QUOTES

Jimmy: Everyday I have to come to this school, is one less day I have to come back.

Jimmy: Here we go.

Principal Turner: Code red, code red, this is not a drill. All students to a designated lock-down area. This is not a drill.

Brooke: Somebody has a gun inside and they're shooting.

Haley: Everybody stay down and stay calm, we're safe here.

Lucas: Nathan, someone has a gun in here.
Nathan: Lucas, I know that. Okay, I know this is stupid, but what if something happens to Haley, huh? What if we walk away and something happens to Haley, are you gonna live with that?
Lucas: Most heroes are dead, Nate.
Nathan: It's Haley, Lucas.

Lucas: Nathan…
Nathan: Yeah, you too man.

Lucas: Listen to me. I'm not leaving you Peyton.

Haley: Always…
Nathan: And forever.

Mouth: Jimmy, what did you do?

Jimmy: How about you, hero, you scared?
Nathan: Yeah. I'm scared.
Jimmy: Good. Welcome to my world.

Abby: Why are you doing this?
Jimmy: You're Abby Brown, right? What's my name?
Abby: Jim?
Jimmy: My full name…Come on, who am I?
Abby (crying): I don't know.
Rachel: You're the guy from the time capsule.
Haley: Jimmy Edwards. You're Jimmy Edwards, and you're a good guy. And you are better than this.

Jimmy (on the phone to the emergency services): Hi, 911? Yeah, here's the thing. If anyone comes even remotely close to this school we start shooting students. You hear me? You come in here, your kids die.

Principal Turner: And as far as metal detectors go, the school board, which I believe you're on, voted against them.
Dan: Voted against them? Why?
Principal Turner: Because they make the school look unsafe.

Peyton: Luke, it was your friend. The one from the time capsule. He had the gun. But he didn't look evil or angry, he just looked scared.

Jimmy (to Mouth): You changed and you know it. You became just like the rest of them.
Rachel: Don't do that. Don't make him feel guilty for living his life. This is not his fault, this is your fault.
Jimmy: No, it's your fault. You think this is what I wanted? You think I got up today and wanted this? I just wanted it to stop.

Jimmy: You really think I'm the only one? Then ask yourself this: you ever treat someone like crap in this school, or left anyone out? You ever broken up with someone in the time it takes to pass a note and disappear? Or talk trash behind their back? Or maybe you just ignored it all. You know while you worry about the big game, or the prom, or the bake sale for the pep club. You ask yourselves that and then you tell me is anyone else out there.

Jimmy: Don't push me.

Abby (to Marcus): What's wrong with you? He's just a kid. We're all just kids, and we just have this life, and the things you say and do, we feel that. How can you have so much hate in your heart? How can you act like it doesn't matter, it does matter. What happened to us, huh? We're just kids, we can't be like this, it's not possible. (She cries).

Rachel: 700 days…high school. Out of 20 or 30 thousand. Can't you see pass that? It's only 700 days.
Jimmy: Yeah, and how many of these days do I get back? Do I get back the days I got spit on? Or the day I learned to look at the floor when I walk the halls? How about the day my dad came to pick me up and saw me getting my ass kicked on the quad, and realized his son was a loser?

Peyton: The reporters, and the psychologists, and the analysts, and the so-called experts, and they're gonna try to make sense of this. But they're not gonna be able to. And even if we do make it out of here, we're always gonna carry it with us, it's never gonna be the same.

Peyton: You're always saving me.
Lucas: Somebody's got to.
Peyton: If I say I love you right now, will you hold it against me? 'Cos I lost a lot of blood…Come here. (They briefly kiss). Just in case you can't keep your promise.

Reporter: We're a country obsessed with tragedy, Brooke. So if examining tragedy makes me part of the problem, then so be it. But let me ask you something. How much time have you spent with Jimmy Edwards over the last four years? So maybe I'm not the only one who should be ashamed.

Mrs. Farell: Brooke? Hi, I'm Glenda's mom. I was wondering if you'd seen her.
Brooke: Um, I'm sorry, I, I don't know anyone named…
Mrs. Farell: Glenda Farrell. She's in your class, she said you were friends.
Brooke: Glenda. I thought you said Brenda, I'm sorry. Um, sure, I'll find her. (Brooke goes outside and breaks down in tears).

Jimmy: You see, one day I spent a whole day in this school without a single person looking at me or talking to me. And I realized that was the best day I'd had in a long time. The day that nobody noticed me at all. The day I stopped being there, that was the best day…Well, that was kinda depressing. So I went home and took an anti-depressant. And then I took another one. And then for fun, I took twelve more. My mom and the doctors called it an accident, and then two weeks later when I got back to school, nobody noticed. It was like I never left. I guess that's the upside to not being there in the first place, right? Nobody misses you when you're gone.

Haley: You shouldn't have come back for me. I love you for doing it, but I wish you were safe.
Nathan: I don't wanna be safe without you.

Jimmy: I promise you, whoever steps into that hallway is gonna die.

Jimmy: You know they're gonna remember me as a monster. I wonder how they'll remember all of you.

Lucas: If I don't get her out of here, she's gonna die.
Jimmy: I didn't mean to hurt her.

Lucas: Keith…
Keith: Luke, I love you. Now go.

Keith: I'm not gonna leave you here, son, I'm not gonna do that, and I'll tell you why. Because I've been there. I've bought the gun, and I planned on using it, okay? I've been there. And I wanna tell you something. It gets better.
Jimmy: Not this. It can't.
Keith: It does, Jimmy. That pain in your stomach, that pain in your heart, it goes away. That voice in your head that's saying there's no way out, it's wrong, Jimmy. Would you please, please, just believe me, it gets better.
Jimmy: It won't, not after this. I can't take this back, I can't erase this. She's gonna die.
Keith: You don't know that.
Jimmy: I just, I wanted, I wanted them to leave me alone. I just, I wanted them to like me.
Keith: I understand, son, it's what we all want. It's all any of us wants.
Jimmy: I'm not here…I'm not here.
Keith: Jimmy, please. It's gonna be okay, son, it's gonna be okay.
Jimmy: But it hurts. It hurts. It always hurts.
Keith: I know…Please…Please.
Jimmy: I'm sorry.
Keith: No!
(Jimmy shoots himself)

Lucas (voice-over): Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty? This hatred? How did it find us? Did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us, that we now send our children into the world like we send young men to war. Hoping for their safe return, but knowing that some will be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows, swallowed whole by the darkness...
Keith: He's gone, Danny, he's gone.
(Dan holds the gun up to Keith)
Lucas (voice-over): Does this darkness have a name?
(Dan shoots Keith)
Lucas (voice-over): Is it your name?