Previously: Ally hired Ray to the firm, but not without threatening that if he "acts like a tree trunk," she'll "chop him down." We saw the heads of Jenny and Glenn fly off, to remind us that they got canned, too. Richard hired Dame Edna; she was thrilled. Ally McJunior dug in her heels and refused to go to school. JBJ told Ally that even though the Kid is in her third home in less than two years, she's okay and that Ally "must be doing something right." Then a super-scary montage of Ally's child-abuse hallucinations flash by (Ally vomits pea soup in Maddie's face, kicks her out the window, and shakes her like a dog worries a newspaper) and the screen fades to black.
After some new footage of Boston By Air -- You Gotta Fly Over It To Really Take It All In! -- Ally stammers timidly into the principal's office, at Maddie's school. Maddie is snippy and irritable, just like her mother. The principal has busted Maddie, via security cameras, committing an illicit act in the school bathroom: smoking a cigarette. Brazenly. Openly. The keyboards and pianos play their dirge-y chords. Maddie even has her own little Bic lighter. Awww. I love it when kids can corrupt themselves, and don't need my help to do it! It reminds me of that time I took a bong to a Phillies game, and didn't even have to ask the pee-wee sitting in my section to help me light it. It was one of those three-footers, you see. Hard to reach. But this kid of Ally's? She's all right. Ally has smoke coming out of her ears, then turns into a rocket, and blasts through the ceiling. She's just that mad! Me, I'm busting.
Vonda's been dooown, she's been down, down, down...
Okay: The credits now go like this: Ally, Richard, Elaine. Then, Vonda. The hell? Then Nelle, then Corretta, then Ray, and last but most important in terms of "breathing new life" and all that desperate malarkey, The Kid. If they update the credits again this season? Well, I don't know what I'll do. Make the start of threats, I guess, then got bored and not care.
Oooh, an aerial shot of Boston! Whee! The city looks so big and pretty from up here! But I gave up drinking for Lent. In the offices of Cage, Fish, McBeal, and Whatever, Richard kvetches that Ally is late, and that partners are not supposed to be late, ever. Elaine relays that she's late because Maddie was smoking in school. That bit of nonsensical exposition is backed up by a "joke" from Dame Edna, who coos that Maddie had better not smoke around her, because she's "flammable." Dame Edna has the worst way of cheating toward the camera, it's so annoying: She looks at the person she's speaking to partially from her cocked head, rolls her eyes toward them conspiratorially, and turns the front of her body to the front of the lens. She's theater people, I guess. Or just from Aussie television. A young woman, Serena Feldman, walks in, and Richard and Ray both goggle at how young she is. Ray even gets to make his reaction shot to the universally springy "boing" noise which means he's popping a boner, is unprofessional, and is probably a pervert. Dame Edna calls Serena "a flower not yet in bloom," and I'm all, Dame Edna, who are you trying to convince? Her or me? Like, the girl is smooth of face, and I guess is young -- is she not a girl, not yet a woman, though? Let's call her a wo-girl. All she needs is time. A moment that is hers. While she's in-between. She tells Richard that she can, in fact, pay the fee, even though she's oh so young, really, so they usher her right into Richard's office to hear her Sad Sad Story.
Lights up on Ally's Very Very Very Fine House. Ally is yelling at Maddie, in a very accelerated manner, that smoking is bad, very bad. Yeah, that reminds me of the time my mom caught me with a pack of Benson & Hedges, right after I came home from the mall with my left ear double-pierced and the rest of me reeking of beer because I was driving around in a car with these guys from the military academy up the street, but they weren't our beers and we weren't drinking them, they spilled them on me when we were going around a turn, and I thought you would like my ears like this, mommy! Don't make me smoke that whole pack! Please! Ally just runs her mouth with rapidity, tapdancing as she describes all the bad cancers and illnesses cigarettes can cause, and how "bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad" it is to "chew on the death weed." ["Sars and I have this same conversation every week. She just won't hear me!" -- Wing Chun] Maddie rolls her eyes and puffs out her cheeks like a champ. JBJ walks in and asks what's going on. A girl is getting lambasted, is what's going on. When Ally suggests that Maddie wear a sign that says "I'm Stupid, Hear Me Choke," Maddie takes herself upstairs without being asked to. Wow, kids today! So brazen and with the good timing, too. JBJ says that this situation calls for "dialogue," which Ally is so obviously not excelling at. Ally snarls at him like my dog does when I squirt him with the water pistol. Then she goes upstairs to talk some more.
We're in Richard's Office of Duh, with Ray skulking around behind Richard's desk, and Dame Edna sitting in a chair to the wo-girl, reading a book with an embroidered cover. Gee, that's...nice. "Cardiomyopathy," says Wo-Girl. Which means she has a weak heart. Richard is all, "Is it serious?" No, in fact, it's a real fucking laff riot! Ha ha, heart disease! You can't spell "heart disease" without "ha"! Wo-Girl is dying, she says soberly and with a maturity greater than her relatively few years. And she's waiting for a heart transplant. But she knows of a donor who would be just super-keen for her to use, like, right now. Thing is, the donor is her dad. Who's alive. And the reason he isn't here is because in jail right now. And her mother? Well, he's in jail? For killing her mom. Woo, that's a kettle of fish!
Ally nags Maddie some more about why smoking is bad. Maddie is all, "Didn't YOU ever smoke?" Ally tells some bullshit story about how she smoked when she was fourteen, to be "accepted" by her friends. That's lame. I smoked to piss my mom off. And guess what? Mission accomplished! That's the only reason to smoke cigarettes, in my book: to piss off your parents. The buzz you get wears off so quickly. It smells, and makes you smell. It makes your clothes and hair smell, too. And it makes you sick. And, you know, die. Smoking makes you die. This is why I only smoke weed. Weed at least gets you high! And, P.S., weed is illegal and therefore way, way cooler than cigarettes. And the best part? You got it. It pisses my mom off! I'm just kidding, drugs are bad, and so am I. Ally compulsively applies lip gloss, and Maddie mirrors her until they wrap up their fun "cigarettes kill you" talk. Ally leaves, and JBJ swoops in, to the rescue and to clean up Ally's parenting attempt. He asks how Maddie got busted; Ally says it was the video cameras. He's all, "The cameras you told me they were installing? So you wanted to get caught." Maddie looks sad to be busted. JBJ asks the real reason that she wanted to avoid being in school. She comes clean: Father-Daughter Day is Friday. And she didn't want to be there for that. Because she's been so sad her dad died that she never ever mentioned it. Ally eavesdrops in the hall, agog that this ten-year-old person who just dropped into her life weeks ago might have emotional issues of her own to deal with. Someone shoot the piano player, please.
Ray, Richard, and Dame Edna are sitting in the visitation room of a prison. Dame Edna wonders aloud why she is brought along "on these missions," and says that all the prisoners are looking at her, wanting to "ravage" her. A big, burly man comes out and sits in front of them: he's Serena's dad. Killer. He thanks them for coming, and Dame Edna shoots him the stink-eye, but looks scared, too. Killer asks whether Serena filled them in on the details, and Dame Edna hollers, "She didn't say how [Killer] whacked her mothah!" Ray says that they do need to know the details. Killer says he "snapped, and pulled out a gun." Yet the jury called the crime murder one, which means premeditation. Wifey was having an affair Killer knew about before the incident -- and he isn't trying to deny responsibility. He "committed a murder," he says. But now, he wants to "save" his daughter "from the pain [he's] caused her." Wow, what a great guy. Ray is all, we'd be asking a hospital to put you to death. Killer says he can off himself while in the jug, but there may be a danger that "would compromise the heart; why not do it in a hospital?" There are so many reasons this is wrong that it's hard to know where to start. The main one I want to bring up is that I don't think people that need a heart (or any organ) replaced don't get to decide that they're on the top of the list, and who the perfect donor might be. And can a sixteen-year-old-girl accept a heart from a man in his forties or so? I saw a great documentary on organ transplants a few years ago; but this is Ally McBeal, and therefore malarkey. Anyway, Wo-Girl is "an innocent young girl," and needs this heart. Ray is all, we can try, but it doesn't look to good. Killer gets this set, scary look on his face and intones that Wo-Girl is "sixteen. Years. Old. Six. Teen." Go sad oboe, go!
Woo, these new aerial shots are so great! Now with 10% more buildings! Ally slowly walks into Maddie's room, and says she overheard Maddie tell JBJ about wanting to get suspended from school. Maddie says, just like El Shrinkador might, that this must "threaten" Ally, but that Ally should be relieved that Maddie doesn't really smoke. Ally says she isn't "threatened," but doesn't like to be reminded that she "sucks as a parent." Maddie says Ally doesn't "suck at it." Ally stammers in protest that Maddie not use such language. What, "sucks"? Please. Everyone says "sucks." I heard Tom Brokaw say that he thought Afghanistan sucks, and that he was glad they weren't in the Olympics this year. Dude, what about that time Hillary Clinton said Monica sucks, and not like that, either? And remember when Tom and Nicole got in that big fight at the Jamba Juice on Melrose and just kept screaming that everything sucked? Ally says that since Maddie "doesn't have a father," they might let her take "a mother" to Father-Daughter Day. Maddie looks happy, then says Ally wouldn't have to do that. Ally is all, hey! She "might meet a cute guy" at Father-Daughter Day! "Di-di-di-did" Maddie ever think of that? Because trying to pick up at Parent-Teacher Conference Night is always impossible! Maddie, child matchmaker, says that Victor is a cute guy. Ally says that Vi-Vi-Victor, oh no, Victor and she, well, are "just different types" from "two different worlds." Victor eavesdrops at the door and looks steamed. Ally says there needs to be more to a couple than "wanting to jump each other's...cars...when they don't start." Maddie rolls her eyes and squinches up her face. Me too.
Judge Albert Hall is lambasting Richard for continuing to bring him ridiculous cases. Richard reminds the Judge of that time four years ago when two men wanted to swap hearts, and Al Hall is all, "And you were rejected! And this isn't a swap! A man would die!" Serena and her Killer Dad sit at a table. Wouldn't Killer have to be in handcuffs? He's just sitting with his chin in his hands like a free man, to his daughter, like he didn't kill her mother. Ray steps up and asks "if the state has an interest in preserving the life of a man they've chosen to incarcerate for the rest of his life." Judge says it isn't as simple as a prisoner "donating an organ" to save a life. Ray is all, "Why can't it be?" Because the donor is ALIVE, goddammit. Judge then says that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts doesn't have the death penalty "because it is pro-life." Whoa, may I challenge your choice of words there, Judge? How about Massachusetts doesn't use the death penalty because it values human life and doesn't believe in institutionalized murder? "Pro-life" is what the anti-abortion rights people say. But DEK probably has a limit on how many syllables can come out of Al Hall's mouth at one breath, and the two "pro-life" have fit the quota. Now Dame Edna wants to "have a word." Judge says, "No. You're not an attorney. Why are you even here?" THANK YOU, Judge! Ray says what they want "is pro-life." Yeah, pro the life of ONE. The other person dies. Which isn't so pro-life. But whatever, this whole thing and the David Duchovny movie the plot is ripped off from, is pretty lame. It may seem interesting on the surface, but honestly, it's lame. Judge says that in the interest of public policy, a man can't be put to death to save Serena. Ray is all, you "can't say no in the interest of public policy!" Well, Albert Hall just did. And begging doesn't help matters much, Ray. Oh, wait! Judge says he'll hear from Killer at 2 PM! Well, shut my mouth.
JBJ drops his "final bill" onto Ally's desk and says he's "moving on. What, like [he's] not allowed to do that? [He] got another plumbing job." Ally stammers up a storm. What-what-what is he talking about? JBJ tightly says that Ally can parent her brand-new-to-her child any way she wants to, but that he won't stand for her "passing on bigotry." He's talking about her comments to Maddie about them not making a good couple, and took those remarks to mean that Ally was pointing out the "class distinction" between JBJ and herself. Such a sensitive plumber/baby-sitter/aging rock star with a heart of gold! P.S.: JBJ has a mini-mullet. It's not a grown-out shag. It's a mini-mullet. He needs to cut the back of that hair, but fast. Ally stammer-asks if JBJ is interested in being part of a couple with her. JBJ says no, because Ally doesn't know about "his world," and they never "talk about [his] world," and she "makes assumptions based on what [he does], and [he] doesn't like it." He winds it up by telling her, "You're an elitist." Ally looks ashamed.
Killer is testifying that his daughter can make a contribution to society better than he can, but only if she lives. Please, let Killer save his daughter. He's so terse! He "killed her mother" and caused Serena "extreme pain." The opposing side asks if Killer is "in anguish" and if this decision is "fraught with emotion." Uh, doy. So, how can Killer make a sound decision considering his emotional state? Opposing side is all, "[Killer] killed [his] wife," and Ray screams, "OBJECTION!" Because that has nothing to do with this. Except for the fact that the man is serving a life sentence. I guess that doesn't really matter either -- it just makes the situation more poignant, for some people. Killer is all, "I owe [Serena]." Yeah, maybe you should have thought about that before you KILLED HER MOTHER.
In closed chambers, Serena the Very Very Mature sixteen-year-old asks if her Killer Dad is "doing this out of guilt." Killer says the reason he "doesn't want to live is guilt." What a pussy! Serena says she is "not going to have [Killer] kill [himself]" for her. Wow, how noble. She's a Super Martyr. Her mom got killed, and she seems completely unruffled about that, and she's dying of heart disease, and now her Killer Dad is ready to make a state-assisted sacrifice, and she's all, no! She'd rather have him live behind bars for the rest of her short life than die! Or something! Killer says that being a parent means wanting to protect one's child, and he's done "a terrible job of that." YES. YES, YOU HAVE. God, where is this kid's legal guardian? Who is paying for the lawyers? WTF? infinity! Killer says the only meaning in his whole miserable life was Serena's birth, and that he's "trying to get a little continued meaning" by giving her his heart. He's "doing a very selfish thing here." No shit. Shouldn't there be a guard in the room? Richard comes in and says they're calling a witness: Serena's aunt. She's opposed to the heart transplant idea.
Nelle and Ally are in the Uni when Nelle says, "There's nothing wrong with being an elitist." She thinks more people should be. Ally is all, "Why?" Nelle hates face-painters at football games, which "celebrates the common man." If Ally dates JBJ, she'll be "dating down," and she'll always wonder if she could have everything she wanted. Um, what more does Ally want? She has the house and the kid. I think all she wants is a man. And JBJ? Is a man. A hunky man, many people tell me. But Nelle was just trying to help.
Dame Edna comes knocking, gently knocking on Albert Hall's chamber door. She's come to prattle on some more about Serena's case. Al Hall wants to hear nothing about it, because even though Dame Edna isn't a lawyer, he'll consider her words ex parte. She says they should acknowledge "the elephant in the room." The who in the what now? Dame Edna means the sexual tension between the two of them. You'd think Dame Edna would get laid once in a while, instead of fruitlessly throwing herself at every available male. Maybe she gave up sex for Lent, in lieu of these fruitless but fun flirtations. Judge is all, get out! Dame Edna makes to leave, then turns at the door and softly says, "Please don't let her die." The door closes behind her, and Al Hall gets a great reaction-in-profile shot.
We zoom over Boston and land at Ally's Very Very Very Fine House. She bounds down the stairs in a plaid mini and white loose-knit sweater to find a snowman at the bottom, waiting for her. It's wearing glasses and a sign that says, "I'll be back." Ally is justifiably agog. Then, she walks to the middle of the room, aims herself at the door, and sees Larry! He says, "I'm back." She stammers. He says he was hoping he could move in. She says, "Move, m-move move in?" He brightly says, "Are you thinking about it?" Then Maddie interrupts and asks, "Why are you talking to the door?" Ally wheels around, then wheels back and sees that the snowman and Larry was Just Another Hallucination. Ally says sometimes she talks to stuff, but she doesn't "need" the stuff to talk back because she "has a daughter." Maddie is all, "Are you okay?" No. No, she isn't.
Richard and Ray are yelling at Dame Edna for hitting on Judge Albert Hall. Dame Edna sing-songs, "You're getting emoooo-tionallll!" Hee. She says she was trying to "charm" the judge, and that at her "age," her advances are at the speed of "continental drift." Ray and Richard yell, yell, yell. The music is mischievous. Sigh.
Courtroom: opposing side's witness. Okay, Serena's aunt is played by the actress that plays Ross's wife Carol on Friends. ["Jane Sibbett." -- Wing Chun] That's like Stuntcasting Lite. She's opposed to Killer donating his heart, because then he'll be remembered as a hero, and he shouldn't be allowed to "buy redemption with one of his organs." Heh. Dame Edna looks disapproving. Oh, she doesn't like double entendres now? Killer "shouldn't get to feel noble." Aunt Carol will try to "get [Serena] a new heart, but not [Killer's]." Serena stands up and is all, can I say something here? She feels this is between her and her father. Except for the fact that he's incarcerated and, you know, STILL ALIVE and needs a HOSPITAL to put him down before they harvest the organ. Some other people do need to be involved, sweetie. Like the lawyers you're paying? They're involved, in a way. You may not think so! But they are. Judge says the court has to take the feelings of the victims into account. Serena is all, I'm the victim. Her aunt "doesn't have a priority on pain." Then she says she's the victim again. There's also the dead mom. But whatever.
Ally unsteadily exits her honking GMC SUV and visits JBJ, on yet another anonymous "construction site" located near a sidewalk, where he is neither working nor dirty. She yells at him for daring to speak his mind about her and Maddie, and gives him his check. Then she calls him a "big turd," says she can't believe she though about "asking [him] out," and tells him to "go to hell." God, this woman has problems. Problems as big and stupid as an SUV. JBJ says, regarding hell, that's he's "been there. [Ally's] place." He turns around and she kicks him square in the butt. He looks...pleased? And she...smiles? He turns around and says that is has a college education (though he "doesn't use the big words like 'turd'"), and is "in [her] league." She says that accusing her of being an elitist and then "flaunting [his] college education" makes him "a hippo-hip-hypocrite." He says "go to hell," and she kicks him again. He says, "Do that again and I'll sue you." She says, "For what, a concussion?" And she's still asking him out. She still likes him. And he "can pick [her] up in [his] big truck." She giggles, the violin strings pluck, I barf, and she splits.
Ally is grooming herself for her Date with Victor. Maddie says, "This is a mistake." She means Ally's hair. No, she really does mean Ally's hair. It's a bad dating choice for Ally to try to tame and shape her hair into something not resembling a bird's nest; it will be a tip that she's easy. Maddie got these dating tips from her dad, who's dead, and dated a lot before kicking off. Aww, how sweet. Maddie's sharing her Dead Dad's Dating Tips! Maddie notes that JBJ "has seen [Ally] many times before," and will know something's up is her hair is "neat." Plus, it's 3 PM, and does Ally think she can pull it all together in just five hours? Ally morphs into Lara Croft and machine-guns Maddie. Then she sits in front of the vanity and plays with a Stila lip gloss pen, which I adore but can't buy, because $18 for lip gloss? No way. Not in this economy. Ally says she's "nervous," since it's been a while since she dated. Maddie is all, what about Glenn? It's true, Ally hasn't been laid all season. No terror sex for Ally! Aww. You know, if David Kelly doesn't mention 9/11 another time this season, the terrorists will have won. He has a freedom quota to keep up. Then, Ally really freaks herself out by starting to say she's now dating someone she could marry, but she really only says, "muh-" and then stops.
Woo, Boston! We land at the courtroom again, where Ray is pontificating about the merits and ethics of this case: Serena is "dying," and her death can be "prevented" if her jailed-for-life Killer Dad can "contribute to society" one last time by giving her his heart. Then, this filler: "We all run so scared of slippery slopes and the possibility that things can go wrong down the road...." Um, what? If we were scared of slippery slopes, wouldn't we be tiptoeing? Anyway, Opposing Counsel steps up and says, "We should be very wary of allowing convicts to donate organs." Heh. I can't help it. But, organ, organ, organ. Hey baby, want an organ donation? Oh, yeah. But seriously, I don't think prisoners donating organs should be such a touchy issue if they agree to it and the family is cool with it. And, of course, if the prisoners are dead OF NATURAL CAUSES. Jesus. Dear David E. Kelley: Please rent All About My Mother, a really, really great movie about family, sickness and death, and organ transplants. It's so much cooler than this stuff you're writing! It's in Spanish, but they have subtitles. Maybe you can get 'Shelle to read them to you when you curl up in her little lap! That will be nice, won't it? Pedro Almodavar, the writer and director? Even won some awards for it. Does that interest you? "Awards"? Good. Opposing Counsel says "organs should not be used as currency," and hee! Don't try to buy me with your organ! Judge says this case isn't about all prisoners, but rather about "a father that wants to give his heart to his daughter." Um, but it is about prisoners. He's a prisoner. Serving life. If he were free, don't you think he could get an assisted suicide easily enough? That's the whole crux of the matter here -- he doesn't want to off himself in jail because the heart could curdle, or something. Oh, forget it. Remind me to tell you about that time I looked into the heart of an artichoke. Opposing Counsel says this case is really about deciding who may live and who should die. Is Judge "really that good a judge?" Al Hall looks stern, but does not say Opposing Counsel is in contempt. Which he is. At least with me.
Woo, Boston at night, sailor's delight! Dame Edna waddles over to Aunt Carol and introduces herself. Aunt Carol looks none too pleased to talk to Dame Edna, who was wondering what Aunt Carol's dead sisters' soul "thinks of all this?" Aunt Carol thinks Killer "shouldn't get salvation" from donating his heart. Yeah, we're aware of that. I want to see the list of people waiting for hearts, and if Serena is really #1 on that list, and if her dad is really the best choice for donation. But that's just cynical me. Dame Edna says, "anger has such life sometimes, doesn't it?" She means Aunt Carol, not me. But she could just as easily be talking about me!
Knock knock on the door of Ally's Very Very Very Fine House. It's JBJ, ready to pick up his date, Ally. Maybe they'll call each other turds, kick each other in the ass, and talk about college. You know, JBJ, having gone to college is nothing when you're dating someone who went to Harvard. Because there's college, then there's Harvard. College is down here, Harvard is way, way up here. Even people who went to Yale know that. And if you went to, say, Boston U.? God help you, JBJ.
JBJ enters Ally's room, where she's sprawled out on the floor, and I guess has been there for the last five hours. She isn't "ready to date," since she "Justin, Justin, Justin love with somebody else." JBJ sounds like a crotchety old man when he says he "filled his pickup with a full tank of gas" and "picked out [her] favorite 8-track tapes." But he knows she's talking about Larry. Ally says she "hates" Larry for walking out, but "loves him too much," and "really hates [her]self." Ally asks for all three of Victor's personae's to counsel her: The college grad says she needs to confront her pain head-on, the plumber says she should move on, and the truck driver says all she really needs is to get laid. Great advice! I would have added "pull your head out of your ass and stop feeling sorry for yourself," but only if she does, in fact, get laid. But no, she just asks Victor to cook her dinner. What a lost opportunity.
Serena and her team are waiting for the judge's verdict. Ray says it must be close. Richard comes in and drops a bombshell: Killer "overpowered a transport guard," and escaped. He's gone. Serena's eyes fill with tears as she asks, "Was that his plan all along? The man killed my mother, how could I be so stupid?" Then she apologizes. Dame Edna says, "If this is who is he is, you don't want his heart." Serena just looks at her and says, "Anyway." Wow, is that a shout-out? No, if it were, she would have said, "Whatever." But they're so close! Ray's cell phone rings. He takes it. Ooh, this sounds grim. Killer went to Beth Israel Hospital, presented his donor card, and shot and killed himself. "They're harvesting the heart now." So, what the judge says doesn't matter now? Guess not. Ray is all, "Come on, we need to go." They do. How very unpleasant.
Maddie is complaining that this isn't a real date, since she's present, and her dad never let her come along on any dates. Ally says that when Maddie does date, in about "fifteen years or so, because of the cigarette," she'll learn that cooking a girl dinner is "one of the most romantic things a guy can do." And, one of the most practical. Because eating is one of those things I like to do more than once a day. And then, you're in the same apartment. Maddie says she read all about it in Men's Health magazine, which said "cook a girl dinner and you're bound to get some after." ["That sounds more like Maxim than Men's Health." -- Wing Chun] Ally asks Maddie to go upstairs, and then confronts Victor. Was he planning to "bed [her] down?" Um, it was her idea to cook. And, so what if he was? They're both adults! Just have sex, already! Anyway.
Hospital. Serena's there with Ray, Richard, and the Dame. No doctors, though. They want to put the heart in tonight, "while it's still viable." Serena says she doesn't know if she wants it, now. "Not like this!" Dame Edna is all, "He faced death, so you wouldn't have to. He gave you his heart!" Um, Serena? You're still going to die, sweetie. We're all going to die. It happens. And don't be so stupid to actually think about the horrible fact that your dad blew his brains out in a hospital reception area because he thought a court would decide that Serena would have to wait for a heart, like everyone else on the donor recipient list, instead of taking a heart from a still-living convicted killer. Just TAKE THE HEART. Aunt Carol enters, and is all, TAKE THE HEART. Some guitar plays, and JBJ sings "I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You," by Tom Waits.
Now, we're at Ally's sofa, where she and JBJ are quasi-snuggling. Ew, we get some heart-transplant footage. Dame Edna and Ray and Richard and Aunt Carol watch. Ally and JBJ do not have sex. The end.