Episode Report Card Drunken Bee: N/A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT In That Dress?
By Drunken Bee | Season 4 | Episode 2 | Aired on 06.23.2008
Border crossing. Nancy waits in traffic, a sign indicates that the waiting time to cross the border is two hours. Folks are hawking wares, weaving in and out of the cars. Nancy wants a Diet Coke, but all the man at her window has is a Jarritos. Mmmm. I love Jarritos. Nancy asks if he has a diet Jarritos. He does not. She spots another vendor with what appear to be lattes, but she doesn't have anything less than a fifty. She decides to buy a guitar from her Jarritos man -- asking specifically for a red one, in order to get change for the latte. Just me, or does this scene read a little Twin Peaks-y?
Some time later, Nancy grabs her Jesus bobble head and tells him to chill out. She catches sight of an agent with a drug-sniffing dog, and gets tense. The dog makes his pass down her car as she watches. There's a split second where it seems he's pausing at her trunk, but he slides along to the next car.
Still later -- it seems that watching Nancy Botwin being stuck in the long lines at the border crossing is nearly as tedious as sitting in those lines oneself! -- Nancy offers a little kid in the car next to her some bagged nuts. He nods his head "yes" but his mom slaps him. Nancy flags down her guitar vendor and asks about bathrooms. There aren't any, so she chugs the last of her coffee, and gets in the back seat with the plastic cup. The kid in the car next to her stares. She tells him to turn around and he shakes his head "no." She tells him to enjoy the show and proceeds to contort herself seemingly quite successfully, peeing neatly into the cup. Meanwhile, her magical future car is receiving a phone call from Shane. She climbs back into the front seat with a cup of urine. Oh please, don't let the whole "gun in the first act" hold for the introduction of pee in cups. Please, please, please. She answers Shane's call and it appears I have WORSE things to worry about than pee in cups; as Shane tells his mom about Celia being in jail, we watch him struggle with great-grandma's poopy diaper. He tells her that Celia's getting ready to rat them out. Nancy: "FUCK!" Shane declares, over speaker phone, that he thinks they should change their identities, as an agent approaches Nancy's window. She cuts him off and the agent reminds her to get her passport ready. Nancy: "FUCK!"
Cut to Nancy finally at the crossing, trying to explain why she has no passport with her -- "I didn't know!" -- why she was in Mexico -- getting a skin cream for her lovely, lovely skin -- and why she has urine in a cup in her car -- "..." The agent asks her to pop her trunk, takes a peek, and seems to send her along...that is, until he asks her to pull up to the second inspection area.