Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B+ | 40 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT "My Husband's Back And He Phases Through Solid Matter"
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2006.10.30
...but when we cut back to Niki, she's no longer standing at the mirror; she's sitting on the couch, having taken off the long-sleeved hooded henley she was wearing before, and looking confused. She gets up and goes to Micah's room; he's stuffing things into the backpack she just had in her hand. Niki somewhat scarily demands to know where he got it, and he's like, "You just walked in here and gave it to me, Frances Farmer." Niki's like, "Huh?" Micah tells her that she was just in there, telling him to pack some clothes, because they were going to "Grandma's." Niki stares. Micah asks if she's okay, and she says she's not feeling well and needs to lie down. Under a blanket made of thorazine. And some lithium sheets.
Niki staggers into the bedroom, closing the door and leaning against it for a moment before stalking to the mirrored closet door and glaring into it, tearfully demanding to know what's wrong with her. Niki turns and does the classic slide-down-the-wall move, favourite of messed-up chicks for years now, and as she's staring at the bed, ikiN calmly tells Niki to pull herself together. Niki turns, terrified, and sees ikiN sitting next to her, cool as the other side of the pillow. Now, here is where the problem with this character really becomes clear: it's not that Ali Larter is a bad actress; it's that she is much better at playing someone who's bad but confident than she is someone freaked-out and fragile. Anyway, Niki tells ikiN she's not real; ikiN counters, "Oh, I am as real as you are." Niki, not looking at ikiN, tries telling herself that she just has a brain tumour: "This is --" "Poor little crazy girl," ikiN teases fondly. God, she even has prettier hair than Niki; choosing expedient solutions in a moral vacuum is like the best blow-out ever. "A hallucination," Niki concludes. "We're a lot of things, Niki," says ikiN, "but we're not crazy."
D.L. comes into Micah's room, asking after Niki. Micah sadly says that she went to lie down. "Yeah, she's had a hard day," offers D.L.
"What do you think D.L. will do when he finds out what we've done?" asks ikiN. "'What we've done'?" Niki repeats.
Micah asks D.L. if he and Niki are going to get back together. D.L. mushmouths some crap about what it's like in relationships when one person goes to jail and the other doesn't believe he was wrongly convicted. Micah's like, "It's a simple question, but NEVER MIND."