LAKEHURST HIGH - EPISODE 20 - DREAMS CAN COME TRUE PART 3 (FINALE)
Disclaimer: I don´t own Degrassi or the characters from it.
1. Int. Joey and Tessa´s House. Morning.
Tessa is running around fussing, while Joey tries to calm her down.
Joey:
Tessa, calm down. It´s your wedding day.
Tessa:
We should postpone. We´re not at all ready.
Joey:
I´m 58 and you´re 57. Trust me, we´re ready!
Tessa:
I don´t know, where Caitlyn or Angie are, we still haven´t received the flowers ...
Joey:
Because they´re delivering them today. Take it easy.
He gives her a kiss to calm her down. It appears to work. They´re interrupted by Caitlyn, who tries to sneak in.
Joey:
Someone had a wild night last night!
Caitlyn:
Yeah, it got a bit late.
Tessa:
Was there a guy involved?
Caitlyn can´t help smiling. Tessa and Joey look pleased for her.
Caitlyn:
There might have been.
Joey:
I get it. It´s not something you want to talk about in front of your ex. It´s time, I changed into my suit anyway.
Joey leaves them.
Tessa:
So?
Caitlyn:
I spent the night with Yick!
Tessa smiles, seeing that Caitlyn is almost giddy over it.
OPENING CREDITS
2. Int. Church. Day.
The church is close to filled for the wedding. Caitlyn is sitting with Alexa, who can´t stop herself from looking over at Simon and Michelle.
Alexa:
I can´t believe, that they came!
Caitlyn:
Would you shut it!
We cut to the altar, where Joey and Tessa are ready to read their vows. Craig (Joey´s adopted son) is Joey´s best man, while Angie is Tessa´s maid of honor.
Joey:
I´m not the kind of guy, who wastes time on regretting things. But I am one, who believes that some things were meant to be. That includes you and me.
They smile at each other.
Joey:
We were essentially just big kids and we weren´t ready for each other that first time around. If we´d stayed together, then we wouldn´t have the wonderful families, we´ve been blessed with. I know, that just like me, you wouldn´t trade them in for anything. But us not only meeting by chance after all those years, but also falling even more in love than we did that first time, makes me believe that someone was playing a hand in it. No one can say, if we would have lasted, if we had tried to stay together, back in our teens. This time, I know, that we will. I love you and there´s no doubt in my mind, that I´m with the woman, I´m supposed to be with.
Craig and Angie make eye contact and both them look happy for Joey and Tessa.
Tessa:
It felt like my life fell apart and crumbled, when we broke up back then. I was 17, pregnant and I´d lost my dream guy, who I´d had a crush on since grade 8. I was mad at you, mad at myself and felt about as low, as a person can. Lord only knows, what would have happened, if I´d told you about that baby and we´d had it. What it did was give me a new chance in a place, where I got to start over. It turned out to be the best thing, that could have happened to me. The years passed and I was happy for by far the most of them, but I never forgot you. Still somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew that we weren´t quite done with one another and when I saw you again, I just knew. That this time, I wasn´t gonna let you go.
Pastor:
Then let me ask you Joseph. Do you take Tessa to be your wife. To have and to hold, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?
Joey:
I sure do.
Pastor:
Tessa, do you take Joseph as your husband, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?
Tessa:
You don´t even have to ask! I do!
Pastor:
Then by the power invested in me, I pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss.
Joey and Tessa kiss to the applause of the crowd. We see that Caitlyn has to wipe a few tears away, but she´s clearly happy for them.
3. Int. Banquet Room. Evening.
The appetizer is being served and the banquet room looks amazing. Angie really did a good job on it!
We cut over to the twins, Liz, Lucy, Bronco and Alexa, who sit at one of the tables.
Lucy:
That was such a beautiful wedding!
Bronco:
Almost as nice as ours, huh, babe?
Liz:
That´s pretty much all of the old gang, that´s either dead or married.
Heather:
Am I the only one, who felt a bit sad? Like this could be the last time, we go to see one of our old friends get married?
Alexa:
Hey! There´s still a couple of single gals at this table, thank you very much!
Erica:
We´re not hopeless cases yet!
Erica and Alexa high five. Michelle and Simon come over to the table. Alexa is hardly pleased to see them.
Alexa:
Look! It´s the jerk, who left me and his back stabbing skank!
Simon:
It looks like, they put all the old Degrassi folk at the same tables.
Michelle:
Alexa, can we try to get along for an evening? We used to be best friends, for goodness sake.
Simon:
Hasn´t it been long enough?
Alexa gives in and nods, but she´s clearly not happy about the situation. A thin and good looking man in his 50´s comes over to the table.
Dwight:
Is this table 4?
Erica lights up at the sound of his voice.
Erica:
I recognize that voice.
Her and Dwight make eye contact.
Dwight:
Erica?
She gets up and gives him a big hug. They rest look confused.
Bronco:
Are we supposed to know him?
We cut over to Yick and Kathleen, who are seated next to each other and enjoying talking to each other. They´re at a table with Snake, Spike, Joey, Tessa, Craig, Jenna Middleton (his girlfriend) and Caitlyn. Caitlyn can´t keep her eyes off Yick. Jenna notices.
Jenna:
You´re not the only one, weddings do that to, you know? This is the second wedding to come out of the last one I went to. A third is on the way.
Caitlyn:
I wouldn´t mind being next. Let´s face it, it´s close to now or never.
Jenna:
You never had kids?
Caitlyn:
No. I kept waiting for the perfect guy, but he never came along. Plus, I had my career and everything.
Jenna:
Do you know, what the best thing, I ever did was?
Caitlyn shakes her head.
Jenna:
I gave mine up. I could have had a bigger music career, than I´ve had, After my son came into the picture, I left it behind and I haven´t looked back. Now I work in our family car lot and I still get to perform, from time to time. As you said, it´s getting close to now or never.
They´re served their food by the waiters. Yick and Caitlyn make contact and she smiles shyly at him. He smiles back at her.
4. Int. Kitchen. Evening.
Angie comes out to the kitchen, where Melanie is running a tight ship.
Angie:
I just wanted to tell you, that they´re loving the food!
Melanie:
We´re glad to hear it. Everything is on schedule back here.
Angie gives her a thumbs up and heads back into the banquet hall.
5. Int. Banquet Hall. Evening.
Alexa is clearly annoyed, that everyone except for her is having a great time.
Liz:
Any roles on the horizon?
Simon:
I have a few projects coming up. An HBO series, a few movies.
Michelle:
Simon is even directing for the first time.
Michelle looks proud of him.
Simon:
It´s only a few episodes of a TV series to start with.
Heather:
Still, that´s some accomplishment.
Alexa:
I guess, that you don´t really have much choice, now that your looks are fading. I mean, who would want to see your old mug still chasing around some hot 20 year old. Am I right?
Simon and Michelle try not to get dragged into her drama.
Simon:
I know, that the only think I liked about "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", was that I didn´t have to watch Harrison Ford picking up girls a 3rd of his age.
Bronco:
You and me both. Man, that was a bad movie!
Liz:
Although it did teach us, that you´ll survive a direct hit from a nuclear blast, without as much as a scratch, if you hide inside a refrigerator! Even nuclear physicists had to be very surprised at that one!
Most at the table laugh, except for Alexa.
Alexa:
Also and no offense, Michelle, but it can´t have been fun to watch him make out with those hot girls, with as old as you´re starting to look.
Simon:
We all get older. It isn´t everyone, who´s used a fortune on botox injections.
Alexa looks so angry, that she could burst and gets up from her seat.
Alexa:
Excuse me.
She leaves the table and heads for the door.
Michelle:
I´ll go and talk to her.
Michelle follows after her.
We cut to Joey and Tessa´s table. Snake knocks on his glass and people turn to pay attention to him.
Snake:
As Joey´s oldest friend, I wanted to say a few words. First, that it fills both me and Spike with joy to see him this happy and in love again. Him and me have gone through more than a lot of friends have. Like for instance, the first time we tried to buy beer. Do you remember that?
Joeys nods.
6. Int. Lobby. Evening.
Alexa comes out from the banquet hall. Michelle follows soon after.
Michelle:
Wait!
Alexa:
I´m leaving, so you can have your perfect evening to yourselves! I never should have come here.
Michelle:
Will you listen to me for once and not storm off, like spoiled teenager?
Alexa:
So, I get a botox injection here and there! Does he have to tell everyone?
Michelle:
Please! You´ve been playing the passive/aggressive game on him, since you were 15! Don´t you think, that gets old after a while?
Alexa:
I feel like a loser, when I´m around you. Are you happy now?
Michelle looks sympathetic with her.
Michelle:
Tell me about it. We used to be able to talk about things.
Alexa:
Everything´s gone wrong for these past 20 years. After the divorce, I was so determined to show Simon, that he was wrong about me.
Michelle:
You´re not a loser. You´re a bit of weirdo, who refuses to grow up, but that´s not entirely a bad thing. You´re certainly nowhere close to a loser.
Alexa:
I want us to be friends again. It seems like the moment, things went wrong every time, was when I didn´t have you in my life. You´re the best friend, I´ve ever had and that´s why it hurt so much, when Simon chose you over me. I just couldn´t handle it.
Michelle:
Remember in 6th grade, when we both had a crush on the same boy? I told you, that I liked him and you didn´t speak to me for two days.
Alexa nods and smiles to herself.
Alexa:
We pinky swore that we forever and ever would never let a boy come between us again. How can I forget? It´s one of my best childhood memories.
Michelle:
Mine too. We were a clever couple of girls, weren´t we?
Alexa:
We were right about that part, anyway.
They hug it out.
7. Int. Banquet Hall. Evening.
Snake is still giving his speech, when Michelle and Alexa return to the table. Simon is pleased to see them getting along.
We cut to Snake, whose speech is clearly running a bit long for some of the crowd, who are yawning.
Snake:
Let me finish with a toast to the happy couple. May they live long and prosper!
The guests toast. Many look relieved, that his speech is over.
8. Int. Banquet Hall. Evening.
We cut to later in the evening. A wedding band is playing and many couples are dancing. Among them are Caitlyn and Yick.
Caitlyn:
I had a quick look on the web for apartments and houses in Toronto. The prizes aren´t anything to hold me back.
Yick:
What makes you think, that I would date you, if you moved there? I could have dozens of girls at my beckon call.
She smiles.
Caitlyn:
I somehow doubt that.
Yick:
Okay, you got me. I´m a secret agent!
He gets her to laugh.
Yick:
If you want to date, then you have to live with me travelling off on top secret missions all the time and you´re not allowed to ask, what I did or where I were.
Caitlyn:
What happens, if I blow your cover?
Yick:
We have those memory erase things from Men in Black, in case they´re needed.
Caitlyn:
You learn something new every day! How do you know, that I´m not one? I could have been sent to this wedding to spy on you. You didn´t consider that, did you?
Yick:
We could do this all night.
Caitlyn:
Seriously, I´m only interested, if you want something serious. Joking around is fine, but I´m too old for flings.
Yick:
You play a hard game.
Caitlyn:
For the first time, I want to be open about this from the start.
Yick:
I can live with that.
They kiss.
We cut over to Alexa and Michelle, who are sitting at a table and watching them.
Alexa:
That´s another one, I won´t get!
Michelle:
There´s still plenty of fish in the sea.
Alexa:
Yeah, but they become more stale and rotten, with every year that goes by!
Michelle laughs.
Michelle:
That´s the Alexa, I know! The one, who thought, that she knew everything about boys, when she was still wearing her training bra.
Alexa:
I haven´t learned an awful lot since then, to be honest.
Michelle:
I know some single guys, I could fix you up with. Successful ones.
Alexa:
What kind of guys are we talking here?
Alexa looks intrigued.
9. Int. Kitchen. Evening.
Angie and Craig are with Snake and Joey.
Angie:
Dad, for the love of God, don´t do this!
Joey:
We can still rock the house!
Craig:
Have you rehearsed?
Snake:
Rehearsal, resmursal! The Zits never needed to rehearse in the old days!
Angie:
You made me listen to that old tape a hundred times, while I was growing up and trust me, you should have rehearsed more!
Craig:
I´m with Angie on this one.
Tessa comes out into the kitchen.
Tessa:
There you are. What am I not supposed to know?
Joey:
Honey, you know how I said, that I wished that I´d performed at my first wedding?
Tessa shakes her head and looks defiant.
Tessa:
No, Joey! Not if you had the greatest band in the world backing you and you only had to play the triangle!
Joey:
Tessa, please.
Tessa:
I said yes to for better or for worse, but I´m not subjecting my wedding guests to that!
Joey and Snake look dejected, but Tessa clearly scored big with Craig and Angie.
10. Int. Banquet Hall. Evening.
We see Dwight and Erica getting drinks from the bar.
Dwight:
A club soda with ice and lemon.
Erica:
Make that two.
The bartender goes to get their drinks.
Erica:
You´re still staying sober, huh?
Dwight:
Are you?
Erica:
Most of the time.
Dwight:
That isn´t all of the time.
Erica:
Will you stop preaching? I´m old enough to make my own decisions.
Dwight:
Sorry. It becomes force of habit after a while, when you´re in the field, I´m in.
Erica:
Are you HIV free now?
Dwight:
I have been for over ten years.
She´s clearly glad to hear it.
Erica:
It didn´t turn out to be a death sentence after all then.
Dwight:
I missed out on some things, but I don´t regret anything.
Erica:
You couldn´t have kids, could you?
Dwight:
That´s what adoption is for. Me and Tabi have two kids, a boy and a girl, who are in their 20´s.
Erica:
You got back with your ex from High School, huh?
Dwight:
It was shortly after you left for college. She has helped me get through a lot of tough times.
Erica:
If I had asked you to go out, back when we were friends. Would you have said yes?
Dwight:
Probably. Someone had to protect you from yourself.
They get their drinks and head back to their table.
We cut to Kathleen, who´s sitting by herself. Caitlyn and Yick come over to her.
Caitlyn:
Can you take over for me? These shoes weren´t made for dancing, if you know, what I mean?
Yick:
What do you say, Kathleen? For old times sake?
Kathleen smiles and nods. He takes her hand and they head out onto the dancefloor. Caitlyn takes a seat next to Joey.
Joey:
Can you believe, that Tessa won´t let us play?
Caitlyn:
Ehm, yes! Thanks, Tessa, for sparing our ears.
Joey:
The Zits weren´t that bad! we rocked the house on that one and only performance.
Tessa:
I wasn´t there, but I hardly imagine, that you did.
Caitlyn:
I was. They weren´t too terrible, for a bunch of 7th graders.
Joey:
Thanks, Caitlyn. Finally some support.
Caitlyn:
I didn´t say, that you got better! It was only my extremely rosy colored glasses, that stopped me from telling you the truth. Now that those are off, it´s a lot easier.
Joey:
Are they off, once and for all?
Caitlyn:
They are. The right girl got him in the end.
Tessa and Joey kiss.
We cut to the stage, where Jenna and Craig are with the band. They both have guitars.
Craig:
Hi everyone. We want to play a song for my dad and what I guess, is my new step-mom. It feels a little weird to say it, since we´ve had to wait so long for it. But I speak for everyone in our family, when I welcome you and the rest of the Campanelli clan into ours.
Jenna:
This might seem like a weird choice, but they wanted it to be a happy song and I happen to know, that this is Joey´s favorite song. After the intro to Game of Thrones, but without a full symphony orchestra here, it would sound a little flat.
They get a good laugh from the crowd.
Craig:
Joey, will you come up here and sing it with us?
Joey gets excited and gets a big applause, when he gets on stage.
Joey:
This is a song, that teaches you everything you need to know about life.
Craig starts off "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" by Monty Python.
Craig (singing):
Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse
Joey (singing):
So, when you´re chewing on life´s thistle
Don´t grumble, give a whistle
A whistle helps things turn out for the best
The rest of the band join in.
Craig/Joey (singing):
So, always look on the bright side of life
Always look on the light side of life
We cut over to Caitlyn, Angie and Tessa, who watch him with smiles all around.
Angie:
There´s no one quite like my dad, is there?
Tessa/Caitlyn:
No, there isn´t!
The final freeze frame is Tessa and Caitlyn smiling side by side, as we fade to black.
11. Montage.
The song keeps playing, we get a photo montage.
The first photo is of Alexa, Michelle and Simon spending Christmas together with their kids.
CAPTION:
ALEXA AND MICHELLE HAVE BECOME FRIENDS AGAIN. MICHELLE AND SIMON HELPED ALEXA TO MAKE AMENDS TO HER KIDS, WHICH SHE DID WITH SOME RAUCUOUS CHRISTMAS SPENDING. SHE´S ALSO STARTED DATING AGAIN, BUT ISN´T RUSHING INTO ANYTHING TOO FAST.
We see a picture of her with Chad.
CAPTION:
SHE ALSO HIRED CHAD TO BE A WAITER AT HER RESTAURANT. THE REVENUE WENT UP RIGHT AWAY AND IT´S NOW DOING BETTER THAN EVER.
We see a picture on Heather and Liz on a beach somewhere.
CAPTION:
HEATHER AND LIZ GOT TIRED OF THE CANADIAN WINTER ONCE AND FOR ALL AND MOVED TO SPAIN. LIZ IS WORKING AS A PHYSICAL THEREAPIST IN THE SAME CLINIC, WHERE HEATHER WORKS AS A SECRETARY. WHEN ASKED HOW THEY WERE DOING, THEY REPLIED "MUY TRANQUILLO".
We see a picture of Erica in front of the Eiffel Tower, with a handsome man by her side.
CAPTION:
ERICA WENT TO VISIT THEM AND MET A RICH WIDOWER NAMED JEAN-LUC, WHO SHE´S VERY IN LOVE WITH. SHE´S SURE, IT WAS FATE, THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER AND LOVES LIVING IN FRANCE
We see a picture of Spike and Snake with their grand children.
CAPTION:
THINGS HAVEN´T CHANGED IN MUCH THE PAST YEARS FOR SPIKE AND SNAKE, BUT THEN AGAIN, WHY CHANGE SOMETHING THAT WORKS?
We see a picture of them with Yick and Caitlyn in what looks to be a very cheesy looking wedding chapel. Arthur, an attractive woman in her 40´s and Dorothy are also in the picture. Arthur and Dorothy really do look eerily similar!
CAPTION:
YICK AND CAITLYN WAITED A WHOLE TWO WEEKS, UNTIL THEY ELOPED TO ATLANTIC CITY AND GOT MARRIED. SPIKE WAS CAITLYN´S MAID OF HONOR AND ARTHUR WAS YICK´S, JUST LIKE YICK HAD BEEN FOR HIM.
We see a picture of Joey and Tessa, with their large extended family of kids and grandkids.
CAPTION:
JOEY AND TESSA ARE MORE IN LOVE, THAN EITHER OF THEM EVER THOUGHT WAS POSSIBLE.
AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
THE END
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