Episode Report Card Drunken Bee: A+ | 16 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Work
By Drunken Bee | Season 4 | Episode 5 | Aired on 06.04.2010
Commercials. Luke drives a truck while J.D. and the other douche hang out the window and in the bed of the truck shooting shit up with their paintball guns. Luke complains while driving that he thought they were going to a field to do this and J.D. says they will but they're just practicing. They're shooting up cars and mailboxes; Luke worries that they're going to get paint on his truck and the Douche in the Back says that his truck is a piece of crap anyway. Luke: "Yeah, it's a piece of crap I had to pay for with my own money." I feel such kinship to people whose parents didn't buy them cars. It's American in the Plymouth Rock kind of way, whereas the new-car-birthday-present is American in an Olive Garden kind of way. J.D. aims and shoots at a pedestrian walking down the sidewalk, and that's too much for Luke who pulls over and orders them out of the car. J.D. tries to "tease" Luke to get him back into a good mood by telling Luke that he knows he feels bad about going to a dump of a school and they can't pretend like he doesn't. Luke doesn't want to be looked down on by his friends, gets out of the truck, goes around back, grabs the gun from the guy in the bed and shoots him in the leg with it. J.D. gets out of the truck and starts whine-yelling at Luke: "Screw you! How does it feel to be second-best on the worst team in Texas?" Luke comes around the front of the truck and J.D. hauls off and shoots him right in the chest with the paintball gun. Luke gets in his truck, inarticulate in his anger, just pointing his finger at J.D and saying "You're done. You're done." He peels out and like a tiny jerky baby J.D. lifts his gun and shoots up the back of Luke's truck as he drives away.
Tim is sitting in a lawn chair in the yard, drinking a beer, wind blowing his hair, listening to the Texas grasses sway. Ahhh. That's one nice setting. Ruined of course by Becky "Daddy Issues" Sproles coming out and sitting next to him. He asks how it went and she tells him she got second runner up. He clarifies, "That's third, right?" and tries to make it sound okay until she says "Third place sucks" and he agrees. She asks how his day was and he says that it was weird, "I saw somethin' that, uh....Rather, I saw someone see somethin' that, uh....you ever just feel completely useless?" And, oh, isn't that how it feels when you are around someone grieving? And Becky has it wrong when she says that Tim is not useless-- because in the case of Matt's deep grief? He kind of is. I mean, the beers on the field were a good thing, they were the right thing to do. But there is nothing that Tim can really do for Matt-- that work that he's doing is his alone to do, and that is the sad thing about being sad. The only way out is through, but you're the only one who can do the work. Well I could sit here for a while more and ruminate on grief and all the big metaphysical things this show makes me think about except for Becky has to go and lean in and kiss Tim Riggins. Becky! Down! This girl is like a naughty dog. Tim kisses her back for about a beat, but then puts a stop to it, says "NO. This can't happen, no" and gets up and goes to his trailer.