- Principal Patterson: Sheriff Corbin.
- Sheriff Corbin: Yes?
- Principal Patterson: What brings you by?
- Sheriff Corbin: Cut the crap, Patterson. I'm here on business. My deputy got wind that some of the students got some death threats in their lockers.
- Principal Patterson: Your deputy?
- Sheriff Corbin: Yeah, Karl Clements.
- Principal Patterson: Jaclyn's boyfriend. She and a few of her friends found these.
- Sheriff Corbin: These friends, are they the same kids who killed my boy? Don't you think that's something I ought to know about?
- Principal Patterson: Sheriff, Billy was a hell of a kid, and probably would've been the best damn quarterback this town has seen in 15 years, we were all broken up about it, and if I could have expelled those students permanently, I would have.
- Sheriff Corbin: Look, Patterson, I don't want to hear about your failed ass attempts. Those kids are the reason my wife has spent the last three years in the nuthouse: she barely eats, sleeps, or says two words.
- Principal Patterson: I feel for you, Sheriff, I'm not sure what it is you want me to do.
- Sheriff Corbin: I don't want you to do anything, but I want something I can use to take action against those kids.
- Principal Patterson: Well those kids didn't just simply plant those notes in those lockers themselves, and I can't go around accusing my students without some sort of...
- Sheriff Corbin: Well that's fine, you just sit here in your cozy little office and play innocent, but if you're not gonna do anything about them, I will.
- Principal Patterson: Well kids, I just don't know what to make of this. Maybe some kind of practical joke.
- Steve Stein: Who would pull a prank like this?
- Principal Patterson: You tell me, Steve, maybe one of the theater students. You guys were responsible for the loss of half the costumes.
- Steve Stein: 3 years ago! You really think some theater geek is still pissed at us after all this time?
- Principal Patterson: Theater students have a flair for being dramatic, don't they?
- Wade Scott: Principal Patterson, I don't think this is funny.
- Principal Patterson: Neither do I, Wade, I'm just not quite sure what to do about it.
- Jaclyn Baker: You can start by calling the cops.
- Principal Patterson: Whoa, Jaclyn, no need to do anything rash. No need to get the police involved. Look, can you think of anyone who might have a reason to do this?
- [no one answers]
- Principal Patterson: Alright, now until there's a reason to think otherwise, we must assume this is a practical joke. There's no evidence these are actual threats.
- Loren Gregory: God, Nora is such a brat these days.
- Steve Stein: Oh come on, like she said, she learned from the best.
- Loren Gregory: Real funny, jerk-o.
- Loren Gregory: Smoking kills, didn't you hear?
- Nora Stanley: Ha! Gee, and this from the one who got me started.
- Loren Gregory: I can't believe the school's throwing homecoming in the old gym. Of all the shitty ways to save a penny.
- Cassie Herron: Come on, Loren, just be glad we're finally in high school and can actually go this year.
- Nora Stanley: So it was your lame idea to come to this shit-ass porta-potty of a party?
- Jaclyn Baker: Wasn't it Annie's sophomore boy toy that had this brilliant idea?
- Cassie Herron: Look at us, I miss this. I feel like I haven't seen any of you in ages. Can you actually believe we're seniors?
- Jaclyn Baker: I know, insane, but it's sad at the same time, because we all failed so hard at being friends.
- Loren Gregory: We should make more of an effort to get together, Steve would like that too.
- Cassie Herron: What about Annie? How is she?
- Jaclyn Baker: Oh please, she wouldn't even return your call if you were on your deathbed.
- Loren Gregory: She's the same pretty much up and down.
- Nora Stanley: Yeah and I imagine the remarkable return of homecoming has really helped her healing process.
- Jaclyn Baker: Well I don't blame her, I mean I've been a ball of nerves myself too. I even puked before school this morning.
- Cheryl: [checking themselves in the mirror after gym class] God wasn't being fair when he made me, was He?
- Darcy: No way, me either, right?
- Cheryl: You're alright, Darcy, a little chubs these days,
- [looks at Nora jiggling in her underwear]
- Cheryl: of course you're not half as chubs as...
- Cassie Herron: Stuff a pom pom in it, Cheryl.
- Cheryl: So sweet, Cassie finally returns to her repulsive roots in Booville.
- Mrs. Patterson: Wake up, Mr. Mathis, we stopped giving naps after kindergarten. I'd hate to see you miss graduation, *again*.
- Loren Gregory: [finds a bloody note in her locker] Jesus! What the hell?
- Jaclyn Baker: Happy Homecoming?
- Cassie Herron: Major creepage, I didn't realize Steve was so morbidly romantic.
- Nora Stanley: [holds up a matching note from her own locker] He's not.
- [the others run to their lockers to find more notes]
- Jaclyn Baker: [after Principal Patterson blows off their threatening notes] What an asshole, so what now?
- Cassie Herron: You guys, I'm totally freaking out now, I mean do you really think we're safe here?
- Wade Scott: Of course we're safe here, Cassie, I mean safety in numbers, right?
- Jaclyn Baker: Well I know I'll feel a lot safer if my man is patrolling the dance floor tonight.
- Wade Scott: Patterson said not to call the police.
- Jaclyn Baker: Look, if I want to call my man, I will.
- Nora Stanley: But wait, what about Annie?
- Robby: It's kind of weird she didn't get a note.
- Steve Stein: What did Billy do to her?
- Loren Gregory: Nothing yet, but he tried.
- Annie Morgan: Guys, I just want to go home!
- Wade Scott: Look, just give me the keys, I'll go talk to him.
- Loren Gregory: No.
- Wade Scott: You can't just leave him locked in the closet.
- Loren Gregory: Watch me
- Janitor Fred: [hears Nora and Robby in the janitor's closet] Damn kids.
- [pounds on door]
- Janitor Fred: Condoms off, clothes on, get the hell out of there!
- Nora Stanley: [runs out] Sorry, Fred.
- Robby: Sorry, Fred, old buddy, and if anyone asks, we were never here, alright?
- Nora Stanley: Can anyone say 'serial killer'?
- Nora Stanley: I swear one of these days I'm gonna beat Cheryl's ass.
- Jaclyn Baker: I want a front row seat.
- Cassie Herron: [Loren and Annie return to the party] Loren, truth or dare?
- Loren Gregory: Dare, Billy's a major prick.
- Steve Stein: [everyone sees Annie's disheveled state] Holy shit, what happened in there?
- Jaclyn Baker: Are you guys okay?
- Mrs. Patterson: Isn't it wonderful? We're all finally having ourselves a real homecoming here again.
- Miss Russell: No, I think it's a huge mistake.
- Nora Stanley: [sees a firefighter suit in the closet] Whoa, is that Janitor Fred's?
- Robby: [puts on helmet] Hey, I'm Fred the Fireman!
- Annie Morgan: [Billy has candles lit and champagne in the janitor's closet] Geez, Billy, where'd all this come from?
- Billy Corbin: My brother, he hooked me... hooked *us* up for our one month anniversary.
- Annie Morgan: That's really sweet, but come on, one month isn't much to celebrate.
- Billy Corbin: Are you kidding me? This has been the happiest month of my entire life.
- [moves to kiss her, Annie turns away]
- Billy Corbin: What's wrong?
- Annie Morgan: Nothing. I mean, I've had a lot of fun with you too, just I'm not ready for... you know.
- Billy Corbin: For what?
- Annie Morgan: For that thing in your pants pressed against me right now. And just, you know, we're both really young, and we have plenty of time, so we should just...
- Billy Corbin: I know exactly, we *are* young so we should take advantage of every moment that we have.
- Annie Morgan: Billy, I said no, okay?
- Billy Corbin: Annie, I know you want to.
- Annie Morgan: Come on, a little petting once in a while is fine, but you are drunk. Can we just go back to the party?
- Billy Corbin: You know, Annie, you can be such a ripe little tease sometimes.
- Annie Morgan: And you can be a ripe asshole.
- Billy Corbin: You know what? If you're gonna be a little bitch like that, I've got a real woman out there that's waiting to give it up to me.
- Annie Morgan: Go for it, now get your slimy hands off of me.
- Billy Corbin: What is your problem? You know how much all of this cost?
- Annie Morgan: I'm sorry.
- Billy Corbin: You know what? I think you need to be taught a lesson.
- [slams Annie into the wall and forcibly gropes her]
- Principal Patterson: What's going on out here?
- Steve Stein: Oh shit.
- Mrs. Patterson: Shouldn't you all be at the dance?
- Loren Gregory: Those asshole senior linemen wouldn't let us into the dance, Principal Patterson.
- Loren Gregory: Hey, what're you doing tonight?
- Jaclyn Baker: Karl's off in a few so I'll probably just head over to the station.
- Steve Stein: Surprise surprise.
- Jaclyn Baker: Oh come on, it's not like you two aren't up each other's butts 24/7 too, okay?
- Steve Stein: Vulgar, true, but vulgar.
- Loren Gregory: So is Karl coming to the dance tomorrow night?
- Jaclyn Baker: Are you kidding me? He wouldn't be caught dead back in this place, I mean plus he's on duty.
- Annie Morgan: I don't know, I don't think this is such a good idea.
- Loren Gregory: Actually it's a great idea. Good job, Billy, maybe you're not as much of a dry spot as I thought you were.
- Billy Corbin: Thanks... I think.
- Mrs. Patterson: Perhaps you'd like to give your thoughts on the narrative position of "Oroonoko"?
- Loren Gregory: Oh uh, the narrator inherits her stature from her ancestors without choice, Behn doesn't want to discriminate against Oroonoko because she knows he's her equal even though he's a slave. Behn has to stay in her place to keep things status quo.
- Mrs. Patterson: Well put, Loren. Now can anyone think of modern day parallels to this view?
- [no one answers]
- Mrs. Patterson: Well, high school is one with a plethora or viewpoints from ethnicity, to gender, to something as intimate as who we fall in love with. In Oroonoko, Behn unveils that it is within our nature to set boundaries on ourselves, because they ultimately help us survive.
- Steve Stein: Well we're gonna have to cheers to something.
- Wade Scott: How about to old friends?
- Cassie Herron: And new beginnings.
- Jaclyn Baker: To our last homecoming.
- Loren Gregory: And surviving the night.
- [clink glasses]
- Steve Stein: So why'd you look so spooked when you got to class?
- Loren Gregory: Oh, nothing, Fred startled me.
- Jaclyn Baker: Ew, that pervy janitor?
- Nora Stanley: Custodial engineer.
- Steve Stein: Wait, did he touch you?
- Loren Gregory: No, Steve, he just startled me.
- Jaclyn Baker: Steve, don't be a hater, Fred's a goodie-goodie.
- Steve Stein: What do you mean?
- Nora Stanley: Apparently he's a volunteer firefighter on the weekends? I saw his getup in the janitorial closet.
- Steve Stein: What were you doing in the custodian closet?
- Nora Stanley: Oh I was doing, Robby, in there, while you dweebs were hall decorating.
- Mrs. Patterson: [sees the threatening notes] What're those?
- Principal Patterson: Oh, some prankster put them in all those lockers of the kids responsible for that Billy Corbin mess.
- Mrs. Patterson: Mess? Dan, we lost a student.
- Principal Patterson: I know, and it's been a real mess I've had to deal with ever since. You've no idea how much money this school lost, not only in property-code violations, but also in losing that Corbin kid too. He had the best damn arm in the state.
- Mrs. Patterson: I heard his father stopped by today.
- Principal Patterson: He got word of those notes.
- Mrs. Patterson: Do they have any idea who did it?
- Principal Patterson: He thinks one of those kids did it. I can't say I blame him. They ruined this town and got away without so much as a scratch.
- Mrs. Patterson: Well it's in the past, what's done is done, we just have to let it go, right?
- Principal Patterson: Try telling that to Corbin. He thinks all this is gonna send his wife screaming back to the nuthouse. Hell, probably better than living with that nightmare of a man.
- Mrs. Patterson: Dan, that's a terrible thing to say. Poor Vivian, I mean she lost a son. I can only imagine what it's like to lose a child.
- Principal Patterson: [bitterly] Since you were never able to have them, that sounds about right.
- Wade Scott: [comes face to face with the killer dressed as a fireman] Is this some kind of joke?
- [sees the sharpened baton]
- Wade Scott: Oh you're the jackass who stole the spirit baton from the senior class. Hand it over.
- [the killer tries to impale him with it, Wade ducks out of the way]
- Wade Scott: What the hell, man?
- Cheryl: [as Cassie's about to be crowned] Time to crown the biggest whore.
- Jaclyn Baker: Cheryl, you weren't even *nominated*.
- [Cheryl glares at her]
- Jaclyn Baker: Oh go ahead, girlfriend, 'cuz after the day I've had, I would *love* for somebody to throw the first punch.
- Mrs. Patterson: [Loren's tied up, surrounded by the principal and her dead friends, as she screams for help the killer arrives and unmasks] You're wasting your breath, Loren.
- Loren Gregory: Mrs. Patterson?
- Mrs. Patterson: [takes off the fire gear] I don't know what happened to that bratty friend, Jaclyn, I can't seem to find her again. But your little Steve, he's just a wet spot under the bleachers. I suppose I could have mopped him up and put him in a little bucket to join you, but really, I am just so exhausted. You kids put up way more of a fight that I expected.
- [Loren cries]
- Mrs. Patterson: Aw, don't do that. It's so pathetic.
- Loren Gregory: But why are you doing this? I don't understand!
- Mrs. Patterson: What don't you understand, Loren?
- Loren Gregory: Why would you do this? You were always so nice.
- Mrs. Patterson: Yes, I *am* nice, Loren! And look where it's gotten me, teaching literature at this low-brow, small-town high school, under the supervision of that manipulative bastard husband who cheats on me every chance he gets. But he's finally gonna get what he deserves tonight.
- Loren Gregory: But my friends, we didn't do anything to you!
- Mrs. Patterson: Of course you did. What, you think this was all for nothing, that I'm just some psychopathic lunatic?
- Loren Gregory: W-what did we do?
- Mrs. Patterson: You... took, my Billy away.
- Loren Gregory: What are you talking about?
- Mrs. Patterson: Is that so hard to believe that Billy Corbin could want a disgusting old hag like me? Because he did, and he had me too.
- Loren Gregory: You and Billy were screwing?
- Mrs. Patterson: Is that such an outlandish concept for a teacher to be screwing her student? I don't think it's unheard of.
- [turns to her husband who's also tied and gagged]
- Mrs. Patterson: Do you, dear?
- Loren Gregory: But you're married to him!
- Mrs. Patterson: That disgusting excuse for a human being? Dan... Dan! He was never married to me, he was married to his career. But Billy, Billy was different, he was Godsent, failing class, needed tutoring, one thing led to another, it was so beautiful... and then *she* came along. Sweet, beautiful, innocent Annie Morgan, she became all he ever talked about. Everybody just *loved* Annie. What a disgusting little creature, and *you*, her best friend, her biggest accomplice. I know what you did, Loren! I know you're more responsible for Billy's death than anyone!
- Loren Gregory: He was going to *rape* her! I didn't mean to kill him. If I hadn't locked him in that closet, he would have attacked us. He wasn't a good person, Mrs. Patterson, he was probably just using you to get good grades, just like he used everyone else to get what he wanted.
- Mrs. Patterson: [slaps Loren] That's a lie! He loved me, I know he did!
- Loren Gregory: Billy Corbin didn't love anyone but himself, and you know it!
- Mrs. Patterson: [draws back] Well, it doesn't really matter anymore, does it? Cuz Billy's gone, and just a short time, you will be too. You and your little friends are gonna burn, just like you did to my Billy.
- [pours gasoline on Loren, her husband, and all the dead bodies, lights a match]
- Mrs. Patterson: Any last words, Loren?
- Loren Gregory: [defiant] Go to hell.
- Mrs. Patterson: You first.
- Jaclyn Baker: Hey, I think I know who put those letters in our lockers.
- Loren Gregory: Who?
- [Jaclyn nods to Mathis]
- Loren Gregory: Really?
- Jaclyn Baker: I know he did, he's still pissed at us about Billy, Karl told me.
- Steve Stein: But how would he have gotten into our lockers?
- Jaclyn Baker: I don't know, but he gets to school early for extra football practice, so he has time to do it.
- Loren Gregory: It makes sense.
- Jaclyn Baker: Hey, I'm headed over to the field now, can you come meet me there?
- Karl Clements: I can't right now, I'm working.
- Jaclyn Baker: You told me you were patrolling the school grounds tonight.
- Karl Clements: And I am, but our sheriff is MIA at the moment, so I've got some other things that I need to get done first.
- Jaclyn Baker: So what? You're just gonna have me walk through that parking lot all by myself in the dark after Annie not showing up today and those creepy notes in our lockers?