[She Walks on Me by Hole plays on stereo]
[mouthing words]
[music stops]
[man on TV] ...would maybe be afraid 'cause there's so many heavy guitar bands?
No, I think I've been playing music long enough
to realize that if I'm having fun, that's the only right way and...
[Sara and Phoebe laughing]
[Bjork on TV] ...not to be to worried
-about people's preconceptions, you know? -[laughter continues]
[sighs]
It's like a bonus if they like it, you know?
[laughter continues]
[laughter stops]
[laughter continues]
[sighs]
[Phoebe] It's hot in here. [laughs]
[The Scratch by 7 Year Bitch plays on stereo]
[Sara and Phoebe laughing]
[volume increases]
[banging on wall]
[volume increases]
[banging on wall]
Turn the music down!
-Get out of my room! Get out! -Don't touch me! Jesus!
I just asked you to turn the music down, you don't need to throw a tantrum!
You started it by breaking into my room!
See, this is why we don't wanna hang out with you, you're a baby!
-Sara! -Take it back!
-Get off me, you psycho! Mom! -Take back what you said!
What the hell is going... [gasps] No! Stop! Oh, my God. Are you okay?
-Get in your room! -[Simone] Let's get you some ice.
Stay in here until you calm down.
[door closes]
[sighs]
[Volcano Girls by Veruca Salt plays on stereo]
[water running]
[Sara] I wish I was going to Phoebe's school.
[Simone] Well, as someone who barely speaks a word of French,
I doubt you'd thrive in a French immersion school.
[Sara] Well, at least I'd have a friend there.
[Simone] You have your sister.
[Sara] She's not my friend.
Hey.
Hey. You're not ready?
You cannot be late on your first day of school.
Relax, I still have time.
You wanna find a new way to say that to me?
I'll be ready, Mommy.
So much better.
At least now people will be able to tell us apart.
Hey, guys, I am back on nights, and Patrick has hockey,
so you're on your own every night this week.
I expect you to take care of yourselves and each other, okay?
[Sara] But I'm going to Phoebe's after school today.
[Simone] So take your sister.
[sighs]
[Patrick] Okay, if you want a ride to the bus stop,
train's leaving the station.
-Shit! -Aah! Don't hit me!
Oh, you're so funny.
[Patrick coughs]
How about some music?
[No Surrender by Bruce Springsteen plays on radio]
Oh. [chuckles]
♪ Close your eyes and follow your dreams now ♪
♪ Well, we made a promise we swore we'd always remember ♪
[indistinct chatter]
[Souvlaki Space Station by Slowdive plays]
[indistinct chatter]
[female student] Next.
Name.
-Sara Quin. -Tegan Quin.
Are you guys twins?
-No. -Yes.
Hey.
What?
Look, I know that you're mad at me, but we don't know anybody here.
Don't you think we should at least have each other?
I don't want to share everything with you. Just leave me alone.
[sighs]
[indistinct chatter]
Hey, you gotta move so I can sit next to my friend.
There's a seat right there.
[Tyler] So move.
I think you and your friend will survive being apart for 42 minutes.
I'll survive just fine. It's you I'm worried about.
Fine.
-[Tyler] Thanks, freak. -[students laugh]
[school bell rings]
[teacher] All right, class, everyone settle down, please.
Welcome to English Ten.
[indistinct chatter]
Oh, my God. Hi.
Hi.
[girl] You went to Parkview Elementary, right?
No.
[girl] Oh, sorry.
[Souvlaki Space Station by Slowdive plays]
[ticking]
[ticking louder]
[school bell rings]
[indistinct chatter]
[engine starts]
You're in my seat again. It's becoming a problem.
Why don't you make a list of all the things that belong to you
so we can stop meeting like this?
You're making this way harder on yourself.
What's the problem, Tyler?
Uh... nothing. We were just talking.
[Maya] Well, can you have your girl talk
when there aren't 50 goddamn people trying to get on the bus?
[Tyler] Yeah. Sorry.
Hey.
You know, you don't have to come to Phoebe's.
But Mom said...
Mom's not even home. She won't know.
I just feel like you'd be bored anyway.
Yeah, well, I'd rather go home.
Okay. See ya.
See ya.
[Simone] Girls, come in here.
Tell me about your first day.
-Hey. -Hi.
What are you doing here?
I had a great day. Thank you for asking.
Yeah, I forgot to pay our hydro bill.
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty attached to electricity at this point.
Why aren't you at Phoebe's?
I didn't feel like going.
Okay, good, because when I said go with Sara,
I meant do whatever you want.
I'm sorry.
It's just not that fun for me to hang out with people who don't want me around.
Since when does Sara and Phoebe not want you around?
Since last summer?
I guess I hadn't noticed.
Yeah, well, you're busy.
Uh, look, a little space isn't necessarily a bad thing.
But it sucks because we're at this new school
where we don't know anyone, and she won't even talk to me.
Well, maybe this is an opportunity for you to make your own friends.
I'll be in my room.
[indistinct chatter]
Hey, Twin 1. Why are you sitting over there?
There's a spot right here.
Why am I Twin 1?
'Cause Twin 2 has the black eye.
I'm Maya.
Tegan.
What is this, a business meeting?
Oh, uh...
Tegan.
It's a cool name.
So when do you move into your new place?
I don't know. It's not fully built yet.
My stepdad is a contractor, so he's been working on it for a while.
Oh, fancy.
So, is that your house that you were hanging out at this morning?
My palace? Yeah. Try not to be intimidated by my wealth.
[phone rings]
Hello?
[Phoebe] Hey. Tegan?
Oh. Hey, Phoebe. I'll get Sara.
Oh, you don't wanna talk to me?
No, um, we can talk.
How's the new school?
Fine, I guess.
Um, how's it going over there?
Fine. The new school's very French.
I wish you guys were there, though.
You know, I miss all of us hanging out.
Yeah.
And deep down, I think Sara does, too.
[teacher] Over the next six weeks,
we will study Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
Then you must turn in a written report
that reflects your personal interpretation of the text...
...and detailed summary that tells me you actually read it.
Now, before you roll your eyes too much because it's Shakespeare,
let me remind you it's a comedy.
And whether you know it or not...
Hey. Hey!
Hey.
Um, I hate to be the bearer of shit news,
but you have a big thing of gum in your hair.
What?
Like, right there at the back.
Oh, shit.
It's Tyler.
[sighs] I gotta go.
[loud clattering]
[sighs]
[indistinct chatter]
Tegan, hey. Do you know Tyler?
Um, kind of.
Well, I just really wanted you two to meet because Tegan's my new friend,
and I would hate for anyone to treat her with anything but the utmost respect.
So, Tyler, let's make sure no assholes mess with her, yeah?
Totally. I'll watch out for her.
Thanks.
You can go.
Thanks.
Of course.
-I forgot my books. I'm just like that. -[chuckles]
[Volcano Girls by Veruca Salt plays on stereo]
[water running]
-Morning. -Hey.
Oh, God. Your eye looks awful.
Thanks.
I'm so glad I'm starting a new school looking like a monster.
It'll be fine. No one knows you there.
Exactly. I wish I was going to Phoebe's school.
Well, as someone who barely speaks a word of French,
I doubt you'd thrive in a French immersion school.
Well, at least I'd have a friend there.
You have your sister.
She's not my friend.
-[Tegan] Hey. -Hey. You're not ready?
You cannot be late on your first day of school.
[Tegan] Relax, I still have time.
[Simone] You wanna find a new way to say that to me?
-[Tegan] I'll be ready, Mommy. -[Simone] So much better.
[indistinct chatter]
[soft music plays]
What the hell are you looking at?
[indistinct chatter]
[G. Cobalt Franklin by Lilys plays]
[school bell rings]
[indistinct chatter]
You're in my seat again. It's becoming a problem.
[Tegan starts talking and song cuts off the voice]
[Plume by Smashing Pumpkins plays through headphones]
Yeah, that's bad. But you kind of deserved it.
Why? 'Cause you and I are closer now and she's jealous?
So you don't understand why she feels left out?
No, what I don't understand is why I can't just have my own thing.
You know you have something that your sister will never have, right?
What we have, it's just for us.
Do you want me?
Yes.
Tell me.
I want you.
[soft music plays]
School's gonna be excruciating.
I wish it was summer still so we could spend every day together.
Yeah, I know. Me, too. It'll get better.
You're cool and charming, and I'm sure you'll be
the most popular girl in grade ten in no time.
I'm only like that when I'm with you.
That is not true. You are perfect all on your own.
Hey, I'm serious.
Just be open to making new friends,
and maybe us going to different schools won't be so bad.
I'm scared we'll grow apart.
We won't.
I promise.
[soft music plays]
[Sliver by Nirvana plays on Tegan's stereo]
[volume increases]
[Plume by Smashing Pumpkins plays through headphones]
[Mr. Gardner] No, it has nothing to do with who's better.
It's an issue of believability. I don't make the rules.
I think we can all agree it's more believable if boys play boys.
Can you give an actual reason that's not based off of societal impositions?
[Mr. Gardner] Natalie, we're not wasting the class's time.
I think I can move on from this now.
Uh, challenging stereotypes in the interest of progress
is hardly a waste of time, sir.
[Mr. Gardner] Male students are more qualified to play the male roles.
Uh, okay, so let's say if we were doing a play based off of aliens,
would you not cast me as an alien?
Uh, of course I would, yes.
[Natalie] But I'm not an alien, and I've never even been to outer space.
And yet somehow I'm more qualified to play an extraterrestrial
than I am to play a human man?
You know what? Talk to me after class. Okay?
-Yeah. -[Mr. Gardner] Uh, all right.
So, dramatis personae, it's just a list of the characters in the play.
Uh, so that's on... that's gonna be on the front page.
After that, there's a general set description.
[indistinct chatter]
Somehow you're always in the way.
[dog barking]
[loud clattering]
[soft music plays]
[Natalie] Well, Grant told Kelly who told me
that Will's uncle had been their roadie for, like, ten years,
so he might bring them to Will's party.
There's no way Rancid is coming to a high school party in Calgary.
[Natalie] So you're not coming?
[Ali] Of course I am. Find me later.
[Natalie] Okay.
Can I get a paper towel?
I really loved all that stuff you said in drama class the other day.
Oh, Mr. Gardner? He's an easy target, but, uh, it's still fun.
What happened to your eye?
My sister punched me in the face.
Oh, cool. So are you coming to the party tomorrow?
I wasn't invited.
Well, I'm inviting you now.
It's gonna be the time of your life.
Or at least a time of your life.
Okay, yeah.
All right, until tomorrow, then.
Hey, Twin 2. Got a name?
Sara.
Tegan and Sara?
Doesn't even rhyme. Your parents blew it.
Hey, Sara. These are my new friends, Evan and Maya.
-Hi. -Hey.
-[Evan] What's up? Hi. -Hi.
You know, when I first saw your eye, I thought it was kind of disgusting,
but now it's not so bad.
Thanks.
All right, see you guys at the party.
-See you guys. -Bye.
Was she talking about the Rancid party?
Yeah. You wanna go?
Sure.
You know, I didn't think that I was gonna make contact.
With your eye.
I got shit aim.
It's okay. I deserved it.
Hey, do you wanna rent a movie tonight?
Yeah, as long as it's not Son in Law again.
That's a great movie.
Yeah. No, you're right. It was... the first time we saw it.
[both laugh]
Do you think Patrick has enough in his change jar for us to order a pizza?
-Oh, for sure. -[chuckles]
-Hey, Phoebe. -Surprise.
-Hi. -Hi.
Hi, Tegan.
We'll watch the movie later.
[door opens]
Where are we going?
[Tegan] We used to be really tight,
and then over the summer, she totally disappeared.
[Maya] What would happen if you stopped waiting?
You think I don't wanna be around you?
I know you don't.
-Teegy! -Teegy!
You're high, aren't you?
[Maya] Do you ever get tired of dropping everything for her?
I don't do that.
Maybe being in the suburbs is getting to them.
[Loni] Are the suburbs getting to the girls or you?
I feel like I wanna help you, but I don't know what to do.
I'm fine.
[Sara] Tegan, come in here. Look.
Whoa.
[Sara] We found something that we like to do together.
[Patrick] The girls are playing music now?
They should play at the party.
[Shaker by Yo La Tengo plays]
Okay, are you ready?
[Plume by Smashing Pumpkins plays]