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
Cut to the kitchen, where Giancarlo and Benny are about to come to blows. "I'm warning you," Benny says. Giancarlo echoes him mockingly and adds, "I'm so scared you leetle retard!" Hey now, that's not very nice. Giancarlo's about to throw a punch when Jake comes through the swinging door behind him and grabs his arm. He sternly orders Giancarlo to "get out front. Now!" Benny stammers that Giancarlo pushed him, and that he was just doing what Jake asked. Jake's not interested in explanations, and wearily tells Benny to go home. Benny is agape at the injustice, pleading with Jake that it wasn't his fault. Jake crouches to pick up the smashed dishes as one of the waitresses pushes open the door to inform him of some new crisis on the floor. Jake turns back to Benny, who's still standing there looking stunned, and tells him again to go home. "Am I fired, Mr. Manning?" Benny asks, rocking back and forth a little. Jake says they'll talk about it tomorrow, but that Benny needs to go and "cool off." Benny bounces from one foot to the other, blinks a few hundred times, and makes guppy lips. Finally, he realizes that no words are going to come, and he walks away. Jake goes back to picking up the smashed dish, shaking his head a little.
Cut to the packed restaurant, where Jake is again surveying all that he commands. He snaps out of whatever reverie he's in and pats a customer on the shoulder, assuring him that everything is under control. Grace, on the other side of the restaurant, tells someone to enjoy their meal, then struts assuredly past Spencer's table, smiling to herself like she's the shit because she knows he's watching, impressed. She and Jake converge on the reservation book. "Hey, so I see your friend Lewinski's here," Jake teases. "It's Lewicki," she says with an eye roll. "Yeah I know," Jake says, starting to laugh. "Stop it, you're bothering me," Grace laughs, turning to swat at him. Jake's face turns somber. "What?" Grace asks, turning to see Tiffany standing in the doorway. Oh, good. One more familiar face, just in time for the hostage taking. Tiffany looks thrown to see Grace there, and she doesn't know what to do for a second. Then she recovers, smiles a little, and says, "Hi Jake. Grace, you look amazing!" Spencer interrupts them, having sidled up unnoticed. He asks if they have any birthday candles. Tiffany answers, telling Grace where to find them. Spencer grins and says they're "gonna need a lot of candles." Grace rolls her eyes again (she's going to get a sprain if she keeps this up) and tells him to come on.
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