Bree grieves for her dead father, while Daniel and Jonas try to help her get through it with varying degrees of finesse.
"Bree's Dad Is Dead"
: The episode opens with a car being driven south near the shore while the sun sets. There's snatches of what sounds like a police broadcast. Shots of Bree playing near the ocean, of Daniel talking to Bree on a rock, and Jonas staring at the ocean are intercut. Eventually it shows Bree and Daniel walking down to the beach and Bree walking along the beach solo. These are intercut with shots of Daniel staring at the ocean. Near the end, it cuts to a shot of Bree reclining on her side with her eyes closed and a frown on her face.
"My Dad Said...": Bree greets the camera and says she doesn't feel like talking. Nevertheless, she discusses how she's been feeling and reveals some of the things her dad told her.
"45 Seconds": Jonas starts by discussing what he remembers from what happened when they rescued Bree from the parking garage. He says he's been watching the video of it over and over to try and see what he can get out of it. He says he noticed that neither the deacon nor Lucy tried to grab Bree, even when she was right out in the open. He finishes by saying it's been hard to watch Bree struggle with it all and that he's going to try and make some mental health exercises to help her.
"Purple Monkey Returns": Daniel expresses disbelief that Bree doesn't want to talk about what happened to her dad. He thinks she's just trying not to show any weakness. He decides to try to get Bree to open up.
"Foosball": Jonas says that Bree's still really upset and that Daniel left to check on her. He says they spent the day killing time with foosball, which we witness.
"Hiding In The Bathroom": Bree discusses her annoyance with Daniel and Jonas constantly asking her if she's okay. She tells more about what her dad said before he died.
"Bree And I Hooked Up": Daniel tells the audience that he went into Bree's room to check on her and she said she wanted to talk. He discusses how the encounter went, including claiming that they kissed and hugged, and that he did a walk of shame afterward.
"The Ends Justify The Means": A sequence of braille letters flash across the screen. A yellow Watcher symbol appears, then shatters into the view from a hidden camera. We see footage of Daniel from before "Undisclosed Location", when he finds and disables the hidden camera in his room. Cut to OpAphid: she comments ominously on what we just saw. The camera zooms into her left eye and cuts to a swirl of brown and yellow blobs while garbled audio plays. The camera zooms back out and Op says "Oh dear". The shot cuts to an image of a reversed OpAphid logo that gradually fades.
"Kicked Out": Jonas is sitting out in his car and he discusses Bree and Daniel's apparent relationship. He talks for a bit about his own feelings of jealousy toward them, then decides to go in and see how things went.
"Daniel's A Liar": Bree says that she finally saw Daniel's last video and now realizes what that weird candlelight dinner was all about. She says she wants to clear some things up.
"Truth Or Dare": Jonas has to pick up an incredibly drunk Daniel from a bar, along with his bar pickup, and the three of them go back to Jonas' house to watch Daniel. Bree gets woken up, and the three of them mess around for the rest of the night.
"Hungover": Daniel appears — now awake — and has a bunch of black-marker drawings on his face, courtesy of Jonas for the night before. He says he's super-hungover, and gripes about what his friends did to him. He wonders about what happened last night and what it might mean for the future.
"Time To Grow Up": Bree's been thinking about the girl Daniel picked up, and thinks she's cool. She gives her thoughts on Daniel and Jonas, then decides to try to figure out what to do with her life.
"Foosball Battle": Daniel and Jonas play foosball in dramatic fashion, then just hang out and have fun.
"Lose Something?": The video opens with a purple Watcher symbol. It breaks up to show an extreme zoom on a landmass on a 3D-model of Earth. It rotates around the landmass, then zooms out and rotates across the Earth to California. It zooms in, and we see a triangle of three locations superimposed, while a voiceover from "Hungover" and the same electronic interference from "The Ends Justify The Means" play. The screen goes black, then a list of bowling alleys and their cities appears on the screen while OpAphid challenges one of her operatives to complete their next task. It ends with a clip of reversed audio.
Tropes:
- All According to Plan: OpAphid suggests in "The Ends Justify The Means" that her apparent setbacks aren't quite so:
- OpAphid: But then again, clearly things have not gone according to plan. (opens eyes) Or have they?
- Anxiety Dreams: Bree mentions in "Daniel's A Liar" that she's been having these related to what her dad told her before his death.
- Blatant Lies: Jonas tells Bree and the bar girl that they're going down during the poker game in "Truth Or Dare", while the camera shows that he is in fact holding one of the worst hands possible.
- Brand X: The bowling alley/bar that Jonas describes as the local hangout has the very generic name of "Pins 'N' Pints".
- Break His Heart to Save Him: Bree may be trying to do this in "Daniel's A Liar", as indicated by the final lines of the episode:
- Bree: My dad died because he wanted to get close to me. I can't understand why anybody would want to be with me right now.
- Breather Episode: Amidst all the drama and sorrow, "Truth Or Dare", "Time To Grow Up", and the foosball episodes are largely lighthearted and comedic.
- Call-Back:
- The kiss Jonas asks Daniel about in "Foosball" is a reference to the one Bree talked about in "My First Kiss".
- "The Ends Justify The Means" uses some footage of Daniel that was shot some time before "Undisclosed Location", as it shows Daniel finding the hidden camera in his old bedroom, an event he described in that video.
- Cassandra Truth: Daniel rants about the Order and their Watchers following him and his friends at the bar he went to in "Truth Or Dare"... but because he was drunk off his ass nobody took anything he was saying seriously.
- Color Wash: A lot of the second half of "Bree's Dad Is Dead" is washed in red.
- Dreadful Musician: Played for Laughs in "Foosball Battle" with Jonas' terrible guitar playing skills. In particular, the song he plays consists of a single strummed chord.
- Drowning My Sorrows: Daniel's original reason for going out drinking in "Truth Or Dare". As the girl says, he was ranting about Bree at first:
- Bar Girl: First, you were yelling about how you were wronged by some girl, and then, you were basically spilling your heart to anybody who'd listen, which was... basically me.
- Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Bree is brought nearly to tears by the act of trying to talk directly about her dad's death in "My Dad Said...".
- Ethereal Choir: One of these scores "Bree's Dad Is Dead".
- Face Doodling: As a result of Jonas' dare in "Truth Or Dare", Daniel wakes up in "Hungover" to discover that his face is now covered in doodles and the words "Jonas was here".
- Fangirl: Indirectly discussed in "Foosball", with Daniel talking to Jonas about certain comments he sees on the their videos and asking him how he attracts all these girls.
- Daniel: You have all these seventeen-year-old girls, (falsetto) "Oh, you're so hot, do you have a girlfriend?"
- Foreshadowing: "Lose Something?" has OpAphid instructing an operative to do... something involving tracking Daniel down. We find out what a few episodes later.
- Gratuitous Latin: In "Time To Grow Up", Bree refers to wanting a job that uses her medulla oblongata, which refers to the brain stem that governs automated bodily processes. She obviously meant something more like her frontal lobe, but used a fancy Latin phrase instead.
- Hypocritical Humor: "Time To Grow Up": "Have you ever seen a puppy playing with a wind-up toy? Well, that's kind of the level of discourse with [Daniel and Jonas]. The simplest things keep them amused for hours." ...says the girl who loves playing with her stuffed animals.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: OpAphid takes a dig at Daniel to this effect in the description of "The Ends Justify The Means", even referencing the Dunning-Kruger Effect:
- With all due respect to philosophers and French poets, perhaps Kruger and Dunning's observations are more appropriately insightful for this day and age.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction: In "Bree And I Hooked Up", Daniel ponders what the kiss means for his relationship with Bree:
- Daniel: So, I don't know what this means. I... I think I know what this means. Well... at least I hope I know what this means.
- In Memoriam: The title card at the end of "Bree's Dad Is Dead" contains an In-Universe one, dedicating the video to Bree's dad.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Subverted in "Truth Or Dare". Bree tells Jonas that she "happen[s] to be a very good poker player", then drops one of her cards on the ground seconds later... but then, during the poker clip, she's shown winning one of the two hands they play.
- In Vino Veritas: The girl in "Truth Or Dare" relates that Daniel talked about the Order and their Watchers while he was drunk in the bar... but luckily for the TAAG everyone there thought he was just spouting off nonsense, his bar pickup included.
- Just Friends: Bree very clearly states in "Daniel's A Liar" that she just wants to be friends with Daniel, as she can't handle a romantic relationship right now.
- Kilroy Was Here: One of the things Jonas drew on Daniel's face is "JONAS WAS HERE", as seen in "Hungover".
- Lampshade Hanging: The bar girl from "Truth Or Dare" says this after Jonas has her say hi to the camera:
- Girl: Do you guys film everything?
- Leave Me Alone!: Bree iterates this sentiment to Jonas and especially Daniel several times. She does it purely via video in "My Dad Said..." and "Hiding In The Bathroom", and gets into a shouting match with Daniel about it during "Purple Monkey Returns".
- Bree: You keep talking and I don't want you to! I don't want anybody to help me!
- Married to the Job: Parodied in "Foosball":
- Daniel: Do you have a girlfriend?Jonas: Ah... this table gets all the love I have to give. (Daniel laughs) Sorry.Daniel: You heard it from the source, ladies, he's a taken man. Sorry.
- Minor with Fake I.D.: Daniel reveals that he's able to drink while underage by having a fake I.D., which he lost during his trip to the bar in "Truth Or Dare".
- Mundane Made Awesome: A regular foosball battle between a couple buddies... in sped-up, fast-cutting style set to "William Tell Overture".
- Never Trust a Title: Not only is what Daniel describes in "Bree And I Hooked Up" not actually a "hook up" by most definitions, but Bree would contradict a few details later on in "Daniel's A Liar".
- No-Dialogue Episode: Apart from some snatches of police chatter over the radio at the beginning, there is no dialogue in "Bree's Dad Is Dead".
- No Name Given: The girl Daniel picked up in "Truth Or Dare" is never named.
- Oblivious Adoption: Bree reveals during "My Dad Said..." that her dad told her that he and her mom weren't her biological parents, which she had no clue about before then.
- Of Course I'm Not a Virgin: While talking about his own relationship struggles in "Kicked Out", Jonas makes sure to mention that he's hooked up with girls before.
- Pun: Jonas says in "Kicked Out" that Rocky Balboa rocked.
- Jonas: Get it? Heh heh, Rocky, rocked, ro— heh heh, it's funny.
- Romantic Candlelit Dinner: Attempted by Daniel off-camera during "Kicked Out", although it doesn't quite work out for him.
- Sarcasm Mode:
- Daniel gets in on this in "Foosball" while asking Jonas for advice about girls.Daniel: You know, how do you do that, man?Jonas: Well, I don't know, man... to be honest with you.Daniel: You don't know? Thanks bud, appreciate the help.
- The girl from "Truth Or Dare" gets in on this:Girl: You know, you're so lucky, you get to live in this big house with these two... strapping young men.(Bree pans around to show Jonas picking his nose and Daniel scratching his butt)Bree: Yeah... not so much.
- Daniel gets in on this in "Foosball" while asking Jonas for advice about girls.
- Sdrawkcab Speech: Like most OpAphid videos, "Lose Something?" ends with a clip of reversed audio. Put forwards, it says "A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough," a quote from John Christian Bovee.
- Shout-Out:
- In "45 Seconds", Jonas compares his own obsessive rewatching of "The Unthinkable Happened" to what people did with the Zapruder Film.
- In "Purple Monkey Returns", Daniel compares Jonas and his love of talking about feelings to Patrick Swayze in Point Break (1991).
- The second line of the description of "The Ends Justify The Means" contains lyrics from the DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince song "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble".
- "The Ends Justify The Means" ends with OpAphid reading a Dwight D. Eisenhower quote: "We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective."
- The movie Jonas goes to see in "Kicked Out" is the then-recent Rocky Balboa.
- When Daniel high-fives Jonas at the end of "Kicked Out", he does a brief Borat impression.
- In "Time To Grow Up", Bree compares Daniel and Jonas to Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
- Significant Anagram: The braille letters at the start of "The Ends Justify The Means", when translated, can be turned into an anagram reading "RIP GEMMA", confirming Gemma's death (some fans were uncertain what exactly had happened at the end of "Gemma? [Part V]").
- Special Guest: Katharine McPhee appears as Daniel's unnamed bar pickup in "Truth Or Dare".
- Thousand-Yard Stare: Bree has one in a couple spots early in "My Dad Said...", staring off into space for brief moments.
- Trying Not to Cry: Bree is clearly doing this for at least the first minute and a half of "My Dad Said...", nearly being pushed all the way to tears by talking about learning that her parents weren't her biological ones and about her dad's death.
- Unreliable Narrator: Daniel and Bree give two very different accounts of what happened on the night of the kiss, with Daniel
- Unwanted Assistance: Bree emphatically does not appreciate any of Daniel or Jonas' attempts to - from her perspective - force her to get over her dad's death.
- Villain Song: Parodied with Jonas' song in "Foosball Battle" "revealing" that he works for the Order.
- I once lured these people to my house,I told them I wanted to help them,What I was doin'...Kidnapping, oh yes!Secretly workin' for the Order!
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Downplayed in "Hungover". Daniel doesn't remember much of what happened last night, but he does remember the girl he picked up and that she came home, but he also thought Bree was super-mad at him for some reason.
