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Scene: Outside a house.

(A patient is on the ground looking a little dazed. Val and Tyler are on either side of him.)

Tyler: Mr. Randolph you seem fine. Just don't hyperventilate. What's wrong?

Mr. Randolph: Bugs. Cockroaches.

Val: Were you bitten by one of them?

Mr. Randolph: I was making a sandwich. I turned my back for one second. . . to start water for tea. I guess a roach crawled into the open sandwich. (Shot of Val and Tyler looking disgusted.) I came back, closed the sandwich and took a bite. (Tyler coughs into his hand and Val looks like she's trying not to gag.)

Val: Oh, oh no. (Cringing.)

Mr. Randolph: Crunch.

Val: Ugh. (Cringes more.)

Mr. Randolph: It's the worse sound I've ever heard. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't gonna get sick or anything like that.

Tyler: Just relax, you'll be fine.

Mr. Randolph: I'm getting my revenge. I set up some of those bug bombs.

Tyler: Well that's-that's good. A couple of those will do the trick.

Mr. Randolph: A couple? No, try like half a dozen. It's a total preemptive strike.

Val: Six bug bombs?

Mr. Randolph: Yeah. (Puts his finger to his mouth in a Shh motion.)

Tyler: I don't know about that, Mr. Randolph.

Mr. Randolph: What's to worry about? Unless you're a cockroach.

Val: Did you spread them evenly throughout your house?

Tyler: And cover your food and your drinking glasses.

Val: Make sure the stove was off. Those things are flammable.

Mr. Randolph: Course, course. (Panics.) Course, I was boiling water for tea! Oh! (Runs towards his house. The house explodes. Val and Tyler turn their heads away and cover their faces. Mr. Randolph is thrown backwards. He sits up, even more dazed than he was before.) Yep, the water's ready. (Falls back down.)

[Opening Credits]

Scene: Outside a house. Continued.

(Now there are fire trucks there. The house is roped off with yellow caution tape and a crowd of people are there.)

Mr. Randolph: (Excited. He's fine, but got a bandage on his head.) Did you see that? Did you see that?

Tyler: We couldn't have missed it, Mr. Randolph.

Mr. Randolph: That'll show those roaches. They'll tell other roaches to avoid this house from now on. They'll tell their children and their grandchildren 'you don't mess with Larry Randolph'. (There's a crowd shot with a focus on Harmon.) Yeah!

Val: Good lesson to learn.

Scene: Under the bleachers.

Caitie: Look, somebody isn't listening to Smokey the Bear.

Jamie: Ooh. (We see a smoking cigarette on the ground and Jamie's grinding it out. Mocking.) Stir the ashes and ground them again. (Pours some of his water on them.)

Brianne: (Mocking.) Only you can prevent forest fires.

Carlson: (Walks up to them.) Someone trying to burn down our school?

Caitie: (False sweet.) Oh, Mr. Carlson.

Carlson: How good of you to firmly extinguish your cigarette Jamie.

Jamie: (Spits out the water in his mouth.) It's not mine.

Carlson: We'll discuss this in my office. Now. (Walks away expecting them to follow him. Caitie does, but not quietly.)

Caitie: Whatever happened to due process? And what about our Miranda rights, Mr. Carlson? You know, I watch NYPD Blue. Okay, there is such a thing as Habeas Corpus.

Scene: Hallway.

(They're being shown from the office and Caitie is still protesting. Jamie is pushing her. We see Brianne come out more slowly and lean against the wall for support.)

Caitie: And what about our right to appeal a verdict? We shoulda had a lawyer in there.

Jamie: Another day, another detention. Just take it easy.

Caitie: Okay, look. Carlson is just a bully. Okay, next thing you know, he'll want some of our lunch money okay, we gotta do something. (Sees Brianne.) Hey, you okay?

Brianne: (Looks around for a sec.) What?

Caitie: Brianne, what's wrong?

Jamie: Sit down. (She slides down the wall to the ground. Caitie and Jamie bend with her.)

Brianne: No, I'm fine. Really.

Jamie: Take deep, slow breaths.

Brianne: (She does.) It's just a low blood sugar moment. Really.

Caitie: You're sure?

Brianne: No sweat. (They stand up.) Tomorrow I'll remember my protein shake. Later. (Walks off and Jamie give Caitie a look.)

Scene: Outdoor basketball court.

(Some guys are playing two on two.)

Player one: Go, Doug you coming? (Holds back an opposing player. It's really hard to guess what he's saying so this might not be right.)

Player two: Give me a break, man!

Player one: (Shouts something else to his teammate. Trying to hold back an opposing player.)

Player two: I will man, I will. (Goes to do a lay up and groans in pain.)

Player one: (Looking up.) Ooh. (Cringes.)

(Cut to later. The man's hand seems to be caught around the rim of the hoop. He's sitting on his teammates shoulders. Val and Hank are on top of the ambulance to treat this one.)

Player two: I- I did make the shot.

Hank: I hope it was worth it. I'm gonna have to give you a little topical anesthetic before we get you loose. (To Val.) Get me a swab?

Player two: Hold still guys.

Hank: (Val hands something to Hank and looks at the crowd gathering.) Kay, we're gonna give you some temporary closures. We'll give you permanent ones at the hospital. This may sting a little. (We see Harmon on his bike.)

Stock shot: Outside school.

Scene: Detention.

(Caitie is sitting on a desk with her feet on the seat on front of up. Jamie is sitting on a ledge by a window.)

Jamie: It's just detention Caitie, it's a fact off life.

Caitie: Fine, you know what? You roll over and play dead, I gotta do something.

Jamie: (Sarcastically.) Like what? Stage a sit in?

Caitie: You know what? Why not? There's plenty of other kids burned by Carlson. Get 'em all to. . . sit out seventh period Friday. You know, not like skipping school or anything, more like uh, students going on strike. Carlson will see he can't pull these kind of stunts.

Jamie: You tell your history teacher about it. You could say it's a research project on Civil Disobedience. You could get extra credit.

Caitie: (Annoyed he's not taking her seriously.) Okay, this isn't about extra credit, okay. It's about fighting a dictator. No justice, no peace.

Jamie: You know when you get all angry like that you look like Lucy from the Charlie Brown cartoons. (Does that 'talk-talk-talk' thing with his hand that you do when people don't shut up and laughs. Caitie give him a look. He stops laughing.) I'm kidding.

(Bell rings.)

Carlson: Alright, you guys can go. (Looks around the room.) Where's Brianne? Did she show up at all?

Caitie: Oh no, no. She's right here. (Goes to an empty desk.) See? Just uh, the lack of respect you've shown just made her invisible. (Carlson give her a Don't-Be-A-Smart-Ass look.) In fact I'm uh, about to fade out of sight myself.

Jamie: You know, you do look a little blurry.

Carlson: (Sick of their act.) Alright, you let her know I'm on her case. (Walks away.)

Caitie: (Calling after him.) Okay, um, you know what? Wait til uh, seventh period Friday okay, then you'll see all of us.

Jamie: Where is Brianne anyway? (Caitie shrugs.)

Scene: Outside school.

(Val's walking and Harmon intercepts her.)

Harmon: Hey Val, remember me? Harmon Wilbur. Mr. Bates geography class with you in eighth grade?

Val: Yeah, sure. You were the first one to memorize all the capitals of Africa.

Harmon: Hey right, that was me. Abuja Nigeria, all that. Listen, I really hate to bother you but I've been feeling really really tired lately and I'm thinking you know, could be Mono.

Val: (Uncomfortable.) Well, you look alright to me.

Harmon: Could you look closer, maybe feel my glands?

Val: Um, that sort of thing's really better from your primary care doctor.

Harmon: Oh, I know that, but he's a very busy man and you've got all that medical experience and everything. And oh, actually you know what (pulls down the collar of his shirt) Do you see this mole here, does that look strange to you?

Val: (Walks faster trying to get away.) I don't really know moles.

Harmon: You don't know moles?

Val: I don't. No.

Scene: Hallway.

(We see Brianne walking down a hallway and she runs into Jamie and Caitie. Caitie is passing out flyers for her sit in.)

Jamie: Brianne, you flaked on Carlson you know, he's gunning for you now.

Brianne: (Trying to remember.) I did? (Remembering.) Oh, yeah, maybe.

Caitie: Look, you did the right thing, okay. Don't cave. Here, hand these out everywhere. (Hand's Brianne a stack of flyers.) There's a sit in Friday, seventh period. Everyone ever unjustly accused or punished by Maximum Carlson should be there. I'm calling it Maximum Resistance. Hey, I should make T-shirts with a like a big raised fist and Carlson squirming between the fingers.

Brianne: Caitie, Carlson is not that big of a deal alright? I'll just grovel. I'll tell him I forgot, which is almost the truth anyway. (Jamie frowns at her.) He'll give me about a hundred years in detention. I'll skip some, do some. (By now she's talking to herself and walking away.) By then it'll be summer and it won't really matter, we'll be free anyway and after that I'll just have more time to keep doing what I'm doing. (They watch her walk down the hall. Caitie's amused and Jamie's worried.)

Jamie: I guess when you talk to yourself you know you have an intelligent audience.

Caitie: Ugh, classic art student behavior Jamie. Brianne's probably just working up some new sculpture in her head and her mouth's running on impulse power. Here's help me with these flyers okay. (To a passing student. Hands him a flyer.) Have you ever been sent to detention on circumstantial evidence.

Student: No.

Scene: Station. I'd say Common room.

(Tyler and Hank are sitting at the counter playing chess. Hank makes a move. Val comes in.)

Val: Hey, you're guys.

Hank: (At the same time as Tyler) Yeah, last time I checked.

Tyler: Yeah. (Or something like that, Hank drowns him out.)

Val: No, no cuz I need guy advice. How do you gently tell a guy to cool his jets over you?

Hank: (Glances at a nervous Tyler.) Well it depends, who's the Romeo?

Val: It's Harmon Wilbur. And he keeps following me everywhere. It- it's kinda flattering but he made me late for trig yesterday, asking me to diagnose him. 'Maybe I have a fever' or uh, 'maybe it's the chills' or 'say, if you cut your finger on a dog food can, can you get flesh eating bacteria?' I mean it's all really just an excuse to talk because he's, he's got a little crush on me.

Hank: Yeah, then he's got a crush on me too.

Val: What?

Hank: Yeah, he cornered me in gym class. Wanted to know if he had tennis elbow. You won't believe the kind of looks you get when you're feeling another guys elbow.

Tyler: He's just a terminal hypochondriac.

Val: (Kind of disappointed.) Oh. . . Well. . . At least it's not a crush. (Like she can't wait to get out of there.) Kay, see you guys.

Stock Shot: Outside Kingsport High School. Day.

Scene: Hallway.

Jamie: (Sees Brianne at her locker and goes over to her.) Brianne.

Brianne: Hi.

Jamie: You uh, you going to Caitie's sit-in?

Brianne: (A little distracted.) Uh, sure. How hard can it be to sit in one spot for an hour?

Jamie: (Sees a can of hairspray in Brianne's locker. Takes it out and shakes it. It’s empty. Half joking, half serious) I never really took you as the helmet hair type.

Brianne: It's just for an art project.

Jamie: It's empty.

Brianne: Yeah, I was um. . . I was working on these filaments for a sculpture and I thought that hairspray might make them stay put.

Jamie: You know you. . . you wanna be careful about how much of that stuff you use. (Pause.) It's on your breath.

Brianne: (Kind of in a Stay-Out-Of-My-Business tone.) Yeah, I'm also putting holes in the Ozone Layer. Thanks for worrying. (Kinda stares/glares at him and then slams her locker and walks away. Jamie's got an Oh-Great-I-Made-It-Worse look on his face. Brianne's locker bounces open and Jamie goes to close it but stops. He looks in and sees she's got a ton of White Out bottles there. They're all empty.)

Scene: Hallway.

(Later on that day. Jamie is telling Caitie what he found. Caitie thinks he's nuts and doesn't believe it. Her tone throughout the entire conversation shows it.)

Caitie: (Doesn't want to believe it.) Okay, so she make a lot of typing mistakes.

Jamie: Who even uses a typewriter anymore? (Caitie starts to walk away and Jamie grabs her arm to stop her.) This is not good.

Caitie: Jamie. (Tries to leave again and Jamie stops her again.) Jamie, I gotta get the rest of my posters up.

Jamie: This is maybe a little more important. I think Brianne's been huffing.

Caitie: What? (Looks confused and doubtful.)

Jamie: Huffing, that's sniffing aerosols. . . inhalants. Getting high off the fumes.

Caitie: (Annoyed.) Okay thanks um, I know what huffing is, I just. . . I can't believe you think she'd do anything so stupid.

Jamie: The dizziness, the spacing out, and now all that stuff in her locker.

Caitie: Jamie. . . Brianne and I have been vegetarians since seventh grade. Okay, our bodies are like 'no littering zones'. Neither of us would ever do drugs.

Jamie: When was the last time you think she really listened to what you were saying?

Caitie: Oh. . . okay. . . um when was the last you really listened to me? Okay, if that's the criteria. (Walks away. Jamie stops her again.)

Jamie: Look, maybe I'm wrong. (pause.) What if I'm right? (Caitie rolls her eyes.)

Scene: Under the bleachers.

(Brianne is sitting there and Caitie comes up and sighs.)

Brianne: Hey Caitie, returning to the scene of the crime?

Caitie: What crime?

Brianne: When Carlson busted us for smoking. Don't you remember?

Caitie: Uh yeah, that was. . . that was the whole point. Brianne, we weren't smoking.

Brianne: (Shrugs.) Oh. Well. . . Whoops.

Caitie: Uh, do you uh, do you smell something?

Brianne: Actually it's weird. Lately, I haven't really been able to smell much of anything.

Caitie: Uh, it's-it's like um. . . spray paint maybe?

Brianne: Well Sherlock, you do hang out with an artist (pulls a can of spray paint out of her bag) who carries paint around. (Sarcastically.) Is that crazy or what?

Caitie: Okay um, just be careful with that stuff, okay?

Brianne: Oh yeah, I know. You light a match around this and whoosh. (Moves the can in front of her to mime fire starting all over the place, or something like that.)

Caitie: (Laughs quietly. To herself.) Yeah. (Louder.) Okay, um. . . look, I was talking to Jamie and uh. . . he thinks. . . well he's a total dimwit (laughs. Brianne uses body language to agree) but um. . . I just. . . I told him I'd ask you. Um, (laughs again) you haven't been huffing, have you? (Brianne's face starts to look angry.) No, of course you haven't.

Brianne: (Angry.) I haven't.

Caitie: I know, I told him.

Brianne: (Throws something on the ground and stands up so she's level with Caitie. She puts her bag over her shoulder. Angry.) Yeah, but why would you think that?

Caitie: Nothing, we were just kinda worried. Like he was just worried, you know?

Brianne: (Angry.) Because I what? Because I carry around paint? Because I forget a few things?

Caitie: Look, he just. . he just thought I should ask you just to be a good friend. You know?

Brianne: (Angry. Sarcastic.) Oh, is that what friends do? You're not a drug addict are you? (Lowers her voice and steps closer to Caitie.) Why don't you save the intervention for someone who needs it?

Caitie: Look, I'm sorry okay. I only wanted to-

Brianne: You know, you're starting to think like Carlson yourself. Maybe I should turn myself into him, huh? And while I'm in his office, I'll nominate you as anti-drug student of the year!

Caitie: Brianne, look-

Brianne: I don't want to hear it, Ms. Narc. (Walks away. Caitie sighs and leans against the bleachers.)

[Commercial Break]

Scene: Station common room.

(Hank is reading on the couch and Brooke is working on the computer. Jamie is leaning back in a chair tossing some sort of food in the air and catching it in his mouth. Caitie stomps in.)

Caitie: (Sarcastically.) Thanks a lot Jamie.

Jamie: What'd I do now?

Caitie: You and your uh, stupid suspicions just ruined a friendship.

Jamie: You talked to her?

Caitie: Like a maroon. (That is what she says. Probably is just exaggerating 'Moron' Brooke looks interested.) Look, Brianne is just different, okay Jamie? That doesn't make her (looks around) what you said.

Jamie: What about all the stuff?

Caitie: Oh, you mean like all the evidence? Oh, just like um. . . the evidence Carlson used to give us detention? You have been infected by the goody-goody squad Jamie, okay, so just do us all a favor and just butt out of everyone's life. Okay, especially mine! (Walks out of the station and Jamie stands up.)

Brooke: What was that all about?

Jamie: You don't wanna know. (Walks away and Hank stares after him.)

Scene: Outside on a running path.

(The ambulance pulls up. The camera pans over to a group of people. Two are just watching, there's a jogger on the ground gasping for breath, and Harmon is kneeling next to him.)

Harmon: You'll be alright man, more help's here. Hey Val! Tyler!

(We see Val and Tyler get out of the ambulance looking stunned when they see Harmon.)

Val: (In disbelief.) He's already here. (Shakes her head.) Oh my. . .

Harmon: Look, I brought a scanner so I can know what's going on. What is this, like code three, code four? (Holds up right number of fingers for each number.)

Tyler: Harmon, we're going to need you out of the way. (Tyler pushes him away and uses his body to keep Harmon away from the patient.)

Harmon: Yeah sure. You know he's kinda wheezing so could that be emphysema? (Tyler's listening with a stethoscope and Val's taking his pulse. The Jogger looks scared.) Maybe he's a smoker or. . . wait, he's a jogger. Why would he be smoking? But then again people do stupid things all the time so. . .

Jogger: Do I have emphysema?

Harmon: Oh, you know what? It might be something else.

Tyler: Val! (She gets up to go talk to Harmon.)

Harmon: (Continued.) Maybe he picked up some bug without even knowing it. How 'bout the flu or Black water disease.

Tyler: (To the patient. During Harmon's tangent.) No, your lung sounds fine. I think you're gonna be alright.

Val: (Puts her arm around Harmon shoulder and subtly drags him away.) Harmon. You can't get in the way like this. You need to let us do our job.

Harmon: Okay.

Val: Okay. (Goes back to treating the patient.)

Harmon: You know what? You might have to intubeate it if he's going. . .

Val: (Yelling. Cuts off Harmon.) Harmon! Leave us alone! Go bother your own friends!

Harmon: (Sadly.) You guys are my friends.

Scene: Station common room.

(Val and Alex are in the kitchen talking about the call.)

Val: (To Alex.) I didn't know what to say. I didn't want to hurt his feelings but. . . he was scaring the patient. (Sits next to Tyler on the couch.)

Alex: Well, he means well obviously, but we can't let him obstruct a call.

Tyler: He needs to get a life.

Val: Well I think that's what he thought he was doing by hanging around with us.

Brooke: Well if we can't beat him, maybe we should make him join.

Tyler: What? You mean like bring him along on a call? Nah, I don't think so.

Brooke: No, recruit him for EMS training. Then he can start answering questions instead of just asking them. Then he'll know as much as we do and he can drive himself crazy.

Alex: Well it's worth a try, but if it doesn't work out, you can't un-recruit him. If Harmon passes that test then he's part of the squad.

Scene: Hallway.

(Hank's walking down the stairs and Jamie catches up to him.)

Jamie: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hank. Hank. Look, uh hypothetical?

Hank: Shoot.

Jamie: Okay, you've got this friend uh, who's maybe getting high by sniffing aerosols and stuff, but you have another friend who swears that the first friend is clean.

Hank: (They stop walking.) This wouldn't happen to be the friend that you and Caitie were arguing about yesterday, right?

Jamie: I'll handle it.

Hank: Yeah you'd better, man. Come on. (Drags Jamie into an empty classroom so they can talk. In the classroom.) Paint. Correction fluid. Aerosol cans. (Taps his finger on his hand for each one.) Now they all have fumes that mess with your brain. Some people start seeing things, others start forgetting things. They can screw up your balance, eyesight, hearing, sense of smell. They also starve your lungs and can throw off your heartbeat, sometimes stopping it completely. You ever hear of Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome?

Jamie: (Quietly.) Wow.

Hank: You know the big problem is kids on inhalants don't think that they're doing drugs. So what are you gonna do for your friend?

Scene: In front of the bleachers.

("Fight The Power" by Public Enemy plays. It's Caitie's rally. She's sitting at a table with a bunch of T-shirts. There's two other people there wearing the shirts.)

Caitie: Ugh, what a joke. (Gets up.) Plaster the school with posters and I get two people.

Girl 1: Three.

Caitie: What? Who? Who do you mean?

Girl 1: You.

Caitie: Oh, right. (Sits back down, disappointed.) Oh, well thanks guys. At least you came.

Girl 1: We thought there'd be guys here. (Girl 2 waves and both of them leave. Caitie sighs.)

Scene: Hallway.

(Jamie comes running down the stairs and is intercepted by Carlson.)

Carlson: Jamie, you're still here. I didn't realize you liked school so much.

Jamie: Yeah, listen. Have you seen Brianne around anywhere? I've been looking for her all day.

Carlson: She made up that missed detention by spending the day with me. She left a little while ago, I think she was headed to the art room.

Jamie: (Beeper goes off. He checks it. To himself.) Now? (To Carlson.) I gotta go Mr. Carlson. EMS call. (He runs to the door and Tyler and Val are already wheeling a stretcher in.)

Val: Wrong way Jamie.

Jamie: What? The call is here? (He takes off after them.)

Scene: Art room.

(The three of them wheel the ambulance in. We see the teacher kneeling over someone on the floor who's convulsing.)

Teacher: She just dropped and started convulsing.

Jamie: (Worried.) Brianne. (They all rush over.)

Tyler: We need a bite stick and suction. We don't want her to aspirate. (Puts a bit stick in her mouth.)

Teacher: I don’t know if it means anything, but I found this on the floor. (Holds up a can of spray paint.)

Jamie: (Angry at himself.) That means she's been huffing! I should have done something. I told Caitie I should have tried to stop her!

Tyler: Okay Jamie, we need the heart monitor now. That's an IV, oral airway and BVM standing by.

Val: Convulsions are stopping.

Tyler: Pulse is 140, thready and erratic. Resps are six and shallow.

Val: BP's ninety over fifty. GCS is seven. (The heart monitor's beeping gets quicker and more high pitched.)

Jamie: She's crashing.

Tyler: Kay, you bag her. I'll start the IV.

Jamie: (He starts bagging her with the mask over her face where you squeeze one end to breathe for someone.) Come on Brianne, you gotta hang in there please. Please.

Jamie: Okay, we need to cardio (Mumbles the rest. A medical term.)

(Tyler takes Jamie's place and Jamie goes to charge the paddles.)

Jamie: Clear. (We hear a shock and Brianne jerks a little. The heart monitor stabilizes.)

Scene: Hospital.

(Caitie walks in and sees Jamie and Val sitting in the waiting room. They stand up when she comes.)

Caitie: How is she?

Val: We're still waiting to find out.

Caitie: I can't believe this. (Shakes her head.) I just can't believe it. (Jamie puts his hand on her back and they both sit down. Val follows. Caitie looks at Jamie.) I should have believed it. (She leans against Jamie and he pulls her closer.) I was so busy fighting the system I didn't see someone who needed help right under my nose.

Jamie: Nobody wants to believe the worst about their friends.

Caitie: (Starts to cry.) She was really in trouble. For who knows how long, you know? She really. . . she really needed me I was just totally clueless.

Val: Caitie, she still needs you. Don't waste your energy beating yourself up.

Tyler: (Enters.) Hey. (They look at him.) Well, the doc says she's gonna be okay. She can see us for a minute. (All three stand up and follow Tyler.)

Scene: Brianne's hospital room.

(There's a nurse adjusting an IV drip. As they enter, she leaves.)

Nurse: Come on in.

Caitie: (Quietly and shyly.) Okay.

(Caitie and Jamie go into the room. Tyler and Val hover by the door.)

Brianne: (Weakly.) Caitie, I missed your rally.

Caitie: Oh, it's okay. You've uh, been busy with other things.

Brianne: Yeah, like permanently weakening my heart muscles. (Long pause.) The doctor says I'll be fine if I don’t ever huff again.

Jamie: We can help.

Brianne: You have been helping. I was just too much of a shovel head to notice. (She moves her lips but no audible sound comes out. Caitie takes her hand.)

Scene: Station garage.

(It's the EMT recruitment thing. The main focus is on a Female Trainee.)

Trainee: (Stands up.) Can I ask a question about obstructed airways?

Hank: Yeah, go ahead.

Trainee: What if your patient has hiccups?

Hank: (Amused.) Then she's breathing.

Trainee: But what if they won't stop? Can't excessive hiccuping lead to gastro-intestinal problems? I always hiccup when I laugh. (laughs and hiccups.) And I'm worried that this could maybe weaken my system and make me vulnerable to all kinds of things. Like bronchitis, emphysema, black water fever.

(Harmon raises his hand.)

Hank: (Grinning.) Go ahead Harmon.

Harmon: (Stands up.) Uh, we do live in a global village, and it is possible to contract such diseases but here's why I don’t think you have to worry about that: See, the chromosomes in the part . . . .

(Camera pans over to Val, Tyler and Brooke who are all sitting on the back bumper of an ambulance.)

Brooke: Look who's the voice of reason.

Tyler: You called it Brooke. (He give her a high five.)

Val: I think Harmon's finally met his match.

Scene: Bleachers.

(Caitie is walking up the bleachers carrying and box. Jamie is already sitting there. She sits next to him.)

Caitie: Peace offering. (Hands him the box.)

Jamie: For what? (He takes the box.)

Caitie: For my uh, treating ya pretty shabby. You went to the max for Brianne, even when you had this loud mouth campus radical hassling ya about it.

(He opens the box and inside there's a framed flyer from her rally. On it she wrote: To Jamie. Always Caitie.)

Jamie: So I take it you're not done agitating for reform.

Caitie: No, I kinda like being a blister on the heel of the system, you know?

Jamie: I'm glad you don't give up that easy.

Caitie: I'm glad you don't either.

Jamie: (Almost can't hear him. I basically reading lips.) Come here. (He puts his arm around her and she rests her head on his shoulder.)

[Fade Out]

Transcribed by: MM

Written by: Brian Nelson
Original Air Date: December 15th, 2000

Cast Info
Kevin Kicks- Alex Freeman
Julia Chantrey- Brianne
Kyle J. Downes- Harmon Wilbur
Bill Lake- V.P. Carlson
Robert Tinkler- Randolph
Sandy Robson- Guttman
John Strong- Man #1
Lisa Olafson- Art Teacher
Marieve Herington- Alice
Warren Scott- Jogger
Tiffany Deriveau- Student
Ron Webber- Randolph Stunt Double

Music:
Fight The Power- Public Enemy
Chop Wood- DJ Serious