Episode Report Card Deborah: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "The Lamps Are Different, But The Light Is The Same"
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.23.2004
Behind a short brick wall enclosing the patio of an eatery that's closed for renovations, Luke and Grace are…making out furiously. Yep. Frink: "Lasted all summer? I'm impressed." Luke has his glasses off. He's so cute. I think Michael Welch has grown a lot since last season. Grace (whose hair is a little longer and much less greasy-looking than when we first met her, but still doesn't give the impression she cares too much -- it's cute) is surreptitiously glancing at her watch, eventually informing Luke, "You're into overtime." Luke begs, "Five more minutes." Grace: "You've used up all your minutes." Luke: "What am I, a cell phone?" Grace: "No, but you are a service provider." Hee. They kiss some more and Grace (who's sitting on her skateboard) finally pushes herself away, declaring, "Okay, that is definitely it." Luke: "Do I really only get five minutes a day?" Grace: "Minimum. Did you even read it?" Luke: "You know, actually I was so thrown by having to sign a confidentiality contract -- I may have skimmed." Grace: "That's your mistake. You signed it." Luke protests, "But look, if you're my girlfriend…" Grace makes a lot of unrenderable noises of resistance, saying, "Don't start using the g-word, or the b-word, or any gender-related coupling word. That was Article 4 under Public and Private Verbalization." So both Grace and Joan have g-word issues. Luke smacks his hands to his head and asks what this is about, whether she's ashamed of him. Grace: "Yeah. Take it or leave it." Harsh. So, then…why are you in it, Grace? As she stands up, she notices someone and asks, "Dude, is that your mother?" Luke sneers, "Yeah, great diversionary tactic…" She takes his chin in her hand and points his face in the right direction. They see Helen pacing back and forth in front of a café called Mocha Mike's. Luke: "Oh, God, that is my mother. What is she doing here?" Grace doesn't care: "Let's jet." He stands there staring, and Grace comes back to grab him: "Hey! Hardy Boy!" They duck away.
Helen, who's clearly waiting for someone, finally decides to ask another loiterer -- a younger, tattooed woman in black leather with multicoloured hair who's smoking -- if there's any chance she's Lily Waters. Turns out she is: "You Helen?" Helen doesn't say anything; Lily, being the perceptive type, realizes there may be a few reasons Helen's speechless and put outs her cigarette, remarking, "I know, it's killing me. The body is a temple, I know. It's my sin. One of 'em, anyway." Helen's still standing there with her mouth hanging open. Lily: "Are you okay?" Helen finally asks, "Uh…Sister Lily Waters?" They shake hands as Lily says, "Nice to meet you. Father Ken says you're 'cool.'" Helen stammers over her words, "I didn't know that they let nuns do that." Lily: "Former nun. I left. I was not kicked out. I left." Helen seems unconvinced. Lily explains: "Look, you remember The Sound of Music? That's the kind of nun I was. Only it was surfing instead of spinning on a hillside. Uh, so…you wanna be confirmed in the Church." Helen says she's thinking about it. Lily invites her inside. Lily looks like the only Sisters of Mercy she'd know anything about are the ones with a record deal.