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"Is she alive, is she dead, who is stealing all these bodies?"
Chanel

The episode in which Grace agrees with people about highly incriminating coincidences, but now wants to look at other avenues before jumping to conclusions.

This week's episode begins with Grace and Zayday entering a shifty looking run-down gas station to buy food, because there isn't any real food in the Kappa house ("guess it makes sense since the cook got her face burned off"). They're piling chips off the shelves and into a basket and through the gap they've left appears the Red Devil. Zayday then requests syrup for the chips and as Grace goes to get some, the Red Devil re-appears at the end of the aisle. When Grace notices him approaching, she tazers him in the nuts. Zayday also noticed the Red Devil from behind the shelves, and manages to push one over into him at just the right moment. However when they de-mask him, it's revealed to be a kid in one of Zayday's classes who is just the actual school mascot.

Now we return to the freezer of the KKT, where number 2 no longer rests. Number 5 was going down to look at the body because she's bored, but it's gone. Chanel has caught her, and they proceed to get angry about the serial murders. Number 5 then says that she no longer wants to be part of the secret murder investigations that the sorority is running, explaining that she got spit roasted by DDS twins Roger and Dodger last night and realised she'd much rather spend her time at college being a dumb, rich, sandwich, than hiding bodies.

Also on the hunt for number 2 is Grace and Zayday, who go to investigate in her bedroom only to suggest that maybe she just went back to California like the Chanels claimed. Yet they began snooping anyway? Denise interrupts, telling them that if there's a stain on the floor that looks like blood, most of the time it isn't ketchup. She gets out a UV-style light pen that reacts with iron in haemoglobin to reveal that it is in fact blood on the carpet.

"There's a missing girl, blood on the floor, and she's tweeting oh hey just want you all to know I'm getting murdered — and ya'll standing here like ooh, I wonder what happened."

Zayday and Grace decide to drive to Chanel #2's home in Bel-Air to see if she's there. Rather than, like, call.

We then see the "Take Back The Night" parade/memorial/announcement that students are attending with candles and also signs saying they aren't in KKT, so the Red Devil won't "gut 'em like a fish". The DDS are also in attendance, Chad upset over the death of Boone with Earl trying to comfort him — "The coroner's calling Boone's death a suicide, it's a bloody tragedy"; "Yeah, well it was really bloody." Chanel approaches Chad to ask how he's feeling, and he responds that maybe, you know, his best friend just got murdered so he's really upset; Chanel says she wants to get back together with him so she can take Boone's place in his life, and so they sort of get back together and break up again and maybe agree on terms for getting back together again in the same long conversation. Then Chanel #3 struggles to light her candle, so Sam comes over to help and they sort of become friends.

Dean Munsch then updates the students on the murder situations: Boone Clemens' death has been ruled a suicide, and Tiffany DeSalle (Deaf Taylor Swift)'s "tragic passing" is still under investigation. So stop the rumours about a Red Devil serial murder, because it's apparently not happening and the security are apparently super good at their job. Also, "resist the temptation to, for example, tase freshman history major Eugene Melman in the genitals". She then reveals a new school mascot: Coney, because soft whip ice cream (not the hot dog) was invented nearby by some guy called Randy Barfman. And, to close, she asks all the students to get behind a thing where they all talk to each other about their problems, and "find that tortured gay kid in your life and hold them close tonight". You know, to prevent suicide. This cuts to a Reaction Shot of Lea Michele's face, which is disgusted. When she decides to leave the podium to the masses, she tries to get the students to chant for the new school team "Go Cones!", and nobody does, staring blankly, and Dean Munsch uses her Sue Sylvester voice to inform the guy in the cone suit that "you were a disgrace".

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