Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Out In The Cold
By Gwen | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 01.09.2000
Ling, John, Richard, and Nelle storm into some room. Ling's telling John that he was terrible. "Ling!" says John, all ineffective. "Reese's Cup..." Richard tries to placate. Ling thinks John should have mentioned that her office policy forbids the escorts to see clients socially. John says he was saving that for Ling's testimony. Nelle throws in her two cents: "You should have gotten it in sooner." John gets all frothy at the mouth and starts to get up in Nelle's face. Richard stays between them. They snipe for a while and then John says, "At least I was an adult! She peddles her little trollops to teenagers!" indicating Ling. "That's constructive!" snarls Ling, in her shimmer-sheer white knit top and white fur vest. I think she should ask for a refund and find another lawyer. Why isn't Nelle defending her in this case? It makes no sense. Nelle tells John, "Why don't you argue THAT?" Yeah, word, Nelle. John should just stand up and tell the judge, "When I was younger, I had sex with a call girl. Now I'm dating a beautiful woman who's angry with me. I really want to continue having sex with the beautiful woman I'm dating. Please let Ling off the hook so that Nelle can see that I love her." He'll probably say something just like that, ten minutes from the end of the hour. Okay, so John tells Ling that it's important that she come off "LIKABLE," unlike the company she keeps. And he does a chopping motion toward Nelle so we can see that he's ranking on her. Then he stalks out the door, but not before Nelle mutters, "I hated your stupid frog, too." He gives her a pissed-off look and then leaves. Nelle's huge red window-pane plaid jacket is grody.
Ally walks off the elevator all forlorn and drags herself up to Elaine, who is reading Financial Times and drinking "Sqit." Louis didn't show up for the lunch date. "Maybe he's dead," Elaine hypothesizes. "You think?" Ally brightens. Uh, oh. It's that guitar...Here comes Billy with the Pleather Squad. "Buh-Buh-Billy?" says Ally. Through his cigar, Billy says, "It's a look. Like it?" She says "no," and asks what the point is, since he already landed his client. "It becomes me," says Billy, and they take off. Ally is grossed out and makes a joke about the last guy she fell for (Billy, I guess, because Greg was a hallucination?) and how he turned out. Louis runs in and tells Ally that he was almost killed. Someone almost ran over him. Does she still have time for lunch? "Um..." says Ally. Elaine tells them to go into Ally's office and that she'll go out for sandwiches. Aw. Elaine's such a friend.