Episode Report Card Kim: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spooked
By Kim | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.26.1998
Ben sits on a bench in the park. Ooh, opening-credits shot. Ben seems to be thinking real hard. He gets up and walks away in slow motion as "True Companion" by Marc Cohn plays.
Ben knocks on Felicity's door. Knoll sees him knocking and tells him that Felicity isn't there. Ben asks whether Knoll knows where she is. Knoll says yes, but doesn't give any details. Ben says, "You want to tell me?" Knoll says that Felicity is his friend, and that he doesn't want to see her get hurt. Ben asks again, and Knoll says that he's not kidding. Knoll starts to say something, and Ben begs Knoll to tell him where Felicity is.
Felicity works at Dean & Deluca. In yet another nice bit of continuity, Javier is in the background, on the phone with his mother, talking about Samuel. Ben walks in and says hello. Felicity ignores him. Ben keeps trying to get her to talk to him, begging for a couple of minutes. Felicity continues to ignore him. Ben asks for two coffees, claiming to be a customer. Felicity finally looks up.
Cut to Felicity and Ben sitting in the break room. Felicity says that her break is only fifteen minutes long. Ben says that he came to apologize for being a jerk, and that he thinks she was right. He has "a hard time letting people...whatever, especially people that make [him] nervous." Felicity says that she doesn't make him nervous, and Ben smiles and says that she does. He continues, saying that it's just part of who he is, and places a box on the table. Felicity stares at it, and finally opens it to reveal a necklace to replace the one she lost. Ben says he knows it's not an exact match, and that he was thinking they could go back to the police station and look at the files. Felicity breaks out of her reverie and tells him that the detective thinks they won't catch the thieves. Ben says that it might be worth it, and offers to put the necklace on Felicity's neck. He tries to, but it doesn't work the first time. He stands behind her and fastens the necklace as "True Companion" starts playing again. Felicity thanks him. The camera pans out, and we hear...
...a Sally voice-over, saying that soldiers do form a special bond, but then the war ends and they go home and try to make sense of it all. Sally says that she didn't plan to tell her new boyfriend about John's death, but Felicity's tape changed her mind. Sally thinks that war stories are meant to be shared, "because these stories, they're what bring us together and they keep us alive." Well, that was a little melodramatic, wasn't it?