“You’re not the one who hears people talking behind your back. You may have decided to put your life on pause and hide inside this house, but the world outside won’t stop for you.”
The episode begins with Bea wondering about what “that lünātic” is up to. Nico deduces that Jigs is there at the school to talk on a particular blog. He tries going to confront the school mate who would be hosting him but Bea holds him back, and reminds him how their sister and parents had charged them not to do anything that could make the situation worse.
Rica has another episode as she strives to study for her exams in her room. Back in school, Bea sees the live telecast of Jigs selling his bogus relationship with Rica and mouthing some promise of fixing things for her.
Evidently upset, Bea confronts Jigs and demands that he drop the act because he’s the mônstër who viôlatēd her sister. Jigs mumbles some absurdities and promises to catch the person who had leaked the video. Some busybodies stand by, recording the whole show.
“Just admit it!” Bea snaps. “You two weren’t seeing each other. You rãpêd my sister!”Jigs goes all quiet and decides to leave without uttering another word, and Bea brands him as a coward. The girls who had been recording earlier come to taunt Bea before posting the video on the internet.
Karla decides to stay in the Philippines and sell some clothing and accessories from home so she can be with her daughter in her situation. Though Rica worries, Dan also decides to go in for a delivery job for some extra income.
Raven sees the trending video of Bea and Jigs on the internet on her way to see her father at his office. Meanwhile, Karla psyches herself up for her online selling job as her husband gets the camera ready. As she advertises her products, Raven overhears her father refusing to have the trending video of Jigs and Bea taken down.
“Sorry, mayor?”
“I said no,” Troy declares. “Let it go viral.”
“Okay, sir.”
Bobby berates Jigs over the scene he had caused at the school and Audrey diffuses the tension and reflects on the dinner she had had with the prosecutor handling the complaint against Jigs. It’s revealed that the prosecutor is a fan of Jigs. Presently, Audrey assures shāmelëss father and son that the räpê case will never see the light of day.
Bea receives unending rounds of chastisement from Rica and her parents over the scene she had caused in school. She argues that she had tried to control her temper until she had seen Jigs smiling and acting like he was some kind of saint. She asks her sister where she had gone wrong with what she had done for her.
Rica states that she’s now involved in her mess as well. She says all she ever wants is to protect them, but Bea reminds her that everyone already knows what had happened with all the rumours going round. She then points out that she’s not the one who goes out with no choice but to face “those awful people” every single day.
“You’re not the one who hears people talking behind your back,” Bea laments. “You may have decided to put your life on pause and hide inside this house, but…the world outside won’t stop for you.”
Later that night, Nico commends Bea for how she had confronted Jigs. He quickly goes back to bed as he sees the door opening. Karla comes in with an envelope and sits by Bea and compels Nico to wake up from his sleep-pretense. She then hands them some printed articles, and explains that their elder sister is suffering from räpê trauma syndrome. She then urges them to be more understanding and very patient until she recovers.
Raven’s dinner-date with her father is dominated by a series of notifications regarding the trending video of Bea and Jigs. She asks her father if he still doubts the innocence of his nephew. When Troy remains silent, staring at her as if he’s seen her brain shrinking, Raven continues blabbering emotionally about how the issue could ruin their family.
Rica reflects on what her sister had told her earlier, as well as when Kyle had saved her from jümpiñg off the abandoned building. Meanwhile, Troy wakes up Audrey his wife to inform her of how their daughter is trending on the internet. The next morning at the Sicats, Rica resumes her duty of cooking breakfast for the entire family much to her mother’s awe and worry.
The Ramones family talk about an article demoralizing Jigs in an online gossip site over breakfast. The bottom line? Jigs had rãpêd his own cousin. Bobby is quite upset that everyone has been talking about them. Troy could care less. Raven tries to respond to the post but Troy demands that they not get involved in the mess. Bobby protests and Troy states that his team had advised him not to say anything so his image doesn’t appear biased.
“If we don’t respond to this, it will make me look guilty,” Jigs grumbles. Troy chuckles. “People will keep spreading that false information until people believe it. I’m not a rāpīst,” he says to cousin Raven. “Boy, you’re the one who made this mess,” Troy taunts. “Now you better clean it up. I am warning you – don’t you ever drag Raven into this.”
Attorney Laura urges the Sicats to prepare for the fight against the Ramoneses since Jigs already has a clean track record. She states that things will probably get ugly because their enemies would use everything in their arsenal against them – every small secret and minute detail.
The attorney urges them to come clean if any of them have something they’re hiding. Karla exchanges a look with Dan, who declares that they have nothing else to hide. Karla seconds her husband, though her face seems to be telling a different story. Meanwhile, Jigs succeeds in clearing Raven’s doubts of his innocence again.
Attorney Laura is on her way out when Bea asks her if “he” already knows about the video. Laura nods and when Bea asks if “he” was mad and would thus redraw the help he’s been giving them, the attorney assures her that that’s not the case. Karla overhears and comes over to ask who they’re talking about. As she questions her daughter, Dan’s timely appearance gives Bea the chance to disappear.
Rica apologizes to her parents over the extra jobs they had decided to take on her account. Dan shrugs it off and assures her that he and her mother can handle it all. In her office at work, Raven reflects on how her mother had given her the case files of Jigs and urged her to help him.
Meanwhile, Karla is advertising some of her products via live stream when a viewer accuses her and her family of trying to extort money from councilor Jigs.
“Wait a minute,” Karla objects. “My dear buyers, give me a chance. My motherly instincts are coming out now. You can insult everybody, including me, just not my children. That face of yours on your profile… that doesn’t give you the license to say whatever you want to say, whenever you want to.”
Karla ends the live stream and sinks into the chair miserably, reflecting on that fateful question attorney Laura had asked before. She gets all jittery as she recalls a physical encounter she had had in the past. Disregarding her father’s reasoning, Raven takes to her social media account to defend her shāmelëss cousin and hold him in high esteem over Rica.
Bea watches her “idol” as she humiliates her sister in subtlety. Karla pays a visit to attorney Laura at her office to ask if their enemies would really dig up all the dirt they can find on them, even those not connected to the case.
Laura replies in the affirmative, saying that it doesn’t matter if it’s something she had done when she was seventeen (17) years old.
“Seventeen,” Karla repeats, with a measure of grief and disbelief. “You knew?”
A flashback of a younger Karla being physically ãbūsed by some random goon comes on and off. Presently, Karla backs out of her seat, asking the attorney how she had known. She asks if she had had her and her family investigated. Laura remains silent and Karla recalls the snippet of conversation she had overhead between Bea and the attorney.
“Only Troy knows about that… but how?”Mrs. Sicat…” And then, realization dawns on Karla. “Are you connected to him? You used Bea. You involved my daughter.”Before Attorney Laura can stop Karla, she turns and hurries out the door.
