Episode Report Card Niki: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT 'Til The One Day When The Lady Met This Fellow...
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.13.2001
Meanwhile, Jake's at the restaurant, feeling the aftereffects of the hostage situation. Business is not exactly booming. He strolls through the nearly empty dining room and asks the bartender for a couple glasses of wine. Grace is there, helping him. Sensing what he's thinking, she assures him, "People will come back. They're just scared." He says he knows, and then asks if she's okay being there. "If you think I'm going to let you be here alone..." she says, and Jake envelops her in a big bear hug, wondering, "How did I get you, huh?" Tiffany walks in and interrupts them, saying, "Another bustling night at Phi's, huh?" She asks Grace if she's doing okay, and Grace insists that she is. She smiles and adds, "I couldn't even get out of going to school. They made me see a stupid trauma counselor." Tiffany airheads that she needs a trauma counselor to "get through a normal day," and then giggles and kisses Jake. Grace observes, looking a little disturbed. Tiffany asks if there are any crackers. What does she think this is, a restaurant or something? Grace offers to get her some, but Tiffany declines, saying she has to "pee anyway." Grace waits until the coast is clear, and then leans in to whisper to Jake, "So, are you and Tiffany back together?" Jake stammers something to the negative, but can't quite get out a coherent sentence and walks away, tossing a weary "Never mind," over his shoulder. Grace is ill at ease and looks back toward the washroom.
Cut to Grace walking down the hallway past said washroom, where she overhears Tiffany retching. She cautiously enters and asks Tiffany whether she is all right. Tiffany emerges from a stall and insists that she's fine. She tries to change the subject by asking Grace, again, if it's weird for her to be there. Grace isn't deterred, asking whether Tiffany's sure she's okay. They watch each other in the mirror over the sink. Tiffany flinches and says, "Oh, god. Is it even morning here? Isn't it like morning in China?" and busts for the toilet. Grace watches her, and cocks her head when Tiffany turns to face her again. Tiffany fesses up, saying that Grace is a smart kid and would have figured it out anyway. She says that Jake doesn't want to tell anybody yet, and asks Grace not to tell him that she knows. Grace is understandably stunned. She softly repeats, "Pregnant?" Tiffany smiles a yes and then lurches for the toilet again. Grace watches, uncomfortable and uneasy. She finally brings herself to ask, "Are you two, like --" "-- getting married?" Tiffany finishes from the stall, and replies, "Answer cloudy. Ask again later." Grace smiles and says they "used to have one of those." But hold up, here. Didn't Tiffany assure Jake that they're not getting married or anything? Why's she changing her story now? Answer cloudy. Ask again later. Tiffany says that the only reason she told Grace is because she "practically threw up on [her] shoe." Oh, puh-lease. She could have covered that with any number of excuses. They look at each other for a few seconds before Tiffany admits, "And I had to tell somebody, so..." Grace looks absolutely thrilled to be the one. Tiffany asks if she wants to feel the baby. Unless Grace's hands are infused with some kind of ultrasound, I don't see how that's possible, considering Tiffany's tummy doesn't have the slightest bulge yet. Grace just looks at her, justifiably horrified.