Glee: Hell-O
November 14th 2010 22:10
Fresh off their win at Sectionals, Rachel (Lea Michele) and her fellow Glee Clubbers are finally feeling like things are going right. “We are gonna RULE this school!” *Insert slushie facial here* Or not.
Now that Finn (Cory Monteith) and Quinn (Dianna Agron) are no longer together, Rachel and Finn are dating, and Quinn’s with Puck (Mark Salling). Rachel finds Finn in the hallway to show him her new “his” and “hers” calendars she’s made for them both, and Finn reminisces about the fact that now that he’s kind of dating her, it’s really hard to pretend to pay attention to her. Secretly, he’s still not quite over Quinn. So distracted and depressed is he, that he can’t even concentrate on basketball.
With Sue (Jane Lynch) back from being suspended (she drugged Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba), took a picture of them in bed together, and is now blackmailing him), she’s more determined than ever to bring down Will (Matthew Morrison) and his Glee Club. Will isn’t too worried. He’s got more important things to think about. Like Emma.
Sitting across the desk from her in Emma’s office, they both say hi. There’s an awkward pause, and finally he says, “This is kinda weird isn’t it?” She grins. “Yes.” Here they are in that exact situation they’ve been in a hundred times. “Only this time,” Will adds, “I can just lean over and kiss you if I want to…And I want to.” He starts to lean over, but she pulls away, flustered. Wait, wait! She just needs to freshen up first. She grabs her toiletry bag. “I’ll be right back.” He jumps up, telling her she’s fine. “We’ve kissed before.”
“Yeah, but you caught me by a surprise sneak-attack that time,” she tells him of their first kiss in the hallway. “It was like a Pearly-white Harbor.” He chuckles and she apologizes. “This is a completely unattractive quality.” He just grins. “You are adorable.” But he agrees, they need to do this right. “We should go on a date.” He invites her over to his place. “I’ll cook.” She’s impressed. “I didn’t know you could cook.” He tells her that there’s so many things she doesn’t know about him, but he can’t wait to introduce them all to her. He leans in as if to kiss her, then stands up. “I’ll see you later.” Emma takes a moment to catch her breath. Oh how she’s fallen for him.
Will gives the kids their assignment for the week. Even though they won Sectionals, he knows it didn’t have exactly the positive effect that they’d been hoping it would on their popularity. They need to reinvent themselves to get better for Regionals, so, just like the original telephone greeting, “Ahoy ahoy” became simply the much better, “hello”, they need a new “hello”. Their assignment? Find a song with the word “Hello” in it.
Sue brings Santana (Naya Rivera) and Brittnay (Heather Morris) into her office, telling them she’s ashamed of them for not working harder to destroy the Glee Club, and assigns them a new plan. Destroy Rachel by dating Finn. Since Finn’s what Rachel really wants, if she can’t have him, she’ll break and the club will fall apart.
Noticing Finn’s depression, Will takes him under his wing and tries to get him to realize he needs to find himself. “It’s about being okay just being you,” Mr. Schue tells him. Maybe he has a point. Finn just needs to get out of his slump. Will tells him to pick a song and sing it out. Finn chooses “Hello, I Love You.” Finn feels a lot better by the time he’s done singing, and Santana and Brittnay choose that moment to ask him out. He’s confused. “On a date? With which one of you?” They grin. “With both of us.” Pinkies linked, they meet him at his locker later on to invite him to Breadsticks, 8:00. Rachel comes over to ask him what they wanted, and he tells her nothing. Following him down the hallway, she tells him that she knows she’s a high maintenance girl, but all she asks is that he not lie to her. Finn finally just tells her, “I don’t think I want to be your boyfriend,” and Rachel’s face falls. “What?” He tells her that he just needs some time to himself right now to find his inner rock star. She tells him she knows what he is, a scared little boy too worried about his reputation. But if he really looked at her, he’d realize she’s the only one in his life who will always accept him for him no matter what. Tearfully, Rachel stomps off.
In the choir room, Will enters and asks who’s next on the Hello songs. Glaring at Finn and Santana, Rachel lifts her hands and tells him that she has a song that sums up her feelings perfectly. She gets up and sings “Gives You Hell”.
“I wake up every evening, with a big smile on my face
And it never feels out of place”
She glares at Finn.
“When you see my face
Hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell
When you walk my way hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell”
The rest of the group, sans Finn of course, gets into the song, and when Rachel finishes, Will says he doesn’t mean to be a buzz-kill, “But the assignment was hello.”
“I’m sorry, I was just focusing on the first syllable,” Rachel says pointedly, glaring at Finn, and Will tells them that he doesn’t think they understand the seriousness of what they’re up against. If they don’t win at Regionals, Principal Figgins is cutting the club. “While we were busy winning our Sectionals, Vocal Adrenaline was busy winning theirs.” They haven’t lost in three years.
Searching through sheet music later on, Jesse St. James (Jonathan Groff), the star of Vocal Adrenaline and senior at the competing high school, grabs the Lionel Richie sheet music out of her hands and heads for the piano. “I like to give impromptu concerts for the homeless,” he says dramatically when she voices her nervousness. “It’s so important to give back.” Overcoming her nerves, Rachel sits next to him at the piano and they sing, “Hello”. Their gathering audience claps and he tells her they should do this more often. “How’s Friday night?” Rachel smiles.
On his date with Santana and Brittnay, Finn sits there while they talk about him like he’s not there. “Would you guys, like, mind including me in your conversation?” When they start insulting Rachel, Finn sticks up for her, “She’s kind of cool.” They ask him to wait in the car. “And leave your credit card.” Finn leaves.
“Hello Again, hello…” Music plays as Will and Emma dance to in his living room. He sings to her, “Just called to say hello…” “This is the perfect song for us,” he tells her, leaning his forehead against hers. “See, he’s known this girl for so long, but they’ve just been friends, and—now he’s calling her up to tell her, he wants more.” He smiles, telling her that he was inspired by his hello assignment. She loves it. “I don’t know why,” he answers, “but I’ve always had a soft spot for this assignment.” They continue to dance, slowly leaning towards each other into a kiss.
They drop to the couch, still kissing, and suddenly Emma pulls away. “Too much too fast, too much too fast!”
“No, no, you smell great, your teeth are fine—“
“No, it’s not that,” she answers, unable to look at him. “I just haven’t been, uh, intimate, in a very…very long time.”
He smiles, shaking his head at her cuteness. “How long?”
She finally looks at him, and softly answers, “Ever…I just haven’t found the right person. You know, someone who won’t reject me when things are really hard with my—with my problems.”
Surprised Will backs off, and sweetly answers, “It’s cool.”
“No, it’s not,” she says, embarrassed. “It’s not Will, I can tell.”
She starts to cry but he takes her in his arms, assuring her that it’s fine. “I understand.” He smiles. “I’ll pop in a movie.” He kisses her forehead.
“Do we have to watch Armageddon again?” she asks, and he tells her it’s that or “Bad Boys”. They’re the only DVDs Terri left behind. Okay then.
Rachel stares at the picture of Jesse she now has hung up in her locker surrounded by hearts, and closes the door just as Finn walks up to tell her that he’s realized he doesn’t want to date other girls. She tells him it’s too late, she’s found someone else. “A boy who’s finally worthy of my talent and love,” she tells him. When he finds out it’s Jesse, he points out that it’s kind of suspicious. They make it to Regionals and suddenly the guy in their top competition picks her up? Rachel doesn’t believe it. Finn takes it to Mr. Schuester. “We have a problem.”
Santana and Brittnay tell Sue that their plan failed with Finn, but they did find out about Rachel’s interest in Jesse. Hmmm…this may be easier than Sue thought to bring down the club.
Jesse and Vocal Adrenaline perform “Highway to Hell”, after which their director Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), tells them they need to look happier while performing (“I want a look that’s so optimistic it could cure cancer!”). She tells them to take five and drink a Red Bull, and Will approaches her with his concern about Rachel and Jesse. She tells him that Jesse’s a good kid and insists she’s not spying on them, because she doesn’t really see them as competition. After all, what can you do? “The heart wants what it wants.” Sometimes there’s just that little spark—
Cut to Will and Miss Corcoran making out on his sofa. Even as he kisses her she can’t stop talking about her coaching techniques and winning, and when she reaches for his shirt, he pulls away, stopping her. “Okay, a-al—I’m sorry, we have to stop, I—“ he pulls back, running his hands through his hair. “I just can’t do this.”
“Oh I’m sorry, I’m all business, I’m trying to work on that.” He tells her that that’s not the problem, he just can’t do this because he feels guilty about Emma. He gets up and pours her some coffee, and she tells him that she’s obsessed with her work. He knows the feeling. It played a big role in his breakup with his wife. After she finds out he just left his wife and is already dating someone, to which he answers, “I’m kind of a mess”, she suggests that he takes some time “to reintroduce yourself to yourself.”
“Look,” she says, getting up and grabbing her purse. “That hair, that dimple, that terrible clunker you drive, I think you’re about the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Here’s my number. When you get things sorted out, give me a call.” Plus that making out? “Was kinda hot.” She grins, pats him on the shoulder and leaves.
When the rest of the club finds out about Rachel and Jesse, they’re mad. They’re pretty sure Jesse’s just playing her, and none of them want to go through what happened at Sectionals again. They tell her that if she doesn’t break up with Jesse, she’s out. When she says they can’t kick her out, they argue that they can all quit. They’re a team, and they’re not about to let her ruin their chances at Regionals.
Continuing on in her evil plan, Sue enlists a bunch of “mustache sporting teenage girls” and invites Rachel to the Old Maids Club. Rachel hears all their lonely stories of making out with cats and no school dances, and horrified, she takes Sue’s advice to “go for it with your Carmel High beau.” “Rachel,” she tells her, “you need to become even more narcissistic and self-centered than you already are. Think of yourself, your potential happiness. If not,” Sue gestures to the other girls. “Join the club.”
Meticulously setting and measuring out the table setting, Emma gets ready to surprise Will at his apartment with a romantic candle-lit dinner. Unfortunately, Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig) shows up before Will (to pick up the rest of her DVDs), and spoils everything by telling Emma that the song Will chose to be theirs, “Hello”, was actually the same song she and Will had at their prom. Emma doesn’t believe her, but Terri tells her to go check it out in the yearbook. Flicking aside Emma’s carefully placed cutlery, Terri mocks, “Sorry”, and heads out.
Rachel meets Jesse at his auditorium and asks him point blank if he’s just using her. He assures her that he’s not, that he’d never hurt her, and she hugs him. “No one can no.” “I understand.” He kisses her, looking over her shoulder at his Miss Corcoran. He lied. He is playing her.
Emma goes to Will in his office and shows him his high school yearbook. She tells him to flip to his junior prom. He does. His face falls when he realizes what she’s trying to say. He’s so sorry, that night means nothing to him now, he didn’t even remember that was their song. “Not consciously,” she says softly. “Somewhere inside, you’re still not over her.” She tells him that she thinks sometime they spend so much time with these kids that they start acting like them. Gently, Emma tells Will, “You’ve been in the same relationship your entire life. You don’t know who you are Will, and I think this song is just the beginning of you repeating the same patterns.”
“Terri and I met when I was fifteen,” he answers. “I’m a different person now.”
“How is you compromising yourself for my crazy any different than you doing it for her?” she asks softly, and he doesn’t have an answer.
After a long moment, he shakes his head. “Well, what do you want to do?” She thinks he needs to spend some time alone and get to know himself. Sadly, he brushes her hair back and answers, “You’re right. I guess I’m just not good at being alone, and realizing what my own needs are.”
“Well maybe by the time you figure out what they are,” she tells him. “Maybe I’ll be ready to get a little messy.” She tightens his tie. “Can you go now?” she asks softly. “I think I need to close the door and cry.” She lets out a sad laugh. Just as sadly, Will leaves. Emma sits down at her desk and cries.
Rachel tells Quinn at his locker that she ended it with Jesse. He tells her that he thinks it’s best, not just for the team but for “us”. He’s been thinking about all his problems lately, and how overwhelming it all is, and he admits that all he really needed to fix was them. He wants to be with her. He even circled a couple of dates on her crazy calendar. Torn, Rachel doesn’t know what to say, then finally tells him that she “can’t be a couple with you”. She quickly tells him it’s for the team, they need to focus right now, no drama. She starts to leave, but he tells her he’s not just some guy she met at the music store she can blow off. “I don’t give up that easily.” He tells her he’ll see her at Rehearsal.
On stage, the whole team sings, “you say goodbye, and I say hello.” Will watches from the audience, Emma watches him from the balcony. “You say goodbye, and I say hello, hello hello, I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say hello…” The song ends and Rachel walks off without a word.
1. The Doors - Hello, I Love You
2. All American Rejects - Gives You Hell
3. Lionel Ritchie - Hello
4. "A Chorus Line" - Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, ...
5. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
6. The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye
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