Dirt Recap: Caught on Tape
Julia has her worse nightmare come true when the sex tape of her and Johnny suddenly shows up on the Internet. Then suddenly everything turns around, and she discovers the maxim that "any press is good press" is really true, as she gets to turn it into a boost to her career, and she's everywhere talking about how she was raped, and she's making it into the best move she has made in a long, long time.
Johnny, however, is on the bad side of things, so he does the only thing he can think of - he dishes it off on Lucy. That's not a good idea, because he originally gave it to Lucy to put in the vault when she found out that he was a male escort before coming to Hollywood, and she threatens to let everyone know just how she got the tape unless he retracts his story.
Thankfully for both of them, he does, and that takes the heat off for now, because Lucy has other issues.
Her brother Leo has returned after being at some self-imposed exile, and he's got a girlfriend (yes, he was gay when he left). Leo's girlfriend isn't all you'd think - apparently she's on a silence kick, so they haven't actually talked. Ever, it would appear. You think your family has problems.
Her extended family isn't much better, because Don is haunted by images of Marqui, and he has a special mission for Don. He wants him to kill Lucy. No reason given, he just says that he's suppose to do it. Don better start taking his meds again or Lucy is really going to have at tough week.
Back at work, Lucy has sent Willa out to try and find out more about where the sex tape from Julia came from, because she knows that she didn't leak it and neither did Johnny. Eventually Willa finds out that it was sent to several places simultaneously, and it all leads back to one pay phone, and that in turn gets them a surveillance video of a shady-looking character buying a prepaid phone card. The shady person? Julia.
When Julia is confronted by Lucy, Julia offers to give her anything she wants, to own her, but Lucy turns her down. I have to say that I was actually disappointed here. I can understand the petty desire to ruin Julia and keep Holt for herself (or something), but if Lucy is really the bloodthirsty head of DirtNow, who has this vault of all the dirty little secrets, then this would be one of the best. The show would have been so much better, and had so much more going for it, if Lucy had taken Julia up on her offer. It really played down to the lowest common denominator.
A lot of people think the show is trash, and I won't completely disagree - but up until here, it could have been considered risk-taking. If it had gone the other way, and she had taken her up, it would have been to advance the story. This tipped it towards trash. Still good, but not as good.
