Episode Report Card M. Giant: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I Say Quakerism, You Say Aneurysm
By M. Giant | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on 07.23.2005
Nate and Maggie snuggle under a blanket on her sofa as Nate comments that they missed the church service. After a long silence, he asks if she's crying. She isn't, but she doesn't look far off. Nate actually rolls his eyes a little. How quickly he becomes disenchanted. ["I seriously have not loathed anyone on television as much as I loathe Nate since I had to recap Dawson Leery every week." -- Sars] She sadly says he should go. Nate asks if she's sure she's all right, and she insists she's fine. He and his boxer briefs hop up and they start getting dressed. All I'll say about Maggie's boobs is that they're clearly real. "This wasn't planned, you know," Nate says, pulling on his pants. Maggie knows. Well, that changes…nothing. Nate gets into his shirt, and seems to have some stiffness in his arm as it slips into his sleeve. He waggles his hand in confusion. Maggie asks what's wrong. Shaky-voiced, Nate says, "My arm is numb. Numb arm." His eyes roll back in his head as the camera angle gets all dizzy. "Numb arm. Narm! Narm…" And he topples backward onto the floor. Wuss. I had a migraine last week that interfered with my ability to speak, and I got in my car and drove home. This loser swoons like some corseted Victorian. But it might be something more serious in his case. A relapse of the brain thing that was supposedly fixed at the beginning of Season Three, perhaps? Clearly, his hard drive has crashed in some catastrophic way. Maggie runs to kneel over him, asking what's wrong. But he's not speaking or moving, and there's nothing behind his staring eyes but a Blue Screen of Death. Maggie runs to the phone and dials 911. This couldn't have happened an hour earlier?
No previews for next week, so we'll have to wait until then to see just how dead Nate really is. And what Brenda has to say about it.