Xavier's Speech - The Afterparty Season 1 Episode 4
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Danner announces that Culp will look for Jennifer #2 while Danner continues questioning. Aniq whispers to Yasper that someone’s in the bathroom, so he needs another way to listen in to the interviews.

Yasper distracts Danner by saying he saw a silhouette in the guest house that might be Jennifer #2. Danner is reluctant at first, but Jennifer #1 threatens to “call her manager” (the captain), making Culp nervous. Danner agrees to go check out the guest house with Yasper.

Yasper, Danner, and Culp check out the guest house. Yasper finds a sword, which Culp recognizes from The Odyssey, the live television musical event.

Culp turns on the lights, and a life-sized cutout of Xavier starts singing. Instinctively, Danner slices its head off with the sword, scaring Culp and Yasper. As this was the silhouette Yasper saw, they leave and head back to the main house.

Aniq sneaks into the booth of the recording studio so he can listen. Chelsea and Danner enter. Danner asks Chelsea if she wants to confess. Chelsea says everyone thinks she’s guilty. Danner wants to hear her version of the events.

Chelsea begins her story. It’s in a dark, psychological thriller style. Chelsea remarks that this reunion should have been her victory lap, but Xavier ruined her chances of ever having a normal life and made her friends turn on her. She gets a threatening text from an unknown number. There is a knock at her window, startling Chelsea. Chelsea narrates, saying she came to get revenge.

Danner thinks she’s insane. She asks Chelsea to elaborate.

Chelsea is worried about the threats. She arrives at the entrance and is greeted enthusiastically by the Jennifers. Chelsea jokes with them. The Jennifers laugh, but Chelsea does not.

Jennifer #1 asks if she came because of Xavier. Chelsea says she is not a fan, but he is why she is here. They give her a name tag with her job -- veterinarian’s receptionist -- written on it, and she takes a long strand of drink tickets.

Chelsea heads to the bar and gets a vodka cranberry. Chelsea spies Xavier chatting to some women. Chelsea heads over, but Ned cuts in.

Chelsea sees Brett hiding from her behind the photo booth. They go into the photo booth together. Chelsea asks if Brett has been sending her texts. He says he doesn’t want Zoe to see them together.

Brett assures Chelsea it is over between them, accusing her of seducing him. She insists he initiated their affair. She says that he could have given the dog longer to live if they’d given her wet food, but brett says wet food gave Dumpling diarrhea.

Danner is titillated, saying affairs are a normal, sexy part of life.

Aniq, overhearing, texts Yasper that Brett’s affair was with Chelsea. Chelsea is surprised that Brett didn’t mention the affair to Danner at all. Yasper sends Aniq a series of texts back and the notifications buzz. Aniq tries to hide it.

Chelsea notes that she had just been dumped by her ex, Sophia, and when Brett came in to put his dog down, one thing led to another, and they started sleeping together. Chelsea says the affair ended three months ago when Zoe found out.

Brett crumples up their booth photos and leaves Chelsea alone. Chelsea gets another threatening text telling her to go. Xavier approaches her awkwardly and starts up a conversation.

Chelsea lies and says she remembers nothing from high school. Ned approaches, asking Xavier to do the Legal Beagle voice. Xavier obliges. Ned leaves, and Chelsea offers Xavier a place to sit. Xavier declines, satisfied that they’ve settled things, and leaves.

Chelsea walks down the dark hallway and senses a man following her. He yells, “Hey! Chelsea!”

Chelsea hides in the girls’ bathroom and splashes water on her face. She gets another threatening text. She calls the number and gets a message saying the number cannot be completed as dialed. She takes a pill and washes it down with vodka.

The door opens -- it’s Indigo. Indigo immediately tries to get Chelsea involved in her health-shake MLM scheme. Chelsea gets out as quickly as she can.

Chelsea shows Danner the threatening texts. Danner explains that many services provide “fake” numbers like this to cloak the sender. She mentions a case she worked on -- the Ruffin twins, child beauty queens that killed each other. They had sent anonymous text messages to each other.

Her head spinning, Chelsea finds Zoe and Aniq in the hall. Chelsea acts drunk and spills her drink on Aniq. Chelsea asks if Zoe is the one who has been sending her the texts. Zoe doesn’t want anything to do with Chelsea. Chelsea just wants to set things straight. Aniq rinses his shirt. Zoe pulls him away, and they leave Chelsea alone.

Chelsea runs off when she sees the mysterious man, who has something pointy in his hand, and runs off. She bumps into Brett. She tells him that someone is following her. He asks her if she’s seen Zoe. Chelsea says she has come to settle the score with Xavier, not to see Brett.

Danner asks Chelsea what Xavier did to her. She says Xavier is responsible for her life being miserable, tracing it back to the St. Patrick’s Day party in senior year. Danner wants to know about the party and what went down. Chelsea wants to finish the story of the night first.

Xavier’s helicopter leaves. It begins to rain. A menacing voice calls after Chelsea. she hides behind a car. The man comes closer. She leaps up, brandishing her pepper spray.

It’s Walt. He has been trying to get her keys to her -- she dropped them earlier. He gives them to her and she thanks him. Walt starts asking her about her night when Yasper appears, ignoring Walt and asking Chelsea what she’s doing next to his car. He doesn’t recognize Walt.

In the car, Yasper asks Chelsea if she’s okay. She says she’s having a tough time. He says all will be made right at the afterparty. He starts the car and hits Aniq.

They drive across town. Chelsea gets another text message telling her not to come to the afterparty. Aniq drinks from Chelsea’s ‘X’ flask, and she stops him.

Danner asks what was in the flask. Chelsea tells her a cocktail of cat tranquilizers, ginger ale, whiskey, and lime. Aniq, overhearing, is shocked and texts this information to Yasper. Chelsea tells Danner she was going to roofie Xavier, strip him, take naked pictures of him and leak them to TMZ.

As they arrive at the afterparty, Chelsea tells Aniq he has been drugged, but not by Xavier. She gets him some water. Chelsea says she has some unfinished business. Aniq takes this to mean that she has to poop. She confirms this and goes off to find Xavier.

Chelsea overhears the Jennifers and Ned trash-talking about her. She approaches them, holding a pair of scissors.

From across the room, they see Brett push Aniq into the prawn X. Chelsea starts to approach Brett and Aniq, but she gets another message -- a photo of her with skull stickers.

Chelsea starts to spiral, feeling like everyone is laughing at her. Then she notices they are all laughing at Aniq, passed out on the floor. She urges Ned away from Aniq. She writes “I’m sorry” with a heart on Aniq’s hand.

In the booth, Aniq looks at his hand.

Chelsea stands, and someone shoots an arrow directly behind her, grazing her hair. Chelsea looks around.

Yasper approaches and tells her that he and Xavier are going to be recording a track together. Chelsea says she had some plans for the night, but they didn’t work out. Yasper offers her encouragement, telling her she is in control.

Xavier makes a speech telling everyone to have a great time at the party.

Chelsea approaches Xavier after his speech, asking if they can go catch up somewhere private. He is reluctant, but she insists. He heads upstairs, and she follows.

Chelsea offers Xavier a drink from the ‘X’ flask, which she says she made especially for him. just as he’s about to drink, she tells him it’s got cat tranquilizers in it, and he shouldn’t drink it. She confesses her plan. He tells her he has already leaked naked photos of himself on the internet.

Xavier asks if she still holds a grudge about the St. Patrick’s day party. She says yes -- he left her stranded, and everyone thought she was crazy. Chelsea says she blamed him for her trash life.

Chelsea doesn’t want an apology. She just wants him to acknowledge that he’s an asshole and a douche. She asks him to say it. Xavier does. She asks him to sing it. He does -- poorly. Chelsea is satisfied. Xavier goes to drink from the flask again, and she tells him to pour it out, which he does, over the balcony.

Danner asks Chelsea about the blonde wig. Chelsea has no idea what she’s talking about.

When Chelsea returns downstairs after her talk with Xavier, most people are gone. She sees Zoe. Chelsea apologizes profusely for sleeping with Brett, and they commiserate about how terrible Brett is in bed. Chelsea says Zoe deserves better and mentions that Aniq is great.

The Ska-Pe Diem video starts to play loudly, waking Aniq. Chelsea says this is maybe not the best time to judge him. Yasper goes to Aniq’s aid. Aniq is annoyed that Xavier has done this to him again. Chelsea urges him to move on. Aniq tells Zoe he’ll be right back and heads upstairs to confront Xavier. They all hear Aniq yell.

Danner is skeptical about Chelsea’s story. Chelsea tells her to check the flask for cat tranquilizer traces against Xavier’s blood. Danner maintains that the fall that killed him and Chelsea had the biggest grudge against him.

Danner wants to know what happened at the St. Patrick’s day party. Chelsea wants to move on, but Danner insists. Danner suggests that maybe the one who was threatening Chelsea was the one who killed Xavier. Chelsea mentions that the texts stopped when Xavier was killed; maybe he’d been sending them. Danner says Xavier’s phone wasn’t on him.

Chelsea says St. Patrick’s Day was a big night for all of them and mentions Aniq but then starts to backpedal. Danner radios Culp, asking him to bring in Aniq. Chelsea asks Danner to please keep Aniq out of it -- he’s a good guy.

Danner asks if Xavier had done this to Aniq at the St. Patrick’s Day party. Culp enters, saying they can’t find Aniq anywhere. Danner tells them to search everywhere. In the booth, Aniq panics.

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The Afterparty
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4
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