03x16 - Take on Me

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(The episode starts off with Ellie walking into the school with an elastic band around her wrist. She snaps it a few times. Mr. Raditch is in the cafeteria talking with Jimmy, Hazel, Sean, and Toby, giving them the rules about Saturday detention. When he begins to leave, Sean responds with a burp.)

Raditch: I heard that, Mr. Cameron.

(After the credits, Sean is throwing a ball against the walls and he and Jimmy have an exchange of words. Sean throws the ball at the ceiling and one of tiles falls on Ellie's bag.)

Ellie: Great, you got it on my bag.

Sean: Is anything broken.

(He reaches for the bag and Ellie snatches it away.)

Out in the hallway

(Mr. Raditch displays his dancing skills. Back in the cafeteria, all five of the kids work together to put the tile back in the ceiling. Sean hatches a plan that leads Jimmy holding the table while Sean holds Toby up who places the tile in its correct place. Hazel is standing by, directing them. Toby begins whining about being scared of heights and when the tile is finally placed in its correct spot, they all fall down on the floor. Ellie reaches her hand out to Sean and he takes it and she helps him up. They look at each other for a moment and then Mr. Raditch busts them and instructs all of them to separate in the room. Sean walks away and Ellie stands there and looks at him.)

Hazel: Please tell me that clock is wrong!

Sean: You got plans.

Hazel: I have social engagements.

Sean: Like what' Do you have to lick Paige's boots before you go out.

(Jimmy stands up to him in Hazel's defense. The conversation shifts to why all of them are there.)

Sean: I have to be here for eight weeks. Anti-social behavior.

Hazel: Big surprise there.

(Hazel snickers under her breath.)

Sean: Why are you here?

Ellie: I was caught skipping school. (Pause) What? I didn't feel like going.

Jimmy: That's a great story, Ellie.

Sean: Do you have one any better?

(Jimmy and Toby's reasons are clear seeing that they recently got caught trying to hack into the school computer to change Jimmy’s math grade. They ask Hazel why she's there, but she hesitates and' takes the hall pass. She leaves kind of huffy and goes for a walk, ending up in the gym. She spots Mr. Raditch wearing some sweaty spandex shorts, bouncing on a huge ball, supposedly exercising. He tells her it’s a “Swiss ball from Switzerland”. When she returns to the room, all five of them are mocking Mr. Raditch. Ellie suggests that they play Truth or Dare. Everyone picks truth so naturally they all ask Hazel why she's there. Hazel changes her mind and picks Dare so Jimmy dares her to kiss Toby.' And what does she do? She marches over to Toby, sits on his lap, and kisses him.)

Hazel: Satisfied?

(Toby shakes his head.)

Toby: I'm gonna tell JT!

Hazel: You better not!

Outside

(We see Mr. Simpson.)

(Sean sits next to Ellie who covers the journal she's been keeping. It says, Sean stole some milk. She covers it up and he has a personal talk with her about rumors.)

Sean: I say you.

(Ellie looks clueless.)

Sean: Snap the elastic on your wrist. So, why?

(She doesn't answer.)

Sean: Sorry, I didn't think you were hiding it.

Ellie: It's a therapy technique. It stops me from… you know…

(Sean nods.)

Sean: So, why did you cut?

(Ellie talks about pain.)

Sean: I understand.

(The subject shifts to rumors and Ellie says something about rumors being more interesting and Sean says that he doubts it. Ellie says that they're rumors about him too.)

Sean: That I steal stuff.

Ellie: Yeah, but you don't know anything about that right?

Sean: (whispering) "Yeah… because I steal it."

(Mr. Raditch bursts into the room and Ellie clicks her tape recorder off. He yells at them and then separates them into separate rooms. Ellie is sitting alone in a classroom, listening to the part of her tape when Sean says "I do… because I steal them over and over. She takes the tape out and goes over to Hazel's classroom, explaining she can't sit there alone for three more hours. She suggests they go somewhere.)

Hazel: Your quite cool, Miss Nash.

(They leave to get the others. Later on, four of them are walking to get Sean and Jimmy suggests they leave without him.)

Ellie: No one gets left behind.

(Hazel seems like she senses that Ellie likes Sean. They get to his class and tell him to come.)

Sean: I don't do group activities.

Hazel: What if Ellie wants you to come?

Ellie: Hazel!

(She leaves. Sean stands up and goes. Then they are all walking down the hall and then doing this dance in a train to pass time. They were walking around the school and end up in a basement that they didn't know existed.' They discover an elevator that is locked.' Jimmy goes and gets the keys from the janitors closet.' They take the elevator all the way up and then see a ladder when they get out. They climb up and Toby is hugging the ladder because he's scared of heights. He gets on the roof last and is practically crawling across the ground. The others split into twos.)

Hazel: Thanks for sticking up for me with Sean.

Jimmy: No sweat.

Hazel: Do you think we're the only students who have ever been up here?

Jimmy: Nope.

(He picks up a necklace.)

Hazel: Oh, it’s so pretty. Keep it. You found it.

Jimmy: It would look better on you.

(He puts it around her neck. He leans in and kisses her.)

Hazel: What was that for?

Jimmy: For making you kiss Toby, I guess.

(They laugh about it.)

(Next we see Ellie and Sean. They are sitting on this pipe thing, and talking.)

Sean: You carry that bag everywhere, huh.

Ellie: It’s a psycho girl thing. Emphasis on psycho.

Sean: I think you're cute. (Ellie smiles.)

Sean: I guess I got to you.

Ellie: Dream on.

(Sean lays down on the roof, relaxing. Ellie lays down next to him. He asks her if she's scared of him and she asks him if she freaks him out. They both say no and Ellie reveals her cuts on her arms, which some look fresh. Sean sits up a bit, and touches the cuts, and then he moves his fingers up her arm and they hold hands and bring their arms down.)

(Cut to Toby lying on the ground. He goes to the edge and throws a rock. Then he goes back and stands up. Mr. Simpson and Mr. Raditch are on the ground talking and the principal spots Toby on the roof. Toby yells at the others that he's coming and they all run back to their classrooms, but Sean's door is locked. Jimmy comes to help, but Sean tells him to b*at it, but he doesn’t. He struggles to find the right key and finally does before Raditch gets there, but he drops the keys in the hall. He leaves them and Raditch finds them.' He asks them who stole them and Toby speaks up that he took it. Raditch states his disapproval and then tells all of them to go home.)

Jimmy: Toby, that was cool.' I didn’t expect it.

Hazel: (as they slap high five) Aww, group hug.

Ellie: Wait. I've got an instant camera…

(She reaches for her bag, but drops it, causing the recording of her and Sean to go off. Sean yanks it from her and steps on it in front of her face. She tries to explain that it was for her Co-op job and that she wasn't going to use names.)

Hazel: Not cool, Ellie!

(Monday morning rolls around and Jimmy and Hazel are walking together and they say hi to Toby and JT.)

JT: What happened on Saturday?

Toby: Wouldn't you like to know?

(Then Sean and Jimmy say hey and Sean walks to his locker and Ellie is there.)

Sean: What to you want?

(She gives him the right tape and tells him there is no story.)

Ellie: She says what happened on the roof is the truth.

(Sean throws the tape in his locker.)

Sean: So I don't freak you out either.

Ellie: Not at all.

(They take each other's hand and hold them together in the air and Ellie has a huge smile.)