Episode Report Card Aaron: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Matter of Life and Death
By Aaron | Season 1 | Episode 11 | Aired on 08.11.2001
Back at the convention, David is accepting the adulation of his peers. That's exactly what happens to me every time I wear my MBTV t-shirts out in public. He pulls two funeral director guys over and introduces them to his brother and Ms. Jasmine Brecker. Apparently, Kroehner has been going after these guys, too, so David is now their "hero." They drag him out for a night on the town, but when invited to come along, Nate and Brenda demur, citing their plan to "keep a low profile" that night.
At the Fortress, Rico is working the room for Baby Dillon's funeral. As has been noted in the forums, he's wearing David's suit and Nate's hair. The parents come over to thank him for his work, especially because the grandparents never even got a chance to see the baby, and now "it's like they really met him." They ask whether Rico has kids of his own, and he tells them about Julio, but then stops short before mentioning that Vanessa is about to give birth again. He leaves the parents to be alone with their child, and heads to the back of the room to do that arms-spread door-closing trick that all morticians seem to do. He stops with the door open just a crack, however, and continues to stare at the tiny little coffin.
Now we get a shot of the Eiffel Tower, in case there's anyone in the audience incredulous enough to believe that the gang has now packed up and gone to Paris. Pan down to Brenda snapping a photo of Nate in front of the Paris hotel. She announces that she loves that her boyfriend protected her that way, and then she grabs Nate's ass and leads him into another Viva Las Vegas montage, only this time that's the French "viva" instead of the Spanish one. We see them taking cute pictures with that random cowboy guy, drinking neon-blue cocktails from a giant Eiffel Tower glass, strolling along the Champs de Sunset Strip, and heading back to their room to mack Vegas-style, baby!
Across town, David's new friends have brought him to a strip club. Either David is very, very drunk, or he's a very good actor, because he looks like he's having a great time. One of the friends buys David a lap dance. The stripper, who calls herself Amber, slides onto David's lap and begins wriggling like a fish out of water. Eventually she notices that David is...well, a big old softie, if you know what I mean. She asks whether he's enjoying himself at all. He confesses that he's gay, and she says that, in that case, he won't mind her cutting the dance short. When David's friends ask what's going on, Amber immediately spills the news that he's gay. "I wish you would have told us that sooner," says the friend. Heh. David agrees that he probably should have, and then gets up to leave. In the front of the bar, he calls a cab to pick him up, and then he pulls out that escort service flier he got earlier. He flips to a picture of "Brad," who looks like he should be doing underwear modeling, and picks up his phone again to place an order.