Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B+ | 40 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT "My Husband's Back And He Phases Through Solid Matter"
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2006.10.30
D.L. and Micah enjoy some father-son time, bonding over a shared love of comic books (including 9th Wonders, natch). They kid and giggle until Leonard Roberts suddenly turns on a fucking dime and gets all serious, D.L. gravely telling Micah how sorry he is for "not being around." He asks how Niki is doing, and whether Micah is "looking after her" in D.L.'s absence. Micah -- like a biracial pre-teen Saffy -- wearily sighs that he's trying, and then asks how D.L. got out of prison. "Between you and me: I walked out," D.L. tells him. "How'd you do it?" Micah asks. "Ain't no jail can hold your old man," says D.L. "I got a secret." "Like Superman?" asks Micah. "Just like Superman," D.L. replies. On any other show, that would just be bravado, but...you know. Now it's just a matter of waiting the rest of the hour for him to do something fucking COOL.
Niki interrupts the moment to bring out more coffee, whereupon we see that Micah and D.L. are chilling beside the pool. Okay, fuck D.L.: $30,000 a year was obviously PLENTY if their asses have a pool! Jerks. Micah scampers off to bring D.L. more of his comic books, and Niki snits that it's going to "crush" Micah when D.L. runs again. "There won't be any more running," D.L. informs her. "Not after today." He seems to believe that once he knows who framed him, all the charges against him will be dropped -- including escaping from prison, I guess -- and furthermore, he wants to "hunker down" in the back seat of Niki's car when she drives him over to money-cleaning HQ so that he doesn't get made by a cop. "And you want me to take that risk?" Niki marvels. D.L. says he wants her to be there to hear he was set up, because nothing bolsters the unlikely claims of innocence offered by a fugitive from justice like the corroboration of a money launderer. D.L. says he can tell that Niki is starting to believe him, but that once he's gone, she'll doubt him, and he doesn't want her to doubt him ever again. Stare-off!