Episode Report Card Niki: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT It's The End Of The World As We Know It...
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.10.2001
e's calling. "Miles," he says. She dryly observes that he's already called Miles seven hundred times. "Cell phone," he says. She snidely says that it all makes sense, then. Getting no answer, Rick hangs up and glances toward the outer office. He whispers that he thinks Miles "may be in flight." Cho doesn't understand, saying that Miles just got back from vacation. "As in fleeing," Rick clarifies. She still looks puzzled. "A fugitive...from -- from justice," Rick spells out. She asks whether she should cancel the concrete. I think it's meant to be a joke, but I don't get it. Must be an architect thing.Lily, meanwhile, is on the phone at her desk at PagesAlive.com, telling Judy that she "can't talk about it." Then she snaps, "Because I can't. I need you to respect that." Crusty pokes her head out of her office and says she needs to talk to Lily. Lily glowers at no one in particular. "How much do you know about it?" Crusty asks, hushed, as Lily enters her office. Lily is affronted and feigns ignorance. Crusty tells her to stop pretending: she knows Lily knows what she's talking about. Lily gives her a half eye roll and grates that whatever Crusty is doing, Lily doesn't want to know about it. How can she get away with that kind of subordination? Crusty is unfazed, though, and tells Lily that "for such a little magazine," they have great sources. Crusty says that she knows about the grand jury, and the indictment. Lily angrily interrupts, "What do you mean, 'indictment'?" She steps further into the office and says that Rick hasn't even appeared. "Just what I hear," Crusty says. "From who?" Lily demands. Crusty puts on an innocent expression and raises her hands in mock ignorance. "And you're going to print this?" Lily asks, incredulously. "I thought I should let you know," Crusty says, her voice firm. Lily's eyes are flashing. She mistakes Crusty for a real journalist and is shocked that Crusty would run a story saying that Rick will be indicted when she hasn't even interviewed him and won't name sources. Crusty, unbothered, says that she can't name sources since it's a grand jury. Lily leans in and chokes out, "You are not going to print this, and if you print this...well, you're not going to print this, because it's a lie!" Now Crusty's interested: "You know it's a lie?" "I know it's a lie." "How?" "How do you think? He told me!" Uh huh. Well, I'm convinced. Because everyone in prison admits they deserve to be there, right? Lily continues that he said he "did nothing wrong," and she won't be involved with anything that would hurt him, "not to mention protecting [Crusty] in a libel suit." Crusty sits back with a caustic smile and snides, "Ooh, Lily -- ferocious in defense of her man!" You know, more and more I'm finding that Crusty's taking the words right out of my mouth. It's scary, really. I think it means I'm confirmed a place in hell. Lily snaps that she's serious. Crusty backs down a little and asks, "And what if you're wrong?" "I'm not! I'm just not!" Lily insists. Crusty says, "Okay. I'll get corroboration from another source." Whoa, now. She was going to run a story like that on the basis of a single source? I knew Crusty was a joke, but I didn't think she was that irresponsible. Lily pauses on her way out of the office and says, "Thank you." And no one even had to remind her.