The group was too stunned by Jeff, Annie and Annie Kim to ask Annie what just happened. Besides, if they talked to her, she might blab to Jeff and he'd give away their most embarrassing secrets. But he might be stuck in jail for killing Annie Kim for some reason, so who'd believe him them?
Yet Annie sprung to her feet before they could decide it was worth the risk.
She ran out of the classroom in Jeff and Annie Kim's direction, and didn't go far until she saw Jeff trapping Annie Kim against some lockers. Apparently his super long legs were good runners after all – – or at least they were when Jeff was actually motivated enough to run somewhere.
But perhaps Jeff was too motivated in interrogating Annie Kim. "Go on, smile for the camera! Just like when you drugged Annie's coffee!" he attacked, holding the pen up to her face.
"You've finally snapped, Winger!" Annie Kim argued, surprisingly composed under the circumstances, and her recent outburst. Running away from Jeff must have given her enough time to plan her defense. Of course it did.
"Your crazy denial about Annie, and your crazy emotions about leaving Greendale, made you snap! I don't know how they made you do this, but we all knew something like this was coming!" Annie Kim proposed.
"So they knew I'd film you putting ground up Adderall in Annie's special coffee? Like you have for two straight weeks?" Jeff qualified.
"On the off chance it's me and not an impersonator, what other 'proof' do you have?"Annie Kim retorted. "You destroyed all the 'evidence' back in the classroom. And if me or my copy put anything 'ground up' in there, how do you know it was Adderall? And do you have two straight weeks of me doing this on tape? You see how your logic eats itself, right?" she bragged.
This was what Annie got for not drinking that coffee when she had the chance. The one time she didn't do things her way – the right way – this happened!
Wait. That was rather presumptuous of her. And that meant….
Annie knew herself well enough to know her own ego. If she had one, Annie Kim would too – and it might be just unstable enough when threatened. To bring it out, it was time to use the old lawyers playbook.
"That's enough, Jeff!" Annie spoke up, settling into the 'good cop' role. "She's right, there's no real evidence she did anything. Besides, it's not like she could have done it anyway."
"Annie, what are you –" Jeff started wildly.
"Jeff, I still have the floor!" Annie pointed out. Her forcefulness and tone forced Jeff into submission, as he backed away from Annie Kim and let Annie question the witness.
"I had it all wrong. You couldn't have drugged me because you're not ruthless enough," Annie started. "You're not brilliant enough, either. There is someone that destructive, perfect and genius enough to destroy me. But it isn't you."
"It isn't?" Annie Kim asked, albeit not as steady as she probably wanted. So far, so good.
"Nope. Only one person is that perfect. And I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier, Jeff," Annie apologized. "You were right all along. The only one who could be that smart and evil is Rich."
"Ha, told you!" Jeff said out of instinct, before he actually thought about it. "Wait, hold on."
"No, I won't, Jeff! We persecuted Annie Kim, when it was really Rich! She deserves to hear that she couldn't match up to him!" Annie kept dangling the bait. "I mean, where else could she have gotten the pills? Who else wouldn't be suspected by anyone? And he rejected me for being too young! We all know that can make someone pretty twisted!"
Annie wasn't trying to make a meta commentary/accusation about Jeff. But she'd clear that up with him when she finished working on Annie Kim.
She continued with, "He wanted me and was ashamed of it, so he tried to destroy me. And he knew it'd destroy Jeff as an added bit of revenge! He had the motive, access, and brains that no one else could have had! The fact we thought Annie Kim was remotely capable of that was so….stupid!"
"That moron thought I needed two bottles of Adderall for a study buddy! Does that sound like brains to you?!" Annie Kim snapped.
And for the second time in the last five minutes, she realized she said too much, too late.
"Ha, I knew that moron was involved! Wait, hold on," Jeff broke free from his Rich hatred again.
"Wait a minute, I didn't mean it like that! I didn't mean anything at all!" Annie Kim tried to explain, but neither Jeff, Annie – nor their friends that had arrived right on time – were buying it. "This isn't possible…." she insisted.
"Why? Because you drugged me with Adderall for two weeks, and I still outsmarted you? And Jeff did too?" Annie drove home.
"Oh, the evil doppelganger framed her! Not as daring a twist, but much less desperate than Annie willingly on drugs again. We might still have stability in this saga after all," Abed exclaimed.
"I don't believe this…." Troy declared, as the others were in disbelief too.
"And yet you did believe Annie would want to take pills again. That's why you guys suck," Jeff recovered enough to blame.
"Jeff, they were half right," Annie defended, then focused back on Annie Kim. "As for that other half…."
"It's not fair….it's just not fair," Annie Kim was reduced to muttering.
"Oh, we know that. But tell us a crazier reason why, crazy," Jeff taunted bitterly.
"I'm crazy? She's crazy!" Annie Kim spat at Annie. "She's the psycho pill head! She was one long before I did anything! She wouldn't have been that psycho this week if she wasn't already psycho! And yet she has everything!"
"Yes, she does! Because she's earned it!" Shirley voiced.
"No! She's a whiny brat who can't let anyone else have anything!" Annie Kim accused, then zeroed her rage back on Annie herself. "Oh, don't look so shocked! You use your Disney eyes, your boobs, your whining and your power over old people to get your way! You lie, deceive, rip people off and give Annie's everywhere a bad name!"
"I give them a bad name?" Annie objected.
"Well, I've never been on pills!" Annie Kim pointed out. "I never broke down like a child! I never tried to make my friends fail classes because I'm an insecure, friendless loser! I did everything the right way!" she insisted as she got more emotional.
"I never acted out! I never needed pills! I never had to change majors like a quitter! I never tried to be something I wasn't! But you…..you're such a mess, and you're still popular!" Annie Kim mourned. "You have friends who worship you and love you! You do rotten things and they just keep on loving you! You're certifiably insane, and you still beat me in everything!" she yelled as the tears started to come down.
"I did everything right and you have everything I never had! I do just one rotten thing to get back at you, but they'll ruin my life and let you keep getting off scot free! How is that fair? You don't deserve it….so why you and not me? What about me?" Annie Kim finally finished before she full on sobbed.
"What about you, drama queen? My apologies to the gay community for –" Britta couldn't finish.
"Britta, not now!" Annie stunned her and the others by not letting that slam stand. Instead, she went over to a sobbing Annie Kim, as if she looked sympathetic for her.
When Annie Kim could look at her again, Annie said, "I wish I didn't know exactly how you feel. But I kind of do. Envying cool, messed up high school students for years can do that. So much that you turn to pills to forget how inferior you feel."
Remembering those times always made Annie sad, even these days. But this was particularly intense – especially with everything that just happened, the oddness of feeling sorry for Annie Kim, and the knowledge that her Adderall cravings weren't gone yet.
Since she missed her now daily intake, her withdrawal symptoms could start at any time. She already felt herself getting antsy, even after she refused to drink that coffee. If Annie was going to settle this, she had to do it now.
"I'm sorry for what you've been going through," Annie told her doppelganger. "I'm sorry for how you feel about yourself. But there is a big difference between us. I lashed out and hurt myself back then. You lashed out and hurt innocent people."
"You're not innocent. You would have done the same thing I did with a little push," Annie Kim felt certain.
"You think I don't know that? I know how bad I can be! How bad I have been sometimes!" Annie admitted. "But that's not who I want to be. I want to be the best, and not just the best student anymore. I want to be the best the right way, and I want it for the right reasons."
"What does it matter? I'm living proof that it doesn't work. Who really cares how you're the best?" Annie Kim resigned herself.
"I do! It means so much to me, no matter what you think," Annie corrected. "I made countless mistakes before I even started to get it right. But it's still worth it to me. It's worth it to be someone who can save herself, and never stop trying to be better. It's worth it to be more than a good grade in a tight sweater. It's worth it to have friends who'll save her when she can't do it herself. Like Jeff does….like everyone else does. And it's worth it so much to be someone worth saving!"
Jeff almost didn't hear that last part. He was too stunned that Annie, or anyone else, could speak of him in that way. And Annie struggled to fully hear herself because she was trying to keep herself stable. But they each powered through to keep moving along.
"I want all of that so much, I'll never stop fighting for it. Or fighting to do it right. But that's clearly not what you want," Annie directed at Annie Kim.
"So I don't want it enough, huh? What a convenient excuse! You arrogant, elitist bitch," Annie Kim spit out. While Jeff and the others grit their teeth or worse, Annie just stayed level.
"You don't get it. You really don't," Annie simply said. "The point is I won't take shortcuts to get that stuff! I'll do anything for it, and I'll do anything to make sure I don't do….well, anything for it. But you took the easy way out. You chose to hurt people, and hurt their friends, instead of working for what you really wanted."
"What good would that have done me?!" Annie Kim growled.
As Annie's righteous fury bubbled over, she finished, "I could have felt sorry for you about the other stuff. But taking the easy way out like you did – I'm sorry, but I'm not that kind of Annie. And I hope to God I never will be."
Annie didn't feel like wasting another word on Annie Kim. She turned away from her and looked at the other group members, who all wore the same slack-jawed expression – even Abed. "Well, now I don't know how our finale could have a bigger 'drop the mic' moment, in Twittersphere terms," Abed declared.
Yet Annie focused on Jeff instead, bringing herself to start, "Okay, Jeff. I'm ready to go to – "
Jeff knew what she would say. But no one else would, because she didn't finish her request.
Because Annie Kim came from nowhere to interrupt her, pin her to the wall, and take out a half-full bottle of Adderall pills.
"Be whatever Annie you want in Hell!" she screamed, before holding Annie's mouth open and pouring all the pills she could into it. She even moved Annie's throat up and down so she would swallow them all.
"Let go of her!" Jeff and Troy yelled behind them. Yet Annie Kim kept a hand on Annie's throat and another hand full of pills in her mouth, as they tried to push her away. But her grip was just way too strong, thanks to her insane fury.
Annie didn't know how many pills she'd swallowed, if any. But it wasn't enough to ruin her critical thinking just yet. Because of that, she could take in how Annie Kim's fingers were in her mouth – and bite down on one of them as hard as possible.
Once Annie Kim flinched and removed her hand, Annie used all her old karate training to strike her in the face. It knocked her backwards, and knocked Jeff and Troy back a bit as well since they were too close. But Annie got past them, reached a staggering Annie Kim, and gave her another quick left and right to knock her down for good.
Once Annie Kim went down, Britta, Shirley and Pierce grabbed her so she couldn't get up and away. But Annie also went down as well, and not because her hands hurt.
She felt at least one pill go down her throat after Annie Kim released her grip. Combined with any other pills that she forced down, she wasn't feeling good. She spat out the other pills in her mouth, yet the ones that got in – combined with her unwell, unchecked condition over the last two weeks in general – were not sitting well.
But as Jeff knelt down next to her, Annie still managed to modify her last statement. "Like I said...I need to go to the hospital, Jeff. Now."