Episode Report Card Deborah: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT A Show Of Hands
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.06.2005
Luke and Glynis are standing behind Joan, who's at Grace's locker with her. He's telling Glynis about Joan's mad RPS skillz. "You might assume she wins because of random strategy, you know. Not knowing the math, she can't apply it." Glynis: "Chaos theory. Middle school stuff." Luke: "However, with that approach, one can only expect 50-60% accuracy. Watch this." Without looking away from Grace, Joan engages in a round of RPS with him, winning or tying each time. Luke complains, "She never misses. Never." Joan emits a little "huh, whaddya know?" laugh and tells Grace, "I'm totally freaking the geeks out with this." Friedman comes in wearing an adorable (you heard me) patterned toque, followed by Adam, yelling for Jane and complaining that he waited for her at the bus stop and then missed the last one, and had to hitch a ride on the back of Friedman's motorized Razor. Joan: "Sounds like fun, kinda like performance art." Adam's half-frozen and not amused: "Where were you, Jane?" Tell him about Le Roy. I mean, "Roger." Joan says she had an early meeting and tried to call him but got no answer. Adam says it was because he was on the back of Friedman's Razor. Grace leaves her locker, laughing, "That is not shouting material, dude." Adam wants to know what the meeting was about. Joan: "This guy's gonna tutor me so I can go to college with the rest of you gearheads." As they walk off, Glynis walks behind, positing to Luke, "Perhaps it's the psychology she's using, not algebra: you know, rock is id; paper, ego; scissors, superego." Grace complains, "You people are seriously warped. It's a game. It's about luck." Luke insists games are never about luck: "Everything has a strategy from government to romance. Such as the time when I gave you a gift -- a calculated gambit designed to throw you into a state of imbalance." Wow. Here's a good example of a really insufficiently considered strategy. Grace: "You worked me?" Luke: "No, no." Grace: "You used a gambit on me?" She hustles off. Luke calls out that he was making an analogy. Friedman, still all bundled up in his winter jacket and toque, says, "That was some bad math, dude." The geeks all walk off and we go back to Adam, who's asking Joan where she found "this guy." Joan: "I thought you wanted me to go to college?" Adam insists he does. Joan tells him to be happy for her, then adds: "I am."
At the police station, Will uncuffs some leather-jacketed guy named Vladimir Karpovich: "AKA Vlad the Inhaler. I see the cocaine business has a sense of humour." Lucyfer inquires about his accommodations: "Your wooden plank is comfy?" Vlad says he didn't kill "that girl" and they have no right to keep him. Lucyfer makes a drug-dealing-related threat to turn him over to the feds. Will appeals to his supposed conscience. Lucyfer shows him a mug shot page of some guy named Joey Edwards, who, at the weird angle we get, looks so much like the guy playing Roger that I think at first that it is him. Lucyfer says they've been doing business together for years, and Will reminds him that if he hides a suspect, he's an accessory. Vlad says he wants to cooperate but he needs a compelling reason. Will opens a file and shows him two photographs taken of Judith right after the stabbing and one candid shot of Judith smiling. He says she was his daughter's friend and tells him it's personal. Karpovich wants to lawyer up.