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By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 04.17.2001
In a corridor, Ben is exclaiming over a pair of tickets for courtside seats at a Knicks' game that Avery is showing him. She's urging him to come. He's grinning like a fool, and accepts the invitation.
In his room at the loft, Ben is changing his shirt and telling Felicity that he couldn't turn down courtside seats. Felicity, who is wearing her new purple sweater, thinks it's weird that Avery offered him tickets but wouldn't allow him to decide whom he wanted to bring. Ben points out that she doesn't like basketball. She suggests that he could have taken Sean, Tracy, Knoll, or Richard. Ben laughs at the suggestion of going anywhere with Richard. Felicity thinks it isn't a case of Avery doing something for him, it's that she wants to do something with him. Ben invites her to come, because he's sure Avery could get another ticket. Felicity says she's sure that Avery could get another ticket, too, but that she can't go anyway because she has to work on Loser Pet Store with her loser pet. Ben reassures her that it's just a basketball game, and that they should feel sorry for Avery because the "only way she knows how to make friends is by buying them things. It's kinda sad. Isn't it? Dontcha think?" Felicity glumly agrees. ["I need to make some friends like that." -- Wing Chun]
At the girls' apartment, Felicity is sitting on the sofa with a laptop, and Knoll is at the counter eating spray cheese. Felicity cautions him against the cheese because it'll kill him. If only. Knoll mumbles, "Something will. Might as well be spray cheese." Felicity sighs. Knoll asks what Ben "decided to do about Avery." Felicity informs him that they went to a Knicks game because she had courtside seats and he couldn't say no. Knoll wonders whether "just the two of them" went. Felicity says yes, and tells him not to say it "like that." She adds, "It's just a basketball. Besides, she's not that cute." Knoll says, "Okay." Felicity asks him whether Avery is cute. He replies, "From a guy's point of view, for what it's worth, she isn't an ugly person." Felicity wonders if she should be worried. Knoll unconvincingly says, "No."
Sean is sitting at the kitchen counter in the loft, with a meal laid out. Meghan walks in; he looks at his watch and says, "Morning." She apologizes and tells him that she's finally figured out what she wants to do with her life. Sean guesses, "What -- the transvestite designer clothing?" Nice try, but it turns out that Meghan loves teaching; she discovered it while she was working on a "pooping and peeing spell" with Leslie. Sean is aghast that she's teaching witchcraft; he was only trying to cheer her up when he suggested it. He thinks that "teaching kids [sic] how to become a sorcerer of the black arts, that's insane." She takes offense, because this is the first time she's been interested in anything "remotely legal or worthwhile." She feels she's denied his support because she's not doing it in a way in which he approves. Sean ponders that; after a moment, he concedes that she's right, and apologizes. Furthermore, he thinks that she'll be a great teacher. Meghan thinks it's weird that they had a fight but didn't break up.