Episode Report Card Maggie: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hatching, Mismatching, and Dispatching
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.21.2000
In a stairwell at school, Elena runs after Tracy. She complains that she's been phoning and looking for him because she's having "a complete Physics meltdown" and she's wondering if they're going to have a "study session." Tracy coldly replies, "I am." When Elena asks what he means, he tells her that Finn told him about the fling. She stands there, one step below him, indicating that he's on morally higher ground, and tries to explain. He doesn't want to hear her explanations because she "slept with Finn, that's all [he] need[s] to know." She simpers that she knows it was a horrible thing to do but he cuts her off: "Ever since we've been going out, you've had a problem with me and not having sex." She whines that wasn't the problem, the problem was that she was confused. Tracy continues up the stairs, with Elena following. At the top of the stairs, he turns around and says, "You've had your sex now, I hope it was worth it." She pleads, "No, baby, it wasn't worth it." He snaps, "Who you calling your baby? I'm not your baby." And with that, he stomps away, leaving Elena snapping at flies. I think she should consider herself lucky that he acted so civilly toward her. I might have screamed that she was a bitch, told her to lose my number, and turned on my heel.
Knoll and Jane are walking down the street, discussing an Australian Aboriginal dance company performance that they've just seen. Knoll didn't really get it and Jane says that's okay. They approach a pretzel vendor and he asks if she wants one. She does, so he says to the vendor, "One for the lady and one for the Philistine." When Knoll goes to pay, she notices a tag from the Met on his knapsack. He mentions that there's an exhibition of one of his favourite artists "hung" there. She enthuses about Jeff Koons while Knoll acts surprised that she knows who he is, then trots out the line Felicity gave him. Jane flirts with reality for a nanosecond and wonders how it is that Knoll just "dropped out of nowhere" into her life when they have so much in common. It seems like Knoll is about to tell the truth but at the last minute he weasels out with some line about "the planets aligning" and his "getting lucky." He moves in for a kiss and at the last minute Jane proffers her cheek. He apologizes then she apologizes and mentions that there's someone else: an old friend. He mumbles, "I know," which confuses Jane. Knoll covers by saying that he knows that it's confusing "in that situation." Jane just wants to be honest with him because honesty is really important to her. Knoll concurs that it is to him, too. She grins and adds that it's another they have "in common."