Episode Report Card 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Help For The Lovelorn
By Kim | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.22.2000
Felicity and Elena are in the coffee shop. Elena is saying, "Stay away from snow?" Why does every scene open with Elena repeating something Felicity just told her to drop us into the middle of the conversation? Felicity says that it's disturbing, and Elena asks her what happens when it snows. Felicity says that Creepy Guy disappeared before she could ask what he meant. Elena says that she hates to be the voice of reason, but that he couldn't have disappeared. Felicity says that he was in the stacks, and then he wasn't. I have to say, that's pretty much the meaning of disappeared. Elena looks at a newspaper, and says that she's checking the weather forecast to see when it's going to snow. The headline on the newspaper says "Russia Fires Rocket Towards Moon," which seems a little obvious to me. Like, why don't they just have the headline say, "Hey, We're All Pretending It's the 1950s!" Felicity asks what Creepy Guy meant when he said "They're doing it to you right now." Elena thinks about it as Scary Woman from a couple of days earlier shows up and asks Felicity how it went. Felicity says she left. Scary Woman says she heard, and Felicity wonders, then, why Scary Woman is asking. Scary Woman wants Felicity to go back to The Clinic, and gives her another business card. Man, she must go through those things like water. I hope she has a friend who works at the 1959 equivalent of Kinko's. Felicity offers Scary Woman a plain bagel and Scary Woman says she just came by to see her. Felicity takes the business card and Scary Woman leaves. Elena says, "Okay, she's weird."
Felicity is in bed, sleeping, when she hears a voice whispering, "fe-lisss-a-teee." She looks at her anachronistic personal tape recorder, which is lying on the floor. She picks it up and opens it, but there's no tape inside. The voice says, "Open sixty-seven." Meghan wakes up and snaps, "God, are you ever going to stop making those stupid tapes?"
Felicity is at the New York Public Library. I'm not sure if her university's library is not good enough for her, or if she is trying to avoid Creepy Guy, or what. Julie is inexplicably there too; she walks up and tells Felicity that she looks terrible, and wonders if Felicity wants to talk. Felicity says that Julie will think that Felicity is losing her mind. I notice that Felicity is wearing a heart-shaped pin and Julie has a heart embroidered on her sweater. Again, no idea about the significance, but I thought it was worth a mention. Felicity gathers up her things and says that it's better not to discuss it. Julie says, "The Clinic called me." Felicity can't believe they are calling her friends now, and blathers on about harassment, and things happening, and her tape recorder telling her to "open sixty-seven." Julie suggests that the voices Felicity's hearing might be caused by stress or emotional turmoil. Felicity says that she's going to call the police and end this before she starts her new plot contrivance -- I mean, "new job." Julie reveals that she went to The Clinic over the summer in order to get over Ben and forgive Felicity. Julie continues that, like anything that works well, the procedure has created some fanatics, but that having the treatment is the best thing she's ever done. Felicity asks her what the treatment is. Julie says she can't tell because she signed a non-disclosure agreement. Apparently, The Clinic is owned by Bill Gates. Felicity pleads with Julie to tell her, and Julie says, "Only they can explain, and it's really best that they do."