Line #9 Recap/NineOneOneLoneStarS4E13Open


1	Owen learns a shocking secret about Kendra, while Grace overcomes a grudge with her father.
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* BeautifulSingingVoice: Grace tearfully sings “Smile” to an unconscious Benjamin after she apologizes for what she said to him, and is later backed up by Lisa and Ashley.
5	* FacialDialogue: The 126 could not communicate their {{Squick}} reactions to Brett’s horse-and-stallion metaphor any clearer.
6	* InternalReveal: At the hospital, Denice tells Grace that Benjamin had indeed confessed his infidelity to her, and they eventually rekindled their relationship. She’s briefly saddened at realizing that Grace wrestling with the devastation of her father’s adultery was the reason her daughter had been so cold.
7	* OhNoNotAgain: TK, who’s already witnessed his share of spousal reveals with Owen and Carlos, does not take Brett’s arrival or long-winded assertion of dominance all that well.
8	-->'''TK:''' Why does this keep happening?
9	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Ever since she learned about Benjamin’s moment of infidelity, Grace has become much colder and warier towards her father, especially since he seemingly never told her mother about it.
10	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Justified with Grace when she takes Denice’s 9-1-1 call; when talking to her mother and attempting to walk her through performing CPR on Benjamin, it only works up Denice further into a panic and Grace into desperation. Sara, Grace’s supervisor, ends up taking over the call and calmly instructs Denice on what to do, allowing her to focus.
11	* PartingWordsRegret:
12	** Kendra angrily tells Brett that she hopes he freezes to death in his cryogenic chamber as she leaves the house for a run. Guess what happens when he doesn’t think to readjust the temperature before she gets back…
13	** Grace scathingly tells Benjamin that she’s glad that he’s at home and not out getting in trouble; this takes him aback, but the conversation is cut short when Denice re-enters the living room with Charlie. Two hours after, Benjamin suffers a heart attack and barely survives; naturally, Grace is devastated and scared that her father could die remembering her harsh words.
14	* PlotIncitingInfidelity: Benjamin’s adultery in “Difficult Conversations” still haunts Grace, something that becomes clear with her clipped reactions to his remembrances of Grace and her two sisters Lisa and Ashley.
15	* {{Polyamory}}:
16	* RememberTheNewGuy:
17	* SickeningCrunch: When attempting to resuscitate a frozen-solid Brett before Tommy and her team, Owen accidentally crushes his chest open with one compression.
18	* TongueTrauma: At the new Tele-Lively office, a woman named Tabitha works through her panic to help one of her coworkers, Addie, when the latter’s tongue starts to dangerously swell up due to stress-induced angioedema. After getting Grace on the line, she and another coworker Jason follow her instructions to improvise a breathing tube with a water bottle straw, so that Addie can breathe through her mouth until the 126 paramedics arrive to treat her.
19	* UglyGuyHotWife: Downplayed. Brett isn’t an ugly man, but next to Kendra and Owen he looks downright plain and mousy.
20	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Downplayed with Bree, one of Grace’ coworkers, who received the initial 9-1-1 call from Denice.

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