Episode Report Card M. Giant: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT In The Wind
By M. Giant | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 06.21.2006
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Let's just do this alphabetically, shall we? Beth: pissed at Cameron for refusing to have a baby, and then he brought one home anyway; she pretends not to care about the munchkin until he gets sick from substance withdrawal, and then her cover's blown. Cameron: gets Elisa to sign over the kid for now, at least until she goes through rehab, and doesn't dispute her accusation that his reputation on campus is deserved. Damien: bored with everything, takes Frankie on a lame date, and when she keeps blowing him off for her mom, he contemplates taking comfort in hotel spank-o-vision and Galina's tiny little shorts. Frankie: goes on lame date with Damien, blows him off twice for her mother. Galina: upon finding herself at a party full of lawyers, begins wondering how airtight that prenup with Damien really is. Kimberly: embarrassed about wanting to hold onto her share, even when Sunny, the woman claiming to have played her dollar, turns out to be a horrible, horrible person. Maggie: sets up her own speed-dating event, strikes out, and is thus vulnerable to the "charms" of a self-impressed waiter. Nina: the only one who stands by Kimberly; she responds to Peter's legitimate concerns by psychobabbling at him. Peter: finally resolves the whole dispute by proposing that each of the twenty real winners give Sunny a million dollars, which they agree to do. Sean: gets his stupid ass arrested, then enlists the help of Zoe's sister Tally to help find her. Sunny: still a horrible, horrible person. Tally: secretly packing a gun. Zoe: still missing, and with Sean on the case it doesn't look good for her at all. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Despite being a multimillionaire, Damien starts out the episode doing what any kid his age would be doing: lying on the floor, listening to his iPod, and reading a magazine. Aside from the hotel suite in which he's doing it, he could be any average teenager. Until, of course, his Russian underwear-model wife stands over him and announces, "Woman on TV say you stole from her." Damien reacts incredulously because he hasn't stolen anything in days.
Looks like we're picking up right where we left off. Frankie goes down to the living room, where Addie is "busy" getting a mani-pedi in her easy chair. Frankie's on her cell phone as she asks her mom whether they know Sunny, the chick who's claiming that Kimberly's share of the lottery winnings is actually hers. Addie does: "She always brings deviled eggs and flirts with every man in the room." Frankie turns on the TV, which is currently playing the crap-ass newscast from last episode. Frankie watches Addie watch the TV like this is her mom's fault or something. All Addie says is, "Oh, my God. What a --"
"Nightmare!" Maggie pronounces. She and Addie are walking around town together with unnecessarily small coffees in their hands. Also, they're in regular paper cups, when any self-respecting lottery winner would have the barista make their coffee in one of those nine-dollar go-cups, which they would pay for, take with them, and then throw away like the rest of us throw away the paper ones. Let's hope those coffees are at least, like Oreo-pecan-cluster-chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-flavored or something. Maggie remarks of Sunny, "She does play. The thing about her is --"
"She could be telling the truth," Peter remarks to Maggie, who is now over at Peter and Nina's house. Nina insists that Sunny's lying, but Peter's not convinced, either because he is stupid or because this show needs to manufacture drama wherever possible. I'm prepared to split the difference. Peter says, "Either way, it's --"
"Complicated," Beth tells Peter, as she leads him through her and Cameron's house. "Frankly," she non-segues, "we've got bigger problems." To wit, they've just reached the living room, where Cameron is vainly (more vain than usual, I mean) trying to calm down a screeching tot. Peter is struck not only speechless, but expressionless. "My reaction exactly," Beth remarks.
And because that was already way too long for a show like Windfall to keep it up with the fancy editing, Peter's back home with Nina, remarking that she doesn't seem surprised that Cameron's taken in a baby that could be his. Nina half-truths that Cameron mentioned it during his phone call to Paris, but they weren't ready to tell people yet. "Even your husband?" Peter asks, looking hurt. Nina's saved from having to respond by a knock at the door. It's Kimberly. "Kimberly?" Peter says. Doesn't miss a trick, that guy.