The roommates all get ready this morning for their inevitable departure from this house and from Brooklyn. Everyone does one last heartfelt confessional: Scott - Here we are in out last couple of hours. I don’t feel like I’m leaving I don’t feel like it’s our last goodbye I feel comfortable feeling like I’ve established friendships with people. I am sad that I’m going to be leaving this experience of living with everyone.
Ryan - And so this is it, my last confessional. It’s bittersweet. It really just hit me last night when I was laying in bed. We are going to miss everyone, I’ve been around these 7 people for so long now that it’s going to be weird without them. I could do without one or two of them, but I’m going to miss them. I’m going to miss this house. This is the time that we walk out the door and start a new chapter, we are all going to be going down different avenues, to do different things. The things that I’m going to remember is the times when my stomach hurt so much from the laughter, or sitting down having a one on one with anyone in the house. Time to start the next chapter!
Chet- I’ve enjoyed my time here, I’ve enjoyed every moment that I’ve had here. I think that for the most part we gel really well, at least in the last few weeks. Do I have any regrets? I can’t say that I do. It’s about progression. I came out here to be a better person I think that I am. I am more well rounded. I love the peeps in the house. The truth is that I do love these people I would do anything for them.
Sarah- I don’t think that there’s anything that I’ll regret anything that I’ll say that I wish I didn’t do or wish I had done more of. It teaches you patience and you don’t always have to put your two cents in. I’m really sad to see everyone go but I also know that everyone is going on to do different things.
Baya- I cannot believe that this is over, we’ve made it, we created our story and this is who we are. This is our experience.
Devyn- I can not believe that it’s over. I’m relieved but sad at the same time. There are some people that I’m going to miss a lot. This experience has been trying, it has been amazing and memorable, and something that I’m sure will never come again in our lifetimes. Baya you know that I love you and you are so much fun, I am so excited that I’m going to get to live with you for a little while longer. Sarah you are the most nurturing person and although you can sometimes be a know-it-all, you remind me of home. Katelynn whatever it was from the moment we met each other, whatever it was, it was there. Although we are such strong personalities, and we sometimes clash, you are the best roommates ever. Thank you for bringing a little bit of light to some of the darkest days. You are such a wonderful person don’t ever sell yourself short, you deserve to be treated as such by everyone. I hate that you are going so far away- at least you are only a video chat away. I love you all very much.
Katelynn- We are leaving here under the same climate as we arrived, stormy. This has been a crazy beautiful nerve-wracking experience and I feel very blessed to have been given the opportunity to live it. Thanks to the 7 people who have become friends and enemies. Goodbye Brooklyn.
The roommates pack the last of their belongings, anxiously awaiting their departure directives. The boys all gather in the Grand Army bedroom where Ryan sings ‘The Tampon Song’ one last time, in the kitchen, the girls sing along. Everyone gathers around the kitchen counter to enjoy a platter of Subway, the boys on one side the girls on the other – still divided. The girls all read the letters that Katelynn has read for them and remain emotional from them.
Scott calls his father to find that he’s only about 10 minutes out. When the doorbell rings Scott heads down and with the help of his father pulls the front gate open so that his father can pull down to the end of the Pier. Before leaving, Katelynn and Ryan remain somewhat detached, but all stand to take one last group photo before they are split up. Everyone walks down and offers one last hug as Scott gets in the car and drives away. As Sarah walks back into the house she sniffles and says, “that was rough.” Again the roommates divide, the girls in the living room the boys in the billiards room. One by one the roommates are picked off. JD is confused as his driver comes into the house and calls his name. Only hugging the boys, when JD abruptly exits Chet jokes that it’s as if he was kidnapped. Devyn sits, leans her head back and says that she’s nervous that she’s going next, which she in fact is. Walking around their bedroom after Devyn has gone Katelynn wipes her tears and mumbles, “this sucks.”
The boys finish their game of pool and when they see another driver approach the house Chet guesses that it’s for Sarah. As Sarah hugs Ryan goodbye and says, “I don’t care what you say about me, I still think that there is happiness in everything.” Baya and Katelynn embrace as Sarah drives off, sad that they are the last two girls in the house. Ryan and Chet leave almost right away. Baya is next. Katelynn cries, walks in the front door and says, “and then there was one.” Katelynn talks to herself as she zips up her luggage, shuts the front door and walks out to what is now a brisk sunny day. Down the driveway with Ryan’s water taxi as her backdrop. As Ryan’s water taxi passes Katelynn she reaches the front gate and closes it, and emotionally walks away from this chapter of her life.