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accident. The whole thing was an accident.

Truth is, I did hit him, but he deserved it.

He's been unconscious for almost 24 hours.

You have

any idea what it's like to spend four years of your life writing a play?

He is Wiggy's Dog Pink.

I don't get it.

Just don't get it.

I don't get it.

You don't get what?

Seven, what are you doing here?

I reckon I'm doing the same thing you are, Chris.

Looking for a bus.

We're still thinking.

We've been here over an hour.

Uh -uh.

I suppose the cab is out of the question.

Is there any word on Jesse?

Still in the hospital.

It's a pretty bad concussion.

He's been unconscious for almost 24 hours.

If he doesn't come out of it soon...

What are you going to do?

What I'm supposed to do?

Report my findings to the board.

It's at best.

The trouble is... I'm not sure what my findings are.

I can't figure it out.

Mr.

Tarrant.

You know, none of this would have happened if you hadn't come to the

I still can't believe it.

It was late yesterday afternoon.

School was over.

So I stayed late to do some studying.

And on my way home,

I saw Nicole and Mr. Torrance.

They were looking at something.

Couldn't tell when it was at first.

It was Jesse.

It was like I told you at the hearing.

Bracelet?

No, no, I don't know anything about a bracelet.

Like I said, I saw Velasquez laying there in the pit, unconscious.

I don't know how the...

The traffic case got busted up either.

I certainly didn't think I'd be sitting here testifying as a character witness

against him.

Or is it for him? I'm not sure which.

How well do I know Mr. Torrance?

Not very.

Seemed like a nice enough fellow.

Nicer than I would have been had somebody knocked over everything I was

carrying.

He was very excited about a new play he had written that we were going to try

out here at the school.

That's all he ever seemed to talk about.

Drama or comedy?

Oh, drama.

Definitely drama.

At any rate, it's a pity. A pity all of this had to happen.

Yes, I saw Mr.

Torrance. It was right after the whole thing happened, I was...

I suppose you're wondering how I knew it was after it happened.

Well, I don't suppose it's any secret around here, so I might as well say it.

I'm psychic.

Have been since I was a girl.

Well, anyway, I was leaving the office and I sensed something.

Something wrong.

That's when I saw him.

He was tearing something.

At first, I couldn't see what it was, but when I looked more closely, I

it was his manuscript.

I don't know what else to say.

You all think that I hit the kid. I might as well say that I did.

Truth is, I did hit him, but he deserved it.

I thought not coming here would be a good thing.

Give me the opportunity to direct my play. That is all that I cared about.

That and finding the girl to play Lisa.

When I first saw Nicole Chapman, I knew that I had.

As I watched her, I realized that this was not any 16 -year -old kid.

She was a woman.

She was. Lisa.

You're running with me.

Don't touch the ground.

With a restless heart, not to change the bound.

The sky is burning.

I see a flame.

Though your world is changing, I will be the same.

I can't escape I'm a play to love Play to love

I

can't escape

I offered her the part immediately, and she accepted it. She was thrilled. She

was excited. She couldn't thank me enough. I read it. I think it's

and I'd like to audition.

Well, you just did. I'd love for you to play the part of Lisa.

Really? No.

You're kidding.

Now, believe me, I've never been more serious in my life.

Well, I don't know what to say.

Well, say you'll do it.

Okay, I'll do it.

Terrific.

I didn't know who Velasquez was at the time, but I knew he was a problem.

His jealousy was apparent.

I made up my mind that it would not stand in my way.

In fact, I was going to use it.

I don't like the way you two look at each other.

And just how do we look at each other?

Like there's something going on. There is nothing going on. You lie to me. I

tell when you're lying. I am so tired of your jealousy. Why don't you just grow

up? All right, all right, all right. Hold it, hold it. That was great,

That was great.

Really? Yeah, yeah. I'm really starting to believe you as Lisa. I'm starting to

see the fire in you now.

Oh, God.

You know, I think that Jesse and I are really starting to connect on that one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jesse, you're really coming along.

I'll tell you something, though. I want to see more of the madness of this guy.

You know, he's somebody who lives in his emotions, not in his head.

I'm working on it. Good, good.

Nicole. Yeah.

Just wait a minute. I've got something for you.

What's that?

Oh, just a little token of my appreciation for bringing Lisa to life.

Okay.

Mr. Torrance, this is beautiful.

But I can't accept it. Of course you can.

You already have.

No, really, it's too late. I don't want to hear any more about it. This is

yours.

Don't you insult me.

Okay.

Thank you. You're welcome.

Jesse.

Jesse?

Where'd he go?

But I just used the bracelet as a device to get Jesse going.

Had I known how deeply it was going to affect him, I never would have given it

to Nicole.

Jesse!

Yesterday he came to me.

He was very angry.

Give it back to me, Jesse. Give it back.

Here.

She doesn't want it.

If she needs a bracelet, I'll get her one.

Is that true, Nicole? You don't want it? No. Jesse, you have no right. That is

my bracelet. All right, then you give it back to him.

Give it back to him.

Well, are you going to give it to him or not?

To hell with you.

To hell with both of you. Jesse!

Jesse!

I

knew

right then that it wasn't going to work.

I had to replace Velasquez.

My play was never going to come together unless I did.

He was too much of a problem.

What I didn't realize at the time was that the problem wasn't Jesse at all.

It was Nicole.

Nicole, it's all right.

Don't cry, please.

I'm sorry.

It's all my fault. No, it's not you.

It's him.

You're wrong about him.

really wonderful. He just had a bad temper.

He's hurting the play.

He's hurting your performance.

He's hurting you.

Me?

Nicole, you're a wonderful actress.

You can be brilliant in this part.

You can be beautiful as Lisa.

Jesse. Wait a minute, kid.

I don't think you understand.

I got eyes, man. I understand plenty.

This is not what you think. How do you know what I think?

Stop it!

Jesse, stop it!

Jesse!

He came at me. What was I supposed to do?

You want to file a complaint with the board?

Go ahead.

You want to take away my license?

Go ahead.

I'll tell you this.

I don't blame the Velasquez kid at all.

I blame the girl.

I don't believe any of it.

I know those kids.

They've got heads on their shoulders.

They're not like that.

Well, ordinarily, I'd agree with you, Miss Sherwood.

Ordinarily?

You can believe what you like, Mr. Derenforth.

The only part that I believe is that Torrance hit Jesse.

I'm not so sure I even believe that.

You see, when Nicole Chapman told her story, she claimed that Torrance didn't

hit Jesse at all.

What did Nicole say happened?

Well, it's not so much what she said, Miss Sherwood. It's how she said it.

It's not true.

It's not true.

I never had this feeling for Mr. Torrance.

Jesse didn't understand.

He was jealous.

And he has no reason to be.

If anything, I was frightened of Mr. Torrance.

I remember the first time we met.

I was performing on stage, and Mr. Torrance was in the wings watching me.

something wrong there, you know?

I just felt it.

And when he asked me to do the lead in his play, something inside of me told me

to say no.

But I didn't.

I said yes.

Okay, I'll do it.

It was a lead in the play.

I was so excited that I didn't even see how jealous Jesse was.

I guess I thought he would be excited too.

Because Mr. Torrance cast him into play.

But he wasn't excited.

And things got worse and worse during the rehearsals.

And then everything just blew up when Mr. Torrance gave me the bracelet.

It is just a bracelet. It doesn't mean anything.

It doesn't mean anything. Then why didn't he give me one?

Am I? Yes.

All right, if it doesn't mean anything, then why don't you give it back to him?

Give it back to him? It would hurt his feelings.

Hurt his feelings.

Well, what about my feelings?

This guy's out of line, Nicole. Oh, you're out of line, Jesse.

Why don't you admit that you like him? Stop it.

He gave you the damn thing right in front of me. Why do you think he did

don't know why he did it. Then let me tell you why. It's because he wants to

break us apart. I said stop it. It's because he wants more from you than a

performance.

it back to him i will jesse

get it back get it back jesse here she doesn't want

it if she needs a bracelet i'll get her one jesse was so angry i was afraid he

was gonna get violent you have no right to my bracelet all right then you i

tried to stop them but it only made jesse angrier well

are you gonna get

He wouldn't listen to anything.

Just stormed out of the auditorium.

I was so tired.

Tired of the pressure I was feeling.

Tired of the fighting.

Tired of Jesse's jealousy.

It's him.

No. You're wrong about him.

It's really wonderful because there's a bent temper.

He's hurting the play.

Nicole, he's hurting your performance.

in this part.

You can be beautiful as Lisa.

I can.

I can.

The look on Jesse's face.

He didn't understand.

He thought...

was horrible.

I don't know how long we all stood there looking at each other.

At first I thought Jesse was going to hate him.

Didn't think... I thought you were jealous.

I'll never forget the way he looked.

The more I listen, the more confused I get.

Obviously, one of them is lying.

Why both of them?

Why would both of them lie?

I'm not sure, Miss Sherwood.

Possibly to forget unpleasant things.

It's easier that way.

I sure wish we could get Jet.

Well, in a way, we did.

I thought he was unconscious.

He told his story through someone else.

Or so Mrs. Byrd thinks.

She's a medium, remember?

The police use psychics and mediums all the time. Why can't we?

You can.

I didn't want to believe it either.

But Mrs. Byrd talked us into letting her put herself into a trance.

And she did.

What did she say?

It was more what Jesse Velasquez said.

As though he were talking through her.

I didn't like the way he was treating us.

Especially Nicole.

I tried to get her to see what he was, but she didn't want to hear it.

Jesse, you have no right. It's my bracelet.

All right, then you give it back to him.

Go ahead, give it back to him.

Are you going to give it back to him or not?

All right, to hell with you then. To hell with the both of you.

I felt like I was going to explode.

Couldn't take it anymore.

This ain't no place for losers or the innocence of mind.

It's a full -time job for anyone to stay alive.

I'll sit like found reed for the war that's never won.

Gonna wait there for a broken...

myself on the cold.

I tried to help her.

Hey, let her go!

I said let her go!

The torch didn't hit me. I fell.

It's not true. None of it's true.

Chris? What's wrong?

Nothing's wrong.

I just think they're all lying, that's all.

Well, I may be gullible, but not enough to believe that last story.

Maybe it burned the medium.

I wish I'd been there.

Well, medium or no medium, the last story was a lie, too.

How do you know?

Because I saw with my own eyes.

I saw what happened. I was there.

you tell us this before?

I want to get involved.

Mr. Donlan, if you can bring any light to bear on this matter, I strongly

suggest that you do so immediately.

How much do you actually know?

Look, I didn't do nothing wrong, all right? No one has said that you did

anything wrong. Not yet, anyway.

Donlan, wait, Mr. Donlan, wait.

What could you have possibly done that was wrong?

You don't happen to know anything about a missing bracelet, do you? No, I don't

know anything about a bracelet.

But when I heard it was missing, I knew they would accuse me of taping it.

Why you?

Because I was there. It'd be easy to accuse me.

That's why you didn't speak?

Yeah.

And I didn't want to hurt any of my friends.

When I came in the building, the first thing I saw to look weird was the glass

on the floor.

You already told us that. I heard noise from the auditorium. You told us that

too, and then you saw Mr. Velasquez lying in the orchestra pit. The thing

got there earlier than that.

When I came into the auditorium, they were all there.

Jesse, Nicole, Mr. Collins.

They were all on stage.

If he needs a bracelet, I'll get her one.

Is that true, Nicole? You don't want it? No, yes.

You have no right to say it's my bracelet.

All right, then you give it to him.

Give it to him.

Well, are you going to give it to him or not?

To hell with you.

To hell with both of you. Jesse!

At first I couldn't figure out what was going on.

It's all right, Nicole.

Don't cry.

Don't cry.

No, it's not you.

It's him.

You're wrong about him.

They're really wonderful. He just has a bad temper.

He's hurting a play.

Nicole, he's hurting your performance.

He's hurting you.

Me?

You're a wonderful actress.

You can be brilliant in this part.

You can be beautiful as Lisa.

We can't.

You can.

Hey, let her go, man.

Jesse.

Wait a minute, kid.

I don't think you understand.

Come on, Nicky. You don't need this. You don't need him. Quit the play. Quit the

play? Just like that? Yeah, just like that.

And you're going to do that?

Come on, man. She's just a young girl. You tricked her. Jealous.

You're jealous of me, and that's why you wanted to quit. There's no other

reason.

what he's doing to you.

He's trying to take you down with him. He doesn't care about the play.

He doesn't care about you. All he cares about is himself.

I don't believe that. Yo, I'm not going to let you do it, Mickey.

I am not letting him take control of you like that. Now you are staying, Nicole.

Oh.

Mr. Tarrant. I want you to stay. Hey, man, why don't you leave her alone? No,

you leave her alone. She's doing my play, you hear me? She's doing my play.

That's what I saw. I'm not lying. Nobody said you were lying, Mr. Donovan.

Like I said, the reason I didn't say anything earlier is because I didn't

to get in trouble.

Maybe Jesse or Nicole would have told the truth.

They didn't.

All right.

It was mine.

Sorry, Mr. Danforth.

For what?

I'm not telling you sooner.

I still don't know why Jesse Nicole didn't tell the truth.

I don't understand why either.

Why what, Miss Shirley?

Why Jesse and Nicole didn't tell the truth.

How do you know they didn't?

Well, their stories are completely different.

Are they?

I'm not so sure.

Would you like to explain that?

I guess that there are times when people can't... Tell the truth.

Not even to themselves.

Because sometimes the truth is too painful.

And so they believe their own lies.

It's easier that way.

Mr. Wood!

Mr. Deerenforth, he's all right. Mr. Velazquez is all right.

Thank God! The hospital called. He's even eating!

That's water.

And I found the bracelet.

Where was it?

In the office. It was in the top drawer at my desk.

I wonder how it got there. Who cares? The point is, we have it. Oh, Mr.

Wood, Mr.

Derenforth. I was amazing.

Well, how do you think I found it?

I told you I was psychic.

Pfft.

But don't you believe me?

Mrs. Berg, we don't know what we believe in.

17, that's me.

I really am, you know.

How do you think that bracelet got in Mrs. Spurge's desk?

Perhaps the students found it and turned it on.

Perhaps.

I suppose we'll never know.

Well, it stopped, Miss Sherwood, if you can believe it.

I think I can.

Now all we need is the bus.

I think I'll walk.

Till I can catch a cab.

Me too.

Well.

Tomorrow.