Degrassi: The Next Generation (TV Series)

Eye of the Tiger (2004)

Shane Kippel: Gavin 'Spinner' Mason

Quotes 

• Spinner : Hey. Um, listen man, about the hospital...

  Jimmy : Wheels. Chair. It's a wheelchair. Gawk all you want, it's not going away.

  Spinner : Dude, I would have come, but things got crazy around here and you know how it is.

  Jimmy : I understand. I probably should have been there with you instead of at the hospital getting a bullet removed from my spine. My bad.

• Jimmy : [to Spinner]  Look, stuck in a bed for three months, you can't stop thinking.

  Spinner : About getting better, man. And you will.

  Jimmy : About Rick and how I rode him just as hard as you guys.

  Spinner : Yeah, but you didn't set up the paint.

  Jimmy : I know, but that doesn't change anything, does it? Rick put me in this chair for life. For life! Sometimes, I just wish he had better aim. Finish the job.

  Spinner : You don't mean that.

  Jimmy : How do you know what I mean? Are you in a chair? Do you wake up every morning thinking you can walk and then remembering that you will never ever walk again? It's not your fault. It's mine.

  Spinner : In the bathroom after... after we dumped that stuff on Rick, me and Jay told him you were behind it.

  Jimmy : And then he shot me.

  [rolls away from Spinner; Spinner sits in the middle of the room crying] 

• Jay Hogart : [while Jay and Spinner are drinking alcohol] 

  [to Spinner] 

  Jay Hogart : So, Jimmy's party. Did you lose your invitation?

  Spinner : Nah, man. They all hate me.

  Jay Hogart : Hey, my philosophy: they can all go to hell.

  Spinner : Yeah, but they weren't your friends to begin with.

  Jay Hogart : It's this whole blame thing though. Rick is the bad guy, but now that he's gone, everyone's looking to blame someone else.

  Spinner : Yeah, man. It's like... it's like I'm the guy who brought the gun to school. I'm... I'm the guy who shot Jimmy, right? I'm the criminal. It's not fair!

  Jay Hogart : You want some cheese with that whine or are you gonna do something about it?

  Spinner : Think I found my invitation

  [drinks the rest of the alcohol and then smashes the bottle against a tree] 

• Spinner : [to Jimmy]  I want my friend back!

  Jimmy : When have you ever treated me like a friend? When you lied to Rick? When you told me about it?

  Spinner : You needed to know!

  Jimmy : No, you needed to make yourself feel better. Why don't you for once just think about somebody other than Spinner? Or you know what, just go drive off a bridge! I don't care. I don't. You're dead to me already.

• Principal Daphne Hatzilakos : [after Spinner confesses to Mrs. Hatzilakos about his involvement in the incident]  I don't even know where to begin. This is beyond anything you've ever done at this school.

  Spinner : I know, I know. And if you have to suspend me, I will...

  Principal Daphne Hatzilakos : Suspend? A boy died! Another one is confined to a wheelchair for what might be the rest of his life!

  Spinner : I'm sorry.

  Principal Daphne Hatzilakos : I know you're sorry, but it does not change what you did. Please go to your locker, pack your things and I'll notify your parents.

  Spinner : When do I get to come back?

  Principal Daphne Hatzilakos : Gavin, we have zero tolerance for bullying and I have no choice. I'm expelling you.