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Recap / All American S3 E7 "Roll the Dice"

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“I love you. I ain't even sure when it happened. Maybe it was the night I got shot or watching movies with you all summer or maybe it's been since my first day at Beverly and I just ain't realized it, but I know now. I'm in love with you.”
Spencer to Olivia

Two months ago, Spencer, Jordan, Simone, and J.J. visited Layla, Coop, and Patience at Las Vegas, where the latter three were stopping for their tour. Feeling that he wasn't ready to recommit to Layla, Spencer asked Olivia to come as well, and everything start to fit in together as we learn what really happened at Vegas that night.


Tropes featured in this episode:

  • The Big Damn Kiss: Spencer and Olivia finally kiss after 2,5 seasons of Will They or Won't They?.
  • Casting Couch: J.P. and Lil' Jewel start an affair during the tour, implicitly as thanks for her using Patience's songs for the tour, even though she is married.
  • Flashback Cut: Both Spencer and Olivia flash back to key moments in their relationship from previous episodes during Jordan and Simone's vows, respectively, realising that they love each other and always have.
  • Fourth-Date Marriage: Olivia points out that Jordan and Simone have been together for several months, definitely too brief for them to wed.
  • Longing Look: Both Spencer and Olivia give each other this during Jordan's and Simone's wedding.
  • Love Confession: Spencer tells Olivia that he loves her after they kiss. Olivia can't betray Layla and Asher and so she leaves, with both of them devastated.
    • Moments later Layla (who doesn't know Olivia was in Vegas) comes to Spencer and tells him that she loves him and never stopped loving him.
  • Love Epiphany: Spencer has this about his love for Liv during the wedding.
  • Married Too Young: Jordan and Simone decide to get married when they haven't even graduated from high school yet. Spencer and Olivia point out the immaturity of this act, and even the couple themselves know how impulsive it is, but they decide to do it anyhow.
  • Obvious Pregnancy: Justified with Simone, since she is two months due for the birth.
  • One True Love: Spencer and Olivia consider their true love to be each other, even while they are technically committed to others. Their love is the one the psychic referred to as the 'forever love'.
  • On the Rebound: Heartbroken that Olivia left, Spencer sleeps with Layla.
  • Platonic Prostitution: The strippers J.J. hired end up giving Jordan (to his dismay) advice about the wedding.
  • Skip to the End: Jordan asks the priest to do this after their vows, so the priest just pronounces them married and they kiss.
  • Unknowingly in Love: Spencer has been in love with Liv since they met, but only realises it during Jordan's wedding. Liv seems to have known from the start that she loves him, but has been repressing her feelings since Spencer started dating Layla and is refusing to face her feelings now.
  • Viva Las Vegas!: Set in Las Vegas and features the associated gambling, strippers, and impulsive weddings.
  • Whole Episode Flashback: The episode is mostly a flashback set during summer two months ago. It's only until the end that we cut to the present, showing that the frame story is Spencer recollecting the events to Layla after the trip to the James cabin.

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