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By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.14.2000
Felicity is fastening a small basketball hoop into place at the loft. She tosses what looks like a Nerf basketball to Ben, who thanks her for the hoop and ball. She confesses that it is a gift from his dad. He immediately wants nothing to do with the ball and puts it away. He complains about his father, and she tries to get Ben to consider seeing him. Ben is adamant until Felicity asks him to do it for her. He sighs and leans back into the sofa.
Elena joins Finn who is sitting at a table by himself at Epstein Bar. She congratulates him and then says that she can't go out with him and Tracy and, furthermore, what happened was a mistake and it can't ever happen again because she loves Tracy. Finn comments, "You've got a weird way of showing it." She suggests that just he and Tracy go out together, and he says that he already had other plans and he abruptly leaves the table. Elena sits there looking miserable.
Felicity walks into her apartment and before she can get her coat off, Mr. Covington knocks on the door. He explains that he was having coffee across the street and he saw her come home. Whoa, that's fairly stalkeresque behaviour. Stalking can't be one of the twelve steps. She asks him in, and he wants to know if she spoke to Ben. He guesses from the look on her face that it didn't go well and says, "I've lost him, haven't I?" Felicity murmurs that Ben "needs some time." Ben's father gets all maudlin about coming to make amends with Ben because he had "nothing to lose because [he's] lost it already." Dude, you've completely lost me. Felicity gives him a pitying look and then he breaks down. He starts sobbing, and Felicity gives him a hug and makes some sympathetic noises. He begins to nuzzle her neck, then he drags his lips across her cheek to her mouth. Before he can kiss her lips, she withdraws from the embrace and says, "Um." He says, "Uh, no. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Oh, God," as he runs out the door. Keri Russell was quite effective at looking shocked and completely bewildered and a little bit disgusted in this scene. Won't Jack ever learn? Janet and Chrissie never put up with that kind of crap from him.
Felicity walks into the loft to discover Ben up and playing with the ball and hoop. He says that he's been looking for her, and she tells him that his father came to her apartment again. Ben admits that he's been thinking about what she said, and he's now ready to give his father another chance if she thinks he should. Felicity stammers that she thinks he should try to "patch things up" with his dad.