Hopefully this will be a lot like the Indian in the Cupboard.
We don’t know if she takes him up on the offer but when he leaves, Emily goes up to her room and pulls out the mysterious wooden box that we saw in Sophia’s locker, Emily must have gone back for it.
At Least We Know She’s Not Talking to the Dead Girl
Emily heads over to Naomi’s with a cute backpack. She’s leaving home, bye, bye, Hey Jude! I mean Naomi! There she is on the telephone acting like someone didn’t just jump off the balcony and die. Laughing like the world is made of sunshine and ponies.
Naomi tells Emily it was her mother on the line but it’s probs one of her lesbros from the rec room, they were probs having a really important conversation about The Con.
Hi, YOU KNOW THE JOKE ABOUT THIS RIGHT
Emily: I’m moving in.
Naomi: Where?
Emily: Here.
Naomi: Isn’t that the sort of thing that people normally discuss?
Emily: I need to, okay?
Naomi: Okay.
A’ight. Naomi says it’s sort of against the rules but what the hell, fuck it, let’s put on some sombreros and make tacos and drink tequila with moustaches while listening to a Mariachi band. No really, that’s what they do. Also, let’s pull out those pinatas and put ’em to work! I wasn’t sure about their relationship before, but you gotta love a chick who’s got Cinco De Mayo at the ready.
Ale-Ale-Hahn-Droooo Alejandro
It’s so hot that Naomi literally catches on fire, actually. They take care of it though don’t worry this won’t get all Firestarter and shit.
Otherwise-Inclined Ladies
After the bottle of tequila, Naomi & Emily decide to take off the sombreros and go to a house party. But first they stand out the front listening to the sweet sounds of breaking glass and vomit, contemplating how good a house party could actually be –
Naomi: This looks kinda terrible.
Emily: Yeah.
Naomi: Fuck it! If it’s terrible then we’ll just go back to ours.
Emily: To where?
Naomi: Ours!
Awww. They give each other a really sweet look. Ours! We own things! Moment shared!
But then we get into the party where the kids are getting crazy! Where did all these friends of Naomi come from.
My Baby’s got a Secret
Inside the party, it’s crowded and before long the lovebirds are separated by other alternatively lifestyled girls. Naomi shouts to Emily that she’ll find her later. FABULOUS.
Emily is then drawn to the solemn radiance of Thomas, who looks unimpressed per ushe, and JJ. Thomas says that it’s the worst party he’s ever been to and while it’s been established in 401 that he doesn’t like fun; JJ explains it’s mostly because Pandora is having a seizure on the dance floor and it’s making Thomas jealous.
JJ: Panda’s giving Thommo a dose of the ol’ “look at me” routine. You how it is, letting your exes know you’re out there, that other people find you attractive. That everything you thought you had together, they could do without it. That they don’t need you.
Thanks for that, JJ. Emily spots Naomi in the corner, she’s drunk and whispering in the ear of the plaid girl from the rec room, they’re both laughing and looking single.
Emily gets upset so she runs off into the bathroom to hide and ’cause she’s upset/crying and this is not a reality TV show. She gives herself a pep talk, willing herself to “let it go, let it go before you screw everything up”.
Cook comes into the bathroom whips it out and starts relieving himself in the bath tub, which is gross, Cook is gross. It’s the perfect time to have a heart to heart.
Emily: Cook, excuse me, I don’t want to see your muff.
Cook: You know it’s not too late to become overcome by desire? I can turn you…
Emily: Fuck off.
Cook: No I’m serious. It’s probably been a while since you’ve seen one of these. Not that mine is totally outstanding. What’s up?
Emily: Do you ever get jealous, Cook?
Cook: If your shag is just a shag then you’re always gonna get your heart ripped out somewhere aren’t ya.
Emily: What do you do about it?
Cook: You just burn, kid. You just burn. You just keep it on the inside.
Emily: Is that possible?
Cook: Yeah. ‘Cause you’re gonna look a bit stupid if you don’t, wouldn’t ya. Look at me love, happy.
Emily: Effy?
Cook: You don’t tell anyone my secrets and I won’t tell anyone any of yours. Or we could both go out in a blaze of glory. Dance, muff monkey?
Aw! Muffmonkey! Cook doesn’t wash his hands but Emily is apparently willing to dance with him anyway.
The dancing gets put on hold though because Cook sees Effy and Freddie making out and rather than talking about his feelings, writing a blog or taking a deep breath, he just punches this other dude who happens to walk by at the wrong moment.
JJ, Thomas and Pandora try to interfere, and Freddie wants to interfere but Effy stops him.
I Can’t Let Him Ruin Your Perfect Almost Lesbian-ish Good Looks
Emily is lying in bed. She can’t sleep. It’s too bad Naomi’s not selling ambien. Then she could fall asleep, wake up, have wild monkey sex, and wake up with strange bruises and then have a new mystery to solve.
I Lay Awake And Miss You Before You Go
Tick-tock-tick-tock. These are the moments of our lesbian lives ticking by like sand through the hourglass of time and the land and the way we were when we were young.
Emily sneaks out of bed, wearing cute little underpants, and gets her phone. Naomi is secretly awake. Emily calls someone to tell them she needs to see them and show them something. That’s what she said hahahaha I hope it’s not Cook and his muff.
No, Emily’s going to meet up with the creepy brother man. She’s talking to herself again, she did this earlier with the box. This is so Capricia-y isn’t it!
Step Back From The Ledge My Friend
Yes, we’re back to the “nightclub” set again. Emily stands at the railing and questions why she did it, which is when Matt shows up. A-ha! And then, also, Naomi’s there too! Party time!
Emily asks “why here?” and he says “I don’t know, this is where it ends” and it’s all a bit morbid. Emily pulls out the wooden box and confesses to taking it from Sophia’s locker.
Do You Want This to Be a Happy 2-Girls-in-Love Storyline or a Destructive-Relationship!
“Can’t we just leave it,” Noami suddenly asks. This is so serious and intense and creepy too.
She wants to know why they can’t leave Sophia’s death alone, and Emily says they just can’t. It’s hard to leave death alone, I think, it has a way of seeking you out… anyhow… Matt runs up to the roof with the wooden box and Emily follows, with Naomi chasing after her pleading that she just forget about it and come home. Way to act unsuspicious, Naomi.
I’m confused I thought it was nighttime [R: Sunrise, Crystal!]
Matt & Emily are on the building’s ledge. Matt’s holding the box, wearily, and Emily just looks generally wind-beaten and hopeful/terrified.
Naomi sees the box & braces herself.
It’s a sketch book. It’s actually beautiful, like Emily might be thinking, She was a good artist and now she’s dead, and then also now suddenly Sophia is real because she made it.
The sketch book will contain the real story or whatever the fuck is going on here.
Don’t Judge a Book By The Size of Its Wrist
And that’s what it is — the complete & total story.
It’s the story about a girl on a train felt alone. She went to an Open Day and she was scared there because she was scared to talk to people. Then she met a blonde girl who says “hi” very open-like. It’s Naomi. She wants Naomi to touch her hand and wants to touch Naomi’s hand. She tells Naomi that she feels so trapped. Naomi said she feels so trapped too, and that she had to tell a lie to go there today. They laugh and go to Naomi’s house. That’s when you pretty much figure out exactly what happened, even though the rest isn’t in the book; Naomi has a girlfriend, Sophia learned that, Sophia was told it was a one-time thing, Naomi went back to Emily like nothing happened, it was Sophia’s first lesbian experience, she got obsessed, she was in love, Naomi wouldn’t even talk to her, she made a shrine, she invented a fantasy life about her relationship with Naomi and her friend Emily and told it to people until it felt true, and then one day at a party she went there thinking She would be there and She was and She had something to sell, and ’cause you’d take anything from her anything at all (clearly), Sophia bought it and took it and then SHE was there making out with Emily and then Sophia was fucked and fucked up so she decided no thanks, I’d rather be dead.
You can see the sketch book story board, Love On A Train, right here. It’s worth it.
Naomi is crying and saying that she’s sorry, she’s tore open more or less. She says she’s sorry in that way that you say you’re sorry thinking that if maybe you just say it loud enough or maybe at the right moment you could take it back.
Matt throws the box and the sketch book off the roof and leaves Emily and Naomi up on the roof with their feelings.
All I Said To You, All I Did For You, Seems So Silly To Me Now
Emily: You’ve ruined it. You don’t want anyone to care. [gets up on the ledge]
Emily: I could be dead in a second. Everything is so fragile. Didn’t you realise that? We were special.
Is she fragile? Is love fragile? Is our ability to cope with them not having any more sex scenes fragile? Oh, I think everything is fragile. Like she said.
Naomi [devastated, aching]: I was scared.
Emily [devastated, resolute] : You’re always scared.
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Emily leaves Naomi on the roof and goes home to her family.
Shelter from the Storm
Her Dad, who I sort of love a little, holds her while she cries. She tells him that Naomi cheated on her. We expect him to tell her to fuck that girl, but instead he tells her that when he was 19, he cheated on her Mom with her Mom’s sister and he did it because he felt trapped.
I think that’s the rub here; it’s a totally unforgivable act, but who among us cannot understand exactly how she felt and why she did what she did, whether we ourselves would have succumbed to it or not.
Mr Fitch: People do stupid things when they’re trapped to act like they’re not trapped.
Emily: Was it ever the same again?
Mr Fitch: It was worse. And then it was okay. And then it got better. And then we got you and we got all the things we love.
Emily: Did she hate herself for taking you back?
Mr Fitch: Hate herself? What for? She didn’t do anything wrong. She hated me though, for a very very very long time. Your mum’s tough though.
Emily: I’m not like her, Dad.
Mr Fitch: That’s okay too.
This is such an unexpectedly beautiful moment. It’s like they’re both vulnerable and they both have feelings and AW JEEZZZ WOMEN!
Emo music sings the [whatever season] of Emily’s discontent as she goes to Naomi’s.
Is she going there to forgive her? Naomi has left her a note on the front door of her apartment that says “I’ll do anything”. She drew a picture too! She must have learned that from Sophia. Oh sorry. Is it to soon? It’s too soon.
In the Door And You’re There and You’re Sorry for the Fight
It’s sweet but isn’t it also weird? I feel like maybe the more obvious place would have been to put it on Emily’s door, since after being cheated you would presume that the chance of Emily returning to Naomi’s house any time soon is quite low. So it makes me think maybe Emily is there to pick something up, not to apologise.
She starts walking away but then stops to when she sees Naomi.
Who is looking down at her.
And then she goes inside.
The Fucking End.
Crystal: Hey you know what tiger? I don’t know where to write this but: I’m finding myself less and less invested in Naomi and Emily’s relationship. I think it’s because they really only figured things out in the last episode of the last season. Now they’re back three months later and we haven’t seen their relationship as a couple develop on screen at all and now I’m meant to be invested in them? I feel like I should be shocked and saddened that Naomi cheated and ruined everything and I’m just not. I just kinda shrugged.
Riese: But look at how blue the sky is! Do human beings ever realize life as they’re living it? every every moment? Crystal I HAVE TEARS IN MY EYES!!! Real tears! Okay. Normally, I do really hate it when we pick a series back up and we’re suddenly supposed to believe in this relationship that we haven’t seen develop, like it’s lazy writing or cheating. But, one thing I’ve noticed from the get-go this season is that somehow, for some reason, I do believe that something special has blossomed between them in the interim. That’s one of my favorite things about this episode actually, is how believable it was. That last scene felt really real to me, like I could feel it in my bones. I’m serious. I hope they work this shit out ’cause my heart hurts!
Crystal: Yeah you’re right, it is believable, I mean the reason we started recapping this show last season is because it is a believable lesbain relationship on the tv. So far I’ve believed in Emily and Naomi’s feelings for each other, and I definitely believed their pain in this episode – like my heart totally sunk into my gut in that moment on the roof when Naomi realised that her secret was about to be revealed and there was nothing she could do to stop it. But that was out of sympathy, not out of fear that this is game over for ‘Naomily’. I really enjoyed watching Naomi and Emily’s relationship develop in the last season, but now this season has started and the thought of them breaking up doesn’t phase me at all. Part of me wants Emily to not take Naomi back, to go out and play the field a little. Like with Effy, for example.
Riese: I haven’t figured out yet WHY I believe in it though; I think maybe the actors/writers are just really good at subtext, ’cause for real there hasn’t been that much text. That being said, I feel like the opportunity to take cute makeout screenshots of Naomi & Emily for tumblr would be more likely to arise if they get back together.
