When in Doubt, do Nothing

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When in Doubt, do Nothing is the fifth episode of Season 1 and the fifth episode overall. It was released on October 1st, 2015.

## Synopsis

Lynette stands up for Shirley. Shirley meets a new person. Galen and Jasper make a big discovery.

## Recap

Lynette was at the Price Mansion. Like usually, Kenneth called her over. She was just about to leave. She grabbed her white purse and was about to leave Kenneth's office.

"You know, the way you kiss I wish your mom had stolen from me earlier!" - He said with a smug smile on his face. Lynette sighed and turned away from him. As she was reaching for the doorknob, the door suddenly opened and Jasper walked in.

"..Lynette?" - he looked at his father then back at her - "What are you doing here?".

Lynette was quite speechless. She looked at Kenneth, who grabbed a pile of papers.

"She will be bringing me some papers for her mom. She got sick.". Lynette looked confused for a second then spoke up.

"Yeah... with all the studying and stuff I can barely fit it into my time.".

"I am very grateful though, Lynette." – said Kenneth.

"Right! Err, I should be going now. It's getting late. Bye Ke...Mr.Price". - she turned and walked by Jasper - "Bye Jasper!" - then left the room.

"Yeah, Bye.."- Jasper looked very confused and then proceeded to talk to his dad about borrowing the car on Friday.

Two knocks could be heard on Shirley's front door.

"I'm coming!" - she shouted. She opened the door to see an about 20 year old looking guy who she had never seen before.

"Um, can I help you?" - she asked.

"I guess so." - he said looking a little bit confused - "I'm looking for Noelle? I'm Alfie. I go to college with her.".

"Oh right. Well she is not back yet, but she should be here any minute. Why don't you come in?" -she said swinging the door wide open.

Alfie came in and they walked over to the living room.

"You must be Noelle's sister. Shirley, right?".

"That's right. Although I never imagined my sister would ever speak about me to anyone, we don't get along too well.".

They sat down on the couch next to each other.

"Ah, siblings. I know what that's like.".

"Trust me, you don't know half of the battles that go on here.".

They laughed together.

"So what do you major in?" she asked.

"Psychology.".

"Oh that sounds interesting!" - she said very enthusiastically.

"It is! Have you considered it?".

"Sorry?" she asked, confused.

"For the future. When you go to college I presume?".

"Oh right! Well, yeah, I would say so. But I'm keeping my options open. I've still got time."

"That's good. You don't have to worry about it too much though. I happen to know you are a very intelligent young woman." - he said with a cheeky smile.

"Really?" - smiled Shirley. "What else do you know?"

"That you are even more beautiful in the day than the night..." - he said looking deep into her eyes.

"Say what?" -she asked very surprised.

Alfie mumbled something but didn't make any sense.

"When did you see me... at night?" -she asked him with a serious look on her face.

"I saw you in the woods. Couple of nights ago."

They heard Noelle's car pull up.

"You cannot tell her that you saw me there. Please, Alfie!" -she said quickly.

"Okay, okay you got it!"- he said.

Noelle walked in and dropped her suitcases at the sight of her friend.

"Alfie!" - she shouted.

"Yep! It's me!"

He walked up to her and they hugged, while Alfie looked at Shirley over Noelle's shoulder.

"Damn! Did you fly here or what? I thought I had a fast ride!" - she said all smiley.

"I suppose it wasn't as fast as you thought!" - he told her.

"Seems like it! I gotta carry my stuff upstairs and then we will talk."

She picked up her suitcases and looked at Shirley.

"Hi Shirley!"

Shirley waved at her with a wide smile on her face before Noelle walked off.

"Thank you!" - she whispers, to which Alfie replies by smiling at her.

"Just the man I was looking for!" - said Jasper to Galen as he walked into the library.

"Sounds flattering that you were looking for me. Hi Jasper!"

"Well I must admit, I am quite surprised to find you here" - he said with a wrinkly forehead and eyes wide open.

As they were speaking the library lady hushed them to be silent.

"You shh!" - said Jasper silently.

"Right, how did you know I was here anyway?" - wondered Galen

"Kyra told me when I ran into her."

"She knows who I am?" - he looked quite surprised

"Well I did ask if she had seen Shirley's friend with the anger issues." - he said raising his shoulders

"Yeah that explains all of it. So why were you looking for me?" - asked Galen

Jasper took a deep breath. He looked around to see if there's anyone near them. Then he took his shoulder bag off and placed it next to the couch as he sat down next to Galen.

"I was out for dinner with Jenna. We went to this fancy restaurant 'cause appearently they make the best seafoood there. Which is quite odd to be honest..."

"Okay" - interrupted Galen - "Are you looking for relationship advice or what? Because if so you came to the wrong person."

"No! I'm not looking for relationship advice! Well, not this time.." - he looked at Galen who had his eyebrows raised and his forehead wrinkled. "Right! I'll get to the point!" - he said - "Nigel showed up in the restaurant. Jenna asked him to sit with us. We had the most awkward conversation ever. Then shortly after he left us I got a text from Karma. I looked at him and he was on his phone!" - he explained very seriously.

"That doesn't prove anything. Lots of people are on their phones all the time. In fact I'm pretty convinced the library lady is just trying to figure out how to use hers."

"Isn't she holding it upside down?" - says Jasper looking at her.

"Yeah! She is!"

"Galen, get serious! I have a bad feeling about this!"

"Well what do you want to do about it? Break into his house and search it?" - he said sarcastically

"Of course not! We will break into his locker."

"Define "we"." - said Galen right as Jasper finished talking

"You and I." - said Jasper with a cheeky smile

"I can't get into trouble again." - he said with a serious look in his eyes - "If I do anything they will suspend me."

"You don't know that!" - said Jasper

"The principal said, and I quote: "I will suspend you.". Yeah, I'm kind of convinced."

"You won't get into trouble. We gotta do this! He could be Karma! Come on Galen!"

Galen sighed and then quite unpleasantly agreed.

"Great. I'll see you by the locker room. Enjoy pretending to study." - said Jasper as he stood up.

"Hey how do you know I'm doing that?" - he shouted after him.

"You are holding a book about menstruation." - said Jasper without turning around as he left.

During the lunch, Lynette, Kyra and Madison were sitting together, as usual. They were eating their salads and discussing their plans for the afternoon.

"We should totally go shopping, I haven’t bought anything in like 3 days."- suggested Kyra and Madison nodded in agreement as she was chewing on her food. Lynette wasn’t a big fan of the idea but she didn’t want to be the fun killer so she agreed as well. At that moment past them walked Shirley and Galen. They didn't notice that their friend was sitting nearby but Kyra and Madison for sure noticed them. It was no secret that they hated Shirley, maybe almost as much as Ciera. Just seeing her walk by was a good enough reason to start trashing her.

"Oh my god, what is that bitch thinking just walking around like that, i just lost my appetite."- said Kyra while scattering her salad around the plate with fork.

"Ugh yes, couldn’t her ugly ass go eat somewhere else, like dumpster?"- Madison said.

Shirley and Galen sat down across the room but Galen left almost right away looking worried. Shirley looked up and waved at Lynette, even though she wasn’t sure if that was a good idea. Lynette smiled and waved back as the two, Kyra and Madison, just looked at her with disgust.

"Seriously girl, what the hell is wrong with you?"- asked Madison.

"Yeah like, why would you wave at that trash?"- added Kyra.

"Why wouldn't I?, What did she ever do to you anyway? You two should really come down to Earth and stop being so judgmental. I can’t even listen to you whine anymore."- Lynette stood up and walked towards Shirley's table.

"Hey, I'm sorry if I caused you any trouble with those."- said Shirley.

"Nah, don’t apologize, I’m glad they gave me a reason to leave."- Lynette told her. The two continued to eat and chat as Madison and Kyra angrily discussed something, looking their way.

The water polo practice was about to begin and Jasper and Galen had to go through with their plan. Galen hid in the locker room and Jasper changed quickly so that he could talk to Nigel.

"Hey, I’m glad you are back on the team"- he told him.

"Thanks, I missed it a lot while I was away."- replied Nigel. Jasper then suggested for them to practice in the water a little. Galen waited until everyone left the room and then went through Nigel’s locker. First, he took his phone, if he found that the Karma texts were sent from it, that would be the perfect proof for them. However, that would have been too easy; the phone was locked and Galen neither knew the code nor he had the time to try and guess it. Disappointed, he decided to go through his bag, without having too much hope. At the bottom of the bag was a watch which didn’t look like something Nigel would wear. In fact, it didn’t look like something any of the guys would wear. It was a girl’s watch. Upon closer inspection Galen noticed some bloodstains on it and then he recognized it. This was the watch Ciera had been wearing that tragic night. Galen put the watch in his pocket, looked around to see if anyone noticed him and walked out. Back at the pool, Nigel was enjoying himself, playing the game with the rest of the team, not suspecting a thing.

After the practice ended, Galen shared his findings with Jasper and after they agreed on it, Galen went to Shirley's to fill her in as well. He showed her the watch and Shirley said that they should all decide on what to do about it together. But they knew that neither Jasper nor Lynette would show up if they knew that the other one was coming. They invited them over separately. Jasper was the first one to arrive and he started telling them about how Nigel almost went to the locker room during the practice to drink some water, but he managed to stop him. Finally, Lynette knocked on the door and Shirley let her in.

"What is he doing here?"- Lynette was shocked to see Jasper.

"There is something important we need to discuss all together."- tried to calm the situation down Galen.

"Fine, whatever."-said Lynette. Jasper and Galen started telling them everything from beginning, including Jaspers suspicion about Nigel in the restaurant and how they decided to look at his stuff.

"What does this mean now?"- asked Lynette, "I mean, it could be a proof that he is Karma, but would Karma be dumb enough to bring something like that to school?"

"Yeah, we are not sure either but Jas and i talked and we might have an idea."- started Galen.

"If we bring this watch to the police and tell them that we found it by accident in Nigel’s stuff, they could add two and two and Nigel would be out of our way. They are desperate to find out what happened to Ciera."- said Jasper.

"That way, if he is Karma, he won’t be able to torture us anymore, and even if he isn't, we won’t have to worry about Ciera thing ever again. It's a win- win."- added Galen. The girls thought for a while and Shirley spoke first:

"Of course it'd be easy to just frame someone else, but if he isn’t Karma, we will be ruining the life of an innocent guy."

"Yeah, I’m with her on this one. For now, at least. We should wait until we get some more info."- Lynette said.

Guys reluctantly agreed, but they were also a little relieved. They already had Ciera's blood on their hands; they didn't want to ruin any more lives.

"We should hide it somewhere for now, I have a safe in my room, and nobody will find it there."- suggested Jasper.

"Yeeeeah, that is a great idea, except for the second half. I'll hide it."- Shirley said and everyone else nodded in agreement.

"Why, does she have something better than a safe?"- Jasper insisted.

Nobody wanted to say anything but they were all thinking it. Finally, Galen gave in.

"Look, we all trust you, but we are a little worried about Jenna. I... we, wouldn’t want her finding it "accidentally" or something."

"Why would you think that, Jenna would never do anything like that", Jasper tried to defend her. Everyone just looked at him silently.

"Ugh, whatever, I don’t want it to be Jenna's fault if anything backfires. You keep it."- Jasper said as he gave the watch to Shirley.

## Title

'When in doubt, do nothing' means that it is better to refrain from action than to do something you are not sure about. It refers to the four deciding whether they should frame Nigel.

## Main Cast

* Chord Overstreet as Jasper Price
* Melissa Benoist as Shirley McHale
* Emily VanCamp as Lynette Jackson
* Brant Daugherty as Galen Wright

## Guest Stars

* Alexis Denisof as Kenneth Price
* Damian McGinty as Alfie Benson
* Joanna Garcia as Noelle McHale
* Erinn Westbrook as Kyra
* Jamie Chung as Madison
* Chace Crawford as Nigel Hicks

## Trivia

* This episode marks the first appearance of Alfie Benson, as well as the first physical appearance of Noelle McHale.
* This is the first episode since the Pilot in which Karma didn't contact any of the four.