Episode Report Card 1 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Help For The Lovelorn
By Kim | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.22.2000
Felicity gets up and studies some instruments (seemingly instruments of torture) in a glass case. The doctor enters the room and says, "Felicity Porter. Heartache. Fifteen months." Felicity sits in an examination chair that looks more like a dentist's chair. Felicity thinks that there might be a misunderstanding because she only came in for a consultation. The doctor shines a light in her eyes. Felicity asks why she is getting a physical exam. The doctor says that "not everyone qualifies for the treatment." He abruptly tilts the chair back, surprising Felicity, who says, "The treatment?" The doctor tells her to breathe normally, while he listens to her chest with a stethoscope. Felicity tries to ask more about the treatments but the doctor shushes her, and scowls. The door opens, and Felicity asks if there is a problem. The nurse enters with a tray on which are two small drinking cups. The doctor offers one to Felicity, who refuses. The doctor insists, and drinks from the other cup, which reassures Felicity into drinking from her cup. The doctor says that he is going to draw blood to test and see if she is a candidate for the treatment. Felicity asks for details about the therapy. The doctor talks about how medical science has the capacity to fix all the other parts of the body, so why not a broken heart? He ties a piece of rubber around Felicity's arm. Felicity asks what the personnel at the clinic do to their patients. The doctor has a syringe and says that before he can tell her anything, he needs to draw blood. Felicity freaks out and tells him to stop, while pulling the piece of rubber off her arm. She says that she changed her mind, and grabs her coat and purse and runs down the hallway. The doctor calls after her to wait, and says there's no need to be afraid. Felicity stops and says she never said she was afraid, and runs out. The doctor and the nurse exchange a look.
Felicity arrives back in her room carrying a package. She opens the package and pulls out a heart-shaped glass box containing a business card for the Clinic. The phone rings and the answering machine picks up. As others have stated in the forums, an answering machine? For a college student in the '50s? But I guess on The Twilight Zone anything can happen, so I'm just going to go with the flow. ["I also noticed that there were other anachronistic touches that seemed to have been intentional, like the little TV in Felicity's room. Or the fact that the coffee shop where Felicity worked was still called Dean & Deluca. Or the fact that Knoll planned to be a graphic designer, which isn't a job title that, I think, existed in 1959. Or the appearance of Felicity's miniature tape recorder. It looks like the producers wanted to make the timeline deliberately ambiguous. I'm just sayin'." -- Wing Chun] One funny part is that instead of Meghan's usual snarky message, the outgoing message is normal. A woman from the clinic starts to leave a message for Felicity about scheduling a second visit. Felicity picks up the phone and says politely that there will be no second visit because she's not interested. The woman says, "I see." Felicity starts to explain further, but the woman hangs up on her.