The fifth episode of MTV’s Sweet/Vicious follows our heroes as they take down a rapist who is using “Get In” (MTV’s answer to Uber) in order to trap his victims. There are Jyler feels, full of good and bad surprises, and the newest ship, dubbed “Oven” by Nick Fink, has risen.
The episode also left fans with a bit of a cliffhanger that they will just have to contemplate the consequences of until the show returns January 3. “All Eyez On Me” was written by M. Scott Veach and directed by Todd Biermann. Here are some of the events that went down.
GET OUT | The episode opens in a bar where a girl, Rachel (Corinne Foxx), has been stood up on a blind date. She is approached by a seemingly harmless guy offering to buy her a drink. After a few more drinks she is seeing triple and decides it’s time to call it a night so she calls herself a “Get In” car to pick her up. Her “Get In” driver takes her to an secluded spot where he rapes her while she tries and fails to fight back. Jules (Eliza Bennett) and Ophelia (Taylor Dearden) find out about the attack via a flyer being handed out by Rachel the next week and are able to track down a driver number and mailing address. Ophelia does recon and gets the driver’s name, Landon Mays (Max Ehrich) who just so happens to be the son of the president of the university. Ophelia gets the navigation data from Landon’s car (and almost dies doing it) and finds out the spot where he has been taking his victims.
When they go to take down Landon, the plan is for Jules to wait at his spot while Ophelia pretends to be a drunk girl in need of a ride home. Landon takes the bait but instead of driving to his usual spot, he takes Ophelia somewhere new. She gets out an SOS text to Jules and prepares to fight back but she wasn’t prepared for there to be a second rapist (the guy who bought Rachel drinks) and grab her from behind. They weren’t expecting her to fight back but fight back she does. She manages to get away just as Jules shows up on her bike (does Ophelia have Find My Friends?) and the two guys take off. Back at her apartment, Ophelia is seriously shaken but in denial about that as she drinks whiskey straight from a bottle. Jules knows she isn’t okay but doesn’t push her to talk about it if she isn’t ready. Instead they talk about the “spicy twist indeed” about there being not one, but two rapists teaming up. They determine that the first guy is the one who cases the bar and drugs the girl, then passes her off to Landon in the “Get In”. Ophelia wants to go get them now but Jules makes her sleep off the adrenaline from almost being raped.
The next day she admits to Jules that she was more shaken than she was ready to believe. They go after Landon and his accomplice once again, this time attacking them in the parking garage where Landon keeps his car. Jules takes a tire spike to the leg and Ophelia gets cut by a knife. Landon manages to get away and Ophelia gives chase. They get above ground and Ophelia downs him with a well-placed knife throw to the leg. She starts to give him their warning but stops when he begins laughing. He tells her it’s her who’s in trouble. She looks up to see she is surrounded by students, all with their phones out and recording.
POP UP HEART EYES | Jules and Tyler (Nick Fink) go star-gazing outside her sorority like the adorable cheese balls they are. She confides in him that this week marks the twelve-year anniversary of her mother’s death. She and her mother used to climb on the roof to look at the stars and being able to see the stars clearly is the thing she misses most about home. She asks about his mom and he confesses he and his mom don’t have the greatest of relationships. She isn’t a fan of the fact that he is an art major and he has started thinking about giving it up. Jules is shocked to find out that he’s never held a showing for his art and secretly texts Ophelia, asking if she can borrow Vinlyton tomorrow night.
While Ophelia is looking for the “Get In” driver, she runs into her one-night-stand from the first episode, Evan (Stephen Friedrich). They have the awkward small talk but unlike my awkward small talk, theirs leads to Ophelia being invited back to his room. Later, when Ophelia goes to leave, he tells her she is welcome to stay but she makes the excise that she’s a light sleeper. Before she goes, she “accidentally” leaves her beanie behind. Look, we’ve all done it.
Kennedy (Aisha Dee) helps Jules set up for Tyler’s surprise pop-up show and Kennedy asks if they have slept together yet. When she says they haven’t, Kennedy tells her that tonight is the night and that “if he doesn’t go down on you for a full hour, he gots to go.” I respect Kennedy and her holding guys to that standard. Jules tells her that she and Tyler and taking things slow and Kennedy also respects that. While he is waiting for Jules, Tyler is approached by Claire Doyle (Camille Montgomery), one of the girls his step-brother, Carter, assaulted. She wants him to tell Carter to come home and face the consequences of what he did. Jules arrives and brings him to the pop-up show. He is shocked and not necessarily in a good way but he puts on an appreciative face.
Evan arrives at the pop up under the pretense of returning Ophelia’s “forgotten” beanie that she “accidentally” left in his dorm room “on accident”. Elsewhere, Jules notices Tyler is not having fun with an art critic and he tries to leave. She goes after him but he tells her he appreciates her trying to help but he never shows his work because it makes him anxious. The next night, after Jules and Ophelia try and fail to take down Landon and his accomplice the first time, Evan arrives at Ophelia’s door with pizza. This time, she allows him to stay the night and when the adrenaline from the attack wears off and she begins to cry, she pulls him closer for comfort. When he goes to leave in the morning, she makes a point to sneak his beanies out of his bag, making sure she has a reason to see him again.
When Jules gets home from Ophelia’s, she finds Tyler sitting outside her door. He apologizes for how he handled the other night and tells her she pushes him out of his comfort zone but he appreciates it. He has a surprise for her too and shows her that he turned her room into a starry night sky and it might be the cutest thing I have seen in my entire life. Later than night, when she is getting a midnight snack, Nate (Dylan McTee) shows up to talk to her. He wanted to “clear the air” about what happened. He refers what happened as “cheating” and makes it sound like they were both willing participants. He calls it a “mistake” and that he happy she and Kennedy are getting back to the way things were. This scene was incredibly hard to watch. Eliza Bennett once again absolutely floored me with her performance in this scene capturing fear, disgust, and absolute devastation all without saying a word.
BARTIS INVESTIGATIONS | Harris (Brandon Mychal Smith) shows up at campus police Officer Barton’s (Greg Worswich) office to ask him about Will and Tommy’s attacks. Barton is just excited that he isn’t the only one to think the attacks are connected. They team up and go talk to Tommy Cole (the attack in the alley). He tells them they should ask “that chick” who took the necklace from the ground before describing their friendly neighborhood weed dealer, Ophelia. Harris asks Ophelia about it but she tells him a made up story about it being stolen from Jules’ gym locker and she just found it and returned it to her. Later, when Fiona (Lindsay Chambers) visits Harris on her way to the gym, he finds out that the girls’ gym doesn’t have lockers and that Ophelia told Gaby she found the necklace outside the Zeta house.
OTHER THOUGHTS:
• What exactly was Ophelia “dabbling” in when she was taking Experimental Chemistry? Was it perhaps, of the Walter White persuasion?
• I WISH I had as much game as Ophelia “I want to make out with your face” Mayer.
• A surefire way to make me love any scene more is to put Fiona in it and just let her be Fiona. I adore her. #MoreFiona2017
• Since Kennedy and Ophelia are apparently close enough for a secret handshake, they need a bro-ship name. I have decided that it will be “OK” (fight me their initials make a real word)
So what did you think? How screwed are our vigilante heroes? Will Harris catch on to one or even both of them? What is your favorite pizza topping? It says a lot about a person! Let us know in the comments below!
Be sure to catch Sweet/Vicious when it returns Tuesday January 3rd at 10/9c on MTV!