Episode Report Card Megyn: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT There once was a healer from Nantucket
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.13.2001
Later, we see McManus and Ms. Gau standing before the refugees as she translates the absolute gems that McManus spurts forth. Such as helpfully telling them that the criminals they'll be housed with are among the most violent. Ever. In the history of bad people, they are the baddest. The whole lot of you are either going to die, or become somebody's bitch. But the good news is they've taken extra precautions, which I guess means Murphy won't be taking his regular nap, and the people under the stairs doing drugs might not stab you. Tim asks if anyone speaks English; one of them does. His friend says something in Chinese as the meeting wraps. English-speaking guy tells him to speak English as well. His friend says, "Never volunteer!" ESG says he will do anything to show he belongs here in America. Cut to Murphy addressing the Ozlings and stating that if anything happens to any of the refugees, there will be severe repercussions and until they get familiar with the new surroundings, they are putting everyone into lockdown. McManus walks with Ms. Gau and asks her if she has plans for dinner. God, he is so very pathetic. She asks if he's asking her on a date. He covers that they both have to eat, and he knows a little diner nearby. Before he starts in on the quality of his etchings, we cut to the prisoners, looking down at the refugees as they walk through. Gosh, I sure hope nobody gets hurt.
Cut to lunch time; Ryan serves the ESG and asks him if he has a problem with the lump of crap Ryan slopped on his plate. ESG says no. He sits to eat and wonders to his friends about his wife and child. He doesn't know their whereabouts, but his kid was put into an orphanage somewhere; to make matters much more traumatic, the kid has never been away from either parent before. Up walks Pancamo, who tells them that's his table. They all sort of make like fainting goats and panic. Morales steps in and asks ESG if he's the group's leader. Um, no. Morales persists, "They listen to you, right?" ESG: "Well, yes." Morales: "Then, that makes you their leader." Morales then says, "Come and see me…we'll talk." The refugees leave the table as Buzz looks on -- I think disapprovingly, but he always looks like that. We cut to the common room, where Morales beckons ESG to speak in his (Morales's) pod. ESG's friend doesn't want him to go. He wishes they were back in China. ESG says, "You watched our crops burn, you watched your daughter die, I cannot do that. I would rather die here, in America, than go back." Before Amy Tan calls for a re-write, ESG enters Morales's pod and greets him with the Chinese version of "chairman." I called my Chinese friend, Liz, to get the spelling, but she said they're all just translations and there really isn't a correct spelling. I'll just stick to English. Anyway, Morales likes this new word and repeats it. When ESG explains that Morales should put his name first, not last, Morales intelligently says that he always thought that was "fucked up about their side of the world." Yeesh. Tact? Doesn't live here anymore. Morales points Buzz out to ESG and tells him that Buzz is their enemy. "Why?" Morales: "Because of Viet Nam." ESG and I say, "But, we are Chinese…" Morales breaks in with, "He doesn't know the difference. He has vowed to kill each and every one of you." Poor ESG says he will talk to Buzz, since he means no one any harm and would like to make peace. Morales convinces him that nothing will work, that Buzz is going to kill ESG. Morales then says, "I will call you dead man." In Italian, of course.