01x11 - Make The Cut

[bunniefuu]

♪ Hold on to me tonight

♪ And we'll run up
the stairs ♪

♪ Fingers crossed

♪ In a...

- I'm haunted by all kinds
of reminders.

♪

Reminders that, after
100 days in confinement...

- ♪ Tiniest prick
on your fingertip ♪

- I might finally
break free today.

♪

- Remember, you are on lockdown
until the official verdict,

and after yesterday's stunt,
I wouldn't be too optimistic.

♪

[beeping]

♪

- [gasps]

- How are you liking
your new room?

- I miss my neighbor.

- Anything I can get for you?

- I don't know,
something to drink maybe.

♪

- [sighs]

♪

[door closes]

[phone vibrates]

Hey.

- Hey, how's the
whole mom situation?

- It's still awkward,
but it's not awful.

We decided to take Rachel
up on her offer

for therapy, so baby steps.

Please tell me
you're not still nervous

about your release.

- It's a possible release.

I guess I'm just
more worried about you.

- I can't even get too nervous

about the actual surgery
right now.

My brain's too busy being upset
over missing prom.

How stupid is that?

It's like I was programmed to
be a prom zombie or something.

- Like, a prombie?

I would totally pay to watch
that movie.

- Look, if you get released
before I'm done,

can you please just
stick around for me?

- Yeah, you know I would
never ghost on you.

♪

- Thanks.
I guess I'll see you after.

- I guess so.

♪

- Bye.
- Bye.

Going under is completely
different from going to sleep.

♪

- Are you ready?

♪

Okay, count down
for me from ten.

- Ten...

- You don't drift off
to dream.

- Nine.
- Anesthesia

is a very controlled,

mathematical equation,
all numbers...

- Eight.

- From the milliliters
of meds...

- Seven.

- To lights out.

[murmuring]

- Everything is gonna be okay.
- I don't know what to do.

- I'm here.
- Wait, did I--

did I not have my surgery?

- You did.

- I'll grab Dr. Lydell.

- Wait.
What's going on?

- Hey, how are you feeling?

Any pain?

♪

- You guys are freaking me out.

- During your procedure,

we discovered that the sarcoma
had spread much further

into the bone
than we anticipated.

[heart beating]

So at the time,
I made the decision to--

made the decision--

[echoing]

- [gasps]

- Hold on.
Stay with me.

- [panting]

What did you do?

[gentle music]

- Baldy, you want
to give me one good reason

why you're not
helping me with this?

- Number one, I don't have
a green light for release yet.

Number two,
Mia just got out of surgery,

and I really want to be there.

[door opens]

♪

- Oh, good, I have an audience.

- Am I good?
Can I go?

- Given your recent escapades

that gave the staff
of this hospital

a collective heart attack,

this whole song and dance
seems kind of anti-climactic.

- What are you saying?
- Your numbers are exemplary,

despite your best efforts
to trash them.

- Okay, a lot of big words.

So he's...?

♪

- He ain't my problem anymore.

You're in remission.
You can go home.

- Yes, dude.
Hell to the yes.

Oh, get over here,
you sexy little nurse.

Enjoy being bald while you can.
Mwah!

- Congratulations, Zac.

- What about Mia?
Is she done?

♪

- Hold on, Zac, Zac...
- Zac, don't--

- Zac, Zac, Zac.

♪

[knocking]

♪

- Hi.

I'll be down the hall.
Thank you for being here.

♪

- Mia, I would've
been here sooner,

but I just got emancipated.

I'm a free man.

- Congratulations.

- Mia, you did it.

The hard part's over.

- You said I was gonna be okay.

- What do you mean?

Did the cancer spread?

♪

- I just need you to leave.

♪

- Mia, tell me
what's going on.

- Just leave.

♪

[sobbing]

♪

[sobbing]

♪

- I didn't--
- Just stop.

When they cut me open,
they found cancer way up above

just the ankle, in the bone,

and they made the emergency
decision to amputate.

♪

- Sorry.

- You said that I won
the cancer lotto

and know that I had
the best odds in here

and that everybody else
was a no or a maybe

but that I was a yes.
I was a yes.

- Mia--
- That's what you said.

Leave.
- Don't, Mia--

- Just get the hell
away from me.

♪

- I'm sorry for everything.

♪

- I don't care what you are.

♪

[door closes]

♪

- ♪ And...

♪ I know you're feling more

♪

♪ I'm staring at the floor

♪ Too tired to find
the words to say ♪

♪

♪ You've cried

♪ But you don't think of her

- [sobbing]

- ♪ 'Cause we're stuck
in our little worlds ♪

♪ Think we can hear
your pain ♪

♪ Ring out with the appeal
of the lonely ♪

♪ Scream out with the appeal
of the lonely ♪

- You did it!
- He did it!

- Whoo!
- [exclaims]

- ♪ All the pain
you've been hiding ♪

♪ The lost and found

♪ 'Cause I can hear you now

- The chances we'd
end up together?

Zero divided by zero.

- ♪ Evidently I was wrong

♪ Turns out that life
goes on without you ♪

♪ Without you

♪ All alone now,
on my own ♪

♪ And I don't know what
I'm gonna do without you ♪

♪ Without you

♪ So what went wrong?

♪ The stars, they've all
gone home ♪

♪

- [sighs]

- ♪ Sometimes
when I come home ♪

♪ I sit and I sing this song
about you ♪

♪ Without you

♪ With every note that fills
my lungs ♪

♪ I realize that it's just
not home without you ♪

♪ Without you

♪ So what went wrong?

♪ The stars, they've all
gone home ♪

♪

- Thought I might
find you here.

Have you tried calling her?

- 23 times,
straight to voice mail.

- Maybe you should
Facebook stalk her

until she files
a restraining order.

- Can't--she deleted
all of her social media.

- Okay, her loss.
Check this out.

I know a girl, and she knows
another girl who knows a girl

who's super into bald guys.

Hey, the clock's ticking.

You got to move on this
before your hair grows back.

[waves crashing]

♪

[door opens]

- Hi, Mia.

- Get out.
- Please don't freak out, okay?

I know about your leg,
about everything.

I called your mom, and she said
I should leave you alone,

but, I mean,

since when do we listen
to that b*tch anyway?

- Don't talk about my mom
like that.

- Anyway, I wanted to stop

by and see if I could
maybe cheer you up.

- Cheer me up?
- I know you must hate me.

Hell, the whole school
hates me,

but I totally hate myself more.
- [scoffs]

- Hooking up with Rhys was
the worst thing I've ever done.

It's over between Rhys and me.

I'm the worst person
in the world.

But please, if you could
just forgive me, please.

I miss you, Mia, a lot.

- Well, there's a lot less
of me to miss.

How did everyone find out
I have cancer?

- Um...

Someone must've
overheard me and Rhys,

which is another thing
you can hate me for.

- Ugh.

Everyone must think
I'm certifiable.

- The whole school is rallying
behind you, Mia.

They love you, like, really,

and they definitely hate me
and Rhys, especially now.

Okay, I brought you something.

I mean, I know
you haven't forgotten

that it's prom this weekend.

Dun-da-da-da!

Ta-da!

- How did you get that?
- Broke into your house.

I thought it would be
nice bait

to lure you back
to the dark side, yeah.

♪

- Who are you texting?

- Rhys.
He wants to be your date.

♪

[knocking]

- Hey, babe.

I know that you're not allowed
to have real ones,

so don't worry.
They're fake.

- Go, come on.

- So?

♪

I mean, we all know
how important prom is to you,

and I really want you to know
how important you are to me.

- To us.
- Us.

- Yeah, prom was
really important to me.

♪

But it doesn't matter now.

♪

So if you could just shut
the door on your way out.

♪

I need to get some rest.

♪

Can you take the flowers
with you?

♪

[muffled arguing]

[chuckles]

♪

[sighs]

[guitar music]

♪

[guitar music]

♪

[ping]

♪

- So yeah,
the rumors are true.

I was never in New York.

♪

I was a few miles away,

dealing with cancer.

♪

And now I don't have
my left leg.

I understand that
there's been a lot of blame

that's been spread around,

and I know that game well.

♪

At first I blamed my mom
and then God

and then ultimately
the best Helga

a girl could ask for.

♪

You guys might remember me

as the girl
who wanted to go to prom.

♪

Now I'm just a girl who wonders

if she'll ever have
a normal moment again.

♪

The purpose of this post
is to just come clean.

♪

I no longer blame anybody.

♪

Neither should anyone else.

If you must, blame cancer.

♪

I hope that one day
I can stand up to it.

♪

Literally.

♪

- Hi, this is Zac Meier.

I know what I want.

[upbeat music]

- All right, are you ready?

- ♪ We work so hard
to hide our feelings ♪

♪ Hide our fame,
and save our faces ♪

♪ Try to do right,
try to delight ♪

♪ So we're faking...

- You know what
would cheer you up?

- ♪ Take your lead, and so
I left for good ♪

♪ And now you suck the powers
of damp firewood ♪

♪ And it won't feel like won

♪ 'Cause it's you
holding that g*n ♪

♪ Yeah, it won't feel
like you won ♪

- Is this yours?

This is beautiful.
Try it on for me.

♪

- [gasps]

- Please, no jokes.

- I got nothing,
only doctor's orders.

Lydell needs to see you, now.
- Okay, well, wait.

Let me get out
of this dress then.

- Ah, keep it--we'll see
if that weirdo even notices.

- Wait, Vinny, Dr. Lydell's
office is the other way.

- Zip it, I'm driving.

♪

- ♪ Ain't ever felt this way

♪

♪ Can't get enough,
so stay with me ♪

♪ It's not like
we got big plans ♪

♪ Ooh

♪

- Zac, what's going on?

♪

- ♪ And you need to know

- I can take it
from here, Vinny.

- ♪ Only one, all right

- What?

- ♪ All right

- I need your left hand.

[chuckling]

- ♪ That you keep me up
all night ♪

♪ All night, yeah

♪ Oh, my heart hurts so good

♪ I love you babe,
so bad, so bad ♪

- [gasps]
Oh, my.

- ♪ Oh, my heart hurts
so good ♪

♪ I love you, babe

♪ So bad, so bad

- I can't believe this used
to be your room.

- ♪ Mad cool in all
my clothes ♪

♪ Mad warm when you
get close to me ♪

- I guess I'm gonna forgo
formally asking you to prom

since I kind of
brought it to you.

- You remembered
my favorite song.

- Yeah, I kind of have
this problem

where I can't forget
anything about you.

- ♪ That nobody could take
your place ♪

- I'm sorry for
blaming you for--

- I know.

- ♪ And you need to know

♪ That I'm hella obsessed
with your face ♪

- Dance with me?

- ♪ Your face, yeah

- I can't.

- You can if I help you.

- ♪ I love you, babe,
so bad ♪

- Come on.

- ♪ So bad

♪ Oh, yeah

♪ Oh, my heart hurts so good

♪ I love you, babe

♪ So bad, so bad

♪ Yeah

♪

- All this was
your Make-A-Wish, wasn't it?

♪

You wasted your wish on me.

♪

- Mia, I didn't waste my wish.

♪

I wished for you.

- ♪ And you need to know

♪ You're the only one,
all right ♪

♪

♪ Oh, my heart hurts so good

♪ I love you, babe

♪ So bad, so bad

♪

♪ Oh, my heart hurts so good

♪ I love you, babe

♪ So bad, so bad

♪

♪ Oh, my heart hurts so good

♪ I love you, babe

♪ So bad, so bad

♪

♪ Ooh, ooh

♪ So bad, oh

♪

♪ Oh, my heart hurts,
oh, my heart hurts ♪

♪ Oh, my heart hurts