Episode Report Card Kim: A | 3 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Spin The Bottle
By Kim | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.14.2002
Ben and Felicity meet up in a hallway outside the dining room. Ben immediately apologizes for what he said and asks Felicity to come back to the table. Felicity asks if she should come back so that he can torture her some more. Ben blurts, "Are you serious? You think this is torture? Try coming home from a long summer, having one lousy day, and finding out that your girlfriend has slept with your roommate. That is torture." Felicity pauses to let another patron walk by and then says that Ben is using Julie to get back at her. Ben asks if that's what Felicity's doing with Noel. Felicity says that she's not. Ben asks what it is, then, and why it all happened so fast. Felicity sighs and then says that Ben did things that made it easy. Ben asks what he did, since they only had one fight about a printer. Felicity says that it was so much more than that. Ben begs Felicity to tell him what it's about. Felicity shakes her head and says that Ben wouldn't understand. Ben says that she's right, and that he doesn't understand at all. He stares at her for a minute, and then turns and leaves. Felicity looks upset, but then follows Ben back to the table. When she returns, everyone is ready to go. Julie shows once again that she has no talent for discerning people's moods when she decides to prolong the agony by inviting Felicity and Noel back to the loft to hear her music. First of all, like they want to continue to hang out with Ben and Julie. And second of all, like they want to hear Julie's music. Ben says that it sounds great. Felicity says there's nothing she'd like to do more. Ben and Julie walk off. Noel asks what's going on, and Felicity says that they just need to get it over with. This was the one part of the episode that rang false for me; why would Felicity and Noel go to the loft? It seemed like after that argument in the hallway, Felicity was through with trying to stop Ben and Julie from being together, because she felt so bad for Ben. But the storyline dictates that the four of them have to be together, so off they go.
Sean and Meghan return from the Tart concert. Sean is all fired up, and yelling about how great the band was. Meghan tells him to stop screaming, explaining that he's been deafened by the loud music. Sean says in a regular-volume voice that he had a really great time tonight, and he guesses that Meghan did, too. Meghan asks whether he thinks that because she came back to the loft with him. Sean does. Meghan says that she's "just hoping to find Julie and Ben, shirtless and tangled up on the couch." Ouch! Don't give me such a scary visual next time. Sean says that if that happened, he would be fine with it, because Julie was just "a question that [he] needed answered." Sean explains that it was just "a quarter-life crisis," and that he should have just bought a sports car and called it a day. Meghan asks Sean whether he's past his crisis, and not still pining for Julie. Sean says that he's finally over her. Meghan says, "'Finally'? Okay, so you wanted her the whole time you were with me?" Sean denies it as they walk into the loft.