Terrible!
I am referring to this episode. I am also referring to the events and topics that took place. The view is from the alley way in between two houses. A garbage truck drives pass; a few seconds later a little girl in a pink outfit on a pink bicycle rides by. The camera zooms into a tree house. Tina is being humped. Tina and Chris are having sex when she bumps her head against a shelf, they stop. She mentions that it's her birthday and she is twenty three years old. (For someone age twenty three and already having a job as a teacher is not bad at all. When I was twenty three I was just out of college and still working the job I had from college.)
Abbud is outside and says his parents are gone but there's blueberry pancakes. I guess since Chris is now homeless, he takes residence in Abbud's tree house. He's standing there, at the base of the tree house. Tina comes down from the tree house. As she is climbing down she is trying to deny she just had sex with Chris by saying Chris's grades are suffering and she is there only for tutoring. Abbud says to Tina that it's okay, he already knows. Abbud says he saw the whole thing with a great view from I believe he said his room or roof. Tina worries and tells Abbud to not tell anyone or she will rip his tongue and shove it up his ass; she also offers him a grade "A" if he doesn't tell. Abbud says it's a deal and they shake on it.
Skip to another scene showing her in her apartment leaving when she meets her neighbor Evan. She begins to tell him it's her birthday. She is flirting with him by telling him a fish stick joke. She pushes the panic button on the key fob as they enter the parking garage in their building and her car alarm goes off. Evan turns it off for her. She begins to make a gesture by leaning up against the car in acting helpless. She says that would come in handy if someone were to assault her and have her pinned against the car. Evan replies "You don't have to worry about that being me, I'd at least like to take you to dinner first". She says "I'd like that". Evan replies "see you around". When she gets into her car, she says "He's cute".
Come back from commercial and Tina is grading papers. Daisy Valero has a subject on "Interpersonal Relationships". The one by Chris Collins is sexually explicit and is titled "How I'm Going To Bone You Tonight". She reads it and is getting all worked up from the description. Dave interrupts her reading and manages to read the title but she grabs it back. Dave "The Cool Teacher" is now slightly flirting with Tina, but in a creepy way by showing stalker-like pictures from the internet of houses she might live in. Dave is also showing her a model of a toy train that is motorized, a Jenson 75. Dave says it might be a good "how we met" story. She goes to another classroom where Chris is messing around with a science project. She says to him "we have no future, we cannot see each other any more". He doesn't just take it straight forward and says something like "sure we will, everyday in class, that's what's great about High School".
During a fire drill Stanley is smoking weed outside and Tina just finished having a brief talk with Michelle and Daisy about how Stanley pulled the fire alarm to avoid tests. Tina approaches Stanley and says "Stanley I'm right here", meaning why is he smoking the joint when the teacher (authority figure) is right here. Stanley gives her the joint and she looks at it as if she were going to smoke it or totally shocked not knowing what to do with it.
Come back from commercial again, Tina is sitting with Michelle in the cafeteria eating. She ask where is Tony. Michelle answers she doesn't care where the "dickwad" is. They are discussing about her relationship with Tony. Tina says Tony is too young. Tina says she should forget about Tony and go for someone older (Hypocrite!). Michelle ask if Tina has any friends or teacher friends her age. Tina answers no and teacher's don't count as adults because teachers hang out with students so much they are infected with something that prevents then from reaching adultness or adulthood, I believe is what she commented while chewing on a red fruit by foot. At this point Dave comes in with a pair of lock clips because the train he was showing off earlier was stolen. He says they killed "Nice Dave". He comments about a full body search.
(Too many separate scenes)
She's walking down the hall when Principal Turner comes up behind her and wants to talk, it seems for the past two months the grade's of her students have been dropping, that is what the principal wanted to talk about, but Tina is now worried that word might spread about her relationship with Chris. She gets nervous trying to explain that Chris had no home, but she then realized it's for nothing.
Tina is in class and trying to quiet down the students but they don't, Michelle does it for her. Tina isn't in her right mind right now. When Abbud refers to her as Slippy, she freaks out and says "It's Ms. Nolan". She leaves class and pulls the fire alarm, just to escape after another student asks her about a test she was suppose to hand out. Outside of school where everyone meets to escape the fire alarm. Another student shouts to her something about a foot long. Tina, I mean Ms. Nolan, goes to him, holds him by the arm and asks him what he means by that. The students says he heard she bones students and he might have a chance. She lets go, looks at Abbud and confronts him saying "you promised not to tell". Abbud says he did before he promised, so technically he didn't break the promise. She finds the rest of the "skins" crew knew also and asks why they didn't tell her. They say they love her and she is "one of us, Tina".
She's still trying to break up with Chris because she fears losing her job. During different scenes in school, She finds Dave searching through lockers for his stolen train. Dave finds a letter or journal about sex involving sausage and mustard. She tells him people's relationships are private. Dave asks her if they are still on for tonight, he still doesn't get it, no. She mockingly says yes, she wants him to come over and bounce her baloney pony and to bring mustard. She's now driving home and sees Evan walking home because his car broke down. Since it's her birthday, to say thanks, the least he could do is pick her up on her offer to go to dinner. They end up going for burgers. She asks if it's a date and he doesn't answer. He just says she says "like" "alot". She says she just doesn't hang with adults much. She advances him for sex opening a glove compartment full of condoms. Evan is depicted as a stand up type of guy with ethics. He doesn't want to have sex in the car parked in a strip mall, "it's so High School". It looks like he finds it cheap. He leaves the car, leaving her with a look of "damn! or crapola!"
She comes home to a call from Chris who she is trying to brush off by saying "we need to cool things off, we need to stop seeing each other". But when she walks into her apartment, there are kids throwing a surprise party for her. During the party, the kids trash the place and Chris sees Tina doesn't like it, so he ends the party. Meanwhile, Cadie is backed up by Abbud and Daisy "cockblocking" Tony from Michelle. Tony asks why Cadie hates him. She responds she doesn't hate him, just like she doesn't hate any other natural disaster, like Tsunamis or Tornadoes. When everyone is gone, Chris asks Tina if she is pissed. Tina says to Chris she hates herself for because she has gone too far. He gives her a gift but it's in the bedroom, where Abbud and Daisy are having sex again. Abbud and Daisy leave. The gift is the stolen train. He did it to make her smile. She would have preferred flowers. They have sex. Dave shows up and enters the apartment, the door is not locked. He took the previous mock remark for real. He finds the place with one of the pictures he fount from the internet, in which Tina responded to. He finds the stolen train when he enters the bedroom, it crashes and Dave screams "Why?".
Chris is in the car with Tina driving. She stops the car. Chris asks her about the selling wieners in Nebraska idea. She does not like the idea of making a life selling hot dogs in Nebraska. She says "You and I are the hugest mistake I made ever", she tells him to get out. Chris says "no, I love you" "I don't want to grow up". Tina replies "it's a crush" "I do" (want to grow up). Chris says she's lying, Tina responds "Am I?". He leaves the car and she drives off.
Next morning in class, Dave enters with police officers pointing "that's her", she believes it's over the toy train asking if this is a joke, but the officer says it's for statutory rape, the words child molester is heard being said. All the students call out Ms. Nolan and bring out their cell cameras.
She's sitting in jail and she asks herself "What am I doing here? My parents took me to Nebraska once as a kid". She remembers the smell of the corn, largest wooly mammoth and walking through the corn fields. "Oh My God". Her cellmate is shitting right in front of her, she goes: "that is gnarly, I'm going to hold it in no matter how long I'm in here". She also comments that there's no toilet paper. She asks her cellmate what is she going to wipe her ass with. Her cellmate looks at Tina's skirt, Tina then looks also with a shocked and scared expression.
Tina is being interrogated and asked if she has carnal knowledge of having sex with a seventeen year old (Chris). She is suppose to stay away 500 feet and she has already been fired. Then they question Chris giving him a baby doll to question him where she touched him. He says she blew me, blew me off. They question Stanley (who thinks it's awesome, he didn't know), Abbud then Dave, next. She doesn't get ratted on because of stupid answers they give.
She is free and goes to say bye to Evan, she tells him by state law she has to inform him that she is a sex offender. She says she's going to her parents. Evan responds to her that she's not suppose to tell him, she is suppose to tell her new neighbors. Even goes "Oh, weird" "Good Luck". Tina says "Bye".
Final scene is Tina gets flowers in her emptied apartment. The card reads "call me if you were lying". She looks at her cell. She deletes his number from her phone and puts it face down on the counter. Chris is looking at his phone also. When she doesn't respond to him trying to contact her, he throws the cell phone away.
---It's depicted as Tina is one of those adults that still isn't grown up yet. She doesn't act or make choices like an adult (twenty three). But I believe this experience will improve her decision making in the future. By ending this part of her life, she has already shown that she wants to change and group up and act like an adult.
One more American Version of skins - Season 1 - Episode 10
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