Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Slump (2)
By Kim | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 02.05.2000
Felicity is back in Toni's office. Toni asks, "Why Vienna?" Felicity repeats what she read out of a travel book earlier. Toni asks why Felicity "came here." Felicity says that question is getting annoying and starts in about how she doesn't know. Toni interrupts, laughing, and clarifies that she meant here as in her office, today. Felicity wanted to thank her. Toni says she could have called. Felicity says she wanted to see her and thank her. Toni asks whether Felicity wants Toni to talk her out of going to Vienna. Felicity says emphatically, "No, I don't." Toni says, "Good, because I'm not going to. How did it go with your parents?" Felicity says, "Bad." Toni asks how bad and Felicity says she doesn't want to talk about it. Toni says she can't clam up now, and asks again how bad. Felicity says it was "horrible" and that she hasn't "felt that way in a long time." Toni asks when the last time was that she felt that bad. Felicity think for a minute and then says it was when she was a kid. Toni prompts her to tell what happened. Felicity tells a story about how she went to sleepaway ballet camp the summer she was ten, and she hated it so much she came home a day early. When she got home, she realized that her mom had been sleeping in the guest bedroom, and her mom saw that she knew. Everyone was really embarrassed about it. That night at dinner, Felicity told her parents that she loved the ballet camp, just to change the subject, to "make it all better," and that after that, things went back to normal. Toni looks concerned. Felicity laughs and says she went to ballet camp the next four summers. Toni observes, "It's a hard job, isn't it? Keeping the family happy?" Felicity looks a bit stunned, and then thinks for a minute, before saying haltingly, "I think that's why I came here." Toni says she doesn't blame her, and who wouldn't want a break? Then she asks again, "Why Vienna?" Felicity says she feels so lost in New York. Toni says that the thing about feeling lost is that you can be lost anywhere.
Felicity is in her room folding clothes. Her mom and dad knock and walk in. Her dad says he called and Meghan said Felicity was packing for Vienna. He adds that if her trip is about his coming there, or "what's going on between us," they need to sit down and talk about it. Felicity says she's not going to Vienna. She thought about it, but she's going to stay. Her mom looks relieved and says she "kinda panicked when [she] heard." Felicity says she can imagine, and then says she thought her mom was leaving. Her mom says her flight is at 6:00. Her dad says, "We both wish this didn't have to be so hard, but you know we both love you." Felicity nods and says, "Yeah, I know. I love you too." Her mom walks over and gives her a hug, and her dad just stands there.