Synopsis: “Jerrica, stressed-out from dealing with tax forms and the usual trouble at home and the office, gets into trouble with a nasty-tempered Jem impersonator, whose outrageous, public meltdowns and temper tantrums threaten to destroy the real Jem’s career.”
Summary: Episode 30 (S2E4) is written by Buzz Dixon.
We open with an exhausted looking Jerrica Benton, who’s tired of dealing with tax returns and the stresses of home life and troublesome orphans. A fight breaks out between two Starlight orphans over a baseball game. One of them breaks a window and Jerrica breaks up the fight. Aja, Shana, Raya, and Kimber walk in and suggest she go shopping to take her mind off things. Unfortunately for Jerrica, being the oldest and most responsible one, she has to file tax returns while the rest of the Holograms head to Fashion Plaza Mall.
In her office, looking frustrated, Jerrica grabs her coffee and heads to the studio to take a break.
Cut to a music video: “Imagine Me”.
Jerrica leaves the studio and Rio walks by, telling her he thought he heard Jem’s voice. Jerrica makes an excuse and says he did, but she was playing back a tape. Rio invites Jerrica to lunch, but she turns him down saying she has too much work and asks for a rain cheque. Rio heads to his car and Jem catches up with him to ask if she can join him for lunch. Jem tells Rio she hopes he’s not taking her to “some cheap place,” but Rio tells her he’s taking her to the “Red Rock Cafe.”
Jem: Anybody who’s anybody eats here. Hey, baldy! We want the best table you got, now!
Jem gets into a spat with the host about getting a table. He invites her to eat somewhere else, but she doesn’t want to take no for an answer. Jem walks over to a table and demands that the couple sitting there leave. When she doesn’t get her way, she grabs a bowl of food and dumps it on the man’s head. Meanwhile, the paparazzi snaps photos of the event. Jem claims the camera man is invading her privacy, grabs his camera, and throws it through the restaurant window. Jem and Rio are escorted out. Rio, frustrated and embarrassed at Jem’s behaviour, leaves after Jem says she can easily get “another flunky.”
A record store owner in the mall asks Jem if she would be able to sign some albums and she suddenly changes her demeanour and agrees. Aja, Shana, Raya, and Kimber walk by the record store and are horrified when they see Jem, having a temper tantrum at the low selling prices of her albums. Jem trashes the record store as she hurls records across the store, causing property damage. Jem storms off before her friends can ask her what’s wrong.
Cut to Starlight Music, Rio knocks on Jerrica’s door and asks to come in and talk. Rio confides in Jerrica and explains that Jem is not the person he thought he knew, and begins to explain the ordeal he experienced at the Red Rock Cafe. Jerrica is shocked and says that’s impossible. The rest of the Holograms enter and ask to speak to Jerrica, alone. The Holograms inquire about the record store fiasco. but Jerrica claims innocence and says she’s been working on tax returns all day. The Holograms don’t seem to believe her story and ask if she’s feeling okay, which doesn’t make Jerrica very happy. Aja suggests she take tomorrow off and come to the music distributor show to take a break–Jerrica agrees.
At the music distributor show, Jerrica and the Holograms are shocked when they see Jem overturn a table and cause a scene, when she insults the boot vendor. The Holograms chase after the Jem imposter, but reach a dead end. The only person at the end of the corridor is a cleaning lady, but she claims no one has been down that way. Jerrica looks like she’s going to have a breakdown and insists the woman is lying (note: we, the audience know this Jem is an imposter, but…
