Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Fear Of Commitment
By Wing Chun | Season 7 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2001
In the hallway outside the courtroom, Lisa walks up to Sally, who's seated on a bench, and proffers the sandwich. Sally takes it and thanks her. Lisa takes off her coat and perches next to Sally. As she intently opens a container of yogurt for herself, she says, "You lied. You wanted to kill yourself." Sally, neither confirming nor denying, says, "I can't be committed." Lisa sighs, "Well, you need help, Mom, and I obviously don't know how to help you." Sally blathers, "I understand. I don't want to be a burden to you." Lisa chuckles ruefully, and Sally insists, "I swear that's the truth. But I can't be committed." Lisa, not looking at her, asks, "So, what, you're just going to go out and do this to yourself again -- you're just going to roll through the whole cycle?" Sally sets her chin and says, "No." Her voice deceptively mild, Lisa challenges, "What? What? What are you going to do differently this time?" Sally says, "I don't know, I don't want to make...I don't want to break any more promises to you." Lisa looks down, smirking again at a speech she's clearly heard many times before. Sally stutters, "I've put you through so much already." Lisa explodes, "If you believed that, you would seek treatment!" Sally says, "I will, I just --" "Can't be committed. Right," bitters Lisa. Sally frowns. Lisa adds, "Well...well, just forgive me if I don't trust your judgment." Sally looks down and says, "I would have found a way to try, Abby. It's not your fault. Nothing I do is your fault."
Lord. Okay, so Kangaroo tells Weaver that he became a Furry after he dressed up as a reindeer at his office Christmas party. He says he used to be shy, but that the suit gives him freedom. He makes it clear that he's "not a Plushie or a Furvert." Weaver's all, "The hell?" Kangaroo says that Furverts like to wear their suits during sex, and Plushies are "overly fond of stuffed animals." Kangaroo just likes the suit. 'Cause he's normal.
Finch and Dr. Dave treat a young girl; they don't know what's wrong with her. Something smells weird, and Dr. Dave hikes up the back of the patient's gown to see she's got somewhat symmetrical burn marks on her back. Finch is as close to "horrified" as her emotion chip will allow, and she tells Dr. Dave to get a surgical consult while she calls DCFS. Dr. Dave tells her to wait, since he's seen it before. It's a folk cure, in the course of which a coin is heated with a candle and dragged over the "patient's" back; sometimes the coin is dipped in essential oils. As she gently lays Burned Back down on the bed, Finch says that just because it's an ancient custom doesn't mean it isn't child abuse. Dr. Dave guesses that the strong smell is from oil of wintergreen, and that it has a high concentration of salicylates, which could have caused aspirin toxicity. He orders some tests. Finch is like, "You do that. I'm calling Family Services."
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