Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "My Husband's Back And He Phases Through Solid Matter"
By Wing Chun | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.29.2006
Bennett (the dude Erin's been calling Bad Glasses Man, but I can't because I think his glasses are kind of rad -- but then, I love frames that look like they belong at the CIA during the Cold War) comes in at this point, and Claire offers to sell him a cupcake. Sandra exposits that he was on the phone for an hour, and asks whom he was talking to. Bennett sighs heavily, and then announces that Claire's biological parents want to meet her -- tomorrow. Claire is shocked, and Sandra is pissed, because evidently he didn't talk to her about it first (well, you know, he is evil), and starts complaining that they can't just drop everything for them, but Bennett patiently tells Sandra that he didn't say yes: he leaves the choice to Claire. Sandra looks stricken. "I'm ready," Claire tells Bennett confidently. Claire: they're going to feel bad they didn't keep you. Try to get a pony off them.
In Las Vegas, Niki wakes up with a start, as only people on TV and in movies do. She leaves Micah sleeping in his bed and walks into the kitchen. She looks outside, confirming that the cop car is still parked in front of the house. She opens a door (I think it's her room, but it's dark), and as she stands in the doorway, D.L. appears behind her and tells her she looks beautiful. (Eh.) Without turning around, Niki asks D.L. how he got inside. He doesn't answer, and she starts to lunge away from him, but he grabs her around the waist and pulls her to him. She threatens that if she screams, the cops will be inside in two seconds. D.L.: "Then I hope you don't scream." This is the line that ends the cold open? Not "You could try, but I could squeeze your windpipe from the inside in one"? Whoops -- spoiler!
After the commercial, Niki and D.L. are standing in the living room. He takes her hand and comments that she's not wearing her wedding ring. By way of answer, she tells him she thinks he had better leave. She gives him shit for coming to the house and possibly confusing Micah, to which D.L. counters that "Micah needs his father." I'm not so sure about that; by my count, Micah already has two parents without D.L. ["Besides which, Micah is probably the least confused person in that family at any given time." -- Sars] "This is still my home," D.L. tells Niki. They both start at a loud and insistent knock at the door. "I'm not going anywhere," purrs D.L. "You can either believe me or not. I'm going to check on our boy. Get the door." I know he's a jailbird and all, but..."please"?