Without any context, background information, character names, knowledge of the story, or even awareness of which show this is, you can instantly guarantee that the recipient of this 'You better be dead!' text is finished. Alicia is your typical grouchy teen daughter, though her arty boyfriend Matt seemed kind enough. There's no way he'd stand her up on a romantic date at Venice Beach to watch the sunset, something he'd suggested earlier in the episode. There's even less chance of a teenage boy not replying to a girl's text. He's dead, right? I mean, there's no other reasonable explanation, unless he just forgot his charger... But how likely is that?