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
"Telephone," Zoe says, tapping on Grace's door. Grace, seated in front of her mirror, is frustrated because she just can't get a moment alone with her stupid filched glitter. She tells Zoe to come in. "It's Spencer Lewicki," Zoe solemnly says, passing Grace the phone. Zoe spots the glitter and asks whether she may try some. Is anyone else getting sick of that damn glitter? Like I wasn't sick of that cheesy crap a year ago already, now I have to type "glitter glitter glitter" a bazillion times in the course of one frigging recap? Grace says, "I'll call you back," into the phone, clicks it off, and growls, "Get. Out." Zoe looks wounded yet again, and stares up at Grace with big brown pleading eyes (which reminds me, I was supposed to look into sponsoring a kid overseas), but Grace isn't paying any attention. She's too busy stowing the glitter (argh!) in her backpack. Zoe takes note.
"You actually opened her briefcase and --" Lily incredulously says. Rick interrupts to protest, "Look, I am the one being invaded here, not Karen." (Those of you who are four, like me, think about that statement for just a second. Can I get an "ewwww"?) Lily asks how he can say that. "How can you treat her like the injured party when he's being spied on?" Rick challenges. Nice apples and oranges logic there, boy-o. A look of dawning realization spreads over Rick's face, and he takes a few paces, saying, "I have to tell Miles. I have to. I mean, he has to know." Lily is trailing him, still muttering that she can't believe Rick went into Karen's briefcase (you and the rest of America). The two stop speaking at once. Rick opens another cupboard, asking, "Is there nothing to drink in this entire house?" There's probably some mouthwash and cough syrup upstairs, lushy. Man, he's making me a little uncomfortable, here. Not that I'm some kind of Prohibition queen or anything, but that kind of desperation reeks of a problem to me. Lily takes pause, looks troubled, and changes the subject back to whether Rick is going to tell Miles. Rick says he has to: "I mean, what am I gonna tell him -- that I deliberately withheld this kind of knowledge?" "Tell him that Karen told you," Lily suggests. Except that that would compromise Karen's professional integrity, as Rick points out. Lily struggles to find another suggestion, then abandons the search, saying, "I'm not much good at things like this." Rick wonders how he's going to face Miles "knowing that he's..." And then he adds, "I wish I didn't know this. I shouldn't know this!" Well, you should have thought about that before rifling through your ex-wife's briefcase, shouldn't you? I'd say Rick kinda got what he deserved. After blankly staring ahead for a few seconds, Rick collects himself and says that he'd better go. "Why, because there's nothing to drink?" Lily quips. Laugh now, honey, because I have a feeling that joke won't be funny for very long. Rick looks offended and stares at her wordlessly. She makes it clear that she was kidding. He gets a bit of a grip, finally, and mutters, "Still." He moves to leave, but Lily stops him, saying she thinks she may know who stole the thing out of Jessie's room. Whoa, jump to conclusions much? It's one thing to speculate there, Matlock, but it's another to accuse someone, especially when everything you've got is circumstantial. Then again, it's Wannabe, so why do I care?
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