Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Good News, Bad News
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.13.2009
1:43:24. Walker and Kiefer have reached the end of what must have been a very long hall indeed. If it were Spawn coming to them instead of the other way around, I would have assumed she got lost, and also delayed by an entire rogue's gallery of unlikely characters, as well as a sudden, urgent need to take a shower. Kiefer looks in through the glass wall of the waiting area and sees the back of a familiar blonde and empty head. Blinking back tears, Kiefer opens the door. Spawn turns around, and if nothing else, she looks great. And then she ruins it by saying, "Daddy," all Sophia Coppola. She asks how he's feeling, and he stutters, "I'm okay." At least he's not snitting, "I'm fine" at everyone any more. He assures her that he's not in pain, and he sits down next to her on the couch. She says she's been looking for him for a while. "State Department, private investigators, every time I got a phone number and address you were already gone." Kiefer apologizes, and says he thought he was doing the best thing for her. "Daddy, I've missed you so much," she says, and he looks like he's ready to cry again. He tells her, "You need to know how sorry I am for everything you've had to live through because of me." But Spawn's not hearing that. "Instead of taking responsibility for all the mistakes I've made in my life, I blamed you. And it was stupid and immature. And now all the time that we've lost." Wow, could it be that Spawn has grown up? She brings up the chance that she could help with his disease, and Kiefer says, "The treatment is experimental, and I don't think it's going to work." Plus it's almost two in the morning. She thinks he's afraid to ask her, but he says there's a risk to her. There is? Has anything been said about how her stem cells would be harvested in the first place? It can't be worse than donating a kidney; she gives him a stem cell and she still has one left. She tries to blow off the risk to herself, but Kiefer insists that he's dying. "And whatever small chance there is to keep that from happening, it is not worth the pain for me to let you sit there and watch me die." Now she's crying, saying she doesn't want to lose him, and they hold each other crying for a minute, until a convulsion hits him and he has to let her go. Pathetically, he begs her to leave. She says she loves him so much, and finally kisses him on the cheek and leaves. Kiefer's left sitting there alone, crying like an asshole.