Episode 230
[Previously on Hand aufs Herz]
Stefan: Ben... Has been kidnapped
Ben gets knocked out by Ronnie
[Intro]
[Outside of Room]
Kidnapper:What the-?!
Ronnie:Guys, what the hell?That's total shit! We could all be in jail right now!
Kidnapper:Got lucky. Bergmann senior wouldn't pay one cent for his dead son.
Ronnie:Hey, if I hadn't come, he'd have run!
Kidnapper:Now calm down! We are only doing this whole shit because you owe me, got that?!
Ronnie:And that's why I want him to fucking stay right where he belongs! Didn't you tie him up right?
Kidnapper:Don't think we are stupid, do you hear me? Don't you dare think we are stupid! Or we'll show you how good we are at tying someone up! Make sure that won't happen again!
Shit!
The kidnappers drag Ben back to the room. Ronnie doesn’t really look too happy.
(And now kids, that's why you should never skip school..it only gets you kidnapped by a bunch of “Vollpfosten”(look it up) who skipped too much school to learn proper language,too.I almost expected them to grunt)
[Pestalozzi, teachers’ lounge]
Bea is reading the text message from “Ben” again.(Bea, get a hobby, the Miss Marple AG at your school has an opening..oh,never mind)
Helena: Are there any news of Ben Bergmann?
Bea: What?
Helena:Do you know the whereabouts of your student by now and by when he'll be back in class? Or should I rather ask “if”?
Bea:You should ask his father about that, not his teacher.
Helena: I can only imagine how disappointing it must be to fully support someone, but to not receive any gratitude for it at all.
Bea: I am sure that there is a plausible reason for Mr. Bergmann's absence
Helena:Your optimism is very nice, but don't you think it's time to admit your own failure?
Bea: Excuse me?
Helena:I know that you looked after Ben Bergmann with special dedication – you are his guidance counselor after all. But this time you weren’t successful.
Bea: Now let us wait until Herr Bergmann turns up again and then we'll settle this... And then we'll reschedule another make-up exam. (For Ben?For Bea? For Bea and Helena alone in the same room?I want to retake that test,too!)
Helena: I am indeed curious in regards to that explanation. But I am the onw who will decide if there will be another make-up exam. By the way, I hope you won't miss your choir’s performance during the summer festival over the loss of your favorite student. After all, there are other students you have to look after.(Luzi?Caro?Indeed..)
[Pestalozzi, hallway]
Luzi: What happened yesterday? You wanted to watch the rehearsal for the video ...
Timo: Yeah, I talked to Miss Krawczyk about the term paper again.
Luzi:For three hours?
Timo: No, I … somehow got something wrong and had to redo half of it. Well, doesn't matter, how did it go?
Luzi:Pretty good! Well, Johnny, the choreographer and director was brilliant. He's so cool, you have to meet him!
[Flashback]
Johnny:No worries! Johnny's got you!
[Flashback End]
(I Love Johnny who's talking about himself in the third person!!)
Timo:Yeah, maybe
Luzi: Of course! You'll come for the shoot, won't you?
Timo: I don't know, at what time is it?
Luzi: Tomorrow!
Timo: Of course I'll come! Well, if everything goes well with the term paper
Luzi: I- I'd be really happy if you came because – you know, first video shoot and stuff...
Timo:I know. I'll try, promise
Luzi:Great. And don't you dare not to come! ... see you later
Timo: See you later.
Luzi leaves, Bodo arrives
Bodo: Hey buddy, you shouldn’t look so gloomy while watching your dream girl walk away. Did you have a fight?
Timo: No
Bodo: Then what?
Timo: I'm in a wheelchair(Geez, Timo, get over it already, it's not like they don't sell pumps or whatevs..for the wheelchair of course..)
Bodo: So? Luzi likes you anyway. Hey, she was really disappointed yesterday at the rehearsal when you didn't show up. Lara wouldn't even notice if I'm in the same room or not. Plus – there's hope – for your legs I mean! Well, Luzi said that...
Timo:Luzi told you about the surgery?
Bodo:Surgery?
Timo:Err, I meant rehab
Bodo:What surgery are you talking about?
Timo: Nevermind, I'll explain later, okay? We have to get to our STAG rehearsal now!
[Pestalozzi, auditorium]
Caro is sitting with her phone, Emma is sitting at the piano, Jenny is looking at sheet music.
Caro:Emma! This is a STAG rehearsal, one would think you'd know something about harmonic tone sequences!
Emma: Well, it doesn't look as if you were concentrating on the STAG!
Caro:I'm having an important chat here!
Timo: That you ought to quit right now!
Caro:Frau Vogel isn't even here yet!
Bea: Now she is! Guys, we should think about your performance at the summer festival. Any song suggestions? Really, nothing at all?
Bodo:Something easy, summery…
Caro: Something summery at the summer festival – great idea!
Bodo: Hehehe
Bea:Better than none at all! And now put your phone away!
Jenny:Well, I think the songs should definitely be fun and spread a good mood. Like for example “Celebration”... no?!
Bea:That is a great idea. Jenny, I'd understand if you wouldn't want to be on stage for this performance.
Jenny:Of course I want to. I am part of STAG and I am looking forward to the summer festival
Emma: Well, I think Jenny's suggestion is great. “Celebration” is the perfect summer song... and we have it in our song book, too.
Bea:You are right. Music is just the right thing to gain new courage.(Bea has probably been listening to her Celine Dion albums all night...)
Timo: I like that song.
[Outside]
Ronnie:Shit, dude, we could all go to jail now!
Kidnapper:Listen, the only problem you have is the money. And we'll get it from you– with or without that guy
Ronnie: Sure, but wouldn't it be much easier for us all if the old man would just hand over the half a million?!
Kidnapper:If he pays... If he doesn't, you owe us 40.000
Ronnie: Wait, wait, 40?
Kidnapper: Little compensation for the inconveniences.
[Room]
Ben wakes up and finds himself back in the Room. He’s not thrilled at this turn of events, for some reason.
[Outside]
Ronnie: I gotta show up in school, before someone asks any questions
Kidnapper: Piss off then!
Ronnie:Call me, if anything happens
Kidnapper:Piss off!
Ronnie: Really watch that guy, please, he's like a cockroach
Kidnapper:Let the cockroach be my problem, you make sure that the old man pays
Ronnie:No worries, he will!
(Ah,the high level of articulation of their conversations..so,so glad, that Ronnie has found himself some pals..)
[Pestalozzi, auditorium]
STAG performing Celebration
Bodo:Feel like going to the cafeteria? I won't ask about that surgery! Or should I?
Timo: What?
Bodo:Ask about it?
Timo:Okay, there's this surgery where they try to rejoin nerve endings in your back. That means I could walk again
Bodo: How cool is that?
Timo:The surgery is pretty new.
Bodo:And dangerous?
Timo: Yeah, there is a certain risk. But why should something happen to me of all people? And the doctors surely know what they're doing!(Doesn't Timo have Cable?Grey's Anatomy anyone?)
Bodo: And does Luzi know about it?
Timo: Luzi gave me the idea in the first place. She did research on the internet and... found that doctor.
Bodo:Unreal! Is that why you fought earlier?
Timo:Luzi doesn't know about the surgery... and it's tomorrow already
Bodo: Tomorrow?! And Luzi doesn't know anything?!
Timo: Yeah, she's afraid because of the risk! Bodo, Luzi mustn't know anything about this surgery!
Bodo: Sure! This is heavy stuff! Well, also good, but... pretty heavy!
Timo: I know
Bodo: Are you afraid?
Timo: Beastly. But if there is any chance that I can dance with Luzi again one day, I'll take any risk.
[Pestalozzi, staircase]
Emma:Luzi! She texts that she spoke with the costume designer for the video … and she wants to try on some outfits with us tonight. (Luzi really needs to get a new hobby, too, maybe ask Caro if she wants to join the Miss Marple Investigations club with her?)
Jenny:Okay, then let's go there in the evening and order pizza or something.
Emma: Okay! I'll text her that!
Jenny:Do you want something from the vending machine, too?
Emma:Can you get me a bar?
Both:Chocolate!
They giggle and kiss. (They’re so cute! Oh, I am so going to miss them! Äh, moving on…)
Caro:Say, can't you get a hotel room?
Emma:Uhh, thanks for the tip, maybe later!
Caro definitely didn’t expect the new Emma.//Neither did I.
Emma:What?
Caro: You two really aren't normal.
Emma: Excuse me?
Caro:Jenny's parents just died and you act like you are newly in love!
Emma: Um, Jenny has her own way of dealing with the loss, okay?!
Caro:With summer hits and hot nights in a hotel?! (No, evil head, stop playing “Meet you at the hotel!”)
Emma:Says morality police Caro? Who cheated on her boyfriend with his father? Who wanted to see Frau Vogel in jail?
Caro:Chill out!
Jenny:Everything alright?
Emma: Sure! Caro just said that she thinks your suggestion was great! That we’ll perform “Celebration”!
Caro:Yeah.
Jenny: Thanks. Uh, yeah, here, could we go back upstairs again, I forgot to put something in Mr. Heisig's inbox!
Emma: Sure!
The new Emma totally knocked down Caro and left her speechless./And the terrier strikes again. Haven't seen Caro speechless since she mourned those strawberries..
[Pestalozzi, hall]
Ronnie:Unreal, dude, that Bergmann really just left! I tell you, he's through with school! I never thought he’d have the guts to just leave! Unreal...
Bea: You know where Ben is?
Ronnie:What?
Bea: Where is he?
Ronnie: Well, Holger from 11a said he just ran away...
Bea:And how does he know that?
Ronnie:No idea. But Ben hasn't been to school in two days, right?! You looked for him, too, didn't you?!
Bea:Yeah...
Ronnie:And? Didn't find him?
Bea: … And you remember the exercises from the last lesson
Ronnie:Already done!
Bea: Great, goodbye!
[Pestalozzi, teachers’ corridor]
Helena is a goddess. Just thought, I’d mention it. And the color of her blouse pretty much matches the decoration she is fingering. Genius!//That was your translatress, not me, by the way, your editor:-)
Ingrid: But what about Herr Behler and Frau Jonzek?
Helena: They are sufficiently engaged in organizing their course-trip to Rome.
Ingrid: But... if you'd cancel the PE lessons for today and tomorrow? I'm sure the students would enjoy decorating (the school)
Helena: Frau Jäger – I intentionally gave you the task to decorate the school so the regular lessons wouldn't suffer because of it.
Ingrid:But – somebody has to help me!
And bang! Emma and Jenny appear. (Wow, I’ve gotta try this sometime)
Jenny:Hello Frau Jäger!
Ingrid: Hello
Jenny: Is this the stuff for the summer festival?
Ingrid: Yes. I thought a few garlands for the auditorium would be nice – there will be the exhibition of the art class later!
Emma: Yes, of course! They are really cool – the garlands!
Ingrid: Unfortunately I don't know where to put them right now! Actually the bar tables have to be put in the schoolyard first – but there will be a cake buffet in the auditorium as well and then the paintings have to be put up! Geez, I have no idea anymore how many paintings the class wants to show anyway!
Jenny:Emma and I have no more classes today, we can help you!
Ingrid:Are you sure? There surely are – well... other things you need to take care of.(Frau Jäger!)
Jenny: Not today. Frau Jäger, I am really fine, thanks! So – do you want us to help you or not?
Emma:Yeah and – um... six hands are better than two!
Ingrid:Heaven must have send you (Oh ja...)
Jenny: Okay, why don't you talk to the art class and the two of us can bring that stuff to the auditorium in the meantime?
Ingrid: Okay
Why didn’t we get more Jemma (their faces just now!) and Ingrid interaction??? We’ve been missing out.//Totally. I bet Ms.Jäger would have been such a Jemma fan,too.:-)
[Pestalozzi, school yard]
Luzi: Timo!
Timo:Hey!
Luzi:Hey, I wanted to introduce you to Johnny.
Johnny:Hi, Johnny Sky.
Timo: Timo.
Luzi: We wanted to go over the choreography again, because some moves aren't perfect yet.
Johnny: I think your moves look awesome!
Luzi: Well, I had a great teacher!
Johnny: Damn, I have to take that... Hello?
Luzi:Didn't I tell you, he is cool, isn't he?
Timo:Yeah, especially the moves he showed you are pretty cool
Luzi: I'd be really happy if you were there for the shoot tomorrow, because – Can't you do that term paper later, you don't have to hand it in until next week
Timo: Yeah, right, but I totally forgot: I got rehab tomorrow. My father specially exempted me for tomorrow
Luzi:Oh, um, rehab is – um... important. I think it's great that you do the rehab and don't think about that surgery anymore
Timo: Yeah
Luzi:I am sure you're going to make it with rehab!
Johnny: So, are we set?
Luzi:Sure, then... see you later!
Johnny: Bye!
[The Vogel home]
Piet: Not that I'd want to complain, but how can it be, that you grace us with your presence yet again?!
Miriam:Well, that is pretty easy, I just wanted to be sure that our daughter gets a decent meal.
Piet:I understand
Miriam: Mmh, delicious.
Piet:I think so.
Bea: Oh, I didn't mean to interrupt.
Miriam: Bea!
Piet:We were just cooking.
Miriam:We?
Piet: Well, Herr Lafer (famous Austrian chef)was cooking. Do you want to eat with us?
Bea:Um, no, thank you, I am a little tired. Enjoy your meal!
Piet: She didn't look so well...
Miriam: She looked like shit!
Piet:There's only one thing that can help. The comfort of her best friend...
(Those were Piet's words, not mine!Really!Your editor..Iam wondering on what page my mind got lost in the gutter..)
[Pestalozzi, auditorium]
Jenny: Where do you think we should put the paintings?
Emma: The best ones on stage... And then we can get some wooden frames and um... we'll put the rest between the doors... hm?
Jenny: Great idea!
Emma:It's one of mine, after all!
Jenny:Of course! It's nice to see you smile again
Emma: Does feel really good, too!
They kiss.
Ingrid:The art class already gave me a banner. Bodo will get the first paintings soon and I will take care of the tables together with the janitor.
Jenny:Okay, we'll hang the banner above the stage and then we can put the paintings beneath it, okay?!
Ingrid: Yeah
Jenny: I'll do it
Emma:Umm…
Ingrid:Isn't that too dangerous? Perhaps I should rather ask the janitor?
Jenny:That's okay, I can handle heights pretty well. (Total allusion to Lucy's Glinda past..le sigh.”Wicked” runs its last show on German soil on Friday as well..)
Emma:And I will hold on to the ladder tightly, guaranteed
Ingrid: If you say so. I will get the easels for the paintings then.
Emma turns on the radio. “You got the love” is playing. But that is just an illusion (also known as cutting room error). We’re not really hearing it, and more important Jenny isn’t hearing it while she is climbing up this really high ladder.
She is wearing sneakers by the way. Probably the same magic sneakers Emma used to run to Jenny, because earlier this episode, Jenny had on other footwear unsuitably for ladder climbing.
//No, Jenny has her own pair of magic sneakers.They're a pair of superheroines with magic morph sneakers.Our favorite pair,with their favorite pairs:-)
[The Vogel home, Bea’s room]
Miriam:Sweetie, you do know that you could have talked to me sooner?!
Bea: That was the deal. No word to anyone. I don't understand why Ben is gone.
Miriam:Maybe he couldn't handle all the pressure anymore.
Bea:It was all set. He gets his Abitur so we can really be together after that. He wouldn't just change his mind overnight. I know that Ben is impulsive, but this thing with us... it was really important to him...
[Cut to Ben in Room]
Flashback to them kissing
Bea reads the text on her phone again.
Bea: That doesn't sound anything like Ben.
Miriam: Do you really think that or … do you wish it?
Bea: I just can't imagine that Ben is gone. Do you understand that?
Miriam: I also couldn’t imagine that Piet and I would ever split up... but honestly sweetie... To me it looks as though he is in Australia.
[Room]
Ben: Help! Help! Ahhh! … Bea …
[Pestalozzi, auditorium]
Emma:Did you know that I wanted to take an advanced art class at first?
Jenny:That would fit you!
Emma: What do you mean?
Jenny:Well, I can imagine that a painting would be for you what the Wonderland is for Alice – a big adventure! Why didn't you do it after all?
Emma:Because I didn't want to destroy my Wonderland and analyze everything with some line corrections and color palettes.
Jenny:See?! Oh damn, it is still too loose.
Radioguy:And now a classic for all of those who still know what love is!
[You've got the love – The Source]
Jenny is getting flashbacks of her parents and has trouble keeping her balance on the ladder
Emma: Jenny? Everything okay? Jenny, what – what's the matter?
Jenny:That song...
Emma:Jenny! Jenny, hold on, please! Jenny!
Here, have a heart pill.You're gonna need it.
xoxo