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"Where's Richelle?" (also known as "Hospital Visit") is the 14th and final episode of The Off Season: Season 2.
Synopsis[]
"Michelle and Emily visit a recovering Richelle in the hospital while the rest of A-Troupe is auditioning for the Stacy Carpenter Scholarship. But why are they acting weird?"[1]
Plot[]
Richelle is sitting in a patient lounge area. She confesses that when she got home after performing in the Regionals qualifier video, she knew something was wrong with her hip, so her parents took her to the hospital. She reveals that she was terrified her dance career was over, but she is now weeks away from a full recovery from her snapping hip syndrome.
Michelle reveals that she and Emily were fired by Miss Kate.
Michelle and Emily enter and greet Richelle. They give her a pot of flowers as a gift, and Emily apologizes for not taking her out of the qualifier video. Michelle confesses that after Kate found out they let Richelle dance with a hip injury, both she and Emily were fired. She is clearly bitter about it, and pointedly assures Richelle that she had no idea she was injured. Richelle assures them that they should not feel guilty, as it was her own fault; she confesses that she should have listened to Lola, as her warning that she would regret hiding her injury came true.
Richelle tells Michelle and Emily that she will definitely be coming back to The Next Step.
Richelle confirms that she is definitely returning to The Next Step Dance Studio, and she has no intention of letting Michelle and Emily down again. She asks how things are at the studio; not wanting to admit they were fired, Michelle and Emily hesitantly claim everything is fine. Their strange behaviour makes Richelle worry that they have replaced her, but Michelle assures her they would never do that. Just as they are leaving, Emily suddenly declares again that "Everything is fine", and the studio is just as Richelle remembers it. Richelle confesses that it feels like Michelle and Emily are lying to her, and she hopes things really are OK at The Next Step.
Trivia[]
- This episode was released as "Hospital Visit" on The Next Step's YouTube channel.
- Richelle is currently recovering from her snapping hip syndrome, and will be able to return to dance in a few weeks.
- Michelle and Emily are no longer co-studio heads of The Next Step Dance Studio.
- This is the only episode of The Off Season: Season 2 that doesn't revolve around the Stacy Carpenter Scholarship.
Continuity[]
- Richelle refers both to when she develops snapping hip syndrome and to when Lola repeatedly asks her not to dance, all of which occurs in Season 5.
- Michelle refers to the fact that Emily knew about Richelle's hip and that she herself did not, both of which were established in "Pointe of No Return".
Production errors[]
- In the establishing shot of the hospital at the start of the episode, the large blue lettering displayed on the top of the building reads MEDICAL CENTER (U.S. spelling) instead of MEDICAL CENTRE (Canadian spelling). This implies that either 'centre' is spelled the American way in the TNS universe, or the show's production team inadvertently used stock footage of an American hospital's exterior.
Cast[]
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Featured music[]
Transcript[]
- Main article: Where's Richelle?/Transcript
Quotes[]
- Main article: Where's Richelle?/Quotes
Gallery[]
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