Episode 2 The Story of Tracy Beaker

# I can make my world come true All my dreams will see me through

-# It doesn't matter What may come my way...

-No! No!

# Believe it now I will win some day. #

RATTLING AND BANGING

Ryan! Ryan!

There's someone downstairs!

BOTH: Argh-h-h-h-h-h! SHE SCREAMS

-Tracy! Pack it in!

-Ryan, you total twonk!

-What is going on?!

-Tracy's getting a baseball team together.

Come on, Zac.

-I'm waiting.

-Why don't we get together in the morning? ..No?

-What happened?

-Tracy.

-What were you doing?

-Protecting you, actually! I heard a strange noise...

so I crept downstairs and listened outside your office door.

There was someone in there,

so I charged in and caught the most evil-looking burglar you ever saw!

He was trying to look in your LOCKED filing cabinet.

-What for?

-Give me a file - mine'll do - and I'll try and figure it out.

It's not allowed. You tell me instead.

If you won't show, I won't tell.

-Did you bring any sweets?

-Er, no. Sorry.

-Try it, Elaine, it might help you win my confidence.

-Thanks for the tip.

-What were you after in the office?

-Burglars.

-In the filing cabinet?

-Don't joke. Social workers aren't funny.

-What were you looking for?

It might...

be something I can help you with.

THAT is a tragic attempt at a bribe.

You didn't have to set Elaine the Pain on me!

-Will you call her off, if I tell you what I wanted?

-Almost definitely.

I was looking for my mum's address. I want to write and tell her I'm back,

and get her to come and get me.

-She knows. Elaine wrote to her.

-But if

-I

-write, she'll know it's urgent.

-Sorry, it's not possible.

-How can you keep a child from their mother?!

Don't blame me if my behavioural problems get any worse!

Hmm, low turnout after last night's hoo-hah.

Hear you screamed the place down, Tracy.

I screamed to frighten a burglar off.

-Admit it - you were terrified.

-I'm braver than you, Justine Littlewood!

Once, before YOU came,

-the Dumping Ground caught fire and

-I

-raised the alarm

and led everyone to safety,

and then I was the only person brave enough to go in and save little Maxy.

He'd have been burnt to a crisp if I hadn't rescued him from that fire.

-What do you think you're doing?!

-Seeing if it's true what they say on TV -

"A real fire makes your house feel more like home." It didn't work.

Justine's twice as brave as you. Prove it in a dare competition!

-I've nothing better to do.

-And the prize?

-My old bedroom!

-Not as brave as you thought?

-I'm in.

-And if you chicken out, she gets your room.

-What if SHE chickens out?

You get to keep it. Want help packing?

CLUCKING

I get to go first, cos it was my idea. I dare you to...

Duke, can you help me with this lock?

-She's my mum! You have to give me her address!

-It's for your own good.

That's what grown-ups always say. You're stopping me leave here!

I'm not. I'm trying hard to place you with another family.

And I know they're out there somewhere,

because you're... a very, very, special girl.

If I'm so special, how come no-one wants me?

Didn't know you did impressions, Elaine. Great goldfish!

She's done it. Top of the cupboard door.

But Duke'll get it and he's so soft, it don't count.

-Tracy dared me to flour-bomb someone. She didn't say who.

-Shh!

Someone's coming.

-All right?

-Don't talk to me unless you want your head bitten off.

-You probably need some sugar in your system.

-Biscuits! Great idea.

SHE SCREAMS

SUPPRESSED GIGGLES

-Don't go in that kitchen.

-Look at the state of me!

-Screwdriver...

-Did you see her face?

-Beat that!

Just tell me what needs doing.

-D'you know anything about this?

-Oh, it's called a dustpan.

Don't push your luck, Miss.

-Are we doing dares or what? I've got a bedroom to move into.

-Right...

here's your next dare.

-Here, put this by the back door.

-But I'm the referee.

-So?

-Duke's coming!

-..Quick!

Oh, the jug!

One-all. Everything to play for.

Ready for another, or shall we start moving things out my bedroom?

-In your dreams!

-You can drop the innocent act.

After my shower, I want this place to be exactly as I left it.

-No booby traps or flour bombs!

-ALL: Yes, Jenny.

OK, Justine, a Beaker dare special coming up!

Hello?

I wish I could see her face!

Really? Well, it looks like this. No TV for you tonight,

and if anything else happens to me, I'll ban it for ever!

-Innocent till proven guilty!

-The evidence is pretty conclusive.

You haven't seen a load of cheese sauce, have you?

Have you checked on top of the cupboard door?

-She'll never do it.

-She's got to. Justine's done flour AND shower.

Tracy's only done cheese sauce. If she does tree, they're even.

Shut up, you lot, I'm trying to plan my route. Ryan?

Fearlessly, I climbed higher and higher - higher than the birds,

higher than the clouds - until I was almost as high as the stars.

-Tracy! That's high enough!

-..Be careful.

-Tracy's stuck up a tree!

-Be with you straightaway.

I'll be with you in a second... Argh! Oh, what on earth...?!

My cheese sauce!

-Hey! Who put you up to this, eh?

-No-one! It wasn't me!

-Listen!

I'm going to wring out my sock and serve it up to them.

-Aren't you going to rescue Tracy?

-She IS up a tree?

-It doesn't count.

-I haven't finished yet.

-Yes, you have!

-You snitch, Peter!

-If he hadn't told us, you'd have been stuck up there.

I wasn't stuck - I was resting. What's that squelchy noise?

-Cheese sauce. Anything to do with you?

-How? I've been stuck up a tree!

What're you waiting for, Justine, rubber gloves?

< Go on, right down!

-She's doing it! Cool!

-Gross!

Eurgh!

-A convincing 3-2 lead to Justine.

-What's the matter, Tracy?

-Met someone more daring than you?

-No-one's more daring than me!

I dare you to eat a worm!

-You're not scared of worms, are you?

-I'm not scared of anything!

It doesn't matter how creepy, crawly, hairy, slimy it is!

Grrrr!

Oh, and I'm especially not scared of worms!

Go on. Take it! It's a lovely little worm.

What's the matter with your kid?

She's always bending my ear about having a pet!

She's never going to!

Gross! >

No way!

SPLUTTERING AND CHOKING

Awesome.

What's the matter? Finally met someone more daring than you?

Now, what shall I dare you to do next?

Forget it! You'll have me jumping off the roof, or something.

I'm not killing myself for YOU. You are a total headcase!

-Tracy Beaker, champion dare-doer, now reclaims her bedroom!

-Thank you.

Grub up, Guys! Come on.

Come along, slowcoach.

It was going to be lasagne, till my cheese sauce turned into a foot bath.

I'd rather have this, Duke.

I love the way you make it so wriggly and slithery. Mmm...

Happy now?

-Not really.

-You got your room!

My new room's much better. I don't want your scrotty old pit after all.

TRACY!

# I can make my world come true All my dreams will see my through

-# And the fight won't get me down

-No! No!

# My dreams will turn things All around

# With a smile upon my face I can see a better place

-# It doesn't matter What may come my way...

-No! No!

# Believe it now I will win some day. #