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
Cut to Grace sitting in the passenger seat of Jake's car, staring out the window, silent and freaked. Jake glances at her then stares ahead, bobbing his head resignedly. "She told you, didn't she?" he asks. "Yep," Grace says. Jake turns his head, glancing angrily out his own window. After a second or two he asks Grace, "Don't tell your mother, okay? I need to be the one who does that." Grace asks whether she may tell Zoe. He tells her to wait, just a couple of days. She agrees, but doesn't seem happy about it. They ride on in silence.
Cut to Rick's truck, pulling up outside Lily's place. They kiss again, and he breathes, "I want to stay the night." She thinks that they should tell the kids first. She'll tell them at breakfast, and then he should come for dinner. "So, kids first? Not exes?" Rick asks, just as Jake pulls up, on cue. He pulls his car alongside theirs, so the windows align. Lily not-so-subtly lifts her left hand, chirps, "Almost forgot!" and slides off the ring. How Jake or Grace failed to see that is beyond me. Jake smiles and says he hopes he's not interrupting anything. Lily says a goodnight to both men and finds Grace hopping urgently outside her door as she pushes it open. They head up the walk together, and Jake and Rick bid one another a very amiable goodnight before each man drives away.
Cut to the next morning, as the Plucky Guitars of Fun kick things up a notch. Lily offers Zoe more milk for her cereal, as Grace casts her mother a suspicious eye. Lily continues offering breakfast goods to the kids, sounding almost desperate, and Grace points out that she has to leave in two minutes. Lily puts down the milk bottle and announces, "Well, I have some news." Grace looks pained.
Cut to Rick's place, where a parallel scenario is unfolding. "Okay, look, guys, there's something I need to tell you," Rick says. Eli looks up, his spoonful of cereal suspended. Jessie, likewise, freezes.
"Rick and I are talking about getting married." Grace and Zoe stare at Lily, their faces stone. "We are getting married!" Lily exclaims, throwing her arms wide. "We're engaged!" she burbles, just in case they needed that last line translated. Zoe sips her milk and Grace just continues staring with her arms folded. She pastes a wan smile on her face.
"And we thought we should tell you as soon -- well, it only happened last night, but...I mean, we've been thinking this --" "So in other words, you're getting married?" Eli asks. Rick looks from one to the other before answering, "Exactly." On a side note, what does Rick mean, "It only happened last night"? They got engaged the night of the hostage taking, didn't they? So they put the kids to bed, put on their swankies, and hit the town for a night of dinner and dancing? Highly unlikely. I would hope, anyway.