Poison

**Poison** is the eighth episode of the first season of *The Society*. It is the eighth episode of the series overall.

## Synopsis

A Thanksgiving feast takes a frightening turn. In the aftermath, The Guard oversteps its powers. Meanwhile, Sam is torn between Becca and Grizz.

## Plot

**SPOILERS AHEAD**
Thanksgiving is still in full swing, and now it’s time for dessert. Slices of the pumpkin pie start disappearing, and the kids start eating them. Elle, literally fearing the worst, decides that she’s going to try and eat the remaining pie pieces herself hopefully stopping others from getting sick.

The improv group puts on a sketch after dessert and while it starts off completely harmless, it quickly snowballs into an attack on Allie. Lexie literally steals the show, taking on the persona of a wicked witch who imposes strict rules, hates fun, and is just all around horrible. She even mimes Cassandra being shot, and Dewey’s killing, which sets Allie over the edge. Returning home she’s upset but doesn’t want to bring Lexie in for any sort of questioning since that will look bad.

By the time everyone is home, the poisoned pie starts to kick in. Allie had a slice, and she starts throwing up. She asks someone to get Will for her, but he’s nowhere to be found because he’s hooking up with Kelly.

Marnie and Erica are also sick, but Elle has the worst of it since she tried to eat so much more pie than anyone else. She’s fighting stomach pains, clearly has some sort of fever, and by the time Campbell comes to check on her, she’s convulsing and gasping for breath.

Everyone’s brought to the clinic, where Kelly has taken charge and is trying to keep everyone alive. Gordie is trying to help as best he can, and the two quickly realize neither one of them knows how to insert an IV. Elle is now literally on the verge of death, and giving her an IV might be the only way to save her.

She’s clearly accepted death, and Elle asks Helena to pray for her. When Elle realizes that she’s not going to die, and already has an IV in her, she freaks out because she wasn’t ready to face the truth that she did this to everyone.

Allie is also incredibly sick, and passes out with Will by her side — but not before calling him out on not being there when she started throwing up.

While all of this is going on, Becca starts having issues with her pregnancy, and Sam comes rushing down to the hospital to be by her side. Sam also completely forgot to tell Grizz that he’s having a baby, which freaks him out.

Somehow, no one dies, and all the patients are discharged. Gordie is now trying to figure out if this was food poisoning that hit all of them, or something else. Will, Bean, and Allie believe that it might be poison, and have their sights set on talking to Campbell, Lexie, and Harry since those three are causing the most trouble right now.

The guard also questions Elle, and Campbell almost immediately realizes that it was her. He says that he ate part of her pumpkin pie too (which he did not), but he didn’t get sick, so it couldn’t have been her cooking.

Lexie is actually brought in for questioning, with Jason and Clark keeping her down in the wine cellar. They strongly suggest that she had something to do with the poison, but the boys refuse to let her talk to Allie, or anyone else. Lexie quickly becomes distraught because she just got her period and knows she’s bleeding through her dress and asks for a change of clothing. While the guys retrieve a change of clothing for her, they refuse to leave the room while she’s changing.

With the drama of Thanksgiving now over, this means that some one-night Thanksgiving romances are also going to end. Grizz confronts Sam about the fact that he’s having a baby, and is pretty upset that Sam didn’t tell him about this giant, life-altering thing. Kelly is also pretty hurt because she couldn’t help but notice that even after they slept together, Will spent the entire night by Allie’s side while she was sick. Kelly gets Will to admit that he actually loves Allie. Following this, Kelly goes to see Harry to try and get him out of bed.

One couple that shockingly stays together is Elle and Campbell. He knows that she poisoned the pie attempting to poison just him, and probably kill him. He’s shocked about it, but he’s not mad. He feels like this just further proves that the two are the same, since just like he’s tried to hurt people, now she has, too.

Lexie confronts Allie on the street about the fact that Jason and Clark made her change in front of them, and Lexie calls it torture. Allie tells Lexie to get over it, which is not what she wants to hear.

Allie’s got bigger things to worry about, as she tells the town that there’s going to be an election to elect an actual mayor and council. Anyone who wants to run can run. That night, Will climbs into bed with Allie for the first time and while they don’t sleep together, they cuddle.

## Cast

* Alex Fitzalan as Harry
* Jacques Colimon as Will
* Kristine Froseth as Kelly
* Gideon Adlon as Becca
* Sean Berdy as Sam
* Toby Wallace as Campbell
* Olivia DeJonge as Elle
* Jose Julian as Gordie
* Natasha Liu Bordizzo as Helena
* Alex MacNicoll as Luke
* Jack Mulhern as Grizz
* Olivia Nikkanen as Gwen
* Spencer House as Clark
* Emilio Garcia-Sanchez as Jason
* Grace Victoria Cox as Lexie
* Naomi Oliver as Olivia
* Damon J. Gillespie as Mickey
* Christopher Gray as Brandon Eggles
* Kelly Golden as Marnie
* Matisse Rose as Jessica