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THE UNDERSTUDY - Act Two · Table Read

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, so check this out.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Last episode, Natalie Primavera, are School's diva ballerina, auditioned for
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: the sugar Plum Fairy and the Nutcracker. My best friend,
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  Speaker 2: Ava Ross, who's only been dancing for five.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: Years, also went for it.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: Our new ballet director, mister Constantine, is also super weird
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: and creepy, but anyway, Natalie got the role and Ava
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: got cast as her understudy. To celebrate, Natalie took this
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: epic Instagram shot on a bridge at the exact same time,
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: Ava made a wish on mister Constantine's magic snow globe
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  Speaker 2: to be Natalie. Natalie falls off the bridge and midfall.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: They switch.
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  Speaker 2: So now Ava is stuck in Natalie's body and a
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: coma at the hospital. I know, super dark, and Natalie
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: is an Ava's body. Natalie thought about switching back, but
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: she decided to stay in Ava's body and have her
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: moment as the sugar Plump Fairy before switching back to
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  Speaker 2: her injured body and saying goodbye to ballet forever. The
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: problem is Ava's mom and little sister are getting suspicious.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: Not to mention me, THEO and Ava's boyfriend s Trevor
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  Speaker 2: not sure how Natalie's gonna pull this off.
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  Speaker 3: But let's see Ava's bedroom night, early morning and still dark.
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: Ava's phone chimes five o'clock am. Natalie shuts off the
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: alarm and jumps out of bed. Exterior street sunrise. Natalie
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  Speaker 3: jogs as the sun rises. Natalie snaps a photo of
• 1:27
  Speaker 3: the sunrise. She posts the photo on Ava's Instagram page
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  Speaker 3: with the caption early bird gets the worm, hashtag sugar
• 1:34
  Speaker 3: plump fairy, hashtag nutcracker. Interior Ava's Bedroom Day. Bean wakes
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: up and sees Natalie at her dresser doing ballet bar exercises.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: Bean points two fingers from her eyes to Natalie to say,
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  Speaker 3: I'm watching you. Interior Ava's hallway Day. Bean rattles the
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: lock knob of the bathroom door.
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: Please I need a peel up.
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: Interior Ava's Bathroom Day. Natalie puts her hair into a
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: perfect high bun. She's applying the lipstick she stole from
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  Speaker 3: her room and takes a selfie with Ava's phone. She
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: posts the photo on Instagram with the caption hashtag two
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: two Tuesday, hashtag bun head, hashtag sugar plump fairy. Interior
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  Speaker 3: Ava's Kitchen Day. Miss Ross has breakfast ready fruit loop
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: cereal Bean is jowing down and Natalie makes a face
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  Speaker 3: at the bowl.
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: Do we have any coffee?
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  Speaker 5: When did you start drinking coffee? Now?
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: Figure I should start.
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  Speaker 4: Caffeine is a drugging num.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Ross walks to the counter to pour an extra
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  Speaker 3: cup of coffee. Bean pulls out a pill container from
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  Speaker 3: Miss Ross's purse and pushes it towards Natalie. Natalie snatches
• 2:45
  Speaker 3: it and tosses it back into the purse, stopping weird
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  Speaker 3: interesting Bean jots in her diary. As Miss Ross hands
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: Natalie a mug of coffee, Natalie takes a sip and
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  Speaker 3: makes a disgusted face. Miss Ross folds her arms and
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  Speaker 3: eyes Ava nervously.
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  Speaker 6: With your ap classes, your work study, and college applications,
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  Speaker 6: maybe we should talk about switching roles.
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  Speaker 1: You too, I'm the sugar plum fairy, Ava.
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  Speaker 5: This is just an extracurricular You're not a ballerina. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't blame you for thinking it. We
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: were all thinking it. Let's face it, this body's weak
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  Speaker 1: with shit training. But to say it out loud to
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: your own daughter, that's really cold, missus mom.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Ross looks up and her chin starts to tremble.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: Natalie rolls her eyes.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, I didn't sleep. I just want to know what's
• 3:35
  Speaker 6: going on. You skipped school, Ava.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie watches Miss Ross fight, tears for a moment and
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: sighs and defeat. Bean is jotting in her notebook with fury.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: You really want to know what's going on? Yes, just
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: talk to me.
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  Speaker 4: You won't get in trouble even after saying shit, if
• 3:55
  Speaker 4: you get.
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  Speaker 3: Dressed, please, Being frowns and stomps off.
• 3:59
  Speaker 4: Being kids a shit.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, here goes. I'm not your daughter. I'm Natalie Primavera.
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  Speaker 1: Aba made a wish in a magic sell gup to
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  Speaker 1: be me and some now she's stuck in my body
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  Speaker 1: in a coma and I'm stuck in this one. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna turn avan to a ballerina and basically say
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  Speaker 1: the show and yeah, it's a lot of pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Ms Ross looks at her, wiping a wave tears from
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  Speaker 3: her cheek.
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  Speaker 5: Natalie prima Vera, Yes, not funny Aba.
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  Speaker 3: Interior chemistry classroom day, Natalie and Grayson stand together at
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  Speaker 3: a lab table with textbooks and three d Adam models
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  Speaker 3: Kenzie in front of them. Grayson peaks at Natalie's feet
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  Speaker 3: doing degages while she scrolls through Ava's phone, reading comment
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  Speaker 3: after comment.
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  Speaker 4: You will never replace Natalie, Who's stupid for Twutu's.
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  Speaker 2: Hashtag not my sugar plum fairy.
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  Speaker 3: The chemistry teacher, mister Hall forty's forgettable in appearance and
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  Speaker 3: a voice that could be mistaken for white noise. His
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  Speaker 3: sweater vest has a portrait to a cat.
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  Speaker 7: In order to calculate the value of the NFLP change
• 5:04
  Speaker 7: of the reaction, will use the balanced equation for the
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  Speaker 7: oxidation reduction reaction.
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  Speaker 3: Kenzy turns around.
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  Speaker 1: Where'd you go yesterday to the hospital? I when see
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: Natalie Primavera?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I don't think I've ever seen her
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  Speaker 2: without makeup on?
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  Speaker 1: How'd she look super messed up?
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  Speaker 2: Is it bad that that makes me happy in a
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  Speaker 2: small way?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 3: Kenzie's smile drops?
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  Speaker 8: Ava.
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  Speaker 7: Do you have something you want to.
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  Speaker 8: Share with the whole class?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Me, no, thank you.
• 5:34
  Speaker 7: Then would you like to explain to the class what
• 5:37
  Speaker 7: a happy atom is.
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  Speaker 1: One that doesn't take this class?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Mister Hall's face scrunches up. Uh, oh, he's gonna cry.
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: Mister Hall's face scrunches up and tries to stifle himself
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  Speaker 3: from crying, turns around, raises her eyebrows to say, what
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: are you doing?
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 1: Since when does anyone care about chemistry?
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  Speaker 3: Kenzie and a few other classmates go up to comfort
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  Speaker 3: mister Hall. Natalie puts her face in her hands.
• 6:14
  Speaker 9: Is she always is?
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  Speaker 8: Like brittle?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Catastrophe just dyed?
• 6:19
  Speaker 5: Jack Hole?
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  Speaker 3: Who his cat? The class gathers to comfort mister Hall
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  Speaker 3: as he sobs. Natalie sits alone before rushing to grab
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  Speaker 3: the hall pass interior bathroom stall day, Natalie scrolls through
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  Speaker 3: her own Natalie's social media feed. She scrolls past smiling
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: picture after smiling picture. Zoe and Jasmine enter. Natalie peers
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  Speaker 3: at them through the crack as Zoe puts in eye
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  Speaker 3: drops and Jasmine has her phone out. Natalie can't get
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  Speaker 3: a clear look at what's happening. Zoe, you're ridiculous.
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  Speaker 10: Oh watch, it's gonna look authentic.
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  Speaker 3: Okay on the count of three, ready, one?
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  Speaker 11: Two?
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: Okay, ducket perfect looks kind of artsy?
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  Speaker 5: Do you think Timothy will see it?
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  Speaker 3: Avis phone buzzes. Natalie looks at it. It's Zoe's Instagram
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: page with a photo she just took her face with
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  Speaker 3: one tear running down her cheek, captioned devastated about my
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: bestie at Natalie Primavera, get better soon.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: You gotta be kidding.
• 7:26
  Speaker 3: You're made to be the cheka plum fairy. Why didn't
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: you just audition for.
• 7:29
  Speaker 12: It and deal with Natalie Primadonna?
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  Speaker 3: Not worth it? Both girls laugh as they exit. Natalie's
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  Speaker 3: jaw drops Interior school hallway day. Natalie marches down the
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  Speaker 3: hallway fuming. Trevor jogs carrying his viola case and catches
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  Speaker 3: up with her.
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  Speaker 13: Aves avors Abe.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie walks faster, dodging students.
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: Slow down their speed racer.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor jogs in front of Natalie walks back.
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: So I was wondering you need to stop following me?
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  Speaker 9: Did I do some frog?
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  Speaker 3: Natalie pushes past Trevor and he keeps following her.
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  Speaker 13: Can't you talk to me?
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  Speaker 3: Just cool it?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, cool it? What does that mean? Like, let's just
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  Speaker 1: pause this whole thing until after Nutcracker.
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  Speaker 13: That's three months a bo It'll.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Be okay, really, just focus on your tiny violin there, okay.
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: Trevor runs into a water fountain and falls. Kenzie at
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: her locker, turns and sees this, Natalie keeps walking. It's
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: viola Interior school hallway rehearsal studio day. Natalie starts to
• 8:45
  Speaker 3: push the studio door open, but hears muffled sounds behind it.
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: She peers through the window and sees Jasmine, Mister Constantine,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Miako, and Miss Lana all having a meeting.
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  Speaker 10: Jasmine, if you wanted to play the sugar Plum Ferry,
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  Speaker 10: you should have auditioned for.
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  Speaker 12: It and compete against my best friend. You guys know
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  Speaker 12: I couldn't do that. Look ave as a hobbyist. I'm
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  Speaker 12: hoping to go pro, so just start me off as
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  Speaker 12: an understudy. I mean, you can't risk the entire show
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  Speaker 12: by not having an understudy.
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  Speaker 3: To the SPS, right, Natalie pulls away from the door,
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  Speaker 3: breathing heavily. Interior locker room Day. Natalie gets dressed in
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  Speaker 3: her new dance attire, eyeing Jasmine and Zoe, who are
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: lost in conversation as they stretch. Kenzie and THEO enter
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  Speaker 3: and approach Natalie. Senior dancer seventeen gasps upon seeing THEO.
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  Speaker 4: Ew THEO get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: You're Natalie, this is an intervention. I thought you'd be
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  Speaker 2: more like beautiful white swan Natalie Portman.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: But you're unraveling and.
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  Speaker 2: Too psychopath red eyes, black Swan Natalie Portman.
• 9:51
  Speaker 3: Natalie is focused on laughter. It's Zoe. Jasmine, Kenzie and
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: THEO exchange glances. Kenzie waves her hand as though to say,
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  Speaker 3: sh in, look.
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  Speaker 9: Just skip classes yesterday, and now you're blowing off Trevor.
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  Speaker 9: We know you're going through a hard time and you
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  Speaker 9: want to.
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  Speaker 3: Help, okay, Natalie eyes Kenzie and THEO standing in front
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  Speaker 3: of her. They're schlubby and mismatched. Natalie laughs.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: Why don't you guys just work on helping yourselves, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And what's her face?
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  Speaker 11: Is right?
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie pushes past Kenzie and THEO.
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  Speaker 1: What's her face?
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  Speaker 11: You're at my birthday party last week, bitch.
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  Speaker 3: Interior rehearsal studio day dancers line the walls, seated with
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: their various clicks, Jasmine with the cool kids on one side,
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  Speaker 3: and Kenzie and the misfits on the other. Natalie weighs
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  Speaker 3: the two sides before popping down in the center of
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  Speaker 3: the studio. Mister Constantine, Miss Miaco, and Miss Lana stand
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  Speaker 3: in front.
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  Speaker 14: I have a couple of last minute announcements. Missus Jasmine
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  Speaker 14: Kern will be filling in as an understudy for the
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  Speaker 14: sugar Plum Ferry.
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  Speaker 3: Few murmurs, some polite claps.
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  Speaker 14: And the role will be subject to recasting at the
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  Speaker 14: discretion of myself and miss Miak and me.
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  Speaker 3: I have a say too, Natalie shoots her hand up.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: Miss Ross, does this only apply to me?
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  Speaker 10: All soloists have an understudy?
• 11:18
  Speaker 11: No?
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: Am I the only one with a role subject to
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: recasting at your discretion? Is there a deadline? Or am
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: I just supposed to be on pins and needles until
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: the show closes.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine and the other teachers look at each other.
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  Speaker 14: End of October Halloween and yes, it applies to all roles.
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: Dancers burst out in angry protests. Natalie smirks. Enough. Natalie's
• 11:42
  Speaker 3: smirk satisfied and continues putting on her brand new point shoes. Enough, dancers,
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  Speaker 3: quiet down.
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  Speaker 14: This is one of the top performing arts schools in
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  Speaker 14: the country, and you all shit yourselves over a little competition.
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  Speaker 8: How many of you plan on dancing for a company?
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  Speaker 3: Quiet?
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  Speaker 14: The best dancer for the role will play the part.
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  Speaker 14: Let's stop half aassing.
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  Speaker 8: What do you say?
• 12:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: And ballet.
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  Speaker 9: We only fulass.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine looks at Natalie.
• 12:11
  Speaker 8: May the best rise to the top.
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: Natalie looks at Jasmine, who is smiling back at her
• 12:17
  Speaker 3: confidently as she stretches her leg up to her ear
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: next to Jasmine. Natalie also notices Grayson looking at her
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: and quickly averts his eyes. As dancers get up and
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: gather their things, Natalie approaches Kenzie and THEO.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: So are you losers? Ready to rise to the top?
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: Interior empty classroom day, Natalie writes rip on the whiteboard.
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: Kenzie and THEO are seated and exchange looks.
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  Speaker 9: Are you gonna kill us?
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  Speaker 12: First?
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  Speaker 1: Up? Every morning starts with a run.
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  Speaker 8: I don't run.
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  Speaker 1: Daily runs is the fastest way to increase stamina. The
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  Speaker 1: more stamina you have, the more you can practice, and
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: practice makes perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Begin monta various a. Natalie meets Kenzie and THEO in
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  Speaker 3: running attire. They begin their slow, pathetic jog around the school.
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  Speaker 3: Back to interior empty classroom day.
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  Speaker 1: Step two. Incorporate ballet into everything. Let's face it, Jasmine,
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  Speaker 1: Zoe and Brock.
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  Speaker 8: Put in the time.
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  Speaker 1: We have other things going on besides ballet.
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  Speaker 9: It's Christmas, it's September.
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  Speaker 1: September to December is nutcracker season. The other things will
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: be waiting for you. In January B, in.
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: Chemistry class, Natalie is doing leg lifts while checking her
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: own Instagram page. Comment we miss you, Natalie, comment get
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: better soon. Mister Hall is handing out chest papers and
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: puts Natalie's face down. She flips it over and sees
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  Speaker 3: a large red f Grayson looks over concerned. Natalie shrugs.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: See Kenzie and THEO at rehearsal, and their spot in
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  Speaker 3: the bag turns not as tight as the principles and
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  Speaker 3: leaps not as high. D Sugar Plum Fairy Rehearsal hotdy Do.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie and Grayson are dancing up front while jasminin brock
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  Speaker 3: nearer them in the back. Natalie is growing stronger. Her
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  Speaker 3: grandchatts and near splits, but Jasmine's extends in an oversplit
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  Speaker 3: and seems to linger in mid air forever. Both pairs
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  Speaker 3: hit their ending pose. Natalie falls to the floor, exhausted,
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  Speaker 3: putting over to Jasmine, who is all smiles. Eve Ava's
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: kitchen in points SHOs, Natalie unloads the dishwasher, going on
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  Speaker 3: point to put away dishes. Bean quietly sifts through Ava's
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  Speaker 3: backpack and finding a receipt. Back to interior, empty classroom, Day.
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  Speaker 1: Number three post all the time you both have less
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  Speaker 1: than two hundred followers. Isn't this supposed to be about dancing?
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: This is about being desirable?
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Natalie pulls up Zoe's Instagram page and swipes through photos
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  Speaker 3: of Zoe amazing poses and perfect lighting.
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  Speaker 1: If it's between you and Zoe, who do you think
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  Speaker 1: it's harder to say no to?
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  Speaker 3: F Outside Natalie, Kenzie and THEO are running steadily Gee Holway.
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  Speaker 3: Natalie at Ava's locker, decorated with photos of Ava and Trevor.
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: She closes it. Natalie opens Ava's locker. It's transformed with
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: a collage of ballerina photos and quotes. Trevor sees this
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  Speaker 3: from his locker across the hall and sadly pulls down
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: a photo of him and Ava looking happy. H shots
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: of the understudies in rehearsal in their spot in the back,
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  Speaker 3: extensions at their shoulders, but principles have their extensions by
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: their ears. I shot after shot of Ava, Kenzie and
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Theo's Instagram pages. Hearts growing by the hundreds. Back to interior,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: empty classroom day. Kenzie stands up.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: Now your turn.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Have you ever been winter soldiered?
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah? And I don't know about all this.
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  Speaker 1: We're not them, don't you guys want your chance at
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  Speaker 1: the spotlight.
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  Speaker 3: This is it?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I want my Swan song and we have one
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: last nutcracker. Jasmine Kern is not playing my role.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Rip bits, Jay Leo, Kenzie, and Natalie are all doing
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: their morning job, this time mixing in leaps and turns wildly.
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  Speaker 3: Job Interior ICEEU Room two oh two Night. Natalie walks
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  Speaker 3: in holding two coffees in a cardboard coffee lover's tray
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: in one hand and Ava's phone in the other hand.
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  Speaker 3: Now full of pictures at rehearsal doing dance poses and
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  Speaker 3: selfies with Kenzie and Theo, all smiles. Followers are now
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: at seven eight hundred and sixty comment.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Your beautiful Ava Ava is a hashtag vallerie of us.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Mister Primavera straightens up with company. Natalie looks up and
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  Speaker 3: her smile drops upon seeing her body in casts and
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: hooked up with tubes for the first time. Interior Rehearsal
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: Studio Day, sugar Plum Fairy Pot. The pianist is now
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: accompanied with a violinist. Natalie and Jasmine look nearly identical.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Missus Primavera enters and she double takes. Seeing Natalie dance,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: she leans into the wall, taking a deep breath.
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  Speaker 5: Moved.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: After the final drop, Natalie sits on the floor out
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  Speaker 3: of breath. Mister Constantine shakes.
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: His head.
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  Speaker 1: Notes.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine snaps. The musicians play the pat de deu.
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  Speaker 8: Tell me about this music.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: It's in four to four and the melody goes down
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  Speaker 1: a major scale, and then they're stopped talking.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Constantine takes Natalie's hand and they step through the routine.
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: This is the last piece.
• 17:40
  Speaker 14: Chekhov's cirot for this ballet after learning of his sister's death.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: So the song is about his sister.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Wow, you really don't get.
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: It, Chris Kurtin let the teachers stick to teaching. Eh h,
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  Speaker 8: can't you hear it? Hear what the heartbreak of saying goodbye?
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  Speaker 3: Natalie studies mister Constantine. He gives her a knowing nod.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: The music swells and Natalie is swept up in the
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: sad song.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: I'm not ready, We're don't say goodbye because we're ready.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Both Miss Lana and Miss Miaco have tears in their eyes.
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: Stop.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: I can't listen to this anymore, my divorce.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Miss Miago puts her hand on Miss Lana's shoulder. The
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: musicians stop.
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: Okay, dancers, I think that's all for today. Great rehearsal.
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: Remember tomorrow you can wear your Halloween costumes, but you
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: still need to be able to dance.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Natalie quickly grabs her bag, eyeing mister Constantine, who is
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: talking to other.
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: Teachers Kenzie and Zoe and Brock and THEO.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Can you stick around? Natalie's eyebrows shoot up. Kenzie, Zoe,
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Brock and Theo moved toward the three teachers. Ava, Missus
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Primavera timidly approaches Natalie. Can I show you something interior
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: or small studio day? Natalie is dancing the Pattidu with
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Missus Primavera half stepping through the role of Prince Cavalier.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: There's no music, just the sound of Natalie working, breathing
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: and point shoes, thumping and grinding. Missus Primavera corrects Natalie
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: with gentle touches, pulling up her chin and arms. Natalie
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: finishes with a smile.
• 19:24
  Speaker 15: That's it, beautiful, Thanks I mean it this. Your mom
• 19:31
  Speaker 15: doesn't dance.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Huh oh, Miss Ross, No, I think she wants me
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to quit.
• 19:36
  Speaker 15: Well, I'm happy to help anytime.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: You and Natalie have the same bad habits.
• 19:41
  Speaker 15: Sometimes it's easier for someone on the outside to see
• 19:44
  Speaker 15: what's going wrong.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Missus Primavera takes a sip of water. Natalie watches her mother,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: eyes darting to find something to say, but insteadmouths, you
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: are my heart. Jasmine pops her head into the studio.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Eh, oh, sorry, are we still on?
• 20:02
  Speaker 13: Oh?
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: I think we're done here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 15: Jasmine needs my help with her Royal Ballet audition.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Natalie flashes Jasmine a stunned look. Jasmine winks. Interior school
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: hallway day, Natalie enters the hallway from the studio and
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: watches her mother and Jasmine through the window. I's starting
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: to well.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Boom.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Natalie jumps back in surprise and sees Trevor.
• 20:25
  Speaker 13: What are you doing here rehearsing orchestra for the show.
• 20:28
  Speaker 13: I'll be in the pit, I'll be dancing. We'll be
• 20:31
  Speaker 13: together again.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I gotta go here.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 20:34
  Speaker 13: I want you to know him, here for you always.
• 20:38
  Speaker 13: And I'm wearing my half of more costume tomorrow.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Your half Actually, don't tell me.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: She takes the flowers and heads down the hall. Trevor's
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: chin trembles a bit. Zoe bursts out of the studio,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: sobbing with Rock comforting her. Kenzie exits with THEO. A
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: moment later, watching Zoe and Brock, Kenzie and THEO exchange
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: guilty glances. Interior, I see you Room two two night,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Natalie enters with Trevor's flowers. Mister Primavera is drinking coffee
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: and has a second untouched cup. Nurse Sandy is switching
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: out IV fluid bags. She takes the flowers from Natalie
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: and puts them in a vase.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Any news.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Is she stirring a lot. Doc thinks it can happen
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: anytime now. You see your other friends around Jasmine and
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: Zoe Brock.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, every day. In rehearsal, missus Primavera too.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Natalie sits down next to mister Primavera. He hands her
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: the second cup of coffee. Ava's phone buzzes, it says mom.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Natalie swipes to ignore. Mister Primavera looks at her concerned.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: So tell me about yourself. What do you plan on
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: doing after school?
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I planned to dance professionally, but that's not possible anymore.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: Well, Natalie would tell you that nothing is impossible. She
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: has a goal and she's after it like a like
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: a runaway train.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Runaway train makes it sound bad.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Mister prima Vera swallows, looking at his daughter's body. Natalie
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: grabs her father's hand. Interior Ave's kitchen day Bean sits
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: at the table dressed as Marie Antoinette with a bloody neck.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Natalie enters dressed as the sugar plum fairy. Ms Ross
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: holds up a large gray sphere costume.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Here it is. I wanted to show you last night.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: But is that a new costume?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Oh it's Venus.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Oh men are from Mars, women are from Venus. That
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is a cute couple costume.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Interested.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: I spend all night on this costume.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Oh that's so sweet. But we're not a couple anymore.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: You're not.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: What happens?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: You gotta run. I need to get to the studio
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: before anyone else.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: It's two hours before school starts. Can we talk hi?
• 23:03
  Speaker 16: Hello?
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Natalie walks off Miss Ross with a flustered sigh, starts
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: angrily opening mail, and gasps as she pulls out a
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: credit card bill of twenty six hundred and seventy dollars
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Ava's bedroom day. Ms Ross walks into the bedroom, Bean
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: following close behind her. She looks underneath Ava's bed, her
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: dresser drawers.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: What are you looking for?
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: Mom?
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Something isn't right with her. There's drugs, or she's cutting
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: herself or something.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: You're looking for drugs or razor blades.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I'm looking for proof I'm not crazy.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Bean walks over and pulls out a folder underneath her bed.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: She hands it to her mom. Mis Ross's jaw drops,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: seeing a chemistry test with an F on it. She
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: flips through the folder, paper after paper with d C
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: F do better, not your best written in red ink.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: There's no drugs, mom, other than the caffeine. But I
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: have eight theories?
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: Do you want to hear them?
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Mom?
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: You listening?
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Hello? I need you to be quiet.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Miss Ross's gaze is stuck on a large black and
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: white poster over Ava's bed of Patricia McBride as the
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Sugarplum Fairy. Miss Ross peels off the corner of the poster,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: revealing the Harvard flag underneath interior. I see you room
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: two oh two day peobe of eyes opening, we see
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: mister Primavera, Nurse Sandy, and doctor Patel, all standing above.
• 24:34
  Speaker 16: Good morning, I'm doctor Patel. Can you tell me why
• 24:38
  Speaker 16: you're here?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I'm in a hospital.
• 24:42
  Speaker 16: You're at Saint John's Hospital. Can you tell me your name?
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Ava Ross All exchange a concerned glance.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: What's your birthday?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: May fourteenth?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: They look at mister Primavera. He shakes his head.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: No, who are you?
• 25:04
  Speaker 11: Where's my mom?
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Mister Primavera's heart breaks.
• 25:07
  Speaker 16: Some confusion is to be expected with this kind of trauma.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Sandy, would you use the light splicker?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: What was that?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: All look up at the ceiling. Ava's eyes squint trying
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: to make out her reflection in the TV hanging in
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: the corner of the room. She sees the fuzzy but
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: recognizable image of Natalie's body. Avas screams and begins to
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: scramble to get out of the bed. Doctor Patel and
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Nurse Sandy jump into action.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Two milligrabs a grass a pattern.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Nurse Sandy applies some medication to the ivy drip while
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: doctor Patel secures her arms and restraints. Sh Ava pov
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: concerned faces blur to black interior rehearsal studio day. Natalie,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: dressed as the sugar Plum Fairy, walks into the dark
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: studio and plugs Ava's phone into the speakers. The pata
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Do music starts, and Natalie puts on her point shoes
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: and starts to warm up.
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: You know it takes two to a pod to do.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Grason is standing at the door dressed as a werewolf.
• 26:14
  Speaker 17: What did you say, I mean it's kind of hard
• 26:17
  Speaker 17: to dance, you know, without like a partner, can I?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Natalie nods. The two join together and begin to dance.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I'm just making up for lost time.
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: I can see that. I Hey, do you know how
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: Natalie is doing?
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: How would I know that?
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 26:37
  Speaker 17: I mean her dad said, you've been stopping by I
• 26:39
  Speaker 17: swung by the hospital.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Why you only met her once?
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: I don't know, I mean thinking about her.
• 26:47
  Speaker 17: I was there when she felt I feel like, I
• 26:49
  Speaker 17: don't know, I should have said something to stop her.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: You can't stop a runaway train.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: They dance awkward silence.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: lazy Tchaikovsky said, that is that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 9: Shipping your brain?
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: What?
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: Sorry, I'm super joke. I mean, are you always, you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: like this intense.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that a bad thing?
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: Not at all?
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: You know exactly what you want. I mean, he dressedes
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: a ballerina for Halloween. That's like next levels.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Natalie blushes.
• 27:30
  Speaker 17: Okay, look, so I got this offer from the Houston Ballet.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Wait, what's amazing?
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, well that's the thing.
• 27:38
  Speaker 17: I love dancing, but I don't know if I'm loved
• 27:41
  Speaker 17: enough to commit my whole life to it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You know, all I've ever wanted to do is dance.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Grease and smiles. They dance quietly for a moment.
• 27:54
  Speaker 17: Hey, so, do you want to like, grab some food
• 27:59
  Speaker 17: or cough, watch a movie or honestly whatever.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Or whatever whatever?
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: We'll get you to hang out with me.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Are we not hanging out?
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: I met more like socially.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, I don't date. I just I don't have time.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You know, I barely have the time to do anything.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: I haven't been to the movie since I was like nine.
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: Since you were nine.
• 28:25
  Speaker 17: You kind of go, It's amazing Popcorn Stadium, seating three,
• 28:28
  Speaker 17: D forty.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Six, Natalie laughs. Does she like him? Grayson takes her
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: hand to keep moving through the choreography. They look at
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: one another and stop are they about to kiss? Grayson
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: leans in noses nearly touching.
• 28:45
  Speaker 13: When avo Who is this guy?
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: They turned to see Trevor. He's dressed in a nude
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: body suit with a short blonde wig and bright red lipstick.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: This guy, who are you supposed to be Wiley Cyrus?
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: And you were supposed to be my recue ball?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Oh the planet costume? That's cute, dated but cute.
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: Well can see this isn't a pause button anymore. Stop button.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Trevor leaves. Natalie's sheepish smile drops. Trevor pops back in.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Everything hurts, My pinky hurts.
• 29:30
  Speaker 13: I don't get it.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Trevor exits the moment. It's gone Interior school hallway day.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: The hallway is crowded with characters of bulls, cartoons, and tropes.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Natalie is at her locker and sees a haunting grim
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Reaper in her mirror. I'm not the understudy, I'm Clara.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Natalie shuts her locker, revealing Kenzie dressed as red riding
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Hood and Theo as a wizard.
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: What and guess what, I'm the Russian soloist.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: That means I'm safe, right, Jasmine didn't take my role?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Are I peet bit selfie time.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Natalie lifts Ava's phone just as a call comes in.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Mister Primavera pops on screen.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Why is Natalie's dad calling you?
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Down the hallway? We hear a viola playing wrecking Ball?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: It's Trevor playing the song with his lip quivering, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: he begins singing terribly.
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: We clawd we changed our hearts and Finn we jumped,
• 30:30
  Speaker 13: never asking.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: What, Oh my gosh.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Students giggle as Trevor. No student's giggle at Trevor, who
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: keeps singing. Ava's phone buzzes again. Natalie answers hello. Suddenly,
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: a string quartet pulls their instruments from their lockers and
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: starts accompanying Trevor.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Hello that, oh girl, Natalie will is that what you said?
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Natalie looks up and sees her mother, Missus Primavera, walking
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: the far end of the hall, with her arm full
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: of Tutu's. Missus Primavera is greeted by Jasmine with a
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: hug for you.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Why isn't mom there? That?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: The choir glee club steps out from behind Trevor and
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: starts singing the chorus of the song Hello sure my
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: wrecking Ball?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Ava, I have to go. Where are you going? Ava?
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: The lights flicker the row of locker's thumb, as though
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: something were trying to escape. Natalie breathes in sharply as
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: the Grim Reaper appears at the end of the hall
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: behind Trevor.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Did you see that? I don't think I'll ever unsee that?
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: Is he naked?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Where's his penis?
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: The locker right next to Natalie pounds from the inside.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: With every pound, the Reaper flickers closer and closer, until
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Natalie screams and covers her eyes. As her scream echoes
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: down the hall, where everyone goes quiet and all eyes
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: turn to her, Principal Waters clears his throat. Natalie uncovers
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: her eyes and sees the Principal dressed as the Grim Reaper.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: OH Interior Principal Water's office day. Principal Waters sits behind
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: his desk with Mister Constantine, Miss Miaco, and Miss Lana
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: standing beside him. Across the desk, Natalie is seated with
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Miss Ross.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: I'm sure you know why you're here.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Avi's phone buzzes with mister Primavera calling. Natalie hits ignore,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: shoving the phone under her thigh.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: Actually, her grades are dangerously blow and mister Hall has
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: had a few comments about your well, your attitude lately.
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: Who mister Hall chemistry?
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Oh well, he's a very brittle man.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Miss Lana nods Ava.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Not an insult, it's an observation.
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: And your mother is concerned with your behavior at home.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: You went to the principal to talk about my behavior
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: at home.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Ms Ross pulls out the credit card bill.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: Now that I finally have your attention, you've spent over
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: two thousand dollars on dance apparel.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Point shoes are expensive. Do you want me to dance
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: with dead shoes?
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: It is dangerous to dance on dead shoes, missus Ross.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: Miss Ross, And since when did you start ubering everywhere?
• 33:18
  Speaker 11: You know?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: We can't afford that you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: Haven't been participating in your work study, which is a
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: required part of your tuition assistance.
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: I've been working my ass but off, Ava. We love
• 33:30
  Speaker 10: your newfound dedication. It's remarkable how much you've transformed yourself
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: in such a short time. We know you're working very
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: hard on your dancing silence, but.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: But we've collectively decided that Jasmine Kern will be taking
• 33:50
  Speaker 7: over the sugar.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Roll No, No, I've worked too hard to be just
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the understudy.
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: Actually you won't be participating in this year is not
• 33:58
  Speaker 14: Cracker at all.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: But this is my last Nutcracker.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: This was just supposed to be for fun, ava extracurricular,
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: for college applications.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Oh no, this is the most important thing to me.
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: It's just a rollable in a high school production. Eh,
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: but this isn't your whole life?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Is this some kind of lesson you're all trying.
• 34:15
  Speaker 17: To teach me?
• 34:16
  Speaker 14: Yes?
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm the sugar plum Fairy. I can do the role,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: get my grades up and my work study. Please let
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: me prove.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: It to you.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Interior rehearsal studio day. Everyone is wearing Halloween costumes. Natalie
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: is in the back of the studio dancing with Brock
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: and glaring at Jasmine, who is dancing the Potta dou
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: with Grayson up front. Jasmine wipes a tear, missing a queue.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Natalie rolls her eyes but continues dancing.
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry it got the better of me.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: The music stops.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: We're still going here.
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: Therefore, dance together was at our faults.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: She messed up.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: We had to stop every time you fell on your ass.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Dances chuckle.
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: Enough Mistruss a word.
• 35:03
  Speaker 12: Oh, don't worry, We'll wait for you.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Interior mister Constantine's office day. Mister Constantine closes the door.
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: You're being a sore loser.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: You made me the understudy.
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: Principal Water's made you understudy. If it was up to me,
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: you'd be off this production.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: So you gave Jasmine the role to make me switch back.
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: You promised to switch back when Ava woke up.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Just one more show, please.
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: Someday we'll have to find her a second dream I
• 35:34
  Speaker 14: had to have.
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: You learned nothing from being Ava.
• 35:38
  Speaker 14: Instead, you fail her classes, broke up with her boyfriend.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: He's a loser.
• 35:42
  Speaker 14: He dresses as a naked woman and gets his whole
• 35:44
  Speaker 14: class to play a song for her.
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: Who does it for you? Eh?
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Natalie is quiet stung. Mister Constantine pulls out the snow
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: globe from his desk, still illuminating a magnificent green, and
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: hands it to Natalie. She takes the globe with shaky.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I did learn from being Ava. My friends are fake.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: My mother doesn't want anything to do with me if
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I can't dance, And the only thing I've been working
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: towards my whole life is no longer possible. Why would
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I switch back?
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Natalie smashes the globe into the ground. The room engulfs
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: in green light and black smoke until they form into
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: two smoky dancers. Papers fly everywhere like snowflakes, swirling. Natalie
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: and mister Constantine are frozen in fear.
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: What have you done?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: You let the moose. The smoky Dancers shoot out of
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: the office window into the world. Papers fall to the floor.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: As the room settles, Natalie breathes, uneasy, body paralyzed. Mister
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Constantine scrambles to collect pieces of the globe.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry, mister con Interior.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Ava's Kitchen night, Miss Ross and Bean's faces are illuminated
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: by a green glow. Miss Ross's face is awestruck.
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: This is magical.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Uh oh, I've unleashed a monster.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: It's like a whole new world. I had no idea existed.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: It's just Instagram, Mom.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: They're seated at the breakfast bar looking at an.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: iPad and Where's Ava?
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Bean goes to Ava's page. Ms Ross's brow furrows as
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: she looks at picture after picture of Ava's dance poses.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: What's wrong?
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: I don't recognize my own daughter?
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: Three twelve have you noticed her dipping into a British accent.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: You delivered twins, didn't you? Are you listening to me?
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: Mom?
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Interior locker room night, Natalie handshaking empties out her locker.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Ava's phone buzzes, mister primavera. Natalie swipes to ignore. Natalie
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: shuts her now empty locker clothes, turns and shrieks. Kenzie
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: is standing right there, arms crossed.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: You're quitting? Did the karate kid quick when he broke
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: his leg? Did Matt demon quit when he was stuck
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: on Mars?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Why do you care? You got your role? You're welcome,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: by the way, for what for? What for dragging you
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: out for five am runs? Working with you building your brand?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I got you that role.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't care that I was the understudy. This is
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: about us making the best of our last nutcracker before
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: you're off to Boston.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: We're never going to have time like this again. You
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: got up at five am to spend time with me.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Natalie softens. Then Ava's phone buzzes. Natalie jumps, what's going on,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: I'm your best friend.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Talk to me.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Natalie exits, leaving her duffel bag behind. Kenzie size defeated
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: picking up Natalie's bag and notices the royal ballet keychain
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: looped around the zipper. Exterior mister Hall's backyard night, Mister
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Hall puts an open container of cat food on a
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: small tombstone that reads catastrophe the best cat Ever. Several
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: cats roam his you.
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: Things haven't been the same without you, Catastrophe. But we
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: have a new friend.
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: How rex you'd like him? I wish you could meet him.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Mister Hall exits. A moment later, this smoky dancer enters
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: the grave and exits the ground pulses interior hospital room
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: three oh four Night, Natalie enters cautiously. Her body lies asleep.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Natalie walks toward her body and Ava's eyes open. Natalie shrieks, Oh.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: My gosh, what the hell?
• 39:37
  Speaker 11: I've been pretending to be asleep so.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: They won't talk to me. Ava examines Natalie, her body
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: standing in front of her, mascara streaked as though she's
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: been crying.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Is it are you, Natalie primavera?
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: I look different.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: You're welcome.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Natalie and Ava stare at each other in silence. Where's dad?
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: Cafeteria? I told him I wanted to be alone? He
• 40:05
  Speaker 11: told me what happened the fall the Instagram picture and
• 40:10
  Speaker 11: you told him you were Natalie.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I had to look.
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: I know how to fix this. A snow globe from
• 40:17
  Speaker 11: mister Constantine's office.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that globe is destroyed.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: What how Natalie is silent?
• 40:26
  Speaker 11: What does this mean?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Are we stuck? I don't know.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: Beva looks at her, stunned, and then bursts into tears.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Hey, hey, hey, it's not so bad. My dad makes
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a lot of money, and you can study hard and
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: go to Harvard like you wanted, and I'll stay and dance.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was supposed to happen this way. What about
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Trevor and my family? Well, you can date Trevor. It's
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: gonna be a big upgrade for him to date you,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: as me and Mom and Bean they're doing. You call
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: my mom Mom. It's become a habit.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: This through so much. Natalie swallows, doesn't know what to say.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: She leans in to give Ava a hug. Ava takes
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: the cue and quickly scoops both of her arms tightly
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: around Natalie, crying into her shoulder.
• 41:17
  Speaker 11: You seriously have the best dad.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: He always brings me coffee.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: I hate coffee.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Natalie pulls out of the hug, regretful, confused and sad.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Ava, did you wish to be me? It was stupid.
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: Over the summer, my dad went on a work trip
• 41:38
  Speaker 11: and never came back, and I was just tired of
• 41:40
  Speaker 11: being me and being sad.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: All the time.
• 41:44
  Speaker 11: I thought for a second, I might be the sugar
• 41:46
  Speaker 11: plum fiory and something would go right for once, and
• 41:48
  Speaker 11: I would be like you, always posting these beautiful pictures.
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: And I know Instagram isn't real.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: I spend six hours in the studio, six days a week,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: forty five minutes doing my hair and makeup, and I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: can't remember a time I had big donails.
• 42:07
  Speaker 11: That still sounds glamorous.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I've got one thing. You've got so much going for you,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: your total brain, Anne hatty to boot, and your mom
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: really gives a shit about you. And you have friends,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: real friends. I bet they'd be in this hospital room
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: every day if it were you. I miss them, Natalie. Yeah.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Natalie turns to see Kenzie and Bean standing at the door.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Kenzie's mouth agape and Bean with a large smile.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: I mean she's right here, Bean, Kenzie.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Bean rushes over and hugs Ava in bed Ava groans
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: and pain.
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, I knew it.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Kenzie walks over to Ava like she's seen a ghost.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: How did you know.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: You've been off since the fall the ballet and social
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: media use't the Royal Ballet Zipper always fighting.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: With mom what I'm gonna figure this out? Okay, damn
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: straight we are?
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: What's going on?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Mister Primavera enters with two cups of coffee.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Oh nothing, high school shit.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Ava nodds. Natalie reaches for the coffee, and mister Primavera
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: pulls back.
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: This is for Natalie. Sorry, I wasn't expecting you. I
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: wasn't sure you got my messages.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Mister Primavera and the girls stand quietly for a moment.
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: Uh, do you guys mind coming back? There's a two
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: visitors policy and I'd like some time with my nad
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: We'll be back tomorrow.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Bean gives Ava one more hug before walking out with Kenzie.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Natalie walks out the door, pausing to watch his dad
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: hands Ava a coffee. Ava takes a sip and forces
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: a smile. Interior Ava's bedroom night, Kenzie and Bean sit
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: on Ava's bed as Natalie stands next to a whiteboard
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: that reads FA R So.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: By learning to be Ava, you'll become n again. It's
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: an everybody swap movie.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: It's science. That's definitely not science.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: You're right, it's magic. You're already sounding more like Ava.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, So Forstup his family, I definitely need Mom off
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: my back.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: No, Ava is Mom's rock. Mom works two jobs and
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: cries in the car when she thinks I can't see her.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Wow, and she still.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: Texts Dad that she misses him, even though he left
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: us for a twenty four year old. She told us
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: he moved to South Korea for work.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: How do you know that? I read her text messages?
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Where's my phone?
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Interior Ava's Kitchen, Day, Ava's kitchen, Natalie sets the table
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: for three ms. Ross walks in on the phone, and
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: Natalie hands her a cup of coffee.
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: I'm just wondering if the late fees can be waived
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: just this once. I understand typically that card is only
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: used for emergencies.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Interior Ava's Bedroom Night.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Next up right now, Ava's failing chemistry.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: So you mean your failing chemistry?
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: You need to end the semester with an A or else.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Ava is definitely not getting into Harvard.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: How hard can chemistry be?
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: Interior Rehearsal Studio, day, Natalie is sweeping the studio floor,
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: walking on point with earbuds in. She listens to mister
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Hall's lecture.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: A happy adam is an atomic shell that is full.
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: Sometimes adams have an extra electron or two, and the.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Light flicker and a ghostly dancer swooshes by in the mirror.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Natalie pauses, pulls the earbuds out. Mister Constantine rushes out
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: of his office with an armful of books, a note
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: taped to the door that reads, the end is near.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Save yourself. Natalie gulps interior chemistry class day.
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: Who can tell me why water molecules are attracted to
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: each other?
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: Natalie raises her leg to her ear as raising her hand.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: That's different, Ava, because water molecules have both a positive
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: hydrogen charge and negative oxygen charge.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Grayson flashes Natalie's smile. Natalie beams back to interior Ava's bedroom. Night.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Kenzie walks up and adds tea at the end of
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: FA R.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Before we talk about R, we need to talk about T.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: For Trevor, Ava can do better than him. Trevor's amazing.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: So whatever you're doing with Grayson needs to stop until
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: after you switch back one.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Nothing is going on with Grayson and two two really
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: want me to get back together with Trevor. They've had sex.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: You know, if I supposed to just.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Have sex with Trevor, Yeah, you really have to do
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: it for Ava.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: No, don't do that.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Just steer clear of Grayson and be nice to Trevor.
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: The interior school hallway day, Natalie is at Ava's locker.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: Trevor is at his locker across the She looks over
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: at him. He fumbles trying to pull something out of
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: his locker. Everything falls out. Natalie takes a deep breath
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: and shuts Ava's locker. She helps Trevor pick up his things.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm sorry, I've been mean to you. I haven't
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: been myself.
• 47:18
  Speaker 9: You're in a school hallway.
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: Okay, you're not in the front seat.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Of a car.
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: You know normal.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Look, I'm sorry I've been mean to you. I haven't
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: been myself.
• 47:29
  Speaker 13: No, she asked for face, and I got you stupid flowers.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: The flowers were sweet. I get you're trying to get
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: me back.
• 47:36
  Speaker 11: What.
• 47:38
  Speaker 13: No, that was for your dad's uh walking out anniversary.
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: I just I just wanted to make sure one good
• 47:44
  Speaker 13: thing happened to you that day.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Huh.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: Trevor stands up to walk away. Natalie stands and bumps
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: into Grayson. Sorry. She stumbles, and Grayson catches her, dipped
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: like in a dance. They're face to face. Natalie blushes,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Watch your step. Trevor sees their moment and exits, running
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: down the hall and half sob. Natalie watches him with
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: a sigh. Back to interior, Ava's bedroom night, Natalie circles
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: roll the Sugarplum Fairy is.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: My wrong, It's Ava's destiny. She's the real understanding.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: But this is my role.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Kensey flips over the whiteboard, revealing a list of movies
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: Freaky Friday, The Hot Chick, The Changeup, et cetera.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: In all of these a cosmic lesson magic and tata.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: What's done is undone.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Once you accept that the role isn't yours, the natural
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: order will be restored.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Hold up, are we in a movie? Stopping weird?
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: Stopping weird?
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Wait?
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: Natural order? Where did you hear that?
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: Mister Constantine monologues about it all the time during rehearsal.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, and there's.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Usually a wishing well or fortune cookies or some kind
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: of wish fulfillment.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Mcguffin right about.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: That interior Ava's living room. Night. Kenzie, with a poster
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: board under her arm, speed walks to the front door.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Natalie and Bean follow.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I can't believe you broke it. This is going to
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: be impossible. Hey, I'm gonna fix it, okay.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: Kenzie exits with a slam of the door. Natalie looks
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: at Bean, I'm gonna fix it. End of episode two,
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: What's Up.