Episode Report Card Erin: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wait -- maybe we should go back ANOTHER six monthsâ¦
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.26.2006
She roughs him up a bit and then slams him against the wardrobe again with her forearm against his throat. "Niki doesn't remember," she says, "but I do. Someone had to be there to protect her. I remember the stink of alcohol on your breath. I took every punch so that she wouldn't have to." "You're not Jessica," he manages to get out. "You have no idea who I am," she says with obvious delight. She flings him back onto the bed and he tells says that Nicole needs help. ikiN's all, you're right, she totally DOES need help. "I thought she'd learned to protect herself," says ikiN, pulling out the check he gave Niki, "but no such luck. You're going to go away and never come back." She shoves the check into his mouth and walks out.
So... Niki's superpower is a dissociative personality disorder? And her other personality is her dead sister? Who's, like, really super strong? I... wish they'd make up their minds about just what her damn superpower is and get her to start using it. I mean, if mental illnesses were superpowers, Sybil would have worn a goddamn cape and gone by the name "Super Sybil".
Odessa. Good god. Claire's alone in her room dorkily cheering to herself. Mr. Bennet shows up in the doorway and tells her that he can't wait for her first game. He has a stuffed bear in his hands and says that she might be getting too old for the bears-around-the-world tradition they've had. Claire says she totally isn't and she adds the latest bear to her collection. Aw. Claire blurts out, "Am I a terrible person?" Bennet asks what she's talking about, and she says that she wants to be a cheerleader, but sometimes, Jackie can be such a... "Bitch?" says Bennet. Claire smiles in surprise. "Yeah, a bitch," she agrees. "No," he says, "it's your actions that make you good or bad, cheerleader or not." He asks to look at her hand and she says the pain went away, but when she removes the bandage, the wound is completely gone. "That's... healed really nicely," says Bennet. Heh.
Matt's House of Cheating Wives. It's morning, but Matt appears to have just arrived home. His drowsy wife greets him with a "hey, baby," and Matt dejectedly informs her that he didn't pass the detective test. She thinks he should tell his bosses the truth, and we learn that Matt has a severe case of dyslexia. He can barely read, and half the letters he sees are backwards. She tries to be supportive of him and starts to cuddle him and entice him with offers of morning sex and eggs, preferably in that order, but Matt's not really in the mood. "How can you want to kiss me?" says Matt. "You're my hero," says his wife's inner voice, "don't you know that?" Matt's not looking at her when this happens, so he doesn't seem to realize that she didn't actually say this out loud.