Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 490 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Giving Up The Ghost
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2012.06.10
Pete and Beth are in bed, and you'll be glad (I... guess?) to know the overcoat came off sometime between the last scene and now. He's got his eyes closed, but after Beth stares at him with a smile on her face for a bit, she tells him she should go as Howard's coming by after work. Pete, awake after all, lightly suggests what she should tells him -- "I couldn't find the party, then I couldn't get a cab," and forgetting the offensiveness of the ditzy-woman impression, maybe levity in general isn't exactly called for here? Pete tries to hold her in bed, breathing that she must feel better now and when Beth sits up and starts getting dressed, Pete breathes that Howard wants to control Beth and he's a monster. But Beth is willing to own her depression: "It's so dark, Peter. I just get to this place and I suddenly feel this door open. And I want to walk through it." Pete sniffs that such a final solution is for weak people, "people who can't solve a problem," and he's got to have Lane on his mind here, but I don't think he's understanding the idea that it's not always not being able to solve problems but the feeling that doing so is meaningless. He will, though. He pulls her back down and asks what will happen if she forgets she loves him, but she points out that they don't even know each other. "We just happen to have the same problem." He offers that that's only because they're apart and she breathes, "Oh. Then I was wrong." I guess she thought Pete was severely depressed too, and I'm not saying she's mistaken either. She adds that she really should go and when he asks why, she simply replies, "Because it works." He does prevail upon her to stay for five more minutes and she holds his wrist in her hand as we go to commercial.