The Escape - S1-E7
Visible crew/equipment: During the Tijuana scenes, several times during and after the scene where Marissa catches Luke, you can see the shadow of the camera on the characters.
Visible crew/equipment: When the pimp and the girls start bowling and Ryan and Seth join Summer on the couch, there's a huge bobbing boom mix hanging centre screen.
Visible crew/equipment: At the beginning of the episode, where there is a shot of the poolhouse, look at the top right hand corner. You can see where the set ends.






Answer: He means that if Alex has to go so far as to forbid Ryan from seeing Marissa in order to maintain her relationship with her, their relationship obviously isn't working.