Mary quotes from 7th Heaven

Eric

What are you doing with this stuff?

Matt

A friend at school gave gave 'em to me. Their just natural energy boosters made from herbs or something.

Eric

Not everything that is natural is good for you. Cocaine is extracted from the cope of plant. Heroine and Morphine come from natural plants and extracts. Natural doesn't always mean good!

Matt

Dad, calm down, okay. Check the bottle, it's sealed. I didn't take any. I was just looking for a way to keep awake so I could keep studying.

Eric

Oh, you'll stay awake because the main ingredient in these pills is Ephedrine which is just a chemical process away from being Methamphetamine.

Matt

Wait I don't get it, I mean the guy who gave these pills bought them from a health-food store. I mean if this stuff is so dangerous then why is it not illegal.

Eric

Because Ephedrine is classified as a food not a drug, so it's not regulated the way it should be. Ephedrine-based supplements are illegal in 13 states. You know that it took to make them illegal? People died. (Mary enters the room)

Eric

What's wrong?

Mary

I took those pills.

Eric

You took these pills?

Mary

No, I didn't get the pills from Matt, I got them from Diane who gets them from her father. I thought everyone was taking them.

Eric

I think I better talk to Diane's father. Throw them out.

Matt

Gladly.

Lucy

You cried?

Mary

I only did it because you told me too. I'm a disgrace to women drivers everywhere.

Lucy

Yeah, but not because you cried. Because you can't parallel park. And actually crying to get your way isn't a disgrace to all women drivers, it's a disgrace to all women, period.

Mary

You told me too.

Lucy

Can I just make one teeny tiny suggestion? Learn how to parallel park and retake the test. When I said cry, I meant just that. Cry. Faking it is just like a lie and like lying you have to break the habit now before it controls you.

Mary

I'm gonna break something and it's not my crying habit!

Lucy

Why do we have to hurry?

Mary

I've got to pick up Ruthie, then I've got to drop you two at home, then I have to head over to the Junior High so I can make Simon look good, which is not gonna be easy.

Lucy

You know he's just using you.

Mary

Should we kill him now or in the morning?

Now!

Mary

You're a freak, you know that. A total freak, freak, freak!

Matt

Yeah, your freak brother. And that entitles me to protect you anyway I see fit.

Mary

No it doesn't. It doesn't entitle you to protect anything. And who needs your protection?

Matt

Who, who!? You that's who. You're out with a guy two years older than you and you're making out with him in a cop car!

Mary

There is no law against making out! [turns to Sergeant Michaels] Is there, Sergeant Michaels? Is there a law against making out?!

Sergeant Michaels

I'm going to let you two settle this.

Mary

Yeah, I know how to settle this. I'm gonna open a can of whup-ass!

Matt

Yeah, you do that.

Mary

I will! I will!

Did you hear the rumor? It's all over school.

Mary

I just saw you this morning. How could anything be all over school?

Well, what can I say the real juicy stuff has a life of its own. Corey Conway had a baby when she was 14.

Mary

Corey had a baby?

Yeah, Maggie, the new girl said that there was a Corey Conway who went to her junior high school, and that Corey got pregnant and dropped out of school and had a baby.

Mary

How did you hide this from everyone?

It wasn't easy. I couldn't have anyone over to my house. I couldn't go to parties or stay out late. Forget about dating. With taking care of a baby, I barely had time to go to school or play basketball. When I think about it, I actually don't even know how I was able to finish high school. Most teen mothers don't. I do know that I couldn't have done it without my mom. She's been there for me every step of the way since the day I told her I was pregnant.

Mary

Man, motherhood at fourteen.

You know what's harder than motherhood? Your friends talking and whispering behind you back.

Mary

Not everyone is talking about you.

Please, this spring I'm graduating Magna Cum Laude. I'm the top score on a championship basketball team and I've been accepted to three Ivy League Colleges. But now, thanks to Maggie, the only thing that everyone cares about is that at fourteen, I had a baby.

Annie

So, how is Glenoak's newest licensed driver?

Lucy

Fantastic! I love the freedom of driving down the road, with the wind in my hair. It's very exhilarating.

Simon

You can't feel the wind when you're only going 5 miles an hour.

Mary

Lucy drives way too slow.

Annie

When it comes to your children driving a car, there is no such thing as driving to slow.

Lucy

Thank you. (shifts her gaze and comment towards Mary) And the reason I drive slow is because you have your big feet hanging out the window.

Mary

Hey, I give my dogs some air.

Annie

From now on you keep your dogs in the car.

Simon

Dogs?! Try horses!

Mary

Excuse me, pinhead!

I understand that some of this has to do with "senioritus." I don't care. You were told in no uncertain terms that your studies were the priority and your grades had to show immediate improvement. Unfortunately, these reports show that they haven't. Now, I don't know if you didn't have an understanding of just how serious I was, or if you didn't have time to study. But now, you have both. (locks the gym doors)

Practice is cancelled?

You are students here who play basketball. You're not basketball players who show up to classes whenever the mood strikes. Until you proven that you understand that by bringing your grades up, this season and this team are cancelled!

Mary

You can't do that!

Mary

(hesitantly) Yeah.

Eric

Well, then, for now, I support this lock-out.

Mary

What?

Annie

I'm sorry, kiddo, but your coach didn't screw up. You did.

Mary

This can't happen. This is my senior year and I have a scholarship to play basketball. I mean, somebody has to do something.

Simon

Why did he lock you guys out?

Mary

Oh, boy. One more lecture on how it is to be the oldest. How many times do I have to hear this stuff from you?

Matt

Until you get it right.

Mary

Go away! And take your lemony-scented self with you.

Lucy

What?! Who?!

Lucy

Why?!

Mary

I don't know. We were just eating and talking about the team lockout and it just happened.

Lucy

And you got busted?

Mary

Yeah, We must've set off an alarm or something'cause the cops showed up.

Lucy

What's gonna happen?

Mary

I don't know. Sgt. Michaels saids I need a lawyer.

Lucy

This is unreal.

Mary

I wish.

(to Eric and Annie when she agrees to meet with Mary) I know she's your baby and probably always will be to you, but not to me. She's not in your house anymore. She's in mine. (goes into another room with Mary) Someone must really like you. You can't even begin to imagine what kind of favors it took for me to come in today to review your case. So, Mary, what happened to your grades? Drugs?

Mary

(shocked) No.

Booze? A boyfriend you couldn't get enough of?

Mary

No. None of that.

Well, did you see something on TV or at the movies that you had to copy? Marilyn Manson hypnotized you with one of his songs? Your parents just didn't love you enough?

Mary

No.

Well, then, I heard about the team lockout, so I'm guessing that your coach and school did you so wrong, you had to get back at them, and that basically, they had it coming.

Come on, Mary. There's got to be some reason why you did this that has nothing to do with it being your fault. Why should I consider you for the diversion program?

Mary

I don't know. I.....I've made some mistakes, but for the most part, I've always been a pretty good kid.

Pretty good kids don't trash other people's property. What else have you got?

Mary

I knew the choices I was making was wrong and I did it anyway... and I am sorry. I am sorry that I did it, and I am sorry for the way I've been acting, and I am sorry for everything that everyone has gone through because of me. And it kills me to know that sorry doesn't make a difference, and that it doesn't undo what I did, and it doesn't make my family like me again.

Eric

Hold on...

Mary

Look I know you love me. But how could you like me? I don't even like myself, and I don't know what to do to make things better.

Mary

What if I get expelled?

Eric

Well, we'll just have to wait and see what happens, and then deal with it.

Mary

I know I blew it, but up until now, I've been a pretty good kid. Now it's gone. It's all gone. Who knew that one mistake could ruin your whole life?

Annie

Your dad and I.....when you're an adult, you know that one mistake can ruin your life. Your life's not ruined. It's going to be radically different, but only you can decide if that's going to be a good different or bad different.