Episode Report Card Pamie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Boy Next Door
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.26.2000
In the white we hear Vonda start up, ruining everything. I smell a montage! Young Billy and Ally. Older Billy and Ally kiss. Young Billy. Ally on a slide. Billy chasing her. Some weird shot when Vonda sings "Never knew it 'til he moved away" where some youngish Billy with a backwards baseball cap is removing himself from the arms of a youngish Ally who's wearing a Bermuda shirt and pigtails. It looks like she's trapped in a sandbox. And it looks like they're stuck in the True Blue video that won MTV and Madonna's "Make My Video" contest. Billy at the bar. Ally smiling. Billy and Ally against a wall. Billy and Ally shaking hands. Hugging. Montage ends as Ally keeps crying. An overhead shot of Ally stroking Billy's head as one extra goes running by inches from them, but doesn't offer any help.
Ally exits the elevator in the firm's lobby. She asks for everyone's attention. She gets it immediately, of course. "About forty minutes ago...um...Billy Thomas passed away. Uh, he...he went quiet...quietly, and...peacefully." And except for one guy in the back who goes back to his paper until the extra next to him nudges him and then he shakes his head like, "I never met the guy," the scene is very, very quiet and really quite sad. Nobody moves. Fade to black.
Richard enters John's hospital room and tells him he has bad news. "Uh, Billy...Billy while in court today suffered a cerebral hemmorage. And he died." He says it was connected to the tumor. "I wish there was something I could say." Richard breaks down as John sits frozen. Very nice scene.
Ally sits at her desk. Ling walks in and tells Ally that Georgia is with Billy's parents and the service is tomorrow. Why is she still at work? Ling asks if she's okay and Ally says, "Oh, you know." "Yeah. I'm here." "I know. Thanks." I would have thought that Ally would be on the phone to Renee or her parents or even Billy's parents, but she's not.
As Ally leans back she hears Billy say, "It's gone now. The tumor's gone." "And so are you." She says. Hallucination Billy has his normal hair back now. That's how Ally liked it. "You left me again," she says as if she's very tired. "Have you met God?" she asks. "You, uh, you have to sign some confidentiality agreements when you get there." She asks him to tell God that she hates him. He says it wouldn't be true. "Yes, it would." She asks if he's going to haunt her now. Haunting and hallucinations are two different things. Oh, and Heaven apparently has a strict gingham and polka dot dress code. "We had something, didn't we?" he asks, completely solidifying that this is a hallucination. "We screwed it up, but...have you, uh, ever known any two people to have what we had?" Tearful Ally shakes her head several times and says, "No...I'm glad your hair is back to normal now." Billy stands up and walks over to her. He gets on his knees and says, "All my heart. Forever." They kiss. Ally holds him and asks him to come back. He says he can't. "It's stronger than death," he says with a smile. Oh, man. They start up with "You Belong To Me," and even I'm not this strong. I'm all teary as Billy and Ally dance and cry and kiss and dance and laugh and have a very nice moment that's really just Ghost but I don't care because I love this song and the only thing holding me back from bawling is Vonda. Dammit. At one point Billy pulls away with his hands open wide.