Episode Report Card Deborah: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "The Lamps Are Different, But The Light Is The Same"
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.23.2004
In his room, Luke reads over the two-page Confidentiality Agreement. We burst out laughing. How much would I love to read the text of that?
Kevin lies on his bed, reading the brochure about adaptive golf.
Will sits at his desk in the dark police station, writing -- most likely, his recollections of the night of the accident.
A night table drawer is opened, and Helen draws a rosary out of an amber-coloured glass dish. She lies alone in bed, fingering the rosary and reflecting.
Morning, and an outside shot of the Girardi house. Frink, unprompted: "That is such a great house." What can I say? I married well. Will emerges, favourite coffee mug (the one with the picture of the kids) in hand, to pick up the newspaper out by the curb. He slips into a memory, from the day of the accident. He turns and sees Kevin and Andy (portrayed by Riley Smith of Kocaine Kyle and Todd Schellinger fame) playing basketball in the driveway. Will's arrived home from work to find that Kevin hasn't cleaned out the garage as asked. He starts chewing him out. Andy says they did a little. Will reminds him they were supposed to finish, and that it was a condition of Kevin going to the game tonight. Kevin scoffs, "Dad, it's homecoming. You're really going to stop me from going?" Will: "You bet your ass. You think you get a free ride around here?" Kevin tells him to "stop with the cop voice," and starts to throw the ball again. Will grabs the ball and says, "Look, you're not the celebrity jock in this house. In this house, you pull your weight. Now get on that garage before I really get mad." He tosses the ball to Andy, who says he'll help Kevin and they'll get it done. Kevin throws a glare over his shoulder as they walk away.
Will comes back to the present moment when Kevin calls his name. He turns to see Kevin in his wheelchair on the porch. He's interested in seeing the paper: "'Cause my speed bump exposé is in there!" Kevin sits there smiling -- oblivious -- as Will looks at him with the heaviest of hearts.
Sammy strides up to Joan at work and holds up a copy of Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. That's something I've wanted to read for ages. I must get around to it. He wants to know why Joan put it in the science fiction section. Sammy: "Invisible Man, one of the greatest postwar literary novels, sitting in science fiction, next to The Time Machine. Are you crazy?" Boy, it is just one nonstop sensitivity parade in Joan's neighbourhood, isn't it? ["Plus, it's not so crazy that Ben Covington didn't make exactly the same mistake confusing H.G. Wells and Ellison on Felicity." -- Sars] Joan says it's about an invisible man. Sammy: "Metaphor, Joan? Symbolism? Where's your brain? Did you ever have one?" Joan, not nearly as pissed with all this as I would be, asks if he's okay. He says he's having a little stress at home, and she's not helping. Mrs. LandingGod has entered the store again and gives the bell on the counter a firm ding. Sammy turns: "You again." She says she's looking for a book for her book club: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Joan wanders away to hide while Sammy tells her he doesn't have the book in stock, but can order it.