Episode Report Card Niki: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Aaron's Gettin' Better
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.20.2001
Okay, I'm back. Grace heads to the kitchen to get Aaron's meds for him, and he staggers over to a chair and sinks into it, gulping for air. Grace asks a couple times how many he needs, but he can't answer. The Nightmare Man materializes to Aaron's right and barks, "Tell her!" Dude, Nightmare Man needs a trip to Club Med or something. He's gray. Aaron shudders out, "Two." Grace flies in from the kitchen with the pills and some water, positioning herself where Nightmare Man was. Thankfully, he's gone now. Aaron gratefully gulps down the meds and asks Grace not to tell Lily. As he sips from the glass, Grace chokes back a sob and brushes at a hair on his forehead. He grabs at her hand and cries that he's sorry, and buries his face against her stomach. She holds his head and lets him cry.
"Why does it have to have spinach in it?" Zoe asks, seated at the island in the kitchen. Lily and Judy buzz around her, trying to get dinner together. Lily asks where Grace is, and then wonders whether they should check on Aaron. Judy volunteers to go. Zoe steers the subject back to spinach. Lily snaps that the recipe calls for it, and that she's the one cooking. Zoe prisses, "Fine, I feel it ruins it, but this kitchen is your property." Lily just stares at her, trying to figure out exactly when Zoe became a sixty-four-year-old woman named Barbara. (Speaking of Babs, I wonder whether she knows about the engagement?)
Judy finds Aaron flopped out on Grace's bed. She gently asks how he's doing, and he rolls over to sit up. She moves to the side of the bed and crouches in front of him. He looks really woozy and wobbly. She asks if he's okay, and he insists that he is. She buttons one of the buttons he missed on his cardigan, and he sighs, "I'm tired, Judy." She registers this and thinks about it a bit before saying, "You know, I think it should just be us tonight." She stops and glances toward the door, where Lily arrives a split second later. Aaron gives Lily a big, bright smile. Judy stands up and quietly says that she thinks it should just be them tonight, and that Rick and the kids can come another night. Lily looks as if Judy's suggesting that they have Rick and the kids for dinner. She points out that they're on their way. "Well, if you don't know his cell phone number by now..." Judy snipes. Lily turns to Aaron, asking whether that's what he wants. He says he wants them to come, but you can tell he just wants to make Lily happy. She suggests that he rest for a while, and says she'll call and tell them to come a little later. He gets up to wash his face, shuffling like an eighty-year-old man. Lily looks over at Judy, who turns her face away in disgust.