Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Deep End Of The Ocean
By Jacob Clifton | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 08.31.2009
Silas's phone rings: It's Adelita, asking for his company. But the call is coming from inside the house! He smiles goofily, thinking maybe he'll get a reward for chasing off those trustie rapists yesterday, and Shane tells him to wear a condom. "Learned that lesson, huh?" says Silas darkly, because Shane's life is terrifying. "Or don't," Shane thinks out loud. "See what'll happen. Maybe she slept with someone who slept with someone who slept with someone who slept with someone famous." You could get Gwyneth Paltrow's herpes, or Lady Gaga's genital warts. "I hear everyone's dying for John Mayer's syphilis," he snorts, and admits that he makes up most of what he says. This troubles Silas slightly less than it delights him, for the first time all season.
("We have become alienated, desensitized, angry, and frightened.")
Upstairs, Adelita looks like hell. Which is hard to accomplish, so whatever it is, it's bad. She asks Silas to look something up on her laptop, realizes that's too weird, and asks him to place it on the bed near her hand, and then leave. He tells her to fuck right off, and she calls him back again, explaining that half her body's gone numb. Worried, he asks if she's seriously thinking about googling something serious like why your body's gone numb, pointing out that she could be having a stroke. She irritatedly admits that it's happened before: her hand went numb after she slammed her wrist and hit a nerve. "Slammed?" he asks, and I admit I thought she was talking about a ski injury, too: "Injected? Heroin?"
First of all, don't shoot up. Second of all, don't shoot up so often that you're willing to put up with things like parts of your body going dead for a couple days, because that means you have passed a certain point into becoming a junkie, and you are fucked. Little by little is how you become an addict, and little by little you start missing signs like this, or overlooking them. The things that horrified you when you were a person stop being the scariest thing you can think of.
And Silas gets that, so he's like, "You are a junkie!" She hisses that she's a "recreational user," like this blasé lack of accountability is what heroin is known for. Silas asks a few more of the obvious questions you would ask, and soon learns that after smoking enough smack to get herself raped, she pulled it together enough to shoot up some more. What an asshole. Drugs are so gross. Silas is like, "Perfect! Well, I'm calling your Dad this second." She yells at him that she thought he was cool, which is awesome because he gets to point out that that was never true, and whatever. She yells at him to get out, and then calls him back again to ask politely if he'll shoot her up. What with her body being out of commission and shit. She interrupts herself begging long enough to barf all over, and Silas's eyes go big as the moon, because drug addicts are fucking scary -- like that game Simon, only instead of primary colors and beeping, it's bodily fluids and ugly emotions and manipulation tactics.