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
Next thing you know, Rick and Jake are hauling out the hammer and stepladder and getting down to business. Jake hops up and wrenches the curtain rod out of the way, while Rick taps along the wall, looking for...well, whatever it is he's looking for. Hey, don't ask me. I don't even go to Home Depot. Jake bypasses the careful tapping step and goes right for the hammer-through-the-wall approach. Oh my. Lily is going to drop something warm and wet all over the hardwood floors when she sees this. And surprise surprise, there she is, right on cue. She enters the house chatting happily with the girls, until she's distracting by the hammering in the living room. "What are you doing?" she demands. Jake looks like a naughty little boy, and tries to explain that they were looking into putting in a bay window. Rick backs him up, saying that they could definitely use more light. He's interrupted by the crashing of the curtain rod to the floor. Lily glares at them, turns on her heel, and storms upstairs. Rick scrambles after her, and Jake looks at the instrument of destruction still in his hand and gravely says, "Uh oh."
Cut to Lily's bedroom, where she's good and steaming. Rick softly enters and says, "Okay, maybe I should've asked before I put a hole in the wall." "Maybe," she snaps. He asks if that's what she's mad about. She flies over to the desk and snarks that it's too big for the room. "Okay," Rick says. She clamps her hands on her hips and demands, "Okay, what do we do about it?" "Lil," he pleads. Lily gripes that Rick's "making all these decisions, and yes, it's going to be [his] house, but it doesn't feel like [her] house anymore." She asks if she's supposed to sit back and let "the man" make all the decisions, and tells him to let her know what role he wants her to play. Rick turns and silently starts slipping out the door. "What are you doing?" she bitches. He says he's leaving. "It's what you want, isn't it?" She snaps that it isn't and says, "Please, I'm trying to figure out what all this means." He tells her that since he's come into the house, he's felt "like an alien," adding, "There's not a thing I've done or said the whole time I'm here that hasn't caused a reaction like I'm, I'm, I'm...imposing, an intruder." She tells him that he is imposing. Rick looks stunned. "Not all the time," she adds, like that's supposed to make him feel better. Rick says he doesn't know how to make it work, that he feels like "everything leads to disaster." She tells him it's not that bad. He sighs and looks sad, shaking his head a bit before saying, "I don't understand." Lily says that she doesn't either. Rick says he doesn't think he should spend the night and asks if she agrees. She shrugs and says she doesn't know. "Yeah you do," he says softly before walking out. He pops back in to say he'll call tomorrow. Lily sinks down on the bed and stares off, sad and heavy.