Previously: AAdrianna stole songs from her pop star approximation of Navid. Dixon borrowed Ivy for a moment, even though she's clearly been in love with her childhood friend Ausscar for some time. And Naomi begged her friends to believe that Cannon actually raped her -- a hard road to travel considering her prior past of lying through her teeth about pretty much anything and everything.

We open on Naomi, who is unable to sleep as she flashes back to her rape. As Cannon's documentary says, "No animal is as brutal as the Homo sapien." Next, we see some horrifying girl evocative of Edwina Rogers as she interviews various West Bev seniors about where they see themselves in 10 years. Annie thinks she'll be a serious theater actress. Dixon plans to DJ. Silver will move to Manhattan where serious journalists live (God forbid they live in Brooklyn). Ivy expects to be in some surfer hub like Maui or Bali. Liam can't think about 10 days from now, so forget 10 years down the road. And then we get a montage of all the tokens: Ausscar, a gay choreographer-to-be, an Asian girl, a black guy, a Latin beauty, etc. It's really reductive, frankly. And the sad part is that these writers thought that by making the dialog cut from one person to the next, supposedly seamlessly, they were being really inclusive and clever. About as clever as a Benetton ad. Edwina Rogers Jr. and Silver wrap up their interview just as Silver is waxing poetic about her Pulitzer Prize to come. As Silver heads out, Naomi enters. It's awkward. Naomi begins her interview with about as much enthusiasm as I myself would be able to muster for such a BS enterprise, unaided by ERJ's under-her-breath snark that Naomi is doomed to peak in high school. She does notice that Naomi looks tired, though. Life-shattering trauma will do that to a girl.

Out in the hallway, Ivy is skateboarding through school. Seriously? She runs into Ausscar, who tells her he had a great time talking to her the other night. Yes, that time when he divulged how traumatically and prematurely he lost his virginity. Good times! He tells her that he's secured tickets to a benefit at Kelly Slater's house, but they conflict with plans she has with Dixon. He wonders why she's still keeping dates with Dixon after he took body shots off of another girl (that Ausscar paid to set Dixon up), so Ivy compares Dixon to a puppy that pees on things -- you're upset, but you have to forgive him because he doesn't mean to screw up. Ivy immediately recognizes how insulting and patronizing she just was and asks Ausscar not to tell Dixon what she said. Which means he absolutely will at the very moment he deems most advantageous. Ivy picks back up her skateboard and continues being a world-class jackhole. Ausscar, likewise, just more pouty.

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