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
Suresh tells him to leave and Gray grabs little geeky corduroy coat and angrily exits. Out on the street, he stops to catch his breath. He's very Clark Kent-ian in this moment. Pressed shirt, sweater vest, bulletproof hair, nerd glasses. He looks down in his hand and sees that he still has the sticky with Brian's name and address on it. Behind him, Bennet is getting out of a cab. Gray walks off and Bennet stops beneath Suresh's building and looks up at it ominously.
Vegas. Niki's dad Hal is visiting, and his first method of business is to attempt to endear himself to Micah by throwing an expensive laptop computer his way. Micah's impressed, as is Niki. She tells him that it's a very generous gift and Hal just says it was amortized over ten birthdays. "Well, then," says DL with a gritty smile, "you skimped." Heh. Micah thanks him and Hal tells him to go break the internet in half or something. Niki clunkily brings up that she and DL want to move Micah into a private school, but they don't have the money. Hal comments that if she wants to ask him for something, it's already hers. She thanks him and he says that he feels lucky that she even let him in the door after all the things he's done. Again, Niki says he didn't do anything, and Hal goes, "Why do you keep doing that?" Niki's all, what? He's all, dude. You're only as sick as your secrets. Her smile falters and she comments that she knows all the AA mantras, thanks. Hal uncomfortably says he's going to go check on the boy.
Unfortunately, when he does, he sees that Micah has taken his new computer completely apart and is tinkering with it. Hal totally loses his shit and screams at Micah about how the computer cost $2000. Niki and DL show up and act like Hal's just ripped out their kid's liver instead of yelled at him a bit. I mean, obviously Hal's a violent asshole and it was probably only a matter of time before he hit poor Micah, but the way Niki and DL react to his two shouted sentences is a little over the top, if you ask me. Hal storms off, saying that he has no business being here. Niki's like, well, then why the hell did you come? He says that he owes her more than any apology could ever do. He hands her a check and tells her to make her life easier with it. "What did you do that was so bad that I can't have my father back?" she asks. "You really don't remember, do you?" he says. He leaves. There's a weird quick camera shift and Niki looks up into a mirror where two of her appear. Her expression changes from "whuh?" to "you dumb-ass" almost instantly, and I think we've just seen our first glimpse of ikiN.