Episode 11, "The Aftermath"
Season Premiere
Last Season, on Friends and Foes:
Stephanie’s Rapist, Max killed Stephanie
Alex was stabbed in the back and was severely injured
Taylor was stabbed in the back and was severely injured
Jeff some how escaped the morgue and saved Devin and Alex
Police started to arrive as Jeff cornered Brandi, who is Slade, who is Zaltar, and Tristan
The New Season starts off with a beautiful series of fast-paced scenes to recap the aftermath of The Season Finale, with "Angel" by Sarah McLaughlan echoing through your ears:
***The police arrive, cuff Brandi and Tristan***
***Jeff collapses, tears pouring from his eyes, screaming hysterically***
***Devin weeps uncontrollably as the police help him out of the house***
***Alex passes out, an ambulance drives him away***
***Lots of police bust into a warehouse to find Taylor thrashed and in a pool of blood***
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ROLL OPENING CREDITS, "Yoo Hoo" Imperial Palace
Starring:
Nicholas Brendon as Alex
Leonardo DiCaprio as Devin
Jonathon Taylor Thomas as Taylor
James Van Der Beek as Jeff
Special Guest Stars:
Matt Damon as Derek
Claire Danes as Meredith
Coming Soon:
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Two months have passed since the horrid incident involving Tristan, Brandi, and Max. Brandi and Tristan were charged and are being held in jail, facing charges for murder and a ten years to life sentence in jail. Max escaped to Mexico. We start off on a beautiful day, the sun shining brightly, a cool and steady breeze blowing. Devin is seen walking through a vast land of tombstones. Bright flowers and rich, green grass cannot take away the resonance of doom in this place.
Devin kneels down by a tombstone, his blonde hair swaying with the wind, his blue eyes dry and set on the engraved script on the tombstone. "Rest In Peace For Eternity, Stephanie Barr, 1982-1999, With Love."
Devin’s eyes glimmer as tears begin to emerge. He puts a casket of flowers upon the bed of grass where Stephanie lies. He wipes the tears away, and puts his hand on the bed.
"I love you, Stephanie." Devin cries, breathless with mixed emotions. He looks healthy as ever, but the vivid images of that day are with him forever. The image of his first love murdered before his eyes. The images of his best friend stabbed violently. Images that would forever haunt him and the others.
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The setting is now at Pine Valley High School. Jeff stands against his locker, fighting his own demons. Staring into the air, remembering the events, events that torment him now every second, every minute, every day of his life. He still wears a large bandage around his head from the blows he endured. The whole event plays unwillingly through his mind.
The bell rings, and Jeff snaps out of his daze, shoves some books into his backpack, scrummages through his back-pack, finds a bag of white dust, crack, thinks about it, then puts it back in his backpack and scurries off to class.
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Later that night, Alex tosses and turns restlessly in his bed. For the third month in a row now, he has not gotten much sleep. Every time he closes his eyes, horrid flashes of murder and killing flash before him.
Alex sits up violently, gasping for air, perspiration dripping from his chin. A few seconds later, his gasps turn into gut-wrenching moans and tears as he cries. Crying for what has happened to him, crying for what has happened to his friends, crying for never being able to sleep again.
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Taylor sits in a hypno-therapists’s office.
"There must be some unresolved anger within you that you are baring. Its been nearly three months since the attack, Taylor. It is very normal that you dwell on the event and mourn, but you are still suffering. I think there might be something we haven’t touched on." Dr. Patricia Latte explains as the session begins.
"I don’t know, I guess all these events have brought back the issues with my Dad." Taylor mumbles, staring down at his feet.
"Excellent… the events of the previous three months, and the murder, has brought back some unresolved questions about your own Father’s murder…"
This is a startling new revelation.
"I guess."
"Taylor, we are going to go back to the time when your father was still alive.."
"But I was jut a kid! I was like 3!" Taylor questions. Patricia ignores him.
"I want you to close your eyes, listen only to the soothing tone of my voice. Shut off the pressures of the outside world…" Dr. Latte begins… "Now I want you to count backwards from 1 to 10…" As Taylor does this, he drowses off to a deep sleep.
When he wakes up, Dr. Latte’s eyes are wide open, her face pale, her jaw dropped to the floor. "Oh my God…"
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We are now back at Pine Valley High School. Students are making their way to there classes, but we follow two people, Meredith (Claire Danes) and Derek (Matt Damon).
They are having a friendly conversation.
"Yeah, Devin, Taylor, Jeff, and Alex are all back. They came back last week." Derek says.
"Oh that’s so horrible what has happened to them!" Meredith frowns. "Its so sad!"
"I know, Alex and Devin were my good friends. I haven’t seen them in a while though. They must be going through a lot."
"Yeah." Meredith says. She waves good bye and walks away. As she exits, Derek gets angry and kicks a near-bye locker! His motives unknown, his actions uncalled for, something mysterious is happening with him
"Stupid whore…" He surprisingly says, and he exits, a scary glare in his eyes.
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ROLL CLOSING CREDITS
Next Week, on Friends and Foes:
What did Taylor say under hypnosis??
Devin saves Meredith…from what? Will a new relationship come from this?
Alex and a new girl, will she soothe is emotional pain?
Derek does some evil deeds…who will he affect?
Taylor meets Amber…what does this have to do with the hypnosis!
Jeff gives in to peer pressure…and turns to drugs!
