Rick Murray

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name = Richard Murray


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(episode 3.08)
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(episode 4.08)
cause = Killed by accidental gunshot wound/caused by Sean (debatable)
nickname = Psycho, Freak
born = 1988
death = 2004 (aged 16)
occupation= Student.
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episode = 8
portrayer =Ephraim Ellis
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Rick Murray is a student at the fictional Degrassi Community School in the television series "". He was portrayed by Ephraim Ellis.

eason 3

At the start of season 3, Terri starts wondering who is sending her roses every day and taping them to her locker. At first, everyone thinks it's Toby because he is seen flirting and exhibiting odd behavior around Terri. When she gets nervous as a result of Toby's actions, he then tells her that he was doing a science experiment to test if she really was psychic as she claimed to be. Terri asks if he was the person who was taping the roses on her locker, and Toby denies this. The next morning, Terri waits outside her locker early. She caught Rick taping a rose to her locker and approached him. After that moment, the two started going out.

Both Rick and Terri had never had a real relationship. Terri was so happy that she finally found a significant other. Rick, however, proved to be jealous and controlling. He interpreted Terri's friendship with Jimmy as a crush. He also didn't allow Terri to hang out with Paige and Hazel, her friends, believing they would make fun of him and pick up guys. At first, Terri attempted to reason with Rick, Rick quickly grabbed Terri and hurt her. Terri broke up with Rick shortly afterwards. Later, Terri gets jealous when all of her best friends have boyfriends and girlfriends. Terri finds Rick and forgives him. Rick, Terri, and Paige get in an argument over Rick hanging out with all of them. Paige screams at Rick and Terri to go away. Terri follows Rick into a field full of cinder blocks. Terri tries to talk and reason with Rick. In a flurry of anger, Rick grabs Terri and pushes her backwards, causing her to hit her head on a cinder block. Terri was subsequently put into a coma. While not in the TV show, Paige's Journal says that Terri had transferred to a private school. Rick then left Degrassi.

eason 4

In the episode , Rick returns to Degrassi after he hurt Terri. Everyone complains about him returning and wants him to leave Degrassi for what he did to Terri, especially Paige, Hazel, Jimmy, Spinner, and Emma. From then on, Rick constantly gets bullied by everyone in school.

When J.T. started hanging out with new friends, Toby, feeling left out and unpopular, started hanging out with Rick. Toby and Rick (who is feeling miserable because of being bullied) made a bond, and were good friends. The two had some contests - to see who could kiss the most girls by the end of the day, as an example.

As soon as everyone found out that Rick had returned to Degrassi, Emma immediately took issue with it, but Principal Raditch warned Emma to leave Rick alone. Paige and Emma set up a fundraiser against beating women. Rick tried to make amends by giving Emma an anonymous donation, but Alex tore his check up. Despite not knowing Terri, she hated Rick from the get-go because her own mother was the target of abusive boyfriends. The fundraiser soon turns into a fight against Rick. Spinner, Alex, Jay, Jimmy, and multiple others started to beat up Rick and decorating his things with notes telling him to leave. Emma was praised for starting her silent protest against Rick. At The Dot, Emma deliberately trips Rick. Then Jay drags him outside and starts to beat him up. Realizing that the situation was getting out of hand, Emma defended Rick. As a result, she was labeled a hypocritical loser. Emma hung out with Rick because she felt sorry for him. However, Rick thought quite differently.

Rick was undoubtedly one of the smartest kids at Degrassi. Rick, Emma, Toby, and Heather (an unseen character constantly mentioned throughout seasons 1-5) become the school's team in the fictional game show Whack Your Brain. Heather gets mono and Jimmy takes her place due to his knowledge in sports. Rick protests, but after proving how smart he is, and how he can deal with his anger, Jimmy forgives him and becomes Rick's friend. Prior to the day of the Whack Your Brain contest, Rick spraypaints the cars of Spinner and Jay. Rick flashes the sign he drew to the group, angering Jay. Alex, being the student council vice president, sets up yellow paint and chicken feathers to splash all over Rick. After Rick singlehandedly wins the game show, the paint landed all over Rick. Rick then goes from hero of Degrassi back down to his nerd status. Rick runs off stage, incredibly angry. Emma comforts him. Rick takes it the wrong way and kisses Emma. Emma reveals her real feelings for Rick, that she stayed with him out of pity. Hurt, Rick runs home. When he gets home, he makes a decision which will soon have serious repercussions for Degrassi.

Rick returns to school later that afternoon. Aside from Jimmy, Toby, and Emma, Paige (who once hated Rick for his actions toward Terri) also denounced the prank, saying it was "sickening" and "childish." Rick apologized for hurting Terri, and Paige seemed to accept it. Just before this, Rick was pulling a gun out, implying that he was contemplating shooting her before she comforted him.

Rick cleans himself up in the bathroom. Jay and Spinner, realizing that Rick is in one of the stalls, pretend that Jimmy set up everything, adding that Jimmy joined the team to trick Rick into a false sense of security, and that Jimmy convinced Rick to play the sudden death round of the game. Rick goes to Jimmy and pulls out a handgun. Jimmy tries to run and is shot in the back.

Sean, Emma, and Toby run towards where Jimmy was shot wondering why everyone was running away from the area. Rick stops them and tells them not to run away. Afraid for his own life, as well as what Rick is capable of doing, Sean tries to reason with Rick. Rick says it's already too late, believing he had already killed Jimmy. Rick points the gun at Emma for "flirting" with him. Sean quickly tries to take the gun. In the struggle for the gun, the gun goes off bringing both of them down to the ground. At the end of the episode, the news reporters reveal that Rick had died in the struggle for the gun and Jimmy had to be hospitalized. Sean escaped with a wounded arm while Emma and Toby were unharmed.

Jimmy getting shot as well as Rick's death caused an aftermath that had immediate and long-term affects on all the major characters. Sean, thinking that he might have killed Rick, left Degrassi and moved back to Wasaga Beach. Jimmy was paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair. Emma became distant and isolated, leading to her contracting gonorrhea after performing oral sex on Jay. Toby was left shaken by witnessing Rick's death. Because of this the school became as active as ever.

Spinner would suffer the worst. Not only did he lose all of his friends, as well as his girlfriend Manny, after confessing his involvement, but he and Jay were expelled from Degrassi. However, by the end of Season 5, all of Spinner's friends, including Jimmy, had forgiven Spinner, and Spinner was allowed to return to Degrassi.

Relationships

*Terri McGreggor
**First Relationship:
***Start Up: "Whisper to a Scream" (308)
***Break up: "Never Gonna Give You Up" (310)
****Reason: Rick was hitting and shoving Terri.
**Second Relationship:
***Start Up: "Don't Dream it's Over" (317)
***Break Up: "Don't Dream it's Over" (317)
****Reason: Rick shoved Terri onto a brick in a struggle with her.