'13 Reasons Why' season 4 binge recap

by 24USATVJune 5, 2020, 1:40 p.m. 50
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Anyway, back to six months earlier. It’s the holiday season and the neighborhood is all lit up and pretty but Clay is in a dark place. He’s having nightmares that Monty is still alive and pissed he’s been set up for murder. (Remember last season when Alex killed Bryce and the gang got together to frame Monty for it since he was going to prison anyway for sexually assaulting Tyler? That was a loaded sentence.) Clay thinks he’s hiding his anguish from his parents but they definitely know something’s up. You gotta feel for those parents! Their concerned probing is put on hold when Tyler calls Clay. He’s been asked to go in and talk to the sheriff. Clay drives Tyler there and waits outside while he goes in. When Ty returns, he tells Clay they found the bag of guns he disposed of, but they couldn’t trace the guns to him, only the bag they were in. Tyler told the sheriff he did indeed buy that bag, but it was stolen from him. Wildly, he thinks the cops bought it and adds that Alex’s dad was there to help him out. (Remember, Alex's dad knows the truth about Bryce's death.) It sure seems like Tyler might not be telling Clay everything, and Clay seems to suspect it.

In his attempt to keep his word to Tyler, Clay follows Zach to a frat party, when new party boy, Zach, decides to blow off the tour. They promptly get wasted and Clay encounters a drunk girl on the stairs. Her boyfriend soon shows up to put her to bed and, suspicious (because of all the terrible previous examples he witnessed), Clay follows them upstairs and finds himself alone in the girl’s room with her past out on the bed. He then imagines Bryce is there and about to rape her, encouraging Clay to do the same. Just then the boyfriend walks in and accuses Clay of trying something. Clay runs off, but the frat guys hold him and he starts to panic, screaming for them to let him go. In the end, they call security on both Clay and Zach and when Clay’s dad shows up, he’s pissed. (Clay also missed a meeting with the dean his dad had arranged.) Later, Clay admits to his therapist that he was aroused and didn’t even realize it when he followed the girl into the room. It freaked him out.

Clay suspects Winston is behind it at first. Whoever it is wants Clay to do exactly what they say or they’ll go public with proof that Monty is innocent. At one point they call him, demand that he picks a fight and doesn’t fight back. Clay has five minutes to do this so provokes Zach into punching him in the stomach repeatedly. Later, after he gets his s— together enough to ask Ani to the dance, someone sends him a picture of himself at that exact moment. He immediately calls the number back, following the sound of ringing to the wrong person. Clay now has no choice but to tell Ani what’s been going on. He then gets another call. The caller knows he told Ani and tells Clay they can prove that she wasn’t with him the night Bryce died. The caller(s) tell Clay he can have Monty’s phone and everything on it, all he has to do is go and get it from H.O.’s headquarters. Of course, the phone Clay finds there isn’t Monty’s and the caller(s) tell him if he answers their call that night at the dance, he’ll get Monty’s phone.

Jess, who desperately wanted to go, is a terrible date to Charlie after coercing him into going with her when she couldn't find anyone else. She ends up making out with Diego, a football player who she impressed when she made a “don’t be d—heads” speech to the team. Tyler helps Tony with DJ-ing, mostly because Tony is suspicious of him and wants to keep an eye on him. Zach gets wasted and makes out with a rando, while Alex and Winston just make out a lot. Justin doesn’t go to the dance initially, choosing to attend an AA meeting instead — a new one his football coach also attends. When Justin shows up later, he tries to interrupt Jess dancing with Diego, but ultimately fails in coming between them. Back at the DJ booth, Tyler gets an urgent call and leaves in a hurry. Tony follows him outside, where he sees him get into the car with Alex’s dad and drive off. In the car, Alex’s dad tells a worried Tyler to hold on, soon his friends will all know it’s for the best.

On the dance floor, Clay and Ani are slow dancing when his phone rings. The caller has him leave the dance and go to the showers. Once there, whoever is on the other end of the call talks Clay through an imagined scenario where he’s in prison showers, looks down and sees his own blood. When Clay looks in the locker room showers, he sees red paint (resembling blood) everywhere and a knife on the floor. Clay hastily turns on the water to clean it away and, in his mind, sees blood gushing out instead. As instructed, he then goes out to the football field, brandishing the knife and sees Monty’s bloodied body lying in the middle of the field. Clay tries frantically to stop the bleeding, but since, in reality, it’s just a CPR dummy he can’t do anything. The football team shows up and surrounds him. A highly-distressed Clay points the knife at them and demands they hand over Monty’s phone. The problem is, they all seem to have Monty’s phone. Diego tells Clay they own him because anyone who freaks out like that over a prank is hiding something. Clay runs into the dance, covered in fake blood, holding a fake knife and tells Ani he doesn’t know what happened. Shocked, Ani tells him she can’t fix this and runs off. Could it get much worse? Yep, the whole sorry affair is caught on the newly installed school cameras.

Diego and the other players take shelter with Justin and Charlie in a creepy cabin and admit they messed with the clues, but now they think there’s something else out there. Still alone in the words, Jess hallucinates Bryce with a mouth full of cockroaches, but finally finds her way to where the others are huddling. The jocks think the ghost of Burnham Woods is out to get them all. Just then, someone drags an ax along the outside of the cabin and laughs creepily. Everyone is s—ing themselves at this point, but then Zach shows up and the jocks run out. Tony joins too and they all discuss how Winston can alibi Monty. They think maybe the email came from Winston, but then Tony suggests it might’ve come from Tyler. Jess points the finger at Ani, who isn’t on the trip because she's visiting her mom who had a fall. Justin suggests trusting one another. Thankfully, Alex’s dad shows up to take them back to camp.

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