Episode Report Card Alex Richmond: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lost Lunch
By Alex Richmond | Season 7 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.17.2002
Then, at neck-break speed, he changes the subject and asks Roxanne why she became a cop. She says defensively that she'd wanted to be a cop since she was little, and the kiss wasn't such an odd request since they're "off-duty." She tells a horrible, sad story which should have been told on their first day on the job. Like they didn't have time to cover this ground while they were strolling on the promenade, or shopping for jewelry? Anyway, Roxanne's story goes like this: Her mom witnessed a crime, a brutal beating. Her dad convinced her mom to testify; she did, and was shot dead when she walked out of the station. She died three days later, and they never found out who killed her. Kevin says he's sorry. Roxanne asks if NOW she can get a kiss. Jeez, Roxanne! Hey, she's "just trying to lighten the mood!" Making a joke is one thing; schtupping on someone's grave is another. Roxanne says kissing Kevin won't make her miss her dead mother any less. Oh, gross! This is horrible. Finally, Roxanne leans in and says she will "never try and kiss [Kevin] ever. Again." Bullshit. So now it's Kevin's turn to say why he became a cop. Fire killed his dad, but Kevin doesn't want to "fight the same enemy" over and over again. Roxanne says that's what cops do, fight the same fight over and over again. Kevin says they're all different, and the thing he "likes" about being a cop is that "you never know who the enemy is." That's a really bad way of putting it; and considering the way our civil liberties are being rolled back with wiretapping and such, that's the way our federal government looks at it too. I would think that in some situations, it's very clear who the bad guys are. But then again, Kevin is an idiot. He goes back to worrying about Lucy. Roxanne says she thinks that Lucy is fine -- she almost got into "profiling." Kevin says that until she does, she's just "an amateur psychic." Roxanne predicts that Kevin will one day kiss her. Roxanne? Shut up.
Simon and Cecilia finish their reconnaissance of the Promenade, with no Lucy found. Simon apologizes for wasting the evening looking for Lucy -- maybe he can make it up to her tomorrow night? Cecilia can't, she has to work. Simon cocks a huge eyebrow at her. She has to what? She has a what? J-O-B? What's that? Her dad owns a janitor service hired by the county to clean the school's toilets. Does that gross Simon out? Because "scrubbing toilets is honest work." Sure -- but since her dad owns the company, she's still working for Daddy. At least she's starting on the ground floor instead of answering phones or something equally sanitized. Doesn't Simon have a job? Hell no. The "escort service didn't work out." Wait -- Simon was a male escort? Now that's a recap I have to read! Since then, Simon has taken early retirement, and subsists on the allowance his parents give him. Cecilia says incredulously, "You get paid to help out around the house?" Simon, painted right into a corner, says he's going to get a job. Cecilia says she "hope[s] so." Whht-tssh!