Original subtitles

WOMAN: Previously on "Guidance"...

HILARY: You're magpie13. You have to come forward.

- I have a daughter, she's four,

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

HILARY: Everybody loves Mr. Ridley.

Mr. Ridley doesn't necessarily love everyone back.

Polly, it's me, Hilary.

You ruined my life.

- Mr. Ridley isn't the one that needs to be fired.

You are.

And by the time I'm done, Harvard won't want you.

HILARY: I can stop him from hurting

anyone else again.

LIDDY: Mr. Ridley is the only person

that cares about me and my dreams,

and you're all trying to destroy him.

- Son of a bitch.

SMILEY: You're seeing a new man--somebody older.

Tyler told Brianna everything.

- Why do you keep buying her all these gifts

if she's just a pity case?

- Tell her about Polly.

- You are a liar. - Wait, I--

[gunshot] - Brianna, no!

♪ ♪

Brianna! [gunshot]

- Let's go.

[cheers and applause]

[phone buzzes]

- Tyler told Brianna everything.

- How much of everything? - I don't know,

but she's freaking out right now.

She's going after Liddy, like, physically.

This is happening right now.

- Okay. Get Principal Decost. He was headed to his office.

- But I have to shoot this.

- Smiley, for once just do what I ask you to do.

LIDDY: None of this makes any sense.

- I know, but it's true. - He wouldn't do that.

He's a good guy. - But he did.

- Where's Brianna?

Tyler, please, you've done enough, okay?

[phone buzzes]

WOMAN: ♪ You you you ♪

- Polly?

POLLY: Do you know where Hilary is?

- Yes. She's here somewhere.

POLLY: You have to find her now.

- Why? What's going on? [gunshot]

POLLY: What's happening? [microphone feedback]

- I don't know. [gunshot]

[gasps] [all exclaim]

Call 911!

[overlapping chatter]

[fire alarm bell rings]

WOMAN: ♪ My own world ♪

♪ Living inside myself ♪

♪ Myself ♪

♪ Living for no one else ♪

♪ Then I see your face ♪

♪ I don't want to face it ♪

♪ No more ♪

♪ So I look away ♪

♪ I don't want to face it ♪

♪ No more ♪

♪ Fine, I'm thinking ♪

♪ What I'm saying ♪

♪ I don't ever know ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ ♪

- Come this way.

- Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

- Stop! Liddy!

Liddy, stop helping that monster!

Liddy, listen to me! Liddy!

- [indistinct]

- Liddy, what are you doing?

What are you doing? Liddy! Liddy!

- Get out of here. - Liddy!

- Okay, Bri, baby, you have to give me that gun.

Okay? Please give it to me.

[fire alarm bell continues ringing]

Was anyone with you?

Bri, did anyone see you?

[fire alarm bell continues ringing]

Everything's gonna be okay. All right?

Let me take care of everything,

and we don't say anything to anyone.

Okay?

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

You just have to trust me.

Baby, I'm gonna keep you safe.

Promise me, not a word.

- [crying] Why would you do this?

Why?

♪ ♪

[fire alarm bell stops ringing]

[keypad tones]

[phone line trilling]

- Dad?

TYLER'S DAD: Tyler, thank God you're safe.

The news is saying all kinds of things.

- I need you to call Billy and have him refer you

to the best criminal defense attorney in the country,

and that reporter at the "Gazette,"

the only one who actually fact-checks

and proofs her articles still--her.

TYLER'S DAD: Tyler, what's going on?

- You need to put her in contact

with a kid here named Smiley.

Smiley has all the background information.

People need to understand my motives.

If they know why I did it, they'll let me go.

TYLER'S DAD: What are you saying?

- Dad, I'm the shooter. - Freeze! Police!

- Freeze! - We're coming in.

- Put your hands up! Show me your hands!

Show me your hands! Drop it!

- Mr. Ridley is not the victim here,

and I know the truth will prevail.

TYLER'S DAD: Tyler? Tyler?

Tyler!

- We have a confession. It's late.

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

- Yes. This is Principal Decost.

Is there an update on Kevin Ridley?

- 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 want to go home.

♪ ♪

- Okay.

- [sighs] Would you please just give it to me straight?

Is Kevin going to live?

♪ ♪

He's alive!

Kevin is alive!

♪ ♪

Everybody, Mr. Ridley is alive!

♪ ♪

- Everyone in school is gonna be wearing

"We love Mr. Ridley" shirts.

He'll be a hero.

- Not if I have anything to say about that.

- Capitol High...

today, we return to our school a student body,

a faculty,

a community forever changed.

What happened at homecoming was frightening,

and it happened here,

in our school,

our home, my home.

Please, don't let what happened define

your time here at Capitol High.

Don't let it destroy your spirit,

your enthusiasm, your friendships.

I want you to know that if you're hurting,

if you need to talk,

help is available whenever you need it.

Ms. Maynor, your guidance counselor, is here for you.

I am here for you.

Talk to your teachers.

Talk to your friends.

Be there for each other.

We are stronger together.

Remember that.

[somber music]

♪ ♪

You are not alone.

♪ ♪

- God, this guy--

he's the scum of the earth.

You know who she is?

- I'm sure it's Polly.

- [exhales softly]

Will she come forward?

- I doubt it.

- I could try. - Don't.

She's skittish and fragile.

- I appreciate all of your effort.

I do.

But the chief considers this a closed investigation.

So unless you can get these girls to come forward

and refute Tyler's claim,

my hands are tied.

♪ ♪

These kids are lucky to have you fighting for them.

♪ ♪

Don't give up.

[fire alarm bell ringing on video]

SMILEY: Oh, my God, there's so much blood.

[video pauses, then resumes]

Oh, my God, there's so much blood.

[door opens]

- Don't even ask again. - Smiley, please--

- No. I'm not handing over the footage

until I expose Mr. Ridley.

- I appreciate you digging for the truth.

- Then let me do what I do.

- But we need to convict him, not just shame him.

- Well, when this goes wide,

more victims will come forward,

and then, maybe someone will finally press charges.

- What if he has these girls so terrified

that nobody's willing to talk?

- We won't know unless we try.

- But then the footage will be useless for the prosecutors.

- The only prosecutors on this case

are going after Tyler, okay?

The only person going after Mr. Ridley is me.

- You know that I'm doing everything that I can.

- I know. I'm sorry.

♪ ♪

The truth is I've looked at this footage

over a thousand times.

He doesn't look bad.

It makes him look like the victim.

♪ ♪

- Maybe you do need a fresh set of eyes.

Let me look at it,

and I promise I won't hand it over

until you say that I can.

♪ ♪

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

We're in this together.

♪ ♪

- It's happening.

The whole school thinks that he's a saint.

- Put that away. I can't even look at it.

Hilary, you told me one day that I was tactless,

and that's what you appreciated about me.

- I'm sorry about that. - Don't apologize.

I like that you're brutally honest,

and I need you to be brutally honest with me right now.

♪ ♪

How long have you known that Polly was Magpie?

- I was trying to protect her.

- And why would she call me,

panicked and looking for you,

right before Mr. Ridley was shot?

♪ ♪

- He took Harvard away from me.

They saw the video.

Dr. Bartlett said that my character was lacking.

- Hilary, I'm...so sorry.

- I called Polly because I thought

that she would understand

what it feels like to lose everything.

- She seems scared, like you were going to--

- I was angry, of course,

but...I didn't shoot him.

- I'm not saying that you did.

- Then what do you want from me?

- I think you were on that stage...

and I know you know what happened.

♪ ♪

- Ms. Maynor...

♪ ♪

Let Tyler and his team of lawyers handle this.

Okay? They're much better at this than we are.

They'll destroy him for us.

- What good is justice if it is fabricated with lies?

We're no better than him that way.

- If you keep digging, you're only gonna hurt

the people that you're trying to protect.

♪ ♪

- Have you been watching this?

This kid who shot that teacher?

He's the old governor's son.

- They named him in the news? - He's 18.

I hope they try him as an adult and strap him to the chair.

I mean, it's not even safe

to send your kids to school anymore.

[door opens and bell jingles]

♪ ♪

What's going on?

- There's something I have to do.

- Good job, Cecilia.

You are such a brave little girl.

- Just like your mommy.

- This'll put him in jail?

- As soon as the test confirms paternity,

we'll arrest him.

- Thank you.

- Don't thank me.

If I was really that brave, I would have forced myself back

into Principal Decost's office and made him do something.

None of the other girls would've suffered.

- What do you mean? Back into his office?

Did you tell him what happened?

- I tried to. - Mom.

- We have to go.

[soft dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- John knew? And what?

He just dismissed her or squashed the whole thing?

- Hey, hey, hey, slow down.

Hey, I know your principal's his family.

Maybe give him the benefit of the doubt.

- The problem with giving him the benefit of the doubt

means it puts the burden on Polly,

and I'm not gonna put her through that again.

- Well, I should get to the lab.

Hey.

Great work, Alana.

♪ ♪

- Huh? No, no, no.

We can't confirm.

What?

No. At this time, we have no comment.

[sighs]

Alana, can I borrow you a sec?

- I'm on my way in.

I need you to find all of Barth's old files.

- How?

[phones ringing]

- Hey, look,

I'm up to my neck in reporters and parents and politicians.

Can you handle Kevin's class without me?

- Of course. - Okay. Thank you.

Principal Decost.

- I need the keys for the-- - Yeah. Go ahead.

- No, no. We have nothing new to add.

No.

Listen, as soon as we hear something,

we will let you know.

It's--no, no.

I'm not saying--I'm not saying that.

[indistinct chatter]

- All of them.

- Capitol High, how can I help you?

[phones ringing]

- I'm here to listen

and to answer any questions that you have.

I want to make you feel safe.

- I don't feel safe.

If Tyler could snap, it feels like anybody could.

Anyone in this room could be the next school shooter.

- No one else is going to--

- You don't know that for sure.

Things wouldn't have gone down like that

if Tyler didn't have a reason to be pissed at Mr. Ridley.

- We should be supporting each other, okay,

not looking to lay blame.

- But Mr. Ridley's not here, and somebody's responsible.

- Mr. Ridley doesn't deserve sympathy.

He's not a martyr. He's a rapist.

- It's not rape if you want it.

- Ashley, that is absolutely not true.

[all talking at once]

Everybody, settle down. Please, settle down.

♪ ♪

[alarm blaring]

SMILEY: It's November 4th. We're here at Capitol High.

It's 10:00, and--

- Michael, you stay right here.

Do not go back in that dance.

[students screaming]

SMILEY: Oh, my God. There's so much blood.

Oh, my God.

WOMAN: Liddy, Liddy, Liddy-- SMILEY: What--okay.

Okay. Maybe they went this way.

[video stops]

ALANA: I need to know exactly what happened on that stage.

- Look, all you need to know is that Tyler is a hero.

♪ ♪