Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 14 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Half A Love Story
By Jacob Clifton | Season 4 | Episode 18 | Aired on 03.24.2013
Alicia: "Um, why is it a pleasure to meet you? Because you're a wealthy new client, and I want to make a good impression."
I think that's when it happened. When it happens it happens so fast you'd never notice, unless you were looking for it. Unless you were listening. I think that's when it happened.
Once they got into a fight about the tiny Jawbone speaker he used to bring everywhere with him, playing the same Bach concerto over and over and over...
Alicia: "My problem isn't the music, my problem is the music over and over."
Matthew: "You don't like Bach?"
Alicia: "I love Bach, whatever. I don't love the same Bach song over and over."
Matthew: "Song? It's a Concerto. Why do the smartest people hide their learning?"
The highest praise he could give, and she lets it slide. The best advice, and she doesn't hear it.
Alicia: "To compensate for those who show off their learning."
Matthew: "It's so They will get bored, and stop listening to me."
Alicia: "Oh, so you're a crazy person."
Matthew: "The bliss of the unparanoid."
She liked him, so much. But he was such a force that it just melded together, faded into the background, like Bach. More of Matthew, over and over. She never saw him liking back; she never noticed the way he saw her. Red, in a monochrome world.
PRECINCT
Detective Doug: "So you just wrote Everybody? Did they ever fight?"
(One guy in particular, with a Fetch-Far: One of those dog lacrosse things you use to fling balls. Holding it to Matthew's throat.)
Detective Doug: "Yeah but did anybody actually ever threaten him?"
They did. She didn't believe him because she wasn't paying attention to the story.
Matthew: "You laugh now..."
Alicia: "I do! I do laugh now."
Matthew: "One day you'll be identifying my body in a morgue. And you'll know."
Next of kin. She wasn't listening. Maybe it was the Bach, over and over: So they'd get bored.
Alicia: "I mean, he said Mossad was out for him. Who knows."
Detective Doug: "One of his ongoing cases was against Chicago PD for harassment, correct? I'm just askin' questions here."
Alicia: "I need to make a phone call."
Detective Doug: "How come?"
(Say it with her. You knew what she'd say.)