Doug confronts the bartender. In fact he punches him. Bartender admits he deserved it but they are even now. Casey gets her license. Sam visits college. Elsa cuts some hair. Julia is in his office when something slides under the door. It’s an invitation to Sam’s graduation. He’s in the waiting room. She steps out and talks to him. At dinner that night, Sam announces that he is completely independent now and wants no assistance with anything.
The next morning, Elsa goes to wake him up but he’s already up. He runs into a few road blocks but he gets his own breakfast. Casey is blowing Izzie off. Sam gets to school and tells Paige he is independent now. After school he continues the trend with Zahid, who he also invites to graduation. Elsa tries to have a heart to heart with Casey about her potential interest in women but Casey gets embarrassed. She’s still ignoring Izzie when she starts to kiss Evan. She initiates sex.
As the school year draws to a close, Sam gets his yearbook and starts to pass it around. He gets some nice messages but other people are just vicious. They write cruel things and set Sam off. He tries to get a new one but the girl handing them out won’t give it to him. He knocks down the table and storms away. Elsa is at home when she gets a call from Sam’s boss. He never showed up to work and now she is freaking out. Doug tries to calm her down. Casey knows what happened though. She talked to Paige.
Doug knows where to find him and sure enough they have a family moment near the penguins at the aquarium. Soon enough its graduation day and as they head to the school, Casey texts Izzie. Elsa finds the flyer that Doug got from the bar her dude was at. She confronts him about it once the kids get out of the car. She wants to know if he will ever get over it. He doesn’t know what to say. Graduation starts and Paige is late which is unlike her. Evan and Casey talk about getting together after she hangs out with Izzie. He wants to have sex.
It’s time for Paige’s speech but she can’t talk. Her voice is gone because she yelled so much at all the people that wrote in Sam’s yearbook. Sam doesn’t know it though. He just sees that his friend can’t do her speech so he gets up and does it for her. He does well and his family and friends are proud of him. Elsa tells Doug that they need to talk about everything. They will have the house to themselves that night so they can do it then.
Sam is packing for the lockin. Paige gets there to head to the school and just wants to know how he did her speech. He tells her he thought about it and realized that he’s in love with her. Then he grabs his stuff and heads out to go to the school leaving Paige standing alone in his room shocked. Doug tells someone about how he’s tried to get over things and move on but he can’t. Turns out he isn’t talking to Elsa though. He’s telling Wendy and she invites him in to talk.
Casey and Izzie are in the car. Casey mentions that she had sex with Evan and that sometimes something feels so right. As they sit in the car, staring forward, they both reach into the space between and link first their pinkies and then their hands. Casey’s phone rings. It’s Evan. She ignores it.
YES! They are madly in love and will totally be together next season. I also want more of Casey and Zahid being besties next season. I’m assuming there will be a next season. Elsa thinks that she’s been patient and Doug needs to just get over things. Um no. That’s not how that works. She’s heinous.