Relationship Goals

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**Relationship Goals** is the third episode of the first season of Grand Army, and the third episode overall. The episode released on October 16, 2020 on Netflix.

## Synopsis

Sid struggles with his secret. Nudged by her girls, Dom finally acts on her crush on John. A night of partying takes a devastating turn.

## Plot

A text reads “They all have love in their lives.” There is a school assembly. A few students, including Grace and Joey, kneel to the anthem and they are jeered by a couple of students. Jay is at home playing the saxophone. Sid is still struggling with the perception of him and the stereotypes aimed at him due to his ethnicity and faith — he’s scared. Sid leaves the pool and his swim team celebrates with him.

After school, Joey and Anna hang out and joke about taking a gap year to Spain together. Joey tells Anna she has “Tim issues” and she doesn’t want to mess it up with her — Anna is bothered by it and questions whether she wants to be in a relationship. Anna reminds her that Tim is her brother and asks her to promise not to have sex with him.

At church, a few kids throw things at Leila. She then shows Rachel something she has sent George. Rachel tells her she shouldn’t have sent it. Leila is worried that George hasn’t replied to her for a while.

Dom’s friends tell her how she should approach John Ellis. Jay then turns up in the shopping mall and he seems a little down as Sonia passes him homework. He then tries to touch base with Dom about Owen’s hearing but she brushes him off. Sonia asks Dom if she can see the similarities to policing in the black community with what happened to Jay and Owen.

At the movies, Joey chooses to not sit next to Tim but sits next to Luke and George instead. This irks Tim. Joey leaves the screening as Tim goes to get food. She sees him flirting with the cashier so she heads over and kisses him. She tells him she isn’t being weird but wants to keep things normal. Tim doesn’t like how she throws herself at his friends to send him a message. She is annoyed by his comment and sits back down next to Luke and George. Joey and George keep on flirting and Tim is slowly getting annoyed.

At her sister’s Bat Mitzvah, Rachel is annoyed at Leila for making the whole event about George and tells her to leave — she also gives her idea that he isn’t into her. Leila sits by herself and tears up. She starts sobbing during the disco and a rabbi cheers her up by bringing her to the dance floor. Leila apologizes to Rachel.

Sid is out with his girlfriend Flora having a meal. She makes a comment that he doesn’t like naked women but she means “pornified women”. He’s impacted by her comments and he starts suggesting he hasn’t got time for this relationship. Flora is devastated but Sid claims he still loves her. Flora departs the restaurant.

Dom bumps into John Ellis in the mall and pretends it was accidental. It’s a short conversation and then John asks her if she wants to do something.
They both go to get some pizza. Dom’s sister texts her asking her to go home as their mother is working. John asks why her sister hasn’t gone far and Dom explains her sister got pregnant young.

At the cinemas again, Tim is told to chill over Joey. George gives him the notion that because Tim hasn’t had sex with her yet, he has no right to what he’s feeling — but it’s obvious that Joey and Tim have a connection, so it is not unnatural for Tim to be annoyed that his friends and Joey are all over each other.

Afterward, Joey tells his friends that the man who looked suspicious in the cinemas had a bag full of sex toys and she gets out a mini vibrator.

Joey is drunk and annoyed at Tim — Tim is in a hole that he cannot get out of due to his feelings. Joey is a little frantic trying to get a taxi and Tim tries to calm her down — she’s quite drunk.

George, Joey, and Luke continue to fool around at the back of the taxi. Tim tells her she’s an attention seeker. George tells Tim that Joey isn’t going to be more into him if he keeps acting like this.

Joey calls Tim hypocritical after all the girls he has been with in front of her face. She tells him she wants to have fun and but Tim keeps on ignoring her. Tim tells her that he just doesn’t want to watch. Joey gets on top of Luke and starts kissing him — she looks at him and says, “I get to do that”.

Joey starts kissing George while Tim just sits there. Luke and George then forcefully finger Joey despite her telling them to wait and stop — both teenage boys hold her legs apart so they can continue despite cries from Joey and zero consent. They don’t stop and Joey asks for Tim’s help but Tim ignores the whole thing. After the taxi ride is over, Joey is traumatized and crying. She heads to a bathroom and cleans herself up. There’s blood on the tissue. Tim texts her and asks if she’s okay. Joey heads to the toilet and throws up. Anna knocks on the door and asks if she can come in.

A text says, “They l have love in their lives. It’s their lack of respect that’s sickening.”

## Cast

* Odley Jean as Dominique Pierre
* Amir Bageria as Siddhartha Pakam
* Maliq Johnson as Jayson Jackson
* Amalia Yoo as Leila Kwan Zimmer
* Alphonso Romero Jones II as John Ellis
* Thelonius Serrell-Freed as Tim Delaney
* Anthony Ippolito as George Wright
* Brian Altemus as Luke Friedman
* Brittany Adebumola as Tamika Jones
* Naiya Ortiz as Sonia Cruz
* Crystal Sha're Nelson as Tor Sampson
* Marcela Avelina as Flora Mejia
* Lola Blackman as Rachel Finer
* David Iacono as Bo Orlov
* Keara Graves as Grace
* Rachel Boyd as Natalie

* Kelsey Falconer as Christina
* Lynn Weintraub as Rabbi Sadie Schultz
* Katie Griffin as Rebecca Connely
* Micah Solis as Nick Rodriguez
* Brendan Rush as Wesley Graham
* Aidan Naworysnki as Aidan Paulus
* Martina Ortiz-Luis as Student Singer
* Diego Martinez-Tau as Chris Yoon
* Matthew Finlan as All American Bro
* Michael Gordin Shore as Dave Finer
* Andy Fraser as Willa Finer
* Sergio Di Zio as Coach Columbo
* Brandi Alexander as Coach Reynolds
* Rachel Dagenais as Teen Concessionaire
* Jackie English as Sales Person
* Shahrukh Arif as Taxi Driver
* Calwyn Shurgold as Duffle Bag Guy
* Sage Burigana-Marcus as 8th Grader #1
* Loki Pann as 8th Grader #2
* Laurel Cass as Senior Dance Captain #1
* Jenna Warren as Senior Dance Captain #2
* Justine Sanker as Dance Team #1
* Alyssa Trask as Dance Team #2
* Julie Karn as Dance Team #3
* Tanya Karn as Dance Team #4
* Saskia Barros-Raparanta as Dance Team #5
* Nicole Rosove as Dance Team #6
* Trisha Ng as Dance Team #7
* Paulina Macias as Dance Team #8
* Lianne Tammi as Dance Team #9
* Alyssa Provenzano as Dance Team #10
* Krystel Cisnero as Dance Team #11
* Amanda Videla as Dance Team #12
* Regan Reynolds as Dance Team #13
* Larinee Movessian as Dance Team #14