Episode Report Card Niki: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Scarlet Letter Jacket
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.04.1999
During dinner, he regales her with battle stories from the architecture front, reminiscing abut one woman who insisted that he ship six tons of pink marble back to Italy because it clashed with her cat. Lily laughs raucously, and Rick looks pleased. There's a pause in the conversation, and Rick snags it as a chance to lick the back of Lily's neck. She looks a little less than comfortable, as would I if someone with sea-bass breath started trailing saliva all over me. Rick senses her tension, and moves back toward his chair with an inquisitive look. She playfully reaches out to pull him back, and with a whole bunch of smiling and sighing and gazing in adoration, he finally sits back down again. "If you need to go, it's okay," he says. She insists that isn't the case, and then says, in measured tones, "So, this is our fourth date." He smiles, "Fifth, if you count the one when you broke up with me." Lily chuckles and apologizes, adding, "I just don't know what you expect of me." Lily's squirming in her seat, thinking of the steaming monkey love in which they engaged the last time they got together. It's not that she's getting hot, though. Just bothered. She's not sure what Rick expects from her now that she's given up the goods. "Do I help you clean up?" she wonders. "Do we go upstairs, and then clean up?" Rick chuckles and suggests, "We can make love while we clean up." Lily asks whether that's what he expects of her. Rick keeps his smile firmly in place and assures her, "I don't expect anything from you. He said. Again." Lily looks grave for a second and then says she's not sure "all of this" is as easy as he may want it to be. He scoots closer and plants a kiss on her forehead, softly telling her just to "hush up." As he gets down to some neck nibbling, Lily informs him that if he wants to get anywhere, he shouldn't let her talk. He needs to shut her up or, better yet, "hit [her] over the head with something very large." She lays her head on his shoulder, and confesses that all she's been thinking of since she got there is "when can [they] go upstairs." The two exchange a giddy look and pop up from the table just as the phone rings. They ignore it, rushing for the stairs, but Karen's voice on the machine stops them like a cold shower. She's on her way over to pick up some homework Jessie forgot. The mood? Bludgeoned. Rigor mortis is setting in. Lily grabs her coat and says she'll go. Rick insists that she stay. Lily says that it's bad enough their kids go to the same school, and everyone's already talking about it, but this isn't how Karen should learn that they're going out. Rick thinks that's ridiculous -- they're not doing anything wrong. Lily races for the door, but the bell rings. She gasps, trapped. She covers her mouth, helplessly wondering what they can do. Valium comes to mind. Rick says that she'll meet Karen. Lily has a better idea: she'll turn tail and slip into Rick's bedroom.