Last updated: October 27, 2002.
Just Deal's season #1 cast:
The Cast: Dylan Roberts -Brian Skala Ashley Gordon -Erika Thormahlen Jermaine Green -Shedrack Anderson III and, Counselor Andre Pena -John Adams with, Mrs. Emily Gordon -Alison Matthews Mrs. Coleen Roberts -Eileen Pedde Mr. Mike Roberts, Sr. -Eric Keenleyside Mike Roberts, Jr. -Will Sanderson Naomi -Fiona Scott Hunter -David Paetkau Vijal -P.J. Johal
It's Ashley's fourth day at her new school and, at her first scheduled appointment in Mr. Pena's office, she runs into Dylan and Jermaine where they accidentally force her to reveal that she moved to town because her Dad died. Later, while fooling around in a sporting goods store, Ashley, with Dylan as an accomplice, breaks a store-front display, where both are captured by security, getting them into trouble with their parents. Meanwhile, poor student Dylan worries about an important test that could affect his spot on the soccer team, while Jermaine just worries about making the team at all. Naomi, Hunter, Vijal, Emily Gordon, and the Roberts (Mike Sr., Coleen and Mike Jr.) are also introduced.
Mike Jr. teases Dylan about his friendship with Ashley, but Dylan's parents are apprehensive that Dylan is still hanging around with "the girl from the mall". Nonetheless, the Roberts invite Ashley to dinner. Meanwhile, Naomi tries to get Jermaine to invite her to the Homecoming Dance, a dance Dylan has no intention of going to because "he can't dance".
Ashley's mom freaks out when she comes home and finds Ashley, Dylan and Jermaine napping on Ashley's bed, so Ashley's Mom forbids Ashley from having boys in the house unsupervised. But Ashley resents these rules, and feels like her mother doesn't trust her. Ashley finds her Mom's rules impossible to follow when a huge storm hits, and school is cancelled, forcing Dylan and Jermaine to take refuge in Ashley's house until Mike, Jr. comes to rescue them, just as Emily Gordon comes home.
When Dylan and Ashley start an online dating service for their classmates, the result is trouble. The reason: Their questionnaire asks for superficial criteria about looks and race, rather than likes and dislikes, and the students lash out at their shallow Cupids. Realizing the error of their ways, Dylan comes up with a single question that leads to the pairing up of some pretty cool couples. Meanwhile, Jermaine fears he may have made a mistake by shooting down a not-so-secret admirer, Naomi.
Dylan and Jermaine convince Ashley to go to Naomi's big party (which Naomi is throwing while her parents are once again out of town). But things take an unexpected turn when a young hothead brings a gun to the party, menaces Dylan, and then shoots the gun, bringing the attention of the cops. Dylan's dilemma: does he tell anyone that he knows who the gun-toting kid is, or does he keep quiet, guaranteeing that the young 'tough' will leave him alone?
Ashley is on a mission to do a charity car & animal wash to raise money for an animal shelter, and she has pressed all her friends, including Dylan, Jermaine, Naomi, Hunter, Mr. Pena, and her mom, into service. But Dylan discovers that there is a skateboarding tournament, one that he's a synch to win, on the same day. Making matters more touchy, not only does this mean Dylan will have to miss out on most of Ashley's car & animal wash, but it's also making Ashley jealous because Dylan is hanging out with an attractive fellow skater pal named Molly (Tristin Leffler), who may have a crush on Dylan. Meanwhile, Ashley is a terrible manager at the car & animal wash, as she is bossy and curt with everyone...
One evening, an unsupervised Dylan and Ashley get into her mom's wine, and are soon totally hammered. The drunken duo then go to a diner where they make fools of themselves in front of Naomi & Hunter (not to mention their waitress), and then Mike Jr. & his date. Pretty soon, everyone is disgusted with the both of them, including their parents, Mike Jr., and even Jermaine, and the two pay a heavy price for their foolishness, especially Dylan with his recovering alcoholic father, Mike Sr.
Dylan is frantically studying for an upcoming history exam, because he's sick of doing badly in school, but he's not making much progress. So Ashley suggests that she help him study using some different techniques she has devised. But Dylan becomes convinced he will be a failure at life after he does poorly on the history exam, despite his hours of hard work and Ashley's tutoring of him. However, Ashley is convinced that something else is going on, and she calls in Mike Jr. to help him convince Mr. Pena to look at the possibility that Dylan has a hard-to-diagnose learning disability.
Ashley tries to deny her jealously when Dylan begins giving
more of his time and attention to attractive fellow skateboarder,
Molly (Tristin Leffler; see episode 1.6, "Washed Up"), but she's
failing! Meanwhile, Ashley attempts to help an annoyed Naomi
face her eating disorder.
[Cribbed from NBC's episode guide at http://www.nbc.com/Just_Deal/.]
After the gang gets fake ID's from Hunter, Jermaine insists upon getting a tatoo from a shady inker, after refusing to listen to either Mr. Pena or his mother. But his tatoo soon becomes infected, forcing Jermaine to hide the truth from Pena and his mother. Meanwhile, Ashley and Naomi want to use their fake ID's to get into a hot nightclub (but the bouncer sees through their plan). Once Jermaine is found out, Pena is ordered to shut down the fake ID supplier, who Pena strongly suspects is Hunter, while dissatisfied customers Ashley and Naomi lead a refund rebellion against Hunter.
Dylan is excited as he finally has his Learner's Driving Permit, but he hasn't quite mastered the art of careful driving, at least as far as his Dad is concerned. Meanwhile, Jermaine is doing an extra credit science project involving model rockets, and he's so obsessed with breaking the 3,000 ft flight barrier that's he's obtained a special, risky rocket fuel to do it. But when Dylan and Ashley accidentally dispose of Jermaine's rocket fuel, illegal driver Dylan takes Jermaine and Ashley (in his brother, Mike Jr's, car !) to get some more of the fuel. The result is that Jermaine beats his target, but his errant rocket means that Dylan won't get off easy for taking his brother's car for a "joyride" without permission...
Dylan and Jermaine persuade Ashley (with the help of $10) to leave school grounds during lunch to get their CD signed by the hot local band, _Flip Nixon_, at the mall. When Naomi hears of this, she tags along with Ash . But, once there, _Flip Nixon's_ impromptu concert runs late, and Ash wants to leave. Naomi blows Ashley off to have lunch with a cute guy, so Ashley gets on her bike to ride back to school. But, on her way, a van hits her, populated by none other than _Flip Nixon_ themselves! While the band insists on taking Ashley to the hospital, her absence begins to worry Dylan and Jermaine (who blame Naomi for Ashley's disappearance), then Mr. Pena, and then finally Emily Gordon (who's virtually panic- stricken).
When Mr. Pena gives a permission request form to Ashley to give to her mom, it's revealed that Mr. Pena previously requested permission from all of his students' parents so that he could write their cases up for his Dissertation (and possibly publish an article). This makes Ashley uncomfortable and, soon enough, everyone from Naomi to Dylan are up in arms about the public airing of their personal issues, putting Mr. Pena in a difficult position, and compromising the trust he's built up with his students. Naomi is concerned that Pena's notes will reveal how screwed up she really is. Meanwhile, Dylan's main concern? That Ashley will find out how he really feels about her, which ends up forcing the issue for him, and "Uncovered" ends with Dylan finally asking Ashley out on a "real" date.
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