Episode Report Card Niki: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Unity of Effect
By Niki | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.30.2001
Rick informs Karen that Jessie's making progress: she ate two pieces of pizza at dinner. "Pizza?" Karen echoes, dismayed. Rick wants to know what's wrong with pizza, and she hems and haws that there's nothing wrong with it as long as Jessie ate something, and Rick actually saw her. "Yeah, I did," he lies, way too defensively. Jessie comes in and Karen asks if she found "it." Jessie says she didn't, but, spotting the hamper of laundry Karen's folding, asks if Karen has her cloud pajamas. Karen says they're in the dryer, but Jessie claims she already checked there. Karen trots her off to check again. Alone with the briefcase and an overwhelming case of the nosies, Rick makes for the briefcase. He makes a few faces before he opens it, which I guess indicates his wrestling with the moral dilemma. It doesn't take long for him to kick the moral dilemma's ass and dive into the briefcase. He discovers a confidential brief prepared by a private investigator tailing Miles Drentell. He glances at the first page, which doesn't really say much of anything, other than that Miles is the subject being investigated, and then hears Karen very loudly say, "You're welcome." Nice of her to warn him of her approach. Rick stuffs the brief back into the case just in the nick of time, and somehow Karen fails to notice his hovering over her briefcase, looking guilty. She goes back to folding towels, and by way of giving him the bum's rush, announces that she has "some reading to do, so..." She looks at him with a guilty expression. Well, it seems like four out of five cast members agree: "guilty" is the look of choice this evening. Rick stares back at her, seething. She misinterprets the look, and begins stammering an apology for not appreciating the pizza. Midway through her sentence, Rick hold up a finger and says, "I have to go." "Well, go then," Karen mutters to his back, looking bewildered.
Grace, meanwhile, is just sitting down to examine her pilfered booty a little more closely. Just as she's unscrewing the top from the glitter, Lily knocks softly and immediately pushes open Grace's door. Grace overreacts to the invasion. "I can't just ask you one question?" Lily asks mildly. Grace makes a "whatever" gesture and huffily throws herself onto her chair, her back to Lily. Lily approaches, asking whether Wannabe's been spending a lot of time at Rick's, because she doesn't think Rick wants Eli and his friends treating the apartment "like a hangout." "Oh, please don't say 'hangout,' Mother," Grace gripes with distaste. "Please don't say 'Mother'," Lily fires back. Lily then lays out the evidence: she saw gum wrappers in Jessie's garbage can. Grace cuts her off, "I can't believe you're saying this! That is the most unfair, prejudiced --" Lily rolls her eyes and insists that she's not accusing Wannabe of anything. "Yes, you are!" Grace storms. "And even if Carla has been hanging out over there, it doesn't mean she took anything!" Zoe opens Grace's door a crack and stands in the doorway, listening. Lily spots something on the desk, over Grace's shoulder. "What's that?" she asks. The Strings of Guilty Conscience swell. We get a close-up of the glitter, just so we're all clear on what Lily's referring to. The Strings of Guilty Conscience crescendo into the Strains of Imminently Busted. But ha! They got us. Because Lily's not staring at the glitter at all. She's staring at the garnet necklace -- hers -- that's sitting next to it. Grace visibly exhales and apologizes for having it.
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