TV Recap: “Dead of Summer,” Episode 1.04 – Modern Love

“Dead of Summer,” Episode 1.04 – Modern Love
[Warning: All Major Episode Spoilers to Follow]

Into: Drew showers by himself and joins the other counselors in the wreck room. Jessie wants to know why he doesn’t shower with his cabin, but he changes the subject to Amy and her health after being struck by lightening. Joel makes a Friday the 13th reference and states Amy will probably have super powers now like Jason Voorhees. Cricket interrupts the scary movie chat to do a mail call, giving letters to everyone except Drew, though Jessie tears her letter up and throws it in the garbage. Alex interrupts the letter reading again by bringing out the camp year book from the summer of 1983. They go through the pages and point out the girl, Andrew, that they all remember being a bitch. Deb lets herself in and tells everyone that, miraculously, Amy is fine and will be returning to work later that day…after being struck by lightening less than 24 hours ago. In celebration of her good health, Deb says the camp is going to through a mascaraed ball.

Good Enough to Eat: Amy is doing so well, in fact, that she’s enjoying breakfast at the only restaurant around and is offered a milkshake by Deputy Towny. Amy has been looking over the evidence that Towny found around camp and she frightens him when she says she think she saw a demon resembling the one depicted when the campground map is turned upside down. She also mentions that the evidence says a cult is trying to raise a demon from the lake. Towny doesn’t want to believe her, out of fear and denial, and they leave as the biker gang/cult members watch on. Drew goes to the lake and sees Andrea holding a red balloon and suddenly the water in the lake starts bubbling blood again. He falls in, but gets out before anything bad happens. Jessie is at the end of the dock when he resurfaces and says that she knows Drew is really Andrea all grown up. Drew counters by saying he pieced together pieces of Jessie’s letter and knows she has a court date coming up. They leave things at a draw.

Best Camp Ever: While looking through the summer camp year book, Cricket notices the ram’s head mask in one of Deb’s pictures and it really freaks her out. Her episode is interrupted by Amy returning to camp to a round of applause. In the middle of the celebration, Drew sees Andrea holding the balloon again and runs off. Blaire goes off to comfort Drew and asks him to be his date to the ball, but their romance is interrupted by Andrea and her stupid red balloon and Drew goes running off again. Talking with Towny later on in the day, Alex reveals to the group that he was seeing the ghost of his dead grandfather, Amy reveals that she was seeing ghosts, too, as does Cricket. They now believe the lake is evil and causing them to see things. A kid comes up saying he won’t swim in the lake anymore anyway because he found Cricket’s boots in them.

Scooby-Doo: The counselors are talking about all the weird stuff going on around camp. They now believe that Deb is pulling the strings and is evil. They take Joel’s camera to look at his video footage in case he caught anything good on film. His footage is mostly of Deb, but they manage to see a quick scene of her holding the creepy wooden box. They really want to know what’s inside, but before they can act on it Joel enters and is extremely unhappy that his friends violated his privacy by taking his camera and looking through the film without his permission. He takes his camera and leaves. Meanwhile, Blaire thinks that Drew is a struggling gay man and wants to help, giving him a David Bowie cassette tape because a girl once gave it to him in an attempt to help him accept who he really is. He asks Drew to be his date to the ball again and doesn’t get a straight answer. Jessie comes over to gloat that she took a look at Joel’s video footage, too, and there’s a clip that clearly shows Drew is a girl, Andrea. She also tells the group that Joel is meeting Deb after the ball, so if they want the box, that’s the time to go get it.

Flashback: A young girl, Andrea, has dirt all over her face after playing baseball. She calls herself a boy, much to the displeasure of her mother. Several years later, Andrea is clothes shopping with her mom and her mom wants her to buy a dress. She goes to try it on, but refuses to come out o the dressing room. Her mom goes in to check on her and it’s revealed that Andrea has gotten her first period, much to her horror and her mother’s content. Andrea says she doesn’t know how it’s possible because she’s a boy, which prompts her mother to say she needs psychiatric help. Another few years later, Andrea is all grown up and wants to go by the name Drew. His mother fires the psychiatrist for not doing his job and continues to resist her child’s choices. One day, Drew gets home from after school study and pretends to go to bed. Instead, he changes out of his dress and into boy clothes and sneaks out to a gay club. His mother follows him and sees him dancing, happy, and doesn’t drag him home. The next day she takes him to the psychiatrist and says she saw how happy he was and now accepts him as Drew. A few days later Drew comes home and finds the house empty, his mother gone. Only a note remains that says she has abandoned him because she can’t accept Andrea is gone in place of Drew.

Does It Get Better?: Drew packs his bags and leaves camp. Amy and Towny try to stop him, telling him that everyone in camp is seeing things and that he’s not crazy. Drew doesn’t listen to them and exits anyway. Blaire gets to the ball and waits for Drew to arrive. Meanwhile, Amy, Alex and Cricket break into Deb’s cabin and find the ram’s head mask. They also find the creepy wooden box, but before they can open it Deb and Joel return to the cabin for some lovers’ talk. They hide under the bed and aren’t discovered. At the train station, Drew is about to hop on the next train and leave for good, but Jessie stops him. She wants to call a truce and admits her court date is for a DUI. She doesn’t want to Drew to hide who he really is and begs him to come back to camp. Back at camp, Deb gives Joel a book about occult practices before they have sex in the woods. Drew returns to camp and surprises Blaire at the ball with a make out session. Blaire tells Drew that he accepts him and trusts him.

End: Amy, Alex and Cricket split up to avoid being seen together after hours and Amy ends up at the lake. She is being followed by Towny, who just wants to talk, but he’s surprised when she walks into the lake up to her knees. Suddenly, a skeletal hand comes out of the lake and takes hold of Amy’s in a loving way. Towny runs up to help her and the hand splits back into the lake just as Amy turns around and starts making out with Towny. Jessie walks at this moment and sees them and the battle lines are definitely drawn now. Seconds later, Amy comes out of the trance, having been possessed by something else, and is confused as to how she got to the lake. The biker gang of cultists watch the whole event go down. Drew interrupts the now private make out session with Blaire to come clean. Drew tells Blaire that he’s really a boy, Andrea, in fact. Blaire doesn’t take it well at all and runs off with Jessie left to comfort Drew.