Jason and Herc get into a knockdown brawl in the middle of Buddy Garrity motors when Jason learns that his truck (which he bought from Herc) needs five thousand dollars worth of work. Buddy breaks it up and calms Jason down and makes a suggestion to him that will help him pay for the work on his car: get into the car sales business. Ferret Guy and a couple of cronies surround Tim Riggins in a parking lot and beat the crap out of him, breaking a bottle over his head, and then telling him he has a week to repay the stolen money. Then police show up at the Williams household and arrest Smash for assault. And that"s all before the credits even roll!
So Jason is working for Buddy, selling cars; the other salespeople are not happy given his "wheelchair sympathy" advantage. One particularly Texas-haired bitch gives him a really hard time, stealing customers from him and such. But Jason shows them all when he sells a car to a notoriously indecisive customer using the "life is too short, things can change in an instant" argument.
Tim goes to Lyla for help with his rock-and-a-hard-place problem. She comes over to The Playgirl Ranch to find him lighting candles and making her chicken. She storms out when she realizes what is going on and he runs after her, telling her that he loves her. She tells him that it"s never going to happen and it is ice cold. She goes on to tell Chris about her Tim Riggins issues -- actually having to admit, "I know, I know, I slept with my paralyzed boyfriend"s best friend." The goddamned halo keeps shining around Chris"s stupid wholesome head and he accepts Lyla"s confession with grace and then goes to get ice cream with her. Later, Lyla shows up at Tim"s with an envelope of money to pay Ferret Guy back, which he at first refuses. She drops it on the doorstep and leaves, telling him that she won"t be coming back anymore. The Riggins boys bring the money over to Ferret Guy who almost lets him off the hook until Billy starts a fight with him over what he did to Timmy. The Riggins boys hightail it out of there, almost getting shot.
Smash is advised to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and forced to make a televised apology to smooth things over. But even all that doesn"t make the sudden and convenient racism go away, and the boys from last episode start calling and harassing Noannie and going on television accusing Smash of attacking them "just because we"re white." Smash snaps and gives an incriminating interview to a reporter. The Board suspends him for three games, which happens to be the rest of the season.
And, Coach convinces Tami to sub in as coach for the suddenly coach-less girl"s volleyball team, which happens to be one hot mess of a team. When Tyra is over the Taylors" house for dinner one night, Tami notices how tall the girl is and leans on her to join the team. Tyra Amazons all over the place-- her athletic prowess fueled by her long standing love/hatred of Tim Riggins and jealousy over Landry"s new nerdy, dreadlocked female friend Jean-- and leads the team to a victory, the whole scene set to "The Bomb" by New Young Pony Club, which just rocks.
So to recap the recaplet: Tami and Tyra! Jason Street! Crucifictorious! An actual scene where Landry, Matt, Tim Riggins, and Smash are hanging out together! Tyra, spiking volleyballs! Oh, show, where have you been?!