This is not a "simple" assault by an unknown assailant against the victim. This is date rape. They knew each other, they were in a social setting, and things became forced.
— Fuller
Ioki gets in trouble, and suspended, when a teenage girl claims he has gotten her pregnant when he was undercover at her high school. Hoffs and Penhall go undercover in the girl's school to find out why she is lying about the identity of the father of her baby. They soon find out the reason is that she's secretly dating her school teacher.
Hanson, meanwhile, stays with Ioki to keep him from getting further into trouble, since Ioki is not taking the wrongful accusation well and is starting to get pretty paranoid.
Also, Fuller decides to get interviewed in a live-television talkshow to raise the profile of the department, but unfortunately is torn to pieces by the talk show host on-air.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bittersweet Ending: Ioki's name is cleared from the wrongful accusation that he had sex with a girl he met while undercover and on the job; and Brent Sayles, the girl's teacher who did have sex with (or even rape) her, is arrested for it. The girl's outlook at the end is grim though, seeing she still is a teenager who got pregnant (by abuse of a teacher), and the fact that she (in her panic and shock, but still) first wrongfully accused Ioki of having had sex with her, will make the trial against the real abuser hard.
- Egg Sitting: The class Joy is in, and Judy is undercover in, get assigned eggs to take care of for a week—as a way to teach them how much work it is to take care of a baby. Ironically, Joy already knows she's actually pregnant at that point. It is played for laughs for Judy though, as Penhall says he will break and fry her egg, and at the end, Judy tells Joy that "a friend of mine ate [my egg]".
- Papa Wolf: When Joy's father, Donald Prentiss, finds out she's pregnant, he's out for blood: he's the reason Fuller is torn apart on the talk show (regardless on whether it opens him to libel), and when it's discovered that Joy was not only pregnant to her teacher, but it was dubious consent at best and date rape at worst (not even Joy's sure, which is often Truth in Television) he goes after Sayles with a baseball bat, leading to the Tranquil Fury moment below.
- Rewatch Bonus: The opening scene shows a teacher interacting with a girl of his class, Patti. The teacher seems casual and nice towards her, and him to be a popular teacher with the whole class. Later it turns out that he had coerced another student, Joy, into sex and gotten her pregnant after which he didn't want anything to do with her anymore; plus he probably slept with other female students too. Knowing that and watching the opening scene again, you realize he's actually subtly flirting with Patti. Fridge Horror especially sets in when you realize Patti later is shown to be tutored by him at his own house, and that's precisely how Joy had gotten raped and pregnant—Patti was probably next...
- Spanner in the Works: feeling under pressure due to the accusation against Ioki, Fuller agrees to go on a talk show to get some positive PR for the department, and by extension Jump Street. Joy's father calls up the show and the host is all too eager to put him on air, where he states that one of Fuller's officers got his teenage daughter pregnant.
- Spies In a Van: Ioki claims Internal Affairs officers are staking out in a van watching/spying on him when he is in a bar. He can't point them out to Hanson though, and the latter thinks Ioki is just being paranoid, so probably subverted.
- Teacher/Student Romance: A teenage girl tries to hide her relationship with a teacher by blaming her pregnancy on the now-disappeared boy she went to a school dance with (Ioki, undercover). The teacher also has affairs with other female students.
- Teen Pregnancy: A teenage girl gets pregnant; it turns out to be caused by her having been sexually assaulted by her school teacher.
- Tranquil Fury: after Papa Wolf Donald Prentiss goes after Sayles with a baseball bat, eventually trapping him in the sports equipment locker, Sayles begs Ioki for help. Ioki then hands the bat back to Donald, and tells him in an utterly calm voice, "Always keep the label facing up, or you're gonna break the bat." Sayles cries out that he's a police officer, and Ioki replies, "Yeah, well, right now I'm a batting coach." It's absolutely chilling.
