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WOMAN: Previously on "Guidance"...

- The only thing I have is Mr. Ridley.

No girlfriend, no band.

To him, I'm a talented songwriter.

HILARY: Where's your songwriting gonna take you?

PRINCIPAL DECOST: I'm sure you'll keep this investigation

as brief and as painless as it can be for Kev, yeah?

- You're heading this up? - And I was diagnosed

as on the spectrum. - You just came out to me.

- John looked over my report and you're all clear.

This wasn't personal. - Never is with you, Alana.

SMILEY: "When it was over, he became mean."

What does "when it was over" mean?

- I have to find magpie13.

I should've been warned that there's a dangerous student.

MAN: Tyler just confessed. - Tyler,

you can't do this, please. REPORTER: Governor James.

Is your son the shooter?

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

HILARY: Everybody loves Mr. Ridley.

Mr. Ridley doesn't necessarily

love everyone back.

There's a teacher, I won't say his name,

who has fooled everyone.

I'm the only one that

sees that he's a manipulative, two-faced monster

who needs constant adoration

to feel alive.

And you know what, if you don't give that to him,

you better watch out...

Because he will take you down.

Forget those of us who actually work their asses off.

You can just show your ass to a certain teacher...

- Oh, no.

HILARY: Who needs to be fired immediately.

WOMAN: ♪ My own world ♪

♪ Living inside myself ♪

♪ Myself ♪

♪ Living for no one else ♪

♪ And I see your face ♪

♪ I don't wanna face it ♪

♪ No, whoa-oh ♪

♪ So I look away ♪

♪ I don't wanna face it ♪

♪ No, whoa-oh ♪

♪ What I'm thinking ♪

♪ What I'm saying ♪

♪ I don't ever know ♪

♪ Oh, oh ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ So come in ♪

- Well, hey, Mr. Robot.

Any progress?

- I don't know if you've noticed but our

state-of-the-art Alliance website didn't build itself.

I was able to lift magpie13's

IP address from our chat session.

- So you found out who she is?

- Well, not yet, but now I know where she lives.

- Yes.

- I thought I was clear when I told you two

to drop the investigation.

Look, you're students. You can't be involved.

Can I borrow you for a second?

ALANA: Hilary, I'm worried that you

haven't told me the whole story

of what happened with you and Mr. Ridley.

The similarities between what happened to magpie13

and what happened to you--

- Wait.

You think I wrote this?

No. No. Smiley and I were together.

We already told you that-- - No, no, no, no.

That's not what I'm saying.

Hilary, I think the circumstances

are eerily similar.

- You think I would be capable of something this reprehensible?

- I don't mean to insinuate.

- Oh, you think I would do something so ew,

and with someone so old?

No offense, but...

- You say that he singled you out,

that he turned people against you.

You even went so far as to say

that he ruined your life,

and that's exactly what happened to this girl.

- Maybe he does this to anyone who gets in his way,

even when he's not being a sexual deviant.

- You mean like his go-to MO.

Well, then, it could be happening to anybody

in his orbit.

- Yeah. I mean, if he's done it before

and gotten away with it,

who's saying he's not doing it now?

- But I spoke to all of his students

and nobody seems angry

or ostracized except...

- Me?

Okay, but you only talked

to the students in AP Psych.

Teacher of the year is all over the school.

He has social studies classes.

He tutors.

He chaperones every event.

He runs Guitar Club.

- Right.

Right, Guitar Club.

[bell rings]

♪ ♪

[guitar strums]

♪ ♪

- Liddy?

Liddy?

- I'm sorry.

Layla is just driving me nuts.

- She seems worried about you.

- Is that why we're here,

to talk about my ex?

Did she put you up to this?

- No.

You're here to talk about your connection

to Mr. Ridley.

- Mr. Ridley? Did Hilary say something?

- Why would Hilary-- - Because that argument

was all her fault. Everyone in the school knows

she's gone off the deep end.

You can't believe a word she says.

- No, this has nothing to do with Hilary.

- Good.

- I brought you in here because you're very active

in Guitar Club.

- So?

- That means you spend a lot of time

with Mr. Ridley.

I've seen you two interact.

Has your relationship

extended beyond the traditional

student-teacher relationship?

- We're friends.

I mean, he's probably my best friend these days.

- Has he ever done anything that's made you

feel uncomfortable?

Like maybe crossed a line?

- What kind of line?

- An inappropriate line.

- Are you legit about to whip out a creepy doll

and say, "Show me where the bad man touched you"?

- Liddy, I'm not accusing you of anything.

If something happened, it's not your fault.

- Oh, my God.

You're, like, actually serious.

- Mr. Ridley is an adult

and if he's acting inappropriately,

then it's my job to protect you.

- I don't need your protection.

Mr. Ridley is the only person

that cares about me and my dreams,

and you're all trying to destroy him.

- Liddy, I'm not making this up.

I'm just trying to figure out if Mr. Ridley is--

- Is what?

A fricking monster?

The only monster in this school is you.

HILARY: You said you knew where she lived.

- I said I could pinpoint where she was when we chatted.

- You totally didn't say that.

- Well, I assumed she was home,

not pirating free Wi-Fi.

HILARY: She could be anyone in here.

What now?

- We stake out this place

until magpie13 reveals herself.

[phone line trilling]

MAN: The mailbox is full.

I cannot accept any messages at this time.

Good-bye.

- What's got you all hooked out?

- I found a text on your phone.

You told some guy that you deleted all the messages,

that I'd never find out?

Find out about what, Bri?

- You broke into my phone?

- You're hiding something, and I want the truth.

- The truth is, you're crazy.

- What? Don't try and flip this around on me.

Okay, I am your boyfriend. I deserve an explanation.

BRIANNA: And I deserve my privacy.

Snooping around and following my every move

24/7 is not how normal boyfriends function.

- Bri, if you would just be honest,

I wouldn't have to do this.

- You're a straight-up pathological stalker.

- Bri, don't say that.

- But it's true. You tell everyone

that transferring here was some master plan political move,

but you and I both know that that's a bunch of spin.

- I told you the real story.

- What, that you were protecting your ex-girlfriend?

Right. Delusional, party of you.

- That is the real story.

- Controlling and harassing isn't protecting.

What an idiot I've been.

You know what, stay away from me or I'll get

a restraining order on you too.

- Bri, no. - Don't touch me.

We're done, Tyler.

OFFICER: Do you have a confession?

It's late. Let's get these poor kids back to their parents.

- What--what happened?

- We have to clear everyone out of here.

- But we're not done. - For tonight we are,

but I promise you, Ms. Maynor,

I'll be in touch.

Kids, your parents are waiting.

- I know Tyler didn't pull the trigger.

He's protecting somebody.

You have to let me help. - You tried.

And look what happened.

We have to watch out for ourselves now.

- Hilary, Hilary, talk to me.

- I can't.

- Don't you trust me?

- It's not that. It's just,

it's better if you don't know anything.

- But I can fix this. - Ms. Maynor,

I'm so tired

and I just wanna go home.

- Okay.

- [sighs]

I need to talk to you.

- Yeah, I got your AMBER Alerts.

- Liddy, this isn't a joke.

I'm worried about you.

- Not your job anymore.

- Why? Because Mr. Ridley's got your back?

- What is this, a conspiracy?

- What are you talking about?

- What are you talking about?

- I've been hearing bad stuff.

You need to stay away from Guitar Club

and stay away from Mr. Ridley.

- Okay, you don't know the first thing about Mr. Ridley.

Just how you don't know the first thing about me.

- I can pretty much guess

he's the one that got you that stupid necklace.

Smiley and Hilary talked to some chick online

who worshipped that pervert just like you.

He got her tacky little gifts

and then he slept with her.

- You're lying. - Why would I do that?

- To save your precious band.

- Liddy, I can't just flip a switch

and stop caring about you.

Ridley is a straight-up pedo

and you're in danger.

- You, Hilary, Ms. Maynor,

you're all a bunch of witch hunters.

TYLER: It just doesn't make sense.

- Well, I feel for you, man. I really do.

But breakups, that's just the reality of growing up.

- Yeah, but that doesn't have to be my reality.

- You know, it's senior year,

all right, it's a time for endings.

You're supposed to say good-bye.

The best part is is next year is new beginnings, right?

You can let go of the old and welcome in the new.

- I don't want anyone else.

- Well, you think that now but trust me,

you have a long line of Briannas in your future.

You'll move on, she'll move on,

we all just keep moving on.

- Don't you know how much she means to me?

- Yeah. But we've all been there.

Like I said, it's a classic circle of life crap.

♪ ♪

- Um, Mr. Ridley, can we please talk?

It's urgent and private.

- Yeah. We were-- we were just done.

You okay? What's wrong?

- This means the world to me,

but people are starting to ask me questions about you,

and I feel like I should give this back.

- Questions? - Yeah.

- Who's asking questions? - Layla, Ms. Maynor.

- What are they asking?

[phone beeping]

This number will not stop calling me.

Just mute this.

It's like I told you, you start coloring

outside the lines,

people are gonna freak out.

All right, let me put this back on you.

- Okay.

- You son of a bitch.

[bell rings]

- John, do you have a minute?

- For you, Kev? Always.

- Do you mind if I close the door?

- No. Go ahead.

What--what's on your mind?

- This is extremely difficult

for me to bring up with you.

- Okay. Well, you know you can tell me anything, Kevin.

- Look, I know how close you and Alana are,

and how much she means to this school,

I mean, how much she means to all of us,

and I wouldn't be here if I wasn't genuinely

concerned and scared.

- What on earth is going on?

- She hasn't dropped the investigation on me.

- Wait, I was crystal clear.

- I know. I know. It's like she didn't hear you.

The investigation into unfair grading,

I found out she interrogated Liddy Quinn.

She's a junior and not even in my class.

- Okay. Well,

you were right to bring this to me.

- John, I feel awful,

not about what she must think about me,

but I fear for her mental state.

It seems like she's in a tailspin and ever since

she's lost her father,

it's clearly an emotional time.

- Yeah. And emotions render Alana powerless.

[phone beeping]

- Capitol High's breakup of the century

and you're not even covering the story?

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

SMILEY: Okay. I haven't fallen,

I've just evolved, okay?

That story's so pedestrian.

I'm full-on "To Catch a Predator" now.

- Hmm, okay, says the super sleuth

who's been stuck in that sticky booth for days

with nothing to show for it.

- Okay. Chill, Hil, I mean,

good things come to those who wait.

- Oh, my God. Incoming.

Take cover.

[phone beeping]

- Before you go all Neanderthal on me, I'm not gonna cover

your little breakup, okay?

Albeit tragic.

TYLER: Old news. I've got a better story.

- This is Tyler James, right?

Listen, if you try to prank this gay,

I will spin it into a hate crime.

TYLER: How about this for hate?

Mr. Ridley needs to be destroyed

and I'm going to be the one to do it.

- What's he saying? - Shh.

Tyler, get your smarmy, JFK-wannabe self

over to the eatery now.

- When you were a little girl,

you would spend hours

drawing the constellations on my driveway in chalk.

I'd go to get the mail,

tip-toeing, trying not to step on a star.

You worked so hard

connecting all those little dots.

- I can explain.

- No. No. No. No.

This...

this is my fault.

I'm still tip-toeing after all these years.

I'm sorry. I should've put my foot down.

I should've demanded you take some time off

after Buck's passing.

- This has nothing to do with Dad.

- You just barreled

through that time that you should've been grieving

and now it's finally taken its toll.

- What do you mean?

- You're regressing, Alana.

Effective immediately, I'm putting you

on mandatory sick leave.

- I'm not sick. - Alana, honey,

you're not in trouble,

but you are troubled.

Look, I'm worried about your mental health,

we all are.

- Who's we?

- Your mom and I.

You take the week, okay?

Get some rest.

See your sister while she's in town,

because I am gonna need you

at your best when the alumni come back next week.

- John,

those constellations on your driveway,

they were accurate.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

WAITRESS: The kids in booth six

have been parked there all day.

I switched them to decaf hours ago.

- God bless you.

- So wait, you connected his phone

to hers directly?

- Yeah. She sent him that weird text message

about deleting everything before I saw it.

- Hey, I'll be taking over your table.

Can I get you something to eat?

- Yeah. Could I just get a ginger ale?

- A ginger ale?

Sure thing.

- Who are you texting?

- Ms. Maynor. - She told us not to go

snooping around anymore.

- Too late, done.

So tell me about these shoes.

- Well, I found them in her bag

with this note that was clearly

a love note, so I thought-- - I'll be right back.

- I thought they were gonna be for me,

you know, birthday present or something, but then...

- You're her. You're magpie13.

- I don't know what you're talking about.

- You have to come forward.

You have to tell the truth about him.

- I'll get your ginger ale.

- He's doing it again.

- Look, no one believed me the first time,

they won't believe me now, and they won't believe her.

- They will if you speak up.

- Look what happened to you when you spoke up.

And that was just about a test grade.

The comments that people left on that video,

the names they called you.

Can you imagine what they'd do to you

if you'd slept with him?

- No.

- Let me tell you what they'd do.

They'd call you a slut behind your back,

and they start rumors saying

that you were the one chasing him,

that you're crazy,

that you made up the whole thing for attention.

And all your friends will start being too busy to hang out.

And you tell yourself it's because they're just jealous

but really you know it's because they think

that you're damaged.

Oh, and nobody tells their parents.

Nobody.

You're just alone with it.

And then when you try and speak up,

you're told that you better think twice

about what you're saying,

that you really better think hard

about what you're going to do

because it could ruin a life.

Like your life doesn't matter as much as his,

like his innocence

is more valuable than yours.

That's because it is.

- This is why

you have to speak up

even if it hurts.

We-- - I have a daughter.

She's four. She understands everything.

She can't know this about me, about her mom.

I have to protect her.

- He's gonna get away with this.

- Yeah, he always does.

Look, please don't make me go through that again.

Please.

- I won't.

- Let me try another reverse lookup.

- We're not getting anywhere

doing it your way, Zuckerberg.

I was better off old-school cold calling him.

[phone line trilling]

WOMAN: The number you have reached

has been disconnected or is no longer in service.

- The bastard's covering his tracks.

- A phone number isn't enough.

We need one of these girls,

one of Mr. Ridley's... victims

in order to press charges.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- We need to turn Brianna.