Matt quotes from 7th Heaven

Eric

So your sister shoved a guy's head in the toilet?

Matt

Up to the collar. You would have been proud.

Matt

You gotta trust me on this, cause when it comes to this kind of stuff, guys don't think like girls.

Mary

I know. I'm sorry.

Matt

Where'd you get that dress?

Mary

(crying) I stole it. I didn't think it was a big deal!

Matt

So you put it on and went to a fraternity party?

Mary

I know, it was stupid. I'm sorry.

Matt

It's OK. But you should know: From now on I'll be watching you like a fox/hawk.

Julie

I don't think I can do this.

Matt

That's what you need: A warm relationship with your father.

Matt

Wow! What did you do to make your hair look so blonde and...um...beautiful?

Lucy

I'm trying to figure out if you're lying, and if I think you are, I will be killing Simon tonight!

Matt

Great. Even with Mary in the hospital, Dad still finds a way to teach me a lesson.

Simon

Well, you've kind of got to admire him for that.

Annie

If you're doing drugs, Matt, I want you to stop. If anything ever happened to you, I would never forgive myself.

Matt

Sounds like I'm already guilty.

Eric

What were you thinking?! It's bad enough you're smoking dope, but then you had to bring it in here where someone else could find it. What if one of the younger kids had found it first?

Matt

I didn't think...

Eric

That's just it, you didn't think, because if you thought of anyone besides yourself, you'd know that the look you just saw on Simon's face was the look of a boy who has lost all respect for his older brother!

Matt

That's not why!

Eric

I'm not finished! Just answer me one thing, it will help me sleep better. Just tell me you wanted to get caught? Because you couldn't have possibly expected to get away with this. Or better yet, tell me why anyone could be so stupid as to do drugs in the first place!?

Matt

I don't know, Dad! Why don't you ask Mom? Maybe she can tell you!

Eric

Don't you dare bring your mother into this. Apologize right now! [Someone honks a car horn outside, waiting for Matt] Oh, you're not going anywhere.

Matt

Well, I'm not staying here. [leaves]

Matt

What's going on?

Annie

Well, dinner's almost ready, the trash needs to go out, and your brother is shrinking.

Annie

So what did the doctor say?

Matt

Well, Simon's not the same height he was this time last year.

Simon

I'm and inch taller and I'm broader around the chest, but I'm not surprised. I work out.

Annie

[sarcastically] Oh, yeah.

Eric

Matt, if something had happened to Steve while he was with you today, what would you have done?

Matt

I'm not sure, other than I would have tried to get him back to the hospital. If it was too late for that, then I guess I would have just held him. Been with him. If something had happened, Dad, at least the kid would have had a day out. I mean, he's dying and there's nothing anyone can do but let him live a little.

I have a question. What do you think dying is like?...You don't have to answer that if you don't want. I'll understand.

Matt

No. No, it's okay. I'll answer it. I think about it sometimes. I think it's kind of like when you're little, and you're sick, and your parents pick you up and put you in their bed. Then you wake up, and you don't know where you are, but then it just takes a second, and you remember where you are and that you're okay. I think it's like that.

Mary

[to her parents] Matt paid Brian $20 for him to go out with me! [to Matt] I can't believe you!

Annie

Like I said...

Matt

Yeah, yeah it'll blow up in my face.

It's important to know when to be helpful and how to be helpful. When you don't know either one, it's important to be harmless.

Matt

What?

Lead, follow or get out of the way.

Mary

[rushes in and turns off the music] You guys are bothering Lucy.

Matt

So?

Mary

So? What's wrong with you? Her friend died.

Matt

Yeah, I know.

Simon

[to Matt] Are you still mad at her?

Mary

[to Simon] What are you talking about? [Matt stares at Mary] Get out.

Simon

This is my room now. You can't tell me to get out. [Mary gives Simon a sincere stare. Simon then exits the room]

Mary

You're mad at Lucy? Mad about what?

Matt

I think she was going to run off with those girls. They weren't going to get a pizza.

Mary

You don't know that.

Matt

Yeah, I do. It was written all over her face when I dropped her off, but I didn't press her on it. She was trying to trick me. How do you think I would have felt if she had been in that car? She could have been killed, too!

Lucy

[walks in crying] You think I don't know that? You think I don't know that if they hadn't been on their way to pick me up, Sarah would still be alive and she wouldn't have died?

Matt

Sarah died because she was driving the car and the kid ran out in front of her!

Lucy

I know that! And that's my fault too; it's all my fault!

Mary

Luc, don't!

Lucy

Stay away from me!

Annie

[rushing in with Eric] What's going on?

Lucy

I knew that Jen let Sarah drive the car and I didn't tell anyone. It's my fault I didn't tell anyone.

Eric

[whispering] Lucy.

Lucy

If I had told someone, she might still be alive. If I hadn't told them to pick me up, she might still be alive.

Annie

Luc, no. Don't blame yourself―

Lucy

[pushes Annie away] No! Leave me alone!

Annie

We can't! We can't leave you alone! This is not your fault! It's not your fault!

Lucy

It is my fault! It's all my fault! Nothing will ever be the same again! Nothing! [Annie attempts to hug Lucy, but Lucy again pushes her away and then kneels to the ground and begins crying]