Dawson's Creek Season 2 Episode 19 Abby Morgan, Rest In Peace
Dawson's Creek Season 2 Episode 19 Abby Morgan, Rest In Peace
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00:00Yes, okay. This is not a tailgate party. It's a wedding. It's invitation only and you're being here
00:06It's gonna get us all in trouble. So please just leave jeez you might want to consider upping the dosage on those mood stabilizers
00:30I
00:39You sure this is a good idea, let's not analyze this
00:48You don't need to discuss this
01:00Okay
01:24Jim it's wrong
01:30Oh the talks and
01:41We were drinking
01:48She fell back and she
02:00I
02:06Missed it
02:30Oh
03:00It's just
03:30I
03:51Seems like a lifetime ago
03:54I'm gonna love that dress. I told her to take it back too expensive. So she went out and bought two of them just to spite me
04:09Why are you looking at this
04:15The school at my school died on Saturday night
04:19She drowned
04:21It's terrible you too close, I'm not particularly she's kind of a nightmare
04:30But it's
04:33Sort of got me thinking
04:37Remembering
04:42Never really talked about your mother
04:44I
05:14I
05:24I'm here today to facilitate a discussion about Abigail. I
05:31Know you've all been dealt a heavy blow
05:36but by sharing your feelings with each other it should aid in the long and
05:43Difficult process that we call grieving
05:49I'd like to make an announcement
05:51The Girls Service League is distributing yellow armbands that were wearing in honor of Abby's memory
05:57Anybody would like an armband, please meet me in the cafeteria at lunchtime
06:07Jennifer I
06:08Was told that you were a close friend of Abigail
06:13Would you like to talk about some of the feelings that you're experiencing?
06:19No
06:21That's perfectly, okay, I understand
06:29Andy
06:31Did you know Abigail
06:34Yeah, I did
06:37Can you talk about your feelings?
06:39I
06:44Guess I'm feeling shocked
06:49She was so incredibly alive and she had such a great spirit it's
06:57It's really a tragedy
07:05Jennifer
07:10I
07:12Thank you so much for honoring
07:19Doesn't I know we have a lot to talk about concerning the other night
07:33Great
07:39Boston the truth is I never really liked Abby
07:45You know, I actively despised her
07:53That she died is with the way she died is weird
08:00I'm not going
08:02Yeah
08:05That's the last funeral I went to as my mom's I
08:09Mean, I haven't even been to her grave side
08:11I think going to Abby's funeral just open this Pandora's box of emotions that frankly I'd rather keep still tight
08:19Sorry
08:21Your mother died three years ago
08:24She had these feelings you haven't dealt with how long you're planning on waiting
08:27I
08:31Don't know I
08:34Guess I'm just
08:36There's a part of me that's still holding
08:39You know that little girl inside is just waiting for her return
08:45her death was just this
08:48Cosmic air and
08:50eventually God will realize that he made a terrible mistake and I'll send her back to me like he did my dad and
08:57And on my mom again
09:02I know I sounds ridiculous
09:09But I mean, it's it's a child's false. Hope but she can have to let it go
09:18You know, I don't want to let it go
09:26You don't know what it's like
09:46I'm looking all over for you. You just stormed out of class. Are you okay?
09:50Like dealing with Abby's death isn't hard enough
09:54But don't watch everybody parade around acting like like Abby was their best friend it's sickening
10:03Aside from me Abby didn't have a single friend in Cape Side. Well, that's because she was a bitch
10:10Come on, and you say it Abby was a bitch
10:14Why wouldn't go that far yeah, we would have three days ago
10:19But now that she's dead you wax poetic about her great spirit, it's so insincere
10:24Well, I don't think it's appropriate to malign her character after she's gone. It isn't maligning if it's true
10:31Believe me. It would have been easier for everybody if Abby had just been this wonderful person with these
10:37Virtuous qualities, but she wasn't she was mean
10:41And the least that we can do is acknowledge who she really was
10:49I am sick and tired of everybody treating me like I'm some kind of celebrity just because I happen to be at the scene of
10:55the crime
10:57It's funny have you spent her entire life
11:01Shattering our fragile egos, and that's why people disliked her so intensely
11:05Leave it to Abby even in her death. She's still exposing hypocrisy
11:09I feel bad, but I tried to reach out to her and every time she rejected she rejected you
11:15If you hadn't rejected her at the wedding none of this ever would have happened
11:20What you kicked us out of the wedding Andy? That's why we were at the docks in the first place
11:26See that
11:29Okay
11:39Oh
11:41Hi, honey
11:43So how was school weird
11:47Everybody's playing the dutiful warners, but underneath this is
11:51Odd since they're all munchkins finally freed from the stone
11:57Honey I know you're dealing with a lot right now, but I have some news I have to share with you
12:03Sounds serious. No. No, it's it's not bad news. It's good news
12:08Austin do you remember that piece I did on the teenage girls? Yeah
12:12Well, I won the Peel Vision Award for excellence and news broadcasting
12:21That's not the news the news is because of the award I've been offered a job as a network correspondent
12:29It's a lot of money. It's high-profile. It's
12:34It's in Philadelphia
12:37Oh
12:40Are you gonna take it
12:43Professionally, it's a huge leap for me. It's
12:46It's what I've always worked for
12:49Oh, I completely understand that you're halfway through high school
12:53No, I do not want to uproot you if I took this job. I assume your father would move back in and I
13:02Would come home as often as I could
13:06Oh
13:09Boy by you and daddy, it's just throwing in the towel. It's the last thing I want
13:16But I'm hitting my head against the wall here honey your father doesn't seem to have any interest in making things work
13:23So if I do walk away from this career opportunity and I still lose my marriage
13:30What do I have
13:33I still have me
13:46Jennifer I'm worried about you. Don't be I'm just tired
13:52You know, I can't say I was particularly fond of your friend Abby I always had a distinct impression that she was mocking me
14:02She was wasn't she?
14:05Don't take it personally grams. Abby was mocking everyone
14:10But she was your friend
14:14So hard to understand why God would take someone so young with so much left to learn so much to give it
14:22Really tests one's faith
14:25Lucky me. I didn't have any faith to begin with
14:28Just rest assured God may work in mysterious ways, but he has a plan
14:36Well, if God had a plan for Abby she certainly wasn't following it
14:40God has a plan for all of us
14:42including Abby
14:44Including you I don't want to have a religious discussion right now
14:49It's time. It's like this. Please. Okay
14:57But I'm here for you whenever you need me
15:08I can't believe the general accuse you of being responsible
15:12She was drunk. She fell she drowned and the story is nobody's fault least of all yours
15:23Oh, come on you gotta be kidding
15:28Abby Morgan was one of the most hideous creatures to ever haunt the streets of Cape side and you bent over backwards to befriend
15:37You really shouldn't be taking this that hard Andy. Don't tell me how I should be feeling
15:41I mean if I'm upset then I'm upset if I feel guilty then I feel guilty. I think those are perfectly valid feelings
15:48All right. I'm sorry. I just don't like seeing you like this. Okay
15:57Oh
16:11Yes, mrs. Morgan, I'm Andy McPhee you drove me home once. Oh, that's right. You're a friend of Abby's
16:19She talked a lot about you
16:23She did Oh
16:26This is Morgan, I'm so sorry
16:32Will you be coming to the funeral
16:35Yeah, of course, of course. I will. Oh, you know, no one's offered to to give a eulogy and
16:44I'm not really familiar with any of her other school friends. You will be saying a few words about her. Won't you?
16:51What?
16:52She was so fond of you
16:56Sure
17:01Sure
17:05Thank you
17:11You
17:14You
17:22Don't have to deliver this eulogy
17:24You just lay low and tell Abby's mother that you're too upset
17:27No, I have to find a way to honor Abby's memory both truthfully and respectfully
17:34Her family deserves that much
17:37I'll always remember the nice things that people said at my brother's funeral
17:44You
17:48Okay
17:51Just occurred to me that I've never even seen her house
17:56So pretty
18:00I'd be expecting this gothic castle, you know, the gargoyles leering down on you from the spires
18:13Okay
18:17Explain to me again exactly what this is going to accomplish besides just making you more freaked out. I
18:23Just want to see her room, you know where she brushed her hair
18:28and her future
18:31Why?
18:33Look, we'll just give our condolences and slip into her room
18:43Oh
19:10What if Abby's mother saw us come in here together
19:14Oh
19:15Everything's I'm trying to get lucky in the middle of her daughter's memorial. Oh
19:22This is really strange it's almost like the rooms waiting for her to come back. This is really creepy Andy. Can we go please?
19:32Wait a minute
19:35Sir diary
19:37You know the real thoughts of any girl why within the confines of her personal time
19:41I want people's privacy deserves to be respected even in death
19:45I'm not doing this to satisfy my curiosity PC. I'm doing this for Abby. I
19:50Want to be able to give her a eulogy that does justice to her character
20:00Dear diary
20:03Another unbelievably annoying day here on Walton's Mountain
20:08Slut Jen Linley literally stole my new boyfriend and right out from under my nose
20:15She's a bleached blonde horseback
20:19She's probably just having a bad day
20:23Okay
20:25dear diary
20:26My mother is driving me insane. I hate her so much. I must be adopted
20:31There's no way that I can share the same genes with that dried-up old wench. Just another bad day, right?
20:42Okay, dear diary that new girl Andy is such a psycho
20:47How many ways can you tell a person you don't like them? What she just won't take a hint
20:53God and that boyfriend of hers is a
20:55You know what I don't want to know I don't want to hear it now, please
21:09Dawson I was just thinking about you
21:12You
21:21Know when I was young my first few experiences with death were shocking
21:30Well as I get older it doesn't get any easier but it does
21:34Kind of help you put your life into perspective
21:37Make sure you realize you have to grab on to the people you love and never let go
21:47Mama's offered a job as a network correspondent
21:58Say well, I'll call her and
22:04That's it
22:06You're gonna call up say congratulations and then just let her walk out of your life
22:14Grab on to those you love
22:28So, uh George
22:33You know, I've tried biting my tongue but
22:37The $64,000 question has to be asked what's up with you and Dawson?
22:45Nothing
22:46Yeah, nothing. You two shared a pretty conspicuous non-nothing kiss the other night
22:53Yeah, or putting it on
22:56You have enough to deal with without adding our complicated relationship to the mix. Oh
23:06You feel it was
23:13Okay, and obviously have a lot of my mind lately
23:21How are you feeling about this whole thing I
23:27Know I know this sounds a little morbid, but I can't stop thinking about the fact that
23:34Abby and I kissed at Dawson's birthday party, which means I am probably the last person she ever kissed
23:42She went out with a bang
23:45Oh
23:58You know what I'm sorry if I threaten you and your safety net I mean and contrary to popular belief
24:05I am NOT trying to ruin your life
24:14I
24:19Don't know really
24:23Mrs. Morgan asked me to give a eulogy extolling Abby's virtues
24:29At least be glowingly better go to school and broomstick
24:35It's just so frustrating Dawson
24:37I'm trying so hard to set it to straights for Andy, but I got no control over things like this
24:45Don't you mean
24:48It's why I'm here
24:51It must be kind of a surreal experience editing a movie in which one of your leading ladies is no longer
25:02Contrary to popular belief I did not come here to ruin your life and I am trying so hard not to do that
25:07I
25:27Perfect timing dinner's almost ready
25:30Jennifer have you been drinking again? Not only have I been drinking but I am drunk out of my mind
25:39Jennifer don't do this to yourself. Don't mask your grief with alcohol
25:44Try to feel your pain. This drinking will only make things worse
25:49Worse. Oh, come on worse than what?
25:52Think of the good times you shared with Abby she was so happy
25:57Think of the good times you shared with Abby. She'd want you to remember her that well, then y'all
26:03He didn't know Abby too. Well because Abby is probably down there with
26:08Beelzebub
26:09Doing tequila shooters and laughing at all of us. You have to believe that Abby is in God's hands
26:17He has a special place in his kingdom for the children
26:22really
26:24God's got a five bedroom beach condo in Maui for dead kids
26:30Jennifer cut for the last time grams
26:32There is no God and there is no heaven and there is no peace and there is no hope the only
26:39Truth that I know is pain
26:41So you can just keep your Sunday school fables to yourself because they make me puke
26:48Does it give you so much pleasure to shock and offend me I am trying to be
26:53Understanding but you insist on disobeying my rules and polluting my house with your disrespectful
26:59But I guess you're finally sick of me, huh? I
27:03Guess your infinite patience and compassion aren't as infinite as we thought
27:08You know if I can't just just be myself and just speak my mind. Maybe I should just move out
27:16Jennifer
27:22You
27:48Are you thinking about
27:53I've been trying to remember mom. I can't get a clear picture of her in my head
28:04It's the scariest thing it's like she's
28:10Slowly fading away
28:16Do you know what I mean
28:22I
28:30Missed your mother
28:33Was combined with the guilt was almost too much for me
28:38But I look at you I
28:41Don't know she's still here
28:45You are so like your mother Joey
28:49She was tough
28:53Independent
28:59In the exact same ways you're funny
29:03Stubborn oh
29:05She was stubborn
29:08Tell her the sky was blue. She would say it was green
29:14She's not gone
29:17She lives on in you
29:20Oh
29:30It's only a few hours till the funeral and I have no idea what I'm gonna say make something up
29:36Tell them that Abby was a wonderful person. She'll be deeply missed blah blah blah blah blah. Why you want me to lie?
29:44You tell the truth she was a hideous abomination in the world is better off without her I
29:50And watch her mother have a heart attack and collapse into the aisle. Oh
29:55God you see what am I gonna do?
29:59I'll get the speech
30:00You do that for me
30:02Andy I would do anything to keep you from having a nervous breakdown
30:06I'm not about to have a nervous breakdown. Well. I'm about to have a nervous breakdown just living vicariously through you so
30:13seriously
30:19Look PC. I know what it's like to care deeply about someone who has
30:25The propensity to become mentally unhinged and I don't want to be that to you Andy
30:30What am I supposed to do just sit back and watch you agonize if you're in distress?
30:34How can I help but to come to your rescue?
30:36Well if I'm drowning in the ocean, yes, throw me a lifeline
30:41But don't let our roles become permanently etched in stone
30:45I mean me the helpless lunatic and you the hero on horseback. I
30:50Need to take care of myself
30:56I'm gonna deliver this speech
31:10Oh
31:22Hey see I'm gonna do this even if it kills me I guess we could just slip you in the coffin without me
31:32Stroke
31:40I
32:10Do hope we can avoid ugly scenes like last night
32:22I'm looking for your forgiveness grams. I'm looking for your understanding
32:29And that's something that you've never been able to provide
32:34Seems there's nothing I can say
32:40We are here today
32:42to remember the life of Abigail Morgan
32:46But before we begin I
32:48Would like to invite those of you who wish to share your memories of Abby to come forward at this time
33:10I
33:40My name's Jen Linley and I was friends with Abby as
33:49Much as anybody could be because Abby had a toxic personality that bordered on radioactive
33:58Abby could be cruel and Abby could be spiteful and Abby could certainly be petty
34:03She
34:08Spent her days mischievously stirring up trouble and
34:13Creating calamity and generally taking pleasure in other people's pain
34:21You know in Sunday school they teach us that God made man in his image
34:27Well, if God made Abby in his own image then what does that say about God
34:34I
34:36Was always been such a mystery to me. I mean
34:38What sort of deity creates a world that is so full of suffering and is so full of tragedy?
34:49Tell you what Abby taught me a lot
34:52That girl taught me how to do a tequila shooter with one hand behind my back
34:58and
34:59She taught me how to live my life
35:01according to my own set of values and
35:05Not to just follow the crowd in hopes of winning some phantom popularity contest
35:11but most of all
35:13What's most important is that Abby taught me the sadistic nature of our God and while that knowledge is disturbing
35:21It's true and it's real and in a world that is so saturated with phoniness and with lies
35:29For that small amount for that little bit of honesty. I will always be grateful to her
35:59I
36:29I
36:59There are people who give me comfort in my life
37:06When the going gets rough as it invariably does I
37:11Can count on them as a shoulder to cry on?
37:16And they will pick me up when I fall and hold me in their arms as I cry and tell me that everything is going
37:22to be all right, I
37:25Am so thankful for these people they are priceless
37:32But there's another group of people just as important and just as priceless
37:40They are the people who challenged me
37:44Who pushed me to my breaking points and
37:49Who forced me to muster courage? I never thought I had
37:53Abby Morgan was one of those people
37:58In her own truth-telling way she gave me strength
38:06I'm a stronger woman because of her stronger than I ever thought that I could be
38:13She gave me that gift she was one of a kind
38:17And
38:20There's no one like her and she will always hold a special spot in my heart
38:47I
39:17I
39:37Was editing my movie yesterday
39:39I
39:42Skipped I'm watching Abby's footage over and over and it hit me just how fleeting like this
39:51You know and I
39:55Realized I
39:57Don't want to die with unlived life in my veins. I
40:01Don't want to go to my grave regretting what could have been if I'd only taken action and maybe
40:06This is the wrong time to say this to you, but Joey I
40:12Am so happy about what happened between us the other night
40:22They could just keep on talking until you say something but usually the more I talk the more chances there I'm gonna screw up so
40:36I
40:47Right now I have to go to some place
40:56Thank you could walk me there absolutely
41:06You know, I have to admit you have had me worried these last few days we see
41:13But as per usual you managed to pull it off the flying colors. I
41:19Think I needed this whole experience. You see it just brought me closer to Tim
41:32I'm gonna go
41:35I
41:51Cannot apologize enough
41:56Abby's death wasn't your fault. It was mine
42:01I
42:04Invited her out. I got her drunk. I
42:09Could have saved her
42:11No, Jen, you did everything you could and the water was rough. The current was I saw her in the water
42:21So scared
42:30Because I'm weak because I can't just accept the blame I had to deflect it on to everybody else on to
42:38Capeside unto you under
42:40my grams a
42:43Go under speech that speech. Oh, what's I thinking? Huh?
42:57I'm a people pleaser
43:01And sometimes in order to succeed in that you have to be phony
43:07Abby was the exact opposite
43:11She put her truth above everything and that's what you did. It was a memorial for Abby and
43:19You were just being truthful to her spirit. Sometimes I just don't think it's appropriate to speak your truth
43:28I
43:38Be kept a diary
43:41It was pretty nasty
43:43And from home finds that she's gonna be devastated
43:57Oh
44:27Knows
44:39It's just
44:42Jim
45:09Maybe
45:11Come along
45:30Wherever she is, she's happy
45:41Down on you
45:53Show me
46:11I
46:31Went to that funeral today to try to give you some support
46:35And to try to rectify some of the damage in our fragile relationship
46:40Only to find you heartlessly thumbing your nose at me in the house of God no less
46:46Friends that speech wasn't for you. That was for Abby
46:51And I regret it. I do
46:56And and I know that it was wrong and
47:00And I'm sorry that I offended your beliefs this is not about my beliefs or free speech or any other
47:07Philosophical nonsense. This is about the truth
47:10And the truth is you deliberately tried to wound me in that chapel
47:14You decided to take out all your pain and rage at the world on me
47:20You want understanding? How about a little understanding in return?
47:24How about a little compassion for me not just for my beliefs, but for me?
47:29Your grandmother who loves you who would do anything for you who would die for you?
47:33Wait, where am I? Wait a minute. Just listen. You should be living with someone else someone you respect and clearly
47:40I am NOT that person
47:43All the time you waste rebelling against me is getting you nowhere
47:49So while it pains me more than you will ever know Jennifer I want you to move out
47:54Find somewhere else to live
48:24Oh
48:54You
49:24You
49:54You