DEGRASSI: AFTERMATH - S02E07 - REVELATIONS

Disclaimer: I don´t own Degrassi or the characters from it.

1. Int. Lawyer´s Office. Day.

Spinner and Emma are seated in front of one another. They are flanked by their lawyers. Emma is represented by Al Fish (one the guys who harrassed Zoe in season 1), while Spinner is represented by Mick Crane, an elderly, but confident man.

Crane:

We are not contesting that mrs. Mason played a part in building up the family business. It´s just that the only part she played in it was by putting in money.

Spinner:

And burning it down. Don´t forget that.

Emma whispers something to her lawyer.

Fish:

My client would like to be referenced as ms. Nelson from now on in these procedures.

Crane:

Very well.

Fish:

Ms. Nelson was the main breadwinner for much of their relationship, in large part owing to the constant financial loss that came from "Above The Dot". Without her constant earnings, Mr. Mason wouldn´t have been able to support himself.

Crane:

Right now the business isn´t making enough money for mr. Mason to be able to pay a settlement on it.

Fish:

But we strongly disagree. Mr. Mason just sold one half of "Above The Dot" for thirty thousand dollars. Ms. Nelson should be entitled to half of that to start with.

Spinner:

Emma, we need that money, so we can keep the house!

Emma whispers something to Fish.

Fish:

Ms, Nelson also wants it to be known, that she wants a financial settlement equal to half the value of the house, minus half of what they owe on it.

Spinner:

That´s insane, Em!

Emma:

No, it´s not Spinner! I´ve paid for half of all those house payments. If you´re not letting me live there, I want that money back. Every cent!

Spinner:

Then we have no chance of keeping it.

Fish:

Please, can we restrain ourselves here.

Crane calms Spinner down.

Fish:

We also demand visitation with the children, starting next week. Frankly it´s preposterous that mr. Mason has kept her away from her children for so long.

Spinner looks like he´s about to get worked up again, but Crane whispers something in his ear. After thinking about it for a few seconds, he nods.

Crane:

Allright. Mr. Mason will deliver the children to ms. Nelson on Friday at 6 o´clock and they will be in her care until Sunday afternoon at the same time.

Fish:

We´ve at least made a little progress here today.

Spinner:

Just don´t teach our daughter how to be a slut like you are!

Emma:

You mean like all those waitresses you stuck it to?

Crane and Fish look at each other and shake their heads.

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2. Int. McManus´ Office. Day.

Maya is also in a meeting. She´s meeting with prison advisor Ellen McManus, a woman in her mid fifties, who´s met the worst of the worst and isn´t afraid of anyone. She can also be supportive of the good ones.

Ellen:

I want reassure you that you don´t have to be afraid in here, Maya. I´m here to help you.

Maya:

How? Are you going to make that girl in LA change her statement?

Ellen:

I know things might seem a little hopeless right now.

Maya:

A little! Are you kidding me! Unless a miracle happens, I´ll be sent to a prison in California, where I have no protection and don´t know anyone! If I survive that, I can look forward to being tried for murder! How is that not a completely hopeless situation?

Ellen:

So you´ve found some protection here?

Maya:

Yeah, my cell mate Alex is looking out for me.

Ellen:

Alex Nunez?

Maya:

Yeah.

Ellen:

I know Alex. If I had to pick someone to protect me, I´d probably go for her too. Is she making you work for it?

Maya:

Work? Like sexual things?

Ellen:

It´s very common and there´s no shame in it. Girls like you, the innocent types so to speak, do what they have to, to survive in here.

Maya:

No, it´s not like that. Alex has become one of the closest friends I´ve had in my life. She´s the only reason why I haven´t gone crazy yet.

Ellen:

I´d say that you´re much luckier than most of the women in here. Do you also have friends on the outside. A boyfriend, maybe?

Maya:

I do. Great friends, the best mom I could´ve asked for, an awesome sister and a boyfriend I´m head over heels for. I miss them all the time.

Ellen:

Again that´s something that most inmates here don´t have. In many cases their old friends and even their families have given up on them. You have a lot of positives in your life, Maya. Try to focus on them in stead of the negatives.

Maya tries to look like she got the message.

3. Int. Mason Family Living Room. Evening.

Julie and Lisa have come over to help Chrissy babysit her brothers. Julie is playing with little Adam and they´re both enjoying it. James is caught up in a game he´s playing on an IPad, while Lisa is consoling Chrissy.

Lisa:

I can´t believe they´re forcing you to go visit them.

Chrissy:

That´s what my dad says.

Lisa:

I guess you have to start talking to your mom again. I mean, it´ll be some long weekends, if you plan on keeping quiet the entire time.

Little Adam starts laughing, because Julie is tickling him.

Julie:

Can I take him home? He´s so adorable!

Lisa:

You know, you and Simon are technically ready to have one.

Julie:

No, it´s a lot more fun to just come over here and play with this guy!

She tickles him again then gives him a hug and a kiss. He squeals with joy and it´s pure love between the two of them.

Chrissy:

At least someone´s having fun tonight.

4. Int. The Backdoor. Evening.

Emma is drunk as a skunk. Sean is trying to restrain her from getting into a fight with a girl (Tessa) in her early twenties and is holding her back, while the girl´s boyfriend is doing the same.

Emma:

Let me go! I´m beating the crap out of this bitch!

Girl:

You´re a fossil! I´ll take you down twice before you know what happened to you.

Sean:

Emma, for god´s sake. Try to act like an adult.

Guy:

Come on Tessa. These losers aren´t worth it.

Tessa and her boyfriend leave the bar. The bartender comes up to them and hands them their jackets.

Bartender:

Get the hell out of here.

Emma:

You want to try something with me, huh?

She tries to shove him, but he barely budges. Sean pulls her out of there by her arm.

5. Int. Sean and Emma´s Apartment. Evening.

Sean and Emma have come home. She lies face down on the couch.

Emma:

I hate it when the world is spinning around.

Sean:

That´s what you get for getting plastered. You´re almost five months pregnant and you go out and drink your brain out. What the hell is wrong with you, Em?

Emma:

I can´t handle this divorce stuff anymore. I just want it to end.

He come over and sits next to her. He strokes her back and she smiles. She switches, so that she´s lying on her side.

Emma:

Do you still love me?

Sean:

Of course I do, Em. That´s never going to change.

Emma:

Even though I´ve been a hormonal pregnazoid lately?

Sean:

Yep.

Emma:

Even though you´re broke and lost a lot of your friends because of me?

Sean:

Yep.

Emma:

You deserve a medal. Did you get any in the wars?

Sean:

I got a couple. You know what kept me going through all of that?

Emma:

Uh-uh.

Sean:

It was the dream that someday I´d get to be with you again. It doesn´t matter how crazy you act sometimes, you´ll always be the love of my life.

Emma sits up and looks him in the eyes.

Emma:

In a moment, I´m lying down to sleep.

Sean:

That´s a very good idea, Em.

Emma:

But I want you to know, that I´m more in love now, than I´ve ever been before.

They kiss and she lays down. He puts a pillow under her head and covers her with a blanket.

6. Int. Jail Cell. Evening.

Maya is lying on her cot reading, when Alex comes in.

Alex:

Have you been in here since you got back from Ellen´s office?

Maya:

I went down to eat, but Janine and her girls started pestering me. I kind of fled back here.

Alex:

So you haven´t eaten at all since breakfast?

Maya:

No, but what can I do about it?

Alex:

What do you plan to do if they send you to LA? Are you planning on starving to death, because you´re afraid that someone will say something nasty to you?

Maya:

I was almost starting to forget about LA. Thanks a lot for reminding me.

Alex takes the book away from her.

Alex:

Talk to me.

Maya:

Zoe and Lola came to visit me yesterday. They told me that there´s an article about me in the Toronto Enquirer.

Alex:

About you?

Maya:

About eight years ago, I had some small hits. A reporter followed the hearing and dug up a lot of stuff about my past.

Alex:

Like what?

Maya:

Like me having been to rehab for cocaine addiction.

Alex:

That´s not bad.

Maya:

How about me having done hundreds of hours of home made porn?

It takes a lot to surprise Alex, but that one got her.

Alex:

Little innocent miss Maya?

Maya:

She wasn´t always so innocent. What if the women in here find out?

Alex:

Then we deal with it. That´s what we always do, right?

She managed to put a small smile on Maya´s face.

7. Int. Sean and Emma´s Apartment. Morning.

Emma has just woken up and is trying to deal with her massive hangover, when the doorbell rings. She looks at the door like it´s an impossible task to open it and the bell rings again. She gets up with a few moans and slowly goes to open it.

Emma:

Hold on, I´m coming,

She opens the door and it´s Chrissy. She immediately forgets about her hangover and is just happy that she´s here.

Chrissy:

Hi, mom.

8. Ext. Spinner´s House. Day.

Montage - music: "Burn One Down" by Ben Harper. Spinner is smoking a joint while he´s looking over his plans for repairing his garage and getting his tools out. He tries climbing up on the roof of the garage, but is too stoned to get up. He gets a ladder and shakily climbs up. He smokes another joint while he´s sitting on the roof looking over the plans again. He tries to fix the broken roof pieces and at first it goes well until he misses the board and his hammer falls through the roof. He looks over to Sherry standing by her car laughing at him.

Sherry:

You want to get down from there and smoke one of those bad boys with me?

Spinner:

Do you mind holding the ladder, while I climb down?

She smiles and heads towards the house.

9. Int. Spinner´s House. Day.

Sherry and Spinner are smoking a joint next to the open garden door. Spinner is very stoned.

Sherry:

So is this the way you usually spend your weekends? Doing home repairs, while you´re stoned?

Spinner:

Nah. Chrissy´s at her friends place, Adam and James are with their grandparents. I have some weed left and I don´t want to throw it out, so I figured I´d better smoke some of it.

Sherry:

Well, I´m glad to know that I´m not in business with a burn out.

Spinner:

I hadn´t smoked in years, but I started again after the divorce negotiations began. I hope I only have to through this once.

Sherry:

It really does suck a big one, doesn´t it?

Spinner:

You´ve tried it?

Sherry:

Twice and it´s never happening again. I´m done with marriage. Loose affairs are much more fun anyway.

Spinner:

So that´s how you live? No strings, no attachments.

Sherry:

Best of all, no one gets hurt.

Spinner:

Maybe I should try it. Just one time, for the hell of it.

Sherry:

How about now?

Spinner:

Seriously?

Sherry:

We both have bodily functions we need to tend to.

She takes his hand and they leave the view of the camera.

10. Int. Sean and Emma´s Apartment. Day.

Emma and Chrissy are sitting on the couch.

Emma:

Honey, the last thing I ever wanted to do was hurt you and your brothers.

Chrissy:

How about this? What if you give up this whole "Us being forced to see you " stuff and in stead I promise you that I will come over at least once a week, so that we can hang out again.

Emma:

I don´t want you to feel like you´re forced to come here.

Chrissy:

Mom, I miss you. There´s been so much happening in my life and every day I´ve wanted to call you and talk about it.

Emma:

I´ve missed you too, sweetie. You can call me whenever you want to, I´ll always make time for you.

The two of them hug. Emma is elated that Chrissy has forgiven her.

Chrissy:

I have a big favor to ask you.

Emma:

Anything.

Chrissy:

Drive me back to the house. I know that dad is home, so I want you two to sit down and talk. No yelling, no calling each other names, talking!

Emma:

It´s a good thing there´s one person, who behaves like an adult in this family.

11. Int. Visiting room. Day.

Several tables are set up, where prisoners are talking to their visitors. Lola is waiting at a table. Maya sees her and rushes over to her.

Maya:

You´re like a ray of sunshine on a stormy day.

Lola:

Things going badly?

Maya:

The story of me being former pornstar spread right away. If I thought I had girls eyeing me before, it´s nothing like what it is now.

Lola:

But they´re just eyeing you?

Maya:

Most of the time. A girl grabbed me and tried to feel me up in the shower, but Alex scared her off.

Lola:

Are you afraid you might get gang raped or something?

Maya:

Not as much as I was the first days in here, before me and Alex became close.

Lola:

You´re lucky to have her.

Maya:

I know. When she gets out, I´m doing everything I can to pay it back to her. She´s had a very tough life.

Lola:

You´re talking like you´re sure, you´re getting out.

Maya:

If I think about it any other way, I become depressed. I guess you could call it a survival mechanism.

Lola:

I think I should tell you, that the story has spread. One of the big, national papers picked up the story and there was a small newspiece about you on TV.

Maya:

So even if I get out, I´ll always be "Maya the Pornstar". Known for getting away with murder and sticking things up her cavities.

Lola:

Look on the bright side. You could make a lot of money selling your story.

Maya:

You think so?

Lola:

People love their scandals.

Maya:

Huh?

Maya ponders it.

12. Int. Spinner´s House. Day.

Chrissy and Emma have come into the house.

Chrissy:

Does it smell funny in here?

Emma (smiling to herself):

A little bit, yeah.

Chrissy:

Where can dad be?

She looks out into the garden, then hears sounds coming from the bedroom.

Chrissy:

He must be fixing something in his bedroom. Why´s he making all those grunting noises?

Emma knows what´s going on, but Chrissy is too fast for her. She opens the door and walks in. About 3 seconds later we see her running out of there again and straight up to her room. Spinner comes out, draped in a bedsheet, quickly followed by Sherry. Emma breaks down laughing.

Spinner:

Emma, it´s not funny.

Emma:

Oh, yes. It is.

Sherry starts laughing too. Emma extends her and to her.

Emma:

I´m Emma, the soon to be ex-wife.

Sherry:

I´m Sherry, Gavin´s new business partner.

Emma:

Partner in every sense, I see.

Spinner:

Should I go up and talk to her?

Emma:

I think it´s better I do that. I think she just saw enough of you.

Emma heads up the stairs.

Sherry:

Why are you divorcing her? She´s a hoot and a half!

Spinner doesn´t find any of it funny, that´s obvious.

13. Int. Chrissy´s Room. Day.

Chrissy is lying on her bed when Emma comes in. She sits down next to her.

Emma:

Are you okay, honey?

Chrissy:

I think it´s gonna take me a hundred years to get that image out of my head!

Emma:

I´m sure it was unpleasant.

Chrissy:

But he was behind her. They were doing like animals or something!

Emma:

It´s time we had "The Conversation". What you saw was completely natural.

Chrissy:

How can that be natural? I never knew dad´s butt was so hairy!

Emma:

Well, guys are generally much more hairy than women. When men and women have sex, they sometimes like to do it in different positions.

Chrissy:

It´s not that I´ve never thought about it. We´ve already had a little sex-ed at school. It just seems like something that´s so far in to my future, that I can´t relate to having it yet. Does that make sense?

Emma:

I get what you mean. But in two years, a lot of the girls who are your age now will be sexually active. Your aunt Manny was only a year older than you, when she got pregnant.

Chrissy:

You mean I only have a year until my friends start having babies? Maybe it´ll be me having one.

She looks completely depressed at the thought. Emma snuggles up next to her.

Emma:

That´s why there´s something called birth control. But I hope you wait until you find the right one and you´re both old enough to handle what it´s like emotionally.

Chrissy:

How old were you?

Emma:

17. It was with Sean. I was with a boy I´d been in love with for years, who had saved my life and who I trusted with all my heart.

Chrissy:

That sounds romantic. You know, I´ve got a boyfriend now.

Emma:

No way!

Chrissy is smiling again.

Chrissy:

Yes way! His name is Jamie and he´s got the cutest smile and the coolest hair I´ve ever seen. And he´s the sweetest boy I´ve ever met, of course.

Emma:

Tell me more about this "Boy Wonder", you´ve met.

We start fading out as Chrissy is happily chatting away and Emma is enjoying every second of it.

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