Steve meanwhile wants to talk to Lauren about her mother’s memorial. She kisses him and the kisses goes a little further…until Sasha stops it so as not to sacrifice her values. Summer tells him he is a good man, an honorable man, a righteous man, that’s why she loves him. He thinks he should have known about Payson’s feelings, he failed, maybe he’s not such a good man. Mark says if she makes it to the Olympics it won’t be with him. Kim wants to take time but Sasha says they don’t have time. Mark doesn’t want Payson to be put through the gossip. Sasha says if he thinks his present was harming her, he’d leave. Mark wonders if he is doing it for himself because she’s the only one he has left. Sasha talks to Mark and Kim about intending to continue training Payson to get her to the Olympics. She’s fine and wants him to stay out of her life. Kaylie thinks her gymnastics is the only thing keeping her family together. Austin knows there are ways to rig the scale (roles of quarters in her underwear, water weight). Kaylie says she’s been weighed and everyone thinks she’s fine. She has too much to lose and needs to get her strength back. (Okay I never could pretend to care for Emily even without this.)Īustin stops Kaylie outside to say that he doesn’t want her to compete at the trials. This is where your pride gets you Emily, I can’t pretend to feel badly. With a boy? Since it’s not a death, Beals expects her there. She does reveal that trials have been moved up a day, as expected and Emily tells her she has a family emergency. Right, these girls are famous for following the rules. He says to follow the rules and stay focused and they’ll be fine. Beals reveals that she will be coaching them in the meantime. Payson tries to stand up for him but he turns and gives them some words of comfort. Steve puts in that the Rock has decided to suspend him for the time being. If they train with him, they will be cut (not sure they can do that actually, I don’t think the NGO has any say in who trains who). Beals comes out to announce that the NGO doesn’t want him to be training any of the girls. Sasha tells the girls to stop watching the meeting and tells them to start training. Alex meanwhile is just concerned about the girls on the team. “The National Gymnastics Organization must worry about their liability and employing a potential pedophile” Pedophile! Some parents, including Chloe exclaim (again, the NGO does not employ Sasha so this conversation is silly). Kim assures them Sasha did nothing wrong but Ellen Beals is having none of it (is this a Rock meeting or a national team meeting? Sasha doesn’t coach the national team…). (She is the one to know what it’s like to be teased after all.) What kind of leadership is that?) and it is Emily who tells them to cut it out.

“Planning on eloping, moving into the airstream, and a boy named Sasha Junior.” Even Kaylie makes a dig (I thought you were the captain Kaylie. Payson doesn’t back down though, instead replying with some sarcasm that she thoroughly enjoyed it. She goes inside to confront her friends and predictably, it is Lauren who starts with the teasing. She recognizes that she made the mess and if she hides, people will think Sasha did something wrong. Payson is miserable but she calls Kim off momma bear duty. Payson and Kim get to the gym and everyone is laughing at her (because if you recall, last week they found out that she kissed their coach, Sasha). Emily thinks she might go to jail but Chloe assures her she’ll be fine. Emily’s court date has been set and luckily it’s one day before world team tryouts, which you know means something will happen to either push tryouts up a day or her court date back a day. Not that Emily is one for looking at things right in front of her (for example, not checking that her ticket in France was two ways…), so she really needn’t have worried. (We don’t know exactly what it is, but we can guess.) Chloe accidentally left out her Bambi nametag but she spots it and hides it before Emily can notice. In case you missed why, it’s to cover Chloe’s skanky outfit for her new nighttime job. Well, brace yourselves, this is going to be a long one:Įmily wakes her mother Chloe up on the couch where she fell asleep in her trench coat, which Emily notes, she has been wearing an awful lot. Why? Partially because it felt like a repeat of the Nationals episode without the awesomeness. We’ve finally come to the season two mid-season finale, Can it live up to the episode that was Nationals? The answer is…no, not so much.

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