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 shooting. 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 porno 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 firing 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 bombed 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 shooting.
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 shooting. 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.
Emma: Why did you do this to me??
