The Bodyguard

When Hannah arrives at the surveillance headquarters, she sees Robby and Taylor with their hands in each other’s back pockets. She asks where Glenn is, but he is in the city and does not answer his phone. While she is there, she learns that Jack’s Houston stalker has discovered where his house in the city is located and has left him gifts and spray-painted his windows. Hannah is more worried than the others by this development but still believes that the bodyguards have the situation under control, as the woman is not particularly threatening. As she is leaving, Robby tells her they have Glenn on the phone, but Hannah says she will call him later and unconsciously decides to stay.

Hannah briefs Jack about what is happening with his stalker, but he finds it hilarious and tells Hannah that he never laughs as much as he does when he is with her. She wants to convince him to take the situation more seriously, but she is spooked by a horse coming in their direction, and Jack says he cannot take her very seriously when she is scared by a horse. He introduces the horse to her as Clipper, an old circus horse who can do rodeo tricks. Jack convinces Hannah to take Clipper for a ride, marveling that she has never ridden a horse before. Feeling at ease with Jack, Hannah relates that she rode a horse one time in her past: on the last vacation her family took before her father left them forever. She is shocked that she admitted such a personal thing to a client when she had never told anyone about it before, but she feels some relief at doing so. She considers sharing more with him, but they are distracted by yelling coming from the house. Hank tells them that Connie has collapsed.

They rush Connie to the hospital with Hannah driving, and she only realizes once they are there that Jack is not wearing his usual baseball hat and sunglasses to conceal his appearance. She calls Robby to ask him to bring something that can disguise Jack, but by the time she goes inside, Hank and Jack are fighting and everyone is staring. Hank tells Jack that he does not deserve to be there after what he did to their family and wants Jack to leave. Before they can get into a physical altercation, Hannah stops Hank from punching Jack, surprising them all, and leads them to a more private hallway. She sees a group of teenagers with their phones out looking for Jack and manages to sneak him into a supply closet, where he changes into scrubs to get out of the hospital unnoticed. Jack gets a text saying that Connie is all right but is being kept for observation, and that he should go home. Hannah once again tries to ask what is going on between the brothers, and all Jack tells her is that Hank hates him because he survived the car accident while Drew died.

When Connie returns from the hospital, Hannah is surprised that everything seems to be going well and that even she herself is starting to feel more relaxed. Pictures of Jack at the hospital have yet to surface, and Connie starts feeling better. Hannah bonds with Jack’s parents and starts to feel like she is becoming part of the family. As she gets closer to Jack, he tells her what it is really like to be famous, saying that he does not feel truly loved by his fans because they do not know who he really is. He also worries that his fame has made him narcissistic. Hannah knows that she is letting herself fall in love with Jack and his family but does not know how to stop it.

One day, Jack tells Hannah that he has noticed her always humming the same song and he has found out what song it was. He plays Mama Cass’s “Dream a Little Dream of Me” for her, and she recognizes it as a song her mother used to sing when she was happy, but one that she has not heard since her father left. She begins to cry and confesses that her mom started drinking and dating abusive men after her dad left. She tells Jack that on the night of her eighth birthday, her mother was abused by one such boyfriend as punishment for protecting Hannah, who was hiding in her closet and listening to everything happening right outside her bedroom. She asked her mom if they were going to leave, but her mom said no, and Hannah has not felt safe since. She tells Jack about the safety pin she was going to give her mother that day and how she recently found it again right after her mother’s death. Jack comforts her and pulls her into a hug even when no one else can see them pretending to be a couple.

A photo of Jack at the hospital finally surfaces online, and his security detail bumps up his threat level. Hannah has started checking in at the surveillance office daily, and one day, Glenn berates her, Robby, and Taylor for causing drama on the job. (Robby had just broken up with Taylor, an event that prevented Taylor from getting any work done.) Robby confesses to Glenn that he made a mistake by breaking up with Hannah and that he has been watching security footage of Hannah and Jack together, a task that Glenn purposely assigned to Robby in order to punish him for having a relationship with a co-worker. Robby then turns on Hannah and ridicules her for thinking that Jack might like her. He tells her that he wanted to get back together even when he was busy accusing her of being too ugly for Jack at the beginning of the assignment. Hannah is still mad at him but acknowledges that Robby was right about her mistake in believing that Jack might actually have feelings for her. She begins to believe that Jack is always acting with her, when she is always being truthful, and she feels like she can no longer maintain the façade.