Episode Report Card Deborah: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Dance Me Outside
By Deborah | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.15.2004
Joan answers the door; Toni introduces herself, which surprises me at first because I thought they'd met, but I guess Toni's only met Kevin and Helen. She says they received a noise complaint: "Think it's about time to break things up." Joan: " Thank God!" She turns around and hollers, "Everybody...the police are here. Time to get out!" People start grabbing their coats and leaving. Carlisle grabs a chip from someone who's brushing past him. Joan thanks Toni again, who tells her, "I work with your father." Joan: "Uh...you're not gonna...you're not gonna tell him, are you?" Toni and Carlisle kind of shrug at each other, and Toni says that her dad has enough on his mind. Joan says quietly, "Thank you."
At the spa, Helen's asleep, but Will's watching the news. Wait just an organic, unbleached cotton-picking minute: this joint has TVs in the rooms? I find that highly unlikely. Anyway, he's watching a report about how the meth lab they were staking out has exploded and gone up in flames. The news team seems not only to have gotten on the scene more or less instantly, but also somehow learned that the police had been staking it out. What's weird is that the copy the anchor is reading doesn't match the closed captioning. She says, "The police raid was delayed, and the fire spread to three adjacent properties, but was quickly contained. A total of seventeen local residents were displaced and are currently being assisted by the Red Cross." The closed captioning says, "The police raid was delayed, which turns out to be blessing, because the cops involved in the raid certainly would have been injured or worse." Will quickly gets his cell phone out to call Toni.
She and Carlisle are still at the Girardis', making sure that the party actually breaks up. They're watching the news report, too, and looking at each other, knowing they dodged a bullet. Apparently there's a meth lab to God's madness. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) Toni takes the call from Will and assures him everyone's fine, but says nothing about where she is. The camera drifts along to show us Luke, lying on the couch with a cool cloth on his forehead, and Grace kind of hanging around observing him. I guess he has a delicate system. Joan looks out the front window and sees Adam on the street, just kind of hanging around, moping. She throws on her coat and goes outside, as Jewel's "2 Become 1" concludes. What a relief that this wasn't a typical high school party TV storyline, where the party gets out of control and people end up dying when they drink and drive, or kill themselves, or get alcohol poisoning or a drug overdose or whatever, and there's an important little moral lesson to be learned.