Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Let's Spend The Night Together
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.27.1999
Cut to Lily's door. Where the hell did you think he'd be going? She opens it with a stunned expression. He asks point-blank what "came up," knowing full well it was a line of crap. She freezes like a deer in headlights, and after a few seconds, he supplies her with an answer: "You were scared." She denies it immediately and then admits that he's right. He says they should still go out. Next thing you know, Lily's clambering into his truck. Rick says they should eat and rhymes off a list of possible choices. "Okay," she answers when he's finished. "Okay what?" "Okay, let's go back to your house." They look at each other as the inevitability of the evening sinks in.
When they arrive at Rick's, he nervously heads to the kitchen and starts calling out the very limited dinner options to be found in his fridge. Luckily, Lily didn't come for the food, and she tells him so. He sneaks up behind her while she's looking over his bookcase and wraps his arms around her. She spins around and instantly they're ooohing and slurping and exhaling as hard as a couple of steam engines. Suddenly, they're sprawled on the couch, and she pulls away to quip that she has "a sudden aversion to doing this in the living room, thanks to [him]." Silently, he stands and reaches for her hand.
The bedroom. Scene of the crime. They confront the bed and are intimidated. For a second, it looks like fear will triumph. Then Rick outsmarts them both by grabbing Lily and kissing her next to the bed. After a few seconds, Rick's fear of the furniture vanishes, and he takes a seat on the side of the bed. He pulls Lily close, lifts her shirt, and kisses her belly. Lily's not quite over her trepidation, however, and keeps one eye on the crafty bed lurking just over Rick's shoulder. She can't take it anymore and pulls away, telling Rick that she's "not ready to..." and that she knows he understands. "Of course," he says reasonably. Breathlessly, Lily flops onto the bed next to him and elaborates on her reasoning: They hardly know each other. A few seconds later, she raises the subject of Lindsey. Rick starts to explain the relationship, but he's taking too long for Lily so she cuts to the chase. She "just need[s] to know if [he's] sleeping with" Lindsey. "Not anymore," Rick says. Lily then spins off on another tangent, telling him that sex and dating and all the responsibilities that go with it are overwhelming to her; she's been out of the scene for a while, after all. She keeps saying that she knows Rick doesn't owe her anything and that she has no right to expect anything, but it's obvious that her brain and her heart are not on the same page. Rick stops her rant and informs her, simply, "From the minute I saw you at school, I didn't want anyone else." Well, that's good enough for Lily, and all her fear and concern fall by the, uh, bedside. They proceed to get naked.