Owen receives a surprise visit from Robert in more ways than one, while Grace takes it on herself to get justice for a victim of an organ trafficking ring.
Tropes:
- Bigot with a Badge:
- Double Standard:
- Gasp!: The firefighters collectively do this when TK shows them his shiner.
- I'm Cold... So Cold...: Lexi wakes up in one of the Sleep-Tight Inn’s bathrooms like this, finding herself in an ice bath and experiencing a double whammy of blood loss from an hastily-stitched wound and hypothermia from the water.
- Killed Offscreen:
- Nothing Is Scarier:
- Oh, Crap!:
- This doesn’t begin to describe Lexi’s reaction when she wakes up in the motel room bathroom.
- Grace panics a little when the organ trafficker she’s talking to at the bar becomes more insistent on taking her, and when he nearly catches her in the women’s bathroom.
- Parting-from-Consciousness Words: As her body starts to shut down, Lexi hallucinates her mother’s presence as she’s still on the phone with Grace.
- Slipping a Mickey:
- Tap on the Head: TK is knocked out in the ambulance when the kidney recipient attacks him and escapes, but luckily isn’t concussed this time; what he’s more concerned about is the shiner under his left eye.
- Unwanted Assistance: The kidney recipient, despite his weakened condition, violently resists medical treatment since he’s aware he took an illegal deal and will face prison time for it; his wife nearly lies on his behalf as well, until Tommy spells out for her that blood type complications from the new kidney will kill him.
- Victim-Blaming: All signs point to Lexi being an innocent victim in her organ trafficking case, but at least one APD officer believes she is responsible for her own predicament for “willingly” donating her kidney to obtain easy money.
- Wham Line: As they share a drink of their father’s wine, Robert gives Owen a crash course on Huntington’s Disease, which he was recently diagnosed with… and that was part of the reason he traveled all the way from California to Texas.
- You Just Had to Say It:
