The English Teacher Page #6

in the boys' dressing room!

That's why!

- Ow! Ow...

- Oh, God. Oh, God...

You should have told us.

I gave her a warning.

I just... I thought that

would be enough.

I didn't expect

all this to happen.

Typical.

You know, good teacher

lets a student off easy,

she turns around

and stabs her in the back.

And him, messing around

with one of our kids,

I'll knock his block off!

Where... Where is Halle now?

In rehearsal?

Yes, but I don't think...

Do we really have to do this now?

In front of everyone?

I thought you'd just pull her

into your office.

No. We've got to clean this mess up

before it gets any worse.

These types of rumors can do real

damage to a teacher's reputation.

Even one as sterling as yours.

But I'd really rather not...

Damn it, Linda. These punks

took advantage of you!

and tell them you're not going

to roll over for their B.S.

You!

And you! Get over here,

right now.

What's the meaning of this, Phil?

We're trying to rehearse.

Yep. Well, rehearsal's

gonna wait.

It seems

Romeo and Juliet here

have been fooling around a little bit

after play practice, huh.

What on earth

are you talking about?

And to top it all off,

sweet little Juliet

has been spreading

some pretty nasty lies about

one of our best teachers.

They're not lies!

She's just jealous,

because he's with me now!

- So you admit it?

- Oh, Christ.

- Oh, Halle, really?

- It's true!

She did him in her room.

Everyone knows!

You are digging a very

big hole for yourself, right now.

Where are you going, Halle?

You get back here, miss!

Halle...

Hey, what's with

all the shouting?

Oh. Traynor, what the

hell is that?

Oh, good Lord.

It's for my big

suicide at the end.

No, sir, it is not!

Hey, we had an agreement!

What? I'm sorry...

What agreement?

Don't play dumb, Romeo. Now, you know

damn well we had to cut that ending!

What?

What? What?

Why are you even

rehearsing this ending?

You trying to pull

one over on me, Carl? Huh?

You want to get

yourself fired?

You have it all wrong,

Phil, as usual.

Yes. I wanted the actors to experience

the full darkness of Jason's play.

But it was never my intention to

perform the ending.

After all,

we did agree to cut it.

Carl, what the hell? You never said

I had to cut the ending!

You never said that.

But it wasn't

my place to tell you.

It was my understanding that

Linda cleared it with you

-when you signed the contract.

- Carl. No.

- You knew?

- Carl. No.

- You knew?

- No. No...

You did read the contract,

didn't you?

She forced me to sign it, without

actually reading it.

You never told me

I'd have to cut the ending,

because you knew I would

never agree to it!

- No, no, no...

- Linda, is this true?

No...

- No...

- Is it true?

Is that true?

Yes, but I can explain...

As if I'd be jealous of some

dirty little make out session

- with one of your old students.

- Shh. Stop it!

- God knows you need it...

- You're awful! You're awful!

- Oh, my...

- Wow...

Oops.

Told you.

She's a lying old whore.

She's, uh... Where...

Linda, you're fired.

You better run.

You hear me!

You are fired, lady!

Yeah, who's trashy now?

Hey, Linda! Linda!

- Leave me alone!

- Don't run away from me.

How could you lie

to me like that?

I trusted you.

And you sat there

and you lied to my face!

Get away, get away!

Oh! F***! No!

F***! F***! F***! No!

Not again!

F***! I f***ing

hate this school.

Ma'am, you've been in an accident,

okay. You're in the hospital.

No, you're going

to be just fine.

No, I won't.

Yes, you will.

I promise.

Oh. Hi, Dr. Sherwood.

No, no, not him.

Someone else.

Get me someone else, please.

Honey, there's no one else unless

you want to wait a few hours.

I'll wait. I can wait.

Please...

Um, I...

Can you, uh,

excuse us, Nurse?

Oh, sure.

Um, I think

she's still in shock.

Don't worry, honey,

you're in good hands.

This is awkward.

It says here you

were in a car accident

after you rubbed pepper spray

into your eyes?

Wow...

Okay.

Have you any dizziness?

- No.

- No?

- Any nausea?

- No.

- Neck pain?

- Yes.

Where?

- Up here?

- Mmm-hmm.

Does that hurt?

Yeah...

How severe, as if on a scale

of one to 10?

I don't know.

Three? Five?

I don't know, it's something we have

to ask in the hospital.

All right, let's take

a look at this.

Okay.

It's going to sting.

Well, that's not so bad.

I'll have a nurse

clean this up.

You're actually

a very lucky woman.

I don't think you're going to

need stitches.

Okay.

Here you are, here...

It's good to get

it out like that.

Could you please leave?

Listen, you've been through

a very physical trauma.

It's perfectly

normal to have...

No, please.

Please...

Honestly, emotional outbursts

like this are very common.

Stop it. Stop being

so nice to me.

You hate me.

I know you hate me.

I don't hate you.

Ms. Sinclair, listen...

I know we've had our differences,

I know that.

But you know, I...

Honestly, I appreciate everything

that you have done for Jason.

Oh, God.

And I can tell you right now,

you mean the world to him.

What? What am I saying?

I...

Had sex with your son.

What?

You heard me.

How long...

How long has this

been going on?

- Is it a relationship?

- No! It was one time...

When did this happen?

Can we be done now?

No. No, we can't be done.

We're not done until...

What...

What's wrong with you?

You go around sleeping

with your old students?

I don't want

to talk about it.

You're the one

who brought it up.

No, don't you have

something important to do?

Don't you have a life

to save or something?

I'm going to have someone

take you to orthopedics.

Ma'am, your card

was denied.

Mmm-hmm.

Okay, try this one.

Okay.

Can someone call me a cab?

Jason, okay, calm down.

Jason, I understand. No.

Turn around. Take me back.

Take me back inside.

- What? What?

- Take me back.

Lady! I'm sorry.

Are you okay?

- Let me call you back. Okay?

- I'm fine. I'm fine.

- It's okay. I'm fine.

- Mike. Mike.

I'll take her, it's fine.

I'll wait with her.

No, no, no.

I'm going to wait inside.

No, no.

I need to talk to you.

Take the chair

inside, please.

How's your neck?

Just say what you need to say

and leave me alone.

Is it true? Did you lie

to Jason about the play?

Yes. Yes, I did.

I don't believe it.

What kind of

teacher are you?

I mean, you come at me with

this holier than thou bullshit,

and this is what you do?

What's wrong with you?

Fine, fine. I get it.

I'm horrible,

I'm a horrible person.

Now would you leave?

No. Not until you tell me what

you're going to do about this.

You know, I've been fired.

Isn't that enough?

What about the play?

Oh, who cares about the play.

I do! I care about the play.

I care about my son.

Yeah! Now you care. Fine. Now that

everything's ruined.

This is all your fault. I wouldn't

even be here if it wasn't for you.

I don't know where

you possibly get that.

He never would have

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