Don't know if this is shown in any of the promos, but basically, and this is near the very beginning of the episode so it's not a spoiler.. Woman goes from telling a guy that it was the best sex she had ever had to telling him that he raped her.
Let the curiosity and theories begin... :D
Some spoiler info:
Tom Metcalf lies to women by impersonating real people who have some sort of power/influence (in this case, someone high up at a college's admissions office) in order to get them into bed. Only one out of five known victims agrees to testify against him, since she only consented when she believed he could help her son get into the college. Had she known the truth, she wouldn't have consented and thus, saying it was rape. Rather iffy line there, especially since the point that guys (and heck, even girls) lie to get sex from others all the time. I'm on the rape side of it though, because the guy was not only impersonating a real person to influence consent, but also promising a favor in return that he knew he couldn't deliver on. When the victim mentions about it being like a business transaction, the lawyer compares it to prostitution. A couple of points that could have been brought up that I would have liked to have seen explored... 1. prostitutes at least get paid or their pimp gets involved and 2. since it wasn't prostitution and he made a deal that he couldn't make good on, he was, in essence, a thief.
Extra spoiler, end of episode... Laura's son commits suicide at the end.
Paula Marshall guest stars in this episode and she is as beautiful as always. Definitely an episode worth watching, though to be honest, it wasn't as good as the first couple of episodes this season. But then, they can't all be really great, otherwise saying an episode is great would have no meaning.
Theft....kinda makes her sound like a prostitute. If he "stole" sex from her, then it was obviously something she put a price on and was willing to offer to the highest bidder.
Or in this case, whomever she thought could help her.
Reminds me of Rollins offering to sleep with her boss to get Kim out of trouble.
Using sex as a product to be bartered with isn't far off what prostitution is, aside from trading favors in lieu of cash.
When including anything that could be seen as a spoiler, please use the spoiler tags until it's shown at it's most common air time (Wednesdays at 9PM eastern). That way someone who reads won't see something they didn't want to know unless they hover over the spoiler itself. Thank you. :)
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I already saw it.
You said, "but they try to prosecute something that was not a crime but felt sleazy." That is an important detail that comes into play throughout the episode and even has a part in the outcome at the end.
So like I said, use spoiler tags. Some people, understandably, don't want to know anything that can or might spoil something that is beyond the first few minutes. Even something that doesn't but seemingly does can ruin the experience for the person. My personal belief is that if it happens within the first ten minutes of the episode, so long as it's nothing of extreme importance, is fair game. Like what I said in the first post about how two text messages to the same guy went from saying it was the best sex ever to accusing him of rape. It's at the beginning and doesn't reveal anything that happens later.
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