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 bullet 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 kill 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 shot 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 gang?
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 fire. 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 gun to school. I’m, I’m the guy who shot 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 dead 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.
