Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT ...Is Another Man's Dickhead
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.03.2007
Gail is laden down with what I thought at first was fresh laundry, but in fact is probably April's stuff. After some long tracking shots of her walking through the house, she notices some muddy footprints on the floor. She looks in the direction in which they lead, either thinking "I am in some trouble here" or "I am going to kill whoever did that." Either way, I think she wants Jake here.
Roger and Emily come in for ANOTHER round of pointless talks with Gray. Can something happen already?
Gail tries to sneak out the side door, but when she opens it, Kyle appears, causing her to freak shit and run rather hilariously through the house. Okay, that's a start.
More stupid bickering between Roger and Gray. I have not changed sides, in case you were wondering.
Gail pleads with Kyle to let her go. He doesn't seem to want to hurt her, but she freaks shit some more and then hits him with something. Let me guess: steely resolve came from the Green line?
Gray pulls a gun on Roger. Oh, Gray, you had me, and then you kind of lost me. Not completely, though.
Gail shrieks for Kyle to get out, but he asks, "And go where?" A little place she calls "Anywhere but here," I'm thinking.
Roger grabs Gray's gun, and the two men struggle as Emily tells them to stop with all the urgency of a FEMA rescue effort. (Sure, show, you can use that one.) The gun goes off, and Gray falls to the floor. Emily rushes to him, and we can see that he's sustained a gut wound. Amazingly, Roger does not smirk, although I can't speak to what happens once we go to commercial.
So I guess everyone in Gray's building heard the gunshot, because Jake enters to find them scampering in a complete panic for the exits. You might think people in a post-apocalyptic world would be made of sterner stuff than this, but given Gail's upcoming reaction to a strange man in her house, I suppose this makes some sense. Jake enters the office, and Roger immediately tells him it was an accident, while Gray claims that Roger shot him purposely. I love how, even in life-or-death situations, everyone's happy to sit around picking their collective ass until Jake shows up. At Roger's insistence, Jake goes to get Jessica.
Kyle is rummaging through a kitchen drawer while Gail looks at him with eyes bugged out so big you'd think this was the most terrifying experience of her life. I can see why, too -- will he pull out a can opener? A soup spoon? Good God, not the potato peeler! She finally calms down enough to ask him what he's looking for, and he tells her SuperGlue; the soles of one of his boots started falling apart after a couple hundred miles of walking. Gail overdramatically tells him that her son's shoes might fit him, but Kyle tells her that he'd rather fix his: "They're all I have left that are mine." Okay, you guys, who bet on mawkish and redundant in the same sentence? Exacta! Gail opens a drawer behind her and hands over a tube of SuperGlue, and I wasn't going to do this, but their hilariously overly sincere nodding at each other is forcing me to point out what a nice bonding moment this is. Hey, I have to entertain myself somehow. Kyle goes to work on his shoe as Gail asks where he'll go. He tells her that his family is in Chicago, if that place even exists anymore (sorry, Demian!), and she responds by telling him she wishes there was more the town could do. He points out that there are empty houses all over Jericho, and meanwhile the refugees are sleeping in a shelter. Well, as pointed out in the forums, it would take a lot more fuel to heat all those homes that it does to heat the shelter, but Gail loses me when she says that those are their neighbors' homes, and that they're coming back. That's nicely deluded and all, but couldn't you revisit the issue if that actually happens? I mean, I know evicting squatters is difficult and all, but a compromise does seem in order here. Kyle: "Well, wherever your neighbors are, I hope nobody's kicking them out of town in the middle of winter." Nicely done, Kyle. Now if you'll take that tube and glue Roger's lips shut, I'll let you stay with me for the winter and spring.