I Can Hear Their Thoughts — Episode 2: Her Best Friend Ordered Me

Episode 2 opens with a ping. Melissa has ordered condoms, plus a note: 'Bring yourself too.' Lucas knows that if Barbara is there as well, his overloaded head may not make it. He walks into a neon club and, of course, finds them both waiting. Barbara folds her arms and asks if he shouldn't be working. Her thoughts say something else entirely: stay, please stay.

It was his last drop of the night, so the girls pull him onto the dance floor, one on each side, two voices in his skull arguing over whose hands belong on him. The nose bleeds again and he escapes to the hallway. Barbara follows, claiming Mel sent her to check he isn't dying. Then she kisses him, and in her mind she guides his hand higher. 'That didn't happen,' she says, walking away while still wishing he'd come over tonight. Short, sharp, and loaded.