PAUL ERICKSON & LESLEY SCOTT
05:15pm-05:40pm
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1: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
ZENTOS: (Shouts.) I invoke the special galactic law against them. Hold them! Take them into custody and later they will be made to answer for the crime that they have committed!
STEVEN: Look, listen to us...
ZENTOS: Take them away!
(The travellers are dragged away. ZENTOS steps down and goes over to where MELLIUM is tending to her near-unconscious father. Other Guardians surround them.)
MELLIUM: What about my father?
ZENTOS: He may well die, but then again, so might all of us.
(The other Guardians react with shock to this statement.)
ZENTOS: In which case, it was pointless leaving.
(He turns and looks at the giant monitor screen on which is shown the Earth as it travels on to its doom...)
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2: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
(The travellers have been placed in a basically furnished room. The DOCTOR is looking through a small window in the locked door. STEVEN rests on a padded bench whilst DODO sits at a table.)
STEVEN: What do you think they'll do to us Doctor?
DOCTOR: (Turns.) Well, I'm not sure, dear boy. We shall just have to wait and see.
DODO: (Upset.) It's all my fault. If I'd known it was going to be like this, I'd never have come.
DOCTOR: Well you did come, my dear, so it's too late to be worry about that - and stop sniffling!
DODO: I'm not sniffling - it's me nose running again! Anyway, I'm feeling better now but I don't suppose anyone cares.
DOCTOR: But of course they care, my dear. Now don't worry. It's not your fault at all. If it's anybody's, it's mine.
STEVEN: Look, do you think this has happened before? That we've carried an infection from one age to another, or even one planet to another?
DOCTOR: Oh, I don't want to think it...about it, too...dear boy, it's too horrifying. Though I must say that we're usually very healthy.
(DODO coughs and sneezes behind him.)
STEVEN: It'll spread through the whole ship, become an epidemic.
DOCTOR: Well that depends on the strength of the virus infection.
DODO: (Crying.) If it's half as bad as my cold was, it will.
DOCTOR: Oh, do blow your nose child! It's running all over the place.
DODO: No, it isn't. I'm crying this time!
(The DOCTOR is momentarily at a loss. Then he puts his arm and across the young girls shoulder and pats her gently.)
DOCTOR: Well look, my dear, do try and rest, you know you may be feeling better but your far from cured, hmm?
(He crosses to the door.)
DOCTOR: Oh, if only those wretched Guardians would let us out of here. I'd be able to help, mm? Hmm!
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3: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(MANYAK signs to a MONOID as ZENTOS looks at monitor screens on the control desk.)
ZENTOS: Look.
(MANYAK signals to the MONOID to go, then he turns and joins ZENTOS in looking at a small monitor.)
ZENTOS: That's another victim. It's not showing any signs of abating.
(The monitor shows a MONOID on the transporter collapsing at the base of the statue. Two Guardians rush to assist. ZENTOS adjusts a control and the image changes.)
ZENTOS: And look!
(The image now shows the jungle outside the TARDIS. A MONOID collapses against the ship...)
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4: INT. ARK. JUNGLE
(...and then falls on the jungle floor. It gives out agonised cries in its death throes, then lies still.)
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5: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
ZENTOS: That's another victim...another death, and more human Guardians have also been taken ill. Thank heaven none of them has died yet.
MANYAK: What will happen if one does?
ZENTOS: It'll be disaster. Each man has his allotted task. No one had reckoned on this eventuality.
MANYAK: There must be something we can do about it.
ZENTOS: Our micro-virologists are trying to find the answer. One of them is with the Commander now.
(They look across the control deck to a closed room, outside of which are two MONOIDS on guard.)
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6: INT. ARK. COMMANDER'S ROOM
(The COMMANDER lies delirious on his bed. MELLIUM tends him watched by RHOS, a micro-virologist and a MONOID. All three wear perspex mouth masks to protect them from the germs. RHOS takes MELLIUM to one side. They takes their masks off to speak.)
MELLIUM: Is there nothing you can do?
RHOS: Unfortunately, the data covering this type of fever was lost long ago. In the primal wars of the tenth segment.
COMMANDER: (Weakly.) Mellium...
(She puts her mask back on and crosses to her father.)
MELLIUM: Yes father?
COMMANDER: (Weakly.) I seem to be drifting back and forth...unconsciousness...to moments of sudden clarity.
MELLIUM: Perhaps it's better that you shouldn't talk.
COMMANDER: No...must, I must... Promise me, Mellium, should anything happen to me...
MELLIUM: Oh, you mustn't talk this way!
COMMANDER: Should anything happen, do all in you power, along with the others...to make sure the voyage continues.
MELLIUM: Of course, father.
COMMANDER: What...
MELLIUM: But soon, you'll get well.
COMMANDER: What happens to me is not so important. Or you for that matter, or any one of us...but the voyage and the eventual landing of our descendants on the planet Refusis - that is! That's the only thing that's important. Remember that.
MELLIUM: Yes father.
(A slow drumbeat sounds starts up. RHOS and MELLIUM look round.)
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7: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
(DODO, also hearing the sound, raises her head. She crosses over to the door where the DOCTOR watches.)
DODO: What is it?
DOCTOR: I don't know.
DODO: It sounds like savages.
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8: INT. ARK. CORRIDOR
(Four MONOIDS carry one of their kind wrapped in a burial shroud.)
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9: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(They enter the control deck where Guardians watch in respectful silence. ZENTOS stands on the COMMANDER'S dais.)
ZENTOS: Proceed with the preparations for ejection. Commit the body to space burial.
(MANYAK signals to the MONOIDS who take the body over to a transporter. Once the body has been placed on it, a MONDOID drives away. A door marked "LAUNCHING BAY" shuts behind it.)
MANYAK: It is over.
(He switches on a monitor on the instrument panel. The screen shows a door sliding open on the curved exterior of the Ark, then the body is ejected and spins off into space. ZENTOS addresses the crowd from the dais.)
ZENTOS: Guardians, Monoids, before it is too late, before we are stricken by the fever ourselves, we must make the strangers answer for the terrible crime they have committed.
(The crowd agrees loudly, out of which can be heard the voice of one female GUARDIAN.)
2nd GUARDIAN: Yes, they must be tried and punished.
ZENTOS: A hearing will commence at once. As Deputy Commander, I will preside. Baccu has undertaken to put the charges.
(ZENTOS points at BACCU. The crowd mutters in approval.)
1st GUARDIAN: ... best man for ...
ZENTOS: Will anyone speak for the prisoners?
(The Guardians look uncomfortably at each other. Seeing this, MANYAK steps forward.)
MANYAK: I will.
(MELLIUM joins him.)
MELLIUM: And I.
(ZENTOS stares at her.)
MELLIUM: My father would wish it.
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10: INT. ARK. COMMANDER'S ROOM
(A masked MONOID adjusts a wall monitor in the COMMANDER'S room in order that he can watch proceedings.)
MELLIUM: (OOV: On monitor.) His only desire was that justice should be done and a sensible solution to this crisis be found.
COMMANDER: Yes...yes...!
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11: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
(A similar wall monitor in the time travellers room shows an image of ZENTOS addressing the Guardians on the control deck. He reads a document.)
ZENTOS: (OOV: On monitor.) The law that has been broken is the following...
DODO: Look Doctor, they've switched the television on.
ZENTOS: (OOV: On monitor.) In that the spaceship represents the only means by which Earth life may be extended and perpetuated, the Guardian for the time being in charge of the ship, shall have absolute power to punish or restrain any life-form that endangers...
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12: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
ZENTOS: ...the success of its mission, by expulsion from the ship, miniaturisation or such lesser penalty as he shall deem fit.
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13: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
DODO: Some sort of trial?
(The DOCTOR considers.)
ZENTOS: (OOV: On monitor.) I call on Baccu to detail the charge.
DOCTOR: Yes, my dear, and we are the accused, hmm!
(MELLIUM appears on the monitor.)
MELLIUM: (OOV: On monitor.) Doctor, Manyak and I believe your story. We've offered to speak in your defence but at least one of you must give evidence.
DOCTOR: Of course.
STEVEN: I must go.
DOCTOR: What?
(STEVEN stands but he is breathing heavily.)
STEVEN: Doctor, I must. I'm getting stifled in here. I must go and do something, even if it's only to show them how stupid they are wasting time with trials and speeches. After all, the only important thing now is to let you organise finding a cure.
DOCTOR: Very well then, if only they'll listen.
MELLIUM: (OOV: On monitor.) They'll probably ask you to speak next, Doctor.
DOCTOR: My dear, I only want to help!
(The image vanishes. The door to the room opens and a MONOID enters. It gestures and STEVEN leaves the room. The DOCTOR and DODO turn back to the monitor on which the control deck is now shown, full of waiting Guardians.)
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14: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(The hearing has begun. BACCU approaches STEVEN who is held within a barred cage which is again covered with a plastic covering against the fever. ZENTOS presides from the COMMANDER'S dais.)
BACCU: My contention is that it was no accident that this disaster has happened. I say that you came here intentionally - to spread the disease...
STEVEN: But that's utter nonsense. I mean how can you possibly...
BACCU: ...and that you are agents of the planet towards which this spaceship is proceeding. That you came here to destroy us.
STEVEN: Why? We're human beings like you are. Well, why should we?
ZENTOS: (Shouts.) There is the crux of the matter. Do you expect us to believe that nonsense, that you manage in that ridiculous machine called the TARDIS, have managed to travel through time? Guardians, Monoids, these beings, whatever they are, place a heavy strain on our credulity.
STEVEN: Well that's not very difficult! If your medical records are anything to go by, this segment of time, far from being one of the most advanced in knowledge, is one of the worst!
ZENTOS: (Standing in anger.) We can cope with all things known to the fifty-seventh segment of Earth life, but not with strange diseases brought by you - as agents of the intelligences that inhabit Refusis!
STEVEN: Are you still on about that? I've told you before; we know nothing of that planet!
ZENTOS: My instincts, every fibre of my being, tells me differently.
STEVEN: And that, unfortunately, tells me only one thing.
ZENTOS: What's that?
(STEVEN is now sweating heavily.)
STEVEN: That the nature of man, even in this day and age, hasn't altered at all. You still fear...the unknown, like everyone else before you.
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15: INT. ARK. COMMANDER'S ROOM
(The proceedings are being watched in the COMMANDER'S room. The old man himself still lies weakly on his bed.)
COMMANDER: That's true! True!
ZENTOS: (OOV: On monitor.) That won't stop me from coping with it.
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16: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
STEVEN: How? By destroying us? By ejecting us into space?
ZENTOS: If that is the voted finding of this hearing - yes!
MANYAK: Steven, prove to us your good faith. Would your friend, the Doctor, have any knowledge how to deal with this fever?
STEVEN: Yes, he probably would if you'd let him out of that cell so that he had a chance to experiment.
ZENTOS: Yes, of course he would! He would love that...and by such means spread the fever even further and faster. Perhaps even kill one of the Guardians.
(He turns to the Guardians.)
ZENTOS: Are we to be fooled by such tricks?
(The angry Guardians shout "No!".)
ZENTOS: Are we to be taken in by such nonsense?
(They shout "No!" again.)
ZENTOS: Do these creatures have the outward appearance of human beings?
(The Guardians are now extremely angry.)
2nd GUARDIAN: They are enemies - they should be punished!
1st GUARDIAN: That's right! Let them be taken to the ejector chamber! They must be thrown ...
(STEVEN is now hit hard by the fever.)
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17: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
DODO: Doctor, look at Steven. Is he all right?
DOCTOR: (Worried.) I hope so, my dear, I hope so.
DODO: Do you think he may have caught the fever?
DOCTOR: Well, I'm afraid he may have. It appears that this virus is more virulent than I suspected.
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18: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(MANYAK steps forward and tries to shout over the raging Guardians.)
MANYAK: Guardians listen!
(His words have no effect. He walks over and stands beneath the COMMANDER'S dais.)
MANYAK: Guardians, listen to me. This is a court of law!
(ZENTOS stands up and shouts.)
ZENTOS: Let him speak!
(The Guardians fall silent.)
ZENTOS: This is a fair hearing.
MANYAK: My view for reason in this matter is simple and direct. The Doctor and his companions have not denied that they brought the fever among us. They said it was an accident, and I believe them.
1st GUARDIAN: But that's nonsense...!
MANYAK: For the simple reason that if they were in fact agents of the Refusians, they could have a...achieved their objective in a much simpler way. One in which they would not have exposed themselves to this danger.
2nd GUARDIAN: But they're Refusians!
1st GUARDIAN: That's no argument!
MANYAK: Then I have another; the fever is here. We have no answer for it and it might well be that they are the only ones who can cure it.
ZENTOS: Our micro-virologists may still find an answer.
MANYAK: Perhaps...but if we were to agree that the Doctor and his friends could, what is the value in expelling them from the spaceship?
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19: INT. ARK. COMMANDER'S ROOM
COMMANDER: (Still watching the monitor.) None at all. If Manyak and my daughter can see that, why can't they?
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20: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(As the Guardians start to discuss the verdict amongst themselves, BACCU runs forward and joins ZENTOS on the COMMANDER'S dais. He turns to the crowd.)
BACCU: Guardians, listen to me! I've just had news of another disaster; one of our kind, one of the Guardians has died from the fever.
(The crowd is shocked.)
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21: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
(The DOCTOR'S face shows the trouble that they now find themselves in.)
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22: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
ZENTOS: Do you want to hear more? Never mind the arguments of the defender because now they are nothing - now that one of our own kind had died. So Guardians, what is your answer to the charge? Do you find the prisoner guilty or not guilty?
(They all shout "Guilty!" except for MANYAK and MELLIUM who give the opposite verdict but their cries are drowned out.)
ZENTOS: Is it your vote that we exact the full penalty of the special galactic law?
(The cries are mostly "Yes" with the defendants shouting "No". ZENTOS jumps to his feet.)
ZENTOS: So be it! They shall be taken from this place and expelled from the ship...and the privilege of execution, in that they were the first to be struck by the fever, will be granted to the Monoids.
MELLIUM: But the verdict is wrong!
MANYAK: Yes, but it is the voted verdict. There is nothing we can do about it.
(Several MONOID'S approach the cage as STEVEN collapses against the bars of the cage.)
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23: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
DODO: Doctor, something is wrong with Steven!
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24: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(STEVEN falls to the floor of the cage...)
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25: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
(Two masked Guardians help STEVEN to the bench in the room. They are about to leave when...)
DOCTOR: Stop! I demand fair play! This young man is as ill as anyone of your own people. How do you expect him to plead in his own defence, hmm?
(ZENTOS' voice calls out from the wall monitor. The DOCTOR spins round to look at his image.)
ZENTOS: (OOV: On monitor.) The verdict of the court was passed that you are guilty.
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26: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
ZENTOS: You and your party have been condemned by an overwhelming majority and your sentence is ejection into space.
(The DOCTOR similarly appears on ZENTOS' monitor.)
DOCTOR: (OOV: On monitor.) Are you aware that you might be committing your entire community to a slow extinction? Trust me! Allow me, help me to find a new cure for this fever of yours.
ZENTOS: The verdict has been given.
(He switches the monitor off. He starts to walk off the dais but sees MANYAK and BACCU waiting for him.)
ZENTOS: Well?
MANYAK: You are right, of course.
BACCU: Of course, there's no question.
MANYAK: But can we not afford to take a chance? After all, the old man was the first to diagnose the illness. For that reason alone, he may be able to find a cure.
ZENTOS: No. Sentence will be carried out. Baccu, assemble the Monoids, they may proceed.
BACCU: Very well.
(BACCU steps down and signals to a group of MONOIDS. They start to make their way off the control deck when the voice of the COMMANDER echoes around the chamber.)
COMMANDER: (OOV.) Wait! This has gone far enough.
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27: INT. ARK. COMMANDER'S ROOM
(MELLIUM and RHOS support the COMMANDER as he sits up from his sick bed and uses his last vestiges of energy to re-assert his authority. MELLIUM holds up a microphone.)
COMMANDER: Zentos, this is your Commander speaking. I order you to release the travellers immediately. They will be given every facility for research. They may be our only hope. See to it.
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28: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(ZENTOS switches on a communicator on the COMMANDER'S dais.)
ZENTOS: But the hearing decided differently, Commander. These people are dangerous!
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29: INT. ARK. COMMANDER'S ROOM
COMMANDER: Don't argue with me Zentos! Those are my instructions. In case you are right, I wish the Doctor to use his young friend as a guinea pig. If he succeeds in curing him, then I will set aside the verdict of the court. Now - proceed.
(Exhausted, the old man lies back.)
MELLIUM: Thank you father.
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30: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(Defeated, ZENTOS flicks off the switch.)
ZENTOS: Very well. If he has not decided wisely, we will not live to know it.
(ZENTOS nods to confirm the order and strides off angrily.)
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31: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
(The DOCTOR has been watching these undertakings on the monitor. He turns to two masked Guardians.)
DOCTOR: (Energetically.) At last we're near a solution! We must waste no more time. Now you two, get the boy up to the table.
(They lift an unconscious STEVEN off the couch and carry him across to the table. As the DOCTOR starts to write in a notepad, the door opens and MELLIUM runs in, taking off her mask.)
MELLIUM: Is there anything we can do to help, Doctor?
DOCTOR: Yes, cover him, we must keep him warm at once.
MELLIUM: Warm? But he's already sweating with the fever in the same way that my father is?
DOCTOR: My dear young lady, please do as you're told! Now, where is that other young woman I want?
DODO: (Stepping forward.) Here I am Doctor.
(The DOCTOR rips a sheet out of his notepad and passes it to DODO.)
DOCTOR: Oh good, now look here - go to the TARDIS and bring these things back for me will you?
(MELLIUM has taken the coverings off the wall couch.)
MELLIUM: Will these do?
DOCTOR: Yes, certainly, fine, fine.
(She takes them over to STEVEN.)
DODO: (To the DOCTOR.) How will I know where to find them?
DOCTOR: Well open your eyes, my dear child, otherwise you'll...you won't be any use to me will you?
DODO: Okay.
(She turns to leave.)
DOCTOR: (Laughs, then.) What did you say?
DODO: I said "Okay".
DOCTOR: Yes, I thought you did. Now once this crisis is over, I...I'm going to teach you to speak English.
(BACCU and RHOS are also in the room.)
BACCU: I shall go with her.
DOCTOR: Right, off you go.
(They leave.)
RHOS: Doctor, our virologists are willing to give you all the help you need. Can you describe the virus responsible?
DOCTOR: Yes, I...
MELLIUM: (Interrupting.) I've wrapped Steven warmly. Is there anything else I can do?
DOCTOR: Yes, now I want you to find all the sick people in this spaceship and give them the same treatment.
MELLIUM: You mean keep them warm?
DOCTOR: Exactly, my child, yes.
MELLIUM: Very well.
DOCTOR: Oh, and my child?
MELLIUM: Doctor?
DOCTOR: That also includes your father.
(She leaves the room. The DOCTOR turns to BACCU.)
DOCTOR: Now, this germ...this germ is...
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32: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(ZENTOS watches silently as DODO, BACCU and four MONOIDS return laden from their trip to the TARDIS. Nearby, RHOS and MANYAK talk.)
RHOS: The vaccine was used as long ago as the twentieth century and then was lost in the time of the primal wars.
BACCU: Is that what he's trying to find now? The old vaccine?
RHOS: Yes, he says it's, er, a natural compound derived from animal membranes. We only need to take single specimens and then we can release the animals again, but it means that a large scale hunt has to be organised out there in the jungle.
BACCU: Well, leave that to me. I'll collect a party of Guardians and Monoids. Tell us what animals you need.
RHOS: Well, we need two...
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33: INT. ARK. JUNGLE
(The hunt takes place. One MONOID sees to a near-unconscious Elephant whilst another deals with a lizard, collecting the specimens in test tubes.)
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34: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
(The DOCTOR works on the specimens, assisted by a masked MONOID.)
DOCTOR: Yes, I know I'm a bit of a quack, but...the combination of these two membrane fluids, a little at a time, should do the trick.
(The MONOID passes the DOCTOR a test tube before he need ask for it.)
DOCTOR: Ah, thank you, thank you. You know, you're far more knowledgeable than most people realise, aren't you? (Laughs.)
(The DOCTOR adds to the contents and then takes the test tube over to STEVEN, who is being nursed by DODO.)
DOCTOR: Now, my dear Dodo, how is he?
DODO: He's conscious Doctor, but only just. Are you going to try it now?
DOCTOR: Well, I don't see why not, yes now, where is that sterilised postule?
(He turns. The MONOID is already there with a tray on which rests the postule. The DOCTOR starts to prepare the drug for STEVEN.)
DOCTOR: Oh, thank you, thank you, yes, you know I don't know what I would do without you. (Laughs.)
DODO: Do you really think it will work?
DOCTOR: Well, I don't see why not, my dear, providing I've...mixed these properly. Now...
DODO: And what if you haven't?
DOCTOR: Oh, don't let's...don't let that cross our minds, for heavens sake.
(The DOCTOR places a patch over STEVEN'S arm.)
DOCTOR: Now then, here we are.
DODO: Don't you have to squirt it into his arm?
DOCTOR: What with a hypodermic needle? Good gracious, no. That went out a long time ago.
(STEVEN stirs faintly.)
DOCTOR: There we are. Now all we have to do is to wait and watch. (To the MONOID.) Come along.
DODO: Where are you going?
DOCTOR: I'm going to treat the others precisely the same way as I've treated Steven.
DODO: Isn't that a bit dodgy? I mean, he was supposed to be the Guinea pig, wasn't he?
DOCTOR: Well it's going to be much dodgier my child, as you say, if I just sat and did nothing. (Laughs.) Come along.
(The DOCTOR and the MONOID leave as DODO returns to STEVEN.)
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35: INT. ARK. COMMANDER'S ROOM
(Watched by MELLIUM and RHOS, the DOCTOR treats the COMMANDER in the same way. The old man's breathing is very feverish.)
DOCTOR: There now - just relax...and rest.
MELLIUM: Is there anything further I can do?
DOCTOR: No, it's just a matter of time, my dear. (To the MONOID.) Come along.
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36: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(The DOCTOR and his MONOID assistant walk out of the COMMANDER'S room and past a waiting ZENTOS. BACCU walks up to ZENTOS.)
MANYAK: How long must we wait?
BACCU: They weren't sure. Apparently once the injection has been given, there's no way to hurry the response of the patient.
MANYAK: Zentos is waiting like a vulture. But just in case the treatment doesn't work...
(They turn and look at him.)
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37: INT. ARK. TRAVELLER'S ROOM
(STEVEN is feverish. Whilst DODO watches, the DOCTOR consults a large book.)
DOCTOR: Yes, I, er, I think I've given him the right treatment, hmm. (Laughs.)
DODO: Doctor, it's along time now since you gave him that stuff and the fever only seems to be getting worse.
DOCTOR: Hmm? Well, it's about an hour, my dear.
(He puts the book down and walks over to the table.)
DOCTOR: Seems to be reacting quite normally, yes, he's fighting it. (Laughs.)
(STEVEN gives out a gasp of breath and his head falls back. The DOCTOR feels his brow.)
DODO: Has something gone wrong?
DOCTOR: The fever's down...and the temperatures dropped, hmm!
DODO: You mean?
DOCTOR: I mean he's going to be all right, my dear. (Laughs.)
(DODO runs excitedly out of the room...)
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38: INT. ARK. CORRIDOR
(...and along a corridor...)
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39: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(...arriving at the control deck. She runs past a group of Guardians up to MANYAK and BACCU.)
DODO: It's all right! Steven's much better - everything's going to be all right!
(The Guardians give a cry of relief and start to chat amongst themselves. DODO runs to the COMMANDER'S room, past ZENTOS.)
MANYAK: (To BACCU.) I told you it would be.
(The DOCTOR walks onto the command deck and up to ZENTOS.)
DOCTOR: You have nothing further to worry about, sir. The sick have been tended to and the others immunised against further attack.
ZENTOS: (Smiling.) Thank you Doctor. So you were right after all.
(DODO and MELLIUM run back.)
DODO: Doctor, the Commander's fever's gone down so he's going to be all right.
DOCTOR: Oh! Splendid, splendid!
(The Guardians again start to excitedly talk, but they are interrupted by BACCU who points up at the large monitor screen.)
BACCU: Look! The scan of Earth!
(The chamber falls silent as they all look at the image on the screen. The planet Earth, smoke pouring out of it, falls through space to its final doom...)
ZENTOS: The last moment has come...
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40: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK (LATER)
(Later, the TARDIS crew say their goodbyes to the COMMANDER and the Guardians at the base of the unfinished statue.)
DOCTOR: Now, you can c...continue with the building of your statue and when it's finished, I'm sure it's going to look very beautiful.
MELLIUM: Yes, our descendants will know its meaning when they put the finishing touches to it.
STEVEN: In seven hundred years time.
MELLIUM: Yes, in seven hundred years time.
DOCTOR: Well, we must be off. Goodbye sir.
COMMANDER: Goodbye. (They shake hands.)
DOCTOR: (To MELLIUM.) Goodbye, my dear.
MELLIUM: Goodbye Doctor.
DODO: (To the COMMANDER.) Goodbye
COMMANDER: Goodbye
(As DODO and STEVEN continue to say their goodbyes, the DOCTOR walks past a waiting transporter and up to ZENTOS.)
ZENTOS: Doctor, for the fact that I mistrust you...misjudged you, I'm sorry.
DOCTOR: Remember your journey is very important, young man, therefore you must travel with understanding as well as hope. Goodbye Zentos.
ZENTOS: Goodbye Doctor.
(They shake hands. The DOCTOR climbs aboard the transporter where STEVEN and DODO wait for him. The MONOID drives it off and the travellers wave to the Guardians as they go.)
[SCENE_BREAK]
41: INT. ARK. JUNGLE
(The transporter travels through the jungle and comes to rest outside the TARDIS. The three travellers get off and enter the ship, DODO waving to the MONOID as they go. The door shuts and the TARDIS dematerialises. The MONOID reverses the transporter away.)
[SCENE_BREAK]
42: INT. ARK. JUNGLE
(The TARDIS re-materialises - back in the same jungle. The DOCTOR walks out of the ship as DODO calls to him from within.)
DODO: (OOV: Inside the TARDIS.) Can we go out now?
DOCTOR: You really must let me go first child.
(He steps into their familiar surroundings.)
DOCTOR: Oh...
(STEVEN steps out, followed by DODO.)
DOCTOR: Well, that's strange. Something must have gone wrong. It appears we've landed back in the same place.
STEVEN: How?
DOCTOR: (Indicating the jungle.) Take a look at this, my boy. Isn't that extraordinary? Well now, that's inexplicable.
[SCENE_BREAK]
43: INT. ARK. CONTROL DECK
(DODO runs onto a quiet control deck, followed by STEVEN.)
DODO: Mellium! Baccu! They can't be far away, can they?
STEVEN: I don't know. It depends on how long ago it was.
DODO: What?
STEVEN: Look, there's nobody here, is there?
(The DOCTOR catches up.)
DODO: We've only been gone a few seconds. Mellium! Baccu!
(She runs off, but almost instantly calls out in alarm.)
DODO: Doctor, Steven, look!
DOCTOR: What is it, my dear, what have you found, hmm?
(They join DODO who is gazing up at the statue.)
DODO: The statue! They've finished the statue!
(The completed stone structure looms over them. But where the plan showed a human head there is now the head of a MONOID.)


CAST
James Van Der Beek: Dawson Leery
Kaite Holmes: Joey Potter
Joshua Jackson: Pacey Witter
Michelle Williams: Jen Lindley
Meredith Monroe: Andie McPhee
Kerr Smith: Jack McPhee
Evelyn "Grams" Ryan: Mary Beth Peil
Gareth Williams: Mike Potter
Gail Leery: Mary-Margaret Humes
Mitch Leery: John Wesely Shipp
Abby Morgan: Monica Keena
Written by Mike White Directed by David Semel
(Outside Dawson's house -- Joey and Dawson are walking back from the wedding.)
Joey: (laughing) Dawson...
(He laughs and they kiss, heading towards the ladder.)
Joey: 'K, are you sure this is a good idea?
Dawson: Jo, don't analyze this, okay?
(They kiss again.)
Joey: Right, don't analyze.
Dawson: We don't need to discuss this.
(They kiss again at the foot of the ladder, this time longer and more passionately.)
Dawson: K? Let's go upstairs.
Joey: (smiles) Okay.
(She starts climbing the ladder and Dawson stares up after her smiling. Cut to Joey climbing through his window and Dawson following, kissing and giggling the whole way, oblivious to Jen sitting on the bed. Dawson starts kissing Joey's neck and she notices her.)
Dawson: Jen?
Joey: What's wrong?
Jen: (mumbling..almost deliriously) Abby...and I were on the dock and ....and we were up there ...and we...we were drinking ...and she ...fell back and hit her head ...and she ...she drowned. (pauses) Abby's dead.
(Joey is shocked, as well as Dawson, and she goes and sits next to Jen on the bed and puts her arm around her as Jen starts crying.)
(OPENING CREDITS)
(Cut to Joey looking through an old photo album of pictures of her with her mother. She has a tear rolling down her face. Her dad walks out.)
Mr.Potter: (looking at the pictures) Seems like a lifetime ago. Your mother loved that dress. I told her to take it back, too expensive. She went out and bought two of em just like it just despite me.
(Joey cracks a small smile.)
Mr.Potter: That was your mother. Why are you looking at this?
Joey: This girl at my school died on Saturday night. She drowned.
Mr.Potter: Joey, that's terrible. Were you two close?
Joey: No, not particularly. She was sort of a nightmare. But it's, uh, sort of got me thinking...remembering.
Mr.Potter: Joey, we, uh, never really talked about your mother or her death...
Joey: (obviously avoiding) Well, uh, it's getting late and I have to be getting to school so...
(She gets up and takes her cup back into the kitchen and grabs her bag. Cut to Capeside High. Jen's walking through the hallway to her locker and everybody's staring at her. Cut to a group of kids sitting in a circle around a counselor. Pacey, Andie, Jack, and Jen are included.)
Counselor: Hi, my name is Elizabeth, and I'm a grief counselor. I'm here to facilitate a discussion about Abby. I know you've all be dealt a heavy blow, but by sharing your feelings with each other, it could aid in the long, and difficult, process we call grieving.
(Pacey's biting his nails, obviously unconcerned about the whole thing as Andie stares around the room and Jack just looks bored.)
Girl: I'd like to make an announcement. The Girls' Service League is distributing yellow arm bands that we're wearing in Abby's memory. If anyone would like an arm band, please meet me in the cafeteria at lunchtime.
(Jen just laughs unbelievably at the concern. Jack scratches his nose.)
Counselor: Jennifer. I was told that you were a close friend of Abigail's. Would you like to talk about some of the feelings your experiencing?
Jen: No.
Counselor: That's perfectly okay. I understand. Andie? Did you know Abigail?
Andie: Yeah, I did.
Counselor: Can you talk about your feelings?
Andie: Well, um...I guess I'm feeling shocked. I mean she was so incredibly alive and she had such a great spirit. It's-it's really a tragedy.
(Jen is disgusted by these fake feelings of concern so she grabs her things and storms out.)
Counselor: Jennifer?
(Cut to the cafeteria. Dawson is watching the girl hand out the yellow arm bands.)
Girl: Thank you so much for honoring Abby's memory.
(Joey comes over.)
Joey: Hey.
Dawson: (smiles) Hey.
Joey: Listen, I know we have a lot to talk about concerning the other night but..
Dawson: Listen, Joey, could we just not ...go there...right now? Because I mean there's ...a lot going on and we can analyze this to death later just...
Joey: Right. (Joey kind of looks around and scoots in closer.) Dawson, the truth is, I never really liked Abby.
Dawson: Ditto.
Joey: I actually despised her.
Dawson: It's weird. I mean, Abby was weird, that she died was weird, the way she died was weird. I can't even imagine what the funeral's going to be like.
Joey: I'm not going.
Dawson: You're not?
Joey: The last funeral I went to was my mom's. I mean, I haven't even gone to her gravesite. I think going to Abby's funeral would just open this Pandora's Box of emotions that, frankly, I'd rather keep sealed tight.
Dawson: (tentatively) Joey...your mother died three years ago. If you have these feelings you haven't dealt with, how long were you planning on waiting?
Joey: I don't know. I guess I'm just...there's a part of me that's still holding on. That little girl inside is just waiting for her return. You know, that her death was just some cosmic error and eventually, God will realize he made a terrible mistake and he'll send her back to me like he did my dad. And ...(smiles) I'll have my mom again. (looks at Dawson) I know it sounds ridiculous.
Dawson: No, no, it's-no. But, I mean, that's a child's false hope. Eventually, you're going to have to let it go.
Joey: Yeah, but I don't want to let it go. (pauses) You don't know what it's like, Dawson.
(Cut to Jen, in the bathroom, splashing water on her makeup-stained face. Andie enters.)
Andie: Um, Jen? I've been looking all over for you. You just stormed out of class. Are you okay?
Jen: If dealing with Abby's death isn't hard enough, but to watch everybody parade around like Abby was their best friend, it's sickening. Aside from me, Abby didn't have a single friend in Capeside.
Andie: That's because she was a--(stops herself)
Jen: A bitch! Come on, Andie, say it! Abby was a bitch.
Andie: Well, I wouldn't go that far...
Jen: Yeah, well, you would've three days ago, but now that she's dead you wax poetic about her great spirit. It's so insincere!
Andie: Well, I don't think it's appropriate to maline her character after she's gone!
Jen: It isn't malining if it's true! Believe me, it would have been easier for everybody if Abby had just been this wonderful person with this virtuous qualities but she wasn't! She was mean! And the least we can do is acknowledge who she really was.
(Jen exits out the bathroom, Andie follows.)
Andie: Jen, listen, I know this must be hard for you.
Jen: And I am so sick and tired of people treating me like I'm some kind of celebrity just because I happened to be at the scene of the crime. It's funny. Abby spent her entire life shattering our fragile egos and that's why people disliked her so intensely. Leave it to Abby. Even in her death she's still exposing hypocrisy.
Andie: Well, I feel bad but I always tried to reach out to her and everytime she rejected me.
Jen: She rejected you?! If you hadn't rejected her at the wedding, none of this ever would have happened!
Andie: What?
Jen: You kicked us out of the wedding, Andie. That's why we were at the docks in the first place.
Andie: (slowly) Don't say that.
Jen: I'm sorry, okay? I can't--I've got to go home.
(She leaves down the hall. Cut to Dawson coming in his front door, he spots his mom coming down the stairs.)
Dawson: Hey!
Gail: Hi honey! So...how was school?
Dawson: Weird. Everybody's playing the beautiful mourners but underneath there's this weird sense they're all munchkins finally freed from the spell of the wicked witch of the east. (Kristin's note: Wasn't it the wicked witch of the west?)
Gail: Well, honey, I know you're dealing with a lot right now, but I have some news I need to share with you.
Dawson: You sound serious.
Gail: No, no, no, it's not bad news. It's good news. Remember the piece I did on the teenage girls?
Dawson: Yeah.
Gail: Well, I won the Peil Vision Award for Excellence for News Broadcasting.
(Dawson hugs her.)
Dawson: That's incredible, Mom! Congratulations!
Gail: Oh, but that's not the news. The news is that because of the award, I've been offered a job as network correspondent. It's a lot of money, it's high profile, it's...in Philadelphia.
(Dawson's face drops.)
Dawson: Oh. Are you going to take it?
Gail: Well, professionally, it's a huge leap for me. It's what I've always worked for.
Dawson: But I don't want to move to Philadelphia...
Gail: Oh, I completely understand that. You're halfway through high school. No, I do not want to uproot you. If I took the job, I assume your father would move back in and I would come home as often as I could...
Dawson: S-So what about you and Dad? Are you guys just throwing in the towel?
Gail: Well, that's the last thing I want, but I'm hitting my head up against the wall here, honey. Your father doesn't seem to have any interest in making things work. So if I walk away from this career opportunity, and I lose this marriage, what do I have?
Dawson: You still have me.
(She smiles. Cut to Grams walking in to Jen's room where Jen's lying on her bed wrapped in a blanket.)
Grams: Jennifer, I'm worried about you.
Jen: Don't be. I'm just tired.
Grams: You know, I can't say I was particularly fond of your friend, Abby. I always had the distinct impression that she was mocking me.
(Jen smiles.)
Grams: She was, wasn't she?
Jen: Don't take it personally, Grams. Abby was mocking everyone.
Grams: But she was your friend. It's so hard to understand why God would take someone so young...with so much left to learn, so much left to live. It really tests one's faith.
Jen: Yeah, well, maybe I didn't have any faith to begin with.
Grams: Well, rest assured, God may work in mysterious ways but He has a plan.
Jen: Well, if God had a plan for Abby, she certainly wasn't following it.
Grams: God has a plan for everybody, including Abby. Including you.
Jen: Grams, I really don't want to have a religious discussion right now.
Grams: It's times like this that--
Jen: Grams, please! Okay?
Grams: Alright, but...I'm here for you. Whenever you need me.
(Cut to Pacey and Andie in a deli-like restaurant.)
Pacey: I can't believe Jen would accuse you of being responsible. She was drunk, she fell, she drowned. End of story. It was nobody's fault, least of all, yours.
Andie: Yeah, but ...I was so mean to her.
Pacey: Oh, come on, you've got to be kidding me! (to cashier) Thanks! (to Andie) Abby Morgan was one of the most hideous creatures to ever haunt the streets of Capeside and you bent over backwards to befriend her. You really shouldn't be taking this that hard, Andie.
Andie: Don't tell me how I should be feeling. If I'm upset, then I'm upset. If I feel guilty, then I feel guilty. I think those are perfectly valid feelings.
Pacey: You're right, I'm sorry. I just don't like seeing you like this, okay?
(Two women walk by their table. Once they're out of earshot...)
Andie: Oh, God, Pacey. Don't look now, but Abby's mother just walked in.
(Abby's mother turns and spots Andie and walks towards her.)
Abby's mother: Don't I know you?
Andie: Yes, Mrs. Morgan, I'm Andie McPhee. You drove me home once.
Abby's mother: Oh, that's right. You're a friend of Abby's. She talked a lot about you.
(Andie looks at Pacey, confused.)
Andie: She did? Oh, Mrs. Morgan, I am so sorry about what happened.
Abby's mother: Will you be coming to the funeral?
Andie: Oh, of course...of course I will.
Abby's mother: You know, no one's offered to give a eulogy...and I'm not really familiar with any of her other school friends, you will be saying a few words about her, won't you?
Andie: What?
Abby's mother: Since she was so fond of you.
Andie: Sure...sure...
Abby's mother: Thank you.
(She walks away. Andie looks at Pacey, worried.)
Andie: A eulogy?
(She stressfully rests her head on her hand on the table. Cut to Pacey and Andie walking in the rain to Abby's house.)
Pacey: You don't have to deliver this eulogy. Just lay low. Pretend Abby's mother you're too upset.
Andie: No. I have to find a way to honor Abby's memory both truthfully and respectively. Her family deserves that much. I'll always remember the nice things people said at my brother's funeral.
(They reach the house, it's nice.)
Pacey: You okay?
Andie: It just occured to me that I've never even seen her house. It's so pretty.
Pacey: Yeah, I know. I was halfway expecting this gothic castle, you know? The gargoyles leering down on you from the spires...
(They enter the house. It's nice, lots of flowers.)
Pacey: Okay, this is morbid. Explain to me again what this is going to accomplish besides making you even more freaked out?
Andie: I just want to see her room...you know? Where she brushed her hair, (pauses) and planned her future.
Pacey: Why?
Andie: Look, we'll just say our condulgences and slip into her room.
(Cut to Jen drinking liquor on the docks where there's a bunch of flowers and a cross. She takes a bouquet and throws it over the side of the docks. Cut to Andie and Pacey entering Abby's room.)
Pacey: Hey, what if Abby's mother saw us come in here together? She probably thinks I'm trying to get lucky in the middle of her daughter's memorial.
Andie: Oh, this is really strange. It's almost like the room is waiting for her to come back...
Pacey: This is really creepy, Andie. Can we go now, please?
Andie: (grabs a book) Wait a minute...this is her diary. The real thoughts of any girl is all in the confines of her personal diary.
Pacey: (takes it) You know what? People's privacy deserves to be respected, even in death.
Andie: (takes it back) This isn't for my curiosity, Pacey. This is for Abby. I want to be able to give her a eulogy that does justice to her character.
(Andie's sitting on the bed. Pacey comes and sits next to her.)
Andie: (flipping through the book) Hmmm. (picks one) "Dear Diary, Another unbelievably annoying day here on Walton's Mountain. That slut Jen Lindley literally stole my new boyfriend and right out from under my nose. (looks at Pacey) She's a bleach-blonde hoes-bag." She was probably just having a bad day.
Pacey: Sure...
Andie: (flips and finds another one) Okay.."Dear Diary, My mother is driving me insane. I hate her so much I must be adopted. There's no way I could share the same genes with that dried-up old wench."
Pacey: I'm sure it's just another bad day, right?
Andie: (nods) Yeah. (finds another) Okay. "Dear Diary, That new girl Andie is such a (mad) psycho! How many ways can you tell a person you don't like them..." What?! "She just won't take a hint! God! And that boyfriend of hers is a--"
(Pacey grabs it away.)
Pacey: You know what? I don't want to know. I don't want to hear it. Out the door now. Please.
(Cut to Mitch in a classroom. Dawson walks in.)
Mitch: Dawson, hey!
Dawson: Hey.
Mitch: I was just thinking about you...
(Dawson sits down depressingly on the desk.)
Mitch: You know, when I was young my first few experiences with death were...shocking. And as I get older, it doesn't get any easier but...it does kind of make you put your life into perspective. Makes you want to grab on to the people you love and never let go.
Dawson: And on that note...um, Mom was offered a job as a network correspondent in Philadelphia.
(Mitch gets up and walks around the desk.)
Dawson: Don't you have anything to say?
Mitch: Um, I'll call her and congratulate her.
Dawson: That's it? You're going to call up, say congratulations, and just let her walk out of your life. (Dawson gets up angrily) Grab on to those you love, huh?
(He leaves the room. Cut to Jack and Joey at an empty Icehouse.)
Jack: So, uh, Joey?
Joey: Yeah?
Jack: I've tried biting my tongue, but, uh, the $64,000 question has to be asked...(speaking into the mop handle) What's up with you and Dawson?
Joey: (smiles) Nothing.
Jack: Oh, yeah, "nothing". You two shared a pretty conspicuous not-a-nothing kiss the other night. Come on...
Joey: Yeah, well, we're putting it on hold. We have enough to deal with without adding our complicated relationship to the mix so...
Jack: Alright, alright. I'll buy that...I'll buy that. So...how are you feeling otherwise?
Joey: Um...okay. I've obviously had a lot on my mind lately but...how are you feeling about this whole thing?
Jack: Alright, I know this sounds a little morbid but...I keep thinking about how Abby and I kissed at Dawson's birthday party which means I'm probably the last person she ever kissed.
Joey: At least she went out with a bang!
(Jack laughs. Joey laughs and covers her face with her hands.)
Joey: I can't believe I just said that.
Jack: I can't either.
(They're cracking up. Cut to Dawson editing his movie.)
(Onscreen)
Kim (Abby): Look, I am sorry if I threatened you and your safety net. And contrary to popular belief, I am not trying to ruin your life and I am trying so hard not to--
(There's a knock at the door, offscreen. It's Pacey.)
Dawson: Hey.
Pacey: Hey, man. Working late, huh?
Dawson: Yeah.
Pacey: Your mom told me I could find you here.
Dawson: So what's up?
Pacey: I don't know, really. Mrs. Morgan asked Andie to give a eulogy indulging Abby's virtues.
Dawson: How do you speak glowingly about a girl who rode to school on a broomstick.
Pacey: It's just so frustrating, Dawson. I've been trying so hard to set everything straight for Andie, but I've got no control over these things.
Dawson: I know what you mean. That's why I'm here.
Pacey: It must be a sort of surreal experience editing a movie in which one of your leading ladies is no longer.
(Dawson presses play.)
(onscreen)
Kim (Abby): Look, contrary to popular belief, I did not come here to ruin your life and I am trying so hard not to do that...
(Abby starts smiling, then laughing.)
Abby: I'm sorry but she has food in her teeth.
(offscreen. Pacey and Dawson laugh. Cut to Jen walking into the kitchen at her house and Grams is cooking.)
Grams: Perfect timing. Dinner's almost ready.
(Jen walks over and leans over the pan. Grams gets a whif.)
Grams: Jennifer, have you been drinking again?
Jen: Not only have I been drinking, but I am drunk out of my mind.
Grams: Jennifer, don't do this to yourself! Don't mask your grief with alcohol! I try to feel your pain, this drinking will only make things worse.
Jen: (smiling) Worse? Come on. Worse than what?
Grams: Think of the good times you shared with Abby, she'd want you to remember her that way.
Jen: Well then you obviously didn't know Abby too well! She's probably down there with (missed name), doing tequila shooters and laughing at all of us!
Grams: You have to believe that Abby is in God's hands. He has a special place in his kingdom for the children.
Jen: Yeah? God's got a five-bedroom beach condo in Maui for dead kids?
Grams: Jennifer!
Jen: Okay, Grams, for the last time, there is no God and there is no heaven and there is no peace and there is no hope. The only truth that I know is pain. So you can just keep your Sunday School fables to yourself because they make me puke!
Grams: Does it give you so much pleasure to shock and offend me?! I am trying to be understanding but you insist on disobeying my rules and polluting my house with your disrespectful blastering.
Jen: I guess you're finally sick of me, huh? I guess your infinite patience and compassion aren't as infinte as we thought. You know, if I can't just be myself and speak my mind...maybe I should just move out!
Grams: Jennifer!
[SCENE_BREAK]
(Cut to Joey and her dad eating breakfast.)
Mr.Potter: What are you thinking about?
Joey: I've been trying to remember Mom and... I can't get a clear picture of her in my head. It was the scariest thing... I mean, it's like she's slowly fading away and ...do you know what I mean?
Mr.Potter: (nods) Joey, when I was in prison, I missed your mother. The loss combined with the guilt was almost too much for me. But...I look at you, and I know she's still here.
(Joey looks at him, questionably.)
Mr.Potter: You are so like your mother, Joey. She was tough ...and independent ...and funny. (laughs) In the same way you're funny. She was stubborn. Oh, she was stubborn. If you would tell her the skies blue, she would say it was green.
(Joey smiles.)
Mr.Potter: She's not gone. She lives on in you. And that comforts me to know end.
(Cut to Pacey and Andie walking down the beach.)
Andie: Uh, it's only a few hours til the funeral and I have no idea what I'm going to say.
Pacey: Make something up. Tell them that Abby was a wonderful person and she'll be deeply missed, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Andie: You want me to lie?
Pacey: Well, you could tell the truth. That she was a hideous abdomination and the world will be much better without her.
Andie: Right and watch her mother have a heart attack and collapse into the aisle. God, Pacey, what am I going to do?
Pacey: I'll give the speech.
Andie: You'd do that for me?
Pacey: I'd do anything to keep you from having a nervous breakdown.
Andie: I'm not about to have a nervous breakdown.
Pacey: Well, I'm about to have a nervous breakdown living vicariously through you, so...
Andie: Really? Listen, Pacey, I know what it's like to love someone who has the propensity to become mentally-unhinged and I don't want to be that person to you.
Pacey: Andie, what am I supposed to do? Sit back and watch you agonize. If you're in distress, how can I help but come to your rescue?
Andie: Well, if I'm drowning in the ocean, yes, throw me a lifeline but...don't let our roles become etched in stone. I mean, me the helpless lunatic and you, the hero on horseback. I need to take care of myself. I'm going to deliver this speech, I'll think of somethin'.
Pacey: Okay...
(He kisses her on the top of her head. Cut to Abby's funeral. Pacey and Andie are sitting in a pew.)
Pacey: Look, it's not too late to duck out of here.
Andie: No, Pacey, I'm going to do this, even if it kills me.
Pacey: Okay, well, maybe we'll just slip you in the coffin with Abby.
(Andie looks at him.)
Pacey: It was a joke! I'm kidding...
(Joey walks in and takes off her black cardigan over a black dress. She walks to the pew Dawson's sitting in.)
Dawson: Hey!
(She sits down.)
Dawson: You made it.
(She just smiles)
Joey: Just hold my hand.
(Dawson smiles. Grams walks in and takes a seat next to Jen.)
Jen: It's the (missed word) of Capeside.
Grams: Jennifer, listen, I-I lost a lot of sleep last night and I do hope that we can avoid ugly scenes like last night in the future. I wanted to let you know that I forgive you.
Jen: I'm not looking for your forgiveness, Grams. I'm looking for your understanding. And that's something that you've never been able to provide.
(The funeral begins.)
Preacher: We are here today, to remember the life of Abigail Morgan. But before we begin, I'd like to invite those of you, who'd like to share your memories with Abby, to come forward at this time.
(Dawson looks around, no one's getting up. Finally, Jen gets up. She walks up to the stand.)
Jen: My name is Jen Lindley. And I was friends with Abby, as much as anyone could be because Abby had a toxic personality, in fact it was almost bordering on radioactive. Abby could be cruel and Abby could be spiteful, and Abby could certainly be petty. She spent her days mischieviously stirring up trouble, and creating calamity, and generally, taking pleasure in other people's pain. You know, in Sunday School, they teach us that God made Man in his image. Well, if God made Abby in his own image then what does that say about God? God has always been such a mystery to me. I mean, what kind of diety creates a world that is so full of suffering and so full of pain? I tell you what, Abby taught me a lot. She taught me how to do a tequilla shooter with one hand tied behind my back, and she taught me to live life by my own set of values, and not follow the crowd, in hopes of winning some phantom popularity contest. But most of all, what's most important, is Abby taught me the sadistic nature of our God and as much as that knowledge is disturbing, it's true. And it's real. And for a world that is so saturated with phoniness and lies, for that small amount, for that little bit of honesty, I will always be grateful to her.
(Jen walks down from the pulpit and heads back to her pew, where her Grams stands up, gives Jen a incredibly angry look and walks out of the church. Abby's mother looks back at Andie while the congregation stirs from Jen's comments. Andie stands up and walks to the pulpit.)
Andie: Um, there are people who give me comfort in my life...who when the going gets rough, which it unbearably does, I can count on them for a shoulder to cry on. And they will pick me up when I fall, and hold me in their arms while I cry and tell me that everything is going to be alright. I am so thankful for these people, they are priceless. But there's another group of people, just as important and just as priceless...they're the people who challenge me, who push me to my breaking points, and who force me to muster courage that I never thought I had. Abby Morgan was one of those people. In her own truth-telling way, she gave me strength. I'm a much stronger woman because of her. A woman who I never thought that I could be. She gave me that gift. She was one of a kind. There's no one like her and she will always hold a special place in my heart.
(Cut to everybody outside around her coffin. Cut to Andie and Pacey putting a single yellow flower on her coffin. Cut to the priest reading from the Bible. Cut to Abby's mother crying. Cut to Jen placing a yellow flower on her coffin. Cut to everybody walking away from it. Cut to Dawson and Joey walking alone through the trees at the graveyard.)
Dawson: I was editing my movie yesterday. And I just kept watching Abby's footage over and over and over and then it hit me just how fleeting life is. You know? And I don't want to die with unlived life on my face. And I don't want to go to my grave regretting what my life could have been if I'd only taken action and maybe this is the wrong time to say this to you but Joey ...I am so happy about what happened between us the other night.
(She just keeps on walking, showing no emotion.)
Dawson: Okay, I could just keep on talking until you say something but usually the more I talk the more chances I have at screwing up so--
(She turns and kisses him. She smiles.)
Joey: Of course, I'm happy. (Her expression gets somewhat sadder) Right now, I have to go someplace.
Dawson: Okay.
Joey: Do you think you could walk me there?
Dawson: (smiles) Absolutely.
Joey: Thanks...
(Cut to Andie and Pacey.)
Pacey: You know, I have to admit. You have had me worried these last few days, McPhee. But, as usual, you managed to pull it off with flying colors.
Andie: I think I needed this whole experience, Pacey. It just, it brought me closer to Tim.
(Andie sees Jen sitting alone over by the coffin.)
Andie: Uh, I'm going to go talk to her.
(Cut to Jen and Andie walks up.)
Jen: Andie, I can not apoligize enough. Abby's death wasn't your fault. It was mine.
Andie: What?
Jen: I invited her out. I got her drunk. I could have saved her.
Andie: No, Jen, you did everything you could. The water was rough, the current was too strong.
Jen: I saw her in the water and...she was so scared...
Andie: Jen...don't think about that, okay?
Jen: Because I'm weak, and I couldn't accept the blame, I had to deflect it onto everybody else. Onto Capeside. Onto you. Onto my Grams. And that speech! That f-(almost says it but doesn't and pauses) speech. What was I thinking, huh?
Andie: Well, I'm a people pleaser. And sometimes in order to succeed in that, you have to be phony. Abby was the exact opposite. She put her truth above everything. And that's what you did. It was a memorial for Abby and you were just being truthful to her spirit.
Jen: Sometimes I don't think it's appropriate to speak your truth, it's better just to shut up.
Andie: Oh, God, Jen. Abby kept a diary. It was pretty nasty. And if her mom finds it, she's going to be devastated.
(Cut to Dawson and Joey walking past some more trees. Dawson hangs back and Joey slowly approaches a spot. Joey starts crying. It's her mother's grave ["Lillian Josephine Potter"]. Joey sets the flowers down and runs her finger along the etching of the gravestone. Dawson walks up slowly to her.)
Joey: I just, um, hope wherever she is, she's happy.
Dawson: She's happy. She's looking down on you, and she's very happy.
(Joey lays her head on Dawson's shoulder. Cut to Jen walking up the stairs to her porch where there's a bunch of suitcases, packed, and her Grams is putting more things in them.)
Jen: Grams?
Grams: How could you, Jennifer!
Jen: You packed--up all my stuff.
Grams: I went to that funeral today to try and give you some support, to rectify some of the damage in our fragile relationship. Only to find you heartlessly thumbing your nose at me, in a house of God no less.
Jen: Grams, that speech wasn't for you, it was for Abby. And I regret it, I do. And I know that it was wrong and I know that I offended your beliefs--
Grams: This is not about my beliefs! Or free speech or any other philosophical nonsense, this is about the truth. And the truth is you deliberately tried to wound me in that chapel and take out all your pain and rage at the world on me.
Jen: Grams, Grams, wait!
Grams: You want understanding? How about a little understanding in return? How about a little compassion for me? Not just about my beliefs, but for me? Your grandmother, who loves you, who would do anything for you, who would die for you!
Jen: Wait, Grams! Grandma! Wait a minute!
Grams: You should be living with someone else. Someone who you respect, and clearly, I am not that person. All that time you spend rebelling against me is getting you nowhere. So even though it pains me more than you will ever know, Jennifer. I want you to move out. Find somewhere else to live!
(Grams shuts the door on Jen and leans against it, crying. Cut to Jen outside crying. Cut to Andie opening the door to the Morgan's)
Andie: Mrs. Morgan? Hello? Hello?
(She goes up the stairs. Cut to Andie going into Abby's room. She opens a dresser drawer and pulls out the notebook and when Andie looks in the mirror. She sees Abby standing behind her in the closet wearing a white outfit. Andie spins around revealing nothing there. Andie closes her eyes, breathing heavy and opens them again. Cut to ending credits.)


[Elena's car.]
STEFAN (PHONE): Elena. It's Stefan. I know that picture must have confused you. But I can explain. I need to explain. Please, when you get this, call me.
Elena has an accident. She collided a man. Her car is back to front but Elena has nothing. She sees the man getting up.
ELENA: Aah! Aah! Aah! The man disappears.
DAMON: How ya doing in there?
ELENA: Damon?
DAMON: You look stuck.
ELENA: My seat lt.
DAMON: Let me get you out of there. I want you to put your hands on the roof. Just like that. You ready? ...2, 3. I got you. Are you ok? Can you stand? Anything broken?
ELENA: Uh-uh.
DAMON: Whoa, you're fading fast, Elena. Elena, look at me. Focus. Look at me. Ok.
ELENA: I look like her.
DAMON: What? Upsy-daisy. Damon leaves with Elena in his arms.
[Alaric's House.]
ALARIC: I found one. After years of reseah and study, there it was right in front of me. I was terrified. As I stared it in the eyes, I drove a stake through its heart. I was right about Mystic Falls. There is evil here. I can sense it. Feel it. It's everywhere.
He is watching a photography of a youg woman, probably his girlfirend.
[Flashback.]
ALARIC'S GIRLFRIEND: Mmm. It's not even 7:00 yet.
ALARIC: Which means you shouldn't be awake for at least 6 hours.
ALARIC'S GIRLFRIEND: I hate morning people.
ALARIC: I'm going to be home te tonight.
ALARIC'S GIRLFRIEND: Mm love you.
ALARIC: And I love you too.
[Damon's car. Elena wakes up]
DAMON: Morning.
ELENA: Where are we?
DAMON: Georgia.
ELENA: Georgia? No, no. No, we're not. Seriously, Damon. Where are we?
DAMON: Seriously, we're-- we're in Georgia. How ya feeling?
ELENA: I--I--
DAMON: There's broken bones. I checked.
ELENA: But my car. There was a man. I hit a man. But then he got up and--who was that?
DAMON: That's what I would like to know.
ELENA: Where is my phone? Ok. We really need to go back. Nobody knows where I am. Pull over. I mean it, damon. Pull over! Stop the car!
DAMON: Oh you were so much more fun when you were asleep.
He stops the car.
DAMON: Hey.
ELENA: I'm fine. We have to go back.
DAMON: Oh come on. Look. We've already come this far.
ELENA: Why are you doing this? I can't be in Georgia. I wrecked my car. I have to go home. This is kidnapping.
DAMON: That's a little melodramatic, don'you think?
ELENA: You're not funny. You can't do this. I'm not going to Georgia.
DAMON: You're in georgia. Without your magical necklace I might add. I can very easily make you...Agreeable.
ELENA: What are you trying to prove?
[Elena's cell phone rings.]
ELENA: That's my phone.
DAMON: Mmm. It's your boyfriend. I'll take it. Elena's phone.
STEFAN: Where is she? Why do you have her phone? Is she ok?
DAMON: Elena? She's right here. And, yes, she's fine.
STEFAN: Where are you? Let me speak to her.
DAMON: He wants to talk to you.
ELENA: Uh-uh.
DAMON: Yeah. I don't-- I don't think she wants to talk to you right now.
STEFAN: Damon, I swear to god, if you touch her--
DAMON: You have a good day. Mm-hmm. Bye-now.
STEFAN: Argh!
ELENA: Look. No one knows where I am. Can we please just go back?
DAMON: We're almost there.
ELENA: Where is there?!
DAMON: A little place right outside of Atlanta. Oh, come on, Elena. You don't wanna go back right now. Do you? What's the rush? Time-out. Trust me. Your problems are still going to be there when you get home. Look. Step away from your life for 5 minutes.
ELENA: 5 minutes. Am I going to be safe with you?
DAMON: Yes.
ELENA: Will you promise not to do that mind control thing with me?
DAMON: Yes.
ELENA: Can I trust you?
DAMON: Get in the car. Come on.
[Jeremy and Alaric.]
JEREMY: Hey, Mr. Saltzman.
ALARIC: Hey, Jeremy. I, uh--can't find my ring. I took it off for the gym and thought I put it-- there it is.
JEREMY: Losing family heirlooms-- bad.
ALARIC: How's your extra credit coming? You pick a topic yet?
JEREMY: Mystic Falls, the cil war era.
ALARIC: What's the angle?
JEREMY: My family-- I found a journal of an anstor who lived in the 1800s. And the Gilberts were one of the original founding families of Mystic Falls. So...
ALARIC: That sounds good.
[Stefan and Bonnie.]
STEFAN: Bonnie.
BONNIE: Stefan
STEFAN: Hey.
BONNIE: Hi.
STEFAN: I haven't seen you lately. How are you doing with everything?
BONNIE: I'm fine. It's all fine.
STEFAN: Good. Yeah
BONNIE: Are you back in school?
STEFAN: No. Actually I came here to find you. I s hoping you could help me with something. A spell.
BONNIE: Stefan, look, I know Elena's ok with all of this, and I appreciate what you did to help me. But I'm not really ready to dive into it with you just yet.
STEFAN: I understand. But I need your help. It's Elena. She's with Damon. I have Elena's necklace. I was just hoping you could use this to make some sort of a connection. I just need to know that she's ok.
BONNIE: How do you know I can do this?
STEFAN: Because I've known a few witches over the years. I've seen what they can do.
BONNIE: I'm still new at it.
STEFAN: It's ok. Give it a shot.
BONNIE: Ok. All right.
She tries to feel something with the necklace.
BONNIE: There's nothing. Nothing's happening. Usually there's an image or... Tell me if anyone's looking.
STEFAN: Ok.
BONNIE: All right. She takes a leaf and tries to fly it.
STEFAN: What is it?
BONNIE: Something's wrong.
STEFAN: With Elena?
BONNIE: With me. There's something wrong with me. I have to go. I'm sorry, Stefan. I can't help you.
[Damon's car.]
ELENA: So, where's my car?
DAMON: I pulled it off on the side of the road. I don't think anyone will bother it.
ELENA: At about that man in the road? Was he a...?
DAMON: From what I could tell. Yeah.
ELENA: You don't know him?
DAMON: If I've never met him, I wouldn't know him. I mean, it's not like we all hang out together at the vamp bar and grill.
He stops the car in front of a bar.
ELENA: You brought me to a bar? Damon, I'm not old enough. They're not going to let me in.
DAMON: Sure they will.
WOMAN: No. No, it can't be. Damon. My honey pie. She kisses Damon.
WOMAN: Listen up everybody! Here's to the man that broke my heart, crushed my soul, destroyed my life, and ruined any and all chances of happiness! Drink up! Ahh. Whoo!
WOMAN: So, how'd he rope you in?
ELENA: I'm not roped in. Actually, I'm dating his--
WOMAN: Honey, if you're not roped, you're whipped. Either way, just enjoy the ride.
ELENA: Ok. So, how did you two meet?
WOMAN: College.
ELENA: You went to college?
DAMON: I've been on a college campus, yes.
WOMAN: About 20 years ago, when I was just a sweet, young freshman I met this butiful man, and fell in love. And then he told me about his littleecret, made me love him more. Because, you see, I had a little secret of my own that I was dying to share with somebody.
DAMON: She's a witch.
WOMAN: Changed my world.
DAMON: I rocked your world.
WOMAN: He is good in the sack, isn't he? But mostly he's just a walkawayoe. So, what is it that you want?
[Jeremy in a library.]
He looks at books when some books fall him above. A girl arrives.
GIRL: Oh my god. I am so sorry. There was this one book wedged between the other. And I pulled and then kaplunk, kaboom. Are you ok?
JEREMY: Yeah, I'm fine.
GIRL: Ohh! I'm Anna.
JEREMY: I'm Jeremy.
[Grams' house.]
BONNIE: Thank god you're back.
GRAMS: And hello to you, too. What's the matter?
BONNIE: Powers are gone, Grams. I can't do anything, even when I concentrate. And there's nothing in in any of these books that can tell me how to get them back.
GRAMS: Hang on, now. Just calm down. Tell me what happened.
BONNIE: I can't.
GRAMS: We keeping secrets now?
BONNIE: I have to. I'm sorry. I promised. Please help me.
GRAMS: Well, first of all, there's nothing in any of these that's gonna help you. If you're blocked, it's in here. You gotta clear it out, then you're back in business.
BONNIE: Clear what out?
GRAMS: Whatever's got you so scared.
[Elena phones.]
ELENA: Hi, Jenna. I'm so sorry.
JENNA: Where are you? Why didn't you call?
ELENA: I was so tired last night. I fell asleep at Bonnie's. And then this morning, I just wanted to get to school.
JENNA: Are you ok?
ELENA: You know, Stefan and stuff.
DAMON: Come on, there's gotta be another way.
WOMAN: After all these years, it's still only Katherine. How do you even know she's still alive?
DAMON: Well, you help me get into that tomb and we'll find out.
WOMAN: I already did. 20 years ago. Remember? 3 easy steps-- Comet. Crystal. Spell.
DAMON: There's a little problem with number 2. I don't have the crystal.
WOMAN: That's it, damon. There is no other way. It's Emily's spell.
DAMON: What about a new spell with a new crystal that overrides Emily's spell?
WOMAN: It doesn't work that way, baby. Emily's spell is absolute. You can't get into that tomb.
[Bonnie in the wood.]
BONNIE: Hello? Anybody here?! Aah!
Bonnie falls.
[Front of the bar. Elena's cellphone ringing.]
STEFAN: Elena, is th you?
ELENA: I'm here.
STEFAN: Where are you?
ELENA: You lied.
STEFAN: Not until I explain, please.
ELENA: So, you didn't lie?
STEFAN: Just tell me where you are. So that I can comeet you.
ELENA: How am I connected to Katherine, stefan?
STEFAN: I honestly don't know.
ELENA: And I'm supposed to believe that?
STEFAN: It's the truth. I-- Listen--
She hangs up. Damon is behind her.
DAMON: You ok?
ELENA: Don't pretend to care. I know you're gloating inside. Damon's friend phones.
WOMAN: Hey, it's Bree. You'll never gonna guess who walked into my bar.
[Bonnie, in the tomb.]
BONNIE: Oww. Hello?! Anybody?! Ahh!
[Grams' house. Stefan is knocking.]
STEFAN: Hi.
GRAMS: Can I help you?
STEFAN: I'm Stefan. I'm a friend of Bonnie's. Her dad told me that she might be here.
GRAMS: She was. Not anymore.
STEFAN: Do you know where she went?
GRAMS: No. But you do.
STEFAN: I'm sorry?
GRAMS: I told her to face down her fear. And I'm sensing now that you know exactly why she was scared. You know what I am. And yet you offered me your hand, which means you wanted me to see that I can trust you.
STEFAN: Can you?
GRAMS: I just you'll keep her safe. You'd better be on your way, then. I'm not going to invite you in. I'm sure you understand why.
[SCENE_BREAK]
[At the library.]
ANNA: This aisle is local and state history. And civil war is one over. What do you need?
JEREMY: Local. 1860s. Do you work here?
ANNA: Nope. You want reference. This way. Uh, home-schooled. I study here for a moc school environment. Ah, here we go. Original settlers, town archives, founders stuff. It's all here. So, what's your topic ?
JEREMY: The town's fear and hysteria surrounding the war and how it influenced certain writers of the time.
ANNA: You might want to focus that.
JEREMY: The origin of local folklore and myths.
ANNA: You mean the vampires?
[At the bar.]
ELENA: Let's just say that I'm descended from Katherine-- Does that make me part vampire?
DAMON: Vampires can't procreate. But we love to try. No. If you are related, it would mean Katherine had a child before she was turned.
ELENA: Did Stefan think that he could use me to replace her?
DAMON: Kinda creepy if you ask me. Come on, what? You don't like pickl? What's wrong with you?
ELENA: How can you even eat? If technically you're supposed to be...
DAMON: Dead. It's not such a bad word. As long as I keep a healthy diet of blood in my system, our body functions pretty normally.
ELENA: This nice act. Is any of it real?
BREE: Here you go, honey.
DAMON: Thank you.
ELENA: I'll have one too.
DAMON: Hmm?
ELENA: Time out, remember? For 5 minutes? Yeah, well that 5 minutes is going to need a beer.
BREE: There you go.
[In the library.]
JEREMY: You're kidding me, right? There's no such thing as vampires.
ANNA: Well, there's not a lot of documentation but the stories have been told since the civil war. My granddad used to tell me all these creepy stories when I was little. And he said that his granddad told them to him.
JEREMY: Yeah. That would be folklore. Vampires are a metaphor for the demons of the day.
ANNA: Which are?
JEREMY: The union soldiers. I've read the stories myself. They talk about the enemy, the demons that attack night.
ANNA: That sounds like vampires to me.
JEREMY: Allegorical vampires. Which is what it is. Creative expression during a very volatile time. I mean, a couny at war doesn't want realism. They want fantasy. Thus, vampire fiction.
ANNA: Man, you're smart. I gotta give it to you. When I first saw you, I missed it.
JEREMY: Yeah. I've had a rough go of it lately. But I'm just now getting back to my old self.
ANNA: Well, good luck on the paper. I gotta get home. You know, my great grandfather actually showed me a journal once of an ancestor and he had written all of this creepy stuff about vampires. It was actually really believable.
JEREMY: Wait. A journal?
ANNA: Yeah? Why?
JEREMY: Are you sure you have to go?
[In the Tomb.]
Bonnie tries to phone.
BONNIE: Come on, phone! Great! Great. Someone arrives behind her.
STEFAN: Bonnie!
BONNIE: Get away from me!
STEFAN: It's me. It's stefan.
BONNIE: Stefan. The ground gave way and I fell.
STEFAN: It's ok. It's ok. Calm down. Come on, let's get you out of here.
BONNIE: How?
STEFAN: Just close your eyes. Trust . He jumps.
STEFAN: You can open your eyes now.
BONNIE: Whoa.
STEFAN: I didn't want to scare you.
BONNIE: How did you know where I was?
STEFAN: Well, your grandmother told me what you were doing. I guessed the where.
BONNIE: I heard them. Down there. Behind the door. Are they in pain?
STEFAN: In the beginning--yes. But not anymore. They've been starved to the point of dessication.
BONNIE: But if they have blood--
STEFAN: That's not going to happen, Bonnie. They can't get out. Emily saw to that when she had you destroy the crystal. You're safe.
[In the bar.]
DAMON: Ready...
BREE: Go!
They drink.
ELENA: That's 3. Do you need a bib?
DAMON: Sorry I can't unhinge my jaw like a snake to consume alcohol.
ELENA: Whatever. All right. Who's next? Another round, Bree.
GIRL: Honey, you should be on the floor.
ELENA: I am not even drunk. My tolerance is, like, way up here.
BREE: All right. Here you go.
[At Mystic Grill.]
JEREMY: So, you have no idea where the journal is?
ANNA: Nope. Gramps died. And all the kids split his stuff. I can ask.
JEREMY: I just find it weird that our ancestors kept the same kind of journal. It's crazy.
ANNA: Maybe it's based in some partial reality.
JEREMY: No. It's gotta be a metaphorical. My ancestor wrote short stories.
ANNA: So, that's why you're hung up on the fiction of it all.
JEREMY: No, I'm hung up on fiction of it all because I've seen "the lost boys" and "near dark," like, 50 times.
ANNA: Are those movies? Hey. I've never seen them. Maybe we can have a fright night and rent a whole bunch of vampire movies.
JEREMY: Uh, yeah, sure.
ANNA: Why does that sound like a no way in hell? Sorry, I'm blunt.
JEREMY: No, it's--I don't want you to get the wrong idea. I just recently got out of something. It's a little too soon, you know?
ANNA: Oh please, sure. No worries. I meant as friends. Yeah. Look, I really gotta go. Nice meeting you, Jeremy.
[In the bar.]
[Elena's cell phone ringing]
ELENA: Hello?
JENNA: Elena ?
ELENA: Jenna? Hold on, it's loud in here.
JENNA: Elena, where are you ? Are you ok ?
ELENA: Huh? Yeah. No, I'm good. Eveything's fine. Hold on. I can't hear you.
Elena falls.
ELENA: Hello ? Someone arrives behind her and kidnaps her.
BREE: Hey, where's your girl?
DAMON: Hmm.
BREE: She was right back there. Damon goes out of the bar. He finds Elena's cellphone on the ground. He goes behind sheds.
ELENA: Damon, no. A man attack him.
DAMON: What the hell?!
ELENA: No! He beats Damon.
DAMON: Who are you?
MAN: That's perfect. You have no idea.
ELENA: What are you talking about? What did he do?
MAN: He killed my girlfriend. What did she do to you, huh? What did she do to you?! Nothing.
ELENA: I don't understand.
MAN: My girlfriend went to visit Stefan, and Damon killed her. Got it? He beats Damon.
DAMON: Ugh!
ELENA: Lexi? Lexi was your girlfriend? She told me about you. She said you were human.
MAN: I was.
ELENA: Lexi turned you?
MAN: If you want to be with someone forever, you have to live forever.
ELENA: She loved you. She said, "when it's real, you can't walk away."
MAN: Well, that's a choice you're not going to have to make.
ELENA: Don't. Don't, please, don't hurt him--
MAN: I'm doing you a favor.
ELENA: Lexi loved you. And she was good. That means you're good too. Be better than him. Don't do this. I'm begging you! Please. Lexi's boyfriend stop to beat Damon.
ELENA: Thank you.
MAN: It wasn't for you.
[Gram's house.]
GRAMS: Well, now, look who's returned from battle. Can I talk to your friend for minute? BONNIE: Thank you.
GRAMS: I appreciate your help, Stefan.
STEFAN: You're welcome, Sheila.
GRAMS: I wasn't sure you remembered.
STEFAN: October 1969.
GRAMS: I was barely a teenager.
STEFAN: And you were leading what was probably the only anti-war sit-in within miles of Mystic Falls.
GRAMS: Hmm.
STEFAN: You know when you spoke, people were mesmerized. I know I was.
GRAMS: Until the cops showed up. You took a big risk coming to see me earlier. Letting me read you, realize who you were. It could have gone a completely different way.
STEFAN: Your family has a very long history of keeping my secret. I knew that I could trust you if you believed I waworthy of your trust.
GRAMS: Bonnie knows, doesn't she?
STEFAN: Yes.
GRAMS: Please understand, our loyalty can only extend so far. This town won't be easy on any of us if they figure it out. And I'll protect my own before anybody else.
STEFAN: I know that.
GRAMS: As long as we're clear, goodnight, then.
STEFAN: Goodnight, Sheila.
[In the bar.]
DAMON: We were just leaving, and I wanted to sagood bye.
BREE: Good to see you again, Damon.
DAMON: No kiss?
BREE: I'm full of vervain. I put it in everything I drink.
DAMON: And you're telling me this why?
BREE: Lexi was my friend. How could you? The tomb can be opened.
DAMON: You're lying!
BREE: Emily's grimoire, her spellbook. If you know how she closed the tomb the reversal process will be in her book. You can open that tomb.
DAMON: Where is this book?
BREE: I--I--
DAMON: You have no idea.
BREE: No. I'm telling you the truth.
DAMON: And I believe you. My dear, sweet Bree. That's why I'm almost sorry.
BREE: Ugh!
He kills her.
[In Damon's car.]
ELENA: So, why did you bring me with you?
DAMON: Well you're not the worst company in the world, Elena. You could give yourself more credit.
ELENA: Seriously?
DAMON: You were there in the road. All damsel in distress-like. And I knew it would piss off Stefan. And... U're not the worst company in the world, Elena.
ELENA: I used to be more fun.
DAMON: You did ok.
ELENA: I saved your life.
DAMON: I know.
ELENA: And don't you forget it.
[Salvatore's House.]
ELENA: Hi.
STEFAN: Hi.
ELENA: You could have told me.
STEFAN: I wanted to tell you.
ELENA: You said no more lies. Only the truth. I can handle the truth, Stefan. As crazy as it is, I can handle the fact that you are a vampire. And you have a vampire brother. And that my best friend is a witch. I can accept the fact that the world is much more mysterious place than I ever thought possible. But this--this lie, I can't take. What am I to you? Who am I to you?
STEFAN: You are not Katherine. You are the opposite everything that she was.
ELENA: And when did you figure that out? Before you kissed me? Before we slept together?
STEFAN: Before I met you.
ELENA: What?
STEFAN: The first day of school. We when met. It wasn't for the first time, Elena.
ELENA: Then when was it?
STEFAN: May 23, 2009.
ELENA: But that was--
STEFAN: That was the day your parents' car went off the bridge.
ELENA: You were the?
STEFAN: Every couple of years that I come back here to see Zach and see my home. Last spring, I was out in the woods, by old wickery bridge. And I heard the accident. All of it. I was fast getting there, but not fast enough. The car was already submerged. Your dad was still- he was still conscious. I was able to get to him, but he wouldn't let me help him, until I helped you.
ELENA: Oh my god. When I woke up in the hospital, nobody could figure out how I got out of the car. They said it was a miracle.
STEFAN: I went back for them. But it was too late. I couldn't-- I couldn't save them. When I pulled you out, I looked at your face. You looked like Katherine. I couldn't believe the resemblance. After that, I spent months making sure th you weren't her. I watched you. I learned everythi that I could about you. And I saw that you were nothing like Katherine. And I wanted to leave town, but, Elena, I couldn't. I couldn't leave without knowing you. I'm so sorry that I didn't tell you. I wanted to. But you were so sad.
ELENA: Why do I look like her?
STEFAN: Elena, you've been through so much.
ELENA: Why do I look like her, Stefan? What are you not telling me?
STEFAN: It didn't make any sense to me. You were a Gilbert. She was a Pierce. But the resemblance was too similar. And then I learned the truth. You were adopted, Elena.
[In the library.]
ANNA: There you are.
JEREMY: Hey.
ANNA: Hi. Ok, look. I know I don't know you, so don't ask me why I did this. I just, sometimes-- mostly all the time- I have this need to be right. So I googled and...
JEREMY: What is it?
ANNA: Proof. Sort of.
JEREMY: What does this mean?
ANNA: Well, I only went as far back as 1942, and found that there's been a string of animal attacks periodically in and around this town for the past 75 years. It's consistent. In '62, 5 boes found. In '53, 4 people killed. In '74, 3 people dead. And there's been 5 this year. All attacked. All suffered major blood loss, as in drained of blood.
[Stefan's bedroom.]
ELENA: How do you know that?
STEFAN: Your birth certificate from the city records. It says Elena Gilbert. Mystic falls general. But there's no record of your mother ever being admitted.There's no record of her ever being pregnant.
ELENA: What else do you know?
STEFAN: For me to go any further, I would've had to look into the Pierce family, and I couldn't do that. It's too much of a risk. If someone found out I was asking about Katherine-- Listen to me, it doesn't matter. You are the woman that I love. I love you.
Elena kiss him.
[Elena's house.]
JENNA: I don't set a lot of rules, Elena. Not with you. I trust you to tell me the truth. Where were you? Why would you lie to me about it? I thought that we were closer than that.
ELENA: Now is not the time you want to talk to me about lies.
JENNA: Don't do that. Don't turn this back on me. I didn't do anything.
ELENA: Ok, question-- am I adopted? I trust you to tell me the truth too, Jenna. How could you not tell me? I thought we were closer than that.
JENNA: Elena, didn't-- they asked me not to.
ELENA: I don't want to hear it!
[At Mystic Grill. Alaric sees Damon.]
[Flashback.]
ALARIC'S GIRLFRIEND: I love you.
ALARIC: I'm going to be late tonight.
Later. Alaric returns at home. He sees Damon drink the blood of his girlfriend.
[Reality.]
Alaric understands Damon is the vampire which killed her girlfriend.