The O.C. · Season 4, Episode 14
“The Shake Up” · Season 4, Episode 14
In this episode: Taylor Townsend (9), Summer Roberts (4), Ryan Atwood (3)
Look, I know you've never had a birthday party before, let alone ever been to one -- but usually people get presents for their birthday. So will you please tell me what you want?
[sighs] Okay, honestly? I want Ryan to ask me to go with him to Berkeley next year.
Okay, I was thinking more along the lines of a cute top...
[Seeing the front page of a newspaper] Did you see this about earthquake weather? You know, it's exactly this kind of voodoo science that lets politicians deny global warming [hands paper to Taylor]
Oh, my God, I know. And how many times have they predicted "the big one" and it never happens. Almost makes you wish that it would.
These are really good croissants.
Don't you have the feeling we're on the cusp of something, and we just need to leap into the void?
Did you get these at Joe's?
Ryan, don't you have that feeling?
[confused] What?
What happened with Ryan?
[sighs] I tried, Summer. I really did. The moment was upon us, we were staring into each other's eyes, and... and he just didn't say it! Ugh. Sometimes I just wanna grab him and tie him to a chair and shoot him full of sodium pentothal and see what spills out.
Uh, Mister! Mail Carrier, sir! ‘Scuse me, please! Could you wait? Hi. I'm sorry. Um, a woman in that house where I live just gave you a letter that she shouldn't have and, uh, I kind of need it back.
Ma'am, once the letter goes in the pouch. it's the property of the federal government.
Okay... and I totally understand that. But if you take that letter, I am gonna lose my place at Berkeley and the chance to be with the man I love and who I think loves me, and, and... 15 years from now, when he is trapped in a loveless marriage and I have become a cold, hard ice-queen for whom love is no more than a distant memory, it will all come down to the fact that this morning, which, coincidentally, happens to be my birthday, you obeyed the letter of the law at the expense of simple, human charity.
Wow, that was amazing.
Can I have my letter now?
Yeah, sure.
Summer (to Sandy): Just go with it, it's Taylor.
(While Ryan drags a drunk Taylor to her bedroom)
I don't understand how you're not drunk?
Oh, it's the Atwood genes, we're built to withstand massive quantities of alcohol.
I don't know what to say.
That's a first.
Summer (pointing at the frontpage of the Orange County Chronicle) :Did you see this about earthquake weather? You know, it's exactly this kind of voodoo science that let's politicians deny global warming.
Oh my God, I know and how many times have they predicted the big one and it never happens. Almost makes you wish that it would.
Summer [to Taylor]: OK, so you want to get Ryan to tell you that he wants you to go to Berkeley without knowing that you already got into Berkeley?
Exactly.
And how are you going to do that?
Easy, I just need to get him to tell me that he loves me.
Mhmm, Ryan talking about his feelings, now that would be an earth-shattering event.
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