Episode Report Card Heathen: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Falling In Place
By Heathen | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 03.03.2002
As soon as Eli's out of earshot, Judy scurries up to Jake. "What are you doing?" she hisses. Jake insists that he's just trying to help, but Judy thinks he's being a hard-ass. That's such a lame argument. Eli clearly isn't working: Jake caught him loafing around and then salivating over a female customer, so technically, Jake would be right to lecture, suspend, or fire Eli. Stupid Judy is being stupid with men again. Jake gets right up in Judy's face and spit-whispers that the men's room reeks of pot. "It could be anybody," Judy actually says. "It could be clove cigarettes!" Um, neither of which solves the problem that someone's smoking in your lavatory. Stupid Judy is apparently stupid with a lot of things besides men. Still, as Jake storms off to have a wee pout, Judy drifts toward the kitchen and asks a guy named Kenny to fetch Eli. "He just left," Kenny says. Judy's stunned, and rather frustrated.
Lily and Rick clomp up Jessie's stairs and find her curled up on the bed. Jessie's room is really cool, decked out in eclectic wall-hangings and some filmy blue curtains hung up around her bed. I wonder where it all came from, or from whom it came, given that her room at Karen's place is very princessy. Jessie sits up, anticipating their speeches, and immediately but insincerely apologizes for ditching school. "I've never done it before, I won't do it again, and if you want to punish me, fine, but I really don't feel like talking about it," she blurts, defensively and without much interest in their responses. Rick wants to discuss it briefly. "We're not mad at you," Lily reassures her stepdaughter. "It's a confusing time for you." Jessie groans. "You don't know anything," she seethes. Rick bristles at her bad manners. But Jessie won't be silenced, ranting about Lily's unwelcome presence in Karen's house. She believes Lily has no business going there. Jessie's reaction is understandable, and might be justified if Lily had wandered in on her own accord and rifled through Karen's things in search of stuff to bring to the hospital. But that wasn't the case -- Lily probably felt uncomfortable about being there, and only went because Rick is frazzled and needed a favor. Nobody defends her on this one, though. Lily lamely says she was only trying to be of service. "You're not helping!" yells Jessie. "I wish you'd stop trying to act like my mother, because you're not my mother and you never will be!" She stomps off toward her bed and curls up on it with her back facing a startled Rick and Lily. They cleverly intuit that this conversation is over, at least for the moment.