The Body gets off to a terrifying start in the season premiere when Grace (Sofia Wylie), just after making the dance team, is thought to have overdosed on the drugs Anya (Kristina Bogic) gave her at the Devil’s House Halloween party.
The second episode, “Jesus, Literally,” begins immediately after the series premiere came to an end. Leo (Jackson Kelly) is at Grace’s house, and he keeps calling her phone, which is now in the possession of Lisbeth (Geena Meszaros), who is burning her clothes and Grace’s clothes from the party.
Leo sneaks into Grace’s house and saves her life
Leo finds Grace in bed, but she won’t wake up. She has a heartbeat and she’s breathing, but she is unconscious. He calls the ambulance to get Grace help, which is what Anya and Lisbeth should have done, but we’re way past that.
Lisbeth shows up to help Leo, but she also needs to cover her tracks. Father Franklin (Nnamdi Asomugha), who is Grace’s uncle, is questioning why Leo was at Grace’s house when her parents weren’t home. He tries to lie, but Lisbeth, covering for herself and Anya, claims that Grace and Leo were dating.
The dance team panics after finding out that Grace is in a coma
Shortly after, all the girls on the team find out that something happened to Grace. She is basically in a coma now, and they are all worried that they have been poisoned or took something very bad.
They all start getting sick and debating what to do, but Anya tells them that they need to keep quiet if they want a future.
At the hospital, Grace’s dad shows up, and he’s super frustrated with everything that happened. We learn Grace’s mom, Theresa, is not in the picture anymore. Father Franklin tries to keep his brother calm. Then, Leo shows up, and he tells them that he’ll be praying for Grace, but it’s unsettling to her dad. He thinks Leo had something to do with what happened to Grace.
Lisbeth and Anya make a plan to keep their secret
Later, Anya shows up at Lisbeth’s house, and they head out to the chicken coop to talk about what the hell happened. Lisbeth thinks it was a miracle, like the work of Jesus, that Grace came back to life. Lisbeth tries to get Anya to be chill.
If she doesn’t, they will get caught. Lisbeth tries to get Anya to not tell Elise, but it seems pretty clear that she’s already manipulating her.
At church the next day, Father Franklin asks the school to pray for Grace and welcomes everyone to the Franklin home for a prayer service, which goes about as you would expect. It’s just a weird vibe. Anya and Lisbeth are just trying to keep it together.
Anya starts having nightmares about Grace
That night, Anya and Elise (Sarah Boustany) watch TV at Anya’s house, and Elise can tell something is wrong. She thinks it’s about the awkward hook up at the party, but Anya says she’s just regretting everything.
With all of the dudes from the school, Steven (Orlando Norman) says he thinks Anya is mad at him, and they remind him that he was flirting with Grace all night. When they start making terrible jokes, Steven loses his mind for a second. He’s worried about Grace, obviously.
Back at Anya’s house, Elise and Anya fall asleep watching TV, and Anya has a nightmare. She dreams that she was hooking up with Elise, but then she sees Grace in the bathroom and wakes up. Elise tries to help, but Anya asks her to leave. They’ve been drinking so Elise doesn’t drive home, but she cries herself to sleep on the floor of Anya’s room.
Lisbeth manipulates Anya into letting her join the dance team
At school, everyone gets over the shock of Grace’s tragic night. Everyone starts to suspect Leo. They’re all talking about him and how creepy he is behind his back.
No one is feeling very good after what happened with Grace. The Lions have a terrible practice, and Anya tells Lisbeth that she needs to be able to tell Elise what happened to get it off her chest. It’s eating her alive, lying to her best friend. Lisbeth tells her to talk to her about it and that she’ll be there for her. Anya doesn’t think that’s a good idea to start just hanging out together out of the blue after this, but then Lisbeth has a brilliant idea that she totally came up with off the top of her head. She suggests Anya allow her to join the dance team, and then they can be friends and spend time together.
At first, Anya knows it’s a bad idea, but then Lisbeth twists her arm and says that if she’s telling Elise, she’s telling Leo about what happened since he’s getting the blame anyway. With that threat, Anya caves and tries to bring it to the team.
Later, Anya tries to bring it to the team. Almost no one agrees with her. When they vote, Anya lies and makes up the numbers to make Lisbeth have enough support to join the team. Then, Elise makes the team initiate Lisbeth, which Anya decides to do it that night but with no drugs this time.
The dance team initiates Lisbeth at a strip club, but it takes a dark turn
For some reason, Elise takes the team and Lisbeth to a strip club and makes Anya watch while she gets a lap dance.
Then, Elise sends Lisbeth on stage to dance around the pole. Elise takes pictures, and then Anya realizes that she kept a bunch of the pictures from the night of the party. Then, Lisbeth gets kicked off stage, and Anya thinks she sees Grace in the reflection. She’s clearly having a breakdown.
Outside, the situation blows up. Everyone on the team blames Elise for making Grace take the drugs. It’s a bad fight.
Lisbeth follows Maddie (Shirley Chen) to the bathroom, where they throw up together. Then, Lisbeth asks Maddie why she blames Elise. Maddie claims that Anya and Elise made the team chant to Satan right before Elise made Grace take the drugs. That seems to mess with Lisbeth’s head, and she starts to think that maybe the devil had something to do with it.
Leo’s mom sticks up for her son
While all that is going on, Father Franklin pays Leo a visit at their house. He asks to speak with Leo’s mom, Catherine (Louisa Krause). He explains that Leo is not in trouble, and it’s the first time that Leo and Lisbeth’s mom finds out about what happened with Grace and Leo.
Father Franklin questions Leo about Grace’s phone and its whereabouts. Leo denies any knowledge, and his mom sticks up for him. She claims that Leo saves Grace’s life, but everyone treats him like he’s guilty. That sticks with Father Franklin, and he apologizes for jumping to that conclusion.
At the end of the night, Elise apologizes to Anya, but then Anya said it’s not about the kiss they shared. Anya says Elise is like her sister, which obviously pisses off Elise because she’s in love with her.
When the girls get home, Maddie starts shaking, and then she falls to the floor and has a seizure.
Grace didn’t actually have drugs in her system
Finally, at the end of the night, Grace’s father gets a call from the hospital that reveals that Grace didn’t have any drugs in her system and she doesn’t have a brainbleed, so she will hopefully be okay.
Grace allegedly didn’t have drugs in her system, so what caused her to go unconscious?
As his brother is talking on the phone, Father Franklin finds a picture of Grace that Leo drew. It’s inspired by a painting that hangs in the church of a naked woman, but instead of the woman’s face, Leo drew Grace’s face.
There’s a lot going on in this episode. The show is asking us to wonder about what happened that night at the Halloween party. Was it the drugs that caused it? Was it the devil? We’ll find out in The Body season 1 on Netflix.
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