FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS -- "Lets Get It On"
 I guess this week things are supposed to go back to normal for our friends in Odessa, Texas. Coach Eric’s (Kyle Chandler) finally back to doing what he does best, coaching the Panther’s. If for one second you thought that would establish the stasis everyone once knew in Odessa, well, you’re an idiot. Hello? This is a television drama, so nothing can go back to normal.
Riggins has called Lyla to help him stop street from getting that ridiculous shark cell injection to help regenerate his ability to use his legs. Sorry Street, but I am not sure if anyone ever told you this, but if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. Not to mention the fact that STREET IS NOT AN X-MAN AND JUST A STUPID HICK FROM SOME SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS. Lyla and Street realize that Riggins didn’t tell either one that the Street was unaware that she was coming. Lyla was put off at first, but eventually agrees to stay—even though she is against most of the things Street and Riggins are up to in Mexico. Riggins arranges a booze cruise for the three to go on where Lyla and Riggins can attack Street with the truth. During the cruise Street agrees not to go through with the surgery and then throws himself into the ocean. Later on he washes up on the shore where Lyla and Riggins find him alive. Street is just sick of missing out on living, and who can blame him?
Coach Erin’s is getting hit on all fronts. His team continues to fall apart and his star players are going to war with one another. Meanwhile, his wife, Tami, (Connie Britton) is disinterested in playing sexy times with him even though she’s gotten the green light from the doctor to start participating in the bump and grind. Mostly, Eric’s really frustrated this entire episode. He does everything in his power to get his team to collect itself and find it’s center. Doing this he notices a new player he calls Lance, which is actually Landry. During his first game back as coach he has to bench Matt (Zach Gilford) & Smash as they refuse to work together or really with anyone. They’ve lost their sense of team. Even though they are losing, Eric plays Landry who does everything in his power to help the team win—including using basic algebraic logic to help the team find themselves, “Maybe the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”
Speaking of Landry, his father, Officer Clarke, starts doing some basic math of his own and realizes that Tyra (Adrianne Palicki) probably has something to do with the death of the man they found in the river. Officer Clarke finds Tyra and tells her to stay away from his son, and she obliges
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