4x04 Mercy Street-recap

The episode begins as various students including Spinner, Paige, Alex and Emma are on the front steps of the school when they see Rick and his mom pulling up. After what happened last year Rick is re-enrolling at Degrassi and he’s back in Grade ten (Emma’s grade) and it’s stated something has to be done.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

JT, Manny, and Toby are in the Van Zandt backyard with Liberty and Danny using their father’s hot tub. Emma’s not invited because she’s still ‘dead’ to Liberty due to the Chris thing. Liberty and Manny toast to being almost sixteen and leaving childish things behind as Danny pulls out the ironing board as a make shift diving board. JT goes for a dive but before he does Danny pulls down his trunks and Toby makes a comment about JT’s baby dick.

Marco and Alex try to use their presidential pull on Raditch to get rid of Rick however they are told they can’t do anything. Rick then passes them in the halls singling out Paige, Spinner, Hazel, and Jimmy saying hi causing Emma to step in the hall and show them they don’t want him there.

JT feels like Manny has been giving him the cold shoulder since the hot tub and watches as Craig approaches her in the hall. Craig says hi and soon they talk about their summers much to JT’s distaste. JT is then seen in the locker room with Danny saying it’s been four months and all he and Manny do is kiss (um I thought you just wanted to date her for her not for her sexual experience sweetie). As they talk Craig comes in and begins to change and JT gets a case of penis envy.

Rick wants to make amends with Paige saying that he’s getting help for his issues and wants to know how Terri is doing since the whole coma thing.  Paige walks away and starts to cry in the girl’s room telling an attentive Emma that there is a psycho in the school and something needs to be done. Emma with her experience in taking up causes teams up with Paige and rubs this new found friendship with the older kids in Manny and Liberty’s face as she walks back into the hall.  At the Dot the grade elevens and Emma are plotting out what to do to get rid of Rick when he shows up. Emma confronts him and says he needs to watch out. The following day Emma and Paige are selling anti violence ribbons for the cause.

Danny buys JT a penis pump so that his ‘snake’ can become an ‘anaconda’ and he can properly please Manny.

There is a montage of Rick going through the school and the student body treating him like persona non grata for what he did last year leading up to English class. Spinner reads some rap lyrics and when Rick is called to read something he starts quoting Gandhi.

Manny tells Liberty she’s sick of JT following her around and Liberty reminds her JT is her boyfriend and that maybe Manny should just dump him.

Rick gives Emma a major check for her cause however she doesn’t want to accept it at first because he was the one to cause violence against women in the first place. She takes the check however Alex soon rips it up pretty much saying her mom is a victim to domestic abuse.

Manny shows up at JT’s with the intent to break up while JT’s intention is to have sex with her. Manny excuses herself to the bathroom to talk herself into cutting the cord only to come back into the bedroom just as JT is pumping himself up.

At the Dot, Paige makes a comment about Heather Sinclair (#10) and soon Rick arrives. Alex teases he must have came to see his new friend Emma. Emma comments that she just felt sorry for him a little and soon Jay chases him out and starts to fight him in the ally. Alex wants to take her own swing at him but Emma stops him.

JT tells Manny he did what he did because he wanted to measure up to Craig. Manny said he never would not for anatomical reasons but cause JT is immature and she dumps him.

Rick thanks Emma for trying to step in and defend him and she tells him she only did it before things got out of hand. Things should have gone that far though don’t let this think they are friends. She asks why he even came back and he tells her he wants to prove to everyone he’s a changed man.