The Body season 1 episode 6, “Star Quality,” picks up after the shocking events of episode 5.
Maddie’s leg is magically healed, and Elise is still on the team as they head to Regionals to compete. Grace accompanies them as the alternate.
Elise and Anya share a room together at Regionals
On the bus ride to the competition, Coach (Gabby Windey) decides that Elise (Sara Boustany) and Anya (Kristina Bogic) are rooming together to, hopefully, get them back on speaking terms.
While they’re in their room, Elise shows Anya the video of Lisbeth (Geena Meszaros) holding all the snakes. Anya doesn’t know what to think.
Lisbeth uses Maddie’s eating disorder against her
Lisbeth is bunking with Maddie (Shirley Chen), who she healed, but things are sketchy with Lisbeth. She looks like she’s ready to do something to Maddie to ensure that she can get a spot in the competition. Maddie has low blood sugar from her condition, and Lisbeth looks in her bag and finds a lot of junk food.
At the competition, Lisbeth overhears the other girls in the bathroom. They are questioning why, if the ritual worked, hasn’t Grace been healed yet. They also claim that Lisbeth doesn’t have a spot on the team, especially if they make it to Nationals, and they allege that Anya just doesn’t have the heart to tell her that she’s not on the team.
Things have totally changed now. Lisbeth is in self-preservation mode, and she’s taking down everyone to make room for herself. She makes Maddie feel terrible about her eating disorder and triggers her. She’s also praying directly to Grace, which is a bizarre twist.
Later, Anya apologizes to Maddie for being a terrible captain, and she offers some support. She tries to explain that Maddie can’t dance if she’s not in a good place. Maddie claims that she is, but she isn’t. Not with everything going on. That night, Anya still can’t sleep, and she asks Elise to cuddle with her to comfort her. It seems like these two might be coming back around to each other, and they’ll need to defeat the demon among them, Lisbeth.
At breakfast the next morning before the competition, Maddie asks Lisbeth to be her accountability buddy, which helps her after the treatment she went through for her eating disorder. Lisbeth is the last person to ask for help. She claims that the eating disorder is just her demon, and she needs to starve that demon instead of feeding it junk food, which is probably the exact opposite of what Maddie needs to hear with her condition.
Later, Maddie asks for caffeine pills for a spiritual cleanse. It’s bizarre, but it leads Anya back to Elise. They start looking into Lisbeth’s past. Elise shares her theory about what’s going on. She thinks everything started with Lisbeth, but Anya claims that she is actually seeing Grace and having visions. Elise thinks it’s the lack of sleep causing hallucinations.
Anya and Elise finally hook up
Then, Anya chooses Elise for the improvisational dance, and that doesn’t sit right with Lisbeth.
It doesn’t matter because the pair put on a show. Their dance nearly ends with a kiss. Everyone is hyped except for Lisbeth, who is about to do some of the most messed up stuff to get back at her.
When they get back to the hotel rooms that night, Lisbeth texts Anya and asks to watch a movie, but Anya is busy hooking up with Elise. Maddie and Lisbeth go to bed feeling bad.
The town starts to believe Grace can perform miracles
Back in town, Leo (Jackson Kelly) comes home from school, and his mother, Catherine (Louisa Krause) is there, seeming much more like herself, which makes Leo very happy. He runs back to Father Franklin, and he reveals that his mom is healed. Leo claims that he prayed to Grace, and she somehow healed his mother of her illness.
While all this is happening, the town starts to believe in miracles, too. They catch wind that Grace can heal illnesses and injuries, and the next thing they know there’s a mom of a child with cancer trying to get time with Grace to try to cure her son’s cancer. Grace’s dad turns them away, but it doesn’t go over well.
At school, Leo brings Catherine to school, and it looks like she made a miraculous recovery, as well. Unfortunately, Catherine sees Anya’s mom, and she asks her if she’s heard from Lisbeth about the big dance. This is obviously news to Catherine’s ears, and she’s not happy.
Maddie collapses during the dance because of Lisbeth
On the morning of the competition, the Lions watch the Glory Holes, their rival school, on stage, and they’re starting to feel nervous. Maddie, in particular, is not doing well. After Lisbeth keeps pushing her and pushing her, Maddie is struggling with her eating disorder and low blood sugar. She leaves the competition, and she heads back into the hotel, where she starts shaking.
It’s almost time for the Lions to dance, but Maddie is nowhere to be found. Anya runs up to her room and makes her eat, and Maddie instantly feels better. For a second, it looks like Lisbeth was about to step in.
Then, she does something terrible. In line ready to go on stage, Lisbeth makes Maddie spit out all of the food, and then she calls her selfish and says that she let the demon win. She tells Maddie that her soul is now damned, which throws Maddie off right before they get on stage. Anya tries to comfort Maddie, but it’s no use. Lisbeth tells her to break a leg, and I’m worried she will.
The good news is that the Glory Holes got disqualified for some reason, and the girls think it’s Grace intervening. The Lions’ routine goes really well until the big lift. While Maddie is doing the lift, she has a seizure of sorts, and then she claims that she sees Grace in the crowd before she passes out.
Father Franklin gives the town hope that Grace can cause miracles
Unfortunately, things go even worse back at the church. During mass, the dance team coach has her baby way early, and she claims that Grace saved her daughter’s life. The mother of the child with cancer also is there, and she questions why Grace is not able to perform miracles for everyone. Everyone in the church starts losing their minds.
Father Franklin (Nnamdi Asomugha) tries to get it all together, but he also suggests that miracles can happen, which is exactly what everyone at the church wants to hear.
Before the episode ends, the Lions get a do-over, and this time, Lisbeth gets her wish, and she dances with the team.
There are only two episodes left in The Body season 1. Grace is no closer to waking up, and Lisbeth is getting everything she wants. I don’t see that lasting too much longer.
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