The episode opens with Pete (Diego Boneta) confessing to Grace (Skyler Samuels) that he has been helping the Red Devils commit murder.
He'd crossed paths with them during the events of Hell Week, as he had been outside of the sorority house the night that Denise's (Niecy Nash) friend Shondell (Deneen Tyler) was murdered, and had agreed to help them in exchange for his own life.
Pete tries to justify himself by claiming that this helped him accomplish his task of bringing down the Greek system at the college and that Grace herself had even expressed some thoughts to this extent.
Meanwhile, many students have returned to campus to jeer Chanel (Emma Roberts), after she sent out a scathing e-mail rant to the other sorority members, calling them multiple expletives and insulting them for not showing up to help murder Dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Hester (Lea Michele) claims that she saw a girl with burned skin carrying a shovel, but this was dismissed immediately by Chanel to focus on the pizza delivery man.
Choosing not to dwell on the man's murder, Chanel decides to apologize to as many people as possible, the first of whom will be Melanie Dorkus (Brianne Howey), the former KKT president that got her skin burned by the tan spray in Pilot.
Terri Schwartz from IGN gave the episode a rating of 8.5, with the consensus "Scream Queens went heavy on plot in 'Dorkus,' but that didn't stop it from delivering some hilarious sequences.