Episode Report Card Niki: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Sixty-Minute Miracle
By Niki | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.17.2002
Soliloquy Sam petulantly holds up his bound wrists for the camera. I guess we're supposed to feel sorry for him, but all I feel is ripped off that they couldn't find a dirty sock to stuff in his mouth, too.
Sam's voice seethes contempt as he tells Janine that it's all right. Listening, Judy knows that their trip is on hold yet again. Janine promises to pick up the brat around noon, and Sam says okay. He hangs up immediately. He can barely look at Judy as he says, "So, guess what, kid? Looks like you're staying the night." Jamian is beside himself. Judy just sits there looking numb. Behind her, Sam suggests that they go to their favorite spaghetti place for dinner, and Jamian enthusiastically agrees. Sam prods Judy by asking if she knows the place they're talking about. He tells the brat to wash his face and comb his hair because he "looks like Ted Koppel." And, lord knows, the last thing ABC needs is another Koppel. Jamian disappears into the bathroom, and Sam says, "You're going to love this place. It's right out of Lady and the Tramp." Hmm, a Disney movie. Did ABC execs do a last-minute rewrite of this script, or what? Judy sadly says that she's going to leave. Sam can't believe it. Judy says that he should just be with his son, and that she'll call him in the morning. Sam follows her, saying, "You're pissed off 'cause we missed our weekend together. But, you know what, kid? So am I." Judy spins and says it's not just the weekend. Sam asks what the problem is, then. She answers, "I guess I just feel like I don't really know what the rules are here." Sam says he doesn't know what that's supposed to mean. Judy hisses, "Well, it just seems like she gets what she wants, and he gets what he wants, but do you ever get what you want? Do I?" Sam protests that his hands are tied, and reminds her that Janine is looking for any little reason to take Jamian away. Guilt flashes across Judy's face.
"I know that. I feel horrible even saying these things," Soliloquy Judy laments. Yeah, but don't feel horrible for wanting more than he can give you. There is a difference.
"I have a son. This is my life. This is what it is," Sam says. Judy says she totally understands, but that "it's just not easy." She admits that she may have "some reservations about getting involved with a man and his son who doesn't want his father to be with anyone besides his mother -- which is completely understandable." She breaks it to Sam that just because she likes Jamian, it doesn't mean that he'll ever like her back. She says that she's trying. "Judy..." Sam falters.