Episode Report Card Sars: B- | 32 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Comings And Goings
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2006.11.06
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Back from the break to the Parkman residence, where Matt is getting dressed and pointedly observing that things have been really good between him and Janice the last couple days. "I know!" Janice burbles. "I like it." Matt busies himself with his cuffs and takes a deep breath: "I just -- I feel like we've been really honest with each other. And that's good, right?" Janice, not sure where he's going with this: "Yeah...?" Another big breath from Matt as he tells Janice that there's something they "need to talk about -- something [he's] discovered." Janice is smiling bravely, but she looks scared, and her thoughts say, "I thought I'd been so careful." Ohhhhh no. You cheated on Agent Sean? Youuuuuuu TRAMP! Matt clearly didn't expect to hear that; Janice prompts him to go on, but Matt looks like he's about to barf -- and we've seen Grunberg make this face before, and it is a heartbreaker -- and says he has to go to work. Janice is confused. And hated. By me.
Niki is wandering through her trashed house in a daze; we hear knocking, and then Tina appears, and she starts to get all "uch, now what" with Niki, but then seems to take in both the mess and Niki's shell-shocked body language, and asks, with genuine concern, "What is it?" "Micah," Niki chokes out, and tells Tina that D.L. came back, and that she tried to protect Micah, but she couldn't: "I failed him." While Niki's talking, Tina is giving her an inscrutable look, and almost looks like she might burst out laughing. Either the acting choice is way off, or Tina Knows More Than She's Letting On.
New York City. At Isaac's loft, Peter stomps in to inform Simone that Isaac's landlord says Isaac is gone, "just took his paintings and..." He trails off as he gets down the stairs and into the loft proper and realizes that Isaac has indeed stripped the place. Simone asks whether Peter knew Isaac was leaving; he didn't, and muses out loud that he can't believe Isaac would take off just when they were starting to "make sense of his paintings." Simone explains why she's there, instead of at her father's apartment making arrangements and phone calls, which, thank you for explaining that, because I've never grieved the death of a parent, thank God, but visiting my junkie ex wouldn't make my list of things to do that day, I don't think. Anyway, Simone says that she wanted to tell Isaac in person, and she shows Peter a sketch of Charles that Isaac had drawn for Charles's seventieth birthday. Then she pouts that she'd been trying to get Isaac clean for ages: "And the one time I need him..." She trails off, leaving the "he's not there" implied, but I don't have much sympathy for her; he's her ex, first of all, and second of all, she dumped him because he's -- from her perspective at least -- a fundamentally unreliable junkie. Why would you expect him to be there for you when you broke up with him because he's...never there for you? I know she's sad and all that, but: what? Shut up, Simone. "Feels like everybody's leavin' me," adds Simone. Kicked sharply in the shins with the Hint Boot, Peter responds that he's not going anywhere.