Episode Report Card Deborah: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Wages Of Sin
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.28.2004
Joan empties a donation bin at school. Adam catches up with her. She says she called him six times but kept getting voicemail. He says he called her back but her mother said she was sorting clothes: "Are we ever going to get to see each other?" Joan: "Now works for me. You wanna go roll around in the clothes?" Adam can't; the guy at the studio needed his layout an hour ago so he has to go to the computer lab and use the graphics program. He asks her to keep him company. She agrees, but then suddenly remembers she can't: "Chadwick wants everything sorted and out of here or he's going to call the whole thing off." Adam: "All right, as soon as I finish this project…" Joan says the clothing drive won't last forever. They kiss (Adam says "mwah" -- that has to stop) and agree to talk tonight. He takes off as Judith comes up and asks how Adam liked the belly ring. Joan forgot to show him. Judith says they'll have to make an appointment to see each other: "That's what my parents do: 11:00 to 11:04 -- conversation and sex." Joan: "Ha!" Judith spots one of Friedman's posters and asks, "What if Adam had Friedman's laptop?" Well, I'd venture to guess he's suddenly have quite the collection of latex pictures. Joan reads the ad: "Four twenty-five? Forget it." Judith says she found a T-shirt from Bowie's first tour in one of the donation bins: "Do you know what Rudi would pay for that?" She argues they have lots of stuff: "All we have to do is…what is it? Um…expand and conquer." Joan: "Of course -- move beyond the school. Put bins in a few stores…the bookstore. Half the money buys more clothes for the homeless, and then they get the clothes we don't sell." Half the money, now? Uh-huh. Judith: "And we keep half the profits." Joan: "For Adam's laptop! Then he can work wherever he wants." Judith: "Get some free time with his honey." Joan: "Plus increase his productivity and make him even more valuable to his boss. Everybody wins! Hey, did you see those Guess sunglasses the other day?" Judith did. Where you two are headed, those are just going to melt right on to your faces.
Luke slips into the science storeroom. Grace is there already. She greets him warmly: "No sucky-face yet, bone rack. We have a physics midterm in two days, and I know less about Planck's constant than that lobster…" She gestures toward the jars: "Or is that two frogs?" And -- "bone rack"? That seems a little harsh. Oh, dear. Luke has a pamphlet. That doesn't bode well. He hasn't said anything yet. He hands her the pamphlet saying, "That's not why I'm here." Grace takes the "Facts about Alateen" brochure. Frink: "This is so After School Special." I want to argue, but at the moment, I've got nothing. Grace is mad: "You blabbed about me…to a roomful of freaks?" Luke says he got it at the public library: "And they're not freaks. They're kids, like us." Grace: "Dude, have you been inhaling the formaldehyde? There's no way I'm doing this!" Luke: "Go to one meeting." Grace: "I've been through it all, Girardi. There's nothing new they can tell me." Luke says she's been through it alone: "It doesn't have to be that way anymore." Grace dismisses the subject by handing the pamphlet back to him.