Episode Report Card 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Help For The Lovelorn
By Kim | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.22.2000
Felicity and Elena are talking at a table in the library. Elena is saying, "A glass heart?" Felicity says she just called The Clinic yesterday, so she can't figure out when they sent the heart or how they even got her address in the first place. Elena says skeptically, "You went because you heard they could cure a broken heart?" I notice that Elena has a charm in the shape of a heart on her necklace, but I don't know if that has any significance. I just thought I would mention it. Felicity asks her not to tell anyone because it makes her sound desperate. Elena says that she is desperate. Hee! Even 1959 Elena is sassy. Felicity tells Elena that the doctor tried to draw her blood without asking. Elena suggests sarcastically that they might be an "office of vampires." Felicity says that's what it felt like. Elena starts to tell her a story about a time when she was desperate, so she went into a church that was offering a happiness test, but it was really a scam. ["I'd like to add that when Elena mentioned the happiness test, I immediately thought 'Scientology,' and the fact that Elena goes on to say that the church tried to make her buy a book after her test didn't cause me to alter my initial analysis." -- Wing Chun] While Elena is talking, Felicity sees a creepy man gesturing for her to come over. Elena realizes Felicity is not paying attention and stops talking, saying, "This story isn't that long." Felicity says that a guy is staring at her. Elena asks if he's cute, and Felicity says, "No, he looks dead!" Felicity adds that Creepy Guy wants to talk to her. Elena turns and looks at him, but there is no one there, and asks what Felicity took at the clinic. Felicity says, "Nothing, except water."
Felicity walks over to the spot where the man was standing, and then into the next room. She searches among the stacks for Creepy Guy. Can I take a moment to point out that this 1950s library looks exactly like the Science and Technology Library at Syracuse University, which is ironic because it is, after all, the Technology Library, so you'd think it would be a little more up-to-date. Now I'm going to be creeped out every time I go in there. As Felicity continues searching, she hears someone say, "You!" At first, I thought he said, "Yo!" but that doesn't seem very 1959, so I'm going with, "You!" Felicity sees Creepy Guy peering at her between some books and asks what he wants. Creepy Guy says he has to be quick because "they" are after him, but that she shouldn't "let it happen," and has to find a way out. It's too late for him but she should "stay away from snow." Felicity says, "What are you talking about?" Creepy Guy says he's talking about The Clinic procedure. Felicity says she left The Clinic and refused the treatment. Creepy Guy says that she didn't really leave, and that, in fact, they are "doing it to [her] right now." Felicity turns away for a moment and when she looks back, Creepy Guy is gone. She runs around the stacks, but he is nowhere to be found.