Episode Report Card Niki: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Baby Blues
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 01.09.2001
Soliloquy Lily: Jake wouldn't admit it, but she knew he didn't want to go through it all again, and Zoe was the perfect baby, but Jake had "checked out…gone."
Back in bed, the two of them lie side by side, staring straight ahead. "Tired?" he asks. "Exhausted," she answers.
Soliloquy Rick: "To go to bed with someone night after night, and to lie there and know that you have become somehow invisible…"
Soliloquy Lily: "I've never felt so alone in my life." A tear courses down her cheek.
Lily reaches over and snaps off the bedside light. Rick does the same on his side. She lies with her back to him and curls into the fetal position. He looks over at her back and says sadly, "I love you." "I love you," she answers without moving. He looks at her for a few more minutes then finally says goodnight.
After commercials, we return to find Lily at work. A plastic bag plops onto her desk. She looks up and finds Judy standing there. "Sticky buns," Judy says by way of explanation. Lily's excited to see the buns, and tries to remember the last time Judy brought them to her. She doesn't say it, but we get that it was when she was pregnant. As they walk to the lunchroom, Judy spews an interesting bit of trivia: "They say all the cells in your body are replaced once every seven years." Lily asks whether that means she's a different person now than she was then. She puts a crumb of sticky bun into her mouth, declaring, "It's less fattening when you take little bites." No, actually, it's less fattening when you have a spit-bucket. I'm wagering there's one under that lunch table, because there's no way Sela eats sticky buns. It's got to be a clause in her contract or something. Anyway, Judy asks if things are better with Rick. Lily looks a little surprised by the question, and takes a moment to pry some icing off her teeth with her tongue (all the better to convince us that she actually ingested that crumb) before saying that they aren't. "I'm not sure he's who I thought he was," she says sadly. "Oh," Judy says sagely. Lily wants to know what that's about. Judy explains that she thinks of love as a fog, and until it burns off, you have no idea who the person you're with is. Disappointed, Lily asks, "Are you saying the honeymoon's over and we're not even married?" No, she's saying the honeymoon's over and you're not even divorced form your first husband yet. Oh, sorry, that was me, not Judy. Judy says it's good that Lily found out sooner than later. Lily's not convinced. Lily complains again that Rick's not who she thought he was. Judy points out that no one is -- we all make ourselves up as we go along. "But how would you feel if you were in my place?" Lily asks, returning the focus back to where it should be. Judy keeps her eyes fixed on the table and answers, "The truth is, I would love to be in your place. Except the test would have to be positive." Lily gets a clue and looks like she feels a little compassion for Judy. Luckily, she doesn't have to play at it for long, because we fade to Grace at school.