Episode Report Card Djb: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT SFU 406: The Apology
By Djb | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 07.25.2004
Brenda pushes a shopping cart down an aisle at Restoration Pottery Pier and Barrel and Beyond, stopping to look at sheets. She compares two kinds, the looks at a third. She becomes quickly frustrated with the whole enterprise, looking up at an exceedingly high shelf as the walls begin quaking and the sheets come cascading down in a slow-motion metaphor for the domestic torture that awaits you if you stay with Joe that we've been warning you about for weeks.
Back in the office, David answers a paramedic's questions. No, he does not have history of heart problems. Yes, he is clammy, cold, and/or sweaty. Yes, he has been under unusual stress lately. He starts to breathe again and calls the medic off, and a shot later he's lying on the couch in one of the Fisher's fourteen living rooms. Claire finds him and enters in a concerned fashion, asking him if he's okay. He sits up and she sits down, and he cops to the fact that he had a panic attack. "I called 911 because I was dying." Claire adds, "I thought I was dying when I woke up this morning," and David asks her what she was on last night. She fails to tick off each and every entry on the periodic charts of elements required to make up alpha-methyltrypatmine, so she settles back onto the couch and changes the subject vaguely: "It's fucked-up to get carjacked." Taking this opportunity, David admits, "It was more than that." She tells him that she can see that, and he points to his wounds and adds, "It was more than this." Claire sits up on the couch and expresses something just like genuine concern, and David spills, "It went on for hours. At first I thought he wanted m...at first I thought he was a cute boy in distress." Before ample time to learn that he was neither. Claire comforts him in responding, "I've fallen for like fifty cute boys in distress." David piles on that it quickly turned into the nightmare, saying, "I tried to do everything right, but it just made him want to torture me more." Claire asks what that means, exactly, and David tells her, "He poured gasoline on me. And put a gun in my mouth. Long enough for me to think my life was over." His mind kept spinning but his mind couldn't grab onto anything. "Nothing was enough. I forgot to pray. Can you believe that? I totally forgot to pray." Claire responds, "It's okay. God saved you anyway, right?" And that's what killed the Reinhardt man. Thanks, show. Claire hands David a package, which he unwraps to find a photo of himself standing in front of the sacrificial fire from a few weeks back. It seemed strained at the time. But it does seem to work in the pictures.