Crossing the Line 3x5

Crossing the Line

 

It's a week before school starts and Busy is loafing around the backyard bored. Amanda is trying to get a tan. Frankie comes out and says he's going to a sports park and Busy begs to go with him. Amanda thinks Busy wants to go because of some guy who works the go karts.

 

 

When they get to the park, Busy blasts Amanda for taking so long to get ready and asks why she even came in the first place. Then Busy shamefacedly requests to try the go karts first. She and the guy in charge of them eye each other subtly. It always surprises me that guys always know right away that Busy is a girl, with the way she dresses and everything. Busy, Frankie, Amanda and some other kids race with Amanda coming in dead last. After the race, Frankie wants to find his friends and Busy wants to flirt with her soon-to-be-almost rapist some more, so Amanda and Frankie go off together.

 

 

Busy and the guy race again while Frankie and Amanda play miniature golf. Frankie drops his sketch pad and Amanda is impressed, calling it a diary and telling him how she keeps one too. Busy's guy's name turns out to be Steve and she awkwardly tells him that hers is Elizabeth. In Dear Troy, she hated being called that. Amanda and Frankie bond some more over their shared interest in writing and then decide to go into a really fake looking fortune teller's booth.

 

 

Busy and Steve talk some more. Steve claims he is 16 years old, which is almost as ridiculous as trying to pass Danny off as 12. The two decide to try out the batting cages, and we get our first hint that something bad is going to happen as Steve puts his arm around Busy and she looks back warily.

 

 

Back at the fortune teller's booth, Amanda is told her future lies in the performing arts while Frankie is an athlete. "No, I'm not!," Frankie objects. Then the woman insists that Frankie and Amanda will get together romantically at some point. Just when you think we are going to get some sort of epilogue that will tell where everyone in the series ends up, the lady's enormous flip phone rings as she takes a call from her babysitter. She drops her phony accent and leaves the booth after demanding that Frankie and Amanda hold hands.

 

 

Busy beats Steve at the batting cage. He suggests they go look at a go kart he's building.

 

 

Frankie and Amanda get tired of waiting on the fortune teller and kiss.

 

 

Busy and Steve go down to a garage where he's been building a go kart. Busy sits in the kart and playfully pretends to be racing. Steve comes up and starts awkwardly stroking her arms. Sensing that she's in trouble, Busy tells him she needs to go. She gets out of the go kart and Steve tries to kiss her. She ducks out of his reach and runs out of the garage.

 

 

Frankie doesn't want to be rude, but he doesn't want Amanda to say anything to Busy about their kiss. Busy runs up just then and just wants to go home. Frankie sees his friends and skips out. Busy runs home with the rapist still on the loose.

 

 

Frankie wonders why Busy has been avoiding Amanda. He asks Busy if she wants to talk, but she tells him to go away. In the next scene, Busy tells Amanda what happened in a "what if" hypothetical kind of way. The dialogue for Amanda is very PSA/Afterschool Special inspired. "Kisses are supposed to make you feel good," (like her and Frankie I guess).

 

Next episode: Amanda's feelings for Frankie grow and she doesn't realize that he's blowing her off. Busy doesn't like any of it.