04x11 - Voices Carry

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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 retardation.

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 d*ed 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 dead, 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.)