Episode Report Card Niki: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unfinished Business
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.05.2000
I know because she said so. Black-and-white Lily popped up to tell us she admires men, "these big, messy creatures who are so oblivious with each other they just have to act like: Everything. Is. Okay. All the time." She punctuates her simulated grunting with little flexing movements of her arms.
Rick leaves and Jake makes a "phew" face at Phil. Or maybe it's a "what the hell just happened" face. Whatever. It's obvious he's glad Rick is gone. At the door, Rick makes a similar gesture toward Jake in the other room and then asks Lily about her synopses. "Oh please," she says.
Cut to Grace sitting in the kitchen talking to Lily while she makes dinner. Grace is issuing the typical high-school kid complaint about Shakespeare's writing, saying no one talks that way, especially not in those long speeches. Zoe walks in and wants to know what Grace is talking about. This is followed by yet another dose of warm and fuzzy feelings as Grace and Zoe exchange some "all-in-good-fun" sibling insults. Grace hops off her stool to chase Zoe around the island. Jake heads through the kitchen toward the back door, and Lily asks him what he and Phil were talking about. "Just business," says Dismissive Man as he closes the door behind himself. Sensing some covert back-room operations, Lily heads in to the living room to get the scoop from Phil.
Big surprise -- Phil tells her yet again to drop the business with the lawyers and not to put the restaurant into receivership. Lily's pissed off because Phil's taking Jake's side but Phil insists he's on her side. She tells him Jake can't be trusted, no one can believe anything he says, and some heavy butting of heads follows. It basically amounts to a power struggle for control of Lily's life. She storms out.
Next time we see her, she's rolling around in bed unable to sleep.
Black-and-white Lily is kind enough to interpret for us. She says she "never used to fight with [her] father. Not out loud. But boy, the things [she] used to say in her head!"
Lily rolls around the bed a few more times before getting frustrated and throwing off the blankets with a grunt. She goes downstairs, accompanied by her voice-over: "[She] always had to make sure [they] made up." I though she just said they never fought. Anyway, can everyone see where this is going? Guilty conscience, "unfinished business?" Need I say more?
Black-and-white Lily says "it's silly. [She] guesses [she] was afraid he'd stay mad." Oh yeah, that seals it. Lily comes downstairs to find the couch empty. Then she heads into the kitchen, and we follow her line of sight as she turns the corner and -- THIS IS IT -- comes upon her father out cold in front of the open refrigerator. His eyes are open, but he's just staring vacantly and not responding to her. Lily hollers for Grace and calls nine-one-one. Grace is totally freaked and hangs in the doorway while Lily tries to reassure Phil that everything's okay and help is on the way.