Épisode L'engrenage (Partie 1) S05E07 - Degrassi : The Next Generation Saison 5

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 hit 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 killer. 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.