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
Cut to an Audi parallel-parking between two cars. Grace is at the wheel while Jake coaches her. So, just so everyone's clear: Grace's choice of practice vehicles are an Explorer and an Audi. Wow, that's pretty rough. She parks the car perfectly, and Jake is thrilled. "So, you and Tiffany broke up," Grace says. When he looks surprised, she tells him that Tiffany told her. With some difficulty, Jake expresses his fear that what happened between him and Tiffany and between him and Lily may give Grace the wrong idea about how men and women relate to each other. He doesn't need to worry though, because Grace has Wannabe to give her the wrong ideas about that.
Jake hops on the Stool and admits that he'd like to fall in love again. "Course, with my track record, if I had to guess I'd have to say 'fat chance.'" He tells Grace that falling in love is the best feeling in the world -- way better than driving. On the Stool, Jake confesses that the problem is, he's not sure he's ever really been in love, and he's not sure he's capable of feeling anything even remotely like it. Grace asks whether he'd mind if they just drove for a while. Jake can take a hint, unlike some people I could mention, and shuts up with the heavy talk. He watches Grace with intense affection as she wheels the car away from the curb. On the Stool, Jake catches himself and says that he knows he's been in love -- "real love" -- twice in his life, and "it never went away, and it was never questioned." He mists up and wonders, "Why, if I'm capable of it, why can't I let anyone touch me the way my two daughters have? I think about that, that they're women just like the ones I can't deal with." Jake looks lovingly at Grace and brushes a stray hair from her eyes. Soliloquy Jake continues, "I mean, if this is what my life is going to be like, then what's the point of that?" Teary Soliloquy Jake is again contrasted with happy Jake, sitting next to Grace and watching her with an intense mix of love and pride.
And on that melancholy note, we're out until the new year. Have a safe and excellent one!