By LTG
The show finally gets around to using INXS's "The Devil Inside" as we see a guilt-racked Sam tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep. Or maybe she's just tossing and turning because someone's playing that damn INXS so loud. Morning comes, and Sam pretends to sleep as Howard bursts into her room and confirms that she is there, and not dead in a ditch somewhere. Howard asks her where the car is. Sam is shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that it's not in the driveway.
In the coffee shop, waiting for their coffee, Sam and Dena discuss how amazing it is that they didn't get caught and that nobody knows what they did. They agree not to spill the beans to anybody -- except for all the people standing right around them. Dena feels confident that she can keep a secret: "I spent a lifetime keeping everything inside." As they move on to the milk and sugar station, Dena claims never to have done anything so bad before. Sam makes the same claim, and Dena calls total bull on it. I'm not sure I agree -- we only know the tiniest bit of all the bad things Bad Sam did, but I'd have to say pushing a car into a lake and pretending it was stolen is worse than cheating on your boyfriend, stalking a man, or pretending to be disabled to get good seats at a hockey game. Sam points out that it was the old her who did all those bad things: "New Sam is a good person, who just, in an isolated incident, made a rash decision and committed a small crime to save her dear father's heart." They continue to loudly discuss their crime as they move to sit at a table. And just as Sam finishes a speech about how she's not a bad person, Andrea arrives and asks why they stood her up last night. Sam and Dena are both a little panicked, but Dena tells Andrea that just as they were about to leave to meet her, Dena got a call. Andrea: "From who?" Dena: "My dog?" Sam interrupts and says that it was the vet, calling about Dena's dog. Andrea thinks the two of them are keeping something from her, and she clearly recognizes something in Sam's eyes when she denies it. Andrea sits down and looks Sam in the eye, and they exchange a lightning volley of pointed questions and defensive lies. There's a little showdown-at-the-O.K.-Corral music as they stare at each other. Andrea tells Dena that she's getting a latte, and Dena whimpers in fear. Sam, with Bad Sam peeping out of her eyes, tells Dena, "I thought that went really well."
Sam walks into her house, and a very loud burglar alarm goes off. Howard runs to turn it off. Sam asks where it came from; Regina tells her that Howard spent a fortune on the alarm, "but refuses to pay a professional to install it." Howard: "Well, I'm not going to pay a professional to do something any moron could do." Sam seems nervous that her father is turning the house into a high-security compound, and tells him not to overreact over one stolen car. He tells her it's actually two stolen cars. Sam's confused, and Regina tells her, "Oh, that's right. You have that forgetting disease. My car was stolen four years ago. Just thinking about it makes me need to chill some wine." Howard tells Sam that he didn't just install an alarm.
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