Episode Report Card Niki: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Second Time Around
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.01.2001
Lily, meanwhile, is checking on Grace. She finds her curled up on her bed, crying. Lily moves to the bed, and rubs Grace's leg, saying, "Oh, sweetie, I know this isn't easy for you." Grace rolls over to look Lily in the eye, scornfully asking, "You think that's why I'm crying? Because you're getting married?" Lily says that it would be completely understandable. Grace sits up and says that's not why she's crying. She looks away from Lily for a second and says, "I'm all alone. Do you even realize that? Do you even know what that feels like?" Lily looks down at her lap for a second, and then does a really cool thing: she tells the truth. "No, honey, I don't." Grace looks up at her uncertainly, because this wasn't the answer she was expecting. Lily explains, "I've always been too afraid to find out what that feels like. I'm so glad that you're not!" Her eyes well up. Grace is moved by Lily's honesty and manages to smile through her tears. I'm expecting them to hug, but Grace rolls over to the other side of the bed and stands up. She walks to her mirror to brush her hair, and says, "So, Grammy's not coming?" Saddened, Lily says that's right. Grace says that Aaron's still coming, though, right? Lily says that he's not feeling well enough for it. Grace pauses brushing and asks who's going to walk Lily down the aisle, then. Lily fights to hold back the tears, and glances over to the door, where Phil has appeared once again, accompanied by fairy tinkles. "Daddy," Lily whispers. Grace somehow doesn't hear her. Lily rushes over to the door, but Phil's already walking away as Grace muses that Lily could just walk in by herself. Surprisingly, Grace doesn't feel this way because the whole notion of being "given away" is insulting, but because "it isn't a real aisle, anyway." Lily promises she'll be right back, and races after Phil.
"Daddy, wait! I need you to walk me down the aisle!" she exclaims, stopping him on the stairs. He says he can't, he's "on vacation," and Lily laughs through her tears. "Anyway, you know who wants to do it, don't you?" From Lily's puzzled expression, it's pretty clear that she doesn't. Phil nods his head toward the top of the stairs., and something dawns on Lily. "Oh, of course," she sighs and thanks him. You can tell Phil's getting ready to hit it. Lily knows it too. "I'll see you, Little Bit," he says. "See you, Daddy." He finishes descending the stairs, and watches, satisfied, as Lily races to the top.
The front door flies open, and Babs come in, weighed down with luggage. She calls a hello but gets no response. "Where is everybody?" she asks, as the fairy music tinkles yet again, and Phil smiles at her. She doesn't sense him there, though, and just breezes on through him. Rick appears at the top of the stairs in his tux, excitedly saying, "You came!" Babs says of course she did, she was just a little nervous about the weather. "Oh, she is going to be so happy," Rick says, kissing her cheek. Phil turns away, looking sad. Zoe comes in, carrying a fax for Rick. She throws herself into Babs's arms. "They're getting married!" she chirps. "I know that, sweetie," Babs says. "No, no, I mean right now!" Zoe says. Rick nods that it's true. "Well, I'd better get changed, then!" Babs cries, and Rick leads her away, so that she can surprise Lily.