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Queen Of Hearts

Season 4, Episode 17, Aired Jan 17, 2005

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Ellie has begun playing cards at home with Alex, Dylan, Craig and others. When Alex wants to keep playing and play for money will Ellie give up her rent money or will this card shark lose it all? Meanwhile Paige who has a secret affair is wondering if there are more secrets than she knows already.

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GUEST STAR Christopher Jacot

Matt Oleander
GUEST STAR Majorie Chan

Meeri
GUEST STAR Adam Bloch

Ben

Ryan Cooley

J.T. Yorke
Lauren Collins

Paige Michalchuk
Stefan Brogren

Archie "Snake" ...
Sarah Barrable-Tishauer

Liberty Van Zandt
Daniel Clark

Sean Cameron
Stacey Farber

Ellie Nash

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Ellie starts gambling so she can pay rent.

8.0

"Great"

By Jon_MW_14, Jul 19, 2011

"Queen of Hearts" is a great Degrassi episode. I love how this episode deals with another issue like gambling. In this episode Ellie starts playing cards with Craig, Alex, Dylan and Marco for money. I really love how she teams with Alex. It's cool watching them have scenes together. This episode was about Ellie needing money to pay the rent and it was also about her being lonely. I love how her mother is sober and is trying to have a relationship with Ellie again. I don't like the subplot in this episode. I usually like a good student/teacher relationship, but I don't like Paige with Matt. After what happened with Paige in season 2, it doesn't make any sense for her to date Matt. She should be dating someone her age. I give this episode a 8/10.moreless
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Loved It!

8.8

"Great"

By diamondcandy333, Jun 27, 2006

In this episode, Ellie deals with the fact that Sean will never comeback home and finds a new hobby... GAMBLING! After Marco teaches her a new card game she realizes she cannot only win big but score big with money. She also goes through the painful heartache of her sobbering mother wanting her back home. After playing cards with her guests Alex throws her some words of advance that she needed to go back home and be with her mom, and don't hold a grudge against her because of their past. (I was proud that they used Alex more within this episode as well.) When she comes senses, Ellie gets her mom to promise her that she won't get drunk again, her mom promises her it will take time. Ellie says it will take time for her to give her that daughterly trust back. Paige and Matt continue their on going down low relationship from everyone (except Manny). Paige starts getting fed-up that Matt has never invited her to his home. Manny tries to give words of advice to Paige about his ways. Paige finds out where he stays, the place looks like a dump and finally Matt calls them being together a "relationship." Paige doesn't dump him and they embrace in a kiss.moreless
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Exactly what this season needed...whether or not anyone realized it

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By Seaig, Mar 05, 2006

"queen of hearts" falls into the category of one of my favorite episodes of Degrassi. A lot of people called this episode a filler episode, but I completely disagree. We needed to see this episode, for closure reasons. I also missed seeing the Ellie/Marco friendship and this episode brought that back to life. The new Ellie/Alex friendship was enjoyable to watch as well. The subplot was nicely done as well. It was the perfect segway into the next episode's mainplot ("modern love). I also loved the music score.moreless
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Ellie is gambling on her future.

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By FanOfDegrassi, Jul 28, 2005

In Queen Of Hearts, Ellie is living by herself. Ever since Sean left she's been alone in the apartment. But Buller her ferret keeps her sane. Until he dies in a freak accident Ellie is sent into a path of aloness and just wants somebody to be with her. And she gets an outlet that makes her feel better, gambling. Marco comes over and shows her how to play euchre and she quickly catches on. In this part I liked how Ellie showed interest in playing cards but I kind of wished that Marco would've explained the game a bit better.

Anyway Ellie soon has her monthly dinner with her mom so she can get her rent money. But Ellie just takes the money and turns down her offer to live with her mom again and tells her that's the last time she'll ever get money from her. I felt bad for Mrs. Nash cause she looked like she really was trying to change but Ellie jsut brushed her off quite harshly. So Ellie, Jimmy, Alex and Craig skip calss to play euchre and they start playing for money. Ellie and Alex win the money and Ellie tells her she knows where real money is gonna be.

Soon after Dylan's hockey team arrives to play euchre for serious money, Ellie and Alex who now seem best friends and start playing. The scenes with her and Alex palying against the guys with the song is one of my personal favorites scenes of the season, I really like it. After a while Alex decided to go solo and Ellie soon get panicky of losing all her rent money, after Ellie tells her to sit down she does and Alex shows her hand and they win the game. Alex then gives Ellie her portion of the money and tells her she needs to trust people more. I agree with what Alex said, Ellie was being very selfish the whole episode especially to her mom. Ellie soon relizes it and calls her mom and is ready to go home.

I really liked this episode although i wished they would've gone deeper into the gambling storyline, it was still a good episode, two thumbs up!moreless
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This episode wasn't that special. nothing exciting really happened. ellie meets with her monthy dinner with her mom and words go down between them. ellie, alex, jimmy, craig, and marco play cards. ellie and alex play cards with dylan's hockey teammoreless

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"Mediocre"

By michelewhite, Jul 18, 2005

this episode was nothing special. all that happened was ellie decided to move in with her mom after alex told her off. they also ditch class to play cards and ellie and alex played cards with dylans hockey team for some serious cash. i was happy to see jimmy with a smile on his face in this episode
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- Ellie moves back home.
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- In one sequence, Ellie is dealing the cards wrong. You deal two cards to the player to your left, then three to your partner, three to the player to your right, two to yourself, three to the player to your left, two to your partner, two to the player to your right, and three to yourself -- in that order.
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- Alex: Ugh, I get a scatter-proof partner, just to be interrupted for French class? Jimmy: Well, je suis up for skipping.
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- Matt: That's wet. The toilet's above it. Look beyond that, I'm a student like you, except I live in a pit hole apartment. There! All the glamour this relationship ever had: gone! Paige: You said relationship, which means I get to stay.
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- Ellie: It's open. Mrs. Nash: It's the middle of the night Ellie. There's no emergency? Ellie: I had to be sure of something. Mrs. Nash: Sure of what? Ellie: That you could come over. That you were sober. You weren't drunk. Mrs. Nash: You woke me as a test?! Ellie: I wrote a letter to Mr. Martin. It says I'm giving two months notice. Mrs. Nash: Oh so you're coming home! Ellie: I, I said I wrote it Mom. I haven't given it to him. Not yet. Mrs. Nash: But you're going to? Ellie: No more drinking? Mrs. Nash: The best I can do is try. Day by day. Try. Ellie: Then promise me you'll try and make it easy for me to trust you. Mrs. Nash: Come home Ellie. I'm tired of being alone. Ellie: Yeah. Me too.
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- song list: Alexander Written and performed by Sekiden Courtesy of Boompa! Productions Pretty Blue Written and performed by Melissa McLelland Courtesy of The Orange Record Label Reframed Written and performed by Headstones & Colin Cripps Courtesy of Maplemusic Recordings Rosamunde Entracte Written by Schubert arr Korten Courtesy of Chris Stone Audio Productions Ltd. Sudden Impact Written by Pete Mills Performed by Flash Bastard Courtesy of Bastard Productions The Entertainer Written by Scott Joplin Arranged and performed by Jim McGrath Tell Me Why Written by Dave Ogilvie, Katie Biever, Anthony "Fu" Valcic, Matthew Warhurst, Phil Western, Jamie Koch & Sarah Kendrick Performed by Jakalope Courtesy of The Orange Record Label
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- This episode deals with gambling.
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- In this episode Alex teaches Ellie an important lesson about trust.
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