Episode Report Card Sars: D | 1 USERS: F YOU GRADE IT Leave It To Weaver
By Sars | Season 6 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.29.1999
I think the Gap needs to rename their ad campaign "everybody in voice lessons." Just a suggestion.
While two guys from maintenance take off the oxygen-tank-pierced door, Lydia bellyaches, "Did I hear that Romano's gonna be chief of staff?" and Conni asks Greene, "You are gonna fight this, aren't you?" Greene reassures them that he and Weaver have a meeting with Anspaugh, and that they're supposed to give him their "honest opinion." Conni concludes, "So you are gonna fight this. Good." Finch comes in behind the admit desk and tells Jeanie that Carlos Ortega, the baby whose mother has AIDS, has to go up to the pedes unit; Corday breezes in a moment later, and when Greene makes an insecure "long cup of coffee" comment, Corday says that Cameron got paged and had to come back for lunch. Whatever. Greene asks her how it went, and Corday shrugs, "Whoever knows with interviews," and says she's late for a surgery. Hathaway stands silently nearby, doing something on the computer; when Greene says he'll take the back pain in Exam Four, she offers to help, and he says no thanks, but she follows him anyway and says she doesn't mean "to pry, but how are things going with you and Elizabeth?" "Okay," he says, searching a little too carefully in his pocket for a pen. "You guys are still going out, right?" Hathaway asks, and Greene mumbles, "Uh, a little." "A little"? What does that mean, exactly? She wonders jokingly, "Am I going to have to beg for information here?" and Greene says he'd hate to see her beg. Then he says, "Everything's okay, really -- I may have backed off a little bit," and Hathaway jumps in with, "Which means she's backed off," and if anyone needs to back off here, I think it's St. Carol. Anyhow, accompanied by a great deal of emotive hand-gesturing that still fails to imbue him with any personality, Greene observes that "these things just kind of have a life of their own, don't they?" Hathaway gives him a skeptical look. Greene says, "If that's not enough, you're gonna have to beg." I don't think that scene had a point, but if it did, don't bother telling me about, because I really don't care.
The paramedics wheel in the brassy-haired victim of a motor vehicle accident. Long story short, Carter knows Brassy, a.k.a. Elaine Nichols, because she married and divorced his cousin Douglas. Carter checks her for neck pain; then he checks her fingers. Evidently, the producers couldn't afford to get Marg Helgenberger again, so they settled for giving Rebecca "The Cradle Will Rock. Again." DeMornay the exact same hair, and when she gets up from her gurney in her clingy white evening gown, it becomes clear that the producers couldn't afford to get a bra, either. Exceedingly dumb, pseudo-flirtatious banter not worth transcribing follows, interspersed with breathy vamping by Elaine and Carter's customary flagrant cow-licked ogling of the blonde du jour, and I would have transcribed it, but I had to go up on my roof and spell out "WHATEVER" with the world's largest set of semaphore flags.
Jeanie. Sick baby. Pneumonia that "looks bacterial." DCFS worker. Baby staying in the hospital at least a few days; DCFS guy trying to get the baby a foster-home placement. Hard to find "a foster family willing to take on a child of color with HIV. Not exactly a dime a dozen." Baby gurgling. (Darn cute baby, too.) Jeanie murmuring, "Yeah." Iron skillet. Forehead.