Episode Report Card Aaron: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Can anybody find them somebody to love?
By Aaron | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 05.03.2003
As an obviously inexperienced adulterer, Nate makes the mistake of attempting to sublimate his guilt by calling the spouse. Ahh, Nate. Don't you realize that if Lisa can smell smoke on your clothes, she'll definitely be able to hear Brenda's lips in your voice? Fortunately, Lisa hasn't arrived at her sister's house yet, and a call to her cell phone goes unanswered. The call forwarding, however, routes Nate to Foreshadowing's answering service, and he breathily tells them that he "just wanted to hear [Lisa's] voice and know that [she's] okay."
We wrap things up tonight with a bedtime montage. First Rico tries to get Vanessa out of her dress and under the covers, but the combination of Xanax, merengue, and half the contents of a hospital drug-storage locker has rendered her almost completely unconscious. So instead he just throws a blanket over her, and gently runs his hand down her side. Next we see Claire, who rolls over in bed and seems somewhat surprised to find Mom sleeping beside her. Ruth does not, thankfully, coo like a pigeon on Ecstasy at this point, and instead Claire just smiles a bit and goes back to sleep. Arthur, meanwhile, gets a depressing little shot where he has to go to bed all by himself, although I'm not exactly sure why that would be depressing to a guy who doesn't even know what sex is. Finally, we see Brenda checking into a dingy roadside motel, and you can clearly tell she's hit rock bottom by the fact that the TV on the check-in counter is playing Baywatch. Shudder.
And then Nate tries yet again to call Lisa, and this time he's starting to get a little frantic. "I was hoping to reach you," he tells her voicemail. "It's late and I'm starting to worry. I love you. Call me." He puts down the phone and slowly climbs into bed next to Maya, who then puts an emphatic final stamp on her breakout episode by throwing her legs into the air and yanking off a tiny little sock just as we fade to white.
You know what? It's a good thing I'm off next week. When I start gushing about how cute babies are, you know it's time for a vacation. I'll see you kids from my new place for the final two episodes. Knowing HBO, they'll probably both be six hundred and twelve minutes long.