Suede comes clean about Dylan. Then she posts the TikTok. Then she shows up to the beach between his legs.
The Setup
Episode 3 is the one where everyone finds out what they already suspected and has to decide what to do about it. The Kiki-Chella fallout is still fresh, the TikTok drops in the middle of it, and by the time the beach day is over, the group has rearranged itself around a fault line that did not exist three episodes ago. Suede and Dylan on one side. Jemma and Nicole on the other. Everyone else picking a lane.
Lunch at The Six Social House
Preston and Jemma are the first ones there. He brought cookies — something that is becoming a signature move — and they sit down to debrief Kiki-Chella before Suede arrives. Jemma says she thinks she scared everyone a little that night. Preston tells her she’s good, that it was just a buildup of emotions. He adds that he has been seeing everything clearly because he is not drinking — a detail worth noting.
Jemma asks about Alexie. Preston says he dropped her off, she lives close, they just caught up for a second. Then he drops the actual news: Dylan left with Suede. He hung out with Dylan the next day and Dylan said they Ubered or something. Jemma asks if Preston thinks anything happened. He says he doesn’t think so — but the way he says it isn’t convincing, and Jemma clocks it immediately.
Suede walks in and joins them in the booth.
She gets ahead of it before anyone can say a word. She tells Jemma she wants her to hear it from her before she hears it from anyone else: she gave Dylan a ride home from the party. She would have done the same for anyone in the group. She doesn’t want Jemma to take it personally or think anything crazy went on. Preston mentions that Dylan said he Ubered. Suede is confused as to why he would lie about that. Jemma wonders if he is keeping it a secret because he thinks it is more than what it is. Suede: “Oh, honey, he wishes. He needs like five more years to cook if he wants even a little bit of a chance.”
Suede’s Grill on Jemma
Then Suede does something more unexpected. She tells Jemma directly that at Kiki-Chella, when Jemma came up to her to ask what was going on with her and Dylan, she felt something. She asks Jemma if there are still feelings there. Jemma says she wants to give Suede some context.
What follows is one of the episode’s most honest exchanges. Jemma explains that Dylan’s pattern — going after her friends — is not random to her. In her experience, it has always been followed by him turning those friends against her. When she sees him gravitating toward the people she loves, her brain goes straight to: he is going to make me the crazy one again. Suede tells her that if Dylan ever said anything about her, she would stand up for her. Preston tells her that the friends who did her dirty in the past do not represent the people she has now.
Then Suede says the part that catches Jemma off guard. She tells her she saw a different side of Dylan at Kiki-Chella — vulnerable, sweet, caring — and that she wanted to apologize to him for how she came at him at Jemma’s party. She says the growth he has shown since getting sober is worth a second chance. She doesn’t want to be in a position where she cannot sit next to Dylan because she is friends with Jemma. “As a big sister,” she tells her, “I need you to move on and show him that you’re better than that.”
Jemma’s Perspective
Jemma tells the cameras later that she was thrown off by the switch. “It’s not just a guy that ghosted me on Snapchat. It’s almost like now it’s my word against his.” She gets emotional. “He didn’t break my heart. He literally tore me apart. I dyed my hair like four different colors in the span of like three months just so I could feel pretty because he made — I didn’t know who I was. I felt worthless. And when someone makes you feel like that, it’s hard to go back to, like, ‘oh, I’m sure you’re a nice guy now.’”
Then she lands the line that defines her arc this episode: “And if he’s changed, where the f—k is my apology?”
The Ranch
Hercy and Sterling join Dylan at the ranch. Hercy rides one of the horses. They sit down at a table and talk.
Hercy tells Dylan and Sterling about the pressure of being Master P’s son — how people expect him to be a rapper, how every misstep in basketball gets framed as proof that his dad’s name means nothing. Without hard work, none of it is possible.
Dylan talks about leaving after high school, getting lost in the scene, and how coming back has a lot of things resurfacing for him. He talks about Suede — how she apologized at Kiki-Chella and how that caught him off guard. He tells the cameras: “To see her not hold what happened at Jemma’s against me was nice. Older women really have their shit together. Mommy as f—k, you know? Just what you want.”
He tells the boys she’s cute. Hercy says he loves his taste.
They talk about Kimora and Hercy’s situation. Hercy describes it the same way Dylan describes Jemma — a late night snack, nothing more. He says he is on to bigger and better things. When Dylan asks if anyone else is on his radar beyond Emilie, Hercy says no — he already put himself out there for Emilie and he just wants to see where that goes.
Shopping at Paige
Jemma and Kimora head to Paige, the boutique where Jemma’s uncle owns the store — meaning they shop for free. Jemma tells the cameras that growing up in Calabasas means your parents own stores or are part of a band or know someone famous and that it’s a great network to have.
They try on clothes and talk. Jemma says Kiki-Chella was the first time she has ever clapped in someone’s face. “It was fun. Might do it again.” Kimora, referring to Emilie: “Sorry. You decided to play stupid games, so guess what? You get stupid prizes. Kiki-Chella version, b—ch.” Jemma is shocked that anyone is giving Emilie the benefit of the doubt.
Kimora tells the cameras: “That moment, I realized my best friend was never my real friend. And it makes me question — was she always like this, or was she just gaslighting me this entire time?”
Pilates & the TikTok
Alexie, Emilie, and Emma are at Robin’s Pilates. After the workout, they sit with Erewhon smoothies and debrief Kiki-Chella from the other side.
Emilie says she didn’t know how to gauge the situation — Kimora got emotional during the confrontation and Jemma became unhinged. She tells the cameras: “Every bad situation or drama there’s been — ah, bingo. The denominator is Jemma every single time. I’ve never seen Kimora behave this way before, and Jemma just seems to bring out the worst in everyone.”
They move to lighter territory. Alexie is questioned about Preston. She says they’ve been flirting since they were 14. Emma asks if it’s like siblings. Alexie says: “I don’t think you would kiss your siblings.” The kiss was in high school. If Preston wants to shoot his shot, she says, he needs to shoot it.
Emma talks about her and Dylan — their history turned into nothing quickly, and she’s not going to hold him back from pursuing someone else.
Then Alexie checks her phone and her jaw drops.
It is a TikTok. Suede, doing the “something to take the edge off” trend with a guy whose face is not visible — but whose tattoos give him away immediately. Emma tells the cameras: “I think it could be sexually insinuating something, but — actually, maybe that sentence kind of ends there. It’s a bit messy on Suede’s end because she knows that Dylan has drama with Jemma. Dylan has drama with me. Yeah, that was a pretty messy TikTok.”
Nicole’s Apartment
Nicole is filming a GRWM when Jemma arrives. They talk about the TikTok — specifically the laughing face, which Jemma reads as passive aggressive. Nicole says she can’t believe Suede did this. It’s so different from the Suede she knows.
Nicole tells the cameras: “Something has to be so wrong in the world for Suede to like Dylan. Like, there’s no way. You go from an A-list celebrity, like Drake, to Dylan? My brain can’t comprehend why. I just feel so sad for Jemma because I feel like she thought that after high school, she’d be able to escape this whole Dylan thing, and all the friends she’s making keep stabbing her in the back the exact same way.”
Jemma does an impression of Suede’s voice: “Babe, that kid needs at least five more years to cook” — then: “And then you’re literally going to hard launch him?” Nicole says she keeps making excuses for Suede because they love her. Jemma gets emotional. She tells Nicole she thought, for once, she had a real friend. She was a naïve girl who thought she was going to get her Troy Bolton and her happily ever after, and instead she got slapped in the face. Nicole holds her.
Nicole tells Jemma the most powerful thing she can do is not react — giving Dylan a reaction gives him everything he needs to turn everyone against her. Jemma says she won’t throw the friendship with Suede away. “That’s the thing. I’m so loyal. I won’t. I still see her. That’s why I’m hurt.”
The Beach Day
Point Dume, Malibu. Most of the group is there. Jemma and Nicole arrive together. Jodie and Kimora greet them.
Then Suede and Dylan show up together. Dylan settles into a beach chair. Suede sits on the sand between his legs. The group plays catchphrase, and Suede flirts openly — sitting in his lap, laying her head on his legs, rubbing his legs, telling him she still has his Chrome hoodie. When she gets up to grab her purse from the girls’ side of the circle, Dylan watches her walk away and says “missed you” when she returns.
Suede says hi ladies, grabs her bag, and walks straight back to Dylan without sitting down. Nicole moves things to make room for her. She doesn’t stay.
The Nicole & Jemma Talk
Nicole pulls Jemma to talk by the water. Jemma, quietly: “I’m sorry, but Suede, that f—king weird b—ch, started this whole mess, preaching like she’s my big sister — ‘I’ve got you, this guy’s a piece of shit, you deserve better.’ I didn’t expect her to do this.”
On the other side of the beach, Preston tells Dylan that Jemma is feeling some type of way about the situation. Dylan: “She can kick sand all the way up the coast.” He asks Preston about Alexie. Preston admits he needs to put more effort in.
The Nicole & Suede Talk
Nicole calls Suede over for a one-on-one. The conversation that follows is the episode’s best scene and its most revealing. Nicole tells Suede that Jemma is hurt — not because Suede did something criminal, but because Suede was the one standing there saying Dylan was trash, and now she is sitting between his legs at the beach. Suede’s response: “But for her, it’s like, girl, why are you getting upset over a man that won’t claim you?”
Nicole asks Suede directly if she likes Dylan. Suede says she thinks he is a really handsome boy and she actually cares about him. Nicole asks if she is going to explore it. Suede: “Maybe. And if I do, so be it.”
Nicole tells her she wishes she had gone about it differently. Suede: “The shit happened five years ago. That’s not my issue. Not my monkeys, not my circus.” Nicole: “Really? It’s just a hurt girl who’s like, ‘damn, I thought this was my big sis. Now she’s hanging with my ex.’ You just so easily break the girl code.” Suede: “There is no girl code.” Nicole: “Okay. We’re friends. You guys are friends.” Suede: “100%, girl.” Nicole: “If you would do that to her, you would do that to me.” Suede: “No.” Nicole: “And I don’t want to feel that way ever about you.” Suede: “If it was you, that’s one thing. But I don’t really know her like that.”
Nicole, steady: “So you don’t consider Jemma one of your friends, really?”
Suede’s Perspective
Suede tells the cameras she is tired of everyone refusing to move on from high school. She says Dylan is too kind-hearted to play games. But she also says when she heard Nicole put herself in Jemma’s shoes and wondered what she would do if Suede did the same to her, it broke her to pieces. “Nicole will be there for you. But if you want to go tit-for-tat right now — if Nicole really wanted to pick sides, I know what side she’d pick. She’d pick the right one.”
Nicole’s Perspective
Nicole to the cameras: “She didn’t think she owes Jemma anything. But she did tell me she owes me something. So I do think she still has values for her friends. I’m just confused about what she considers a friend.”
What Episode 3 Was Actually About
Episode 3 is about the difference between loyalty and ownership, and how hard it is to tell them apart when you are the one who got hurt. Jemma is not wrong that Suede’s pivot stings. Suede is not wrong that Jemma doesn’t own Dylan’s future. Nicole is not wrong that the most powerful move is not reacting — but she is also the one in the middle again, holding information for both sides and calling it love for both of them.
The beach ends without a confrontation. Everyone packs up and leaves. Dylan got exactly what he said he wasn’t playing for.
Calabasas Confidential Season 1 is streaming now on Netflix.
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