Episode Report Card Niki: A+ | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Chance Of A Lifetime
By Niki | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.14.2002
Meanwhile, Lily and Rick are just arriving home from the cocktail party. They enter the darkened kitchen, and Lily immediately starts rummaging through the drawers and cupboards. Rick asks what she's looking for, and she pouts, "Something for my stomach." See if you can rustle up an e.p.t. while you're at it. She mutters that she doesn't think "those crab things" agreed with her. "Maybe they're from Australia," Rick says. "Very funny," she grits. Rick grabs a bottle of hard liquor and plunks it on the counter. "We're going to work this out," he says. Is he talking to Lily or the booze? "How? You've already decided," she snarks. She puts a mug in the microwave and slams the door. "When were you going to tell me about this trip you're going on next week?" she demands. Rick yanks the cork out of the bottle and snips, "What, you think I was going to leave without telling you?" Hand on her hip, Lily glares, and snaps, "You tell me."
Rick pours a generous splash of liquor in his glass and looks up at her, deciding it's time to lay it out: "Look, I want this. I really do. I want it financially, I want it for my ego. I've been working toward this for, what, twenty years. And I have paid a price for it. And it's going to put the kids through college." The microwave beeps, and Lily yanks her mug from it. She seethes, "I don't need you to tell me why this is so great." "Excuse me? You've been against this since I brought it up!" Rick retorts. She waves her arms and says he just assumed that she'd drop everything and go to Australia. He claims that he didn't assume anything. You mean, aside from assuming that all the kids would be into it? That your ex-wife wouldn't have any objections to it? That she wouldn't need the kids to help her recuperate from her nearly fatal accident? Lily doesn't bother arguing with him. She silently gets a spoon and sets about making her tea.
Rick tries a different approach, saying -- a little patronizingly -- "Listen, the radio thing, it's amazing, but you haven't been working on it since you were twenty-two." Lily adamantly slaps her hand back on her hip and informs him that she has. Rick scrunches up his face dismissively. Lily asks, "Are you even going to listen to what I have to say? Or have you already decided that I'm an idiot, or whatever else your face seems to be saying?" Rick says his face isn't saying anything. Lily spits, "Look in the mirror!" Heh. His face softens, and Lily tries to make him see her side of things, saying that she's finally found something, after years of searching, that makes her feel "purposeful in the world." Choking up, she says that she's good, and that she loves the radio, and that she doesn't want to give it up. Rick whispers that he's not asking her to give it up; he just can't see why she can't postpone it for a few months. Lily's jaw drops. "And do what? Sit in a rented house and resent you?" she asks. Rick rolls his eyes in exasperation and says, "Forgive me, Lil, but I think you're being really selfish about this." Lily's right: he should look in the mirror. And I'll ask again, why doesn't he just go to Australia, and they'll hook up as their schedules allow? It's not like they don't have phones and airports in Australia, for Christ's sake. Rick takes a belt of his drink. Lily, offended, snits, "Rick, forgive me, but why do I feel like, if you don't get your way, you're going to walk out of this house and never look back?" Rick ponders the question, not finding an answer. He sighs that he doesn't know what to do. Lily grits that she'll make it easy: "You go to Australia. I'm going to stay here." She punctuates it with a red-hot glare before declaring that she has to go throw up. He stands there, not knowing what to do. He looks at the glass in his hand like he can't remember how it got there, pours out the rest of the drink, and caps the bottle. He rests his hand on the bottle, hanging his head, as we go to commercials.
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