Episode Report Card Wing Chun: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Scribbling Rivalry
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 9 | Aired on 01.16.2001
Lily stumbles into Booklovers, trying to maintain her composure. Judy braces for a fight at the sight of her. Lily stammers, "I can't breathe. I'm like, I can't -- I can't even believe it." Judy surmises, "You got my message." "Huh?" is Lily's witty rejoinder. Judy continues, "Because I know I sounded upset in my message, but I...am upset, so in a way I'm glad you're upset." Barely choking back tears, Lily says that she doesn't know what Judy's talking about. Judy explains, "I'm talking about your idea for the magazine, which is basically based on my idea for the book store, which you basically stole!" "What?" Lily exhales, and Judy amends, "Okay. Not 'stole.' You used my idea, which is fine. I mean, I should be flattered, considering how dumb you thought my idea was." They go on in this vein for a while; Lily denies that she ripped off the idea, and Judy allows that she doesn't think Lily did it consciously, which is fine, as long as Lily owns up to it. Lily huffs that she can't own up to it if it isn't true, and Judy snaps, "No, sweetie, you won't. That's why they call it subconscious." Lily's mouth weakens, and she abruptly turns her back and tells Judy that she "can't handle this right now." Judy quietly tells her that she just wants Lily to think about it. Lily tries to regain her balance, and focuses on the Booklovers board -- specifically, on the card of "Joey," whose favourite book is...well, you know. That one by Vonnegut. D'oh!
On the Soliloquy Stool, Lily tells a story about the week Judy was born, in which time Lily threw a hard plastic ball at a newborn Judy's head. Heh. When my sister was a baby, I once bit her finger so hard she had a mark on it for two months. I only confessed to that one about three years ago. (My sister is eighteen now).
Rick's office. Lily's just told him about her theft of Judy's intellectual property. Rick's trying to tell her she was just inspired by Judy, but Lily's having none of it. Hey, Lil? Maybe Judy is the one to whom you should be unburdening yourself right now. Rick suggests that Lily's focusing on the situation with Judy to avoid thinking about the fact that she's been fired.
Manning Manor, 5:37 AM. Apparently not having slept, Lily climbs out of bed and goes downstairs, where Zoe is sitting on the kitchen counter looking at a huge instruction card that came with the new computer. Lily asks what she's doing up, and Zoe says she doesn't "feel good." Lily asks whether her stomach hurts, and Zoe pouts, "Nothing hurts." Lily sits next to her, and tells her a story about when Lily had Grace. Before she can get very far, Zoe interrupts, "I know. It was the first time you had a baby, and it was the most special, greatest thing. I understand." Lily says that what she was going to say was that she made a lot of mistakes with Grace -- that she was nervous and terrified half the time, and that maybe that's the reason Grace "is more afraid of things" than Zoe is. She adds that maybe Grace could say that's unfair. Zoe asks, "Does she?" Lily says she doesn't know, but that if Zoe and Grace go through life making lists and comparing notes, they're going to be very unhappy people. Because she's going through the same thing with her sister right now. Get it? I didn't either, but there was a note to that effect taped to the anvil that just fell through the skylight and onto my desk. Zoe says that she's unhappy now. Lily asks if that's because of the computer, and Zoe says, "Because I'm all alone. You're not here, and Grace hates me." Oh, all right. Aw! Lily insists that Grace doesn't hate Zoe, and Zoe philosophically adds that, in a couple of years, Grace will be gone, anyway, and that Zoe will be here, going through high school, without Grace. She starts sniffling, and Lily wraps her arm around her and tells Zoe that she'll be there. That was a sweet scene. And I really cannot get over how much Sela Ward and Meredith Deane look alike -- especially around the eyes and mouth.