Boseman High School Shenanigans: Episode 1

Near the Woods on the Other Side of the Banks (Fred and Emily)

Keeping his speed down and watching the unpaved road carefully, Fred successfully navigates up the road about halfway to the top -- where presumably the Jeep was still parked. It's really just a pair of ruts he's following, and the teen is relieved that he hasn't gotten stuck yet as his headlights illuminate the back of his stepmother's Range Rover. It's pulled over to the side of the trail; Fred might be able to squeeze by without putting the Tesla off the road and getting it hung up.

The SUV is dark and there's no sign of Belinda or her passenger. The surrounding pine woods are dark and forbidden, doing their very best to look uninviting.

At the School (Zach, Lily, Not-Rosie and Wendy)

Rosie is still fighting and struggling as Lily roars up in the van and screeches to a halt, and while Wendy is fumbling to get the sliding door open, Zach manages to grab the handle and open it with one hand while dragging his sister inside with the other. The two of them stumble inside, falling into the bench seat while Wendy yelps and tries to work around them to close the door before the racing figures arrive.

Watching anxiously during all this, her foot mashed on the brake but ready to move to the gas in a split second, Lily sees those figures run beneath one of school's exterior lights, and recognizes them! Coach Murdock, Principal Romero, and -- Mr. Levitt! Her former favorite teacher lags behind, but Murdock and Romeo are fast, covering ground quickly as Rose is pulled into into the van.

"Stop!" Romero shouts, before screwing up his face, hawking to clear his throat, and then barfing a jet of nastiness at Wendy in the open door!

He's too far away, though, and the atrocious spray surging out of his mouth and nose falls short -- causing Coach Murdock to slip and fall in the suddenly underfoot pool. The man was about to try and grab Wendy or maybe Rose's kicking legs, but then he's on the ground and sliding -- part way under the van!

Near the Woods on the Other Side of the Banks (Fred and Emily)

Fred grabs the flashlight and beacon from the Tesla's emergency kit, then he and Emily get out to see what they can see. The woods are anything but quiet -- there's the steady, almost electric buzz of crickets, frogs, and other night creatures, but Emily hears something else, something stranger, something artificial-sounding.

She's trying to figure out what that is as they approach the Range Rover and discover it both empty and unlocked. Fred walks past something that the girl sees, a piece of cloth perhaps, and when she bends to inspect the article she discovers a pair of black panties -- a G-string no less. Then she sees footprints that suggest what might have happened here, near the rear quarter panel -- a man's boot impressions behind a woman's heels, both of them facing in the same direction...

At the School (Zach, Lily, Not-Rose and Wendy)

"Go, Lily, go!" Wendy cries, rolling and slamming the door shut, then grabbing Rose's leg's trying to help Zach subdue the girl.

Near the Woods on the Other Side of the Banks (Fred and Emily)

Fred doesn’t see it — too much on his mind, perhaps — but Emily does. Tracks that lead into the woods. A footprint, a snapped branch. It looks like Belinda and whoever she’s with went straight into the woods.