Episode Report Card Niki: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Baby Blues
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 01.09.2001
Cut to Lily racing to answer her front door -- but not before checking her hair in the foyer mirror, of course. Rick comes in laden with bags of Chinese takeout as Judy and Zoe come bounding down the stairs. Rick invites them to share dinner, but Lily gives Judy the neck-clenched "cheese it" look over his shoulder. The clueless gene skipped Judy somehow, so she takes the hint, saying that she and Zoe are going out for burgers. Zoe is overjoyed at the prospect of "double whammies."
As Lily and Rick start chowing down, she stops herself, puts down the takeout container, and says, "Okay, I'm just going to say it." Rick crunches noisily while Lily stammers and sputters, "It's probably nothing…making such a big deal of it…" and then finally mutters, "I should probably not even involve you in it." Rick wants to know what she's talking about, so she just outs with it: "I'm late." "For what?" Rick asks. "As in, I'm never late," Lily says slowly. Rick stares, his chopsticks suspended, his mouth agape. He wants to know how late she is. About a week. Something goes down Lily's windpipe, and she starts choking. Rick hammers her back while Lily gasps for air and then finally squeaks that she's fine. Rick keeps pounding. She said she's fine! Rick returns to the subject at hand, trying to reassure her, and himself too, that a week is nothing to worry about. Lily insists that she's never late. Rick protests that they always use "precautions." Lily points out that nothing is a hundred percent. "That's what I keep telling Eli," Rick mutters to himself. The weight of the situation finally sinks in, and Rick sinks to his chair. He forces a smile and notes that "this is a real surprise." Lily watches him. "You look horrified," she observes. He quickly says that he looks "surprised." Lily looks at him for a minute, snatches the takeout bag off the table, and says, "Well. Obviously I didn't expect you to be overjoyed." In his defense, Rick says that they don't even know if she's actually pregnant, so he's not having a real reaction. She counters that he is -- he's reacting to the possibility. Rick asks why he can't stay calm until they know for sure. "You're calm?" Lily asks skeptically. Rick stammers out a question about tests, and Lily goes to the drawer, answering that it will tell them, "very calmly," whether or not everything is about to change. Rick asks if she's taken it. She gives him an eye-roll and says, "Of course not!" Rick hesitantly asks when she's going to…She cuts him off to say in the morning. Rick's quick to acquiesce. Lily asks if she should do it now, wondering if she can, and generally acting lost. Rick, still in his chair, rubs his brow and looks like he's trying to keep a handle on it. He takes a breath, pushes himself out of the chair, and says that it involves him too, and they're going to do the test together, right now. Lily marches toward the stairs, and he follows, asking if she wants him to…What? Hold the cup? She tells him no and leaves him at the bottom of the stairs. Bass drums kick in, no doubt echoing the major heart-pounding going on in both their chests.