Episode Report Card Deborah: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Growth Opportunity
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.07.2004
Joan's walking through the halls at school when she finishes a beverage and tosses the bottle in the trash. Maintenance Guy God's right behind her, though, pulling it out and telling her, "This can be recycled. Do I have to make a new Earth every seven days?" But could you, just this once? I promise we'll take better care of the next one. Yeah, I know that's a lie. Joan stops, narrows her eyes, and turns around: "So many people pray to see you. If only they knew." She walks off and he follows her, asking why she hasn't finished her physics assignment. She says she did: "I planted stuff. It got stepped on. My friends deserted me in the process. As usual…thank you very much." Maintenance Guy God says that it's part of the assignment, to see how the process unfolds. Joan's wearing a grey camisole that I like, under a grey hooded sweater. Not loving the brown pants with them, though. He adds, "You have until Friday. Finish what you started." Joan: "Are you telling me that I can get all those flowers to grow by Friday?" He says she can't force them to bloom or grow faster: "Growth is a process. Just be part of the process, Joan." He wanders off with a Godwave.
We see DeShawn Wallace in an interrogation room. Will and Chewy are talking outside, when the two undercover cops who've been questioning DeShawn emerge. One of the cops, wearing a cap backward, remarks to Will and Chewy, "So nice catching up with an old friend." Chewy asks, "You know him?" The other cop pulls the collar of his t-shirt aside to show what looks sort of like a birthmark -- who can tell in all the blue? -- but I think is supposed to be a stab wound, indicating, "Little gift from his crew. Amazing what you can do with a Phillips screwdriver." Yes, they are a vast improvement over those lousy slotted screwdrivers, but I admit to a fondness for the earlier, Canadian-invented Robertson screwdriver. Of course, if you've got crappy screws, it hardly matters, so spend the little bit of extra money and get screws that have been well-machined. I suppose I wouldn't be going on about screws here if I had a sense of why we're going to the Arcadia-police-are-corrupt well again. I don't hate the police plots the way a lot of viewers seem to, but I feel that they sometimes sit uneasily with the rest of the show. And I just don't know why they're doing the corruption thing again, but I guess I should be patient.
Backward Cap says DeShawn gets a cut of half the action on crank from 14th Street to the Hudson. Huh? Is there a Hudson River in Maryland? What is this, NYPD Blue? We've got the blue part covered, that's for sure. Will asks why they haven't brought him in before. Stab Wound says the stash is always moving around: "Like…like he's got someone watching out for him. Good luck on finding out who." He leans toward Will and asks, "When did he talk to Roebuck?" Will: "Never, as far as I know." Stab Wound looks concerned. Backward Cap says, "DeShawn knows him. Wanted to know if the Chief was going to be in on the interrogation." Wait, now Roebuck might be dirty? Aw, I sorta like him. Will thinks DeShawn's probably just afraid of the boss. They cast suspicious glances in the direction of Roebuck, who's talking to a uniformed officer. Stab Wound agrees that must be it, but seems unconvinced. The undercover guys take off, and Will and Chewy look at each other questioningly. Chewy chews his pencil thoughtfully. Or maybe it's a piece of beef jerky. Who can tell, in all the blue?