06x06 - Eyes Without A Face Pt. 2

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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 fire 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 dead, 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