02x05 - Free Fall

[bunniefuu]

- Maybe it'll be cool going riding with him.

We can show him where we hang.

- Show who where you hang?

- No one.

- Are you going on a picnic?

- No.

- Hmm, now let's see.

Who has a horse and who could possibly want to...

You have a date with Will.

That guy's such a jerk.

- He is not a jerk and I don't have a date with.

- I'm gonna tell mom and dad.

- What?

- Ow all right.

- Think again.

(bright upbeat music)

- Will must be the most desperate guy in the universe.

- Loser.

(horse footsteps cluttering)

- Hey, you waiting for somebody?

- No.

- You wanna go riding together?

- No, thanks.

I was actually gonna go riding by myself.

- How about just up the road?

- No thanks.

I think I'm just gonna sit here and think.

- Okay.

(bright upbeat music)

(horse neighing)

- I heard him wrong.

Four o'clock sounds like three o'clock.

No, it doesn't.

(bright upbeat music)

He's not coming.

He stood me up.

(bright upbeat music)

♪ There's a devil standing on my tail ♪

♪ But I don't have to beat him ♪

♪ And there's an angel tempting me to fail ♪

♪ But I don't really need him ♪

♪ And the waves just keep rolling along ♪

♪ We can drift if the current prevails ♪

♪ Here we are in this slow boat ♪

♪ Wishing for a sail ♪

♪ Wishing for a sail ♪

♪ A sail, a sail, a sail, a sail ♪

♪ I'm wishing ♪

♪ I'm wishing ♪

♪ I'm wishing ♪

♪ For a sail ♪

(bright upbeat music)

Where were you?

- Hey to you too.

- I waited forever.

- I got held up.

- And that's all you have to say?

- Yeah.

(horse neighing)

Do you jump?

(bright upbeat music)

(horse footsteps cluttering)

- If he can do it, we can do it.

(bright upbeat music)

- Wow.

- What a rush.

- You're not used to jumping?

- Yeah, we are.

- Well, something higher?

(horse neighing)

(bright upbeat music)

- We can do higher.

(bright upbeat music continues)

(horse neighing)

Why did you do that?

- Are you okay?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I fell, so what?

I think I sprained my wrist.

Bandit never throws me.

- Is the jump is too high.

- No, no, it wasn't.

He just got all wild all of a sudden.

- He's a wild horse.

- You don't know everything about horses, okay?

He's never done anything like that before.

- Caitlin, he threw you.

You should just get back on.

- I can't use my wrist.

- Well, you can ride with the other one.

- How do you know what I can or can do?

(bright upbeat music)

♪ Your love ♪

You really hurt me.

Was the jump to high? ♪ Way over my head ♪

♪ Way way over my head ♪

♪ I felt it coming from all sides ♪

♪ Slowly changing my mind ♪

(smooth flute music)

(background chatter)

- Wow, Nikki.

That sounds great.

- Griffen. (chuckles)

Really?

I'm still learning the notes.

- Oh yeah, but you're great with your hands.

- No, you're great with your hands.

- Oh yeah.

These babies will do nearly 70 words a minute.

But to me using the keyboard's

more about accuracy than speed.

- (chuckles) No, I didn't mean that.

I mean, you live on a ranch.

You rope steers.

You ride the range into the sunset every night.

- Right.

Riding the range.

There's nothing like it.

- I've never ridden a horse in my life.

Would you teach me?

- Sure.

I'll teach you how to ride.

No sweat.

What do you want?

Money?

I'll be your sl*ve for a week.

I'll do anything except pedicures.

- I am not teaching you how to ride

besides I thought you liked Portia.

- What?

Who said that?

Okay.

Well, maybe sometimes.

But no, Nikki's smart, gorgeous

and her dad's not the principal.

- You don't even have boots, Griffen.

- Yes I do.

I got a pair for Christmas last year.

They've never been worn.

- Why don't you know how to ride anyway?

I thought ranch kids were born with reigns in their hands.

- Well, I was born with a mouse in mine instead.

Mom tried to teach me but

I'm excellent in Virtual Bronco Buster version six

I just I can't run real life.

- Well, then maybe you should have a virtual relationship.

You'd probably be better at it.

(dramatic music)

(horse neighing)

(bright upbeat music)

♪ Sometimes I feel to myself ♪

♪ There has to be someone ♪

- Caitlin?

Caitlin.

♪ Someone somewhere ♪

How's your wrist?

- A lot better actually.

- Let's see.

Well, good.

- Ban it's getting really antsy

and I think he's ready for a ride.

- Maybe later I'm studying now.

- Don't you usually do your homework

between 10 and 10:01 on Sunday nights?

- No.

And besides after I study I have to-

- [Dori] Ride bandit.

- No, I have to teach Griffen how to ride.

- (chuckles) Really?

Why?

- You don't wanna know.

- Well, k*ll two birds with one stone.

Ride bandit while you're teaching Griffen.

(bright upbeat music)

(Griffen groans)

- Oh yeah, you are cowboy material all right.

- Funny.

- All right, now transfer your weight to your front leg.

All right?

- Okay.

(horse neighing) (Caitlin laughs)

(cheerful music)

All right.

Okay so, what do I do now?

- Well, tell him he's good.

Scratch his ears or something.

(horse neighing)

- Okay.

- But don't squeeze your legs or he'll

take off.

(cheerful music)

Griffen.

Griffen, pull on the reign.

Griffen, pull on the reign.

Come on.

(cheerful music continues)

- Caitlin, he'd get a much better idea

if you just got on bandit and showed him what to do.

- No.

- Yeah, mom's right.

I could get this if-

- Look, my wrist hurts, okay?

- It's been two days, you said it was better.

- I am not getting on him.

- Caitlin, this is not fair to bandit.

- Look, there is something wrong with him.

(horse neighing)

- Well, he's in great shape.

- Can horses go mental like people do?

- That rarely happens, Caitlin.

Unless they're not being ridden enough.

(horse neighing)

- I just...

I don't understand his behavior.

- Bandits threw you.

You got hurt,

but you have to forgive him and get back on.

- No, this is not about me.

All right?

This is about him.

I know my horse, Dori and he is going crazy.

- You know this whole horse thing is overrated.

Oh (groans)

- These are on really good.

Let's try a new strategy.

The twist.

(Griffen groans)

- Dad, ow.

Newsflash, ankles don't go that way.

- Sorry.

- I thought you said you could get them off?

(Griffen groans)

- Look, you've been on your feet all day, they're swollen.

In the morning they'll be smaller and the slip right off.

- Oh, great.

So that only means a whole night of t*rture.

Not only do I think horseback riding is overrated,

I'm starting to think this dating ritual thing is too.

(birds chirping)

(horse neighing)

(dramatic music)

- Hey boy.

We're gonna go for a ride.

Stop it.

(horse neighing)

I can't ride you if you're crazy.

(horse neighing)

(bell rings)

(background chatter)

- Hey.

Thought you might wanna go ridding later.

- Last time you asked me, you stood me up.

- No, I didn't.

I was a little late that's all.

- Oh, well I have plans anyway.

- Have you ridden bandit since he threw you?

- There's something wrong with him.

- Did you have Dori check him out?

- Yeah, she doesn't know what he's got.

- Caitlin, if you're afraid of-

- I'm not afraid to ride him, okay?

It's just going crazy.

- He's probably confused because you're pushing him away.

Caitlin, and if you do that, you could lose him.

- What do you mean?

- He's a wild horse.

Every day you don't get back on him

he's just gonna get wilder.

And you get to the point where

you can't ride them ever again.

- That's not true.

(bell rings)

(smooth music)

Is it?

(horse neighing)

Come on, boy.

You'll get nice and calm and then we'll go for a ride.

(horse neighing)

Please don't do this to me.

- Absorb the shock with your legs.

(footsteps cluttering)

(door knocking)

Not now.

- Should I come back?

- Nikki.

Hold on.

(cheerful music)

Absorb the shock with your legs.

- How do I slow him down?

- Try whoa.

Yeah, whoa.

- Whoa.

It's not working.

How do I make him stop?

- If a horse is not trained to respond to voice commands?

Oh man, okay.

Pull on the reigns.

The reigns.

- I thought you said he was gentle.

- Oh, he is, normally.

- Horseback riding for greenhorns.

I don't understand.

Unless you don't really know how to ride.

- I know how to in theory, kinda.

- Griffen, I could have been hurt.

Why did you lie?

- Because I wanted...

Nikki.

- What?

Did you really think I was so stupid

I wouldn't find out you're such a poser?

- The point of the exercise

is to enhance your acting abilities

by developing your trust.

Your fellow actors will take you to new places,

both emotional and physical

but you may be afraid of going to those places on your own.

You can only reach those heights by trusting each other.

You'll need to pick a partner.

(bright upbeat music)

♪ Your love ♪

♪ Comes in ways ♪

- All right, give me your hand.

I'm supposed to lead you.

- I know.

I know.

♪ Way, way over my head ♪

Okay now, there's a chair, right?

- No.

♪ I've felt it coming ♪

- It's coming though, right?

- No.

Ledge, down, up.

♪ Slowly changing my mind into an almost paradise ♪

♪ From black and white ♪

- You wanted me to think you weren't gonna catch me.

- No, I did it.

- You're lying.

No, I'm not.

- After what you did why should I believe anything you say?

- All right.

Do you wanna know why I lied to you about the ridding?

Because I wanted you to like me.

- So you threw away your integrity to get a date?

- Got a problem here?

- No.

- No.

♪ Enough to be hopeful ♪

♪ Your love ♪

- Don't.

How close am I?

- You're okay.

- No, I'm too close.

- No, you're not.

- Yes I am.

I'm going to fall.

- Why'd you think I would let you fall?

- Because you deliberately made me jump too high

and that's why bandit threw me.

- Caitlin, nobody shouts in my class.

- I didn't make you jump you wanted to go higher.

- That's enough.

Since you don't know how to respect each other

in this class, you can learn after school in detention.

- You can't get on bandit and that has nothing to do with me

or bandit.

- Just butt out of my life, Okay?

- No, you know what?

I care about the horse.

- Like I don't.

- You can't do this to him.

- Leave me alone.

- If bandit was trapped in a burning barn,

you'd be scared, but you'd rescue him.

This isn't any different, Caitlin.

You have to save him.

He's going wild.

Look, whatever you're afraid of,

it can't be worse than the fear of you losing him.

Right?

- I don't know what I'm afraid of.

- Why don't you go back to the scene of the accident

and find out.

- Will you come with me?

- Yeah.

- You're probably questioning my motives here,

but I want you to know, this time I'm learning for myself.

But that means you have to help me, okay?

I'm taking that as a yes.

All right.

Well, I know I look like a natural, but-

(Nikki laughs)

What?

Did you throw away your integrity to come over here?

- Griffen...

- I made a mistake, okay?

Look, I thought you wanted me to be this macho cowboy guy

and for awhile, I wanted that too.

But now I just wanna have

the coolest webpage in North America and in my free time,

be able to get on and off a horse with some dignity.

Maybe I'm not the kind of guy you're interested in,

especially since I'm a liar.

- Actually I'm not mad at you for lying anymore.

- Really?

- Yeah.

I might've done the same thing

because I want you to like me too.

- [Caitlin] I'm still scared, Will.

- You still have to try, Caitlin.

- Yeah, I know.

(footsteps cluttering)

- This is not that high.

- Well, when I was on bandit, it looked huge.

- No, he could clear this easily.

- Then why didn't he?

- You didn't think you were gonna make that jump

and bandit felt that.

(horse neighing)

Just because bandit threw you before

doesn't mean he's gonna throw you now.

- Yeah, I've ridden him lots of times.

- Remember in class?

You thought you were gonna fall and you didn't.

You have to trust him.

- You're not gonna throw me, are ya?

- You trust him, he'll trust.

You trusted him once, remember?

Just let go.

Yes.

(dramatic music)

(horse neighing)

- I can't.

- You have to.

(horse footsteps cluttering)

(dramatic music)

- This is it boy.

(dramatic music continues)

- [Will] You can do it, Caitlin.

- Come on.

(horse footsteps cluttering)

(horse neighing)

Now, that wasn't so hard, was it?

Good boy.

- Pulling on the right reign makes them go right.

- So what do you do to make a horse go straight?

- It doesn't say.

- You know what?

This is the first time in my life

I've ever gone riding into the sunset.

- Me too.

- So I guess I should thank you.

- Why?

I didn't do anything.

You're the one that got back on your horse.

- Bandit wasn't really going crazy

it's just that I trusted him so completely

and then all that trust was gone.

But I know now that trust is deep,

when it's earned it stays.

Who knows?

Maybe one day I can even trust Will.

(horse footsteps cluttering)

(bright country music)

♪ Wishing for a sail ♪

♪ Wishing for a sail ♪

♪ A sail ♪

♪ A sail ♪

♪ A sail ♪

♪ A sail ♪

♪ Wishing for a sail ♪

♪ A sail ♪

♪ A sail ♪

♪ A sail ♪

♪ Well all right ♪

♪ I'm wishing ♪

♪ I'm wishing ♪

♪ I'm wishing ♪

♪ I'm wishing ♪

♪ For a sail ♪