Episode Report Card Niki: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Losing You
By Niki | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.07.2002
It's the next morning when we return from commercials. Rick is in the driveway with his head under the hood of Lily's truck. Bea wanders out, coffee mug in hand, to see what he's doing. He informs her that he's "switching out a fan belt." Bea asks if they couldn't just do that for him at the dealership. Her mechanic must wet himself when he sees her roll in. Rick answers that they could, if he wanted to pay three times what it's worth. "Jake's good with cars, too," Bea says, wielding her tact like a two-by-four. Rick looks up, a bit of grease artfully smeared across his cheek, and bites back his first reaction. Instead, he says, "That's great." He almost keeps the sarcasm out of his voice. He returns to the engine, silently willing her to go far, far away. "Lily tells me that you two get along," Bea says. Rick grunts with the strain of tightening something and says that Jake is a "good guy." Bea says, "You know, in my day, exes didn't mingle. It just seems so strange." Rick stops wrenching the engine and says, "What is? People getting along?" Clearly, for Bea, that is a foreign concept. She laughs and says, "Well, it's just...odd!" She asks if he's coming in for breakfast. He says he's not quite done yet. "Well, I hate to think of you out here all alone," she says. "I kind of like it, actually," he says. She misses the point and chuckles, "You men!" So, men always want to be alone when Bea comes around. Shocking. She heads back to the house, passing Lily on the stoop. "Morning," Lily says stonily, not even looking in Bea's direction. Bea pauses to tell her, "He won't come in. I tried." Lily just bites her tongue and steams in Rick's direction.
"Every time she comes out here, I think it's going to be different. I really do!" Lily mutters to Rick. "But she is just...so...like...." Words can't express it, apparently, so Lily lets her body do the talking, jerking and agitating all over the place. It's actually pretty funny. Rick doesn't even blink. He just lifts a hand and tries to soothe her by reminding her that Bea will be gone in two more days. Lily says she doesn't know what she's so upset about. "It's just...I need to make love to you," she says abruptly. He can't believe what he's hearing. This is better than porn. "Now?" he asks. "Yes, now," she says, all business. "You sure that now is a --" Lily shuts him up by ramming her tongue halfway to his intestines. It's effective. She grabs him and urgently runs her hands through his hair. After a few seconds, she breaks away, grabbing his hand and pulling him to the side of the truck. She throws open the back door and shoves him inside, despite his weak protests that she's insane. She piles in on top of him, wrenching down the zipper on her hoodie and devilishly agreeing with him. As they disappear from view behind the seats, we see Judy's car pull in the driveway behind them. "What's that?" Lily hisses. Rick's head pops above the seat. He reports that it's Judy. Lily's hand yanks him back down. Her head appears in his place. She disappears behind the seat as Judy emerges from her car, cake box in hand.