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"Episode title" is the number episode of season two of the ABC television series American Crime. It was written by executive producer executive producer’s name and directed by director’s name.

Plot
Taylor Blaine’s lawyer is visiting Taylor in jail. Taylor is telling him that he wants to give up fighting for his innocence. He wants to tell his mom that she needs to move on from the case and that it’s over. Taylor is taking responsibility for killing Wes Baxter. The lawyer tells Anne Blaine about his meeting with Taylor and Anne believes that Taylor is trying to be brave. Anne continues to defend that Taylor is not just a shooter; he is still a victim of assault. Sebastian is at the hotel with his daughters working on exposing the Leyland school board e-mails and the girls ask him what he is doing. He replies that he is helping people by giving them the justice their assailants deserve. Michael LaCroix believes that the only way to help Kevin grieve is to get back to his normal routine: basketball and school. Terri LaCroix disagrees, putting an emphasis on Wes’ death. Going back to a school where a student was killed on campus and acting like nothing happened is not normal. Becca Sullivan tells her father that she is feeling ill and will not be attending school that day. Dan Sullivan also believes that the only way to get things back to normal is to act like nothing bad has occurred, so he will not let her stay home. Stephanie Sullivan believes her husband is acting too harsh on their daughter and that he won’t be able to cover Becca’s selling drugs to Taylor forever. Anne calls Sebastian to thank him for exposing the e-mails between Leyland school board members on the Leyland school website. Kevin LaCroix confronts LeSean Young about the team attacking Taylor. LeSean admits that they attacked Taylor but that they did it because Kevin inferred that Taylor needed to learn a lesson for messing with the basketball team. The team “handled it” for Kevin. Kevin said that he never spoke the words “beat up Taylor Blaine” and that LeSean is the reason that Wes is dead. Leslie Graham meets with her lawyer to discuss what steps she needs to take to continue as head master of Leyland. She believes that she never made any mistakes and the system she worked in made all of the mistakes. Leslie’s lawyer told her that her best option at this point is to settle with a good exit package and to move on from Leyland. Monica Salazar meets with Evy Dominguez for a counseling session. Evy admits to Monica that Tre sexually assaulted her and that was the reason for the fight between Mateo and Tre. It was not about race; it was about assault. The Leyland basketball team is at practice and there is a large amount of tension on the court between Kevin and LaSean. The drills end up turning physical and a fight breaks out between Kevin and LaSean. Eric Tanner attempts to intervene, pulling LaSean off of Kevin. LeSean retaliates and pushes Eric, telling him to, “Step off gay boy”. Eric decides to quit the team at that moment, fleeing from practice. Coach Dan follows Eric out of the building, trying to convince him to stay. Eric believes he’s the reason for all of the problems that the team is facing. Dan tells Eric that he is meddling with his life and he’s not the only one going through problems. Eric walks away. Chris Dixon wants to talk to Monica before his hearing with the Marshall High School school board. Chris is facing job termination for displaying biases toward the Latino students attending Marshall. Monica informs Chris that Evy was assaulted and he claimed he knew nothing about it. Monica tells Chris that he needs to admit to his biases and tell them that he made a mistake. Leslie Graham is informed that the Leyland school servers have been hacked. She reacts by having IT techs shut down all Leyland servers until the leaked e-mails are removed. Principal Dixon is talking Monica before the hearing in the hallway. He believes he is going to be set up and attacked and he wants Monica to tell him everything she knows. Monica only knows information about the fight between Mateo and Tre and she already told Chris everything she knows. Leslie enters a meeting with the rest of the Leyland school officials, including the school board members who were sending inappropriate e-mails about Taylor Blaine. Leslie tells everyone that the only way to solve the problem is to completely dissolve the school board, appoint a trustee, and she will remain as head master of Leyland. She covered her tracks and the school board didn’t so they have to face the consequences of their actions. Sebastian goes on a blind date at a bar. His date asks him about what he does for a living. He replies that he defends people who get bullied and attacked constantly and he exposes the assailants for who they are on the Internet. He admits that he hacks people and that he believes it is not illegal if he’s doing it as a good deed. She becomes very upset and afraid that he will hack her also. She leaves him. Anne Blaine meets with her lawyer, telling her about the e-mails being leaked and that it was beneficial towards Taylor’s case. The lawyer tells Anne that it won’t ever matter what gets leaked, Taylor still got a gun, brought it to a school, and shot another student. He explains to her the sentences that Taylor would be facing. If Taylor pleads guilty and there is evidence that there are mitigating circumstances, he was in an unfit state of mind or under emotional distress, he could face 10 years (only serving half) or he could be institutionalized. If there isn’t any evidence of mitigating circumstances, he faces 25 to 30 years in prison. Steph Sullivan decides that she needs an alibi for Becca selling drugs to Taylor so she turns to Anne Blaine. She brings Anne pictures of Taylor and tells her that Becca sold oxycodone and marijuana to Taylor before he shot Wes. Anne tells Steph that Becca is the reason Taylor is in jail and Steph replies that it wasn’t Becca’s fault. She blackmails Anne saying that if she does not help her family, she will have Becca testify against Taylor. Chris Dixon enters his hearing with the Marshall school officials. He admitted to his biases and that he was wrong. The board thanks him and turns the page to Taylor Blaine’s case. They accuse him of giving Taylor special privilege because he was white and sexually assaulted. They are upset because he did not go to extra lengths for Evy Dominguez because she is female and Latino. Peter Tanner calls Eric asking him to pick him up. Their mom spent all of the money they had and have nowhere to go. Eric’s mom blames Eric for all of their family’s problems and failures. Evy goes to visit Taylor in jail. She wants Taylor to tell her the truth about the night of the captain’s party. Taylor admits that he lied about a lot of things but not about Eric assaulting him. Evy tells Taylor that she’s doing what is best for her family and took the money that Leyland offered her. Kevin tells his mom that he was the reason why Wes is dead. Terri believes that the only way he won’t get into trouble is if he tells the truth. She brings him to their lawyer to give an official statement. Michael LaCroix asks the lawyer once Terri and Kevin leave to destroy his statement. The episode ends with the school board resigning, adopting the Transition Plan and Leslie continuing as head master of Leyland.

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Perspective on Rape Culture
Mr. Dixon belittles Evy’s assault because he didn’t into more investigation in order to find out the truth behind the assault. This represents a lack of adequate disciplinary measures.

LeSean says to Eric “step off gay boy” during practice when the players get into an argument. This quote represents sexually explicit jokes.The fight specifically represents hyper masculinity.

Sebastian hacks the school emails and publicizes them.This represents damage control. The Leyland school board avoids the problem so they don’t have to face their problems. This also represents a lack of adequate disciplinary measures.

In this episode a lot of the characters are becoming more guilty as well as being more honest. Some examples of honesty in this episode is, Taylor comes out to Evy by telling her that he truly was assaulted the night of the party. Also, Steph goes to Anne and admits to Becca selling Taylor drugs before he shot Wes. An example of guilt in this episode is, the coach covers up his daughter Becca when he knew that she sold Taylor the drugs before the shooting.

Broadcast and reception
"…although she just got really lucky this week. If Sebastian De La Torre hadn't hacked the Leyland School's servers and exposed all of the board members' emails and internal memos, which were rife with derogatory comments about gay people, Leslie would probably be on a plane to New York right about now, having tendered her resignation".

"There are so many things unanswered at this point. Leslie (Felicity Huffman) is speaking to a lawyer about the pressure she's facing to leave Leyland. She claims she's being scapegoated. Did she really "try to do good things?" Is she the villain of American Crime? How much do you blame her for the shooting? What could she have done differently?"

Dan continued to make me even more furious by ignoring Becca's responsibility in all of this. Did Becca put the gun in Taylor's hand? No, but she did provide him with drugs which altered his already fragile state.”Also “Kevin, for instance, says things to his friends without realizing they're going to follow through with what he wants. Do I really think Kevin meant for his friends to go after Taylor? No, but his friends looked at him as their voice.

"Peggy Reeves Sanday describes the purpose a multiple-offender assault serves: 'The even operates to glue the male group as a unified entity; it establishes fraternal bonding and helps boys to make the transition to their vision of a powerful manhood -in unity against women, one against the world" Connecting to American Crime is how the basketball team bonded together and created a powerful manhood, and now they and even got together to beat up a kid. But now it’s all coming back on them, their group is falling apart, they have lost that bond which was made at the party.

"Let the trolls, MRAs, PUAs, and raging gamers say what they will- a Social Justice Warrior is a really badass thing to be. We’re the ones working to make our society a place where everyone has the opportunity to live freely and without fear." In connection to American Crime Sebastian, and how he is pretty much a Social Justice Warrior, how he leaked out the information about what the board said about Taylor's rape, and how he told the journalist that he isn't done that he plans on getting justice for Taylor and his mom.

"If more men spoke up before, during, or after incidents of verbal, physical, or sexual abuse by their peers, they would help to create a climate where the abuse of women would be stigmatized and seen as incompatible with male group norms." In connection to American Crime Kevin confronting LaShawn is a step towards the right path in ending assault in schools.

"Election after election, politicians of all stripes slug It out across the country, seeing who can wave the flag the hardest, who can beat on their chest the mightiest, competing for the allegiance of voters who will decide which candidate speaks most trustworthily to their problems and fears- their longing for security and a better life, Yet no one seems to notice: the candidates never talk about rape. Or when candidates do, they completely miss the point" In connection to American Crime The Head Master and the board try and make themselves look good, by not talking about the rape to the public. But when they talked about the rape over the emails, they missed the point that there was a victim, all along they were trying to cover for themselves, and Sebastian calls them out on it. Then when Head Master does talk about it, she says that they are going to lose money, because of what some of the member on the board said about Taylor's rape.

"What is it about groups that seem to bring out the worst in men? I think it is because the animating condition for most American men is a deeply rooted fear of other men—a fear that other men will seek us as weak, feminine, not manly". In connection to American Crime being on a team put a lot of pressure on Eric and he was being blamed for the teams’ downfall, that’s why he quit.

"The fear of being seen as a sissy, of being seen as a sissy, of being gay-baited, taunted, and bullied because one is not a real man is certainly what lies behind so much adolescent masculine risk-taking and violence." In connection to American Crime imagine this is what both Taylor and Eric felt throughout the show. They felt as if they needed to prove themselves and that they needed people to not think they were gay in fear of not fitting in at school or on the basketball team.