Episode Report Card Megyn: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Poet's dead society
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.17.2001
Cut to the visiting room as Carrie changes Jewel into a fresh nappy. The infant is again swathed in pink. Carrie actually looks pretty. Not as trailer as before. Vern enters, she greets him, and he looks down at the wee peanut. I want to squeeze the baby because her cheeks are so chubby and cute. As an egg drops somewhere in southern California, Carrie picks Jewel up and offers her to Vern, who declines to her. "Something wrong?" Vern: "I'm going to ask you some serious questions…and I want the truth." Carrie: "Okay." "Put the baby down." At this point I was scared he was going to hit her, which would have sent me over the edge. She puts Jewel down, and the baby starts to cry. He tells her that it "came to [his] attention" that she worked the streets, and says he thinks she knows it isn't Hank's baby. She starts to protest that she doesn't know for sure that the baby isn't Hank's. She says the day Jewel was conceived, she slept with three men: Hank, and two out-of-town salesmen. She doesn't know which one is the father. She doesn't look pretty anymore. Maybe it was the lighting before. Now she has a face that would make a train back up and take a dirt road. Carrie pleads with Vern, "Don't she look like Hank?" Vern looks at the baby and storms out of the room.
The hole. McManus enters and asks Said to assure him that the Muslims will keep the peace as long as the Aryans will. Said sits in the corner and pets his throat while spitting and smiling. He tells McManus he can't assure him of anything, least of all the "good behavior" of his people. He babbles about what is going on, going on still. It doesn't make sense, but I think he just means that there's gonna be a rumble. That the fight is older than they are. McManus, irritated that he doesn't get his way, yells, "Maybe you need another couple of days in here!" Said yells his agreement. Tim storms out and goes to find his daily affirmation tapes.
Hill. Tempers. Sports. Hitting is the best part. Well, I agree that it is in ice hockey. But other than that, hitting is wrong.
The gym. McPainus shooting sad hoops. Cut to the locker room. Enter Dave, the equivalent of that ever-present, unrecognizable member of the Star Trek team sent to the foreign planet with Kirk to "explore." McManus asks him what he thinks about Jackson. Dave says he's a "stone bitch." The point? A scout from the Sacramento Kings is coming to watch Dave play, thanks to Tim, I guess. Cut to the lunchroom, where Poet gives Jackson a complimentary platter of seconds. Poet remarks on Dave's obvious talent. Jackson admits that he's good, but that he, meaning Jackson, is "too big for him" and that he'll win the second game for sure. They all laugh at their cleverness while we overhear the guards saying that if there is "no way to guard" Jackson, McManus won't win. Hmmm. What to do about that. They advance towards Jackson and tell him to pick up his tray, as he has gotten up to leave the table. Poet protests that he has it. The guards say no, "he buses his own tray," to which Jackson says, "Fuck that," and begins to walk away. They take him down by hitting him in the knees with their clubs. The inmates begin to protest, but the guards hold them at bay.