The body of prep school student James Hoffman is found in the basement after his sister finds a video of him at a fight club in the building. Now the team must find out how he ended up dead there.
Tropes:
- Big Jerk on Campus: Tanner Lennox, who bullied James at school and got him into the fight club. Worst still, he drunkenly beat a man to death before graduation and let his father murder James for refusing to stay silent.
- Bland-Name Product: This episode aired in 2006 around the same that YouTube became popular. The incriminating video was instead uploaded to a website called "Video Community".
- Education Papa: Dustin was hard on James, pushing him to achieve high at a young age so he could earn a scholarship. But eventually, James found out there was more to life than college and lashed out at his dad for not showing any affection towards him after his mom left.
- Fat Best Friend: Lucas Gladwell, a studious glasses-wearing nerd and James' few friends on campus until he joined the fight club. He also came to James' rescue on the same night Tanner killed someone.
- Fight Clubbing: Cole "Ares" Palmer started the school fight club to unleash their anger from pressures at school and home.
- He Knows Too Much: James was killed because he refused to be bribed into silence about Tanner accidentally killing a man.
- It's All My Fault: Ares is last seen visiting the site where James' body was found, knowing that his fight club was to blame.
- Knight Templar Parent: Tanner's father Arthur Lennox is willing to bribe and later kill a teenager to protect his own son from jail.
- Parental Abandonment: James and Alexa’s mom left the family years ago. Cole and Tanner's families are broken as well.
- Parting-Words Regret: Dustin’s last encounter with his son was a fight where James complained about all the pressure his dad put on him while not showing any care towards him.
- Taking You with Me: Tanner's retort to his father for threatening him when he's about to confess amount to this trope, ensuring that he won't let his father intimidate him into silence.
- Threat Backfire: Tanner's father threatens Tanner when Tanner is on the verge of confession late in the episode. It doesn't work.Tanner's father: If you do this... you're going down.
Tanner: Then you're coming with me.
