The Truth Will Set You Free

**The Truth Will Set You Free** is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the Freeform drama series, *The Bold Type*. It aired on July 2, 2020.

## Synopsis

Jane isn't comfortable in her post-surgery body, but a visit from her dad may change her outlook. Sutton and Richard make plans for the future. Kat tries to move forward at work with a podcast, but her first episode comes with a price.

## Plot Summary

Jane continues to struggle with her body, and while it has complicated dating and how she dresses, the help she has access to hasn’t changed how she has felt. Not even the support group, the advice of dating her breasts, or even getting a plaster of them seems to have helped her.

However, what does help shift things is her father. While Jane’s worrying about how her breasts make her feel, her father is relieved she won’t die like her mom, and he’d have to go through that trauma again. This doesn’t necessarily end Jane’s discomfort, but it does give her something to think about while battling her feelings. For as much as she doesn’t like her breasts now, or perhaps the implants and how they feel, she can remember why she had the surgery in the first place.

While Kat isn’t desperate for Ava to be on her podcast she realizes that if she is going to start a new chapter in her life, she can’t do what she did previously and think that will lead to change. So, despite the discomfort it causes, Kat enters Ava’s space, that of Republican women, for Ava doesn’t believe Kat can handle a conversation with a conservative.

At first, Ava was proven wrong, since Kat got into a discussion about Democratic messaging and how their passion often leads them to be off track. Ideas that Democrats believe are true, also can apply to Republicans, so Kat can deal with a honest criticism.

However, then come in two moms who don’t like the idea of their kids possibly becoming queer and not what they deem normal, which rubs Kat the wrong way. In fact, it leads her to give up the idea of impressing Ava, and she just goes off. This is not to the point of embarrassing herself, but enough to make it clear they picked the wrong fight. After that heated conversation, Ava agrees to go on Kat’s podcast and, after trying to make Ava come off as yet another straight white woman who is a bigot, Ava reveals she is a lesbian. This perhaps explains RJ’s investment in conversion therapy. It isn’t said directly that is why, but it does appear as one of the possible reasons.

Sutton is a twenty-six-year-old woman with a man who is at least fourteen to fifteen years her senior. While they love each other, there is an age gap that could complicate things. For example, Sutton is just really getting to start her career and find stability while Richard already has stability and a good income. However, with Sutton just hitting her stride comes the idea of getting pregnant and that being put on pause is difficult.

For as much as they can get a nanny and work the rest out, Sutton comes to realize, she doesn’t want to have children. The life she imagines is that of it being her, Richard, and them spending their lives together without a third person. This doesn’t sit right with Richard. For as much as he was willing to compromise and wait up to five years, being told it isn’t likely to happen now upsets him. Richard throws and breaks his phone.

## Cast

* Katie Stevens as Jane Sloan
* Aisha Dee as Kat Edison
* Meghann Fahy as Sutton Brady
* Sam Page as Richard Hunter
* Matt Ward as Alex Crawford
* Melora Hardin as Jacqueline Carlyle
* Stephen Conrad Moore as Oliver Grayson
* Dan Jeannotte as Ryan Decker