Episode Report Card Jacob Clifton: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Til The Riot's Gone
By Jacob Clifton | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 07.31.2012
"Look, I see her in that robe and those slippers, and I realize that could be me in there. And if it was me, Mona would be sitting here asking all of you to not send me away. So please don't. ...She doesn't know anyone in Saratoga. There will be no one there to hold her hand. No one will care a ... brown rat's ass for her in Saratoga.
"So please."
MCCULLERS
Near the McCullers swimming pool, the better to drown her if this goes poorly.
Emily: "Hey, Paige. I'm back to bother you some more, like I've been doing all day."
Paige: "Listen, I'm really sorry about that time I date-raped you and then didn't tell you about it for several months, even after I also got roofied."
Emily, verbatim: "It wasn't your fault."
Paige: "No, I'm pretty sure it is. Also, whoever roofied us, I'm going to drown them."
Emily: "Whatever. Listen, I want you to stop talking about killing people and hear what I'm saying to you. I was lost and scared and confused and blitzed That Night. I got abducted forty-seven times That Night. Possibly I dug up a grave is how out of it I was. But at some point, I came here. I came to you. I was lost and scared and out of my tits, and I ended up here."
That part, I can identify. I had a similar* experience last year, actually, which I didn't really ever talk about to anybody because the details aren't that interesting or salacious, and it didn't end in tragedy or anything -- although we never figured out who dosed us -- but I did learn that it can be surprising where your body takes you, when your mind's been commandeered and safety becomes its first priority. I wonder how many roofie zombies end up walking to an ex's house on autopilot? God, how embarrassing.
On the other hand, I figured out why people who've been roofied are so often shockingly blasé about it after the fact, which is that they weren't there for it. So if nothing terrible happens, which knock wood, there's not really anything to say, like, your own experience is exactly like hearing about somebody else's dream. Not that fascinating or relevant, because it basically didn't happen to you. I always thought it was a way of going NBD about the horrible thing that happened, but no. It's just not a huge factor.
Paige: "So we're good?"
Emily: "Oh, we're better than good. We are making out."
Paige: "Just as long as you're not fucked up..."