Episode Report Card Wing Chun: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Yeah, Just Like Tomatoes
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 10.22.2006
At Nancy's, Silas is in the great room, working with Gretchen on his graduation speech: "How do you spell 'hypocrisy'?" Gretchen complains that this is boring, and then Nancy bustles in, saying she has to go out; she vaguely adds that Andy is "around." As she takes a painting off the wall, both kids tell her she looks anxious. She insists that she's fine, and heads out. Once she's gone, Gretchen tells Shane that his mother is "weird." Shane can at least be happy that his peers no longer regard him as the weirdest member of his family.
Outside, Nancy tears into the paper backing the painting, revealing the marriage certificate in its stamped envelope that totally hasn't been mailed back to Nevada yet. She puts the envelope in a mailbox and makes for the driver's seat of her car, whereupon she notices a large First Nations man standing across the street. He gives her a tentative wave. Nancy waves back, and tries to keep as much distance between them as possible as she gets into the car. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we've just met Abumchuk.
Back in the great room, Shane's still trying to work on his speech, but Gretchen, over it, would rather go into the fridge and emerge with a beer: "Let's get drunk!" Shane is not down with that plan, but it gets scuttled anyway when Andy and Kat enter. Gretchen quickly puts the open beer back into the fridge as Shane rushes forward for his heart hug. Gretchen possessively introduces herself as Shane's girlfriend, saying that it's their one-week anniversary. Kat says that the first week is hard, but that if neither of them has slept with anyone else yet, it's a good sign. As Shane and Kat continue grinning at each other, Andy says that Nancy told him to take Shane to the mall for a graduation suit. With the Shane/Kat eye contact still unbroken, Gretchen announces, "I'm coming." Give up now, Gretchen. He's already gotten a taste for older women.
Nancy has come to offer the harvest to Heylia, saying that she's come to Heylia out of respect. Heylia -- who's working as a crossing guard now -- corrects her, saying that Nancy's come to her because she's in trouble. Nancy doesn't dispute it, and tells Heylia she can take the whole harvest, at bargain prices. Heylia asks whether she's supposed to sell it to these schoolchildren, and Nancy says she knows that Heylia's "game" is fucked up now, but that she could take it "back east" -- Nancy knows Heylia's always wanted to move closer to her sister, in Detroit. Heylia says that trafficking across state lines would be a brilliant idea, and sarcastically marvels that Nancy would think Heylia could take a business it's taken her twenty years to build and just move it somewhere else. She guesses that Nancy's getting "the shakedown," and is about as sympathetic as you would expect. Heylia asks whether Conrad knows Nancy's making this offer to Heylia. Nancy: "No. Do you want it or not?" By way of answer, Heylia says that Nancy and Conrad are like those big companies that dump toxic shit everywhere and then act surprised when "ice caps melt and hurricanes drown New Orleans." Nancy: "Fuck you. I drive a Prius." On that ridiculous yet completely in-character exit line, Nancy stomps off, leaving Heylia to call Vaneeta: "Conrad in it up to his bald fucking head. Oh, we going to jail."