[03:49.77]Hey, Mr. McAllister.
[03:51.23]Not wasting any time, are you, Tracy?
[03:53.73]You know what they say about the early bird.
[03:57.44]Yeah, I do.
[04:00.82]Good luck there, Tracy.
[04:02.41]Thanks, Mr. M. I'll see you in class.
[04:07.54]None of this would've happened
[04:09.20]if Mr. McAllister hadn't meddled the way he did.
[04:11.87]He should've just accepted things as they are,
[04:14.25]instead of trying to interfere with destiny.
[04:16.67]You see, you can't interfere with destiny.
[04:19.55]That's why it's destiny.
[04:20.97]And if you try to interfere,
[04:22.88]the same thing's just gonna happen anyway,
[04:25.30]and you'll just suffer.
[04:29.14]It's hard to remember how the whole thing started,
[04:31.52]the whole election mess.
[04:32.98]What I do remember is that I loved my job.
[04:36.23]I was a teacher,
[04:37.77]an educator,
[04:38.82]and I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
[04:41.57]Mr. McAllister.
[04:43.24]Mr. M!
[04:44.91]Quit day dreaming. Get back to work.
[04:47.24]The students knew it wasn't just a job for me.
[04:50.75]I got involved.
[04:52.08]Put down the cards, boys!
[04:54.00]This game is over!
[04:55.46]And I cared.
[04:56.84]Come on, Wolverines!
[04:58.80]Defense! Let's go!
[04:59.76]And I think I made a difference.
[05:01.72]I knew I touched the students' lives
[05:03.63]during their difficult young adult years.
[05:06.01]And I took that responsibility seriously.
[05:09.89]In the 12 years I taught U.S. history,
[05:13.23]civics, and current events at Carver,
[05:15.60]I was voted Teacher of the Year 3 times.
[05:18.48]A school record.
[05:20.28]Teaching was all I'd ever wanted to do.
[05:25.16]Standing in front of a roomful of young people,
[05:28.58]trying to get them excited about the world,
[05:30.99]trying to make them think,
[05:32.91]preparing them for the tough moral and ethical decisions
[05:36.25]that they'd face as adults,
[05:38.17]that's how I wanted to spend my life.
[05:40.96]So is this a moral situation
[05:42.88]or an ethical situation?
[05:45.05]What's the difference between morals and ethics anyway?
[05:47.93]Anybody?
[05:50.56]Derek.
[05:52.02]Yeah. Ethics is like when you do
[05:53.93]what society tells you is right to do.
[05:56.14]And morals...
[05:59.69]Yeah, yeah, you're on the right track.
[06:01.61]Can anybody help him out?
[06:05.32]Michelle.
[06:06.36]Morals are like... lessons.
[06:08.82]You know, like the moral of a story.
[06:10.91]It's what you learn from a story or a fable.
[06:14.58]Or a life experience. Good.
[06:16.96]And ethics?
[06:18.25]Um, ethics is how you use the morals
[06:21.80]that you learn from the story?
[06:23.80]Yeah, OK, but I think we're missing something key here.
[06:27.18]What are we missing?
[06:36.56]Tracy.
[06:37.44]Ethics are rules of conduct...
[06:40.61]Tracy Flick.
[06:42.07]Tracy Flick.
[06:43.03]I'd seen a lot of ambitious students
[06:44.78]come and go over the years,
[06:46.19]but Tracy Flick, she was a special case.
[06:50.66]Some people say I'm an overachiever,
[06:52.45]but I think they're just jealous.
[06:53.91]My mom always tells me I'm different.
[06:55.83]You know, special.
[06:57.25]And if you look at all the things
[06:58.71]I've accomplished so far,
[06:59.67]I think you'd have to agree.
[07:08.30]Here I am as Hodel in FiddlerOn The Roof.
[07:10.68]Matchmaker, matchmaker, I'll bring the veil
[07:13.56]You bring the groom
[07:15.18]And here I am on KCHS, our student-run TV station.
[07:18.85]The littering must stop.
[07:20.77]Tracy Flick reporting.
[07:22.48]But it was in the S.G.A.,
[07:24.61]the Student Government Association,
[07:26.07]where I made my biggest mark.
[07:27.49]I never missed a single meeting.
[07:29.40]And I volunteered for every committee,
[07:31.32]as long as I could lead it.
[07:33.24]I agree with Ashley!
[07:34.37]I think we should rent the barrels ahead of time
[07:36.04]because what happened last time was a travesty.
[07:38.04]It was ridiculous,
[07:39.21]and I think it really reflected poorly on all ofus.
[07:40.87]Now Tracy Flick was poised to win
[07:43.25]the presidency ofthe student body.
[07:45.71]And so far, she was running unopposed.
[07:48.55]Determined by a culture at a certain time in history.
[07:52.47]Oh, there's one more thing about Tracy
[07:54.35]I think you should know.
[07:55.97]Her pussy gets so wet you can't believe it.
[07:59.98]Don't tell me that.
[08:01.90]Don't tell me that. I don't want to know that.
[08:03.40]A few months before the election,
[08:05.32]she'd gotten herself in a little trouble
[08:07.28]with my best friend Dave Novotny.
[08:10.65]Foxy
[08:12.53]Dave came to Carver the year after I did,
[08:14.95]and we hit it off right away.
[08:16.87]Dave was one of those guys who taught
[08:18.79]because they never wanted to leave high school
[08:20.21]in the first place.
[08:21.67]But basically, he was a good guy.
[08:24.54]Our wives became best friends, too.
[08:26.92]And when Dave and Linda's son Darryl was born,
[08:29.34]they asked us to be his godparents.
[08:33.30]You probably think the worst,
[08:35.68]that Mr. Novotny was taking horrible advantage
[08:38.39]of one of his students.
[08:39.81]But it wasn't like that at all.
[08:42.23]Our relationship was based on mutual respect
[08:44.60]and admiration.
[08:45.73]I mean, during my sophomore year in geometry,
[08:48.44]it was strictly professional between us.
[08:50.36]I mean, nothing.
[08:52.28]It wasn't until junior year
[08:53.74]when we worked together on the year book
[08:55.66]that things got kind of serious.
[08:57.58]One night he took us editors out to celebrate
[08:59.49]after a deadline.
[09:00.95]Eventually, Dave and I were left alone,
[09:03.33]and we got to talking.
[09:04.79]Not like teacher and student,
[09:06.71]but like 2 adults.
[09:08.13]You know, Tracy,
[09:09.59]I notice that you don't seem to have
[09:11.51]any close friends at Carver.
[09:13.43]You seem to be kind of a loner.
[09:15.34]No, I'm not. I'm just real busy.
[09:18.06]Oh, no. I know, I know it's not by choice.
[09:20.60]I just mean that, that, well...
[09:23.02]being the kind of person you are,
[09:25.40]it must be really difficult foryou
[09:27.36]to find somebody you could talk to.
[09:29.11]What do you mean?
[09:30.69]What kind of person am I?
[09:35.03]Tracy, you know, I've been watching you for going on...
[09:38.87]3 years now,
[09:40.29]and I think you are one of the most talented,
[09:43.37]hard-working, sensitive, attractive,
[09:46.50]brilliant students I...
[09:48.46]No.
[09:50.71]Human beings I have ever met.
[09:54.22]Thank you.
[09:55.26]And I know that sometimes people like you
[09:58.05]have to pay a price for their greatness.
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