Episode Report Card Niki: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Kind Of Blue
By Niki | Season 3 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.11.2001
"Lily, come on! He's your husband. He must've told you something about Sam," Judy pleads when we return. Lily ponders it for a second.
Soliloquy Lily picks up on the pondering, open-mouthed. Finally, she dishes, "He's related to Stephen Stills, distantly." She knows this isn't going to cut it.
At the restaurant, Lily adds, "On his mother's side." "That's it?" Judy whines. Lily grabs her coffee cup and scuttles away from the table to avoid Judy's prying eyes. Judy can't believe that Sam wouldn't tell Rick about his life, so Lily educates her: "Judy, men don't talk about their lives. If you listen to men talk, they talk about...new cars coming in." Oh yes, that's true. Just like my girlfriends and I only ever talk about new lipstick shades and boots. Okay, we do talk about boots. But still. Judy glumly decides that Sam must still be with his wife. She mutters, "So I was wrong. I was so sure. You know, I have got to stop fooling myself! I have got to stop thinking people can change just because I want them to. It's like with Will Gluck. He has to go his way, and I have to go mine." Oh, so she does remember Will. Lily, hating to hear Judy so down, blurts, "Okay, Judy! He's free." Judy stops and stares. Lily confesses, "He told Rick, who told me, and he made me promise not to tell." Cautiously, Judy asks whether that means Sam could be getting divorced. Lily warns that it may just be a separation. Judy agrees, but in her mind, she's already putting the satin sheets on her bed. Lily threatens that she doesn't want to see Judy get her hopes up, and she doesn't want to see her get hurt again. Judy's suddenly a sage: "Well, I'm going to [get hurt again], Lil. And I'll keep on surviving. And each time I'll learn some necessary fact about love that will never apply again. I still don't know if I learned anything from Sam. I wonder if he learned anything from me?" I could speculate here, but since I like Judy, I won't.
Jake interrupts the impromptu Lessons in Love 101 lecture by barreling through the front door with a load of plastic crates. He plops them down and asks Judy whether she's had "any brilliant ideas today." Judy makes some modest comment, and Jake assures her that her ideas are "great. And they've given [him] great ideas." Somewhere in his twisted psyche, a baby cries. Lily catches his reaction to it and asks whether he's okay. He lies that he is.
Soliloquy Jake's openly sweating up there on the Stool, though, listening to that baby cry. Through his labored breathing, he pants, "I was thinking maybe Chloe, if it's a girl." He nods a couple times, staring unblinkingly at the camera. "But then it would be Zoe and Chloe."