The episode opens with a young man recalling his late father's hope that he'd get into a great college, while a classmate apologizes and admits envy of those memories. At school, gossip spreads that the transfer student's mother is a prostitute and his father a pimp; classmates point and hand out items that single out Erick. A tense confrontation follows: one student calls his stunt despicable, and a rival warns him to 'understand your place and stay away from Joanna.' Erick fires back, 'I'm the one who's going to save her.' The episode ends with that threat unresolved.