Episode Report Card Megyn: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT There once was a healer from Nantucket
By Megyn | Season 4 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2001.01.14
Cut to lunch time; Ryan serves the ESG and asks him if he has a problem with the lump of crap Ryan slopped on his plate. ESG says no. He sits to eat and wonders to his friends about his wife and child. He doesn't know their whereabouts, but his kid was put into an orphanage somewhere; to make matters much more traumatic, the kid has never been away from either parent before. Up walks Pancamo, who tells them that's his table. They all sort of make like fainting goats and panic. Morales steps in and asks ESG if he's the group's leader. Um, no. Morales persists, "They listen to you, right?" ESG: "Well, yes." Morales: "Then, that makes you their leader." Morales then says, "Come and see me…we'll talk." The refugees leave the table as Buzz looks on -- I think disapprovingly, but he always looks like that. We cut to the common room, where Morales beckons ESG to speak in his (Morales's) pod. ESG's friend doesn't want him to go. He wishes they were back in China. ESG says, "You watched our crops burn, you watched your daughter die, I cannot do that. I would rather die here, in America, than go back." Before Amy Tan calls for a re-write, ESG enters Morales's pod and greets him with the Chinese version of "chairman." I called my Chinese friend, Liz, to get the spelling, but she said they're all just translations and there really isn't a correct spelling. I'll just stick to English. Anyway, Morales likes this new word and repeats it. When ESG explains that Morales should put his name first, not last, Morales intelligently says that he always thought that was "fucked up about their side of the world." Yeesh. Tact? Doesn't live here anymore. Morales points Buzz out to ESG and tells him that Buzz is their enemy. "Why?" Morales: "Because of Viet Nam." ESG and I say, "But, we are Chinese…" Morales breaks in with, "He doesn't know the difference. He has vowed to kill each and every one of you." Poor ESG says he will talk to Buzz, since he means no one any harm and would like to make peace. Morales convinces him that nothing will work, that Buzz is going to kill ESG. Morales then says, "I will call you dead man." In Italian, of course.
Cut to McManus in his office, telling Buzz that one of the refugees reported to him that Buzz threatened them. Buzz is outraged and denies having threatened any of them. McManus ain't buying it -- he's running the place! He's in charge! He's the chairman, dammit! Cut to ESG on the phone with his wife, getting the report on her well-being and the kid's. It's sweet, and he hangs up to report excitedly that his kid is bossing everyone around at the orphanage. He's so happy. Morales stands there and listens to the whole report. ESG thanks him profusely for the phone call. Morales: "It's the least I can do." The buzzer sounds, and ESG asks where everyone is going. Morales explains that they all have to report to their jobs. ESG gets all excited and asks if he too can work: "I want to do my part!" Morales nods and says, "Okay, okay, I'll talk to some people. Let me see what I can do." It's all very cozy. Until someone gets hurt. Since when is Morales cozy?