An unearthed script reveals a very different ending for Ross and Rachel – with the couple planning on moving to Paris TOGETHER
We always knew Ross and Rachel were meant to be together
A SCRIPT claiming to be from an axed Friends episode reveals Ross and Rachel ended up going to Paris together.
The couple kept us guessing over the years as to whether they’d end up together, with their on / off relationship and the infamous ‘break’.
Friends fans breathed a sigh of relief when Ross and Rachel, now parents to Emma, finally end up together in the very last episode.
Rachel gets off her plane to Paris, where she was relocating for a job.
But a previous episode in the last series, number 10, reportedly had the couple travelling to Paris together.
A fan claims they got hold of the original script for the episode, called The One Where Estelle Dies, which was originally meant to be called The One Where Jetlag Wins.
Sharing the script on their , it features the couple visiting Paris together ahead of Rachel’s move to the French city.
They arrive at a hotel room where Rachel is overwhelmed by the capital, with Ross trying to reassure her.
He advises they stay awake to “beat jetlag” and get on French time, But Ross soon falls asleep and Rachel follows suit.
Script from 'The One Where Jetlag Wins'
Int. PARIS HOTEL ROOM- A FEW DAYS LATER (Day 2)
(Rachel, Ross)
ROSS AND RACHEL ENTER, CARRYING LUGGAGE. IT’S A LARGE ROOM WITH TWO BEDS. ROSS IS EXCITED, RACHEL IS OVERWHELMED.
ROSS: What a great room.
HE CROSSES OVER AND OPENS THE BLINDS.
ROSS (CONT’D: And look at that view!
RACHEL: Yeah, I don’t think I can do this.
ROSS: What?
RACHEL: It’s all just so different! If you weren’t with me, I don’t think I could have found my way here on the Metro.
ROSS: Rachel, it’s not that big a deal. It’s like the subway in New York. You ride it all the time.
RACHEL (COVERING): Yeah, sure. Every day. I took the blue line to… Ralph Lauren station. (GIVING UP) I don’t take the Subway!
ROSS: Well, they have taxis here too.
RACHEL: But how will I tell them where to go? I don’t even speak French.
ROSS: It’ll come back to you. You got A’s in French in high school.
RACHEL: You would have gotten A’s too if you wore skirts as short as I did.
ROSS: I don’t think I would have. (THEN) Come on, you’re going to love it here. (USHERING HER TO THE WINDOW) Just look how beautiful this city is. You can see the Eiffel Tower.
RACHEL (LOOKING): No, you can’t.
ROSS TAKES A SOUVENIR EIFFEL TOWER OUT OF HIS BAG AND HOLDS IT UP.
ROSS: Now you can.
RACHEL: When did you buy that?
ROSS: In the airport when you went to the bathroom. The same time I bought this.
HE PULLS OUT A BERET AND PUTS IT ON.
RACHEL: Wow. That should keep the girls away.
ROSS: So let’s go. What do you want to do first?
RACHEL: I need a nap before I do anything.
ROSS: Oh, no. We have to stay up until at least ten o’clock. We get a good night’s sleep, we wake up, we’re on Paris time. We’re practically Parisians. We’re not Ross and Rachel, we’re (FRENCH ACCENT) “Ross et Rachel”.
RACHEL: Oh boy, this is going to be a long weekend.
ROSS: Seriously, no naps. You take a nap now, jetlag wins.
RACHEL (SIGHS): All right, let me just get my coat out of my bag and we can go.
SHE CROSSES THE ROOM TO HER SUITCASE AND OPENS IT.
RACHEL (CONT’D): I just have to find it. I let Monica pack for me. It makes her so happy.
SHE PULLS OUT A COAT, TURNS BACK TO ROSS.
RACHEL (CONT’D): Okay, so where do you want to go fir-
SHE SEES THAT ROSS IS LYING ON THE BED, DEAD ASLEEP.
RACHEL (CONT’D): And jetlag wins.
After sleeping for 15 hours, they awake at 1am starving, with Rachel using her poor French skills to try and order food or room service.
Ross doesn’t have any better luck, and decides to raid the hotel’s kitchen where they feast on baguette, cherries and pate.
As they reconnect, Ross tells Rachel he’d move to Paris with her, claiming that as he now has tenure he can take a year’s sabbatical.
Script from 'The One Where Jetlag Wins'
ROSS (CONT’D): I’m going to miss you.
RACHEL: Hey, I haven’t decided if I’m definitely going yet.
ROSS: You have to go. How many times in your life are you going to get a chance to live in Paris? I wish I could go.
RACHEL: I wish you could, too.
SHE GOES BACK TO PREPARING HER FOOD. BEAT.
ROSS: What if I did?
RACHEL: What?
ROSS: What if I moved to Paris, too?
RACHEL: Are you serious? Is that even a possibility?
ROSS (IMPETUOUS): Why not? I’ll take a sabbatical for a year. They just gave me tenure. I can do whatever I want.
RACHEL: Oh my god. That would be fantastic! I would feel so much better taking this job. And we’d have so much fun! You have to do it!
ROSS (CAN’T BELIEVE HE’S SAYING IT): Okay.
RACHEL: Really?
ROSS: Yeah.
RACHEL (ARMS IN THE AIR): We’re moving to Paris!
After they return home, Rachel is confident about the move with Ross by her side, and she accepts the job while looking for apartments.
But Ross gets a dose of reality from his boss, who tells him under no circumstances can he take a year off to go to Pairs.
He tells a sad Rachel that he won’t be able to go with her after all, so it turns out the couple would have had their showdown at the airport after all.
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