Being Sutton

"Being Sutton" is the 2nd episode in Season One of The Lying Game, airing August 22, 2011 - and the 2nd episode overall.

Plot
The episode began with Emma waking up in Sutton’s bed. Emma is still pretending to be Sutton. She is reminded almost as soon as she wakes up why she can’t go back to Las Vegas. Travis left her message saying the cops are still after her for the assault.

Emma finds out that there’s a father daughter dance and she’s supposed to be dancing with Ted. She freaks out because she can’t ballroom dance but Ethan stops her from leaving. Ethan is the only person she can trust. Ethan agrees to teach Emma to dance.

Emma then finds out about The Lying Games, which were pranks and practical jokes that were recorded and uploaded to embarrass people.

Ethan gets caught on his brothers computer at the police station and is warned to stay away from Sutton. It turns out he was a victim of The Lying Games on at least 5 occasions. He suspects something is going on with Sutton. When Emma comes clean and admits she’s not Sutton he doesn’t believe her and thinks it’s another Lying Game.

Char and Mads are practicing for the upcoming ballet recital. Char gets cut from the recital completely and her mother is more unhappy than she is.

Emma meets Sutton’s godfather, Alec, who is also Mads dad. He gives Mads some money to get a dress for the father daughter dance. He grills Sutton about whether she’s heard from his son Thayer. Emma says she’s had a couple of calls here and there. Mr. Rybak doesn’t agree with Thayer’s choices and has effectively cut him off.

Mads buys a dress and leaves the tag on. She plans to buy, wear and return (BWR) the dress and send the money to her brother Thayer, in LA.

At the father daughter dance we find out that Sutton’s father and Mads father have a long kept secret. Alec gets drunk and figures out Mads plan to send her brother money. Mads has an argument with her father and he hits Ethan. Alec thinks Sutton talks with Thayer all the time.

Sutton’s mother answers Emma’s phone thinking it’s Sutton’s phone. Travis thinks it’s Emma and starts talking to her. Emma lies and say’s it’s Char’s phone.

Sutton calls Emma and they have a video call. Sutton finds out that Emma and Ethan know about each other. Sutton doesn’t tell them that she is working with Thayer to find their mother. She thinks she found their birth mother online but then had her stuff stolen in LA. She says needs more time. When she finds out her laptop is missing she is really upset because it has everything on there about Emma, her search for her biological mother and why she’s in LA.

Laurel tells her parents that Sutton is seeing Ethan and they walk into her room to find Emma and Ethan together.

At the end of the episode, we see a darker side to Mads dad. He’s a District Attorney and he used his position to convince someone to steal Sutton’s laptop and bring it to him, in exchange for dropping the charges against them.

Also see
Gallery:Being Sutton

Continuity

 * Nisha was trying to foget the fight with Sutton/Emma ( Happened in episode "Pilot" ) and when she go to school she walks Confidence and see that evrybody was looking and laughing at her becuse that night

Cast
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Main Cast
Alexandra Chando as Emma Becker

Alexandra Chando as Sutton Mercer

Allie Gonino as Laurel Mercer

Blair Redford as Ethan Whitehorse

Alice Greczyn as Madeline Rybak

Kirsten Prout as Charlotte Chamberlin

Recurring Cast
Andy Buckley as Ted Mercer

Helen Slater as Kristin Mercer

Adrian Pasdar as Alec Rybak

Sharon Pierre-Louis as Nisha Randall

Guest Cast
Christian Alexander as Thayer Rybak

Tyler Christopher as Dan Whitehorse

Sydney Barrosse as Phyllis Chamberlin

Rick Malambri as Eduardo Diaz

Ben Elliott as Derek Rogers


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Memorable Quotes

 * Char: She's different since she got back from Paris


 * Laurel: She sure is


 * Emma: How can I keep being Sutton if I know nothing about her


 * Laurel: My guess is that they were looking for the lying games


 * Nisha: Sutton Mercer and her laptop. It's like Freddy Kruger and his claw.

Featured Music

 * "The City That Sleeps" by Jessica Tonder (when Emma wakes up in the first scene)
 * "All She Could Be" by Sarah Solovay (when Emma pulls up to meet Ethan for her dance lesson)
 * "11/22" by Buddy (when Ethan and Emma are practicing dancing in the ballroom at the country club)
 * "Letting Go" by Sonia and Oskar (when Ethan and Emma meet at a desert overlook and dance)
 * "Terrified" by Jordyn Kane (when Emma, as Sutton, dances with her dad for the father daughter dance)
 * "It's Not Complicated" by Miss Mercury (when Mads and Char are sitting by Chars pool)
 * "Throw Me a Line" by Tif Randol (when Emma, as Sutton, apologizes to Nisha)
 * "Was It" by Malbec (when Mads and her father argue about Thayar at the dance)
 * "Wind Me Up" by Taxi Doll (when the group arrives at the father daughter dance and poses for a photo)
 * "Don't Give Up" by Kari Kimmel (when Sutton (Emma) and Mads are trying on dresses)
 * "Don't Stop Now" by Vizzionkwest (when Emma and Laurel are on their way to school)
 * "Never Look Back" by John Garrison (when Sutton (Emma) is talking with Nisha about the pro football player across the room)
 * "Swan Lake - Dance of the Swans" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (when Mads and Char are in ballet class)