Episode Report Card Deborah: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "Can You See Them / See Right Through Them"
By Deborah | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 01.27.2005
Biology closet. Grace is already there when Luke comes in with a gift for her. I hope that's not a set of car keys. He holds it out. She regards it, stonefaced: "I'm gonna make out with you anyway." Luke tells her to just open it. She does, and finds two green transit passes. Luke: "It's the natural gas bus line. I thought we could celebrate my driver's license by walking thirty blocks out of our way and taking a bus to the Save the Earth Rally." Grace smiles a little and kisses him. Luke stops for a moment to confess: "Okay, I drove ten miles to get them." Grace giggles. Man, she's crazy about him. They go back to making out. I do believe he's getting the hang of this boyfriend thing.
Will knocks and enters Lucyfer's office. She says immediately, "Sorry about yesterday. My intentions were pure." I don't even know how she can say that with a straight face. Will: "I want you to stay away from my family. Do not contact my wife or children again. You're crossing lines I will not allow to be crossed." Man, I wish he'd used his Fat Tony voice for that. He opens the door to go, as Lucyfer says, "I hear you wanted to run some prints on the coins from the Edwards scene." He closes the door and turns around. "You know, it must be awfully frustrating for a guy like you to have a woman like me always be one step ahead of you." Will: "What do you want?" Okay, that was almost Fat Tony. Lucyfer: "Don't play the fool, Will. You've been a part of this dance. I couldn't do it alone. I believe you've enjoyed our lunches and working late. Confiding in me." Will: "That's crap." Lucyfer leers at him: "Really? Have you told your wife everything?" She widens her eyes knowingly. "I bet you kept some secrets, huh? 'Cause you've been thinking about it. Let's have a little reality check, here, Detective. You're no Boy Scout. You stood right alongside me when we brought that witness in on false charges." Will says he's not like her. Lucyfer: "No. You'll never be as good as me." Is it just me, or is your skin crawling too? She laughs and her smile gets even creepier: "Well, that's too bad. We could have had some fun." Will turns to leave with a grimace. She adds, "But cheer up -- you can leave here believing you're still a decent man. I'd like all the arrest reports from last week on my desk by 5:00." Will walks out without a word, marches straight up to Human Resources, and files a sexual harassment suit. Then he quits his job and on the way home he buys a struggling little Italian restaurant he plans to reopen as Papa Girardi's, a humble little place free of insidious blue filters and soul-destroying corruption. Well, not really. But wouldn't all that be great?
Nighttime. Adam's walking along a street looking kind of disillusioned. Joan catches up with him. She's wearing the cutest coat. I keep mentioning that to Frink, who thinks it doesn't look very warm. Me: "Could you stop being an engineer for, like, one minute? Look how cute it is!" Frink: "Yes, it's adorably impractical." Joan says she heard from her mother about what happened in the ad meeting: "I'm sorry." They walk slowly down the street, arm in arm, as Marc Cohn's song "Walk Through the World" plays. Adam thanks her, and says, "I heard you weren't a hero anymore." Joan confirms this, laughing mirthlessly, and adds, "I'm mean, too. I yelled at [The Duff] and ruined her life." Adam shakes his head: "What happened? Five minutes ago, you know, we were amazing, and how'd everything get so low so fast?" Joan: "Not everything. The TV people really liked Kevin, you know, they've asked him to pitch a few more stories. Apparently he has TV hair. Has anything really changed? I kind of like it better just being us." They kiss. Adam apologizes, saying he has to go pick up Michael's dry cleaning.