In the parking lot at Devils Arena, Sloane runs into Pete, who assures her that he’s not going to leave her side now that he knows about what she’s been up to lately. After hearing about everything from Raquel, he’s determined to bring Oscar down, too. The following morning, Jude gets a visit from Detective Harris, who questions him about where he was at 10:26 the night of Olivia’s murder; he tells him that he snuck onto the arena’s floor to get some time to think
before rushing Harris out the door so he can get ready for work. At the arena, Ahsha and German run into one another after their hookup and he tells her that he would be willing to give things another shot, provided she commit herself 100% to the idea of being with him. If it’s not what she wants, he’s more than okay with that – he just can’t go through another breakup with her. Show Over at the Playground, Jelena gets questioned by Detective Harris and she claims that she was asleep at the time of Olivia’s murder. However, she, too, rushes away from Harris, making herself look more guilty than she previously did. She ends up hightailing it to rehearsal and, once the music stops, has a confrontation with Ahsha over the latter refining her dance skills and coming for Jelena’s spot. After coming home from a heavy day at the office and still with thoughts of the police visit on his mind, Jude gets a delivery – a wedding invitation from his father and Lionel, who are getting hitched in the immediate future. When they find out, Sloane and Pete are aghast at the thought, though the latter understands how Lionel is spotlight hungry enough to do something like this. Sloane thinks that Oscar only got strong-armed into this due to Lionel possessing the financial evidence and tape that Kyle recorded, so she decided to head to the wedding in hopes of procuring the evidence and turning it over to the proper authorities. At the wedding, Jude gets annoyed when Zero flirts with a girl working the door, while Derek comes to Oscar about his concerns over Kyle, who he says tried to give him coke the other night. The reason for this? Kyle will get fired from her position as Oscar’s new #1 girl, thus allowing her to leave Los Angeles without having to look over her shoulder from here on out. The last bit of business that she takes care of has to do with being Derek’s alibi, which he also is for her, and Kyle Hart is one game away from leaving the city for good. Back in Oscar’s house, Pete finds Lionel in her black wedding dress and tries to talk some sense into her, all the while Sloane sneaks through Lionel’s bags looking for the tape. She finds it just before Lionel heads over to the aisle and begins marching toward Oscar. Jude eventually joins her and walks her down the aisle, though he’s more concerned about what the heck this woman is doing marrying his father than anything else. While the ceremony goes off without a hitch, Sloane rushes to the police to deliver the tape to an investigator. However, she’s spotted by corrupt Detective Harris, still on Oscar’s payroll, thus putting herself in danger. The following day, the seventh and deciding game of the finals tips off and the Devils end up down by 2 at the half thanks to a last second shot from Zero. After the Devil Girls perform their final routine of the season, the second half gets underway and the game remains close throughout. With Los Angeles up 1, Boston hits a 3, giving them the 2-point lead; with four seconds to go, Terrence makes a lay-up to tie the game and lands awkwardly on his injured leg, shattering his fibula and taking himself out of the running for OT. Once he tells Jelena to stay at the arena and tell him how the game ends, Terrence gets carted off. The OT period finds Boston and Los Angeles as close as ever, with Boston up three following a dunk with less than 30 seconds left. Los Angeles closes the gap and with time expiring, Derek opts to take the final shot himself, bouncing the ball of the backboard before slamming it home and putting the Devils up by 1. Confetti rains down; Sloane and Pete affectionately celebrate; Derek gets a chance to impress his mother; and Zero is noticeably deflated, having called for the ball in the closing seconds. Unfortunately, the celebration is short-lived, as police swarm the arena and arrest Oscar for Mia’s murder. An apologetic Harris tells him that it was Sloane who brought the damning evidence and as he’s restrained after charging at her, Oscar warns her that she doesn’t know what she just did. While Kyle and Raquel agree to get married in order to keep the latter in the country, their friendship rekindled at the Playground following Oscar’s arrest, Sloane gets summoned to Oscar’s office by Lionel. With a swarming group of paparazzi at her back, she makes it safely there, only to find that Lionel is now the team co-owner, everything that led to finding the tape was pre-orchestrated, and Jelena was the one behind the idea in the first place. The kicker is that Sloane has now been trapped in the Devils organization; if she quits, she leaves herself open to retaliation, but if she stays, Lionel promises that nothing will happen to her, despite the fact that she wants nothing more than to rip the Devil Girl director’s throat out. Jude finds Zero moping in the locker room. Despite having two rings, Zero wanted to be The Man for Los Angeles, rather than just some guy who happened to be on a championship-winning team. He blames Jude for his loss of status, while Jude points out that the loss of endorsement opportunity came because Zero couldn’t keep it in his pants, which also points to Jude’s jealousy over the flirting incident at the wedding. But Jude explains that he’s angry at himself for allowing this type of treatment to persist; angry at Zero for continuing with this “no relationships” bullshit when they both know he only means “no relationships with guys”; angry that Zero refuses to be real with anyone; angry that he needs something from Zero that he feels like he’s never going to get. Jude tries to quit as Zero’s agent, claiming that he’s tired of getting percentages from people, only for Zero to confess his actual first name – Gideon – as a way of showing that he’s willing to open up. Before leaving, Jude tells Zero that he’d really like to take Gideon out for a date sometime and if that’s a possibility, for him to call him. Ahsha meets Sloane in the Devil Girls practice area and tells her mother that she’s beyond proud of what she just did and that she understands why she came to work there in the first place. Sloane then has to drop a bomb on Ahsha – due to the influence of Jelena and Lionel, she has to fire her daughter from the team. While Jelena heads to the hospital to tell Terrence that the Devils won, Sloane receives a phone call from the officer she gave the tape to; he informs her that the LAPD is going after Oscar in connection to Olivia’s murder, though she doesn’t think that he would do something like that. Derek and his mother head to a restaurant for what he thinks is a quiet dinner with just the two of them. It turns out, though, that she brought several businessmen to the dinner with the intention of getting Derek to sign endorsement contracts now that he’s a champion. Feeling hurt, Derek pulls her aside and lashes out at the deception, saying that all his mother cares about is money, that he only gave her stuff to keep her around, that she never loved him to begin with, and that he’s going to go after the one woman who did love him – Ahsha. But when he makes it to the Hayes residence, he finds that Ahsha’s not home and he ends up leaving Sloane with the knowledge that he’s going to try to win her daughter back. A montage then plays showing where everybody was the night that Olivia died – Jude was on the court, as he told Detective Harris. Olivia’s killer? German. He had an envelope with Ahsha’s name on it, presumably his motivation in pushing Olivia to the ground. Additional
thoughts and observations: What was Ahsha secret on hit the floor?Last week, we saw German get emotional and reveal to Ahsha that he was the one who killed Olivia.
Who Shot Jelena in hit the floor?She hates Ahsha and sees her as a threat. Later on in season 3 her and Terrance separate and she later is shot by Sloane Hayes.
What happened to Sloane on hit the floor?In the final episode of the first season "Turnover" as part of his deal with Jelena, Oscar replaces Olivia with Sloane as director of the Devil Girls. Sloane only agrees because she is secretly working with the league.
What happens to German on hit the floor?German is promptly arrested for the murder of Olivia and Sloane asks Ahsha what Olivia had over her. She tells them that she didn't win all-star and didn't tell them because she was supposed to be the “good girl”.
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