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Scene: Lanier house. Bathroom.

Brooke: (Putting on lip gloss. Val grabs it from her hand.) Hey!

Val: Hey yourself.

Brooke: You're just like mom. She totally flips if I wear her makeup. Since when do you care?

Val: Since it's my makeup.

Joanna: (The camera turns so we're looking out of the bathroom and down the hall.) See you later guys. (They all wave.)

Val: Bye.

Brooke: Bye.

Steve: (Comes out of what we can assume in a bedroom to follow his wife.) Honey, where are all my clean shirts?

Val: (Quietly to Brooke.) Three. . . Two. . . One.

Joanna: (To Steve. The lines are overlapping.) Oh, I forgot. They're still in the dryer. Val!

Val: (louder.) Can I get the laundry for you mom?

(Camera changes so we see Joanna and Steve by the open door.)

Joanna: Thanks Honey, you're a doll! (She kisses the air in her husbands direction.) I'm late. (She leaves and Steve walks off screen. Camera goes back to Brooke and Val.)

Brooke: I'll help you. At least Dad's getting better.

Val: Yeah, but now we may have heart attacks. (Starts putting on lip gloss.)

Brooke: So. . . Uh. . . homecoming. Everybody at your school who isn't a mega loser is going. Are you going?

Val: I hope so.

Brooke: And by that you mean Tyler Connell hasn't asked you yet and you're totally freaked.

Val: No, Brooke, it's so not like that. Me and Tyler are just friends. And it's not like there's a ton of pressure just 'cuz there's some dumb dance.

Brooke: Whatever you say, but what's that I smell? (Sniffs Val.) Eau de Mega Loser?

Val: Okay Brooke, come here. (Puts her arm around Brooke's shoulder and drags her to the shower and pulls back the shower curtain.) See that? (Points to the showerhead) Smell the fear. (Drags her a little closer.)

Brooke: Stop!

Scene: Kingsport track/bleachers.

Melaine Chaun: (Running down the bleachers. She's waving her hands above her head.) Stop! Stop! Stop! Hank! (We see Tyler and Hank running. Hank starts to run faster and Tyler tries to keep up.)

Tyler: (Confused.) Why are you running from Melanie Chaun?

Hank: Isn't the fact that she's Melanie Chaun enough? (Hides by the side of the bleachers and Tyler follows.) She's stalking me. (Tyler sighs and just looks at Hank.) She wants to ask me to the homecoming dance but I don't want to hurt the girl.

Tyler: Okay, can you get over yourself long enough to politely tell her no?

Hank: Seriously, I don't want to hurt her. Plus with the way I dance you gotta be like a professional athlete to keep up, know what I'm saying? (Dances a little in place.)

Tyler: (Doubtful.) Yeah, you're uh. . . you're protecting her.

Hank: Exactly.

Tyler: Cuz uh, she could throw an embolism seeing that coming at her.

Hank: I could hurt you man, I could hurt you real bad. (Tyler takes off running and Hank chases him.)

Melaine Chaun: (Finds them.) Hank, wait up!

(They're walking into the locker room.)

Hank: So what about Val? You're taking her to homecoming, right?

Tyler: Man, you are all over this dance. You sure you're not a girl?

Hank: (In kind of a slow, stupid voice. Mockingly.) Ooh Val, can I carry the defibrillator for you?

Tyler: Okay, I like Val. We're friends and as friends we'll most likely end up going to the dance together. There, now you can alert the media. (Hank laughs.)

Dean: Hey. (Camera spins to show him. Dark, ominous music plays for a few seconds.)

Hank: Oh, Lean Dean the Rebound Machine. (Tyler and Hank smirk/grin.) (Says something indistinguishable.) Basketball season hasn't started.

Dean: The way you boys are playing, it doesn't look like football season's started either. (They stop grinning.) Hey, do guys know if Val Lanier's seeing anybody?

Tyler: (Suspiciously) Why?

Dean: Man, that girl's all that. (Grins.)

Tyler: She has a. . . you know, she hangs out with a friend.

Dean: Not a boyfriend though?

Tyler: No, she's too busy to have a boyfriend. (Hank is loving seeing Tyler squirm.) You know she's got the cheerleading thing and she uh, studies and works all the time.

Dean: (In awe.) Yeah, she's an EMT. That's so awesome.

Tyler: Yeah, you know we're EMTs too.

Dean: Yeah, but you're guys. (Leans in and put his hand on Tyler's shoulder. Tyler kinda glares.) Why would I wanna dance with you? I'm asking Val. (Walks away.)

Hank: (Mocking.) 'Oh uh, we're EMTs too.' (Tyler just looks stunned.) That's weak man, that's weak.

(Tyler sits down to digest what just happened.)

[Opening Credits]

Scene: Caitie and Val are walking down the hallway talking.

(We see a student putting up a Homecoming poster.)

Caitie: Even in a post feminist era, dances are rituals that still focus on male dominance. (Val give Caitie a look.) Women shouldn't be afraid to just shatter the collective social mold and say 'I don't need a man to ask me to a dance. You know, I can just dance.'

Val: Caitie, please. I wanna go to the dance and I want a guy to ask me. (They stop at the lockers.)

Caitie: That is so last millennium. And if you're waiting for Tyler to ask you out, I say quit the squad.

Val: What?

Caitie: Are you so blonde? (Val give her another look.) I mean blind (puts he hand over her mouth in fake embarrassment.) That you can't see Tyler is never gonna cross that nasty friend line while you guys work together.

Val: (Fixing her hair in a mirror in her hand.) Okay, then what about you and Jamie?

Caitie: There is no 'me and Jamie.' And besides, he hangs with my friends, it would be totally uncool.

Val: Oh, so quit hanging with your friends. (Laughs..)

Scene: Hank's and Tyler's lockers. The boys are all there.

Jamie: (Leaning against a locker.) Dances are for jocks and jockettes to gather together, admire one another, and make fun of everybody else.

Tyler: Well I'm going (Fixes his hair in a mirror in his locker.) And I'm going to ask Val before Lean Dean does.

Hank: Yeah, I'm going to the dance too, I've got the suit, I've got the shoes and you know I've got the moves. All I need now is the girl. (Closes his locker and finds a grinning Melanie Chaun there. Surprised and not so glad she's found him.) Melanie. (He looks back at Jamie and Tyler for help but they're just laughing.) It's so nice to um. . . well here you are.

Melanie: (Very upbeat and perky.) So I hear you don't have a date to homecoming. Wanna take me?

(Hank looks back again and they're laughing even more.)

Tyler: Sorry.

Hank: (Not pleased, but doesn't want to be mean.) Gosh, gosh, you know um. . . I'd love to take you. . . but you see um (her face falls) I don’t think it's gonna be a good idea. (Sees how upset she is.) For me to drive. (Her face lights up again.) To drive, yeah, cuz you see my car is just um . . . (clears his throat.)

Melanie: That's okay. I'll drive. We'll take one of my dad's corporate vehicles. I'll pick you up Saturday at seven sharp. (Waves and walks away in seventh heaven.)

(The song "If That Were Me" by Melanie C starts playing. Everything seems to be moving in slow motion. Hank turns to Jamie and Tyler with a What-The-Hell-Just-Happened look on his face. Jamie's giving him the A-Ok sigh and two thumbs up. Obviously mocking him. Tyler's just laughing. He turns his head and the camera does a close up of him. He stops laughing and as the camera follows his gaze time goes faster for a split second and we seen Dean come around a corner. Time goes back to moving just a little bit slower.)

Tyler: Oh no.

(The camera cuts to Dean walking through the crowded hallway. We see Tyler walk away from the guys. The camera cuts to Val and Caitie at their lockers, laughing. Cut to Dean moving closer. We see Val and Caitie as he sees them. Val's taking a book out of her locker. Cut to Tyler walking. Cut back to Dean, then Tyler working his way through the crowd, back to Dean, then we see Val was Tyler does and Dean gets there first. Tyler looks crushed. Any hope he has of getting to Val first is gone when Heather Stillmore cuts him off.)

Heather: Tyler, I read in the paper how you and your EMT squad saved six kids and a dog from poison gas. You're so unbelievably amazing.

(Cut to Dean's POV of Val and Caitie. Caitie sees Dean come up first since Val's back is turned.)

Dean: Hey Val.

Val: (Turns around.) Oh, hey Dean.

Caitie: (Whispers.) Just talk to the bellybutton. (Caitie walks away.)

(Cut to Tyler and Heather.)

Tyler: Actually it was uh, two kids and a hamster. (Something indistinguishable.) But thanks. (He looks over at Val and Dean.)

Val: Sorry, what were you saying?

(Tyler looks back at Heather looking kind of sad. We see Dean's lips move as he's talking to Val but we can't hear anything. Val looks back at Tyler and sees him leaning against a wall to keep taking to Heather. He looks like he's having a good time. She looks upset, but turns her attention back to Dean.)

Heather: Are you going to homecoming?

(Val looks back at Tyler just as he looks up at her. She turns back to Dean and he looks upset. Cut to Caitie walking away.)

Tyler: Yeah, yeah I think I am. Can you excuse me for one second, Heather? Thanks. (Goes to intercept Caitie.) Caitie, what's going on?

Caitie: Nothing. Oh, unless of course you count Freak Of Nature over there asking Val to homecoming.

Tyler: (Sarcastic) Oh that's great! (looks at them for a split second. Angry.) Why did you let this happen?

Caitie: Hey, look. If I were in charge of Val she'd have purple hair, okay? (Caitie walks away. Tyler looks over at Val and Dean and sees them walk off together, still talking.)

Heather: (Comes over to him.) Tyler, walk ya to history? (As Val and Dean turn the corner, Val looks back and sees Tyler and Heather. Both couples walk off in different directions.)

Tyler: Okay.

Scene: Caitie and Jamie leaning against lockers.

(Caitie is leaning with her back to the lockers while Jamie is standing so his hand is on top of one of the lockers and his weight in on his forearm.)

Caitie: What fools these mortals be?

Jamie: Poor Hank, Melanie hooked him.

Caitie: Oh. Nerds one, jocks zero. Go girl. (They start walking to class.)

Jamie: This whole dance thing is a little outa control.

Caitie: Yeah, way scary.

Jamie: Everybody's like (kinda strained, mocking voice a little higher than his own.) 'What are you wearing and who's parry are we gonna hit afterwards?' It's pathetic!

Caitie: Yeah.

Jamie: I'm glad you're not into that stuff.

Caitie: And I am though. (He looks at her.) Not in my lifetime. (They both sit down.)

Jamie: I mean the only reason to even go would be to watch everyone make a total idiot of themselves.

Caitie: Yeah I know. Observing rockheads and skanks in their natural habitat is always a fascinating study.

Jamie: (Leans in closer to Caitie.) You know. . . We could go and. . . do something. . . Freak everybody out.

Caitie: (Considers it.) You know what? You're on. And I got the plan. (Leans over the aisle to conspire with Jamie.)

Scene: Station.

(Tyler and Hank are working out plays on a white board.)

Tyler: Alright I'll run to the flat here.

Hank: And after this play action fake.

Brooke: (Comes out of the bathroom.) Val, look, clear mascara.

Tyler: (In the background.) How 'bout uh. . .

Val: But if you can't see it what's the point?

Brooke: Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there. (Glances at Tyler. Val grins.) Hey, don't you think it's weird that mom and dad's anniversary is this Saturday and they don't even have plans?

Val: No, what I think is weird is that you think it's any of your business. (Grabs Brooke's arm and drags her off to the refrigerator.) Hey Brooke, guess what. Dean Kofkee asked me to the dance today.

Brooke: Ooh, Lean Dean the Rebound Machine. What's you say.

Val: Shh, shh, shh.

(Cut to Tyler's face.)

Hank: We'll probably have the outside linebacker and the safety on you

Tyler: (Interrupting Hank.) I bet you they're talking about Lean Dean. (Hank looks over.)

Val: (Quietly.) I said no obviously. (looks over at the boys.) I still think Tyler might ask me. But now Heather Stillmore is like, all over him.

Brooke: Heather Stillmore from cheerleading? Ew. No way he likes her.

Val: Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there.

Jamie: (Walks in dressed in street clothes.) What's up fellas? What is this? (Looks over at their board. There's lots of Xs and Os.) Oh, tic-tac-toe gone terribly, terribly wrong.

Tyler: No, it's plays. Lincoln wiped us last year at state and there's nothing more embarrassing than losing your own homecoming.

Hank: Oh except showing up to the dance with Melanie Chaun. You see I'm only calling plays that get me crushed so I can spend dance night in traction. That's how I'm working it.

Jamie: (Shakes his head.) Okay, this whole homecoming this is way outa control. Now you boys both seriously need lives.

Val: I hear that. It's a football game and a dance. Big deal. (She sits down. "Come On Over" by Christina Aguilera starts to play. Tyler looks at her and time seems to slow down a bit. Jamie looks at Tyler and kinda smiles at what he thinks is gonna happen. Almost as if Val can feel his eyes on her, she looks up.)

Tyler: (Time moves faster as he walks closer.) So, are you going? (Starts going slow again.) Because if. . . (Val looks like she's gonna say yes and starts to nod. The station alarm rings and the music stops and everything's back to normal.)

Scene: Outside a house, unloading the ambulance.

Tyler: Val, can I carry the defibrillator-

Val: It's not heavy.

Scene: Inside the house.

(Tyler is working on paperwork and he and Hank are off to the side.)

Tyler: Well, I'm reporting 'Kid sidelined by side dish.' You wanna add anything? (Hank shakes his head.)

(Cut to a little boy with a green thing up his nose. Val has tweezers and Jamie's crouching against a wall holding what could be a stuffed animal.)

Boy: I was hiding it from Dad.

Val: Well that's a good place. Dad's never think to look for Brussels sprouts up people's noses. (Jamie stands up.)

Mr. Trockly: I don't get it, how could this happen?

Jamie: Mr. Trockly, he's just fine. Don’t be so hard on yourself.

Mr. Trockly: What? No, no I mean how could this happen? How could anyone, let alone a five year old fit a one inch Brussels sprout up his nose?

Val: (Pointedly at Tyler) You'd be amazed at what some people are capable of.

(Tyler and Hank talk in hushed voices.)

Tyler: What is she mad at me for? She's the one going that's to the dance with that glad case Lean Dean.

Hank: Yeah, so you gonna let this girl do you like that?

Tyler: Yeah?

Hank: No, Tyler you're not. You've been in Emergency Response long enough to know that you've gotta fight fire with fire.

Scene: Lanier kitchen.

Stock Shot: Outside Lanier house. Night.

(Brooke and Val are eating dinner.)

Brooke: I mean this whole not having romantic plans on your anniversary thing could be the sign of serious trouble between Mom and Dad.

Val: Or their not telling you their plans could be a sign of serious intelligence.

Brooke: (Distresses.) Don't you get it? First someone gets sick, and then the other one has too much to do and starts resenting the sick one and then anniversaries get forgotten and we become another horrible statistic.

Val: Brooke, stop worrying. You're going to make yourself crazy. And what's you're gonna make me crazy.

Brooke: (Excitedly.) Hey, you know how you don't have a date for your special night and that makes you feel forgotten, left out and passed over?

Val: For your safety's sake there better be a point to this.

Brooke: I'm gonna fix Mom and Dad up on a date. I'll get them dinner reservations and flowers and iron their best clothes and they'll laugh and have a great time and everything will be back to normal.

(Val puts her head in her hands. There's a knock on the door and Caitie walks in.)

Caitie: Hey, what's up?

Val: Nothing, just Brooke being a lunatic.

Caitie: Oh yeah, my little brother goes nuts sometimes too. I usually just flush his head in the toilet. (Val laughs.) Um. . . hey. . . Can I borrow your cheerleading uniform?

Val: Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd hear from you.

Caitie: Yeah, Jamie and I are going to the dance dressed as a cheerleader and a football player to totally dis the actual jock ad jockette.

Val: Nice.

Caitie: Hey, why don’t you and Dean come with us?

Val: (Sarcastic.) Gee, as much fun as that would be. . .

Caitie: (Hand to her mouth thing.) Oh, right. I forgot, sorry. You two are actual jocks and jockettes.

Val: I said no to Dean.

Caitie: (Actually looks surprised.) Oh really? Oh I figured since Tyler's going with Heather you'd for sure be going with Dean. (Val looks shocked and Caitie sees it.) Oh. Oh. Um. (Val puts her hands on her temples.) Uh listen, Jamie told me, he just asked her, I mean there still might be time for him to ditch her.

Val: Could my life get any worse?

[Commercial Break]

Scene: School Hallway

(Val's walking down the hall, Tyler's at his locker. He sees her and runs to catch up.)

Tyler: Val, wait up. (She keeps walking. He gets in front of her and forces her to stop walking.) Hey. Listen, Hank told me that Jamie told him that you told Caitie that Heather. ..

Val: (Interrupts. Pissed.) When you finish this sentence will you be all grown up?

Tyler: Sorry. Look, I'm going to the dance with Heather, but only because I thought you were g oing with the Rebound Machine.

Val: Oh and that makes it better why?

Tyler: Look Val, I messed up. But. . .

Val: You know what Tyler? Save it. I don't care about this stupid dance or who goes with who. . .

Tyler: Fine, then I'm going.

Val: Well I'm fine that you are.

Tyler: Fine!

Val: Fine! (Tyler pushes past her and the both walk away. To herself.) Fine.

Stock Shot: Lanier house. Night.

Scene: Lanier Kitchen.

(Joanna and Val are there. Joanna is all dressed up and she pulls a metal plate/pan or something out of the cupboard to use as a mirror. She sighs.)

Val: Mom, what's wrong?

Joanna: Oh, nothing. (A little sarcastic.) Brooke was kind enough to help me with my makeup. (She's fixing it in the plate.)

Val: What is with her obsession with makeup?

Joanna: She twelve.

Val: I don't think I cared about makeup when I was twelve.

Joanna: (Joking.) Oh Sweetheart, you were never twelve. You were a child then you were an EMT.

Val: Yeah, speaking of which, I feel like Cinderella volunteering to hold down the on call shift alone while my wicked step brothers go to the ball.

Joanna: It's not the dance that's bothering you is it? (Val looks up at her.) Honey, believe it or not you did the right thing. Not going with the wrong guy just to go to the dance.

Val: Thanks Mom. I'm still bummed. I mean aren't you kind of bummed that Dad didn't make plans to take you out for your anniversary.

Joanna: No. We planned to have no plans. Between you and me I wish Brooke didn't have her heart set on this date thing. I would just love to stay at home, curl up on the couch and watch "Breakfast at Tiffany's" on cable tonight.

Val: That's so romantic.

Joanna: Sweetheart. I know it doesn't make you feel better right now, I promise, one day you'll be out for a burger with the right guy, it'll be more romantic than any big dance. (Kisses her daughter's head. The door opens and Brooke and Steve walk in. He has flowers.)

Joanna: Hey. (Smiles.)

Steve: Whoa Honey, you look gorgeous.

Joanna: (Kisses him and takes the flowers.) Why thank you.

Steve: So, I guess we better get going.

Val: Brooke, let's call the restaurant and get dinner to go. (Brooke looks crushed.) I think these two would rather have "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

Steve: What do you say, Sweetie. We'll do a rain check on this, okay?

Brooke: (Confused.) You don't wanna be together?

Val: (Whispering.) That's the whole point, silly. Come here, come here. (Brooke does.) If you come to the station with me tonight I'll let you use my makeup for a month. (Brooke looks back at her parents. They kiss and she agrees.)

Scene: School Parking lot. Dance. Night.

(There's music. Not sure what song. Couples are going in.)

Heather: Tyler, hurry up.

Tyler: I'm coming.

Heather: That beeper doesn't really go with that tie and jacket. (He's hooking it on his belt.)

Tyler: Yeah I know, but I have to wear it. I'm on call.

Heather: Come on, Rick Stage's band's playing.

Tyler: (Doesn't look impressed.) As if we're gonna miss anything. Rick Stage wouldn't know good music if he swallowed a Limp Bizkit. (The look into the parking lot and see a van with a toilet on top pull in. The words 'Happy Plumber Plumbing" are on the side )

Heather: That must be Caitie and Jamie, you said they were gonna do something funny tonight. (Doesn't find it funny.)

Tyler: Actually, they're dressing up like a football player and a cheerleader.

Heather: That's not funny.

(Hank runs out of the van as fast as he can when it pulls up by Tyler and Heather. It was still moving.)

Melanie: Hank! I haven't even parked yet!

Hank: Yeah, yeah, I'm just waiting for you right out here, you know? Go, go. (Melanie huffs and drives off to park.)

Tyler: Well that was rude, Dude.

Hank: Yeah, I know. But if you think that truck is awful wait until you Melanie's dress.

Heather: (Looks over their shoulder.) Oh no. (Tyler and Hank look and start laughing. Caitie is the football player and has "rockhead" printed on the front of the jersey. Jamie is a cheerleader in the skirt and blond wig and crown. He's got a beauty pageant type sash that says "Skank Queen.")

Hank: James! Pretty fly for a whit guy. (Loving it.)

Heather: Tyler, your friends are weird.

Tyler: Yeah, tell me about it. (Looks back at them with a I-Can't-Believe-You're-Doing-This face. Jamie takes out a compact and checks his makeup.)

Scene: Station. Brooke is doing more makeup.

Brooke: Ta da! What famous person do it look like? (She drew a fake mole above her lip.)

Val: Um. Human or cartoon? (Laughs.)

Brooke: How do people get moles?

(Mr. Trockly knocks on the door and comes in. He's hiding his nose.)

Val: Mr. Trockly, what are you doing here? (He moves his hand and he's got a Brussels sprout up his nose. Val's amazed.) You just had to see how your little boy did it, didn't you.

Scene: Bleachers

(Tyler walks up to Caitie and Jamie. We can her another unidentified song. Caitie's got the crown now.)

Jamie: Hey T, where's Miss Thing?

Tyler: Well she dumped me for the band guy.

Caitie: Don't worry, it won't last. Her hair do can't survive moshing.

(They all look over at Hank and Melanie who are walking out the door. They're arguing.)

Melanie: Hank! You danced with everything in a dress including that freak Jamie, except me. You know, just because a person's a little different. . .

Hank: Look, I'm sorry, okay. I just promised dances to some of my friends. We'll go back in a few minutes.

Melanie: Oh no you don't. If you think I'm a nerd, then you're the only person standing here who does. At least I know how to say no nicely if someone asks me to a dance and I don't wanna go with them. In fact, I'm doing that right now: No thank you, Hank. I do not want to go back to that dance with you. (She walks off.)

Hank: Melanie, wait. (She stops and turns.) I'm sorry. You're right, I've been a total jerk, and you've been pretty cool. I mean it takes a pretty solid woman to drive a toilet. Wait, that didn't come out right. I hope we can still be friends?

Melanie: Just don't ever dance near me, 'cuz you're really a terrible dancer. (Beeper goes off. He checks it.) Oh man. (To everyone.) Come on guys, let's hit it!

Scene: Outside a house

(A man is lying unconscious on the patio.)

Wife: Oh why me? Oh why, why? (Hears the ambulance door slam.) Oh there, there. . . Hello! Hi, hi he's not breathing. I heard a thud, he was just lying there.

Hank: Okay Ma'am, step aside.

Wife: What, oh 'Step aside.'

Hank: Mr. Simpson, can you hear me? Unresponsive. Possible spine injury. I'll stabilize him. Jamie, assess breathing. (Mr. Simpson takes a deep breath.)

Wife: (Startled.) Oh for. . .

Mr. Simpson:: You! (To the squad.) She tried to kill me. Arrest her!

Jamie: Well, he can breathe. He just got the wind knocked out of him.

Wife: He is just faking dead to punish me cuz I told him to fix the satellite dish right.

Hank: Don't move Mr. Simpson. My name is Hank from Kingsport EMS. Jamie I need a collar, Tyler a backboard.

Jamie: (Off screen.) Respiration sixteen and deep.

Wife: (They continue the argument even though the squad is there.) I meant call a repairman. Now, look look look, will you look at what Jack Be Nimble did to my rosebushes? I can't even stand it.

Val: BP's one twenty over eight. (Someone's putting a collar on him.) Pulse is eighty and regular. I'm checking for fractures. (Mr. Simpson starts straining against the collar.)

Mr. Simpson: (Starts yelling.) Nagging? How go you know I didn't jump of purposely?!

Wife: Don't you know how happy that would make me dear?

Hank: We're gonna move you now Mr. Simpson. (To the squad.) On the count of three.

Wife: Huh?

Hank: One. Two. Three.

Wife: What? (They lift him up and she cringes.) Oh! Don't bleed on my flagstone! Oh, the agony. (Val gives the guys a Oh-My-God-Can-You-Believe-Her look. Cut to them wheeling the gurney to the ambulance. Mrs. Simpson is walking with them.) Okay, that's good. It's good. Hold on. (She climbs into the back of the ambulance before her husband.)

Mr. Simpson: (We see his head on the gurney.) You're coming?

Wife: Of course I'm coming. Where you go, I go. (To the squad.) We've been together since high school you know.

Mr. Simpson: Oh. (Could be he was touched by his wife or just out of pain.)

Wife: (To Her Husband.) If you ever die, I will kill you. Here we go. (He groans in pain as he's put in the ambulance.) Oh simmer down, it doesn't hurt that much. Hurry up. Hurry up. Let's go, let's get out of here.

Mr. Simpson: It's okay, it's okay.

(Val and Tyler walk to the other side of the ambulance.)

Tyler: So we're still friends, right? I mean we shouldn't let something as ridiculous as a school dance come between us.

Val: Definitely not.

Tyler: Truce?

Val: Absolutely. (Changes her voice to sound threatening. I wanna say Italian Mafia like.) Just don't bleed on my flagstone. (They get in the ambulance.)

Scene: Station.

(Jamie and Hank are walking in from the garage and arguing. Val and Tyler are behind them.)

Hank: No Man, you can not wear your jumpsuit home.

Jamie: (Sarcastically.) You're a real pal, Hank. (Turns to Val.) Val?

Val: Yes Jamie, you can wear my cheerleading uniform, but I've got two words for you: Dry. Clean. Okay? (Tyler smirks at Jamie and looks like he's gonna say something. The scene cuts to a close up of Brooke asleep on the couch. She's overdone her makeup. Val kneels by her.) Guess I'll be doing the paperwork alone.

Tyler: I'll stay and help you.

Hank: Jamie, get you dress on, this bus is leaving. (Shoves the cheerleading uniform into Jamie's hands. It shows Tyler walking past the TV and picking up the remote control. In the back we can see Jamie and Hank walking away. Jamie throws the uniform at Hank and runs away.)

Hank: Hey! (Starts chasing Jamie.) Hey! Skank Queen. (Laughs.)

Tyler: (Sits on the couch. Val joins him. "If That Were Me" by Melanie C starts to play again.) "Breakfast at Tiffany's" I love this movie.

Val: Me too. (They sit back to watch.)

[Fade Out]

Transcribed by: MM

Written by: Susan Cridland Wick
Original Air Date: September 23rd, 2000

Cast Info
Lisa Ng- Melanie Chaun
Jordan Walker- Dean Kofkee
Lori Hallier- Joanna Lanier
David McIlwraith- Steve Lanier
Heather Bertram- Heather Stillmore
Connor Price- Brandon
James Kall- Reggie
Don Tripe- Greg
Ellen Ray Hennessy- Eleanor

Music:
If That Were Me- Melanie C
Come On Over (All I Want Is You)- Christina Aguilera
A-M-Y (That Spells Amy)- The Plus Ones
Now You Know I Do- The Plus Ones