Outside Degrassi, Ashley puts her hands over Jimmy's eyes
Ashley: Guess who?
Jimmy: Uh Heather Sinclaire.
Ashley: Very funny. Close your eyes. I have a surprise. Now open your mouth.
Jimmy: Oh man here we go.
(Ashley puts a whistle in his mouth.)
Ashley: Now blow.
Jimmy: That's very cool. You got me a new one. Thank you.
Ashley: Well coach can't keep the junior girls basketball team in line with a broken whistle.
Jimmy: That's true.
(Ashley sees what Jimmy is drawing.)
Ashley: That's the logo on your shirt.
Jimmy: Yeah. Yeah Marco saw it and thought it would be a good design, so...
Ashley: And an old picture of Hazel. How cute.
Jimmy: Just a class assignment.
Ashley: So um where's the sketch of your current girlfriend?
Jimmy: It's all up here baby girl. I just gotta capture it on paper. Believe me Ash, when I draw you, it will be my masterpiece.
Ashley: So um when can I schedule a sit-in with my master painter?
Jimmy: Well good things come to those who wait.
Ashley: It's just that your model's starting to wonder if maybe she's doing something wrong.
Jimmy: Ash when the time is right, my canvas will be ready.
Ashley: Okay, but um just so you know-
Jimmy: Mm hmm?
Ashley: The model is ready and willing.
(She teases him by almost kissing him and then pulling away.)
In the gym
Spinner: So Darce and I are at the movies last night.
Jimmy: Clown Academy 4 out already?
Spinner: Dude how would I know? Darce and I rocked the back row, if you catch my flow.
Jimmy: You and Darcy, for real?
Spinner: No. No um only in my dreams, which is why I'm just a little bit jealous of you and Ash.
Jimmy: Jealous?
Spinner: Come on dude I don't see an abstinence ring on your finger.
Jimmy: Me and you, are friends, but we're also guys. Ergo we do not talk about our s*x lives, okay?
Spinner: Hergro at least you have something to not talk about.
Jimmy: Look this stays here, alright? The mind is willing, but the body...
Spinner: Dude?
Jimmy: Since the shooting it just hasn't been the same. Physio helps. Doc says it might happen one day, but the question is when.
Spinner: Dude.
Jimmy: Can you think of anything else to say right now?
Spinner: I don't know what else to say man. It's hard. Not for you. I didn't-
(He stops and Jimmy throws the ball at him.)
Spinner: Sorry, sorry. Look maybe you're just too wound up. I mean you are tense 24/7. Take it from Coach Spinner, just relax. Let the game come to you. Don't force anything.
(Jimmy shoots a basket into the hoop.)
In the hallway
Darcy: Manny! The brilliant future Spirit Squad choreographer. Just the girl I'm looking for.
Manny: Keep looking. I already said no.
Darcy: But you never gave me a reason.
Manny: You know exactly why Darcy.
Darcy: If you sister sins, rebuke her. If she repents, forgive her. Luke, chapter 7?
Manny: Thank you Sister Cuckoo Banana.
Darcy: I'm trying to say I know we didn't see eye to eye last year.
Manny: This year has been a regular staring contest.
Darcy: I'm trying to apologize okay, for last year. I was a jerk to you. I may be the captain, but the squad is nothing without you. Forgive me? Please, please, please.
Manny: Okay. Okay everyone makes mistakes I guess.
Darcy: Ah the team is going to be so brilliant this year.
Manny: Yeah. We should put a lot more focus on our aerials.
Darcy: Really? 'Cause I was thinking we should focus more on our cheers. At Jimmy's physiotherapist session
Physiotherapist: Oh impressive transfer. You've been working out without me.
Jimmy: Uh honestly not so much. Just been on the court a lot, playing pickup, coaching.
Physiotherapist: Busy guy.
Jimmy: Yeah.
Physiotherapist: Well it sure has helped your core abdominal strength.
(Jimmy looks up and sees that he has a boner.)
Physiotherapist: Okay let's stretch those hip flexors.
(She walks over to him and he puts a newspaper over his crotch.)
Jimmy: That's good.
Physiotherapist: Okay Jimmy. Other leg.
Jimmy: Um I think I'm gonna keep stretching this one. I'm just feeling a little stiff.
In the hallway at school
(Jimmy is rolling around giving high five's to everyone he sees, he does a little pump fist action with Mr. Simpson and then rolls over to Spinner.)
Jimmy: I owe you a huge solid.
Spinner: Okay, what's up?
Jimmy: Something's up alright.
Spinner: What the team's free throw percentage?
Jimmy: I had my lunch time physio. Took your advice.
Spinner: What advice?
Jimmy: It was very relaxing.
Spinner: Uh huh?
Jimmy: Dude!
Spinner: What?
Jimmy: Wow.
(Jimmy whispers what happened in Spinner's ear.)
Spinner: Oh no! No way. Ah and here comes just the person you can share it with. Catch you later.
Jimmy: Yeah.
(Ashley walks over.)
Jimmy: Hey.
(He kisses her hand.)
Ashley: Someone's happy.
Jimmy: More than you know. What do you say we get our sushi on tonight? Just us.
Ashley: A date? Yeah sure. So what's the occasion?
Jimmy: I just have a good feeling about tonight. That's all.
At Spirit Squad tryouts
(Every girl that tries out is horrible.)
Manny: If I see another mangled turkey.
Darcy: Just one more corpse, then the final thanks, but no thanks.
Manny: Who's Mia Jones?
Mia: Mia. I uh just transferred here.
Darcy: Okay Mia. Break a leg.
(She starts her routine and Manny and Darcy are very impressed.)
Mia: We're mad. We're bad. We're gonna kick your ass. We'll beat you. Defeat you. Might even try to eat you. We're nasty. We're sassy. 'Cause baby we're Degrassi. Go Degrassi!
(She finishes her routine.)
Mia: So how about that call-back?
Manny: Well obviously!
Darcy: For the rest of you show's over. Me and Manny are talking Spirit Squad tonight.
Manny: Now that we've met you, we have serious world domination to plan. Get your butt to the Dot at 8.
Mia: My butt'll be there.
At the sushi restaurant, Jimmy shows Ashley the picture he drew of her
Ashley: It's beautiful Jimmy.
Jimmy: Your eyes and your lips and the way the light hits your cheek, it's all burned into my memory.
Ashley: Thank you.
Jimmy: No Ash thank you. You're my number 1, before everything. It's all you.
Ashley: You know I was um hoping to pose for you someday, but like you said good things come to those who wait.
Jimmy: I think that wait is about to end. My parents are going out later and I was thinking you could come over tonight.
Ashley: You sure? I mean why now?
Jimmy: Let's just say I think I'm finally ready and able. At the Dot
Darcy: What is the one trophy missing from the Degrassi wall of glory?
Manny: Metro Cheerleading Competition.
Darcy: And with you, me and our new secret weapon, I think we're ready to take this squad to a whole new level.
(Mia walks in with her daughter.)
Mia: Hey guys. Um this is my daughter Isabella. Isabella, meet Manny and Darcy.
Manny: Oh my god she's adorable.
Darcy: That's your baby?
Manny: Sit, sit, sit, sit, sit. Spirit Squad, schmirit squad. I have to hear all about this little angel. Hi my name's Manny and you are just so cute.
(Darcy sits there silently with a disapproving look on her face.)
At Jimmy's house, Ashley walks downstairs in her lingerie
Jimmy: Wow. You look wow.
(They start making out and it cuts to Jimmy with his shirt off.)
Ashley: Everything okay?
Jimmy: Yeah. Yeah I'm fine. Don't stop.
(It cuts again to them still making out when Jimmy pulls back.)
Jimmy: You know what? There's nothing you can do. You should probably just go.
At Ashley's locker
Jimmy: Ashley.
(Ashley walks away from him.)
Jimmy: Ash I'm sorry about what happened last night or in my case what didn't happen.
Ashley: You know what? You should apologize, not for that. Jimmy when a girl throws herself at you, you don't kick her out.
Jimmy: I'm sorry. I just, I couldn't deal.
Ashley: Look so it was a bad idea. Jimmy it doesn't matter. We could totally live without ever...you know.
Jimmy: Okay we cannot live without you know. I'm going to make this work.
(Ashley sits down and takes his hands.)
Ashley: There are methods. I've done some research. Medical options.
Jimmy: I know. That's why I made a doctor's appointment.
(Ashley kisses him.)
At Spirit Squad auditions
Manny: 5, 6, 7, 8. Hey are you ready? Are you ready to shout it out? Blue and gold, we are Degrassi.
(They finish the cheer.)
Manny: That was great. You are not making this decision easy.
Darcy: Uh Mia up front. Drop the poms. Let's see a heal stretch.
Mia: Sure.
(Mia does a heal stretch.)
Darcy: How about a back walkover?
(Mia does a walkover.)
Darcy: Toe touch?
(Mia does a toe touch.)
Darcy: Needs work and would it kill you to smile?
Manny: What's your problem? She's our girl Darcy.
Darcy: Fine. Go back to your cheers.
Manny: Okay uh we're gonna try something a little different.
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At Jimmy's doctor's appointment
Jimmy: I was into it, she was into it, we were in the moment and uh nothing.
Doctor: And the other time you had an erection, were you in the moment then?
Jimmy: I'm not attracted to my physiotherapist. It just, it just happened.
Doctor: I understand. Jimmy it's good that you have some activity. It just seems a little involuntary. You know not there when you need it, there when you don't.
Jimmy: Like uh waiting for a bus.
Doctor: Look there are options for erectile dysfunction. Implants, pumps-
Jimmy: Is that, is that all there is though? I have to turn into some s*x robot? Wind me up and watch me go?
Doctor: Well implants and pumps, those are down the road. First things first. We're gonna get you on some medication.
Jimmy: Ah as in the pill that gets the middle aged people dancing in the streets.
Doctor: Well it can be effective in some cases, yeah.
Jimmy: What if it's not though? I mean...I just don't want to be a virgin for the rest of my life.
Doctor: If this doesn't work we explore the other options. You take one, give it an hour and remember to relax, okay? At Jimmy's house
Ashley: Should I put some music on?
Jimmy: No. I like the quiet.
Ashley: Let's see here.
(She picks up a pamphlet.)
Ashley: It says side effects may include increased tension, muscle spasms, upset stomach, diarrhoea.
Jimmy: Great. Now I'm in the mood.
Ashley: Well it says it could take over an hour.
Jimmy: It's been almost two.
Ashley: Well did you have a big lunch or anything?
Jimmy: No I'm starving myself. I just want to make sure this will work.
Ashley: Maybe you just need to relax.
(She starts giving him a massage.)
Ashley: See isn't that nice?
Jimmy: Yeah.
(Jimmy gives up when nothing happens and turns on the TV.)
Ashley: What's wrong?
Jimmy: Just forget it. Strike two.
In the hallway
Manny: I say forget about cheers. If we want to win the Metro Competition it needs to be more about dance, gymnastics, stunts, pyramids.
Mia: Yeah that's assuming I'm even on the squad. Captain Darcy's been giving me the freeze-a-chills.
Manny: She's a bit uptight, but she wants to win as bad as I do.
(Mia nods towards Darcy who is putting up the members list.)
Manny: No. No. Darcy someone's missing from this list!
Darcy: Everyone who deserves to be on the team is there.
Manny: Yeah right. Nobody deserves to be on the team more than Mia does.
Darcy: Sorry Manny. My decision's final.
In the gym before the girls basketball game starts
Nic: You're going down Degrassi.
(JT looks at the opposing team's members.)
JT: Woah. They're big.
Toby: Size isn't everything JT.
(JT gives Toby a dirty look and Mia walks over to Darcy in a uniform.)
Darcy: What is this?
Manny: You can't keep her off the team.
Mia: You know I deserve this or is there some sort of no single moms policy?
Darcy: Mia your baby is a huge responsibility and well, so is Spirit Squad. I'm sorry.
Manny: When my new manicure meets your face, then you'll be sorry.
Mia: Darcy, Isabella has daycare. She can be taken care of whenever I'm at practice. I can do both.
Darcy: How can I believe someone who's made such enormous life mistakes.
Mia: Mistakes?
Darcy: Unless you got knocked up on purpose, in which case you've got even bigger issues.
(Mia pushes Darcy and Darcy falls into Nic.)
Nic: Degrassi chicks can't stop throwing themselves at me.
(He sees Mia.)
Nic: Mia Jones. So Degrassi's picking up all the other school's trash now. Hey did you ever figure out who the father is?
(Mia slaps Nic and it starts a huge fight between everyone. Toby's glasses break and JT falls down.)
JT: What's your problem?!
(Nic pushes JT and he hits Nic with the mascot head.)
Outside the school
JT: Man two weeks detention.
Toby: I know. Now I've got to find a new panther mascot.
JT: What can I say? When the school needed me I pounced.
Toby: Yeah well that's great, but now who's going to entertain the fans?
(JT looks at Toby and shrugs.)
Toby: Don't even think about it.
Nic: Hey Degrassi nerds. If I were you, I'd sleep with one eye open. This isn't over.
(He shakes the fence and Toby flinches.)
JT: Detention never sounded so good.
In the foyer
Ashley: Forfeiting, not the same as losing.
Jimmy: Sure. Whatever.
Ashley: You going home? 'Cause we still have that media immersion assignment. We could just hang out. Do some homework. No lingerie, no pills, no pressure.
Jimmy: You know what? Come over tonight and get your stuff. I can't do this. At Darcy's locker
Manny: Mia's in with Ms. H getting lectured. I hope you're happy.
Darcy: She's a teenage mother Manny, with a violent streak.
Manny: And somehow you have the right to punish her?
Darcy: She has better things to do than wave pom poms.
Manny: And you're just so concerned for her daughter. Spare me.
(Darcy walks away as Mia walks over.)
Mia: I'm off the squad. Problem solved.
Manny: Well then I quit.
Mia: And let mean girl take over? Don't be stupid. They need you.
At Jimmy's house
(Ashley walks in and hands Jimmy a CD player.)
Ashley: This is yours.
Jimmy: You know what? You can keep it. I don't want it.
Ashley: Thought you wanted to break up.
Jimmy: I don't. We just may as well do it now. It's gonna happen eventually.
Ashley: Why would you say that? What, did you get your palm read? Tarot cards?
Jimmy: Look if I can't do this, how long you really gonna stick around? 6 months, a year?
Ashley: Why do guys always think about one thing?
Jimmy: I'm thinking about a lot of things. What if I can't, ever?
Ashley: Then we deal with it. Who cares?
Jimmy: I care Ashley. I'm a virgin. Do you get it? Do you know what it feels like to know that your epitaph is gonna read 'Jimmy Brooks: crippled virgin'? I mean I can't walk. I can't run. I can't dance. I can't play basketball. I can't even...I can't even make love to you.
Ashley: But you can Jimmy. You can.
Jimmy: No I can't.
Ashley: Says who? Who says s*x has to be just one thing? Jimmy, there are a lot of ways to make love.
Jimmy: I know Ash. I know, but this isn't just about s*x. This is about whether I can do all the things that I want to do. This is about whether I can be the man that I want to be.
Ashley: You're the man that I want you to be Jimmy. Isn't that enough?
(They lean towards each other so their foreheads touch.)
Jimmy: Yeah.
Plan: A: Jimmy; Q: Who wants to take his relationship with Ashley to the next level? A: the girls' basketball team; Q: What team does Jimmy start coaching? A: his paralysis; Q: What has prevented Jimmy from getting an erection? A: Spirit Squad; Q: What team does Darcy captain? A: choreographer Manny; Q: Who does Darcy clash with over new girl Mia? Summary: Jimmy starts coaching the girls' basketball team and wants to take his relationship with Ashley to the next level but, since his paralysis, he has not been able to get an erection. Meanwhile, Darcy, as the new Spirit Squad captain, clashes with choreographer Manny over new girl Mia.