Episode Report Card Niki: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT There Be Dragons
By Niki | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.18.1999
Cut to Lily waiting inside Pete's for Jake to show up. He comes up behind and taps her on the shoulder, startling her. Ah, she's on edge. Jake awkwardly ushers her to the bar area. After ordering drinks, they make small talk and it's clear that Lily's guard is up.
B/W Lily interrupts to reminisce about the first time she saw Jake. He was wearing "this beautiful blue shirt." Fascinating.
Back at the bar, Lily and Jake clink glasses and he tells her she looks good. "For an old broad?" she adds, sipping her wine.
B/W Lily continues the trip down Memory Lane. She says she sensed immediately that he wore the shirt on purpose, because he knew it made his eyes look striking. Somehow, her cheese radar didn't sound, though, and she remained attracted to ol' blue eyes.
Jake tells Lily she looks "better than any mother [he] knows." Amazingly, she doesn't ooze off her stool and form a quivering puddle under her bar stool, but instead asks dryly, "Why aren't I thrilled by that compliment?" "Probably because you were never any good at taking one," Jake suggests. Or, it could be that you're not much good at giving them, Slick. "Jake," Lily says with a warning note in her voice. He puts up his hands in surrender, saying, "No, you know, you're right," and then rubs his hands together before diving right in to tell her the good news: "[He's] been thinking and, [she] won't believe this, but [he's] even thought about some therapy." Stunned, Lily asks "You?" just to be sure she heard things right. Jake says no, he was actually thinking of therapy for them. Lily rolls her eyes.
B/W Lily continues trying to explain the unexplainable: Her attraction to Jake. She says that she knew he was trouble right way, but he wasn't like all the other guys she'd dated. So she fell victim to the old bad boy/dangerous thrill thing. Hey, it happens to the best of us.
Noticing Lily's reaction, Jake says, "You're not going to make this easy, are you?" Then he catches himself and apologizes, saying he knows "[he doesn't] get to say that." Lily reminds him that he's seeing someone anyway, and he shoots back that she is too. She's not the one who wanted to talk, she points out. With a little admiration, Jake observes that she's "gotten feistier." "No, just smarter," Lily replies as she gathers her stuff off the bar. She tells him that he doesn't "get to do this" and makes to leave. He puts his hand on her arm to stop her, looks at her for a few seconds, and makes this guttural "mmmm" sound that, frankly, makes me blush. What a creep. He blurts out that he misses her, he misses them. Lily wants to know what all this is - "[he] broke up [their] home and now that the kids are finally getting adjusted, [he]..." She leaves without finishing her statement, but not before knocking his drink into his lap. By accident, I'm pretty sure.