Episode Report Card Kim: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Revolutions
By Kim | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 04.04.2000
Ben and Knoll walk into a deli and Knoll is babbling about society and change and Ben is looking like he really could not care less. Knoll keeps talking about change and violence and Ben, looking in the cooler, remarks, "Who the hell drinks Mr. Pibb? What's up with that?" Yeah, what is up with that? Now there is a philosophical inquiry for the ages. Knoll asks if Ben is listening and Ben says, "Yeah, I'm listening. Progress and violence." Knoll realizes that Ben is in fact not listening, and since I'm not either, I'm glad this scene is over.
Back at the sit-in, Leelah in on the phone explaining that the policy is a recent change. Felicity is dialing a phone when Lloyd sits down next to her and says, "I can't believe they won't give me my morning-after pills anymore." Lloyd is the recurring character who comes into the health center with bizarre maladies looking for attention, and was in fact Felicity's first patient contact. I had to look that one up, because I forgot. It's been a while. Anyway, Felicity tells him they're just for women and Lloyd says, "Oh." Felicity reaches Javier on the phone, and asks if Ben is scheduled today. Javier must have said no, because Felicity responds disappointedly, "Oh, thanks" and then giggles and says, "You did not look fat!" Leelah interrupts to say she's on the phone with the New York Times and needs to know how to spell Felicity's name. Felicity is freaked out by the coverage as Greg enters the room and asks to talk to her. She starts walking over towards him while spelling her name for Leelah. Felicity and Greg walk into an empty room and Greg tells her he knows she has the best of intentions, but that she's disrupting the operation of the health center. I was kind of wondering why they are having the sit-in there, anyway. Wouldn't it make more sense to have it in the dean's office or something? Felicity says that the disruption is sort of the point. Greg tells her that the head of Student Services is coming there at 4:00, and how the clinic operates is a reflection on Greg as director. Felicity says she understands that, so he should distance himself from the whole thing. Greg says he's asking this guy to write him a letter of recommendation for medical school, and he needs to impress him. Oh, I see. Greg's admission to medical school is more important than reproductive freedom of choice for all of the university's students. I was not aware of that. Greg tells her that there are other ways to get what she wants, and that she is risking the futures of all the students out there, and that she should stop it before it gets any bigger. He walks away and Felicity looks back at the ever-growing group of students participating in the sit-in. ["And thinks, no doubt, 'Which one of us is going to have her name in the New York Times, Greg? Yeah. Thought so.'" -- Wing Chun]