2.6: SLEEPOVER- Avaliable!

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PART 1
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The episode opens in November 1990. Ariel, Brandi,
Tiffany, and Rita are all in a middle school class
together. The teacher asks each of them about their
plans for the weekend. The class laughs at Rita's
plans to go shopping for an iguana with her mom. The
bell rings and the class gets up to leave. Rita goes
outside and puts her bike helmet on. The other kids
laugh at her. We see her riding her bike down a
leaf-lined street. She's happy and carefree. The next
shot shows her lifeless body at the bottom of a ravine
in Devil's Pool. There are circles with Xs in them
drawn on her body in black. The case box is filed in
the vault under "Baxter, R."

Present day. Lilly, Stillman, and Scotty go to the
scene of a current homicide. A 19 year old female
named Kaitlin Gather was found dead at the bottom of
Devil's Pool. She drowned as her head was held under
the water. She has the same marks on her body as Rita,
and her body was found 14 years to the day. They don't
believe it's a copycat murder because the detail about
the marks was never released.

Lilly, Scotty, and Stillman go through the case box
down in the vault. The first detectives couldn't
figure out what the marks meant. They checked with the
FBI database, but nothing came up, suggesting they
were not ritualistic. Rita attended a private, rich
kid prep school, but she was there on scholarship. She
died from a blunt force trauma to the head after
hitting the rocks. Jeffries comes down and tells them
that Det. Sherman just brought in a guy, Neil Beaudry,
who was stopped along the highway. His car was full of
Kaitlin Gather's clothes.

Sherman shows Lilly and Scotty to Neil Beaudry's
parents. They insist that this must be a mistake
because their son is schizophrenic. Lilly asks them if
they knew Rita Baxter, but the parents say that they
never met her. They did, however, hear about her death
at Devil's Pool 14 years ago. Scotty suggests that the
Beaudrys go home and get Neil's medication.

Lilly and Sherman interrogate Neil while Scotty and
Stillman watch through the glass. Neil tells them that
he goes to Devil's Pool every year on the anniversary
of Rita's death. He admits putting the marks on
Kaitlin's body and then killing her, but he has little
to say about Rita. Scotty suggests that they give Neil
his meds, and he'll be more cooperative.

Vera and Jeffries go speak with Rita's mom. She
doesn't know Neil, but she knows his younger sister
Brandi. She says the Beaudrys were never around
because they were too busy spending their money. She
tells them that Brandi spent her time tormenting Rita.
She dropped Rita off at school one day, and Rita saw
Brandi with Ariel (whom she used to be good friends
with) and Tiffany. Rita didn't want to get out of the
car because she knew the girls would torment her. Her
mother told her that everyone who has ever been
important in life was a loser. She reassured her that
those girls are foolish for not wanting to hang out
with her, and that she would be popular in college.
She tells Vera and Jeffries that the Beaudrys just
couldn't let Rita be.

Scotty interrogates Neil now that the meds kicked in.
He shows Neil a picture of Rita. He remembers her, and
he remembers the marks on her skin. He says he put the
same marks on Kaitlin to make her look like Rita, but
he didn't put the marks on Rita. He tells Scotty that
Rita was his first kiss. Brandi made Rita kiss Neil so
she could "go to first base" at a sleepover the night
she died. He tells Scotty that he didn't kill Rita, it
was the house because it is an "evil house."

Lilly, Scotty, Vera, Jeffries, and Stillman sit around
in the main police office and discuss the case. Vera
thinks Neil's a "whack job" with plenty of opportunity
to kill Rita. Lilly wants to know why there are three
girls who never admitted to spending the night at the
sleepover with Rita the night she died. Stillman wants
them to track the other three down.

Lilly and Scotty find Brandi working in a party
planning job. She says that Rita came by the
sleepover, but she left in the middle of the night.
She never said anything because she was afraid she
would have been blamed. She hasn't spoken with Ariel
and Tiffany since high school. Lilly wants to know why
an outcast like Rita was invited to Brandi's party.
She says it was Ariel's idea. Ariel told Rita that
Brandi thought she was cool and wanted her to come to
the sleepover while her parents were out of town.
Ariel assured Rita that it wasn't a trick, so Rita
told them she would sneak out after her mom went to
bed. Brandi tells Lilly and Scotty that she came over
around 10pm and left after they hid her glasses.

Jeffries and Vera go talk to Ariel (who is now a
doctor). She tells them that Brandi and Tiffany really
layed into Rita. Brandi circled Rita's "fat" with a
magic marker. Each of the girls had to take a turn and
circle it. Tiffany told her that she had fat like her
mom, and that her mom was ugly. Ariel tells them that
Rita's mom was having an affair with Tiffany's dad,
but Rita didn't know about it. She says that Rita left
after the fat marks. The rest of the girls stayed
behind, but she doesn't know about Neil.

Lilly and Jeffries talk to Rita's mom at the police
station. She admits the affair, but she didn't know
that Tiffany knew about it. The affair ended when Rita
died. Vera asks her if she knows what happened to
Tiffany, and she tells them that she had a drinking
problem and was kicked out of high school.

Valens goes to talk to Tiffany. She's under house
arrest for multiple DUIs. She denies having anything
to do with Rita's death. Scotty wants to know what
went wrong in Tiffany's life to lead her to where she
is now. She hated Rita, but she says she didn't have
it in her to kill her. At the sleepover, they made fun
of her glasses, hair, and called her eyes weird.
Brandi's parents came home early, and Brandi
instructed everyone to hide. Rita couldn't find her
glasses, so she was caught by the Beaudrys. They asked
her name, and she told them. Mr. Beaudry instructed
Brandi to find her brother and he told his wife to run
a bath. He asked Rita how many girls were over, and
she lied (to protect Brandi) and said just herself.
Mr. Beaudry called her a liar. Tiffany tells Scotty
that the Beaudrys abused their children. She left
after that, and doesn't know what they did to Rita.

Lilly interrogates Mrs. Beaudry at the police station.
Mrs. Beaudry says that someone has been telling her
lies. She believes it's Brandi because she's a liar
and a drug addict. Mrs. Beaudry says that they were
physical with their children because they had to be.
She says they were afraid of Brandi. Jeffries talks to
Mr. Beaudry. He tells him that Brandi killed their
cat. Brandi said it drowned, but they didn't believe
her. He indicates that she was capable of killing
Rita.

Lilly talks to Brandi, and she tells her that her
parents think she killed Rita. Brandi tells Lilly that
she was an angry kid. The night of the sleepover, she
was forced to go upstairs to the bathroom where her
mom had run a bath. Her parents forced Neil to hold
Brandi's head under water until she almost drowned as
punishment for having friends over and lying about it.
Neil kept asking his dad to let him release Brandi,
but he made him hold her head down longer. Rita was
standing outside the bathroom and saw it all. Brandi
says that Rita was supposed to go home, but she must
have come back. She and Neil were sent to their rooms,
and the next day Rita was dead.

Stillman tells Lilly, Vera, Valens, and Jeffries that
the Beaudrys were right about Brandi. She was picked
up for trying to get a morphine related drug with a
false prescription. They know that Brandi thinks her
parents killed Rita to keep the abuse a secret. Scotty
decides to go talk to Neil, but he finds out that he's
at the same hospital as Elisa. Lilly asks him if he's
going to see Elisa while he's there, but he says it's
not the right time.

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PART 2

At the hospital, Scotty tells Neil that he knows about
the "dunking" that his parents made him do. Neil
explains that that is what happened to Kaitlin. He
goes to Devil's Pool every year because he misses
Rita. He saw Kaitlin there and thought it was Rita. He
put the marks on her to remind him of Rita. He held
Kaitlin under the water to keep her quiet, but he held
her too long. He says that his parents never left
their room after the "dunking" incident. He tells
Scotty that Rita tried to save him and his sister.
Neil got Brandi in her room, and Rita entered. She
told them what their parents were doing was wrong and
she could help them. She wanted to tell another adult.
Neil was willing to go, but Brandi kept denying it.
Tiffany and Ariel came back into the room, and Brandi
told them that she wanted Rita to die. The other girls
agreed. Neil left Rita alone in Brandi's room with the
three girls.

Lilly brings Brandi, Tiffany, and Ariel into the
interrogation room. She tells them that she knows one
of them killed Rita, and the other two should save
themselves. She leaves the room to see what happens.
They start arguing amongst themselves, and Tiffany
tells Brandi that she's not keeping her secrets
anymore. Lilly and Scotty decide that the girls are
ready. Scotty talks to Tiffany. She tells him that
Brandi kept coming up with ideas to kill Rita. Brandi
took a knife and cut her own finger so they could be
blood sisters. Ariel agreed, but Tiffany thought she
was crazy and left. She tried to take Rita, but Brandi
wouldn't let her. Tiffany went downstairs and found
the Beaudry's liquor cabinet and passed out.

Back in the interrogation room, Lilly and Stillman
watch as Brandi starts sweating and breathing harder.
She grabs Ariel's purse and starts looking through it.
Lilly knows she's looking for a drug fix, but Stillman
wants to know why she's looking in Ariel's purse. She
comes up empty handed. Lilly points out that Ariel is
a doctor, and could write prescriptions for Brandi's
habit. Stillman wants to know why she's risking her
license to feed Brandi's addiction.

Lilly gets Brandi alone because wants to know what she
has on Ariel. Lilly tells her that she knows Brandi
takes what she needs from people then loses them when
she doesn't need them anymore, and Ariel's tapped out.
Brandi says she got bored and sent Rita and Ariel
home. She told Ariel that she wasn't cool, and she
wasn't going to be friends with her anymore. She also
told her that she was better off being friends with
Rita. As Ariel and Rita left, Brandi told Ariel that
she wasn't to sit with her in the lunchroom anymore.
Brandi says they left, and she looked out the window
and saw them cutting through the woods.

Scotty and Lilly interrogate Ariel. She tells them
that Brandi is in pain, and that's why she prescribed
the drugs. Lilly tells her it was blackmail because
Brandi knew what she did. Ariel starts crying, and
asks Lilly if she hates her. Lilly tells her it
doesn't matter. Ariel says she didn't know you lived
through it. The night Rita died, Ariel was walking
home with her and she was devastated about losing
Brandi as a friend. Rita tried to comfort her, and
she told her what her mom said about losers going on
to be important later in life. Rita says that they can
be friends, but Ariel gets upset and shoves her. Rita
falls down the ravine and hits her head on a rock.

The closing scenes are to Edie Brickell's "Circle."
Tiffany leaves the police station and sees Lilly
escorting Ariel to lock-up. They pass Brandi. Scotty
brings Brandi to the hospital to see Neil. Their
parents come to visit, but Brandi doesn't want them to
come in. Scotty shuts the door on them. Scotty enters
the room where Elisa stays. Lilly tells Rita's mother
what happened. Rita rides her bike down the street
just as carefree as in the beginning. She passes
Lilly, who is getting into her car. Lilly watches her
ride down the street and disappear.