Episode Report Card Maggie: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Laser Labels and TV Dinners
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 04.17.2001
Felicity answers the phone at her apartment. It's Ben calling to invite her to a party to which they went after the game; Avery put Felicity's name on the list. She wonders whether Knoll may come along. Knoll doesn't want to go, but Ben asks Avery and reports that Knoll's also invited.
Felicity and Knoll walk down the street past a long line of people waiting to get into the club. They tell the doorman that their names are on "the list," but he can't find them anywhere. The doorman tells them to go to the end of the line. Felicity imagines that Avery purposely didn't put their names on the list. Knoll thinks she's being "paranoid," and tells her to let "Leon take care of this." He asks her for money before trying his luck...or, rather, Leon's luck. By the way, I'm still hating Knoll, or Llonk, or whoever he currently is.
Inside the club, Avery introduces Ben to a couple of her friends. One of the friends asks how he likes the watch. Ben says that it's heavy. The friend exclaims that he should watch out, because Avery is very generous. Avery brushes off her friend's comment with, "Please, who gave me these earrings?" Ben asks to borrow Avery's phone to call Felicity. Once Ben has walked away, one of the friends asks who Felicity is; Avery tells her it's his girlfriend.
Outside the club, Knoll/Llonk approaches the doorman, who tells him he won't check the list again. Knoll bores the doorman with some bafflegab about whether the list or anything at all really matters. After a few moments of this, Knoll hands over some money and the doorman lets him and Felicity go in.
Once inside, they spot Avery and Ben hunched together. Her TV dinners are practically sitting in his lap. Avery seems glad that Felicity and Knoll have made it, while Ben raves about what a great place it is. Felicity asks to speak to Avery privately. Knoll says to Ben, "So, wanna dance?" Ben shouts, "No." Knoll feels he has to clarify that he was kidding.
Felicity and Avery go into a lounge to talk. Felicity launches into a monologue about her name not being on the list and hating to feel insecure so she comes out and asks Avery whether she's interested in Ben. Without missing a beat, Avery admits that she is. Felicity is taken aback by Avery's honesty. Avery claims she's telling Felicity because Avery doesn't have a chance with Ben: he's "so obviously in love" with Felicity. She continues, "But I died that night in the ambulance...and his face was the first and last thing I saw." Apparently, she hasn't been able to stop thinking about him for months. She says, "Look, I know that I'm a rich brat and one of these days I'm going to learn I can't have everything I want. I guess." Felicity just stares at her. Clearly, she is no match for Avery's polished self-assurance.