The L Word: THE OTHER ENDING

This is my alternate ending.. Please feel free to post your own versions.

After Bette and Jenny’s little talk outside their new bedroom, where Bette says she will do anything to protect the family she created, Bette grabs Jenny’s hand and brings her downstairs where everyone is in the room watching the good-bye video. She announces that she has something important to settle once and for all, and tells Jenny to show the “proof” she showed to Kit.

Meanwhile Bette turns to Tina: “Tina, I thought this was nothing so I didn’t tell you about it, and now I’m so sorry for not doing so. But Kelly came over, that night after the opening, and she professed she was interested in me. I refused. Nothing happened, and I asked her to leave. I didn’t mention it because it was nothing. But apparently Jenny thinks she saw us having sex, and on top of that Kelly has been lying that we did. I swear to you we did nothing.  I swear.

The video is played. Everyone is quiet for a moment...

Bette exclaims, almost with tears in her eyes: “Oh my god Jenny! That is me cleaning up the glass that she broke!! She broke one of our champagne glasses! Tina you can check there’s one missing! ”

Tina steps forward to look closely. Jenny looks confused.

Shane: “You know… if you were going down on her… that angle is totally wrong… you might as well just be going down on her knee”

Bette: “Thank you Shane”

Alice: “You’re right! Look you can even see the glass on the floor over there!”

Everyone looks closer. Kit sighs in relief.

Bette: “Tina, you have got to believe me. And Jenny, if you weren’t so god dam judgmental about everyone perhaps you could’ve moved a step over when you shot this damn thing and seen it for yourself!”

Tina is overwhelmed. Bette goes over and takes her hand, and looks into her eyes.

Tina shakes her head, trying to focus:  “Jenny, I know you stole the tapes. Shane found them in your attic. You made me lose my job Jenny.”

Jenny: “Okay, so you guys want to believe this is Bette cleaning up glass from the floor just because there’s glass on the floor. Whatever. And Tina, it was my movie to begin with. You should be on my side. They were ruining our movie Tina! They stole it from me, and I took it back. I was not going to let them turn it into some straight chick flick! I’m not sorry for what I did!”

Jenny looks at Shane searching for help: “I could not let them take away my life…”

Shane: “I found my jacket, Jenny…and the letter from Molly."

Jenny: “Shane….”

Silence

Shane shakes her head and moves back.

Alice and Helena exchange raised eyebrows.

Helena, quietly to Alice, but loud enough for everyone to hear: “And here I thought she was meddling too much with my life”  

Kit to Jenny: “Girl, you have got to let things go… and trust your friends… but instead you let them down like this…. I don’t know… I’m not getting involved..”

Jenny: “Well… it’s obvious I no longer have any friends in here. I’ll take my things and leave.”  She leaves the room.

No one goes after her. After a little bit of silence:

Alice: “Did you guys know i-phones can make videos?”

Bette and Tina hug. Bette: “I can’t believe about the tapes! And, Tina, I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you ..”

Tina: “It’s ok … I realize that I trust you”

Helena hears them and it makes her think for a moment. She decides to call Dylan.  

 

Outside: A crying Jenny runs up stairs to get her jacket that she left behind. On her way out, she stops to look down at the pool. It brings back old memories. She remembers when she first moved in next door and saw Shane make out with a girl in this pool. She remembers Tim. She remembers Marina. Both of whom she had contacted for the video, and both of whom seemed to be doing okay without her. She leans a little more forward, but her eyes are blurry, and she didn’t realize that she stepped too close. It's too late. She momentarily tries to gain her balance and step back, but faills. She falls...

Had she fallen at the proper angle she would’ve landed in the pool. But she tripped over the tape which was the make-shift railing, and so when she fell she bumped her head on the side of the pool… she hit it ever so lightly... There was no bleeding, at least not on the outside. Inside her head, though, was a different matter, (but that would not be discovered untill the autopsy report)...

She did not feel much pain… infact she came up and touched her head, and saw no blood. Deep in her emotional state, her eyes still blurry from tears, she turned back and saw that no one had seen her fall. They were all inside... probably bitching about her. She had lost everything... her old friends as well as her new ones. She had no one. She was alone. She did not even have her movie. She had never felt so alone in her entire life. Everything she wanted was taken away. Everyone left her.

She floated for a few seconds...but suddenly her head started to ach tremendously where she had hit it.  She realized something was wrong... She realized her breathing was slowing… Her eyes went blurry… Things went dark.

Then she saw a white light….

  

Only a few minutes have passed. Inside the talk finally quiets down. Tempers that were raging a few minutes ago are now calming down. Anger and betrayal is overcome by the love and support of friends.

Helena: “I hope you guys don’t mind, but I invited Dylan to come over. She should be here shortly.”

Bette smiles, her hand in Tina’s: “That’s just fine, she is most welcome.”

Alice: “Oh... Jenny forgot her i-phone!”

Max: “Do you want me to run over and give it back?”

Alice: “Nah, I’ll do it. After all I did decide earlier to forgive her... and after what happened she probably needs it. I’ll be right back guys”

 

Alice goes out… only to enter a few minutes later…. Distraught, scared and hardly able to utter a word…