Episode Report Card Maggie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Booby traps and ballistics
By Maggie | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 11.01.2000
At the loft, Meghan is reading Tarot cards while Sean eats the leftover tiramisu. He finally tells her about his problems below the equator since he saw how keeping a secret affected Ben and Felicity. He says, "I don't think we should have secrets between us," and Meghan deadpans, "Yeah, that'd be interesting." After he tells her about the antibiotics, she asks what else the doctor said. Sean denies that the doctor said anything else, then he mumbles about the ultrasound. Meghan holds up the Emperor card which, when it is upside down, apparently means "weak character" and someone "who doesn't want to face facts." Sean tries to discount the cards and says his problem isn't serious. He yells, "I'm on antibiotics!" She shouts back, "Are they helping?" Sean flatly refuses to get the ultrasound. Meghan asks if he'll get one if she requests that he does. Sean won't budge, so Meghan gets angry and leaves. I don't know many men who seek medical care without turning it into a huge ordeal. I totally feel for Meghan.
Knoll enters Epstein Bar and spots Ben sitting at the bar. He orders, "Scotch please, straight up," and admits that he's never ordered that before. Knoll, I thought you'd partied at places that were too much for Meghan to handle? What were you drinking, Zima? Knoll proceeds to sit down and badger Ben about Felicity. His opening line is, "Regardless of whether we like to admit it, you and I have actually become friends." When Ben doesn't reply, Knoll says, "I'll take that silence as a confirmation." Knoll continues, "As your friend, I, uh, I don't want to see you make the same mistake that I did." Ben says, "You mean you think you know something about me and Felicity because you dated her two years ago?" Knoll guesses that he and Ben have both had "dumb drunken nights" where they did something they'd never do when they were sober. Ben doesn't really appreciate the implication and states that there's more to this than Knoll knows. Knoll concludes his speech with, "If you push her away because of this, you're going to regret it later, and that I know for sure." He finishes his drink and leaves. Ben goes back to his drink.
Now Ben is on Felicity's doorstep, proposing that they talk about what happened. Ben tells her that he went to the frat house. Felicity starts whimpering that she's sorry and she knows that she should have told him the truth, but she was so drunk she couldn't remember what happened. Ben doesn't take that news too well, but he says that she should have told him that she blacked out instead of lying to him that Randy was in one of her classes. She repeats that she doesn't know what happened, and he tells her that he found out that she and Randy had sex. Ben leaves and she stands there looking like she's about to be ill.