EXIT STRATEGY: SCENE 3 P2

Back to it :(

SADIE: I need to get back to class right after the bell so that’s ten minutes to figure this out, / so can we act quickly, please, can we do that

Ten minutes, more than enough time, uh, so let’s let’s let’s start at the top, allright, Hi, my name is Ricky Hubble / and I’m the assistant principle

DONNIE: Tie guy

Sorry what

DONNIE: You’re tie guy, everybody calls you tie guy/ cause you’ve (yeah!) cause you’ve always got the tie

WHAT, really, that’s (what!) well that’s great, that’s, you know I like to have / an assortment of-

SADIE: RICKY

OK nevermind about that nevermind;

so we’ve got a situation here, / yes, a situation with-

DONNIE: I acted on my own account and everything I did I did on my own,

I just want that clearly stated, this is all me

Well I had no doubt in my mind, about that, but Ok, that’s, that’s very nice of you

SADIE: He’s not trying to be nice, he’s trying to take credit,

he has no remorse about this, he’s proud of it

Ok is this true?

DONNIE: Is what true?

You broke into the school website and you re-routed it to a kickstarter / homepage

DONNIE: Indie go-go, kickstarter how old are you?

I turn 30 tomorrow thank you for reminding me!

SADIE: Ohmygod, why do you look so much older than me?

Wow, everyone is just on fire today! Ok

Donnie, this is, this is you, this is all you, you’re taking credit for it and you have no remorse.

DONNIE:--Is remorse different than regret?

Ooh, good question / actually, good point, you know?

SADIE: Nuh-uh, oh no, not this time, / focus,

Sadie, I need to hear the full story

SADIE: My student hacked into the school, for that there are ramifications

he’s trying to lead the class, he’s trying to do my job, he’s uppity.

Whoaaaaa/aaaaa

SADIE: Whoa what

Can you say that?

SADIE: I can say it you can’t / say it

Ok good just/ checking

SADIE: … you think you can just control the school lead the school teach people that’s my job, / that is my job, let-me-do-it

Just, just, I’m trying to be fair here, and honestly, uh, I’m a little surprised, / honestly

DONNIE: What’s surprising about this, / what

Welllllllll, not too long ago, you had quite the radical idea yourself, remember the walkout, / and

SADIE: A walkout isn’t begging for money / how is that the same

He seems like, you know, he seems like he wants to help

SADIE: You know how this ends

Well that’s that’s that’s ominous

SADIE: No, you’re with Ricky, you’re with Tie Guy, Ricky Hubble, you know what to do

I-

DONNIE: Just give it to me and don’t play.

(Be a man about it.. you know, I can… I can take it, so.)

…What? You forget the right paperwork, I can wait, as long as / it takes

You don’t get to talk to me like that.

DONNIE: Sorry

Stay that way.

DONNIE: --Permission to speak freely?

Permission granted

DONNIE: I wanna raise 5,000 dollars so we can get some new supplies, two of those 300 dollar computers from the head house, toilet paper, man, STUFF

I’m trying to help

Join the club, ohmygod, we’re on the same side, I mean what do you think I do all day, honestly,

man to man, what do you think I do?

DONNIE: lay down on the couch like a female dog and watch something stupid, I don’t know, man, I don’t know…. I’m not trying / to like, you know-

It’s fine, it’s fine, Donnie just: just gimme something.

You’ve got all the answers here, uh,

you know everything, so: help me out here.

Give-me-something.

DONNIE: You need to save the school.

Give-me-something-smaller.

DONNIE: low test scores all that, same shit, they fought, they won they WON, man, here, we’re just / sitting back just

If you want to help there’s a meeting with the alderman / this weekend and if-

DONNIE: She’s there to listen, she’s not there to actually here anything,

nobody takes her seriously

Well I can find common ground with her on that front

DONNIE: Look you’re not-- dependant on the teachers, at all, you’re their boss, right, that’s basically / how it works, right?

It’s very complicated

DONNIE: You work at a public school man your job is simple, look the way I see it--Ricky--

Mr. Hubble

DONNIE: Mr. Hubble, way I see it, if your job isn’t the teachers or the students if your job is the school then I say you’re failing your job.

….ADR.

Let’s move on

DONNIE: But you did though, / right

The last time something like this / happened at the school

DONNIE: You did, and now you’re sitting here, / just sitting here and watching it all just fall down

We suspended the student for three days then instituted a detention / period of two weeks

DONNIE: Your job is to protect this place, you-have-failed

Your job is to go to class and not mess anything up

you failed at your job so there’s repercussions,

This, right here, right now, this is my job, I’m doing my job.

DONNIE: If it was really good, what you were trying to do, people always come around and they see that.

Ok. Donnie. I get it. I get what all this is. You lost someone very important to you.
And that’s awful.

Um--so I’m not going to suspend you. Week of detention. Nobody get hurt.

We need you here, so: All you have to do: is say you’re sorry.

DONNIE: - Sorry for what

Sorry for putting that, that stuff online, just say you’re sorry.

We can work from that

DONNIE: Cause I begged. Cause I said I was sorry. Cause I let myself be bought

That’s a little dramatic

DONNIE: you try and tell me to apologize for doing something when everybody thinks you’re less than that less than even that,

Donnie Bryant, please take take that notebook and pencil.

You’ve left me no choice, let’s not waste any more time, I think this is very clear, uh, please write this down.

…”Dear Sadie Wilson.

Thank you for teaching me. I regret that I will no longer be a student in your class.

--I will no longer be a student in your class because I will be too busy fulfilling my language arts credit as creative assistant to assistant principle Ricky Hubble, as well as facilitating a new website for the school.

Hopefully, with the--are you getting all of this?

DONNIE: Dude--

No time for that, come on, you’re on the clock already, / allright?

DONNIE: Allright

Ok, “ Hopefully, with the actions that are about to take place here at Tumbldn, this website will outlast my relationship with the school when I graduate. There will be a next year here, and I, as a member of the newly formed totally awesome group called “Team Winning”(?!.) am going to help me that happen.

We’re going to save the school, and you can thank me later. Sincerely yours, Donnie Bryant:”

DONNIE: Just sincerely?

What?

DONNIE: I got you, don’t worry, we’re good.

Great. We’re good.