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
And there are the police sirens, right on schedule. You didn't think they'd resolve things that easily, did you? Benny flinches away from Jake just before Jake can grab the gun. Benny starts panicking, telling Jake to lock the door. Benny marches behind Jake, making sure the door is indeed bolted. Note that the doors are glass. Where the hell are the sharpshooters when you need them? A couple of cop cars pull into the parking lot, and the cops leap out, assuming their position behind the cars' open doors. Many more sirens can be heard in the distance. Oh, this does not look good, does it? Benny leads Jake back into the restaurant, and Jake asks, "Benny, what are you doing?" Benny paces around a bit, waving his arms and letting us all know that he's desperate and didn't really plan this out too well. He tells Jake to shut up and give him a minute to think. He breathes heavily for a few seconds, and glances around before ordering everyone down on the floor. Everyone but Jake. He orders Tiffany to get him a glass of water. Jake tries talking to Benny again, but Benny snaps at him to (say it with me) "shut up and let [him] think." He then has a major brain wave and tells Jake to go and lock the back door. Jake looks reluctant, then turns, muttering apologies to the customers over whom he's stepping on his way to the kitchen. The sirens are still wailing in the background, as even more cops arrive. As he passes Grace, Jake touches her shoulder reassuringly. She looks up at him, grimacing as she fights back tears.
Cut to a small white television showing two cartoon pigs laughing heartily. Zoe's in the kitchen, watching, as Rick gets a call on his cell phone. The happy cartoon music plays as he struggles to make out what Karen is telling him. Lily watches closely as Rick says, "What?!" Zoe's cartoons are interrupted to show a reporter standing outside Phil's, surrounded by police cars. "Is that our restaurant?" she asks Lily. Lily's face blanches (which is really a credit to Sela) as she registers what is happening. She blindly flings her arm at Rick, not taking her eyes of the TV screen for a second. She and Zoe stare, dazed, at the set, while Rick sports his befuddled look. "Lily?" Judy calls out, her voice shaking. She rushes into the kitchen and stops short when she sees their faces, realizing that whatever she just heard is, in fact, true.
Back at Phil's, more cops are arriving, and someone's busy stringing police tape across the parking lot. Inside, everyone's huddled on the floor, looking miserable. Tiffany distributes glasses of water. Jake is on the phone, looking weary and frustrated. We can hear that the call is ringing and ringing and ringing without being answered. He informs Benny that Giancarlo isn't there. Well, there's a shocker. Benny's not so quick to trust Jake anymore, though, and grabs the receiver to listen for himself. "Doesn't he have an answering machine?" he asks before slamming the phone down. Well, let's say he did. What kind of message would you leave him? "Come on down here, where I'm holding all these people at gunpoint so I can put a bullet in -- I mean, talk to you"? We can tell that Benny's feeling the pressure because he's removed his sad gray parka and his bow tie, and he's unbuttoned his shirt. Any second now, that little Degree stress meter is going pop up in the corner going, "Whoop...whoopwhoopwhooopwhoopwhooooooop!" Jake rests on the counter, looking totally wiped out. He rubs his face.
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