Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A- | 524 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Yesterdayland
By Couch Baron | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2012.04.22
...and later, they lie on the floor in bathrobes and towels in a classic denouement stage of the trip where everything becomes more philosophical. Jane confesses that Bess (okay, the character's name is "Catherine") might know her better than Roger does and Roger matches her flat, exhausted tone when he asks if he wants to know. She says probably not and he asks, "Because it's over?" I didn't think it would take acid to break up this marriage, but now that it's happened I'm hard pressed to think of a more effective way. Jane admits that Catherine is just waiting for her to say it and when Roger asks what Catherine thinks of him, Jane replies, "She thinks I'm waiting for you to say it." Sounds about right. Roger confesses to being relieved and Jane admits that all she thinks about is having an affair. Roger's surprised to hear that Jane never cheated on him, but all that ever happened was a kiss and she stopped it. She turns to face him as she adds that she won't even ask about him, which makes sense just for the sake of saving time if nothing else, but says that her feelings for him were always real -- she just knows that he didn't fall in love. He wonders what was wrong, the implication being that they didn't have to be in love to be happy, but Jane points out that he doesn't like her and he can't deny it, only saying that he once did. "I really did." She settles back into his arms and since this may be the end of her character, I want to say I don't think I've given Peyton List the props she deserves, as this has been a tricky role to handle. We cut to an overhead shot of the two of them lying there, feeling as far away from each other and everyone else as a certain Martian sometimes does...
...and then it's morning, and Roger is getting dressed with a fairly mournful look on his face. Jane, in their bed, stirs and asks if it's morning and where he's going. She sounds sleepily playful, but when Roger kindly tells her he's going to check into a hotel for a while so as not to displace her, she sits up in confusion -- she apparently doesn't remember their little breakup talk. He fails to recognize that at first, as he happily tells her they didn't need screaming and acrimony and lawyers -- they were able to be there together, in the truth, just like she wanted. She asks if he's leaving her, but he sticks to the trip-speak and says they're leaving each other, just like she wanted, and the things she said were so beautiful -- she even spoke German. Jane denies knowledge of that tongue, but when Roger explains she was quoting her father, she realizes it must have been Yiddish and isn't that another interesting little tidbit about Jane on her way out the door? Jane tries to deny that she meant any of it, but when Roger calls her on telling her therapist about how she knew it was over, she's got nowhere to run. Distraught, she covers her eyes and then informs him their parting is going to be very expensive, but Roger, an old hand at that game by now, merely smiles that he knows. He tries to kiss her on the forehead, but she rebuffs him, so after a long moment he leaves her in tears...