Episode Report Card Sara M: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Missing: Alice, and Eleven Cast Members
By Sara M | Season 8 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.16.2003
Back at the parking lot, Det. Michaels tells Mr. Miller that he hopes Mizzz and Gracie show up, and this all turns out to be a mistake. "It's not a mistake!" says that big lady with the dreadlocks, who has arrived on the scene with two police officers. She's from Child Protection Services, and she wants to have him arrested. Whoops! I guess it wasn't the brother after all. My bad. Mr. Miller asks RevCam to help him. "I think only God…can help you now," RevCam responds, dragging it out for maximum dramatic impact. But how exactly did he know that Mr. Miller was molesting his daughter? Actually, don't answer that question, thanks. Griffith runs up and says that whatever Mr. Miller did to Gracie, he did to him too, and the reason why Griffith was outside the house in his car was because he didn't want to be in the house where his dad could get him. He picked Gracie up from school all the time because he wanted to keep her away from her father, so that what happened to him wouldn't happen to her. So Griffith turns out to be a protective big brother. Who's kind of creepy-looking. And didn't consider that, with him out of the house at night, his father might move on to Gracie. Oh well. Griffith says he wants to kill Mr. Miller, but seeing him get arrested is even better. I don't think it's better. If it were me, I'd want him dead, but enough of that seriousness. The CPS lady gives Griffith a hug while RevCam looks around and thinks about how what may have been the best scene ever done on this show did not involve any of its regular cast members.
It's nighttime at…some place. RevCam and Griffith are waiting in a hallway. Griffith remarks that "they" have been "in there" for a long time, and he's starting to lose his nerve. "It's embarrassing. Humiliating, even," he says. Declares, even. RevCam tells Griffith that there's no reason for him to be ashamed, and he will help Griffith get help from someone who "specializes in sexual abuse." It's nice that they actually said what was going on. I was afraid they were going to avoid saying what actually happened for the entire episode, or that, even worse, they would make up some sanitized, non-offensive euphemism for it like they did with sex and "adult relations." Griffith is afraid that his dad will be cleared of all charges, but RevCam says he doesn't think anyone will be very "sympathetic" to him. I didn't think that's how our system of justice works, RevCam. When you think about it, Griffith's worry that his dad will be acquitted is a valid one, considering that the bulk of the evidence in the case is his children's words against his. RevCam tells Griffith that he didn't do anything wrong over and over again. Why is RevCam even there, anyway?