Episode Report Card Niki: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Can you say "anticlimactic"?
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.06.2001
We cut to the police block, where an officer is showing Lily and Rick to a squad car where they can sit and warm up. Lily doesn't want to sit down, though. She leans against the side of the car and muses about the fear she'd always felt as a mother, thinking that something bad was going to happen when Grace "crossed the street, or [Lily] left her with a sitter." She says she always knew something would happen; it was only a question of when. Well, sweeps would have been a good guess, but I suppose there's no way Lily could have known that. Rick tries to reassure her that things will be okay, and she asks, "How can you know that?"
Spencer's grandma is getting dizzy. Grace observes her and then tells Jake that she thinks the woman "needs an aspirin or something." Jake watches Nana dab at her neck with a napkin and then approaches Benny, saying, "I'm just gonna get the first-aid kit, 'kay?" Benny stands up and says no. "The kid's grandmother doesn't feel well," Jake says. The negotiator outside listens closely and looks understandably concerned. Benny says that Spencer can get it, then. Grace points out that Spencer doesn't know where it is, so Benny tells her to get it. He and Jake have a bit of a staring contest, which Jake wins.
Lily and Rick overhear an update over the police radio. A voice says that an elderly hostage is ill, and if her condition deteriorates, they'll have to go in. Suddenly, there's a whir of action around them, as the cops race to ready themselves. The voice continues about "securing the perimeter" and says something about "sharpshooters." Lily runs over to the negotiator, asking what's going on. The woman tells her not to worry, that it's just the tactical unit. "What, like the SWAT team?" Lily asks. "I thought you were still negotiating." The captain steps in, telling Lily it's no longer safe for her and Rick to be there, and he assigns an officer to show them "to a much safer area." Lily looks searchingly at the restaurant's front door. Rick gently leads her away, but she can't stop turning around to check the door, scared to take her eyes off it. SWAT team officers move into position, obscuring her view. "Oh my god!" Lily exclaims, then suddenly starts choking on the thick smoke that's suddenly invaded the area. Where the hell did that come from? I hope it's not car exhaust, because that's just gross.
We return from commercials to find Lily sitting somberly in the back of a cruiser, staring blankly. We hear a reporter saying that the hostage situation is "now in the sixth hour and negotiations have come to a stand-still. SWAT units have been deployed. We can only guess..." "We can only guess that it's just a matter of time before some action is taken," a female reporter says, overlapping the male reporter. As Lily closes her eyes, as if to shut out the reporter's voice, the camera fades in on Grace, also sitting and staring somberly. "There's still no word..." the female reporter says. "There's still no word on the condition of the hostages and emotions are running high as the waiting continues," yet another male reporter says, overlapping the female reporter. Hmm -- is this a statement on how predictable and almost clichéd news coverage has become? Grace looks wiped out as the camera fades from her to Benny. "The primary suspect, Benjamin Janetty, remains a mystery," yet another the reporter overlaps. "His profile reveals no prior arrests, no mental illness, and nothing that would indicate a propensity for violence." As his neighbor would say, "He was always such a nice, quiet boy." Nana's head starts bobbing, and her eyes are rolling back in her head. Spencer grabs her arm and looks around, frightened and helpless.
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