Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B- | 1 USERS: C- YOU GRADE IT Mrs. Botwin's Neighborhood
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 5 | Aired on 09.10.2006
On Megan's front step, Silas has his arms around her and is finger-spelling proposed names for their baby: Charlie. Lawrence. Ellen. Megan fondly watches, and then tells Silas she wants to talk to her parents by herself. Silas, dismayed, agrees, and tells her to text-message him as soon as she's done. Megan kisses him, and heads inside with a sad smile. And, I mean. Princeton. Connect the dots, Silas.
Nancy has taken Conrad's neighbourhood diagram to a coffee date with Peter. He asks her to explain what he's looking at, and she says that she's opening another "bakery." He's not sure how she would open a bakery on a residential cul-de-sac, and she explains that it's a special bakery, in the sense that they won't actually be baking anything. Peter asks what they'll be doing there if not baking, and with a giddy smile, Nancy confides, "I grow." When she sees that Peter is not as impressed by this revelation as Nancy is impressed with herself, her face falls. Peter takes a loud, obnoxious, Nancy-esque sip of his iced coffee, slams the cup on the table, and says that it's a visionary idea. "You're mad?" Nancy guesses. "Something like that," Peter confirms. After a moment, he asks what the circles denote. "Other visionaries," Nancy tells him. "Hostile visionaries." Slurp. Nancy's wondering what Peter's thinking about this. Peter slurps back (you guys? You're done with your drinks), and says he's thinking this wasn't one of his vows. "Silas got his girlfriend pregnant," says Nancy. "Doggie-style. They're telling her parents today. I should be at home, waiting for him, but I can't, because I have this problem. I have fires in two houses, Mr. Botwin." Off Peter's dubious squint, Nancy corrects herself -- "Mr. Scottson" -- and smiles winningly. Closing his eyes against the giant migraine Nancy's just given him, Peter says he has to get back to work, snatching up the map as he goes. "Go be a mom," he orders. Seems like people need to tell Nancy that more often when she's making decisions that put herself and her children in potentially mortal danger. I mean, I'm just saying. And so is Mary-Louise Parker. Heh.
At home, Silas has his headphones on, his feet in the pool, and his Sidekick in hand. Nancy comes out with some lunch -- cheese-laden comfort food, the best kind. She asks how it went, and Silas explains how Megan wanted to talk to her parents alone, but hasn't messaged him yet. Nancy points out that she's "probably dealing with a lot." Silas says that her parents may have taken her phone, and Nancy agrees that's possible. She sticks her legs in the pool, commenting that the water's nice. Really, one of the tragedies of this show is how no one ever swims in the pool. If I had a pool I would swim every day! Between the beautiful shower and the beautiful pool, these people really take their water resources for granted. Anyway, Silas says that he told Shane and Andy about the baby. Nancy is a bit surprised; she asks if Silas wants to talk, but he's already put his headphones back on. Seeing that their conversation is over, Nancy gets up, patting Silas on the shoulder, and slowly heads back inside. Silas has his Sidekick back in his hands, and we see him write, "What about Levi?"