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
Rick softly pushes open the back door, no doubt trying to sneak in because he's breaking the rule. He doesn't have a bag of groceries. He does have Lily's newspaper, though, so he feels brave enough to say hello. Three pairs of eyes stare at him. Grace does not look happy to see him. She's suddenly in a big hurry to get to the restaurant and starts rushing Lily to take her. Sensing that Lily and Rick need some time, Judy jumps in and says she can take Grace, since she has to go to the bookstore anyway. Grace isn't thrilled that Judy foiled her plan to pull Lily away from Rick. As Lily plants a peck on her pouty cheek, Grace tosses Rick a dirty look. Lily mouths a "thank you" to Judy, and Grace sullenly walks out the back door, ignoring Rick's "bye." I wonder if she knows about the proposal yet? That should really liven things up.
Lily asks if Rick wants anything -- "whitefish?" Rick shudders. "Bagels?" He says he's not hungry. Lily mutters that she should have something and turns abruptly toward the cupboard. Rick takes a big breath and blurts, "I wish things would get back to normal." Lily says she'd like that, but he "changed the definition of normal." Rick takes a few steps back to lean against the counter. "Only if you'd accepted me," he says. Lily stops slicing her bagel and moves to lean next to him. "I guess you need to know the answer," she says. "Not if you don't have one," he answers. She says she doesn't know what he wants her to say, and she's sorry. He says that she could have said what she felt. Hey, I was there. I think she did a pretty good job of being honest. Lily says she felt "like [he] blindsided" her. They have a defensive exchange that basically goes like, "I did?" "Yeah, you did." "I did?" "Yeah, you did." Lily says he "didn't ask [her], [he] kind of asked" her. Rick pouts that he "didn't exactly have a rule book, you know, for the…" He trails off as Zoe breezes in with a big smile and a friendly "hi." Zoe, of course, is completely oblivious to the fact that she just interrupted some heavy adult conversation, and brightly asks if they can do the cake now. She rummages around in the fridge while Lily watches Rick, her arms folded. He stares straight ahead, working the inside of his cheek with his tongue.
Cut to the restaurant, where Jake is teaching Grace the finer points of customer service. It seems like Grace has never helped in the restaurant before. Man, I'd never want my first shift to be on a busy weekend. Then again, the thought of working in a restaurant terrifies me, period. You have to be so organized and polite and put up with so much crap, and half the time you still get shafted for a tip. Anyway, Grace follows Jake diligently, seemingly unfazed by the busy pace and all the stuff Jake's yammering about. He hands her a guest check and tells her to handle it. She steps up to the computer and laughs, "Yes sir! When are we going to celebrate your birthday?" Jake snatches a bottle of wine from under the bar and distractedly surveys the packed, humming restaurant. "That will be much, much later," he mutters, and zooms off.
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