Coco is having fun doing her thing but when she feels that James, one of the other members of CORE, is trying to take over she decides that it is time to make her move. Her only problem is that she has another problem: she's pregnant. Kelsey, her roommate since things got crowded in Armstong-Parker, figures it out and then tries to console her. She urges Coco to tell Troy.
Coco goes to see Troy but doesn't tell him. She, instead, asks him to give up the leadership of CORE. He is amenable to that and much more interested in numbing himself with various substances. She quickly assumes control of CORE but is quickly confronted with another problem. The students behind Dear Right People, the new campus radio program, claim to have evidence that Coco, Sam, and Troy created a distraction so that their friends could set Davis Hall on fire.
Lionel suggests at an all hands meeting that they should get Carver Coleman to come to campus to speak. CORE is the only group interested enough and with the funds to get him on campus. Everyone turns to Coco. She feels overwhelmed by the options and a little nauseous. She leaves the meeting. Lionel confronts her in the hall and she pukes on him.
Coco decides that she has to get an abortion. Kelsey goes with her to the clinic. Coco has a change of heart while they are waiting for her name to be called. She goes back to campus and tells Troy. She leaves Winchester and gives birth to Penelope. Eighteen years later, Coco and Troy accompany Penelope to her first day at Winchester.
The story returns to the present. Coco is still in the waiting room at the clinic. She hears her name called as she is about to leave. She has another change of heart and stays.
Thoughts
There's a little more background information dropped about Kelsey but this episode is all about Coco. It doesn't feel like it interacts terribly much with the episodes that came before it but maybe it will with the ones that come after it.
It is a quiet and subdued episode for the most part. I like it.
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