Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A+ | 950 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Are You Gonna Drop The Bomb Or Not?
By Couch Baron | Season 2 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2008.10.26
Betty gets home, goes to the refrigerator, and chomps on a chicken leg. Apparently Mommy likes to do a lot of things you don't know about, Sally.
Trudy's packing, and Pete notes that she's taking the silver. She thinks there could be looting, to which Pete responds, "A mob is going to come to the fourteenth floor of this apartment building?" If you keep dropping chicken on them, they might. Trudy says she wishes he'd come with her in case something happens, but Pete tells her she doesn't understand the potential magnitude of destruction: "Your parents' deck chairs will be on Fifth Avenue." Heh. She gives him a few hundred dollars in cash in case the train doesn't work and he needs to hire a driver, but he tells her if he's going to die, he wants it to be in Manhattan. You'll notice, though, that he took the money, so apparently he'd rather die in Manhattan in a limo with hookers and champagne. He somewhat smugly adds that she wants to be with her parents and he wants to be there, but she won't let that go easily, saying her parents love her. "Do you? If you did, you'd want to be with me." Pete says she's right, and she kisses him and looks deep into his eyes before he says he'll help her pack the car. What a weird scene -- are they breaking up? Is he conceding that he'll come down at some point? What's going on? I normally like the minimalist dialogue and heavy reliance on subtext, but I'm in the high weeds on this one. I suppose it will be clear in NINE MONTHS or so.
At SC, the boys are listening to a missile-oriented radio broadcast when Harry rushes up and tells them there's bad news -- the conference room is signed out all day. "And I checked the fridge --- there's canapés. Really good ones." Heh. Pete then appears and expresses calm over the whole merger thing, as he might given what Duck said to him, so Harry tells the rest of them that he talked to his father-in-law about it, and "regime change is always tricky. You want to stay neutral -- the loyalists are always hung, and you don't want to get caught in the fallout." Paul's understandably disgusted by this attitude, probably particularly with the incredibly tin-eared use of the word "fallout" here, but Harry says PPL doesn't care about them, and will draw a line and fire everyone below it. Paul sounds like he's going to cry as he says he likes SC the way it is (which is a nice counter to what Sheila said a few episodes ago), and this seems to have an effect on Pete, who goes marching purposefully away...