The Listener Recap – Lisa Says – Season 1 Episode 5 - air date 7-2-09. In this episode, Toby and Oz (more Toby than Oz, of course!) try to intervene in the case of Daniel a young street boy that they think may be involved in a series of drugstore burglaries. Daniel is staying with an older street-wise individual that Toby thinks may be influencing him.

To add a little interest, Toby becomes concerned about Lisa, a young runaway that is staying in a youth homeless shelter. He thinks that she may have some to some harm. The woman that runs the shelter finally admits that, against her own house rules, she paid Lisa’s bus fare back home. This sets Toby off on a journey of telephone calls to try and locate Lisa’s parents, and see if she has made it home. He finally locates her mother, and no, she has not made it home!

Meanwhile, Oz is out there trying on caps, jackets, and tennis shoes, in an effort to look “cool”. It seems he has saved the life of a musician (rapper?), and wants to be like him. He even has his own demo CD’s made.

Toby’s contact in the police force is visiting a known drug dealer, who seems not to have been in trouble for over a year. This makes her think that perhaps he is having other people do the stealing for him (i.e. Danny).

Meanwhile, Lisa’s mother hits town. She wants to know where her daughter is. Toby’s police contact tries to keep him from telling the mother that he thinks Lisa may be dead. Toby, his contact and the mother go to visit Danny, just in case he knows something about Lisa that he might not be telling. Hold on to your hat – Danny IS Lisa! Lisa/Danny’s mother is in denial, but Danny insists that he has known from the age of six that he was really male.

Danny takes off from the apartment, and is yanked into a car by the drug dealer and the individual whose apartment he is living in. They take off to plan another pharmacy break in – only this time Danny is supposed to be killed – by the individual whose apartment he has been living in!

The robbery takes place, the guy does try to kill Danny, but he does not succeed. The police get there in time to arrest both individuals, and save Danny.

Do you want to know why “Danny” agreed to steal drugs? Because he could not afford the drugs that he needs to take to facilitate becoming a male, so he stole the next best thing. Toby had this figured out, as he went through Danny’s things after Danny ran out of the apartment. Danny’s mother wants Danny to come home with her, and wants the two of them to go into counseling (with the same person that Lisa had been seeing). She says that she will try and cope with the sex change. Danny says that he loves his mother, but that he needs to stay where he is for now.

Back to Oz – he is trying to get into a gig put on by the musician whose life he saved. He and Toby are denied entrance. The musician himself is driven up (they never drive themselves, you know!), and Oz reminds him that he is the person that saved his life. He hands the man one of his demo’s – which the guy autographs and hands back to him! Toby shakes the man’s hand, and they leave. Oz, to say the least, is not happy! However, Toby tells him that he slipped a demo into the guy’s jacket when he shook his hand, so the Oz man is smiling again!