After spending the entire season trying to assimilate, Lacey’s efforts have been undercut in one fell swoop. Cue tape (pardon the pun). Lacey’s a laughing stock, Danny has been expelled and Jo’s MIA for the day…she’s literally alone. Danny is having a tough go, also. In order to stay out of juvie he has to stay in school and the only other schools in the area are private, read: expensive. We’ll have to wait and see what happens with that.
More drama at school for Lacey – let’s just say she has been ICED. Later, Rico shows up with Jo’s homework after school and hears about the emotional drama. He tries to comfort her. At the same time, Danny meets Lacey in the school parking lot and convinces her to go with him to Jo’s to see if they can make things better.
Bad quickly goes to worse during the meet-up: Jo calls Lacey a hypocrite for berating Danny for lying when she was a liar herself. She also reams out Danny and says she’s sick of his excuses. Lacey brings Rico into the mud and Jo gets so fed up she kicks everyone out. Rico goes home and Jo goes to a movie with her parents to try and take her mind off things. At the theater, she runs into Tyler: he immediately switches on the charm and tries to impress her parents by inviting her to a film club discussion he’s having after the movie. They reluctantly agree to let her go.
Poor Karen tries to ask for more hours at her job to save for school for Danny. Meanwhile, Danny and Lacey try to get Lacey back into good social graces by crashing the soccer party. Lacey shows up and is immediately told off, but she decides to stay and play things out. Danny arrives and the staging begins – he allows Lacey to publicly berate him and vent her regrets about hooking up with him, which earns her some brownie points with her old friends.
After the movie, Jo goes home with Tyler – things start to get a little hot and heavy but Jo puts the kibosh on it and heads out. She texts Danny to meet her at McNally Park in 20 minutes. Danny can’t meet her however, since he’s busy telling Cole about Archie’s role in the poisoning.
Cole goes back to the diner and confronts Archie about it. He gets some major backup from Lacey, who used the moments immediately after throwing Danny out to get Archie to admit to the poisoning, which he said he and Scott did to get Danny off the team. Cole quits on the spot and leaves. Lacey leaves soon after
While Karen’s burning the midnight oil, she discovers her boss has been cooking the books over the past 7 years. She threatens to expose him to the IRS, unless he gives her enough money to support herself and send Danny to private school. Danny finally gets to Jo in the park. She brings up her unrequited feeings for him – something that has been brewing all season. She won’t be able to move on until he says it to her face that he’s not into it, which she does. She doesn’t want to listen to his blathering about how important their friendship does and does what any newly rejected hot headed girl would do – goes straight back to Tyler’s house. The two end up having sex – Jo’s first time.
Danny comes home to find his mother freaking out and telling him to pack up. She heard from someone that the police found a murder weapon after searching the pond again; the lead pipe with blood and hair that matches Regina’s and Danny’s fingerprints all over it. Now that she has money coming in from her boss, they’re able to leave before he gets sent back to prison, or worse. Jo makes it home and talks with Rico, telling him that he’s her rock – he takes it the wrong way and kisses her. Talk about awkward. He reads between the lines and books it.
Phoebe goes to Lacey’s and finds her looking through old pictures, including one where Regina has her arm bandaged up. While Phoebe has been known to pull hair, she’s not a scratcher…so what’s not adding up? It turns out that right before the fight, Phoebe saw Regina getting out of a black car with tinted windows and a Connecticut license plate (777 R2F), her arm already bloody from a long scratch down her forearm. The driver? The investigator, the same one who then brings a warrant to the Desai home in hopes of bringing Danny in. Too little too late, Danny’s already fled out his window. Tess grabs a piece of art from her living room and calls the phone number on the bottom. It’s Vik. He’s alive. Who is this new investigator? What’s the connection to Regina and the pipe? Is Tyler a good guy or a bad guy? Season two can’t come fast enough.