Sunday, October 28, 2007

Friday Night Lights-"Backfire"



This episode saw Street and Riggins heading down to Mexico for Street to talk to a doctor about having an experimental sugery that would allow him to walk again, this surgery is not legal in the states. When they arrived in Mexico they were told they would need to wait a week to see the doctor. Street is armed with a bag of money for his surgery, some of which gets used to bail Riggans out of jail and then for both to get drunk and sing spanish karaoke.


While Landry's family and Tyra are eating dinner, Landry's father (police officer) gets a call telling him a body was found in the river. Landry gets nervous and after attending church tells Tyra that he is going to turn himself in, Tyra talks Landry out of this. Later in the episode the police ask Tyra and her mom to come down to the police station for some questioning. It turns out that the police want to confirm that the man they found was the man that tried to rape Tyra last season. It appears that Landry and Tyra are off the hook for the body.


Lyla goes to a juvenile detention center to give a talk about her teen religion group, some of the detainees give her a hard time and coincidentally as she is driving away, one of the kids that gave her a hard time is getting released and walking down the street. (So on the day he is getting released, the detention center was like dude, you can go, but right after you listen to Lyla talk about religion?) Anyway she offers him a ride, and makes it her mission to help him find a job, she asks her mom if he can do some work around the house, and Lyla's mom says no she doesn't want a criminal around her kids. Lyla's dad, Buddy later hires him to work in the parts department at his dealership.


The team continues to struggle under coach McGregor, they lose their game when coach runs the same running play to Smash the entire game. Any 10 year old playing Madden knows you can't run the same play over and over. What kind of championships was this McGregor guy winning in Tennesse? After the loss, Buddy wants to have McGregor fired so he can bring back coach Taylor who is greatly missed by his team and his family. After making sure Taylor will come back, Buddy fires McGregor. When Taylor quits is college coordinator job and returns home, there is a hitch in the plan. McGregor hires a lawyer to block his firing, stating a lack of cause for his dimissal, she doesn't put up much of a fight as Buddy makes a speech about how McGregor is tearing the team apart. Taylor is then rehired, and McGregor shows up at Taylor's door step accusing Taylor of being involved in his firing, and that a coach should never do that to another coach. McGregor gives Taylor, that I'm going to go revamp my playbook and meet you somewhere down the road look. Will the Panthers accept coach Taylor returning?


Tami and Julie continue to argue and are happy when coach Taylor returns home to restore some order. Tami is upset that Julie has been hanging out with the older "swede" now given a name Anton, Tami gives Julie a heart to heart talk about how when she was young, she slept with the wrong guy, blah, blah. Julie later realizes that she isn't that important to Anton, when she shows up at his apartment and he forgot they were supposed to hang out.
Riggins wants Lyla to drive down to Mexico to help him talk Street out of the experimental surgery. What will Lyla do?