Episode Report Card Kim: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Spooked
By Kim | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.26.1998
Julie and Brian Krakow walk out of The Exorcist. Do you know I've never seen that movie? I read the book, though. One of my friends was so emotionally scarred by that movie that he couldn't even watch the commercials for Scary Movie 2 because it had an Exorcist parody in it. He's kind of a baby, though (says the girl who had to sleep with the lights on for a week after seeing The Blair Witch Project). ["The Exorcist movie isn't nearly as creepy as the book. I watched it with my sister when she was about eleven and she pretty much laughed the whole way through. It scared our dad a lot, but then again, when he watched it he was in the seminary, so maybe it bothered him on that level. Anyway." -- Wing Chun] Anyway, Julie thanks him for letting her hold his hand. They discuss how scary the movie was, and Brian Krakow comments on the technical details. Krakow gives Julie his coat, because it got cold, and asks whether she wants to grab something to eat. She does. They do.
Felicity reads a poem aloud; it sounds like "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe. She kind of dozes off in the middle, and I can't blame her. But I guess Poe kind of fits the Halloween theme they've got going. The phone rings, waking her up, and it's Ben. He's downstairs again. Felicity goes out into the hall, which is decorated for Halloween. As she passes by Knoll's room, he opens the door and asks where she's going. Hey, she already has one dad! Felicity says that she can't sleep, so she's going out. Knoll asks whether she's going alone. Felicity gives him a look and Knoll reminds her to be careful. He really is a dad. Felicity stomps off.
At Ben's loft, Felicity and Ben carve pumpkins. Felicity says that the last time she carved a pumpkin, she went trick-or-treating as Yertle the Turtle. Ben asks whether that was a couple of years ago; Felicity laughs and says that she was ten. She explains that her mom made the costume. Ben exposits that the pumpkins "should be good for the party." Felicity asks whether Sean throws this party every Halloween, and Ben says that he does, but that they need to buy a new stereo because the old one was stolen. Ben tells Felicity that she has to attend. Felicity smiles and asks whether Ben is dressing up. Ben was thinking of Frankenstein. I was thinking of something like Tarzan or Cupid or something that would require Scott Speedman to wear a loincloth, but no one asked me. Felicity thinks that Frankenstein is a good idea, and offers to dress up as the Bride of Frankenstein. Ben thinks that would be a good idea, and fun. Felicity continues to carve her pumpkin; she then asks why Ben left the police station, and whether he was upset. Ben says that he was fine. Felicity doesn't know how to tell her mother about the necklace, because her grandmother gave it to her mom, and her mom gave it to her for good luck, "which is kind of ironic, huh?" Ben says he hasn't "felt that way in a long time." Felicity asks what "way" he's referring to. Ben says that he's talking about the way he felt when it was happening, but doesn't elaborate, and drops the subject.