Episode Report Card Niki: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Experience Is The Teacher
By Niki | Season 3 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.31.2002
Soliloquy Lily muses, "She used to be afraid of spiders. And of the vacuum cleaner. And being left alone in the house. She used to be afraid of so many things. But she's not afraid anymore. And I'm not sure how that happened, but I know I can't take all the credit." No kidding.
Lily tells Grace, "I want to be fair. I want to respect your privacy, but the thing is, in this particular situation, I need to know. I need to know exactly what happened." Grace says, "Except exactly what happened isn't the whole story. And I don't think it's right that I should have to answer all these private questions." Lily breaks it to her that Grace has to answer the questions whether she likes it or not. Grace wants to know why, and Lily finally gets fed up with her naïveté, crying, "'Why'? Because what if he touched you?" Grace looks mortified and turns her back, saying, "Oh, god, Mom!" Lily tries to explain that in order for them to protect her from Creepitri, they need to know what he did. "I don't need to be protected from this person!" Grace exclaims. She adds that she doesn't need to be protected at all. Emphatically, she insists, "I'm fine! Look at me. Don't you realize that?" Lily looks at her sadly, realizing that, in fact, she doesn't.
"I used to really know her," Soliloquy Lily laments. She flips through a book and says, "I knew her story. But now, I mean, are her eyes really that lonely? Because I didn't know."
Lily looks at the rejection letter again and quotes, "Shows promise." Grace smiles and says that's her favorite part. Lily says they should frame the letter.
The next morning, Lily strides up to the Curmudgeon, who is again raiding the snack supply. "Les, I was an idiot," she says. "Which time?" he asks. She says she shouldn't have told him to cancel the meeting, and admits that she was scared. She rhymes off: "I mean, what if they reject me? What if they don't reject me? What if the show fails? What if the show doesn't fail?" She smiles, waiting. "Yep, that pretty much covers it," the Curmudgeon says. She says that her point is that she blew it, and she wants him to let her know when another opportunity arises in the future, because she's "there." "Good, because they're here," he says, jerking a thumb toward his office. Lily's not following. He says the people from Radiovation are in his office, and explains that he's just trying to find some cookies for them. "But, I told you I didn't want to meet with them," Lily says. He says he didn't pay any attention to that. He finds the cookies and tries to hurry her along, reminding her that they're waiting. She stops him, marveling, "How did you know?" "Because I left 'em in there!" he says. She clarifies, "No, how do you know the things you know about me? I mean, I came in here for an assistant's job, and you put me on the air. How did you know I could do that? How do you know I can do this?" The Curmudgeon's not about to get sucked into all this sentimentality. He simply says, "Okay, their names are Tom and Roger. Tom's the one with the mustache." Lily smiles and follows him into the office.