Episode Report Card Maggie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Party Lines
By Maggie | Season 2 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.18.2000
Felicity is using the Health Centre phone to find out if there is still time to register as a candidate for the election. Ben runs in with Steven because Steven may have broken his finger while playing basketball. Felicity gets Greg, who, of course, doesn't want to help Steven since he isn't a student. Felicity and Ben exhort Greg to just take a look at Steven's finger to make sure it isn't broken. In the examining room, Steven is whimpering and Greg isn't doing much in the way of good bedside manner stuff, so Ben steps up to the plate. Okay, I'll admit that I don't know what an appropriate basketball reference would be, but I'm not Daniel and this isn't Sports Night. Anyway, Ben discovers that Steven hates peas so he tells him to yell out "Peas!" when Greg straightens out his finger. Felicity seems suitably impressed by Ben's bedside manner. Greg orders an x-ray of Steven's finger.
Sean is interviewing Felicity again, somewhere in the street, and she's talking about how she's never seen Ben act like the way he acted with Steven. She gets wistful and won't elaborate further.
Back in the Health Centre, Ben asks Felicity if he's going to have to pay for Greg's services. She doesn't think that Greg will charge Ben. He changes the subject and asks how Greg's campaign is going. Felicity tells him that she isn't working for Greg anymore and that she's going to run. Ben thinks she should run because she "really [has] this way of making people try harder." Felicity tells him that she thought he was "amazing" with the way he handled Steven. Cripes, will you two get back together already. Ben offers to sign Felicity's ballot petition so that she'll only have to get another 199 more signatures.
On Wall Street, Ben explains to Steven's dad how Steven injured his finger. Steven then confesses to his father that he dropped out of piano lessons a year ago. Of course, his dad doesn't even have a chance to respond to this admission because his phone rings and he just has to take the call. When you comin' home, dad? / I don't when, we'll get together then, son, you know we'll have a good time then. Successful Wall Streeters are bad men who neglect their children's needs. Is that a stereotype? Is Julie a bad singer?
Dr. Pavone is asking Ben, who is seated in her office, "What's next?" Ben wants to participate "in an after school program, coaching a kids' basketball team." Dr. Pavone isn't sure if one exists, but she promises to look into it.