Episode Report Card Maggie: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Things Change
By Maggie | Season 2 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.26.2000
Ruby is talking to her mother on the phone in her room. "Mom, I know, I've been busy. I have six classes. I miss you too." Knoll comes in through the half open door. Ruby says to her mother, "Can I call you back? Okay, tell Dad I love him. Okay, bye." She hangs up the phone and they say hi to each other. Knoll asks if she has told her parents yet. Ruby says that she hasn't. Knoll hands back the course transfer card and says, "I don't think that you should switch sections. I spent the past week thinking about what you said. How you want us to be together, be a couple. But I can't forget this isn't my child. It took me awhile, but I understand why you choose to do this, to take this path. I hope that you can understand that it's impossible for me to take it with you. But, I'm here for you, as your friend." Ruby cries and says, "I might need that." Knoll says, "Yeah, I know." Knoll, if you can't get over Ruby's indiscretion or infidelity, you really shouldn't be in her life at all. You're not mature enough to let it go for good. Your kind of help, Ruby doesn't need.
Felicity is sitting outside, watching people skate, and then she's knocking on her father's door. They have an awkward moment then her dad asks if everything is okay at the Health Centre. She says, "Yeah. They, uh, they find out the results of the review today. But I haven't talked to Greg yet." Dr. Porter hopes that "everything turns out okay," and he apologized for what he said earlier. Felicity says, "When I found out you weren't at the hospital anymore, I just got this horrible feeling in my stomach. Why didn't you tell me you quit?" He says that he didn't want to worry her and that he really is okay. She whines, "But that's what scares me, when you say that you're okay, I mean, it feels like you're just saying that so I don't worry and I don't want you to do that for me. I want you to tell me the truth. I want you to trust me." Dr. Porter explains, "I guess I just thought all of this would be temporary -- work here at the hospital for a few months, your mom would call say that she wanted me to come home. I could get back to Palo Alto, get back to my life there, but that hasn't happened. I really miss your mother." Felicity wonders if he has told her mother that. He admits that he has. Felicity says that she is sorry.
Ben arrives at the loft and Sean tells him to call Felicity. Ben hopefully says, "She called?" Sean bursts his bubble with, "Yeah, she wants you to take over another one of her shifts over at Dean & Deluca." Ben dumps his coat on a chair. Sean says, "Or you could hang that up. What's your problem?" Ben says, "She's into this guy, Greg. And he's, he's a total dick. I'm telling you he's a total dick. And now she's working at Dean & Deluca less and less and with this guy more and more. And I think she's being an idiot." Sean says, "Oh, she's being an idiot." Ben replies, "Yes, that's my opinion. I think she's being an idiot." Sean wonders why Ben has an opinion about Felicity's life. Ben doesn't have an answer for him so he changes the subject and asks, "Why, why haven't you told Julie, you know, that you love her? I mean, you haven't done that yet, have you?" Ben asks why again and Sean says, "Because we must be honest, we both see it coming. Y'know, I mean, the second that I say, Julie, I love you, she's going to smile awkwardly, and say that she wants to be my dear friend. She likes me and respects me, and that she's flattered. Then I'll just want to kill myself. No, I'd rather say nothing and keep alive the idea, than get shot down by the girl that I live with. But, uh, this isn't about me and Julie, is it?" Ben responds, "No, I don't know. I just -- I see the way that she looks at Greg. She -- she admires him. She admires that whole pre-med-running-the-Health-Centre thing. And I don't have that. Then I think about what you said, about how Felicity and I shouldn't be together, how I'm not ready. But, I really think you were wrong. I think that I'm ready. I really do." Sean tells him to go tell Felicity how he feels. Ben grabs his coat and leaves. Good thing he didn't hang it up after all.