Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pass The Pepto, Please
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 08.10.1997
Poet. This really brings new meaning to the term "captive audience," don't you think? Thank you! I've got a million of them! No, that's not a threat!
Hill is passing when Vahue calls to him from under the stairs and invites him to a little nose party with Wangler and Adebisi. Hill tells him he's been clean for two years, but under pressure from his idol, he starts sniffing like a pig in a forest filled with truffles. Good role model, there. This leads to a high-color dream sequence, wherein, in the gym, Hill gets out of his wheelchair and starts schooling Vahue one-on-one. Back under the stairs, Adebisi laughs that the drugs were up Wangler's ass, but I went into that in depth (heh) in my last recap, so let's just keep things moving, shall we?
Meeting of the Bleeding Heart Lodge. Gloria tells the group that Said's vital signs haven't stabilized, and McManus theorizes that he isn't taking his medication. He goes on that he thinks Said's concerned about the effect they'll have on his mind, and bravo, McManus, for spewing out something that Said said verbatim to the doctor that prescribed the drugs. That must be in the file he's looking at, so I can only conclude that McManus is trying to make himself look smarter. You'd think that would be an easy task. You'd be wrong, in that case. Gloria says if Said doesn't take something soon, she'll have to say something else said by the doctor in the last episode. I refuse to recap this nonsense. Later, in her office, Pete tells Said to think of her as his mother, and tells him to take his medication. Said: "No." He says a lot more words than that, but the only thing worth noting is that he seems to have made peace with dying. Considering how long I've been working on this recap, I kind of have too.
New prisoner. Huseni Mershah, a not-bad-looking light-skinned black man. Said is his sponsor. Mershah appears to be a Muslim. Prisoner flashback: Mershah and some toughs stand on the steps to a brownstone when across the street, several Orthodox Jewish men emerge from another building. Mershah and his men focus on one man and start whaling on him. "Prisoner Number 97M688. Huseni Mershah, also known as James Monroe Madison." Dude. Attempted murder, twenty years, parole in three. Three? I wish they would give a quick reason when there's a weird discrepancy between the sentence and the parole. In the main area, Mershah, wearing a Muslim cap, explains that the guy he beat up shot a friend of his. Said listens indulgently, but says it's time to pray. Mershah somewhat cryptically suggests that they might have to do a bit more than that, and Said smiles that they will. Well, problem solved! I'm sure the last five minutes will be uneventful, aren't you?