Episode Report Card Jacob: A+ | 150 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT We Are The Table
By Jacob | Season 4 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2008.09.08
Celia thanks "Rodrigo" for pouring her some punch, and Quinn reminds her that it's "Rudolfo." She explains that he taught Poli Sci at Casa Reforma -- which apparently was the actual name of the school and not a joke -- and is now working on his dissertation... (Hey, is that? OMG, it is! Kevin Alejandro! I'm not even exaggerating when I say he's the most criminally underused actor I can think of. I first became obsessed with him when he was on Big Love one time, and now he's been on everything good at least once. Oh, man, I hope he's around next year, although it seems unlikely. He gets killed almost as often as Judah.) Anyway, he's the awesomest and I wish he would be the lead on a show again. Rudolfo tells Celia that the punch is a secret recipe, courtesy his mother, and she smiles patronizingly.
Quinn asks her mother how long she's been sober, and Celia proudly hoots, "Seventeen days!" She congratulates her, and Celia explains that's what brought her to Mexico: "I'm working my steps, making amends. I came here to say I'm sorry. Very very very sorry. Really and truly sorry. So sorry..." She asks, at Quinn's replete-with-disinterest face, if she should be more specific. Because she knows that Quinn is her greatest failure, so just squeezing the words out of her like with Isabelle is not going to be enough. She needs it to be real; she has no idea how to ask for that, or to be real in her own right. She still has no idea what she's supposed to be sorry for, because she honestly thinks that the point of the exercise is to say you're sorry so that everybody else can make you feel okay about being an asshole. To paint yourself into a portrait of forgiveness without setting brush to canvas.