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I'm confused (Spoiler Alert!)


A great Season One, I did it in one session, but I'm confused.

So Christa Carlyle the Senior Class President and her boyfriend did it cause she was mad at the football coach? And they got away with it because Peter Maldonado said he didn't want to ruin any more lives?

And Dylan was exonerated? Then why did he vandalize Shapiro's driveway? And why did he deny it? And was that really him in the security footage?


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It's pretty much hinted at without spelling it out to the audience that Christa and her older boyfriend are the ones that did it. She said she learned CPR but couldn't perform it when Ming (exchange Student from Canada) needed it at the last party. Plus she had the keys to the camera room to delete the footage. She led the "Free Dylan" protest which kind of meant she was feeling guilty of her actions and wanted to help him. You could tell when Peter interviews last she was clearly feeling the heat from his questioning. Plus not much they could do in the end, she had graduated.

Rafferty (the coach) without them saying it had some kind of sexual relationship with Mackenzie (Dylan's GF) imo. Which makes it sexual abuse. Rafferty probably dumped her for her own mother, which also ruined her parents chances of getting back together. Mackenzie and Christa were probably friends as it was said that Mackenzie was top student and popular once. Christa was probably waiting for her chance to get her revenge on Rafferty and once he won Teacher of the year, it was the last straw for her.

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Okay then. Thanks.

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Just finished watching s1. There was absolutely nothing suggesting that the coach had any sort of sexual relationship with Mackenzie. Nor was there anything to suggest that Mackenzie and Chrysta were particularly friends. Nada, zip, zero.

There was, however, a lot of motive for Chrysta to target the coach and the faculty, due to the school admin ignoring Chrysta’s complaint against the coach for whatever horrible thing he said to her after she was viciously and unnecessarily tackled during football practice. Just the tackling incident alone should have been enough to get the coach fired (the setting was California, after all, not Texas *cough*). And it did seem as though the coach said something very inappropriate to Chrysta after she took that violent hit (Chrysta refused to “repeat” it during her final interview), so that was another potential grounds for discipline the coach. But the admin did nothing, and then coach was named Teacher of the Year— the final insult to Chrysta that drove her to take revenge.

Chrysta’s boyfriend, Van, is the one whom the boys decided must have done the vandalism while Chrysta was inside, removing the security camera evidence from the computer system.

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Wow, a blast from the past! Don't really remember much about the series.

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