Kyle XY – Season 2, Episode 7 – Free to Be You and Me – 7/23/07 ABC Family, 7/27/07 ABC
If you haven’t seen Episode 7 of Season 2, here there be spoilers!
Recap:
Amanda “returns the favor” by asking Kyle to go with her to the Spring Fling dance. Kyle had snuck the piano he had found into her living room. Amanda’s mom is out-of-town, so she won’t mind if Amanda goes out with Kyle – if she doesn’t know about it.
Emily and Stephen chat it up at work. Surprise, surprise – her sister, Jessi, and his kids go to the same school.
Josh tries to steal the SADD car’s radio. As punishment, he gets clean-up duty at the dance.
Kyle doesn’t realize, at first, that he has a “date” with Amanda. After Lori and Hillary both confirm that it is, he gets really nervous and out of sorts.
Lori and Hillary also discuss Jessi Hollander. Hillary suggests that Lori makes Jessi XX her “Frenemy” (Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.). Lori invites Jessi to her house. While Nicole pulls aside Lori to tell her how inappropriate it is for her daughter to have a friendship with her patient, Jessi wanders into Kyle’s room. She proceeds to fix Josh’s broken radio (the one he was trying to replace with the one from the SADD car), and then she makes herself comfortable in Kyle’s tub. Kyle, of course, is drawn to her from the other room. XX and XY have an awkward conversation about her being in his tub; she thinks it is comfortable, he asks her if she thinks it’s weird if he sleeps in a tub. Her response is, “Is it?”
The school won’t sell tickets to couples of the same sex to the Spring Fling dance. Hillary and Lori wanted to go stag, but buy the tickets as a couple. But they were told they’d have to pay the more expensive single price.
Jessi and Declan appear in the next scene making out at her “sister’s” apartment. Jessi interrupts (obviously, she can’t focus) and asks him if Lori is his friend, and then she asks him if Kyle is his friend. He answers “yes – but, and used to be.” Jessi continues to “make friends” with Declan’s tongue until her sister, Emily, returns home. She kicks out Declan, and tells XX she can’t see Declan again. The lights flash and Jessi gets a headache. Emily tells her to stop being so dramatic and do as she is told. Jessi is confused because Emily keeps telling Jessi to make friends, but this is what happens.
Amanda sees Kyle up late on the porch. She asks him, “Why are you acting strange.” She tells him that he doesn’t have to go to the dance with her if he doesn’t want to go. He assures her that he does want to go, and that Nicole told him he is acting strange because he likes her. Their date at the dance is the best thing that has happened to him in a long time. Does she like him? Yes. That’s settled.
Andy talks the gang into having an alternative dance for the same-sex couples. It is revealed that Andy has two moms. Lori, Kyle, Amanda, and Josh get caught posting flyers throughout the school, and get called to the principal’s office. Nicole protests the “no same-sex couples” rule, and the principal proceeds to call Lori and Kyle vandals, and Josh a petty thief, and that all are banned from the Spring Fling. That’s all Nicole needs to completely sell her to host the “Swing Spring Fling” dance at the local hang-out. But that’s not all. The principal calls Amanda’s mom. Amanda’s mom comes home early from her trip, and grounds her. Kyle and Amanda’s date plans are cancelled.
Declan drags Charlie to the SSF dance to support Lori because of the guilt he feels from making out with XX while Lori was making her first live performance singing a song about their breakup. Lori and Hillary partake in a same-sex kiss just to freak out the homophobic Charlie, in response to his “granola lesbian” comment.
Stephen is in the elevator with Emily on his way out of the office. He mentions her “evil plan” and how it is working. Emily’s expression is, “Does he know?” But Stephen follows up with a statement that Lori and Jessi are hitting it off, and that she should go by the dance with him. Well, Emily is certain that Jessi isn’t there, but Stephen clues her in that she is.
Back at the dance, Amanda shows up. She sneaks out. Kyle is completely hypnotized by Amanda.
Nicole lets Josh take a break from his clean-up duties to dance with Andy. Then Josh and Kyle proceed to do a synchronized dance together (Kyle just learned how to dance yesterday by copying Josh). Andy is impressed.
Meanwhile Jessi and Lori are talking. Jessi notices the necklace she is wearing – it is Declan’s? – does Lori still want to be with Declan? Lori says no, that Declan has moved on, obviously. Later, Jessi tells Declan that Lori still wants to be with him, and his reply is, “I’m with you, aren’t I?”
Kyle and Amanda are slow dancing. Any moment they will kiss. Then Emily shows up and hollers at Jessi, telling her to leave. The lights start to flicker again as XX gets upset. Amanda asks Kyle if he saw that, and he’s like, “saw what?” because he is so whipped. But as Jessi and Emily’s argument intensifies, the power goes out completely; Kyle does notice this time, just as he is about to kiss Amanda.
Amanda goes home so that she “doesn’t get grounded for 50 years.” They agree to go on another date again sometime. Kyle gets a kiss on the cheek from Amanda. No serious smooching will go on tonight between Amanda and Kyle.
Andy helps Josh with the clean-up. Josh gets a kiss on the cheek from Andy after he makes a nice comment about her gay friends.
Declan and Lori discuss the whole song incident. He says that Jessi makes him forget about his problems because she’s new and not part of his problems. Lori asks him what happened between Kyle and Declan. She really doesn’t get an answer.
Back inside, Charlie makes an ass out of himself by spouting off gay slurs. Declan stops him. Charlie says, “You should remember who your friends are.” Declan replies, “Yeah, I should” and looks straight at Kyle. Kyle follows Declan outside. He wants to tell him everything. He used to have someone he thought he could trust. Declan knows about Tom Foss, and he proceeds to show Kyle the threatening photos, especially the one with a big “X” on Lori’s face, that Tom left for him. Declan is ready to hear Kyle’s true story, and Kyle is ready to tell it. But this is for another episode.
The show ends with Lori throwing a bag of trash in the dumpster. Someone unseen knocks Lori down unconscious next to the dumpster out back.
Likes:
Lori and Hillary’s kiss was surprising since this is a family station. I guess ABC Family is making a strong pro-same-sex couples statement. I liked the way this issue was integrated into the show. It didn’t stick out or appear like it was forced into the script.
I love the term, “Frenemy!” I hope that’s how it is spelled.
I really liked the idea that a teenaged guy (Kyle) could be so hypnotized by a teenaged girl (Amanda). I’m not sure if this is really possible in real life (without the teenaged guy’s only objective being to get into the teenaged girl’s pants).
Dislikes:
Why would Josh try to steal the radio out of the SADD car? This was a lame storyline. I believe the character of Josh is a little smarter than that.
Nicole mentions Madacorp in front of Kyle, and he doesn’t freak out. Didn’t Kyle, Tom and Adam discuss Madacorp – or am I just imagining it? Maybe they just discussed the Zzyzx lab. But I thought Kyle was aware that Madacorp is dangerous, and interested in getting him back.
Kyle XY and Jessi XX need to start having some more interesting conversations. So far, they are unexplainably drawn to each other, but they don’t talk to find out why that might be?
The whole Kyle and Amanda “Do you like me?” scene was so unnecessary. Kyle got her expensive bracelet back and gave her a refurbished piano – Duh! I think he likes her. And why wouldn’t she like him after all that?
Food for Thought:
Was it really Tom Foss that left the photos on Declan’s dash? It makes sense that it is Foss, but there are other players that Declan doesn’t know about.
Why are Kyle XY and Jessi XX sometimes unaffected by each other’s presence, and at other times, they are drawn to each other?
And the big question of the night – Who bonked Lori in the head? Was it a jealous Jessi XX?
