12x17/18 Sabotage…..RECAP

Clare is giving her report about her mentorship despite being let go. Miss Oh is asking about it and she starts having flashbacks of when he was harassing her. She asks what was the biggest lesson and Clare says to never tell a story unless you have the facts to back it up however as was seen in 13x 11 she’s clearly forgotten that lesson (among other things). Alli’s impressed at how Clare faked it and she admits she doesn’t want to say that she’s been fired until she gets facts to back her up and defend her on the harassment and so she’s been sneaking off and hiding out when she’s supposed to be at the paper making everyone none the wiser.

WHATEVER IT TAKES

Drew has snuck onto campus because he and Officer Turner go way back. He goes into Bianca’s class where she’s partners with Owen. He presents her with two Detroit Piston’s tickets and asks her if she wants to go on an overnight road trip to Michigan. She can’t because she’s busy and Drew tells her she seems to be allot lately and he misses her. She tells him she’ll be at the loft later….for a study group but that’s still something. Mrs. Cohen kindly tells Drew to leave because he’s no longer a student and Owen teases that he’ll keep an eye on Bianca while he’s at work.

Clare’s sitting in the prop room calling one of the papers former interns as Dallas, Luke and some of the other hockey boys are sneaking beer into the school to get drunk at eleven AM. Dallas asks Luke if he plans to bring Blondie there whom I assume is Jenna despite them never following up on that plot and Luke then teases about Dallas lack of luck with the ladies. Dallas tells him bitches be crazy at Degrassi and Clare tells them to pipe the hell down. Luke offers her a beer to loosen up and Dallas tells her to leave her alone. Clare leaves because she’s got a bigger pig to roast.

At play rehearsal Tristan pulls back before the kiss and scene is called. Tori complements how good he’s doing and Dave teases asking if she’s flirting. AS IF she’s dating a rock star and Dave smiles saying good cause he’s taken. Tori’s surprised he’s still with Alli because she’s been MIA and he tells her about her fast tracking to graduate early. Tristan then gets a text saying that the pizza place at the mall is holding a contest and the winner gets a walk on roll on West Drive and they plan to hang out.

Clare is talking to Jennifer, a girl who used to work with Asher about her experiences with him asking if she experienced any sexual harassment. She puts two and two together because apparently they know about Clare and she says no. Alli wants Clare to report him now but she knows things will be twisted against her. Alli asks that she tells Eli but she can’t because it’s too close to opening night and she doesn’t want him to freak. She pulls out her poster board with her article and begins to crumple it as she hears Asher’s voice echo in her head. She’s frustrated….livid…. Dallas soon approaches seeing the fire in her eyes and asking if she’s okay. She says she’s not and Dallas tells her she looks like she could use a drink.

Drew is at the mall and feels bummed because he feels out of the loop with Bianca and his friends. He wonders if Bianca thinks he’s a looser and his boss tells her he should shower her with gifts to prove you rock.

Dallas asks Alli to cheer him on at the mall contest. Alli can’t cause she’s got a backlog of homework to do but tells Dave to text her after and maybe he can come over.

Clare is getting drunk and spilling all about Asher to Dallas. She’s a lightweight and is already getting a buzz as she kicks off her shoes. She tells him talking’s over rated and he starts making out with her cause he thinks kicking her shoes off is an invitation. She begins to drunkenly hobble through the hallway shoeless when she runs into Jake and Katie. Jake asks why she’s not at her internship and she lies saying it was cancelled however she’s soon called out for being shoeless and smelling like booze. They head to the garden where Clare tells them about the scene in the prop room off screen. Jake stands up saying he is going to beat the snot out of Dallas but Clare reminds her brother she’s a big girl and can take care of herself. Jake then brings up how he busted the garden up and Clare asks if they told Simpson. Clare then decides she wants to interview the two of them about Dallas’s destruction to give him what he has coming.

Tori’s singing at the mall as Dave gets a text from Alli saying she’s done with the book and wants him to come over. Dave however goes on stage and sings a remixed /auto tuned/rap version of one of the songs from the play while he moonwalks.

Fiona, Imogen, Bianca, and Owen arrive at the loft to see that Drew has installed a jumbo 3D flat screen because clearly the way to impress his friends is causing their grades to crash and burn while they watch some 3D motocross.

Clare writes an article shamming Dallas and the team for the garden and the beer as Eli arrives fresh from tech rehearsal so I’d assume this scene timeline wise actually happened BEFORE the one at the mall because why would Romeo, Jules, and the Nurse be out and about and not at tech? Eli comments how Clare is making serious accusations and Clare says she has Jake, Katie, and two anonymous senior girls to back her up. Eli’s worried she’s going to make an enemy or two.

Back at the mall, Dave and two randoms are told they are the finalists and have all won a card entitling them to free pizza for a year. Then the winner of the walk on roll is announced and it’s Dave. Tori, Tristan, and Zig declare that Dave take them out for pizza considering he gets it for free and ask why he doesn’t invite Alli. He says if she wanted to come she’d be there already…..um Dave do you not remember she DID want to hang out with you she just had to do it at her place?

It’s getting late and Imogen and Owen have to leave despite not cracking a single book. Drew is glad it’s now just him and Bianca (well and Fiona) and declares it make out time though to Bianca its chug red bull and study time. Drew tells her it’s one test and she tells him one test can be the difference between getting into a school and not. Drew is sick of her only talking about school and tells her he’s acting mature too by making a butt load of money….money that Bianca points out he spends of frivolities such as a TV and primo Basketball Tickets. Bianca wants him to make up with Audra and go back to school and it’s clear that she and mama Torres are totes BFF throwing shade on Drew behind his back.

Simpson wants to talk about the article. Dallas says that Katie has it out for him and her words mean nothing. Dallas keeps denying up and down but then ends up slipping up saying how Clare was drinking alongside him which proved he WAS drinking. Clare gets a week’s detention for writing the article without faculty consent and another two for the beer while Dallas gets a call put in to his coach.

Drew calls up Bianca the next day saying he hoped she did well on her BORING test while he was out getting his MI license, buying a bike and genuinely being awesome however he was too awesome cause a cop pulls up.

Clare approaches Eli, Jake, and Katie glad that Simpson let Dallas have his and didn’t just brush it under the rug however soon Dallas shows up in the hall and he’s pissed. The entire starting lineup has three weeks detention which means three games most likely being missed and between that and Campbell’s injury (not to mention how much they sucked in earlier episodes) any thought of a playoff bid is pretty much gone. Dallas is pissed that he got screwed over and Katie snaps that now he knows what it’s like to see something he loves snatched out from under him. He then asks what he ever did to Clare and Clare tells him you mess with your friends you mess with me and to him the feeling is very much mutual and he plans to make the four musketeers suffer and comments to Clare asking how she’d feel if he told Eli her dirty secret. Eli asks what secret and she tells him she was fired from the paper cause Asher…..said she was a bad writer and she thought that writing about the Ice Hounds would make her feel better but it just sucks worse. The bell rings and Clare heads to class but Eli wants to make it up to her….TBC

Eli’s meeting with Alli, Adam and Fiona because there is not much time before the big event and there is so much to get ready. The cues, the lighting and the big surprise. No he’s not talking about opening night but a surprise Birthday Party for Clare to get her out of the funk she’s in since Asher fired her. Fiona wants to know why she’s there because she hardly knows Clare and couldn’t care less about her. Eli says that the party which is that night by the way is at Fiona’s loft and she’s going to plan it because she’s so good at party planning. She asks why she didn’t say party planning in the first place and Eli then asks Ali to get her to the loft.

I KNOW I CAN MAKE IT THROUGH

Tori and Tristan are gushing about Dave’s role on West Drive and I’ve never really noticed how much in this arch the words death, die, and suicide are used considering the main theme for 12 C. Not tagging this as foreshadowing it’s just a mild observation. Dave then runs into Alli who asks why he didn’t call him after the win and he tells her he was just caught up in the moment and to not think he blew her off though I think ‘oh if she wanted to be here she would have been’ sounds very much like a blow off to me. Alli’s happy for Dave and tells him congratulations. Alli walks off and Dave comments to Adam about how it seems like he and Alli are getting their signals crossed but tonight he plans on getting their groove back.

Audra shows up at the loft flipping mad about how Drew got a motorcycle and got a careless driving charge. He tells her he begged the cops not to tell her and she rolls her eyes at him. She brings up his multiple head injuries (which just get worse LOL) and he accuses Audra about influencing Bianca to go against him. Audra says Bianca makes up her own mind and she can’t help it if she agrees with her and tells Drew that she and Bianca would like it if his little experiment at independence ends.

Eli wishes Clare Happy Birthday and wishes she didn’t have plans with Alli. Clare wishes she didn’t either because she’s just not in the mood to celebrate. Eli tells her to lighten up it was just a stupid internship and she counter-replies with how Romeo and Jules is a stupid musical and asks how he’d like it if it got taken from him. Eli says how a party isn’t going to make up for what he just said and he decides to talk to Asher about re-hiring Clare. Eli heads to the paper to talk to Asher and begs for Clare to be back and Asher tells him it’s clear he doesn’t know what happened. Clare was obsessed with him…..in love with him…and the only choice was to fire her before things got too far. He’s painting himself as a victim and breaking Eli’s heart as he’s now thinking Clare was thinking about cheating on him which she never would do in a million years (or at least a season though nothing has happened yet on air as I type this….by the time this posts….well it could be another story)

Fiona shows up at the mall and gives Drew a kid’s meal from the local burger place though she was in a rush and got him the girl’s toy. She then hates to be a bitch of a landlord but she tells him how she’s letting Eli host a party for Clare’s birthday in the loft and that Clare’s brother is bringing his new girlfriend….Katie. Drew’s in shock that Katie’s moved on so fast after all the drama and comments how brave Jake must be to date her all things considered. Speaking of all things Fiona asks if he can make himself scarce and not come home till late to avoid any and all drama with his ex and her new beau. Drew tells her that he may be moving out and Fiona tells him that’s harsh and he can come to the party if he wants. He tells her how his mom and Bianca think he’s throwing away his life and maybe he’s right…..hell he bought a motorcycle. Fiona says she impulsively bought a bike too and brings up how allot of people told her to give up too and gives Drew the sage advice that if he wants to be taken seriously to act serious and not goof off. Fiona leaves because she’s got a confetti cannon being delivered. Dallas shows up and asks where Fiona is off to and Drew comments how she’s throwing a party for some girl named Clare at the loft. Upon finding out that Clare is Clare Edwards the girl that screwed him over, Dallas lets the wheels in his head spin. He’s not the only one as he opens up the ring in the kid’s meal and has an epiphany.

Eli shows up at the party all depressed just as Alli and Clare pull up. Fiona asks him what’s wrong as they hide and he tells her that Clare is in love with Asher and he’s an idiot. Clare and Alli show up and everyone yells surprise however Imogen is struggling to get the confetti cannon to work. Clare tells Eli she can’t believe he did this and she loves him. She then asks what’s wrong and Eli tells her that he saw Asher and he told him how obsessed Clare was with him. He asks to tell him it was a lie however before Clare can speak Dallas shows up with Luke and some of the other Ice Hound Extras (aka members not named Owen and Campbell) and crash the party. They hand Clare a case of beers and then go mingle.

Eli wants Clare to talk to him about things as Jake and Katie walk over for another musketeer moment. She can’t believe that ass crashed Clare’s party. Clare says to just ignore the team and it’ll be fine. Eli asks about the beer and she says Dallas is just being a jerk. Dallas comments on her name calling and Clare tells him to shut up... He doesn’t and instead makes a snide comment about Clare and Asher and Eli once more asks Clare to tell her. Clare runs out crying and Eli wants to storm out. Alli tells Eli it’s not what he thinks and that he should sit her down and let her say her piece.

Bianca shows up at the mall. Drew says he talked to Audra and he’s done allot of thinking. Audra thinks he needs to be serious and he tells her they need to have a serious chat. He loves her and wants to have a life with her someday. He then gets down on one knee and asks her…….to open a joint bank account with him. He’s going to put all his commission money in it and use it toward her tuition and car repairs and anything else she needs. There is only about a hundred in there now but there will be more when he sells the bike. He reminds her of his concussions and she tells him her head is fine.

Back at the party there is clearly tension between Alli and Dave. Alli snarkily comments how Jake and Katie need to get a room for their constant PDA but Dave thinks it’s sweet. Alli thinks the play has gotten to his brain. He wants to talk but she needs to pee.

Eli goes into Fiona’s bedroom where Clare is crying. Alli convinced him to stay and he needs to hear the whole story. Clare tells him that the night they re-wrote the article about the play he kissed her. He apologized and she thought it was over but he tried to make a move on her again and he got her fired and she breaks down saying she brought this all on herself for not telling someone after that first kiss. She feels gross and dirty and like suck. Eli tells her Asher is a bastard and that she shouldn’t have to feel that way. He knows that the reason she didn’t tell him was for fear he would snap and he tells her he’s fine and that next time she should trust him before she ends up splitting at the seams.

Drew is watching Bianca drive around on the bike before it gets sold and it’s still getting sold. She asks when he got so responsible and they kiss. He then asks her to marry him and gives her the plastic Cracker Jack ring. She asks if he’s being for real and he says he is and she says yes.

Eli and Clare plan to leave the party and Dallas decides to instigate some more commenting about how the birthday girl is leaving her own party and how she effed up his season. Jake then starts defending his sister and then Luke starts stepping up commenting about how the ‘tree hugger’ is getting involved…..um like this was your business to start with Baker…. Dallas is curious just what damage garden boy and the theater geek can cause and well a full on fight breaks out culminating in Imogen ‘making it rain’ with the confetti cannon. Fiona tells Dallas to leave with the team before she calls the cops and Dallas tells Eli he’s going to be sorry before he obeys.

Clare asks Eli if he’s okay….he is….though his hand is in pain.

Dave tells Alli that he’d never let anyone hurt her but they are growing apart and while he loves her between everything she’s doing to fast track they haven’t been able to actually be a couple and it’s not fair to him or her. He doesn’t want to settle and comments how she’s checked out on the relationship since getting into MIT and he’s through with her acting like he’s second best to her schooling and so it’s over.

Clare is icing Eli’s hand on the fire escape thanking him for punching Dallas and that it was stupid to project her hate for Asher onto Dallas and the hockey team. Eli doesn’t think Asher should get away with this and promises Clare that they’ll do something to give him his just desserts.