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By Shack | Season 4 | Episode 24 | Aired on 04.20.2000
Back at the loft, Jones watches a video of some guy talking about what he's heard. He says he heard that Naomi passed out, but that Beau had sex with her anyway. Jones looks incredulous, as if it was beyond any possibility that a rumor about drunken people having sex could ever take on the connotations of rape. Travis says he heard this rumor from four different people as he pastes up a bunch of video screen-caps on the walls of the loft, because he is the lamest "artist" ever. Jones begins to look worried and asks if the word "rape" ever came up. Funny she should ask that. Elsewhere, Sheila and Naomi are talking about the events of that night. Sheila suggests the possibility that Beau had sex with Naomi when she was unconscious. Naomi thinks she'd remember, but some other random friend points out that she was drunk, and now Sheila seems to recall Beau bragging about bagging Naomi when he came downstairs to leave the club that night. That isn't exactly true, though he did let the skeevy guys draw an incorrect conclusion. So the terrible trio are having a barbecue on the roof of the loft, on some patio set that probably obscures a helicopter landing pad. The place is just that big, folks. Jones and Oil Derrick are arguing over the unexpected (to her, anyway) turn of events with the rumor. Travis thinks the rumor will change again soon and that they shouldn't worry about it. Oil Derrick leans forward, and we get a perfect shot of him for the destined-for-commercial-clip line: "It's not true. It's [sic] just words. So how bad can that be?" Is the target audience for this movie four-year-olds? Hey, filmmakers! I learned all about how it's wrong to tell lies about people from King Friday and Henrietta Pussycat on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood back when I was seven. If you're thinking about making a movie about how you should listen to your parents, they got that covered, too. Back at the school, Naomi is meeting with two police detectives, one of which is played by Andy Sipowicz's dead wife, Sharon Lawrence. Naomi tells them that Beau had sex with her when she told him to stop. Sharon asks her for more details. Naomi says she "thinks" he raped her. She admits that she had passed out, but said that Beau had bragged about it with his friends. She says that everybody knows it happened because everybody's talking about it. Sharon wants to know how they know, but Naomi cuts her off, explaining that she knows he did it. She just knows.Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20Next