Friday, January 18, 2008

Friday Night Lights "Jumping The Gun"


On this episode, the Larabee football team displaced by a tornado is set to play Dillon under lights, Friday. Verbal commitment day is approaching and Smash and Noelle are sifting through all his offers, as he is pressured to choose. Coach Taylor apologizes to Julie for letting Riggans stay at the house, and finds Riggans sleeping in the locker room and tells him he can't stay there either. Smash's mom takes his phone and tells him he needs to refocus on school. Tami's sister Shelley finds out she passed her real estate exam. Riggans returns home to the house he shares with his brother, Billy who has lost his job and needs 2 grand or the bank is taking the house next week. Billy apologizes to Riggans. Smash's mom is harassed by a recruiter at the grocery store, before Tami steps in and asks the man to leave. Tami asks Coach Taylor to speak to Smash about the recruiting process. Taylor asks Smash if he has considered everything, and points out players that would be ahead of him at some of the schools recruiting him. Julie apologizes to Riggans for him getting kicked out of the house. Larabee QB1, Chip tells Smash he is going to TMU, and asks if they are going to be teammates? Smash says Alabama is calling him, everyone will just have to wait and see. Tami and Coach Taylor are getting perturbed with Shelley, and later after Shelley tapes over Coach Taylor's game tape he tells Shelley he thinks its time to leave, and takes heat from Tami for it, after she sees Shelley leaving to go to a hotel. Coach Taylor returns the Larabee playbook to Coach Dickey that he left on the practice field, and the Dickey tells Taylor he is a regular boy scout. Jackie, the woman who hooked up with Riggans last season and his brother Billy this season, is seen packing her stuff to move. Riggans and Billy go over to Guy's place to get Riggans' stuff, Guy isn't there, Riggans knocks Guy's gun off the banister of the stairs (doesn't everyone keep their gun there?) When Riggans goes to pick it up he sees a stack of money taped under the coffee table and they take it to pay their mortgage. Julie confesses to Coach Taylor, as he is leaving the house for the game, that Riggans was helping her the other night and wasn't trying to take advantage of her. The game is a back and fourth shootout, that sees Dillon trailing by 5 late (The Panthers sure do play a lot of close games). On 4th down, Dillon is going for it and calls for a bootleg play. Saracen rolls out and dumps the ball to Riggans, as Saracen is getting hit, Riggans is running down the field with no Larabee players in sight, when Larabee Coach Dickey runs out on the field and tackles Riggans. The referee calls coach interference, and says the game is over. It is never stated what the result of the play is, I assume that Dillon was awarded the TD and the win. In the locker room, Coach Taylor asks Coach Dickey what his problem is, and Dickey apologizes and says that his wife only has 3 months to live. Tami and Shelley meet for coffee and Shelley tells her that she is going to be moving to Dallas to pursue her real estate career. Coach Taylor goes over to Riggans' house to apologize for kicking him out of his house. Smash and the team are eating at the diner and a TMU recruiter offers him a scholarship and asks for a verbal. Smash tells the diner he is going to TMU, and then goes home to give his mom some flowers and tell her the good news.


Next Week: The Taylor's find it hard to leave Gracie at day care and Riggans is too late in an attempt to win Lyla's affection.