Episode Report Card Niki: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Chance Of A Lifetime
By Niki | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.14.2002
Cut to the radio station, where Lily's stuffing folders into her attaché case. She's sporting a suit, and her hair looks very polished, so she's obviously trying to impress someone. I'm impressed. Les flounders around in the background, asking anxiously if there's anything he needs to bring. Calmly, she says she has everything they need. Les paces up to Lily's desk and asks her where his tie is. Without looking up from her attaché, she informs him that it's on the back of his chair. He wanders off as Rick strides in, beaming. "Hey!" he says, planting a kiss on the side of Lily's head. It looks like Rick has finally found that comb he misplaced all season. Smiling proudly, he asks, "Do you know they have a poster of you in the lobby?" She finally looks up from her folders and, with mock pomposity, says, "I'm a radio personality, in case you haven't noticed." She gives him a kiss, and he beams that he wants to take her to lunch. She apologetically reminds him that she has a meeting over at Radiovation -- she told him about it that morning. "You weren't listening!" she accuses, snatching her bag and pretending to be miffed. Rick defends himself: "I was listening. It's just, sometimes I don't hear." Lily smiles indulgently while grabbing more stuff from her desk. Rick says he'll take her to dinner at La Campagna instead of lunch, then. Lily snatches her coat from the back of her chair and gives him a quizzical look. She asks what's the occasion. He says it's a surprise, and she teasingly grumbles that she hates surprises. He insists that she loves them. Slipping into her coat, she mutters, "Cruel and unusual." Rick cops to it, happily. The Curmudgeon lumbers up and orders, "Let's go!" Rick says a friendly hello, and Les barks a hello back. Lily quickly smooches Rick while chasing after Les and says she'll see him later. Rick stands there grinning, and calls after her, "See ya later!"
Cut to Jake letting himself into Tiffany's apartment, while a train rumbles in the background. "Hello!" he bellows, coming through the door. Tiffany turns from the crib, holding up a shushing hand. Jake softly closes the door, and they kiss hello. Tiffany asks if he's okay, since he's "all sweaty." Jokingly, she asks if he ran over to her place. Jake quickly answers that the heater in his car is broken, so he can't turn it off. Tiffany stands at the stove, stirring a pot, and says she made dinner if he's hungry. Jake rolls up his cuffs and absently says, "Yeah, I'll see." He stares off and exhales hard. Watching him, Tiffany's irked. Steeling herself for the next letdown, she asks, "Okay, what is it?" Jake says that he just walked in, and asks why there "has to be something." Tiffany braces herself at the counter, trying to screw up some courage, while Jake huffs and tries to regulate his heartbeat. He turns to face her, and they both speak at once. Jake: "Look --" Tiffany: "I don't want to do this." Jake, somewhat taken aback, asks what Tiffany's talking about. She starts to say that he's in one of his moods, and he tries to cut her off, insisting that he isn't. She just keeps talking, complaining that she'll have to spend the next two hours walking around on eggshells. "Tiff, stop! For a minute, okay?" Jake pleads. She snarks, "Jake, I could stop for a minute. I could stop for a year, but what's the point?" He begs her to listen to him, but she just rolls ahead, griping, "If you want to come over, that's wonderful! But don't just sit here and obsess or depress or whatever it is that goes on in that head of yours!" Jake settles wearily onto the couch, pleading with her just to listen, while Tiffany flies between the stove and the table, saying, "And I'm sorry, but I've been needing to say this for so long, and I've been afraid to because I thought it was stupid, or whatever, but...I have needs. And [gesturing toward the crib] she's going to have needs, too, and you can't just walk around anymore and assume that you're the only person around, Jake!" Jake peers up at her and looks like he's going to be sick. She stares back, waiting for him to say something. Finally, frustrated, she snaps, "Okay, do you have nothing to say?" He swallows hard and mumbles, "Tiffany..." She just looks at him, waiting. "...will you...uh...marry me?" Wow, how romantic. Jake makes himself look at her. "What?" Tiffany snaps. Heh.
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