Episode Report Card Niki: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Can you say "anticlimactic"?
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 03.06.2001
We cut to Lily's bedroom, where she stands over Grace and Zoe, who are tucked in her bed. She kisses each of their foreheads and smoothes Grace's hair. She stares at them with a little smile, and then lifts her eyes, staring pensively. She closes her eyes for a second as if considering something, then opens them and cocks her head a little. She looks at the girls again, then snaps off the light and heads to the kitchen. Rick is waiting there for her. He asks how Grace is. "She was afraid to fall asleep. But she finally did," Lily says. They stand in front of one another, taking each other in. Lily puts her hands on his shoulders, as he apologizes "for all of this." "Oh, Rick," she sighs. He tells her that he's not letting her go, and she echoes that she's not letting him go. "I'm staying right here," he asserts as she overlaps, "I just want you to be with me," and he goes on, "'Cause I don't care watcha say --" She looks at him pertly and puts her left hand on her right shoulder. "What?" he says, finally realizing he hasn't heard a word she's said. She answers him by waving her fingers, drawing attention to the big fat diamond perching on her ring finger. He stares from it to her face and back again, speechless. "Oh," he finally says. "Oh?" She raises her eyebrows and smiles her assent. He takes in her face as the reality registers, and his face is pure adoration as he sighs, "Thank you." "You're welcome," she says. They kiss and then hold one another and we fade out.
Well, that was a little anticlimactic, wasn't it?