Sutton gets a taste of what she put Emma through when she has to inhabit Emma's world in Las Vegas. And, boy, if you thought Char was annoying, wait until you get a load of Emma's friend Lexie (that's without mentioning the coterie of freaks Emma eats lunch with). She takes the occasion to go all DIY on Lexie's mom's clothes, steal some of her cash, and gamble with said money at the party of a guy whose car she once keyed. Since this is Sutton, the guy ends up rigging the blackjack game so she doubles her money then letting her go without getting even a little handsy. She catches another lucky break when the orderly from the loony bin finds her number and calls to tell her that Annie has busted out. As Sutton boards a bus back to Phoenix, Lexie lets her know she's wise to her act. She invites Sutton back to Vegas any time and encourages her to work things out with Emma.

Back in Phoenix, Emma overhears Kristin and Ted having an impassioned conversation in which Kristin wants to come clean to "Sutton" that Annie isn't actually dead, and Ted is firmly against. She tries to drill Kristin but is stonewalled -- or so it seems. A subsequent conversation reveals that Kristin is perhaps the most in-the-dark person in the whole equation. So she turns to Alec -- because it's a great idea to ineptly interrogate the person you find most suspicious in the world and consider capable of the unthinkable. She remains safe from Alec for the moment, but then the letter Sutton wrote in juvie arrives. Emma realizes that her time in Phoenix is running out and grows sad that this life she was growing into is slipping from her grasp. To comfort her, Ethan assures her that he will follow her anywhere she goes.

Meanwhile, Kristin learns that Justin and Laurel are having sex and tells Ted, who confronts the horny little hobo. Amazingly, Justin totally turns it on Ted and is all, "I was a terrible person for lying, but you wouldn't know anything about that, Mr. Mercer... Would you?" Though Kristin and Laurel have a heart-to-heart and patch up their relationship, Justin says he's not so comfortable spending time near Ted, who is clearly hiding something.

In also-rans, Thayer has a meeting to score some start-up money for his gaming app, and Mads makes eyes at yet another inappropriate older man (the guy considering giving Thayer the capital). Also, I considered calling this recap "The Passion of the Char" because poor girl can't catch a break. Not only does she get dumped by Derek (because Alec demanded it -- and after a whole 10 days!), she also receives a call from Annie Sewell Hobbs and is reamed out by her mom for taking it. We learn that Annie is Char's mom's sister. And the plot thickens!