Episode Report Card Ragdoll: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT All's Well That Ends Well
By Ragdoll | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.06.2001
Grace's bedroom. She's tossing a soccer ball up into the air when Lily knocks on the door. She's got clean laundry and asks, "How did the second night go?" Grace grabs a magazine, and acts nonchalant. Lily can't get over Grace's performance, especially the part about Grace knowing exactly what to do every single minute. Grace's face falls for about the hundredth time this episode as she protests, "Not every minute." Lily sits down on the bed and says, "Jessie told me you got a rave review in the school newspaper." Still acting, Grace responds by telling her mother that she doesn't read reviews. Huh. She just doesn't see the point. Lily: "You know, you're a really interesting person." Grace throws the magazine aside and scoffs, "Hardly." Lily wants to know what's wrong, and when she's rebuffed, tells her daughter to get some sleep, says she loves her, and says goodnight.
Only it's not a good night, because minutes later Grace is knocking on Eli's Den of Sin. After he opens the door, she explains that she can't sleep, and he invites her right in. Take a deep breath, and we'll continue this after commercials.
Den of Sin. Grace is wearing her pyjamas. Eli apologizes for not coming to the play. Grace replies that it's okay. Eli says, "So, tomorrow's the last night, eh?" Yeah, "thank God!" Then Grace reaches over and picks up BIW's missing barrette. But when she asks to whom it belongs, Eli lies and says its Jessie's. He shuffles around, tidies up some of his clothes, and tells Grace he'll definitely be at the play tomorrow night. He wants to know why she can't sleep. Grace: "You know how if someone says something really upsetting to you, how it just lodges in your mind, and you keep hearing it over and over and over again until you just want to kill yourself?" Um, yeah, he does. Ah, they're kindred spirits tonight. Grace wants to know what would make it stop, if anything. Eli doesn't quite understand. Grace totally changes the subject: "How come you never ask me to get high with you?" Out of left field. Eli: "Are you serious?" Totally. Absolutely. Of course she is. But she's always acting like she disapproves. That and, according to Eli, she doesn't seem the type. "Why? How do I seem?" Eli thinks that Grace wouldn't want to lose that much control. Grace wells up: "That's so unfair." Eli tries to take it back but Grace's semi-tears have already started: "It's not true and it isn't fair." Eli stumbles; Grace whines. Blah, that's not how she really is, blah. Grace steps forward and tells her stepbrother that she had an excruciatingly bad day. She wants him to help her out.