Expert: Mel - 2/6/2008

Question
ok... so, with the rerun's being shown on soapnet, i find myself (at the age of
29) being sucked back in. and i'll be honest, i love every single minute of it...

i remember wanting to know a song that played during an original episode air
date... i thought i would be able to figure it out on by watching the rerun's-
but i must have missed it since they're back at the beginning!

anyway... i'm hoping you can help. it was absolutely from season 9 or the
beginning/middle of season 10. this much i know because it was after dylan
returns on thanksgiving.
i'll do my best to setup the rest of the situation as i remember it...

dylan and kelly were at the beach house - he may have been trying to get her
back, i believe that matt and gina were involved at this point...
they were out on the balcony and i think she turns away from him and they
play a song... for some reason, i had always thought it to be a sarah
mclachlan song... but now im thinking that im wrong... and it was some other
song... because i did a search on her songs and i was unsuccessful...

so, they are either outside and she turns away from him and the song starts
to play but then the show cuts to a commercial or is over...

also, the setup could've been where kelly goes inside the beach house (or
maybe was inside the whole time) and dylan shows up- because i also
vaguely remember something about white mini-blinds... maybe she looks out
of them and sees dylan and the song plays... (i could also have two different
scenes mixed up...)

this is really been bothering me for years! ha! i thought i would be able to
find it again on soapnet... but i missed it. : (

anyway... hope that gives you something to go off of.
i'd really appreciate any help!

Answer
Hi, Danielle.  

The wait is definitely over.  And you're right, it is a Sarah McLachlan song that plays in the final scene of "I Want to Reach Out And Grab You", 9.22 (end of S9).  The title is "Do What You Have to Do".

In this episode, Gina grows furious over Kelly's still-lingering feelings for Dylan, her boyfriend, and asks her to make a firm commitment to "let him go".  Kelly, who is dating Matt at the time, agrees, though she knows it will be difficult.

In the final scene, Dylan comes over to the Beach Apt to apologize to Gina outside, while Kelly is in her bedroom, filling the pages of her journal and looking dour.  As Dylan and Gina kiss and make-up, we see Kelly stand and peer out at them from her window (draped with white mini-blinds and curtains).  He notices her staring straight at him and reciprocates this intense look of longing.  The camera cuts back and forth, gradually moving into close-ups until the scene fades to credits.  Volume raised, the last lyric of the song that we hear is, "I had the sense to recognize that I don't know how to let you go."

Also, we're never too old to enjoy 90210. ;)

Thanks for the question!

All the best,

Mel