At First Clear Word

Season
4

Air Date	Viewers
February 3, 2015	1.24^[1]

Written by	Directed by
Lizzy Weiss Joy Gregory	Melanie Mayron

Episode Guide

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"At First Clear Word"^{[title 1]} is the fifth episode of ABC Family's Switched at Birth Season Four, and it is the seventy-ninth episode of the series overall. It was written by Lizzy Weiss and Joy Gregory, and it was directed by Melanie Mayron. It was originally aired on February 3rd, 2015.

Plot

After a night of drinking with her friend Tank (guest star Max Adler, “Glee”), Bay wakes to find that she doesn’t remember all the details of the night. She tries to piece together the events of the evening, but as she speaks with different people about the situation, what really happened may not be so clear. Professor Marillo (guest star Bess Armstrong, “My So-Called Life”) invites Daphne to a small gathering of students at her home.

ABC Family's Official Summary

Recap

To be added.

The Casts

Main

Recurring

Ryan Lane as Travis Barnes
Max Adler as Miles "Tank" Conroy
Rachel Shenton as Lily Summers
Austin Cauldwell as Josh Padden
Rana Roy as Vimla
Sarah Stouffer as Tess Ritter
Terrell Tilford as Eric
Shainu Bala as Brandon
Alex Wyse as Howie
Bess Armstrong as Professor Marillo

Guest

Emily Lawrence as Girl

Featured Music

Song	Artist	Notes	Link
Rah Rah Radio	The Delta Riggs	(Flashback) Bay, Tank and some other partygoers toast to 'freedom'.	YouTube
Happy Call	Thrust	(Flashback) Bay & Tank race in a chair race together.	YouTube
Got a Feeling	The Ladykillers	(Flashback - Tank) Bay lays down when Tank brings her water then they lay down together and look at the stars and planet stickers on the cling; They both make confessions to each other then kiss.	Official Site
I Seen Jesus	The Futures League	(Flashback - Bey) Bay lays down when Tank brings her water then they lay down together and look at the stars and planet stickers on the cling; They make confessions to each other then Tank kisses her.	YouTube
Pieces (Hushed)	Andrew Belle	Regina & Eric discuss their project with the post cards and table then begin to kiss then Eric invites Regina upstairs.	YouTube

Quotes

To be added.

Trivia

After a particular blackout, there's one scene that only focuses on Bay and Tank, which lasts for a full 5 minutes before the next blackout.

Gallery

Video Gallery

Switched at Birth - 4x5 Sneak Peek Daphne and her Study Group

Switched at Birth - 4x5 Official Preview Tuesdays at 9 8c on ABC Family!

Switched at Birth - 4x5 Sneak Peek Toby's Car

Switched at Birth - 4x5 Sneak Peek Regina and Eric

Navigational

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Season One

• This Is Not a Pipe • American Gothic • Portrait of My Father • Dance Amongst Daggers • Dogs Playing Poker • The Persistence of Memory • The Stag Hunt • Pandora's Box • Paradise Lost • The Homecoming • Starry Night • The Tempest • Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear • Les Soeurs d'Estrées • Expulsion From the Garden of Eden • Las Dos Fridas • Protect Me From What I Want • The Art of Painting • Write a Lonely Soldier • Game On • The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters • Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time • This Is the Color of My Dreams • The Intruder • The Shock of Being Seen • Tree of Forgiveness • The Declaration of Independence • We Are the Kraken of Our Own Sinking Ships • The Trail • Street Noises Invade the House

Season Two

• The Door to Freedom • The Awakening Conscience • Duel of Two Women • Dressing for the Charade • The Acquired Inability to Escape • Human/Need/Desire • Drive in the Knife • Tight Rope Walker ★ Uprising • Introducing the Miracle • Mother and Child Divided • Distorted House • The Good Samaritan • He Did What He Wanted ★ Ecce Mono • The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living • Prudence, Avarice, Lust, Justice, Anger • As The Shadows Deepen • What Goes Up Must Come Down • The Merrymakers • Departure of Summer

Season Three

• Drowning Girl • Your Body Is a Battleground • Fountain • It Hurts to Wait With Love if Love is Somewhere Else • Have You Really the Courage? • The Scream • Memory is Your Image of Perfection • Dance Me to the End of Love • The Past (Forgotten-Swallowed) • The Ambush • Love Seduces Innocence, Pleasure Entraps, and Remorse Follows • Love Among the Ruins • Like a Snowball Down a Mountain • Oh, Future • And We Bring the Light • The Image Disappears • Girl With Death Mask (She Plays Alone) • It Isn't What You Think • You Will Not Escape • Girl on the Cliff • And Life Begins Right Away ★ Yuletide Fortune Tellers

Season Four

• And It Cannot Be Changed • Bracing The Waves • I Lock the Door Upon Myself • We Were So Close That Nothing Used to Stand Between Us • At First Clear Word • Black and Gray • Fog and Storm and Rain • Art Like Love is Dedication • The Player's Choice • There is My Heart • To Repel Ghosts • How Does a Girl Like You get to be a Girl Like You ★ Between Hope and Fear • We Mourn, We Weep, We Love Again ★ Instead of Damning the Darkness, It's Better to Light a Little Lantern • Borrowing Your Enemy's Arrows • To the Victor Belong the Spoils • The Accommodations of Desire • A Mad Tea Party • And Always Searching for Beauty

Season Five
• The Call • This Has to Do with Me • Surprise • Relation of Lines and Colors • Occupy Truth • Four Ages in Life • Memory (The Heart) • Left in Charge • The Wolf is Waiting ★ Long Live Love

Title Reference

↑ From the 1923 painting, At the First Clear Word, by Max Ernst.

References

↑ Bibel, Sara (February 4, 2015). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Being Mary Jane' Wins Night, 'Moonshiners', 'The Haves and the Have Nots', 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Justified' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved February 4, 2015.

[2] From the 1923 painting, At the First Clear Word, by Max Ernst.

[1] Bibel, Sara (February 4, 2015). "Tuesday Cable Ratings: 'Being Mary Jane' Wins Night, 'Moonshiners', 'The Haves and the Have Nots', 'Pretty Little Liars', 'Justified' & More". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved February 4, 2015.

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