01x05 - Freedom

[bunniefuu]

[TEGAN] Is there anything
you want to talk about?

I feel like I want to help you,
but I don't know what to do.

I'm fine.

We used to be really tight
and then over the summer,

she totally disappeared.

[MAYA] What will happen
if you stop waiting?

I don't know. I mean, she's my sister.

- There's a rave on Saturday.
- Wait Calgary has raves?

[WOMAN] Oh, yeah, and we're going.

[SARA] What about you?
Are you dating anyone?

Oh, sh*t.

The last thing I need is to be
used and manipulated by you two.

My God. Mom, relax.

[TIRES SCREECH]

Get out of the g*dd*mn car!

Hi, Dad. Can we come in?

[THE ROMANTICS: "TALKING IN YOUR SLEEP"]

[SINGER] ♪ I hear the
secrets that you keep ♪

♪ When you're talking in your sleep ♪

[MAN ON TV] Smash hits of the ' s...

What brings you here?

[SARA] Mom's pissed at us because
we went out and didn't tell her.

Why didn't you tell her?

- Because we went to a rave...
- Tegan...

... and we knew that
she wouldn't let us go...

- Shut up.
- ... so we told her

- we were staying at a friend's house.
- Oh, my God. Great job.

We're busted, what do you
want me to do? Keep lying?

You're the reason this is
happening. You wanted to go...

- [SARA] I didn't force you to go...
- Hey!

Whether you like it or not,
you're stuck with each other...

so you gotta figure out how to get along

because I'm not gonna have
any fighting in this house,

do you understand?

- Yes.
- Yeah.

Good.

Go to bed.

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

[SARA] We could've gotten out of it.

You didn't have to rat us out.

If we kept lying, it
would've made it worse.

[SIGHS]

The only reason that I went tonight

is because you've been so upset lately

and this was the first thing
that you seemed excited about.

I don't even care that we got in trouble

but you being mad at me isn't fair.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIMONE] I'm not an idiot, but
last night you treated me like one.

- [SARA] We're sorry.
- I don't need an "I'm sorry."

I need to know why you lied.

[PATRICK] Hello? Your mom
just asked you a question.

Well, we just really wanted to go,
but we knew that you would say no.

Even though raves are really safe.
They don't even serve alcohol there.

- People just go there to dance.
- Oh, that sounds great.

Maybe you should have shared
that information with me

before you decided to lie.

Would have been a good way
to avoid getting grounded,

- which you are now.
- [SIMONE] You will not leave this house

for anything other than school.

[SARA] I'm supposed
to meet up with Phoebe.

This is not my problem.

You are not allowed to use the
phone unless you're calling .

And you need to spend every waking...

Look at me!

Every waking moment doing chores
until I decide it's enough.

Starting today.

We'll be at the new place all-day,

and you two will take down
the Christmas decorations

and go downstairs and clean
and organize the basement.

Any objections?

- We...
- [SIMONE] Just kidding, I don't care.

[LILYS: "ANY PLACE I'VE LIVED"]

[SINGER] ♪ Hey, hey, my friend ♪

♪ Where are you going today? ♪

♪ Hey, hey, my friend ♪

♪ Why are you going away? ♪

♪ And it's not that you're slime ♪

♪ You just get easy bored in time ♪

♪ Hey hey left behind you ♪

♪ Find that you have slivering thing ♪

[SARA] Tegan, come in here.

What are you doing?

We're not supposed to
touch Patrick's stuff.

[SARA] Look.

Whoa.

[SARA] Did you know he had this?

No.

- Careful.
- I know.

[PLAYS GUITAR]

[SARA] Can I try?

[PLAYS GUITAR]

[SARA] What does that sound like to you?

- I can't tell.
- [SARA] "Today."

Smashing Pumpkins?

Oh.

Yeah! Play it again.

[PLAYS GUITAR]

[DOOR OPENS]

sh*t, they're home.

[SARA] I'll stall them.
Put it back in there.

[MAYA] Wait, your mom
kicked you out of the car

in the middle of the night?

[TEGAN] Yup.

[MAYA] So, she was fine with you
maybe being kidnapped or m*rder*d

- just because you lied?
- Basically.

Damn. Parents are messed up.

Sorry you got grounded.

The only thing that really sucks

is not getting to hang
out with you as much.

Yeah, but on the flipside,

it makes school something
I'll actually look forward to.

[HELIUM: "PAT'S TRICK"]

[SINGER] ♪ Creepy and sullen
and running out of room ♪

♪ In my little tomb, my little tomb ♪

♪ I'll plant a seed
there to remember you ♪

♪ At the may fair ♪

♪ With your long-ass curly hair ♪

♪ Feed me ♪

♪ Feed me ♪

♪ You are the most beautiful thing ♪

♪ Oh, oh ♪

- [SIMONE] What's wrong?
- [TEGAN] I'm sick.

My throat hurts, and
I think I have a fever.

Hmm. You don't feel that warm.

I'm not faking it. I feel terrible.

Maybe it's from being
at a rave all night.

Or maybe it's because someone
made me walk to my dad's house

in the middle of the
night in the freezing cold?

Fine. If you're staying
home, then you have to rest.

- It isn't a free for all.
- Okay.

[SARA] What's going on in here?

- [SIMONE] Your sister is sick supposedly.
- I am sick.

[SARA] So, you're
staying home from school?

Yeah.

[SARA] Can I wear your shoes?

Sure, but if anything happens
to them, I will m*rder you.

[SARA] Yeah, yeah.

[NIRVANA: "PENNYROYAL TEA"]

[SINGER] ♪ Sit and drink
pennyroyal tea ♪

♪ I'm anemic royalty ♪

♪ Give me... ♪

[TAPE REWINDING]

[NIRVANA: "PENNYROYAL TEA"]

[SINGER] ♪ Very bad posture ♪

♪ Sit and drink pennyroyal tea ♪

♪ Distill the life that's inside of me ♪

♪ Sit and drink pennyroyal tea ♪

♪ I'm anemic royalty ♪

[HUMMING]

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

Yeah?

- Hey.
- Hey.

[SARA] Are you really sick?

Yeah. But I feel a little better.

[SARA] That's good.

What'd you do all day?

Nothing.

I slept.

Watched TV.

Did anybody ask about me at school?

No one even noticed you were gone.

Oh.

[SARA] From Maya.

[LAUGHS] Jerk.

[SARA] I'm going downstairs.

Leave the shoes.

[MAYA] "Greetings.

I just found out you're home sick,

and since you're not allowed to call me,

I'm taking it upon myself

to document every single
thing that happens today

so you don't miss anything."

[PAPER RUSTLES]

[GUITAR PLAYING]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[TEGAN] Well, I hope
you had fun last night,

because we're about
to be grounded forever.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[PATRICK] I don't even
want to look down here

because it's gonna be,
yeah, an absolute disaster.

So, you guys will have plenty to do.

When we're done, is she
gonna stop being pissed at us?

[PATRICK] I don't know.

You know, this probably hard for
you to wrap your heads around,

but she has feelings.
You know that, right?

You hurt her.

[SIMONE] I'm ready.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[SIGHS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[LINE RINGING]

[BARBARA] Hello?

Hi, is Phoebe there?

[BARBARA] Who's speaking?

It's Sara.

[BARBARA] Sorry, sweetie, she's out.

Oh, okay.

Uh, we were... we were
supposed to hang out today,

but I had to help my mom with something.

Could you just let her know?

Hello?

[BARBARA] Yeah. I'll...
I'll let her know.

Goodbye.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[PLAYS GUITAR]

What does that sound like to you?

[TEGAN] I can't tell.

"Today?"

Smashing Pumpkins?

Oh.

Yeah!

Play it again.

[PLAYS GUITAR]

- [DOOR OPENS]
- [TEGAN] Oh, sh*t, they're home.

I'll stall them.

Hey! How's the house?

Coming along well, I think.

Your mom picked out some
great flooring today,

and the tile we wanted is back
in stock and, you know what?

I am now realizing that this
is probably much a longer answer

than you were hoping for.

Are you kidding? I love tile.

[SIMONE] Where is your sister?

Just finishing up downstairs.

Did you guys finish cleaning up?

Yup.

[SIMONE] I'm going to
check on your handiwork.

Hey, I just... I wanted to say that

it was my idea to go to the rave.

And Tegan didn't want to
go, but I talked her into it.

She shouldn't be in trouble.

Uh, she made her own decision.

[TEGAN] Hey!

Hi.

[TEGAN] What are you doing?

I'm just getting some
water. Do you want some?

No, I'm good.

[PLAYS GUITAR]

[SMASHING PUMPKINS: "TODAY"]

[SINGER] ♪ I wanna turn you on ♪

♪ I wanna turn you ♪

♪ Today is the greatest day ♪

♪ That I have ever really known ♪

[SARA] What's going on in here?

Your sister is sick, supposedly.

[TEGAN] I am sick.

So you're staying home from school?

- Yeah.
- Can I wear your shoes?

Sure.

But if anything happens
to them, I will m*rder you.

Yeah, yeah.

[SIMONE] Okay. Come on, I'm driving you.

- Tell Maya I said hi.
- Okay.

[TEGAN] And protect the shoes.

Got it!

I'm really sorry, Mom.

Yeah, you said that already.

We messed up, okay?

How long are you going to punish us for?

When your first instinct isn't to lie?

Maybe if you trusted us more,

we wouldn't have a reason to lie.

I think you're a little
fuzzy on how trust works.

You just don't like being in trouble.

You don't really care
how you make people feel.

That's not true. I feel bad
that we made you feel bad.

But you making us feel worse
about it isn't fixing anything.

At least I want us all to feel better.

- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [SARAH] Hey, Maya!

Tegan is home sick from school
today. She wanted me to tell you hi.

[MAYA] Oh, man.

We've been tracking some
very low stakes dramas

that she's totally gonna get behind on.

I'm sure you can catch her up.

I'll give it my most valiant effort.

Hey!

Is Tegan still mad at me for
making us go to that rave?

She hasn't said anything.

But I don't think she could ever
be mad at you, even though...

Even though what?

Nothing.

Hey, don't leave school
today without seeing me.

I'm gonna give you
something to give to Tegan.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[SARA HUMMING]

[GUITAR PLAYING]

[KNOCKS ON DOOR]

Hang on.

[SIGHS] Come in.

- Hey.
- Hi.

Were you just playing guitar?

Yeah.

What was it?

Just this song that
was in my head all day.

[TEGAN] A song that you wrote?

Can I hear it?

[GUITAR PLAYING]

♪ Tegan didn't go to school today ♪

♪ Left me all alone to play ♪

♪ Got up, thought everything was fine ♪

♪ Found Tegan was
walking that fine line ♪

♪ Between school and home ♪

♪ School and home ♪

♪ Tegan didn't go to school today ♪

♪ Tegan didn't go to school today ♪

♪ Tegan didn't go to school today ♪

♪ Tegan... ♪

♪ I missed you ♪

Is it bad?

It's awesome.

Teach me how to play it.

[GUITAR PLAYING]

[BOTH] ♪ Tegan didn't
go to school today ♪

♪ Tegan didn't go to school today ♪

♪ Tegan didn't go to school today ♪

♪ Tegan... ♪

♪ Tegan... ♪

♪ Tegan... ♪

♪ I missed you ♪

This new song is driving me crazy.

- I can't figure out the chorus.
- Let's work on it together

- after school today.
- [MAYA] There she is!

Hi.

- I missed you!
- Me too.

- Did you get my letter?
- Yes.

And I read it like five times.

I can't believe it, Tyler and Kelly?

- [MAYA] Yeah.
- Gross.

Sara, I'll see you later.

♪ Hey, I'm just like you ♪

♪ Maybe I'm sloppy and blue ♪

♪ But hey, I'm just like you ♪

♪ Except I've got nothing to prove ♪

♪ We're headstrong tonight ♪

♪ b*ating through the
rainbows of right ♪

That's all I have.

It's so good!

You know Billie Joe's
guitar part in "Basket Case"?

Yeah.

That's kind of what I want
the chorus to sound like.

Like...

[GUITAR PLAYING]

[PHONE RINGING]

Should I get it?

I don't really care who it is.

[TEGAN] Me neither.

Can I see it?

[TEGAN] Oh, yeah.

Play the chorus again.

[BOTH] ♪ Hey, I'm just like you ♪

♪ Except I've got nothing to prove ♪

- ♪ We're headstrong tonight... ♪
- [DOOR CLICKS]

[SIMONE] What's going on?

Where did you get the guitar from?

It's Patrick's.

Did you ask if you could use it?

No.

Hey, Patrick? Can you come in here?

[PATRICK] Yeah, one sec.

What's up?

Uh, the girls found your secret guitar

that not even I knew you had.

I totally forgot about that thing.

We're sorry we didn't ask to use it.

We were just messing
around, playing songs.

[PATRICK] How do you
even know how to play?

I don't really know. We just kinda do.

All right. Show us.

- Now?
- [SIMONE] Yeah.

[CLEARS THROAT]

[GUITAR PLAYING]

♪ Tegan didn't go to school today ♪

♪ Left me all alone to play ♪

♪ Got up, thought everything was fine ♪

♪ Found Tegan was
walking that fine line ♪

♪ Between school and home ♪

♪ School and home ♪

[BOTH] ♪ Tegan didn't
go to school today ♪

♪ Tegan didn't go to school today ♪

♪ Tegan... ♪

♪ Tegan... ♪

♪ Tegan... ♪

♪ I missed you ♪

Do you have any more?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[HELIUM: "PAT'S TRICK"]

[SINGER] ♪ Creepy and sullen
and running out of room ♪

♪ In my little tomb, my little tomb ♪

♪ Plant a seed there to remember you ♪

♪ At the may fair with
your long ass curly hair ♪

[SINGER] ♪ Oh-oh, oh, oh ♪

[SINGER] ♪ We had a pirate band ♪

[SINGER] ♪ Oh-oh, oh, oh ♪

[SINGER] ♪ You are the most ♪

[SINGER] ♪ Beautiful thing ♪

[SINGER] ♪ Flower of life ♪

[SINGER] ♪ Bird of spring ♪

[SINGER] ♪ You are the most ♪

♪ Beautiful thing ♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[SARA] I know you liked
being more than friends,

didn't you?

[TEGAN] Hey, where are you going?

Why are you being like this?

[MAYA] You should go
back to your adoring fans.