Episode Report Card Gwen: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Prime Suspect
By Gwen | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.19.2000
I used to always defend Old Navy's commercials, but that's gonna stop now that they have Lisa Ling in one. Gack.
The lameness of this episode is killing me. Wing, can I just recap all the commercials instead? ["Dude, watch Dawson's Creek sometime and then we'll talk." -- Wing Chun] Sigh! Must...try...to slog...through it...
Mindy has a tête-à-têtes with John and Richard in some office. She tells him rumor had it that Mr. Schoefield planned to leave his wife for a co-worker named Nancy Raleigh-Sicklen. Paul Potts saw the two of them having discussions behind closed doors and it upset him. Richard asks if Paul was upset enough to pick up a knife. The lawyers decide they need to find Nancy.
Nancy R-S is at her front door, begging John, Richard, Mindy, and Matthew to leave her out of the case. I guess Mindy and Matthew are third and fourth chair now. John says he needs Nancy to come to court with them. I guess there was no time to issue a subpoena, like a normal lawyer would do in a normal case. Nancy says, "Oh, God!" several times, prompting Richard to make a stupid remark about what she says during sex. Mindy knocks Richard off the stoop. Nancy frets that she's "going to be sullied."
Nelle enters the conference room and introduces herself to Mr. Howland. She throws him a line of bull about Billy's being taken off the case. She disses the Billy Girls, working in the word "genitalia." Then she intimates that Billy has a mental imbalance. I wonder if Nelle's wearing striped stockings and ruby slippers.
Billy tells Lisa Pontell, Extraordinary Neurologist, about his hallucinations and his recent erratic behavior. He says he gets funny tastes in his mouth. The doctor becomes Georgia and asks if he means the taste of his own foot. Billy rolls with the hallucination, though. I guess he's taking a page from Ally's book. Dr. Pontell would like to run a few tests. I bet she wants to do them at two o'clock.
Nelle tells Sandy to send the Howland file to her office. Elaine hears this and says to herself, "She's up to something." Sandy looks concerned. Dang, Elaine, you shouldn't have even come in for that. You should have called Sandy's desk and said that line over the phone.
Paul, Paul's defense team, Paul's friends, and all their brothers and dogs are in an office discussing the case. Paul's wearing business attire, even though earlier he had on the orange jumpsuit and everyone was talking about how he couldn't get out on bail. John asks him what he knows about Mr. Schoefield and Nancy R-S. Paul doesn't want to say anything and get Nancy in trouble. They get him to admit that Nancy said there was a problem, but that Nancy didn't tell him what it was. The oboe plays and everyone looks worried. I think they're realizing that this show doesn't have enough plot to last an hour and that they'll have to do at least two more pointless scenes like this one before it's over.