Bait-and-Switch: It seems like Cassie finally admits to having slept with Nate to Maddy in her face and stating that she doesn't regret it, but it turns out that it was all in Cassie's head and instead, as the scene snaps back to reality, said nothing about it.
Character Focus: On Cal, Nate's father, especially the sad backstory regarding his double life.
Gaslighting: Rue's strategy to get away with using marijuana and other drugs is to gaslight her younger sister Gia into thinking she's having such bad panic attacks that she feels marijuana is the only thing that's going to keep her from committing suicide, when she rightly suspected that Rue was back on opioids. This is depicted in a slideshow presentation, with "Gaslight" being its own slide.
Kick the Dog: Increasingly consumed by her drug addiction, Rue has two big examples: She covers up her using by gaslighting Gia into believing that she's just smoking weed, bringing up her suicidal thoughts to sell it, and when Ali attempts to confront her on showing up with a suitcase to an AA meeting (knowing she's still using, if not that the suitcase if full of 10k worth of drugs) Rue cruelly throws back in his face his lack of involvement in his children's lives and his moment of hitting his wife in the throes of his addiction, two things he shared in his own attempts to guide her in her sobriety.
