Episode Report Card Gustave: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All about Todd
By Gustave | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.01.2002
Back in the wine cellar of Café Memento, Dr. Phil is finishing up his examination of Bride, and he doesn't like what he sees. "It looks like you've been roughed up," he says. Yet there's no sign of any cranial injury, so her amnesia couldn't have come from a bump on the head. He asks her if she feels pain anywhere else. Bride points to her nether regions. Oh dear. Dr. Phil concludes that she has "disassociative amnesia" and needs to go to a hospital. Bride doesn't want to go. Dr. Phil insists. Bride freaks out and cries. "Just take me home," she says. They embrace.
Palmer Suite. Lady Mac, talking on the phone, watches Palmer put something in the safe and waits for Palmer to step out. When he does, she checks with Patty to see that the coast is clear, sneaks into Palmer's office, opens his safe, and grabs the Kreepy Karl tape. It's in an envelope addressed to the DA's office. She sits down on the couch and holds the tape in her manicured hands for a long time. After a commercial break, Palmer enters the office and opens the safe. Lady Mac is lounging on the couch. She asks him about the "talk" he had with Theo. Palmer tells Lady Mac that they both have to support Theo because he's "in a tough place." Lady Mac counters that it's Palmer who put Theo "in a tough place." Palmer opens the safe and discovers that the tape is missing. Lady Mac admits to destroying the tape. "It's for the best," she says. "It breaks my heart that I was right," says Palmer, revealing that the tape that Lady Mac destroyed wasn't the real tape. "I will do anything to protect my family," says Lady Mac. "Does that make me a bad person?" Well, we've always known she was a bad mother…like Shaft was a bad mother. Palmer exits the office and informs the extras mulling around in his suite that they need to prepare a press conference for him right away. PMHC hears this and reminds Palmer that he's already got a press conference in three hours. "I want this one within the hour!"
The time is 5:45:16 PM. Kiefer fits a walkie-talkie transistor earpiece into his ear and checks in with Nina and Teddy Ruxpin. Teddy makes more "jokes" about accidentally shooting Kiefer. Oh, and then there's this whole rant about the dirty agent's wife committing suicide after Kiefer exposed her husband. She had four kids. Blah blah blah. For some reason Kiefer doesn't tell Teddy Ruxpin to get fucked, and apologizes instead. Um, am I the only person who feels that Teddy's partner might be the one responsible for the demise of Teddy's partner? The word "chinwag" is used. Nina calls Xander and tattles on Teddy for being a pain in the ass. Xander patches into their "whatever communications" system and tells Teddy to cut the shit. Yeah. Shut up, Teddy. The time is 5:48:35 PM.