History Recap / TheMidnightClubEpisode4GimmeAKiss

** Ilonka has a conversation with Cheri about how their diseases make it harder to look like themselves, and how she misses her hair. Cheri takes this to heart and uses her connections to have a wig made for Ilonka to mimic her hair, for no other reason than to be nice.

!!Tropes in Sandra's story "Gimmie a Kiss"

[[spoiler: -->''Alice'': [[Film/ChinaTown Forget it Jake, it's murder town.]] And if [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941 this is the stuff dreams are made of]] then I wanna wake up.]]

* TheReveal: Alice planned the whole thing as revenge on Kirk for infecting her with Oral Herpes.

* HandWave: When Alice questions Jake about how Sharon's body was mistaken for his, he waves this away as him having broken into the office of father and altered the dental records so the police would make this mistake.

* IdentificationByDentalRecords: The story starts with the burned corpse of Jake having been found in the ruin of Sharon's cabin, identified this way. Except it's really Sharon's body, and Jake altered the records.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Subverted. Jake and Sharon ''seemingly'' did a brilliant job making it look like Kirk had pushed him overboard in a fight and he drowned. So well that Kirk dove in after him to try and save him, and seemingly died in the attempt, despite Alice trying to save him. This means Jake cannot come forward without the authorities thinking he murdered Kirk. However, in reality, Alice jumped in and drowned Kirk herself while pretending to try and save him.

* GenreShift: Up until now, the other Midnight Club stories seen so far have all been some flavor of Supernatural Horror. This is pure campy Noir. It also marks an AdaptationalDeviation, as the original book is a Mystery/Revenge Thriller, but most of the Noir trappings.

* FakingTheDead: Jake does this twice. First, he and Alice come up with a plan to fake his death by provoking Kirk into throwing him off the yacht, pretending the drown with the help of SCUBA gear, and intending to hide for the weekend and reappear at school on Monday to mess with Kirk and Patty. Later, he uses the same SCUBA gear to survive being stuck in the burning cabin until it became unbearable. Then he altered the records to make Sharon's corpse appear to be his own.

** Alice's toothpick habit comes back around when Jake finds a toothpick at the location where the shooter stood to kill from Sharon outside the cabin.

** Jake's trick with the dental records only really makes sense if the coroner somehow mistook Sharon's clearly-female burned corpse with a male corpse, highly unlikely given the variety of differences even at the skeleton level. This makes slightly sense in the book because the male Jake is the female Jane in the book, because the coroner would be looking at a female skeleton with falsified dental records of living teenage girl, so mistaking Sharon for Jane might be more likely.

** [[spoiler: Alice's method of murdering Kirk involves diving into the water after him and holding him down under the water, out of view of the yacht party, counting on the fact that she can hold her breath longer than him. In the book, she hedges her bets by also carrying a hidden tank of Nitrous Oxide, which she stole from her father's office, and forces Kirk breath from it while underwater, knocking him so that he drowns.]]

* AdaptationalInducedExplanationExtrication: Two: