UnREAL – Casualty

By starrymag | July 13, 2016

By: Taylor Gates

 

Chet (Craig Bierko) goes into Rachel’s (Shiri Appleby) room. She’s looking rough from the night before—her makeup is a mess, she has bruises littering her body and the zipper on her dress is stuck. Chet helps her out of her gown while she reveals she’s going to the police, as Jeremy (Josh Kelly) can’t get away with this. Chet says that Jeremy knows where all the Everlasting” crew’s bodies are buried so what happened has to stay in the family. Chet leaves and Rachel documents all of her injuries before covering them with makeup.

 

We cut to Graham (Brennan Elliott) who announces that Darius (B.J. Britt) will soon pick a girl to go on a hometown date with.

 

Meanwhile, Quinn (Constance Zimmer) and John (Ioan Gruffudd) leave their first date at her father’s funeral, because that’s how this power couple rolls. Quinn comes clean to John saying she only went to the gala in order to pitch him and seduce him into giving her a network. She still wants the network, but now she might actually want him, too. The two share a steamy kiss and John casually invites her to his private group of islands. Quinn flirtatiously says he’s going to have to work a little harder to impress her.

 

Coleman (Michael Rady) tries to have some romantic morning time with Rachel, but her heart isn’t in it. Instead, she leaves the control room to convince Darius to pick Beth Ann (Lindsay Musil) for the hometown date. Darius wants to pick Chantal (Meagan Tandy), but Rachel says that after what he did to Ruby last week, they need a villain, and the perfect people to fill that role are Beth Ann and her confederate flag-loving family. Rachel threatens that, if he picks Chantal, the episode will be so boring that the ratings will tank and he will be the worst-rated suitor in “Everlasting” history. Rachel grows angrier, telling Darius that she knows what she’s doing and she needs him to run the plays she’s calling. Darius says she sucks at calling plays, as she’s gotten his cousin fired, made him get an epidural and more. This sends Rachel into hysterics and causes people to stare at them. Darius finally agrees to go to Beth Ann’s hometown to get Rachel to calm down.

 

Quinn and John continue to be all flirty in the car when Chet calls, telling her something is seriously wrong with Rachel and she really needs to get back to set.

 

Coleman spies Rachel smoking a cigarette alone, asking her what time she wants him to book their flight to Alabama. Rachel doesn’t want to force him to go, but Coleman says this is exactly what they’ve been working on together: bringing a black man to the South.

 

Although Darius is less-than-thrilled to be at Beth Ann’s house, it turns out her family is surprisingly really nice. They shoot guns and eat food and have a genuinely good time, much to Rachel and Coleman’s dismay. Madison (Genevieve Buechner) is salty that Rachel stole Beth Ann from her. Jay (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) bitterly says she’ll be lucky if she still has a job after this season. The two decide to blow something up and film their girls while Rachel is away.

 

Quinn calls Rachel, telling her she’s in no condition to be producing at the moment. Rachel reveals that she went off her meds and, still not believing Quinn cares about her, hangs up the phone.

 

Beth Ann reveals to Rachel that she’s pregnant from her ex-boyfriend who lives two streets over. She doesn’t want to quit the show; however, because she’s starting to feel a real connection with Darius. Rachel thinks that Darius would definitely be open to help raising another man’s baby with her. The two hug and Rachel tells Beth Ann she can win this thing.

 

Quinn storms into Jeremy’s trailer, ripping him a new one for beating up Rachel. Jeremy tries to defend himself, as Rachel broke his nose, but Quinn tells him there is no excuse for what he did. Jeremy says that she should be angry because Rachel stole her show, which causes Quinn to literally grab him by the balls. She tells him to get lost and never come back or she’ll cut them off next time. Quinn tells John that, unfortunately, he has to leave. She loves spending him with him, but she has a real issue to deal with. Chet, still jealous of Quinn’s new relationship, tells her he’s going to step up and be a man for her.

 

Dr. Wagerstein (Amy Hill) introduces a segment with the remaining contestants called “Mirror of Truth.” Jay supplies them with copious amounts of alcohol and Dr. Wagerstein tells them each to say why they think Darius didn’t pick them for the hometown date. Hot Rachel (Monica Barbaro) says that Darius is probably intimidated since she’s smart and her family might seem too fancy and uptight. Chantal and Jameson (Karissa Tynes) are offended, as they think she was implying their families are ghetto. Jameson takes the mirror and says she thinks Darius just doesn’t like cops. Tiffany (Kim Matula) tells her it’s because her short hair makes her look like she doesn’t have a vagina. Chet, seeing things heating up, feeds Madison some information to whisper to Chantal.

 

Rachel tells Coleman the good news: Beth Ann has “a future Trump supporter growing in her uterus” and she’s convinced her to let Darius and her whole family know that night. Rachel gives him a quick kiss before jumping right back into producing.

 

Quinn calls up Coleman and asks how Rachel is doing. It becomes clear after a snaky comment that Rachel hasn’t told Coleman about what happened with Jeremy. Quinn tells him he needs to get Rachel off that set because if she stays she’s a time bomb.

 

Back at “Mirror of Truth,” Tiffany says Darius didn’t pick her because he’s scared of his feelings. Chantal shoots back that it’s probably because she either has an STD or slept with his cousin.

 

Coleman tells Rachel both he and Quinn are concerned about her and he wants to get on the next plane in order to deal with Jeremy. Rachel has a meltdown, saying they’re overreacting and all she wants to do is make good television. Coleman is also nervous about outing a pregnant girl on national television. Rachel reminds him of all the other horrible shit they’ve done that season and Coleman admits that he’s more worried about her than Beth Ann.

 

Chet goes to talk to Tiffany. He has a proposal for her: if she can get him in touch with her father, he’ll get her into Darius’ room that night. He’s interested in doing a little work with a pro football team and in return he’ll do everything in his power to get Tiffany to the altar.

 

Beth Ann tells Coleman she doesn’t know if she can do this. He tells her she doesn’t have to tell her family if she doesn’t want to, but she decides to put her trust in Rachel and tell them anyway. It doesn’t go well. Not only is her family not happy, but Rachel has brought her ex-boyfriend Brock (Zach McGowan) on set, giving him a ring and telling him to propose. He proposes and Beth Ann screams saying the baby might be from him. Darius throws his hands up and asserts there is no way it could be his and the whole thing turns physically violent. Beth Ann tells Darius she loves him, which causes Darius to tell her to slow down. Beth Ann’s father gets a shotgun, kicking Brock off his property. Beth Ann is mortified, but Rachel is ecstatic, jumping onto Coleman and making out with him.

 

Obviously, there are cameras when Darius walks in and sees Tiffany in his room. Tiffany comes clean about Romeo (Gentry White). In the control room, Chet says he just wants to help Tiffany, pointedly telling Quinn that honesty is the best policy.

 

Coleman and Rachel finally return. Quinn wants to talk to Rachel in her office, but Coleman wants all of them plus Chet to have a conversation. Chet and Quinn say they already decided Rachel wouldn’t go to the police, but Coleman tells Rachel it’s her decision. Rachel admits she wants to drop everything before abruptly leaving the room. Coleman says Chet and Quinn should be ashamed of themselves, causing Quinn to compare him to a cancer they need to cut out. Chet muses that he’s never seen Rachel in love like this, giving Quinn an idea. She calls up a mystery person.

 

At the elimination ceremony, Tiffany and Beth Ann are in the bottom two. Before Darius can reveal who is going home, Beth Ann wants to say something. She wants Darius to choose to help her raise her baby, begging him not to cut her so she can show them they can be a family. Darius still sends her home, but puts some money in her future child’s college fund because what she did took guts. Beth Ann walks away crying and Darius angrily tells Rachel he’s sick of all this shit, feeling awful about kicking a crying pregnant woman out of his house.

 

Dr. Wagerstein goes into Quinn’s office uninvited, pestering her about kicking John off set. She tells Quinn that she is lonely, which is why she cares so much about Rachel. Even though Quinn is surrounded by people all day, she never has any intimacy and she’s on the track to dying alone just like her father. Quinn snaps back that she has no room to be giving advice, as she’s just a pathetic, forever alone reality show therapist. Dr. Wagerstein says she actually cares about Quinn, telling her not to screw it up with John since he may be her last hope. Quinn calls up John, asking him to have dinner with her while she tells him all about the plan she’s set into motion for the next day and he agrees. When she hangs up the phone; however, she takes a sip from her hard liquor and starts tearing up.

 

Coleman goes into Rachel’s trailer, asking her why she didn’t trust him enough to tell him about what happened to her right away. Rachel admits that Quinn thinks he’s her Chet. Coleman assures her he would never leave her alone to suffer on this reality show for ten years like Chet did Quinn, as he sees who she is and who she can be. He’s taking her after this season whether Quinn wants it or not. Rachel says she doesn’t want anything coming between she and Coleman and the two have sex.

 

Meanwhile, Adam (Freddie Stroma) steps out of a cab and makes his way to the mansion.