Episode Report Card Kim: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Last Stand
By Kim | Season 1 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.05.1998
Felicity talks to her counselor, saying that she remembers thunderstorms when she was little. She'd be lying in her bed, terrified. FVO continues as we see Mrs. Porter packing up her things in the hotel room, saying that her mom would come in and comfort her. The Porters walk out of their hotel as FVO says that her mom would help her fall asleep when she was scared. Mrs. Porter pauses on the sidewalk as FVO says she doesn't understand why her mom is so hurt that she's in New York, because her mom was always the one who understood her. Mrs. Porter sits in a cab as FVO says that this is how growing up happens. Mrs. Porter gets off an elevator and looks around, then knocks on Felicity's dorm room door. When there's no answer, she tries the knob. Mrs. Porter hears Julie playing her guitar, and instead of running away like a normal person, follows the sound down the hall and asks if Julie knows Felicity. Felicity asks the counselor if he's ever had a student who felt guilty about growing up. Felicity exits the counselor's office to find her mom standing there. Mrs. Porter tells Felicity to sit down, and then says that she met Mr. Porter when she was young, which is why she had that reaction when Felicity said she followed a boy to college: "It sounded so familiar." Mrs. Porter says that she had Felicity when she was twenty, and that she wouldn't trade it for anything, but that all her visions and dreams for her life started disappearing, and none of that is Felicity's fault. Mrs. Porter adds that she didn't mean the things she said, and that she lives for the Tuesday dinners with Felicity. Felicity says, "I liked them, too." Mrs. Porter kindly says that she thinks that they were a little too important for her, and that she doesn't know what it's going to be like without Felicity at home. Felicity asks what she means. Mrs. Porter says that she's "a little terrified," but that she's proud of her brave daughter, and that she can't wait to see her at Thanksgiving. Aw, I'm welling up here. Just then, Ben walks up. Felicity looks embarrassed and asks how it's going. Ben says he got the essay she sent him. Felicity tries to play it off. Ben says that she wrote about him. Mrs. Porter offers to leave, but Felicity tells her to stay and introduces Ben to her mom. Ben says, "So, I'll see you." Felicity repeats it back to him. Ben walks off, and Felicity and her mom lean forward to watch him go. I don't blame them -- he sure fills out a pair of jeans. Mrs. Porter says that Ben is cute. Felicity agrees.