PREVIOUSLY, ON ANACRUSIMATIDIA:

“I can’t believe it,” says Duane, awestruck in voiceover, as we see a girl looking shifty and ducking out of school. “Annista said she’d go to the dance with me!”

Cut to two kids in baggy jeans. “Ain’t nothin’ to do when you’re from the wrong side of the tracks,” says one.

But Emilio looks determined. “Then maybe we’ll bring the tracks to them!”

Fade out on the mysterious dude from East High, watching it all…

AND NOW TONIGHT’S EPISODE

“Looks like this year’s prom theme,” says the detective grimly, “was knives… in white stabbin’.”

NEXT TIME, ON