- Lucas Scott: 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 would be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows. Swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name?
- Marvin "Mouth" McFadden: It's not suppose to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets. None of them fitted in at 17. We're suppose to get passed it. Adults, they see kids killing kids, and they know it's a tragedy because they used to be those kids: the bullies, and the beaten, and the loners. We're supposed to get passed it. You're supposed to live long enough to take it back. Just take it back.
- Keith Scott: Why don't you just hand me that gun, Jimmy, and we can just follow them out of here.
- Jimmy Edwards: I can't.
- Keith Scott: Well, 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 want to tell you something. It gets better.
- Jimmy Edwards: Not this. It can't.
- Keith Scott: 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 Edwards: It won't! Not after this. I can't take this back! I can't erase this!
- [starts to cry]
- Jimmy Edwards: She's gonna die.
- Keith Scott: You don't know that.
- Jimmy Edwards: I just... I wanted... I wanted them to leave me alone. I just... I wanted them to like me.
- Keith Scott: I understand, son. It's what we all want. That's all any of us wants.
- Jimmy Edwards: I'm not here. I'm not here.
- Keith Scott: Jimmy, please. It's gonna be okay, son. It's gonna be okay.
- Jimmy Edwards: [pounding on his chest] But it hurts! It hurts! It always hurts!
- Keith Scott: I know. Please. Please.
- Jimmy Edwards: I'm sorry.
- [points the gun to his chest and shoots himself]
- Keith Scott: No!
- Jimmy Edwards: You know they're going to remember me as a monster, but I wonder how they'll remember you?
- Abby Brown: 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? We're just kids. We can't be like this. It's not possible.
- Jimmy Edwards: You really think I am the only one. Then ask yourself this. Have you ever treated someone like crap in this school or left anyone out? Have 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 why you worry about the big game or the prom or the bake sale for the pep club. You ask yourself that and then you tell me if there is anyone else out there.
- Rachel Gattina: 700 days. High school, out of 20 or 30 thousand. Can't you see past that? It's only 700 days.
- Peyton Sawyer: We had a snow day, sixth grade. Do you remember? It was like this whole other world just came in overnight and took ours away. And Brooke, she came over and we made a snow fort with a tunnel and we stayed inside there all day. And it seemed so safe, like everything was okay. Like everything our world was about to become. Maybe we could just stop it and stay little kids for one more day, but then it got cold. Kind of like now.
- Brooke: [to the reporter] There are kids inside our school fearing for their lives right now. Terrified that someone is going to put a gun in their face and pull the trigger, and you wanna know how I'm feeling? Our pain is not a commodity for you. It's not a news byte to boost your ratings because tomorrow, or the next day, or the next week when we go back to school, changed forever by a day that'll never leave us, where are you gonna be? At the next tragedy? Thrusting your microphone at the next fractured person asking them how they feel? Lady, that is not journalism, you are not contributing anything to society. You are buzzards, circling the carnage, but you prey on the living. That is how I'm feeling, but something tells me you're not gonna air that.
- Jimmy Edwards: 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 kind of 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.
- reporter: I want to air this with a live feed. I'll get student reactions, their emotions. There's gold here.
- Brooke: A little insensitive, don't you think?
- reporter: And you might be?
- Brooke: Brooke Davis, Student Council President.
- reporter: I'm here with Student Council President, Brooke Davis. Brooke, can you put into words how you might be feeling about this tragedy?
- Brooke: You should be ashamed of yourself.
- [walks away]
- Jimmy Edwards: You're Abby Brown, right? What's my name?
- Abby Brown: Jim.
- Jimmy Edwards: My full name. Come on, who am I?
- Abby Brown: I don't know.
- Rachel Gattina: He's the guy from the time capsule.
- Haley James Scott: Jimmy Edwards. You're Jimmy Edwards and you're a good guy, and you are better than this.
- Rachel Gattina: What about the windows? We could break the windows and get out.
- Haley James Scott: No, it just goes to a courtyard. It's enclosed. It's just for light.
- Antwon 'Skills' Taylor: Yeah, besides, we get to breaking all the windows, all we do is draw attention to ourselves.
- Peyton Sawyer: Lucas, I lost Brooke. I'm sorry.
- Lucas Scott: She's fine. She's fine, but, okay, you're not. We gotta get you somewhere safe. Come on.
- Peyton Sawyer: No, I can't. I can't walk. I tried.
- Lucas Scott: Okay.
- [gets up from kneeling beside Peyton]
- Peyton Sawyer: No, don't leave me, please!
- Lucas Scott: No, look, look, hey.
- Peyton Sawyer: Please?
- Lucas Scott: I'm gonna go block the entrance, all right. We'll just hide, all right? We'll wait this out, okay? Listen to me, okay? I'm not leaving you, Peyton. I won't. I won't, okay?
- Lucas Scott: You gonna stop a bullet with a baseball bat? Hey, Nathan, Nathan. Someone has a gun in here.
- Nathan Scott: 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? You gonna live with that?
- Lucas Scott: Most heroes are dead, Nate.
- Nathan Scott: It's Haley, Lucas.
- Lucas Scott: 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. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name?
- Marvin "Mouth" McFadden: [to Nathan] Dude, what's happening?
- Nathan Scott: Mouth, what are you doing here?
- Marvin "Mouth" McFadden: I was in the A/V... I was in the A/V room and I come out and it's like "Dawn of the Dead".
- Nathan Scott: Mouth, don't say "dead." Someone's got a gun in the school.
- Marvin "Mouth" McFadden: What?
- Nathan Scott: Yeah.
- Marvin "Mouth" McFadden: We gotta get out of here.
- Nathan Scott: Yeah, you gotta get out of here. I gotta go get Haley.
- Marvin "Mouth" McFadden: I'll stay with you.
- Nathan Scott: Let's go.