Episode Report Card Sobell: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Tweener's chance for a new life -- dead!
By Sobell | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on 09.24.2006
Meanwhile, in Cedar Grove, Haywire walks off a main drag and right into a tribute to Frankenstein when the unlocked house he ducks into for shelter turns out to be occupied by a sweet and trusting old blind lady. She calls out, "Billy? Is that you? Billy? Is that you?" Tweener thinks for a minute, then replies, "Yes?"
Back in Utah, Jeanette has whipped up a pitcher of lemonade, then put it on a nice little tray along with some glasses and a bottle of whiskey. She sashays into the dining room where T-Bag is sitting, and he doffs his cap as he drawls, "Thank you kindly." Giving him a flash of cleavage, Jeanette asks, "How did you get out of working?" She brings back a bucket of ice and a pick as he makes up some cock-and-bull story about being the union crew chief. He tells her he'll check on his crew in a bit. And then T-Bag checks out Jeanette's little rear. I don't mean to cast aspersions on Jeanette -- who is, frankly, quite the Mrs. Robinsonian looker -- but isn't she about six times older than T-Bag's usual crushes? Anyway, as she pours, he sucks his teeth in what is either the bloodlust or the plain old lust. Going by the way his tongue falls down to his shoes after Jeanette takes the ice pick to the big ol' chunk of ice, I'm guessing it's the bloodlust.
Then Jeanette pours a little Jack in her lemonade. After minimal prodding, T-Bag consents to two fingers of whiskey in his drink too. The two drink, and the expression on T-Bag's face approaches rapture. He says, "It's been a while." Because Jeanette is the type of woman who can turn any line into an opportunity to play femme fatale, she arches a brow higher and coos, "Yeah?" I'm telling you, this entire plot has to have been lifted from a Vivid Videos production. All we need now is the cheesy synthesizer music.
T-Bag rasps that "whiskey always makes me feel... irascible." Jeanette whispers in reply, "I don't know what that means, but I do like the sound of it." Jeanette is probably one of the people who doesn't do well on Reader's Digest's "It Pays to Enrich Your Word Power" feature. She then runs her finger along T-Bag's shiny, grimy, unshaven face. T-Bag grabs her hand and sniffs mightily. Okay, we are about to head into that whole Cape Fear finger-sucking territory and I do not want to go there.
Fortunately, all T-Bag does is inquire as to whether Jeanette's wearing "Angel" perfume. She surely is. Then Jeanette purrs, "It reminds you of an ex, I take it?" Going by the look on T-Bag's face, it reminds him of the ex that put him behind bars. She presses, "Was that good memories or bad memories?" Suddenly sporting a leaner, hungrier look, T-Bag whispers, "Both."