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** At the end of the episode, Layla visits Olivia at a park and implicitly reconciles with her.

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** At the end of the episode, Layla visits and Olivia at a park and implicitly reconciles with her.reconcile as they both bring flowers to Layla's mother's gravesite.
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Spencer still has yet to immerse himself into the Beverly High Eagles, which is not helped since Asher continuously antagonizes him. Trying to cheer him up and make him fit in, Jordan spends a day at Crenshaw with Spencer, only to be faced with the harsh reality that Spencer, and his father once upon a time, has to live in everyday. Coop grows closer to a local girl named Patience and works up the courage to tell her mother about her sexual orientation. Meanwhile, Olivia and Layla awkwardly reconnect during the latter's mother's death anniversary.

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Spencer still has yet to immerse himself into the Beverly High Eagles, which is not helped since Asher continuously antagonizes him. Trying to cheer him up and make him fit in, Jordan spends a day at Crenshaw with Spencer, only to be faced with the harsh reality that Spencer, and his Jordan's father once upon a time, has to live in everyday. Coop grows closer to a local girl named Patience and works up the courage to tell her mother about her sexual orientation. Meanwhile, Olivia and Layla awkwardly reconnect during the latter's mother's death anniversary.



* FishOutOfWater: Jordan in Crenshaw, which Spencer and Coop also tease him lightly about. Chris is a bit more direct, repeatedly referring to Jordan as [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Carlton]].



** There's Spencer deciding to accept the Beverly High Eagles as his team, particularly, when he and Asher make amends to each other.

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** There's Spencer deciding to accept the Beverly High Eagles as his team, particularly, when he and Asher make amends to each other.amends.
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Spencer still has yet to immerse himself into the Beverly High Eagles, which is not helped since Asher continuously antagonizes him. Trying to cheer him up and make him fit in, Jordan spends a day at Crenshaw with Spencer, only to be faced with the harsh reality that Spencer, and his father once upon a time, has to live in everyday. Coop grows closer to a local girl named Patience and works up the courage to tell her mother about her sexual orientation. Meanwhile, Olivia and Layla awkwardly reconnect during the latter's mother's death anniversary.
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!!Tropes featured in this episode:
* ComingOutStory: Coop is convinced by Patience to come out to her parents. When she does so, her mother kicks her out.
* DoubleStandard: Jordan, who is mixed-race, asks his father whether he would have educated him about the Black experience sooner had he looked like Spencer, who is fully black. Baker sheepishly replies that he would have.
* ForcedFromTheirHome: Coop's mother banishes her after she comes out. She subsequently moves in with the Jameses.
* FriendshipMoment:
** There's Spencer deciding to accept the Beverly High Eagles as his team, particularly, when he and Asher make amends to each other.
** At the end of the episode, Layla visits Olivia at a park and implicitly reconciles with her.
* GiveHimANormalLife: Baker never took Jordan and Olivia to Crenshaw because he was trying to protect them from experiencing the reality of being black in America for as long as he could.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: Subverted. Billy Baker and Grace James (née Harper) were friends in school. They were apparently so close that some people thought they would have gotten married, but he eventually moved away.
* PoliceBrutality: Spencer and Jordan are racially profiled by police despite doing nothing wrong. While Spencer, having spent his entire life in Crenshaw, yields immediately, the sheltered Jordan tries to resist and is roughhoused.
* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: A focus on the episode is how Spencer's departure to Beverly Hills has made him less welcome back in Crenshaw.

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