Episode Report Card Aaron: C+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT 'Til Death Do Us Part
By Aaron | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 06.16.2001
Cut to Brenda's House Of A Thousand Interior Sets, where she and Nate are celebrating with some champagne. Nate doesn't want her to waste expensive liquor on him, but Brenda explains that her parents got a whole case of the stuff when they served as technical advisors on "some TV movie…[a] serial killer thing for cable. God, they're such whores." And yeah, I know I'm the last person who should be critical of others for going excessively meta, but come on, guys -- that's the third time you've made the "cable sucks" joke, and it's really getting old. Then again, I'm recapping this crap for money, so I guess that makes me a whore too. At least it's not Big Brother. There ain't enough champagne in the world to get me near that one. Nate explains that he's always wanted to tell off a corporate suit, and then he uses the phrase "greedy little Nazi fuck," just like Daddy did. Brenda's surprised reaction to that expression adds a significant amount of fuel to the "she was sleeping with The Late Nate" fire, and I so hope they don't go in that direction. It's just wrong, and creepy, and the visuals are entirely too unappealing for me to contemplate right now. Nate reports that Gilardi took the news pretty calmly, and that there doesn't appear to be anything Kroehner can do to them. Cut to the Fisher Farm, where David is furious that some other funeral home is poaching one of their customers. The removal van driver explains that they were underbid by another "unit" that just got bought out by Kroehner. Back at Brenda's, Nate admits that he also had an ulterior motive for staying in LA, but Brenda doesn't want to hear it. She refers to herself as being just "the extra bonus that probably won't work out." Well, here's hoping. "Sometimes your honesty gets really tiresome," answers Nate, and that I will agree with. Brenda suddenly remembers that she has a gift for him, and runs off to grab a pair of tickets to some big band show at the Palladium. Nate is surprised when he notices that the tickets are for three weeks from now, and wonders how she knew he wasn't going to be in Seattle. We're thankfully spared any mystical psychobabble when she simply replies, "I didn't."
Nighttime at Old McFisher's "Bought The" Farm. David comes downstairs in his pajamas and grabs a snack from the fridge. Sitting down to eat, he notices the ripped remains of the Kroehner check, which have conveniently been lying on the kitchen table all this time. Good thing they didn't bother to establish that Mom is a neat freak who's constantly straightening up the kitchen, or this might have seemed really contrived. Oh, wait. They did. And it does. Fade to white.