Lala is back! Remember Lala? It’s been a while since we’ve seen him, but now the Tattooed Man is back in our lives.
He immediately makes for Garfield High, where he finds Jefferson Pierce working alone. Now here I was thinking that Principal Lowry had made a big deal about installing all kinds of new security measures at the school, but clearly, Lala was able to waltz right on in with a pistol. He finds Jefferson, shoots him in the shoulder (again, no alarms?) and demands to know what happened to his friend Earl. Jefferson is the one who found Earl’s body, grotesquely hung in the school’s basketball hoop, and so Lala hopes he can explain what happened. Lala’s tattoos are causing him trouble again, and apparently, he won’t be at peace until he reckons with his memories of his dead friend.
Eventually, Jefferson and Lala are able to piece things together. Earl and Lala had worked together as kids selling drugs for the One Hundred, but then as they were about to graduate, Earl decided to leave the game. Jefferson acknowledges that he was the one who convinced Earl to go to the police and tell them the truth about the One Hundred. Given what we know about Tobias’ infiltration of the Freeland Police Department, Jefferson starts to worry that this is what got Earl killed.
The truth, however, is even more unsettling than that. Eventually, Lala recovers enough of his memories to remember that he was the one who killed Earl. His loyalty and friendship got twisted into not wanting anyone other than him to be the one to kill Earl. But most of all, he did it to earn Tobias’ favor. When a shaken Jefferson asks why he hung Earl in the hoop, Lala replies, “Because I didn’t want to be poor no more.” He saw Tobias as his ticket to wealth and success, and he was right — for a while. Since then, he’s been killed by Tobias not once but twice.
Towards the end of the episode, we get a flashback to Lala’s latest resurrection two months ago. We see some kind of mad scientist pouring Lala’s entrails into a tub of blue liquid until his whole body slowly reforms. I really want to know more about whatever’s going on here, but clearly, that will have to wait. The doctor told him to untangle a knot related to Earl and Jefferson, which sent him to Garfield. But now Lala understands what he really has to do in order to be at peace with himself: Kill Tobias.
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