Tickets

"Tickets" is the fourth episode of the Tangible original series *Second Time*.

## Cast

Matt Butler as Matt Irvin

Melanie Solo as Anne Shelby

John Barton as Redlyn Admissions Officer (voice only)

## Plot

### 9 Months, 13 Days, 8 Hours Before

Matt is in his bedroom, on the phone with Anne. He is holding a pair of blue tickets. He and Anne are disagreeing about which prom they should attend. He gets her to very begrudgingly agree to go to his prom, but the conversation ends abruptly when Anne hangs up on him.

### 3 Months After

Matt mentions their prom night, to which Anne comments that it had its "ups and downs".

### 8 Months, 26 Days, 3 Hours Before

Matt gets Anne to check to make sure he brought the prom tickets. Visibly upset, she confirms that the tickets are, in fact, in his glove compartment. Matt gets her to check the address on the red tickets, which are for Anne's prom at the Capular Academy, not Matt's at Montag High School.

### 3 Months After

Anne tells Matt that his move to get her tickets was "very sweet". He responds by saying that he would have done anything for her.

### 8 Months, 26 Days, 3 Hours Before

Matt and Anne pull into the parking lot. Anne quickly gets out of the car and hugs Matt. They make up, both apologizing. As they head off to prom, Anne's phone is shown receiving a call from Redlyn University.

### 8 Months, 25 Days, 23 Hours Before

Anne gets back into the car. She sees the missed call on her phone and listens to the voicemail. Redlyn had called her because one of their scholarship spots had opened up last-minute and it needed to be filled, so they were contacting the top few students on the wait list for an immediate phone interview. Once she calls back, she finds out that the scholarship had already been given away. At this disheartening news, Matt comforts her. He gets out and climbs into the backseat, and asks her to join him. She initially refuses, thinking he wants to take advantage of the situation. When he explains that he just can't hug her from up there, she gets up and joins him in the backseat, crying. The scene ends with Matt telling Anne he loved her.

### 3 Months After

Anne asks Matt if he still loved her, to which he states that he wishes he loved her "like I loved you then".

## Trivia

* This is the first *Second Time* episode to start on a flashback rather than a "Three Months After" scene.
	+ This kicks off a string of every other episode beginning with a flashback - "I Hope So", "The Solution", and "First Time" also start this way
* This is the only *Second Time* episode to contain back-to-back flashbacks with no "Three Months After" scene between them. Instead, a time-lapse is used to show the passage of time.
* This episode contains the first mention of Montag High School and the Capular Academy. Although these schools are referenced several times in *College Life*, they were never mentioned by name until this episode.
* In an early draft of this episode's script, Matt explicitly asks Anne to leave her phone in the car so they can enjoy a night of "no distractions". In a later re-write, this was removed so that Matt could in no way be at fault for Anne missing the phone call.
* The bit of comic relief in the post-prom scene (when Matt asks Anne to join him in the backseat and she assumes he wants to use the situation to have sex with her) was supposed to have been scrapped at the cast auditions because it didn't seem fit with the rest of the scene and felt really awkward in a lot of read-throughs, but it was accidentally left in. When the casting directors heard Matt Butler and Melanie Solo read through the scene, they thought the actors actually pulled off the exchange really well and decided to leave it in.
	+ The fact that these two actors were able to successfully execute those lines to the degree they did in the auditions was definitely a contributing factor to them being cast.
* Other than the series finale, which had an extra-long credits sequence, this is the longest episode of the series at 6 minutes and 23 seconds.