Episode Report Card Maggie: D | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT True Colors
By Maggie | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.19.2000
Knoll is in a lecture hall writing on the board. Ben enters, asks Knoll if he is the T.A. and hands him a card. Ben stammers, "Yeah, uh, my guidance counsellor is making me take this class. Uh, I guess I'm supposed to get you to sign this." Ruby comes in, snubs Knoll, then takes a seat. Knoll takes his eyes off her for a moment to sign Ben's card. Ben sits down behind Ruby.
At the Health Centre, Felicity is walking towards the front desk. Greg catches up to her and says, "Felicity, I need you to put these patient charts in the database." Felicity asks him if he read the Times yesterday. Greg wants to know why she is asking and she tells him, "Well, there was this article on the New York Blood Center. How supply is really low right now. It's sort of a crisis." Greg's response is that there's never enough blood and it is always a crisis. Felicity wants to do something to help. Greg dismissively informs her that they "hold blood drives every May and September." Then he says, "Let me know when you're done with those. I've got more," and disappears. Felicity says to herself, "Please is nice."
Back at the lecture hall, Knoll's class is leaving. Ruby rushes out behind a girl wearing a pony hair vest. Knoll watches her leave. Ben almost makes a clean getaway until Knoll says, "You never, uh, you never finished telling me about you and that girl. In high school." Knoll and Ben sit in the empty lecture hall while Ben says, "We'd only been going out for, like, a few months. But, uh, I really liked her. She was...she was sweet. Her name was Kelly. We talked about options, though. But we both knew what we were gonna do. We weren't gonna have a baby. I was supposed to pick her up and I was, I was scared. And some of my friends invited me on this trip, and I just...I just freaked out. I freaked out, and I went snowboarding instead." Knoll looks disgusted and says, "You didn't show?" Ben confesses, "No. I still can't believe I did that. Just chickened out like that, you know?" Knoll thinks that was "horrible." Ben continues, "I almost called her last year, just to apologize. Just to tell her I still think about it. You know -- what that must have been like, just sitting there. Just sittin' there waiting for me to show up. I mean, that's why I'm telling you this. I know what a screwed-up situation this is, you know? I know how easy it is to act like an idiot; to act like a coward. I really regret the way I acted. I really do. I just wish I acted differently." Ben, Ben, Ben. You know I love you, but you're so dumb sometimes. I hope that now you've grown up a bit, you wouldn't act like that. Please tell me that you wouldn't act like that now. ["I think that, while it is a stupid and thoughtless thing to have done, it isn't really inconsistent with the Ben we know now. I mean, I don't think that if he had, say (God forbid) gotten Julie pregnant when they were dating, he'd have chickened out of taking her for an appointment to terminate said hypothetical pregnancy. But it's pretty easy to believe that the Ben of high school would have, so, props to the writers for plausibility." -- Wing Chun] Knoll tells Ben that Ruby wants to keep the baby. Ben's response is, "Wow." Knoll asks him, "What would you have done?" Ben rephrases the question, "What would I have done or what should you do?" Knoll engages in some heavy "smell the fart" acting and the scene ends.