Episode Report Card Niki: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unity of Effect
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.30.2001
A bell rings, and we find ourselves in a classroom, where Grace is seated behind a really rough-looking Heidi. No, wait -- that's just Wannabe with pigtails. She's slouching as usual, and glowering at the surface of her desk while Grace tries to get her attention. Wannabe just turns her head and ignores Grace. The English teacher asks Grace to excuse him and Wannabe. The teacher doesn't even wait for Grace to get out of the room before he starts saying that Wannabe's paper "bears a striking resemblance to --" Grace turns and cuts him off, "She didn't steal my ideas." The teacher starts to protest, but Grace says it's not fair and asks how the teacher knows Grace didn't steal Wannabe's ideas. The teacher asks her to leave. She turns to go, and Wannabe's out of her seat, asking if she can just tell Grace something. "Look, I'm crazy! I was just mad at Eli," Wannabe says. Grace starts to apologize herself, but Wannabe won't even hear it, saying that Grace would never steal and she's "just really sorry." Grace gets all choked up, says, "Me too," and they hug. The teacher says, "Say goodnight, Gracie." Grace takes the hint and leaves them alone.
"So you just sit here and decide why people do things?" Jessie asks Dr. Wise-ass. "It's pathetic, isn't it?" he responds. She smiles and says she just doesn't think there's always a reason for everything. She asks why someone can't just do something "out of the blue, without having some big reason." "Why, what'd you do?" he asks shrewdly. "Nothing," she replies. He raises his eyebrows. Jessie folds her arms and says, "It's dumb." She finally relents and tells him about the glitter that Karen bought, and admits, with some serious difficulty, that she "sort of...borrowed it." "You stole it," Dr. Wise-ass translates. There's no getting one past him, is there? Jessie denies it. She starts getting teary. He asks why she stole it, and the tears really come on. She says she doesn't know, and adds that he's the one who always has a reason. Jessie takes a minute to get herself under control and says that Karen "never even used to wear makeup. Why would she need glitter? Maybe she wants to get somebody's attention." She's bitter about it. Jessie starts getting weepy again and says, "But that's stupid. Why does she want it now? Now she wants attention. Now she wants to be beautiful. For Leo. Why did she have to wait so long?" Dr. Wise-ass says that's a good question, and offers Jessie a tissue. He asks if she's going to give the glitter back. Jessie smiles sadly and says she can't -- she can't find it. And now she just feels really guilty about it.
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