The Heights Season 1, Episode 11: Strains

Talk to an Angel

Alex invites Rita to a poetry reading at Benny's cafe. Several members of the group stop by and are surprised when Alex reads a poem for Rita. Jodi tells Dizzy she's two months pregnant. Dizzy decides he wants to marry her but is confused and scared about his relationship with Jodi, his music with the band, and the baby on the way. Alex starts dating Rita and turns the poem into a song, ""How do you talk to an angel"". Alex shows up at rehearsal and joins the band as a singer/guitarist.

60 min

Children of the night

Alex meets a youth who lives on the street; he tries to help him, but he steels his keys to the store and some money from the cashbox. First Alex is under suspect, but finally Rita persuades the boy to tell the truth. Lennie takes a job at a comic and junk vendor, but looses it again, since he is not as weird as the owner wants him to be.

60 min

Decisions

Stan's father wants Stan to graduate in music conservatorium. Stan proposes and gets a place, but then he decides not to go. Dizzy buys a ring from Jo Bandizi, but it's faked. He confronts him and gets his money back. He tries to propose to Jodie, but she doesn't want yet. Hope has an idea for a song, but differs with J.T. about the realization. They come up with two very different versions (Common ground versus Battleground).

60 min

Natalie

Dizzy takes a second job as night portiere in a fine hotel, where he even gets offered a career. Jodie doesn't like him doing two jobs. She learns that he tries really hard to please her, and accepts his marriage proposal. Lenny falls in love with Natalie, but his approach is too slow, so that J.T. gets her first, before she recognizes her real love interests.

60 min

Shooting stars

The famous performer Betty B. and former close friend of Rita comes in the town and visits the band. Betty wants Alex to secretly write songs for her and later even come to New York, but he decides to stay with his small live and Rita. Dizzy and Jodie have some problems to tell her mother of the pregnancy and marriage.

60 min

Flashback

The band has the idea to modernize Stans Dad's bar. They play rock music and really many people come, but the atmosphere doesn't please Stan's Dad, so they have to go back to normal. J.T.'s Dad has a class reunion and doesn't want to go. J.T. learns that his father was way back in school a nice guy, but has dramatically changed during Vietnam war. Hope's parents urge her to give up the band and go to college, but she decides to stay.

60 min

So hot

Lenny meets Rosie, who is a fighter for environmental protection, and joins her in this interest and her bed. Rita decides it's time to sleep with Alex, but he wants to have it more special and wait. In the end, though, they do the hot thing.

60 min

On the road

Jodie and Alex seek an apartment but find nothing appealing and end up with a room at her parent's. Stan looks after the son of a cousin at his foster-mother. Suddenly his cousin comes out of prison and claims her child. Later she sees that he has a better life at the foster-mother. J.T. drives a Cadillac to Seattle for James Bandizi and wants to make a holiday of it by taking Hope with him. However she takes Lenny along and he annoys them later.

60 min

The big day

Dizzy marries Jodie. Stan almost loses the wedding ring. Rita is too hot for Alex, wants always just to join the hips, what frightens him. J.T. and Alex propose to their girl friends while heavily drunk and get laughed. Hope pretends he slept with her while drunk, but he can't remember anything and is sad.

60 min

Honeymoon

Jodie and Dizzy are in honeymoon at a hotel and meet another freshly wedded pair. The other guy has problems to copulate; it's his first time. The pair annoys them so much, that Jodie and Dizzy can't get at it and they leave early. Since Dizzy moved out from Stan, he seeks a new roommate. Finally Lenny moves in, and causes some adjustment problems. Alex wants Rita to move out from their parents, but she is annoyed from that. Finally she moves in with Hope in a fine apartment.

60 min

Nightmares

60 min

The Big Chance

Alex finds his long lost dad, and learns that he did not only leave one family. The store house where the band rehearsed is bought and they have to leave. What first looks like the end of the band due to missing financable room for rehearsal appears to be the big chance: they get the job as house band, although the owner is very annoying.

60 min