Episode Report Card Megyn: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Do you like gladiator movies?
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.27.2001
While some watch "Up Your Ante!", Hoyt and Wick play cards. Wick TMIs that Dr. Nathan told him he has "pubic lice," and Hoyt sort of recoils. They both stop to gawk at Cyril as he walks by. Hoyt says that won't be them. Wick agrees: "Other than the lice, I feel great!" His head then drops to the table. Hoyt looks concerned and lifts Wick's head to see blood pouring out of Wick's nose and mouth. He starts screaming for Murphy. Back in Gloria's office, McManus enters to "apologize"; he backtracks that he realizes he used their argument to protest the drug testing, and he's sure she was acting with the "best of intentions." "Was I?" She mopes that her answer to everything is to "pop a pill in their mouths." She equates her services with those of a drug dealer. McManus redirects the subject to…let me think…himself! "Better that than a…I don't even know what I am anymore…I'm so tired and hungry…good night, Gloria." Okay, positions please, lights…and we're rolling! "Tim, wait!" "Yeah?" "That rain check for dinner? I'd like to cash it in." He asks if she's sure, and she says she "doesn't want to be alone tonight." They walk out. I intubate myself to pump the remains of my dinner out so the stomach pains will stop and I can then cease my screaming.
And we're in the Loving Care Pod, where Cyril is lying in his cot and asking Ryan if he remembers what their mama used to sing to them when they were little. Cyril himself can't remember. Ryan tells him to try to sleep. Cyril keeps it up, and Ryan slides out of bed to climb in next to Cyril. He starts singing an Irish lullaby. He's very sweet even though he sounds like ass. Cyril starts to smile, because hearing the song makes him happy. Aw.
The Upright Muslim Brigade. They christen Leroy. It sounds like his new name is Salaah. Anyway, it means "honoring the faith." We are treated to a flashback of Leroy and Adebesi, in the video that launched a thousand subplots, where good times were had and Coke was snorted, not drunk, the way God intended it. The Muslims all begin to depart, and Leroy says to Said that there are many things he wants to tell him…but he is afraid. Said reassures him that he must learn to come to him with "anything." "Even if it's about Simon Adebesi?" Cue the glare of overkill as Said whips around. Leroy clarifies that Simon was "his friend," and that Said "plotted to murder him." Said denies it: "No, his death was never my goal." He goes on to say that he tried to help Adebesi, but Simon just wanted to fulfill every desire he had, and when they were fulfilled, he wanted to die. Leroy asks him how he could know this. Said grasshoppers that "you only have to look into a man's face, to know when his time has come."
In the lunchroom of my discontent, Robson walks up to Leroy in the food line and asks when he plans to take care of Said. "It's taking too long." Leroy says he's waiting for his crew to not be around. We cut to the pod-o-prayer in question, where Arif stands guard by Said's door. Leroy approaches. Arif greets him and asks if he knows that Said suffers from hypertension. Leroy offers to relieve Arif of door duty so he can go to the bathroom. Arif agrees and leaves. Leroy enters the pod and raises a shank to, I believe, stab Said, but the shank is raised to eye-level and I just don't see how a fatal wound could be inflicted. He stares at Said a moment, and a look of both panic and conflict crosses his face as the eerie music of balloon air escaping plays. Said awakens and looks bleary-eyed at Leroy, who then tells him he is safe. Said smiles at this, and Leroy leaves. Once outside, he leans over the railing and speeyacks onto Ryan and Beecher's game table below. Is this the show of bodily functions or what?