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oncetherewasaway	Sep 20 2008, 02:10 AM
McEditor Posts: 1,625 Group: .Grey Girls. Member #23 Joined: October 25, 2006	SIDES & SUMMARIES Episode 5.17 - I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Casting Call Posted by DarkUFO at Friday, January 16, 2009 This episode was written by Jenna Bans and will be directed by Rob Corn. Filming for this episode is from the 27th January through to 6th February 2009 [TRICIA SHELLEY] All Ethnicities, mid 30's, grown-up, strong older sister. Guest Star [MEG SHELLEY] All Ethnicities, late 20's, middle sister. Meek and wishy-washy. Guest Star [MATT SHELLEY] All Ethnicities, 20-23 year old college boy, baby brother. Guest Star [BETH] Asian, 18 to play high school. Member of high school band, in hospital with a serious condition. Guest Star [BOY BAND GEEK] All Ethnicities, 18 to play high school. Co Star [GIRL BAND GEEK] All Ethnicities, 18 to play high school. Co Star [DR. NELSON] All Ethnicities, 50's,sptv050769 nebbish character type. Doctor at the hospital. Co Star ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Episode 5.17 - I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Casting Sides January 17, 2009 Meg - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - THE SHELLEY’S ROOM – MORNING Dr. Walters sits with Matt and Meg Shelley as they finish reading their consent forms. Matt: (starting to panic) I can’t do this surgery with these possible side effects! Meg: But you know how important this is to Trish. Matt: She’s run our lives since we were little kids Meg: Matt ... They turn to find Tricia in a wheelchair. Tricia: Don’t be stupid. You are doing this. Right, Meg? Trish turns to Meg, who won’t meet her eyes Tricia: Meg? Meg: I didn’t know it was such a big deal. I just .... I need a little time to think about it, okay? Tricia shakes her head, feeling so betrayed. End Scene 1 ______________________________ Meg - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - THE SHELLEY’S ROOM – DAY Meg: She has it? Trish has cancer? Dr. Walters: But we were able to excise it completely. It hasn’t spread yet. Meg: But she had her endoscopy last month. Dr. Walters: The cancer cells we found during surgery were early stage, too small to see on a scan. The surgery saved her life. There’s a long beat as Matt and Meg digest this. Then Meg turns to Matt, tears in her eyes. Meg: The reason Trish decides everything – – Thanksgiving, family dinners, vacations ... She’s the only one left who can cook a turkey, Matt. She’s the only one left who likes to plan vacations and she’s the only one left who ever remember to make restaurant reservation. She’s the boss of us because everyone else is dead. Meg turns to our doctors, wiping the tears from her eyes. Meg: I want it. Now. I want the surgery right now. End Scene 2 ______________________________ Beth - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - ER – MORNING Beth Dearborn stirs , opens her eyes, takes in her surroundings, immediately knows what happened. Her face falls. Beth: Oh, no ... it happened again? Dr. Smith: Beth, I’m Dr. Smith, I’m a specialist with seizures. You had a pretty bad fall while you were marching. Beth: (horrified) I seized during the performance!? Dr. Smith: Relax. It’s not like you crapped you pants or anything. Beth: It IS like I crapped my pants. I had a seizure in front of the entire school. I FROTHED AT THE MOUTH IN FRONT OF TH ENTIRE SCHOOL. IT IS EXACTLY LIKE I CRAPPED MY PANTS. THEY’RE GOING TO KILL ME. Dr. Smith: Who? Beth: (miserable) The seizure patrol. Beth closes her eyes, miserable. Dr. Smith turns to find ANOTHER GIRL AND BOY IN BAND UNIFORMS pass by the doorway, shaking their heads, glaring at Beth. Dr. Smith: Those are your friends? Beth: They’re not my friends. (then quietly) Once you spazz out in front of the whole school, friends are sort of hard to come by. Dr. Smith: No one made you join the marching band. It’s like spreading nerd on nerd. Beth: I’m sure you were super cool in high school. What’d you do? Dr. Smith: (shrugs) I wrestled. Beth: You wearing tights under that lab coat? End Scene 1 ______________________________ Beth - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - BETH’S ROOM – DAY Dr. Smith holds up a mirror to the back of Beth’s head, showing her a bandage Beth: It’s so small. You can barely see it. Dr. Smith: Yep. And no more seizures. Beth: So I’m not sick anymore. A wrestler fixed me. Dr. Smith: Well, not exactly. But it will be controlled with regular appointments — Beth: But no one has to know. I won’t be frothing at the mouth, I don’t have to wear a bracelet to school ... Dr. Smith: Yeah. That’s something, huh? Beth: It’s everything. Once people see you as sick, they don’t see anything else. End Scene 2 ______________________________ Boy Band Geek - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - ER – MORNING Dr. Smith turns to find a BOY IN A BAND UNIFORM appear in the doorway, shaking his head, glaring at Beth. Dr. Smith: You’re in the band with Beth? Boy Band Geek: I’m drum major, she’s first chair clarinet. Whenever Beth has a seizure, I have to drop my instrument, go roll her on her side, and shove a drumstick in her mouth so she doesn’t choke on her tongue. Beth: I didn’t mean to .... Boy Band Geek: (bitter) We’re in the middle of Grand National Championships! We were favored to win ... Until Beth wigged out during “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Dr. Smith: Yeah, okay. Why don’t you just go call her parents. End Scene 1 ______________________________ Boy Band Geek - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - BETH’S ROOM – DAY Beth rests in her hospital bed, as Dr. Smith check her chart. Boy Band Geek enters, depressed. Boy Band Geek: Mr. Bimm just called. We didn’t get a trophy. We didn’t even get a ribbon. Beth: There’s always next season, right? Boy Band Geek: Yeah ... I talked to the others. We were thinking, maybe you should try out for choir or debate. We’re just worried. Beth face falls. Then, suddenly — Dr. Smith: You don’t have to be. We fixed her, Boy Band Geek: You can’t fix epilepsy. Dr. Smith: Some doctors can’t, but I can. Boy Band Geek: So she’s like .... totally normal now? Dr. Smith: Good as new. End Scene 2 End ______________________________ Girl Band Geek - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - ER – MORNING Dr. Smith turns to find a another GIRL IN A BAND UNIFORM appear in the doorway, shaking his head, glaring at Beth. Dr. Smith: You’re in the band with Beth? Boy Band Geek: I’m drum major, she’s first chair clarinet. Whenever Beth has a seizure, I have to drop my instrument, go roll her on her side, and shove a drumstick in her mouth so she doesn’t choke on her tongue. Beth: I didn’t mean to .... Boy Band Geek: (bitter) We’re in the middle of Grand National Championships! We were favored to win ... Until Beth wigged out during “Flight of the Bumblebee.” Dr. Smith: Yeah, okay. Why don’t you just go call her parents. End Scene 1 ______________________________ Girl Band Geek - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - BETH’S ROOM – DAY Beth rests in her hospital bed, as Dr. Smith check her chart. Girl Band Geek enters, depressed. Girl Band Geek: Mr. Bimm just called. We didn’t get a trophy. We didn’t even get a ribbon. Beth: There’s always next season, right? Girl Band Geek: Yeah ... I talked to the others. We were thinking, maybe you should try out for choir or debate. We’re just worried. Beth face falls. Then, suddenly — Dr. Smith: You don’t have to be. We fixed her, Girl Band Geek: You can’t fix epilepsy. Dr. Smith: Some doctors can’t, but I can. Girl Band Geek: So she’s like .... totally normal now? Dr. Smith: Good as new. End Scene 2 End ______________________________ Dr. Nelson - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - SURGICAL BOARD – DAY A cranky Dr. Swanson tries to rearrange the surgical board as Dr. Smith watches. Dr. Swanson: No, no, no, put Callahan on the bypass, Levinson on the craniotomy ...damp lap chole. Who’s going to do that? A NEBBISHY MIDDLE AGED SURGEON, who’s standing there, quietly fading into the hospital back drop, pipes up. Dr. Nelson: I could do that lap chole, Dr. Swanson. Dr. Swanson stares at him blankly for a moment, then recovers. Dr. Swanson: Let’s put Dr. Nelson on the lap chole. Appreciate it, Jim. Dr. Nelson: (under his breath) John. Dr. Smith: You must be new. Welcome Dr. Nelson: I’ve been here for ten years. I headed up General before Brown in his red cape swooped in from Oregon Dr. Smith: Linda Smith. Nice to meet you. Dr. Nelson: We’ve met. Three times. Off Dr. Smith, watching Dr. Nelson shuffle off sadly .... End Scene 1 ______________________________ Tricia - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - THE SHELLEY’S ROOM – MORNING Dr. Walters and Dr. Smith present the Shelley siblings — domineering older sister TRICIA, 33, meek middle sister MEG,28, and baby brother MATT, 22. Dr. Walters: So, your genetic tests reveal you all carry the CDMI gene for hereditary diffuse gastric cancer. Tricia: Dr. Smith’s taken tumors out of pretty much everyone on our mother’s side. Dr. Walters: Unfortunately, it’s a highly aggressive cancer. Tricia: Our family’s tree’s down to a branch. Dr. Walters: (concerned) How’s you Uncle Bud doing? Tricia: Dead. Dr. Walters: Aunt Helen? Tricia: Dead. Dr. Walters: What about the Minnesota cousin.... Meg: (triumphant) Not dead! Tricia: She’s ninety pounds and in a hospice, Meg. Meg: Still. Not dead yet. Dr. Walters: It says you’re all up to dat on your endoscopics, so that’s great — Tricia: So was Uncle Bud. A lot of good it did him. Dr. Walters: So you’ve decided you’re ready to take the next step. Tricia: We want to go to each other’s weddings, not funerals. We made a pact, we’re in this together Tricia takes Meg and Matt by the hands, nods, determined, almost excited by the prospect. Tricia: Take our stomachs out, Dr. Walters. Cut ‘em the hell out!! End Scene 1 ______________________________ Tricia - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - HALLWAY OUTSIDE THE SHELLEY’S ROOM – NIGHT Dr. Walters finds Tricia Shelley sitting in a wheelchair, watching Matt and Meg Shelley through the window eat dinner. Meg eats jello, Matt chows down on some fast food. Tricia: He loves a good cheeseburger, my brother. Always has. And when you get your stomach out, you can’t eat red meat anymore She shakes her head, angry and worried. Tricia: If he’s doing this because he doesn’t want to give up cheeseburgers .... Dr. Walters: I think it’s more than that. Tricia: Or football or girls or snowboarding, whatever the hell it is, it doesn’t matter. Not compared to the alternative. Dr. Walters: We’ll be as vigilant as we can. We’ll use every screening tool available. Tricia: That won’ be necessary. Matty’s gonna have the surgery. Dr. Walters: But I thought --- Tricia: Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but I will be on him like glue, to my dying breath, until he does. Dr. Walters: What if he just wants to be left alone. Tricia: You don’t leave the people you love alone, Dr. Walters. Tricia turns back to Matt, singularly focused, determined. Tricia: That idiot may not know it yet, but my fear is what’s going to save his life. End Scene 2 _____________________________ Matt - Scene 1 INT. HOSPITAL - THE SHELLEY’S ROOM – MORNING Dr. Walters does pre-op on MEG (28) and MATT (22) Shelley. She also hands them consent form. As they start to glance at them, eyes widening..... Matt: What is this? Dr. Walters: The possible complications and side effects of the surgery. So you’ll know what to expect. Matt: Malnourishment, weakness, fatigue .... dumping syndrome? Meg: Oh, that doesn’t sound good. Matt: Possible anal leakage?! Dr. Walters: It’s not like getting your appendix out. A gastrectomy is a serious life change. Matt: (starting to panic) But ... I’m president of my frat. I have a girlfriend, I snowboard, I ... I have an awesome life ... how am I supposed to live it, when I’m suddenly a weak old man with anal leakage. Meg: You know how important this is to Trish... Matt: She’s run our lives since we were little kids, she decides where we go to dinner, where we go on vacation, where we do Thanksgiving .... I’m twenty-two years old, if I don’t want to butcher myself, she can’t make me --- Tricia: So you’d rather die like Mom? They turn to find Tricia in a wheelchair. Matt: We have a one in four shot we won’t get it, that’s ..... something. Tricia: Don’t be stupid. You are doing this and — Matt: YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME ANYMORE! Tricia and Matt glare at each other, it’s a stand off. Finally Trish turns to Meg, who won’t meet her eyes. End Scene 1 __________________________ Matt - Scene 2 INT. HOSPITAL - THE SHELLEY’S ROOM – DAY Tricia recovers in bed, as Matt sits silently in corner. Tricia: See. Nothing to it, Matty. Matt doesn’t answer. Tricia sighs. Tricia: Don’t you remember how much pain Mom was in, at the end? Matt: No. Tears fill Tricia’s eyes. Tricia: You used to help me wet her lips with an ice cube, and you --- Matt: I don’t remember! I was two years old when Mom died. And I only know it was sad and horrible because you tell me all the time. And I don’t have nightmares about funerals and I don’t freak out and think it’s cancer every time I have indigestion...... you do. Tricia: Matt..... Matt: This curse, this disease .... it’s your fear. It’s not mine. Maybe one day it will be but .... let me decide when I’m scared, okay? As Tricia considers this ..... End Scene 2 __________________________ Episode 5.17 - I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Casting Sides - January 17, 2009 credit to crys @ Twop Beth - Dr. Smith sounds like Alex because of the wrestling and saying stuff like, "Relax. It's not like you crapped your pants or anything" but I don't believe he'd introduce himself to a patient as a seizure specialist. Sometimes they combine the lines of a few doctors into one in the sides and I think this may be the case. Dr. Smith is probably Alex and since this is a neuro case Derek. Although, if this is a crossover episode and Addison's brother is coming, isn't he some kind of specialist in that area too? Beth not wanting the other kids to know she isn't completely cured and saying that once people see you sick they don't see anything else sounds like it could parallel the situation with Izzie. Perhaps Izzie is denying or trying to hide the fact that she's sick and Alex may be upset that she's doing this and through Beth he'll understand why Izzie is behaving like that. Tricia/Matt/Meg - they all carry the gene for hereditary gastric cancer and have agreed to get a gastrectomy. This is for General so Bailey and/or Richard will be performing the surgery. In the Tricia sides, there's a scene where Tricia is watching Matt and Meg eating and Matt is refusing the surgery. Tricia is angry and worried that he's refusing the surgery because he doesn't want to give up certain things in his life even though the alternative (possible gastric cancer one day) is worse. Tricia is insistent that he'll get the surgery because she'll be on him until he does. Dr. Walters says maybe he just wants to be left alone and Tricia says you don't leave the people you love alone. I got the impression that Dr. Walters may be Izzie. Izzie may be refusing to get checked out to see what's wrong with her but Alex/Fab Five may be pressuring her. Ugh. I hope Izzie doesn't refuse getting some tests done or surgery. Although if she has been diagnosed already, Bailey/Chief probably wouldn't let her work. Or maybe this could be related to Owen/Cristina. He has a problem and maybe doesn't want to get help, wants to be left alone. Cristina loves him so she won't be able to leave him alone. Edited by oncetherewasaway, Jan 29 2009, 04:49 PM.


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