Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hurricane
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 02.16.1998
Joey goes to sit on the stairs. FH comes out of the TV room, strolls over to the stairs, stops in front of Joey, and then sits beside her as Joey looks away. FH sighs, "I guess I f -- this is really f -- every sentence that comes to mind ends with the 'F word.'" Joey says, "Well, don't hold back on my account. I've heard it." FH says, "I'm an adult, Joey, I'm supposed to set an example." Joey arches a brow and advises her, "I'd stick to the 'F word' if I were you," and a moment later, the lights flicker along with a clap of thunder. FH whispers, "I've been very selfish," and Joey answers with a tiny smile, "It seems to run in your family." FH gives her a look and tells her, "But I'm ending it," and Joey looks back at her, then upstairs, and then gives a tiny nod.
TaMAHra's house. Deputy Doug and Pacey tussle over a flower arrangement. Deputy Doug makes a point of "protecting" TaMAHra, who thanks them both for staying and hopes she isn't "keeping them from anything." Doug makes an even bigger point of going outside in the storm to check on some glass they heard breaking: "This is my job, Tammy." Yeah, like we care. Pacey takes the opportunity to out Doug to TaMAHra, and he tries to kiss her, which she dodges because of Doug "right outside," but after a minute of protesting and throwing the word "felony" around, she gives in, and then they start horsing around and they land on the floor and pull the tablecloth and all the stuff on the table down on top of them, and when Doug comes back in, he gives them the hairy eyeball. Well, at least I think the scene unfolded like that, but I had to go buy a roll of Scotch tape to hold my eyelids open, so I don't know for sure.
The Flash. Modelling glue. Dawson. The Flash imagining "a whole chain of Leery family restaurants." Dawson summoning up a limp "that's great, Dad." The Flash asking, "Something wrong, Dawson?" Faithless Hussy coming in by another door and saying, "Something's very wrong." FH preparing to confess herself. Dawson "leaving you two alone"; FH stopping him: "No, Dawson, we're a family -- this falls on all ears."
Dawson closing the other set of doors and folding his arms over his chest as FH says that she loves what she does and has always wanted to become a Diane Sawyer or a Barbara Walters (no comment). The Flash looking befuddled. FH continuing that twenty years have passed and she's given up that dream, but she accepts it and everything, and The Flash doesn't understand what she's trying to say, and she starts babbling about Sally Jessy Raphael and wondering who watches those shows about people who have done each other wrong blah blah blah "IQs of about three" blah blah blah "bitch and moan about it for the whole world to see" blah blah blah "not that kind of person" fishcakes. FH still nattering on about not winding up on a panel of lowlifes and cheaters and liars; The Flash beginning to get a very bad feeling and asking her again to get to the point. FH: "What I am saying is, for the past two months, for the past 62 days, every time that I've come home late, every time that I have made an excuse to leave this house, every time that I haven't been with you, I have been with someone else. Another man. Having sex with another man." That's gonna leave a mark. The Flash not speaking, moving, or even blinking. Dawson fidgeting. FH saying she won't insult him by offering an apology, since what she did lies "on the other side of forgiveness," but she thought he should know. The Flash still not speaking, moving, or even blinking; FH prodding him, "Mitch?" Thunder crashing. The lights going out.