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Okay, now I’m really bewildered. Does Megan know how Luke died or does she not? Mainly because just one moment she’s stashing and disposing of floral sheets stained with his blood (we think) and the upcoming she’s likely all Harriet the Spy and compiling proof that Isabella is a teenager serial killer. Regretably, the July 1999 and December 1999 scenes in “The Plunge” proceed to offer you pretty small perception into the situations of Luke’s dying, which is nevertheless the show’s central thriller, consider it or not.
What we have discovered is that Luke died on New Year’s, which would be about a working day immediately after his very first act of real shittiness on this present — telling Megan that Isabella kissed him, but he turned down her when it was genuinely the other way all around. We also know from an before episode that Izzie observed Megan’s favourable pregnancy exam on New Year’s Eve, so perhaps Sheriff Myer was on to a thing right after all when he thought the pregnancy experienced a thing to do with Luke’s murder.
But then once again, perhaps not, for the reason that quickly Megan is as busy seeking to resolve the murder as any person else. She starts July 30, 2000, obtaining somehow hacked into the St. Bart’s police department’s sealed records of their investigation into Lisa’s demise, with the help of a new laptop computer and her really sketchy “friend” Ned. According to Megan’s unwell-gotten files, witnesses claimed Isabella convinced a very drunk Lisa to go swimming a single night, and the two have been listened to arguing in the water before Lisa ultimately drowned.
States Megan to Debbie, “A slipping out with her finest mate and then an individual drowns. I indicate it’s…”
“Terrible?”
“Familiar.”
Dun, dun, dun.
Obviously, Isabella denies this version of events when Megan storms into her unfortunate motel and accuses her of killing Luke just like she killed Lisa. Personally, I consider it is less very likely that Isabella routinely lures previous buddies to their untimely watery graves than it is that the police just received the story completely wrong, but nobody would seem eager on believing nearly anything Iz has to say suitable now.
Steve and Brent Chambers have also become convinced that Isabella murdered Luke, even even though they are functioning with even considerably less evidence than Megan is, and are driving close to city on a rampage. Initial they demand to know why Sheriff Myer has not thrown Isabella in jail by now, and when Myer states he does not have ample proof to get started arresting persons willy-nilly, Steve claims he’s likely to employ the service of a real investigator of his individual (which is not a undesirable strategy, to be honest). Future, Steve would like to issue Megan individually, but Debbie refuses to let him put the extrajudicial screws on her daughter, even nevertheless she’s acquired an armful of the bloody sheets Megan was hiding under Isabella’s mattress.
Yet another query I have for Cruel Summer time: Y2K is why we’re nevertheless expending so substantially time in July 1999 masking plot points now completely produced in scenes from December and July 2000. “The Plunge” sees the teens in the summer season of ‘99 celebrating Luke’s 17th birthday with a rager hosted by Megan, who shocks the complete town by wearing her hair down and as a result revealing her hotness, as if none of these youngsters have seen She’s All That. We see that Izzie has broken up with Luke so that he and Megan can finally act on their inner thoughts for each other (which we understood) and that Jeff is suffering from a in good shape of Wonderful Guy pique for the reason that Megan clearly has additional hots for Luke than she does for him (which we knew), and that Brent hired a stripper to give his little brother a private birthday lap dance mainly because general acts of douchiness are just how Brent displays like (which we also knew).
We did not know that the douche gene so clearly shared by Brent and Steve may possibly not have skipped Luke immediately after all, but it absolutely reveals up in the winter of 1999 scenes.
By December, Megan has been spending extra and additional time on her personal computer hacking aspect hustle with Ned (a.k.a. Captain Creepy) and fewer time with Luke and Izzie. Upon acquiring Ned’s Purpose summons, Megan abruptly cancels her options to go to the Chatham Plunge — an annual polar bear plunge she describes to Isabella as “the bomb,” which she and Luke have hardly ever skipped — telling Izzie some obvious bullshit about a scholarship paperwork deadline. I can only believe Meg figures that they, being rich youngsters, would not comprehend her want to employ out her coding techniques to this grown gentleman in his secluded cabin, and that is why she hides it from them.
And so, Megan heads to the house of Ned, Chatham’s local Ted Kazinsky, with no informing any person, to enable him update his dwelling security procedure forward of Y2K. Basically almost everything about Ned is suspicious, from his large-tech fortress of a residence to the anxious way he’s unexpectedly unplugging screens just before Megan can get a good seem at them. But Meg is so jazzed to be finding paid out for her pc competencies that she does not even pause to think about why her mentor would need to have her help with such a straightforward undertaking to get started with. Nor does she discover his trophy scenario of unsuccessful tech goods or his bitter griping about the “Chambers household dynasty” notably noteworthy. Ned tells Megan that he got fired from his final position so now he “makes his have policies.” I mean, does Sheriff Myer know about this dude?
Anyway, left to their own gadgets at the Chatham Plunge, Luke and Izzie are finding a little flirty. Or Luke is, anyway. Personally, I blame his behavior here, at the very least partly, on Myer, who is shaping up to be a authentic villain on this present. At the top rated of the episode, we noticed Myer giving Luke this pearl of wisdom: “Don’t allow persons convey to you what is what. Until it’s a attractive girl. Then we just permit them believe they get in touch with the photographs. But often make certain you have the closing say.” So probably this is what Luke is considering about when he lies to Megan about kissing Isabella. We observed Luke go in for a smooch and get shut down, but he afterwards instructed Megan that it was Isabella who instigated the kiss.
Sigh, and I’d so hoped that this like triangle was not using us in this path.
• Could the floral sheets be included in blood that was not in fact Luke’s?
• Has Megan actually gotten a keep of Trevor, or was she only confronting Isabella with what she’d acquired from the police reports?
• We retain hearing about this stash of Isabella’s money observed in the cabin, but I’m still not very clear on how that would have anything at all to do with the murder.
• The place are Isabella’s mother and father???
