Episode Report Card Megyn: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Shock The Ducky
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 08.22.2000
Cut to the main room in Em City and Querns striding his way across the room; Ryan approaches and says, "I heard about Stanislovsky. It's weird. A guy dies before coming back to Emerald City?" Querns gives him his patented B-movie stink-eye and snarls before continuing on his way. We see Cyril look up from his seat at a table and look from the exiting Querns to his brother. Claire walks through the room and gives a sidelong wink at the severely depreciated Ryan, who returns the wink while Cyril takes note of this also.
Cut to death row. Schillinger walks in with the mail and delivers a small package of what I guess is more art supplies for the racist pig, who is still working on his self-portrait, which I like to call "Fuckwit In Repose." Schillinger compliments him on his masterpiece, and our resident Van Blow rambles about how it's an amazing work of art, blah blah blah, and Schillinger just makes the "whatever" face and moves on to drop Moses' mail on the floor. "Next time, hand it to me, Schillinger!" Schillinger departs after a few disparaging remarks and in walks the lunch guy, who is black, and who proceeds to do the same in reverse by dropping Van Blow's chicken nuggets on the floor. Ah, divine retribution. In walks Shirley's former paramour to escort Moses to meet with his lawyer. Van Blow ridicules him for believing he can overturn his death sentence. A few "blow me"s are tossed around, along with a "fuck you" thrown in for good measure. Even the guard o' love tells Van Blow to shut his cakehole, and off they go to meet the lawyer. Moses enters the room with a hopeful smile, which lawyer woman dashes against the rocks of despair with the words, "The judge has denied our appeal." He swears a lot. She tells him the best they can hope for is to go to the state Supreme Court and appeal the appellate court's decision. Moses asks how long that will take. A year. He wigs. "Dawn, I can't sit up on death row another day much less a year!" Dude! You're gonna be alive for another year, so if I were you, I'd relax on the tantrum jest a tad. Dawn tells him she has no control over the length of time their decision takes, and explains that the case load is heavy blah blah blah you're-screwedcakes. Dawn blames Devlin in that he rejects anything he considers to be "tough on crime." Um, isn't his acting a crime? I'm just sayin'. Then she says time is on their side, yes it is! The Rolling Stones call to see if that royalty check can be made out to cash while Dawn explains, "What I'm sayin' is, governor's got prostate cancer. If he dies, retires [falls off a footstool and cracks his oblong head open?], a new chief may look at the death penalty differently; meanwhile, you're alive another year so I suggest you make the best of it." (I'm SAYIN'!)