The Sheriff
In this episode, Amerie is being questioned by two female officers about the nature of her relationship with Teacher Jojo. Amerie denies any sexual relationship with her teacher and thinks someone is playing with her. The officers ask her about whether she ever kissed or touched Teacher Jojo inappropriately, and she responds that she never did anything improper. They ask if there was anything else she would like to share with them, and she responds that there is nothing else she would like to share.
Someone made an anonymous call to DOCS and the principal had no choice but to let the officials investigate. Miss Obah is forced to take a few days off as the investigation is going on. Amerie is picked up by her mom and she goes home too. SLTs is canceled in the meantime and the fate of the class hangs precariously in the air.
Quin has gone nonverbal since her fight with Sasha and Darren asks Sasha to give her some space. Darren is a great friend, they are always there for Quinn. Darren and Ca$h are also not talking to one another. ..
After the investigation, Amerie comes back and confronts Harper as she believes she is the one messing with her. Initially, Harper denies it but Amerie doesn’t believe her so in resigned frustration she admits to writing on the new incest map and making a call to DOCS. As a result, Harper is expelled and Dusty offers a listening ear and a shoulder to Amerie. ..
Miss Obah is angry that the principal didn’t stand up for her even though she knew there was no truth to the accusation. She hands in her resignation and the principal takes on the SLts class. She is the new sheriff and she is looking to change things up as she felt Miss Obah’s approach to the class was lacking. She starts by showing the kids infected genitalia and reminds them that STIs affect anyone regardless of their gender.
The students are not happy to hear about Miss Obah’s resignation and Darren, Amerie and Quinn try to make her change her mind but they are unsuccessful. She tells them that these are the consequences of their action and she doesn’t even think she wants to be a teacher anymore. Amerie decides to take a chance and talk to the principal about Miss Obah’s resignation but she dismisses her.
Amerie comes up with a new plan to get Sasha’s attention at school. She mobilizes the students and commandeers the administration block. They refuse to leave until Miss Obah is reinstated, but that takes longer than they planned because the principal is not ready to barge. They end up spending the night in the administration block.
Sasha apologizes to Quinn but she remains nonverbal. Darren has a heart-to-heart talk with Ca$h who confesses he does not enjoy sex and asks Darren to be friends. Darren has no choice but to begrudgingly accept it even though they want more. Dusty tries to cozy up to Amerie and get close to her.
As Amerie checks on everyone during the night, she runs into Spider and has flashbacks of the day of the festival. Spider was there and offered to help her when she fought and lost contact with Harper. They ended up going home together and they were about to sleep together but Spider had a “performance problem” and they didn’t go any further. Later in the night before Spider left, Harper came to Amerie’s house. She sounded like she was crying and asked Amerie to let her in but she didn’t. We finally understand why Spider has been so mean to Amerie and Malakai, he is resentful and jealous of their relationship. ..
The caretaker, who had been watching the kids the whole time, is arrested and charged with obstruction of justice.
After being expelled from school, Harper is forced to stay at home with her drug-addict father who gets manic when high. He gets violent and forgets who Harper is, he thinks she is the wolf who wants to take his possession. He has another manic fit after coming home in the morning high and violent, scaring Harper. ..
After her confrontation with Dusty, Amerie realizes Harper was trying to protect her when she stopped her from sleeping with Dusty. She rushes over to Harper’s home but she finds an ambulance parked outside and Harper comes out of the house with blood all over her. She sees Amerie and says, “It happened again.’’
The Episode Review
This episode gave us a lot of new information about what happened between Spider and Amerie. I think Harper is hurt because Amerie was not there for her that night. It sounds like she was going through something. Amerie ought to have checked on her. This explains why Harper was so angry, she felt let down.
Dusty is a person who goes out of their way to be intentionally hurtful, and then fails to take responsibility for their actions. He uses his two lackeys, Spider and Ant, as mouthpieces and objects to execute his twisted plans. I hope he gets repercussions for his actions this time. ..
In the final episode of the season, we get to see what happened at the festival. Given the ending, did Harper hurt her dad in self-defense? ..
