Episode Report Card Niki: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Where's That High Road?
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 7 | Aired on 12.18.2000
We return from commercials to find Grace driving a convertible with Pace by her side. Suddenly the car --which is pink -- leaves the ground and we see clouds blowing by them. Grace and Pace smile happily, and the whole thing is too cheesy for words. It's all very Disney, and that's never a good thing. ["Or very Grease, and really, it's up to the viewer whether that's a good or a bad thing. -- Wing Chun] Anyway, it doesn't last long, thank god, and we realize -- surprise surprise -- that it was all a dream, as Zoe wakes Grace with a start. Zoe singsongs that Grace is in trouble before skipping out of her room.
Tiffany walks deliberately into the restaurant, and slowly closes the door behind her. She shoves her hands in her pockets to draw her coat around her as she approaches Jake, who's sitting at a table with his product-placed iBook. She notes that Jake looks tired and wonders if there was more of a scene after she left the night before. He tells her she got the highlights and then invites her to sit down. She tells him that she can't stay and stares at her feet for second while she tries to find the words. Jake starts to say that he knows he's been really busy lately, but Tiffany cuts him off to say that it doesn't have anything to do with him being busy. She hesitates for a second then blurts, "Gah! Why does it feel like I've been breaking up with you since we met?" Jake looks stunned. "Is that what you're doing?" he asks quietly. She looks at him for a moment, then looks down, saying that she "got it in the beginning" -- how she was the exact opposite of his wife, and she didn't want anything from him, and she still doesn't, but she might someday. "Whu...just not from me?" Jake says with a sad laugh. "It's sort of been up to you," Tiffany tells him. He takes a close look at her, and his eyes soften. "I'm sorry," he says, and for once, I really believe him. I think he realizes that Tiffany's not going to be easy to blame for this one. She tells him that it's mot necessary, and he insists that it is. "You're agreeing with me," she says softly. Jake sees his chance to redeem the situation and tries to grab it, but Tiffany won't let him. She says that things were fine in the beginning, when it was just about sex, "but unfortunately, this has become a relationship, and you don't like being in relationships." "You're just doing this?" Jake asks, seeming a little dazed. "Yeah, I am," she says. She gives him a goodbye kiss and then leaves him there, shell-shocked.