Their reception venue, however, is the white-walled villa of a Russian oligarch. If Valentina pressed a daguerreotype into Craig's palm at the altar, it wouldn’t have felt out of place. It’s an off-to-war ritual that invokes simpler times and simpler international conflicts. Craig impulsively asks Valentina to marry him before he deploys hours later, we’re at their wedding. The rest of the episode’s hour is divided between haphazard, youthful romance and the gang's customary hedonistic bubble. “I just hope you handle yourself better over there,” Danny tells him later, still on the opposite side of that understanding. He’s playing a children’s game, and these are his last few hours in a world where winning and losing don't matter. In contrast, when Craig has a clear shot to stop Caitlin from capturing his team's flag, he doesn’t take it. In a macho violation of the 3-shot rule, Danny and Sam fire round after merciless round into Fraser, who they blame for the changes they see in Caitlin. The gang, including Craig’s young Italian girlfriend Valentina (Beatrice Barichella), is at the paintball park, playing make-believe war. The episode starts the day before that happens.

By day, he’s a soldier in the US Army, and in the most recent episode of We Are Who We Are, he ships out to Afghanistan. In fact, the show has been so languorously suspended in time it’s possible to forget that Craig (Corey Knight) is only moonlighting as a teenager abroad. Hearts get broken and feelings get hurt, but the same kids - Caitlin, Danny, Britney, Sam, Craig, and now Fraser - party on. The main difference, of course, is that the politicking among the high school set is inconsequential. The adult and teenaged universes of We Are Who We Are have mostly existed in unnerving parallel, each defined by their own inscrutable hierarchies, rife with in-groups and outcasts. Spoilers ahead for We Are Who We Are Season 1 Episode 4.

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