JessicaI have class first thing in the morning.
Skip it. You won't flunk out for missing one class.
Jessica
I will if we have house parties every night.
I'll get you a goddamn tutor.
Jessica
I need to study!
You know what, Jess? I am proud of myself tonight, even if you aren't. I want to be with my friends.
Jessica
You think they're your friends? They're just leeches, sucking your money, your booze, your food...
And you're not? Why don't you pay your own goddamn tuition?
Jessica
Because you insisted.
And your own goddamn rent, instead of mooching off me.
Jessica
You think I need you? You think I can't get what I want, when I want? I don't need anything from you. [rips open an ATM and takes a wad of cash] See? All set.
That's great. That's just great.
Jessica
That was your mom?
SAStirling Adams
Trying to force me to be a goddamn plumber.
Jessica
That's random.
SStirling
It's my brother's business.
Jessica
Well, did you tell her about your club?
SStirling
She shat all over the idea. My parents paid for my brother's plumbing license, but you think they'd invest in me? Hell no.
Jessica
You could always pretend they died in a car accident.
SStirling
Damn, you're dark, babe.
Jessica
Better than feeling shit on.
SStirling
Do you pretend Trish died in a car accident, too?
Jessica
Plane crash, and only when I'm tempted to call her. Pass the cereal.
SStirling
Why not just call her? Better than pretending she's dead. That's messed up.
Jessica
I'm messed up. I thought that was obvious.
SStirling
It's been a month since you've seen Trish, right?
Jessica
She doesn't need me hanging around.
SStirling
What about what you need?
Jessica
When did this become about me and Trish?
SStirling
I don't know, I mean Your sister lives just across town, and I've never even met her.
Jessica
Well, it's not like you invited me home for Sunday dinner.
SStirling
Fine. We'll go meet my parents, you'll introduce me to Trish, and we'll be one big, shitty family.
Jessica
And everyone around me dies.
Not me. I'm gonna live forever.
Jessica
You won't if you don't get help.
Jessica
Yeah? I've been calling you for 24 hours. Where were you?
I was rehearsing for my tour.
Jessica
You were high.
[exhales] They're not mutually exclusive. [pause] I'm sorry I wasn't there for you. Because I was high. Because I'm an addict. [sighs and sniffles]
Jessica
Step one, eleven more to go.
Our lives just weren't the storybook bullshit you seem to think they were. That's all.
Jessica
Well, there were parts of it that seemed pretty perfect to me. Christmases, Thanksgiving, that weird marshmallow thing you made with yams.
[chuckles] Yeah, not even I can ruin what is essentially a vat of marshmallows, butter and sugar. [pause] What?
Jessica
When I look at you, I don't see my mother, but your voice makes me feel like I'm back with you in our old house, before everything.
Just tell me what's going on in that head of yours.
Jessica
I don't know, okay? There's no manual that tells you what to do when your mother who's been dead for 17 years comes back and is a mass murderer. I'm kinda winging it. Everything inside me tells me I should turn you in.
But you're not ready? Well, take your time. I'm in no rush to spend the rest of my life in a steel box.
Look, what I'm trying to say is... [sighs] is that if I had been driving, we would all still be alive. So it's my fault, too. That's a great role model for your daughter, right? "Shut up and sit shotgun."
Jessica
You've set worse examples.
Never once did it cross my mind that any of this is your fault.
Jessica
Funny, 'cause it crossed mine about a million times. [Alisa flushes the "ashes" down the toilet] What are you doing?
Jessica
Is that supposed to make me feel better?
Feel how you feel. You have nothing to forgive yourself for.
[Jessica helps Oscar stop Sonya from taking their son Vido out of the country]
SSonya
He's my son! You think he's better off with you?
Jessica
No, I think he's better off with a mother who isn't in prison.
SSonya
I got nothing left, except for him.
Jessica
You're his mother. Nothing's gonna change that.
Jessica
The moral of my shitty story is, if your dead parent comes back to life, stick 'em back in the ground. [sighs]
So that woman was your mother?
Jessica
Is.
And you kept her here for two days and didn't tell anyone?
It can't be easy for Jess, she lost her whole family.
Jessica
You don't have to defend me.
No, you know what else isn't easy? Giving a crap about you when you consistently lie to me.
Jessica
I wanted to keep you out of it.
I work here, okay? I pretty much live here. What do I have to do to prove to you that I can handle shit?
Jessica
"Mal"?
[to Trish] And you? I mean, why don't you get honest with her and tell her about that shit you've been taking? I'm so sick of being the only one who's for real around here. [leaves room, slamming the door]
You know, the time I spent inside it wasn't easy, I'm not gonna lie. But the first Saturday of every month, I got to see Vido. Wasn't perfect, but to me, it was everything. Your mother did some bad things but she's your family. There's gotta be something good in her.
Jessica
No, she's just a selfish asshole.
You're gonna get through this, Jessica.
Jessica
No, I won't. I'm not gonna see my mother the first Saturday of every goddamn month. She's going to some Guantanamo hellhole, and I'm never gonna see her again.
I wanted you to meet Shane before you made any decisions about Dr. Malus. What he did was unethical, yes, but also miraculous.
Jessica
Are you kidding me?
Jessica, your mother is alive, you and Shane have extraordinary abilities. With the proper funding and support, imagine what Dr. Malus' work could do for the world.
Jessica
You want to profit from this.
Screw profit. [sighs] He healed me. And if it works, he's given me a second chance. And I want other people to have that same chance instead of locking it behind bars or eliminating it altogether.
Jessica
Jeri, I don't think you are changed.
Forgiveness is hard for you, I know.
Jessica
I mean physically. You're still sick, Shane's a fraud.
Jessica
He was never at IGH, and they never made a healer.
Jessica
She lied. She used what she knew from working at IGH, and she made the whole thing up.
I felt something when he touched me.
Jessica
Because you wanted to feel something.
I'm not some ignorant trailer park hick. What he did to me was real. I've had no symptoms.
Jessica
In, what, two days? [sighs] You can't test for ALS, right? So you can't confirm the results. Inez is a nurse., she knew that.
Jessica
Let me deal with them.
Jessica
Then you need to go the cops.
Jessica
Jeri, you don't deserve this. They are scum.
You're wrong. Whoever you talked to, whatever they told you, it's wrong. Shane is real.
Jessica
Then just be careful.
Jess, I'm so sorry. I thought we were helping you.
Jessica
Why don't you help yourself? Because you can't, can you? So you obsess over everybody else's shit instead of dealing with your own.
Hey, I am dealing with my shit!
Jessica
Sticking your dick in anything that moves is the same thing as sticking a needle in your arm. But you know what? I don't give a shit what you stick where, as long as you do it far away from me.
Everything that I've done for you, peeling your sorry ass off the floor every single morning, working late every single night just to keep this sinking ship afloat? Why do you think I did all that?
Jessica
Because you have nowhere else to be.
Because I believe in you and what we could do. Maybe I've been wasting my time.
Jessica
I relied on you. I don't rely on anyone, but I relied on you.
Jessica
Not anymore. You're just some guy who lives down the hall.
Well, just in case you change your mind, again I quit.
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