of handmades? Jack White doesn't go through that many strings in a year.
Craig: Maybe he should.
Ashley: How about this? Legendary Cry Baby WaWa.
Craig: I thought I already made you cry enough last year? Wah wah wah.
(Craig laughs at his joke and Ashley shakes her head.)
Ashley: Craig.
Craig: Sorry. That wow… that was really stupid.
(Ashley looks at a guitar.)
Ashley: How beautiful is this?!
Craig: Is that a 62 Stratocaster?
Salesperson: Uh 69! Master built American.
Ashley: Sunburst finish. Classic.
Salesperson: Rosewood Fret board.
Ashley: 3 way switch with fazing.
Salesperson: It’s got all the original hardware.
Craig: I feel like I’m in church.
Salesperson: You think you could put that back now? It’s worth over 4 grand!
Craig: I’ll take it. My dad would hate it!
Ashley: Perfect.
Craig: Yup.
Back in the courtroom
Bailiff: All rise!
Paige: It’s good that she’s ready with the verdict already right?
Paige’s Lawyer: Sure. Yeah, sure it is.
The Judge: Ms. Michalchuk’s testimony was extremely compelling and I want to applaud her for having the courage and the strength for doing what she did here today. It’s the kind of case that keeps me awake at night because it’s not the kind a justice in my position wants to hear. Given that there are no eyewitnesses and no physical evidence I have no choice, but to find the defendant not guilty. Mr. Walton you are free to go.
In Paige’s bedroom
(Someone knocks on her bedroom door.)
Paige: Just tell them to go mom. How hard is it?
Marco: Uh was I supposed to hear that?
Paige: Do you know I have zero style? I hate everything I own.
Marco: So leave it. Come to Dylan’s!
Paige: Yeah, because everyone loves partying with a wretched, badly dressed, r*pe victim loser.
Marco: Paige you’re not a loser, okay? Besides we weren’t even thinking that.
Paige: K well I am, along with um: what’s the point?! Why bother?
Marco: Look I felt the exact same way when I got bashed. I just wanted to change my skin…just stop being. The fact that those guys never even got caught…
Paige: Of course not. What a joke.
Marco: Look grade 11’s your year, remember? You can’t let him control you.
Paige: Marco I just lost my case 3 hours ago. Dean was found not guilty of raping me.
Marco: I know… Paige I’m sorry, okay? Just-
Paige: What?! You’re just what Marco?
(Marco stands up to leave.)
Paige: I’ll be down in a minute.
Outside Dylan’s
Spinner: Hey um this afternoon…
Paige: Didn’t happen!
Spinner: Honeybee I’m sorry.
Paige: We’re not talking about it, okay?
Spinner: Well if you don’t feel like partying.
Paige: I didn’t say that.
Spinner: Or if you feel like leaving early…
Paige: I didn’t say that either!
Spinner: Just let me know, I’ll take you home.
Paige: Do you want me to have a bad time? Hazel! I came to party, not stroll through the park okay!
Marco: Come on Spin! Let’s go make some soup!
At the party
(Spinner puts his arms around Paige and Paige breaks free. While she’s walking away she bumps into some girl and pushes her into the wall.)
Paige: What?!
(Hazel is sitting on the floor with the girl Paige pushed.)
Spinner: Paige?
(Spinner is looking for Paige while she’s off dancing and doing body sh*ts with some random guy and then Spinner comes over to take her away.)
Spinner: Hey! (He pushes the guy away)
Paige: (laughing) Sorry he gets jealous.
(Spinner grabs Paige and pushes her into a room.)
Paige: I did make you jealous!
Spinner: Okay. Put me in traction for asking whatever, but what the hell is going on with-
(Paige tries taking off Spinner’s shirt.)
Paige: Wow you’re so tough.
Spinner: What are you doing?!
Paige: What do you mean?!
Spinner: Paige!
Paige: What?! I’m easy! Everyone knows it. The judge, my mother, now you! Like Dean! Just get me alone, do whatever you want. No one will stop you. What? You don’t want me?
Spinner: Not right now, no.
Paige: ‘Cause Dean got there first?
Spinner: You have to let that go!
Paige: You want me to just let it go? Like someone was rude or stole my seat at lunch.
Spinner: No that’s not what I…! I just, I want my girlfriend back, okay? I want Paige back!
Paige: You don’t even know her.
Spinner: That’s stupid.
Paige: The truth? Paige went upstairs that night. She never came back. You know what I would really like, if I never had to see your idiotic face again! Okay, how about that?
(Spinner leaves and slams the door while Paige finds Spinner's keys on the bed and takes them.)
At Joey’s house, Craig and Ashley walk in
Joey: Hey, hey guys. Keep it down. Angie is sleeping.
Craig: Oh Joey, remember Ashley? The bad influence?
Ashley: It was burning a hole in your pocket. I was trying to help!
Craig: Well uh she MADE me do this!
Ashley: Did not!
(Craig opens the guitar case.)
Joey: Is that a Fender Strat?!
Craig: Yep! Exactly like Hendricks had! And it’s all mine!
Joey: Wow, what did this set you back? $400? What 6? 650?
Craig: Uh 4 grand…It’s the real thing. It’s a piece of history.
Joey: Enjoy it. (He walks away)
In Joey’s garage
(Craig is playing his new guitar as Joey walks in.)
Craig: Got a little ways to go until I sound like 4 grand.
Joey: Little bit…Craig! Craig! I was thinking maybe you could help out with a little rent…the mortgage.
Craig: My dad’s estate gives you money.
Joey: Yeah like 250 a month. That barely keeps you eating pizza. You go through shoes like no one I’ve ever seen.
(Craig starts playing his guitar again.)
Joey: Craig, Craig! I heat this garage for you…I mean with the price of hydro…
Craig: Would you ask Angie this?
Joey: For one thing she’s seven, she eats like a bird, she didn’t just buy herself a four thousand dollar guitar.
Craig: And that’s the only reason it’s different?
Joey: Of course!
Craig: Yeah well I’m not so sure.
Back at the party
Jimmy: North Carolina scout is coming back down in December. He wants to see me play ball again.
Hazel: Have you seen Paige?
Spinner: No! I’m sure she’s happy about that.
Hazel: Spinner, I’m worried.
Cuts to Paige outside another party
Paige: Oh uh hi. I’m here to see Steve.
Guy at door: Steve?
Paige: Steve. The cute one. Second year. He totally invited me today in line at the bookstore and I was like sure I’ll come by.
Guy at door: Are you 19?
Paige: 20, actually. Just short…
(The guy lets her in and she sees Dean pouring drinks.)
Paige: I have to talk to you!
Dean: No you don’t! Not now!
Paige: I have something to say! Actually everyone should hear it!
Dean: Not guilty! Nothing else to say!
Paige: You have to listen to me! Do any of you here know what your buddy is? Do you know what he does?
Dean: Shut up!
Paige: He is a liar! Okay! A liar and a r*pist!
Dean: Ex-girlfriend you know! Outside NOW!
Paige: Don’t forget it. I was fifteen!
Dean: I don’t recommend you do that again. I am trying to get into that fraternity.
Paige: This was my life. You r*ped me!
Dean: Yeah!
Paige: You admit it! Just like that?
Dean: I figure I must have done something wrong if you keep punishing me.
Paige: You didn’t say that in court!
Dean: I must have done something right too. You keep coming back like this.
Paige: I’m not coming back.
Dean: You can’t blame me for wanting some more of this.
Paige: Excuse me?!
Dean: Listen sweetheart. Go home, call your sad little boyfriend. If you want to have fun sometime, call me. You were good!
(Paige gets into Spinner’s car and backs it up into Dean’s car as Spinner walks around the corner and sees everything.)
Spinner: Paige!
Spinner: Stop it! Stop!
Paige: Spinner!
Spinner: Get out!
Paige: Spinner, relax!
Spinner: Go home! Just get in the cab and go home! GO!
(A montage starts with Paige getting into a car. Joey sitting at home looking worried. Craig calling Sean then showing up at his house. Joey trying to call someone. Paige at home looking in the mirror. Spinner walking outside and looking at his car that’s totally smashed on the back. Paige lying in bed smiling.)
In the school counseling office
Ms. Sauve: (On the phone) Hi Paige. Chantalle Sauve. We had an 8:45.
(Paige walks in.)
Paige: Whoops.
Ms. Sauve: Don’t worry. Have a seat. Well this isn’t the Paige I expected to see this morning!
Paige: I’ve got multiple personalities. That explains a lot.
Ms. Sauve: You know what I mean. I want to congratulate you on yesterday. I know things didn’t turn out the way you wanted them to, but the outcomes going to be good for you in the future because you did the right thing, the only thing by going to court. The justice system isn’t perfect but I watched it help you to find your voice again and to heal. You’ve triumphed over your r*pist morally because you’ve been honest.
Paige: Sure. Thanks.
In a classroom
Paige: You okay?
Spinner: Hope it felt good.
Paige: A little. How’s the uh Love Mobile? I’ll get a job, okay? I’ll give you the money to fix it. Whatever it takes.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Gavin you’re wanted outside.
(Outside the cops are taking evidence from his car as Spinner is crying while being taken away by the cops.)
In the computer lab
Ashley: You know you guys should try going a little more post-Emo. Still punk, but less mopey.
Craig: I don’t think the other guys even know what regular emo is. Spinner probably thinks it’s a muppet.
Mr. Simpson: Ooh fries and gravy! Good on a plate, not so good on a keyboard.
Craig: I’ll be careful. No worries.
Mr. Simpson: You wanna tell your dad that? The uh no worries part. Called me last night and this morning.
Craig: Oh yeah? I don’t have a dad, remember?
Ashley: See you in class Craig.
Craig: Yeah bye.
Mr. Simpson: It’ll break Joey’s little heart to hear you talk like that.
Craig: He’d probably make me pay for it, because apparently I’m the bank of Craig.
Mr. Simpson: Joey stepped up when no one else was going to. That takes a lot. A lot of guts and a lot of commitment. What you owe him is a little more respect than you’re showing him right now! (He snatches the food out of Craig’s hand)
In Paige’s Bedroom
(Paige’s phone starts to ring.)
Paige: Hello?
Spinner: Paige.
Paige: Where are you?
Spinner: Cop shop 55.
Paige: You didn’t make me your one phone call Spin.
Spinner: Failure to remain at the scene of an accident, mischief and dangerous driving. I’m scared.
Paige: You didn’t do anything!
Spinner: Dean called the police with my license plate number. I told them I did it.
Paige: No-
Spinner: You’ve been through enough, okay? I saw you go through enough. You’re safe. I just wanted to tell you.
Cop: Time’s up. Your mother’s here.
Spinner: Bye Paige.
At Joey’s House
(Craig opens the front door and Joey’s standing there inside.)
Joey: Craig where have you been?
Craig: I’m just getting my guitar and some clothes. I won’t eat any of your food.
Joey: Craig! Craig!
Craig: What?
Joey: I might lose my business.
Craig: What?!
Joey: I didn’t want to tell you. I didn’t want you to worry.
Craig: Well you should have said something!
Joey: I’m trying to be the dad here…and instead like an idiot I h*t you up for cash!
Craig: So you ask me the stupid rent thing instead…
Joey: I know. My line of credit is sh*t. My bills, they’re huge!
Craig: Look I’ll give you the money Joey. I’ll take my guitar back and you can have it all.
Joey: No. I can't do that.
Craig: Well you have to let me do something.
Joey: I know you want to be a big rock star someday, but if you needed it, I’d like the dealership to be there for you.
Outside the police station
Dean: Your boyfriend is d*ad!
Paige: I did it.
Dean: You wrecked my car? You’re gonna go down for that. I’ll prove it was you.
Paige: Sorry to uh take away your fun, but I’m about to confess. That’s what good people do when they realize they’ve done something wrong.
Dean: That frat didn’t let me in because of you and what you said.
(Paige starts to walk away.)
Dean: Hey! I’m not finished.
Paige: Well I’m very finished with all of this, okay? But especially with you! It’s over Dean. I’ve got something to do. Something more important.
(Paige walks into the police station, up to the counter.)
Paige: Hi, um I’m here about something that happened last night.
At Joey’s car lot
Joey: Now this is a gorgeous car! You really should take it for a test drive.
Customer: I don’t think so.
Joey: Oh what could it hurt!
Craig: Cute car! You would look great in it!
Customer: I’ll go get my bag.
Joey: You are a bargain at three times the salary!
Craig: Hey three times free is still free!
Outside Spinner’s house, he’s trying to fix his car
Paige: Hi.
Spinner: What happened?
Paige: Well I lost my license, which was exciting and I’m probably stuck with a year of community service.
Spinner: Teaching anger management?
Paige: I think I’d be good at that. I also thought I might embroider ‘On Probation’ on all my clothes…give myself that bad girl edge.
Spinner: So you came by to make jokes?
Paige: I came to say that…I don’t know what else to say. I wish I’d never hurt your car…or you.
Spinner: Okay.
Paige: And I meant it when I said I’d pay! Would you like to go out with me? Triple feature at the drive-in this weekend. Sour candies on me?
Spinner: If I get the car in decent shape by then.
Paige: Wrench?
Scenes for next week:
Voiceover: Marco has his eyes on the prize.
Marco: Marco for president. Come out and vote!
Voiceover: But he better watch his back
Mr. Simpson: Hey Marco, hope you’re ready for a horse race! She’s got a lot of kids talking already.
Voiceover: Cause this looks like trouble.
Marco: Nobody’s gonna vote for you okay? Nobody!
Alex: Not yet!
Marco: Not ever!
Alex: We’ll see. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x02 - Ghost in the Machine Pt. 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At the store where Mrs. Del Rossi works
(Marco is posing in a photo booth and for the last picture Dylan comes in and kisses him on the cheek.)
Marco: You know my mother works here right?
Dylan: It’s not like she saw us.
Marco: Hey ma!
Mrs. Del Rossi: So you took the pictures?
Marco: Yeah and they all turned out horrible.
Mrs. Del Rossi: If papa gets to make your elections signs, I get to choose the sh*t.
(Marco hands her the pictures after he ripped the bottom one off.)
Mrs. Del Rossi: Shouldn’t there be four?
Marco: No there’s just three.
Mrs. Del Rossi: What are you talking about, horrible? Every one of these says president to me.
Marco: Alright. I’ll see you at home ma. Bye.
(They walk away and Dylan speeds up ahead of Marco.)
Marco: Dylan! Dylan! Wait up! Dylan! Where are you going?
Dylan: Back to my dorm.
Marco: Ok then. Take this with you. (Hands him the bottom picture) Make your dorm mates jealous.
Dylan: They’re straight.
Marco: Make them uncomfortable.
Dylan: Actually they don’t have a problem with me being gay. I’m your boyfriend Marco!
Marco: I know.
Dylan: Yeah, well you’re the only one in your family that does. (Hands him the picture back)
Marco: Babe…
Dylan: I’ll call you later.
At Paige’s locker
Marco: Paige. Hey I tried calling you last night.
Paige: So said the call display! Not as many times as my brother though. Do you think I’d make a good travel agent? I so need a job.
Marco: Wait you talked to Dylan?
Paige: In between repeated calls to Spinner.
Marco: Weird. He said he was gonna phone me last night.
Paige: He was probably busy studying or joining secret societies. Whatever they do at university.
Marco: Should I be worried? Paige!
Paige: Dylan’s hard to read ok? He has his little tantrum.
(Paige walks into Alex who’s sitting on the floor.)
Paige: Ow.
Alex: Try looking where you’re walking.
Paige: Ice patches, bottomless pits, dog crap and Alex! Pedestrian hazards to avoid.
Alex: Nice shirt. Hate to bloody it.
Paige: Nice attitude. Hate to deflate it by reminding you that you’re a loser.
Alex: Really? Who decided that?
Paige: Everybody. Majority rules on these matters sweetie.
In another area the school
Chris: So. Why do girls always make your hair bigger?
Emma: Why are you guys always catching us doing embarrassing stuff?
Chris: How you been?
Liberty: Good morning. Who else is ready to say gouda or perhaps goutier?
Chris & Emma: Hey Liberty.
Emma: Um hey Chris I’m sorry with what happened in the summer.
Chris: Maybe we could go for a shake sometime.
Emma: Yeah, maybe.
In another place of the school
Alex: Gay kid! Hey!
(Marco keeps walking.)
Alex: I said hey!
Marco: You also said ‘gay kid’. Something I tend not to answer to thanks.
Alex: Okay school president, Mr. Prez, big guy! That more you? This election thing. What are the issues?
Marco: Look I’m sorry Paige was rude to you okay?
Alex: Doesn’t matter. C’mon. Answer my questions like you care.
Marco: Save it for the assembly Alex.
Mr. Simpson: Hey Marco! Hope you’re ready for a horserace!
Marco: Alex is running?
Mr. Simpson: Tells me she’s hungry for blood. At any rate she’s got a lot of kids talking already and not about you.
Outside the school
Liberty: Is this seat taken?
Chris: I’m sorry, crispy bacon?
Liberty: Is this seat taken?!
Chris: No, no, no. Go ahead, sit down! Uh Buck 65.
Liberty: For the headphones?
Chris: That’s who’s on the system. *Takes off his headphones and they both listen to it*
Liberty: I like this part.
Chris: Yeah.
Liberty: I’ve always wanted to broaden my knowledge of popular music.
Chris: Professor Chris at your service!
Liberty: Really?
Chris: Yeah.
Liberty: Maybe we could go to the record store sometime or CD shop… whatever. I’ll buy you a falafel
Chris: It’s a date.
In the cafeteria
Paige: Alex?!
Craig: As in most likely to succeed in k*lling someone? Alex? Hand me your nomination form. You need cash or whatever, I’m here.
Spinner: Hang posters.
Hazel: Hand out fliers.
Paige: Whatever it takes to help!
Marco: Alex’s campaign is an illiterate catchphrase. I’m not so worried.
(Marco turns on his phone.)
Marco: I’ll see you guys later.
Craig and Spinner: Later.
Hazel: No, Marco’s not worried at all.
Paige: Not about Alex. Let’s just say Siegfried might be looking for a new Roy.
Marco: Dylan! Hey can we talk?
Dylan: Now’s not a good time Marco.
Marco: Ok I just had this really huge day. There’s someone running against me now.
Dylan: That’s what happens at elections right?
Marco: Right. Uh you forgot to call me last night.
Dylan: After the thing with the pictures I came back to my dorm and uh I did a lot of thinking.
Marco: Dylan c’mon! It was just a stupid picture!
Dylan: It’s not just a picture Marco and I can’t do this anymore. I’m sorry. Not like this. I got to go.
In Mr. Armstrong’s class
Mr. Armstrong: Liberty you wanna give it a try?
Emma: (whispers) Liberty!
Liberty: Uh buck 65?
Mr. Armstrong: Nice try. JT? Okay let’s try this one more time.
Manny: Em! Liberty’s losing her math. It must be love.
Emma: You always think that and Liberty has dyscalculia remember?
(Manny grabs Liberty’s notebook and it falls on the floor.)
Mr. Armstrong: Girls! The class is up here and Manny so are you. (Hands her the chalk while she flips open Liberty’s book and puts it on Emma’s desk)
(Emma looks at the notebook and sees “Liberty + Chris” written on it and gives Liberty a look.)
At Marco’s house
Mr. Del Rossi: Hey Marco! Where you go?! You don’t want to see your posters?!
Marco: Yeah sure…posters.
Mr. Del Rossi: Hey your mom and I are very proud of you. We are going to come to the assembly for your victory speech.
Marco: Um actually papa, there’s competition now.
Mr. Del Rossi: That’s okay. Then these should help you win. See your mama, she pick the perfect picture. President. That’s you!
Marco: Yeah, yeah it’s me.
(Marco gets up and goes to his room, then his Mrs. Del Rossi enters.)
Marco: I have to write a speech.
Mrs. Del Rossi: Marco, what’s wrong?
Marco: The fact that I’m gonna actually have to eventually deliver a set speech.
Mrs. Del Rossi: Marco.
Marco: Relationship stuff ma. I met this person last year and…well we. Look people break up. I’ll be fine, it’s not a big deal.
Mrs. Del Rossi: I didn’t know you had a girlfriend.
Marco: I don’t.
Mrs. Del Rossi: So it was Dylan.
Marco: What? Dylan’s my friend ma. I’m not gay… (Starts crying) I am. Ma I’m gay.
(Both of them are crying now, Marco on his bed and Mrs. Del Rossi in the doorway.)
Outside walking
Manny: So. Liberty and Chris!
Emma: It’s a crush, big deal!
Manny: A date tomorrow after school. Liberty sees an opportunity, she goes for it. She’s like a rabid wolverine.
Inside the school
Paige: So I’ve got ear cancer. Thanks. Last night Dylan had me on the phone for three hours all worried and since sanity’s fled you I’m worried too.
Marco: I came out to my mom last night.
(Paige hugs Marco excitedly.)
Paige: I love you! You know that right?
Marco: Yeah. I just hope she still does you know? I mean she seemed a little… alright she seemed a lot…
Paige: You’ve had a year of being gay Marco, she’s had a night, of you being gay! Ok! I am SO calling Dylan right now!
(Alex rips off a couple of Marco’s posters.)
Marco: Hey! Hey! What are you doing?!
Alex: Most you can spend on your campaign is $40.
Paige: Um they were for free. His dad is-
Alex: Doesn’t matter. Unfair advantage.
Marco: Why are you doing this?
Alex: Because you’re running and because I can.
Marco: Nobody’s gonna vote for you. Nobody!
Marco: Not yet.
Marco: Not ever! Unless they open up votes to high school drop outs or your parole officer.
Alex: We’ll see. We’ll ask the crowd at the assembly tomorrow, see what they say. Would you rather vote for a freak or a q*eer. By the way I’m the freak.
Inside the school during gym class
Emma: Nice form.
Chris: Don’t tease me.
Emma: You know what you said yesterday about getting back together? I’d really, really like that.
Chris: I said don’t tease me.
Emma: I’m not. What about tomorrow after school?
Chris: Tomorrow? I got…
Emma: Ok. I just thought we could start this year off right.
Chris: I’ll see what I can do.
Emma: And I was teasing you about your form you know! It’s awful! (Playfully pushes him as Liberty watches the two of them)
Walking outside the school
Manny: Okay tomorrow after school I’m gonna come over and I’m gonna loan you the coolest new skirt.
Emma: Okay and I need this why?!
Manny: For the whole get Chris back thing! I mean those legs of yours, they’re a k*ller asset!
Emma: I’m not trying to get him back.
Manny: But you love him. I can see it in your eyes.
Emma: I never said that.
Manny: Okay I’m totally confused,
Emma: I didn’t want him to go on a date.
Manny: Because you’re jealous?
Emma: Of Liberty Van Zandt?!? Yeah…
Manny: You’re embarrassed?!
Emma: You wouldn’t be? What are people gonna think of me if Chris goes out with Liberty next?
Manny: That’s the meanest thing I’ve ever you say and that’s really saying something.
At Marco’s House
Marco: Maybe we can tell papa that the assembly is student’s only. Parents are not allowed.
Mrs. Del Rossi: You would lie to him like that?
Marco: Well maybe…maybe we don’t have to. Maybe Alex is just bluffing, trying to freak me out before my speech.
Mrs. Del Rossi: And if she’s not?
Marco: Look I don’t know what to do ma!
Mrs. Del Rossi: It…it breaks my heart that because you are gay these people will hate you.
Marco: Ma nobody hates me!
Mrs. Del Rossi: This girl…
Marco: Yeah but that’s not because I’m-
Mr. Del Rossi: I’m home! Hey! The posters! They work good Marco?
Marco: I’m dropping out of the election. Look I talked to the president from last year and he said it’s a lot of work.
Mr. Del Rossi: No, no Marco. You will do it!
Marco: But my studies will fall…
Mr. Del Rossi: For running I am proud of you! But not quitting. No, don’t make me less proud.
(Marco and Mrs. Del Rossi hug as his dad leaves the room.)
At school
Emma: Hey Liberty! I think I’m actually voting for Alex today. You?
Liberty: You’re d*ad to me.
Emma: What?
Liberty: Manny told me. Jealousy’s really ugly Emma.
Emma: No, no, no Liberty. It’s just hard for me letting Chris go, that’s all.
Liberty: Well guess what? It’s easy for me letting you go - straight to hell!
In the hallway
Alex: I feel like I’m gonna barf.
Jay: Don’t tell me you’re serious about these stupid elections.
Marco: Alex!
Alex: Just who I wanted to see. What?
Marco: Yesterday when you said you’d call me gay in front of the whole school-
Alex: I was gonna call you q*eer, but if you prefer gay…
Marco: I don’t. Thanks. Look you have an actual chance at winning this.
Alex: You think?
Marco: So call me gay, q*eer, whatever, but is that how you want to fight? Or do you wanna try and win this election for real?
Jay: Save it for Ms. Sauve!
In the auditorium
Alex: It’s always the same. Some pretty boy or girl wants to be president and me…WE sit out while they have their special dances or trips nobody can afford. So I say screw ‘em! Screw student council. No dances, no trips, nothing…not if it’s gonna be just like last year. Take a chance and vote for me, it won’t be like last year. I will make changes, where they count! So it’s up to you Degrassi. What are you gonna do? Are you gonna vote for the freak… or the pretty boy? You’ll have more fun with the freak.
Mr. Raditch: Thank you Alex. Up next is Marco Del Rossi.
(Cheering for Marco in the audience.)
Marco: Look she’s right. No, Alex is right. The school is split. But where she’s wrong. Look. C’mon it’s not the presidents job to remind us that we’re freaks. I mean I do that fine all by myself.
Jay: (pretending to cough) q*eer!
Mr. Raditch: Mr Hogart! I’ll see you after in my office!
Marco: Hey! q*eer? Sure. Odd? Why not. Strange? You bet! I love this school and I promise if you vote for me I will bring Degrassi together in freakish harmony for the first time. For real. Thank you.
(People clapping and cheering for him.)
In the hall at school
Liberty: (On the TV screen) The first council meeting will be Thursday at lunch and last but not least your student council president is Marco Del Rossi!
Alex: Out of my way.
Marco: I get to pick my vice president.
Alex: I get to pick my nose.
Marco: Alex…
Alex: I don’t play well with others.
Marco: Good. I’m not asking you to play. I really liked your speech, but most important I think you can bring a lot to the position.
Alex: Thursday right?
Marco: Bring your lunch!
(Marco sees Dylan and the two of them walk outside.)
Dylan: Congratulations Mr. President. So, what does it feel like to be the most powerful man at Degrassi?
Marco: Mixing me up with Mr. Raditch eh? Not cool, nor flattering… I really liked you being here today Dylan, probably because I just plain old like you. I told my mom.
Dylan: Paige told me.
Marco: But I’m not ready to tell me dad. Not yet.
Dylan: You’re eventually going to have to tell him…but uh when you’re ready and I’m okay with that part!
Mr. Del Rossi: Hey Mr. President! That’s our new president! I’m so happy for him. So! How much you win by?!
Marco: I won! Let’s leave it at that.
Mr. Del Rossi: I still think you could have used more posters! Marco! That boy! What he called out! And what you answer back! What is that?
Marco: Dirty politics. I mean I guess q*eer was the worst thing he thought he could call me you know?
Mr. Del Rossi: Still! You make me and your mama very proud of you today!
Mrs. Del Rossi: Very proud. Didn’t he Dylan?
Dylan: He won Mrs. Del Rossi and I think that’s great!
(Mrs. Del Rossi kissed Marco on the cheek and her and Mr. Del Rossi left leaving Marco and Dylan together.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x03 - King of Pain"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside of the school
(Rick is outside talking with his mom and Mr. Raditch.)
Paige: Someone tell me I’m hallucinating.
Emma: Who is he?
Spinner: Remember our friend Terri McGregor? The girl who was in a coma last year.
Paige: He’s the psycho that put her there. His name’s Rick, her ex. He used to b*at her.
Spinner: Yeah and he’s your new classmate Emma. He starts tenth grade tomorrow.
Emma: We have to do something!
Alex: I know! Let’s adopt a dolphin. Treat him to defend us from Rick!
Emma: Or we can talk to Mr. Raditch.
Alex: Sure, me and Marco can handle that without you!
-At Liberty’s outside by the hot tub, Manny’s in the hot tub-
JT: Take my hand! (Manny takes his hand) Now pull!
(JT farts as Manny pulls his hand.)
JT: Oh I could not resist! Oh god! Ohhh!
(Liberty brings out some fancy tropical drinks and hands one to Manny.)
Manny: Thanks. So you’re sure your dad doesn’t mind us using his hot tub like this?
Liberty: Sometimes Manny you just have to say what the heck!
Manny: You know who loves hot tubs? Emma Nelson!
Liberty: No. Emma lives for s*ab me in the back, ripping out your heart and stomping it bloodless with her pointy ballerina feet.
Manny: To tenth grade! (They clink glasses)
(JT and Toby are play fighting in the background.)
Manny: We’re gonna be 16 this year.
Liberty: To the future! To growing up and to leaving childish things behind.
Manny: To leaving childish things behind.
(Danny runs out with an ironing board.)
Liberty: Danny Van Zandt! That’s mom’s ironing board!
Danny: It was. Now it’s a diving board! You gotta live outside the box!
JT: And now diving for Canada in the sexy red trunks! James Tiberius York!
(Danny pulls down his swim trunks and everyone starts laughing.)
Toby: Look! It’s a stack of dimes!
At school
Marco: ‘I always knew you were a smart boy Marco’. Can you believe he said that?
Emma: Wow. You guys really handled Raditch.
Rick: Marco. Paige. Spinner. Jimmy. (Walks away when they all glare at him)
(Emma walks up and stands in front of Rick and moves so he can’t get around her.)
Rick: Excuse me. I’ve got to get by.
Mr. Raditch: Emma step aside.
Emma: We don’t want him here Mr. Raditch!
Mr. Raditch: This isn’t one of your little crusades Emma. This is serious. I’m warning you. Stay out of it.
At Manny’s locker
JT: So what are we doing Friday night? You, me, couch, a romantic DVD?
Manny: Um… you know what, I think I might be busy…
JT: Oh… Is something wrong? It’s just you’ve been kind of distant since the hot tub party. It’s not my…you know.
Manny: No, no. That was stupid and embarrassing. You must feel awful!
JT: Nothing a kiss can’t cure!
(They start to kiss and Manny pulls away when she sees Craig.)
Manny: Craig! Hi.
Craig: Hi. Sorry to interrupt.
Manny: Oh that’s okay, you weren’t interrupting anything. So, how was your summer?
Craig: Nothing special. You?
Manny: Same.
Craig: Well I better get going. Bye.
JT: Bye Craig. Nice to see you too!
In the locker room
JT: Hey Manny, I’m stalker Craig! Can I lurk around while you kiss JT?
Danny: I’d lurk too! Manny’s smoking!
Toby: Maybe Manny’s still hot for him.
JT: Please!
Toby: Look JT, in four months you and Manny have barely even kissed. Don’t you think something’s wrong?
JT: Craig. Mono o mono. Manny is my girlfriend.
Craig: Ok.
Craig: And I need you to respect that.
Craig: I do. Whatever.
JT: It’s just that you know sometimes you hang (JT sees Craig’s penis when his towel is off) down and it…I mean around! Sometimes you hang around! And it’s just.
Craig: What are you looking at?!? (Quickly wraps the towel back around himself)
JT: What are you talking about?
Craig: What do you mean, what am I talking about?! You were! You were checking out my…
JT: No! No! I wasn’t! I just…
Spinner: What?!?!
JT: No, no Spinner! I wasn’t! That’s a lie! That’s a horrible lie!
At Paige’s locker
Rick: Paige, a moment? Um I was thinking maybe we could talk… maybe bury the hatchet.
Paige: You put my friend in a coma!
Rick: One, I know I let my anger get the better of me last year. And two, I’m in counseling. I’m even seeing Ms. Sauve. How…how is Terri anyway?
(Paige walks away upset into the washroom where Emma follows her.)
Emma: Paige? Paige…
Paige: If you tell anyone about this…
Emma: I won’t. Honest.
Paige: There is a psycho in our school Emma and no one is doing a damn thing about it.
Emma: We will! Together.
Paige: Okay, but I’m not so good at this whole protest thing.
Emma: That’s okay ‘cause I am. Just don’t call me ‘cause girl’ okay?
Paige: So uh Emma, what are you doing now?
Emma: I was gonna go home.
Paige: After you have a green tea frappe with me at the Dot!
Emma: Gotta go sip a frap with Paige. Have fun in your hot tub!
At the Dot
Paige: Mac lip glass! It smells like vanilla!
Emma: I can’t, it’s expensive.
Paige: Go ahead. Hazel and I always share. We’re cosmetics communists.
(Rick walks in.)
Spinner: Psycho at 6:00!
Paige: My god, I can’t believe this. Let’s go.
Emma: No.
(Emma stands up and walks over to him.)
Emma: We don’t want you at Degrassi.
Rick: I have a right to an education. Look what I did to Terri last year was horrible but I’m getting therapy. I’ve changed.
Emma: I don’t care. Find another school Rick or you’ll be sorry.
Rick: Is that a thr*at? Because Mr. Raditch warned you. You can’t touch me.
Emma: Maybe not at Degrassi!
(Emma grabs his arm and pushes him outside and holds the door shut so he can’t get back in.)
Paige: Okay, suddenly! Emma’s cooler than me!
At school
(Paige and Emma are handing around ribbons and collecting money.)
Emma: Support students against v*olence! Show the school where you stand.
Paige: All proceeds go to the women’s shelter. Thanks guys.
Emma: Support students against v*olence! Thank you.
Sean: This is about Rick isn’t it?
Emma: It’s a silent protest. We want to pressure Rick. Make his life hell.
Paige: Without breaking any rules whatsoever. Emma’s a genius. There’s nothing Raditch can do.
Ellie: Wow. Such heroes.
Paige: Wanna buy a ribbon?
Emma: Support students against v*olence!
In the boys bathroom
Danny: Guys! Check it out! I have the solution to JT’s little problem!
JT: A penis pump?! How’d you buy this?
Danny: Well I didn’t. (Holds up his fake ID) g*n Van Eisenstadt did. Take it out!
Toby: Not out here!
(They go into a stall.)
Danny: The guy said it’ll turn your garden snake into an anaconda!
JT: I am not putting my thing in there! It’s a snake! Snake’s bite!
Danny: Don’t be stupid! It’s decoration.
Toby: Let’s see how this thing works. Step one: insert member into tub.
JT: Tub? You’re not a tub…
Danny: They mean tube!
JT and Toby: Ooohh! (laughing)
Toby: Step two: Use hand pup to make fun suction. Who wrote this?!
Danny: Forget the instructions! You wangle it in the tube and you pump!
JT: Okay! Okay I got it! I got it!
(The boys leave the stall and see Craig in the bathroom.)
JT: Uh… Craig.
Craig: You don’t have to explain… really!
In the hall
(Rick is walking down the hall and people are bumping into him on purpose and blocking him from walking and one guy pushes him into a locker. He drops his books and people kick them. He goes into the cafeteria and nobody lets him sit with them.)
Chris: Sit somewhere else punk!
(People start clapping when Rick leaves the cafeteria.)
In Ms. Kwan’s classroom
Spinner: So um Ms. Kwan asked us to read a verse that speaks to our hearts. And this verse like Kid Elrick speaks to mine:
I want to find me a girl to love.
A girl with wealth and class.
But most of all I want me a girl with a bootylicious…
Ms. Kwan: Enough Gavin! (kids are laughing) Take your seat! Okay who’s next?
Rick: May I? Um I’d like to read you some thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi:
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
It is the galley of the brave, not the coward.
(Spinner throws a ball of paper at Rick.)
Ms. Kwan: Gavin! Principal’s office now! Now!
In the hallway
JT: Danny! The cobra has landed! I just went for a walk with the king.
Danny: Did it work?!
JT: I think so!
Danny: Well, let her be the judge!
Manny: JT’s gonna come over here. I know it! Why won’t he leave me alone?
Liberty: Because he’s your boyfriend. Look Manny, if that’s how you feel about him then you need to break up.
Manny: No… I can’t.
Liberty: But you can’t go on like this. Just sit him down tonight and do it!
JT: Hey!
Manny: Hi.
JT: I was wondering if maybe you wanted to come over to my place after school.
Manny: Umm… umm. Yeah okay.
In another hallway
Rick: One, it will only take a minute. Two, it’s to give you this. It’s a check.
Emma: I can’t take your money Rick. The whole ribbon campaign is about you.
(He holds out the check.)
Emma: $500?
Rick: $554.16 to be exact. I’d donate more, but it’s all I have.
Emma: You can’t buy forgiveness Rick.
Rick: It’s an anonymous donation. No one needs to know but you.
Alex: Too late. Nobody wants your guilt money!
Rick: Alex, listen to me!
Alex: Or what, freak? You’re gonna put me in a coma? (Rick walks away)
Emma: Alex can I have the check please?
(Alex rips it up.)
Emma: Nice. Real nice Alex… maybe if you cared about the cause!
Alex: What do you know about it? You ever ice your mom’s lip, bandage her up, lay awake at night listening to her cry? Didn’t think so!
In JT’s bedroom
(Manny knocks on his bedroom door.)
JT: Entrée!
Manny: What happened in here?
JT: Oh nothing, I just made it a little cozier. (Pats the bed)
Manny: Are you nervous?
JT: No! Not at all! (They start kissing)
Manny: Um, your lips are kind of sweaty.
JT: Oh sorry! I guess I am kind of nervous!
Manny: I have to go to the bathroom.
JT: Alright! No rush. I guess I could use a minute to freshen up.
Manny: (outside leaning against the door) Suck it up. You can do this.
(Manny walks back in as JT’s using the penis pump.)
JT: Um! I can explain!
(Manny rushes out.)
At the Dot
Paige: Did you see Heather Sinclair’s eyebrows? Tragically over plucked!
Emma: They should confiscate her tweezers or something!
(Rick walks in and goes up to the counter.)
Paige: What is he doing here again?
Alex: He probably came to see his new crush, Emma!
Paige: What’s she talking about?
Emma: Nothing! Rick talked to me. It was no big deal.
Alex: Didn’t seem that way to me.
Paige: If you’re starting to wimp out and feel sorry for that psycho…
Emma: I’m not. Honest!
Rick: Afternoon Emma!
(Emma doesn’t say anything and then trips Rick and he falls on the floor spilling his drink.)
Jay: That’s it. It’s on!
(Jay takes Rick outside and everyone follows.)
Emma: Let him go!
Alex: You started this Cause Girl!
Rick: What are you gonna do, hurt me?
Jay: (Takes Rick’s glasses and puts them on) One, v*olence is never the answer! Two, we don’t care!
(Jay punches Rick and drops his glasses, then steps on them.)
Jay: Whoops!
Rick: Who wants the next sh*t? Spinner?
Alex: Me!
(Emma steps in front of Alex and grabs her arm.)
Alex: Ribbon campaign’s over Emma!
Emma: Yeah, so is this!
(Everyone walks away except for Emma and Rick.)
Outside somewhere, JT is holding flowers
JT: Manny!
Manny: Go away JT!
JT: Will you let me explain? I was just trying to live up to Craig.
Manny: What?!
JT: I saw him in the locker room… naked. And it became obvious to me that he has something that I don’t.
Manny: You know what JT! Craig does have something that you don’t. Maturity! And I don’t mean his size! I mean the way he acts. You’re always farting and joking around.
JT: I’m sorry! Just give me another chance okay? I can change!
Manny: No JT, I’m sorry. It’s over.
Outside school
(Paige and Hazel walk by and look at Emma but don’t say anything, then Rick walks up to Emma.)
Emma: Nice glasses.
Rick: They’re from 6th grade. I um… I wanted to thank you.
Emma: Well don’t. Things got out of hand and I stopped it. It doesn’t mean I like you and it doesn’t mean we’re friends. But Rick, why did you come back here?
Rick: I like it at Degrassi. Well… I used to. I was horrible but I’ve changed. All those people who hate me I want to let them see who I really am. Show them how wrong they are.
Emma: Well they’re not interested Rick.
Rick: They will be. Someday. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x04 - Mercy Street"} | foreverdreaming |
At Sean’s house, Ellie and Sean are sleeping on the couch
Ellie: Sean! Sean!
Sean: (looks at the time) Oh! Wow.
Ellie: Double wow. I’m late! Home by eleven does not mean AM. Did you turn the ringer off? I need a cab, I need $10 to pay for a cab.
Sean: The ringers on, nobody’s called.
Ellie: My mom probably lost your number or fell asleep watching the same lame movie we did.
Sean: Snuggling up with a few empty bottles…
Ellie: I’m not talking about this.
Sean: You know you’re welcome here.
Ellie: Let’s see if I’m even allowed back.
Sean: I meant to stay…yeah as in to move in.
At Ashley’s locker
Ellie: What you just forgot to put any on?
Ashley: Left mine at my mom’s, didn’t want to use my dad’s sport scent or his boyfriend’s mountain race.
Ellie: Men’s deodorant gives me a rash.
Ashley: Yeah well you know what else gives me a rash is that my dad’s bringing his boyfriend to the open house today.
Ellie: Imagine the rash I got when Sean asked me to move in…this morning.
Ashley: What?
Ellie: Move in. Co-habituate. Live in sin.
Ashley: You can’t!
Ellie: My mom isn’t doing so well. It’s pretty bad.
Ashley: And how’s Sean?
(Ellie smiles and nods.)
Ashley: Was it good enough to risk giving your mom a heart att*ck?
In the foyer at school
Manny: Hey Spinner! (Spinner doesn’t say anything) Boy it’s nice to see you too Manny, have a good day!
(Manny keeps walking then turns around.)
Manny: Hey, you wanna earn some major points by helping with Paige’s spirit squad carwash?
Spinner: Paige sort of owes me the major points these days.
Manny: Okay so why not earn major points with me then? Paige is off sick with the flu.
Spinner: Yeah I know.
Manny: So I’m in charge and honestly I need help. We need to earn a lot of money to get those new uniforms.
Spinner: So you think it would help if I wash cars in my wet t-shirt?
Manny: No I want you to play! With your band, you idiot! No, you guys would attract so much attention.
Spinner: Yeah but the Squash isn’t my band. You’d have to ask-
Manny: Craig. Yeah that’d be just a bit awkward...
(Manny gets down on her knees (her usual position).)
Manny: Please please please! With ketchup and gravy and big hugs on top?!
Spinner: Gravy? I’ll see what I can do.
Manny: Okay thanks. Oh and get Craig to bring his camera ok?
Spinner: Kay!
In the auto shop room
Sean: Why not!?
Ellie: My dad’s got six months of service.
Sean: So that’s six months of homework. That’s six months of dinner.
Ellie: He’s in the middle east Sean! If the call came in he was hurt or worse my mom would…
Sean: She’d what? She’d crack open the third bottle for the evening?
Ellie: We can dinners okay? Maybe watch some crappy TV but after that…
Sean: Let me make it simple. Move in…with someone who loves you.
Ellie: I’m sorry. She needs me.
Sean: It’s finished. Nobody cares about auto shop anyways.
In the school during the Open House
Mr. Armstrong: No, Emma’s doing pretty well. Polynomials can be a bit of a struggle.
Spike: Me and math?! Mortal enemies.
Emma: You balance your own books at the salon. Don’t believe her.
Mrs. Nash: Ellie must love your class. All her classes! She spends almost every night at her boyfriend’s doing homework.
Mr. Simpson: Well uh Media Immersion is a very intense course. The course is centered on-
Mrs. Nash: Media? Computers? I get it. Tell me, do you assign every project in pairs?
Mr. Simpson: Well no…in fact most of the work is-
Mrs. Nash: Thought so. Thanks very much Mr. Stanton.
Mr. Simpson: It’s Simpson.
Mrs. Nash: (laughing) Like the cartoon! That’s priceless.
In the hall
Ashley: Ellie hey!
Ellie: Mom, you remember Ashley!
Ashley: Mrs. Nash this is my father Robert and his partner.
Christopher: Hi I’m Christopher.
Mrs. Nash: Partners huh? Do you run a business together or is it pairs figure skating?
Mr. Kerwin: We’re life partners actually.
Mrs. Nash: Oh I know. Must be nice having a man around. My husband’s off fighting for his country.
Mr. Kerwin: That must be difficult for you and Ellie.
Mrs. Nash: Oh you have no idea! Or do they let you people in the military now? You re-decorate the enemy into surrendering! (Laughing)
Ellie: Mom. You’re tired. We should go.
Mrs. Nash: Bye!
Mrs. Nash: Oh wait, isn’t that your boyfriend?
Ellie: It’s okay. I’ll call him later.
Mrs. Nash: Sean isn’t it? I was hoping to see you.
Sean: It’s nice to see you too Mrs. Nash.
Mrs. Nash: Your parents…they’re not here to see this fine automotive display?
Sean: Um. I’m alone. I live alone.
Mrs. Nash: Not lately.
Ellie: Mom!
Mrs. Nash: Midnight study sessions, dawn tutorials. Sometimes I can’t remember what Ellie looks like!
Ellie: Mom let’s go.
Sean: Look, I care about her okay?
Mrs. Nash: Not okay!
(Grabs Ellie’s arm and they walk away.)
In Craig’s garage
Craig: 1, 2, 3, 4!
(The band starts playing.)
Craig: Woah! Woah! Woah! You’re coming in way too early.
Spinner: Dude how are we supposed to get better if all we do is rehearse?! I mean we should play another gig.
Craig: We will! When we’re smoking hot!
Jimmy: In the twenty-third century! (Craig hits Jimmy)
Spinner: Exactly. We need to play smaller gigs to stoke us up to smoking hot.
Ashley: Spinner has a point!
Spinner: Who asked you?!? What? I mean…yeah…what she said. Sorry.
Craig: Alright well I guess we could put a little more pressure on ourselves.
Spinner: Yes! That’s why I booked us for the school spirit squad carwash this weekend.
Marco: What? Woah Spin. We’re not ready!
Spinner: Dude it’s a carwash. We’re not opening for Kid Elrick at the Dome.
Craig: Alright. We’ll take it to a vote. All for the gig?
(Spinner, Craig, Ashley raise their hands.)
Spinner: All against?
(Marco, Jimmy raise their hands.)
Spinner: Okay well three to two! Manny will be stoked!
Craig & Ashley: Manny?!
Jimmy: Speaking of smoking hot!
In Ellie’s house, the smoke alarm is going off and Ellie runs to the kitchen
Ellie: Mom! Mom get up! Get up! Mom get up!
(Ellie runs over to the stove and tries to turn it off and burns her hand on the pot and makes the f*re even worse.)
Ellie: Mom! Get up!
(Ellie drags her mom out of the house.)
At the hospital
Mrs. Nash: I must have taken in a life supply of smoke tonight. I’m not proud right now Ellie. I almost burnt the place down. Don’t make this any worse for me.
Ellie: I’m exhausted. I have to sleep.
Mrs. Nash: Fine. There’s a fold out at Elaine’s.
Ellie: Elaine’s? She lives in Fergis! Why do I have to go there?! I hate her!
Mrs. Nash: Because I’m still your mother and I said so!
Ellie: Okay. But what if I stay over at Ashley’s instead…in the city!
Mrs. Nash: Well I wouldn’t have to drive you into school everyday.
Ellie: Exactly what I was thinking. But it’s up to you! Whatever you want.
Mrs. Nash: Well if it’s alright with Ashley’s mother it’s alright with me…at least until our place is ready!
Ellie: I’ll go call Ashley right now!
At Sean’s, Sean opens the front door and Ellie is standing there
Ellie: Yesterday you might have mentioned the words ‘move in’…
Ellie and Sean walking into Sean’s house
Ellie: Home sweet home.
Sean: Closest thing to being at your place.
Sean: Looks like my CD collection just doubled.
(Sean picks up Ellie’s CD case and opens it. It has all of her cutting supplies in it.)
Ellie: I was thinking we need a pet. A dog or a parrot or a…
Sean: I thought you stopped cutting!
Ellie: I did! I just didn’t want to leave it there…I wouldn’t lie to you about this.
Sean: I cleared a drawer.
Ellie: You did?
Sean: Yeah and some space in the closet and in the medicine cabinet just above the sink.
Ellie: Listen. There’s something we should-
Sean: I know. And it’s fine. I’ll just sleep on the couch.
Ellie: You have a bed.
Sean: You just had a f*re, so for now I’ll just sleep on the couch okay?
(They hold hands.)
At the carwash
(Spinner sprays Hazel with the hose.)
Hazel: I said stop it!
Spinner: What? It wasn’t me! New girl. (Points to the new girl Darcy)
Darcy: New girl? I prefer Darcy!
Spinner: Oh. Okay… Darcy! (Sprays her)
Manny: Hey Craig. Thanks for doing this. It’s really great.
Craig: Anytime Manny.
Ashley: Check 1, 2. We have Craig Manning in the house!
(Craig leaves Manny and goes over to Ashley.)
Spinner: Any more bitter and she’d be a lemon!
(Hazel throws a sponge at Spinner and he goes to grab it.)
Spinner: You think that’s funny?!
Manny: No, no!
(Spinner and Manny splash around and push each other jokingly while Craig watches.)
In the school
Marco: But you’re alright, right? I mean after breathing in all that smoke.
Ellie: I don’t have black lung Marco.
Marco: And your mom? How’s she doing?
Ellie: I only have a few mom free days left. If it’s okay I’d rather keep it that way.
Marco: I’m more interested in you anyway. So okay. First shower at your boyfriends. Were you naked?
Ellie: Yeah and alone!
Marco: What? Disappointing, but still party worthy!
Ellie: Me showering is party worthy?
Marco: No but, you being happy is. Plus you’re young, cute, clean and black lung free!
Ellie: And you’re sure Mama Del Rossi will let us have a party?
Marco: No but I know Papa Sean will!
Back at the carwash, the band is playing
Craig: That sucked.
Ashley: Keep smiling. No one noticed.
(Rick drives up in a car.)
Hazel: What are you doing here?
Rick: Um helping out my fellow students!
Jimmy: What’s your problem psycho?!
Rick: My mother wants the car washed.
Jimmy: Okay well unless you want a wash, I’d bounce!
(Rick drives off while Jimmy sprays the back of his car.)
Manny: Hey! I never knew what a great drummer you were before.
Spinner: I guess it’s kind of hard who’s me behind the lead singer sometimes.
Manny: Not today. Congratulations. Thanks for coming out!
(Manny hugs Spinner and puts her snow cone on Spinner’s back.)
Spinner: That’s how you repay me?!
(They start running around laughing and grabbing at each other.)
Manny: I’m sorry! I’m sorry!
(Craig takes a picture of Manny and Spinner looking really close.)
At Sean’s house, having a party
Ashley: Always with the banners Marco.
Ellie: Perks of a printer’s son.
(Marco is taking a bite of guacamole and spits it out and grabs a drink.)
Marco: What is this?!
Ellie: It’s guacamole! Sean made it for me. It’s my favorite. He’s sweet.
Marco: This was rancid!
Jay: Nice little house warming.
Sean: Whatever. She’ll go back in a few days. Maybe this time her mom will burn down the whole place.
Alex: Now that would be a house warming.
Jay: So it’s actually a bon voyage, see you later, thanks for all the sex party.
(Ellie overhears and walks away.)
Sean: Ellie! He shouldn’t have said that.
Ellie: I don’t care that he did. I just don’t want to go back to her.
Sean: Then you don’t have to okay? You can stay here.
(Ellie’s mom walks in.)
Mrs. Nash: What is this?
Ellie: Mom?
Mrs. Nash: Housewarming...I went to Ashley’s and her mom told me you haven’t been staying there. You’ve been staying here the whole time haven’t you? Haven’t you?
(Ellie nods.)
Mrs. Nash: The cab’s waiting. Let’s go. Let’s go now. Let’s go NOW!
Sean: Mrs. Nash it’s better if Ellie stays here.
(Mrs. Nash slaps Sean.)
Mrs. Nash: You don’t come near me and don’t come near my daughter!
(Mrs. Nash grabs Ellie and walks away with her.)
At Ellie’s house in the kitchen all burnt
Mrs. Nash: This was a blessing. A blessing! Old furniture, grimy paint… We can start from scratch. What do you think? How about a periwinkle blue in here?
Ellie: Mom you slapped my boyfriend.
Mrs. Nash: Ellie that boy’s no good for you. I know you think it will be hard, that you love him. I know what’s best.
(Ellie keeps pulling at the elastic on her wrist.)
Mrs. Nash: Eleanor, stop doing that!
(Ellie opens the CD case and all her cutting materials fall out.)
Ellie: Pick one mom! Kn*fe! Razor!
Mrs. Nash: What are you doing? What is this?
Ellie: What’s best for me, mom?! Because if I stay here I’m gonna do it again. You’re making me do it again!
Mrs. Nash: Ellie…
Ellie: This is what it costs! Your drinking made me cut myself!
Mrs. Nash: No baby! Oh my god. You need to understand…
Ellie: No you have to understand… why I can’t keep living with you.
Mrs. Nash: No! Oh my god. (Starts crying and sobbing)
At the Dot
Spinner: Hey.
Manny: Hey.
Spinner: Are you ready to order?
Manny: Um no, actually I’m not eating. I’m just waiting for someone.
Spinner: Okay. Who?
Manny: Paige.
Spinner: Right. Um look I have lots of tables to…
Manny: Yeah the excitement from yesterday must have gotten to my head or something.
Spinner: Yeah I know the feeling.
I wouldn’t want you or Paige to think that-
(Paige walks over.)
Spinner: Paige!
Paige: Two people I’ve literally been dying to see. But now I’ve risen to thank Manuela Santos, my guardian angel. $800 and our new uniform dream is a reality.
Manny: It’s no big deal.
Paige: Oh and I heard you guys rocked baby.
Spinner: I did it all for you.
At Sean’s house
Ellie: She dropped me off.
Sean: She drove?
Ellie: Sober. Honest. Hopefully will be for the next two months. She’s going to rehab and I’m here to stay. If I want to. Do you still want me to?
Sean: Yeah! Uh what is that?
Ellie: Hold on, hold on!
(Ellie puts the cage she’d been holding down and picks up a ferret.)
Sean: It’s a weasel!
Ellie: It’s a ferret. I saw him at the pet store and...
Sean: Shouldn’t we have talked about this first?
Ellie: A home isn’t a home without a pet! | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x05 - Anywhere I Lay My Head"} | foreverdreaming |
At the Dot
(Paige as a waitress at the Dot, she’s mixing up people’s orders and spilling things.)
Paige: Sixty seven pathetic cents.
Spinner: Hey stop. Stop. You may be poor but at least you’re pretty!
Paige: Please just tell me I’ve made a dent in what I owe you. A ding?
(The manager brings over the schedule.)
Paige: Ooh the new schedule.
The manager: Paige…
Spinner: Crap I work Saturday?
Paige: Um I don’t…Friday or Sunday either…hello do I ever work?
The manager: Sorry Paige, but you’re fired.
At Spinner’s locker
Manny: Hey. Nice sunburn. Looks pretty ouch.
Spinner: Yeah it is ouch. Um where’s yours?
Manny: It’s called sun block with a grease-free moisturizer follow.
Spinner: Paige uses moisturizer but hers is lavender.
(Spinner leans in to smell Manny as Craig walks around the corner.)
Spinner: I’m close enough to know that yours isn’t… lavender.
Craig: Hey idiot! Nice sunburn!
Manny: Library’s at the other side of the school. Bye.
Spinner: Am I the only one who got b*rned at this carwash?
Craig: Are you and Paige still tight?
Spinner: Yeah. Your point?
Craig: You and Manny have been talking a lot lately.
Spinner: Again, your point?
Craig: Hey look I’m just warning you.
Spinner: Hey it’s none of your business. And neither is Manny. Not this year.
In a classroom
Mr. Simpson: Welcome to the tryouts for Degrassi’s official trivia team! I want you to all partner off and we’re going to start with a little warm-up.
Toby: Partners Emma?
Emma: Sorry I’m with Heather.
Rick: Heartbreaking. I myself have Ms. Nelson pegged at number 3. I’ve got this list. It’s not some kind of crass rating system. Let’s see… ranking system.
Toby: Your set.
Rick: I’m organized. Writing out goals helps realize them.
Mr. Simpson: What’s the world’s largest glacier?
Toby: The Lamar glacier?
Rick: He’s correct. It’s in Antarctica
Mr. Simpson: I think you two might make a good team.
In the cafeteria
Hazel: I love soup.
Paige: That was random.
Ashley: Hey soups good!
(Paige bumps into Hazel and Ashley making them spill.)
Hazel: Paige!
Spinner: (laughing) Crash Michaelchuk. World champion destroyer. Two down with one tray!
Jimmy: Hazel I’m gonna get you some napkins. Sun stroke got you too tired to move!?
Paige: Hey that’s my lunch.
Spinner: (talking with his mouth full) More salt next time!
Hazel: Spinner!
Paige: Spin endured the Dot for a year for a car I totaled in two minutes. He can joke and snack. He’s allowed.
At the movie theater
Mary: Your application says you worked at a Dot just not for how long…
Paige: It’s the old you can’t get a job without experience.
Mary: You can’t get experience without a job.
Paige: I’m a terrible waitress. More than one table and my mind goes… which is why this job is perfect. One customer at a time. Get them their drinks, their popcorn and next!
Mary: How are you at teamwork though?
Paige: Oh I’m team! I cheer for team.
(She looks up and sees Alex working there.)
Paige: Go team.
Walking into the school
Toby: Uh you look pretty today Emma.
Emmy: Thanks Toby.
JT: (Mimicking Emma) Thanks Toby.
Toby: Okay I made a list and gee guess what, my goals, not realistic!
Rick: Relinquish the list Toby.
Toby: It’s in my head.
Rick: I told you mine!
Toby: Fine there’s Emma.
Rick: Not entirely surprised.
Toby: Uh Ellie Nash.
Rick: Ooh nice alternative!
Toby: Hazel.
Rick: A couple of very fine attributes on that one. There’s a set of role playing dice I’ve had my eye on for oh so long. What we need is courage and all I’m proposing is a challenge.
Toby: What kind of challenge?
Rick: Loser buys the dice. Winner gets it. Whoever can manage a kiss from any girl on that list before last bell.
Toby: Narrow it down to Emma and we’re on.
(They shake hands.)
In the computer lab
Paige: I can’t just go in there and talk to her. Alex hates me. I hate Alex.
Spinner: So? Perfect chance to make a new friend!
Paige: Spin please! We’re talking my pride here! How much is it worth?!
Spinner: How much… um about $1200 and uh…
Paige: Alex. Um can we talk a sec?
Alex: You’re not calling me dog face?
Mr. Simpson: Okay internet lovers! Two minutes until homeroom so please log off!
Paige: Just one second please. We’ve had our issues I know, but hun you see how much I do around here that I’m employee material.
Alex: I wouldn’t worry about it. I put in a perfectly bad word for you.
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ class
Toby: Uh, standing up for Rick like you did…I’ve decided to follow your lead.
Emma: What do you want Toby?
Toby: We’ve got this game going, it’s kind of scavenger hunt-ish. (Whispers) If I get a kiss I win!
(Emma kisses Toby on the cheek.)
Toby: Ha! I win, which means you lose! You are a loser!
Emma: Nice way to follow my lead Toby. Just so you’re not lonely!
(Emma kisses Rick on the cheek.)
Rick: Ha ha ha! It’s a tie! The game was supposed to end in 3…2…1. Which means that tomorrow to break the tie we need a new game.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Alright class put away the microscopes, clean up your work areas and I’ll see you next class!
In the hallway Paige and Hazel are putting up pictures from the carwash
Paige: My last hope was a movie theatre concession, with Alex. In a mall!
Hazel: You’re so better than that.
Paige: Tell that to the moundo debt I owe Spinner.
Hazel: You’re also better than him.
Paige: What are you talking about?
Hazel: I miss the old you with the old Spinner. Trailing behind, obedient and slightly afraid!
Paige: That was before I smashed his car!
Hazel: The car of the freak that r*ped you! Good boyfriends don’t hold you to things like that. And good boyfriends also don’t do this! (Shows Paige the picture of Spinner and Manny looking really close)
Paige: Is that…Spinner and Manny are friends. It’s nothing.
At the Dot
Spinner: Rule is. You get fired, you don’t pop by.
Paige: Another rule. Love clutches are banned with girls who aren’t me.
Spinner: It’s a hug!
Paige: Nearness comes in varying degrees. Come here. Come on! This! This is a hug…
(Paige hugs Spinner.)
Spinner: Uh sunburn Paige!
Paige: now this! (Grabs him even tighter hurting him)
Spinner: Paige!
Paige: All you have to do is tell me that it was nothing… Spinner!
Spinner: I have to… I have to get back to work.
In the cafeteria
Paige: Did you hear about those two? Totally shacking up!
Hazel: I know!
Paige: Hard to believe Ellie is beating me and Spin in the dating Olympics.
Hazel: And by more than a nose!
Paige: I know. By a lot. (Looking at Spinner across the room) Deny it, confirm it, just don’t avoid me all day.
In the hallway
Jay: Slam!
Rick: What? (Jay slams Rick into the lockers)
Jay: I said slam! Now pay attention next time.
Toby: You okay?
Rick: Yeah, yeah, yeah why wouldn’t I be? So uh yesterday’s challenge was far too easy. We’re gonna have to go for quantity not quality today.
Toby: Okay.
Rick: Alright so new day, new challenge. Whoever gets the most girls to kiss them before the end of the day wins. Loser buys the dice. I’ve uh made up some charts and stuff. You know. Age, location…
Toby: Sure that’s a good idea?
Rick: Sure you’re not a big wuss?
Toby: Okay but you’re gonna have to be good!
(Toby bangs his arm on the locker.)
Toby: Ahh oohh! Ow!
Manny: Toby what’s wrong?
Toby: I banged my arm! It hurts!
Manny: Aw poor baby! Is there anything that I can do to help?
(Manny kisses his elbow before walking away.)
In the gym, the Spirit Squad is practicing
Paige: 5, 6, 7, 8! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8! K Manny let’s uh try listening to the b*at this time. Let’s do it again. 5, 6, 7, 8! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8!
(Spinner walks into the gym.)
Paige: Alright, just work on technique for a few.
Spinner: Can we talk?
Paige: You mean instead of ignoring me?
Spinner: Okay I admit it. I had some guilty thoughts.
Paige: You have thoughts?
Spinner: Just like you did last year with that stupid drivers ed teacher.
Paige: Falcone was not all over me, half naked at a car wash!
Spinner: Anyway…what I came here to tell you is that…in the end all my thoughts come back to you.
(Hands her some flowers.)
Paige: Flowers are nice. Especially if they’re not carnations.
(Paige’s cell rings.)
Paige: I don’t know who this is. Hello? Hi. Mary! Yeah I’m still into the job!
In the hallway
(Rick is trying to get girls to kiss him and Toby is actually having lots of girls kiss him. Toby sees Rick getting upset and ripping his list.)
Darcy: This friend of yours… He’s really losing that bad?
Toby: I thought he was gonna cry. Oh here he comes.
Darcy: Poor guy!
Toby: Yeah, yeah. Poor guy.
Darcy: He’s the one they keep pushing into lockers. Why does everyone around here hate him so much?
Toby: So will uh $5 change your mind?
Darcy: Yeah.
(Darcy walks over to Rick as he’s walking by.)
Darcy: Where’d you get your glasses?
Rick: Um the optometrist…
Darcy: I like ‘em!
Rick: Um my friend and me…we have this game going.
Darcy: Anything I can do to help you win?
Rick: A kiss. It doesn’t have to be on the lips, it doesn’t even have to be on the…
(Darcy kisses him on the cheek and Jay is watching from upstairs.)
At Paige’s locker
Hazel: So you’re a couple again?
Paige: Uh we never stopped.
(Hazel sighs and shakes her head.)
Paige: The Hazel headshake. Do not make me suffer.
Hazel: You let him treat you like garbage he’ll keep doing it!
Paige: Thank you Oprah, Dr. Phil and uh everyone else in the world.
Hazel: Paige…
Paige: Just back off okay? Unless you’d like me to give you play by plays on your relationship with Jimmy. I’m gonna be late for work.
At the theatre, Paige & Alex are working
Alex: Drinks need ice!
Paige: Sorry!
Alex: While it’s pouring…
Paige: Uh Popcorn! Right. Sorry. (Spills some butter on the floor)
Alex: I’ll wipe it up! And don’t say sorry!
Paige: Enjoy your show!
Paige: Hi can I interest you in a…
(She looks up and sees Spinner.)
Paige: What are you doing?
Spinner: Well I’m here to support you in your first shift wearing man-made fibers and I want a large popcorn. Only! Could you stop half way for butter?!
(Paige puts some butter on it.)
Spinner: Little more.
(Paige puts some more.)
Spinner: Just a bit more.
Paige: Any more and you’ll get grease stains on your pants honeybee.
Spinner: Okay so a quarter more popcorn.
(Paige puts more popcorn in it.)
Spinner: And a smidge of more butter!
(Paige puts more butter in it.)
Spinner: Good girl.
Craig: (Giving Spinner a dirty look) That’s nice.
Spinner: No, it’s good training.
After the crowds died down, still at the theatres
Paige: Wanna check to see if I cleaned the nacho sludge thingy right?
Alex: The fact that you, Paige, did it at all is amazing.
Paige: No worse than clearing my brother’s hair out of the bath tub.
(Alex tosses Paige some candy.)
Paige: Thanks.
Alex: Thought we hired you…not your boyfriend? Real sweet guy!
Paige: The jerk you just experienced is usually a little less of a jerk.
Alex: Not that I’d ever admit this but I used to be scared of you.
Paige: Please! I’m so not scary.
Alex: No. You’re a coward and a suck because if my boyfriend showed up here and treated me that way I’d be shopping for a new boyfriend.
After the guys’ movie finished
Craig: Well that move was surreal.
Marco: It wasn’t surreal. If it were surreal Koback would have been played by like a goat!
Jimmy: Okay tell me again why did Koback k*ll that guy?
Craig: Why do you think!? Jealousy!
Spinner: I knew Koback reminded me of someone!
Craig: What’s that?
Spinner: Nothing man. Just a joke. Relax.
Marco: Spin. Come on! Leave Paige alone! She SO suffered enough.
Spinner: So how’s the rest of your shift going my booty blossom?
Paige: You really wanna help? Give the girl who lost her license a ride home.
Spinner: You don’t get off work for another 2 hours.
Craig: There’s so much to be jealous about Spin. I mean your charm, your way with women.
Spinner: You’re crazy man.
Craig: Ooh nice comeback genius.
(Spinner smacks Craig on the face.)
Spinner: That one better for you?
Paige: Bag of grossness coming through.
Craig: You were always jealous of Manny and me!
Spinner: Yeah well now you’re jealous of Manny and me!
(The guys start fighting and wrestling around on the floor.)
Paige: Stop it! Get off of each other! I work here! Go!
Mary: I’ve called security! Are you gonna wait for them to arrive?
(The guys jump up and take off.)
Paige: I told them to leave!
Mary: Hand in your uniform!
Paige: No Mary!
Mary: You’re fired.
At school
Toby: My eleven kisses to your one! You know I attribute my success to my silky cheek.
(Rick passes him the dice.)
Rick: You are the victor I accept that. But none of your kisses are even close to the one I got.
Toby: And you still won’t tell me who!
Rick: Let’s say in this case it’s about quality, not quantity. This has given me all the confidence I need.
Toby: To what?
(Jay walks up and Rick runs off.)
Jay: Survival instinct has the oldest and strongest member of the pack protecting the young and the weak.
Toby: I’m weak. I’m practically feeble.
Jay: Yeah well, word’s out that a 9er’s getting stalked by a certain psycho.
Toby: Look. Rick’s my friend! I was just trying to save him from humiliation.
(Jay shoves Toby into a locker.)
Toby: Come on man! Let me out! Come on!
Jay: Too bad he’s not here to save you now!
In the cafeteria
Paige: I was just thinking, gee I hope Alex comes by to gloat.
Alex: You have a shift tomorrow. The new scampi movie’s out so we’ll have a ton of over-sugared toddlers.
Paige: You’re not funny. I’m fired.
Alex: It wasn’t your fault I talked to Mary for you…so be there!
(Alex walks away as Spinner walks over to Paige.)
Spinner: Um. I’m sorry okay?
Paige: For uh? Getting me canned on my very first shift? No prob.
Spinner: Wait, you got fired?!
Paige: Don’t worry your paychecks safe.
Spinner: That’s not all I care about.
Paige: Right. There’s always Manny.
Spinner: So that’s it huh? Gotta make me the bad guy here. Put me back in my place.
Paige: If anyone’s been put in her place lately, it’s me!
Spinner: Listen I’m sorry about last night.
Paige: Spinner don’t.
Spinner: Why are you so hung up on this?!
Paige: Because last night you weren’t fighting over me. Look we’ll figure out some kind of payment schedule or something. I’ve had enough of this.
Spinner: Paige!
Paige: Spin. I’ve had enough of you.
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: On a revealing Degrassi.
Rick: He’s harassing me sir.
Mr. Raditch: Richard I’ve told you time and time again. It takes two to tango.
Voiceover: Rick is trying to put his violent past behind him.
Spinner: You know what? I’ll help you.
(Spinner and Jimmy push Rick into the dumpster.)
Voiceover: But has he reached his breaking point?
(Jimmy and Rick bump into each other.)
Jimmy: You might want to watch where you’re going loser.
Rick: Watch where you’re going Neanderthal!
Jimmy: What’d you just say?!
(Rick is shown covered in food and gross stuff.)
Voiceover: On a shocking Degrassi. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x06 - Islands in the Stream"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside, after school
(Rick is walking along and Spinner and Jimmy pull up in Spinner’s car beside him.)
Spinner: Yo Richard! Hey buddy. Hey man I said hi. It’s rude not to say hi back!
(Rick doesn’t say anything, Spinner stops the car and him and Jimmy get out.)
Spinner: Seriously what’s that?! I mean…
Rick: Hi Spinner.
Spinner: Hi.
Rick: New haircut?
Spinner: Yes it is.
Jimmy: New chapeau?
(Jimmy takes Rick’s hat.)
Jimmy: Oh this is nice.
Spinner: Hey this is nice. So soft. Where’d you get it? I know where you can find it.
(Spinner tosses it in the dumpster.)
Jimmy: Ohhh man!
Spinner: You know what, I’ll help you! Oh there!
Jimmy: That it?
(Spinner and Jimmy push Rick into the dumpster.)
Jimmy: Well I hope you find it along with maybe a little snack or something.
Spinner: Yeah. See you tomorrow freak.
In the parking lot of the school
(Rick goes over to Spinner’s car and spray paints a huge black X on the window and side of the driver’s door.)
In the hall
(Rick and Jimmy bang into each other.)
Jimmy: You might want to watch where you’re going loser.
Rick: You watch where you’re going Neanderthal!
Jimmy: What’d you just say?!
(Mr. Simpson walks up behind them.)
Jimmy: Morning sir! I’ve got a hall pass. I’m good?
Mr. Simpson: Quick. World’s 3 longest rivers in order.
Jimmy: Uh ok. The Nile, Amazon and the Yangtze?
Mr. Simpson: Most NBA championships?
Jimmy: Boston Celtics, why?
Mr. Simpson: Well we’ve got geography and sports covered! Rick meet your new teammate!
Rick: What?!
Mr. Simpson: Heather Sinclair just came down with mono. Her loss is Jimmy’s gain! Welcome to whack your brain.
At Joey’s house
Helen: The day after tomorrow is the open house. You’ll have to clean!
Joey: Okay what else?
Helen: Dust, maybe vacuum, sweep the floors…
Joey: I mean what else, else! I have to sell my home Helen. You’ve got to give me more to do than just spit and shine!
Helen: We will sell it Joseph, with our asking price this house will be snapped up!
Joey: Excuse me. Craig, why aren’t you dressed?
Craig: Clammy palms, scratchy throat.
Joey: Yeah well if I don’t see a fever, you’re out the door in 10!
(Craig puts Joey’s hand on his forehead.)
Joey: Okay. No TV, no phone, just rest… Helen I’m sorry but this meeting, it’s gone on longer than expected!
Helen: We still have business to finish!
Joey: Well I have a business to get to or I’m finished. So please, just sell my house.
At school
Emma: Hey guys! I made flashcards! You want me to quiz them by category or should I shuffle?
Rick: I’m quitting.
Emma: Rick! The finals are tomorrow.
Rick: We have a new teammate. Jimmy Brooks. AKA my daily tormenter.
Toby: I told you man, just go to Simpson. Just ask him for a re-think on his decision.
Rick: If Jimmy’s booted, he’ll know it’s me.
Emma: Jimmy and them, they don’t like you ‘cause they don’t know you.
Rick: So?
Emma: So you came back to Degrassi to show you changed right? So work with Jimmy on the team. Show him you’re not the guy he thinks you are.
Rick: Think they want to know who I am? (Points to some nasty notes left on his locker) They want to t*rture me.
Emma: (rips down the pieces of paper) Rick we need you on the team, so you need to do something.
In Mr. Raditch’s office
Rick: Mr. Raditch sir. I require a kind of favor. Um it’s concerning a member of the Whack Your Brain team.
Mr. Raditch: Do I look like I have time for a chat Richard? Your point?
Rick: He’s harassing me sir.
Mr. Raditch: Harassing how?
Rick: Well he doesn’t like me and he has no problems expressing it.
Mr. Raditch: So are you asking me to order this student to like you? Do you really think that will resolve matters? Richard I’ve told you time and time again. It takes two to tango.
Rick: Sir-
Mr. Raditch: You don’t like him and he doesn’t like you. So I suggest you try harder to get along! Come back if anything serious happens. That is all.
In the school parking lot
(Spinner and Sean are looking at the paint on Spinner’s car.)
Spinner: This car is cursed alright! Totally cursed!
(Jay and Alex drive up and Jay’s car has the same X painted on it.)
Sean: You too?
(Jay parks the car and him and Alex get out.)
Jay: Somebody picked the wrong guys to mess with.
Alex: Someone named Rick Murray.
Sean: You guys are gonna want to get this off your clear coat before it ruins it.
Spinner: Screw that. It’s evidence. I’m telling Raditch.
Sean: ‘I’m telling Raditch!’ You don’t think he’s gonna want to know why Rick tagged you?
Jay: Sean’s right. Let’s keep Raditch out of this.
Spinner: Buddy’s going down. He’s toast.
In the hall, Toby is at the water fountain
Spinner: Hey! Reject where’s your friend?!
Toby: As if I’m gonna tell you!
Jay: Hey! Weiner! He asked you a question!
(Jay smacks Toby’s head so it bangs against the water fountain.)
Spinner: Thought you were smarter than this.
In a room practicing for the trivia game
Mr. Simpson: Ah! Our high tech genius has arrived… and he’s bleeding.
Toby: Skateboard accident. I’m fine.
Mr. Simpson: I’ll get you some ice.
Jimmy: So give it up Isaacs. Who did it?
Rick: Wish you h*t him Jimmy, instead of missing all the fun?
Jimmy: Look Rick, why don’t you just back off?
Rick: I’ve been suffering for weeks. A big joke to you and all your friends. I should just stop it. Toby doesn’t deserve this. Nobody does.
At Joey’s house
Joey: Craig I said no TV!
Sydney: Hi Joey.
Joey: Syd…
Sydney: Craig called me at work. Here’s your tea.
Craig: How do you feel about younger men?
Joey: Uh, you look good.
Sydney: I’ve been good. Your house Joey. You should have called me. It’s who I am. It’s what I do!
Joey: That’s why you’re-? Sid you sell department stores, office tours, banks…
Sydney: Craig told me Joey. I didn’t know the business was doing so badly.
Joey: How badly did he make it out to get you here, especially after the…
Sydney: After the whole viciously dumping me for Caitlin thing? Come on Joey. We’re not 18.
(Nobody says anything.)
Sydney: This was a mistake.
Craig: Joey! She’s not desperate for the job. Let her help!
Sydney: It’s good to see you. Bye.
In a room at school practicing for Whack Your Brain
Mr. Simpson: Which poem ends with a line ‘and miles to go before I sleep’?
Rick: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening. Robert Frost.
Mr. Simpson: Correct. Which element represented by Te has also been known to cause garlic breath?
Rick: Tellurium!
Mr. Simpson: Bingo. And one last question from the world of sports! Which team has suffered the most consecutive super bowl losses?
Jimmy: Buffalo Bills.
Mr. Simpson: Four time losers. No wins!
Rick: Utility perfected.
In the halls
Rick: Amazing trivia skills Jim.
Jimmy: Thanks. You’re good too.
Spinner: Yo Jimmy. Hey dog meat you got something on your shirt!
(Spinner flicks Rick’s nose as he looks down.)
Jimmy: That’s just weak. Grow up.
Alex: Ooh Ricky found a friend.
Jimmy: Give it a rest. It’s boring.
(As they walk away Rick turns around and makes an X with his arms.)
Jay: Bad move freak.
At Rick’s house
(Rick’s mom is tailoring the suit he’s wearing.)
Mrs. Murray: All set! A year from now you’ll be the same size as your father.
Rick: I don’t want a sales job. I never want any job!
Mrs. Murray: He doesn’t like being sent out of town Ricky.
(The doorbell rings and Toby comes in.)
Mrs. Murray: Oh hey Toby! Are you as excited as Ricky? The lights! The cameras! The thrill of performance! Ricky tells me that you and your new friends…
Rick: Jimmy and Emma!
Mrs. Murray: That you all have become practically inseparable at school.
Toby: Uh Jimmy?
Mrs. Murray: And to think I wanted Rick to transfer to another school.
Rick: You worry too much mother. Pretty soon Toby and I will be running that place.
Toby: Uh… yeah we’re the coolest.
At Joey’s house
Joey: Craig come on! Get up!
Craig: I’m as sick as yesterday. Scratch that. Sicker.
Joey: I gotta get this place ready for the open house so the dealerships gonna have to stay closed for the day.
Craig: So you’re here all day?
Joey: I might step out briefly and when I get back I don’t want to find Tessa Campinelli sitting on my front door step okay?! You shouldn’t have called Sydney! How pathetic did you make me sound? Did you tell her we were burning furniture for heat, sleeping on sewer grates, eating out of-
(Craig starts putting on his jacket.)
Joey: What are you doing?
Craig: I’m going to school. That’s how badly I don’t want to be around you lately.
Joey: Excuse me?!
Craig: Look. Sorry if I’m the only one that actually cares about this place. Joey you’d sell it for beads, Sydney won’t.
Outside school
Rick: Hey! My thoughts are on sale today. Two for a penny. You can pay me later.
Emma: Okay.
Rick: Um thank you for talking to me, you know about Jimmy. When you speak, I listen. You’re my guide.
Emma: Well I’m glad things worked out. I knew you’d make friends.
In the school
Rick: Hi Jimmy.
Jimmy: Hey Rick.
Rick: So nervous?
Jimmy: Uh no, not really…yes, yes I am a little bit.
Jimmy: Well don’t worry. Together we’ll lead the team to new heights of victory.
Paige: Raditch, line one. Wants his suit back. *hands Rick her cell phone*
Rick: Take a message.
In the auditorium
Announcer: Good morning folks and welcome to the world’s favorite quiz show. We are back to att*ck your cranium and…
Audience: WHACK YOUR BRAIN!
Announcer: We got a good game for you today. Northern High is getting ready to go up against Degrassi CS. Both these teams are ready, let’s not waste any more time. Hands on buzzers. Here we go. In what Canadian city was the telephone invented?
Rick: That’d be Brantford Ontario.
Announcer: You’re on the board! Culture. Name the spicy, Spanish vegetable soup, usually served chilled!
Toby: Uh Gazpacho!
Announcer: Good job. Science. What scientific instrument cuts very thin slices for examination by a microscope?
Mick (opposing team): A microtone!
Announcer: You’re on the board! Geography. What is the geographical term for land between areas of permanent snow and the tree line in arctic regions?
Mick (opposing team): Tundra?
Announcer: Good job. Sports. In tennis what term describes the ball touching the net and falling into the opponents court?
Jimmy: Let.
Announcer: Good job! Degrassi has 30 points!
Announcer: Geography.
Rick: Great circle route!
Emma: Franz Ferdinand!
Mick (opposing team): Namibia!
Rick: The Plesticy!
Announcer: Good job. Northern 180 points! Degrassi right there with170 points! Just a reminder, in case of a tie each team will select one player to compete in the final lightening round. Hands on buzzers please. Your last category sports. Name the first golfer to win the British and US opens in the same year. Anyone?
Rick: Bobby Jones?
Announcer: Tie game! A short break. When we come back the final lightening round! Don’t go anywhere!
Jimmy: You’re gonna take that right?
Rick: Yeah!
(Rick holds on to Emma’s hand and she pulls it away.)
In the boy’s washroom
Jimmy: So let me ask you a question. How did you become an encyclopedia?
Rick: I read a lot. A lot of time to myself. I thought sports was your territory…
Jimmy: Yeah. Yeah, I had a little brain cramp. And anyways golf is not a sport.
Spinner: Hey man! That was so sweet. I mean you’re a know it all trivia machine.
Jimmy: This competition is money in the bank with my boy right here.
Jay: Nice. Are you doing the lightening round buddy?
Rick: Affirmative.
Jimmy: Probably better him than me right? (Jimmy leaves and Rick looks hesitant at Spinner and Jay)
Jay: We’re cool man.
(Rick smiles at them as he leaves.)
Spinner: Better him than me?! Yeaahhh. Alright. You’re sure Alex can set this up?
Jay: Dude the best part about dating the student council VP…nobody asks questions.
At Joey’s house
Sydney: I’m sorry I’m late.
Joey: No problem you’re here. I uh, I really appreciate that.
Sydney: Say something else to make me stay.
Joey: Um, I need help. Badly. Craig was right, you were right. I should have come to you weeks ago.
Sydney: I could sit here all day and come up with ways to hate you, but your family’s in trouble. Being here isn’t easy for me either Joey.
Joey: I know. Look the way we finished, I’m not proud of that.
Sydney: My assistant will be here within the hour and put a sign up on your lawn. I’ll pop by after work say 5:30?
Joey: So we’re going with the open house?
Sydney: Think about creating an atmosphere. Start with some music playing.
Joey: Music?
Sydney: But not that demo tape that you used to play me from your band…your band-
Joey: Zit Remedy!
Sydney: No zits. No remedies. But a pie! Something baking in the oven. That would be nice!
Joey: Okay.
Back at the quiz show
Announcer: The deepest place on Earth.
Mick (opposing team): The Mariana Trench!
Announcer: Time! Northern with 40 points! Good job! Degrassi, who’s up?
Rick: (whispers to Emma) This is all for you.
Announcer: There’s the score you have to b*at. 30 seconds on the clock. Time begins now. The Confederation Bridge links Prince Edward Island with what Canadian province.
Rick: New Brunswick!
Announcer: A minimum of how many games does it take to win a set in tennis?
Rick: Seven?
Announcer: What was the original home video game console introduced in 1972?
Rick: Magnavox Odyssey!
Announcer: Sauron reigned over what territory?
Rick: Mordor.
Announcer: Who spent 27 years in prison before being elected president of South Africa?
Rick: Nelson Mandela.
Announcer: In what Robert Bolt play does Sir Thomas Moore face a moral dilemma.
Rick: A Man For All Seasons!
Announcer: Time! That’s it! 50 points! Degrassi wins! Degrassi wins!
(Everyone is cheering, then yellow paint and feathers fall and cover Rick and everyone is laughing.)
Out in the hall
Emma: Rick! Rick, what happened… it only makes the people that did it look totally juvenile.
Rick: They ruined it Emma. Their life ruiners. Everyone laughing.
Emma: But nobody’s ever gonna forget who won! Who is the smartest guy in the whole school, in the whole city!
(Rick grabs Emma and starts kissing her.)
Emma: Rick! What are you doing?! Let go!
Rick: I thought you loved me!
Emma: I felt sorry for you. I pitied you. (Gives him the trophy before walking away) Get a clue!
At Joey’s house, the doorbell rings and Joey answers it
Caitlin: Around the world in just over 180 days!
Joey: Caitlin!
(They kiss awwww.)
Caitlin: (In between kisses) I’m on an emergency hiatus from the aids piece. Turmoil in Haiti. So I took the first flight home! Why is Sydney’s name on your lawn?!
At Rick’s house
Rick: Mother? Father?
(Rick goes over to a cabinet and slowly opens a case with a g*n in it.)
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: Degrassi faces the unthinkable.
Rick: I didn’t want it to come to this.
Toby: The guy’s a psycho ok! He’s a total psycho. He’s not my friend!
Rick: This is the one time I actually want to be at school.
Voiceover: A day that will change their lives forever.
Sean: He’s got a g*n okay? Let’s go! (Sean says that to Toby and Emma)
Rick: Don’t turn away from me.
Voiceover: A day someone will not live through.
Sean: Put the g*n down okay?
Rick: You made me do this. (Holds up the g*n and we hear a sh*t) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x07 - Time Stands Still"} | foreverdreaming |
It shows a clip of Rick at home looking at the g*n, then it goes to outside the school
Emma: They can’t air the quiz show Toby.
Toby: Yes they can. They just cut before the paint pours on Rick.
JT: Which is now officially my new favorite mental image!
Toby: You know what?! You wouldn’t think it was so funny if it happened to you.
Danny: I would! And speaking of hysterical images…
(Rick is walking towards the front door still covered in the paint and feathers, holding tightly onto his backpack.)
Toby: What’s Rick doing back at school? I should go talk to him…
Emma: Go right ahead.
Toby: Rick! Rick! Raditch is going supernova. He’s gonna find out who did it.
Rick: And what? Give them detention?
Toby: Just saying, I’m sure it’d be cool if you skipped the rest of the day.
Rick: Toby, this is the one time I actually want to be at school.
In a classroom, Mr. Raditch is talking on the TV screen, Alex and Jay looking happy as he talks
Mr. Raditch: Twenty five years as an educator I have never, never been so embarrassed to be associated with this school. Whomever was responsible for the incident this morning should be ashamed of themselves and let me assure you that the perpetrator or perpetrators responsible for this will be found out and punished severely. If anyone has any information please speak to me immediately. I assure your confidentiality. Thank you.
In Ms. Kwan’s room
Ms. Kwan: So. Back to 1984.
JT: So how’s the big yellow loser?
Toby: That’s really nice JT.
JT: I hope he just gets the hint and leaves and uh you’ll have to find a new gamer geek friend.
Outside on the basketball courts
Spinner: And then when the feathers came down! Oh!
Jimmy: Cut the guy some slack Spin. He’s not that bad.
Spinner: Yeah ok! Oh chicken boy! Oh chicken boy! I love your wealth of knowledge and I, I love you.
Jimmy: I’m glad you think this is funny.
Spinner: Did you see the guys face? Definition of funny!
Jimmy: What kind of person does that?
Spinner: One, a genius. And two! If you rat on me-
Jimmy: What?! No really what are you gonna do? Yeah that’s what I thought. Look save the bully crap for someone who won’t fight back. And you better do something about it now before I do.
(Spinner and Jimmy start fighting and Mr. Armstrong comes and breaks it up.)
Mr. Armstrong: Hey! Hey! Save it for the game guys!
At Joey’s house
Caitlin: But this is your home! I mean what about Craig and Angela?
Joey: Craig, Angela and I can live in a smaller place. It’s either that or the dealership.
Caitlin: Yeah, but-
Joey: Yeah but you know if there was a way to keep both I’d be all over it. Look I got to head back to the dealership, but we’re on for coffee later right?
Caitlin: Yeah.
Joey: Ah, make yourself at home, while I still have one.
In the cafeteria
(Paige sees Rick still covered in the paint and feathers and walks up to him. He puts his hand on his g*n and slowly starts bringing it out.)
Paige: Look I know we’re not exactly best friends, but I wanted to say that I thought the whole paint and feathers job was sickening. It was really childish.
(Rick puts the g*n back in the bag.)
Rick: I’m sorry…for hurting Terri.
(Paige nods then walks away.)
At Rick’s locker
(Rick puts his jacket and backpack in his locker and slams the door shut.)
At Sydney’s office
Caitlin: Knock knock!
Sydney: Caitlin. You’re here.
Caitlin: I just got back this morning…to find Joey’s house for sale and your name on the sign.
Sydney: Look before you say anything I’m just helping Joe out as a favor, no strings attached so you don’t need to worry about us.
Caitlin: How much is he asking?
Sydney: 400. Why?
Caitlin: How does 350 sound?
Sydney: Sounds like $50, 000 less than the house is worth.
Caitlin: Alright, 375!
Sydney: Does Joe know about this?
Caitlin: Not yet, and until it’s a done deal I’d prefer he not. So if he asks just tell him it’s an anonymous offer.
(Sydney nods and they shake hands.)
Caitlin: Sydney it’s been an unexpected pleasure.
In the boys washroom
(Rick is washing his face and hears Spinner and Jay coming so he hides in the stall.)
Spinner: Jay listen! Raditch knows man!
(Jay sees Rick in the stall and knows he’s listening.)
Jay: About Jimmy? Yeah I’m surprised nobody’s figured it out yet.
Spinner: Dude!
(Jay grabs Spinner and shows him Rick’s listening.)
Jay: Jimmy set the whole thing up perfectly. The way he got all those easy sports questions wrong.
Spinner: Yeah and made sure uh psycho boy was all alone in the final round.
Jay: Never would have happened without a man on the inside!
(They leave and Rick opens up the stall door.)
At Jimmy’s locker, Rick walks up to Jimmy
Jimmy: How you holding up?
Rick: Good.
Jimmy: That’s good. Kind of surprised to see you here this afternoon.
Rick: Yeah I bet you are.
Jimmy: Look I’m really sorry about everything ok? And if those guys give you any more problems, I got your back.
Rick: You s*ab me in the back.
Jimmy: What?
Rick: You set the whole thing up.
Jimmy: Rick come on I defended you.
(Rick pulls out the g*n and points it at Jimmy.)
Jimmy: Is that real?
Rick: The whole time you pretended to be my friend. You made me do this.
(Rick looks away and sh**t Jimmy in the back as he’s trying to run away. He falls to the ground and Craig walks around the corner as people are running away.)
Craig: Oh! Jimmy!
(Kids are running away and Sean, Toby and Emma look to see what’s going on. Rick sees them and starts walking towards them.)
Rick: Hi Emma. Sorry I kissed you.
Sean: He’s got a g*n ok, let’s go!
Rick: Don’t turn away from me! Glad I found you Emma. You made my list.
Toby: Rick what are you doing?
Rick: You flirted with me. I thought you liked me, but that was something else.
Sean: Just put the g*n down ok? Anything else is just gonna make your life worse.
Rick: It can’t get any worse.
Sean: Believe me it can. I know. We’ll figure it all out okay?
Rick: Figure this all out? It’s too late.
Sean: No.
Rick: I’ve already sh*t someone. (He points the g*n right at Emma)
Toby: Stop!
(Sean and Rick are struggling and the g*n goes off and both of them go down as Emma and Toby are watching.)
Outside the school
Mr. Raditch: (On the loudspeakers) Remain in your classes until further notice. Absolutely no one is to leave. Refer to lockdown protocol. And please remain calm.
Mrs. Kerwin: I got a phone call from the police. Kate Kerwin. My stepson Toby is…
(The cop checks it out on his radio and lets her through right as they’re wheeling Jimmy out on a stretcher.)
Mrs. Kerwin: Jimmy?
Outside, somewhere
Joey: You are not gonna believe this but there is already an offer on the house!
Caitlin: Already? That’s great!
Joey: Sydney has really come through and it’s 10% above market value!
Caitlin: 10%?! Go Sydney…
Joey: I am back in business and with the extra money name a part of Toronto you’ve always wanted to live in.
Caitlin: Joey…
Joey: Danford, beaches…oh wait uh you just bought a house. In Riverdale. I may not be the craftiest guy in the corner but when my house sells in less than a day on the market.
Caitlin: How could I let you use it? You love that house.
Joey: Yeah I do. It’s great. Enjoy it.
Cailtin: Joey ugh, can’t you put your male pride aside for one second?
(Caitlin’s cell phone starts to ring.)
Joey: This is about me raising my own family and running on my own business.
Caitlin: (answers her phone) Caitlin Ryan…Oh my god! I’m on my way.
Caitlin: We have to get to Degrassi now!
In the school
(Policemen are walking everywhere with g*n, there’s a police dog and police tape blocking off halls.)
In a room. Cops are talking to Sean at one table and Toby at another
Cop: Toby why do you think he did this?
Toby: I’m supposed to know!? Look the guy’s a psycho okay. He’s a total psycho.
Cop: Was he bullied? Teased?
Toby: Always! Every day. Constantly.
Cop: What did your friend do when someone-
Toby: Look he’s not my friend. He’s a psycho! And he’s not my friend!
Cop: I’ll give you some time…
In another room with Spike, Snake and Emma
Mr. Simpson: He needed help Emma.
Emma: He pointed the g*n right at me.
Spike: Oh honey…
Mr. Raditch: Archie?
Mr. Simpson: No I am busy here if you hadn’t noticed!
Mr. Raditch: I’m sorry. They want to know if you can get into Rick’s e-mail to look for signs. Warning signs.
Mr. Simpson: Of course, now the ground breaking 20/20 hindsight policy kicks into gear.
Mr. Raditch: I have 700 students and a teaching staff that I’m responsible for everyday. Don’t get on my case because one kid overreacted to some spilled paint.
Mr. Simpson: Yeah, one kid who you’ve personally spoken to twice in the last two days. But did you listen?
Mr. Raditch: Of course I did.
Mr. Simpson: I bet you can’t remember a word he said! This tragedy Dan, it could have been prevented if you hadn’t…
Spike: Archie! Can you two do this later?!
Mr. Raditch: Emma, they’re gonna want to speak to all of the witnesses.
Outside the school
Caitlin: Caitlin Ryan. CQGH. Can you tell us anything?
Cop: We had a firearm situation. At least two sh*ts have been fired.
Joey: There was g*n in there? My kid’s in there! Can I please just make sure he’s ok?!?! Can I…
Cop: Sorry sir. The school is in lockdown.
In a classroom
Paige: Okay I hate not knowing what’s going on. (She gets on her cell)
Hazel: I know! It’s been like forever. I need to go pee.
Ashley: Maybe it’s an alarm.
Hazel: b*mb scare?
Ellie: Niner mid-term phobia strikes again.
(Paige closes her cell phone.)
Paige: Guys. My mom heard there was a sh**ting.
(Hazel looks at Jimmy’s empty seat and then Ms. Sauve knocks on the classroom door.)
Ms. Sauve: Hazel could I see you in the hall?
In the hall
Ms. Sauve: Hazel. It’s about Jimmy.
Hazel: No!
Ms. Sauve: He was sh*t.
Hazel: No…
Ms. Sauve: He’s on his way to the hospital!
Hazel: No. No! I need to go! I need to go! I need to go…
Ms. Sauve: The lockdown will be over soon okay. We’ll get you there.
In the halls, the lockdown is over and all the students are leaving the rooms
Jay: Just relax. Everything’s gonna be fine.
Alex: Why did I go along with all this.
Jay: I said relax! You’re alive aren’t you!? Spin! I thought that might have been you!
Spinner: It was Jimmy man! Jimmy! They’re gonna find out. I have to-
Jay: No! You have to shut up okay?
Spinner: He’s my best friend.
Jay: Either outcome I would say he WAS your best friend.
Spinner: We might have k*lled him!
Jay: We didn’t do…
Spinner: We did!
Outside the school
Caitlin: Craig!
Joey: Craig, are you okay?
Craig: Jimmy got sh*t!
Joey: What?!
Rachel Rhodes: Did you know the victim?
Cailtin: Rachel Rhodes?!
Craig: Don’t call him victim! He has a name.
Rachel: Was he a target though? Were you? Did you see the sh**t?
Caitlin: Stop right now!
Rachel: Share Caitlin!
Caitlin: No, I’m not covering this.
Rachel: Well then step aside and let me.
Caitlin: Here’s a story for you. Local insensitive reporter pummeled by famous colleague.
(She gives Caitlin a dirty look then goes up to Toby.)
Rachel: You were the g*n’s friend. Do you know who he was after or why he did it?
Toby: I don’t know.
Rachel: Did you try and stop him?
Toby: What was I supposed to do?!
Mrs. Kerwin: Let’s go.
Rachel: Did the g*n say anything before he died?
Toby: Died?!?
At the hospital
(Hazel and Paige are sitting together crying. Spinner walks up, Paige shakes her head at him and he walks away crying.)
At the Kerwin’s house
Rachel Rhodes: (on the TV) Following this afternoon’s double sh**ting one student is d*ad and another remains in serious condition. The suspect, a 16 year old boy, whose name cannot be released was the student found d*ad at the scene.
Mrs. Kerwin: Toby maybe you should turn that off now.
Spike: People do not get sh*t at Degrassi. They just don’t.
Emma: You talk about Degrassi like it’s achieved sainthood. It’s a school!
Spike: That’s my point.
Mr. Simpson: Look we just didn’t…none of us took Rick’s bullying seriously enough. It would be an understatement to say that he was unpopular.
Toby: Unpopular?!
Ashley: How about full on psycho?! Certified freak? The guy made us a lead story on the 6:00 news.
(Toby gets up and leaves the room.)
Mrs. Kerwin: Ashley…
Ashley: He sh*t Jimmy mom! I want an answer. Who was this guy who sh*t him, if not some psycho?!
(Toby slams the door.)
Emma: He was Toby’s friend.
Back at the school
(There’s flowers, pictures and candles on the steps and people are gathered around.)
At the hospital
Paige: (on the phone) No there’s no change. I’ve got to go.
(Paige and Hazel are looking through the glass at Jimmy lying in the hospital bed. Spinner is lying on his bed crying. Sean and Ellie are watching the news at their house. Joey, Caitlin, Craig and Ang are watching the news too. Toby is outside the school and Emma walks up to him and puts her arm around him. Someone places a picture of Jimmy at the scene and Emma and Toby hug crying.)
Scenes for next week
Reporter: Your boyfriend’s a hero, all I want to know is what it feels like!
Sean: Guess I’m about to find out.
Sean: (to the camera) Who says you can’t go home again?!
Mrs. Cameron: What if that kid had sh*t my Sean? What if I never got to see my baby again?!
Voiceover: Dealing with the stress of the school tragedy.
Ellie: Maybe you should cool off a bit.
Voiceover: Sean heads home to confront his past.
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Outside the school. Sean is flipping through some newspapers
Sean: We’re on the front page of some. Isn’t that cool?
Ellie: Yeah it’s Monday and they are still writing about the sh**ting.
Mr. Raditch: (to reporters) Today is a day of reflection. Counselors will be available. Student’s can talk, express their feelings. After which it’s important that we get things back to normal.
Rachel Rhodes: Sean Cameron! If I could just talk to you for two minutes on camera!?
Ellie: Come on Sean.
Rachel: Your boyfriend’s a hero. All I want to know is what it feels like.
(People are standing around looking and pointing at Sean.)
Sean: Um, I guess I’m about to find out.
In the gymnasium. A circle of students are sitting with Ms. Sauvé
Paige: I feel totally helpless. What if Jimmy never recovers? What if he never walks again?
Ms. Sauvé: Jimmy needs help. You can give him that.
In Mr. Simpson’s class
Mr. Simpson: There’s no excuse. None for what Rick did, but labeling him a monster is not gonna help us understand why it happened.
Toby: Rick was bullied, really bad.
Craig: Come on Toby, don’t make Rick the victim.
Toby: I’m not. Just think how he must have felt.
Mr. Simpson: Do you ever feel that desperate? That angry? You need to talk to an adult before it reaches a crisis point.
Toby: What if nobody listens?
Mr. Simpson: Then keep trying. Somebody will.
Craig: So what? We’re supposed to rat?
Mr. Simpson: It’s not about getting people in trouble Craig. It’s about getting them and you out of trouble.
Back in the gymnasium
Marco: (holding a white mask against his face) I am shaken. I want to turn back time. I need…I need to believe that life’s better than this.
Ms. Sauve: Thank you Marco. Okay, who’s next? Sean. Let’s hear from you. Just repeat the three phrases. I am. I want. I need. Go ahead.
Sean: (reluctantly putting up the mask) I am Sean Cameron. I want some chocolate milk and I need this stupidity to be over.
Ms. Sauve: Fine, no mask, but I’d still like to hear from you.
Sean: I was faced with a situation. I dealt with it. End of story.
Ms. Sauve: It’s perfectly normal for those who witness v*olence to have feelings of guilt Sean.
Sean: Guilt? I stopped Rick from k*lling people. I sleep like a baby.
Ms. Sauve: But someone did die, Sean. Rick.
Sean: Luck of the draw. (he gets up and leaves)
In Mr. Simpson’s class, Sean knocks on the door
Mr. Simpson: Sean. Come on in. Glad you’re here today and that you’re not going through this alone.
Sean: Through what? The b*llet missed me.
Mr. Simpson: Everyone’s talking about what a hero you are. Hey I’m in the uh ‘Sean’s a hero camp’ myself, but you were involved in something horrible. I hope your friends understand that.
Sean: Everyone’s been great Mr. S.
Mr. Simpson: Are you letting yourself deal?
(Emma comes rushing in crying.)
Emma: Dad I can’t take it. Everyone’s staring at me everywhere I go!
(Emma grabs Sean and hugs him, still crying.)
Emma: Sean. Sean. I never got to say you saved my life. You saved my life.
Mr. Simpson: We all need some closure Sean. That’s what today is all about.
Outside the school
Alex: It’s only an hour Jay.
Jay: Sixty minutes of Sauvé going blah, blah, blah it’s okay to cry. Right.
Alex: You may not need to talk about what happened, but I do.
Jay: Yeah well just watch what you do talk about!
Ellie: You didn’t try.
Sean: Masks?! Ellie come on.
Rachel: So do an interview. You know I’m putting together a piece on you Sean.
Ellie: Do what you want. We don’t get cable.
Rachel: Sean’s mom does. I interviewed her yesterday. She had a lot to say.
(They watch the interview with on a computer in the news van.)
Mrs. Cameron: Well Sean’s had his share of problems, but nothing compared with this kid.
Rachel: So did it come as a surprise to you when you heard Sean was a hero?
Mrs. Cameron: Well he always was a strong boy. No fear. And that used to get him into trouble all the time, but it sounds like it saved him his life this time.
Rachel: He saved a lot of lives.
Mrs. Cameron: (she starts to cry) Yeah. I’m sorry, I just can’t stop thinking what if that kid had sh*t my Sean?! What if I never got to see my baby again?! Oh god. I miss him. I love him so much!
(Emma walks over to Jay by his car where he’s blasting the radio.)
Jay: Just running the battery green peace. Pollution free.
Emma: It’s noise pollution. But that’s not why I’m here. Have you seen Sean?
(Jay nods towards the news van.)
Emma: He’s talking to her?!
(Sean walks out and smashes the computer on the ground.)
Rachel: Sean they clearly love you.
Sean: I’m full of love today.
Jay: Woah buddy.
Sean: Shut up. Move. I’m driving. Get in.
Ellie: Just calm down.
Sean: No. You wanted me to express myself. This is me expressing myself. Emma, you coming or what?!
(They all get in the car.)
Jay: So where to Bam Bam?
Sean: Wasaga Beach. Home.
At the basketball courts
Toby: JT. Danny.
JT: Hi.
Danny: Bye.
Toby: Um I just got Draco’s Quest 2 if you guys ever want to play.
JT: Trying to cut down.
Toby: I was there JT!
So what do you want me to say? Ok, I’m sorry. I’m sorry you became friends with a psycho! You knew what Rick was like.
Toby: I didn’t know he was gonna bring a g*n to school.
JT: Really?!
In Wasaga Beach, a montage of people on the beach having fun, then it shows the car pulling up to Sean’s parent’s house
Jay: Is it a house? Is it a lunchbox?
Sean: It’s where I was born!
Ellie: Maybe you should cool off a bit.
Sean: We’ve been driving for two hours. I’m cool.
Ellie: You’re not.
Emma: Let him go Ellie. He should have done this years ago.
(Sean walks up to the door and starts banging on it.)
Mrs. Cameron: Hold your horses I’m coming. Alright! Sean! I heard what happened…
Sean: Yeah I know. That was quite the performance. Oh I miss my baby. What if I never get to see him again?! Oh I love him. Boo hoo.
Mrs. Cameron: Oh Sean.
Sean: Next interview try telling them the truth. Like how you gave up on me, how you booted me out of your life. Stop playing the poor abandoned mother role because nobody’s buying it. Especially not me!
(She nods, walks back inside and closes the door.)
At the beach
(Jay and Sean have buried Ellie and Emma in the sand.)
Ellie: It’s like a mud bath, but it’s cold and sandy and it kind of smells like fish. Ew.
(Emma tries to get out of the sand.)
Jay: Yo, Cameron! Sprout’s getting loose!
(Sean looks up at a guy on a skidoo.)
Jay: Who you checking out? All I see is some guy.
Sean: It’s Tyler Bishop.
Emma: He’s the kid you deafened.
Sean: In one ear. Idiot jumped me. Thought he was tough. I was tougher.
Jay: So he got half deaf while you got sent to Toronto, to Tracker, to student welfare? If you ask me, I’d say this guy owes you.
At Jimmy’s locker, flowers, cards and pictures are on the ground
Manny: I didn’t know Jimmy had so many friends.
Toby: Jody Matenco(sp?), Heather Sinclair…A lot of these are from strangers.
Manny: Really?
Toby: People that don’t even know Jimmy care about him. My own friends won’t talk to me.
(Manny puts her hand on his shoulder.)
Toby: I have to go to Rick’s visitation tonight but I can’t face his mom.
Manny: What about JT?
Toby: What about him?
On the beach, at the skidoo renting place
Jay: So uh what’s it gonna cost to rent one of these things. You know (talking in a deaf person’s voice) ‘one of these things’?!
Tyler: (grabs Sean and tries to h*t him) I never thought you’d be stupid enough to come back here Cameron!
Ellie: Stop it! Stop it okay!
Tyler: Papers think he’s some kind of hero. Wrestling g*n.
Sean: Didn’t know you could read.
Tyler: Saw your picture. Recognized the eyebrows. Pissed? Go on. Sucker punch me in the other ear and flee town. That’s your move isn’t it?
Sean: Let’s go.
Tyler: Or do you k*ll and run these days? Cause the kid died this time. Didn’t he hero?
(Sean goes to punch him but Jay holds him back.)
Tyler: Sixty bucks, sixty minutes. Free for you trailer park boy. Wouldn’t want to take your lunch money…again!
Down on the beach
Ellie: So that was fun. Meeting Tyler.
Sean: Good times.
Ellie: Got a lot off his chest. Sean-
Sean: What?!
Ellie: Your stories don’t really mesh.
Sean: So you believe him?
Ellie: I don’t know what to believe ok?! I am trying to understand what you’re going through but you won’t even talk to me!
Sean: You want me to talk?! Fine! When the g*n went off, my hand was covered in warm liquid. I thought I pissed myself, but then I realized that I was drenched with Rick’s blood. And then, and then when he fell…-
Ellie: Sean…
Sean: No!
Ellie: Sean!
Sean: You’re not doing this to me!
Ellie: Sean.
(Sean speeds off on the skidoo and flips over it falling into the water. He is floating facedown in the water.)
Ellie: Sean!
(Tyler speeds off on a skidoo, pulls Sean out of the water and brings him back onto the beach.)
Ellie: Sean! Sean!
Emma: Sean wake up!
(Sean wakes up coughing.)
Sean: What happened?
Ellie: You nearly drowned. Tyler saved your life.
(Sean looks up at Tyler and they both nod.)
Outside of the school
Manny: JT!
JT: Manny, how are you?
Manny: I’m alright. Better than a certain best friend of yours.
JT: Ex best friend. That was before he joined forces with Hellboy, who I know is a superhero but whatever.
Danny: Toby’s a geek. He always has been.
Manny: Okay, you out-geek them all James Tiberius York, but Toby was always there for you.
JT: Tiberius is a family name alright?!
Manny: If you hadn’t ditched him for Webster here he would have never hooked up with Rick.
JT: And you’re lecturing me on ditching people hmm.
Manny: Now I remember why we broke up. You just can’t be the bigger man.
(Manny walks away and Danny is about to say something.)
JT: Don’t say it.
Back on the beach
Emma: Sean. Maybe you need to see a doctor?
Sean: I’m fine. Just thinking.
Emma: About what?
Sean: Emma I’m sorry.
Emma: For what?
Sean: For last year you know? For everything I put you through. Everything. I’m sorry.
Emma: Ancient history. So maybe we should get going huh?
Sean: We got a pit stop to make first.
At Sean’s parent’s house
(Sean knocks on the door.)
Mr. Cameron: Door!
Mrs. Cameron: You got legs don’t ya?!
(They both walk outside.)
Mr. Cameron: So uh how long till the cops get here?
Mrs. Cameron: No. No, Sean wait. Don’t please. Just ignore him. He didn’t mean it.
Sean: I’m here with friends dad. That’s all.
Mr. Cameron: It’s been over four years. No calls, no nothing. Now here you are? Expect us to believe it’s just for kicks?!
Mrs. Cameron: What I said to that reporter lady it wasn’t lies. I can’t cry on cue Sean. I mean we made a lot of mistakes, but sending you to Toronto that was the best thing we ever did. How else was I gonna keep you out of jail?!
Sean: I know.
Mr. Cameron: So why you back?
Sean: That kid at school. He was gonna sh**t my friend… so I grabbed the g*n and it went off. (Sean starts to cry and his parents hug him) I think… I think I might have, I might have k*lled him. I might have k*lled him. He’s d*ad! He’s d*ad!
Mr. Cameron: It’s okay kid. It’s alright. You’re home. We got you.
Mrs. Cameron: It’s alright.
Mr. Cameron: It’ll be alright.
At Rick’s funeral
Toby: I can’t do this.
Manny: It’s, it’s okay. We can just leave.
Mrs. Murray: Toby! You came! (She hugs him) You were always such a good friend. Such a good friend.
JT: (walks in) Mrs. Murray, I just wanted to say I’m very sorry for what happened.
Mrs. Murray: You were a friend of Rick’s?
JT: It was a tragedy. I’m very sorry.
Mrs. Murray: (she hugs him) Thank you. Thank you.
JT: It doesn’t matter what I thought of Rick. It still shouldn’t have happened.
Back at Sean’s parent’s house
Sean: I told them everything.
Ellie: Let’s get you out of here.
Sean: Ellie. Look I don’t know how-
Ellie: You’re, you’re staying aren’t you?! Sean please. I love you.
Sean: I love you too… but Ellie.
Ellie: When are you coming back?!
Jay: Yo Cameron get in the car.
Sean: Staying! I’m staying. Look for the first time in my life I need to be here with my parents, to deal.
Jay: You sure about this? Okay man. See you. (They hug)
(Ellie is crying and Emma is watching Sean through the window of the car as they drive off.)
Scenes for next week
Craig: There’s nothing going on with me and Ash. We’re friends.
Jimmy: (smiling in a hospital bed) Okay.
Voiceover: The band hits a low note when Craig asks Ashley to join them.
Ashley: I can see us going really far. The band, I mean.
Craig: Love songs are brutal.
(Craig and Ashley are kissing.)
Craig: (to the camera) Especially when you’re in love.
Craig: Ashley and I… we’re, we’re back!
Marco: We have to f*re her.
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At Craig’s place. The band is rehearsing
Craig: Ok that sounded a bit tighter?
Spinner: Keyboard was a bit off on the bridge though.
Ashley: Really? Cause the drums threw me off, only it was more in the verse
Marco: Ok, it sounded like this tape of whales my aunt Pea has.
Craig: We have to do better.
Spinner: Dude. We only have three days!
Craig: Well we aren’t going to win $10, 000 worth of free recording again and we have to use it now and we have to be better.
Marco: Yeah and we could be if… if Jimmy could play with us.
Craig: I wish he could too.
Ashley: Well, what if we tried ‘Everything’s Dust’?
Spinner: Sure the song that just so happens to be all about you.
Marco: I think what Spinner means is that uh we’ve come a long way since that song.
Craig: But it’s how we won the contest. I mean we know it works for us.
Spinner: Yeah it worked for you anyway.
Craig: What?! Let’s just try it.
Spinner: Yeah alright. So what? (Starts to play) One, two, crap, four.
In Mr. Simpson’s class
Paige: Ew! Ok there is gum on this chair! Excuse me, Mr. Simpson but gum on chairs is disgrossting and illegal.
Mr. Simpson: Just find another seat Paige. It’s not the end of the world.
Paige: Hello! It’s watermelon.
Hazel: Yeah you definitely need to come with me to yoga. They offer it after school in the gym.
Paige: Yeah I prefer retail therapy.
Hazel: Honestly. It’s the only thing keeping me sane since…well you know.
Paige: I’m so sorry. I haven’t even asked about Jimmy today. Or you.
Hazel: It’s okay. Me, I’m just glad the school gave us a way to de-stress that doesn’t involve more talking.
Paige: Do not let the cult of yoga suck you in. You’ll end up wearing batik and eating spout and they’ll have to perform an exorcism to get my Hazel back.
Mr. Oleander: Coming to yoga today?
Hazel: Wouldn’t miss it Mr. Oleander!
Paige: Mr. O teaches yoga? What was I thinking? I love yoga.
Mr. Simpson: Okay everyone. Special treat today! Mr. Oleander, our student teacher here is going to start the class off with a discussion on subliminal messages in mainstream media. It’s all yours.
Mr. Oleander: Thanks. Hey everybody. That work? Good. Okay so, in the early 1950’s an advertising expert by the name of James Vicary walked into a movie theatre…
In the hospital
Craig: We can’t make the new song work without you. I thought Spin was gonna walk out on rehearsal.
Jimmy: Yeah Spinner walks out on a lot of things.
Craig: Yeah, so um Ash thinks that we should do that song from last year. You know, ‘Dust’.
Jimmy: Ashley?
Craig: Yeah she’s been coming to rehearsals, advising, stuff.
Jimmy: Okay. Is that what you’re calling it these days?
Craig: No, there’s nothing going on with me and Ash. We’re friends.
Jimmy: Okay look I may be crippled man, but I’m not blind.
Craig: Don’t. You’re not crippled okay?
Jimmy: I guess I won’t be for long. Just like I imagine that you and Ashley won’t just be friends for long either.
Craig: What did you get brain damage too? Ashley and I are not gonna happen again.
Jimmy: Whatever. (Smiles) Whatever.
During Yoga
Mr. Oleander: In the warrior stance your feet are firmly rooted in the earth. Your knees over your ankle. Your shin is vertical.
Marco: Doesn’t Mr O. look oh so fetching in his yoga pants.
Paige: Fetching is for dogs and Mr. Oleander is not a dog.
Marco: Shh.
Mr. Oleander: Excellent Paige. Breathe. How does that feel?
Paige: Amazing.
Mr. Oleander: Extra points for smiling.
Paige: He was flirting with me.
Hazel: He’s a teacher!
Paige: Student teacher, hello!
In Craig’s garage
(Craig is quietly singing the song, while Ashley is playing on the keyboards.)
Ashley: So what do you think?
Craig: I think you’re brilliant!
Ashley: Your song is brilliant.
Marco: Um, doesn’t it sound kind of pretty? I mean we are a rock band.
Craig: Hey, hey it’s good contrast. It’s counterpoint.
Ashley: Well maybe it would help if we worked on the bass line. You know made it less simple.
(Spinner and Manny walk in.)
Spinner: Hey guys, sorry I’m late.
Craig: Spinner we’ve been here an hour.
Spinner: You wanna sit on a chair?
Manny: Thanks sticks!
Craig: Who’s sticks?! And why is she here?
Spinner: I’m sticks and I just thought since the band was open to any and all chicks. I’d bring my own amuse.
Craig: You mean muse?
At the movie theatre
Paige: I mean do you think it meant something?! It might have, but then Hazel said that- This is t*rture!
Alex: You and the Furby just broke up. It’s okay to be single for twenty minutes.
Paige: Easy for you to say!
Mr. Oleander: Easy for what?
Paige: That um… I so hate polyester.
Mr. Oleander: Okay. Anyways I was just walking by and I thought I’d come say hi to my favorite yoga student.
Alex: You should go for it.
Paige: What?
Alex: I happened to see my favorite yoga student? Please he loves you.
At school
Manny: There is no such thing as bad publicity but there is such a thing as a bad shirt.
Marco: I couldn’t agree with you more.
Spinner: I like this shirt. Okay. Whatever. I don’t know why we bother because it’s obvious we’re just the backup band for Ashley and Craig’s variety hour!
Marco: Spin, stop being a drama queen okay, it’s not like that.
Spinner: It’s like, you and I aren’t even in the band!
Ashley: I could see us going really far. The band, I mean.
Liberty: Let’s commence. Deadline looming.
Liberty: So where do you see your band going?
Marco: Actually we…
Craig: Far. Really far.
Liberty: Who are your major influences:
Spinner: We uh…
Ashley: We all love Deathcab. Neutral Milk Hotel.
Liberty: Where do your songs come from?
Marco: We like to…
Craig: Well actually they all come from a bunch of different sources of inspiration.
Liberty: Ok. Any solo projects coming up?
Spinner: Uh yeah. Marco and I have a…
Ashley: God no, no, no! No, this is only our first single.
Liberty: Okay, um what would you like to say to your fans?
Ashley: Just keep watching us and you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Liberty: Everyone say ((something?))!
Ashley: ((something?))
Liberty: Fabulous.
Craig: Alright. That was great.
Liberty: Good job guys.
Ashley: Thanks Liberty.
Liberty: It’s gonna be an interesting article.
In a classroom
Craig: Hey.
Marco: Hey Craig um, we have a problem.
Craig: Okay so let’s talk.
Spinner: Ashley’s got to go.
Marco: Woah, Sticks hey slow it down…Ashley’s got to go.
Craig: Has everyone gone nuts?
Marco: She’s not in the band Craig. We never agreed to it.
Craig: Yes you did!
Spinner: Dude, it used to be our band. Remember it used to be about us.
Craig: It’s still about us.
Marco: Ash lost the contest okay? To us and to Jimmy. So why does she get to be on the recording?
Craig: Look. Recording this single, it means everything to me okay?
Spinner: Dude! Either she goes or we do k, cause it’s not working.
Marco: You have to f*re her.
In the hallway
Craig: Remember the recording session?
Ashley: Uh hi. And yeah, how could I forget?
Craig: Yeah um, I don’t know how to tell you this.
Ashley: Look, I’m nervous too. But I mean you’ll be there and all I have to do is look over at you and I’ll be fine. So, you wanted to tell me something?
(Craig kisses Ashley and then she walks away kind of shocked and keeps looking back at him.)
At the Dot
Marco: Look you did the right thing okay. I’m sure it was painful for you and Ash, but hey at least us guys can be us guys again.
Craig: Painful?! Ashley and I we’re…we’re back. We’re back together!
Spinner: Oh gee. I thought she would have been all mad when you fired her!
Marco: Uh yeah he didn’t f*re her Spinner. (Marco and Spinner get up to leave)
Craig: Like I could kiss her and then do it. Marco cut me some slack. What it’s not that big of a deal?!
In Yoga class
Mr. Oleander: Extend the crown of your head and breathe deeply. Good. Good.
(He walks past Paige and helps Heather.)
Mr. Oleander: You’re a natural Heather. Perfect.
Paige: He didn’t even look at me. All he could look at were Heather Sinclair’s trashy roots and her big, round-
Hazel: Not to sound like a broken record, but he is a teacher!
Paige: How am I supposed to go for it if he won’t even look at me?
Hazel: Maybe you shouldn’t go for it. You and older guys are not always a good match!
Paige: Shh.
Mr. Oleander: (on his cell phone) Hey Charlie, just got your message. Uh yeah 8:00, Bar Craft. See you then. Bye.
Paige: Where’s Bar Craft?
At Ellie’s (heh Sean’s) place
Ashley: So one minute we’re talking first recording session butterflies, and the next, full on lip lock.
Ellie: Don’t do it.
Ashley: Yeah little late for that.
Ellie: Not the kiss. The rest.
Ashley: He’s different. I think.
Ellie: Guys suck Ashley. They enjoy messing with our feelings and then sticking us with the rent. Just don’t come crying to me when he Craig’s out on you.
At the Dot
Craig: Everything okay? (Holds up his phone) Your uh, your text was all in caps.
Ashley: Yeah I just, I figured we should talk before rehearsal, about yesterday.
Craig: Right. Okay. Well it sort of took me by surprise.
Ashley: Yeah join the club.
Craig: So you’re confused too?
Ashley: You know maybe we were just uh, reaching for something familiar. Given Jimmy, everything that’s happened.
Craig: Oh, never thought of that.
Ashley: We have been doing great as friends right?
Craig: Right and who’d wanna screw that up?
Ashley: Yeah, who would?
Craig: Good. Great. Good. I’m glad we got that settled.
Ashley: Yeah well at least we still have the band.
Craig: Yeah.
At the club
Hazel: I hope they have yoga in jail
Paige: We’re not going to jail ok. Our ID is super good. I swear.
Hazel: So we’ll be in jail and the witness protection program.
Paige: Hazel, breathe out tension, breathe in peace remember?
Hazel: When’s your birthday?
Paige: Um you know it’s uh, it’s November 19th.
Hazel: Of what year?
Paige: Crap.19…
Hazel: Too slow. You’re in jail!
Paige: Okay what’s your postal code?
Bouncer: ID ladies.
At Craig’s garage
Craig: So last practice. Tomorrow’s our big break.
Marco: Yeah great, where’s Ash?
Craig: Um kitchen, getting us some-
Manny: (holding a tambourine) Guys can’t we get a prettier one?
Spinner: Oh yeah because you get to do what you want I’m putting Manny on tambourine.
Marco: (pulls out an accordion) What?! Every man for himself right Craig?
Ashley: Hey guys. Did I miss something?
Marco: Yeah actually, Craig why don’t you tell Ashley about the changes we made to our band?
Ashley: They include the accordion? Playing a nice polka? Okay um, we record tomorrow. Why are we making changes now?
Spinner: Tell her why Craig.
(Craig is just staring openmouthed at everyone.)
Spinner: No? Alright and 1, still crap, four.
(Everyone starts playing (lol, it was really hilarious) and Ashley is just staring at them all.)
In the bar
Paige: We did it. We did it. We did it!
Hazel: Paige you need to get out more.
Paige: There he is.
Hazel: Calm down. Calm down!
Paige: Oh my god, he’s drinking a beer. That is so cute.
(Paige walks over to him.)
Paige: Mr. O? I never thought I’d see you in here.
Mr. Oleander: Paige. Hey. Um you know this is a bar right?
Paige: Yeah I love this place. Can I sit down? Can I uh buy you a drink?
Mr. O: Hey. Hey Paige I want you to meet someone. This is Charlie, my girlfriend.
Paige: Oh.
Mr. Uh Paige is a student of mine.
Charlie: Oh you’re so sweet. I think she’s kind of crushing on you Matty. I’ll have a red wine and a Shirley temple for the kid here. It’s a school night.
(The bouncer throws Paige and Hazel out of the club.)
Paige: Hey, I am 19. This is ridiculous.
At the recording studio
Marco: It’s uber cool. I can’t believe we’re recording.
Spinner: Yeah. It is just like we always wanted. (Shakes the tambourine) Hey Craig?
Craig: Sure. Gypsy rock and roll act.
Spinner: Hey it’s your choice buddy.
Ashley: Hey sorry I’m late. Cab driver got lost. My luck.
Craig: Come on guys, we’re on the clock.
(Marco plays the accordion.)
Ashley: Um, I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be a diva but are we really gonna record like this?
Spinner: Well what do you mean, your highness?
Ashley: With the accordion and the tambourine? Craig?
Spinner: Yeah okay guys, let’s get some more free food eh? Here hold this. *puts the tambourine on Marco’s head*
Manny: Dibs on the cinnamon buns!
Spinner: Oh yeah! (Manny, Spinner and Marco leave)
Ashley: Uh Craig, what’s going on? Look I’m not stupid, you have to tell me.
Craig: Okay. Um. You need to leave. You’re out of the band.
Ashley: And um the whole band wants this?
Craig: Yeah. But I don’t! It’s just-
Ashley: No, no it’s just business.
Back at the recording studio, it’s just Craig, Marco and Spinner
(Craig starts singing the song and they sound really good until the near the end of the song when he looks at the lonely keyboard and just stops singing.)
Marco: Uh Craig?
Spinner: Uh, okay that was awesome. Let’s just take it from the top.
Craig: I can’t do it.
Marco: Woah, Craig, of course you can!
Spinner: Where are you going?!
Craig: Um, everything. It was all about Ashley. It wasn’t about a single, or making it big…just Ashley!
Spinner: No Craig!
Outside
Craig: Ashley! Ashley. Hey…
Ashley: What are you doing here? You’re recording.
Craig: Couldn’t. I couldn’t do it. Especially a song that meant so much to us.
Ashley: So you just left? (She hits him in the shoulder) How could you throw a chance like that away?!
Craig: Look the recording studio will always be there, but you I wasn’t so sure.
Ashley: What?
Craig: I um sorry. I thought that…
Ashley: Hey. If you think you’re just gonna walk away.
(She pulls him back and kisses him.)
Ashley: So um. Do you think we can uh.
Craig: Yeah. Yeah I do.
Ashley: So do I.
(They kiss again.)
Scenes for next week
Craig: No one’s gonna come between Ash and me ever again.
Voiceover: With Ashley and Craig together once more everything seems perfect.
Ashley: That’s it. I’m really happy.
Voiceover: But looks can be deceiving.
Craig: Everyone’s trying to separate us.
Ashley: We were passing notes and talking.
Craig: Who’s side are you on? | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x10 - Neutron dance"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside the school
(Craig and Ashley are kissing.)
Craig: Bye.
(They kiss again.)
Craig: I’ll see you tomorrow right? Uh one more?
Ashley: K my mom’s gonna be here in a sec.
Craig: You’ll call me though right?
Ashley: My dad’s wedding is taking over my entire life. Dress fittings, dinners, the airport to pick up Chris’ sister.
Craig: I like airports. People saying hellos, goodbyes, I love you…
Ashley: Did you just…?
Craig: I only say it at airports!
(Ashley’s mom drives up.)
Craig: Mrs. Kerwin! It’s been a while!
Mrs. Kerwin: Ashley do you want to get in the car?
Ashley: I’ll call. I will.
Craig: Or uh I can call you!
Mrs. Kerwin: Don’t bother.
In a hallway, Craig and Ashley are sitting on the floor
Ashley: Mom, Craig and I are back together and that’s it.
Craig: She said don’t bother. What does don’t bother mean?
Ashley: It means that I promise not to tell her every detail of our next horrible breakup.
Craig: No next! Okay? Promise!
(They hear Marco’s accordion and Marco singing the band’s song on a CD and walk over to them.)
Craig: Is that what I think it is?
Spinner: Yeah it’s what we were supposed to record. Until you gave it all up for miss band breaker-upper.
Craig: That’s pretty…
Spinner: Awful? Horrible? Seizure Inducing? Oh how about, how about lousy!
Marco: Oh and it’s also the last single that Downtown Sasquatch will ever put out.
Spinner: Here.
(Spinner dumps a duffel bag of CD’s out of the floor.)
Spinner: Throw them real hard at the ceiling, sometimes they stick.
(Spinner walks away and Marco takes the CD out of the play and throws it at Craig.)
Ashley: Craig and I are back together. That’s it. I’m really happy.
In the hallway
JT: Got the scripts!
Liberty: Wow. That’s a lot of paper. And muffins?! Drama club goes all out. I don’t want to do this anymore.
Manny: Liberty, you wrote the play. You adapted Dracula!
JT: And not from a movie either, from a book! It’s great.
Liberty: But it’s not great. It’s embarrassing, pedestrian, reputation k*ller.
Manny: Okay this is so not you. You are irritating, stubborn…
JT: Self confident to the point of social ret*rd.
Liberty: Gee JT. Thanks.
JT: But you’re talented okay? Brilliant. So just have a muffin and chill. Your director says so!
Liberty: JT just said I’m brilliant.
In Mr. Simpson’s class
Craig’s IM: R u working?
Ashley’s IM: No. Freaking re stupid wedding!
(Craig goes over to Ashley and gives her some paper.)
Ashley: When did you write these?
Craig: Uh only one song’s finished. The other three are only kinda.
Mr. Simpson: Mr. Manning. Ms. Kerwin.
Craig: Yeah the past couple nights I’ve stayed up. I dunno, inspiration, energy I guess.
Mr. Simpson: I said Mr. Manning!
Craig: I mean I could have showed you later, but this teeny part of me, uh this teeny part of me kind of wonders what you might think now.
Mr. Simpson: Craig!
Craig: What?!
Mr. Simpson: The computer in the corner. It’s lonely. Go introduce yourself.
Craig: This is supposed to be independent study time right?! Me, independent and walking! You, studying my butt leaving!
Mr. Simpson: Well they can study your butt at the office! Now!
In the hallway
Ashley: So you’re calm now right, at least reasonably?
Craig: Everyone’s trying to separate us.
Ashley: We were passing notes and talking.
Craig: Whose side are you on? When are you seeing your mom?
Ashley: Today after school.
Craig: Convince her I’m not Satan’s kin, okay? That you and I are, are changed and right and good or else the rehearsal party tonight’s really gonna suck.
Ashley: What if we work on my parents after the wedding?
Craig: You don’t want me there.
Ashley: I, I do Craig… except… Craig!
In the auditorium
Manny: Promise that if the time comes you will k*ll me.
Alex: I promise.
Some blonde guy: Nina. Sun’s almost set.
Manny: Dracula’s blood has not nearly poisoned mine, but it will. In k*lling me Dr. Van Helsing saves my life, but Jonathon, it is you who saves my soul.
Ms. Kwan: Okay. We’re all meeting Saturday morning. We’ll finish the rest then.
Mr. Raditch: Ms. Kwan, a word?
Emma: That was good Liberty. No, it was great!
Alex: Yeah a little gross too!
JT: You see?!
Mr. Raditch: Today I heard about severed heads and stakes through the heart. With recent events do you think presenting v*olence is a good idea?
Liberty: ‘This power of good you have won from your suffering’. Van Helsing says it at the end.
JT: And ever since Rick died we’ve all been suffering sir.
Liberty: I wrote the play to show the school there’s hope, a light at the end of the tunnel.
Mr. Raditch: Can’t it be something cheery, something fun?
Liberty: You’d prefer a musical about Dracula?
Mr. Raditch: A musical about Degrassi! And all the wonderful things that happen here.
JT: Yeah, but drama club meets tomorrow.
Mr. Raditch: Well you better get writing, see what you can get done tonight!
At the hospital, Jimmy is using a bar to lift himself up
Craig: Soon you’ll be needing that bar to b*at the nurses away.
Jimmy: Shouldn’t you be at school?
Craig: Ash is this close to dumping me.
Jimmy: Then it’s her turn right?
Craig: Just help me! Tell me to stand outside her window with a stereo or-
(Jimmy throws the bar in frustration.)
Craig: Sorry man. I’m always talking about myself. I shouldn’t.
Jimmy: No you should. You should. Everyone else that comes in here either talks about the weather, or my prognosis, my legs.
Craig: Still.
Jimmy: Still it isn’t rocket science okay? Talk to Ashley. Get her alone.
Craig: Her house is full of wedding. Caitlin’s painting so my place looks like a disaster flick.
Jimmy: So what? You want me to see if they have any vacancies here?
Craig: Vacancies… like at a hotel…
At Joey’s house
Angie: More pizza!
Joey: Oh Craig! Pizza’s for dinner. Again.
Craig: No thanks. But you know what I could use?
Joey: I have no money.
Craig: But you have a credit card!
Caitlin: You paint every room in this house I’ll sign over mine.
Craig: Look I have the money to pay your upfront. I’d only be borrowing it for one night! Please!
Joey: Craig you skipped class today. The school does call.
Craig: I went to visit Jimmy on a study period and what does that have to do with me borrowing your card?!
Joey: What do you need it so badly for? Are you renting something?
Caitlin: Joey can you help me with this?
Joey: Craig no. I’m not lending you my card. And skipping a study period is still skipping. Don’t do it again.
(Craig takes the credit card out of Joey’s wallet and puts it in his pocket smiling.)
Craig: Pizza!
At the wedding tent
Sally: Tall, dark and hopelessly lost? You must be Craig. I’m Sally. Ashley’s aunt. My brother’s gonna be marrying her dad. Come back later, I’ll have the charts.
Craig: Um. Have you seen Ashley?
Sally: You know, Christopher told me all about you.
Craig: Which version? Did I have horns in that one? Maybe a long, pointy tail?
Sally: You’re different now? Darn.
Craig: Look. I hurt Ashley and the fact that she’s even willing to look at me, I’m not screwing that up again. So you can flirt with me and people can say whatever but the fact is I love your niece.
Ashley: Thought you only said that at airports?
Craig: I’m not staying here long. I just came to give you this. It’s a hotel room key. It’s for later. If you need a place to go.
Mrs. Kerwin: Ashley. I made it clear there’s no room for extra guests. Especially uninvited ones.
Ashley: Showing him out mom.
At the hotel
Craig: Okay, no peeking! Stand right here. Now this was supposed to be for after the rehearsal party, but…
(Opens the door and there are two beds and rose petals spelling out ‘A + C’ in a heart.)
Craig: Okay open.
Ashley: Craig this is kind of perfect. No more annoying friends, bullying teachers, tricking parents.
Craig: Or horny aunts.
Ashley: You got a room with two beds.
Craig: There’s two of us.
Ashley: Well what if we only needed one bed?
Craig: One bed?
Ashley: Yeah well you know if you brought something.
Craig: (goes to the drawer and pulls out a bunch of condoms) Never again will I be without.
Ashley: Thank you so much for doing this.
Craig: I love you.
Ashley: And thank you so much for saying that. Perfect I love you too.
Still in the hotel room, after they had sex (which they didn’t show)
Craig: Salvador Kovac(?). k*ller Rage 2. Oh how about Elimination Round 3?
(Ashley starts crying while Craig is flipping through the channels.)
Craig: I’m sorry! For whatever I did. I instantly apologize.
Craig: Hey! Hey look there’s uh, we got jujubes! Think they’re British. Belgium chocolates? Maybe chips? Maybe not? Hey. Hey Ash.
Ashley: I’m sorry. I’m happy really, just I don’t know overwhelmed. Keep talking please.
Craig: Okay, let’s just uh, let’s just take off. Get an apartment. Anywhere. Vancouver.
Ashley: I hate to leave you.
Craig: So don’t leave me.
Ashley: I have to go to my dad’s.
Craig: Why?! I have food here.
Ashley: He’s my dad.
Craig: But I’m your Craig.
Ashley: Yeah you are and you know what, you’re just as important to me as he is. So get dressed. You’re coming with me.
At the Dot
JT: There she is.
Manny: So. How long have you guys been working together?
Liberty: Dracula is d*ad, but Degrassi the musical is born.
Manny: Say you’re kidding. Please. Anytime?
Liberty: We thought we need to set the thing around a character. Somebody who’s been at the school since it opened. A teacher, a janitor…
JT: A cafeteria worker named…
JT and Liberty: Shelly!
JT: And while she works she sings.
Liberty: (singing) Oh these hallowed halls of stone.
JT: (singing) Make me want to dial home.
Liberty: (singing) Look way up into the sky.
JT: (singing) Degrassi’s name is writ real high.
Manny: Say you’re kidding. Please. Anytime!
JT: She’s right. This is stupid. I quit.
Manny: Go after him. Brainstorm ideas in the hot tub. Something that doesn’t involve me wearing a hairnet. Do it now please Liberty.
At a gay bar
Craig: First real bar we go to.
Ashley: And it’s a gay bar.
Mrs. Kerwin: I need a moment with the maid of honor.
Ashley: Um mom, whatever you have to say to me you can say to Craig too.
Craig: No, it’s okay. You two talk!
Ashley: Dad is marrying a guy tomorrow and I’m dealing with that.
Mrs. Kerwin: It’s not the same thing Ashley.
Ashley: He left you mom for a man and you forgave him. I mean you’re throwing him a wedding! But Craig…
Mrs. Kerwin: Craig broke my daughter’s heart.
Ashley: And I forgave him.
Mrs. Kerwin: Ashley I feel like we just put you back together again.
Ashley: Look mom. I’m really happy so you’re just gonna have to be happy for me.
(A slow song is playing and Craig & Ashley are dancing together.)
Sally: Hi Mrs. Kerwin.
Mrs. Kerwin: Hi Sally!
Toby: Hi Sally. (He has the hots for her)
Craig: This is amazing.
Ashley: I know.
Craig: I want to bottle this. Get drunk on it for the rest of my life.
Ashley: I so, so love you.
(The music changes to some electronic music.)
Ashley: And I so, so wish that didn’t just happen.
Craig: I have to leave for a few minutes.
Ashley: What? Why?
Craig: A half hour! Just stay here!
At Joey’s house
(Craig is rushing around in his closet, while singing and he grabs a suit and a little bag.)
Caitlin: You going out to do a lounge gig?
Craig: Suit’s for the wedding. Ashley’s at the party waiting so bye.
Joey: Woah, Craig, is everything okay?
Craig: Yeah we’re back together. Ash and me. Me and Ash. What was I thinking before? Cheating on her with Manny. Why’d I do that?
Caitlin: People make mistakes.
Craig: Never ever, ever, ever, ever again. Oh I’ll help you guys out later. Tonight I’m at Marco’s!
Back at the bar
Ashley: Craig you’re back! In a suit…
Craig: Can I talk to you for a second?
(He kisses her and pulls out a ring.)
Ashley: It’s a ring.
Craig: Yeah um, it was my mothers.
Ashley: So it’s your mothers ring.
(Craig gets down on one knee and holds out the ring.)
Ashley: Why are you down on one knee.
Craig: Will you marry me?
Ashley: I’m sorry. I can’t.
Craig: No, I actually want you to marry me.
Ashley: Craig I’m, I’m sorry no.
Craig: Just, just. (Tries to put the ring on her finger and she pulls away)
Ashley: Craig.
Craig: Just I want you to marry me!
(Craig stands up and leaves the room angry.)
At Liberty’s, in the hot tub
Danny: How about putting Dracula IN Degrassi?! He turns the teachers into vampires, saving Raditch for last! Huh huh? Good idea huh?!
Liberty: The elders are sleeping Danny.
Danny: You guys aren’t even listening and I’m getting pruned!
JT: I’m experiencing major prunage as well and I’m way too tired for this.
Liberty: What about tomorrow though?! We never cancelled and the whole drama club’s gonna show up.
JT: Yes but, we can’t a musical without any songs.
Liberty: Radishes, radishes, not so sweet. Red and round and gross to eat.
JT: What is that?!
Liberty: A song! Stick a tune on it! (Singing) Radishes, radishes not so sweet. Red and round, gross to eat. They have power, cruel little voices.
JT: (singing) I run Degrassi! You have no choices!
Liberty: No, it’s perfect, we’ll sing it tomorrow and we’ll show Raditch what an idiot he’s being.
JT: We’ll be rebels.
Liberty: Rebels who sing!
JT: There you go! (Shake hands)
Back at the bar
Sally: Tell aunty Sally. Did he let you down easy?
Ashley: Um it’s kind of the opposite of the conversation we had.
Sally: So you’re still together?
Ashley: I don’t know. Craig asked me to marry him.
Sally: Okay, did you say yes?
Ashley: I said more like no…
Sally: But I thought that you loved him?
Ashley: I do. I do love him… Where’s my phone?! I need my phone!
Sally: You’re gonna tell him.
(Craig is in the hotel room going psycho, completely trashing everything and the phone is ringing in the background.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x11 - Voices Carry"} | foreverdreaming |
In the hotel room, Craig is sitting a chair surrounded by the mess he made when the phone rings
Craig: (answering the phone) Hello?
Ashley: Hey you’re there. Finally. I, I called you last night. A couple times this morning.
Craig: I must have had the ringer off. I couldn’t really sleep.
Ashley: You, you need me there with you.
Mrs. Kerwin: Ash! We’re due at the hairdressers.
Ashley: Now I really wish I were there.
Craig: Ash last night I asked you to marry me and you said no.
Ashley: I did.
Craig: Is there a reason you’re calling me first thing? Being all nice?!
Ashley: I, I can’t marry you yet. But I want to. I do.
Craig: So that’s a someday?
Ashley: That’s a yes.
Craig: Oww! Woo! (Hangs up the phone excited and looks at the ring)
At the Dot
Craig: I’m an idiot. Worse. A phenomenal idiot. No worse than that. An unbelievable…
Marco: Look you sounded desperate on the phone okay, which is the only reason I’m here!
Craig: Ashley’s dad. His wedding’s this afternoon. I need a suit.
Marco: So buy a suit.
Craig: A nice suit. Something expensive.
Marco: So avoid cheap and ugly. Craig I don’t see the drama here!
Craig: Look I need to make an impression here. A good one with Ashley’s family and a great one with Ashley!
Marco: So uh what are we shopping with exactly?
Craig: (pulls out the credit card) Solid gold my friend.
(A montage of Craig and Marco going on a shopping spree buying tons of stuff.)
Dylan: Hey! Marco! Craig! Sorry I’m late.
Marco: No problem. My work here is done.
Craig: And I have a gay wedding to go to. I’m so glad that gay’s can get married! That you two can get married! You gays! I mean if you ever wanted to. Great, great!
Dylan: Thanks. For the support…?
In the auditorium
Liberty: So we’re 100% doing this? Click clock, working together?
JT: Raditch isn’t gonna know what h*t him.
Same blonde kid: Later on you will understand how some men so loved her that they could sacrifice so, so… so close.
Alex: You got Raditch to change his mind about the play?
JT: Not yet. Dracula is staked for now.
Blonde kid: You couldn’t tell me this yesterday? I’m wasting my Saturday rehearsing what exactly?
Emma: The Radish Song.
JT: Yes the Radish Song. Sung to the tune twinkle, twinkle little star.
Blonde kid: Radishes, radishes, not so sweet!
Manny: Red and round, gross to eat. Mmm gets even more wicked in an evil sense, but there’s no way I’m doing this.
Liberty: But it’s a song of rebellion. Our not so silent protest against tyranny and oppression.
Alex: I’m all about rebellion. Not so much into getting expelled over a play.
Emma: Sorry guys. A for effort though.
JT: You can’t just leave! United we stand, divided we suck.
Manny: Um if I leave now I can still catch my dad.
JT: Click clock eh?
In the elevator at the hotel
Craig: (talking to some random guy) Nice day. It’s not too warm. Bought this suit. It’s for my girlfriend’s wedding. Of her father. To another guy! Let me start that again. Her father’s uh, her father’s getting married, which is why looking good’s important. What do you think? That look good? Yeah, maybe great? Oh my floor. My gosh. Bye. (Sees a bunch of hotel personal in his room examining the damage) Wrong floor! Crazy, crazy me!
In Jimmy’s hotel room
Craig: Where’s your bathroom?
Jimmy: Uh it’s a bathroom in a bag. I’d go into details but I’m eating.
Craig: I got news! Big news! You ready? (He starts stripping down haha)
Jimmy: What!? No. Hold on!
Craig: First wedding I ever went to was my mom’s to Joey. Spike and Simpson’s was number two. Ash’s dad makes three. See I want to get my practice down, you know? Get things right before my own wedding.
Jimmy: Okay you got time for that.
Craig: I asked Ashley and she said yes.
Jimmy: You’re actually getting married?!
Craig: Congratulations! Anytime…
Jimmy: You’re 16. Don’t you want to wait for I don’t know, graduation? Maybe an occupation?
Craig: (trying to button his cuffs) Could you do this? Please?
Jimmy: Are you drunk? Are you high? Or are you just out of your mind?
Craig: I love her!
Jimmy: Okay that still doesn’t explain what’s up with you or this insane idea!
Craig: Maybe you should just think about it and try to understand. I don’t know. Be happy for me!
At the wedding
The lady marrying them: We’re brought here by one thing, love. It’s a strange thing love. There’s a million poems about it, songs, Hollywood movies too. It’s like we’re trying to tack it down, trying to figure love out, but no words can define love. Just like no laws can properly restrict it. Only thing certain is love is necessary to all of us. That’s why it’s my great pleasure in front of all these people to declare this union official. This union of love.
(Mr. Kerwin and Chris kiss and everyone starts clapping for them.)
At Joey’s house
Joey: It’s here at least it should be. Caitlin do you have enough cash to pay for the Chinese food?
Caitlin: Can’t you put it on your card?
Joey: Well either it’s missing or Craig has stolen it. I can’t believe that kid.
Spike: Ah, happy house painting. My treat.
Joey: Thanks Spike.
Mr. Simpson: Joey um, how’s Craig been lately?
Joey: He’s gonna be a lot worse when I’m done with him.
Mr. Simpson: Actually I’m a bit concerned.
Joey: I’m concerned too. Caitlin’s got first dibs on the chow mein.
Mr. Simpson: Joey…Craig’s dad he wasn’t the most s*ab guy was he?
Joey: Craig is nothing like his dad alright? He’s just being a teenager.
Mr. Simpson: I see a lot of teenagers every day and I’m afraid Craig’s going through something more.
Joey: Look Snake, I appreciate your worry okay? But there’s nothing wrong with Craig that a good grounding won’t take care of alright.
(The phone rings.)
Caitlin: It’s for you.
Joey: Hello? This is Mr. Jeremiah. Damages? My hotel room? How much?!?
Back at the wedding
Mrs. Kerwin: No seriously. As Robert’s ex wife it’s not usual I’d be here, especially since he’s marrying someone younger and prettier than me. Our family may be unusual but it’s one I’m thankful for as I’m sure is our lovely daughter. Stand up Ashley.
Craig: (Craig stands up with her) Hi. Hi I’m Craig Manning. I’m only Ashley’s boyfriend. I’m not part of the unusual family Mrs. Kerwin’s talked about. Not yet!
Mrs. Kerwin: Is there a toast in this Craig?
Craig: There is an announcement.
Ashley: Craig, don’t.
Craig: Ash and I are getting married.
Ashley: Craig!
Craig: (raises his glass as Ashley’s family looks stunned) To us!
Outside the wedding
Craig: Hey, where are you going?
Ashley: What the hell was that?!
Craig: I saw your dad get married.
Ashley: Oh, oh and you thought perfect time to announce our future life!
Craig: This morning you said that you wanted to be together!
Ashley: And right now I’m changing my mind.
Sally: Ashley, are you okay?
Ashley: I will be as soon as Craig leaves.
Craig: You are everything Ash.
Ashley: Craig I want you to go home now.
Craig: Okay. Okay. Alright, but I have to do something first.
Ashley: That’s not home Craig!
Craig: I have to talk to you, both of you and Kate.
Mr. Kerwin: Craig please not in front of the guests.
Craig: It’s urgent.
Mrs. Kerwin: Ashley could you please ask Craig to wait outside.
Ashley: I’m trying mom.
Craig: I love Ashley and to have to keep, have to keep proving that is disrespectful and it’s obnoxious!
Chris: We can talk about this later.
Craig: Oh we can, but we won’t! You’re gonna tell Ash to stop seeing me again and this time, this time she’s gonna listen!
Chris: We can discuss this on the driveway.
Craig: No, let me go!
(Craig falls onto a table and it breaks spilling stuff everywhere.)
Craig: Don’t! (He stands up and walks out)
In the auditorium
Liberty: The enemy approaches. Finally.
Mr. Raditch: Where’s the drama club?
JT: Oh well you know actors. Notoriously late.
Mr. Raditch: You’ve made some progress I assume?
Liberty: We’ve progressed sir and we’d like to sign our progress for you.
Mr. Raditch: Ready when you are JT. Ready for some lighthearted fun.
JT: Picture it. The mid 1980’s.
Liberty: What?
JT: Our heroine, Degrassi’s cafeteria worker has just seen E.T.
Liberty: That’s not the setup.
JT: Just play the song please Liberty.
(She starts playing the piano.)
JT: (singing) Oh these hallowed halls of stone, make me want to dial home. Look way up into the sky, Degrassi’s name is writ real high!
Liberty: And those aren’t the words.
Mr. Raditch: Those were fine words Liberty.
Liberty: A student died in this school Mr. Raditch and fuzzy songs with awkward choreography isn’t going to help us deal with it.
JT: Uh Liberty…
Liberty: (singing) Radishes, radishes not so sweet. Red and round and gross to eat. (Stops singing) They have power and cruel little voices saying I run Degrassi, you have no choices. Ugly and mean and slightly obscene. Stubbornness radishes I’ve ever seen.
Mr. Raditch: Interesting song. I’d appreciate a reprisal. Monday in detention both of you.
At the wedding, Ashley is sitting at a table crying
Craig: (calling Ashley from a pay phone, he’s crying and she won’t pick up) Ash I need you. Need you…I need you! Ash I need you! (He starts slamming the phone)
At Joey’s house
Craig: Joey’s not here is he?
Caitlin: No he’s out looking for you. What happened? Your hand! I’ll get you a towel.
Craig: I should clean up.
Angela: Daddy’s mad you know.
Craig: Angie… listen to me. I need you to give this to Ashley.
Angela: Can I open it?
Craig: It’s just a ring. (She nods and he kisses her forehead) I love you most.
At the wedding
Mr. Kerwin: Ashley, Mr. Jeremiah would like to talk to you.
Joey: Where’s Craig?
Ashley: I don’t know. He’s not here anymore.
Joey: But you know where he is though right? Look I know about the hotel room.
Mrs. Kerwin: Hotel room?!
Ashley: Great.
Joey: What I don’t understand is why did you trash it?! $4000 in damages!
Ashley: I didn’t… Craig. He must have done it last night after he proposed.
Joey: Proposed?!
Mrs. Kerwin: Craig has problems. He’s got a lot of problems.
Ashley: No, no mom he’s not like this. Not ever. Joey, tell her!
Joey: What do I do?! What is happening to my son?
Back at Joey’s
Caitlin: (reading to Angie) Dashed down the steps and across my yard being careful to stay away from the lights.
Craig: Can you give something to Joey?
Caitlin: Craig we know you stole the credit card.
Craig: It’s a check for $3000. It’s all I have. Joey’s credit card is in there too.
Caitlin: Where are you going?
Craig: Back to the wedding…Marco’s…nowhere.
(Joey walks in.)
Craig: The place looks great. I barely recognized it.
Joey: Sit down.
Craig: Caitlin’s got your card.
Joey: You’re not going anywhere. There’s something not right with you.
Craig: I’m fine, I’m fine, I’m fine.
Joey: Sit down.
Craig: Don’t do that! (He pushes Joey against the wall)
Joey: I’m trying to help you here! (Craig jumps on Joey and starts pounding him over and over again)
Caitlin: Craig! Stop it! Craig! Stop it!
Ashley: (walks in) Craig! Craig! Calm down. Craig!
Craig: You came back!
Angela: Daddy! Daddy!
Ashley: (Craig tries to kiss her) Yeah, yeah I did.
Craig: After everything that happened, after all that I did you came back.
Ashley: Craig you need help.
Angela: Daddy are you okay?
(Craig looks at Joey bleeding on the floor and he starts crying.)
Ashley: We’re gonna get you help.
In a classroom
JT: Don’t think of it as detention, think of us as acts of delight (?). Thanks I’m here all week.
Liberty: I don’t know why you’re here. I’m the one that sang the stupid song.
JT: Yeah, but it was totally worth it. The look on Raditch’s face when he fired us!
Liberty: Not helping JT.
JT: I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I chickened out, but what you did, the way that you stood up to Raditch, took guts. Brilliant.
Liberty: You know what I wish I’d done?
(She leans in and kisses him.)
Liberty: I’ve crushed on you for four years!
(He kisses her back.)
JT: My stomach hurts a little.
At the hospital
Craig: I still can’t sleep. I’ve got 17 new songs. More in a week than I’ve written my whole life.
Ashley: But, you’re okay?
Craig: I’m crazy Ash.
Ashley: You’re not crazy.
Craig: Well then explain the medication and this trendy bracelet on my wrist and explain why despite everything they tell me I feel fine.
Ashley: You’re bipolar. You’ve got a chemical imbalance in your brain, but you’re getting help.
Craig: Maybe you should go.
Ashley: I don’t want to.
Craig: Look I won’t blame you if you want to leave. Just go. If I’m sick like they say I am, I’m gonna be managing this for the rest of my life. Medications, shrinks…
Ashley: I’m not leaving Craig.
Craig: The first time we dated was a disaster. This time was a nuclear.
Ashley: We’re not over.
Craig: So you’re here with me?
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At the Dot, Spinner is working, Manny is at the counter
Spinner: I will be right back. Right after I get this. The new manager is a battle axe. I need to boost turnover or else…
Manny: Sweat on you, kind of cute. You sweating on food service items, a little less cute. (Wipes his face with a napkin) All better.
(Spinner leans in and kisses her and Manny breaks away.)
Manny: Oh my god. This is my favorite song ever!
Spinner: Oh my god. My ears are bleeding.
Manny: Why am I your friend?
Spinner: Friend? Uh, you girlfriend. Me boyfriend. You make me bathe daily. Me make you go camping. Now I know, I know we’re not official but we should be so what do you say? Say yes!
In the hallway
Manny: For science you’re gonna have Ms. Hatzilakos and for math Mr. Armstrong. Math is chafe. I hate it.
Chester: So is the royal tour standard Degrassi procedure or is it just cause of the sh**ting?
Manny: The sh**ting is not what our school’s about so I guess the welcoming committee is just me trying to show people that there’s other stuff. The cafeteria is next. Tasty burritos!
Mr. Simpson: (On the PA system) Please excuse the interruption. Would Paige Michalchuk and Marco Del Rossi please report to the principals office.
Manny: This is Craig Manning from grade 11. This is Chester’s first day.
Craig: Oh cool. Welcome. Could I talk to you for a second?
Manny: Um actually I’m just…
Chester: This way to los burritos?
Manny: Yeah…
Craig: So a lot has been going on in my head lately, including thinking about last year.
Manny: Craig, it’s okay.
Craig: No it’s not okay. I made a lot of mistakes since coming here, but you were probably the biggest. (She starts walking away and he stops her) I mean if I could go back in time I would have stopped that night. Saved us both a lot of pain.
Manny: That’s all you think it was? A lot of pain? Gee thanks for your apology, but I’m fine!
Outside the principal’s office
Paige: Mademoiselle spirit squad, Mr. Pres that’s why we were called down.
Marco: Yeah but what if it’s not?! What if we’ve done something bad? Will it go on my record?! Paige! Will it cost me getting into the school of my choice?!
Paige: It’s gonna cost you a hand-shaped welt if you don’t calm down. Manny, Hun what are you up to?
Manny: I’m just going to math unfortunately.
Paige: Well because I’m so nice you can take my Raditch meeting instead ok?!
Manny: Raditch? I’m actually really…
(Paige walks away.)
Manny: Um sometimes I so hate that girl.
In the hallway
Paige: Uh left side, smidge low. Don’t they teach displays at teacher school?
Matt: Yeah it’s my minor.
Paige: Social faux pas uh it’s not really me, which is why showing up at the bar that night, it makes me a complete dork.
Matt: Yeah well, dork with a lot of guts. That’s a pretty good fake ID.
Paige: Yeah I uh know the right people. So uh…Charlie. Pretty. Great sense of humour. Total package.
Matt: Yeah and now she’s uh totally my past. We broke up. Not because of us. Not that there uh, not that there is an us. Charlie and I were just not working out.
Paige: You’re what? My brother’s age? A year older than that? He’s dating Marco.
Matt: He’s not Marco’s teacher.
Paige: Well you’re not mine. Not really.
Mr. Simpson: Paige, class isn’t quite the same without you talking to Hazel so…
Back at the principal’s office
Mr. Raditch: If you’re waiting for the principal and I assume you are, I’m not the principal you’re waiting for. She’s inside.
Manny: Is that like a riddle sir?!?
Mr. Raditch: No. It’s like the board has assigned me to another school. (He leaves angry)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Surprise, surprise!
Marco: Woah you’re our new principal?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Yes I am. For the time being. So where’s Paige?
Manny: I’m Paige, for the time being!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Alright. So, the board has done their part in helping everyone deal with the sh**ting and now it’s our turn. We need to bring school spirit back.
Manny: What about the school play?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Ah that’s my next meeting. With JT and Liberty, I’m gonna green light their project!
Marco: This is great! For so many reasons!
Manny: Marco thought we were in trouble.
Marco: Shut up Manny.
Ms. Hatzilakos: No. You’re not in trouble at all. In fact we need some more great ideas. When I say ‘we’, I mean you two.
In the hallway
Manny: So she wants us to organize this huge event to raise school spirit. Isn’t that amazing?
Emma: Yeah that’s cool.
Manny: I need ideas Emma please help me. Now,please!
Emma: I’m sure you’ll think of something.
(Emma walks away and Manny looks kind of hurt, then Spinner comes up behind her with a stuffed llama.)
Spinner: Baa. Baa. Well hi I’m Lala Llama from fluffy fluff collections.
Manny: It’s so cute.
Spinner: Cool. Um, so about what I asked you yesterday…
Manny: We’re having fun right? So why do we have to go and make it all official?
Spinner: ‘Cause that’s what couples do.
Manny: Ooh yikes I so have to run, but thanks for the llama! (Blows him a kiss as she walks away)
Outside the school
Marco: Alright so what do you got? h*t me!
Manny: Um… I’m thinking fun fair and fieldtrip!
Marco: What?! No come on that’s too junior high.
Manny: You just want a dance. Admit it!
Chester: Everybody likes a dance. The young, the old. My ex-school had this great dance this one time. It was a Cupid theme. Everybody paired off by computer.
Marco: Electronic ice-breaking. Nice.
Chester: The idea’s yours if you want it…of course it’ll cost you a free ticket and a dance… (He walks away smiling at her)
Marco: You know I think he was talking to you!
In school, Manny is talking on the TV
Manny: And this Friday we’re having a major dance. Hold on to your hearts as cupid has his way. Computer’s will be set up around the school. Answer a few questions and when you arrive at the dance your love match will be waiting!
In Yoga class
Marco: Mr. Oleander’s a teacher Paige.
Paige: Thanks Marco, I didn’t realize that.
Marco: Well you keep talking about him like he’s some hot 12th grader or something.
Paige: No he’s a big baby who won’t take the next step. Won’t even crawl towards it. Ow leg cramp.
Marco: Ow. Wise decision.
Paige: It’s not a decision. I can’t turn off how I feel. Fine it’s not conventional, but I thought you of all people would understand.
Marco: What do you want me to do?
Paige: Be on my side for starters.
Ms. Kwan: Namaste, yogis and yogini’s.
Paige: Um Ms. Kwan this is Mr. Oleanders Ashtanga class.
Ms. Kwan: Not anymore. With his workload, yoga was too much of a commitment.
In the computer lab
Chester: So you and Marco have passwords. You can access the program before the dance and generate your results.
Manny: Wow you make it sound cool.
Chester: Well basically you plug in a name, then you answer fields like favorite superhero.
Manny: Does Bubbles from the Powerpuff Girls count?
Chester: No. How about favorite movie?
Manny: Ooh definitely Honey.
Chester: Boyfriend’s name?
Manny: I don’t have one. Nothing serious anyway. So why don’t you put in your name? Just for fun.
Chester: Okay. (The screen shows they’re compatible) Compatible…even if we are the only two people in the program.
(Spinner sees the two of them looking close and knocks on the door.)
Manny: Thanks Chester. It’s gonna be amazing. I’ll make sure that Marco gets his password.
Outside
Spinner: Banana sandwich for your thoughts? Not about that kid are they?
Manny: Who Chester? No. No. I’m just distracted lately ‘cause I’m organizing this entire dance.
Spinner: With Marco, who I’ve spoken to oh I don’t know eight times today.
Manny: Look, I’m sorry. Tomorrow every single dance is yours. You’ll get sick of all the attention.
Spinner: I work tomorrow night.
Manny: So? Ask for it off. Say you’re sick or something.
Spinner: I can’t! Grim Reaper will f*re me.
Manny: My own boyfriend can’t make it to my dance!
Spinner: Boyfriend? Funny I thought we were just dating.
Manny: You don’t want me to be your girlfriend. You just think it’s what couples do and you’re not gonna convince me with a stupid stuffed llama for ten year olds. Craig gave me one two years ago.
Spinner: What are you talking about?
Manny: If you can’t commit to a simple dance, how can you commit to me?
Spinner: Manny!
In the auditorium
Mr. Raditch: I love Degrassi. It’s been such an important part of my life, but all good things must come to an end. I look forward to the challenges and opportunities that are set out before me, as does your new acting principal Ms. Hatzilakos.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Thank you Mr. Raditch. And thank you for your many years of dedicated service to this school and students. (She keeps talking as it cuts to Marco and Manny)
Marco: You dumped Spin because of a dance?!
Manny: I didn’t dump Spin because we were never going out.
Marco: He’s heartbroken. You know that right?
Manny: So am I. It wasn’t working out and we need to move on.
Marco: Why?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Marco? The um present?
Marco: Yeah.
Mr. Raditch: Thank you. Thanks.
Marco: This is on behalf of all the students here at Degrassi, Mr. Raditch. We’re gonna miss you.
Mr. Raditch: Thank you. Thanks. (Everyone’s clapping)
In the computer lab
(Manny sees that she is paired with Danny and Chester is paired with Darcy so she changes her answers to match Chester’s.)
At the dance
Manny: I have to go home and change so where’s my true love-a-gram. (Marco hands her the sheet) Danny?!
Danny: Oh Manuella!
Manny: I used to baby-sit you.
Danny: So let’s take it to the next level!
Manny: I was supposed to get Chester. (She hits Marco on the shoulder)
Marco: First of all, ow! And second, the computer decides Manny. Not you.
Manny: (Sees Chester and Darcy dancing) Why would she do this to me?!
Marco: Why would you do this to Spin?
Manny: Excuse me?!
Marco: He loves you okay?! And I know you care about him so stop being afraid of what happened last year with Craig and just take a chance! You needed to hear it from someone.
Manny: And you need to get over yourself!
(Walks over to Chester and Darcy.)
Manny: Hey! Congrats on the kismet.
Darcy: Um, hey Manny.
Manny: Hey. So Chester I owe you. Your theme…You wanna dance?
Chester: You’re right.
Darcy: I’m just gonna get a bag of chips. Do you want anything Chester?
Chester: No I’m fine as is.
(Manny and Chester start dancing.)
Back at the entrance of the dance
Paige: Partner me, Del Rossi.
Matt: So who’s the lucky guy?
Paige: Isn’t that odd. It’s you! And uh, who did you get Mr. O?
Matt: I’m not a student. I didn’t participate Paige. (He walks away)
Paige: What do I do?!
Marco: Don’t ask me. As of now Paige, you’re fresh out of Marco’s favors.
Back in the dance
(Spinner comes up behind Manny and hugs her.)
Spinner: I was at the Dot and I thought I can clear plates anywhere, but where do I order me another Manny?
Manny: I told you…
Spinner: I know, I know. I should have taken the night off, plus given you a real reason why I want us to be official. I want you to be my girlfriend because we have fun, because you make me happy and I want you to be my girlfriend because I can’t imagine it any other way.
Manny: You’re on the rebound.
Spinner: That doesn’t mean anything.
Manny: It means everything! Rebounds never work out so we end it now before either of us get hurt.
Chester: I thought you’d want the pink pop.
Spinner: She doesn’t know what she wants.
(Spinner walks away and Manny & Chester are dancing when her song comes on.)
Manny: Do you love this song?! I love it.
Chester: It’s a bit Britney, but uh sure.
(Manny starts busting a move…really badly (lol) and everyone starts laughing at her.)
Chester: Let’s go get some air or something!
Manny: Okay as soon as this song ends! (She keeps dancing)
Chester: I’m gonna go now. Uh meet me in the hall with the stripes.
Ms. Hatzilakos: There you are! Thanks for all your work tonight. Such a success!
In the hallway
Matt: Why are you acting like this?
Paige: Why do you care? You’re only my teacher remember!
Matt: If you’re gonna behave like this…
Paige: What you’ll give me a detention?!
Matt: Stop trying to provoke me Paige.
Paige: Stop acting like a jealous boyfriend. You either like me or you don’t!
(He leans in to kiss her and Manny interrupts them.)
Manny: I’m sorry. Sorry for…
(He walks away.)
Paige: Matt!
In another hallway
Chester: Manny. There you are. Look I’m sorry about the dance floor. Everyone was watching and-
Manny: So?
Chester: I don’t know. I get embarrassed.
Manny: I’m sorry for being embarrassing.
Chester: No I didn’t mean that. Can we just start again? (He kisses her and she pulls back)
Manny: What am I doing?
Chester: It’s okay. Let’s just go back to the dance.
Manny: I’m sorry Chester.
Chester: It’s ‘cause I’m the new kid on the block?
Manny: No. No. You’re a nice guy. It’s just… I have a boyfriend.
Chester: Welcome to Degrassi.
Outside
Paige: Matt!
Matt: Go home Paige. You’ve already caused enough damage tonight.
Paige: I’m sorry.
Matt: No you know I’m sorry… I shouldn’t have been…
Paige: We were both there and I understand if you can’t do this.
(Matt leans in and kisses her.)
Paige: Matt…
Matt: Okay. Well we can’t get caught. Not again. But we have to meet off school grounds.
Paige: Like this bus stop. It’s technically city property and at Degrassi we’re totally normal.
Matt: Totally. Till you turn…
Paige: It’s not so long at all.
Outside the Dot
Manny: You were wrong earlier when you said I didn’t know what I wanted.
Spinner: Okay.
Manny: Last year with Craig, what he did to me and how he treated me, it hurt. So much. So what I want is to never ever feel that way again.
Spinner: Okay.
Manny: You have to promise me, promise me that you’ll never ever break my heart.
Spinner: Okay?
Manny: No, not okay Spin. Promise me.
Spinner: I promise. I will never hurt you.
Manny: Yes.
(They kiss.)
Scenes for next week
JT: Three beauties. Three beauties! Emma! (Emma is backstage and Jay is rubbing her shoulder/arm)
Emma: (on stage) Sorry! We are ravenous-
Emma: (to the camera) The play’s the thing, but for me, the real drama is backstage.
Spike: Stop letting friends over, no dates.
Voiceover: In the aftermath of the sh**ting.
Spike: Are you okay?
Voiceover: Emma’s found herself in a dark place.
Emma: What’s in the van?!
Jay: (fastening a bracelet around Emma’s wrist in the van) Hey every player gets a prize.
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In the auditorium, during play rehearsal
Danny: Sixteen lay. Castle Dracula will die in it’s prisoner. Worse, I fear I may be going mad. (He keeps talking as Jay walks up to Emma and feels her shoulder)
Jay: You’re tense.
Emma: I’m always tense.
Jay: Snap in half if you don’t relax. (His hand touches down her arm, then her ass)
JT: Three beauties! Three beauties! Emma!
Emma: Sorry! We are ravenous.
Alex: We hunger, we long.
Amy: Tonight we feast.
Outside a classroom
Some teacher: Emma would you like to see a draft of your participation grade? (He raises then lowers his arm to show she’s at zero) I know you went through a lot after the sh**ting. The grace period is coming to an end, okay?
(Emma walks away and sees Jay and Alex making out.)
Jay: Why don’t you take a picture? It’ll last longer.
Alex: You could sell it online for big p*rn bucks!
(Emma walks away and Jay looks back at her.)
Outside the school
Ellie: (waving a magazine in front of Ashley) I have to parade anorexic fashion victims to get your attention?!
Ashley: Worrying about Craig as usual.
Ellie: So not your job to worry. Trust another sicko here.
Craig: Who’s a sicko?
Ellie: Me, after seeing that compost on your tray.
Craig: Goulash.
Ellie: It’s goodbye! (She leaves)
Ashley: So how was shrink time?
Craig: What were you guys talking about?
Ashley: I haven’t told Ellie, don’t worry.
Craig: Mmm goulash. I figure any food with ‘gou’ in the name has to be good.
Ashley: Have you ever thought about going to a support group?
Craig: For goulash lovers?
Ashley: No. No there’s a mental health group for teens tonight at the rec centre.
Craig: Have you not noticed my desperate urge to talk about something else?
Ashley: Look it’s one night and if you hate it, then don’t go back.
Craig: Prediction? I will hate it.
Ashley: So you’ll go? Good.
In the auditorium
JT: Okay act 1, scene 5.
(Manny and Darcy walk up on stage.)
JT: And go!
Manny: But surely dearest Mina I should know it if I walked in my sleep.
Darcy: Dearest Lucy. Line?
Emma: You arose four times from bed.
Darcy: Oh right. You got up four times and…what did she do…
JT: This is my leading lady?! Three days till opening?!
Liberty: Patience my hot-headed paramour.
JT: But she’s paraphrasing your words my talented inamorata.
Emma: You dressed yourself completely.
Darcy: I think prompting is Liberty’s job!
Ms. Kwan: Perhaps we ought to take a break.
JT: Listen! I’m directing and playing Van Helsing and I know my lines…
Darcy: Well maybe if you’d stop changing the blocking every 5 minutes then…
JT: I know! How about I change the casting instead?!
Darcy: Okay, are you f*ring me?
JT: Can’t if you resign first.
Darcy: Fine then I curse you! Macbeth!
Backstage
Manny: Drive a stake through this play’s heart. They have to cancel it.
Amy: They could let me play Mina. Me, the beautiful virgin.
Alex: Now that’s acting.
Emma: Dearest Lucy I swear you arose four times from bed. You dressed yourself completely.
Manny: Em you could do it! Just go ask.
Emma: I b*mb the audition. Just because Darcy quit doesn’t mean they changed their minds about me.
Amy: Where are my bracelets?
Alex: Those wire things? They’re worth a nickel. Big whoop.
Amy: It is. Who took them?!
Manny: Look. Come over tonight. Liberty and I are giving each other mani/pedis and we can do yours too.
Emma: You’d probably have more fun without my hands and feet tagging along.
(Emma grabs her stuff and sees Amy’s bracelets underneath.)
Emma: Amy?
Amy: Give me those!
At the support group
Nancy: I gained so much weight I could hear my entire ballet class thinking ‘what’s she been eating?!’
Nigel: So you reveal yourself as an anorexic depressive instead?!
Leader: I think Nancy was saying it was a positive experience for her Nigel.
Craig: I’m with him. I wouldn’t tell anyone I didn’t have to.
Leader: Well let’s talk about why you feel that.
Craig: Okay. Once people think you’re crazy I think they just think about that. They stop treating you like you’re you.
Ellie: Sorry I’m late.
Leader: Welcome Ellie. We’re talking about stigmatization. Craig?
Craig: That’s all I had to say.
Outside Degrassi
Jay: (Drives up in his car) You know my ride’s got 16 independent speakers.
Emma: I do now.
Jay: Some of us got places to be…
(Emma gets in.)
Emma: Thanks. Um my house is…
Jay: I dropped you off before remember? After Sean ran home to mommy dearest. Kind of sucks without him.
Emma: Yeah I miss him too.
Jay: I didn’t say that! Don’t go getting all mushy on me Greenpeace.
(He drops her off at home.)
Emma: Okay thanks.
Jay: Going to Bennett park later.
Emma: Yeah?
Jay: Bunch of us hang out there.
(Emma smiles as she gets out.)
Inside Emma’s, Spike and Snake are talking while Emma listens
Spike: I’m worried Snake.
Mr. Simpson: I’m sure she’s okay.
Spike: She’s stopped bringing friends over, no dates. I feel like she just didn’t get over the sh**ting.
Mr. Simpson: Most of the kids at school have, but most kids didn’t watch someone die.
Spike: I know. I guess if you clump that together with being a teenage girl.
Emma: Hello? Anybody home?
Mr. Simpson: Hey! It’s the Emma Nelson show! Starring Emma Nelson!
Emma: Rehearsal was fantastic. I just cant wait till you guys see Dracula.
Spike: Me neither hunny.
Mr. Simpson: We waited for you for dinner. It’s gardeners pie!
Emma: Ooh veggie-licious! But I had pizza after rehearsal so I’m stuffed.
Spike: Honey are you okay?
Emma: Uh huh. I’ve got a ton of work to do on my lines though. So good night.
In Emma’s basement
(Emma’s cell phone rings and it shows Manny’s number, but Emma doesn’t pick up. She climbs out the window.)
At the ravine
Emma: Is this seat taken?
Jay: It is now.
Emma: Are you surprised to see me?
(Jay shakes his head.)
Emma: Do you think I’m weird?
Jay: Now there’s a loaded question.
Emma: Everyone’s been acting like I belong in a straight jacket.
Jay: Well that’s their problem. You’re no weirder than the rest of us.
(Emma sees Amy and some guy leave the van.)
Emma: What’s in the van?
Jay: What do you thinks in the van?
Emma: Beer? More beer? Smelly, shag carpeting from the 70s?
Jay: Wanna see?
(They go into the van.)
Emma: This is fully anti-climactic. Come out, come out wherever you are.
Jay: Hey. (He kisses her and she pulls back) It’s for hooking up.
Emma: What?!
Jay: You know what blow jobs are don’t you?
(She tries to leave, but he pulls her back and puts a bracelet on her wrist.)
Jay: Hey! Every player gets a prize.
(Emma leaves the van and runs away.)
In a classroom
JT: Forgive me Libby Tibby, my ickle knobby wobby pumpkin head! Pwease!
Liberty: Do I honestly strike you as a baby talk person? We fired Darcy and now we have zip, zero, zilch!
Emma: Let me be as your lighthouse! A canary for your coal mine. Let Dracula come to my breast and I will allow him sustenance!
JT: How do you know that?
Liberty: Oh no.
Emma: I auditioned for Mina remember?
Liberty: We need reliable. Rock solid.
Emma: I do rock solid pretty well.
Liberty: Day before yesterday you missed your cue. Last night you didn’t even show up to Manny’s! Everyone knows you’re off or whatever.
Emma: I’m not off! I’m your Mina. I know the blocking!
JT: So corsets, ever worn one?
At Craig’s locker
Ashley: So my dad and Chris got back from Puerto Vallarta last night. Apparently it’s gay honeymooner paradise. They asked about you.
Craig: Crazy Craig? What’d you tell them? Oh! I bet everything!
Ashley: Okay. It’s a good thing I know mood swings are common when you first start meds.
Craig: You sent me to Ellie’s group!
Ashley: Which she loves. I didn’t think you’d mind.
Craig: Well then you didn’t think at all!
In the auditorium
JT: Alright everyone. Put your fangs together for Emma. Yay. Alright let’s jump right to the deep end with act 2, scene 7. And go!
Nate: But my brain says come to you. You shall cross land or sea to do my bidding and to that end…this! (?)
Emma: But no! I cannot.
(He leans in to kiss her and Emma starts laughing.)
JT: Emma. Script says you kiss him. So kiss him!
Emma: Okay. I’m sorry. It’s just weird doing this in front of everybody.
JT: It’s not real. There’s no forth wall. Next play Liberty, unionized actors!
Emma: Sorry I’ll get it by tomorrow okay? Promise.
JT: Fine. Tomorrow. Don’t let me down. Okay, uh set change for scene 1. Go.
Backstage
Alex: Give you one minute with Nate, you’d do better than that.
Amy: I’d eat him all up. You’d just see his big manly shoes sticking out. For the sake of guys everywhere I hope she becomes a nun. One of them big ones that sing all the time.
Alex: Aw, Amy that’s mean. The poor girl suffers from penis-aphobia. Her mom can’t even buy bananas!
Amy: One time they gave her a hotdog, she threw up for a week.
Alex: Simpson has to keep his jockey shorts locked in a shed out back or she wont go into the house.
(Emma reaches across the table so Amy can see her bracelet.)
Amy: Is that mine?!
Emma: No it’s mine!
Alex: What was that about?
Outside Degrassi
Emma: Jay! Hey! Did you know I’ve only been in a car with 16 speakers twice?!
Jay: Who are you?!
Emma: Amy was being really mean about rehearsal and what happened so I showed her the bracelet and she shut right up! It’s Amy-kryptonite!
Jay: This isn’t some brownie badge competition. Maybe you’re the one who needs to shut up. You didn’t earn anything. Amy did.
Emma: She earned them from you?
Jay: There are a lot of girls down that ravine Emma. I picked you.
-At Craig’s house-
Ellie: Know how to re-string a guitar?
Craig: Get Ash to. She’s good at forcing things.
Ellie: Like forcing me to come here with this paper-thin guitar excuse? Craig. I used to cut myself.
Craig: I know.
Ellie: And what’s bizarre is that I’m always gonna be a cutter. Even if I don’t do it for years it’s still me.
Craig: Well that sucks.
Ellie: It just, it just is. It doesn’t matter how I feel or how anyone else feels.
Craig: I’m bipolar. And apparently it doesn’t matter if I think that sucks either.
Ellie: I think Kurt Cobain was bipolar.
Craig: Yeah.
Ellie: If he just accepted it maybe it all would have been different. Nigel from group manages okay.
Craig: He seemed cool.
Ellie: He is! You should come back! And you should probably call Ash.
Craig: Why? Why? Cause I bit her head off in the middle of the school?
Ellie: Yeah.
Craig: All she talks about lately is medication, my shrink and my moods!
Ellie: She cares about you. A lot.
Craig: I know.
At the ravine
Jay: You already had the tour.
Emma: Show me again. Show me again for real.
Jay: After you.
At Craig’s
Ashley: I should have told you sooner that it was Ellie’s group.
Craig: But uh, I still liked it. I’m gonna go again next week.
Ashley: You are?
Craig: Ash. I wanna be your boyfriend.
Ashley: Of course. We went through this a couple months ago remember?
Craig: I want to be that boyfriend not the oooohh, not the crazy guy you got to save all the time. I want to talk about music and movies and yes, goulash!
Ashley: Okay. Got it.
Craig: Good. So…
(Ashley leans in and kisses him.)
At Emma’s, she’s sneaking back inside and Spike & Snake are standing there
Spike: Well?!?
Emma: I went for a walk.
Mr. Simpson: It’s two in the morning!
Spike: What is wrong with you?!
Emma: (starts crying) I can’t sleep. I haven’t been ever since the sh**ting. I didn’t want to upset you guys, but since then I was so scared…
Spike: Oh honey.
Mr. Simpson: Do you want to go to bed Em? There’s always tomorrow to talk.
Emma: Okay. Yeah.
Spike: You’ll be able to sleep?
Emma: Don’t worry mom. (She hugs Spike)
Spike: Nighty night.
(They leave and Emma wipes away the tears, smiling and looks at her bracelets.)
Scenes for next week
Alex: (Slaps Amy) Tell me about the ravine, Amy! About what you did with my boyfriend, Amy?! And the bracelets you got for it?!
Emma: (To the camera) It's not like I'm the first girl to ever do it, you know.
Manny: You're better than this! You're better than what you're doing!
Emma: What do you know about who I am, or what I'm worth or anything?!
Voiceover: No one understands what Emma is doing.
Emma: (to Jay) I think I need another bracelet.
Voiceover: And the effects it could have.
Snake: I need a minute with my daughter.
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At Degrassi, Emma is walking into school as Jay is lifting up Alex
Alex: Ow, stop.
Amy: I love how mature your boyfriend is.
Alex: Put me down. Great the first doctor’s note I have that isn’t a forgery and Mr. ‘I can pick up a girl’ has to make it look all suspicious.
(Emma and Jay look at each other, so he kisses Alex.)
Nate: Hey Emma, did JT say where we’re supposed to leave our costumes?
(Emma kisses Nate, as Jay, Snake and Manny all watch shocked.)
Nate: I’ve had more conversations with the janitor than I’ve had with you.
Emma: I was acting. Just kissing all my nerves out pre-dress rehearsal. But don’t worry Nate. I’ll wait for my cue next time!
In the library, Jay grabs Emma
Jay: Are you hot for Dracula? Or are you trying to mess with me?
Emma: Are you gonna be in the ravine again tonight? Are we gonna party? I think I need another bracelet.
Jay: I don’t like being messed with, okay?
Emma: I know.
Mr. Simpson: I need a minute with my daughter.
Jay: Oh that’s adorable, sir.
Mr. Simpson: Cut the commentary Jason. Go.
(Jay leaves.)
Emma: And stand by for concerned father figure lecture.
Mr. Simpson: You come in at 3 in the morning hysterical, crying, wanting to talk about the sh**ting and now you’re kissing random guys?
Emma: It wasn’t random.
Mr. Simpson: Please Em. Let me, let me be here for you. Let me talk to you.
Emma: The bell’s gonna go.
At the hospital, Marco is taking a picture of Jimmy and a nurse
Paula: Thanks Marco. Taping this one right to my computer monitor. Take care Jimmy.
Jimmy: Poor nurse Paula. She’s gonna miss me, but home has a full fridge and a wide screen.
Marco: Craig and I can come, hang out, without visiting hours! We can play Kid Elrick as loud as we want!
Craig: Yeah, your dad can tuck you in instead of nurse Paula!
Jimmy: She’s the only thing I’m gonna miss about this place.
(Jimmy’s dad knocks on the door.)
Jimmy: Block the doorway pops! No time for speed bumps. You ready?
Mr. Brooks: You look good Jim.
Jimmy: I don’t like you look good Jim.
Mr. Brooks: The rails they’re putting in at the condo, they’re not done. Not yet.
Jimmy: So?
Mr. Brooks: So I’m all over the contractors.
Jimmy: So?
Mr. Brooks: One more week tops! Maybe sooner if I can string it.
Craig: Mr. Brooks, Jimmy gets around well.
Mr. Brooks: I know Jimmy’s made great progress but I can’t be with him 24/7 right now and I don’t want something happening. Something that’s gonna trash all the progress that he’s made.
Marco: He really wants to go. What about Mrs. Brooks or a nurse?! I mean we could even help out!
Jimmy: Forget it guys. Whatever.
In the auditorium, Danny is on stage
Danny: Sixteenth, May. Castle Dracula, his avital prison and die in it’s prisoner. Worse. I fear I may be going mad! (He keeps talking and it cuts to Emma & Manny)
Manny: If Nate was fifty and fat you could have caused cardiac arrest.
Emma: Anything for the theatre!
Liberty: Shh!
Manny: I need complete teen girl details! Why, good, tongue, like it or not. Bring the answers over tonight.
Emma: I have to go to the ravine tonight. I’m meeting some people.
JT: Is it too much to ask for silence in the peanut gallery!
Danny: There in the moonlight were three young women. Three…
JT: Am I ever gonna get three of them?
Amy: Alex was at the doctor’s. She should be back.
(Alex and Jay come rushing in.)
Jay: Lexy it was nothing. Come on!
JT: Lexy is late for her scene!
Alex: You want a scene JT?! Hey best friend Amy let’s give JT a scene! *She smacks Amy nice and hard* Tell me about the ravine Amy! About how you went down on my boyfriend, Amy and the bracelets you got for it!
Amy: I didn’t sleep with him!
(Manny sees Emma covering up her bracelets.)
Alex: By who’s definition?!
Jay: Let’s step outside Alex.
Alex: Don’t touch me. Don’t talk to me. I’ll deck your smug face too!
At the hospital
Paula: Shake it off mopey Brooks.
Jimmy: I’m not mopey!
Paula: You know a chair’s only a prison if you let it be.
Jimmy: Stop the inspirational quotes. I’m not buying it.
Paula: What you shouldn’t buy is your dad’s attitude. You and I both know Jimmy Brooks can do whatever he sets his mind to. At least I know it.
Outside the school
Manny: It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure it out. Why would you hook up with Jay? Are you in love with him?
Emma: No! Of course not.
Manny: So, what do you get out of it?!
Emma: That’s a really stupid question.
Manny: No, what you’re doing is stupid. You’re letting a disgusting bottom feeder use you to serial cheat on his girlfriend!
Emma: Should you really be preaching to anyone about that?! We’re not having real sex.
Manny: It’s pretty close.
Emma: But I’m not getting pregnant.
Manny: Why are you trying to hurt me?
Emma: Cause you won’t leave me alone!
Manny: You’re better than this! You’re better than what you’re doing!
Emma: What do you know about who I am or what I’m worth or anything?!
At the hospital
Marco: Special delivery from the sorry your dadda sucks pizzeria!
Jimmy: Uh I’ll hold out till tomorrow.
Craig: What’s tomorrow?
Jimmy: Student council prez man gets you both out of school and then you come over here and bust me out.
Craig: Sounds like trouble.
Marco: (stuttering) I’m not good with trouble.
Jimmy: I need to see something beyond you two and these ugly ass walls.
Marco: Tomorrow.
Craig: You’re Houdini on wheels!
Jimmy: (Pulls out a newspaper) Okay and Houdini wants to see Kid Elrick live tomorrow night! Yeah!
At the ravine
Emma: Hey have you seen Jay?
Some guy: Hang with me instead. You could use another friend right?
Emma: Friends with benefits.
Some guy: Hey we could all use a good benefit too.
Emma: Maybe next time.
(Emma leaves and finds Jay’s car.)
Emma: Jay. Can I climb in? I went to the ravine, but you weren’t there
Jay: My day kind of sucked in case you didn’t notice.
Emma: So let’s make you feel better.
Jay: Alex is sick with some thing. She thinks I gave it to her and she won’t talk to me so I don’t feel like it tonight.
Emma: Oh you gonna cry now?!
Jay: You are one cold girl.
Emma: There’s a ton of guys who would love a chance to be with me.
Jay: Right now, I’m not one of them.
At the hospital, Marco and Jimmy are wearing black hoods
Jimmy: It’s uh sweet of you to bring this incredible disguise. Hate to tell you but uh it does absolutely nothing to hide this enormous shiny mass of scrap metal that I’m sitting in.
Marco: I though it’d be cool to look like ninjas. Hush! He’s coming! Here he comes!
(Craig walks in wearing a trench coat and a hat.)
Craig: I’m here for Dr. Shinklehatin.
Receptionist: I’m sorry?
Craig: I mean Dr. Shpitzlehaven.
Receptionist: Sir I’m afraid we don’t have anyone here by that name.
(The phone rings.)
Receptionist: HS Rye Recovery Centre. Good afternoon.
Craig: Dr. Shpilkimishin?!?
Marco: (On a cell phone) This is uh, This is uh, Dr. Smitgiztinsky. It’s an emergency of the highest degree.
(Craig starts breathing loudly and grabs his chest.)
Receptionist: Are you okay sir?
Craig: Go get Dr. Shunckenhoser!
Marco: The man in front of you is uh extremely dangerous. I ask you to leave the area. Abandon it now!
Receptionist: (As she’s getting up to run away) Could you uh wait here sir…
Craig: Go get Dr. Shuckenhoser!
(The guys quickly rush for the door.)
Marco: Go! Go! Let’s go!
In the auditorium
Emma: Jay! Jay. Um…about last night.
Jay: You alright?
Emma: Yeah. It’s just a sore throat. That’s all. I don’t care about Alex or anything you know. Really I don’t.
JT: Raw egg, honey and lemon. Drink
Emma: JT! My voice is just tired. That’s all.
JT: Just drink okay? You told me you’d be able to do the show, so you’re gonna do the show, period.
Emma: Ugh. This stuff is so rude.
In a classroom
Teacher: Come on, take your seat the both of you!
JT: Public health nurse? Oh goody. Another evil omen to put me at calm.
Nurse: Show of hands. Oral sex is safer than regular intercourse?
(A few people put up their hands.)
Nurse: Okay. We think there’s been a mini outbreak. Here. At Degrassi. Of this.
Manny: Gonorrhea!?!
(Everyone looks at her.)
Manny: Sorry. Did I just say that out loud…?
Nurse: It’s not a very nice word is it? Gonorrhea. And how do you know if you have gonorrhea? Well…some symptoms are genital dischard, bleeding, burning, orally you might get a fever or sore throat
JT: Hey Em. You got something to tell us?
Emma: Shut up.
Nurse: And sometimes those with the disease show no symptoms at all. Lucky, you might think. Think again. Untreated gonorrhea can cause arthritis, heart disease, infertility. Okay. Recognize this? (Picture of a condom) Good. If you’ve had any sex without using one of these you are at risk. This applies to oral sex as well. Especially if you’ve had it with a bunch of people or if your partner has.
At the concert
Jimmy: That was so incredibly stupid.
Craig: You’re here aren’t you?! Breathing fresh bar air.
(Two girls walk by and smile at Jimmy.)
Marco: Mr. mobility just got checked out.
Jimmy: It was more like a ‘what’s with the gimp, drive-by’.
(Jimmy backs his chair into a guy who spills his food.)
Jimmy: Oh. Man, I’m so sorry.
The guy: Leave it.
Jimmy: You sure? I’m really sorry. Okay guys lets go back. Now.
Craig: Not unless the Kid is performing live in your hospital. Come on!
Backstage at the school
Liberty: I can’t believe I have to be Alex. Tell me you’re as nervous as I am!
Manny: Is the Pope a Catholic? Does Jay have gonorrhea?
Emma: Manny.
Manny: Amy and Alex happen to be sick? What are you gonna do out there?
Emma: I’m Emma. I play the part of Mina.
Manny: If you have any conscience at all you will not kiss Dracula.
(Emma gives her a dirty look and grabs her stuff.)
Manny: Emma!
Back at the concert
Jimmy: The Kid’s gonna be on any second. I can’t see a thing.
Marco: There aren’t really any wheelchair seats. There aren’t any seats.
Craig: Maybe there’s some down in front.
Marco: Maybe there’s a manager.
Jimmy: You guys can’t leave me here.
Craig: Just two seconds, ok buddy?!
(The show starts.)
Jimmy: Excuse me! Excuse me! Excuse me! I can’t really see.
The guy: No problem man.
(Jimmy wheels his chair to the front and he starts rocking out in his chair.)
In the auditorium
Nate: Then my brain says come to you. You shall cross land or sea to do my bidding and to that end…this!
Emma: But no. I cannot. Dracula…
(He leans in and doesn’t kiss her.)
Emma: What are you doing?!
Nate: Keep going.
Emma: What have I done? What have I done to deserve such a fate?! I have walked in meekness and righteousness all my days! God pity me!
(He grabs her, the lights go out and people start clapping.)
Backstage
Emma: You threw the scene. That was completely unprofessional!
Nate: I’d rather be that than diseased.
Emma: What did you say?
Nate: There isn’t enough antibiotic in the world that would make me kiss you. And that little smooch in the hall the other day, who knows what I caught from that! Thanks so much!
Jay: Screw him.
Emma: Why did you do this to me?
Jay: I didn’t do anything!
Emma: You gave me a social disease!
Jay: You said you didn’t care. Even this morning you said that!
Emma: Just leave me alone okay!
Jay: Look I never told Alex about you Emma. I liked how you had virtue or whatever.
Emma: I don’t. Not any of that.
Jay: Come on. Who are you trying to fool? Everybody knows. Everybody knows about the real you! Just-
(Emma leaves and watches the play sadly from the side.)
At the hospital, the guys are going back to Jimmy’s room
Craig: Man we were so close, the Kid was basically sweating on us!
Marco: I am never gonna shower.
Craig: What?!
(The guys are laughing, and when they get to the room and Jimmy’s dad is standing there waiting.)
Mr. Brooks: Your nurse called. Furious!
Jimmy: So what are you gonna do? Ground me? Look. Today was an obstacle course okay? And I brought my A game. I had an A game!
Mr. Brooks: James listen.
Jimmy: No, I’m ready to come home! Now you have to be ready for it!
Mr. Brooks: Will you be here tomorrow morning?
Jimmy: Depends. What are you offering?
Mr. Brooks: Find you a home care person to fill in the gap, be with you all the time. Okay?
Jimmy: Okay. Thank you.
At Emma’s
Spike: She was so amazing. I couldn’t believe it was the same girl.
Mr. Simpson: Kate Hepburn was reborn.
Spike: Did we wake you, Ms. Hepburn?
Emma: I wasn’t asleep.
Mr. Simpson: Post show adrenaline. Probably feel fantastic right now, huh?
Spike: And for the record Snake and me walking on egg shells around you is officially over. Our girl’s back!
Emma: I just wanted you to be proud before. How brave and perfect I was. And after everything happened and Rick died, I couldn’t hold onto it anymore.
Spike: You don’t have to be brave or perfect ever. Just be you.
Emma: But what if I don’t like me very much right now? (Emma starts crying) I need somebody to take me to the clinic.
Spike: Are you sick? Do you have a fever?
Emma: I just need to go to the health unit. Tomorrow.
Mr. Simpson: There’s something going around the school right now, but it’s a very specific group. And Em, if you’re worried, there’s a good chance you don’t have to be.
Emma: I have to be.
Spike: Emma.
Emma: Just say you’ll take me. Just say. (Spike hugs her, as she’s still crying)
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: With Jimmy’s return to school, Spinner must now face the truth.
Spinner: I would have come, but things got crazy…
Jimmy: I understand. I probably should have been there with you instead of at the hospital getting a b*llet removed from my spine.
Voiceover: And reveal what really happened that day.
Jimmy: Rick put me in this chair for life! | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x15 - Secret Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside of Degrassi
(Everyone is watching as Jimmy comes out of a van and they all start clapping and cheering.)
Hazel: Hey la my boyfriend’s back!
Paige: I know, this is so song worthy!
Ashley: Hi.
Jimmy: Wow. Thanks you guys and uh thanks for not making a big deal out of it.
Ashley: Hazel tried to stop us.
Marco: Emphasize on try. Everyone was really excited to have you back.
(Spinner and Manny walk out of the school and Spinner waves.)
Jimmy: Everyone?
(Spinner puts down his arm when Jimmy doesn’t smile at him.)
Jimmy: Okay who’s ramping it with me?
Marco: Let’s go!
In the computer lab
Spinner: Hey. Um listen about the… the hospital.
Jimmy: Wheels. Chair. It’s a wheelchair. Gawk all you want, it’s not going away.
Spinner: Um. Dude I would have come, but things got crazy busy around here and you know how it is…
Jimmy: I understand. I probably should have been there with you instead of at the hospital getting a b*llet removed from my spine. My bad.
Spinner: I’m sorry okay? I didn’t know what to say or how to act. I suck.
Jimmy: Sit down. At this angle I can see up your nose. Not good.
Spinner: You should hate me.
Jimmy: That takes too much energy. I got other things to deal with, like hooking up some phat rims for the ride.
Mr. Simpson: Jimmy Brooks is in the house!
Jimmy: What’s up man?
Mr. Simpson: Hey. You gonna help me keep that guy in line? (looking at Spinner)
Jimmy: Yeah.
Mr. Simpson: Okay.
A montage of Spinner helping Jimmy get his books out of his locker, pushing him through the halls, giving him a water bottle when he can’t use the fountain, taping up the cords on the ground so Jimmy can wheel right over them, Spinner is looking at the trophy case then goes up to Mr. Armstrong
Spinner: Oh Coach sir! Um after, after the game today I have an idea!
At Liberty’s, JT & Liberty are kissing
Liberty: Your lips taste like sweet jelly.
Danny: Hey Liberty, how’s your mono?
Liberty: Bravo Daniel, you’ve discovered humor.
Danny: So JT, boarding park awaits!
Liberty: As does the hot tub, a perfect 105 Fahrenheit, 40.56 degrees Celsius. Just checked.
Danny: Did you check the chlorine level?
Liberty: It’s bromine, my little rottweiler.
Danny: Still not strong enough to k*ll whatever fungus is growing on you.
JT: You know what? My shorts double as a bathing suit!
Danny: JT!
JT: (weighing out his options with his hands) Rolling on the cement with you, rolling in the water with your sister...
Danny: If dad catches you in there together, he’ll…
Liberty: Oh, but he won’t because if he comes home you’ll give us a signal.
JT: Something obnoxious you know, like a bark!
At the basketball game
Mr. Armstrong: Alright before we head to the playoffs, the team would like to thank someone who helped get them there. Let’s have a big round of applause for Jimmy Brooks!
(Everyone’s clapping and cheering for him.)
Spinner: Hey um alright. Your name’s already on here twice, but uh from now on Degrassi’s MVP basketball award will be known as the Jimmy Brooks trophy!
Jimmy: Um this is definitely a surprise. I guess all I can say is, uh we go for MVP number 3 next year right?! Go Panthers!
At Liberty’s house
Mr. Van Zandt: Good afternoon Daniel. Sister around?
Danny: She’s out back. Soaking all her problems away.
Mr. Van Zandt: Mm hmm.
Danny: (quietly) Woof.
JT: Why didn’t you tell me my butt was so big?
Liberty: Because I like your butt.
Mr. Van Zandt: Out! Now!
Liberty: We were just…
Mr. Van Zandt: JT, go home!
Liberty: JT’s one of my oldest friends!
Mr. Van Zandt: He’s also a teenage boy! You want to see JT again? Well wait until you’re twenty.
In the gymnasium
(Jimmy is trying to play basketball but gets frustrated, then Spinner walks in.)
Jimmy: Just trying to do a lay-up.
Spinner: Better watch traveling if you wanna be back next year, right?
Jimmy: There won’t be a next year Spin. My basketball career, my whole future is gone. Just like these two pieces of me.
Spinner: Dude, don’t.
Jimmy: Look stuck in a bed for three months, you can’t stop thinking.
Spinner: About getting better man and you will!
Jimmy: About Rick and how I rode him just as hard as you guys! Even harder.
Spinner: Yeah but you didn’t set up the paint.
Jimmy: I know, but that doesn’t change anything does it? Rick put me in this chair for life. For life! Sometimes I just wish he had better aim, finish the job.
Spinner: You don’t mean that!
Jimmy: How do you know what I mean. Are you in a chair? Do you wake up every morning thinking you can walk and then remembering that you will never ever walk again?!?! It’s not your fault. It’s mine.
Spinner: In the bathroom after, after we dumped that stuff on Rick… me and Jay… told him you were behind it.
Jimmy: And then he sh*t me.
(Jimmy rolls away as Spinner is just sitting in the middle of the room crying.)
At Degrassi, the next day, everyone’s looking at Spinner
Craig: You actually showed up today.
Marco: Nobody wants to see you Spin. You’ve done enough damage.
Spinner: Exactly and now I have to fix it.
Craig: Then go fix it someplace else, as far away from Jimmy.
Marco: And that includes the party tonight alright?! Make other plans.
(Spinner walks away and sees Manny.)
Spinner: Manny!
(She looks at him then walks away and completely ignores him.)
Outside the school
Danny: You know it’s against the code for a guy to hook up with his best friend’s sister!
JT: The code? Somebody cue the laugh track.
Danny: Fine, she’s my sister and you don’t have my permission to go out with her.
JT: Excuse me?
Danny: She’s the smartest person in the school and you don’t even have an IQ! You don’t deserve her.
JT: That’s too bad because uh, the smartest girl in school thinks I do.
Danny: I guess you’ll need her help to read the instructions to your penis pump!
JT: Danny… I swear!
(Danny shoves JT, who shoves him back, then they start wrestling around. JT gives Danny a wedgie and he falls back and hits his head.)
Liberty: Danny! Danny.
JT: Liberty! He…
Liberty: Is bleeding. My brother’s bleeding because of you!
At the Dot
Waitress: I thought this place was a mad house after school. Where’s the g*ng?
Jay: Who’s a guy got to bribe around here to get some service? You know call me psychic, but I called it. You had to open your trap, didn’t you?!
Spinner: Jimmy deserved to know the truth.
Jay: Oh. Cool. So tell me, being an outcast, everyone hating you, does that make you feel any better? Cause if you want to be punished I can slap you around myself.
(Spinner grabs Jay’s arm and they almost start to fight.)
Waitress: Hey! Hey if you’re not going to order it’s time to leave, okay? *Jay leaves)
(Spinner leaves work and Jay is waiting outside for him.)
Spinner: Lets go! Right now.
Jay: Easy. I didn’t come here to fight, I just wanted to introduce you to my friends. Cause buddy you need friends. (Pulls out some booze) This guy, he’s nasty. Tastes like f*re. Rubs people the wrong way. (Pulls out a coke) This guy here, well sweet… refreshing. But when these two get together, bad news. Kind of like you and me. Figure we outlaws might as well try to have a good time.
(They start drinking.)
At Liberty’s house
Danny: Liberty?
Liberty: No trespassing! Because of your stupid little boy-crush, ruined everything!
Danny: Liberty he’s not what you think! He’s just JT! A non-stop farting horndog.
Liberty: He was my boyfriend!
In the woods, Jay and Spinner are drunk
Jay: So Jimmy’s party. Did you lose your invitation?
Spinner: Nah man. They all hate me.
Jay: Hey! My philosophy, they can all go to hell.
Spinner: Yeah, but they weren’t your friends to begin with.
Jay: It’s this whole blame thing though! Rick is the bad guy, but now that he’s gone everyone’s looking to blame someone else.
Spinner: Yeah man! It’s like, It’s like I’m the guy who brought the g*n to school. I’m, I’m the guy who sh*t Jimmy, right? I’m the criminal. It’s not fair!
Jay: You want some cheese with that whine or are you gonna do something about it?
Spinner: Think I just found my invitation! (Drinks the rest of the bottle then smashes it against a tree)
At Craig’s
(Craig is singing karaoke (poorly) to ‘Takin’ Care Of Business’ and everyone’s laughing, then Spinner stumbles in and knocks over the lamp.)
Craig: You lost?!
Spinner: Jimmy! Listen. I wish, I wish none of that ever happened Jimmy!
Jimmy: You’re drunk.
Spinner: Just how can I get you to stop hating me?
Hazel: Spinner you should really go!
Paige: Can’t you take a hint?
Spinner: Just chew me out, bite my head off! I don’t care, just tell me please!
Jimmy: Craig it’s your song still.
(They turn the music back on, Spinner grabs the keys off the counter, then stumbles outside and Marco, who was watching, follows.)
Marco: Spinner! Spinner what are you doing?
Spinner: Guys don’t want me here. I’m going home.
Marco: Come on Spin, you’re drunk alright? The next thing you know you’re in jail or the hospital or the morgue!
Spinner: I don’t care!
Marco: Craig! Craig! Craig!
Craig: Spinner, get out of the car! Get out of the car!
(He closes the door and locks it.)
Craig: Spinner get out of the car.
Marco: Spin come on. Spin don’t! Come on, Spinner don’t be stupid!
(He starts driving and nearly hits Jimmy.)
Spinner: Move Jimmy I mean it!
Jimmy: Look I don’t feel sorry for you if that’s what you want, okay?
Spinner: I want my friend back!
Jimmy: When have you ever treated me like a friend? When you lied to Rick? When you told me about it?
Spinner: You needed to know!
Jimmy: No you needed to make yourself feel better. Why don’t you for once, just think about somebody other than Spinner? Or you know what, just go drive off a bridge! I don’t care. I don’t. You’re d*ad to me already.
Craig: Keys!
(Spinner hands him the keys then leans back and starts to cry.)
At Liberty’s
Liberty: Not in the mood for your hullabaloo Danny. This better be good.
(She sees JT and starts to leave.)
Danny: Wait! JT didn’t do anything. It’s my fault. I started the fight.
Liberty: He didn’t have to finish it.
Mr. Van Zandt: Liberty! (She runs off) Hey Danny, where’s your sister?
Danny: Student council meeting. She already left.
Mr. Van Zandt: Oh? I could have sworn I heard you two just talking. Who were you talking to?
Danny: Just practicing. Oral presentation today.
Mr. Van Zandt: Oh well, keep it up and don’t be late for school!
Danny: Ok, coast is clear guys.
(JT and Liberty are kissing.)
Danny: Oh gross! I give up!
At school, in the office
Mrs. Hatzilakos: Gavin if you’d like to talk this… some other time…
Spinner: No. No, I’m ready now. I bullied Rick a lot and the Whack Your Brain contest, the paint and feathers thing.
Mrs. Hatzilakos: Yeah?
Spinner: It was my idea.
Mrs. Hatzilakos: Is there anyone else I need to talk to about that?
(Spinner nods.)
Mrs. Hatzilakos: Well?
Spinner: Jay. Jay Hogart. He was in on it too.
Mrs. Hatzilakos: (On the phone) Sarah can you please pull Jay Hogart out of class. Please have him wait for me. (Off the phone) I don’t even know where to begin. This is beyond anything you’ve ever done at this school.
Spinner: I know. I know and if you have to suspend me I will…
Mrs. Hatzilakos: Suspend?! A boy died! Another one is confined to a wheelchair for what might be the rest of his life!
Spinner: I’m sorry.
Mrs. Hatzilakos: I know you’re sorry, but it does not change what you did. Please, go to your locker, pack your things and I’ll notify your parents.
Spinner: When do I get to come back?
Mrs. Hatzilakos: Gavin, we have zero tolerance for bullying and I have no choice. I’m expelling you. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x16 - Eye of the Tiger"} | foreverdreaming |
At Ellie’s house, Ellie is rushing around trying to get ready for school and drinks something gross and spits it out
Ellie: Think that’s funny Bueller? You think that’s funny? It’s not funny. No. No it’s not. See you tonight Little B. Bueller? Little B!
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Ellie: Mr. Martin.
Mr. Martin: Friday’s end of month Ellie. I need a check.
Ellie: I’m getting it tonight from my mom. You don’t have to worry sir.
Mr. Martin: Just like I didn’t have to worry last month when you were late with the rent.
Ellie: See I had the rent… I, I just didn’t know how to get it to you. Sean always did that.
Mr. Martin: Is he back yet?
Ellie: Sean’s not coming back sir.
(The lamp starts flashing and making weird noises.)
Mr. Martin: You forget to pay the electric bill too?
Ellie: Sometimes my ferret. I…
Mr. Martin: You got a ferret here?!
Ellie: I catch him chewing on electrical cords and…Bueller! Oh Bueller.
Outside the school
Marco: Ferret Bueller is d*ad?! That’s awful.
Craig: That’s terrible.
Alex: You named your ferret Bueller?
Jimmy: Alex, a heart! Try to find one!
Ellie: Bueller was Sean’s baby and since he’s been gone, things haven’t exactly been fun around the apartment.
Alex: Marco, partner? The game is euchre. Spades is up.
Marco: I’ll come over after school. We’ll have a ceremony. A ferret funeral.
Ellie: I’m meeting mom for dinner. An event promising to be as much fun as a ferret funeral.
Craig: And you can’t postpone? Death in the family. It’s a good excuse.
Ellie: Dinner + Mom = rent money.
Marco: I’ll come over after.
In a classroom
Matt: I’m looking for examples of media manipulation in say… television. (Paige and Hazel both raise their hands) Hazel.
Hazel: Well there’s video news releases. Companies create um stories on their product which are then shown as local news programs and the people watching have no idea where they came from.
In the hallway
Paige: Mr. O. Is there a reason you’re shy to call on me in class?
Matt: Hey I give equal time to every student.
Paige: In the classroom anyway.
Mr. Simpson: Good class Mr. Oleander!
Paige: New rule. Suggestive comments only to be delivered a bray Degrassi. Say at the Cine-Square? Tonight, back row. I’ve got free passes.
Matt: Isn’t it a school night?
Paige: Yeah I like school nights. There’s less chance of running into someone from school.
Manny: Paige.
Paige: Oh new uniforms! Finally.
Manny: Yeah there’s 3 boxes in the office we have to pick up.
Matt: Listen, Paige. Thanks for helping me with the uh bulletin board.
Paige: And Mr. Oleander uh thank you for um offering me help with that essay.
Manny: (under her breath as Paige leaves) So obvious.
In a restaurant, Ellie and her mom are sitting in silence
Mrs. Nash: Oh. It’s $500 right?
Ellie: Rent’s $540. Mom you could always give me a few post-dated checks.
Mrs. Nash: And miss my monthly dinner with my daughter?! How are you? Living alone.
Ellie: Good.
Mrs. Nash: I’m proud of you, being so independent. Living all by yourself. I’ve been in group for three months. I’m being therapied out the wazoo. Since you left I haven’t had a drink. If you want to move back I promise to keep that.
(Ellie stands up to leave.)
Mrs. Nash: Sit! I miss you all the time and I want to talk about this.
Ellie: Yeah I told Marco I’d meet him.
Mrs. Nash: I’m different.
Ellie: Understand why I don’t trust you on that one mom.
Mrs. Nash: Ellie…
Ellie: If you’re proud of me being independent. Watch me go one step further. After this month I won’t take any more of your money. I won’t need you mom. Not anymore.
At the funeral, Marco and Ellie are throwing rocks on the dirt
Ellie: Here lies Bueller Nash. I’m sorry I couldn’t take care of you better… or longer! I’m just really sorry you’re gone.
At the movie theatre
Paige: I know this was my idea, but we have to go now.
Matt: Thought you wanted to sit in a dark theatre. Two hours plus previews.
Meeri: Paige! You don’t return phone calls?! The reject twins called in sick. You’re behind the counter.
Paige: But I’m off shift.
Meeri: Wanna make that permanent?
Matt: No she doesn’t.
Paige: Matt!
Matt: Paige. Your boss could have just as easily been Simpson. We could have just as easily been caught. See you tomorrow.
At Ellie’s house
Marco: No Sean. No Bueller. You sure you’re okay to stay alone?
Ellie: Say you’re offering. Please the only other person who wants to be with me right now: my mother!
Marco: I’m offering! No worries.
Ellie: I won’t. At least not about waking up to find you passed out with the house on f*re. Mom flashback. Sorry.
Marco: Hey worry instead about playing Euchre, Ellie Nash.
Ellie: You want to play cards?
Marco: Dylan’s hockey team plays Thursdays, for money. A lot of money. My allowance only lasts like three hands.
Ellie: And you play why?
Marco: I repeat, Dylan’s hockey team.
(Ellie nods knowingly.)
Marco: Now. You deal out five cards each. What’s leftover goes in a pile. The top card turned up. That card’s trump. Now the jack of that suit is the highest. If you have an amazing hand you can go low, play without your partner. Worth two points. So…
Outside the school
Jimmy: Let’s go Del Rossi. Dealer has dealt. Hearts are trump.
Ellie: Meaning the jack of hearts is the highest card in the world.
Marco: Ellie speaks euchre now.
Craig: Hey Marco with your hair all big like that you kind of look like Ashley.
Marco: I was sans product this morning. (Turns to Ellie) And you said it looked fine!
Alex: Marco be gone. Ellie you’re in.
Ellie: I can’t take Marco’s place.
Marco: No. It’s okay. Sit. Dylan’s entire hockey team combined is less competitive than her.
Alex: The ace of spades is down.
Ellie: Meaning it’s their trick so far?
Craig: That’s the queen…of hearts. You sure you want to lead trump?
Ellie: Well I don’t have any spades and that’s my lowest heart.
Alex: I get a scatter proof partner only to stop for French class?
Jimmy: Oh well, Je suis up for skipping?!
Ellie: Where to?
In a classroom
Matt: Today I thought we’d talk about bias in the media. How the news sometimes twists the facts.
Hazel: You’re doing the nod of sleep. It’s not attractive.
Paige: Avert your eyes. Evil Meeri kept me for the late shift.
Matt: Paige, can you tell me how that’s different from outright lying?
Paige: To lie is to present a falsehood. Bias is telling the truth, just a version of the truth.
Matt: Good. (He leaves a note on her desk) Okay so back to why pop stars marry once they release a new CD.
In the janitor’s closet or boiler room
Paige: I’ve never had a teacher pass me a note before.
Matt: Look I know this place isn’t exactly romantic, but it seems like every time we try to get together there’s always something-
(The euchre group tries to open the door, but Matt runs and locks it.)
Ellie: There’s always the basement!
Paige: Matt that’s it. Tonight after work I come over!
Matt: Where at my place?
Paige: Yeah I want to see your private bohemian man-lair.
Matt: Paige you can’t.
Paige: I’m familiar with the student lifestyle. My brother, he shares one bathroom with twelve guys. At least you have a place of your own, with what a comfy couch, TV, DVD. Away from distractions…
Matt: No. There’s got to be something or someplace else. Look I’ll pop by the theatre and we’ll go out for coffee after work.
Paige: Matt…
Matt: Wait a bit before you leave. (He blows her a kiss as she shakes her head)
In the school basement
Craig: Okay. Fine. Rematch. Right now!
Ellie: That was the rematch.
Alex: Unless you want to make it more interesting?
Jimmy: As in uh strip euchre?
Alex: As in money. As in $20.
Craig: Okay.
Jimmy: Okay.
(They start playing again.)
Jimmy: And it’s clubs.
Ellie: Oh um one question, why do they call these bowers?
Craig: And we skipped French class for this! Come on. (Craig and Jimmy leave)
Alex: $10 each. Not real money, but it will buy cafeteria lunch.
Ellie: Wait, today’s Thursday right? I think I know where real money’s gonna be.
In the hallway
Ellie: Alex and I would like to play euchre with you and Dylan and Dylan’s hockey team.
Marco: If… if I hook you up, new players have to host the evening.
Ellie: I can host. Hostess whatever.
Marco: Which means buying pizza, playing 50, 60 dollar hands and losing the little money that you might have.
Alex: We have money. We do. Just not any money we plan to lose.
In the gymnasium
Manny: So Mr. O is cute.
Paige: And smart and funny with a tight little yoga body thrown in for fun.
Manny: But.
Paige: Big secret. The only place we can escape to where he and me can be a we, is his. He doesn’t want me going there.
Manny: It sounds to me then there’s not a lot of honesty going around.
Paige: Nobody can know about this Manny!
Manny: No. Not around the school. I mean between you and him. A guy like that, I’m surprised he doesn’t have a girlfriend.
Paige: Well he did have one, but they split.
Manny: And that’s what he told you?
At Ellie’s house
Alex: That’s my whole last pay check.
Ellie: Plus $10 from this morning.
Alex: It isn’t enough is it?
Ellie: $540. Otherwise known as my rent.
Alex: Let’s not use all of it.
Ellie: I like this. Playing this. Partner thing works for me.
Marco: Ellie the hockey team just got here and we’ve already gone through the pizzas.
Dylan: Let me introduce you to the team. They want to get started.
Alex: I’m Alex. This is Ellie, my friend. We’re here to defeat you.
(Montage of them all playing cards with the guys beating Alex & Ellie.)
Alex: We’re behind by a point. We have to take the next h*t.
Ellie: And if we lose it?
Alex: Let me be the negative one, okay? It’s a bigger gamble, but James wants to put more money down. You alright with that?
Ellie: Move in.
Alex: Sure I’ll go get my things.
Ellie: I’m serious. Move in. It’d be cool.
Alex: Cool? Sure no mom, no mom’s boyfriend of the week, but then there’s this thing called rent.
Ellie: Only $270 a month. Each.
Alex: I can’t afford $2 a month.
Ellie: So I’ll pay more or I won’t tell my mom you’re living here. Its not like she comes around.
Alex: And this is the horrible woman you hate?
Ellie: It’d be great. It’d be fun. Right now I need fun.
Alex: Move to Wassaga with Sean if you’re lonely or suck it up and go home.
Ellie: My mom was drunk. Always drunk. Right up to the night she lit the house on f*re.
Alex: But she’s sober now and paying your rent, all the time trying to make things right with you. Wow what a monster. The hockey boys are waiting. When you come back to the table leave the sucky girl behind.
At the movie theatre
Paige: (on her cell) Hi, customer service? Yes um I just wanted to make sure my phone’s working. Yeah I know I’m calling you on it, so it must be. Okay thanks. Bye. Five more seconds please Meeri!
Meeri: He stood you up didn’t he?
Paige: He’s not cheating on me if that’s what you think.
Meeri: I think that’s what you think.
At Ellie’s
Alex: Spades is trump. Pick it up. I’m going alone.
Ellie: What?
Hockey guy 1: You know you’re a point away from losing and us from winning?
Ellie: Um Alex can I talk to you?
Alex: We’ve been over the concept of going alone before. Talk to Marco. I’m sure he’ll clarify things again.
Marco: Are you 100% sure of your hand Alex?!
Alex: 1000. Relax. Here look at the pretty cards.
Hockey guy 2: It’s my leave right?
Ellie: Wait. That’s my rent money.
Alex: You’re bugging me Ellie.
Ellie: You know we’ll just forget this hand. Can I de-card?
Alex: Sit down.
Hockey guy 2: I lead with the ace of hearts.
Alex: Keep it. Don’t bother. 4 points. We win. You really ought to believe in people more.
At Matt’s apartment
Paige: Why aren’t you answering your phone?! Who is in there with you?
Matt: What are you doing here Paige? Don’t! Paige.
(She pushes past him and sees a really crappy apartment with a leaking ceiling.)
Matt: Guy upstairs flushed his toilet through my ceiling… for the third time this year. I would have called but they’ve cut off my service.
Paige: This is your apartment?
Matt: Yeah. You want the tour? We can begin and end in the foyer.
Paige: I thought you were with someone.
Matt: Is that the kind of guy you think I am?
Paige: I don’t know Matt. I see you in class or at the water fountain or at yoga, but beyond that!
(She sits down on his bed.)
Matt: That’s wet. The toilet’s above it. Look beyond that, I’m a student like you, except I live in a pit hole apartment. There! All the glamour this relationship ever had: gone!
Paige: You said relationship, which means I get to stay.
(They start kissing.)
At Ellie’s, there’s a knock at the door
Ellie: It’s open.
Mrs. Nash: It’s the middle of the night Ellie. There’s no emergency?
Ellie: I had to be sure of something.
Mrs. Nash: Sure of what?
Ellie: That you could come over. That you were sober. You weren’t drunk.
Mrs. Nash: You woke me as a test?!
Ellie: I wrote a letter to Mr. Martin. It says I’m giving two months notice.
Mrs. Nash: Oh so you’re coming home!
Ellie: I, I said I wrote it mom. I haven’t given it to him. Not yet.
Mrs. Nash: But you’re going to?
Ellie: No more drinking?
Mrs. Nash: The best I can do is try. Day by day. Try.
Ellie: Then promise me you’ll try and make it easy for me to trust you.
Mrs. Nash: Come home Ellie. I’m tired of being alone.
Ellie: Yeah. Me too.
Scenes for next week
Paige: (to the audience) Sneaking around sucks, but sometimes it’s worth it.
Paige: Yeah Simpson. Oh my god. He didn’t see us. No way!
Voiceover: As if that wasn’t bad enough.
Hazel: It’s a crush. No big thing.
Manny: You don’t have to lie. Paige told me all about her hot after school affair.
Voiceover: Now Paige has to worry about what her friends might say.
Hazel: (in class) Gee Mr. Oleander, I thought you only had eyes for Paige! | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x17 - Queen of Hearts"} | foreverdreaming |
In the park
Paige: I was fixated on your earlobes for most of the class.
Matt: So my Nano computer lesson was dull!
Paige: That my eyes were even open in media immersion is a testament to you. Stop worrying, okay?
Matt: I’m being graded on how well I hold the class tomorrow. It’s scary. You guys are scary.
Paige: Marco’s not scary. Marco’s afraid of bees and Heather Sinclair, not scary. Unless maybe you see her in her granny panties after gym. There’s also the tiny fact that you’re a phenomenal teacher, so please fear not!
Matt: You’re sweet and not just ‘cause you made lemon squares.
(They’re interrupted by the sounds of an ice cream truck and a crying baby.)
Paige: The park. Great romance idea hun!
Matt: Poor kid’s being blinded by the glare of his dad’s legs. Can you say whiter than white?!
Paige: Yeah! Simpson. Oh my god. He didn’t see us. No way.
In the gymnasium
Manny: I totally missed washing my hair to make it in time for this. Paige skips practice…again. Let’s go for with the 3, 4, 3 star ready for a right herky jump. K let’s go!
Hazel: Just so you know, I am not cool with you taking over.
Manny: Paige won’t care. She’s too wrapped up in Matt to even notice.
Hazel: It’s a crush. No big thing.
Manny: You don’t have to lie. Paige told me about her hot after school affair. Oops. I did it again. (She turns to the rest of the group) Alright guys. Let’s get it together.
In the media immersion lab
Matt: Let’s discuss how the cigarette add tries to manipulate us. Anyone? Emma. Let’s hear it.
Emma: Okay well I think it’s aimed at a female demographic and I think the tobacco companies are trying to tell us that healthy women can smoke ‘cause she’s hiking or whatever.
Matt: Good. Now in terms of subtler messaging. Like where is she, where is she going.
Emma: I’m less sure.
Chris: Probably to the ravine!
Matt: That’s enough Mr. Sharpe. What isn’t the add showing us Emma?
Emma: Anything negative. Um lung cancer, emphysema, stroke.
Chris: Gonorrhea.
Matt: Okay, see me after class. We’ll have a lesson on respect.
Mr. Simpson: Thank you Mr. Oleander.
Matt: Okay moving on. What’s the demographic of smokers within the age-
Later, in the media immersion lab
Matt: Nanotech is finally winning the respect it deserves as a science.
Hazel: Paige! Paige!
Paige: Shh! Mr. Oleander is teaching.
Hazel: Is Manny your new best friend?
Paige: Okay can we deal with whatever your problem is later? Green-eyed Hazel monster.
Matt: Hazel can I have your attention please?
Hazel: She spilled, about you and Mr. O!
Paige: You do know that you can be secrecy challenged sometimes right?
Hazel: How could you not tell me?!
Matt: Hazel, hi. Didn’t you hear me?
Hazel: Gee Mr. Oleander, I thought you only had eyes for Paige.
Mr. Simpson: Is everything okay?
Matt: Uh yeah I just um, just lost my, I lost my place.
Mr. Simpson: Um, Hollywood is seize on nanotech lately. Um can anyone name a movie about self-replicating machines? Anyone?
In front of Degrassi
Darcy: Sheila told me if you put lots of ketchup on your fries the tomato acid burns the carbs right away.
Chante: She’s a cafeteria lady. Ever think she’s trying to get you to buy more fries?
Manny: Em. What’s wrong with your eyes?
Emma: I’m trying to k*ll Chris with my mind.
Manny: Oh goody. Then you can get Spinner, Jay, Craig, JT, Nate and Sean.
Chante: Here’s me wishing I let my dad talk me into an all-girl school.
Darcy: No joke. Are you alright?
Manny: Honey you can’t let him upset you like that. He’s just one doof!.
Emma: No it’s all the guys. Judging constantly.
Chester: Mmm deep fried starch. (He steals a fry)
Darcy: Is he not the yummiest thing you ever saw?
Manny: Em what are you doing this weekend?
Emma: Nothing.
Manny: How about the girls and I come over and we’ll have the girliest spa weekend ever. Zero testosterone! Hello? Is anyone free to console a sister this weekend?
Chante: Absolutely. We’re there for you. (Her and Darcy both sigh and look at Chester)
Outside the school
Paige: I am so, so, so sorry.
Matt: Teenagers are evil. I can’t go back in there and teach two more periods.
Paige: What Hazel did, it was juvenile and hateful and humiliating. I promise you nothing like it will ever happen again ever.
Matt: I don’t want to get booted out of teacher’s college. I can’t!
Paige: You won’t. I won’t let you. (A teacher walks outside and sees the two of them together) Sorry Madame Paget. Uh excuse moi.
In the hallway
Manny: Happy weekend Paige. Why thanks Manny and thanks for taking my practice this morning!
Paige: You want me to thank you? For what, dropping a dirty b*mb on my life?
Manny: Practice went awesome without you and if you ask some of us, that wasn’t a coincidence.
Paige: You told Hazel, when you swore that you wouldn’t!
Manny: I thought she knew, okay? Chill.
Paige: Don’t use your outdated slang on me. I doubt that your mouth is even connected to your tiny, shriveled, boy obsessed brain.
Manny: I’m the dumb one?! Who still hasn’t figured out not to chase older guys? A guy so out of her league, it’s not funny!
Paige: That’s big words for a girl who picks up my leftovers.
Manny: Could you be more self obsessed? All you think about is your own butt, which probably does require a lot of thought, given that it’s huge!
(Manny kicks Paige in the butt, Paige slaps her and the two start fighting until Matt and Ms. Hatzilakos break it up.)
Matt: Manny calm down!
Manny: Hey Mr. Pedophile! I mean Oleander. Don’t make your girlfriend Paige even more jealous of me!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Manny, my office Monday! Paige, Mr. Oleander, now! Alright everyone schools out. Go home, show’s over. Now! I said now.
Outside Ms. Hatzilakos’ office
Paige: Whole world is gonna hate me if I get him fired.
Marco: You’re in love. What were you supposed to do?
Paige: Abstain from contact with male humans, seeing as how I’m Paige, the Bermuda triangle of love.
Hazel: Hi. I’m Hazel. Just who you want to see.
Paige: Wow she’s not just an evil backstabber, she’s kind of witty too.
Hazel: Paige, I am so sorry. You were right. I am secrecy challenged.
Paige: At least you didn’t call him a pedophile.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Paige.
In her office
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well this was a rather upsetting day.
Paige: Manny Santos is a liar okay? She lies.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Nothing ever happened between you and Mr. Oleander?
Paige: That would be wrong. He was tutoring me and that’s all.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Mr. Simpson has already left for the day, as has Mr. Oleander’s advisor and frankly I’m less than comfortable discussing this without one of your parents being here.
Paige: Is that totally needed?
Ms. Hatzilakos: We’re all gonna meet Monday at 8, but I think I should warn you there’s a pretty big discrepancy in your reports.
Paige: Reports?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Takes on the situation. Mr. Oleander has a very different one. He told me that you were obsessed with him, that you followed him, you wouldn’t leave him alone. You stalked him.
At Emma’s house, the girls are wearing face masks and painting nails
Spike: Put this right on the scratches. More mocktails coming right up.
Chante: So Paige basically fights you because of a guy?
Manny: Paige basically fights me because she’s a psycho wench.
Emma: She fought you because guys are always turning women against each other.
Darcy: Well that’s true.
Emma: I’d rather be the way we are now. No guys, no judging, no upset!
Chante: I like that we don’t have to worry about being pretty. Just us.
Emma: Let’s declare the revolution g*n. To heck with guys.
Chester: Sup girls.
Darcy & Chante: Chester’s your neighbor?
Emma: He just moved in. So?!
Chester: You’re looking a little green.
(The three girls get up and run inside the house.)
Emma: Where are you going?
Manny: I am disfigured!
Chester: Having a slumber party Emmaline?
At Matt’s apartment, Paige knocks on the door
Matt: Hi.
Paige: Hi. You’re just gonna say hi?!
Matt: Look I tried calling. You weren’t picking up your phone. I’m glad you came over.
Paige: Gee why didn’t I put microphone in my bra? That’s such a novice psycho stalker mistake.
Matt: I know you’re upset. Me too.
Paige: No I’m not. I’m livid, boiling, pissed beyond all recognition.
Matt: Can we talk about this?
Paige: You have three minutes.
Matt: Paige you know what this job means to me. You know what school means to me.
Paige: I’m waiting for the us part.
Matt: Us? I, I figured we’d leave time to let it blow over and when it’s summer we’re home free.
Paige: And in the meantime I get what, expelled? Referred to as that sad, desperate loony who stalks TA’s?
Matt: I didn’t know what else to say!
Paige: Please you wanted to look like the good guy. Don’t kid yourself!
Matt: Okay Paige you had a public fight with Manny Santos after promising me nothing else would be said!
Paige: She was really mean. Why am I doing this?!
Matt: My entire future is on the line…
At Emma’s house
Manny: Em’s taking dibs on all the good t-shirts. She must be stopped.
Emma: They don’t seem too concerned with their tie-dye prospects at the moment.
Chante: Chester’s going to come out soon. These are 15 minutes shoes. Max.
Emma: This is supposed to be about us. Boy-less fun remember? A movement?!
(They see Chester and his brother’s playing football outside.)
Darcy: Oh my god. There’s three of him!
Chante: Multiple adorable Chesters?
Manny: Em, I’m sorry, but it’s the call of the wild. Hey Chester and copies, h*t me!
(Chester’s brother throws the football and it splashes tie-dye water all over Emma.)
Chester: Oh! Nice one!
Emma: Why did you do that?!
(The same brother comes over, picks up the bucket and splashes them all with the water.)
Darcy: Chester! This isn’t funny.
Chester: You girls have no sense of humor. That was hilarious!
Emma: He is so gonna regret that!
At the movie theatres
Alex: You know fake cheese is one ingredient away from being plastic.
Paige: Oh just like Manny Santos.
Alex: Mr. O’s the one you should be mad at. That wasn’t exactly a prince charming move.
Paige: Yeah except what if I kind of miss him already? Is that bad? sh**t me. Drown me in fake cheese.
Alex: It’s not that bad and hey now you know he’s human, not some yoga-bodied teacher god.
Meery: Is this a coffee klatch or a work place? Because it sure ain’t a self serve. Those things are customers!
Paige: Welcome to my nightmare, combo?
Dylan: Where is he?
Marco: Dylan’s feeling all macho about the whole Matt thing. Sorry.
Dylan: No one takes advantage of you like that okay?! You’re my sister.
Paige: I’m working okay, Hulk? Shh!
Dylan: The guy’s a predator.
Paige: He’s like the same age as you. Are you praying on Marco? Matt’s not perfect, he’s just-
Dylan: Just disgusting.
Paige: Just wonderful and sweet and fun and he put everything on the line for me. I’m such a jerk.
Outside Chester’s house, the girls are sticking tampons and pads on the tree
Manny: He is going to be so grossed out!
Emma: K hold the ladder steady.
Manny: There’s no time!
Emma: Please. Manny! We are women. Hear us roar Chester.
Manny: Emma please be careful!
(The cops show up when Emma is at the top of the ladder, the girls run away and Chester opens the window.)
Chester: Hey Emmaline.
At Matt’s apartment
Paige: Monday. Um. I’ll go along with it. With your story. I lost my temper with Manny. Michalchuk’s, we have temper.
Matt: Paige…
Paige: You can’t lose your entire life, not just for kissing some selfish high school chick. It can’t happen.
Matt: I uh, I don’t know what to say.
Paige: Please don’t say anything. Just try and look cute on Monday so it all feels like it was worth it.
Matt: Paige. (He goes in to kiss her)
Paige: There’s no strings attached. Don’t worry. There’s no strings with us. (She leaves)
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ office
Paige: I don’t need my parents to protect me. I’m only telling the truth. I was inappropriate with Mr. Oleander and I’d like to transfer out of his class, immediately.
Mr. Simpson: It’s the only media immersion class offered in grade 11. You will fail the course.
Paige: So I’ll repeat it next year.
Mr. Simpson: Every grade 12 credit is taken, Paige, for university applications.
Paige: Well, then maybe I should just transfer schools entirely, now.
Ms. Hatzilakos: It’s May! Transferring so late, chances are you can’t complete the academic year. You will fail entirely.
Mr. Simpson: Have you really thought this through? You should be getting set for university, not acting like you’re in kindergarten.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Mr. Simpson!
Mr. Simpson: I’m sorry, but I’m not buying what she’s selling. Anything I saw didn’t look too one sided.
Ms. Hatzilakos: You saw something?
Paige: Leave it sir. Please leave it.
Mr. Simpson: No I can’t. I trusted you with my kids. My kids trusted you, including her.
Paige: Please stop it. Can we just stop?
Matt’s advisor: Students often have feelings for their teachers. You just took your feelings too far. We can help.
Mr. Simpson: Okay I’m not going to sit here and watch this.
Paige: I don’t care if I fail! Can we just finish this now please?!
Mr. Simpson: Daphne, who’s side are we on huh?! The students or the teachers?!
Ms. Hatzilakos: I need to know what you saw Archie. How can I make a decision if I don’t know what you saw!
Matt: We had…
Ms. Hatzilakos: There’s a lot at stake here.
Matt: We had a relationship.
Paige: What are you doing?
Matt: We were seeing each other outside of school. It shouldn’t have happened. I take full responsibility.
Outside Chester’s house, Emma is walking by
Chester: Ho, ho, ho.
Emma: You can’t label people.
Chester: Woah! I thought it was Christmas. How was jail?
Emma: I only got a warning.
Chester: Sadly, I got another warning, about Chuck and Chad.
Emma: About who?
Chester: My brothers. They’re plotting their revenge.
Emma: So your names are Chester, Chuck and Chad?
Chester: Consider me your mole behind enemy lines, two doors down. I’ll keep you posted.
Emma: Okay thanks. I appreciate it.
In the park
Paige: I can’t believe you did that.
Matt: That makes two of us.
Paige: You doing okay?
Matt: Well I can stay in the BA program, but um, teacher’s college is done.
Paige: Well maybe I could call your school. Tell them it was my fault or something.
Matt: I think we’ve learned that really doesn’t work.
Paige: I want you to know, you would have been worth losing my year over.
Matt: Except I wouldn’t have been worth very much if I let you do that. And I wouldn’t have let you do that. You know that right? Not because of guilt or me being a gentleman.
Paige: Matt I know. Guess the good news is, doesn’t matter who sees us in the park.
Matt: Yeah. That is the good news!
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: Love, anger, excitement and a special guest.
Craig: (playing his guitar and singing) Silent Bob!
Voiceover: Director extraordinaire Kevin Smith joins the cast for the show everyone’s talking about. Will the school be ready for a close-up? Catch back to back episodes airing at a special time. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x18 - Modern Love"} | foreverdreaming |
In the gymnasium, people are setting up for a blood drive
Marco: So for tomorrow Ellie I need you to hand out stickers, okay? Craig I need you to pack the blood bags. And Alex, Alex!
Alex: This I will not be wearing.
Marco: It’s for TV, Caitlin Ryan’s community show? Look when people see Degrassi, I want them to think cute and cuddly.
Alex: I'm going to clobber you.
Marco: That's not cuddly. And as a president speaking to his vice…
Alex: Alright. Calm down. Everything has to be perfect.
Ellie: She's right. What you've done for the school this year, ever consider running a second term?
Alex: (dancing around in the mascot head) Four more years! Four more years!
Marco: I can't. I was thinking of picking up a few extra credits this summer. This way, I can graduate after first semester’s done, maybe even move in with Dylan before university. My boyfriend? Alright you guys know I'm gay, right?
Ellie: Um I’m stuck on graduating early.
Craig: I'm on move in with Dylan.
Marco: Guys it’s not that big a deal! Okay it’s huge.
Outside Degrassi, there’s a sign that says ‘blood drive today’
Dylan: So you'll call before you come over for the party? Marco? Today’s gonna go fine.
Marco: There's been a bee in this car for the entire ride. Fear is my friend.
Dylan: You know a year ago you would have jumped out of a moving vehicle.
Marco: Yeah well, a year ago I wasn't with you.
(They kiss.)
Marco: Go. Back to your dorm. I'll see you tonight at the party.
In the gymnasium, Spike is giving blood
Spike: It’s like breastfeeding, only out of your arm.
Emma: I think it’s faster if you’re quiet.
Caitlin: (on camera) So you inherited a school where a student died and another paralyzed.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Not the best situation to assume Principal, I agree.
Caitlin: And yet you've managed to turn it all around.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Oh no. Not me! Marco is the hero here. Organizing the dances, the assemblies, that's where the work has been.
Caitlin: You donated yet Marco?
Marco: Well I’m planning…
(Alex jumps on him in the Panther suit.)
Marco: Alex! Stop tackling me!
Caitlin: Uh cut!
Ms. Hatzilakos: So when is this gonna air?
Caitlin: Eight tonight and I wanna add sh*ts of Marco donating, when you’re recovered.
At the dot, Spinner is working and Jay is tapping a spoon against a glass
Spinner: If I'm still serving you ten years from now k*ll me, all right?
Jay: Well study hard and stay in school. Oh right! You got us expelled.
Spinner: Here you go ladies. Uh Clare will be with you in a moment to take your order.
Old lady: We asked for lemon with our water.
Spinner: Uh, you can't bring a dog in here.
Old lady: I didn't hear complaints. Ladies? We'll have the lunch menu instead.
Spinner: I'm going off shift, so Clare will…
Old lady: And lemon for the water and a bowl for Baby Bear here. So she can have some too, yes!
Back in the gymnasium, Marco is about to donate
Marco: So if I pass out and start drooling, swear you'll stop filming?
Nurse Davis: Mr. Del Rossi? Could you please ask them to stop filming for just a minute?
Caitlin: Uh we're not sh**ting the whole giving of blood. We’re just gonna sh**t a few frames of the President.
Nurse Davis: I'm sorry Ms. Ryan.
Marco: Is there some kind of problem?
Nurse Davis: Uh there's a question here that you answered yes beside.
Marco: It asks, if I'm male and if I've had…with another male.
Nurse Davis: Yes, if you've had sex.
Marco: So?
Nurse Davis: Well it’s policy you have to understand, um but I can't let you be a donor.
In the principal’s office, Spinner is holding a flower pot
Ms. Hatzilakos: You shouldn’t be here Gavin.
Spinner: I, I didn't make an appointment. I was afraid you wouldn't see me. I just want you to know this being expelled, I'm not taking it like it’s a vacation. I've been keeping up in my textbooks.
Ms. Hatzilakos: You were supposed to return those.
Spinner: But I need them to write exams.
Ms. Hatzilakos: You don't get to do that.
Spinner: So that’s it? I just lose my whole year?
Ms. Hatzilakos: I’m willing to offer summer school.
Spinner: But that only gives me two credits. That’s not even enough to graduate. I mean that’s a whole year of my life I have to do over. That's not fair!
Ms. Hatzilakos: What’s not fair is that Rick Murray is d*ad as an indirect result of your bullying.
Spinner: I need to finish my year Ms. H!
Ms. Hatzilakos: No.
(Spinner throws the flower in the garbage and leaves.)
In the gymnasium
Marco: (On his cell) Dylan? Hey it’s me. Look just please call me, whenever. I’m here.
(He walks over to Ellie, Craig & Alex.)
Craig: Why is your blood any more risky than ours?
Ellie: Don't they test everything anyway?
Marco: There's nothing wrong with me. I've only been with Dylan, he’s only been with me. Even then we were totally safe!
Alex: So stop whining. Start complaining. There's your soapbox. Use it!
Marco: Caitlin! Hey!
Caitlin: Hey.
Marco: How's this for a story? Prejudice and h*m* at local high school.
Caitlin: I’d say we’re on you.
Marco: Nurse Davis? Hey.
Nurse Davis: Yeah?
Marco: Hi.
Nurse Davis: Hi.
Marco: I, I want, look I want to ask why blood management refuses gay people from giving blood.
Nurse Davis: Um, um well it's policy. I'm not a spokesperson so I can't really comment further.
Marco: Fine. (To the camera) My name's Marco del Rossi, Student Council President. Today a student was denied as a blood donor because of his sexuality.
Nurse Davis: That's not the reason.
Marco: Then what is?
Nurse Davis: Well there is, within the gay community, there is an increased risk of HIV infection.
Marco: Saying that is lumping up all gay people as diseased. I listened in health class and anybody with a pulse can get HIV.
Nurse Davis: Yes but…
Ms. Hatzilakos: Marco? Please? (She stops the filming) Thank you. Thank you. Look this blood drive, you should be so proud of yourself for everything you’ve done. Look at all these people.
Marco: My whole point is that I’m supposed to be one of them!
Outside Degrassi, Jay is trying to steal a bike and kicks it
Spinner: Hey!
Jay: You want a kick, too?
Spinner: That's my bike, goof-bag.
Jay: Yeah well it's your fault I'm so bored!
Spinner: So? I'm stuck with you! Haven't I been punished enough?
Jay: Not yet.
Spinner: Know what… bike stealing? It's kid's stuff. But real stealing from Degrassi…
At Dylan’s dorm, Marco walks into his room and sees Dylan making out with another guy and bolts
Dylan: Marco! Marco wait!
Marco: No.
Dylan: About Eric, I meant to tell you. He's a friend from Psych class.
Marco: There’s other ways, better ways of breaking up Dylan!
Dylan: Who’s breaking up? Honey I’m in university now and there are people here, really interesting people that, that I really like.
Marco: Oh yeah like Eric.
Dylan: I love you and I don't want to stop seeing you. What I’d like to do is open things up a bit. You know see other people.
(Marco shoves Dylan and leaves.)
Outside Degrassi
Marco: (on his cell) He wants to open things up.
Ellie: (on her cell) He’s a colossal jerk.
Marco: (Sees his friends and closes his phone) It’s so humiliating. First I get rejected as a blood donor, now by Dylan. Maybe the blood people were right.
(Alex smacks Marco on his head.)
Marco: What is wrong with you?
Alex: My ex, formerly known as Jay Hogart, screwed around with every girl at this school. It's not a gay thing. Promiscuity, it's a guy thing.
Craig: Hey. Didn't I hear that you clocked Amy for being equally trampy?
Ellie: Oh and how's Ash, Craig? Or are you back with Manny? It's hard to tell, especially when you secretly dated them at the same time.
Craig: Let's just call it a people thing.
Ellie: Let’s call it a choice. Monogamy wow, what a difficult concept.
Marco: I just want my boyfriend back.
Craig: He's got a party tonight right? Well then back is what we’ll get him.
At night, inside Degrassi
(Spinner and Jay were hiding in cupboards until the janitor left.)
At Dylan’s dorm
Craig: Girls and boys? I didn't think Dylan's dorm would be quite so co-ed.
Marco: You see him yet?
Craig: Who?
Marco: Dylan!
Dylan: Hey! I'm really happy you came.
Marco: Yeah? That's good…
Craig: I’m gonna go uh see what they’re stocking for pop. Gentlemen…
Dylan: Come on.
In Degrassi
(Jay and Spinner are throwing toilet paper around in the gym, then stacking a bunch of chairs in the hall and just goofing around.)
At the party
Marco: Craig um look. Everything’s unfolding pretty good so if you don’t want to you don’t have to stay!
Craig: Are you kidding?! It's eight o'clock.
Dylan: What's eight o'clock?
Marco: Oh Caitlin Ryan! Degrassi! Me at the blood drive. Can I? Thanks. (He turns on the TV)
Caitlin: (On that TV) You inherited a school where a student died, another paralyzed.
Ms. Hatzilakos: (On the TV) Not the best situation to assume Principal, I agree.
Caitlin: (On the TV) And yet you've managed to turn it around.
Ms. Hatzilakos: (On the TV) Oh no. Not me! Marco is the hero here. Organizing the assemblies, the dances, that's where the work has been.
Marco: Ah tell me my head doesn’t look that big.
Craig: Your hair, that's what's big.
Dylan: It looks great. You look great.
Caitlin: (On the TV) And so Degrassi has risen from the ashes of a tumultuous school year thanks to this week's local hero Marco Del Rossi.
Marco: Wait. No wait. Wait for it. I think this is it.
Caitlin: (On the TV) I'm Caitlin Ryan.
Marco: That's it? No there’s more. There’s them not letting me give blood and then I-
Eric: Dylan? We're toasting to summer with kamikazes!
Dylan: Wait a second.
Marco: It’s nothing. Go. Kamikaze. Whatever.
Dylan: I’ll be right back.
Marco: Dylan got me out of the closet last year. Yet here I was, my turn to make him proud. What I should be doing is making him jealous.
Craig: Uh…
Back at Degrassi, Spinner finds the yearbooks
Spinner: What do we have here? Degrassi: A year of memories.
Jay: I said something worth something. I always like counting how many times I’m in this thing. The way I see it the less, the better. Oh crap. One. The last thing I want to see is me smiling goofy and hanging off my bestest friend. No. Two. I’m a freak! A failure. Nothing compared to you though, I mean you’re, you’re all through this thing.
(Spinner sees a bunch of pics with him and his friends and throws the book down.)
Jay: You alright there, Spinster?
Spinner: Follow me. Grab some more.
At the party
Marco: Hi. Hi, I’m Marco.
Mike: Mike.
Marco: Mike! So uh Mike! I was thinking of coming here next year. I was actually thinking about residence. But so far the only room I've seen is Dylan's.
Mike: You want like a tour?
Marco: Yeah, no a tour would be great and maybe I could see your room? You know to compare.
Mike: Okay, um it’s two floors down, 403. Just give me a sec to clean up okay?
Marco: Okay. I'll see you in a bit…Mike.
Mike: Marco…
At Degrassi, Spinner
Jay: Yo where'd you disappear?
Spinner: Science lab. I got fluid of the lighter kind.
(He starts pouring the fluid on the yearbooks and pulls out a lighter.)
Jay: Seriously it's bonfire night? Look I know math wasn't your strongest subject, but yearbooks plus f*re equals the whole school up in flames. Oh yeah and us in jail. Put the toy away, flip-head.
Spinner: You're stopping me?
(Jay smacks the lighter out of his hands.)
Jay: Shocking but true.
Spinner: You’re a freak in the same way that I am.
Jay: Yeah well at least I’m not torching the school.
(Jay smacks the lighter away from Spinner and the guys start fighting.)
Jay: You want your former friends to suffer?! Huh? Do you?
Spinner: I want 'em back.
Jay: Listen as your friend substitute, I’m telling you. This isn’t the way. It’s not.
Spinner: I just want ‘em back.
Jay: Come on man we got to clean this up.
In the stairwell at Dylan’s dorm
Craig: You know you are a great guy. The most honest, down-to-earth, nicest person that I know. You're a little short, but that just adds to the cuteness. That I would find you to be. If you were a girl or I was not a guy. (Points to himself) Is not gay. Just tell me this is helping.
Marco: You’re telling me what I really want to hear. I appreciate it, thanks. If you want to help tell me I’m an idiot.
Craig: You’re an idiot?
Marco: I can’t go downstairs. I can’t stay here. I can’t talk to Dylan. What do I do?!
Dylan: Marco?
(Marco kisses Craig so that Dylan can see.)
Dylan: I um, wow.
Craig: So when in doubt you kiss Craig?!
Marco: I gotta settle this with Dylan.
Craig: Yeah you do! You really, really do!
(Marco leaves and pulls Dylan out of the party.)
Marco: I love you.
Dylan: Likewise, but what was that?
Marco: Dylan a lot of things aren’t making sense right now.
Dylan: So what do you want me to say?
Marco: It made you jealous?
Dylan: It was Craig!
Marco: I don't want you to see other people. I don't like it and I'm not gonna like it and I'm not gonna feel bad that it bugs me.
Dylan: It bugs you?
Marco: It bugs me.
Dylan: It doesn't have to okay? How I feel about you, this changes none of that.
Marco: That's fine and okay. But you see it changes how I, how I feel about me.
Dylan: My freedom. That's important to me right now. I can't give that up.
Marco: Then you and me? I can't. And it's over.
(Marco leaves crying.)
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ office
Spinner: Ms. H?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Gavin I don't have time to argue.
Spinner: You mentioned summer school.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I offered. You declined.
Spinner: Uh then what if I take it at another school or by correspondence and make the credits up that way? Could I come back next fall? There, there are two things that I want: to finish school and to get my friends back. But someone, someone’s got to give me a chance. Please?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Here are the forms and summer school schedule, aka your chance. Gavin? Don't screw it up.
At the news station
Caitlin: Hey Marco!
Marco: Hey! So the blood drive, it was a huge success. Thank you so much for covering it.
Caitlin: My pleasure.
Marco: I just had a question about the scene I started in the gym? Are you gonna air that at a different time or…?
Caitlin: Actually some people here would rather bury that part of it.
Marco: Oh. Okay.
Caitlin: Uh no it's not okay, actually. I'm sick of seeing AIDS being viewed as a solely h*m* disease. I’ve tried to do something about it before. Last year I even went to Africa. One word, educating. You know if you're interested in volunteering, I've got some friends we could talk to.
Marco: Yeah sure! I'm interested.
Caitlin: Interested enough in spending some time in Africa or the Caribbean?
Marco: Yeah! Yeah, of course.
Caitlin: It would mean giving up your entire summer. Any big plans?
Marco: I did… have some. But you know how it is with plans. They change. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x19 - Moonlight Desires"} | foreverdreaming |
In the gymnasium, the cheerleaders are performing their routine for Ms. Hatzilakos
Paige: All right come on guys! Get to spots!
(Paige screws up while they’re performing.)
Paige: Oopsie daisy!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Wow! When everyone gets a load of that at the year end party we’re gonna have to force them to take a summer vacation.
Darcy: Manny’s choreography’s more fun than going to the beach.
Paige: Okay as captain of the squad I’d like to say that I adore you guys and I want to thank all of you for your spectacular hard work!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well the school appreciates it Paige. Thank you so much!
Manny: For being a big, fat useless pile of nothing.
(The girls start laughing.)
Paige: Did you want to say something Manny?
Manny: Gosh no Paige. It’s all you.
At Manny’s locker
Manny: If I peed in the foyer Paige would claim she gave me the water.
Emma: There wouldn’t be much credit there.
Toby: If you were my prom date, I wouldn’t let her take any credit, not from me.
Emma: There really wouldn’t be!
Toby: Shut up Emma.
Manny: I’ve been knocking myself out. Paige comes to one practice in three months and acts like she owns it.
Toby: Uh did you hear the part where I asked you to the prom?
Manny: Toby you’re a sweet, sweet guy, but-
Marco: But Manny’s going with me. Sorry, but as the newly single head of the dance committee, I had to scoop up the cutest date I could find!
Toby: How come the gay guys always win?!
Manny: Oh my god, thank you so much.
Marco: You’ll find something chic to wear?
Manny: Of course. Who’s all going?!
Marco: Um us, Jimmy, Hazel and just so you know I think Paige is bringing Matt.
In the hallway
Manny: Marco is my dream date, well nearly, but Paige will eat me alive if I go with you guys.
Hazel: That’s because you did get her boyfriend fired from teaching and pull her hair.
Manny: Well maybe Hazel the peacemaker could smooth it over just a teensy bit?
Hazel: We are going shopping tonight at Pretty, Pretty around 7ish and shopping makes Paige emotional.
Manny: Okay…
Hazel: You could run into us, act all submissive. You might get someplace.
At the TV studio
Kevin: I don’t know, I think it just felt like it was time to get off the sound stages and kind of go back into the real world, sh**t real locations, real people.
Caitlin: And so when do cameras start rolling on Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian Eh?
Kevin: You like that title. The ‘eh’ makes it.
Caitlin: I do!
Kevin: We were supposed to start sh**ting in a couple weeks but sadly just recently, some of our locations dropped out on us. Or dropped ‘oot’ on us as you say. Um so if anyone out there has a beer factory, or hockey rink, or a doughnut shop, or a strip club Or a school! Particularly a school. Please call us. Call me.
Caitlin: Please join us next week. I’m Caitlin Ryan. That was great everyone! That was great.
Kevin: Thank you. That was really fun.
Caitlin: Thank you. Kevin this is Craig, my uh sort of stepson.
Kevin: Right on. How are you sir?
Craig: Hi. Wow hi.
Kevin: Mr. Manning hi, wow, hi yourself.
Craig: How did you?
Kevin: Little bird.
Caitlin: Craig uh goes to my old school. Maybe you’ve heard of it, Degrassi?
Craig: Well it’s a great looking school. You should check it out. Uh you should check it out on Friday because my girlfriend and I are playing prom.
Kevin: Oh really? What, are you a musician or something?
Caitlin: Fantastic musician.
Kevin: Fantastic, the lady says! That’s good enough for me. Can I borrow your pen?
Caitlin: Of course.
Kevin: I’m looking for a fantastic musician sir. This is my music guy’s number. You give him a shout, tell him I told you to call him. Give me something high school dude. Real high school. Not Weezer approximating high school. Can you give me emo? You can give me real emo?
Craig: I can give you real emo.
Kevin: Right on sir. Excellent. You may have a job.
At the store
Hazel: Small is still a bit squeezey.
Paige: It’s better than an extra small. I love it.
(Paige walks out and sees Manny in the same dress.)
Manny: Hi. Guess I have great taste. Strapless make you nervous too?
Paige: Is that the extra small?
Manny: Pfft. No. No. Listen Paige, I was really hoping that we could make things better between us.
Paige: Take off the dress.
Manny: Listen I hate, I hate that you hate me. Please is there anything that I can do?
Paige: Out of the dress and my airspace.
In Craig’s garage
Craig: Get behind that keyboard.
Ashley: Can we sit for a minute first?
Craig: No sitting, no time.
Ashley: Okay I told you my dad got a transfer to BBC World in London?
Craig: (In a British accent) No small bollocks, oy?
Ashley: Well he got me a summer job too! BBC 6 they call it T-Girl which I think means gopher, but-
Craig: You’re not going to London.
Ashley: Look Craig I know. But I promise I’ll IM you everyday and send you tons of obscure Brit pop.
Craig: I’m afraid that we’re gonna be too busy doing music for Kevin Smith’s soundtrack.
Ashley: What?! How?! Oh my god.
Craig: I, I know! We have a meeting with his music guy. How much do you love me now?!
Ashley: Better get behind that keyboard!
Craig: See I told you, you weren’t going. (singing) Silent Boooooob!
At the food court
Paige: The only summer job out there is in the Yukon?
Matt: I’m broke Paige. I’m like selling my stuff, eating macaroni broke. And tree planting pays and my parents have cut off my tuition money. It’s $400 a day, free rent. This is looking like the only way out. Be back before you miss me.
Paige: The whole summer is forever.
Marco: Hey I just saw your old boss. The mere site of Meeri took six years off my life!
Matt: I’ll go get us some drinks.
Paige: Diet. Squeezey dress.
Marco: Did I just totally wreck a moment?
Paige: He’s leaving, before the prom and he won’t be back for months.
In the gymnasium
Manny: What?!
Marco: I’m so sorry, but Paige needs a date and she’s honestly heartbroken and then I-Maybe Toby’s still free.
Darcy: Manny can you help us for a sec?
Marco: Hey I’ll vote for you for queen. A tiara would really suit you!
Manny: Hair jewelry. Right. That’d fix my totally sucky life for sure.
Darcy: Paige is having trouble with the 1 cupe, 2 grapevine, 3 combo.
Paige: I’m not having trouble with it. I just don’t like it and I don’t see why it can’t just be straight grapevine.
Chante: Because that’s boring.
Paige: Okay I’m the captain. I’m not in the mood for sass and I’m changing the choreography. Is that boring?
Manny: I’ll show you and I’ll take it really, really slow okay?
Paige: I’m missing the mascot. Go get the costume, I’ll take your place.
Manny: You want me to do what?!
Hazel: We’re performing in two hours Paige. We’ve never caught you.
Paige: Well unless Manny, Darcy, Chante and you all want off the squad, Manny’s the mascot. Consider my foot down.
At Manny’s locker
Darcy: Don’t throw out Justin!
Manny: Purging. Anything that could possibly remind me of this year must go.
Darcy: I wish we could purge Paige. If anyone deserved to fall off her high horse it’s her. What?!
Manny: Okay… what if…
In the auditorium
Ms. Hatzilakos: And so I’d like to declare this school year officially over. (Everyone starts cheering)
Kevin: Offer you a free soda? Swanky school.
Caitlin: Actually we call it pop around these here parts.
Kevin: Ah see this is why I need you around me when we’re sh**ting the movie so you can translate Canadian. Can you do that for me?
Caitlin: Oh stop.
Kevin: The whole time. Please.
Caitlin: Shush!
Ms. Hatzilakos: To send us toward the summer with smiles on our faces, here’s Degrassi’s spirit squad!
(The girls start their routine, Paige goes up in a double base and as she’s cradling the girls purposely don’t catch her.)
Paige: Ow! Ow my leg! Ow! Ow.
Caitlin: So that’s the gym.
Paige: Ow! Ow please do something!
In the recording
Craig: We write all our own stuff.
Ashley: So we can adjust it if you want!
Music guy: If I want? What I want is Husker Du meets the Meat Puppets with maybe a soup song of Van Halen. That’s what I want.
Craig: Um okay! Is that what we did?!
Music guy: Is that what you did? This is a buddy/love story okay man! It’s not the place for whiny girls impersonating Kate Bush, accompanied by Bon Jovi wannabees!
Craig: Hey!
Music guy: Get out of my office please. Thank you. Get Kevin for me please.
Craig: I guess we’re no Meat Puppets.
Ashley: I guess we suck!
At the store, Manny is trying on a simple dark dress
Emma: Don’t look so worried. Paige is fine. So is the dress…
Manny: Fine, fine, fine as in boring! Like mass. Latin with holy hot altar boys out the flute.
Emma: Kind of looks like something the altar boy would wear.
Manny: (picking up the pink dress) This one makes me happy, but Paige…
Emma: She broke her leg yesterday. She’s not going to the semi-formal. And this just happens to be the Manniest dress ever.
Manny: You think?
Emma: After all she put you through I think you deserve it.
Outside the dance
JT: The cheese buffet opens at 10.
Manny: Tempting.
Liberty: We came up with that together. We share a love of cheese.
JT: Yes we do. Anyways your ballots for king and queen.
Darcy: I feel terrible! Do you feel terrible? I feel terrible.
Manny: She’ll get over it and so will we.
Darcy: Her leg was twisted like she was a Cirque Du Soleil chick! She isn’t!
Manny: So we’ll, we’ll vote for her for prom queen okay? And we’ll send the tiara to her house. Now I’m going to ask Toby to dance for extra penance.
Darcy: Okay.
Outside the school, Paige, Hazel, Marco & Jimmy arriving
Paige: Ninth grade, my date is orange and I’m sporting a screaming sunburn. Tenth grade our limo driver Jim Boy Jed, the criminal, delivers us in a cop cruiser. Eleventh grade, it gets worse, happed up on painkillers I arrive with a date who doesn’t like girls on the special bus! Hello everyone! Happy prom! This is so perfectly festive!
Jimmy: Are you finished?
Paige: No! My armpits hurt!
Hazel: More than your armpits will hurt if you don’t shut your pie hole! I wanted this to be special for him and all you can do is whine!
Marco: Um if the tantrums been thrown-
Hazel: One more thing, Manny stepped up and ran the Spirit Squad for you when you were too self-involved! All she wanted was a thank you, but could you give her that?! Oh no!
Paige: She was horrible to me!
Hazel: But can you tell me why you had to be more horrible back? Why you always have to be more horrible?!
Inside the dance, Manny & Toby are dancing
Manny: Um maybe, maybe I can get a beverage now?
Toby: Maybe you’ll uh like the next song too.
Manny: Right. Right, right, well, Emma! Emma…
Emma: Hey.
Manny: Said she would die if she didn’t get her hands on you!
(Manny shoves Emma in Toby’s arms.)
Emma: No I…
Kevin: Oh my god Ms. Ryan. If I knew you were taking me to the prom, I would have totally gotten you a corsage.
Caitlin: I’m here to help you check the place out. It doesn’t qualify as a date.
Kevin: So weird, my prom date said the exact same thing.
Outside the dance
Manny: Oh my god. You’re indestructible. Um I’m really glad you’re here because…
Paige: What are you wearing?!
Liberty: Once the ballot’s filled out it needs to be handed in.
Paige: I cannot believe!
JT: Maybe you two could be the world’s first matching prom queen set, like socks, or mittens or uh bookends.
Manny: We’re not bookends.
Paige: What I was going to say was uh good luck. I really hope you win.
In the gymnasium, Ashley and Craig are performing for everyone
Ashley: (Singing) Through the mud and the dirt, all the tears and the hurt. It seared and b*rned and I cried. Through the mud and the dirt, all the tears and the hurt. It seared and b*rned and I died.
Craig and Ashley: (Singing) There was nothing at all. No nothing at all. There was only a dream of you. Only a dream of you. There was nothing at all. No nothing at all. 'Til your promise exploded through. There was nothing at all. No nothing at all. There was only a dream of you.
In the photocopying room, Paige is photocopying a bunch of ballots and putting Manny’s name on them
Paige: Can’t wait to you see you center stage Manny Santos.
Outside the dance
Craig: We rocked the place out!
Ashley: Did you just say rocked out?
Craig: Hey no lip or I’ll smother you in sweat.
Ashley: I’m gonna miss you so much.
Craig: But, the show went really great!
Ashley: There was a moment up there when I just thought to myself I have nothing left to prove. I’m ready to go to England and try some new things.
Craig: Alright.
Ashley: You know I’ve wanted to go since I was a kid.
Craig: Since you saw Mary Poppins, I know. It’s great, it’s really great.
Ashley: Come on you. Let’s get to the cheese buffet before Heather Sinclair eats all the havarti.
Craig: Um I’ll meet you there.
Back in the gymnasium
Marco: Thanks to my charming, but odd, cheese loving committee, to all of you and of course to our sponsor Pantene. Alright right now, for the fateful moment, our king Jimmy Brooks and queen Manny Santos!
(Paige tries to grab the crown from Marco and her crutch smashes his foot.)
Marco: Paige what are you doing?!
Paige: Give me the crown. Well deserved Manny!
(Paige leans forward and ‘accidentally’ pulls off Manny’s dress and uses her crutch to push Marco into her so she falls into Kevin’s arms.)
Kevin: You alright? We’re gonna definitely be sh**ting here Ms. Ryan. Go put on a new gown.
(Manny runs out of the gym crying and Paige is shown laughing.)
Outside the gymnasium
Kevin: Hey I know that kid. Hey kid get off my set!
Craig: Sorry you working here?
Kevin: No we’re not! It’s okay. Dude I never work and that thing, I don’t even know how it operates. Ever see one of my flicks? It kind of shows.
Craig: Yeah. I like the one where the guys hang outside the 7-11.
Kevin: Yeah that kind of narrows it down a bit. Why aren’t you inside prom-ing it up?
Craig: Your music guy hated us and uh now Ashley’s going to England.
Kevin: Ah what I’m hearing is girl trouble dude. Always comes down to girl trouble. I can feel your pain sir.
Craig: You’ve been through this?
Kevin: Girl trouble? Dealing with a fat guy from New Jersey. Yeah I’ve had girl trouble. Even when I write and direct the movies, I never get the girl. I always wind up with Jay, some cases a monkey. But you know what I found, when my uh heart gets broken, just throw yourself into work man. Go home start writing a song. Go write a song for a movie. Movie directed by fat Star Wars nerd who hangs around high schools during prom, talks to brokenhearted musician types. Dude what part of this don’t you understand?!
Craig: Your music guy said I suck!
Kevin: Ugh dude he’s persona non grata. That dude’s got no credibility whatsoever. The day Creed broke up I found him in a bathroom stall and he was crying. Crying! Besides, it’s my movie. It’s not his movie. You’re looking at me all incredulous-like. Dude did you not see me ten minutes ago?! I flat out caught the Prom Queen! You know what kind of huge karmic debt that is to pay back? I gotta pay it forward man. I’m gonna pay you.
In the girls washroom
Paige: I brought pins. If it were legal I’d offer you painkillers too.
Manny: Where do you get off coming in here?! How can you even talk to me?
Paige: Hi you broke my leg!
Manny: You made me be the mascot.
Paige: You made me look stupid.
Manny: You took credit for my work.
Paige: You got Matt fired!
Manny: You! I don’t remember, but you started it!
Paige: I’ll keep going! You stress me at Spirit Squad! You make me look like full fat spaz!
Manny: Shut up! You’re just jealous.
Paige: Yeah right.
Manny: Um, don’t drink anything else tonight. The girls went out for laxatives.
Paige: Thanks for the tip. Well at least it’s summer now.
Manny: Yeah summer’s good.
Scenes for next week
Kevin: (to the camera, with Caitlin) Last week we made out! What are we gonna do this week?!
Voiceover: Guest star Kevin Smith wraps sh**ting at Degrassi while Craig learns about life on the street.
(Shows Craig getting b*at up.)
Skinny: No rules my friend.
Voiceover: And Caitlin struggles with a tough decision.
Joey: (crying) I don’t want her to go!
Kevin: (raising a toast) To Degrassi! | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x20 - West End Girls"} | foreverdreaming |
On the movie set, principal’s office
Alanis: (In character) First there was the episode with Mr. Wallfish’s toque in the east trough and we mustn’t forget the visiting left tenant you deked out and accosted on the tarmac.
Jay: (In character) You understand a word this hoser’s saying, Silent Bob? How the hell did she get to be principal when she don’t even speak gooder English like us Americans?!
Alanis: (In character) You boys are too bloody stupid to make the grade down in the states and your last hope is the school system of the Great White North eh. You want to get oot of grade 12?!
(Silent Bob nods.)
Alanis: (In character) You better start learning what the metric systems all aboot!
Jay: (In character) I’ve got three words for you! Go to…
(Alanis smacks him in the jaw with a hockey stick and he falls back.)
Alanis: (In character) There will be no more cuss words out of you, you potty mouth mall rat. You’re gonna learn the dual languages of my home and native land and you’re gonna savor my poutine! Cause you’re in Canada now eh?!
Kevin: And that’d be a cut! Very nice. Ooh very nice.
Alanis: Really? It wasn’t too subtle for you?
Kevin: Subtle no, but I do think the PM’s gonna revoke your citizenship.
Alanis: Well where am I gonna hide out from 4 more years of Bush in the states. That’s why I’m here.
Kevin: That’s why I’m here. Isn’t that why you’re here Mewesy?
Jay: Oh no sir. That’s why I’m here. (He looks at Ashley) Hey how you doing?
Kevin: Craig do not this fool mack on your broad just cause he’s been in a few movies kid.
Alanis: A few bad movies.
Kevin: Exact…
Alanis: So sorry Kevin. That was out loud wasn’t it? I’m so sorry. Come on Mewesy, let’s go make out in the trailer.
Jay: For real?
Alanis: For real.
Kevin: And I cast her in two movies as God. What are you doing here sir, shouldn’t you be home writing me a tune?
Ashley: My fault. I dragged him away.
Craig: She’s uh, she’s abandoning me tomorrow.
Kevin: Oh that’s right. London calling. What are you gonna do before you leave the UK?
Ashley: See a movie in Luster Square.
Kevin: Very, very good and make sure you write this dude tons of lovey-dovey post cards. I need him in that frame of mind so he can write me a power ballad. I gotta go back to work. You, I suggest you do the same! b*at it!
Craig: Alright! Not like I’ll have anything better to do all summer right?
Ashley: Craig please. You said.
Craig: It’s a joke! It’s me. It’s joking. It’s great. It’s a great opportunity and I’ll be fine. Honest.
Ashley: Less than 24 hours from now and I’m on a plane to England.
In the hallway, filming for Caitlin’s show
Kevin: So I’ve always been a huge fan of Canada, obviously. Um I love your country. I like it a lot. You don’t inv*de other countries. You kind of hang back, try to go unnoticed so you don’t get inv*de, which is very sweet.
Caitlin: Right. So um just for a sec can we talk about the movie?
Kevin: Movie? Come on man, who are you Regis and Kelly?! I mean since when does ‘signing off from planet earth, I’m Caitlin Ryan’ want to talk about the movies?
Caitlin: How do you know the sign off from my old show? No actually, why?!
Kevin: Well if you’d listened to me the other day you’d know cause I’m creepy. I told you I was a big fan! See I got a real thing for pretty girls who chain themselves to trees and say aboot.
Caitlin: Uh you are using real Degrassi kids as actors, yes?
Kevin: I do. We use real students from the school, we’re sh**ting in the school obviously. Very interested in keeping it real.
Caitlin: Uh and so why set the film-
Kevin: You don’t want to say the title do you? Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian Eh?!
Caitlin: Right. Why make them go Canadian?
Kevin: Um well I don’t know. If they ever needed a reason I would say that the very alluring women of the true north would make anybody thinking, man wanna go Canadian, Ms. Ryan. Yeah I’m talking about you.
Caitlin: And cut…
In the cafeteria
Ashley: Liberty you can buy bottles of those at the grocery store.
Liberty: Why buy them when they’re here, gratis.
Spinner: (Talking to Jay as the two of them are working) Hey you should have seen her yesterday with the mini corn. That was really gross.
(Craig walks up and sees them.)
Spinner: Dot’s catering the sh**t k so until summer school starts I’m here and got Jay a job too. So uh what are you having? We have prime rib, chicken cordon bleu, uh…
Craig: I’d rather eat my own liver than accept food from you two scumbags.
Jay: Manning do I need to remind you that I’m holding a big scary Kn*fe in my hand?
Craig: Yeah?! Watch your fingers.
Ashley: Did you take your pills last night?
Craig: Don’t ask me that. It’s embarrassing.
Ashley: No, that was embarrassing.
Craig: Sorry. Sorry.
In the hallway, filming the movie
Manny: (In character) Jay when I was born Star Wars had already been out on video for 10 whole years. You’re too old.
Jay: (In character) I know there’s laws to prevent it. I’m gonna marry that appolonia. She’s the sugar in my maple, the cheese in my poutine, the bac in my bacon.
Ellie: (In character) The ick in pathetic.
Kevin: Cut! Very nice Ellie. Ick in pathetic. Manny nice job. You…ehhh.
Ellie: (walks over to Craig) Your director wanted a real goth girl from 1988, I guess.
Jay: He heard that, Marilyn Manson.
Kevin: I did and it really hurt. I fought to cast you.
Ellie: Only trying to get Morrissey here to crack a smile.
Craig: Why? Ash is leaving to England where she’s going to find a way cooler guy with an accent, fall madly in love and never, ever come back.
Kevin: Ugh. The angst. Thank god I’m not a teenager anymore.
Craig: It’s not funny.
Jay: That’s right. It’s, it’s pathetic. (He touches Ellie’s hair)
Kevin: Sir! What uh flirting with disaster over here is trying to say is just go already man! I don’t know what you’re doing hanging around the hallways of Degrassi all summer anyway. Just find some summer music program, Coldplay or some excuse dude, but just go hang out with your old lady in London you know? What could be better than that? Beats this. Can I speak with you for a second? The teenage girl thing has to stop. It was funny the first time, now it’s just sick.
Jay: Sick?
Kevin: You have problems.
Jay: I know.
In the media immersion lab
Caitlin: Step mom alert. Minimize! Minimize!
Craig: You can’t even get to p*rn in here. Simpson has online officer.
Caitlin: What about travel p*rn? Money sh*ts of pigeons fowling Trafalgar Square? Big Ben in the rain?
Craig: So you don’t think me going to England’s the worst idea since… whatever my last idea was?
Caitlin: I think a summer away would be great for you actually.
In Caitlin’s studio
Kevin: (On the TV) I’m trying to get the Canadian flag into every sh*t of the movie cause I’m a really big fan of the Canadian flag. So was Mewes until he figured out it was a maple leaf instead of…the whacky.
Thomas: Uh you got something more Hollywood right? More, more dish-y?
Caitlin: Kevin is not exactly dish-y. I mean he’s uh more self deprecating. Funny.
Thomas: Funny is good. Especially when it’s coming from a bona-fide celebrity. Let’s use this opportunity okay? Take Local Heroes to a new level.
Caitlin: A lower level?
Thomas: That’s right! We’re talking the same language. (He leaves)
Caitlin: Would you uh pull something up for me? From the 3 minute mark.
Kevin: (On the TV) If you look at it, more democrats went to see Shrek 2 last year, than voted in the election, so what’s there to get excited about? Or aboot.
Caitlin: That’s going in. Don’t worry about Thomas. I’ll take the b*llet. *Her cell phone rings* Hello, Caitlin Ryan? Yes this is she. What?!
At Joey’s house
Joey: This guy buys an SUV yesterday, top of the line, 80 plus. He comes back today, buys one for the wife!
Caitlin: Wow. Amazing for you! Not for global warming.
Joey: I know. I know, as usual you’re my conscience. But honey! Two SUV’s!
Caitlin: Um I had a windfall today too, actually. Uh, a rep for a big, well big-ish broadcaster in LA called. They want to revive Ryan’s Planet.
Joey: Really?! From up here?
Caitlin: Down there, but um well of course I can’t accept it. Leave my family…
Joey: Your family, which includes a sexy little car magnet(?) who loves you very much. *They kiss* What an honor being asked huh?
Caitlin: Yeah…uh so Craig’s in the garage and he has something he wants to talk to you about. As a favor, try to listen?
In the garage
Joey: Apparently I’m supposed to be open. As in my mind.
Craig: Okay there’s this great music school.
Caitlin: In Camden.
Craig: It’s part of London. I’d be earning a credit for next year.
Joey: You want to go to England?
Caitlin: It’s just for the summer and he’s got education money in his trust fund.
Craig: Yeah Ashley’s dad is there and there are like teacher-types in my dorm. Just say yes! Just give in already. Caitlin and I have thought of everything.
Joey: Not six months ago you were hospitalized! Diagnosed bi-polar.
Craig: I’m okay now. I’m on my meds. I’ve been on them for months.
Joey: Craig no. I, I don’t feel comfortable with you being thousands of miles away from me. What if something went wrong?
Craig: Right. England probably wouldn’t even let a psychopath like me in, right? They already had what, Jack the Ripper and mad cow disease.
Joey: I’m not saying that Craig!
In the hallway, filming the movie
Paige: (In character) Listen girl-fiend, you and your so post-pubescent, he makes the Backstreet Boys look relevant, boyfriend can kiss my yoga-toned ass.
Jay: (In character) Listen lady! There’s some place’s I won’t even put my mouth.
Kevin: And that’d be a cut! Thank god. That will bring us out of the scene people and Paige…
Paige: Yes Mr. Smith? Did you love me? Did you really, really love me?
Kevin: Oh love’s not the word hon. That’s a wrap for you today. Thank you. You were very uh...you were very. (He turns to Jay & Ellie) You guys are good. Really good. Let’s do the next one.
(He sees Caitlin.)
Kevin: Oh my god. Lady you are just flat out haunting me. You hang out on my set any longer I may have to give you lines, put you in the movie.
Jay: She better not get more lines than me sir.
Kevin: Don’t worry dude, the movie’s not called Caitlin and Silent Bob
Jay: Oh but that’s the movie you want to make!
Kevin: Oh I bet!
Jay: X-rated version.
Kevin: Well that was awkward. How are you?
Caitlin: Great. I got a call last night from um, LA.
Kevin: (gasps) A call from LA?! No, I don’t believe it!
Caitlin: So I just wanted to thank you for setting it up.
Kevin: No need to thank me.
Caitlin: Well I do because um, I said no.
Kevin: Um no? Wait, no? You didn’t, you can’t say no.
Caitlin: I have a family. I have my own show. I mean I can’t just take off to LA!
Kevin: Not for nothing, but you got to go back to acting globally. Never mind all this local stuff. It’s just heartbreaking to see you sitting around cobbling together puff pieces about visiting D-grade celebrities. It’s beneath you.
Caitlin: D-grade celebrities?
Kevin: Yeah.
Caitlin: Like you? (She leaves)
Kevin: Wait.
Jay: I’m at least a C-grade celebrity though.
At Caitlin’s studio
Thomas: Sorry Caitlin. We’re locking you out of the edit suite on this one.
Caitlin: What?! You’re taking the Kevin Smith spot away from me?
Thomas: Yeah. I want celebrity gossip alright? Even non-celebrity gossip. Hell if this guy spent the whole segment talking about his gay dog, it’d be more enjoyable than this.
Caitlin: What?! It’s his process as a filmmaker!
Thomas: Yeah and I’m not laughing alright? I’m not hearing anything about Bennifer!
Caitlin: Every time I hand something in to you, you rip it apart or you change it! Why?!
Thomas: Why? You tell me Caitlin. This isn’t Ryan’s World.
Caitlin: Ryan’s Planet!
Thomas: Or that. It’s Local Heroes!
Caitlin: I quit.
At the movie theatres, Craig is playing his guitar
Craig: Yeah so it still needs lyrics, but what do you think?
Jimmy: It’s good. It’s good. I got something for you: Ashley please don’t go. Please don’t leave me. Don’t fall in love with an ugly Limey.
Craig: Shut up.
Jimmy: Okay you can’t throw fries at a kid in a wheelchair.
Joey: Craig.
Craig: Let’s go get our seats.
Joey: Craig listen. I know you thought I was being offensive but honestly I wasn’t trying to hurt you.
Craig: Yeah well you did! I mean why do I take the stupid pills?! You don’t believe I’m better.
Joey: (Holds out a plane ticket) There are conditions though. I will be calling the school to disclose your illness, I want you to call me every day especially if something doesn’t feel right and I want Mr. Kerwin to keep an eye on you too.
Craig: Yeah. Everything. Anything. I can handle it! I can. Really.
Outside Ashley’s house, Craig helps Ashley with her luggage
Craig: Hey! What you got in here?
Ashley: Every shoe I own. Hey. (They kiss) You know I thought this whole goodbye thing was gonna be so hard. I’m so glad you’re here and you surprised me.
Craig: Parting is so not sweet sorrow. (He shows her the ticket) I’m uh coming. Tomorrow, but since it’s the red eye I’ll be in London the day after that.
Ashley: You’re just flying to London?
Craig: It’s what planes are for.
Ashley: You can’t follow me to England.
Craig: Ash come on.
Ashley: Look why are you here doing this? Are you off your meds?
Craig: No I’m not off my meds. I’m here cause I love you and I have plans.
Ashley: Yeah so do I Craig and you said you were okay with them. You said it repeatedly, so what is this?!
Craig: This is me trying to figure out how we’re gonna spend the summer together. You think I’m having an episode!
Ashley: I don’t know what to think. Look I need space. I need to get away.
Craig: Oh! Okay.
Ashley: From you. Look Craig, I love you, but ever since my dad’s wedding it’s just been me worrying, me watching for signs, watching what I say.
Craig: Why won’t you just believe me? I’m better now. I’m okay. I am.
Ashley: E-mail me okay? I’ll see you in September.
At a bar
Caitlin: Says it’s Local Heroes like, like it’s actually a good title.
Kevin: It’s the single worst title since Hope Floats.
Caitlin: Thank you!
Kevin: Yeah.
Caitlin: Yeah cause you think he’d want to add some substance to his crappy, unoriginal idea of a show. If he was here right now I would throw this drink with the ice cubes in his face!
Kevin: Listen to you man, right on! This is the Caitlin Ryan I remember. The Caitlin Ryan from the DVDs, Ryan’s Planet! That Caitlin Ryan.
Caitlin: No this is the Caitlin that produces fluff, like camping trips and high school blood drives and I need another drink!
Kevin: No hun you don’t need another drink, you know? I need about 10 drinks to get to whatever plane you’re on right now.
Caitlin: Uh huh. So who’s on Kevin’s plane anywho?
Kevin: Is that your very drunk charming way of asking me if I’m involved with anybody Ms. Ryan?!
Caitlin: No!
Kevin: No?!
Caitlin: I’m just actually asking if you’re gay.
Kevin: Gay?! No I’m not gay! Is that what you think?! Heavens no. Why do I come off as gay? Cause I thought-
Caitlin: A little.
Kevin: Do I really? Right on. Good to know. No, No I’m very into chicks actually. I like chicks quite a bit.
Caitlin: So why aren’t you married?
Kevin: Well I think I’ve just always been waiting for that one woman who I like to refer to as the iris.
Caitlin: Oh my god you’re engaged to a woman named Iris and I’m sitting here hitting on you?
Kevin: No hun, no. Calm down. It’s…boy are you drunk. You know what it means to iris in? No. You wouldn’t remember if you did. Um it’s a film term and uh it’s like at the end of a Chaplin short. You ever see one of those? When Chaplin’s walking away the camera and the images going, shrinking into a little circle, iris-ing in and I think that I’ve always kind of been waiting for that one woman that just, you know, makes me iris in. I’m sorry did you say you were like hitting on me before?
(They kiss.)
Kevin: Oh my god that was so awesome.
(Caitlin grabs her purse and runs off.)
Kevin: What are you alright? I’m sorry. Are you alright? I’m sorry. Are you okay? That was awesome for me. Are you-? Caitlin wait!
At Craig’s house
Joey: So?
Craig: So.
Joey: So you’ve been home for half an hour, you haven’t said a word. I get it. You don’t want to tell the dad all the private details, even if that dad did pay for the plane ticket. Ashley was happy right?
Craig: Thrilled. Blissed out. Neither of us can wait ‘til I get there.
Joey: Good.
Craig: Yeah. All this excitement. Got to sleep.
Joey: Alright buddy get some rest. We got a big day tomorrow. We got to get you luggage, money belts, British pounds, tally-ho!
(Caitlin walks in as Craig walks upstairs.)
Joey: Young love and not quite so young love. (Caitlin grabs him, throws him on the couch and kisses him) I don’t know what kind of love that was, but that was good!
Caitlin: Marry me.
Joey: Have you been drinking?
Caitlin: Yes. No. Yes. Just marry me! I want to come home to you, I want to wake up with you, I want to focus all my attention on you.
Joey: I thought you’d never ask. Yes.
(Craig is shown in the washroom, looking at one of his pills, then he dumps them all in the garbage.)
Outside Craig’s, the next morning
Joey: Hey you ready? You got everything? Your camera, passport, all my phone numbers, Ashley’s dad’s number?
Craig: Yes for the 400th time. Stop worrying.
Joey: You’re all grown up. Hey I’m proud of you, you know that?
Craig: Yeah.
Caitlin: Have a great trip!
Craig: See you in September.
Joey: Yeah.
(Craig gets in the cab.)
Craig: We’re not going to the airport. There’s been a change of plans.
Scenes for next week
Kevin: (to the camera, with Caitlin) Last week we made out! What are we gonna do this week?!
Voiceover: Guest star Kevin Smith wraps sh**ting at Degrassi while Craig learns about life on the street.
(Shows Craig getting b*at up.)
Skinny: No rules my friend.
Voiceover: And Caitlin struggles with a tough decision.
Joey: (crying) I don’t want her to go!
Kevin: (raising a toast) To Degrassi! | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x21 - Goin' Down the Road"} | foreverdreaming |
At Degrassi, Spike is doing Caitlin’s hair for the movie
Spike: So your big screen début huh? Are you nervous? You seem a little nervous.
Caitlin: It’s normal when you’re planning a wedding right?
Spike: What?!
Caitlin: I asked Joey to marry me and he said yes.
Spike: Congratulations! That is so amazing! (They hug)
Kevin: Alright folks time to sh**t. sh**t. Woah! This is why I came up here to sh**t. Speaking of which, chance to catch Canadian chicks embracing like that.
Spike: Even if the chicks are already spoken for?
Kevin: Christine you may be spoken for, this one though…
Spike: Asked Joey to marry her. I’ve got to call Emma. Excuse me.
Kevin: Seriously?
Caitlin: Yeah.
Kevin: Um wow. I must be the worst kisser in the world cause-
Caitlin: No Kevin! No!
Kevin: Uh you know what I’m sorry I’ve got to set the first sh*t for the day so I’ll just, I’ll meet you out there. Hey uh Mewes!
In the cafeteria, Spinner sees scrambled eggs on the stove
Spinner: Jay? Hey I’m not getting freaked out by this lame hide and seek game! I’m gonna eat your breakfast man. Hey!
(He sees someone in a hood walking and jumps on him.)
Craig: My arm. Ow.
Spinner: Craig?
Craig: Spinner get off me.
Spinner: Dude what are doing here? I thought you were in England.
Craig: After the song’s done for Kevin Smith’s movie. He’s kind of bending the rules a little bit, he’s letting me hang here. Oh my eggs are done. Oh nobody knows, okay?
Spinner: Lips are uh stealed. Um dude I just want to say about Ash and the whole band thing-
Craig: Oh Spin it’s in the past. It’s like, it’s water under the bridge.
Spinner: Okay. Um she was a good contribution though. I mean she knew her stuff.
Craig: No. She was a virus. She gets her way inside. Everything’s okay for a bit then bam! She rips it all apart. I’m gonna be in the boiler room. I got work to do, but uh lips sealed my friend right?
In the science lab, filming
Jay: (In character) You are the ones who are the filthy potty mouths. These guys keep talking about their periodic table!
Ellie: (In character) Mrs. Hoffman! He went into my purse, stole my tampons and did, did this!
(Kevin turns around with tampons in his nose.)
Kevin: Uh Mrs. Joey that’d be your line hun.
Caitlin: Sorry! Brain-d*ad over here.
Kevin: I would not disagree with you. Cut! We’ll be going again kids.
Ellie: Um can you take your hand off my knee?
Jay: What? What oh? What was that doing there? Naughty. Naughty you!
In the boiler room, Craig is trying to
Craig: (singing) Never be a single place. There’ll never be a single place. I can see your face, but I know from…I know from fate.
In the science lab, filming
Slate girl: Take 35.
Caitlin: (In character) Have you heard about the old fashioned Cajun, Canad…
Kevin: Wrong! Cut.
Slate girl: Take 36.
Caitlin: (In character) Have you heard about the good old fashioned Canadian strap Jason?
Kevin: Okay cut. It’s not Jason. That’s his name in real life. It’s Jay in the movie. It’s three lines. Can you get through three lines?
Caitlin: I know my lines Kevin! I’m just, after 36 takes I’m a little bit flustered.
Kevin: You know what? I’m a little bit flustered and I would almost rather have anyone else in this room do the part except you. As a matter of fact, hey uh slate girl why don’t you jump in there and do the part.
Slate girl: Do I get paid?
Jay: Even better than that. You swing by my trailer, we’ll do a little open mouth kissing.
Slate girl: Uh no!
Kevin: Don’t listen to this fool. It’s real easy. Just jump behind there. Start acting like you’re not up in your head thinking about wedding gowns.
(Caitlin starts to leave.)
Kevin: Where are you going?
Caitlin: Maybe you should start acting like a director and not some jealous boyfriend!
Kevin: Yeah well maybe you should try acting like an actress instead of whatever it is that TV that… she’s gone.
Slate girl: (In character) Well Jay that doesn’t cut it for me or any other woman at this school, so from this point on I want you to just stop-
Craig: Kevin? Is Kevin here?
Kevin: Cut!
Craig: Okay the problem I was having I was writing a love song. It should be like a, like a breakup, like leaving high school is breaking up with your teen years What do you think?
Kevin: I think you got to do what you got to do. Craig what are you doing here?
(Craig rushes out of the room.)
Spinner: Um Mr. Smith?
Kevin: Yeah. Oh my god who are you now?
Spinner: I’m, I’m Spinner. I’m a friend of Craig’s.
Kevin: Well Spinner, friend of Craig’s, what is Craig doing here instead of being in England where he’s supposed to be?
Spinner: He’s staying here on set. He’s sleeping here. He told me you knew that.
Kevin: I knew that? Spinner the only thing I know is that making a movie with a bunch of high school kids, way worse than making a movie with Ben Affleck. Way worse. Take one of these.
(Kevin takes some fruit from Spinner, and Spinner dials a number on his cell phone.)
In the boiler room, Joey and Spinner walk in
Craig: Oh Kevin! Great, great, great! Come on in! I’m still working on the lyrics! Let me just play what I-
(He sees Joey and Spinner.)
At Craig’s house
Caitlin: (On the phone) I think you know what you can do with Tessa Campanelli’s address Nick. Oh uh that’s Joey coming in the door. Yup! Okay. Bye. Uh invite list is shaping up.
Joey: Remind me. Did I or did I not tell you that sending Craig off to England was a bad idea Caitlin?
Caitlin: Woah. Don’t make it my fault!
Joey: Oh no? It was your idea. You supported it and now he and Ashley broke up and you know what, he’s been living in the Degrassi boiler room.
Angela: Okay, we’re going upstairs.
Caitlin: Aren’t you at all curious as to why he lied? Felt he couldn’t trust you?
Joey: Trust me? I’m the only one he can trust.
Caitlin: Joey you fly off the handle!
Joey: And you don’t think! You never have! Like up and, and quitting your job! Why?
Caitlin: Oh okay thanks for mixing up the fight Joey! And as for Craig, Kevin and I saw what you couldn’t! His heart was breaking.
Joey: Well you know what? I am more concerned about his mind right now because it is a hell of a lot more fragile. And look if you want to consider yourself a part of this family…
Caitlin: Don’t pull the family card because if it wasn’t for me you wouldn’t even have a roof over your head!
At Kevin’s trailer, Caitlin is crying
Caitlin: You were right and you’re the only person I want to talk to.
Kevin: Come in.
In the streets, Craig sees a bum trying to make money by playing drums
Skinny: Hey not a free show.
(Craig pulls out his guitar.)
Skinny: Uh I meant that as a donation. Not a duet.
Craig: Alright.
(They start playing together and people drop in some money.)
Skinny: Beggars can’t be choosers huh. Skinny.
Craig: Craig.
Skinny: Craig I’ll tell you what, you play another hour and uh I’ll split what we rake in 50/50.
Craig: Throw in a place to crash and it’s a deal.
Skinny: Done.
In the gymnasium, they’re filming a dance
Caitlin: Is it Kevin now or Silent Bob?
Kevin: What brings you back to my setup Ms. Ryan?
Caitlin: Uh I just wanted to thank you for the pep talk last night and um being a friend.
Kevin: I am a friend. For now. The next time you show up in my room, 2 in the morning I’m getting to second base at least. Maybe third. Deal?
Caitlin: Deal.
Manny: (In character) Jay if you really love me than you’re gonna have to wait until I’m 18.
Jay: (In character) I’d wait forever my love. What grade are you in?
Manny: (In character) I’m a freshman.
Jay: (In character) Freshman?! Yo is there any seniors up in this piece?
(Kevin puts out his hand asking Caitlin for a dance.)
Kevin: Come on.
Caitlin: Shouldn’t you be directing?
Kevin: Like I ever direct.
Caitlin: What kind of movie is this anyway?
Kevin: It’s my movie alright and in my movie Kevin Smith gets to dance with Caitlin Ryan.
(A couple ninjas jump out from the stage and Manny screams.)
Jay: (In character) Oh snap. Canadian ninjas lunchbox! Hip hip! Snoogin(?)!
(Jay and Silent Bob start fighting the ninjas and Joey walks into the scene.)
Jay: (In character) Oh sir look!
Joey: Hey hey! Sorry. I’m looking for Caitlin.
Kevin: Cut!
Caitlin: Listen I know I should have called, but by the time I woke up Spike to let me come in and crash-
Joey: Just forget about that okay?! I can’t find Craig anywhere. I think he’s run away again.
Caitlin: What?
Joey: Look I called his friends, I called the police. I even called Ashley in London. Okay they haven’t seen him. He’s just disappeared. He even stopped taking his medication.
Caitlin: Okay we’ll find him, alright? You and me. Come on.
In the streets
Skinny: Three dollars and 82 cents. You know what that gets us?
Craig: These are hard times and I think with the weather and I don’t know, maybe the economy and all-
Skinny: Hey.
Craig: You want to ask him for money?
Skinny: Why ask when I could take his wallet.
Craig: Woah. We can’t just rob somebody.
Skinny: You know how much his car is worth and we can’t even afford dinner.
Craig: Wait. Skinny stop.
(Skinny punches Craig.)
Craig: What was that for?!
(Craig hits him back, Skinny starts beating up Craig, then picks up his guitar.)
Craig: No not my guitar! No, no, not my guitar! Please!
Skinny: Looks more like breakfast, lunch, dinner and a lot of meals after that.
Craig: No not my guitar! No! No please not my guitar!
(Joey is shown handing a picture to the police.)
At Craig’s house, Caitlin and Angie are working on missing person posters
Caitlin: That’s perfect Angie.
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Caitlin: Hey.
Kevin: Hey. Hope this isn’t being too intrusive.
Caitlin: No.
Kevin: I just had a few hours till call tonight and I felt like maybe I should stop by and see if you guys heard anything.
Angela: Craig still isn’t home.
Caitlin: We’re dying over here. Just wish we could talk to him you know? Two minutes, anything.
Kevin: Well do you think maybe a public appeal made by a Z-Grade celebrity might help in any way? It’s worth a sh*t right?
At a soup kitchen, Craig is eating soup
Craig: This is fine. This is just like home, just like my mom made. This is fine. This is fine.
Kevin: (On the TV) We need your help finding uh this teenager. His name is Craig Manning, he’s 16 years old, he goes to Degrassi Community School and he’s been missing since yesterday. This is his dad Joey.
Craig: I know that guy! It’s Kevin! Hey!
Joey: (On the TV) Craig. We all love you. Just want you back okay? Just please come home to us.
Craig: It’s Kevin Smith. I’m writing a song for his movie. It’s Kevin Smith. I’m writing a song for his movie. Here listen. (Singing) There’ll never be a single place where I feel safe, where I can escape from you! Huh do you like it? I wrote it. Yeah.
(There’s a guy at the soup kitchen that looks at the picture on the TV and recognizes Craig in front of him.)
Joey: (On the TV) If anyone knows him please call 1-555-MISSING.
Outside the school
Kevin: So thanks for dropping me off. It was really cool of you. Sure you don’t want to hang out tonight? We’re sh**ting the big football game scene where Jay saves Apollonia from the soul-sucking cheerleaders of Kingsburg.
Caitlin: I should really be there for when Joey brings Craig back.
Kevin: Yeah. Joey.
Caitlin: Thank you.
Kevin: For what?
Caitlin: Everything.
Kevin: I’m sorry I have to try this again. (Goes in to kiss her)
JT: Mr. Smith?
Kevin: James Tiberius!
JT: A testy first AD wants you on set. As in immediately.
Kevin: Tell him I’ll be there in a couple. Go. Adults are talking now. That uh AD is kind of a man-eater so I’m gonna head off. Hey. Just don’t settle alright? You know for somebody else’s idea of what the real world is. You’re just far too cool a chick for that. Pick your own real world. You deserve that much.
At the soup kitchen
Craig: Guitar. My guitar. He took my guitar when I said! When he knew that it was mine! (He sees Joey) Joey! Joey. Joey can help me get my guitar back can’t you Joey? Listen he stole it. My friend. No. Not my friend! Does Caitlin hate me?
Joey: Why would Caitlin hate you?!
Craig: Because I make you fight. And I run away and I, I always hurt you. Like my dad hurt me. You know my dad used to h*t me? Oh but you just think I’m crazy. Everyone just thinks I’m crazy!
Joey: No I don’t think you’re crazy! You’re ill okay Craig? It’s the bipolar acting up.
Craig: You blame everything on me being crazy!
Joey: I won’t. I won’t, I promise you. Never again okay? Just can we get you home. Craig please.
Craig: Joey. My guitar. What did I do with my guitar? Just help me find it please.
At Craig’s house
Joey: He’s asleep. I got him to agree to go to the police first thing and give a description of this Skinny. Who calls themselves that anyways?
Caitlin: Who calls themselves Snake or Wheels?
Joey: I just hope this guy’s neck is skinny enough for me to break.
Caitlin: He might be ment*lly ill too Joey! Remember that. I mean maybe he’s another lost Craig.
Joey: Oh come on! You don’t see Craig beating up strangers in the street do ya?
Caitlin: No he just beats you up at home!
Joey: Just…forget it.
Caitlin: What are we doing Joey?
Joey: Fighting. Like usual.
Caitlin: All we ever do is fight. I mean Craig’s upstairs safe and sound. How can we get married? Really. I mean I love you and Craig and Angela so much, but this it’s just…
Joey: It’s not what it should be. So are you gonna take that job offer in LA?
Caitlin: Thinking about it yeah.
In the auditorium, filming the scene where Jay and Silent Bob
Jay: (In character) Yo Edmond Fitzgerald Secondary me and Lunchbox would to thank yous Canadians for treating us like one of yous guys. You all talk stupid but you have great beer.
Kevin: (In character) Let me just add because… heavens. But b*at your blizzards or your bonome (?) de neige or your courier du bois!
Jay: (In character) What kind of baby talk is that? That was just…
(Kevin hits Jay in the crotch and he falls over.)
Jay: Dude!
Kevin: (In character) You made me and my fawn hetero-life mate feel like a big part of your home and native land and seriously made this the best bleepin’ year of our lives. Woo!
(Everyone throws off their graduation caps.)
Kevin: Cut! Degrassi that’s a wrap!
(Everyone starts cheering.)
Kevin: (He hugs Ellie and Toby) Kids! Don’t ever work again! Thank you. Thank you for all your help
Kevin: (Hugs Manny) You! You were heaven on earth love, now get out of my way.
Jay: Sir why do you always have to get the last line in?
Kevin: Why does it bother you so much is my question.
Jay: Cause you’re always trying to upstage me! Oh look at me I’m Silent Bob!
Kevin: Oh look at this! (He hits him in the crotch again)
Jay: Dude! I took the cup off!
Kevin: And I knew that. Mr. Manning.
Craig: Kevin.
Kevin: Well remembered sir. Oh hello.
Caitlin: Congratulations.
Kevin: Thank you Ms. Ryan.
Caitlin: And now congratulate me.
Kevin: Why would I be doing that exactly?
Caitlin: Cause I said yes to the LA offer.
Kevin: No!
Caitlin: Ryan’s Planet will spin once again because of you.
Kevin: Come here.
(They hug while Joey sees them and leaves the room.)
Craig: Joey where are you going? The party’s just getting started.
Joey: Home. Sorry Caitlin’s home.
Craig: We’re supposed to talk remember? It goes both ways.
Joey: (crying) I don’t want her to go.
(Craig hugs him.)
Craig: I know. I know. But I’m here and Angie’s here and we’re not going anywhere. I’m not going anywhere.
Joey: Okay.
Back in the auditorium
Kevin: Folks I would like to raise a very simple toast. To Degrassi!
(Everyone is cheering and Joey and Caitlin raise a sad toast to each other.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "04x22 - Goin' Down the Road Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At an outdoor pool, Peter is filming some girls diving and Manny and Emma are laying on lounge chairs
Peter: 1, 2, 3, action!
Manny: Do you think that agent is ever gonna call me?
Emma: Do you think that Peter guy is ever gonna notice me? We’ve been coming here for weeks. Hey what if I stood up? Do I have like lumpy chair dents in my thighs?
Manny: Alright you’d need fat on them, or any.
Emma: Look. He’s talking to that turquoise t*nk tramp. I hate her.
Manny: You’ve already won. You don’t need a t*nk to hide your Buddha belly or shorts to camouflage your butt.
Emma: Manny! He’s looking at you.
Manny: Please. I’m not his type. He’s looking at you. You are.
Emma: That is the first guy I’ve liked since hurricane Sean blew through my emotional trailer park.
Manny: Em, I have one goal this year and it ain’t anonymous hot dude at pool. I’m gonna be an actress. Go ahead. Smile. I’m doing it. Whatever it takes, I’m doing.
Outside the school, Paige, Ellie, Jimmy, Marco, Hazel and Craig are walking
Paige: Can you believe that we, the most cursed class in history, actually made it to senior year?
Everyone else: No!
Hazel: I guess Ashley didn’t make it.
Craig: Yet! She’ll be here. Right El?
Ellie: Definitely.
Outside the school, Manny, Emma, Toby, JT and Liberty are walking
(Manny is checking her cell phone for a message and doesn’t see one.)
Emma: She’s a big agent. She’s probably just busy.
JT: Just trust Papa Super Fry okay? The acting world is all about brutal rejection.
Inside the school
Ms. Hatzilakos: You put in a lot of work this summer. That’s why I’m letting you back, but one slip up, and I mean one, and you’re out that door.
Spinner: Got it. I won’t disappoint you Ms. H! I swear to god.
(She leaves and Spinner sees everyone walk into the school.)
Spinner: Hey guys. Look who’s back. Jimmy. Uh good summer?
(They all walk by without saying anything.)
In a hallway, Emma sees Peter and grabs Manny
Emma: He’s actually here.
Manny: Oh! You can do it.
Emma: I’m too nervous!
(Manny pushes Emma towards him.)
Emma: Hi. Welcome to Emma. I’m Degrassi.
Peter: Nice to meet you Degrassi.
Manny: It’s a tradition. Backwards greeting. We all do it first day, so you’re Manny and I’m…?
Peter: Peter. I know you! You’re the actress from the Kevin Smith film.
Manny: Yeah.
Peter: I’m a director. Aspiring anyway. You got an agent?
Manny: I sent my photos to Bernice Fein. She’s the best in the city so I’m just waiting for a call.
Peter: Forever. That’s how long you’re gonna have to wait. You gotta march right into her office looking like a million bucks and demand to see her. My dad always says if you want something in life, don’t ask, just take.
(His phone rings.)
Peter: Excuse me. (On the phone) Hello?
In another hallway
Ellie: Ashley hasn’t e-mailed in a week. She’s totally disappeared.
Marco: Okay uh maybe, maybe, maybe she’s gonna surprise Craig, hmm? Show up at his birthday tomorrow.
Ellie: It’s tomorrow? What do we do?
At Manny’s house
Mrs. Santos: Oh Manuelita. I didn’t make lunch.
Manny: I just came for my credit card.
Mrs. Santos: (Changing the subject) Uh leftovers or a toasted sandwich? I could throw together an omelette.
Manny: Mom! It’s my credit card and I don’t even know why you guys don’t let me keep it.
Mrs. Santos: Your daddy and I just want you to be responsible.
Manny: I am. I worked really hard on that movie to make all that money.
Mrs. Santos: Sometimes we are concerned. What you wear, where you go…with boys. And your grades!
Manny: What do you think I’m ret*rd? I’m not. I can manage. I’m smart.
(Her mom doesn’t say anything.)
Manny: I just, I just need some new clothes for school, okay mom?
(Her mom smiles and gets the credit card from her wallet.)
Mrs. Santos: $50 only. You know how your daddy is. He’ll chop off our heads.
Manny: Okay. Thanks bye!
In the Media Immersion classroom
Marco: I did a safari in Masai Mara and honest El, it blew my mind.
(Craig starts doing hand signals to Ellie who laughs.)
Marco: What? You two have hand signals? We don’t even have hand signals.
Ellie: Oh good! It’s from Ash.
(Ellie looks at the e-mail and sees a picture of Ashley with another guy.)
Ellie: Not good. Way, way not good.
(Ashley’s e-mail tells her that she met a new guy named Alistair and that she’s not coming home because of him, but she doesn’t know how to tell Craig yet. Ellie shows Marco the attached picture.)
Marco: Uh that, that is not Craig.
Ellie: It’s Alistair, AKA Ali, AKA the reason she’s staying in England.
Marco: What?! Nice birthday present.
Ellie: Okay we have to throw him the greatest, most rocking-est party ever.
Marco: Wow. You just say rocking-est?
Ellie: Yeah. I’m that upset for him.
In the mall, music is playing while there’s a montage of Manny
(Manny is walking around the mall staring at pictures of models and looking at mannequins, and seeing really skinny girls try on clothes. She tries on a blonde wig, then takes it off. She goes into a change room with a pair of jeans and has to squeeze to get them on. Before she leaves Manny sees an outfit that she loves, so she buys it and wears it out of the mall.)
At the agent’s office
Manny: Two minutes. I promise. I won’t leave and I’ll stare at you really, really hard.
Bernice’s assistant: (On the phone) Spare two minutes for pest control? Thanks Bernice.
Manny: (Reading for the camera) And in the midst of all that rescuing, in the midst of all that clawing for hope, nobody made it out of our wedding alive.
Bernice: Glass of milk honey.
Manny: You want me to?
Bernice: It was nice. Milk. Eh it’s kind of boring. Danny look at the wall behind me. Tell me what you see dear.
Manny: A bunch of really gorgeous people?
Bernice: Mm hmm, but they’re not just gorgeous. They’re special. They have ‘it’. Look at Robin. Robin has ‘it’. Robin is special! What’s so special about you? Hmm?
(Manny doesn’t know what to say.)
Bernice: Exactly my point. So you go figure that out before you come back here. Oh and a word of advice, stop with the beans and rice, and dump the lumps.
Outside
(Manny is walking outside crying and nearly gets h*t by a bus, then sees an add for plastic surgery and stares at it.)
Manny: (On the phone) Hi. Emma? Can you meet me downtown now?
At the plastic surgery office, Manny and Emma are looking at brochures and booklets
Emma: Ugh, look at that ass.
Manny: She said dump the lumps.
Emma: Okay. She’s out of her mind.
Manny: And I’m a glass of milk.
Emma: Okay. You are out of your mind. Manny you are gorgeous. You do not need to change.
Manny: Remember when you got your period in class?
Emma: Shh!
Manny: Remember when you got your period in class and everyone was laughing at you and you just told them all to shut up? I feel like that everyday. Like everybody’s joking about me and I can never get them to shut up.
Emma: And a plastic surgeon can change that?
Manny: They won’t be laughing when I’m famous.
Surgeon: Manny Santos?
In the surgeon’s office
Manny: So, some off my uh thighs and my…
(She gestures to her butt.)
Surgeon: Your bottom?
Manny: Yes, but I think my…
(She gestures to her boobs.)
Surgeon: Bosom.
Manny: Yes, I think they’re fine, or it, or my bust. I mean it's fine.
Surgeon: Consider… a larger bust will actually help balance out your lower half. So if we combine lipo with breast augmentation I can create for you Manny a very, very striking figure.
Manny: Oh okay. I want to do it. Let's do it.
Surgeon: Okay. There's some details that we have to discuss, including the risks of course.
Manny: Fine. How much?
Surgeon: Ah, well $6000 is the average cost of an implant, plus or minus depending on the model, etc. Liposuction, more or less $300.
Manny: I have enough.
Surgeon: And parental consent?
Manny: I have enough. Of it. I'm sorry, I have it. How soon?
Surgeon: Uh 7 or 8 weeks until there’s an opening in the O.R., but that's only if you book now and leave a deposit, otherwise…
Manny: Do you take credit cards?
At the Dot
Ellie: Hey Spinner, have any coffee?
Spinner: They tell me that’s what the cups are for.
Ellie: One to go please.
Spinner: Party supplies eh? I know school’s exciting, but…
Ellie: It’s Craig’s birthday.
Spinner: So what, you guys best friends now?
Ellie: No. No. I just, I kinda feel responsible since my former best friend’s ruined the guy’s life.
Spinner: Oops. Ash did it again. She played with his heart, got lost in…
Ellie: Anyway! Now I’ve got no place to throw him his cheer up party.
Spinner: Well you know I could get us that whole corner. I mean you, you guys can have that whole corner.
Ellie: Really?
Spinner: Yeah it’s no problem. I’m here for the night shift anyway.
In the school library
Manny: Captain Cook? Didn’t we already do him in like grade 4?
Peter: Years later Peter used to look back and remember how cute it was when she made fun of his history project. Wait, wait. I have this idea for a movie. It’s about a girl like you. Smart, fiery, not totally hideous.
Manny: Charming. Thanks, but I don’t know.
Peter: Why not? A good movie under your belt, your agent would love that. You did go talk to that agent didn’t you?
Manny: Yeah, but she said I needed some work.
Peter: So do it! Listen to this. ‘I had the ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever gone, but to go as far as it was possible to go’. You free tonight? My friend’s having a party.
Manny: Um sorry I can’t.
Peter: Because?
Manny: Just because, but you should ask Emma. You know, she’s free.
Peter: Yeah I will ask her, but uh here’s the address for you. Just in case.
At the Dot
Jimmy: Still can’t believe they let him back after what he did. It makes me sick.
Paige: Blah, blah Spinner. That’s so last year. I want the latest with the princess Ashley diaries. How’s Craig doing with his dumpage?
Ellie: Well. Really well.
Marco: Yeah ‘cause um, he doesn’t know yet.
Paige: Oh!
Ellie: Hey it’s the guy’s birthday. It can at least wait until tomorrow, right?
Hazel: There he is!
Everyone: Surprise! Surprise!
(Ellie starts spraying him with silly string.)
Craig: Who did this? I hate surprises!
(Craig gives Ellie a big hug from behind.)
Craig: Thanks guys. Thank you. This is great. This is great!
At Manny’s house, Manny walks in and her parents are sitting at the table
Manny: Sorry. How was your day?
(Her parents don’t say anything.)
Manny: What’s going on?
Mrs. Santos: A doctor’s office called today to get permission for breast surgery.
Manny: Okay! Wait, I have to explain. I was just asking… I was curious.
Mr. Santos: Don’t lie! You made a deposit! I called the credit card company!
Manny: I’m trying to be an actress. I need to make changes for my job.
Mr. Santos: School’s your job and the only changing you should do is into, into decent clothes.
Manny: My clothes are fine.
Mr. Santos: You think I sacrificed all my life so you could be a loose girl?
Manny: I’m not a loose girl.
Mr. Santos: Then why do you want bigger boobs, huh? Huh?! What kind of girl wants that? A good girl? No! A slut.
(Manny runs out of the room crying.)
Mrs. Santos: Manuela, wait! Joseph…
(Mrs. Santos keeps talking to him as Manny is crying in the hallway.)
At the Dot
Spinner: There are two extra scoops in there.
Craig: I won’t tell.
Spinner: Happy birthday man.
Craig: Yeah. I gotta get back.
Spinner: Uh Craig. I’m sorry about what happened. It sucks. You’re a great guy and you deserve better than that.
Craig: Better than what?
Spinner: Better than Ashley. Man I know all about it.
Craig: All about what? What the hell are you talking about?
Spinner: Ellie said that…nothing. It’s nothing! Nothing…
Ellie: Time to open presents?
Craig: It’s time to tell the truth. What is going on with Ashley?
(Nobody says anything.)
Craig: If you told Spinner, you can tell me.
Ellie: She wanted to tell you herself. She wanted to wait ‘til the time was right.
Craig: Whatever. Just tell me.
Ellie: She met someone.
Craig: Wait. You knew and you didn’t tell me?
Marco: Don’t sh**t the messenger Craig. We…
Craig: You knew? Did everybody know? Screw you.
At the party, Manny walks in and Emma is talking to some random girl
Random girl: Are they vintage? They look vintage.
Emma: Yeah they’re from some little store at Dundas/Grace.
(Emma sees Manny and walks over to her.)
Emma: Hey Manny! What are you doing here?
Manny: I was just bored I guess.
Emma: So how’d you know about this party?
Peter: Hey Manny. Glad you could make it.
Emma: I guess he invited you.
Random girl: Oh that explains it. Peter invited her. He does go for girls like that.
Emma: Manny what is going on? Have you been crying?
Manny: No I’m fine. Just leave me alone.
(She walks over to some guys that are drinking.)
Manny: Hi can I borrow some vodka?
(She starts drinking and Peter is filming the party.)
Outside the Dot
Ellie: How is he?
Marco: Well he’s bashing on the poor, defenceless drum kit, but he’ll be fine.
Ellie: Ugh! So terrible.
Marco: El, it’s not your fault okay? Don’t worry. I think he kinda saw it coming.
Ellie: Then why do I feel so awful?
Marco: Because you like him.
Ellie: Marco, he’s my best friend’s boyfriend.
Marco: Yeah, but not anymore.
Ellie: Yeah, well… you are so wrong.
At the party, Manny is drinking more and more, while Peter is filming everyone
(Emma walks by with some other girl having a good time and Manny watches them sadly. She keeps drinking and talking to the guy who is basically passed out next to her.)
Manny: And then my dad called me a slut.
Peter: It must be quite the conversation. I think it’s time for you to go home little girl lost.
Manny: I’m not a little girl.
(Manny grabs Peter’s hand and they walk to another room together.)
Manny: Have you ever known a girl who got a boob job or is gonna?
Peter: Hope you’re not talking about you.
Manny: That’s what I said. I said my boobs are great and the doctor said I’m wrong.
Peter: Well maybe you need a second opinion.
Manny: Maybe we should make a little movie ‘cause camera’s never lie.
Peter: Know what? You’re right Manny. Camera’s never lie. In fact this camera will give a perfect second opinion.
Manny: I’m gonna be an actress. Like academy award winning. You can sell this for a million dollars cause I’m gonna be famous!
(She takes off her shirt as Peter films her.)
Scenes for next week
Manny: (Facing the camera) I wanted to be famous, but not for this.
(Manny falls into the laundry hamper in Emma’s basement.)
Voiceover: A wild night leads to a lapse in judgement.
(The video is being shown to everyone at school.)
Girl’s voice: There’s a video of Manny doing something she shouldn’t be doing.
(Jimmy and Craig are watching the video.)
Jimmy: Manny Santos, my how you’ve grown.
Voiceover: And this time it’s gonna cost her dearly.
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(Manny climbs in through Emma’s basement window.)
Emma: I thought you crawled into somebody else’s house by accident.
(Manny falls into the hamper.)
Manny: Ahh! Ahh!
Emma: Oh no. You look like a pretzel.
Manny: My insides are kind of pretzely too, let me tell you…
Emma: Shh!
Manny: …and I’m soaking wet.
Emma: Shh!
Manny: How am I gonna wear this to school tomorrow?
Emma: Shh! My parents are sleeping. I’ll loan you whatever you want, but you need to tell me why Jen saw Peter and stinking drunk you upstairs, alone at 2AM. I told you I liked him!
Manny: Hey! Hey okay! You tell me he’s hands off and he’s hands off. That’s just the law. Like girls scout artor… honour. I’m a sailor.
(Emma helps her out of the hamper and they both fall on the floor.)
In Emma’s kitchen, the next morning
Mr. Simpson: Oh Manny. You can be the taste tester for my fridged-out omelette(?). We got zucchini, sausage and a crumbly end of a big old hunk of blue cheese.
Emma: Cold cereal is our friend.
Manny: No. No, I’m fine.
Mr. Simpson: Oh! Guess who just hung up from a conversation with your mom?
Manny: Great.
Mr. Simpson: Who nearly wept when she heard that you were here safe and sound.
Manny: I hate her. I hate them.
In the hallway
Manny: Tell me you’re as hung over as I am.
Peter: Sure except I wasn’t drinking.
Manny: Good then you remember what happened because I’m still a little foggy.
Peter: Yeah I remember everything. Especially when you showed me your… you know.
Manny: But you were sober. Why didn’t you try and stop me?
Peter: Because your request ‘let’s make a little movie’ implied you didn’t want me.
Manny: Why are you being like this?
Peter: I want to see you again.
Manny: Peter, my best friend since daycare likes you and she’s really lovely.
Peter: Yeah, but she’s not you.
Manny: Last night was what it was and nothing more and I’m trusting you that it stays between us.
Peter: First chance I get I’ll erase everything. It’ll be our little secret.
Ellie is playing drums with utensils in the cafeteria and Craig walks right by her
Marco: So, you and Craig are best friends all summer.
Ellie: Regrettably.
Marco: And you develop a cute little crush.
Ellie: Marco!
Marco: And he says a few mean words to you and…
Ellie: Two! He said two mean words after I bust my kilt to throw him a party.
Marco: So what, we’re not gonna hang out?
Ellie: (Says it loudly so Craig can hear) Not until he apologizes!
Marco: Okay. Look we have band practice scheduled for tomorrow night.
Ellie: Didn’t Craig say he’d never let Spinner back in the band?
Marco: He hasn’t and Spinner isn’t, which leaves us without a drummer.
Ellie: Hey I just started drumming again. I haven’t drummed since I was like ten.
Marco: Yeah, but you know how to drum. An immediate improvement over Spinner and you’ve been in a band before. So maybe it’s time you think about joining a new one.
In a classroom
Emma: You told him I liked him?
Manny: Sort of.
Emma: So now instead of just being tongue tied in front of him, now I’ll actually have to barf on his shoes.
Manny: No. No, I, I think he was kind of into you. I told him you were lovely.
Emma: Really? Well sorry I was snotty earlier. You are so good.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Manny. Your mother’s here to see you.
In the school hallway, Manny and her mom are sitting down while Emma walks over to them
Manny: I couldn’t come home mom. Not after last night.
Mrs. Santos: So you decided to make your father’s temper even worse?
Manny: I’m the one who should be angry. He called me a slut.
Mrs. Santos: Until you swear to do what he says and give up acting your father’s temper will only get worse. He’ll get more angry.
Manny: I can’t. I won’t.
Mrs. Santos: Then you can stay at Emma’s.
Emma: I’m sure it’s not a problem.
Manny: So I can’t come home?
Mrs. Santos: Not yet. Not until you are ready.
In Ms. Kwan’s classroom, Ellie walks in late and sits behind Craig
Ms. Kwan: A smart reader uses strategies before she reads to preview the text and to activate their prior knowledge of the topic. A smart reader also tracts and reports ideas as they read them. Smart readers also know that reading plays a vital role in learning. (She keeps talking while Craig and Ellie talk)
Craig: Stop staring.
Ellie: Stop being an ass.
Craig: Do you know how humiliating it was to find out, in public, that my girlfriend dumped me by e-mail?
Ellie: Oh. Oh you’re forgetting on your birthday. It’s a pretty good detail too. Ashley wanted to tell you herself. She wanted to wait until the time was right. She was… concerned.
Craig: That I’d go off my meds and go all crazy. I’m fine. You know I’m fine. We hung out all summer and I don’t need you protecting me.
Ellie: All this anger is for Ashley. Buy a ticket, go to London, and freak on her there.
In the boy’s change room
(Manny is searching through Peter’s stuff when he walks in the door and sees her.)
Peter: Looking for this? So when are we going out?
Manny: This isn’t funny anymore.
Peter: You didn’t answer my question. When are we going out?
Manny: Peter I am never going to go out with you. I don’t like you. To tell you the truth I think you’re a freak!
(Peter gives Manny a hurt look and turns away.)
Manny: Just I need, I need the tape back okay?
Peter: Never tell a shopkeeper you’re desperate to buy his merchandise ‘cause now my price just went up.
Manny: What?
Peter: There’s a new camera I want. HTV 1080i. Runs about $3000.
Manny: I don’t have that kind of money.
Peter: You lie. Plastic surgery ain’t covered by health care honey.
Manny: But my credit card and my bank card are both with my father.
Peter: Well I’m sure you’ll think of something. Maybe I’ll have to start selling tickets to our little movie.
(He plays the video.)
Manny: (On the video) I‘m going to be an actress. Academy award winning actress and you can sell this for a million dollars because I am gonna be famous!
In the cafeteria, Ellie walks past Marco and over to Paige and Hazel
Marco: Hey. Hey El!
Ellie: Sorry new friends.
Paige: I won’t get into kindergarten with my resume.
Ellie: Um can I sit here?
Paige: Um sure hon.
Hazel: You have plenty of extracurrics to put on your university ap.
Paige: Yeah. Spirit squad, spirit squad and more spirit squad. Does that sound well-rounded to you?
Ellie: Hell Hath No Fury.
Paige: I said you could sit here, not spout kooky, dark girl clichés at me.
Ellie: I’m talking about our band. Why don’t we start it up again?
Paige: On top of helming spirit squad we’re a little booked up right now.
Ellie: You want to be an ad executive right?
(Paige nods.)
Ellie: Don’t you think your resume could use something creative?
Paige: See Hazel. That is helpful. She is a helpful friend…person.
At the plastic surgeon’s office
Manny: So I need my money back. My parents won’t let me do the surgery.
Dr. Andres: I’m aware of that. The procedures been cancelled.
Manny: Great! Then about my money?
Dr. Andres: Uh it’s taken care of. We’ve already refunded your credit card.
Manny: No I don’t keep that card. My parents do. I need cash.
Dr. Andres: I’m sorry. That’s not how it works.
Manny: It’s my money, Dr. Andres!
(He walks over to the door and opens it for her.)
Manny: I’m not moving.
Dr. Andres: I can always call security.
(She leaves.)
At Emma’s house, Emma and Manny are in bed trying to sleep
Manny: Em?
Emma: Mm hmm?
Manny: Whatever happens tomorrow, remember I love you. I’m always gonna be your friend.
Emma: Okay. Are we going to school tomorrow or are we shipping off to Iraq? Go to sleep.
Outside the school
Manny: Hey. Look I don’t have the money so I’ll just go out with you okay?
Peter: You called me a freak Manny, so no thank you. That offer’s expired. So now our little movie’s gonna be released in select theatres.
(He plays part of the clip and Manny tries to grab it from him.)
Manny: Why are you like this? Why are you trying to hurt me for no reason?
Peter: You asked me to put the camera on after I told you to go home.
Manny: You took advantage of me.
Peter: You want to know what I think? I think you’re so desperate for male attention you’ll do anything for it. You’re a big fat attention whore.
(Manny flips his lunch tray all over him.)
Peter: Attention whore with a bad temper.
Manny: That’s not me.
Peter: Most girls don’t whip their boobs out to guys they’ve known for five minutes. I’m so glad my dad got me this model. Such a generous guy. Can you believe I can e-mail it right through here?
Manny: Peter! That wasn’t! You didn’t! Peter!
Peter: You’re gonna be a big star Manny and I get to say I knew you when!
(Manny walks into the school and sees JT and Toby looking at a laptop and laughing.)
JT: Isn’t that hilarious? Oh my god.
Manny: Hey guys. What you watching?
JT: Okay here check this out. Ready? It’s a monkey smelling his own butt. It’s classic.
In the media immersion lab, Jimmy starts playing the video on his computer
Jimmy: Hey man, did you check your e-mail?
Craig: Uh no.
Jimmy: Check it. Check the one that says ‘Degrassi Girls Gone Wild’.
(It starts playing everywhere in the room at different times and everyone is watching it.)
Jimmy: Mm. Manny Santos my how you’ve grown.
Craig: Shut up man. That’s not funny.
(Craig covers his eyes, but peeks through a couple of his fingers.)
In the gymnasium, during spirit squad tryouts
Manny: Hey guys thanks for coming out. We’re gonna start with something simple just to see if you can move.
(A few girls walk in laughing.)
Manny: You’re late.
Paige: Okay small girls with the grace phobes camel(?).
Chante: Guess you haven’t seen Degrassi Girls Gone Wild!
(The girls pretend to lift their shirts up.)
Chante: There’s a video of Manny doing something she shouldn’t be doing.
Paige: You mean?
Manny: No! No. It’s not that bad. It’s just…lift your shirt for the camera kind of bad.
Paige: Well you obviously can’t be on spirit squad this year.
Manny: Paige!
Paige: You’re dismissed. Fired. Whatever.
(Manny runs into the hall and sees Emma.)
Manny: Em!
Emma: You think I don’t recognize what you were wearing or the background? I know who you did that with.
Manny: Emma I didn’t! I have to explain.
Emma: Don’t bother.
(She turns to walk away.)
Manny: Emma!
Emma: I hate you.
In a classroom
Ellie: Guys I wrote it in physics, but it’s not about vectors. It’s our new song.
Paige: We don’t have time for this.
Ellie: I thought you needed more extracurriculars?
Hazel: We signed up for yearbook, girls athletic association and prom committee this morning.
Paige: Plus we have a topless cheerleader crisis. Have you not seen Manny Santos movie of the week?
Ellie: I’ve seen it, but I don’t get why it means you have to quit the band.
Paige: Sweetie. We were never really in the band. That was just an Ellie Nash fantasy. We’re dealing with reality here. This is serious.
Hazel: Why don’t you join Craig’s band? I hear they’re looking for a new drummer.
At Manny’s house
Manny: Mom?
(Her mom nods at her to come in.)
Manny: Dad?
Mr. Santos: What does she want?
Mrs. Santos: Ask her Joseph and listen to what she tells you.
Manny: Dad I had a great time last summer. I got to be in a movie and in front of a camera and for the first time in my life I felt good. Like I mattered. Like I wasn’t a joke. Please don’t take that away from me.
Mr. Santos: We did not come to this country so you could become some actress. It’s not a job for a decent girl.
Manny: It is too. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Mr. Santos: Enough! You will do what I say.
Manny: I can’t. You can’t ask me.
Mr. Santos: You tell her. You tell that girl this is no longer her home.
Mrs. Santos: Joseph!
Mr. Santos: Tell her!
In Craig’s garage, Craig is playing guitar when Ellie walks in
Craig: You here to see Marco? He’s not here yet.
Ellie: I’m here to see you.
(Craig starts playing his guitar again.)
Ellie: Craig! Craig! We hung out all summer and I know you’re okay now and it was so, so stupid of me to try and protect you. I should have just told you. Sorry.
Craig: Cool.
Ellie: That’s it?
Craig: That’s it.
(He walks away and stops.)
Craig: I, I can feel them, you know? Your eyes burning a hole in my back. I’m sorry too. I overreacted, okay? So there. Better?
Ellie: Not really.
Craig: So what do we do?
Ellie: Well I heard you’re in between drummers.
Craig: You heard right. Know any?
Ellie: I happen to be in between bands. Maybe I should sit in?
Craig: I got to warn you El. We suck, huge.
Ellie: Oldest rule of music Craig. Band’s only as good as its drummer.
(She starts playing the drums impressively.)
Craig: Okay you’ll fit in fine.
Outside Emma’s house, Manny walks over and Emma stands up to go inside
Manny: Em just hear me out.
(Emma turns around.)
Manny: Here are the clothes that you lent me. I know I have other stuff of yours too, but-
Emma: You probably lost it all.
Manny: But I got kicked out. I don’t know for how long. Maybe for good. Em I screwed up, so bad. I lost my family, my reputation and my best friend.
Emma: Just wait. Manny it’s hard to watch you sometimes. You have everything going for you and you just keep screwing it up pretty spectacularly.
Manny: It’d be easier if I was you Em. Skinny, blonde…
Emma: Manny that is a bunch of crap and you know it. That is not what this is about.
Outside the school, Manny and Emma are walking and Manny turns to leave when she hears people talking about her
Emma: Manny! We have to do this.
(Manny and Emma hold hands and walk inside together.)
Peter: Look just so you know I didn’t send it to the whole room. I just showed it to a couple friends.
Manny: Remind me to thank you.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Peter!
Peter: Talking to a friend mom. Later!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Don’t use that tone of voice with me here. This is my school. I am your principal. In my office now.
(They start walking away as Manny and Emma watch them.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: I’m so ashamed, I can’t even look at you. How could you do something so heartless?
Emma: Did you know he’s Hatzilakos’ son?
Manny: No he didn’t tell me. I don’t think he told anyone.
Emma: I wonder who his father is.
Manny: Satan probably.
Emma: Manny I know you’re going through hell right now and I don’t want to add to it, but you and I need some ground rules.
Manny: I thought we went over ground rules with Mr. Simpson. Nothing below an A, no acting work beyond the drama club, no plastic surgery.
Emma: I know. I don’t mean that stuff. I mean between you and me. No more lies ever, okay? There will be nothing between us.
Manny: Okay, promise.
(Emma hugs her.)
Emma: So you ready to face your first class?
Manny: Not even remotely.
Scenes for next week
Paige: Boyfriend, university. Everything is in place. Nothing can ruin my perfect future.
Voiceover: Is Paige’s attitude too much?
Alex: Paige likes to decide what’s best for people and jam it down their throats.
Paige: What is your problem?
Alex: Your judgemental self.
Voiceover: But she’ll do anything to convince people she’s right.
(Alex and Paige are shown outside smoking up.)
Alex: How very un-you of you. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x02 - Venus Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At the movie theatre, Paige and Alex are working
Alex: You could be in one of these university guides. Everybody in here looks so happy!
Paige: Say it in your squeaky voice.
Alex: (In a squeaky voice) Everybody looks so happy!
(Paige laughs.)
Alex: I’m bored. Maybe I should eat something.
Paige: Twenty universities and colleges are coming to Degrassi on Wednesday.
Alex: So? Look don’t worry about me. You’re applying to Banting. Worry about choosing the right SUV following graduation.
Paige: Alex! Oh um want to take my shift tomorrow?
Alex: I need the money.
Paige: Wanna know why? Matt’s back.
Alex: Now say it in your squeaky voice.
Paige: He called me last night all out of the blue. By this time tomorrow, Matt and I will be reunited. Resuming quelle grande romance.
Alex: Great. Now I’m bored, nauseous and irritated. All at the same time.
Paige: Well I’m just plain all happy.
In the cafeteria, JT and Liberty walk in
JT: (He clears his voice) Ladies and gentlemen, your new president.
(Everyone claps and cheers for her.)
Marco: Looks like Liberty won school president.
Paige: Was there an election?
Marco: There was an acclamation and nope you didn’t miss anything.
Paige: So Matt’s back tonight.
Marco: Mini hurray! Now back to me. Look I need to decide my future over my lunch of cabbage rolls.
Paige: Apply to Banting.
Alex: Banting’s for rich kids and freakish genius savants.
Paige: Did you sign up for those college info sessions tomorrow?
Alex: Why do you drone on about me going to college?
Paige: Because I don’t want to come back for the reunion to find out my former friends are losers. The sign up sheet’s in guidance. Go.
(Alex gets up and sits at another table, glaring at Paige.)
In a classroom
Teacher: So Prime Minister Trudeau had two choices. He could either bring in marshall law or let the Quebec rights escalate. He chose the first. Why? Is anybody paying attention anymore? Paige?
Paige: Um… he, he had to do what was best for the country.
Alex: Sounds like you Paige.
Teacher: Something to share Alex?
Alex: Paige likes to decide what’s best for people sir, and jam it down their throats.
Paige: What is your problem?
Alex: Your judgemental self.
Paige: Alex. Shut up.
Teacher: Okay I’m now gonna bring in marshall law. You can work this out later in detention.
Paige: No. No, no, no sir not today!
Alex: Sir you can postpone detention for work right? I have to work tonight.
Paige: And I have a date! A beyond life-changing date. Sir! Sir! Ugh.
In the gymnasium during basketball practice
Mr. Armstrong: K guys bring it in. Let’s go. Hustle let’s go.
Jimmy: What’s going on guys. I’m Jimmy Brooks, assistant coach and I will be watching you sh**t today.
Derek: Why?
Jimmy: So I can help you get better. Look I played for this team three years in a row. Team captain each and every one. Except for last year.
Derek: You’re the guy that got sh*t.
Jimmy: Uh most players make the mistake of not setting their feet before they sh**t.
Derek: Oh like this, right?
(Derek sh**t a basket.)
Jimmy: Okay. You set your feet. That’s cool, but you’re not using your legs.
Derek: So?
Jimmy: The power from your sh*t comes from your legs, not the hands. The hands just guide the ball.
In detention
Paige: Can you ment*lly will this thing to go faster?
Peter: I’ve tried. All week I’ve tried.
(Mr. Simpson walks in the room.)
Mr. Simpson: Got a minute? Oh yeah you’ve got thirty. *He laughs at his own lame joke* Been saving that one. Um look Paige you listed your top three choices for University. Banting, Banting, Banting.
Paige: It’s good to aim high sir.
Mr. Simpson: You’ve aimed for the highest.
Paige: Well the business program I’m applying for, it’s extremely selective. Only thirty applicants accepted annually.
Mr. Simpson: All the more reason for a plan B.
Paige: Keep a secret? My mom’s bestest girlfriend, she’s head of admissions.
Mr. Simpson: Well it sounds like you got your whole life planned out Paige.
Paige: I know what’s best for me. Now sir, I sniped at Alex in class. He distributed Manny Santos’ breasts through the school electronically. I don’t belong here.
Mr. Simpson: Far be it from me to stand in the way of your perfect life.
Peter: Hey if she gets to go can I?
Mr. Simpson: Isn’t this your first in five weeks of detention? Yeah, Ms. Hatzilakos…oh I mean your mommy would say no.
At Paige’s house
(Paige rushes around changing, having a shower and getting ready for her date.)
Outside the gymnasium
Jimmy: These kids Haz, I do not know where they learnt to sh**t. They’re gonna have me busy all year.
Hazel: Well they couldn’t have a better coach. Coach Brooks, I’m so proud of you.
(Hazel gives him a kiss on the cheek and Jimmy sees Derek and some of the kids on the team walking down the hall.)
Derek: (Imitating Jimmy) Less power on that ball. Faster on those crossovers. All the coaches out there and they give us a cripple.
At a restaurant, Paige is sitting by herself and orders a drink
Paige: Thank you.
(Paige is waiting and looking at her watch for a while before Matt shows up.)
Matt: Paige.
(Paige hugs him.)
Matt: Sorry about the bag. I uh didn’t get a chance to go home. Came straight from the airport.
Paige: I… I like that I’m your first stop.
(She kisses him and pulls back.)
Paige: You’re scratchy.
Matt: Oh yeah the beard.
Paige: And your hair.
Matt: Yeah, it’s not healthy to wash it too much. Something I learned this summer.
Paige: Okay. Here. Presents don’t have to wait until after dessert.
Matt: Oh it’s uh, it’s an organizer.
Paige: You said your life was chaos.
Matt: Yeah I wasn’t complaining.
Paige: Matt I’m applying to Banting.
Matt: Banting wow. That’s uh aiming for the stars.
Paige: Yeah and once I graduate from business school I’ll be able to aim even higher. Everyone that graduates from there does well and I was thinking that with me moving to Kingston for school, maybe you’d consider moving too.
Matt: I know you want this whole big money executive thing and that’s, that’s great… for you, but my life’s just not set. I’m re-evaluating things.
Paige: You’ll figure it out.
Matt: What like you figured it out? I mean Paige like, you always have the answers, but you don’t even know the questions. I have a buddy in Vancouver who says that he can get me a job painting houses.
Paige: So when will I see you? Do I get to see you?
Matt: I feel like such a jerk. You got me a present and I didn’t bring you back anything.
(He pulls out a bag with a joint in it.)
Matt: Here.
Paige: You’re dumping me and giving me drugs?
Matt: Paige I can’t be expected to sign up for this boring routinized life you’ve got laid out.
Paige: I don’t expect anything Matt. I was hoping that you would want to be with me. That’s all.
Matt: Paige I… come on.
(She leaves angry.)
Outside the school
Paige: The most humiliating part, afterwards. The public transit ride of shame.
Marco: Bus? You couldn’t take a cab?
Paige: Why be hysterically emotional in front of one cab driver when you’ve got the entire TTC.
Marco: Well look I have to get to a seminar for University Nunavut.
Paige: Marco come to Banting.
Marco: You’re gonna be okay?
Alex: Your face is puffier than usual.
Paige: Does that answer your question?
(Marco leaves.)
Alex: So your date didn’t go so well?
Paige: Aren’t you uh going the wrong way? Colleges you want to speak to are inside.
Alex: I’m not talking to any colleges.
Paige: Fine. (She pulls out the joint) Take it. It’s a present.
Alex: You’re pulling out a joint on the front steps of Degrassi? How very un-you of you.
Paige: Would you go if you’re stoned?
Alex: I’ll go if you’re stoned.
Outside the school, by some bushes
Paige: My clothes aren’t going to smell, are they? Or my hair? ‘Cause you know sometimes in movies, characters eyes like gloss over and they start to nod their heads a lot.
(Alex nods her head laughing.)
Paige: You’re nodding. So it’s true.
Alex: It does suck, Matt dumping you.
(She lights the joint and passes it to Paige.)
In the school, during the college information sessions
College Rep. 1: Have you thought of Sudbury as a potential post-secondary school?
(Paige and Alex stop and turn around.)
College Rep. 1: Have you thought about Sudbury as a potential post-secondary school?
(Paige and Alex burst out laughing and walk away.)
College Rep. 2: We have a state of the art campus. Um great facilities. Great library, pool…
(Paige tries to focus on what the guy is saying, while Alex takes off the guy’s glasses and puts them on while making weird faces.)
In a classroom, during a college info session
(Paige is doing shadow puppets on the overhead and laughing.)
College Rep. 3: Our university has an international reputation for excellence in academics, but our real strength lies in our passion for teaching our students how to become leaders and innovators. Today we’re going to discuss our ten world class faculties and their admission requirements.
In the hallway
Jimmy: Derek I want to talk to you.
Derek: Yeah. What’s up? Got some more pointers to share? Teach me how to jump?
(Jimmy grabs his arm.)
Derek: Woah. Easy.
Jimmy: What makes you so arrogant? You think you’re better than me?
Derek: What?
Jimmy: Answer my question.
Derek: Dude back off now.
Jimmy: Make me. What’s wrong, scared?
Derek: Yeah I’m scared. Scared of hurting a cripple.
(Jimmy pushes him against the lockers and they start fighting until Mr. Armstrong walks over.)
Mr. Armstrong: Hey! What’s going on?
Derek: He started it!
Jimmy: I’m in a wheelchair.
Mr. Armstrong: Well whatever happened, it’s over. I’ll see you two at practice.
In the auditorium while the sessions are still going on, Paige and Alex are sitting on the floor
Alex: How are all these people supposed to afford university or college?
Paige: Lots and lots of student loans.
(Paige trips a random student and laughs.)
Alex: What if your only collateral is your mother’s welfare check?
Paige: The point is to pay back the loan after you graduate.
Alex: Right. Off my welfare check.
Marco: So I’m applying to Banting.
Paige: What?!
(Paige jumps up excitedly and hugs him.)
Paige: What changed your mind?
Mr. Simpson: Paige! I’ll confess when you said you had a family friend at Banting I did not believe you.
Paige: She’s here?
Mr. Simpson: Well she’s leaving, but I said I’d come get you before she goes. She’ll be in the resource center.
In the girl’s washroom, Paige is splashing water on her face
Alex: Paige! Paige! This person, she’s a family friend?
Paige: Yes, which means not only am I gonna lose out on Banting. My parents are going to find out I’m a pothead too.
Alex: Blow it off.
Paige: No I cant just blow it off!
Alex: It’s remarkably easy.
Paige: My entire future depends on this.
Alex: I don’t understand you.
Paige: Because you don’t have a future!
Alex: What did you say?
Mr. Simpson: (Knocks on the bathroom door) Paige?
Alex: Have a good interview Paige.
In the gymnasium
Jimmy: Okay gentlemen bring it in for me please. Okay you can’t win without fundamentals so today we’re gonna work on our three point sh**ting okay? Give me the ball.
(He moves to center court and sh**t a basket.)
Jimmy: Superstar that’s how you sh**t a three point sh*t.
Derek: Really? Cause this is how I do it.
(Derek sh**t a basket and gets it in.)
Derek: So what’d you think?
Jimmy: I think it’s time to take you to school. Give me the ball.
Derek: See what you got.
(Jimmy moves back, sh**t another basket and motions for Derek to sh**t, which he does.)
Derek: It was easy.
(Jimmy goes to the end of the court, bounces the ball and throws it into the basket.)
Derek: I got this. I got this.
(Derek throws the ball and misses the basket.)
Jimmy: Congratulations. You just got b*at by a cripple.
In the resource center
Paige: Uh Ms. Myers, Elizabeth, Liz?
Ms. Myers: Paige!
(They hug.)
Ms. Myers: So you want to come to Banting. That’s pretty exciting.
Paige: Uh yeah it is um exciting. Pretty.
Ms. Myers: Maybe we can finally get your mother up for regular visits, huh?
Paige: Definitely. Um lots and lots of mom.
Ms. Myers: So this fair, did you find it at all helpful?
Paige: Not really.
Ms. Myers: You didn’t find any of the universities here interesting?
Paige: Interesting? That’s an interesting question. Were they interesting? Wow. Who’s to say. Um…
Ms. Myers: Why Banting?
Paige: Well you’re the, the Harvard of the north. I mean not you Ms. Myers, Elizabeth, Liz, but Banting I mean…
Ms. Myers: Banting has caché yes, but what also attracts you to our university?
Paige: Well it’s very green.
Ms. Myers: Sorry Paige, I feel I have to ask you this. Why do you want to pursue a career in business?
Paige: I have absolutely no idea…and I am so high.
(Paige starts laughing as Ms. Myers stares at her silently.)
In the hallway
Derek: Woah. Dude stop. Was that a fluke? Please tell me that was a fluke.
Jimmy: Are we talking about me sinking it from the ten second line?
Derek: Not just that. Four. In a row. From a chair with no jump.
Jimmy: Try twelve. I’ve done twelve in a row from a chair with no jump.
Derek: Look you’ve got to teach me. Come on.
Jimmy: Okay, but when you’re showing off for your friends and I know you will, tell them you learnt it from your coach, not the guy who got sh*t.
Derek: You got it.
At the movie theatre, Paige and Alex are working
Alex: Strew the popcorn and don’t talk to me.
Paige: If it’s any compensation my mom’s bestest friend is also her informant and I’m grounded until I die…or go to university. Your party to celebrate my demise can commence now.
Alex: What happened to the you not talking idea I had?
Paige: I was a toad to you. A warty, bumpy, green skinned, horny toad.
Alex: But you were right.
Paige: No I wasn’t. I’m not. Alex!
Alex: Paige I don’t have a future okay? I don’t even know where I’m sleeping tonight. The way my mom and her stupid boyfriend fight I might be at home or I might be at a women’s shelter. So how am I supposed to plan for something like university? No I’m wearing this for the rest of my life.
Paige: You’re not.
Alex: Odds are I am.
Paige: Well good to know. That’s two of us who are scared.
Scenes for next week
JT: (To the camera) Liberty is such a control freak. I don’t know how she’s going to handle this.
Toby: You and Liberty have been uh?
JT: Getting our freak on? Oh yeah. Dozens of times.
Voiceover: JT and Liberty have relationship issues.
Liberty: Maybe this will teach you to keep private matters, private!
(A scene shows her dumping pop down his pants and then it shows her getting a pregnancy test.)
Voiceover: And some are bigger than others.
Liberty: (Talking to JT) I don’t want to be pregnant. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x03 - Death of a Disco Dancer"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside, JT is driving with Liberty when he pulls to a stop and holds up the keys
Liberty: What now? I don’t even have my beginners.
JT: Oh come on my little speed demon.
(Liberty is shown in the driver’s seat.)
JT: Okay so give her some gas.
(The music starts blasting and Liberty hits the gas.)
Liberty: My god, it’s working. I’m driving!
(Liberty is swerving around on the road and they come to a stop.)
JT: You did fine. You did wonderful okay. Now we’ll go celebrate.
(He holds up a bunch of condoms.)
Liberty: I’ve got to judge video announcements in 15 minutes.
JT: Well believe me that’s way more than enough time.
(He leans in to kiss her and Liberty pulls away.)
JT: Liberty.
Liberty: Do we have to talk about this?
JT: I just, I want to know if it’s something I’m doing okay? Because ever since school’s started you’ve been like an iceberg.
Liberty: You know student counsel president comes with a lot of responsibility. Do you even know what that means?
JT: Whatever you say your majesty.
In Degrassi
Mr. Simpson: Congratulations on your win madam president.
Liberty: Thank you Mr. Simpson
Toby: Okay we’ll be ready to start auditions just as soon as our student council president arrives…with her man servant
JT: Ha, ha. I’m actually here to audition. For I seek not only to inform, but to entertain as well.
Liberty: You’re auditioning?
JT: Is there a problem with that?
Liberty: I’m sorry, but early mornings, writing copy, being on time. Does that sound like JT Yorke to you?
JT: Liberty this is kind of important to me. When that little light goes on, it’s a rush. It draws me in.
Liberty: Like a moth to a bug zapper. Are you sure becoming an entertainer is a responsible, mature career path?
JT: What’s that supposed to mean?
Liberty: Nothing. Do what you want JT.
JT: (Turns to Toby) I’ll just see you in class. I’ll audition tomorrow.
In Ms. Kwan’s class
Spinner: B-. Yes!
Ms. Kwan: Nice work Gavin. Keep it up and you might even pass this year.
Darcy: Got any tips on how to get past Kwan’s marking system?
Spinner: Oh I got tips. Lots of tips and um… be happy to share them with you. Anytime, anyplace, any subject.
Darcy: I‘ve got a tip for you, the flirting: lame!
Spinner: Okay so we’ll trade. I’ll help you with English, you help me flirt.
Darcy: So you failed last year?
Spinner: Yeah I had some problems.
Darcy: What kind of problems?
Spinner: Uh my dog got sick with leukemia. All his fur fell out, right around exams. I was just too broken up over Sparky…
Darcy: Wow. Not only are you bad at flirting, but you suck at lying too.
Ms. Kwan: Okay class let’s begin. Gavin attention!
In the boy’s locker-room
JT: Tobes! Wanna hang out tonight?
Toby: Don’t you have to rub Liberty’s feet or something? Look it’s just the way she talks to you. You gotta be the man JT.
JT: Oh believe me Tobes. I have been the man okay. All summer long.
Toby: You and Liberty have been…
JT: Getting our freak on? Oh yeah dozens of time. She especially likes it when I…
Toby: (singing) Oh Canada. Our home and native land.
JT: Okay I’ll stop.
Toby: So why is she barking orders at you?
JT: She just became student council president okay my virginal friend. She’s stressed, so maybe all she needs is a little de-stressing.
In the hallway
Spinner: Jimmy, come on man. Will you just give me a chance? It’s a whole new year.
Jimmy: Look just ‘cause they let you back, it does not change who you are.
Spinner: But I have changed man. I have!
(Jimmy rolls away and Darcy walks over.)
Spinner: Listen I’ve got to tell you something okay? The truth. I was, I was expelled last year.
Darcy: Okay that’s a start. Why?
Spinner: I got roped into something. Played a little prank on this guy and he went psycho. He came to school sh**ting…
Darcy: I know all about it. I just didn’t know you were involved.
Spinner: Only in the most indirect way and I‘ve more than paid for it, but people around here they, they won’t even look at me. I’m persona non grata and it sucks.
Darcy: Look a bunch of us are meeting up after school, room 208. Why don’t you come, hang out.
In the media immersion room
Mr. Simpson: Hey I read your dance committee budget. On time, under budget. President Van Zandt sh**t, she scores. The crowd goes wild!
JT: Weirdo teacher overload. Diagnosis, Simpsonitis.
Liberty: It’s nothing. Minor headache.
JT: I mean it’s understandable. You’re spinning a hundred plates at once. Hey uh maybe cirque du soleil’s our area.
Liberty: Don’t waste your A material on me.
JT: Okay. Just tell me one thing. What are you doing tonight?
Liberty: Work, work and more work.
JT: No you’re not. You’re gonna come with me and our friends to movie night.
Liberty: But there’s the budget and agendas to collate, memos to write… all of which can wait.
JT: Okay. Cool. I’ll pick you up.
Liberty: JT you’re really great.
JT: I know.
(He kisses her.)
At the Friendship Club meeting, Spinner walks in confused
Darcy: Everybody, this is Spinner.
Spinner: Hi. Why are you guys all sitting in a circle? You should move those chairs.
Darcy: It’s Spinner’s first time here so who wants to tell him the first rule of Friendship Club?
Random girl: (Puts up her hand) Oh! Always talk about Friendship Club.
Darcy: Right. Spread the word. Okay so since I’ve got the floor I guess I’ll kick us off today.
(They all hold hands as Spinner looks confused.)
Everyone except Spinner: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
At the movie theatre
JT: Oh polyester’s in this season.
Paige: Twenty movie theatres in this city and everyone from Degrassi comes to this one. What?
JT: I’ll have uh one extreme corn bucket, double toppings. Um… a cola tub. Actually make that root beer please and uh two bendy straws.
(JT kisses Liberty’s cheek.)
Manny: Enough with the PDA.
Emma: Sorry guys, bus took forever.
Liberty: Another advantage of dating JT, my man’s got a car.
JT: And my lady gets a ride whenever she wants.
(JT and Toby move away from the girls.)
JT: Actually I gave uh Liberty a really good driving lesson. She’s uh, she’s pretty handy with the old stick shift.
Toby: Okay enough about you and Liberty’s sex life.
JT: Uh hey good hustle Paige.
Paige: Yeah that’ll be about $400.
Liberty: Maybe this will teach you to keep private matters, private!
(She dumps the root beer into JT’s pants.)
Paige: Um you still have to pay for that.
Outside, JT is driving and trying to talk to Liberty who is walking
JT: I called, I e-mailed. If I give you a lift will you take that as an apology?
(Liberty gets in the car and they start driving.)
JT: Look I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have made those jokes to Toby about our sex life.
Liberty: You should never have told him about sex life period. It was stupid.
JT: I don’t know why you’re making such a big deal out of this.
Liberty: Because you talk without thinking. You’re immature. You’re a clown.
JT: You treat me like a kid. Okay you boss me around and you wouldn’t even let me audition for the video announcements. You decide everything.
Liberty: Grow up JT.
JT: Respect me Liberty. Okay and then maybe we can make a decision together, for once!
Liberty: We did. Last summer remember? When we decided to use the king sized condom. The one that slipped off. I’m pregnant.
(JT looks at her shocked and crashes the car right into the bus stop outside Degrassi.)
Liberty: JT!
(JT steps out of the car shocked.)
Outside the school, Liberty and JT are standing by the car when Ms. Hatzilakos rushes out
JT: Oh my god. What are we gonna do?!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Are you okay?
Liberty: We’re fine. A dog ran onto the road. JT swerved. He did everything he could.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well accidents will happen. Why don’t you go inside? I’ll talk to the police. I’m just glad you’re okay.
In Mr. Simpson’s class
Mr. Simpson: So what draws us to some advertising and not to others? Is it the look, the hook or is it-
(Everyone is watching Liberty and JT talk to the police.)
Mr. Simpson: Okay peepers up front people. It’s time to partner up.
(JT and Liberty walk in.)
Mr. Simpson: Liberty and JT. Nice of you to join us.
JT: How long have you known?!
Liberty: A while.
JT: A while? What’s a while? Days? Weeks?
Liberty: Try months. Three.
JT: Liberty!
Liberty: I don’t want to be pregnant. Okay morning after morning I wake up and guess what, I still am.
JT: Well uh what about a…?
Liberty: An abortion?! I don’t even want to think about that, let alone talk about it.
JT: Are you sure you’re really pregnant?
Liberty: Do you need proof?! Fine go buy a pregnancy test!
JT: You haven’t done that?
Liberty: A woman just knows JT. There are vast multitude of science. Including frequent urination.
(She stands up to go the washroom.)
Liberty: Mr. Simpson.
In the cafeteria, Spinner sits down and Darcy walks over to him
Darcy: Is this seat taken?
Spinner: No.
Darcy: You were awfully splitsville last night. Didn’t like the club?
Spinner: It was Christian.
Darcy: So? I joined a couple months ago. It’s fun.
Spinner: I guess I’m just not into the join hands group prayer, variety of fun.
Darcy: Right, because that’s all I do. Just because I’m Christian doesn’t mean I won’t cream you in laser tag.
Spinner: Oh laser tag. What a party. Um what else do you do, weenie roasts?
Darcy: I like horror movies, make fart jokes, watch the occasional ultimate fighting challenge.
Spinner: You’re allowed to do that?
Darcy: Yes. I’m not in some cult Spinner. I do pretty much anything I want.
Spinner: Um are you allowed to drink coffee? Like say tonight at the Dot?
At the mall, JT walks into the pharmacy and over to the ‘family planning’ section
(He picks up a pregnancy test and sees a man holding a baby. He walks over to the cashier who gives him a look when she sees the test. JT sees a sign for a job opening on the counter.)
At Liberty’s house
Danny: She in there again? Get comfortable. Gonna be a while, probably all bonged up.
JT: You are an ignorant little puke. You know nothing about Liberty okay? So just take my advice and get lost!
Danny: Man. You have issues.
(Danny leaves and Liberty walks out holding the test.)
JT: It’s positive?
(She nods.)
At Degrassi
Toby: You missed it. Heather Sinclaire auditioned with a dangler. She had a booger hanging from her nose hair. You okay enough to do this?
JT: Yeah it’s mine.
Toby: Alrighty. So um I’ll point to you and that’s when you start.
JT: (On camera) Hello. I’m JT Yorke with your morning announcements. I…okay. Good morning. Congrats to our senior girls relay team who knocked up…
(Liberty gives him a look.)
JT: …uh knocked off rival Carson Hill and are now guaranteed a birth um birth in…I’m gonna be sick.
(JT runs out of the room and Liberty follows.)
Toby: Okay. Uh next?
Liberty: That went great. Just have to notify Heather Sinclaire she has the job.
JT: I can do better okay?
Liberty: I told you not to audition. Entertainment is not a practical career path for you.
JT: Will you stop? Just stop trying to control me. Please.
Liberty: Fine. I’ll focus on controlling other things, like my vomiting.
JT: Liberty we need to get you a doctor and get you checked out.
Liberty: Actually I’ll take care of that. Medical concerns, telling parents…all the practical details.
JT: While I just stand around and watch?
Outside Toby’s house, Toby is playing with a remote control car
JT: The Canyon Hopper XT. It’s amazing it still works.
Toby: Yeah. Found it at the end of the garage. Technically it’s half yours.
JT: Yeah well we sold a lot of golf balls. Tobes. Liberty’s pregnant.
(The car runs into the garbage knocking it over.)
Toby: Wow.
JT: Yeah.
Toby: Okay. Okay. They have support groups right? And uh, you can talk to Ms. Sauve at school and tell your parents.
JT: Actually there’s a bigger problem.
Toby: A bigger problem than Liberty being pregnant?
JT: Yeah. Her. Liberty. Everything she used to like about me, she now hates. She treats me like crap Tobes.
Toby: Talk to her. Tell her to quit it.
JT: Doesn’t work. Nothing works. What am I gonna do?
At the Dot
Darcy: Corner table. Nice.
Spinner: Yeah it’s one of the perks of working here.
Darcy: Here. Made something for you.
(She hands him a CD.)
Spinner: Green Day. Missy E. Arcade f*re. Cool. Not what I expected.
Darcy: Your turn. Tell me something about yourself that I wouldn’t expect.
Spinner: Alright this goes right in the vault alright? You know those little mister handsome contests?
Darcy: Beauty pageants for boys.
Spinner: You are looking at little mister handsome, age four through six.
Darcy: What happened after six?
Spinner: Got ugly I guess.
(She laughs and Jimmy rolls over to them.)
Jimmy: Just a heads up. You should be careful with this guy. He’s dangerous you know.
Spinner: Jimmy…
Jimmy: He tends to get people sh*t. That’s no good. I don’t know what he told you, but I doubt it’s the truth.
In Degrassi
JT: I’m gonna ask you this, can I do the morning announcements?
Liberty: No.
JT: Okay I’m gonna ask again.
Liberty: JT we’re not talking about this.
JT: Liberty, if we can’t talk about this, then how are we gonna deal with the fact that you’re pregnant?
Liberty: We’re not, I am.
JT: Good to know.
Liberty: Just like you to make a joke.
JT: That’s what you used to like about me is that I made jokes.
Liberty: Yeah well everything’s changed. I don’t have time for jokes. This is serious. I can’t trust you to deal with this.
JT: Fine. Then I can’t deal with you. That’s it Liberty. I’m done.
Liberty: You’re breaking up with me? Now?
(JT keeps on walking as Liberty watches him upset.)
Outside Degrassi
Spinner: Look whatever you have to say I’ve heard it all before. Okay so you don’t have to bother.
Darcy: Why didn’t you tell me the whole story?
Spinner: Because Jimmy was my best friend. I basically cut his legs off. I don’t like to broadcast that.
Darcy: You didn’t sh**t him.
Spinner: No, but I might as well have. It was totally my fault. I keep trying to talk to him, but-
Darcy: You can’t make Jimmy forgive you, especially if you haven’t forgiven yourself.
Spinner: Yeah I get it. Friendship club right? Blah, blah, blah.
Darcy: No I’m talking about you, because I like you.
Spinner: Here. If you still want to get to know me better.
(He gives her a CD and they smile at each other.)
At Liberty’s locker
JT: Liberty. I got a job at a drugstore.
Liberty: You did?
JT: So not only will I be able to share our costs, but when the baby comes I’ll get a pretty good discount on diapers too.
Liberty: Why’d you do that?
JT: Because I want to help and it’s the only way I know how and I didn’t need your permission. That was a plus too.
Liberty: We’re not back together.
JT: I know. I’m not gonna abandon you and I’m not gonna abandon this baby.
Liberty: I’ve never, never needed help on anything.
Scenes for next week
Craig: (To the camera) I’m through with romance this year. No girls. None!
(Manny and Ellie are shown split screen.)
Voiceover: Get ready for a showdown. Two’s company.
Craig: Ellie’s been incredible.
Voiceover: Three’s a crowd.
Craig: Manny!
Manny: I didn’t want to interrupt.
(Manny walks over to Ellie angry.)
Manny: Did you just throw a drumstick at my head?! | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x04 - Foolin'"} | foreverdreaming |
In Craig’s garage, the band is practicing
Craig: (Singing) Well somebody better stop me ‘cause my feet don’t touch the ground. I can’t keep my hands off of you and there’s nothing I can do-
(The sound is really off and Craig gives them a weird look.)
Craig: (Singing) I can’t keep my hands off of you.
Craig: Alright stop. Stop! Jimmy, look unless your last name is Hendrix and you’ve come back to rock us from the grave. No solos while I’m singing!
Marco: We’re never gonna get a wedding job.
Craig: No. No we will and, and every cent we earn we’ll spend on recording gear. We’ll be able to cut our own record.
Jimmy: Look the music you have us playing is lame and wedding bands are lame, ergo you’re lame.
Craig: No, your funk guitar is lame! If you learned…
(All three guys start arguing with each other.)
Ellie: Okay what’s lame is sitting around and criticizing, unless you have a better idea.
Jimmy: Weddings are gigs I guess.
(A car horn is honked.)
Jimmy: That’s my dad.
Marco: Uh yeah Jimmy, is it cool if I get a ride with you?
Jimmy: Yeah.
(Jimmy and Marco leave.)
Craig: Thanks for backing me up El.
Ellie: I like playing with you. The band, I mean. I’ve really learnt a lot.
Craig: It shows. Your drumming’s tight.
Ellie: Not on that last number.
Craig: Alright. I wanna give you a little lesson in funk drumming. In funk it’s all about the AXmp. So it’s like…
(He starts making noises with his mouth and Ellie joins in with the drums.)
Craig: Yeah you gotta feel it.
At Jeremiah Motors
Joey: Well there are a few options in your price range. There’s this little baby right here. It’s got style, performance. It’s an all-in-one cool little package.
Diane: Uh my ex boyfriend said I shouldn’t buy an import.
Joey: Well I have to question the wisdom of any man stupid enough to let you go. The man’s obviously a fool.
Diane: No I am. I’m the one who put his band up to play my sister’s wedding this weekend before he dumped me and fell off the face of the earth.
Joey: So you’re looking for a wedding band?
(Craig overhears and walks over quickly.)
Craig: I have a band. We can do weddings.
Joey: Diane this is Craig. He’s a musician, carhop and shameless self promoter.
Diane: I swear every other band in the city is booked. I’m scrambling.
Joey: Well if it’s alright with you, you could come by the house tomorrow night, you can get the band audition for you and I can talk you into an import.
Diane: Over a glass of wine?
Joey: Yeah. It’s a deal.
Diane: I’ll call you.
Joey: Alright.
(She leaves and Joey watches her go.)
Joey: Who’s the man?
Craig: You are Joey.
Joey: That’s right.
At school
Craig: What are the odds? Just when we need our first gig, this girl walks right onto the lot. It’s like someone up there wants us to play a wedding.
Marc: The god of mediocrity?
Jimmy: Downtown Sasquatch go forth and play the chicken dance.
Marco: So the other night you and Ellie?
Craig: What? We rehearsed some more. We did some hardcore funking.
Marco: You hear the words coming out of your mouth?
Whatever. We hung out, we watched a DVD.
Marco: Okay. Which one? Craig Intentions? How Craig Got His Groove Back?
Craig: 90% of my issues in life… girls, girls, girls.
Marco: True.
Craig: So this year I’m a monk. Just school and the band. No distractions. No drama.
Marco: Good. Well then good thing you put the cutest girl in school on drums.
Craig: Maybe you didn’t hear me.
(Some random girl walks by and touches Craig’s shoulder.)
Random girl: Hi.
Craig: Hey.
(He walks into a door.)
Marco: No distractions eh bud?
In the hallway
JT: Liberty wait up. How have you been feeling? Are you still repulsed by the concept of breakfast? Are you ever gonna talk to me again? Okay whatever if there’s something I can do for you, anything at all, I’ll do it.
Liberty: You can mangle your male parts in a tragic industrial accident.
(Liberty walks away from him.)
In the cafeteria, Manny walks by Spinner and Darcy sitting together
Manny: Hey Spinner, Darcy.
Peter: Hey Manny have a seat.
(She keeps walking and he follows her.)
Peter: Can we just call it water under the bridge? My mother’s having me on lockdown for weeks.
Manny: Please.
Peter: I’m not finished.
(He pushes Manny against the lockers and Craig walks over and pushes Peter against the lockers.)
Craig: I think you are. You don’t talk to her, you don’t even look at her ever again or you deal with me. Clear?
Peter: Crystal.
(Peter leaves and Craig grabs Manny’s hand.)
Craig: Let’s get out of here.
Outside the school, Manny is eating a sandwich
Craig: You okay?
Manny: Simpson’s a big fan of mayo. It’s like glob-ular.
Craig: Are you okay in a bigger sense?
Manny: Didn’t you see the video? You know me, lots of vodka, little clothing?
Craig: No, I, I didn’t, I missed it. Okay I did, but I closed it really quickly.
Manny: Please let me die.
Craig: Who cares that I saw it?
Manny: I do, okay? You’re you.
Craig: Is it weird to say that I wish I was there that night? Stop that freak from filming you.
Manny: No it’s not weird. It makes me feel better. Like you’re my protector.
Craig: What are friends for right?
At Craig and Ellie’s meeting
Leader: So Craig tell us what’s been going on with you.
Craig: Well Ellie and I have an audition tonight for uh, a wedding gig.
(Everyone starts clapping for them.)
Craig: So I’m good. I’m feeling good. I’m happy. You guys have seen me down in the depths so it’s good to be coming out the other side feeling strong, but I gotta say I’d be nowhere without that girl over there. Ellie’s been incredible. Thanks. Thank you.
At Joey’s house
Craig: Joey that’s what you’re wearing?
Joey: My leisure suit’s at the cleaners.
Craig: In case you didn’t know there’s an insanely hot woman who’s gonna be over here in oh, twenty minutes!
Joey: I’m aware.
Craig: What happened to you? You were all over her yesterday.
Joey: I know and then I found out that Diane is 23. I’m 34 Craig. What am I gonna do with a 23 year old?
Craig: Do you need me to draw you a diagram?
(Joey laughs and Craig brings him a jacket to wear.)
Joey: What? Aw come on! What about you, huh? That uh Ellie girl seems kinda cute.
Craig: She’s cute. She’s a friend. She’s a friend who happens to be a girl. She’s um, a friend-girl if you will.
Joey: Uh yeah take it from someone who knows, there ain’t no such thing.
In Craig’s garage
Craig: Okay uh thanks for coming down to audition us Diane. We’re Downtown Sasquatch.
(The band starts playing.)
Craig: (Singing) Everybody, got a secret. Party people, getting down. But somebody better stop me ‘cause my feet don’t touch the ground.
Everyone: (Singing) I can’t keep my hands off of you and there’s nothing I can do. I can’t keep my hands off of you.
(Diane and Joey walk into the house, while the band is still practicing.)
Diane: They’re almost too cool for my sister.
Joey: Well I’m just happy that you were able to replace your ex’s band. I guess you uh must still be reeling from that, the break-up I mean.
Diane: I don’t think so. Who needs 200 pounds of idiot drooling on them all the time? Nope. Done, over.
Joey: And you can just get over someone so quickly, all 200 pounds?
Diane: It’s just the way I am. I know what I want and I act on it.
Joey: Life’s too short. Cheers.
(They clink glasses.)
Diane: Ooh gotta go. Rehearsal dinner. So not looking forward to this wedding. There’s nothing quite so depressing as being dateless in a bridesmaid’s dress.
(He helps her put on her jacket.)
Diane: Thank you.
Joey: Well uh, if you need a date I happen to know a nice, single guy who matches most dresses.
Diane: Well if you happen to speak to him tell him Diane wants him to be her date and to call her tomorrow.
Joey: Okay.
(Joey walks her to the door.)
Joey: Bye.
At the Dot, Spinner is on the phone in the background
Spinner: (On the phone) Darcy what are you doing on Sunday? Yeah I know you have church! What about after?
Marco: Hey uh Jimmy and I, we’re gonna jet so I’ll see you later.
Craig: Wait! we’re celebrating.
Marco: No we’re studying. You’re celebrating.
(Craig gives Marco a weird look and sits down across from Ellie.)
Ellie: Your drum lesson, so great. I just wanted to say thanks.
Craig: I should thank you for saving the band and backing me up all the time.
Ellie: Well I’ve heard you say a lot in group, about needing people. I think we all do sometimes.
(The bell on the door rings.)
Craig: Manny, hey over here! Join us.
Manny: I didn’t want to interrupt. Are you sure you guys don’t want any privacy?
Craig: Who needs privacy? We’re all friends here right?
Ellie: Right. Friends-city!
At the mall
Marco: So Craigs! Anything you want to share with your best friend in the whole world?
Craig: I thought Ellie was your best friend.
Marco: Ellie, Ellie, who’s Ellie…? Oh yeah! She’s that cute, smart, funny girl. The one you had a date with last night.
Craig: It wasn’t a date. Monks don’t date. It was friends hanging out. Matter of fact, my other friend Manny joined us.
Marco: Cue the romantic train wreck.
Craig: We’re gonna need some help tonight.
(They bump into Joey who is about to buy some condoms.)
Craig: Joey, hey what are you doing here? Oh.
Joey: I was just getting these um…
Craig and Marco: Prophylactics!
Marco: Yeah.
Joey: Yeah Marco. That’s exactly what I’m doing ‘cause uh well you gotta be safe right? Um so you guys remember that okay? No glove, no love.
Craig: Ew.
Outside Craig’s garage, Marco and Craig are carrying an amp
Marco: You’re k*lling me man. This thing is way too heavy.
(Jimmy whistles at Ellie walking towards them dressed up.)
Ellie: Need a hand?
(Craig stares at her and drops the case on Marco’s foot.)
Marco: Ow! My toe!
Craig: Sorry, sorry. I got distracted.
(Marco sees Manny walk over.)
Marco: Craig. Craig. Check it out.
Manny: Hi guys. Ellie.
Craig: Uh I invited Manny along. I thought we might need an extra hand.
Ellie: Yeah very practical roadie costume.
At the wedding, everything is being set up
Craig: Why, why must they be so hot?
Marco: Uh you’re not supposed to find your friends hot.
Craig: It’s not my fault. I’m not the one who showed up looking like that!
Marco: What? You said you were gonna be a monk.
Craig: The monk is tired of the monastery okay? The monastic life just wasn’t for him and now I have no idea what to do.
(Ellie is setting things up and Manny is checking her makeup.)
Ellie: Hey if you’re here to do things, you should do things.
Manny: There’s nothing else to do, unless…
(She pulls out the tambourine.)
Manny: Craig loves my tambourine.
Ellie: Yeah. We don’t need any low rent pop tarts in our band.
Manny: Well they do say there should be at least one attractive girl in every band.
(She flips her hair and walks away as Jimmy watches in amusement.)
Ellie: Oh you’re not calling me ugly!
During the wedding reception
Diane: Girls, this is Joey. Joey these are my friends, Mia and Catherine.
Friend 1: Hi.
Diane: Joey has his own business.
Joey: Yeah I’m a sales representative for previously loved vehicles.
(He and Diane laugh as the two girls look at him weirdly.)
Joey: I’m a used car salesman. Uh you might have seen my commercial. Give you the shirt off my back?
(He pretends to rip his shirt off while Diane laughs and her friends give him a weird look, then start laughing.)
Friend 1: Oh my god. You so had us going there for a second. The guy in the Jeremiah Motors ad is so cheese-ball.
Craig: Good evening ladies and gentlemen. We’re Downtown Sasquatch.
Diane: Let’s dance.
Joey: Oh no, no.
Diane: Come on. It’ll be fun!
Joey: You really don’t want to see me dance!
Craig: (Singing) Everybody, got a secret. Party people getting down. Well somebody better stop me ‘cause my feet don’t touch the ground.
(Joey starts dancing wildly and Diane sees her friends laughing at them.)
Diane: Relax. Dance with me.
Joey: These are some of my best moves! Yeah that’s right. Oh yeah! Oh yeah!
Everyone in the band: (Singing) I can’t keep my hands off of you and there’s nothing I can do. I can’t keep my hands off of you.
Craig: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jimmy Brooks.
(Jimmy goes into a guitar solo and Craig walks over to Manny.)
Craig: Come on.
Manny: I can’t. I can’t!
Craig: Come on!
(Manny starts dancing on the stage (maybe she can become an exotic dancer when she’s older since she already has experience taking off her top!) and Ellie rolls her eyes)
Diane: You are a dancing machine Mr. Jeremiah and you are wearing me out.
Joey: My dad’s name is Mr. Jeremiah.
Diane: I’m parched.
Joey: Well then, why don’t I get us a drink. I’ll be right back.
(He kisses her on the cheek and she fans herself as he walks over to the bar.)
Joey: Hi can I get two red wines please? Uh no wait! Whiskey sours are hipper. Two whiskey sours.
(Joey sees Diane’s friends and overhears them talking about him.)
Friend 2: Unless Diane’s rebounding majorly, I don’t see any excuse.
Friend 1: I was trying to come up with a way to describe his dancing and all I could think of was spastic donkey.
Friend 2: What’s up with that donkey? He’s totally robbing the cradle.
Friend 1: No Diane is totally robbing the grave.
Joey: Uh Diane I’m not feeling well. Um it just, it came on suddenly.
Diane: Did you catch something?
Joey: Thank you for the dance.
(He kisses her cheek and leaves.)
Everyone in the band: (Singing) Step on down. Move it all around. Shake your body to this funky sound. Step on down. Move it all around. Shake you body to this funky sound. Listen to me. It’s so easy. Get together…
(Ellie throws a drumstick at Manny and the music stops.)
Manny: Did you just throw a drumstick at my head?
Ellie: You could feel it through all that hairspray? Amazing!
Craig: Uh we apologize. We’re experiencing technical difficulties. We’ll be back for our next set in twenty. Thank you so much!
(Ellie and Manny leave in different directions and Craig turns to Marco.)
Craig: What do I do?
Marco: Oh, well I’m actually too busy enjoying not being you.
(Craig runs off after Ellie.)
Craig: Ellie wait! What the hell’s going on?!
Ellie: You tell me! You’re the one who called her. You’re the one who sat there drooling over her all night like some perv! And this, this isn’t me okay? I don’t dress up.
Craig: I’m flattered…?
Ellie: Don’t be! This is for the gig. This doesn’t mean anything.
Craig: Ellie. We do group together. You’ve seen me down in the gutter. Lower than low. Lower than I want anyone else to see me. That’s why you’re my friend. My really good friend.
Ellie: So glad I can be there for you.
(She starts walking away.)
Craig: Ellie!
Ellie: Bye. See you in group.
At Joey’s house
Craig: Hey. You took off last night. What happened?
Joey: Let’s just say the date ended early.
(Joey eats some of Angie’s food.)
Angie: Hey that’s mine!
Joey: How was the gig?
Craig: Let’s just say the gig ended early.
(They hear the doorbell ring.)
Craig: I’ll tell you about it later.
Joey: Diane. What are you doing here?
Diane: In your rush to bail last night you forgot your hideous favour.
(Joey laughs and she hands him the wedding favour.)
Diane: Don’t laugh. I spent weeks making those nasty things.
Joey: This is pretty hideous. It’s uh almost as bad as me on the dance floor.
Diane: Joey I like the way you dance.
Joey: Diane I feel the need to remind you that I’m a 34 year old single dad who owns a used car lot. I have a house I don’t even own…
(She leans in and kisses him.)
Diane: And I’m a 23 year old girl who’s tired of dating boys. A girl who wants a cute, sweet, dependable guy who really makes her laugh. A girl who also makes a k*ller Florentine omelette. Can I come in?
(She walks in and Joey smiles.)
Outside Emma’s house, Manny is wearing her pyjamas looking at a magazine
Manny: As if it wasn’t embarrassing enough last night now you have to see me with my jammies on. I’m sorry I ruined your gig.
Craig: The Squatch isn’t cut out for weddings. Funerals maybe.
Manny: Despite the freak show, I had fun. It was nice of you to invite me.
Craig: I had ulterior motives. Ever since that video came out things have sucked for you, so I wanted to cheer you up, make you smile again.
Manny: What are friends for right?
(Craig leans in and starts kissing her.)
Scenes for next week
Jimmy: (To the camera) They say I’m gonna be a basketball star after all, so why do I keep bl*wing it?
Announcer: The national wheelchair sports association likes a competitive edge.
(Jimmy is shown playing wheelchair basketball.)
Scout: Tryouts are Wednesday.
(Jimmy shakes hands with the scout.)
Jimmy: Thank you.
Voiceover: Jimmy the athlete is back and Jimmy the artist is emerging.
Ellie: (Looking at his drawings) These are really good.
Voiceover: Is there room for both?
Jimmy: (To Hazel) I’ve changed. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x05 - Weddings, Parties, Anything"} | foreverdreaming |
On the basketball courts, Jimmy and Derek are playing while Coach Lawrence and Mr. Brooks watch
Jimmy: Alright go. Go back. Go back up shop.
Derek: Okay come on.
(Jimmy grabs the ball from him and Derek falls on the ground.)
Derek: Ouch!
Mr. Brooks: Good check Jimmy. Good check.
Jimmy: Taking it easy on ya.
Derek: Does this look easy or painful?
Jimmy: Well get up.
Derek: Okay. Let’s go!
(Jimmy makes a couple baskets in a row.)
Jimmy: Alright pass it here. Look at that! Oh!
Coach Lawrence: He’s got a lot of potential, but-
(He makes another basket, then goes over to his dad and the coach.)
Jimmy: So how’d I do? Good enough to make the tryouts?
Scout: Well to be honest you’re still a little awkward in your chair, but the National Wheelchair Sports Association likes a competitive edge, and that you’ve got. Tryouts are Wednesday.
Jimmy: Thank you. Thank you.
Mr. Brooks: I’m proud of you son.
Jimmy: So uh should I book my ticket to China? Say uh 2008?
Scout: Let’s get past Wednesday.
Mr. Brooks: Very good Jimmy. Very good. Uh keep playing with…Derek?
Derek: Yup.
Mr. Brooks: Work on your chair manoeuvring. He did say you were a little awkward.
In the hallway
Craig: Jimmy you’re not serious. You can’t quit the band.
Jimmy: Can somebody be happy about this? This is me, Jimmy the athlete. I’m back!
Craig: What can I say? We’ll miss you in the band, but good luck.
Jimmy: Thank you. I appreciate it.
Marco: Yeah good luck.
Jimmy: Thank you.
Hazel: I am happy for you. Welcome back Jimmy Brooks.
(She kisses his cheek.)
Hazel: So you think you’ll make the team?
At JT’s locker
JT: Liberty hold up! You’re starting to show.
Liberty: People believe what they want to believe okay? And no one wants to believe that their student council president is in her third trimester.
JT: Her third tri-what?
Liberty: You don’t know anything do you? Have you done any research?
JT: Yeah I have okay, tons! Okay I’m lying, but the thing is every time I look at those books I, I just get kind of flustered. They freak me out.
Liberty: Why am I not surprised?
(She walks away and Danny throws a fake baby at JT.)
Danny: Heads up!
JT: Danny, are you insane?
Danny: I’m not the one who missed the flying baby.
JT: What is this?
Danny: The digital baby. Family planning project. I’m Mr. Mom for a week.
JT: Why are you taking family planning?
Danny: Why does anyone take it? ‘Cause it’s a bird course. Plus the class is full of fly mammies and one dude, me! I like those odds.
In the cafeteria
Ellie: What are you drawing?
Jimmy: It’s nothing.
Ellie: Pencils and paper and leaving a series of marks. Deduction says you’re drawing.
Jimmy: My dad said he’d get me a new wheelchair if I make the Paralympic team. Handmade design by me.
Ellie: What’s this? I knew you could get creative with a guitar slide, but this is a whole different…
(She looks at pictures of Rick sh**ting him and Jimmy getting sh*t.)
Ellie: …and disturbing side of you.
Jimmy: It’s really just something that started in the hospital to pass the time. It kind of makes me chill.
Ellie: These are really good. I don’t think you know how good.
Outside Jimmy’s house, Jimmy is practicing and missing every sh*t
Mr. Brooks: (In Jimmy’s head) Work on your chair manoeuvring. He did say you were a little awkward.
(Jimmy flashes back to Rick sh**ting at him and Craig shouting his name. Then he flashes back to Ellie saying his drawings were good.)
Mr. Brooks: Jim. You okay?
Jimmy: Yeah I’m good to go.
Mr. Brooks: Could’ve fooled me.
Jimmy: Dad I’m fine. I just, I just keep losing focus and I don’t feel the flow like I used to.
Mr. Brooks: That’s your stress talking. Making this team is the be all and end all for you. So of course you feel stressed out. It’s natural son.
Jimmy: You’re right.
Mr. Brooks: You know 90% of being a champion is mental. Do we need to get you a sports psychologist before the tryout? You worried about letting me down?
Jimmy: I’m not! Look, stop worrying about me. I’m gonna do this.
Mr. Brooks: Okay. Okay, that’s my boy.
At Liberty and Danny’s house
Danny: Liberty your time was up 20 minutes ago.
Liberty: Go away. I’m sick.
Danny: Yeah well I’m sick too. Sick of waiting for you to get your sorry butt out of the bathroom every morning.
(She walks out and makes a face.)
Liberty: What is that smell?
Danny: Body spray. Yeah it said it’ll attract the fly mammies like a sex magnet.
Liberty: Yeah well it’s turning my stomach.
Danny: Wait. I know what’s going on. You’re in here bl*wing chunks every morning like it’s going out of style. You’re bulimic!
Liberty: Yeah I’m bulimic. Brilliant deduction.
Danny: Well if you’re gonna binge and purge do it somewhere else. Not that it’s working Tubbo.
In the media immersion room, Ellie sends Jimmy an IM with an add for an art exhibit
Ellie: It’s an art exhibit, downtown.
Jimmy: I’m not really the art exhibit type of guy.
Ellie: This is horror comic art from the 50s. Cool, dark, disturbed. Right up your alley.
Jimmy: Sounds like, but I got tryouts at 6.
Ellie: Oh. Too bad. It’s the last day of the exhibit.
Jimmy: Look, Ellie I got a lot on my mind.
Ellie: All the more reason to go someplace else. In your mind I mean, but whatever.
(He instant messages Ellie asking how far away the gallery is and she gives him a thumbs up sign.)
Outside the school
JT: Liberty we need to talk.
Liberty: Not now. My stomach is doing cartwheels. I feel horrid.
JT: If you keep acting like you have something to hide, people are gonna start to wonder.
Liberty: I get morning sickness…
(Danny looks down at his family planning book with a pregnant woman on the cover, then looks at Liberty’s stomach.)
Danny: No way!
Liberty: …and the amount of time I spend in the bathroom. It’s already making some people wonder. You think this has been easy?
JT: No. I don’t know what to say.
Danny: No way! JT I want to talk to you. You got my sister pregnant! I’m gonna k*ll you!
(Danny and JT start rolling around on the ground and Danny starts pushing JT’s face in the dirt.)
Liberty: Danny stop it! Danny get off him! Danny stop it. Get off him! Stop it!
Danny: Liberty how could you let this idiot do that to you?
JT: It was an accident.
Danny: I was speaking to my sister. Do mom and dad even know?
Liberty: Danny I beg you. Please do not tell!
At the art exhibit
Jimmy: That work in there was sick! That’s what I live for.
Ellie: Is it okay to be scared right now? So should we go? Don’t you have to ment*lly prepare in your basketball zoney-zone?
Jimmy: It’s a little crowded in there right now and this is quiet. It’s good…
(Jimmy turns around and sees a box sitting in the middle of the room.)
Jimmy: …and this is a box?
Ellie: You know I think they have lessons here.
Jimmy: In uh, proper box placement?
Ellie: No! Life drawings, still-lifes, landscapes. You might like it.
Jimmy: I just draw stuff I imagine. Stuff I see when I close my eyes. It’s like I have a pen in my hand and everything just goes shoooo and then I can say everything I want to say, everything I need to say, right there on the piece of paper.
Ellie: You’re sounding suspiciously like an artist.
Jimmy: An artist. Does that sound like Jimmy Brooks to you?
Ellie: I don’t know. Does it?
(A worker at the art exhibit walks over to them pointing at his watch.)
Employee: Ellie, it’s closing.
Jimmy: It’s 5 already?
Employee: It’s 5 after 6.
At the gym for tryouts
Jimmy: Dad!
Mr. Brooks: (Signals to the coach, then turns back to Jimmy) Coach. Where have you been? You’re thirty minutes late. Are you alright?
Jimmy: Yeah I was practicing. Preparing ment*lly. I lost track of time. I’m sorry.
Coach Lawrence: Showing up late for tryouts makes us think you don’t want the spot.
Jimmy: No I want to play sir! I do!
Mr. Brooks: Coach Lawrence. This will never happen again. Please let us tryout. I personally assure that Jimmy will be here on time, ready to go.
Coach Lawrence: Okay look I’ll make an exception for you. Be here tomorrow. I’ll get you a spot okay?
Jimmy: Thank you coach. I won’t let you down.
Coach Lawrence: Yeah. (He walks away)
Jimmy: You neither dad. I promise.
(His dad walks away and Jimmy looks at Ellie frustrated.)
At Jimmy’s house, Jimmy is practicing in his driveway and the garage door opens up
Jimmy: Okay see now you’re tempting me. I miss this sh*t and the lexus wears a dent.
Mr. Brooks: Don’t miss the sh*t, or don’t take it until you’re sitting in this.
(He pulls out a brand new wheelchair.)
Jimmy: Awesome, but uh what happened to me designing my own?
Mr. Brooks: Jim this is top of the line. The Lexus. You’ve got to have the best if you’re gonna be a champion.
Jimmy: I don’t know what to say.
Mr. Brooks: You weren’t supposed to get it until after you made the team, but after your little stunt yesterday I thought you might need the incentive. Showing up late and your discipline was questioned. You show up tonight in this, they’ll take you seriously. We’ll all take you seriously.
Outside the school
JT: Danny.
Danny: Don’t like talking to either of you.
JT: I barely slept last night okay? I had nightmares with pitchforks and torches.
Danny: And babies?
Liberty: Daniel this is serious. You didn’t tell mom and dad, right?
Danny: If I did you’d know, because you’d both be d*ad right now.
Liberty: Precisely why this needs to remain our secret. Do we have your word?
JT: Danny you can’t tell anyone.
Danny: Oh yes I can idiot! But I won’t. So long as you help me and the kid get an A. It’s not like you don’t need the practice dad.
On the basketball court
Jimmy: See I’m not getting the fit.
Derek: Hey Jim. Someone to see you.
(Ellie is standing at the edge of the court.)
Ellie: I wanted to apologize.
Jimmy: There’s nothing to apologize for.
Ellie: I made you miss your tryout.
Jimmy: I’m getting another chance and besides I had fun with you.
Ellie: I’m going to the gallery today to sign up for life drawing classes. I can put your name down too.
(Jimmy hesitates.)
Ellie: Hey you show talent. This is me encouraging you.
Jimmy: This is me thanking you, but no.
Ellie: Okay.
(Ellie nods and walks away.)
Derek: So? Can I ask her out?
Jimmy: Just throw me the damn ball.
(Derek throws the ball to Jimmy and it hurts his hand.)
Jimmy: Ah! Ah!
Derek: You okay? Jimmy!
In the cafeteria
JT: I can’t believe I’m skipping bio for this.
Danny: Just support it’s neck moron and stop complaining. If you’d kept the dime stack in your pants you wouldn’t be in this situation.
JT: Whatever. Why won’t this thing stop crying?
Danny: Burp it.
JT: I am not burping a doll.
Danny: Hmm sensors inside detect no burping, I get a bad grade, everyone finds out your secret.
JT: You are just loving this aren’t you?
In the nurses office, Jimmy is getting his hand bandaged up
Hazel: Does it hurt?
Jimmy: I’ll live.
(Jimmy starts kissing Hazel and she pulls away.)
Hazel: We’re in the nurses office.
Jimmy: So?
(He tries to kiss her again and she pulls away again.)
Hazel: So nothing, just not in the mood. I spoke to your dad. He’s worried and after talking to him, so am I. He said you missed your tryouts last night because you were at the art gallery with Ellie Nash.
Jimmy: I just needed to focus and it was quiet.
Hazel: So is the library.
Jimmy: I like art.
Hazel: Maybe I like art too.
Jimmy: Do you? Really?
Hazel: No. I don’t. I don’t get art at all, but if you were freaked out or losing it, I would have hoped I would be the one you’d go to. Not Ellie.
At the gym for tryouts
Mr. Brooks: What happened to your hand?
Jimmy: It’s a little sprain. It’s no big deal. Look dad I gotta talk to you about this new chair. It’s not riding like my old one.
Mr. Brooks: Rides better I’m sure. Same model the team plays in.
Jimmy: Yeah dad this isn’t helping me.
Mr. Brooks: Well how can I help you? I just want you to win son. I want you to feel good about yourself. I want you to be you again.
Jimmy: Dad I can’t. That’s impossible. I’m in a wheelchair okay? I’m never walking again.
Mr. Brooks: I know son.
Jimmy: No you don’t, ‘cause you keep trying to bring this old jimmy back. This star player, the athlete. That Jimmy is gone. That Jimmy got sh*t.
Mr. Brooks: Jimmy you’re under a lot of pressure right now.
Jimmy: You think? And where is that pressure coming from dad? From me? Have you ever asked me just once if I want this.
Coach Lawrence: Jimmy, you ready?
Jimmy: Yeah. I’m ready.
Outside the school, the baby is crying again
Danny: The baby’s crying.
JT: Thanks Yoda. I noticed.
Danny: Well make him stop or give him back to me. You’re going to make me fail.
JT: No I won’t.
Danny: You will. You suck.
JT: I don’t suck I just need a little more practice.
(They both start grabbing at the baby and fighting for it.)
Danny: Yeah. A lifetime’s worth!
JT: Give me the baby back!
(The baby flies out of their hands.)
JT and Danny: No!
JT: Ah!
(The baby goes flying in slow motion through the air, lands on a car and gets run over as JT and Danny watch in horror and people in the background laugh.)
Danny: Nice work genius.
At the gym, Jimmy is watching the other players
Coach Lawrence: Hey you okay to start with free throws?
(Jimmy doesn’t say anything.)
Coach Lawrence: What’s the matter? Hand?
Jimmy: Look I mean no disrespect at all coach, but all this just isn’t for me.
Coach Lawrence: So you wasted my time?
Jimmy: And I’m sorry for that sir.
(Coach Lawrence walks away angry.)
Mr. Brooks: What are you doing?
Jimmy: Let’s just go home.
Mr. Brooks: What about the team?
Jimmy: Dad. Stop. This is my life, not yours. We got a lot of stuff to talk about.
In the hallway
Danny: I got an incomplete. Thanks JT.
JT: You were the one who blackmailed me okay? Into scamming a good grade.
Danny: No I blackmailed you because you’re going to have a baby, idiot.
Liberty: Shh!
Danny: You need to learn this stuff. I just thought I’d help.
Liberty: That is the dumbest thing I’ve heard come out of your mouth. Okay, I’ve been dealing with this on my own for months. Haven’t needed any help so far and I don’t now.
JT: You’re wrong Liberty, okay? We’re both totally clueless here.
Liberty: Speak for yourself.
JT: You are six months pregnant and you haven’t even seen a doctor yet. That’s not good.
Liberty: I’m student council president…okay? I can’t be pregnant. I just can’t.
JT: This isn’t just about you. It’s about you and this baby, and me.
Danny: And me! Hey I’m the uncle here, okay?
JT: We’ll go to see Ms. Sauvé tomorrow. She’ll tell us what to do.
In the cafeteria
Jimmy: Sorry I didn’t call you last night. I was having a long talk with my dad about a lot of stuff.
Hazel: You could have e-mailed. I just wanted to know if you made the team.
(Jimmy shakes his head no.)
Hazel: It’s okay. You’ve been under a lot of stress. You can try again?
(Ellie walks by and looks at Jimmy.)
Jimmy: That’s the thing. I don’t want to. Everything I’ve been through this past year, all the physio, therapy, the training…it’s all been to get back to how I was before I got sh*t.
Hazel: And you are. You are back.
Jimmy: I’m not. I’ve changed and I’ve got to make some changes too.
Hazel: No, you’re wrong. You haven’t changed because when I look in your eyes I still see you. I still see the same old Jimmy.
Jimmy: Hazel it’s complicated.
Hazel: Then explain it to me.
Jimmy: I don’t know if I can.
Hazel: Just try.
(Jimmy looks at Ellie who smiles at him, then he looks back at Hazel.)
Jimmy: Okay. I’ll try.
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At the counsellor’s office
JT: So what now Ms. Sauve? Pregnancy yoga? Lamaze class?
Ms. Sauve: Make a doctors appointment. At this point the health of the baby is paramount. So who knows?
Liberty: Only my brother and Toby.
Ms. Sauve: Not your parents? Liberty you’re six months pregnant.
Liberty: I know Ms. Sauve, but my father… there’s no way I can tell him.
Ms. Sauve: So you’re just been hiding it? Well let’s talk about options. It’s a little late in the game for an abortion so I assume that’s off the table?
Liberty: Absolutely. I want to carry this baby to term, but afterwards…
JT: Liberty there is no afterwards okay? What about adoption?
Ms. Sauve: I can refer you to an agency.
JT: Yes that’s perfect. We’re in.
Liberty: We? JT you broke up with me.
JT: Yeah, but I’m still the father. If you decide to keep this baby then it becomes my problem too.
Ms. Sauve: So do you want me to refer you to an adoption agency or not?
JT: Yes!
Liberty: No!
Ms. Sauve: Sounds like you have a problem.
At a TV station, JT is on TV making crafts with a couple of little girls
JT: The glitter sticks to the glue and tada! You have your tiara. Like Megan and Madison… and just like our favourite world primate Princess Apewares and she’ll be coming up next so stay tuned.
Backstage: Cut! Recess!
JT: Hey Tobes what are you doing here?
Toby: Surprise. Surprise. You forgot. We were supposed to catch Clown Academy tonight.
JT: Sorry. Brain fart. I totally forgot. I’m due at the pharmacy.
Toby: Two jobs, school, a pregnant ex. No wonder your brain’s flagellant.
JT: Well there’s two solutions to my problems my carefree friend, mochachino and adoption.
Toby. Adoption? Wow. You uh sure Liberty will go for that?
JT: She’s 15. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
Crew member: Okay JT let’s do it.
JT: Right. Uh okay. Well take two. I’m gonna go continue to make a complete dink of myself.
Crew member: Okay and roll tape.
At the Dot, Craig and Manny are making out and Emma clears her throat
Emma: I’d tell you guys to get a room, but you have a room, which also happens to be my room.
Manny: Well tonight your room is all yours because Craig is taking me to see a band.
Craig: It’s a friend of a friend. It’s nothing special.
Emma: I thought we were studying.
Manny: Unless… I mean it’s not really a date if you want to tag along.
Craig: Yeah.
Emma: Oh that’s persuasive, but I’ll pass.
Craig: Come on Emma. It’s totally cool.
Emma: It’s totally third wheel Craig. You guys are a couple and I’m just me. Plus I have a hot date tonight with a very sexy red. (As she holds up a book)
At the pharmacy
Jay: Hey uh you sell glitter glue? What can I say your craft work on television it, uh inspires me.
(JT doesn’t say anything and moves away from Jay.)
You know I can’t help but wonder why a guy who’s going to school is working so many hours. You in some kind of trouble stock boy?
JT: Don’t you have someone else to bug?
Jay: Just saying. You need money, talk to me. I’ve got all sorts of creative solutions.
(Jay puts some items in his pocket.)
JT: Well I can do without your brand of creativity. Put that back.
(Jay puts some of the items back.)
JT: All of it.
Jay: Whatever you say nark.
At Degrassi, there’s a couple booths set up and Emma walks over to the cancer research one where Paige is standing
Emma: Jazz combo or raising money for cancer research.
Paige: Fighting cancer. Excellent choice. Now if only we could stomp out jazz in our lifetime.
(Peter walks by and Emma looks at him.)
Peter: Hitting the pavement for a cancer free world too?
Emma: Yeah you mean one without you in it.
(Peter points at his name on the list.)
Emma: If you need a victim for your next sexploitation flick, keep looking.
Peter: My mom took my camera. I’m completely unarmed. Look if we’re both gonna be on the relay committee maybe we should start over.
Emma: Maybe you can get out of my way.
In the hallway, JT is sleeping on a bench
Toby: Hey! Miss your mochachino fix?
JT: My grandma decided the house needed vacuuming at 6AM!
Toby: Tell her about the baby yet?
JT: No. Like she needs more to worry about. Liberty! Here I got you some uh, some ginger tea. It’s supposed to help with the morning sickness.
Liberty: That’s sweet. Thank you.
JT: Um have you thought about you know like options or, or life plans?
Liberty: Not really.
JT: Listen. Do you realize what having a kid means? I mean for your future it’s just not logical.
Liberty: JT I don’t want to argue okay?
JT: Okay, well just let me help you okay?
Liberty: I have an ultrasound at 2. Come with me?
In Media Immersion
Mr. Simpson: Before we continue does anyone have an announcement to make? About say himself being an up and coming TV star, big h*t with the kids, on everyday at 3…
JT: Mr. Simpson, please don’t. Please.
Mr. Simpson: People our next unit in media immersion is pre-school television. Watch closely because we’re gonna learn from a master.
(Mr. Simpson plays a tape of JT’s show where he’s dressed as a turkey and gobbling…)
JT: (On the TV) It’s almost Thanksgiving and today we are going to be making none other than a turkey! Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble! But before we make our turkeys I’m gonna need my handy dandy little helpers. Where are my handy dandy little helpers? There they are!
(The little girls start gobbling on the TV.)
JT: (On the TV) So now let’s make our turkey girls. Come on over here. Okay so first of all…
Manny: That is so cute.
Liberty: She’s right. Why didn’t you tell me about this? You’ve always wanted to be on TV and there you are.
At the Dot
Manny: So uh do you want to tell her or should I?
Craig: Okay I’ll tell her. Well…no, no you tell her. You tell her. It’s too good.
Manny: I don’t want to tell her! You have to tell her.
Craig: No go! Do it. Do it.
Manny: Okay. Okay. So Craig and I, we met this really cute guy and he’s totally your type.
Emma: Well cute is my type.
Craig: His name is Derek. He’s a basketball buddy of Jimmy’s. He’s in grade 10, but he’s alright.
(Derek walks into the Dot.)
Craig: Hey Derek. Weird. Weird. I mean it’s, it’s cosmic. We were just talking about you.
Emma: Amazing. You’d think it was a setup.
Manny: Derek, this is my single friend Emma. Did I mention that she’s single?
Derek: Hey Emma. Um these guys were telling me that your parents used to go to Degrassi? It’s pretty weird eh?
Emma: It’s a magical story.
(Peter walks by and Emma looks at him
Emma: I’ll tell you all about it Friday.
Derek: Uh Friday? Like at night?
Emma: It’s a date!
At the doctor’s office
Liberty: How does he or she look?
JT: I don’t know. I can’t.
Liberty: JT… please.
(He looks at the monitor.)
JT: It, it looks real.
(Liberty walks out of the office after her exam.)
JT: Passed with flying colors. Like mother, like offspring.
Liberty: They’ll be happy to hear that at the adoption agency.
JT: Really? You sure?
Liberty: No I don’t want to give our baby up, but you do obviously.
JT: Liberty it’s not that easy. We have lives ahead of us. School and jobs…
Liberty: So? We can do it. All of it.
(She kisses his cheek.)
JT: What was that for?
Liberty: Because you needed it. Look I love you JT and whatever you want to do, I’m fine with it.
JT: Let’s keep this baby.
At JT’s house
Liberty: Bright and early as requested.
(JT and Liberty hug.)
Mrs. Cooney: Who wants muffins? Carrot muffins, your favourite.
Liberty: Good morning Mrs. Cooney.
Mrs. Cooney: Liberty I am so happy you’ve taken this one back. Luck of the Irish he’s got.
Liberty: We’re both very lucky.
JT: Speaking of which, um we have great news. We’re having a baby.
Mrs. Cooney: You can’t be serious.
JT: Yeah we are. We’re gonna be uh parents.
Mrs. Cooney: James Tiberius do you have any idea what it takes to raise a child? You are far, far too young.
JT: Well I thought that you could help us. I mean you raised mom and me.
Mrs. Cooney: And I’m not planning to spend my retirement going through it again. Have you thought about adoption?
Liberty: Uh we’ve considered it, but no.
JT: Look Gram we love each other okay? That’s all that matters. The rest we’ll figure out.
Mrs. Cooney: The way your father figured it out by leaving you and your mother when the going got rough?
JT: I’m not like him. Not at all.
(She doesn’t say anything.)
JT: Let’s go.
At the cancer run meeting
Peter: Emma hey. Okay look if we’re both gonna be on the Relay For Life committee don’t you think we should be a little bit more civilized?
Emma: It’s a cancer run, not a tea party.
Peter: I know videotaping Manny was stupid, but she asked me to do it. She was drunk and very persuasive.
Emma: And you e-mailing it to your friends makes it right.
Peter: No. Of course not.
Paige: Pledge forms for all your fabulous cancer fighting friends and family members. Leave no wallet untapped.
Peter: Look I should have never gone for Manny. You on the other hand, major catch. Smart, funny, insanely gorgeous.
Emma: What makes you think I’m interested?
Peter: We care about things. Important things. Maybe I heard that once you were kinda into me.
(Emma stands up to move seats.)
Paige: Okay uh butts in the bleachers people. We’ll go over the route.
(Peter moves right beside Emma.)
Peter: There’s a movie tomorrow night. 7:30, Cinema 3. It’s supposed to be funny. I’ll be there.
Emma: Don’t hold your breath.
(Emma stands up to leave and Paige gives her a look.)
Paige: Whenever you’re ready. Curing cancer can always wait.
Outside, JT and Liberty are walking
Liberty: JT please don’t make me do this.
JT: Liberty we can’t keep avoiding this okay? We have to tell your parents.
Liberty: After what happened with your grandma?
JT: So she didn’t take it so well.
Liberty: That’s nothing JT okay? Your grandma’s a lamb, my parents are lions.
JT: Well Liberty you’re their daughter. Maybe they’ll understand.
Liberty: It’s not my mother. It’s my father. He’ll kick me out guaranteed.
JT: Well let him okay because we’re gonna get our own place. You, me and the baby.
Liberty: You’re serious? I guess I could use my spelling bee money.
JT: Yeah and I’ll, I’ll take more shifts at the pharmacy and I’ll quit the TV job.
Liberty: JT you can’t!
JT: No I have to because it doesn’t pay and besides they can just get someone else to make tiaras. It’s fine.
Liberty: So we’re not telling them?
JT: No. Not yet. Because before we jump we better have a safety net.
(A montage is shown of JT and Liberty looking through newspapers for apartments. They go to an apartment where the tenant looks at Liberty’s stomach and closes the door. Liberty looks at her stomach in the mirror. JT is scanning baby products at the pharmacy and looks at how much they cost. JT is shown at the TV station saying goodbye to everyone.)
At the mall, Emma and Derek are walking around
Derek: So you, Manny and Craig been friends for long or…?
Emma: Uh Manny forever. Craig for a while.
(Derek runs over to a t-shirt on display.)
Derek: Check it! Is that Grover Smash?
Emma: I think it is. Who is Grover Smash?
Derek: Only half the Leper Twins. Tag Team?
Emma: Oh wrestling.
Derek: Just won the belt, which obviously means squat to you. What about TV? What do you watch?
Emma: Um mostly (something?). I read the book.
Derek: Oh uh cool. You know some wrestlers have their own books too. Comic books. That’s how I got into wrestling. Reading comics when my dad took me hunting. Dude, until you have tasted fresh venison you have not lived.
Emma: I’m a vegetarian.
Derek: Oh. So do you eat chicken or-?
Emma: Derek um listen I had a great time. Well an okay time. Actually I had a pretty lame time so let’s just quit while we’re behind. Sorry.
In an apartment
Tenant: Three quarter inch pipe. Lots of pressure. The laundry’s in the basement.
Liberty: I can’t wait to do our own laundry.
JT: And it’s so close to the school. It’s perfect. Is it perfect?
Liberty: It’s perfect.
Tenant: Well rent’s $750 a month kids and I’ll need first and last up front.
Liberty: Two months rent? That’s $1500.
Tenant: Yeah it’s pretty standard practice kid. Uh I can give you a minute to think about it.
JT: We can’t afford it.
At the pharmacy
Jay: No five finger discount this time. Promise.
JT: Believe me they do not pay me enough to stop you.
Jay: So I saw some new reject on TV today trying to keep kids from eating glue. He poach your show?
JT: No. I quit. That job didn’t pay and this one does.
Jay: Ah well this is where the big bucks are right?
JT: Yeah minimum wage. I’m a real tycoon.
Jay: Your problem stock boy, tunnel vision okay. You need money, get creative.
JT: Jay spare me the lame ass scheme.
Jay: Shut up and listen. Look you have behind the counter privileges where the good stuff is. You ever hear of Oxycodone? It’s a pain k*ller. I know people who would be willing to sell their mothers to get their hands on this stuff. You’ve got it right back there. Buckets of it.
At the movie theatre
Peter: Emma over here!
Emma: You can cancel the bulk ‘I have a new girlfriend’ e-mail. I have been planning to see this movie for weeks.
Peter: Of course. Classic tale of triumph over adversary. Who knew Clown Academy had a football team.
Emma: Or cheerleaders. For the record when the lights go down your hand stays in your own popcorn bag.
Peter: On probation. Gotcha. So should I draw a line down the center of the arm rest or what?
Emma: Lines moving. No more talking.
At the pharmacy
(JT is closing up with the manager and as the manager locks the door JT takes a bunch of pills and puts them in his pocket.)
Scenes for next week
JT: (To the camera) What if making someone happy meant doing something really bad?
Voiceover: JT’s attempt to fix a serious situation…
(Druggie is giving JT money)
Druggie: You did good. $800.
Voiceover: …only makes things worse.
JT: I just thought it was a good idea.
(Liberty hits JT with her backpack)
Liberty: You stupid, thoughtless imbecile!
Voiceover: And the problem…
(Druggie is choking JT on the ground.)
Druggie: I want my money back. I want more drugs!
Voiceover: …is spiralling out of control. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x07 - Turned Out"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside at night, Jay pulls up in his car then walks over to JT
Jay: Hey. Got your call. So here I am. What’s up stock boy? You got something to tell me?
JT: Yeah I heard Clown Academy’s awesome. You might want to check it out.
(He starts to walk away, but Jay pulls him back.)
Jay: Yeah. Thanks for the movie tip. Why’d you really call me here?
At the ravine
Aaron: This is the guy you told me about?
JT: You told him about me?
Jay: Just show Aaron what you got before he loses his temper.
(JT puts the bag of drugs into Aaron’s hat.)
Aaron: Oxycodone. Sweet. You did good. $800.
JT: Wow um I kind of need more.
Aaron: Here’s another 4… towards your next score.
Jay: Add administration fee. So there you go stock boy. There’s your first drug deal.
(JT rushes to the bushes and throws up as the people around him laugh.)
At the apartment building
Toby: Shower massager, hello! And a great view of the yoga studio across the street. Man those hunnies are flexible.
(JT is giving his tenant the rent money.)
JT: First and last’s.
Tenant: Uh I don’t know kid. I get the feeling I could be taking a real big risk here.
JT: But you’re not, okay? My girlfriend and I are, we’re very quiet, uh we’re very responsible.
Tenant: Very pregnant. Are you sure you two can afford this place? Raising kids ain’t cheap!
JT: Yes I’m aware sir, but I’m all over it. I’ve, I’ve got a really good job.
Tenant: Alright. Welcome to the building.
At Emma’s house, Jack is crying
Mr. Simpson: Fever still up?
Spike: Ear infection, the sequel. I can drop you off.
Mr. Simpson: You sure you’re okay to drive on two hours sleep?
Spike: I’m on a first name basis at the hospital. I could get there with my eyes closed. Dinner is…
Mr. Simpson: Meatloaf Monday as usual. You know what, you go ahead. I’ll bike.
Outside Degrassi, Mr. Simpson gets off his bike as Joey drives up in his convertible
Joey: Bye guys.
Mr. Simpson: Now this must be Jeremiah Motors favourite new client.
Joey: Diane bought a car and the salesman was a no charge option.
Mr. Simpson: Hello. I’m Arch. Snake.
Diane: So you’re the notorious Snake. Still tearing up this place like you and Joey used to?
Mr. Simpson: Uh sadly no. I’ve become one of the teachers I used to give headaches to.
Joey: Hey hop in. We’re hitting the open road. Top down, wind bl*wing through our…you know.
Mr. Simpson: I’ve got to punch the clock.
Joey: Uh just around the block Snake. Be spontaneous.
Mr. Simpson: Joey in my life spontaneous is a four letter word.
Joey: Ah my friend you’ve got to learn how to live. Do something for yourself. You deserve to.
(The bell rings.)
Joey: Alright. Ciao.
Outside the Dot
Liberty: Tell me you’re not joking.
JT: I’m deadly serious. Let the days of sinful cohabitation begin.
Liberty: Two days ago we couldn’t afford this. What’s the catch?
(JT sees Jay and Spinner sitting outside and Jay smiles knowingly at JT.)
JT: I uh, I talked to my grandma and she’s loaning me the money.
Liberty: The way she handled the pregnancy news I’m surprised.
JT: Well it took a lot of persuasion and Sherry.
Liberty: JT that’s amazing! So when do we move in?
JT: As soon as we tell your parents.
Liberty: I was hoping we could skip that step.
JT: But we have to tell them. Like today.
At Liberty’s house
Mrs. Van Zandt: Excuse me?! You’re doing what?
Liberty: I’m moving in with JT.
Mr. Van Zandt: Why would you want to do that? So you can, so you can be with him?
JT: I have a name sir.
Mr. Van Zandt: I wasn’t talking to you.
JT: Well you will be okay, because I’m the father of your first grandchild.
Liberty: Mom, dad, please try not to be angry.
(Mr. Van Zandt starts laughing angrily.)
Liberty: We’ll take care of everything. Ourselves, the baby. Everything. Dad please say something.
Mr. Van Zandt: What would you like me to say? That I’m happy? That I’m proud of you?
Liberty: I know. I’m stupid. So stupid.
Mr. Van Zandt: It’s not your fault Liberty. It’s the fault of that fool standing beside you.
Liberty: Stop it dad! Okay, JT’s been amazing. He’s taking good care of us.
Mrs. Van Zandt: Liberty you’re our daughter and we’ll help you any way that we can.
Mr. Van Zandt: Which is why we can’t allow you to move out. We need you here to help you through this…as a family!
Liberty: I get it. You want JT out of the picture.
Mr. Van Zandt: I never want to see him here as long as I live!
Liberty: Well that’s unfortunate because JT’s not going anywhere. JT let’s start packing.
Outside Degrassi, Mr. Simpson drives up to the school on a motorcycle
Manny: Looks like Snake shed his old skin.
Emma: Don’t make me think about his skin.
Ms. Hatzilakos: So that must be your sport bike parked in the loading zone.
Mr. Simpson: What do you think? Bold new look for the school.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Somewhere Valentino Rossi is walking around in his underwear.
Mr. Simpson: Gratzi…no idea who that is.
Ms. Hatzilakos: MotoGP World Champion. Ah I gather this is a new hobby.
Mr. Simpson: Yes it is, but I have to admit I had no idea you were a motorcycle fan. Rock on Ms. H!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Just move the motorcycle. Pronto.
At the pharmacy
Liberty: Excuse me sir. By who must one become impregnated in order to receive some service?
(JT doesn’t say anything.)
Liberty: Not in the mood for piffy banter.
JT: Not since I realized I’ll be spending every waking moment here if we’re gonna live together.
Liberty: Well on average a baby goes through ten diapers a day. This job’s worth it for the employee discount.
Mr. McKay: JT we uh seem to be missing something.
(He holds up the bottle of Oxycodone.)
JT: Uh I didn’t see anything. No one’s been back there. Honest. You don’t think something’s been stolen, right?
Mr. McKay: No I didn’t say anything’s been stolen.
JT: Right. Well I just guessed based on your worried expression.
Mr. McKay: Well we’re missing a great deal of Oxycodone. It’s a powerful drug so you can understand my concern.
JT: Yup. Yeah it’s totally understandable.
Mr. McKay: See or hear anything, you tell me.
Outside the pharmacy
Liberty: What’s the most important element of a relationship?
JT: I don’t know. Love?
Liberty: Honesty. So tell me honestly. The missing drugs and the apartment, no relation?
JT: I just thought it was a good idea.
(Liberty starts hitting JT with her backpack.)
Liberty: You stupid, thoughtless imbecile. You will destroy everything.
Security guard: Hey! Hey, hey kids!
JT: Ow stop!
Liberty: You could go to jail.
JT: Yes that thought crossed my mind.
Liberty: Then why did you do it?
JT: We needed the money okay? Bad. Look I’ll just, I’ll get some cash and I’ll buy the drugs back from the dealer and then I’ll give the drugs back to the pharmacy and everything will be fine, okay? Honest.
Liberty: Afraid to get my hopes up.
In the media immersion room, Toby is getting frustrated at a computer
Toby: Come on! Fit. It’s for charity.
JT: Liberty made it look so easy.
Toby: Remind me not to take anything else off her plate. Is the last paragraph of an article really that necessary?
JT: I could uh show you a trick or two for a price.
Toby: Anything. Name it.
JT: $1200 today.
Toby: I’ll pass.
JT: Toby I’m serious.
Toby: Okay well get the money back from your landlord.
JT: I already tried, okay? It’s non-refundable. Look to get the rent money I had to do something. Bad. And, and, and now I need to undo it or I’m in trouble.
Toby: Okay fine, but where am I supposed to get $1200 today?
JT: Don’t you have bonds or something?
Toby: Are you crazy? If I touch those bonds my mom goes bananas.
JT: Just screw it okay?! I need help!
(JT grabs Toby by the shirt.)
Toby: Of a mental variety.
JT: Toby I’m asking you nicely. I need that money.
Toby: JT you need to let go. Now!
JT: See this is why you have no friends.
Toby: You know what? Get away from me. Stay away!
At Emma’s house during dinner
Mr. Simpson: Hard to believe that Jack is asleep when we’re all sitting down together huh?
Spike: Pleasant surprise actually.
Manny: Talk about surprises. What about the jaw dropping arrival your hubby made at school yesterday.
Spike: Excuse me? What did he do? Pop a wheelie on his bicycle?
Emma: You didn’t know?
Mr. Simpson: Emma, beans?
Spike: Didn’t know what? Someone fill me in here.
Mr. Simpson: Oh uh Joey has a friend who’s selling a motorcycle. Loaned it out to me for a few days to try it out.
Spike: You’re buying a motorcycle, with what? Couch treasure coins?
Mr. Simpson: I was gonna talk to you.
Spike: You will. Later.
Outside, Jay and Aaron drive up beside JT
Jay: I cut you some slack stock boy, but I am running low on patience.
JT: Oh that makes you a pretty bad doctor then doesn’t it?
Jay: Ha ha. Speaking of doctors Aaron is considering sending you to one, so you might want to quit with the jokes.
Aaron: I gave you an advance.
JT: Which I never should have asked for okay? I’m gonna give you all of your money back.
Aaron: Really.
JT: Yeah. I just need the drugs back ASAP, so that I can get them back to the pharmacy.
Jay: Dude. Don’t.
(Aaron punches JT in the stomach and throws him against the car, choking him.)
Aaron: That’s in case you didn’t know. I run the show and I don’t want my money back. I want more drugs.
JT: I’ll go to the cops.
Aaron: And what? What, you gonna get yourself thrown in jail for stealing drugs? That’s a smart move.
Jay: JT just get the man what he wants. This will all be over.
At the pharmacy
(A kid walks in and steals something from the shelf so Mr. McKay runs out of the store following him.)
Mr. McKay: Hey come back there!
(JT goes into the back room and steals more drugs before his boss comes back.)
Mr. McKay: JT call security. I caught this shoplifter red-handed.
JT: Sure. Sure thing.
(JT looks nervously at the Oxycodone bottle and his boss looks at him suspiciously.)
At Emma’s house
Spike: How worried should I be?
Mr. Simpson: I’ll drive carefully.
Spike: You know what I mean. Is this the start of your midlife crisis?
Mr. Simpson: Oh the talk. Spike it is a means of transportation. It doesn’t mean anything.
Spike: Then why all the cloak and dagger?
Mr. Simpson: Look day in, day out I am Mr. Straight and Narrow, okay? It’s work, family, work, family. It’s just so predictable.
Spike: Sorry if we’re cramping your style!
Mr. Simpson: Hey I am happy to make sacrifices for you and for the kids, but there has to be more to life than routine.
In the hallway
Liberty: Tell me we have nothing to worry about.
JT: I wish I could.
Liberty: We’ll go to my parents. We’ll get their help. My dad’s a lawyer.
JT: I don’t need a lawyer, I need a superhero to keep the drug dealer from k*lling me.
Liberty: What drug dealer?
JT: The gentleman who financed our apartment. He made me steal again.
Liberty: Again? But Mr. McKay was already suspicious. He’ll catch you!
JT: Maybe not, okay? Maybe Mr. McKay won’t notice and maybe I’ll totally get away with it and maybe we’ll be fine.
Liberty: I thought you’d changed. I thought you’d grown up.
JT: Liberty I have changed.
Liberty: Yeah. Now you’re a drug dealer.
At the ravine, JT walks over to Aaron and drops the drugs in his lap
JT: Here. Now go ruin someone else’s life.
(Aaron jumps up angry and pushes JT to the ground.)
Aaron: What? Are you out of your mind? Huh?!
(Jay pulls Aaron off of JT.)
Jay: Easy. Easy. I got him! Easy. I got him!
JT: You got me into this.
Jay: Yeah and I just saved your butt or were you two guys gonna kiss? Not that it’s any of my business what team you play for.
JT: Just ask the girl who’s carrying my kid.
Jay: Uh oh. Bun in the oven.
JT: Yeah and thanks to these, I’m d*ad to her.
Jay: Come on man. It’ll be okay.
JT: It’s okay? I lost my girl. I lost my best friend. I lost my job and my, my family and now I’m probably going to jail.
Jay: Hey. Bummer times. At least there’s a party.
(Jay walks away while JT pops all of the pills in his hand.)
At Degrassi
Ms. Hatzilakos: Working late again? Not riding that bike outside enjoying the last rays of sunshine?
Mr. Simpson: I’m giving it back. It’s that or the wife.
Ms. Hatzilakos: My ex had a choice once. Me or the intern.
Mr. Simpson: Some people make you wonder huh?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Too bad about the bike. It reminds me of the one I used to own.
Mr. Simpson: Wow. I’m trying to wrap my head around the idea of you on a sport bike.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Why is that so hard to figure? Because I’m a woman?
Mr. Simpson: Because you’re my principal.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well I used to be a wild child in my day. A lot has changed, but I still love motorcycles. As a matter of fact I was gonna to ask you for a ride.
(Mr. Simpson smiles and grabs the helmet.)
At the ravine
Jay: Hey check it out. Stock boy is going to be a pappy.
Aaron: Hey good grass stud. This one’s on me.
(Aaron tosses JT a beer, which sprays him when he opens it.)
JT: Actually it’s on me.
(He dumps the beer on his head as everyone around him laughs, then he passes out on the ground.)
Jay: Hey! Hey buddy. Hey. Somebody get the cops! Somebody get the cops!
Outside, Joey is working on his car
Joey: He’s fast, he’s furious. He’s covered in Kevlar. Hey Snake.
Mr. Simpson: Good morning Joey. I’m gonna need to talk to that friend of yours, it’s uh rightful owner.
Joey: Oh uh don’t you want to see how the cool life goes before you give the suit back?
Mr. Simpson: That won’t be necessary. This is for the Kevlar and the wheels that go with it.
(He gives Joey a check.)
Joey: Snake this is exactly what you need.
At the hospital
Mr. Van Zandt: I spoke to Mr. McKay. Tried to explain the situation. We’re gonna try to work out a deal, but uh don’t hold your breath.
Liberty: Thanks dad.
Mr. Van Zandt: Yeah.
(Liberty walks into JT’s room…)
JT: Stomach pump, one. JT, zero.
Liberty: How can you make jokes about this?
JT: Counselling. su1c1de watch. Believe me, it’s no joke.
Liberty: Well I’m glad you’re getting help. JT did you try to k*ll yourself?
(He starts crying.)
Liberty: What were you thinking? Leaving me alone with all this!
JT: I’m sorry.
Liberty: I’m sorry too.
JT: Liberty I screwed up okay? Don’t take it out on the baby.
Liberty: We both screwed up. I’m going to the adoption agency. JT it’ll be for the best.
(JT starts crying even more.)
Scenes for next week
Marco: (To the camera) Everyone knows I’m gay, except the person who counts the most.
Voiceover: On an all new episode of Degrassi…
(A new kid gets pushed against the lockers.)
Random guy: f*g!
Marco: Hey woah. You okay?
Voiceover: Marco helps a friend…
Marco: (To the new kid) Degrassi’s pretty cool, but there are idiots everywhere.
Marco: (To his father) Pa we need to talk.
Voiceover: …But can’t seem to help himself.
Mr. Del Rossi: I do not want a q*eer under my roof.
Marco: What if you already have one? | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x08 - Turned Out Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At Marco’s house. Marco walks into the kitchen trying to memorize his lines
Mr. Del Rossi: Marco, we still fishing this weekend?
Marco: Yeah. Yeah of course.
Mr. Del Rossi: Louisa, I think our boy has gone crazy. Look he’s talking to himself.
Marco: You’re funny Pa. It’s for the school play. We’re hosting the city drama festival.
Mr. Del Rossi: Marco don’t tell me you’re becoming an actor.
Marco: No. No, this is just a favour for Mr. Simpson. I’m not becoming an actor.
Mr. Del Rossi: Right because you’re running the printing business with me.
Marco: Pa we’ve discussed this. Social work! I want to help people.
(Mr. Del Rossi waves his hand dismissively.)
Marco: But no look. Social worker’s a good job.
Mrs. Del Rossi: Cousin Lou became a social worker.
Mr. Del Rossi: Cousin Lou? Please Cousin Lou’s a (fanel?)
Marco: Pa, Cousin Lou is a great guy. He helps people.
Mr. Del Rossi: Yeah, but he doesn’t help his poor mother. His mother would love a grandchild one day, but from Cousin Lou, good luck!
Marco: What? So he’ll adopt. It’s no big deal.
Mr. Del Rossi: No big deal?! Marco, for a parent to raise a h*m*…it’s like a failure, an embarrassment.
Marco: Oh really? Well let me tell you that…that I have a rehearsal and I don’t know my lines. Bye.
Mr. Del Rossi: Bye, bye.
During play rehearsal, Toby is practicing with Mr. Simpson and Marco walks over to Paige who is also practicing
Paige: Stressed much?
Marco: There is no way I’m ever gonna memorize these lines.
Craig: Relax. It’s not like you’re the star and the school’s hopes to winning this drama festival are riding on you. Wait you’re Hamlet right?! It is riding on you!
Marco: Yeah. Someone remind me to k*ll him after I’m done memorizing this.
Paige: I’ll remind you once uh you remind me why we volunteered to do this.
Marco: Because! Thought it’d be fun and because Simpson gave us that whole help me, help Degrassi speech.
Paige: Because someone knew the cute new guy had already volunteered.
Marco: Who? Tim? Okay. He’s okay. I mean if you like that whole dark, mysterious thing.
Paige: Hmm. Yeah. Quelle turn off.
(Marco smiles at Tim.)
In the hallway, Emma is putting up a poster for the drama festival
Peter: Perfect.
Emma: What are you, the leaning tower of Peter? It’s completely crooked.
Peter: I wasn’t talking about the poster.
Emma: Okay let me set one thing straight. You are never getting anywhere with me.
Peter: Never say never.
Emma: But it’s fun. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never.
Peter: Yeah it’s easy to say, but it’s harder to mean and you don’t.
Emma: Please.
Peter: Look if you hate me so much why’d you go on a date with me the other night?
Emma: It wasn’t a date. It was an appraisal.
Peter: Oh yeah and how did I do?
Emma: My files are confidential.
(Peter fixes the poster and looks at Emma.)
Peter: Now that’s perfect. See you around.
In the hallway, Paige is practicing her lines with Craig when a guy pushes Tim into a locker
Random guy: f*g!
(Craig gets angry and walks towards the guy, but Marco stops him.)
Marco: Craig don’t! Don’t. Tim hey! Woah, you okay?
Tim: Yeah I’m fine.
Marco: Here, dude let me take you to the nurse.
Tim: No, Marco I’m fine.
Marco: Well let me do something. Anything?
At the Dot
Marco: Hey sorry about what happened today. Degrassi’s pretty cool, but there are idiots everywhere. So who have you told?
Tim: No one except my best friend…well my former best friend.
Marco: Oh. Didn’t go well then I take it?
Tim: My best friend since grade 3 called me a f*g and punched me in the face.
Marco: Well you’ll find a new friend.
Tim: It’s just I don’t anybody who would even begin to get this.
Marco: You do now. Tim look I’ve been where you are okay? Two years ago I was you. So I can help you and I want to help you, as a friend.
Tim: Thank you Marco. You’re like my Yoda.
Marco: (In a Yoda voice) Yeah well memorize lines we must, angry Simpson will be!
Inside Degrassi, Emma is trying to sell tickets to the drama festival, but no one is stopping
Emma: Tickets for the drama festival. Tickets? Tickets for the drama festival. Tickets.
Peter: Allow me.
(He takes the tickets and walks over to a random girl.)
Peter: Hi I’m Peter. Degrassi is hosting the city drama festival. It’s a really prestigious event. It’s gonna do a lot for our school so we’re asking everyone to come out and show their support. Thank you.
(Peter gives Emma the money.)
Peter: Selling’s in my blood. My dad’s a car salesman. Imports mainly.
Emma: Maybe he could give me some pointers. I could sure use some.
Peter: I’ll give you some pointers. Say today, 4PM, the Dot.
Emma: I walked right into that one.
Peter: Come on. Just go out with me again!
Emma: Okay Peter, my best friend hates you. I can’t be seen talking to you. You need to back off.
(Peter sees Manny and walks away.)
Manny: Was he bothering you?
Emma: It’s okay.
Manny: It’s not. He was harassing you. We need to do something about him.
At school
Tim: Marco I’m such an idiot. I left my computer on and I forgot to log out.
Marco: Classic beginners mistake.
Tim: My dad sat down and there it was, a gay teens chat room. So he confronted me and the next thing I know I’m out the door running.
Marco: Oh my god. Where’d you go?
Tim: Nowhere. Everywhere. I just had to keep moving. It’s scary out there.
Marco: Tim you can’t do that again. It’s dangerous. You have to go home.
Tim: What if he kicks me out?
Marco: We’ll figure it out then, but first you got to go home and face your dad.
Tim: Right and tell him what?
Marco: Just tell him the truth. I mean you have to show him the real you right? Show him the Tim that you’ve been hiding all these years.
Tim: So I just waltz up to my dad and say I’m gay, and then what?
Marco: Well okay first, he’ll lose it. It’ll get nasty and ugly, but then in time he’ll see who you really are and he’ll wake up one morning and he’ll say my son’s gay and that’s alright.
Tim: Okay. I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna do it Marco. I’m gonna tell him.
At school, Peter is talking to some girl and Emma walks over
Peter: The band’s gonna be really good. They’re gonna play some hits and some of their own stuff. It’s gonna be good. The guitarist is so good. My friend’s the drummer.
Emma: Am I interrupting?
Peter: Only slightly. (He turns back to the girl) Look my dad’s gonna be out of town so there’s nothing in the way of us having fun. Just come.
(The girl smiles and leaves.)
Emma: You’re having a party.
Peter: You’re busy with the festival remember?
Emma: Which I can’t believe you’re bailing on.
Peter: I have more than enough drama in my life these days.
Emma: What’s that supposed to mean?
Peter: You blow hot and cold Emma. You flirt and then you shut me down. Face it you’re a tease.
Emma: Well you’re a jerk!
At Marco’s house, there’s a knock at the door and Tim walks in crying
Marco: Oh Tim. Woah. What are you doing here?
Tim: I’m sorry Marco. I got your address off the play contact list. I have nowhere else to go. Look I did it just like you said. I came out to my dad and he kicked me out.
Marco: Okay.
(Tim hugs Marco.)
Tim: He actually kicked me out.
Mr. Del Rossi: Marco what’s going on in here?
Marco: Nothing. Pa this is my friend Tim. He’s upset.
Mrs. Del Rossi: Let’s go back to the dining room.
Tim: No. No I’m sorry for barging in like this. It’s just…I just came out to my dad.
Mr. Del Rossi: Came out. Came out where?
Marco: No he got in a fight with his dad…over the play. His dad, his dad just doesn’t like him being an actor.
Mr. Del Rossi: I can understand. Acting’s not a real job. It’s for the…
Marco: Papa can you leave us alone? Please.
(His parents walk back to the dining room.)
Marco: Tim okay let me explain. This is…
Tim: Don’t Marco. Just don’t.
At Marco’s, the next day
Mrs. Del Rossi: Tim we’ll see you again tonight?
Marco: Yeah. Hey my mom’s right. You’re more than welcome to stay here. Make me feel better. I feel kind of responsible.
Mr. Del Rossi: Responsible? What did you do?
Marco: Nothing Pa. I just talked Tim into joining the cast.
Mr. Del Rossi: Yeah Tim, I don’t understand. I don’t much like acting, but your father, he kicked you out because of that?
Tim: See my father thinks acting is a waste of time. What do you think Marco? You know about acting, about pretending to be someone you’re not?
Marco: I don’t know bud, but guess you just gotta play the part as written.
Tim: Yeah, but you’re so good at it. I mean when you act you’re like Pacino. You fool everybody. Thank you. Um I have to go.
Marco: Mom, dad, here are the tickets. Festival starts at noon.
At Emma’s house
Manny: Faux il déteste la fouille (?). Um how do I spell déteste?
Emma: Déteste as in hate? P-E-T-E-R.
Manny: Okay that’s at least 10 Peter references in the last 2 hours.
Emma: I just hate what he did to you and waiting for karma to get him is boring me.
Manny: It won’t actually be karma. It’ll be a girl, Achilles’ heel-like.
Emma: Manuella! You’re such a genius. An eye for an eye.
(Emma shows her cell phone.)
Manny: Baby that’s a telephone and you might want to use it to call the men in white coats because they pick up.
Emma: It’s a camera phone.
Manny: So?
Emma: So Peter needs to learn that paybacks are hell and I happen to think he needs to learn it from us.
Manny: And that’s why you’re my best friend in the whole wide world.
Emma: Time for a picture. Cheese!
(They take a picture.)
In the hallway
Paige: Nervous?
Marco: Yeah not because of the play though. Tim stayed over last night
Paige: I hope you were safe.
Marco: What? No! Totally missing the point. Look he came out to his dad who then, get this, promptly kicked him out.
Paige: Wow. I just went from excitement to horror in 5 seconds. Acting has put me in touch with my emotions.
Marco: Paige this is so my fault. Okay I, well I kinda made him think that I already was out to my dad.
Paige: Your dad? The guy who thinks you listen to Britney in the car because it puts chicks in the mood.
Marco: I know. I was just trying to help him okay? Inspire him, be his mentor…his Yoda.
Paige: Too late, it is not.
Marco: Yeah believe me. It definitely is. Tim hates me.
Paige: He won’t. Not after you come out to your father.
At Peter’s party, Peter is talking to the same girl as before, but walks over to Emma when he sees her
Peter: Emma.
Emma: Were you expecting someone else?
Peter: Not expecting. Maybe hoping.
Emma: Well I was hoping you’d accept an apology. I was being unfair sending mixed signals.
Peter: So what’s the signal now?
Emma: Green. For go.
Peter: Let’s see what we can do.
During the drama festival, another group finishes on stage
Ms. Hatzilakos: That was a scene from Pygmalion Play by David Jones and Jen Walker from Carson Town.
(Backstage Mr. Simpson is stressing out and Marco is rehearsing.)
Craig: Mr. Simpson you gotta breathe.
(He breathes.)
Marco: And by a sleep to say we end. The heart-ache by the thousand…and the thousand natural shocks-
Mr. Del Rossi: Marco. You called?
Marco: I did, yeah. Um pa we need to talk.
Mr. Del Rossi: Sure.
(They walk outside.)
Marco: Before the play starts, Pa there’s something that I need to talk to you about. It’s actually about Tim. I’ve been helping him lately because he’s younger and he’s confused. He’s gay and Tim thought that you already-
Mr. Del Rossi: No! You brought him into my house?
Marco: No pa I’m trying to tell you something. It’s not about Tim.
Mr. Del Rossi: I don’t want to hear about it. That boy is going home. I do not want a q*eer under my roof.
Marco: What if you already have one?
Mr. Del Rossi: You’ll be late for your play.
Marco: Pa.
Mr. Del Rosi: I gotta go find your mother. I don’t know where she is. You know how she gets. She gets lost so easily.
Marco: What? What? You’re gonna pretend?
Mr. Del Rossi: I gotta go find her!
(He leaves quickly.)
Marco: You’re gonna pretend I didn’t say anything to you. Pa!
Craig: (On stage) And thy best graces spend it at thy will! But now my cousin Hamlet and my son. Hamlet?
(Marco walks on stage.)
Marco: A little more than kin and less than kind.
At Peter’s house, Peter and Emma are making out and she’s taking off his clothes
Emma: Undo some things! No silly on you.
Peter: My. I’m sorry about the room or whatever.
Emma: It’s okay. Can we just…
Peter: It’s just…I hate it.
Emma: What your belt?
Peter: No I just wish I could take you someplace better. It’s just my dad practically uses this place as a storage locker…threw me in here with everything else he doesn’t want.
Emma: Wow. You have no private space. I can’t do this. My room since the baby, I’m stuck in the basement with the laundry and the mold and Snake’s old bowling shoes, so I can relate.
(Emma walks over to Peter and kisses him.)
Emma: I need to go. Smile.
(She takes a picture of him with her phone before leaving.)
During the play
Marco: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times, and now…
Tim: (Whispering) How abhorred!
Marco: …how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. And here hung those lips that I…
(Marco stops and walk to the front of the stage.)
Marco: I’m sorry. Sorry. I have to do this. Dad! I’m gay.
(His dad walks out of the theatre and his mom follows.)
Paige: (Quietly) Way to go Marco.
Marco: Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
At Emma’s house, Manny is reading a magazine
Manny: Did you get awesome sh*ts of his flat goofy butt? Does hilarity ensue? Will I laugh, cry, pee?
Emma: Manny it didn’t work.
Manny: No!
Emma: He barely noticed me. I guess I’m a lousy Bond girl.
Manny: We’ll get him next time don’t worry and we’ll put laxatives in his food right before a test and kabaam!
Emma: That’d be funny.
Manny: Yeah.
(Manny goes back to her magazine and Emma lies down looking at the picture she took on her phone.)
At Marco’s house
Mrs. Del Rossi: Marco. How was the rest of the play?
Marco: After my little bit of improve it’s not bad I guess. We didn’t win.
Mr. Del Rossi: I have work early tomorrow.
Marco: So we’re not gonna talk about this?
Mr. Del Rossi: I’m too tired for talking.
Marco: No Pa, stop! Stop. Did you ever know? Huh? All these years. Pa did you ever know that I was gay?
Mr. Del Rossi: Stop saying that!
Marco: I can’t! Pa it’s taken me 17 years to say it. I’m gay. Gay. I am totally gay.
Mr. Del Rossi: This is funny to you?
Marco: No! No Pa! This is not funny at all! I just came out to you in front of the entire school. Does that sound like a joke to you?
Mr. Del Rossi: Look you’re my boy and I love you. You’re the best son a father could ever want, but this part of you, I don’t want to know. I can’t know about.
Marco: Then you don’t want to know me.
(His father walks away.)
Mrs. Del Rossi: He will, Marco. One day.
Marco: Yeah. One day.
Scenes for next week
Spinner: (To the camera) My best friend wants a party and my girlfriend wants to pray. How can I do both?
Voiceover: A weekend retreat has Spinner questioning the group’s message.
Some guy: Anything you want to be forgiven for? What about your friend Jimmy?
Voiceover: Will they push him too far?
Spinner: (Sarcastically) Thanks Darcy. No brainwashing huh?
Voiceover: Or is he coming around?
Darcy: All you need to do is believe, okay? | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x09 - Tell it to My Heart"} | foreverdreaming |
In a mall change room, Darcy is trying on a bikini and Spinner walks in on her
Darcy: Spinner what are you doing?
Spinner: Shh.
Darcy: Someone needs a time out.
Spinner: Someone’s always getting a timeout.
Darcy: So what do you think? It’s for Friendship Club.
Spinner: You’re wearing a bikini to Friendship Club? You’re gonna give poor baby Jesus a heartattack.
Darcy: You know you shouldn’t talk like that. Besides I meant for the camping trip this weekend.
Spinner: Oh right. Camping with your bible buddies. So glad I’m missing that.
Darcy: Spinner! You said you’d come.
Spinner: Was I high at the time?
(Spinner walks out of the store and sees Jay.)
Jay: Spin what’s up? You in there shopping for some nice new miniskirts?
Spinner: Nah man. Checking out some man thongs.
Jay: Ooh. Oh hey you missed a hell of a party Friday night. People were asking about you.
Darcy: Jay. They let you out on parole?
Jay: Time off for good behaviour. Oh hey Nuns ‘R Us is having a black and white sale. You should really check that out.
Spinner: Funny. You guys always have to do this?
Jay: Oh hey Spin this weekend we’re having a party in the ravine. We’re getting a keg.
Spinner: Dude I am so there…possibly…maybe…we’ll see.
Jay: Well you let me know when she makes up your mind for you.
At Friendship Club meeting
Linus: So we’re all sinners, but you know if we accept Jesus into our hearts we’ll be free.
Spinner: But wait a sec. If we’re all sinners then what can Jesus do?
Kim: He can forgive you.
Linus: Exactly and you know that way you’ll get entrance to Heaven.
Spinner: Yeah, but there are good people out there who don’t believe in Jesus. What do they just go to Hell?
(The bell rings.)
Linus: Listen Spinner. That was a great debate. I’m looking forward to some more. Say uh tomorrow at the retreat?
Spinner: Yeah um about that. I have plans to worship with a friend.
Linus: That’s great. Is your friend a believer?
Spinner: Yeah he believes in things…like beer.
In the media immersion room
Jimmy: I come bearing morning bagels.
Hazel: I’ve got our coffees. Two creams for you, two sugars for me.
Jimmy: Okay Hazel. What’s the big secret?
Hazel: This summer, road trip! We h*t the southern US of A! Orlando, Memphis, Atlanta. All summer!
Ellie: All summer. Wow that’s…that’s great.
Ms. Hatzilakos: (On the TV announcements) A year ago today tragedy struck Degrassi and since that day we’ve become a different school. Zero tolerance for bullying and an open door policy for student concerns. We did this together.
(It flashes back to the year before.)
Spinner: Jay listen. Raditch knows man!
Jay: About Jimmy? Yeah I’m surprised nobody’s figured it out yet. Jimmy set the whole thing up perfectly.
(Jimmy is shown walking away from Rick and then getting sh*t.)
Rick: You pretended to be my friend!
(It flashes back to the present and Spinner looks at pictures of him and Darcy.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: (On the TV announcements) I’d like to announce that out of the many proposals submitted, the winner is a new mural to be painted by Jimmy Brooks.
Paige: That’s amazing.
Hazel: I didn’t know you submitted a proposal.
Jimmy: Actually it’s, it’s all on Ellie. She talked me into it.
Hazel: Gee all these plans that I didn’t know about.
Ellie: Well Jimmy’s such a good artist and with the sh**ting…we just thought it was right.
Craig: Good job man.
Jimmy: Thank you.
Paige: So tell me when did Jimmy and Ellie become a ‘we’?
At Spinner’s locker, Spinner finds a note that says ‘I believe in you. Darcy’
Craig: Someone left you a card. How sweet.
Spinner: It’s a note man, from my girlfriend. Hey Jimmy congratulations man, eh? Listen I want to help out. If there’s anything I can do, whatever!
Marco: Probably not a good idea Spin.
Spinner: Come on guys. Let me help out!
Jimmy: Look when I said you were d*ad to me I meant forever. You don’t exist.
At the Dot
Jay: So this weekend you, me, dozens of horny honey's and an ice cold keg of beer sound good?
Spinner: Dude do you ever think about what happened with you know the sh**ting, with Rick?
Jay: Sure I do. Way I see it, we did the world a favor.
Spinner: And Jimmy. We helped him too, right?
Jay: Spin what are you doing? You’re getting yourself all depressed. You got school for that. What you need is to get your mind off the depressing crap. Have some fun.
Spinner: Dude you are so right.
Outside Degrassi, Friendship Club is getting ready for camping
Spinner: Hey um is my name still on the sign up sheet? Look under uh, I for Idiot.
Darcy: I don’t know Spin. There’s volleyball, barbeque…I don’t think you can handle it.
(Spinner picks Darcy up playfully.)
Spinner: Don’t think I can handle it, what are you talking about?!
At the camp grounds, Spinner and Linus are setting up a volleyball net
Spinner: Well alright. Um so if I’m not on your team that puts me on the winning team right?
Linus: That’s funny.
(Darcy waves at Spinner.)
Linus: Lucky man.
Spinner: Yeah. You’re not hurting.
(Kim waves at Linus.)
Linus: Kim’s my life.
(He holds up his hand and shows a ring.)
Spinner: Dude you’re married?
Linus: Married? No. No this is a, this is a pre-engagement ring. We gave them to each other last year when we pledged our abstinence.
Spinner: So you willingly gave up…with her?
Linus: Spinner, Kim and I love each other and we love Jesus. This is really the best way to show it man.
Spinner: Yeah, but if Jesus didn’t want us to have sex he’d make every girl look like Quasimodo’s sister. I mean…
Linus: Relationships are not only about sex. They’re about spiritual connectedness man, come on.
At the mural, Jimmy and Ellie are painting
Ellie: So road trip this summer? Guess we’ll put those art class on hold.
Jimmy: I guess so.
Ellie: I have a summer job anyway. There’s this tiny comic book company…doing their website.
Jimmy: You’re kidding. That’s amazing.
Ellie: It’s a job. I was gonna hire you to do the artwork, but whatev.
(Hazel walks over to them.)
Jimmy: Hazel! I did not know you were coming, but so glad to have you here.
Marco: Okay the fountain’s down and I am parched.
Paige: And someone has got to wash these brushes.
Marco and Paige: Ew!
Hazel: Looks like this project could use a little more organization. Marco I have a case of water in my car. Why don’t you go get it? Paige I’ll wash these brushes…and Ellie why don’t you keep doing what you’re doing.
At the camping trip, Linus is playing his guitar
Linus: Alright guys. Okay before I sing this song I want to talk about something. Fear. Spinner what scares you most?
Spinner: Ms. Kwan?
Linus: Be serious. Melinda?
Melinda: I’m scared of dying.
Kim: But why Melinda? I mean if you’re forgiven by Jesus you’ll go to Heaven.
Linus: Yeah, but what if you die before you make peace. So before Jesus could forgive you?
Kim: You’d go to hell.
Linus: How do you feel about that Spinner? How do you feel? Don’t you have uh anything you want to be forgiven for?
Spinner: No. Not particulary.
Linus: What about your friend Jimmy? What about him?
Spinner: Nice Darcy. No brainwashing huh?
(Spinner storms away and Darcy follows him.)
Darcy: Spin I didn’t tell him anything.
Spinner: Yeah then how’d he know Darcy? He psychic?
Darcy: I guess I mentioned it to Kim.
Spinner: Oh that’s great. Just spill my most private secrets to everybody.
Darcy: Who are you calling?
Spinner: Jay. My friend. I’m out of here.
Darcy: Spinner please! I’m sorry that Linus ambushed you. He shouldn’t have. It was a mistake.
Spinner: No this weekend was a mistake. This, this whole relationship is a mistake. *On his cell phone* Jay what’s up man? Um…
At the retreat, Jay drives up in his car
Spinner: It’s about time buddy. Let’s go!
Jay: Sweet mother Mary. Who knew Christian girls could be so hot?
Spinner: Yeah, but trust me this place is no party.
Jay: Not yet.
Spinner: No, no, no, no, no, no. What are you doing?
Jay: I just drove two hours for you. At least let me join your Christian friends for a tasty hot dog or a cool, refreshing beverage.
Spinner: One hot dog. Beer stays in the car, your mouth stays shut and something else stays in your pants. Clear?
Jay: I don’t know. Let me pray on it.
Back at the mural
Hazel: How come nothing rhymes with orange? It’s such a lonely word.
Jimmy: And what’s not a lonely word?
Hazel: Hazel ‘cause it goes so perfectly with Jimmy.
Jimmy: That doesn’t even rhyme. So Ellie, this comic book website are you gonna use flash?
Ellie: Uh it’s all customized, but I’m also putting together templates.
Hazel: I really like the Crimson Kid…Flash. The Crimson Kid. You guys were talking about comic books right? I’ve been reading up.
Ellie: Um we’re talking about flash animation. It’s a computer thing. It’s complicated.
Hazel: Right and I wouldn’t get that.
Back at the retreat, Jay is talking to Melinda
Jay: My dad just couldn’t take it anymore so he took off on his hog.
Melinda: And your mom, was she okay?
Jay: Well I helped her through her painkiller addiction, but once she was in drug rehab it was like, like I was addicted. Addicted to helping people.
Melinda: Really?
Jay: Yeah.
Melinda: So that’s when you left school?
Jay: And headed down to South America. Yes to the mountains of Ecuador. I built a church and a one room school and a well. It just felt so good you know?
Spinner: Jay is quite the storyteller.
Darcy: Yeah and Melinda’s not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Spinner: Hey listen I’m sorry for what I said before. I didn’t mean it.
(Darcy kisses him.)
Darcy: I can party too you know, so don’t think I’m a complete loser.
Spinner: I don’t think you’re a loser. I think you’re great.
Jay: I just, I really feel like I can talk to you, you know? Just not here.
Melinda: Let’s go someplace private.
Spinner: Jay can I talk to you? Just for a sec.
Jay: Spinner slow down. I was just about to re-define bible thumping.
Spinner: No man you were just about to take a hike.
Jay: Praise the lord. God those freaks really got to you.
Spinner: Have you always been this stupid or am I just noticing it now?
Jay: Man ever since you met miss WWJD I don’t even know who you are anymore. I mean what kind of a hold does she have on you anyways? Is she that good in bed?
Spinner: It’s not like that man. We don’t…we don’t even have sex.
Jay: No sex? Nothing? Are you kidding me? What’s her problem?
Spinner: She believes in something alright? Is that impossible for you to get into your twisted little brain?
Jay: No. Look whatever. I just want you to be happy.
(Darcy walks over holding a couple beers.)
Darcy: Hope you don’t mind. I scooped these from your car.
Jay: Mind? No I wasn’t going anywhere.
Darcy: Sometimes you gotta bend the rules. Just a little.
(The three of them play frisbee while Spinner and Jay drink.)
Spinner: Oh nice catch. Nice catch.
Jay: Darcy you gonna partake?
Darcy: Ugh it tastes like barf.
Spinner: You’ve tried beer?
Darcy: Yeah a bit too much of it one night. Ages ago. Hense, tastes like barf.
Jay: Well cheers to that. Looks like we’re gonna need another round.
Darcy: I’ll get it.
Spinner: No. No no. I’ll go.
Jay: So underneath that nun’s habit lies a living, breathing girl. Who knew?
Darcy: Spinner.
Jay: Yeah right, Spinner. He’s all about you these days. I’ve never seen him like this, not about anybody.
Darcy: Not Manny, Paige?
Jay: Oh no he told me you’re way better than Paige or Manny. The thing is-
Darcy: What?
Jay: It’s Manny. She’s moving in on him.
Darcy: What? I thought she was with Craig.
Jay: She wants something on the side with Spinner. I’m talking sex. He keeps trying to fight her off, but how long can he keep fighting? I mean he’s a guy and well if he doesn’t get something soon, then game over. Look it’s just like you said Darcy, sometimes you gotta bend the rules.
(She takes a swig of beer and looks at Jay.)
At the mural, Hazel is looking at it and sees one of the people is drawn to look like Ellie
Hazel: You’ve got to be kidding me.
(She walks over to Jimmy and throws orange paint on him.)
At the campgrounds
Spinner: Dude I got round two.
Jay: Your lady awaits.
(Jay takes a beer and walks away from him as Spinner walks over to Darcy.)
Spinner: Hey. What’s going on?
(She pulls him down and starts kissing him.)
Spinner: On second thought, no need to explain.
(Darcy takes off her shirt and starts pulling down her bathing suit top
Spinner: Darcy. I love you.
(He kisses her as she starts crying.)
Spinner: Are you okay?
Darcy: I’m fine. Keep going.
Spinner: Hey, hey what’s wrong? What’s wrong?
Darcy: It’s okay. Jay told me about Manny. About everything.
Spinner: Wait. Wait! What Manny? I haven’t spoken to Manny in like a year! Okay. Start at the beginning. What did Jay tell you exactly?
(Jay is playing volleyball and Spinner walks over to him.)
Jay: Oh! Oh! Who is your saviour now?!
(Spinner punches Jay repeatedly and pushes him to the ground.)
Jay: Spinner!
Spinner: Why’d you do it?
Jay: You said you wanted some action. I was just trying to help you get it.
Spinner: No you just wanted to ruin it like you’ve ruined everything in my life. Jimmy and now Darcy.
Jay: Oh yeah! Oh yeah I’m the devil. I’m the evil lowdown sinner. Somebody save me!
Spinner: You know what? Get out of here. I never want to see you again, ever. Go! Go!
(Jay leaves.)
Outside Degrassi
Hazel: So this whole thing, this mural. This was all about her?
Jimmy: Of course not! I didn’t even mean for that girl to be Ellie. I guess it looks a little bit like her-
Hazel: A little bit? Jimmy that’s her face, to a tee!
Jimmy: I can paint it over.
Hazel: That’s not the point. Why did you paint it in the first place? Obviously you like her. Be honest.
Jimmy: Okay Hazel look. I love you, but Ellie she…she inspires me.
Hazel: I so did not need to hear that.
Jimmy: Well you wanted honesty. I’m being honest!
Hazel: No you’re being a coward and if you won’t say it, then I will. So here it is Jimmy. Ready? We’re through.
Back at the retreat
Spinner: I’m sorry. For bringing Jay here. For what he said. For everything.
Darcy: It’s not your fault. You were trying to be his friend. His only friend because PS: he’s a jerk. I love you Spin.
Spinner: You shouldn’t. I hurt everyone. You, Jimmy…I’m, I’m not worth it.
Darcy: You are. I know it. Jesus knows it.
Spinner: How can Jesus forgive someone who got his best friend sh*t?
Darcy: Because he just does. All you need to do is believe.
Spinner: It’s too late.
Darcy: No, it’s not. We’ll find Jesus together, okay?
Spinner: Okay.
Scenes for next week
Paige: (To the camera) I think I like someone. Someone I’m not supposed to like.
Voiceover: A movie premiere descends on Degrassi.
Paige: Could you spare a teensy weensy extra golden ticket Mr. Smith, please for my friend?
Voiceover: And Paige’s new friendship…
Alex: About before…
Paige: We were just having fun. No big deal right?
Voiceover: …get’s complicated.
(Paige and Alex lean towards each other about to kiss.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x10 - Redemtion Song"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside Degrassi, eTalk Daily is interviewing Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes
Tanya: Hey I’m Tanya Kim from eTalk Daily. I’m here with Kevin Smith and his co-star Jason Mewes.
Jay: Tell me what a great guy I am ‘cause I have two tickets to the party of the year. Check it out.
Alex: Who’d you steal those from?
Jay: I was invited. I worked on the movie remember? I was gonna ask you to be my +1.
Alex: Too bad going with you is a -20.
Jay: Lexie! Let’s raise hell together like we used to huh?
Alex: I’m going with Paige Michalchuk.
Jay: You’re kidding me. The queen of Degrassi is taking the queen of the trailer park to the premiere?
Alex: I prefer to be known as queen of don’t need Jay. I never did.
Tanya: Hey are you guys happy to be back in Canada?
Kevin: I am insanely happy to be back in Canada. Canada’s motherland, Toronto! Cradle of civilization.
Jason: Toronto is where they have that poutine crap that lunchbox loves so much.
Kevin: Really sir in front of everybody do you…
Jay: Yo yo, listen! He chose a Toronto premiere over an LA premiere based on food.
(Alex watches them with a smile.)
Kevin: Toronto is where we cast the play. Toronto is where we sh*t the play…
Manny: Kevin Smith is being interviewed right there. What do you think he’s saying?
Paige: That tonight is gonna be the greatest, most magical movie premiere ever.
Manny: It better be. It’s not every night we get to have our professional acting debut.
Craig: Yeah or have my music featured in a big Hollywood movie, which is why we are all going first class tonight. I’m talking stretch limo.
Alex: You guys got a limo? Dibs on sticking my head out the sunroof!
(Nobody says anything.)
Alex: I am coming, right Paige?
Paige: I’m sorry hun, but they only gave me two tickets and I’m taking Hazel.
(Alex walks away angry.)
Hazel: Please as if we were going to bring her. Our limo’s a skank-free zone.
Paige: Did you just skank-ify my friend?
Hazel: Friend? More like pet project.
Paige: Jealous much?
Hazel: No. I just don’t get why you hang out with her.
Paige: Funny. I was just asking myself the same thing about you. Enjoy the limo. I’ll see you guys at the movie.
(Paige leaves and walks inside Degrassi.)
Paige: Alex! Wait!
Alex: ‘You want to go to the premiere?’ You said that. That’s an invitation.
Paige: It was really more of an observation, like ‘–you- want to go to the premiere’?
Alex: I thought you were serious. Whatever. I’m out of here.
Paige: I’m not standing for your whole ‘I’m Alex. I’m gonna ignore everyone for a week’ act.
Alex: So I wanted to go to a premiere once in my life. Crucify me.
In the school library, Peter whispers as he walks past Emma
Peter: Grab a book or something.
(Emma stands up and pretends to get a book while her and Peter whisper.)
Emma: People see us, they’ll definitely start to wonder.
Peter: Who cares? I have tickets to the party of the year. Thank you mom. I’m warning you. Major devastation if you let me down.
Emma: What if I let you down easy? I already have a date…with my step dad. My mom has to stay home with my little brother. The thing is Manny’s in the movie. She’s gonna be there so…
Peter: Yeah no talking, no touching, no looking at each other. I know the drill. Just being in the same room with you tonight’s gonna be enough for me.
In the hallway
Ms. Hatzilakos: Kevin, Jason I’d like you both to meet one of Degrassi’s finest teachers, Archie Simpson.
Kevin: Right on. Sir.
Mr. Simpson: Wow. Wow. I’m such a big fan. You know Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is one of my favourite movies.
Kevin: Thanks man.
Paige: Mr. Smith? Kevin? Kev!
Kevin: As I live and breathe, Paige Michaelton! How are you?
Paige: Uh Michalchuk.
Kevin: Michalchuk. You know what? My bad. We just always called you the busted leg girl so…
Paige: Not anymore! These will be the least broken-est gams on your red carpet.
Kevin: I’m sorry did you just say gams? What 21st century teenager still uses the term gams?
Paige: Uh the kind who needs one more ticket to the premiere tonight. Could you spare a teensy weensy extra golden ticket Mr. Smith? Please for my friend.
Kevin: God you’re working me hard aren’t you? Just like a woman. You know what? I happen to have one of those teensy weensy tickets right here and it could be yours if you say about.
Paige: Mr. Smith.
Kevin: Come on. You know I love it. Let me here it.
Paige: Aboot!
Kevin: I melt! That’s just so cute. You earned this. Just don’t let me see it up on E-bay or else I’ma cut you out of the sequel too.
Paige: I can’t thank…um too?
Kevin: Yeah Paige. Uh we had to trim your part down a little bit so, and when I say a little bit I mean…completely.
Paige: Was I that bad and unaware of my badness?
Kevin: No! No hon. You were great, but it’s just in the course of cutting a movie, stuff you know hits the editing room floor. When I was doing Jersey Girl I cut J-Lo out of half the movie. Affleck I wanted to cut him out entirely, but then that just would have left that little kid you know.
Paige: I didn’t see Jersey Girl.
Kevin: Really? Well now I’m really glad that I cut you out of my movie. I’m just kidding. You know what, please tell me you’re still gonna come to the premiere
Paige: Yeah.
Kevin: Good.
In the media immersion room, Craig and Marco are talking about the premiere when Paige walks in
Paige: Here.
(Paige hands Alex both tickets.)
Paige: And bring a guest. Kevin cut me out of the movie, hence I’m not going.
Alex: So what you’re just gonna sit at home?
Paige: I was thinking of lying actually uh in bed with ice cream.
Alex: Uh uh. You’re going.
Paige: This isn’t debateable.
Alex: Paige it’s not like actress is part of your 10 year plan.
Paige: Neither is humiliation.
Alex: Me and you are hitting that red carpet tonight and we’re gonna make Kevin so regret cutting you out of that film ‘cause we are going to look hot and I don’t mean up-do, pearls, pink prom dress hot. I mean hot. Hot!
At the movie premiere, everyone is walking up the red carpet as people take pictures of them
(Paige and Alex strut their stuff as Kevin and Jason watch.)
Jason: And you cut her out of the movie? Jackass.
Inside the premiere
Mr. Simpson: Hey just in case you didn’t know you look beautiful tonight Em.
(Emma looks at Peter and smiles, while Mr. Simpson and Ms. Hatzilakos wave at each other.)
Paige: So this is the part where everyone gets to see me cut from the movie.
Alex: This is the part where you sit back and enjoy being here with me.
(The lights dim and the movie starts.)
Alanis: (In character) You boys are too bloody stupid to make the grade down in the states and your last hope is the school system of the Great White North eh. You want to get oot of grade 12?!
(Silent Bob nods.)
Alanis: (In character) You better start learning what the metric systems all aboot!
Jay: (In character) I’ve got three words for you! Go to…
(Alanis smacks him in the jaw with a hockey stick and he falls back.)
Alanis: (In character) There will be no more cuss words out of you, you potty mouth mall rat. You’re gonna learn the dual languages of my home and native land and you’re gonna savour my poutine! ‘Cause you’re in Canada now eh?!
Manny: (In character) Jay when I was born Star Wars had already been out on video for 10 whole years. You’re too old.
Jay: (In character) I know there’s laws to prevent it. I’m gonna marry Appolonia. She’s the sugar in my maple, the cheese in my poutine, the bac in my bacon.
Ellie: (In character) The ick in pathetic.
(Everyone starts clapping.)
After the premiere
Alex: Who knew Manny could actually act and Craig’s song full on rocked.
Paige: You’re sounding suspiciously upbeat. Are you sure you’re okay?
Alex: It’s a Hollywood premiere. Sue me for getting caught up in it.
Paige: Well the only thing I’m catching is a cab ride home for my hot date with Ben & Jerry.
Alex: What kind of friend would I be if I let you bail on the hottest party ever?
At the after party
Marco: This is the after party?
Hazel: This is the kiddie version. The real party is through those doors and it’s invitation only. Strictly VIP.
Alex: And so about to be crashed!
Hazel: You really think he’s gonna let you in?
(Toby and a very pregnant Liberty are trying to get in.)
Toby: I’m a close personal friend of Kevin’s. If he finds out you didn’t let us in you’re gonna be in big trouble pal. Huge.
(The bouncer picks up Toby and puts him outside of the line and moves to pick up Liberty.)
Liberty: Uh I can move myself thanks.
Jimmy: Hey. You were great in the movie.
Ellie: Yeah all five lines.
Jimmy: Well they were great five lines
(Cuts to Peter who’s putting alcohol in the punch.)
Emma: What are you doing?
Peter: It’s vodka. I’ll only pour half.
Emma: Don’t. If you get caught you’ll be stuck in detention for weeks and then I’ll never get to see you.
Peter: Well you can see me tonight, maybe someplace quiet and secluded.
Emma: Theatre lobby 30 minutes.
(Manny and Craig start walking over and Peter quickly leaves.)
Emma: Manny!
Manny: Hey.
Emma: You were amazing.
Manny: Really? You think so? Uh did you stay till the end to hear Craig’s song?
Emma: Of course! Let’s toast to Degrassi’s celebrity couple!
(Paige is trying to get in to the VIP section.)
Paige: I did makeup on the movie. Do you mind if I cut through?
Mickey: Nice try girly.
Alex: Sorry I’m late.
(She kisses Paige on the cheek and hugged her.)
Alex: Some jerk blocked me in at the strip club again. The sign clearly says employee parking only.
Paige: Oh sweetie I hope you didn’t tire yourself out at work. You promised me some hot dancing.
Mickey: Alright, in you go.
Marco: What?!
(Marco and Hazel try and sneak in and the bouncer kicks them out.)
Paige: I can’t believe the bouncer actually fell for that.
Alex: Are you kidding? We’re a couple hot chicks. Of course he’s gonna fall for that.
Jay: Ladies.
Paige: Ew. VIP does not stand for vastly icky poseur. What are you doing here?
Jay: My boy Mickey right there. Hey. He worked security on the movie. Oh I saw your little girl on girl PDA. Is that why you dumped me?
Alex: Right. It had nothing to do with you hooking up with every skank in the ravine.
Jay: Ah and you’re trying to get back at me by hooking up with every skank here.
Alex: You do not call her that. Ever! Paige would you like to dance with me?
Paige: Love to!
(Paige and Alex start dancing together while Jay glares at them.)
In the theatre lobby
Peter: Remind me to tell you how much I like your naughty side.
Emma: Consider yourself reminded.
(They start kissing, but stop when a janitor starts vacuuming the room.)
Peter: Let’s go!
(They move into the theatre.)
Emma: There’s somebody in here with us.
(They see Ms. Hatzilakos and Mr. Simpson making out.)
In the VIP party, Paige and Alex are dancing together as Kevin and Jason watch
Kevin: This is unbelievable! They’re upstaging us at our own premiere, these chicks! Why aren’t you and I out there doing some kind of erotically-charged dance routine?
Jason: We can man. Let’s do it!
Kevin: It was a rhetorical question.
Jason: Dude don’t call it rhetorical. That’s mean. You’re rhetorical.
(Everyone forms a circle around Alex and Paige dancing.)
In the lobby
Emma: I need to go in there and face them.
Peter: Don’t.
Emma: He’s married to my mother and he’s in the theatre necking with yours!
Peter: Running in there won’t fix anything.
Emma: How would you know?
Peter: Just do, okay? You don’t want to do anything until you’ve calmed down. You’ll regret it. Believe me.
Emma: I have to go.
At the VIP party
Paige: Ever feel drunk without drinking?
Alex: Is that when your shoes went AWOL?
Paige: They were pinchy. I’m gonna go get some water. I’ll go get you some. Hi!
(Jay walks past Paige and over to Alex.)
Jay: So this new lesbian thing you got going on…I like to watch.
Alex: I like to punch. Dream on.
Jay: Lexie. Lexie, come on. Why weren’t you this adventurous while we were dating? We could have had fun.
Alex: You’re disgusting.
Jay: Oh and you? Putting on a show for everyone? You know, what makes you think tonight is about you anyways?
Alex: It’s not. It’s about her.
Paige: Here.
Alex: Thank you. Let me walk you home
Paige: But my shoes…
Alex: Barefoot suits you and besides my place is on the way.
At Alex’s house
Alex: My mom and her boyfriend are home so just wait by the door.
Paige: But I’m thirsty. Can’t I just get a drink of water?
Alex: No. I’m grabbing shoes and then we’re out of here immediately.
Ms. Nunez: Lexie? Hey. Who’s your friend?
Alex: Never mind mom. Just grabbing shoes.
Paige: Hi Ms. Nunez. I’m Paige.
Ms. Nunez: Paige? The Paige? I feel like I’m in the presence of royalty. You know that Lexie never stops talking about you.
Paige: Really? Little ol’ me?
Alex: Mom! Where’s Chad?
Ms. Nunez: Oh he passed out hours ago. Come sit. Can I get you something darling?
Paige: Yeah diet anything. Please.
Alex: Paige we have to go.
Ms. Nunez: Would you hold your horses Lexie and just let the girl sit awhile. Oh be a good hostess and get her a drink okay?
Paige: Looks like the party’s just getting started Ms. Nunez.
Ms. Nunez: Please call my Emily.
Paige: Emily. Okay. So what was Lexie like as a girl?
Ms. Nunez: You know what? I can’t remember.
(They start laughing and Alex walks off angry.)
Ms. Nunez: I’m kidding. Lex, I’m kidding! I’m just kidding.
At Emma’s house, Emma is crying when Mr. Simpson walks in
Mr. Simpson: Emma! What’s, what’s going on?
Emma: I’m making tea again and crying again. I left something in the theatre so I went back in to get it and that’s when I saw you and her. Ms. Hatzilakos.
Mr. Simpson: What? We were just talking.
Emma: Snake I saw you kiss her.
Mr. Simpson: I don’t know what to say. It just sort of happened you know? It was such a mistake.
Emma: So you stick your tongue down the principal’s throat by accident?
Mr. Simpson: Emma quiet please. You’re gonna wake your mom.
Emma: But why? Did you think it would be fun? Did you get to the party and want to act like a teenager again? Just give me a reason dad! Please!
Mr. Simpson: You ever done something you weren’t supposed to with someone you weren’t supposed to be with? Emma, I’m so ashamed. I won’t blame you if you never want to speak to me again.
Emma: It’s not about me. It’s about mom and whether I’m going to tell her what I saw.
At Alex’s house
Paige: Your mom go to bed?
Alex: Yeah. She said to say goodnight.
Paige: She’s nice. Like mother, like daughter.
Alex: Tonight was good. You’re my lucky charm.
Paige: Tonight was good.
Alex: Paige. About before when we were dancing?
Paige: What about it? We were just having fun. No big deal right?
(They hear Alex’s mom and her boyfriend fighting.)
Alex: I’m walking you home now. Go!
Chad: Don’t ever call me stupid.
Ms. Nunez: Where are you going?
Chad: That’s it. I’m out of here.
Ms. Nunez: Chad no! Where are you going?
Alex: Will you stop it!
(Alex gets pushed into the coffee table and onto the ground.)
At Paige’s house
Paige: Will you hold still? I’m trying to help.
Alex: Being here in your room just helps. Its quiet. No screaming, no smashing.
Paige: Nobody should have to deal with drama of the shoved over the end table variety day in, day out.
Alex: Even me?
Paige: Especially you.
Alex: Paige I’m in trouble. This isn’t really related to any table collisions that happened tonight. It’s a different kind of trouble.
(Paige and Alex start kissing and Paige pulls back.)
Paige: Um okay…uh speaking of trouble or not trouble. Um, uh you take my bed and I’m gonna, I’m gonna sleep downstairs on the couch.
Alex: Paige!
Paige: Nighty night then.
Scenes for next week
Paige: (To the camera) I kissed a girl. Paige Michalchuk kissed a girl!
Voiceover: When Paige goes into denial…
Paige: (To Hazel) I’m not a lesbian, hello!
Voiceover: Kevin offers some advice.
Kevin: I don’t know. You guys seemed happy. It’s kind of worth investigating a little further I’d say.
Voiceover: And Paige isn’t the only one keeping secrets.
Mr. Simpson: (Talking to Spike and Emma) It’s about me. It’s something I did. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x11 - The Lexicon of Love"} | foreverdreaming |
At Paige’s house, Paige walks into her room and opens her blinds loudly waking Alex up
Alex: Who’s the evil genius who made mornings so friggen bright?
Paige: Oh probably the same evil genius who decided that there should be school days after crazy movie premieres.
Alex: Crazy? That’s the verb you’re gonna use to describe last night?
Paige: Adjective. And considering I voluntarily slept on the downstairs couch, crazy seems about right.
Alex: You didn’t have to sleep on the couch. You would have been safe in your room with me.
Paige: We’re gonna be late and I hate being late so you should uh, you should get ready. Now if I could just find my bus pass that would be absolutely brilliant
Alex: Paige.
Paige: You know the bus people should really just, just give an implant or a, or a tattoo and I could save-
Alex: Paige! Hey. I’m Alex, your friend. Can you just talk to me?
Paige: I can’t even begin to process what happened last night. Not with our little sister act slut dance or the drama with your mom’s boyfriend.
Alex: You call that drama? I call that reality TV.
Paige: It’s not funny. This is not funny. There is a girl in my bed, Alex. You! It’s like I woke up in some weird movie with subtitles. The kind of movie that I hate and I can’t deal with it, okay? I can’t deal with you.
Alex: Alright. I’m just gonna go rub some toothpaste on my teeth and then you can walk twenty paces ahead of me all the way to the bus stop.
In the gymnasium
Paige: Hi! Hi, hi. Sorry I’m late.
Hazel: Hey. What happened to you last night? You and Alex went in the VIP party and poof! You never came back out.
Paige: Um I’m not quite sure how to, how to describe what happened exactly.
Hazel: Why? Did you meet somebody? You did? Is he famous? Would I know who he is?
Paige: Famous no, but um you might know who he is.
Darcy: Sorry to interrupt. The assembly’s at four so we should really start rehearsing that new cheer. You know the thank you Kevin Smith assembly? The one that you’ve written the new cheer for. You have written it, right?
Paige: Sure hun. Um I have it all worked out in my head, so let’s meet back here at noon and I will have the most brilliant-est cheer typed up and ready for rehearsing.
Darcy: Okay. Great.
Outside the school
Spike: When you asked for a ride I thought you had something to tell me.
(Mr. Simpson rides up on his motorcycle.)
Emma: I can’t believe you let him keep that stupid motorbike.
Spike: Aw it’s harmless in a mid-life crisis sort of way. He looks happy.
Emma: Mom, be honest. He looks stupid. That bike was such a mistake.
Spike: Sometimes you have to let people make mistakes. That’s what love’s all about.
(Emma gets out of the car and walks right past Mr. Simpson.)
Mr. Simpson: Emma. Emma I know you hate me right now, not that I don’t deserve it.
Emma: For having an affair with the principal? I think you deserve just a drop of anger for that.
Mr. Simpson: It’s not an affair, alright? It stopped at kissing and I promise it’ll never ever happen again.
Emma: I have to get to class.
Spike: (Driving away honking) Bye guys.
(Emma walks into the school.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Morning Emma.
Emma: Don’t talk to me.
(Ms. Hatzilakos pauses and when Mr. Simpson walks in they give each other weird looks.)
In the media immersion classroom
Marco: Hey.
Paige: Can I ask you a teensy question? Do you ever think about girls?
Marco: Uh interesting question first thing in the morning. Now did you miss the years that I dated your brother?
Paige: But just because you’re gay doesn’t mean you can’t think about girls every now and then, right?
Marco: Are you trying to hook me up with someone? Oh wicked. That mean there’s a girl out there who likes me?
Paige: No. The object of female affection’s pretty much me.
Marco: You? Oh I know it! It’s Heather Sinclair. Paige I’ve seen the way she looks at you and-
Paige: Ew. Double ew. No. It’s not Heather Sinclair. Alex!
Alex: Hey.
Paige: Hi.
Marco: Hey pull up a chair. Hey you two still need to tell me about that VIP party last night!
Alex: I think I’m gonna sit over here today.
Marco: Oh. Oh. Paige it’s Alex?
Paige: She kissed me last night.
(The bell rings and Mr. Simpson walks into the room.)
Mr. Simpson: Morning class. As you know Kevin Smith will be visiting us today. I want you to take advantage of him being here. Prepare some smart media questions for him.
Alex: (In an IM) Could you deal with lunch?
Paige: (In an IM) SS practice. Sorry.
(Alex looks upset so Paige sends her another message.)
Paige: (In an IM) 2nd period spare—laneway?
In the alley
Jay: Waiting for someone?
Alex: Oh look! Here I am in an alley and a rat appears. Just like magic.
Jay: I found these under the table at the club. I thought maybe your new bestest girlfriend might want them back.
(Alex tries to take the shoes and Jay pulls them away.)
Alex: Just give me the shoes and go away.
Jay: First I want you to tell me what it is you think you could possibly have in common with a stuck up cheerleader.
Paige: Sorry I took so long.
(Paige walks over and Jay leaves.)
Paige: I seem to have interrupted fun time with Jay, which looked kind of hot.
Alex: No. In fact it’s been cancelled. Replaced with fun time with Paige.
Paige: Alex. We need to talk. This can’t happen. I’m not a…lesbian.
Alex: And you think I am?
Paige: Well you’re the one who kissed me.
Alex: What are you, five? And for the record you kissed me back.
Paige: I’m not even supposed to like people like you. People who, who wear black with navy and who hate everything and everyone.
Alex: I don’t hate you. Even if you are one of the popular idiots who drinks latte’s and reads stupid magazines and laughs way too loud.
Paige: I have to laugh when I’m around you. I can’t really help it.
Alex: And I have to be better when I’m around you. I can’t help it either.
(They lean in and start kissing while Jay watches them from the bushes.)
In front of the school
Jay: Need a couple hands for your poms?
Hazel: What do you want?
Jay: World peace, salami sub, and a chance to talk to my good friend Haz-e!
Hazel: We’re not friends.
Jay: So you don’t want to hear my news then? That Paige has gone the gay way.
Hazel: Excuse me?
Jay: You heard me. Yeah, I saw your friend and my ex doing some seriously sexy dancing last night.
Hazel: So? You need to get out more. Girls do that stuff all the time.
Jay: And I just saw Paige lay a big ol’ smooch on Alex. You trying to tell me that’s something that girls do all the time?
Hazel: I’m not getting involved in this.
Jay: Listen! Do you really think that Paige wants to end her distinguished high school career as the school lesbo?
Hazel: You’re being disgusting.
Jay: I’m being honest! And what about you huh? Are you looking forward to those inevitable rumours about you and Paige? Is that how you want to be remembered?
In the gymnasium, Paige is underneath a stunt while Darcy is topping
Hazel: Paige I need to speak to you now.
Paige: Kinda busy right now.
Hazel: I bet you’ll be even busier later…with her.
Darcy: Paige!
Paige: I got you. What are you talking about?
Hazel: I’m talking about Alex. What is she doing here? Is she like your girlfriend now?
(Paige is shocked and drops Darcy.)
Darcy: Don’t worry. I’m fine.
Paige: Who told you?
Hazel: Jay! Paige did you become a lesbian and not tell me?
Paige: No! No Hazel. I’m not a lesbian hello! Matt, Spinner…I’ve dated lots of guys.
Hazel: Well then how come Jay saw you kissing Alex?
Paige: Um I just got caught up in a moment.
Hazel: And that’s all?
(Alex starts walking over and overhears Paige.)
Paige: Of course. It was totally stupid. It meant nothing. She means nothing.
(Alex walks away angry and Paige runs out after her.)
Paige: Alex!
Alex: Don’t bother.
(Paige stops her.)
Alex: How could you?
Paige: I do not like girls. I cannot like girls!
Alex: Then why did you kiss me?
Paige: I don’t know. I felt bad. I didn’t want to hurt you.
Alex: Who needs your pity huh? I don’t.
(Alex walks away while Kevin and Jason are shown signing autographs and are shocked at what they just heard.)
Kevin: Well.
Paige: Oh um excuse me while I go uh flush my head down the toilet.
In the auditorium
Ms. Hatzilakos: We’re ready to begin. Can I have everyone’s attention please? Can everyone-
(She bangs on the podium and everyone settles down.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Can I have everyone’s attention? Please grab your seats. We’re gonna begin now. Thank you. At this time last year Degrassi was struggling out of an awful tragedy and then came Kevin Smith.
(Everyone cheers.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: He cast our school as the backdrop for his movie Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian Eh? and as a token of our gratitude, Mr. Smith, I would like to present you with an honorary diploma.
(He stands up to get it.)
Kevin: Noo. Thank you.
Ms. Hatzilakos: But before we make it completely official our spirit squad would like to send you on your way in style. Paige?
Darcy: What are we gonna do?
Paige: I haven’t come up with anything.
Hazel: Just improvise.
Paige: Okay. Uh…go. Just cartwheels okay?
Paige: Give me a K.
Darcy: K!
Paige: Give me an E.
Jason: E!
Paige: Give me a V-I-N-S-M-I-T-H. Yay!
(Paige runs out of the gym and Kevin starts clapping hesitantly.)
Kevin: Uh…
At Emma’s house, Spike feels Emma’s forehead
Emma: Mom! I’m fine.
Spike: Don’t seem fine to me little girl.
Mr. Simpson: Buenos Dias senoritas!
Spike: That’s not your motorcycle helmet. Where’s all the Kevlar?
Mr. Simpson: I sold it! The motorbike, the helmet, the works because uh we’re going to Mexico! You, me, Emma and Manny will be spending a week on the Mayan Riviera at the end of term.
Spike: What about Jack?
Mr. Simpson: Oh, the grandmas already fighting for him. It’s all been taken care of.
Spike: I love you so much! I don’t deserve such a perfect husband!
Emma: Stop it! Just stop it!
Spike: Emma. What is it sweetheart? Tell me what’s wrong!
Mr. Simpson: It’s about me. It’s something I did.
At Alex’s apartment building, Jay is sitting outside
Alex: Why is it that every time I turn a corner there you are.
Jay: I’m like one of those annoying pop songs. Once I get stuck in your head I’m impossible to get rid of.
Alex: What do you want Jay? Really.
Jay: My life sucks, okay? I’m kicked out of school, Sean moved away, Spinner’s found the lord and the only person who ever really got me won’t even give me the time of day. I’m not perfect. I know that, but I get you, you know? The real you ‘cause you and me we’re the same…you know? Why do you want to fight that?
(She opens up the door and they both walk in.)
In the gymnasium, Kevin and Jason are playing basketball and Kevin won
Kevin: Don’t hate the playa son, hate the game. Know what I’m saying? Oh Ms. Michalchuk! Want to sh**t some horse with us or are you running off to a spelling bee or something like that?
Paige: Uh about the cheer…please know that I’ve composed more cheery before.
Kevin: Nobody’s ever done a cheer in my honour so by default your cheer for me was about the best I’ve ever had, so thank you.
Paige: I was kinda distracted.
Kevin: Distracted, huh? Let me guess. By some kind of acid tongue, raven haired beauty from the wrong side of tracks, maybe?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Kevin. Jason. Listen, your taxi’s here.
Kevin: Thank you Ms. Hatzilakos.
Kevin: Let me ask you a question, you like this girl? Like you know, like her, like her?
Paige: Yeah I like her, but I’m not gay. My brother is gay. I’m straight. I always have been.
Kevin: Your brother is gay? My brother is gay too! Even got married to a guy.
Paige: Really?
Kevin: Yeah it was the hottest wedding I’d ever been to in my life. Really, really cool. Hands down. Almost made me want to switch teams. Almost. Look I’m probably the last guy in the world who should be giving you advice on this very subject, but I don’t know you guys seemed happy the other night and that’s kind of rare and whether it’s gay, straight, bi, whatever…it’s kind of worth investigating a little further I’d say. Just my two cents. You just gonna stand there staring at me after I’ve dropped that wisdom on you? Come on that’s your move. Go chase the girl, silly!
At Emma’s house
Mr. Simpson: It was a mistake. It was just a kiss!
Spike: What about Emma? What about her feelings?
Mr. Simpson: Look, believe me it was never my intentions to involve her in this!
Spike: Just go!
Mr. Simpson: I’m so sorry Emma, but um, I’m gonna go stay at Joey’s just for a while.
Emma: No! No you can’t. Go up there and convince her to let you stay!
Mr. Simpson: Emma, listen. What I did was horrible, but I would never have done it if there wasn’t something wrong with me. I’ve got to go figure it out.
Emma: Do you love my mother?
Mr. Simpson: Of course.
Emma: And Jack?
Mr. Simpson: Em, he’s my son.
Emma: What about me?
Mr. Simpson: You know I do.
Emma: So what’s to figure out?!
(He leaves as Emma sits on the couch crying.)
At Alex’s house
Jay: This is nice huh? Just like old times.
Alex: I said you could come in and watch TV Jay. That’s all. This doesn’t mean anything.
Jay: Yeah. Sure Lexie. Whatever you say!
(Alex’s mother and her boyfriend walk in.)
Jay: Chad!
Chad: Hey!
Jay: It’s been a long time. You been working hard?
Chad: Hardly working. Where you at bud?
Jay: Oh you know here and there. Just trying to keep myself out of trouble.
Ms. Nunez: Give me some sugar you handsome devil. Hello!
Jay: Look at you. You are looking as beautiful as ever Emily.
Ms. Nunez: Aw such a charmer. I always knew this one was a keeper Lexie. Sort of reminds me of old Chad here. I am so glad you finally came to your senses and took Jay back baby.
Alex: I haven’t taken him back.
Jay: Well not yet.
(He puts his arm around Alex and she pushes it off.)
Alex: No! Not ever. I need some air.
(Alex walks outside and sees Paige standing there.)
Paige: I’ve been trying to work up the nerve to ring the doorbell.
Alex: We don’t have one. Welcome to my world.
Paige: Any room in it for a stupid girl?
Alex: I already have one of those.
Paige: Well how about room for someone who’s ready to stop worrying so much about what other people think?
Alex: There might be room for her.
Paige: Alex I’m sorry about before, what I said.
Alex: Whatever Paige. It’s cool.
Paige: No, it’s not. I said you were nothing to me, which…which is a total lie because right now you’re pretty much everything.
(They clasp hands smiling.)
Scenes for next week
Craig: (To the camera) Nobody breaks up this band. It’s all of us or nothing.
Voiceover: Sometimes dreams come true.
Manager: I’d like to manage you.
Craig: A real music industry manager has signed us!
Voiceover: But some dreams carry a heavy price tag.
Manager: (To Ellie) Honey you’re not cut out for us
Voiceover: In more ways than one.
(Craig is shown holding pamphlets and talking to Joey and Diane.)
Craig: I got early acceptance and a full scholarship. My future is music. I’m not gonna give this up. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x12 - The Lexicon of Love Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
In Craig’s garage, Craig is strumming his guitar and Ellie is sitting on the couch
Craig: Porsche 911 Carrera, f*re engine red, full leather interior. That’s what I’d buy.
Ellie: Wow. That is so 80s.
Craig: What?
Ellie: Flip those collars up Mr. Manning.
Craig: Okay so what are you gonna buy after we’re discovered at the Northern Sound Showcase?
Ellie: I guess I’d invest the money, buy a condo or…
Craig: That’s…no.
Ellie: …a smart car or both. I could get both!
(He pretends to yawn and she smacks him, so he smacks her back.)
Ellie: Stop.
(She hits him back, he hits her back again and they do this a few times.)
Craig: Don’t. Stop doing that.
(He starts tickling her and they’re both laughing.)
Ellie: Stop! Stop!
(Joey walks in on them.)
Joey: Craig. Manny’s on the phone for you.
Craig: Tell her I’m studying.
Joey: Doesn’t look like studying.
Craig: Thanks mom.
(He leaves and Ellie picks up a notebook.)
Ellie: Speaking of studying someone’s supposed to be preparing for his history presentation.
Craig: Who cares? Now the showcase is in two days so drop that book and grab those sticks, ‘cause no matter what we’re gonna win this thing.
In history class
Craig: There was this part of France and Germany wanted it back, so they uh crossed the border…
History teacher: And they took this detour because?
Craig: Because? Well simple…um see it’s right here, um after that one guy k*lled that Archduke. Uh.
Ellie: (Whispering) Franz Ferdinand. (Pretending to cough) Franz Ferdinand!
History teacher: Ellie. Gesundheit.
Ellie: Thanks.
Craig: Europe’s treaties were all messed up and Germany took advantage of it.
At a student council meeting
Toby: So Liberty and I are gonna represent Degrassi at the Metro Toronto Students Assembly.
Liberty: But we need your input so e-mail us your thoughts and we’ll compile them. Meeting adjourned.
Toby: So how are you getting to the assembly? ‘Cause I was thinking that if you need a lift JT could drive you.
Liberty: Toby. You know I don’t talk to JT.
Toby: Yeah, but I wish you would ‘cause this sucks okay? I mean I’m friends with both of you.
Liberty: Well I’ve got enough on my plate without worrying about that.
Toby: How’s that going anyway? With the baby I mean.
Liberty: My doctor told me to take it easier, for the baby. He says I’m overstressed, but I think I’m fine.
Toby: Well I’m here to help, student council, whatever and not just ‘cause I’m your vice okay?
Outside the dot
Toby: She’s fine. She’s stressed, but you know her doctor told her to take it easy for the kid.
JT: What? The baby’s in danger?
Toby: I didn’t, I didn’t say that.
JT: Well is Liberty in danger?
Toby: Look calm down. Liberty’s fine. I’ll make sure she takes it easy.
JT: Good. So will I.
Toby: JT, if Liberty finds out we’ve been having these little meetings I’m d*ad. m*rder.
JT: Sorry, but I have to do something okay? What other choice do I have?
At the Dot
Jimmy: And thus Craig fails history.
Manny: My poor baby.
Craig: It’s one grade. So what?
Marco: Um university. Um getting into university. Um your life.
Craig: Yeah breath Marco. They’ve already submitted our grades. Anyway who actually wants to go? Really!
(Marco and Jimmy put up their hands.)
Craig: Okay. Besides the two of you.
Marco: Hi. I’m Ellie Nash, future journalism school student and roving reporter.
Ellie: And you’re so annoying.
Jimmy: So Ellie you’re uh, you’re really taking next year off to like follow Craig around or whatever?
Craig: No. She, and we, are gonna spend it cutting our first album after we’re discovered at Northern Sound Showcase. That way no use wasting the next four years on some useless BA, which is worth an F.
(Spinner walks over with their bill and pulls a CD out of his pocket.)
Jimmy: Gavin. What’s this little number? Is this a, this a copy of you and Darcy singing Jesus Loves Me?
Spinner: No. That’s Money Money. Our dishwasher’s their lead guitarist and they are your competition at the Northern Sound Showcase and they’re good.
At the Northern Sound Showcase
(The band is performing their song and everyone is cheering for them while a guy watches them intensely from the crowd. Then Money Money performs and everyone cheers for them.)
Manny: Okay. Okay they’re good, but their ties make me want to strangle them.
Leo: Cute girl’s got a point. Leo Davies.
Craig: Hey I’m Craig. This is…
Leo: Gotcha. So good show tonight. I liked the song, loved the vocals.
Craig: Thanks. It’s too bad Money Money blew us off the stage.
Leo: They’re good, but their sound’s been played. So has their look. No depth.
Craig: So we’ve got depth?
Leo: Definitely. The band’s a little rough.
Ellie: Yeah, not so coordinated here.
Leo: Yeah, but it worked. I liked it and I’d like to manage you.
At Joey’s house, Joey and Diane are watching TV, until Craig and Manny come in and Craig turns it off
Joey: Uh Craig! Dancing with the Stars is on.
Craig: A manager. Okay, a real music industry manager has signed us tonight.
Joey: That’s amazing Craig. Wow!
Craig: Yeah um Leo is gonna work with us to sharpen our sound. He’s gonna introduce us to A&R Record Company. Tomorrow we have a photo sh**t set up!
Joey: That is amazing buddy, and uh well speaking of potentially amazing news this letter arrived for you today, from U of T.
(He opens it up.)
Craig: Oh wow. Uh I got, I got early acceptance, um and a full scholarship.
Joey: What?! Oh Craig that is awesome. Congratulations buddy. Oh we are so proud of you!
Manny: Craig! Summer with your band, free university in the fall. You are totally set.
Craig: Yeah. Okay…hold on. This is, this is so great and everything, but um I don’t know if for sure I can do this. I mean I have to talk to Leo first.
Joey: Okay Craig. Look I know you’re excited okay, but this is school. This is your future.
Craig: My future’s music. I’m not gonna give this up. Sorry. This is the opportunity of a lifetime.
At the photo sh**t, the band is getting their pictures taken
Leo: This ain’t working for me. Uh Marco step over here.
Marco: Okay.
Leo: And uh Jimmy scoot over here beside Marco.
Ellie: Um wait isn’t he blocking my drums?
Leo: You’re a chick on sticks. You can sell it from back there.
(Ellie moves to the back upset.)
Leo: Thanks. Craig I need you to step forward, forward. There. Good. Okay?
Craig: Uh Leo?
Leo: Yeah.
Craig: I’m kind of about the band.
Leo: Dude this is different. See now the band is about you.
(A picture is taken with Craig really close and the other 3 in the background.)
At the Dot, Ellie walks in
Craig: Hey. Leo said he’s running late.
(Ellie sits at a different table than the guys.)
Craig: Uh El?
Ellie: Chick on sticks is gonna sell it from over here, yo.
(Leo walks in and sits down.)
Leo: Okay. So Northern Sound Showcase always asks back a few bands for their final night. This year they’ve asked back Money Money, The Aunt Selma’s and Downtown Sasquatch!
Craig: You’re serious?
Leo: Plus one of the execs is inviting his favourite band out to Vancouver to cut a demo with Jakolope, which is huge.
Ellie: Wait. So if this record guy likes us we spend the summer in Vancouver?
Leo: Guys this would happen next week. You’d be on a flight on Sunday night.
Jimmy: For how long?
Leo: As long as it takes. Weeks, months.
Marco: Wait. What about school? We have exams, papers. We’ll screw up our entire year.
Leo: So? This is a one sh*t deal. It’s more important than school. Guys don’t worry about this stuff. Worry about polishing your sound. It’s a little rough.
Ellie: Oh, but rough’s part of our charm.
Leo: Rough’s gonna hold you back, especially around the drumming.
Craig: Leo, we’ll be fine. She’ll be fine. You have my word on it.
In Craig’s garage
Craig: Okay I thought we’d go through the song from start to finish, just drums.
Ellie: Craig this is a hopeless cause. I’m not a good drummer.
Craig: Okay we have no time for negativity. Okay, let’s just focus here.
Ellie: Okay.
(She starts playing and Craig is sitting behind her with his arms around her.)
Ellie: That better?
Craig: That’s perfect. Just keep going.
(Manny walks in and sees Craig and Ellie and they stop.)
Craig: We got a gig at the showcase. Another one. The band gets…
Manny: The band? The band, the band is all you care about.
Craig: This showcase matters Manny.
Manny: Right now it looks like the only thing that matters is Ellie!
(She runs out and Craig calls after her.)
Craig: Manny! Manny.
At Degrassi
Ms. Hatzilakos: Liberty I was wondering if you were still here.
Liberty: Oh we’re just finishing up.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Listen it came to my attention…well let me rephrase that. I’m concerned about you Liberty. Your baby is due soon, you’ve been working awfully hard and you just seem stressed.
Liberty: Stressed? Uh, and uh what would give you that idea?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well with all due respect, I think that you should step aside and you should let Toby go alone to the assembly.
Liberty: Ms. Hatzilakos is this because you don’t want a pregnant student representing the school?
Ms. Hatzilakos: No Liberty. It’s because I want to make sure that you get the rest that you need.
(She leaves.)
Liberty: Uh Toby. You didn’t talk to her right?
Toby: Me? No, no, no, no. I was just, um oh my look at the time. I have to get the materials ready for the assembly. Chop, chop!
In Craig’s garage, the band is rehearsing their song while Leo and Manny watch
Leo: Well it’s better. Better, but it’s not good. See a rough sound is one thing, but your drummer can’t keep time.
Craig: We’ve worked on that.
Leo: You shouldn’t have to. There are a lot of great drummers in this town.
Ellie: Mr. Davies please. I’m new, but I’m dedicated. I’ll practice all night.
Leo: Honey you’re not cut out for this. Just like I’m not cut out to fly airplanes. Dems the breaks.
Craig: Toronto has a lot of great singers too.
(He leaves and Manny walks over to Craig.)
In Craig’s house
(Craig fills out the acceptance letter for U of T.)
Outside the school
Liberty: Et tu, Toby? So, you use my pregnancy to stage a coup de ta? Nice.
Toby: Liberty that’s not what happened.
Liberty: Really? Then uh who went to Ms. Hatzilakos, hmm?
Toby: Okay it was me. I’m the blabber. Toby, the blabber, Isaacs. That’s me, but um Liberty if I was pregnant and you know my doctor told me to slow down, it’s what I’d be doing right now.
Liberty: Yeah. Whatever Tobes. I’m going to the assembly and you’re driving me.
(Toby starts driving and the car starts breaking down.)
Liberty: Uh this isn’t Carson Hill.
Toby: Yeah I know. My Bubbe’s car doesn’t seem to get that.
Liberty: I’m calling a cab. Don’t expect a ride because traitors have to walk.
Toby: I’m not a traitor.
Liberty: You attempted to oust me for my presidency. You, traitorous you.
Toby: Look I don’t want your stupid job.
Liberty: So why blab to Hatzilakos?
Toby: I didn’t. I blabbed to JT and JT blabbed to Hatzilakos because this whole time I’ve been trying to help him keep up with you, while at the same time help you get ready for this stupid conference. But the only person I helped was myself achieve insanity. Come on!
Liberty: There’s a reason I don’t tell JT about any of this. He…
(She stops and looks down.)
Toby: Liberty?
Liberty: Oh that’s disgusting.
Toby: What? What, why is there water on the floor?
Liberty: Toby it’s time.
Toby: Time? Time? What time? Time for- No! Not here! Not in my Bubbe’s car!
Toby: Dial 911, but don’t make a big deal about it.
(The ambulance arrives and they take Liberty away in a stretcher.)
Liberty: Toby I’m sorry.
Toby: It’s okay. You’re gonna be fine. Don’t worry.
Liberty: But the assembly!
Toby: It doesn’t matter okay?
(The ambulance drives away as Toby stares after it.)
In Craig’s garage, Craig is playing his guitar
Ellie: New song? I like it, just like that. You know it doesn’t even need lyrics.
Craig: It’s not really a song then, is it?
Ellie: Sometimes you don’t need all the extra stuff. Sometimes simpler is better.
Craig: I’m not a solo act.
Ellie: But you could be.
Craig: I don’t care. This isn’t about me. This is about the band. Ellie we were gonna do this together. Cut our own album, sold out shows, a Juno, a Grammy…
Ellie: Craig, I can’t drum.
Craig: Yes, you can!
Ellie: No, I can’t and Marco’s not much better on bass and Jimmy wants to paint. Leo, god face it, he only wanted you. We were just excess baggage. Craig I really think you should go to the showcase tonight just like this. You and your guitar. I really think you could win.
Craig: Okay let’s say I do play at the showcase and I do win. That means leaving. What about Manny or Joey or Angie?
Ellie: Don’t worry about them. They’ll manage. They’ll be fine.
Craig: What about you?
Ellie: I’ll wave goodbye ‘cause I have to. Craig. Go to that club and knock them d*ad. For all of us.
At the showcase
Announcer: Everyone welcome to the stage Downtown Sasquatch, Craig Manning!
Craig: (Singing) Today is long. Flight and song, but I don’t even listen. Blue bird hides. Piece of night. I don’t even try.
At the hospital, Liberty is holding the baby
Toby: The adoption counsellor’s in the hall. She’s talking to your parents.
(JT walks in and Liberty hands the baby away to a couple.)
Craig: (Singing in the background) Every mama gone missing. Every papa gone mad. I take a chance.
Back at the showcase
Craig: (Singing) It’s not romance, but something more important. So give me wings. Let me sing. It’s all been done before. For any girl that’s unhappy. For any boy that is bad. Every mama gone missing. Every papa gone mad.
(A flashback to Manny and Craig kissing. Then Craig is shown saying goodbye to Jimmy, Marco and Ellie. Finally he is shown sitting in the passenger seat of Joey’s car with Manny in the backseat.)
Next week, or next couple weeks…
Voiceover: The kids of Degrassi sure have grown up fast. So this Christmas, let’s remember those classic episodes that made them international stars. We’ve got some of your favourite unforgettable episodes that will keep you wanting more. A holiday special you don’t want to miss. This Christmas spend some quality time with the g*ng. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x13 - Together Forever"} | foreverdreaming |
At the school carnival, Spinner is sitting in a dunk t*nk
Spinner: Come on Degrassi and dunk the dork!
Linus: Hey. Wanna try your luck? It’s only a buck a ball.
Jimmy: You’re telling me I get to throw balls at him for charity?
Linus: Yeah. Come on why not?
Jimmy: Okay. I’ll uh, try my luck. Here’s 5. Thank you.
Linus: Yup.
Spinner: Show me what you got Jimmy.
(Jimmy throws the ball and dunks Spinner.)
Spinner: Yes! First time today.
Jimmy: Won’t be the last.
(Jimmy dunks him three more times in a row.)
Jimmy: Wow. That was fun. I’m in a charitable mood so how about 10 more?
Linus: I think Spinner needs a break.
Jimmy: I think Gavin is fine okay? I’m just warming up.
Marco: No, Jim look. He’s freezing. I know you hate the guy okay, but today just cut him some slack.
Jimmy: Fine whatever.
(Jimmy leaves and Darcy puts a towel around Spinner.)
Spinner: Thanks man. Saved my butt.
Marco: Later Spinner.
Later at the carnival, Paige and Alex are walking by Spinner
Spinner: Girls could I interest you in this interesting pamphlet about Jesus?
Paige: Um Spinner may I suggest methadone to uh kick the Christian habit?
Spinner: It’s not a habit Paige. It’s for life and beyond.
At the weight guessing booth, Danny is guessing Manny’s weight
Danny: Ouch, your shoes and your purse. Say 140?
Manny: Maybe if I was carrying an entire 8 year old!
Danny: Sign says guess. I guessed!
Manny: Derek your friend’s an idiot.
Derek: I’m aware.
Emma: So how miniscule are you?
Manny: Don’t ask.
(Manny tries to take a brownie from Emma and Emma stops her.)
Emma: Hey! These are for mom!
Manny: Darn you and your whole make Spike feel better campaign.
Emma: Today I need all the help I can get. It was supposed to be her third wedding anniversary, but I’ve got a surprise later that’s really gonna make her happy.
Manny: Male strippers dropping it like it’s hot? Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Emma: Okay I think removing you from public is a good idea for us all.
In another area of the carnival
Marco: Safer sex seminar?
Ellie: Safer sex? Here you go.
Marco: Safer sex! Oh hey Toby safer sex seminar. Check it out. We’re giving out free condoms.
Toby: Ooh!
Marco: Exactly.
Toby: I’m in.
Marco: Safer sex! Cool.
Ellie: Okay I cannot believe Friendship Club brainwashed Spinner.
Jimmy: There’s not much brain to wash.
Marco: Guys they don’t brainwash. They’re too busy singing and praying and stuff.
Ellie: Tomato, tamoto. Religion is so boring and lame.
Marco: Uh hello, Catholic over here.
Ellie: Um Marco you’re gay.
Marco: And therefore I can’t be Christian?
Ellie: All I’m saying is the church…not too big on the gays.
Marco: Well things are gonna change. It just, it takes time.
Ellie: Whatevsky.
In the hallway
Kim: We just made $860 and it’s all thanks to you Spin.
Darcy: This is gonna put food in a lot of hungry mouths. You so rock!
(She kisses him.)
Linus: Let your light shine before men, that they may they see your good deeds. Matthew 5:16. I’m proud of you Spin.
Spinner: All I had to do was get wet. That’s a really small price to pay to help starving kids.
Linus: Still you did a great thing for charity and you made Friendship Club look good. You’re the man. Hey, call you later.
Spinner: Alright.
(Spinner sees Marco sitting by himself.)
Spinner: Hey. Hope you don’t mind me asking, but um what are you doing sitting here like little boy blue. I mean where are all your people?
Marco: Well Jimmy and Ellie are doing this art thing like 24/7. Paige and Alex…Paige and Alex have morphed into uh Palex, and Craig’s in Vancouver pursuing fame and fortune, and I’m here pursuing boredom.
Spinner: Sucks man. Um listen if you want to we could possibly, maybe hang out…or not. You know whatever.
Marco: Hey. You still like stupid movies?
Spinner: Dude, the stupider, the better.
At Emma’s house, Spike is vacuuming
Emma: Come on mom, a little less vacuum, a little more happy.
Manny: Brownies. They’re happy making.
Spike: Not that I don’t appreciate the effort, but I’m fine. Really.
Emma: You want effort? Go open the door.
(Spike goes to the door and sees Caitlin.)
Caitlin: Surprise!
Spike: Caitlin!
Caitlin: All the way from LA darling!
Spike: You little sneak. You didn’t tell me she was coming!
Emma: Well where’s the surprise in that?
At the movie theatres
Marco: I can’t believe we just paid money to see that movie.
Spinner: What? Clown Academy 2 rocked man! I mean you got sexy clowns, car chases, expl*sive diarrhoea. What more could you want in a movie?
Marco: Well it’s good to see your taste in movies haven’t changed.
Spinner: Well it’s good to see your taste in fashion hasn’t changed. Does the gay superhero know you took his belt?
Marco: Man you have not changed at all, except for the hair and uh thank god for that.
Spinner: Funny.
Marco: So Spinner. Okay I have to ask you something. Friendship Club. Now what is the deal with that?
Spinner: Alright. Beginning of the year, my old friends didn’t want to know my name, but Friendship Club welcomed me with open arms. They…they’re like a family.
Marco: It must have sucked for you. The whole g*ng just shunning you all year.
Spinner: It’s water over the bridge man. Besides I’m not complaining as long as you and I are cool.
Marco: Right. We’re cool.
At Emma’s house
Spike: Thanks for the visit. It helps.
Caitlin: So how are you? For real. What’s going on with you and Snake?
Spike: Well I’m not gonna wait around while he contemplates his navel, trying to figure out the meaning of life. Here’s to moving on.
Caitlin: To moving on and to the best non-anniversary party ever.
Spike: My best friend, my girls, brownies, wine. What more could I ask for?
Manny: A buff guy in a g-string dropping it like it’s hot?
Mr. Simpson: Hello? Anybody home? Caitlin! Hey. Nice of LA to send us up some sunshine.
Caitlin: Hi Archie.
Spike: You can’t just barge in here anytime.
Mr. Simpson: I’m sorry. It’s just um I ordered this for you a month ago for our…you know. I thought maybe you should have it. I’ll just, I’ll leave this here.
(He leaves awkwardly and Spike opens the box.)
Spike: Sapphire. My birth stone. It’s perfect. It’s absolutely perfect.
(She dumps it in the garbage can.)
Emma: Perfect.
At a Friendship Club meeting
Linus: Hey I want to thank you all for coming in so early this morning, but um we have a serious issue at hand. I’m disgusted that the school would let Marco Del Rossi run this.
Darcy: But the school promotes safer sex.
Kim: Please. Everyone knows safer sex is just code for promiscuous sex.
Linus: Just say yes to safer sex. What is this? There’s no mention of abstinence at all.
Spinner: Yeah, but isn’t there like freedom of speech or whatever?
Linus: You’re right. There is. He’s free to talk about immoral sex and we’re free to try and stop him.
Spinner: Okay look Marco, he’s a friend of mine.
Linus: And that’s why we’ve nominated you to talk him into calling this off.
Spinner: Who’s we?
Darcy: I didn’t vote for this. I thought this club was about tolerance and respect. Oh what about love your neighbour as yourself?
Linus: We believe that, but we also believe in abstinence and condoms make kids have sex. Darcy this seminar goes against our values. Okay we have to stop it and Spinner’s our man.
Spinner: Don’t be so sure. Marco will freak.
Linus: Look are you with us or not?
At Emma’s house
Caitlin: Morning fellow members of the worst cheer up squad ever.
Emma: Where’s our victim?
Caitlin: She went to the salon early, probably to swallow dye, but I’m brainstorming on how to give the cheer up squad a major comeback.
Manny: (Whispers to Emma) Male stripper!
Caitlin: So far I’ve got uh girl movie marathon, craft night, face painting and cotton candy.
(The girls say nothing.)
Caitlin: Yeah I know. I got nothing.
Manny: I’ve got an idea. How about we get a male stripper?
Emma: Will you shut up already?
Caitlin: There’s no way she could keep a straight face through that. That’s a great idea!
Emma: Great idea?
Caitlin: Get me the yellow pages and the phone. We are having a party. Woo!
Manny: Woo!
Caitlin: Oh yes!
At school
Spinner: Uh I need to talk to you about something. Do you have a sec?
Marco: Nah Spin. Now’s not a good time.
Spinner: Okay, but just this seminar you think maybe it’s a bit much?
Marco: What exactly is a bit much?
Spinner: Man you guys are giving out condoms.
Marco: Yeah we’re promoting safer sex.
Spinner: Don’t do it.
Marco: Excuse me?
Spinner: Just cancel the seminar okay?
Marco: What? Spin give me, give me one good reason why.
Spinner: Condoms make kids have sex.
Marco: Oh wow. Well that’s ret*rd. Where’d you get that from huh? Some stupid pamphlet?
Spinner: I didn’t want to get nasty, but what you’re doing is immoral Marco!
Marco: Who the hell are you to say that Spin?
Spinner: Dude it’s in the bible. This is wrong okay? This is sin.
Marco: Wow. Jimmy was so right. I should have never given you a second chance.
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ office
Ms. Hazilakos: Right. I approved the event so what’s the problem?
Spinner: They’re giving out condoms Ms. H. It’s gonna make kids run out and have sex.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Giving out condoms does not make kids have sex. You two are aware that some teenagers have sex?
Linus: And some don’t. We believe in abstinence.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well not every teenager does. We had a gonorrhoea outbreak in the school last year so if giving out condoms helps avoid it, then I’m all for it.
Spinner: Ms. Hatzilakos please cancel this thing. It’s, it’s wrong.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I’m afraid we don’t see eye to eye and I’m not cancelling it.
Spinner: I thought you were a good Christian.
Ms. Hatzilakos: You’re on very thin ice right now Gavin. Don’t make me regret letting you back into this school.
In a classroom
Marco: (On the TV announcements) Hey everybody. Just wanted to remind you that the safer sex seminar will be held today after school in the gym so if you have any questions about safer sex…
Spinner: I tried to stop him. I really did. So much for helping you.
Linus: Spinner this isn’t about helping me. Okay it’s about right and wrong. What do you think Ms. Hatzilakos would do if we went on there and told everyone what we believed? Ms. Anti-Christian.
Spinner: It’s like we’re the bad guys.
Linus: The system is against us
Spinner: Well I’m sick of it.
Linus: That’s the spirit bro. We’ve got to take this school back. Make it safe for the normal people.
In the library
Darcy: No sex is safe sex?
Spinner: Yup. We’re fighting back, me and Linus.
Darcy: It’s a bit extreme don’t you think?
Spinner: So you want Marco giving out condoms?
Darcy: No. Not really, but he has the right to.
Spinner: Yeah that’s what Ms. Hatzilakos said.
Darcy: So…
Spinner: So I don’t answer to her okay? I answer to someone a lot higher.
Darcy: Who? Linus? Have you ever listened to Linus? I mean really listened to him? He’s got a lot of views that are-
Spinner: You know maybe you should just stay out of this okay?!
Darcy: Fine.
(She leaves and Spinner is about to go after her when Linus walks in.)
Linus: Woah. Seminar’s starting. You ready?
Spinner: Yeah I’m ready.
At the seminar
Spinner: Abstinence equals safe sex.
Marco: What are you doing? Are you out of your mind? What are you doing here with signs?
Spinner: We have the right to protest.
Paige: Like you have the faintest idea what you’re protesting.
Tim: We’re just trying to educate people.
Linus: You’re promoting promiscuity.
Alex: You’re promoting stupidity.
Ellie: You think it’s better that people have unwanted babies?
Linus: I think it’s better if people don’t have sex unless they’re married.
Marco: Stop. Look just leave us alone. Go home, go to church, do whatever!
Linus: Why don’t you try going to church?
Marco: I do. Every Sunday.
(Marco shows him his necklace.)
Linus: They let you in?
Marco: What’s that supposed to mean?
Linus: I think you know exactly what it means. The bible’s clear about sexual deviancy.
Marco: What?! Who is this bigoted freak?!
Linus: So I’m a freak? It’s better than being a h*m*.
Spinner: Woah guys. Take it easy.
Marco: No Spinner shut up. You and your friend just go to hell.
Linus: So we can visit you f*g?
(Marco starts beating Linus and Tim and Spinner pull him off.)
Linus: Don’t let them corrupt you Spinner. It’s what they do.
Spinner: Linus if I were you I would start walking now.
(Linus leaves and then Marco storms out.)
At Spike’s party
Liz: What’s the surprise?
Spike: With Caitlin in charge who knows? It’ll be elegant anyway.
Caitlin: Dinner is served!
(The male strippers come in.)
Spike: This is outrageous.
Manny: Try the dynamite balls.
Emma: I hear they’re dynamite.
Caitlin: I hope everybody’s hungry because food is their specialty.
(A stripper starts taking off his clothes and Spike notices his resemblance to Snake.)
Stripper: Sorry. You don’t like chocolate?
Spike: No I love chocolate. You just look like somebody…my husband.
(Spike starts crying.)
At the Dot
Spinner: There. It’s on the house for still having anything to do with me.
Darcy: I’m getting used to forgiving you.
Spinner: If only my best friend could see it like that.
Darcy: You should go over there.
Spinner: It’s like walking into the lion’s den.
Darcy: Come on Spin. What have you got to lose?
Spinner: Uh Marco. I just wanted you to know I am never talking to Linus again. K either he is out of the Friendship Club or I am.
Marco: Spin you do whatever you want ‘cause really I couldn’t care less about you and your stupid club.
Spinner: I’m not like him okay?
Ellie: Spinner this is not the time.
Spinner: It’s never going to be the time.
Jimmy: You got that right.
Spinner: Jimmy shut up. Marco I am not h*m*. You know that! Okay all I ever wanted to do was be your friend again. I screwed it up okay and I am really, really sorry.
At Emma’s house
Spike: I feel terrible.
Caitlin: In this case terrible is good. Well you said you and Snake are over. You need to start dealing with that.
Spike: I can’t.
Caitlin: You don’t have a choice hon. You said the relationship is over.
Spike: Not for me. Caitlin I’m still in love with him.
(Emma overhears and Spike starts crying again.)
Outside the Dot
Marco: Spinner. You really are lost, aren’t you?
Spinner: You have no idea.
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At Emma’s house
Spike: You guys are on your own for breakfast.
Emma: And lunch and supper and every meal after that.
Spike: We count on you Em. I count on you.
Emma: And what a super job I’m doing.
Spike: You are. Look I gotta go or I’ll be late getting Jack to daycare.
Emma: Snake called again.
Spike: How nice for him.
(Spike leaves and Manny walks upstairs.)
Manny: I am so fat!
Emma: Don’t even talk about fat. I’m the fat one in this house. All this fast food, no wonder I’ve gained all this weight.
Manny: Tell me about it. I have a meeting with Bernice Fein on Friday and I can’t even fit into my lucky jeans!
Emma: ‘Dump the lumps’ Bernice Fein, as in the agent from hell?
Manny: If she’s Satan, then that explains why she’s best agent in town. She called because she saw me in the Kevin Smith movie. Wants to audition me again. Crisis down here!
(Manny’s on the floor trying to get her jeans on.)
Emma: Look around you. Crisis is actually an epidemic.
Manny: My thighs are an epidemic and they’re taking over the world.
Emma: We are going to take control. I am going to take control.
In Mr. Armstrong’s class
Emma: Manny!
(She shows Manny a chart she made.)
Manny: Pie charts? We’ve done pie charts every year since grade 4.
Emma: It’s a chore wheel.
Manny: Okay does it have laundry on it because I’m out of underwear and this commando chafing is k*lling me!
Mr. Armstrong: Not up to your usual standard.
(Emma looks at the test and it has a big C on it.)
Emma: Okay Manny you are on laundry. I’m on homework and exercise and grocery shopping and cleaning and mom management.
Manny: That should burn a few calories.
Emma: I sincerely hope so.
Manny: You’re a stick and you’re insane.
At Emma’s house
Emma: Mom I’m home!
Manny: She’s working late.
(Manny is sitting with Jack and eating chips.)
Emma: What are you doing?
Manny: Baby pedicure.
Emma: Do you know how much fat is in one chip? I brought you celery. Celery has negative calories because you burn calories while you’re chewing…and this!
(She gives Manny a notebook.)
Manny: I’m not eating paper, no matter how many calories it burns.
Emma: It’s a diet diary. We write down every morsel that goes into our mouths.
Manny: Great. More homework.
Emma: Do you want to get this agent? Think of it as fun. Think of it as a challenge.
Manny: Woo hoo. Let the fun begin!
At Joey’s house, Mr. Simpson is doing karaoke
Mr. Simpson: (Singing) ‘Cause you ain’t seen nothing yet! B-b-b-baby no you ain’t seen nothing yet!
Joey: With a voice like that, it’s no wonder the Zits never went anywhere.
Mr. Simpson and Diane: Oh!
Diane: I overheard him sing in the shower Snake, and the pot should really stop calling the kettle black.
Joey: Saucy, but a keeper.
(They start kissing.)
Mr. Simpson: Alright. Let’s keep this party going. I’ve got just the number. It’s a classic little ditty I like to call Rock the Casbah!
Joey: Oy, kick it mate!
(Mr. Simpson puts on the song, but a slow one comes on instead.)
Mr. Simpson: What? I didn’t…that’s Sometimes When We Touch.
Joey: Abort, abort.
Diane: Hey what’s wrong?
Mr. Simpson: It’s our song.
(Joey gets up to change it.)
Joey: Stupid machine. I’m sorry Snake. Buttons get mixed up sometimes.
Mr. Simpson: It’s just that uh I miss her so bad, you know? I miss my family.
In the cafeteria
Emma: Total calories, 110. Total grams of fat, 2.
Manny: Total flavour, it’s zero. How am I supposed to do math when I’m starving?!
Emma: I think my stomach is digesting itself, but we are not feeling hungry. We are feeling light.
Manny: As in L-I-T-E.
Emma: Okay you need to jog one mile at 6 miles an hour to burn off 110 calories.
Manny: Okay I’m going to get a diet pop and pretend it’s a milkshake.
(Manny backs her chair into Paige.)
Paige: Ow! Uh twigs and berries? You girls practicing to be on Survivor?
Emma: It’s called a diet.
Paige: Hmm totally wishing I had your willpower. When bathing suit season comes around, prepare to be hated by a jealous me.
Manny: Suddenly I’m stuffed. When are we running that mile, or 5?
Outside, Emma and Manny are jogging and Emma is laughing
Manny: What’s so funny?
Emma: Nothing. I just feel all floaty.
Manny: Me too. Is that good?
Mr. Simpson: Someone want to tell me the punch line?
Manny: See you inside.
(Emma feels faint and puts her arms down to catch herself.)
Mr. Simpson: Woah. Emma. You okay? You got the newborn colt legs going.
Emma: We’re training for cross country.
Mr. Simpson: Oh! Wow that’s, that’s great. I had no idea.
Emma: Yeah. The things you miss when you leave your family.
(He starts to leave, but Emma walks over to him.)
Emma: So how are things at Joey’s?
Mr. Simpson: Good. Okay. Not too bad. Terrible actually. I miss you guys.
Emma: Have you tried telling mom that?
Mr. Simpson: Oh I would, but that would involve her actually returning my phone calls.
Emma: So why don’t you tell her in person? Come over tonight.
Mr. Simpson: Think your mom would like that?
Emma: Maybe if you made us dinner like you used to.
Mr. Simpson: Emma.
(He kisses her cheek.)
Mr. Simpson: You are a genius.
At Emma’s house, Emma and Manny are cleaning up everything
Spike: Well this I could get used to. What’s the uh, what’s the occasion?
Emma: You have a surprise guest for dinner. A guest chef actually. Snake.
Spike: Emma tell me you didn’t!
Emma: What? I thought you might like a nice home-cooked meal for once.
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Manny: I’ll get it.
Mr. Simpson: Da, da, da, da! One order of veggie moussaka. Emma’s ooey gooey favourite.
Emma: Actually um Manny and I are gonna go for a walk.
Spike: No girls! Stay. Why don’t you two set the table?
(They go to set the table.)
Emma: Oh my god, Ricotta.
Manny: Cream and butter and everything else that I see in my dreams.
Emma: We haven’t starved for two days just to ruin it in ten minutes of gluttony.
Manny: So what do we do?
Emma: We sit at the table with mom and Archie and try and make them happy and the food we just push around your plates.
Mr. Simpson: Kitchen faucet’s still leaking, huh? I should get my wrench.
Spike: It’s fine Archie.
Mr. Simpson: Do you know how much water you’re wasting? My wrench is downstairs.
Spike: Just leave it! Please.
Manny: This moussaka is amazing.
Mr. Simpson: Emma I haven’t seen you touch yours.
Emma: Sure you have. Your cooking is something we’ve really missed around here.
Mr. Simpson: Well I miss cooking for you guys. I miss a lot of things. Sitting here at this table, I realize that this is where I belong and I never should have left.
Spike: You didn’t leave Snake. I kicked you out. Remember?
Mr. Simpson: It’s been long enough Spike. Can I…? I think I learned my lesson. I’m ready to come home.
Spike: Oh and that’s your decision to make?
Mr. Simpson: No it’s our decision, but yes I have a say in it.
Spike: You had your say and it involved another woman. Girls I think you need to go to your room.
(Emma and Manny go downstairs, but can still hear the argument upstairs.
Mr. Simpson: Spike I came over here with a peace offering and this is what I get?!
Spike: You think a pan of moussaka is gonna make everything better?
Mr. Simpson: No I don’t. I thought maybe we could try to be civilized…
(They keep arguing.)
Emma: Fighting. Only fighting.
Manny: Fighting’s a start, right? It’s better than not talking at all.
Emma: I guess. I just wish I knew how it was gonna turn out. I hate not knowing what’s gonna happen.
Manny: I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. I am going to explode from all that ooey gooey moussaka.
Emma: I wish I would explode. We could try and run it off. It’ll only take, oh 6 hours.
Manny: If I move, I’ll barf. It can’t be healthy to be this full.
Emma: We could get rid of it.
Manny: Like how, puking? Isn’t that kind of extreme?
Emma: Desperate times call for desperate purging.
Manny: It’s not called purging. It’s called bulimia.
Emma: Don’t be so dramatic. These are special circumstances. You will feel better Manny. Come on. Come on.
(They go to the bathroom and Manny shuts the door.)
In the girl’s locker room
Emma: Now for the moment of truth.
Manny: Could I go to the bathroom first? That’s got to be half a pound.
(Manny steps on the scale.)
Manny: Em! I lost 3 pounds! 3 pounds in 4 days.
(Manny gets off and Emma steps on the scale.)
Manny: (Singing) I lost 3 pounds, 3 pounds, 3 pounds!
Emma: 4 pounds! I lost 4 pounds.
Manny: Em you are officially my lifestyle guru, like Bob on Oprah!
Emma: Okay so if we restrain ourselves today and work out after school, we might be up to 5 pounds by tomorrow.
Manny: Uh no, no, no. There’s a butter tart in the caf with my name on it.
Emma: Manny no. If we’re happy with less than our goal we’re only disappointing ourselves. You’ve got an agent to impress. This is serious.
Manny: Okay Bob.
A montage starts with the girls measuring their waists
(They are shown running outside, eating in the cafeteria and dropping their carrots to go throw up one at a time while the other waits outside, and Manny is wearing her lucky jeans smiling.)
At Joey’s house
Joey: Okay I got it. Change her oil.
Mr. Simpson: Are you serious? You really think doing an oil change on Spike’s car is gonna win her back?
Joey: Snake I’m spitballing here, okay? Work with me buddy.
Mr. Simpson: Okay. Uh the roof’s a mess. I could help redo it.
Joey: Yes and you can get all hot and sweaty while you’re doing it. Chicks dig that. Sexy Snake. Snake the sexy roofer. I like it.
Diane: Come on. Women don’t want an episode of ‘This Old House’. They want a little romance. They want to know they’re special. Spike is special to you, right? So prove it. Show her what’s in your heart.
Mr. Simpson: I don’t know that Spike’s that interested what’s in my heart right now.
Diane: She will be. Trust me. Just remind her why she fell in love with you in the first place. Woo her!
In the cafeteria, Manny is watching the pizza spin around on the tray
Manny: Please stop saying my name! Stop. Manny. Manny.
At Manny’s locker, Manny’s head is in her locker while she eats her pizza
Emma: What are you doing?
Manny: Um a little known fact is that pepperoni wedges are good in stress(?).
Emma: That’s a lie.
Manny: Okay I’m just plain, naked hungry!
Emma: Hunger is a feeling Manny. Thin is a skill. Damage control time.
Manny: No!
(Emma throws the pizza slice away and brings Manny to the bathroom.)
Emma: I’ll cover for you.
Manny: My jeans still fit general!
Emma: Manny your body is a reflection of you. The agent is going to see that you’re undisciplined.
Manny: The agent is going to see that I have energy and rosy cheeks and that I don’t have puke breath.
Emma: This is so typical Manny. Give up when the going gets tough.
Manny: It’s one slice of pizza Em!
Emma: It’s fat and starch and grease. Why not just pour poison down your throat?
Manny: Okay. There’s just a little too much crazy in here.
(Manny leaves and Emma walks out of the bathroom, then passes out in the hall.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Emma. Can you hear me? Emma! Maybe you should just sit still.
Emma: No I’m just dizzy I think. I think it’s the flu or something.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Woah, woah, woah. Did you eat today?
Emma: Yes.
Ms. Hatzilakos: What did you eat Emma? Emma. It’s okay. You can talk to me. I’m here for you.
Emma: That’s funny.
At the mall
(Mr. Simpson walks up to Spike holding flowers and wearing a tuxedo.)
Mr. Simpson: The girls at the salon told me you were on break.
Spike: Are you selling roses in restaurants? What’s with the penguin suit?
Mr. Simpson: I was wearing a t-shirt on our wedding day and I wanted to make sure I did this right. Spike you are my everything and if you let me come home I’ll be worthy of you this time because you deserve everything. You’re beautiful.
Spike: You hurt me.
Mr. Simpson: I know.
Spike: No. You don’t really know. I loved you since I was sixteen. You were the one guy I thought was good. The one guy I was sure I could count on.
Mr. Simpson: Count on me now because I love you. I will never give up until you take me back.
(She hands the flowers back and he starts singing.)
Mr. Simpson: (Singing) You ask me if I love you and I choke on my reply. I'd rather hurt you honestly, than mislead you with a lie and sometimes when we touch the honesty's too much and I have to close my eyes and hide. I wanna hold you…
(Spike covers his mouth.)
Spike: Okay! Two conditions.
Mr. Simpson: Done.
Spike: No kissing anyone, but me ever again and no singing ever again.
(They start kissing and everyone around them starts cheering.)
At Emma’s, Emma is cutting up pictures of models in magazines
Emma: How’d the audition go?
Manny: She said I have moxie.
Emma: Which means?
Manny: I have an agent!
Emma: I am so happy for you.
Manny: And I am so worried about you. I heard you fainted and these dismembered models are disturbing.
Emma: It’s inspiration for when I want to lose a pound.
Manny: Okay, but you lost like 7. You’re starting to scare me.
Emma: I’m gross Manny. I look disgusting.
Manny: When was the last time you ate?
Emma: A couple of days ago. I feel good.
Manny: But you look sick and the way you’re talking you might be sick.
Emma: Okay Snake’s bringing his special lasagna over tonight. I’ll eat some.
Manny: He’s coming back?! That’s the juice and I am all over that lasagne.
Emma: May this diet rest in peace.
Manny: Good, because I need you healthy Emma. You’re more than just my lifestyle guru you know.
(They hug.)
At dinner
Mr. Simpson: Everyone! Cheers to my amazing family!
(They all give cheers and clink glasses.)
Mr. Simpson: Oh wait, wait, wait. Actually I have an announcement to make.
Emma: Are you guys gonna finally stop calling each other by your high school nicknames?
Mr. Simpson: Not a bad idea, but no! Uh as you all know I still have a motorcycle fund, which I would like to use not to buy another motorcycle with, but to take us all to the shopping capital of the world: New York City!
Spike: New York? Are you sure?
Mr. Simpson: I’ve done all the boring, practical math and we’re going baby.
Spike: Alright!
Manny: Wait who’s included in ‘we’?
Mr. Simpson: Well um you are part of the Nelson/Simpson clan, are you not?
Manny: I love you! I love you guys! How many empty suitcases can I bring?
Mr. Simpson: Oh, wow hey.
Emma: Okay this is, this is beyond anything. It actually might be one of those moments so I’m going to get the camera.
Mr. Simpson: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah! Cheers guys!
Spike: Cheers!
Manny: Cheers!
Mr. Simpson: Woo hoo!
(Emma leaves the room and throws up her food.)
Scenes for next week
Manny: (To the camera) Emma’s my best friend in the world, but she’s out of control.
Manny: I found your food diary.
Emma: Give that back!
Manny: I bet Spike would love to read this.
Emma: No!
Voiceover: Sometimes doing the right thing…
Emma: You’re supposed to be my friend Manny! I can’t even trust you!
Manny: I am! That’s why I’m trying to help you!
(Emma is crying hysterically and faints suddenly.)
Mr. Simpson: Woah Emma!
Voiceover: …isn’t enough.
Mr. Simpson: Peter call 911! | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x15 - Our Lips Are Sealed"} | foreverdreaming |
At Emma’s house
(Mr. Simpson is fixing the sink and water sprays him in the face.)
Mr. Simpson: Ah! Fruit salad!
Manny: Um Mr. Simpson can you keep it down? It’s long distance with Craig.
Spike: You haven’t let me brush your hair since you were ten.
Emma: I wish I was ten. You don’t have a time machine do you?
Spike: I’m afraid I don’t kiddo.
Emma: When did it all get so complicated?
Spike: Hey. Serious McMopey, do you know how boring life would be if it were simple? Right? Hello? Are you there?
Emma: I’m here mom. I’m just worried about exams and stuff, okay?
Spike: Okay.
(Emma looks at her phone and there’s a message from Peter telling her to go meet him.)
At the park
(Emma is blindfolded and Peter is leading her to a picnic area that he set up.)
Emma: Where are we going?
Peter: Just follow me. I’m sorry I can’t see you at school, so uh this is my way of making it up to you. I bring you all the comfort foods. Potato salad, um fried chicken, chocolate cake. You feeling okay? You look kind of sick.
Emma: Yeah I’m fine. I just, I can’t believe you’d do this for me. It’s so…sexy.
(They start kissing.)
Peter: Who knew potato salad was such an aphrodisiac?
Emma: Shut up.
(Emma starts kissing him and purposefully knocks over the picnic basket.)
Emma: Leave it. I wasn’t hungry anyway.
(They start making out on the picnic table.)
In science class
Mr. Ellis: Okay heads up everybody. Today we got Liberty talking frogs. It will be most fascinating I’m sure. Alright take it away Liberty.
Liberty: Of course Mr. Ellis. I’ll begin with the female reproductive system.
Mr. Ellis: Ah hint, hint. This just might be on your year end test.
(Liberty begins her presentation and Manny hits Emma to keep her awake.)
Emma: Ow. Manny!
Manny: You’re falling asleep during class and by the way your hands are colder than my Nana’s, at her funeral.
Emma: I have poor circulation.
(Manny pokes Emma again.)
Emma: Why did you do that?
Manny: Because you’ve been weird and distant for weeks and I’m getting tired of it.
Emma: Well I’m tired of you being Needy McNeedersons all the time. Sorry I have a life. Sorry I’ve got stuff going on that you wouldn’t understand.
Manny: Like what?
Emma: Like…nothing. Just drop it.
Manny: Woah. Are you getting your attitude from these things? Protein bars? They’re all you eat lately. Are they even safe?
Emma: I get them at a health food store.
Mr. Ellis: Ms. Nelson!
Emma: Um yeah. Sorry sir.
Mr. Ellis: I hope you are back there whispering about adrenal glands.
Emma: Absolutely. Gland central over here.
Mr. Ellis: Good because if you don’t ace your year end exam, I’ll be seeing you in summer school.
In the foyer
Alex: Oh my god.
Paige: Will someone please send Heather Sinclair a memo that belly shirts are out?
Alex: As if they were ever a good idea for Ms. Tellatubbie anyways.
Paige: Alex you’re like the vinegary dressing on the dull salad of my life.
Alex: And hearing the word dull, Hazel magically appears.
Paige: Hi hon.
Hazel: Hey Paige. Anything exciting in your mailbox?
Paige: It’s very lonely. Filled only with the sound of my increasing panic.
Alex: Gosh if I don’t get into the university or sorority of my choice I’ll just die!
Hazel: See you in bio.
Alex: Hope the lesson’s about becoming interesting on the cellular level ‘cause Hazel really needs it.
Paige: Everything’s always a game to you.
Alex: Keep’s life interesting.
Paige: Well some things do actually matter. Some people matter, at least to me. Hazel’s one of them and you need to be nicer to her.
In the hallway
Manny: Between studying and planning the end of the year extravaganza, I barely have time to breathe. How about you? How’s the environmental club?
Emma: Kinda lost interest.
Manny: What? You’re telling me you don’t care about those poor, starving dolphins in the rainforest?
Emma: They’re not starving, they’re not in the rainforest, and yes I still care. I’m just focussed on other stuff.
Manny: Like what? Jogging?
Emma: And other stuff.
Peter: Hey Emma. Manny. This is Brendan, one of the kids I tutor. I’ll meet you back here at 3:30?
Manny: I didn’t know you tutored.
Peter: Well my mom asked and I thought why not. Everyone needs a helping hand.
Manny: How nice of you. So what’s your favourite thing to teach? Grammar, composition, getting girls drunk and filming them with their tops off?
Peter: That one’s not in the curriculum.
Manny: Didn’t think so. Quit the hero act Peter. You’re not fooling anyone. We all know you’re scum.
(Emma stands there silently.)
Manny: Em! We’re gonna be late for gym.
In the media immersion lab
(Tons of pictures of Hazel and Paige are being shown on the computer.)
Toby: We can’t just fill the yearbook with pictures of you two, you know. We’ve got to represent the whole school.
Hazel: Paige and I? We’re the school.
Toby: Yeah. There’s a convincing argument.
(Alex walks in and sits down.)
Hazel: Sorry Alex. You actually have to participate to get in the yearbook.
Alex: And the vicious insult club doesn’t count?
Hazel: What do you want?
Alex: I think we should hang out.
Hazel: Uh sarcasm association doesn’t get you into the yearbook either.
Alex: We don’t have to be best friends or even friends. I’ll settle for acquaintances. Acquaintances who don’t k*ll each other. So what do you say? Why don’t we all go out? Get loaded, get into some trouble.
Toby: I could do up some fake ID’s. Take you ladies on a pub crawl.
Alex: Nice try.
Hazel: Or we could go shopping. You, me and Paige at the mall. There’s a big sale on!
Alex: You’re really gonna make me work for this, aren’t you?
Hazel: You bet. See you at 4:30!
(Alex leaves and flicks Toby’s ear on her way out.)
In gym class, Emma is wearing a huge sweat suit
Manny: Let me guess. You went to visit Shaquille O’Neal and all you got was his running suit?
Emma: Shaq is ginormous.
Manny: Uh yeah Em. That’s the joke.
Mr. Armstrong: Okay girls, as you can see we’re rotating stations so let’s group up.
Darcy: Emma it’s like a gabillion degrees in here.
Emma: I’m kinda cold is all.
Chante: You’re kinda whacked is all.
Darcy: Oh no, I think I see an extra ounce over here on your right cheek.
Chante: Call weight watchers, a 911!
Emma: You think it’s fun to laugh at the tub of lard?! It’s not! I know what’s wrong so you can stop pointing it out!
Darcy: You’re so not fat Emma. We were just joking.
Chante: Are you okay?
Emma: Of course. I’m fine. I just don’t want to be here today.
(Emma runs out of the gym.)
Mr. Armstrong: Emma?
At the mall
Hazel: I’m having a fashion flash-forward.
Paige: Cute. Sassy mix of conservative colour and edgy military.
Alex: It’s grey. Paige hates grey. What about this?
Hazel: No offence, but I don’t think you’re ready for the big leagues. Can you even afford those clothes?
Paige: Hazel!
Hazel: I’m sorry, but fashion isn’t exactly what Alex’s type does well.
Alex: My type? Lesbian you mean?
Hazel: No. The style-impaired.
Paige: Ladies. Please just chill. Hazel this shrunken blazer, it so has your name on it.
Alex: I think it might be a little too shrunken for Hazel’s body type. Gimme.
Hazel: You in a blazer? Spare me.
Alex: Do I detect jealousy? Tell me how long have you wanted to kiss Paige?
Hazel: Gross. That’s your thing. Not mine.
Paige: Guys stop it! You’re embarrassing me.
Hazel: And BTW, Paige used to be straight until you came along and turned her gay.
Alex: What? Okay you know what? I’m sorry. I’m through with playing nice.
Hazel: Couldn’t pull off for very long, huh? Big surprise.
(Alex throws the blazer and her and Hazel start throwing clothes at each other until the security guard comes over.)
Hazel: She started it!
Alex: No I didn’t. Paige? Paige?
(Alex looks and Paige is gone.)
Outside, Emma and Peter are jogging
Emma: Going too fast for you gramps? I’ll slow down so you don’t have to trail behind.
Peter: Aw, but I like trailing behind you. That way I get to enjoy the view.
(He leans in to kiss her and she pulls away.)
Emma: Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
Peter: Aw your jogging breath is fine.
Emma: No I mean this. Us.
Peter: Just when I thought we were finally getting somewhere.
Emma: I want to go out with you Peter. I really do, but-
Peter: It’s Manny. Webmaster of the ‘Peter Stone Must Die’ website. Why does she still hate me so much?
Emma: Forgiveness is not Manny’s forte. Believe me she’s like the five time winner of the golden grudge.
Peter: Well then, then why does she have to know? It could be our little secret.
Emma: No! You don’t understand. This is all confusing and messy and complicated and I can’t do it anymore, okay?! Sorry.
Peter: Well me too! This sucks.
Emma: You think you’re the only one that’s unhappy, well join the club Peter! I’ve got a huge pile of worries over here by myself, okay?!
Peter: Are you alright?
Emma: No! I have to go.
At Emma’s house
(Emma walks downstairs and Manny hands her a sandwich.)
Manny: Here. Eat this.
Emma: I don’t have time for your girl interrupted today.
Manny: I found your food diary. You’re not eating and those protein bars, they’re props. You’re hiding them.
Emma: That’s not true. You’re making it up.
Manny: (Reading) I haven’t lost weight in 3 days. I run twice as much and still nothing.
Emma: Stop it.
Manny: (Reading) I can’t eat. My body makes me sick. It’s rebelling against me, just like everyone else.
Emma: Give that back!
Manny: I bet Spike would love to read this.
Emma: Manny no! I’m dating Peter.
Manny: What?
Emma: You heard me. I’m dating Peter. That’s why I’m like this. I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. I’m stressed 24/7 because I’m so scared of you finding out. Now you know.
Manny: Take your stupid diary. I don’t care anymore. You do whatever you want ‘cause we’re through. I’m sleeping on the couch and tomorrow we can talk about me going home.
Emma: Fine.
Outside the school
Peter: I got your messages. What’s the big news?
Emma: Why don’t I show you? Come on.
(Emma pulls him in front of the school and kisses him.)
Emma: I told Manny everything. We’re legit.
Peter: And she’s okay with it?
Emma: Well that’s sort of the problem and speak of the devil.
Manny: Wow. Look at the happy couple.
Emma: Manny save the drama for your next audition. We’re not interested.
Manny: Fine. I just wanna wish Peter good luck.
Peter: Thanks I guess.
Manny: You’re gonna need it. Maybe you can keep track of whether or not she’s eating, ‘cause I’m done.
(Manny leaves.)
Peter: What is she talking about?
Emma: I don’t know Peter. She’s completely crazy.
(Emma sees Mr. Simpson and Mr. Armstrong talking about her.)
Emma: Come on. We have some flaunting to do.
In the cafeteria
Alex: Your favourite. I went and picked it up after security let us go.
Paige: I’m not talking to you.
Alex: I had to go all the way to Mississauga to get it, on transit.
Paige: Uh how much?
Cafeteria worker: $2.16 please.
Paige: $2.20.
Cafeteria worker: Here’s your change.
Alex: I tried. That’s got to count for something.
Paige: Have a great day. Thanks.
Alex: I just care about you.
Paige: Great job showing it.
At the Dot, Peter and Emma are toasting their relationship
Peter: To us. Completely official for all the world to see.
Emma: Yay us.
(The waitress brings their food.)
Peter: Could we get some…ketchup. We need ketchup.
(Peter gets up and Emma puts a bunch of fries in her pocket, pretending she ate them.)
Peter: Woah. Now that is impressive.
Emma: What can I say, I’m a healthy growing girl?
Outside
Peter: Something’s missing here.
Emma: You’re so mysterious.
Peter: No I just thought with us coming out there’d be like a marching band or something. Maybe a blimp with our name on it.
(He leans in to hug her and she pulls away.)
Emma: Hey not feeling so huggable right now.
Peter: Emma you got fries in your pocket.
Emma: It’s just a little snack for later.
Peter: Cold french fries from your pocket? That’s a little weird.
Emma: Not really. Haven’t you seen Napoleon Dynamite? Come on. I’m just like a little squirrel.
Peter: Sure. Uh I got to get to class. See ya.
At Alex’s locker
Hazel: Paige isn’t talking to me.
Alex: Me neither.
Hazel: Well I happen to be upset about it.
Alex: So do I. I do have feelings you know.
Hazel: And when Paige gets upset-
Alex: Tell me about it. She’s the stubbornest person I ever knew.
Hazel: Oh me too and if you really want to know how bad a freeze out can get, phone Ashley Kerwin up!
Alex: We could try playing nice again.
Hazel: Again?
Alex: We could try playing nice period.
Hazel: If we go for hot beverages, promise not to scald me?
Alex: Just as long as you promise to leave your cyanide at home.
(They shake hands in agreement.)
In a classroom
Manny: So you all have your schedules? Next meeting’s Tuesday.
(Peter walks in.)
Manny: What do you want?
Peter: Show you something.
Manny: Good for you Peter. Learning to read is very important.
Peter: Hiding food, baggy clothes, mood swings, paranoia. These are all possible symptoms of anorexia nervosa.
Manny: I’ll talk to her mom.
Peter: No, we’ll talk to her mom. Hate me all you want, Emma’s my girlfriend. You can’t stop me from helping her. Don’t even try.
At the mall food court
Hazel: So.
Alex: So.
Paige: What is this?
Hazel: Paige-likers club. Alex is trying to get into the yearbook.
Paige: And the fighting begins when?
Hazel: We’ve signed a peace treaty.
Alex: We also bought you a treat.
Hazel: We even went Dutch to pay for it.
Paige: So you know, you guys made me really mad and I refuse to be the monkey in the middle.
Alex: That’s fine. As long as you’re talking monkey ‘cause we’re a little stuck for conversation.
Paige: Okay. Let’s uh start with how many calories are in this beverage. I always order no whip.
Hazel: Told you so Alex. Paige doesn’t eat sweets.
Alex: That’s a lie.
Paige: Shut up.
Alex: You had three pieces of chocolate cheesecake last weekend.
Paige: It was our two month anniversary. Oops. My spoon slipped.
Alex: Oops. So did mine.
(The girls start flinging whipped cream at each other while laughing.)
At Emma’s house
Emma: What’s going on?
Spike: Come sit down here honey. Manny and Peter came here because they’re worried about you.
Mr. Simpson: And it’s not just them. Your teachers told me you’re having trouble at school.
Emma: They’re lying.
Mr. Simpson: No they’re not Emma. We want you to go talk to someone. A therapist about why you’re not eating.
Emma: I am eating. There’s nothing wrong.
Peter: You’re hiding food.
Manny: You’ve got major psycho mood swings.
Spike: You’re just not you. We’re worried.
Emma: And you guys are all so perfect. You take advantage of drunk girls, you are the drunk girl and last time I checked you were making out with his mother.
Mr. Simpson: Emma you need to calm down.
Emma: No I need to get out of here.
(Manny blocks the door.)
Manny: You can’t go Emma, please. We need to get you help.
Emma: You did this! You told them! This is all your fault Manny!
(Emma rushes downstairs and starts throwing Manny’s clothes on the floor.)
Manny: What are you doing? That’s my stuff!
Emma: Kicking your sorry butt out Manny, once and for all.
Manny: Please stop it!
Mr. Simpson: Emma please, please stop.
Emma: You’re supposed to be my friend Manny! I can’t even trust you!
Manny: I am! That’s why I’m trying to help you!
(Emma starts gasping for air.)
Emma: I can’t breathe. My chest. Manny something’s happening.
(She falls onto the floor.)
Mr. Simpson: Woah Emma! Peter! Peter call 911 now!
(They all rush to her and Peter goes to call 911.)
In the mall security office
Paige: Nice ladies. Another night in the security office.
Alex: Think of it as mall detention!
Hazel: I shouldn’t have dived over the counter for that whipped cream canister.
Alex: If only those German tourists hadn’t gotten in the way!
Paige: I can’t believe you think this is funny. It’s pathetic.
Alex: Says the girl who was throwing biscotti pops!
(The security guard walks in and they start laughing again.)
Hazel: Ew!
At the hospital, Manny is holding Emma’s hand when Spike walks in
Spike: Doctor said you had a panic att*ck.
Emma: Okay so I’m fine. It musta been a reaction to one of those protein bars. That’s the last time I eat one of those nasty things.
(Emma starts to get up.)
Spike: Emma, you’re not going anywhere.
Emma: But it was just a panic att*ck.
Spike: Brought on by starvation. A psychiatrist is coming to talk to you and she might diagnose you as anorexic.
Emma: I want to go home.
Spike: Honey you can’t. You can’t.
Manny: Em you have to stop. You have to stop or you’re gonna die. You can’t do that to me.
Emma: No one’s gonna die, okay? I’m gonna try to b*at this Manny. I’m gonna try to b*at this.
Scenes for next week
Marco: (To the camera) Dylan is a selfish, reckless, immature jerk. So why can’t I get over him?
Voiceover: An old flame is back in town.
Dylan: I still love you Marco.
Voiceover: And Marco’s still hurting.
Paige: If you’re so ready to move on, then why aren’t you doing it?
Voiceover: Will he choose Dylan or has he found someone else?
(Tim is shown walking into the room with a shocked look on his face.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x16 - Our Lips Are Sealed Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At the Dot
Marco: We must have done something awful in our past lives to deserve this hell.
Paige: Oh just wait until university. According to Dylan, it only gets harder. He said McGill’s tough.
Marco: Dylan? How is the Satan child anyway?
Ellie: Question: Who’s still bitter over last year? Answer: Oh Marco Del Rossi.
Marco: Stop. I am so over that guy. I’ve already forgotten who we’re talking about.
Alex: Great. So then let’s talk about stalker boy, Tim. Your lovesick shadow.
(They see Tim walking into the Dot.)
Marco: Guys can you be nice? You know we’ve been sort of seeing each other.
Ellie: Emphasis on the sorta. You guys haven’t even been on a date yet.
Tim: Hey you guys. Wow it looks like a brain b*mb went off in here.
Marco: Yeah. Well studying for exams is k*ller, but you are welcome to join the carnage if you dare.
Tim: Super. First round of caffeine’s on me.
Paige: Oh I’m out. My ride just showed up.
(Marco sees Dylan through the window.)
Marco: He’s in town?! Paige why didn’t you tell me?
Dylan: Hey Marco.
Marco: Hey. Hi. Uh what are you doing here?
Dylan: May I?
Marco: Uh actually this seat’s saved for someone.
(Tim walks back over.)
Marco: My boyfriend Tim. Tim meet my ex, Dylan. He was, he was just leaving.
Dylan: Later Marco.
(Dylan leaves and Marco watches him through the window.)
During the grade 12 science final
Mr. Ellis: Okay people. No talking. No cell phones. No bathroom breaks until you’re done. Okay flip ‘em and have fun.
In the library
Liberty: So igneous rocks are pure, whereas sedimentary rocks are made of other forms of rocks. See?
Danny: Why do I care?
Liberty: Because if you fail, dad will send you to summer school…again. Derek, metamorphic rocks?
Derek: Are rocks that have been transformed with heat and pressure.
Liberty: Somebody’s been listening to me.
Danny: Somebody’s a bigger nerd than you.
(Danny gets up and leaves.)
Derek: That’s his way of saying we’d be flunking out right now if it weren’t for you.
Liberty: Well I do aim to please.
Derek: We still studying tonight? Maybe we can order pizza and talk.
In the cafeteria
Ellie: If I fail, which I did, I’ll be stuck at Degrassi forever.
Paige: Then it’s settled. Tonight we need to have some fun.
Marco: What? We have an English exam tomorrow!
Paige: Which you studied for non-stop for weeks. If you don’t relax and have some fun you’re going to crack Marco. So who’s with me?
(Alex, Ellie and Marco put up their hands.)
Paige: Nice. There’s this place, The Other Team. It’s a gay club so we don’t have to worry about getting h*t on.
Alex: Great.
Ellie: Yeah great.
Paige: So are you gonna ask Tim to come?
Marco: I don’t know. Do I really want to be his first serious boyfriend? I mean I start university in the fall and-
Paige: And Dylan’s back in town. He’s single, has been for a while and he knows he screwed up.
Marco: Paige when I say Dylan broke my heart, I mean that he took it, froze it, he then dropped it from the CN Tower and ripped it to shreds, okay?!
Paige: Okay. All I’m saying, if you’re so ready to move on, then why aren’t you doing it?
At Liberty’s house
Mrs. Van Zandt: Liberty? Can we talk to you?
Liberty: Uh this is exactly why I put the schedule on the fridge. Home by 5, chemistry until 7, tutoring until 8.
Mr. Van Zandt: It’s important.
Liberty: More important that Mr. Ellis’ chem. exam? Yeah I doubt that.
Mr. Van Zandt: The adoptive parents phoned today.
Mrs. Van Zandt: They’re moving to Seattle.
Liberty: But no, that’s impossible. We have an open adoption.
Mr. Van Zandt: Well legally the baby is theirs. They have the right to move.
Liberty: And my rights? Oh yeah, I gave those up.
Mrs. Van Zandt: They asked if you’d like to see him once more before they leave.
Mr. Van Zandt: To say goodbye.
Liberty: I said goodbye when I gave him up.
Outside the club
Hazel: I cant believe I’m standing in line for something other than library books.
Paige: I can’t believe my brain is working well enough for me to even be speaking English.
Tim: Hey! This is really exciting. I mean I’ve never been to a gay club before. Have you?
Marco: Uh hey. Yeah. Uh yeah I came here once with…uh hey look the line’s moving. Let’s-
Tim: Okay.
At Liberty’s house
Liberty: So Upper Canada because it’s up the St. Lawrence river. Lower Quebec because it’s at the end.
(The doorbell rings.)
Danny: Alright! Pizza! You each owe me 8 bucks.
Liberty: So that’s history. What next, biology?
Derek: Can I ask you something personal?
Liberty: Sure. I’m all ears.
Derek: It’s about your baby. Did you ever consider keeping him? Like when you held him? Was it hard to let him go?
Liberty: Get out.
Derek: I’m sorry. I’m adopted. It’s just something I always wondered.
Liberty: Get out! I mean it! I don’t care if you were adopted, dropped by a stork, or abducted by aliens! Get out!
(Derek leaves and Danny walks back in the room confused.)
Back at the club
Marco: Hey. Okay so you were busy telling me how much you live for the Oscars.
Tim: I live and die for them.
Marco: Oh me too! So quiz me.
Tim: Okay um best supporting actress 1994?
Marco: Um, uh…Oh! Dianne Wiest, b*ll*ts Over Broadway.
Tim: Despite Uma Thurman’s outstanding performance in Pulp Fiction.
Marco: Performance in Pulp Fiction, I know!
(Marco sees Dylan dancing and stops.)
Marco: Hey Tim I’m gonna be right back, okay?
Tim: Okay.
(Marco walks over to Dylan.)
Marco: What are you doing here? Did Paige put you up to this?
Dylan: No I did.
(Marco starts to walk away, but Dylan stops him.)
Dylan: Just hear me out! I miss us. I miss you. You’re cute, you’re smart and you’re funny and I made a huge mistake.
Marco: Yeah you did a mistake Dylan! Tonight, coming here. I’m with Tim now. He’s my boyfriend.
Tim: Um sorry for interrupting, but I was just gonna go get some more water and…
(Marco kisses Tim, Tim smiles and Dylan gives an angry look before walking away.)
Outside, Marco and Ellie are walking
Ellie: Okay so Jane Eyre, which I finished reading an hour ago, don’t get it.
Marco: Okay think of it this way. I’m Rochester.
Ellie: Of course.
Marco: Yeah. Tim is Jane Eyre. You know ‘cause he’s simple, sweet and uncomplicated and Dylan is crazy Bertha locked away in the attic.
(Ellie doesn’t say anything.)
Marco: Okay it’s about moving on and putting the past behind you, with the right people. Just think of it like salvation.
(Marco’s palm pilot beeps.)
Marco: Hold up. It must be another e-mail from Tim.
Ellie: Okay that thing is one step away from you becoming an android.
Marco: It’s from Dylan.
At Paige and Dylan’s house
Marco: We are through! Over! So don’t send me stupid little e-mails!
Dylan: You came all the way to my place to tell me not to e-mail you?
Marco: Right.
Dylan: This is so not over. Not even close.
Marco: Why now? Huh? What is with this stalker routine? What you just happen to be home for the summer?!
Dylan: You don’t get it. I’m home for the summer because of you. I still love you Marco.
Marco: Don’t! Don’t call me, don’t text me, don’t e-mail me, don’t even think about me. Leave me alone.
During Mr. Ellis’ science final
Mr. Ellis: Alright guys. Time’s up. Pass them in.
JT: I didn’t even finish the exam. How did you get it done so quickly?
Liberty: Maybe ‘cause I never started.
(Liberty hands in a blank test and Mr. Ellis looks at it disappointed.)
In the cafeteria, Tim is holding a little present
Marco: Hey.
Tim: Hi. So I know you only have one more exam left and I should have given this to you before, but-
(Marco opens the present and sees a four leaf clover.)
Marco: Oh wow. Thanks. Good luck never goes out of style.
During the English final
(Marco looks at the 4 leaf clover after he finishes.)
Ms. Kwan: Time’s up everyone. Hand them in and congrats. Exams are done.
Ellie: I’m so tired. I think I might have answered the second essay question with White Stripes lyrics.
(Marco laughs and Ellie hands her test in.)
Paige: What do you say to a little Ryan Reynolds movie fiesta tonight?
Marco: Oh yes! I am so in. Oh, but Tim. I kind of promised him a date.
Paige: Oh um. Well bring him. We’ll give him a good going over. Make sure he’s good enough for our Marco.
Marco: And uh the Satan child?
Paige: Hockey practice. So?
Marco: So I’ll bring the chips.
Paige: Good. See ya.
Marco: Cool.
At Liberty’s house
Liberty: It was one stupid exam
Mr. Van Zandt: Worth 30% of your grade.
Liberty: So?
Mr. Van Zandt: You don’t care? I don’t understand you. This isn’t the girl I know.
Mrs. Van Zandt: Harold stop.
Danny: Derek and I are supposed to be studying here tonight dad and you’re supposed to be at a play, remember?
Mr. Van Zandt: Mm hmm. This isn’t over. We won’t be late.
(Their parents leave.)
Danny: I appreciate you being the demon seed and taking the heat off me, but I have a reputation to uphold. Female anatomy 101.
(Danny pulls out a p*rn video and Liberty grabs the whiskey bottle.)
Liberty: To Albert Einstein.
(She takes a swig and coughs as Danny and Derek watch surprised.)
Liberty: Dad doesn’t know who I am anymore, so let’s really mess with his mind.
At Paige’s house
Paige: Okay um don’t freak. Dylan promised he’d be out of here by now.
Marco: What? Paige!
Paige: It’s no big deal. We’ll be watching in the basement anyways. Come on. Everyone’s downstairs.
Dylan: Antwon before you go man. Check out my tattoo.
(Dylan takes off his shirt showing off his huge tattoo on his back.)
Antwon: Dude!
(Marco stops and stares at Dylan.)
Tim: Um Marco what about the Ryan Reynolds move fiesta that you promised?
Marco: Yeah. Yeah let’s go.
Tim: Cool.
Dylan: Hockey practice is cancelled. Why don’t you guys join me for a little poker? Texas Holdem?
Marco: No thanks. I think we’re gonna pass on that one.
Dylan: I figure you’d wimp out.
Marco: Excuse me?
Dylan: Come on Marco. Who are you kidding? You’re always playing it safe. You’re way too chicken to gamble.
Marco: Really? What’s the buy in?
(Paige goes downstairs and Marco and Tim stay upstairs.)
At Liberty’s house
Liberty: And here’s to dressing me in overalls ‘til grade 9.
Derek: Um you might want to pace yourself
Liberty: Yeah well I think that you think…that I think that you think…
Danny: Attention software glitch.
Derek: I think you’ve had enough.
(They start fighting over the bottle.)
Liberty: Let go! Let go!
(The bottle smashes against the mirror.)
Liberty: Oh no. No. No. No. Mom and dad are gonna k*ll me. I’m stupid, useless, messed up.
Danny: Liberty it’s a mirror. Your face didn’t break it this time so why so upset?
Liberty: Because my baby is gone. He’s gone across the country and I abandoned him.
Derek: I never got to meet my birth mother. I’m not sure I ever will. She couldn’t take care of me, so she made sure I ended up in family that could. I know it was hard for her to do.
Liberty: How do you know that’s what happened?
Derek: She told me. I mean in a letter. She gave me a sort of treasure chest.
At Paige’s house
Dylan: I see your 2 and I raise 4.
Marco: See you back.
(Tim is organizing Marco’s chips so Marco tosses in the wrong amount.)
Dylan: By raising ten?
Marco: Tim!
Tim: I’m sorry. They were all messy.
(Marco goes to switch the chip, but Dylan stops him.)
Dylan: Bet’s on the table.
(Dylan flips the last card and puts all his chips in.)
Dylan: All in.
Tim: Marco maybe you should fold.
(Marco puts all his chips in.)
Dylan: You sure you want to do that Del Rossi? Pretty reckless.
Marco: That’s what being reckless is all about my friend. Just doing, not thinking. Hurting whoever you want in the process.
(Dylan throws all the chips and cards.)
Dylan: What the hell is your problem? What do you want?
Marco: I want to know why you hurt me! How you, how you could just hurt me like that Dylan!
Dylan: I…I don’t know, but I’ve apologized and I’ve tried to make things better. So I’m not gonna keep beating myself up just because you’re stuck.
Marco: Oh I’m not stuck!
Dylan: You are. Date Tim. Play it safe. Date a bunch of guys. That doesn’t change the fact that everything comes down to you and me. Everything.
Outside, Marco and Tim are walking down the street
Tim: Dylan’s crazy. I mean what he said was totally out of line. I mean ‘cause you know, we’re good for each other, right?
Marco: Tim you’re great. You’re perfect actually and I’m…hey look I’m really proud of all the steps you’ve taken this year.
Tim: Well it’s all because of you and I’m thinking that you know you’re gonna be away next year, but-
Marco: Tim
Tim: -I’ll come visit and I got a bus schedule and I mapped out some times.
Marco: Tim! I, I wanted to move on. You and I, we connected, but I still-
Tim: Marco I get how difficult these things can be and how much Dylan meant to you.
Marco: That’s exactly the point. Tim he still does.
Tim: You used me.
Marco: No. No. No I wouldn’t do that. I’m really sorry.
Tim: Go back to your stupid, lying, cheating ex, ‘cause you know what Marco? You are perfect for him.
In a classroom
(Liberty is putting a bunch of items in a chest.)
Derek: So you’re both grounded for a month?
Danny: And I didn’t even get to see Liberty puke her guts out.
Liberty: Just what every kid needs to know. The inner workings of Degrassi.
(She puts an issue of the Grapevine inside.)
Derek: Well it’s a part of you, right?
JT: Here it is! Issue number 1 of the Crimson Kid.
Liberty: Comic book JT?
JT: Yeah! Do you have any idea how much that’s worth? It’s my most valuable possession and I want him to have it.
Liberty: Well I’d like it if both of you put something in as well. I want the baby to know he had lots of good people thinking of him.
Outside the school, Dylan pulls up
Marco: Dylan if you ever hurt me again I…
Dylan: I won’t. Hey even idiots grow up at some point. I’m a slob, okay? I’m reckless and I’m your exact opposite, but you mean everything to me Marco and I want another chance.
Marco: Uh you are such a jerk!
Dylan: What?! What, I…
(Marco pulls him in and they start kissing.)
Scenes for next week
Spinner: (To the camera) I’ll do anything for Darcy. Anything, but the one thing I can’t do is become a virgin again.
(Spinner and Darcy are sitting in the movie theatre.)
Spinner: When I was with Manny we did nothing together.
Darcy: You’re serious?
Voiceover: Betrayal.
(Manny is shown hugging Spinner and Darcy is giving an angry look.)
Manny: Oh my gosh Spinner you are my hero.
Voiceover: Jealousy.
(Manny walks over to Darcy angry and grabs her hair.)
Manny: You are the last person to ever call me that!
Voiceover: And rage.
(Manny and Darcy are shown fighting with each other.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x17 - Total Eclipse of the Heart"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside the Dot, Darcy is waiting in Spinner’s car
(Peter, Manny, Emma and Spinner walk out of the Dot.)
Emma: Later skater.
Manny: Thanks Spin.
Emma: Hey there’s Darcy.
Manny: Hey you should have come in for coffee!
Emma: What’s up?
Peter: Hey.
Spinner: Come on! I thought you guys would never leave. Go, go, go.
(They all leave and Spinner gets in the car.)
Spinner: Work, exams, work, exams. I needs me some Darcy.
(They start kissing.)
Darcy: I have something to show you. Kim got me a job as a counsellor.
Spinner: Darcy does summer camp. Sounds like my kind of movie. Sucks I’m gonna have to stay here in Toronto and miss it.
Darcy: With lots and lots of other girls around.
Spinner: Darcy I don’t want to be with anyone else. You’re everything to me.
(They start kissing again and Darcy pulls back.)
Darcy: Sorry Spinner. We can’t. We took a vow. We have to remain virgins ‘til marriage.
Spinner: Virgins. Yeah totally.
In the cafeteria
Emma: You’re chipper for someone who was on the phone with Craig until 3.
Manny: It’s you in the food line.
Emma: Beats the hospital. Yay therapy. Although compared to the caf, hospital food gets a bad rap.
Manny: Oh no. Food and drinks. We need refreshments for the variety show and I still don’t have a tech crew.
Peter: Manny you’re the director, the lead actor…
Emma: This is your show. Take charge.
Spinner: I’ve been reading blogs by Christian teens on abstinence. It’s all about prevention so we have to find ways to stay busy.
Manny: Okay all you Degrassi-ites, the variety show needs volunteers so come on everyone, show some support!
Danny: Take it off!
(Derek cheers and they give each other a high 5.)
Spinner: How perfect is this? Man when God answers prayers he is quick. Sign us up Manny.
(Manny hugs Spinner and Darcy gives an angry look.)
Manny: Oh my gosh, Spinner you are my hero.
(Darcy clears her throat.)
Manny: And you too Darcy.
In a classroom
Ms. Hatzilakos: So grad weekend is almost here and our fiftieth anniversary variety show’s coming together very nicely. Attention spans are zero so it must mean that it’s time for my post secondary preparedness class. First up, finances.
Paige: Um my hoped for University, Banting. Plethora of scholarships, but when it comes to me they haven’t been so accepty yet.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well acceptances are just trickling in and I’m sure when yours comes in Paige you’ll be prepared.
Paige: I’m prepared for a nervous breakdown if it doesn’t.
Alex: Maybe I’ll get a tattoo.
Paige: Hello discussing the future here. My future. As in things that could affect the rest of my life.
Alex: Or I could learn how to play the bass!
Paige: These are your future plans? Things that could happen next week?
Alex: It’s called living in the now and we both know the most important thing about the now is me.
At the movie theatre
Paige: Look the big envelope from Banting and everyone knows the big envelope means you get in and I did! I got in! We are so out of here.
Alex: You’re late and our boss has been breathing down my neck.
Paige: Um what part of we are so out of here didn’t you understand?
Alex: We? I didn’t get into Banting.
Customer: And don’t forget topping halfway and then again on top.
Paige: Well maybe you could come with. We could get our own cozy, little place.
Alex: Sounds cozy, but what would I actually do in Kingston?
Paige: You could work. Get a transfer from the movie theatre.
Customer: You can keep that topping coming, miss.
Alex: You’ll be studying your butt off and making new friends and I’ll still be dishing out popcorn?
Customer: Miss, do I need to show you what I mean by more topping myself?
(Alex presses the pump angrily a bunch of times.)
Alex: Can’t wait for your heart att*ck.
Customer: Next time you insult a customer, maybe not in front of your manager.
Manager: Alex can I see you in my office?
Inside the movie theatre, Darcy is kissing Spinner’s neck
Spinner: Stop. Stop.
Darcy: Do I have cooties all of a sudden?
Spinner: I just…I don’t want it to go too far, okay?
Darcy: I bet if Manny were here she’d be all over you, just like in the caf.
Spinner: Oh that was nothing. That’s just Manny’s way. She’s always like that.
Darcy: I can only imagine what she was like when you two were going out.
Spinner: Want a play by play?
Darcy: Spare me. I can barely stand the idea of you being with her and all.
Spinner: Truth is when I was with Manny we did nothing together. Zip.
Darcy: You’re serious?
Spinner: Yeah I wasn’t even into her that way. Her whole sexual past…just turned me off.
Darcy: So you’re really a virgin?
Spinner: I’m so virginal, Mary’s jealous.
Darcy: I feel so bad now about Manny. You know if she just repented and purified herself, her past could totally go away.
Spinner: You can do that?
Darcy: Yeah it’s a ceremonial thing. I think it could really help her.
Outside the theatre, Spinner is getting food
Spinner: Hey.
Paige: Candy and a chick flick? Someone’s got it bad.
Spinner: Yeah well it’s no Clown Academy 2, but if Darcy’s happy, I’m happy. But you’re not.
Paige: I’m great. Everything’s peachy.
(Spinner sees the pamphlets.)
Spinner: Banting?
Paige: You’re looking at their newest acceptee!
Spinner: Paige that’s awesome. Get over here!
(They hug.)
Spinner: Woah. Banting is like the Harvard of the north. I’m like so happy for you. This is so cool.
Paige: Oh candy’s on me. It’s my treat.
(Spinner leaves and Alex walks over.)
Alex: The evil one made me clean the bathrooms. Then she fired me.
Paige: For the topping incident?
Alex: Strike 3. Goodbye polyester, hello unemployment. I don’t want this stupid job. It’s time I move on. Do something else.
Paige: Anything in mind?
Alex: Right now? No. I just got fired. Can we lay off the career planning just for tonight? I have to go. See you tomorrow?
(They kiss and Alex leaves.)
In a jewellery store
Spinner: I saw these last night. They’re Claddagh rings. See when the heart faces the body it means commitment, being honest and true to each other.
Darcy: Spinner they’re beautiful.
(He puts the ring on her finger.)
Spinner: To our future together.
Darcy: I love it.
(They hug.)
At the variety show rehearsals
Manny: And one, two, three, four. Cut it.
(Spinner walks in and hugs Darcy.)
Manny: There’s my favourite techie. The lighting board needs a front. Get acquainted.
(Spinner walks over to the equipment.)
Manny: He so has a thing for cheerleaders. You’re number three…and a lock to lead the squad next year.
Darcy: You think so?
Manny: Yeah you’re pretty, you’re graceful, a natural dancer. Plus you didn’t get kicked off ‘cause everyone saw your boobs. So that’s a bonus.
Darcy: Manny I’ve been thinking, you know if you want a fresh start the door is always open at Friendship Club.
Manny: Um sweetie the nun lifestyle rules aren’t exactly my scene.
Darcy: Trust me. Anyone can change. I mean look at Spin. Prayer, abstinence, he’s a believer.
Manny: As in absti-no-sex? Kudos to you for making that happen with Spin. You must be a miracle worker.
Darcy: Wait. Um are you saying that you and Spinner have had sex?
Manny: Darcy, are you serious? What has he been telling you?
In Ms. Kwan’s class
Ms. Kwan: Congratulations on all your hard work. Believe me no matter what you do, you’ll thank me for your excellent communication skills. Alex.
(Alex looks at her test and sees a C.)
Alex: Thanks for nothing.
Jimmy: Oh A…! I am on f*re!
Paige: That will impress the pants off any admissions office.
Jimmy: I hope so because I’m a couple credits short and uh still all up in the air.
Alex: You don’t know exactly what’s gonna happen and the sky isn’t falling? Amazing!
Paige: She’s high on carpe diem. Side effect of being fired.
Alex: I’ll get another job or there’s always welfare.
Paige: Great plan Alex. That sounds like fun.
Alex: Fun. Do you even know what that is?
(Paige looks at her test and she got an A.)
Paige: This, this is fun. Do you realize how close I am to that scholarship?
Alex: You want fun? Let’s cut class tomorrow. Do something we’ve never done before. Something wild and crazy and totally nuts!
(Paige doesn’t say anything.)
Alex: Or there’s a sale on at the mall.
In the auditorium
Liberty: You’re starting with the 60s, then moving onto the 1800s? This is a mess.
Many: Okay it’s called creative liberty, Liberty and I am an actor, not a historian.
Liberty: Fine, but I don’t think Charlotte Degrassi had an MP3 player.
Manny: I need to steal your boyfriend Darcy.
Liberty: Nate has mono. Spinner you are Victor. Manny, Charlotte.
Spinner: Wait, wait, wait. I’m on lighting. I’m more of a behind the scenes kind of guy.
Liberty: Yeah the show’s in two days. We don’t have time to discuss this. Read now.
Spinner: Um Charlotte promise me you’ll be mine forever.
Manny: Of course Victor! Our love shall last a lifetime.
Spinner: Marry me Charlotte.
Manny: I will Victor. I will!
(They pretend to kiss each other jokingly and Darcy walks over angry.)
Darcy: What was that?
Manny: Um it’s just part of the sketch sweetie. It’s in the script.
Darcy: Manny I’m not stupid. You’re constantly flirting with my boyfriend. You still like him.
Spinner: Okay I’m back on lighting. Um who wants to be Manny’s acting partner? Anybody?
Darcy: Yeah not surprising.
Manny: What is that supposed to mean?
Darcy: Manny even you can become pure again. All it takes is repentance.
Manny: Yeah I’ll get right on that.
Darcy: Well you should considering you are the school’s biggest slut.
(Manny walks over to Darcy angry and grabs her hair.)
Manny: You are the last person to ever call me that!
(They start fighting as everyone around them watches.)
Spinner: Girls! Manny! Manny! Get off! Have you two gone completely psycho?
Darcy: You lied about being a virgin Spinner. She told me.
(Darcy pushes Spinner to the ground and leaves the room.)
Manny: What are you guys doing? Get, get back to work please. Get going. What are you guys staring at?
At the Dot
Marco: Okay, how’s this: Good morning ladies and gentlemen, friends and family, teachers and administrators-
Paige: Oh I think you left out the janitor.
Marco: Paige it’s a valedictorian speech. I want to be inclusive.
Spinner: Refills?
Marco: Woah. You look like you just lived through a country song.
Spinner: My dog is fine. Truck runs too.
Paige: Must be girl trouble.
Marco: No kidding. You didn’t hear about the Darcy/Manny cage match?
Spinner: Dude, don’t remind me. Darcy’s completely convinced that there’s something going on with me and Manny.
Paige: Jealousy is a nasty thing.
Spinner: Okay, but there’s nothing to be jealous of ‘cause I’m not cheating with Manny.
Paige: That’s besides the point hon. Darcy is jealous of your past, not your present. There’s nothing you can do, unless you can, I don’t know somehow create a time machine and erase that past.
At the mall, Alex hands Paige a CD
Alex: You should add this to your list. I think you might really like her.
Paige: Thanks hon. Um so, have you given any thought to you know Banting, future?
Alex: Nope. It’s months away. Why would it even be crossing my mind?
Paige: Because it’s important to have a plan, to know what’s going on, to have some sort of direction.
Alex: It’s also important to have fun, which by the way today has been completely and utterly lacking.
Paige: Fine. What’s fun? Show me.
Alex: I don’t know. Take that CD.
Paige: Excuse me?
Alex: You’ve never stolen anything in your life before, have you?
Paige: And I’m not about to start.
Alex: It’s a rush. Just try it.
Paige: No thank you, really.
(Alex puts the CD in Paige’s bag, the alarm goes off and Paige walks back in the store.)
Paige: Hi I’m sorry. That was, that was an accident.
At Friendship Club, Marco and Spinner are lighting candles
Marco: You sure you want to do this?
Spinner: Dude I’m sure, k. The question is what about you? I mean, you and Friendship Club didn’t exactly h*t it off.
Marco: Ah old news bud. I’m just, I’m happy you even asked me to help.
Darcy: Hey guys. What’s going on?
Spinner: You are my everything and right now in front of all our friends I want to start over, with a clean slate. I want to purify myself and become a virgin again.
Darcy: It’s not just a matter of saying it.
Spinner: Darcy I was up all night memorizing scripture. I want to do this. I Gavin Mason, promise to honour God with my body, will resist temptation and save myself for marriage.
Kim: Come now let us reason together says the lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
At the mall
Paige: That wasn’t funny. It was stupid and embarrassing.
Alex: Could you not be such a drama queen?
Paige: Can you not be so immature? I can’t do this.
Alex: Can’t do what?
Paige: This living in the moment thing. I need structure, plans, ideas and maybe just a little excitement about the future. Our future.
Alex: It’s your future Paige. Not mine.
Paige: What does that mean?
Alex: It means I have to figure out what I want, what’s good for me. Following you to Banting, working some crap minimum wage job and being your lapdog. Does that sound good?
(Paige shakes her head no.)
Alex: Maybe I’ll go to college, maybe I’ll join the army, maybe I’ll start a business. I don’t know, but I have to figure it out on my time table.
Paige: What are you trying to say?
Alex: I think you can figure it out. You always were the smart one Paige.
(Alex walks away upset.)
At a park, Darcy and Spinner are having a picnic
Spinner: Hmm smiling and chewing. That’s talent.
Darcy: I’m happy…for you ‘cause you get to start all over again.
Spinner: Well it feels good. It’s like being factory fresh. Man who would’ve thought I’d be a virgin again? Not after last summer.
Darcy: But wait. You and Manny were together during the school year. I don’t get it.
Spinner: Um Darcy. Manny, she was my first, but she wasn’t my last.
Darcy: How many exactly?
Spinner: Two.
Darcy: You had sex with two other girls?
Spinner: Yeah, but that was before I met you, before I found Christ. Since then I’ve done nothing wrong.
Darcy: But you lied!
Spinner: So I’m still cleansed. It’s all good.
Darcy: No it’s not. How am I ever gonna trust you? You lied to me Spinner.
Spinner: This whole thing it’s not, it’s not about lying or, or God or anything except you and your stupid jealousy.
Darcy: Whatever. Believe what you want to believe.
Spinner: You know what I believe Darcy? I believe I will never be clean enough, not for you.
(Spinner takes off his ring and gives it to Darcy.)
Spinner: We’re through, okay? It’s over.
At Alex’s house
(Alex walks in and sees Jay on the couch.)
Jay: I’m not here to bug you, okay? I’m, I’m watching the game with Chad…or I was before he passed out. You look like you got h*t by a bus.
Alex: Paige Michalchuk break-up express.
Jay: You looking for a shoulder to cry on…or maybe just a quick rebound?
Alex: Jay I’m not bi. I’m not confused. I’m a lesbian, an actual lesbian who just broke up with her first girlfriend and it sucks.
Jay: I’m sorry. It’s one of the first times I’ve said I’m sorry and actually meant it.
Alex: It’s one of the first times you said sorry and I actually believed you.
Jay: Um do you want to watch some TV with me? No funny business, just friends hanging out.
Alex: Fine.
At the Dot
(Spinner closes the door so that he and Paige are the only ones in there.)
Spinner: Hot date with your course calendar?
Paige: Um Alex and I broke up. I just needed to be alone.
Spinner: Welcome to Splitsville. You’re in the right place.
Paige: You too?
Spinner: Man I wish I was getting out of here like you.
Paige: Do not envy me. Sure I got into Banting, but what if I blow it? What if everyone sees that I am just this, this big faker who doesn’t belong there?
Spinner: Paige you totally belong there. Take it from someone who knows, k? You’re amazing. You always have been.
Paige: Thanks.
Spinner: No extra charge.
(Spinner looks at his watch.)
Spinner: Oh man the time. Uh can I drive you home?
Paige: Sure. That’d be great Spin.
(Paige stands up and Spinner is about to help her put on her shirt when they start kissing.)
Scenes for next week
Spinner: What is your damage man?
Jimmy: My damage man is you!
Voiceover: Bitter rivalries.
(Jimmy and Spinner are shown fighting.)
Paige: Last night I uh, I might have made out with Spinner.
Hazel: Spinner?
Voiceover: Steamy affairs and a shocking reunion.
(Someone’s legs are shown walking towards Jimmy.)
Jimmy: You’ve got to be kidding me.
Voiceover: It’s the end of an era.
(Everyone is shown graduating.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: And now without further ado Degrassi’s graduating class. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x18 - High Fidelity"} | foreverdreaming |
In the auditorium during rehearsals
Marco: Okay so then the red lights, they come up hitting Darcy stage left.
Spinner: Got it. Red lights, Paige left. Red light, Darcy left… I’m sorry. My, my mind is just preoccupied this morning.
Marco: What? Hot date with Darcy last night? After that bizarre, yet strangely moving re-virginizing ceremony.
Spinner: Depends. Would you define hot date as brutal fight and break up?
Marco: No I wouldn’t. You okay?
Spinner: Last night after the break up I kissed somebody. Somebody who wasn’t Darcy.
Paige: Hey guys.
Spinner: Hey stage. Paige.
Paige: Um hun you think you’d know my name by now. I mean really.
Spinner: Of course I know your name Paige. I know tons about you! I know your birthday, I know your favourite food. I know…
(He falls backwards off the stage.)
Paige: Take it from someone who knows Spin, toking before school ends in tragedy.
Marco: (Whispering) Hey! It wasn’t you and Paige was it?!
(Spinner gives him a thumbs up sign when Darcy walks over.)
Spinner: Darcy.
Darcy: Take me back. I’m sorry for being such a jealous freak, but I’m over it.
(She kisses him.)
Darcy: Just consider it. Consider me.
In the hallway, Paige and Hazel are giving out yearbooks
Hazel: So if you and Alex want to, a bunch of girls are going for fondue.
Paige: Nice of you to ask, but uh Alex isn’t so fondue of me. We broke up.
Hazel: Paige.
Paige: It’s okay. I mean I care about her tons, but we were so not right. Besides last night I um, I might have made out with Spinner…a little bit.
Hazel: Spinner? But I just got used to you being a lesbian.
Paige: This isn’t about you. It’s about me and right now I’m about being free to date who I want to date. Girl or boy.
(Toby is waiting for a yearbook and overhears their conversation.)
Paige: Yearbook Toby? And BTW what you hear at yearbook table, stays at yearbook table.
Toby: Just so you know I totally support your freedom to date whomever…and BTW, I’m totally available.
(He mouths call me.)
Outside Ms. Hatzilakos’ office
(Someone’s legs are shown walking towards Jimmy.)
Jimmy: You’ve got to be kidding me. The ghost of Ashley Kerwin. How you doing?
(They hug.)
Ashley: I’m no ghost. I’m the real thing. You look great.
Jimmy: So you’re here! Uh did you finally get tired of London or…?
Ashley: I could never get tired of London. You know, but I got tired of missing home. I’ve had some schools there, but couldn’t find anything quite like this.
Jimmy: Yeah. I guess it’s kind of hard to find a school with such a unique combo of sh**t and gonorrhoea outbreaks.
Ashley: Okay yeah some bad stuff’s happened here, but there’s some good people here too. Like Jimmy Brooks.
Jimmy: Oh well thank you very much, but don’t get too used to him because I’m gonna be out again next year, hopefully.
Ashley: Oh that’s too bad. I was kind of hoping we could be classmates again. Talking to Ms. Hatzilakos about maybe coming back next year.
Mr. Simpson: Ms. Kerwin’s back in town! Hey! Hey Jimmy she’s all yours.
Jimmy: Okay. Um we gotta catch up later, okay?
In Ms. Hatzilakos’ office
Ms. Hatzilakos: So I have to congratulate you Jimmy. You put a lot of work in this year.
Jimmy: Well thank you Ms. H. My coach says you know it’s important to be motivated and I was definitely motivated. It’s really, it’s really important for me to graduate this year and uh I know I missed a lot of school for physio, but I figured there was some way you could swing this.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I’m sorry Jimmy. You simply don’t have the credits. I can’t work miracles.
In the hallway
(Jimmy drops his books and Spinner helps him pick them up.)
Spinner: Hey. Looks like you could use a hand.
Jimmy: I’m fine thanks. I said I’m fine, thank you!
Spinner: Just wanted to help man.
Jimmy: You want to help me? Why don’t you transfer to another school? So I don’t have to see your stupid face next year. That would help a little bit.
Spinner: What is your damage man?
Jimmy: My damage man is you Gavin.
(Jimmy pushes Spinner and they start fighting.)
Marco: Hey woah! Relax. Chill. Can’t we just get through the rest of the year without any more drama?
Spinner: Ask him that!
In the foyer
(Toby walks by Ashley nudging her and she playfully pushes him back.)
Ellie: Ash! Some best friend. You couldn’t have e-mailed?
Ashley: What and ruin the surprise? You look amazing El!
Ellie: Likewise. Who else got to see you so far?
Ashley: Most of the old g*ng. Uh Jimmy, Paige, Hazel, no sign of Craig though.
Ellie: He’s in Vancouver recording the big solo record extravaganza.
Ashley: Really? Wow. I guess I knew he was always destined for greatness.
Ellie: Don’t be so sure. He’s dating Manny.
Ashley: Ew. That makes me vaguely itchy.
Ellie: Me too. Of course it could just be label chafe. New shirt and all. So how’s Alistair, aka Ali, aka your London lad?
Ashley: It was good and then it was bad and then it was over. How about you?
Ellie: Oh I’m crushing on someone as usual, but um it’ll never happen…as usual.
At the Dot
Marco: Spin these things, they will work themselves out.
Darcy: Hey Spin. Cup of coffee to go?
(Spinner starts pouring her a drink.)
Darcy: I heard about the big freakshow with Jimmy and I’m sorry ‘cause I know how much he means to you.
Spinner: Whatever. I’m done with that guy.
Darcy: Spinner that’s the biggest lie. I know you would give everything you have just to be friends with him again. So don’t give up. He’ll come around. I know it.
Spinner: Listen Darce, if you’re still cool with it today we’re back together.
(They kiss.)
Darcy: Oh I brought you something, just in case.
(She hands him his ring and he puts it on.)
Spinner: I’ll never take it off.
Darcy: Sugar I have to go pack for bible camp, but maybe after we can celebrate?
Spinner: You got it.
Marco: Okay now you have to tell-
Spinner: Yeah I know. I got to call Paige. Go over there after work and break the bad news.
At a restaurant
Ashley: Who knew you had so much beauty stored up inside?
Ellie: Have you seen the ultra-disturbing, violent horror stuff?
Jimmy: Ellie Nash, my biggest fan.
Ellie: I so am and you know it. Oh I’m late for a movie. See ya.
(She hugs Ashley before leaving.)
Jimmy: Bye.
Ashley: You two look cozy.
Jimmy: We’re just friends Ash.
Ashley: Yeah, but you want it to be more.
Jimmy: Okay. So maybe I do, but whatever. It’s pointless. She’s not into me.
Ashley: Well what makes you so sure?
Jimmy: What’s ten pounds, metal and vinyl, has two wheels?
Ashley: Yeah, but until you mentioned it just now I completely forgot you were even in a chair.
Jimmy: That’s because you’re sitting. It’ll become more apparent when you stand.
Ashley: Alright, but don’t get too down on yourself ‘cause you’re not the only one with a crush. I think she’s crushing on you too Romeo. She pretty much told me so.
At Paige’s house
(Spinner knocks on her bedroom door before opening it.)
Spinner: You decent? Dylan let me in.
Paige: Oh my god Spin. You have to look at this old yearbook right this minute.
Spinner: Okay I, I thought we could talk though.
Paige: Sure hun. Please just indulge me first and feast your eyes on this.
(She shows him a picture of them with the title ‘couple of the year’.)
Spinner: Check it out! We were couple of the year.
Paige: Uh how could we not be? We were unbelievably super adorable.
(They look at some more pictures.)
Spinner: There we are. The old g*ng.
Paige: We ran that school, remember?
Spinner: You ever just wish you had a time machine? I just want to go back, you know? Before it all went, all went to crap.
Paige: Spin. Just so you know, I never blamed you for what happened with Jimmy.
Spinner: Do you mean that?
(She nods and leans in.)
Spinner: Paige…
(They start making out and Paige takes his shirt off.)
Outside the school
(JT and Toby are changing the sign to say ‘graduation weekend 50 years of Degrassi’. Toby puts up ‘ass’ before the rest of the letters in Degrassi and they laugh.)
JT: That’s really mature.
Toby: Yeah well it’s still funny.
In Mr. Simpson’s class, Paige hands him a gift
Paige: In honour of our last class sir we give you this. A little merci gift.
(Everyone starts clapping.)
Mr. Simpson: What?! Come on guys. Someone’s in a good mood. I just hope we can all get a little bit of whatever’s gotten into you Paige.
Paige: I’m not sure that’s advisable sir.
Mr. Simpson: Oh guys this is so perfect. You have no idea how much I love karaoke. I’ll dig out my Elvis wig, f*re up the mic and see if I can’t get myself into some sort of county fair Elvis impersonator contest. I’ll be tall, lanky Elvis.
(While Mr. Simpson is talking, Spinner is outside the class texting Marco.)
Spinner: (His message) Something happened with Paige!
Marco: (His message) What exactly?
Spinner: (His message) EVERYTHING! We went ALL THE WAY!
In the auditorium
Darcy: Spin here you are. I’ve been calling you for ages.
Spinner: Oh my phone. The ringer’s off.
Darcy: Well where were you last night? We said we were gonna celebrate…
Spinner: I know. I know. I was, I was arranging a going away gift for you.
Darcy: That’s so sweet, but you know I would have easily traded a gift to get to see you last night.
(Spinner hugs her while looking at Paige.)
Spinner: Break a leg out there okay?
In the auditorium, during the show
JT: Welcome everybody to Herbal Essences presents: 50 years of Degrassi! I am your host Sir Phillip Degrassi.
Manny: And I am his lovely daughter Charlotte.
JT: And today we’re taking you on a magical, history tour.
Manny: Starting with 1968, please welcome to the stage Darcy Edwards and her love parade!
(Darcy starts her performance while Peter is filming, Emma is watching, and Paige and Spinner are looking at each other.)
Outside the auditorium
Spinner: Paige.
Paige: Hold on.
(Paige walks over to him.)
Spinner: I’ve been looking everywhere for you.
Paige: Me too. Uh I just wanted to say merci.
Spinner: For what?
Paige: Last night dorkus! It felt like the right way to end school. Just don’t forget about me, okay?
Spinner: I wasn’t planning on it. I was kind of hoping that um…
Paige: Woah. Hun. You’re not serious? We’re both moving on, but I will always have the bestest memories of my first real boyfriend, you.
(She kisses him on the cheek before walking away.)
Spinner: You…you used me for my body.
Inside the auditorium
Emma: Manny that was awesome. Do not forget us when you’re on Broadway.
(Emma and Manny hug and Peter hands Manny a tape.)
Peter: Show your agent. Maybe it’ll help get you there.
Manny: You taped it?
Peter: Yeah. I used my powers for good this time.
Manny: Thanks.
(Emma and Manny hug again.)
In another area of the auditorium
Jimmy: Ellie hi.
Ellie: What’s up?
Jimmy: You look great. I mean you always look great, but tonight you look great!
Ellie: Oh hey I was just wondering, how do I look? Could it maybe be great?
(Jimmy laughs nervously then stops.)
Jimmy: Um look you’ve become one of my best friends, right and you’ve opened my eyes to a lot of things. I wanted to know if maybe we could talk about taking it to the next level…
(Ellie doesn’t say anything.)
Jimmy: But you don’t.
Ellie: Jimmy I’m sorry…I-
Jimmy: Don’t be. It’s not completely unexpected. I’m gonna go, okay?
Ashley: El what happened? I thought you said you were crushing on someone.
Ellie: He’s not the guy Ash.
During the party after the show
(Paige and Marco are dancing and Liberty and JT are dancing.)
Darcy: Come on. Dance with me! You’ve been a total weirdo all night.
Spinner: Darcy I’m an idiot.
Darcy: What are you talking about Spin?
Spinner: It’s your gift. Okay, it didn’t come. I’ve been texting back and forth with the guy. He just bailed, the jerk.
Darcy: Seeing as I have to wait the whole summer, maybe you could give me the teeniest of hints?
Spinner: Good things come to those who wait. I’m gonna go get us some drinks.
(Darcy sits down on Spinner’s phone and opens it up.)
In the hallway, Ashley is running after Jimmy
Ashley: Jimmy! Jimmy wait. I’m sorry. Please this is all my fault.
Jimmy: Look Ashley it’s fine. Really. Okay?
Ashley: No Jimmy. Jimmy it’s not. Look you’re an amazing guy. You deserve to be with someone who adores you.
Jimmy: Look I’m gonna let you in on a secret. Girls don’t date guys in wheelchairs.
(He starts to leave, but she stops him and kisses him.)
Ashley: You were saying?
In the auditorium
(Spinner walks over to Darcy who is holding his cell phone.)
Darcy: I wanted to know what my gift was.
Spinner: Darcy you didn’t read my texts…
Darcy: Some gift Spinner. Special.
(She gives him his cell phone and her ring and starts crying.)
Darcy: You suck.
At the graduation commencement
Marco: And now as we head off in every direction let us remember the ties we have to each other and to Degrassi because the best thing about the past, is that it’s just, it’s a huge part of the future. So to the future, to us. We did it guys.
(Everyone starts cheering.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Thank you Marco for a wonderful speech and now without further ado I’d like to welcome to the stage Degrassi’s graduating class of 2006.
(She starts calling up the students alphabetically.)
Jimmy: So there they go. Our class onto a brighter future.
Spinner: You should have been up there man.
Jimmy: It’ll be our turn next year, right?
Spinner: Sorry, are we actually having a conversation?
Jimmy: Look um, I spent a lot of time this year blaming people. You especially and uh that was wrong and I’m sorry.
Spinner: Jimmy, I…
Jimmy: It’s cool. I know.
Spinner: I gotta go. Peace.
(Spinner leaves and then comes back to give Jimmy a big hug.)
Outside
(Spinner is driving to where the bus is leaving for bible camp.)
Spinner: Darcy! Listen just one minute please. Listen what I did…what I did was horrible, but I swear I will make it up to you.
Darcy: Spinner you broke your vow.
Spinner: I know. So that’s why all I can do is ask, beg for your forgiveness.
Darcy: I’m not sure that I can. Not this time.
Kim: We have to go Darcy.
Spinner: Darce please.
Darcy: I’m really not sure.
(She leaves to get on the bus.)
Spinner: If she turns around to look before she gets on, I’ll be okay.
(She turns around and Spinner lets out a deep breath before smiling.)
Back at graduation
(Everyone is hugging each other and Craig walks over to Manny.)
Craig: You miss me? Hey.
(They hug.)
Manny: You know it. I can’t believe you came!
Craig: Like I’d miss this for the world.
(Ashley and Ellie hug before looking at Craig who waves and Ellie looks down.)
(The graduating class throws their hats in the air.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "05x19 - High Fidelity Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
Transcript by Starsprite22
At a restaurant, Peter and Emma are having lunch with Peter's dad
Emma: I just love it here. I mean the view is amazing.
Mr. Stone: My pleasure. Glad you could help us celebrate Pete's 17. That's an important day. Got to have your friends around.
Peter: Oh dad. The guy made a mistake. That's not your car.
Mr. Stone: You're right son. It's not. Happy birthday.
(He hands Peter the keys to a new car)
Peter: You're kidding!
Mr. Stone: Nope. Now I know your birthday's not for two days. Here, here, here. But I wanted you to have it for the first day of school.
(Peter hugs his dad excitedly)
Mr. Stone: You're welcome. Here let's take it for a spin.
(Peter's driving the car with Emma in the passenger seat )
Peter: I can't believe this car is mine. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
(Peter and Emma kiss as Jay and Sean walk over)
Sean: Emma?
Emma: Sean? What are you doing here?
Sean: I moved back. I'm with Jay now.
Jay: Easy Brokeback Mountain. He means he's sleeping on my couch.
(Peter makes a coughing sound)
Emma: Oh Peter, this is Sean. Sean this is Peter, my boyfriend.
Sean: Oh. How's it going man?
Peter: So you're the Sean?
Sean: Guess so.
(Peter puts his arm around Emma)
Sean: Well see you guys at school tomorrow.
Emma: You're back at Degrassi?
Outside Degrassi, Toby, Liberty and JT are walking up to the school
JT: Well here we are. The first day of our last year. Thank Jehovah.
Liberty: The year that'll be the crowning achievement of my academic career.
Toby: I think I hear someone's valedictorian speech coming on.
(They walk past Jimmy and Spinner)
Jimmy. Check out our new classmates. Serious mathletes.
Spinner: Yeah. Good thing though 'cause with Marco gone, I gotta copy my tests off someone.
(Ashley walks over)
Jimmy: Looking fine Ms. Kerwin.
Ashley: Well you know somebody's got to make up for Spinner.
(Ashley playfully hits Spinner with her bag when he sees Darcy walking over)
Spinner: Hi queen bee. Spare some honey?
Darcy: For my king? Anytime.
(Darcy kisses Spinner on the cheek)
Darcy: After being away at bible camp the whole summer I'm so over it. Ready to take this place over, Spin?
Spinner: Ready as I'll never be.
In the parking lot, Peter is showing off his new car
Peter: Yo dudes, check out my whip!
Random guy: Yeah whatever.
Peter: I mean my car. Pretty fly huh?
(Some guys walk by laughing at him)
Peter: Ah thought a new ride would give me some props around here.
Manny: Maybe if you didn't say props. Kidding. I'm gonna go say hi to Sean's biceps.
Peter: Check out Mr. Stud. Degrassi's big-time heartthrob.
Emma: Please. Sean's got a tire iron for a brain.
Peter: Yeah well girls like biceps, not brains. You should know. You dated him for years.
Emma: Well I couldn't care less now. Not when I've got brains, biceps, beauty and a hot car all rolled up in one.
(They kiss)
Emma: I made you an early birthday present.
(Emma gives Peter a toque that she knitted)
Peter: You made this for me?
Emma: Uh huh.
Peter: Thanks. I don't know what to say.
Emma: Oh that I'm gorgeous, perfect and you'll love me forever.
Peter: Yes, yes and yes.
In Mr. Simpson's class
Mr. Simpson: Well as I live and breathe, Sean Cameron.
Sean: Mr. Simpson, it's really good to see you man.
(Manny goes over to Emma who's looking up Degrassi's social event planner online)
Manny: Social event planner. What happened to the real Emma Nelson?
Emma: She's thinking of the real Peter Stone. You know how hard it is for Peter to make friends, so I figured if he got more involved it would be easier.
(Manny is staring at Sean who is talking to Spinner)
Emma: You're so not listening to me.
Manny: Sean Cameron, bench-press has been so, so good to you.
Emma: I'm gonna tell Craig you said that.
Manny: Feel free if you can ever get him on the phone.
Mr. Simpson: Alright! Let me start off by saying welcome to the 12th grade. This is the start of the most important year for you guys in your high school lives.
(Emma and Sean stare at each other from across the room)
At Marco and Dylan's new apartment
Marco: What do you think about Medieval Lit: Monsters in the Mist?
Ellie: Mm no. Let's not take any courses where they make us read Beowulf. Ooh hockey art. Dylan's I presume?
Marco: Yup. You know if you moved in we could out vote him on matters of d飯r.
Dylan: I heard that!
Ellie: And when it comes to matters of leaving the toilet seat up, thank you no. Residence waiting shall remain my friend.
Paige: Okay I know Marco likes four sugars and Ellie takes her coffee black, like her soul.
Ellie: How I'll miss your cutting jibes when you leave for Banting, Paige. Not that I'm counting the days, but when?
Paige: Can you count to two? And to think that no one has thought of throwing me a going away party. Hint. Hint. Double hint.
Dylan: Uh Marco someone's supposed to be moving in here in two days. Hint, double hint.
Ellie: Funny 'cause someone's also supposed to be deciding on university courses with me.
Marco: Okay mom, dad, relax. I'm all over it, okay?
(He takes a sip of the coffee Paige hands him and makes a face)
Marco: Sweet mother Mary, this is mud!
Paige: Yeah your new roomie is java-ly challenged. Have a cookie.
Outside the school, Manny and Sean are talking while Peter and Emma are working on his car
Manny: She's pretty gorgeous, huh?
Sean: Yeah she is.
(Manny smacks Sean's arm)
Sean: Ow.
Manny: Don't even think about it. Emma's finally in a good place and she doesn't need you ruining it.
Sean: I wasn't planning on it.
Manny: I'm serious. Last year was non-stop Emma-drama-rama. This year she needs to be 100% stress free. Got it?
Sean: Yeah I got it.
(Emma and Peter are arguing about his car parts)
Emma: It doesn't fit.
Peter: Yeah, but it has to!
Sean: Woah! Hey Peter. Hold on a sec. What are you doing? You can't force the filter in like that. You'll never get a proper seal. Just trust me. This is what I do.
Peter: I was just trying to make it go faster.
Emma: It's already pretty fast. How much faster do you want?
Peter: As fast as humanly possibly.
Sean: You know if you want I can hook you up with real mods.
Peter: Yeah that'd be alright.
Sean: Yeah? Sweet. Alright well it all starts with more fuel. Once we do that, we can up your boost. This is what you need. Now I have to head to Woodbridge so meet me later.
Peter: Out where the street races are.
Emma: The illegal street races. Emphasis on illegal.
Sean: Come on. It's just a little fun. What you got against that?
Emma: Nothing. I'm all about fun. I love fun. In fact, if fun were people, I would be China.
Sean: Okay.
At Woodbridge, a bunch of people are hanging out when Peter, Emma and Manny drive up
Jay: Poindexter's in his daddy's car and he's waving at us. Explain.
Sean: That's Peter, Emma's boyfriend. That's not his dad's car, that's his. We're gonna mod it.
Jay: What? Why? Why would we do that?
Alex: What's that phrase, keep your friends close, your enemies closer?
Sean: Whatever Alex.
Jay: Oh lord forgive my sinful thoughts.
Sean: Hey Emma's my friend, alright? And you're gonna stay clear of her. Got it?
Peter: Hey. I got the part. Hope it fits.
Sean: Looks good. Let's try it out.
(Sean and Peter keep talking about cars as Emma shakes her head)
At a coffee shop, Marco and Ellie are sitting there
Spinner: Ah picking university courses. Must be nice.
Ellie: Don't get too excited. Falcult?
Marco: Foucault.
Ellie: Foucault and Postmodernist Marxist Theory. What does that even mean?
Spinner: Do not ask me.
(Paige rushes in and Spinner gives her an awkward smile as he walks away)
Paige: Marco! Party ideas por vous.
Marco: Uh Paige I do have a few things I'm trying to juggle here.
Paige: I know silly, which is why I did some pre-selecting por vous. Hence the uh panoply of pretty, sticky flags.
Marco: You're going to Banting, not to w*r.
Paige: Sue me for wanting to get everyone together one last time.
Marco: What do you mean one last time?
Paige: Um you, me, Ellie, we're all starting new lives. Who knows? We need one last goodbye hurrah.
Marco: Okay. Okay so I'll then prepare thyself for the most rockingest bon voyage party in history. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x01 - Here Comes Your Man"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside, Sean pulls up to Emma’s house
Sean: Woo. Emma plus Sean is never boring. First that car race, then that kiss. It just felt so right and…
Emma: And I have a boyfriend and I feel terrible. I don’t do this. I’m not that kind of girl.
Sean: I know. That’s why I like respect you and whatever.
Emma: Well I’m glad I have your respect or whatever.
Sean: I have more than just respect for you. You know that, right?
Emma: Peter’s inside. I have to go.
(Emma goes inside to find Peter.)
Emma: Hello?
Peter: So she made it home in one piece. Where’s Sean? Is he coming in?
Emma: Um no. He’s just leaving. He had to go.
Peter: Oh man I wanted to see what he thought about the big race. Me beating Jay was awesome, wasn’t it?
(Peter kisses Emma.)
Emma: Until the cops crashed the party.
Manny: So your cell phone was off. We’ve been calling. We were worried.
Peter: She was worried, not me.
Outside Degrassi
(Peter walks up to the school dressed like Sean.)
Spinner: Yo Eminem! Where’s D12?
Jimmy: Degrassi’s newest MC: Too White, Too Furious.
Peter: Yo Cam-Shaw. Sup dawg? You down for another race tonight?
Sean: You sure Emma doesn’t mind being dragged to the street races again?
Peter: She’d rather bludgeon a baby seal. That’s why it’s just me and you, my man.
Sean: I got calculus. I’m sorry.
Peter: I can help man. I’m pretty smart.
Sean: Thanks, but no thanks.
(Sean walks away.)
At Manny and Emma’s lockers
Manny: Heard the weather report for today?
Emma: Sunny with partial clouds. Slight chance of calculus before lunch.
Manny: More like dark, stormy, chance of street racing in the afternoon, followed by more secret make out sessions with Sean.
Emma: Stick to acting Manny ‘cause you’re a lousy weather girl.
Manny: So you’re saying nothing happened.
Emma: For the zillionth time, yes! I mean no. I’m with Peter. Sean is totally not even anything.
Manny: So who’s acting now?
(Emma starts walking to class and bumps into Sean.)
Sean: Hey! Come on.
(Sean pulls Emma into an empty classroom.)
Emma: Are you crazy? We’re gonna be late for homeroom!
Sean: Just give me a second. I have to give you something.
(Sean hands Emma a box containing a pair of earrings.)
Emma: They’re gorgeous, but how do I possibly explain them to Peter?
(She hands them back to Sean.)
Sean: I hadn’t thought about that.
Emma: There are a lot of nice, attractive girls at Degrassi.
Sean: Thanks mom.
Emma: Or what about Ellie? You guys were hot and heavy for a while.
Sean: Forget Ellie. I know who I want. I think you do too.
At Ellie and Marco’s college
Residence worker: Three residence spots have opened up. Allan, Michelle: room 206. Aquiar, Colin: room 416. And Nash, Eleanor.
Marco and Ellie: Nash!
(Marco and Ellie hug excitedly.)
Marco: Yes. Congrats Eleanor.
(Ellie takes her key.)
Ellie: Thank you!
(Ellie and Marco are walking to Ellie’s room when a shirtless guy walks by.)
Guy: Hey.
Ellie: Hi.
(Ellie and Marco look at each other excitedly before Ellie opens her door.)
Ellie: Um…
Marco: Well it’s cozy and hey you have a roommate…from yesteryear.
Amberley: Eleanor? I’m your new roomie Amberley.
Ellie: Ellie actually.
(Ellie sticks out her hand and Amberley gives her a big hug.)
Ellie: Um this is my friend Marco.
Amberley: Oh cute. You’d better tie your scarf around the doorknob when he’s over.
Marco: Hi I’m gay.
Amberley: Oh my god, really? Eleanor you are already so much cooler than my last roommate. Such a sourpuss! Oh!
(Amberley pulls out a photo album with their names written across the front.)
Amberley: It’s for all the amazing memories we’re gonna be making this year.
Marco: Amberley, uh Eleanor here is just super duper at making memories. You two are gonna be so happy together.
(Amberley takes out her camera phone and takes a picture of the three of them.)
Ellie: Happy. Yay.
At Degrassi
Manny: What’s with the frown, miss mopey?
(Emma gives her a look but doesn’t say anything.)
Manny: Em! You said nothing happened.
Emma: I sort of lied. Just don’t punch me, okay? My arm is still hurting from yesterday.
Manny: Why Em? Why? It was all going so well. You and Peter were perfect.
Emma: Manny you never liked Peter.
Manny: Still don’t, at all. But he’s been good to you, especially when you were sick.
Emma: Like I don’t feel guilty enough.
Manny: It’s not about guilt. It’s about you not messing up your life. You are not going back to rexyville Emma Nelson. Not on my watch.
Emma: I won’t. I promise. I just, I have a little romantic dilemma, which I’ll figure out, okay?
(Emma and Sean smile at each other from across the room.)
In Ellie’s dorm room
(Amberley is unpacking Ellie’s stuff, sees a depressing picture and hides it.)
Ellie: I got dripped on by something green and living on the bathroom ceiling.
Amberley: Ugh fungus mold. Icky wicky.
Ellie: Is this supposed to be food?
Amberley: Uh some kind of delicious chowder?
Ellie: Looks like somebody already ate it.
Amberley: Well you’re taking journalism right? Sounds like your first article.
Ellie: What happened to my print?
Amberley: Print? I hope no one stole it.
Ellie: My things. You, you unpacked them?
Amberley: Sometimes people need a push. That’s what my Gran-Gran says and Gran-Gran knows everything.
Outside Degrassi, Peter pulls up next to Emma
Peter: Boo. Hey uh you took off after school. I wanted to give you a lift.
(Emma shrugs.)
Peter: Yeah so Sean totally bailed on me. So you wanna hang? I mean go to the races?
Emma: Rain check. I, I just need to be by myself tonight.
(Peter stops his car and gets out.)
Peter: Em. What’s going on? You’re eating right? I didn’t see you at lunch.
Emma: Yes I am eating. I wasn’t at lunch because I just need my own space right now.
Peter: What do you mean space? From me?
Emma: I just think maybe we should take a little hiatus. Nothing major.
Peter: You’re kidding, right?
Emma: Sorry. I just need a break. It’s nothing to freak over.
Peter: Don’t tell me not to freak. You’re dumping me!
Emma: I didn’t say I was! You’re not understanding me.
Peter: I think I am. It’s Sean, isn’t it? I’m so stupid. How could I trust that guy?!
Emma: Peter, stop it. It’s not Sean’s fault. I don’t even know how it happened.
Peter: Well did you have sex with him?
Emma: No! I can’t believe you’d even ask me that. I’m not some kind of slut.
Peter: Could have fooled me.
(Emma starts to walk away angry.)
Peter: Look Em I didn’t mean it. Okay fine. Good luck with Sean. He’s not who you think he is.
(Peter kicks his tire angrily.)
At Ellie’s college, Ellie walks into the newspaper office
Jesse: If you’re looking for free condoms, health clinic’s next door.
Ellie: No I’m good, thanks. I was wondering how to get something published.
Jesse: Found the right person. I’m Jesse, editor. Written before?
Ellie: Co-op stuff that I did in high school.
Jesse: Frosh? Yeah we don’t usually give assignments to freshmen. Not unless they have something totally genius.
Ellie: Well I do have something. Um it’s a first person reportage on dorm life. I think it’s kind of funny.
(Jesse looks at it for a second.)
Jesse: Not laughing.
Ellie: Gets better.
(He puts it down and doesn’t say anything.)
Ellie: So I’ll just leave it there and maybe you’ll read it.
(Jesse nods dismissively.)
Ellie: But if you do print it, um it’s gotta be anonymous. I was kind of a little bit harsh. A lot harsh.
Jesse: Still here?
(Ellie gives him a dirty look and leaves.)
In a classroom, Ms. Hatzilakos walks into the room
Ms. Hatzilakos: Sean Cameron?
(They start walking towards his locker.)
Sean: There’s nothing in there, Ms. H.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I told you I’m just following up on a tip, so let’s get this over with.
(Ms. Hatzilakos opens his locker and sees a bag of weed.)
Sean: That’s not mine! Ms. H I swear to you. You have to believe me.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I think the evidence speaks for itself.
Outside Degrassi, Sean is leaving angry and Emma follows him out
Emma: Sean wait! Wait.
Sean: I’m suspended indefinitely. I, I don’t get it. Who would do this? Who would plant drugs in my locker? Who hates me that much? Did you tell Peter about us?
Emma: Yes, but…
Sean: He did this!
Emma: That’s ridiculous.
Sean: Yeah? He’s the principal’s son. He probably figured some way to get into my locker.
Emma: Do you know how paranoid that sounds?
Sean: Then who? Who else planted it?
(Emma doesn’t say anything.)
Sean: Oh. You think they’re mine. You think I actually sell drugs?
Emma: No, but you did buy me some very expensive earrings.
Sean: I can’t believe you. I can’t believe you just called me a drug dealer.
Emma: I didn’t.
Sean: You know what Emma? Go to hell!
In the newspaper office, Jesse opens up the newspaper to Ellie’s story
Ellie: There I am. There I really am. Jesse I said the by-line had to be anonymous.
Jesse: Why, you don’t stand by what you wrote?
Ellie: But I trashed the housing department, the administration-
Jesse: And that roommate of yours! Gran-Gran. Ah you’re right. It was funny.
Ellie: Won’t be to her.
Jesse: Hey you want to be a journalist, that’s the name of the game. It’s about telling the truth, no matter what.
(Ellie sighs.)
Jesse: Frosh I’ll make it up to you, okay? You can cover the tuition rally.
Ellie: Like an actual news story?
Jesse: Still here?
(Ellie nods excitedly.)
At Degrassi, Emma is sitting by herself
Peter: Hey. Heard the news. How’s Sean? Where is he?
Emma: Probably far away from here.
Peter: Well if you speak to him, tell him I’ll do whatever I can. I’ll talk to my mom. I’ll do anything.
Emma: Did you know about this? I mean the drugs.
Peter: I knew he was into some stuff, yeah. I just didn’t know how deep.
Emma: He thinks you did it.
Peter: What? Okay Sean is my friend. Yeah I was hurt, but like I would never…and I don’t know who made the tip. Maybe he ripped someone off on a drug deal or something. I don’t know. Em…about yesterday, I’m so sorry.
Emma: Me too.
Outside, Jay is working on his car and Sean is kicking stuff around
Jay: Yeah I was gonna use those, but whatever.
Sean: Whatever’s right. Alright, I’m out of here man. I’m going back to Wasaga.
Jay: Man that is so weak. You’re gonna let that little wiener b*at you?
Sean: He’s already won. Alright I’ve been kicked out of school, Emma thinks I’m a drug dealer. I’m screwed man.
Jay: Bummer times. Look at least you’ll be able to sleep better knowing that you fixed that punk.
Sean: Kicking the crap out of him isn’t going to help. Alright his mom will probably have me charged with as*ault or something.
Jay: There are other ways to b*at him. I bet he’s at the races again. He was there last night looking for a race and I finally installed the nitrous oxide in your ride. Just the edge you need to smoke that little punk.
Sean: Let’s teach him a lesson.
Jay: Yeah pain 101. My favourite subjects.
In Ellie’s dorm room, Amberley is throwing Ellie’s stuff into the hall
Ellie: Hey that’s my stuff!
Amberley: “And my roommate, the Stepford Omarosa minus the looks”. Why would you do this?
Ellie: Look I want to be a journalist and, and sometimes that means people get hurt.
Amberley: And sometimes black-clad sourpusses get booted out. The tribe has spoken Eleanor. Give me your torch!
Ellie: But I…
(She takes Ellie’s keys and slams the door in her face.)
At the races, Sean goes over to Peter’s car and opens his door
Sean: Get out of the car.
Peter: What?
Sean: Get out of the car man!
Peter: Relax dude. What’s this about?
Sean: You know what this is about. We got a score to settle.
Peter: Dude you tried to steal my girlfriend. Don’t they teach you guy code in Waga-Waga Bay?
Sean: Don’t they teach you to fight your own battles? Not to get your mom to fight them for you?
Peter: Yeah you spent some time in her office today, right? You know she keeps a lot of cool stuff in there. Like uh permanent records, answer keys…locker combinations.
Sean: You son of a-
(Jay holds Sean back.)
Jay: Easy Sean. Easy. Remember what we came here to do, okay?
Sean: Yeah I do. You and me, alright? We’re gonna settle this out there on the street.
Peter: What, you want to race me? In that hunk of junk? You’re on bitch.
(Sean and Peter start racing and when a car swerves in front of Peter’s, he swerves in front of Sean’s who drives onto the sidewalk and hits a passing jogger.)
Peter: Oh my god. What do we do?
Sean: Your phone. Give me your cell phone. Give me your cell phone.
(Peter gives him his phone.)
Sean: (On the phone) Yeah I need an ambulance. There’s a guy, he’s been h*t by a car. Near Sara Simcoe Park past Countryside Drive. Thanks. Okay.
(Jay drives up and rushes over.)
Jay: Is he still breathing?
Sean: Yeah where’s that ambulance?
Jay: Sean, listen to me. You have to go.
Sean: What?
Jay: Peter is a minor. You’re 18. You’re gonna do hard time for this.
Peter: Dude don’t listen to him!
Jay: Am I talking to you?
(Jay makes Sean stand up.)
Jay: Sean, get in your car and drive! Go!
(Sean gets in his car and leaves Peter and Jay at the site.)
At Marco and Dylan’s place
(Marco opens the door and sees Ellie with all of her stuff.)
Ellie: That anonymous article? Not so anonymous.
Marco: Student housing gave you the boot, huh?
Ellie: Loverly Saint Amberley saved them the trouble.
Marco: Well didn’t you issue a retraction?
Ellie: On my first piece? That’d make a great impression on the editor.
Dylan: Que pasa?
Marco: Uh Ellie needs somewhere to crash.
Ellie: Just for tonight.
Marco: Well wait. We are looking for a roommate, right Dylan?
Dylan: Well, so long as you can make rent, mi casa es su casa.
Marco: Yes! This is gonna be so great. I know exactly how to kick off our first night as roomies. Saved By The Bell marathon starts in 5 and I have the microwave popcorn with the buttery jalapeño sauce!
Ellie: Could you at least pretend you’re unhappy I got kicked out?
At Emma’s house
Mr. Simpson: Good news. Just got off the phone with Peter’s dad. They posted bail and he is safe and sound at home.
Manny: What about the guy who got h*t?
Mr. Simpson: He’s in the hospital. He’s hurt, but he’s s*ab.
Emma: And Sean just totally bailed? That’s a h*t and run, right?
Spike: Em I think everything’s under control now. Why don’t you go get some sleep?
(Emma leaves the room.)
Mr. Simpson: This is bad.
(Emma goes downstairs and sees Sean sitting there.)
Emma: Sean?
Sean: Shh!
Emma: What are you doing here?
Sean: I screwed up Emma. I screwed up real bad.
Emma: Understatement of the century. The police are looking for you.
Sean: I know. I know. So that’s why I need your help. You’re the only one who cares. You’re the only one who can…
Emma: You’re wrong. I don’t care Sean. I can’t. Not anymore. You need to turn yourself in.
Outside Emma’s house
(Sean is getting taken away in handcuffs crying.)
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: On a new episode of Degrassi Sean is doing hard time.
Peter: Sounds like Sean’s gonna be nailed to the wall for this.
Jay: It’s jail Emma. It ain’t your boyfriend’s country club.
Voiceover: And Emma is having a hard time letting go.
Emma: Snake it’s bad. He really needs help and he’s got no one.
(Emma is holding Sean’s hands.)
Peter: Sean is scum. He deserved what happened to him.
Emma: You and me are done!
(Emma pushes Peter against the lockers.)
END | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x02 - Here Comes Your Man Pt. 2"} | foreverdreaming |
In the courthouse
Mr. Stone: I really appreciate your time Chuck. I’m glad we see eye to eye on this.
Chuck: Well look I’ve known Peter since he was a boy. He’s a good kid. He just got mixed up with the wrong element.
Peter: Man did I ever. I truly regret the day that I met Sean Cameron.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Well thankfully we won’t have to worry about seeing Sean again.
Peter: Oh mom, dad do you mind if I go talk to Emma for a minute?
(They both nod yes.)
Emma: What happened? I’m dying.
Peter: Well the crown attorney’s been going to my dad’s Christmas party for years. That’s what happened. I’m free Emma. I’m free. My dad just pulled some strings with his buddy Chuck.
Emma: So you got off with nothing?
Peter: Hardly. No I lost my licence. I got tons of community service. I’m under strict house arrest at my mom’s.
Emma: Ouch. That’ll be no picnic.
Peter: Yeah tell me about it. There’s good news. Sounds like Sean’s gonna be nailed to the wall for this.
Emma: I have a new zero tolerance policy when it comes to talking about Sean.
Peter: So you haven’t heard from him?
Emma: Nope. With his h*t and run charges, I don’t think either of us will for a long, long time.
(Peter kisses Emma on the cheek.)
At Degrassi, Peter is on the morning announcements
Peter: (On the TV) Illegal street racing is like playing with a loaded g*n. It’s a serious crime, so my actions have had repercussions beyond my personal punishments and I hope I can explain to everyone just how sorry and ashamed I feel. My behaviour, as well as the other people involved, have had terrible consequences. I also need to say that I’m sorry for tarnishing Degrassi’s rep in our community and I hope that I can gain your trust back. Thank you.
Mr. Simpson: We’ve seen it from CEO’s, athletes and presidents. It’s a classic example of the on-air mea culpa.
(He looks at Emma who gives him a dirty look.)
Mr. Simpson: But in this case I’m sure it’s coming from a very genuine place. Uh-
In the hallway
Manny: So Peter got out of jail because he said he was sorry?
Emma: And because he agreed to a zillion conditions. Peter’s taking this seriously, Manny. It’s no joke.
Manny: You’re right. No one’s laughing. Least of all Sean.
Emma: What does that mean?
Manny: Nothing. I just feel a little bad. I mean I know this was Sean’s fault, but still. He’s in jail.
Emma: Sean can take care of himself. He always does. Peter is the one I’m worried about.
(Peter walks over and puts his arms around Emma and Manny.)
Peter: Heard my name! Hope you’re saying good things.
Emma: Only.
Manny: To one disturbed visiting hour.
(Manny pushes Peter’s arm off her shoulder and walks away.)
Emma: So how’s life under house arrest?
Peter: The warden’s not cutting me any slack. She’s not even gonna let me take you to the dance.
Emma: What? You’re kidding. That is so unfair.
(Ms. Hatzilakos gives him a dirty look and he sighs.)
Peter: Yeah I’m coming. I’ll talk to you later.
In the student council meeting
Liberty: So we’ll hire a mariachi band.
(Nobody says anything.)
Liberty: What? You said we needed a theme for the dance.
Emma: A good theme.
Toby: Look as the new treasurer, I’ve done the math. No band. The most we can afford right now is Jimmy and Spinner jamming in sombreros.
Emma: Even in disguises that would be lame. Wait. That’s it. That’ll be our theme. A masquerade. Like everyone will come in costume, all incognito.
Liberty: Cucaracha! Speaking of cockroaches, what’s he doing here?
(Jay is shown talking to Mr. Simpson.)
Emma: If he’s back at Degrassi, I’m dropping out.
In Ellie’s newspaper office, Ellie is flipping through the newest edition
Ellie: It’s not here.
Jesse: Okay Nina, you’re on the essay plagiarism ring. Eric, you’re on the chancellor’s record spending and you’re in my way Frosh.
Ellie: What happened to my article on the tuition rally?
Jesse: Oh you mean the one filled with rookie reporter mistakes? Hmm guess I forgot to publish it. Wonder why?
Ellie: Well don’t I even get a chance to fix it?
Jesse: No and if you need talking down Frosh, there’s a counsellor in the clinic.
Ellie: I gave up food and sleep. I did research in a beer bong puddle.
Nina: Welcome to the Core.
In the hallway
Jay: Thanks Mr. S. I appreciate your concern. I’ll pass it on to Sean.
(Mr. Simpson walks away and Emma walks over.)
Emma: Whatever you’re here for, we’re not interested.
Jay: I was just talking to your step dad about Sean. Remember him?
Emma: I’m trying to forget.
Jay: Oh someone’s changed their tune. Seems to me someone was pretty damn interested in Sean for a while.
Emma: Excuse me? What did he tell you?
Jay: Nothing. He didn’t have to. Look it was obvious there was something going on. Something that you didn’t want your boyfriend to know about.
Emma: This conversation is over Jay.
(Emma starts to walk away, but Jay stops her.)
Jay: Speaking about your boyfriend. I heard that he got off with a slap on the wrist.
Emma: Please. He’s under major Hatzilakos lockdown, plus community service!
Jay: Poor baby. I really hope the leaf blower doesn’t strain his back.
Emma: I’m really beginning to remember why I don’t like you.
Jay: This isn’t about me. It’s about Sean, okay? He is in hell. Yesterday he was sent to the infirmary. Some dude jumped him in the chow line.
Emma: Jumped him? Why?
Jay: ‘Cause he didn’t like Sean’s face! It’s jail Emma. It ain’t your boyfriend’s country club. Just maybe you could go to Sean’s court hearing tomorrow. I have to work, but he could use a friend.
(Jay leaves and Emma gets a text message saying ‘Meet me at the bus stop at 7. XO Peter’.)
In the newspaper office
Ellie: Look I’m sorry I blew it, but being a journalist is my life. If you give me another chance I promise, I… I will not screw it up.
Jesse: See that’s what your last article needed. Passion. Conviction.
Ellie: My article was good. Good enough to get me an A in journalism class.
Jesse: Well the Core’s the fifth largest paper in Toronto. We don’t have time for school projects Frosh.
Ellie: Maybe you’d be fourth if you printed stuff people cared about.
Jesse: Oh, so you know my job better than I do, huh? Makes you pretty damn arrogant.
Ellie: I’m arrogant? I’ve never met such a, a pompous, full-of-himself jerk!
Jesse: Kind of makes you hate my guts, huh?
Ellie: No I’d have to care to hate you.
Jesse: Hey Frosh, care enough to get a beer? Talk it over?
At the bus stop, Peter drives up in his car and Emma gets in
Emma: You drove? Can’t you get in trouble for this?
Peter: It’s called taking a risk. Besides you’re more than worth it.
(Peter kisses her and pulls away.)
Peter: Oh you’re wearing that vanilla stuff?
Emma: Honey vanilla shampoo. Sorry. I forgot you don’t like it. Promise not to use it before Friday’s dance.
Peter: What, suddenly you’ve become governor and issued me a stay?
Emma: Better. I suggested a costume party. A masquerade, so you can be my incognito date.
Peter: Sneaky and gorgeous. Nice.
Emma: Okay time’s up Romeo. You need to go home. I don’t want you to get into any more trouble.
Peter: I won’t. My mom’s at a PTA meeting.
Emma: So how did you get the car?
Peter: Found out where she hid the keys. What can I say? I’m good.
(They kiss again.)
Emma: This is weird. Being in this car and everything.
Peter: What? I didn’t h*t that guy. Sean did. That’s why he’s in jail.
Emma: But you don’t feel badly?
Peter: Oh of course I do. It’s terrible. Innocent guy getting hurt.
Emma: It’s a good thing he’s okay, huh?
Peter: Yeah tell me about it. Imagine if he’d died? No way, I would have gotten off with a little slap on the wrist.
Emma: The time. I should go.
(Emma kisses him quickly then leaves.)
At Ellie’s place, Jesse is bringing her home after their date
Ellie: You lecture me about my writing and then you go gaga over a band that screams gibberish instead of taking the time to craft actual lyrics.
Jesse: Gibberish? You gotta be kidding me.
Ellie: Well you’re lucky the music was a wicked blend of Zeppelin and Sabbath. I’m so writing that review.
Jesse: Oh well this time it goes in. No questions asked. So…
Ellie: So. Uh guess I better get to work.
Jesse: Yeah. Yeah.
(He leans in to kiss her and Ellie turns her head to the side.)
Jesse: Night.
Ellie: Night.
(He leaves and Marco walks over.)
Marco: Guess this means you’re officially over Craig.
(Ellie hits him with the paper and smiles.)
At Emma’s house, Emma is going through her clothes
Manny: Who died?
Emma: I’m trying to look respectable, not funereal.
Manny: You’re going to Sean’s court hearing? What happened to the zero tolerance o’ Sean policy?
Emma: Jay gave me his court notice. I just thought…I don’t know. I thought I should check on how his case is going.
Manny: And for that you need a top that brings out your glowy, glowy skin.
Emma: You were worried about him too.
Manny: Still am, but I’m also worried about my best friend who’s being an emotional ping pong ball. Sean, Peter, Peter, Sean…
Emma: I’m not! I’m with Peter 100%. I just want to make sure Sean’s okay, okay?
Manny: Okay. Forget I asked.
At the court hearing
Emma: Excuse me. I’m looking for Sean Cameron’s hearing, courtroom H-
Sean: Emma.
Emma: Sean. You look terrible.
Sean: Uh I uh, I tripped. Fell. It doesn’t matter. It’s good to see you.
(Emma gives him a hug.)
Sean: Ah, vanilla. I miss that smell. Jay said you weren’t coming.
Emma: I wasn’t going to um, but I thought you could use a friend.
Outside the courtroom
Emma: That was fast.
Sean: My public defender didn’t show. He’s got a backload of charity cases just like mine and unless I can get some money for a real lawyer, I’m screwed.
Emma: What can I do?
Sean: Nothing! Just tell me one thing. Tell me you’re not still with Peter.
Emma: Of course. He’s my boyfriend.
Sean: That guy is slime. He planted those drugs in my locker.
Emma: I asked him and he said he didn’t do that.
Sean: Oh whatever. If, if you don’t believe me, then why are you even here?
Emma: Because right or wrong, you need help and I’m gonna help you Sean.
At Degrassi, Emma knocks on Mr. Simpson’s door
Mr. Simpson: Emma where were you? You missed homeroom.
Emma: Yes and I can explain that, but listen to this first. What if Jack moved in with you and mom and Manny and I take Jack’s room. That way we can rent out the basement.
Mr. Simpson: Oh. Uh as much as I relish the idea of sharing a room with a three year old…what’s this all about?
Emma: I saw Sean today at the courthouse. Hence why I missed homeroom. Snake it’s bad. He really needs help and he’s got no one.
Mr. Simpson: Jay told me. Look I’m glad you’re taking up his cause, but what Sean really needs right now is a good lawyer and they cost big money. More than the peanuts we’ll earn renting out a leaky basement.
Emma: Okay. Idea number 2. Fundraiser.
Mr. Simpson: There’s lots of competition out there for the charity dollar, but uh you’ll figure out something. You always do.
At the newspaper office, Ellie is looking at her new assignment excitedly
Ellie: Toronto Music Week Showcase. How did I get that?
Nina: It’s Fall again. School starts, the leaves change colours and Jesse gets it on with a nubile, eager Frosh.
Eric: You should talk…Miss 2005.
(They leave laughing and Ellie looks upset.)
At Emma’s locker, Emma opens it up and finds a beautiful mask
Peter: Surprise. A mask befitting a true queen.
Emma: I was going to go with paper mache, but this is really wow!
Peter: I wanted you to realize you deserve better than paper mache.
Emma: That’s sweet. Thank you.
Peter: What are the tickets for?
Emma: Oh just a little raffle to make the dance more interesting.
Peter: Count me in. I got gambling in my blood.
(Peter kisses her goodbye.)
At Marco, Dylan and Ellie’s, Ellie is cooking a big meal
Marco: Wow. I can feel my overpriced designer jeans not fitting as we speak.
Ellie: Don’t get used to it. I only cook when I’m majorly stressed.
Marco: Well we should stress you out more often.
(Dylan tastes the food before leaving.)
Dylan: I think your designer jeans are safe.
Marco: Okay lay it on me. I can handle it.
Ellie: Jesse cut my article. Then he asked me out on a date and kissed me. Well he tried to.
Marco: Okay those are some tall, dark, handsome problems that you got there.
Ellie: Yeah and then he gave me this plum music assignment and suddenly I’m like the new Core tramp.
Marco: So you got to choose. Ellie, self-respect or Jesse. It sounds like a pretty easy call.
Ellie: Marco you saw him, right? It is not an easy call.
Marco: Yeah I know, but you know just remember that the Devil’s not ugly, okay? I mean the Devil is cute. Way cute. I’m talking Brad Pitt cute.
(Ellie looks at him hesitantly.)
Marco: Don’t sell out for just some pretty face.
Ellie: Thank you father Marco.
In the newspaper office
Jesse: Yo Frosh. We’re gonna be late.
(Ellie doesn’t go with him.)
Jesse: What?
Ellie: Sorry, um I can’t.
Jesse: Yeah I know how trying free rock concerts can be.
Ellie: Actually I’m more interested in intramural water polo finals.
Eric: Swapsies? That’s so rad!
Jesse: So you’re turning down the assignment?
Ellie: Well look how happy it’s made Eric!
(Jesse leaves upset.)
Ellie: Goody.
At the dance
Emma: Toby! $2 each, 3 for $5. 50/50.
Toby: And the other 50 goes to?
Emma: A friend of ours is in jail. I’m trying to help get him out.
Toby: You’re taking out money for Sean without council’s approval? And what does Ms. H say?
Emma: Shh! Ms. H doesn’t know.
Manny: What are those for?
Emma: Nothing.
Toby: Sean’s defence fund.
Emma: Thanks Dr. Dork-wad. You’re wanted in the O.R.
Manny: Does gorilla man, AKA Peter in a lame costume, know you’re selling tickets and collecting money for his arch nemesis.
Emma: No and he’s not going to.
Manny: Look I know my advice isn’t always Dr. Phil solid, and what’s happening to Sean isn’t fair, but babe you got to let him go.
Emma: Manny I can’t help it. Sean is in here.
(She puts her hand over her heart.)
Emma: But I can’t. I can’t feel this way! When I was in the hospital, who was there holding my hand? Peter and just look at this gorgeous mask. Peter bought it for me as a surprise. He left it for me in my locker.
Manny: Your locker? He has your combo?
Emma: No.
Manny: Then how’d he get in?
In the hallway, Emma slams Peter up against the lockers
Peter: Ow. Someone spike the punch or something?
Emma: Open my locker or I tell your mom you’re here.
Peter: Okay fine. Give me the combination.
Emma: I thought you knew it.
Peter: I wrote it down.
Emma: From where?
Peter: My mom has them in her office.
Emma: Peter did you break into Sean’s locker and plant the pot the same way you broke into mine?
Peter: Okay Sean is a loser. He always has been and he always will be.
Emma: Answer the question.
Peter: Well what do you want me to say?
Emma: The truth!
Peter: Everything I did, I did to keep us together, alright? Sean is scum. He deserved what happened to him.
Emma: When you see me in class, don’t look at me. When you pass me in the hall, don’t talk to me because you and me are done!
(Emma storms away and Ms. Hatzilakos walks over.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Peter Michael, do the words ‘house arrest’ mean nothing to you?!
In the newspaper office
Jesse: A whole piece on water polo without at least one reference to Speedos…and you call yourself a journalist.
Ellie: Rookie reporter mistake.
Jesse: Look I didn’t give you the music piece to get into your pants. I gave it to you because you love music and everyone else is busy.
Ellie: Great.
Jesse: You’re a good writer Frosh. Not my fault you also happen to be cute. Not gonna apologize for liking you…and you?
(Ellie walks over and kisses him.)
Ellie: Guess you’re alright, but one question. What are we gonna tell everyone? And don’t call me Frosh!
Jesse: It’ll be our little secret, Ellie.
In the jail’s visiting room
Emma: So the bad news is that I only raised $243.
Sean: I’m gonna be in jail forever. I’m sorry about what happened…with Peter, I mean. It sounds brutal.
Emma: No I’m sorry for being so blind. I should never have believed him.
Sean: It’s alright. So what’s the good news? Besides you being here.
Emma: Snake is finding you a public defender. A good one. One with time to work on your case.
(A guard knocks on the glass and points to his watch.)
Sean: Visiting hours are almost over.
Emma: I got you something.
(She hands him a bottle of vanilla shampoo.)
Sean: Vanilla honey shampoo.
Emma: Thought it was the next best thing to actually being with me.
Sean: Nothing could replace the real thing.
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: On a new episode of Degrassi, things may not be so perfect for the perfect couple.
Jimmy: I’m a virgin. Do you get it? I can’t walk. I can’t run. I can’t even make love to you.
Ashley: There are a lot of ways to make love.
Jimmy: I was into it, she was into it. We were in the moment and uh…
Jimmy: (Speaking to Ashley) There’s nothing you can do. You should probably just go.
(Ashley leaves.)
Jimmy: I just don’t want to be a virgin for the rest of my life.
END | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x03 - True Colours"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside Degrassi, Ashley puts her hands over Jimmy’s eyes
Ashley: Guess who?
Jimmy: Uh Heather Sinclaire.
Ashley: Very funny. Close your eyes. I have a surprise. Now open your mouth.
Jimmy: Oh man here we go.
(Ashley puts a whistle in his mouth.)
Ashley: Now blow.
Jimmy: That’s very cool. You got me a new one. Thank you.
Ashley: Well coach can’t keep the junior girls basketball team in line with a broken whistle.
Jimmy: That’s true.
(Ashley sees what Jimmy is drawing.)
Ashley: That’s the logo on your shirt.
Jimmy: Yeah. Yeah Marco saw it and thought it would be a good design, so…
Ashley: And an old picture of Hazel. How cute.
Jimmy: Just a class assignment.
Ashley: So um where’s the sketch of your current girlfriend?
Jimmy: It’s all up here baby girl. I just gotta capture it on paper. Believe me Ash, when I draw you, it will be my masterpiece.
Ashley: So um when can I schedule a sit-in with my master painter?
Jimmy: Well good things come to those who wait.
Ashley: It’s just that your model’s starting to wonder if maybe she’s doing something wrong.
Jimmy: Ash when the time is right, my canvas will be ready.
Ashley: Okay, but um just so you know-
Jimmy: Mm hmm?
Ashley: The model is ready and willing.
(She teases him by almost kissing him and then pulling away.)
In the gym
Spinner: So Darce and I are at the movies last night.
Jimmy: Clown Academy 4 out already?
Spinner: Dude how would I know? Darce and I rocked the back row, if you catch my flow.
Jimmy: You and Darcy, for real?
Spinner: No. No um only in my dreams, which is why I’m just a little bit jealous of you and Ash.
Jimmy: Jealous?
Spinner: Come on dude I don’t see an abstinence ring on your finger.
Jimmy: Me and you, are friends, but we’re also guys. Ergo we do not talk about our sex lives, okay?
Spinner: Hergro at least you have something to not talk about.
Jimmy: Look this stays here, alright? The mind is willing, but the body…
Spinner: Dude?
Jimmy: Since the sh**ting it just hasn’t been the same. Physio helps. Doc says it might happen one day, but the question is when.
Spinner: Dude.
Jimmy: Can you think of anything else to say right now?
Spinner: I don’t know what else to say man. It’s hard. Not for you. I didn’t-
(He stops and Jimmy throws the ball at him.)
Spinner: Sorry, sorry. Look maybe you’re just too wound up. I mean you are tense 24/7. Take it from Coach Spinner, just relax. Let the game come to you. Don’t force anything.
(Jimmy sh**t a basket into the hoop.)
In the hallway
Darcy: Manny! The brilliant future Spirit Squad choreographer. Just the girl I’m looking for.
Manny: Keep looking. I already said no.
Darcy: But you never gave me a reason.
Manny: You know exactly why Darcy.
Darcy: If you sister sins, rebuke her. If she repents, forgive her. Luke, chapter 7?
Manny: Thank you Sister Cuckoo Banana.
Darcy: I’m trying to say I know we didn’t see eye to eye last year.
Manny: This year has been a regular staring contest.
Darcy: I’m trying to apologize okay, for last year. I was a jerk to you. I may be the captain, but the squad is nothing without you. Forgive me? Please, please, please.
Manny: Okay. Okay everyone makes mistakes I guess.
Darcy: Ah the team is going to be so brilliant this year.
Manny: Yeah. We should put a lot more focus on our aerials.
Darcy: Really? ‘Cause I was thinking we should focus more on our cheers.
At Jimmy’s physiotherapist session
Physiotherapist: Oh impressive transfer. You’ve been working out without me.
Jimmy: Uh honestly not so much. Just been on the court a lot, playing pickup, coaching.
Physiotherapist: Busy guy.
Jimmy: Yeah.
Physiotherapist: Well it sure has helped your core abdominal strength.
(Jimmy looks up and sees that he has a boner.)
Physiotherapist: Okay let’s stretch those hip flexors.
(She walks over to him and he puts a newspaper over his crotch.)
Jimmy: That’s good.
Physiotherapist: Okay Jimmy. Other leg.
Jimmy: Um I think I’m gonna keep stretching this one. I’m just feeling a little stiff.
In the hallway at school
(Jimmy is rolling around giving high five’s to everyone he sees, he does a little pump fist action with Mr. Simpson and then rolls over to Spinner.)
Jimmy: I owe you a huge solid.
Spinner: Okay, what’s up?
Jimmy: Something’s up alright.
Spinner: What the team’s free throw percentage?
Jimmy: I had my lunch time physio. Took your advice.
Spinner: What advice?
Jimmy: It was very relaxing.
Spinner: Uh huh?
Jimmy: Dude!
Spinner: What?
Jimmy: Wow.
(Jimmy whispers what happened in Spinner’s ear.)
Spinner: Oh no! No way. Ah and here comes just the person you can share it with. Catch you later.
Jimmy: Yeah.
(Ashley walks over.)
Jimmy: Hey.
(He kisses her hand.)
Ashley: Someone’s happy.
Jimmy: More than you know. What do you say we get our sushi on tonight? Just us.
Ashley: A date? Yeah sure. So what’s the occasion?
Jimmy: I just have a good feeling about tonight. That’s all.
At Spirit Squad tryouts
(Every girl that tries out is horrible.)
Manny: If I see another mangled turkey.
Darcy: Just one more corpse, then the final thanks, but no thanks.
Manny: Who’s Mia Jones?
Mia: Mia. I uh just transferred here.
Darcy: Okay Mia. Break a leg.
(She starts her routine and Manny and Darcy are very impressed.)
Mia: We’re mad. We’re bad. We’re gonna kick your ass. We’ll b*at you. Defeat you. Might even try to eat you. We’re nasty. We’re sassy. ‘Cause baby we’re Degrassi. Go Degrassi!
(She finishes her routine.)
Mia: So how about that call-back?
Manny: Well obviously!
Darcy: For the rest of you show’s over. Me and Manny are talking Spirit Squad tonight.
Manny: Now that we’ve met you, we have serious world domination to plan. Get your butt to the Dot at 8.
Mia: My butt’ll be there.
At the sushi restaurant, Jimmy shows Ashley the picture he drew of her
Ashley: It’s beautiful Jimmy.
Jimmy: Your eyes and your lips and the way the light hits your cheek, it’s all b*rned into my memory.
Ashley: Thank you.
Jimmy: No Ash thank you. You’re my number 1, before everything. It’s all you.
Ashley: You know I was um hoping to pose for you someday, but like you said good things come to those who wait.
Jimmy: I think that wait is about to end. My parents are going out later and I was thinking you could come over tonight.
Ashley: You sure? I mean why now?
Jimmy: Let’s just say I think I’m finally ready and able.
At the Dot
Darcy: What is the one trophy missing from the Degrassi wall of glory?
Manny: Metro Cheerleading Competition.
Darcy: And with you, me and our new secret w*apon, I think we’re ready to take this squad to a whole new level.
(Mia walks in with her daughter.)
Mia: Hey guys. Um this is my daughter Isabella. Isabella, meet Manny and Darcy.
Manny: Oh my god she’s adorable.
Darcy: That’s your baby?
Manny: Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit. Spirit Squad, schmirit squad. I have to hear all about this little angel. Hi my name’s Manny and you are just so cute.
(Darcy sits there silently with a disapproving look on her face.)
At Jimmy’s house, Ashley walks downstairs in her lingerie
Jimmy: Wow. You look wow.
(They start making out and it cuts to Jimmy with his shirt off.)
Ashley: Everything okay?
Jimmy: Yeah. Yeah I’m fine. Don’t stop.
(It cuts again to them still making out when Jimmy pulls back.)
Jimmy: You know what? There’s nothing you can do. You should probably just go.
At Ashley’s locker
Jimmy: Ashley.
(Ashley walks away from him.)
Jimmy: Ash I’m sorry about what happened last night or in my case what didn’t happen.
Ashley: You know what? You should apologize, not for that. Jimmy when a girl throws herself at you, you don’t kick her out.
Jimmy: I’m sorry. I just, I couldn’t deal.
Ashley: Look so it was a bad idea. Jimmy it doesn’t matter. We could totally live without ever…you know.
Jimmy: Okay we cannot live without you know. I’m going to make this work.
(Ashley sits down and takes his hands.)
Ashley: There are methods. I’ve done some research. Medical options.
Jimmy: I know. That’s why I made a doctor’s appointment.
(Ashley kisses him.)
At Spirit Squad auditions
Manny: 5, 6, 7, 8. Hey are you ready? Are you ready to shout it out? Blue and gold, we are Degrassi.
(They finish the cheer.)
Manny: That was great. You are not making this decision easy.
Darcy: Uh Mia up front. Drop the poms. Let’s see a heal stretch.
Mia: Sure.
(Mia does a heal stretch.)
Darcy: How about a back walkover?
(Mia does a walkover.)
Darcy: Toe touch?
(Mia does a toe touch.)
Darcy: Needs work and would it k*ll you to smile?
Manny: What’s your problem? She’s our girl Darcy.
Darcy: Fine. Go back to your cheers.
Manny: Okay uh we’re gonna try something a little different.
At Jimmy’s doctor’s appointment
Jimmy: I was into it, she was into it, we were in the moment and uh nothing.
Doctor: And the other time you had an erection, were you in the moment then?
Jimmy: I’m not attracted to my physiotherapist. It just, it just happened.
Doctor: I understand. Jimmy it’s good that you have some activity. It just seems a little involuntary. You know not there when you need it, there when you don’t.
Jimmy: Like uh waiting for a bus.
Doctor: Look there are options for erectile dysfunction. Implants, pumps-
Jimmy: Is that, is that all there is though? I have to turn into some sex robot? Wind me up and watch me go?
Doctor: Well implants and pumps, those are down the road. First things first. We’re gonna get you on some medication.
Jimmy: Ah as in the pill that gets the middle aged people dancing in the streets.
Doctor: Well it can be effective in some cases, yeah.
Jimmy: What if it’s not though? I mean…I just don’t want to be a virgin for the rest of my life.
Doctor: If this doesn’t work we explore the other options. You take one, give it an hour and remember to relax, okay?
At Jimmy’s house
Ashley: Should I put some music on?
Jimmy: No. I like the quiet.
Ashley: Let’s see here.
(She picks up a pamphlet.)
Ashley: It says side effects may include increased tension, muscle spasms, upset stomach, diarrhoea.
Jimmy: Great. Now I’m in the mood.
Ashley: Well it says it could take over an hour.
Jimmy: It’s been almost two.
Ashley: Well did you have a big lunch or anything?
Jimmy: No I’m starving myself. I just want to make sure this will work.
Ashley: Maybe you just need to relax.
(She starts giving him a massage.)
Ashley: See isn’t that nice?
Jimmy: Yeah.
(Jimmy gives up when nothing happens and turns on the TV.)
Ashley: What’s wrong?
Jimmy: Just forget it. Strike two.
In the hallway
Manny: I say forget about cheers. If we want to win the Metro Competition it needs to be more about dance, gymnastics, stunts, pyramids.
Mia: Yeah that’s assuming I’m even on the squad. Captain Darcy’s been giving me the freeze-a-chills.
Manny: She’s a bit uptight, but she wants to win as bad as I do.
(Mia nods towards Darcy who is putting up the members list.)
Manny: No. No. Darcy someone’s missing from this list!
Darcy: Everyone who deserves to be on the team is there.
Manny: Yeah right. Nobody deserves to be on the team more than Mia does.
Darcy: Sorry Manny. My decision’s final.
In the gym before the girls basketball game starts
Nic: You’re going down Degrassi.
(JT looks at the opposing team’s members.)
JT: Woah. They’re big.
Toby: Size isn’t everything JT.
(JT gives Toby a dirty look and Mia walks over to Darcy in a uniform.)
Darcy: What is this?
Manny: You can’t keep her off the team.
Mia: You know I deserve this or is there some sort of no single moms policy?
Darcy: Mia your baby is a huge responsibility and well, so is Spirit Squad. I’m sorry.
Manny: When my new manicure meets your face, then you’ll be sorry.
Mia: Darcy, Isabella has daycare. She can be taken care of whenever I’m at practice. I can do both.
Darcy: How can I believe someone who’s made such enormous life mistakes.
Mia: Mistakes?
Darcy: Unless you got knocked up on purpose, in which case you’ve got even bigger issues.
(Mia pushes Darcy and Darcy falls into Nic.)
Nic: Degrassi chicks can’t stop throwing themselves at me.
(He sees Mia.)
Nic: Mia Jones. So Degrassi’s picking up all the other school’s trash now. Hey did you ever figure out who the father is?
(Mia slaps Nic and it starts a huge fight between everyone. Toby’s glasses break and JT falls down.)
JT: What’s your problem?!
(Nic pushes JT and he hits Nic with the mascot head.)
Outside the school
JT: Man two weeks detention.
Toby: I know. Now I’ve got to find a new panther mascot.
JT: What can I say? When the school needed me I pounced.
Toby: Yeah well that’s great, but now who’s going to entertain the fans?
(JT looks at Toby and shrugs.)
Toby: Don’t even think about it.
Nic: Hey Degrassi nerds. If I were you, I’d sleep with one eye open. This isn’t over.
(He shakes the fence and Toby flinches.)
JT: Detention never sounded so good.
In the foyer
Ashley: Forfeiting, not the same as losing.
Jimmy: Sure. Whatever.
Ashley: You going home? ‘Cause we still have that media immersion assignment. We could just hang out. Do some homework. No lingerie, no pills, no pressure.
Jimmy: You know what? Come over tonight and get your stuff. I can’t do this.
At Darcy’s locker
Manny: Mia’s in with Ms. H getting lectured. I hope you’re happy.
Darcy: She’s a teenage mother Manny, with a violent streak.
Manny: And somehow you have the right to punish her?
Darcy: She has better things to do than wave pom poms.
Manny: And you’re just so concerned for her daughter. Spare me.
(Darcy walks away as Mia walks over.)
Mia: I’m off the squad. Problem solved.
Manny: Well then I quit.
Mia: And let mean girl take over? Don’t be stupid. They need you.
At Jimmy’s house
(Ashley walks in and hands Jimmy a CD player.)
Ashley: This is yours.
Jimmy: You know what? You can keep it. I don’t want it.
Ashley: Thought you wanted to break up.
Jimmy: I don’t. We just may as well do it now. It’s gonna happen eventually.
Ashley: Why would you say that? What, did you get your palm read? Tarot cards?
Jimmy: Look if I can’t do this, how long you really gonna stick around? 6 months, a year?
Ashley: Why do guys always think about one thing?
Jimmy: I’m thinking about a lot of things. What if I can’t, ever?
Ashley: Then we deal with it. Who cares?
Jimmy: I care Ashley. I’m a virgin. Do you get it? Do you know what it feels like to know that your epitaph is gonna read ‘Jimmy Brooks: crippled virgin’? I mean I can’t walk. I can’t run. I can’t dance. I can’t play basketball. I can’t even…I can’t even make love to you.
Ashley: But you can Jimmy. You can.
Jimmy: No I can’t.
Ashley: Says who? Who says sex has to be just one thing? Jimmy, there are a lot of ways to make love.
Jimmy: I know Ash. I know, but this isn’t just about sex. This is about whether I can do all the things that I want to do. This is about whether I can be the man that I want to be.
Ashley: You’re the man that I want you to be Jimmy. Isn’t that enough?
(They lean towards each other so their foreheads touch.)
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Outside Darcy’s house, Spinner and Darcy are sitting in his car
Darcy: You call that a kiss?
Spinner: I can feel your mom’s eyes watching us from inside the house.
Darcy: Yeah and Claire’s probably hiding in the bushes videotaping for evidence.
Spinner: No. No, no, no. That would be wrong and you and your sis never do anything wrong. You’re like regular saints.
Darcy: Claire is a saint. I’m not. I can be bad sometimes too.
(She kisses Spinner again.)
Darcy: Don’t judge a book by its cover.
Inside Darcy’s house
Claire: Why are you so addicted to writing a dumb blog no one reads?
Darcy: I’m not addicted and people do read it. There’s a whole online community of people who are one hundred zillion times less annoying than you are.
Claire: It’s good you have friends somewhere, even if they are invisible.
(Darcy throws something at her sister and looks at a picture of herself wearing shorts online.)
-Outside the school-
Chante: The new uniform will be a darker blue than the panther blue we have now.
Darcy: That’s okay. I hate panther blue.
Manny: Us too and they come in ultra fashionable, modern, athletic crop top style.
Darcy: Crop tops? Come on we’re not flashing our abs to the entire school.
Manny: Okay forget about the crop tops. How about at least getting us some new short shorts?
Darcy: Those short shorts are a little too short. Way too much leg.
Chante: The Lakers squad wear them.
Manny: And Darcy they’d be so much easier to move around in.
Chante: Which we’ll need for the athletic routines that Manny worked out to get us to the regionals.
Darcy: Then change the routines. Look we can’t even afford to get new uniforms so can we just drop it. Besides I have my own answer to getting us into regionals. Boys!
Manny: Not that I have anything against that answer generally, but pardon?
Darcy: More lifts. More throws. I thought of it yesterday when I was watching some pro style on TV.
Manny: So you just decided without talking to the choreographer?
Darcy: That’s why I love being captain.
(Darcy stands up and walks away.)
Manny: Is it possible that I’m actually missing Paige Michalchuk?
(Darcy turns around and glares at them.)
In the school’s foyer
Peter: Good morning Emma.
Emma: Nothing about you is good and don’t talk to me.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Off to class Peter Michael. Please focus on your studies instead of girls.
Peter: Emma’s more than just a girl.
Ms. Hatzilakos: I said off to class.
In a classroom
Toby: (On the announcements) Hi, this is Toby Isaacs with your morning announcements. Uh we want to remind all the…
(Toby keeps talking.)
JT: Hey Liberty. Guess how many pieces of gum I have in my mouth?
Liberty: Okay I’m trying to watch the announcements?
Toby: (On the TV) The local TV station CTJH is looking for a PJ to host their kids program. Auditions to be held today at noon. Successful candidates are…
JT: Me! Successful candidates are me! I’m gonna get my old job back. Yeah!
(He starts doing a dorky little dance.)
JT: The children need me Liberty.
Liberty: Immature JT. Really immature.
Toby: (On the TV) And now an announcement from Darcy Edwards, captain of your Spirit Squad.
Darcy: (On the TV) Did you know George W. Bush used to be a cheerleader? So why not you too? Your squad needs new shoulders to lean on, broad shoulders. That’s right guys. It’s your turn to show some school spirit.
In the media immersion room
Chante: Good announcement.
Darcy: Thanks.
Chante: What do you have against short shorts?
Darcy: Don’t you think Spirit Squad has an image to maintain? A ‘we’re not dirty’ kind of image?
Chante: Shorts aren’t dirty.
Peter: Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you wearing shorts in your MyRoom page?
Darcy: They show like this much more thigh.
Chante: So? You have good thighs.
Peter: Everyone who goes to your MyRoom page would know.
Darcy: Can you stay out of this?
Peter: I’m just saying. Your blog is good. Those quizzes you do are fun.
Mr. Simpson: It’s hard drive maintenance day. Can you stand the excitement? I can’t.
(The bell rings.)
In the hallway
JT: And then? Then she gave me that Liberty look. That look that says you’re so immature and pathetic that I can’t even find the words to describe it.
Toby: You mean that look that says my passion for you burns bright JT of the eternal flame of much loveness.
JT: Tobes stop it. You’re making me ill.
Toby: Look it’s not just you JT. It’s, it’s her. You never stop talking about her. You’re like obsessed.
JT: Tobes, obsessing over Liberty would be like obsessing over lint or oatmeal.
(Mia walks over to them.)
Mia: Oh my god that’s it. You’re PJ JT. My kid loves you.
JT: You have a kid?
Mia: Her name’s Isabella. She’s your biggest fan and she won’t even let me turn off the TV when they’re rerunning you.
JT: Yeah?
Mia: Yeah remind me to get your autograph for her. I think you’re her first crush.
Toby: That is not oatmeal.
JT: That is a homemade meatball sub with extra cheese and spicy sauce. Tell Mr. Prenal that uh, that I caught bird flu. I got an audition to go to.
In the gym, a bunch of guys are trying out horribly for the team
Chante: So that’s your great idea? Turning Spirit Squad into dorkwad central?
Darcy: Somehow it looked a bit different in my head.
Peter: Sorry I’m late.
Manny: This whole boy idea is officially d*ad. You’re all going home. Home. Go!
(Peter does a handstand with Derek and Danny.)
Darcy: W-w-wait. Peter might actually be okay at this.
Manny: Okay is not a Peter word. Try um psycho, serial k*ller-y, uh satanic in your language.
Peter: I’m right here Manny. I do have ears you know.
Manny: So it’s just a soul you’re missing?
Danny: Um where’s the part where I get to grab Manny’s inner thighs?
Manny: As if I’m letting you pick me up? I’ve seen more graceful camels.
Danny: Maybe, but I got twice the hump.
Derek: Yeah!
Darcy: Okay guys lets get these tryouts started. Um I want to start with some lifts because wimps lift weights and cheerleaders lift people.
Derek: Amen sister. Testify!
Darcy: Yeah amen. Uh Peter you can help me demonstrate. Uh do you mind spotting?
Random girl: Sure.
Darcy: Stand behind me here. I’ll stand here. Grab my waist, I’ll hold your wrists. I’m gonna count. Ready? 1, 2, down, up!
(Peter puts her up in a wobbly chair.)
Darcy: Perfect, right Manny? I feel regionals!
In the hallway
Peter: Darcy hey.
Darcy: I have a boyfriend you know.
Peter: Oh it’s not like that. I just wanted to thank you for in there.
Darcy: Whatever. I just believe that sometimes people deserve forgiveness. You really want to be a cheerleader?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Peter Michael two minutes, okay?
Peter: Great mom.
(She walks away.)
Peter: Stuck in this house arrest thing, but if I join a club-
Darcy: You get an excuse to stay out longer. I get it. I’ve been warned about you.
Peter: I’m bored, okay? I’m getting A’s in everything. I’ve read the blog of every boring kid in this entire boring school.
Darcy: Including my boring blog?
Peter: No I actually liked yours. You’re not who I thought you were.
Darcy: What does that mean?
Peter: You’re cooler than I thought. You’re smart, funny…you look pretty cute in shorts.
Darcy: Good night Ms. Hatzilakos. I think Peter’s ready to go home now.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Thanks Darcy. Good night.
Peter: I’m gonna link you up to my blog, alright? I know a lot of people.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Come on. Time to go home.
At the TV studio during JT’s audition
JT: And that’s it for today. So remember imagine all week long and don’t eat the glue. Bye bye.
(He finishes his audition and only one person claps lightly for him.)
JT: So am I uh, am I fired for cutting my finger with the safety scissors or what?
Producer: You covered well. Now can you tell us why you want your old job back?
JT: Well it’s for the chicks.
Producer: Very funny JT, but seriously.
JT: Well respect I guess. Yeah I know it sounds whacko, but making arts and crafts and wearing dress up costumes, it helps me gain it. Feel respected-like.
(The crew all nods.)
Producer: Well then prepare for respect.
Outside Darcy’s house, Spinner gives her a kiss goodbye
Spinner: See you tomorrow babe.
Darcy: That’s it?
Spinner: Okay what did I forget? Um enjoy your dinner. Remember to pray. What?
Darcy: You don’t want to kiss me more?
Spinner: I make out with you too much, I’m a horn dog. I don’t make out with you and I’m in trouble. How can I win?
Darcy: It’s not about winning. It’s about respecting each other’s needs.
Spinner: I do respect you Darce. That’s what all this is about. Respect, abstinence, chastity, being good.
Darcy: Don’t you get tired of being good?
Spinner: What are you saying Darcy? What do you want me to do? Just tell me.
Darcy: I can’t ‘cause I don’t know. I just I need more something. Forget it, okay? Can we just forget it?
Spinner: Fine it’s forgotten.
(She kisses his cheek before going inside.)
Inside Darcy’s house
Claire: Is your bra still done up?
Darcy: It’s exactly where it should be.
Claire: Your email sound keeps going.
(She clicks on a message that’s titled ‘YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL’.)
Mrs. Edwards: Claire come and set the table!
Darcy: Mom said she needs help with dinner. Go.
Claire: But-
Darcy: Go. Go.
(The message says ‘You are BEAUTIFUL. Can I get more?’ so Darcy goes through her photo album and scans a picture of her in a bikini.)
In the hallway
(Darcy runs up to Spinner and covers his eyes.)
Spinner: Hey. What’s the story morning glory?
Darcy: The story is you’re cute.
(She kisses him.)
Spinner: Hey I have something for you.
(He gives her a bracelet.)
Darcy: Thank you.
Spinner: I made it out of this leather jacket I used to wear when I was a kid, so…
Darcy: I’m so lucky I have you.
(They kiss and hug.)
In the media immersion room
(Darcy shows Chante her bracelet before going online and checking out her messages.)
Peter: Looks like I made you pretty popular, the online world anyway. I linked your blog up to my website. Sent a lot of my friends your way.
Darcy: Who’s that Adams guy? Is he a friend of yours?
Peter: Yeah we’re tight.
Darcy: Really? So what’s he like?
Peter: You mean what does he look like? I know where this is going.
Darcy: No you don’t and don’t be a creep.
Peter: Adams is cool. Uh he’s an old bud from private school. His dad’s super rich, plays soccer, uh girls say he’s cute. He’s definitely a big fan of yours right now.
Mr. Simpson: Alright folks. Pop quiz on motherboards ‘cause let’s face it, who doesn’t love a good motherboard?
In the gymnasium during Spirit Squad practice
Danny: Hands on hips, alright? 1, 2, 3.
(Danny tries to lift Derek, but they fall down right away and Manny pretends to sh**t herself in the head.)
Manny: Okay um try the lift again spaghetti arms and don’t tickle him this time.
Danny: I want to lift a lady.
Manny: Well none of them want to come near you, which I don’t think is in your favour for the whole make the team thing.
Darcy: Have you seen this?
(They watch Peter as he smoothly lifts a girl into chair.)
Manny: Holy gamoly.
Darcy: He did research. He practiced.
Manny: Yeah better than half the girls on the team. You’re right. The guy might me twisted up spawn of Satan, but he also might be our ticket to the regionals.
Darcy: Yeah he’s full of surprises.
(Manny turns to Derek and Danny.)
Manny: Well, see look at that! Look at that!
In the hallway
(JT sits next to Mia and pretends not to notice her.)
Mia: PJ JT!
JT: Oh hi!
Mia: Has anyone ever told you that’s a lot of letters for one little guy?
JT: Little? What did you hear? You know what, forget it.
(He looks through the window and sees Liberty.)
JT: I uh, I got my job back!
Mia: Congrats!
(Mia gives him a hug and Liberty stares at them.)
JT: Thanks. Uh… um yeah. Uh you should come to the show.
Mia: Oh I wouldn’t want to get in the way.
JT: Oh no it’s impossible. Just come to a taping with your daughter.
Mia: Are you serious? She’d love that.
JT: Yeah come tonight. It’s the premiere. It’s gonna be like 10 times the excitement. The caterers heat the coffee on lukewarm instead of tepid. It’s really…
Mia: Isabella would definitely love that. We’ll be there for sure.
(Liberty is shown watching them while they keep talking.)
In the gymnasium after practice
Darcy: That was great today Peter.
Peter: Yeah guess I was born for Spirit Squad, right Manny?
Manny: Just because you help with equipment and you cheer circles around those other losers, doesn’t mean I suddenly think you’re Mother Theresa.
Peter: I’m not Mother Theresa. Darcy is.
Darcy: I am nobody’s mama thank you.
Peter: Adams says you’re a hot mama.
Manny: Mm, who’s Adams?
Peter: This guy who got her to post some sexy sh*ts online.
Manny: Yeah right. Darcy’s idea of a sexy pose is like ahh!
(Manny jokingly gets into a prayer position.)
Peter: Hey some guys like a hot nun.
Darcy: That is not funny. I wear a rosary thong under my habit.
(Peter takes out his camera and tries to take pictures of them.)
Manny: Ew. Cameras? I don’t think so. There is a big policy against you and photos.
Peter: Come on. Just for posterity.
Manny: Hey I want revenge. Give it to me.
(Manny takes the camera and starts taking picture of Peter and Darcy.)
Manny: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah just like that. Oh.
(Peter grabs a Panthers banner and Darcy starts posing by herself.)
Manny: Yes, yes. That’s so good. Degrassi Panthers! Yes. Okay. Me, me.
(Manny goes over to Darcy and starts posing with her while Peter takes the pictures.)
Peter: Alright girls. Cowgirl style.
Manny: You wanna see a cowgirl do you? I can bring it.
(They start swinging their shirts around.)
Manny: Hey you.
(Manny smacks Darcy’s ass and Darcy gives a jokingly shocked look. Peter tries to take some more pictures and Darcy snatches it from his hand.)
Darcy: Okay yeah about that.
Peter: What?
(She takes the memory card with the pictures on it.)
Darcy: You are never gonna get your hands on these. Never! No.
(Peter tries to grab it back.)
Darcy: Not a chance.
Manny: Okay!
(Darcy and Manny hug as they all leave the gym.)
Peter: At least print some off for me!
In the media immersion room at night
(Darcy is uploading all the pictures onto her site with writing on them that says they need new uniforms.)
Outside the school, Darcy realizes Spinner’s been waiting for her
Darcy: Oh sugar.
Spinner: You know Manny left like an hour ago?
(Darcy kisses Spinner passionately.)
Spinner: Okay well if you end up in that kind of mood.
Darcy: There’s more where that came from, but I can’t stay out long. I’ve got a lot of emails waiting for me.
At the TV station
JT: And that’s all for today. So remember be bigger than you are and don’t eat orange pie.
(The little girl on the set smashes an orange pie all over JT’s face.)
JT: Brianna! I’m gonna get you.
(The segment ends and a worker brings a towel over for JT’s face.)
JT: Oh thank you. Good job. High 5 on that one. Alright.
(JT walks over to Mia and Isabella.)
JT: Hey. So how’d I look?
Mia: She thinks you’re a comic genius.
JT: Well somebody has to.
Mia: So do you want to get something to eat?
JT: Who me?
Mia: Yeah you. Maybe um Cheezies, taco chips, orange pop.
JT: Uh…well…
Mia: Oh. It’s okay. Um never mind. It’s past Bella’s bedtime anyway. Bye.
(Mia and Isabella leave before JT can stop them.)
JT: No, no. That’s not…Wait!
Outside the school
Manny: I laughed so hard Emma came down to see what I was doing.
Darcy: Did she see?
Manny: No, but thanks for making the page password protected. Page better stay private.
Darcy: Um yeah about that.
Manny: Who’d you share the password with? Tell me it’s not someone I know.
Darcy: No, no, no. It’s an online friend. Someone who happens to have a lot of money.
Peter: His name’s Adams and he loves him some Darcy. He sent me a thank you gift last night. 200 bucks by email.
Darcy: 200? I thought we’d get 20 at most.
Manny: An online admirer paying for photos, that’s not creepy at all.
In the hallway
Liberty: So how was the big premiere?
JT: Uh it was okay.
Liberty: JT um I was thinking. The other day…
(Mia walks over to them.)
Mia: Hi. Sorry to interrupt. Could I uh speak to JT?
Liberty: Of course. Speak away.
Mia: Look I have a kid and I know it freaks guys out and I just want to let you know, I get it.
JT: No you don’t get it. I love kids.
Mia: Yeah guys always say that.
JT: No I mean it. You got to trust me on this one Mia, okay? I do love kids.
Mia: So it’s just me you don’t like? You kind of blew me off.
JT: I know. Sorry. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I guess orange pie impairs your thinking. Um well listen uh how about I take you and Bella out for ice cream? Maybe tonight?
Mia: We’d love that. I’d love that.
JT: Okay.
(Liberty watches them upset before walking away.)
In the gym, the guys are attempting a pyramid and failing
Manny: Okay you guys can go have a soda or a nice, cold glass of talent.
Darcy: New uniforms! Give me an S. Give me an H. Give me an O, R, T.
Chante: Manny look at these!
Manny: Holy hot-tastic! This is exactly what we wanted.
Chante: Paige always promised us new uniforms, but never came through.
(Derek jokingly puts on a pair of the shorts.)
Derek: Uh these are way too short.
Danny: Problem’s with his bikini line. I keep telling him to get a Brazilian.
Darcy: They’re for girls, losers.
Chante: These must have cost a fortune.
Darcy: Yeah well I’ve been selling chocolate bars door to door. Amazing support from the community.
Manny: So by selling chocolate bars do you mean posting sexy photos on the web for cash?
Darcy: Sexy? They were just silly.
Manny: Whatever. What happens if Principal H. sees them? Or Simpson or Toby or the janitor?
Peter: They won’t. Nobody will. Photos are on a secret page.
Manny: Oh so comforting.
Darcy: Manny you should be happy. You wanted new uniforms and now we’ve got them.
Peter: Think what else we could get. I say we do another photo sh**t today. Papa needs a new pair of shoes.
Manny: No papa needs a life and I need to go home. This is over guys. Over. Over.
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: On a new episode of Degrassi-
Peter: You got something people want to pay for. Don’t you need some cash?
Voiceover: Darcy is spiralling out of control.
Darcy: Tell me you pervs didn’t show the pictures to anyone.
(Darcy and Spinner are kissing and he pulls away.)
Voiceover: And driving Spinner away.
Spinner: You’re posing for random guys on the Internet!
Darcy: It wasn’t random. I mean I know the guy. He’s a friend.
Spinner: So you were cheating.
Darcy: I took the page down. It’s all over.
Spinner: You’re right Darcy. It is all over.
END | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x05 - Eyes Without A Face"} | foreverdreaming |
In Mr. Simpson’s class
Mr. Simpson: I want to discuss the different ways in which media layers itself. Now we’ve talked about cross promotion and conglomerates, but lets talk about the way that print and broadcasting form one another, okay?
(He keeps talking while watching what Darcy is doing online.)
Darcy’s IM: it was sweet of u to send $
Adams’ IM: 4 a good cause.
Adams’ IM: hey it’s been 3 whole minutes since i told you how beautiful you are
Darcy’s IM: :)
Darcy’s IM: blushing
(The bell rings.)
Mr. Simpson: Darcy can you see me please?
(The rest of the class leaves and Darcy goes over to Mr. Simpson’s computer.)
Mr. Simpson: MyRoom page and chat functions.
Darcy: I know we’re not supposed to use them in school.
Mr. Simpson: Then why were you? Darcy all your activity is logged. I can see it here on my monitor.
Darcy: You can? But it’s private. You shouldn’t read it. That’s wrong.
Mr. Simpson: It’s not wrong. It’s school policy and besides we’ve spoken about the dangers out there in cyber-land.
Darcy: Please I’m not a little kid.
Mr. Simpson: Well you’re kind of acting like one and quite frankly your marks are starting to slip. This isn’t like you.
Darcy: Fine. I’ll try harder, okay? Can I go?
In Mr. Armstrong’s class
Mr. Armstrong: Graphing trig functions. Now you football players will have an advantage ‘cause you know the shapes we’re looking for.
(The bell rings.)
Mr. Armstrong: Next class!
Peter: Bet Adams knows the shape he’s looking for, yours!
Darcy: Why are you always so gross?
Peter: Joke? Humour? Heard of it? Look come over tonight. My mom’s next door with her friends. We’ll have another photo sh**t.
Darcy: Without Manny? Mm-mm.
Peter: Come on we don’t need her.
Darcy: Yeah we do. Without Manny it’s just me and you and a camera. Ick.
Peter: Thanks. So nice to hear. Look you got something people want to pay for. Don’t you want to make some cash?
Darcy: You’re not my pimp, okay?
Peter: I just meant we could still use some money for Spirit Squad. Some cool uniforms for the boys?
Darcy: I’ll think about it.
(She walks away and Manny is shown giving them a disapproving look.)
In the girls locker room
Manny: You need to watch out for Peter. He sure has his creepy eye on you.
Darcy: I’m with Spinner, remember? I don’t think of Peter that way at all.
Manny: It doesn’t matter what you think of him. It matters what he thinks of you. You need to watch out for him.
Darcy: What I need is to change out of these stinky gym clothes so I can go out with my boyfriend, whose name isn’t Peter.
At Ellie’s university, in the newspaper room
Nina: That’s it for me. See ya.
(She leaves Ellie and Jesse alone.)
Jesse: Hmm 3, 2…
(He closes and locks the door.)
Jesse: 1.
(They start making out on the desk.)
Ellie: Why Mr. Boss-man this is so, so inappropriate for the workplace.
Jesse: Which is why we wait for the doors to shut for us to be alone. The sexiest kind of alone there is.
(Jesse starts reaching up the back of her shirt and Ellie pushes him away.)
Ellie: Not too sexy Mr. Boss-man. I need to make this deadline or you might have to f*re me.
Jesse: Deadline’s extended.
(He starts kissing her again and Ellie stops him.)
Ellie: But what if um Nina comes back? Or Eric or one of the other writers.
Jesse: Well then why don’t we take this act on the road. Say like my place?
Ellie: Really am worried about my work. Maybe I’ll just um…I’ll buckle down here and write the rockingest review ever.
Jesse: That’s cool. Later Frosh.
At Ellie’s place, Ellie and Ashley are eating sushi
Ashley: So what’s he like?
Ellie: Cute, funny, um sexy, smart, intimidatingly so. I don’t know what he sees in me.
Ashley: Oh come on El.
Ellie: Ash he’s 22 with tons of experience. I’ve only had two boyfriends. One was Marco…gay and the other was Sean. We never…you know.
Ashley: You think he wants to?
Ellie: Um he’s a guy.
Ashley: Yeah good point. So have you know, talked about uh doing it?
Ellie: Can we not say doing it? And no. No we haven’t talked about it. Not yet. I mean I find it a little embarrassing and by a little, I mean hugely.
Ashley: Well if you can’t talk about it, you should at least be prepared in case, you know, it just happens.
Ellie: I hate when you’re right.
Ashley: Lucky for you there’s a health clinic at the university.
Outside Darcy’s, Darcy and Spinner are kissing passionately
Spinner: Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. Easy there tiger. Darce these days it’s like you’re gonna jump out of your own skin. Do you want to talk and tell me what’s going on?
Darcy: I don’t want to talk. I want to show you something.
(They go inside her house.)
Darcy: Hi Claire. Bye Claire.
Claire: Mom said no boys in our room when she’s not here.
Darcy: Don’t be a goody-goody. Go downstairs.
(Claire leaves and Darcy goes to her computer.)
Darcy: Come look. Come look.
Spinner: You bring me up here to help you study? Do you want to fail?
(Darcy shows him the pictures of herself and Manny.)
Spinner: Woah these are hot.
Darcy: Tell me which ones you like. I think that one’s good. I look tall and my legs look tan. I took those myself last night.
Spinner: Darce why does it say “MyRoom Page” in the corner?
Darcy: Well they’re linked to my page, but it’s private. Password protected.
Spinner: Well whatever these photos are still online. What? Who else has seen these?
Darcy: I thought you’d think they’re sexy and I thought you’d think I was sexy.
Spinner: Will you answer the question? Have other guys seen these pictures?
Darcy: No. Yeah, but not many. It’s a really private webpage.
Spinner: There’s no such thing as privacy on the web Darcy. Guys are looking at you!
Darcy: Yeah, but they’re just looking! That’s all they’re doing.
Spinner: That’s not all they’re doing Darcy.
Darcy: Spin. Spin don’t. I just, I wanted to feel beautiful and sexy and like free. Just I thought if I showed it to you then you would understand.
Spinner: Well I don’t. You have to take this down.
Darcy: I don’t want to.
Spinner: I, I can’t even deal with this right now. I got to go.
(He leaves.)
At the health clinic
(Ellie walks out and bumps into Jesse, dropping all of the birth control on the floor.)
Jesse: Wow that’s a lot of birth control in so many forms and colours.
(They start picking it all up.)
Ellie: Yeah well um I told the woman I don’t actually want any birth control. Just, just the information please and she looked at me like I had four noses and insisted I take all this when I was like please I, I just want the information. That is all. You know I like to read. I’m a researchy-type.
(Nina overhears and starts laughing before walking away.)
Jesse: I’ll uh catch you later.
At Darcy’s house
Darcy’s IM: but then he just left
Adams’ IM: you don’t need that
Darcy’s IM: you don’t think I’m weird?
Adams’ IM: I think yr perfect
At Peter’s house
Peter: So how naked are we getting here?
Darcy: Naked? I don’t do that, thanks.
Peter: Joking. So you got in a fight with Spinner. Uh was it a fight or the fight? Did you guys break up?
Darcy: I don’t know yet.
Peter: Yet. That’s not sounding good. I couldn’t believe when Emma dumped me. Hurt like hell. Still does, which is why this has been so great. Someone to hang with and to talk to. Someone cool, like you.
Darcy: Let’s get on with it. I want to get these pictures online by tonight.
(Darcy changes into a school girl outfit and starts posing.)
Peter: Nice. Wow. That one’s gorgeous.
(Darcy keeps posing and it gets more provocative.)
Peter: Wow Darcy. That’s good. Can you sit up just a little bit more? That’s perfect.
In the hallway
Danny: We saw.
Darcy: The Ring, a sh**ting star, your future lives as lonely old dorks?
Derek: Your MyRoom page. Hot stuff. Oh and we don’t mean the blog.
Danny: We mean the private page, sexy!
Darcy: What?! Are you serious? It’s password protected.
Derek: What can I say? Years of computer camp paid off.
Danny: My man is like the Obi-Won of password hacks. Dude is like scary.
Darcy: You hacked in? Why? Why were you even on my page to begin with?
Danny and Derek: ‘Cause you’re hot.
Darcy: Just tell me you pervs didn’t show the pictures to anyone.
Danny: Not yet.
Derek: Oh we want $20.
(Darcy tries to grab the pictures from them.)
Derek: Woah. I forgot my lunch money today.
Danny: And we also want a sh*t of your bazoongas by Friday.
Darcy: Bazoongas are off the table. You two little weirdoes forget you ever saw that page because it is coming down in oh about 5.7 seconds.
(She trades the money for the pictures before storming off.)
Derek: Bazoongas? Dude you’re so lame.
In the media immersion room
Adams’ IM: what’s up cheergrl?
(Darcy opens up the link to cancel her account.)
Adams’ IM: I can see yr online
(Darcy hesitates before confirming the cancellation.)
Adams’ IM: aren’t you gonna say hi?
(Darcy cancels her account and smiles.)
At a Friendship Club meeting
Darcy: Let’s join hands.
(Everyone joins hands and Spinner hesitates before holding Darcy’s hand.)
Darcy: Lord there are those among us who have benefited from your lessons of forgiveness in the past and it is our hope that they will extend further forgiveness to those who really badly need it. Amen.
(The group finishes and Spinner rushes out.)
Darcy: Spinner! Spinner stop please. I took the page down. It’s all over.
Spinner: You’re right Darcy. It is all over.
(He holds up all of the pictures.)
Darcy: Spin I know you’re furious, but you have to know that these pictures mean nothing.
Spinner: They mean everything Darcy! You put me through the ringer on re-virginizing and that whole thing with Paige, you-
Darcy: That was cheating. You slept with her.
Spinner: And this is so much better? You’re posing for random guys on the internet.
Darcy: It wasn’t random. I mean I know the guy. He’s a friend.
Spinner: So you were cheating, which makes you the biggest hypocrite that ever lived.
Darcy: Just tell me who sent you those pictures! Was it Danny, Derek?
Spinner: Who? It was Peter.
(They both leave in opposite directions and a creepy older guy wanders into the hallway.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Excuse me sir? Hi can I help you?
Adams: I’m just looking for somebody.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Oh okay, can you tell me who? Sir this is a school. We can’t just let strangers walk off the street.
Adams: Right. I understand. I’ll go.
(He fumbles his way out the doors.)
In another hallway
Darcy: Why? Just tell me why? Why would you do something so horrible?
Peter: I didn’t think it was so horrible. You two were gonna break up anyway.
Darcy: I never said that!
Peter: You didn’t have to. Come on Darcy, you and Spinner were never going to last.
Darcy: Excuse me?
Peter: Why would you want to be with a boring Christian guy when inside you there’s a sexy chick trying to bust out?
(He starts to grab her, she pushes him away and slaps him.)
Peter: I was trying to help you Darcy. Spinner just doesn’t get you.
Darcy: And you do? You’re nothing to me Peter. Never have been.
Peter: Yeah not like Adams. Did you really buy that crap I told you about him? I met Adams in a chat room. He’s just some bored, lonely loser with money.
Darcy: But I thought…he said!
Peter: Lies. A lot of lies. He played you Darcy, just like you played me.
Outside, Darcy and Claire are walking home
Claire: You’re quiet today. Is it about the pictures?
Darcy: Claire! You didn’t look at them.
Claire: They were on our computer. If you didn’t want me to see them-
Darcy: Just promise don’t ever do something like that., okay?
Claire: What do you think I am, 5?
Adams: Darcy. Hi.
(Adams waves at Darcy.)
Claire: Who’s he?
Adams: It’s me, Adams!
Darcy: Go inside.
Claire: I don’t like this.
Darcy: Go inside.
(Adams walks over to Darcy and tries to give her a hug as she backs away from him.)
Darcy: What are you doing here? How’d you find where I live?
Adams: I did a little detective work. Your cheerleading photo had the Degrassi logo so I, I kind of followed you home. I just wanted to meet. Thought we could get to know each other just one on one.
(Claire watches them from on the balcony.)
Adams: That’s a nice bracelet.
Darcy: Thanks. My boyfriend made it.
(Darcy mouths “9-1-1” to Claire who runs inside.)
Adams: Oh Spinner?
Darcy: I uh took down my page.
Adams: I was so sad. What happened? Why did you do that?
Claire: (On the phone) Hello 911?
In the newspaper office
Jesse: Uh next pitch, Ellie?
Ellie: Uh okay. Um as most of you know and love to bug me about, I’m a first year and I’m a little fascinated by that office down the hall.
Nina: The sexual health office?
Ellie: Um so following in the great, though fictional steps of Carrie Bradshaw I’d like to pitch a series on sexual health on campus.
(Everyone starts smirking and laughing.)
Jesse: Pass. Next?
Ellie: Hang on. I’ve done research.
Jesse: It’s okay. We get it. Next.
Ellie: I, I just um I think it’s important that, that we’re all informed about sex.
Jesse: Our readers are informed Frosh.
Ellie: But…
Jesse: It’s d*ad, okay? Stop pitching it. Freddy what do you got?
Outside Darcy’s house
Darcy: I um, I should really go.
Adams: We haven’t even talked. How was school? Do you like it? You must have so many friends.
Darcy: I guess so.
Adams: I know you would. Pretty girl like you, everyone wants to be around you.
(A police car drives over and Darcy runs to her front steps.)
Adams: Wait Darcy, come back.
Police officer: Show me your hands sir.
Adams: We were just talking.
Police officer: Show me your hands.
Adams: Darcy I thought you liked me.
Police officer: I’m investigating a report of a trespasser in the area. I’m gonna need to see some ID.
Adams: Darcy!
Police officer: Sir you need to stay here.
Adams: No, no I don’t. She’s my friend. Tell them that you know me.
Police officer: You know what-
Adams: Darcy tell them I’m your friend!
Police officer: You’re coming with me.
Adams: Darcy!
(Adams gets put into the cop car, while Darcy stands by crying.)
Outside the newspaper office
Ellie: I want to resign from the paper and us, so goodbye.
Jesse: Woah, woah, woah. Can’t we discuss this?
Ellie: Jesse I just made a complete ass of myself and you sat there with Nina and watched.
Jesse: No I did not. I was trying to help you. Why do you think I was trying to stop you? You just keep going and going and going.
Ellie: I do have that tendency.
Jesse: What were you doing with all that stuff anyway? I mean how much birth control do you need?
Ellie: Jesse, don’t. It’s not funny at all.
Jesse: You know you’re uh cute when you’re mortified.
Ellie: Well remind me to mortify myself more often.
Jesse: Remind me we need to have a talk about us, where we’re going. That is, if there still is an us.
Ellie: Resignation cancelled.
Jesse: Good ‘cause I wasn’t going to accept it anyway. You’re stuck with me Frosh for a long time I hope.
(They kiss.)
At Darcy’s house
Darcy: So um they’re gonna take our computer away for evidence so if you have anything on there then…
Claire: It’s okay. Uh do you have anything? Emails from Spinner or something?
Darcy: I don’t want to remember.
Claire: It’s okay Darce.
Darcy: No. No everyone’s gonna know at school about how I’m a hypocrite.
Claire: Nobody’s gonna find out. I’ll punch them.
Darcy: You’re good Claire. You’re really good.
Claire: You are too Darce. You just got a little turned around, is all.
Darcy: I think it’s a teensy bit more complicated than that. I’m pretty mixed up.
Claire: A person can be good and mixed up all at the same time.
Darcy: Yeah okay. I hope you’re right.
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: On a new episode of Degrassi, Alex tries to play nice.
(Alex is sitting outside Degrassi and a group of girls laughing loudly.)
Alex: Zip it. I’m trying to study.
(Alex is shown talking with Paige.)
Alex: The bitter loner you used to know is trying to be a little sweeter these days.
Paige: Well sweetie a tiger can’t change its stripes overnight.
Voiceover: But her past may be too hard to shed.
Alex: I’m trying to be nice here.
Some girl: Please. You’re a hateful bitch Alex and that’s all you’re ever gonna be.
(Alex starts to fight her.)
Paige: Yeah there’s the bitter girl I know.
END | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x06 - Eyes Without A Face Pt. 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At Spinner’s locker
Darcy: Spinner?
Spinner: Hey Darce.
Darcy: You know what happened between me and you, the break up… I’m really sorry.
Spinner: Me too. More than anything in the world.
Darcy: It, it was the right thing to do. There was something missing. I’m sorry. I hope we can be friends.
(The bell rings and Spinner goes to class.)
Mr. Simpson: Oh Spinner Mason. Just under the wire. Oh and here is our very special guidance counsellor, Ms. Sauvé. Why don’t you all open up your career aptitude tests.
Ms. Sauvé: If nothing else, the results may help to inform what universities you apply to and what majors you choose.
(Jimmy opens up his results online.)
Jimmy: Criminal lawyer, right!
Ashley: Family law for me. NYU here we come.
Jimmy: I know. I think we’re gonna have to open a practice together. Downtown Manhattan, family and criminal law.
(Spinner sees that his top result says clown.)
Spinner: Clown. I’m supposed to be a clown?
Ms. Sauvé: Well remember this is just a guide, okay? It’s important that you find something that you’re passionate about.
(Spinner looks at his second choice.)
Spinner: Like being a cop. Oh yeah. Get right on that.
In the hallway
Jimmy: Ah pull it together man. I can’t have a basket case thwarting my year.
(Spinner pulls out a poem he wrote.)
Spinner: She said there would always be an us and she crushed my heart with a bus. I pledged abstinence and faith ‘cause she said t’was forever. Now it’s just me.
Jimmy: T’was. Are you sure uh poet wasn’t in your test results?
Spinner: Didn’t see artist in yours. What happened to the whole art dream?
Jimmy: I woke up. Art isn’t a career. Law is.
Spinner: Yeah so is being a clown I guess.
Ashley: You know Spin, Paige is in town. Marco and Ellie are having some people over. You should come.
Spinner: Nah I don’t know.
Jimmy: Wrong. You’re not sitting home another night writing these sad-ass, wah wah, I’m gonna k*ll myself poems. I forbid you. Time to get on a positive tip, alright?
Spinner: Alright.
Jimmy: Great. Thank you.
Outside the school, a bunch of girls are laughing and being loud
Some girl: And the face that he was making?!
(They keep laughing and Alex glares at them.)
Alex: Zip it. I’m trying to study.
Sirina: Trying to graduate before you turn 30? Good luck.
Alex: A, I already graduated and B, do I even know you?
(Sirina throws a carrot at Alex.)
Alex: Unless you want these carrots to become part of your anatomy I suggest you stop.
(She throws another one and Alex walks over, then turns around and leaves.)
Alex: I’m officially too old for this.
At Ellie, Marco, and Dylan’s place
Marco: Okay all we have left here is rice crackers. I spent all my snack money on textbooks and I’m thinking those are kinda dry, so here.
Paige: Oh well one of the many perks at Banting, amazing meal plan. Hey that is a spiffy top Spin. Since when are you so oh current?
Spinner: Jimmy Brooks original.
Ellie: You don’t know how many people have asked me where they can get one of these designs.
Jimmy: No really?
Jesse: Really. Been thinking about selling them? Lot of money in it.
Marco: Yeah Jesse don’t even bother. I keep telling Jim to start his own line of t-shirts, but he never listens.
Jimmy: It’s ‘cause it’s crazy Marco. I’m not gonna start selling t-shirts.
Spinner: Why not? There’s nothing stopping you.
Jimmy: There’s a lot stopping me, actually.
Ashley: What, like your dad?
Jimmy: Like reality. Didn’t somebody say something about playing poker?
Paige: Oh I’m in. Thanks to too many all night poker sessions, I am a Texas Holdem whiz. Alright let’s buy in.
In the cafeteria
Spinner: Check it out! Check it out. Spimmy Designs, huh? Or The Jimner Clothing Company. Squatch Wear. I like that one.
Jimmy: Okay stop. Rewind. Losing the plot. What is this?
Spinner: This is the future baby. I’m turning you into the next John John.
Ashley: It’s Sean John.
Spinner: Potato, potato. Okay look, Jimmy people love your t-shirts man. Start a business!
Jimmy: With what money?
Spinner: I got some saved. Plus Marco’s dad could give us some shirts on spec. We make a bunch, go to campus, branch your uncle(?).
Jimmy: Do you know how much work that would take?
Spinner: Ah we could do it. You and me together. Plus when it takes off, becomes a huge money maker, I can forget all about clown academy. Jimmy you’re, you’re gonna need money for your fancy New York university, right? Let’s make some.
Jimmy: I’ve got an academic fund. I’m totally taken care of.
Spinner: Sorry.
(Spinner gets up and leaves.)
Ashley: Jimmy.
Jimmy: Then again I guess it would be cool to see more people wearing my stuff.
Spinner: Yeah?
Jimmy: Yeah. Let’s give it a sh*t.
In a classroom
(Alex finishes her exam and walks out smiling.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Alex Nunez. Smiling after a test?
Alex: Just happy. Kinda aced it.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Congratulations. I’m proud of you. It shows a real maturity that you came back to upgrade your marks, especially after your friends moved on.
Alex: You can’t become a physiotherapist without a degree, which means I gotta up my marks if I want to get accepted anywhere. So gotta run.
Ms. Hatzilakos: You know what would really help with your university application?
Alex: Extracurriculars?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Which you don’t have.
Alex: I knew this was going somewhere.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Look I need girls for lacrosse. I mean I’m so low on players I might even have to cancel the team.
Alex: A tragedy of global proportions.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Alex you love lacrosse. I remember from gym class you’re a natural.
Alex: I am fond of bashing people with a large stick.
Ms. Hatzilakos: So you’ll think about it?
Alex: Me and team sports, sorry not a whole lot to think about Ms. H.
At Ellie, Marco and Dylan’s place
(A montage begins with Jimmy printing out the design, Spinner starts pressing the design onto the shirts, Ellie shows them a picture in the newspaper with someone wearing their shirt, Jimmy and Spinner start selling the shirts on campus until they’re sold out.)
Spinner: We can’t run this operation out of a cardboard box, eh? I’m thinking mail order pyramid scheme.
Jimmy: Or we can set up shop outside like Raptors games and concerts…
(They see a ‘for lease’ sign outside a store.)
Spinner: Or, or we let the market come to us.
Jimmy: What about rent?
Spinner: Dude I saved a cool grand working at the Dot and it’s not like I’m gonna need it for clown academy.
Jimmy: Are you serious?
Spinner: I’ve never been seriouser. What about your academic fund? Say you skim a little off the top-
Jimmy: No. My dad has been putting money into that fund since I was two years old. If I even think about touching it, I’m d*ad.
Spinner: Come on give your dad a little credit. He might just go for it, especially when he hears about how good we’re doing.
At the Dot
Alex: So here you are back from the magical university land of Banting, which I assume is going…
Paige: Better than perf, but what about you? Are you seeing anyone? Is she cute? Do I know her? I want all the juicy details.
Alex: Sorry can’t help you. I’m the queen of boring single, lame land. Degrassi’s all I got going on.
Paige: Well I bet you must be running that place. Are all the kiddies running scared?
Alex: Actually they’re shaking at my terrifyingly good study habits. Apparently I’m also a natural lacrosse player. Ms. H wants me to join the team.
Paige: My oh my. You on a sports team.
Alex: Ain’t gonna happen. Lacrosse is for losers.
Paige: Yeah there’s the bitter girl I know.
Alex: The bitter loner you used to know is trying to be a little sweeter these days.
Paige: Well sweetie a tiger can’t change its stripes over night.
At Ellie, Marco and Dylan’s place
(Spinner turns on some really loud music.)
Ellie: Spinner I have to read an entire novel, a Russian one.
Marco: Yeah can you guys find another place to set up shop?
Spinner: Good idea Marco. That’s funny. We just passed one on the street.
(Mr. Brooks walks into the room.)
Mr. Brooks: All set Jim?
Jimmy: Yeah.
Spinner: Dude ask him.
(Spinner turns off the music.)
Jimmy: Dad we have this little business. It’s uh these t-shirts with my designs and people are really digging the art.
Mr. Brooks: Good for you son. Not crazy about the colour, but uh put me down for one.
Jimmy: We also thought we could take it to the next level and open up a shop. Make it legit, you know?
(His dad doesn’t say anything.)
Jimmy: So I was wondering if you’d mind if I uh dipped into my academic fund?
Mr. Brooks: Son you can’t afford to chase these little dreams. The answer is no. I’ll be in the car.
Jimmy: I don’t even need my dad’s permission to access my fund. We’re gonna do this Spin. We’re gonna open this shop. Does that sound good?
Spinner: Dude that’s like, that’s like my ten favourite songs playing at the same time. Turn up to 11!
Outside the store, Spinner is passing out flyers
Spinner: Hi what’s up? Yo check out our store. It’s right behind you. Hey check it out. Guys here you go.
Inside the store
Marco: Jimmy man this is incredible.
Ashley: Well it ain’t pretty, but the customers don’t seem to mind.
Jimmy: I just cannot believe we’re making money. I mean if this thing takes off I could probably pay my own way to art school.
Ashley: Art school? What happened to pre-law, NYU?
Jimmy: I don’t know. I, I just think maybe this art thing could work out, you know? How cool would that be?
Ashley: Very cool. As long as we’re together and you’re happy. It’s all good.
(They kiss.)
Spinner: Man we are going to be famous fashion designers. Just like Ducce & Gabbana.
Marco: Yeah that’s uh Dolce & Gabbana, Spin. You know the gay fashion designers?
Spinner: Yeah, except not so gay.
Customer: You guys take debit?
Spinner: Cash only my friend.
(Spinner opens the cash box and the guy eyes it suspiciously before walking away.)
Spinner: They’ll be back.
In the gym
Ms. Hatzilakos: Okay guys that was good focus and good passing. Ah here’s our ringer. So you ready to help out the team?
Alex: Nothing I love more than giving up my weekend for the team.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Most of you probably know Alex. She graduated last year, so we are very lucky to have her back.
Alex: I can’t get enough of this place.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Okay let’s continue loosening up a little bit. Let’s do some passing drills, okay? Stay focussed guys!
Alex: Hey baby carrots. Looks like we’re team-mates.
Sirina: Doesn’t mean I have to talk to you.
At Marco, Ellie and Dylan’s place
Marco: We sold a truckload! I can’t believe this day.
Ashley: When these guys are famous, they better remember their friends.
Jimmy: Okay this should improve the snacks around here.
(Jimmy gives Marco some money.)
Marco: You didn’t have to Jimmy.
Ellie: Speak for yourself.
Jimmy: After Marco’s dad’s cut for the t-shirts, the rest is pure gravy.
Dylan: Ah not to be a killjoy, but I’ve taken some business classes. You’ve got taxes, book-keeping, insurance, overhead and hydro.
Spinner: Dude our gravy.
Jimmy: I guess we have a problem.
In the gym during a lacrosse game
Alex: sh**t it I’m open
(Sirina passes the ball to someone else.)
Sirina: Over here!
Alex: Over here!
(As it’s being passed to Alex, Sirina runs in front of her to receive the pass and knocks Alex down. Alex stands up, gets the ball and scores while everyone cheers for her.)
At the store
(Spinner picks up the phone pretending he’s on a call.)
Spinner: Ring. Squatch Designs, what can I put you down for? A hundred? Super.
Jimmy: You been busy.
Spinner: Oh you know just saving the store.
Jimmy: You doubled the prices?
Spinner: Yeah to re-coup our cost twice as fast.
Jimmy: Spin look around. You’re driving business away.
Spinner: At least I’m trying.
Jimmy: Yeah too hard. Spin look, I’ve been thinking maybe this is a bad idea. Maybe my dad was right.
Spinner: No he was wrong and we’ll see just how wrong and laugh in ten years when we are sipping cognac on our fly company yacht.
Jimmy: Spinner, wake up. There’s no yacht, okay? In tens years I will be practicing law in New York and you will be twisting balloon animals in North York.
(Spinner gives him a hurt look.)
Jimmy: Look let’s just fix these tags please and, and sell everything we have on the shelves and we’ll be done.
Spinner: No, you know what? You do it. I’m on break.
In the hallway after the game
Alex: Sirina!
Sirina: So finally remembered my name.
Alex: Ms. Hatzilakos told me. She also told me that you and I have to get along.
(She doesn’t say anything.)
Alex: So, go team go?
(Sirina starts to walk away.)
Alex: I’m trying to be nice here.
Sirina: Please. You know you’re not fooling anyone. You’re a hateful bitch Alex. That’s all you’re ever gonna be.
(Alex pushes her and Ms. Hatzilakos sees.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: Alex! My office now!
At the store
(The guys that were eying the money box come back.)
Jimmy: Hey what’s up? Feel free to look around. We’ve got some cool tees here so just ignore the prices. I’m still fixing them.
Guy: It’s not the tees that I’m interested in.
(Spinner is shown walking outside when he hears Jimmy inside the store.)
Jimmy: Hey!
(Spinner rushes inside.)
Jimmy: Spinner help!
(Spinner runs over to the guy fighting with Jimmy while the other guy runs away with the cash box.)
Spinner: You move and I break it in half.
Jimmy: I owe you one.
(Spinner holds him against the wall while Jimmy calls the police.)
Outside the school
(Alex holds a bag of baby carrots out to Sirina.)
Alex: They’re not poisoned and they make great projectiles.
(Sirina ignores her.)
Alex: I got a week’s worth detention. That should make you happy.
Sirina: You really don’t remember, do you?
Alex: Am I in the twilight zone? No, I don’t know you Sirina.
Sirina: Two years ago you almost blinded me with a laser pointer during my first and last debate or how about when you tripped me on the way to the caf? I sprained my ankle and I had to quit the team.
Alex: It wasn’t personal. You could have been anybody.
Sirina: But it was me. A real person. You made my life hell and the worst part, you don’t even remember doing it.
(She walks away while Alex looks upset.)
Outside the store
Police officer: Heck of a takedown there chief. You guys will get that vendor’s licence before you open up again?
Jimmy: Actually we uh, we won’t need it. We’re gonna close shop permanently.
Police officer: We’ll be in touch.
Spinner: You know you have no idea how lucky you are.
Jimmy: You’re right. That guy could have k*lled me.
Spinner: I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about this. Look at that design. It’s awesome. People love it. I would give anything to have what you have, Jimmy. Talent!
Jimmy: Who says you don’t? I just watched you take down some dude like Jack Bauer in there, man. That was sick. If that ain’t talent, dude…
Spinner: Yeah I guess I am a crime-fighting super stud. You’re right about that.
(Jimmy’s dad walks over to the cop.)
Mr. Brooks: Officer what’s, what’s, what’s the problem?
Police officer: Well it seems to me there was a robbery here at this location.
Jimmy: He looks pissed. Just wait ‘til I tell him where I got the money for this place. Man I am a d*ad man rolling.
Spinner: Dude I just faced down a robber. I think you can face down your dad.
Mr. Brooks: Thanks.
(Jimmy’s dad walks over to them.)
Mr. Brooks: Jim I’m so relieved you’re alright. Let’s get you home now, okay?
Jimmy: Okay. Dad uh just wait. We got to talk.
(Spinner smiles as he walks away.)
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: On a new episode of Degrassi, the happy couple is finally reunited.
(Sean is released from jail and him and Emma are shown hugging.)
Sean: I missed you.
Emma: I missed you too.
(Emma and Sean are having dinner together.)
Emma: Everything is perfect.
Sean: You’re perfect.
(Sean kisses Emma.)
Voiceover: But will the honeymoon last?
Emma: How do I even begin to tell him what I did with Jay in the ravine?
Sean: Did you and Jay have a thing last year?
Emma: I’m not the girl you knew in grade 7 anymore.
Jay: She damn near begged me to let her do it.
(Sean tries to h*t Jay.)
END | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x07 - Working For the Weekend"} | foreverdreaming |
Outside the jail
Sean: Hey sight for sore eyes.
(Sean walks out and hugs Emma.)
Sean: Ah yeah.
(They kiss.)
Sean: I’m free all thanks to you.
Emma: All I did was help you get a lawyer.
Sean: You got me a hearing. You got my sentence reduced.
Emma: And two years of probation.
Sean: Whatever. I’m out. Now we can be together. The perfect girl and the guy who doesn’t deserve her. Man I missed you.
(Emma kisses him.)
Emma: I missed you too. A lot.
Sean: Yeah? I also missed bacon double cheeseburgers with the works.
Emma: I see jail hasn’t turned you vegetarian.
Sean: Sorry. Been dreaming about it for months.
Emma: I guess I could put my carnivorous objections aside just this once, but first it’s present time.
(She hands him the picture that Spike took of them on their first date.)
Sean: Is that really us?
Emma: Six uber long years ago.
Sean: Sometimes I wish I could stop time. Go back.
Emma: To bad hair, braces and general pubescent awkwardness? No thanks.
Sean: Back to a time when you were proud of me.
(Emma runs her hand through his hair and touches his face.)
At Emma’s house
Mr. Simpson: So how was the sofa? Not too lumpy?
Sean: No it was great. Thanks. I really appreciate you guys letting me crash here until I get back on my feet.
Spike: What are your plans now that you’re out?
Emma: Already with the grilling?
Spike: I know you two are more than just friends Em. A mother gets to ask.
Sean: That’s cool. Jay is hooking me up with his boss. Apparently they need a new mechanic.
Mr. Simpson: What about school? Have you given any thought about coming back to Degrassi?
Sean: I got expelled.
Mr. Simpson: Well maybe I could talk to her.
Sean: No. I mean no thank you. I really don’t want to set foot in that place again.
Emma: Tell them about Cameron’s Custom Cars.
Sean: Someday I want to open up my own shop.
Mr. Simpson: That sounds like a fine plan if you can find a bank manager who’s willing to lend money to a high school dropout.
Spike: Couple that with your record.
Emma: Mom it’s his first day out of jail. Can you go easy, please?
Spike: Sorry. We’re really glad you’re here Sean.
Mr. Simpson: And we’re sure you’re gonna figure it all out. Your life I mean. You’ve got lots of time for that.
In the hallway
(Danny and Derek are running in the halls and they run right into Mr. Perino, spilling his drink and breaking his mug.)
Mr. Perino: Hey! How many times have I told you guys no running in the halls?!
Danny and Derek: Sorry Mr. Perino.
Mr. Perino: Sorry? Look at me! Look at my shoes. They’re ruined.
Derek: (under his breath) So buy some new ones.
Mr. Perino: Are you sure you want to use that tone with your teacher? Believe me you don’t want me to make your lives difficult.
Mr. Simpson: Guys go get the mop from the janitor. Clean this mess up, capiche? Go.
Mr. Perino: Smart asses, you know? They drive me crazy.
Mr. Simpson: Just uh try to remember they’re just kids. Right Dom?
(He walks away without saying anything.)
Mr. Simpson: Dom!
At the garage
Tony: Engine runs out.
Sean: It’s loose timing chain.
Tony: Shimmy in the steering. You know how to fix it?
Sean: Yeah. You machine the front rotors.
Tony: Jay was right. You know cars.
Sean: Cars are my life. You know, if you know how they work, they never let you down.
Tony: Spoken like a true mechanic. Tell you what, we got a Lexus with a faulty AC. Go to work.
Sean: You, you mean I got it? I got the job?
Tony: Yeah not for long if you don’t get to work.
Sean: Yes sir. Woo! I got it man.
Jay: What’d I tell you?
In Mr. Perino’s class
Danny: After years of fighting, the second world w*r came to an end with the b*mb of Hiroshima. Once the Third Rake finally surrendered, the iron curtain divided Europe-
Mr. Perino: I think it’s time this presentation surrendered and by the way it’s Reich, not Rake. You’re done.
Danny: But you cut me off.
Mr. Perino: The assignment was to summarize an event in your own words. Not bore everyone by copying the damn thing from your textbook.
Danny: It’s not my fault history’s so boring.
Mr. Perino: Well it might be to you, but I’ll assure you history’s a fascinating discipline.
(Danny sits down behind Derek.)
Derek: He was a teacher.
Mr. Perino: Who said that? Mr. Higg you got something to say? Don’t be a clown. Be a man and say it.
Derek: Okay I will. Can’t you give Danny a break? I mean he’s trying his best.
Mr. Perino: Tell you what instead of giving Daniel a zero for plagiarism, detention both of you and tomorrow I’ll let you help him redo his presentation.
At the garage
(Emma tries to sneak up on Sean.)
Sean: Hey gorgeous.
Emma: How did you do that?
Sean: You’re a lousy sneaker and every car has at least three mirrors.
(He kisses her.)
Sean: Mwah!
Emma: Based on the fact that your freshly pressed white shirt is now forgotten on the tool bench, you got the job?
Sean: Your little pep talk helped. Thanks and a big shout out to Jay! He totally went to the mat for his bud, huh? My best friend and my girlfriend. The only two people I can count on.
Jay: Girlfriend? Well I guess not even jail time can keep you two lovebirds apart, huh?
Sean: We should all hang out, huh? Catch up on old times?
Jay: Yeah Sean’s not caught up on old times.
Emma: Old times are overrated.
Sean: Alright well uh, well I’m all done here. I’m gonna take my girl out for dinner.
Jay: Go have fun. I’ll lock up.
Outside the school
Danny: Detention rocks. I’d take it over history class any day.
Derek: Plus we got Perino off our backs for now. Hey later.
Danny: Later.
(Danny leaves and Derek sees Mr. Perino standing by the bus stop.)
Derek: Hey Mr. Perino.
Mr. Perino: Derek.
Derek: Something wrong with your car?
Mr. Perino: Why? Did you do something to it?
Derek: No. I just thought…bus stop.
Mr. Perino: What, no funny jokes? You’re not much of a comedian outside of class, are you?
Derek: I’m sorry.
Mr. Perino: Don’t pull that innocent act with me.
Derek: Uh I think I’m gonna walk home.
(Derek starts to leave when Mr. Perino steps in front of him.)
Mr. Perino: Let me make myself clear. Show me some respect or we’ve got a serious problem, understood?
(Derek walks away.)
At Emma’s house
Emma: Where is my lucky bra? The one that gives me Manny boobs.
Manny: What’s the big deal? You’re just going on a date with Sean.
Emma: It’s not a date. It’s the date. The “he’s finally back in my life and everything has to be perfect” date.
Manny: And you’re just trying to live up to the pedestal that he’s putting you on.
Emma: There’s nothing wrong with having a boyfriend who thinks you’re amazing.
Manny: Unlike those shoes, nobody’s perfect.
Emma: Least of all me. I went by the garage today and Jay was there.
Manny: Three’s definitely not company.
Emma: Jay is Sean’s best friend. How do I even begin to tell him what I did with Jay in the ravine?
Manny: You were single. It was a crazy time. What were you supposed to do, sit home and knit?
Emma: I’m not sure that Sean’s gonna see it that way.
Manny: If he really loves you then he should.
After hours at the Dot
Spinner: Okay I will be back in an hour to lock up. Don’t break anything.
Sean: We won’t. Thanks man.
(Spinner leaves Sean and Emma alone.)
Sean: It’s not much, but jail does a number on a guy’s savings.
Emma: The place, the candles, the tofurkey…everything is perfect.
Sean: It is perfect. You’re perfect.
Emma: I’ve still made mistakes.
Sean: You’re talking to the master of mistakes.
Emma: So you won’t hold them against me?
Sean: Of course not. Why? Is there something you need to tell me about?
Emma: No. It’s just…stupid.
Sean: Nothing you say is stupid Em. You’re the smartest person I know.
At the garage
Sean: Hey last night I thought Emma was dropping hints. Did something happen?
Jay: No. It was probably nothing.
Sean: If there was something, you’d tell me, right?
Jay: Forget it. You’re not hearing it from me.
Sean: Jay come on. After everything I’ve been through, I can handle it.
Jay: Fine, but I warned you. Alright while you were gone, Emma and I kind of fooled around.
Sean: You had sex.
Jay: No. No, no, no. I mean not really. It depends how you look at it. I had more than she did.
Sean: I can’t believe this. You and Emma?
Jay: Dude don’t overreact. Look you’d just broken up with Ellie. You and Emma hadn’t been a thing for like years. It just kind of happened. Once. You said you could take it.
Sean: Just shut up, okay? Shut up.
Jay: Man I’m sorry.
Sean: I said shut up.
(Sean walks away angry.)
At Degrassi
Emma: Sean? What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be at work?
Sean: Never mind. Did…did you and Jay have a thing last year?
Emma: Who told you that?
Sean: Wrong answer.
(Sean tries to walk away, but Emma stops him.)
Emma: Sean! It was two years ago. Right after I had a g*n pointed at my face. To say I was super duper messed up would be an understatement.
Sean: How could you do that? And with Jay?! The thought of you two together makes me want to-
Emma: What happened to “I won’t hold it against you”?
(Sean leaves and Peter walks by Emma.)
Peter: Lover’s quarrel?
At the garage
(Sean walks by Jay without saying anything.)
Jay: Take it we’re not cool?
Sean: Don’t talk to me.
Tony: Jay get on the Lexus. Mr. Lane is my best customer.
Jay: Uh you wanna hand me that ratchet?
Sean: Get it yourself.
Jay: Look it was over a year ago man. Just let it go.
Sean: I’m not gonna let it go, alright? You took something that was good and you ruined it. Just like you always do.
Jay: Right, right make me the bad guy. Alright whatever helps you sleep at night.
Sean: You didn’t care about Emma. You used her! You took advantage of her.
Jay: I didn’t take advantage of anybody. The truth is she chased me dude. She damn near begged me to let her do it.
(Sean pushes Jay, he pushes him back and Sean tries to punch him, but misses and hits the wall.)
In science class
Science teacher: So each group is now holding a different part of the human body. I want you to explain in essay form the function of your part.
Manny: Well this should be easy.
(Emma s*ab her pencil into the heart.)
Manny: Em! You’re k*lling Johnny Carcass-man! His heart’s not gonna work with a pencil in it.
Emma: I’m sorry. I was imagining it belongs to Sean, who found out about me and Jay from Jay.
Manny: Ouch. Hope you had a soft landing when you fell off that pedestal.
(Emma starts s*ab the pencil over and over again into the heart.)
Manny: Easy cuckoo bananas! This is one of the few classes that I’m not failing.
Emma: What is it with guys and their ridiculous double standards? They can do whatever they want, but a girl makes one mistake and her rep is tarnished for life!
Manny: Look I know your little visit with Jay in the ravine may not have been on the Emma Nelson highlight rail, but no guy has the right to judge you. Especially Sean.
In Mr. Perino’s class
(Danny and Derek walk into the room.)
Mr. Perino: Derek can I uh talk to you a minute?
(They go into the hall.)
Mr. Perino: Look I just want to make sure there’s no misunderstanding about last night.
Derek: Well what you said Mr. Perino…was kind of thr*at.
Mr. Perino: Derek you’re a smart kid. I hate seeing you waste your potential. I was just trying to motivate you.
Derek: More like you freaked me out.
Mr. Perino: Look what do you say we just forget it even happened?
Derek: Yeah. Yeah I guess.
Mr. Perino: Good. Look go in there and knock that presentation out of the park, okay?
At the garage
Mr. Lane: You remembered to change the oil?
Sean: There’s an oil change charge on the bill, isn’t there?
Mr. Lane: I’ve noticed a bit of pulling lately. Um how is the tire pressure?
(Sean kicks the tire.)
Sean: Seems fine to me.
Mr. Lane: Maybe I should talk to your boss.
Sean: You have a problem with my work, then you take it up with me. So do we have a problem?
Mr. Lane: I have a mechanic with an attitude.
(Sean steps up to him thr*at and he takes a step back scared.)
Jay: Hey Sean back off! Look I’m sorry sir. His problem, it’s with me.
Sean: Tell Tony I quit.
(Sean leaves and kicks the tool bench over.)
In Mr. Perino’s class
Derek: And in late October 1945 the United Nations was formed.
Danny: To promote human rights and prevent future world wars.
Mr. Perino: Nice job you two. Okay, who’s my next victim? Jackson? You ready?
(He doesn’t say anything.)
Mr. Perino: Blank stare. Figures. Did anybody not stay up all night playing video games and looking at nudie pictures on the Internet? Take the zero.
Derek: Why do you have to be like that sir?
Mr. Perino: Do you have a problem Mr. Higg?
(Derek doesn’t say anything.)
Mr. Perino: I didn’t think so. Alright who’s gonna butcher another presentation or do I have to keep handing out zeros? Hmm?
(Derek takes his bag and walks out of the classroom.)
Mr. Perino: Hey! Where are you going?!
(Derek starts talking to Mr. Simpson in the hallway.)
At Emma’s, Sean is packing
Emma: Classic Sean. When the going gets tough, the Sean gets going.
Sean: Not much to stick around for.
Emma: So the minute you find out I’m not perfect you run away?
Sean: Not perfect? I’d say!
Emma: Well what do you expect Sean? I’m a real person! In three months I’ll be old enough to vote, to legally drink in Quebec. I’m not the girl you knew in grade seven anymore.
Sean: What happened to you?
Emma: I grew up! Maybe you should try it.
Sean: My parents kicked me out when I was twelve, alright? I grew up in a hurry. I needed to, to survive.
Emma: All you did was build a wall between yourself and the world, to hide behind!
Sean: You let me down. My parents let me down. The school system let me down. I’m just saving myself from more.
Emma: So all your problems are someone else’s fault, right?
Sean: It’s not my fault you did that to Jay.
Emma: And you’ll never let me forget it, will you?
(Sean starts walking away.)
Emma: Okay little boy, I give up.
At the bus station
(Sean’s ticket falls out of his pocket along with the picture Emma gave him and he watches a couple with their arms around each other.)
Outside Ms. Hatzilakos’ office
(Mr. Perino leaves angrily and Mr. Simpson walks over to Derek.)
Derek: Did he get fired?
Mr. Simpson: No, but uh Ms. Hatzilakos is launching an investigation.
Derek: I should have kept my mouth shut.
Mr. Simpson: No you did the right thing Derek. Ready to give your side of the story?
Derek: Is it okay if I’m a little scared?
Mr. Simpson: Don’t be. Okay I’ll be in there with you. Come on.
(They go inside and Mr. Simpson looks back at Mr. Perino.)
At Emma’s house
Sean: This isn’t supposed to happen.
Emma: Didn’t have to, but you made it.
Sean: When I came back here from Wasaga, Emma…it wasn’t for school or to open a garage. It was none of that.
Emma: Funny thing is you got what you came for. Then you blew it.
Sean: Don’t give up on me. Please.
Emma: I can’t be perfect Sean. I can’t be everything you need all the time.
Sean: Good! I want you to challenge me. I want you to call me on my crap.
Emma: Sure, but if we’re gonna have a real relationship you need to save yourself from yourself sometimes.
Sean: I’ll ask Tony for my job back, okay? I’ll get my high school equivalency. I’ll start looking for my own place.
Emma: And what about us?
(He kisses her.)
Sean: I want to get to know you again Em.
Voiceover: In 2007, the series that pushes the limits is going there again.
(A group of guys are shown walking outside. Ellie is shown with Jesse. Marco and Dylan are sitting together.)
Dylan: Oh dear.
Mia: I trusted you with my daughter!
(Manny is crying at a hospital and Sean is hugging her.)
Manny: This is my fault.
Sean: It’s not.
Voiceover: Someone will return.
(Craig and Ellie are kissing and Ellie pushes him away.)
Ellie: You bastard. It’s all gonna be lies!
Voiceover: Someone will fall.
(Derek looks upset.)
Nic: Lakehurst has declared w*r on your school.
JT: You want a w*r? You got it.
(Emma and Sean look at each other, Manny is dancing with some guy, a party is going on, Toby is kissing Mia, Ellie is covering her mouth shocked, Toby is getting punched in the stomach, Jay is getting a drink splashed in his face, Emma is at the party, Nic is kicking someone, Craig is singing with a bloody nose, Emma looks shocked, someone is holding a Kn*fe.)
Voiceover: And someone will die.
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At the airport
Craig: Waiting for someone?
Manny: Nobody in particular.
Craig: Oh.
Manny: Just this guy. Tall, curly hair, pretty cute.
Craig: Mm hmm. Yeah. He’s like your boyfriend?
Manny: Boyfriend? I don’t know. I haven’t seen him for months and he hardly ever calls.
Craig: Wow. Guy sounds like a real jackass. Sure you want to keep seeing him?
Manny: Like I said, he’s pretty cute.
(They kiss.)
Manny: I missed you, you jerk.
Craig: I know. I missed you too. It’s so good to see you again. I just wish I could stay longer.
Manny: Well I’m sure we can pack a lot into the next few days together.
Craig: Sure. Totally. Let’s go by uh Marco and Ellie’s. They’ve got this welcome home party or something.
At the party, Craig finishes playing a song
Marco: That was awesome.
Spinner: Did you write that?
Craig: That one I wrote on a ferry to Vancouver Island. It’s a long story.
Ellie: I love the illusions to Melville.
(Manny is shown glaring at them.)
Craig: Wow you picked up on that?
Ellie: The night’s young. Let’s hear another.
Marco: Yeah man for sure.
(Manny points to her watch, but Craig starts singing and Ellie bops her head.)
Craig: (singing) I know you say you been a-passing by, but I just saw you drowning on a ship tonight-
Outside the school
Craig: We were supposed to run lines last night. I forgot.
Manny: Well you were pretty busy. Everyone needs some Craig.
Craig: Well I don’t care about everybody. I care about you. So can I help?
Manny: I don’t know.
Craig: Too late.
(He grabs the script and they start rehearsing.)
Craig: (reading) I just don’t want you to get hurt.
Manny: (acting) I already got hurt, remember? He left and he hasn’t come back.
Craig: Okay what if you tried angrier?
Manny: Well that was my instinct, but I thought I couldn’t pull it off.
Craig: Of course you can. Just try it.
Manny: (acting) He left and he hasn’t come back!
Craig: Don’t ever doubt your instincts Manny. You’re good.
Manny: I got to go.
Craig: I’ll come with you.
Manny: I’m sure you have more important music stuff you need to do.
Craig: Well I got a sound check for a show tonight, but this is more important. Come on let’s grab a cab.
Manny: Across town? It’ll cost a fortune.
Craig: It’s on me. Don’t worry about it.
In the hallway
Mia: JT! Isabella’s sick. They sent her home from daycare. I spent all night writing this “Waiting for Godot” presentation and now the period’s half over.
JT: It’s too bad the daycare’s so far, but I mean Kwan will give you an extension.
Mia: Yeah she might if she hadn’t have already given me two already.
JT: Listen um, leave Isabella with me. I have a spare this morning.
Mia: JT are you sure? I wouldn’t usually do this, but it’s not like there’s any daycares near here I could bring her to. Man I wish there was one here, but might as well keep dreaming.
JT: Seriously Mia. Go bend it like Beckett. We’ll be great.
Mia: You’re not like any boy I know.
JT: Well then you can make up to me. Hot date tonight at the Dot?
(She nods yes.)
JT: Good. Hey there. You know the best part about being sick? Popsicles!
(Isabella smiles and Mia kisses her on the cheek while Liberty watches them.)
Mia: Bye.
JT: Alright! You like popsicles?
At Marco and Ellie’s
Craig: Guys you are looking at a future acting legend. Manny just nailed her audition.
Manny: Thanks to my acting guru Craig.
Craig: Hey if you land that part, that’s a big deal. West Drive is huge.
Ellie: If you like earnest teen melodramas filled with woefully bad writing.
Marco: Well hey no Saved By The Bell, huh? And speaking of which El, I think it’s time we went to get our Screech on.
Ellie: Yeah.
(Marco and Ellie leave.)
Craig: I wish I could have seen that audition. I bet you k*lled it.
Manny: I just wish I could do it again so I can get more of this buzz.
Craig: Man I live for that buzz. Sometimes when I’m on stage, I think it’s my job to make them remember just one chord, one moment.
Manny: That’s exactly how I feel.
Craig: That’s why you’re my girl.
(They kiss.)
At the Dot
(Mia sits down and Liberty walks over to her.)
Liberty: Mia you look pretty.
Mia: Oh thanks. Do you want to sit down? JT hasn’t come yet.
Liberty: So where’s Isabella?
Mia: Uh she’s at home with my mom.
Liberty: She sure is cute. Charms everyone.
Mia: Well except for when she’s being a nightmare. Anyway how are you? You seem a little bit tense.
Liberty: Oh uh just in a quiet mood, you know?
Mia: Sure. It’s not usually quiet enough in my head.
Liberty: Yeah it’s far too quiet in my life, although a child would change that.
Mia: Like when you’re a parent someday?
Liberty: Oh uh no. I already am. Gave him up for adoption last year.
Mia: Oh I…wow. I didn’t know.
Liberty: Yeah I don’t usually talk about it much. After JT sold drugs to support us and almost committed su1c1de, I really had no choice, but to give him up.
Mia: What?!
Liberty: Oh he didn’t tell you? Typical.
(She goes back over to Toby and Mia leaves angry.)
Toby: Ouch.
Outside Mia’s house
(Mia walks out onto the balcony.)
JT: Are you okay? How’s Bella? I was so worried and then your cell wasn’t on.
Mia: Solution? Don’t call.
JT: Mia at least tell me what’s wrong!
Mia: You couldn’t tell me the truth about your life? About your baby?!
JT: Liberty talked to you?
Mia: And you didn’t. You stole drugs?
JT: Look uh you don’t know the whole story.
Mia: I trusted you with my daughter.
JT: And you still should. Okay Liberty and her parents gave up the baby and it still drives me crazy!
Mia: Is the drug stuff true?
JT: Prescription, but Liberty didn’t want to stay at home so we had to get some extra cash.
Mia: Liberty’s not the problem here, JT. You are.
(She goes inside angry.)
At Craig’s show
Manny: He must be so excited. I bet he’s going to be so great tonight.
Emma: He’s music personified, ya di da. I know.
Manny: But Em we so completely get each other. It’s so good.
Sean: A couple days ago you were pretty down on the guy. What changed?
Manny: We just reconnected. I can‘t explain it Sean. It’s magic.
(Manny sees that Ellie’s there.)
Manny: Oh great. She’s here. Craig’s shadow.
Emma: You worry too much about her.
Manny: Well not tonight. Tonight no one can bring me down. Not even smelly mcsnooty pants.
Backstage, Manny opens the door
Manny: Special delivery. I have that Manuela Santos for you.
(She sees Craig snorting cocaine.)
Craig: Hey! I’m so happy to see you.
Some guy: Alright man you’re up.
Craig: Aren’t you going to say anything?
Manny: Break a leg…I guess.
(He leaves and Manny stares at the drugs on the table.)
On stage, Craig is performing
Craig: (Singing) I fly too close to the sun. I chase the whale on the run, but I am…I’m jumping from mountains and I’m jumping from skies. Trying to realize my size.
Emma: Are you okay? You were a bouncing love bunny ten minutes ago. What’s going on?
Manny: I can’t see. I’m gonna move up.
Craig: (Singing) What you say when we…what you feel when you see. Drowning in the sea. Drowning close to me.
(He finishes and everyone claps for him.)
Craig: Thank you.
Marco: Hey Craig. Hey! That was awesome man. Congratulations.
Craig: Yeah? Thanks man.
Ellie: You’re a genius.
Craig: Stop it.
Ellie: Is that why you were asking about drowning allegories last month?
(He hugs Ellie.)
Craig: You caught it! Again. Man I can’t get anything past you Ellie. You’re so, you’re so keyed into what I’m doing.
Ellie: Well it was perfect, especially that melancholy key. Listen I’m gonna do a profile on you for the Core.
(Manny starts to leave, but Craig goes after her.)
Craig: Hang on El. Manny are you okay? We didn’t get a chance to talk and it was so great that you came backstage and not for a second did I want you to think that I do that.
Manny: It’s fine. I just have spirit squad at the crack of dawn.
Craig: I couldn’t stand it if you were upset. I could see your eyes shining the whole time I played.
Manny: You were incredible. Go get congratulated.
Craig: Okay.
(He leaves and Emma and Sean walk over to Manny.)
Outside the school
JT: Hey we need to talk.
Mia: You should have thought about that weeks ago.
JT: Mia I’m sorry. I should have told you the whole truth, but I just was scared you’d bail on me.
Mia: You know I’m not judgemental.
JT: I know. That’s one of the things that I love about you. You just, you need to forgive me. Please?
Mia: Look I can’t do this right now. I’m tired and I’m stressed. Isabella’s sick again. I had to leave her with my aunt.
JT: I’ve been thinking. I think that there should be a daycare at Degrassi.
Mia: And I should be Lindsay Lohan.
JT: No I’m serious. You said yourself it was a good idea. I really think that’s what the school needs.
Mia: And this isn’t about you trying to suck up to me?
JT: No. It’s about me doing the right thing and I’m gonna do it.
In the hallway
Emma: The pout is officially out of fashion, so speak. What’s up?
Manny: West Drive went in another direction, which probably means they cast some tall blonde with long legs.
Emma: West Drive, Smest Drive. That show is so issue of the week.
Manny: I have my own issue of the week. Craig, he’s not the same.
Emma: Seems like the same old rock star to me, just more sure of himself.
Manny: Yeah that’s the problem.
Emma: Ego? Groupies? Is this an Ellie thing?
Manny: No it’s definitely Craig.
Emma: Well I’ll tell you what I’ve learned. If you want the guy, you take the flaws. See Cameron, Sean.
Manny: This is a different problem than you had with Sean. Way.
Emma: Well Craig is crazy about you and your shining eyes, remember?
Manny: Maybe I need to remind him.
Emma: True love is worth fighting for.
At Marco and Ellie’s
Craig: Hey.
Manny: I need to say some stuff.
Craig: Say away.
Manny: Last night with the-
(She makes a motion around her nose.)
Craig: You said it didn’t bother you.
Manny: I lied. Craig it does. Why? Why do you do it?
Craig: When I get nervous, it’s like my synapses have a party. I need a little confidence boost sometimes.
Manny: How often is sometimes?
Craig: Please I’ve done it like twice. It’s no big deal, believe me.
(He kisses her.)
Manny: I didn’t get the part on West Drive.
Craig: Oh man. Their loss. You’re a star. Listen uh Ellie’s having a dinner party tonight and I want you to come.
Manny: If Ellie sees me here, she’ll probably poison the food.
Craig: Manny you’ve got to get over her.
Manny: She makes me feel dumb when I speak. I’m not smart like she is.
Craig: Yeah you are. You’re just not book smart. Who cares? Seriously you’re, you’re brilliant in every other way.
Manny: So comforted right now.
Craig: Manny I’m crazy about you. That should be all the comfort you need.
At a student council meeting
Liberty: Fine. A donation will be made in Degrassi’s name and uh council will now hear new business.
JT: I propose that Degrassi should have an onsite daycare. Benefits will be plentiful for both staff and students with children, as well-
Liberty: That’s preposterous. Next.
JT: Wait a minute. I haven’t even finished my pitch.
Liberty: You don’t have to. I already know it’s foolish and ill-conceived. What about buildings codes JT? What about child height counters, facilities, a playground?!
JT: Come on. Toby? Help me out.
Toby: Um maybe you should let him finish his pitch.
(Liberty glares at him.)
Toby: Or not.
Liberty: Next! Moving on.
JT: Wait just hear me out. Our community can benefit from this.
Liberty: You mean your girlfriend can.
JT: Yeah and?
Liberty: And so this isn’t practical for Degrassi. Especially since the daycare wouldn’t even open for two years. Look this is personal, not serious. Next!
JT: Is this Earth? You’re the one making it personal. It’s a good idea.
Liberty: We don’t take pitches from irresponsible slackers with ill-researched schemes.
JT: I guess not since judgemental robots make the decisions. A Degrassi daycare could make life easier for students.
Liberty: For one student!
Mia: Liberty you of all people know I’m not alone. It could help eventually.
JT: So just to clarify here, the reason you won’t support a Degrassi daycare is purely selfish. Is that right Ms. President?
(Liberty storms away angry.)
At Ellie, Marco and Dylan’s
Jesse: Well Rousseau did say man’s choices are limited. Man is born free, but everywhere he’s in chains.
Ellie: Only true if he’s part of society.
Craig: Yeah well you can’t not be though. It’s not exactly optional.
Manny: So true. So true.
Ellie: Manny you studied Rousseau?
Manny: Um not exactly.
Craig: He was, uh he was a big 18th century thinker. Ellie sent me one of his books when I was on the road.
Manny: How nice.
Marco: Well uh Ellie and I have been taking intro to psych and uh Jung says that we all have like massive complexes.
Jesse: No kidding. Neuroses rule!
Craig: Manny what do you think?
Manny: Um someone told me that Woody Allen was a perfect onscreen neurotic.
Dylan: Uh huh.
Ellie: Well I don’t have any neuroses, of course.
Manny: Really? Because I thought being constantly rejected by guys would mess you up Ellie.
Ellie: Yeah. Yeah I feel bad that I take time to meet guys who actually like me.
Dylan: Oh dear.
Ellie: In fact I don’t know how I made it through high school without having my breasts shown online.
(Manny leaves the table and Craig follows as Jesse tries not to laugh.)
Craig: Where are you going?
Manny: Did you hear what she said?
Craig: Yeah, but you started it. I mean why can’t you just get over her?
Manny: Because she’s smarter than me. She’s funnier than me. She’s everything that I’m not.
Craig: Keep believing it Manny. It’s real attractive.
Manny: They won’t let me into their little club.
Craig: Manny you’re spontaneous, you’re bright and you’re my girl. Why can’t you just be yourself?
Manny: Maybe I just need a little boost. Where is it?
Craig: What are you talking about?
(She searches for the coke and pulls it out of his pocket.)
Craig: Woah.
Manny: Show me.
Craig: What? No. Why?
Manny: ‘Cause then I can talk with all your smart friends. These are people you want to spend time with, right?
Craig: Come on.
Manny: This is your club. I want in.
(They go upstairs to do the coke.)
At the table, Manny and Craig are high
Manny: (Talking incredibly fast) Anyways it doesn’t really matter if I get the part because it, all that matters is how I present myself in the long term. That’s what my agent says.
Marco: Yeah. Yeah no. I mean you have to get them to remember you?
Manny: Yeah because who wants to be yet another dumb, boring actress? Right Ellie? Anyways I told her just cast me as the funny girl, you know? I said that to her!
Craig: It’s smart. You have to get noticed, right?
Manny: I love you so much Craig!
(Manny hugs Craig and spills her drink all over the floor.)
Manny: Oh my god. Get it-
(Her and Craig are laughing hysterically while Marco tries to clean the mess up.)
Marco: Manny it’s really fine.
Manny: I am so sorry. I am so sorry.
(They keep laughing as Ellie rolls her eyes.)
Outside the school
JT: Liberty what the hell was that yesterday? You dismissed everything I said. Very professional and then you bailed.
Liberty: You don’t even know what words like that mean, man-child.
JT: What was irresponsible? Supporting you? Begging you to go to the doctors? Backing you when you gave him up, even though he was my son too?
Liberty: You don’t know what you’re saying.
JT: What I’m saying is that I’m happy and that makes you burn. Why?
Liberty: You’re ridiculous.
JT: No I’m right. Okay I have a right to be happy so stop trying to make me as miserable as you are.
At Marco, Ellie and Dylan’s
(Manny rushes down the stairs.)
Ellie: Good morning.
Manny: I’m late!
Ellie: And so much less chatty than you were last night. Shocking.
(Ellie goes upstairs to give Craig a cup of coffee.)
Ellie: Coffee? It was a late night.
Craig: Yeah thanks.
(Ellie starts to leave when she sees the coke.)
Ellie: Is…what is this?
(She picks up the coke.)
Craig: El I don’t know how this happened.
Ellie: What happened? What’s going on?
Craig: I never thought it would get bad so fast.
Ellie: Craig are you doing coke?
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In the journalism office
(Ellie’s writing her article on Craig when Jesse walks in.)
Jesse: A day in the life of Craig Manning. Ouch. That’s your title?
Ellie: Encouraging as always, boss-man.
(He kisses her forehead.)
Jesse: Would have thought writing about Craig would have came easy to you.
Ellie: Not this morning. Not after I found a baggie of coke on his bedroom floor.
Jesse: Colour me not surprised. I had a feeling he was doing some rounds.
Ellie: What? Hold on. Those drugs weren’t Craig’s. They belong to his girlfriend, Tweedle Dum.
Jesse: Oh well me thinks Tweedle Dum has been sharing her stash with Tweedle Dee, I.E. Craig.
Ellie: I.E. shut up. Craig does not do coke.
Jesse: You know this for a fact?
Ellie: No I don’t, but what I do know is that I have to keep him away from Manny. Long enough to make him realize that she’s a toxic influence.
Jesse: I have a new job for you and for this one, you owe me. Taking Back Sunday are in town and guess who’s interviewing them today?
Ellie: Jesse you’re the best!
(She kisses him when Craig walks in.)
Ellie: Hey Mr. Manning uh you’re right on time. Ready for your big interview?
Craig: Actually I don’t know if I can right now. I got to go clean out Joey’s garage.
Ellie: Oh I’ll come with. I can help.
Jesse: Uh frosh you do have the Taking Back Sunday interview today and it’s way more important than this whole Craig thing.
Ellie: Both are important. Both will get done. Will not disappoint, promise.
(She kisses Jesse and her and Craig leave.)
In Joey’s garage, Ellie is interviewing Craig
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Ellie: So I’ve been listening to your demo. There’s a recurring theme of home. Something you’re preoccupied with?
Craig: Nah when you’re a musician, home is wherever your guitar is.
Ellie: Okay, but that’s funny ‘cause you left your guitar here.
Craig: I left a lot of things here. A lot of people. I always thought when I come back they’ll all be waiting, you know? With big open arms and a smile.
Ellie: And are they?
Craig: Nope. Joey’s selling this place and moving to Calgary. All my old friends have moved on and you-
Ellie: Oh I’m here.
Craig: No not really. You’re busy. You’ve got uh you know university, journalism, Jesse.
Ellie: Yeah, but I’m still here Craig and I always will be.
(Ellie gets a text message saying “Taking Back Sunday r waiting”.)
Ellie: Ugh I have to go.
Craig: Interview’s over?
Ellie: No. Um come with me. You can meet the band. It’ll be fun.
(Ellie grabs his hand and they leave.)
Outside
Danny: So I’m thinking of changing my name. What do you think of LL Cool D? It stands for Ladies Love Cool Danny.
Derek: If anyone deserves that name, it’s me.
Toby: Based on what, your fantasy life?
Derek: Hey I dated Emma Nelson.
Danny: Dude that was a blind date.
Johnny: What’s that stench? The losers from Degrassi.
Nic: Listen up dorks. Lakehurst has declared w*r on your school.
Derek: Why?
Nic: Ask your friend, the mascot. JT Yorke.
Toby: You know his name?
Johnny Friend of yours?
Nic: Well you tell JT we’re gonna stomp his ass.
Garbage man: Hey! What’s going on?
Nic: Let’s go.
(They all leave.)
At the club
Ellie: So sorry I’m late, hi, hi. Hi, Ellie Nash, friendly neighbourhood music critic.
Adam: Hi I’m Adam, your friendly neighbourhood singer. And I don’t know, the band, we got let’s see Fred, Mark, Ed and Matt.
Ellie: Hey guys. Nice to meet you.
Adam: So your editor’s been raving about you. He said you’re his best writer.
Jesse: I said you weren’t my worst writer. Say Craig why don’t you go get a coffee, let Ellie do her interview, okay?
Craig: Sure. I’m gonna get going now. I’ll go see what Manny’s up to.
Ellie: Um wait Craig I, I want you to meet the band. Guys this is Craig Manning, local singer/songwriter extraordinaire.
Adam: Hey, Adam.
Craig: Hey it’s great to meet you guys. MakeDamnSure is one of my favs. Actually I even uh do it in my set. Real different version, stripped down, acoustic.
Adam: Oh I wouldn’t mind hearing that.
Craig: Right now?
Adam: Yeah um you wanna grab a guitar?
Jesse: Sorry to interrupt guys, but uh Ellie we do have a deadline so…
Ellie: There’s always time for a song though, right? Come on.
(Jesse gives her a disapproving look.)
In the cafeteria
(JT is tickling Mia and they’re laughing.)
Toby: Hope you’re enjoying that burrito JT. It’s gonna be your last.
JT: What, are they taking these bad boys off the menu?
Toby: No, but Lakehurst is gonna take you off the menu. The menu of life.
Danny: We kind of got b*at up this morning by Nic and the Lakehurst crew.
Derek: Nic’s declared w*r on Degrassi.
Toby: Specifically on you.
JT: Why? Why me? Was it because of that stupid basketball brawl? That was nothing.
Mia: It’s not because of the brawl. It’s because you’re dating me. Let’s just say Nic’s the jealous type.
JT: That psycho is your ex?
Toby: Oh so now it makes sense. This is about you, Mia. You’re gonna get us all k*lled.
JT: Oh yeah Toby, way to make her feel good.
Toby: I’m sorry I just have this neurotic aversion to being m*rder!
JT: Lakehurst is not gonna hurt anybody. I’m gonna handle it.
Toby: Oh yeah and what are you going to do? Tickle them to death?
At the club
Ellie: So how’s the tour going?
Matt: Great. Great except for when Adam h*t me in the head with a microphone, but that’s another story.
Manager: Alright guys we got to go record station ID.
Jesse: Woah, woah, woah. She hasn’t interviewed Adam yet.
Manager: Oh sorry we’re out of time.
Jesse: See you back at the office frosh.
(Jesse leaves and Craig walks over to her.)
Craig: So get this, the band has a break in their set tomorrow night. Guess who Adam invited to sing for the crowd?
Ellie: Craig that’s amazing.
Craig: This could be huge for my career Ellie and it’s all thanks to you. You’re, you’re awesome. I got to go.
Ellie: Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. Wait, what about our interview?
Craig: Come on I got to go see Manny. I got to tell her the good news.
At Lakehurst, outside of detention
Johnny: Bout time.
Nic: Let’s go.
(They start to leave when JT shows up.)
Nic: You got a lot of nerve showing up at our school.
JT: Whatever. Is this stupid w*r about me dating your ex?
Nic: I don’t care about Mia. She’s just a dumb slut.
(JT takes a step forward angrily.)
Nic: Easy mascot boy.
JT: You want a w*r, you got it. Meet me in the tunnel tomorrow at 5.
Nic: Mind if I bring my friends?
JT: No because I’ll bring mine.
Nic: Oh the chess club? I’m scared.
At the university
Ellie: Sorry…about bringing Craig to the interview. It was unprofessional.
Jesse: That’s okay. Where is Craig anyway? Thought you’d be interviewing him.
Ellie: He bailed on me. Went off to party with little miss Manny.
Jesse: Probably jonesing for coke.
Ellie: Nice.
Jesse: Look my best friend used to be an addict, okay? I can see the signs pretty clearly.
Ellie: You can’t see anything clearly. Not when it comes to Craig. Jealous much?
Jesse: I’m not jealous of some failed singer/songwriter loser that you’re still crushing on. It’s pathetic.
Ellie: That is wrong on so many levels.
Jesse: You know what’s really wrong? The fact that Craig keeps crapping on you and you keep going back for more.
At Marco and Ellie’s
(Craig and Manny are making out when Manny pulls away.)
Manny: Hey why don’t we go out tonight? See a movie, grab a bite?
Craig: Or we could stay in ‘cause I happen to have some party favours.
Manny: You know after we did that last night, I felt sick. Horrible. I never want to do it again.
Craig: Cool. That’s your choice.
Manny: Baby.
Craig: Look this has been one of the best one or two days of my life. Don’t ruin it.
(Manny gets up to leave.)
Craig: What are you doing?
Manny: I’m about to ruin one of the best one or two days of your life. I’m dumping your ass Craig. Bye.
(She leaves and Craig keeps preparing a line of coke.)
Downstairs at Marco and Ellie’s
Manny: Ellie just the girl I wanted to see. I have a present for you. Me and Craig just broke up.
Ellie: What?
Manny: Yeah he has a little bit of a drug problem if you haven’t noticed.
Ellie: I think you have that the wrong way around. I found your loot bag and I know the coke was yours. Craig told me.
Manny: Craig lied. That’s what drug addicts do Ellie. Good luck with him.
(She leaves and Ellie goes upstairs.)
Ellie: Question of the evening: Who’s more pathetic, you for lying to me about the drugs or me for believing you?
Craig: Is that a trick question?
Ellie: This is funny?
(She starts to leave.)
Craig: Don’t be mad, please.
Ellie: Just tell me the truth for once.
Craig: Okay. I, I started in Vancouver, but I’m not an addict.
Ellie: Drug cliché number 1.
Craig: I can stop Ellie. Anytime I want.
Ellie: Drug cliché number 2.
Craig: Look what do you want me to say? That I’ve got a problem? Yeah I have a problem. Great I said it. What now?
Ellie: You used to come to group therapy with me, remember? Dr. Kenrick is great. He can help you, so just come tomorrow, okay?
Craig: If you promise to stop being mad at me.
In the foyer
(Danny and Derek are handing out flyers about the fight.)
Danny: Rumble today at 5. Don’t miss out on the Lakehurst ass-kicking action.
JT: What are you guys crazy? Don’t advertise it.
Danny: You said we had to form a posse.
Derek: Yeah I got a couple guys on the basketball team. They’ll probably back us up.
JT: Oh good.
Jimmy: Hey I heard you guys are organizing some battle against Lakehurst?
JT: Uh yeah. You in?
Jimmy: Sure. I’ll roll over their feet with my chair. No I’m not in.
Spinner: Yeah, me neither ‘cause this is a seriously bad idea.
Jimmy: Look v*olence is a vicious cycle. You guys are gonna make a situation go from bad to worse.
Danny: Whatever Buddha-licious. Go pick a flower. We’re gonna kick some ass.
(They all leave except for Toby.)
Toby: This isn’t like you JT. I thought you’d be smarter than this.
JT: Well I thought that you’d offer to join me.
Toby: I’m not gonna fight Lakehurst. You’re being an idiot.
JT: You’re being a coward. Some best friend.
At Ellie’s group meeting
Ellie: Can we wait just a little longer?
Dr. Kenrick: I’m sorry Ellie. Let’s get started. The door please.
(The meeting is going on and Craig arrives, but stops and leaves before anyone sees him.)
At the tunnel
Mia: JT.
JT: Mia. What are you doing here?
(She holds up a flyer.)
Mia: Not only is this really stupid, it’s incredibly immature.
JT: No it’s not. I’m being a man Mia. This is, this is how men handle things.
Mia: I broke up with Nic for a reason, JT. If you do this, it makes you no different than him.
JT: Okay. Everybody let’s go home.
Outside Degrassi
Nic: Hey Degrassi nerd.
Toby: What are you guys doing here?
Nic: Your friends didn’t show.
(Toby tries to leave and Nic grabs him.)
Nic: Where are you going?!
(They all start beating him up.)
At the concert, Taking Back Sunday is performing
(Ellie shows up looking for Craig and goes backstage.)
Craig: Ellie hi. About group therapy, listen uh something came up.
(She starts going through all of Craig’s stuff.)
Craig: Hey! Hey what are you doing?
(She pulls out the coke.)
Ellie: Either you stop now or I call Joey and tell him about this and this, this will all end. The touring, the music career, finished.
Craig: Come on. Why would you do that to me? Just leave me alone, alright?
Ellie: I can’t.
Craig: Why not?
Ellie: Because.
Craig: Because why?
Ellie: You know why Craig. Um you know, so don’t make me say it.
(Craig and Ellie start kissing.)
Craig: I love you Ellie.
Ellie: I love you too.
Craig: So don’t make me stop. Please. I need it. Don’t call Joey.
Ellie: You bastard. How could, how could you play with me like that?
Craig: Ellie I’m, I’m sorry. What do you want me to say?
Ellie: Nothing. It’s all gonna be lies. You’ll say whatever it takes to get your hands on this, won’t you?! God!
(She leaves and Craig starts preparing a line.)
Announcer: We’ll be back up in a minute to finish, but before that stick around and I think you’re gonna like it. So ladies and gentlemen please welcome Craig Manning.
Craig: Hey. Uh here’s a song I wrote a while back when I first left Toronto for Vancouver. It’s called Drowning.
Craig: (Singing) I fly too close to the sun. I chase the whale on the run, but I am…I’m jumping from mountains and I’m jumping from skies. I try to realize my size.
(His nose starts to bleed and the crowd all notices.)
Craig: (Singing) What you say when you’re me. What you feel when you see.
(He realizes his nose is bleeding and stops singing.)
In the hallway, Toby has a neck and an arm brace
Emma: How could they do this to you?
Manny: If there’s anything you need, let us know, okay Toby-Tobes?
Toby: I think you girls have done enough.
(Manny kisses Toby on the cheek and Emma hands him his bag.)
Toby: Thanks.
JT: Hey Tobes, here.
(JT takes his bag from him.)
Toby: Thanks.
JT: Look I’m so sorry.
Toby: It’s okay JT.
JT: No it’s not.
Toby: Well you know, look at the bright side. Maybe, maybe it’s over. Maybe beating someone up is all they ever wanted.
JT: Well maybe, but you know what, I don’t care. They’re gonna pay for what they did to you.
Toby: Look v*olence for v*olence only leads to the deepening of the darkness in the deepest dark...wait that didn’t come out right. Look just promise me you’ll let this go. Promise me JT.
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JT: Okay. Promise.
(JT pats Toby on the shoulder who is in pain.)
JT: Oh sorry.
At the airport
Ellie: You’re on the 11AM to Calgary. Joey’s waiting for you at the airport.
Craig: I guess you’re here to make sure I get on the plane, right?
Ellie: No um Mr. Simpson is. I’m leaving.
(Ellie starts to leave, but Craig stops her and she starts to cry.)
Craig: Ellie I know I messed up, badly, but I am glad for one thing. I was finally able to be honest with you. I meant what I said and I felt that way for a long time.
Ellie: No just don’t. Don’t, just…it’s beside the point. You need help.
Craig: I know. I know. I’m going to the rehab or whatever, but when I get out maybe we could…
Ellie: Goodbye Craig.
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: School rivals-
Nic: Lakehurst has declared w*r on your school.
Voiceover: -come to a head.
JT: You want a w*r, you got it!
Emma: The house is ours for the entire weekend. We can do whatever.
Manny: We should have a party!
Danny and Derek: Party tonight!
Emma: Promise it won’t get too crazy.
Manny: I promise.
Voiceover: But things get out of hand.
Toby: Oh great. It’s them.
Voiceover: Degrassi loses one of its own.
(Liberty is crying and holding JT covered in blood.)
Lakehurst thug: What the hell did you do?
(Manny is shown crying.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x10 - What it Feels Like to be a Ghost Pt. 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At Manny’s locker
(Manny opens her locker and starts ripping up a picture of Craig.)
Emma: Locker renovation time?
Manny: Times change. Things get outdated. Like hairstyles, outfits and stupid cokehead boyfriends.
JT: Hey I heard about you and Craig. Sorry.
Manny: Don't be. I dumped him and I couldn't be happier. Happy, happy, happy!
Emma: This is happy?
Manny: I guess I am a little cuckoo bananas.
Emma: Which is totally normal right now. Dr. Emma's prescription is to chill. And as of this af, the house is ours for the entire weekend. We can do whatever.
Manny: We should have a party.
Emma: Or we could rent a DVD. Just you, me and Sean, cozy and quiet…
Manny: Or we could have a party!
Emma: Okay let’s just say we go against my mom’s specific orders not to have a party. We don’t have a reason or an occasion to celebrate…at all.
JT: You know what? It is Liberty’s birthday. She could really use some cheering up.
Manny: And as her oldest friends that’s our solemn duty, isn’t it? We just have to have a party. Thanks JT. You are so thoughtful.
JT: Well that’s me, Mr. Thoughtful.
(He leaves and Manny cheers excitedly.)
In the media immersion lab
(Liberty watches JT and Mia talking outside the classroom.)
Manny: Liberty! Just the person I wanted to talk to. Um what are you up to?
Liberty: Oh just sending a reminder e-mail for the Increase The Peace summit.
Manny: I meant tonight ‘cause we are going to party like it’s your birthday because it actually is.
Liberty: Pass.
Manny: Excuse me? I’m holding a birthday party for you Lib, my oldest and dearest friend in the entire school.
Liberty: We’ve barely talked all year.
Manny: We’ll fix that tonight. Mucho combo while we party your brains out.
Liberty: I don’t have a thing to wear. My hair’s a mess…
Manny: Who are you talking to here? Come over early and I’ll hot you up.
Liberty: Uh I suppose this student council president could use a little romance.
Manny: That’s the spirit. We are gonna party tonight, girlfriend.
Liberty: Party we will girlfriend, but it comes at a price. Come to my peace summit with Lakehurst at lunch?
Manny: Me? Why me?
Liberty: Experience shows that Manny Santos doubles the male attendance.
Manny: Whatever. I just hope someone cute is coming because you need a date for tonight.
Liberty: Let us pray.
At the peace summit
Damian: Hi I’m Damian. I’m Lakehurst’s student council president. This is our VP, Nora.
Nora: Hey guys nice to be here.
Manny: (Whispers to Liberty) Someone’s prayers were answered.
Damian: So we’re here today to figure out how to solve the problem of v*olence between our schools. What do we do?
Danny: I’ll tell you what the problem is. Your school is full of psychos.
Liberty: People, if peace is to be achieved we need to get together. Any ideas?
Manny: How about a spirit squad rally?
Toby: And how does cheering prevent my other arm from getting sprained?
Manny: Okay well we can follow it with an Increase The Peace dance. Kind of like the UN, except with human pyramids and dancing.
Damian: So sounds like fun.
Liberty: All in favour?
(Everyone raises their hands.)
Liberty: Excellent. We’ll take Manny’s idea to our principals. Meeting adjourned.
Damian: Great idea Kofi Annan.
Manny: Actually learned something in history class I guess.
Damian: Cheerleader and a diplomat. Brains and beauty.
Manny: Speaking of brains and beauty, it’s Liberty’s birthday. Big bash tonight. Close friends, fellow peace. Gotta increase the peace, right?
Damian: Right. Count me in. Until then, have a good one Liberty.
Liberty: I’ll do my darndest.
Outside the school, JT is driving by Liberty
JT: Liberty! Hey.
Liberty: You missed the peace summit.
JT: I’m staying out of it. I’ve caused enough problems. I just wanted to congratulate you. Your BBPE is well deserved.
Liberty: Translation?
JT: Big birthday party extravaganza.
Liberty: Yeah I appreciate Manny’s effort, but you know how I feel about birthdays.
JT: Ah yes. As I recall your exact words last year were ‘why celebrate the passage of time’?
Liberty: Yeah a lot has changed since then. We’ve moved on, grown up, both matured… even you JT.
JT: Ha ha. Very funny.
Liberty: Mia’s a lucky girl.
JT: Alas she’s gonzo this weekend.
Liberty: Well there’s my birthday party. Your presence wouldn’t be objected to.
JT: Wow what a warm invitation considering that I’m the one who suggested it.
Liberty: You told Manny to hold the party?
JT: No big. You’ve just been in a funk so I thought that a birthday party would give you something to smile about. See you later.
Outside the school, Spike is picking up Mr. Simpson
Manny: Your love chariot’s here to whisk you off to a land of romance.
Mr. Simpson: It’s a nature retreat Manny.
Spike: Remember the rules: keep the house clean and no parties.
Emma: Don’t worry. It’ll be like you’ve never left.
Manny: Say hi to nature for me.
(They leave and Toby walks over.)
Toby: Party, party, party. Party, party, party.
Emma: What’s with the corny samba?
Toby: Is it wrong to be excited about a rocking bash at Casa Emma/Manny?
Emma: Yes! Because it’s not a rocking bash. It’s a teeny tiny birthday party ending at 9 sharp.
Toby: That’s not what Manny told me.
Emma: Manny!
Manny: Come on Em I really need this.
Emma: I know, but Sean and I sort of had plans later…of a romantic nature.
Manny: No way! Really?
Emma: Really. Tonight is the night, or at least it was.
Manny: Well abort, abort! I’ll send bulk e-mails, I’ll carpet b*mb the school with flyers, anything!
Emma: It’s too late. Word’s out, but I guess Sean and I could still you know…just promise it won’t get too crazy.
Manny: I promise!
At the bus stop
(Toby walks over to Nora.)
Toby: Party at Emma Nelson’s house. Here’s the address.
Nora: Will you be there?
Derek: Party at Emma’s?
Toby: Don’t tell anyone please!
Danny: Dude we’d never!
Derek and Danny: Check it! Party tonight, Emma’s house!
(Spinner sends Marco a text message and a bunch of other people are shown calling/e-mailing about it.)
In Emma’s basement
Manny: Gold eye shadow will really make your eyes pop and we’ll finish it off with a bronze gloss.
Liberty: Do guys actually notice these things?
Manny: I bet Damian will.
Liberty: But what happens when he meets the person behind the lipstick?
Manny: He’ll love you! You’re cute, smart and very unique.
Liberty: Tell that to JT.
Manny: Liberty you need to forget about him. Put him out of your mind.
Liberty: Easier said than done.
Manny: I know. Talk to me about Craig, but sista we gotta move on. Out with the old and in with the new. Speaking of new, say hello to Liberty version 2.0.
(Liberty looks at herself in the mirror.)
Manny: Why Ms. Van Zandt, I reckon you can steal any man’s heart.
(She puts her glasses back on.)
Before the party really gets going
Emma: Are you up for some of my trademark sweet berry slushy?
Sean: I’m up for some trademark sweet berry you. I’m counting the minutes.
Emma: Me too. Tick tock, tick tock.
Sean: Emma you sure about this?
Emma: I am the very definition of sure.
(Emma pours some alcohol into her drink before they light the cake for Liberty.)
Everyone: Surprise!
Liberty: My favourite kind, unsurprising.
JT: Well speaking about surprises, you look beautiful Liberty.
Liberty: Thanks JT, I think.
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Manny: Wait. Don’t move.
(She opens the door.)
Manny: Marco! Spinner and Ellie…
(More people walk in after them.)
Marco: We brought snacks.
(Manny tries to close the door, but Derek, Danny and even more people push their way in.)
Derek and Danny: Hello ladies!
(Manny tries to shut it again when Jay, Alex and a bunch of other people walk in.)
Jay: Lock up the family jewels. Let’s rock this joint.
Emma: Jay what are you doing here? Who even told you about this party?
Jay: Word’s out on the street polka dots.
Toby: Oh great. It’s them.
(The Lakehurst thugs walk in and Emma tries to stop them.)
Emma: Okay anybody who isn’t Liberty’s closest and personal friends, ciao, adios, sayonara.
Drake: Such a cold greeting from such a hot-
Sean: Shut it.
Spinner: Hey uh if you idiots are here to start something, don’t even think about it.
Manny: Okay. Okay let’s take the testosterone down a notch. Come in, have fun, but please increase the peace.
(Damian walks in.)
Johnny: Consider us Lakehurst ambassadors.
(Emma is shown with Sean looking very apprehensive.)
In the kitchen
(Manny pushes Damian towards Liberty.)
Manny: Look who’s here.
Damian: Hey happy birthday. It’s not much, but-
(He gives her a mug as a present.)
Liberty: Thanks. It’s nice.
Manny: Well I’ll let you two get better acquainted.
Liberty: So.
Damian: So it’s your birthday.
Liberty: Happens this day every year.
(They don’t have anything to say. Everyone is dancing and Toby is kissing Nora. Danny and Derek are laughing and things are getting broken.)
Manny: That is not a toy. It’s a fertility symbol. Em can I have a little help? This is your house!
Emma: But it’s alright. My therapist says I’ve got to learn to chill.
(Manny smells Emma’s drink.)
Manny: Does Mexico know you’ve taken all their tequila? Drink this.
(She hands her a bottle of water and Emma sits down completely drunk.)
In Jack’s room, Manny is hiding the valuables
(Damian opens the door.)
Manny: Baby’s room is off limits.
Damian: Sorry.
Manny: Oh sorry I thought you were one of the crazies downstairs.
Damian: Oh what like Johnny and Drake? Man I have no idea how they even heard about this party.
Manny: The whole world heard about this party.
Damian: Well I thought it was real cool the way you handled it.
Manny: Well you know I thought it was better to have happy Lakehurst guys inside than pissed off ones outside.
Damian: Oh yeah totally. Smart thinking.
Manny: Thank you. So you and Liberty.
Damian: Eh she’s cool, but we’re not right. I mean you can’t just fake this stuff. You either feel it or you don’t and when you do feel it, it’s like time stops.
Manny: And your skin gets all goose-bumpy.
(Damian leans in to kiss her, but she pulls away.)
Manny: Damian I barely know you and you barely know me.
Damian: Let’s fix that.
Back at the rest of the party
Derek: How about we go for a drive sometime?
Alex: Yeah do you even have a licence?
Derek: Yeah! Idiot licence oohhh!
JT: Hey birthday girl where’s your hot date?
Liberty: He found someone else to not talk to.
JT: Well like the song says it’s your party, you can cry if you want to.
Liberty: No need. Damian and I are no love match. Disappointing, but par for the course on my birthday.
JT: Well luckily there are 364 non-birthdays. Good days. Days worth remembering.
Liberty: Like when you taught me how to drive.
JT: Yeah that was classic.
Liberty: Or when we went to the drive-in and your roof leaked on us.
JT: Not so classic.
Liberty: Well it was to me. Like every day with you.
JT: Liberty are you drunk?
Liberty: No. I just want to tell the truth. I don’t want to lie anymore. I still love you.
JT: I uh…wow. Um wow…I-
(She walks away when he can’t think of anything to say and he runs after her.)
JT: Can we just talk about this please!
Liberty: What is there to talk about? You already gave me your answer.
JT: Look I have a girlfriend. Mia who I really, really like.
Liberty: Do you love her?
JT: Yes. Of course I do!
Liberty: Then why are you standing here talking to me?
JT: I, I don’t know.
Liberty: I think you do. You’re just too much of a coward to admit it.
(Emma and Sean sneak off from the group and Manny is shown dancing close with Damian and they start to kiss.)
Manny: I’m sorry! I need water.
In the basement
Sean: You look gorgeous tonight. How you feeling?
Emma: I’ve never been better sexy man.
(She climbs on top of him.)
Sean: Emma, are you wasted?
Emma: The question is, am I wasted enough?
(She starts throwing up.)
Sean: Oh okay, alright. Margarita meet wastebasket, wastebasket meet margarita.
In the kitchen, Manny is grabbing a bunch of chocolate bars from the fridge
Ellie: Somebody’s hungry.
Manny: My best friend’s loaded, I just kissed a stranger and the house is covered in boozy film. When I’m stressed, I eat.
Ellie: Glad I’m not the source.
Manny: My world doesn’t revolve around you Ellie.
Ellie: Good, but that…that little voice inside my head, it, it wants me to apologize for what happened with Craig.
Manny: He fooled both of us and thankfully he’s far, far away now.
Ellie: It’s funny though. I’m so incredibly pissed at Craig, but I still think about him. Worry a little.
Manny: Me too.
Ellie: He really messed with us.
(Some party guest bumps into Ellie and she walks away awkwardly.)
Johnny: Hey. Peace offering.
(Derek opens the beer and it sprays all over him and Jay.)
Jay: You know what that means? Buh bye!
Johnny: Hey relax slim shady. It’s a party!
Spinner: And now it’s time to go.
(Spinner and Jay throw them out.)
Johnny: Man get your hands off me. Bad move Degrassi.
(Toby and Nora are still making out when JT walks over to them.)
Nora: Pee break.
Toby: You know what rocks JT? Making out, with a chick.
JT: Well at least someone’s having a good time.
Toby: Oh am I ever! Dude I can’t feel my lips.
JT: Tobes I got a situation here.
Toby: Alright sh**t.
JT: Okay so I have this meatball sub, right? Zesty sauce, ooey gooey cheese and I like the sub a lot, but somehow I find myself craving oatmeal.
Toby: Is this a, a Mia-ball sub?
(JT nods.)
Toby: Alright well it’s very tasty, but you get tired of it. Oatmeal, it’s always been there for you. You can depend on it.
JT: I miss her Tobes. I know I shouldn’t, but I do and it’s so stupid!
Toby: No look it’s not stupid. You can’t fight how you feel. Go out there and find her.
JT: You know what? You’re right. You’re always right Tobes. I’m gonna go out there and I’m gonna get myself a big bowl of Liberty…oatmeal!
Outside the party
JT: Liberty!
(JT sees Johnny peeing on his car.)
JT: Couldn’t find a toilet?
Drake: He did.
JT: Oh I get it. My car sucks. Ha ha you guys slay me with your humour.
Drake: Yeah mascot boy? Laugh at this!
(Drake runs over and s*ab JT in the back.)
Johnny: Man what the hell did you do?
(JT sits down in shock and the guys run off as Liberty walks over and sees JT. She rushes over next to him.)
Liberty: Somebody help! Please! Somebody!
At the hospital
Damian: Drake Lemke and Johnny DiMarco are both Lakehurst guys.
Police officer: And you didn’t see which one committed the offence?
Manny: This is all my fault. This party was my idea. This is my fault.
Sean: Manny it’s not, okay?
(Sean hugs her.)
Emma: (On the phone) JT’s hurt. It’s serious. Mom I am so sorry. Okay I’ll see you soon.
Doctor: I need to speak to a family member.
Emma: His grandma’s coming, but she’ll be a few hours.
Toby: Wait. You can talk to me. I’m his brother.
Doctor: His aorta was punctured. It’s a main artery and we couldn’t repair the damage. He didn’t make it.
Toby: What? You’re joking.
Doctor: I’m sorry. Your brother’s gone.
Toby: He’s gone?
Sean: I’m gonna k*ll him! I’m gonna…
(Sean punches the wall as Manny starts to cry and Liberty walks over to them.)
Liberty: What happened? Is he okay? What did the doctor say? Toby!
(Toby doesn’t say anything and he hugs Liberty. Manny, Emma, and Sean all step around them for a final montage of them all hugging.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x11 - Rock This Town"} | foreverdreaming |
At the funeral
Grandma Yorke: It was a beautiful service. Thank you. JT was just the sweetest boy. I can’t understand why anyone would want to hurt him.
Sean: Tell you what I keep thinking about, getting in a room with the guy who did this and making him pay.
Emma: He’s in jail Sean.
Sean: I know. I’m pissed. I mean k*lling JT for no…the guy’s a psycho.
Manny: How are you feeling sweetie?
Emma: Yeah we’re worried about you Lib. You haven’t said a thing.
Liberty: I have nothing to say Emma. Excuse me.
(Liberty starts to leave and Toby follows her.)
Liberty: Please leave me alone Toby.
Toby: Look I understand if you don’t want to talk. I’ll just stand here.
Liberty: Everyone expects me to be like Mia. Crying my eyes out. I can’t.
Toby: JT wouldn’t want you to. You know this is, this is all wrong. All these flowers and organ music and people bawling. JT would hate this.
Liberty: You’re right. JT would probably put whoopee cushions on every seat if he could.
Toby: We need to do like a memorial or something at school. You’ll help me right?
Liberty: You can find loads of volunteers.
Toby: Yeah, but I’m asking you ‘cause I don’t know if I can do it without you.
Outside Ms. Sauvé’s office, Toby finishes up a session
Ms. Sauvé: Grief is a long process. Just give it time. Uh Emma? You ready to see the psychologist?
Mia: Toby I heard that you were the last one to speak to JT before he died. What did he say?
Toby: It was just talk. Nothing important.
Mia: No just tell me please.
Toby: Honestly we talked about oatmeal and how he really wanted a bowl.
Mia: So he didn’t say anything about me at all?
Toby: I’m sorry Mia, it was just oatmeal.
Manny: Toby. Is that really what JT talked about?
Toby: Well no. I mean yeah, but by oatmeal he meant uh…
(They look at Liberty.)
Toby: He told me he was still in love with her.
Manny: Oh my gosh. Poor Liberty.
Toby: He was on his way to tell her when…you know.
Manny: So Liberty doesn’t know. You haven’t told her?
Toby: I was just about to.
Manny: She’s in shock. Maybe in a few weeks she can handle it, but not now.
In the foyer, Ellie is interviewing Ashley
Ashley: I feel so bad for Mia losing her boyfriend like that. I mean what if it were Jimmy. I just, I just love him so much I just couldn’t deal with losing him. Is that okay? Are my answers lame?
Ellie: No. No they’re great. I just have a lot on my mind right now. You know JT, the article, Jesse.
Ashley: So I’m guessing it didn’t go well telling him about the uh Craig incident?
Ellie: It went fine ‘cause I didn’t.
Ashley: El.
Ellie: I can’t do it Ash. I can’t tell him that I kissed Craig. It’ll be over.
Ashley: Maybe.
Ellie: Not maybe. Will be.
Ashley: You don’t know that El. Just have a little faith. He might surprise you.
Outside the Dot
Toby: You’re gonna be okay Liberty.
Liberty: I’m not. I can’t feel a thing. I mean one minute JT’s at my birthday and the next he’s gone forever.
Toby: You know we’re gonna get through this together. I promise.
Liberty: Toby why are you being so nice to me?
Toby: Because I know how hard this is for you. I know that you still had feelings or whatever for JT.
Liberty: Feelings that were not returned. Appears Mia was the owner of JT’s heart. For the best, I suppose.
Toby: Yeah. For the best.
At JT’s locker
Toby: JT’s locker. Are you ready for this?
(He opens it up.)
Liberty: Wow. It’s just like he left it.
Toby: This is kind of freaky.
Mia: Oh my god the taping. We have to show this tape at the memorial. JT playing with Isabella. Everyone will really love it.
Liberty: You know it just sounds rather private. Something for you and Isabella.
Mia: That’s your opinion. Toby what do you think?
Toby: Mr. Simpson’s making a tribute video. Let’s just get this done.
Mia: Fine.
(She starts taking everything out and putting it in her bag.)
Toby: Mia what are you doing? I thought we were going to go through this stuff together.
Mia: Yeah and I thought that you wanted to get the job done.
Liberty: But you’re taking everything.
Mia: So? I was his girlfriend.
Liberty: Mia you’re not being reasonable.
Mia: JT died Friday night and I didn’t get a chance to say goodbye to him. You have no idea how difficult this is.
Liberty: Excuse me? I think I do. I’m just as sad as you are.
Mia: Really? You could have fooled me. I haven’t seen you shed a single tear.
Toby: Mia stop it.
Mia: You’re a robot Liberty. A walking, talking computer.
(Liberty pushes past her and Toby grabs everything Mia took and starts putting it back in the locker.)
Mia: What are you doing?
Toby: Not doing this Mia. Not until we’re ready.
Mia: Whatever Toby. Who made you boss?
Toby: This sucks!
(He kicks a garbage can over.)
Outside the school
Toby: Hey! Mia wanted me to tell you that she’s sorry and she didn’t mean it.
Liberty: She did mean it and she’s right. I’m a talking computer.
Toby: No you’re not. She’s just upset. We all are. Tell you what, why don’t we get away from this for a couple hours?
Liberty: Certainly, but how?
Toby: Road trip.
Liberty: Excuse me?
Toby: You heard me. Come on.
In the journalism office
(Jesse tosses down a little paper booklet on her desk.)
Ellie: What’s this? Free study partner for one hour. One free neck rub. Free mixed CD. One free meal of my choosing.
Jesse: Anywhere you want frosh, just as long as it’s Pizza Pizza.
Ellie: Jesse Stefanovic the last of the big spenders.
Jesse: Hey it’s just how I roll.
(She looks at the last page and it says “I love you”.)
Ellie: Wow. I mean…wow.
Jesse: Very articulate. Can I quote you? Got anything else to say? There’s kind of an expected response here. Three words. Begins with I?
Ellie: I kissed Craig.
Jesse: You what?
Ellie: I’m sorry Jesse. I had to tell you. Please don’t be mad. When I saw him all these feelings came rushing back, but it’s totally completely over between us.
Jesse: I get it. Craig meant a lot to you. I’m not mad.
Ellie: Shouldn’t you be? I mean even just a little?
Jesse: Those who live in glass houses. Look I haven’t seen you in weeks Ellie. I didn’t know which way was up. The other night I was at a bar and there was this girl…let’s just say I made a mistake.
Ellie: What, what kind of mistake? How bad?
Jesse: Not the worst, but bad. Look you were honest with me. I felt I owed it to you.
Ellie: I don’t need your guilt prize.
(She tosses it in the garbage.)
Outside, Toby’s driving
Liberty: You sure about this? You know cutting class?
Toby: Liberty come on. It’ll be like a mini vacation, just me and you.
(The car stalls at a stoplight.)
Toby: Damn you Bubbe’s car! You stupid piece of junk.
(Toby gets out and starts kicking the car and yelling at it.)
Toby: Every single time I drive you break down. Damn you. This is funny to you?
Liberty: Actually it really is.
Toby: Look I just thought that we could get away, maybe you’d feel better.
Liberty: Well it worked. Maybe not for the reasons you intended. Yeah your Bubbe’s gonna be really mad at you for this.
Toby: See you’re laughing. That’s good. At least I didn’t totally fail.
Liberty: No you didn’t fail. You’re amazing, truly.
(They lean in and kiss each other.)
In the auditorium
(Danny, Derek and Toby are setting up chairs for the memorial.)
Danny: Thank you dude for looking after Liberty. Last night she kept going on about your little road trip.
Toby: Oh it was no big thing.
Danny: It was to her.
Liberty: Morning Toby.
Toby: Morning.
Danny: If I didn’t know any better I’d think something was going down between you and my sister.
Toby: What? What? No. Come on that’s crazy talk.
Danny: Good because if not Danny would have to choke a dude. Does Danny have to choke a dude Toby?
Toby: Relax man. We’re just friends.
(Danny walks away and Manny walks over to Toby.)
Manny: Tell me he’s being a paranoid freak.
Toby: Freak, yes. Paranoid, not so much. I kissed Liberty.
(Manny hits him.)
Toby: Ow!
Manny: Are you cuckoo bananas?
Toby: No! Well yeah. I don’t know, am I?
Manny: Yes!
(Manny grabs him and pulls him into the locker room.)
Toby: What? What are you doing?
Manny: Why on earth would you do something so ridiculously stupid?
Toby: Because I like her Manny. Because she’s cute and she’s sweet and sad and she needs me.
Manny: And you want to be her knight and shining armour? Well it’s wrong. Both of you are a mess right now. This is the worst possible time.
(Toby starts to walk away, but Manny stops him.)
Manny: Toby you just buried your friend. A friend who still had feelings for the girl you just kissed.
Toby: I know Manny. I know and I couldn’t feel guiltier believe me, but what now? What can I do?
Manny: Take the kiss back.
Toby: What? How? Get in a time machine?
Manny: Tell her you didn’t mean it. Tell her you were on crack. Whatever. Just take it back.
Toby: Fine. Fine I will. I’ll, I’ll issue an official kiss retraction. Happy?
(She walks away upset.)
In the journalism
(Ellie walks in with all of Jesse’s stuff in a box.)
Jesse: What’s that?
Ellie: Guess.
Jesse: Ellie wait!
(She leaves and he goes after her.)
Jesse: Hey! Hey hold on. Don’t just throw this away, okay? We both made a mistake.
Ellie: Really? I kissed someone. You, you had a random hook-up with some bar skank.
Jesse: I didn’t have sex with her, okay?
Ellie: I don’t care. It was still more than a kiss. Way more.
Jesse: You kissed some guy that you’ve been crushing on since forever. You think that doesn’t hurt?
Ellie: I’m sorry.
Jesse: I’m sorry too, okay? So can we just get past this? K, just move on?
Ellie: No it’s not that simple Jesse. It can’t be that simple.
Jesse: Says who? Look do you love me?
Ellie: I…what kind of question is that?
Jesse: An important one. Maybe the only one that matters right now.
Ellie: I have to get to the memorial.
In the auditorium
Toby: Liberty I need to talk to you. Uh what happened yesterday was nice and everything, but wrong and I was wondering if I could take it back. The kiss I mean.
Liberty: It’s not a library book Toby. You can’t just return it.
Toby: Yeah I know. I was just hoping that in this case we could make a special exception.
Liberty: Toby do you like me?
Toby: Yeah. A lot actually.
Liberty: Well I like you too. Problem solved.
(She kisses him on the cheek and leaves.)
Outside the auditorium, Ellie is interviewing Jimmy
Ellie: So I’ve heard there was a w*r between Lakehurst and Degrassi. Do you think JT was a victim of that?
Jimmy: No. I think that psycho Drake was a ticking time b*mb and if it wasn’t JT, it would have been somebody else.
Ellie: It’s just so impossibly random.
Jimmy: The thing is life is random and sometimes it’s tragic and totally messed up, but there is one thing that makes all the drama and tears worthwhile. If you’re lucky enough to find someone you love who loves you back, it’s a gift. You know what I’m saying?
Ellie: You’re a wise man Jimmy Brooks.
Jimmy: Don’t forget good looking.
Ms. Hatzilakos: (On the PA System) Attention students please make your way to the gymnasium. The JT Yorke memorial is about to begin.
At the memorial
Mr. Simpson: Everyone may I have your attention. Welcome to the JT Yorke memorial. Uh there’s a lot of us that are affected by this, but uh we’re not here to mourn JT, we’re here to celebrate him and I’d like to uh start with a slideshow that I put together with the help of Peter Stone and Gavin Mason.
(The video starts and it shows a recent picture of JT, JT in a clown wig, JT as a little kid, JT with a birthday cake and JT standing with Liberty and Danny.)
Mia: Toby. I want to show my video, but Liberty says we don’t have time.
Toby: She’s right. I’m sorry Mia.
Mia: God why are you always taking her side?
Toby: It’s not about sides, okay? Why are you getting so upset about this?
Mia: Because it’s the principal. Why does Liberty get a say in anything to do with JT? He couldn’t stand her.
Toby: That’s not true.
Mia: Oh really? You want to know what he used to call her behind her back? The Liberty 3000. He told me he hated her.
Toby: Funny because I seem to remember him telling me the exact opposite.
Mia: What? When? When did he say this?
Toby: Just forget I said anything please.
Mia: No I can’t just forget about it. I need to know Toby. When?
Toby: It was right before he died. The thing about oatmeal. He meant Liberty. I’m sorry Mia, but he still liked her.
Mia: You suck Isaacs. You suck so bad.
(Mia leaves and runs into Liberty.)
Liberty: Give me the tape.
Mia: You’re gonna play it?
(She nods and Mia leaves.)
Toby: Liberty what’d you hear?
Liberty: Everything. I can’t believe you.
(She runs out into the hall and he follows her.)
Toby: Liberty! Liberty!
Liberty: Just tell me why. Why would you want to hurt me like this?
Toby: I didn’t want to hurt you. I wanted to help you.
Liberty: Toby you knew how I felt about JT and you knew how much it would mean to me to know he felt the same way.
Toby: Liberty I was trying to protect you.
Liberty: And that involves kissing me?! That’s idiotic.
Toby: I know and I know it’s totally wrong, but over the last few days I’ve developed feelings. But I know now it’ll never happen.
Liberty: Yeah well I wish I had JT, but that’ll never happen either.
(Liberty goes into the auditorium with the tape.)
Liberty: Play this.
(JT is shown on the screen playing with Mia at a playground. Liberty watches the screen and finally starts to break down and cry.)
In the journalism office
Jesse: Article’s good frosh.
Ellie: Really?
Jesse: Really. Best thing you’ve written.
(Ellie pulls out Jesse’s booklet from her pocket.)
Jesse: Fished that out from the trash, huh?
(She rips out the free meal coupon.)
Ellie: You know me. Always been a sucker for the Hawaiian slice. Ham and pineapple should not work together, but somehow they do.
At JT’s locker
Toby: Glad you came Mia.
Mia: No problem. I think you’re right. I think we’re ready to deal with this. Look what you said about JT.
Toby: Forget what I said about JT.
Mia: No ‘cause deep down I think I always knew about Liberty. I just didn’t want to believe it.
(Liberty walks over.)
Toby: Liberty how you doing?
Liberty: Let’s just do this, shall we?
(They open JT’s locker.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x12 - The Bitterest Pill"} | foreverdreaming |
In the gymnasium
(The Spirit Squad is practicing their routine.)
Manny: Way to stick it guys.
Darcy: I love you Manny. You are a miracle worker. Well so to speak.
Manny: Miracle, schmiracle. Hard work plus Degrassi spirit equals first time ever metro finals.
Chante: With only one team in our way.
Manny: Sucks to be them. Go Degrassi!
(They all cheer and start to leave as Emma walks over to Manny.)
Emma: Hey guys. Wow are all non-cheerleaders invisible?
Manny: They’re just excited. Going to finals is like scaling Everest with pom-poms. Just imagine if we actually win. It will be a Degrassi first.
Emma: If you win it’ll be without JT.
Manny: If we win we’ll make Degrassi feel better. It’s our job.
Emma: Yeah. You’re right I guess. I’m just not myself since…you know. Let’s get lattes and hang out.
Manny: I’m kind of meeting someone Em.
Emma: Let me guess, Damien your new fancy boy from the enemy school?
Mrs. Santos: Manuella?
Manny: Mom can you give me a sec?
Emma: What’s she doing here?
Manny: She’s just here to talk. Don’t be mad Em, but I think it’s time for me to go home.
(Manny walks over to her mom and they hug while Emma watches them disappointed.)
At Emma’s house, Manny is packing her stuff
Emma: Hey that’s mine!
Manny: Really? I wore it all summer.
Emma: With my strappy sandals, I know.
Manny: And I thought you wanted me to stay.
Emma: I do. I can’t believe you’re leaving, especially now! My parents are freaked, our house is the center of a m*rder investigation.
Manny: Maybe that’s why my parents want me back home.
Emma: Do you miss your dad’s tirades?
Manny: Mom says he’s willing to hang up the dictator cap, try anyway.
Emma: What about the curfews and the dress codes?
Manny: Em they’re my parents. Your mom and Archie are great, but they’re not my family and this isn’t my home. I love you forever for letting me stay. It’s time.
Emma: I’m gonna miss you Manny. You’re like the sister I never had.
Manny: What are you talking about cuckoo bananas? I’ll be here constantly. It’ll be like I never left. Promise.
At Marco and Dylan’s
Marco: You know just when you think you’re gonna get to bed early you look over your essay and hello! All-nighter.
Dylan: Doesn’t get any easier. Trust me.
(Marco sits on the couch with Dylan.)
Marco: Want some coffee? Last of Ellie’s personal stash.
Dylan: Actually I’ve got to jet. Meeting some guys from the team.
Marco: Aw you and your hockey buddies. How cute. Okay so we’ll order in later then.
Dylan: It’s wing night.
Marco: Dylan you’ve been out every night this week. When do I see you?
Dylan: We live together. We see each other plenty.
(Dylan leaves.)
Marco: Bye.
At Mia’s locker
Manny: Hey Mia. You’ve been MIA from the squad long enough.
Mia: Okay. What do you guys want?
Darcy: Recipe for spirit squad success? Take one Mia Jones, shake and win!
Mia: Did you guys like forget my boyfriend? Your mascot, JT Yorke, was k*lled two weeks ago. Thanks, but I’ll pass.
Darcy: Of course Mia. We understand.
Manny: Sorry for asking.
(They leave and Emma walks over to her.)
Emma: Hey. They were trying to help in their own bizarrely dysfunctional way.
Mia: Whatever. Like I’m gonna take part in anything Lakehurst is invited to.
Emma: Wait. Lakehurst is coming here? Why can’t they do it somewhere else?
Mia: No kidding. They said it was set up months ago and it’s like to late to cancel, but I don’t care. I think we should do something about it. I think we need to protest or whatever.
Emma: I can’t. Manny is my best friend. Besides maybe it’s a good thing if Lakehurst comes here. Maybe it’ll help mend fences.
Mia: A student from Lakehurst k*lled JT. I’m not about mending fences right now.
Outside the school
Manny: Damien and I are going to the mall. He’s so cute.
Sean: Wasn’t he friends with that freak that k*lled JT?
Manny: Drake? Uh no! He’s never even talked to Drake.
Sean: Okay whatever. Later Emma.
(He kisses her goodbye.)
Manny: So if my parents call you’ll cover for me, right?
Emma: Of course. Or you can just come over tonight when you’re done with Damien. Just you, me, the couch and Dr. McDreamy.
Manny: And a bowl of popcorn with extra ketchup powder? You’re on.
(They hug goodbye.)
Emma: Have fun.
At Jimmy and Spinner’s store
(The guys are playing video games.)
Spinner: Oh I got this. I got this and yes! Dude that was way too easy. Come on.
Marco: Sorry I’m not good at these driving games. I’m done.
Jimmy: What? You haven’t even tried to get us to play Karaoke Revolution yet man. Who are you?
Marco: What are you talking about? I’m fine. I couldn’t be better.
Jimmy: Seriously man what’s the problem?
Marco: My problem. My problem is tall, broad shouldered and emotionally absent.
Jimmy: Ah Monsieur Dylan.
Spinner: Hey does he have a MyRoom page?
Marco: I don’t know. He’s just never here and when he is here, it still feels like he isn’t, you know?
Jimmy: It happens my man. The heat cools. You just got to chase the romance a little. Know what I mean?
Spinner: (Coughs) MyRoom page.
Jimmy: Spin, shut up man. Look it’s all about the 4 C’s. Candles, cooking, cologne and chill. Nobody’s immune. Don’t worry.
At the mall
Damien: Nice. Who knew hanging out with you at the mall meant PJ shopping?
Manny: Well I can’t mooch off Emma anymore, but don’t get too excited. You won’t be seeing me in these anytime soon.
Damien: It’s cool.
(Manny gets a text from Emma.)
Manny: Yikes I got to go.
Damien: Thought we were gonna chill tonight.
Manny: I’m sorry, but I totally promised Emma.
Damien: I know, but between your spirit squad and my student council, I never get to see you. I just really want to talk to you, you know?
Manny: Wow. Most guys aren’t after me for conversation.
Damien: I’m not most guys. Come on Manny. Hang out with me tonight.
(Manny calls Emma.)
Emma: (On the phone) Where are you?
Manny: (On the phone) Hi Em. I came home after seeing Damien and my dad’s totally back in tyrant mode.
Emma: (On the phone) Ugh you poor thing.
Manny: (On the phone) I’m okay. I just, I think I need to stay home and let it cool over.
Emma: (On the phone) Okay well I miss you.
Manny: (On the phone) I miss you too. Bye.
(They hang up.)
At Marco and Dylan’s
Dylan: Sorry my seminar went long.
Marco: You could have called.
Dylan: Phone’s d*ad. Oh it smells great Marco. Did you make steak?
Marco: Yeah, also known as bistecca. You know supposedly it’s the fastest way to any man’s heart. So luckily I convinced Ellie to go to the movies with Kiko and Suki.
Dylan: A night alone. Thank you.
Marco: ‘Cause maybe next year we’ll have a place of our own, you know? Just, just me and you.
Dylan: Well who knows what could happen between now and then.
Marco: Meaning what?
Dylan: Meaning nothing. I was just talking.
(Dylan’s phone rings.)
Dylan: I need to take this.
Marco: I thought your phone was d*ad.
Dylan: I guess it recovered power or something. Funny, huh?
(He gets up to take the call.)
Dylan: (On the phone) Hello?
Marco: Yeah it’s funny.
In Ms. Kwan’s class
Emma: So how’d it go with your parents?
Manny: Fine.
Emma: That’s funny your dad didn’t seem fine when he called my house looking for you.
Manny: Em did you-?
Emma: Cover for you? Of course. I’m not sure why since you totally blew me off.
Manny: I’m sorry. I just really, really, really like Damien. Things are just so good between us.
Ms. Kwan: Class today we’re gonna start on King Lear. A tragic tale about sisters fighting for what they think they deserve.
(Ms. Kwan keeps talking.)
Emma: How good can it be? You’ve known him for two weeks.
Manny: Come find out. I’m meeting him at the Dot after school. Bring Sean too. I want us all to be friends.
Emma: I’m not sure that’s a good idea.
Manny: Please, please, please, please, please.
Emma: Clearly resistance is futile.
Manny: Thank you. You won’t regret it!
At Marco and Dylan’s
(A new message pops up on Dylan’s computer and Marco opens it. He sees a bunch of messages from someone named Julien. The message says ‘Campus Pub, Thursday 4pm?’.)
At the Dot
Manny: Emma you know Damien. Damien this is Emma’s wonderful beau, Sean.
Damien: Hey. How’s it going?
Sean: Hey.
(They shake hands.)
Sean: So, how are things at Lakehurst?
Damien: Uh fine.
Sean: Seriously? ‘Cause last time I heard one of your students was in jail.
Manny: Sean!
Damien: Look man I’m really sorry about your friend JT. I mean it’s a total tragedy.
Mia: Damien. So uh tell me how’s Drake doing?
Damien: I have no idea Mia.
Mia: But he’s your friend, isn’t he?
Damien: No. That’s not true.
Mia: Excuse me, but I went to Lakehurst. So how about you save your lies for somebody who will buy them.
Sean: So, Manny who are you loyal to, your d*ad friend or your new Lakehurst crush?
Damien: Let’s go Manny.
Manny: No wait. Em a little help here, please.
Emma: What do you want me to say? You’re sleeping with the enemy.
Manny: You know what Emma? I’m so glad I moved home because now I don’t have to see your mean, judgemental, stuck-up little face anymore.
(Damien and Manny leave.)
At Degrassi
Darcy: (On the video announcements) For the first time ever Degrassi has made Cheerleading City finals. Come out tomorrow and support the squad. Go Degrassi!
Mr. Simpson: I sense history in the making. Good luck tomorrow Manny.
Manny: Thanks Mr. S. It’s all about Panther pride.
Emma: Which is so much more important than academics or even actual sports. Yeah if the school printed money your face would be on it.
Manny: And I’d use it to buy you a big box of shut up.
Mr. Simpson: Uh girls class has g*n.
Emma: Okay I’d like to bring up a discussion topic if I may.
Mr. Simpson: Fine. What is it Em?
Emma: In the aftermath of the death of one of our classmates, what does defeating Lakehurst prove exactly?
Manny: That we’re better than them?
Emma: Manny our entire school’s in mourning. Not only that, there’s anger. They want revenge.
Manny: What does that have to do with the spirit squad competition?
Emma: I think we should cancel it. It prevents Lakehurst from showing up here, from reminding us of our loss and rubbing our noses in it.
Manny: After all the hard work that we put into it? I think not.
Toby: You can miss cheerleading one year.
Manny: You guys are ridiculous. I can’t believe what I’m hearing.
Emma: And I can’t believe you’re turning your back on your friends.
Mr. Simpson: Okay that’s enough. This is not the time or place for this debate. Let’s talk about our next unit, video podcasting.
At Jimmy and Spinner’s store
Marco: Hey so uh you guys got a single boy discount? Found something on his laptop guys.
Spinner: He has a MyRoom page! Man I knew it! Marco I told you that thing is an online abyss man.
Marco: Spin no. It was an e-mail. An e-mail from some creep named Julien who he’s meeting tomorrow for some secret lunch or something.
Spinner: Are you serious?
Marco: Yeah. He’s cheating on me guys. I can’t believe he’s cheating on me again.
Jimmy: Look you don’t know that for a fact.
Marco: Oh by this time tomorrow I will. They better get a table for 3.
During the competition, Degrassi is about to perform
Manny: Let’s do this for JT.
(The routine starts and Sean sits down next to Emma.)
Announcer: Let’s hear it for the Degrassi panthers! The final score is 9.0 putting Degrassi clearly in the lead.
At the pub
Marco: Hey Dylan!
Dylan: Marco what, what are you doing here?
Marco: Whatever. Who is this?
Dylan: Uh Julien. This is just Julien. Julien, Marco.
Julien: Nice to meet you.
Marco: Sorry I can’t say the same Julien. Did Dylan here even bother to tell you that he’s in a committed relationship or-?
Dylan: Marco woah.
Marco: Shut up curly. Because you know he is, or at least he was before he started cheating…again!
Dylan: Marco stop! Julien is from Zurich HC. A hockey team in Switzerland. He’s been scouting me. They want me to play for them!
(Marco looks at Julien for confirmation.)
Julien: Yeah.
(Marco smiles embarrassed.)
At the cheerleading competition
Announcer: Let’s see if Lakehurst can uh come up with an answer to that routine!
(They start performing.)
Danny: Lakehurst sucks!
Derek: Nobody wants you here. Leave!
Emma: Go home Lakehurst.
(They keep performing and Emma turns to Toby.)
Emma: We can do this. Go home Lakehurst!
(Everyone starts chanting ‘Go home Lakehurst’ and the squad starts screwing up their routine.)
Announcer: (Quietly to the other judges) That was unfortunate.
In the foyer
Manny: Is this what you wanted? Finally feeling self righteous enough?
Emma: Manny you won and you know what? I feel so much better. I think I can actually feel the school spirit coursing through my veins. Yeah call the media! Manny Santos has healed the entire school.
Damien: Now I know why Manny was your only friend. She’s a saint to put up with your crap.
Sean: Take a big step back Lakehurst guy.
(A fight breaks out between everyone.)
Manny: Damien! Damien.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Okay that’s enough. That’s enough. Break it up. I said break it up. That’s enough. Break it up, I said. Break it up! Alright this competition’s over. I want everyone to leave and go home right now, except for the Degrassi students who are going to wait in the gym until everyone is gone. Move it! Now!
In the media immersion room
Mr. Simpson: You bought yourself detention for a month and I’m not sure that’s all.
Emma: So?
Mr. Simpson: So I want you to know that I’m not exactly proud of you right now.
Emma: I’m sorry.
Mr. Simpson: Emma you ruined a competition that meant a lot to a lot of people.
Emma: And I care? Lakehurst k*lled JT!
Mr. Simpson: Wrong. One kid k*lled JT. You can’t blame the entire school for that. It doesn’t make any sense.
Emma: I’m just mad, okay? JT is gone and people like Manny want to pretend like it didn’t happen, but it did happen and I’m pissed.
Mr. Simpson: We all are, okay? Including Manny, but you can’t blame Manny. She’s not the enemy. Emma she’s your best friend and maybe it’s time that you remember that.
At Marco and Dylan’s
(Dylan is packing up his hockey gear.)
Marco: As far as smells go, that’s uh, that’s just above road k*ll, but I’m gonna miss it.
Dylan: I’m not going anywhere, okay? Not yet. I’m just, just thinking about it.
Marco: Well as long as you’re thinking about it, you just let me know when you’ve decided.
Dylan: See that’s exactly why I didn’t tell you because I knew you’d freak out.
Marco: How could I not, Dylan? What, what is it that you want me to say right now?
Dylan: Maybe that you’re proud of me!
Marco: I am proud of you. You know that.
Dylan: No I don’t. You never told me. To you hockey’s my dumb hobby. To me it’s life.
Marco: Dylan if this is what you want to do, then you got to do it.
Dylan: I want to be with you.
Marco: This is an opportunity knocking. Forget knocking, it’s breaking the door down. You’ve got to do it, okay? So then uh how long…’til you go?
Dylan: There’s work visas and stuff to figure out. Maybe a few weeks.
Marco: Well then we better make the most of it, huh?
(They lean in together.)
Outside Emma’s house
Manny: So got your text. What do you want to show me?
Emma: This. This curb right here. This is where it happened. JT died here.
Manny: Em you don’t have to show me this.
Emma: No I think I do because this whole thing between us, it isn’t about Lakehurst or Damien. It’s about what happened right here two weeks ago.
Manny: I know.
Emma: Manny I am really, really sorry for everything.
Manny: I know you are, but Emma you turned me into the bad guy. You tried to hate me.
Emma: Well it didn’t work.
Manny: Anything we’ve ever gotten through has been together. Don’t go and change the formula, okay?
Emma: Thanks for the reminder.
(They hug.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x13 - If You Leave"} | foreverdreaming |
At Banting
(Paige stares at the clock during a test.)
Professor James: And time! Next question.
(Paige flips her page over as the girl next to her coughs and blows her nose.)
Paige: Ew.
Professor James: And time. Next question.
Paige: What?
Professor James: Sh sh sh sh. And time. Next question. Time. And time.
(Everything blurs together and Paige starts panicking. She runs into the hall hyperventilating and starts to cry.)
Paige: God I’m such an idiot.
In Paige’s dorm room
(Paige is lying on her bed while people are partying in the dorm she and calls Alex on her cell.)
Paige: (On the phone) Hi Alex’s voicemail. Uh sorry I haven’t called. I wanted to, but… Okay have you ever felt like the subway is running over your lungs? Like you’re trying to breathe, but the entire train is just crushing your ribs? Okay um I’m rambling. I just, I really, really, really hope that you’re still going to Marco and Dylan’s this weekend. Bye.
During Paige’s class
Professor James: That’s it. Oh and I’ll have your exam marks next week. Uh Paige Mik-ale-chuk, a word please.
Paige: Um Professor James I was hoping we could talk, actually. Um I guess you thought I left the midterm. Well I mean I did, but not like-
Professor James: When someone walks out on an exam, I like to know why. I sleep better.
Paige: Well that’s part of it. Sleeping. I haven’t been.
Professor James: Ah partying.
Paige: No I swear…though the rest of my dorm has a lot. I just have so much work all the time.
Professor James: Welcome to college.
Paige: It’s stressful and who knew there’d be so much math in marketing?
Professor James: Paige you need to pass this course to stay in the program.
Paige: Help me to. Please I am seconds from losing my scholarship.
Professor James: I don’t want to discourage you, but not everyone is cut out for Banting.
Paige: Professor James, my mom was a Banting girl and I am a Banting girl. I just have to get better at doing Banting.
Professor James: Take-home midterm.
Paige: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I know I can do better this time.
Professor James: Along with your 20-page essay on international branding and the chapter summaries you’re late on.
Paige: Thank you Professor James. Don’t worry. I won’t let you down.
Professor James: Makes no difference to me. Just don’t let yourself down. 5PM Monday. Have a great weekend!
At Degrassi, Peter is sitting outside the cafeteria when Darcy walks by
Peter: Hey. Heard you needed to get into the caf kitchen. I’m waiting for my mom to drive me home, so I thought I might help out a friend.
(He shows her some keys.)
Darcy: Funny I don’t see one.
Peter: Ouch. Well I guess I could just go to media immersion and scroll through some of your hot pics…if you ever put them back up online.
Darcy: Dream on. I don’t have time for people who manipulate others for their own fun.
Peter: And if he sins against you seven times a day and returns to you seven times saying I repent, forgive him.
Darcy: You showed my private photos to some 40-year old pervert. You can’t make it up with a bible quote.
Peter: I repent, I repent, I repent, I repent, I repent, I repent, I repent. What do you say now?
Darcy: I say Matthew 10:42. Look it up and be here tomorrow morning at 7.
Peter: On a Saturday? Busses don’t even run that early.
Darcy: Whatever. It’s up to you.
At Marco and Dylan’s
(Alex opens the door for Paige who kisses Dylan on the cheek.)
Paige: I cannot believe mom and dad are renovating this weekend.
Alex: And hello to you too.
Dylan: Mom and dad are renovating every weekend.
Marco: Hey! I’ve missed you. Here. Homemade genetus(?), brain food.
Paige: Mm I am starving.
(She takes a bite and makes bad face.)
Paige: Are you sure that Ellie didn’t make these?
Marco: Ellie took her laundry home for the weekend. Oh and jokes, Kiko and Suki are off discovering our country’s natural wonders. Niagara falls.
Paige: So you are making the Michalchuk family dinner?
Marco: Hey I’m under enough pressure as it is with my parents coming too, okay?
Alex: You guys are having a double date with your folks?
Dylan: Date? Gosh no. Marco and I are just roommates, right darling?
Marco: Exactly darling. Come on let’s get you some non-homemade snacks.
(Alex holds up a sign that says ‘Welcome Back Turkey’.)
Alex: You like? I made it myself.
Paige: Feeling hostile, are we?
Alex: It’s not hostility. It’s affection. The message you left sounded like the fabulous Banting girl needed a little bit of a cheer up.
Paige: Yeah because the fabulous Banting girl has twelve tons of work to do.
Alex: Well now I’m here and we have some serious catching up to do.
Paige: Great.
In the living room
Marco: Okay I’m baked. Good night ladies.
Paige: Good night. I got to be up at cockle-doodle dawn to h*t the books.
Alex: Right. I should go.
Paige: No wait. Have a sleepover right here. Just friends.
Alex: Yeah I know doofus. I have a girlfriend.
Paige: You are so lying.
Alex: You might have one friend at Banting next year.
Paige: Who?
(Alex smiles.)
Paige: You? Seriously?
Alex: Despite your doubts, I am kicking butt at school. Marks, not people!
Paige: Well that is fantastic hon. I am very glad that you proved me wrong.
Alex: Whatever. Let’s get our degrees and then road trip. Imagine a couple Banting babes gone wild.
(Paige lays down on Alex’s lap.)
Paige: Thanks Alex. You’re so comfy.
Alex: Good night.
At Degrassi
(Peter shows up with flowers for Darcy.)
Darcy: Hi!
Peter: Hey I brought these for you.
Darcy: Great idea. The homeless deserve beauty with their meals too, right?
Peter: Homeless what?
Darcy: Our church group’s throwing a special dinner for them. For tomorrow.
Peter: And I’m here this early because?
Darcy: Did you read Matthew 10?
Peter: Uh yeah. Something about a guy needs water, gives it to a disciple or something.
Darcy: I tell you the truth, he will certainly not lose his reward. AKA that forgiveness you want? A reward.
Peter: Right. So uh why are you here?
Darcy: We all need forgiveness for something and you can start by peeling apples. Oh and uh Peter-
(She puts a hairnet on him as he grabs a peeler.)
At Marco and Dylan’s
(Paige wakes up and looks at all of her work.)
Marco: I’m pretty sure that you screamed ‘I love turkey’ or something in the middle of your sleep last night.
Dylan: I was having a nightmare, okay? It was a nine foot turkey.
Marco: Oh good morning.
Alex: Good morning.
(They keep talking as Paige is playing solitaire on her laptop.)
Paige: Hey do you think you guys could be a little louder for me?
Marco: Um how about you chill?
Dylan: Paige…
Marco: Like don’t you use like flour to make gravy?
Dylan: Well you do, yeah.
Marco: Okay well then.
Dylan: You use flour. You use like chicken broth, which is the juice from the chicken drippings and stuff.
Marco: Yeah I know, but make sure you get salt.
Dylan: Yeah okay.
Marco: It’s like the star of it.
Dylan: Okay it’s starred. Now it’s on the list.
Paige: You guys, be ridiculous. Please take this.
(She shows them a recipe online.)
At Dylan and Marco’s, Mrs. Michalchuk is bringing dishes over
Mrs. Michalchuk: This was Gran’s so careful. Don’t put it in the micro. Here’s the walnut recipe for Dylan. Remind him just a touch of sage.
Paige: Oh mom can you come in for a sec?
Mrs. Michalchuk: I’d love to, but the contractors…
Paige: But your daughter wants to tell you something.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Can it wait? Sorry. What is it sweetheart?
Paige: Never mind. Compared to renovation hell, it’s nothing.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Unlike the contractors, you’ve never let me down.
(She kisses Paige and leaves.)
Alex: Does she breathe like the rest of us or does she produce her own air internally like a blowfish?
(Paige starts hyperventilating and Alex laughs.)
Alex: Exactly!
(Paige then runs into the bathroom. Alex follows her and stands outside the bathroom.)
Alex: Paige you alright? Don’t make me be nice. Okay you made me. Paige Michalchuk you are the prettiest, smartest, bestest-
Paige: Why are you putting more pressure on me, Alex? Why?!
Alex: Pressure? What are you talking about?
Paige: Forget it, okay? Leave me alone. Go.
Alex: Forget what? What’s wrong?
Paige: You don’t get it Alex and you never will, so just, just go back to your stupid, pathetic little straight-A high school life with your pathetic imaginary girlfriend, okay? Go away!
(Alex tears up and leaves while Paige is crying in the washroom.)
At Marco and Dylan’s
Marco: Dylan just move, okay? I’m much better at fridge tetris.
Dylan: Just leave the turkey out.
Marco: No my arm’s freezing. Just get out of here.
Paige: Salmonella is so not festive.
Dylan: Everything okay? Alex bolted like she was on f*re.
Paige: Yeah that’s Alex being Alex. You can’t just leave poultry sitting out.
Marco: See I told you Dylan.
Dylan: Excuse me, but I’m the one-
Marco: No seriously. You try to help-
Paige: You know what? I’ll cook. Take some parent pressure off you.
Marco: Don’t you have an essay to cook up?
Paige: Yeah I can handle my own course load, thanks. Both of you out.
Dylan: Fine I’m done.
Marco: Fine. There.
(Marco hands her the turkey and leaves.)
At dinnertime
Dylan: Try to relax. Everything will be fine.
Marco: When I’m nervous, I fidget.
(There’s a knock at the door.)
Marco: Is it too late to cancel?
(They open the door.)
Marco: Hey mom, dad. Here come in. Hi.
Mr. Del Rossi: Hey! Place looks great Marco.
Marco: Yeah. Yeah it’s good.
Mrs. Del Rossi: For your house.
(She hands Dylan some flowers when there’s another knock at the door.)
Dylan: Oh thank you Mrs. Del Rossi. Thank you. Oh I’ll get that. Here. I’ll get that.
(He opens the door.)
Dylan: Mom hey!
Mr. Michalchuk: Hi sport-o.
Dylan: Hey dad! How you doing?
Mr. Michalchuk: Still no haircut.
Dylan: Still no hair.
(Everyone sits down for dinner.)
Paige: Butternut squash soup with frizzled leeks and crème fresh.
Mrs. Del Rossi: So gourmet.
Mrs. Michalchuk: She’s such a talent. She won the Brownie’s best brownie award when she was six.
Mrs. Del Rossi: I always wish I’d had a daughter.
Dylan: I’m glad you didn’t.
(Marco hits Dylan under the table.)
Marco: This looks delicious.
(Alex walks in with her new girlfriend.)
Alex: Are we late? We brought buns.
Paige: I made buns.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Don’t be rude. Hello Alex. Dylan?
Dylan: Oh yeah I’ve got some extra chairs in our room, my room!
Paige: What are you doing here?
Alex: Well you invited me and I wanted to make sure you were okay after your little breakdown.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Breakdown?
Paige: Alex is a pathological liar.
Carla: Alex maybe we should just…
Mr. Del Rossi: Hey no arguing over dinner. Sit. Who’s your friend?
Alex: This is Carla, my imaginary girlfriend.
(Marco’s dad spits up his water.)
Carla: Hello.
At the Degrassi cafeteria
(A homeless man is speaking in Greek and Peter can’t understand him.)
Peter: I don’t understand.
(He keeps speaking.)
Peter: Slow down.
Darcy: Is there a problem?
Peter: My Greek’s a little rough. I think he wants an extra piece of pie. Is that alright?
Darcy: You speak Greek?
Peter: Yeah I learned some from my Papi, grandpa. He used to eat a lot of dessert too.
Darcy: Tell him you peeled the apples yourself.
Peter: Yeah I’ll try. Uh oro mura… peeled them myself.
During dinner
Mrs. Michalchuk: The pomegranate dressing, just exquisite. Paige you could have got a scholarship for chef school too.
Paige: Mom.
Mr. Michalchuk: Oh and Dylan has had offers recently to play pro hockey in Switzerland.
Dylan: Once my Visa comes through.
Marco: Yeah don’t remind me.
Alex: Did you know Carla’s an honours grad student and she’s captain of the Toronto U distance running team.
Paige: I’ll clear the salad plates.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Banting wanted Paige for their Power Squad. They called it cheerleading when I was captain, but she chose to focus on academics.
Paige: Mom, please.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Once Paige gets her honours degree, the Banting MBA program.
Paige: Mom.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Sweetie, tell everyone how Banting has the most prestigious program.
Paige: Why don’t we talk about something else?
Mrs. Michalchuk: Fine. Oh don’t you have some sort of announcement?
Paige: Yes. The turkey’s ready.
Mrs. Michalchuk: She’s so modest.
(Paige goes to the kitchen and tries to compose herself.)
At Degrassi
Peter: Darcy you want a ride home?
Darcy: Sure, but I thought since the whole street racing thing you can’t…
Peter: No I can drive.
Darcy: They gave you your licence back?
Peter: Yeah. I didn’t h*t the guy. I’m in the clear, but it’ll cost you.
Darcy: Will half a pie do it?
Peter: Hey I take after my Papi.
At the dinner, Paige brings out the turkey
Paige: Here it is! Complete with traditional Michalchuk family walnut stuffing.
Mr. Del Rossi: Looks delicious.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Paige let’s hear your news.
Paige: Really it’s more of a dessert and coffee kind of thing.
Mrs. Michalchuk: Deans list? A bursary? New boyfriend hmm?
Paige: Who wants white and who wants dark?
Mr. Del Rossi: I’ll take white.
(Paige cuts the turkey and the stuffing explodes all over her.)
Dylan: I told you not to overstuff the bird.
(Paige runs upstairs while Alex laughs.)
Dylan: Traditional Michalchuk walnut stuffing.
Alex: We still have Brussels sprouts. Yummy.
Dylan: And carrots!
(Paige is upstairs freaking out and Marco goes to make sure she’s okay.)
Marco: Hey! Everybody is so worried about you. Except my pops who’s still you know, eating, but take that as a compliment.
Paige: I blew up a 20 pound turkey.
Marco: Yeah. Come on Paige, that’s not all that’s bothering you. What is it? What could possibly have my smart, beautiful, talented friend so down?
Paige: Don’t call me that. I am an idiot. I’ve fooled all of you.
Marco: You are too stressed. Is it school? All that work you brought home?
(Paige nods.)
Marco: Paige you’re not the only one. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Last week I got a C- on my psych paper.
Paige: I should drive back tonight.
Marco: What? Tonight? It’s three hours away.
Paige: It’s fine Marco. Um I’ll tell my parents and then go.
Marco: Are you sure? Hey you call me if you need to talk, alright?
Paige: Yeah.
(She starts packing and Marco goes downstairs.)
Outside, Peter is driving Darcy home
Peter: Yeah 250k an hour, 4 mods.
Darcy: You have never gone that fast.
(Peter starts revving his engine and two police officers pull up on bikes.)
Darcy: Peter, there are not enough airbags in this world!
(They knock on the window.)
Police officer: License and registration.
Darcy: What’d we do?
Peter: Just relax. They hassle you if you go faster than them.
Darcy: But they’re on bikes.
Peter: Yeah especially the ones on bikes.
Police officer: (On the radio system) We got a Peter Stone here. N31 Connaught Avenue please.
Police officer: Out of the car please.
Darcy: Why? We’ve stopped.
Police officer: Well your friend Peter here’s been driving with a suspended licence.
Darcy: It’s true?
(Peter nods and Darcy smashes the pie in Peter’s face.)
Darcy: I cannot believe I actually started to like you. You’ll never change.
In Paige’s dorm room
(Paige is spinning around in her chair and then knocks all her books into the trashcan, along with a candle that starts burning everything.)
Scenes for next week
Voiceover: Paige survives the f*re.
(Her f*re is being put out.)
Paige: I have got to do a 20-page essay. I am a flunking out failure.
Voiceover: But she still gets b*rned.
Professor James: I have seen this essay four times in the last two years.
Paige: You’re giving me a zero?
Voiceover: In more ways than one.
Paige: What am I going to do?
Alex: What do you want to do?
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In Paige’s dorm room
(The f*re is being put out by her RA as people watch from the hall.)
Paige: I don’t know what happened. I was studying and then suddenly I’m staring into Dante’s Inferno.
Kevin: This could have been a lot worse.
Paige: Kevin you are my f*re-fighting resident’s assistant hero.
Kevin: I’m not gonna find any melted wax in the bottom of this trashcan, am I?
(Paige shuts the door.)
Paige: Um (something?) candle? No of course not. Um my computer, it must have spontaneously combusted.
Kevin: Grab your stuff. You can crash in the common room tonight. You may have to live there for a while.
Paige: I have got to do a, a 20-page essay and, and ace a take-home exam and do a million chapter summaries for 5:00 or I am a big, fat, flunking out loser.
Kevin: They always say everything looks better in the morning.
Paige: Well that’s only true if your entire world hasn’t gone supernova!
Outside Paige’s classroom
(Paige is practicing what she’s gonna say to her professor.)
Paige: I just need a few more days. There was a teensy weensy f*re and a big family emergency.
(Her phone rings.)
Paige: Alex?
Alex: Guess who just got her third bio A+ in a row?
Paige: Heather Sinclaire?
Alex: Ouch, but deserved. Any chance a marketing guru can forgive a science geek for being an obnoxious turkey?
Paige: Are you actually apologizing?
Alex: I’m full of surprises and still kind of worried about your whole family dinner flame-out.
Paige: Apology accepted and I could not be more fine, honestly. Last minute is my middle name. But enough about me. Uh go celebrate your scholarness. Any A+ plans?
Alex: Carla’s meeting me at the Dot tonight. Nothing special, but she’s paying!
Paige: Well congrats hon. Uh send her my love, okay?
Alex: Later.
(They hang up and Paige sees Professor James.)
Paige: Professor James.
Professor James: Ms. Michalchuk, finished already? I gave you until 5 today.
Paige: Um actually uh you know how it is. Family weekend, parental drama and a minor dorm room f*re type incident. I was hoping for another very small extension. I just wouldn’t want to hand in less than my best.
Professor James: A f*re? Do you have the f*re marshal’s report?
Paige: No, but I have soot-filled everything as proof. Believe me I wouldn’t make this up. I just thought that maybe under the circumstances…
Professor James: I can’t make last minute exceptions Paige. You understand that I’m sure.
Paige: I guess I have to.
Professor James: Hand in whatever you’ve got. I’ll see you at 5. No excuses.
At Degrassi
Mr. Stone: Impounded! The $60,000 vehicle you snuck out of my garage has been impounded!
Peter: I was on my way home from feeding the homeless, doing a good deed!
Ms. Hatzilakos: I don’t care if you were curing the blind, okay? A suspended licence means no driving, period!
Mr. Stone: Probation officer says if you up the community service, they might reduce the fine.
Peter: Okay fine. I’ll be an angel.
Mr. Stone: Well you make sure that you are. Here!
(He storms out and Ms. Hatzilakos follows him.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: And Troy if you can’t control Peter on the weekends, then I will.
Mr. Stone: Daphne save the principal routine for your delinquent son, okay?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Who’s delinquent? How about the guy who bought his 16 year old son a $60,000 car, huh?
Peter: Guys stop!
Ms. Hatzilakos: Who are you trying to impress?
(They both walk away as Peter and Darcy look at each other.)
In the common room at Paige’s dorm
Paige: Okay one thing at a time.
(She stares at her laptop.)
Kevin: I see your laptop survived. Any chance I could check my blog?
Paige: Uh saving my semester by 5PM is a tad more important than your blog.
Kevin: Right. Stupid question. So uh you almost done?
Paige: Not remotely.
Kevin: Better hurry up. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
(Paige searches for a college essay online and takes out her credit card.)
At Peter’s locker
(Darcy walks up to him and hands him a card.)
Peter: What’s this?
Darcy: Bus pass. Once I walked all the way home, I kind of cooled down.
Peter: Oh wow. After the cop pulled us over, I didn’t think you’d be speaking to me anymore, let alone buying me gifts.
Darcy: So you forgive me for smothering you with pie?
Peter: It was stupid to drive, but I had to get to the soup kitchen. I couldn’t let the homeless starve.
Darcy: Were your parents mad about the car?
Peter: They’re off the charts. Blame each other for everything. I try to be brave or whatever, but deep down there’s this little sad…
(Peter takes her hand and she pulls it away laughing.)
Peter: Hey how about a nice, long walk in the park after school?
Darcy: Are you asking me out on a date?
Peter: Depends on your answer.
(Darcy walks away.)
Peter: That was a yes, right?
(Darcy smiles and shrugs as she walks away.)
At Banting
Paige: Professor James here it is.
Professor James: 5PM. Right on time.
Paige: Sometimes I work best under pressure.
(She looks it over and sighs.)
Professor James: I have seen this essay four times in the last two years. Most students try to change a sentence or two.
Paige: Professor James, with 300 students these essays must all just start to look the same.
Professor James: Don’t insult me.
Paige: You’re giving me a zero?
Professor James: Or I could talk to the dean who, by the way, has made it his mission to eradicate plagiarism. Your choice.
Paige: My choice? I’m going home to a real school with real friends with flame ret*rd dorms. I don’t care if I am a stupid Banting girl because I hate Banting!
At a park
(Peter brings Darcy weeds.)
Peter: For you. Not soup kitchen decorations this time.
Darcy: Aw. My favourite weed.
Peter: I thought they were flowers.
(She notices his uniform and pooper scooper.)
Darcy: Uh what’s uh all this?
Peter: Beautiful day for a walk.
Darcy: Wait this is your idea of a date?
Peter: Yeah, it’s community service, but it’s also doing good. Isn’t that how you roll? Oh I meant to ask, do you think you could get the Reverend to sign some forms for last weekend?
Darcy: So that’s what this is? I’m your community service hook-up?
Peter: You’re not, Darce. This is my life. I thought you got that nobody’s perfect.
(She walks away and Peter keeps picking up dog poop.)
At the Dot
Alex: What’s wrong picky? I thought we were celebrating.
Carla: Yeah well aren’t salads supposed to be fresh? This is disgusting.
Alex: Well maybe if you tried red meat, you wouldn’t be so cranky.
Carla: You are unbelievable.
(Paige sits down.)
Paige: Isn’t she? Human trash compactor.
Alex: Either you’re in Toronto midweek or this ain’t root beer.
Paige: Dinner’s on me. Uh okay my mom. To Alex, the newest scholar on Degrassi’s block.
Alex: Did you have three hours to poach my drink?
Carla: Yeah you must have been thirsty.
Paige: I drove three hours for a great reason, but tonight is all about Miss A+, the brightest Nuñez ever.
Carla: Did you know that she turned down Paradiso Bistro to come here.
Paige: I’m not saying she’s perfect.
Alex: Should I leave you two alone?
Paige: Yeah well I want to hear all about a day in the life of an honours grad marathon runner at Toronto U.
Carla: Well it’s not that interesting.
At Alex’s
Alex: Question of the night. Why aren’t you sleeping at Marco’s and Dylan’s?
Paige: Well everyone’s back from the weekend. It’s a full house.
Alex: And why are you in town?
Paige: Because people here don’t ask a million questions.
Alex: Nice try Michalchuk.
Paige: I don’t know. It was so chaotic with all the family and the schoolwork. I was just craving some happy…some you. Hon we’re gonna stay this close forever, right?
Alex: Depends. Are you gonna scream at me from behind any bathroom doors?
Paige: But see I did that and three days later you are making me a couch-bed. I’m crazy and you are so strong.
Alex: Even perfect Banting girls need to let their hair down every once in a while.
Paige: You are the only one who has any idea.
Alex: It’s a school night. I’ll tuck you in.
(Paige kisses Alex.)
Alex: What was that?
Paige: Um good night kiss?
(Alex goes upstairs.)
In the morning, Paige is making breakfast
Alex: Penance waffles?
Paige: With extra “I’m sorry” whip and “I would never intentionally play with your feelings” strawberries.
Alex: My food usually only says “eat me”.
Paige: Well your mom and Chad call them little puffs of heaven.
Alex: And they were made by such an angel. Are we gonna talk about what that little smoochy smooch was all about last night?
Paige: Oh you mean that thing that never happened?
Alex: Okay. You’ve driven here twice this week and for what? To cook a couple meals? Well it seems kind of strange…even for you.
Paige: Okay Veronica Mars. I miss home.
Alex: Okay what’s in these waffles?
Paige: Nothing. I’m just…I’m happy and I have a plan. Is tonight still karaoke night?
Alex: Uh huh.
Paige: Well then round up the troops. I have a feeling I’ll need to celebrate.
Alex: I knew I wasn’t the only reason you came back. Do I even get a hint?
(Paige shrugs and walks out the door smiling.)
At Degrassi
Darcy: Here. The reverend hopes to see you at the next soup kitchen.
Peter: Wait Darcy, I hate soup. I hate dog turds even more, but I like you. I have fun with you.
Darcy: You’re under house arrest. I’ve got Spirit Squad, Friendship Club. Plus I’m still grounded thanks to those web photos. I just don’t see it working. Sorry.
Peter: Wait who’s that guy who works in mysterious ways?
(She walks away smiling.)
At Toronto U’s admissions office
Admissions Clerk: Awesome high school records.
Paige: Well Toronto U accepted me last spring so I was hoping I could transfer.
Admissions Clerk: We need your Banting transcripts.
Paige: Even if I take a different program?
Admissions Clerk: Yeah. Unless you want to reapply for the Fall.
Paige: Next Fall? My mom will die. I’m talking cardiac arrest and then she’s gonna k*ll me from beyond the grave.
Admissions Clerk: Well frosh off and flounder.
Paige: Flounder? No, no, no, no. I can’t flounder. I can’t be this person. Horrible grades, social outcast, gained the freshman fifteen-zillion. In three months Banting has turned me into a, a chunky, essay-flunking pyromaniac!
Admissions Clerk: I’m guessing Banting isn’t the problem. Sorry. Next.
(Paige storms off and is shown crying in her car.)
At Darcy’s
(Peter is outside her window.)
Peter: Psst! Darce it’s me.
Darcy: Peter! What are you doing here?
Peter: I believe the word is romance.
Darcy: You’re gonna get us both in sugar.
Peter: I don’t care. I’ll risk all the sugar in the world. My probation, my house arrest, my parents losing their minds…just for one minute with you.
(Darcy puts a robe on and walks outside.)
Peter: Be careful. I will sing.
Darcy: No! If my dad hears you, I’ll never get to see you.
Peter: So you want to see me?
Darcy: Go home Peter.
At karaoke
Marco: (Singing) I don’t change my mind for anybody. I won’t waste my time on just anybody. I won’t share my life with anyone, but you. With anyone, but you. With anyone, but you!
(Paige walks in.)
Paige: Sorry I’m late. Uh pinchy boots keep it slow.
Marco: Aw it’s like Spinner.
Spinner: Whatever. I’ll take that as a compliment.
Jimmy: So Alex says you’re back in town to celebrate.
Alex: Yeah so what’s the amazing news?
Paige: Um well yours truly just got a huge scholarship to Toronto U. I’m moving home.
Marco: In the middle of a semester?
Paige: Yeah. They made an exception. So are we gonna do this or not?
Marco: You bet.
Spinner: Bust it maestro.
(Paige and Marco start singing horribly.)
Outside, Paige is putting gas in the t*nk
Alex: So when are you gonna tell me why you really left Banting?
Paige: I already told you.
Alex: Yeah big mid-semester scholarship. Thing is you already had one.
Paige: Banting is not what I expected. I mean I am kicking butt, but it’s so lame. There’s no fun times like tonight and definitely no fun people.
Alex: That’s it?
Paige: Banting was great for my mom, but I have connections here.
Alex: Connections? By that you mean?
Paige: My friends, people who think I count for something, cool people.
(Paige spills gas on her shoes.)
Paige: Oh my pinchy boots. Um there should be paper towels in here somewhere. My dad went all boy scout when I got the car.
(Alex sees all of Paige’s papers and tests with failing grades.)
Paige: Did you find anything?
Alex: Yeah. I sure did.
(She hands Paige the paper towels who cleans her boots.)
Paige: Oh ew.
Outside Degrassi
(Peter’s dad is dropping him off.)
Peter: Okay bye dad.
Darcy: Here! It’s a day timer. I wrote down all my free time this week. You do the same and that’s when I’ll see you.
Peter: Cool thanks. Oh so you’re free today after school? I have an hour before I have to report to my probation officer.
Darcy: It’s a date.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Oh. Here you go!
Peter: What’s this?
Ms. Hatzilakos: Directions to a convicted street racers press conference after school. I volunteered you to give an apology.
Peter: Today? You’ve got to be joking.
Ms. Hatzilakos: And if you’re thinking on skipping, don’t. I’ll be there.
(Mr. Stone drives back with Peter’s uniform.)
Mr. Stone: Trash man! Forget something?
Peter: Yeah can’t live without this.
Mr. Stone: Oh and your uncle’s looking forward to some squeaky clean dishes at his restaurant this weekend.
Peter: Yeah and every other weekend. I know.
Mr. Stone: Know another way to make the 5 grand it cost me to get the car out of impound? Maybe your mother will take a cut to her alimony payments.
Ms. Hatzilakos: Love you too.
(She rolls her eyes as Peter’s dad drives off.)
Ms. Hatzilakos: My office. 3:00 sharp.
(She leaves and Peter looks at Darcy.)
Peter: Yeah you were right. This isn’t gonna work.
At the Dot
Paige: Two bedroom on the subway line. $1200. Ouch.
Alex: Two bedroom?
Paige: Isn’t it time you gave your mom and Chad their personal space?
(Alex looks around.)
Paige: Hun you waiting for someone?
Alex: Maybe.
Paige: Who Carla? Look if we move in together, it doesn’t mean…
(She sees her mom.)
Paige: Mom? Hi. What are you doing here?
Mrs. Michalchuk: We need to talk Paige. You have some explaining to do.
Paige: What’s going on?
Mrs. Michalchuk: Alex found some essays, some tests in your car.
Paige: You did this?
Alex: I’ll let you guys talk.
(Alex leaves as Paige gets all upset.)
Outside Ms. Hatzilakos’ office
Darcy: Thought I’d find you here.
Peter: I’m forming a permanent butt groove. Why are you here?
Darcy: Just seeing your parents, the way they fight…it must be horrible to feel like they’re always angry.
Peter: Just not a great example of love, I guess.
Darcy: I know someone who has a lot of love to give.
Peter: Okay no offence, but you better not be talking about Jesus.
(She gives him a look and he takes her hand.)
Peter: Darce I’m gonna be late to pick you up and I’m gonna bail on dates. All the day planners in the world can’t change that, but I’ll never stop thinking about you.
Darcy: I hope not and if you ever hurt me, I’ll tell your mom.
Outside the Dot
(Paige hugs her mom goodbye and walks over to Alex.)
Paige: I can’t believe you told my mother.
Alex: Who else would I tell?
Paige: I don’t know. Nobody?
Alex: You need help Paige and you needed to tell the truth to someone. It was the only way to force it out.
Paige: Well why didn’t you talk to me first?
Alex: Paige you’ve been lying to me ever since you got here and I have no idea why.
(Paige sits down next to her.)
Paige: I’ve always kind of felt like you looked up to me and I want you to be proud of me, but the truth is I’m just a loser.
Alex: And you used me to pull some big crazy scam?
Paige: I’m sorry Alex. I didn’t know who else to turn to.
Alex: The next time you need a safety net, call the f*re department.
Paige: Actually they’ll probably be calling me. I kind of b*rned down my dorm room.
Alex: Seriously?
(Paige nods.)
Alex: Wow. When you flame out, you really flame out.
Paige: What am I gonna do?
Alex: That’s the thing missy, what do you want to do?
Scenes for next week
Paige: We are just friends. Friends with a benefits package.
(Paige kisses Spinner.)
Voiceover: Paige has a new dating strategy.
Paige: Cas is the way we rock it.
Voiceover: But casual…
Paige: Hey lets dance.
(Paige and Jesse are shown dancing.)
Voiceover: …turns complicated.
Paige: (Talking to Alex) Spinner is my 7:00 and Jesse’s my 9.
Alex: You uh wanna come to my place when you’re done for a post-game wrap-up?
(Paige puts her arms around Alex.)
Voiceover: Very complicated. | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x15 - Free Falling Part 2"} | foreverdreaming |
At Marco and Dylan’s, during Dylan’s goodbye party
(A friend of his gives him a hockey poster with Dylan’s face on it.)
Dylan’s friend: Ah yeah!
Dylan: That’s awesome. Thanks.
Marco: Is that brie?
Paige: Only the best for my darling bro on the occasion of his moving to Sweden.
Dylan: Your brain’s clearly already redecorating my bedroom. It’s Switzerland Paige, as in Zurich.
Marco: Yeah as in 6497k away.
Paige: James I hear you are looking for a new manager. Someone to whip Squatch Designs into shape.
Jimmy: Yes Marco told you.
(Paige nods.)
Jimmy: Okay good so we can get together and talk about it tomorrow morning?
Paige: Résumé’s printed and alpha already.
(Paige and Spinner smile at each other.)
Ellie: Thank you for implying that I’m boring.
Jesse: I wasn’t implying that you’re boring just because you don’t like dancing, okay?
Ellie: Can we not fight about this now? It’s embarrassing.
Alex: So you’re moving in, eh?
Paige: A funky downtown address to go with my hopefully new job. Chin, chin. So where is the lovely Carla tonight?
Alex: Pottery class. Yeah my girlfriend ditched me to make a bowl.
Paige: Well at least you have somebody. I however have been walking through a romantic desert and my feet are tired.
Alex: Well don’t look at me to rub them, but I’m sure we can find a hot guy or two to warm up your cool autumn nights.
Paige: Well cheers to that dear cupid.
(She looks at Spinner who smiles.)
At the newspaper office
Jesse: Paige Michalchuck.
Paige: Jesse Stefanovich. You are the one I speak to about putting an add in the core?
Jesse: For Jimmy and Spinner’s store.
Paige: Yeah you are looking at their new manager.
Jesse: Congrats. Um these are our rates.
Paige: Yes. Uh rates. Funny thing. There is a minor issue of cash at present. Mainly that we are lacking it.
Jesse: As issues go, far from mine.
Paige: Well what if I told you that in lue of cash, our designer Jimmy Brooks will design t-shirts for the Core. I’m sure you could use them for promotions and once we fix our cash flow issue, we are going to present concerts by local bands under the Squatch banner. Core could co-sponsor.
Jesse: Good ideas. Great ideas.
Paige: Thank you. So do we have a deal?
Jesse: Count on it.
(They shake hands and smile at each other.)
At Degrassi
Mr. Simpson: Thank you for that incisive treatise on celebrity facelifts. Next class: Liberty and Emma.
Emma: Ouch. I haven’t even started.
Manny: Didn’t know lazy was in your vocab.
Emma: I’m not lazy, just distracted.
Manny: Don’t tell me, too many late night sessions at Casa Cameron.
Emma: Keep a secret? Sean and I are taking things to the next level.
Manny: Maybe you don’t realize, but you’ve told me this before.
Emma: Maybe you don’t realize that this time I mean it.
(She shows Manny a prescription for birth control pills.)
Manny: Wow. You’re not messing around sister.
At the mall
Alex: So I hope you’re ready. Today’s the first episode of Project Paige.
Paige: My life is a reality TV show?
Alex: In your case it’s The Bachelorette and we’re looking for guys hey, not the other flavour.
Paige: Guys will do thank you. I like them cute, funny, worldly. Oh and to fill out a vintage rock tee just so.
Alex: Sounds delish…in a hetero kind of way. Thing is Paige you’ve got to keep it cas’. Don’t get attached to anyone. Play the field. Be a pimp.
Paige: Oh I am the maddest of pimps and here comes my date.
(Spinner walks over.)
Alex: Spinner! Cute, funny… worldly?
Paige: Lose the lesbian filter hon. He is cute and funny. It’s two out of three. Give my best to dear Carla.
At the newspaper office
Jesse: Why is it every time I bring something up, a joke, a story idea, anything, you just sh**t it down? You can be so negative, Ellie.
Ellie: Guess so.
Jesse: You guess so? Taurus much?
Ellie: Whatever. I don’t want to argue anymore. It’s all we’ve done for weeks. Arguing was better than this.
Jesse: Not to mention all the movies and dinners and laughs we used to have.
Ellie: That’s why we need to end this before it ruins what’s left of us.
Jesse: See you at the staff meeting?
(She nods and leaves.)
At the pharmacy
(Sean is looking at condoms while Emma gets her pills.)
Sean: These have sensual in the name. Is that a good thing?
Emma: Uh are we really gonna do this?
Sean: Sex is an expression of our intimacy and closeness.
Emma: Your nose is so growing right now.
(Snake sees them.)
Mr. Simpson: Em! Sean! What are you doing here?
Sean: Well I’m, I’m late for work.
(He leaves quickly.)
Mr. Simpson: Later Sean. Em are you, are you sick or…?
Emma: No. It’s just that…well Sean and I are…Snake!
(She holds up the condoms and birth control pills.)
Mr. Simpson: Oh! Oh, oh god. I’m an idiot. Sorry. Um does your mom know about this?
Emma: Yeah. We had the talk.
Mr. Simpson: Cool. I just you know…I, I didn’t know.
Emma: Well I will see you at home for dinner.
Mr. Simpson: Sure thing. Later skater.
At the mall
(Paige and Spinner are signing up for a booth for their store.)
Spinner: Thank you. Entrepreneurs fair booth 112. You played the mall lady like a drum.
Paige: Thanks hon. You helped too.
Spinner: No I don’t have the ‘Paige power of persuasion’, but we make a good team, huh?
(Paige kisses him.)
Spinner: Not looking a horse gift in the mouth here, but what’s going on?
Paige: Banting was less than fun for me, so to paraphrase Sheryl Crow, I just want to have some fun.
Spinner: Fun’s good. It’s just the last time we did this, last year…it ended weird.
Paige: Because we had no ground rules. This time we do. We are just friends. Friends with a benefits package.
Spinner: Those are benefits I can live with.
Paige: It’s the best of both worlds. Cas’ is the way we rock it.
At the store
Alex: You said that without laughing?
Paige: The moment overtook. It just felt so good to mack on Spinner with impunity.
Alex: I have class with him in 20 minutes. I’ll try to ignore his big, dumb grinning face.
Paige: Jesse! Hey.
Jesse: Hey. Uh latest edition. Add’s on page 3 and I asked Nina to write a piece on you guys for her fashion column.
Paige: This is wow! Thank you so much.
Jesse: The Core and Squatch Designs could have a future together in business.
(Alex taps her pen impatiently.)
Paige: Alex! Um you know Jesse, right?
Alex: Yeah you’re Ellie’s boyfriend.
Jesse: Was. Ellie didn’t tell you we broke up?
Paige: She keeps to herself a lot.
Jesse: Yeah she’s like that. Well I’ve got to run. Interviewing a friend’s band.
Paige: How journalist of you. What are they like?
Jesse: Kind of an alt-country vibe. Yeah they’re playing tonight, campus club. If you’re into it, you should come.
(Paige nods and shrieks excitedly after he leaves.)
At Emma’s house
Mr. Simpson: So I ran into Emma at the pharmacy today with Sean, picking up birth control. You know, the pill?
Spike: Really?
(She keeps eating.)
Mr. Simpson: Right. She told me she asked you.
Spike: Well we had the talk a while ago. I told her to go on the pill whenever she was ready.
Mr. Simpson: And I was left out of this conversation, why? Don’t we talk about these types of things as a family?
Spike: I wasn’t sure if you could handle this type of thing or if you’d even want to. It’s a woman thing.
Mr. Simpson: It’s a parent thing and I want to contribute.
Emma: You contribute delicious nutritious dinners nightly.
(Snake doesn’t say anything.)
Emma: Kidding!
Mr. Simpson: Uh Emma you uh, you lied to me this afternoon.
Emma: I didn’t lie! There’s just some things you don’t need to know, okay?
Mr. Simpson: Oh well pardon me for being concerned about my teenage daughter who’s made mistakes and feels the need to hide things from me.
Emma: Step-daughter!
Mr. Simpson: Whatever. I deserve to be a part of your life!
(Emma walks away.)
Mr. Simpson: Hey.
Spike: Snake this is exactly why sometimes you aren’t. Emma, wait!
Emma: I’m meeting Sean. Don’t wait up.
(She leaves and Spike looks at Snake.)
At the concert
Jesse: Really in the pocket. Like in the groove.
Paige: I, I like how relaxed they are.
Jesse: Totally vibe-ing off each other.
Paige: In the moment, yes! It is the only way to be. Hey let’s dance.
Jesse: Sure.
(They start dancing.)
Jesse: This is good. I almost forgot what it feels like. Ellie hated dancing.
Paige: Well it’s too bad because you are a natural. Move over Antonio Banderas.
Jesse: Ain’t seen nothing yet, Michalchuk.
At the store
Paige: Thank you.
Alex: Tell me again why you need me to model at the dumb fair.
Paige: Because Marco looks lousy in pink.
Alex: So uh you and Jesse dancing up a storm last night. Did it end there?
Paige: There was coffee at his place. Had an amazing convo…and then some other stuff.
Alex: And bachelor #1 knows about bachelor #2, IE Spinner?
Paige: Bachelors 1 and 2 both know the score. As a matter of fact, I am seeing them both tonight.
Alex: Oh ménage Paige.
Paige: Not quite. Spinner is my 7:00 and Jesse’s my 9.
Alex: Hey you uh wanna come to my place when you’re done for a post-game wrap-up? We got the good ice cream.
Paige: Sure hon. Love to.
(They look in the mirror and Paige puts her arms around Alex.)
Paige: Pretty in pink. Just like the movie.
In the media immersion room
Emma: Hey. Thought we could maybe talk.
Mr. Simpson: Emma my server blew a hard drive.
Emma: Look I’m sorry about last night, but I’m old enough to make my own decisions. Hello?! I’m trying to have a conversation here.
Mr. Simpson: Emma! No hard drive means no server means no classes for the day. I need to handle this right now.
Emma: ‘Cause you obviously can’t handle the fact that I’m a sexual being and you can’t keep avoiding it forever.
At Spinner’s
(Paige and Spinner are making out.)
Paige: Oh not that this isn’t fun, but I really need to get going.
Spinner: Gotta go see the other guy, Jesse Stupid-face.
Paige: Spinner you know the deal.
Spinner: Yeah I know. It’s just being with you feels so right and I always go by my feelings.
Paige: Spin don’t trust your feelings, okay? Feelings are the enemy. Honey, sweetie you are clearly new to the ways of friends with benefits. Maybe it’s better if we just stop.
Spinner: No. No it’s cool. I’ll, I’ll get used to it.
Paige: See you at the fair tomorrow.
(She kisses him goodbye.)
At a club
(Jesse is reading Paige’s palm.)
Jesse: Like what I’m seeing here. Lots of adventures.
Paige: Of the freshman flameout kind? Kind of on ‘adulthood: take 2’.
Jesse: Really? I did that two years ago and thought everything was ruined, but it kind of opens up the road, you know?
Paige: That is exactly how I feel. Just h*t the gas and go.
Jesse: Totally! But I’m a cautious driver.
Paige: Let’s dance, okay? Show me some more of those moves.
Jesse: Okay.
(They start dancing.)
At the fashion show
Paige: Afternoon Ms. Nuñez. Ready to rock the catwalk with insouciant smile?
Alex: Yeah whatever. Let’s just get it over with.
Paige: Um is it everyone hates Paige day?
Alex: Maybe seeing it was ditch Alex and don’t even call her last night.
Paige: Hon I forgot. I’m sorry.
(She looks at Marco.)
Paige: Babe could you just straighten our sign a bit?
Alex: Don’t tell me your 9:00 with Jesse became a 10, then an 11, 12, 1…
Paige: I said I’m sorry. It’s just I think things are becoming a bit more than cas’ with Jesse. He’s kind of special.
Alex: Rush into stuff much? Pathetic Paige. Pathetic.
In the media immersion classroom
Liberty: Hence the inevitability of environmental collapse. Thank you.
Mr. Simpson: Okay. Thanks Liberty. Uh Emma you’re up.
(Emma starts her presentation.)
Mr. Simpson: Your theme?
Emma: Women and sex. More specifically it’s about how men have stifled women’s sexual expression throughout history.
Manny: Right on sister.
Emma: When men think of girls, this is what they see…
(She shows a picture of herself looking completely innocent.)
Emma: But when confronted with something like this…
(She shows a couple steamy pictures of herself and Sean.)
Emma: A healthy natural expression of physical intimacy, men can’t handle it…at all. They feel free to ride their instincts, but when women stand up and declare their right to be sexual, it’s this…
(She shows a picture of herself with tape covering her mouth.)
Emma: A typical double standard. Men don’t want to hear it.
At the fashion show
Paige: Are you sure you want to model Jimmy’s fab designs with that un-fab pout?
Spinner: I’m not pouting. Okay I am, but Paige here’s the deal. I need all of you or none at all.
Paige: Babe I’m sorry. I should have known this would happen. It’s just ultimatums make me itchy.
Spinner: It’s not an ultimatum Paige, but if you don’t break it off with Jesse right now, we’re through.
Paige: And now I’m itchy. Don’t make me choose. You won’t like my choice.
Spinner: Then you pick stupid Jesse with his stupid hair and his stupid shirts and his stupid face!
Alex: Five minute warning and you’ve got a visitor Paige.
Paige: Jesse um what a crazy surprise.
Jesse: Wanted to wish you luck and get a quote for the Core.
Paige: Now is not such a great time hon.
Spinner: Yeah go drink a latte, emo boy.
Paige: Spinner could we please be grown up about this?
Spinner: Yeah. No. Get out of here loser.
Jesse: Oh I’m a loser? Okay Spinner.
Spinner: You’ll be cursing my name when I kick your ass.
(They keep arguing as Paige starts having a panic att*ck and Alex calms her down.)
Alex: Come on aim for 10. 1, 2, 3. That’s it.
Spinner: I mean whatever. You suck!
Alex: Will you both shut up?! You go stand out front. You go put on the rest of your outfit and a smile because we have to go model these freaking clothes. Clear?!
Paige: Alex.
Alex: Save it.
(Alex storms off.)
At Emma’s house
Emma: Got a minute for someone who’s mean, cruel and hurtful?
Mr. Simpson: I have all the time in the world because you are none of those things.
Emma: I’m sorry for what I did in class. I know it kind of hurt.
Mr. Simpson: It’s fine because you were right and your presentation, by the way, was good. Not very subtle, but good. Emma I’ve known you since you were in a stroller and the idea of you growing up, it’s…it’s a trip.
Emma: For me too! I mean I’ll be moving away, going to university. I’m not a little kid anymore.
Mr. Simpson: I just thought this was going to be easier. I guess I better get used to it.
Emma: So dad, do you want to have the talk?
Mr. Simpson: You know what? I think I’m good.
At the Dot
Jimmy: Well here’s to our first fireworks-filled fashion show, but hey three new buyers came through. Cheers!
Paige: So Spin spoke to me after the show. All apologies for freaking out, but we both know that it just, it wasn’t mean to be. But Jesse is still into the cas’ thing, so what say you wise counsel?
Alex: I say they both suck and for that matter, so do you.
(Alex leaves and Paige follows her.)
Paige: You know what Alex? You suck too.
Alex: Sorry!
Paige: Oh your apology is k*lling me with its plaintive sincerity!
Alex: God I hate your thesaurus.
Paige: And I hate how you’re acting right now. Why are you doing this?
(Alex kisses her.)
Alex: Because I love you, you idiot. So much it scares the crap out of me.
Paige: Why? Just why did you tell me to go on all those dates?!
Alex: Because I thought you being cas’ with guys was nothing serious and a lot better than you with some other girl.
Paige: I just can’t with you right now. I really do…I really have to go back inside.
Scenes for next week
Spinner: Every cent I had went into the store.
Marco: Don’t worry. I have a plan.
Voiceover: A get-rich-quick scheme.
Spinner: This is your plan? Playing online poker?
Voiceover: Becomes a dangerous addiction.
Marco: Everybody goes bust.
Spinner: You just lost $1100!
Voiceover: That thr*at to destroy a friendship forever.
Police officer: Is this a friend of yours?
Spinner: No.
(Marco is being led away in handcuffs.) | {"type": "series", "show": "Degrassi Next Generation", "episode": "06x16 - Love My Way"} | foreverdreaming |
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