Episode Report Card Niki: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Can you say "anticlimactic"?
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.06.2001
The two emerge through the swinging doors, holding hands. Jake stands when he sees them, and moves to Benny, saying that they have to call for help. Benny flatly denies the request. "This woman is in trouble!" Jake insists. The negotiator listens, then moves to whisper something to the captain. He springs into action, and pretty soon, I think it's going to look like a row of toppling dominoes out there as all the cops ready themselves to bust in. Lily runs over, demanding to know what's going on.
"Benny, would you look at her? She can't breathe. Now give me the phone," Jake orders. The captain speaks into the bullhorn: "Benjamin Janetty!" Benny pops up, looking surprised. "What's happening?" Lily shrieks, looking helplessly around for someone who'll answer. Captain Bullhorn: "This is Captain John Patterson of the Chicago police." Jake lunges for Benny, demanding that he give him "the damn phone. She can't breathe!" Benny backs away and furrows his brow in denial: "What are you talking about? She can breathe." Jake insists that she's going to die if she doesn't get help soon. Captain Bullhorn: "We know that one of the hostages is very ill. If you do not allow medical personnel to enter the building, we will do it by force." Nice going, bigmouth. Now Benny knows there's been a leak, and it takes him a surprisingly short amount of time to realize it's the cell phone. The captain repeats his order to let the sick woman go. Rick and Lily cling to each other in the parking lot, rocking back and forth. Benny looks at the cell phone, bellows, "This thing's on," and whips it as hard as he can across the restaurant. He jabs the gun at Jake, declaring, "Okay. You're in trouble."
Benny strides toward the rest of the hostages, ordering them to move, and screaming at them to hurry up. He corrals them toward the front door, where they press helplessly against the glass. Lily and Rick stare in horror as the captain orders the officers to "stand down." Spencer and Grace hover over Nana, who's been carried to the door. Jake checks up on her, then stands and glares disgustedly at Benny. After a second, he says, "All right, this is ridiculous. This has to stop." Benny orders him to shut up. Jake's hit the boiling point, though, and says, "No, you shut up." Then his rage boils over, and he shouts, "You shut up! I'm sick of this! If you're going to act like an idiot, you're going to hear what I have to say about it." Benny levels the gun at Jake's chest: "I'm telling you: stop!" Jake's on a roll, though, and hell, he knocked up his barren ex-girlfriend, so what's a little bullet? He gestures at the hostages and says, "Look at them. They are scared to death. How dare you! How dare you involve them with your problems? Is that what your father taught you?" Benny reels backward a half step. He wavers and looks confused, asking, "What?" Jake continues, "These people, they did nothing to you. Okay, I did, so fine, keep me here. But the rest of this, Benny, it's irresponsible, all right? I'm not going to stand for it anymore." Benny wags his finger, and has a little tantrum: "You can't talk to me like that!" Jake snaps, "Why not? 'Cause it's the truth?" Benny can't meet Jake's gaze. Jake orders him to look at him, right at him. Benny reluctantly does.
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