Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2015): Season 6, Episode 18 - Don't You Want Me? Part 1 - full transcript

Alex is having trouble at home when her mother's boyfriend is arrested for credit card fraud. Unfortunately her mother also opened a credit card that he ran up to the tune of $6000. Alex gets a job back at the movie theater but is persuaded by Jay's new girlfriend to get a job as a cocktail waitress at the strip joint where she works. Paige is unhappy about it but is fine with it as long as Alex's clothes are on. Alex is feeling better feeling better and making great tips until she finds out that she and her mom are close to getting evicted because their checks have been bouncing. At this point Alex has decided that the extreme must be done and she hits the stage. Emma is thinking about college and in her picture perfect world that is her and Sean in an apartment at college all to themselves but Sean's has other ideas. At a dinner with Emma and her family he drops the news that he has enlisted in the army to learn more about engineering. This sends Emma up in arms especially because she thinks she is pregnant.

Thanks, Emily. You're the hostess
with the mostest.

Come over anytime you like,
Paige.

Put me down for Oscar night,
so long as Chad lets us watch

on his 6,000-inch plasma thingy.

Pizza money's on the table, hon.

- Good evening.

We're looking for Chad Kent.

Are you him?

Depends. Uh...
what do you want?

We have a warrant
for your arrest

for the crime of credit-card fraud.
- Credit-card fraud?



What? No, there must be...

some... mistake.

- Sorry, Emily.
- No,

wait!

- Should I come?
- No.

No, you stay.

I'm sure we'll get this all, uh...
sorted out.

- Wow.

How \x22Cops\x22 was that?

Are you okay?
- Paige, you should go.

Are you sure?
The... TV's all ours...

It's late and I have exams.
Could you just go, please?

- As you wish, hon.

Um... thanks for your help.



Nothing like an all-nighter
at the police station.

Where's Chad?

- In jail.

You know that big raise
he told us about?

It was a lie, Lexi.

He was fired.

Mom, that was six weeks ago.
What's he been doing all this time?

Besides buying new plasma TVs
with stolen credit cards?

- Mom, it's okay.

We'll send it back
and then we're fine, right?

TV's gone, loser's in jail...

Good riddance.

What?

- I, uh...

I gave him a card
with his name on it.

He took advantage of me, Lexi.

Now I'm in the hole for six grand.

That's not a hole, Mom,
that's the Grand Canyon.

- I know.

How did he put $6,000
on your card?

He told me
he was making the payments.

Lie number two.

- You're not paying those charges.

Bank says my credit card,
my problem...

We need that card
to pay the bills.

I mean, I'll work double shifts,
but, uh...

I'm not sure it's gonna be enough,
you know.

- It's our problem, okay?

And we're gonna get through it.

I promise.

I'm doomed on my functions exam.
Doomed!

How am I supposed to be your fab
university roommate if I fail?

Assuming I don't already have
a roomie lined up,

of the blue-collar,
sexy-mechanic type?

Yeah, right. Sean's, like,
\x22Hey, let's shack up.

I'm real serious
about our future, yo.\x22

Is that so unbelievable?
I think it'd be great

to have something that's just ours.
Like, a little home together.

Em, you're 17.
You have your whole life

to settle down
behind the white picket fence.

Well, excuse me for wanting
to move in with my boyfriend.

And you're so sure
he wants to move in?

- Why wouldn't he?

Because there's only one
four-letter word

in the young male dictionary:
commitment.

I used to love dispensing
artificial nacho-cheese product.

That ooey-gluey texture...

Great.
First the cops raid my house,

and now you see me
wrapped in polyester.

Real attractive.

Hon, if you needed a job so bad,
you could've asked me.

'Course, I can only pay you
in T-shirts.

- My mom needs cash, fast.

Big, faceless corporations

weren't the only ones
Chad stole from.

He racked up
my mom's credit card, so...

Um... I wish
I could do something.

I mean, maybe I could lend you
a little bit?

- No, I'll be fine.

- So, um...

how is the lovely and talented
Ms. Carla...

these days?

I think Ms. Ph.D.
was slumming it with me.

Besides, we had zero in common.
It just wasn't worth my time.

Well, if Ms. Snootypants
thinks she's too good for you,

she isn't invited
to my housewarming party.

- Man, these appetizers

are like tiny little flavour bombs.
How does Paige do it?

She's just a culinary wizard,
I guess.

Even the devil has her fine points.
- Ellie, don't start, okay?

You told her
it was okay to date Jesse.

- It bugs. I can't help it.

So? There's plenty more fish
in the sea, okay?

We'll hit a club, put you out there.
- Great, meeting guys at a club. Yay.

- You made it!

With guests.

Paige,
this is my new girlfriend, Mel.

You said invite people.
Their movie ended, so I did.

Now where can I change
out of this loser-suit?

Mel's been telling me
she might be able

to get you out
of that sexy uniform...

Yeah, they're looking
for cute servers where I work.

- Where's that, a strip bar?

- Club Zanzibar.

A perfectly respectable
cocktail bar...

on one side,

crazy-hot peelers on the other...

or so I've been told.

Yeah, they prefer
to be called exotic dancers.

Besides, I work in the bar.

Fully clothed at all times.

It's good tips; about 150 a night.

- And they're hiring?

- Mm-hmm.

- Come by.

I'll get you an interview.

Jay's girlfriend
works at Zanzibar -

quelle surprise,
guess NASA wasn't hiring.

- How are things at the garage?

- Okay.

Actually, not so good.
it's kinda dead-end.

Need to upgrade my skills
if I wanna run my own shop.

Have you considered
a technical high school?

I need hands-on experience
and a paycheque.

So you're just gonna skip
high school, forget your diploma?

I can get the training I want
and get paid for it.

- Where?

- Nowhere. Just...

forget it.

- Forget what?

Where is this wonderful
Merry Magic Mechanic Land?

This isn't exactly
how I wanted to tell you this.

It's the Armed Services.

- You're not serious.

- Yeah. I am.

I signed up already,
passed my physical.

I'm pretty psyched, actually.

You know, with your skills,
it might be a perfect fit.

- I'm sorry, I've lost my appetite.

- Ketchup?

- The girls are all friends here,

You'll like it.
- Thanks, Stephanie. I'll...

I'll see you tonight
for my first shift!

Hey, work buddy.

Thank you so much!

- You got it! That's amazing!

Steph's cool, but then there's...

Ahem - Alex, this is Vlad...
- Hi.

The owner.
Um, Alex is our new server.

- Welcome, Alex.

You are prettier
than many of my dancers.

Well, thank you...

I think...
in a clothes-on sort of way.

My girls are very well paid
and they're very happy.

Maybe sometime
you want to audition?

- Ooh... definitely not.

- I understand.

I'm sure you will make
a great waitress,

like this one.

- You weren't lying, eh?

I think I've cleared 100 already!

\x22That's nothink.

Girls on the other side are
rich and happy like movie stars!\x22

Ooh, she doesn't look
so happy to me.

- Oh, maybe not.

But she is paid well.

Yeah. Small price to pay
for your soul.

- Lexi,

if you were so against stripping
then why are you working here?

- Why else? I need the money.

- So does she.

The only difference
between her and us

is that she needs it more.

- Hey.

Been sweeping up popcorn
till 2:00 A.M.?

I quit! I got a job as a waitress
at this schmancy bistro.

Goodbye, minimum wage;

hello, crazy tips!

- That's great.

I'm really happy for you.

- Your happiness is overwhelming.

We're getting evicted?

- Yup.

We have 10 days
to come up with the money.

You know anyone with a spare
two grand kicking around?

- Just how?

How did this happen?

We've been bouncing rent cheques
for the two months and I had no idea.

- How could you not know that?!

Chad hiding letters
from the building manager,

that's how.

And, no, I'm not proud
I trusted that scumbag.

- Okay...

so what do we do now?

- Well...

I asked for a raise again.

They turned me down again.

I never wanted it
to be like this, Lexi.

I let you down and...

- Chad did this, Mom, not you!

Okay, tell me I don't look
completely idiotic.

Well, not if you're on your way
to a rap video shoot.

- Or, say, the stage at Zanzibar?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

This is why you called me here
at 9:00 in the morning?

- Kinda.

Whatever happened to
\x22small price to pay for your soul\x22?

Well, my soul
just got a whole lot cheaper.

Try not to laugh, okay?

Roll it in, nice and slow,

- I need your help.
- Another hip circle,

and we just take one step,

Nice vote of confidence, jerk!

- I'm sorry.

I'm on three hours' sleep.

Maybe it's... just too early

for me to picture you
as an exotic dancer?

Who am I kidding?
I can't do this.

- And that's bad?

There's gotta be another way.
- Sure. Uh, armed robbery,

prostitution, drug mule,
tiger poaching...

- What about Paige?

Paige looks a lot better off
than she is.

Not that I'd ever ask.

- Emma.

Sean, are you crazy?
If Principal Hatzilakos

sees you out here, she'll...
- She'll what? Give me detention?

I'm outside.
Just talk to me, alright?

I've been calling you
'round the clock.

- I know.
- Then why haven't you answered?!

Because I can't believe
you'd make such a stupid decision

without even talking to me!

Em, I thought
you'd be happy for me.

Y'know, spreading democracy,
peacekeeping,

protecting our country.
These are all good things.

- Sean, you would hate it.

The army
is all about taking orders

and being told what to do
and what to think.

So being told what to think
is wrong?

Isn't that what you're doing?

- This is different.
- How?

- Because I'm your girlfriend, Sean!

If you join the army,
you could get hurt.

And I need you right now.

- Why?

Tell me, I can take it.

- Honestly, I'm not sure you can.

- \x22Describe the function of enzymes

in metabolic reactions
in mitochondria.\x22

- How 'bout not. Break time?

- Mm, I thought you'd never ask.

So, uh...

I have some news.

You are looking
at a newly single girl.

- You broke it off with Jesse?

We had zero in common, hon.
He wasn't worth my time.

Well, it sounds like you got it
all figured out, Paigey.

- Hardly.

I was supposed to be at Banting,

fast tracking to an MBA.

I was supposed
to be a sorority girl

sipping cosmos
with Britney and Amber.

But here I am...

... chilling with you and...

... it feels right.

Why is that?

Why do you keep
doing this to me?

- Sorry, I...

I thought the door was kinda open.

- Yeah, it's been open for weeks.

The problem is,
you keep opening it and closing it

and opening it and closing it.
Just make up your mind!

Look... you're cool
with being a lesbian,

but... I don't know what I am.

- The word is bisexual, Paige.

And it's just a label. Who cares?

My parents
already have one gay kid.

- So?!
- So I just dropped out

of university!
Let them deal

with one major parental crisis
at a time!

- Great.

Everything's always
on your schedule, isn't it?

I am supposed
to give them grandkids one day.

You do not get
the pressure I'm under!

- Pressure?!

Excuse me for finding
your idea of \x22pressure\x22 pretty...

pretty damn pathetic right now!

- Hon, don't cry...

- Stop.

You don't get to break my heart
then comfort me too.

This is my worst nightmare,
Manny.

My boyfriend
is joining the war machine.

He could get himself killed

protecting big corporations
from the poor.

Well, at least
you're keeping an open mind, Che.

Look, I'm sure Sean's doing it

for the right reasons,
and I bet one of them is you.

- I know.

I just...

I had these plans for me and Sean,

and him joining the army
wasn't among them.

- And you don't like it when things

don't go according to plan.
- No.

I really, really don't.

- Em, we're getting into...

control-issue zone here.

Are you sure you're okay?

- Yes! I'm fine!

This is just Sean, okay?

Oh...!

- Jack...

- Hel-hello?

- Alright, guys.

Two...

Thank you.

Thank you...

- Emma.

What was so important
you couldn't tell me on the phone?

I'm worried about you.

You might want to sit,
'cause this is gonna freak you out.

- I don't need to sit.

I know what's going on.
You're emotional, you're scattered,

you have trouble concentrating.
It... it adds up.

You're anorexic again,
aren't you?

- No.

Sean, you're not even close.

I'm pregnant.

You're right,
I am gonna freak out.

Uh...

are you sure?

You do a test?

- We'll do it together, okay?

Tell me something good, Mom.
Please.

How did it go
with the, uh, building manager?

Get that extension?

- I tried.

You tried what?
What did you do?

Well, turns out he doesn't have
a thing for me after all. Huh.

- So we're still being evicted.

You think they'll remember us
at the women's shelter?

- We're not going back there, Mom.

Ever.

I know what to do.

I thought
we had all the bases covered.

And sometimes
you hit a home run.

Accidents can happen.
Maybe the pill didn't kick in.

- Time's up.

- It's negative.
- Yes!

Don't get too excited!
False negatives are common.

I have all the symptoms,

I'm days late!

- So now what do we do?

We talk.
We... we make decisions.

I never thought I'd abort
and there's always adoption, but...

Emma, Emma,
the test was negative.

Alright? Just take a breath

before you start getting
all worked up about this.

- Okay...

I'll breathe.

- Omigod...

... you're actually gonna do this.

That would explain the outfit,
yeah.

- Vlad just let you and...

and no audition?

Apparently,
I have natural talents.

Might as well use 'em.

- So you just changed your mind?

- Life changed it for me, Mel.

- Lexi...

... I have seen
so many girls do this.

If you go out there...

it changes you.

Now, let's welcome
a newcomer to our stage -

the beautiful Lextacyl

I'm not going out there, Mel.

Lextacy is.

DVD Subtitling: CNST, Montreal