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Max
Rigney shows up for his first day of college with his father, Sam, who
is proud to show him the frat house of which he was once
president--the PIG House. Rafael meets them and introduces himself as
a student. Tess and Andrew join Rafael, noting that Sam is paying for
Max's education--but only if he goes to this school, pledges this
fraternity, and takes all the right courses. Walking around campus,
Sam is greeted by Monica; he recognizes her voice and has a troubling
flashback. He later discovers that Monica is a visiting philosophy
professor, and secretly determines that Max will have to stay away
from her--which shouldn't be a problem since he, Sam, has chosen Max's
coursework. But that night, Rafael helps Max make a decision of his
own and take one class his father hasn't chosen for him--Monica's
philosophy class. He tells his mother about it on the phone, and
mentions that he might not pledge PIG. He likes being his own
man--but that night, his father drives two hours back to campus to
demand Max drop the philosophy class and join the fraternity. So Max
pledges PIG and goes through all of the hazing rituals, but Monica is
able to convince him to stay in her class. That night, Max and Jamie
and Greg are locked in the clock tower by two frat brothers. Security
guard Andrew shows up and spends some time talking to Max. After Greg
and Max help Jamie through an asthma attack, the boys become fast
friends. Their last hazing ritual demands that if a pledge fails any
of the other challenges, he must drink 21 shots of tequila. When
Jamie fails the PIG history quiz, he decides to take the drinking
challenge. When he can't finish it, Greg finishes for him--drinks the
rest of the shots--and immediately passes out. The PIG brothers
convince Jamie to take the rap for the frat by saying he bought the
tequila. Jamie does so, knowing that if he doesn't he won't get in.
Greg is raced off to the hospital, and the next night, just after
Jamie and Max have been accepted into the fraternity, Jamie is
arrested. Max discovers that Greg is in a coma--and that when his
father was president of the fraternity, there was another controversy,
which Sam won't say much about (it is the troubling night he
remembered in his earlier flashback). Max visits Greg in the hospital
and receives a revelation from Rafael, who explains that just like in
the popular movie "The Matrix," there is more to this world than what
we can see. The other three angels appear, too, and encourage Max to
make his own decisions--right decisions, based on truth, not on going
along with his dad. They explain that the controversy Sam lied about
involved attempted rape and that his father has been lying ever
since. Max decides to confront his father, speak the truth to get
Jamie out of jail, and live in the truth--even if that means paying
for college himself.
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